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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-29

A course dinner is not infrequently the
proof OF a fine cook.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-29
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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-05-29
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The San Francisco call., 1898-01-23

become historical? These people were not starting out without definite end in view. Marshall had already seen the place where he intended to erect that saw-miI He had it in his mind all the time they travelling He would describe It to his companions, that narrow little valley, shut in by just the spot south side, where the decivity gentest and the level stretch of land broad ened, and the river curving around made an ideal mill site for the dispatChng of those noble pines that covered the mountains all about Months before he had crossed this same path across the valley ana then along the ridge the mountains and down to where the American River flows, washing the hem of the great hills skirts, and carrying with 1t un- known, undiscovered dust and flakes and nuggets of gold
 The little company made it's way down along the mountains side the valley below. Every thing be done, and almost immediately they set to work A double loghouse built for Mrs. Weimer and her family, quarter of mile up from the river in little gulc amid the pines And later, when up from the fort to assist in building the mill and the old story of clearinghouse feuds repeated, ether little loghouses erected nearer the river and the mill, and men 'batched' for themselves. But the whole little set clement counted only eighteen, including Mission h. dians, who would work under supervision. Things went very slowly. They had few tools they had to supply so many deficiencies and do without many necessares. And after the rains began, the river sweled and swelled till it flooded the little val ley and very nearly undid all the work that had been painfully wearyingly done.
 Six months had passed and that mill not yet finished The dam had been built, the frame for the mill standing and the Hume and the bulkhead completed. Marshall grew impatient. There was possibility of getting mere hands to work so
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-23
OW Jlr1 .N1AQSTgAIL PICKED Up ANUGGFT A

in my soap kettle. Mir Marshall said II IL was there it had not gone back to California plank Was brought me lay my onto, and cut It III chunks, but it was to be found At the bottom of the pot was double handful of potash Whlch lifted in my two hands, and there my gold as bright it could be-
 But Marshall was net quite satisfied Sutter had failed supply provisions to the mill Mar shall determined to go down to the fort, see what reason there for the delay, and report to Suter the finding of what he believed and hoped was golo
 
 "I somewhat surprised to see him, Sutter says in his account, ''as he was down few days previous. After I had sent to Coloma a number of teams with provisions, mill irons, etc. he told me then that he had important and interesting which he wished communicate secretly to me, and wished to gG with him to a place where should not be disturbed and where no listeners could come and hear what we had to say Then Mr. Marshall began to show me this metal which consisted of small pieces and specimens some of them worth few dollars he told me that he had expressed his opinion the laborers at the m that this might be gold, but of them laughing at him and called him crazy man, and could not believe such thing.
 After having proved the metal with aquafortis which I found in my apothecary shop, likewise with other experiments, and read the long article Gold in the Enclycopedia Americana I declared this be gold the finest quality of least twenty three carats."
 Then hey back the mountains! Marshall could longer rest at the fort Off he started for that little valley magical him as it has be- come to the rest of the world. He impIored Sutter come with him and immediately. But the pheg- matic Swiss could necessity for hurry advised Marshall to stay for supper and sleep the fort Then in the morning they both could ride
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-23

the discovery which that unreliable eccentric ciate of his reported the mill but days ride from the fort.
 The Sacramento Valley in '47 a beautiful sol- tude about which roamed herds of deer, antelope and wild cattle and horses. On the banks of the river willows, cottonwood and sycamore trees, ther down. where the river sought the bay the lighter green changed a rich dark hue, where the tall, graceful jules waved and the air took salty tnge.
 Think of these people marching sturdy away from the spot in all that wilderness where a white be seen; that well-built. we'll planned fort of Sutters whose gracious hospitality, whose practical al-round wisdom was at every mans service.
 But the members of this band were made of stern, stout stuff. Marshall most ingenious man. handy able to do anything that might be done by skilfu, experienced hands, from constructing rude make-shifts for furniture, to cabinets worthy of a place in civilized communities. Before leaving the fort, he had stocked blows for Sutter. At the restored fort they keep the saddle he made for himself. An old pioneer at Coloma showed me the wooden latch Marshall had fashioned for his door, when Coloma became prosperous and, alas! wicked.
 Weimer Marshalrs right hand man, had crossed the plains and arriving at Sutters Fort-every body arrived at Suffers Fort and sa1ed out to con- quer the wilderness from there-he started with a team and cannon to join Fremont. On his return Weimer entered Sutters employ, and in May he, with a companion made a sort of preliminary prospecting expedticn-not for gold but for timber, which should be used in the construction of Touring ml thing for which the far-seeng, thrifty Sutter yearned
 Even Mrs Weimer credit to the little pio- neer-company She had crossed the plains with her husband and her two children by her first marriage And she model for pioneers wife; able and willing to bear hardshps an excellent nurse, as Mar shall had good reason tc know; a competent seam stress, as the Indians could testify whose nakedness she covered with shirts of her own making She was good cook too, making the most and the tastest of the salt salmon and boiled wheat, which was all they had first. She could even make soap. Isn't it odd that Mrs. Weimer's snap-making should have
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-23

Ancng the early pioneers was one who, quitting New Jersey for Missouri, Missouri for Oregon. and entering California by way of the north, was des- tired to bring about greater prosperity than any statesman economist the United States has pro- duced By caprice of fate, uneducated Ameri- can possessing unusual mental moral qualities, an ordinary very faulty man, had been chosen to to place California the very center of the worlds eye ard mind
 In August, 1S47, a few and two children left Sutters Fort which the old Swiss to call New Helvetia, and journeyed in northeast erly direction.
 The leader of the expedition milwright by trade, strong, straight, active about 3S years old His features were rather coarse. rough hewn Around his chin he thin beard which joined his short brown hair at the temples. His eyes were penetrating his forehead broad his thin ,iipped determined obstinate His face locked Scotch, and his long, shayen upper lip gave him something of clerical air. typical, ard-headed farmer from the Eastern States, you would say. The body of a mountaineer, rugged, hearty, agile. The mission of a hero. strange combination This was Marshall.
 If yCu to start to-day from Sacramento for Coloma, you would cross the Sacramento Valley in a northeasterly direction about Marshall his small company did half century Only you would take the train for Folsom while they jour- neyed on, carrying and supplies in Mexican OK carts like that may at the restored Sutter's Fort of to-day. They drove band of sheep be- fore them. say and nearly week had passed before they had arrived at just the spot that seemed to Marshall proper place erect that celebrated sawmil of whose raceway gold dust and dust the product The trip could be made day in five hours if trains and stage connected which they don't When sutter went ever to investigate
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-23

the pioneer turned to Nature for assistance. Every night after the men had finished work and sought the comfort of their cabins. the gate raised and the clear, mountain river, freed from the arti hcial bounds that held it during day, dashed madly, joyously through the ditch, washing the sand and singing it's work all the night while the tired laborers slept
 T used to go down in the morning." says Mar shall, "to what had been done by the water through the night. About 7:30 o'clock in the ing went down usual, and after shutting eff the lower end and there, upon rock, about six inches beneath the surface of the water, I discovered the gold"
 Never in all the history of rising betmes has the early bird found so precious this! If this millwright could have gathered up the treasure he had discovered, he might have been worth $1S03571 59S to-day.
 Marshall stopped down and gathered few more pieces of the metal. Picking up gold easy in that old miIlrace it is in dream of treasure trove. Meditatively, tentatively he placed a piece upon rock and with another rock hammered 1t fiat It malleable, surely. Marshall scrambled up the bank bearing in his old hat collection of bright shining particles. Boys he said, ''by -. l be- leve I've found a gold minei''
 Work the mill stopped and the men gath cred about curiosly, doubtingly, eagerly One imagine the various tests suggested. We know though, from Mrs. Weimer's own account, that her boy Martin, brought her a piece of the gold saying:
 They want you to put it into saleratus water to see if it will tarnsh'
 from Georgia and had gold dust before. "In throw it into lye kettle which I've just tried with feather, and if it is gold, it will be gold when it out
 Which wisdom Mrs. Wemer's narrative goes on:
 q finished off my soap that day and set it off to cool and it stayed there until next morning. At the breakfast table, one of the workhands raised up his head from eating and said: I heard something about gold being discovered what about it? Mr. Mar shall told him ask Jenny. and I told him it was
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-23


 added the lofty fcrest-covered mountains,
 or worn away by wind or water, meant in- creased riches.
 All through the spring and summer Cali ornia waited, and her mysterious sunny, sleepy smile blossomed into myriads of golden poppies tnged with the color of that she held And through the winters, too, she waited weeping softly in her sleep with gentle disappointment till the spring came again.
 And summer followed spring. and winter came again and again, and still one came. The world was hungering for gold. Men had suffered and struggled and murdered for gold. And the dumb gOld-mother lay enchaned ready to give with freest fullest generosity of the store of treasure that v Tn her lap if only the messenger who knew the ma sic word would come break the spell that bound her.
 All through the ages when the naked red men roamed through the majestic forests and up and down the beautiful valleys, California despaired Her Tescuef was none of this race. These degraded say ages knew not the mighty power that lay locked up by Natures hand They plucked the wild fruits they hunted the birds and the beasts They fo1nd blue and white stones. the pipe clay and the red ocher, with which to stain their misshapen bodies and their brutish faces. But the gold which Cali 1ornla held they valued not.
 And so she waited.
 Once, more than three centuries ago. a strange snip sailed into the harbor and white men from the other side Gt the world California's shores For moment, she felt that her day had come Rut the white men sailed away, as unawares as when they landed of the store of riches ready to fan like Ilpe Hult into their adventurous hands And Cali fornia lay back wearily again, and dozed and slept and dreamed for two long centuries
 And once again, when the Jesuit priests and their IaiLnIul m Spanlards wandered up from Mexico, Alta california stretched out in the sum- rubbed her eyes ana waited eXpectantIy. But the signal came not and she sank back into drowsy repose
 But though no yet knew the magic word Nhich should transform the great still silent valleys, which should vivify the sleeper and unlock the store of wealth she held her stiff fened embrace, a myth, a whisper a dream of gold was lh the hearts and in the minds of The name California had begun signify riches extrava gance CT Poductlon the realization of an earthly paradise
 Yet still the Gold Empress slept and only dreamed Of awakening.
 t Far in the South Spanish Californian pulled wild onion up by the roots, and with it came hint ot California; s treasure a tiny streamlet of gold that had Over1owed from the abundance that was hers
 The sleeper stirred and smiled in her sleep. But the southern land sleepy land itself, and those who dwelt there were content with little. The great store undsturbed, and California dozed again through many sunny and many rainy day. b A scientist versed in Natures sly ways, passed the spot and to his dis 'erning the hoard
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-23

over to the valley of gold But Marshall would listen.
 twill you come tomorrow mornng?" he asked Sutter the intentness of preoccupation
 Sutter promised Marshall out of the adobe, down the steps. the yard and out be- yond the walls The gateway closed behind him, and Marshall rode out into the rainy night.
 The next morning at ' o'clock Sutter followed When he had left the valley and begun climb the wood Marshall, mad now with the gold fever that he could wait Cc:oma for Sutter's coming. He had ridden ifty-four miles up from the fort to the mill, and then, mounting another horse, had turned back to meet his partner.
 Just the mill hands finishing break fast,' relates Henry Bigler of that disbande1 Mormon regiment of soldiers, who became miner, store-keeper, and followed half dozen different trades circumstances required. i've saw the old gentleman stubbing along with his cane in his hand Ga well-dressed old gentleman tool MT. Mar in the middle. As they neared our shanty w went out and met them. After shaking hands and passing the common salutatons we were all invited by Sutter and Marshall to along and have a gen. eral time prospecting in the race
 Fancy the old Swiss land baron issuing sort of general invitation his to join in the merry game of picking up fortunes!
 But the man who could play the role of the Treas ure King in a fairy-tale role was not elated
 "On my way home,'' he says Il was very un- happy and could not that it would benefit me much Before my departure I had conversation with all hands; told them that would consider It as a great favor if they would keep this discovery only for six weeks so that could hnsh my large flour mill at Brighton, whicFe
 had cost me already about from o. twenty-four to twenty-five thou $N sQI/A>,
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-23

OR centuries California lay basking in the .- sun, hugging her treasure to her breast.
 Every golden day that passed every drop of water that flowed on down through the smiling valleys every grain of sand that was added to the lofty fGrest-covered mountains away by wind water, meant in- creased riches.
 All through the snring and CaIi-
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Biographical.

Smith Mcpherson was born February
IA, l848, i'll Morgan county, Indiana.
His early life WAS spent on il farm and
in attending common school. He
also spent some time at an academy III
Mooresville, Indiana. He graduated
from the law department. of the Iowa
State University in June, 1870. After
spending afew months in the law office
of his uncle, M. l.. Mcpherson, in Coun-
Gil Bluffs, he came to Red Oak in the
fall of the same year, and has made
this city his home ever since. He was
appointed district attorney July, 1874,
and in the election the following year
was elected to the same office by a
majority of 1000, over Geo. L. Finn, of
Taylor county, who is the fusion candl-
date for congress in the Eighth district
this year. He WAS re elected over j. l..
Brown, Democrat and Greenback can :
didate, in 1878, and at the November,
1880, election he was elected to the
office of attorney general, which posi-
ton he held four years. lie was mar
ried October 2, 1879, to Miss Fannie
Boyer, of Mahaska county.
Mr.. Mcpherson is recognized as one
of the leading lawyers i'll the state of
Iowa, and his services are sought in
many important cases in southwestern
Iowa With his wife he lives in what
is perhaps the finest residence in Red
Oak, a'home that is noted for it's hos
pitality.-Red Oak Express.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-09-01
rIcPherson's Acceptance Speech

/ desire to say at this time to you
and the people back of you, that there
may be no misunderstanding as to the
canvass propose to make, and as to
my acts and votes in congress, ii this
nomination is ratified by the people at
the election this fall. OF all things /
want to be clearly understo od on the
money question, and desire to empha.
size my views with reference thereto.
not only stand by the st. Louis plat,
form of two years ago, but / am abso-
lutely and unequivocally for the gold
standard, and have been at all times
since that question became one of pub
lie interest. | am for the gold stan
dard without reservation or further eX-
PLANTATION. a scheme for the free coin
age of silver, ware house schemes, IT.
redeemable paper, hat money, and all
kindred schemes that have been born
or may hereafter be born shalt never
come into my mind except as may de-
sire TO entertain sentiments of supreme
contempt.
AS to the present administration,
have agreed with its policy at all times
since the inauguration of President
Mckinley. l believed i'll him when lie
sought by all honorable means to avert
the war with Spain. | agreed with
him when war deemed to be probable
in his efforts to delay it, but when moth
ing but war would do, have been in
full sympathy with him in his untlring
energy in prosecuting it to Il successful
conclusion. am with him in his ef-
forts for an honorable and satisfactory
peace. And upon all public questions
concerning which l have the slightest
doubts, propose to march under the
banner of President Mckinley.
No man since Abraham Lincoln
has the hearts and sympathies and
judgment of the American people as
he does today. Lincoln gave freedom
to 100000 slaves and William Mckin'
ley today Is taking from serfdom more
than 100000 of our fellow human be.
ings.
| fully believe in the policy Of the
Republican party concerning protective
tariffs and thoroughly endorse the re.
ciptoc ty plan as taught 10y that great
statesman, James G. Blaine. l am in
favor Of al! measures looking to ad
vancement in educational matters
and likewise | shall endorse AL legisla
ton tending to the advancement OF
our moral as orr material prosperity.
In conclusion, | again thank you TOT
the honor of this nomination.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-09-01

The democrats nominated Hon. j. A.
Lyons, of Guthrie Center, last week
for their congressional candidate in
this district. Mr.. Lyons has been a
republican all his life up to five years
ago The republican party had taken
him up and sent him to the legislature
and then had advanced him to the
position of state auditor for three terms.
Having given him these worthy and
distinguished honors Mr.. Lyons pro-
ceeded to have big ambitions, to think
nothing was too good for him. He be-
came candidate for the republican
nomination for governor five years
ago. The delegates to the state con-
vention exercised their privilege of
voting for whom they pleased, and
nominated Frank Jackson. Then Mr..
Lyons received a change of heart and
became an advocate of the other side.
He took the stump for Boies, but the
people elected Jackson. Since then
Mr.. Lyons has nursed his grievance at
the party because it did not continue
to advance him and his given influence
to the opposition, even stumping for
Bryan and for Fred White last year.
Such course, it is strange to say, has
sufficient attraction for the democratic
party to cause them to nominate him
for congress. There is no show of his
election, but their nomination of him
while they have single man left in
their party who could run, is putting
premium on ingratitude and dis
honor.