Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-03-27
TOUCHING INCIDENT.
Two Confederates Pay Tribute to the
Remains of General Crook.

Remains of General Crook.
WASHINGTON, March 26th.-"I have
heard great deal of talk about the blue
and gray business" said Captain Rourke of
the Third Cavalry, who was for fifteen
years an abide camp to General Crook,
but have never seen more touching in
cident than the one that happened at Gen.
eral Crooks funeral in Oakland. Md A
man came up to me, he was a very modest
quiet manly looking fellow, and said: My
name is Faye. | fought in the Southern
army during the war. l was one of the
band of men who rode into Cumberland
Md, one night and captured General Crook
and took him down TO Libby prison. Gen.
eral Crook accepted the situation so grace
fully that we all became very much at
tached to him, and now that he is dead
want TO know if l can help bury him.
Il told him that | was not in charge of
the funeral arrangements, but [ thought
could assure him that place would be
found for him with General Crooks own
staff, and when the body was lowered into
the grave this man stood by the coffin.
There was another man of the same
detachment of rebel cavalry who came
down from Grafton, W. Va, to pay his old
foeman the same honor. am sorry to say
l did not get his name, but Faye pointed
him out to me-"
Oregon's Navigable Streams.
WASHINGTON, March 26th.-To the appli-
cation of Senator Mitchell, referring the pc
ution of the Board of Trade of the City of
Corvallis to the Secretary of War, and re.
questinG that the engineer officer in charge
OF the improvements in that district be di-
rected to furnish estimates of the amount
necessary to finish the work of improving
the Willamette river above Corvallis, the
Secretary to-day responded by forwarding
to Mr. Mitchell a copy of the report of
Major Thomas n. Handbury of the Corps
of Engineers, dated the 10th inst, in which
1t is stated that before any additional
money is expended in the locality referred
to. careful survey of the river above and
below Corvallis should be made to ascer-
tain what is the extent of the change that
has taken place within recent years. and
what are the probabilities of cut of, and
what would be its probable eject should
one take place.
Major Handbury further states that to
make such a survey would cost about
$1,000. He further states that there are no
funds available from the old appropria-
ton with which this survey could be
made.
The Oregon delegation will make efforts
to secure the necessary appropriation.
Military Cs.Amitsees.
WASHINGTON, March 26th.-Chairman
Cutcheon, of the Military Affairs COMMITTEE
of the House, to-day reported favorably the
bill to establish and define the United
States sea coast and frontier reserve. The
bill provides that the United States sea
coast and frontier reserve shall consist of
such parts of the armed and uniformed
militia of several States as may from tins
to time be accepted as such sea coast and
frontier reserve, not exceeding at any time
one regiment from each Of said States, p1o-
yided, however, that from the States OF
New York, Pennsylvania and California
the Secretary of War may accept in bis dis
cretlon two regiments each.
The bill then goes on to provide tor the
organization, uniforming and drilling OF
troops, the latter to be done as far as posi-
BILE by the officers of the regular army.
Mexican Territory.
WASHINGTON, March Goth. = General
Sherman to-day reported from the Foreign
Affairs Committee and had printed CORE
spondence in reply to the, resolution of ths
Senate asking if enough territory could no
be secured from Mexico to give Arizona
sea port on the gulf
| Blaine transmitted The letter of Mariscal
| the NJ sxican Secretary of State, to Romero
| the Mexican Minister here, in which b,