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The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-06
POLITICS IN REFORM.

Ever since politics intruded it's ugly
head into reform school management
in this State, there has been trouble, and
it will continue 1t is an axiom that re-
formatories and political management
are i'll conditioned bed-fellows. Reform
schools, insane asylpms. refugees homes
for public dependents, and prisons,
never have been and never viii be con-
Quoted on an economic, wise or humane
basis when the officers of control are
chosen because of political affiliations,
or the institutions are conducted as
means of reward for political servitors.
California has had some notable ex-
amples of this truth. Years ago she
adopted a policy that looked to the dl-
vorcement of all such institutions from
political management and chicane. We
have progressed well in the right direc-
ton ever since, until the present admin
istration saw fit to decree an upturnng
of satisfactory conditions, and now the
trouble has begun.
In the case of the Preston School of
Industry the effects have been notable
The initial management that had
brought the school up to high plane
was downed and DR.. O'Brien, the new
SUPERINTENDENT, installed, on what there
is every. reason to believe is a political
basis. since neither by reason of special
attachments. noteworthyness as a pencil
ogist. or experience in handling REBEL
ious youth. was he known to be qualified
for the position. Since his entry into
the school there has been perfect run
of designations from subordinate to as
sistant positions, the last reported being
that of Captain T. notify Lee, who is look
ed upon as a competent man, and who
is said to command the respect of the
inmates of the institution. His resigna-
ton was rendered the other day as AS
sistant superintendent, but it is now
said that he has been induced to recon-
slider the matter and hold on.
However that may be, it does not alter
the important fact that decentralization
has prevailed IN the force at the ScHool'
and that the new Superintendent is dem
onstrating his ineficiency by inability
to attach his staff to him. Nothing
more signally demonstrates ability and
fitness at the head of such an institu-
ton than the loyalty of the lieutenants
of the chief of the force in charge. One
of the staff of Superintendent O'Brien
who has just resigned does not hesitate
to charge that officer with extreme cru
city. even brutality to the inmates,
which indicates what we have suspected
from the first, that O'Brien is proceed
ing upon the idea that severity and the
rule of the rod is the proper method to
employ in reform work, than which no
greater mistake could be made.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-06

Dixon Tribune: The mortgage in
debtedness of Solano County will be
reduced many thousands of dollars
this year and nothing but the stern
est necessity viii ever increase the
amount. The long period of adver-
sity has proved a valuable lesson both
to the extravagant and unduly ambi-
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Fashion has just decreed a change
that will be applauded by all men. 1t
has gone forth that hereafter the hair
is to be worn in natural color. Bleached
blondes are now to become things of the
past, and those so we'll bleached as to be
beyond restoration will have to dye the
other way to be up to date. The hair
bleach manufacturers are in despair
But it is suggested that there are spades
and shovels left, and that they can now
go to work in some honest vocation
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-06
A Winning Stroke.

Shells that winning stroke you are
rowing, Jack?
He-It is indeed, Helen. Your mother
wouldn't have let YOU come out with
me if I hadn't promised to keep rowing
it all the time.-Harper' Bazaar.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-06

Dixon Tribune: w II. Mills gave
good advice to those who sought a
Klondike in the Trinity hills, but they
scorned his counsel for the reason that
they thought the railroad company had
some Interior motive for keeping in
tending miners out of that section The
disinterestedness of the advice is be-
coming daily more apparent and the
disguised prospectors are revising their
opinions The Southern Pacific has its
faults. but it is not trading on the
creduhty of poor prospectors, and Mr.
Mills had their interests at heart when
he deprecated the extravagant stories
of untold wealth in Trinity County.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-06

Put in sealed cans, hot from the
rooster" mo other just as good as
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The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-06

Suffer independents: We are loath
TO criticize acts and recommendations
of a body of men charged with the
important work of devising and exc
cutting plans for the Improvement of
our waterways, but we cannot refrain
from expressing the conviction that d
series Of surveys extending over a per
iod of twenty-five years, made by both
Federal and State authority at great
expense, ought to furnish sufficient
data fer some definite action. Govern
ment engineers, State Engineer Hall,
Commissioner A. H. Rose and lastly
Commissioner Leake, have made elab-
crate surveys of that particular part
of the river. Unless some actual work
is soon undertaken we shall conclude
that it is the purpose to expend the
entire $4,000 appropriation in MAX
ing supplementary surveys.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-06
Can't Get Through.

From where we stand it looks as IL
Brother Hanna had rugged up a Chill
coot Pass for the Ohio Democrats.
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VOICE OF The PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.
State and Coast Opinions On Sub
jects of Living News
Interest.

Oakland Times. Down in Georgia
they have a new illustration of the old
fact that the world moves. A colored
man named Henry Rucker has been
appointed Collector of Internal Revenue
by President Mckinley. He has the
appointment of large number of dep
utias for that is a great liquor-making
country, and the monshiners, as well
as the legitimate manufacturers, must
all be watched. Now who would be-
lieve il? The rush of white men to
be appointed deputies to this colored
Collector is almost beyond precedent.
There were a hundred of more white
men in as deputies when Rucker took
charge, and some supposed they would
resign in a body, but not SO, for out
of the total number not more than four
resigned, and the rush for their places
was great. The men who applied for
the positions made no effort to conceal
the matter, but boldly avowed that
they needed the work, and were per-
fcetly willing to take a position under
a negro.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-06
JAPAN'S INHIBITION.

San Jose Herald: Japan wants to
make a deal with the United States.
If we will give up the annexation of
Hawaii she will take our side against
Great Britain in the fur seal contro-
versy in which she has interests of
her own. We can better get along
without Japan's backing than to make
any such bad bargain. If she does
not want us to annex Hawaii it is
because she expects sooner or later to
get hold of it herself and that we
could never permit.
Japan is an enterprising nation With
all the zeal of the recent convert to
modern ideas, but that is no reason
why she should be permitted to ex-
pand and impress her Oriental civiliza-
tfon on the Pacific That must be the
work If an Occidental race.
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supplementary surveys.


Mother Lode Magnet: Residents of
the northern counties are laughing at
the suckers who have been gulled by
space writer's of the San Francisco
papers and believe men can scratch
around in Trinity County and get gold
anywhere. A man who is fortunate
enough to be a resident of Tuolumne
County had better stay where he is.
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THAT DREDGER

it ever reach her because she has little
if any notion of yellow journalism in
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The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-06
A LESSON.

Americans desire liberty it will exist.
and written constitutions and judicial
officers cannot long abridge it.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-06
THE WEEKLY UNION.

TWELVE PAGES.
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The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-06
STATE RIGHTS.

.Colusa Sun: The Populists are con-
sidering a plan of making the abolition
of the Federal courts their main issue,
whereupon the San Francisco Star,
declaring that it would be impossible
to change the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, suggests combining the Ju-
risdiction of such courts to the con-
sideration of issues between the States,
not between this and other countries,
or piracies at sea. 1t is an undenlable
fact that the encroachment of the Fed
eral judiciary has become serious
matter When a State cannot punish
a crime-cannot even imprison cltl-
zen for a emeanor-without dam
ger of years of delay and expense by
the interference of the Federal judi
ciary, it is time to ask where we are
at" The barrier of State rights has
been so completely thrown down that
it would almost seem that there was
absolutely no necessity for State lines.
Why keep up the expense of a state
government if the execution of the
laws are all subject to review by the
courts of another government?
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-06
SACRAMENTO BANK.

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the city, corner Fifth and ] streets, Sac
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in January and July. Money loaned upon
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upon application to
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Ed. r. Hamilton, Cashier
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RECoRD-UNION TELEPHONE.
Editorial Rooms. Red 131
Business Office. Black 131
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WILD TALK.

Oakland Enquirer: Eugene Debs'
speech, in which he roasted" the SUI
preme Court of the United States, IS
natural accompaniment to the reso-
lutions passed by the St Louis Con-
vention, which declared that our So
called freedom is but a stupendous
sham, under which millions are degen-
Grating, While hundreds of thousands
men, women and children-are starry
ing in novels and on the public high
ways" and that cit has come to pass
in this country that while cattle and
swine have a right to the public high
way, Americans-so-ca freemen-
have not" This sort of wild talk does
no good; it is a positive detriment, in
fact Certain courts have issued in
functions which are unjustifiable
when tested by our well settled princi-
pies of liberty but not one man in
hundred in this country desires these
infringements of the rights of citizens,
and, with a little patience, they will be
stopped AS like as not the Supreme
Court will decide that proceedings like
the Jackson injunction was wrong, and
If it does not, proper legislation in
Congress will cure the evil. Talk about
our liberties being "stupendous
sham" is stupid nonsense; SO long as
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THE WORDEN Use.

Los Angeles Times: The Mrs. Jones
who has gone to Washington to save
the neck of Worden, the murderer of
brave Sam Clarke and a number of
Uncle Sans soldiers, evidently misun-
derstood the President The idea that
che could almost promise her in adj
vance that her plea for pardon for the
condemned man would be granted is
preposterous on the face of it, as every
intelligent person knows. We have no
idea that the President viii interfere
with the Worden case, and we are
equally positive that he should not The
Worden incident would have been closed
long ago were justice administered in
this country as it should be. The delays
in this case have already become scan
DIAL, and anything further in that line
will but add to the enormity of it. Mr..
Worden should meet his just deserts,
that the crime of murder may be made
OdiOuS
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For Internal and External Tse.
SUMNER COMPLAINTS.

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BANKING HOUSES.
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DIRECTORS:
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CALIFORNIA STATE BANK,
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Does a General Banking Business.
SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS.

OFFICERS:
FREDERICK COX................... President
GEORGE W. PELTTER. ..VIce-President
W. L. OEEB .CaSnlSr
G. Z. BURMA ~............. Assistant Cashier
DIRECTORS:
c. w. CLARK. GEO. W. PELTIER,
FREDERICK Cox, JOSEPH STEFFENS,
PETER BOIL, ADoLPH HEILBRoN,
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Try McMorry's Blend Coffee, 35c. =
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WHICH IS TT?

Kern Echo: You said last year, did
you not, dear dying Popocrat, that
wheat was low because money to buy
it with was scarce? That it was not
overproduction, but underconsumpton,
caused by the paucity of sponduliX
What do you think now? Is it Idle mints
or empty granaries that set the price
of grain?
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-09-06

Stockton Independert: WHAT vast
amount Of milk OF human kindness has
been spilled by Consul-GeneraI Lee in
his exposure of the Cisneros craze. Not
withstanding his statement that the
senarIta is not Of noble family and
never vas in danger Of death or tor
ture the gushers still gush. The Queen
Of SPAN Will be at her wits end to
guess what all the gush means should
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-06-18

Train up child in the way he
should go; and when he is old. he
will not depart from it.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-06-18

rthe Spanish name of Pedro, claims to
FDe 100 years of age. He states that he
was there before the mission was built,
But the mission is not as old as is pop
ullarly supposed The missions of Cali
9ornia were completed at from ten to
twenty years after they were founded,
and as the superficial writer dates the
age of mission building from the date
of its founding he is invariably incor-
rect And perhaps Pedro is. A few
years after the construction of the
brush mission edifice it was burned by
6he Indians. Pedro's father being one of
the attacking party. The priest and
several others were killed and the rec
rords were burned, and the evidence of
Pedro's baptism, if any there was. 1t
is no doubt the second building which
kne refers to, and that would make him
122 years of age. This remnant of the
coolest tribe in the state lives in brush
@hut in the oldest town on the coast,
where they were born, and are the most
interesting figures in the antiquated
village.
Near by is the oldest building on the
coast, and it has more of romance con-
IlecSed with it than has any other. 1t
Is pointed out to tourists merely as the
marriage place of Ramona" Those
who have read Helen Hunts novel are
interested in the old adobe on that ac-
count, but do not seem to question the
snappropriateness of her having given
iGe her Indian heroine the Spanish name
of Ramona, and of her Indian hero
sths Italian name of Alessandro, and of
vlarrying the Indian lovers in a Span
ash house, instead of an Indian hut
Perhaps this is poetic license.
For many years the building was the
'palacio of the commandante gen.
eeral," for this spot was the first set
element in California. and for a few
years was the capital of the country,
and thereby hangs a romance. When
Echeandia came from Mexico, as gov
aernor. he first landed at San Diego,
and was very Hospitality entertained at
she Garlic casa, then the most aristo-
CRATIC and finest mansion in the pueblo.
The senior had a daughter, Josefa, land
There was none fairer than she" The
governor at once became smitten, and,
IN order to prosecute his suit at short
range, ordered that the archives of
gzlate be removed from Monterey to
San Diego. And this casa became the
governors palace" also. But that did
not help his suit. About that time a
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-06-18
MISSION BELLS AT OLD TOWN.

came the Dieuqueto Indians had their
romances, which were handed down
in song and story to the last of their
race, who still live on some of them
beyond the century mark, apparently
only waiting for the end. In this dead
pueblo are also found some of the old
est Spaniards in the southwest, and
so provincial are they that they have
never learned English. A few Amer
leans also dwell in the pueblo, whose
industry is mainly confined to selling
whisky to the natives and curios 10
strangers. In the yard of an ancient
casa is the oldest palm tree in the state,
and near by is the oldest olive tree in
the state, on which olives are still grow
ing and from which all of the olive or
chards in California date their origin
Enough branches are sold TO tourists
TO plant the entire country over. Tour
lists are much greener than the branches
they buy.
The Mexicans live by shearing sheep
and hiring out as voqueros to the vari-
GUS ranchers. They are in great de-
mand at certain seasons in rounding
up" and branding cattle, as they are
good horsemen and expert with the
RATA. After that they indulge in horse
racing until they are wanted in some
other neighborhood for roundup"
or to shear flock of sheep.
The old calabazo is also an object of
interest. The walls show that it was
but little dingy dungeon, for, before
the Americans came, there was not a
Jail in California. Each pueblo had a
small lookup. In this calaboose the
Graham party" was confined. In the
sos Isaac Graham and about SO
Tennesseeans attempted to annex CAT
ifornia to the United States, but the
revolution failed. They were finally re-
leased, and aided some Mexican revolu-
tionists in seating their governor. They
| fought ON alternate sides. nc matter
so they fought Mexicans, and thus grad
ually prepared the way for the Ameri-
can conquest. They were the pioneers,
and the American conquest began at
"old Town" ]. M. scANLAND.
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superstitious Gar.

The car of Russia is said to be very
superstitious, and to have great CON
fidence in relics. He wears ring in
which he believes is embedded piece
of the true Cross. 1t was originally
one Of the treasures Of the vatican,
and was presented to an ancestor Of
the car for diplomatic reasons. The
value which the car sets upon the
ring, with its embedded relic, is
shown by the following fact: Some
years ago the car was travelling from
ST. Petersburg to Moscow. lie sud
denly discovered that he had forgot
ten the ring The train was stopped
Immediately and a special messenger
sent flying back on an express engine
for it, Nor would the car allow the
train to move until. several hours
afterwards, the messenger returned
with the ring.