Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-21
BRIEF NOTES.

The State Board of Education will NEE
at San Jose to-day.
The Postoffice Commissioners did no
transact any business at their meeting yes
terday.
Nettie Palmer has been granted in tn,
Superior Court, q divorce from John B
Palmer.
The ladies of the First Baptist Churcl
gave avery enjoyable strawberry social las
evening.
C. Schindler's stable was entered by
thief Tuesday night and robbed of set O
harness and two brides.
There will be an election held in every
school district III Yolo county on Monday
June LIST, for the election of School Trustees
These arrests were made yesterday
Thomas Kenealey, by officer Sullivan, fol
vagrancy; John Doe, by the same officer
for battery.
The members of the police force have
been directed to serve notice upon property
owners to cut down the weeds in front Of
their premises.
Health Officer Ferral and officer Airing.
ton were engaged yesterday in thorough
examination of Chinatown and giving di
rections for general cleaning up of thai
| locality
The steamer San Joaquin No . arrived
last evening from San Francisco with mer
chandise and lumber, and the steamer
Dover cleared for the upper Sacramento
with merchandise.
The fifth annual fair of the Ell Dorado
| District Agricultural Association, No. s
comprising the counties of FL Dorado
Amador, Mono and Alpine, will be held at
Placerville, beginning August 18th and
ending August 18th.
The work of remodeling and improving
the church building known as Kingsley
| Chapel, on Eleventh street, between II and
| /, has been about completed, and next
| Sunday the dedication will take place,
under the new name of the Central NJ. E
| Church.
The Ell Dorado Observer, of Placerville
says: The hoppers have stripped the coun-
try pretty much bare about Latrobe and be-
low, and made raid on the railroad track.
| They succeeded i'll stopping the train one
day last week, and it was surmised that
| they contemplated extending the road to
this city.
The Salvation Army delegates from
abroad returned to their homes yesterday
after participating until daylight in the
| services which were held in the bar
racks About A. NJ. a relocated drum
mer commenced beating drum in front
of the barracks but was persuaded by
officer Farrell to stop and give the people i'll
| the neighbOrhoOd a chance to sleep.
Last evening Major Win. J. Davis pre-
sided at an election of Company B. First
Artillery, to fill the vacancy occasioned by
| the death of Junior First Lieutenant w. f.
McEwan. Thomas 7. Wiseman was
elected. John Best was chosen Senior
| Second Lieutenant, vice Wiseman, pro-
NOTED. The election for Junior Second
Lieutenant was postponed for two weeks.
Officers Rider, Frazee, Kent and Martin,
early yesterday morning, went out to n
V. Hatch's dairy, at Twenty-tirst and O
streets. and captured twelve men who were
found sleeping in the barn. Nine of them
later in the day pleaded guilty of vagrancy
in the Police Court, but the other three
were discharged. the Judge being convinced
that they were men who were willing to
work, and not tramps.
D. NJ Burns and Grove L. Johnson had
an alteration on Seventh street near J,
yesterday morning, relative 10 matters
| connected with the Reynolds case, but
they did not get to blows. 1t was subse-
Quently reported that Burns on the Occa-
!
former denies having done so, admitting,
however, that he did threaten to whip
Johnson under certain circumstances.
George Bachmann, business agent for
| the Keystone Wringcr Company, a Ger
man. aged 80 years, about feet s inches,
dark hair mustache and goatee, heavy set,
weight about POO pounds, dressed in a dark
| blue suit took leave Of his wife and three
children on the morning of May 4th, and
has not been seen or heard of since. He
| said he was going to San Francisco to see
the proprietors Of the house on business,
but he has not been seen there.
Yesterday morning a man entered Henry
Eckhardt's gun store and offered a shotgun
for sale, stating that he had brought it from
Washington Territory. Mr.. Eckhardt, in
examining the gun, saw that it was one
which he recently did some work upon for
| Judge W. II. Beatty, and accused the man
of having stolen it. The fellow denied the
accusation, and said. Come along. and I'll
| prove that it belongs to me-" He started
| for the door, Mr. Eckhardt following, but
when he reached the sidewalk, he took to
his heels and ran like a quarter horse, leav-
ing the gun III the gunSmith's possession
Chief jackson, owing to the frequent
thefts committed in the houses of proStitrI-
were rarely punished as the thieves worked
in such a manner that it was almost I'M
possible to effect conviction when the
cases came into Court, has directed the
officers, when such thefts are reported
| hereafter to arrest the parties accused and
take them before the Police Court for
vagrancy, if the evidence to convict fol-
larceny cannot be obtained. Two women
and their "lovers' are now awaiting trial
on charges brought under these instruc-
tons.
A special committee of the Directory OF
| the Museum Association to consider and
report upon the future work of the AssOcia.
| ton. last evening concluded its labors
agreeing upon an exhaustive report, which
will prove of deep interest to the member
ship when the subject-matter shall come
| before ii at the June meeting, after having
been considered by the Directors. The
plans OF the committee suggest a system
| that will engage every member in pleasant
and most profitable intellectual labor in the
direction of the various purposes of the
Association, and that will prove of much
benefit to the community.
The residents Of Chinatown are disguised
with the action of the authorities in stop
ping gambling completely Dice anC
domiuocs fail to furnish excitemen
enough for those who have all their live
INDUCED in tan and lotteries, and i
has been decided that something must b.
done. That something" will probably b,
the starting of tan game next Saturday
night. Arrangements have beer made by
which the game can be run without jeal
ousy on the part Of members of the differ
ent lodges so that there need not b.
fear of one party peaching upon tn
other to the police. \ room will be selected
in such locality that the officers canno
, ct toit before the sentries sound an alarm
CoRoNER's INQUEsT.-COrOner Clark he'll
an inquest last evening in the case of Pat
rex Welch the old man who jumped int,
the slough and was drowned on Tuesday
Two sons of the deceased arrived here yes
terday from the vicinity of Angels Camp
where the deceased resided until about
month ago. Last March his sons bough
the property he had there from him, ant
he left 5000 on deposit with one of then
for short time In April the money wa
given to him at his request, and he came L
Sacramento. While here he never scemet
to have much money, though he com
planned one day of having had $40 stolel
from him. There was none found on hi
person when his body was recovered
One of his sons testified that when he lief
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