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The record-union., 1891-09-08
The Chain of Evidence Tightening
About Dalton and Dean.
DETECTIVE LEN HARRIS IN A FAIF
WAY TO RECOVER.
A Man Named Carroll Suicides at San
Francisco Hotel by the Use of a
Dynamite Cartridge-The Body of
the Victim Torn Into Atoms, One
of His Arms Being Blown Through
the Window Into the Street.
Special to the REcoRD-UNroN.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
( MERGED, Sept. 7.-Y Yesterlay afternoon
Reflective Lawson hunted up the camp
ing party from whom the Ceres train
robbers obtained drink of water on the
evening of the robbery. He found them
near Athlon, ten miles south of here.
They are young couple named Graham,
and are on their way to Los Angeles.
Friday night they were camped near
Keyes, three miles south of Ceres. About
$50, when fairly dark, two men came up
and asked for a drink. One, a tall man,
came into the light, but the other, who
was shorter, kept III the background.
The tall man carried a short shotgun
wrapped in his coat. Mrs. Graham un-
hesitatingly recognized the portrait OF
Bill Dalton as that of the short man. The
Grahams will be confronted with Dean as
soon as possible, and if he is identified as
the tall man the evidence will be com
plete.
LEN HARRIS IMPROVING.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7.-Reports from
Alameda to-day were to the effect that
Len Harris, the Southern Pacific de-
tective, is resting well, and seems I a
fair way to recover from the wound given
him by the Ceres train robbers. The
bullet has not yet been extracted. It is a
buckshot and not rifle bullet, as at first
reported,
The men arrested by Sheriff Ray at
Traver-William Dalton and Wiley
Dean-are well guarded at the Visalia
Jail. General superintendent Fillmore OF
| The Southern Pacific said to-day that he
is confident they are the men who stopped
the train. The officials are looking for
another man, but the railroad people be-
lieVe that only two men are concerned.
Only two persons We're seen by the en-
gincer and fireman ou the night of the
robbery.
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County Board OF FGncntinn

At meeting of the County Board of
Education on Saturday Miss Eula Ander-
son was granted a grammar grade certi-
ficate on her Normal School diploma.
Miss Minnie Sweeney was granted a
renewal Of her grammar grade certificate.
Anna w. Clarke was granted gram
mar grade certificate on her Normal class
diploma.
Redpath's History of the World'' was
placed on the library list.
The board discussed the new course of
study, but no definite action was taken
thereon.
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Another Incendiarv Flre.

THE DALLEs orr, Sept. "A fire was
discovered early this morning in a
wooden building attached to two-story
brick, the Union Lodging house. The
inmates, several of whom were rendered
homeless by Wednesdays fire, were res
cued with great difficulty. The loss is
estimated At 81 eco; insured. The fire was
undoubtedly OF incendiary origin.
In view Of the many small fires since
last Wednesdays disastrous conilagra-
ton, a public meeting was held to-day
and an extra force Of police placed on
duty.
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Nttcmpt at CoI.rotipn

Late on Sunday night a man attempted
to stand up John Gcrmeshausen at
Third and NJ streets. He first asked for a
match, and then made grab for the citi-
zen, who broke away and drew his pisfoI.
The fellow finally followed Germeshau-
sen TO his gate. The latter should have
taken a crack ut him.
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Alaska is not SO bad country as it
gagged in fixing the boundary line on the
British border found grasses six feet high
along the Yukon and Porcupine, which
latter extends many miles above the
Arctic circle. There were also salmon.
berries, blueberries, currants and rasp-
berries in profusion, and hundreds of
acres of cranberries.
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The Weather.

The Government weather reports show
the temperatures at , y. NJ. and ) p. NJ.
yesterday We're Gi' and 90, while the
highest and lowest were 80 and GO, with
gentle soUtherly winds and cloudless
skies.
The highest and lowest temperatures
one year ago yesterday were Sgo and Sc,
and one year ago to-day So and 54o.
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by Charles Marvin; got record of 2:l3a,
October 4, 1889, and reduced it to 2:10l
present recordD at San Francisco, Novem-
Der 9th, same year.
CHAMPION FoUR-YEAR-oLDs.
Edgemark, b. b., foaled 1885, by Victor
Bismark, dam Edgewater Belle. Record,
2:l6, Lexington, October 16, 1889.
Sunol at this age trotted at Cleveland,
July 81. 1850, in 2:15; Buffalo, August Z,
1890, 2:114, and duplicated her remarlka-
BILE performance of November 8, 1889, at
Washington Park, Chicago, August %,
1890
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observances of Labor Day was regular
scheduled game between the San Fran
cisco and San Jose teams. The home
players could not get hits when hits were
needed, and lost the game by a score of
to 2. The batting of Cartwright and Ev-
erett were features.
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Pistols Fired, But No One Hit.

MERGED, Sept. THE Olsen and Me
Farland factions got together again yes
terday at Merced Falls, where Nat Me-
Farland and John Gibbons on one side
and VIII Olsen and Julien Variene on
the other, met in saloon and had Il
bloody encounter. Pistols were fired.
but no one was hit. All We're moro or
less bruised up. Ever since the Ivett
murder, of which August Olsen was ac-
cused, these two factions have been enc
miles, and whenever they meet a fight
enSues.
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Reol Es+a+o rro,sf,,..

The following real estate transfers have
been recorded since our last report:
p. HerZog to W. p. Todhunter-West
20 feet OF lot s, j and X, Front and Sec
ond; $50.
j. J. Royal to Mrs. n. J. Carsaw-
Northeast half of lot 10, First and Sutter,
Union and Sycamore streets of Slater's 5
Addition to Sacramento; $500.
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Diyorccd from TJis zI-ifo

W. II. Barker was yesterday granted a
divorce from Norah Barker in Judge
Van Fleets court, on the ground of in
temperance.
Plaintiff showed that while under the
influence Of liquor, his wife assaulted
him with dangerous weapons.
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Petition to Administer.

Mary J. White has filed petitions for
letters of administration on the estates of
John J. and Lucy White; also on the es
tate of Margaret Long, all deceased.
The property involved consists of the
interests Of these parties in farm in this
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80 of tlle cum ITo case.

Yesterday Judge Van Fleet dismissed
the writ of habeas corpus in the case of
the Colusa Chinawoman, Gum Ho. This
IS probably tho last of an attempt 10 force
the woman back into slavery
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OFF For Santa C,rnz-

A large number of the Native Sons OF
this city will leave by the early train this
morning for Santa Cruz, where the or
der Will tomorrow celebrate Admission
Day in grand style.
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The Ponsacola Ordered ID Honolul1
Boomers arc FIyinc.

SAC AND Fox AGENCY II. t., Sept. =
Boomers are flying in every direction at
the word of command from the cavalry
troops. who are clearing the reservation
of the Iowas and Foxes. No resistance is
being offered the troops, and it is ex-
pected that the lands viii be cleared by
The end of the week.
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AMUSEMENTS

Kate Castleton's Company (Cosgrove
4 Grants Comedians appeared at the
Metropolitan Theater to good house
last night. "The DazzIer'' as a play is
simply nil; it is merely an invisible
thread on which to hang plot too thin
! to be seen, and il seen too foolish to be
/ mentioned. Cast out all consideration of
/ the farce" and the company poses as q
company of very clever specially variety
! performers. Joseph OFT and Max Miller
/ are especially good low comedians. the
! former being wholly original. The seven
women, supporting, are clever, two of
| them good balladistS, and all of them
| shapely and comely, and in one scene so
costumed that hat-box would hold
! the apparel Of the whole lot. The
music is light, catchy and very prettily
! rendered. SO far as butfOOnery, eXtrava-
! CANT speciality acting and grOtesque act
! ing are concerned, there is not an incom-
! petent in the troupe. As to Kate Castle
! ton, she was surprise. She has a little
voice, but manages 1t with cOnSummate
| art, so weaving her songs into poses and
/ graceful attitudes and flood OF smiles
! that ii is difficult 10 tell which it is that
! pleases most She has real excellence III
acting that we had never credited her
/ with, and is a sOubrette who can well
/ take place with the leaders. She dresses
with exquisite taste; some OF her cos
tunes bring ordinations of admiration
from the ladies, and they fit her as If a
part of her being. She is the only female
member of her company who clings to
long skirts; she has wit enough to know
! that she is more charming i'll them.
Certainly "CastletOn'' was a Surprise-she
has comedy ability ofa superior order, and
wins the audience by consummate arch
ness. The Dazzler'' will be repeated to-
night.
The Australian Novelty Company"
which will open at the Clunie Opera
House in a five-nights' engagement,
commencing tomorrow evening, is said
| to be one Of the strongest Vaudeville or
! carnations now before the public 1t
has received the most favorable mention
from the press in all the cities in which it
has appeared on its American tour, no.
tably in San Francisco where the COM
pany played a successful engagement.
It's many and varied teatures-notably
among which are kublai-K K hams Black
Art, MOuiton and Dashway, as fine
triple hOriZOntal-bar men as exist, and
! the original Girarls, who have not been
eXcelled here and are especially fire gym
n&stS-tOrm combination interesting in
the extreme. The company numbers
some twenty-five talented artists, and the
engagement should be a most successful
one. The prices are placed at 80 and %
l
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MURDER AND SUICIDE.
An Oregon Lady Killed by a Per-
SiStent Lover.
He THEN SENDS FIVE BULLETS
INTO HIS OWN BODY.

The warship Pensacola Ordered to
Honolulu to Protect American In
notwithstanding of the Worlds
Fair National Commission-Boom-
ers Being Driven From Indian
Reservations by United States
Cavalry.
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Death From Unknown Causes.

EUREKA, Sept. The body of Lud-
wig Stein, an old German, was found in
Mad River yesterday. 4 handkerchief
with lot of stones was tied around his
neck. An autopsy showed that the man
was dead before the body was put into
the water, and the Coroner's jury rem
dcred a verdict of death from an un-
known cause. Stein had trouble with
his son-in-law, Adolph Fisher, lately.
The Pensacola Ordered to Honolulu.
WAsHNGToN, Sept. :. - Secretary
Tracy this afternoon issued orders for the
United States ship Pensacola, now at San
Francisco, to proceed at once to Homo
lulu. The state Of affairs at the Ha-
waiian Islands resulting from the death of
the Prince Consort is such that the pres
ence there of an American man-of-war is
necessary to guard Amer lean interests.
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Ghatern patlu fnr tltp aacn aonse.
NLH TOD a =
We place on sale grand lot of
Blankets, Conlf0rtabIeS and Spreads

AT cut rates. Hotel and hOusekeepers will
note the sizes and weights of the different lines
OF Blankets. We call the attention of horse
men to an extra-heavy and large gray blanket,
weight IoH pounds size 4-4 This blanket is
we'll adapted for sweat blanket, being large
enough to completely cover a horse:
800 German Honeyconnb Spreads, in white and
colors, suitable for three-quarter beds and cots,
only 4Oc each.
The Eureka Brown Blanket 49x68 suitable for
three-quarter beds, cots or saddle blankets
ST O5.
Blue Ridge Kersey Blanket, full size, WEIGHT
pounds, So 80 per pair
Dark Gray Wool Blanket, full SIZE weight 6l
pounds, S4; IL pounds, $4 so per pair
Prnston Blue Kersey All-wool Blanket 81
pounds, So per pair.
Balken Silver Gray Wool Blanket II 4 WEIGHT
81 pounds So % per pair
0an Diego Scarlet Blanket, guaranteed warp and
lllng all pure wool, 1O-4, Sc SO per pair
San Diego Scarlet Blanket, guaranteed all pure
wool extra large size, 1914 weight = pounds
81 80 per pair.
White Wool ia Blanket superior QUALITY
weight pounds, 81 per pair
EXtra-Iarge 14-4 Gray All-woo Blanket Cnnade
by l. Walker, Woodland), vveiqht 1O1l pounds.
thls IS one OF the largest and best blankets for
the price we have ever sold. So so per pair
Regular size ConfortabIes, fancy patterns 75c
ST. S1 25 and up
Extra flne and large Fancy Sateen Confortables,
well quilted, lined with turkey red, So rs.
White Marseilles Spreads, large size ST 80
= TT NJ nj
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The Leaaers Won.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7,-ono of the
The record-union., 1891-09-08
c. H. GILMAN,
.RED HOUSE, SACRAMENTO.
PACIFIC COAST SAVINGS SOCIETY.

subscribed Capital Stock, $4,000, 900
Authorized Capital Stock, $50, ,OOO, 900
The record-union., 1891-09-08

No. cas- ST.. sacramento. CAL.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-10
A COnvict's Queer Story.

II beg your pardon, sir, but can l speak
with you few mOments?" said young
man accOsting Republic reporter on the
street yesterday. He was fine looking.
athletic fellow, some % years of age, feet
high, well proportioned. possessed of a
handsome. pleasant face. cleanly shaven.
expressive dark eyes and black hair clipped
close. Il am in distress and wish to ask
not for money but for advice. My name is
Frank Joy, and while 1 have never COM
mitted a crime in my life I am, sir" he
hesitated and his face flushed, while his
eyes became suffused. with tears. Il am an
ex. convict. though as God is my witness I
was guiltless of any crime and most wrong
fully and cruelty punished. Only last
Thursday was pardoned by the President,
my alleged offense being Government one,
and was turned adrift on the world. to be,
as 1 find. avoided and spurned by all. for
as you doubtless perceive. sir, l am still
virtually in prison garb. am nearly out of
money, can find no work. have no friends
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-10

much larger market than exists in Europe.
We are built upon foundation OF which
this well paid labOrer is an important part.
We added an immense mass to this fOunda-
ton when we emancipated the slaves. We
increased the demand for goods by the diff
ference between the cost of supporting a
slave and that of supporting free man.
The new factor is sum to be estimated
only by the study of our own country. 1t
never before existed in any country. 1t is
a fact without precedent; and it is so large
that the whole fabric of our prosperity
rests upon it, Gradgrind may persuade
himself that he does not care whether poor
men can buy goods or not; but his perSua-
sion to that Indifference will give away just
as soon as the poor cease to buy his goods.
In short. Gradgrind cannot afford to see the
buying power of wOrkmen reduced with
cOmplacency. 1t means. whenever it be-
comes general fact. ruin for Gradgrind.
Whoever has anything or produces any
thing has given bonds for the maintenance
of wOrkmen's wages.
Well, then, the alarm has already been
sounded; do not refer to the tariff le-
form"-though that may be fatal-but to
certain matters over which the tariff laws
have no power. 1t is affirmed that the
character, social status. aspirations and
self respect of workmen in this country has
already fallen. An observer in a. manu-
featuring center recently said: 1.-The change
in ten years is frghtful. The old hands
have risen in life or gone west. The new
hands live in smaller quarters, care less for
the comfort of their families, and buy fewer
goods of any kind. They read less. take
newspapers more rarely, are less careful to
dress we'll on Sunday. and see their chill
dren in rags with cOmplacency which was
unknown ten years ago. The new people
are from Europe, and nine in ten OF them
have brought their old habits with them.
Higher wages mean to them only more rum
and more idleness.''
We hope that this is an exaggeratiOn.
But even if it be only very partially true, it
opens an unexpected vista, and an alarming
one. The only way to maintain wOrkmen's
wages is to keep up wOrkmen's characters.
If the character grows debaSed the wages
will drop to that lower level. A higher
grade of living is the only possible security
for higher wages. WOrkmen cannot long
get high wages to spend in rum shops.
Wages will sink to the level of their life.
But if the common market is to suffer so
great loss as this fall in wages and con-
suming power would occasion, then we
must all suffer. Nor is this all. The failure
would be that Of our civilization. We are,
every way. in all sources, most deeply in
terested in arresting the threatened decline
of the American workman. RAMEOUS.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-12-10
Initiating Great Men.

In one of the cities of the northwest lived
Mr.. John Easyman, his wife. and their only
son, Algernon. The latter, at the time of
which am writing, was twenty two years
of age, and his hobby was to initiate great
men. Mr.. Easyman had made his fortune
while railroad contractor, and to his wife,
who prided herself upon being person of
good taste, he left the education of their
son, AlgernOn. She. full of maxims and
wise saws about books and their uses. de-
cided to educate him at home. With this
end in view. she always was ready patron
of book. agents and their wares, and many
an agent upon leaving her house regretted
that there was not more people like good
Mrs. Easyman in the world.
However. in her library was to be found
many tones of advanced thOught-rich
stores of accumulated learning. Among
them were the ''Universal Instructors"
Words and Ways of Great Men," and
"GOld For The Million. or How to Get
Rich on Ten Cents Day." and many
others to be had by subscription only.
Well. to make long story short, the tide
of fortune turned against Mr.. Easyman.
DIS investments III STOCKS proved unluCKy,
although it was said that he was the best
judge of mule in that part of the country,
and that he never got the worst end of a
horse trade. His speculations in real estate
were all failnres, and this was the more
surprising when it was known that he could
estimate the contents of an embankment as
accurately as could a civil engineer. and
could tell to an hour the time it would take
given number of men and mules to re-
move 1t.
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Such was the state of affairs when Alger.
non Easyman resolved to retrieve the
family fortunes. Direction was given his
impulses on reading in the morning paper
the following advertisement:
WANTED-A young man of good education and
establishment Call or address 276O Commercial
street.
by jOve." said Algernon, IL will write
them letter. dOncherknOw. and will see
them in person to morrow. am sure will
get the situation"
II don't feel so sure about that" replied
Mr.. EaSyman; ''Mr. SlOe is out of town,
and the business is in charge of his mana
ager, Mr.. Sharpe" Speaking to his wife
he said, II wish, Elenaor. we had paid
more attention to the education of Alger-
nOn."
PPM sure there is time enough yet" re-
piled his wife, ''many men made their mark
later in life. caesar. you know. was forty
five when ~ 1egan the study of Greek
and"-
"Well. we'll" said Mr.. Easyman rising,
Il hope he will soon make his mark"
Time. 10 A. NJ. place. office of Sloe & Co.
Enter Mr.. Algernon Easyman-''Ah, good
morning. Mr.-ah-Sharpe, believe"
''Well, sir. what can l do for yOu?" said
the gentleman addressed.
Il called, dOncherknOw, in reply to your
advertisement in yesterdays paper. Did
you not receive my letter."
"Yes. believe we did get something re-
sembling letter. So you're son of John
Easyman?"
"Yes. and of good education and pleas
ing address,. dOncherknow."
YOU'RE dude"
$50 was Lord Beaconsfeld."
'YOur writing and spelling are defective" !"
$50 was the writing of Horace Greedy.
and Napoleon wrote that way purposely to
conceal his bad spelling"
''YOu know nothing of mathematics"
Neither did Lamartine. Boswell, or
COmbe; the latter being unable to master
the multiplication table,
Hem! Besides you're a drunkard and
are immoral"
"Well. Daniel Webster and E. A. Poe
liked glass occasionally. and the mmorali
ties of Byron and BoccacciO didn't prevent
them from acquiring fame"
but fear that it will prevent you from
acquiring fame. The imitation of the vices
only of great men is no guarantee of genius.
60 home and acquire some of the virtues Of
those men you have named-the senten-
tiousness of Webster. the mathematical ac-
curacy of Napoleon and the lucidity of
Lamartine and ByrOn-and then. even with
their vices, you can command your salary.
In fact. it was unnecessary, after sending
such letter, for you to apply in person.
There is no BUSINESS firm who would not
pay to keep such writer out of their en-
plOy rather than in it. The writing re-
sembles a section of barb wire fence in
the rear of cyclone. There is plenty of
cOnceit and assurance that does not recon-
mend you in the least. Incompetence and
ignorance are plainly visible between the
lines. A stammering sentence without a
verb, a misspelled word, or capital mis-
placed. or all these together, says plainly.
The one that wrote me is ignorant and in
competent" LACON.
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PERPLEXITIES.
TO MY FELLOW CONvICTs.

TO MY FELLOW CONVICTS.
How crooked is our life! Its ins and outs
We cannot scan;
How often do we say, THAT'S just too late
And spOils our plan."
How often we perplex ourselves, because
= go OF efforts vain.
And try, without success. to make things come
Round right again.
How disappointment will not let us hold
The course we would,
But throws us off from every hoped. for boon
That we think good.
How little things perplex our onward path
seo From day to day,
Seeming to render futile all our work,
Stopping our way.
Oh! could this crooked life be Strengthened out.
- And every bit
Met fairly by another, point to point
In sequence fit:
The difficulties then we're not so hard
~ To meet and bear,
Were there a carrying on OF some wise plan
And purpose fair.
What if the Masters plan be utter good,
Too vast. in sOOth,
For us to grasp it with our puny powersl
r In this grand truth,
For such it is-although things look not so
~ To our weak sight
Lies the true meaning of these crooked things
If read Alright.
The source of all the discord that we feel
Is that our will
Is not made one with Gods, and so we strive
To make life still
thing that we call good-a little good
S4' That we can know;
Instead Of in our ignorance content
Gods way to 60. MEMO.