The record-union., 1896-03-20
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions of Interior California
Newspapers.
Comments Upon Things Local, Gov
ernmental, Practical, Theoret-
fcal and Current.

Dixon Tribune: Much attention is be-
ing given by our farmers to subsoiling
The great benefits to be derived from
the breaking of the hardpan and the
stirring of the under soil is becoming
apparent to all. AS subsoiling is some
thing new to California farmers the
proper season for the work is still a
matter of conjecture. Most authori-
ties, however, contend that it can be
done properly only in the early winter
An EXPERIMENT IN WOMAN SUF-
FRAGE.
Oakland Tribune: The Boston "Her-
ald' publishes a letter from a we'll
informed lady of Colorado in answer
to question how woman suffrage is
regarded in that State. Woman suf-
frage was adopted in Colorado at the
State election held in 1898. 1t has been
on trial little more than two years,
according to the testimony of that
lady, and is still an experiment. 1t can
not be affirmed that it is a success or a
failure. She thinks that women in other
parts of the country might wait longer
to see what results may follow in Col
orado. These statements are to the
point:
1t is certainly true that some women
who took an active part in politics a
year or more ago cannot to-day be
dragged into any political activity.
They treat the matter not only with
Indifference, but, as the Frenchman
would say, with one grand despise. "
Yet these same women, if any moral
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good men, spring to meet the emer-
gency. So, however, would all good
men.
1t is probably true that there is a
larger Indifferent vote polled now in our
State than before the extension of suf-
frage. The majority of women are not
by nature or opportunities political.
The few who are assertive, and perhaps
annoying to me, would be assertive and
disagreeable without the ballot. That
only makes it possible for men to ex-
perience the annoyance. The right to
vote has not yet changed the nature OF
women.
NEITHER TRUE NOR CORRECT.
Marysville Democrat: 1.-The wrong
done to miners by Secretary Smith S
issue of patents to 266.000 acres of land
is strikingly illustrated in supplemental
list 80 A. 1t consists of 10, 743 acres of
placer lands, all owned by a Michigan
gentleman under a possessory title on
file in Siskiyou County. When the rail-
road laid claim to the land notice of the
fact was published in the Yreka
Union for sixty days, from Decem-
Der 18th to February 18th, under the
rules laid down by the Interior Depart
ment on July g. 1864. These were sup
pcsedly made to enable the miner claim
ant to make protest. In this instance,
however, as no doubt in many others,
the owner knew nothing of the notice
until it was too late to be effective, and
the lands have passed from his pos
session.
The foregoing, taken from an editorial
in the San Francisco Chronicle is the
best illustration of the ignorance of the
editor as to the provisions of the laws
relative to disposal of the public domain
that we have seen. Secretary Smith
did not enact the laws, his functions
extending only to executing them
The patents issued to the California and
Oregon Railroad Company, here men
toned, was for odd-numbered Sec
tions of land lying within the granted
limits, as per the Act of Congress. The
provisions of law were followed in
the same manner as the homestead
claimant is required to do to obtain title.
A day was set to hear evidence to estab-
lish the claim to the land and notice
was duly posted in the United States
Land Office and it was published in a
newspaper of general circulation near
est to the land for a period of ten weeks.
The notice contained all of the facts to
notify the public that the company
would on the day fixed present proof to