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The record-union., 1897-01-05
SENATOR PERKINS
Talks Relative to the Fight Now On
in the California Legislature.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-The repre-
sentatives of the United Associated
Presses to-day called upon Senator
Perkins with reference to a report from
San Francisco that the sugar trust was
determined to have another representa-
tive in the United States Senate, and
that it should be arranged for the Cali
fornia Legislature to elect Samuel
Shortridge for the term. The report was
also to the effect that the Spreckels
We're behind the scheme.
Senator Perkins, denying the report,
said: Il do not believe that this report
can be true or founded upon fact The
sugar trust can have no influence on the
Legislature, as the Legislature of Cali
fornia is composed of representative men
in their respective Senatorial and AS
sembly Districts, who are of the high
est character and standing, and enjoy
the fullest confidence of the communi-
ties in which they live. / speak with full
knowledge, because I am personally ac-
quainted with nearly all of them They
are men whom neither the sugar trust
nor any other power can influence, even
If it desired to elect any given man to
the Senatorship."
Senator Perkins was asked if he was
going to return to California He said:
I shall not return unless the members
of the Legislature desire me to do So
Unless it does so, see no reason why I
should CO. while there are so many rea-
sons why I should stay. There are
many interests fo ho 1oaLad aftar rvt,;oh
anect California deeply. 1 think that
my duty lies here, unless, as have said,
the California Legislature desires me to
appear before it, in, which case 1 could
not desire to disobey their bidding"
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MISSISSIPPI BOOMING.
A Rise of Over fifteen Feet at St.
Louis in Thirty-Six Hours.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. AT noon yester-
day the official measurement of the riv-
er's depth was given at 8 feet 6 inches;
at q o'clock this morning it was "a feet,
being rise of 151a feet in thirty-six
hours.
This enormous rise is accounted for
by the dispatches from every quarter
recording heavy and continuous rains
beginning Saturday noon. The danger
line for high water Is 80 feet, but the
worst is believed to be over, as a freez-
ing blizzard began with. sunrise to-day
and cut off the volume of water from
small streams
The most serious reports come from
Western Missouri, Kansas and the In
dian Territory All the streams in
Western Missouri were swelling the
Missouri up to midnight last night
when the cold wave began. At st. Jo-
seph the thermometer dropped from
6S above to 10 degrees below. At Great
Bend and vicinity, in Kansas, the bliz-
zard followed numerous waShouts on
the railroads, and business is impeded.
A dispatch from Purcell, I. T., says:
''The South Canadian River is now
higher than it has been for a number
of years. The Blue Goose Saloon,
which was situated on the edge of the
river, was turned over in the night, and
this morning the people on either bank
witnessed a horrible sight. Six men
were in the house at the time, and they
had all lodged on log which had become
fastened in the river, and no aid could
be furnished from this side of the river.
They were rescued about noon by par
ties from Oklahoma. The men were in
the cold water for over twelve hours.
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FLAGS AT HALF MAST.
Deep Regret at Montreal Over the
Death of Respected Citizen.

MONTREAL, Jan. .4.-Sir Joseph
Hickson, ex-General Manager of the
Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, died
ait 1920 o'clock this forenoon. Sir Jo-
seph had been confined to his home
for some months, but it was not gen.
orally known that he was suffering
from fatal malady. His ailment was
diabetes, which induced a general
general breakup of the system.
Sir Joseph Hickson was born in Eng
land sixtysix years ago. He came to
Canada in 1861, and steadily worked
his way from the post of accountant
to General Manager of the road, the
latter office being assumed in 1874, and
retained until 1891, when he retired
He was knighted in the year of his
retirement.
Sir Joseph was one of the members
and Chairman of the Government Com
mittee on prohibition in 1892, and was
also connected with many local enter
priseS and charities. He amassed con-
siderable wealth. He married Miss Bow,
daughter of Andrew Bow, the we'll
known brewer, and leaves six children
The death of Sir Joseph occasions
deep regret here, and flags are flying at
half mast all over the city in his honor.
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Found a Use for 1t.

At the dinner given in his honor in
Philadelphia on Wednesday evening,
Colonel A. K. Mcclure, the editor of the
Philadelphia Times" told the follow
ing story relating to his first news
paper venture, started fifty years ago:
Il well remember the case of frugal
farmer of the bunker persuasion who
was sufficiently public spirited to sub
scribe for the Sentinel for six months
to get the paper started, but at the end
of that period he had calculated the
heavy expense of gathering the ripen-
ing harvest and decided to stop his pa
per for a while. / need not say that
he was enthusiastically confronted with
many reasons why a man of his intel
ligence and influence should not be
without the county newspaper, but he
yielded only to the extent of further
considering the matter with his wife.
He returned in a few DAYS and spread
sunshine around the editorial chair by
saving that his wife had decided to
continue for another six months, as the
paper would be very handy in the fall
for tying up her apple-butter crooks"
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Facts About Diamonds.

The diamond is not among the earli-
est gems known to man, and is be-
! l!eved to be Of comparat lively recent
geological formation. Pliny, in the frs.
century, was the first writer to de-
scribe the diamond. 1t is found in al
continents and in almost every conti-
nent on the globe. Uncut it locks like
| bit of gum arabic. After cutting, il
laid in the sun and then carried into a
dark room, it will show a phosphores-
cence. If sufficiently heated will burn
like charcoal. Though hard, it is brit
tie, and a fall on hard floor viii some
times crack and ruin a diamond.
/ The largest diamond ever known was
the great Mogul, which weighed in the
rough 1913 karats. Diamonds so small
that 800 are required to weigh karat
are cut in the shops of Holland. Dia-
nonds are of every color and shade,
| from purest white to jet black. The
black varieties are so hard they cannot
be polished.
The Orloff diamond, weighing 194
| Karats, is now set in the Russian scep-
ter just under the eagle at the top. 1t
| is believed to be responsible for sixty
seven murders.
| The mines of Golconda are now eX-
| hausted. though at one time $4,000 men
were employed in them When the Sui
| tan Mahmoud, who reigned 1111-12O6.
died, he left in his treasury over 400
pounds weight of Golconda diamonds.
The regent diamond was found in Col
conda and weighed 410 karatS in the
rough 1t took two years to cut it and
cost $50, 900 to do SO. With the money
raised from pawning the diamond Ma
poleon secured funds enabling him to
undertake the campaign which ended at
Marengo The diamond is now the
property of the French Government.
weighs 135 karats and MS valued at
nearly S2,500.000.
For ages there has been & flow OF
gems from Europe to India. and no re-
turn. The people of that land prefer to
invest their money i'm jewels to any
thing else Tavernuer saw in India q
diamond weighing 104 karats. the CEN
ter of which was SO dark and muddy as
to ruin it When the STONE was finally
cut open eight karats of filth like that
from the bottom of pond were yielded
The Russian scepter is of solid gold.
three feet long, and contains among
it's ornaments 26S diamonds. $50 ru-
bies and fifteen emeIalds.
Many diamonds are consecrated to
the dead. The tomb of Mohammed is
covered with diamonds, rubies and
sapphires valued at S10000.000. When
Cardinal Borromeo was buried in Milan
a large cross of gold set with several
fine emeraIds and diamonds was placed
on his tomb and still remains there.
When Lord PalmerSton was buried in
Westminster Abbey the officiating cler-
gyman threw into the grave several
diamonds as a peace offering. go
News.
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A BANK CASHIER SUICIDES.
BROWNS HIMSELF IN A POND IN
A BALTIMORE PARK.
Commits the Act When a Shortage of
Sixty Thousand Dollars Was
Discovered.

BALTIMORE, Jan. 4.-Richard D.
Cornelius, one of the oldest and best
known bank cashiers of this city, COM
mitted suicide to-day. His body was
found in the duck pond in Druid Hill
Park, just few hours after the short
age of $780, had been discovered in
his accounts at the National Farmers
and Planters Bank.
Last Saturday Bank Examiner Mar
shall Winchester drew the attention of
the officers of the bank to some irregu-
larities in the accounts of an out-of-
town institution. This morning Mr..
Cornelius was asked to explain the ir-
regularities. He did not attempt to do
SO, but abruptly walked off. A closer
examination of his accounts disclosed
an apparent shortage of 100000.
When the officers of the bank learned
that the cashier had left the building
they telephoned ito Smith, West &
Lyon, the detectives, to hunt him up.
Mr.. West traced the defaulter to
Druid Hill Park, and thence to the duck
pond. There they found his body float
ing in three feet of water The man
had evidently held himself to the bot
tom of the pond by the weeds that grew
there.
Mr. Cornelius was about 6S years old,
and had been connected with the Ma
tional Farmers and Planters Bank for
over forty-two years He was a close
friend of the late Enoch Pratt, who
was President of the bank for almost
half a century In religious circles Mr..
Cornelius was almost as prominent as
in banking circles.
His tragic end was the sole topic of
conversation in down town circles this
afternoon. Hundreds of his friends re-
fused to believe that he was either a
defaulter or suicide. The matter caused
more excitement in the banking dis
trict than any other event in years.
For many years Mr.. Cornelius had
been very prominent in Methodism,
and at the time of his death was a
local preacher of the Baltimore Con-
ference, President of the City Mission
ary and Church Extension Society,
President of the Emory Grove Associa-
ton, one of the trustees of the Balti-
more Annual Conference, and a men,
Der of the official board of Madison
street Church. He attended divine
worship twice yesterday.
The National Farmers and Planters
Bank is one of the oldest, and consid-
cred one of the strongest in the city.
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CITIZENS OF UNITED STATES
Decision Rendered by Justice White
of the u. s. Supreme Court.

tions deriving their powers from the
several States of the Union are citizens
of the United States" within the mean
ing of that phrase as contained in the
Indian Depreciation Act. SO said the
Supreme Court of the United States to-
day in an opinion read by Justice White
announcing the judgment upon the APP
peal of the United States and the Sioux
Indians from the judgment of the
Court of Claims in favor of the North
western Express, Stage and Trans
portation Company. The corporation
sued, in accordance with the provisions
of the Depreciation Act, for value of
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FOUND DEAD IN BED.
James Nichols Passes Away at Pres
colt, Arizona.

PRESCOTT (AriZ), JAN 4.-James
Nicols, Deputy Sheriff of Leadville dur
ing the troublouS times in the early
history of that camp, and later Sher-
iff of Cochise County, Arizona Terri
tory, was found dead in bed this morn
ing. He had been engaged in mining
at Chaparral for some time, and came
to Prescott on New Years Day for
medical attention. His illness was not
considered dangerous When his physi-
can called this morning he found Mich
OILS dead. He was wounded several
times during his official career, one
wound through his lungs giving spe-
cial trouble. Nichols had wealthy rela-
tives in Kansas and Massachusetts.
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Secures q Money Order Belonging to
Another and Cashes It.
An Arizona Editor Loses a Limb
While Endeavoring to Board a
Moving rrain-A Prominent Idaho
Farmer Beaten Into Insensibility
by Whitecaps-Minister to Hawaii
Willis at Deaths Door.

PORTLAND (Or.), Jan. Adjective
Welsh and Postal Inspector Gordon
arrested Lloyd B. Stone of Delta, Ia,
at the home of his father at Mount Ia
bor for forgery to-day. Stone, who is
but 20 years old, came from Iowa with
friend named Chandler. At Omaha
the latter bought a money order which
ne forwarded to Cheyenne. Stone,
reaching that place in advance of
Chandler secured the order and caShed
it. Chandler never saw him, but ad-
vised the postal authorities of what
Stone had done. Stone made no denial
of his guilt. He will be taken East for
trial
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MALFEASANCE IN OFFICE.
Serious Accusations Against Lead
ing Democrat of Chicago.

CHICAGO, Jan. 4.-Samuel B. Chase,
ex- Recorder of Deeds for Cook County,
a leader among the Democrats of the
North Side, is accused of gross mall
feasance in office, and of being short in
his accounts with the county to the
amount of $50, ,513, i'm a formal report
made to the County Board Finance
Committee to-day by County Attorney
lies.
The Recorders office has been the
subject of investigation for some time,
especially since the employees of Mr..
Chase, who have to look to him for
their pay, were only partially paid for
the December work, the claim being
made by the Recorder that he had no
funds from the receipts of his office
with which to pay his help. Expert
accountants were put to work ON the
books and their finding is confirmed
In the County Attorneys report
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PERSONAL MENTION.

P. Reddy, the San Francisco lawyer.
is in the city.
Major Pico is again conspicuous
among the sojourners in this city.
r. A Crothers of the San Francisco
Bulletin" is in the city
Lawyer Ernest Weyand of Colusa is
looking on at the Legislature.
Ex-Railroad Commissioner G. J. Car
penter, now editor of the PIacerviIle
Democrat" is visiting the city.
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The Golden Fleece.

The discovery that the Duke of Or
leans is not eligible for the decoration
of the Golden Fleece surprised the court
of Vienna. A new Knight of the Gold
en Fleece must have had Roman Cath
olic ancestors on both sides for eight
generations and his pedigree mast be
without flaw or stain for the same Pc
riod. 1t appears not only that the Re
gent Orleans married an illegit Ultimate
Gaughter of Louis XIV. (Mlle. de Blols),
hut also that the late Duchess OF Or
leans Princess Helena of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin), the mother of the Count of
Paris, was all her life a Protestant and
a member of the Lutheran Church.
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Idaho Senatorship.

BOISE, Jan. 4.-The Democrats as
sumed the responsibility of organizing
both houses Of the Legislature to-day on
strictly party lines Silver Republicans
voted with the Democrats on every
proposition. 1t is thought that the ac-
tlon or the Democrats to-day points de-
cldedly toward the reelection of Du-
bois to the United States Senate. II
seems to be the wish of the National Sill
yer forces that Dubois be returned.
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His Waterloo.

He could lift d bar of iron marked five
hundred pounds with ease,
On either arm he'd hold a. dozen men;
He would let truck horses see-saw on his
massive breast and knees
And no feat of strength was found be-
yond his ken.
BUT
Though his chest could bear loaded truck
and grand piano, too.
And his bicepS were the largest known
by far,
One feat he tried and died of it-they said
it was mis- due
He tried to raise window in an elevated
car! New York World
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Wants of Wheelmen.

wheelmen want but one thing from the
present Legislature. They want to have
the bicycle recognized as baggage, that
it may be carried free as such on the
railroads of this State. Every effort will
be concentrated upon the so-called bag
gage bill to insure it's passage. One
man is already on the ground at Sacra-
mento looking out for the interests of
the wheelmen, and keeping the league
officials informed, and another will
probably soon go to the Capital from
this city.
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RUSHING THE CAN"
Leads to a Novel Strike at Omaha,
Nebraska.

OMAHA, Jan. A most novel strike
was instituted to-day by the drivers for
the Expressmen's Delivery Company.
lrstead of being a question of wages,
work or hours, it was whether the
barn foreman had a right to enforce
rule relative to rushing the can" The
drivers threatened to strike. but this
did not alter the determination of the
manager of the company TO enforce a
rule which he had posted forbidding
the use of liquor. Then the whole force
walked out on q. strike. The places
We're filled without much difficulty.
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Death of an ARMY Officer.

WASHINGTON, Jan. A telegram
ito the Navy Department announces the
death this morning ait Fort Hamilton,
n. Y, of Lieutenant III. C. Coffin of a
pulmonary aection contracted while
attached to the Alert of the Behring
Sea patrol fleet, from which duty he
was recently detached. His father was
the late Professor Coffin of the Naval
Academy.
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TOOK CARBOLIC ACID.
Suicide of Colusa Girl at San Fran
cisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4.-Because
her lover had left her Barbara Groom,
Is years DID, from ColuSa County, COM
mitted suicide this morning in her
room 402 Geary street, by taking an
enormous dose of carbolic acid.
The girl first wrote a letter to Jo-
seph Y. Ptdgeon of $40 Mission. She
then took the poison and called a
messenger boy When the messenger
answered the box call he found the
girl in death agony and told Mrs.
Haight, lodger at the house. Then he
went for DR.. TAFT, whose office it at 326
Geary. When the doctor arrived Bar
bara Groom was too far gone to be
helped.
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Five Timers Killed,

SOUTH McALIISTER Q.T), jan A.
An explosion occurred in the Anderson
mine at 4 o'clock this morning in which
five miners were killed. They are: Mar
tin Roy, Joe Cox, Thomas Curry, Will
lam Bishop, Simon Pity. The explo-
sion was caused by ignition gas.
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High Water at Alton, Ill.

ALTON Qll), Jan. 4.-The combined
outpour of water from the Illinois, Mis-
souri, and Mississippi has made rise
of fifteen feet in the latter river here in
thirty-six hours and the waters are
still advancing. Great damage has been
done, and much suffering caused to poor
dwellers on the banks. A house boat
that contained a family of seven was
found upside down to-day, and the oc-
cupantS are supposed to be lost
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Minister Willis at Deaths Door.

VANCOUVER (B. c., Jan. 4.-The
Honolulu correspondent of the United
Associated Presses. writing under date
of December 18th, says that United
States Minister Willis, who has been
suffering from pneumonia for some
time, has been given up by his physi-
clans. For three days previous to the
dispatch of the letter Mr.. Willis death
was hourly 4xnar,tod
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horses and harness taken by the Sioux
IN Cedar Canyon February 5. 1879, and
the Court of Claims found it was en-
titled to 800. Justice Brown stated that
lnasmuch as corporations chartered by
States were citizens of the same, and as
Citizenship in the States and in the
United States was generally cotermin-
Gus. the corporations were citizens Of
the United States and entitled TO the
conferred by the Act
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Raspberries.

Raspberries are often permitted to
form SO many canes that one robs the
others, and all are weak and spindling.
as noted by the Northwest Farmer"
But three or four should be allowed to
a clump. If more start to grow cut
them out at once. If undiscovered until
matured. it is better to cut them out
than not at all
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A Washington Mine Deal.

SPOKANE, Jan. 4-The War Eagle
mine, next to the Leroy, the largest and
most valuable property in the Rossland
tb. % camp, is reported to have been
soid to-day to Montreal syndicate for
Sl,ooo,oOO. The officers Of the COM
pany deny that the deal has gone
through, but admit that the sale has
practically been made.
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Beaten InsensibIe bv Whitecans.

SPOKANE (Wash), Jan. &c. w.
Reddlck' prominent young farmer,
residing near Newport, Idaho, who is
said to have been too attentive to the
WIFE OF his neighbor, George johnson,
was visited at his home last night by a
party OF Whitecaps. who beat him with
cluhs and rawhided him into insensi-
bility. He is not expected to recover,
and the guilty parties. who are we'll
known, will be arrested and charged
with murder
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A Case of rIurder and Suicide.

MINNEAPOLIS (N1inn.), Jan. 4-Last
week the dead bodies of a family of five
were found in a shanty in Cass County,
in this State. 1t has been discovered
that their names We're Koechler, and
that they had been poisoned. Indica-
tions are that it was a case of murder
and suicide on the part of the father of
the family, who was in financial straits.
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Steady Work.

Mr.. styles-What did you say you
wanted, my man?
Walker-I am looking for some kind
of steady work, sir
We'll, just wait; my wife's learning
to ride a bicycle. She'll be out in a
minute.'-Louisville Times.
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Suspended Publication.

PETALUMA, Jan. 4.3The DAILY
Argus, after running two years, sus-
pended publication to-day. Its pro-
prietors, McNabb & Cassidy, will con-
tinue the weekly edition.
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ModeSty in Art.

An old lady who was praising the
Thames scenery said to Whistler, "The
whole trip along the river was like a
series of your superb etchings"
''Yees," he replied, nature is creep-
ing up."-London Figaro.
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Hereafter.

Mr.. Crimsonbeak-Do you think. my
dear, that the time will ever come when
the men will do the cooking?
Mrs. Crimsonbeak-No in this world,
John.-Y onkers Statesman.
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An Editor Meets With an Accident.

Los ANGELES, Jan. Awhile at
tempting to board a Southern Pacific
train to-day. Chase A. Conrad, a prom
trent editor of Phoenix, A T., fell be-
Meath the wheels and suffered the loss
Of his right leg, which was severed at
the knee
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CHARGED With Murder.

SEATTLE CWash.), Jan. 4.-Sherif
Van de Venter to-day arrested at Gill
man, this county, George H. Thomas
wanted for murder in Garnet, Kan.
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Suits Against the Valley Road.

STOCKTON, Jan. 4.-Six damage
suits, aggregating $50. $50, were entered
against the Valley Railroad this after
noon by property owners on Taylor
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Funeral of Banker Hammond.

CHICAGO, Jan. 1.-THE funeral SER
vices over the remains of William A.
Hammond, Second Vice President of
the National Bank of Illinois, who
drowned himself in Lake Michigan Sat
urday morning. We're conducted to-day
at St Marks Episcopal Church, Evans
tor, of which the suicide was an ac-
tive member. Owing to the banker
having been declared of unsound mind
by the Coroner's jury, there was no
clerical objection to the church funeral.
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street who claim that their property has
been damaged by the raising of the
grade on that thoroughfare