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The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-08-07

Tucked away in quaint Old World
corners we find some of the most odd
personages. Such is the great artifi-
cial eye maker and painter, A. Miller
Hyper. In quaint Lauscha, in the
very heart of old Thuringen's dense
forests and high mountains, he sits
and works away day in and day out.
surrounded by his family, the male
members of which are all experts in
this delicate work, and have been such
since the days of his great-grandfather,
who first started the work at Paris,
but who. owing to the strong anti
German feeling, was forced to return
to his native mountain land. They
have grown rich, but lead simple, quiet
lives. While the writer sat in front
of Mr.. Hyper he deftly mixed different
colored glasses over his gas lamp, and
within half an hour brought forth a
perfect reproduction, in everything but
real sight, of the writer's eye. Every
year thousands of eyes made by this
Old World family find their way to
America -LeSlie'S Weekly
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YAQUI INDIANS.
Said to be Prepared for a Long
and Bloody Campaign,

AUSTIN (Tex.), Aug. Ga special
dispatch received to-day from Ter
razas, Chihuahua, Mexico, which is
located near the scene of the Yaqui
uprising, is to the effect that the In
dams are arranging for a prolonged
war The special says:
1t is going to take the Mexican
Government a long time and a big
force of troops to quell the rebellion
The Yaquis are better prepared now
than ever before for long and
bloody campaign. They are all we'll
fixed financially, nearly all of them
having saved the 5000 per head which
the Mexican Governement paid them
when they signed the treaty of peace
two years ago. They have been maxi
ing moneX since then, too, and it is
known to be a fact that they have
been laying in big supplies of arms
and ammunition for some time past
It has been common talk among the
American prospectors in the Yaqui
Valley that the Indians We're prepar-
ing for another outbreak, but as the
braves had always shown a friendly
spirit toward the Americans it was
thought they would not modest them
when they did go on the warpath.
They are determined to recover all of
their lost country, however, and will
kill everybody they find within the
limits of their old possessions.
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GOVERNMENT OF CUBA.
Only Hope Lies in Annexation to
United States.

HAVANA, Aug. Ga leading Ha-
vana merchant, a Cuban having bust
ness connections with most of the cit
les of the island, and who claims to
be well posted regarding Cuban affairs,
said to-day that universal suffrage in
Cuba would mean black republic in
the near future, and that the only
means of preventing it will be the in
corporation of the island as pos
session of the United States as
State, Territory or colony, leading
to American immigration, intermar-
riages, the enrichment Of insular blood
and the improvement of the popula-
ton. In his Judgment Cuba is other
wise doomed to become another Haytl
His assertions are based upon the
fact that in a population not exceed
ing 1850, 0OO with a voting capacity
of 100000, the Spaniards number 5000.
the white Cubans 12500O, those claim
ing to be white 25,OOO, while the blacks
number 100000 in voting strength.
His theory is that more than half the
Spaniards under a system of universal
suffrage would not vote, and that the
number who would vote must inev-
itably diminish each year. The Gu
bans, who will no longer have the
fresh blood of Spanish immigrants to
draw upon, will gradually grow fewer
while on the other hand the blacks,
who thrive in this climate and are
big strong and healthy, will increase
at a rapid rate.
The result will be, he believes, thai
in fifty years there will be more than
1000, 900 negroes in the island and less
than 100000 others. Even in the first
election" he declares, 1.-The blacks
could carry everything their own way
If they knew their strength"
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SEALED PROPOSALS.

Bids will be received at the office OF
the undersigned until 5 O'Clock p. m.
on Monday, August II, 1899, for the
removal and sale of engine in City
Water Works, commonly known as
"Stevens" pump. Contractor will be
required to remove engine from build
Ing, said engine to become the prop
erty of contractor. A certified check
in sum of 100, made payable to City
Clerk, must accompany each bid. The
Board of Trustees reserves the right
to reject any and all bids.
n. J. DESr1OND,
City Clerk.
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WEATHER CONDITIONS.
and Showers Likely
to Occur To-Day.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 6-The fol-
lowing maximum temperatures were
reported from stations in California:
Eureka 80, Fresno 81. Los Angeles 16,
Red Bluff 80, San Luis Obispo y, San
Diego 20. Sacramento 50, independence
so. Yuma SO.
San Francisco data: Maximum tenn
perature Sc. minimum 81, mean SO.
Generally cloudy and threatening
weather prevails over the greater por-
ton of the Pacific Slope. Thunder
storms have occurred in Idaho. Ne
vada, Utah and the mountain regions
of California.
The changes in pressure and tenn
perature have been slight and irreg-
ular in all districts.
Conditions are favorable for gener-
ally cloudy and threatening weather,
with occasional showers and thunder
storms Monday in all districts.
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A Victory with Dummy Guns.

An illustration Of the "audacious inl-
pudence" of our privateersmen is had
in the case of the Paul Jones of New
York. This vessel put to sea at the
outbreak of the war Of 1912 with
complement Of 120 men, but with only
three guns.
Almost her first prize was the heavily
armed British merchantmen Hassan,
carrying fourteen guns, but with only
twenty men, though her cargo was
worth some 100000. The Paul Jones.
though carrying only three guns, was
pierced for seventeen. 1t is said that
the Commander of the Paul Jones
sawed off some spare masts to the
length of guns, painted them black,
and, being mounted on buckets, rolled
them out of his empty ports as effect
i've limitations of heavy ordnance. Then.
filling his rigging with his superfiuous
force of men, SO far overawed the
enemy that they surrendered as soon
as the privateer, with her dummy guns,
got fairly alongside.
The Americans then helped them
selves to such of the Hassan's guns and
ammunition as they needed and went
on their way rejoicing.-Philadelp
Saturday Evening Post.
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THE STRIKE ON THE "suN."
The New York Paper May Not Be
Able to Publish To-Day.

NEW YORK, Aug. 6.-The compos-
itors and stereotypers Of the New
York tSun," 12O in number, who went
on strike Saturday night, were still
out tonight The press and compos-
ing-rooms were in darkness, but the
editorial rooms presented the usual ap-
pearance.
The Sun appeared this morning
with only four pages of its news sec
ton. In an editorial the Sun" Of
this morning says that it may be i'm
possible for the paper to be published
tomorrow.
The. strike, which was ordered and
sanctioned by Typographical Union,
No. 6, was ratified to-day in Teutonic
Hall at one of the largest meetings
ever held by the union. A telegram
was received from Samuel B. Donnelly
of Indianapolis, President Of the In
ternational Typographical Union, Of
fering to place the available funds OF
the parent association at the disposal
of the local organization.
There is nothing new to be said OF
the strike said the President of the
union, except that the battle has COM
menced, and we hope that our side
will win. I am making no promises
but will do my best
At the headquarters of the union to-
day the rooms were crowded with
strikers and their sympathizers. Talk
was mainly over the expected arrival
of non-union men from Philadelphia
by steamer. Pickets were sent out by
the strikers and instructed to watch
all the possible landing places.
Officers of the Typographical Union
received word early this morning that
the steamer Endeavor, from Philadel-
phia, was anchored off Sixty-fifth
street, Brooklyn, with about 100 print
ers, who would be landed to-day. Ac-
cording to the union officials, half the
men on board were union printers,
fully equipped to persuade the others
not to go to work.
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British Are Making a Significant
Move in the North.
Their Military and Naval Forces in the
Pacific to be Strengthened.
An Intimation That Great Britain
and the Dominion Governments
May Assert Their Claim by
Force of Arms to the Portion Of
Alaska Demanded by Canada.

CHICAGO, August Ga special to
the Record" from Victoria, B. c., says:
The Imperial Government and the
Dominion authorities have decided to
increase both the regular military and
cific Coast depot Of the British army
and navy. Coming at this time, when
the relations between Canada and the
United States are acknowledged by Pre-,
mier Laurier to be rather strained over
the Alaskan boundary question, it looks
as if Great Britain and Canada were
determined to assert their claim to the
portion of Alaska demanded by Canada
by force of arms if necessary.
Be this as it may, the garrison is to
be at once greatly increased. The bar
racks on MacAuley Point, where the
big forts are situated, which with their
long reaching disappearing guns, COM
mand the entrance to the Straits of San
Juan de Fuca, will soon be the home
of more than treble the number of en-
gineers marine artillery, sappers and
other united service men than are now
quartered there. Some of the ad.
ditional garrison has already left Eng
land, and others will come out in big
squads within the next few months via
Halifax and the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way.
The first squad of troops to come will
number $50 officers and men, and the
present garrison being too small to
house them, much larger barracks will
be at once erected.
The cost of the new military post
Lo1 - ~ 1h ;c 10 - NV "a
Dominion Government and half by the
British authorities. is f23, 900, or about
S125, 900. It is also said the naval
forces will be increased by the addition
of a depot ship the Temeraire, which
will be sent out from Chatham in Sep,
TENDER.
A war ship, with the new Admiral, is
due from England two weeks hence.
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Sequence to the Great Strike.

There have been many comments,
for instance, on the strangeness Of the
fact that all the British builders should
be thus overwhelmed with work just
now. But this is the direct and obvious
outcome of the engineers strike of 1896.
That most foolish and wrong headed
and mismanaged struggle cost both
masters and men untold millions of di-
rect loss, and sowed the seeds of con-
sequential losses that operate now and
must spread over many years still to
come. One of the effects has been this
present accumulation of arrears of work
which has caused orders to the value
of some 1900, 900 to be sent abroad, all
of which is virtually kept out of the
pockets of British workmen through
their own insane action in the past
Charles Rous- Marten, in The Engineer
ing Magazine.
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SEALED PROPOSALS.

Bids will be received at the office of
the undersigned until O'Clock p. m.
on Monday, August Ia, 1899, for
1000 feet of six-inch castiron water
pipe, to weigh not less than thirty
one pounds to lineal foot, and to be
delivered at freight sheds in this city,
subject to approval of City Taper.
A certified check, made payable to
City Clerk, for an amount not less
than ten per cent of aggregate of
proposal must accompany each bid.
The Board of Trustees reserves the
right to reject any and all bids.
M. J. DES1OND,
City Clerk.
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Some Pronunciation.

Jimmy is in room No. of the public
school, but he is smart enough to be
several steps higher. He came home
the other evening and began asking
questions as usual at the dinner table.
Papa" he asked, how would you
pronounce g-o-u-p?"
.Gowp, of course answered his
father.
Coop. you mean, John" corrected
Jimmy's mother.
Its GOO Kate" said Aunt Sue, who
had attended boarding-school. ..It's a
French word and the p is silent"
"At school," said Johnny, 'the teach
er makes us pronounce it go up -
Pittsburg News.
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Late Robert Ingersoll..

CHICAGO, Aug. 6.-Robert G. Inger-
soil, as man, was praised and mourn
ed by 1000 of his Chicago admirers at
Studebaker Hall tonight. Veterans of
the cavalry regiment which he COM
manded during the civil war and men,
bers of the newly formed Ingersoll Me-
mortal Association united in the me-
mortal meeting. Mr.. Ingersoll, the ag
nostic, was passed over, that memory
might dwell on Ingersoll, the father,
husband and friend Our friend" was
the phrase that the speakers one after
the other, used in referring to him.
More than half the speakers confessed
that they stood as representatives Of
the Christian creed and believers in i'm
mortality.
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A Swimming Teachers Death.

NEW YORK, Aug. 6.-Davis Dalton,
a well known swimming instructor, who
has been stopping at Far Rockaway,
met with death near Hog Island, near
Rockaway, to-day. He was in the
water giving an exhibition of swimming
when he suddenly disappeared from
sight. He did not Immediately rise,
and it was supposed he was showing
how long he could remain under water.
After the longest possible time for a
person to remain under elapsed, boats
were sent out and the body was re-
covered. 1t was found that death re-
suited from apoplexy.
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Birched by Machinery.

I specially visited the mud row, sit
uated between Tollcross and Carmyle,
about eight miles from Airdre re-
Gently to interview the lads who re-
Gently received the first honors and
four stripes from the newly acquired
whipping apparatus at Airdrie.
The apparatus is shaped like the
breastpiece of violin, is about five
feet long by three feet broad. The boy
is fastened on by leather straps on his
arms and knees. and the weapon is an
ordinary birch rod
You show up the Airdrie authori-
ties" said the mother of lad named
wee chap of 10-if he would like to visit
Airdrie again. The boy was equal to
the occasion, and promptly answered
no. He was the first to be birched; he
had four stripes and all he has to COM
plain of was that the man waited such
a long time between the strokes.
He was not favorably impressed with
the executioner. He was a big man,
says he, with q great big red face-ana
a doctor looked on. He did not smile
when he received the first lash; it was
very sore (Anglice, painfully. felt like
a big bunch of ''jaggy" leather.
A brother said he would have paid
f5 if he could have prevented the lad
being dashed.
The other boys spoke in the same
strain. and did not relish the introduce
ton of machinery. though the punish
ment appears no more degrading than
a school birching. That is form of
school discipline unknown in Scotch
board schools, where palmies, or strokes
on the palm of the hand with cane, is
the prevailing method of administer
ing Observation-Disclosures correspond
ence of the London Star.
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Again Defeat the San Joses in a
Close Game.
Took Twelve Innings to Decide the Con-
test at the Garden City.
Both Doyle and Borchers Pitched
Good Ball, the Total Hits Made
Numbering But Seventeen and
the Strikeouts Thirteen.

SAN JOSE. Aug. G. = The Sacra-
mentos defeated the local team IN tne
game here to-day by score OF to =
Twelve innings were played, the score
standing to 2 at the end of the ninth
San Jose took the lead with one run
in the first inning, and then scored
again in the fifth. The visitors scored
once in the fifth and tied in the sew
enth. In the deciding inning catcher
Kent threw to second to catch a run
ner. but no one covered the bag.
Eagan, who was on third, scored on
the play Both Borchers and Doyle
pitched good ball Score:
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Shooting ARRAY in Kentucky.

LONDON (Ky), Aug. 6-At East
Bernstadt, this county, Clyde Thomp-
son, aged Is, son of Deputy United
States Marshal George Thompson, was
shot and fatally injured by a young
man named Holt Thompson, who waa
leaning against a telegraph POLE was
asked by Holt to stand aside as ne
wanted to shoot at the pole. This he
refused to do. Again Holt told him,
and again Thompson refused. Then
Holt drew revolver and fired at the
pole, the ball passing through Thomp-
sons body an inch from the heart.
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General Longstreet.

James Longstreet. the noted Confeder-
ate soldier, who is now United States
Commissioner of RAILROADS, arrived
from the north in a special train yes
terday. The officers of the Nebraska
and Pennsylvania Regiments went
over to Oakland mole to meet the Cen
eral. General Longstreet is making his
annual inspection of all bond-aided and
land grant railroads.
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Extreme Heat in France.

PARIS, Aug. 6.-During a severe
thunderstorm last night the lightning
conductor on the Eiffel tower was
struck ten times. A thunderbolt set
fire to the Jeanot factory, the Ceinture
Railway was flooded, many buildings
were injured, and scores Of fine trees
were destroyed. The day had been very
hot, the temperature reaching 1O4 de-
grees. Many sunstrokes were reported
some of them fatal. A dust storm pre-
ceded the thunderstorm at Versailles.
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THE DREyFUs TRIAL.
PROCEEDINGS IN THE NEW
COURT MARTIAL
Were Begun This Morning q
Rennes- Only q Small
Crowd Present.


of the court-martial before which Cap
tain Dreyfus is on trial opened at ten
minutes past Z this Monday morn
ing. Captain Dreyfus entered the
courtroom with firm step, though his
features were pallid. He is partly bald
and what hair he has is gray and
close-croped.
He answered the formal questions
of the Judge as to his name, age, etc,
in clear, determined voice. He sat
facing the Judges with his hands rest
ing on his knees, an impossible figure.
The trial opened, so far as Rennes
is concerned, in an atmosphere of per-
feet tranquility. The population is ap-
parently Indifferent. Only a small
crowd, at the most fifty persons. had
gathered outside the entrance to the
Lycee by o'clock. A majority of
these were journalists.
The Project of Police and Chief OF
the Secret Police Viguier arrived just
before 8, and began the superintend-
ence of police measures. At this time
only half a dozen of gendarmes We're
visible. They were stationed at the
portal Of the Lycee and inside the gar
den in front of the Lycee, which is
separated from the sidewalk of the
Avenue de la Care by high iron
railing, which no one was allowed to
pass until Dreyfus had been trans
ferred from the military prison to the
room within the Lycee building, where
he was to await the moment when he
should be summoned to enter the
courtroom.
Strong detachments of gendarmes on
foot and mounted began to arrive at 8
o'clock, and took UP their positions in
the side streets around the Lycee. At
6:15 the Project Of Police gave the or
der to the avenue de la Care for 300
guards in front of the Lycee, and also
by-streets leading to the avenue. The
along the avenue and space in front
Of the Lycee was cleared of all specta
tors. A detachment of infantry was
drawn across the avenue in doubles,
leaving between them a passage for
Dreyfus across the avenue from the
military prison to the entrance of the
Lycee.
The crowd, which by that time had
increased to few hundred, was kept
by the gendarmes at a distance of $50
yards on either side of this passage.
Captain Dreyfus emerged from the
military prison under escort of a Lieu
tenant and four gendarmes. He cross
ed the railway quickly and disappeared
within the Lycee, the hedge of soldiers
hiding him from view.
The principals in the trial arrived
before Z o'clock. The Generals passed
with hardly cheer from the specta-
tors, General Mercier alone being greet
ed with few Grief, "Vive PArmee,"
and Viva Mercier," as he drove up.
Lieutenant Colonel Picquart arrived on
foot at $50, wearing a silk hat and
frock coat with the red ribbon of the
Legion Of Honor in the buttonhole. No
demonstration was made upon his ar
rival; but he seemed to be in most
cheerful mood, smiling and chatting
with friends
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Eau Claire Strike.

EAU CLAIRE CWis), Aug. 6.-Street
car traffic was completely suspended
tonight, the company's employees being
unable to Withstand the pressure by
the strike mobs which collected along
the line, obstructing the cars and
hooting and yelling, occasionally cast
ing stones and other missiles at the
new men. Major Douglass during the
trouble told the Attorney General that
he had no sympathy with the company,
but that he would do what he could to
uphold law and order.
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about 100 +Klondikers aboard and
small amount of gold dust. Among her
passengers were several big claim own
ers, who brought out their seasons
cleanup in the shape of drafts. w. c.
Yates Of San Francisco is credietd with
being the richest man aboard. His
cleanup is variously estimated at from
quarter to half million.
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Valuable Alaskan Mines.

SEATTLE, Aug. 6.-Negotiations are
said to be pending for the sale of the
Bald Eagle and Sum Dunn Chief mines
in Southeastern Alaska, for the sum
of S2,5O0,000. The mines are owned by
the NOVEL; Mining Company, and the
prospective purchasers are English cap
italists.
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Mrs. Benjamin Grosscup Dead.

ASHLAND co., Aug. 6.-Mrs. Benja-
min Grosscup, mother Of Judge p. S.
Grosscup of Chicago, died to-day. She
was 70 years of age. and had been mar.
ried fifty-seven years. Her husband
and four children survive, the latter
being Judge P. S. Grosscup, Benjamin
F. Grosscup, Western General Counsel
for the Northern Pacific Railroad; Fred
Paul Grosscup, a manufacturer of
Charleston, w. ". and Mrs. Cyrus E.
Lehman of Redlands. Cal.
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rRANsvAAL GOVERNMENT.
Will Accept Any Friendly Sug-
gestions for Settlement.

PRETORIA, Aug. 6.-The Volksraad
will tomorrow discuss in secret ses-
sion the proposal of Joseph Chamber
lain, British Secretary OF State for the
Colonies, that the exact meaning of the
new franchise law may be inquired into
by joint commission.
In the meantime President Kruger
has notified the British High Commits
sioner in South Africa, Sir Alfred Mil
ner, Governor of Cape Colony, of the
willingness of the Government Of the
South African Republic to accept any
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Fatal Stabbing Affray,

FRESNO, Aug. Gas a result of
saloon brawl at an early hour this
morning, George Cranna was stabbed
twelve times in the back by Charles
Burch. 1t is not thought Cranna will
live, as one of the stabs pierced the
lung. Both men are farm laborers
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suggestions likely to lead to

friendly suggestions likely to lead to
settlement.
1t is evident, judging from the re-
ports arriving from different parts of
the Transvaal, that the Burghers do
not desire trouble with Great Britain,
and on this account the situation wears
a more promising aspect.
There is no foundation for the rumor
that General Joubert has resigned COM
mand of the army of the Transvaal,
owing to differences with the Execu-
tive.
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Found Dead in a Lonely Cabin.

SAN JOSE, Aug. 6.-Martin Guidai,
a native of Switzerland, aged 80 years,
was found dead to-day in a lonely
cabin in the mountains above Los
Gatos. 1t is supposed death occurred
about ten days ago, and was from nat
ural causes.