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now at this late day to have San Fran
cisco journals discover that the stream
is really an important factor in. .distribu-
ton of supplies and transportation of
products, and to claim credit for the dis
covery, is really 50 full of the mirthful
that it is difficult to exercise restraint
over the risibilities.
As for railway intriguing to prevent
river Improvement, that is pure fancy,
the vaporings of silly and preiudiced in
telligences. The finger cannot be laid
upon single act or point to record or
rumor asingle utterance by any railroad
company or authorized official thereof,
antagonistic to improvement of the Sacra-
mento River and conservation of the
navigability, nor has there even been felt
any influence from that direction of an
adverse character-quite the contrary.
The people of the entire valley know this
to be true. 1t will not do for the Bulletin
and the Traffic Association, for instance,
to indulge in such chatter about the river.
unless they are pleased to be made the
butt of mirth and ridicule.
Railroad companies may be monsters;
it may be that these gory-headed organ
lzatlons do delight to crunch bones and
drink blood; it may be that they are
demons of destruction and engines of
doom-but it has never yet been charged
that they were so blind as to not to see
wherein lies their own interest: it cannot
be said that they are so bereft of sense as to
believe that they will the more prosper as
the river country is deprecated and rem
dered valueless by the degradation of the
great drainway of the valley.
All this chatter about the railroads
(which of all other industries most de-
sire the rapid and full development of the
whole country and all its resources) con-
spring to prevent river reclamation and
rectification is bosh-the Stiffness of
senillty and the utter Jolly of narrow and
suspicious souls.
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For perversity commend us TO the San
Francisco Call 1t insists upon speaking
of parole as holding out hope of pardon
for the least eXcusable of criminals. This
disposition to cripple the parole law in
advance of its operation by warping pub
lie judgment, savors of a selfish desire to
have the law fail that a newspaper may
declare, 81 told you So" Good citizen
ship will stand for the law and seek to
make it effective and beneficent.
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or thirty-sixth section so reserved is un-
surveyed that the State may, at its option,
select other lands in lieu thereof, or await
the survey and final determination of the
status OF such lands. Since the passage
of the aforementioned Act, the President
OF the United States has created large
reservations for forest protection; and it
Is expected that in the near future other
and very extensive forest reservations
will be made by the President. The for
est reservations made, and to be made,
Will place in reservation several hundred
thousand acres of unsurveyed sixteenth
and thirty-sixth section land, which will
give the State a right to select, from the
public domain, an equal quantity of lieu
lands.
1t has been charged that this additional
lieu right conferred upon the State has
already been practically appropriated by
two or three firms of land spectators.
We have been informed that immedi-
ately prior to the creation by the Presi-
dent of the forest reserve, these specu-
lators presented applications to purchase
lieu lands, in the aggregate exceeding the
total quantity that the State will become
entitled to, after all the forest reserves
have been created; that such appli-
cations were made in the names
of persons who had no interest
in them, beyond small price that
they were paid for the use of
their names; that such applications de-
scribed lands that the persons did not
want, and designated sixteenth and
thirty-sixth sections for lieu bases that
had not been lost to the State at all; that
they were made in anticipation of forest
reserves, with the expectation of amend
ing them thereafter. by designating lost
sixteenth and thirty sections falling
within the forest reserves, and substi-
tuting other land for that applied for.
The spectators claim that they are en-
titled to have their old and invalid selec-
tons amended and perfected by the sub
stitution of the descriptions of sixteenth
iDsf+hirty-siXth sections within the re-
serves before the State Surveyor General
should receive new applications, using
the same lost lands for basis.
The attention of Surveyor General
Reichert has been called to these matters.
and he is now preparing to investigate.
There is no statute controlling the Sur
veyor-General on the subject, and he is
in doubt whether he should apply the
new loss that the State has sustained to
the amendment of old and defective selec-
tions on file in his Office in pre-
ference TO permitting new selections
to be made exhausting the same loss
basis. He is about to give notice to all
persons concerned, who will have an op-
portunity to be heard by trial board of
three able lawyers, and ne will be gov
erned by the opinion of these lawyers as
to whether he should permit new selec-
'tions to be made, using the lieu loss Gre
ated by the Act of 1891, or should first
apply that loss, as far as it will 90, to-
ward amending old selections on file in
his office. In the meantime he has sus-
pended action in the matter.
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SUDDENLY AWAKENED INTEREST

Just now certain of the San Francisco
journals are manifesting great concern in
the navigability of the Sacramento river.
They are discussing ancient and modern
engineering reports; discovering" that
the river is navigable for long distances:
that its traffic represents enormous COM
merce and that it is of the utmost import
ance to the whole State that the Govern
ment should be liberal to a fault in con-
serving the navigability of the stream.
Coupled with this newly awakened in
terest are expressions of supreme sur
prise that no one has made the discovery
earlier that the Sacramento is a great
natural free highway, the heritage of all
the people. Indeed, if we are to believe
some of our San Francisco contempo-
raries, they are the first and only discov-
erers of the rivers value to the trade OF
the State; the Simon pure and only Jacob
who hit upon the fact that steamboats, ac-
tually ascend the Sacramento river.
We do not have to go far to uncover the
cause for this suddenly awakened inter
est in the stream on the part of the San
Francisco journalist is disclosed in the
conviction that under proper treatment
the river, as commercial artery, can be
made greatly more to contribute to the
trade of distributing points and especially
San Francisco. But these same journals
cannot refrain from charging that the
reason the Government has not all these
years done more for river rectification
than it has, is because the Southern Pa
! cific Company has prevented it-at least,
has cast its influence against propositions
for improvement.
All this is very amusing. If the BuI-
Letin and the cal and some lesser lights
in the metropolis have been asleep all
these twenty years of river campaigning,
the people of the Sacramento Valley have
not. They dispute the claim of discov-
cry by the journals referred to, and by
the Traffic Association. They have for
years labored in and out of season, ex-
pended their means and put forth their
best energies to secure from the Federal
Government due need of recognition for
the rivers needs and all that has been
done is due solely to valley efforts and
nothing to San Francisco influences.
The RECORD UNION, in common with
all the other valley press. has labored
increasingly for two decades and more to
secure from the Federal Government ac-
acknowledgement of the rivers just deserts.
We have battled for river improvement
when San Francisco journalism was
silent under the COW of misguided judg-
ment. We have from the first to this
day held that the keynote of the whole
river question is to be found in such
Federal treatment of the stream as will
by its very nature prevent the doing of
damage to it by any agency whatever.
The people along the river have re-
peatedly held conventions, and have sent
on delegates to labor with Congress and
| Federal departments to improve and en-
large the navigability of the Sacramento.
! They have spared neither money, time
nor human exertion to impress the COM
mercial importance of the river upon the
] people of the State and the Nation, and
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California Pacific Railroad COmpaDy

NO1ICE-THE ANNUAL MEETING OF
~ the stockholders of the California Pacific
railroad Company, for the election OF DIrec-
tors for the ensuing year, and for the trans
action OF such other business as may he
brought before the meeting, will be held at
the Office of the company, in the city of San
Francisco, on WEDNESDAY, April 10
1898, between the hours of1O A, M.and p
NJ. W. V. HUNTINGTON. Secretary.
san francisco, March 25, 1898 mr27-td
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The RECORD D-UNIoN and WEEKLY
UNION are the only papers on the Coast,
outside Of San Francisco, that re-
cetVe the full Associated Press Dis
patches from all parts of the tOorLd. Out
side Of San Francisco, they have no com
petitoTS, either in influence or home aud
general circulation throughout the State.
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Special Apenc,es-

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Northern Railway COmpaDy.

NOTICE THE ANNUAL MEETING OF
IN the stockholders of the Northern Rail
way Company, for the election of Direc-
tors for the ensuing year, and for the trans
action OF such other business as may be
brought before the meeting, will be held at
the ofhce of the company, in the city of San
francisco, on WEDNESDAY, April 10
1898, between the hours of 10 A. NJ. and . p
NJ. w. V. HUNTINGTON, Secretary.
san FranclscO. March 25. 1898 mr2r-fd
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CtNGe Of the Central Pacific Railroad COmnanv

INHE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
i stockholders of the Central Pacific Rail
road Company, for the election of Directors
Tor the ensuing year, and for the transaction
OF such other business as may be brought be-
lore the meeting, will be held at the Office of
the company in the city of San Francisco
on TUESDAY, the 11th day of April. 1893
G. L. LANSING, Secretary
san Francisco. March l5. 1909. mr2T-td
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The Los Angeles Express has entered
upon its twenty-third year as a daily
paper. We congratulate our contempo-
rary. 1t is fine newspaper, we'll edited,
vigorous and frank, and is a fearless
city is better than its own, no section
superior to its locality.
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5prriai 31ntirpa.
Dyspepsia, Constipation, Headache
Sour Stomach, BiliOusness,
Collie, Low Spirits, Kidney Affections

And simmons Liver Regulator will
remove and cure these disorders with
out causing loss oftime and strengthen
and build up the worn-out body even
while the person is at work.
Rev. r. G. WILDER, Princeton, n. J., says
81 find nothing helps so much to keep me II
working condition as Simmons Liver Regu
lator."
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PLAZA CASH GROCERY.

NORTHEAST CORNER TENTH AND ]
~ ST. eets. Having purchased this we'll
known establishment, we respectfully ask a
continuance of former patronage, and invite a
call from all who desire bargains in GROCER
les, etc. our stock is complete
SPENCER BROS, ProprietorS
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Weather Forecnsr.

Official forecast for the twenty-four hours
ending at midnight March 3Oth-Northern
Cali1ornia-Light rains from Sacramento
northward; slight change in temperature
variable winds
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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT, STATE or
i California, county of Sacramento. In the
matter of the estate of BYRON MCCREARY.
deceased. Notice is hereby given that FRIDAY,
the I4th day of April, 1893, at 10 O'Clock
\. NJ. of said day, and the courtroom of said
Court, at the Courthouse in the city of Sacra-
mento, county of Sacramento and State of
California, has been appointed as the time and
place for proving the will OF said Byron Nc
Creary, deceased. and for hearing the applica-
tion Of Charles McCreary for the issuance to
him of letters testainentary thereon.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court,
this 27th day of March, 1898.
SEAL ". g. HAMILTON, Clerk
By Z. S. WACHHORsT, Deputy Clerk.
f. D. RYAN, Attorney for Petitioner.
mr2S-10t
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observation-disclosures No. Ae.
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Eastern Business omoas.

as Tribune Building. New York.
500 THE Rookery." Chicago.
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tising.
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TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS worth
OF Furniture ana Upholstery to be closed out
by the 1st of June. DITTMAR & WHEAT,
916 street, opposite Plaza.
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THE WEEKLY UNION

ls the cheapest and most desirable Home
news and Literary Journal published on the
Pacific Coast ~ '-0
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NOTICE.

T HAVE APPOINTED G. F. TODHUNTER
i OF Washington, YOlo county California NV
attorney in fact, to settle all claims against
and collect all accounts due the estate of W
B. Todhunter, deceased
MRS. ELIZABETH D. TODHUNTER.
mr2I-1w Administrative
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Specials for To-day and Following Days.
Don't Marvel at the Prices, the
Values More Than Outdo Them.
SpECIAL FROM THE DOMESTIcS.

One case A Beached Musn soft and fine finished for the
needle Sale price, II yards for ST.
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PAINLESS EXTRACTION OF TEETH by
use OF local anesthetic. DIR. WELDON, Dem
tist. Eighth and streets.
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atetu ADVERTISEMENTS.
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KEEPS HORSES FEET IN NATURAL
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SUNOL, 2:0SA. PALO ALTO, 2:OS5%
ARION, 2:IO32. TRUMAN, 2:12.
, 1893-06-10
The New Danish PharmacOp@ia.

The "Chemist and Druggist" London, Of
April 25th, contains a leading article in re-
view Of the above named work, which it APP
pears was published just five days before.
Among other things it says, Rarely, if
ever, has any undertaking on behalf of Danish
pharmacists met with more unanimous approval
than when, 2 years ago, the Minister of JUS
toe oriered the appointment of q Committee
for the purpose of compiling a new Pharma-
cop9ia, which should, to a greater extent
than the former one. be- we'll abreast IF the
scientific development of pharmacy in Den-
mark. After long and assiduous labour, the
Committee was in a position to declare the
new Phamacop9ia completed in February
1893, and on rebruary 9Th it was submitted
to the Minister and received the Royal
Sanction.
1t j in the form of a handsome volume in
large octave, of over 5 0 pages, about 400
of which are devoted to materia medica pro-
per, the remaining pages containing specific
gravity table. lists of m~edicaments to be
stored in a special way, list of reagents and
liquors for titration, tables Of foreign weights
and measures &c. &c, in great variety. AS
to the matter itself the lines of the old Phar-
macopeia have been considerably departed
from. 1t conveys at once the impression that
as a work it is almost too elaborate from a
scientific point of view. 1t is obvious that
great labour has been bestowed on it, no other
Pharmacopoeia, not even the new Italian one,
ranks 30 high in scientific respects as the
work under notice. It's usefulness as a guide
in the practice of pharmacy in Denmark, is 80
pre~.eminent, that its advent is hailed with
universal satisfaction, 1t is to come into
force on August !, 1898.
, 1893-06-10
Fron the Daily Telegraph. May 9tl
A FROUDE.''

NJ. Thonis. a Paris coal merohant, dlscoy
cred an Ingenious way of Gliding a s@entea""
of three months imprisonment passed upon
him, for assault and battery, by the Seine
police Tribunal. Like those who in former
days paid needy outcasts to take. their p~lacoin
the Army, the vendor Of black diamonds
engaged a substitute to undergo the three
months for him. Bardou, the popniless
person who accepted the peculiar job at a
stipend of two francs daily, WAS incarcerate1
In tho Slnte Prison under the name Of hi'
employer, and was cheerfully engaged III
etrning his money when the fraudulent com
pact was brought 10 light. Somebody who
hid been let into the confidence, either of
Tlonis or his substitute, wrote an anonymous
letter to the polio, and the coal merchant
was arrested He and BArdou were tried at
the Assizos, Thonls having thereby deep
cause to regret his scheme in .smuch as he
was condemned to imprisonment for the space
OF two years. The substitute, who had done
q month in gaol, WIS di-ch irgel. Strangely
enough, after the Thonis- BardQu case had been
disposed of the jury WAS called upon to deal
with one Of an almost similar char aCter.
The principal difference hei Ween the two
affairs was that in the second one the substi-
tute had not tim to 70 to prison before his
employer, a person named d lie, was arrested.
Dole had been sentenced to fonr months
imprisonment, and offered to pay his substi-
tute, whose name he refused to give, 25f.
cash do yn and a daily allo of Of. On
leaving gaol the substitute was to be supplied
with a new ready made suit of clothes. Dole
was, like Tlonis, sent to prison for the space
Of two years. These cases have led to the
not improbable supposition that there exist
in Paris agencies for the purpose of supplying
substitutes of the Bardou kind, who find it
more prof able and less laborious to go TO
prison for others than to wander about Paris
vainly looking for work
, 1893-06-10
Spectator, May 9Th

The Calcutta correspondent of the Chronicle
asserts thtt it has been decided to annex
Belooohis.an; but the facts he reports, if they
are f,cts, scarcely bear out tn assertion. tie
states that the. Government of India has been
worn out by the Boo1thirstiness of the
suzerain- chief of the State, the Khan of
Khelat, who, afte~ killing three thor sand ()
people, recently murdered sixty-fve persons
in cold blood He has also killed five wives,
one of whom be burned alive. The Govern
ment has therefore arrested and deEosed him,
but will allow his son to sucoeed as ''nomital
ruler" Why nominal ruler? If the story is
true, the new Khan will doubtless have to
sign a new treaty, binding him to pay attention
to the Residents advice; but he will be still
as much a ruler as the Nizam, or Scindiah, or
Holkar. Nobody wanted to be burdened with
Belooohistan, which is nearly as wild as it was
in the days Of Alexander; but the destiny of
the Indian Empire marches on without asking
leave.
, 1893-06-10

Unionlsts and in the minority there were many
Liberals and Irish Nationalists.
Paris news states that the discussion of the
Behring Sea dispute is still proceedingand that
Sir Richard Webster, who has concluded will,
be followed in his arguments by Mr.. Robinson,
q Canadian representative.
News from Berlin states that the German
press are criticising Count Kalnoky's address
to the Hungarian Delegation as expressing
optimistic views regarding European peace
prospects, intimating the existence of the
entente ~oor1iaIe between Russia and Austria.
IN discussing the question Of dlsarm .nolt.
The German critics have discovered that
Austria shows a preference for Russia instead
of for he Triple alliance.
New York, June 9th-London news states
that the vote OH M. Brodrick's amendment
implies no serious differences amongst the
followers of Mr.. Gladstone, but that the
vote simply betokenS the gaining opinion
amongst the Irish Natio ialists that Mr..
Gladstone is becoming too iadulgent regard
ing amendments, although possibly bona hie
as he desires TO give the House of Lords.
when the bill goes before them, no excuse for
its rejection and neoessitating an appeal to
the count ry.
The Times reports that the British wheat
crop is estimated to be Ave million bushels
less than the crop of 1892, and that the other
cereal crops are so disoouraging that only
unforeseen events will avert the ruin Of many
British farmers.
In the recent billiard contest, ohtmp'on
Roberts attributes his defeat by " s, Al
American. to large runs made By the lattegof
damned balls. Roberts has challenged Ives
for a second game Oh same conditions except
ing that after tails j%amming the game ho
continued by sporting.
Dispatches from Rome announce that dur
ing the Jubilee Of the Pope no less thai nino
million a ii eighty thousand francs w Ii glvon
him by the many pilgrims visiting Rome.
Paris advices state that NJ. Ferdinand
Brunetiere has been elected a member Of the
French Academy, defeating NJ. Zola by a vote
Of % to 4.
Washington dispatches report the APP
pointment Of Mr.. P. F. Hyatt, as Consul at
Santiago de Cuba.
Mi. Risley, the newly appointed American
Minister to Denmark, sailei for Copenhagen
on the 8. 3. Columbia yesterday.
New York, June 9th.
Flour St. Lawrence pr. brl. $3.50
Meal. best hrandyw,ne. per. brl. 2.75
Heavy Ness Pork. per brl 20
New Seasons Pork, per Drl. 20B
g.. Crystals per ID. AZ
+. % g. K. per 10 34-B
English Islands Molasses pr, gal. 100.
Exchange sew York and London, 1. 80
London, June 9th.
(Demerara Cryst ,ls " rwl 81 SOD
Sugar Muacovada los 9 i-l6S6 Sd.
German Beet 10 49, 81
Demerara Rum pr gal. Is. Ids 80
Trinidad Cocon pr owt. "a 1884,. Cd.
Consels 99b
Bank of England rAtr of Discount 3.
Liverpool Cotton, Middlma upland y TAP
lhree Or ct lt4Lrr4 NJ Paris 9S 40.