Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-10
THIRTY YEARS AGO.
TWO REPUTABLE CITIZENS ACCUSED
OF HORSE
Gold Excitement on the River Front
The Old-Time Yolo Park
Race-Course.

AS an instance of the loose manner in
which Grand Juries sometimes fulfill their
duties-and as illustrating one of the evils
of the system-one Chadwick had quar-
rel with ex-senator George W. Colby and
Enos Sargent, over horse trade, and he Sc
cured indictments against them for grand
larceny. They were heralded abroad as
horse-thieyes, but when the Court came to
INQUIRE into the matter there was not par
ticle of proof against them. The Grand
Jury had heard but one side of the story,
and allowed themselves to be duped by an
irresponsible person. The public were
quite indignant over the outrage to Messrs.
Colby and Sargent as their regulations had
been injured without cause.
Similar abuses are committed to this day
by Grand Juries, and many good man
has had his reputation destroyed by the
hasty action of these bodies. An indict-
ment by Grand Jury is regarded gener-
ally as almost equivalent to verdict of
guilty, as the impression exists that charges
made before such bodies are thoroughly In
vestigated. But usually they are not 1t
may be in the power of Grand Juries to
correct this evil, but they rarely do.
........ Frederick Williams, of Franklin,
was one of that class of men who was al
ways ready for trade of some sort. One
day he met a German acquaintance who
was riding horse that rather took his
fancy, and he bantered him for trade.
The German took him up, and they
snapped nags, Williams paying $57 in cash
beside. He concluded to come to the city
and SHOW off on his new charger, but
had no sooner got here than the horse was
claimed by its real owner, Yolo county
man, from whom it had been stolen. Will
Jams was thus, for a time, cured of the
horse-swapping disease.
.....The Hussars of this city elected
officers as follows: Captain, l.. Steudeman;
First Lieutenant, F. Ebner; Second Lieu
tenant, Charles Heinrich; Second Brevet-
Lieutenant, NJ. Arenz; First Sergeant, J.
Gregory; Second Sergeant, A. Neubauer;
Third Sergeant, A. Heilbron, Fourth Ser
geant, H Thielbar; First Corporal, John
hatcher; Second Corporal, ]. Meister; Third
Corporal, F. Haug; Fourth Corporal, G.
SCHNEIDER; Treasurer, F. G.. Wagenblast.
Some of these Old-timers are yet with us
Sergeant Hebron, Corporal Ba.cher. Lieu
enant Arena and others.
.. Early in the month of August,
1860, most brutal murder was committed
in Berryessa valley. Tom Lotion, a des-
perate character, who had already killed
two men-one in Mississippi and another
at Knights Landing-shot down young
man with whom he had had few words
about hauling wood from certain piece of
land He had two comrades along who
prevented friend of the victim from even
covering the body to protect it from the
suns rays, threatening TO kill him, too.
The murderer and his companions escaped.
.........P People do not get such crops of
grain off their lands now as they did thirty
years ago. Andrew Wolf. q San Joaquin
farmer, harvested in 1860 no less than
5000 bushels of wheat ON l60 acres of land,
and on the old Mcneil farm, adjoining
Oak Knoll, in Napa county, 60 bushels of
oats to the acre was the yield of the third
successive volunteer crop. Not only that,
but the oats was thrashed out by running
a band of horses over the grain in corral.
......... Where the overlooking waters, and
tule jungles, and willow forests, and glisten-
ing sands now decorate the country lying
Just west of the village of Washington, OPP
posite this city, was thirty years ago the
splendid Yolo Grove Racecourse, where
racing meetings were held every spring and
summer. The land was level, and the soil
well suited for the purpose. The track was
fast one, and many an exciting meeting
was held there in the early days.
.......One Professor Clark gave a prone
made concert at Agricultural Hall one
night, aud as security for the rent he de-
posted his watch and chain with President |
Granger of the Board of Supervisors. The |
concert was a failure and the rent wasn't |
paid So one day when the Board was in |
session the watch was presented to Clerk |
on, hat hn Ia
speech. HastiI gs made the speech, such |
as it was, and got the watch.
.........John Rooney was strong Douglas
man in those days. He bet $500 with
Frank Powell breckenridge that Douglas
would carry California, and 800 that he
would carry one or more Southern States.
Rooney also bet $500 with w. R. White
side. After the Douglas campaign the
Brighton man became Republican, but
later drifted back into the Democratic
party, where he feels more at home.
......Quite gold excitement broke out
in this city, one day, caused by little boy
named James Ireland finding 50 worth of
the precious metal at the waters edge on
the river between L and NJ streets. In
few hours hundreds of old miners were
out with pans prospecting along the river
bank. All found little gold, but the ex-
element died out in one day.
1.-THE volunteer firemen were loyal
and Union-loving body in those days when
the monster of disunion and rebellion
was beginning to raise its hydra-head.
They gave proof of this by complimenting
the UNION with serensde and hearty
cheers on the night of their annual cleo
tion-at least that was the way the editors
OF the paper regarded it at the time.
......On the 9th of August George II.
ID-..f IL t11 saf Eners Ofi
the Fire Department, Alexander Badlam
First Assistant and D. Mclaughlin Second
Assistant. The election was very lively
one-something like the recent Democratic
primary-and was characterized by fire.
quent fights and bleeding noses.
md. y. Mills, P. j. Devine and G. l.
Hutchinson composed the committee of
State Agricultural Board charged with the
duty of having stalls erected for the State
Fair. OF these gentlemen Mills alone has
withstood the wear and tear of these thirty
wears, and he looks as if he might stand
thirty more.
$1,000. Elk Lieutenant Governor R. NJ. An
derson of this State was shot at Genoa by
one Henry Lufkins during quarrel grow
ing out of local election. Marshal Black
burn stood by and allowed Lufkins to go
and arm himself and then return and shoot
Anderson.
........T The only ice then used in this city
came from Sitks and was supplied by the
American Russian Commercial Company,
of which Phil Caduc was the local agent.
.Coal-oil springs were said TO exist
about six miles from Clear Lake. What
has become of them, and have they ever
been prospec,ed?
.........El Dorado county in those days
cast nearly 5000 votes, and few years
earlier the vote of the county was much
heavier.
WATER AND TRUTH.