Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-12

President; n. 7. Smith, Treasurer; J. l..
Willcutt. Secretary. Monterey Railroad
Company. = Directors - Charles Crocker,
Charles F. Crocker, W. V. Huntington, N.
I. Smith, J. l.. Willcutt. Ofiicers-Charies
Crocker, President; Charles F. Crocker,
Vice President ; n. T. Smith, Treasurer ].
J.. Willcutt, Secretary. Market Street
Railroad Company, Potrero and Bay View
Railroad Company, and Mission Bridge Bay
Company. = Directors = Leland Stanford,
Charles Crocker. C. p. Huntington, N. L.
Smith, J. l.. Willcutt. Officers-Leland
Stanford, President; Charles Crocker, Vice.
President; n. T. Smith, Treasurer; J. l..
Willcutt, Secretary.
The Knights Templar Triennial Union
have elected the following officers President,
Sir Knight Henry M. Newell; Vice-Presi-
dents. r. Z. Sir Bruce B. Lee. L. E. Sir w.
0. Gould, Sir Knight j. w. Burnham. Sir
Knight Peter Dean. Sir Knight II. H. Blake,
Sir Knight w. T. Garratt, Sir Knight l.. w.
Framy. Sir Knight w. M. Petrie, Sir Knight
A. B. Dibble, Sir Knight r. Z. Collins, Sir
Knight o. G. Wheeler. Sir Knight +. X
Bechtel, Sir Knight Charles Forman, Sir
knight T. Met. Patton, Sir Knight j. s.
Stewart, Sir Knight j. A. Hyde; Treasurer
Sir Tristan Burgess; Secretary. Sir II. T.
Graves. The following have been elected
members of the Reception Committee: Sir
knights c. A. Hawley, G. A. Newhall, H.
II. Pearson, Z. w. Newhall and Mesdames
o. G. Wheeler, j. G. Burnham, Bruce B.
Lee and H. M. Newhall. The Conference
Committee consists of the following persons
Sir Knights Abraham Powell, F. X. Bechtel
Miss J. Plum and the Mesdames w. q.
Gould, F. K. Bechtel, Niles Searles and c.
A. Hawley.
Charles D. Newman had hearing before
Judge Rix, upon a charge of grand larceny,
and was held to answer before the Superior
Court. The testimony offered went to show
that the accused, over six months ago. left
the office of physician where he had been
employed, with only S105 coming to him.
During the past six months he did not earn
any money, but kept company with A. Kup-
penstein, q friend, dined at his expense, slept
in his room, and by his invitation accom-
panied him to places of amusement. One
night last month, Newman went to Kuppen.
STEMS room to pass the night, but only re.
manned until in the morning, when he
suddenly disappeared, without giving notice
that he was going away. On the following
morning Kuppenstein missed $50 and a gold
ring. The same day Newman, who claimed
that he had but S25 in the world, made a
young lady a present of $50 to purchase
something for her birthday. That even
ing he was arrested, and after stating that
if Kuppenstein would keep the thing out
of the papers, he would restore the property,
he went out with an officer, but returned
only $50, the same money he had given to
the young lady as a present.
In the Mint investigation, Superintendent
Dodge asked the privilege of explaining his
partners. He desired to say that none of the
gentlemen mentioned as Pages political part.
ners had solicited patronage from him,
neither had Governor Low asked for any ap-
pointment.
Mr. Blanchard asked: L wish you would
explain the animus which prompted you to
lug IN the names of number of gentlemen
whom you called Mr.. Pages political part
ners?
Mr.. Dodge-If the Commission want any
more testimony on that head will give it.
Mr.. Page-1 want MIR. Dodge to say what
year it was was reported as being scalp
hunting.
After that, Director of United States
Mints, Burchard, testified that his critical
examination of the San Francisco Mint had
resulted in dissatisfaction with some minor
details of the management of Superintendent
Dodge, but the general management had been
satisfactory. The loss (wastage) complained
of so much by the prosecution, was undoubt.
edly due to the reception of base metal for
ingots. Such reception, however, he under.
stood to be authorized by the law as it now
reads. Since this investigation began he had
become convinced that the law should be
changed so as 20 limit the class of silver bull
ion to be purchased by the Government
The law would have to be corrected before the
evil complained of could be remedied. The
Director of Mints then proceeded to read
tables of comparative expenses, condem-
nation of ingots, proportions of clip
pings, percentages of loss, wastages, melt
ings, assays, and many other useful facts
and figures. Getting warmed up, Mr..
Burchard then launched an overwhelming
mass of computations, including estimates,
both speculative and positive, of what the
expense of reworking condemned melts is;
of what the result of his examination of the
various department accounts resulted in, and
finally got the Commission, attorneys and
spectators so annealed, amalgamated and
mixed in an inextricable maze of confusing
figures as was pitiful to observe. During the
first two hours Mr.. Blanchard occasionally
stopped the witness in his wild, mad course
over billowy sea of words, and made des-
perate attempt to get some dim idea of the
subject matter being testified to. but, after
that, gave it up, and stared with fixed fascin-
alton at Mr.. Burchard's smiling lips, whence
flowed an uninterrupted torrent of Mint
statistics. After long time MIR. Burchard
was turned over to Messrs. Blanchard, Page,
Cicott and Secretary, for cross examina-
ton. The four gentlemen asked, in as many
different ways as possible, how witness could
inform himself what particular bullion went
into the ingots returned from the coiner's de-
partment as unfit for coin This involved
a review of the Mint books for the past two
years, and was not completed when 2 o'clock,
the hour for adjournment, arrived. In the
course of his direct examination, Mr.. Bur
chard testified that the amount of silver re-
turned by the coiner as brittle metal in 1879
80, and condemned at the rolls, was SO, 626.02
of this amount Al per cent. contained a
portion of Northern Belle. 4S per cent. clip
pings and fine silver, and IL per cent other
bullion than Northern Belle.