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The record-union., 1898-08-19

The following real estate transactions
have been recorded since our last re-
port:
G. w. Clarke and Frederick Cox to
John B. Foster-West S.4S acres of lot
/, block %; lot l.. block Is, and lot 8,
block 10; north half of lot 3, block II,
Fair Oaks tract; lot 2, block 10, lot 3,
block 4; lot 4, block 2, Fair Oaks Ad-
dition No l.
Mary B. Russell to VIM. B. Russell
East quarter Of lot 2, L and NJ, Eighth
and Ninth streets; north 30 feet of
south 80 feet Of lot 1, NJ and N, Fourth
and Fifth streets; east quarter of north
half Of lot /, M and N, Third and
Fourth streets; east q feet of north
ITO feet Of lot 1, L and NJ, Ninth and
Tenth streets; west half of lot 6, N and
o, Tenth and Eleventh streets
Isaac w. Roden ct ux. to George T..
Carr-Twelve acres in lot g. Lower
Daylor grant; $40.
]. P. Abbott to Warren Abbott
Thirty-fve acres in Survey $50, Sher-
man Island; $500
| Mollie Himmell to Edward Himmell-
East half Of lot z, and J, Twenty
| eighth and Twenty ninth streets; east
! 80 feet of south half of north half
| of lots 3 and 4, and west $50 feet of
south half of north half of lots / and
2, r and S, Nineteenth and Twentieth
streets.
| John Burns to Eugene Clark-North-
east half OF lot -, Slater's Addition;
81 900.
| George Philip Hartman to Christina
Hartman-East half of west half Of lot
10, K and L, Fourth and Fifth streets
Same to same-Lot s. o and P, Twen-
| ty-second and Twenty-third streets.
| c. W. Clarke and Frederick Cox to
Robert Lamont-Lot 6, block 3, Fair
/ Oaks Addition.
| Same to A. e. Gates, trustees for
| Flora, Anna and Artie Gates - West
CIT acres of lot 6, and west GIT acres
of lot g. block a. Fair Oaks.
| A. E. Gates to G. W. Clarke and
| Frederick Cox-Same as above.
| c. w Clarke and Frederick Cox to
J. B. Foster-Lot 2, block Z, Fair Oaks
Addition.
| c. E. Wright to Eva A. Ashley
| South half Of east half of lot B, ] and
K, Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets;
| 81 $50.
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was the only person who could offer an
amendment to it and unanimous con-
sent was required to carry an amend
ment offered even by him. He was
forced to offer the amendment because
Barham and large number of the
members of the House had declared
their hostility to the measure unless
the Barham amendment should be
adopted. Without the Barham amend
ment he became convinced that the
bill would certainly be defeated, and
Mcguire could not have been ignorant
of this. In the hope of passing the
bill, Cannon offered the Barham
amendment, and Mcguire and every
member of the House consented to its
adoption. AS stated by Congressman
Barham in his interview, Mr.. Mcguire
could have killed the amendment and
the bill by saying Il object" when the
amendment was offered. Did Mcguire
wish the bill to pass SO he might have
something to criticise on reaching
home, or does he not know how to leg
| islate after spending so many years
in Congress? We do not see how he
can escape the charge Of either incom-
potency or inconsistency in dealing with
| this question.
| Congressman Barham asks nobody
! pardon for what he has done in this
matter. He stands with a unanimous
Senate and a majority of the House in
the disposition that has been made of
| this question. Mcguire may plead the
baby act if so Disqualification knew
what he was doing and has entire con-
fidence in the result. He found Govern
ment ownership impossible with public
sentiment as it now is, and the contro-
versy over this debt a serious menace
to the canal legislation on which he
has set his heart. Hence he put
through Congress (Maguire says he
did iD plan of settlement (not fund
| ing) Of these debts under which the
Government is not to lose a cent of the
debt due from the Central and Western
Pacific Railroads. And this plan does
not hinder or restrain the Administra-
ton an hour in dealing with these
| roads. Foreclosure proceedings may
begin at any time, and must begin
within year unless satisfactory plan
of settlement is proposed by the rail-
road companies. The Washington dis
patches of the past week announce
that the Attorney General of the Unit
ed States is arranging to bring the fore
| closure suit at once if the railroad COM
panies delay proposing satisfactory
| terms of settlement.
| Mr. Barhams interview and the at
| tendant facts in this railroad debt leg
islation make it clear that Mr. Mcguire
| is playing the demagogue in dealing
with this question. He had 1t abso-
| lutely in his power to have killed the
bill in Congress and did not do so, and
now he does not tell the truth in re-
gard to the measure-either as to its
provisions or what it is intended to
accomplish. The facts are with Mr..
Barham, and he will make the coming
campaign a very warm one for Mr.. Ma
guire.
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They are Strengthening things out in
that beautiful city by an inland sea,
Cleveland. Conferences between the BIZ
cyclists and the officials are resulting in
reforms The wheel has now recogni-
ton; it is a convenience and need.
The riders of it have rights, and these
are now being defined. One of the rights
conceded by the city to the wheelers Is
a dry strip to ride upon on the streets.
This is now secured by requiring
sprinkling wagons to go up a street on
one side the full length of the district
before sprinkling the other side. 1t has
been found in Cleveland that it takes
no more water and no more labor, and
leaves no more dry surface at one time
than when the wagons wet down botn
sides of the way, block by block. Com
mittees in Sacramento are now out
seeking to effect such a reform here ana
thus make the streets passable at all
times for all vehicles, from the bicycle
to the family carriage. Then, too, IN
Cleveland they find that it saves broken
bones, life and much profanity, to re-
quire all who drive or ride to turn out
of street into one intersecting it when
the right-hand side of the latter is the
most distant, by driving to the center OF
the intersection and then turning down
the right side of the new course Of di-
rection. Such is the law in Sacramen-
| to, but it is unenforced and wholly dis
regarded. The thing to do here is to
begin to figure for the turn about a
half-block distant, move rapidly dag
onally across the street, and suddenly
whirl into the intersecting street and
drive diagonally across that for a malt
| block before finding the right-hand
| side The beauty of this custom is that
! it enables you to have plenty of fun
with pedestrians and wheelmen, to
make other drivers pull up while you
monopolize two halves Of two blocks
| of streets, and now and then smash UP
a rig coming toward you. In Cleveland
| bicyclists and authorities have decided
that there shall be no scorching on
the streets, no excess of speed, no
shooting around corners and over
crossings like bullets out Of ma
chine gun. That is the law here,
and bicyclists drew and asked for
| the law, and it was granted. But hun
dreds Of wheelmen disregard it, and nc
one thinks of enforcing the municipal
rule. It's violation gives the bicyclist
such rare enjoyment, affords him sc
TRANS dodge and scamper and break
their necks, and that to enforce the law
would be cruel deprivation. Whether
| Cleveland is behind or ahead of Sacra-
mento remains to be decided.
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WHAT MORE IS WANTED?

The Democratic State Convention has
done itself honor and paid high COM
pliment to the Republican Administra-
ton by forwarding a congratulatory
dispatch to President Mckinley on the
GLORIOUS and successful conclusion of
the war" Well, what more do you
want. gentlemen, than "a glorious and
successful conclusion" which expires
sion embodies and implies Endorsement
of the course Of the Administration in
the conduct of the war brought to a
GLORIOUS and successful conclusion?'
VIII you after that follow the bidding
of Stephen NJ. White who twenty-four
hours later took the stand in the same
convention and assailed the Admins
tration for its conduct of the war, and
weakly excused and attempted to ex-
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KILLED AT TRUCKER.
Stepped Directly in Front of a
Switch Engine.

A man named S. Schumacher, who
was passenger on. the west-bound
overland train on Tuesday night, got
off. at Truckee and was left behind
AS he was walking around the town
during the evening he got on the
tracks, and stepped directly in front Of
switch engine that was going slowly
through the yard, being run over and
instantly killed. He proved to be en-
route from Knobnoster, Mo-, to Red
Bluff. 1t is not known whether or not
he has relatives at the latter place.
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THE CITY NOT RESPONSIBLE.
WHY THE FOLSOM ROAD CAN
NOT BE BUILT.
Full Text Of the Supreme Court
Decision in the Bond
Issue Case.

Yesterday the Record Union" an
nounced the fact that the Supreme
Court had rendered it's decision In the
case of the Folsom macadam road
bonds, holding that the county had no
authority to issue road bonds that
would bind the city to pay any portion
of them.
The people voted largely in favor of
issuing $4,000 in bonds for the pur-
pose of raising funds to assist the
State in the construction of macadam
road between this city and Folsom.
District Attorney Ryan had informed
the Supervisors that he did not consider
such bonds would be valid, but Attor-
ney General Fitzgerald thought other
wise, and the bonds were duly printed.
Parties stood ready to take the bonds,
provided they could be assured the
same were legally issued, and an agreed
case was made up to test their validity.
James H. Devine obtained an order
from the Superior Court restraining the
Supervisors from taking further action
from that order.
the Judgment of the Superior Court, as
follows:
WHAT THE COURT SAYS.
This is an action to restrain the de-
PENDANTS from levying special tax for
the current year to create an interest
and sinking fund 10 provide for the pay
ment of principal and interest of certain
socalled Folsom road bonds A general
demurrer to the complaint was overruled
and the defendants declining to answer
judgment was rendered in favor of the
plaintiff, from which the defendants APP
peal
The only question to be determined is
the validity OF the bonds, and this de-
ponds altogether upon the power of the
Board of Supervisors to issue them, for
so far as the proceedings leading to their
issuance are concerned, they seem to have
been perfectly regular inl form.
The issuance OF the bonds in ques-
ton was no doubt designed as a means
of cooperation in carrying out the pur-
poses of an Act approved March 20, 1885,
(Stats. of 1897, p. 239), entitled: AN Act
TO provide for the construction of a State
highway or wagon road from Sacramento
City to Folsom, in Sacramento County
and appropriating crushed rock or granite
or stone blocks for drains and culverts
for same"
BY the terms of the Act the Governor
was authorized to appoint three Com
missioners whose duty 1t should be to
construct a model road between the des-
ignated termini. No money was appro-
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Cases Continued.

The case Of Walter Reeves, arrested
by Officer Bailey for vagrancy, was
continued in the City Justices Court
yesterday till to-day. Reeves is an ex-
convict, and denied his identity until
confronted by the officers with his
picture. He was wearing sneak" shoes
when captured
The record-union., 1898-08-19

And the question still is, what are
Mr.. Maguire's politics? Is he a Pop
udemo, or a demopopu, or single-tax-
democratic-po pulist what is it,? There
is only one thing dead certain" he is
not a Republican, for which the Lord
be rrqised
The record-union., 1898-08-19

There are two old-time institutions,
both robbing and degenerate schemes,
that will now meet deserved death
the Havana and the Manila monthly
lotteries. Both have been run by Spain
as an aid to the support of the Gov
eminent. The United States Govern
ment cannot tolerate revenue from such
sources.
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Sacramento Case Settled.

The United States Circuit Court in
San Francisco has dismissed the case
of j. H. hatcher against the La Grange
Hydraulic Gold Mining Company, the
suit having been compromised. The ac-
ton was for the recovery Of So, 1920
for pipe sold to the defendant by the
firm of Schaw, Ingram, hatcher & Co.
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plain why he and Mr.. Mcguire consti-
tuted themselves obstructionists in
Congress in the path Of the Admins
tratiOn?
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Fruit Shipments.

Forty-two cars of fruit We're sent
East neutrality-suspicious. 10, plums 31a
pears %. grapes 311a On the same date
last year 81 cars went out.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-11
NEW VIEW of THE TAGALLos.
Natives of the Philippines Not Fit for
SeIf-GOVernment.

NEW YORK, Oct. 1O.-The Herald's Ma
Mia correspondent, under date of Sept 1,
says: There has been much speculation as
to whether General Merritt will return from
Paris to Manila 1t is not believed that he
will. He is old man, and long trips must
be trying to him. In this connection the
report of Colonel Jewett upon the ability
of the Fiipinos to govern themselves, made
to General Merritt just prior to his de-
parture, should prove interesting. The sub
stance of the report was as follows: 1T is
patent that the Tagallo is In no condition
to govern himself or his nation at the pres
ent time. 1t would be wrong TO turn the
Philippines over to the government of Spain,
as Spain has shown incompetence in this
direction in the past and is to-day in q
worse position than ever to accomplish any
good"
1t was cabled the other day that Aguinal-
do with the consent of General Merritt,
given somewhat reluctantly, had sent an
envoy to the Paris conference. 1t is not
supposed that even Aguinaldo supposed that
General Merritt could give the Tagallo en-
voy standing there. and General Merritt
knows he cannot. 1t Is merely the last
spectacular play in what the most intelli-
gent persons hereabouts realize Is q lost
cause. the dream of liberty for the Eilipinos,
even Of liberty with the protection OF the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-11
OCTOBER CROP REPORT.
Average Condition of Corn Has Fallen
to 50. Against SAL on Sept. L.

WASHINGTON, Oct 10.-The Department
of Agriculture to-day issued the following
crop report: The October report of the
statistician of the Department of Ag-
riculture shows the average condi-
ton of corn on Oct. to have
been S. as compared with S4.1 on Sept. l..
with III on Oct. /, 1897, and with 1873, the
mean of the October averages of the last
ten years. All the averages of 100 or up
ward reported last month have disappeared,
except in Kentucky, where corn has held it's
own at one point above the standard. In
Ohio and Missouri also the average is the
same as last month, while there is i'm
provement of points in Illinois, and a
decline of 4 points in Indiana. points in
Iowa and points in Nebraska. Throughout
the South the decline is general.
The usual wheat report is withheld pend
ing the result of further Investigations.
The preliminary estimate of the yield per
acre of oats is 27.S bushels. This is three
tents of a bushel per acre LEXIS than the
preliminary estimate of the crop of 1897, but
81 bushels per acre above the mean of the
preliminary averages of the last ten years.
The average for quality is 1873, against S7.6
one year ago.
The preliminary estimate of the yield per
acre of barley is ZIG bushels, or 2.9 bushels
per acre less than in 1897, and 1.3 bushel
below the mean of the October estimates
Tor the last ten years. The average for
quality is 9l.3, as compared with $40 last
year.
The preliminary estimate of the yield per
acre OF rye, ISL bushels. This is five-tenths
of bushel less than the average of last
year, but % bushels above the mean of
the October averages for ten years. The
average of quality reported is SOL, against
1921 one year ago.
The condition of buckwheat has declined
since Sept ! 1875 points, being now 1872.
ThlS Is 14.6 points below the average on
oct. /, 1887, and S.3 points below the mean
OF the October averages of the last ten
years.
The. condition of Irish potatoes declined
o. points during September. While it is still
1913 points higher than the October condi-
ton last year it is 81 points below the
mean OF the October averages of the last
ten years.
The apple reports show continued de-
Of any commercial Importance except in
Maine. Michigan. Nebraska and oregon,
where slight improvement is indicated.
me yield per acre of hops Is generally
In excess of last year, California, where
the yield will probably not exceed 1000
ton.
The tobacco reports as a whole are some
what less favorable than last month, Penn
sylvania, Maryland, Virginia and North
Carolina showing a decline of 49, TO- 7 and
8 points, respectively. Kentucky however
reports condition indicating SO per cent
or a Iull normal crop an Improvement of
points during the month"; while Tennessee.
wisconsin and New York report 81 98 and 100
per cent, respectively
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-11

vote of the stockholders. has been set aside
to crush out competition. The Arbuckle
Brothers have s4o,OOO.0OO. perfect plant,
and are no ncvices in trade wars. Mr..
Dorcher. who has a thorough knowledge of
the business, has modern plant and is
backed by ample means. The advantage OF
the Trust is in its grasp of the trade and it's
surplus. Its disadvantage is the possession
of lot of old refineries which are worth
less, but which represent large capital,
upon which interest must be paid. The
plants of the Arbuckles are new 1t is inn
possible to predict how long the war will
last, but it seems it must be a case of sur
vival of the fittest or, rather, the strong
est. A few years ago the Trust had
Spreckels for a competitor, but he became
competitor to be bought out. The Ar
buckles are not in the fight for traffic. but
for blood. While the battle is on sugar
will be cheaper to the consumers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-11
FOILED THE WOODPECKERS.
Clever Plan to Save Telegraph Posts,
and Its Peculiar Result.

SPOFFORD JUNCTION, Tex, Oct. TO-
For new telegraph poles has been an Oft
recurring item in recent years on the South
ern Pacific Company's expense bills. For
miles on each side of this place it was al
most impossible to make a telegraph pole
last more than six months, owing to the
thousands of woodpeckers in that section.
The birds constantly attacked the poles and
actually perforated the wood in many places
until the poles had the appearance of hav-
ing been we'll bored, soon becoming entirely
useless Realizing that something must be
done, Superintendent Joseph Bonner, of
Spofford, put on his thinking cap, and at
the end of a week had solved the problem.
A month later he left Spofford with
special locomotive, attached to which was a
carload of hollow iron posts each painted
to lock like ordinary rough cedar. These
he set up at intervals of five miles, covering
all the territory affected by the wood
difference between the iron poles and the
wooden ones. Concealed within the top of
each of the metal posts was a small 'buz-
zer," similar to those used instead of call
bells, and these he attached to the tele-
graph wires, they keeping up costant
Here is where the woodpeckers were
fooled. They imagined the 'buzzers" were
insects in the poles. and began a desperate
attack on the metal, fiocking to the antici-
pated feast by scores, never realizing their
error until the bill of each was worn almost
blunt. A months time found every wood
pecker in the State in this awkward predica-
ment, and. being unable to penetrate the
iron. they gave up and went to eating
gravel. The wooden poles were saved
y peculiar result was that the progeny of
the mutilated birds showed bills without
points. and consequently these latter are
unable to do any damage. Every wood
pecker along the line now wears his bill as
rounded as a baseball and the company has
no more trouble. Mr. Bonner thought
seriously of patenting the idea, but did not
do so, preferring that other lines should
have the benefit of his ingenuity free.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-11
A USEFUL REPREsENTATIyE.


1t can be said for Hon. Jesse Overstreet
that as member of the House he has
been faithful in his efforts to promote the
welfare of Indianapolis Through his per-
sonal efforts, almost unaided, free-mail de-
livery has been extended to the entire lin
its of the city, substatons established and
the postal service of the city given an
equipment in men and money adequate to
the needs of the superior postal facilities
now in operation. Mr.. Overstreet succeeded
in securing a division of the great postal
line from Pittsburg to st. Louis For years
the railway clerks ran from Pittsburg to
ST. Louis, to the disadvantage of Indianap-
oils. Mr.. Overstreet obtained division of
this long line at Indianapolis, and the serv-
ice was so increased that Indianapolis mails
are no longer carried through to be distrib-
uted on the return trip. Hereafter no In
dianapolis business mans letters will be
delayed because of the railway postoffice
Through the personal efforts of Mr.. Over
street with the department at Washington
the number of inspectors of meats at the
packing houses has been increased. Since
packing
houses have increased their foreign trade,
which means a larger demand for hogs at
Indianapolis and additional employment for
labor BY the efforts of Mr.. Overstreet the
federal expenditures for salaries in Indi-
annapolis have been increased S25, coo.
No representative in the country is more
thoroughly alive to the interests of the bust
IL
While the Dingley and the war revenue bills
were pending. Mr.. Overstreet kept the bust
ness houses in Indianapolis informed of the
prospects of the respective measures so far
as it seemed that they would affect the BUSH
ness interests of the city. While the war
revenue bill was in the hands of the ways
and means committee. and later. when it
was under consideration by the conference
committee, it was of great advantage to
business houses that they should be ap-
prised at the earliest moment of the action
which that body was likely to take upon the
merchandise in which they are Interested
In this matter favor was not given to per-
sonal friends, but information was sent to
the officers of business organizations. For
instance, quite while before it was an
nounced by the press, Mr.. Overstreet tele-
graphed the president of the wholesale
grocers' association that duty would not
be imposed upon coffee. He watched the
progress of the tax bills to see that Indi-
annapolis interests should not suffer-
Mr.. Overstret has been able to bring about
these great results because he has had the
ability to influence officials in the depart
ments and members of the House. Repre-
sentatives may be divided into two classes
namely. those who attract attention by say
ing things and those who do not attract at
tention. but do things. Mr.. Overstreet be-
longs to the latter class.