The herald., 1898-03-20
STATE NOTES

The San Francisco insurance cases are
now in the hands Of United States Circuit
Judge Morrow.
The Garden City club played game OF
baseball on the Stanford campus yesterday
with the Varsity team. The victory went
to Stanford by a score of to l.
Governor Hastings of Pennsylvania and
party arrived at Santa Cruz yesterday,
and were received at the depot by Lieu
tenant Governor Jeter. After drive to the
big trees the party left for Del Monte.
The dead body of main was found
floating near the Yolo side of the river,
about ten miles below Sacramento yester-
day. The body was that of a good-sized
man, dressed in bicycle suit and had been
in the water some time.
At a Santa Rosa convention yesterday,
under the auspices of the Good Roads
league, the question of bonding the county
to build good roads was almost unani-
mously defeated. There was a large at
tendance of farmers at the convention.
D. Mansfield of San Francisco added an
other record to his long list at the club
contest of the San Francisco Fly-Casting
club at Stow lake yesterday. In the long
distance event he added two feet to his
score, by making the remarkable cast OF
III feet.
The supreme court has denied writ of
habeas corpus in the case of Attorney
W. b. Mcintosh, who was sentenced to
five days Imprisonment and to pay fine
Of $500 by Superior Judge Carroll Cook for
having offered for sale confession OF his
client Albert Hoff accused Of murder
ing Mrs. Clute.
w. ]. Near of San Francisco met death
in peculiar manner yesterday morning.
He started to descend stairs. missed his
footing and fell with great violence. He
was picked up dead and removed to the
morgue. On his body was found letters
that showed that he had wife living at
Longmount Col
A jury called to investigate the cause of
the death of Mrs Lucy Moffett Of Oak
land, who was murdered by her husband,
James E. Moffett, on the morning of the
18th inst, has charged Moffett with the
crime The accused man is recovering from
his self-inflicted wounds, and will soon be
able to stand trial.
A complaint was filed at Salinas yestN-
day contesting last Moday's municipal
election. The grounds of the contest are
that the polls in the First and Third wards
were closed at o'clock, contrary to the
provisions of an election law; also because
voters were not allowed to cast ballots who
had not been on the register fifteen days
prior to an election.
The courts of the California Lawn Ten
mis- club at San Francisco were filled yes
terday with spectators and players to wit
ness the preliminary rounds of the gen.
tlemen's double tournament and also the
matches between club men and Oliver s.
Picher, champion Of Stanford university.
Picher defeated George Bradshaw by a
score of 6-4, Ga, GA, and also lowered the
colors of Ralph Bliven, 6-3, 6-2.
The executive committee of the Univer-
sity of California Athletic association has
accepted the intercollegiate agreement
with Stanford approved by the committees
of both universities. The athletic mana
gers were instructed to insist that the
bicycle races must be held upon the We'd
nesday preceding the field day which
will be held on Saturday, April 23d. Stan
ford can select the place for the races.