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THE SAN FRANCISCO CONTRACTORS BILL

It appears to US that the argument of
Mr.. Baker, of Yolo, in the debate which
preceded the passage of the San Francisco
Contractors bill on Wednesday, summed
up the common sense view of the measure.
1t has been denounced as very bad bill,
but certainly the infamy ascribed to it is
not to be found in its provisions. Certain
contractors, it is alleged, did work under
contracts with the San Francisco Board of
Supervisors. on the streets. Subsequently
it was discovered that the Board had com.
mitted Irregularities in the transaction of
the business, and on these irregularities the
property-owners succeeded in defeating the
assessments with which the contractors
were to have been paid. Now the men
who lost their money in this way ask per-
mission to go into the Courts and show
that they ought not to have been deprived
of their pay. There is nothing illegiti-
mate, unreasonable or sinister about that
proposition. Waving all legal techicalities,
it appears that the contractors have been
swindled out of their money. 1t does not
signify where the technical responsibility
lies. They did the work for the city, and
the city has not paid them. That seems
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SUDDEN CHECKING OF PERsPIRATIoN.-
A Boston merchant, In blending hanid'
on board one of his ships on windy day,
found himself at the end of an hour and a
half pretty well exhausted and perspiring
freely. He sat down to rest, and engaging
in conversation, time passed faster than he
was aware of. In attempting to rise, he
found be was unable to do SO without as
sistance. He was taken home and put to
bed, where he remained two years and for
long time afterwerd could only hobble
about with the aid of crutch. Less ex-
posures than this have in constitutions not
so vigorous resulted in Inflammation of the
lungs pneumonia ending in death in
less than week. or causing tedious rhuma-
tisms, to be source of torture for life
time. Multitudes of lives would be saved
every year, and an incalculable amount of
human suffering would be prevented, if
parents would explain to their children at
the age of three or four years the danger
which attends cooling off too quickly after
exercise, and the Importance of not stand
ing still after exercise, or work, or play, or
remaining exposed to the wind, or of sit
ting at an open window or door, or of pull
ing off any garment, even the hat or bon
net, while in heat.
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NEWS OF THE MORNING.

In New York yesterday Government bonds were
quoted at 1l2 for As of 1907; 1909 for IS of 1881
l12I for AS; sterling, 81 s3gf So; silver bars,
III.
silver in Tendon, 5lsd consols IS 1916; per
cent. United States bonds, 1893; As, l16I AIS,
I15I.
In San Francisco half dollars are quoted at dis
count to par Mexican dollars, ss2@s9lc.
st Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at 9a Cd
@3s 1Od for good to choice California
The severe weather continues at New York, and
las; night was the coolest in the memory of the
Oldest iuhabitant.
George Enyeart was killed at Roanoke, No, Sat
urday night, by A. Cross, an officer.
The trial Of Clarence Gray, for the murder of The
odore Clancy, began at Santa Barbara yesterday.
George smith and Catherine Miller were hanged
yesterday at williamsport, Pa.
1t is announced from London that Thomas Car.
lysle is hopelessly Frustrated.
Fire at Paducah, Ky; also at Chicago.
Michael Dayitt was placed under arrest yesterday
at Dublin.
Francis A. Durivage the author and poet, is dead.
-Four murderars we're executed at New Westmin.
ster, B. C., Tuesday.
Inc fenlsl tFaflt Legislature 10 otAi uusuStIo1iu
III choosing United States Senator.
The telegraph consolidation was consummated at
New York yesterday, the Western Union taking pos
session q the American Union and Atlantic and
Pacific Offices
By the bursting Of a fywheel at Youngstown, O.,
two men were killed aud several others injured.
Albert Orthvaite has been arrested at St. Loui:
for murder committed in Colorado.
A hastily summoned meeting of the British Cab
met was held yesterday afternoon.
Another sitting Of the House OF Commons was
held yesterday, and Parne and Dillon were forcibly
removed by the the Sergeantat-Arms
Daniel SlcQuarry fell 100 feet in shaft on The
Comstock yesterday, and was taken out without {
broken bone though fatally bruised.
Cold weather prevails in Mexico, several person.
having been frozen to death.
From September to December, inclusive, :, 796,
900 bushels OF wheat was received at Duluth an,
Minneapolis from the line Of the Northern Pacif
Railroad
William steele, prominent merchant, died a
San Jose yesterday.
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DIED..

Sacramento, February 3-James Augustus, son of
Mary and the late Joseph Fades, native of Sacra-
mento, l month and days. (San Francisco
papers please copy)
Friends and acquaintance are respectfully invited
TO attend the funeral, which will take place from
residence of his mother, corner of Thirteenth and
streets, this afternoon at 2 o'clock
Sacramento, February . John Morrison Gate a
resident of West 0akland), 81 years.
Remains have been sent to Oakland for interment
Sacramento, February 3-Achille Girolami, native
Of Italy, 20 years, months and days.
Funeral notice hereafter
Carmel Valley, near Monterey, January 27-Wiam
Bralee, % years.
MARTINEZ, January 26-Hiram Seeley Cole, 90 years
Vallejo january 26-John Z. Wiston, 80 years, 8
months and II days.
St. Helena, January 21-Winfed Scott Cruey, 10
years, ) months and II days
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road, from September to December inclusive,
were 1886, 900 bushels, of which over 80 per
cent. was the best quality grown-No. hard.
Continued Cold Weather.
New York, February 3d.-It is colder
than the oldest inhabitant remembers, though
bright and sunny. The streets are slippery,
and blockades from falling horses are numer-
Gus. There have been many cases of FROST
bite The ferries are almost blocked.
Swindling Legislator.
AUGUSTA (Me.), February 3d.-Thomas B.
Swan, member of the House from Minot,
is charged with swindling the public through
the mails by advertising bogus goods. He has
fed.
The Pennsylvania Senatorial Contest.
HARRIsBURG, February 3d.-The sixteenth
ballot was taken to-day, no change being
noted.
A Probable Death-Biow.
ALBANY IN. Y J, February 3d.-The tele-
graph bill has been referred to the Commit
tee on Miscellaneous Corporations which is
probably its death-blow.
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A New WAY TO TREAT DIPHTHERIA.-
Quite discovery in the treatment of diph-
liberia has recently been made. A young
man whose arm had been amputated was
attacked with diphtheria before healing
took place, and instead of the matter in.
cident to that disease being deposited In
the throat, the greater portion appeared on
the wounded arm, and the diphtheria
was very light and easily managed. DR.;
Davis profted by this, and in his next
case of diphtheria blistered his patients
chest, and on this blistered part the chief
deposits appeared. This was also an easy
case of the disease. The theory is that
diphtheria usually appears in the throat
because of the thinness of the lining OF the
throat. Hence, when the blister breaks
the skin upon the outer part of the body,
the disease appears there.
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THE mUsssL SLOUGH RESOLUTIONS.

Both branches of the Legislature have
passed resolutions asking the President to
pardon those men who were recently, after
a fair and careful trial before a United
States Court, convicted of having troken
the law, and sentenced very moderately.
These resolutions are virtually censures
upon the Court which condemned the Mus
sci Slough settlers, and when the circum-
stances are considered it viii be seen that
by adopting them the Legislature has CON-
mitted itself to an Endorsement of lawess-
ness, and rebuke of the constituted au-
thorities. 1t would demand very peculiar
conditions to render such position on the
part of legislative body other than dis
oreditable to it, and no such peculiar con-
ditions are TO be found in this case. The
Mussel Slough settlers were deliberate and
purposeful lawbreakers, as shown by the
evidence adduced on the trial, and through
their stubborn resistance to the law blood
was shed and several lives were sacrificed
1uey were sIlcu Will all the auNan-
tages that the possession of counsel
learned in the law could give them. There
is no pretense that they were not properly
and fairly tried. The Court sentenced
them in accordance with its views of the
gravity of their offense, and now the
Legislature, which has no knowledge of the
facts but such as are to be derived from
strongly biased and irresponsible news
paper statements, and similar sources of
information, has undertaken to condemn
the Court, to insinuate that it exceeded its
duty, and to request the President to an
null its sentence. There is no just ground
for any such petition. The Mussel Slough
settlers broke the law, and they ought to
be left to the Judgment of the Court which
tried them. But for transparently dema-
goeic ends these resolutions would never
have been introduced. They belong to a
class of propositions, all of which are against
public policy, and in the interest of law
Iessness and disorder. The Legislature has
made a grave mietake, and committed
serious offense against public morals in
lending itself to this business.
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THE WHooPING.eoUGH CURE.-The De-
troit Free Press, in speaking of the benefit
derived by children suffering from whoop-
ing cough from frequent visits to the puri-
flying house of gas works, says: The
children are sent there usually by direction
of the family doctor to inhale the ammonia
which arises from the purifying boxes.
As matter of fact, it is not ammonia that
does the business, or they might inhale
it at home, but certain substances found in
coal tar called phenol or carbolic acid and
cresol. Cresol is closely related to carbolic
acid, and is sold for use In cases of throat
difficulties, under the name of cresolene.
1t may be vaporized in the patients room,
and has all the virtues of the purifying
house, with none of its unpleasant features.
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CONGRESSIONAL.
lspHcr4L DISPATCHES TO THE RzooRD-usros.l
Senate.

WASHINGTON, February 3d.-Logan's joint resolu
ton to extend the ranking privilege TO communi-
cations received by Congressman from the execu-
tive departments on business of constituents, was
reported back without recommendation, the COM
nittee being equally divided.
Edmunds moved to table the Morgan electoral
count resolution. Lost-32 to %.
The morning hour then expired, and the calendar
resumed.
Edmunds Directing to discussion on the Morgan
resolution the Senate then-33 to 24-postponed
the regular ORDER and resumed consideration Of
Morgan's resolution by party vote.
The Republicans then seemed determined to fill
buster TO prevent its passage.
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OUR LgvEE DEFENsEs.

1t is inevitable that at such time as
this the public should feel anxious, and
we regard it as the wisest course to recog
nize and meet this feeling of anxiety. 1t
does not prove that men are fools when
they experience doubt and apprehension
even when there is no Just cause for it.
Our levees are we believe thoroughly suff;-
Gent to protect the city, but so long as we
do not know to what tests they will be ex-
posed SO long as the rain continues to
fall, from the headwaters of the rivers
down it is right and reasonable to keep
on the alert, and to insist that the
responsible authorities shall neglect no
means of making assurance doubly sure.
We are therefore glad to find that the
Board of Trade has held meeting to con-
slider the state of our defenses, and that it
has urged upon the Trustees the practical
and businesslike course indicated above.
1t is no imputation upon the Trustees that
this should be done. We are all of US in
the same category here, and we all have an
equal right to demand the most thorough
going vigilance at such time. The Board
of Trade has communicated to the Trustees
its readiness to furnish whatever assistance
may be required for further securing
the levees. There is no room for
doubling their sufficiency but prevention
is always better than cure. The most i'm
portant step taken by the Board of Trade
in its meeting yesterday, was the adoption
of a resolution in favor of complete sys-
tenn of ievees, to be gradually constructed
by an annual tax This is the measure
which the Record and the RECORD UNION
have urged upon Sacramento at intervals
during the past ten years. Had it been
adopted when we first suggested it, the
city would have had by this time a levee
system so massive, solid and complete in
all its parts that nothing short
of an universal deluge would have
caused even a culver of apprehension in
the community. The thing to do, we have
always commended, is to get the best engin-
GERS in the State to draft complete levee
system, sufficiently comprehensive to
allow for expansion, and also to remove all
danger from back water or surface drainage.
The plans having been perfected, adopt
them, and at once begin to carry them out.
No heavy taxation would be required fol-
this. Twenty or thirty thousand dollars a
year will in few years give US an absolutely
impregnable system Of levees, and in doing
so add ten millions dollars to the value Of
property within the city limits. 1t is the
common sense, the business course to
pursue, but it has been hitherto neglected,
because when the danger is over most peo-
pie forget that it ever existed. Now that
the Board of Trade has adopted this propo-
sitiOn, however, we have hope that it will
become a reality. 1t is the only way by
which the powerful sentimental drawbacks
against which Sacramento has hitherto
struggled, can be removed, but it is an
effective and final method
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WASHINGTON, February 3d.-The Indian appro-
priation bill was reported with the Senate amend.
ments, the committee recommending concurrence
In the same. The clause abolisning the Indian Com
mission was retained. The report was agreed to.
The apportionment bill was then considered
Crowley, Ray, Hammond OF Georgia, Horr, Cox
and others participated in the debate. Without ac
ton the matter went over and the House adjourned
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Possibly a Disaster.

MARYsvILLE, February Sd. - About 4
o'clock this afternoon the Smartville stage
reached Yuba station, where small boat
was employed to row the passengers to the
south end of the railroad bridge, distance
of only quarter Of a mile. The boat was
landed the driver and two passengers, and
returned for the remaining ones-three Chi
namen and whiteman. At this hour $3.50
P. NJ nothing has been heard of the party.
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Grand Lodge. A. o. u. W.-Eleetion OF
Officers.

Grand Lodge, A. o. U. W.-Election OF
officers.
SAN Francisco, February 3d.-At the
session of the Grand Lodge, A. o. U. W.,
yesterday, the Grand Receivers report was
read, showing that in the year past S17S.-
las 40 has been received, and $16S, 266 IS
has been disbursed, leaving balance of
50, S93 60 on hand. The election of officers
was then proceeded with. William H.
Barnes, of this city, was unanimously chosen
Grand Master Workman; f. G.. Beatty, of
Grass Valley, by the same vote, was chosen
Grand Foreman; J. I. Rogers, of Ukiah.
was elected Grand Overseer; H. G. Pratt to
be Grand Recorder. An adjournment was
taken until o'clock, and upon again con-
vening the election of officers was continued.
Grand Receiver, G. H. Halle; Grand Guide,
Eugene J. Gregory; Grand Waterman,
William Wiltse Grand Trustee, 1. A. Duns-
moor; Supreme Lodge Representatives
Past Master Workman William H. Jordan,
M. T. Brewer and Grand Master G. w. Tay-
lor. Corporate Directors-Wm. H. Barnes,
II. e. Pratt, D. S. Hirshberg, George r.
Sanderson, Z. Lewis, j. NJ La Rue, W. W.
Hanscom, II. p. Murgotteu, Il. n. Flint, 7.
Lewis and I'll. s. Ball.
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ARIZONA.


PHGNIx, February 3d.-The Governor has
signed the new bills creating the county of
Cochise.
Leave of absence was granted the Recorder
of Pima county.
The bill regarding the issuing of bonds to
build Court house at Tucson was referred
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BRITISH COLUMBIA.
Four Murdercrs Manged.

VICTORIA, February 3d.-The three Mac
Leans and Hare were hanged at New West
minister Tuesday. They were twice tried and
twice found guilty of the murder of Consta-
Bile Usher and a settler named Kelly, Decem-
her Is 1919
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Sacramento, February 2-Wife of F. Herzer, SON.
Washington, Yoo county, January 30-Wife OF H.
NJ. Eugene, son.
lone Valley Amader county, January 2S-Wife Of
William N Dawson, 4 son.
Mart nez January 25-wiie of Charles sickaI, a
daughter.
Nevada City, January 8o-wife Of Peter Eddy, a
daughter.
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Terrible Eau aft a Miner.

VIRGINIA. February 3d.-At 10 o'clock to-
day Daniel McQuarry fell from the $500 to
the $500 level of Union winze No. 1. He was
taken out without broken bone, though
badly bruised. He is not expected to live till
morning
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GENERAL NEWS.

LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES To THE RECORD
UNION.
THE TELEGRAPH CONSOLIDATION.
western Union Absorbs the American
Union and Atlantic and Pacific.
CONTINUED SEVERE WEATHER IN THE EAST.
Man and Woman Hanged for Murder in
Pennsylvania.
PASSENGERS COMING WEST BY RAIL.
The Illinois Legislature and Ex-President
Grant.
MISCELLANEOUS FOREIGN NEWS ITEMS.
parnell and Dillon Forcibly Removed from
the House of Commons.
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The Gray Murder Trial Commenced.

SANTA BARBARA, February 3d.-The trial
of Clarence Gray, for the murder of Theodore
Clancy, late editor of the Santa Barbara
Press, began this morning, Judge S. c. Den
son presiding. The defense moved for con-
tinuance, on the ground of the sickness and
absence of n. Shrewsbury, one of their wit
nesses. The motion was overruled. The de-
Tense challenged the entire panel of the jury
properly prepared and drawn by the Board
of Supervisors. The entire afternoon was
consumed in interchanging testimony on the
subject, and arguments on the question were
deferred until tomorrow. Adiournsd.
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STAR MILLS AND MALT HOUSE
NEURoURG & Lagos,

MOS. 80, So AND 81 FIFTH ST., SACRAMENTO
~ dealers In Produce and Brewers Supplies
Manufacturers OF Malt and all kinds OF Meals, etc.
Oatmeal, Corhmsal, Cracked Wheat, Graham Flour
Buasyheat Flour, etc. New train Bags for sale.
dl7-lpH
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ASK Your DRUeG1sT for Hammers ely.
cerele of Tar for coughs and colds, and take
no other,
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A NEGRO WHO Is TURNING WHITE
Professor George Henry Fox, in lecture
on skin diseases at the College of Physi-
clans and Surgeons, at Fourth avenue and
Twenty-fourth street, New York, ex-
hibited as an illustration the curiosity that
is shown at Bunnell's Museum in Broad
way as the "leopard boy" After the pro-
lessor had explained that the color of diff
ferent races depended on the amount OF
pigment contained in the skin, the boy, a
young negro about 7 years old, was led
in. He was scantily dressed. His body
is mottled with patches of white skin.
Professor Fox said that the spots had en-
larged considerably since his first examina-
ton of the boy three years ago, and it was
safe to predict that the process would COON
until the transformation would be COM
plete. The lad in response to questions
said that he was black at birth, and the
white spots began to appear when he was
years old. he suffered no pain.-[N. Y.
Tribune.
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GENERAL NOTICES.

4. vi. Stevens, $50 j street, near Third
Fine imported wines, liquors, ETC.; also the best
cigars in the city. ja2s-Im
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Capital COI0nnade, IOIf Tenth ST., bet,
J and K Choicest Wines, Liquors and Cigars always
on hand Private Rooms. JOHN HECTOR. I'm
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For THE COUGHS AND COLDS nov revail
ing, Hammers Glycerole of Tar is sp. ciGc.
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PACIFIC COAST.

LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD.
UNION
NEVADA LEGISLATIVE ACTION.
Election of Officers by the Grand Lodge,
A. o. U. W.
FOUR MURDERERs HANGED IN VICTORIA.
Terrible Plunge of a Miner Down a Com
stock Shaft.
THE GRAY MURDER TRIAL AT SANTA BARBARA.
Unsuccessful Attempt to Secure Jury
in the Kalloch Case,