Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-05
BRIEF NOTES.

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! ury.
The Sacramento river has fallen to feet
! 9 inches above low water mark.
The steamer San Joaquin No. arrived
from San Francisco yesterday with lumber
and merchandise.
| E. NJ. Luckett has been appointed gen.
eral foreman over the locomotive depart
ment of the railroad company in this city.
Eugene Stork, Jesus Vella and Alfred
Fannon have been arrested at Woodland
| for robbery, James c. O'Neal being the
victim.
There are kilograms at the Western
Union telegraph Office for Theo. Winters,
| B. Marks, +. L. Ewing, 1909 street, and
Levi |. Leon.
Deputy Sheriff Jamison, of Alameda
county, came up last evening, bringing
Denis Donovan, who is to serve four years
! for grand larceny
Jens Peter Jacobs, native of Germany,
was admitted to citizenship in Department
| Two of the of the Superior Court yester-
day, on the testimony of NJ. Stein and C.
Feldhauser.
In the note of yesterday regarding I'M
safe balconies and porches, No. Gle j street
was given, instead of 615. The former is a
| substantial structure; the latter is very
much dilapidated.
Elk. Alsip & Co. have just had printed
| an attractive real estate catalogue, which
also includes information of interest con-
corning the valley and foothills 1t is
| illustrated with several fine engravings, cut
especially for this issue.
A lofty framework, looking like the
| skeleton of a second story, is being erected
on top of the Sacramento and Yolo bridge,
upon which the telegraph company will
lay six lines Of telegraph wires, leading
into Yolo county and beyond.
w B. Todhunter's trotting mare Maud
W., the Joe Hooker FLY May Blossom,
and fine stallion were brought to the city
Tuesday from Winnemucca. Yesterday
Maud w. was shipped to San Francisco
The others are at the Park.
Division No 1, Ancient Order of Hiber-
mans, has elected the following officers ::
President, Captain Thomas Dwyer; Vice
President, NJ. Toughy Recording Secre-
tary Thomas Cahill; Financial Secretary,
NJ. Egan; Treasurer, w. J. o Brien.
S. C. Tryon of this city, has purchased
from Marion Biggs of Biggs, the promis
ing 5-year-old mare Clara g., by Almont,
and having a record of 2:52, won at Marys-
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Bones in straight heats. The price paid is
| said TO have been $500.
Workmen are engaged in putting an
elbow on the drainage pipe running from
China slough to the river, in order that its
top may be sufficiently high to carry off
the surplus water while the slough is being
| filled by the dredger, and not carry of
much sand with the water.
A six-horse team ran away from some
| where in the vicinity of the Pioneer Mill
early yesterday afternoon, and made very
spirited exhibition for about block, but
by that time the driver, who was on the
wagon, got the lines and brake in working
order, and controlled them.
According to the complaint of some of
the Sacranlentans who visited San Fran
cisco on Tuesday, the papers of that city
should never hereafter have word to say
accusing Sacramento of high prices for bed
and board during the State Fair or other
occasions drawing a crush of visitors to the
city.
A game resembling studhorse poker, but
not it exactly, has been revived in this city
1t is not it is claimed by those conducting
it, banking game, but money is taken out
for the benefit of the bar when certain
hands are held, and drinks and cigars are
charged for at the rate of two bits each.
Owing to the fact that the flag on the
State Capitol was flying at half-mast last
evening, out of respect to the late Samuel
J. Tilden, the opeA-air concert was held at
the Plaza, instead of the Capitol Park
The First Artillery Band furnished the
music, which was of a superior order. The
attendance was the smallest of the season.
Considerable attention was attracted on
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were yesterday cutting up cordwood, by
the discovery of stick which showed that
limb had grown out of the tree and then
back in and through it. and had afterwards
grown until, when the tree was cut the
branch was about three inches in diameter.
Tuesday evening at Davisville a boy
about u years of age named Lark, son of
a. Il. Lark a tinsmith of that town, had
his foot run over and crushed by train.
but as yet it had not been determined
whether amputation will be necessary.
The accident grew out of the habit of the
boys OF Davisville of jumping on and off
moving cars and trains.
The Snowflake Baseball Club has leased
Recreation Park for the remainder of the
| season, and propose to make improvements
in the manner of its fitting up. They have
also, it is said, joined the Central Park
League, of San Francisco, and will play
games with the clubs of that organization
| on Sundays. 1t is asserted that Meagher
has signed with them as catcher.
The East-bound overland train came up
from the Bay in two sections last evening,
so many of the passengers being for Sac
ramento that the train went on from here
in one section. The local train, due at
o'clock, also came in two sections, one
arriving at S:45 and the other at 9 o'clock,
nearly all being Sacramento people who
had been down to see the G. A. r. parade
Carpenters are engaged at the Elite Thea
ter repairing the damage done by fire last.
Friday morning. The blaze at 3 o'clock
that morning did very little injury, but that
at 3 o'clock was destructive, and it will cost
over 81 900 to make repairs, including
section of new roof, new drop curtain.
etc The curtain will represent " The Home
of Lafayette taken from picture at the
Union Hotel.
A Nebraska visitor to the city, one of the
G.. A. r. excursiOnistS was asked last Sat
| urday, when the thermometer registered
1909, whether they had snch weather where
he came from, to which he replied in the
| affirmative, and that it was more distress
ing than the heat here. And, be added,
" we have it great deal colder. as you
may JuNst NHcIl tGii NOtl lLeit tllt iilCi-
curry falls about 400 below zero" He is
proprietor of about 1000 acres of land in
that section, but intends to sell out and re-
move to California.
Ex-Supervisor Bauer is having fine
new awning erected around his building
on the southeast corner of Third and J
streets 1t is to bis credit that he did not
wait to have the old structure fall before
making the necessary Improvement, nor
until the newspapers sounded the alarm in
connection with the accident at Eighth and
J streets. Mr.. Bauer had let the contract
for building his awning some weeks ago,
and the lumber has been upon the ground
several days. Let others follow the good
example.
A Sacramentan who went to San Fran
cisco Tuesday morning reports that he Of
fered almost any price for bed that night,
and could not get one. Some one told him
during the evening that if he took the
horse-car line to a certain junction, and
there took cable car he would reach a
place where bed could be got. He figured
it over, and concluded that the route would
take him to Lone Mountain. He was ac-
quainted with a number of people residing
there, but as they had been unsociable
since they moved in he concluded that
he did not want any Lone Mountain in his !
He quietly knocked around during the
night, having plenty of company, and
about daylight went out to see if he could