anaheim-gazette 1881-12-10

ANAHEIM VOL. XII. WEEKLY GAZETTE Established 1870. For Terms, see Fourth Page. Dr. Reginald A. Fergusson Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery of the Queen's University, Ireland; Locantate of the Royal College of Physicians and of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh; Locantate of the Society of Aphecaries of London; Late Senior Resident Surgeon, Resident Physician and Assistant Pathologist, Glasgow Royal Infirmary; and lately Resident in the Rotunda Hospital (for diseases of women only) Dublin. HAVING PURCHASED FROM DR. JAMES ELLIS the Anaheim Sanatorium and Drug Store may be consulted on all Medical and Surgical cases. Diseases of Women and Children a specialty. Office hours from 7 A.M. to 12 M., and from 5 P.M. to 9 P.M. DR. H. R. GARNER, Physician and Surgeon! Office — at the drug store of W. M. Higgins. ANAHEIM. A. J. HOWE M. D., IF YOU WANT TO GET RID OF SQUIRRELS AND GOPHERS USE CARBON BI-SULPHIDE Everybody who has used it recommends it as the ONLY SURE EXTERMINATOR Of this verrain. For sale by A. LANGENBERGER, Dealer in Groceries, Hardware, Paints, Oils and Crockery. Len. J. Thompson & Co., DEALERS IN— GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, ETC Wholesale and Retail Agents for the Celebrated ANCHOR CHEESE. DR. H. R. GARNER, Physician and Surgeon! Office at the drug store of W. M. Higgins. ANAHEIM. A. J. HOWE M. D., Physician and Surgeon, SANTA ANA. DR E. L. COWAN, Dentist, Has opened an office in the upper part of Mrs. Meta's building, Los Angeles Street, Anaheim. Having had twenty years experience, he can speak with confidence of his work. His scale of prices is very low. He will be found in his office every day between the hours of 9 A.M. and 5 P.M. GEO. B. SHAFFER, NOTARY PUBLIC. OFFICE - BANK OF ANAHEIM. THEODORE LYNILL, Attorney at Law. ANAHEIM, CAL. Office in Planter's Hotel Building. MONEY TO LOAN.—Ruling rate 10 per cent. VICTOR MONTGOMERY, Attorney-at-Law, SANTA ANA, CAL. Office at Anaheim on Tuesdays and Fridays. P.O. address, Santa Ana, Cal. ROBT. W. SCOTT, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Commissioner of Deeds for Arizona Territory. Kreeger's Block, Anaheim, Cal. M. L. WICKS, Attorney-at-Law, Rooms 86 and 87 Temple Block. LOS ANGELES. W. M MITCHELL, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Office—Rooms 76 and 77 Temple Block, LOS ANGELES: RICHARD MELROSE, NOTARY PUBLIC, Len. J. Thompson & Co., DEALERS INGROCERIES, PROVISIONS, ETC Wholesale and Retail Agents for the Celebrated ANCHOR CHEESE. 36 SPRING Street, Los Angeles, - Cal. City Stables, Corner of Los Angeles and Center Sts. ANAHEIM. L. F. Lewis, -- Proprietor. THESE STABLES ARE THE BEST VENTILATED and most commissions in the town, and special attention will be paid to Boarding and Grooming horses. The charge in all cases will be reasonable. Single and Double Teams Furnished at short notice, and careful drivers, familiar with the country, supplied when required. The patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. BLACKSMITHING AND WAGONMAKING! Removal. MR. H. A. STOUGH DESIRES TO INFORM THE public that he has removed his blacksmith shop to the shop on Lemon Street formerly occupied by H. J. McBermott, and respectfully solicits the continued patronage of his many customers. One part of the shop is occupied by Mr. T. L. GANON, Wagonnaker, who is prepared to do all kinds of woodwork in a thorough manner and at cheap rates. Messrs. Slough and Gannon are jointly agents for The Osborn Farm Machinery. Consisting of Mowers, Reapers, Self-Binders, etc. Also agent for the Studebaker and other celebrated FARM WAGONS. W. A. MORRISON, BLACKSMITH AND WAGONMAKER. At the old Stand on Center St., Anaheim. ALL KINDS OF WAGONS, CARRIAGES AND Buggies built to order from the best timber and at the lowest prices. Repairing of all kinds done promptly, and the charges in all cases will be moderate. CULTIVATORS For Vineyard and Orchard on hand and made to order HORSESHOEING LOS ANGELES. H. M MITCHELL, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Office—Rooms 76 and 77 Temple Block, LOS ANGELES: RICHARD MELROSE, NOTARY PUBLIC, Gazette Office. H. J. STEVENSON, Deputy U. S. Land and Mineral Surveyor, Office: Room No. 4, Downey Block, OS ANGELES, - CAL. L. GUNTHER, Ploneer Boot and Shoe Maker, Cor. Adele and Los Angeles streets. ANAHEIM. GEORGE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, Los Angeles Street. MAKING AND REPAIRING AT THE LOWEST cash price All orders promptly attended to All work guaranteed. CHARLES WILLE, COOPERAGE. Pipes, Barrels and kegs on hand at all times Tanks and Tube made to order. Honey Barrels for sale cheap. F. & J. BACKS, Importers, Manufacturers and Dealers in Furniture, Bedding, Paper Hangings, Picture Frames, etc, UNDERTAKERS, Agents for the Howe, Eldredge and Victor Sewing Machines. Los Angeles Street, : Anaheim. BLACKSMITH AND WAGONMAKER. At the old Stand on Center St., Anaheim. ALL KINDS OF WAGONS, CARRIAGES AND Buggies built to order from the best timber and at the lowest prices Repairing of all kinds done promptly, and the charges in all cases will be moderate. CULTIVATORS For Vineyard and Orchard on hand and made to order HORSESHOEING A Specialty. I respectfully solicit the patronage of my old Customers and the public in general. A. E. WHITE. E. A. WHITE BLACKSMITHING — AND — Wagonmaking! All Work Warranted. Prices as low as the lowest. Center Street, Anaheim. The Old German School. GERMAN, FRENCH, GYMNASTICS AND FENCING. Book-keeping, single and double entry, and all School Studies taught, according to improved methods. Mathematics (method of Secrates) a Specialty. Jan 1-6m. Knäbe Pianos! "For beauty of tone, touch and action, I have never seen their equal." OLARA LOUISE KELLOGG. "The Knabe" Is absolutely the best Piano made. A. L. BANCROFT & CO., 721 Market St., San Francisco, OZ83-3m. Bale Agents for the Pacific Coast. WEEKLY HEIM-GA ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1839 WANT OF AND OPHERS - SULPHIDE RECOMMENDS IT AS THE PERMINATOR GENBERGER, Hardware, and Crochery. SON & Co., IN PROVISIONS, AGENTS FOR THE OR CHEESE. OUR TERRIBLE TORNADOES (N. Y. Sun.) The present year has been remarkable for those destructive storms called cyclones or tornadoes. They have occurred with unusual frequency in our own country; and in England also, where they are rarely experienced, as many as four seriously destructive whirlwinds visited different parts of the kingdom during August last. One of these English tornadoes carried a pile of timber into an adjoining field, lifted a carpenter's shop bodily over a haystack and deposited it on the other side, and completely unroofed a foundry. A tornado also carried off the roof of one of the large railway stations at Vienna; and very likely it was a whirlwind of two or three hundred feet in breadth which caused the downfall of the Tay Bridge, one of the most extensive and strongest bridges in the world. Among the tornadoes in this country during the year, that at New Ulm, Minn., was the most disastrous. It occurred on the 12th of last June, and in a few minutes wrecked one thousand buildings and killed thirty persons. The buildings destroyed, moreover, were not flimsy structures of wood. Indeed, the wooden buildings, especially those of what is known as the balloon frame, outlasted the gale, while brick edifices, of which the town was largely composed, were demolished as if they had been of pasteboard. Whole business blocks were destroy- SHOOTING AFFRAYS. We briefly announced yesterday that John Donald, of Santa Monica, had been shot by a man named Williams, and that the shot was probably fatal. Soon after the announcement was in type, a carriage arrived containing Judge Morgan, Mr. Rodgers, the constable of Santa Monica, and the shootist, Mr. J. H. P. Williams, the Principal of the Santa Monica Public School, who was turned over to the custody of the Sheriff. Mr. Williams has been teaching at that place for the past three months, and in connection with some of the citizens and Professor C. E. Day of this city, was engaged in getting up a concert for the purpose of purchasing an organ for the school. For this object a rehearsal was taking place at the large dining room of the Santa Monica hotel, when the quarrel arose between Mr. Donald and Mr. Williams, and in which Williams shot Donald in the left side behind the arm. Dr. Orme, of this city, was sent for and examined the wound, which is very dangerous. He did not find the ball, but probed for it as far as he considered safe to go. It is feared that the bullet has penetrated the cavity of the chest, in which case the wound will prove fatal. Mr. Donald is the Agent of the Santa Monica Land Company and a peaceable and quiet citizen.—Commercial, Dec. 3. JUTE CULTURE. (E. W. Hilgard le "Rural Press.") In view of recent remarks in the press on the subject of jute culture in State, it may be desirable to make a moment of the results so far obtained matter. if only to avoid more hasty treatment in the premises. Reference has been made to an act at the legislative session previous to that requiring a large-scale experiment more than four nor less than one acres of jute culture to be made on the agricultural grounds of the University. Now, just been sown in small pots on the University grounds, annually, from 1877 to this time when the seed failed to germinate. The experience of the three preceding years ever, had definitely settled the fact that will not grow to any useful size in this mate of Berkeley; about 18 inches long been the greatest height attained, and this season only eight inches. The acre men would therefore have been a perennial expenditure certainly not complied by the Legislature. These facts communicated by me to the chairman Committee on Agriculture at the last meeting of the Legislature. Those acquainted with the climatisations under which jute culture is practiced in India, would scarcely think it need make such an experiment on the west coast of the Coast range. In the great Among the tornadoes in this country during the year, that at New Ulm, Minn., was the most disastrous. It occurred on the 12th of last June, and in a few minutes wrecked one thousand buildings and killed thirty persons. The buildings destroyed, moreover, were not flimsy structures of wood. Indeed, the wooden buildings, especially those of what is known as the balloon frame, outlasted the gale, while brick edifices, of which the town was largely composed, were demolished as if they had been of pasteboard. Whole business blocks were destroyed, and every metal roof in the city was blown off. On the 25th of September, during two minutes, a hurricane, preceded by an earthquake, did great damage in Elmira in this State. The spire of a church was blown across the street, about two tons of brick were deposited in the organ of another church, and several brick buildings had holes blown clear through them. On the following day a tornado, lasting only five minutes, laid waste the village of Camden, Ill., all the houses except two being more or less injured, and two churches completely demolished. Trees were torn up, and corn was blown out of the husk and scattered far and wide. Two days later, Stanton in Nebraska was nearly destroyed by one of these cyclones; and on the next day another completely devastated a space eighty rods wide and five or six miles long in the neighborhood of Wantona in Wisconsin. At the same time a terrible tornado caused widespread damage in the country about Omaha in Nebraska. On the 11th of this month two passenger cars of the Colorado Central Railway were blown from the track near Georgetown in that State. This is a list of only a few of the disastrous tornadoes which have occurred in the United States during the present year, a year memorable for its storms, its floods, and its droughts. They are instanced by the American Architect, which, after the whirlwind at Ulm, addressed inquiries to scientific men and architects in different parts of the country, with a view to finding out the characteristics of these storms, and to obtaining practical suggestions as to methods of construction which would enable buildings to withstand their fury. To its inquiries it has received many answers, which present interesting facts regarding tornadoes or cyclones; but so far as concerns the main purpose of the investigation, the devising of means to make buildings proof against such storms, they are very unsatisfactory. In truth, the general opinion expressed in the letters published by it seems to be that no structure can be devised strong enough to withstand a tornado or cyclone when once the wind is blowing in full fury. As one of the writers from Storm Lake in Iowa says: "Out here in this country of tornadoes, we think a hole in the ground about the safest place to retreat to when we hear one approaching." A Kansas architect replies that he will not attempt Donald and Mr. Williams, and in which Williams shot Donald in the left side behind the arm. Dr. Orme, of this city, was sent for and examined the wound, which is very dangerous. He did not find the ball, but probed for it as far as he considered safe to go. It is feared that the bullet has penetrated the cavity of the chest, in which case the wound will prove fatal. Mr. Donald is the Agent of the Santa Monica Land Company and a peaceable and quiet citizen.—Commercial, Dec. 3. We regret to be compelled to record another shooting affray in this county within the last twenty-four hours. Yesterday afternoon, between two and three o'clock, Mr. Beck, proprietor of a small lodging house on the corner of Third and Spring streets, went around to the New York Brewery for the purpose of getting some yeast. After ordering his yeast, he stepped into some room in the establishment. One of the employees, named Maier, seeing him there, told him to go out. Beck replied in a manner highly uncomplimentary, whereupon Maier struck him several blows. Beck dropped his yeast and pulled out a pistol, which snapped at the first trial, but went off the second time, the bullet taking effect in Maier's left arm, just above the elbow, making an ugly flesh wound but otherwise doing no damage. Both parties were taken in charge, Maier being discharged absolutely and Mr. Beck being released upon bail.—Herald, Dec. 3. CALIFORNIA RAISINS. Comparing a box of California-made raisins with the best imported Malaga, no prejudiced expert will pronounce against the California-cured fruit, except on one point, namely the bloom. So far as flavor is concerned—size being equal—the California-made raisin will be admitted to be superior. But, as a rule, there is a total absence of bloom which gives to the imported raisin a special charm. Having succeeded, in other respects, in making a splendid commercial product, California raisin-makers are now giving some attention to the preservation of the bloom. The absence of this external covering is due to careless handling in picking the fruit from the vines. Chinamen are employed chiefly as pickers, and the raisin-grape growers seem to have great difficulty in explaining to them the necessity of avoiding touching the bunches of fruit when they are cut from the vine. When the hand of the picker seizes the body of the bunch, the greater portion of the bloom is at once removed. Careless and hurried handling in drying finishes the work of destruction, so that when the fruit is ready for boxing, not a speck of this delicate frosting is visible on the skin of the raisin. Raisin-makers report that the demand for California raisins is gradually increasing eastward. With a little more experience and a better knowledge of the California product throughout the country, they expect to be able finally to compete successfully in Eastern markets. MARROW GUAGE RAILRING Riverside Press. A project is being discussed in Riverside at the present time looking to be built of a Narrow Guage railroad that sharesence at San Bernardino, thence down the Santa Ana Valley via Riverside, Arlington and Yorba thence down the Santa Ana Canyon via heim and Wilmington. This road, known as the Santa Ana Valley Guage Railroad, will be about sixty miles long and will give this cheap and direct outlet to the coast make people here entirely indebted of all other lines whether it be the South Pacific or the California Southern people along the road will subscribe stock and pay up one thousand dollars mile, there will be no difficulty in co- purpose of the investigation, the devising of means to make buildings proof against such storms, they are very unsatisfactory. In truth, the general opinion expressed in the letters published by it seems to be that no structure can be devised strong enough to withstand a tornado or cyclone when once the wind is blowing in full fury. As one of the writers from Storm Lake in Iowa says: "Out here in this country of tornadoes, we think a hole in the ground about the safest place to retreat to when we hear one approaching." A Kansas architect replies that he tells his clients that he "will not attempt to build against a cyclone, but only against steady, heavy winds from any one direction." "The cyclone proper," he says further, "has a whirling motion, and sometimes goes bounding and skipping over the surface of the earth." In the report of the Signal Service Office, the time during which an object is exposed to these destructive winds is put at between six and sixty seconds, the average of a large number of cases being sixteen seconds. "A building exposed to these winds experiences but one stroke, like the blow of a hammer, and the destruction is done." The duration of the violent southwest and northwest winds prevailing over the area of moderate destruction, the signal officer says, rarely exceeds two minutes. During the tornadoes, wind velocities of 80 miles per hour have been recorded; and inasmuch as velocities of 180 miles an hour have been observed in hurricanes, it is reasonable to suppose that the wind may be equally furious in tornadoes. From the destruction of brick buildings, wind pressures of from 58 to 84 pounds per square foot have been demonstrated; and from the lifting up and transportation of loose objects, such as a barrel of tar, a locomotive, a stove, cattle, and the like, wind pressures of from 52 to 112 pounds per square foot may be calculated. The path of the tornado is usually very narrow. The destruction wrought is visible over a space many miles long, but only a few hundred yards wide. And the greatest violence of the storm is felt in an even more restricted space. It may be only an area of from ten to one hundred feet square. In that centre the winds (blow from different and perhaps opposite directions, so that trees are found twisted off, and buildings are generally lifted up and turned around immediately before being blown to pieces. An engineer, describing one of these storms near Fort Ridgely, speaks of a boy who "was carried into the air and cast to the ground lifeless. When found, the only article of dress he had on was his shirt collar. Ducks, prairie chickens, and all kinds of birds were found skinned as for a potpie. The wind tore the harness off the horses into shreds." Visiting Cards at the Gazette Office. True as Gospel. An exchange says that this is a strange world, and proceeds to argue the case in wise: "A doctor will sit down and write a prescription; time, five seconds, paper and ink one-fourth of a cent, and the patient pays one, two, three, five or ten dollars, as the case may be. A lawyer writes ten or twenty words of advice and gets from ten to twenty-five dollars from his client. An editor writes a half column puff for a man, pays a man from fifty cents to a dollar for putting it in type, prints it on several dollars' worth of paper, and sends it to several thousand people, then surprises the puffed man if he makes any charge." Madison, (Wisconsin), Dec. 1.—The official vote of the State for Governor shows as follows: Rusk (Republican), 87,753; Pratt (Democrat), 69,803; Kanouse (Temperance), 13,225; Allis (Greenback), 6974. Rusk's plurality is 11,290. This was the lowest Republican plurality, the highest being that for Lieutenant-Governor Fifield, 14,208. down the Santa Ana Valley via Riverside, Arlington and Yorba lodge down the Santa Ana Canyon to heim and Wilmington. This road, known as the Santa Ana Valley Guage Railroad, will be about sixty miles long and will give this cheap and direct outlet to the coast make the people here entirely indebted of all other lines whether it be the S Pacific or the California Southern. people along the road will subscribe stock and pay up one thousand doll mile, there will be no difficulty in coining the road and placing the bonds market as rapidly as the road is There are a number of residents of each to forward this project and it often moved in this matter some since there would have been no need paying a heavy subsidy to get the nation Southern to adopt this route. The people here are ready for action this matter and all it wants now is one in whom the public will have dence to take the lead. Even if it be necessary for the people to put up per mile the money can be raised. Bernardino can raise for such a project 000, Riverside can raise as much money the balance can be raised at Anaheim other points between here and Wilmott A Narrow Guage road can be built equipped for $8000 per mile. Since the above was in type the as regards the California Southern has made more doubtful, by the order for survey of the Box Springs line. If it is adopted the Riverside Land and ting Company will save its donation amounts to from $60,000 to $75,000 Evans will take ho 1 of the Narrow with energy if the other line fails him if he puts the same amount into the terprise that he proposed to give Nickerson line there will be no difficl making the Narrow Guage a successeral Capitalists in this valley stand with work and money to carry them through to a successful issue. —Receipt books, order books, not etc., printed on heavy paper and box substantial form, are kept in stock Gazette Job Office GAZETTE. DECEMBER 10, 1881. JUTE CULTURE. W. W. Hilgard le "Rural Press." Now of recent remarks in the public subject of jute culture in this may be desirable to make a state of the results so far obtained in the only to avoid more hasty legislature premises. Once has been made to an act passed legislative session previous to the last, a large-scale experiment ("not on four nor less than one acre") in nature to be made on the agricultural of the University. Now, jute has grown in small pots on the University annually, from 1877 to this year, the seed failed to germinate. The extent of the three preceding years, how definitely settled the fact that jute grow to any useful size in the cliBerkeley; about 18 inches having greatest height attained, and in one only eight inches. The acre experi- would therefore have been a perfectly expenditure certainly not contem-ly the Legislature. These facts were indicated by me to the chairman of the tree on Agriculture at the last session legislature. Acquainted with the climatic con-nder which jute culture is pursued would scarcely think it needful to such an experiment on the west slope Coast range. In the great valley, FLAX CULTURE. Notes upon the growth of flax are in order at the season when the farmers are deciding what to plant. Most of the flax grown on the coast is sown by contract with the oil makers, and the seed only is used. The future of this industry is somewhat problematical, owing to the fact that there is an immense area of land in the northwestern States and Territories where flax seed can be produced at the minimum cost. When the black prairie soil is broken up, flax can be sown on the sod and fits it for winter wheat the next year, when otherwise it would be fallow. Eastern Washington Territory, Idaho, Montana, Dakota and Nebraska are certain to produce immense quantities of flax seed and will supply many local oil nulls. This is where the problem for California farmers comes in. The only margin that the manufacturers of linseed oil on this coast have to enable them to hold the local markets, is the cost of freight on oil made elsewhere. The market for oil cake is not a steady one as yet, for the fattening of fine cattle upon it is not yet general among stock-growers. There is, however, so decided an increase of interest in dairy- ing and beef-producing, that the demand for oil cake may be expected to improve. As matters now stand, the contract system is the only one upon which the farmer can be assured a sale for his flaxseed. The soil for flax should be deep and strong. Ground upon which corn was PACIFIC COAST NEWS. W. H. Clipperton, editor of the Californian at Monterey, was found dead upon the street of that town last week. Heart disease. William McIntosh, a brakeman employed by the Central Pacific Railroad Company, was run over by a train at West Berkeley on Saturday and crushed to death. On Saturday morning, while Thomas Matthews and Thomas Grant were charging a clack at the combination hydraulic pumps at Virginia, the hot water was forced out on them and they were badly scalded. The former received the water about his neck and will probably die. Grant was scalded on the arms and shoulders and will live. Major D. Dornbach, a painter, living in Stockton, was arrested at the instigation of his wife, who states that while he was under the influence of liquor, he compelled her and her three little children to kneel and pray, while he stood over them with a cocked revolver, threatening to blow out their brains if they did not pray as he directed. As he stood over them she seized the pistol and ran into the street, where she fired it off. The men at work in the bottom of the Forman shaft, Virginia City, drilled into an unexploded cartridge of Giant powder about 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. The drill Berkley; about 18 inches having greatest height attained, and in one only eight inches. The acre experienced therefore have been a perfectly expenditure certainly not contemning the Legislature. These facts were implicated by me to the chairman of the vice on Agriculture at the last session legislature. Acquainted with the climatic condition which jute culture is pursued would scarcely think it needful to such an experiment on the west slope Coast range. In the great valley, the climate is more nearly in accord that in which the jute supply of jute is grown, and a large-scale experience justified. Had the University had the proper facilities in the way of experiment stations in the various regions of the State, the question have been thoroughly tested in accordance with the wishes of the author of above referred to; as it is, it has been in hand by private parties, viz., Paige and Morton, of Tulare county. Gentlemen found that the maximum which the plant would grow in that was about 5 ft., against 10 or 12 ft. by it in India. Add to this the labor by which alone thus far the known to be prepared, and which in tests only about one-fourth of what cost in California, and it will readily that the prospect for the profit-production of jute fiber here is not promising. Possible that the locality chosen was best that could have been selected. No possible that machinery may be used by which the hand labor now used preparation of jute fiber may largely be away with. It may be that the California would do well to provide means for pushing these problems to a solution; for it is quite certain thatlege of Agriculture is not in possession of funds for prosecuting such invasions at the present time. University of Cal., Berkeley. ROW GUAGE RAILROAD. Riverside Press. Object is being discussed in Riverside present time looking to the building Row Guage railroad that shall combat San Bernardino, thence come the Santa Ana Valley via Colton, Cole, Arlington and Yorba Rancho, down the Santa Ana Canyon to Ana-nd Wilmington. This road, to be called the Santa Ana Valley Narrow Railroad, will be about sixty or seventies long and will give this county a direct outlet to the coast, and the people here entirely independent other lines whether it be the Southern or the California Southern. If the along the road will subscribe to the paid pay up one thousand dollars per there will be no difficulty in constructing it. Acquainted with the climatic condition which jute culture is pursued would scarcely think it needful to such an experiment on the west slope Coast range. In the great valley, the climate is more nearly in accord that in which the jute supply of jute is grown, and a large-scale experiment justified. Had the University had the proper facilities in the way of experiment stations in the various regions of the State, the question have been thoroughly tested in acce with the wishes of the author of above referred to; as it is, it has been in hand by private parties, viz., Paige and Morton, of Tulare county. Gentlemen found that the maximum which the plant would grow in that was about 5 ft., against 10 or 12 ft. by it in India. Add to this the labor by which alone thus far the known to be prepared, and which in tests only about one-fourth of what cost in California, and it will readily that the prospect for the profit-production of jute fiber here is not promising. Possible that the locality chosen was best that could have been selected. No possible that machinery may be used by which the hand labor now used preparation of jute fiber may largely be away with. It may be that the California would do well to provide means for pushing these problems to a solution; for it is quite certain thatlege of Agriculture is not in possession of funds for prosecuting such invasions at the present time. University of Cal., Berkeley. ROW GUAGE RAILROAD. Riverside Press. Object is being discussed in Riverside present time looking to the building Row Guage railroad that shall combat San Bernardino, thence come the Santa Ana Valley via Colton, Cole, Arlington and Yorba Rancho, down the Santa Ana Canyon to Ana-nd Wilmington. This road, to be called the Santa Ana Valley Narrow Railroad, will be about sixty or seventies long and will give this county a direct outlet to the coast, and the people here entirely independent other lines whether it be the Southern or the California Southern. If the along the road will subscribe to the paid pay up one thousand dollars per there will be no difficulty in constructing it. Acquainted with the climatic condition which jute culture is pursued would scarcely think it needful to such an experiment on the west slope Coast range. In the great valley, the climate is more nearly in accord that in which the jute supply of jute is grown, and a large-scale experiment justified. Had the University had the proper facilities in the way of experiment stations in the various regions of the State, the question have been thoroughly tested in acce with the wishes of the author of above referred to; as it is, it has been in hand by private parties, viz., Paige and Morton, of Tulare county. Gentlemen found that the maximum which the plant would grow in that was about 5 ft., against 10 or 12 ft. by it in India. Add to this the labor by which alone thus far the known to be prepared, and which in tests only about one-fourth of what cost in California, and it will readily that the prospect for the profit-production of jute fiber here is not promising. Possible that the locality chosen was best that could have been selected. No possible that machinery may be used by which the hand labor now used preparation of jute fiber may largely be away with. It may be that the California would do well to provide means for pushing these problems to a solution; for it is quite certain thatlege of Agriculture is not in possession of funds for prosecuting such invasions at the present time. University of Cal., Berkeley. ROW GUAGE RAILROAD. Riverside Press. Object is being discussed in Riverside present time looking to the building Row Guage railroad that shall combat San Bernardino, thence come the Santa Ana Valley via Colton, Cole, Arlington and Yorba Rancho, down the Santa Ana Canyon to Ana-nd Wilmington. This road, to be called the Santa Ana Valley Narrow Railroad, will be about sixty or seventies long and will give this county a direct outlet to the coast, and the people here entirely independent other lines whether it be the Southern or the California Southern. If the along the road will subscribe to the paid pay up one thousand dollars per there will be no difficulty in constructing it. Acquainted with the climatic condition which jute culture is pursued would scarcely think it needful to such an experiment on the west slope Coast range. In the great valley, the climate is more nearly in accord that in which the jute supply of jute is grown, and a large-scale experiment justified. Had the University had the proper facilities in the way of experiment stations in the various regions of the State, the question have been thoroughly tested in acce with the wishes of the author of above referred to; as it is, it has been in hand by private parties, viz., Paige and Morton, of Tulare county. Gentlemen found that the maximum which the plant would grow in that was about 5 ft., against 10 or 12 ft. by it in India. Add to this the labor by which alone thus far the known to be prepared, and which in tests only about one-fourth of what cost in California, and it will readily that the prospect for the profit-production of jute fiber here is not promising. Possible that the locality chosen was best that could have been selected. No possible that machinery may be used by which the hand labor now used preparation of jute fiber may largely be away with. It may be thatthe California would do well to provide means for pushing these problems to a solution; for it is quite certain thatlege of Agriculture is not in possession of funds for prosecuting such invasions at the present time. University of Cal., Berkeley. ROW GUAGE RAILROAD. Riverside Press. Object is being discussed in Riverside present time looking to the building Row Guage railroad that shall combat San Bernardino, thence comethe Santa Ana Valley via Colton, Cole, Arlington and Yorba Rancho, downthe Santa Ana Canyon to Ana-nd Wilmington. This road, to be calledthe Santa Ana Valley Narrow Railroad, will be about sixty or seventies long and will give this county a direct outlet tothe coast,andthe people here entirely independent other lines whether it bethe Southern orthe California Southern. Ifthe alongthe roadwill subscribe tothepaidpayupone thousanddollarspertherewillbenoDIFFICULTinconstructingit The uncertainty of life,andthepracticalvalueofFraternalSocieties,aorelttreated.NotmanymonthsagoaminerreceivedthelastdegreeoftheA.O.U.W.attenoclockoneevening,andbeforeeighto'clockthenextmorning,thewaskilledbyanaccident.A recentcaseinthiscityalsoshowsthat deathisnorespectofpersons,andthattheyoungman.aswellastheayed.isconsideredfairmaterialforhisresaping.NotlongagojohnG.WerlinjoinedArgonautCouncilNo.597,RoyalArcanum,andbyanaccidentlastSunday,hocliestlife.HehadbeenamemberoftheOrderbutthirteendays,andwhenheunitedwithit,hisprospectsfora longandusefulcarewereregoodasthatofanyofitsmembers;butthefactsareasgiven.AllthatbadbeenpaidbiyhimintoTheSocietywerehis The Santa Ana Valley via Colton, Calle, Arlington and Yorba Rancho, down the Santa Ana Canyon to Anaheim and Wilmington. This road, to be called the Santa Ana Valley Narrow Railroad, will be about sixty or seventy long and will give this county a direct outlet to the coast, and the people here entirely independent of other lines whether it be the Southern or the California Southern. If the long the road will subscribe to the paid pay up one thousand dollars per there will be no difficulty in constructing and placing the bonds on the road as rapidly as the road is built, there are a number of residents of Riverwood will put up a thousand dollars forward this project and it our peopled in this matter some time there would have been no necessity of a heavy subsidy to get the California southern to adopt this route. People here are ready for action in better and all it wants now is some whom the public will have confidence to take the lead. Even if it should necessary for the people to put up $2000 or the money can be raised. San Diego can raise for such a project $30, riverside can raise as much more and finance can be raised at Anaheim and points between here and Wilmington. Now Guage road can be built and for $8000 per mile. In the above was in type the situation roads the California Southern has been more doubtful, by the order for a re-issue of the Box Springs line. If that line entered the Riverside Land and Irrigation Company will save its donation which is to from $60,000 to $75,000. Mr. Will take ho1 of the Narrow Guage energy if the other line fails him and puts the same amount into the new enclosure that he proposed to give to the second line there will be no difficulty in the Narrow Guage a success. Seventh capitalists in this valley stand ready work and money to carry the project to a successful issue. Receipt books, order books, note books printed on heavy paper and bound in a sturdy form, are kept in stock at the Mrs Job Office. White says that if he could have got a bullet through Wilcox he would have covered the passengers with the revolver in one hand while he united his ankles with the other, and then "gone through every one of the infernal cowards." The Marshal says that Mrs. Smithson declined a reward, but he is going to send to her New York address $500 before he is forty hours older. Detroit, Dec. 4th.—United States Marshal Wilcox of Denver arrived at the House of Correction last night, having in custody a life prisoner, Henry W. White, a desperate, lately convicted of robbing a stage coach, near Del Norte, New Mexico, about five months ago, and sentenced to the Detroit House of Correction for life. The monopoly of the land by the great "squatters" or sheep farmers is a fertile source of discontent in New Zealand. In South Canterbury alone sixteen runholders have no fewer than 437,000 acres of land, or an average of 27,0 acres each. In many cases the large runs are partly held on lease from the Government at a few pence per acre, and the holders have the depasturing of large tracts of land from which they keep off "cockatoos," or small tarmars, by what is called "spotting" the river frontages and other desirable plots. The consequence is that the price of such small farms as can be advantageously purchased is abnormally high. Unfortunately, these squatters have a preponderating power in the Colonial Legislature, and the present Ministry is bound to their interests. London, Dec. 3.—The theft of the body of the Earl of Grawford from the mortuary chapel at Dunecht House, Aberdeen, has created a great sation. It is believed it was effected in May last, before the vault was closed, and that the covering slabs have only now been disturbed so as to bring the fact to the knowledge of the relatives and make them enter into negotiations for the recovery of the body. The agent of the estate received a letter stating that the body had been stolen, but, regarding it as a hoax, he did nothing to certain the truth of the statement. It is suggested that the thieves are from Florence, where the body was embalmed previous to its removal to Scotland. A laborer has been arrested near Dunecht in connection with the outrage. Cleveland, (O.), December 3.—A most daring bank robbery was effected at noon today. The victim was President D. P. Bell of the Commercial National Bank. He was cutting off coupons from some Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad, Chicago and Atchison Bridge Company bonds, and while so engaged was talking to J. N. Glidden, a friend. After the cutting of the coupons was finished he replaced the bonds in a pasteboard box and resumed his conversation. In the mean time an unknown man, who had been sitting in the President's office for some time, softly approached the table, picked up the box and coolly walked away. The box was not missed for nearly half an hour. The amount stolen is $117,000. The bonds are all negotiable.