Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-22

EAST OF THB ROCKIES.
4 Passenger Train Demolished by a
Freight Near Omaha.
California Pioneers Have a Grand
Reunion in New York-Remin-
iscences of Early Days.
l5PEc1AL DISPATCHES TO THE RECORD -UNIox.l
EAST OF THE ROCKIES.
lsPEaAI DISPATCHES TO THE RnooRD-UsIoz.l
REUNION OF ARGoNAUTs.
A Pioneer Dinner in New York-Some
the Guests Present

A Pioneer Dinner in New York-Some of
the Guests Present.
New York, January 2Ist-The Associ-
aled Pioneers of Territorial days in Cali
fornia celebrated the forty. first anniversary
by dinner last night at Delmonico's.
Among the guests were General Sherman,
r. U. johnson, Demas Strong, Sinclair Nc
Kelway, II. Wilson, George Hamlin, James
McCloskey. James NJ. Pray, Charles W.
Schuman, William NJ. Walters, William A.
Hedenberg, William NJ Burgoyne, James
S. Spinney and others. The room was dec
GRATED with bunting, and to remind the
boys of olden times signs were hung about
the room bearing the names Of different
camps and claims, while others bore the
names of various keepers of suffers stores
in those days. Many letters of regret were
received.
General Sherman spoke on the pastoral
days of California in '46 and Al. He said:
In 1S4S l was A6jutant of the Depart
ment, and l well remember the first piece
of gold We were in Monterey, and one
afternoon two men came down from the
mountains with saddlebags across their
mules and told us they had gold with
them. We looked at the nuggets and
found they were gold. The men said that
up at Captain Suffers, whence they came.
there were heaps of gold, mountains of it,
and that Captain Sutter had sent them
down in order to get title for a quarter
section which he occupied.
''Of course we couldn't give them title
to the land. We went to Suffers. 1t took
US two weeks to go from Monterey to Sac
ramento, where now it requires only about
eight hours.
"You remember Sam Brannan, the
Mormon gentleman ?"
"Yes, yes"
"Well, ne came down to the diegiDgs to
collect tithes from the Mormons who were
working there. They paid tithes for
while until they came to Captain Mason,
the commandant, who asked, Is 1t right
for US to pay this tithe?' Yes was the
response, if you are darned fools enough
to do it. Thereupon the supply stopped,
but Brannan had by this time collected
$4,000, and Brigham Young sent to him
for the money. Brannsn refused to give
it up, and sent this message back: 4 col
lected this money for the Lord Jesus
Christ, and when be sends for a certified
check he can have it,
General Sherman spoke at considerable
length of other California "reminiscences.
and told an amusing story of Jim Crow
Smith. He took occasion to condemn the
action of the Vigilance Committee. 'Know-
ing Judge Norton as l did, he went on,
II stood by him as loLg 1 could and then
went under" General Sherman concluded
with an eloquent tribute to General FIRE.
mont.
R. U. Johnson spoke of the work which
is being done by the Century Magazine in
commemorating the fortieth anniversary
of California becoming u State.
Addresses were also made By Sinclair
McKilway, editor of the Brooklyn Eagle,
who spoke of the press, and by DR.. G.. @.
Couteas. All the guests joined in singing
old camp songs of the days when they
went gold hunting, and how they did sing
The evening was an enjoyable one through
ont and the boys dispersed to meet again
this date next year.