Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-13
LOCAL BREYITIEs.

The case of Byam VS.. eastman is on
! trial in Judge Armstrong; Court before a
jury.
The bosses are low-spirited and are trad
/ ing everything in order to try to defeat
Tim Lee and John We'll
The alarm of fire from box 81, at P NJ
yesterday, was occasioned by the burning
of a lot of grass at Twenty seventh and
streets.
Be early at the polls, watchers. They
open at 6 A. NJ. The fraud intended may
begin then. You cannot afford to be absent
when the polls open.
Wage-winners, don't forget that it has
been sneeringly thrown up to you as taunt
by the organ of the bosses, that the poor
man has no right to aspire to office.
The only arrests on the police slate up to
II o'clock last night were w. l.. Shuey,
drunk, by officer Rowland, and Gabriel Gil
vanovitch, drunk, by officer Mclaughlin.
Why the bosses hare for years cowed the
school department, sold positions to teachers
and gagged free speech in the Board Of Ed1-
cation. HOiC much longer must this continued
The two ladies who were thrown from a
buggy on Fourth and L streets Sunday
lost a parasol. Yesterday officer Rowland
caught man in the act of selling it for
81 20.
The her-go-Gallager" gang of
ballot-box suffers have had their day.
Henceforth let the slums keep their YER
min. Decent people have grown weary of
the infiiction.
F. w. Stinemeyer was yesterday morn
ing awarded the contract by the Board of
Trustees for the grading of Twenty fifth
street from III to r, and Twenty second
street from o to Y.
The roundup of opium fiends, pimps
and strikers will begin early in the morn
ing. Decent citizens should see to it that
the toughs do not prevent single honest
voter reaching the polls.
On the first day of April on Whitcomb's
ranch, coursing match will be contested
by eight dogs from this city and a like
number from San Francisco. The entrance
has been fixed at $40 apiece.
1t is reported on the street, and gener-
ally believed, that the bosses went to the
Democratic Central Committee yesterday
and offered them $1,000 if they would take
rom their ticket the name of John We'll.
Insurance rates a0W surely adUance again,
unless the Fire Department is kept free
from boss domination. Underwriters are
| firing of these political fire departments,
and do not hesitate to say that they increase
risks.
The political atmosphere of Sacramento
is undergoing a process of disinfection.
| This has in the past become necessary once
in while. 1t will not be temporary now,
| but is to be kept up until wholesomeness
| alone peryades the air.
The average Signal Service temperature
yesterday was $50, being 80 warmer than
the normal for that day. The highest and
| lowest temperature was Go and 40, with
gentle to light southerly and westerly
winds. Weather clear to cloudy.
Sacramento leads the fight against cor
rupt bossism in politics, and will show her
suffering neighbors how to win. The rays
of the beacon light she carries will be re-
Elected back from every hilltop in the
land, until the people, who have suffered
so long, shall see the way to freedom.
| 1.-The old lady is givin' the baby the
divil's own larrupin' these days. said an
! intelligent Hibernian, as he glanced up
from copy of the RECORD UNION EXTRA
| last evening. ST the divils had a spark of
good left in them the lesson they are re-
savin' would do them hape O good.''
do you know" said San Francisco
| politician to reporter last evening, " that
the Third and Howard street gang have
come up from the Bay to bulldoze your
election? Well, it's so. know them, and
| they are here. They are tough gang, and
| you will hear from them before the polls
close tomorrow night"