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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-02-04
The Cruelty Of n "Grea.er. /"

One day myself and several others,
among them Tom Payne, one of the most
desperate men I'm all Of Texas, heard q
calf bleating most pitifully. Soon we
came upon a Mexican. He had calf
bound and thrown upon the ground, and
was cutting of its hide while II was yet
alive Many greasers do that. They claim
IL makes the meat more tender. II was
more than we could stand, and had quite
time to prevent Payne from shooting the
fellow. We gave him ten minutes to ge'
out Of sight, and you bet he did it.-Gen
Henry Smith in Cincinnati Enquirer.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-02-04
Go Hand in Hand Out West.

The death-rate in Dakota for years past
has been only five in 1000. Even this
moderate average for our territory might
have been materially lowered had there
not been such popular prejudice against
more than four aces In pack of cards
When other aces without any visible
means Of support were detected straying
into poker game the death-rate was al
ways given q boost The cold deck and
high rate Of mortality go hand in hand in
the unfettered west.-,Estelline ID. ID
Bell
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-02-04
II Might BE Much Worse.

r. g. Dunn & Co. report that the total
number OF business failures in the United
States for 1886 was 10,6s7, with liabilities
Of little more than t124, 100000, as com
pared with 10,9Gs In 1884, with liabilities
Of tea. 600, 900 .--Chicago journal.
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laundries in the city limits, except in a
small place in the southwestern part of the
city. The Chinese will fight the cases. and
are prepared 10 furnish bail and continue
work. 1t is understood that two cases will
be made as test cases, one being China
man and the othera white man.
The Break in the Southern Pacific.
TEHAcHAPI, January 22d.-The latest
reports from the break in the Southern Pa
citic are as follows: The track has been re-
paired from Lancaster TO Ravena. Here is
where the heavy work commences, on that
portion of the track that was relocated and
rebuilt two years ago, and was supposed to
be constructed above high-water mark. An
eyewitness reports il in as bad condition
as at any time two years ago. All of the
iron bridges then put in are damaged,
and one is gone. Superintendent of Track
Curtis, and Brown, Superintendent of
Bridges and Construction, passed to the
front yesterday morning, followed last
night by special train of laborers. Every
thing is being done that money and muscle
can do to open the track. Probably a tenn
porary track will be laid down, so that
trains can pass inside of ten days The
Atlantic and Pacific lost their bridge at
Waterman, and are transferring The Cal
ifornia Southern from Waterman to Cotton
is reported badly washed, and there have
been heavy slides.
Death of Ex-senator Farley.
JACKSON, January 22d-Ex-Senator Jas.
I. Farley died at his residence here at half
past 3 this evening. He had been given up
by his physicians for more than a week.
The funeral will take place Monday at 1
o'clock.
The Anti-Chinese State Convention.
SAN JOSE, January 22d.-Communica
tons from a number of anti-Chinese clubs
throughout the State indicate that large
number OF delegates will attend the State
Convention here February 4th. One hun
dred and three of the required 800 subscrib-
ers TO the cooperative laundry have been
obtained.
Che New Hall at Gridley.
GRIDLEY, January 22d.-The new ball is
completed. A masquerade ball on skates
was held therein Tuesday night
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Care of Animals in Winter.

The American Humane Association of
fers the following suggestions relative to
fowls, horses and cattle to persons having
these in charge, in the northern ATTITUDES.
during the winter months, and while thev
are not applicable to the senli-iropcal eli
mate Of California, they are nevertheless of
interest
Do not compel domestic fowls to roost in
trees. Aside from danger Of being captured
by owls and other enemies, the swaving of
the branches upon which they are sitting
viii prevent them from getting rest; while
IN the severely cold weather, thus exposed
feet and combs are frozen and the bird is so
benumbed as to make it impossible for it
to be of much profit on the farm Securely
sheltered from wind and storm. and al
lowed to sit on broad roost, feet are thus
kept warm, refreshing rest is obtained and
the fowl is much stronger. healthier and
more profitable to its owner
Do sot clip horses during the winter
months. With the same propriety we
might cut the hair from dog or shear a
sheep at this season of the year. The argu-
ment IN behalf of the practice is thai the
horse in perspiration will dry more quickly
II the hair is short. If the animal is thor
oughly blanketed and kept in a sheltered
or warm place, after being driven, no dam
ger results from perSpiration, whatever the
length of hair, while the horse that has
been deprived of its coat in the winter time
suffers perpetually while being exposed to
the cold
1t is cruelty inflicted upon beautiful
carriage horses for the purpose of style.
Blessed is the ordinary work-horse. in the
winter time for, however much it NAV
it is allowed to carry lis full
growth of hair during the cold weather.
Do not leave cattle to stand shivering.
while extremities often freeze, in the snow
storms and severe winds of winter. when
a little time would suffice TO construct of
boards, rails or poles, n support upon and
around which may be placed hay. straw or
weeds, thus making a shelter that may
comfortably protect them. Cattle kept in
fairly warm condition throughout the win
ter will, as mixers, give a larger and better
yield of milk, and as beeves will take on
flesh much more rapidly than if left to in
clement weather.
Aside from question of humanity, the
more attention and care that is bestowed
upon animals, with view TO their comfort.
the more will they be Of service and
source Of profit to their owners.
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IHE DUNG LADIEs AND THE OLD FoGiEs.
Very young ladies in their letters are al
ways falling into ingenious errors, due to
the bad habit of thinking before they
speak. They write first: His health was
drunk; !" and then, alarmed at the apparent
inebriety of that harmless past participle,
alter it incontinently to His health was
drank" They correct Between you and
me" into Between you and IT, and sub
stitute elder" for " older" or Hless" for
smaller" on the strength Of obsolete rules
imperfectly understood from Lindley Muir
ray. 1t is Just the same with older and
more learned pedants Instead of These
sort of people go anywhere" they write
This sort of people goes anywhere"-an
impossible idiom i'll speaking-not perceiv-
ing that popular instinct has rightly caught
at the implied necessity for plural subject
TO the really and essentially plural verb.
They insist upon replacing sound and SEN
sible current phrases by stiff and awkward
hothouse idioms. They object to our talk
ing about the vandalism of railway con-
tractors apparently on the somewhat gro
tesQue ground that the historical Vandas
never in their lives constructed a railway.
But if we are invariably to use words in
none but their primitive and naked etymo-
logical sense-if we are 10 give ND all the
wealth of metaphor and allusiveness which
gradually incrusts and enriches every sim
pie phrase-if we are to discard " worsted''
because it is no longer spun at Worstead in
Norfolk, and eschew Gothic" because a
distinguished scholar considers the Goths
were not really such Goths after all-why.
all our writing in future will tend to become
as dull as sdtch watcr.-[The Cornhill Mag
aZine
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OLD MEXICO.
Adyices from Guaymas.

GUAYMAs, January 21st.-Celsa Montroy,
a Mexican woman, was yesterday accident
ally shot by her friend, Juan Moneloda.
The bullet entered her abdomen She died
to-day. The shooter is in Jail.
The Prefect gives orders prohibiting
Mexicans leaving Sonora for Lower Calf
fornia. A number had been engaged by
the Boles Mining Company, of Santa Ro-
salia, and much dissatisfaction prevails.
There are rumors that a draft for volun-
teers will be made the coming week
Exchange on San Francisco, % per cent.
premium
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A COMPOSITE RAcE.-' Gath, in the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, says; The idea that the
United States is anybodys race is absurd;
the race now inhabiting this country is al
ready very different race from that of the
English who landed on these coasts in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Our
policy has been TO incorporate with our
selves all other races until the American
race Is composite almost everywhere com
posite not only in the ingredients of its
blood, but in its methods Of food, in its
tastes. habits, and general breeding and
ideas. We have nothing to expect from
anybody's sympathy. and can only suffer
from promoting an understanding that we
are concerned in the troubles OF any par
tieular nation beyond the ocean. We belong
emphatically to the line of pioneer nations,
and we ought to be at the head of this list.
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THE MYSTERY OF MYsTERIEs-How do
women, like squirrels and DEVILS darning-
needles, know what is up? Apropos, the
French word for devils darning-needle is
demoiselle, which shows that the French
at least had found out the affinity between
the libellulae and ladies. When hoops be-
came the fashion, thirty years ago, women
in solitary confinement in the Philadelphia
prison went almost mad to find some
means of making the new racket They
secreted pieces of wire. and with unnatural
ingenuity tied sticks together to distend
their skirts. The turnkeys and matrons
could not understand how the poor souls
had ever heard of such a fashion. Not
even bird of the air had come to them.
as unto the prisoners of ChiIlon, to give
them the latest mode, but they knew it.
So wines work when vines are in the
flower, so the diamond flashes when the
great monarch of the diamonds deep in
Goleonda embraces the queen. Think of
this. ye ladies. when your Jewels give un
wonted sheen and CLINT glory in the twi-
light. How is il that when twenty women
or more sit together. an uuspoken idea wiil
fit from one 10 the other2 Mystery Of
mysteries and never to be known !-lChas.
G. Leland.
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CONDENSED COAST DISPATCHES.

The residence of Mr.. Eaves, at Stockton,
was destroyed by fire on Wednesday, and
several members of his family We're badly
burned.
Charles Lindstrom was drowned in the
San Lorenzo river, Santa Cruz county,
Wednesday, while trying to push away
logs from railroad bridge.
John f. Elliott, convicted of forging the
signature of Miller & Lux to cheek for
$500, was sentenced by Judge Spencer in
San Jose, Friday morning, TO seven years
in the State Prison.
John King, a Los Gatos Santa Clara
county, orchardist, hanged himself at his
home Friday morning, his body being
found in his room by his wife, hanging 10
rafter. He was 81 years of age, and ma
tive of England.
The anti-Chinese agitation at Santa Cruz
has assumed a new form, the names of all
hotels and business houses employing
Cinnamon being published IN newspaper
1t is rumored that those whose names are
published will organize among themselves
and agree not to patroniZe or employ any
member of the Anti-Chinese Association.
James Egan, who fell from third-story
window of the Pacific Club, in San Fran
cisco. Thursday, died Friday morning in
the Receiving Hospital. He never recoy-
cred consciousness after the fall Egan
was native of Ireland, - years of age
who lived at COG Minna street, and has been
porter for the club for about nine months.
At Los Angeles, Tuesday, the storm caused
the fourth severe flood recorded at that
city in twenty-four years, and is the most
destructive of all. The Los Angeles river,
swollen by the heavy rains of Sunday and
Monday, became an irresistible torrent,
swept away bridges and inundated large
portion of the city. About 1000 acres of
land devoted to homes orchards and vine
yards were flooded. The waters rose two
feet higher than the flood of February,
1884. A number of buildings were swept
away entirely and others were undermined
and collapsed. Mrs. Kate Iytle and The
resa Whitney, the latter 8 years old, were
drowned
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STRANGE PHrNoMESos-We find the fol

lowing in the Reno New Gazette:
Those who are familiar with the history
of the Emma mine, lying four miles north
of Reno, will remember that it contained
a great deal of ore, but of a character which
made it of little value at the time it was
discovered, and that when the water poured
in on the 400-foot level the Brooklyn IN "
people who owned it refused to put up
money to buy large pumps to clear it out.
The rush OF water was so sudden and
strong as to cover the old pumps and tools
completely, and they have lain there ever
since. The water rose to within forty feet
of the top of the ground, and stood there
until recently. 1t was there less than
year ago, for parties threw stones down
and heard the splash. All of sudden it
has disappeared and gone no one knows
where. John Poe, who was the Oldest
foreman, went out Wednesday with J. H.
Kinkead to look around, and they found it
empty. Mr.. Kinkead threw rock down,
and it struck the mud at the bottom of the
shaft $50 feet
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MISCELLANEOUS.


l am a native OF England, and while was
IN that country l contracted terrible blood
poison. and for two years was under treatment
as an outdoor patient at Nottingham Hospital.
England, bat was not cured. / suffered The
most agonlzlng pains in my bones and was
covered with sores all over my body and limbs.
FINELY l completely lost all hope in that
country, and sailed for America, and was
treated at Roosevelt in this city, as well as by
prominent physician in New York having no
connection with the hospitals
saw the advertisement of Swifts Specific.
ana determined to give it trial. l took six
bottles, and can say with great joy that they
have cured me entirely. / am as sound and
well as ever was in my life.
l. FRED. HALFORD.
New York City, June u, 1885.
In March of last year Qss4. l contracted
blood poison, and being in Savannah, Ca. at
the time, went into the hospital there for
treatment | suffered very much from rhell-
maLism at the same time. / did not get well
under the treatment there nor was cured by
any of the usual means. have now take,
seven bottles OF Swiftis Specific, and am sound
and wei. 1t drove the poison out through boils
on the skin. DAN Igauy
Jersey City, y. J., Aug. ?. 1855.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
free.
TIE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co. Drawer g. Atlanta,
Ga; New York, l57 W. sd ST. fe5-ly&w1y
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New DITcH SoHEME.-The Nevada IT.
script says:

New DITCH SCHEME.-The Nevada Tran
script says: s
The Excelsior Canal Company is propos-
ing the construction of new line of ditch.
the waters of which will be used for irriga-
ting purposes. The ditch having capacity
of 400 inches will start at point below
Rough and Ready and be carried around
the high lands of Penn valley at an eleva-
ton of 200 feet abov. the ranches to be ir-
rigated; from thence it will be taken to
Indian springs from that point there will
probably be two branches-one by way of
the Horton ranch, to the lands of the Ex-
celsior Company, and the other by way of
the Buckeye ranch, to the vicinity of
Spenceville. The main ditch and branches
would irrigate large area of land, and add
greatly to its value for raising clover and
alfalfa, and for pasturage. With this ditch
constructed, where its waters would be
available, it is believed that land now rat
ing at So to Sl5 per acre would soon be in
creased in value to $40 per acre. The pro-
posed plan of constructing the ditch is to
allow all farmers 10 work on it at fair
wages, receiving their pay in ditch stock,
the company allowing them to take the
amount out in water, the cost of irrigating
not to exceed So per acre per season. The
ranchers are to give the company the right
of way through their Enclosures for dis
tances of fifteen feet in width.
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PAINTS AND OILS.

7 l. CHA ADDERDON IMPORTER AND DEAL.
y. er in Paints, OILS. yarnishes, window 9 ass,
Mixed Paints. artists and Painters Ma.eyia's
ISL Paper, e.e. No. 254 s st. Sscramertn
di7-t1ts
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FOREIGN.
The Silver Question in England.

LONDON January 22d.-The annual meet
ing of the International Monetary Stand
ard Association was held to-day. Henry
II. Gibbs, Governor of the Bank OF
England presided. and in his address ad-
mitted that the progress of bimetallism was
slow in England, but said it was advanc-
ing in Germany. He said he believed
the royal Commission on the depressed
condition of trade in Great Britain would
report that the present condition of the
silver question had an important bear
ing on the depression. Henry /. Greenfell,
of the Bank of England, expressed conf
dence that the United States Congress
would not alter the provisions of the Bland
bill. Bimetallism, Grenfell said, was of
vital interest to trade and agriculture.
Thomas Sutherland, NJ. p. for Greenock,
and Samuel Montague, NJ P. for Tower
Hamlets, and others, delivered addresses.
The meeting resolved to form gold and
silver league on popular basis.
Monometallism to be Upheld by Ger
many.
BERLIN, January 22d.-Herr Scholtz.
Prussian Finance Minister, declared in the
Reichstag to-day that the Imperial Gov
eminent would uphold monometallism.
He explained that he was not a fanatical
partisan of the old standard and syrnpa-
thized with the sufferers in their efforts
to raise the value of silver, but the ques-
ton was an international one, and must be
treated accordingly. While he would care
fully examine the question, he was unable
to undertake the introduction of measure
providing for an international double
standard.
The Government of Egypt.
CAIRO. January 22d.-Moukhtar Pasha
suggests the appointment of a Turkish
Commission in Egypt in the place of the
English army now in the country, as, in
bis opinion, the latter army is too costly a
burden for Egypt in view of her limited
revenues. 1t is said Wolff the British Com
missioner, has applied for advice as TO the
course he shall follow in regard to the pro.
posal.
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Plenty of Cigarmakers.

New YORK, January 22d = President
Strasser. of the Cigarmakers' international
Union, said to your correspondent this
morning | received telegram from San
Francisco, asking me to forward 100 cigar
makers. / shall do SO when receive writ
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Another Bluff from sullivan.

New YORK, January 22d.-Health Officer
Edison to-day seized several hundred boxes
of frozen oranges, poured carbolic acid over
them and dumped them at the offal dock.
They had been frozen in transit from
Florida; Edison says they are dangerous to
health, because of mold that forms be-
tween the segments of the pulp after the
oranges are frozen, because of the impree-
nation Of the whole fruit with the essential
oil of the skin.
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Foul Play Feared.


SANTA Rosa, January 22d-Hank Paul,
a contractor of this city, who has resided
here for years, has been missing since the
1st of January. He left for San Francisco
the latter part of December, to buy mate
rial. He had considerable money on him
at the time, and his friends fear that he has
been foully dealt with. A notice in a San
Francisco paper, on Wednesday, that a
man was found in the bay alarmed his
friends more than ever, and one of them
started Thursday for San Francisco to see
if he is the man.
Accidental Shooting New Bridge Pro-
posed-Sudden Death.
NAPA, January 22d.-Mr. Whitcomb, liv-
ing in Sonoma county, west of Calistoga,
was accidentally shot in the shoulder yes
terday by his son, who was carelessly tax
ing gun from the wagon.
The Supervisors will tomorrow award
the contract for building a $1,000 bridge
over the Napa river, two miles above Napa
Mrs. Jane Callahan, of Napa. died sud
denly on the train this evening between
Vallejo and Napa- Heart disease was the
supposed cause.
A Former Saeramentan in Trouble mt San
Jose.
san JOSH, January 22d.-T. W. Reid. who
recently tried TO horsewhip Rev. Dr. Snow
den, a Presbyterian minister, was to-day
convicted of disturbing the peace. Sem
tenee Will be pronounced Monday.
The Stockton Laundry Ordinance
STOCKTON. January 22d. - Tomorrow
morning the police will arrest tweniy-four
laundry proprietors, all bat two of whom
are Cinnamon, for violation of the CITY
ordinance, which prohibits TIE location Of
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Further Storm Reports.

turas mail arrived last evening. The delay
was caused by high water in Oak Run.
The Weaverville stage came in on time.
The Delta train went out this morning and
returned this afternoon. No damages by
high water or wind, as far as heard from,
l ,n,r-l,c rcl
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The National Board OF Trade.

WASHINGTON, January 22d- The Ma
'toual Board of Ira lie adjourned sine die
to-day, and the delegates were given ban
quet this evening. After adjournment, the
members of the Board called at the White
House in body. and paid their respects to
the President. Short addresses were made
by Mr.. Fraley, President of the Board, and
Mr.. Patterson, of New Jersey. to which the
PRESIDENT made brief response, saying
that their visit reminded him of the i'm
portance of the interests represented by
the Board, and giving assurance that they
would receive due consideration at his
hara
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The President and the Information
Matter,

" hNIiINtfIO ID. vi, Jd1luHTy 70, 1880.
Hon. Thomas A. ColrgU, Chairman Columbus
O.-SIE: As one branch of the General Assem-
bly, has appointed special committee, of which
you are Chairman. to investigate the conduct of
the Democratic caucus which in January 1881,
nominated a candidate for United States Sena-
tor and as the matter is thus raised to point of
respectability and placed in charge of intelli-
gent and honorable gentlemen. | propose to
give 1t appropriate attention. For myself in
yite the most thorough and rigid scrutiny. My
private correspondence and books of accounts
will be cheerfully submitted to your inspection
If you desire it. only insist, in case any testi-
mony is given which in the slightest degree incul
pates NE, that may be afforded an opportunity
ofappearing before your committee. lam, very
respectfully, your obedieut servant.
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OF the German servant is generally good,
but that of the factory giris is all too fre-
quently stained. Many. if not most of the
latter are frivolous and lascivious, and yet
are the best and most reliable workers.
Their course rarely ends in prostitution,
however, for it is a suggestive fact that
there exists a certain point dhoane,, among
woTkingmen to marry girl if the question
of legitimacy is liable to come up. After
marriage there are few lapses from con-
stancy; yet, taking one offense and another,
out OF every 1876 criminals throughout the
German Empire 100 are females Whose