The herald., 1897-05-20
STATE NOTES

Late yesterday afternoon Gov. Budd re
appointed Marsden Manson as a member
of the state highway commission, thus
completing the new board.
The rails of the Valley road were laid to
the site of the depot in Hanford last even
ing and the construction train is unload
ing material for the side tracks and a
'Y'' is being built. Big preparations are
being made for the celebration of the ar
rival of the first passenger train on Satur-
day.
Yesterday at Sonoma was the hottest
day of the season and many residents say
it was the hottest for many years. The
thermometer, late in the afternoon. regis
tered 95 degrees in the shade. Last night
warm wind swept over the valley. Eak-
ing the heat of the night almost as intense
as that Of today.
The bench show, under the auspices OF
the San Francisco Kennel club opened yes
terday with over six hundred dogs of all
varieties and shapes on exhibition. The
display is by far the best ever seen there.
The judging is being done by ]. Otis Fell
lows. celebrated all over the country for
his knowledge of dogflesh.
The sixth annual conference Of the Call.
fornia Epworth League of the Methodist
Church South was in session last evening
at Asbury church, Oakland. The confer
ence opened with praise service by Mrs.
Hattie r. Glover of Salinas. Addresses
were made by State Secretary Clough of
Salinas, Vice-President Kimball of Dow
ney and Mrs. Estella Dake of Los Angeles.
w. w. Fogg, a well-to-do farmer of New
Hope, was found dead in a livery stable at
Lodi yesterday morning. He had been in
that town for three or four days and had
been drinking rather heavily. Last night
he bought laudanum and this morning
half of it was found. The coroners jury
decided that death resulted from an over
dose of laudanum, but did not say whether
it was a case of suicide or not. Deceased
had a daughter attending the San Jose
normal school.
Last night at Ridgway hall. Santa Rosa,
the graduation exercises of the Pacific
Methodist college took place in the pres
ence of a very large audience. The grad
yates were Henry Atkinson, 8. B. Givens,
B. c. Jenkin and c. l.. Story. The com
mencement address was delivered by the
Rev. William Martin, pastor of the Pres
byterian church. At the annual meeting
of the board of trustees of the college this
morning, President Austin was elected for
the eleventh time. The college year has
been a most successful one.
The annual convention of the knights
of Pythias is assembled at Hanford. The
report of the grand chancellor shows that
there was net gain Of 220 members last
year in this state, the total membership OH
May /, 1897 being 10772, the highest at
tanned during the past twenty-eight years.
The Rathbone temple now in session, has
twenty-five ont of thirty-six temples rep.
resented, by an attendance of sixty dele
gates and gand officers. Eleven new tenn
pies have been founded during the year,
and the order now has 1000 members in
the state.
The citizens of Eureka held non-parti-
san convention last night to select nomi-
nees for the civic election of June 21st. A
set of radical resolutions was adopted as
a platform, pledging the nominees of the
convention to reduce taxes to so cents on
800, reducing the police force and salaries,
retrenchment in lighting the city, con-
demning favoritism in the awarding of
contracts, condemning the school trustees
for levying a tax for school purposes with
out submitting the matter to vote of
the people, condemning the policy of send
ing abroad for teachers and machinery,
and reducing the salaries Of councilmen.
T.. E. Leake, commissioner of public
works; Engineers Price. Nourse and Ran
dali and Messrs, Markley. Doty, Hall
Cochrane and Patterson Of the auditing
board to the commissioner of public works
with several others persons. took trip up
the Sacramento river to the Hershey break
and down the river to Rio Vista yesterday
for the purpose Of inspecting the breaks