The Sacramento Union from Sacramento, California • Page 2

DAILY RECORD-UNiON. Observations Taken tiratlou mi Samp January 22. p. M. gg si- 1 in if eof 5 a ro Olympii 38 S.

..01 Fair- Calm 29.91 IS S. .21 Cloudy 30.0* 4S Calm Cloudy Bacramect 30.12 47 S. W. Light. Cloudy S.

Francisco. 12 S. W. 8 Cloudy Vualia. 30.10 47 W.

Fair LosAnpelee. 30.1S Calm Ca1m Clear Ban 30.t1|50 N. Clear Maximum temperature, minimum, 34. Kivt-r above low-water marie, 11 ft. 9 in.

JAMES A. BARWICK, Sergeant, Signal Corps, IT. S. A. Wea4lirr I'rubabllitlen.

WisniHOTOit, Jmuary for Pacific toast Partly cloudy weather, and rain north of Stn Francisco. THIS MORNING'S NEWS In New York Saturday Government bonds were quoted at ilSi (or Is of 1907 114J for 101 for vtcrUng, Wj 88 silver ban, 113. SUrer in Londou, 61 i consols, 100 3-ICJ 5 per oent. United States extended, 105; is, 121 117 J. In San Francisco half doliara are quoted at I discount to par; Mexican dollars, stacks were fairly active In Han Francisco Saturday, prices were from 5c to 7.1 better than the best nales Friday The assessment of 75c was added t-i Hale Norcrose.

Bodie ajva; ccd to ft 19, against $2 40 early ii the week. Garibaldi has gone to Poulippo. Vary Maloncy was burned to death Saturday at Fort Lewis, Col. The cattia plague has been eradicated from the Oerman Empire. A coal-nun? explosion at Joust, 111., Saturday, ldPed one man and injured two others.

Burlington Smith, American at I'ridtol, is dead. Alexander Collins was (hot by a negro at Castle Rock, Saturday night. The river continues to rise at Nashville, Teim. I. became iisane at St.

Louis, in conse-I'ii'iice of wi i a recent baiqrli there. Two cases of (mali-pox at Duena Vista, and ten De Pere, Win. Fire at Augusta, also near Eugene, Or and Tirsiliii, Ner. The balloon which carried off Waller Powell, 31. from England, has been found in the Sierra Pedroao mountatiu, Spain, together with the aeronaut's dead body.

Dmeuhower'a party of Jeannctte survivors have left Irkutsk Si. Petenbmg. Jeff. Davis averted in speech at New Orleans Saturday night that the cause WU not lost, but sleeping." It statwi that the deaths amonj? the French troops in Tunis irombei i.i-rly Another lias been unearthed it u-I'rinee. A serious ocenrred Saturday on Ihe Charleston aud Railroad, near chaMi-s- S.

C. A -hocking shooting affiir took Fr near Comanche, Calarents county, two men being one fatally. A nigh', watchman named Jackson was drowned at Seattle, W. Saturday night. F.

M. Lewis died at Pctaluma yesterday, under rircumstaaces indicating foul play. The weather ii uuprecedentedly mild at Victoria! B. C. The snti Murrr.on sentiment ia the large daily nr -er, and in Chicago a mass, meeting to be hod toiuy Id that connection.

it Li now estimated tint the population of Chicago Is 6 iO.OOO an increase of 123,000 nee the census of ISSO. General SiUs Csicy, U. S. died at Erooklvn, H. ytbterdar.

A wealthy man of fialtiniuro offers ti establish endow a tne eircuittlas library in that city, at a coit of over $1,000,000. A case of rarioioid caines gTcat excitement in Amhirst College. 1 One man wa3 killed and two injured by Ins caring of a bank mar Superior City, Friday. President Connies, of Mexico, is again counted to his bed by illcesa. Lome hi 3 arrived at Haliux.

In tbe rcdw ood3 near Cruz, Friday, i-cott iur alict and killed Edward Allen. An un named A. O. Lodda, a was found murdered at Columbia Hill, Nevada tounty, Fridfiy A Committee of Safety has been organized at Eureka, and evidently intend to purge the town of the dangerous classes. A hotel clork Dallas, Saturday night, shot and killed a guest of the house who was trying to rob him.

Henry E. Koclcwell, Secretary of the United elates Fish Commission, dropped dead in Washington last night. A bark rank off Cape yesterday, causing the loss of eu'iit The ball (or the benefit of the Veterans' Home fond, at the Oukhmd depot Thursday night, netted about $2,000. The Committee on Elections will on Tuesday begin the consideration of the Utah contested election Cannon against Campbell. JEFF DAVIS AGAIN SENSATIONAL.

A dispatch- from New Orleans states that at the reunion of the Army of Northern Virginia on Saturday night, a speech was made by Jefferson Davis, in which he said that "the cause was cot lost, bat only sleeping and in which he also said to the ex-Confederates around him: "You "have done your duty in the past, and may God spire yon to do so in the future, should ever necessity again arise." We really do not see why attempts should be made to ascribe significance of any kind to these remarks. Jefferson Davis is "the Man without a Country." He has been set apart and isolated by what is now more and more clearly eeen to be an unnecessary and injudicious act. A man so marked and so forced into continued rebelliousness must be expected to become affected in a particular manner by bis position. It almost seems as if what it pleases some nervous people to call "treasonable utterances" were expected from him. lie has doubtless persuaded himself that he it a very great man too great for the United States to forget or forgive.

His Tory infamy baa thus become a kind of distinction, and of course the severity which excludes him from air amenities secures to him the sympathy of those who were on his side in the rebellion. AH this is natural, and ought to have been aulieipited, though if it had been Jefferson Pi vis wonld have been pardoned long and would have been forgotten by this time. It is, however, the United Government that keeps him before the country, and that gives interest to his sayings and doings. But after all treason ii of as mild and innocuous character to-day was that of the old Jacobites who used to toast the King "over the water," with all ceremony and seriousness, when the House of Hanover had liern firmly established for more than two-thirds of a century and the best- way to dispose of traitors of -this kind is simply to take no rotico of them. THE AUSTRIAN PRESS TYRANNY.

All the Vienna evening papers were confiscated the other eight because cy had printed a parliamentary speech nountiDg en attempt to drag the Crown into politics. Whether this refers to Ger man or Assyrian the dispatch fails to make clear, bat in either the army of the act is' equally detestable. It would seem that Germany 'and had joined to far as their respective to force upon the two nations the right" in its most odious if this is really the imperial purpose there will be trouble in those regioas before loog. The dtmocntia spirit has not been crushed by, the growth of Militarism, and the new movement 7 in the direction of Absolutism will certainly not lie utreaisteu. SARGENT AND THE SOBRANTE GRANT.

The San Francisco Chronidc's attack on ex-Senator Sargent in connection with the case of the so-called Sobrante Grant, was very evidently made for the sole purpose of transmission to the East. For though the Chronicle, in the performance of those Hackmailing tasks upon the emoluments of which it subsists, has learned to lie with circumstance, and in the most deliberate manner, it would hardly hare been so silly as to make a statement for use in this every part of which is well known to be false. The suspicion that it hs3 for time past been working in the interest of Carpentier, the principal opponent of the settlers in the case referred to, is indeed continued by this impudent bat inartistic attempt to cloud the issue, and to produce an entirely erroneous impression among those who are ignorant of the facts. The exposure of this audacious piece of misrepresentation, howeTer, has been swift. The San Francico papers of yesterday print a letter from P.

H. Me- Grew, President of the Settlers' League, in which flat contradiction is given to every one of the Chrohb-le's statements, and in which it is shown that Mr. Sargent has been and is the champion of the bona fide settlers as against the rapacity of the landgrabbers who are represented by Carpentier. A Washington dispatch further states (what is of course well known in California), that Mr. Sargcat represents fully a thousand settlers, whose homes are all put in jeopardy by the Carpentier claim, and who depend upon the vigilance and the able advocacy of the ex-Senator for protection and justice.

Another settler, Mr. H. Buckley, has written to the Alia defending Mr. Sargent against the slanders of the Chronicle. The latter paper, being obliged to invent Borne apology for taking the side of the land grabbers against the eettlers, and possibly bearing in mind the awkwardness of the contrast between its new attitude and that which it assumed towards the Mussel Slough settlers, makes the assertion that the Sobrante settlers are dummies." Of course this is a falsehood.

Mr. Buckley says "As "one of the settlers I detire to say that the 'pre-emption and homestead settlers' "represented by Mr. Sargent are not 'dummies' as charged by the Chronicle, but men who have lived on their claims for from five to twenty- live years. We "employed Mr. Sargent because we him to be incorruptible, and above "any of the influences which might be brought to bear, and which have been "used so successfully in our Courts and Land Oliiees.

Mr. Sargent had nothing ''to do with soldiers' homesteads, or lieu "lands, or He is fighting for the actual settlers, and if he succeeds he will receive the thanks of the entire community." Mr. McGrew in his letter says "Mr. 1 Sargent never represented nor had auy" thing to do with any locations or claims "in the Sobrante except those of actual "settlers, and if any public meeting is "held, as suggested by the Chronicle, it "will be to thauk him for what he is in the case." These voluntary testimonials to the good faith and public spirit of Mr. Sargent are not precisely what the calumcious sheet which has been hired to abuse him anticipated, probably but its assault was too impudently mendacious, and made too close to the scene of action referred to, to be of any service to its latest purchaser.

The merits of the Sobrante case are of course far too well understood in California for so preposterous a tissue of falsehoods to be received iv any way but with disgust and indignation, but it is perfectly clear tint the rascally combination which has been formed against Mr. Sargent thought it possible to injure him with those who did not know the truth, and that their venal organ printed the artisle referred to with that end in view. These unscrupulous Ecoucdreh, however, forgot that all the facts of the case are necessarily recorded at Washington, where it has been tried, and that it was only requisite to turn to the official archives to explode the new plot utterly. The Chronicle's account of the Sobrante caee may also have been intended to cover up its own tracks in the business, and to create the belief that it was not in the pay of Carpentier. The attempt, however, is destined to failure, as indeed must any attempt be to persuade the people of California that that paper is not constantly for sale, and for any conceivable purpose.

In the present instance it has only succeeded in affixing a fresh brand to itself, and in showing that Mr. Sargent has been the friend and champion of the settlers, and has thus incurred the bitter enmity of the land-thieves. In fact it has done much to explain the persistency of its own assaults upon Mr. Sargent in the only way by which they can be explained for it is thoroughly understood that it cherishes no enmities which do not pay. Mr.

Sargent is of course anxious that the Sobrante case should be determined before be goes into the Cabinet. This is a perfectly proper and correct position on his part. The land- grabbers on their part, knowing him to bo fully informed on the merits of the case, and having good reason to feir hi 3 energy and force of character, h.ive been working desperately to keep him out of the Cabinet. The opposition of such men constitutes the strongest testimonial that can be offered in his behalf. A man who is feared aod hated by the land-thieves is precisely the man to make Secretary of the Interior, for in that position he can most effectually frustrate their and protect the actual ssttlers.

The settlers have the most complete confidence in Mr. Sargent, and no I doubt, should the land-grabbers be so foolish as to call a meeting in this conaection, it would result in a complete indorsement of the ex Senator's course in the premises. Bat we venture to suggest that the Sobrante settlers oaght not to wait for any sbam demonstration. Their friend and advocate has been outrageously slandered in this case, and they could hardly do less under the circumstances than take some public action on their own account to thow what they think of the situation. We do not suppose that any of the malignant assaults whioh have beea made upon Mr.

Sargent have altered the President's estimate of his friend in t'na least; but thi3 last attack has brought into prominence some additional reasons for putting Mr. Sargtnt in the Cabinet as Secretary of the Interior. THE WHEAT GAMBLING QUESTION. The indicitions that the wheat gambling project will be carried out. The case is one of those in which opposition is likely to be useless for practical results, though it is' r.ono the less duty to put on sober reasons which militate against What stock gambling bias done for this State and coast is known, to all, and wheit gambling, whatever may be said, is only f-rm ef this evil.

The vari us prctcusei which have been urged in iU favor are all equally epsricas. It is not true that the irmers will be benefited by the proposed change. It is not more true than the parallel assertion that the public have been benefited by Btock gambling. As in all games of caance, there will be occasional winnings made by the outsiders. These are the bait 3 which lure on the public, and keep up the custom of the game.

But when the balance is struck it will be found, as it has always been found in stock gambling, that the great bulk of the surplus winnings of the investors has passed out of their possession, and into the pockets of those who never worked for a dollar of it, save by "puttiugup" rascally "jobs" upon the public. It is said, on behalf of the wheat gambling scheme, that the staple to be dealt in will always have a positive value. No doubt that is the case, but it does not change the character, nor will it alter the of the proposed speculation. Tte public are to be invited to spscuUte in wheat. Ou the one tide will be the people, knowing little or nothing about the business on the other side will be a class of men who have made it the business of their lives to understand the subject in all its bearings.

These experts invite the ignorant public to come and gamble in wheat. Can any sane man doubt the consequences of accepting such an invitation As to the pretense that the proposed speculative market will help the farmers, that is the most impudent allegation yet made. What is sought is to interpose between the farmer and his market a machinery which i 3 devised expressly for the purpose of diminishing his prctits. Are there any farmers simple enough to imagine that the men who are bolstering the new scheme are inspired by public spirit They are "on the make," in street slang. They expect to get money on both hands from the credulous gambling outsiders, and from the producers.

They do not propose to put any capital into the wheat-raising business. Their position is that of middlemen, who undertake to complicate the transaction of what should be a perfectly simple and straightforward business, and for their own advantage. They really propose to divide as much of the farmera 1 earnings as they can get at and this generous proposal their advocate as a real piece of beneficence. The plain truth is that the plan is calculated to fatten the brokers and commission men at the joint expense of the farmers and the speculating public. There will be a great show of business activity, but three-fourths of this will consist in turns," the only result of which will be the fleecing of ignorant and rash speculators.

There will be no moro wheat, and there will be no more money paid for the wheat. On the contrary, a large percentage of the price of it will be intercepted by the expert gamblers. And this i 8 the whole philosophy of the wheat-gaoibling business. It ia advocated in the interest of a Eet of sharpers who are a curse to the community who have never earned a dollar honestly in their lives and who are now endeavoring to cajole the farmers and the public, by playing upon their lust of wealth, into stopping the gap left by the collapse of the Comstock, with wheat. We have no doubt that the experiment will be tried, however; and we are equally certain that it will be a sufficiently costly one to the outsiders.

THE WAGES QUESTION. The San Francisco Call doubts the assertion that English workingmen can live or do live more economically than Americans, unlesa they live on ''a lower scale." It indeed goes so far as to assert that this is the case, saying of the English workingman "The lower cost of his living may be attributed to the lower scale in which "he lives. Neither his table nor his ward" robe are as well supplied as in America. "All observant travelers agree on that "point." We make bold to say that no "observant" travelers sgree upon any such statement and we further affirm that even if travelers say so, it is not true In the consular reports, which, being made with an express view to the popularization of the American system," may be reasonably suspected of some bias, it has been repeatedly stated of late years that the English workingmen live well that they insist on having abundance of the most nourishing and savory food that they eat three times a3 much meat as they did twenty years ago and, generally speaking, that they spend too much of their wages upon the table and upon drink. As to their wardrobes, the evidence is that they are about on a par with their American brethren.

They have stout, decent working clothes, and usually a broadcloth suit for Sundays and holidays. But notwithstanding their love of good eating and drinking, they manage to put by a good deal, as the returns of the Postal Savings Banks demonstrate. No doubt they could save very much more if they were more temperate. It is certain that they drink a great deal more than is good for them. Yet when allowance has been made for all these drawbacks it remains impossible to show wherein Protection has bencfitted Labor in this country, so as to afford anything like an offset to the unmistakable wrongs and injuries it has perpetrated.

It is in truth an enemy to Labor, and is not true that Free Trade involves a deterioration of the workingman's condition. PASSENGER LISTS. Omaha, January 21st. Left hern to-day, to arrive in Sacramento January 25th 11. L.

Story and wife, Chicago Bennttt, Brooklyn John Sam Desbeck, San FraccifCD Mary Wolff, L. Ij. Racsotn, liouirville. Ky. W.

Roniine, Cincinnati V. H. Colbert, Buffalo. Newhall, January 22d. Parsed hers tcday, to arrive in San Fracciaco to-morrow Peter Benson, Los Angelas Miss N.

B. Hinckley, Clinton, N. Miss W. R. Reckfeld, Tombstone Wise Patrick and child, Mrs.

W. E. Randen, Lao Carte, Wilmington Hnbbell, Tomalea W. Miller, Mary Los An- Cf lea J. J.

McGrolle, Tombatone R. H. Paul and prisoner, Tucson Morris Meyberg and wife, Los Angelts. Cablis, January 22J. Passed here today, to arrive in Sacramento to-aiorrow W.

Strung, New York SoL E. Bache rich, Cincinnati, O. M. 8. Laird, Utica, N.

Miss McDermitt, Colnmbaa, Nfi. MacDL-nald, Scotland Dr. L. F. Price, U.

S. A Chas. Emerson's Mir.Blr W. Young. Rosa; J.

D. FerS Collins W. L. Orde, Winnipeg, Maniub3 A. F.BarroD, Chicago.

Airs. C. San I'raccijco; B. Wilson, Nev. 27 emigrant passtngers, including 1 22 males, to arrive at Sacramento January 24th.

Ka.nsas "-I City January 22.1.— Topeka, today, to arrive in San Francisco January 27'h Win. H. Lockwood, Hartfird, J. P. Ri-qnn.

Silver fity, C. Hizeljon, N. C. Finn, N. Y.

Omaha, 22 Left here to arrive in icramr January 26-h limit, Mas' Charied Coajstock, Oaslard; Mrs. P. D. Coiper, Miss Ai'gie G. Cleveland I Mrs.

Sylvester, B-a- E. T. sod wiff, Mubterey, Cal J. H. Cfaapmaa, Bridgeport, TSO.

Craig, i O. Ryther. El wood, I. Brace Brown, New York George C. Bwton W.

S. "i U. S. I Euiii Seller, Pfiilippibe Mies Soriimer, 1. Elliir, Guard againat fever" and all malarial by usiuK Kidney- ort, DEBRIS.

FORTY-EIGHTH DAY OP THE SLICKERS CASE IS COTJBT. Evidence of the Prosecution in Testimony of General Bidweil, W. Green asd Others. The debt is case was resumed at 9:30 A. M.

Saturday, JuJge Jackson Temple presiding. Cross-examinatisn of Mr. Allardt (by W. C. made a careful examination or instrumental survey cf all the large-it mining excavations along the Yaba river.

Mr. Manson, Mr. Yon Schmidt and myself made the. survey of the river. We had a trarsit and a leveling party.

Mr. Mai: son had charge of the party furnished by the State Engineer. A stone six inches in diameter will we gh about ten The lower strata in the North Bloom field mine, to the beat mj recollection, is composed of heavy, rocky material, firmly cemented. This) heavy material has to be blasted with powder to dislodge and enable its being washed. I was in the North Bloomfield mine on three or four occasions, and remained a couple of hours each time.

The main channel of the mine is of this heavy material. The tides are. of the material I described yesterday. -I made co critical examination as to the rim reck. When I was last at the mine they, were working in the main channel.

The material being washed was cemented cobble and rocks, very little sand, and firmly cemented. I saw a large number of men at work in the main channel, and on the high bank. I noticed a Chinaman stationed at a point where he watched the high bank, and his duty was to give warning to the miners when there was danger of the banks caving. I saw about twenty men breaking up material, piping and blasting. I personally visited the mines which I enumerated yesterday.

I visited Frenctt Corral, Birchville andMaczanita. I have no distinct recollection of the mines at those points. I don't know the name of the miue I visited at Birchville. It was an old pit above Birchville. The material of that pit was coarse and heavy, and similar to that of the Milton Company mine at Maczanita Hill.

I cannot recall to memory at this time the appearance of these pits, as I vie i ted them two years ago. I made the examination of those mines to ascertain the amount of material mined in the Yuba basin, and not as to the character of the material washed. Witness the instruments used in making the of the Yuba basin. In the Columbia Hill, Relief Hill, Moore's Flat, North Bloomfield and other large pits we made instrumental fuiveyj. The depth ef the workings of the North Bloomfield mine varies from 50 to 250 feet in depth.

When I made the survey of that pit, October 21, 1879, I found 89 feet was the approximate average depth of the entire pit, which covers an area of 10S Some of the banks in the North Bloomfield mine in my judgment are 300 f-tt In depth. I measured the banks by I call all large stones bowlders, say from one foot in diameter upwards. When I was at the mine I heard large bowlders running in the and grinding along on its bottom. The water was so muddy I could not see them. was cross-examined at great length us to the extent of the pit, depth of bank, Ido not recollect seeing derricks in the mines I have been describing.

My recollection of the banks and the material of those mines is very indistinct. It has been a long time since 1 1 made their examination, and then it was to determine the amount of the material that had moved, without reference to its quality. described the gravel beds which contain cabbie in the upper washings of the Gold Run The creek into which the North Bloomfield dumps has a very great fall, and in my opinion very little material could ledge in it. I have examined Humbug creek very thoroughly. It ha 3 a width of fifty or sixty feet.

Ido not know the depth of filling in its channel. Ido sot know the extent of in the Spring creek. I don't think it exceeds a million cubic yards. The purpose of my investigations was not the amount deposited in the creeks and canyons, but to ascertain the amount of the excavations. I did not examine Shady creek.

The fall of Shady creek wilt average 200 feet to tin mile. Slate creek I examined from Whisky iVgings to Laporte, a distance of six or eight miles. There is considerable deposit of tailings ia certain portions of its channel. I was in that locality in July and August, 1879. Thj width of tha stream between Laporte and St.

Louis is about 200 feet. It may in Borne places be filled to a depth of sixty feet. General Bidwell sworn. Direct examination (by Attorney- General arrived in California in 1841. Farming was begun by Americans in that year.

At that time Setter was farming at this point on a small scale, named a number of persons engaged in farming in the Sacramento valley prior to the discovery gold ia California, January, Stock-raising was the principal interest in the Sacramento valley prior to the gold discovery. I reside at Chico, Butto county. The Cherokee mine is a little southeast of my place, twenty miles distant. I have visited it many I have observed at the crossing of the public road this canal carrying debris material. It is a yellowish substance, which, when dried, shows a great deal of white sand.

The water in that canal is very thick with this debris matter. I have been acquainted with creek since the early spring of 1843. The extent of farming and stock-raising was extensive before the working of the Cherokee mines. Butta creek rises in the Sierra near the head -waters of Deer creek. There was no farming done on the head waters of Butte creek prior to 1850.

The cultivation of the soil on Butte creek was not extensive prior to the discovery of gold, from the fact that there was no market fsr agricultural products. The channel of Butte creek has been filling each year siice mining began, and to-day the bed of the stream is above its natural banks. The grazing of cattle and sheep on the hillsides and plains has caused the ground to become compact and has reduced to a great extent the natural wash. The valley in which I live is so level that the natural wash is inconsiderable. Mining has hid the effect of filling up Butte creek.

Chico creek heads near the source of Butte creek, in the high ridge of the Sierras. They run through precipitous There is no mining done on Chico creek. Its waters are clear, and it carries no debris or silt of any kind, except a little sawdust from mills along its course. The water is clear in Deer creek. It rises in the came ridge as does Chico and Butte creeks.

It carries very little sediment. From an ob- Bervatitn of the channels of Chico and Deer creeks for the last twenty years, I see no perceptible change, except that their channels look perhaps a little deeper. Chico creek empties into the Sacramento river below Chico. Deer and Butte creeks also empty into the Sacramento river. There has been a great many sheep pastured along those The cutting of timber, especially during the past few has been quite extensive.

In 1843 Feather was a perfectly clear stream, a much clearer stream tnan the Sacramento. The American and Ynba were also pure, limpid, crystal streams, and remained so until mining changed their condition. In early there was an old Frenchman here, Captain Armington, given to telling extravagant stories, or which were generally discredited. He stated that at one time the whole valley was covered with water to the height of the tree-tops. No one believed story.

Afternoon Seafilon. Cross-examination of General Bidwell (by W. C. Sutter, in 1843 aid had 1,500 or 1,800 acres in cultivation in the neighborhood of Sntter's Fort, near Sacramento city, i The early farmers did not cultivate for export, with the exception of Sut ter. The other farms were conducted on a very email scale.

In high water only part of the water of Butte creek gets into the Sacramento at 1 the mouth of tie creek, it I flows over into Feather river. The land along the banks of the Sacramento river is higher than the land adjacent. I did not travel much during high waters in early days. The bead waters of the creeks I have described flow through a volcanic formation. The Sacramento river in earl; days was not as clear a stream the Yabs, Feather During flood times it was a little more murky than during low stages, but was not muddy as a stream from a mininar section, where mines are in operation, Cache creek in ear'y days had no delta that I 1 remember of.

I have not parsed there for many years. B. 'D. Gray reside in Butte county, The Cherokee: canal several mil from my present residence. I formerly, however, lived in its immediate neighborhood.

1 farmed for many years on the land lone the backs of theciuni. The material end in the canal nt my place co: staled of other; sediment. My place about two miles from the land Mr. on my place to the depth of two or two and a half foe'. 9 I 'told out ny place to the Soring Valley Company I never could cultivate anything ia tor two years after 1 way 1 I have fo'low-d i waters from the L'n-r, mines for 30 miles, and it still was very muddy.

Oar coil was originally dark adobe. When I left there two years ago, the deposit varied in depth, over a very I wide scope of from one and a half to two feet. I fanned B.io!:ers land for four years, and never mo J-ii in raising a crop on that character of ThU deposit i destroyed the pro dactivencss of the lied, and greatly depreciated its market value. All farming on slickens land from this canal has proven a failure, and it has broken up all who have have engaged in trying to cultivate it. Cross- examination (by W.

C. Belcher) water in this canal teas very thick. 1 raised bat very slight crops on sediment lands. The land is not worth so much, neither is it as productive since its being covered with clickens as it was before. I am at present living at Gridley Station, and am engaged in farming.

The canal from the Cherokee mines empties into sleuths. I have known the land in that neighborhood for tbe last ten years. The basin at tbe mouth of that canal has been frequently covered with water daring flood times. I bought my land for Si 50 and $10 per acre and sold it for $38. I sold to the Spring Valley Company.

I had a suit against that company for damages, and we compromised on 836 per acre. They had covered up a crop for me. The land when I sold it was to me worthless. The crop was worth $15 per acre. I know nothing of the land since I sold it.

,1 don't know of the Sprirg Valley Company's selling any of that la-d lately. W. S. Green sworn." Direct-examination (by Attorney- reside lin Colusa county, and am engaged in the publication of a newspaper. I have been there since 1850, and have been engaged in farming And surveying most of the time since.

Up to 1803 I was on a farm near the town of Colusa. i My place was almost due west of the town of Williams. In 1862 and 18C3 I farmed some on Grand Island. Tbe drainage of the Sacramento river on the west side is that portion that is in the water-shed of Stony creek. The head of Stcny creek is near Mt.

St. John. This creek has numerous tributaries. The soil through which Stony creek runs is alluvial. There is a great deal of chaparral in the section drained by that creek.

Wherever chaparral grows the soil is light and alluvial and easily waehad. The farms in the Stony creek basin are very small. There has been more or less farming in that locality since I first taw it in 1855. The raising of all kinds of live stock also has been quite an industry since 1860. A great many were engaged in cattle-raising as early as 1855.

Stony creek is dry at its i mouth during the summer season. During the rainy season it is quite muddy, but its waters are entirely of a different character from the waters of a stream flowing from a mining region. This creek near its mouth frequently ovet flows its banks. Tha deposit from the overflow is considerable less than a quarter of an inch in thickness. The Sacramento liver in 1851 2 was a very clear stream (luring the summer, and in the winter carried about the same amount of sediment that Stouy creek does.

Witness described the basin from Knight'd Landing to Golusa. The basin is frequently filled with water. Ido not thick there has been a half an inch cf debris deposited in this basin in the last twenty years. On the east side of the river there is also a basin. The water in the east basin does not stay bo long, and doea not stand, but flows with a current.

The debris deposit in this section is very deep. There is no deposit in the Sacramento river channel at all at the town of Colusa. In driving piles for the bridge there we found the gravelly bottom with no deposit of sediment resting upon it, The river water at Uulusa in the summer time is quite cleir. Cross-examination (by W. C.

The first creek below Willows is Courtaice, the next below is Sand creek. Sand creek broke through and washed out the railroad in 1878. Ked rolling lands lie on each side of Stony creek to within a abort distance of its mouth. The plains were taken up and farmed as early as 1854. Farming did not amount to much until 18C6.

Farming in and around Newville commenced on a pretty large Ecale as early as 1802. There were a great many sheep in that section prior to 1800. Logans creek has deposited considerable debris on the land tear its mouth. Sand creek heads on the ridge between Bear creek and the plains. It if perhaps eight milts in length, and has a water-shed.

Sand creek, where it comes into the about 100 feet wide and 15 inches deep. This creek has a natural wash en the land near its mouth. Those creeks prior to the cultivation of the soil and the grazing of stock in the mountains were quite muddy and carried a great deal of sediment. All ot' those streams carry more or less debriss during high water. I did some surveying for a party en Sand creek in 1856, and I think the of the channel now is about the same it was then.

Tno lower valley of btoi.y creek has filled with sediment but very little. I think nearly all of the debris from Stony creek is carried into the river. At C'clu-a there 13 a sandbar forty acres in extent. There are sandbars throughout the river above Colusa. They keep shifting all the time.

This bar at Colusa has been forming since but most of it has formed since 1870. Butte creek discharges into Sutler slough. Court adjourned at 5 r. m. to meet at 9:30 a.

m. to day. BORN. Sacramento, January Wife of Thos. Golden, a son (still-born).

Plactrville, January Wife of A. J. Lew-right, a daughter. I DIED. Sacramento, January Annie, da loiter of Thos.

and Bridget O'Connell, 2 years, 5 months and 23 days. and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, which will take place from the residence of No. 1109 I street, be- -1 tween Eleventh and Twelfth, this afternoon at 3 Elk Grove, Sacramento county, January Dr. Georye R. Kelly, 75 3 1 mouth and 0 days.

and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, which will take place from late residence, this (Honda)) afternoon at 2 W. B. Todhuntcr'i Stein Mountain Ranch, January John Funk, a native of Missouri, 47 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. The November Century Tbe most able and valuable publication ever put forth in magazine Fresh. The December Century For personal portraiture and biography, the richest single issue ever made by a Lie in.

The Century An ideal num- Y. Obs-RVbr. THE FEBRUARY Midwinter-' Century (SCBIBNER'a Ready January 21st, is a worthy successor of the last three brilliant numbers. The N. Y.

Graphic recently said: "Take it all in all, The Centubt is already a better magazine than b'cWBSEB's was and this is the general verdict. With increased excellence has ome A Largely Increased Sale. The average edition of the last twelve numbers, under the- name of Scbibseb's Monthly," was 120,000, while of the first four numbers of The Cestubt it has been nearly 133,000. In England, with an average monthly edition of 16,230 for a year, 20,500 copies of November have been sold. With the Midwinter number is begun the use of The Sew Cover, Deigned by Klibn Vedder to be varied by different designs for the seasons.

The title, Sckibseb's Monthly," is now omitted from the cover page. The contents include A new poem, Hermes TrismegUtus," by HCNUI W. An eeB3y on "The Superlative," by BAipn w. ii.no Kiir.RBo.\. A frontispiece portrait of GEOECE W.

CASLF, With accompanying article. A brilliantly illustrated TILE i C1XB" i PAPEB. Continuation of "A Modern Instance," by d. no WEll 8, e.r. poem, "Lovers in the by EDSICND CLARENCE MAX.

A new "Rudder story, by FRANK. K. An interestiog in- tall inert of the novel of Washington lire, "Through Oae Administra- lion," by 7 Mas FKfxers HorM.sov Also, the text of her new play, "MHIIIti." A paper on Frederick lloterUon, by the late DE4X SHM'T. An illustrated of vaine to on 7 The other contents include 1 Ire richly iHusf.r»t»d" papers: on VSculp'nra the pictnre? Moravi tn "11. full ec -)" S-Tce is fold everywhere; price, 35 Subset ii'ti of inline, $4 a year.

THB CKNTUitYCO; 7 Usws New Citi, Yqkk. NEW ADVEBTISEMENTS. MONDAY, JANUARY 23 1882. SACRAMENTO TEMPERATURE. Tmn-KRATTKB Yestesdat TIMPERATUBB Cobrbspokding Day, 1881 55 1 Highest, Lowest, 34 Lowest 3G TEMPERATURE YESTERDAY IN NEW YORK AND CHICAGO.

by Courtesy of the NEW YORK. CHICAGO. 34 Highest, 20 Lowest 10 PHI? I The weinstock" UUxLOJu JLO IJUN BREAKABLE CORSET, at $1 10, is a decided favorite with all who have worn them. 1 They are carefull made JtlLk) JL and finished, and embody some new features. One 1 important improvement is in the reinforced hips.

We have never seen a Corset CORSETS I Xt money more sure t0 A DRAB TABLE LINEN, with fancy blue and red border, 40 and cents a yard. (58 inches wide.) Imported Wire Masks I PRICES XbO'TOT. A handsome material in various striped effects making it highly desirable for TRIMMING and for COMBINATION SUITS, 20 cents. (Excellent value.) OF We received last week a new lot of RUCH- INGS, and now the stock seems over complete. In fact, it is a great deal fuller, collection than you will expect at this time of the year, but we aim in these as in all other goods not merely to keep a few sorts at the lowest prices, but a large variety at the lowest prices.

DEEP BLACK SILK FRINGE, 12j4 cents a yard. MEN'S EXTRA HEAVY MELTON SATINET SUITS, $7 50. (Cut Sack Style.) A line of MEN'S ALL-WOOL CHEVIOT PANTS, $4 50. A lot of COLORED HAT WINGS, 5 cents each. LADIES' MOSCOW BEAVER HATS, 13 and 22 cents each.

(Various shapes and colors.) MEN'S BLUE-CLOUDED FLANNEL UNDERSHIRTS and DRAWERS, 50 cents each. Whalebone I Dress Trimming, I 5 10 and 15 CENTS A YARD. I CHILDREN'S CALF SHOES, with Pebble I Goat Tops, Worked Button-holes. PRICE, $1 15. (A splendid everyday Shoe.) MECHANICS' STORE, Nos.

400, 402, 404, 406, 408 st, Sacramento. O3STX3 PRICE. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Tie Invitation Committee of the O. T. D.

C. announces that positively no one will be admitted to their party IS (Monday) tVENING, January 23d, without presenting an imitation at the door. J23-U' O. E. Stated Meetlns or Imp- ter No.

36, at Masonic Temple, THIS (Monday) EVENING, at 7 o'clock. All membeis and visit- ing members arc invited to attend. By order. MRS. M.

J. YOUNG, W. M. llkttt A. Dray.

Secretary. J23-lt Danlrl C. Tllden no authority en represent or Interact any business fer me or the New Mutual Life Insurance Company, of Boston. San Francisco, January 14, ItB2. J-23 3t HENRY K.

FIELD. General Agent. Card The Board of Managers of the Sacramento Protestant Orphan Asylum return thanks for donations as follows Mr. Elk Grove, 1 box raisins; Mrs. Corbin, Madison, 12 turkeys and i pigs Lyon Barnes, Thanksgiving dinner; Mrs.

Ben. Crocker, e.keand preserves 1). O. Mills cloth Telegraph Mill, 91 SO Faher Lagos, raisins F. Steinhardt, aprons, Mrs.

Edwards, peaches; Hamilton, clothing; Mrs. Lindess, clothing; Williamson 4: fruit; Wm. Naughton, S3; If. Cerbtr, discount un till, Mrs. E.

B. Crocker, $100 N. Dinglcy, 1 paper coffee C. McCrtary, 1 barrel flour and 100 pounds conuneal Adams, McNeil) 1 crats apple butter; Sacramtnto Cracker 1 box enckers; Continental Oil and Transportation 1 case oil Tevin, 1 case oil; W. R.

Strong, 1 box apples; City Market (Stray), 1 sheep M. T. Brewer, oranges and fruit; I. Felter 2 bottles port wine S. Cersou 1 sack nions, 1 box figs C.

W. Rapp 2 boxes raisins J. 11. White 2 papers coffee; Heilbron 2 qnarteis mutton; P. U.

1 sack spuds; O'Brien celery and vegetables B. Hennery, sausage Rochester (ChiUenden 1 box crackers Biitterfiild White, 1 suck flour Gerber corned beef Pioneer Mills, sacks of flour, of graham; G. W. Chesley, 1 can honey; Mchius ft Co 1 box crackers; liidweli Cook, 4 sacks cornmeal, 1 barrel beans Geo. Schrotb, 100 pounds flour, cike and bread L'ndley 1 box tea Hall, Luhrs 1 box tea Ueo.

Cooper, 6 pair of geese Eagle Cracker Bakery (Schrocr), 1 box crackers E. Grr er, cans tomatoes. 4 cans oysters; 11. 11. fantk, 1 box tea; Kilgore Tracy, 1 keg pork; Lambert 1 sack spuds and cabbage; Empire Bakery, 1 i box crackers; Grangers' Store, 1 box tea; George Bronner, 1 box raisins and tea Mrs.

Forrest, notions for Christmas tree; Miss Brothers, dolls' hats Mrs J. Gregory, 6 turkeys, 1 sick beans, 2 sacks spuds, and vegetables Lvon 10 2 sacks spuds, and vegctab'es Da Bernard! vegetables and fruit James Parsons, 1 box shoes Mrs. B. R. Crocker, kc and trimmings for Christmas tree; Mohr Yoeik, meats U.

Fisher, 1 box candy W. F. Peterson, 1 box candy J. M. Wiedmann, 1 box candy; Ackerman dolls and toys Waehborne and Redman, toys li.

Dale, to a Bed House, toys Mrs. P. toys and clotting Mrs. E. It.

Hamilton, Christmas cards J. Brown, dolls and toys lbs, F. W. Fratt, toys; Mrs. Thomas Boyd, 1 box candy Lip nan mattrijl for dreadDE dolls; Scott 2 gas fixtures J.

F. Slater, hat) W. Jleister, toys and bookn a friend, peara and plums Mrs. F. Clark, clothicg; Mrs.

J. B. Gill, clothing Mechan- ics' Store, cash; Hiss Crump, cnh; S. if. DavU, cash; National Gold Bank-of D.

O. Mills cash; Mrs. Roht. Anderson, cash Samuel Griffith, cash J. O.

Coleman's office, cash Hill Morrison, 1 box crackers. Fer order, MK-. 0. W. CLARKE, President.

Mrs. W. 11. Hobbt, Secretary. Sacramento, January 20, 1883.

J23-lt FOtt SAL A FINE LOT JACKS, lately brougiit from Ken- PffisHk tucky. lv in person or by letter to I W. M. BIL UPS, Colusa, Cal. tllaiffc WHO WANTS A FARM OK The easiest and quickest wayVw to find the plies you want, is to (fo to CAKL" I STROBEL, No.

831 street, Sacramento. There you surely get on th right tract. SWEETS A LSI P. REAL ESTATE AKD ACEKTS PaMlcand Deeds. Real Estats Bought and Sold on Houses rented and rents collected Tia Agents for the following Insurance Companies IMPERIAL ol London LONDON oi London of London Liverpool SORTH3araSHA3ni MERCANTILE i 0 of Ilartford.Conu rapltal, XV So.

Fourth street, between Sac- ramento, corner of (ho ailev iptf FRUIT DEALERS, I HAVING REMOVED TO MORE COMMODIOUS premises, we have enlarged our stock. We offer you choice Apples, free from worms, Lemons, Limes, Oranges, Dried Fruits, Nuts, Dates, Canned Goods, at very low prices. M. T. BREWER 1006 to 1010 Second struct, between- and K.

Sacra- men to. j22-tf LVOV Ki. MERCHANTS AND DEALERS IS Produce, Vegetables, Under, Ecit, Cheese, Poultry, Green and Dry Fruits, Honey, Beacs, etc ALFALFA SEED. tST Potatoes in car-load lots or less. 123-lptf Nos.

21 and 23 street. Sacramento Planing Mill, AND BLIND FACTORY. CORNER OF IO Front and streets, Sacramento. Doors, Windows, Finish of all kinds, Window Frames, Moldings every description, and Turning. HARTWELL, HOTCHKI33 STALKER j22-4plm CKAS, W.

RAPP .1 ST.EET. FIFTH AND SLSTH, Sacramento. tST A Now Stock of American, Frerch and Engllph Groceries. Also, a large aasortaiont of the Fines Japan Teas. j22-4plm JAMES MedFIKE, MANUFACTURER OF ROAD SCRATERS.

LfJ. Iron Doors, Jail i ells, Shutters, Railings, Gratings, Housework and Blicksmitbing in general, No. 520 street, between Fifth sad Sixth. Second- hand Doors for tie. j22.4ptf GENERAL NOTICES.

Holiday Presents The Mmlilr Six- pence Better Than the Shilling If you want GOOD PHOTOGRAPHS, at a reasonable price, go to BEALS' GALLERY, No. 415 street. 11. 8. BEALS, Operator.

d9-lm The bent Meals In the city at Peterson's, 618 and 620 street. u7.tf The only Genuine 11UL Brrad, delivered every morning, by W. F. PETERSON, 620 J. d7tl For Fine Cahen, Ice Cream, the BEST AND CHEAPEST MEALS, go to HENRY FISHER, No.

508 bet. Fifth and Sixth. jy2s-lm Dr. La Seminal rnre all cases of Seminal Weakness, Loss of Vigor, Nocturnal Impotency, Nervous and Physical Debil- ity, and all tint class of complaints arising from Ex- cess, Indiscretion or Abuse. The old find in this remedy a fountain of youth, and the young a cafe- guard and protection.

Dl(. LA MAK'a Sr.MIXAL PILLS restore the sexual organ', debilitated from whatever cause, to their pristine vigor. Price, $2 60 per bottle. Sent 0. O.

by express, to any address, (secure from observation. Address all or- ders to A. Druggists, Poetofflee Box 1952, San Francisco. jl3-3p6m Forty rears' experience of on nnrse. MRS.

WINSLOW'3 SOOTHING 61' UUP is the prescription of one of the best female physicians and uursts in the United ttues, and has been used for rty years with millions cf mothers for their children. It relieves the child from pain, euro) dysentery and griping in the bowels, and wind-colic liy giving hearth to the child, it rests tin mother. Price, 25 cents a bottle. 031-IyMWF A To all who are xaOTrrins from the errors and if youth, nervous weakness, early decay, loss of manhood, I will send a rece'pe that will cure you, FREE OF CHARGE. This great remedy was discovered by a missionary in South America.

Sand a self-addressed envelope to the REV. JjSEPH T. IKJIAN, Kiatioa New York City. n2 6mWFM AUCTIONS. TH GREAT AUCTION SALE Or Millinery, Ladies' Rats, Ellhoiis, at 617 ttreet, will be continued at 2 o'clock THIS AFTERNOON and 7 oMock THIS EVENING.

All the ladies of Sacramento are invited. jl7-tf D. J. SIMMONS, Auctioneer. CAPITAL GAS CO.

Muctionji Price rpilE DIRECTORS OF THE CAPITAL CAS A COMPANY, by and with the consent of the Stockholders, beg to annoui that en and after the Ist FEBRUARY, ISS2, the prim of GAS WILL UK REDUCED from $3 JV per thousand ruble The Coamitiy tike pleasure in informing tbe people of Sacramento the in- their hoslnesi this redaction, and rtmini Uieir patrons that they hive as here: fore ktpt faith n.t: in reducing prices as low at post Cf.i nt with a living pniflt, eonfEratnlata he that, locaUon and cot-t of ma-enal i ccoiitldewd, the people of Sacram Mo rare sin -I an cheap us li.cali'7 in the United Nor will qiulif var. In that hento- foro, which will be fully iyhfet Candle Gas, or two Candle Power above standard. J. Nt Cap'tal rouipany. STEIN WAY I SONS' PIANOS.

HEYMAN, BOLE agent, street, bet. Sixth aid opposite PIANOS IOJ I II LET, dt'-Sploi.