Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-15
omcer Assassinated.

WASHINGTON, February 14th.-The At
torney- General this afternoon received the
following telegram from United States
Marshal John R. Mizell, Jacksonville, Fla;
"W. B. Saunders, one of my bravest and
most efficient regular deputies, was brutally
assasslnated at Quincy, Gadsden county,
Fla, yesterday afternoon about 3 o'clock,
where he had gone with myself and other
deputies on official business. Full report
at once by mail"
A Jacksonville special says United
States Marshal Mizell and Deputies Lang
ford and Saunders went to Quincy last
Wednesday to serve suhpenas upon jurors
and witnesses. In the afternoon two men,
named Mcfarland and Mitchell, asked the
officials to ride on to the tobacco farms
Saunders went with them. Mizell and
Langford did not An hour later Mitchell
returned with Saunders body, the unfor-
tunate Deputy having been shot in the
head. Mitchell was placed under arrest,
but Mcfarland was not to be found.
No explanation was given, and by the
advice of friends the two other officers left
for Jacksonville that night During the
Farmers Alliance Convention a month ago
Mcfarland was arrested in Jacksonville by
Saunders, on charge of conspiracy opre-
vent the officers from executing legal pro-
cesses. This is said to have greatly in-
censed them. He gave bail on the charges.
No other cause for the killing is known.
Temperance Women Explain.
CLEVELAND, February 14th.-An expla-
nation issued by the Non-partisan National
Women Christian Temperance Union says
the item in the press charging that the
Non-partisan National Women's Temper
ance Union at the recent Convention
oIo roonlntinr1 rnroecnfod kv- Mrs
Aldrich, of Iowa, to make war upon the
old Women Christian Temperance Union,
is utterly false, and that instead Mrs. AID
rich presented the following resolution,
which was adopted "That paper be pre-
pared from the official records of the Ma
tional Women's Christian Temperance
Union and the records of the Convention
of the Non-partisa2 National Women's 5
Christian Temperance Union, showing the
differences between the two societies on
partisan questions"
Public Surveys.
WASHINGTON, February 14th-Secretary
| Noble to-day transmitted to the Senate a
draft of bill prepared by Commissioner
Croft, of the General Land Office, amend
| ing the second section of the Act to reduce
the expenses Of the survey and sale of pub
| lie lands. The bill provides that the printed
manual Oh INSTRUCTIONS lDT tUe survey u pun
| lie land and special instructions to the Sur
veyor-General, when not in conflict with
| instructions or the manual of the Commits
sioner, shall be taken and deemed to De
| part Of every contract for surveying public
| lands. The Secretary, in transmitting the
bill, says the purpose Of it is to legalize the
manual of surveying instructions and is
| intended to supersede that prepared by the
General Land Office in 1855.
/ Grand Army Roster.
WAsH1SeToS, February 14th.-Senator
Evarts to-day introduced bill authorizing
the Secretary of the Interior to purchase
| FIVE Thousand copies of the historical book
| of reference known as the National Ros
| ter of the Grand Army of the Republic,
| for which the bill appropriates $50 600.
TIE purpose of the purchase is for distribu-
| ton by Senators and Representatives oi
one copy to each county library in the
United States, so it may be accessible TO all
who wish to read it. The bill provides
that the roster shall contain not less than