Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-13
BRIEF NOTES.

! The State Board OF Equalization meets at
| the State Capitol to-day.
| There is considerable talk of building a
Catholic church at Gait.
Two carloads of immigrants arrived yes
terday, and three this morning.
1t is reported that Merrill f. OdeH has
sold the game little PAGER Shaker TO Newt
Fay.
The three-mile skating race at the rink
Saturday night was won by Morris in
14:06!
! In St Roses Church yesterday about 200
boys and girls received their first commu-
Mon at a special mass.
/ The Cornell ranch, near Ashland, was
sold few days since to Mr.. Waxford, of
Yolo county, for 81, 900.
There will be an interesting footrace at
Elk Grove next Sunday, between VIM.
! Dodge and Frank Eldred.
The District Conference OF the NJ. E.
Church South, San Francisco District, will
convene in Gait April 22d.
There is no truth in the report that the
Russians are negotiating for the purchase
of the steam yacht Azalea.
The Thompson-H Houston electric street
lamps have been furnished with screens to
keep bugs from flying into them.
The Ristori dramatic company, of thirty
persons, will arrive from the East this
morning, going to San Francisco.
Salmon in the Sacramento are becoming
more plentiful On Thursday last 500 were
shipped from Collinsville to San Francisco.
Phil. Siebenthaler has sold his fine thor
oughbred colt Philip s. to parties who in
tor To fol- 10,
price was $1,000.
1t is reported that Tom Norton, of Sacra-
mento has challenged Tom Cleary, of San
Francisco, to fight to a finish, Marquis of
Queensberry rules, for $3.50 a side.
The case of Joseph Marshall, the burglar,
will be called in Department One of the
Superior Court to-day, and it is believed
that he will save trouble by pleading guilty.
A large number of delegates from the
upper country to the Grand Parlor of the
Native Sons of the Golden West, which
meets at San Jose to-day, went below yes
terday.
The Trustees of Alabama School District
have called an election for Thursday, April
30th, to vote upon the question of raising
tax of $500, to purchase the school lot, buy
ing seats, etc, for the school-house.
The committee appointed to arrange for
st. Rose Church picnic have decided to hold
the same on Thursday, May eth. They
have not as yet selected the grounds. but
they will be announced in a few days.
The Medical Society of the State of Cali
fornia will commence its fifteenth annual
session at Bnai Birth Hall, San Francisco,
and remain in session three days. Mem
bers of the profession ale invited to be pres
ent.
4 carload of thoroughbred horses came
up last evening from San Francisco, where
they had participated in the races of the
Blood Horse Association Included were
the stables of William Murray, Theodore
Winters and George Howsen.
The steamers San Joaquin No. = and D.
Z. Knight arrived from San Francisco yes
terday with merchandise, and the Varuna
from the upper Sacramento with wood and
grain. The No. . subsequently cleared for
San Francisco. the Knight for Marysville,
and the Naruna for the upper Sacramento,
Officer Sullivan and Deputy Sheriff Rider
arrested on | street yesterday afternoon
man named George Walker, who was try
ing TO sell a quantity of bedclothing, such
as might come into his possession by his
entering room and stripping the bed.
The loser of such property can find it at
the police office.
Two palace cars conveyed to Los Angeles
yesterday afternoon i party Of excursion
lists, largely composed of delegates to the
Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, which
assemblies there tomorrow, and their
friends. The party included not only dele
gates from Sacramento, but from the upper
portion of the State generally.
Officers Ash. Franks, Sullivan, Airing
ton, Cafferty, Martin and May went on a
raid after tramps Saturday morning about
3 o'clock, and captured seven asleep i'll
railroad car on the lower portion Of Front
street. Subsequently the prisoners were
tried in the Police Court and sent TO the
County Jail for ten days each.
On Thursday last, in Gait, the Omega
Roller Skating Club " was organized, and
they have secured the rink for Thursday
evenings. The club consists of about forty
ladies and gentlemen, who have elected
President, a. 4. Clough Secretary, c. G.
Clement; Treasurer d. c. Houghton
Phoenix Lodge No. $50, l. 0. 0. f.. of
Gait, will celebrate the sixty-siXth anniver-
sary of Odd Fellowship III America by
holding grand picnic at Kreegers Grove
on Saturday, April 18th. DIR. \. W. Lame
will deliver the Grafton, and other literary
exercises will take place. \ platform in
size S0XS0 will be erected for dancing.
Seven carloads OF horses of all classes
arrived from J. b. Haggin's ranch ut Sum
ner on Saturday, and were taken out to the
Grant, to be ready for the great sale of
stock which is to take place there next
Thursday and Friday. Catalogues giving
names and pedigrees of the animals to be
offered have been prepared, and can be
obtained at the Office of L. c. Chandler.
street near Third.
Last Tuesday afternoon, says the Gait
gazette, the vicinity of Clay station was
visited by one of the severest thunder and
lightning storms ever witnessed in this
part of the State. Several of the telegraph
poles west of the station We're demolished
into splinters, and the office of the Western
Union was ignited by the lightning. Some
few miles east of Clay, on the ranch Of Mr.
Sweat, some stock and poultry were killed
by lightning.
County Treasurer kuchler got it into his
head last Friday that the day was Satur-
day, and when he closed the office in the
evening he set the time lock of the vault
for two days, to carry it over until Monday.
as he thought. Consequently on Saturday,
when be was called upon to pay warrants,
he could not get into the safe He accom-
modated those whose claims were urgent
by paying out of his own pocket or bor-
rowing.
About o'clock Saturday morning sew
eral pistol shots were fired on J street, be-
tween Second and Third, by man who
was pursuing another up the street. Chief
Jackson and officers Franks and May hur-
ried to the scene, and found that man re-
siding AT Second aud J streets had done the