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The record-union., 1897-12-24
CHRISTMAS EVE.

The Record Union" has no intention
Of preaching because Christmas eve is
at hand, and the exchange of tokens Of
af1ection is about to take place. The
Christmas season breaches it's own SER
mon, teaches its own lesson. Who
ever attempts TO add to or elucidate it,
is more apt to mar than make. Let
the Christmas tide be it's own herald,
It's own eulogist. To all the world of
Christian civilization it comes with
peace upon its wings and healing in it's
name. If nations outfit for war and
Kings and Princes frown upon one an
other-no matter, men and women and
children will keep the Christmas time
just the same and for the eve and the
day give no heed that States wrangle
and rulers wrestle with one another. A
Mightier than they rules and over all
those who will receive His benediction
the hands Of His loving kindness and
mercy are outspread. The Record
Union" to all its readers far and wide
sends greeting upon the approach of the
eve of morrow that crowns the year
supreme, the chiefest Of all its days.
The record-union., 1897-12-24
How She Got In.

Once at the gate Of a great city, to
which only good people were admitted,
sat the gatekeeper a wise old man,
whom for convenience we will call ST.
Peter. Along came a lawyer. who
said: "St. Peter. may come in?" "No,"
said the good old man, mo lawyers can
ever enter here"
He of the green bag turned sorrowful-
ly away and sat down by the wayside
to await further developments. Just
down the road, tripping along, with a
little red umbrella over her head, came
a female disciple of Blackstone, wearing
a smile intended to vanquish all argu-
ment and act as a password to the
beautiful city. OF course, st. Peter let
her in. The poor man on the outside
straightway headed for the gate again.
and demanded Of ST. Peter that he
should show cause. ''You just let that
woman in-and she's a lawyer from
Ann Arbor!"
"Oh," said st. Peter, with a tired
smile, "the woman is not a lawyer, she
only thinks herself one" And he
raped the lawyer over the head and
bade him begone.-The Philistine.
The record-union., 1897-12-24
THE PULL OF A BOSS.

John Y. McKane, the notorious boss
or Kings County, New York, was sent
10 late Prison, not so long ago, to serve
a term Of years for election crimes. and
frauds upon the local government.
Two years ago an attempt was made
10 secure his pardon and though backed
by a powerful pull it failed Now we
nave news that a second attempt to
take the notorious corruptionist out Of
prison is on foot and behind it is the
same pull. The new ground for ap-
peal to, and exercise of executive Glenn
ency, Is presented by the District At
torney Of Kings County and sets out
that Jurymen who tried McKane have
since declared that they were intimi-
dated into finding verdict of guilty.
how much credit should be given to
the after declarations of jurors who
confess that they were susceptible to
intimidation? AS New York con-
temporary remarks, if the declaration
has really been made, ii proves not the
innocence Of the prisoner, but the weak
ness and unfitness OF the jurors, and
nence their entire untrustworthiness SO
far as their alleged declarations are
concerned These jurors say, in ef-
feet, that they knowingly convicted one
they believed to be innocent, and that
all these years they have permitted him
to wear convict stripes, because they
had not the moral courage to do their
duty under their oaths.
But in the face OF the new claim
there stands the fact that it has never
been seriously questioned that McKane
was other than guilty as charged. His
defense was Of the weakest kind and
really amounted to no defense. It was
a feeble attempt to justify and nothing
more Just as surely as that McKane
Is guilty, SO true IS it the common judg-
ment and admission in and about New
York and Brooklyn that he was guilty
Of other and equally as grave offenses
against the ballot and good govern
ment for which he could have been
tried and that the presentation of the
undeniable facts would have secured
his further conviction
If the offenses OF which McKane was
guilty. and in promotion of which he
headed and controlled a notorious gang
Of boodlers and assailants of the free
and honest exercise OF the suffrage, the
tap root and the foundation of our
free institutions are condoned by his
pardon. It viii amount to a confession
on the part Of the Executive that to
break up such foundations is not con-
sidered grave and dangerous assault
upon the sovereignty of American cit
izenS
The record-union., 1897-12-24

Nature makes the cures
after all.
Now and then she gets
into a tight place and needs
helping out.
Things get started in the
wrong direction.
Something is needed to
check disease and start the
system in the right direction
toward health.
Scott's Emulsion of Cod
liver Oil with hypoPhos-
phites can do just this.
1t strengthens the nerves,
feeds famished tissues, and
makes rich blood.
soc. and $l.oo; all druggists
SCOTT 4 BOVINE. chemisss. NV Ysek
The record-union., 1897-12-24
Says the Marysville Democrat"

Women are frequently ridiculed be-
cause of their awkwardness in business
affairs, says q friend in court. Why
awkward? Simply because of their
lack Of opportunities to learn and trans
act business. Reverse the order Of
things, and put men in charge Of do
nestic affairs, and watch results. The
ordinary man on duty about the house
IS an object of pity, to say the least.
But seriously, husbands. teach your
wives some Of the important ways Of
business
That Will do well enough so far as the
husbands business affairs should be
within the knowledge of his wife, to en-
able her TO protect his and her inter-
ests, and those of their children in cases
Of his death. But the idea that women
have not opportunity in these later
days to learn business ways is absurd.
The trouble is that the girl with a
pencil in her back hair has become all
too numerous and prominent. The or
dinary man on duty about the house
viii become a necessity, indeed, If this
The record-union., 1897-12-24

The San Diego Tribune" has done
distinct service in originating the right
phrase for designation of the mass OF
stuff the average metropolitan news
paper turns out in its Sunday issue
excepting, always, such journals as the
New York Times" Post" Tribune,
conscientious papers, Our San Diego
contemporary pronounces the flamboy-
ant gush, and thin plated stuff of most
of the big Sunday dailies as windy
miscellany" That is just it. Super
fetal, unstable as the winds, unsatis-
flying and lurid, dished up for the taste
that is morbid, gilded and FURNISHED
with the art of the dime novelist, un-
true in fact, misleading as to science,
deceptive as to social life, false as TO
most things, this stuff poured out by
these big sheets is doing distinct injury
to the rising generation, since its ten
dency is to accept what these gushing
papers give as enough of knowledge,
enough of pure English, sufficient of
literature generally. Indeed, if rising
youth reads the Sunday newspapers of
the order referred to, it has no time for
the library, the lecture-room and the
Good Book, much less taste for either.
The record-union., 1897-12-24

thing goes on of projecting women into
business life and making out OF ma
terial that should give us good wives,
mothers and home guardians. merely
clerks, accountants, saleswomen, conh-
Dental agents, cashiers and the ike.
That sort of process takes from the sex
the bloom of womanhood and the charm
of fernininity; robs them Of that when
protects them and makes them mans
equal and Oft his superior-domesticit
modesgy and womanliness. 1t gives the
world instead childless wives, husband
less wives, unwilling mothers, parent
less children, homes without home
carers, women without fenininity,
sex with only the physical characters
tics remaining.
The record-union., 1897-12-24
G. A. No. 349-Department Two
Filed December II 1S97)


Nathan Goldtree ct al, appellants;
Jane Allison ct al, respondents. Cred
itors bill Affirmed.
The code requires the court to dis
tribute the residue of the estate left
after full administration to the persons
who by law are entitled thereto, and to
name the persons entitled and the pro-
portions or parts to which each shall
be entitled.
Trustees appointed in a will to take
property under a trust which by our
law is void are not persons who are by
law entitled to receive any portion OF
the estate If the trust which the testa-
tor has attempted to create is void the
property which the will SO disposes of
must be distributed otherwise.
To determine who the persons are
who are entitled to an estate and their
prdportionate parts the court must pass
upon the validity of the disposition at
tempted by the testator. 1t may thus
be found that as to some portion of the
estate the testator has died intestate.
In such cases the heirs must be deter
mined.
The record-union., 1897-12-24

Referring to the action of the recent
river convention and the idleness Of the
money appropriated to dredge the Sac
ramento and San Joaquin Rivers, the
San Jose Mercury says:
OF course 1t is the duty of the Gov
ernment TO dredge and straighten the
river, but would it not be advisable
while waiting for a Congressional APP
preparation to use the money which the
State has made available?
Advisable? Has not the legislative
power of the people decided that ques-
ton of advisability? The simpler and
better question is, Shall not the COM
mand and mandate OF the represen-
tative body of the people be obeyed in
this matter? II not, why not?
The record-union., 1897-12-24
CHARLES GATES DAWES.
To Succeed Eckels as Comptroller
Of the Currency.

On the 1st of January James H.
Eckes will retire from the position of
Comptroller of the Currency to accept
the position as President of the large
bank which recently chose him to that
honor. He will be succeeded as Comp
troller by Charles Gates Dawes, who is
a native of Ohio.
When Eckels was appointed by
President Cleveland he was known as
the Boy Comptroller So we'll has he
conducted his work that it has been
demonstrated that a man need not be
The record-union., 1897-12-24

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT. STATE
of California, County of Sacramento.
In the matter of the estate of CATHE-
R1NE BROWN. deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Friday. the
31st day OF December, 1897, at 1:30 O'Clock
p. m. of said day, and the court room.
Department One of said court, at the
Courthouse, in the City of Sacramento.
County of Sacramento. and State
of California, has been appoint-
ed as the time and place for proving the
will of said Catherine Brown, deceased.
and for hearing the application of Mary A.
Lent and S. S. Slawson for the issuance
to them of letters testamentary thereon
Witness my hand and the seal of said
court, this 18th day of December 1897
(Seal) w. B. HAMILTON. Clerk.
By B. IA. Gallup, Deputy Clerk
Hiram w. Johnson. Attorney fer Peti-
toner. d21-td
The record-union., 1897-12-24
Is. F., No. 755-Department One-Filed
December II. 1919

Samuel G. Murphy, respondent; Pa
cifc Bank, appellant. Recovery Of divi-
dends from insolvent concern. Reversed.
The powers, duties and liabilities of a
corporation, and the rights of cred
itors who are not stockholders, and of
those who are, must be determined by
the statute and the articles Of incor-
poration; if these give a preference to
creditors who are not stockholders it is
not in the power of the stockholders or
the corporation to change or affect
these relative rights by doing business
not authorized by the statute or the
articles Of Incorporation.
See section 2SI, C. c.
The record-union., 1897-12-24

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT, STATE
of California, County of Sacramento
In the matter of the estate of s. W.
RALSTON, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Friday, the
31st day of December, 1857, at 10 O'Clock a.
m. of said day, and the court room of said
court, at the Courthouse, in the City of
Sacramento. County OF Sacramento, and
State of California, has been appointed as
the time and place for proving the will of
said s. w. Ralston, deceased. and for
hearing the application of Marie A. Raj
ston for the issuance to her of letters tes-
tamentary thereon.
Witness my hand and the seal of said
court, this 10th day of December, 1897.
(SeaI.) W. 3. HAMILTON, Clerk.
BY E. s. Wachhorst. Deputy Clerk.
White s. Seymour. Attorneys for Petit
TONER. d2-10t
The record-union., 1897-12-24

An agent of the Russian Government
is in this country studying American
agricultural machinery. He declares
that Russia will not, for a score Of
years, begin to make modern agricult-
ural implements and machines, and
that until she does, as We have the
best he has seen, he is confident that
very soon our exports of American
made farm machinery will largely in
crease, because of the purchases his
people will make, as the Siberian lands
suitable for cereal growth come on
along the line of the new continental
road. He is particularly impressed
with the great harvesting machines
built and used in California, which he
declares Will be particularly useful in
his country. Gentlemen of the watery
eyes and calamity mouths, here is an
opportunity for you to mourn anew.
For well you know that we cannot build
up American trade abroad under the
Dingley bill That Russian is surely
in the employ Of the Black Republican
administration.
The record-union., 1897-12-24
NO PAPER SUNDAY.

As announced yesterday the Record
Union" will got be issued Sunday
morning, that its employees may have a
clear. holiday on Saturday. Advertis-
ing and other matter usually intended
for Sundays paper should be sent in for
to-morrow's issue.
The record-union., 1897-12-24

1t is stated in the dispatches that
England is feeling for the sentiment
of the United States concerning the par
tition CT China. and has a desire to
know how we stand on the proposition
VIII we object. or do we want a slice :?
NO, thank you." will be Uncle Sam s
answer. Hawaii will do for me-"
The record-union., 1897-12-24

There is one consolation in this ORR
ent scare-Japan win now be kept so
busy looking after its home fences that
it Will have to drop the Hawaiian bus
mess and withdraw it's paw from
mess Of porridge that is our own.
The record-union., 1897-12-24

We must doubt the veracity of the
dispatches. which report that Mr.. Bryan
declined to make a speech at one time
during his visit in the City of Mexico
1t is preposterous. too grossly men
dacious TO be for a moment received.
The record-union., 1897-12-24

The Town Council of a Kansas COM
munity which proposes to stop the sing
ing and whistling of a popular minstrel
melody upon the streets is shortsighted
and foolish, if its objection is based
upon the taste for the registering char
acter Of the song. But if there is such
shouting Of it en- the highway as to
create disturbance of the peace and
make the noise a nuisance, then the
Council is right. But to legfslate
against a particular song or air is silly,
and testifies to narrowness on the part
OF the local legislators, even If the
lawfulness Of such legislation is not
questioned. If a municipality aims to
suppress nuisance of the order COM
planned of it must make the applica-
ton general, and the legislation appli-
cable to the singing or playing of any
music in a way and at times to make
the act a public nuisance.
The record-union., 1897-12-24

operations of the railways, to prevent
combinations prejudicial to the public
interests
The record-union., 1897-12-24
(S. F., No 906-In Bank-F'iled Decen-
ber II 1879

In the matter of the estate of Solo
mon Heydenfeldt, deceased. Appeal
dismissed, Beatty, G. j., dissenting.
Where there are appeals from more
than one order and only one undertake
ing filed which does not distinctly re-
fer to either appeal, the undertaking
when filed is no undertaking at all, and
is utterly invalid for any purpose. In
such a case the appellate court has no
jurisdiction and cannot confer any ju-
risdiction to hear the appeals, by al
lowing the subsequent filing Of proper
undertakings upon each appeal. All the
appeals, therefore, must be dismissed.
The record-union., 1897-12-24
TURCLU HOTEL,

500 N street.
CONDUCTED ON THE EUROPEAN
plan; strictly first class: hot and cold
baths free to guests; electric cars pass
the door. FRANK MEYER, Prop.
The record-union., 1897-12-24
Weather Forecast.

Northern notwithstanding cloudi-
ness, with showers Friday in northwestern
portion; fresh southeasterly wind.
The record-union., 1897-12-24

The law which provides for work up
on streets, lanes, etc, and for the con-
struction of sewers within munieipali-
ties requires that a contractor for such
work must advance to the Superintend-
ent of Streets, for payment by him.,
certain enumerated costs and other in
cldental expenses; and it is further
provided that the term Incidental eX-
penses" as used in the Act. shall in
clude the compensation of the City En-
sineer for work done by him.
Plans and specifications do not con-
stitute a necessary part of a resolu-
ton of intention.
The record-union., 1897-12-24

The Fresno "Expositor,' which is
never happier than when whacking
President Mckinley, says:
Postmaster General Gary strongly
favors the establishment of postal saw
ings banks in this country, but McKin-
ley, who stands shivering in dread in
the shadows of the national banks.
did not have the moral courage to give
his Cabinet officer a word of aid. Con-
gress should take up this matter in
earnest and force the President to
show his hand in the premises.
All which is veriest bosh The Pres
ident distinctly, emphatically and un-
mistakably approved and confirmed the
report of the Postmaster-G General, and
those of the several departments, by
commencing them to the attention of
Congress, saying that only reference to
them was necessary, and that he would
not elaborate upon them because if
would make the message unnecessarily
lengthy. There could have been no
more emphatic approval expressed.
The record-union., 1897-12-24

McMorry sells groceries. Agent for
Coronado water and Stockton sarsa-
parilla and IRON 531 NJ street
The record-union., 1897-12-24

bent with years and experience to fill
the position, and Mr.. Dawes is younger
than was Mr.. EckelS when he assumed
charge of the office. Mr.. Dawes was 80
years CT age on August 9th of this
year. His father is General r. r.
Dawes of Marietta, who was one of the
commanders of the famous old Iron
Brigade" He served the State of Ohio
in Congress. The son, Charles Gates
Dawes, is a citizen of Illinois, and was
very active in his work at the st. Louis
Convention
The record-union., 1897-12-24

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT. STATE
of California, County of Sacramento
In the matter of the estate of c. CHAIN
CEY TIETJENS. deceased.
Notice is hereby given that FRIDAY.
the 7th day of January, 1885, at 10 O'clock
a. m. of said day, and the courtroom of
said court, at the Courthouse. in the Citv
of Sacramento, County of Sacramento
and State of California, has been appoinrej
as the time and place for proving the
will of said G. Chauncey Tietjens, de-
ceased, and for hearing the application of
Theresa TietjenS for the issuance to her
of letters testamentaTy thereon
Witness my hand and the seal of said
court. this 2lst day of December. 1897
tSeal) W. Is. HAMILTON. Clerk
By Z. S. Wachhorst. Deputy CIrek.
Endorsed: Filed December u, 1897
w. B. HAMILTON, Clerk
BY E. S. Wachhorst. Deputy.
Holl & Dunn. Attorneys for Petitioner
d22-1lt
The record-union., 1897-12-24
Is. T. No. 671-Department Two-Filed
December 20 1S97)

Mrs. NJ. A. Peterson, respondent:
City of Santa Rosa, appellant. Injunc-
ton to restrain pollution of waters.
Affirmed.
The right of property in the waters
or stream is a corporeal heredita-
ment, appurtenant to the land and run
ing with it. A riparian owner has the
right, not only to have the water of
the stream flow over his land in its
natural purity, and such pollution of
the stream as substantially impairs its
value for the ordinary purposes of life,
and renders it measurably unfit for do
mestic purposes, is an actionable nui-
sance, and the fact that the defendant
is municipal corporation does not en-
hance its rights or palliate it's wrongs
in this respect.
The record-union., 1897-12-24
Is. F., No. 655-Department One-Filed
December 10 1872

In the matter of the estate of Thomas
]. Brannan, deceased. Order directing
executrix to sell property to pay lega-
cies affirmed.
The objection that a sale of property
will cause loss to the estate, by reason
of depreciation in value of land, is a
matter to be considered only when a
return of the sale has been made and it
comes up for confirmation by the court.
The record-union., 1897-12-24
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.

SYLLABI
Grim, No. 232-In Bank-F,iled De-
cember 16, 1879
People, respondent; b. w. Van Horn
and John Crow, appellants. Murder,
Affirmed.
A motion to set aside an information
is not in the nature Of an appeal from
the order of commitment made by the
magistrate, and mere errors alleged to
have occurred during the preliminary
examination cannot be reviewed on
such motion.
A party who has been convicted by
a jury in the Superior Court after a fair
trial, upon an information, cannot avoid
the verdict for any reason founded on
an alleged defect in the preliminary ex-
animation and commitment, unless by
such defect he was deprived of some
substantial right.
In criminal prosecution for conspi-
racy it is not necessary that the con-
spiracy be actually shown to have been
formed before the declaratio of either
of the conspirators can be proven;
though, if the conspiracy is not ulti-
mately proven, such declarations must
be disregarded; and the order of proof
is largely in the discretion of the court,
which may determine how much evil
dence of the existence of the conspiracy
shall be required before receiving evil
dence of the acts and declarations Of
one of the alleged conspirators in the
absence of the other.
The drinking Of intoxicating liquors
by some of the jurors, in a criminal
action, after the case was submitted to
them and before verdict, while in
charge of an officer who had taken
them out to dinner, is not such mis-
conduct on their part as to warrant a
reversal of the judgment, if they We're
not affected by the liquor which they
drank.
The record-union., 1897-12-24
G4. A. No. 270-Department one-F1le

December 20, 1879
5. Lyons and t. L. Lyons, co-part-
ners, ETC., appellants; F. A. Marcher
and c. a. Marcher, his wife, respond
ents. Proceedings in aid of execution.
Affirmed.
1t is not incumbent upon the court
TO make express findings in special
proceedings such as under an order of
examination of a Judgment debtor
The record-union., 1897-12-24
(Crin. No. 306-Department Two-F'ilec
December 20, 1879

(Crlm. No. o0b-Department Two-Filed
December 20, 1879
People. respondent; James Wilson,
appellant. Assault with intent to COM
nit Infamous crime against nature. At
firmed.
The mere solicitation to commit the
act is not made an offense under our
code but the solicitations preceding the
alleged assault, together with the prep
arations made by the defendant, to-
gether with the fact testified to by the
prosecuting witness that in resisting
he made some noise, whereupon the de-
fendant desisted and told him to say
nothing about it, if believed by the
jury, were sufficient to justify the con-
clusion that whatever force was used
was With the intent and purpose to
commit the crime and make it an as
sault within the meaning of Sections
10 and 210 of the Penal Code.
The record-union., 1897-12-24
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