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The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-02-18
Message Upon the ChoctaW and
ChickasaW Claims.
CONGRESS ASKED TO LOOK INTO
THE MATTER.
Considerable Opposition Manifasting
Itself to the appointment of Major
Bonebrake as Minister to Japan
Hearing Before the Senate Inter-
state Commerce Commlttee-Utah
Statehood Question.
Special to the REcoRp-uNroN.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE President
to-day semitic Congress a message in con-
nection with the Choctaw and Chicka-
saw claims, for the payment of which
Congress appropriated S2,99I, 450 in the
Indian appropriation bill passed by the
last Congress. He says that if the sec
ton had been submitted to him as sep
arate measure he would have disapproved
1t, but as Congress was in its last hours
disapproval OF the general Indian appro-
priation bill, of which this is part,
would have resulted in consequences so
disastrous that he felt it his duty to APP
prove the bill. But as the acceptance aud
approval of the conveniences provided for
devOlVed upon him he felt bound to look
into the whole matter.
1t has come to his knowledge that the
Choctaw Legislature has agreed to pay
to three Of that tribe % per cent of any
appropriation obtained from Congress,
and that the ChickasawS agreed to pay 10
per cent. of their interest to agents and
attorneys. The President also learned
that the action Of the ChOctaw Council
was corrnptly influenced in the matter.
The President does not think that Con-
gresS should SO legislate as TO give effect
TO such a contract, and is Of the opinion
that II the appropriation is TO stand pro-
vision should be made for protecting
these tribes against eXtortion.
The protective Intervention OF Congress
is asked in the matter of the refusal OF the
Chic<asaws to admit freedmen to citizen
ship.
The question of title of the Choctaws
and Chickasaws is taken up. The
words of the treaty. said the President,
point clearly to the conclusion that
the Government Commissioners and the
Indians themselves must have under
stood that this Government was acquiring
something more than q mere right to set
tie with friendly Indians, which it al
ready possessed, and something more
than a mere release OF right. Certainly,
If for an adequate consideration, by the
treaty the United States placed upon
these lands other Indian tribes, it was
competent to give them title to certain
reservations. This being so, compensa-
! ton for lands not needed for allotment
purposes should go to occupying tribes"
The recital is made of various tribes
having reservations in this leased district
to show that further appropriations are
involved in the settlement for all these
lands upon basis adopted by Congress.
The President does Rot approve of deal
ing with the question by piecemeal. 1t
would have been better, he says, if the rem
nant of title remains with the ChOctawS
and Chickasaws, to have settled the whole
matter at once. The calculations made
in arriving at basis Of appropriation, no
account being taken of SS00,000 paid by
treaty stipulation for the leased district,
seems to the President not just to the
United States. He commends the matter
to the attention of Congress.
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Special to the RrcoRp-uNrou.

BERLIN, Feb. 17.-Eugene Wolf tha
newspaper correspondents, whose reports
10 the T0ge6Idtt on the disaster to the
AeIewskl expedition and other matters
caused Chancellor Caprivi to order his
expulsion from German East Africa in
November last, has published an ampli-
ned attack on Baron Soden's administra-
tlon OF the Governorship of the East
African Colony. Wolff declares that no
report OF the actual losses of the last two
nghts with the natives was ever pub
hshed, nor, he adds, was the fact an
hounced that an English caravan was
pIandered. Wolff says all officers Of ex-
perlence in East Africa were either dis
missed or resigned in disgust, and the
ooGen regime is bound to end in disaster.
WON article will form the subject Of
interpolation in the Reichstag.
DR.. Marselle, medical adviser of the
sultan OF Zanzibar, gave two years ago
details with regard to the causes of the
troupleS IN Africa. He said attempts at
establishing plantations made by the
German company in the vast territory
ceded by the Sultan were never serious.
furUher, the Germans led at Zanzibar a
luxurious lie, and the greater part of the
money was spent i'll champagne For
an administration of this territory they
engaged to pay the Sultan an annual sum
OF 5O,OUO rupees, but the chief object was
III securing the customs duties, The con-
Ve1ltlon came into operation on the 18th
OF August, and within two months from
that date the German civilizers had
spoiled everything. The Germans be-
haVed with extreme cruelty, and for the
merest trIfies shot down the natives with
reviewers. The DTOtlEt of ho
were met by acts of violence. At Pen
gam, the Sultan's flagstaff was burned.
An uprising ensued, and for it's suppress
| sion, the Germans, joining irony with
insult, compelled the Sultan to send his
own troops. under the pretense that it
pertalned TO him, as sovereign Of the
country, to insure peace.
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RIOT AND BLooDsHED.

One Man Killed and Three Persons
Wounded in a Dance-House Row.
SPOKANE CNNash.), Feb. IA special
says the opening of an enormous dance
house at Sandy Point, Idaho, resulted in
riot and bloodshed last night. Three
hundred railroad employees, cattle-men
and miners were present. In the midst
Of the dancing a row was started, and one
man was shot in the breast. another had
his brains blown out, and two dissolute
females were probably fatally wounded
In the midst Of the at1ray United States
Marshal Warren and Sheriff Morley,
with five men, entered and closed the
house, and now twenty-five of the worst
characters in the Northwest are penned
up in the stockade corral and guarded by
Deputy SheritfS
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-02-18
TRADE OF FRANCE.
Shrinlxage in Exports Charged to the
Mckinley Act.

Mckinley Act.
LONDON, Feb. 1.-THE report of the
British Legation in Paris on the trade of
France was made public to-day. 1t at
tributes the large increase in the i'm
portations of raw materials and the great
shinlSage in exports partly to the effects
of theSAmerican Mckinley bill. The re-
port quotes from Latande, great au-
thority in the wine trade, declaring the
Mckinley bill has caused decrease in
the exports of wine to the United States,
but expressing the hope that France and
the United States will come to terms re-
garding commercial arrangement.
The return issued by the French Board
Of Trade shows that during January the
imports increased Isl, 314, 900 francs and
that the exports increased 81, a24, 900 francs
as compared with those of the corre-
spending month last year. The large in
crease in imports is attributed to the fact
that merchants imported heavily in Janu-
airy to escape the higher tariff which went
into effect February lst.
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Free-Coinage Bill.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE leaders of
the contest in the House for free coinage
have received from Speaker Crisp assur-
ances that special order viii be brought
in the House in favor of the free-coinage
bill. The Speaker has assured them that
he is in favor of the consideration of the
bill and OF it being finally disposed of in
the House within reasonable time.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-02-18
ReaYis Murder. TriaI-

NAPA, Feb. IA jury was secured in
the Reavis murder case this morning.
There are twenty-eight witnesses. The
prosecution Of the case will probably
continue all week. One witness, George
Wooden, tinhorn gambler, skipped to
avoid testltying. An attachment was
ordered issued for him.
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Death OF a Talented Yonnc MAN.

HoLLIsTER, Feb. 17.-Leslie T. Bald
win, at one time one of the brightest
young men in San Benito County. died
here to-day. The deceased was All able
newspaper writer, and has been for years
the leading light of the Republican Cen
trail Committee.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-02-18
UTAH AND STATEHOOD.
The Committee on Territories Listens
to the Opponents of Admission.

The Committee on Territories Listens
to the Opponents of Admission.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE House
Committee on Territories gave hearing
this morning to the opponents of the pro-
posed legislation to give local govern
ment to the Territory of Utah, as pro-
posed in the bill introduced by Game, the
Delegate from that Territory. The COM
mitteee was addressed by o. w. Power,
representing the Liberal party of Utah.
That party, Power said, is composed of
Democrats and Republicans, who for the
time being had cast aside their national
political preferences and had Joined hands
for the purpose of building up an Ameri-
can State in the mountains. 1t was be-
cause the Mormon people were not honest
and sincere that the Liberal party op-
posed the measure. The time has not
come, in its opinion, for it.
Much of Powers argument was in
refutation of several statements made on
the other side of the question by III. w.
Smith before the committee last week.
He read to the committee a letter from
Nj. a. Breeder, an attorney of Ogden
City, stating that Smith told him before
leaving for Washington that Statehood
in Utah would be a great calamity. If
the Teller bill should become q law no
Gentle could live in the Territory: that
he had no faith in the Mormon people:
they were simply deceiviDg the people to
gain power, and as soon as the conditions
changed the brethren would have another
revelation to re-establish poIygamy and
drive the Americans out of the Terri
tory"
The statements made in the letter were
denounced by Smith rs a lie. He denied
having been in Ogden before coming to
Washington or having any conversation
with Breeder.
In refutation of the statements made
by Smith calling in question the honor
and probity of United States Judge
Miner of Utah, Power read numerous
kilograms from influential people de-
nouncing as false all charges and imputa-
tons against the moral and Judicial in
tegrity of the Judge.
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Two Children Burned to Death.

TRINIDAD (Col.), Feb. 17.-Near Wash
ington, on the Fort Worth Railroad,
yesterday two small children of Mrs.
Oliver while playing in an organ box
built fire, which ignited their clothes
and they were burned to death. The
house also caught fire and was consumed.
Mrs. Oliver was so badly shocked it is
thought she will die.
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Cattle Disease.

LONDON, Feb. 17.-Despite the precau-
tons taken by the Board of Agriculture
to prevent the spread of the foot-and-
mouth disease among the cattle of Eng
land, it has broken out among the ami
mails in dairy in South London. The
place viii at once be quarantined and the
affected animals will be killed.
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known as 'Dutch Fred became para
lived in a saloon early this morning
while on a spree. He was a famous
character in Mendocino County, having
been identified with its early settlement
and hardships. He became notorious
years ago with his "Big-river bits $50
pieces(. which he made easy and ex-
pended freely for whisky and poker.
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Rich strike of silver.

FLoRIssANT Coli. Feb. IA great
strike has been made in the Blue Bell
mine, on Squaw Gulch. A blast in the
tunnel opened body of silver glance
twenty-six inches in thickness. The ore
comes out in massive chunks. weighing
300 pounds. The entire matter is almost
solid ore. An assayer says it is the finest
silver ore he has seen in years.
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RUSSIAN HEBREWS.
Resolution Agreed Upon to be Intro
duced in Congress.

Resolution Agreed Upon to be Intro
duced in Congress.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE sub-com-
mittee to whom the Foreign Affairs
Committee referred the several Russian
Hebrew resolutions introduced in the
House, have agreed upon the following
resolution to be reported:
ReSolUed, That the American people, through
their Senators and Representatives IN Con-
gress assembled, do hereby express sympathy
Tor the Russian Hebrews and their depressed
condition, and hope that the Government of
Russia, a power with which the United States
has always been on terms of amity and good
viii, Will mitigate, as far as possible, the de-
crees lately issued respecting them. and the
President is requested 10 use his good Offices
TO induce the Government OF Russia to miti-
Uat said
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the Pennsylvania Railroad, having come
directly from California.
Missouri Legislature.

ST.. Louis, Feb. 1.-THE Missouri
Legislature met in extra session at Jetfer-
son City az noon to-day. Among the
subjects TO be considered are the cession
OF State jurisdiction over Jefferson Bar
racks, a military post near the city, to the
General Government, and the redistrict-
ing of the State. After a short session
both Houses adjourned until tomorrow.
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POLITICAL DOINGS.
Address by the Republican Asso-
citation of Pennsylvania.
DECIDEDLY OPPOSED TO THE BOSS
ISM OF SENATOR QUAY.

He is Charged With Opposing Interests
for the Welfare of the Republican
Party-AppeaI to Elect Members of
the Legislature Who Win Oppose
His Reelection to the senate =
Nominations Made by the Anti
Lottery Faction of the Republican
Party in Louisiana.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-02-18
Railroad Fireman KILLED.

Los ANGELES, Feb. 17.-Charles Curl,
a fireman on a Southern Pacific switch
engine, was killed this morning. While
leaning out from the engine looking
underneath he was struck by switch
arm and thrown under the wheels. He
was aged 20 and unmarried.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-02-18
Incendiary Pamphlets in Russia.

CRACow, Feb. ia large number of
pamphlets have been scattered through
T4itania and Russian Poland calling upon
the peasants to rise against the Govern
ment and landowners.
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spanish Anarchists.

CADIZ, Feb. 17.-There are in custody
in this city 1872 so-called anarchists, ar
rested for participation in the disturb
ances preceded and followed by the exc
cutions of four anarchists in Here's.
They will all be tried by courtmartial
next March
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Charged With Robblng wells-Fargo.

VIsALIA. Feb. 17.-William Christie,
arrested at Los Palmos, MERGED County,
for robbing Wells-Fargo's Office at Los
Palmos, was formerly Superintendent of
the kaweah Colony. Hew also wanted
on charge of sending fraudulent matter
through the mails. 1t is stated that he
has confessed to the Wells Fargo burg
larry. He bore good reputation here.
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Mrs. James G. Blaine. Jr.

DEADwooD IS. d., Feb. 17.-Mrs.
Blaine, Jr., arrived here this morning
and was at once driven to the hotel, where
she is confined with nervous prostration.
She suffered hemorrhage of the lungs
while on the train this morning, having
left sick bed to attend the trial of her
divorce case. The case will not be heard
before Saturday.
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Important Timber Land Deal.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1.-THE most
important understand deal ever trans
acted in this State is now approaching
conclusion. Miles Brewster, a lumber
man of Green Bay, Wis, and Tatum &
Bowen of the Red Cross Lumber Com
pany have purchased $1,000 acres of fine
timber land in Siskiyou and Shasta
Counties, and viii enter into possession
in a few days. Next week they will
commence the construction of forty miles
OF railroad to connect with the California
and Oregon road. Most of the land was
purchased from the Southern Pacific
Company. The total price paid for the
land was S435. 900. Michigan capitalists
are negotiating for a tract of 1000 acres
adjoining this purchase.
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Evidence Insufiicient TO C,onvict

BOISE (Idahol, Feb. 1.-THE United
States District Attorney to-day requested
the dismissal of the indictments against
twenty Mormons accused OF polygamy
and adultery, on the ground that the evil
dence was insufficient to convict.
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INTERSTATE COMMERCE.
The Senate Committee Hears Discus
sion on Important Topics.

sion on Important Topics.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE Senate
Committee on Interstate Commerce lis
tened this morning to the argument by
Richard 0lney, of the Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy Road. on the measure
before the committee known as the
procedure bill, which contemplated "a
definition Of the method of procedure in
hearing railroad cases before the Inter
state Commerce Commission. He held
that the measure was unconstitutional
and should not be enacted.
George Croker of Boston spoke in
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Two Dailfes to Start at yisalia

VIsALIA, Feb. 17.-There is a prospect
of two daily papers starting here in
March-the DeIt0 and Times. The Delta
let contract a few days ago for two
story brick building for an Office.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-02-18
suicide at San Diego.

SAN DIEGO, Feb. IA. II. Tyler, who
arrived here on the 18th from San Fran
cisco, committed suicide at noon to-day
by shooting himself through the head.
He was member OF the Odd Fellows.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-02-18
Not Guilty of Embezzlemenr.

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 1.-THE case of
Eugene Garcia, for the embezzlement of
1914 900 from the louisiana National
Bank, while he was paying teller, was
concluded to-day, the jury returning a
verdict of not guilty.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-02-18
The Allegheny River Ice GORGE,

PITTsBURG, Feb. 1.-THE ice gorge at
Parker City is still intact and the great
est alarm prevails. Efforts to blow it up
with dynamite are fruitless.
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9nsely cold.
VESSELS LOST.
LONDON, Feb. LIT is baIieved
Election Riots in Japan.

YOKOHAMA, Feb. 17.-Dispatehes from
various places throughout Japan show
the elections were attended with dis
turbances in many places. In Ogi all
the male inhabitants became involved in
general riot. The police were several
time repulsed, and a number of them
seriously injured. A dispatch from Saga,
capital of the Province of Fizen, on the
Island of Kioo Sioo, where serious riots
eral persons were killed in the fighting.
In consequence of the serious aspect of
affairs at Saga, the Government ordered
the elections there stopped.
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Silver Purchases.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE amount of
silver purchased by the Treasury De-
partment to-day was $4,000 ounces at
from $3.50 to 9175.
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EAST AFRICAN COLONY.
Baron SOden'S Administration as
Governor Attacked.
EXTREME CRUELTY PRACTICED or
THE NATIVES

The Elections in japan Attended with
Serious Rioting, Several Persons
Being Killed and a Number of
Others Seriously Injured - Heavy
snowstorm Raging in Many Sec
lions of Europe.
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WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Rain Reported Throughout North
ern California,
FRIGHTENING THE PROSPECTS FOR
GOOD CROPS

One Man Killed and Three Other Per-
sons Fatally Wounded in a Dance
House Riot In Idaho-A Schooner
Captain and Four Seamen Drowned
While Trying to Land In a Small
Boat on the Oregon Coast.
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Explosion of Molten Metal.

PITTsBURG, Feb. 17.-An explosion of
molten metal occurred to-day, terribly
burning five men. All will recover with
the execution of one.
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Appropriation for a Revenue Cnttar.

WASHINGTON, Feb. IA bill was re-
ported to the House to-day appropriating
$4,000 for the construction of a revenue
cutter for use in San Francisco harbor.
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Reciprocity with Mexico improbable

City OF MEXICO, Feb. 17.-One of the
most prominent personages in Mexico
said recently that reciprocity with the
United States was improbable. When
asked his reason for the belief, he replied
that the United States made attempts to
secure exemption from duties, or at least
at a considerable reduction, on American
wheat, corn and flour. The Mckinley
law, however, offers Mexico no import
ant concessions, and he thought Mexico
will not increase the concessions made to
the United States.
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TERRIBLE WEATHER.
Storms Raging In Many Parts of Eu-
rope.

VIENNA, Feb. H. - Terrible snow
storms are raging in Galicia, province
OF Austro- Hungary, in Cisleithania and
the greater part of Austrian Poland. The
snow is piled up in immense drifts, and
traffic on various railway lines is almost
wholly suspended. Wagon roads are
also badly blocked
The snowfall in the eastern and CEN
trail Alps has been incessant since Friday,
The snow is now twelve to sixteen feet
deep in Semmering and Hocheveitsch
Passes. A number of cottages in Strya
are almost buried. The weather moder-
ated to-day, and thaw set in which
causes the utmost alarm among Alpine
jewellers, as it is feared much destruction
will be caused by aYalanches, now
threatened.
THE STORM GENERAL.
LONDON, Feb. 1.-THE snowstorm.
which began again this morning in
Wales and the highlands of Scotland, be-
came general throughout the country.
The snowfall since Sunday was heavier
than all other SHOWS during the whole
winter. The weather also remains in
tensely cold.
VESSELS LOST.
LONDON, Feb. lit is believed a
number of vessels were lost in the recent
storm, as large quantity of wreckage is
coming ashore at different points on the
coast.
STORMING IN PARIS.
PARIS, Feb. IA storm has been
raging here since last evening. Traffic is
almost at standstill.
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Hyer surrenders Himself.

New YORK, Feb. 1S.-John Hyer, who
absconded from Jersey City on the 18th
of October, after. it is charged, embez-
cling $1,000 from his employer. VIM. A.
Harvey, and who was captured in San
Francisco but escaped the custody of De-
tectiveDalton, who was bringing him home
in sleeping car, astonished the police of
ficia1s of Jersey City this morning by
walking in and surrendering himself.
Hyer arrived in Jersey city last night by
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Captain and Four seamen browne
The cruiser SAN Francisco.

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 1.-THE cruiser San
francisco steamed out of the harbor at IL
O'Clock this morning. This afternoon
the crew will have target practice with the
secondary battery. Tomorrow morning
there will be target practice with the six
inch guns and instructions given Com
pany A of the Naval Reserve. To-mor-
row afternoon the cruiser will leave for
honolulu.
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Mexico WIN Grant No Concessions.

City OF MEXICO, Feb. 17.-There is no
truth in the report that the Mexican Gov
eminent will grant a concession to the
Louisiana Lottery.
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seven Arabs Killed.

PARIS, Feb. IA dispatch from AL
giers states that seven Arabs who sought
shelter in a grotto near Algiers were
killed by collapsing roof.