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PURE DEMAGOGY.

Objection was made before an AS
sembly committee Monday afternoon
to the product Of the States rock
crushing plant being used on the streets
of cities, on the ground that it conflicts
with free labor. The DIRECTORS were
willing to allow the product to be used
on country roads because they under
stood the farmers were desperately
poor
That is TO say, then, these objectors-
who are the very worst enemies free
honest labor have. inasrnuch as they
are fighting it's best interests-are will
er and nothing for the residents of
towns. Cannot these purblind men un-
derstand that that gives their whole
case away?
Talk of interference with free labor =?
Do they not know that free labor finds
its largest field and best reward IN
laboring man who is cinched by the
corporation rock-crushing magnates,
who have put a bill into the Senate to
kill off cheap road metal production
The owner of a small home in a town
where q good street is needed can be
assessed by rich property ac-
ton from 81 To 50 front foot for
macadamizing before his little home
under the close corporation plan, as
he has been heretofore many a time.
But with rock at fifty and sixty cents
he can afford to have his street i'm
proved and his property value en-
hanced when he could not with stone
at 50 80 to So a yard.
Every street improved calls for the
employment of free labor at high rate
and short hours. Every street remain
ing unimproved that should be, means
free labor idle and maybe starving.
All this shout about the rock-crusher
conflicting with free labor is veriest
demagogy. It is what Professor
of the State University would call.
as he has done similar folly, pop
pycock."
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from the South and settled in Wood
land, where he operated very heavily
in property During the years of his
prosperity he handled all the large re-
alty transactions in Yolo County and
became well-to-do. His investments
We're all in land and for several years
he was upon the top wave of prosperity.
He accumulated a large competency,
lived we'll, and in San Francisco he
made a wide acquaintance.
The pressure of hard times affected
him seriously, however, and during the
past three years Coward has watched
the gradual Tightening of his affairs
With increasing anxiety. His matters
became much involved and failure to
realize upon large loans he had made
caused the final crash that about a year
ago swept away his fortune. He Ia
bored hard to recuperagte, and his time
and energy have been bent SO seriously
upon that effort that his mind grad
ually weakened
When he collapsed last Saturday he
was at the Palace Hotel, having en-
gagged a room there. During the night
he suddenly departed and was not
found until late the following day. He
appeared in an imbecile condition and
could not explain his whereabouts. w.
H. Mills and others of his intimates
sent him to Berkeley, where it was
thought he might rally. Instead he
grew worse, until the family was COM
PEELED to resort to the last exereme.
Mr.. Coward was the country land
| agent for Bovee, Toy & Co., for several
years. More recently he had offices on
his own account in San Francisco.
where he lived for a time after leaving
Woodland. The family home in Berke-
ley is at 2211 Ellsworth street
Friends of the demented man are
hopeful of his recovery under proper
treatment. They say his violent tenden-
cies are intermittent and believe his
mind can be restored with change of
| scene and relief from high tension.
Mr. Coward was a member of the
Committee of Fifty that took so active
a part in the fight against the Pacific
railroads funding measures. He was
prominently identified with the work
| and was one of the most jealous parti-
sans in the battle the committee
waged.
Soon after he was taken to Jail Cow
| ard became very violent again. He
tried to hang himself, and a dozen
| strong men could little more than keep
him under restraint until artificial aid
was ait hand. He was placed in a
| padded cell.-San Francisco Examiner,
| January 26th
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W,M.COW ARD'SRISE ANDFALL
Brief Sketch Of the Woodland Real Estate
Spectator.
A Man of Meteoric Dash, Whose
Operations Were on
Big Scale.

Concerning the financial collapse of
w. NJ Coward, the brilliant real estate
operator of Woodland, Charles A.
Shafer, who claims to have been ia
miliar with Coward's career, con-
tributes the following sketch of him:
William M. Coward went to Wood
land early in the sos. He had
welded a daughter of the Kentucky
house of Woodson, and that name in
the county of Yolo was a patent OF
nobility. Of magnificent physique and
graceful. manner, Mr.. Coward was
warmly received by Woodlands better
classes, and when he embarked in the
real estate and insurance business his
clientele was noted as much for it's
aplomb as for it's numerical immenSi-
ty''
But it is not always summer" The
tide of prosperity ebbed, and Coward,
who had dared like a knight of old,
was unhorsed and disarmed.
Defeated but not discouraged, the
dauntless Southerner exchanged his
holdings of realty for the Craft Hotel
and the Reynolds dairy, each of which
were then owned by Joseph Reynolds
established by Levi Craft of Wood
land, father of Everett l.. Craft (ex-
Janitor of the State Capitol and con-
fidential clerk of Sullivan & Ravlekes
of SACRAMENTO, who was shot and
killed in Woodland in February, 1887,
by ex-State Senator J. H. Harlan.
Previous to the time Coward as
sumed control of the Craft Hotel he
had entered into an agreement with
Drury L. Clanton, one of Yolo County s
most wealthy and prominent citizens,
under the terms of which an extensive
tract of land (known as Willow Oak
Park, a. part of the famous Wilcox
grant) should be sold to the mutual
advantage of the two parties in inter-
est.
Many months after the contract of
disposition had been signed Mr.. Clanton
loudly asserted that Mr. Coward had
defrauded him, and appealed to the Su-
perior Court Of Yolo County for re-
dress
Before Yolo's chief judicial arbiter
had adjudicated the differences exist
ing between the pair of speculators the
two men narrowly averted a mortal
combat
The vexing litigation stirred up bad
blood, and one afternoon in the Wood
land office of Coward & Lawson, James
A. Douglass and Mr.. Coward engaged
In a murderous affray. Coward es-
sayed to brain Douglass with a chair,
but the latter (who, by the way, is a
Southerner ''by birth, breeding and ed
ucation') drew a dirk from his bosom
and forced Coward to quit.
Later ON Coward went to San Fran
cisco and engaged in real estate brok-
erage. He was eninentdy successful,
and ON one day in 1886 made S20, 900.
In this deal he was materially assisted
by Harmon Edmunds of Woodland.
With characteristic generosity Coward
threw his earnings to the wind, and
when, in darker hours he appealed to
them, they, like the Peter of infamous
memory, denied him, and from that
hour he was no more the same.
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POLICE COURT.
The Messenger Boys Assailant Held
to Answer for Robbery.

In the Police Court yesterday morning
Joseph Hughes was held to answer to
the Superior Court in 1000 bail for
the robbery of Weinstock, Lubin & Co.'S
delivery boy.
Newton Fisher, Con. Harris and Jo
seph Payne, who We're arrested for steal
ing tools from a hackdriver, We're re-
leased as the owner refused to make
any charge against them.
Mary Beard, an old timer, who was
found in Chinatown the night before
under bad circumstances, was sent to
the County Jail for forty days.
The record-union., 1897-01-27
THE NEW FISH MARKET.

WE HEREBY ANNOUNCE TO THE
public that on and after SATURDAY,
January 23d, our fish market will be found
at the foot of n street, instead of Front
between K and L. The market has been
tastefully fitted up. and fresh fish of every
variety and in large quantities will be
kept constantly on hand.
JONES q DAVIS. Pronrietors-
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Weather Forecast.

Northern Calforria-Cloudy Wednesday;
possibly rain, turning into snow in north
western portion; continued cold weather;
southeasterly winds on the coast; light
northerly winds inland; heavy frosts We'd
neSday morning.
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BONDS FOR SALE.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN BY THE
Board of Directors of the Turlock Irriga-
State of California, that said board intends
to sell four hundred and seventy-two thou.
sand five hundred dollars ($472, 500 Of the
I'd day of February, 1897, at 3 p. M. and
will receive sealed proposals for the pur-
chase of said bonds at its office in Turlock,
in said district, until that day and hour,
when the proposals will be opened and
considered by said board
r. NJ. WILLIAMS, President.
H. B. WATERS, Secretary.
Turlock, Cal, January s. 1897. ja12-td
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SPECIAL AGENCIES.

This paper is for sale at the following
places: J.. P. Fishers, room q, Mer-
chants Exchange, California street, and
the principal News Stands and Hotels,
San Francisco.
Los MISUNDERSTANDING Book Store,
corner Second and Main streets.
SAN DIEGO-News Stand, $50 Fifth
street
ORONADO-Coronado Hotel News
Depot.
SANTA BARBARA-Hassing News
Depot.
F'RESNO-1113 J street
SANTA CRUZ-Cooper Bros, News
Depot.
Also for sale on all trains leaving and
coming into Sacramento.
EASTERN BUSINESS HOUSES.
- THE Tribune Building New York
city
Western Business Office, 'The Rook-
cry" Chicago.
The S. c. Beckwith Special Agency,
sole agents foreign advertising.
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PROPOSALS.

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE
Eccondido Irrigation District will receive
sealed proposals for the purchase of 81, 500
or any part thereof of it's bonds. Bids will
be received at their office in Escondido,
CAL until o'clock a. m, February g. 1897.
Said bonds are of the denomination of $500
each, payable 10 and 20 years. Interest
per cent. a. j. WERDEN,
Secretary Escondido Irrigation District.
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The record-union., 1897-01-27

Is that rheumatic shoulder troubling
you again? Hoods Sarsaparilla has
cured rheumatism in thousands Of
cases, and it will cure you. 1t costs
only q trife to try it.
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Strictly Reliable.

Many do not see as we'll as they
should; others see well, but their eyes
soon become tired. Some suffer with
constant headache, which, because it
comes from eye strain, medicine does
not relieve. The remedy is a good pair
Of glasses properly fitted. F. De Wolfe
Hennah, optician, Masonic Temple. Of
flee hours, to II, to 5. Sundays, $50
to 10:45
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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 18th day of January,
1897, adopted Resolution No. 333 of its in
tention to order the following street work
to be done, viz.
That the alley between n and streets,
from the east line of Twelfth street to the
west line of Thirteenth street, be improved
by grading and macadamizing, construct
ing redwood curbing and a brick catch
basin to be connected with the sewer
therein.
For further particulars reference is here
by made to said resolution on file in the
office of the City Clerk.
Sacramento, January 90 1897.
E. J. CROLY,
ja23-6t Superintendent of Streets.
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Entered at the Postoff1ce at Sacramento
rs second-class matter.
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Knee Pants.

Children's Heavy Cotton and Jean
Knee Pants; they are worth near
double.
CLEARANCE PRICE, 25c PAIR.
The record-union., 1897-01-27

These publications are sent either by
Mail or Express to agents or single sub
scribers with charges prepaid. All Post
masters are agents.
The best advertising mediums on the
Pacific Coast
The record-union., 1897-01-27
THE WEEKLY UNION

TWELVE PAGES.
rs the cheapest and most desirable Home,
News and Literary Journal published on
ahe Pacific Coast.
Ehe Weekly Union, per year ..........H 80
The record-union., 1897-01-27

To Cure q Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money If it
fails to cure 25c
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AT SOC YARD.
WORTH 81,

Fancy Weave Bengaline Silks, 70
inches wide, in heavy corded effect;
very stylish for trimmings; comes in s
patterns; regular price, 81 a yard.
SALE PRICE, SOC YARD.
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Sold throughout the world. PorrER DRuo AND CHEN.
CoRP Sole Props, Boston.
.Ail About the Blood Skin. and Scalp. mailed free
The record-union., 1897-01-27

FALLING hAlk Cured By cusioS.A soAP.
The record-union., 1897-01-27

Before wiring your house get my
prices; also inspect my electric fixtures.
Tom. Scott, plumber, 303 J.
The &c. c. CT had to draft extra
clerks Saturday to serve appreciative
patrons.
The record-union., 1897-01-27
Ills Carson ST., Pittsburg, Pa.

INSTANT RELIEF AND SPEEDY CURE TREAT
uENr FOR EVERY HUMoR.-Warm baths with
CUTrcURA SOAP, gentle applications of CUTT-
CURA {ointment), the great skin cure, and
mild doses of CUTICURA REsoLvENT, great
est of blood purifiers and humor cures.
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AT 75c YARD.
WORTH 81 80.

WOhIi SI %.
Fancy Weave Bengaline Silks In rich
changeable effects, that make very
handsome trimmings. No merchant
would sell them regular under 81 90 a
yard. SALE PRICE, 75c YARD.
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Ladies' Shoes.

Ladies' Fine Vici Kid Foxed Button
Shoes. with either kid or cloth top and
spring heels; worth 50 90 a pair.
CLEARANCE PRICE, 81 70.
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Mems Suits.

Such a chance as this is likely to
come but once in a lifetime. The price
might lead you to think of shoddy, but
there is no shoddy here. Mems full
subts-coats, vest and pants. Not all
sizes.
CLEARANCE PRICE, 81 %.
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AT SOC YARD.

WORTH I0c.
Fancy Figured Two-Tone Taffeta
Silks, 10 inches wide; your choice Of
some % different effects; actually
worth 75c yard.
SALE PRICE, Soc
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Sheets.

Ready to use. made of good Standard
Sheeting; no filling or dressing; size
S1x9O; best value you ever saw.
CLEARANCE PRICE, 35c EACH.
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Pillow Slips.

Work, worry and good money saved
by buying them ready made at this
price; they are we'll made, of soft fin
ished, good quality muslin; 1ze 36x45.
CLEARANCE PRICE, S1ac EACH.
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POrtiereS.

A varied assortment of good styles,
but only one or two pair of a kind to
close them out prices are put to about
half actual values
CLEARANCE PRICE, 81 05 to 81 SO
EACH
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Mems Boots.

Mems Good Strong Veal Kip Work
ing Boots, made with saddle side
seams; sizes to II.
CLEARANCE PRICE, 81 90 PAIR.
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FlanneletteS.

Medium Colored Flannelettes in neat
stripes, good weight and soft fleeced.
CLEARANCE PRICE, 4c YARD.
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AT 75C YARD.

Handsome Black Ground Taffeta
Silks, % inches wide, with colored EN-
broidered figures, forming a rich con-
trast For fancy waists OF trimmings
it's very desirable; actual value 81 % a
yard SALE PRICE, 75c.
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AT ST YARD.

A rich lot Of Dresden Silks in plaid
and stripe effects; also plain grounds,
with handsome figures; actual values
are 81 %, 81 so and some 81 rs a yard.
SALE PRICE, 81 YARD.
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Mems Hats.

$40 and SIC so values cut to So 95,
S11 so and 50 10. These remarkable cuts
have been made on Ladies' Fine Kersey
Cloth Jackets in light and dark shades,
all richly trimmed and silk lined.
The record-union., 1897-01-27

We received by express yesterday
from the East some new and handsome
dress garnitures in black and colored
bead effects Girdles and Bolero jacket
and girdle styles combined. The very
newest designs.
PRICES, 81 so TO So.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-11
WILLIE SOLVED 1T.
He Knew Exactly What Business He
Would Choose Later In Life.

"My boy shall never be doctor, I"
said Pillster, the physician, to his
friend, the preacher. when 1 was a
boy, thought medicine was just the
right profession for man to follow. l
figured out that it would return reason
able profits, and, furthermore, it was a
noble calling. / could do good to my
fellow man. Well, I'm far from rich,
and while l still hold much the same
views about being able to do good to
humanity l have found out that hu-
manity doesn't half appreciate it. The
other night 1 rode ten miles through a
heavy rain to attend sick man. When
l got there, he took half an hour berat-
ing me because l had not arrived an
hour before. 1t goes that way from year
to year. Hard work, moderate returns
and no appreciation.
"Oh, Pillster," put in Bookman, the
preacher, ''you may be right, but what
ever you do, don't encourage your boy
to be a minister. II he feels called, let
him follow his way, but never encour-
age him. used to think theology was
the only thing to study. l dreamed over
it as boy and worked like a slave as a
young man. worked my way through
college. Now I've had a good charge,
as charges go, for ten years, and if I
was not impelled by a sense of duty l
would throw up the sponge. It's work
and hustle day after day, and small
thanks The minute you talk to your
parishioner's wife the gossips wag
their tongues. If you preach gospel, they
say they don't want that. If you give
them literature and philosophy, they say
give US the gospel. It's dogs life,
Pillster, whatever you do, don't let
your boy get any false notions about be-
ing a minister "
But Willie solved the problem by an
nouncing after both doctor and preach
er had spoken:
Paw, Pm goin to play first base !"
Detroit Free Press.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-11
FORT SAM HOUSTON.

This post, the second largest in the
country is also the headquarters of the
Military Department of Texas, Brig
adler General w. NJ. Graham, COM
handing.
The upper parade ground is Fort
Sam Houston proper and where the
Flagstaff is located. The lower ground
is the one nearest the city and is the
headquarters of the Department of
Texas.
The upper post is the headquarters
of the Fifth regiment of United States
cavalry, Lieut.. Colonel Whitside COM
manding. Besides the field staff and
band and troops d, E, F and K, of the
Fifth cavalry, there are also stationed
here companies A. B. c. E, F and G, of
the Eighteenth infantry and Light bat
terry X, of the First artillery. The
troops at the post number about 775
men altogether.
Guard mounting on upper parade
ground daily at $3.50 a. m.
Cavalry parade on the lower parade
grounds every Tuesday and Thursday
at 10 a. m.
Infantry parades Monday, Wednes-
day and Friday on the upper parade
ground at 5:45 p. m.
Infantry drill on upper parade
ground, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday mornings from 500 to
$3.50 o'clock.
Cavalry drill every Monday, We'd
nesday and Friday mornings in riding
hall, back of lower parade or at target
range from 1880 to o'clock.
Rattary drill
Saturday and Sunday, on lower parade
ground at s o'clock.
Brigade review and inspection on the
last day of each month on lower pa
rade ground between and 10 a. m.
Inspection of troops every Saturday
at 500 a. m.
Beautiful calisthenic drill every
Friday morning at $3.50 on upper pa
rade.
Public invited to view ali these ex-
ercises.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-11
AN ORDINANCE


To extend the Pound Limits in the
9Th Ward.
Be it ordained by the city council of
the city of San Antonio as follows:
Section 1. That the pound limits be
and the same are hereby extended so
as to cover the following territory:
Commencing corner Pine and Gray
son street, running along Grayson to
New Braunfels avenue, then along
New Braunfels avenue to the Southern
Pacific railroad track, then along said
railroad track to Pine street, then
along Pine street back to point of be-
ginning, viz: Grayson and Pine streets
near Muth's Garden.
Sec. 2. 1t shall be the duty of all
persons owning any hogs, horses,
mules, jacks, cows or steers, goats or
sheep, within the limits described here
in to have the same securely penned,
and such owners shall be allowed to
drive their animals over these streets
and beyond the territory described
herein, in the mornings before the
hour of o'clock and shall not be al
lowed to bring them back over said
territory in the evening after the hour
of o'clock in charge of a competent
person, and they shall be responsible
for any damage which may be done
by any such animals.
Sec. 8. Any person, as owner, agent
or person in charge of said animals
falling in any provisions of this ordin-
ance, shall be deemed guilty of an Of
fence and upon conviction thereof be-
fore the recorder shall be fined in any
sum not less than five ($5.00) dollars,
dollars.
Passed and approved this 4th day of
October, 1897.
BRYAN CALLAGHAN,
Attest: Mayor.
THEO. VINKE,
City Clerk 10-6-10t
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-11

The reports from nearly all the great
northern and northwestern states are
most disheartening. Unprecedented
drouth has burned the soil, extensive
prairie and forest fires have done i'm
mense damage, farm buildings and
crops have been burned up, the grass
in the filds and the fodder is dying and
water in many sections hard to get for
the stock. Ground is so dry that it
has been impossible to pillow for the fall
seeding and there will be tens of thou
sands if not millions of acres unsowed
this fall that with good season would
have been put into winter wheat and
rye. The end is not yet and the dis
tress of the short acreage will be more
felt next season. 1t is bad enough in
Texas, but it is not so bad as where
the farmers are already drawing on
their winter resources of stock feed
in order to keep their animals alive.
Texas kicks at the drouth. but she
would not could she realize the greater
distress and loss elsewhere.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-11

The friends of the annexation of Ha-
wall, and their names are legion, are
going intelhgently to work to create a
public opinion favorable to that action
on the part of the government at
Washington. They are setting before
the people in readable form the reas-
ons for and against the proposed an
neXation. The reasons for, that the
friends of the movement may know
what to answer those who oppose the
annexation and that those who desire
to be informed for themselves may not
want the information. The reasons
against, that these reasons may be I'M
derstood and shown to be without
sufficient force to determin against
annexation. There is grow
ing feeling in this country
favorable to the ratification of the act
of union, and Congress will disoppoint
the just expectation of the nation if
it does not on its assembling in De-
cember come speedily to a conslusion
on this matter. 1t is our own possession
of the islands or their possession by
some other power, and this latter is
an alternative that the people of the
United States do not incline to ac-
cept
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-11

The fever situation, as reported from
New Orleans now and as set forth
one week ago, shows a marked i'm
provement. Cases continue to pre-
sent themselves it is true, but the dis
ease maintaines its mild form, deaths
rare and the scare is completely at an
end. Traffic is resumed at most points
under reasonable restrictions and only
a few weeks or perhaps days and a
timely frost will end the whole quar-
antine business. The number of cases
reported is largely owing to the fact
that the present form of the fever is
so mild that it is impossible in the
majority of instances to determine
whether 1t is yellow fever or not, and
in order to be on the safe side every
thing is dubbed that until it is demon
strated to be something else.