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The record-union., 1896-02-01
SHALL SACRAMENTO BECOME A
WAY STATTON7

Chief Engineer Price of the Public
Works Bureau has made another exam
ination of river conditions since the
cessation of the great storm, and the
results of his soundings and measure
ments vas set forth in yesterdays Rec
ord Union" From this showing it is
ascertained that the velocity of the
current in the Sacramento River be-
low the great breaks on the Yolo side
some miles above this city is decreased
two thirds. or nearly that, as compared
to the velocity above the breaks.
This significant fact needs no ex-
tended explanation for those who are
at all familiar with silt carrying cur
rents. It means, in brief, that as the
velocity is checked the deposition of
heavy matter carried by the stream is
augmented This in turn means the
rapid falling of the river between this
point and the place of new departure of
the river from its ancient course. In
turn this means that unless this pro-
cess is early checked and the integrity
OF the steam restored, it will be only a
matter of time, and very short time,
when the Sacramento River will, for
nayigable purposes. no longer run by
the threshold of Sacramento City.
What that means every intelligence
above the grade Of i9iocy ought to know.
Sacramento removed from the banks
o. a navigableriver will becomeno more
than a way station on the transcript
mental railway. She viii then lose her
terminal facilities; ship and car will
no longer come together; wholesale
business in the city win cease. and
with a suddenness that viii mean ca
Iamity. San Francisco and a few other
cities viii become the only distributing
points; property values will so down
with a rush, and new investment termi-
nate.
This is not an overdrawn picture. In
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John Hays Hammond has written a
long letter to friends in this country in
which he pitches into the Boer Govern
ment, and terms it an oligarehy. mar
row, intolerant, corrupt and oppressive.
recites the demands of the aliens In
Transvaal and winds up by asking that
America join with England in demand
ing that the Beers accede to the desires
of the aliens. Now, it is possible. in
deed probable, that the demands of the
uitlanders are reasonable; that they
are such as should be granted, with two
exceptions, and that the Beers are
harsh in refusing to grant them. But
nowhere in the letter does Mr.. Ham
mond indicate or say that the aliens
have desired to, or that any of them
have become citizens of the South Afri-
can Republic. We search the letter in
vain for any gleam of suggestion of
that kind. Let us suppose a situation
like this-that the Germans in our
midst, the Portuguese and the French
aliens should demand of us, for alleged
unfairness and intolerance, that they
be permitted to come to the ba1lot-box
and vote;- that they have a portion of
the school fund set aside for the teach
ing of French and Portuguese and Ger
man in the schools of the State that
they be given portion of the offices,
and that they have representation in
the Legislature and in local govern
ment-all this while the Germans the
Portuguese and the French remained
aliens and under the protection Of their
respective Governments What would
we do about it2
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as a hunkey Of the octopus and hooted
out of the convention. AS by force of
habit the convention followed him. his
expulsion was an informal adjourn
ment. For him and the Examiner" it
was dead give away. With the con-
traband resolution of Hough, the big
premature petition and more recent
correspondence of the Examiner
have gone into Sutro's waste basket.
For some reason best known to them
selves, Sutro and Fitch have soured on
a peoples railroad and refuse to pay,
fund or repudiate its Indebtedness.
They compound for their refusal to
make the desired reprisaI of the coveted
road by their continued license to
badger and blackmail its owners. And,
unfortunately for the people, these rival
imposters of the Sand Lot and of the
sensational press, with all their vision
ary virtues and castles in the air, must
have the same apotheosis. Even for
the Mayor and Deacon, who are just
now disappointing their deluded fol-
levers, there is but one coffin of Mo-
hammed.
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Comment Upon sutro's Anti-Funding
conventions

Comment Upon Sutro'S Ant1-Eund1ng
''Convention.''
(Placeryille Mountain Democrat)
Last Saturday night at Metropolitan
Temple in San Francisco a few dilapl-
dated statesmen, whose names are too
familiar to be repeated, pulled them
selves together The diminished num-
ber of stock actors was disappointing.
But for the inclemency of the people,
the foul weather forecast by the rail.
read fiends and the imminent danger Of
being showed under, there would doubt
less have been a postponement of the
meeting But having canvassed the
situation and counted themselves, it
was decided by the friends Of the people
and in their absence. to strike for their
imperiled liberties.
Because they were not a mass-meet-
ing they decided to pose as a conyen-
ton, the proceedings Of which were
brief and can be briefly summarized.
1t was a Sutro gathering, with Sutro foI
Chairman. and his fawning Sun-dog
for Secretary. His stereotyped opinion
of the octopus was first in order and
was delivered and received without de-
bate. But the resolutions reported by
Deacon Fitch, signifying nothing save
his holy horror of any plan for funding
and securing the claim Of the Govern
ment against the Central Pacific Rail-
road precipitated a profane wrangle.
Eugene Hough of Oakland, with an in
dignant protest against any evasive or
obstructive policy. presented resolu-
ton demanding Government ownership
and operation Of the road 1t was met
by a prolonged roar Of opposition, in
the midst Of which. with the gall of
Tom Reed, it was ruled out Of order by
the Chairman, who counted quorum
of empty benches and majority pres
ent as voting for the resolutions of
Deacon Fitch.
It was strange spectacle to Dennis
Kearney, of Sand Lot celebrity; and
when he ventured to inquire what had
happened to the Hough resolution and
the peoples railroad, he was denounced
The record-union., 1896-02-01
Our Representative.

The Second Congressional District at
present has a representative in the Ma
tional House. It has been a good many
years since this. State has had a Con-
gressman whose name was ever known
beyond our own borders. In Grove l..
Johnson we believe we have a. repre-
sentative who is destined to have d
national reputation.
He has already commanded more
than passing attention by his vigorous
language and marked personality. The
Washington papers have spoken of him
in the highest terms of praise, and his
work has been of national as well as of
local Importance.
His speech in opposition to the bond
bill was far above the common and
showed a broad familiarity with the
subject, as we'll as sound Republican,
ism.-CaIaveras Prospect.
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ALL LOOKED WISE.
But They Were Aching to Get to the
Theater just the Same.


Theater just the Same.
There was a large crowd in attend
ance in the Police Court last evening
when the case of officer J. A. Wilson,
accused by Grace Weston of having at
tempted to intimidate her as a witness,
was called. City Attorney Brown and
Corporation Counsel Hiram w. John
son were present to conduct the prose-
cution. and w. A. Anderson and E. c..
Hart were there to look after the inter
ests of the accused officer.
After the court had disposed of mi
nor case Attorney Anderson asked that
Wilson's examination be deferred until
this morning, as he desired to investi-
gate some information that had just
come to his knowledge.
The City Attorney and Mr.. Johnson
made no objection, and the matter was
continued until 10 o'clock this morning
An hour later nearly all the lawyers
(and the COURT were intently studying
Louis James Macbeth" at the Metro
politan Theater, and Major Anderson
no doubt found time between the acts to
make his desired investigation.
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TO INSPECT THE RIVER.
Colonel suter Expected to visit This
Section Next Week.

section Next Week.
President Steffens Of the Chamber of
Commerce was asked yesterday what
response, if any, had been received from
Colonel Suter, the new Government en-
gineer in charge Of the navigable rivers,
to the request to have him visit this To-
cality and inspect the Sacramento
River during the high water.
Mr.. Steffens said that Hon. William
Johnston, one Of the delegates ap-
pointed at the recent River Improve
ment Convention to go to Washington
to promote legislation by Congress in
favor of river Improvement, was then
in San Francisco attending a meeting
Of the delegates as a representative Of
the Chamber Of Commerce Of this city,
and that these delegates were to call on
Colonel Suter and urge him to go up
the Sacramento River north of this city
and witness the effects of the freshet.
The delegation viii leave for Wash
ington next week, and it is their desire
to have Colonel Suter make the inspec-
tion before they go, and in their COM
pany. It is understood that Captain j.
II. Roberts has generously expressed his
willingness to place a steamboat at the
disposal of the delegates for that pur-
DOSe
The record-union., 1896-02-01
AGREAT BOOK oIvES r11sSISrsIzy 4wAy,

Few books printed in the English Ian
guage have reached so great a sale as
has DR.. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser. It is a book of 1908 large pages
and contains over 900 illustrations some
Of them in colors It is complete family
doctor book. It is written simply and con-
cisely, and is indexed so that reference to
it is made easily and quickly. Over 68o,ooo
copies have been sold at the regular price
Of 81. So The profits on this enormous sale
enable the publishers TO distribute 500 600
copies absolutely FREE. A copy bound in
FREE to any one who will send 2I one-cent
stamps to cover cost of mailing only
Address, WORLDS DT5PENsARY MED
1cAL ASSOCIATIONS Buffalo. NsX.
The record-union., 1896-02-01

deed, great deal more might be added
to its color and it would still be within
the bounds Of reasonableness. For in
stance, the carriage of produce down
stream by boats would cease or take
the new channel, if if cuts deep enough.
Traffic by water with up-country points
would be at an end. The sluggish cur
rent would no longer carry off the
drainage with sufficient rapidity, and
in consequence, with the now rapid
filling of the bed, the banks Of the river
would foul and bad sanitary condi-
tions supervene. Land values along the
old river would go down with rush,
and assessment rolls rapidly decline,
while it would be many years before
the capacity would develop to levee in
the new course of the river and bring
lands along the new line into such value
as to yield to the State a revenue, and
to the people profit for cultivation.
Engineer Price says that at this
moment two thirds of the river volume
is discharging through the new outlets
and these may have already cut below
the crown of the natural banks. The
longer that condition remains the more
costly and difficult it will be to repair
the damage and prevent the calamity
that is possible. In the canyons of the
tributaries Of the river there lie enor-
nous quantities, almost incalcuable. of
mining debris that with each flood
season is being swept down into lower
stretches OF the rivers course. Four
or five Of the finest restraining dams
yet built to hold back mining detritus.
those that We're supposed to be practic-
ally indestructible, have given away.
the last storm finishing them, and the
vast quantities of accumulated debris
stored behind them are now on the way
to the nayigable channel of the river.
Here, then, is a situation that de-
mands instant attention. Tt calls upon
the people Of Yolo. Sacramento. Solano.
Yuba and Sutter Counties especially.
and with but little less force upon all
other counties in the State, to act with
such promptness, energy and persist
ence that the Government will heed the
cry, as well as the voice of the unhappy
people of Armenia and the appeal for
help and sympathy for Cuba.
Without particle of nervousness or
any infiamed fears, we have set out the
facts as reported by the engineers, and
as confirmed by reason and the obser-
vation of the most experienced river
men in the State. 1t remains to be seen
whether we will remain quiescent and
trust to luck and the painfully slow
movement Of army officials under pres
ent law, or whether we will make now
and at once an appeal for the passage
Of the johnson river bill, the only meas
ure of promised relief now before Con-
gress.
The record-union., 1896-02-01
Ripley Was All Right.

The case of Bert Ripley, charged
with disturbing the peace last Sunday
in connection with the William Tell
House racket, was called in the Police
Court last evening.
City Attorney Brown said he had
heard the evidence brought out at the
Klass inquest, and was satisfied that
Ripley was not responsible for any
disturbance that occurred. He there
fore asked the court to dismiss the
charge, which was done.
The record-union., 1896-02-01
Commissioners Sale Of Real Esta te

UNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF A DE-
cree and judgment, made and entered in
the Superior Court of the county OF Sac
ramento, State of California, on the 4th
day OF January, 1896, and an order OF sale
issued out of said court on the 10th day
of January, 1896. and in an action therein
pending, entitled Annie Pementel, plain
tiff against Antonio p. Naline and Marie
Amelia Valine, defendants. [ am COM
manded to sell all that real property situ-
ated in the county of Sacramento, in the
State of California, bounded and described
as follows:
Beginning at a point on the easterly
bank of the Sacramento River distant
south 81 degrees 30 minutes west, .S15
chains from the northWesterly corner of
Swamp Land Survey No. 1877 of Sacra-
mento County surveys, and running
thence from said place of beginning south
36 degrees .04 minutes east 41.64 chains
to the SoutheaSterly boundary of said
survey, thence along the said southeast
south 81 degrees % minutes west 1000
chains; thence north 30 degrees 81 minutes
west 45.42 chains to the place Of beginning,
and containing 81. .26 acres. together with
ments and appurtenances thereto belong
ing or in anyW1se appertaining.
Notice IS hereby given that on the
THIRD (3d) day OF FEBRUARY. 1896 at
IL o'clock a. N. OF that day at the County
Courthouse door in the city of Sacramento,
county of Sacramento, State of California,
viii in obedience Of said decree of fore
closure and judgment and order of sale
sell the above described premises, or so
much thereof as may be necessary to
satisfy said judgment and Decree to the
highest bidder for cash. gold coin Of the
Dated. Sacramento. California, January
II, 1896. fIagae 81
@. A. ELLIOTT,
Commissioner in said action.
f. q. Van Fleet, attorney for plaintiff,
No. 81 j street SapV1FlpffO. Cal
The record-union., 1896-02-01

Congressman Johnson of this district
has appeared before the proper House
committee and urged reporting favor
ably upon his bill to exclude alien Ia
bcrers from the United States. The de-
sire of the people, we believe, is, could
a census of their wishes be taken, in
favor Of putting UP the bars very high
and leaving this country, for a time at
least, to assimilate what it already
has of the foreign labor element.
The record-union., 1896-02-01
Weather Forecast.

Northern California-Unsettled weather,
with rain in the northwestern portion;
warmer In the Sacramento Valley; south
easterly winds, brisk to high along the
coast.
The record-union., 1896-02-01

These publications are sent elIher LIs s,,I3. ~
scribers with Charges prepaid. All POST
masters are agents. So. - tho
Pacific Coast
The record-union., 1896-02-01
THE WEEKLY UNION

Is the cheapest and most desirab,l.e. e, Home, ne
News and Literary Journal puonsnea on
the Pacific Coast. ., "a
Rhe Weekly Union, per year. .''.... - oO
The record-union., 1896-02-01
TRIAL CALENDAR.
Cases Set for Hearing in Department
One of the Superior Court.

Cases Set for Hearing in Department
One of the Superior Court.
Judge Catlin yesterday set his trial
calendar as follows
e. P. Thompson VS.. B. u. Steinman-
February oath.
George Francis VS.. C. Kellogg and D.
]. Simmons-March ID.
j. E. Mitchell VS.. Eugene Palmer
March 4th.
Thomas Anderson vs. ]. I. Riley
March 18th.
George r. Martin and W. E. Severn
VS.. P. Kel1y-March 1Tth
T. NJ. Lindley & Co. VS. John Shelton
March 23d.
H weinrich VS.. Mary A. Hensley ct
aL-March 10th.
Howell Clark VS.. Thomas Coulter
March 9th.
Kate Hulsman VS.. Mohr & york
March 18th.
John Bronner VS.. Jacob Schmidt
February Sd.
E. F. Amsden VS.. W. T. King-March
9th.
A. Braun vs.. Mary Larkin ct al
March 18th.
Charles Heisen VS.. Thomas J. Clunie
February 10Th.
J. ]. Rhiner vs. A. Metzgar ct al
March Doth
Elizabeth Fitch VS.. w. L. Fitch.
February Sth.
Governor Budd has appointed the fol-
lowing Notaries Public: Frank J..
O'Brien, Sacramento; NJ F. Cochrane,
The record-union., 1896-02-01
NOTE AND COMMENT.

The Sierra Valley Leader has been
moved to Downieville, and will here
after be published under the name of
Sierra County Enterprise"
The record-union., 1896-02-01
Amended Complaint.

An amended complaint has been filed
in the Superior Court by the plaintiff
in the case of George w. Johnson
against Nettie Munich and others. The
suit grows out of a contest over the
estate of the late Henry Welch.
The record-union., 1896-02-01
p..o.a-rrnfon Telephone.

Entered at the Postofhce at Sacramento
as4second-class matter.
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Snooia1 AGENCIES.

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Governor Budd has appointed the fol-
lowing Notaries Public: Frank J..
O'Brien, Sacramento; NJ. F. Cochrane.
San Rafael; Frank G. Waterhouse.
1Bolinas.
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. Sacramento, California, january

@. A ELLIOTT,
Commissioner in said action
f. Z. Van Fleet, attorney for plaintiff,
No. 62T J street, Sacramento, Cal ja11-4tS
The record-union., 1896-02-01
BAD SET AND BAD OUTLOOK.

B. f. WALTON, Secretary.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-06-17
THELEcJsLATURE'S OUTK.

For several years THE News has adj
vocated the adoption of the Australian
voting system in Georgia, and we are
glad to see a disposition on the part Of
the press to revive the discussion of
this important mater. Sentiment in
favor of a new ballot law has grown
rapidly, and even the politicians no
longer openly oppose change. This
is entirely due, in our opinion, to the
discovery that there is almost univer-
sal disgust with our former election
methods and an overwhelming popu-
lar opinion in favor of pure elections.
On this line the Macon Telegraph
says:
"With the exception of five or six
southern states every state in the I'M
ion now conducts its elections under
the Australian system, more or less
modified. 1t has everywhere given
such satisfaction that opposition, even
among the politicians, has disappear
ed. When the Australian model has
been closely followed satisfaction with
the result is complete, in that it Sc
cures, as nearly as legal devices can,
the casting of secret, uninfluenced,
unpUrchased ballots. Only in those
states where the model has been wide
ly departed from is there now any agi-
tation or sentiment in favor of chang
ing the election laws.
"The time is now ripe for the adop-
ton of this system of voting in GeOr-
gia. There is strong feeling in ia
vor of it, and the circumstances are
such that in a short time loose election
laws may result in great and lasting
hurt to the cause of good government.
Such laws were bad enough when prac-
tically all white men belonged to the
same party. What will be the results
if white men become divided into
fiercely cOntending parties and be fore
ed by circumstances, as they would be,
to return to the negroes for help? The
results could not fail to be bad. The
Australian law is in some degree a
guarantee that elections shall be pure,
and the next legislature ought not to
hesitate a moment in giving it to the
state"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-06-17
THE SENATORIAL CONTEST SETTLED.

The table showing how the counties
acted on the senatOrship presents a
great many highly interesting facts.
Of the counties which acted one hum
dred and thirteen votes were instruct
ed for Judge Crisp, while two were
instructed for Mr.. duBignon. This
does not mean, of course, that the same
proportion would have been maintain
ed had all the counties acted, but it
does mean that Judge Crisp has already
in sight enough votes to give him the
nomination for senator. OF course he
will have simply walk-over. 1t is
probable that no other name will be
presented to the democratic legislative
caucus, but that Judge Crisp will be
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-06-17

One thing is certain; it will not do to
fool with bad cold. No one can tell
what the end will be. Pneumonia, ca
tarrh, chronic bronchitis, if not con-
sumption, invariably result from bad
cold. 1t is surprising, too, that bad colds
are so often neglected when one remem-
bers how easily and at what little ex-
pense one may be cured. Chamberlain S
Cough Remedy is always prompt and
etfectual, and costs but trifle; rs or so
cents is trifle as compared with the
disastrous effect of neglected cold. Mr..
Abner Mercer, Dilingworth, Pa, in
speaking of this remedy, said: "Some-
time ago had bad cough and cold. 1
tried almost everything, Finally Mr..
Hunt, the druggist recommended
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and one
so cent bottle of it cured me entirely"
For sale by Farrar & Farrar, druggists.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-06-17

The prospects for democratic pres
ident next term are better today than
ever before, because there is a better
prospect for free coinage democrat
being nominated at Chicago ona free
coinage platform. Even the sound
money papers now admit that to be
the only hope for the party.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-06-17

News comes from Carrollton, this
state, that Massachusetts capitalists
have bought the famous gold NINE in
Carroll, The price paid was $85, 900
cash. This is one of the most valua-
BILE gold properties in Georgia, and on
" needs capital for development pur-
poses so that it can be worked on a
large scale.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-06-17

Georgia will have only one gold man
in congress next time. Mr.. Turner is
the distinguished gentleman who man
aged to pull through. He will be COM
panionless, and must feel little lone
some.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-06-17

The republican cohorts are moboliz-
ing in St. Louis. 1t looks like McKin-
ley and a straddle platform.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-06-17

The democratic mass meeting in
Calhoun suspended business long
enough the other day to endorse Judge
Spence and Solicitor Wooten for re-
election.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-06-17

There's pretty custom in Lagrange,
Ca, which is observed on all funeral
occasions. As soon as the hearse and
funeral cortege appear on the streets
every business house in town closes its
doors, and remains closed until the
procession passes out of sight. The
same respect is shown for an infant as
for an adult-for the poor and lowly
born as for the oldest and proudest
families in the community.