anaheim-gazette 1887-02-26

WEEKLY GAZETTE SATURDAY ... FEBRUARY 26, 1887 Kleinigkeiten. Items of News and Correspondence on all live subjects are solicited by the editor. Brief, and write directly to the point. All communications must be signed by the author, not for publication but for the information of the editor. Extra copies of the Gazette can be purchased at the store of J. Helmsen. A windmill has been put up by H. Albrecht at his place near the depot. H. D. Polhemus has also put up one on his place south of town. The two houses being built on the Metz tract are nearing completion, and one of them is already receiving the first coat of paint. There will be services in the Episcopal Church to-morrow (Sunday) at 3 o'clock. The Sunday School will be organized at 2 o'clock. The store of H. Cahen is being fitted up with shelving in the center, and other improvements are under way at the hands of the carpenter. It commenced to rain slightly at about 8 o'clock on Monday evening, but in a few hours all signs of another storm had disappeared. Houses to Rent. Houses for Sale. Business Lots for Sale. Apply to Melrose & Knapp. A good move is being made by owners of vacant town lots in sowing the small plats of land to barley, rather than have them overgrown with weeds, which presents a desolate appearance. At the meeting of the Directors of the A. U. W. Co. on last Saturday, J. E. Karnes was engaged as superintendent at a salary of $100 per month; H. Knapke and H. A. Ford were engaged as distributing zanjeros at $70 per month each. Richard Melrose was elected Treasurer at a salary of $5 per month. A proposition of J. W. Bixby to the effect that if the company would turn 125 inches of water out to him at Gate No. 12, in the day time, he would give to the company his stream of 250 inches every night. Proposition accepted. When Ey & Groat's shop was burglarized some weeks ago, Constable Smythe sent out a description of the negro whom he suspected of being the perpetrator, and the authorities of San Bernardino arrested the African last week: Mr. Smythe went up after his man, and by judicious pumping got him to acknowledge where he had sold the stolen articles, and the officer recovered all but three razors and a pair of shears. The propled guilty before Justice Fox, and was committed to the county jail to await trial. The hand which the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company takes in the Ballona project is now plainly manifest, and there is no doubt that it has sufficient backing to push it to a satisfactory conclusion. Probably not less than a million dollars will be expended in forming a capacious and absolutely safe artificial harbor, and Ballona will be one of the tide-water terminus of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe system, and the commercial rival of San Pedro.-L. A. Times. F. H. Keith and A. E. Hendricks have formed a coppartnership to carry on the real estate and commission business. They propose to buy and sell all kinds of real estate and city property, and charge only a reasonable commission for selling. They will also negotiate loans on easy terms. They have so arranged matters that one of the firm will be constantly in the office ready to show lands. The senior partner returns thanks for past favors and respectfully asks that the new firm be equally favored. Regarding this The stricture arising from the system house of packing branded "Santa" statement from Mr. Earl's builderates them from slight, and showing is not based on It appears that it work, Mr. Earl plan would be to names of the different fruit is grown. Part of the San packed in boxes Ana;" oranges-grab Gabriel valley are "San Gabriel," however, is object given heretofore; has been called to admits that a sys give due credit could probably have been sooner brought Earl. It is now to in the system this proposes not only the necessity of purchasing to use every effort the orange growing deavor to meet our and use his immento the different or widely diffused an Though Mr. Earl dealings with grow have not heard of his business method He is acknowledgingings and prompt in and there is no door has been of benefit already shipped tw from this place, about forty carlo mentions here will close — Houses to Rent. Houses for Sale. Business Lots for Sale. Apply to Melrose & Knapp. — A good move is being made by owners of vacant town lots in sowing the small plats of land to barley, rather than have them overgrown with weeds, which presents a desolate appearance. — The six-year-old son of F. M. McDonald of Las Bolas shot his baby brother last week with a pistol which he had found while playing around the house. At last accounts the baby was not expected to live. — A protracted meeting will commence at the Presbyterian Church in this place on Monday evening, February 28th, at 7:30 P.M. Rev. Alex Parker of Orange and other ministers from abroad will preach. All are cordially invited to attend. — The small school boys have experienced more solid fun during the week running the street car up and down the track than they probably ever did at any other sport. Their fun was stopped in its infancy by the superintendent of the car line locking the wheels with chains. — A social dance was given at Kroeger’s Hall on the evening of Washington’s Birth day, Tuesday, February 22nd. More than twenty-five couple participated in the dancing, which was kept up until a late hour, all having enjoyed themselves to the utmost at the evening’s entertainment. — One of Ben. Porter’s boys came within a few inches of being decapitated on last Sunday. While one of the boys was chopping wood, the other, with his arms full of split wood, stumbled and fell in front of the descending axe, which barely missed his head and buried itself in his shoulder, inflicting a painful wound. — Teams were at work this week grading Los Angeles street from Center street to Broadway. This was a much-needed improvement, as the street at this point was full of chuck-holes and rather sandy, causing the water to stand in the road when it rained. The water will now run off the grade into the gutters. — Dr. Geo. H. Bailey, formerly of Anaheim, writes to us from his present home in Sealy, Texas, that he will return here as soon as he can sell out. Concerning the outlook in Texas, he says: “The winter has been an open one; the prairies are green. Trees are out in leaves and flowers. The season is very forward and if we have no late cold snap we will have a fine year for the farmers.” — F. H. Keith and A. E. Hendricks have formed a copartnership to carry on the real estate and commission business. They propose to buy and sell all kinds of real estate and city property, and charge only a reasonable commission for selling. They will also negotiate loans on easy terms. They have so arranged matters that one of the firm will be constantly in the office ready to show lands. The senior partner returns thanks for past favors and respectfully asks that the new firm be equally favored. — A singular fact is related by one who has long known F. W. Gould, the young man recently drowned in the reservoir at Sierra Madre. His death made the fifth consecutive case in which the oldest male member of his family for that generation perished by drowning! It is one of the most remarkable cases of fatal coincidence on record. — The Planters’ Hotel has been entertaining a large number of Eastern people during the week. The innumerable courtesies which Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell extend to these guests cause them to carry away with them pleasant recollections of Anaheim. — At the G. A. R. Encampment held in Los Angeles during the week Gen. E.S. Salomon was elected Department Commander; M.D. Hamilton of San Diego, Senior Vice Commander; Allan T. Bird of Woodland, Junior Vice Commander. — A mania for oil painting has seized upon the young folks of Anaheim, and Pellegrin & Son have had an unusual demand lately for artists' materials. It is a mania, however, that ought to be encouraged. — Dr. Powell, late of Wilmington, Delaware, has located permanently in Anaheim with his family, and in a card published elsewhere offers his professional services to the people. — One of the most attractive dwelling-houses that have been built in Anaheim lately is being erected on the lot adjoining Mrs. Mossemann’s house on North First street by Grimshaw & Sorensen. — A few days ago a sneak thief stele a silver watch from Mr. Teichman’s residence by removing a pane of glass from a window and reaching in secured it from off a table. — Frederick Christ, a San Francisco tailor, has rented the room adjoining Justice Fox's office, and will be ready for business in a day or two. — Constable Smythe yesterday arrested a negro who is charged with the bargarya of a saloon in Los Angeles. A reward of $50 was Dr. Geo. H. Bailey, formerly of Anaheim, writes to us from his present home in Sealy, Texas, that he will return here as soon as he can sell out. Concerning the outlook in Texas, he says: "The winter has been an open one; the prairies are green. Trees are out in leaves and flowers. The season is very forward and if we have no late cold snap we will have a fine year for the farmers." A ventriloquist was in town the other day, and from his appearances one would have judged that he was of the genus tramp. He furnished amusement for the boys by giving an exhibition of the art, the principal feature of which was the castigating intercourse of a supposed wife and husband in an adjoining room, and the confusion was supposed to have grown out of the latter's coming home at 2 o'clock in the morning. Arrangements are being made by E. J. Baldwin, H. A. Unruh, Dr. William Masser and others, for establishing a flower farm on the Santa Anita ranch. Some six acres will be set apart for the purpose, and suitable buildings and a distillery are to be created for the distillation of perfumes from flowers. Roses will be given the preference. The opera of "Laila" was enjoyed by an audience which filled Kroeger's Hall to its utmost capacity on Friday night of last week. It was really an entertainment of great merit, and the children, one and all, acted their parts with spirit and expression. It was evident that their natural talents had been supplemented with careful and thorough training by their accomplished teacher, Prof. Packard. The langable tableau which closed the entertainment sent everybody home in the best of humor. Wanted to borrow—Two hundred dollars on good security. Apply at this office. A few days ago a sneak thief stole a silver watch from Mr. Teichman's residence by removing a pane of glass from a window and reaching in secured it from off a table. Frederick Christ, a San Francisco tailor, has rented the room adjointing Justice Fox's office, and will be ready for business in a day or two. Constable Smythe yesterday arrested a negro who is charged with the burglary of a saloon in Los Angeles. A reward of $50 was offered for the crook's capture. Mr. Fischer, the Anaheim cooper, has been at work at Downey during this week and last manufacturing cooperage for F. Weis. An elegant new assortment of spring samples for gentlemen's clothing has been received by Rimpan Bros. The Anaheim Evergreen Nursery. At the above nursery this season is to be found a larger, better and healthier lot of trees than ever before, which is saying a great deal. Among the trees on hand are YEARLING ORANGE TREES, NORTHERN FRUIT TREES, ORNAMENTAL TREES, CYPRESS, BLUE GUM AND PEPPER, all of which will be sold in lots of from 1 to 10,000, at prices which defy competition. No scale; no disease. This will be guaranteed. An inspection of the stock is invited. TIMOTHY CARROLL, Near Anaheim Railroad Depot. Land to Rent. Parties wishing to rent land on the Miles Tract can be accommodated by applying to P. H. Keith, Agent. Sewing Machine Agent Wanted. A good, active man to work on commission. Two first-class machines. Apply to Pellegrin & Son. 200 Picture Frames. All sizes and kinds at a big reduction at Pellegrin's Jewelry, Art and Music store. Meeting There will be an afternoon of the Anaheim provement Society. There oughtance, so that this music may start aright and those who invest in it. Personal P. Hoyle is filling the Langenberger's store with A. Hensler. Mr. John Westphal eral days in Anaheim tness visit. He contem York in about a month. Wells, Fa There are packages persons in Wells, Fa Office: P. Dominguez, E. A Mrs., J. Hartung. Regarding the Anaheim Packing House The strictures published last week regarding the system pursued at Earl's packing house of packing Anaheim oranges in boxes branded "Santa Ana oranges" has brought a statement from M. M. Harding, the foreman of Mr. Earl's business, which at least exonerates them from any charge of intentional slight, and shows that their system of packing is not based upon an "intent to deceive." It appears that in preparing for the season's work, Mr. Earl decided that the simplest plan would be to brand his boxes with the names of the different valleys in which the fruit is grown. Thus, oranges grown in any part of the Santa Ana valley came to be packed in boxes branded simply "Santa Ana;" oranges grown in any part of the San Gabriel valley are packed in boxes branded "San Gabriel," and so on. This system, however, is objectionable for the reasons given heretofore; and now that his attention has been called to the matter, Mr. Harding admits that a system of branding which will give due credit to the different localities could probably be devised, and doubtless would have been adopted had the matter been sooner brought to the attention of Mr. Earl. It is now too late to make any change in the system this season, but as Mr. Earl proposes not only to continue in the business of purchasing and packing oranges, but to use every effort to develop and encourage the orange growing industry, he will endeavor to meet our objections next season, and use his immense opportunities for giving to the different orange-growing localities a widely diffused and thorough advertising. Though Mr. Earl has had very extensive dealings with growers in this vicinity, we have not heard of any other stricture upon his business methods than that referred to. He is acknowledged to be liberal in his dealings and prompt in meeting his obligations; and there is no doubt that his advent here has been of benefit to the people. He has already shipped twenty carloads of oranges from this place, and has contracted for about forty carloads more. His disbursements here will closely approach £30,900. Needless Alarm. The Street Car Company met on Tuesday and had a long session. They audited bills aggregating over $5000, and ordered that a meeting of stockholders be called for next Saturday to hear the report of the expenses incurred, and to take action upon the by-laws. The cars will begin making regular trips on next Tuesday. Engineer Robertson and Frank Anderson have been engaged as drivers, and the former will also act as superintendent. Messrs. Theo Reiser and F. Hartung were appointed a committee to purchase horses, and those having horses for sale are requested to consult those gentlemen. The cars will connect with all trains, and will leave each terminus at intervals of about fifteen or twenty minutes. The regular time schedule has not as yet been decided upon. Apropos to the inauguration of Anaheim's car line, the following two little stories may cause a smile: THE SMALL BOY. They were riding in the horse-car and the conductor, looking suspiciously at a small boy for whom no fare was offered, asked if he was five years old. "No," answered the mother, composedly. "No, I ain't five years old," the boy added, with tones of pride. "I know, dear," said the mother, "you are four years old." "Why, mamma!" continued the child, in a loud voice. "Don't you remember? I am seven years old." By this time most of the passengers were smiling with interest and the mother looked out of the window, while the conductor, who seemed to regard the occurrence with ennui, as if the truthfulness of the infant terrible had often been revealed the same way, received the fare with much coolness. AN IRREPRESSIBLE. A young lady and a small, bright eyed boy entered a street car on Lake avenue yesterday afternoon. The lady deposited her fare and the boy's and the bell rang. "Aunt Ella," said the boy, "what makes the bell ring." "The driver rings the bell," was the reply. "What does he do that for?" "Why, he does it to register the fare." "What does he do that for?" "Because he has to." "Oh." Then there was a silence for half a minute. Presently the boy said: An Indiana Letter. SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb., 15, 1887. Ed. Gazette — Enclosed please find subscription for the Gazette for one year. We feel that we can't well do without the paper. It is more eagerly read than any other that comes to our family. We still feel a lively interest in Anaheim and its good people, and peruse the columns of the Gazette with reference to lively town you are having with much interest and pleasure. We lived in Anaheim but a few months, but our journeyman was long enough for us to become thoroughly attached to the place and its people. I myself have seen a good deal of the great West, have seen more or less of every State and territory in that interesting section of our Union, and I certainly have come across no more desirable place for a home than in Los Angeles county, and of that section there can I think be no better or more attractive lands than those about Anaheim. South Bend, where we have long had our home, in fact where I was born and brought up, is a good town. It is widely known as the most extensive manufacturing centre for agricultural implements in the country. We are having a steady, healthy growth; not, of course, of that exuberant sort that Los Angeles and several of the Kansas cities are boasting, but one which I am constrained to think is of a more substantial character—not so likely suddenly to collapse. Our factories are all running full blast, and last season our mechanics and builders were all pressed with work in their several lines. The coming season bids fair to be equally prosperous. Wheat and other farm products are low, but somehow in spite of this drawback a healthy tone pervades the business and industrial life, and we are steadily pressing forward. Yours very truly, D.R. Leeper. An Offensive Partisan. Among the purchasers of Anaheim town lots is a resident of Florence, who fears she has made a mistake. He has written to Melrose & Knapp asking among other things "If sand storms are a common occurrence in Anaheim. Do hot winds generally prevail, as Mr. Clark here declared to me. If not, give him a correction: he is P.M. here Needless Alarm. The undoubted fact that there are a number of mild cases of variola—smallpox in Los Angeles city at the present time will be rolled as a sweet morsel under the tongue of our envious northern brethren and the number of cases and malignancy of the disease will doubtless be magnified a thousand told. It must be remembered that Los Angeles is a large city, and there are few large cities in which there are not some cases of this disease at all times. The trouble is that this is such a wonderfully healthy country that whenever any disease prevails its attendant evils are exaggerated much in the same way that a spoiled child receives an almonitory spank—it makes a great boo-hoo about nothing. Mayor Workman of Los Angeles has made an official statement in which he says "there have been only twelve cases in all," the majority of which were of a mild character. The patients were all taken to the smallpox hospital; and there have been no new cases reported during the past four days. The law requires every case to be at once reported to the health authorities." Articles of Incorporation. The Stearns Ranchos Company has filed articles of incorporation in San Francisco to purchase, improve, manage, lease and sell lands and buildings, etc., with a capital stock of $92,160, divided into 9,216 shares, and the following directors: Moses Hopkins, Charles B. Polhemus, Wm. H. Howard, Eleanor Martin, James B. Rondal, Charles A. Grow and John T. Doyle, each of whom, except Doyle, have subscribed for 100 shares. It is probable that the "Land Company," so called, is getting ready to place its property adjacent to Anaheim in the market again. The effect of such a movement would be very beneficial to this place and the entire county, as the lands heretofore withheld from market comprise a very large area of first class land. A Needed Reform. The receipts of the Recorder's office and County Clerk's office in this county are largely in excess of the expense of conducting them, and the surplus is turned into the general fund of the county. This is all wrong, and we are glad to note that an effort being made to correct it. The Recorder and Clerk have advised our represen- AN IRREPRESSIBLE. A young lady and a small, bright eyed boy entered a street car on Lake avenue yesterday afternoon. The lady deposited her fare and the boy's and the bell rang. "Aunt Ella," said the boy, "what makes the bell ring!" "The driver rings the bell," was the reply. "What does he do that for?" "Why, he does it to register the fare." "What does he do that for?" "Because he has to." Oh." Then there was a silence for half a minute. Presently the boy said: "What is that round thing up there?" That is the register. What is that for? To register the fare. You said the ring registered the fare. No, I didn't say that. Yes, you did, Aunt Ella. Now, Johnny, don't you contradict me; you are a naughty boy. Well, that's what you said. A silence of two minutes followed. It was broken by the boy, who said: "Say, Aunt Ella, what made you tell me that the ring registered the fare?" Oh, I don't know." You did say so, didn't you, Aunt Ella?" Yes, Johnny. Then what made you say you didn't say it? I didn't say that I didn't say so. Don't bother me, Johnny. After another brief silence the boy returned to the attack. Say, Aunt Ella, did you go to Sunday school when you was little?" Yes, child, of course I did." Did you take any prizes?" Yes, lots of them." Did you tell wrong stories as much then as you do now? Johnny, you are a bad boy. I shall tell your mother." "I wish you would tell her two times; that's what I wish." Why, Johnny! "Cause you wouldn't tell the same story two times; that would let me out."—Rochester Herald. The street car line in San Bernardino is evidently a lively institution. A tourist stopping at the Starke Hotel, wishing to go to the depot immediately, inquired whether that was the day for the car to go up or come down.—Riverside Press. A Fearful Compound. While dining at a first class hotel in San Francisco recently, a St. Helena wine maker called for Zofundel wine, and found it of such peculiar flavor that he secured a bottle and sent it to Prof. Hilgard for analysis. That gentleman says: The examination of the sample called "Zofundel," which you handed me a few days ago, shows it to be heavily colored with Puechine or Anilin Red. It is a fearful compound, a basis of badly acetified Zoffundel wine flavored with cloves for a bonquet, dived with Anilin Red, and after stretching with water, toned up with spirits. It that is the kind-of wine served at first-class hotels in the State where it would appear that wine is made so cheaply that adulteration would be unprofitable, what kind of stuff is it that the Eastern stomach is and industrial life, and we are steadily pressing forward. Yours very truly, D. R. Leeper. An Offensive Partisan. Among the purchasers of Anaheim town lots is a resident of Florence, who fears she has made a mistake. He has written to Melrose & Knapp asking among other things "If sand storms are a common occurrence in Anaheim. Do hot winds generally prevail, as Mr. Clark here declared to me. If not, give him a correction; he is P. M. here now, and I don't know if he is right, if not send a poster up here of statistics to correct the public and convince them of his mistake." We can assure the writer of the letter referred to that Postmaster Clark is an offensive partisan, who ought to be inconsistent bounced if he doesn't know more about his official duties than he does about the climatic characteristics of the country he lives in. Nothing could be further from the truth than the offensive P. M.'s allegations regarding the prevalence of hot winds and sand-storms at this place. It is singularly free from either of those visitations, and it has a climate a little nearer perfect than the majority of localities in Southern California. There is a standing reward for the arrest and conviction of either a sandstorm or a hot wind within the corporate limits, and if the arduous duties of the Florence P. M. will permit him, he should make an effort to earn the reward. Howling Gales. In various parts of Michigan people have been anchoring their houses and sitting up nights ready to fly before the flood which threatens to engulf their towns. In Colorado four railroad trains were blown from the tracks by the force of the cyclone which has been cavorting around that State lately. From Sonora comes a record of heavy snow storms and the death by freezing of two brothers within half a mile of their home. In Wisconsin, a local paper handed to us by J. E. Karnes says that "for twenty days during the month of January at Neilsville the thermometer registered 30 degrees below zero." And the same paper has this suggestive paragraph: "A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!" is what Dr. Esch has to offer. His four horses are tired out, and business continues to rush." But why pursue this shivering tale? It is sufficient to say that blizzards, cyclones and all the disagreeable and dangerous climatic freaks peculiar to this season of year are making life miserable almost everywhere in these United States except in our own climate-favored commonwealth. Here a perfect climate prevails; and the cool wind which comes to us from the snow-covered mountain peaks as we stand in our orange groves is just sufficiently bracing to awaken A Needed Reform. The receipts of the Recorder's office and County Clerk's office in this county are largely in excess of the expense of conducting them, and the surplus is turned into the general fund of the county. This is all wrong, and we are glad to note that an effort is being made to correct it. The Recorder and Clerk have advised our representatives in the Legislature that the fees in their respective offices could be reduced from 25 to 30 per cent, without embarrassment to the efficiency of the service, and Senator White will endeavor to have the law amended in accordance with their suggestion. An excessive tax for recording real estate transactions is really a tax upon enterprise; and litigants find plenty of use for their money in other ways than in paying two prices to the county officials. Meeting To-day. There will be an important meeting time afternoon of the Anaheim Building and Improvement Society. The purpose is to adopt by-laws. There ought to be a large attendance, so that this much-needed corporation may start aright and to the satisfaction of those who invest in it. Personal Paragraphs. P. Hoyle is filling the position as clerk in Langenberger's store which was resigned by A. Hensler. Mr. John Westphal of Pomona spent several days in Anaheim this week on a business visit. He contemplates a trip to New York in about a month. Wells, Fargo & Co. There are packages for the following persons in Wells, Fargo & Co.' Express Office: P. Dominguez, E. Atherton, Frank Buch, Mrs. J. Hartung. and sent it to Prof. Hilgard for analysis. That gentleman says: The examination of the sample called "Zinfandel," which you handed me a few days ago, shows it to be heavily colored with Fuchsine or Anilin Red. It is a fearful compound, a basis of badly acetylated Zinfandel wine flavored with cloves for a bonquet, dived with Anilin Red, and after stretching with water, toned up with spirits. If that is the kind of wine served at first-class hotels in the State where it would appear that wine is made so cheaply that adu-tation would be unprofitable, what kind of stuff is it that the Eastern stomach is called upon to endure? The compounding of such a mixture as described by Prof. Hilgard is certainly not necessitated by any scarcity of the genuine article, for our crops have been abundant and the quantity yet stored in cellars is very large. At the rate, too, at which pure wine can be bought from the grower, there is enough profit to satisfy the most rapacious of dealers; but there is no bound to human avarice. Grand Rabbit Drive. In compliance with arrangements No. 2, we have organised a rabbit-drive for Saturday, February 26th. General Orders No. 1.—Col. S. L Chilson, Commander of Cavalry, to meet at Browning's at 10 A.M.; to immediately take the field with a battalion of boys and dogs, with good horses, fully armed with a horn and club, supported by Chas. Stone, First Lieutenant. Capt. W. J. Smith takes command of the Masked Batteries, supported by Lieutenant D. M. Baker on the left. Lieutenants Lovering and Field have command of artillery on the left. By command of Brigadier Generals, F. H. Keith. W. R. Harker, Ass't Adjutant General. Artists' Materials Of all kinds for sketching, lustre painting, drawing, etc., at Pellegrin's Jewelry, Art and Music store. Fruit and ornamental Trees, Roses, Palms, etc., in quantities to suit at REDUCED RATES. Come and see for yourselves at the Santa Ana Nurseries, corner Sixth and Ross sta., feb19-2m. Geo. W. Ford, kingdom for a horse?" is what Dr. Esch has to offer. His four horses are tired out, and business continues to rush." But why pursue this shivering tale? It is sufficient to say that blizzards, cyclones and all the disagreeable and dangerous climatic freaks peculiar to this season of year are making life miserable almost everywhere in these United States except in our own climate-favored commonwealth. Here a perfect climate prevails; and the cool wind which comes to us from the snow-covered mountain peaks as we stand in our orange groves is just sufficiently bracing to awaken energy. Remarkable Growths. The Santa Ana Blade tells of a man who some years ago stuck his cane in the ground in that vicinity and went off and left it. That cane is now a good-sized tree. The story is a little hard to believe, but it is no doubt true, as the cane was a green branch cut the same day it was planted. This reminds the writer of an occurrence of a similar nature. In 1874, while publishing a paper at Wilmington, in this county we planted a small pepper tree and braced it up with a green stick. The tree died, but the stick grew — Santa Monica Outlook. Those tales are but as infants in comparison with the full-grown one we are able to tell. Some years ago a twenty-acre vineyard was planted in Anaheim, and the second year of its growth the economical owner, to save the cost of redwood stakes, cut the branches of the willow hedge surrounding the vineyard and used them as stakes, tying the vines to them. The stakes and the vines both grew vigorously—as everything does which is planted on Anaheim soil—but the willow stakes got away ahead of the vines. The result was that at the end of the second year the willows had grown to a height of six to eight feet; uprooting the vines, which, being tied to the willows, dangled in the air. The man who says this story is not true is a horse-thief. Company B of Sacramento was snowed in on the Nevada Narrow gauge en route to Nevada City, and tramped seven miles to their destination. Indiana Letter. BEND, Ind., Feb. 15, 1887. Enclosed please find sube Gazette for one year. We don't well do without the paper. early read than any other that family. We still feel a livelyheim and its good people, and rumors of the Gazette with daily boom you are having with and pleasure. We lived in few months, but our sojourn there has become thoroughly place and its people. I my good deal of the great West, or less of every State and interesting section of our certainly have come across no place for a home than in Lies and of that section there is better or more attractive about Anaheim. Where we have long had our here I was born and brought up. It is widely known as five manufacturing centre for elements in the country. We easily, healthy growth; not, exuberant sort that Los Angeles of the Kansas cities are which I am constrained to have substantial character—denly to collapse. Our facing full blast, and last seasics and bubblers were all work in their several lines. On buds fair to be equally coat and other farm products show in spite of this draw-ine pervades the business life, and we are steadily Yours very truly, D. R. LEEPER. Consive Partisan. Chasers of Anaheim town of Florence, who fears the sake. He has written to asking among other things are a common occurrence that winds generally prehere declared to me. If correction: he is P.M. here LATEST NEWS ITEMS. The Delaware House has passed the bill prohibiting the manufacture and sale of oicomargarine. The New York Senate has passed a bill granting women the right to vote at municipal elections. The gas well at Lancaster, Penn., is reported by the State Geologist to yield 75,000 cubic feet daily. The Governor of Kansas has approved and signed the bill conferring municipal suffrage upon women. A bill has been introduced in the Nebraska House to provide for the stamping of merchandise made in the penitentiary. The bill repealing the Black laws and the statute providing for separate schools for colored children has been passed by the Ohio Senate. Two colored citizens of Coahoma county, Miss., swapped wives one day recently, articles of agreement being drawn up to clinch the bargain. There have just been admitted to the poorhouse of Beaver county, Penn., a loan and his wife and five children, three of whom were triplets. It is said that one Frenchman whose wife was killed at West Hartford settled with the railroad company for $25, and another who was similarly afflicted for $100. The lovers of the national game in Illinois are mad with the Legislature just because it passed a bill prohibiting the playing of baseball Sundays. The Republicans of North Haven, Conn., have boycotted the postoffice at that place, because President Cleveland appointed Stephen Gilbert, a Democrat, in place of Mrs. Stiles, a Republican. It is probable the office will be discontinued. Johnnie Williams of Pensacola, while out hunting week before last, took deliberate aim at what he thought to be a bird in the bushes, and filled the face and neck of a negro with fine shot. For a $2 note the darkey signed a contract agreeing to forego his right to prosecute. PACIFIC COAST ITEMS. The Riverside Land Company offers land worth $40,000 to any person or corporation that will build a $250,000 hotel thereon. It is said that one day last week several boys killed 400 rabits, and the next day 300, in a wheat and alfalfa field in Paradise Valley, Nev. The wild geese and ducks are so numerous on Miller & Lax's Dus Palos farm that they have to be herded from the wheat and alfalfa fields. The Yakima, W. T., Farmer says that there is fourteen feet of snow in the mountains near that place, but that notwithstanding this railroad work still continues. Albert, son of Police Judge Clement of Stockton, was drowned by the upsetting of a skiff. Judge Clement in trying to save his son caught a cramp and was rescued in an unconscious condition. The general merchandise store of U. D. Palmer at Sancho Plano was burnt Sunday night. Johnson, the clerk, who slept in the store, was fatally burnt. He went to bed intoxicated and probably upset his lamp. The Nevada City Herald says: It is said that the Digger Indians, having relied upon the signs portending a mild winter, failed to prepare for severe weather, and are suffering from cold and scarcity of food. Many farmers near Hanford, Tulare county, are raising castor trees, and the production of castor oil from these beans is liable to be an important industry in that locality before long. The Oakland City Convention of the American party met Tuesday evening and completed a ticket. P. D. Wiggington nominated J. W. Martin for Mayor, and Martin accepted the nomination in a speech approving the principles of the American party. Monday evening a cyclone near Oroville swept across the country a distance of six miles in a narrow strip less than forty feet wide. Fences were blown down, cabins destroyed and other damage was done. Fence boards, cabin roofs and brush were carried The Republicans of North Haven, Conn., have boycotted the postoffice at that place, because President Cleveland appointed Stephen Gilbert, a Democrat, in place of Mrs. Stiles, a Republican. It is probable the office will be discontinued. Johnnie Williams of Pensacola, while out hunting week before last, took deliberate aim at what he thought to be a bird in the bushes, and filled the face and neck of a negro with fine shot. For a $2 note the darkey signed a contract agreeing to forego his right to prosecute. It is a curious thing in connection with Tony Barrios' presence at West Point that young Zarala, son of the man who overthrew and caused the death of President Barrios of Guatemala, should also be at West Point and a classmate of Tony's. The two young men naturally have nothing to say to each other. A horrible murder was committed on Mount Adams, Cincinnati, on Saturday, when Mrs. Matilda Warren was shot by Edward Jordan, a drunken desperado. Mrs. Warren's daughter was trundling her infant sister in a baby-wagon on the sidewalk in the front of the house, when Edward Jordan came along, reeling 'drunk', and upset the baby-wagon in the gutter and pushed the terrified girl into the street. Mrs. Warren rushed out in defense of her baby, protesting as she went against Jordan's brutality. The villain waited till she got within a few feet of him, and then shot her through the lungs. She is still alive, but her wound is pronounced mortal. A Halifax telegram says: Sir Charles Tupper, who, it is generally supposed, will succeed Sir John McDonald as leader of the Liberal Conservative party, has just made a very important declaration on the prohibition question. He is opposed by a third party Prohibition candidate, notwithstanding his life long record as a temperance man. In his speech he pointed out that he had carried through Parliament the law giving absolute prohibition in the northwest territory, covering an area of 2,500,000 square miles; he had made total abstinence compulsory among employees on Government railways all over Canada, and to-day he regarded prohibition as a most vital question before the people. He declared that, if by going into opposition to the Government he could secure legislation that would prevent the manufacture, importation, sale and use of intoxicating liquor, he would not hesitate one moment about doing it. You say you have only a cough; still it ought to be looked to. 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