The herald., 1898-10-07
ABOUT THE STATE

The State grange, in session al Oakland
yesterday, indorsed the projected free pub
lie market in San Francisco.
The Marin county Republican conven-
tion yesterday nominated full ticket.
headed by j. w. Atherton for the assem-
bly,.
Arguments in the case of ex-Treasurer
Widber, accused of embezzlng SLIT 900 Of
San Francisco city funds, will be conclud-
ed today, when the case will go to the
jury.
evening destroyed the hotel of William
Rogers and the saloon of Ed McCue. A
defective fue was the cause. Loss $4,000;
no insurance.
When the office Of the Fresno Water
company was opened yesterday 1t was dis
covered that the place had been entered
the night before by burglars. The burg
lars got away with some $500.
Prof w. A. Woodruff and President F.
L. Clehorn of Washingt"~ y. c., sailed
yesterday from San Francisco for Samoa.
They are heading a government expedi-
tion to collect rare plants, shrubs and other
speciments in the interior of the Samoan
Islands.
Justice Baldwin yesterday held Train
Wrecker Griff1nof Santa Rosa for trial be-
fore the superior court on charge Of
wrecking a passenger train at Gelston sta
ton, on the Southern Pacific The man
has confessed his guilt, and says he did it
for revenge.
In the suit Of ]. p. Jarman VS.. James w.
Rea, to recover $4,000 damages for al
legged slander in saying that the plaintiff
while in the council got money on the pur-
chase of a steam roller, Judge Kittredge
of San Jose yesterday denied the defend
ants motion for a non-suit.
On Wednesday man was arrested at
Fresno on a charge of vagrancy. Yester-
day 1t was ascertained that the prisoners
name Is John Burns and that he Is wanted
in Sacramento for committing a bold high
way robbers the victims of which were
several Japanese. The prisoner is an ex-
convict.
Chief Engineer Storey of the Valley road
will leave San Francisco today for the puc-
pose of inspecting the proposed route from
Bakersfield through the TETON pass to Los
Angeles. He expects to return in about
ten days and will then send out a corps of
surveyors and engineers to map out the
line preparatory construction work.
County Clerk Curry of San Francisco has
received notification from Chief Justice
Beatty of the supreme coutr that his appli-
cation has been granted for rehearing in
the cast of Mrs. Jane l.. Stanford, who
objected to paying $685. 100 into the county
treasury as collateral inheritance tax in
the estate of the late Leland Stanford.
The old steamer Prof. Morse, which as
sisted the Great Eastern to lay the first
cable across the Atlantic, Is lying at the
Fulton iron works, and will probably be
broken up. She was purchased in New
Orleans for $4,000, and brought out here
to run to the Klondike, but the boom was
over before she arrived. Her boilers have
been condemned, and 1t is not believed
that she is worth repairing.
F. j. Jansen, a farmer residing near
Fort Redding, has positively identified the
rifle and several other articles found in the
possession of w. Boughen, the tramp who
was fatally shot by Albert Thomas, few
days ago, as having been stolen from his
cabin recently. This is a point in favor
of Thomas, who is charged with the murder
of Boughen, he claiming that he shot the
man under the belief that he was trying
to burglarize his residence.