The record-union., 1897-08-20
VOICE OF THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSION.

State and Coast Opinions on Sub
jects Of Living News
! Interest.
! Los Angeles Express: One of the
/ Alaska steamers has gone to the bot
tom. Fortunately the accident occurred
on the return trip from the north after
the fortune seekers had disembarked
and no lives were lost, but the escape
was a narrow one. The Mexico was one
/ Of the best ships in the service between
/ this coast and Alaskan ports. Had the
vessel been one of the rickety old tubs
/ recently sent north the chances are that
/ few Of those on board would have es-
capped alive. The next news will be
that one of the battered hulks now being
rushed into service for Alaska traffic
will sink with passengers and crew.
/ From all accounts the boats going
north are laden TO the waters edge,
crowded to the utmost and Uttered with
every manner of freight. In case of a
storm the danger of disaster is not diff
cult to foresee.
There certainly must be some Gov
ernment regulation regarding the num-
ber of passengers and the amount of
freight which a vessel may carry. 1t
! is culpable negligence that permits the
regulation to go unobserved. The mat
ter should be investigated by the au-
thorities before some fatal catastrophe
occurs to bring public condemnation on
their official heads.
WORK IT ACCORDINGLY
Colusa Sun: While affirming that the
price of wheat is what is making things
incline to hum" the sun feels like
giving a warning to the growers that
the high prices are of necessity short
lived. There is darkness and there is
light; there are years of famine and
years of plenty. Famine, as the vener-
ale Senator has said, has spread over
the wheat districts of the world, but
the years of plenty will come, and the
graneries of the world will again be
lover1owing, and by that time our farm
ers who are now, and who for the next
lyear or two, must be getting good prices,
viii be fixed so that depression will
not find them unprepared. Like the
Klondike and the Coffee Creek mines,
this is a rich pocket-work it accord
ingly.
UNHEEDED WARNING.
Stockton Independent: Who minds
what the newspapers say?" This was
a common question among those who
were hurying Alaskaward during the
last few weeks, when the newspapers
We're warning people to make haste
slowly to the Klondike. Now many OF
those who sneered are floundering in
mud and sleeping without shelter
around Dyea; paying robbing rates for
packing their effects over passes when
they can get them over at any rate.
Letters and kilograms telling of these
difficulties are multiplying, yet other
adventures are Fastening over the
same route without the least prospect
of avoiding the difficulties They are
Eof the class who sneer at what the news
papers say, yet in a short time all who
lsneered will realize that the newspapers
gave them wise warning as we'll as the
news that caused them to start. The
iheadlong adventurers believed what
was agreeable to them and secuted
what was disagreeable, and now hun
dreds are probably cursing the papers
for having published the agreeable news
land forgetting all about the disagree
liable warnings There is no hope that
lsuch people will profit by their expert
lence. They will return in disgust only
to repeat their folly in some other di-
rection.
THE HAMBURG EXHIBIT.
CloverdaIe Reveille: CALIFORNIA; ex-
Ibibit at the Hamburg, Germany, expo
sition was a good investment and th(
money spent will be returned two-foic
to the fruit grower, the farmer, the VT
iculturist. and to many other indus
tries. j. A. Fncher, who had charge
of the exhibit is home and states thai
several gold medals We're secured. The
display attracted the most favorable
attention, and many inquiries were
made about California.
NOT PHENOMENAL.
Marysville Democrat: Many OF oul
exchanges are commenting on the stol
cal manner in which James Berry, TIT
colored wife-murderer, met his ueatf
on the scaffold at Folsom last Friday
some Of them expressing his gamenes'
as phenomenal. After moments re
Election it will readily be seen that there
is nothing phenomenal about the af
fair. in fact it is a matter to be tx
pected; the very nature of his crime
. regardless of circumstances, is sum
cient. No man could murder his wife
unless he possessed an iron-bount
nerve utterly devoid of the slightest i'll
stincts of human being.
A SENSATIONAL FAKE.
! Cas11
ty golden frog which the San Francisco
papers are frantically endeavoring Il
blow up to the size of the Klondike o,
is bound to burst if any more wind i
pumped into it's bulging Skin.
What sensation -mongers these Jour
nails have become, anyway. Here ar
, a couple of pockets found just a
pockets are found every once in ;
while all up and down the Pacif
Coast. and the result is columns Q
slush written by men who do not know
a placer mine from an out-cropping o
the Mother Lode, nor a rocker from
! a sluice-box. The pocket found Of
Coffee Creek did not hold as much gol'
; | as a pocket found the other day les
than two miles from the old nininl
town of Sonora. 1t was a good pocke'
of course and perhaps there are NOR
| in the vicinity. And perhaps there ar
not
The sensational stuff by which mel
: are being lured to go on fruitless an
, expensive trip into the mountains
not a whit better, so far as the prin
ciple is concerned. than the shameless
effort to induce a shipload OF men +
waste time and money and face dis
ease and death in the miserably poo