The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-06-18
VOICb OF THE PRESS.
Extracts From Editorial Expression Of
Journals
OF the State and the Coast on Sub
iects of Living and News
Interest.

| Marvsville Appeal: In Boston last
| y eek an audience of 5000 saw the Car
son City prize fight projected on
screen the show lasting an hour and
forty minutes. The veriscope pictures
are said to have been remarkably life
like. This fact strengthens the objec-
tions to the use of the apparatus Tor
the reproduction of scenes Of brutality
or immortality The public authorities
everywhere should be prompt to regu-
late the veriscope show.
AN UNLUCKY COIN.
Nevada Transcript: We have often
wondered at our inability to hang on to
a quarter OF a dollar We find in an
exchange the reason. The coin is un-
| lucky as will be seen by what our con-
temporary saws. Persons who are SUI
perstitious about the unlucky number
Is, win not get much comfort from the
possession Of the American quarter, on
which are thirteen stars, thirteen let
| ters in the scroll which the eagle holds
| in its claws, thirteen feathers compos-
ing its wings, thirteen feathers in its
tail, thirteen horizontal stripes, thirteen
| arroWheads and thirteen letters in the
words quarter dollar"
THE SUPPLY OF TEA CHEERS.
Bakersfield Californian: According
to the Fresno Republican there are
but two vacant positions to be filled in
the schools of that city and for these
positions there are already more than
| 100 applicants And the same condi-
lions may be said to exist in every COM
munity in the State, from the smallest
| country district to the larger cities
/ Wherever a vacancy in the school de-
partment exists, scores of applications
are filed by those eager to secure the
place. And the machines for grinding
out teachers continue to turn and hun
| dredS of young men and women are
annually added to the army already in
! existence. In each of the three Nor
NAL schools of the State there are two
graduating classes annually and each
class will easily average forty gradu-
ates. A fourth school has now been
! provided for and will begin to swell
the number of teachers just as soon as
the necessary buildings are completed.
This, too, Notwithstanding the fact that
| there are already, for every position to
be filled, at least ten legally qualified
persons ready and eager to secure the
place.
A WARNING.
Grass Valley Tidings: The disas-
trous conflagration which occurred at
Georgetown yesterday shows how nee
essary it is for municipalities to provide
themselves with appliances to fight fire
! The burned town had been visited by
fire before and as a consequence the
business places were largely Of brick,
but as has been shown over and over
again, even the most substantial build
ings will succumb to intense heat
There was plenty of water but no ade-
quate fire apparatus. The loss sus-
tanned by the merchants might have
been averted or at least lessened had
there been a fire engine in town. Elk
perience teaches many a bitter lesson.
and as Georgetown is rebuilt her citi-
zens will no doubt see to it that proper
| fire apparatus is secured.
WE CAN GET ALONG.
San Jose Herald: The London press
fears that the annexation of Hawaii
will introduce new elements and re-
| sponsibilities into the American polit-
! icaI system. Very likely, but the peo-
/ pie Of the United States have had fair
success thus far in settling their own
political problems and are not asking
any advice from foreigners.
| GOLD PAYMENTS AND INTEREST,"
Los Angeles Times: The Supreme
! Court of this State has recently de-
c1ded in the case of Murphy VS. San
Luis Obispo that municipal bonds can
not be made payable in gold coin alone,
but must be made payable in gold coin
or lawful money of the United States
Numerous petitions for rehearing are
| pending in this case If these petit
! tons be denied, the decision will stand
as the law of the State If rehearing
be granted, the decision may be re-
versed, though it is more likely to be
sustained
Los Angeles, in common with every
other municipality in the State. is
vitality concerned in the ultimate de-
termination of this question The
| pending proposition for the issuance
of bonds for school purposes in this
city will have to await the action of
the Supreme Court on the applications
for a rehearing. Upon the final de-
cision will depend, to a great extent,
the ability of municipalities to borrow
money on bonds at q low rate of in
terest. If the issuance Of bonds pay
| able in gold be declared Illegal, every
municipality which desires to borrow
money on it's bonds will be compelled
to pay a high rate of interest. and in
| many cases municipal bonds viii go
| begging for want of purchaser. The
net result will be a considerable loss
to the public, in the way of higher in
| terest rates, and considerable gain
to money lenders, who will receive
higher rates of interest in considera-
ton of the greater risks which they
assume. These risks are nominal,
rather than real, but they viii be used,
successfully, to advance the rates of
interest
THE PRISON REBELS.
Yreka Journal: There is a DISPOSE
ton in some quarters to -censure the
| management of the San Quentin Pris-
on, because of the recent troubles in
that institution. Certainly this is I'M
fair and unjust. Warden Hale has
! managed that army of criminals with
great skill and tact. In four years Of
his work not a prisoner escaped, and