Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-20
BRIEF NOTES.

Antonio and New Orleans Saturday even
ing.
| The Shasta Courier a Y that salmon arr
running up the Sacramento, Pit and tribu
tary streams a great deal faster than SOM
candidates for office are running.
The Fish Commissioners have decided tc
hold their next regular meeting at Grass
Valley during the session of the State
Sportsmen's Association in that place in
October.
John H. Holt, of Maryland, and niece
Miss Mary Holt, of Santa Rosa, Cal, have
been visiting their cousin, Sergeant Bar
wick, and returned 10 Santa Rosa yester.
day morning.
The gentlemen whose rooms at the
Golden Eagle Hotel were recently burglar
lied by j. c. Casey, have engaged Chas. T.
Jones as special counsel for the prosecution
of the burglar.
The employees in the d%ining-room of the
Capital Hotel, on Saturday night, pre-
scented their steward, John w. Henderson,
with an elegant gold badge, as q token of
their appreciation.
The report on the street last Friday that
John Powers, a ~well-known resident of
Woodland, had been killed during q diff
Guilty with another person that day, was
HllilOul lOunudllOu III ldCI.
In Department One of the Superior Court
Saturday Adolph Julius Henry Holman,
a native of Germany, was admitted to citi-
zenship on the testimony of John ]. Trar-
bach and William D. Iagan.
All the meeting of Court Capital, A. o. F.,
this evening, there will be at $50, after the
transaction of the usual business of the
Court, a Foresters' reunion. with an inter-
esting programme of exercises.
Officers Mccormack and wager arrested
on Saturday WEIGH (alias "Cockney W,
Tom Gallagher, Brock McAllister and J..
Flynn for stealing wheat on the river
front, and afterwards selling it at a gro
Gerry.
The passenger train for Marysville. Chico
and Red Bluff was held until G p. N. Satur-
day for the accommodation of up-country
people attending the State Fair, and a
special train was dispatched TO San Fran
CISCO at 7:30 P. NJ.
DR.. G. A. White, Superintendent of the
County Hospital, has been seriously i'll for
about a week with pleurisy, but yesterday
was able to be about again. DR.. W. A.
Briggs has been attending the Hospital
during his illness.
The Chilean residents of the city cele-
brated their independence day" on Sat
urday. Statutes were fired, and during the
day there was dancing upon q platform on
the leyee, and refreshments were served
free to all corners.
In u advertising columns this morning
is published the call for a Democratic
primary election OF the 25th, together with
a list of polling places, officers Of election,
etc, as arranged by the Compromise Com
mittee of Eight. The Convention that was
to have been held to-day is off"
A special passenger train left for Stockton
yesterday forenoon, conveying people de-
sirous of attending the fair which COM
mences there tomorrow. A large special
stock train also went over, taking cattle
and horses hat had been on exhibition at
the State Fair and were to be exhibited
there.
1t was decided at Thursdays meeting of
the local railroad freight agents at San
Francisco, that the %one-dollar rate on hops
to the East would hereafter apply to hops
compressed to ten pounds to the cubic foot
and valued at u cents or under. Where
the value is above IL cents, j rate of 81 so
a hundred will be applied.
The State Board of Equalization met Sat
urday, figured up the State assessment and
fixed the rate of taxation for State pur-
poses. The total assessment is SS16,472,6 600,
and the levy is fifty-siX cents on the 500,
distributed as follows .321 on the General
Fund, .1S0 on the School Fund, .059 on the
Sinking and Interest Fund.
Yesterday Examiner in Chancery,
Houghton, Alfred BarstoW and l.. l..
Robinson passed through en- route from San
Francisco to French Corral, where an i1ves-
tigation will be made into the alleged con-
tempt of Court by the Milton Water and
Mining Company. in operating their mine
in defiance of the United States Court.
General A. L.. Hartgoes up to-day from this
city to be present at the investigation.
An elderly maj named Michael Nc
Bride, who has been drinking freely for
several days, fell from the awning in front
of Hugh Coleman's saloon, Front street, be-
tween N and o, to the ground, a distance
of twenty feet, about 8 O'Clock last evening.
He was picked up apparently little the
worse for his fall, but an hour or 50 later
be began to suffer severely from pains in
in the chest, and the City Physician was
summoned to attend him.
Yesterday E.. B. Crandall, who was ship
ping some stock to the Stockton Fair, sent
his trunks to the depot, and soon afterward
placed upon them a sack containing some
clothing which he had Just purchased.
Soon afterward, although left on the plat
form north of the freight depot, where
there were many people assembled, and
but a few rods in front of the station
house, the sack disappeared, and its owner
has not heard from its since.
Joseph Fisher, proprietor of a boot ard
shoe making establishment on Third street,
between ] and X, was visited Friday even
ing by two friends from abroad, and, before
they left, a proposition was made that the
nortu oo acrOsS tho Straet m tala q drink
They did so; Mr.. Fisher glancing up and
down the street before entering the saloon,
and seeing no one near his place of bust
ness, he thought there would not be any
danger of leaving his shop unattended.
When he returned, however, he found that
a thief had been there and stolen q pair of
boots and a pair of shoes, just completed
for customers.
About . P. NJ. Saturday a man was driv-
ing a four-horse team out of the yard back
OF the station-house building when the
horses became frightened at u locomotive
and started to run. The driver was thrown
to the ground and received such a blow on
the head that he lay paralyzed and sense
less for several minutes. Officer LeaYy
went into the station-house to get the
stretcher upon which to carry him into the
receiving hospital, but when he returned
| the man had revived and was full of fight,
abusing and wanting to whip everybody.
He finally mounted his wagon and went
away, another man driving the team.
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PRISONERS EN- RoUTE.-Sherif Huntley,
of Placer county, passed through the city
yesterday, en- route for San Quentin, with
two prisoners, viz: VIM. Edwards, who is
to serve a life Imprisonment for the muir
der of John Connor during q quarrel at
Forest Hill last March and II. Mavers,
under sentence of one year for an assault
with q deadly weapon upon a man at Rose
vile, last June. Deputy Sheriff Kennedy,
of the same county, also arrived here,
taking to Stockton an insane man named
John Applegate. He lett him in the care
of q passenger on the train while he went
to get tickets. On his return to the train
Apologize had disappeared, and the person
who was Cooking out" for him was
quietly reading a paper. Kennedy imme.
diately went in search of his prisoner. and
some time afterwards found him at the
steamer landing, foot of \ street. He will
take him to his destination on the 11:3(
train this morning.
ARREsTs.-The following arrests were
made Saturday and yesterday: J.C. Peter
son. by local Jackson, for burglary Rob