Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-30
Placer claims Upon surveyed Lands.

Of the Bear river California; extension placer
claim, the Commissioner of the General Land
Office holds that placer claims upon surveyed
land must conform with the public surveys In
all csses, except where il is rendered impos.
sible by previous appropriation or reservation
of portion by legislation. This particular
placer claim lies within the bad Of Bear river
for some distance, and the opinion is ex-
pressed that it would be unwise public
policy to imperil the navigation or public
usefulness Of such rivers by the allowance of
a claim of this character. The entry has
been accordingly held fer cancellation.
Congressional.
| WASHINGTON, January 29th.-In the Sen
ate to-day Ingalls, presented resolutions of the
Legislature of Kansas asking the establish
ment of Soldiers Home on the Fort Riley
military reservation.
Wslker of Arkansas presented Garlano's
| credentials of reelection, which were filed.
A brief executive session was held, during
which large number OF nominations were
confirmed, and when the doors were reopened,
shortly after II o'clock, consideration Of the
! tariff was resumed.
In the House, under the csll of States,
number of bills were introduced and referred;
also number of privileged reports were sub
mitted. among the latter one by Belmont of
New York, from the Foreign Affairs Gem
mittee. filing his own minority opinion re.
gardiDg the Joint resolution recently reported
| to the House by the committee, providing
conditionally for termination Of the treaty
between the United States and the Hawaiian
| Government.
At 1910 tbs House, in Committee of the
| Whole, resumed consideration of the tariff
bill.
Sensation in Omaha.
OMAHA, January 29sh.-A sensation has
been stirred up here to-day by Mrs. Matilda
A. Ward bringing two suits against James
Bonner, a furniture dealer. The first suit is
brought in the Police Court, the objsct beiug
to secure protection against alleged threats
made verbally and by letters against Mrs.
Ward. The second suit is brought in the
! District Court fer slsuder, damages being
laid at So 900. Mrs Ward is q respectable
| lady, very handsome, and the mother of sew
eral children, she having son Il years old.
She has long been prominent member of
the First Methodist Church, in which
also Bonner is shining light. She is
sister to Bonnels wife, and also a cousin
of Bonner. She claims that Bonner has for
long time past paid undue attention to her.
has dogged her footsteps about town to and
| from church, and has greatly annoyed her.
| He even went so far as to suggest that she
get divorced from her husband, and that he
would secure divorces from his wife, and
then they would get married. In his letters
| he showed that he was jealous of her, and
| intimated that if he could not have her be
would do something to make himself and her
die together 80 and lie in their shrouds., as
dead trouble is better than living one."
Mrs. Ward finally gave :he whole thing away
to her friends and the church authorities, and
asked for advice and at this juncture Bonner
is alleged to have confessed that he had had
criminal intercourse with Mrs. Ward for a
number Of years. This was too much, and
she Immediately took steps to refute the
Islander, which she asserts is malicious, false
and uttered for revenge.
Those Belgian Securities Again.
Boston, January 29th.-A bill in equity
was brought some months ago by Leopold
| II, King of Belgium, in the Supreme Court,
against Lson Bernard, to recover certain
| securities deposited by Bernard in the Uaion
Safe Deposit vaults in this city. The suit is
still pending. Another bill in equity has
cow been brought by IsadoTe Hippolite Duros
Aux, Bishop of Tourney, in Belgium, to
recover the same securities. Bernara, who
resided at Antwerp, had for a long time been
the custodian of money and securities belong
ing to the Bishop, which were derived from
the revenues OF the church. About March,
1881, Bernard converted large amount of
the securities to his own use, and fed from
rested at Havana and taken to Belgium,
where he is now awaiting Trial. Bernard,
while in the United States, hired safe of
the Union Safe Deposit vsultF, in which he
deposited large amount of securities. which
cannot be attached, and cannot be taken on
q writ of replevin claim. Bernard fas no
| title to the securities, and it is asked that
he be ordered to deliver them to the Bishop !;
the Union Safe Deposit vault be restrained
from allowing Bernard to have access to the
safe and from delivering the securities to
him. and that plaintiff be put in possession
of the property. Upon the fling of the bill
an injunction was issued as prayed for till
the further order Of the Court and sub
pena was also issued to defendant, re.urnable
III March.
Massachusetts Leprosy Case.
SALEM (Mass.), January 29.b.-Charles
| Derby, the alleged leper st the Almshouse, is
failing slowly but surely. He is kept isolated
| from all the other in mates, aud has an attend
ant whose duty it is to wait on him alone.
One of his eyes il completely sightless, and
the other is gradually becoming So everything
appearing hazy or smoky. He sleeps and
eats well, but his voice is hosrss and husky.
He declares his disease il not leprosy of all,
but of another nature, contracted some six or
seven years ago. Hs says that he is himself
perfectly familiar with leprosy in all its
stages, having seen it in tbs hospital in Cali
fornia, and that in every instance it COM
mences on the hands and on the little finger /;
that tbs finger loses its faxibility and becomes
numb. DR.. Msrchfeld, Frenchman from
| Worcester, has seen him, and claims that the
case is simply skin humor, peculiar to the
South Sea Islands, and durable. He claims
to be relative of Ricord Of Paris, but
brings no testimonials with him. He says he
can cure Derby. City Physician Goodall hiss
charge of the case Of present.
Morznonism IN Idaho.
WASHINGTON, January 29.h.-Delegate.
elect Singer, of Idaho, is in the city looking
after the interests of his people, and from
him your correspondent cleaned some inter-
eating facts relative to the growth of Nor
monisn in the Territory. SIX years ago the
Territorial Legislature Of Idaho had but one
Mormon representative, but now there are
ter, one of whom is 8 Bishop of the Church
The Mormon population is about one-shird of
the G5 600 inhabitants of the Territory, and
all of these psople are pledged to carry out
the ideas of the head Of the Church at Salt
Lake. Their teacher, or priests circulate
among them continually, and not only in
struct them how to vote, but also instruct
them with whom to trade. The state Of
affairs existing in the Territory under such
| leaders cannot be described, and Singers
mission is TO urge Congress to adopt more
stringent and radical measures. In recent
ceremony in the Endowment House the
United States flag was spit and trodden upon.
Miscegenation in Alabama.
WASHINGTON, January 29ih.-The Supreme
Court rendered decision to-day, in which it
is held that the law of Alabama prohibiting
miscegenstion is not in conflict with the
Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution,
or with the civil rights legislation founded on
| il, Cor the reason that it applies tie same
punishment to beth offenders, white and
black, without discrimination.
As Coed as Any Other Woman.
WASHINGTON, January 29sh.-The Seere-
| tary of the Interior has decided that under
ths Law regulating thu allotment of lands to
the Winnebago Indians in Nebrasks, every
Indian woman married to an alien white
man, and having children by him. must be
regarded as the head of family, and there
fore entitled to an allotment of eighty acres
Of land.
Another Colorado Zephyr.
DENVER (CoL) January 29.h-A terrific
wind.storm again visited this city at an early
hour this morning A dozen or more builc-
ings were demolished, while the roofs OF many
more were torn of, and in some instances
carried 250 feet. During the Storm smother
electric light tower was blown down, aud