Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-16
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD.
UNION
STORM ON THE ATLANTIC COAST.
Heavy snowfall-several shipwrecks Re-
ported.
PATENTS TO PACIFIC COAST INVENTORS,
Close Of the Schaefer-slosson Billiard
Match at New York.
BLOODsHED IN WYOMING TERRITORY.
A Wife Murderer Publicly Hanged in Ar
kansas.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF FOREIGN NEWS.
Execution of the Condemned Nihilists at
st Petersburg.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS OF FOREIGN NEWS.
Execution of the Condemned Nihilists at
st Petersburg.
Patents to Pacific Coast Inventors.

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Patents TO Pacific Coast Inventors,
WASHINGTON, April 15th.-The patents
issued this week to Pacific coast inventors
are as follows: California -Abram Alt.
mayer, San Francisco, for boot and shoe
manufacture Lewis Bower, San Francisco,
spoke-shave; Alfonso Haskins, Davisville,
ditching plow; David E. Mckee, Potter
Valley, wagon brake Andrew j. Stevens.
Sacramento, feed water. heater. Oregon
VIM. G. Evarts, Myrtle Greek, fruit dryer ;
John Gates, Portland. steam and hydraulic
steering apparatus; VIM. A. Leinenger and
o. H. Cornelius, Salem, whiffletree. Utah
Charles j. Guthavson, Salt Lake City, three
patents for spur, hopple and nosebag, re-
spectively. Colorado-Eugene A. Crocker,
Longmont, process for separating metals from
ores 4; A. +. Lawrence, Idaho Springs, salve ;
John Z. Mallinckrodt, car brake.
Trouble Feared on the Mexican Border.
New YORK, April Washington dis
patches intimate that trouble may arise out
of the extension of the Santa Fe and Topeka
railroad across the frontier line into the State
of chihuahua, at Ell Paso. The Governor
of chihuahua has ordered 500 soldiers to
that post to keep the peace in addition to its
already strong garrison. As the railroad
company has concession from the Mexican
Government, it will press on its work. which
is intended to terminate only at the City of
Mexico. Naturally enough the Mexicans do
not want their slow-going ways to be revolu-
tionized by American push and energy, and
as railroads will destroy the personal rule of
the Governors of Mexican States by render.
ing revolution next to impossible, opposition
by the Governor of Chihuahua is to be ex-
pected.
Diaz on American Soil.
GALVESTON, April 15th.-General Porforio
Diaz, Minister of Public Works and ex. Pres.
ident, is visiting Matamoras. Our military
and civil authorities paid him visit which
he returned to-day. He was met on the
Mexican side of the water by barge in
charge of United States army officers and
escorted to the Administration building at
Fort Brown, where he was cordially received
by Colonel Otis, commanding. A salute was
fired, the Mexican national anthem played,
and the Mexican colors run up the flagstaff
A GrOwI ut the Interior Department..
CHICAGO. April 15th.-The Times Wash
ington special says: When one realizes the
situation at the Interior Department, it is
hard to understand how Garfield could have
selected Kirkwood as member of his Cabi-
net. That gentleman never had any execu-
tive ability. He is one of the most honest
men in the world. and thought the Interior
Department would get away with his reputa-
tion if he did not personally attend to every
detail. He will sign no document without
first reading it, and has determined all,
which makes the clerks powerless to
evade his orders. He never knew how
to protect himself from the swarms
of office-seekers. The work of the
Department is believed to be just as many
weeks behind as have elapsed since Kirkwood
e-1umad the duties of Secretary. Letters
and documents are several feet high on his
desk, while bales in an adjoining room await
attention. Kirkwood's retirement from the
Cabinet, of course, means that he will be
cared for somewhere else, as he gave up his
seat in the Senate, and so cannot be sent
back to private life. Kirkwood's going out,
too, will make the first break, and perhaps
give some excuse for general disruption of
the Cabinet, which everybody in Washing
ton now believes is not far distant.
Match.
NEW YORK, April 15th.-The billiard
match terminated tonight with Schaefer the
winner. The play was rather careless and
at first. Slosson's umpire, Sex
wildly, and for the first time Schaefer got
attention by some fine shots.
Slosson knew that nothing short of a miracle
could save his defeat. and he played badly.
Before he began to play he remarked, with a
sickly smile, that it was his duty to be pres
ent at his own funeral. It was a forlorn
hope. Schaefer made splendid run of 311.
His best runs for the evening were 81, 20, 40,
80, 311, 213, 55-total, S00 Slosson's best
were 16 and II. Grand total-Schaefer,
4, GOO; Slosson, 2,7S0.
Victory of the Pacific Mail Company.
New YORK, April 15th.-A Washington
special says The Pacific Mail Steamship
Company is in a fair way to get windfall.
Under their second contract for carrying
mails, vessels of heavier tonnage were re-
quired, and the Peking and City of Toxic
were built for that service. The Peking
started on the first trip, and before she got
back to San Francisco the law was repealed
and the contract annulled. The company
claimed their money under the contract for
this trip, and it was allowed. While the two
big vessels were being built, the smaller ones
that had been accepted under the first con-
tract were making their semi-monthly trips,
for which they were paid their regular ocean
postage, but had not been accepted for service
under tie second contract, because they
were not of requisite burden. 1t oc-
Cured to the company, after the
repeal of the law, to put in claim
for this gratuitous service by the small
steamers. The Supreme Court has decided
in their favor, on the ground that if the ves-
sells were not fit for service under the first
contract they were suitable for the second,
and the matter has been sent to the Court
Of Claims for adjustment. The Attorney
General has the case under consideration,
and the question is as to how far the COM
pany has complied with the schedule that
was fixed under the first contract. The time
fixed for leaving the ports was the first of
the month, and it so happens that none of
the steamers started on that day. The
Attorney. General will decide how near to
that time it was necessary to leave to come
within the requirements of the law. From
the Governments standpoint, at the time
the service was rendered there was no plea
put in that they should have any part of the
subsidy, and the Department for this reason
paid ocean postage. The amount paid will
be subtracted from the award, which will
still probably leave them full quarter of a
million dollars.
Dismal Failure Of JEFF. Davis Book.
NEW YORK, April 15th.-The Times. re.
viewing jeff. Davis book, says: He takes
pains to assure his readers that
he has not changed his mind in regard to any
of the questions which involved the country
in terrible war. He is evidently the same
and unrepentant rebel de-
scribed by Zach. Chandler in his memorable
speech made to the Senate shortly before his
death. Altogether his book as ga vindica-
tor of the principles which animated the
can only be regarded as very
dismal failure. For his own reputation it
would have been much better had he never
written it. He should not have again thrust
himself into public notice. This country has
had quite enough of the man who led the Lost
Cause.
COId-Bi0oded Murder.
LARAMIE CRY (Wy.). April 15th.-Early
this morning Laramie City was the scene Of
a cold-blooded and revolving murder. Chas
a freight conductor on the Union
Pacific Railroad, murdered Roadmaster G.
III. Graves at the southeast corner of the tel
egraph Office. Both OF these men were mar
ried, and each had a pleasant home with a
wife and one child. Pierronet called Graves
out of the telegraph offiee at 2:30 this morn.
ing and shot him dead The murderer was
promptly arrested and lodged in Jail The