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The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-02-06
The ENGINEERS.

In an interview Saturday Chief Ar
thur said:
"The engineers have a grievance, and
a very serious one. 1t would be impos-
sible for me to say how the thing will
end. There has been a sweeping reduce
| ton of wages without any good reason
for it. All efforts to restore the stand
ard of wages have proved fruitless. The
engineers, through their regularly dele
gated representatives, have made all
reasonable efforts to adjust matters with
the railroad managers. Well, they have
failed d.
''Perhaps the American Railway I'm
ion feels resentment against the Broth
erhood OF Engineers because OF the
stand in the great strike of last year.
But whatever land might be taken by
that organization it could not in n
way affect the work of the brotherhood.
Whatever is done by our organization
will be done ef1ectually. We know
what we can do, and We do not propose
to make any false moves. Ii a strike is
ordered it will mean that locomotive
wheels will not move on the Southern
Pacific while the strike is on. However,
this is all problematical. 1t is possible
that matters will be so adjusted next
Monday that no strike will be necessary.
The matter is still under discussion.
There is no decision regarding the
proposed strike yet. Arthur advises the
engineers not to strike. The Southern
Pacific representatives announced that
the company would not recede from
its position and would enforce cuts in
wages. About hall the Brotherhood ia
vor striking, while the others are op-
posed.
The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1895-02-06

wheat hat was being cooked for some
hogs. Thursday AFTERNOON about five
O'Clock the little boy wat playing around
the vat and accidentally tell in il. The
beat was So intense that the muscles
and nerves became paralyzed almost in
stantly. He suffered very little the few
hours he lived. All effort were made to
save his life but to no avail. The grief
of the parents is almost uncomfortable.
The family has the heartfelt sympathy
of the community. The remains We're
inferred in the burying ground south OF
town.
The patients at the Mcintosh hospital
are all improving. Every one adheres
to a different doctrine and it is hard to
tell which one is improving the fastest.
One believes in faith cure. Although
the pain is most terrible and seemingly
intolerable yet with a stole countenance
she performs all the duties OF the house.
hold. Another says mo matter
what your trouble, whether it be a sore
throat, neuralgia in the eye, or sciatic
pains in the lower extremities, ii you
only keep talking, you can talk even
pain to death, and if you do not talk I'M
der such circumstance you will surely
die" While another says Summon
the physician at once, yell for dear life
at every impression of pain, groan as
loudly as pssible between times aud take
all the pills and tablets available" All
are able to be up around, but are not
completely cured. An observer of such
a scene is forced to say "Thy faith hath
made thee whole"
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Saltwater News.

On Saturday evening last a sheet and
pillow slip party was given here by the
Social Club instead OF their regular Sat
urday night dance. The affair was un-
der the direct supervision of the presi-
dent, Mr.. j. w. Freeman, and judging
from the expressions of all present, he
is the right man in the right place.. A.
mong the outsiders present were Mr.,
and Mrs. Grimes, Florence Grimes, Viii
Kaiser, Miss Barley, Allen Lee, Miss
Eva B. Lee and Fred Small. The music
was furnished by Williams and Higgins
All united in the opinion it had beer
the most enjoyable affair held here for 6
long time.
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Wadsworth has the only climate.
The masquerade is all the talk now.
Mrs. Abbay visited Reno Monday.
Seymour Jacobs spent Sunday in Reno.
&c. Foulks has returned from Calf
ornia.
Tom Hill was down from Clarks yes
terday.
There are five men chopping wood in
the hills.
Mrs. G. E. Mclean of FLesno arrived
last night.
Jim Ewing is able to walk around the
streets a little.
Miss Kate Murphy left for Truckee
Sunday on u visit.
Mrs. John Goldie and Mrs. Short are
visiting Truckee.
Fred Behler fell in the river yesterday
and never got Wet.
Mrs. Will Hunt has returned from a
visit to Sacramento.
The Truckee Meadows hay will all be
consumed before Spring.
Charlie Walstrom has taken ninety
days to go east Oh . visit( p.
Mrs. G.. H. Hunt departed for her new
home i'll Oakland last evening.
VIM. Murphy, ex-District Attorney of
Churchill County is in town today.
Geo. Baker is on the way with 1000
head OF sheep to be shipped Sunday.
b. Bower and Badly Sour came up
yesterday but returned immediately.
Mrs. G. Il. Carter and mother, Mr..
Ford, are %visitirg riends at Waisworth.
The advent of II family, colored, oil
musicians caused quite a stir last eve
ming.
The Endowment Rank, Knights of
Pythias, is tile best insurance in the
world.
Frank Emmitt has beer been super
coded as CLERK OF the Asylum by MIR.
Wood.
The Leader thinks the Sierra Valley
hay crop will all be consumed this
winter.
Jim Cummings and George Lindsay
are working at the Eureka mill on the
Carson river.
Senator Kaiser, of Churchill, 81 years
OF age, is the Oldest member Of the New
ada Senate.
AL Griswold informs us that Ward
Goodwin has started a steam laundry in
Grass Valley.
Buccaroo Frank came up from Limbo
yesterday and says the deer are thick in
the mountains.
The Governor has appointed DR.. w.
A. Phillips OF Reno, as a member OF the
state Board Of Health.
Assemblyman Beck has introduced a
bill 10 repeal the Observation-Disclosures
noxious-aninial law.
Humphrey Owen thinks Reno is .
fine place. SO does Bug go do a good
many Wadsworth boys.
Charlie Keyes left for Sacramento
Monday to accept II position in the rail-
road shops at that place.
A Texas legislator wants to fine people
who do not answer their letters within
ten days one thousand dollars.
Seven nlarhinists and two firemen
Quit work at the railroad shop last week
On ACCOUNT of the low wages.
a lag containing about three thous-
and collars in coin was one OF Wells
farso's shipments from here this week.
Rurte Bros. of Reno have contracted
lor r"td wood with which to FIRE a kiln
OF brink to be made at Wadswor:h,
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1896.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-13
M'DONALD ACQUITTED.

The acquittal of Richard n. Mcdonald
Jr. is in accord with the expectations of
all who have given an intelligent study to
the circumstances of the remarkable case
in which he has had the misfortune to be
involved. The verdict of the jury is un-
donbtedly just, and saves an innocent
man from being punished for the guilt of
others.
1t is beyond question that the wrecking
OF the Pacific Bank and the Peoples Home
Savings Bank was brought about by the
grossest rascality and by deliberate frauds
carried to the extent of downright rob-
berry. 1t is clear from the evidence, how
ever, that Richard Mcdonald Jr. was not
the man on whom the guilty responsibility
for these crimes can be placed. He was
surrounded by clique of corrupt men
whose wills were stronger than his, and in
whose dishonest practices his ruin as we'll
as that Of the banks were involved. He is
fortunate TO have found jury sufficiently
intelligent and clear sighted to do him ius-
tice despite the stigma upon him caused
by the evil associates who dominated him
in business.
The case should not be allowed to drop
at this point. AS it is certain the banks
were wrecked by frauds, some person or
persons must have committed them. The
law vindicated by the acquittal of the in
nocent demands now the punishment of
the guilty. The offenses are So great the
Grand Jury cannot afford to overlook
them. scrutinizing investigation of the
closest character should be made into the
matter. The gang of rascals who COM
mitted the crimes should be indicted
whether they are in the State or not II
they are beyond our borders it is probable
they can be brought back if demanded by
our justice. At any rate such robbery of
the savings of honest people should not
be condoned, and since Richard Mcdonald
Jr. is innocent, the next duty is to dis
cover the puilty
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-13
SUSPICIOUS OF DOODLE.

1t is the simplest of all propositions that
if public officers of high character should
be elected there would be no reasonable or
generally credited charges or suspicious
that they had accepted or could be induced
to accept bribes. Conversely, men of evil
political associations and without high
personal standing are presumed 10 be in
office for Doodle, as experience has
shown amply that such suspicious are gem
orally correct. 1t follows that whether
the officers of this kind actually do or do
not accept bribes, their presence in Office
is practically as damaging to the City az
though they were guilty.
This is the most serious phase of the
case. The Solid Eight of the Board of
Supervisors have acted in such a manner
as to invite general distrust. AS re-
suit every person of easy morals who has
dealings with the City deems bribery
necessary, and honest men who would
scorn that road to success are kept at a
distance. Necessarily the influences af-
fecting the City government become
thoroughly evil, as the very fact that these
beliefs and suspicious are prevalent
multiplies the chances of their becoming
tangible.
This is just the condition of affairs that
corrupt bosses work to produce. Their
sole aim is to make money by corrupt
means, and their whole plan is to create
an atmosphere of corruption and suspicion
about the men whom they thrust into
office. An extraordinary phase of the
subject is the willingness now and then
of decent man to accept the sup
port of such bosses and secure election at
their hands and so serve as a tool in hood
winking the voters and increasing the
power of the bosses.
Some very important matters may soon
be brought before the public. 1t may Just
as well be realized at the start that it is
impossible for legislation alone to produce
good government. A new charter, what
ever may be the safeguards which it creates
against official rascality, will be inefficient
if its administration is permitted 20 re-
main in the hands of corrupt manipula-
tors. Human ingenuity is not able to
devise laws which will compel officers to
be honest. Even the defective charter
which We have might be made exceedingly
useful in securing good to the City if hon
est and intelligent men were charged with
its enforcement.
This argument is intended to show
merely that the most important work for
the people to do first is to secure decent
politics, and this can be done only by
crushing the power of the corrupt intlu-
ences which dominate it. After that is
done We may properly turn to the con-
sideration of measures which clean and
responsible office holders may carry out
for the public good.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-13
PIONEERS IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Dec Thirty surviv-
ing members OF the Associated Pioneers OF the
Territorial Days of California celebrated
their twenty-second annual dinner few
evenings ago in this city, Rear-Admiral Rich
ard w. Meade, U. S. N, presiding. The elabo-
rate menu included flet la Cliff House and
roti a la Golden Gate to remind these makers
of California history of the "days of gold, the
days of 49," The members present and the
year of arrival in California were as follows:
1S47-Francls D. Clark secretary; 1S49-Cap-
tain William F. Blanck, Captain Samuel L..
Clapp, Gardner @. Cotton, James C. Caywood,
Hon. Stephen B. French, John Gault GEN
eral ii. G. Gibson, g. S. A., A. T.
Goodell, Cornelius Lydecker, William A.
Hedenberg, Joseph P. Manton, Rear Admiral
r. W. Meade, q. 8. N, James ]. MeCloskey,
Richard J. Paulison, Joseph. N. Pray, H. 3.
Scharmann, John D. Townsend, William NJ.
Walton, Henry Wilson and Byron Whitcom u;
1S50-Hon. Mark D. WILDER and Charles w.
Schumann; 1850. w. Colyer; Sons of
Pioneers-Dr. W. T. Van Vredenburgh, G. w.
Van Vredenburgh and William NJ. Sweeney.
The invited guests were: Alex B. Ludlow, T..
6: Palmer, John II. Conner, o. E. Carpenter, d.
W. Kieinhause and Miles PAnsen, who went to
California in 1856.
The literary exercises which succeeded the
dinner were as follows: Address by the presi-
dent, Rear Admiral Meade; speeches by P.
Tecumseh Sherman, son of General W. t. Sher-
man, Mark ID. Wilber, Rev. Newan Maynard,
James J. McCloskey, DR.. Gardner @. Cotton, F..
ii. B. Scharmann, Miles PAnsen and Byron
WhltcomD Many of the speeches were remin-
lscent OF crossing the plains and other features
OF pioneer hardship REID MILLER
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-13
MIXED RAILROAD MATTERS.

The sale by order of court of the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad places
this great property under entirely new
management and in the hands OF a syndi-
cate OF wealthy men having large ana va
ried business interests. new broom
sweeps clean. However conservative these
owners may be in their other affairs or may
become in the handling of this railroad, it
is more than likely that the new sensation
OF its possession will induce them to un-
dertake important enterprises.
Besides the advantage which their wealth
brings the owners have a very valuable one
in the friendship Of the people whom the
road serves. BY the pursuit of generous
policy in the past it has been the most
important OF all the factors which con-
tributed to the development and pros
perity of Southern California. 1t was
never hated as the Southern Pacific is,
and no forward movement that it may
make will be hampered by popular oppo-
sition. 1t Will not have to work in the
dark and through dummies to secure rights
OF way, and its appeals for the co-opera-
ton. OF the new regions which it may
decide to penetrate will not be greeted
with jeers. 1t does not enjoy the reputa-
ton of bribing legislatures, judges and
luries, nor of Grading the laws and shirk-
ing its taxes. 1t starts with clean record
and everything in its favor.
Even its compact with the Southern Pa
citic to keep out of Northern California has
not been laid up against it. The only
enmlty that it has is found at San Diego,
whose people think that it broke faith
with them when. after they had surren-
dered their water front to it, the condi-
tons OF the transfer were never performed.
Probably this, as well as the arrangement
with the Southern Pacific, was made neces-
sary by lack of means. That drawback
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-13
WHAT IS ORGANIZATION ?

One OF the cOmmonest results of the
efforts OF respectable citizens to organize
for the correction of public evils is the
development of dissensions and the break
ing up OF powerful force into antagonistic
factions. A recent instance of this has
been furnished by some OF the good women
OF San Francisco, who, while endeavoring
to organize for most lauda Die purposes,
find dissenting views prevailing in their
ranks and threatening to cripple their
efforts. This is as common among men
as among women. It was just such
division that prevented the great move
ment begun by DR.. Parkhurst in New
York from enjoying fruition and that re-
stored Tammany to power and pillaee.
There are several reasons for this, The
most important is the unwillingness of
some to work under any method except
that of their own devising. DR.. Park
hurst, while announcing that he did not
ike all the features OF the reform Republi-
can movement organized against Tam
many, said that it could accomplish good,
announced his adhesion and urged all
good citizens to take that course. Having
less political sense than he they refused,
and Tammany was victorious. He knew,
as all must know who are very much in
earnest and are wise, that organization
necessarily means a sinking of individual
preferences and opinions in a general
scheme which represents the wishes of the
majority.
Another drawback is often the absence
of an able leader who, by superior charac-
ter, wisdom, tact and patience, can induce
harmony by persuasion or argument. All
would-be leaders in reform movements
might learn a valuable lesson from the
study of the methods of political bosses.
Invariably these men are found to have re-
markable personal power. They are un-
failingly polite, tactful, patient and per-
suasive. 1t is true that their power is
greatly strengthened by their ability to ap-
peal to the cupidity and vanity of their
followers, and that these elements must be
lacking to q degree from purely reform
movements; but that merely requires that
the reform leader should have power OF a
strictly personal kind to make up for the
lack.
Until leaders in reforms have fully mas
tered those two propositions it is useless
for them to expect success or complain be-
cause some OF their followers withdraw and
start rival movements. At the same time
this does not excuse the dissatisfied ones,
who. by their unwillingness to sacrifice
something for the general good, proclaim
themselves as incapable of appreciating
the trust which they have assumed.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-13
KEEPING PUBLIC MONEY.

In its recent editorial on the decision
rendered by Judge Dougherty of Santa
Rosa, THE CALL was misled by the incom-
pleteness of the telegram announcing the
decision. In the editorial Judge Dough-
erty was praised for deciding that it
is the duty of the County Treasurer
to produce the money when it is de-
manded by the officers charged with the
duty of counting it. 1t now seems that
Judge Dougherty rendered no such de-
cision and that the praise which THE CALL
gave him was misplaced. He decided in
effect that as the law permits the Treas
urer to make special deposit under GER
tain contingencies. it is proper for him to
produce the banks certificate for it and
have it counted as cash.
1t was possibly a fear that the courts
would establish such dangerous prece-
dent that has induced the State Bank
Commissioners to make an order directing
banks to refuse to accept State, county
and city money except as special deposits,
and even then the money shall not be
touched by the banks, but shall be kept
separate and subject to instant delivery on
demand special deposit held by the
treasurer is by no means the same as
cash, as it still permits the bank to use the
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-13

money. Under these circumstances if the
bank should fail the county would have no
rights above those of other depositors. II
it should be legally prohibited from using
the money its use would be embezzlement,
and would lay the banker liable to criminal
prosecution.
Such decision as Judge Dougherty's
would make possible the danger which
the Bank Commissioners have de-
termined to prevent. They have dis
covered that in many cases banks have
not the money on hand to pay immediate
demands by public treasurers for money
placed on special deposit. The banks are
solvent, but besides the fact that the city
or county has the right to demand its
money and may have immediate use for it
is the danger that from one cause or an
other the bank may become insolvent. In
addition to all that is the manifest error o:
a policy which permits any one to specu-
late with public funds or handle them for
any purpose other than public use.
1t is fortunate that treasurers are now
indirectly compelled, through regulation
affecting banks, to be ready at all times to
produce the actual cash with whose Gus
tody they are charged. and it is fortunate
for the State that an instrumentality ex-
lists for requiring this wise plan to be fol-
lowed, the courts having failed to do so.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-13
ALLEN G. THURMAN.

The death of Allen G. Thurman will not
strike the American people as it would
have done had he passed away while still
holding a foremost place among our
statesmen. He has been so long
in retirement and his later years have
been so inactive that his death can
hardly be called loss to the Nation.
Nevertheless it will be sincerely mourned.
for all will feel that great historic figure
has passed away and that we have one less
illustrious American living among US than
we had yesterday.
The character of the dead statesman is
well embodied in the honorable title of
"the old Roman" given him years ago by
his friends and adopted by the peo-
pie generally. 1t was title well
deserved and worthily borne. He was
so true to the standard of what an
American Senator should be that his
countrymen rightly saw in him a real
ization of that ideal virtue, honesty and
patriotism in statecraft which Is supposed
in modern times to have characterized the
members OF that mighty Senate that made
Rome the mistress of the world.
While the bent of his nature and his
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the stalwart kind, he was never, in any
sense of the word, a narrow partisan,
and members of all parties in the
country recognized his sterling worth,
both as a man and as politician.
His personal influence, founded upon a
noble character, enabled him 10 win his
way to the Senate from State 50 strongly
Republican as Ohio, and in times when
Democracy was weak in all sections of the
North. This fact itself attests the high
qualities of the man, and if further proof
were needed it could be found in every
action by which he served his State and
Nation in the Senate.
Much might be said of his services, but
little is needed. Though he has been long
in retirement from public life the people
have not forgotten his battles fought in
their behalf against the grasping corpora,
tions, railroads, trusts and money powers
OF the land. In this regard it may be said
Of him that "he being dead. yet speaketh,"
for what he begun will yet be accom-
plished and his truest monument will be
the victory thus achieved for the welfare
of the Union for all time TO come.