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The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-14

The new ship on wheels, which is to be tried on the English Channel as soon as an enlarged model can be built, is a high Framework resting on six broad hollow wheels. The wheels are made to rotate at a speed corresponding to that at which the ship is driven for ward by its screw, and experiments made in tanks indicate that there is a great saving of power in rolling over the water instead of ploughing through 1t.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-14
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The record-union., 1896-02-10
PERSONAL MENTION.

DR.. G. G. Simmons has returned from
San Francisco.
DR.. Dixon returned from San Fran
cisco last night.
State Printer A. j. Johnston went to
Auburn on Saturday
Miss Mamie Noon of San Francisco
is visiting friends here.
Mrs. Fred. Cox is visiting her son
Crawford in Kern County.
o. E. Smith, the Newcastle druggist,
has been on a business trip to this city.
DR.. E. J. Swanson, who had been on
trip to New York and Boston, is home
again.
James Blair Of Placerville is here on
visit to his brother, John Blair, at 1929
L street.
Harbor Commissioner E. L. Colnon,
wife and niece have returned to San
Francisco.
H Weinstock, William Geary, Sr.,
and F. W. Fratt have returned from
San Francisco.
E. c. Horst, the hop merchant, left on
an extensive business trip to London
last Saturday night.
MISS Isabella stewart, formerly OIL
Belfast, Ireland, is here from San Fran
cisco on a visit to friends.
Mrs. Horace Crafts came up from San
Francisco last night for visit. She is
the guest of Mrs. w. D. Perkins.
Bert Adams, Peter Bohl William
Devlin and wife, T. B. Hall, William
Beckman and Samuel Lavenson have
been visiting San Francisco.
Charles Rohrer, one of Santa Rosa s
prominent merchants was in Sacra-
mento yesterday, called hither by the
death of his aunt, Mrs. Sarah Rohrer.
William Diggs of Woodland was in
town on Saturday He reports his sec
ton of Yolo County as much improved
since the fair weather set in, and says
the water in the tule basin is fast reced-
/ ing
The record-union., 1896-02-10
A PLUCKY LITTLE WOMAN.
She Takes Three Shots at a WOuld-be
Burglar.
From an Exclamation That Escaped
Him, 1t is Hoped That He
Was Badly Hurt.

A bold attempt at burglary was made
at the house of w. H. Colby, a messen-
ger of the Wells-Fargo Company, who
resides ait 1907 0 street, about o'clock
last night
Captain Of Police Greene was coming
from street, when he heard two shots
in the neighborhood of Eighteenth and
o streets and shortly afterward heard
a woman scream. He hastened to the
spot and found Mrs. Colby in an almost
fainting condition. She informed him
that a tall, well-dressed young man
came to the front door and told her
that her husband would not be home
at the usual time, as the train was late.
A few moments afterWard she heard
a noise at the back door and going to 1t
she found that the screen door had
been cut and that a man stood there.
She had meanwhile secured small
pistol which she kept in the house and
she fired at the intruder.
She saw him raise a pistol and she
shot twice more The man ran and
jumped over the alley fence and as he
did so she heard him call out ben, am
hurt Captain Greene and others
searched the alley, but could find moth
ing of the man, and he must have run
up the alley to Nineteenth street and
escaped.
It is to be hoped that he was badly
enough hurt to insure his capture, and
also that there are few more plucky
women in the city who will give the
fellows who are robbing houses a like
warm reception.
The record-union., 1896-02-10
ARRESTED ON SUSPICION.
Tough Characters Suspected of Being
the Burglars Operating Here.

Tough Characters Suspected of Being
the Burglars Operating Here.
Officers Bagley and Fitzgerald ar
rested four tough-looking customers
Saturday evening on suspicion.
One of them had a large stone tied up
in a handkerchief, such as is often used
by footpads, and which made a very
ugly weapon. All four of them had
packages of needles and pins, which
they claimed to be selling.
A common dodge of thieves is to carry
something of the sort and to go around
from house to house. They ring the bell
until they are satisfied that no one is
at home, and then attempt to get
into the house AS that is the way
the Govan house was burglarized last
Friday, it is possible that the burglar
may have belonged to the gang.
Saturday afternoon a similar case
occurred. Burglars attempted to get
into the house of William Benning at
Second and P streets. They broke open
a window, but were scared away before
obtaining an entrance.
officer Fisher arrested two young men
Saturday night, who are strangers in
Sacramento One Of them gave his
name as Roy Finn and the other will
give no name except Denver Fat"
Fisher thinks he will be able to fasten
the burglary of the Dresher residence
on them
There has been so many burglaries
the past week that there is considera-
bic talk of reviving the Citizens Com
mittee of Safety and clearing the town
again Of suspicious characters.
The record-union., 1896-02-10
ADJUSTMENTS.

At the Clunie Opera house this even
ing a new play and a new actor to open
the week H. A. Raynor, a talented
young actor, has been specially en-
gagged by Manager Hallett for this week
to produce his own military drama,
=" 'Twixt Love and Duty" The piece
will be mounted with great care, new
scenery and fine fittings to the full
strength of the Hallett Stock Company,
as follows: George Armitage, II. A.
Raynor; Sokery Schneidlebocker, Al. II.
Hallett; Philip Marks. William Brewer;
Fred Atkins, Charles Howard: General
Banks. Charles Davies: Colonel Will
lard, Fred Russell; Corporal Burt and
Uncle Jeff, r. Lee Harris: Dennis Null
cahy. Fred. Russell; Bess Marks, Onita
Rridger Mrs. Armitage, Maggie Fran
els; Goddess of Liberty and Daughter of
Regiment, May Powers; Daisy, little
Edna Ferriter; Union soldiers by Troop
B of the National Guard, cavalry, unat-
tached
The box-office of the Metropolitan
Theater opens this morning for reserva-
ton Of seats for the Frawley Stock
Company engagement of two nights.
So much interest has been aroused in
this company that there IS every rea-
son to believe that this time it will have
crowded houses. 1t was not the fault
Of the company that its first engage
ment here was a financial faiirre-it
was due to exterior circumstances
wholly, and to combinations Of events
that operated to withdraw public at
tention and engage it in other matters.
The Frawley Company has never had
but one equal on the coast and that was
the old California Theater Company,
made up out of the earlier splendid
troupes Of Aaguire's Opera house and
the Metropolitan of San Francisco. No
stock company has ever drawn better
than the F'rawley this season in San
Francisco and Oaklnad. and its merit
has justified the enthusiasm in its be-
half.
Max Steinie is business representa-
tive. for Manager Eallett at the Clunie
Opera house. He does not aspire 20 be
an actor. and has few ambitions in that
direction. When nc IS naeded. now
ever he comes to time ard takes his
place in the cast. Tt MSS the intention
to give him due credit. therefore. for q
most clever Bit Of acting last week. and
tnat 1t was not done was inadvertence.
E-s Dick Talbot in the farce My Pre-
The record-union., 1896-02-10
AN INTERESTING PRISONER.
Has a Book Full Of Signatures and Some
Blank Checks.
He Says His Name is Fred w. Knox,
and Claims to be Civil
Engineer.

Officers Higgins and Wilson, while
hunting about for suspicious characters
last night ran up against a young man
in Chinatown whom they took to the
police station and who may prove to be
an interesting captive.
The man gave his name as Fred. w.
Knox, and says he is from Los Angeles.
He had among his effects an employees
ticket over the Los Angeles and Pasa-
dena Railroad, and it bears that name
He claims to be a civil engineer, and
probably is one. as memorandum
book that he carries contains the names
and addresses Of several persons of that
profession. He also has a small case of
draughtsmen's implements.
In the book he carries is written a let
ter addressed MY Dear Wife" and
dated at San Francisco, February 7th.
In it he tells her of being out of luck,
with nothing to do, and only So with
which to get to Salt Lake. He had just
been to the jail to see a friend, but he
had been taken away to San Quentin.
But what causes the police to believe
the man is not straight" is the fact
that in his memorandum book are
pasted the signatures of perhaps thirty
or forty persons, all cut from letters or
documents of some kind, and it is sur
missed that these had been obtained for
is the autograph Of Marian Harland,
the authoress.
Color is given to this suspicion by
the fact that he had in his pocket three
blank checks, one on the Bank of Wat
sonville, one on the Bank of Haywards
and the other on the Bank of Benicia.
On these checks are certain figures, per-
forated with bank instruments, one be-
ing 10000" These checks, it is sup
posed, were to be filled in with a corre-
spending sum and then one of the sig
natures appended.
Entries in his book show that he has
been in Denver, Pueblo and many other
places, and it is thought many of the
signatures are those of Los Angeles
people, though some are undoubtedly of
persons in the East. The man is an
opium fiend, and had full opium sup
ply.
Yesterday and last night the police
arrested about thirty strangers on sus-
picion OF being crooks, and it looks as if
some community had suddenly driven
them out. Several of them claimed to
be peddlers, and most of them are from
the southern part of the State, or claim
to be.
Last night the City Jail was full to
overflowing, and the officers believe
they have among the prisoners the par
ties who have been committing so many
burglaries here lately. All are booked
for Yagrancy.
The record-union., 1896-02-10
STREET SPRINKLING.
Taxpayers Demand Better Service
Than in the Past.


The manner in which contractors
have been allowed to drench the streets
with water during the summer sprink-
ling season has always been a reproach
to the city, but an effort will be made to
prevent a repetition of the nuisance
the coming summer.
Heretofore the contractors have been
permitted to exercise their own sweet
will in regard to their manner Of doing
that class of service for the city and they
have always followed the plan that is
easiest and cheapest for themselves.
By drenching street once q day
they are enabled to cover more terri
tory, but the result is to cause the Deo-
pie who foot the bills to wade through
mud and slush. Visitors from up-to-date
cities have been disgusted when taken
out for drive in the evening and our
own people mortified when asked by
them why such a state Of things is
permitted.
It is understood that tonight COM
nittee Of citizens will call upon the City
Trustees and ask them to SO prepare
the contracts for next seasons sprink-
ling that flooding will not be permitted,
and that contractors will be required TO
go over their districts several times
each day and keep the dust down by
light spraying or sprinkling, instead
of deluging the streets with solid sheets
of water
The record-union., 1896-02-10
COURsING YESTERDAY.
Fine Races, and wayfarer Wins FRS
Money.

Fine Races, and Wayfarer Wins First
Money.
The Sacramento Coursing Club yes
terday finished at the Gerber ranch,
near Florin, the important races tnat
were commenced on January 18th.
The Alameda Kennels San Joaquin
ran a bye He won his race on the 18th
and did not have to run it, but his
owner did not wish to take advantage
of his right to run fresh dog. j. H.
Rossiters Wayfarer was to have run
against Nethercott's Little Wonder,
but the latter was injured the other day
and was unable to run, so Wayfarer ran
a bye.
J. F. Grace's Nellie Conroy beat j.
McMahons Gile.
F. L. Renwick's Snowdrift ran a bye,
concluding the unfinished second ties.
In the third ties Nellie Conroy beat
San Joaquin and Wayfarer beat Snow
drift.
In the final race Wayfarer beat Nellie
Conroy, winning first money, $40
Nellie Conroy won second money,
$50; Snowdrift third money, $17 so,
and San Joaquin fourth money, SIT so.
John Grace of San Francisco was
judge and James Wren of San Fran
cisco slipper. There was a very large
attendance, the day being fine, and
there were a number present from San
Francisco and Oakland. The people
from abroad were we'll satisfied with
the decisions
The record-union., 1896-02-10
BRIEF NOTES.
ing.

Eight carloads of silk passed through
this city yesterday on their way to the
East.
Julian w Johnson has let to B. f.
Pike a contract for $2,363 cottage at
2414 L street.
E. F. Bean of Elk Grove was lucky
enough to secure $4,000 of the new
Government loan.
A Coroner's jury on Saturday night
decided that Tobias Corsaw's sudden
death was caused by congestion of the
lungs.
The Supervisors have fixed the county
advertising rate as follows: First in
sertion, 240 ems nonpareil, 81 so; sec
ond insertion, 81; third insertion, 70
cents; each subsequent insertion, 90
cents
The record-union., 1896-02-10
THE DOG DIDN'T GO.
The Humane Society Draws the Line
at Ballooning.
But Aeronaut Weston Himself Made
a Very Successful AS
cenSion.

Fully five or six thousand people
went out to Oak Park yesterday after
noon to witness George Weston's bal
loon ascension and parachute descent,
and the street cars were taxed to their
utmost capacity to take the crowd out
and back. AS it was, hundreds of people
were left standing on the sidewalks
who could not find places, even to hang
on to the outside of the cars.
The ascension was made on time,
and the great balloon shot up into the
air at rapid pace, the daring aeron-
aut suspended by his toes from the
trapeze at the end of the parachute.
The balloon went off in a southerly
direction, and when at a hight of
couple of thousand feet the parachute
was detached and shot downward with
Weston. After falling a hundred feet
or so it became inflated and gently fell
safely to the earth about a quarter Of
a mile from the park AS the big UNI
brella descended Weston went through
a number of daring gymnastic tricks
which caused the thousands of gazers
below to "Oh!" and ''Ah!" like a crowd
at Fourth of July pyrotechnic dis
play. The balloon upset as soon as the
parachute was detached and the hot air
escaping it collapsed and fell to the
ground ahead of the parachute.
Just before the ascensionist was ready
to go up and take with him a dog, to be
cast loose hanging to a parachute,
President G. H. Smith of the Humane
Society, Secretary f. M. Woodson and
Director ]. N. Payne put in an appear
ance and notified the balloonist that
II. 1nea fol oil
The aeronaut protested politely but
firmly, but President Smith and his
Lieutenants were even more polite and
more firm. It was a case of two ire
sistible bodies meeting, apparently.
Then President Smith informed the bal
loonist that if the latter insisted he and
his fellow officers would take charge
of the dog, and under the law of the
State seize the animal that he should
not be tortured by the flight or the pos
sible danger of unlucky descent, and If
the aeronaut interfered and still insist
ed, he would be arrested
That settled it. The aeronaut yielded,
saying that he thought as much of the
dog as any man did Of a pet animal,
and would not harm it. To which the
officers replied that 1t was not merely
a question of sympathy alone, certainly
not one of affection for pet animal;
that to terrorize a helpless brute by such
an ascent was cruelty to it, besides the
effects of such spectacles were demor-
alizing to youth and age alike, and that
the society proposed to put stop to
them 1t had not power to prevent the
balloonist taking an adult human being
along, if he wanted to, but if anyone at
tempted to take child on such flight
means would be found to prevent it.
The record-union., 1896-02-10
THE GOSPEL MISSION.
An Organization That is Doing Eff
feetive Evangelical Work.

An Organization That is Doing Eff
fective Evangelical Work.
The Gospel Mission celebrated its sec
ond anniversary in the mission hall, on
Third street, between K and L, on Fri
day evening. The meeting was opened
with singing and prayer, followed by
lively testimony meeting in which many
took part.
Several told how they had been saved
in the mission, and how happy they had
been since they had become Christians.
Among these was a young Chinaman,
who was converted eight months ago
in the mission and has been working
with the mission people ever since. He
said he was born in Dutch Flat, Placer
County, and when he came to the mis-
sion he was a gambler, a whisky drinker
and opium fiend but he had got
rid of all his bad habits. He goes, out
every night with the mission workers
on the street and tells what the Chris
tian religion has done for him, and
every Sunday he goes with the mission
workers to Fourth and I streets and
breaches to the Chinese in their own
language.
F. Nj. Odum, the superintendent
u1dQS HIS fCpOIl. Seliu lie LSlQ bSG41
running the mission two years and had
only been absent eleven nights. During
that time 325 persons had professed
conversion.
A meeting is held every night, both
on the street and in the hall, and every
Sunday afternoon. The mission is
evangelical, but non-sectarian. The
converts are advised to find home in
some church. The expenses have been
met by monthly subscriptions and bas-
ket collections. and the mission has been
able in this way to pay all of it's bills
during the past two years. except one
of $12 so, and part of that was raised
during Friday evening.
A request was made for second hand
clothing, to be left at the mission for
the poor. This was followed by an adj
dress by Rev. Mr.. Buck, pastor of the
Sixth-street NJ. Z. Church. AT the con-
clusion two persons asked for prayer.
The record-union., 1896-02-10
LATTER-DAY SAINTS.
What One of Their Speakers Claims
for That Sect.

for That Sect.
AT the Latter-day Saints meeting
last evening the following pointed
prophecy, uttered by the Mormon
Prophet, was used as a text, as it pre-
sents in brief outline the history and
subsequent growth of the church.
The prediction was made at Montrose,
Iowa, August, 1912, and states that
"the saints would continue to suffer
much aff1iction, and would finally be
driven to the Rocky Mountains. Many
would apostasize; others would be put
to death by their prosecutors or lose
their lives in consequence of their exile,
and many of those who listened to him
would live to assist in building cities,
and to see the saints become a mighty
people in the midst of the Rocky Mount
aims"
1t was claimed that in fulfllment the
saints did continue to suffer affiiction
In the State of Illinois, in consequence
of which they were forced to leave their
homes in the year of 1876. Brigham
Young, whose right it was by virtue of
his office as President of the Twelve"
led the church after the prophets death.
BY permission from the Governor Of
Iowa they located temporarily in the
western part of that State, preparing
for the greater march before them.
Towns sprung up as If by magic in
the midst of which could be found
churches and schools that the religion
Of the people and education OF their
children might not be neglected.
While living there the nation whose
borders they were about to cross into
the disputed West called upon them
for five hundred men to fight for their
country in the war with Mexico. 10y
atty was shown by the readiness with
which the five hundred men, known as
the Mormon Battalion, volunteered, and
they, under the leadership Of a United
States officer, marched two thousand
miles through the most barren part OF
the American Continent. They marched
from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to San Di-
ego, Cal, making a record which the
speaker said has no parallel on the pages
of history. They were among the dis
coverers of gold in this State.
The main body of the church moved
westward. reaching Salt Lake Valley
in the summer of 1S4S. There, said the
speaker after much privation and
trouble, they have turned the barren
desert of years gone by into fruitful
field. There they have built cities and
become a mighty people, and are en-
joying the fruits of a productive soil
and the rich mineral treasures of the
mountains of the new State. Above all,
they claim to be enjoying the blessings
of the restored gospel of Christ, with
peace and good will toward all men.
The record-union., 1896-02-10
Weather Notes.

The Weather Bureau reports show
the highest and lowest temperatures
yesterday to have been SO and A de-
grees, with fresh to brisk northerIy
winds and partly cloudy weather pre-
vailing.
The barometrica1 readings at 3 a. m.
and ) p. m. We're 30.2S and 30.17 inches,
respectively.
The highest and lowest temperatures
ore year ago yesterday were 81 and ~
degrees, and no rain, and one year ago
to-day % and A degrees, with .02 of an
inch.
River, p feet 4 inches.
One year ago to-day a storm set in
lasting three days and giving 1.50
inches of rain. The next storm was on
the 22d, when "a of an inch was meas
ured, making 1S4 inches for February
1895. After the 22d no more rain fell
until the Goth of March.
The record-union., 1896-02-10
MISSED HIS MARK.

Two Men Refuse to Pay for TamaIes,
and One Shoots at the yender. sXE
A peddler of the toothsome tamale by
the name Of Martinez claims to have
been robbed of his stock in trade on
Saturday night about o'clock by two
men in a cart.
He says they stopped him at Seven
teenth and K streets and ordered
couple of tamales and after getting them
refused to pay for them. He grabbed the
hat of one of them and the fellow
turned round in the cart and deliberate
ly took two shots at him, but Fortunate
ly did not hit him. They then drove
away in the darkness.