Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-12
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DOMESTIC NEWS.
Ex-senator Gwia on the Presidential
Canvass.
New YORK, July 10th.-The Express this
evening says: Senator Farley and Dr. Gwin
were interviewed at the New York Hotel to-
day. The latter said ga Waterloo il i'm
pending for the Republicans. The Chinese
question is vital one on the Pacific coast.
Garfield don't suit them on that, and it won't
do to attempt to delude its people by promises
from the Republicans of amendment of the
Burlingame Treaty, and the regulating and
restricting of Chinese immigration. Gar
fields individual record as legislator will
be their test. The changes made among the
Workingmen's Party will give aid to Han
cock. We don't expect to have Kearney. He
may be useful to the Republicans. The
changes from the Greenback vote will be in
our favor" Mr.. Gwin said that the doubt
full States in the pending contest were, in
his judgment, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Wisconsin The Pacific side of the
country, he thought, is strong for Hancock.
Colorado may be counted for Hancock and
English There has been large immigration
into that State, and most of it from Democratic
sections. Citizenship is there acquired by a
short residence, and the new element will
give Democrats victory at the ballot box.
" Hancock's nomination, he said, ''was like
an inspiration. 1t aroused the Convention,
and the enthusiasm has extended to all Sec
tions of the Union. No other name before
the Convention could have been put forward
with the enthusiasm, and carried with the
prestige of popular favor that Hancock has.
Dougherty's speech was inspiring, and thence
on Hancock's name carried all before it, both
in the Convention and out of it. We shall
win, but perhaps not so overwhelmingly as
the present promises"
Indian Territory Intruders.
WASHINGTON, July l0th.-Secretary Schurz
says he has issued orders to Immediately en-
ploY all necessary military force to prevent
any occupation of Indian Territory by the
Payne expedition, or any similar unlawful
intruders.
ST. LOUIS, July 10th.-The scheme to set
tie on Government lands in Indian Territory
is gaining strength daily, and quite boom
in its favor is Being started to-day. 4. D.
Craddock, a lawyer, and one of a company
who came here a few days ago to werk up the
a
places in Illinois, stating that number Of
persons will be here on Monday ready to go
to the Territory. Advices have also been
sreceived from Western Kansas that hundreds
of families, who have suffered from the
drought in that country, are on their way to
Oklahoma. A letter has been received from
III. L. Hill, an old scout who was with Cap
tain Payne last spring, in which he says the
party which left Wichita, Ks, last Sunday
arrived safely at their old headquarters, and
found corn and vegetables, planted in the
spring, in fine condition. Jack Bottle, a
scout, from Texas, was found there, and he
stated that a thousand men from Texas
would be in the Territory in ten days. Hill
wrote from Arkansas City. at which point he
telegraphed to numerous parties along the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and Kansas
Pacific Railroad to push on at once. 1t
looks as though the invasion of the Territory
would be formidable, and that if the military
are instructed to eject the intruders there
will be a conflict.
An Opium Corner.
New YORK, July 10th.-It is confidently
stated that FIVE capitalists of this city, repre-
senting capital of about SIS, 600, 600, have
formed combination for the purpose of
cornering" the stock of opium and control
ing the price. 1t is estimated that the grow.
ing crop will not amount to over 1,S00 cases,
and as the worlds yearly consumption
amounts to some 1000, an immense profit is
anticipated by the syndicate. The price in
this city now Is 81 80 per pound, duty paid,
the duty amounting to 81 per pound. This
is considered very low. The syndicate has
purchased largely of the present supply, and
has it agents scattered in the producing dis
tricts OF the far East making contracts for
the growing crop. Foreign manufacturers of
morphine, especially those who use the drug
in large quantities, are said to be uneasy over
the prospect. Mr. Dutibl, President of the
Orient Marine and Inland Mutual Insurance
Company, a native of Smyrna, and who was
formerly in the opium trade, is reported to be
at the head of the combination.
Speculative Lying.
NEW York, July 10th.-The Eeenmg
Posts financial article to-day says: It pos
sible to hear in Wall street that the entire
Northwest has been devastated by various
kinds of bugs, by floods, rust, etc. It is q
misfortune so far as getting at the truth about
crops in the Northwest is concerned, that
several speculative cliques in grain and stocks
have their emissaries IN the West prepared to
send dispatches to suit the position OF these
cliques in the respective markets, and this il
not confined simply to those who are bearing
stocks and bulling wheat, but is equally true
of the other side. What is known and con-
cealed by both sides is that winter wheat has
been harvested in good condition and in large
amount, ana that, as far north as Chicago, or
thereabouts, spring wheat has been gathered,
and the yield is large and the quality good.
For the territory north, there are probably
two weeks in which magnificent living may be
done on both sides before the truth is known.
4 Terrific Explosion.
r.
ing, at o'clock, one of the seven boilers in
Painters iron mill, on the South Side, ex.
ploded with loud report. killing Frederick
Cradle, the engineer, and William Black, the
fireman. Both were buried under the debris,
and were horribly mangled. Cradle leaves 8
family. Black was only Is years old. The
mill was not started, and there were only
three men in the boiler-room. The other man
escaped. The iron-clad building used as a
boiler-house was completely wrecked. The
cause of the explosion is unknown. The fact
that thousands of gallons of water were
thrown great distance shows that the water
was plenty. The loss TO the building is IS, 600
A Coro1ers jury is investigating the cause o!
the explosion.
The Northwestern Crops.
ST. Paul. (Minn. July 10th.-The reports
now disturbing the centers of grain trade ol
| JIt lalillIt VI Sic huShb crops al tle N OrtQ
west are founded upon facts but til facts are
exaggerated and distorted. 1t is difienlt even
to get at the exact facts as to the condition eI
the crop in the midst Of the panickv rumor.
and interested peryersicns. Grain.dealers in
st. Paul claim that the crop is nearly ruined
throughout the State. Minneapolis millers
say that wheat has not suffered seriously in
! the region tributary to them. Every railroad
company has glowing reports from along its
| line, which, in many cases, are contradcted
| by travellers. Ii the reports are carefully
sifted the average of all the evidence seems tc
| be about this: In the southern and rive,
country OF Minnesota, embracing the heayies;
| farming district, in northern Iowa and north
western Wisconsin, the crop has suffered
severely since the heavy rains of the last
week Of June. This weather, followed by q
warm sun, has induced rust which is no,
very dangerous at this stage of growth, and 9
sort Of blight of the stalk, as if scaided which
is more serious. Certain counties-Olmstead
| Houston, Winona and Wabasha-haye alsc
suffered from the ravages of the cinch-bug
| In localities that have suffered the most, 3t
to 40 per cent is probably a moderate esti
mate of the loss from the combined causes
OF course the average for the whole section i.
still more, but over the whole State it will bs
less. The western and frontier counties, in