Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-09-11
Condition Of the September Crops.

Condition Of the September Crops.
WASHINGTON, September 10th.-The Sep
tenlber report of the Department of Agri-
culture shows better yield of spring
wheat than was expected one month ago.
The improvement is in the northern belt
of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Dakota. In
Nebraska there has been decline and in
Iowa iltiie change. The general average is
81, an increase OF 4 points. The average
yield of the crop. as far as the results OF
thrashing are reported, exceeds II bushels
and may reach IL bushels per acre. Win
ter wheat in the Ohio valley gives promise
of better return than was expected at
harvest. There is some improvement in
Missouri and Kansas. In the Middle and
Eastern States the percentages of July are
not materially changed. In the South
the harvest Is disappointing. Rains in
iured the product in the shock. Re
turns indicate an average yield of
about 12I bushels per acre. The
entire wheat product will apparently
exceed that of last year by S0,000,000 to
90 900, 900 bushels. The exact determina-
tions of the area harvested and the results
of thrashing are about equivalent to the
variations of the two periods. Corn has
declined from 81 in August to II in Sep
tember. In the principal producing States
the status is as follows: Kentucky, from
81 in August to 90 in September Ohio, So
to 50; Michigan, no returns Indiana, 80
to 92; Illinois declines from u to Y; Mis-
souri,, from 75 to 62; Kansas, from II to 81
Nebraska, from 76 to 6S; Iowa, from 70 to
g. The loss west of Indiana is caused by
drought In the South Atlantic States
there has been an improvement. On the
Gulf Coast there has been slight improve
ment, except in Texas, where drought has
reduced the condition.
The present crop prospect, with no
further decline is IA per cent. worse than
last year and indicates over twenty-one
bushels per acre or nearly sixteen hundred
million bushels.
The Apache Prisoners.
WASHINGTON, September 10th.--General
Drum, Acting Secretary of War, has given
instructions that Geronimo, Natchez and
other hostiles surrendered with him, be
stopped at San Antonio and kept impris-
oned there until the determination is
reached as to what course of procedure can
be undertaken against them. tits officially
known that the surrender was not made
without conditions, but what the condi-
tions were, beyond the agreement that they
should not be surrendered for trial in Ari-
zona, have not been reported. It was in
compliance with this condition that Gero-
nimo started with the hostiles for Florida.
The determination of the course of proceed
ure will probably be made By the Presi-
dent, but not until the terms of surrender
and all the attendant circumstances shall
be officially known. With the present
knowledge it seems probable that
the offenders can neither be tried
by a military court-martial nor by
civil authority but that they may
be tried as the Modocs were, by a
Military Commission. This is 4 tribu-
nal for the institution OF which there are
many well recognized precedents in our
own history, though it is one which has as
yet no recognition in statutory law. The
atrocities OF these prisoners, terrible as
they were, are not thought to be such as
would bring them within the Jurisdiction
of Court-martial, which is very limited
nor would the civil Courts, in the absence
of witnesses, meet the requirements of the
case, although the guilt of the Indians is
notorious. Under the circumstances, q
Military Commission, which seems to be an
intermediate between . C,Grt-martIal and
the tribunal Of Judge Lynch, and which is
recognized by leading pubijCists as a
necessity, under certain Circumstances, is
perhaps the only Court by which justice
could be metei oIt - these mucderers. 1t
would, of course be composed of military
officers, and the proceedings would be SINH
lar in character TO those of a Court-mar-
tial. Little doubt is entertained by those
who know the character of the Apaches
that there will be found among them a
number who will be ready to betray Gero-
nimo and other leaders to save their own
necks.
WASHINGTON, September 10th. - The
Army aud Nary Register tomorrow will
say : If fpublic opinion, in and out of the
army has weight in deciding the fate of
Geronimo and his murderous band, they
will be tried by q Military Commission,
speedily convicted, and executed with
out delay. There is precedent
for such a treatment of them. il
one is needed, in the case of the trial
by a Military Commission of the Sioux
after the Minnesota Massacre in 1862.
Five hundred of the prisoners were then
put on trial, 300 of whom were found guilty
of murder, and thirty eight were hanged.
Every one of the band was a pris-
oner of war at the time of his
escape from the San Carlos reservation.
They had been placed there by General
Crook. and were given the liberty of the
i lNSCl Oli COilblllOil VI lOL itdNlDS u.
They broke this promise. and used their
privileges to escape, in order again to take
the waTpath They are paroled prisoners,
taken red-handed in acts of war, and should
suffer the punishment adjudged by the law
Of war to such acts of treachery.
A Wife Charges a Husband with Deser-
ton.
NEWARK On. J.), September 10th.-Yes-
terday noon a pale, attenuated woman, be-
grimed with dust and weary from the effects
of many nights of travelling, slowly as
cended the steps of the Park House. carry
ing in her arms an infant and dragging
after her two other little children, equally
soiled and tired. She came from Las Vegas,
n. NJ, by the immigrant train, seeking her
truant husband, who, she said a few
months ago suddenly and Unexpectedly
deserted her. She recently ascertained that
he was living in Newark with another wo-
man for his wife. The sympathies of the
inmates of the hotel were excited in her
behalf, and she was taken to comfortable
room and provided with necessaries for
herself and children. She proved to be the
wife OF Manuel Ressburger who some years
ago went with her to San Francisco, where
they lived for some time, finally immigrat-
ing to New Mexico, where Ressburger
amassed fortune. In February last he
deserted his wife and children and fed to
Newark, where he married the daughter of
a prominent Jewish citizen. He is now
of one Of the largest clothing
stores in this city. The defense of Ress-
burger is divorce. He alleges that it was
by her in San Francisco on the
ground of his infdelity. He produces what
purports to be certified copy of the decree
granted by the California Court at the time
of their residence there. He was held in
$500 bail for examination.
Colonel Glider and the North Pole.
WINNIPEG, September 10th. = Colonel
Glider and his companion, Griffith, started
for the North Pole last night. They will
take the steamer Princess at Selkirk, and
proceed to Norway House. and from that
point they will ascend the Nelson river and
proceed to York factory The outfit which
the Colonel takes with him weighs a ton
and half, and consists of hard-t tack, penn
mican and other food, guns, rifles, re-
volvers and ammunition, scientific instru-
ments. hand-organ, baubles for the natives,
etc. He also takes two sledges, sixteen feet
long and four feet wide. After leaving
York factory. Colonel Glider will take as
little as possible with him, because of the
of carrying it. He relies for sus-
tenance mostly on game secured along his
route.
California Wines and Brandies.