Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-20
DOMESTIC NEWS.

DOMESTIC NEWS.
Congressman Page and the Coming Cam.
paign.
Especial to the REcoRD-UMos.
WASHINGTON, May th.-Representative
Page has to-day written letter to prom
inent citizen of his Congressional District, in
which he says:
have recently received many letters like yours
inquiring whether not 1 will be a candidate for
re election in the coming campaign. The pressure
OF business in these closing days of the session
makes it impossible to reply to all of these letters
separately, and l shall therefore be glad to have
you communicate this answer to our friends as you
may meet them, or publish it as you deem proper.
i have four times been chosen by the Republican
party of the Second District to represent them in
Congress, and if my nearly eight years of service
shall seem to my constituents to better qualify me
to serve them and the State than and mex
perienced man. am (as have always been) ready
to obey the orders OF my party. If, however, it
should please them to select another from among
the many deserving members of the party, shall
most heartily aid in his election. Thanking YOU
and the people of the Second District for the conf
dence reposed in me in the past and for the gen.
erous support and uniform kindness always ex-
tended to me- remain yours sincerely
H. F. PAGE.
The HanIan.COurtney Boat Race-yery
Like u Fizzle.
WASHINGTON, May 19th.-Courtney is in
disposed and there is considerable anxiety
His friends and attendants, however, declare
that he will positively start. The referee
may postpone the race till P. NJ, at the re-
quest of Conrtney's friends, some of whom
contend that it might sacrifice his life to
start him in the race during the hottest part
of the day. Hanlan is all right.
SECOND DISPATCH.I
WASHINGTON, May 19th.-At Gas this
evening the long-debated question was fully
settled. and Edward Hanlan had won the
title as champion oarsman of America. The
great race-if it may be called race-occu-
pied just Sc minutes and 49 $40 seconds by
the computation of the official time keeper,
though three seconds less was claimed by
parties ON the referees boat.
At 5:45 P. NJ. the Godney, having on board
the referee, judges, time-keeper, several news
paper representatives and q score or more
of distinguished guests, including Secretaries
Sherman and Thompson, Postmaster General
Key and the ladies of their families, drew up
to the starting point, and Immediately after
the second gun was fired as a signal for the
men to get ready. Blaikie gave the caution
ary, "Are you ready" and three seconds
after cried go, which sent the men away
TO beautiful start.
Courtneys oars seemed to catch trihe in
advance of his opponent, and with a sturdy
even grip upon the water sent his boat palpa-
bly, in front. For the first half f-minute he
pulled Is strokes OF at the rate of sc to the
minute, while Hanlan was timed Al. Before
Courtney had pulled ten strokes, however,
Hanlan had over-hauled him, and each sue
ceeding stroke sent his boat further to the
fore.
At the first flag, marking one-eighth of a
mile from the start, clear water could be seen
between the stern of his boat and the boat of
Courtney At this point Courtney turned to
look over his shoulder, and evidently realized
that he was beaten, as he suddenly dropped
his stroke to 80, and shook his head to some
one on the referees boat who had shouted to
him to pull, saying, 'It isn't in me-" Han
Ian also eased up, and pulling steadily at 80
strokes to the minute opened the gap as he
pleased.
All interest in the race was gone when
Hanlan reached the three-quarter flag fully
ten lengths in advance. At the first mile he
was pulling 81 strokes to the minute, and
leading by nearly 10 boat lengths, Courtney
laboring unsteadily at about 2S, and fire.
quently casting despairing glance over his
shoulder. Soon after passing the mile flag
Courtney stopped rowing, and removing his
handkerchief, dipped it in the water and re-
placed it on his head repeating the operation
half dozen times during the next mile. His
steering, which at the start was faultless, be-
came more and more erratic, and three of the
six flags from the half-mile to the two-mile
point were either brushed by his oars or run
over directly by his boat. Hanlan reached
the two-mile flag in Is minutes and 313
seconds, just one-eighth of mile in
advance of Courtney, who stopped finally
three-eighths of a mile from the turn, or
q miles from the start, and turning his boat
pulled leisurely over the course and disem-
barked at his quarters at the Potomac boat
house. Hanlan pulled on to the turning
stake, and squared away for the finish in II
minutes and 81 seconds from the start.
On the way home Hanlan gradually over
hauled Courtney, and thousands on shore and
upon the boats and steamers which lined the
course, not knowing that Courtney had not
turned the stake-boat imagined that the race
was debatable issue and rent the air with
cheers for their respective favorites. Han
Ian, however, soon passed Courtney, and
pulled leisurely to the last eighth of the
course, when in response to the blowing of
whistles and cheers from the thousands of
spectators he quickened to forty stroke and
exhibited a splendid burst of speed to the
finish, which he reached in Sc minutes and
40 5 10 seconds from the time of starting.
Pulling up to the referees boat Hanlan
was awarded the race by the referee, who
cordially congratulated him. Hanlan then
picked his way through the scores Of steamers
and river craft of every description, and
reached his quarters at the Analastan boat
house, where he was received amid the wild
est demonstrations of delight, lifted bodily
from his boat and carried upon the shoulders
of his enthusiastic friends into the boat
house.
Riley rowed over the course little ahead
of Hanlan all the way, increasing his lead to-
ward the close. Hanlan made speech to
serenaders in the evening, saying that he
came to row a race. He regretted that the
opportunity was not given him. He de-
nounced Riley as no gentleman, and offered
to row him tomorrow for $40 or 81. 600.
University Lands Cancelled.
Especial to the RECORD UsIoN.l
WASHINGTON, May 19th.-Judge Hastings,
attorney for the Board Of Regents of the
California State University. has to-day OBJ
tanned from the Commissioner of the General
Land Office an order canceling between H.
900 and L, 900 acres of the University selec-
tions in California, which are practically un-
salable by the Board of Regents, and stand
in the way of their obtaining title for other
and more desirable lands. This order leaves
about l,UUU acres OF the excess appl1ca-
tions uncanceled, which will require legis-
lation by Congress.
Water for the Arid Regions.
Especial to the RECORD USIoN.l
WASHINGTON, May 19th.-The House to-
day unanimously agreed to the item inserted
in the agricultural appropriation bill, at the
instance Of Horace Davis, appropriating
s., 600 for the purpose Of enabling the Com.
missioner of Agriculture to procure data
touching the agricultural needs of the arid
region of the United States. The term
" arid is here used in its technical sense, as
descriptive of all that part of the country
where the rainfall is periodical and not dis
tributed throughout the year, the primary OBJ
ject of the provision being to procure special
in INVESTIGATION of the Agricultural canacities