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DAILY RECORD-ITSTIOg
MONDAY FEBRUARY 9, 1801
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AN IMPORTANT MATTER TO TAX
PAYERS—THE SACRAMENTO BOND
HIM.-.
Two bills are pending in the Legisla
ture affecting Sacramento's revenue in
mi important manner. Under a decision
of the Supreme Court we were com
pelled, a few years ago, to begin paying
to the city bond-holders 55 per cent, of
our gross revenue; that is, 55 per cent, of
1 per cent, for the general fund, and 55
per cent, of gross licenses, water rents,
etc. Prior to that, for some twenty
years, we had paid tho 55 per cent, on
the basis of net revenuea.
The bills referred to interpret the word
"revenue," in the law concerning our
indebtedness, to mean net revenue; that
is, the sum we realize after paying the
cost of securing any revenue at all, and
that means the maintenance of tho de
partments of municipal government es
sential to tho collection of revenue.
The bondholders now appear before
the legislative committee and resist the
passage of the bills on two grounds—that
tho Legislature has not power to impair
the contract; that the contract itself does
not call for 55 per cent, net, but by omis
sion of tho word "net," provides that 55
per cent, of the gross income shall be ap
plied to tho purposes of redemption and
interest paying.
The Supreme Court did, it is true, de
cide that revonue meant in the original
Act gross income. Four Justices so held,
three dissented. Two of those dissenting
are now upon tho bench, three of those
who affirmed tho bondholders proposi
tion are not now upon tho bench. Be
lieving that the court erred, that it may
reverse itself, as it has done before, the
people aro desirous of relieving them
selves of onerous, almost unbearable bur
dens, by again insisting upon the fair,
reasonable and equitable position that net
revenues, not gross, were meant when 55
per cent, was set aside for the redemption
of city bonds and the payment of interest.
The law authorizing the issuance of the
bonds was not a contract, and the pro
posed new legislation is not impairment
of a contract. It proposes to interpret the
word "revenue" in tho original law, and
that it has the right to do. Upon that
question the friends of the new bills are
confident of the rightfuluess of their
cause.
Clearly it was the intention when
the 55 per cent, basis was established to
have it paid out of the city's gain, its
profit upon its financial system—that is
to say, what it has after paying tho cost
of raising revenue. No creditor demands
of his debtor that he shall pay him to the
destruction of his ability to pay at all.
When one is directed to pay by a court
order a stated sum, it is not required that
he shall starve himself to do it, or be cut
off from the means of gaining a liveli
hood.
Let us take the income of the water
works—ss per cent, of tho water revenue
is to be paid to the bondholders. But
there is cost for machinery, pipes, fuel,
oil, and operatives to run the works be
fore any revenue can be derived. If the
bondholders take 55 percent, of the gross,
they compel the people to pay an addi
tional tax for pipes, machinery, fuel, oil
and operatives, and this is as direct a
payment to the bondholders as if handed
over to them, because instead of leaving
the city 45 per cent, to live upon, it leaves
it only 45 per cent., less the cost of fuel,
oil, pipes, machinery and operatives.
Now it was never intended by the Legis
lature that the city should pay more than
55 per cent., but the construction of the
court gives the creditors 55 per cent., plus
cost of machinery, pipes, fuel, oil and op
eratives.
It was not presented to the Supreme
Court when the late case was argued, that
the water works referred to in the origi
nal Act are gone, worn out, and have
been abandoned. Suppose the city had
never set up, as it did, a new system,
■what would the bondholders have done ?
But the city did set up a wholly new sys
teiu; for gravitation it substituted pumps
forcing directly into mains; for lifting
into tanks it substituted drawing into the
mains and distribution over a doubly in
creased area; for the old pumps and en
gines, worn out and sold for old iron, it
put in, in 1573, a Holly system with new
mains, new boilers, etc., and in 1876 added
an enormous direct acting pump, and now
is proposing to add another. What equit
able claim can the bondholders make
against the new system, if it comes to
that? Had this single fact been pre
sented when the case was tried, we be
lieve the "gross" decision would never
have been rendered. Even as it was,
three Justices of the Supreme Court held
that "revenue" meant the result after
payment of cost of creating an income.
That, we insist, was the common sense of
the reason of the law.
Once before the Legislature by Act haa
interpreted revenue in this bond matter
to mean net income; there is warrant,
therefore, for the present bills, and if
they are assailed in court, there is good
reason to believe that the Supreme Court,
as now constituted, will reverse its de
cision of four years ago, which many of
the soundest lawyers of the State declare
was error that ought to be undone.
The Chairman of the Funded Debt
Commission, Judge H. O. Beatty, ap
pears before the legislative committee,
resisting the bills referred to. He thus
takes precisely the same position that the
bondholders do. True, Judge Beatty
declares that his purpose is to prevent
the tying up of the fund by litigation,
which would cripple the work of the
Funded Debt Commission; that the com
mission is, in (act, but a trustee for the
city, and that all its labors are for the
city and in its interest, discharging the
debt and securing the surrender of:
bonds and coupons at a saving to the
city.
But we submit that the present genera
tion has some right to be considered;
it is not so much the question of speedy
discharge of the city's indebtedness as
the casting of the whole burden upon the
present. It is true enough that the
Funded Debt Commission, to which the
Record-Union has all along been friend
ly, believing that it was a wise creation,
makes for but one beneficiary, and that
is the city. At the same time, it is true
that to the people it is a question of
wringing money by taxation greater
than they can bear. Tho tax-gatherer
comes around with unceasing regularity,
whether the collection goes into the coffera
of the Funded Debt Commission or of the
bondholders.
The people do not and will not coni
plafn of the operations of the commission
under ordinary circumstances, but
they do object to that commission as
suming the attitude of a creditor and aid
ing tho bondholders to squeeze from them
taxes beyond their power to bear pa
tiently.
If payment upon the "net" method can
be secured, it will greatly relieve an over
burdened community which is crippled,
retarded and injured by bearing burdens
the present generation did not create.
The Funded Debt Commission can, with
greater propriety, remain silent, and let
the city and tho bond holders fight out tho
question, than to render aid to the credi
tors whoso unwise policy seema to be to
crush the city if they can and "bear"
down the security they have.
The over zealous activity of tho Presi
dent of the commission is distasteful.
When he resists the passage of Senator
Sprague's bills, he consorts with the
bondholders and joins hands with them
in continuing high taxation; taxation so
high indeed, that it is like a wall about
the city, barring out enterprise and capi
tal, preventing growth, the reformation
of the drainage and sewerage system, and
attention to the sanitary needs of the city,
while it depreciates values and paralyzes
public spirit. '
When Judge Beatty declares that the
bills of Senator Spraguo are insults to the
Supreme Court, he talks nonsense and
suggests that he is deficient of reasons to
advance in support his position. The
power of the Legislature to declare what
it means by revenue is inherent, and it
cannot be an insult to the Supreme Court
to exercise it. The court found by a
nearly evenly divided bench that the
word is ambiguous; to remove the am
biguity tho Legislature proposes to de
clare what the word means, and the
court will accept that interpretation with
out the slightest ruffling of its dignity.
With the bondholders and the Funded
Debt Commission hand in glove against
the bills, no matter how wide apart their
motives, there is need for a friend of the
city to appear before the Legislative
Committee and present her Bido of the
case. If the Trustees feel unequal to the
task, let them engage some one to voice
the sentiment and desire of tho people.
Even if the city loses, it will bo an in
vestment wisely made, for it Is in aid of
the assertion of a claim that the city
ought to renew and stand by until the
last hope is gone.
THE STATE NEEDS A PBIEND.
The State needs a friend just at this
time, to appear for it before the educa
tional committees having the text-book
question in hand. There are plenty of
advocates for the school-book ring, but
none who find it to their interest to prick
the bubbles the industrious gentry hired
by the book syndicates blow daily in the
lobbies and committee-rooms, and in the
hired columns of at least two San Fran
cisco papers.
For the reason that his attitude is unac
countable, the ex-State Superintendent of
Instruction, Mr. Hoitt, cannot be thought
of as a proper person to go before the
committees and brush away the fallacies
the book-ring are building. The time
was, and only a few months ago, when
the ex-Superintendent could not say too
much in praise of the new text-book sys
tem. Now, for reasons that are un
known to us, Mr. Hoitt is cold toward, if
not unfriendly to the system, and is full
of mysterious mutterings that indicate a
change in views.
Mr. Anderson, the new State Superin
tendent, is but a mouth in office; he can-
SACRAMEISTO PAILT BECORD-U^ioy, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1891.—SIX PAGES,
not know of the details of the four years
past relating to the issuance of the text
books; nor can it be expected of him that
he should know of the hundred and one
little things which would, if brought for
ward, defeat the tricks and misrepre
sentations of the book ring.
The Governor, but Just inducted Into
office, a member of the State Board of
Education, Is in a more unfortunate po
sition than Superintendent Anderson.
He can know nothing of the details of the
period and activities in which the text
books were issued. When the Legisla
ture has adjourned, and not until then,
will ho be able to study and inform him
self fully as to the facts.
The new State Printer has the records
of his predecessors but nothing else to
present Nor could he bo expected to
volunteer, even if well informed upon
the technical points of the question, be
fore the committees in resistance of the
book rings, for he has enough to do to
manage his department just now.
Who is there to say one word for the
State, to defend the school-book system
before the Legislature and to bare the
bonos of the rascally scheme now on foot
to break down faith in the State text
books? The State needs a friend, but
there is not one to come forward. The
most outrageous falsehoods have been
published in assault upon the text-books,
and aside from the Record-Uniox and
the other Sacramento press, and one or
two other interior papers, there appear to
be nono to give them the lie.
An old expert report, in which not even
the prices of the school books are correctly
given by as much as 25 per cent., is being
scattered about and reprinted in the book
ring interest, and this report is supposed
to provo the incapacity of the State to
issue text-books. But even tho expert
who made the report declares that it is
not of value, since ho was cut short in its
making, and he worked in one direction
only. Moreover, it was made nine
months alter the State entered upon the
new system, and whon it was proceeding
upon an erroneous estimate made by a
former Superintendent of Stato Printing.
Tho legislators now in Sacramento
want inibrinution upon this wholo sub
ject. Mere cold figures will not give
it. The book-agents keep the air filled
with stories calculated |to confuse and
mislead; no one appears for the State
and tho legislators are left to thoir own
devices to get at the truth, and are
limited to but a few days in which to
accomplish tho task.
It is certainly a sad case, when a great
State is unablo to command a champion
in the time of need to go before ita own
legislative bodies and present tho truth.
There are men—we could name them—
equal to the task, thoroughly informed
and not at all afraid of the book-ring, who
could represent the State ably in this
matter, but none of them are likely to
leave their own affairs and volunteer.
In this situation the committees must bo
trusted to feel their way and drag out
such truths as they may stumble upon.
We can assure them that there are indus
trious agents secretly and openly at work
to elokenveuueii leading to the facts, to
obscure the question, to assail the State
system, to contort figures and reports
and create the impression that California
has made a huge blunder in attempting
to free herself from tho abomination of
book agents and book-house hirelings,
bribing school boards, blackmailing
frien&rof education, lobbying in Legis
latures, riding honest bills with dishouest
supplements, and fleecing the people of
hundreds of thousands of dollars annu
ally. The people's only hope now is in
tho Legislature, and in the beliel that it
will not do anything to cripple the text
book system, or hinder the completion of
tho two volumes remaining unissued.
When they are finished the State will not
be further called upon—with that com
pletion the school-book revolving fund
must and will produce all the books
needed. That will be the test, and the
only perfect one, of the worth and practi
cability of the system.
Says Mr. Godkin in the Forum:
Many people are asking to-day whether the
Kuiln expedition was not. strictly speaking,
in the eye of public municipal law, a piratical
expedition. That tills question should not
have been asked sooner, seemx to be due to
the peculiar view of Central Africa which the
more aivillzed communities have taken, time
out of memory. No other portion of the
globe, no matter how barbarous, seems to
nave been denied in the same degree the bene
fits of the "law of nature and of nations" un
der which the rest of the world began at a
very early period to take shelter.
Perhaps this is true. But has not civ
ilization, in its conquest of barbarism,
always, and at all times, mailed its hand?
Was Columbus more excusable than any
other; the northmen better fortified by
right than Kmin, or were the cavaliers
and Puritans pirates and unpardonable
trespassers when they inaugurated the
crusade that has pushed the red Indian
from his Atlantic home, and drove him
to bay in the Bad Lands of the Western
wilds T
.»
The manuscripts and historical collec
tions of the late George Bancroft are to
be offered for sale to the Congressional
Library. Congress should buy them.
Bancroft's manuscripts should belong to
the nation, because he was a national
man and because of their value. There is
no place bo appropriate for them as the
shelves of the Library of Congress.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
It Is currently reported that incompe
tent people are being forced upon the
now State Printer by politicians, a nota
ble case being that of a printer from
Vacaville. If any legislator desires evi
dence that the bill providing for the elec
tion of the State Printer by the people
ought to pass let him investigate the
competency of some of the men in the
State Printing Office.
Farm View, published at Porterville,
Tulare County by E. M. Dewey, is a very
forcible little paper. It is outspoken in
favor of the Farmers' Alliance And
handles the enemies of that organization
without ffloYes.
The Folsom Telegraph has just entered
upon its thirty-fifth volume. It has had
many ups and downs during the thirty
five years of its existence, but it has been
steadily on the up-grade since Mr. Mc-
Farland purchased it. It is an excellent
local paper and Is a credit to a town
which haa a bright future before it.
SUNDAY OBSERVANCE.
Rev. Mr. Thomson Says the Constitu
tion Legalizes It.
An Argument in Favor of One Day's
Rest In Seven for Every
Citizen.
The American SabbathUnionisjustnow
engaged, through one of its ablest repre
sentatives, Rev. Edward Thomson, in
working up a Sunday law sentiment and>
enthusiasm throughout the State. Mr.
Thomson preached on the subject at the
M. E. Church South last evening, and his
discourse abounded with able arguments
in support of the aim of the association—
ehe enforcement of Sabbath observance
by law.
He said the Sabbath Union had but a
single object, the protection of the Ameri
can civil Sabbath, as recognized by the
fundamental law of the country, and
such as the founders and earlier citizens
of the republic honored. The Union is
not asking, nor is it favorable to the Puri
tan Sabbaht of a few centuries ago, and
■which did not represent the Bible. It
pleaded only for a Christian Sabbath,
such as Christ made and intended, and
not fort lie peculiar Sabbath of an igno
rant people who 'werejust out of bondage.
It was a reasonable Sabbath that the
Union demanded, of the kind that our
fitthers made as ono of the original
American institutions.
Wo hear it remarked, he said, that
when we talk of a Sunday law it is of
something un-American—an attempt to
legislate God into the Constitution of Uio
country and the State. On the contrary,
that -which is contended for is the preser
vation of the Federal Constitution, as it
is to-day, in its harmony with and recog
nition of Sabbath observance.
When our fathers established the Con
stitution they enacted a Sunday law. In
the first article of that instrument it is
provided that the President of the United
Stntes shall have ten days in which to con
sider bills passed by Congress, "Sundays
excepted." The question is, Did not all the
great men who sat in the convention at
which the Constitution was framed recog
nize the principle that one of tho inalien
able rights of the President was a day of
rest on tho Sabbath ? They did, and they
guarded that right for all future time.
Some people do not understand that pre
cedent is law, but it is so, and when we
establish a precedent we establish a law.
Sunday as a day of rest has been recog
nized in all departments of tho Govorii
ment. General Washington went so far
as to deny himself to visitors on Sunday,
and himself and family—as hK've all
Presidents sinee—attended church regu
larly on that day. So in other branches
of tho Government, from the earliest his
tory of the country, Sunday has always
been excepted from official transactions.
It is a matter of history that when Sun
day legislation was proposed at an early
day session of Congress, the minority
arose and declared they would leave the
body without a quorum*if their constitu
tional right to a uay of rest was sought to
bo denied them.
If, said the speaker, we concede to
the President the right to a day of
rest, why not concede it to every man
—the pvor laborer, as well as the rich
and tf^oso high in authority? The
President is no better than any
any other man. In the judicial depart
ment n<> legal process can issue on Sun
day, neither can sessions of the United
States Courts be held on that day; al
though they may be years behind their
dockets they never sit on Sundays. Even
in State courts the judges reserve their
constitutional right to themselves.
Out of twenty-six State Supreme
Court decisions in Sunday law pases,
but one (in California) holds such a law
to be unconstitutional, yet the very
Judges who so held, themselves refuse to
hold court and work on Sunday, because
they know the Constitution recognizes
their right and duty to so refuse.
Mr. Thomson called attention to the
fact that tho bankers, the railroad Presi
dents and certain other classes of busi
ness men recognized their right to a day
of rest, and closed their offices on Sun
days. Ho then made a strong appeal for
the laboring classes, and declared that
they should not be forced to wear out
their minds and bodies by being obliged
to labor more than six days in a week.
He quoted, from a decision in an Ohio
Sunday law case decided by Judge Allan
G. Thurman, in which thelatter declared
that mind and body would both soon
break down if the laborer were denied
his needed rest.
California, he declared, was taxed
higher thau any other State iv the Union
for the support of her insane, and in
creased appropriations are yearly de
manded. And why? Because this is a
State in which more labor is performed
and less regard paid to the Sabbath than
in any State of the Union. It is tho duty
of the Legislature to check this alarming
increase of insanity by protecting the peo
?lefroni the danger that now besets them,
t is the duty also of every good
citizen to favor measures that put
men at their best to contribute to
the prosperity and welfare of their
State and nation. Tho Sabbath
Union holds Sunday to bo a day of rest,
but in most European countries it is
made a day of debauchery and drunken
ness, and is fast becoming so here. An
intelligent gentleman had told him that
in forty years' residence here he had come
to look upon Sunday iv California as a
day that was cursed —one that was lead
ing the youths of the State down to de
struction.
A San Francisco saloon-keeper (and
who is a member of the Legislature) had
assured him that one-third of all his
week's business was done on Sunday. In
Cincinnati ono-third of all the crimes
committed each week are traceable to
Sunday drunkenness, and statistics of all
the cities show that one-fourth of
all the liquor disposed of is sold on Sun
day. But they did not propose to deal
with the saloons differently than other
classes of business. They would put
them all on a common level. The store
keeper who is religiously inclined, and
who would like to attend church on Sun
day, is prevented from doing so by his
neighbor, who keeps open on Sunday,
thus forcing the other to do so or lose his
share of the trade. Tho desire is to pro
tect tho one by compelling the other to
close. If- the Seventh-Day Adventists
preferred to do no business on Saturday,
but to keep open on Sunday, that would
be all right—so long as he kept one day
in the week.
Mr. Thomson then said that the head of
a great banking institution, at which a
large force of workmen received their
weekly wages, once told him that one
Saturday he selected 700 new $10 bills and
placed on each a privato mark. These
were paid out to the workmen, and he
instructed his clerks on the following
Monday to keep all deposits of saloon
keepers separate from others. The result
was that in a day or two 400 of these bills
had come back to the bank from the
various saloons, thus showing wh9re
the major portion of the men's money
was spent —money that should have gone
to tho shoemaker, the clothier, the
butcher, the baker and the groceryman
for the benefit and comfort of the families
of these men. They were willing tho sa
loons should run six days in the week,
but they did demand that they should
close on Sunday so as not to absorb the
money of the poor and render miserable
the lives of so many women and children.
Ho held that the boys of California are
going to the bad, and a law was needed
to protect them. He had found that in
the forty years' history of tho State—so
full of native sons—only eleven native
born young men had entered the Protest
ant ministry, and out of COO membera of
the Young "Men's Christian Association
assembled at a State convention in San
Francißco, only two were born in this
State.
"Where are our boys?" he asked.
"Ah, my friends, I stand before you as a
father. I have three boys. Every father
who has a native son should do some*
thing to save the boys from the barbarism
of the Sunday saloon !"
Mr. Thomson next spoke of three years
crusade of the Sabbath Union in Louisi
ana, "the meanest State in tho Union, the
hotbed of gambling and the home of the
lottery." Even there it had gained a
victory, and to-day not a store nor saloon
i«s opened on Sunday in New Orleans.
He closed with an eloquent appeal to
all to lend their influence in securing the
enactment of a Sunday law that would
place all kinds of business on an equality
aud secure a peaceful Christiau Sabbath.
LIST OF LETTERS
Remaining in the PostofTice at Sacramento on
Monday, February 9,1891:
Ladles' List.
Aagen, Mrs Katie Lain, Miss Carrie
llailey, Mrs Eva Lennon. Miss Ellen
Barron, Miss Leonard, Mrs C O
Hart on, Mary Lenord, Miss Katie
Beatie, Mrs A S Malcolm, Mrs Annie
BoUmder, Mrs Lena-2 Mixer, Mrs Maggie
Bom, Mrs Friedrich Miller, Miss Mina
Briggs, Miss Edna Morales, Miss Camita
Brown, Mrs E Meyer, Miss Leila
Brown, Miss Sophey Norton, Mrs J
Bureb, Mrs G w Stice, Martha
Carr, Miss Jiiinie Sneighder, Mrs A H
Connors, Mrs Allen Taylor, Sirs S C
Connell, May Theisinjr, Mrs Barb
Cooper, Mrs Mattie Thatcher, Miss Maude!
Corrield, Mrs Pauline Thompson, Mrs \V F
Davis, Miss Annie Ulciiice, Mrs Kate
Elder, Miss Bertie Vauderford, Mrs Addle
Evans, Miss Sallie Wagner, Mrs Frank
Ksholman, Miss V Wehler. Mrs Ned
Fraser, Ann Wells, Mrs John
Ilaway, Mrs Leonor C Wells, Mrs M E
Hill, Mary A Wilson, Miss Ida J
Engrave, Minnie Wilson, Ada J
.Jess. Mrs Miiry Wilson, Mrs L M
Jlionston, Mrs E S Wiseman, Mrs Annie
Johnston, Mrs F Z Wiseman. Mrs H A
Jucker, Mrs Dora F Wurth, Mrs X
Ket-nii.ii, Mrs Kate Wright, Norah
Kristensen. Xilsine Wright, Grace
Kure, Miss Emma
Gentlemen's [,i-i.
Adams, < ) J Goldberg, Jno Miller, Wm J
Alford, C W Graves, M A Morton, E E
Amons, Jumes Grabill, II Morrison, Jno
Anderson, A Greenwald, A Morse.Prof S T
i Anderson, T Grimes, H Myers, M
Aruus, D Guiheen, Thos Netter, Henry
I Arnold, Frank Guthrie, W H Peters, P M
Budaraceo. B Hall, M Phelps, C E
Beattie, AS Htuisen, H J Philbrook, B X
Bealiu, AS Harking, Jas Philbrooks.B
lieatty, A S Harrison. Mr Plnaua, G
Berghard, A Harvey, I Pope, John Ii
Baker, M A Hatneld, O A Rosser, Col Juo
Bianchlni, A Kolden.EM Kiley, F D
Brand, Philip Hyland M M Rally, John P
Briscoe, J II Howard, Wm llelseek.O
i Buekins, Mas- Jackson, H Klce, John A
terO Jackson, Reid Roek,George!H
Burden, H Jacobson, J Sampson, Chas
Burns, AC J Jeltord, Frank Santas. S
Burns, Jas L Jewett, L M Schluckebier, T
C'uriuiih, Chas Johnson, C F Sehwitter,John
Carl, Wiliiam Johnson, A Shepherd, W
Cavunaugh, GJudson.TE Silvers, W H
G-2 Kcefe, J Smithers. C W
Chenny. C E Keinadav, J Smlthe, JE Jr
I Clarke, 8 C Kennel, Jacob Smith, Charley
Clemens, R Kidnapper,LWSmith, Charles
Colbert. Jno F Knox, A J Stewart. i> L
Cone, W W-4 Kreazberaer,WStroaf, E B
Coiinelley, D Laduke, S Stuart, C X
Courun, Ira Lyod, Edward Sullivan, Jas
Convey, W H Lambert, J E Thompson, C
Cox, i rank Lawrence. X L Thompson, C V
('otton, Jesse I^wis, W V-3 Tivll, George
Crabb, Walter Liftchild. J Tupper, Joseph
Daley, George Long, H X Tucker, Hon B
Dennison. C Lunilcvillu.J E F
Develln, Mr-3 M:iher, Dick Van Carr. A
Itolan, M Muberry. Chas "Wells, John W
Born, M A Muhou, Geo Wells, E
Bbert, George Marshall, Dr J Webster, Ed
Finnegan, Jas W Webster, E
Fitzgerald. S Martin, A B Wilbur, Geo H
Flou'cs. James Martin, B Wilcox, L M
Forrester, J F MeCune, A H Williams, G R
Freebor, Geo Me Powell, W J Wise, MR F
Fuller, Phile McGreevy.CH Wlrtz, John P
Galbr&iUuPro- MfLnughlln.K Wingate, Dick
iV'ssor Henry Mebl, James L Wormer, Matt
Gilmore, Geo Miner, H B Wood worth.
Gilliss, Major Mills. Frank Hon B R
George P Merrill, Claude Wood, It M
Gillman.HJr Millar, D S Woods, W G
Glass, J II
Foreign.
Manuel Souza Figer- Muuuel Simons
edo Manuel Levargasda
Pietro Santino Silva
Antonio J a ciuthio Moretti Giuseppe
Cordezo Monsigneur l'Evlque
Jesus Vasques
J. O. COLEMAN, Postmaster.
The Panther Meant Business.
A correspondent of tho Flaeerville
Democrat, writing from Henry's Dig
gings, says: "O. G. Kellogg was down at
Grizzly Flat on the evening of January
17th, and after telling the boys some big
boar stories, which kept him a little late,
he started for home. He had gone some
five miles on his way when he heard
something behind him and soon found
out that it was a California lion. Not
having any firearms on him, he throw
down a sack he was carrying, lit out and
quickened bis paco until ne came to a
milk ranch, whero he took shelter for the
night. On going back in tho morning af
ter the sack he found by tho tracks that
tho lion had followed him within a hun
dred yards of the house."
Ask your friends who have taken
Hood's Sarsaparilla what they think of
it, and the replies will be positive in its
favor. Truly, the best advertising which
Hood's Sarsaparilla receives is the hearty
indorsement of its army of friends.
gpgctol %ttftice».
ALL MEDICAL authorities agree that
catarrh is no more nor less than an inflamma
tion of the lining membrane of the nasal air
passages. Nasal catarrh and all catarrhal af
fections of i iiu head are not diseases of the
blood, and it Ua serious mistake to treat thum
as such. No conscientious physician ever at
tempts to do so. It is held by eminent medi
cal men that sooner or later a specltic will be
found for every disease from which humanity
suffers. The foots Justify us in assuming that
for catarrh at. least a positive cure alreaav ex
ists in Ely's Cream Balm. MWF
FAST TIME TO THE EAST.—The Atlantic
and Paclflc Rullroud (Santa Fe route) Is now
twelve hours shorter to Kansas City and St.
Louis, and twenty-four hours shorter to Chi
cago than formerly. Pullman Tourist Sleep
ing Care to Chicago every day without change.
l"ersonally conducted excursions every Thurs
day. GKO. W. RAILTON, Agent, 1004
Fourth street, Sacramento. MWF
MRS. WINSLOWS SOOTHING SYRUP"
Has been used over fifty years by millions of
mothers for their children while teething,
with perfect sirccess. It soothes the child,
softens the gums, allays pain, cures wind colic,
regulates the bowels, and is the best remedy
for diarrhoea, whether arising from teething
or other causes. For sale by druggists in every
part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs.
Wiuslow's Soothing Syrup. Twenty-live
cents a byttle. MWF
PIANOS FOR EVERYBODY.
Prices, Sl5O, S2OO. §250, $275 and np
wards. Wo .it this time have an unusually
large stock of new and second-hand pianos,
both upright and S€juare, which we will close
out at the above astonishingly low prices, for
cm.-Ii or on installments, and for rent with
privilege of purchase. \V eat all times have a
full stonk in all the styles of the unsurpassed
MATHUSHEK pianos. Call at Cooper's, the
leading and largest music house, 631 J street,
Sacramento. jal3-tf
SAMPLE ROOMS, 1014 Sixth street, be
tween J and K. Fine Wines. Liquors and Ci
gars. JACOB X EARTH, Proprietor.
nl4-tf
PAINLESS EXTRACTION OF TEETH, by
use of local anesthetic. DR. WELDON,
dentist. Eighth and J streets. je22-tf
TAKE
SIMMONS
LIVER REGULATOR
FOR INDIGESTION, MALARIA,
SOUR STOMACH, DYSPEPSIA,
MENTAL DEPRESSION, REST
LESSNESS, SICK HEADACHE,
COLIC, FEVEUAXD AGUE, JAUN
DICE, CONSTIPATION AND BIL
IOUSNESS.
Whenever you see TAKE know it as part of
the Injunction
Take Simmons liver Regulator.
MEDIUM—MRS. J. J. WHITXEY,
OF SAN FRANCISCO, THE CELEBRATED
clairvoyant, trance, te«t medium and life
reader, can be consulted lor a short time at
315 X street, between Third and Fourth, Par
lors 2 and a, from 0 a. a. to 4 v. v. fci-2pim.«
f)N Surah Silks, in 23 different shades, for
VXI 25 cents a yard.
SAT F AN-wool Fancy Cassimere Suits for
TTJTQ haA]ss' Fine Black Silk-plated Hose
1 Xlio for SO cents.
WTTTf Ladies' Fancy-striped Cotton
VV HJLiv. Hose, extra value for 2S cents.
—A REDUCTION IN—
Percale Shirts.
We have sliced the prices on our entire stock of MEN'S
PERCALE SHIRTS, making the reductions from 20 to 25
per cent, on standard reliable goods.
The $1 25 Shirts are $1
The $1 Shirts are 75 cents
To anticipate your spring wants now is to make a
pawnbroker's interest on your money.
The $2~50 Hats.
Our best news in Hats touches the rich values we are
showing this season in MEN'S SOFT and STIFF HATS
for $2 50. Keep this item in mind when in need of a
Hat, and have just $2 50 to expend for it.
VALENTINES in large assortment, from 35 cents to
$4 each. The flimsy, flashy styles are not to be found
here.
Misses' Shoulder Braces.
The SHOULDER BRACES made by Ferris Bros, are
pre-eminently the most comfortable and durable appliance
for the purpose known to the trade. Time has tested its
worth. It's money thrown away to experiment with
other sorts. Price, 75 cents a pair.
LADIES' ABDOMINAL SUPPORTERS, made by Ferris
Bros., for $1 75.
HALE BROS. & CO.,
Nos. 825, 827, 829, 8 3 r, 833, 835 X St., and 1026 Ninth St,
Cfsu» iiuu-nooii. "1
The Rush Continues!
Saturday was the sixth day of our
sale, and we are pleased to note that the
general public appreciates our efforts to give
the best of
FOOTWEAR AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES.
Every pair we sell is warranted. Do not
overlook the fact that this sale will only
continue during the month of February.
Ladies' Patent Leather Cloth-top
Button Shoes--Laird, Schoeber
& Mitchell's make—reduced from
$6 to - - - - - $3 63
Ladies' French Dongola Button
Shoes, reduced from $2 to - 148
Ladies' Oil Pebble Goat Shoes,
common sense, reduced from
$2 BO to - - - - 100
Ladies' Kid Opera Slippers, re
duced from $1 25 to - - 90
Misses' Patent Leather Kid-top
Button Shoes, reduced from
$3 60 to - - - l 93
LAVENSON'S,
Fifth and J Streets,
The Largest and Most Reliable Boot and Shoe
House in Sacramento.
