Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-21
BRIEF NOTES.
The Sacramento river is down to Is feet
9 ir,cI.aS ahora low uatar rl1arl-

letter carrier, and Geo. d. Eldred has been
appointed in his place.
The late norther did considerable damage
to the fruit crop in the vicinity of Gait
The grain suffered but little.
VIM. Dotv. son of Hon. ellis Doty, OF
Elk Grove, is lying dangerously i'll OF
typhoid fever at the State House Hotel.
Small farms in ten, twenty and forty
acre tracts are in great demand about Gait.
The land is wanted chiefly by fruit growers.
William Bird, the member of the Fire
! Department who was run over by the hook
and ladder truck Friday night, is still in a
critical condition.
The officers are looking after people who
use city water for irrigation purposes out
side of the hours allowed by city ordi-
nance, and three warrants have been sworn
out for offenders.
The Cooperative Fruit Company of
| Newcastle, shipped carload of fruit East
| by fast train on last Wednesday evening
| and another Friday, notwithstanding what
| has been said about short crop.
In addition to the lively work being done
at the railroad works in the manufacture of
| cars, two large locomotives, with cylinders
| Is by 80 inches, and the total weight of
| each engine fifty tons, are being built.
B. L. Frost, of Henrietta, Clay county,
Texas, wants the address of T. w. w.
| Davis, who moved to Califor mia in 1871,
from Carson City, New. He says he can
put him in possession of an estate worth
81 800.
The highest and lowest temperature in
Sacramento Saturday and yesterday, ac-
cording to the Signal Service reports, was
$50 and $50 and go and $50 respectively,
with southerly winds and clear weather
prevailing.
The residence of Dr. T. w. Huntington
was entered by burglar last Friday night
and robbed of fifty or sixty dollars and
gold watch and chain. Just how the
thief gained entrance is not known, but
the kitchen door was found open in the
morning.
The Woodland Nail says If the Sacra-
mento Bee people want their reporter to
return home alive they must print portraits
more accurate than the samples so far pub
lished OF the participants in the local
tragedy now occupying the attention of the
Superior Court
There seems to be rather peculiar diff
ference of opinion relative to the leasing of
the Metropolitan Theater. George F.
Willig says he has leased it. Frank G.
Warehouse, agent of the owner of the
property, says it has not yet been leased.
=" Are things what they seem? or are there
visions about ?''
The only arrests recorded on the station
house slate last night were those of George
Craft, by officer Kent for petit larceny; All
Charley, by officer Coffey, for misdemean-
or Jacob Judd, by officer Leavy, for bat
terry Tom, alias Tough " Anderson, and
Jack Wilson, by officer Leavy, for bur
glary.
Judge Ferris met with painful accident
last Thursday at Gait. While standing in
front of blacksmith shop looking at
horse being shod, the animal became fret
full and kicked off the shoe, which struck
the Judge in its course, and inflicted an
ugly cut in the forehead. The wound,
though painful, is not serious.
About A NJ yesterday a burglar at
tempted TO enter the residence of Mrs.
Beebe, 710 Seventh street. He procured a
stepladder and by its means assembled to a
window and opened the blinds. 1t hap
pened to be bedroom window, and a
young lady who occupied the apartment
was aroused, saw the man by the aid of the
bright moonlight, and called out, when he
jumped down and ran away.
Officer Sullivan arrested at Second and
streets Friday afternoon two men named
Crewson and Sewell, who seemed to be
watching drunken individual sitting
there, with, the officer thought, the inten-
ton of robbing him. On being searched
at the station-house Sewell PANIED out
slungshot and a spring knife, and Crewson
a small pepper-box pistol. If nothing else
can be substantiated against them, they
will be charged with carrying concealed
weapons
A few years ago an enterprising fellow
went about the city selling small pebbles
which he claimed, if placed in the bowl of
coal-oil lamps would insure them against
explosion. He would place little pebble
in lamp and then thrust lighted wick
into the oil, claiming that an explosion
would surely occur were it not for the
presence of the magic stone. He imposed
upon hundreds, getting % cents per pebble.
He has again appeared in the city, this
time selling pulverized stone for the same
purpose.
There have been filed in the office of the
Secretary of State articles of incorporation
of the Tailors White Labor League of the
Pacific coast, principal place of business,
San Francisco; First Christian Church OF
Santa Ana, Los Angeles county; Puritan
Club, of San Francisco; Ventura Drying
Company Consolidated Invincible Min
ing Company, principal place of business,
San Francisco; Clyde Mining Company,
principal place of business, Willows, Co
lusa county; Santa Barbara Steam Laun-
dry Southern California Investment Com
pany, principal place of business, Los An
geles.
Will Carey is evidently no friend of the
reporters, as he again spoiled lively item
yesterday. He had reined up to the side
walk on J street, between Ninth and Tenth.
talking to group of friends, while several
children were playing about the buggy.
One of them, a boy of or s years, took hold
of spoke of the hind wheel, unnoticed
by Carey, and when he suddenly started
to drive away the boy went along. The
driver noticed the lad, however, before the
wheel had made many revolutions, and
stopped his horse in time to avert q serious
accident. The little fellow was not hurt
much. though somewhat shaken up and
badly frightened.
VERDICT OF SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS
Grove L. Johnson, of this city, has been in
Placerville for the past week, prosecuting
the case of Bundy VS.. Maginnis. The plain
tiff and defendant are well known in this
city. Mrs. Bundy sued Maginnis for $4,000
damages for an assault. Saturday evening