Evening star., 1886-07-17

DtSuelct Government A001r8,
POLICE AFFAIRS.
A circular is now issued from police head
quarters daily, and sent TO all the precincts
containing a list OF the building permits and all
picnics. entertainments &C.. for the holding of
which permits have been issued.
Policemen Clinton, Stewart, Ranke and
trial com mit;ee this week on charges of neglect
OF duty. The testimony showed no foundation
for the charges, aud the case was dismissed.
The chief of police to-day issued orders To the
force in regard 10 the duty OF officers at fires
carrying out the recommendations OF the chief
of the fire department as approved by the Com
miSsioners and published in lHE STAR OF last
Monday.
WHARF PROPERTY IN DISPUTE.
Mr.. Edward Daniels has written TO the Com
missioners in behalf Of the upper Potomac
steamboat company protesting against the
action OF the commissioners in appropriating
the wharf at the foot of 9TH street used by the
steamer Corcoran.
THE IMPORTANT DECISION IN THE srovEPIPE
The Commissioners have received @ letter
from Assistant District Attorney Ii. E. Davis,
notifying them OF the decision OF the court in
the case of the District against Maisack." He
says: "The court, Macarthur, J., to-day decided
that when the Commissioners shall have an
nulied the license OF a wholesale liquor dealer
Tor having permitted liquor to be drank on his
premises. and notified him in writing OF such
annullng, and he shall yet have continued To
sell liquor, he may be prosecuted and punished
as for selling without a license; thus uphoding,
TO the utmost, the ordinance of October. 1854.
(Webb's Digest, p. 430) The court suggested
that the Commissioners should enforce this
ordinance strictly and in all cases coming
under its provisions, and also that by a general
announcement to that effect they should
give the wholesale dealers and community
notice of their inten ion to do So" He adds:
III gives me pleasure TO report a decision so
important to the interests of the District and
the weii-being Of its citizens. The class of
ment OF the law thus declared cannot be too
vigorously denounced"
To PREVENT INJURY TO TREES AND SHRUB
Berry.
The Commissioners have addressed letter
to Major Walker, superintendent of police, di-
recting him 10 instruct his force TO give special
attention to the prevention of injury TO trees
and shrubbery in the streets and reservations,
and to that end TO take into custody all animal Is
and vehicles tied TO or which injure such
trees or shrubbery, or the boxes protecting the
same, and animals left unattended or 50 inse-
curely fastened as to permit their thereto,
and TO cause the prosecution of all persons re-
sponsible for violations OF the law. Major
Walker has also instructed the force 10
promptly report every absence of, or defect in,
street designations on public lamps and in the
llg hitting OF the same.
URGING ANOTHER DIsRTIcT DAY.
The Commissioners have to-day addressed
severa! personal comm unicatious To members
of the House, stating the Importance OF devo;-
Ing another separate day to District legislation,
there being several bills now pending before
that body Of great interest to citizens OF the Dis
trict.
BUILDING PERMITS
issued by Inspector Entwisle: Herdic Phaeton
Co.. repair stable; $500. VIM. F. Lewis, erect
three frame dwellings, 10th street northeast
Clagetts subdivision at Rosedale; 80, 400. Ed
ward Temple erect six two story dwellings ID
street, between Delaware avenue and LIST street
southwest; $4,000. Wilhelm Schultz erect a
Two story and cellar dwelling and store, 18th,
between and > streets northwest; $4,000.
r. V. Ferris, erect a three story and cellar
dwelling, Massachusetts avenue between 4th
and 9th streets northwest; $4,000.
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Tommy Browns Capture.
From the sacramento Bee.
The notorious stage robber, Tommy Brown
who escaped from Folsom prison recently, was
captured on Thursday night by Sheriff Beuja-
min K. Thorn. When Brown escaped from Fol
som Warden McComb had pictures and descrip-
tionS sent To the various sheriffs, and Thorn
heard OF a man who making his way across
the country on foot whom he thought likely,
from the description, TO be the fleeing highway
man. consequently, the sheriff struck out on
the man S trail. The first day the official tray-
eied fifty miles. and at all stopping places he
would hear of his man, who was some distance
ahead, and who would tell the same story
wherever he conversed-that he had been har-
vesting in the valley, had lost his health aud
was making for the mountains. The imprint
OF the mans feet, as seen in the red dust of the
Calaveras, also went far toward convincing
Thorn that he was on the right trail as Brown
has very small loot, and can wear u 3la gaiter
When the sheriff reached Big Trees IL was on
Thursday evening. He considered that the
man he sought was at least days journey
ahead of him, and he thought IL would be a
good idea to make a journey by night-traveling
twenty-five thirty miles-and thus, perhaps.
heading off the fugitive He, therefore, hired a
to accompany him, and they struck out They
had only gone about six miles when they came
to Abe Richards ranch. 1t was growing late,
but bright light was in the cabin, and Thorn
said to his companion that he would like to
know If stranger was stopping with Aba
Sperry replied that he was in the habit OF buy
ing eggs OF Richards, SO he would make that a
pretense for entering the building. He went in
and found Richards and several ranchers sit
ting al table playing cards. A short distance
away from the table, with his hat well down
over his lace, was stranger. Sperry told Rich
ards he wanted some eggs, and the proprietor
called out to the stranger:
SAY, mister, come here and play my hand"
The stranger complied, pulling his hat down
over his eyes, and Sperry soon went out, told
Thorn what he had seen, and described tn q
backward stranger
"He is my man" said the sheriff quietly, and
he walked into the cabin, stepped quickly 10
the table, and grasped the stranger by the
right arm with one hand and 10y the collar
with the other, merely remarking, 81 want
you"
"The man started up quickly and demanded
to know what was meant and, on being told
| that he was under arrest wanted to see a
warrant.
Thorn released his hold for a moment. i'm
order to obtain pair OF handouts which were
under his coat, when, quick lightning, the
man jumped back to show hight. The sheriff
was on hand, however and he felled the man
by a blow on the head with the bracelets, and
the jewels were soon on the wrists of the prs-
oner. He was put ia the buggy, and the trio
started ON the backward trip. The stranger
insisted that the sheriff had made q mistake,
but when near the Big Trees he weakened ac-
knOwledged his identity and said: "Thorn
/ would rather have met anybody else than
you"
Fitx John POrter's Balloon Ride.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
'F'itz John Porter's balloon ride" said an old