Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-05

blers-Bltnd Chess Pfayer-P0i tceman
Murdered-The Civ Service Commits
siOu-Brutal Prize FIgbt-A Chin8man
"On TO the Wars An Aged Man TO bt
Hanged-The Supreme Court and thu
Thurman Law-Etc.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD vNIoN.l
The Supreme Court and the Railroads
WASHINGTON, May 4th.-The announce
ment that circular would be issued before
long, directing the discontinuance of the
practice of withholding money due the
branch lines of Pacific railroads, caused quite
s furry to-day, being complete surprise tt
all but the very few who knew what wal
Brewster's opinion on the subject. 1t is 9
long time since subsidy reads had any
thing go as they wanted it, while land grant
roads have been the recipients Of one bonanzs
after another until DECISION is always ex
pected in their favor. 1t is stated to-day BY
q person, who should be well.informed or
the subject, that the suit talked about by
Teller will not be pushed against the Unior
Pacific. The Secretary will try to settle the
account by an appearance of belligerency
but will not press it to hearing before the
Supreme Courts. The reason is said to be
because it has been ascertained that the
Court, as now constituted, is against the
Thurman law, and il the question should be
raised again, would stand five to four ir
favor of the railroads. The last time the
question was raised, it stood four to three or
the side the Government, but late appoint.
ments have changed the complexion of the
result Of decision. Their advice to the
he 70 fn the
subsidy roads all that had been paid under
the Thurman law, and give them the use
thereof till 1896 81, when it is due under sub
sidy action.
Railroad Extension.
CHICAGO, May 4th.-In various quarters
the policy of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad Company in regard to any
further extension of their line beyond Denver
Is being discussed, and it has been subject
for much anxiety on the part of competing
lines. The extension to Denver caused 9
great furry, and all doubted the wisdom Of
the move. The road has demonstrated that
it was shrewd scheme, and it is one of the
standard Denver lines. Now all are anxious
to know if the company will build on to Sal,
Lake City. There was great opposition OF
the part of the Union Pacific, and the road
was pushed through under difficulties, though
many assert that the extension " i'll at once bs
built on to Salt Lake, and that thousands OF
laborers will be put to work this summer,
until the line is completed. Still, it seems nc
such steps will be taken at least this sum
mer. Prominent railway officials in dis
cussing this, said the policy of the Barling-
ton is not of hasty sort. They have al
ways built slowly, establishing local sta
tions and working to establish a pay
ing local business as they went along. Then
the relations existiog between the Burlington
and Denver and Rio Grande roads are of 8
most friendly nature, as any action of the
former in the State of Colorado, which ha,
always been considered exclusively the terri
tory of the latter road. will be prudent
conservative and amicable in the extreme
The Burlington virtually controls the new
line connecting Denver and Salt Lake thai
was established by the Denver and Rit
Grande, as they furnished the money for it,
construction.
THE CANADIAN PACIFIC.
General Superintendent Egap, of the Ca
madam Pacific, who has recently returned to
Winnipeg from the end Of the track, says the
work is progressing at the rate of two miles a
day, and will be materially increased after
the crossing of the Saskatchewan has been
effected. Over this river a temporary pile
will be erected, to be at an early date re-
placed by a fine, substantial iron bridge, now
building in England. Superintendent Egsn
says the report regarding the troublesome
disposition of the Indians, occasioned by the
passage of the road through their reservation,
Is wholly unfounded.
The Civil Service Commission.
WASHINGTON, May 4th.-"The Innocents, u
which is the title the members of the Civil
Service Commission are rapidly earning, have
found new grounds for standing by the selec-
ton of Mr.. Keim. One of them gravely an
nounced that the Commission "have been
given to understand" that Mr.. Keim was the
only correspondent whom General Sherman
would allow to be with his armies during the
war. As everybody else knows, nearly every
prominent paper in the country had corre-
spondent with Sherman's army, and it is also
well known that Mr.. Keim was 30 far from
exercising caution in his correspondence that
the question of shooting him for his indiscre.
ton was very seriously considered, and he
escaped. His offsnse was the pub
LEGATION of the fact that the Union signal Off
GERS had discovered the rebel signal code, and
were reading all the rebel messages. On
hearing this important secret at headquarters
Mr.. Keim telegraphed it North, and the next
day it went across the lines before Richmond,
and, as the result, the entire rebel code was
changed.
The L.bor situation.
PITTsBURG, May 3d.-1he action of the
conference committees of iron manufacturers
and awalgamated association yesterday in ad.
journing sine die, without any satisfactory
having been reached, makes q
strike on June LIST at this time appear almost
inc liable, as both sides are firm and express
q determination to hold out. The Committee
of Iron Manufacturers consider their work as
completed, and say that if the workmen de-
sire another conference they will have to
make the request, and another committee
will be appointed.
PETERSBURG (Vs.), May 4th.-The brick.
layers of this city have struck for an advance
to So per day. The demand for such me.
chanics here is so great that it is found neces
sary to comply with the demands of the
strikers
PlTTsBURG, May 4th.-The tanners strike
has completely collapsed. All the best men
have returned to work at reduction, and the
places Of inferior men have been filled by new
men.
BosToN, May 4th.-The grinding-room Of
the Boston Rubber Shoe Company's factory
started yesterday. It is expected that work
will be re- umed in full next Monday in both
mile, and give employment to 1000 hands.
The mills have been shut down for the last
two months owing toIthe high price of rubber'
Soldiers Reunion.
WASHINGTON. May 4th.-General Belknap.
President. and Captain 81. III. Roed, Secre.
tary, of the society of the "Crocker lowe
Brigade" composed of soldiers of the
Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fifteenth and Six.
teenth Regiments of Iowa Volunteers, an.
nounce that the second annual reunion will
be held at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on September
&c and q, 1888. The brigade was in the
Fourth Division of the Seventeenth Corps,
and fought at Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksbure,
Atlanta, Bentonville and other places. Gov.
ernor Sherman, of Iowa, soldier of the
Thirteenth Iowa, will deliver the address.
The Robbed Paymaster.
Ell PAso (Tex. J, May 4th.-Colonel Lacy,
Postofice Inspector of the District of Texas,
stated to reporter of the Times that Major
WATSON was not drunk at Fort Worth that
he did not come from house of ill.fame to
the cars, but from the Ell Paso Hotel. and
that he Colonel Lacy walked with him.
Major Wssson is at Colorado Springs, and
saws he does not know how he lost the Gov.