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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
State Of California, In and for the county
of Sacramento.
In the matter of the estate of RUPERT
Nj. MELLER, deceased
Emily Meller, administrative OF the es-
tate of Rupert NJ. Meller, deceased, having
presented her petition praying for an order
to sell the real property of the decedenI
above-named, and it appearing that il i
necessary to make such sale, it is ordered
that such petition be filed, and that all
persons interested in the estate of said
decedent appear before this court at the
Courtroom of Department Two there9I'
on Friday, the 2Sth day Of February, 1895,
at 10 O'Clock a. M, to show cause why
an order should not be granted the saiq
adminfstratrix to sell 50 much of the real
estate of said decedent as Is necessary
and that copy of this order be published
once week for four successive weeks ia
the daily Record Union," q newspaper
published In said county
Dated this 25th day of January, 1895.
A: p. CATLIN,
Judge of the Superior Court
Albert M. Johnson. attorney for adminlss
tratrix. 5a28-5tRu
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Entered at the Postof1ce at Sacramento
as eecond-claSS matter.
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Some of the San Francisco press want
an observatory built on Mount Tamal-
pals Good idea.-there is more weather
to the square inch on that hill than any
other in the land. At least ten days in
the year fog does not envelop old Ia
malpais most hours of the twentyfour
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WHERE THE MONEY GOES.

Los Angeles Voice: The Record
Union" is doing the taxpayers service
by exposing the extravagance of our
State Legislature. Il says at least
$50. GOO was expended by the last ses-
sion in useless positions for people who
had a political pull" That the Leg
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THE MINING DAMS.

Colusa Sun: The miners should think
of some better way to restrict the slick
ems than the dams they have heretofore
built. 1t will do no good to rebuild
they have been tested and found want
ing. The very best of the dams became
wrecks and we are the sufferers. Now
if the miners can do anything with the
slickens it will be good thing for Cali
fornia, but if we must have our navi-
gable streams ruined and our lands de-
stroyed forever, is there anyone, is there
even a millionaire miner, who can con-
scientiously advocate mining? Had
not the precious metal better be in the
ground than to be taken out, carried
off and leave a wrecked land behind?
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Stockton. Market and Ellis Sta,
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL
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PERSON AL.

DR.. T. Rinaldo of San Jose is at the Palace.
Thomas Fairhurst of China arrived here yes.
terday.
Judge s. F. Cell of Salinas is at the occi-
dental.
IF. Dennis. an attorney OF Reno, is at the
Palace.
T. L. Albarda, vineyardist of vacavilIe, is
in town.
D. c. stover of Freeport, H., is regis tered at
the Graud.
DR.. and Mrs. Charles D. Poore of New York
are at the Palace.
H. Newmark of Los Angeles, conspicuous in
politics, is in town.
C.L scheld, a wealthy brewer of Sacramento,
is at the Occidental.
w. D. Johnson, a business man of Fresno, is
at the Cosmopolitan.
]. R. Fiddcs, hardware dealer OF Martinez,
is at the Cosmopolitan.
here on business trip.
Philip Herschfeld, business man of Los
Angeles, is at the Grand.
George Beale, the newsdealer of Sonora,
Tuolumne County, is in town.
N. Westheimer of the Daily Financial News.
New York, is at the Occidental.
DR.. w. F. Hall of Los Angeles was among yes
terday's arrivals at the Baldwin.
Professor A. L. Cotton of the Lick Observa-
tory, Mount Hamilton, is in the City.
James McGovern, an old and well-known
resident OF Butte, Mont, is at the Palace.
c. +. Persons. assistant general manager OF
the American Press Association, is on visit to
this City and the coast.
Henry Goodwin of Dixon is at the Russ He
owns an orchard of 500 or 600 acres of differ
entkinds of fruit in the vicinity of Dixon
]. B. butcher, director in the New York Cen
trail Railroad. who has been visiting Monterey
with friends, has returned here and is at the
Palace.
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COLLECTING THE MAILS.

First Assistant Postmaster General Jones
announces that San Francisco is one of
twenty-five cities in which the experiment
of making house-to-house collections of
mail is to be tried. 1t is difficult to see
why so many cities are chosen. One would
seem sufficient. If the experiment prove
failure a great deal of time and money
will have been expended for nothing, for
its success will depend on the number of
collection boxes which residents may buy
or rent, and this necessarily will be mat
ter of slow growth. If outright purchase
of the boxes is required and the expert
ment then abandoned the purchasers will
have lost the money they invested. 1t is
not to be denied that the opportunity for
a possible inventor of boxes will be allur-
ing.
Tt is difficult to see how the collections
can be made from so greatly increased a
number of boxes without increasing the
force of postmen. This will entail an ad-
ditional heavy expense on the Postoffice
Department. 1t would seem to be much
more advisable to reduce the rate OF post
age and keep to the present facilities for
distribution and collection than to make
sary by increasing the expenses of the de-
partment III experiments concerning which
there is so much uncertainty. The post
Office authorities of Washington City,
where the experiment is already on trial,
declare that tine scheme is failure there.
If SO, it is hard to understand why it
should be tried elsewhere.
The number of street collection boxes
distributed throughout the cities is saffi-
cient to afford great convenience. If this
is not the case the number might be in
creased without increasing the running
expenses of the department, and thus pro-
vide the convenience which house boxes
are intended to serve. AS the difficulty in
the way of reducing the postal rate is the
annual heavy deficit of the Postoffice De-
partment, it seems strange sort OF busi-
ness sense which prompts an increase OF
the deficit by furnishing questionable
convenience
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THE PooLR00Ms DEAD.

Judge Lows decision that the pretense
of the downtown poolrooms to serve as
agents for outside bettors on horseraces
was mere evasion of the Ellert ordinance
is clear, simple and straightforward
statement supported by. logic and an
evident desire to be fair. This ruling trips
the last prop upon which the poolrooms
were supported. 1t is not easy to see how
the managers, reading this decision along
with the last one rendered by Judge Wal
lace, can hope to continue their business.
With the Police Department, the law. the
courts and the better sentiment of the
community arrayed against them their
case seems to be hopeless.
This is matter for sincere congratulation.
While the policy of the State is not to pro-
hibit betting on horseracing, it is opposed
to low forms of the practice, and the City
ordinances carry out that idea by restrict
ing the betting to the racing g-tracks. These
are not in the heart-of the City. Entrance
to them requires the payment OF fee and
expense in reaching them. Under these
circumstances they are the resort only of
those who have leisure and money for the
pastime. Thus conducted horseracing is
decorous and serves to encourage the
breeding of fine horses. Under that stim-
ulus the horse breeding industry has be-
come leading one in California and has
given the State fame that operates to its
beneht.
The Ellert ordinance was intended to
perfect the scheme contemplated by the
State laws. 1t expressly prohibited bet
ting establishments of the downtown pool
room order. These establishments were
merely lure for boys and clerks, as the
smallest amounts were permitted to be
staked. The effect was of the most de-
grading kind. The establishments were
manufactures OF young thieves and em.
bezzlers. After the yacetEack managers
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LOCAL DEMOCRACY.

The condition of affairs in the Demo
cratic party in this City affords striking
example of the complete demorailzatlon
which affects the party throughout the
Union. From what is going on here II can
be seen that the better element OF the
party has so completely lost nope as 10
feel no interest in the approaching cam
paigp. and have abandoned the control OF
the party organization to faction leaders,
spoil hunters and ward bosses.
OF San Francisco Democracy nothing
is showing any activity this year save two
factions, one managed by office holders
and the other by fellows who wish to be
offiee-holders. At the head of one faction
Rainey is conspicuous, making hard
fight for a victory that will leave him the
undisputed boss of his party in this City.
Back OF the other faction, hiding in such
obscurity as he can find for him self, is the
old boss. Buckley, seeking to retain power
and hoping for the day when he can come
from retirement and show himself again
to his henchmen with all his old time
prestige and swagger.
The only choice before the Democrats of
the City under these circumstances is to
bolt the party or accept the domination of
either Buckley or Rainey. To Democrats
of independent minds the choice will be
easy. They will serve neither of the bosses,
nor will they vote for the men whom the
bosses put up. To stalwart Democrats
who stick to their party, even if it nomi-
mates yellow dog, the choice is not going
to be so easy. Rainey has not the evil
fame of Buckley, but then he served the
old boss when the boss was in power and
learned politics from him. Rainey eyi-
IDENTIFY. therefore, is fighting Buckley only
that he may practice Buckleyism himself.
The difference between the two is mere
matter of personalities, and there is no
reason why even ward politician should
fight for one against the other unless he
sees something in it for himself.
The Rainey crowd began by shouting for
reform and straight politics, but before
the State Committee they got their work
through by series of juggles that made
even the adroit Buckleyites themselves
gasp and stare in breathless surprise.
Now that they have recovered breath they
have begun to claw the sleeps clothing
off the Rainey gang and to reveal them to
be wolves of the same breed as themselves.
That is the condition of affairs at present,
and the Democrats, confronted by Buckley
on one side and Rainey on the other, are
called upon to answer, Under which
king, Bezonian? Speak or dier'
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A STARTLING DECISION.

The Supreme Court of the United States
has at last placed the Interstate Commerce
Commission in position to ascertain the
truth with regard to the shady transac-
tions of railroad companies by sustaining &
the act of 1898, which provides that a plea
Of standardization shall not be bar to
testimony and that persons SO testifying
shall not thereby come under the opera
ton of the criminal statutes. The decision
marks so radical modification of ancient
precedents and in so doing recognizes SO
serious an evil that cannot be reached by
ordinary processes that it deserves some at
tention.
The theory of the act of 1893 was that a
special order of crimes had come into ex-
istence as the product of new kind of re-
lation between the perpetrator and the
people, and that it was of greater impor-
tanee to ascertain the truth and stop the
evil than to punish the perpetrator. The
term crimes is here used merely in a
technical sense. The practices which the
provisions of the interstate commerce act
were intended to prevent by making them
criminal were simply sharp business acts
which operated injuriously between per-
sons or communities. In the extreme ap-
plication of these practices it was within
the power of railroad companies to ruin
one individual or community and upbuild
another In final analysis it is evident
that this power is exceedingly dangerous
as the people of California have abundant
reason to know from bitter experience.
This decision eniarges the power OF the
Interstate Commerce Commission to an
amazing extent. 1t will be remembered
that the investigations of the Pattison
committee into the condition OF railway
affairs in California were checked at the
critical points where they began to uncover
criminal practices, and that the whole
story of how the Government had been
swindled was never told. That part of it
which did come into existence was bad
enough, and, judging from it, the entire
truth must be darker. The precedent es-
taplished by the act of 1898 and by the
Supreme Court decision sustaining it will
undoubtedly be extended. Its operation
will not be confined to the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
The whole tendency of the National
Government is to lay frmer hand on the
powerful corporations and associated cor
porations that are assuming to take the
destiny of the country into their own
hands. This is we'll, and considerably
more may be safely done in that direction
before sufficient is accomplished. The
only danger is that the tendency may pro-
ceed too far and assail vested rights. That,
though only remote contingency at
present, is something that cool-headed
citizens woald do well to keep in mind and
be prepared TO resist.
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RATES THAT WILL CINOH.

In the proposition OF the Transconti-
mental Traffic Association to pay to the
carriers interested in the Panama route a
subsidy of so, 500 per month lies threat
to tax the shippers of the country to an
inordinate extent, as will be readily seen
by little study of the present situation
and certain figures in connection there
with.
For the past three months the eastbound
freight via Panama has not exceeded 1000
tons, and, at liberal estimate hes aver
aged about $40 per ton. The westbound
business has averaged about 1900 tons per
month for the same period, or total OF
540O tons, at about SIS ton. Thus we
have an aggregate of 6400 tons OF freight
moved in three months, which returned
gross revenue of $9i 900. Under the pro-
posed subsidy the carriers now engaged in
the Panama route business-the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company and the Panama
Railroad Company-will receive for SINH
lar period. irrespective of what freight they
may carry, $227, 500, or just two and half
times as much as they have been earning.
But the carrying out of this plan of the
Transcontinental Association signifies
much more than that the shippers are to
be taxed to pay this subsidy to the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company and the Panama
Railroad Company. 1t means that every
merchant who has need to ship pound of
freight over any of the transcontinental
lines is to contribute much more largely to
the revenues of these lines than hereto
fore, not only that this subsidy may be
paid. but that the roads which are re.
sponsible for it may makea profit that will
justify them in its payment. In other
words, it means that there will be decided
advance in rates all along the line, with
corresponding heavier burden upon COM
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-25
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE,
THE LEGISLATURE OF 1862.


SOME MEMBERS Who ARE STILL LIVING IN THE
STATE.
To the Editor of the San Francisco Cail-SIR:
In an article in THE CALL of Sunday last
on the Legislature in San Francisco in 1862
you print the names of certain Senators and
Assemblymen of that session now living, so far
named the following:
E. H. Heacock, representing Sacramento
County.
g. K Porter, representing Santa Cruz and
Monterey.
Walter Van Dyke, representing Humboldt
County.
Heacock and Van Dyke are now United States
Court Commissioners, the former in San Fran
cisco, the latter in Los Angeles. Mr Porter is
of the firm of Porter d. Slessinger, at 3 Battery
street, manufacturers of boots and shoes.
AssEMBLyMEN.
Benjamin Dore, representing San Francisco
County, now fruit-grower in Fresno.
William Lowry, representing San Francisco
County, was County Clerk from 1863 to 1867.
Now an attorney-at-law in this City.
]. G. Mccullough, representing Mariposa
County. Now prominent attorney in New
T. N. Machin, representing Tuolumne and
Mono counties. Elected Licutenaut.Goyern
in 1868. Now resides in Alameda.
s. 8. Tllton, representing San Francisco in
the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth sessions
Harbor Commissioner from 1868 to 1870. Now
resides in this City and has been q resident
since April, 1851.
Your list has the name of J. W. Van Zandt as
alive and representing San Mateo County. He
mas been dead seven years. He was repre-
Stephen Tilton, father of S. s. Mlton, repre-
sented San Mateo County in the thirteenth ses-
sion. S. S. T.
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had resorted to every possible means for
preventing the downtown rooms from
securing information upon which bets
might be posted, the pooirooms posted
fictitious entries and odds and thus placed
themselves on an exact level with the
bucket shops which have been tabooed in
every city in the country. The termina-
ton which they have finally reached in
Judge Lows court was inevitable, but
meanwhile the hard fight that was neces-
sary to secure that result has placed the
City in an unpleasant light before the
country. This will be obliterated in time
if every tendency to a recurrence of the
evil is promptly suppressed.
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AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

Senator s. r. Buford of Virginia City, Mont,
the famous mining camp on Alder Greek,
where the notorious border outlaw SlAde was
hanged years ago, is at the Lick. Mark Twain,
in "Roughing It." has told in characteristic
way OF the awful career and death of Slade.
and how he first met him when coming to Car
son on the overland stage Virginia City (the
one on Alder Creek) was then seething mael-
strom of life
'In those days it had 10000 people," said
Senator Buford yesterday, "and to-day it has
no more than 1000. It is what you might call
q decayed camp. Yet no district on earth, it is
estimated, has produced so much gold for its
length. The length of Alder Gulch is only ff-
teen miles, yet it has produced, from the time
it was discovered until now. no less than
500, ,O0O, 900 in gold. This is fabulous pro-
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duct. The amount cannot be determined ex-
actly, for records were not always kept OF the
shipments. But as near as can be estimated
the product has reached that sum. This is a
greater quantity than any other region of the
globe has produced.
81 went to Virginia City in 1865. For long
time freighted goods from Fort Benton, the
head OF navigation on the Missouri River, to
various places in Montana. and afterward
freighted from Corinne Utah. to different
places I used oxen and mule teams, and
sometimes had as many as three or four wagons
fastened together. 1t was pretty stern life,
and was glad when the railroads got closer
and finally quit it.
"When Slade was hanged at Virginia City
'C1ubfoot George and three or four others
were hanged with him. Shootings were fre-
quent, and the camp was scarcely ever with
out its tragedy. 1t is entirely different now,
being one of the most peaceable places in the
country"
Virginia City is in Madison County, sixty
miles from the junction of the Little Missouri,
Madison and Jefferson rivers, and fifty miles
from Dillon. Senator Buford is engaged ex-
tensively in merchandising there and else
where. He is also owner Of extensive cattle
interests, and IL altogether one of the solid
men of the new State. He was member of the
constitutional convention, and has been
eiccscu TWICE. hs cenAtof. ne is very piedSdht I
gentleman, and is an interesting talker. He
says though little snow has fallen in Montana
this winter, yet he thinks there will be an
abundance of water and grass, and conse-
quently plenty of beef.
s'The March blizzard helped as out a great
DEAL" he said. "If it hadn't been for that we
would have been in rather bad shape. AS it is,
we will come out all right"
Senator Buford has been troubled with
rheum atism, and has been trying to get rid of
1T at Paso Robles. He says he has been much
benefited by the California climate and the
springs combined.
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SUNSHINE LAND.
merce.

They came in sight of a lovely shore.
Yellow as gold In the morning light;
The suns own color at noon it wore,
And had faded not at The fall of night;
Clear weather or cloudy-'twas all as one,
The happy hills seemed bathed with the sun;
It's secret the sailors could not understand,
But they called the country Sunshine Land.
What was the secret? A simple thing
1t will make you smile when once you know
Touched by the tender finger of spring,
million blossoms were all aglow;
So many, so many. so small and bright,
They covered the hills with mantle of light;
And the wild bee hummed, and the glad breeze
famed
Through the honeyed fields of Sunshine Land.
If over the sea we two were bound,
What port, dear child. would we choose for ours!
We would sail and sail till at last we found
This fairy gold of million flowers;
Yet, darling, we'd find, If at home we stayed,
OF many small Joys our pleasures are made;
More near tnan we think-very close at hand,
Lie the golden fields Of Sunshine Land.
EDITH M. THOMAS.
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PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Victor Hugo, who, like Lord Tennyson, at
tanned the age of SO years, had personal estate
in England to the amount of f5O57. Matthew
Arnold's estate amounted to f1041. Robert
Browning, of whose will A. Tennyson and +.
T. Palgraye were the attesting witnesses. left
personally in England of the value OF f16,777.
1t seems to be new fad among women
artists to hate certain city. Dnse hates
Chicago and Calve hates London. "No, no,
no." says the famous ilnpersonator OF Carmen,
"not for the crown of England and all the
wealth the country contains would consent
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worn with collar and narrow ribbon belt of
turquoise blue satin ribbon, matching one of
the stripes of several colors which made the
plaid.
brown one was worn with a narrow white
leather belt, the crush collar being of Dresden
ribbon with white ground.
Cheviot, tweed, and in fact ali the fabrics of
wool, are charming made up after this model
and will be much In evidence as soon as outer
wraps are laid aside. The first spring days
will show vast number Of these becoming
waists.
They are made over q fitted lining, the out
side being seamless. The basque or peplurn is
cut separate, in circular shape.
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physicians and Midwives.

yorr attention is respectfully called to the
fol,owinr resolution adopted by the Board of
Health at their NEE ting held on the 18th day
Resolved, That on and after the nrst % gay OF
- ~ ii,,r Nth the provisions of the law con-
cerning Registration OF births will be imme-
diately prosecuted. ;to, .h;.
Physicians having m aaoief ~ the - Health Depart
ment will please do so at once -,
By order OF the Board OF Health. Edmond
Godchaux, secretary.
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falling the truth at all times IN these days
wouid ever get further in public life than no.
tary public?"--Harper'sB Bazaar.
att ia real mean OF you to say that Maud is
r;fiieulously thin,' said the Sweet Young
Thing. "Though must admit, !" she continued,
..that an x-ray photograph OF her probably
would be easily recognized. - indianapolis
Journal
Teacher-- Thomas, saw you laugh just now.
What were You laughing aboutY
Tommy-I was just thinking about some
thing.
Teacher-You have no business thinking
during school hours. Don'tlet ito again.
Philadelphia Inquirer.