Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-05
PAGIEIe SLOPE.
CALIFORNIA.
The Weather.


, ing at P. NJ yesterday, and continued
light but steady up to 5 o'clock to-day
Twenty inches fell for the storm. The
barometer is rising.
/ EMIGRANT GAP, November 4th.-A storm
! commenced at o'clock last night with
snow. 1t is now raining. One inch has
/ fallen up to the hour of noon.
! TowLEs, November 4th.-It commenced
/ to rain here at P. NJ. yesterday and rained
very hard last night, and still continues at
! this hour, noon, with every prospect of
hard storm. The thermometer is stand
/ ing at 40, with the wind south and blow
ing hard.
! AUBURN, November 4th.-We have had
+ twenty-four hours of steady rain to P. NJ.
! GRASS VALLEY, November 4th. - An
! almost constant rain has been falling here
since early last evening. The rainfall, up
/ TO o'clock this evening, amounted 10 1.75
inches. Tonight the clouds have passed
over, and the night is bright.
! NEVADA. November 4th-It has been
raining all day, at times quite hard. The
rain extends well up in the mountains
here.
CHICO, November 4th.-Rain began fall
ing last night at o'clock, and sprlnkled
! during the night. 1t rained most all day,
| part of the time hard, and stormed all
night and day in the mountains. 1t is clear.
calm and cold now.
RED BLUFF, November 4th.-Rain com
menced falling after dark last night. and
continued in light showers until noon to-
day. The fall was As of an inch: for the
season, $50 inches.
lone, November 4th.-It commenced
raining here last night at o'clock and
has continued lightly without intermission,
and is still raining. This is the first effect
ual rain Of the season and will greatly
benefit the farmers.
LATHROP, November 4th.-The rainfall
for the past twelve hours was 50 of an
inch. The weather is cloudy, with the
wind south, and the indications are for
general storm.
NAPA, November 4th.-Twenty one-hun-
| dredths of an inch OF ram fell during the
! past twenty-four hours. 1t is now raining
/ steadily.
| SoNoMA November 4th. - Last night.
| about o'clock, rain commenced falling
and continued with slight Interruptions
until noon to-day The fail was heavy,
and sufficient to enable the farmers to
commence plowing.
PETALUMA, November 4th.-A glorious
rain set in last night, md still continues,
| the rain-gauge having already scored 81 of
| an inch, with the prospect Of continuance.
The rain was greatly needed, the first rains
having been only sufficient to start new
grass, and greatly injured the old. Farm
operations will now be booming.
| WRrGHTs, November 4th.-A slight rain |
commenced to fall here IN the Santa Cruz
mountains last evening and continued
showery up to this morning, when a |
heavy rain set in. Grapes will not be dam
aged to any extent
MODESTO, November 4th.-It commenced
raining last night at $50, and continued at
intervals up to , o'clock this afternoon.
The rainfall amounted to go of an inch. |
The weather is cloudy with good prospects
for more rain.
TULARE, November 4th.-It commenced
raining at IL o'clock, noon Thirty
hundredths OF an inch has fallen. 1t is
still raining. The plows will all be run
ming from this time forth, and a large
acreage Of grain is certain.
HANFoRD, November 4th.-It commenced
| raining here about daybreak this morning.
| light showers prevailing till noon. Since
that hour il has rained steadily, though not
heavily. The fall for to-day is 81 of am
inch. 1t is still warm and cloudy, with the
wind southeast, giving favorable indica-
tons for more rain.
ihuCdIiOuS.
SAN Francesca November 4th-S PM
Indications for the succeeding 81 hours
North Pacific. cloudy weather and rain
with southerly winds, shifting to westerly,
Middle Pacific, fair weather, except in the
northern portion, where a light rain is
| probable with nOrthwesterly winds. South
Pacific, cloudy weather and rain, followed
| BY fair weather, with fresh to brisk south
westerly winds.
The San Benito Tragedy.
HoLLIsTER, November 4th-In the pre-
| HinInary examination of Innsbruck. Fowles.
Alexander, Thompson, Riley, Chapman
and Williams, in the Powers murder case,
| nothing was developed except the Coroner's
testimony regarding the position of the
body. and that not less than four men
could have done the hanging. Evidently
pistol bullet and charge of buckshot had
been fired into the body after the circnla-
ton had stopped. The death was caused
by shooting, and evidently occurred some
hours before the hanging
Charles Severman testified Dr. Powers
left fathers house, going homeward. at
half-past 4 in the afternoon: heard Shot
! in that direction; Powers body was found
about sundown; Powers had a package of
papers when he left our house. [The
papers presumably referred to the land
matters over which Powers and some of
| the parties under arrest for the killing had
trouble. They were not on the body, and
| have never been found
Five witnesses were examined to-day.
George Melindy testified Irwin, one of
| the alleged conspirators, said Fowles and
Enoch Twyler were going to bring a crowd
from up their way, as there were not
enough at the meeting at Prewitts 20 do
anything. The morning after the hanging
Tryr ir,'c avn hlocl- 10 eo;I I. l. Il
caught calf and straddled it, and it had
run under chicken-house with him.
a. B. Lawson, one of Morses detectives
testified to getting paper from Thompson
reading as follows:
WILLOW CREEK. September 18th.
4. b. Thompson: VIII you join us on Septem-
Der 18th in a meeting against cattlestealing
Bring some of your friends. Ask Allison to
| come (Signed) COMMITTEE MEETING CABIN.
Thompson said he went to Allison
about 1t, and Allison discouraged him. He
| then went up to the cabin, waited for some
time, and nobody coming went away.
Byron Allison said: Thompson came to
me two days before the killing, and asked
| me to join vigilance committee to take
action in regard to fires. 1 refused to have
anything to do with it. He said there
would probably be more meetings. and
| told me not to say anything about it.
NJ. J. Cough, minister, said: | told
Judge Brown, shortly after the fires, that l
should not be surprised if the people met
that or some other night; that they would
hang Powers or drive him out of the coun-
| ty; told him that on account of what had
heard several people say.
| Forty-two witnesses were in attendance
The examination will continue all the
week, which. on account of the great in
terest and large number of spectators pres
ent, is held in the Courthouse The
theory of the prosecution is that the killing
was done by three men, selected by lot
from the conspirators. and occurred about
o'clock in the afternoon. The hanging
was an afterthought, to convey the impress
sion of a popular uprising.
Infant Killed by a FAN from a Chair.
| NEVADA. November 4th-The fourteen
months-old child of James Hanley met
with a fatal accident last evening. The
little one succeeded in some way in over
turning high chair, in which it was sit
ting, and fell in such a manner az to break
its neck, causing almost instant death.
| Dwelling Damaged by Fire.
GRASS VALLEY, November 4th.-At about
| half-past o'clock last evening a fire broke