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The Press., 1896-10-01
ITEMS FROM THE STAFFORD
 NEWS LETTER.
September 22, 1866.

1t is our intention to print under this head, from week to week, items of interest from the old Stafford News Letter.
 TOWN MEETING.-Th town meeting Monday accomplished this much The anti-tax, anti-improvement men turned out and defeated or postponed every arti- cle in the warrant, except setting off Car penter's house to another district, which will cost the town nothing. If the voters remain at home they must expect these things. Rip Van Winkle may awake some day and find himself far in the rear as to progress. Awake, o voters, and place your town in the rank where she belongs. Let it's schools and public i'm prOvements be commensurate with it's wealth, and the results will be marked. Its schools shall become second to none, and it's children shall not be compelled to seek other towns for an education which Stafford now refuses to give.
 REOOvERY OF THE STOLEN GOODS.-Fr1- day, the 14th, MT. Chapman recovered IIIIGy-SIA COdlS, Lll1IGy -SlA NoSCS, GulLtJ pairs of pants, four hats, suspenders, handkerchiefs, etc, belonging 10 Small X Heald, of the Springs village; also six teen shawls belonging to Medbrey x Taft. The amount taken was found to exceed the firms first estimate, amounting to about $8OO Leroy had hidden the goods under some boards, in the woods above High street. Saturday he got team in Willimantic and drove up after them. While returning, he dropped from the car riage the vest, which MT. Heald picked up in front of Capt. Albry's This gave ia good clue, and the carriage, which had narrow steel tire, was easily traced through Eugleville to Willimantic. Leroy is former resident of Winsted, Conn. and has been in state prison twice pre- vious to this arraignment. On Wednes- day he was brought before Judge Parks, plead guilty to the burglary, and was sen fenced to a year in Wethersfield state prison.
 BoRN.-In Stafford Springs, Sept. 7th, daughter to Albert Parkess; a son to Jabez Sidaway.
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Puzzllng Chicago Relationship.

It was their first meeting in several years, and they had a great deal to say 10 each other.
 II have been so busy that l haven't had time to study it out, " said the one Ill blue, "but think we are related in some way. are we not?'
 "No, think not, ." replied the one in dark brown. Where did you get that ldea?"
 "Why, had an impression that the second wife of your first husband was the first wife of my present husband, and that would make a sort of connect ing link, you know"
 Possibly you are right, but we could hardly call that a relationship. We can come closer than that through your seo- ond husband, who was cousin, two or three degrees removed, of my present husband, but even that does not make any relationship. think that you have become confused on the subject of ali mony, which constitutes the most di- rect connection.
 II never could get those complica- tiOns through my head, " said the one in blue
 "Well," exclaimed the one in dark brown, "the alimony that you get from your first husband is just enough to pay the alimony that your present husbands s first wife gets from him.
 "Yes let him have it for that pur- pose. !"
 "Then his first wife," continued the mathematician in dark brown, twas my first husband s second wife, and as he is paying me the same amount of alilnony, the money is simply transferred 10 me- That is where the connection comes in. |" Chicago Post.
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A Jewel of 8 Wife.

A certain Russian nobleman visiting Paris was noticed to be constantly plunged in deep sadness. He wore on his finger very remarkable ring, large enough for bracelet, and which OK tended over his hand likc buckler for the ring finger. It was of @ greenish color and was traversed by red veins.
 A lady, meeting him in public, ven tured to say
 "You wear a very handsome ring"
 ''It is not a ring" he answered, "but a sepulcher.
 ''This jewel" he continued, "is my wife, had the misfortune to lose her some years sflce in Russia. She was an Italian ard dreaded the bed which awaited her after this life. I carried her body to Germany, where I was ao- quainted with a celebrated chemist, whom directed to make of the body a solid substance which I could carry about with me, Eight days after he sent for me and showed me the empty coffin amid horrid collection of instruments and alembicS The jewel was lying upon the table. He had, through means of some corrosive substance, reduced and compressed that which was my wife into this jewel, which shall never more leave me. "-Chips.
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Norwich Bulletin: The great state of main roads. John Hamilton, deputy sec retary of agriculture and director of farmers institutes, knows how to build good road and realizes it's value to prop erty, and he is leading a movement for reform along the lines followed by New Jersey, Massachusetts and Connecticut He is in favor however, of changing pres ent plans so as to make all roadways in sparsely settled districts not more than seven feet wide with six and and one-half inches thickness of broken stone on it's surface. Briefly stated, his plans are to regrade the road so as to have it high enough for drainage purposes, and when, in a years time, the earth has become thoroughly competed, smooth 1t over with a road machine and put down the stone paving. The stone is to be laid in the middle of the old road and given trans verse slopes not exceecing one and one- half to two inches in yard. As this stone must form compact and impermeable mass to protect the soil below it, it is necessary that the stone be broken small, not exceeding one and one-half inches in greatest dimension. Taking the cost of the stone at nine or ten cents a cubic yard before crushing, he estimated that stone can be crushed and can be put down on the roads at points not more than one mile from the crusher for thirty eight cents per yard, making the total cost sixty-five cents per yard, or about | $500 per mile for the demensions named. Maintaining the present expenditure of about $49 per mile, this would allow the roads to be repaved in about ten years. As a powerful aid in perfecting such roadways MT. Hamilton also urges the TSo of wide tires
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A Lucky Man.
"I tell you I'm ill big luck. ; "T'1n 01a6 fO b0nr if D

Il tell you I'm Ill big luck.
 ''I'm glad to hear it. "
 "Yes. The insurance examiners pass, ed me ill good health two months ago, and now tho doctor tells me I've Ut an incurable disease Ain't that luck?''- London Tit BSts
 "For several months I was troubled with a persistent humor on my head which gave me considerable annoyance, until it occurred to me to try Ayers Hair Vigor. Before using one bottle, the hu- nor was healed. "-T. T. Adams, General Merchant, Tuberville, Va.
 Gas From Sawdust.
 There are several large lumber mills in Deseronto, Canada, and the town is partially lighted by gas obtained from sawdust from them. The sawdust is charged in retCrts which are heated by wood fire. The gas from these retorts passes into @ series of coils and thence into the purifiers, which are similar to those used for coal gas. Lime is used as a purifying agent. The plant is not a very large one, and it only turns out $40 meters of gas per day, for which about two tons of sawdust are required. A man and boy furnish all the labor needed at the works. The best quality of gas comes from resinOus weeds. One hundred kilogrammes of sawdust leave residue of 20 kilogrammes of char coal, and the gas ill an ordinary burner gives all illumination of about IS can dle power. er.-Engineering and Mining Journal.
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Ut is our intention to print under this head from week to week. items of interest from the old Stafford News Letter.
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fFrom the Union Stgnal.N

OfficiaT Call for the Twenty-Third Annual Convention of the National WOman's Christian Temperance Union.
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ELECTRIC BITTERs. Electric Bitters is medicine suited for any season, but per haps more generally needed when the Ianguid exhausted feeling prevails, when the liver is torpid and sluggish and the need of tonic and alterative is felt. A prompt use of this medicine has often averted long and perhaps fatal bilious levers. No medicine will act more surely in counteracting and freeing the system from the malarial poison. Headache, h. digestion, Constipation, Dizziness yield to Electric Bitters. soc. and $1.00 per bottle, at E. K. Taft's Drug Store. 1
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He Wonld Not Cast.

Every busy this morning?" he quer- ried as he softly entered an office ill the Hammond building the other forenoon and stood rubbing his hands.
 Mot very" was the rSlaS of the oo- cupant.
 "Want to go into little speculation with me?'
 "That depends. ''
 "Ah-yes There's money in it for you
 "What is it?''
 You know that bread cast upon the waters shall be returned many fold. I don't remember the exact number, but it's at least tenfold. That's big enough profit for anybody in these times.
 II don't exactly understand.
 "Then will be more explicit. How would you like to do some casting this morning? I represent the waters, so to say. You represent the capital. You cast ''
 "You mean hand you a coin?"
 ''Of course. You cast 10 cents Cn the waters. After a duo period of time it comes back to you with 100 cents added. You have helped me, and at the same time got big return on your invest ment. See?"
 "No, sir There is the door behind you r'
 Exactly. Same door l came ill at. You will not cast?"
 "No, sir i''
 "Very we'll A man who doesn t A/ Izo 000 tai these days has not much of q busi- ness head on him. One dime returns 100 cents. You don't want it. Good day, sirl The waters will seek another cast CT P'-DetrOiG Free Press.
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An aunt of $. R. Crockett, the Scotch writer, has lived in Springfield, O., for 33 years. She says that among his boy ish traits which excited comment was his willingness to make any sacrifice for books. Every penny was saved with that object ill view. As he grew elder he would spend days upon tho hills studying the landscapes he would DOT tray with his pen and writing to gain greater grace and facility.
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Complete Registration

Of all the voters of said county in accord
ance with the provisions of Section 1904 of
the Political Code of the State of Cali
fornia, it will be necessary for all cleo
tors. in order to vote at the next general
election to be held on Tuesday, NOvem-
ber J, 1896, to make application in person
to be register ed.
Notice is hereby given that said new
registration will commence Immediately
and continue to and including August 8,
1886 when such registration shall cease;
provided that any elector who has regis
tered and thereafter moved his residence
to another precinct in the same county
thirty days before said day of election
may have his registration transferred to
such other precinct upon his application
verified by cath, setting forth the change
OF residence and containing the other
facts required for original registration.
The office of the County Clerk at the
Courthouse, corner of Seventh and |
streets, Sacramento City, California, will
be open from a. m. to ) p. m. each day
except Sunday. All citizens are notified
to apply for registration at once.
Notice is also given that after the filing
of affidavits and when names are entered
on the Great I.egister, postal cards will be
sent TO each elector registered, of the date
of such entry. Ii postal card is not re-
ceived voter should ascertain for his own
projection the reason why.
May rs, 1896
w. B. HAMILTON. County Clerk.
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Total tax, penalties and costs. $50 q
Page s42, No. 1o-Mary L. Sheplar and
lot A. blk 0 and p. l3 and il SITS, and
imp subject to mortgage for sl,oJo.
Total tax, penalties and costs. .S44 =
Page $40, No. 2-P. W. Sheehan and lot
4, blk T and u, and SITS, and per
prop Total tax, penalties and costs .,
Page s4s. No. as. F. Smith and E 4
of lot ., blk @ and r, ii and Is SITS,
and imp subject to a mortgage for
$780, Total tax, penalties and costs :,
Page s5s. No. William snarr and E
u of lot 8, II and /, and Z sts. To- ).
tai tax. penalties and costs. .Sl9 o.
Page 357, No. Bridget Trowbridge
and undi u of lot 2, blk w and X, 10
and 16 sts. Total tax, penalties and ;,
Page s57, No. iS-C. l.. Tryon and lot
4, blk and w, 80 and 81 sts, sub
ject to mortgage for S125. Total tax. :.
Page s64 No. en-. Twiggs estate and
w q of lot 6, blk | and ], II and ID
sts, and imp. Total tax, penalties, .,
Page al1e s75, No Mrs. G. Wilder and
S 10 TT of e = of lot 5. blk II and l.
and sts, ana imp. Total tax, pen ps9o Q,
2lties and costs. $50 8
Page 3s6, No. 2-Jas. A Woods and w
= of lot 6, blk j and x, 16 and II sts,
and imp subject to mortgage for $500.
Total tax, penalties and costs. $40 o
Page .}Sl, No. o-LincOln White ana
n Y of E X of lot 4, blk NJ and n, il
and is sts and imp. Total tax, pen
altes and costs. =. :. :. >. SIT Al
Page 3ss, No. 5-M. Wagner and n 40
ft of lots 3 and 4. blk l and J. s and .
SITS. Total tax, penalties and costs. .S6S A
Page 800, No. IN. n. Williamson
and W u of lot ;, blk j and K, 16
ana II SITS, and imp and per prop sub
ject to a mortgage for $3.50. Total
tax, penalties and costs. :. :. 81 S
Page 1876. No. 3-Z. +. Wharton and
lot >, blk II and l, 10 and 20 SITS, and
imp. Total tax, penalties and costs
Page 400, No. iS-F'irst NJ. E. Church
South and S 35K TT of w 60 ft of lot
!, blk J and K, and sts, and imp.
Total tax, penalties and costs. E. $50 2
Page 4o6, No. 5-National Bank of d.
O. Mills & Co. and n len # of lot l,
blk j and K. and 3 SITS, and imp
and per prop and amount of money
on hand or on special deposit Total
Page 409, No. Nv. r. Strong Co.
and impts on nurs lots Total tax,
penalties and costs. =. -. .$3 s
Page 415, No. Unknown owners
and undi Il of lot / and undi Is of
w Il of lot 2, blk and w 10 and
16 sts. Total tax, penalties and costs
Page 415, No. 2-Unknown owners and
undi 1s of w Il of lot T. and undi 4
of lot s. blk and w, u and 16 sts.
Total tax, penalties and costs. =. 81 4
Page 415, No. 3-Unknown owners and
undi Il of lots 1 to 8, blk " and <,
IA and - SITS. Total tax, penalties
anu coSlS.' IA .
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SEALED PROPOSALS.

BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED AT THE
office of the Board of Trustees of the city
of Sacramento until O'Clock p. m. on
MONDAY, June -, 1896, for furnishing
the city Of Sacramento with coal necessary
for running the City Water Works for one
year from date of contract. Bidders must
state the price per ton. Bidders must
specify in bids the kind of ton bid on,
whether short ton (2,oO0 pounds or long
ton (2,240 pounds). The Goals bid on must
be tested at the City Water Works after
June ~, 1896, for at least twenty-four
hours, at such time as directed by the
City Water Works Committee OF the Board
of Trustees, said Goals to be tested under
the supervision of said committee and the
Chief Engineer of the City Water Works
Coal used for tests will be paid for by city
at the same rate named in bid. Contract
to be awarded after tests are completed.
Each bid must be accompanied by a GER
titled check in the sum of one thousand
(Sl ,000) dollars, made payable to the order
OF the City Clerk of the city of Sacra-
mento. The Board of Trustees reserves
the right to reject any and all bids.
Attest: NJ. j. DESMOND, City Clerk.
fxl
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POLL TAXES.

Page 13S, No. 13-Samuel Gottlieb and
20 ft of lot and W 10 it of n p of
lot and Il of lot s, blk n and 0,
and 8 SITS. Poll tax. Total tax,
penalties and costs. >. >. 81
Page 231, No. lie. E. Masters and
y of lot 8, blk u and V, is and 10
SITS. Poll tax. Total tax, penalties
and costs. .$4
Page So6, No. IL. A. Read and y Of
u of lot 6, blk d and e, i and II
and costs. :. :. =. .$4
Page "a, No. 6-Joseph Burns and lot
20 in Monte Vista tct. Poll tax. Total
tax, penalties and costs. .S4
), blk II, Highland Park. Poll tax.
Total tax, penalties and costs. 81
Page IS, No. 5-F. Fonts and 40 it of
W 70 of lot IL, Oak Grove tct. Poll
Page 49,, No: Al. a Hunter and q
acre tct (No. 64) in South Sacra-
mento. Poll tax. Total tax, penal
ties and costs =. .S4
Page 119, No. 1-Charles Haman and
lots / to 6, blk "a, Capital Homestead.
Page age'2; 246. No w. A. Meyers and Z
acre lot (No. 76), sub B. in South
Sacramento. Poll tax. Total tax,
Page 247. No. CIV. P Moyer and e 4
of ~ of lot IL, in Oak Grove tct.
Poll tax. Total tax, penalties and
costs. :. :. -. 81
Page 25S. No. Wv c. McNeely and
lots and Z, blk 2s, South Sacra-
mento Poll tax. Total tax, penal
ties and costs. -. .S4
Page 260 No. 10-H. H. Norris and
lots 6S and 50 in Oak Grove tct Poll
tax. Total tax, penalties and costs $4
Page 371 No. CT. B. Woods and lots
l and 3, blk T, Highland Park, and
y of half-acre lot (No. 35) in South
Sacramento. Poll tax. Total tax,
penalties and costs -. :. :. :. .S4
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And in accordance with law, and an
order of the Board of Directors, made on
the 18th day of April, 1886, so many
shares of each parcel of such stock as
may be necessary, Will be sold at public
auction, at the office of the company, base
nient of Nevada Block, No. BOB Montgom-
cry street, San Francisco, Cal, on MON
DAY, the Sth day of June, 1896, at the
hour of ] o'clock p. m. of said day, to pay
said delinquent assessment thereon to-
gether with costs of advertising and ex-
DenSeS of the sale.
JAS. f. DAMON, Secretary
Office, basement OF Nevada Block, No
BOB Montgomery street, San Francisco
California.
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Section 1854 of the Political Code
of California reads as follows:
Section 1854. On or before the 9TH
day of June of each year the Tax Col
lector must publish the delinquent
list, which must contain the names
of the persons and description of the
property delinquent, and the amount
of tax, penalties and costs due, oppo-
site each name and description, with
the taxes due on personal property,
the delinquent State, poll. road and
hospital tax. the taxes due eacn
school, road or other lesser taxation
district added to the taxes on real
estate, where the real estate is Liable
therefor. or the several taxes are
due from the same person.
Section 1855. The Tax Collector
must append aud publish with the
delinquent list a notice that unless
the taxes delinquent, together with
the costs and penalties, are paid, the
real properly upon which such taxes
are lien will be sold.
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and E Il of sec II. and fe NV u of
sec "a and fcl NE Il of sec 23, and
fcl w u of sec Il. all in Il 4 ~ r
8 T., 7S0 acres, and impts, subject to a
mortgage for $4,000. Total tax, pen
altieS and costs. S156 90
Page 39S, No. 81. l.. Schmitt and
mortgage interest in fcl part of secs
H. H. Is. II. 23 and "a, T N r. t.
460 acres. Total tax, penalties and
costs. e.. SAT ~
Page 800. No. Unknown owner and
lot s, blk l.. Folsom. Total tax. pen
attieS and costs. .. g6c
Page 800, No. Unknown owner and
lot s, blk II, Folsom. Total tax. pen-
altieS and costs. .. -. aGc
Page 399, No. 3-Unknown owner and
lot Is, blk H. Folsom. Total tax
penalties and costs. %. aGc
Page 500, No 10-Unknown owner and
lot L. blk %, South Sacramento. and
imptS. Total tax, penalties and
COSTS. ..Sl5 20
Notice is hereby given that unless the
taxes above delinquent, together with fhe
costs and penalties. are paid the real
property. upon which said taxes are a
lien, will be sold to the State on
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SEALED PROPOSALS.

BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED AT THE
office of the City Clerk until > o'clock p. m.
on June Il, 1SSG, for sweeping the streets
OF the city of Sacramento for q term of
six months from the date of contract.
Specifications on file at office of the City
Clerk. certified check for 10 per cent.
of amount OF bid must accompany each
bid The Board of Trustees reserves the
right TO reject any and all bids.
leG-lOt NJ. j. DESMOND. City Clerk
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"DON'T KICK
When the swallows Homeward Ely

When the Swallows Homeward Fly
People begin to ask themselves, Where
shall | spend the summer" An ocean voy-
age, an inland jaunt. or a coastwise trip,
which shall it be? In either case, one OF
the most useful travelling companions, one
that never fails in an emergency to which
it is adapted, is Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters which remedies sea sickness, nausea,
headache, biliousneSS and malarial COM
plants Dyspepsia, rheumatism, nervous
ness and kidney trouble are also remedied
by the great Alternative and preventive.
Tourists by sea and land, mariners, emf
grants and Western pioneers all testify to
its defensive and remedial efficacy. Bodily
and mental fatigue are counteracted by
It, and it prevents maladieS which would
otherwise be brought on by exposure. No
one should start on a summer outing with
out it. 1t is the most genial and reliable
of summer tonics, and suits the most fas-
tidiOus Dalate
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DELINQUENT SALE NOTICE.

GOLDEN SAND PLACER MINING
Company. Location Of principal place OF
business, San Francisco, California. Loca-
tion of works, Tolman Mining District,
Sacramento County, Cal.
Notice-There are delinquent upon the
following described Stock on account of
assessment No. =, levied on the 18th day
of April, 1896, the several amounts set op-
posite the names of the respective share
holders. as follows:
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THE FOLLOWING APPROXIMATIONS
are used for words set opposite t tnehn :
RIk block: sts streets; imp. or imptS,
improvements; per. prop, personal prop
erty; Sec, section; r., township; r., range;
S. l.. s., swamp land survey; frac, Tac-
ton: fcI, fractiOnal; sub, Subdivisions
Sacto., Sacramento; tct, tract; on, ofl-
cial m l1d., marked; undi., undivided; r.
r., railroad; N, north; 3, south; W.
west; f., east; it.. feet.
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POSTPONEMENT NOTICE.-By a
resolution of the Board of Directors, the
day Of sale of the above delinquent stock
has been postponed to FRIDAY, June
10 1896, at the same hour and place.
JAS. l.. DAMON, Secretary.
Office, 303 Montgomery street, San
Francisco, California ie4-td
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Thursday, June Is, 1895.

At 10 O'Clock a. m, at the office of the Tax
Collector, in the Courthouse corner
Seventh and l streets, City of Sacra-
mento, Cal. T.. Il. JOHNSON
Sheriff and ex officio Tax Collector OF
Sacramento County.
Sherifr's Office. Sacramento, Cal, June
/, 1896
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THIS HOSPITAL IS ATTENDED BY THE
best and most prominent physicians of Sacra-
~ ento and has already gained many patro
throughout the state. Apart from the per-
sonal eare and supervision OF the Sisters, .
re tdent Physician ami well-trained nurses
are In constant attendance day and night.
For further particulars apply TO the resident
Physician. DIR. ]. Ii. O'CONNOR. MTuW