Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-28
EXCITING INc1pENr.-The Stockton Ind

EXCITING INcIDENT.-The Stockton hide
pendent, referring to the three-year-old trot
in that city on Friday, narrates this Incl
dent in which a young Sacramentan
figured . The third heat was won bv
Apex, Lohengrin second, Stamboul third.
Time, 2334. This heat was made extraor-
dinarily exciting by an incident beginning
near the finish. Stamboul had broken
badly on the backstretch and was far in
the rear when the homestretch was en-
tered. Apex was trotting fast for home and
Lohengrin tried to overhaul him Half
way down the hOmeStretch Lohengrin
caught Apex and was struggling Temporal
rily for the lead when one of the lines
broke over Haggin's Lohengrin, and the
Sacramento colt ran away, coming under
the wire on tremendous gallop half a
neck ahead OF Apex, who had trotted in
squarely. Lohengrin dashed on madly
past the judges stand, ands the crowds on
both sides of the track watched with in
tense excitement, expecting to see fatal
accident result from the runaway. James
Duane the driver of the runaway horse,
waited until the first turn was almost
reached, and then he sprang out upon one
shaft of the sulky, grasped his colt by the
neck. bent downward and caught the bro
ken line. With a nervy effort he pulled
himself up again and straddled the run
away, when he came to an uneasy stop.
When the crowd saw all danger to Duane
was past, and that the valuable horse had
been saved from running himself, a great
shout OF applause went up, and several hun
ured persons went out on the track to escort
Duane to the judges stand, where he was
complimented highly by Senator Stanford
and the judges for his unusual perform
ance."
ASSAULT To MURDER-Last Saturday
afternoon r. D. Cooper, young man who
frequently gets drunk, and then is very
troublesome, entered the Mayhower Saloon.
J street between Eighth and Ninth, and had
some words with II. A. Slade, the Maori
pugilist, proprietor of the place, relative to
his failure to pay an old bill. Slade ordered
him out, and, on his failure to go, elected
him. When he reached the sidewalk.
Cooper pulled a derringer from his pocket,
pointed it at SHADES breast and fired Just
as he did So Slade turned slightly, and the
ball just grazed his breast, merely drawing
blood. He seized Cooper and threw him
down, and then began to investigate to see
how much of n wound he had himself re-
ceived Cooper LETT and went over to |
street with a friend, and was arrested by
Chief Jackson at Fifth and /, the Chief
having heard at Fifth and streets that he
had gone over to l, and followed there in
pursuit of him. He had the pistol in his
hand, endeayoTing to remove the old shell
when arrested. He stated that Slade had
called him foul names a month before, as
well as just prior to the shooting, and put
him out of the saloon violently, and, as he
cohld not fight him, he shot
AFTER Four WEEKs.-The recent rains
raised the upper Sacramento, and the raise
reached this city yesterday morning, caus-
ing an increase in the river, up to PM, of
SIX inches. The steamer Apache, from
San Francisco, after unloading her freight
upon barge below the Y-street bar. which
barge the Governor Dana towed, followed
it to the city, being the first arrival of the
Bay passenger boats in four weeks. When
she came up the river had only risen two
inches, so she probably will have no diff
Guilty in getting back.
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