Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-07-15
BRIEF NOTES.

liable animals have been poisoned during
the past week.
The Supervisors of Yolo county have
started in earnestly to secure a site for q
hospital and poor farm.
Sheriff Beamer, of Yolo county, took
Mrs. Matilda n. Powers, an insane woman,
to the Napa Insane Asylum yesterday.
AT the last clay-pigeon shoot of the
Woodland Gun Club, Lou. Baird won the
medal by a score of % out of possible %.
Parties having audited claims against the
Mardi Gras Association can have the same
cashed by calling at Richard Dales store
to-day.
! Giles n Fireman will be candidate be-
fore the Republican Convention of Yolo
county for the nomination for County
Superintendent of Schools.
| The steamer San Joaquin, No. 4, cleared
for San Francisco yesterday with barge
load of wood, and the Flora for the upper
Sacramento with merchandise.
Another little steam launch, the 81 Ma
mic" 80 feet long, passed through by
! freight train yesterday. for use ON Lake
Tahoe, and assigned to +. Holt.
A sandbar has made its appearance in
| front of the marine ways on the Yolo side
| of the river, and will have to be washed
away before any more boats can be hauled
out there.
The body of the man found floating in
| the American river has not yet been iden-
| titled. The Coroner will wait until this
| evening before holding an inquest, if he
| holds one at all.
Colonel VIM. Hawkins, who lives near
Chico, but for many years was resident of
Sacramento is spoken of as a candidate
! for the Republican nomination for Sheriff
| of Butte county.
| Last night officers Sullivan, Mccormack
| Rider, Agner and Jackson QocaD made a
raid on Chinese gambling establishment
on | street, and captured eleven Celestials
and the lay out =" for a dice banking
/ game.
A young man named Scott, working in
Kelly ~ Lynch's racing stable, was kicked
by one of the horses a day or two ago, and
had some of his RIBS broken and driven
into his lungs. He is now in very preca-
riouS condition.
at the. open-air concert last Sunday
evening, eight childrens buggies, each
containing pair of twins, were noticed,
and it is not customary for careful mothers
in this city to take their infants out much
after dark either.
How people change their minds A
! short time ago public sentiment was against
polar explorations, and yet in this city yes
terday all the tickets for an excursion to
the North Pole would have been gobbled
! up in half an hour
AT 10 A. N. to-day the Board of Super
visors will meet to take action upon the
application for an appropriation to assist in
detraying the expenses of the reception to
| NiSj of ha of
the Republic on Sacramento Day"
H. d. Rode has never heard from his
horse and buggy, stolen from his premises
! May 9th, although the police sent notice
! in every direction. He advertises a de-
scription of the property this morning, and
offers a reward of $50 for its recovery.
The excessive heat of yesterday, while
| there was no reported case of sunstroke
was so oppressive that number of work
men were forced to quit work. An Italian
employed upon the new Cathedral was so
| overcome by it that he had to be carried
home.
These arrests were made yesterday All
Tong and ten other Cinnamon, by officers
Sullivan, Mccormack, Rider, Agner and
| local Jackson, for gaming; Hattie Fish,
| by Constable Harvey, for disturbing the
peace Bob Nally, by officer Agner, for dis
turbing the peace.
The preliminary examination of George
Kane, accused of the murder of William
Smith, at Madison, Yolo county, on the
! 18th of last month, was commenced at that
place Tuesday and resumed yesterday. c..
p. Sprague represents the people, and r. r.
! Deviin the defense.
Two boys who had run away from their
homes in San Francisco, were recently
taken in charge by the police. and Chief
Dillman communicated with their parents
The latter returned answer in effect that
they could go and be - happy, and the
| Chief Immediately acted upon the hint.
In Department One of the Superior Court
yesterday, James Wilson, who attempted
to steal officer McCormacll's watch and
chain, as has been heretofore narrated, en-
tered plea of guilty on charge of as
sault to commit robbery, waived time, and
was sentenced to eighteen months impris-
| onment in the State Prison at Folsom.
! The snagboat Seller returned yesterday
| TO resume work at the head of navigation
| on the upper Sacramento. She came down
a few days ago to get a supply of coal, and
| to bring down Colonel Mendell and Cap
! tain Payson, who had been up with her to
make an examination as to what was nee
essary to be done in the improvement of
| the channel of the river.
Richmond Davis, District Deputy Grand
! Sachem, last evening installed the officers
of Owosso Tribe, No 49, Imp. o. r NJ, as
| follows Sachem, John Crone; Sen. S.,
! Henry Guthrie; Jun. S., Otto Blenher ;
Financial Chief, d. S. Hyams G. of R., J..
! c. Medley; X. of W, Henry Runckel /;
| Trustee, Robert Hunt Prophet, Charles
Fehl; c. of w. Robert II. Greer.
The annual muster and inspection of the
| local military companies took place in
Armory Hall last evening, and was largely
attended. The uniforms of the members
of the band and different companies looked
neat, and their arms bright, evidencing the
fact that they were well taken care of. The
evening was so hot that the drilling eXer-
cises were made as short as possible.
Sacramentans who returned yesterday
from the foothills and springs spoke of the
weather of the past few days where they
! had been as terrifcally hot, and evidently
/ there has been a ''hot wave lingering
over this section of the State. Passengers
who came up from the Bay yesterday noon
said that the weather was cool until they
reached Elmira and then they seemed to
plunge into the heat suddenly.
At Elk brove this evening, +. B. Owen,
d. ID. &. 2. will install the officers of Elk
Grove Parlor, No. 40, n. S. G. w. This
will be followed by short musical and
literary programme, when the young lady
friends of the Parlor will tender the
| Worthy President-elect, William Sims, q
banquet at Toronto Hall. The young
ladies who will participate in the pro-
gramme are; Misses Annie and Jennie
Mcconnell, Miss Cora Utter, Miss Nellie
Bandy, Miss Bessie Graham and Miss
Arzella Bayless. Many members of the
Parlors located in this city will be present.
The Salvation Army has come to be re-
garded by many as an intolerable nuisance,
so much so, that the management of the
Capital Hotel, in front of which they hold
their usual evening leyee, objected to their
open air concert of brass, reed and other
instruments. The army officers say they
have come to stay, and that they propose
fighting Satan in his strongholds. The lat
ter statement called forth last evening a
" blessing" from the proprietor, which is
not recorded in the Book of Psalms, and il
is safe to say that Satan will be attacked in
the future at other localities than the south
west corner of Seventh and X streets.
Last evening well-dressed woman en-
tered a barber shop on J street, between
Fifth and Sixth, and demanded of the
proprietor, man by the name of Christ
ten dollars, which she claimed he owed
her She used language more forcible than