Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-23
Important Mining Case.

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tant mining decision rendered by Justice
Miller, in the Circuit Court for Colorado,
which was recently referred to in these dis
patches as having nearly reached the point of
| final review by the United States Supreme
| Court, is to the effect that no mineral land
patent can legally issue for more than 100
acres, ard that il ruraber Of original loca-
tions have been consolidated into one claim,
each of the locations must be treated as a dis.
tinct claim, and advertised and proved up,
| with proof of separate work upon it, This
decision, il sustained by the Supreme Court.
would, it is said, destroy two-thirds of the
patents heretofore issued for mining claims,
and make the procuring of patents for most
| of the old claims impossible, because of the
impracticabiiity of making proof of old loca-
| tions, and because in most Instances, separate
work has not been done on the old locations,
which have been consolidated into large
claims. Thus, shaft sunk on consolidated
| claim has been held to be work done in every
part Of it but the Circuit Court judgment
overthrows that principal. The appealed
case has been txice argued in the Supreme
Court, and its Forthcoming decision is awaited
| with great interest.
| Z Grace fal Act.
| CLEvELAND February 22i.-A committee
representing the ex-Confederate soldiers of
! Cincinnati visited Mrs. Garfield az Mentor
| "
memorial tribute to James a. Garfield, in the
shape Of sympathetic and eulogistic resolu-
tions.
Mrs. Garfield with great effort repressed
her emotion, while the old mother of the late
President wept violently. Both were clad in
deepest mourning. The late Presidents
widow, her voice trembling with emotion, re-
piled to the address Of General Withers as
| follows "GantleIpen / am very grateful to
| yo,, and IN those froJo whom fbis frI
| gift comes, both for IFS sake and the senti-
| ments you express" The two Mesdanes
| Garfield then examined the memorial gift,
and expressed their admiration of the frame
to Mr.. Knipe, its maker, who said MY
| heart went out in sympathy foT the Presi-
| dent. volunteered to make that frame, and
I made it so that it may remain a standing
testimony of Southern sentiment" General
| Withers added, "and, moreover, we want to
show these Northern politicians that we ex-
Confederates are not as black as they try to
make US out to be-" The younger Mrs. Gar
| field responded that it had always been the
| Generals greatest wish that there be no
| North or South. His earnest desire was to
| see united country, and had he lived-[here
her grief overcome her, and the sentence was
unfnishedl After brief silence, courtesies
were exchanged and the visitors withdrew.
Jarndyce VS.. Jarndyce Agatn-New De-
velOpmenfs Claimed In the FItx John
Porter Case.
New YORK, February 22d.-The G4uphic's
Washington special Gays: General Fitz
John Porters friends claim new development,
that will help his case. They will produce
the telegraph operator from Pope's head
quarters during the Rapidan campaign and
| they claim that he can show that it was ira.
| po=siSle fer Porter 20 have obsyed the orders
sent him. even if delivered. l. fact, it could
not have been delivered at the time it was
testified TO, for instead of hall. past 2 O'Clock,
it must have been after dark. They profess
| to be able to show, by the knowledge the op-
orators had in communicating with one
another over the wire, that for three days,
while Pope thought he had the enemy on his
| front, th7y were massing on his rear, and that
| he WAS outgeneraled, and a sGapegoat had TO
| be found, and this was Porter's i'll fortune
| 1t is reported, also, that General Ruggles,
now on Sherman's staff will tell what he
| knows, and that he will say that Pcps was
| in the wrong in the matter, and that Porter
was given orders impossible OF execution. 1t
| is said that Grants last expression of opinion
had the effect of opening the mouths of gen.
eral officers who Before regarded it discreet to
preserve silence. The President will be
urged to take action on the verdict of the
Board of Review, which set aside the finding
of the first Court martial.
fSECoND DIsPATCH.l
WASHINGTON. February 22i.-The Presi-
dent and Cabinet have, SO it is said, semi
officially announced decision in favor Of the
restoration of Fitz John Porter to the army.
The only question III connection with tie
case is thst it is undecided as to Porter's
back pay. When cashiered he held the rank
OF Colonel in the regular army and as Major
General OF volunteers The question is row
whether his back pay as Major. General
wculd accrue to him up to his reinstatement,
or whether it would terminate 10 1866, when
the other Maj ajor-Generals were mustered out
of service. The question has been referred
TO the Attorney General The President
will nominate Porter as Colonel of Infantry
bly, ask TO be retired.
sensational Story About the killing of
sotcido.
CHICAGO, February 22d = Your csrre-
spondent has Just been shown letter from
gentleman we'll known and respected in
Washington and elsewhere, which throws
new light on the workings of the great star
route ring, and illustrates what enormous
power this organization of piunderers wields.
The letter says: Now let me tell you about
Soteldo. Back of it all ia the fact that he
effectualiy exposed the star route ring
Next infamous stories they published about
the truth was largely TO bis credit He did
not go to the Republican offics to commit any
deadly assault, but merely to arrange for a
cessation of their attacks His brother did
not shoot him. Barton shot first and killed
him, and young Soteldo never drew his pis.
tol. He saw Barton shooting at his brother
The Republican office was crowded with police
and detectives, and they set up the job on
young Soteldo, and the Coroner helped. 1t
ia ono nf the most Infamous in fha
! malls OF ring operations here or anywhere else.
The statement made above may be implicitly
relied on, as will be shown by later develop.
ments.
The Great Inundation.
MEMPHIS, February 22d.-The officers of
the City of Greenville confirm the report pub
lished of. the sad condition of affairs now ex-
isting throughout the Mississippi valley.
| Thousands of men are on constant guard
along the levees between here and Vicksburr,
| using every possible means to strengthen
| their power Of resistance and elevate their
crests, to prevent the water from inundsting
the whole country. The GreenviIle brought
up several thousand empty sacks, to be used
| Dy filing with earth TO aid in strengthening
the embankment. The whole shore line be.
! tween Memphis and Vicksburg, on the Mis-
sissippi side, and the whole eastern shore of
Arkansas, are either under water or threat
ened with inupdation. The inhabitants of
that vast area of country are in gree. distress.
| Many have been forced from their houses
and are subsis.ing best they may on RATS,
and some on knolls or parts of Old levees.
| The destruction of live stock is beyond cslcu-
lation. The waste of property BY the great
submersiou is outside the limits Of present
computation. The navigation of the river
itself is regarded By steamboat men as dan
gerous at its present stage, on account of
| the great expanse of water in MANY Iocali.
ties, and the billowy character of the
waves wien the surface is swept by heavy
gusts OF wind also, because of the great diff
| fculty in getting to safe ports. The Govern
ment lights along the ii >er are maintained
with admirable regularity. These lights
provo of incalculasls baneft to steamboat
men now, since all the bank landmarks have