Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-02-23
washington's Birthday in the Ea.

parts OF the city little or no demonstration
is being made. The old Washington Grays,
a troop now known as the Washington
| Light Battery, Will hold the fifty-third
annual reception of its veterans. honorary
and active members at the Twelfth Regi-
ment Armory. The Mountain Toboggan
Club, composed of New York business
men, will meet at Summit Lake, Central
| Valley. New York. Prizes will be given
| for longest and straightest runs by singles,
doubles and fours All the leading theaters
will give matinee performances, and numer-
Gus balls in all parts of the city take place
this evening.
DENVER (Coi.l, February 22d.-Wash-
ington's birthday was generally observed
| here. All public offices, banks and bust
| ness houses were closed. The different So
cieties celebrate tonight, giving balls or en-
tertainmcnts.
DETROIT (Mich.), February 22d.-The
| Michigan Club, a Republican organization.
| having its membership throughout this
State, held its first anniversary here to-
| night, in the shape of banquet Senator
| Palmer, the presiding officer, sat in the
center of raised table at one end of the
hall. On his right were Senators Eyarts,
| Conger, Henderson, Representative Horn
and other Michigan men. On his left sat
Senator Logan, Governor Alger and Gov
called the audience to order, and in his in
troductory remarks he explained the object
of the club, saying that Washington, if
alive. would probably be present. He said
it is composed of those who believe that the
| Republican party still has work to do,
terming it properly " a party of God and of
morality" William NJ. Evarts responded
10 toast in an eloquent speech.
Weak Invention.
New YORK, February 22d-The Worlds
st. Louis special says: According to Wong
Chin Foo Chinese lawyer from New
| York, who is here in the interest of Grim
inal prosecutions, the Chinese community
in st. Louis have received what is alleged
to be genuine copy of an imperial procla-
nation, requesting that on or before the
| fifteenth day of the fifth moon of the pres
ent year May 15th), all subjects of the Tai
Tszing Empire now residing in the United
States OF America return home, and in
structing them that upon application to
their Consuls free transportation will be
provided from any part of the United
States to any part of the Chinese Empire,
except the provinces of Quang Tung whose
| citizens, because of superior numbers, are
required TO pay half fares. The proclama-
| ton, while it embodies no threats, broadly
| intlmates that the Chinese Government
| intends speedily to retaliate upon the
American export trade and American resi-
dents in China for the long-contlnued out
RACES upon the Chinese in this country, and
| this design if carried out, will destroy an
annual export of $S0,0OO,000 and expose
! 5000 Americans to the terrors of imperial
! persecution. Wong Chin Foo is we'll
! educated Chinaman, who edited the first
Chinese paper ever published in New York
THE CHINESE CONSUL INTERVIEWED.
NEW York, February 22d.-The lfaa and
EGpress publishes the following interview
with Ching Hoy, the Chinese Consul in
| this city, based upon the st. Louis dispatch,
isaying that the Chinese Imperial Govern
ment contemplates regulatory measures.
on account of the treatment accorded Chi
nese subjects in this country He said
Il cannot say | am advised that an I'm
perial proclamation has been issued com
| polling all Cinnamon ii this country to re-
| turn home. but can say that the Consul
General at San Francisco has sent notices
| advising all Cinnamon to leave. Whether
| the Government is back of this / cannot
| say As to the suggestion of retaliation.
have no doubt measures of this kind will
be taken by our Government. If China
men are driven Cut and outraged
here, why cannot our people drive ont all
Americans from China2 The good name
Of this country has been disgraced by the
|
very serious. There il no protection for
Cinnamon at all, but Are-:can merchants
and missionaries are wall treated in China.
and the Government t3kes prompt action,
not only in paying damages but in re-
dressing the wrong doae. What | don't
understand is why the good people of the
| East here remain silent, 1t certainly was
not the intention of Congress that mer-
| chants and others should be treated in this
way. If nothing is dbne, the commerce
between the two countries, amounting to
ss0,00o.o 600 annually, wal be destroyed
| Worthy Tribute to alDead Journalist.
New YORK, February 22d.-Charles A.
Dana says in the Sun of Yesterday The
wire has just informed the world that
| Colonel kemble, editorspf the first newspa-
per published in San Francisco, has passed
| away So simple an announcement is an
inadequate tribute to the dead journalist. to
whom is due the honor of having projected
| and carried to success one of the most re-
markable newspaper enterprises of the CEN
tury. In the issue of the Star. March 6,
1917, may be found this prediction in a
| leader by Kemble, and worthy of remark,
because at the time it WAS written neither
| gold nor other metals to any considerable
extent had been discovered in California
| The town of Gerba Buena is no doubt
destined to be the Liverpool or New York
of the Pacific ocean. At this point will be
| concentrated nearly all commercial enter
prises, and the capital engaged and invest
ed in Pacific trades, all the products of the
| gold, silver copper, iron and quick
| silver mines, with which the country
abounds, must be concentrated here for
manufacture and export In few Years
| our wharves and streets will presents scene
| OF busy life, resembling that of New York,
and men from all parts of the world will
| flock here" This announcement of news
paper sagacity and enterprise anticipated
| the Pony Express by many years. The
issue of the Star on the eventful LIST of
April, 1913, consisted of six pages, and
dozen copies of it, with number of private
letters. were carried across the plains with
| in sixty days. advertised and delivered at
Independence, Mo-, by Nathan Hank.
| There was no regular line of steamships
and of course no railroad from San Fran
| cisco at that time, and the enterprise of
kembe gave the Star to its Eastern readers
from one month to six weeks in advance of
the other means of distribution Hanks
escapes from death at the hands of Indians
or from exposure and fatigue during his
| perllous rides are alike marvellous
Idaho Mormons Removed from Office.
WASHINGTON, February 22d.-Shortly
after the arrival of United States District
| Aeo.hcS y. u. haWley ana United States
Marshal Fred. +. Dubois, of Idaho Terri
tory, in this city, the Mormon Receiver of
the Land Office at Oxford was removed
and also eight Mormon Postmasters. These
offices will be replaced by nine Democratic
Gentiles forthwith. The two officers have
left for their homes, fully convinced that
the Administration will adhere strictly to
the policy laid down in the Presidents
message to Congress
The Railroad War.
DENVER Coll, February 22d.-The Santa
Re and Denver and Rio Grande roads 20
day reduced passenger rates to Oregon and
Washington Territory points to meet the
cut announced by the Union and North
ern Pacific people on Saturday. They also
reduced the Ogden and Salt Lake rate from
| $50 to S25. making it the same as the San
Francisco rate. With this exception every
thing remains the same as at the beginning
| of the war.
| FURTHER REDUCTION IN PASSENGER RATES.
| CHICAGO, February 22d.-The Santa Fe
road to-day issued instructions to all of its
| agents to give orders for rebate of $40 on