The herald., 1898-10-28
ABOUT THE STATE

| The jetties now being constructed in the
Sacramento river at the Newtown shoals,
near Rio Vista, promise to accomplish much
toward improving navigation in that local
| Harold Haber, the 2-year-old son Of John
Haber of San Francisco, found bottle of
carbolic acid yesterday and drank portion
| of the contents. A physician was called but
it was impossible to save the child's life.
| Superior Judge Minor of Modesto has
| given decision in which he hold that all
persons who registered 10 days before cleo
tion are entitled to vote. AS result of the
decision, l39 names are added to the great
register.
By direction of Chief Lees of San Fran
cisco, Chief Dyer of Sacramento has dis
charged Chin Neon, or Chung Nung, con-
nected with the Mock Foo murder. The
murdered mans relatives refused to swear
to complaint.
Luke b. Richardson, a pioneer of lS49, and
most esteemed citizen of Sacramento, died
last night He was engaged in mercantile
pursuits in El Dorado for several years be-
fore coming here For a long time he was
connected with the house of the late Cover
nor Newton Booth.
Charles Britt, recent arrival from
Rocky Ford, Col, met a flightful death
yesterday in the Laytonvlle flour mills.
Britt was caught in the main shaft, his low
or limbs being ground to a pulp in the ma
chinery. He lived for ten hours. lie was %
years of age and unmarried.
ity Already there has been perceptible
cutting away of the shoal there by the con
tinement of the current, and Engineer Nurse
of the public works commission says that
it will surely disappear. This shoal has been
an obstruction to navigation IN times OF
low water for the last forty years.
During quarrel over a toll charge yester-
day George "A. Fitch, a mining man, drew
shotgun from his wagon seat and fired
point blank at Howard Shoemaker, a toll
gate keeper at Redding. The charge tore
and, passing into house, struck Miss Kate
Murray, not seriously iniurng her Fitch
has been arrested and released on bonds.
The Southern Pacific company's new fer
ry boat, Berkeley, was given her trial trip
yesterday. trip from one of the slips at the
foot OF Market street, San Francisco, to
Oakland pier was made in seventeen min
utes including delay occasioned by pass
ing barge. 1t is believed that after the new
ferry boat has been ON the run few weeks
she will be able to make the run from slip
to slip in fifteen minutes.
The protest which o. p. Powers filed with
County Clerk Holiday at Suisun last week,
protesting against printing upon the ballots
to be used at the general election in Novem-
Der either the Republican or Democratic
nominees for constables or justices of the
peace, claiming them to be illegal and in
violation of the political code of the state
of California, has been referred to the dis
trict attorney, and he has advised Clerk
Holiday to have all the names placed on
the tickets
The Oakland grand jury has made its re-
port, charging irregularities of the most
1iagrant kind. A charge was made that
Frank t. Thwaites, now dead, had fraudu-
lently drawn from the county treasury $50, !
600 by "raising" the amounts of his war
rants. He was stenographer in the district
attorneys office under Shook. 1t was also
charged that there were other minor ir-
reeularites in bills allowed by the super
visors. The expenses Of the county infirmary
were found to be excessive.