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The record-union., 1895-01-19
rHE SCHOOL FUND GRowL.

There is bit of history related to the
annual screech of the San Francisco BuI-
letiR about the distribution of the public
school fund that will bear repetition: in
deed, 1t may be that there are some new
legislators who have not studied the facts.
The common school fund of the State
of California originated with the money
derived from the sale of sixteenth and
thirty-sixth sections Of land granted to
the State by the Federal Government.
The proceeds of such sales were to be
paid to the counties in which the speci-
fed lands lay.
1t was early found, however, that it
would De very uneconomic and confus-
ing method 10 trust to county adminstra-
tIons and county treasures the manage
menJ of these funds. The Legislature
therefore consolidated the fund and ar
ranged for its distribution per capita, re-
gardiess of counties in which the lands
were located. The interest was distrib-
uted according to the number of children,
regardless also of land location from
which the fund is derived.
Now the City and County of San Fran
cisco would be entitled to about 96O acres
OF lieu land We're the division made by
counties. The State price of land is 81 25.
So San Francisco's sum would be s.. 200.
The interest at per cent. would be 500 a
year, or, say nine mills per capita of her
school children.
But what is the fact? Why, that San
Francisco draws from the school fund
from 20 to s. cents per capita on about
6S,0OO census children. IF there were no
padding done by the Census Marshals in
round numbers there would be about
Gi.O0O children. Now with this statement
OF facts before ones eyes is it not easy to
see whose OK is gored? Similarly is it
not easy to see that of all the tom fool
arguments ever arrayed in the garb of
sobriety, that of the San Francisco BuZ-
tetfn on the school fund question is the
cap sheaf?
We recall when B. T. Tuttle in the
Legislature of California led on kindred
broad-mlnded spirits, some twenty years
ago, and succeeded in the effort to place
the school fund on basis of 81 per
capita, securing legislation by which the
school fund is chiefly raised to this day.
so as to give to every census child full
opportunity for common school educa-
ton.
The law then enacted still remains, and
is likely TO be one of the statutes that
will suffer no desecration, no matter how
much the Bulletin and few other pur-
blind reasoners may clamor for a sys-
tenn that would make each school dis
trict support its schools, irrespective of
conditions, population and the original
location of the school lands.
Such a scheme for school fund would
be q soft thing for San Francisco in one
light, bad thing for the metropolis in
another. It would give the interior a
black eye, and save to San Francisco q
few thousands year. But is San Fran
cisco benefited or injured by harm to the
interior?
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IT BOBs UP SERENELY.

The Marysville Appeal says that "a
sack is being raised in San Francisco and
in other Places" in the hope that venal
men may be found in the Legislature
who, added to those who honestly favor
licensing gambling, will be- enough to
insure the passage of bill to that effect
If the AppeaL knows this to be so, as it
AYERS; if it is not repeating merely a
rumor born of somebody's suggestion, it
should give facts that the guilty may be
identified. Ii there is any one collecting
money TO attempt the corruption of legis-
lators, why not name the parties.
That the appeal Is in favor of the
license measure cuts no figure in the case
Itself honest and above approving brib-
cry, 1t should be unwilling to see a
measure it tavors passed under such a
cloud. If it is a good thing to license
gambling it ought to be done on that
basis, and il should not be necessary to
resort to bribery to accomplish it. The
cause confesses weakness that, while pro-
Tossing its own honesty, has to turn to
evil that good may come.
The licensing OF gambling cannot be
defended on moral grounds. Gaming can
be suppressed. and often is, as effectualIy
as are many other crimes. There is no
crime known to law that is not some
times committed, though there are many
that are butvery rarely committed. Now.
be 1t noted, the only and sole reason ad-
Vanced for the licensing Of gambling is
that it cannot be suppressed, therefore it
is wise to regulate it, and publicity is the
best reg ulator. But just the same may
with as much reason be said of other mis-
demeanors.
However, suppose that the claim of the
friends OF license be conceded for the mo-
ment, and that we then turn aside to the
question of expediency, how will Cali
fornia stand in the estimation of the East
with licensed gambling?
We have less than seven to the square
AiA40 III pOpu4dtLOuI we are agreed tlat we
need of desirable homeseekers a vast
number-away up in the millions; that
our prosperity is dependent mainly upon
the influx OF good, self-helpful people
with more capital, and as a consequence
more and diversified industries. AS a
matter of expediency, then, Will such a
measure as licensing gambling invite or
repel that which we most desire? The
question can be answered honestly only
in opposition to the license scheme.
But, then, this Legislature is not going
to license gambling even if it had the
power to do so; 1t is not going to propose
a constitutional amendment to that end;
because neither thing will be done until
body comes up from the people so in
structed, and the people of California
have not yet given any such instruction
and they never will
The record-union., 1895-01-19

FRANCE has a new President. Not
much is known of him on this side OF
the water. But he appears to be opposed
bitterly by the radical socialists and that
is q good recommendation. He is known
in political circles as a Conservative Re-
publican, which is fair security that he
is not likely TO go over to the enemies of
the republic. He is a more scholarly man
than was Carnot; let US hope that he is
more courageous than was Casimir-
Perier. lie served with distinction un-
der the Gambotts administration and has
been Minister in two subsequent Cabl-
nets. We must remember that French
conceptions of tree government are not
such as we entertain in America and that
the French Constitution is by no means
SO strong an instrument as is ours.
Neither has the Executive Of France the
power with which we invest ours. The
position Of President in France, therefore,
is one of constant trial and battling be-
tween his administration and the tickle
Chambers. Great charity OF judgment
should therefore be exercised in passing
upon the attitude OF a President of the
French Republic.
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SENATE Bill so, by Mr.. Flint, amends
Section 1907 of the Civil Code so as to
make notice to subsequent purchasers
sufficient for all Instruments affecting
real property that were recorded prior to
January /, 1895, Notwithstanding defects,
omissions or informality in the execution
OF the instrument or the certificate of ac-
acknowledgement, and all such acknowledge
ments are ratified and made valid. There
may be good reason for this that the
lawyer will understand, but to the lay
man it appears to be dangerous declara-
ton. The original section did not go TO
the extent of ratifying radically defective
acknowledgements, and 1t specially pro-
vided that the rights of purchasers prior
to the Act should not be affected by it,
Probably the author can explain away q
seeming danger to rights in his bill,
and thus remove doubts in the lay mind.
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REUNION OF VETERANS.

A Pleasant Evening by Grand Army
Members and @. A. IL. Ladies.
There was a pleasant gathering Of
ladies and comrades of the Grand Army
at the residence of DR.. Waggoner, 9lC
Sixth street, on Thursday evening. The
occasion was the presentation by the
ladies Of the Grand Army of an elegant
silver fruit and nut basket and case OF
nut-plckS, together with q basket OF
choice flowers, TO their retiring Presi-
dent, Mrs. E. H. Waggoner, who had
just closed two-years' administration OF
circle affairs. Refreshments, games and
social intercourse kept the happy assem-
bly, together until late hour.
Such peaceful raids as these are far
more enjoyable, though perhaps less ex-
citing, than the hurried call to boots and
saddles" with painful partings of family
and friends, that greeted the Old soldiers
IN war times.
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THE Board of Freeholders of San Fran
cisco is at work framing new charter
for that city. They have only till Febru-
ary 4th in which to complete their work.
1t is altogether too short time; but there
IS something in the fact that two charters
have been framed by earlier boards, and
the experience then gained may go far
toward lessening the labors of the pres
ent board. The local press say that the
disposition is to set up home rule char
ter, cutting off State interference wholly,
and leaving San Francisco to paddle her
own canoe in all things. This is right.
The way to secure good government in a
city is to make the city solely responsible
for whatever government they have; for
all the officials, and for all the patronage
of the departments. State interference
always brings trouble. 1t is destructive
Of self-helpfulness, and tends to involve
municipality unduly in State politics,
with which it has no greater concern than
any other community.
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RAN HIM DOWN

Officer Hardy's Successful Chase At
ter an Escaped Prisoner.
j. r. Rodgers, who was sentenced to
six months imprisonment in the County
Jail yesterday by Justice Davis for va
grancy, escaped from the Police Court
room just before his case was called.
He was lett alone in the courtroom for
few minutes while Bailiff Hardy was
in Justice Davis apartments. Taking
advantage of the opportunity, he walked
out one Of the windows in the rear of the
room upon the back porch, and from
there jumped to the ground.
Hardy chased him across the Yolo
bridge into Washington, where he caught
him and brought him back to Jail.
The record-union., 1895-01-19

THE Supreme Court has held in the
matter of Boards of Freeholders to frame
municipal charters precisely as the REC
ORD UNION contended in the Sacramento
case. We then held that, even if it were
conceded that Messrs. Armstrong and
Weinstock We're disqualified, the board
would continue a valid one so long as
there was majority OF the fifteen tree
holders, the qualifications Of whom were
not questioned. This is not only the law,
but it is common-sense. When one wants
a technicality raised our experience has
taught US to 60 not to a lawyer, but to
the layman who imagines that the law is
a mass of technicalities, whereas it is
nearly an exact science.
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SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY.
REWARD!
San Francisco, Oct. II, 1904.
TO UNITED STATES MARSHALS,
SHERIFFS, CONSTABLES, POLICE
AND OTHER OFFICERS.

At or about go on the evening ol
October 18th the overland mail and
express train No. 8 was stopped by
robbers, about five miles west of Sac
ram ento, in Yolo County, California
The express car was robbed of about
$50, 900 lfifty thousand doIIarsl in
gold coin. The train men and express
messenger were shot at several tinlc4
to accomplish the robbery. The foI-
lowing is brief description of tha
robbers, as near a5 known at preser,.,
One about ak feet high, vveiqhing
abOut2OO pounds, the other about Fl Va
feet nine inches, veighing about 40
pounds. Each wore linen busters and
masks and had their IA aces vvhitened.
The Southern Pacific Company and
Wells, Fargo & Company Will paw y
reward Of two thousand five hundred
dollars (S2, 500 for the arrest aud con.
viction Of each of the robbers. and
five thousand (S5, ,OOO) dollars fortha
recovery Of the money stolen or a
orOPOrtiOnate amount for any SUM
recovered.
This offer Of reward supersedes any
and all others. Further information
may DO obtained from the under
signed, or Of Mr.. J. B. Wright, Division
superintendent, Sacramento, or Of
Mr. A. D. Wilder, Division Superin-
tendent, Oakland Pier, or OF Mr.. Z. II.
Cooper. Manager Wells Fargo's Exo
press, San Francisco.
A. n. TOWNE,
Second Vlce-President and GenI. Manaccn
j. j. VALENTINE,
President WelIs-FRrgo & Co,
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Normal school Trustees.

Governor Budd has appointed and COM
missioned the following as Trustees OF
the State Normal School at San Jose: NJ.
Dinkelspiel of San Francisco, f.
Angel of Palo- Alto, Mrs. EuIalia Wilson
OF Oakland, Henry French of San Jose,
r. L. Wilhoit OF Stockton. They will
succeed Ralph Lowe, c. II. Phillips, T.
;. montgomery, Philo Hersey and a. L.
Rhodes.
Dinkelspiel and Angel are Republic
ans; Mrs. Wilson and WiIhoit are Demo-
Gratis, and French is Prohibitionist.
The record-union., 1895-01-19

SUPERINTENDENT BYRNEs Of the Met
ropolitan Police, New York, is to be re-
tanned, ,whereat all good citizens should re-
joice. Not an iota of wrong was proved
against Byrnes. Some one charged him in
general terms with having been provident
and fortunate in amassing competence;
therefore. say the latter day reformers, he
must have been corrupted. What siIli-
ness. Did he not frankly lay bare the
sources of his success? He made no con-
cealment that rich men dealing in prop
erty and securities had told him how to
invest, and he followed their advice and
succeeded. Well, what of it? What was
there wrong in his making money Iegiti-
mately? Is it, indeed, any proof of vir-
tue that one remains poor through reiec-
ton of honest means of attaining inde-
pendence?
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ANOTHER HUNTER LOST.
Believed to Have Been Drowned Nea
Ten-MiIe Lake.


Ten-MiIe Lake.
Men who go out in the frail shells
known as duck-boats must be expert in
handling them or they are likely to come
to grief, especially during storms and
high winds.
Several fatalities have occurred this sea-
son among duck hunters, the latest re-
ported being in the case of a young man
named Hawkins, who went 10 Ten-MiIe
Lake last Sunday for a shoot. He dId not
return, but his duck-bost and decoys
have been found near the old Pritchard
break in the levee.
Friends have made an unsuccessful
search for him, and the chances are that
his body lies at the bottom of the over
flow.
The record-union., 1895-01-19

The RECoRD-UNIoN and WEEKLY
UNION are the only papers on the Coast,
outside Of San Francisco, that re-
ceiUe the JtU Associated Press Dis
patches from all parts OF the ,rorJd. Out
side Of San Francisco, they haze no COM
petitoTS, either in influence or home and
general circulation throughout the State,
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NoIarieS Public.

Governor Budd has appointed and
commissioned the following Notaries
Public: john /. Hudner, Hollister: Ger
trude Rowland, Stockton; ". II. Turner,
Sutter Creek, Amador County; /. y.
Aldrich, Marysyille; John a. Rapp, Ne
yada City.
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Eastern Freight shjpments.

During December the freight shipments
from Sacramento to the East amounted
to 4,5l2 tons. The heaviest shipments
We're of wine, l 1,267 tons, ond the next was
of dried fruits, 64o tons.
The record-union., 1895-01-19

BEFORE Sacramento drives out her unem-
ployed she should give each one q chance to
be employed. To do otherwise is crueI-mOre
cruel lhan TO put to death the man who had
been given the opportunity and refused To
take it.-ColuSa Sun.
Sacramento drove out none willing to
take such work as Sacramento had to
give. But Sacramento cannot give work
to the unemployed of all the State. She
has no public work in progress, and such
employment as she had to give was the
result of charity in providing for the pre-
paratiOn of road material. There was a
large class who refused this, and whose
leaders forbade them 10 take less than s.
a day, and advised them if they could not
get that to beg from house to house, and
il refused to take what they needed. The
most of that kind went, but violence
against none was used; the arrests made
were on charges of illegal conduct. 1t is
easy to talk of what community should
do, but it is far more difficult to perform.
The record-union., 1895-01-19

4 BILL has been introduced in the
Legislature for a State building in San
Francisco, and the list of offices TO be To-
Gated therein are catalogued In the bill.
among them some that the Constitution
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Suit TO Recover Land.

j. S. HARRISON, by his attorney, Hiram
W. johnson, has commenced suit in the
Superior Court against George A. Knott
for the recovery and possession of eight
acres of swamp land. Plaintiff also asks
for SI00 damages.
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sofa through druggists, at the pTlce OF the
cheaper made pills.
Pleasant Pellets - cure biIiousness. sick
and bilious headache, dizziness, costive-
ness, or constipation, sour stomach, loss of
appetite, coated tongue, indigestion, or dys-
pepsia, windy belchings, heartburn, y
pain and distress after eating, and kindred
arrangements of the liver, stomach and
bowels. Put up i'll sealed glass vials, there
fore always fresh and reliable. Whether
as a laxative, or in larger doses, as a gently
acting but searching cathartic, these little
pellets are uneoualed.
As dinner pill, - to promote digestion,
take one each day after dinner. To relieve
the distress arising from Over-eating, moth
ing equals one of these little Pellets. +"
They are tiny, sugar-coated, anti bilious
granuIes. Any child readily takes them.
Accept no substitute that may be recon-
1nended to be just as good" 1t may be
better for tire dealer, because OF paying
him a better profit, but he is not the one
who needs help.
A free sample q to : doses on trial, is
mailed TO any address, post paid, on receipt
of name and address on postal card.
Address WORLDS DIsPENsARY MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION Buffalo, \. Y.
The record-union., 1895-01-19

requires shall be located at the Capital;
Tor instance, the Attorney-Gener s
office. Is this bill the initial step for re-
moval of the Capitol by detail? A build
ing may be needed in San Francisco as a
rent-saver for certain purposes, but as
suredly not for the housing of about all
there is of the government except the
Executive, State department, Treasury,
Library. Controllers Office, Superinten-
dent of instruction and State Printer. The
truth is. that while some State servants
Will continue to be located in San Fran
cisco properly, there is not necessity for
or legality in the movement to make
headquarters for so many State officials
IN the metropolis. The State is erecting
building now in which it would not be
difficult to provide for such commissions
as should be located in San Francisco.
The record-union., 1895-01-19
The Governor on q Trip.

Governor Budd went to Stockton yes
terday afternoon. To-day he will go to
San Francisco and will review the Sec
ond Regiment Of Artillery in that city to-
night.
The record-union., 1895-01-19
State Land Patents.

Governor Budd has signed the follow
ing land patents: No. S,534, to j. G.
James, San Benito County, 100 acres; No.
S,535, John B. Lindemenn, Modoc, l60
acres.
The record-union., 1895-01-19

a POWDER of inferior quality could not
endure the exacting tests through which
DR.. Prices Baking Powder has passed.
II has the best standing because it is the
best powder.
The record-union., 1895-01-19

IN less than six years the nineteenth
century will close. No food product de-
Veloped in the one hundred years is SO
good as DR.. Prices Baking Powder.
The record-union., 1895-01-19
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hecord- NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. No. 40.
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CATHOLIC Services at Twentieth and O

Father Augustine, o. S. F., now To-
Gated at Twenty-fifth and X streets, will
hold Catholic services in Union Hall at
Twentieth and o streets, beginning to-
morrow. Low mass will pe at o'clock
A. NJ and high mass at 10.
This arrangement will be continued
until the new church at Twenty-tifth and
X streets is completed. Brother Adrian,
0. ). f., from st. Louis, is working on
the plans for the new edifce.
The Sunset Limited takes you to New
Orleans in 10 hours and to New y ork in
Il9 hours
The record-union., 1895-01-19

~ These publications are sent either by
ncribers with charges prepaid. Ali Postmast-
ers are agents.
The best advertising mediums on the Pacific
Coast.
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Entered at the Postoffice at Sacramento al
kecond-class matter.
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REWARD!
The SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANr
hereby offers to pay
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS

IS a reward for information or evidence
leading to the arrest and conviction Of
one Or more of the criminals who
caused the derailment Of west bound
mail and passenger train, No. 4, at a
point about three miles west of Sacra'
meuto about aoOn this date, JULY Il,
1904, in which wreck three or mora
persons were killed.
(SigneD A. N. T0WNB,
Second Vice.President and General
Manager
The record-union., 1895-01-19

The peasants of Germany, Sweden and
Russia subsist almost wholly on rye
bread.
The record-union., 1895-01-19

SENENTH-STREET NJ. e. CHURCH
- south, between and K.-T. II. B. Ander-
son, ID. d., pastor. Sevices at IL A. NJ. and
1870 P NJ. The pastor will preach in the
morning. Subject: Life out OF Death" In
The evening Rev. II. c. Morrison, the evange-
list, Will preach. Sunday-schOOi, 1890 p NJ.
Epworth League, G:1o p. NJ. Glass meeting
$3.50 i. NJ. Revival services continued
through the week. Everybody earnestly re-
GueSied to attend
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THE WEEKLY UNJON

70 the cheapest and most desirable Home.
news and Literary Journal published on the
Pacific Coast
The WEEKLY UNION per yearS1 30
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SL,5OO REWARD.

TN ADDITION TO THE $1,000 REWARD
I offered by the Governor OF this state Ws
Will pay
$500
For the arrest and conviction Of party or par
ties who so lOuIIy murdered r. H. /. WEBER
and LIZZIE NJ. WEBER his wife. on iL3
night Of December 20, 1891. on the premises,
1211 and 1919 L street, Sacramento, Cal.
Ja3-In WEBER & co.
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This paper is for sale at the following places:
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w Gather Forecast.
Northern NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. rains.
Sacramento River-Hight, "a feet inches.
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GIXTH-STREET METHODIST CHURCH.
- between X and 1.-The pastor Milton d.
Buck, will preach at lO:45 a N. on Heaven, -
ana at $50 ?: NJ. TO young people, on ellie
and Its Possibilities" Choice music attentive
ushers, a cordial welcome aud church home
for strangers.
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OURTEENTH-STREET PRESBYTE-
I rian Church, between o and Prev. W.
II. BauSh. pastor. Preaching by evangelist
Rev. David ii. Reid at IL \. NJ. and 7:3O p. NJ.
Also, gospel services viii be held at 2:3O every
afternoon ana at 7:3O in the evening each
day during the week except Saturday
GERMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH, COR
VI ner Twelfth and X streets.-Services as
usual. Sermon at 1850 a. NJ: maria Mag
Gatena." AT 2. NJ: "GemeInde-Ve
lung .
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STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.

THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
i Stockholders of the Buffalo Brewing Com
pany Will be held at the Office OF the company.
at Twenty-4iTst street, between q and Il
Streets in the City of Sacramento, State OF
California TUESDAY, January 20, 1885, at
1:30 o'clock z. ".
ADOLPH HEILBRON, President.
W. L. GERBER. Secretary. ja14-td
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