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The record-union., 1897-12-13
DURRANT INFORMED.
He Has Made One More Appeal to
Governor Budd

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 12-Theo-
dore Durrant was to-day informed by
his father that every appeal has been
decided against him. The condemned
man received the information quietly,
and then said:
If the Rev. j. George Gibson knows
anything, either in my favor or against
me. l now ask him to speak the truth.
! unseal his lips and give him my full
permission TO talk"
Durrant had made one more appeal
to Governor Budd. He sent a message
to his mother yesterday asking her to
use her best endeavors TO see the Gov
ernor and have him visit San Quentin.
1t is understood that another effort will
be made to secure Communication of
the sentence. after which a trial on
the Minnie Williams charge will be
demanded
Mrs. Alice Hartley, who killed Sena-
tor Foley at Reno several years ago,
created a great deal of excitement in
Emmanuel Baptist Church tonight.
AT the conclusion of Rev. ]. George
Gibsons sermon she dramatically de-
clared that she had a message from
God TO the effect that Durrant's life
should be saved, and that 1t was the
duty of the congregation 10 save him.
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ORDINANCE. NO. IA.

An Ordinance Amending Ordinance No.
345, Entitled. AN Ordinance to Pro-
hibit Gambling by Means of Automatic
Quotation Exhibitors Slot Machines
Wheels, or Any Similar Contrivance or
Imitation Thereof, or by Any Other
Device or Scheme, approved June Is,
1881 by Excepting From the Operation
of Said Ordinance Such Slot Machines
as Are Played for Articles of Merchan-
disc.
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF tn 8
City of Sacramento ordain as follows:
Section l. Section l of Ordinance No. 345,
is hereby amended so as to read as tol-
lows, to wit:
1t shall be unlawful for any person TO
open, set up. conduct, deal, play or carry
on in any public or private place whatever
in the city of Sacramento, any automatic
quotation exhibitor or any similar contrl-
vance or imitation thereof, whether oper-
ated by means of clock or by any other
device or any system whereby goods IN
name only and that do not exist are
bought and sold on commission, or Where
by the rise and fall of price OF goods are
dependent upon automatic operation the
result of which are by chance or other-
wise, whether called an automatic quota
tion exhibitor or grain and stock eN-
change, or any clock game, Ferris " heei
nickel-in-the-slot machine or imitation
thereof or any device or scheme whatever
for money. checks, chips, credit or any
ever, that any slot machine kept and
played solely and alone for articles OF
merchandise shall be and is hereby eX-
cepted from the provisions OF this ordl-
nance.
Section 2 This ordinance shall take ef-
feet from and after its passage.
Passed January 4. 1897
President of Board of Trustees.
Disapproved January II, 1897
c H. HUBBARD, Mayor:
1887. CHARLES f. LEONARD.
President of Board of Trustees.
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THE BAR is ROUGH.
The Alice Blanchard's Narrow Es.
cane Yesterday at Eureka.

EUREKA (Cal), Dec. 12.-Humboldt
Bar has been very rough during the
past few days, heavy southwest swell
making navigation dangerous. This
morning the steamer Alice Blanchard,
Captain Warner commanding, had a
narrow escape from being wrecked.
While crossing in the wake of the
steamer Pomona she shipped big sea,
which smashed in the after cabin,
flooding the dining-room and berths
and causing CONSERVATION on board.
Repairs are being made to-day and
the vessel Will be ready TO sail north
tomorrow There are seven schooners
and five steamers bar-bound, waiting
for the breakers to quiet down before
they can get to sea. The Alice Blan-
chard had been outside since Friday
night, and Captain Warner grew
weary of waiting for smooth water.
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CONEY ISLAND JOCKEY CLUB.
1t Hangs Up Some Rich Prizes for
the Races of Next Year.

NEW YORK. Dec. 12-The Coney
Island Jockey Club stakes for 1858. IN
cluding all the old popular fixturess
have been announced, and with them
comes the announcement and closing of
the Futurity for the year 1900. The
Futurity to be run at the autumn meet
ing closing the nineteenth century will
be the first to close. the time fixed be-
ing January 4th next.
The other stakes for the June and
autumn meetings of 1898 are TO close
January 10th. The most important of
these is the suburban handicap at
the time honored distance, one mile and
a quarter. The value of this has been
increased TO $4,000 guaranteed cash
value, as against $500 for the subur-
ban of last spring.
The other big stakes are the great
trial, 0,000 and the double event,
$4,000, for 2-year-olds at the June
meeting and the great Eastern handi
cap of $1,000 for the autumn meeting.
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Hawaiian Declaration.

In order to eVince the love for their
mother country, America the procla-
nation was issued on the day we cele-
brate. July 4th. If our ancestors signed
the Declaration of independence with
halters about their neeks. the men OF
the Dole Government took a step
fraught with equal danger and far
greater odds against them. The native
if permitted to follow his own inclina-
tions is gentle. kind and childlike; but
corrupting influences have always been
thrown about him which have gone
great way 10 undo all the good his
friends have done for him.
Even in the earliest days of mission
airy struggles, the whaler and sailor
could. in single debauch. undo all the
missionaries had been years in accom-
plishing. The Louisiana Lottery. driven
from our own shores. resolved to plant
itself in the islands of the Pacific con-
tiguous to the United States. and. like
some terrible octopus, fasten its poison
Gus tentacles upon the land from which
it had been driven. The descendants of
the missionaries saw that not only were
their own liberties in danger. but the
work of Christianizing the natives by
their forefathers would be undone. Their
beautiful home would be converted into
a Monte Carlo of the Pacific. and the
susceptible native given over to a civil
ization far worse for him than his abor-
iginal state. On the heels of this act Of
atrocity the Queen prepared for promul-
cation a Constitution which would have
deprived every white man on the is
lands not married 10 a native Hawaiian
woman Of the right to vote. hold any
office, or have any say in the making of
the laws, and to make his property alone
subject to assessment and taxation.
1t was either slavery or revolution.
and, like our noble ancestors. they re-
solved on the latter-From Four Months
in Paradise in GndaN,s M "a zirla
The record-union., 1897-12-13
SOCIAL DEMOCRACY.
Wild-Eyed Address at Its Meeting
by G. C. Clemens of Kansas.

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 12-At a joint
meeting here to-day Of the Debs Social
Democracy and the Socialist Labor
party. strong Populist addresses were
made by G. c. Clemens of Kansas and
Ex-Governor Waite of Colorado. Glenn
ems speech was rabid. He said in part:
The liberty of the American people
is without comparison. Now l would
hate to curtail this liberty we enjoy
to-day. 1t is perfectly lawful to shoot
men down on the public highway-shoot
them down in the back, too. The negro
slavery was a blessing to what we en-
joy to-day He had a price, was worth
81 900 or $1,000 and had to be clothed
and fed. He was cared for and nursed
when sick like a faithful horse But
look to-day, the American laborer goes
from door to door begging people to
give him chance to earn meal, even
enough to keep the spark OF life in his
almost naked body"
Comparatively, Governor Waite's ad-
dress was mild. He began by saying
he represented the Peoples party.
There is a crisis in that party to-
day" he said There has been an or
ganized attempt to destroy that party
and it has largely succeeded. Where is
the Populist party? 1t IS like ship
started on grand cruise on the ocean
that has been deserted by its trusted
officer after being looted. Its last ma
tional convention was held after the
conventions Of the other two parties.
DESPITE the will and the wish of the vast
majority of it's followers. At that con-
vention, it adopted the Chicago plat
form, because it was given out then,
ii stood on the Omaha platform. Does
the Chicago platform stand upon the
Omaha platform? l say it does not,
and our party was led to throw away
it's principles"
Ex-Governor Waite will so to Texas
tomorrow or Wednesday to look after
the interests of his colony.
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Antoinette Denies Athey's Story.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12-W. E.
Athey. a street-car conductor to-day
told 10 the police story which Detec-
tive Gibson was detailed to investigate.
Athey said that a young woman named
Antoinette Baree had confessed to him
that she was guilty of poisoning several
people in Salt Lake City. where she
worked as a hair dresser and resided
with a Mrs. Blum at 635 Main street
She IS an Austrian aged about 20 years.
and Is sometimes known as Marietta
Antonette La Bayaine. To Detective
Gibson she denied having made the
statements attributed to her by Athey.
The record-union., 1897-12-13
Engine Leaves the Track and Turns Up
side Down.
The Fireman Thrown Against a
Fence and Badly Hurt. Whilo
the Passenger Coach, With Its
Twenty Occupants Remained on
the Track at the Top or the
Embankment.

CIIROY Dec. 12-The local north-
hound messenger train running between
Hollister and Gilroy was wrecked at a
noint about four miles south of G4lroy
about d. m. to-day This train makes
a trip from Gilroy to Hollister after
connecting with the south bound san
Juis Obispo train. then returns to
catch the north bound train an hour
and a half later. The south-bound
train was half an hour late, hence the
HOLSTER local had to make a fast run
to and from Hollister to reach Gilroy
in time for the north train.
The local, which was in charge OF
Conductor George w. Clark, veteran
conductor of over twenty years eX-
perience on the Coast Division and one
of the most efficient and careful con-
ductors in the employ of the Southern
Pacific Company, had been running
very fast, but had just slowed up TO
pass over a long trestle spanning the
Pajaro River, and had just begun TO
make good headway of about hfteen
to twenty miles an hour, when the en-
CINE which was backing up and pull
ing the train, jumped the track on an
embankment about fifteen feet hlgh
and toppled over on its side into the
bottom of the ditch with its wheels
still revolving at a great rate 1t now
lies there with its wheels in the ar,
dismantled Engineer Lynch and FIRE
man Rockefeller, both old and expert
enced employees, stayed at their posts
even while the engine was falling, put
when il fell and struck on its side they
We're thrown violently twenty feet or
more against the fence. Engineer
Lynch came out unscathed, but
Rockefeller, who was thrown greater
distance. sustained severe but not Sc
rious injuries to his back.
The baggage car and passenger car
also jumped the track one end of the
baggage car following the engine down
into the ditch, but the passenger car,
containing about twenty passengers,
remained on top of the embankment
None of the passengers or train hands
except the fireman were injured beyond
a severe shaking up by the derailed
cars humping over the ties. They con-
slider the escape most miraculous, as
the train had been making such excep-
tionally fast speed previous to the ac-
cident The main line train from San
Luis Obispo backed up to the wreck
and took aboard the delayed passen-
gers and proceeded on its way. A
wrecking train was brought from San
Francisco and cleared the wrecked cars
from the track about midnight, when
the local resumed it's run TO Hollister.
1t will take several days with gang
of laborers to raise the engine from
the ditch The injured fireman was
taken to st. Luke's Hospital, San Fran
cisco The accident is attributed to
spreading rails
HIS CONDITION PRECARIOUS.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 12-Fireman
Lynch is resting easy tonight. but his
condition is precarious. He is believed
TO have sustained severe internal in
juries.
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THIELMAN TALKS SUGAR.
He Likens the United States to a
Pike in a Carp Pond.

BERLIN, Dec. 1.-THE greater part
of the speech of Baron Won Thielman,
Secrasary of the Treasury, in present
ing the budget to the Reichstag last
Friday was devoted to sugar He said
the rule America applies in the sugar
question resembled that of a pike in a
carp pond. and that he effect of the
Ding,av tariff had been to increase the
necessity for the carp to combine
forces against the common enemy.
The abolition of the sugar bounty. he
declared. could only be gain to Ger
many. and he was glad to inform the
House that the latest negotiations
opened in this direction promised a
more successful issue.
The record-union., 1897-12-13
BAY CITYS COLLIDE.
The Ferryboat Misses Her Slip and
Strikes the Barkentine.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1.-THE fer
ryboat Bay City came in collision with
the barkentine Bay City at SO
this morning. There was a heavy fog
and strong tide at he time.
The ferryboat missed her slip and
went in toward Mission-street dock.
Her bow merely scraped the stern of
the baSkentine. but her guard struck
it heavily on the starboard quarter.
tearing the timbers and opening all the
seams above the water The barken-
tine Was to have sailed tomorrow for
Honolulu with a general cargo, but it
will take considerable time TO repair
the damage.
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SUSPECTED Of Eeilg Implicated in the
Smith Murder.
They Promised to Appear as Wit
nesses, but Did Not, and Were
Caught and Tried on Suspicion
of Being Implicated-Finall
Acquitted, but Ordered Go
Leave the County Immed1-
ately.

HAZLEHURST (Miss.), Dec. 12.-lr
an open field. without house in sight
on high hillside, with crowd OF
eager men waiting to avenge the ter
rible murder that has taken place In
Lawrence County in case conviction
was reached by the impromptu court
the scene lighted by 1iaring pine-knol
torches, held aloft in the hands of the
waiting mob, the three negroes, Giles
Berry, VIII Powell and Tom Wallen
were standing trial for their lives last
night at Bankston Ferry. According
to reports received at this place from
a messenger who arrived from the
scene about / o'clock this afternoon. the
quickly constituted court did not arrive
at a conclusion last night.
The very latest reports received here
tonight from Georgetown state that
the mob at 4 o'clock found Will Powell
guilty, and started for the scene OF
the killing to hang him.
The negroes We're arrested with Lew
is, who was lynched Friday at the time
of the original crime, but were released
on their promising to appear next morn
ing as witnesses. They did not put
in an appearance when the trial was
ready to begin, and search was made
for them by the mob The search was
successful. and the negroes when
caught were brought back. Then the
suspicion that they were implicated
with Lewis in the original crime arose.
According to their own story, they
were with Lewis the night before. The
three men testified that they slept in
a cotton-house about a mile and half
from the Smith house, where the hor-
rible butchery took place, and that
Lewis was with them all night at
least he was there when they went to
sleep and was there when they awOke
the next morning There are about 200
men in the mob, constituting a Com
mittee of the Whole for the trial. Re
liable reports received here to-day by
a messenger who left the scene of the
trial states that the mob is very mod
crate in its action and has cooled down
considerably. The negroes, though
badly scared, maintain their denial of
any completely in the crime A tele-
phone message from Hon. Walter
Catchings of Georgetown states that
two other negroes have been arrested
on suspicion.
DECLARED NOT GUILTY.
WESSON Miss. }, Dec. 12.-The three
negroes arrested in the Monticello
neighborhood in conjunction with
Charley Lewis, the negro lynched for
the quintuple butchery of the Smith
family, We're, after a long trial, de-
clared not guilty, but given until Mon
day to leave the county.
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CHILDREN'S HOME BURNED.
Fire Supposed to Have Started
From Goals on the Floor.

SOUTH PASADENA. Dec. 12.-What
has been known as Miss Cleveland 5
Chtdren's Home took fire at $3.50 this
afternoon. As soon as possible
streams Of water were thrown on the
1iames, which burst through the doors
and windows.
Nearly all the furniture and house
hold utensils were saved
The origin of the fire is a mystery.
though one Of the children said it
caught from some Goals that fell from
a stove to the floor and ignited some
matches
The building was two-story frame.
III cost in the neighborhood OF $1,000.
ana was total loss. Insurance on the
house was 81 100.
Miss Cleveland and her family of six
little ones We're invited 10 the nearest
neighbor's to spend the night.
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Will Act With the Democrats.

DENVER, Dec. 12.-Judge Morton S.
Bailey, Populist candidate for Cover
nor, who was defeated by Alva Adams
in 1896, has announced his purpose to
act in future with the Democratic par
ty. He says that he surrenders none of
his principles, but as the fight is now
between free coinage and monometal-
lism, the Democratic party has the bet
ter claim to his support.
The record-union., 1897-12-13
BLANCO CONDOLES.
Gen. Pando Removing the Wreck
of a Dynamited Gunboat.

HAVANA, Dec. 12.-Marshal Blan-
co has cabled to Senior De LONE, Span
ish Minister at Washington, a request
that he tender Blanco's condolences to
President Mckinley on the death of
Mrs. Mckinley, the Presidents mother.
General Pando and his staff are still
with the gunboats Diego and Nelas-
quez that are engaged in removing the
wreck of the gunboat Relampago,
which was dynamited some months ago
near the mouth of the river Caulo, and
are clearing away other obstacles inter-
fering With navigation, while also pro-
tectiug the work of constructing forts
at that point. There are persistent ru-
mors here that General Rabi will ac-
cept autonomy.
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Wrecked in a Tunnel.

WILKESBARRE (Pa0. Dec. 12-A
heavy freight train crashed into a
train of empty coal cars in the Voss-
burg tunnel on the Lehigh Valley Rail
road this morning, blocking the tunnel
completely. The wreck took fire and
burned furiously all day. Engineer
John Thomas and his fireman. James
Deegan, We're badly hurt. The other
trainmen escaped injury, but they had
the greatest difficulty in making their
escape from the tunnel, crawling for
500 feet
The record-union., 1897-12-13
Extending Western Union Lines.

PORTLAND, Dec. 12.-Frank Jaynes
Of San Francisco, Pacific Coast Super
inteadent of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, was in Portland to-
day, after having spent three weeks on
Puget Sound. where he arranged for an
extension of Western Union wires to
Victoria. The extension will be from
Seattle to Port Blakeley, thence to
Port Gamble, Port Townsend. Port
Angeles and across the Straits to Vic
toria- Work on the cable will be be-
gun at once, and the new lines will be
in operation in a few weeks.
The record-union., 1897-12-13
A PROTEST FILED.
Judge Paxson Rendered an Opinion
Adverse TO Strikers.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 12.-The
United States Labor League this after
noon passed a resolution authorizing
the officers of the league to send a
protest to President Mckinley against
the appointment of ex-Chief Justice
PaXson as a member of the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
The grounds of the protest grew out
of the opinion rendered by Mr. Paxson
when he was Chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court of this State in relation to
the Homestead strike.
The record-union., 1897-12-13
Fast Schedule Maintained.

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 1.-The Mexi-
can and California express of the San
ta Fe arrived here a il o'clock this
morning from Chicago on its initial
trip under the 13-hour schedule. 1t
was on time, and continued to keep up
it's fast schedule west Of here as far as
Newton, Kan, the last point from
which local officials of the company re-
ceived reports.
To-days run demonstrates the fact
that the agreed schedule of 141a hours
as a minimum between Kansas City
and Chicago can be loxered by the
Santa Fe without special effort.
The record-union., 1897-12-13
Children Nearly SuFocated.

BERKELEY, Dec PA fire in
North Berkeley early this morning
nearly resulted in the death of four
small children, who We're carried from
the burning house unconscious from
the effects OF smoke. The burned house
was occupied by l.. c. Ryan, a life in
surance writer The fire broke out at
/ o'clock a. m, and it was with the
greatest difficulty that the children
We're rescued by their father, who car
ried two while he rolled the others
down the stairs.
The record-union., 1897-12-13
A Shortage in Sight.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12-E. Stras-
burg, manager of the Oil Producers
Trustees, says that he has just con-
cluded two large sales of oil, one of
80, LOGO berrels, to be delivered to San
Francisco. Sales were made at 81 per
barrel. and Mr.. Strasburg expects to see
the price go to 81 % within ninety
days, as there is q shortage in sight.
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Brought no Late News.

SEATTLE. Dec. 12-The steamer
City CT Topeka arrived tonight from
Alaska with sixty passengers T. d.
Smith, who left Dawson City October
14th with the Jack Dalton party, was
the only Klondiker on board. He
brought no late news.
Captain Wallace reports having pass
ed the overdue steam schooner Augusta
from Copper River to Seattle in Clar-
The record-union., 1897-12-13
ORDINANCE NO. 457.


An Ordinance Amending Section of Ordi-
nance No. PSI, entitled Concerning
Plumbing and Drainage in the City of
SaoTame'3 poTidien fbai paSNsb Wien III the Board Of
Trustees Sees Fit, Direct Connection
With Public Sewers May be Made
Without Intervening Vault or Cess
pool.
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE
City of Sacramento ordain as follows:
Section l. Section of Ordinance NO. 2S1
is hereby amended so as to read as fol-
Section 4 Every house or building
must have water tight cesspooi or vault
between such house or building ana the
ipaccessihle cesspools shall be constructed
in conformity with Ordinance No. 2uS).
perishable meterial. and IN no case where
practicable shall be placed at less dis
lance than ten tl0) feet from the exterior
walls of an inhabited building, or at a less
distance than five (5) feet from the lines
of adjoining property. Connection shall be
made between cesspool or vault ana the
public sewer by a vitrified iron-stone pipe,
four inches in diameter, laid with water
tight Joints, in cement mortar, composed
of one % part Portland cement TO two t2)
parts clean, sharp sand. II shalI nave
fall of not less than one-eighth 90 of an
inch to the foot and be so arranged at the
cesspool or vault that only the liquids can
escape Each joint OF the pipe when laid
must be properly cleaned on the inside
with a suitable scraper before the succeed
ing joint is put IN place. Every cesspool
shall have a separate ventilatfng pipe not
less than four (D inches inside diameter,
extending at least three go feet above the
highest part of the roof or coping; said
ventilating pipe shall be constructed of
cast iron above the ground. under ground
the connections may be made OF IRON
stone pipe No other pipes of any other de-
scription shall be connected with the VEN
tilating pipe from the cesspool; provided.
however that any house or building may
be connected directly with the public
sewer without any intervening vault or
cesspool. whenever in the judgment of the
Board of Trustees it is necessary and ex
pedient that such direct connection pe
made Before any such direct connection
with the public sewer shall be made APP
plication for permission to make the same
shall be made to the Board of Trustees
who shall then pass upon the necessity or
expediency of such direct connection, and if
such permission be granted, that fact shall
be spread upon the minutes of the board.
Section 2 All ordinances or parts of
ordinances in conflict with this ordinance
are hereby repealed.
Section 3. This ordinance shall take
The record-union., 1897-12-13
CoURsING AT INGLEsIDE.
Granuale Beat Lass O'Gowrie and
White Lily Beat Mohawk.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12.-At the
Ingieside eoursing park to-day 5000
people witnessed some Of the best sport
of the season. The result OF the run
down in the main event was as follows:
First ties-Tom Bell beat Alice d. :;
Susie beat Sylvanus: Granuaie beat
Commodore: Swinnerton beat Lady
Jane: Occidental beat Tessie Fair: