The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 8, 1897, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1897. . ONE CASE UF YELLOW FEVER ONLY The Excitement at New Orleans Is Rapidly Subsiding. OCEAN SPRINGS NOW QUARANTINED. Source of the Scourge Abso- lutely Cut Off From the World. GREAT SUFFERING IS SURE TO FOLLOW. Federal, State and Local Authori- ties Make Common War on the Dread Disease. NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 7.—Night ‘el on New Orleans wi a single case hout of vellow fever having been reported to the State Board ot Health, But one im- ported case thus far has been developed here, and death has wiped that out. The Board of Health to-night declared that, in spite of ali reports to the contrary, not her icken one of the many who had come } from Ocean Springs had been with the disease. The afternoon dispatches of the Asso- ciated Press contained a statement, made on the authority of the Marine Hospital of Washington, that Dr. O iphant of the local Board of Health had telegraphed Dr. Wasbin at Mobilethat two deaths had occurred here and that there were three new ceses. Dr. Oliphant ms with em- that he signed no such dispatch d any representative of his, night during the meeting of the d of Health it was decided to wire the exact situation to Dr. Wasbin. The ap- ended dispatch was sent, and dispatches imilar import wassent to some twenty- five boards of health in this country: ever from Ocean Springs died e precautions e here. DE. OLIPHANT. says he sent no other dis- Wasbin, and that either the Marine Hospital has been imposed upon or incorrect information has been given out. This mornine at the Gelpi residence, where the first and fatal case wasreported yesterday, the premises were thoroughly impregnated with sulphur, and it is be- jeved every living germ therein has been lled. The four inmates—two servants d mot and obrother of the boy— are absolutely quarantined. Physicians are promptly reporting cases of fever that come under their observance. Dr. Walmsley said to-night that four or five doubtful cases had been reported, and that members of the board of experts had stigated them all. In none of them s there a trace or sympiom of yellow er. The Board of Health Ottice was thronged with people throughout the day and far 1to tne night. Many came to inquire as he probability of a modification of last 's sweeping gquarantine proclame- tion, so that friends and relatives sojourn- at Mississippi Sound resorts might owed to come home, and others secure health certificates in order hey might leave the city, the latter ng mostly commercial traveiers, who r erally furnished the proper Dbills h, g the day it was reported that a trainload of people from the coast had been sidetracked beyond the city limits, F ng such action by the board as would permit them to come into town. Major Day, local chief of the railway mail service, to-dav called upon Buperin- tendent Marshal of the Louisville and Nashville R: y with reference to the dispatching of mail to and from the in- fected points, complaint having been made that Ocean Springs and Biloxi were being deprived of mail facilities, Arrangements will be made to take the mail from the stations at Oceaa Springs and Biloxi by means of pouch-catchers. Uninfected points are not affected. A complete inspection camp has been organized at the Rigolets, through which an entrance 1s made to the citv. No doubt- ful person wili be allowed to come in. In- spectors have been sent to all the Gulf coast points to make a full and thorough examination of their health and sanitary conditions. There seems to be no threatened exodus from the city. All but one road reports business outgoing as normal. The North- eastern officials said they were carrying a somewhat heavier consignment of passen- gers than ordinarily, and attributed the increase to the natural fear of an unac- climated stranger. Only one additional death has been re- ported at Ocean Springs with symptoms of yellow fever—a mulatto. No new cases have been reported during the afternoon. Ocean Springs has now been absolutely cut off from the outside world, and the only means of reaching the town are by wire or mail. The telegraph operator is weil nigh worked to death. Serious suffering is certain to follow. It was said this afternoon that there was only a ton of ice in the town and that there wasno way to get more. Physi- cians at the springs get but little rest, and it is not so certain that the medical sup- plies will not be soon exhausted, but in the course of a day or two means will be found whereby relief will be supplied. If required, city physicians will volunteer to aid the local doctors. ————— GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE, Active Co-operation of the Marine Hos- pital Bureaw. WASHINGTON, D. C,, Sept. 7.—The general Government will render all assis- tance in its power to check the spread of yellow fever. This will be done mainly through the Mzrine Hospital service. Dr. Walter Wyman, the head of the bureaun, returned to this city to-day and assumed active charge in directing the work oi assisting the State officials of Mississippi in their efforts to confine the disease to the locality where it appears to have startea. Dr. Wyman says the situation at Ocean Springs is entirely in the hands of the State Board of Health, which the Marine Hospital Bureau is doing every- thing possible to assist £ Dr. Guiteras, the well-known expert in vellow fever, who was requested to go to Ocean Springs by Dr. Wyman, will reach there to-morrow. His opiuion on the dis- ease is awaiied with interest by the bu- reau. The Marine Hospital service has ample camp material and eauipage on hand. The splendid outfit which has been at Gainesville, Ga., will be started to-night on a train for the vicinity of Ocean Springs. It will be taken to within thirty or forty miles of the place, and if a camp of detention is found necessary the outfit will be used as occasion may require. The bureau also keeps portable apparatus at Savannah, Ga., intended for use in epi- demics. It col ts of machines for dis- infecting and fumigating purposes. They ave been started for the vicinity of Ocean prings. h 8 S MOBILE'S PiECAUTIONS. Rigid Quarantine Established Both by Land and Water. MOBILE, Ara, Sept. 7.—Every precau- tion has been taken toguard agzinst the introduction of fever into Mobile. Rigid quarantine has been established by land and water, and half a ‘dozen persons who got in before quarantine arrangemenis were completed have been sent out of the city to the detention camp, located fifteen miles west on the Louisville and Nash- ville Railroad. At this camp also are de- tained all travelers who came from coast points or from New Orleans. They must remain ten days in quarantine. There are several there now. No train crews are allowed to come into town. A close examination by the physicians here enables the Board of Health to say sitively that there is no case of a suspi- s nature in Mobile. Marine Hospital £ eson Murray wiil be here to-night and has arranged to leave in the morning with fifty trusty men for Ocean Springs to form a cordon around the place and to confine and stamp out the disease there as the Marine Hospital Service did to the fever at Brunswick, Ga. There is no fever at Scranton as far as can be learned. nor at any coast point ex- cept at Ocean Springs, o First Victim a St. Lowis Girl. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 7.—The first vic- tim of the yellow fever plague at Ocean Sprines was & St. Louis girl, Miss Pene- lope Schutze, daughter of F. C. G. Schutze, to-do retired merchant of this city. turday came a dispatch saying that she was very iil with fever. The family were greatly alarmed, but on Monday they were horritied by a brief teiegram from the hotel people, saying: “Your daughter died to-day of yellow fever.” Segh s Thyese Cases at Bilowi. BILOXI, Miss,, Sept. 7.—At10:300’clock to-night three well-defined cases of yellow fever were found here. They were under guard and no fear is felt. OUT OF 1HE ICY NORTH, One of Andree’s Pigeons Reaches Its Home Cote in Coulter- vil'e, Ill. CHICAGO, Irn, Sept. 7.—Special dis- patches receivea from Coulterville, I!l., state that William Osborne, a prominent business man of that city, believes he has in his cote a homing pigeon that was lib- erated by Professor Andree from his bal- loon. Tue pigeon flew into its home cote on Friday night, and Osborne is confident it is one of the birds he gave to Andree when the daring explorer started on his trip. Attached to the left leg of the bird was a silver plate with the words *“Andree No. 31” stamped on it. Osborne makes public for the first time an arrangement he made with Professor Andree before the latter sailed in search of the north pole. Osborne is an expert homing-pigeon breeder. Before tne ex- plorer left Spitzbergen, Osborne says, he placed a number of his best birds at An- dree’s disposal, with the understanding toat they would be liberated at intervais, 50 that Osborne might be kept informed concerning the whereabouts and success or failure of the expedition. Around its neck the pigeon carried a note, which had been written on heavy paper. The note was rolled iu a parchment covering and showed evidence of having been inclosed in water-proof cloth that had become de- tached and lost on the iong fly. The words are blurred, and only one could be read with any degree of certainty, and that is “Latitude.” Osborne says he expects another bird to arrive in a few days. He thinks Andree and his men are alive, and that word will come from them regu'arly now. /X PERSONS BLOWN TO ATOMS. Ignited Gas Explodes a Quantity of Nitro-6.ycerine and Awful Ruin Ensues. CYGNET, OHIo, Sept. .—A terrible ex- plosion of nitro-glycerine occurred here this afternoon at 3 o'clock, rosuiting in the death of six persons whose names are kunown, ana others at present unknown. The killed: Sam Barber, Allen Faris, John Thompson, Charles Bartel, Henry | Lansdale, — Havens, boy. The explosion occurred at Grant’s well, at the rear of the National Supply Com- pany’sofiice building, in the village limits, ) well had just been sho! by Samu-l Barber, the shooter for the Ohio and In- diana Torpedo Company. The well was a gasser, and when the 120 quarts of glycer- ine were let down into the well it ex- ploded, the gas ignited and with a terrific rou{ the flames shot high above the der- rick. As soon as the workmen saw the flames several climbea into the derrick to shut off the gas, but they bad hardly got there when a terrific explosion took pl-ce. The burning gas had s:arted the remain- ing glycerine in the empty cans stanaing in a wagon near the derrick. In another Wagon near by were some cans containing another twelve quarts, and this was started by the force of the first explosion. The second was blended with the first in a mighty roar, and the country surround- ing for miles trambled from the shcck. _ The National Supply Company’s build- ing was completely demolisned, and nothing remains where the wagons stood but a big hole. There is not a whole pane of glassin any window in the town, and every house and store was shaken to 1ts foundation. There was awful excitement and all the remaining population of the town rushed to the scene. Who the men are who were in the derrick and who were killed cannot be learned now owing to the excitement. The damage to the Ohio Oil Com pany will amount to $2000. Their outbuildings are a total wreck and many others are dam- aged. The town has a population of abour 1200. Many bystanders were wounded. —_ Fell Into Grand Canyon. YELLOWSTONE LAKE, Wvo., Sept. 6. W. M. Hill of Osawatomie, Kans., came very near losing his life to-day by falling into Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. He descended the canyon to Red Rock, below Point Lookout, and while walking around slipped and started to roll down the slanting canyon wall some 1500 feet. He managed to roil over on his back, and by digging his heels and elbows into the sand slackened his speed until he siruck a projecting ledge on the brink of a preci- pice 600 feet high. He was rescued by tourists who lowered a rope to him, pu'l- ing him up. During his descent Hill's clothes were aimost torn from his body and the sand scraped off considerable skin, . Bl TP B Zown Marshal Killed. ALAMOSA, Coro., Sept. T7.—Joseph Simons, the rown marshal, was shot and killed last night by O. P. Brown., who mistook bim for a prowler who had at- tempted to break into the house of Miss Emma Holman, a neighbor of Brown. VISALIA'S SEASON (F REJOLCING Valley Railway Trains Will Enter the City To-Morrow. THOUSANDS TO GIVE GREETING. From Every Town in the San Joaquin Delegations Will Gather. TO WELCOME COMME RCIAL EMANCIPATION. With Parades, Oratory and a Bar- becue the Populace Will Celebrate. VISALIA, Can, Sept. 7.—This week will be a memorable one in the history of this city. The interest of the week will culminate on the 9th, when everybody w1l rejoice over the arrival of the first passenger train on the Valley Railroad. There will be no lz2ck of enthusiasm. Itis difficult to find any one in all this part of the great San Joaquin Valley who has not a kindly word for the new road and who is not ready to throw up his hat and shout for 1ts success. No railroad in any other part of the United States, perhaps, has been 8o warmly welcomed as has been the Valley road at Visalia, and, in fact, all through this valley. One of the bosses of the track-laying crew here says that he has been working for railroads for the past twenty years in different parts of the Union, and never before has he found everybody friend!y to the road. In com- ing up this valley each farmer he met wel- comed him and the Valley Railroaa Com- pany. He was never refused board and lodging at any place he stopped at. This is something new in his experience, he says. THE CALL correspondent was talking to an old farmer the other day. The farmer declared that he would not have his folks miss the Valley road celebration for any- thing. He said ke had sold his wheat for a cent less on the hundred pounds pro- vided the shipper would send it over the Valley road. There are many honest farmers just like him; they are sacrificing considerable to throw their help and in- fluence to the Valley railroad. The new road has given a great impetns to :he growth of Visalia. New buildings are going up on all sides. A steam laundry has located here within the week, A new drygoods firm from San Francisco has rented the only vacant storeroom in town. Business has greatly revived, and all because of the Valley road’s coming. Vis, has been waiting for this day ever since the period in the seventies when the citizens refused to pay the Southern Pacinc for building into thecity and that autocratic roaa declared war against her. When planning for the building of the road through the San Joa- quin the Southern Pacitic made its own way easy and its own expenses light by | draughting liberal bounties from the towns along the route. The usual de- mand, only a litile heavier than usual, was made upon Visalis, The fact thatthe city was then a thrifty little burg with some loose change and respectable bank accounts in it was taken advantage of by the railroad. The proposed bonus was vlaced in the big figuies accordingly, but Visalia objectea to the hold-up. The rail- road coerced and thep pieaded, but the Visalia citizens insisted that their town was worth guite as much to the railroad as the railroad was to the town. At that the Southern Pacific lost tem- per and Visalia lost the Scouthern Pacific. War was declared. The railroad builded witnout Visalia and left that plucky littie burg seven miles to the windward and isolated irom all railroad connection. The San Joaguin road was run through what is now Goshen and Tulare. Visalia, however, hung together so tightly that she was able to build her own connection. Kor twenty years now a lit- tle road has run from Goshen Junction and Tulare to Visalia. It has kept Visalia in touch with Mr. Huntington’s “‘mark of civilization,”” notwithstanding the latter’s will to the contrary. Finding that this isolation scheme did not work the destruction of the town against which he had sworn the enmity of bis might, the head of the Southern Paci- fic constructed the line which now runs close to the foothills on the east and is known as the Porterville line. This was in the evident hope of founding towns which would draw the trade.of this rich section of the country away from Visalia. In this again the Southern Pacific has been thwarted. For, while a good town has been made at Porterville and other good ones have sprung up on that same line, Visalla bas held her own andis toriftier to-day than she was twenty years ago. At the inception of the Valley road Vi- salia saw her grand chance to get even. Her cltizens became some of the earliest und most liberal subscribers to the new road, and they have the satisfaction now of seeing themselves connected directly with the world of trade and commerce, Not only that, but since it became evident that the Valley-rood project would suc- ceed the Bouthern Pacific has been com- pelled to buy the little connecting road between Goshen Junction and Tulare, and within the Just two weeks to establish an independent, but none the less expensive, direct train to San Francisco. All these facts are remembered keenly in Visalia, and they will not be forgotten in the speeches of Thursday. History is lending zest to the big celebration. The first train of the new road pasced thropgh Visalia on Monday, coming in as far south as Acequia street. Engines en- tered the city limits several days ago, but trains had not yet been seen. Work has been rushed by the contractors, and it is only by their vigorous efforts that the track is 1o be 1n shape to thoroughly jusiify the czlebration. Sunday had to be used as an ordinary workaay. On Satur- day night the road was completed to the Southern Pacific crossing, and the next day track was laid to Mill Creek and sand was hauled by & spur track from St. John River. Rapid progress is being made on the depot and there will be enough of tt visible above the earth on Thursday to indicate the Valley road's intention of receiving and housing its patrons in g0o: style and comfortably. One of the features of the depot will be an open waiting-room for use in summer. The crowd which is to be here for the celebration is evidently to be a big one and a good one; it will not getaway without Leing a happy one. Itis coming from as far north as Stockton and as far south as Bakersfield, and is to include every grade of man, from cowboy to sol- dier and County Judge. The capacity of the Vailey road will be more than doubly taxed, notwithstanding that it is to tend in a train of twelve passenger coaches and ten or more stockcars tem- porarily equipped for passenger traffic. At the last minute the Southern Pacific has come forward with =z desire to be gra- cious, and will probably grant a special rate and send a special train from Fresno. isalia is en tete already, with a pecu- liarly blissful spirit of old-time hospi- tality. Among the festoons which spread across the street in great numbers are banners bearing such devices as the fol- lowing: ‘Have a good time while you live, for when you are dead you will be dead a long time,” and ‘*He who rises late must trot all day.” Decorators have been at work all day on the bucine:s houses of the ecity, and some of them have continued their labors well into the night. By to-morrow night the decorations will almost bury the store fronts. Farmers will flow in from all directions on Thursday. Hundreds of them will be obliged to come in by wagon, because of the impossibility of getting railroad ac- commodations, Word was sent to the people of Dinuba to-day by the chairman of the committee of arrangements that they would have 1o come in private con- veyances, because every one whom the Valley road carried from Dinuba would shut out one of the proposed visitors from Fresno or Stockton. At the present out- look Fresno and the One Hundred Tuou- «and Club of that city will send between 300 and 400 citizens, exclusive of the com- panies of the National Guard, Companies C and F of the latter, under Colonel Wrignt and staff and General Muller and staff, will take part in the parade. Perterville will also send a large crowd, its citizens baving associated with those of Fresno in the original efforts to secure the Val ey road connections. Han- ford will return by a gooaiy delegation the compliment Visalia paid Hanford when that town celebrated. Six trains will be run in each direction from Tulare daring tha day. People of Exeter, Farm- ersville, Oroso, Reedley and other smaller towns through which the railroad has already passed, but which deferred their jubilations in order to consolidate and navea bigger one with the Visalia people, will be in by carriage and otherwise in heavy numbers. Delano will be strongly represented, and Bakersfield, anticipating the day when she too will want to cele- brate over the Valley road proposition, will be so fraternal as to send in part of her militia. According to calculations of the com- mittee, the train from Fresno will arrive early in the forenoon. Among its pas- sengers will be the following officers of the Valley Railway: Vice- President Robert Watt, Second Vice-President A. H. Payson, Directors Jonn D. Spreckels, J."A. Hooper and Charles Holbrook, Trus- tees White and Baldwin, Secretary Mackie, Traffic Manager Moss and Chief Encineer Storey, all of whom' will come from San Francisco. The barbecue wiil be held at 11:30 o’clock, and in the late afternoon Hon. W. H. Alvord will deliver the address of the day. Addresses are expected from some of the officers of the road also. Visalia claims to have the best barbecue beef-roaster in the State. His Fourth of July beef is aiready famous through this section of the State. The beef he is to hang over the fire has been fattening in private for some time. Following is the complete programme for the celebration on the 9:h: MORNING. 9:30—Arrival of tirst passenger train on Val- ley road and firing of salute. 10—Grand parade. 11:30—Barbecue. AFTERNOON. 2—Baseball match game between Fresno aud Visalia teams. 3—Bicycle races. 5—Dress parade of the different companies of the Sixth regiment in attendance. EVENING. 7—Illuminated bicycle parade. Concert by Hanfora and Tulere brass bands. 8—Ovation by Hon. W.H. Aiford and ad- dress by Judge Nye of Oakland. 8:30—Music. 8:45—Response to oration by Valley Rail- road authorities and Judge Stephen G. Nye of Oakland. 9:30—Ball. On Thursday morning Superintendent ot Construction Williams will give up the line from Hanford, and the operating de- partment will take charge of it. A regular time-card and schedule will then be put into effect, full passenger service begin- ning on Friday. Unless the operating de- partment changes its plans, the big 59-ton engine No. 3 will haul the first train, with Engineer W. E. Gardner in the cab and Fireman F. W. Johnston assisting him. Gardner was dne of the best engineers of the Wabash line in the Easi, and has been for twenty-eivht years in the profession. He has been working twenty and twenty- two hours aday during the rush of con- struction to Visalia, and richly deserves the honor of running the initial train to this point. DEATH OF A SHOTGUN MESSENGER. J. C. Sullivan, a Guard on the Merced - Coulterville Stage, Accidentally Killed. MERCED, CAL., Sept. 6.—J. C. Sullivan, ‘Wells-Fargo's shotgun messenger on the Merced-Coulterville stage, accidentally shot and killed himself yesterday at Baxter station, between here and Coulter- ville. Sullivan had for some months been msking two round trips a week on the stage w0 protect Wells-Fargo’s treasure from stage-robbers. Yesterday, on the way up, the stage stopped at Baxter and Suliivan got out to get some fics from a tree. He placed his gun against the trunk of the tree and began shaking a branch thst was within reach. 'Tnis jarred the tree and the gyu fell with tne barrel point- ing toward Sullivan. The gun was dis- charged, the load tearing the flesh trom the calf of one of his legs and shattering the bones in the other. The injured man was taken on to Coulterviile, that being the nearest point at which medical assistance could be found. His wounds were dressed, but at an early hour this morning he died from blood ‘poisoning. His widow and two chitdren live here. On Saturday night a lodge of the Kuights of Honor was installed in Merced anda Sullivan was one of the charter memhers. By his death the family will receive $2000 from this lodge. STOCKTON, CaL., Sept. 7.—Ex-Con- Constable and Deputy Sheriff James C. Sullivan had a host of friends in Stock- ton. He did a good deal of detective work for Sheriff Cunningham, and after that was a deputy under Constable Beach. Some time ago he secured a position as express messenger on the route irom Mer- ced to Coulterville. His sudden death was a surprise in this city. Sullivan mar- ried a San Francisco young lady, and had one child when he left here. He took his family to Merced, and another chnila was born recently. The deceased was 28 years of age. He was alwaysa cool officer, quiet in manner and perfectly fearless. £ Receiver for @ Gas Company. SEATTLE, Wasi., Sept. 7.—Judge G. H. Haonford of the Federal court was asked to-day to appoint a receiver for the Tacoma Gas s&nd Electric Company of Tacoma. The application was filed by John H. Shacklefora of Tacoma, repre- senting the New York Becurity and Trust Company, The bill states that the gas company is indebted to the trust campany as trustee under a mortgage for $500,000 in the sum of $12,000 interest on the princi- pal note. Judge Hanford will appoint the receiver to-morro Ezplosion of a Steam Wagon. RENO, NEv., Sept. 7.—A steam wagon engaged in hauling timber from Loyalton to Verdi blew up_this afternoon oue mile east of Sardine Valley, scalding the fire- , Gilbert Litzeberg, sv badly that he died this evening. N0 VOTE YET ON SAN FRANGISGO State Equalizers Spend Most of the Day in Conference. Some Progress Made in Re- conciling Differences of Opinion. Fate of the Metropolis Will Prob- ably Be Declded at To-Day’s Sesslon. SACRAMENTO, Can., Sept. 7.—The State Board of Equalization held an open session for a few moments this forenoon and passed the rest of the aay 1n confer- ence, witi the doors ciosed to outsiders. The first motion of the open session was made by Chesebrough, who moved that the board go into executive session. The motion did not receive a second, so Chair- man Morehouse did not entertain it Beamer moved to proceed by counties with the equalization. This motion failed to obtain a second. The board then took a brief recess to pay respects to visiting Congressmen, When the members reassembled Arnold moved to ad journ until 9 vo’clock to-mor- row. Chesebrough seconded the motion. No opposition was manifested and the chairman declared tbe board ad journed. ‘When the spectators, who were chiefly newspaper reporters, went away, the mem- vers of the board proceeded to discuss the assessments of various counties. Ittrans- pired that some progress was made in the direction of reconciling aifferences of opinion, althouzh no positive expressicn was given that San Francisco ought not to be raised. Should the State valuations remain as the roll now stands, the tax rate will be 47 cents, with the 2-cent university tax included. Should there be a raise of $100,000,000, the rate would be 43 cents. Should there be an all-around reduction of $100,000,000, the tax rate would be 51 cents. An increase of $100,000,600 would add 0,000 to the university’s share, as that institution gets 2 cents on each $100 of property assessed. In some measure the railroads would be benefited by an increase. Asthe roll in- creases, the tax levy on each $100 di- minishes. The railroad assessment on roadb.d and roiling stock is a fixed quan- tity—$43,000,000. A high valuation all around makes 4 low rate on this sum. These two interests—the railroads and the State University—would derive a measure of benefit by aninflation of the roll. No signs of railroad or university influence is perceptible. Morehouse and Beamer seem to be firm in the conviction that San Francisco ougit to be raised to make the City as- ssment uniform with interior assess- ments. Chesebrough, Arnoid and Con- troller Colgan are equally firm in the opinion that San Francisco is fairly as- sessed. It is said that the Controller, while entertaining the opinion that San Francisco ought not to be raised, is not sure that Los Angeles should be decreased. Should San Francisco, by the vote of three members, remain unchanged and Los Angeles be reduced, Morehouse and Beamer may exvect the Controller to vote in favor ol reducing Sonoma, Solano and Yolo. Members of the board believe that a vote will be reached to-morrow. Chese- brough is not discouraged. Epcues ot SAIL ON THE SACRAMENTO. Eastern Congressmen Shown the Urgent Need of Improving the River. SACRAMENTO, CAL, Sept. 7.—The Eastern Congressional party arrived this morning, and, after enjoying the hospi- tality of the local Chamber of Commerca, embarked on a steamer and made a super- ficial survey of the Sacramento River. They were taken over portions of the river that were mentioned in the report given by the United States exploring ex- pedition uader Commander Wilkes in August, 1841. At that time the stream in these pluces was thirty feet deep, while at the present time there is barely six feet of water. The visitors acknowledze that they had never even remotely realized the urgent need of work on the stream until they saw the muddy volume of the American roll into the Sacramento with its burden of mining debris. “We have always had a remote idea that the talk of clearing the channel of the Sacrameanto River was a scheme to benefit the adjoining land-owners,” said one, ‘“but we find that the half has not been told, and we realize what an advan- tage it would be to internal commerce if the river could be reclaimed to such a de- gree that ocean-going vessels might again reach this point.” . Thrown From a Wagen and Killed. SACRAMENTO, CaL., Sept. 7.—Coroner George H. Clark this afternoon received a message from lowa Hill stating that a man named Milton Winbaugh had been thrown trom his wagon and killed. The message said that Winbaugh had rela- tives in Sacramento. No more than this could be learned from Iowa Hill, and ef- forts to learn wbo his relatives were in this city were unavailing. Bold Work of Burglars. LOS ANGELES, CAL., Sept. 7.—Despite the numerous captures of burglars made by the pol:ce within the past few days, daylight robberies continue to become most daily occurrences in this city. On Sunday two houses were looied and a valuable lot of plunder was tarried away. The home of 8. V. Landt, in the western section of the city, was entered about 6 o’clock in the evening, during the absence of the family, and many articles of jew- elry and silken garments were stolen. On the same afternoon the home of Otis K. Tiffany, in the same locality, was entered by thieves, who carried away numerous silk cowns and two sealskin wraps. NEW !'O-D'Ll’. INDIA UM C o oy R Q r BRUCE D. KIMMIS, VEGETABLE COMPOUND TAKEN IN- ternally. X0 hypodermic injections. Opinm, morpuine and cocaine hubitues cuied. All symp. tom- controlled from the first. 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