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CAPAY VALLEY!
The Earliest Fruit Land in the State
Equal in All Respects the Famous Vaca Valley Witch Alnn
NPF2ECEDE-NTED TERMS
SsINTEIsEsT ONLY FOR PER cENrezS
TERMS.

Fy wan@y in Yo County
Lake Railroad the distance Funy 21mles
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DIVIDEND NOTICE.

SAN FRANCISCO SAVINGS UNION, 532
- California street, corner Webb: branch.
100 Market street, corner Polk San Fran
cisco.-FOr the half year ending 3Oth of June,
1891, a dividend has been declared at the rate
OF five and iour-tenths Is 4-1O) per cent per
annum on term deposit and four and one-half
(415) per cent. per annum on ordinary de-
posts, Tree of taxes, payable on and after
WEDNESDAY,, July l, 1891
1c2J-2wQ&w LOWELL WHITE, Cashier
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Medium Cows. over 6 fbs-....5 o. O.
Light Cows under 46 tbs......5 O. O.
Kip Kips; 4 ! z to 80 ms. .:;,.,'-.44 G 3 Ga
Calf Skins, 3 to 10 fbbs.....6 az @6
Dry Hides, usual selections, 10Lc; Dry
Kips, do, 1OH@11c e 10; Calf Skins, do,
1O1l@11c; Gull Hides, Kip and Calf. re;
Sound Dry Salt Hides, 5@6c; Gull Dry
Salt Hides, 4@41ac; Pelts. shearlings, 10
@20c each; do, short, 40970c each; do, me
dunn, T0@90c each; do, long wool, 9Oc@S1 40
each; Deer Skins, summer, 3714c; do, good
medium, soc to 35c; do, thin, 20@25c z b.;
Goat Skins. soc to soc apiece for prime and
perfect, 15@25c medium, 5@10c each for
small.
MEAT MARKET-Following are the rates
for whole carc2sseS from slaughterers to deal
ers: Beef-First quality. SIC; second quality,
sc; third quality, 4641%c p 10. Veal-Quota-
bic at 5@6c for large and 5@Sc = 10 for small.
Mutton = Quotable at 7@Sc q ID. Lamb
grain fed, heavy, 415@434c; light, 514@514c;
dressed hogs, 7GSc q 10.
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CASH GROCERY.

n A. oLMsTEAD & Co, FOURTH AND
X. i. streets, dealers in Groceries and Pro-
visions. Butter, Cheese. Eggs, finest Japan
and Bacon, and every description OF family
supplies.
r.1TIF NEWS OF THE WORLD Is CON
tanned in the WEEKLY UNION.
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LEE HAYS,

yXTELL BORER AND TANK BUILDER,
w tin, shectiron and copper work, plumb
ing. gas and steam fitting, jobbing, etc. 1914
J street. ap3-3m
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c. sOTER,

CARRIAGES, VICTORIAS. PHAETONS,
J Buggies and Spring Wagons. 90, 912,
oi4 Ninth street. Sacramento.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07
Settled Their Differences,

A Imaginable story comes from the
London courts. Two costermongers
claimed sndividually,the ownership OF
a donkey. and as the case was Que
calling for friendly arbitration rather
than judicial interference, the presiding
3udge recommended the .suitors to 20
isto the yard and settle the matter
between them. His lordahip's kindly
meaning seemst to have been misunder-
stood, for in thecourse OF half an hour
or SO the coasters" returned into
court, one of them with eyes blacken-
ed and his face cut and bleeding; and
the other in state of excitement be-
tokening the authorship of his friends
injuries. The Judge learned when it
was to late, that his advice had been
acceptedin it's Whitechapel sense, and
that the two men had belabored each
other until one of them resigned the
donkey to save his own person.
Sheffield Telegraph.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07
The Tunnel Was Forgotten.

At Brussels the visitor is often
struck by the extreme thinness of the
earth covering the Braine le Comte
tunnel, and wonders why the common
sense of the engineers who made the
line did not direct them to continue
the cutting, and thus avoid subter-
ranean passage
The mystery is thus explained:
When railways were in their veriest in
fancy, the Belgian Government sent a
party OF engineers over to England to
acquire experience in construction of
the new iron highways, and on their
return they were instructed to lay out
the first railway in that enterprising
little kingdom. The work was accord
ingly put in hand, but on its compile
ton one of the engineers exclaimed
GOOD gracious, we have forgotten
the tunnel'
The CONSERVATION was general, es-
pecially when it was remembered that
there was not a single line in England
but could boast of tunnel. What
was to be done? Nothing but to con-
tract the long corridor at Braine lie
Connte, and when it was finished the
earth was put on the top. The tunnel
was the glory of the line.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07
WHERE POKER RULES.

1t Is Down at Hot Springs, Ark,
and Nearly Everybody Plays.
Nearly all the buildings in town are
two stories high. The ground floor is
a saloon or store, and the second floor
a gambling shop of some sort. The
architects have planned with an eye to
poker. In nearly every second floor
room in the business part of the city,
often in daytime and always at night,
men are constantly shutting and deal
ing cards. In all the hotels card play
ing is incessant. Poker is the game
and the stakes vary with the place
and players. You can find negro
walters who are content with two
cent ante, and from there mount to
the game without limit, at which
only wealthy men can afford to lose.
There are all sorts and sizes of gam
blers here. The aristocrat who fire.
quents Phil Daly's when he is in the
East, and can tell you curious tales
of Monte Carlo or of Carlsbad in it's
palmy days-a dignifed old man with
gray hair and a piercing eye and a
grip like a wise, not a gambler in looks,
but professional gamester all the
same-survives here still. But he is
not SO often met here as use to be, if
the stories, of the veteran be true
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07
An Infatuated Bear.

A large black bear entered tunnel
in the Santa Maria mine, in Tuolomne
County, California, and attacked
several miners. AS the men realized
cheir danger, which was made appar-
emit only by the dim light OF their
candles, they grasped their picks
firmer and attacked the brute. The
foreman struck the bear first and
drew blood; this Infatuated bruin and
he made resistless charge ON the
men, extinguishing nearly all their
candles and lacerating one more
or less. One man named Dough erty,
had his scalp torn off by one blow of
the BEARS paw; others had the flesh
OF their arms laid bare. The contest
in the darkness and close atmosphere
lasted am hour, when the bear was
killed, more by good luck than by
skill. Exhausted as the n,em were.
they dragged the bear out of the
tunnel and took it to their station
on car.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07
Kindness Misconstrued,

Nowadays the uncharitable and the
evil-minded are prone to suggest some
Interior object for deeds Of common
kindness. Little courtesies from man
to man are magnifed into attempts
at shrewd diplomacy, and even the
motherly care of woman extended
to girl is credited with a sordid mo-
tive. The case in point is that OF
Julia Marlowe, the Cincinnati girl who
has made such signal success on the
stage. When seized recently in Phil
adelphia with an illness that almost
insured fatality unless a dispensation
of Providence should intervene, the
sufferer was taken into the home of
Mr.. Alex. Mcclure, and treated as a
daughter. She was the personal at
tention of Mrs. Mcclure, and physi-
clans of noted skill were called in to
preserve the life that promised so
much for dramatic art. Miss Mar
lowe was nursed back to recovery,
but the kind Trends who so tenderly
cared for her have become the victims
for the scandal-mongers. The neces-
sity for denial pleas it's own apology.
Cincinnati Inquirer.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07
How Flies Multiply.

From where do all the flies come?
The question is often asked, and
seldom receives so satisfactory an
answer as has been given by a
contemporary. The common fly lays
more than 100 eggs, and the time
from egg-laying to maturity is about
two weeks. Most of us have studied
geometrical progression. Here We see
it illustrated: Suppose one fly COM
mences ITO multiply and replenish
the earth" about June /. June Is,
if they all lived. would give 100.
Suppose seventy-fve of these are fe-
males. July1 would give us, sup
posing no cruel wasp or other un-
toward circumstance to interfere,
1880 flies. Suppose 1925 of these
are females,we might have July Is,
s43, $50 fies.-From Rarebits.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07
HE TOOK NO RISKS.

The Country Couple Went Home
With q Bad Opinion OF New York
People.
A sailor-looking man, with his arm
in sling was soliciting aims at the
Battery recently, and nearly every
citizen of the town who passed him
for half an hour dropped a piece OF
money into his palm without ques-
ton. They saw his arm in a sling,
noticed that he looked pale and
weak, and that was sufficient. Pres
emily there came along middle-aged
married couple who were taking in the
sights, and instead OF contributing
something the man queired:
"Want money, eh? What's the
m atter?''
"Broke my arm"
"Did eh?"
81 don't believe it," snapped the
wife.
Hold on, Mary" chided the hus-
eoU' ~ iAepy POSoAO1y OO CCAAlLlS CAo
truth. What do you work at?"
'Pm sailor"
"Y-e-s. Mary, does he look like the
tramp who throwed me over the
barnyard fence in April?"
81 think So"
"May not be, though. We don't
want to do him an injustice. Ever
down around Patterson"
mo, SIR"
"Ever tramp any,"
''No, SIR"
''Git drunk every day or two, sup
pose?"
''No, SIR"
"Sure you don't set on the fence all
summer and make the town support
you through the winter?"
mo, sir"
"Well, 1 don't know but you are all
right, and l guess
''Don't you give him a cent?" whis-
pered the wife. IF he gets money he
may 60 right off and buy burglar
tools with it!'
"By George! but 1 never thought OF
that! May come right down and
smash the stuffing out of that new
lock on the hoss-barn door and run
off boss! Well, friend, if your arm
is really broke, and if you are a sailor
and if you are honest but unfortunate,
Pm kinder sorry for you, but I'll
have to think it over and see you in
the fall when we come down agin.
Come on, Mary"
And when he reached home it was
to say to his neighbors: ayes, New
York is a wonderful big town, but
the people there are awfully selfish
and coldheartedp"- York World.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07
JOE's MISFORTUNE.

His Look Of Anguish Was Not Due
to His Having Been Crossed In
Love.
The great farmhouse is ablaze with
lights twinkling from every room.
Long tables groan beneath the loads
OF good things the busy housewife has
been days preparing,
From the barn came merry voices,
joyous laughter.
Let us stand, unobserved, in the
open door.
What a happy, merry lot of young
folks-stalwart, handsome young
men and healthy maidens!
They are ranged around the walls
with rapidly diminishing piles of corn
before them, which they husk and
throw upon the golden heap which is
growing in the center.
All! That young man had found q
red ear in his pile! He leaps to his
feet and dashes at one of the prettiest
girls! A short chase-a struggle
resounding smack-and it is over.
He has kissed her, maybe on her
collar or her back hair; but that
doesn't matter; she counts it all the
same.
How happy they all seem.
But no. Over there in dark corn.
'er sits a tall, powerful, handsome
young fellow all alone. He speaks to
nobody unless addressed, and then his
answers are short and sullen.
Ever and anon he casts piercing
glance at a young man of about his
own age who sits at the end of the
row opposite, chatting with a pretty
young girl. His face darkens. There
is murder in his eyes. He is in love,
perhaps, and jealous.
The bell rings for supper just as the
husking is done, and the huskers
jump up and scamper pell- incl toward
the house, but the tall, handsome,
young man remains seated and drops
his face in his hands with something
that sounds like sob.
For a long time he sits thus alone;
then light, hurried step is heard and
sweet-voiced girl asks:
"Joe, what's the matter? Had
trouble with Mary? You haven't spok.
en- to her tonight, hardly. Sick? Bet.
ter come in to supper. 1t will do you
good, maybe"
"No, sis, it amt that
'"Tell me, Joe" said his sister kindly
"Well," he answers, eve got on my
thin pants-I rid Dobbin over-tha1
was nail or chafe in tn saddle"
And the stalwart young hayseed
! Adonis broke down and shed a drench.
ing shower of salt and bitter tears
r. l.. Ketchum in Short Stories.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07

The National Committee OF the Peoples Party gathering
field Ohio, that for the coming
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07

great industrial and economical revolution
ontng the American we believe that the time has
os aha sSa the
2 That we most heartily indoe demands platforms
adopted S. No. 1882 ocaa Fla and Omaha Neb
maintained by people benefit
abolition Of national banks banks and for
the the country
ss1 2
the Quantity p land and amount n mossy upon
B-We demand the free unlimited coinage silver.
and that take obtain ali
used
needed them be reclaimed by and held actual
DBssvng the doctrine equal all special privileges
build the expense
Eve demand that all oountyhan
ed to tine expenses Oh the economically and
just equitabe system OF graduated tax on in
public transportation
demand the ownership
HIVE demand the election Of president president and u s.
tors by h direct vote Of a the people 81 oil
dPf sSe
to sssss %
each state be named by d
That central ommt s sss this body
and all ne saaeo
this
not later than June 1892 the nomiang
president president
s. That the members of the
independent
political agitation in their respective
RESOLUTIONS.
oyed THAT the question OF outrage
the favorable consideration OF the
Resolved chat while the iG 1889 pledged
that
currency basis and thus nearly billion
gold
and for the soldier and holdg that the
life
ey good as that paid to the bondhode demand the legal
with other
act justice to the union soldiers of this country.
Resolved That
employees mechanical
should farther extended apply
Dor in the different states of the Union. - =
Resolved this
usg the minimum asked
Chicago.
Resolved That attorney submit
providing the Oklahoma
unhappy settlers of that afflicted
constitutional said and thus
ton and expense"
The National Committee OF Peoples Party gathering
field, Ohio, to that for the coming
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07
WISCONSIN,
PLATFORM OF WISCONSIN STATE ALLIANCE.

that will not favor
citizens at the of another
"Resolyed, That we favor the free coinage of silver -
adjustment
the substitution issued by the
the country that the govern
with prudent restrictions
security at interest not to exceed per cent.
ResOlved That 10
their fair share the
this the greatest country IN the
Resolved the cooperation OF the several Industrial
their demands
announced in the St. Louis platform.
gambling boards of trade the most
the and demand it's prohbtlon
committee authorized establish
purchasing thereof that said
agency be the control OF said committee.
esoved government should telegraph lines and
OF the postal system.
Resolved government the United States and OF the
states should control railways.
president president and United States
should he elected by direct vote Of the people. 49,
Resolved ownership land by nonresident aliens should
prohibited.
esolved issuing railroads be prohibited
the public
shall returned the which
the money loaned.
against the free
their
members the Wisconsin Farmers
alliance.
Resolved alliance members be ad
without and have rights and privileges said
members.
giving the elective franchise to females
liquors compelled all
which allowed under
shall be
committed while under the influence
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-08-07
Officers Wisconsin State Alliance.

President.-Col. C. M. Butts, Vroqua
Vice President-P L. Scritsmer, Cartwright.
Secretary.-N. E. Moody, Viroqua.
Treasurer F. Donohue, Star Prairie
Lecturer-Col. R. May, Viroqua.
Next place OF meeting, Eau Claire.
The morning call., 1891-08-30

is the canter and gallop. And these English
girls can ride. 1t must be true that that
Buffalo Bill' reorganized the thing, as 1t
was rumored, for the most demure of them
ride with the fearlesSness and the rapidity
OF an Indian. Their riding habits seem to
be of little importance. A sailor hat and
jacket is seen as often as the regulation
habit and Derby hat. A nigh hat is con-
spicuously absent.
Americans visiting st. Paul's are readily
awestricken by the illusions of compari-
sons. An immense height seems diminu-
tive because it is surrounded by heights
so much greater. went through the tran
septs and paid close attention to the monu-
ments and inscriptions. was particularly
attentive to the funeral car of tile Duke Of
wellington. l noted that 1t was cast en-
tirely out of the guns captured in the va
rlous battles in which he was engaged; that
II LOOK three months to prepare his burial;
that the car was drawn by twelve black
horses. / also jotted down how much it
weighed, but the amount Is so great am
fearful my reputation for yeracity will suf-
fer If mention it; that it cost S65, 900, and
was never used but once. left space in
my notes TO figure out why tombs of Eng
lands great men are sometimes in one
transept or crypt and the monument in an
other. discover also in looking over these
notes that l sympathized with the man from
Nebraska when he said, 1t just keeps me
guessing to tell which is the tomb and which
is the monument"
Westminster Abbey was also visited. 1t
is wonderfully impressive, the writer says,
this hero-worship in England. While there
are some evidences of 1t that might almost
seem u sacrilege. there is something about
Westminster Abbey that brings out all that
Is best and tenderest even in the American
heart. 1t seems sacrlege that good and
bad Kings and Queens should find the same
resting-p place. 1t seems sacrilege that the
man we captured and hung as spy in 1850
should now be sleeping in the nave. and sis
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God Bless the Postmaster,

One of the most affecting scenes have
witnessed for long time took place few
moments ago. said the private secretary
to the Postmaster Of Philadelphia. A
young girl, pale, wan, but withal refined
and beautiful, and in destitute circum-
stances had been sent some $50 from home
and the letter containing it, owing to i'm
proper direction. had not been received by
her. Nearly three weeks had elapsed and
the poor creature in despair had sought the
Postmaster's office, where, in a frantic and
excitable condition she was ushered into
my presence. After hearing her story
sent messenger to the delivery division to
ascertain If such letter had been received
and il so II it had been forwarded to the
dead-letter Office; for an accurate account
is kept of every letter sent to that office.
Soon the messenger returned with the let
ter. which l handed to the poor girl with
the remark that II she would open it l
thought she would find her money. Her
delicate white fingers nipped little pieces
from the end of the envelope In rapid sue
cession, her eyes cleaning witk anxious ex-
pectancy, and as she caught sight of the
green bills she clasped her hands tightly
over the envelopes with its contents aud
with tears streaming down her pale cheeks
exclaimed: "God bless the Postmaster"
When she left there was not dry eye in
the ro0m.-Ex.
The morning call., 1891-08-30

taken to that old Roman fortress. the Recul-
yer; to that pretty little bungalow hamlet,
Blrchlngton, where Rosetti lived and died;
TO klngsgate, and little further on to the
North Foreland Lighthouse, where the clock
wonders Of the revolving light can be in
spected. Returning to Margate itself there
is me band on the jetty. There are bands
ON tne sands, there are bands over the way
ana bands around the corner There are
ceonlurers. there are acrobats, there are
nlsgers and other performers, who have
wonderful pit audie nee on the sands. SUD-
ported by an enthusiastic dress-circie be-
hlnd the railings of the esplanade.
1t is the one and only pleasure day of the
whole year to perhaps million souls who
come to Margate and Ramsgate. If these
have no time TO study the grand rocks of
Margate and the grander chalk cliffs of
Ramsgate, if the real beauty OF the former
is never recognized and the charm of the
endless shades of the antique terraces of
the latter wholly escape those who come
to ricochet in lurid heat and livid nervous
ness through thousand uncOuth diver
tiSements. it is not because Merry Mother
Margate holds not innumerable noble
charms. or Royal Ramsgate," the spIen-
did Romans Gate " to Britain, is net it.
self one of the most picturesque old sea-
side cities of the world.
Copyright, 1891. EDGAR L. wAKEMAS.
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THROUGH CONSFANTINOPLE.
Sights That Attract The Attention Of Those who
Visit There.

We did not 60 in a caique, because the
evening was supposed to be unusually
breezy q did not myself see ripple upon
the surface of the distant water) and we
could not go in one of the ordinary steamers,
because it would have been too common
place and comfortably economical fashion
of transporting ourselves into the presence
OF the Pasha. We therefore resigned our
selves to the inevitable Jumping and
humping that attend the unfortunate
occupants of carriage in the streets
of Constantinople. Reinach compares
them to the dried-up bed of noun
tain torrent. and the comparison is
such true one that l can find no better.
With the exception of the Grand rue de
Pera in the European quarter, and one or
two streets along which the antiquated
trans take their course, all the rest of the
streets are like mountain paths, into which
irregular blocks and stones of all sizes and
shapes have been tumbled, beaten and ham
mered. Some of the streets are mere flights
OF broken-up steps. cruel to walk upon.
Into most IL Is difficult and into great
MANY 1t is quite impossible for carriage to
enter
Brilliantly dressed ladies emerge from
them in sedan chairs, and hawkers in tat
tered turbans pass bowling and shouting
along with their loads of vegetables, fish,
carpets and Oriental stuffs; the dogs fight
and mate and litter in multitudss, according
to their own sweet will, and the hamals,
or street porters, go doubled up past your
windows. carrying one a bed. another a
piano, another the contents of an ordinary
furniture van upon his single back unaided,
1t is necessary to come to Constantinople
to see to what extent man can be utilized as
beast of burden. 1t will be believed that
nothing but the glimpses of such shining
landscape, all color and glitter, as one OBJ
tainS from the heights of Pera, could divert
the mind from dwelling upon the peniten-
tlal exercise of drive under these condi-
tions. Ours lasted at least an hour and a
half. But upon descending toward the pal
ace OF Dolma- -Bagtsche. where the unhappy
Abdul Aziz became (as Punch flippantly put
III Abdul as was," we found the macadam-
lied road great improvement upon the
StreetS.-Temple Bar.
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At THE GRAVES
OF THE GREAT
And Amid The HauRtS Of The Fashionable
in Lunnon Town."
Snap Shots on Rotten Row-A Visit to Famous
St. Paul's and Westminster Ameri.
can Hero -Worshiper in England.

In recent letter from London to the
Chicago Herald, Teresa Dean gives an in
teresting account Of Rotten Row and st.
PauPs and Westminster. as seen through
Chicago eyes,
1t is the proper thing, she says, to drive
in Rotten Row from to O. clock in the
afternoon; so Of course we went. 1t is
probably not the proper thing to be dis
appointed in the turnouts, but was. Even
the powdered footmen could not bring the
establishments up to the standard Of what
one might expect The dIgnified same
ness about the disappoin,ments, l sup
pose, vouched conclusively for the
patriciau blood of the occupants of the
carriages. 1t would not have been good
voucher in Chicago. In fact, it would not
have vouched for dignified respectability in
some instances, to say nothing of the blood