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The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-21
Last of the Volunteers

San Francisco. Cal. Dec. 21.-The
United States transport Grant cleared
last night and will sail for Manila with
the last of the volunteer regiments, the
Forty-eighth infantry, coIored, in COM
mand of Colonel William Duval.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-21

As a cure for rheumatism, Chamber
Iain's Pain Balm is gaining a wide repu-
tation. D. 3. Johnston of Richmond, Ind.
has been troubled with that ailment since
1862. In speaking Of it he says: Il never
found anything that would relieve me
uutil I used Chamberlains Pain Balm.
It acts like magic with me. Ny foot was
swollen and paining me very much but
one good application of Pain Balm relieY-
ed me. For sale by all druggists.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-21
HOLIDAY RATES

Via "Ths Rock Island Route1
Tickets on sale December q to %
also December 90 to January 1st, final
limit January 18th, 1900. See Rock Is
land agents for full information
The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-21
FORT SCOTT LIBERAL.

"P. S.-The leading division IS up and
next two aDpear TO be well closed-.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-21
CARS BREAK LOOSE.

NJ. A HANNA, Chairma
CHARLES DICK, Secretary
The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-21
JUDGE SCOTT STRIKES OUT

REV. o. S. MORROW"
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-19
BEWARE OF OIL STOCKS.

Early last summer when the stock
gambling in alleged oil property be-
gan to develop as a craze, the Rec
ord Union" sounded the note Of warn
ing; ever since it has endeavored to
check the drift of the minimizing and
gullible into the nets of the gamblers.
Considerable good has been done by the
press of the State, which quite gener-
ally has seconded the effort to save the
so-called investors from their fate.
Stock gaming in oil wells is not so
prosperous as it would have been with
out these warnings. However it con
tinues to considerable extent, and will
take on new growth unless warning is
repeatedly sounded. 1t Is sad re-
Election that many people are so de-
void OF good sense as to permit their
acquisitiveness to lead them captive in
the hope of gain without reason, or at
the cost of loss of others.
The organization of oil stock ex-
changes. the printing Of oil stock re-
porting papers, are parts of the game
OF swindle The oil well mining that
Il done In such boards and through
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-19

To do this work properly calls for ex-
ecutive, clerical and general ability of
high order, and yet the Supervisors re-
ceive small compensation comparative
ly for their services.
DROP THE MATTER
Los Angeles Express: The Sampson
Schley controversy has again sereneiy
bobbed up, and promises to be injected
into Congress at an early date. In a
special dispatch to the New York Her
add from Washington, President Nc
Kinley is quoted as having expressed
himself in an interview with Senator
Wellington as being in favor of reviv-
ing the grade of Vice Admiral in the
interest of both Rear Admiral Sampson
and Rear Admiral Schley. He believes
that this is the simplest solution OF the
whole Sampson-Schley controversy,
and that it is expected that Senator
Wellington will introduce bill In a
few days providing for the appointment
of two Vice Admirals without specify
ing Names
The President is further quoted as
very frankly saying that if such Dill
became a law he would promptly nomi-
nate both Sampson and Schley in the
order named. This arrangement, Dotn
the President and Senator Wellington
believe will meet the approval OF a
majority of the friends of both officers
The country at large is becoming
very weary of this so-called controver-
sy as to the merits of these two officers,
and if the matter is brought up in
Congress it should be promptly and
firmly suppressed. We do not need any
Vice Admirals. and until the occasion
arises they should not be created. Both
officers have been amply rewarded for
their services in sinking Cervera's fleet.
Schley has gone on and done his duty
like man, and Sampson should do the
same thing and keep away from WASH
ington.
The country has more important bus
mess on hand than making ornamental
titles. Each man can do his duty as
effectively as a Rear Admiral as he can
if he should be called Vice Admiral,
and the matter should be dropped once
for all. This hero business is getting
very monotonous anyway. We have
had enough of it, and to spare.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-19

The Review of Reviews takes issue
with those misdirected intelligences
which are shouting that the American
people are crazed by the fever Of ac-
QUESTION of territory, and are, there
fore, launched upon the flood tide of
imperialism. 1t Is fact, as the RE
view" well says, that there is no de-
lirium of imperialism among our people,
but very calm and wisely calculating
public thought upon the commercial
and industrial expansion of a nation,
all the natural tendencies of which are
to project the influence Of it's free in
situations beyond it's continental bor-
ders.
The average American Graves imper-
ial dominion about as little as does the
average Swiss. Nevertheless. it is the
general conviction of the country that
a sequence of events which human fore
sight could not control has thrown upon
us the burden of establishing order in
the Philippines, and of taking SPANS
place there as sovereign in the mean
ing that international law attaches to
that term
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-19

The great and overshadowing reason
for an extra session of the Legislature
to fill Californias vacant seat in the
Senate of the United States is that fail
ure to fill the vacancy will bring about
defeat of the Republican party in the
next election, and as a result the De-
mocracy and opponents of the Admin
istration will elect "a Senator to serve
for six years The party in that case
will not only have proved untrue to
itself, but will have proved unfaithful
to the trust reposed in it by the peo-
pie, who by their votes made it domi-
nant, and imposed upon it a distinct
duty to perform. It is easily under
stood, therefore, why Democratic or
CARNATIONS. leaders and journals oppose
an extra session of the Legislature
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-19
EXIT EMMA.

Emma Goldman, the anarch1stlc
apostle Who has been laboring in this
country for ten years or more to con-
vert sufficient Americans to her way
of thinking to constitute a party. has
risen UP and shaken the dust of the
land from her skirts and departed to
the more congenial fields of Europe,
where there are more of her kind than
will ever be bred upon the free soil of
America.
Emma declares that her work here
has been futile. that the workingman Of
the United States is too we'll content to
be the slave Of law and the servitor of
order. both Of which she despises. She
says:
What is the result? There is no hope
for the American workman. He will
not think, and he has always stabbed
his best friend in the back and wor-
SHIPPED the man who makes a slave
Of him,
Emma is mad and we do not blame
her. To lose ten years of ones life
in the preaching Of cause that will
not bring converts to its banners is in
deed discouraging. Emma has not dis
covered that she is behind or in advance
of the age; it matters little which. If
She is behind it so much the more
pity that she should have wasted years
in fruitless endeavor. If she is in
advance of it then when the age over
al he Il
crush her and all her disciples.
Men and women in the light of these
centuries are not going to break up or
ganized society in which Heavens first
law is at least somewhat observed, for
chaos and the absence of all restraint.
1t may be well enough from a purely
selfish point of view to say that every
man should be a. law unto himself. But
might wish them to be.
As long as human nature is what it
is the Emma Goldmans will be treated
as freaks, lunatics some times, assas-
sins at others Order will prevail
among men and law will forever be the
sure foundation upon which it builds.
The ST. Louis "Globe-Democrat" has
replied to Emma's wall and anathema
so completely, that we do not resist
the temptation to quote in full:
In the course of ten years Miss Gold
man has exhausted all resources to
spread her anarchistic teachings, and,
as she confesses, without the least eff
feet. If she had looked beyond her
small, beetle browed circle she would
have seen country in which poor
mems sons the sons of workmen, reach
the highest position in every walk OF
life. The motto of Americans is I'VE
build" Letting loose destructive forces,
tearing down organized industry, re-
placing order with disorder, opening the
doors to mob instability and blind pas
sion. and stoning those who rise by
force Of effort and character is not
the American fashion of going ahead
Miss Goldman says she found but ten
real anarchists in this country, the rest
who call themselves by the name being
towards and hypocrites. These ten
should hasten to follow her example.
The United States is not an encour-
aging field for their gospel of hatred
and violence. American workmen have
no use for them. They live in country
OF opportunities and improve them to
the constant advantage Of themselves
and their children
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-19
NOTICE OF ELECTION.

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
in Reclamation District No. 673, county of
Sacramento, State of California, on Sat-
urday, the Goth day of January, 1900, COM
at A o'clock p. m. of that day, for the
election of three trustees of said Recla-
nation District No. 673 of the county of
Sacramento, State of California, and that
the officers of said election are Thomas
Lennox, Inspector, and Joseph Costing
and F. J. LUZ, Judges.
Attest:
(Seal.) W. B. HAMILTON
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of Sac
ramento County, California.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-19

Mrs. c.. P. Huntington is devoting
much Of her time to the fostering of
educational interests here and else
where Her ideas are not confined to
the advancement of either race. Last
week the pupils of the Pascal Insti-
tute, whose interests she has substan-
TALLY advanced during the year, pre-
sented her with handsome American
flag Of their own handiwork, fashioned
out of gros-grain silk, the stitches
which hold the stripes being invisible
on account of the fineness of the work.
The glorious stars are of solid embroid-
cry. AS you have already heard, Mr.
and Mrs Huntington last week cast in
their little mite, $4,000, to help along
the Tuskegee Institute Of Alabama, an
organization for the education Of the
colored race in the South.-verdenal' 8
New York letter in San Francisco
Chronicle.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-19
A Bitter Cry.

Now that the fighters
Have joined the writer's.
The poor author stands below par.
My stories are spurned,
My poems returned;
The public reads nothing but War!
Fight thought over,
But now I discover
The magazines carry It on.
Hope it's not lasting!
Meanwhile, I'm fasting,
For my occupation is gone.
Nellie Frances Milburn, in Frank Les
lies Popular Monthly.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-19

SUNDAY excepted, /, tMnnday excepted.
3, II. GOODMAN. Gen, Pa Agent.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-19

Or rlCIAh SALARIES.
santa Rosa Republican,: While there
are public offices requiring great execu-
tive ability or professional skill and
for which large compensation should
be provided, this is not true of many
places. The Supervisors are really the
most important county officers. They
can do most to promote or damage the
interests Of the county. They have or
should have supervision of the affairs
of all the other county officers. They
are to pass on all bills and are given
absolute control of the highly import
ant work of road making and main
tenance. They are really the county's
executive officers. and should have in
innate knowledge of the affairs of all
the departments Of county government.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-19
Weather Forecast.

For Northern California: Fair Tues
day, becoming cloudy at night; continued
cold weather; light northerly changing to
easterly winds; heavy frost in the morn
ing.
For Sacramento and vicinity: Fair
Tuesday; much colder in the morning,
with severe frost; light northerly winds;
gardens and orchards should be smudged;
river will fall rapidly.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-19

To Cure Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money If 1t fails
to cure. E. W. Groves signature Is on
each box. Csc. MTuWTh
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-19

James jackson, heir to the throne of
Kabinda, is janitor Of a. fiat in San
Francisco.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-19

Some battles are won by fighting and
others by running away.
The San Francisco call., 1899-12-20
DEAL IN CANNERIES
CAUSING A FURRY
A PRIVATE DISPATCH REVIEWS
DISCUSSION.
Reports on the Street That an Agree
ment has Been Finally Reached
at New York.

Parties interested in California canner-
les were stirred up yesterday by the news
that a private dispatch had been received
from New York confirming the rumor
that Frank S. Johnson had concluded a
deal for The consolidation of three can
neries outside of the combine. These
were the California Canneries Company.
Limited. the Golden Gate Cannery and
the cannery OF Code-Portwood.
This news differed materially from that
received some days ago. Then Johnson
was reported TO have disposed of stock
amounting TO $75o.oOO in new corpora,
ton. intended TO absorb the three con-
Germs named, the sale of the stock being
conditioned upon the acceptance OF the
price for the canneries that the Eastern
people were willing to pay. The later
rumor is that the deal is absolute.
The same denials are met with on Cali
fornia street that were heard a week ago.
Still II appears that all the parties con-
cerned believe more firmly in the deal
than before. Johnson had options on two
canneries. so the story goes, before he de-
parted for the East. Concerning the third
concern there are conflicting stories and
the truth is hard TO reach.
In the present combine twenty-five can
neries We're absorbed. In that quarter the
liveliest interest is manifested, as the
strong opposition. Johnson, in addition
TO desiring TO be a selling agent in the
East for the three concerns, concerning
which the stories are afloat, is represent
ed TO be looking for a direct European
connection. This would be favored by
the merchants who have taken financial
interest in the deal in progress.
A business man, who has excellent op-
portunities 20 know the general situation
as concerns the canning interest predicted
that If ii should be true that Johnson
had made his deal there would soon be
more canneries in the State than there
are now. which is a matter of consider
able Importance 10 the farmers.
Al the offices Of the Johnson-Locke
Mercantile Company. where the most ac-
curate information in the city has been
received, absolute reticence is maintain
ed All that can be learned there is that
Mr.. Johnson will probably be back in
this city next week.
The San Francisco call., 1899-12-20
Private Albert Polk Ran the
Pace AlOng the Line.
He Met an Expensive LADY, in la
Miller, and Robbed the Preside
Telegraph Office for Funds.

They frequently put up at the Royal
Eagle and at the Tavern and he was more
than an occasional visitor At her own
room on Mission street, but he kept very
quiet about bis little affair while he was
at the Preside, and no one there, even OF
those who worked with him in the tele-
graph office, knew where his money was
going.
He was last at the Office on the after
noon OF December 6. When he was
through work that afternoon he told a
friend he was going into the city TO see
a girl When the Office was opened in
the morning he was not there and neither
was he IN his quarters. nor had his bunk
been slept in. 1t is absence without leave
until the absence reaches ten days, and
then failure 10 appear at roll call, unless
away on fErlough. is desertion; so last
saturday Polk was declared a deserter
ana headquarters was notified Of the fact.
Just before his disappearance Polk was
Up before the signal officer TO be ques-
uoned as 10 the whereabouts Of the Of
lice receipts for September and Novem-
ber, two. months when the Preside was
well nlled with troops. Polk said he had
not made the accounts UP owing TO press
Of business and 10 some complications.
but he would do so at once. or at least
slip quietly away and drop out OF sight.
liza Miller is the wife OF Junie McCree,
an actor and playwright who IS well
known out here. He IS now in New York
with Weber and Fields.
The San Francisco call., 1899-12-20

Judge Ogden's decision she said, 'I
could not help thinking that II wo-
man has no legal redress for such ac-
ton on the part of her husband per-
haps the best thing for her to do
would be TO treat him in like fashion.
] hardly know whether that would do
TO lay down as a rule TO go by in such
cases, for so much depends on individ-
ual circumstances, but that was the
thought that occurred TO me at the
moment. II such a man was 10 find
that his wife was still out when he
returned home. and that this contin-
ued night after night, / think perhaps
he would look at things in a differ
ent way.
1T seems to me Judge Ogden has
taken grave responsibility in giving
a decision which will certainly encour-
age bad husbands in their evil ways
and which is almost certain in this
case to lead to divorce in the end.
For man TO stay out night after
night for months is certainly viola
ton Of the marriage contract. though
II may not be sufficient cause for di-
vorce in this State: at least Judge Og-
den does not seem 10 think so. In
these cases. however, n wife often
public, for the publicity of such a
thing is a dreadful thing for a wo-
man.
Judge Ogden may be right but can
not help wondering what he would do
were he to try the shoe on the other
foot; that is, IL the complainant was a
man whose wife persisted in staying
out night after night and refused 10
give any explanation of her conduct.
but shook him when he cried about it
and told him not TO be silly. but to go
to,bed.
Il wonder II such a case were to
come up, what Judge Ogden would
say?'
Decidedly. the decision opens up a
VIDE question. so wide that its infiu-
ence may be felt all over the State. II
Judge Ogden has enunciated good law
Tor Oakland 1t is good law from Sis
klyou to San Diego. in all the towns
and cities OF California, including San
francisco, and-it may work both
ways.
however, until II gets to the Su-
preme Court or is decided in other
counties by Judges OF coordinate DOW
ets with Judge Ogden, Oakland Will be
I%ne me mecca for the b'hoys in the mar
REQ ulVislon and house rents should
ADVANCE accordingly.
The San Francisco call., 1899-12-20
REPAvEMENT OF STREETS.
Merchants Striving for a Better sys-
tenn in Business Blocks.
-.-3-@-S@-9-.-@-@-@-.-@--@~0

Tho Merchants Association has decided
10 favor a systematic requirement. OF all
the blocks IN the business portion Of the
city that are now in an unsatisfactory
condition. Many OF these blocks are still
paved with cObbles. The board OF direc-
tors of the association viii recommend 10
the city authorities the adoption of plan
Tor The requirement. OF a certain portion
ot these blocks annually. To ascertain the
number or blocks requiring requirement.
and the most expeditions and satisfactory
method of repaNiug the same. Superin-
tendent King OF the association has pre-
pared. al the request of the board. a de-
tailed report upon this subject This re-
port divides the city into number OF dis
uiCts and states the number Of blocks in
each district requiring repaVemenL. It
also estimates the amount necessary 10
repave each block. BY dividing the city
into these districts. IL viii be possible 70
appropriate sufficient money from the an
nual income ana revenue Of the city TO
rcpaye certain portion each year. and
The entire work VIII be completed within
i've years.
This gradual and uniform method OF re-
paving the cilapidated blocks OF this CITY
made IL unnecessary 10 include provision
for cnecting the work by bond issues II
VIII be possible 10 secure "A sufficient
amount from the ordinary annual income
~ the city 10 accomplish this purpose and
the board Of directors Of the Merchants
Association viii shortly petition the CITY
authorities 10 adopt this plan OF proceed
ure
The San Francisco call., 1899-12-20

compel the husband, under such cir
cumstances. TO give an account OF his
action or tell where he has BEEN
No wonder the once-despised Oak
lander Is the whole thing now. Just
think OF his status under that de-
cision. Not only can he stay out late
at night without losing his helpmeet.
but he-note this carefully-but he
doesn't have 10 give an account Of his
actions or, mark this. tell where he
has been. In other words he is lord
and master and doesn't have TO tell
the old familiar lies about the lodge.
and the sick friend with whom he sat
up. or go into details about missing
the last boat and catching a news
paper tug. All he needs is a pocket
full Of keyholes and some self-pos-
session.
They Will pull him through. they and
the decision, and the next morning he
can commute over TO this side and
gloat over the trouble the San Fran
cisco man has squaring himself for
the conjugal fictions of which he was
the author the night before Illah
bismillahi The Oaklander is great
and Ogden is his prophet, and, like all
prophets. is not with all honor in his
The San Francisco call., 1899-12-20

EE He tenderloin has claimed another
victim. this time from among the
soldiers al the Preside. Albert
Polk who was chief operator in the
post telegraph Office. has found that wine
Be- not the only danger along the line, and
as a result be is q dcserter from the army
and dcfauiter. The little money that
passed through his hands Ven out slower
than 81 came IN. and finally II stopped
altogether and he spent the proceeds OF
The Office Oh a soubrette from the Tha-
la
Polk was a second-class private in the
signal corps. lie was originally cav
alryman IN Troop B OF the Fourth Cav
airy. but last April he was discharged
from that branch OF the service and en-
listed IN the signal corps lie bears an
excellent reputation as a soldier. lie has
never been in the gunrdhouse ana has
never been c0urt-marualed. He has been
fairly sober and attentive 10 his duties,
and his one fault seemed 10 be a not too
discriminating love for the fair sex as
represented in LA Miller, variety
artist.
Polk met her in the Thalia one night
after be had shown much attention 10
several OF The girls and had made II
known that he had money In his pocket
Il was not long after pay day and The
money he carried was his own. but after
be met the fair liza the pay OF private
was not near enough 10 keep the pace he
wished 20 travel. SO he drew on the TN IN
the telegraph Office and bought more wine.
In all Polk s shortage is close 10 $500.
The funds from the Office are collected
from the officers and men Of the post and
thoir families. f0r the sending Of tele-
grams unofficial I'm character. The revenue
Is not q particularly large one, but il fire.
guenty reaches over 500 a month, and
while the camps We're fun OF soldiers IL
often went far above that sum, and IL was
curing that time Polk went wrong.
He met The woman six or seven months
ago. lie was introduced TO her by Meyer
Schwartz. one 81 the proprietOrs OF the
place. and Schwartz told her that Polk
was good fellow and she should look out
f0r him She dio, and FOR his money also,
FOR be spent IL on her with a willingness
not In keeping with The Government al
lQwaLce. He was often seen in her COM
pafy. but not altogether 10 the gratifica-
ZION Of the lady, for she told friend she
cisliked 10 bt seen on the street with
soldier in uniform. IL WAS too conspicu-
Gus but on that particular occasion
there WAS a So hat ia d.. and she supposed
she would have 10 walk down Market
street with him.