Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-13
The Northern Mines.

1no NOTtneFn NIDcs.
ELLENsBURG wv. IT,, April 12th.-The
| franchise for street car line embracing the
eight principal streets was granted to-day
| by the City Council to Moffitt. of Wichita,
Kan. The franchise calls for the work to
begin within thirty DAYS after the desig-
mated streets are graded by the city. The
grading contracts are to be let in few
| days. the contracts being made this after
noon for the ties. Probably fve miles of
the line will be completed this season.
The steamer City of Ellensburg is now
making regular trips to the Conconally
| mines, leaving every Tuesday and Friday
| morning; returning, leaves Okanonban
Mondays and Thursdays, arriving at Rock
Island at noon of the same days. Time
from Conconally, in the heart of the min
ing region. to Ellensburg is now reduced
to twenty four hours.
A Tombstone Fire.
TOMBSTONE tAriz.), April 12th.-A disas-
trous fire broke out this morning at 2 o'clock
in the lodging-house of Peter Shrewbridge
on Seventh street. The building was
twostory structure, occupied by about
fifteen dodgers. The fire originated in the
lower story. The flames spread so rapidly
that the occupants barely escaped with
their lives. Mrs. Carroll, one of the lodgers,
in her endeavors to arouse some of the
inmates who were sleeping very soundly,
entirely unconscious of the terrible fate
that was threatening them, was badly
burned on the body and head, and would
certainly have persisted but for the heroic
courage of Charles Cunningham, q fellow
lodger, who rushed through the flames and
carried her from the jaws of death. The
building and furniture were only insured
Tor 81 800 and are total loss.
Uplands Good for Beets.
MARysvILLE, April 12th.-In answer to
an inquiry from the editor of the appeal as
to whether the sugar beet can be prottably
grown on the higher lands of the Sacra-
mento valley. such as are commonly de-
voted TO grain, and not river bottom. the
agent of the Western Beet Sugar Factory at
Watsonville writes as follows: Here
similar uplands to those mentioned, if
properly cultivated, and providing the
beets have sufficient moisture in the earlier
stages of their irowth, will raise ten to
twelve tons per acre of beets with high
percentage of sugar" This is thought to
open up an encouraging prospect of profit
in sugar beets for the valley lands in gen
eral. The supposition has been that the
culture of sugar bee.s was confined to bet
tom lands along the rivers.
A Determined Suicide.
Los ANGELES, April 12th.-Jacob Hem
mel. an old man, supposed TO be quite
wealthy, committed suicide at his residence
on Temple street last evening. He first
took mixture of laudanum and strych-
nine, but this not proving rapid enough he
shot himself through the heart with q
small pistol, dying in a few minutes. Ii is
supposed Hemmel's mind was partly de.
ranged. He is said to have q son in San
Francisco and another in Detroit, Mich,
nd &c f-I I, ~
in the latter city. A few weeks he was
sued for breech of promise of marriage by
woman who had been his housekeeper.
Her suit is still pending.
A Sufferer from insomnia.
MODESTO, April 12ih.-Yesterday morn
ing at s o'clock Pedro q. Galloa, barber,
aged SO years, was found in q room in a
stupor from the effects of an overdose of
morphine. Medical attendance was called,
and all day antidotes and remedies were
used TO resuscitate him, but death resulted
at midnight. The Coroner's Jury to- day
found that death resulted from a poison
being taken i'll too large quantity, acci-
dentally, to produce sleep, the deceased be.
ing sufferer from insomnia. The funeral
took place this afternoon.
Temperance Union.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 12th.-The third
annual Convention of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Unions of San Francisco
began at the United Presbyterian Church
Thursday. Mrs. l.. NJ Carver presided.
Reports showed that during the past year
SIX new unions had been formed in this
city, and that the total membership is now
over three hundred. In her annual address
Mrs. Carver announced that Temperance
temple, or headquarters, was planned by
the Union.
Without Foundation.
Los ANGELES, April 12ih.-A NJ. Beale
of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, Super
intendent of the division OF the road east OF
the Needles, who arrived here yesterday,
says that the report of the accident near
Peach Springs, A. T., on Monday last,
which was telegraphed from this city at
considerable length, has absolutely no
foundation. No one was killed or injured
as reported, and no accident whatever oc-
Cured.
Drank Too Much Wine.
SoNoMA, April 12th.-An unknown man
was found dead yesterday on Senator
Hearsts place, a few miles from town. He
had been driven out of the wine cellar by
one of the Cinnamon employed on the
place, who discovered that the man had
drunk while in the cellar over gallon of
wine. He walked about 80 feet when he
was found TO be dead.
The weather is cold and cloudy.
Claim for Salary.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 12th.-W. H.H.
Graves has sued the California Safe Deposit
and Trust Company to recover 81, ,253 SO for
breach of contract. Complaint says that
on April s, 1888. he was employed as Treas.
urer and manager of the companys bust
ness for one year at $500 per month salary,
which duties he performed until the lst of
October, when he was discharged from the
service. He claims pay for full year.
Salary Claim Adjusted.
SAN Francisco, April 12lh.-The jury in
Judge Finn's Court rendered verdict in
favor of w. L. Chalmers and against the
Fire Insurance Association for 1856 So.
Chalmers claimed S1,743 Go as balance
due him for year IS salary, and the amount
awarded to him is what the association
offered him as due up to the time he was
relieved as agent
A Rough -Tuinble at Spokane.
SPOKANE FALLS, April l2th.-A terrible
tight occurred this evening at the Ruas
House, in which five men were seriously
injured, and two will probably die of their
wounds. The disturbance commenced
with quarrel between two men, but over
twenty were engaged in it. The police
Were assaulted before they succeeded in
making arrests.
The Custom Service.
SAN Francisco, April 18th. - Custom
House officers c. II. Westcott and Inspector
Daniel d. Gallagher, who have been sta
toned at the Mail dock, have been sum-
marily dismissed from the Customs serv-
ice. Westcott and Gallagher are suspected
to have been connected with the recent
smuggling of $1,000 worth of opium from
the steamer Arabic.
A Good Gold Mine.
REDDING, April 18th. Superintendent
Morton brought to town to-day from
Walker Bros. mine on Old Diggings a gold
bar valued at Sc 600. This mine is fast be-
coming very valuable. Before Walker
Bros. purchased it, it was considered al
most valueless.
Too Great a Risk.
Jinks-" Has a husband right TO open
his wifes letters?''
"Blinks "a lawyer)-" Certainly sir;
open all you please"
Well, here's letter my wife has writ
ten to your wife, and handed me to deliver.
| feel pretty sure there is something in it