Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-23
PACIFIC SLOPE.
THE HIGH LICENSE QUESTION IN
SAN FRANCISCO.
Contractor Missing-The Reported
Double Murder Sudden
Death on n Train.
lsPEoIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-uNIos.I
PACIFIC SLOPE.
lssrolAL DISPATCHES TO THE RrooRD-usros.l
CALIFORNIA.
High License in San Francisco-A Catho-
lie Priest to the Front

High License in San Francisco-A Catho-
lie Priest to the Front.
SAN FRANCISCO. January 22d-A meeting
of the Board of Supervisors as a Committee
of the Whole was held this morning for the
purpose of taking action upon several inn
portant matters lately referred to it by the
Board, among which was the petition pre-
sented by the Society for the Suppression of
Vice, FOR the passage of a high license
liquor ordinance. A large number of per-
sons interested in the subject before the
committee were present, the Retail Liquor
dealers Mutual Protective Association be-
ing fully represented by its President and
Vice President.
Father Montgomery, member of the
clergy of st. Mary's Cathedral, said he ap-
peared with the approval of Archbishop
Riordan in behalf the petition. 1t was un-
usual, he said, for a Catholic priest to take
part III affairs of this kind, but the fact that
a man was priest did not Justify him in
evading the duties of citizen. There were
100, 900 Catholics in San Francisco. and he
was sorry to say many of them, in conse-
quence of drunkenness, were churchmen
in name. He had had much experience
with the poorer classes of this city, and he
did not hesitate to assert that more than
in California was due wholly to drink The
people of this State were paying half their
annual taxes directly either 10 maintain the
poor or care for the criminals produced by
liquor. He believed prohibition was right
but impracticable, and while favoring the
abolition OF whisky selling, he was willing
TO accept the order here proposed as a half
loaf better than none. If the petition was
presented TO the voters of this CITY, he be-
lieved it would be sustained by a majority
of the people.
k. J. Harrison, on behalf OF the LIQUOR
men, responded, in which he stated that
the petition was originated by fanatics
and ii allowed to influence the Board would
throw many men out of employment and
deprive many good citizens of the means
of making q living.
Father Montgomery said he was not one
of the fanatics referred to- The last speaker
was evidently fighting something not be-
fore the eBoard-prohibition His petition
did not ask for prohibition it only asked
for equation. To be sure this is seaport
town, where the authorities regulated the
smallpox when it entered, and vet the
rlghs of the authorities to regulate or quar-
antine the greater evil of whisky is denied.
Perhaps this was movement to deprive
some one of employment, for when the
saloons were shut up a number of bar
keepers would be obliged to go TO work
For himself he was in favor of throwing
the barkeepers out of employment, and
saving the wives and children whom they
were contributing every day to turn into
the streets.
Further Storm Reports.
REDDISG, January 22d.-The DELAYED AL
turas mail arrived last evening. The delay
was caused by high water in Oak Run
The Weaverville stage came in on time.
The Delta train went out this morning and
returned this afternoon. No damages by
high water or wind, as far as heard from,
have occurred.
NAPA, January 22d. = The storm of
Wednesday was most destructive ten miles
east of here, where house, several barns,
and the Foss valley school-house were
blown down.
RIO VISTA, January 22d-During the
recent storm the water was higher here
than at any time this winter No damage
is reported from the gale in this neighbor-
hood. The weather tonight is clear and
calm.
SUIsUN, January 22d.-0n Thursday this
place was visited by very heavy rains The
wind blew a hurricane all day and night,
and the tide rose until it came nearly up
into town, and was foot deep on the wharf.
No damage was done, except some trees
being blown down. Communication was
shut off from San Francisco for nearly two
days.
Signal Service Indications.
SAN Francisco, January 22d-S P NJ
Indications for the succeeding 30 hours
California, fair weather, with variable winds.
Probably Not Murder, After All.
SANTA Rosa, January 22d.-The news re-
ceived here Thursday evening of the MUIR
der of Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Wickersham, on
their ranch, twenty-five miles north of
Healdsburg, awakened feeling of horror
and Indignation in the-minds of people in a
radius of fifty miles. Sheriff Bishop, of this
city, and Coroner King, of Petaluma, took
the first north bound train for the scene of
the tragedy, promising that they would for
ward to the anxious and horror-Stricken
citizens here full and true account of the
affair as early as possible. Up to l p. NJ. to-
day nothing had been heard from them
directly, but the air is full of unsatisfactory
and contradictory reports. A man on
horseback arrived here about IL a. NJ. to-
day from near that locality, and says that
Wickersham, who had been for long time
in low health, died suddenly, while sitting
in his chair, from hemorrhage of the lungs
His wife, who had previously dispatched
the Chinaman for the doctor, after finding
that her husband was dead, threw a blanket
oyer him, and started for the neighbors,
fainting on the way. The parties who first
reported the tragedy arrived several hours
afterward, and finding no one but the dead
man in the house. supposed it was double
murder. and laid the crime on the China
man. This latter report is what is now ac-
eepted until we get the report of the Coro-
ner and Sheriff.
STILL IN DOUBT.
SANTA Rosa, January 22d.-Sheriff Bishop
returned this afternoon. He was unable to
get across Dry creek, but several others, in
Guiding the Coroner, swan their horses
and crossed over. 1t will be tomorrow be-
fore they can be heard from. It is still a
matter of doubt whether Wickersham was
murdered or died of hemorrhage. The
former account is rather the belief in all
sections, as the report came direct from
Skaggs Springs to Geyserville by telegraph
Skaggs Springs got the news from a neigh
Dor OF Wickersham The wires from
Skaggs Springs are down, so we can hear
no more from that source Many credit
the rumor that he died of hemorrhage. he
being subject to that trouble, but that ac-
count is not quite as well founded as the
other.
Foul Play Feared.
SANTA Rosa, January 22d-Hank Paul,
a contractor of this city, who has resided
here for years, has been missing since the
1st of January. He left for San Francisco
the latter part of December, to buy mate
rial He had considerable money on him
at the time, and his friends fear that he has
been foully dealt with. A notice in a San
Francisco Daper on Wednesday that