Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-09

ties are joining with Dunmit county III
combating the marauders. Runners nave
been sent to Carulla and other polnts ioI
arms and ammunition. 1t is ascer'ii11eu
that the Mexicans who crossed the MO
Grande on the night of the 9th numpereu
fully a hundred They have DIVIDED eheir
forces into four bands, who are approacn-
ing Carrie through untrequented p0ruoilS
of the country, driving away herds 10y ue
fail as they advance into the interior. a
snirited running fight occurred to-day be-
tween the scouts of the citizens, organiZa-
tion and detail of MeXicans. Two OF the
marauders were killed and one American
wounded. Sheriff Oglesby, OF Mayar1ck
county. has sent mounted posse to the
scene of action. The frontier troops at
Avalda left tonight for Garlic Springs.
Another report chronicles an ARRAY IN
which twelve Mexicans were killed ana
number wounded. The American loss, If
anv, is not reported. These conflicts took
place between the ranchmen and relays of
MeXicans, who were overtaken while driv
ing stock toward the Rio Grande. The
Mexicans are being reinforced, their OBJ
iective point being Garlic Springs, at
which place it is believed they agreed to
concentrate their forces attack the town
and release their compatriots, confined for
cattle-stealing. kilograms from many
places along the Rio Grande call on the au-
thorities for troops.
The Mexican Treaty.
WASHINGTON, February 7th.-Represent-
alive Hit of Illinois, who is a member of
the House Committee on Foreign Affairs,
and was formerly Assistant Secretary of
State, is warmly i'll favor of the enactment
of laws this session to carry into effect the
Mexican treaty, which was ratified by the
Senate last summer Hit says: THE pro-
visions of this treaty are really not fully
understood. Certainly it costs more to the
Mexican revenues by its free admissions
than to American import duties. BY the
terms of the treaty about twelve articles,
now dutiable, will be admitted by the Unit
ed States free, and this reduction in the du
ties, upon goods imported into the United
States last year. would have amounted to
only about 100000, and over nine-tenths
of this amount, or S4S0000, is upon one ar
ticle, sisal grass, which we do not raise, and
cannot raise. In fact, nearly all articles
admitted free from Mexico under the treaty
are already on the free list. They are emu
merated in the convention because the
treaty is more stable law than an ordinary
Act of Congress, and commercial houses can
engage in trade with more confidence if
assured that the duties upon the COM
modities i'll which they trade are
not to be changed upon the shift
ing policy of the dominant political
party. Many of the articles which we
might, under this treaty, send untaxed
into Mexico are of universal use, such as
carriages and other vehicles, agricultural
implements, petroleum, sewing machines,
stoves, tools and machinery. They are
now subjected to very heavy import
taxes by Mexico, vet we sold there last
wear over 100000 worth of such articles
if free from duty and lowered in price the
demand would multiply, among the ten
millions of Mexican people, and we would
soon sell three, yes, ten times as much. 1t
would be Il good thing if the treaty also
included bread-StuifS and cotton and wooden
goods but it is good as far as it goes, and
it goes farther in the way of advantages to
us than to them. l think the treaty would
give great advantages TO this country more
than TO Mexico. OF the sCyenty-nine ar
ticles admitted free from the United States
into Mexico nearly every one now pays
heavy duty, in some cases as much rs 200
per cent. The treaty would virtually give
us such an advantage III Mexico that we
would soon control nearly or quite the
entire trade in all the articles admitted
under the treaty, rs the contiguity of
American territory and the railroad facil-
tiles which we enjoy would give Us full
and rapid means of communication which
no other country enjoys"
Leaves from the journal of the Man
Whom Lieutenant Greedy Ordered
Shot.
WASHINGTON, February 7th.-The journal
of private Henry, shot for stealing pro-
visions by order of Lieutenant Greedy in
the Arctic regions, covering the period be-
| tween October, 1888, and June, 1884, has
been made public He writes, under date
of May Sd: " He whistler, who was
loudest in his denuncation of the unfortu-
nate who was tempted to purloin scrap OF
meat, was to-day caught in the commissaIy
tent, having broken open the door, and was
found with about a pound of bacon in his
pocket"
The entry of May 18th is: 1t was a
cowardly action in Greedy wanting to shoot
Dr. p He also drew a rifle on Bender He
calls Kislingbury liar, and apologies to
enlisted men,
Four days later is the following: " Yes
terday Biederbeck and Whistler had Il row
outside and some one stole Ellison bacon.
which was under charge of Lieutenant
Greedy The terrible struggling death by
starvation actually had no terror for US
and we looked on with a stolid Indifference
upon our coming fate. \ few hours before
DEATH instead of craving for food, they
kept calling for water. and could hardly be
controlled or satisfied. With one eXcep-
ton, they were unconscious for hours be
fore dying. Poor Lockwood came out OF
his bag to stand in the allcy-way while the
moonshine distllery was going on, and
was the last 10 get his potation. Ere the
rest of Us had our share, he requested a
repetition of the dose from the officiating
steward, and upon being reprimanded by
the officer for asking such thing from the
steward, he turned around to the doctor
and said Well, l will go 20 the fountain
head. and he repeated his demand On
being absolutely refused, he dropped to the
floor, and hardly ever opened his mouth
again TO utter word.
May 23d-After noting that Whistler is
dying, Henry says: " | was called into the
tent and informed that five men had made
sworn statement that Pavy stole Eliison's
rations. and that the official record concern
ing it had been tempered with. a. W. c..
If lie does die he dies the death of miser-
able coward.
On May 2Sth is the following entry:
Poor Kislingbury is sinking rapidly, and
the doctor has given him up. Last night
Or. p. and Lieutenant &. had another
squabble over the medicines. The majority
OF us ttourteenl have given up all hopes of
seeing our friends again, but a few still
have chance at the conclusion of this ter
ri5lc tragedy 10 be welcomed with uni
vcrsal acclamation as worthy frontiersmen
OF Uncle Sam, and as men who made them
selves immortal by splendid victory and
innumcrab,e sutierings hitherto incompar-
able in the annals Of Arctic explorations
and against the laws of nature
The notes of the first four days in June
are brief memoranda of the rapidly sinking
condition OF those left These were made
Just prior to his being shot. Extracts from
other diaries show deplorable state Of af-
fairs. INSTRUMENTATION prevailed to a con
siderable extent, and quarreling sometimes
leading To blows was not an uncommon oc-
curence. Sergeant Brainerd's diary is in
his personal possession ami not obtainahlc,
and Sergeant Connell declines to allow his
diary to be inspected, stating it was written
with the express understanding that no one
but General Hazen should read it,
Thrown From a Window by His Wife.
NEW York, February 7yh.-A policeman
at midnight. passing along Terrace Row,
Hoboken, saw a man thrown from n sec
ond-Story window of a large house. 1t was
found to be John L. Behrcns, wealthy
wholesale druggist. lie was living insensi-
bic and bleeding The policeman then en-