The record-union., 1893-06-20
PRESS VOICE.
What Some Interior Journals Have I
Say on Public Topics.

Say on Public Topics.
Fresno ErpOSitOr: An item is going
the rounds of the State press that "mill-
ions of worms are devasting the vine
yards of Fresno County," This is alto
gether an error. Worms are not devasting
the vineyards to any extent. They have
done no material injury to the grape crop
of this county. The worm that is doing
the most of the damage in this vicinity is
the worm of the still.
Amador Record: The State Good
Roads Convention, which is called by the
Sacramento Humane Society, will be held
in the Assembly Chamber of the State
Capitol on September 7th. The conven-
tion will be attended by delegates ap-
pointed by the various Boards of Super
visors, bicycle clubs, grangers associa-
tions and railroad companies. The Fed
eral Government will be represented by
delegates from the Postal Department.
OF course our Supervisors will see that
Amador County is properly represented
in the convention. 1t occurs to us that
S. \. Knight of Sutter Creek would be
about as good man as the board could
pick on to send there. No man in the
county has better understanding of
every detail of this complicated and all
important question than has Mr.. Knight.
Willows ReUjeU: France has the best
roads in the world. To aid in keeping
them in good condition the law requires
all freight wagons to have wheels with
tires six inches wide, running on aXles
Of UNEQUAL length, so that each wagon
makes a roller two feet wide. Ordina-
rily this system of wheels repairs the
damage done by hOofs of the horses.
Placer Argus: We hope the anti-debris
association, no matter what the result,
will keep their hands off the work of the
Mining Commission and give their work
q trial. 1t will do no one harm to try this
law, and should the experiments made
prove that mining under this law is inn
practicable, it will then be time to meet
the efforts of the miners with litigation
and bring them into court ''in every
case"
Los Angeles Times: The California fruit
exhibit at the Worlds Fair is already be-
ginning to show good results. Growers,
especially manufacturers of olive oil,
who have made exhibits there, are re-
ceiving many inquiries regarding their
goods, which indicate that they will be
able to sell in territory which they have
not hitherto touched. Our fruit-growers
should see that regular shipments of the
finest fresh fruit go forward to Chicago.
Stockton Mail 1t was a fortunate dis
covery by the State Board of Examiners
that it has a new and sufficient ground
upon which to invalidate the Coyote
Scalp Bounty Act. The Board of Ex-
aminers takes the position that the law is
defective for the reason that it does not
create fund out of which the bounty
shall be paid.
Santa Cruz Surf, The attempt of the
sensational contingent of the public press
to idealize the deeds of these two dishon-
est and desperate bandits and to cover
them with the glamor of bold and
brave" if bad men, is debasing to the
''high calling" of journalism.
Santa Rosa Democrat: 1t is astonishing
that there should be found people who
take any stock in the absurd story Of
Evans and Sontag that they never robbed
a train. law-abIding citizens are not apt
to commit murder TO escape arrest for
crime of which they are not guilty. If
they never held up train it would have
been an easy matter to establish their In
nocence. But waving the question of
train-robbery, they are certainly guilty
Of atrocious murder, crime they can
only expiate on the galIows. 1t is not at
ality that these bandits should be objects
of so much maudlin sympathy through
out the country.
Los Angeles Express San Francisco
would like TO have mountain ranges
operate as commercial barriers against
cities competing with her for trade. but
not against herself She laws claim to
the trade of the Willamette Valley, which
the Southern Pacific has made accessibl
to san Francisco by boring through the
tremendous rocky wall OF the Siskiyous.
And yet Portland may reach every point
in that valley, level as a floor"
with no mountain ranges to traverse and
shorter distances to be covered, Water