anaheim-gazette 1885-10-24

WEEKLY GAZETTE For Terms, see Fourth Page. Established 1870. TYPHOID PEVER. (From Circulation of State Board of Health.) Typhoid fever is mentioned in many more localities than last month; it is noted in Anderson, Calico, St. Helena, Santa Clara, San Francisco, Fort Bidwell, Williams, Sacramento, Weaverville, Volcano, Roseville, Willits, Martinez, Truckee, Vallejo, Dixon, Santa Ana and some few other towns on the whole the tendency to this disease shows a decided increase this month. Which is in accordance with what experience has led us to expect, as many years of observation has convinced us that enteric fever prevails more extensively in this State during the autumn and early winter months than in the spring. Depending, as we believe it does, upon local conditions, appearing in dwellings where no expectation of such a disease would actually arise, and again remaining absent in localities where it might be supposed it should prevail. We are naturally led to inquire into the reason, if any, why typhoid should prevail at one season more than another and what relation the disease bears to the circumstances surrounding it. Max V. Pettenkoffer, who has given this subject much attention, is of the opinion that the increase or decrease of typhoid fever coincides with the rise or fall of the subsoil water, increasing as the water falls and decreasing as it rises and explains it by the assertion that with the recession of the water the air enters deeper layers of soil and there stimulates into activity and multiplication disease germs which were dormant so loaded it, placed the muzzle to John's head and blew his brains out. Not satisfied with this he loaded the gun again and fired another charge into his brother's head, scattering the blood and brains over the walls of the room. The murderer remained at the house two hours and then informed the neighbors that his brother was dead. He was immediately placed under arrest and subsequently made a confession. On the way to this city with an officer they met a wagon with a coffin for the murdered man, and Johnson being told that he would never see his brother again said: "Yes, I will; I will meet him in hell." The wife of the murdered man stood by and saw the crime committed, agreeing that it was the proper thing to do. She has not been arrested. The Railroad Alliance, S. F. Chronicle. The prospective patrons of the Atlantic and Pacific among our local shippers have received with much distress the statement that the Southern Pacific and Atlantic and Pacific have formed a combination to maintain rates on California traffic. It seems to them incredible that after all the independence which the friends of the Atlantic and Pacific have attributed to the managers of line they should bind themselves to an agreement on this kind. This feeling is also observed among the residents of Southern California, who, in expectation of active competition between the new road and its rival, granted the Atlantic and Pacific certain valuable franchises, and agreed to give it the larger part of their shipping business whenever practicable. "Among railroad people," said a prominent traffic agent yesterday, "this agreement is looked upon as a great concession on the part of the Southern Pacific. The people, of course, are disappointed with the turn whichCALIFORNIA A prominent warded the folly Editor Boulder formia, and as broad country, the exclusion of watched with no good promise of opment; and we prepared to use sales. The other I had occasion California raisin and was astonished what I saw. In raisins offered London) that wirior goods, com every other kind press it better than is fraud.. In of California locally, stemmy feet trash. Wha was the idea tha by houses on you claiming loudly higher interest trade. Natural opening of the se have such good confidence othe goods off wit season, but her serious discredit question came to stuff should be of the papers know the basin that the raisin likely to fail into naturally led to inquire into the reason, if any, why typhoid should prevail at one season more than another and what relation the disease bears to the circumstances surrounding it. Max V. Pettenkoffer, who has given this subject much attention, is of the opinion that the increase or decrease of typhoid fever coincides with the rise or fall of the subsoil water, increasing as the water falls and decreasing as it rises and explains it by the assertion that with the recession of the water the air enters deeper layers of soil and there stimulates into activity and multiplication disease germs which were dormant no long as they were submerged in Water. Dr. Henry Baker, Secretary of Michigan State Board of Health, a most competent authority, has observed the same coincidence and a comparison of the meteorological and other conditions led him to conclude that no circumstance known to him varied in such a manner as to explain the unusual prevalence of typhoid fever in certain months except that condition of the ground water as indicated by its lowness in wells. In this State perhaps similar condition exists at certain seasons; as the rivers fall the marshes and ponds dry up and the subsoil water attains below at level, we find that malarial enteric fever prevail; but this connection is not invariant nor applicable every year or for all places. In San Francisco, instance, as shown by Dr. A. Perry, typhoid fever prevails more intensely during the rainy season when the streets are washed and the sewers flushed with water. In Sacramento, on the contrary, if typhoid fever prevails at all it is in the fall when the water in the river is lowest or after the first rain succeeded by dry and warm weather. In the highlands and footfalls where the water is mostly procured from wells typhoid is noticed after the first rains when the wells receive the surface water. We are therefore, led to look beyond either atmospheric or telluric influences for the cause of this fever and seek it among the particulate poisons which are neither vaporous nor gaseous but endowed with life capable of reproduction and therefore dependent for their existence upon certain local conditions which are always insalubrious and without which they would cease to live. Although it has been asserted by such very competent authorities as Murchison, Libermelster, Hudson and others that typhoid fever "may be generated independently of a previous case, by fermentation of focal and perhaps other forms of organic matter;" on the other hand as competent observers as Budd, Parker, Von Gietl and others are of the opinion which even later authorities seem to confirm, that neither fifth, focal matter, sewer gas nor unpleasant odors are of themselves capable of generating typhoid fever without the presence of the specific germ upon which the disease depends. Be this as it may, all are agreed that filth and excrementitious matter, without free access of pure air, and sewer gas and noxious celluvias under the same conditions may become potent secondary factors in disease, and by their presence in this kind. This feeling is also observed among the residents of Southern California, who in expectation of active competition between the new road and its rival, granted the Atlantic and Pacific certain valuable franchises, and agreed to give it the larger part of their shipping business whenever practicable. "Among railroad people," said a prominent traffic agent yesterday, "this agreement is looked upon as a great concession on the part of the Southern Pacific. The people, of course, are disappointed with the turn which matters have taken, but when they really understand what the entrance of a powerful competitor into the territory of the Southern Pacific means they will express no surprise over the Atlantic and Pacific's acceptance of what is to it a very advantageous agreement. The Southern Pacific has withdrawn all claim to San Diego's business and yielded a fair division of the Los Angeles traffic, the Atlantic and Pacific, under the terms of the agreement, being allowed to run its cars over the Southern Pacific from Colton to Los Angeles direct, and on the other hand the Atlantic and Pacific grants the Southern Pacific the right to run its cars over the line from Colton to Riverside. The Atchison, Topeka and Santo Fe, and Atlantic and Pacific simply bind themselves to maintain the present rates of the Transcontinental Association. Being a new line, the Atlantic and Pacific is in poor shape to light, and the present arrangement was right in its hands so to speak. The Southern Pacific is sharing its course with a show to keeping off the risks of his rate competition. It will yield almost anything rather than reduce its tail, and as it has a longer haul to the East than the Atlantic and Pacific, a rate war would prove very disastrous to its interests." It is not yet definitely known whether President Smith of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company has signed the agreement by which his line is to become a party to the combination. If this should be the case it would disarm the Northern and Union Pacific and shut up every door to this coast through which an independent line might hope to fight the new alliance. Sheep-Eating Owls The owls in New Zealand used to be as harmless as doves; indeed, they once were "mosing owls," and therefore useful. But one night a settler left a sheep-skin nailed to his roof and an owl came along and tasted of the fat of the mutton left thereon. The owl became a sheep-killer, alighting on a lamb's back three nights later. Still more strange, all the other owls began to like mutton and now the New Zealand bird of that species slays thousands upon thousands of sheep, their appetites growing by what they feed on, and their numbers increasing in proportion to their prosperity. They light on the backs of the sheep and tear the poor beasts with their beaks, going at once down through the carcass to the kidney fat, Natural opening of the sea have such good confidence of the goods off written season, but here serious discretion question can be stuff should be baked of the papers in knowthe business that the raisin likely to fail into If this be so, it will I write now innia raisin trade that an injured patient treated. Better interest that those in bay, auch if made it would be of such goods we same place. Citizens, Oct. That the above and that one of them forma's industry whole State there dishonest past article whose best fruit, wine and rice can see no reason for State one of Union. The seas as good wines or as already if they make good wine them upon the market are, and nothing else. It is probable that been injured and by the bad wine Eastern markets who can see no immediate profits inferior goods tendency has been growers in convict city, and illustratest honesty have been. The following and Cannice shows that these those who are involved in trade, and it to the very lot of for the letter from It is shown in that some very important son's crop have allowed for local consumption. From invading morning it appears damaging fraud in sale of inferior grade heretofore have been guaranty of grade shown a twenty raising stenciled Fratricide. Sioux City, Iowa, Oct. 16—The most horrible murder that ever disgraced Woodbury county occurred in West Fork township last evening. James and John Johnson, brothers, lived together on a farm. John was married and James was a single man about 28 years old. Yesterday they had a house-raising, after which a keg of beer was tapped. The two brothers quarreled and James was ordered from the house. He went out on the prairie and remained until about 11 o'clock. He then returned to the house and found his brother John asleep in bed. Taking an old army rifle he one night a settler left a sheep-skin nailed to his roof and snOWl came along and tasted of the fat of the mutton left thereon. The owl became a sheep-killer, alighting on a lamb's back three nights later. Still more strange, all the other owls began to like mutton and now the New Zealand bird of that species slays thousands upon thousands of sheep, their appetites growing by what they feed on, and their numbers increasing in proportion to their prosperity. They light on the backs of the sheep and tear the poor beasts with their beaks, going at once down through the carcass to the kidney fat, which to the owl's tongue is the daintiest of morsels. Au Eagle's Victim. Toronto, Ont., Oct. 17.—This afternoon while the wife of Jean Baptiste Romilly, residing ten miles from here, accompanied by her two-year-old child, was feeding her fowls, a large bald-headed eagle sweoped down and bore the little one off in its talons. The neighbors turned out with shotguns but the only effect of their firing was to accelerate the eagle's flight. The bird alighted on the top of a barn a mile away and was seen to make several strokes at the child's head with its beak. The neighbors had got pretty close by this time and succeeded in frightening the eagle away. The child's body was recovered but life was extinct, a hole having been made in its skull and a portion of the brain devoured by the bird. Too Much Love. WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—Chas. P. Olney, late Assistant Postmaster at Clarksburg, W. Va., has been indicted for opening mail matter addressed to other persons. From the Inspector's reports it appears that he had a rival in the affections of a young lady living at Clarksburg and could not resist the temptation of opening their letters and informing himself of his rival's progress. A warrant has been issued for his arrest. YUMA, Arizona, Oct. 17.—The new railroad bridge across the Colorado river at this place was totally destroyed by a fire this morning, which began on the California side of the river. The loss is over two hundred thousand dollars. The cause is unknown. It is shown in order that some very important local consumption. From invading it appears damaging fraud is sale of inferior goods heretofore have been guaranteed of grade shown a twenty raisins stenciled in Layers, Fresno, Experts who have nounced the fraud box contained no varieties of loose raisins dealers was that they as London Layers consideration for not up to the star. They were no better foronia Layer, if any informed that this load en route to rive in Chicago, or agents. No jobber or wives received by the fraud sumers in the first times of the duplication shipping trade may be subjected to injury. Whoever fraud should show that he is not tempted outrage trade and consumes at any time them and to make can offer of the fruit. A great deal has been aging influence of jured prospects of it is a display of knight meanest trade fraud to be hoped that it tice of the Fresno have championed growers and violators. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1885. CALIFORNIA RAISINS. S F. Bulletins. A prominent fruit firm in Chicago has forwarded the following publication: EDROR BULLETIN—I am a friend of California, and, as I desire to be, of our whole broad country, I believe in home products to the exclusion of foreign, if possible. I have watched with much interest the growth and good promise of the California raisin development, and we were this year, especially, prepared to use the product largely on our sales. The other day, in pursuit of business, I had occasion to examine certain lots of California raisins which had just arrived, and was astonished, not to say shocked, at what I saw. In one case there was a lot of raisins offered for sale (branded California Londons) that were such a mixture of inferior goods, composed of raisin grapes and every other kind of grape that I cannot express it better than to say the whole offering is a fraud... In another case there was a lot of California Loose Mascots, so small, dried lately, stemmy and tasteless, as to be perfect trash. What shocked me still more, was the idea that these goods were offered by houses on your side, who have been claiming loudly their esteem devotion to the higher interests of the California raisin trade. Naturally, and especially in the opening of the season, one would expect to have such goods put forward as would begot the confidence of the buyers, and to start the goods off with a good reputation for the season, but here was something to throw serious discredit on California raisins. The question came to my mind, why such vile stuff should be supplied? I noted in certain of the papers labelled that men here, who know the business thoroughly, have charged that the raisin business of California was likely to fail into the hands of speculators. journalism by their ill-founded and unjust attacks on the reputations of representative firms of dried-fruit dealers in San Francisco. Preliminary to WarJ. A. Williamson, general solicitor for the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, has written a letter to Secretary Andras of the Board of Railroad Commissioners, replying to the queries propounded in the circular recently sent to the officers of that road, and the substance of which was published about six weeks ago in the Chronicle. The reply is a virtual declaration that the company will resist the authority of the board. Mr. Williamson does not decline to comply with the request of the board, but says he wishes to give reasons why the company will not act until it becomes clear that it is its duty so to do. He says that the Atlantic and Pacific Company was incorporated by Act of Congress, July 27, 1866, by which Act certain grants of land were made. The law authorized any other company to whom a grant of land had been previously made to assign its interest to the Atlantic and Pacific Company or consolidate with it, upon terms which are also set forth in the Act. In pursuance of this privilege the Atlantic and Pacific Company, on August 29, 1864, entered into a contract with the Southeen Pacific Railroad Company for the purchase of 242-37 miles of road, running from the Needles, on the Colorado river to Mojave, by which it acquired the ownership of that piece of road, and on October 1st following possession was given of said road by the Southern Pacific. Mr. Williamson then said: "In consequence of the fact that the Southern Pacific Railroad Company had encumbered said road, so sold to the Atlantic and Pacific Company, with a mortgage from which it could not readily be released, the last-named company has an amount equal to the inter- DEATH VALLEY. The name is fearful suggestive, and few places in the world deserve their appearances so well as does the Death Valley California; nor is it easy to find any other locality in any country whatever, which gathers about itself so much that inspires horror and dread. A region where a man can die of thirst while he has water within his reach, more than he can drink, may we bear the most terrible title that can be given it; and thus name—Death Valley—gives from the first-known event in its history thirty-five years ago, will doubtless cling to the spot to the end of time. It is in the southeastern part of Inyo county, California and the point at which the meridian of 110° 45' W. crosses 36° 10' N. is as nearly as possible in its center of horrors. Probably only one other spot of which we have any knowledge, the Guevo Upas, or Vale of Poison, in Java, exceeds the fatality of Death Valley. The valley itself is 40 miles by 8, running nearly north and south, and every portion of this is barren and barren in the extreme; and in fact the entire surrounding country; but narrow central space along the eastern sides about fifteen miles in length; embodies typical features in their highest intensity. Into this, not Porte d'enfer but Pait d'enfer very few persons have ever gone, that is who returned to tell the tale; and what is here related portals to the higher and comparatively moderate parts towards the borders of the valley. The dangers are the result of atmospheric conditions safely. Lack of water may be a fatal evil; but this can be avoided; supplies of water may be carried; or better still, it is now tolerably well entertained that water is available by sinking even shallow wells in much the greater extent of the upper portions of the valley. But no water fails to offend its moral life. Naturally, and especially in the opening of the season, one would expect to have such goods put forward as would beget the confidence of the buyers, and to start the goods off with a good regulation for the season, but here was something to throw serious discredit on California raisins. The question came to my mind, why such vile stuff should be supplied? I noted in certain of the papers labels that men here, who know the business that only have charged that the raisin business of California was likely to fall into the hands of speculators. If this be so, it can probably account for all. I write now in the interest of the California raisin trade, exposing this matter, so that an injured public interest may be protected. Better for the California raisin interest that those goods had been thrown into the bay, and if any more such attempts are made, it would be better that the shippers of such goods were quaintly planted in the same place. Yours truly, WHOLESAID GROCER. CHICAGO, Oct. 9, 1855. That the above gum paint is well founded, and that one of the most important of California's industries can be injured, and the whole State thereby be made to suffer, by the dishonest packing of raisins, is shown by the article which is given below. Those who are best acquainted with the great fruit, wine and raisin interests of California, can see no reason why they should not make the State one of the most prosperous in the Union. They seem to be no reason why as good raisins or wine can not be made here as abroad; if there is an honest effort to make good wine and raisins, and to put them upon the market for just what they are, and nothing else. It is probable that the wine interest has been acquired and its development retarded by the bad wine which has been put upon the Eastern markets by makers and dealers who can see no further than the large and immediate profits derived from the sale of inferior goods for good prices. The same tendency has been pointed out by fruit-growers in conventions assembled in this city, and illustrations of this kind of honesty have been shown. The following extract from the Grocer and Candler of this city of October 20, shows that this danger is recognized by those who are interested in the prosperity of the trade, and it undoubtedly has reference to the very lot of raisins which has called for the letter from the Chicago Grocer: It is shown in our regular market review that some very inferior raisins of this season's crop have already been sold in this city for local consumption and for Northern shipment. From investigations made yesterday morning it appears that an extensive and damaging fraud is being perpetrated in the sale of inferior goods under brands which heretofore have been regarded as sufficient guarantee of grade and quality. We were shown a twenty-pound box of California raisins stenched "A B Butler London into a contract with the Southern Pacific Railroad Company for the purchase of 242-37 miles of road, running from the Needles, on the Colorado river to Mojave, by which it acquired the ownership of that piece of road, and on October 1st following possession was given of said road by the Southern Pacific. Mr. Williamson then said: "In consequence of the fact that the Southern Pacific Railroad Company had encumbered said road, so sold to the Atlantic and Pacific Company, with a mortgage from which it could not readily be released, the last-named company pays an amount equal to the interest on the unpaid part of the purchase money; at the rate of 6 per cent per annum, to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and will continue to pay such sum until the road is freed from encumbrance and the transfer fully completed." The Act of Congress declares the road to be a post route and military road and subject to use by the United States for Government service; and also, it is claimed, authorizes the company, and no one else, to fix and regulate transportation charges; a right which cannot be taken away from them by the legislature of California. The Atlantic and Pacific Company charges that Congress is the parmount power and for that reason it must refuse to recognize the "alleged authority on the part of the State of California to demand reports of all its acts and clauses; to regulate its raises of freights and fares and to supervise its acts in matter especially named and delegated by Congress to its Directors." Wall-Street Debts and Their Operations. Brokers and operators are "hears" when they have sold stock, and particularly stock that they did not own, contracting to deliver it at some future time. They are then "short of the market." The disposition of the bear is to pull things down. The Wall-street bear is often found "gunning a stock by putting forth all his strength and craft to break down the price, and especially when aware that a certain house is heavily loaded, and can not resist his attack. He "buys in" by purchasing stock to meet a "short" contract or to return borrowed stock; "covers" or "covers his short" by buying stock to fulfill his contract on the day of delivery. This is a self-protective measure and is called "covering short sales." A "drop" in the price of a stock is to bear the next best thing to a "break." He rejoices in an "off" market when prices fall. He "sells out" a man by forcing down the price of a stock that the person is carrying so low that he is obligent to let it go, and perhaps to kill. He grows hirsut when the bulls get a "twist on the short" by artificially raising prices and "squeezing" or compelling the bears to settle at ruinous rates. Neither "bull" nor "bear" is an altogether safe "critter." The latter, however, is reputed to be about four times as mischievous as the former, innamuch as ho-rately sells another man's propensity to view it is not unreasonable to say that the name of Death Valley is well bestowed. And if this is the state of things on the elevated borders, ranging from 1,200 to 2,000 feet and morgans above the sea, what must be the heat and dryness in the very focus? For one of the additional wonders of Death Valley is that its central region lies away below the level of the sea. There is perhaps no other spot on the globe which at so great a distance from the ocean reaches such a depression—159 feet. The Dead Sea, a few feet away from sea level. The dangers are the result of atmospheric conditions solely. Lack of water may be a fatal evil, but this can be avoided; supplies of water may be carried, or better still, it is now tolerably well entertained that water is available by smoking even shallow wells in much the greater extent of the upper portions of the valley. But the water fails to afford its usual-life-giving valence in two causes. The first of these is the heat. Of course this is moderated during two or three of the winter months, and for that space of time a residence on the borders of Death Valley is possible without any exceeding great risk. But this soon passes away, and the furnace is in blast. By about April (the average (of day and night) is from 90° to 25°; by May it is 25° to 100°; and a little latter it averages over 100°, reaching often 120° to 125° in the coolest place that can be found. If this was with a damp atmosphere it would stille any human life with great rapidity, but a certain amount of dryness enables it to be borne with more safety. Here however, comes in second of the two evils which have been indicated—the intense dryness of the atmosphere. This is so excessive as to be in many instances fatal in spite of every precaution. The writer has never tested the full severity of this feature in Death Valley itself, but his experience along its immediate border renders him ready to give full ordinance to the statement that many cases of death have occurred "when water was plenty, but could not be drank fast enough to supply the drain caused by the desiccative power of the dry, hot air." In fact, in one instance he himself nearly reached that condition and a few hours longer of the heat and dryness would have placed his own name among those of its victims. It has been said that birds drop dead in attempting to cross the valley. Mr. Hawkins who visited it in 1852 says he "picked up at different times two little birds a mile or so from water, whose bodies were still warm, having evidently but just dropped." The bodies of men and their horses are liable to be encountered at any time; they have been found within a mile of water, and in one case with water still in their canteens and a supply of food as well, showing that the climate was the cause of death. With these facts in view, it is not unreasonable to say that the name of Death Valley is well bestowed. And if this is the state of things on the elevated borders, ranging from 1,200 to 2,000 feet and morgans above the sea, what must be the heat and dryness in the very focus? For one of the additional wonders of Death Valley is that its central region lies away below the level of the sea. There is perhaps no other spot on the globe which at so great a distance from the ocean reaches such a depression—159 feet. The Dead Sea, a few feet away from sea level. The dangers are also prominent agreements on power supply between Southern California railroad companies for their purchase of 242-37 miles of road, running from The Needles, on the Colorado river to Mojave, by which it acquired ownership of that piece of road, and on October 1st following possession was given of said road by the Southern Pacific. Mr. Williamson then said: "In consequence of the fact that The Southern Pacific Railroad Company had encumbered said road, so sold to The Atlantic and Pacific Company, with a mortgage from which it could not readily be released, last-named company pays an amount equal to the interest on the unpaid part of the purchase money; at the rate of 6 per cent per annum, to The Southern Pacific Railroad Company, and will continue to pay such sum until the road is freed from encumbrance and the transfer fully completed." The Act of Congress declares the road to be a post route and military road and subject to use by the United States for Government service; and also, it is claimed, authorizes the company, and no one else, to fix and regulate transportation charges; a right which cannot be taken away from them bythe legislature of California.The Atlantic and Pacific Company charges that Congress isthe parmount power and for that reason it must refuseto recognizethe"alllegedauthorityonthepartoftheStateofCaliforniatodemandreportsofallitsactsandclauses;toregulateitsraisesoffreightsaftreasuresandsupervisionsitactsonoeliteracyofdeathoftheatmosphereThisissoexcessiveastobeainmanyinstancesfatalinspostofeveryprecaution.ThewriterhasnevertestedthefullseveralityofthisfeatureinDeathValleyitself,bbuthisexperiencealongitsimmediateborderrendershimreadytogivefullordnancetothestatementthatmanycasesofdeathhavecovered"whenwaterwasplentybutcouldnotbedrankfastenoughtosupplythedraincausedbythedesiccativepowerofthedry,hotair.Infactinoneinstancehesishimselfnearlyreachedthatconditionandafewhourslongeroftheheatanddrynesswouldhaveplacedhisownnameamongthoseofitsvictims. It has been said that birds drop dead in attempting to cross the valley. Mr. Hawkins who visited it in 1852 says he "picked up at different times two little birds a mile or so from water，whose bodies were still warm,having evidently but just dropped." The bodies of men and their horses are liable to be encountered at any time; they have been found within a mile of water,andinonecasewithwaterstillinthecanteensandasupplyoffoodaswell,,showingthattheclimatewasthecauseofdeathWiththesefactssinview,theyisnotunreasonabletosaythatthenameofDeathValleyiswellbestowed.Andifthisisthestateofthingsontheelevatedborders,rangingfrom1,200to2,000feetandmorgansabovetheseawhatmustbetheheatanddrynessintheveryfocus!ForoneoftheadditionalwondersofDeathValleyisthatitscentralregionliesawaybelowtheleveloftheseaThereisperhapsnootherspotontheglobewhichattosgreata distancefromtheoceanreachessuchadepression—159feet.TheDeadSea, a few feet away from sea level. The dangers are also prominent agreements on power supply between Southern California railroad companies for their purchase of 242-37 miles of road，running from The Needles，ontheColoradorivertoMojave，bywhichitacquiredtheownershipofthecompany,andnooneelse,tostrictandregulatetransportationcharges,arightwhichcannotbe takenawayfromthembythelegislatureofCalifornia.TheAtlanticandPacificCompanychargesthatCongressistheparmountpowerandforthatreasonitmustrefusetorecognizethe"alllegedauthorityonthepartoftheStateofCaliforniatodemandreportsofallitsactsandclauses;toregulateitsraisesoffreightsaftreasuresandsupervisionsitactsonoeliteracyofdeathOftheatmosphereThisissoexcessiveastobeainmanyinstancesfatalinspostofeveryprecaution.ThewriterhasnevertestedthefullseveralityofthisfeatureinDeathValleyitself,bbuthisexperiencealongitsimmediateborderrendershimreadytogivefullordnancetothestatementthatmanycasesofdeathhavecovered"whenwaterwasplentybutcouldnotbedrankfastenoughtosupplythedraincausedbythedesiccativepowerofthedry,hotair.Infactinoneinstancehesishimselfnearlyreachedthatconditionandafewhourslongeroftheheatanddrynesswouldhaveplacedhisownnameamongthoseofitsvictims. It has been said that birds drop dead in attempting to cross the valley. Mr. Hawkins who visited it in 1852 says he "picked up at different times two little birds a mile or so from water，whose bodies were still warm,having evidently but just dropped." The bodies of men和 their horses are liable to be encountered at any time; they have been found within a mile of water,andinonecasewithwaterstillinthecanteensandasupplyoffoodaswell,,showingthattheclimatewasthecauseofdeathWiththesefactssinview,theyisnotunreasonabletosaythatthenameofDeathValleyiswellbestowed.Andifthisisthestateofthingsontheelevatedborders,runningfrom1,200to2,000feetandmorgansabovetheseawhatmustbetheheatanddrynessintheveryfocus!ForoneoftheadditionalwondersofDeathValleyisthatitscentralregionliesawaybelowtheleveloftheseaThereisperhapsnootherspotontheglobewhichattosgreata distancefromtheoceanreachessuchadepression—159feet.TheDeadSea, a few feet away from sea level. The dangers are also prominent agreements on power supply between Southern California railroad companies for their purchase of 242-37 miles of road，running from The Needles，ontheColoradorivertoMojave，bywhichitacquiredtheownershipofthecompany,andnooneelse,tostrictandregulatetransportationcharges,arightwhichcannotbe takenawayfromthembythelegislatureofCalifornia.TheAtlanticandPacificCompanychargesthatCongressistheparmountpowerandforthatreasonitmustrefusetorecognizethe"alllegedauthorityonthepartoftheStateofCaliforniatodemandreportsofallitsactsandclauses;toregulateitsraisesoffreightsaftreasuresandsupervisionsitactsonoeliteracyofdeathOftheatmosphereThisissoexcessiveastobeainmanyinstancesfatalinspostofveryprecaution.ThewriterhasnevertestedthefullseveralityofthisfeatureinDeathValleyitself,bbuthisexperiencealongitsimmediateborderrendershimreadytogivefullordnancetothestatementthatmanycasesofdeathhavecovered"whenwaterwasplentybutcouldnotbedrankfastenoughtosupplythedraincausedbythedesiccativepowerofthedry,hotair.Infactinoneinstancehensishimselfnearlyreachedthatconditionandafewhourslongeroftheheatanddrynesswouldhaveplacedhisownnameamongthoseofitsvictims. It has been said that birds drop dead in attempting to cross the valley. Mr. Hawkins who visited it in 1852 says he "picked up at different times two little birds a mile or so from water，whose bodies were still warm,having evidently but just dropped." The bodies of men和 their horses are liable to be encountered at any time; they have been found within a mile of water,andinonecasewithwaterstillinthecanteensandasupplyoffoodaswell,,showingthattheclimatewasthecauseofdeathWiththesefactssinview,theyisnotunreasonabletosaythatthenameofDeathValleyiswellbestowed.Andifthisisthestateofthingsontheelevatedborders,runningfrom1,200to2,000feetandmorgansabovetheseawhatmustbe.theheatanddrynessin-theveryfocus!ForoneoftheadditionalwondersofDeathValleyisthatitscentralregionliesawaybelowtheleveloftheseaThereisperhapsnootherspotontheglobewhichattosgreata distancefromtheoceanreachessuchadepression—159feet.TheDeadSea, a few feet away from sea level. The dangers are also prominent agreements on power supply between Southern California railroad companies for their purchase of 242-37 miles of road，running from The Needles，ontheColoradorivertoMojave，bywhichitacquiredtheownershipofthecompany,andnooneelse,tostrictandregulatetransportationcharges,arightwhichcannotbe takenawayfromthembythelegislatureofCalifornia.TheAtlanticandPacificCompanychargesthatCongressistheparmountpowerandforthatreasonitmustrefusetorecognizethe"alllegedauthorityonthepartoftheStateofCaliforniatodemandreportsofallitsacts和clauses;toregulateitsraisesoffreightsaftreasuresandsupervisionsitactsonoeliteracyofdeathOftheatmosphereThisissoexcessiveastobeainmanyinstancesfatalinspostofveryprecaution.ThewriterhasnevertestedthefullseveralityofthisfeatureinDeathValleyitself,bbuthisexperiencealongitsimmediateborderrendershimreadytogivefullordnancetothestatementthatmanycasesofdeathhavecovered"whenwaterwasplentybutcouldnotbedrankfastenoughtosupplythedraincausedbythedesiccativepowerofthedry,hotair.Infactinoneinstancehensishimselfnearlyreachedthatconditionandafewhourslongeroftheheatanddrynesswouldhaveplacedhisownnameamongthoseofitsvictims. It has been said that birds drop dead in attempting to cross the valley. Mr. Hawkins who visited it in 1852 says he "picked up at different times two little birds a mile or so from water，whose bodies were still warm,having evidently but just dropped." The bodies of men和 their horses are liable to be encountered at any time; they have been found within a mile of water,andinonecasewithwaterstillinthecanteensandasupplyoffoodaswell,,showingthattheclimatewasthecauseofdeathWiththesefactssinview,theyisnotunreasonabletosaythatthenameofDeathValleyiswellbestowed.Andifthisisthestateofthingsontheelevatedborders,runningfrom1,200to2,000feetandmorgansabovetheseawhatmustbe.theheatanddrynessin-theveryfocus!ForoneoftheadditionalwondersofDeathValleyisthatitscentralregionliesawaybelowtheleveloftheseaThereisperhapsnootherspotontotheglobewhichattosgreata distancefromtheoceanreachessuchadepression—159feet.TheDeadSea, a few feet away from sea level. The dangers are also prominent agreements on power supply between Southern California railroad companies for their purchase of 242-37 miles of road，running from The Needles，ontheColoradorivertoMojave，bywhichitacquiredtheownershipofthecompany,andnooneelse,tostrictandregulatetransportationcharges,arightwhichcannotbe takenawayfromthembythelegislatureofCalifornia.TheAtlanticandPacificCompanychargesthatCongressistheparmountpowerandforthatreasonitmustrefusetorecognizethe"alllegedauthorityonthepartoftheStateofCaliforniatodemandreportsofallitsacts和clauses;toregulateitsraisesoffreightsaftreasures和supervisionsitactsonoeliteracyofdeathOftheatmosphereThisissoexcessiveasstobeainmanyinstancesfatalinspostofveryprecaution.ThewriterhasnevertestedthefullseveralityofthisfeatureinDeathValleyitself,bbuthisexperiencealongitsimmediateborderrendershimreadytogivefullordnancetothestatementthatmanycases-ofdeathhavecovered"whenwaterwasplentybutcouldnotbedrankfastenoughtosupplythedraincausedbythedesiccativepowerofthedry,hotair.Infactinoneinstancehensishimselfnearlyreachedthatcondition和afewhourslonger oftheheatanddrynesswouldhaveplacedhisownnameamongthoseofitsvictims. It has been said that birds drop dead in attempting to cross the valley. Mr. Hawkins who visited it in 1852 says he "picked up at different times two little birds a mile or so from water，whose bodies were still warm,having evidently but just dropped." The bodies of men和 their horses are liable to be encountered at any time; they have been found within a mile of water,andinonecasewithwaterstillinthencanteensandasupplyoffoodaswell,,showingthattheclimatewasthecauseofdeathWiththesefactssinview,theyisnotunreasonabletosaythatthenameofDeathValleyiswellbestowed.Andifthisisthestate.ofthingsontheelevatedborders,runningfrom1,200to2,000feetandmorgansabovetheseawhatmustbe.theheatanddrynessin-theveryfocus!ForoneoftheadditionalwondersofDeathValleyisthatitscentralregionliesawaybelow_theleveloftheseaThereisperhapsnootherspotontotheglobewhichattosgreata distancefromtheoceanreachessuchadepression—159feet.TheDeadSea, a few feet away from sea level. The dangers are also prominent agreements on power supply between Southern California railroad companies for their purchase of 242-37 miles of road，running from The Needles，on-theColoradorivertoMojave，bywhichitacquiredtheownershipofthecompany,andnooneelse,tostrictandregulatetransportationcharges,arightwhichcannotbe takenawayfromthembythelegislatureofCalifornia.TheAtlanticandPacificCompanychargesthatCongressis,theparmountpowerandforthatreasonitmustrefusetorecognize-the"alllegedauthorityonthepartoftheStateofCaliforniatodemandreportsOfallitsacts和clauses;toregulateitsraisesOffreightsaftreasuresAndsupervisionsItActSOnOeliteracyOfDeathOfTheatmosphereThisIsSoExcessiveAsToBeInMooRiesForTheDepartureFromTheNeedleAndPacificCompanyChargesThatCongressIsTheParmountPowerAndForThatReasonItActSOnOeliteracyOfDeathOfTheatmosphereThisIsSoExcessiveAsToBeInMooRiesForTheDepartureFromTheNeedleAndPacificCompanyChargesThatCongressIsTheParmountPowerAndForThatReasonItActSOnOeliteracyOfDeathOfTheatmosphereThisIsSoExcessiveAsToBeInMooRiesForTheDepartureFromTheNeedleAndPacificCompanyChargesThatCongressIsTheParmountPowerAndForThatReasonItActSOnOeliteracyOfDeathOfTheatmosphereThisIsSoExcessiveAsToBeInMooRiesForTheDepartureFromTheNeedleAndPacificCompanyChargesThatCongressIsTheParmountPowerAndForThatReasonItActSOnOeliteracyOfDeathOfTheatmosphereThisIsSoExcessiveAsToBeInMooRiesForTheDepartureFromTheNeedleAndPacificCompanyChargesThatCongressIsTheParmountPowerAndForThatReasonItActSOnOeliteracyOfDeathOfTheatmosphereThisIsSoExcessiveAsToBeInMooRiesForTheDepartureFromTheNeedleAndPacificCompanyChargesThatCongressIsTheParmountPowerAndForThatReasonItActSOnOeliteracyOfDeathOfTheatmosphereThisIsSoExcessiveAsToBeInMooRiesForTheDepartureFromTheNeedleAndPacificCompanyChargesThatCongressIsTheParmountPowerAndForThatReasonItActSOnOeliteracyOfDeathOfTheatmosphereThisIsSoExcessiveAsToBeInMooRiesForTheDepartureFromTheNeedleAndPacificCompanyChargesThatCongressIsTheParmountPowerAndForThatReasonItActSOnOeliteracyOfDeathOfTheatmosphereThisIsSoExcessiveAsToBeInMooRiesForTheDepartureFromTheNeedleAndPacificCompanyChargesThatCongressIsTheParmountPowerAndForThatReasonItActSOn It is shown in our regular market review that some very inferior raisins of this son's crop have already been sold in this city for local consumption and for Northern shipment. From investigations made yesterday morning it appears that an extensive and damaging fraud is being perpetrated in the sale of inferior goods under brands which heretofore have been regarded as sufficient guarantee of grade and quality. We were shown a twenty-pound box of California raisins stenciled "A. B. Butler, London Layers, Fresno, Cal., California Raisins." Experts who have examined the sample denounce the fraud in unmeasured terms. The box contained no less than four different varieties of loose raisins. The verdict of the dealers was that they could not be graded as London Layers under the most charitable consideration for the packers. They were not up to the standard of London Layers. They were no better than an average California Layer, if as good. We are creditably informed that this box is a sample of a carload en route to the East and about to arrive in Chicago, consigned to Eastern selling agents. No jobber or wholesale dealer will be deceived by the fraud. The retailers and consumers in the first instance will be the victims of the duplicity of the packers and shippers of these inferior goods, and the shipping trade generally and the raisin-growing interests of California will ultimately be subjected to a lasting and irreparable injury. Whoever is responsible for this fraud should smart for it. If it can be shown that he is not responsible for this attempted outrage of the confidence of the trade and consumers of the East, we are prepared at any time to set him right before them and to make whatever explanation he can offer of the fraudulent use of his stenicle. A great deal has been said about "the damaging influence of house circulars and the injured prospects of the raisin-growers." Here is a display of knavishness which ranks the meanest trade fraud ever perpetrated. It is to be hoped that it will not escape the notice of the Fresno county newspapers who have championed the cause of the raisin-growers and violated every principle of good price of a stock is to a bear next best thing to a "break." He rejoices in an "off" market when prices fall. He "tells out" a man by forcing down the price of a stock that the person is carrying so low that he is obliged to let it go, and perhaps to fail. He grows justly when the bulls get a "twist on the short," by artificially raising prices and "squeezing" or compelling the bears to settle at ruinous rates. Neither "bull" nor "bear" is an altogether safe "critter." The latter, however, is reputed to be about four times as mischievous as the former, inasmuch as no rudely sells another man's property, whereas the bull contents himself with carrying his own. The bear occasionally finds himself in a "corner" where it is impossible to buy the stock of which he is "short," and which he must deliver at a specified time. He growls and begs but must pay what the holders of his contracts are willing to accept. Some relief is afforded by a "let up" or the withdrawal from the market of the "clique" or "pool" or combination of operators that cornered him. A "squeal in the pool" is the revelation of its secrets by one of its members, and a "leak in the pool" is when one of the parties sells out his interest without knowledge of the others. Either form of defection yields some mitigation to the bear's sufferings.—R. Wheatley in Harper's Magazine for November. MONTEREY, Oct. 16.—A most startling discovery was made here today by school children of what is supposed to be the heart, liver and intestines of a human being. They were found in the bed of a dry creek which runs through town, where they had apparently been thrown, and chickens and pigs were feeding on them. A bloody sheet and a man's shirt were also found with the remains. The remains are supposed to be those of a body which was embauched in the vicinity. They were buried by parties in town to night. SAN JOSE, Oct. 16.—The post mortem on the body of A. G. Lobey's two-year-old son, found floating in a ditch near Los Gatos on Wednesday, showed that the child died from suffocation, a large piece of an apple being lodged in its throat. It is supposed the child strangled while crossing the ditch on a board and fell in. and a supply of food as well, showing that the climate was the cause of death. With these facts in view, it is not unreasonable to say that the name of Death Valley is well bestowed. And if this is the state of things on the elevated borders, ranging from 1,200 to 2,000 feet and more above the sea, what must be the heat and dryness in the very focus? For one of the additional wonders of Death Valley is that its central region lies away below the level of the sea. There is perhaps no other spot on the globe which at so great a distance from the ocean reaches such a depression—159 feet. The Dead Sea, with the gorges of the Jordan and the Arabah, of course greatly exceed this but it is not widely separated from the eastern parallel border of the Mediterranean. The climatic violence of this deep trough of Death Valley must be left to conjecture. It is certain that no man could survive there long enough to secure continuous observations of any extent. Deceptive Frauds. As soon as it became apparent that Moses King, the young publisher, of Harvard square, at Cambridge, Mase., had met an unprecedented success with his book called "Students' Songs"—the sale already reaching nearly fifty thousand copies—several publishers brought our collections of so-called student or college songs. Some of them are legitimate competitors; but some appear so similar in shape, in title, in design or general make-up, as to mislead a casual buyer who may be intending to get a copy of the original "Students' Songs," which was edited by Win. H. Hills, of the Harvard class of 1884, and published by Moses King of the Harvard class of 1881, the names of both appearing on the title page of the genuine collection only. The success of this collection is due chiefly to the freshness of its sixty copyrighted songs; comprising these jelly and melodious tunes and peculiar phrases which, within the past ten years, have arisen and become generally popular among the students of all American colleges. The low price, too-fifty cents—and the attractive appearance, also, have had their influence in making "Students' Songs" the most successful book of its class ever published in this country. GAZETTE. OBER 24, 1885. NO. 3. F. H. KEITH, REAL ESTATE AGENT, Live Stock Bought and Sold on Commission. ANAHEIM. J. H. BULLARD, A. B., M.D. Physician and Surgeon. Office and Drug Store on Los Angeles St. East of Planters' Hotel. OFFICE HOURS: 8 to 9:30 A.M.; 1:30 to 2:30, and 7 to 8 P.M. DR. E. L. COWAN, DENTIST, We Have Just Received a Carload of FURNITURE! Direct from Eastern Factories. Latest Styles at prices lower than in Los Angeles. Call and examine for yourselves. F & J. BACKS. 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