Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-26


rendered him gesisidsy ena J Marion
BROOKS withdrew as his attorney. The
later says be deserted Bt0wDe because the
latter insists upon wearing a buckskin sGit
ard fur overcast, thefeby iujuring Los an
geles' reputation among tourists as win
Ter resort. Brooks thinks Browne Of un-
sound mind.
Santa Rosa Items.
SANTA Rosa February 25th-The total
amount of delinquent tax on the property
IN this county for the year amounts to only
s., Goethe smallest amount for many
years. The total amount oi taxes is
100000
A slight rsin fell today. Tonight
cold norther prevails.
John Sprague of Healdsburg was COM
mitted to jail FOR six months for selling
liquor to Indians. The authorities are
determined to break up the practice, SIS
several Indian murders have been com
mitted in the northern portion of the
| county while the red men were under the
| influence of liquor.
Little Dick in Jail.
FRESNO, February Charlottesville Hill
of Sanger lodged Captain Little Dick"
chief OF the Mill creek Indians, in Jail this
| morning. He is charged with poisoning
an Indian boy. l. is alleged that Little
DICK gave the boy biscuit TO eat and in
| an hour afterwsrd ne died.
The local officers are on another tramp
crusade. They rounded up twelve last
night sleeping in box-cars at the depot.
Showers have fallen all dsy, and from
to NJ. the rain fell in a regular dowa-
pour. The wind is in the south. The
prospects are good for heavy storm.
WatsonvilIe's Electric Plant.
WATsoNvILLE, February 25th.-Wa:son-
| vile is lighted tonight with electricity.
The plant was put in by Francis Smith,
and works 10 perfection. The power IS
| supplied by water at the reservoir, only
| one-tourth OF the wafer power there being
| necessary TO run the dynamo.
The Inauguration of the new system
was celebrated By a banquet at the works,
which was attended by all the prominent
men of the city.
Colonel DoDahue Quite Ill.
SAN FRANCISCO, February 25lh.-ColoneI
J. Mervyn Donahne, President of the San
| Francisco aud North Pacific Railroad. is
| living very i'll at his rooms at the Palace
| Hotel, and his death is hourly expected.
| Dr. A. f. Sawyer is attending him The
mslady with which Mr.. Dsnahue is
afflicted has sprung from q severe cold
which came upon him during toe grippe
| epidemic. His lsngs have become seri-
ously affected aud the last report from the
| sick room was that he wss sinking rap
| idly.
Lost in the Mountains.
CALICO, February 25th.-The three-year-
old son of w Il. Whitton, proprietor of
| the clearinghouse of W. 4. Coieman's
borax mines, FIVE miles east of here. wan
dered into the mountains and became lost
about P. NJ. yesterday. & searching
party organized ss soon as the child was
missed, and continued the search till sun
Use this morning, when he was found on
the summit OF the PERCEPTIONS mountains,
three miles from home. The night was
very cold and the Child wss s;upiied
when found, bu! Otherwise apparently un-
harmed.
A Sudden Death.
WALLA WALLA (Wash), }, February 25ih.
-Vamp Smith, directory man formerly
with Polk & Co, well known all over the
United States. wss discovered dead in his
bed this morning. An investigation re-
| suited il asceriaining that death was caused
| by heart disease.
Mrs. Brown, formerly Nellie Mcdonald,
committed suicide last night by iakirg
| chloroform. having been very dcspondent
| OF late. She was soon 10 receive a 5000
legacy from the East.
PetaIuina Notes.
PETALUMA February 25th The city of
PetaIuma is again brilliantly lighted by
| electricity, this tine from $4,000 plant
With capacity Of fifty arc and $50 incan-
! descent lights
Patrick Triratle of his city was TO day
sentenced to three months imprisonment
! in the County Jai! for vie beating. by
| Judge Wballon. This is one cf the fist
cases nf imprisonment for such crime il
this city.
Woe DLAED. February 25.h.-C Calvin AFras
| was tried and cow cted OF grand larceny in
| the Superior CoarJto-day. BE was ehaig ged
| with stealing 9 check for 50 500 ana at
tempting 10 essh it.
/ The jury IN the Reid murder case failed
to agree ard we're dismissed. The jury
stood seven fer acquiiisl and FIVE for msn-
| slaughter BE viii be retired on March
| 3d.
| Crushed by an Iron Tank.
VANCOUVER Wash }. February 25lh.-
| This afternoon q sad accident broueht to
sudden emo TIE life of old John Lauta-
back, an cid man who had resided here for
| the last twenty years Willie engaged in
the yard of a Young & Co.'S brewery il
unloading a huge iron !ank il rolled of 10
one side, where Lauiaback was sieuding,
crushing him instantly uader its Immense
weight.
Philip Engel Acquitted.
Los ANGELES. February 25.L-Philip
! Engel, who shot ana killed his brother in
law, Charles Curtis. at Lsmanda Park lest
| November. bas been acquitted on Tie
ground Of self defense. The men had
been close friends, huf over-indulgercs in
liquor brought Oh a quarrel resulting in
the tEsgedy.
| Ten Years Imprisonment.
| VIRGINIA CITY (Nev) }, February 25th.-
Benjamin jenkins, tried in tine District
! Court On the charge Of Wife murder last
week, ana convicted of msDslaughter, was
| eentenced yesterday to ten wears impris-
onnent ct hard labor, the limit Of the pen
atty prescribed for that crime by the Ne
| yada statutes
Capture of a Mindless Man.
TACOMA (Wash.), February 25th--An
unknown crazy man :. no is ssid to have
escape.s from the Asglum ut Stockton Cal,
was brought 10 the jail for safe keeping To-
| day. His name @as not learned. and he
| himself is wholly unable to tell it or any
history cf himself. He will be cared for
until some disposition is made Of him.
Steam Laundry Burned.
| PoRT TOWNSEND, February 25'h The
steam laundry owned by Hanbokkler 6
| House vas partially destroyed by fire this
morning, caused by the explosion of gas
o,ine stove The damage is estimated at
! $1,000 George Webber, tho foreman, was
severely and probably fatally hurDsd.
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Grfst showing.
Custom House Statistics shox 620 81
cases champagne imported in ten years
ending December 81, 1889, composed Of