anaheim-gazette 1884-06-28

WEEKLY GAZETTE. SATURDAY...JUNE 28, 1884 SUBSCRIPTION, per year, $2. Concerns will adjourn for the session on July 5th. It is well. While an important political campaign is pending, it is useless to expect any important legislation. Charles Kohler, another of the Democratic electors, refuses to endorse the platform adopted, and tells the committee that if they don’t like it they are at liberty to take his name off the ticket. The Democratic National Convention will meet in Chicago on July 8th. A waiting country will soon know whether the Democracy prefer as a candidate a man with brains or a man with a barl. It is semi-officially announced that the Central Pacific Railroad Company will not pay this month the salaries due to employees. Increased expenses on account of damages by rain and decreased receipts from the same cause are the reasons. The Republican State Convention will be held in Sacramento on July 23d, the effort to have it convene in Los Angeles proving abortive. The business of the Convention is to nominate eight Presidential electors, two at large and one from each Congressional district and eight alternate electors; also there will be named a new State Central Committee. The steamer San Jose, which last week sailed for New York, carried 47,366 gallons of California wine and 1240 gallons of brandy, the heaviest shippers being Measrs. B. Dreyfus & Co. and Kohler & Prohling. Every steamer that leaves California for New York carries about the same amount of these products, valued at $30,000. There is a steadiness about this trade that no other product applies. BRIBERY AND FRAUD. Reasons Why the State Should Print its own Text-Books If anything was needed to emphasize the common-sense proposition that the State should print the text-books used in the public schools, it is the discussion now going on in the Boards of Education in the various counties of the State over the adoption of text books for the ensuing term of four years. Every Board has a right to adopt whatever text books suit its fancy, and the result of this ill-advised license is that there are no two counties in the State that have precisely the same text books in use. Nay, worse than that, the spectacle is presented in our own county of Los Angeles, of two different sets of text books in use in the public schools. The County Board of Education last week adopted a series of text-books without consultation with the Board of Education of Los Angeles city, although a conference had been previously agreed upon; and the City Board, incensed at the action of the County Board, subsequently adopted a set of books differing from those adopted for use in the schools outside the city of Los Angeles. Each Board had a perfect right to do what it did, but their action serves to show the absurdity of the law governing the matter, and the necessity for its amendment. There is a diversity of opinion as to whether there was any real necessity for a change in the books now in use. It is said that a large number of teachers maintain that the change is not for the better, and the fact that this opinion is held should have caused greater circumspection among the powers that be. The fact of a teacher being a member of the Board of Education does not make his judgment on matters pertaining to his profession any more valuable than any other teacher of equal merit. Many teachers of high standing—and a minority of the Board as well—thought no change was necessary; and this, together with the further fact that parents will have to pay in the aggregate many thousands of dollars in buying the new series of books for their children, leads us to the opinion that it would have been better to have “let well enough alone.” It is a notorious fact that corruption and text-books, and Cars being the Board to read and other text-books this arrest is owing publications of A. Upham, of Payot, sells McGuffey’s rebooks, was more covert part of a conspiracy Bancroft & Co., “School Directors had adopting their books you know, the Perp text-books for school next election. The books now and ado years in the face of arrest is similar to when the matter was there for alleged burial. There is nothing in Cables is perfectly warranted. H. C. Rolfe of Santa Claims complaint of Byronney of the same county complainant has been known. CHARGES AGAINST SAN BERNARDINI was startled this morning one of our county officials District Attorney, he probably not return his having assisted Francisco book house school-books in place used, for which it is small sum of about a week on Friday, and yesterday, when it offered to the Board of Edu fact and to whom tha offer. Mr. Blood promise and held in his associates at the large, and would unsuspected of such an on the side of justice office few criminals tying of the law. It is right and wrong to punish those who trouble to the fullest. PORTLAND, Or., J Louis Keckley’s house ed yesterday, seeming swindle. A corresponde of Cornelius to-day ing facts relative Keckley came from his wife and babe, and its relatives, about The steamer San Jose, which last week sailed for New York, carried 47,366 gallons of California wine and 1240 gallons of brandy, the heaviest shippers being Measars. B. Dreyfus & Co. and Kohler & Frohling. Every steamer that leaves California for New York carries about the same amount of these products, valued at $30,000. There is a steadiness about this trade that no other product supplies. The New York Sun says, by the time that election day comes thousands of voters who are now quite sure that they will never support Blaine, will march up to the ballot box and vote the Republican ticket. And the Sun is quite right. The New York Commercial Advertiser, one of the ablest and influential of Eastern dailies, has wheeled into line for Blaine and Logan and is a straw indicating the direction of the political tide. A box of oranges, according to a New York paper, landed in New York from a Mediterranean port costs two dollars, including the ocean freight, which is thirty cents. One firm employs twenty-four steamships in bringing fruit. Upon the arrival of a cargo it is sold at auction, bringing from one to five dollars per box, according to its condition and the state of the market. Many of the purchased goods are immediately re-shipped to Chicago, St. Louis and other western points in refrigerator cars. With the same transportation facilities by rail, Southern California would be a more important factor in the fruit market, with greater benefit both to the carrying companies and to the grower. Fifteen years ago a young telegraph operator, who had accumulated a few hundred dollars, invested the amount in American District Telegraph stock, which, through manipulations of its managers and a rising market, rapidly increased in value until the fortune of the telegrapher was estimated in more thousands than the hundreds which he originally invested. A second investment was equally fortunate and was followed by abandonment of the telegraph business and engagement in stock brokerage and banking. Success attended this enterprise until the whilom telegraphist was known as a millionaire banker. His firm, Hotchkiss, Burnham & Co., failed during the late Wall street flurry. The telegraph on Wednesday last announced that J. W. Burnham had with a pistol blown out his brains. Mr. Burnham was the telegrapher. Who says that a fortune brings happiness? But you and I would of course act differently. There is a stringency in the money market in San Francisco that bodies ill for those that be. The fact of a teacher being a member of the Board of Education does not make his judgment on matters pertaining to his profession any more valuable than any other teacher of equal merit. Many teachers of high standing—and a minority of the Board as well—thought no change was necessary; and this, together with the further fact that parents will have to pay in the aggregate many thousands of dollars in buying the new series of books for their children, leads us to the opinion that it would have been better to have "let well enough alone." It is a notorious fact that corruption and bribery is in many instances the moving power in these text-book changes. The history of the State teems with scandals arising from the corrupt means employed by publishers to secure the adoption of their books. Charges of bribery and fraud were freely made when the State Board were vested with the power of deciding on the question of text-books, and since that power has been delegated to the various County Boards, the same charges have increased fifty-fold. Whenever a change is contemplated, the glib-tongued, brass-cheeked agents of rival publishers are on the ground weeks ahead, pulling every string and spending money profusely. Quite unfortunately for these gentry they lack the power of omnipresence, and find it impossible to be at more than one place at a time. Hence, when the agent for the McGuffie Readers arrived in Los Angeles some time after the emissaries of other publishers, he took a philosophical view of the situation and facetiously announced that with his good looks, his double-hinged tongue and his money he proposed to make up for lost time. But despite the seductiveness of his looks and the persuasiveness of his tongue the Board rejected his Readers—a proceeding that would have dispirited anyone but a school-book agent. But he then brought his third factor in the management of Educational Boards into use, and we know that he offered one member of the Board a thousand dollars if he would secure a reconsideration of the Board's action. The offer was curtly and emphatically rejected. We repeat that the text-books ought to be prepared by State officials, printed by the State Printer, and sold to the pupils at cost. In answer to a Legislative inquiry, the State Printer showed conclusively that the State could furnish books cheaper than private publishers; and if there was any doubt of this it would be dispelled when the enormous sums which these private publishers expend in debauching Educational Boards is considered. That they can spend these sums of money illegitimately, furnish their books to dealers at a discount and still reap a profit is evidence that if the State manufactured the books the cost to parents would be less than at present. If the money of Bancroft & Co. (whose Readers have been adopted in this county) can procure the services of John Swett as a compiler, the money of the State could procure men of learning equally eminent who would compile books equally good. PORTLAND, Or., Louis Keckley's house died yesterday, seeming swindle. A corpse of Cornelius to-day lying facts relative to Keckley came from his wife and babe, affords of relatives, about bad a policy of $3,000 Insurance Company; ago, and on the 30th day of $3,000 in Union, through an office was burned on 10 o'clock. Saturday a bunch of human ruins. Upon being the bones of an arm evident that an old man there. The house is structure and it was hour during which it body to ashes. The nature is that the wife house, three miles down fire, the first night from home since She had with her thigh and deeds to the prooner's jury to-day she ago she had a dream husband and then him; that on the day burly, black bearded house and was ordered that the tramp three and that he answered of her dream. Hene at home that night. Wednesday. It is seen in Southern Oregon confirmation. SAN FRANCISCO, J.OF PORTLAND, Oregon setting fire to his house intended to repose so that his wife courage was arrested to feigned to be crazy. Sheriff back to Hillside. Important A gentleman who San Bernardino a day thus that a pass exists with lower grades than gonio or Cajon pass survey was made some submitted to the author Pacific Railway O pleased with the easter said, orders will show a line through the new work of extending this season. The side will be through Santa Ana river to Los Angeles. Our people of Riverside are news, and believe that road will be an account other year rolls by parties in the interests cific have recently been in this city for a dep Los Angeles Herald. Success attended this enterprise until the whilom telegraphist was known as a millionaire banker. His firm, Hotchkiss, Burnham & Co., failed during the late Wall street flurry. The telegraph on Wednesday last announced that J. W. Burnham had with a pistol blown out his brains. Mr. Burnham was the telegrapher. Who says that a fortune brings happiness? But you and I would of course act differently. There is a stringency in the money market in San Francisco that bodes ill for those who want to borrow money there. A city paper avers that the financial strait is caused mainly by the preparations made by county banks to meet the demands for advances consequent on heavy crops, and that the banks were therefore reducing their advances in other directions. A private letter to the Gazette from San Francisco on this subject says: "The panic in the East has subsided but a great deal of money was sent there from this place (many millions) which causes a stringency in our money market. Banks are naturally conservative. I think this will soon pass over, and much of the money sent East will find its way back, as money is cheaper in New York than in San Francisco. There will be considerable money needed to move our crops, but this will come back when the grain is marketed, and I do not see any reason to apprehend a continuous stringent money market. On the contrary, all here think that money will be easy and cheap as ever in a few weeks." The New York Herald says: Of the five hundred Mormons who arrived yesterday, the majority are Scandanavians, and the variety represented is interesting, if not attractive. The Hungarians who have established themselves in the Pennsylvania mines are breeding such discontent among the other miners that outbreaks are frequent and promise to become serious. The people are illiterate and degraded. Their women work at the iron furnaces with them while naked. Wretched anarchists and socialists come among us and scatter over the country, poisoning the social and political atmosphere. With the Scandanavians the Mormon elder is pursuing his insidious schemes abroad to strengthen the already uncontrollable element in our midst. Since writing the above we find the following paragraph in the Los Angeles Herald: In addition to the attempt to bribe the Board of Education of Kern county, and to send a book agent from Los Angeles to Congress, painful rumors come in of another attempt at bribery in San Bernardino county, and the disappearance of officials. Indications point to a preconcerted attempt to corrupt the channels of public business and establish a book ring for the whole United States. Full particulars will be given as soon as the full facts are known. The Gazette has furnished some facts. Now let the Herald—with greater opportunities for getting at the facts—proceed to make it torrid for the corrupt ring. Bribing School Directors. San Francisco Call. The contemplated change in school-books by the Board of Education was presented in a new light yesterday by the arrest of George W. Cables, agent of the publishing firm of Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. of Cincinnati, on a warrant from San Bernardino county, where he is accused of having bribed the School Directora. The crime is said to have been committed during a recent contest in the School Board regarding the adoption of this it would be dispelled when the enormous sums which these private publishers expend in debauching Educational Boards is considered. That they can spend these sums of money illegitimately, furnish their books to dealers at a discount and still reap a profit is evidence that if the State manufactured the books the cost to parents would be less than at present. If the money of Bancroft & Co. (whose Readers have been adopted in this county) can procure the services of John Swett as a compiler, the money of the State could procure men of learning equally eminent who would compile books equally good. Nor should much weight be given to the objection that political matter of a partisan nature would find a place in the books. It is not at all likely that the Governor—the appointing power—would descend to such small business as to allow politics to sway his choice of compilers, for he would thereby lose favor with his own party, and receive the execrations of the opposition. Everything pertaining to the public school system may be fearlessly left with the public themselves. At Hakodote, on May 14 a bath-house murderer’s daughter, and then killed him vat of boiling water. A Tokio journal stale female professionals in the province of Yokosuka. An attempt to seize from the leaves of a terrestrial qualities, has the persons engaged arrested and are now. The Fiyu Shinbun atrosities. Another from Onegaidzuka-mo go prefecture. The Nunota Ino, gave birth arms or legs, shaped large bottle. Irrigation. Florida is commensal Apopka News gives method pursued in waggre at Maitland done by an engine wag from the lake to a lair and fifty feet above tha is distributed to all means of pipes laid up injecting tubes two feet throw the water like there are twenty-five trees being young needed much watering rigating seems to be off of the attention of other ble-growers. ARE YOU MADE tion, Constipation, Digestive Yellow Skin? positive cure. Sold SHILOH'S CURE kove Croup, Whoop chitis. Sold by Win text-books, and Cables' offense was in inducing the Board to retain McGuffey's readers and other text-books. Cables states that this arrest is owing to an endeavor to have publications of A. L. Bancroft & Co. take the place of those now in the schools. Mr. Upham, of Payot, Upham & Co., which firm sells McGuffey's readers and other school books, was more communicative. "It is a part of a conspiracy on the part of A. L. Bancroft & Co.," he said, "to scare the School Directors here into voting in favor of adopting their books for four years, when, as you know, the Perry bill providing for free text-books for scholars is to be voted on next election. The folly of discarding our books now and adopting other books for four years in the face of this fact is obvious. This arrest is similar to one made some time ago. When the matter was before the San Jose School Board the ring had a man arrested there for alleged bribery in Kern county. There is nothing in this charge, and Mr. Cables is perfectly willing to go back." The warrant was issued Monday by Judge H. C. Rolle of San Bernardino county on complaint of Byron Waters, District Attorney of the same county, but who the real complainant is has yet not been made known. CHARGES AGAINST A COUNTY OFFICIAL SAN BERNARDINO, June 24.—The town was startled this morning by the report that one of our county officials, R. E. Bledsoe, District Attorney, has left town and would probably not return. The cause of this was his having assisted some agents of a San Francisco book house in introducing new school-books in place of those at present used, for which it is said he received the small sum of about $100. This occurred last week on Friday, and was not known until yesterday, when it was made public by one of the Board of Education, who knew of the fact and to whom the agents had also made the offer. Mr. Bledsoe was a young man of promise and held in the highest esteem by his associates at the bar and the community at large, and would have been the last man suspected of such an act, for he was always on the side of justice, and during his term of office few criminals have escaped the penalty of the law. It is hoped he will return and right the wrong. An effort will be made to punish those who are the cause of this trouble to the fullest extent of the law. PORTLAND, Or., June 23.—The burning of Louis Keckley's house and his body, reported yesterday, seems to be a life insurance swindle. A correspondent visited the town of Cornelius to-day and learned the following facts relative to the alleged crime: Keckley came from Ida Grove, Iowa, with his wife and babe, and three or four relatives, about three months ago. PACIFIC COAST NEWS. Seven valuable horses were killed by lightning on a ranch in Talouse county, W. T. A band of young turtles routed an army of grasshoppers in Presno in two days last week. Democratic politicians hope by the Spanish vote to send R. F. Del Valle to Washington as Congressman from this district. We will see. Wm. G. Schwend, fifteen years of age, living twenty miles from Monterey, in the country, killed himself accidentally Monday with a rifle. Mr. C. E. Thing, of Potrero, reports that the crops at that place are in a bad condition. The hay has been smitten with mildew, while the grain is rusted, the wheat being completely lost. Joe Bachman a bankrupt banker and broker at Portland, while dining with his family in a prominent restaurant, was struck in the face with a cowhide in the hands of Hattie Aylmer, remarking as she struck him, "You're dining off my money. Joseph Crowley, a representative of the Weaver's Association of Huddersfield, Eng., is in San Francisco and will try to find land in the State of colony workingmen from England. If is proposed to establish a colony in Shasta county and ultimately to build cotton and woolen mills. The official count of the Oregon State election has just been made. For Congress, B. Herwan (Rep.) received 25,699 votes and John Myers (Dem.) 23,652 votes. Herman's majority was 2,047 votes. The woman's suffrage amendment received 11,225 votes for and 28,176 against. H. D. Belkert, a sheep herder, fell from a side walk at Jackson, Amador county, the other day, while intoxicated, and though the distance was only three feet, the fall broke his neck, causing instant death, and disproving the theory that a drunken man cannot hurt himself. Frank Tustin, aged 8 years, died at Napa last week. His death was sudden and attributed to his eating a quantity of cherries the day before. Soon after taking the fruit, he went into convulsions which continued without cessation throughout the night and only terminated with his death. The Santa Rosa Republican says: A redwood tree, cut in this county, furnished all the lumber for the Baptist church in Santa Rosa, one of the largest church edifices in the county. The interior of the building is finished in wood there being no plastered walls. Sixty thousand shingles were made from the tree after enough was taken for the church. The Reidling grape appears to be failing. NEWS OF THE WEEK. A bill to pension survivors of the Mexican war has passed the United States Senate. Sixteen cases of sunstroke occurred in New York and Brooklyn on Saturday. Five were fatal. Five hundred and one Mormons and twenty missionaries arrived at New York by the steamer Arizona from Liverpool. Beldad Rowly of Bloomfield, Conn., eighty-nine years of age and a pensioner of 1812 committed suicide a few days ago. He was suffering from softening of the brain. Franklin Ashton, sixteen years of age, is riding to San Francisco on a bicycle. He averages about fifty miles a day and stops in the larger towns to give exhibitions.—New York Post. A girl fifteen years of age, near Madison, Conn., has lived on milk and fruit for ninety days, because her stomach will bear nothing else. She is able to engage in household work. Floods destroyed the new bridge across the Vistula at Warsaw, which was erected at acost of two million pounds. Crowds were standing on the bridge watching the torrent when the bridge began to give way, and twenty persons were drowned. London, June 23.—The smallpox epidemic continues to spread throughout the metropolitan districts. Already there have been about 1,700 cases. The daily reports show a rate of seventy-five per week. The wife of a Pittsylvania county, Virginia, citizen died on the 20th of April last. Just two weeks later he married again, and one week after that event he had the funeral sermon of his first wife preached, his second wife acting as one of the principal mourners. Four thousand acres in Valencia, Spain, have been attacked by locusta. It is to be hoped that the local authorities will act more energetically than those at Cindad Real, where, owing to previous neglect, the locusta now cover 200,000 acres. The Commissioner of Pensions has obtained through the Grand Army of the Republic, a list of over 300,000 names of Union soldiers, from which he is enabled to give applicants for pensions information of the whereabouts of their comrades who can furnish the testimony required in their cases. News from Eastern Kentnicky just received states that four men have been killed. Peyton and Strickline were shot from the woods while at work in a field in Wolfe county. A man named Davis was arrested on suspicion. Frank Sharp was stabbed and killed last Saturday in Stillwater, Wolfe county, by an old man; name unknown. Kirby Ashburn, who was threatening to kill Mr. Bird in his store in Moneysboro PORTLAND, Or., June 23.—The burning of Louis Keckley's house and his body, reported yesterday, seems to be a life insurance swindle. A correspondent visited the town of Cornelius to-day and learned the following facts relative to the alleged crime: Keckley came from Ida Grove, Iowa, with his wife and babe, and three or four families of relatives, about three months ago. He had a policy of $3,000 in the New York Life Insurance Company, issued about six months ago, and on the 30th of May took out a policy of $3,000 in the Mutual Temperance Union, through an agent at Cornelius. The house was burned on Friday night, about 10 o'clock. Saturday evening, toward dark, a bunch of human bones was found in the ruins. Upon being taken up the skull and the bones of an arm fell to pieces and it was evident that an old skeleton had been placed there. The house was a very light frame structure and it was impossible in the half hour during which it burned to have reduced a body to ashes. The most suspicious feature is that the wife slept at her father's house, three miles distant, on the night of the fire, the first night she had been away from home since they lived in Oregon. She had with her that night the life policies and deeds to the property. Before the coroner's jury to-day she swore that three weeks ago she had a dream of a man shooting her husband and then burning the house over him; that on the day before the fire, a big, burly, black bearded Irish tramp came to the house and was ordered away by her husband; that the trump threatened to "get even," and that he answered minutely the brigand of her dream. Hence she was afraid to sleep at home that night. The jury adjourned till Wednesday. It is reported that Keckley was seen in Southern Oregon, but the report lacks confirmation. SAN FRANCISCO, June 25.—Lewis Keckley of Portland, Oregon, who was suspected of setting fire to his house and burning a skeleton intended to represent his own remains, so that his wife could recover his life insurance, was arrested today in Ashland. He feigned to be crazy. He was taken by the Sheriff back to Hillsboro. Important, if True. A gentleman who returned from a visit to San Bernardino a day or two ago, informs us that a pass exists southeast of that place with lower grades than either the San Geronio or Cajon passes. An experimental survey was made some time ago and profiles submitted to the authorities of the Atlantic & Pacific Railway Company, who are so pleased with the ease of grades that, it is said, orders will shortly be issued to locate a line through the new pass, and that the work of extending the road will be commenced this season. The line of road on this side will be through Riverside, down the Santa Ana river to Anaheim, and thence to Los Angeles. Our informant states that the people of Riverside are much elated over the news, and believe that the extension of the road will be an accomplished fact before another year rolls by. He states further that parties in the interest of the Atlantic & Pacific have recently been negotiating for land in this city for a depot, workshops, etc.—Los Angeles Herald. Japan News. Frank Tustin, aged 8 years, died at Napa last week. His death was sudden and attributed to his eating a quantity of cherries the day before. Soon after taking the fruit, he went into convulsions which continued without cessation throughout the night and only terminated with his death. The Santa Rosa Republican says: A redwood tree, cut in this county, furnished all the lumber for the Baptist church in Santa Rosa, one of the largest church edifices in the county. The interior of the building is finished in wood there being no plastered walls. Sixty thousand shingles were made from the tree after enough was taken for the church. The Rebling grape appears to be failing, to a great extent, in its crop this year, in many places not setting well. In others, on the contrary—and particularly with the Johannisberg—it has tolerably well, especially on hillsides. On the whole, however, there is much complaint of a want of crop from the Reiling varieties.—St Helena Star. The following card, signed by seventeen firms, is published in the San Diego Union: "We the undersigned business men, in view of the large crop of honey that is shortly to begin coming into this market, deem it advisable to call a meeting on Saturday, July 5th, for the purpose of devising the best plan for such cooperation as shall sustain a fair price for this most excellent product of our county, and also for auch further business as may be presented." It is reported, says the Marysville Appeal, that grasshoppers are unusually plenty about the Honent this season, and it will be but common prudence in the farmers to watch their progeny is not only scotched but killed. Many years ago Dr. Rodgers lost a 100-aere orchard by an invasion from grasshoppers. They crossed the Honent upon a bridge made of their own bodies and attacked the Doctor's orchard. Hoping to save the trees the Doctor sacked them all. But this precaution was in vain, and the proprietor set fire to sacks and trees and burned out the varmints. About 9:30 o'clock Monday night an attempt was made to rob the Solano County Treasury at Fairfield. The persons implicated evidently knew of Samuel Shorey, the man who sleeps in the Treasurer's office, for two of them attacked him with sand-bags, hitting him once on the back of the head and once on the forehead just after he had locked up the outside doors of the Recorder's office and was upon his way to the Court House, in which the Treasurer's office and county vaults are located. Shorey had a cane in his hand and struck them with it and warded off their blows somewhat. They clinched and scuffled with him, getting him down upon the ground in such a way that his head was under a sidewalk, which protected his head from the sand-bags. Not succeeding in striking and overpowering Shorey at first, and as he kept yelling murder, they gave up the job and made off across the courtyard between the Courthouse and the Recorder's office. They were seen as they got over the fence, and detectives are in hot pursuit. Los Angeles Markets. Corrected weekly for the Gazette by the GERMAIN FRUIT COMPANY, 23 Sainn street, Los Angeles P.O.Box HSI. Butter, fresh, choice, per lb 27½@30cts. Fair to good " 20@21cts. Eggs, per dozen, 29@30cts. Facon, light breakfast, per lb. 14@14¢ts. Medium " 13@14cts. HAMS, California, per lb. 16@16¢ts. LARD, 10 lb titus, 12½@13cts. 5 lb " 13½@14cts. 2¼ " 14½@15cts. The Commissioner of Pensions has obtained through the Grand Army of the Republic, a list of over 300,000 names of Union soldiers, from which he is enabled to give applicants for pensions information of the whereabouts of their comrades, who can furnish the testimony required in their cases. News from Eastern Kentucky just received, states that four men have killed Peyton and Strickline were shot from the woods while at work in a field in Wolfe county. A man named Davis was arrested on suspicion. Frank Sharp was stabbed and killed last Saturday in Stillwater, Wolfe county, by an old man, name unknown. Kirby Ashburn, who was threatening to kill Mr. Bird in his store in Morgan county, was instantly killed by Bird. There arrived in New York on Sunday Mrs. Martha Von Forkenbeck from Los Angeles, Cal. In 1875 Mrs. Von Forkenbeck was living in this city and married Von Forkenbeck. He told her a pretty story of rich mines in Germany and castles in Spain. After marriage the couple went to Los Angeles, and the conduct of the husband was so cruel it is alleged that Mrs. Von Forkenbeck secured a divorce and went back to New York. Von Forkenbeck claimed to be of high descent. Mrs. Williams, wife of a popular Baptist preacher, died recently at Scranton, Pa., leaving $10,000 gold which she kept near her person and which since has disappeared. Williams has had her son by a former husband arrested and charged with theft; but the son strenuously denies the charge. It is now supposed that Williams himself abstracted the money. The affair causes a sensation here, and much sympathy is expressed for the son who is an invalid. The New York Tribune says: Ocean steamship racing is apparently awakening as much interest among sporting men as old time contests on the Mississippi river. Fifty thousand dollars is said to have changed hands on the result of the late race from Queenstown to Sandy Hook, in which three steamships took part. The merchants are profiting by these fleet steam ships which enable them to take advantage of rapid turns in the market. Both river fronts on Front and Fourteenth street around Eleventh street, New York is now lighted by electricity. The circuit was completed Saturday and comprised forty are lights each of 2,000-candle power. The influence of light upon crime and vice which has made the lower water front notorious in the past has already extremely great. Capt. Gaillot of the steamboat signal regards the extension of the system as one of the most efficientads that could be given to the police, and the "dock rats" are abandoning their hairs. Gen. Wallace Minister to Turkey says of Turkish women: "You come over to Constantinople and I'll show you around. I'll let you look into carriages and yards at Turkish ladies. Whoever says they won't look at or smile on an infidel is mistaken; and if you ever saw any girls like these girls I shall be surprised. They are the most beautiful women in Europe or anywhere else. Yes, I will except the American girl; if you want me to but only through pure patriotism. When any man tells you how he has been in harems, just you listen with interest but don't you believe him." A Wheeling (Pa.) special says a ghastly story of premature burial has just come to light. A young bride of this city was interred in May last year. On exhuming the remains last week for removal to another cemetery the friends were horrified to find the body turned over; the hands filled with long tufts of hair; face, neck and bosom scratched and scarred and lining of the coffin torn into fragments in the deterate Japan News. At Hakodote, on May 29th, an employee in a bath-house murdered a rival suitor for his employer's daughter, and the girl's mother, and then killed himself by jumping into a vat of boiling water. A Tokio journal states that gambling by female professionals is becoming prevalent in the province of Yechigo. An attempt to sell spurious tea, made from the leaves of a shrub possessing deleterious qualities, has been discovered. All the persons engaged in the enterprise were arrested and are now awaiting trial. The Fiyu Shinbun has a penchant for monstrosities. Another "what is it" is reported from Onegaidnaka-mura, Kawabegori, Hiyogo prefecture. The happy mother, yclept Nunnota Ino, gave birth to an infant without arms or legs, shaped, so says the Fiyu, like a large bottle. Irrigation in Florida. Florida is commencing to irrigate. The Apopka News gives the following as the method pursued in watering Mr. Lawrence's grove at Maitland. It says: The work is done by an engine which forces the water from the lake to a large tank 900 feet distant and fifty feet above the lake, from which it is distributed to all parts of the grove by means of pipes laid underground, with projecting tubes two feet high, at intervals, to throw the water like rain over the ground. There are twenty-five acres in the grove, but the trees being young and thrifty have not needed much watering. This method of irrigating seems to be a success, and is worthy of the attention of other orange and vegetable-growers. ARE YOU MADE miserable by Indigestion, Constipation, Dizziness, Loss of Appetite, Yellow Skin? Shiloh's Vitalizer is a positive cure. Sold by Wm. M. Higgins. SHILOH'S CURE WILL immediately relieve Croup, Whooping Cough and Bronchitis. Sold by Wm. M. Higgins. Los Angeles Markets. Corrected weekly for the Gazette by the GERMAIN FRUIT COMPANY, 25 Main street, Los Angeles P.O. Box 1151. BUTTER, fresh, choice, per lb 27½@30cts. Fair to good ¢ 20@21cts. EGGS, per dozen, 29@30cts. PACON, light breakfast, per lb. 14@14½cts. Medium ... ¢ 13½@14cts. HAMS, California, per lb 16@16½cts. LARD, 10 lb tins, 12½@13cts. 5 lb ¢ 13½@14cts. 2½lb ¢ 14½@15cts. IIENS, per dozen, $6.00@$7.00. ROOSTERS, ¢ $6.00@$7.00. BROILERS, ¢ $3.00@$3.50. DUCKS, ¢ $7.50@$8.00. TURKEYS, live, per lb 18@19cts. dressed, ¢ 20@21cts. POTATOES, per 100 lbs (new) 75@80c. RAISINS, California, per box $1.00@$1.10. WALNUTS, per lb 7½cts. HONEY, @4½cts. HAY, per ton, $10.00@$11.00. BARLEY, per cental, 75@80cts. CORN, per cental, $1.40@$1.50. Thermometrical Record. The following is our record (taken one and one-half miles north of town) for the week ending Wednesday P.M., June 25, giving lowest point by night preceding date and highest by day: DATE. June ..... 19 62 64 71 66 ¢ ..... 20 62 63 70 67 ¢ ..... 21 62 63 72 67 ¢ ..... 22 59 62 80 68 ¢ ..... 23 52 62 83 73 ¢ ..... 24 54 64 85 75 ¢ ..... 25 54 65 87 78 Average Temperature ..... 68¼ highest and lowest ..... 68¼ Bucklen's Arnica Salve. THE BEST SALVE in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcera, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, ChilblainsCorns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positive, ly cure Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by W.m. M. Higgins. A NASAL INJECTOR free with each bottle of Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy. Price, 50 cents. Sold by W.m. M. Higgins. A WACKET AND FREQUENT REMEDY — a positive cure for Catarrh, Diphtheria and Canker Mouth. Sold by W.m. M. Higgins. THE REV. GEO. H. THAYER, of Bourbon, Ind., says: "Both myself and wife owe our lives to Shiloh's Consumption Cure." Sold by W.m. M. Higgins. WHY WILL YOU cough when Shiloh's Cure will give immediate relief. Price 10 cts., 50 cts., and $1. Sold by W.m. M. Higgins. DRY GOODS PALACE Anaheim. Mr. Adolph Rimpau of our firm will leave for San Francisco next week to purchase a stock of Goods. Until their arrival the present stock is selling at bed-rock prices. RIMPAU BROS. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Strayed. GREY HORSE ABOUT TEN YEARS OLD, brand similar to a dollar mark on left hip, strayer from one mile east of Garden Grove. Any information of the same will be received at the store of H. Cahen. AGENTS WANTED for the best selling books in the country. Life of "James G. Blaine." "Lives of the Presidents." etc.; also the latest and quickest-selling novelties. Agents are making fortunes. Particulars free. Be sure and send address to GORHAM & CO., PUBLISHERS AND AGENTS, San Francisco. Notice. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A MEETING of the Board of Directors of the Anaheim Water Co. will be held on Saturday, June 28th, 1854, at 5 o'clock, p.m., at the office of the Secretary, for the purpose of considering a proposition for the dismissal of all litigation now pending between the said Company and the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company. Notice. SEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED BY the Trustees of Anaheim School District, for the redemption of one Bond (No. 5) of Anaheim School District, County of Los Angeles, State of California, of the value of $600. Proposals will be received until Saturday, June 28th, 1854, at 12 o'clock, m., at which time mid proposals will be opened at the office of the Clerk of the Board of School Trustees on Center street, Anaheim. No bid for more than per value will be accepted, nor any bid unless the bond to be surrendered accompanies such bid. By order of the Board of Trustees of Anaheim School District. D. W. C. COWAN, Clerk. For Sale. THREE THOUSAND ACRES OF CHOICE IRRIGABLE land in Presno county, near the count, seat, remarkably well adapted for grapes, peach or apricots, prunes and alfalfa. Price from $15 to $30 per acre. Also: A Fine Residence of 17 Rooms, Near Vanness Avenue, S. F. Price $17,000. Apply to E. B. PERRIN, je14-3m 402 Kearney street, San Francisco. For Sale. AGENTS best selling books in the country. Life of "James G. Blaine." "Lives of the Presidents," etc., also the latest and quickest-selling novelties. Arentas are making fortune. Particulars free. Be sure and send address to GORHAM & CO., PUBLISHERS AND AGENTS, San Francisco. Notice. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A MEETING of the Board of Directors of the Anaheim Water Co. will be held on Saturday, June 29th, 1884, at 5 o'clock, P.M., at the office of the Secretary, for the purpose of considering a proposition for the dismissal of all litigation now pending between the said Company and the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation Company. By order of the President. RICHARD MELROSE, Secretary, Anaheim, June 16th, 1884. Anaheim Landing. RANCHO LOS ALAMITOS, June 20, 1884. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERNS: THIS CERTIFIES THAT CAPT. CHARLES WILSON, acting as our agent, has full and complete authority to protect all the buildings owned by us at Anaheim Landing, and to lease and receive rent for the same for the term of six months from date of this instrument. His authority also extends to and covers the camping ground at and about said landing, including feed and well. All acts, pleases, contracts, payments, etc., pertaining to said premises, must ever be submitted and referred to us for approval or disapproval in case of misunderstanding between parties concerned. J. W. BIXBY & CO. Referring to the above, I hereby announce that I am prepared to rent rooms and ground to all parties desiring them, and I will take great pleasure in giving to visitors every accommodation and courtship within my power. CAPT. CHARLES WILSON. GADE'S TRUCK, EXPRESS AND GENERAL TEAMING. THEGlorious Fourth! A GRANDCalico Ball Will be given for the benefit ofConfidence Fire Co. No. 1, IN THE New Postoffice Building ON FRIDAY EVEN'G July 4, 1884. SPECIAL FEATURES-- Will be introduced during the evening. Fireman's Grand March, Leap Year Waltz, Fancy Quadrilles, New and Excellent Music. Firemen will appear in Uniform. Tickets (admitting Gentleman and Ladies) $1.00. To be had of any member of the Company. Tickets will not be transferable, and will be sold only to persons of undoubted responsibility, and members selling tickets will have to endorse the same. Committees of Arrangements—H. Padderale, R.A. Dennin, F.C. Smythe, E.R. J. Pejagrin, J. Langumburger, Frank Er, D.D. Rich. Henryton Committee—F.C. Himpan, W.S. Fish, Albert Langumburger. Pictorial Committee—P.C. Smythe, E.R. J. Pejagrin, D.D. Rich.