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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-10
A PROMISING COUNTRY

The Apache outbreak has brought into
prominence the character of the country
occupied by them. 1t appears that the
Colorado plateau is the best-timbered and
best.watered portion of Arizona. The
White Mountains from the background
of the plateau rise to the hight of
over 10000 feet, and the streams which
fertilize the plains below are fed from the
perpetual SHOWS on their SUBMITS. These
mountains also catch and condense the
vapors borne by the southwest winds The
heated atmosphere of the Arizona plains
prevents the condensation into rain of
whatever humidity may be carried in the
winds from the Cult of California,
but the White Mountains interpose bar
rier to the further course of these winds
toward the northeast, and it may reasona-
bly, be inferred that the slopes of the
mountains and the plains below are well
watered both by streams and rains. In.
deed this is clearly proven by the exist
ence of extensive and valuable forests in
the region under consideration. The mill.
tary operations about to be inaugurated
will familiarize the public with the feat.
ures of this new section, and large
immigration will inevitably follow upon
the close of military operations. The ex-
istence of forests and streams presupposes
the existence in that latitude of
a good climate and soil for agri-
cultural and grazing purposes. Besides,
the reasonable probability of the existence
of great mineral wealth attaches to this
equally with every other mountainous
region of New Mexico and Arizona. What
military operation may find difficult of &C.
civilization and settlement
will find comparatively easy. The Apaches
have made a much more serious mistake
than inviting the chastisement the Govern
ment is preparing to give them implies.
They have invited the press correspondent,
and his descriptions of the country will in
turn invite a rising tide of settlement more
than armies. The Colorado, Sail
mas and ella rivers have their sources in
this northeastern portion of Arizona, and
since these are all rivers of considerable |
volume, which is well sustained through
out the year, it cannot be otherwise than
certain that the sources of these streams |
are fed by both rain and snow.
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WILL HE REMAIN ?

A contemporary says Director Everson
will remain on the Board of State Prison
Directors. Well, he may ; but he will not
enjoy the confidence of his fellow Directors
or the public. Mr.. Everson's method of
creating claims for mileage was ON very
low plane of official misconduct. Other
members of the Directory have protested
personal indignation at the irregularity.n
If they consent to remain associated with
him, they are simply no better than he,
and their pretended disapprobation will
simply prove their insincerity. The friends
of prison reform have hoped that the pro-
visions of the new Constitution would be
carried out in good faith, and that prison
management would not be subjected to
change with every political mutation. The
real test will be reached by change of
political parties. Should the Democrats
carry the State next year they could not
be charged with any improperly for re.
moving the entire Board of Directors. II
fact, no party promising to retain them
could carry the State. The administers
ton of Governor Perkins is the first execu-
tive term under the new Constitution.
His solemn pledge to the commonwealthwa
that he would enforce all its provisions in
good faith. This pledge was required of
him because he had opposed the new or
ganic law and because it was possible Tor
the Executive to work the defeat of the
instrument by the modifying influence of
administration. The provisions of the
new Constitution concerning the prisons
of the State have been grossly sub
verified and defantly disregarded. The
nonsalaried position OF Director of
State Prisons has been converted, by the
most shameless subversion of the provisions
of the Constitution, into the best paid
position under the State government.
Political powers withheld from the Di-
rectors have been usurped by them. Duties
made incumbent by the Constitution upon
the Wardens have been bargained cor
ruptly for place. Illegal emoluments have
been drawn by the Directors, and in one
case by methods vulgarly dishonest. In
competency has been shown in the illegal |
custom of keeping the journals and |
in making contracts for machinery.
Loose practices and reprehensible bust
ness methods are already exposed. |
Powers have been exercised by the Board I
of Prison Directors in the way of creating
liabilities which are denied by the Consti-
tuition to the Legislature buildings
have been erected contrary to law. But |
above and beyond all this penal system
has been perpetuated and is being main
tanned which is disgrace to the State, and
its condition alone, if no other act of mis-.
conduct existed, would establish a full,
complete and indefensible case of incom-
potency. The majority of the Board itself
do not desire the retention of Director
Everson, else their admissions and profess
sions are singularly uncandid. |
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from Germany, and in its neNv location
would continue to offer competition with
German interests. The world is so small
commercially that all industries, hows yer
remote geographically, are constantly
iostling and elbowing each other in the
marts of trade. Day by day it grows
smaller by reason of improved facilities of
communication. Day by day the COM
mercial, social and intellectual influence OF
each part acts and reacts upon every other
with increasing directness and augmenting
force OF impact. The industry and enter
prise of each section are present by their
influence in every other. The day OF ex-
pulsions is over. Germany might as well
attempt to regulate the winds that blow
over her border lines as to attempt to elm
mate the influence of the Jews upon her
commerce and industries, by banishing
that people to other fields of activity.
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MOB Law THREATEnrp.

The town OF Woodland has an undue
proportion OF the representatives of the
social evil, and the Democrat of that place
permits in its columns the sugSes.
ton that the place be cleared of them
through the agency of a Vigilance
Committee Is the law so lame in Yolo
county thai the press must thus confess its
iueaici,noy' The Democrat cannot afford
TO allow its influence to be cast in favor of
mob law against women, under the spur of
popular clamor. We are unwilling to be-
lieve that the citizens of Woodland either
contemplate or favor any such measures as
the Democrat hints may be taken. When
the press fails to raise its voice against
mob law, it fails in its highest duty, and
invites to its own doors the same force,
whenever it shall see fit to differ from the
uuthinking elements that constitute such
Unlawful assemblages.
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dental to the paramount issue. The ques-
tions which arose to the dignity of great
public moment were adequately met and
discussed in the report. They are lost
sight of only by those whose perverted
tastes demand the stimulus of unsavory
scandal. We catch glimpses of the higher
comprehension of the question in the mind
of Mr. Owens, for he says: 1.-THE report
goes to the bed rock of many wrongs
which, now they are clearly defined and
pointed out, will no doubt be righted.
We are not sorry that personal malignity
found no qualification in the report. The
personal considerations connected with
prison administration are but transitory.
The great question of penal reform will
survive many generations of Directors and
Wardens and disappointed candidates for
Wardenships.
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less summers give US great advantage over
the English farmers in securing our vast
wheat harvests, and while the peculiar con-
dition and distribution of our agricultural
enterprises exempt US from such disastrous
effects of drought-as cur Eastern brethren
are suffering at this time-our much-praised
climate IS a perpetual bar to an
agriculture that brings the greatest
good-a dense population Of highly prosper
Gus and highly civilized people.
All we lack, however, to make ours the
most prosperous and richest State in the
world is water without the rains. We want
no change of climate; we want the use of
and control of the waters that fall annually
on the watersheds above Us. The two rich
est agricultural countries in the world are
Lombardy and Holland, and both
these countries owe their great wealth
and prosperity to the fact that the
people have brought a rich soil and
water together in such manner that they
can control them-that they can prevent too
great moisture that is running the English
agriculture, or too long drought that's ruin
ing the farmers of the eastern side of this
continent az this time Give the people of
California the control of the waters of the
Sacramento and its tributaries, of the San
Joaquin and its tributaries, and of the
other numerous rivers in other direc-
tions of the State. for irrigation, and
in twenty years the lands of the State would
be worth thousand times if not ten thou
sand times their present value and the agri-
culture of California would be the richest and
most varied the world has ever seen. Then
that popularity of climate which is at once
our boast and bar to dense population Of
ahighly prosperous and highly civilized peo-
pie, would be one of the principal factors to
that prosperity and civilization. We want
irrigation in the northern as well as the
southern end of the State. With IT.
rigation we cannot have large farms
and sparse population, but must have
small farms and thickly-settled country-a
country in which not only agriculture, but
all the mechanical and manufacturing indus
tries will be introduced, and will prosper,
each living and prospering on and virtually
assisting the other.
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rH1s noRNrEGs NEWS.

In New York Government bonds are quoted at
Il6 for As OF 1907 1OlS for 6s of 1881 ia for AIS
sterling, "a S2lg4 s45 silver bars, 10.
Silver in London, bl5 consols, 90 lied; 5 per
csnt United States bonds 1913 As, 103; AS l1Ol.
in San Francisco hall dollars ere quoted at /
discount to par; Mexican dollars, 9O1c.
Al Liverpool wheat quoted at lis Id s11s 4d for
good to choice California.
The Stock Boards were not in session at San Fran
cisco yesterday, and there was no sidewalk business
Of importance stocks closed pretty strong Thurs
day night.
A serious railroad accident occurred near Castro
vile, Tex. Thursday, killing one man aud wound
ing fifteen others.
The stage between Bisbee and Charleston, A T.,
Ras robbed of 81. 800 yesterday morning.
a dispatch from Hartford, Conn, announces the
death of Ex Congressman l. T. Waldo.
The Massachusetts, Supreme Court decides that
women cannot practice as attorneys in that State.
a hurricane prevailed yesterday of the Carolina
coast.
The village of Keichenbach. Switzerland, has been
almost destroyed by fall of stones
Emperor William has arrived at Dantzic, and was
enthusiastically received
HdfloNiuS utLtiiS VI Jle JtiIIuic uedsttF ~ MICH
igau continue to be received.
Robert Williams was deeapitated BY his two
daughters at Whiteville, Va, yesterday.
In a railroad accident near Anchorage station,
Ky, Wednesday evening, eight persons were killed
and number Of others wounded.
a serious collision CT vessels occurred yesterday
in San Francisco Bay.
Fire at Portland, Or; also at Centeryille Alameda
c unity.
There are ], ia patients in the Insane Asylum at
Stockton
Dr. Harvey, Of the Board of Directors OF the In
sane Asylum, demands an investigation of the
charges Of his having taken Illegal mileage.
IA an engagement between the French and Arabs
q; Hammamet, Tunis, that town was entney de-
siroyed.
Admission Day was celebrated in severoI localities
OF the State yesterday.
The San Francisco Association of California Pic.
ueers celebrated Admission bay at Santa Cruz.
Rev. John Spencer, pioneer Methodist of Oregon,
Is lying at his home in Yinhil county
Edward Mace was killed BY a blast near Wilkeson.
W. T on the 18th instant
biphtheria has appeared in malignant form in
Yamhill county, Oregon.
The Improvement Of the Presidents condition
continues and the hope Of his final recovery is be.
ing strengthened every hour.
The attention of readers of the REeoRD.U UNION is
called this moraing to the excellence of the matter
contained in the inside pages Of this issue.
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FRANCE Avn ENGLAND


There IS trouble between France and
England, and the wish being father
to the thought have held that war be-
tween the two nations is inevitable. We
do not think so. The matter is one capable
OF amicable adjustment, is being so set
tied. The question is one involving the
right of Great Britain to collect customs
duties on the so-called French coast OF
Newfoundland. The French fishermen oc-
cupy that portion of the island, and fish
there undec treaty of ancient date. New
customs in the fisheries may demand re-
vision of that treaty, but that there will
be war between the great nations over so
trivial matter Coca not seem possible.
We have had far more serious issues with
England and on fishery questions, and,
though quite as pugnacious as she, we have
not yet felt that war was the only resort.
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clmlNa powN aRArsrnI1r

The Eran'iaer raises the cry of fraud as
an explanation of the recent Democratic
defeat in San Francisco. This is very
trite. Defeated parties are never
beaten fairly. The lack Of votes is
never referred to in explaining political
disasters. This cry of fraud will not last
a week, if indeed it is again referred too.
Beaten parties ought in all reason to have
been successful day or two after
election. 1t is the most graceful way of
coming down to the final and inevitable
acknowledgment of defeat.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-10
THE PRESIDENT.

The Presidents condition is very encour-
aging. His pulse, temperature and respira-
ton are now more nearly normal and
uniform, than fer long time. While all
the indications now point to probable
of President Garfield, it is well
to heed DR.. Hamilton's advice, and not be
too sanguine, for the statements of the
condition of the patient made now are
comparative with those made when he was
at the worst. In short, the President,
while improving, is by no means out of
serious danger yet.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-10

masked robber, backed by the persuasive
eloquenee Of double barreled shotgun at
point blank range with ones head is to the
fore, common men very wisely conclude
that their duties to their families and them
selves calling for the preservation of their
precious bodies, are paramount to any
lofty demands that they resist for resist
ance cake and the express corporation.
we hardly think the Journal viii exist as
such long, enough to witness humanity
upon the lofty and courageous plane to
which 1t would now WOO i
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NOT A QUESTION OF COURAGE.

The New York Journal Of Commerce
wants a few heroic souls to resist train
robbers, footpads, road agents and burg
lars, and Sacrifice themselves in the
"cause of truth and right" That is all
very well, but our observation and sim
plicity leads us to believe that, as rule,
men do not care to fight for the property
of express a1d railroad companies. When
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-10
ooScERN1NG THE NEW STATE.

The Bridgeport Chronicle well says ::
"Mono desires no change, and the people
'of California will never consent to
"division. Los Angeles was the strongest
advocate Of the new Constitution, and
&C. as it made its bed with that monstrosity
"let it stay by it as long as the rest of us
" are compelled to-. And the San Diego
Sun, with poetic truth, adds " It is not
"vast territories that support govern
.ments, because if it were kingdoms could
=" be established in the ocean, and empires
90 founded in the air."
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-08-23
A Now Way to Propose Marriage.

The tide Is turning at last. A young
man In Nelson county, Iowa, arAlod him.
self with revolver to shoot young wo-
man who had declinedtho offer of his hand.
But she was up to snuff. she read the
paper and had frequently seen accounts of
similar affaire, quietly resolving that no
discaI ded lover could make q victim of her.
not II the court, or lather the courted, un.
derstood herself. When the young man
arrived at the house on his deadly nil son
he found the fair but cruel one in the
kitchen doing the weeks ironing. She
didn't appear to suspect and no expected
to have an easy time preparing her for the
coroner; but when he reached around to tho
pistol pocket, with the remark that her
time had come, she stated, IL guess not, "
and knocked him down with tiatiron,
demolishing his nose aud front teeth Then
she gave him the scaldlng contents of a tea
Kettle that was singing cheerful air on the
stove, and when the family came in she
was moppiDg the floor with him. The
neat time he proposes and is refused he
will probably conclude that that settles 1t.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-08-23
"The Long legged Looo."

The monster locomotive built at Altoona,
Pa., for the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, made her first trip between
Philadelphia and Jersey City recently. She
ls technically known as the ''new class K
engine but has been given the namc OF
the 'long.leggcd loco" by tho railroad men.
l!iis latter title comes from her big driving
whcels, which stand six feet Blk inches
ABOVE tho rails. Five feet and eight inches
ID the height of an ordinary anthracite en-.
glne. The new locomotive is intended as
an improvement upon the latest designs of
fast and powerful passenger engines, where
Ia the highest a.m sought Is a 10 .omotiye
that can bc relied on to pull the heaviest
trains over all grades, against stiff winds
and with the least possible liability toward
not boxes or low steam, on tho quickest
schedule time. She has l8 inch cylinders.
ana MAXIMUM steam pressure of lao
pounds. She has greater fire surface by
nearly 6O square feet than tho next best
locomotives and the Big fire box is gained
III peculiar manner. Instead of hanging
INSIDE inc SIDE frame with the springs on
Top OF tho frame, tho boiler rests on the
frame and the springs are beneath it. The
width OF the frame is thus gained for ,hr
tirebox. aud the boilers steamlng capaci.v
Is materially increased. To meet this and
get the added force OF steam freely in and
out OF the cylinders, large and massive
valves that give great aleu of steam bort.
are one OF the especial features OF the u;a,v
engine. This force, in turn, is 100 gr,f A. for
the engineer to reverse the machjrir NV tbs
ordinary lever. 1t would rcqTre nm ex.
pendlturc OF strength that .~S0uld tire him
ou' IN "'a dead a,ni 4 Therefore, there
turning e. s,cam-revcrsing gear
o4omac' or i'll front Of the en-
sso. Inc cab is Il square box, and
AoSolne has lost all the old time
beauty, aud is nothing more than
% hottonl up. The parallel rods that
cct The driving wheels are plain steel
1ous, with solid eyes, and having compo.
slllon metal bushing. The tender Is nolhinr
Dut black box, on which the painter has
put only single paraI telegram OF thin gilt
lines. The machine weighs much more
than ordinary paSscn ger motors and this
extra weight IL made up by making the
parts that bear the strain as heavy as possl
DC. The monster is 81 feet long, and the
Top OF the Smokcstack ls III feet from the
rail-. With her boiler full OF water and fire
IN her box, tho engine weighs %, GuO
pounds, the tender, STARTING out with coal
and water, weighs $4,000 pounds. The
engineer on her maiden trip, ran her from
Phlladephia to Jersey City, distance OF
ninety miles, in lO2 inmates. The best
time ever made by the now long legged en-
glne was done on her experimental TRIP be-
tween Huntington and Altoona, a 81 mile
slretch, every loot of which l., upgrade.
She made one mile in 81 seconds, and
another mile IN b8 seconds, but the fact of
most value to the railroad men who watch
gu her was that everything about her ran
cool.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-08-23
DOMESTIC.

SLEEP AND SLEEpLEssNEss. j. M.
Granville In an interesting work on this sub
ject, says, with reference to the difficulty
some persons find ON getting to sleep:
"Hablt greatly helps the performance OF
the initial act, and tho cultivation of a
habit of going to sleep In particular way,
at particular time, will do more to pro-
duce regular and healthy sleep than any
other artilico. The formation OF tho habit
Is, III fact the creation and development of
a special centre or combination of tho nerv-
GUS system, Which Will henceforward pro-
duce sleep as natural rhythmical process.
If this were more generally recognized
persons who sulIer from sleeple sness of
the sort which consists in simply being an-
able, to 60 to s'eep, would set themselves
re olutcly to form such habit. 1t is neces-
sary that the training should be explicit,
and include attention to details. 1t Is not
very important what person does with
the intention of gong to sleep, but he
should 90 precisely the same TIL ng In the
same way, at the same time and under as
nearly ss possible the same conditions,
night after night for considerable period,
say three or four weeks at least.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-08-23

How TO TREAT A CoLD..-When you get
chilly all over and away into your bones,
and begin to sn;ffle and almost struggle foi
your breath, just begin in time and your
tribulation need not last very long. Get
some powdered borax and snuff the dry
powder up your nostrils. Get your cam
phor bottle and smell 1t frequently; pour
some on your handkerchief, aud wipe your
nose with 1t whenever needed. Your nose
will not get sore, and you will wonder
what has become Of your cold. Begin this
treatment in the forenoon and keep on a,
Intervals until you go to bed, and you will
sep as we'll as you ever did. Pm just tell
ing you my experience.