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AN EXEMPT FIREMAN DEAD.

George r. Martin Passes Away to Bis
Last Rest.
The fire-bell was tolled last night fol
George r. Martin, and exempt fireman,
who was in the days of the Volunteer
Fire Department member of Engine
No. l, and who died about o'clock. His
decease was caused by consumption.
Mr.. Martin was well known in this city,
having been several times selected Con-
stable, and having also served on the
notice force
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8. earle.

CUCCEsSOR TO CARLE & CRoLY, CON.
y tractor and Builder. Orders solicited and
promptness guaranteed. Office and shop
1124 Second street, between X and l..
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RitHttreHH UnrDH.

n. r. ROOT. ALEX. NELSON, J. DRIsCOLs
ROOT, NELSON & CO.,
HTION FOUNDRY-IRON AND BRASS
" Founders and Machinists, Front street,
between and o. Castings and Machinery
OF every description made to order.
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Attnr1trya-nt- 4n1u.
H0LL & DUNN,
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

DLANS, DESCRIPTIONS, BILLS OF MA,
i terials and specifications and estimates
tor the building of
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CANCERS,
TUMORS, ULCERS, WENS, LUMPS AND
i Excresences, ETC., removed and no knife
used Special treatment for all Skin Trouble.
Best Of references given. Send for circular.
Rooms 21 and 90 Postoffice Building, corner
Fourth and K streets, Sacramento
DIR. ]. H. SHIRLEY.
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WHERE TO BUY GROCERIES.
CANCERS.

T ]. wINGARD, AT TWENTY-FIVE
y and streets, has the best assortment
and ut most reasonable rates.
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CITY STREET IMPROVEMENT COMPANY

CONTRACTORS FOR ALL KINDS OF
" Street Work, Railway Construction.
Wharves Bridges, ETC. Sacramento office,
All street San Francisco Office, room 4S,
fifth floor. Mills Building.
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sACRAMEYTo FOUNnRY,

SACRAMENTO FOUNDRY,
IyRONT STREET, CORNER OF N. WILL
L lam GUTENBERGER, Proprietor. Work
for sidewalks and buildings q speciality. Gas
oline and Steam Engines to order on short
notice.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-08-31
GEN. BLACKS PENSION.

The pension attorneys and their organs in the
newspapers are trying to make it appear that Gen
John Z. Black comes under the provisions of the
law which the managers of the Pension Bureau
are Row ring to enforce. They say that he also Is
drawing pension and earning large salary, and
that his pension should be stopped forth with-San
Jose (CaL.) Herald
This is utterly untrue No veteran or
spokesman of the veterans has said that
Gen. Blacks pension ought to be taken
away. On the contrary, they say that it is a
small compensation to him for the injuries
he received in most gallant service, that he
richly earned every dollar of it, and vastly
more, and that it is absolutely no business
of the Government, or of anyone else, that, in
spite of his disabilities, Gen. Black is able to
earn large fees as q lawyer, and is in receipt
of S., 900 year as a Representative in Con-
gress. Gen. Blacks pension is a payment
by Government for services rendered and
disabilities incurred years ago; it is in full
fillment of a definite contract entered into
by the Government when it accepted Gen.
Blacks services as soldier. The Govern
ment has no more right to question the in
come Gen. Black may receive in addition to
his pension than it has TO inquire whether a
bondholder may not be cutting off other
coupons than those on its own bonds.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-08-31

THE people are realizing that endless talk
in Congress will not improve business, and
are wisely going TO work to improve it
themselves. The improvement last week,
though slight, was clearly manifest. Money
was very much easier in New York, Boston,
and Chicago. The rates for currency fell
quite markedly, and the banks began making
loans, though very guardedly. The num-
Der Of failures decreased slightly, and their
Importance very much. The receipts of for
eign gold during the week were $7,S73, 548,
making $38, 209, O06 received in the last four
weeks. Quite a number of factories re-
sumed work, though a still larger number
stopped. The grain market showed more
life, in response to the easier money market,
and there was slight advance in prices.
We hope next week to record still more
marked improvement.
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EMMA GOLDMAN is name that we shall
probably hear very frequently in the future.
She is a Jewess, who has been long enough
in this country toYget fluent command of
English and has become popular apostle
of the New York anarchists. Her utter.
ances are savage and intiammatory, and she
talks that the salvation of the working
classes can only be secured through the
blood of the Goulds. Vanderbilts, and other
capitalists.
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THE BEST WAY
70 get ready for the great fight for soldiers
lights is to get up big clubs for the veterans
hampton, THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
PERSONAL.

A. L. Howerton. Co. F. 62d Ill., Marshall, Ill.,
writes "As am a reader of the best paper that is
published, wish you to permit me 10 ask n favor
of some of your correspondents in THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE of the 10th inst. page four and the last
piece under the heading of Personal" as notice
a mistake as to date. The writer has it October,
1862, while two men that reside here say that it
was Nov. 7, 1861, that the battle of Belmont was
fought. This statement is backed up in THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE of the 18th inst. by the author
of the piece under the title of "Ksintuck." / will
just say that the author is good writer and will
only ask her to come again, as l a soldier In
that part of the country in 1862 and down to Ken
ton, jackson. Holly Springs, and back to Jackson,
then Lagrange, where we remained until Vicks-
burg fell in 1868. Then went to Little Rock,
Ark. Now old soldiers ask her to give
count of the bursting of the Lady Polk, giving
dates she Also if she has any notes
concerning the raid from Holly Springs, Miss, to
Union City, Tenn, we would be pleased to hear
from her. She eonfesses that she came near taking
a deeper interest in the Confederacy than she cared
about, but she failed to tell what caused her to
make the change that she did. Was it the
sympathy that she had for her father, or was it
something else? Anything that she write
about the manuvers of both armies in that part of
the country will be read with much interest,""
George Bingham. who went to California In $50
in the celebrated sloop Yorktown, and who was
present at the raising of the historic bear flag at
Monterey. which made California Republic, is
almost 76 years old, and his hair and beard are
white snow. Besides assisting to raise the bear
flag lie Is a veteran of two fierce wars. He went
all through the ampsign against Mexico and was
in no less than 10 fierce engagements. yet he was
not even wounded. He started in the war at Vera
Cruz, and remained until the last gun fired.
w hen the war of the rebellion broke out Bingham
joined the I'd CAL Cav. In this he served until Lee
surrendered. After going through all these STIR
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The arrangement Of the motive power viii
be similar to that of the Columbia, the power
being transmitted through three screws, the
after screw being placed as in ordinary single
screw ships the others being placed farther
forward Que on each side. as in the case of
twins screw vessels. By this arrangement it is
thought that greatest speed with safety and
economy may be combined.
There will be protective deck, four inches
thick on the slopes and two and one-half inches
elsewhere; and throughout the region of the
waterline for the space occupied by the vitals
there will be wall of patent fuel five feet
thick to add additional protection against
machine-gun FIRE.
Each shaft will be aetuated by a separate
triple expansion engine. each in its own water
tight compartment.
The battery (main) consists of one eight-inch
breech-loading rifle. two six-inch rapid fire
breech loading rifles, and eight four-inch rapid
fire breech-loading rifles. The secondary bat
terry will consist of ~ six-pounder rapid-fire
guns. four one FOUNDER rapid-fre guns and
four gattlings. There are five torpedO-lanch-
ing tubes.
The contract for this vessel was awarded to
William Crsmp & Sons August 81, 1891, at the
contract price of 81, 100000, and should be fin
ished within two years from that time.
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STILL WE INSIST.

Still we insist that it is Commissioner
Lochren's duty to his illuminated comrades,
TO the people whose money he is disbursing,
and to the Administration of which he is
member to give the country accurate in
formation about the character of the entire
pension-ron by publishing the exact facts
concerning 1000 sample cases taken con-
secutively.
Certainly, if the veterans of the country
demand such an investigation he should
hasten to give it.
The soldier-hating papers have been clam
oring for an investigation. They have been
vociferous in their demands for If.
Now the veterans propose an eminently
fair method of settling the question, and as
they are the parties whose honor has been
impugned their request should be granted.
The people, whose minds have been dis
tracted by the charges, countereharges, and
denials, are clearly entitled to know to what
class of men and women tens of millions of
dollars are paid every three months.
We continue to hope that the Commits
sioner will have his force devote day to
furnishing the desired facts. 1t has. plenty of
time to do this. An issue of but ,0S2 cases
last. week would imply that the 1000 en-
ployes in the Bureau were not being rushed
to such an extent as to seriously curtail
their hours for refreshmen and sleep.
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A BIG OFFER.
The National Tribune and a
First Glass Magazine
ONE YEAR FOR $2.25.

We have made arrangements by which
we are enabled to offer THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE and The Cosmopolitan Magazine
one year for the exceedingly low price of
1926. This is less than the original price
paid for the magazine alone, which is one of
the very best in the country.
The July Cosmopolitan exceIs any previous
issue in the number of its distinguished
contributors and in point of interest. 1t is
unchanged in size, and is the most beauti-
fully illustrated number of The Cosmopolitan
ever sent out. 1t contains illustrations by
Laurens, Fem, Toussaint, Stevens, Saunier,
Filter, Franzen and Meaulle. 1t has the
unusual feature of three frontispieees, and
among the authors whose work appear in
this issue are as follows: Camille Flam-
marion, F. Dempster Sherman, F. S. STRAIT
ton, Sara Carr Upton, Gilbert Parker, Prof
c. A. Young, Agnes Repplier, William Dean
Howells, Charles DeKay, W. D. McCrackan,
C. H. Webb, II. III. Boyesen, Prof. A. E.
Dolbear, G. II. Knight, Francois Coppee,
Robert B. Stanton, Clinton ScolIard, Katha-
rine L. Bates, Lucy NJ Salmon, Thomas A.
Janvier, Col. s. E. Tillman, Andrew Lang.
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MEXICAN PENSION ROLL.

One Which is Not " Purged," and in Which
There Are No Suspensions.
On the Mexican Pension Roll
there are the names OF 1928
survivors and 3 ,2S2 widows. and
something over Z. 900 eases were
pending at latest reports. This
makes a total of %. 1917. or sew
eraI thousand more men than
the United States had i'm Mexico
at any one time during the war.
These all receive either So or
$I2 a month.
Among the names are those
of the widow of Gen. Samuel
Cooper. "a New Yorker by birth.
VIE was Acknowledgement Of
fhe United States Army al the
outbreak Of the war. and used
his position TO aid the rebels i'm
preparing for the struggle. He
resigned his position TO become
Acknowledgement Of the South
ern COnfederacy. and ofEiciated
as such until the rebellion coli
lapsed. Mrs. Cooper has been
drawing a pension since June
g. 1857.
The widow of Thomas j.
(''SfeneWalI" Jackson, who
was next 10 Lee the most pOpu-
lar commander of the rebel
armies.
The widow Of Maj .-Gen. George
E. Pickett. who commanded "a
division i'm tIae rebel army.
widow Of Ma. -Gen. Gideon
j. Pillow. who commanded a di-
vision I'm the rebel army.
The widow Of Lieut.. Sen. p.
Hill. who commanded one of
the three corps Of Lees army.
The widow Of Sidney Smith
Lee, who was dismissed from
the Navy for ''going over so the
enemy" and afierward became
a Commodore i'm uhe rebel navy.
Brighten. Jas. IL. Chalmers.
who was FORESTS chief lieu
tenant.
Maj.-esen. Dabney III. Maury.
who commanded the rebel
troops at the battle Of Chiclka-
saw Bayou.
Hen. =. IL. Maxey, late United
States Senator from Texas. who
has been drawing his pension
since May 81, 1857. He was "A
Major-GeneraI in the rebel
arny.
Hon. Jas. Y. George, Senator
from Mississippi. and who
served in the rebel army as a
Colonel. The number of his
certificate is 1874.
Hon. A. III. COIquifi, Senator
frORs Georgia. who was a Major
General i'm the rebel army.
draws a pension under cerfifi-
cate I9.I99.
The widows above mentioned
are Of men Who were educated
al the Government expense. and
afserWard fought to destroy The
Government. They went on the
roll at once. while last April
there were pending the claims
0fI45. 800 widows of Union sol
diers who Had not yea been able
TO get on the roII.
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PENSION BUREAU WORK,

The Pension Bureau has in ALL as we have
before said, about 5000 employes-3,000 in
the field and 1000 in the Office.
Last week this force allowed LOSE cases,
an average of $50 for each working day.
That is, it took % men an average of one
day to allow each claim, or it took one man
90 days to pass upon single claim.
1t takes about as many men as formed a
good-sized company toward the close of the
war whole working day to decide that
some old veteran who served four years is
entitled to Sc or 50 month for his rheuma-
tism, Or varicose veins, or inguinal hernia.
Again, the question occurs as to whether
the Pension Bureau is being conducted to
pension an army of old soldiers or of en-
ployes?
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GOOD NEWS FOR THE PENSIONERS.

GOOD NEWS FOR THE PENSIONERS.
| A report from the Pension Bureau, said
to come from the Commissioner himself, will
be received by the comrades with glad in
| terest.
1t is to the effect that the Commissioner
has discovered that his predecessor gave an
unfair preference to claims under the act of
June 81, 1890, and allowed them to such an
extent as to "sidetrack" some 100000 cases
under the old law for disabilities originating
in the service
An examination of block of 1000 such
cases, it is said, revealed the fact that about
20 per cent. of them were complete, but
their issuance had been delayed because the
Bureau was so busy allowing claims under
the act of June 81, 1890.
1t is further said that, with view to
correcting this injustice Commissioner Loeb
rem has directed the Chiefs of the several
Divisions to make thorough search of the
files of the old cases, and where they are
found complete to promptly forward them
for allowance, and if found incomplete to
make the necessary calls for additional
proof"
As we used to say in war times about
news, This is highly important if true"
If the percentage of completed cases found
in the first block is maintained throughout,
it will mean that about lac, 900 old comrades
and their widows are to be made happy in a
reasonably short time by the allowance of
their claims.
We sincerely hope that the Commissioner
has really found such number of COM
pleted cases, and that he will lose no time
in repairing the alleged fault of his prede-
eessor
Nothing would rebound more to the credit
of his administration, no act of justice is
more imperatively demanded, and nothing
would do more to aid the country out of the
financial morass. The Commissioners pre-
decessor allowed cases at rate approach
ing 1000 day. AS these cases are said to
be virtually completed, the Pension Bureau
ought to be able to raise this rate very much,
and allow, say 10000 of them month for
several months in succession. The amount
of money that this would distribute through
the country would Immediately break up
the financial stringency and revive business
everywhere.
Mr. Commissioner, go ahead and do this,
and merit and receive the applause of a
grateful country.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-08-31

THERE was once man who, while
deathIy seasick, said that he had but one
wish, and that was to get well long enough
to find and thrash the man who wrote "a
Life on the Ocean Waven There are now
a number of men of the same mind who
want to find and settle with the author of a
song very popular last Fall:
Grover,
Grover,
our years more of Grover.
In he goes,
Out they 60,
Then we'll live in clover.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-08-31

ONCE more we repeat that the way to
remonetize silver is for every friend of the
white metal to insist on it's being paid
him in his daily business transactions. He
can do more in this way than can be done
by all the speeches in Congress. If every
workingman in the country will regularly
ask for his wages in silver every Saturday
night, if every farmer will demand silver
for his products, if every Congressman will
demand his salary in silver, the metal will
soon become remonetized and regain its old
estimation as currency. To do this ought to
be matter of principle with every man
who processes TO favor silver.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-08-31

IT is not known just what arithmetic
Secretary Hoke Smith studied in his boy
hood days. Those with which most people
are familiar all agree that 2 and and and
make 10, but the Secretary seems to insist
that though veteran may have 81 worth
Of disability for rheumatism, So for loss of
finger, 81 for impaired vision, and 81 for loss
of hearing, he has only 81 worth altogether.
We should like diagram explaining this.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-08-31

THE statement made by the New York
banks at the close of business last Saturday
brought more cheer with it than anything
that has happened for weeks. 1t showed an
increase in cash of S., 1852, 500, and an in
crease of STA, 400 in legal tender receipts,
showing that money was beginning to flow
back again from the country. Wall street
interpreted this as the sure dawn of better
times.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-08-31

The South Carolinans who are opposed to
Gov. Tillman are deeply incensed at his
proposition to have the State coat-ofarms,
with the sacred palmetto tree, copyrighted
as trademark for the legalized booze sold
by the State dispensaries. They are
vehemently appealing to their Representa-
tives totake legal steps to prevent the desc
Grafton" but the general opinion seems TO
be that the Governor is acting strictly
within his legal rights.
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CORR FSP q NDENCE. - Correspondence is
solicited from every section in regard TO Grand
Array Sol.S of Veterans. Pension, Military. Ag-
riculTlIral. Industrial and Household matters,
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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-08-31
Coy. Roies Renorninated.

The Democratic State Convention at Des
Noimes, Iowa, renominated Gov. Boies by ac-
clamation for a third term. Lieut.-Gov. Bestow
was reDominated. James g. Day was named
for Supreme Judge. Notwithstanding Gov.
Boes's refusal to run again, the party could
not agree upon another man.
The Platform Committee agreed on a silver
plank. simply reaffrming the financial plank
of 1892, the silver men uniting with the anti
silver men on this compromise, which has been
practically the anti-silver program for some
time. The liquor plank of the last two guber-
material campaigns is also reaffirmed and sew
eral new State issues raised, such as non-parti-
san control of State institutions.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-08-31

CONGRESS resolved itself into great
Roasting Club" last week. This has no
reference to the weather, which was hot
enough every day to roast eggs almost
everywhere on the sun-parched slopes
around the dazzling white Capitol. Inside
its marble walls the members, wearing the
lolled about on sofas, in the corridors and
lobbies tanning themselves, drinking iced
tea and lemonade, and smoking whlle the
orator who held the floor roasted alive some
particular man, or set of men, whom he
held more or less responsible for all the
troubles that have befallen the country.
The Republican speakers had plain sailing,
of course. They could point out, as ex-
Speaker Reed did, that they had turned
over the country, in the greatest condition
of prosperity, to their opponents, and the
day that it was known that these latter had
won the victory the troubles began. The
democrats, on the other Manu. aICer DOSING
the Republicans had liberal share left for
their own people, and they did not spare
the President, the Secretary of the Treasury,
and all who differed from them as to the
best means of undoing the wrongs and
bringing relief. OF course, the Populists
agreed with all the abusive things said by
both sides against all of the cold parties"
There must have been terrible burning of
left ears of prominent public men.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-08-31
ANOTHER BATTLESHIP.
The Minneapolis which was Recently Sue
cessfuIIy launched.

The Minneapolis a sister ship to the Column
bia, which was successfully launched recently,
was authorized by act of Congress of March 2
1891. The principal dimensions are: Length
on load-line, 412 feet; Beam, nodded, % feet;
draught, mean, normal displacement % feet 65
inches; displacement, 1850 tons; speed. esti-
mated, in knots per hour. 81 knots; indicated
horsepower, q. 900 horses.
The hull is of steel, the vitals Of the ship and
its stability being we'll protected, and the gun
stations shielded against machiue-gun fire.
There is a double bottom, j. O., an inner and
outer skin, between which there is consider
able space. This space is divided into a num-
Der of water tight compartments. so that injury
to the outer skin may not necessarily affect the
safety Of the ship. The craft is further di-
vided into waterti tight compartments, each in
dependent of the other, and under the control
of system of pumpage. The vessel will be
lighted artifcially by electric light, and venti-
lation will be insured by the use of powerful
fans that will force the bad air and gases out
at the same time forcing fresh air in