Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-12
state Prison Directors.

SAN Francisco, January 11th-The State
Prison Directors met to day to discuss the
question of site for the new Industrial
School under the Preston bill. They re-
ceived several propositions from land-own-
ers in the vicinity of lore City, who agreed
to furnish the site and water.
Director Sonntag, who went TO lone to
see the site offered by Mr.. Isaacs, reported
progress.
Mr.. Gregory said that he desired TO con-
tradict the impression that the land owners
had combined to raise the price of the land.
After long discussion the Board went
| into executive session, and adjourned at S
o'clock this evening without having reached
a conclusion.
The Prison Directors, this evening,
| thought that the best offer was parcel of
| land belonging to The railroad company, in
| close proximity to the railroad depot at
lone, but action was deferred until the
premises can be visited.
Indignant Seamen.
SAN FRANCISCO, January l1th-An in
| dignation mass meeting was held this
evening, in Metropolitan Temple under
the auspices of the Coast Seamen's Union,
| to protest against the inhunan treatment
of the merchant sailors st the hands of
| Captain Realy, of the United States
| revenue cutter Bear, in Alaskan waters.
Healy is charged with inficting all kinds
| of inhuman punishment without in cprOT-
! ocation.
Over 500 merchant sailors, healed by a.
band and carrying a transparency repre-
sentiDg Healy's chief mode of punish
meDt. marched from the water front up
| Market street to the Temple, where Rev.
DR.. Harcourt, Hon. Robert Ferrall C. a.
Sumner and Others will address the meet
| ing.
Resolutions coudemnirg Captain Healy,
and asking Secretary Window to remove
hiEl, were adopted.
a Prisoner Refuses Food.
SEATTLE, January 11th.-W. H White,
who is undergoing sentence Of fourteen
years for forgery, but is now in the County
Jsil awaiting proceedings OF writ of
habeas corpus, has decided 10 starva him
self
So far as known not a morsel has passed
his lips since New Years Day. snd he says
he does not propose TO eat this yesr He
says he does not know anything about
Tanner or his famous fast, bat if be con-
tinues on in the way he is doing now he
will beat that experimenters record.
His face is if anything 1eshier than
when he stopped taking food and the doc
tors say his system shows no symptoms of
lack of food.
Death from Exposure.
AMADoR, January IIth.-William Flee
hart, pioneer and old resident OF this
county, abouty Ga years old was found
dead this morning. II was living al the
foot of an embsnkment leading from one
of the streets. When last seen yesterday
evening he was under the influence of
liquor, and from gashes on his face and
bead it is evident that he fell over the bank,
was rendered unconscious and had frozen
~
prominent merchant and mining man of
Amador being the locator of the famous
Badger mine of Suffer Creek, this county.
Boys Adventure in Wen.
SUNoL, January 11th.-Harfy, thu eight
year son OF J. T. Cawthorue Of San
Francisco, fell into forty-iye-foot well at
$3.50 o'clock this afternoon. A ladder was
lowered to him, and when pulling him out
the ruDg broke, pTecipiiatipg him back
into the water. When ne rose to the sur
face he grabbed a cleat on the side of the
well and held on until e rope was lowered
with moose, which lie slipped over and
under his arms and he vas drawn out in
safety. he showed remarkable courage
when in the well, and apparently is not
hurt.
The Parthia's Record.
VANCOUVER (B. Co. January 11th.-The
steamship Parthia arrived yesterday u
days and 23i hours from Yokohama, beat
ing her own record and that of the new
San Francisco steamship China, and max
ing the fastest time on the Pacific. Her
cargo consisted of 2,0l4 tons, including
large c0nsignments of silk and twenty-five
bags of mail. There were six saloon psssen-
gers, four intermediate, and six European,
169 Chinese and eighty other Asialies in the
steerage. The Parthia beat the City of
Pekibg to San Francisco by six days
The Insanity Dodge.
PORTLAND, Janusry l1th. - Yesterday
William Hawthorne was sentenced by
Judge Stearns to three years in the Peni-
Tertiary for burglary. Hawthorne was
sometime ago sent to the Penitentiary at
Walla Walla. Subsequently he was deemed
insane and committed TO the asylum st
Steilacoom.
Last summer he made his escape from
that institution and csme TO Portland.
Soon after be YVES captured here while in
the act of rohbing al Office. He played the
insanity dodge from first to las, bu: with
out avail
Santa Rosa Items.
SANTA Rosa, January lIth.-Sauta Rosa
Parlor No. IS. n. S. G W, installed officers
tonight, assisted by Mt. Tamalpais Parlor,
San Rafael. a number OF Grand Officers
were present. Prominent Naive Sons
TOUl san fTaDclScOi SaCIdilSUtO ana Napa
City were also present. after the instalia-
ton of officers the visitors were oacqueted.
cold north wind prevails today. the
temperature being low and atmosphere
chilly. The weather evidently has rot vet
settled.
The Holiday Estate.
PORTLAND, January 115h.-The first an
nual statement of the condition Of the estate
Of the late Ben HolladsY, under the new
administration of James S Ell, was fled to.
day. The Indebtedness still remaining
against it will reach about s2C0, coo, which,
according to the estimate made, will he
covered by undisposed property in tie CD,
tody of the administrator. There still re-
mains considerable appraised property aud
also balance of nearly $4,000 il the
hands Of the Court.
La Grippe at Oakland.
OAKLAND. January 1tth.-Dr A. H.
Pratt, of 1859 Grove street, with seven
members of his family and the japanese
servant, have the influenza. These are be-
Iieye1 70 be he f.st genuine cases reported
in this city.