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Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-14
stances anybody should be otherwise than
BOYS FARM SCHOOL.
Prospects of the Establishment of Such
an Institution.

an Institution.
Yolo Mail, June 18th
movement 10 establish fam and
school for the employment and education
OF boys has been originated by Myron H.
Savage, OF San Francisco. The plan is TO
purchase farm of !, 200 TO 1000 acres, TO
be conducted as a fruit farm ON the COOP
erative basis with boys to perform the labor,
a good school TO be maintained in counec-
tlon with the farm. The arrangement
would be that six hours be devoted to study
and four to work upon the farm, the boys
to receive their board and wages of 81 per
week. Such institutions have been put
into successful operation in other States
and have proved beneficial With the
number OF youths growing up in California
without practical knowledge of the
means OF making or gaining a livelihood
other than the overcrowded avenues OF
desk and counting-house,t this proposition
certainly offers better education of practi-
cal benefit than q great many others. 1t
would certainly help to lessen the number
OF youths who complain that for the want
OF employment and means TO gain an edu-
cation, are forced to stand idling around on
the street corners smoking vile cigarettes,
II not contracting more pernicious habits.
The matter has been almost definitely set
tied that the plan will be put in operation
at an early day.
The site of the farm has not vet been
definitely settled, but Yolo, Solano, Colusa
and Butte have the best chance. In either
of these counties good land may be had
comparatively cheap, and on account of
superior fertility is greatly favored Mr..
Savage will soon visit each OF the counties
named, and the county he considers most
advantageous will be selected.
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THEY ALL READ IT.
Letter From a Pittsburger Concerning
that City's Light system

Letter From Pittsburger Concerning
that City's Light System.
The following letter from Pittsburg, Pa,
has reference to an article published in
these columns recently, concerning the re-
port made by Messrs. Steinman and Pier
son to the Capital Gas Company, of this
city:
EDS. RECORD UNION, Sacramento: In
reading an interesting article in your paper
of May 3lst, with reference to incandescent
electric lighting, headed More Progress"
the writer noticed that the only places in
any of the cities mentioned in which the
size OF the plant is given are those of Pitts
burg and Allegheny, concerning which the
statement was made that there are here
1900 incandescent lights and 800 arc
lights, mostly furnished by the Brush sys-
TEN. This being so manifestly incorrect.
we think it advisable to communicate with
you 50 as to make the following correc-
tions:
In the cities of Pittsburg and Allegheny
there are about 10000 I6 candle power
lamps supplied from central stations, all of
them being of the Westinghouse alternat-
ing current system; there are also between
700 and 500 arc lamps, portion of which
are Brush and the balance Waterhouse.
There are number of isolated arc and in
candescent plants of various makes, but the
writer only knows of one Brush incaudes-
cent plant in the two cities, which is of
about 200 lights, and is situated in the
Duquesne Hotel on Smithfeld street. We
might add that this plant Is using Sawyer
Man lamps. Yours very truly,
ALLEGHENY COUNTY LIGHT COMPANY.
G. H. BLAXTEE, General Manager.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-14
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mrs, General Davidson is at Chico visiting
| friends.
W, J. Irvine and family are home again from
Bartlett Springs.
Miss Annie Brown, of this city, is visiting
friends III Stockton.
Percy W. Allen has gone to Bakersfield to
spend his vacation.
r. NJ. Huston, Deputy Assessor of Yolo was
in the CITY yesterday.
Mrs. Clara W. Prentice left yesterday for a
visit to San Francisco.
H. Washburn. a prominent stockman OF san
Francisco, was in the city yesterday.
Executive Secretary Douglass, of the Gov
ernors office, is back from Yosemite.
Mrs. J. H. Craddock and daughter, of Marys-
vile, are en- route East for the summer.
Major John Egan and family set off last even
ing for Tuolumne county and Yosemite.
w. F. Cronemiller and wife have returned
from six months residence at Los Angeles
Miss Helen C. Curtis, of San Francisco, is visit
ing the family of her uncle, ". l.. Chamber
lam.
Assemblyman J. S. Briefly. of Los Angeles,
has been in the city for several days. He has a
proposition before the State Board of Examiners
for the sale of bonds OF that county.
Frank Davidson, of this city, is on camping
trip in the Butte Meadows, accompanied by
Guy Kennedy, OF Chico. They report having
slain deer-since the lst of July, of course.
Frederick B. Lord, of this city, son of the
late J. D. Lord, will graduate from Harvard Col
lege on the Dist instant. Fred was one of the
brightest pupils in our High School two or three
years ago.
Arrivals at the Capital Hotel yesterday: l.
J. Hanchett H. WashbuTn, J. w. Gray, San
Francisco; Mrs. Skies, Miss Skies, Davisvile:
W. II. Hunter, city; r. NJ. Huston, Woodland
c, E. Merritt, E. ". Congdon, Placerville; c. Il.
Allen, San Jose.
Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel yesterday
o. Harvey, Gait; W. g. Irvine, Richmond; 0. P
Dubbins and wife, Suisun; +. Z. Mitchell, Pa
rada; r, b. Young and wife, Los Angeles; W.
N: Haslam, New York; W B. Warren, w. E.
g +. Bryant, Diamond Springs; W. W Douglas
Yosemite; Robert Sheldon, Oakland; a. Camp
bell, J. B. Leonard, los Angeles; J. P. Hymes
| John L. MarOni New York; W. L. Hungstred
| Sioux City; $ Caro-, Chicago; a. NJ. Yahl
Woodland; c. W. Henderson and wife, New
| York. s. Blum, Will B. Corwin, W. B. hopkins.
F. S. Holt, VIM. Singer, Jr.. J. NJ. C. Jasper San
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-14
BRIEF NOTES,

The steamer Dover went up the river
yesterday.
The river marked Is feet 10 inches on the
gauge al the foot of X street last evening.
The subject for to night at the Seventh
Day Adventists' tent will be: Be Ye
Perfect"
Thomas G. Sherman, of BROOKLYN, n.
Y, will lecture at Turner Hall tonight on
the Single Tax" doctrine.
Judge Armstrong yesterday granted
Olive n. Miller a divorce from Frank n.
Miller, on the grounds of desertion.
Assessor Frost has enriched the County
Treasury to the extent OF $500 poll taxes
and $1,000 personal taxes collected the last
few days.
J. w. Keys was appointed Notary Pub
lie for San Francisco yesterday. NJ. T.
Dusenbury was commissioned as Notary
for Alameda.
The Unitarian Sunday school picnic will
| be held at East Park tomorrow. Cars will
leave Fourteenth and Il streets for the
Park at 10 o'clock A NJ.
The room of William Matthews. in the
| City Hotel, was entered yesterday and des-
poiied of some articles of jewelry. The
/ thief has not been caught.
| SplAlO hsaN dSO MISS NAY Wnll6
| driving to her home, some miles from
/ Woodland, was thrown from her buggy, in
! consequence of a collision with post, and
sustained painful but not serious injuries.
Kitty Bowman, an L-street siren, is
under arrest accused of having stolen the
sum of $40 from gentleman from the
rural distrlcls-the old story of the spider
and the fly.
The Woodland papers are quarreling
over the matter as to which hiss the grester
! circulation-in fact, they are quarreling
over a great many trifles. Their space
should be more valuable for other pur-
| poses.
Articles of incorporation of the Fresno
! Hall Association, Independent Order of
! Odd Fellows, were fled yesterday in The Sec
retary cf States office. The Directors are
Claus Kreoger, Henry Lanz. o. Thompson,
A NJ. Drew and Richard Williams.
Business in some lines in the city is re-
ported to be fouIishing like the proverbial
green bay tree. Justice Henry yesterday
| filed nine certificates of marriage in the
Recorders Office. All of the hymeneal
contracts were entered into during the last
fortnight.
| A. A. Walton, reported elsewhere as
one of the committee appointed by
| the ZOuave Guards, called at the RECORD
| UNION at late hour last night to say that
the appointment was made without his
sanction, and that as soon as he was ap-
prised of it he formally declined to serve.
In the Sheriff's office: YES said
Deputy Sheriff Coons (referring 10 a person
recently deceased), II used TO know him
in early days at Muletown Muletown ?''
remarked bystsuder, THAT must be
somewhere near Jackass Gulch?" Ex.
acily," replied Coons, Just across
He was not allowed to finish, for Beckley
came TO the rescue with the stuffed club
kept there for such exigencies.
Last evenings open air concert drew an
/ immense throng of people to Capitol Park.
The weather was delightful; the big round
moon shone down full upon the beautiful
scene; the Husssr band discouIsed delici-
ous music; the city maidens were out in
| their breezy summer costumes and all the
rest of their loveliness, and il is difficult to
understand why-under these circum-
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voirs out of hand and to demand that they
shall no more be tolerated. But this is
the extreme and the unrefecting view.
Water power is the most economic of all
powers, and that is the best water power,
as also that is the best water supply for
towns which has its source in stored, or
rather in the restrained flow of water in
order to produce a fall needed and that
may be called upon as required, and be free
from the fluctuations of high and low
water. Georgia owes her new era of
progress and development to her water
power resource, and New England credits
her greatest manufacturing interests to
like causes, while many cities owe and
must be dependent upon reservoirs for
water supply. If those who so much fear
the breaking of reservoirs, would confne
their objections to field in which there
shall be an uncompromising demand for
the proper construction, the regular in
spection and the constant official and ex-
pert supervision Of reservoirs and all
water restraining works, the good sense of
the country will come abreast with the
idea. The Conemaugh dam broke because
it was i'll constructedin the first place, and
had no proper care in the second place.
1t appears to have been built in violation
of the first principles of engineering and
the elementary maxims of construction
The Mill river disaster, caused few years
ago by the breaking of a water re-
straining dam, and which was the New
England horror of the day, was due to faulty
construction and to lack of proper super
vision, just as was the case on the South
Fork of the Conemaugh. There are re-
| straining walls for the keeping back and
elevation of water that have stood for ages
in Europe, against all floods and even
against the effort of man to destroy them;
there are many in our own county that are
properly built also. But neither manu-
featuring nor any other interests must be
BSAAiii11Su III tilS W uuiSSJIdlilSulN
expose human life to destruction by the
construction of dams behind which are
confined large bodies of water at consid-
cradle elevation. When works are needed
to raise the level of waters, they must be
constructed in such a manner and pro-
vided with safety escapes in such way as
to remove the menace to all dwellers be-
low. One lesson of the Johnstown disaster
is this, that if there are any more floods
from broken dams, there must be some one
to be held accountable. And that means
that from this time forward there must be
competent supervision of all restraining
works to hold back water; that the State
authorities neglecting to provide super
vision of such structures in the future, will
be amendable to the charge of responsible
ity for any accidents that may happen
from the breaking of these artificial walls.
No more building of dams must be per
mitted except under the eye of official and
careful engineers of proved competency,
and none should be permitted except pro-
yided with escape fumes that will relieve
orprevent extraordinary accumulation and
pressure.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-14

Things Look Brighter for the Prisoner
She is Held for Trial.
LIVERPOOL, June 13th.-Mrs. MAVERICK
declined to plead yesterday in Court
whether guilty or not of numbering her
husband. 1t was her first appearance be-
fore magistrate for trial. Crowds sur
rounded the Court house to look at her.
The evidence submitted was the same as
that produced before the Coroner, and not
in as complete chain as already described.
Mrs. Maybricks solicitors appeared for
the defense, though Rockford, the barrister,
was absent. 1t IS reported here that money
has been received from America 10 aid the
accused.
The questions on cross examination to-
day indicated what line the defense will
take before the trial at the August assizes.
They were intended mainly to show May
bricks habit of taking all sorts of nerve
tonics containing arsenic-in short, was q
confirmed hypochondriac.
Mrs. Briggs, the meddlesome friend of
Mrs. Maybrick, came out in bad light on
cross examination. 1t appeared that she
suggested that Mrs. Maybrick, while under
! arrest should write to Briefly asking for
money. Mrs. Maybrick conhded in Mrs.
Briggs, believing her to be her friend. Mrs.
Briggs only explanation was that she gave
the ADVICE TO MIS-. Maybrlck IN sarcasm.
This was the only one of the striking incl
dents of the day.
Another point in Mrs. Briggs testimony
goes to help Mrs. Maybrick. 1t seems that
all the bottles containing arsenic we've
found either in the bedroom or dressing
room adjoining the one used jointly by
Mr.. and Mrs Maybrick, but in Mrs. May
brick wardrobe, which alone was her ex-
elusive property, no poison bottles were
found. Altogether, Briggs was good wit
ness for the accused.
Alice Trapp, the nurse who opened the
letter dropped in the mud by Mrs. May
bricks baby, also in her testimony ap.
peared to make the most of every fact she
could recall against the accused.
The police examination is not yet fin
ished, but on the whole things look brighter
for the prisoner, if she can get money
enough to carry on the defense.
MIR. Brateson, who was an intimate friend
of the Maybrick family while living in
Norfolk, Va, has arrived, and it is under
stood will give evidence that Maybrick was
in the habit of taking arsenic as a tonic.
Mrs. May brick looked very much better
in Court oday than at the inquest She
was cool in conduct, and followed closely
the cross examination of witnesses whose
testimony is expected to convict her when
the case comes before the jury.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-14
: CASE ~ POINT.

IN our ioreiathers' days, pimples were at
tributcd to diseased blood But modern
medicine has demonstrated that rich food
does not create crcqt.ons by ioulins the
blood, but rc;aris digestion, which makes
the stomach torpid. and the circulation
sluggish, and in t,1ra causes IN enfecbled
action OF the pores which congest or become
pimply. The modern theory therefore is not
to treat the blood, but the stomach and liver,
and tits under this new idea that joys Vege-
table SarSapa-i,la was conceived. Il is wip-
ing the old blood disease - idea ont of cz-
istence. \ case in point; Il have had for
years spells OF Indigestion and dyspepsia and
tried nearly everything Finally / took one
OF the leading sarsapa-iilas. 1t caused PIN
pies to break out on my face, which l
was told was caused by the potash. Hearing
that joys Vegetable sarsapariiia did not con-
tain mineral, sent for it. The pimples dis
appeared and have had no return of the
old spells. II is a cure for indigestion and
dyspepsia and the attendant face eruptions. ."
Mrs. c. D. STUART.
l22l Mission street, :. F.
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IT Is reported that letter has been re-
ceived from Stanley, under date of Decem-
Der ID, to the effect that his force had ar
rived safely at the southeastern shore of
Albert Nyanza; that he had again met
Emin Pasha, and had again parted COM
pany with him. This news is reasonable.
1t is the point named in the dispatch from
which we had reason to expect to next
hear from Stanley. 1t is now probable
that he will make for the Zanzibar coast,
and will soon be heard from within the
settlements of that section, en- route to
England.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-14
ARID LANDS,
The United States Senate Committee on
Irrigation and Reclamation.
The following communication, received
at this office YESTERDAY, is self.explanatorY:
UNITED STATES SENATE,

UNITED STATES SENATE,
WASHINGTON, d. c.. June l, 1889
Editors RECORD UNION, Sacramento, California
SIRS: AS you are aware. the United states
Senate has appointed Special Committee on
Irrigation and the Reclamation of Arid Lands.
ana charged 1t with an inquiry into those SUBJ
lects. SAID committee will meet at St Paul
August lst next, and on that date will com
mence its tour of field investigation. II will be
accompanied by Director Powell of the United
States Geological Survey, and by en- engineer
expert assigned to its service.
The committee desires the active cooperation
OF the newspapers published within the dry
area-that is west of the Tooth meridian of west
longltude-in the work of arousing pubic at
1t especially asks for their aid in the gathering
or data and the collection of facts. 1t is ur-
necessary to recapitulate to you what those facts
are, but their collection will be a matter of
essential service in laying the foundation of in
teI!lgent opinions for legislative and other
action in the future. Each district and section
should endeavor to secure as full presentation
OF It's own conditions as may be practicable.
1t VIII prove of value to the committees
work II copies ofany publication you may make
are sent to the committee.
reellng assured that you comprehend the i'm
porIance OF this investigation and asking there
lore your active aid, in such ways as your jude-
ment determines, the committee leaves the mat
ter with you.
Communications, papers, reports, maps etc,
may be addressed United states Committee on
irrigation (care United States Geological Sur
vey), Washington, d. C..
Letters of inquiry may be directed to Richard
J. Hinton. Irrigation Engineer (care Director
United States Geological survey, Washington
The special Committee consists of the follow
ing Senators Hon. VIM NJ Stewart Carson
New. (Chairman); Hon. p b. Plumb, Emporia'
Kan; Hon. Wm. B. Allison, Dubuque. Iowa:
Hon. Frank Hiscock, Syracuse, n Y: Hon. ],
X. Jones, Washington, Ark: Eon J. H Reagan.
rttaJ5estlne' Texas; Hon. A. P. Gormsn, Laurel,
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-14
Sacramento,s Needs.
[Marysville Appeal, June 18th.

Sacramento is certainly beautiful city
and the State has reason to be proud of the
Capital. 1t is the fashion TO poke fun al
tde old place, but in her numerous fine
buildings, handsome residences, beautiful
gardens and many miles of shady streets
there is much to admire. No interior city
has better climate, or affords better edu.
cationsl or social advantages With 6
little more enterprise Sacramento would
outstrip Los Angeles. Among the needs o.
the Capital are first-class suburban hote
and the development by irrigation and sub
division of her adjacent tributary territory
on the east and north, particularly the
Norris grant
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-14

THE dispatches announce that much
alarm is felt in Ottawa, and generally in
Canada, over the refusal of the Washing
ton Government to grant to the Canadian
Pacific bonding privileges over its line
through Maine to the Atlantic 1t is to be
hoped that the alarm will expand and
continue, and that correspondingly con-
gratulatory feeling may prevail on this
side of the line. The proposition of the
Canadian Pacific was simply this: that it
should have the privilege of port of free
entry and export upon the Atlantic within
our domain, to enable it not only to erin
pie but to crush American transcontinental
commerce. If it can secure the privilege
of transporting goods into the United
States free of duty under bond, and to re-
ship them from the Atlantic terminus OF
the foreign road located in the State OF
Maine, that line will be able to corner and
control the Oriental trade with Europe,
and to strip from the American trans
continental lines the last vestige of their
| through business. There is no subject OF
the present before the American people
fraught with as much profound interest as
that of the aggression of the British
American lines of transportation upon
American commerce. If the American
people wish their freight carriage business
between the two oceans to be transferred
bodily to the foreign road, and to be taken
entirely from the American lines, with
their consequent ruin, they have but to
favor the schemes of the tax-free, enor.
mously subsidized and Governmeut-forti.
fled, political and military road known as
the Canadian Pacific.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-14

The REcoRD- UNION, SUNDAY UNION and
WEEKLY UNION are the only papers on the
Coast, outside Of San Francisco, that receire
The full Associated Press dispatches from, all
parts Of the porld. Outside of San Francisco,
they hare no competitors either in influence
home and general circulation throughout the
State.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-14

If the corporation of Yale College has
not the power or the courage to control
the impudent and lawless fellows who con-
stitute the classes of that ancient institu-
ton, the local authorities should take the
matter of preserving order into their own
hands. 1t is strange and disgraceful
tradition that the youths collected at that
seat of learning have license to make
hoodlums Of themselves, and to afiiict the
public with offenses that, committed by
other citizens, would land them behind
prison bars. Less than year ago the Gre
spectacle" roughs of Yale blew up the
monument erected to the memory of that
eminent scholar, Professor Silliman. Now
we are told of their putting the lives of
the multitude in danger by their assaults
upon passing circus and menagerie,
which so infuriated the wild beasts of the
concern as to put the bystanders in immi-
nent danger. If college life produces no
better impression upon the minds of the
college residents as to what are their duties
to their neighbors, their country and their
God, than the acts of these students indi-
cate, then college life is not only failure
but positive evil to organized society
That students should indulge in sports, in
healthful recreation, in harmless merri.
ment, and among themselves in humorous
but inoffensiye banter and joking, is q
matter of course; but that they cannot
rest from the labor of the classroom ex.
cept by indulgence IN vandalism, law.
breaking, property-destroying and hood
lum-like conduct, is absurd. If two OIL
three of these big-headed youths could be
made an example of before the law, il
might have a salutary influence upon tn,
college, and certainly would inspire greater
respect for the government of the Yale.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-14

SINCE the breaking of the Johnstown
reservoir, and the awful loss of life conse-
quent upon tha: deplorable event, the
people have been considering the question
of the storage of water, as related to its
being menace TO the dwellers below
reservoirs. In many quarters there has
been disposition 10 condemn all reser-
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San FRANCISCO AGENCIES.

This paper is for sale at the following places:
I. P. Fishers, room 2l, Merchants Exchange,
Agent for San Fran cisco; the principal News
Stands ana Hotels, and at the Market-street
Ferry.
Ss- Also, for sale on all Trains leaving and
coming into Sacramento
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4A-UCClonS Sale

DELL & co, AUCTT0NEERS, WILL SELL
ID SATURDAY, June 18Th, at 10 o'clock sharp,
at Salesro7m, 927 X street, an Al Fisher Upright
Piano, fine tone, aud been in use only about
two years. Good judges pronounce it to be first
class and in fine order. Cost when new, $500.
Also cover and stool.
ALSO, four very large rolls of Administer Vel
vet Carpets, in good order, suitable tor public
halls; eisht fine Bedroom Sets, consisting of
walnut, ash and painted: Spring and Hair Mat
tresses; ParloT Sets; seventy-iive Wood-seat
Chairs: Bedstesds; Bureaus; WashstandS;
OUNCES Chairs; Tables: Brussels and Ingram
CarBets; Stoves; Ranges, etc.
ALSO, at commencement of sale, one Deliv-
cry Wagon and Harness, one Fruit Wagon,
Horses Buggies, etc.
No reserve. Sale positive. Terms cash.
Jel4-H BELL IL CO., Auctioneers.