Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-19

Disastrous Boiler Explosion Towboat
| sunk. FOur Men Drowned and others
! Injured.
MEMPHIS, March 1Sth.-The towboat Johu
| Means exploded her boilers last evening 80
miles up the river. and sunk outright imme-
| diately. She carried crew of 26 men, four
of whom-John Seals, a pilot, deck hand
named Morris and two iremen, Germans
are missing, and are supposed to be drowned.
Charles Purcell, the pilot on watch. was
| blown into the river and had leg broken
| VIM. r. Woodbridge, the second cook, was
scalded on the neck and legs. Captain Nc
| Clellan was also slightly bruised on the head
| When the boat sunk, the five barges loaded
with railroad iron and block tin which she
was towing fioated ON down the river. Cap
tain Mcclellan and the wounded men were
brought here this morning by the Belle OF
| Memphis. ThesCaptain has returned 30 the
| scene OF disaster with tug to secure the
| barges.
SECOND -DIsPATCH.I
ST. LOUIS, March 1Sth-The towboat John
Means, which exploded her boilers and sank
| at Osceola last night, was valued at $50 600,
and was insured for $4,000. The accident
was the result of gross neglect.
| Pork Packing Operations at Chicago.
| CHICAGO, March 1Sth.-Howard White &
Co. give in their Commercial Bulletin to-day
| detailed statement of packing operations in
| Chicago for twelve months ending March LIST.
| The exhibit is highly gratifying. The returns
show an increased business, both for the sum-
mer and winter months, the aggregate being
the very largest number OF hogs ever packed
in any city in the world in any one year
| The total number packed was 5,752, 191, or
an increase over the preceding twelve months
! Of 1,071, 554. OF the whole number there
were packed during the summer 2,971, III,
and during the winter 2,719, S64 Although
| the supply has been so LIBERAL there has been
| corresponding urgent demand for home
consumption and foreign export during the
twelve moths. Two leading houses have
packed the enormous number of 1916, 400
| hogs, an average of 1913, 900 per month. Their
aggregate business exceeds that of any other
| city in the West, and their operations equal
| nearly one.seyenth of those of the entire
West The receipts of live hogs during the
year were 1858, 355, and the Shipments l.
| 1874, $780,
| The Cannon. Campbell Case Interview
with the Mormon Delegate.
CHEYENNE (Wyo.), March 1Sth.-A Leader
reporter has had an interview with Cannon,
| the Mormon Delegate to Congress. Cannon
| expresses confidence in his ultimate victory
| over Campbell. He says all the lawyers and
Congressman in Washington agree that he
| cannot be kept out of his seat. The idea was
suggested that the next House, being Repub-
| lican, would keep him out in the cold. He
said he had more to hope for from Republi-
can House, because the Republicans abhorred
the principle which sought to unseat him.
| As to Governor Murray's visit to Mentor
several days before the Inauguration, and the
| announcement that Garfield Endorsed Muir.
rays action, Cannon said he had it from
good authority that Garfield did not approve
the giving of a certificate to Campbell.
| Development of wyoming Territory.
CHEYENNE, March 1Sth.-The Leader, in a
comprehensive article, shows that Wyoming
| is being rapidly developed and immigration
pouring in. Silver and gold mines are being
| discovered in all the mountains, two large
petroleum oil belts are being operated, and
| immense soda lakes, sufficient to supply all
| the glass factories of the country for century
have just been purchased by glass makers,
who will erect works Farms in northern
| Wyoming are being rapidly taken up and
new counties are organizing. Three new
railroads will be built in the Territory this
| year, and buildingand other improvements are
| going on on all hands. The Territory which
| has more than doubled its population in the
| last decade, will undoubtedly quadruple in
| the present decade.
| The Opium Clause of the Chinese Treaty.
| New YORK, March 1Sth.-The Sun says
| There are Western politicians and editors
who take exception even to the slight con-
cession to China in the opium clause of the
| new treaty, which prohibits a citizen of the
| United States from engaging in the opium
/ traffic through Chinese ports. Their argu-
ment is that it is an injury to the property
and business of American citizens to pro.
hibit their taking part in the opium trade,
and that this ought not to be acceded to in
return for limitation of Chinese immigra-
| tion-the main point here. There happens to
be no foundation for this, for the opium i'm
ported into the United States for medical
purposes comes from Indian, not Chinese
ports, and that imported into China passes
| through the hands of British subjects under
the protection of English arms. Few or no
Americans are engaged in the trade, so much
of the drug as is brought to the United States
for smoking being imported wholly by Chinese
firms.
Grant and the Worlds Fair.
New York, March 1Sth.-The morning
papers agree in believing that Grant will re-
sign the Presidency Of the Worlds Fair Com
mission. A Herald reporter who sought an
interview last evening found him considera-
bly, annoyed by the persistency of calls. He
said he thought il strange that one could not
come to New York for a few days without
being overrun with interviewers. He said he
would not have anything to do with the Fair
| for the present, as he was going to Mexico
Tuesday night.
Disc edited Report.
CHICAGO, March 1Sth.-General Sheridan
| and officers of the staff thoroughly discredit
| the story from New Mexico that Apache
| Indians attacked a wagon train at Puerto
Dechocolate and massacred thirty people.
, No such intelligence has been received at
military headquarters, where it would natur-
ally be known first, since the Indians make
| their raids from point near Fort Cummings,
| from which post any hostile movements
would be instantly telegraphed to Chicago.
| Threatened Outbreak of the Ufes-Mur.
f! derer Captured.
| DENVER (Col J, March 1Sth-The Tri5une's
| Rawlins special says: The latest and most
reliable news from White river appears to
point to an outbreak OF the Utes early in the
spring. Their camp is located near White
| river, about twenty miles from the
military A son of Chief Douglas is reported
saying that as soon as Douglas returned to
| their camp and the snow goes off, the Utes
will cheap fight" They are procuring all
| the guns and ammunition possible, for which
they exchange horses or anything else. The
military have just completed substantial
| block house near the post.
The Tribune's Las Vegas special says
! Marine LIB, the last of the murderers of
| Colonel Potter, has been captured at Alama
Gordo, and will probably be lynched.
| Negotiations Considered or.
| ST. LOUIS, March 1SEh.-The negotiations
mentioned in these dispatches yesterday as
pending between parties here and in San
Francisco, respecting freight rates on wheat
BY river to New Orleans, are now considered
of, and are not likely to be reopened, and so
far as known here, the project of offering
California wheat to st. Louis, for foreign
shipment via the Mississippi river and New
Orleans, If ever seriously entertained, has
| been abandoned.
Disastrous Cohfasrafion.