Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-01-11

%SV tANA " C0HuHEJ 1Otu. ut QUC-
tors all certify that but two cases of small
pox exist here. These have been removed
out OF the city. and are doing we'll. They
consider the city perfectly healthy, There
are no cases in Paso del Norte, Mexico. The
report was started by malicious parties in this
city. There is no excitement here.
The War Upon Sargent.
WASHINGTON, January 10th.-A combina-
ton of spectators, who have large interests
dependent upon the favorable action by the
Interior Department, and who fear that Sar-
gent viii upset their well-laid plans, have
recently set influences to work in various
quarters, systematically to decry him. a
noted land grabber left the East for Califor-
date who thinks he might have a
chance for appointment as Secretary of the
Interior if Sargent were destroyed, is
said to have contributed largely TO the fund
raieed for this purpose. II is apparently safe
to say, however. that the abuse falls harmless,
and hardly amounts to an annoyance. Sar-
gent is warmly defended by many Eastern
papers. and seems himself to be Indifferent to
this assault but in reply to questions to-day
he said of the Desert Land bill that he was
not its author or promoter, and was entitled
to neither praise nor blame for its passage or
for its administration. AS to the individuals
who are alleged to have taken up land under
it, or who allowed their Eames TO be used, he
says he did not know one in ten of them, and
not one in ten could say they had done so at
his suggestion, or with his knowledge. As to
the tape-worm ticket, ne replied that he did
not know of it till after the election. He
then denounced it as an outrage. He
further said to-day that Z. A. Arm
strong, L. b. Miner and others
knew this to be true, and he hoped
hot irDn +olI =
publicly. Sargent said in regard to the at
tack based on his alleged attitude concerning
the Mormon question, that he was surprised
that there could be any doubt as to the ear
nestiess of his desire for the extirpation Of
pelygamy. 1t was true that he had ques-
toned the wisdom of dealing with the ques-
tion in detail manner only, for the few in
dividual cases of conviction that could be
procured with great difficulty uuder the
presents laws would serve only as opportunities
for the Mormons to glorify their convicted
brethren as So called martyrs. His recorded
speech on the floor of the Senate, he saio,
would show that he has taken the ground
that the effecsual way to deal with polygamy
is to deprive every person prsctieing it the
right to vote or hold office, or sit on juries.
He favored making this Law applicable 30 nll
the Territories, and it would, he believed,
tend not only to break up their
political control in Utah, but also
prevent their holding the balance of power
elsewhere, and thereby enlisting the possible
support Of any political party. lie believed.
moreover, that any young man would hesi-
tate to enter upon the practice of polygamy
If the price would be surrender of his politi-
cal rights. Sargent also remarked to- day
that he has been deeply gratifed by the
testimonials of regard from his State
since these attacks commenced. but
has declined all tenders of public meet
ings and other demonstrations in mis-
defenEe, which hsva been urged upon him
It IL ascertainel that the entire Congressional
delegation from the Pacific coast, without dis
tineton of party, favor his appointment. and
he is also warmly iudorsed by s1ch Senators
as Edmunds, Anthony, Frye, Hale Sawyer,
Hill eff Colorado, and others. The animus
OF the attacks being well known in high quar-
ters, they have rather helped than hurt him.
There is no doubt whatever that his nou.ina-
tion viii be sent in by the President at the
time before agreed upon. Sargent and Con-
gresham Berry, having been appointed by
the California State Board of Agriculture as
delegates TO the National Convention of Ag-
riculturists, were in attendance at the open-
ing of the Convention in this city to-day, and
Congressman George was also present as the
representative of the Corvallis (OregoD) Ag-
ricultural College, and presented an address
By Professor B. l.. Arnold, which was favor
ably received.
The Frozen SoFii-COntraEictien of Re-
cent statements.
CHICAGO, January 10th.-Charles T. Put
nam, q graduate of the Annapolis Naval
Academy in 1878, who joined the United
States steamship Rodgers in search of the
Jeanette, writes an interesting letter to his
mother in this city The first section of the
letter is dated 'United States steamship
Rodgers Arctic Ocean, August 20, 1881" In
It he speaks of being a5 ST. Ilichaei's, in the
Pacific ocean, from August Sd to the 1Ith,
and hearing nothing of the Jeannette or her
party, and on tae 11th sailing for Plover
Bay, on the Siberian coast. This contradicts
the statement of NJ Soulkowski in the recent
dispatch that the Chasseur me5 the Rodgers
on the Och of August, and that the Rodgers
was steering fer Herald Island. In point of
fact the Chasseur could not at that time have
been in the Arctic, and the Rodgers, which
certainly had not, was steering, not for Her
aid Island. but for Plover Bay. The Rodgers
reached Plover Bay on the 10Th of August,
and Master Putnam says he did not find the
Russian maa.of-war Strelock, and therein he
again contradiets M. Soulkowski. That ves-
sci, he says, had left on the 13sh, leaving
word that it would meet the Rodgers at St
Lawrence Bay. They did meet the Stre!ock
on the 18th, and on the 10Th passed through
Behring's Straits in company with her into
the Arctic Ocean. Master Putnam says:
We have heard of several sledge parties,
beth on the northern coast of Siberia
and on the coast near Point Barrow,
and some think it may turn out that some of
the Jeannette's party have left the ship and
started back by fledge. We shall investigate
these stories, first going to Cape Serdzs
Kamen on the north coast of Siberia, and
thence to the eastward where we will find
the whalers and learn from them what
they have heard" He speaks of the fine
weather, the thermometer being 40 degrees
all day, with no ice anywhere. The Rodgers
was prepared to remain two years, he says,
to find the Jeanette. but he expects that
they will be in San Francisco by October,
1882 On the 2Osh they had lost sight of the
t'elocB. On September 14th he writes
"We have surveyed Wrangen Land,
and are now about to start north, looking for
more land, where the Jeanette may possibly
be found. On September 27th ne writes that
their work for the year is absut finished, and
they are going to st. Lawrence Bay to wiz
ter. He refers to party to be left at Cape
North, in Siberia, to make sledge journeys
along the coast 1t YVES Putnam himself who
was left in charge of this party subsequently,.
The Iowa senatership.
DES MONIES, January 10th.-Jsmes +.
Wilson has been nominated by the Republi-
cans as Senator for the long term, beginning
March 4, 1888, and J. w. McDill for the
short term, ending in 1885.
The Governorship OF Arizona.
CHICAGO, January 10th.-The Journals
Washington special says: John J.. W. Eddy,
Of Aurora, Ill, seems to have a good proL-
pect for the Governorship of Arizona.
A Tragedy I'm Indiana.
CHICAGO, January 10th.-John Walton. a
wealthy farmer, residing about ten miles
from Shelbyville, Ind, was shot dead while
reading at window. A negro named Aaron
Frazer was suspected, and on being arrested
confessed that he was persuaded to commit
the murder by o. NJ. Garrett, who offered to
pay him large sum of money. Garrett was
then taken into custody, and soon afterward
fatally injured himself with a revolver. A
partial confession made by the latter reveals
criminal intimacy between him and Walton's
wife. Garrett two years ago killed her
brother She is under arrest for completely
in the murder of her husband.
Governor stanford's Intentions.
NEW YORK, January 10th.-At the Ex.
ecutive Committee meeting of the National
Association of Trotting. horse Breeders, ex-
Governor Stanford, of California, announced
he ;ntaption of sanding WildAowar Hula