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The record-union., 1896-05-27
SOCIAL EVENTS.

(Readers of the "Record- Union" are re-
quested to send to this Office personals,
weddings, engagements, society notes and
home gatherings of every kind. Write
on one side of the paper, and give your
name and address, not for publication. but
as guarantee of Good faith)
Friday evening last a pleasant and
enjoyable party was given to Mr.. and
Mrs. f. d. Wardrobe, at their home,
near Elk Grove. on their return from
their wedding tour. A fine lunch was
served at y o'clock, consisting of
coffee, sandwiches, salad, cake, straw
berries, candy and nuts. Dancing and
card playing were INDUCED in by those
present. On leaving all expressed them
selves as having passed a delightful
evening. Those present were:
Mr.. and Mrs. F. d. Wardrobe, Mr..
and Mrs. T. p. Lowe, Mr.. and Mrs. T.
S. Wardrobe, Mr.. and Mrs. J. Russell,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Mahon. Mr.. and Mrs
]. Hasman, Mr.. and Mrs. c. Schirmer,
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Macy, Mr. and
Mrs. Will Baker, Mrs. j. Sayles, Mrs
C. Wright.
The Misses Lille Macy, Julia Put
ney, Mary Lowe, Mary Tavener, Katie
Mahon, Anna Macy, Lucy Lowe, Efie
Tavener, Eva Miller, frankie Putney
and Vina Nichols.
S. Macy. H. S. Putney, W. Miller,
Low Schirmer, Greed Wackman, Cyrus
Wilton, Ed Macy. Herbert Rowe VIII
Macey, Sam Chase, L. McSherry, John
Richards, Pete Schirmer, Fred Schaller,
Clarence Bader, Charles Bullard, J..
sullivan, George Rhodes, John Pickett.
Nd
VIII Lewis. VIII SlSed, Charles Sked,
j. Kelly, Willie Wright, Sim Traganza,
Will Connor, Chester Mattice, Willie
Sayles, Herman Rhodes, Royal Sayles,
S. Goodman and Albert Kelly
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LOS ANGELES OIL WELLS.
Several of Them Ruined by the Inter.
mingIing of Salt Water.

LOS ANGELES, May pa report
is in circulation this afternoon which
has caused alarm to owners of oil
wells. 1t is said that salt water has
mingled with the oil in two wells of
Doheny e Cannon. These wells had
shown signs of failing, and an order
was given to deepen them couple of
hundred feet in the hope of striking
new strata Of oil. Instead of this, as a
depth of 900 feet was reached, salt
water was encountered in large guam
titles. In going down the borers had
failed to put in casing through strata
OF sand, and the salt water forced it
self through this and soon filled the
wells to the top, thus running them. 1t
has been learned that several other
wells in the locality are showing a
gradual encroachment of salt water,
intermixed with, or entirely excluding
the oil
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Races at San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 26.-Weather
warm and track fast.
Six furlongs. selling, Warrago won,
Sweet Briar second, LinviIle third. Time
1:14h
Four furlongs. selling, Dolore won,
Viking second, Emeha S. third. Time
0:i9
Five and a half furlongs. selling,
Road Warmer won, Free VIII second,
Red Bird third. Time-1:0S1a.
One mile, selling. Instigator won.
Belle Boyd second, Imp. Fullerton Lass
third Time-1 :41;A
Six furlongs, selling, Nell Flaherty
won, Nerves second. Rebellion third.
Time-1:15.
Five and a half furlongs, selling. Ore
gon Eclipse won. Mount Roy second,
Last Chance third. Time-1 :07$4
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STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
Powder Works Destroyed and Many
Lives Thought to be Lost.

FORT SCOTT (Kan.), May 26-Dur-
ing a heavy electrical storm this even
ing lightning struck one of the seven
large buildings of the Lafin- Rand
Powder Company at Turck. Cherokee
County, Kas., and an awful explosion
followed, the flame of the burning
powder shooting 100 feet in the air.
The report was heard for twenty miles.
The plant was established in 1890, and
cost S250,00O. Owing to the distance
of the plant from a telegraph office. no
details can be learned. 1t is feared
that many lives were lost, as the fac
tory runs a large force.
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PERSONAL MENTION.

Mrs E. L. Mcclure of Sa1. Francisco
is visiting her sister, Mrs. Allen TOwle.
Ed T. Clark, Mrs. Thomas Clark and
Miss n. L. Rickett of Placerville are
visiting the city.
Mr. and Mrs. John N. Mills and Mr..
and Mrs. Thad H. Howe of Chicago are
at the Golden Eagle.
Mrs. c. G. Allen has returned to Ne
vada City, accompanied by her cousin,
Miss Marie Gaschlin.
Mrs. T. D. Gamble. who has been
visiting in California since December
last, and lately with her brother and
sister, Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Woodson of
this city, leaves this morning for her
home in Spokane, Wash.
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MISSISSIPPI VERY HIGH.
Great Danger of Floods if the Heavy
Rains Continue.

ST. LOUIS, May 26-This morning
the danger line, twenty-eight feet, was
reached by the Mississippi here, and
indications are that, unless there be a
let-up of the heavy rains in Missouri,
Iowa and Illinois, the waters will go as
high as the flood of four years ago,
when property to the value of $1,000
600 was destroyed. The local Weather
Bureau announces that the crest of the
flood has been reached, bus this is not
believed by experienced river men.
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THE JUDGE WAS TIRED.
Dismissed Two Murder Cases Because
Continuance Was Asked.

Los ANGELES, May 26.-When the
trial of the Wing brothers. for the
murder of John Hayes at Puente was
called this morning, the District At
torney asked for a continuance on the
ground that he could not convict with
out the presence of witness named
Clark.
Judge Smith thereupon said he was
tired of that sort of thing and dis
missed the case. The Wings were dis
charged and at once re-arrested, and
the examination set for the 2Sth
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THE HEATED SPELL.
rIercury Ninety and Hall Degrees
at San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 26-To-day
was the warmest of the season in this
city according to the records kept at
the United States Weather Bureau.
The highest point attained by the mer-
curry was 901a degrees in the shade
and this, it is hoped, will mark the
turning point.
At all events, although without any
very late data to judge from, the
Weather Bureau officials We're of the
opinion this afternoon that to-day
would end the present hot spell.
Across the bay the heat was even
more oppressive than in this city, the
record made in Oakland being 90 de-
grees in the shade. At some points in
the interior the temperature was
higher vet
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Searching for a FOrger.

SAN DIEGO. May 26.-Oficers have
been searching for some days for
Paul Brandt, alias T. Kral. alias j.
Kral. 1t has been learned that he was
seen recently in Tucson, Ariz., eastward
bound. and he is now probably safe
from pursuit He is wanted for forg-
ing the name Of DR.. Theodore V. Brown
of San Francisco to a check drawn on
the First National Bank OF thai city,
and dated May 1st. The check was in
favor Of j. Kral or bearer. Brandt
succeeded in cashing it here at the
Merchants National Bank, on the in
dorselnent of DR.. Charles Sin,ms, who
therehY lost the money
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BrutaIly Treated Sailors.

PORT TOWNSEND (Wash.l, May 26.
Captain Sewall of the ship Benjamin
Sewall was this evening bound over to
the United States District Court in the
sum Of $500 by Commissioner Swan on
the charge of brutal treatment of a
sailor named Francis. First Mate
William Smith was held on a similar
charge in the sum of $1,000. he being
accused of having tortured a seaman
until his victim jumped overheard and
~ o 1rnr1-fnl
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armed Sylvia, but not until the other
laborers, attracted by the disturbance,
had bound and brought him under sub
lection.
Brown is prominent in this locality
and highly respected by his acquaint-
ances. He came to Placerville at mid
night and surrendered to Sheriff Hill
bert. He was at once released on his
own recOgniZance.
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BRIEF NOTES.

The river is receding and only touches
the 21-foot s inches mark now
The Horseshoe Baseball Club went
up to Vernon OH Sunday to play game
with a picked nine OF the Knights
Landing and Vernon teams. The Sac
ramentans came out victorious by a
score of 81 to II
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Killed by a Horse.

MERGED (Cal), May &c. 3.
Palmer, a farmer living near Atwater,
this county, walked into his stable Sun
day night and slapped a horse on the
back The horse kicked him, one hoof
landing squarely on his chest, the
other on his ear. Palmer died yester-
day, after suffering untold agony for
many hours.
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A Woman Missing.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 26.-Mrs. b.
Jacobson left her home in the Mission
Sunday evening, ostensibly to visit
friends. She has not been seen since,
and her husband fears foul play. He
has invoked the aid of the police, but
no trace of the woman has been found
The theory advanced by the police that
she voluntarily left home is indignant
lv denied by her friends.
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Texas Democrats Divided.

GALVESTON (Tex.), May 26.-Po-
litical circles in Texas We're astonished
to-day by the withdrawal of ex-Gov-
ernor Roberts. silverite, from the
Gubernatorial race. The sound
money" Democrats bolted from the sill
verites. and both factions will put out
candidates for the Governorship.
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Disastrous Fire.

DESERONTO (Ontario), May ga
fire last night destroyed two-thirds Of
the east end of the town, leaving
nearly 100 families homeless. The loss
exceeds $500, 900.
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Fined a Twenty.

C. McMullen, who attempted to sell
rented bicycle, was fined $40 yesterday
in the Police Court, with the usual al
tentative.
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Claims to be a Partner.

F. E. Storms, canvasser, was ar
rested yesterday for embezzlement on
the complaint of A. L. Wolf Storms
says that they were partners and that
it is simply a. business disagreem ent,
and the money he spent was his own.
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Frederick the Great had eyes of
clear blue. One of his biographers COM
pared the luster of his eyes to that of
polished steel.
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Ice-cream and cakes, 10 cents dish.
Otto, opposite Plaza.
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bodybuilding patents number 1.215.
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CONTINUED from First Page.)
The herald., 1896-02-19
in LINE With HUNTINGTON

The San Francisco Chronicle, which
broke out in violent opposition to the
Southern Pacific about the time Mr.. de
Young was not elected senator, and
when it was evidenced that, in the Ian
guage OF Senator Carpenter, the corpo-
ration had given that gentleman its
moral support and withheld financial
support, has recently shown another
sudden change of heart. Its fierce op-
position to the refunding scheme of
Mr.. Huntington has suddenly devel-
oped into fear that if refunding is
defeated we will fall into the hands Of
the Goulds or the Vsnderbilts!
Apparently the Chronicle regards
Mr.. Huntingdon as 90 gentle and so
kind a master that transference of our
lives and property and convenience to
other keeping would be great caiam-
ity. Just SO! This is the Chronicles 8
method of advocating the refunding
bill after ranging itself in opposition to
that measure. 1t is significant that
this change of front only came after
Senator Perkins had announced that
he would follow the instructions of the
legislature that elected him, and oppose
the bill. Perkins successor il to be
elected next January. Aside from Mr..
de Young hiu only prominent competi-
tor thus far named ia Mr.. Spreckels.
Mr.. Spreckels and his San Francisco
organ are fighting the refunding bill.
Mr.. Estee has also made one of his
periodical hops, and is against it, and
Mr.. Estee has again been mentioned
for the senatorship. Mr.. de Young, in
Topping back into the railroad camp,
gives notice that be will again be
candidates. Like the ass in Hsop's
The herald., 1896-02-19
MORE THRILLING

It is now several weeks since we'll
known attorney Of this city offered to
undertake, under certain conditions,
the recovery of the $4,000 unlswfully
obtained from the treasury of Los An
geles county by Hodgman and House
during the incumbency Of a former
board Of supervisors. The PROPOSE
tton for recovering the funds has gone
from the board OF supervisors to which
it. was submitted, to the district attor-
ney for the approval or disspprovel of
Chat official. The right CT the super
visors to accept the proposition could
be determined by full-fedged and
united lawyer in few hours. But then
II the county had district attorney
Of that sort the grand jury would not
have had occasion to make the recon-
mendation relative to the collecti on of
money owing the county that has called
out the proposition that now rests
and threstens to continue resting in
the district attorneys Office. The fact
that every day that action for the re-
coysry Of the funds is delayed imperils
the county's right of recovery to cer-
tain of the sums improperly paid out,
seems unworthy OF consideration by
the supervisors and the district attor-
sjkAv
The herald., 1896-02-19
Color Line in Massachusetts

A few days ago Bishop Arnett of Ohio,
who was in Boston attending Christian
Endeavor convention of some sort, was
refused accommodation in three OF the
leading hotels of that city. 1t seems to be
generally understood, at least it is nowhere
seriously denied. that this refusal referred
to Bishop Arnett's color, he being a negro.
He finally succeeded in obtaining admis-
sion to the Revere House, but even there
they required him to take his meals in his
own private rooms.
The Boston Post is giving great deal of
its mind to the matter, and in a late issue
asks: "ls Massachusetts ready to draw the
color line::''
OF course Massachusetts, is ready. Why
does the Boston Post put such silly ques-
tion: Massachusetts is not only ready to
draw the color line. but has. in fact, al
ready done it. So has every other state in
New England, and, for that matter, i'm the
whole country. Why keep up this ridic,l-
lous pretense of astonishment and fly into
a great fuss and bother whenever the cx.
pected and tho inevitable happen? 1t
seems so childish.
We have before us at this moment let.
ter from W ,ll-known resident of Wash
ington complaining that one of our leading
theaters during the last week admitted
colored men to the orchestra seats. He
says he saw at least two going out between
The herald., 1896-02-19
The Silver Question on This Coast

In his address in the senate favoring the
free coinage silver bill, Senator Perkins
stated that his constituents favored free
coinage of silver and therefore he would
vote for the bill. Other remarks made by
him indicate that he. as an individual, was
opposed to the bill. There was time
when a majority in this state favored the
free coinage of silver, but that day is
passed. and it can be safely affirmed that
the majority, while believing in bimetal-
lism, are decidedly opposed to a free coin
age silver bill for this country alone. They
believe that with the civilized world allied
to gold and discriminating against silver it
it is not only unwise, but would prove ruin
GUS to the United States to try and carry
the load itself with the greenback and
treasury note still in circulation.
Senator Perkins memory is not so short
lived as to have forgotten the time when
silver coin and silver bullion was dealt in
the same as any other article of trade. He
ought to know they had fluctuating value
and allowed many firms at San Francisco
to engage in the silver brokerage business.
He ought to know that during that period
of time large corporations giving employ
ment TO large forces of men bought
to pay off their men at the end of
the week or the month, as the case
might be. The payments we're not all in
silver, unless the wagons were small, but
1t was from fifty to seventy-five per cent.
The editor of the Times knows from per-
sonal knowledge that one of the largest
woolen mills running at that time at San
Francisco. made from $50 to over S75 a
week (itpaid at the end of each week.. on
the silver disbursed to it's hands. Retail
merchants in that city, knowing that the
bulk If not all the payments made by wage
earners would be in silver coin, charged
just as much more for the goods sold.
This coast does not wish to see those
times repeated here; and it would be if
the free coinage silver bill is made law
and greenbacks and tIeasury notes not re.
tired. In the light of the past there can be
no doubt, but we would again be flooded
with silver and that it would haye@a iluc.
tuating value. for the east is welded to
paper currency. and it would be impos-
sible to divorce them from it. If the green.
backs and treasury notes are retired and
no bank notes allowed to be issued below
$40, or even $40, then silver will be forced
into circulation, and with population of
over 1O,OOO,OOO inhabitants, many mil
lion dollars in that coin would be required
for trade purposes-OaklandT Times. s..
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acts. He was near them when they got
their checks at the door, and he noted their
presence in the vestibule afterward. And
he wants to know whether the theater in
question has adopted the policy regularly.
as in that case be will not patronize it
again. Of course we know nothing as to
the theater's policy. We are very sure, how
ever. that our correspondent speaks for
public sentiment with entire accuracy,
The feeling may be unjust and irrational.
but it is nevertheless terribly genuine and
positive. No tirst-class theater or hotel in
this or any other town in the United States
can treat the two races on terms of equal
ity and yet retain the patronage of both.
1t isa social question. a question of per-
sonal contact and innate prejudice, and all
the laws of the legislature in the land can
not affect it.
Time may solve the problem and
smooth away the difficulties, but there is
no present promise of that consummation.
The cial recognition of the negro is inn
possible in one part of the country as
another. The civilization OF Massachus-
etts is. in this respe 1t. as unmauageable as
that of Mississippi. Why do intelligent
newspapers pretend ignorance of this, in
stead of taking it into account as an I'M
questionable fact? Washington Post.
tRep.)
The herald., 1896-02-19
Cleveland and Congress

No one expects Mr.. Cleveland will be
able to secure results in congress, no mat
ter how .Uany messages he may send In.
Nor does anyone suppose Mr.. Cleveland
himself entertains the notion that congress
can be driven into compliance with his
will. And yet men who are near 10 the
president say he is not without hope. He
has constantly in mind his remarkable
achievement of securing the repeal of the
Sherman silver purchase law by hostile
and most unwilling senate. Mr.. Cleveland
attributes his success on that occasion
wholly to the power of public opinion, in
which he is great believer. He is not
without hope that public sentiment may
again bring such pressure to bear upon
congress as will secure results before ad-
journment At any rate Mr.. Cleveland
believes it to be his duty, as it certainly is
his pleasure, to do everything in his power
to rouse public sentiment and to make
things uncomfortable for the statesmen in
congress. 1t is with this in view that lie
meditates another message.
The herald., 1896-02-19
MCKINLEY ON FINANCE

In the course of a Enthusiastically y
able excoristion Of what Mckinley or
gan designstes as the 'best things" in
McKinley's recent Lincoln banquet
speech. the Chicago Chronicle gets in
the following comment on the Buckeye
poser's financial views:
Another of McKinley's ssbest things
was this: 1.-THE Republican party would
as soon think of lowering the flag of our
country as to contemplate with patience
and without protest and opposition any at
tempt to degrade or corrunt the medium OF
exchanges among the people. 1t can be
relied upon in the future. As in the past, to
supply the country with the best money
ever known, gold, silver and paper, good
the world over" d..
I'm the future as in the past" is particu-
larly good. 1t serves to recall the fact that
the Republican party supplied the country
with greenbacks in 1862 and the years
following - a currency which drove out
every dollar OF specie and became so ''de-
graded and corrupted at one time that
IL was worth less than 10 cents on the
dollar And this same currency corrupted
the thinking of the country; even that of
the supreme court of the United States
gave us an epidemic of fiat lunacy in place
of sound money sanity.
~ oOANSS 0isO " IcC1ll ttl0 jdCt tllttb III
1878 the Republican party forged the
''endless chain" which for .hree years has
been lifting gold out of the treasury
forged 1t by enacting that redeemed green
backs should not stay redeemed and by
enacting in another statute that Uncle
Sam should help out the poor bonanza
kings by buying and coming their silver
1t reminds US that the Republicans of the
Mckinley congress- went still further at
the dictalion of the mining.camp despots
and passed a law which, by the admission
of their own leaders, brought on the panic
of 1898 just as their Rreenback policy
brought on the panic of 1878.
So McKinley's very best things serve to
impress upon us the fact that the Republi-
can party is no longer the party of free
dom. whatever it may have been in the
past, and that its policy with respect to the
currency has always been unwise save
only when it made provision for the re-
sumption of specie payments in 1875.
Even then it did vast amount of mischief
by postponing resumption for four years
and providing that redemption should not
redeem.
The herald., 1896-02-19

and Weather Observer franklin 10 in
formed that unless he chooses to see
that the heavens are promptly opened
and the rains fall that someone else
will be engaged to do it for him-or,
rather, the people. These suggestions
and kindly meant, admonitions are
prompted by the receipt of q commune
cation bearing date Los Angeles, Feb.
rusry 18th. and which reads as follows:
EDITOR HERALD: As think this season
to try for the farmers to produce feed
fruits and healthy growth in general. I
offer my service to the humanity, and will
bring on condition in the atmosfare wich
will bring on about days rain for Cali
fornia.
whit out charge, and noise inside week,
if the people really need it. Respectfully,
If you put a article in your paper wich
says the country needs rain and if anybody
can produce it free of cost. it is acceptable
/ will go ahead and produce 1t and give
you my full address but wich shall not be
published and only kept for further yuse.
F.S.
Please state not my name.
To the man who can command the
coming and the going of life-yielding
rains, The HERALD has every respect
and in deference to the expressed wish,
the name Of the correspondent is not
given. He is assured that rain is
needed, and needed badly. The thirsty
earth is crying for moisture and he is
at full liberty to turn on the juice.
Weather Observer Franklin, beware
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lTSe of Tyneu,rifers

A typewriter-the machine, I mean-is
sold in New York every five minutes. At
the present writing there are 10000 type
writer's in New York, of all makes, and the
number is constantly increasing. The
amount of capital represented by these
machines is $2.7OO,OOO. The municipal
department of the city government of New
York require 154 typewriters to properly
transact their business. But the largest
number of typewriters under one roof in
the world is in certain New York office,
which are required to do the work of the
different tenants of the building. Hun
dreds of machines are sent abroad every
year. One made for the czarina of Rus
sia has keys of white, gold typebars, and
the frame is beautifully inlaid with pearl.
Rochester Post-Express.