Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-20
BRIEF NOTES.
Lyon d Curtis forwarded three carloads |
of potatoes Eastward last night.


OF potatoes Eastward last night
David w. Weldt has been appointed q
Pilot Commissioner for the port of San
Pedro.
The steamer Flora arrived from the upper
Sacramento yesterday with barge-load Of
new grain.
| The preliminary arrangements are being
made as rapidly as possible for filling in
the slough,
During the recent hot spell in The quarry
yard of the Folsom prison the thermome-
ter each day marked 114o.
The California Athletic Club, of San
Francisco, has engaged Gus Weimann, for
merly of Sacramento, as teacher of general
athletics.
Through the influence of H. ]. w.
Damn, 'Oofty Goofty," the wheelbarrow
crank, has secured fat position at the
State Capitol.
A watermelon social will be given in the
basement of St. Paul's Church next Thurs
day evening at 7:30. Admission, % cents ;
refreshments free.
The overland express train will not reach
the city until about neon to-day, having
been detained by cloudburst near Col
eonda Sunday afternoon.
A statement from the Executive Com
mittee of the State Irrigation Convention
appears in the advertising columns of this
mornings REcoRD-UNIoN.
In the Superior Court yesterday Henry
Knebel, native of Germany, was admit
ted to citizenship on the testimony of Jacob
Gebert and Charles Schepp.
| And now comes the Chico Chronicle and
says: Governor Stonemau is playing into
the hands of Sacramento hotel-keepers by
| calling an extra session of the Legislature !"
| James Whitcomb, of the Whitcomb
ranch, below Freeport, who has been par
alyzed for many years, died Sunday last,
aged 60 years. He was native of Yer
| mont.
L. F. Shepherd, the contractor who has
been putting down the artificial stone walk
around the Capitol grounds, has completed
| his work, and it is acknowledged by all to
be tirst-class job.
The managers OF the local fishmarkets
are making arrangements to secure better
supply of fish, SO as to be able to supply
brain food for the legislators who will have
to grapple with the irrigation problem.
Last Saturday, near Blacks station, Yolo
county, young man named Mast, son of
| Gottleib Mast, prominent farmer. fell
| from wagon loaded with wheat and was
run over, one of his legs being shockingly
injured.
Rev. o. Summers will deliver lecture
at the A. NJ. E. Church. Seventh street, be-
tween G and II, this evening at $50, upon
the subject, q Thanks to the Boys Who
Wore the Blue and Freed U.s." Admis-
sion, % cents.
The highest aud lowest Signal Service
i
| so and coo, with light to fresh southerly
winds and clear weather prevailing. Yes
terday was the first in eleven days that the
highest temperature was not above 800.
The boys about Folsom last week caught
hundreds of large shad in ponds along the
river side. The fish had gone into these
places when the river was high, and when
the water went down they were left at the
mercy of any one who chose to pick them
out.
The town of Woodland is assessed for
upwards of 100000. If the money con-
tanned therein could be reached and as
sessed that sum would be doubled. Our
Yolo sister has the proud distinction of be-
ing one of the wealthiest communities of
its size in the Union.
The Assembly and Senate Chambers are
in readiness 10 receive the legislative Solons
who will assemble in extra session at noon
to-day. The desk of the late Assembly
| man Lafferty, of San Francisco, and the
late Senator Beauyais, of Tuolumne are
appropriately dressed in mourning.
AS soon as the contracts already made
| for granite have been filled al the Folsom
prison, the convicts will be put to work on
the addition to the prison which has been
commenced at the upper end of the build
ing. There are $50 prisoners confined there,
fifty of whom are serving life sentences.
Yesterday VIM. Land made complaint in
the Police Court against Barney Norton,
proprietor of a saloon opposite the Western
Hotel, alleging that it was a disorderly
house, and that the noise of those frequent
ing it at late hour of the night disturbed
the rest OF other people in the neighbor
hood.
Local officer Townsend arrested and took
to the station-house last evening in an ex-
press wagon Mrs. Schiermeyer and her son
Robert. both of whom were exceedingly
drunk. She is the old woman, usually at
tired in blue dress, who goes about the
street begging, and trembles as though af-
tiicted with the palsy.
An excursion party of fifteen persons is
being made up for trip of thirty days to
Soda Springs, Bonner Lake, Lake Tahoe
and the surrounding country Fare for the
round trip, $50. Particulars can be OBJ
tanned on inquiry at Lee SANKEY'S, K
street, between Tenth and E leventh, or
at 1918 Fourth street.
The excursion of members of the Pacific
Coast Press Association to Tahoe was par
ticipated in yesterday by about fifty mem
bers of the press and lady friends. They as
sembled at San Francisco. with few excep-
tons, and came up on the noon train, con-
Meeting here with the Reno train, and were
full of anticipation of a glorious time.
George F. Aaron, an employee at the Post
Office will be a candidate before the Repub
lican County Convention for the office of
Public Administrator. ]. H. Watkins. of
Live Oak, will be candidate for Supervl-
sor from the Fifth District in the same
Convention. Thomas w. Gilmer will be
in the field for nomination as Justice of
the Peace
A man named John Henry a plasterer,
swore out warrant yesterday for the arrest
of Charles Kaimeyer, also a plasterer. for
hitting him on the right temple with a
cobble. They had a quarrel in saloon,
and Kaimeyer applied an epithet to Henry,
who slapped his face. Kaimeyer then went
out into the street, picked up the cobble,
and with it inflicted a severe injury on
Henry's head.
Two Woodland girls, one about Is and
the other 16 years of age, who were in the
city without any friend to look after them,
but acting in a manner that indicated that
they needed some one to whisper little
discretion in their ears, were interviewed
by Judge Henry on Sunday, and he con-
Guided to communicate with their parents.
The result was that they were sent for and
returned home yesterday.
Ernst Cordes, an old resident and we'll
known citizen, died in this city yesterday
at his residence, Thirty-frst and NJ streets,
after an illness of several weeks. Deceased
was formerly landlord of the Atlantic
Hotel, at Twelfth and streets, but latterly
was in the employ of A. Fl. Powers & Co.
Deceased was a native of Germany. aged
| 81 years. He was a member OF the United
| Order of Red Men and Turn-V ereiD.
The Knickerbocker Baseball Club went
over to Dayisville, Sunday, and played a
game with the club of that place, which
| beat them by score of 81 to 20. At Ala
media GU Sunday, the Haverlys again white
washed the Pioneers-score, to 0. tits
singular that the champions get away with
the +" old boys" so easily, and yet have
| hard struggle to beat the Atlas, which club
has been !. downed so often by the Pho
neers.
Last spring few English sparrows APP
| peared in this city, making their head