Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-12-22
The RaiIroad of the Fnture

He said recently to fellow-Senator: " We
could not build our road and pay interest
on our long haul freight No road could
But after the short-haul business is secured
all along the haul, the traffic we can get is
clear profit. As time goes on we shall i'm
prove our tracks and rolling stock, so that
long haul freight can be taken at even
lower than the present rates. have ordered
600 30-ton freight cars. There was a
time when ten tons made load. Thirteen
and fifteen tons are all that the majority of
cars are now strong enough to carry. We
have put down great deal of S0-pound
rails. Sixty pounds TO the yard was the
heaviest known until very recently. You
will hear in a year or two of 100-pound
rails. This is steel, mind you. We have
engines with five drivers on the side, and
when they are once started their expense
is much less than the ordinary old engines
required. With big engines, heavy steel
track, stout cars and fewer men, the ex-
pense of hauling grain, stone lumber and
ore is very small. Rates must necessarily
be lower on that class of stuff. 1t would
eat it up now to make it pay short-haul
rates, but all we can get out of it is clear
gain"
Minister Manning's Case.
WASHINGTON, December 21st.-The Pres:-
dent is holding up the nomination of Min
lister Manning to Mexico until he learns
whether objection will be made to his con-
firmation. Senator Gibson is quietly
sounding Senators on this subject Both
Cleveland and Bayard have received infor-
nation from trustworthy sources regarding
the new Minister'S conduct in the City of
Mexico. If his nomination is sent to the
Senate for confirmation it will not be be-
cause the charges of intemperance were
unfounded, but because they believe the
Minister will not do so again.
Another Democratic State.
WASHINGTON, December 21st.-It is said
here that conspiracy is on foot among
leading Democrats looking TO the admission
of Utah as State, with all its polygamous
and illegal practices. There is but one ex-
dents part to urge the passage of the
Tucker Edmunds bill. The Democrats
feel that the State of Utah would be GER
tain Democratic State, and that Cannon
and Taylor after having gone through the
farce of abandoning polygamy, would
make excellent Democratic Senators. The
defeat of the Tucker -Edmunds bill would
pave the way for this outrage and scheme.
Moe Vaults Needed for Silver.
WASHINGTON, December 2lst.-A COM
munication from the Secretary of the
Treasury was to-day laid before the House.
in which he saws that the capacity of the
vaults already constructed for the storage
of silver dollars is now practically ex-
hausted. There is, therefore, he says,
necessity that provision be made for the
storage of silver dollars at the earliest prac-
ticable day. Estimates are transmitted of
the cost of a storage vault of $100,000,000
capacity, within the courtyard of the Treas
ury building. For a double steel-lined
vault the estimates are S106.673, and for a
simple vault without steel lining they are
$27, ,S04.
Important Legislation Proposed for Cali
fornia Rivers.
WASHINGTON, December Dist. Senator
Williams introduced a bill in the Senate to-
day extending the jurisdiction of the Light
house Board TO the San Joaquin and Sac
facilitate the navigation of these streams,
and if adopted will be great benefit to the
people living in the San Joaquin and Sac
ramento valleys, as well as the merchants
of San Francisco.
Senator snd Mrs. Stanford.
WASHINGTON, December 21st-Mrs Le-
land Stanford will be at home on Thursday
afternoons in January. Yesterday Senator
and Mrs. Stanford paid their first calls on
the wives of the Supreme Court Justices.
Mrs. Stanford's health is not good, but she
hopes to be able to carry out her series Of
afternoon receptions as announced.
Indians Pardoned.
WASHINGTON, December 21st-The Presi-
dent to-day granted pardons in the cases of
Tampa, Lowich and Hietitet, the Pima In
dians now undergoing a sentence of five
years imprisonment in the Arizona peni-
tentiary for a murderous assault on two
white men in that territory in 1888.
An Exile En- Route.
WASHINGTON, December 21st.-General
Alex. G. Jones, formerly United States
Consul at Nagasaki, left for San Francisco
tonight, en- route to Ching Kiang, where
he was recently appointed Consul.
Fatal Boiler Explosion.
CLEVELAND, December 21st.-A twenty
horsepower boiler in portable sawmill on
the Flats, owned by Friese H. Hines, of
Fort Wayne, exploded this afternoon.
James Kintz, the engineer, was blown 25
feet into the air, but alighted in snow
bank unhurt. Francisco Gerardo, an
Italian, with wife and three children in
Italy, was carried 80 feet and instantly
killed. Three other men were slightly in
jured.
Pugilistic News.
New YORK, December 21st.-Wm.
Ellingsworth, of this city, and Jack
Cassidy, of Philadelphia, this evening
fought to finish with skin gloves, in the
vicinity of New York. Ellingsworth
knocked Cassidy out in the ninth round.
The victor is brother of Joe and John
Ellingsworth.
A BRUIsER SHOT.
professional pugilist, was shot in the
shoulder to-day in drunken fight.
Millions at Stake.
MONTGOMERY, December 2Ist.-A decis-
ion has just been rendered by the Supreme
Court of Alabama in case which involves
the title to several million dollars worth of
land originally donated to the Alabama
and Chattanooga Railroad Company by
Congress. The suit was brought by Jeffer-
son county in the Chancery Court to COM
pell the trustees to make legal title to forty
acres of land in sight of Birmingham,
worth $4,000. The Supreme Court decides
on appeal that all sales made before the
completion of the road are void, except
120 sections of land on the first twenty
miles, near Chattanooga.
A Careless Bank Clerk.
MILWAUKEE, December 21st.-A bold
robbery was committed at the First Ma
tional Bank, in this city, to-day. The |
cashier, who was engaged in signing the |
new issue of s. notes, when about half |
through with $1,000 lot, went to dinner,
leaving the notes on his desk. On his re-
turn, he discovered that the money had |
been stolen by some unknown person, |
who unlocked the door of his room.
He Should Have Thirty Years.
MILWAUKEE,, December 21st.-For the |
publication of scurrilous poem rejecting
on the integrity of the Court in the trial Of |
the riot cases, Judge Sloan to-day sem
fenced Paul Grotthau, editor of the Social |
ist organ, the Arbeter Zeit,a,g, to thirty |
days at hard labor.
Cattle Disease in Iowa.
CHICAGO, December 21st.-The Times Des |
Moines, Ia., special says: Great mortality |
is reported among the cattle in the north |
western and southwestern portions of the |
State, one farmer reporting q loss OF fifty, |
and another Of 100 head in a short time. |
1t is feared it is pleuro-pneumonia The |
Governor has instituted an investigation, |
and if it proves to be pleuro, will take radi-
cal measures to stamp it out.
No Rabbits Need Apply.
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