Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-20
The Omega Mine Case.

CALIFORNIA
The Omega Mine Case.
SAS Francisco, April 10th. -Ex-Attorney-
A. e.. Hart, of Sacramento, was in this city
to-day OF business connected with the
Omega relne, concerning which Master III
Cnancery Houghton is taking testimony.
This is one of the ACTORS growing out of
hydraulic mining. and it is alleged that the
owners of the mine have violated the de-
cree issued by United States Circuit Judge
Sawyer, prohibiting the working of mines
IN This State by the hydraulic process.
Master in Chancery Houghton was to-day
engaged in taking testimony on the part OF
the anti-hydraulicllers
Grand Pa-lor, n. S. G. w.
WOODLAND, April 19th.-The Grand Par
Tor of the Native Sons of the Golden West
met to-day in Masonic Hall, Grand Presi-
den. Greeley presiding. One hundred and
twenty-five delegates were present 1t was
decided to hold the session OF the Grand
Parlor in 1887 at Nevada City, and on the
9th of September celebrate Admission Day
at San Jose.
Items from Chico.
CHICO, April 19th-On Saturday three
year-old child of Mr.. and Mrs Farren, re-
siding on Pine creek, near Chico, was
drowned in that stream
The Anti-Chinese League of Butte county
will hold Convention in this city on the
Sth of May.
On Saturday, at Jacinto. a young man
named Brien was injured severely by a
gunshot. He pulled his fowlingpiece muz-
| Zle first from a wagon.
| The flower festival to be held in this city
| this week promises to be a grand success
| 1t will be the first that has ever been held
in this part of the State.
Destruction by Fire.
HURON (Fresno county,, April I9th.-At
3 o'clock this morning Serradell & Co. s
saloon and boarding house, together with
a restaurant, were destroyed by fire The
| loss has not been ascertained.
| CHICO, April 19th.-Ye sterday morning
at 6 o'clock fire was discovered in the
grocery-store of W. II. Parr, caused by the
explosion of lamp. All the goods were
ruined. Insured for 1913.
SAN LUIS OBIsPo, April 19th.-At $50
o'clock Saturday afternoon fire was dis
covered in the roof of the Andrews Hotel.
Owing to the scarcity of water, nothing
could be done to prevent the rapid spread
| OF the flames, which soon enyeloped the
whole structure, and several guests had a
narrow escape in leaving the building. los
ing everything except that which thew
| wore at the time. In less than one hour
from the time of discovery this magnificent
building, erected at a cost of 100000. to-
! gether with the greater portion of the fur
nishings, costing nearly or quite S25 900,
{ was laid in ashes, and the flames spreading
across Monterey street, speedily reduced
Payne and Mel -eod's stable to ashes, thence
they spread to the brick building occupied
as the postoffice and telephone office.
| Watkins Stationery
loon and the magnificent structure of
| the San Luis Obispo Bank This build
ing being of fire-proof character.
wlthstood the fury of the flames for
some time, and had abundant water power
been available at this critical moment
would have been saved. As il
was, the building prevented the further
progress OF the fire toward light frame
structures which stood in close proximity,
saving the entire city from destruction.
The County Courthouse and Jail, fine
brick building next to the Andrews Hotel
was several times on fire, but by strenuous
exertions was finally saved with but slight
| damage. The occupants of three stores on
the ground floor of the Andrews Hotel
Bacon sJewelry establishment, Kurtz. drug
glst, and Wells, Fargo & Co.'S office
succeeded IN removing the greater portion
of their respective stocks. Postmaster
SImler succeeded in removing the mails to
place of safety, and is now established
IN Chinese wash-house, the only avail
able place in the vicinity All the stock
IN the livery stable was turned loose and
was found all right this morning. Z. C.
| Watkins, stationer, loses everything ms
does Drs. Nichols, Hayes, Garrison, and
lawyers Rhodes, Venable, Spencer and
Goodchlld, who occupied offices in the
Postotfce and bank buildings. The loss
of X urtz, druggist, is $4,000; b. H. Bacon,
lewelry, $1,000; Wells, Fargo & Co. $3.50
U. S. Signal Service, 81 900; Sharp Bros
lessees of the Andrews House, $1,000 The
loss on the hotel building is total Strange
to say, no insurance is being carried on
their building whatever. The San Luis
Obispo Bank building was insured for sIO-
Ooo. The vault was opened this morning
and the contents found in perfect condition.
A blackened heap of ruins, adorned
with twisted and bent gas and water pipes
| in all conceivable shapes, with here and
there safe, now marks the spot where
Yesterday stood the pride of San Luis
| Obispo. and the finest hotel in southern
| California.
Intense excitement prevails, and a mass
meeting of citizens has been called for this
afternoon to devise ways and means of re-
building.
SAN LUIS OBIsPo, April 19th.-The total
losses of the fire may be put down at $780,
600; insurance, $4,000. A mass meeting
| was held at the Court house at 3 P. N. to-
day, Senator Steele presiding. He and DR..
III. Cox made telling speeches, favoring a
rebuilding of the hotel Thirtv-one
thousand dollars was subscribed. and new
| hotel will be built at once. The erection of
a new building was begun TO-DAY on the
ground occupied by Payne & McLeod's
| livery stable.
Incendiary Sentenced
SAN JOSH April 19th.-Guiseppi Giaco-
mello convicted of setting fire to the housa
of Mrs. Spellaroso. at Gilroy, after having
been rejected as a sutton for her hand. was
to-day sentenced by Judge Belden TO four
years in the State Prison.
Fined for Contempt.
Los ANGELES, April l9th.-This morning.
in the Superior Court, Judge Cheney adj
judged Major Horace Bell guilty of CON
tempt, and sentenced him to fine of $500,
together with five days in Jail.
The Boycott Condemned.
PETALUMA, April 19th-A largely at
tended meeting as held here Saturday af-
ternoon, at which speeches were made
condemnatory of the boycott now inst.
tuted ainst the Chinese.
Drowned in the TuIes.
EVANSVILLE, April 19th.-F. d. DonneIl
is supposed to have been accidentally
drowned on the Suffer Company Lind
Company's pace in Suffer yesterday after
noon. He rode horse out into the tules
for the purpose of driving in band of
horses. which were endangered by the ris-
ing waters in the tules caused by the over
flow from the Sacramento. Not returning
| IN due tim search was made, and his
horse was found wet all over. Besides a
| deep hole in the tuie basin. the whole
basin was covered with shallow depth of
water, and the presumption is that Donnell
rode into the hole without observing it.
The place dragged, but up to last ac-
counts the body had not been found. Don
nell was surveyor by profession, a native
of Bath, Maine, aged q. He has brother
residing in San Francisco.
Determined to Die.
! WATsoNyILLE, April 10Th = About Z
| o'clock this evening a Portuguese called
| Joe was found hanging to the rafter of n