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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-21
COMPETITION.

Senator Hearst-You spoke awhile ago of your
end OF the line, the Pacific end of the line, com
ing up to Utah and capturing the trade mostly
of Washington Territory, Idaho and Montana
How much of the trade was cut off by the Utah
Northern and the Southern roads?
Senator Stanford-Eyerything, so far as sup
plies were concerned, which naturally started
from this tide TO go west-that was all lost US.
Aside from the competition caused by these
competing ines of railIoad we should have had
established our sinking fund, and except for the
interference by the Thurman Act it would have
been ample to meet our obligations, and up to
the present time we have met every obligation.
There has never been claim against the Cen
trail Pacific Road which has not been promptly
discharged. Every department of the Govern
ment can certify that they have never had occa-
sion 10 find fau.t with us in Il si gle instance in
all the benefits it expected and great deal
more.
, 1888-02-16
where Gum roothpIcks Arc Made.

Everybody knows that a bunch of quill
picks can be bought at a drug store for n
nickel, and there the popular knowledge
ends. A reporter started out to find the
fountain head of quill toothpicks. The re-
tail druggist said that he bought them of
the wholesale dealer in drugs and notions.
The reporter made ton of the wholesale
drug houses, and at every one he was in
formed that they purchased them either
in New York or imported them from
France and Germany, and that was all
they knew about it. The feather dealers
had little or no light to throw upon the
subject. The manufacturers of feather
busters were ignorant regarding the quill
pick industry.
Finally n gentleman, who Is the buyer
for a large drug house, was found, who
had seen a factory where the quill picks
were made. When asked the question,
he said: 81 do not know of any factory in
this country where quill ~toothpicks are
made. We buy ours from n broker in
Paris, who obtains them from n large
mandatory near that city. NJ. Bardin,
at Joinville lie Pont, near Paris, had the
largest mandatory in the world engaged
in the quill industry. He has 1000, 600
geese, and produces annually 10000, 900
quilts. Formerly this factory made quill
pens, but when these went out of general
use the quilts were used to make brushes
for artists and toothpicks. The picks are
made by machinery, and are put up in
bundles of ten each, and these are in
packages containing 1000. The price is
so low that there is very little margin Of
profit in the business.
The wooden toothpick has taken the
place of the quill, and these latter are
made mostly in the east, but there are
factories in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio n
Wisconsin, where wooden t~oothpicks are
made very cheaply. Fond du Lac, Wis,
has n factory that turns out millions of
wooden picks every week. They come
1000 in a box, and cost but five cents per
box to the onsumer The quill pick costs
five cents per bunch of ten, but they are
far better than the wooden ones. OF
course there are n great many feathers
grown in this country, but other uses
have been found for the quilts. A big
factory in Michigan, located at Coldwater,
makes n featherbone for whips, ~corsets,
etc. Brush factories use the quilts for
camels' hair pencils, but l do not believe
there is n factory in America where quill
picks are made.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
, 1888-02-16
MIX hospitals of New York.

Not all the world knows that there are
such things as milk hospitals in the sub
urbs of this city. The idea is a German
one. These hospitals are for the cure of
every physical Ill, on the principal of max
ing the blood entirely over and keeping it
pure by taking milk, milk, nothing but
milk as food for weeks, months, years.
III fact, the doctors of milk hospitals fix
upon three years as the limit of time
necessary to make n patient completely
over. Thep, If he wants to stay made
over, he is advised to keep on with the
milk diet and leave solid food alone for the
remainder of his days. When q patient
enters the hospital he is at once treated to
six quarts of milk n day, which is in
creased gradually to eleven and twelve.
This seems an incredible amount for any
one, particularly an invalid, to consume,
but the facts gre as stated. The milk is
administered in Cupfuls every ten or ff-
teen minutes, n must be drank slowly,
slipped ms a Partisan takes his absinthe.
Sometimes the patient grows deathly
sick at the very sight of milk, early in
action. Perseverance is the only medi-
cine he takes to overcome this nausea.
Whether he gets sick or well he is sure to
get fat; and the fatter he gets the more
does his doctor rejoice. He is weighed in
the balance daily II never found want
ing. Should he not climb up into the
hundred weights fast enough, a quart or
so more is added to his daily allowance of
milk. Meantime, while he drinks the
milk, he is expected to lie abed all the
time. his only recreation being q daily
bath in hot water. After he is satisfac-
torily made over md pronounced well, he
drops down to q gallon of milk per day
and gets on famously. Ladies take to the
milk cure more readily than men do.
Some of them have found it beneficial for
the restoration of broken down nerves,
but they deplore the excessive flesh it
brings with it,-New York Press, every
Day Talk"
, 1888-02-16

Perhaps the people of Guatemala are as
cleanly as others, but according to our
observation the common practice was to
ALLOW the dogs to lick the dishes, which
received no additional washing. 1t was
the custom, also, at the table d'hote in
the hotels to finish a meal by filling the
mouth with water and squirting it on the
tiled floor. Once when we stopped at n
wayside house to get som coffee, the
sonora made n little fire out of doors, put
the coffee in n very black pot to boil, and,
after tanning the reluctant fire with her
straw hat, threw herself on the ground
near by to rest and smoke her puro.
When the pot was near to boiling she
reached out her bare leg and tested the
temperature of the contents with her toe,
rs a northern cook might have used her
finger. At a hotel n tablecloth served also
for napkins, IL the dishes were of many
patterns, colors and degrees of dirtiness.
1t seemed absurd to call for n clean
plate, but we did SO to see what would
happen. A large tame duck used to
waddle under my chair, and at last
would take bits of tortilla from my
hand. Several NANCY dogs and cats had
to be driven out whenever we sat down
to eat; but the hens were not disturbed,
for they contributed so much to our
larder that they were privileged, and one
nested in an old felt hat on n corner
shelf, while another came cackling out
of one of the dark bedrooms that opened
on either side.-W. Il. Bigham's "Guat-
pmolo ~
, 1888-02-16
His Last WIN and Testament

An Irishman over the age CT four score
and ten, who by strict economy had ac-
cumulated a modest fortune, and was
about to die, called in the parish priest
and the family lawyer to make his last
will and testament. The wife, a grasp
ing, covetous old party, wa also in the
room. The preliminaries of the will hav.
ing been concluded, 1t became necessary
to inquire about the debts owing to the
estate. Among these were several of i'm,
portance Of which the old lady had been
in ignorance, but was nevertheless pleased
to lind 50 much ready money would be
forthcoming after the funeral. NOW,
then" said the lawyer, Estate explicitly
the amount owed you by your friends.I u
Timothy Brown" replied the old man,
loves me $50; John Casey owes me e37i
and''- "Goodl goodr calculated the
prospective widow; rational to the lastl''
Luke Brown owes me e40," resumed
the old man. Irrational to the lostr' put
in the eager old lady again. "To Michael
Liney 1 owe e200.n "Ahi' exclaimed
the old woman, ''hear him ravei"--
Harper's.
, 1888-02-16
HE HAS TRAVELLED.
A Young Italians Search for a Foreign
Home.

Habitues of the Inter Ocean will recol-
lect the statuesque and polite young
Italian who presided at the bar connected
with the hotel during the night. The for
eigner's name was Albert Robelli and if he
is to be believed his history would make a
rather remarkable story. He appeared
honest and sincere and from the fact that
he did not claim to be a nobleman in dis
tress the writer attached considerable
weight of his statements.
Robelli was for two years an Italian
trooper, but wearying of the humdrum
existence incident to the i~nfrequency of
wars, cmigrated to Peru. He had
been promised a situation in a
mercantile establishment on the coast, but
was unccremoniously hustled several hun
bred miles into the interior. This treat
ment was borne no longer thar possible
and he became a CHILEAN Just as war was
declared between the two countries. He
eagerly embraced the opportunity offered
by this event, but was again disappointed
by the brief duration of hostilities. Pam
anna attracted his attention and he became
an employe of the De Lesseps Canal com-
pany. Robelli lauded the French gov
eminent when his salary was fixed at $500
per month, but cursed Panama upon
learning that the currency was worth
only about two bits on the dollar. He
was determined to have a rest,
however, and remained there six months
and was drawing $500 when he resigned
and took passage for San Francisco. Ro-
belli roamed over the Golden.state, Ore
gon, Nevada, Arizona and Utah before
reaching Cheyenne. He remained here
until someone informed that Leadville
was a second Carson CITY.
, 1888-02-16
Women as Bill Collectors.

The employment of women as collectors
of doubtful bills is, 1 am assured by n
legal friend, being practiced nowadays
with great success. He says that women
are more persistent and industrious to be-
gin with, and that men are forced to be
civil to them, who would not hesitate to
set the dog on a male dun. Some of the
most VIGOROUSLY tight listed debtors in
town, he assures me, have been brought
to financial time by being pestered by
these petticoated avengers of unfulhlled
obligations. One man, who had to be
sued for nearly every debt he contracted,
is now tanned as completely as Rarey
used to tame a kicking horse. Women
are the only debtors the female collectors
canno work, he says. They fight shy
Of dunning their own sex, both for the
reason that the latter do not hesitate to
resort to violence toward them at times,
and because even if they are not actually
assaulted they are certain to get a sharp
talking to, which they do not relish.
With the fair sex the male dun yet has
the call, and here, at least, his office is
likely TO endure for all time.-Alfred
Trumble in New York News.
, 1888-02-16
POINTS.

w. j. RutledGe is up from Pine Bluff.
Dan NJ Arnold has returned to the
ranch
n. Beemin, Evanston, is visiting the
capital
Attorney c. D. Clark of Evanston is in
town again.
Judge J. R. Hawley, Rawlins, came in
from the west last night.
NJ. V. i. Benson, Pueblo, Col, is reg
istered at the Inter Ocean.
Mrs. Frank Hadsell has joined her hus-
band, councilman from Carbon county,
here.
Judge B. II. Hart of Fort Laramie pre-
cinct, reached the city on the Cheyenne &
Northern last evening.
Prof. Boutwell, of Rawlins, largely in.
terested in Carbon county oil fields and
mines, is visiting Cheyenne.
Judge John w. Lytle and wife, Omaha,
arrived from the east last evening and will
visit Cheyenne friends. The Judge was at
n time in business in this city.
, 1888-02-16
MR.. BILL.

In the discussion of Mr.. Cummock's
so-called truck BILL" residents OF this
end of the territory are at a great
disadvantage from the fact that very
few have any intimate personal knowledge
of the workings at the mining camps, ex.
cept that the existing condition OF things
is radically different from anything expe-
rienced here. Sympathy naturally goes
out to any man who is compelled to delve
in the bowels of the earth for his daily
bread, and public sentiment will back any
measure which is honestly intended to
ameliorate their condition.
The bill introduced by Mr.. Cummock
purports to cope with a peculiar situation
by stringent enactment. He aud the
hackers of the bill allege hat the miners
are coerced into dealing at certain desig-
mated stores. 1t is through these stores
that the men receive their wages,
and it is asserted that if they
give their patronage elsewhere a pretext
is readily found for their discharge. Mr..
Cummock proposes to remedy this alleged
evil by forcing all employers to pay in
cash at least once a month the full amount
of the employees wages, while at the same
time no goods sold by the employer to the
employe can be claimed as a set off against
part or the whole of the wages due the
employee. The employe may even main
tain an action in court to recover the en-
tire amount of his wages irrespective of
any counterclaim, while a failure TO com
ply with n of the provisions of the bill
is punishable by a fine not exceeding $500
OF Imprisonment not exceeding thirty days
in the county jail, or both, in the discre.
ton of the court
These are indeed very stringent provi-
sions which do not at least give the same
chance to the employer to collect what is
honestly due him as it does to the EN-.
ploye, and the existing condition of affairs
must be of peculiar and unusual character
to either warrant or Justify the passage of
such n bill.
The main question in our mind has
DtOus bO nc ihCG warrant lht ludhluE
of such a law? In investigating the sub
iect We have been forced to rely chiefly on
the testimony OF Others, some Of whom
were interested on one side or the other.
while a few have no personal interest
either way. The great preponderanee of
this testimony is IN opposition to the pas
sage OF the bill We have been unable
to find anything 10 Justify its becoming a
law. The allegations of its friends have
been general rather than specific, and the
afhdSvits which they produce relate to no
occurrences within the past FIVE years.
Tie Legislature should investigate the
matter very thoroughly befeRes they per
NIT this bill to become a law.
, 1888-02-16

THosE Republicans who accept Blaine's
letter as conclusive that he will not 20 be-
fore The convention for nomination are
beginning to seriously boom Gen. Sheri-
dan for the Republican presidential nomi-
nation. In many respects he would be
the strongest man they could possibly put
forward-but by the way isn't the Blaine
letter rather peculiarly constructed for a
document which purports to be an I'M
equivocal withdrawal from the race?
, 1888-02-16

tSan Francisco Post.l
There is no doubt about the success of
Dorothy in America. 1t may fail in one
place or another from local causes, but
Collier has written an opera that will be
acceptable to the great mass of Americans,
though its theme is very English and its
treatment even more so. The hunting
chorus in the second act is one of the most
rafting and spirited pieces of that class OF
music ever composed, and both words and
music Of "Bantam's Chandelier Hail.
song are charming.
At the opera house Saturday night.
The Merry Var in the afternoon.
, 1888-02-16

Lew Johnson's MINISTRIES occupied the
boards of the opera house last evening.
1t is an organization of colored men. The
audience was large and bore up with con
siderable resignation. Hawkins and Lit
tie II. IN song and dance medleys and
Carr and Little II. in drum major drill
were redeeming. Lon Lewis who is en-
ploved at Idelman's store, sung a solo
very c%leverly and was received with great
applause.
, 1888-02-16
BREv1TIEs.

r. G. Evans of Minneapolis, has been
elected member of the National Republi-
can committee to succeed Senator Davis.
Director and Elk President +. K.
Steans of the Detroit base ball club. left
Detroit last night for California in search
of new material.
Hon. Charles Carey of Olean. N. Y,
has been appointed solicitor of the trea-
sury, vice Alexander McCue appointed
sub.trcasurer at New York.
Tyne, member of parliament, has been
tenants to resist the baiIiffs and sentenced
hard labor.
, 1888-02-16

BY dispelling the symptoms so often
mistaken for Consumption. Santa Able has
brought gladncss to many Il household.
By its prompt use for breaking up the
cold that too often develops into that
fatal disease, thousands can be saved from
an untimely grave. You make no mis-
take by keeping Il bottle of this pleasant
remedy in your house. California Cat-r-
Cure is equally effective in Graduating all
traces of Nasal Catarrhr Both of these
wonderful California remedies are sold
and warranted by w. n. Hunt, at SI.OO
a package, 3 for 81 so.
, 1888-02-16
As to Names.


a newspaper correspondent expresses
surprise that 90 many biblical characters
had only n name apiece In some cases
one name was enough. There was Nebu-
chadnezzar, for instance. His parents are
TO be commended for not christening him
George Washington Nebuchadnezzar,
Horace Greeley Moss would not have
been an improvement on PLAIN Moses
and Thomas jefferson Noah would seem
a little odd, but no doubt we should have
become used TO it bY this time.
, 1888-02-16

Whereas, a majority of the stockholders
Of the Cheyenne Street Railroad company
have requested me, in writing. to call a
meeting Of the stockholders of the said
company for the purpose Of considering a
proposition to increase the capital stock of
the said company to an mount not cx-
ceeding five hundred thousand dollars
$500 900.
Now, therefore, a meeting Of the stock
holders Of the said company is hereby
called 10 meet Ut the Office OF the com
pany, 10 the Office Of the First National
bank, on the ID day Of March, 1883. for
the purpose Of considering the said propo-
sitign 70 increase the capital stock Of the
said company 10 an amount not exceeding
FIVE hundred thousand dollars.
q. J.. ORGAH, President.
Attest.
J. &. BAIaD, Secretary
Cheyenne. Feb !. ISss.
, 1888-02-16

territory. The mark will be an unpreten-
tious marble shaft, although the design
has not yet been selected. This is the
first time in the history OF the territory
that death has visited the Legislature while
the body was in session.
, 1888-02-16

John Newman, the Bear creek ranch
man charged with cattle stealing, was
given 4 preliminary hearing before Judge
Lee yesterday and held to await the action
of the grand Jury. Failing to furnish
$500 surety he was committed to the
county Jail. Newman was standing over
a slaughtered steer when captured by
Chas. Moore.
, 1888-02-16
Asking for Aid.

The board of trade has adopted a mem
oral to congress urging the passage of a
bill appropriating money for the construc-
ton of water reservoirs in Wyoming and
other localities. The Laramie and Buff
falo boards of trade will be requested to
concur in the resolution.
, 1888-02-16

Mr.. John Ruskin enumerates several
instances of the decadence of England,
including the importation of meat and
manDers from America, and art and re-
figion from France. Meanwhile she will
continue TO export paupers to America
and troops to Ireland in undiminished
quantities.
, 1888-02-16
Afraid to Go Home.

Country Minister-Don't you know,
little boy, that it is wrong to fish on Sun
day. Why don't you go homer
Little Boy-I'm 'fraid to.
Country Minlster-Your father will
punish you, viii her
Little Bny-Yes, sir, il l don't bring
home more fish than I've ketched so fer.
The Epoch.
, 1888-02-16

The ORIGINAL ABIETINE ONT,
MENT is only put up in large two-ounce
tin boxes, and is an absolute cure foY old
sores, burns, wounds. chapped hands and
all skin eruptions. VIII positively cure all
kinds OF piles. Ask for the ORIGINAL
ABIETINE OINTMENT, Sold by DR..
w. N.llunt, at % cents per box-by mail
80 cents.
, 1888-02-16
Getting Down to Figures.


lDtuoi Free freSS-
During the last ten years the toadyites
Of the United States have been taken in
and done for By three bogus lords, four
bogus dukes aud FIVE bogus counts. to say
nothing of the fifteen or twenty BARRIERS
who have gone around playing earl.
, 1888-02-16
MAIL LETTINGS.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, ID. G..

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, ID. c..
February ], 1883. }
PROPOSALS will be received at the Con
tract Office of this Department until 4 p.
IN. of April lO,lSss, for carrying the mails
Of the United States upon the routes, and
according TO the schedule Of arrival and
departure specified by the Department,
in the Territory of Wyoming from July
], 1888, to June 30, 1890. Lists of
routes, With schedules Of arrivals and de-
partures, instructions to bidders, with
forms for contracts and bonds, aud ell
other necessary information, viii be fur
nished upon application to the Second
Assistant Postmaster General
DON NJ. Dickinson,
Postmaster General
, 1888-02-16

The Legislative committee managing
the o~bsequies Of the late Hon Nat Hunt
ingtOn have concluded 10 erect a mouU-
ment to his memory at the expense Of the
, 1888-02-16

Some Of the old Republican wal horses
IN this state are said to be in favor Of
raising the age Of consent on some of the
young and aspiring candidates for the
g~oYeruOrship.
, 1888-02-16

The largest stock OF fine brandies, old
WHISTLES, choice hqueltrs and superfne
cigars at George Masten's well known
house, corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
streets.
, 1888-02-16

MA and reliable Medicines are the best
OSN todepcnd upon. Acker's Blood Ell
ixir has been prescribed for years for all i'm
purities ofthe Blood: l~ncvcry form Of Scrof
ulous, Syphilitic or Mercurial diseases, II Ia
invaluable. For Rheumatism, has no equal.
DR.. w. n. Hunt.
, 1888-02-16
News Prom Iowa.

iowa City Republican,
Miss Josie Chi is in the employ Of
Albert Hemingway, where she will dish
hash during the coming summer.
, 1888-02-16
NNG v00SOVA

IS warranted, is because it is 80 best
Blood Preparation known. II wall posi-
lively cure all Blood Diseases, purffes the
whole system, and thoroughly builds up the
constitution. Remember, VIC guarantee it.
DR.. W. n. Hunt.
, 1888-02-16

a comparison Of the mails across the
Atlantic and Pacific shows that the news
% mn event IN Singapore reached New
York By the Pacific route one day ahead.
, 1888-02-16
Auest

Wed3inY and Visiting czyds in great
Fsrlety a. the Ies1er O1o
, 1888-02-16

Legal blanks at the Leader office.
, 1888-02-16

Courtesy Of Hyo. Archives g His+orio,1
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-15
HAPPY CATTLENfEN.
Premiums Awarded by Discrim-
mating Judges.


The awards for horses were continued
throughout the day with the following
result:
W. S. Stoner, Pipestone. first, Oh a two.
year-Old thoroughbred stallion.
Jay LeDue. Luverne, first, on a Handle
tonian mare four years old, and second on
q five-year old stallion of the same breed.
Gilfllan d Murray, Maquoketa. To-. first
sweepstakes for the best herd of Red Polls
cattle on exhibition.
ii. ". Stone d Co.. Morris, second and first
for the best herd in the state.
George Baker Il Son, HuStlsford, Wis, eX-
hibitors of DevoDs, first sweepstakes on the
get of bull of any kind of mich breed
E. f. Irwin, Richfield, second; also second
on grade herd of Holsteins.
y. j. Leavitt, Waseca, who eXhibe ted HOl-
stems took first sweepstake on young herd
of Mich breeds.
Samuel Leslie, Waseca, HolsteinS, secured
first premium on grade herd of four cows OF
any breed.
Jere Allis. Isinours Holsteins. first sweep
stakes on COW and bull of any mich
breeds.
G. f. Gordon. Koshkonong. Wis. first
premium on Guernsey bull of any age.
P. d. Brockway, Rochester, first on a Jer-
Eey COW.
A. a. Crane, CISCO, H., diploma for best
Hereford COW.
Luke S;annard, TayIor's Falls first and
second on grade short horn calves and first
sWeepstake for best grade herd on exhibition.
". II. Jacobs Madison, Wis, short horns.
grand sweepstakes for best COW and bull, beef
breeds on the ground.
Charles lie VescOnte. Hastings. Jerseys,
second Sweepstake on herd under two years
old; third on dairy herd, both on the
grounds and in the state
n. P. Clarke. st. Cloud, first and second on
young herd of Short Horns, and first on get
of bull.
j. Is. Matthews, ST Cloud, Polled Angus,
first on bull and COW of any age and second
on get of bull.
Spaulding IL Moffatt lie Sueur. first on
Short Horn heifer calf against thirteen en-
tries, and third on Short Horn herd.