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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. NO. s64.

PURSUANT TO LAW AND 10 THE
resolution of the Board of Trustees of
the CITY of Sacramento, adopted August
80, 1897, directing this notice, the under
signed invites and will receive at his Of
hce, southwest corner Fourth and ]
streets, up to O'Clock p. m of MONDAY,
September 6, 1897, sealed proposals or bids
for the following street work, to be done
according to the specifications posted and
on file therefor adopted, to wit:
That the alley between [ and streets,
in said city, from the east line of Sixth
street to the west line of Seventh street, be
improved by grading and paving with ba-
salt blocks, constructing granite curbs and
a brick catch basin to be connected to the
sewer therein.
All proposals must be accompanied by
certified check, payable to the order of the
Mayor of the City of Sacramento, for an
amount not less than 10 per cent. of the
aggregate of the proposal, or by bond for
the said amount, and so payable, and
throughout as prescribed by law.
M. j. DESMOND, City Clerk.
Sacramento, August 81, 1897.
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Closing Wheat Quotations.

New YORK, Sept. Sd.
WHEAT-September, 81 00A; October
97Ac; December, &c
Chicago, Sept. 3D.
WHEAT-September $3.50; December
92$4c; May, 9312c.
San Francisco, Sept. Sd.
WHEAT : Closed quiet December
81 56S4; May, 81 561h
ARLEY-Inactive December. 93c.
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Repaid for His Loss.

DR.. Rozesas of Stockton, whose room at
the Arcade lodging house was robbed
recently, publishes a card to-day ac-
knowledging a satisfactory settlement
by the proprietor for his loss.
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Getting in Line.

In Judge Johnson's court yesterday
John White, a native of Canada, was
admitted to citizenship. His sponsors
were V. L. Hatfield and r. L. Heninger.
Try McMorry's 35c tea 531 NJ.
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City of Sacramento ordain as follows:
Section l. 1t is hereby ordained and
resolved by the Board of Trustees of the
City of Sacramento that SATURDAY,
the 25th day of September, 1897, be, and
the same is hereby prescribed and desig
mated as the day for holding Primary
Elections in the City of Sacramento for
the selection of delegates to City Conven-
tions of said city for the purpose of NOM
mating candidates for city officers of said
city, TO be voted for at the election of
said city, to be held on the I'd day of
November, 1897.
Section q This ordinance and resolution
shall be. published for five successive
days in the ''Record-Union,'' a newspaper
of general circulation, published in the
City of Sacramento, and shall take effect
Passed September 8, 1891
CHARLES E. LEONARD,
President of Board of Trustees.
Approved September 8, 1897.
s4-5t c. H. HUBBARD, Mayor.
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ORDINANCE NO. All.

ing day for the Holding of Primary
for Delegates to City Conventions for
the Purpose of Nominating Candidates
for City Officers of Said City.
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NOTICE OF STREET WORK.

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the Board of Trustees of the City
Of Sacramento, on the 30th day of August,
1897, adopted Resolution, No. 366, of its in
tention to order the following street work
to be done, viz:
That the alley between N and o streets,
in said city, from the center line of Twen-
sixth street, be improved by constructing
therein a vitrified ironstone pipe sewer
eight lS) inches in diameter with six (6)
lnch " branches, and a brick rnanhole.
For further particulars reference is
hereby made to said resolution on file in
the office of the City Clerk.
Sacramento, August 81, 1897.
E. J. CROLY
Superintendent of Streets.
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Meat Market.

per pair; Goslings, SOL so; Pigeons, $1d
GAME-Nominal.
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COMMERCIAL.
WHEAT VERY DULL AND THE
MARKET EASIER ON CALL.
Barley Coming in Freely, Which
Has Caused a Slump in Prices
NO Changes in Oats.

San Francisco, Sept. Sd.
Flour is firm and active; prices have
been wavering lately, owing to the f1uc-
tuations in wheat, but no actual change
was made; a large shipment-over 1900
barrels-went out on the China steam
er. Wheat is very dull; the market is
easier on call, following a weaker feel
ing East. Barley is coming in freely,
too much SO for the good of the market,
which has slumped considerably; options
have dropped; receipts to-day were nearly
SO 600 centals for this market, mostly
coast barley. No changes in oats or
corn; market steady and rather quiet.
Rye is not offering freely and is firm.
Cautaloupes and grapes were largely
in evidence to-day. but other fruits are
in more moderate supply. Strawberries
are a trife lower. Zinfandel wine grapes
brought $50 per ton. The Damson plum
brings the outside quotation. The
weather is against the sale of water
melons. The last steamer brought S37
cases of Mexican lines, but their con-
dition was such that fully 60 per cent.
will be a loss.
The butter supply and demand are
about equal and the market is firm; an
advance is noted for creamery. Eggs
are steady; the demand has improved
somewhat
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position, and naturally lends strength
to the independent course which Gen.
Woodford will pursue His Instructions
will be at the outset to attempt to OBJ
tain for Cuba the peaceful means of
independence. He is destined to be de-
feated in his proposal the moment it is
made; for Spain would infinitely prefer
war, with or without the encourage
ment of other nations, to any surrender
on the Cuban question.
"This is the fact, and the premier
sees no other way out of the present
impasse in Spanish politics. He will
court war the moment the United
States becomes imperative in it's de-
mands. The wave of great emotion and
patriotism such war would call out
in Spain would naturally sink all
threatening domestic questions and dis
turbances., The Carlists, Republicans
and all others would unite for the ma
ton, as they could be united by moth
ing else; and when defeated. If Spain
should be defeated, Cuba could be sur
rendered without imperiling ali present
political and monarchiai institutions. -
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Diplomatic Triumph for AmeriCd.
The Sealing Conference Is Back-Down for England

LONDON, July 3f-Much sartisfac-
tion is expressed in official and mer-
camille circles at the prospective set
Element of the seal question by aid
of the Washington conference, especial
ly as such an arrangement will re-
move a cause Of hot discussion between
the United States and Great Britain.
Although at the outset of Mr.. Fosters
journey diplomatists and newspapers
here ridiculed the idea that there was
anything necessary to be done, Ambas-
sador Hay and Mr.. Foster have COM
pletely changed this view; and Great
Britain is finally doing everything pos
sible to meet the views of the United
States. Doubtless this is partly owing
to the support Mr.. Fosters idea re-
ceived from Russia and Canada. Sir
Wilfred Laurier and Mr.. Davies have
all along favored a conciliatory atti-
tude toward the proposals of the Unit
ed States.
The conference will meet in the third
or fourth week in October, the exact
date being left to be determined by
the arrival of the British experts from
the sealing grounds. Great Britain will
be represented by Sir Julian Paunce-
fote, the ambassador and Prof. Darcy
Thompson The United States will
probably be represented by John w.
Foster; Japan, by the Japanese min
lister at Washington, and Russia by
commission headed by DR.. Martons,
professor of international law at the
University of st. Petersburg, who was
delegated by Russia to hold the pour
parler with Mr.. Foster. Canada will
be represented by Sir Wilfred Laurier
and Mr.. Davies.
The conference will discuss the whole
question as raised by the United
States; will draft scheme of protec-
ton for the seals. with details for
carrying out the same, and will de-
eide all open claims. It's report will be
a-~'-ted referendum; but as Russia and
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Loans Continue to Shout Increase.
The Total Larger Than nonth Ago by Ten Millions. |

NEW YORK, July 31-The Financier
says: The continued increase in loans
of the New. York banks in the face Of
the present enormous total reported is
a feature that is beginning to attract
attention in the clearing house state
ments. 1t was supposed that follow
ing the $11, 100000 increase between
June 26 and July g. decrease might be
looked for, as the July settlement Pc
riod is usually followed by a tempo
rary contraction, but, SO far from
shrinking, loans have made an addl-
tional gain of $10,000,0O0 during the
month just ended, and, if the move
ments Of other heavy crop years are
of any value in comparison, the up
ward trend should continue for from
thirty to sixty days yet. The heavy
business in New York banks are doing
is not generally appreciated. Their re-
serve requirements is now $4,000, 600
in excess of all the cash they reported
on hand for the corresponding week
one year ago.
A detailed comparison shows that
while the National Union bank and
the Bank of America made increases
in loans aggregating $2,968, 200, or a sum
equivalent to the total loan expansion
reported in the statement, the losses
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reported by others were made up by
gains, in which no less than twenty-six
banks participated. The small increase
in deposits in the face of the loan ex-
pansion and the heavy receipt of in
terror funds, is surprising, but it is
perhaps belated evidence of the
heavy customs payments and the with
drawals of legal. tenders for gold ex-
port purposes last week. The banks
have been losing heavily to the sub
treasury for ten days, the amount for
the week just ended having been in
excess of $3,000000. The decrease of
1881, 100 in legal tenders is thus ac-
counted for
A significant feature in connection
with the flow of money to New York
is the decline Of domestic exchange at
interior points. At Chicago, especially,
where exchange has been ruling from
40 to 60 cents premium, New York
funds have fallen to 80 cents discount,
and similar change is noted at other
centers. This indicated a reflex move
ment of money for crop purposes, and
means also that the idle cash in New
York banks will be reduced, either
through demands of interior banks or
locally. At any rate the immense vol
ume of money moving to this center
will be less from this time on.
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Japan are entirely favorable to the
pretensions of the United States, and
as Great Britain is Indifferent so long
as Canada is satisfied, the conference
may be said to be a diplomatic triumph
for the United States and a personal
triumph for Mr.. Foster. Unless it re-
suits in divided report, which is not
expected, the governments concerned
will Immediately embody the scheme
In permanent sgr eenoeEt, either IN
the form of = I agreement or a m. NOR
andurl Sc that 1t can be exec uted in
the Sea son IF 1873.
LONDON, July 31-The st. James
Gazette, referring to the Forthcoming
international conference on the sealing
question, says: THE Americans will
consider the conference another climb
down for the British, and, not unnat-
urally, Mr.. Sherman's dispatch will be
regarded as the direct cause. Tha
United States makes a quite unWar-
rantable demand. We ignore it. Then
the American state department sends
a menacing and insulting dispatch.
We promptly yield. 1t is the Venezue-
Ian business and Cleveland message
once again. And once again it will
confirm the American political mind
in the conviction that John Bull all
ways knuckles down when bullied and
threatened. Our statesmen are prepar-
ing future disasters for both countries
by carelessly encouraging this danger
Gus deluSfon."
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JUDGE INDICTED.

Sensational Grand Jury Charge
Proves Boomerang.
LEADVILLE, Colo. July 31-The
day has been full of sensations in court
circles. Two weeks ago District Judge
Overs delivered a strong charge to the
grand jury he had summoned, relative
to the suppression of gambling. The
charge was directly aimed at owners
of buildings used for gambling, and
alleged that prominent police officials
were guilty. Judge Overs charge also
demanded an investigation of the prac-
tice of the city in collecting licenses
for gambling.
The jury as selected, consisted Of
prominent business men and ministers,
and it was an open secret that it was
not in sympathy with the judge in his
action. Today the jury handed in an
elaborate report and with it some forty
indictments, almost all Of them against
county officials. There are two against
Judge Overs for failing to enforce the
law against gambling and Sunday
opening, also against the sheriff ;
against county commissioners for traf-
ticking in warrants, against Mayor
Dickinson and ex-Mayor Nicholson.
Judge Overs, after the report of the
jury, made an extended statement,
alleging that the report was intended
as a deliberate insult to the court.
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Chakdara Attacked.
The Tribesmen Driven Back With
Heavy Loss.

. LONDON, July 31.-The India Office
has received telegram from Simla
saying that word has reached there
saying that Chakdara was attacked by
the natives about o'clock p. m. on
Thursday, and that fighting continued
until about 8 o'clock a. m. Friday).
The English lost five wounded. The
native loss is not known, but it is be-
lieved to have been heavy. The gov
ernment is also informed that the Brit
ish force sent to reconnoiter in the di-
rection of Chakdara, with view of
pushing through, if possible, was un-
able to effect it's object.
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LONDON, July 31.-A Spanish dip
lomat who is in close touch with Senor
Canovas del Castillo, the Spanish pre-
mier, informs the correspondent of the
Associated Press that it is useless long
er to attempt to diguise the fact that
the Spanish ministry is in a very tight
place. He says: I'VE can keep up the
war in Cuba only so long as our funds
last and the time when they will fail
Is almost in sight. When it comes, we
must give up the struggle. Now, we
are too proud a race to do so at any
body's demand; but we can do so by
pleading force majeure in a war with
the United States. Such a result nat
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NOn4UniOn Leader Shot at SCOttddle
Sheriff With Deputies on His Way to the Scene

sCOTTDALE, Pa, July 3L-William
Cummings, the leader of. the non-union
men brought here by the Seottdale Iron
and Steel company to take the places
of the strikers, was shot and instantly
killed tonight in front of the CONNER
cial hotel. Cummings and three COM
panions, all non-union men, encounter
ed number of strikers as they came
out of the bar room, and war of
words ensued. Some one fired a re-
volver, and dozen shots followed in
quick succession. Cummings dropped
dead with bullet in his right temple,
and his three companions fed to the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-01
MAIL ROBBERS.
Systematic PIundering of Foreign
Packages at New York.

Systematic PIundering OF Foreign
Packages at New York.
NEW YORK, July 31.-The postoffice
authorities are investigating a series
of remarkable robbertes of mail matter
carried aboard the great ocean steam
ships. The authorities admit that the
mails have been robbed, but refuse to
give particulars. It is known, how
ever, that the thefts aggregate thou
sands of dollars: The first of the thefts
occurred several months ago and sew
eral complaints have been received at
various times since. The robberies
have been going on Systematically, and
OH a large scale, as many as eighty
packages of matter having been missed
from single steamship. The mail
stolen is mostly in registered pouches,
which had been sealed in the general
office in this city. and opened by the
clerks aboard the vessel. One theft
was that Of package of currency sent
from Germany to a city in this state
These robberies are said to have been
among the most daring ever attempted
in the service.
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Spalding Guilty.
Convicted After Three Trials of Steal
ing SIS, 600 in Bonds.

CHICAGO, July 31.-Charles w. spal-
din, ex-president Of the Globe Savings
bank, was today found guilty of en-
bezzlement, and his punishment was
fixed at. imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary. The specific charge against
Spalding was the embezzlement of
bonds Of Macoupin county Illinois, be-
longing to the state university, and
valued at $4,000. This was Spalding's
third trial, and the evidence submit
ted to the jury was practically the
same as on the former trials. On these
he was acquitted because the jury be-
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board of aldermen had falling out
with the mayor and board of public
works, and as natural outcome of the
squabble, the board has and is sustain
ing City Engineer Rundlett in his diff
ferences with the board of public
works and the mayor.
That Doran is very bitter in his op-
position to the city engineer there is
no room for doubt, nor denial. He
hates Rundlett with all the spite OF
his dogged, partisan nature So when
the board of aldermen killed off his
resolution passed by the assembly,
which provided that the patrolmen
should perform the duties of sprinkling
inspectors, the mayors chagrin and
anger caused him to VOW vengeance on
Rundlett's head. Get even' with
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City Engineer Rundlett has thrown
the gage Of battle at Mayor Doran's
feet. War has been declared at last
between the city engineer and the board
of aldermen on one side and the mayor
and the board of public works on the
other. A bitter fight 1t will be, so far
as the mayor can make it one, for the
city engineer has fairly slapped his
hcnor's face and pulled his honor's
nose. In other words, Mr.. Rundlett has
summarily dismissed, discharged and
bounced Doran's head street commits
sfoner, Michael D. Carroll, Of the Sixth
ward The consequences would be dire
and destructive to Mr.. Rundlett, If
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Each were precipitated into an Icy
rayine, from which they escaped with
great difficulty, H. L. Pfttock, presi-
dent of the .Mazamas, had q narrow es-
capesfrom an awful death at Gibraltar
rock. In the descent, while he and DIR.
3. Knapp were crawling along the
side of big rock a moving mass of
ice. and stone struck Mr.. Rittock, par
tally pinning him to the rock, and
rendering it impossible for him to move
without the utmost danger of losing his
hold and being dashed hundreds of
feet below. DR.. Knapp succeeded in
releasing Mr.. Pittock With great diff
Guilty and danger to both.
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urally would be very unpleasant to US;
but in order to prevent revolution in
Spain and the overthrow of the mon
archy, war is the only way out.
THE premier knows from President
Mckinley direct that the president per-
sonally does not want war and wishes
to save us from the cost and the blood
shed. But his cabinet only partly shares
his views, while the senate, the house,
the American press and the people Of
the United States favor a settlement
with big guns. President Mckinley,
however, while first for peace has de-
clared himself as not shrinking from
war, if peace measures fail. This Is the
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PATENT BEST TITLE.
Important Land Decision Handed
Down at Milwaukee.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, July 31-Judge
Seaman, of the United States court. to-
day rendered an opinion in the case of
the Illinois Steel company against
John Budsieze and others known as
the Jones Islanders in favor of the
former The case has been in the
courts some time and the decision re-
moves the danger of the titles to a
great amount of Milwaukee property
being invalidated The attorneys for
the defense set up a claim that the
company's title was derived from the
floating right of Daniel Darnell, oh
tanned by an entry in the land office at
Green Bay on July 80. 1885, and patents
issued to Alexander J. Irwin in Sep
tember. 1888, and Albert G. Ellis, in
April, 1888, and was void for number
of reasons.
Judge Seaman granted motion to
strike out the above and handed down
a very interesting decision, in which
he holds that a United States patent is
the highest evidence Of title where the
grant originates out of the public do
main and that the title to public lands
never vests in the Indians In addition
to that the defendants are barred by
the statute of limitations
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BRId Wins a Big Purse.
PAGE o.
Vow of Washburn.
Burial OF Capt. Stees.
Mining Laws for Alaska.
PAGE 10.
Prosperity in st. Paul.
Surplus of State Funds.
Delegates to Engineers Convention.
PAGE IL.
Discoveries at Old Jerusalem.
Queer Cave in Iowa.
PAGE IL.
Books OF the Hour.
In the World of Labor.
Among ST. Paul Secret Orders.
PAGE Ii.
Black Diamonds of America.
PAGE IA.
Social News of ST. Paul.
Society at Suburb and Lake.
PAGE 16.
Newest of New Styles.
Stunning Girl OF August.
The Week Mt the Theaters.
PAGE 16.
News From the KIOndylxe Country.
-SssEo~n of the KIOndyI<e.
The Palms of Washington.
PAGE 1T.
Newest of Bicycle Fads.
Great Trip on the Great Lakes.
Bar Silver, 81 Use.
September Wheat, "a 5-Sc.
PAGE 1S.
Wants of the People.
PAGE 10.
Wants of the People.
PAGE 20.
The ChevaIies d,Auriae {Stery}.
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lieved that ne hypothecated the bonds,
without intent to embezzle." The third
jury found him guilty on the same
grounds on which he was twice acquit-
ted, the only difference being that they
took different view of Spalding's in
tentions.
The prisoner took the verdict very
hard, and sat with bowed head while
the clerk read the finding of the jury
He will make hard fight before he goes
to the penitentiary and will carry the
case up to the last court. The dura-
ton Of his sentence will be settled by
the prison board of the state.
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mill, hotly pursued by an angry crowd.
When the non-union men reached the
enclosure, the deputies on guard sur
rounded them, and the mob was forced
to retreat. Word was at once sent to
Sheriff Seanor at Greensburg, and he is
now on his way to Scottdale with fifty
armed deputies. At midnight every
thing was quiet, however, and there
was no fear Of further outbreak
James Dolan, one of the non-union men
who was with Cummings, was arrested
tonight, and other arrests will follow.
The situation Is very much strained,
and no one can predict the outcome.
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DIED OF THIRST.
Terrible Fate of u New York Broker
on an Arizona Desert.

PHOENIX, Ariz., July 31-M E.
Anderson, a broker with offices at 60
Wall street, New York, died of thirst
and exposure in the desert north of
Phoenix last night, and his wife lies
at a farm house near this city In crit
ical condition. The couple had started
to visit their son on Cave creek, thirty
miles north of here. When only a short
distance from their destination, they
became fearful that they had missed
the road and drove off among the dry
hills in the direction they thought they
should have taken. They returned 10
their trail, but passed it while SEEM
ingly delirious. A passing teamster
saw the crooked tracks and followed
them several miles, finding the couple
just in time to save the woman's life.
Anderson, who was sixty years of age,
was too far gone to drink the water
the teamster offered in his canteen.
The man died on his way back.