The herald., 1896-03-28
STATE NOTES

Cornelius Vanderbilt and Chauncey De-
| pew arrived at San Diego at 6 80 last
| night. and after a brief stay in the city
went over to the Hotel del Coronado.
! Mrs. Lucy Arthur, colored, died at Stock
| ton yesterday at the remarkable age OF
| 100 years, 3 months and 23 days. She
had been sick only week and retained
all her faculties to the last.
Assessor Hoskins says that Henry Miller,
the cattle king, had concealed from the
MADEIRA assessor $67 500 of personal prop
erty which will now be arbitrarily assessed
| at eight times it's actual value.
The mystery of the disappearance on
Mach l of eX-City Architect E. A. Hather-
ton of San Francisco was solved yesterday
by the discovery of his body floating in the
bay. He undoubtedly committed suicide.
measured .64 of an inch. making 1.75
inches for the month. There was a good
ayain yesterday at Banta and Tracy. which
will help the crops that are now heading
out there.
Claus Spreckeis last evening sent from
San Francisco deed to the county for the
public use of a strip of land forty feet wide
and one mile long, running from the
county road through Spreckels' country
place at Aptos beach.
There was hoavy thunder, hail and
lightning storm at Sacramento at noon
yesterday. In the afternoon street cars
and other industries using electricity as
motive power were stopped when lightning
struck the wires which convey electricity
from Folsom to Sacramento.
At Stockton, yesterday, W. S. Mont
gomery, farmer living about mile from
Lockford, cut the levee of the Mokelumne
river to irrigate land and as result the
whole country for miles around is under
water. TIE loss will be very heavy. Sew
eral farms are flooded, and the water is
creeping up to the hop region.
At the meeting of the state board of ex.
aminers yesterday the prison directors
were notified to appear next Wednesday
to make an explanation as to the financial
condition of the prison. The attorney
general gave an opinion that Captain Lees,
because he was not an officer, was not en-
titled to a share in the reward for the con-
viction of Kovalev. He advised that the
claimants fight it out in the courts.
The deputy coroner in more closely ex-
amining the clothes of James DonIey,
drowned at Stockton, Saturday, found a
certificate of deposit for 500, which was
issued Saturday, the last day he was seen
alike. The disappearance of $l25 he was
known to have. led to the belief that he
had been murdered, but the discovery to-
day convinces the officers that he spent
part of mis- money in drink and was acci-
dentally drowned.
cattle dealer named John Sparks
shipped quantity of cattle to the east
from Sacramento, and it seems that in
some way or other they came in contact
with certain other cattle that were diseased,
and under the United States law Sparks
cattle had to be killed when they reached
Omaha, although there was nothing wrong
with them whatever. Gov. Budd has
written to the department of agriculture to
see if the law cannot be remedied.
Tho Pinole stage station was entered by
three masked men at l o'clock Friday
morning. The agent, Ed Thompson, was
taken from his bedroom adjoining the
Office and forced to open the safe. The
robbers secured $50 of railroad and ex-
press money, and $40 belonging to the
agent. There was very little light and
Thompson is unable to give very good
description of the robbers, The station is
in an isolated spot and has been robbed
six or seven times within the past few
wears.