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The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-08
FREE LIBRAR
Business Transacted by the Trus-
tees Last Evening.

The Board of Trustees of the Public
Library met at their office in the Ii
Erary building last evening. Present:
W. c. Fitch, President; E. B. Willis,
President; S. H. Gerrish, Secreta-
ry; E. Franklin and Jabez Turner.
The report of the Librarian for the
month of August was read, as follows;
Number of books issued during the
time the Library was open to the pub
lic--t having been closed for cleaning
and repairs for fourteen days-was
1912; classified thus: Fiction. 2,91l;
history, 173; literature. 151; fine art,
So; useful art, 50; science, SO; philol-
ogy, / sociology, 13: religion, %;
philosophy, "a; general works, 392; jul
venile fiction, 936; Juvenile, other
classes, 106; current magazines, 210
Percentage of fiction, not including
juvenile, 80; percentage Of Juvenile fic
ton, %; percentage of all other classes.
70; percentage OF fiction, 10; average
number issued per day, 81.
Number of patrons registered 5,696;
number Of books read in library rooms,
80; amount of the fines collected, So 40;
number of books mended in the library,
u; total attendance in reading room,
1,543; women, 1871; men, $50; girls, 101;
boys, 347; total average attendance,
81; women. S; men, So; girls, 6; boys.
20.
The following bills We're ordered
paid John James, SO; Capital Gas Com
pany IS; Sacramento Electric Gas
and Railway Company, 81 20; l.. w.
Ripley, 1926 10; r. S Jones, ST. %; p.
A. ByIne, 81 u; c. H Krefs & Co.,
$13 40; James T. White & Co., SO;
Union Ice Company, So So.
The Committee on Buildings and
Repairs reported that the Library had
been closed fourteen days and during
that time il was thoroughly cleaned, re-
paired and painted, where necessary,
and was in good order when opened TO
the public on the 18th of August.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-08
Lee HALLS SKULL CRUSHED.
HIT BY A BRICKBAT HURLED
BY WILL ADAMS.
The Assault Grew Out of Some
White Boys Tanta1izing Col
cred Children.

Little seven-year-o Lee Hall, whose
mother and stepfather, Mrs. and Mr..
George Shelby. reside on the northwest
corner of the alley on Fifth street, be-
tween Q and r streets. lies in the
County Hospital with a crushed skull,
the result of a vicious assault by a
twelve -vear-old colored boy named
William Adams.
Sunday afternoon Lee Hall and a
number of small children, whose par
ents reside in the immediate neighbour
hood, We're playing in front of the
Shelby residence when a number OF
colored children, who reside in the al
ley, PASSED on a wagon. Lee Hall and
the children with him were singing.
"Au Coons Look Alike to Me-" and this
apparently enraged the colored chill
dren, who at that time did nothing ex-
cept shake their fists and threaten to
kill the children who We're making the
music.
When the colored children returned a
half hour later Lee Hall and another
young shaver were playing ball on the
walk. According to several eye-wit-
nesses to the affair VIII Adams said
something to Lee Hall, and the latter
replied:
Go on, you old coon, and stop that"
Young Adams mother, according to
the citizens who reside in the vicinity
and claim to have seen the trouble, was
standing about twenty yards from the
children, and called to her son:
You get rock and break his head!
Hit him, I tell you!"
Young Adams followed his mothers
injunction, and. picking up a jagged
brickbat, hurled it with all his power
at the child who had invoked his
mothers wrath The missile went true
to its mark, and to save his face little
Lee Hall threw down his head, taking
the full force of the blow on the crown
of the head
The little fellow dropped to the
ground, saying to his brother, before
he lost consciousness: ooh, George,
that niger hit met"
The little fellow was carried into the
house and Drs Henderson and Reith
were called. They found that the skull
had been crushed and was pressing
heavily on the brain, but thought it
well TO defer an operation until Mon
day.
On Monday afternoon the physicians
considered the outcome of an opera
ton a serious matter, and on their rec
ommendation the child was removed to
the County Hospital
That night an operation was per-
formed, and the crushed portions of the
skull were raised, relieving the pres
sure on the brain. and DR. White now
thinks the boys chances for recovery
are good. No arrests have been made
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-08
AGAINST ALL CITY DIARIES.
THE BOARD OF HEALTH SO
DECLARES ITSELF.
That Body Will Also Insist ON the
City Having a Milk
Inspector.

At the meeting of the City Board of
Health last evening the resignation of
E. J. FOLEY, as Plumbing Inspector,
was handed in and accepted.
Nominations for his successor being
in order. DR.. Wizard named w. II.
Smith, who during the absence of Mr..
Toliey has been acting inspector, and
he received the unanimous vote of the
board
The subject Of excluding dairies from
the city limits was called up, and the
present ordinance, which protects GER
tain sections of the city and allows
dairies to remain. in others, was Sc
verely criticised. In the end a resolu
ton by DR.. Ross was adopted request
ordinance excluding diaries from the
corporation limits.
Drs. Wizard and Ross We're appointed
committee to wait on the Board of
Trustees and urge the adoption of an
ordinance embodying the idea suggest
ed by the resolution.
The matter relative to the appoint
ment of a Milk Inspector came up, and
after a long discussion DR. Fay was
appointed committee to examine into
structions to report at the next regu-
lar meeting.
DR. Fay next brought up the question
of the purchase of drugs for use in
the City Dispensary. He stated that
ne understood that the City Physician
purchased quinine pills at $6 per 1000
which We're worth 50 30; gauze at
81 80, worth 60 cents, and other neces-
saries at proportionate rates.
Dr.. Nichols explained that in return
for the services rendered in county
cases by the City Physician the coun-
ty furnished a dispensary building
rent free, for the city, and provided
funds for the purchase of all drugs
only retaining the right to say where
they shall be purchased. He merely
followed instructions issued by the
Board of Supervisors, and while he had
informed that body that he could buy
drugs at lower rates from wholesale
houses, he did not press the matter
as in that case the Supervisors might
tell the city to buy and pay for its
own drugs, and also to rent a dispen-
sary and pay for janitor.
No action was taken in the matter
The City Physicians report showed
that during the month of August there
were rs deaths, as against Al for July,
and 23 for August, 1896, giving an an
nual death rate for the month of 10. 40
per 1000 inhabitants. Nine cases of
diphthcria and two of scarlet fever
were reported
There were during the month 81
births--1S males and 13 females. Thir-
tyfour marriages were reported.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-08
Land Patents Signed.

Governor Budd has signed land pat
ents as follows:
School lands-East Whittier Land
and Water Company. $50 acres in Los
Angeles County; Andrew Lundquist,
226 acres in Lake County; John M.
Day. 80 acres in San Benito County;
Siskiyou Lumber Company, 160 acres
in Siskiyou County; Martin Griffin, 200
acres in Monterey County; Martin
Griffin, 240 acres in San Benito Coun-
ty; Martin L. Griffin, so acres in San
Benito County.
Swamp and overflow lands-Henry
Miller. 80 acres in Fresno County; H.
H. Freeman, 800 acres in Tulare
County.
University land-No. $40, 80 acres to
Sophia Casey
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-08

fair also regarding the great dairy IN
dustries of California, promotive Of
horticultural and viticultural inter
tests, of inventive genius evil
dences of advance made in
machinery for the farm and the shop,
etc. There is, as there always has
been. liberal display Of skill in decora-
tive art, in sculpture, in needlework,
and in home manufactures of various
kinds, in addition to displays repre-
sentative of the public spirit. enter
prise and advertising wisdom of mer-
chants, manufacturers and producers.
1t may not be saying too much to
add that the practical work in the
Pavilion in making beet-sugar tests,
and butter and cheese making, the ex-
pressing of olive oil, and the novel ex-
hibit artistically designed by the State
Board of Horticulture, have not been
equalled in Importance and educational
value by any Pavilion exhibition ever
made in the State.
Through all this exposition there
runs the social element in the response
to the desire for entertainment, and
this is gratified by handsome decora-
lions. high-class concert music. instru-
mental and vocal and other features.
Other factors of the fair are not on
view but are fully as important, name
~, the statistics gathered through the
bureau of the State Agricultural Soci-
ETY., the research made into agricultural
needs and conditions, important pa
pers, reports and treatises. all which are
presented in the volume issued shortly
after the close of the exposition. So
that he who looks within and seeks to
discover the value of the State Fair
to the State win not fail to discover
that it is an object and teaching lesson
worth all it costs, and all the expense
and time necessary to visit it frequent
ly.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-08
TRUSTEES SALE OF REAL ESTATE.

WHEREAS, ELI MAYO, EXECUTED
a certain deed of trust to Ed r. Hamil-
ton and w. +. Coleman, June 20, 1893, and
recorded June Is 1898, in book 121 of Trust
Deeds. at page 657 and following, Rec
ords of Sacramento County, State of Cal
ifornia: said deed of trust conveying the
real property hereinafter described for
the purpose of securing the payment of
two certain promissory notes, made by
the said Eli Mayo: and whereas, default
has been made in the payment of said
notes and the interest thereon,
Now therefore, by the authority vest
ed in them by said deed of trust and
upon application of the owner and hold
er of said notes, the undersigned, as such
trustees, will, on SEPTEMBER so, 1891
between the hours of 10 and IL O'Clock a.
m, in front of the Courthouse door, in
the City of Sacramento, County of Sac
ramento, State of California, sell at pub
lie auction to the highest bidder for cash
in United States gold coin, the following
described property, to wit:
Lot number two (2l in the block or
square bounded by n and o and Second
and Third streets, in the City of Sacra-
mento. State of California, together with
all the improvements and appurtenances
thereto belonging.
ED r. HAMILTON, Trustee
W. p. COLEMAN, Trustee
s1-4tW
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BY excuses or imprudence in eating,
we cannot hope TO escape the conse-
quenees for any great length of time.
The most robust digestion must sue
cumb 70 abuses of that important func-
ton. But supposing that we have been
foolish enough to enfeeble the stomach,
is the damage irreparable? BY no
means. The dyspeptc has only TO
do two things to insure his Ill
innate recovery. First he should
adopt an easily digested diet.
and persistence Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, the leading gastric invigorant
of the age. The multiform symptoms
of dyspepsia and the almost invariable
attendant disorders, biliousness and
constipation, will assuredly cease to
persecute the sufferer If the above adj
vice is attended TO- Who that has suf-
fered the torments that chronic indi
gestion infiicts will neglect TO take ad
vataee OF remedy which, if the most
positive evidence of the medical pro-
fession and the public is 10 be received
with due credence. IS an absolute spe
cific for the complaint.
u \ CO.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-08

Marshal Ney used to say that the
trooper and his horse are one. That
cannot be true, else the members OF
Troop A, National Guard of California
would now be counting their ribs in
their shadows, and dining on the splin-
tiers of feed boxes. What a shame 1t
is that in the broad sunlight of this day
horses belonging to the State should
starve, while there are employees of
State departments drawing down more
than one salary each.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-08

Yellow fever has once more appeared
in Louisiana. 1t is not, however, much
to be feared now, as sanitary science
has demonstrated that enforced and
detailed cleanliness of cities and towns,
and rigid quarantine, results in stamp
ing out the pest. Beside medical science
is far more capable to engage in a con-
fiict with yellow jack than it was a
quarter of a century ago. 1t is scarcely
probable that the one case imported
into New Orleans from the ocean side
resort where the fever is epidemic will
be allowed to be the cause for the
spread of the disease in the gulf city
We have great confidence in quaran-
tine, mercilessly enforced, and in the
preventive measures now admitted to
be wise, but which fifty years ago pub
lie sentiment would not permit to be
applied.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-08

this year. and it lies in his wheat bin.
There is the territory for the easiest
and richest placer mining known to
man.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-08
Not Altogether Mite.

She was pretty. piquante and petite
They all called her exceedingly swite
But 10 battle in the sea
She went not, for she
Was aware Of the size OF her fife.
Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-08

That tired. languid feeling indicates
a lack Of vitality in the current of
life" the blood. Hoods Sarsa parilia
changes all this by purifying, vitaliz-
ing and enriching the blood
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-08
Fruit Shipments.

There We're . carloads of fruit ship
ped from this city yesterday for the
East-5A of peaches, 214 of plums, II
of pears, III of grapes. / of apples, and
u of ounces.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-08

The Winters Express" and the Win
ters independent" have been consoh-
dated, and will be conducted by COM
pany organized for the purpose as the
Express" The announcement is made
that sufficient capital is behind the new
adjustment to insure the carrying out
of the desires of the promoters.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-08

The Placer Argus" Auburn, has en-
tered upon its twenty sixth year, with
an excellent outlook for the future in
county already blessed with seven news
papers. The Argus" has had some
hard battles to fight in its long history,
hut at the close of a quarter of CEN
tury is vigorous and full of spirit of
the right kind
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-08
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PEOPLES SAVINGS BANK.

Sacramento, Cal.
Paid up capital and surplus. ~ $500 OOa
DIRECTORS:
VIM. Beckman, j. L. Huntoon
VIM. Johnston Z. J. Croly
Geo. NJ. Hayton,
Loans made on real estate. Interest paid
semi-annually.
VIM. BECKAfAN, President
George w. Lorenz, Secretary
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SACRAMENTO BANK.

THE OLDEST SAVINGS BANK IN
the city, corner Fifth and J streets, Sac
ramento. Guaranteed capital, $500, 600;
paid up capital, gold CON-. S400,o00; re-
posits, So, %. 931 80; loans on real estate
January I, 1897, 81, $50, ISL 10 Terms and
ordinary deposits received. Dividends paid
in January ana July. Money loaned Upon
real estate only. Information furnished
upon application to
". ?. COLEMAN, President.
Ed. r. Hamilton, Cashier
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-08
KLAMATH HOT SPRINGS.

A NOTED HEALTH RESORT. HOT
swimming, steam. sulphur and mud baths.
Table and service frst-class. Finest trout
fishing in the State Terms very reason
able. EDISON BROS,
RaSWick. Cal.
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Weather Forecast.

Northern California-Fair Wednesday
warmer; northerly winds.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-08
FARMERS AND MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK
Fourth and SnRsls, SACRAMENTO. Cal.

LOANS MADE ON REAL ESTATE.
Interest paid semi-annually on Term and
Ordinary Deposits.
3. u. STEINMAN .............. President
DWIGHT HOLSTER ...Vtce-President
u. y. MHlTBECk ................ Cashier
c. II. CUMMINGS -. Secretary
LANES N. STEVENSON ........ SlIrYeYnr
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-29

ing. She was accompanied by Joe
Keller, the butler, and her cousin, Mrs.
Zena Terry, witnesses to the will At
torneys w. B. Keep and Clarence
Brown represented the contestants the
brothers and relatives of Mr.. Ketcham.
Mrs. Ketcham was represented by At
torney A. S. Trude.
Joe Keller, the butler, was the first
witness called. He testified to the cir
cuTnstances surrounding the signing of
the will. On the morning of Nov. 1, he
said, Mrs. Wallace-Ketcham called him
into MIR. ketcham's room. Mr.. Ketcham,
who was sick in bed, read the will to
him, and then asked him to sign it as
q witness. Keller said Mrs. Ketcham' 5
signature was affixed to the will before
he himself had signed it. The butler
testified that he had known Mr.
Ketcllam for about two years, and that
he was drunk most of the time. Keller
added, however, that Mr.. Ketcham' s
mind did not seem affected when he
was drunk or sober.
Mrs. Zena Terry, who also witnessed
the will, testified to the signing of the
will.
Attorney Trude, in behalf of Mrs.
ketcham, then asked that an admin
istrator ad litum be appointed until the
case was settled, and Judge Kohlsaat
said he would do so. The case was then
continued until next Monday.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-12-29

The city council last evening, besides
disposing of large volume of other
important business, an account of
which is given in another column of
this paper. enacted an ordinance, in
the form Of a resolution. amending the
franchise of the Salt Lake & Ogden Gas
& Electric Light company, raising the
minimum rates charged consumers Of
natural gas and lowering the maximum
rates charged for incandescent lights.
In the opinion of the majority of the
council, the action taken is advantage
Gus to light consumers.
COMMITTEES REPORT AND REC
OMMENDATION.
In the matter of the petition of the
Salt Lake q Ogden Gas & Electric
Light company for an amendment to
its franchise fixing the rate on natural
gas as heretofore recommended by Ger
tain committees of the city council,
which was adopted on May II, 1897, the
committee on municipal laws presented
a resolution granting a modification OF
minimum rates on natural gas, and
also fixing a maximum rate on COM
nercial electric lights, making the
franchise conform to the other fran
chises now in existence in this city.
=
ton OF the resolution, and added:
THE company verbally requested
that a rate be given of 81 per thousand
feet Of mixed gas, composed partly of
mixed and partly of manufactured gas,
the company claiming that it is fire.
quently compelled to supply manufac-
tured gas to make up the deficiency in
supply Of natural gas. The committee
recognizes the justice of the company's
claim that it should not be compelled
TO sell manufactured at natural gas
rates, but the franchise names a rate
for natural gas and one for manufac-
tured gas, and the committee believes
the company has authority to adjust
its rates accordingly"
The resolution recommended by the
committee for adoption is as follows:
THE RESOLUTION.
Resolved, BY the city council of Salt
Lake City that sections 6 and 7. of a reso-
luton granting certain privileges and
franchises to the Salt Lake and Ogden
Gas and Electric Light company, a cor
porauon, which was passed by the City
council MAJ 70. 1893. be and the same are
hereby repealed and the following new
sections ere hereby enacted in lieu there
OF, TO be known as sections six and seven:
SECTION SIX.
The Salt Lake and Ogden Gas and Elec-
trio Light company during the period
aforesaid shall by It's acceptance OF the
privileges herein granted. agree with said
city that it viii furnish to general com
mercial users in said city electric lights
and gas service Of the best quality and
highest efficiency, at prices which viii
not exceed the following rates, to-wit:
FirSt-2.000 candle-power arc lights, all
night service. SIS per lamp per month.
Second-Sa1ne light for midnight service
$40 per lamp per month.
Third-Sixteen candle-power incandes-
CEN lights, one cent per lamp per ampere
hour, and a prcportionate charge for in