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uNPLEDGED JUDGES.

The advocates of given irrigation poll
cies are leading themselves into dangerous
paths when they propose to pledge judicial
candidates TO certain construction of the
laws. Now, our remark upon this policy
is irrespective of the irrigation problem,
when we say that it is dangerous doc
trine, and cannot for moment be calmly
contemplated by any lover of free institu-
tions. If there is any principle more
necessary than another to be maintained
in its integrity, it is that which demands a
free and untrammeled Judiciary. The
Amador Sentinel, remarking upon the sub
ject, says: 1t may be proper enough to
elect Legislators who would repeal an I'M
Just law, or who would vote to submit an
amendment to the Constitution, whereby
your wishes might be subserved, but if our
judiciary possess the confidence of the
people it must not be elected under dis
tinct threat
Yes, and more than that, if the Liberties
of the people are to be preserved, it will
be because we maintain an unpledged judi
ciary. The bare idea of man running
for Judgeship under the distinct promise
to decide given question in a given way
is abhorrent and really is bribery. and moi
a hairs breadth short of it. To vote for {
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NEWS OF TUE moRyINa.

FoREIGS.-Cholcra continues 20 spread
in italy......T The New Hebridcs Islands have
been annexed by France. Riverside won
the Manchester cup......in an ARRAY at Boz
gotta. the capital of Colombia, thirty sol
diers and several officers were killed IA
Young wife died of grief in Paris. In an
affray on an American bark at Aspinwall,
three persons were killed and several 9TH
ers wounded. Gladstone addressed 1000
persons in Edinburgh last night. .....Silver
in London, AID consols, 101k; As, 1919 :;
as, 113s.
EAsTERN-D Richmond shot and killed
Colonel Strong in st. Joseph, Mo.....A dam
aging cyclone is reported from Texas.
The ten-mile bicycle record has been how
cred by John S. Prince at Lynn. Mass.
The Grand Lodge A. o. L. w, elected
George w Badgerow. of Toronto. Supreme
Master Workman 49,. Tyrant paid forfeit in
the race with Volante, and the contest did
not take place.. Government bonds are
quoted in New York at 1861 for Is oil
1907 llls for Ais 1919 for IS; sterling
81 Ss@4 30; silver bars, 985.
WAsHINeToN-It is thought the river
and herbor bill will call for $40, co., 00
when it Is completed. The Senate has
adjourned until Monday ....... Senator
Vance motion to repeal the civil service
bill has been Indefinitely postponed 49,.
Mrs Cleveland has received two wedding
presents from Antwerp......The President
received but one protest against the NOM
ination of BRYAN for Postmaster at San
Francisco.....The public reception at the
White House last night was the largest Of
the kind ever witnessed there. Great
house Consul -General TO Japan, has left
for his post of duty.
PAciFIc CoAsT.-The report Of threat
aned outbreak among the Hualapai In
dams is found TO be groundless...... tx
Mayor c. Currie, aged y, committed
suicide in Virginia, Nev.....An anti-Chi-
nese excitement prevails at Mazatlan......
Charles Deane lost hand in a thrashing
machine near MERGED William Glen
dening was found dead in bed near Rakers-
field Thursday night
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to say that he falsifed in stating his belief
But he is employed by rebel bond holders
and his study has worked him into frame
of mind in which conviction coneurs with
interest. 1t had been supposed that the
Fourteenth amendment had forever settled
all this rebel debt matter. The Democrats
were very indignant when Republicans
charged that there would be 40 effort 10
have the debt paid by this nation, if the
Democracy came into power Well, the
forecast has proved to be true Judge
Fullerton IS a Republican, and that his
political faith is what it is, does not make
a particle of difference. Behind him are
sympathizers with the rebellion, who
loaned it money, and having lost in the
game, wish the people of a Union they
failed to destroy to pay the fiddler.
T. A. Merriam of New York, Con
gresham, is the person who has taken
upon himself the disgrace Of fathering the
bill under which rebel bonds might be
proved up as claims against the nation.
lie will probably live TO see the day when
he will be ashamed of this act He could
not have been innocent of the scope
of his bill ito permit any person to
prove up loss and damage resulting from
the late rebellion" 1t will be enough to
dismiss him with this mere mention. But
behind him stands Judge Fullerton, and
argues that the Government had no right
or authority to say that any sovereign
State could not and should not pay one of
its obligations; next, that the Southern
States did not participate in the ratifica-
ton of this amendment andwerc not bound
by it: and lastly, that the General Gov
eminent by arrogating the authority to
forbid the States paving their obligations,
assumed the responsibility Of the debt and
must pay it. With Congress wholly
Democratic, a Supreme Court reformed TO
suit, and such counsel as Judge Fullerton
declaring on conscience their sincere belief
in these doctrines. we have not the slight
est doubt that the scheme could be carried
out. The South believes with Fullerton
the South is Democratic These two facts
ought to keep the eyes Of the country open
to the real danger that lies in the threat
to saddle the debt and the Democratic
party on the nation.
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THE LAWS DELAY.

1t is reproach to our system, and ought
not to be no longer left uncorrected, that
criminal processes of trial are so slow. 1t
is impossible to conceive of any but most
extraordinary reasons why it should take
from one to three years to bring an ordi-
nary criminal case to final judgment. OF
course great deal Of the delay is in the
Supreme Court; the cause for that is well
known and California has been striving
for some time to have it removed. But
even in the lower Courts there is wholly
unnecessary delay. There is altogether
too much consideration shown for the con-
vcnience of attorneys, and this is a very
fruitful cause of postponement. Public
justice should not be impeded because
lawyer has so much business to do that he
cannot attend promptly to the case of a
client charged with crime. Here is the
case of De Witt hanged last week in Co
lusa county. He murdered his victim in
May, 1885, and over a year was exhausted
in getting the rascal on the gallows. In
so long delay, all the chances were in his
favor, the death of witnesses, the weakness
of Jurors, the fading of the public horror
OF the crime, the growth Of sympathy for
one in prison under such a charge, etc. 1t
ought to be possible to the scheme of our
law to ascertain the guilt of such as De
Witt in very few days after the commits
sion of the crime, when all the facts are
recent and the witnesses are clear as to
what they know. 1t ought to be possible
to the scheme of the law to determine
within few days after the trial if any
error was committed in the proceedings
that lost to the prisoner material right
it ought to be possible to hang murderer
within fortnight after final judgment.
Courts generally fix for execution date a
long way off, and rarely come down to the
minimum limit of the law, thirty DAYS. A
narrower margin of grace would be better
OF course the suggestion that the Legisla-
tlire should white this minimum down TO
a fortnight and lower the maximum
sixty days-to thirty, will be regarded by
sentimentalists as bit of inhunanity. We
fail to see why long drawn-out agony is
mercy to the convicted. But we do realize
that if we would attach the infamy to muir
der that is its due, we should make pun
ishment more certain by its greater
promptness.
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AND 50 the money has been paid into
the State Treasury at last-nearly mill
ion of dollars that should have been at
the command of the State long ago, and
out of the use of which it has been kept
because of the pig-headedness of con-
ceited State Controller. We have not the
charity that would credit this man with
sincerity, since had he been sincere in
this he would long ago have consented to
the receipt Of the money on the stipula-
ton that no right of the State should
thereby be ieopardized. Dunn, and the
crew behind him that wrecked the
Democracy at Stockton, have run up a
long account with this State that the peo-
pie viii settle whether Dunn & Co. will or
not, at the ballot box The Stockton Eodc-
pendent says the contest Just ended was one
on the result of which Dunn staked his
political future" and that the refusal to
receive the money was Crank demagogy
to which no politician seeking any recogni-
ton for clear methods should have de-
scended" Dunn is done for, and his
political future will no more cut figure
in the affairs of this State.
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THE REBEL DEBT.

Judge Fullerton, before the Congressional
Committee on War Claims, solennly de-
clared, few days ago, that he believed
the day would come when this Govern
ment would pay the rebel debt. Judge
Fullerton is counsel for men who have
rebel bonds, and are asking Congress to
provide for their payment. The standing
of Judge Fullerton is too high for any one
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instant, has been quarantined at Mazatlan
smallpox having appeared among the
soldiers on her arrival there.
The tramp steamer Sardonyx attempted
the landing of Chinese at Altata, but was
forced TO return 10 Mazatlan. where 15C
were landed under guard. Considerable
excitement exists in Mazatlan, and fears
are expressed that the lower order will rise
and massacre them. A strong guard is
kept over the quarters where they are To-
Gated
No new cases of small pox have occurred
atGuaymas, and the disease is dying out.
4 rumor is current here that the Yaquis
have attacked the unguarded posts near
Medano, and captured the stores for troops.
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THE truth spreads and the doctrine of
enforcement of municipal control from

THE truth spreads and the doctrine of
enforcement of municipal control from
politics gains ground. Says the Oregonian
Municipal government is not a branch of poll
tics in which wide differences of national party
dispute have any right or reason to play u part.
Municipal politics ought to be distinct and sepa-
rate and citizens ought to divide their suffrages
between candidates whom they esteem best
qualified to look closely after municipal affairs
for the very good reason that a mans opinion
upon the state of the country may be perfectly
worthless test of his usefulness for municipal
administration and reform.
" But do you expect" asks correspond
ent writing to us on this subject, "that
men will rise in this case to the practical
application of this doctrine you preach ?''
Yes But if we did not, and believed it
to be the right doctrine to preach, we
should continue in that duty just the same.
Men should not advocate reforms because
they realize that in all probability they
will live to see them adopted. There
would be small virtue in such advocacy.
The simple question should be, I" Is this
thing right?' That men are slow to ac-
cept it, makes no sort of difference.
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ARIZONA.
Proposed Supply Camp-Lawton Heard
From.

frOpostu supply Camp-1-stwton Hearu
From.
TOMBSTONE, June 1Sth.-A large force
will leave Fort Huachuca for Sonora in a
few days, under Lieutenant Benson. 1t
will include thirty scouts and carry 6600
rations. 1t is believed it is the intention
TO establish a large supply camp some
where, in order to facilitate the operations
of the American troops across the line.
chuca from Captain Lawton, who has been
following the hostiles in Sonora. He was
driving the band before him when making
their way to their stronghold in the Sierra
Madres The Indians were all afoot, hav-
ing killed and eaten all their superffuous
horses, retaining only four to transport the
wounded.
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-THE San jose l[erenrn saws !:


An excellent test of emerican sentiment IS
furnished by the fact that Chicago proposes to
hang six Anarchists and has subscribed $4,000
for the policemen nj whom the bombs were
thrown. Obedience TO law is more profitable
than anarchy.
The disposition. of Chicago to punish
the murderers is more commemorate than
the act of raising funds for the widows and
orphans of those who fell by the bombs of
the Anarchists. The punishment of the
gang is duty that has been too long neg
lected the charity is the dictate OF a
common human sympathy. The one flows
from the full heart; the determination to
punish is the quiekened and reproved
sense of unperformed obligation. The in
centive to duty is fortified, of course BY
the knowledge on the part of officers that
if they fall in the discharge of duty those
dependent upon them will be cared for.
But we take it that greater incentive to
courageous conduct on the part of the pc
lice would be such a state of the public
mind, such demand for the enforcement of
the laws as gives to officers the assurance
that they have publicconfdence and sup
port. In very many cases the failure of
officers 10 be vigorous is due to the fact
that they feel an uncertainty as to the
Acknowledgement of the public. And this is
based, as it has been all along in Chicago,
upon the nonchalance with which society
has contemplated and suffered the outrages
the Anarchists have put upon the public
As rule, give the American officer assur-
ance of public support and he will need no
stronger incentive to do his full duty.
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THE independent voter, says the Ore
goaian, is the unknown factor in every po-
litical election. True; and yet he is
given the very least consideration by po-
litical managers and receives the greatest
measure of abuse As unknown quanti-
ties are always dangerous, it should seem
that political bosses would be more than
circumspect in invoking their wrath.
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WISE counsels promise to prevail in
France The committee of the deputies
to whom the subject was referred, repost
against the expulsion of the Orleanist
Princes. France could scarcely do more
foolish thing than to make martyrs of
these now harmless persons.
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MosT is pumping wind for forge at
Sing Sing, whereat the St. Louis Globe
Democrat is satisfied, for the dramatic
unities are preserved, since Most has been
pumping wind all these years in New
York. But let US consider further the pro-
priety of the rascaPs occupation in prison
He pumps wind now to blow flame into
activity. He pumped wind in his cam
paigns against order and law, to enkindle
a flame in this country that should CON
sumo the liberties of freemen. Oh, yes
he is fifty employed.
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UTAH,


SALT LAKE, June 1Sth.-The new q. S.
Marshal, F. II. Dyer, took possession of his
Office to-day. He filed his bonds and took
the oath yesterday, but deferred taking
possession This morning the inventories
were all completed, receipts passed, depu-
ties appointed and the new head took
charge. Everything was found correct.
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PRESS EIRE-ELIES.

The advocates of bogus butter can't be
cowed.- Washington Republican.
Oliver Wendell Holmes is II, but he
cuts up like sixty over in London.-Hart-
ford Post.
Isn't it pretty nearly time to pension the
men who thought or going to the war;
Philadelphia Gail.
The waters of watering place are apt
to do a man good if he omits the liquors.
Nelg Orleans PicaWtne.
1t is interesting to notice that in this era
of strikes and labor commotior Mt. Etna
keeps steadily at work.-Boston Pot
The conviction Of Most, though most
unpleasant for Most, will be most graft
flying to most other people. = Detroit Free
Press.
President Cleveland will know what it
is to have long night before him y
when he has to get out of bed to hunt for
the paregoric and steps ON a tack Chicago
Mua.
When Mr.. Powderly sees saloon-keepers
refusing to sell drinks to workingmen, he
can put on his white robes and watch for
the coming down of the New Jerusalem
Springfield Union.
No, my boy. The term "yum-yum," as
applied to kissing, did not originate with
Emma Abbott, nor from the three little
maids but in Yuma, California. Yuma
accept this as authentic.-Bufal0 World.
The somewhat remarkable spectacle was
observed yesterday of Detroit attorney
throwing up his hat to the ceiling and Ut
tering loud ''whoopi over jury verdict
for his client in the very Court where he
once presided as Judge.-Detroh Free
Press.
In his latest story Mr. Howells repeat
edly has his women talk through their
noses. Well, New England women, and
men, too, have given nasal tone to senti-
ments which will last us long as tnenation.
One D. Webster, for example, with slight
nasal tone, once remarked Liberty and
Union Boston Record
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sAS FRANCISCO ..aEscs

=. sISHzT. 50 sole Agent .Gr yiiis aa?=E "a
SEA Francisco and vicinity ge u a;i5heci1e5
~ receive advertisements and =sissri st.ous, and
collect for the SAME RScG.s 3 sni .. 1s1.
a-ants' Exchange.
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OLD MEXICO.


GUAYMAs, June 18th.-The Mexican gun
boat Democrats, which took part of the
seventh battalion from here on the 10th
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that has stronger claims upon the wit and
the wisdom of our jurists, legislators and
social philosophers.
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If the children ask how Santa Claus got
down the chimney, tell them he due down
in his winter SCOT.
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candidate for the bench who has pre-
judged case to come before him, no citi-
zen, who has a grain Of self-respect,
can do
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Ok the 9Th of June the Grand Jury at
Chicago reported that its examination into
the facts established conclusively that the
Anarchist riots and the bomb-throwing
had no connection in reality with the la
Dor strikes We have believed this, and
are glad to have the faith confirmed. 1t
would have added poignancy to the sorrow
felt over the lifted head of the monster
Socialism, in the republic to have known
that the laborers of America had fallen at
its altar, and bound themselves to its
chariot wheels.
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NEVADA.
Suicide of an Ex-aIayor.

VIRGINIA, June 1Sth.-Ex-Mayor J. C.
Currie committed suicide this morning by
shooting himself in the head. The deceased
had been resident of the State since 1852
and was an auctioneer by occupation. His
age was -. He leaves a wife but no chill
dren. Old age and INDECENT circumstances
are the reasons assigned for the suicide.
SECOND DIsPATCHl
VIRGINIA, June 1Sth.-A special COM
munication of the Grand Lodge, f. and A.
NJ, of Nevada, is called for Sunday, June
Goth, at o'clock p NJ, to meet at Masonic
Hall, Virginia, to bury J. c. Currie, who
suicided this morning and who was a Past
Grand Master of that jurisdiction.
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THE Master Mechanic, Chicago, present

The HaSter Mechanic, Chicago, presents
one phase of the strike question in a strong
light by this method of illustration:
If it is right for all the employees of the rail-
ways or all the manufacturing establishments
in large district of country to strike because
one of their number has been wrongfully dis
charged, is it not right for the same railways or
manufacturing establishment to lock out all
their employees if one of the latter wrongfully
breaks his contract by refusing to work for the
time agreed on? SUPPOSE a skilled
workman agrees to finish piece of work by a
certain time. but in the middle of it goes off on
a spree and does not return to the shop. In
this case brother the employer is in
jured. Is it not the duty of his brethren, that
is, all neighboring manufacturers, to stand by
Am" and refuse to give work or pay wages to
any employe until the offending workman
comes back and pays for all the loss ne has
caused? If Knight of Labor logic does not lead
to that conclusion we shall be obliged TO any
one who VIII point out the reason why.
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|
| THE REQUISITE CApITAI-The question
| is often asked What is the smallest sum
| considered necessary Tor a newcomer in
! California to start with ?" Regarding this
matter a pamphlet devoted to the southern
| San Joaquin valley, issued by the State
| Immigration, says; Those who come
here to make homes for themselves should
| have $500 to 81 900 to start with, even on
the Government lands. There will be some
years of close effort. Poultry must be
kept, vegetables raised, odd jobs of work
done for the neighbors. But thus on even
this small capital, a valuable property
can be developed in the course of
eight or ten years. If private lands
are preferred it is best to purchase
only as much as can certainly be paid
for. A small piece of good land is better
than large piece of poor land. Develop
this thoroughly and make it profitable,
and more land can be had at some future
time Many failures have arisen from at
tempting too much. The new settler who
! deserves success begins at bedrock, keeps
out of debt buys as little as he can, wears
| his old clothes, works early and late, plants
trees and vines for the future, and has a
definite aim and plan in life. Such a man
/ can come to California with small capital
and find it good State for the poor man..
/ L
tient here will find the reward sure and
ample"
WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE.-It seems in
credulous to believe that book was writ
ten and published some years ago, Robin
son Crusoe," which only contained words
| aside from proper names) of one syllable.
Some years ago Professor Edgerton deliv-
cred lengthy address to the school chill
dren of Fort Wayne, during which he did
not use a word containing more than one
syllable, his talk lasting one and one-half
hours This being doubted, a gentleman
who was incredulous on the subject wrote to
| MIR. Edgerton that he did not believe that
il was true, and requested him to send a
copy of his speech. Mr. Edgerton an
swered as follows: II have no time now
| to tell you where to find what you seek;
nor do know that could write what you
want if | should try, as | do not claim to
have much skill in such work, though to
write short words and to make fair sense
with them, does not need much skill or
deep thought, and the truth is shown by
what | now send in my speech made at
Fort Wayne three years since. This
speech was made for and to the boys and
girls who heard it and it has some home
thrusts, the force of which can be known
at no place but home" The above sen
tence contains eighty-two words demon
| strating the truth Of the staten cnt pub
| lished
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The REooRD-UNroN IS the only paper on
.hc ooGsi outside o. San Francisco, that re-
CERES TIE full Assoeiated Press dispatches jiou,
ali parts Of the auorid. llside Of San Fran
cisco il has no competitor m poi,t Of nam
Beys. IN is home and geaegoI circulation,
throughout the coast.