Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-05

Chairman
| To ]. Frank Miller, Pension Ofice Depart
| ment OF the Interior, Washington, D. c.
A number of similar communication
were received by the employees of the Lant
| Office: Acting Secretary jerks has trans
| mltted the circulars to the Civil Servic,
! Commission for such action as they MAY
| deem proper. 1t is maintained by officer.
OF the Interior Department that the Penn
| sylyania State Committee have by direct
! ing letters specifically to employees, to b,
delivered by carriers in the Government
! buildings, committed breach Of Section l.
| OF the civil Service. Act, which reads al
| follows:
| Section y. That no person shall in an,
| building occupied in the discharge of officia
| CURES Dy any oiilcer or emplOye of the Unitet
states, mentioned IN the Act, or any navy yard
| iolt or arsenal, solicit in any manner whatever
| or receive any contribution of money! or an,
other thing OF value, for any political purpose
| whatever.
Section II of the same Act expressly for
| olds such solicitations by any persons il
| the service OF the United States in any
! place, and it is probable that an examina
| ton will be made to ascertain whether any
OF the members of the committee fall witt
III the scope OF this section.
| Order of Chosen Friends.
| ~" plNhs bSSbttillDGT 9Ln--lHG Su
| preme Council of the Order of Choser
| Friends to-day elected officers as follows
Supreme Councillor, II. H. Morse. of New
! York Assistant Councillor, c. H. Randall
| OF California; Councillor, C. +. Ed
| wards OF Michigan Supreme Recorder. T
b. Lynne, of Indiana Treasurer. w. J
Newton, Washington, D. c.; Supreme Pre-
| late, 7, 5. Beharnett, of Indiana Supreme
Marshal, J. p. Nannest of Ohio Suprem,
| Warden, w. NJ. Bamburg, of Texas; Su
preme Guard, J. A. Mcmillan, of Missouri
Supreme Sentry, Chas. P Lenox, of Ca
| NADIA; Supreme Trustees, w. r. D. Gall
oyne, of Virginia, w. W. Douglas, of In
diana, p. y. Kaiser, of Ohio, George +,
Stewart, OF New York, and w. G. Morris
of Illinois.
Nc Ferdinand Wards Processes,
New YORK, September 4th-The Time
says: The continued examination of Ferdi.
nand Ward has further revealed the pro
cess by which the enormous sums intrusted
to him by confiding but greedy investor:
were turned in a constantly increasing
stream, into the hand of w. S. Warner
Beginning with $40 5,G00, and turning hi,
capital many times with ever increasing
volume, Warner succeeded in seventeen
months in investing in Wards transactions
SD r734, 500 and paving back to him SIG.
5IS,92l, including obligations unmatured nj
the time of the failure Twenty per cent
per month was the profit obtained during
The greater part of the operations. Nc
hight IS yet thrown upon the inner secrets
Oh these extraordinary payments, but it is
hlnted that Warner used the money OF
other men, for which he paid about one.
tenth OF the rate be was to receive, and ex-
torted from Ward eXoroitant payments
hi 10
tons. There is no adequate explanation
OF the preference given to Warner.
Mineral Rights on Railroad Lands.
WASHINGTON, September 4th.- The act
( ing Commissioner of the General Land
Office has notified Jos. Eveleth, of Hauser,
vile. Cal, in reply to an inquiry If he had
4 right 10 locate a miners claim on land
sold by railroad company, in which all
mineral rights were reserved by the deed
OF conveyance, that in all grants of land to
railroad corporations in California. mineral
( lands, excepting coal and iron are ex-
pressly reserved, and do not pass TO the
companies, and are subject TO location and
purchase under the mining laws of the
nited States.
What Jealousy VIII Do.
CORPUS CHRISTI Tex, September 4th.-
AT the ranch of Alateo Sanejo, in Duval
county, yesterday, Mexican named Eus.
/ be Diaz shot and killed his Wife. and then
( shot himself three times. Failing tc Kill
/ himself, he drew 4 dagger from his boot
and cut his throat. 4 physician was sum.
moned and sewed up the wound in the
( throat, when the man revived sufficiently
to be taken to jail. The murderer's wife
was daughter OF Saneio and only Il
years old. They had only been recently
] married. Diaz was jealous OF his Chile
wife.
The Presidents Movements.
PROSPECT HOUSE, IN. ", September 4th
President Cleveland viii leave here to
morrow morning, be driven to Ausablt
station, on the Delaware and Hudson Rail
way, and proceed to Plattsburg, where he
Will take the 5.45 P. N. train for Albany.
Fourth Glass Postmasters.
WASHINGTON, September 4th.-The fol
, lowing tourth-class Postmasters were ap
pointed to-day: California-At Blair, .
! p. Woodward; Igo, Thaddeus 4. Jones
Shasta, Wm. Pryor
German Bark Lost.
GALVESTON, September 4th.-The officers
Of the steamer Lone Star, Just arrived from
New York, report the finding, on the coas
of Georgia, OF Savannah, the huh Of tn
German bark Carolina Susannah, of Dant
zic. There was nothing left of the yesse
! but the naked huh.