Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-07
BRIEF NOTES.
Yolo county had s55,79i IA in her treas-

! Yolo county had s55, 79l IA In her treag-
ury April 1st.
Snow fell on the hill yesterday morning
from Emisrant Gap to the Summit
The annual Changers picnic at BeacL's
Grove will this year be held on Thursday,
] May 9th.
| The steamer San Joaquin No. has been
hauled out on the marine ways in Wash
ington for repairs.
An entertainment and social will be
given by the ladies of the Congregational
Church and Society next Friday evening.
Yesterday mornings express train from
the East brought eight carloads of immi-
grants, about one car of them being en-
I route for Williams and vicinity.
1t is said that M. NJ. Drew and B. n.
Bugbey purchased at Kirksville, Suffer
county, on Monday, the Tom Burke ranch
of 1,007 acres, paying therefor $4,000.
A. Pendleton writes from Nicolaus to the
RECORD UNION, April 9Th: " 1t rained 10
of an inch here last night. and is still
cloudy and threatening Rain for the
month, SO of an inch.''
The steamer Modoc, after receiving an
overhauling and repairs for about six weeks,
arrived here from San Francisco vest rday
morning, looking very bright and hand
some in her new paint.
The Young Brighton Baseball Club has
organized for the season of 1885, with the
following members: A. Hoff, J. RYAN, ].
Doherty, G. Burns, c. Woodwork. w.
Hayden, c. O'Brien, L. Charleville and ].
Farrell.
John McGillivray is laying for Philip
Scheld an artificial stone pavement at the
Sacramento Brewery, Twenty eighth and
M streets. The pavement will be 90 feet
long on Tw1 nty-eighth street, and 40 feet
on NJ street, its width 10 feet.
/ Chief of Police Dillman has issued Or
ders TO the police force for the enforcement
of the law relating to furnishing intoxicat-
ing beverages to minors. He also intends
! to inaugurate vigorous war against
. crooks " of all kinds within the city
limits.
The steamer Dover arrived from the up
per Sacramento yesterday with barge
load OF wood and grain; and the steamer
Knight No. came down from Feather
river with about 1000 sacks of grain for
| the Pioneer Mill, after unloading which
she went to San Francisco.
The furniture of the City Attorneys Of
flce III the station-house building was re-
! moved by Mr.. Anderson when he went out
OF office being his private property but
yesterday the City Trustees fitted the Office
up for the occupancy of the new incumbent
IN neat and handsome manner.
Talbot H. Wallis has filed his official
bond as State Librarian with the Secretary
OF State, in the sum of $1,000, with John
Ryan and NJ. Fay as sureties All of the
attaches of the office were re-appointed,
viz c. E. Gum, +. T. Freeman, i. c. Jor-
dan, deputies, and b. Merkendollar, porter
At the depot yesterday morning ira
veler who was carrying pistol in his back
pants pocket accidentally discharged il,
creating considerable sensation. He was
"sensated little more than any one
else, for the blaze was decidedly and I'M
pleasantly warm, but that was the extent
of the injury done.
The Bulletin Of last evening SAYS "Trice
Tuggle, a brother of the Young man who
shot himself yesterday at the Brown House
came down from Sacramento to-day and
identified the body of his brother at the
Morgue. He stated that deceased was %
years OF age, and a native of ST. Louis. He
knew OF no possible reason for suicide
unless it was ill-health"
The Chico Chronicle says great indigna-
ton prevails at Colusa over Governor Stone
| mans action in committing the sentence of
| Brick. The order-lOying people of that
I
There seems TO be but one expression in
that community, and that is that the kill
| ing OF Jones was cOld-blooded, unpro-
voked and brutal murder.
| Mayor Brown has received letter from
| j. Is. Arcaud, of Montreal, Canada. making
| inquiry for his godfather, of the same name.
The Mayor has also received letter from
Mrs. V. D. Forniss of st. Louis, making
inquiry for the widow of John Douglass
The latter, the writer says. was Il colored
man and died in Sacramento two years ago.
leaving widow, who was a full-blooded
Indian.
About 2:30 yesterday morning a squall of
wind from the south struck the CITY, max
ing everything rattle. Window blinds
were torn off, signs, gates, fences and
trees own down, and the dust in the
streets arose in such dense clouds that
| the electric lights could not be seen. 1t
was accompanied by few drops of rain,
but shortly afterwards there was hard
, rainfall.
United States District Judge Sabin in
San Francisco yesterday sentenced Frank
! Foster, who pleaded guilty of fraudulentiv
| personating Government officer in
Sacramento, to pay fine of 81 900 and i'm
prlsonment in Jail until the amount is
paid. lie will be released from custody in
thirty days if his conscience win permit
him to take the poor mans oath that
he has no property.
A gentleman from Knights Landing.
| says the Woodland Democrat, states that
the Chinese problem has been solved in
that village. A few weeks since 100 Chi
nese made the Landing their headquarters:
now there are scarcely half a dozen This
| has all been brought about without trouble
or ill-feeling. Nobody but the Chinese
| has been boycotted, and that has been
| done quietly and without any demonstra-
| ton
| The water in China. slough is a little
clearer tins season than usual, and at times
| flsh can be seen swimming near the shore
Monday evening Chinaman was observed
on the roadway near the Puget Sound Co.'S
lumber yard armed with a gig, watching
| Tor flsh, and presently he struck two hard
heads which were swimming close to the
bank, getting them both at once They
were very large for fish of that kind being
IA or 10 inches in length.
Sacramentans will soon become tired of
attending spring racing meetings in San
FRANCISCO, as they have so frequently had
their trips to that city for nothing but dis
appointment, owing TO bad weather. The
Blood Horse races that were to have taken
place yesterday, and which were those an
| nounced for last Saturday, had to be post
poned until next Saturday, and residents
OF this city, some of whom had been be-
low since Friday, have returned home
slightly disguised.
Yesterday W. A. Anderson filed his brief
ana transcript on appeal in the case of
he Board of Commissioners of the
Funded Debt Sinking Fund ct al vs. The
Board OF Trustees of the City of Sacra-
mento, an action to compel the levy of
! special tax for the Funded Debt Sinking
Fund, recently heard by Judge McFar-
Land, and decided in favor of the Commits
sloners. Mr.. Anderson attacks the exist
ence OF the Commission as being in
violation of the Constitution of the State.
The case is also important in other par