Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-30

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CALIFORNIA.
The Recent Ruling of Land Commissioner
Sparks,
SAr FRANCISCO, June 2oth.-Concerning
n dispatch printed in The daily papers last
Saturday, in reference to the selection of
lands along the line of the California &c
Oregon road, Colonel C. f. Croker to-day
said 1--WE have no information concern
ing the reported communication by hand
Commissioner Sparks, except such as we
have received from the papers. The fact IS
that two sections of road. forty miles liz all,
have been completed and accepted north of
Redding. and the trains are running over
them regularly from Redding to Delta.
When sections have been completed it has
been the custom tor Commissioners to be
appointed TO view the land. Then the
land has been offered for sale. We are
selling land up to Redding I'm the alb
sence of formal forfeiture the Govern
ment should Issue patents for the two
sections above Redding. The road being
finished and IN operation we want the
land. Commissioner Sparks is reported as
saving that the withdrawal by President
ArthUr of an express inhibition contained
in former order, leaves the matter of
allowing or accepting the list OF selections
in the same situation as Il such inhibition
had not been made or withdrawn. Com
missioner Sparks, in the dispatch, is also
represented as saying that he does not
,hink il his official duty to authorize
selections to be made;pendlng such action
as Congress may be pleased TO take.
Il think" said Colonel Croker, " that
dis crows out of the agitation at the last
session of Congress. Commissioner Sparks
seems To take the position that he wiz not
act because he thinks it possible that Con
gress may declare this land forfeited. If
such is his position his view seems 10 be
narrow. We thint, that Congress will not
forfeit the land. The line is constructed
and these sections are under the same con-
ditions as the one next south of them,
where we are selling land. 1t was the
opinion of the last California Legislature
that the land grant was important to the
road, and that an extension would cause
the California and Oregon road to be built
more speedily than if 1t was withheld.
The Legislature therefore instructed our
Representatives in Congress to do what
they can toward securing an extension of
the grant
\ Cook SHEETS Himself Through the Head.
SAN FRANcGsco, June 29th.-Louis We
ger, 80 years of age, a cook by occupation,
went to the house of his brother-in-law,
VIM Never at 604 Minna street. about
noon to-day, and entering the kitchen
placed a revolver at his head and fired. The
bullet entered the left side of the skull and
passed cut the right eye. His sister was
upstairs at the time attending to domestic
duties. She sent Immediately for her huS
band to his place of business on BealC
street, and the wounded man was taken &c
the Receiving Hospital. Weger was last
employed in st. Nincent's school, San Ra
fael. He rect II ly had the delirium , re
mems, and since has been acting strangely
The bullet did not touch the brain, and the
man may recover.
The Stranded Steamship.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 29th-No dispatch
6 have been received to-day at the Office Of
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company in
reference to the steamship City of Toxic
In fact only one dispatch has been re-
ceived there since the steamship was first
reported ashore near Yokohama. From
this the steamship officials infer that there
is chance that the vessel will be saved
If she had gone TO pieces they think they
would have been notified.
The Question of Reduced Overland Pas
senger Rates.
SAN Francisco, June 29th.-Mr. Stubs,
Traffic Manager of the Southern Pacific
Company and Mr.. Cannon, General
Agent and Auditor of the Transcontinental
Association, returned to-day from d trip
East, where they attended the meetings OF
the Association in Chicago, Denver and
Omaha, to consider a plan to change the
overland passenger rate. Every road in
the Association except the Atchison. To-
peka and Santa Fe was in favor of reduc-
ing the tirSt-ClaSs rate between this city
and Omaha from 500 to SO and of abolish
Ing third-class trains, attaching Immigrant
sleepcrS TO the express trains and making
them second class at $50 between this city
and Omaha. or the Missouri river The
representative of the Atchson, Topeka.
and Santa Fe did not assign any reason for
refusing 10 consent To the plan. He simply
stated that he had been instructed to vote
against it. As soon as this had been
brought out by question. motion was
made to adjourn which was carried. The
next meeting of the Association will be
held in August, probably at ST. Paul.
Wholesale Discharge of Navy Yard Fore
men.
VALLEJO, June 29th.-Telegraphi orders
were received to-day from Washington by
the navy yard authorities 10 discharge
Immediately all the navy yard foremen
ais order cuts out Samuel Hammond,
foreman sailmaker: VIM McWilliams.
foreman blacksmith; NJ. Jones foreman
molder; j. w Housely, foreman copper
smith; \. VI. Street, foreman pattern
maker.
Anather cId-timer" Gone.
MONTEREY, June 29th.-Maior John NJ
O'Neill. a native of New York aged 81
years died here yesterday. He was one of
the few remaining members Of Steyenson's
regiment, landing here in 1871. The Major
was It only member Of the Pioneers
but also Mexican veteran. aud during the
late civil war was a Union soldier, having
served under General Conner in Utah. He
was for more than fifteen years employed
in the Custom-house in San Francisco
The post mortem held on account of the
many differing medical opinions, showed
chronic ulcer and dilation Of the stomach
The immediate cause Of death was a pleu-
ratio etlusion, over twelve piuts of water
being III the cavity.
Fire in Mill Camp.
TRUcEEE, June 29th-Lonkey * Smiths
mill camp, on Pr0sser creek. was nearly all
consumed by fire Sunday night The
stables, boarding house, biacksmith-shep.
= portion OF their ilume and all the out
buildings We're consumed. The loss Will
be about $500. 1t was only by the efforts
of the men employed that the mill and
machinery were saved, No insurance.
White Woman Afflicted with Leprosy.
SAN JosE, June 29th.-Dr Robert Cald-
well last Friday discovered at a hotel in
tins city White woman, 80 years of age,
afflicted with tuberCulouS lcprosy in an adj
vanced stage. The woman came from san
Francisco, and stated that She had been
advised 20 do 50 icy the physicians in St
Marys Hospital, where She had been an
inmate. The doctor informed the hotel
keeper Of tue womau's disease, and she was
Obliged to leave the hotel She said she
had daughter in Santa Clara, and it was
thought she had gone there, but on Satur-
day the doctor found that she had gone to
another hotel. lie warned the proprietor,
aud The woman was obliged to leave. Her
present whereabouts IS moi known, but il
Is thought She is still in this ciry