anaheim-gazette 1889-10-17

VOLUME XIX. LODGE MEETINGS. NAHEIM LODGE, NO. 207, F & A M. hold regular meetings on the Monday of preceding the full moon in each month. Soljourning brethren in good standing are cordially invited to attend. PHILIP DAVIS, W. M. J. K. GARDNER, Secretary. MACVERN MILL POST, NO. 121, G. A. R. meets at I.O.O.F. Hall, Los Angeles street, Anaheim, every fourth Saturday of each month. K. BARR, P. C. T. K. McDOWELL, Adjutant. ORDER CHOSEN FRIENDS MEETS THE FIRST and third Saturday evenings in each month at 8 Pork - Old Fallow's Hall. WM M. McFADDEN, Counselor E. A. WHYTE, Secretary. NAHEIM LODGE, NO. 199, I.O.O.F. REGUlar meetings every Tuesday evening. Visiting brothers always welcome. J. H. BULLARD, N. G. W. R. HAWKS, Secretary. NAHEIM LODGE, NO. 64, A.O.U.W. MEETings on the first and fourth Friday of every month. J. HELMSEN, M. W. T. K. GRINSHAW, Secretary. ORPHEUS LODGE, NO. 237, I.O.O.F. MEETS every Thursday at 2 p.m. at Old Fallow's Hall. ROBERT MENZEL, N. G. May Neal No., Secretary. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. J. H. BULLARD, A.B. M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Stone and Residence, corner Hermins and Chartres street, near Planters' Hotel. OFFICE HOURS. 7:30 a.m.; 12 to 1:30, and 6:40-7:30 p.m. RICHARD MELKO'S E. ATTORNEY-AT LAW. Portfolio Block, Anaheim. Will be in his office at Stone and Temple Block, Los Angeles every sunday and friday. Special attention given to PROHATE matters. J. LEE BURTON, ARCHITECT, West Second Street, Los Angeles, Cal. MISCELLANEOUS. HIPPOLYTE CAH DEALER IN General Merchandise Keeps Always on Hand the Best of GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS, HARDWARE TINWARE, STATIONERY, WOODENWARE, Boots and Shoes. Men's Furnishing. T. J. F. BOECH Wholesale and Retail Dealer in WINES, LIQUORS AND CHEMISTRY KEeps Always on Hand — A COMPLETE STOCK Of the Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars. WINES AND LIQUORS BY THE KEG, GALLON OR BOTTLE. Orders by Mail Promptly Attended OFFICE HOURS 7:30 a.m. 12 to 1:30, and 6:45 to 7:30 p.m. RICHARD MELKOE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Postoffice Block, Anaheim. Will be in his office at 90th and 91st Temple Block, Los Angeles every day and Friday. J. LEEBURTON, ARCHITECT, West Second Street, Los Angeles, Cal. Rooms 27 & 28 Newell Block. S. WOOD, ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER, Anaheim. CHARLES PAMPERL, Dealer in Hardware, Crockery, and House Furnishing Goods Anaheim. DUNTHER, Pioneer Boot & Shoe Maker. Anaheim and Los Angeles streets. GEORGE BAUER, Boot and Shoe Maker. Anaheim. FRANTZ'S BARBER SHOP. First-Class Style. BATHS, - 25 Cts. PLEASE GIVE ME A CALL. Frantz, Pop. opp. P. O., Center St. J. S. WEBER, Center street, Anaheim; dealer in Stoves, Tinware Agateware, Pumps, Pipes and Brass Goods Quick Meal Gasoline Stove. Also agent for the Holiday Windmill. House Movers. N. L. GALBRAITH & CO. SANTA ANA, CAL, P. O. Box 232. THE ANAHEIM Pharmacy KEEPS ALWAYS ON HAND A COMPLETE STORE Of the Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars WINES AND LIQUORS BY THE KEG, GALLON OR BOTTLE. Orders by Mail Promptly Attended GOODS DELIVERED FREE OF CHARGE Opp. S. P. Depot, ANAHEIM, PLANTERS' HOTEL Center Street, Anaheim, Cal. N. H. MITCHELL, PROPRIETARY Headquarters for Commercial Trucking FAIRVIEW STORE SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT I take pleasure in announcing that prepared to meet the wants of the public an assortment of Boots, Shoes, Hats, Clothing, Dry Cleaners GROCERIES AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE I sell every article on its merits. Call and see for your store on Broadway. One-half mile west Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, near Fremont. M. H. CHEESEMA House Movers. N. L. GALBRAITH & CO.. SANTA ANA, CAL., P. O. Box 232. THE ANAHEIM Pharmacy Continues to keep the most Reliable Drugs and Desirable Patent Medicines. Stock of Toilet Articles. Pearls' Supetile Soap & Specialty. We are just adding a complete line to our Stock of Notions. All kinds of LUBRICATING OILS for farm use cheap. GASOLINE BY BEDROCK PRICES, Delivered. PHARMACY, D. W. HUNT. WANTED GOOD SOLICITORS FOR STANDARD option Books on salary or commission. To make money. None but they mean need apply. BALL & O'CONNOR, IH 151 St. Los Angeles, Cal. FOR A FINE COOL GLASS OF FREDERICKSBURG BEER! GO TO G. BUCK, OPPOSITE THE POSTOFFICE. CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS ALWAYS ON HAND. GIVE ME A CALL. Boots, Shoes, Hats, Clothing, Dry GROCERIES AND GENERAL MERCHANDI I sell every article on its merits. Call and see for yourse STORE ON BROADWAY, One-half mile west Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, near F M. H. CHEESEMA Removed--Backs' Build SALE! SALE! SA AT — A. T. WALLOP CLEARANCE SALE! I AM KEEPING UP WITH THE TIMES. SELLING O MY LARGE STOCK OF DRY GOODS, NOTION FANCY ARTICLES, LADIES' UNDERWEAR, HATS AND SHOES, ETC., TO DO ONLY AN Exclusive : Grocery : Tr — COME AND GET — GOOD BARGAINS: REDUCED PR Times are hard and I will sell close for cash or THÉ GAZETTE JOB OFFRE Prompt Attention ! Lowest R ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1889. TE CAHEN, Merchandise on Hand the Best of HARDWARE, TIONERY, AGATEWARE, OILS, Men's Furnishing Goods. and Children's Shoes at Cost for Cash. Southwest BOEGE, Retail Dealer in ERS AND CIGARS. YS ON HAND — TE STOCK! Liquors and Cigars. D LIQUORS BILLON OR BOTTLE. omptly Attended to. The Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. SUBSCRIPTION, - $2 Per Year. Six months. Three months. Parable is variably in advance. Transient Advertising. SPACE 1 week 2 weeks 3 weeks 4 weeks One square... $1.00 Two squares... $2.00 Three squares... $3.00 Four squares... $4.00 The Gazette is limited every Thursday morning, and sent to subscribers by the early mails. It is delivered by carrier in Anaheim on the morning of publication. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter. Items of news and correspondence on all line subjects are solicited by the editor. Be 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. Santa Fe Route. CALIFORNIA CENTRAL-RAILWAY TIME TABLE. Trains pass Anaheim as follows: NORTH BOUND. Overland, daily... 6:42 A.M. Los Angeles Accom. (daily)... 7:43 A.M. Los Angeles Express, daily... 12:02 A.M. Riverside Accom. (daily except Sunday)... 5:58 P.M. SOUTH BOUND. San Diego Express, daily... 9:41 A.M. Riverside Accom. (daily except Sunday)... 11:25 A.M. Overland, daily... 5:29 P.M. Santa Ana Accom. (daily)... 6:10 P.M. L.A. DESMOND, Agent. Southern Pacific Route. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY TIME TABLE. Trains pass Anaheim as follows: Going North... 7:43 A.M. Going South... 10:20 A.M. T. A. DARLING, Agent. STEWART ON IRRIGATION. The Senator tells New Millions of Acres can be Made Valuable. Senator Stewart in a long interview published in the New York Herald, has this to say about the irrigation problem, especially of Utah, Nevada, California and Arizona: "Let me say here that I agree that the problems to be considered cannot be limited by the merely artificial political boundaries of State and Territories, but must be considered from the standpoint of topography and hydrography, which necessarily treat the whole of the arid and sub-humid areas as one physical geographical whole. Numerous questions, you see, then, of the highest legal importance will enter into the irrigation question." "As to Utah, Senator, what was it that the committee found?" the Senator was asked. "First, that but little over its naturally irrigated area of 600,000 acres was this year under cultivation. Second, that as to the simpler forms of irrigation and the water used that the Mormon farmers had solved the legal issues involved. Water rights are lands rights. Therain all organized water companies are always composed of farmers needing water. One acre of land represents one share of water. The same system prevails largely in California. Third, that the future of irrigation and its extension rests there, as elsewhere, on the possibility of the storage of storm, snow and other surplus water." "You want a plain statement, not technical in term? Can I give it more clearly than by saying that the rainfall in the valleys or troughs of the basins now cultivatable will range in various parts of the arid region from three to fifteen inches? It will fall, too, as a rule, at the wrong season." In the higher foothills it will be doubled. TE STOCK! LIQUORS BILLON OR BOTTLE. FREE OF CHARGE! ANAHEIM, CAL. Anaheim, Cal. ELL, PROP. commercial Travelers W STORE. NO UNCEMENT announcing that I am ents of the public with clothing, Dry Goods, ERAL MERCHANDISE. all and see for yourself, at my BROADWAY, Railroad Depot, near Fairview St HEESEMAN. Overland, daily Los Angeles Accom. (daily) Los Angeles Express, daily Riveraide Accom. (daily except Sunday) SOUTH BOUND. San Diego Express, daily Overland, daily Santa Ana Accom. (daily) Southern Pacific Route. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY TIME TABLE. Trains pass Anaheim as follows: Going North Going South T. A. DARLING, Agent. A Dig in the Ribs. If on the right side and lower part of the diaphragm, though playfully meant and delivered, is calculated to evoke profanity from a chappy whose liver is out of order. When that region is sore and congested, pokes seem fiendish. Look at a man's countenance ere you prod him under the ribs. If his skin and eyeballs have a sallow tinge, you may infer also that his tongue is furred, his breath apt to be sour, that he has pains not only beneath his ribs, but also under the right shoulder-blade. Also, that his bowels are irregular and his digestion impaired. 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The best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is all organic water companies are always composed of farmers needing water. One acre of land represents one share of water. The same system prevails largely in California. Third, that the future of irrigation and its extension rests there, as elsewhere, on the possibility of the storage of storm, snow and other surplus water. "You want a plain statement, not technical in term? Can I give it more clearly than by saying that the rainfall in the valleys or troughs of the basins now cultivable will range in various parts of the arid region from three to fifteen inches? It will fall too, as a rule, at the wrong season. In the higher foothills it will be doubled in amount, and on the ranges be tripled and quadrupled in depth. In the high mountains we will have from the Rockies to the Sierra Madre in Southern California a rainfall of from 40 to 120 inches in depth. Of this vast total at least 50 per cent may be stored if proper facilities are found and provided. "The irrigation survey is now charged with this work, and it is the first thing to be done. Utah and Nevada, as elsewhere, emphatically prove this. "Now, my own State," continued the Senator, "is the most promising field of all the arid region. Yet the engineers' work has so far progressed as to show the ready reclaimability of at least 3,000,000 acres. "This, it is proposed, to effect first, by damming and diverting the Humboldt at its source, thus bringing 350,000 acres under the Owyhee river in the northern portion, and then by reclaiming 2,505 acres; third, by the reservoir system among the northwest foothills, where it is believed the snowfall can be saved, and fourth, by damming Lake Tahoe in the Sierras as its outlet, the Truckee river, and converting that precipitous drainage basin, which is 1,000 square miles of catchment area into a vast source of supply for the irrigation of the Sierra valley, and then of the sagbroush plains in Washoe county near Wadsworth, where the river now debouches on its way to Pyramid lake. "By damming Lake Tahoe that great body of water can easily be raised four feet. "It is proposed to make Tahoe, Donner, Webber, Honey and Independence. lakes reservoirs from the Truckee and Carson valley basins, the latter of which is to be supplied from a tunnel three and a half miles in length and 1,000 feet below the present surface of Tahoe. "This great scheme, if carried out, will reclaim over 2,000,000 acres of land; now not worth 50 cents per acre for any purpose. With water for its service, every uncultivated acre would sell at $10 each. The 3,000,000 acres then proposed to be reclaimed would have a low valuation at $30,000,-000. The engineer in charge puts the entire cost at less than $2,000,000. One legal issue that will arise relates to the use of the Sierra lakes. They are all within the boundaries of California; yet are all distinctly identified hydrographically with the Nevada basin. "As however, the prosperity of Nevada must largely aid that of California; there are hopes of harmonious adjustment." "How about California and Arizona Senator." "It would require all the space you can give for California should I enter into any elaborate statement. The State has already compassed every variety of irrigation works except high altitude reservoirs. Yet it solved these a score or more years since by their construction for hydraulic mining. In a great degree these are now useless for that purpose. But it has two largest mountain reservoirs in the world—that of Bear valley in the San Bernardino basin and the Sweetwater in San Diego. While at the latter place the members of the committee were eye-witnesses to a great crime, that of wasting several million cubic feet of water." MOTION: SELLING OFF ALL GOODS, NOTIONS AND INDERWEAR, HATS, BOOTS OR AN CERY: Trade. GET — REDUCED PRICES close for cash or trade. JOB OFFICE. Lowest Rates! BUSINESS BRIEFES. Go to A. T. Wallop for best Mocha and Java coffee. Attention is called to the advertisement of A. T. Wallop. His store is stocked with a comprehensive line of goods. Go to A. T. Wallop for best of maple syrup and sugar and rock candy syrup or any other make. Go to A. T. Wallop for fresh ranch butter. Ask your butchers and grocers for Avery & Everhardy’s Home-made Lard. The City Meat Market keeps the best meat that the market affords. Leave your orders with them. Avery & Everhardy’s Home-made Lard is the best in the market. Ask your butcher and grocers for it. CONSUMPTION SURVEY CARED. To the EDITOR—Please inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease. By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy free to any of your readers who have consumption if they will send me their express and postoffice address. Respectfully, T. A. Slocum, M.C., 181 Pearl at., New York FOR SALE. Twenty-five milch cows and work horses. Apply to R. C. ARCHIBALD, sep19 at Baena Park. P. A. Schaumacher, Santa Ana valley nursery, Fullerton, Cal. HOW about California and Arizona, Senator? "It would require all the space you can give for California should I enter into any elaborate statement. The State has already compassed every variety of irrigation works except high altitude reservoirs. Yet solved these a score or more years since by their construction for hydraulic mining. In a great degree these are now unacess for that purpose. But it has the two largest mountain reservoirs in the world—that of Bear valley in the San Bernardino basin and the Sweetwater in San Diego. While at the latter place the members of the committee were eye-witnesses to a great crime, that of wasting several million cubic feet of water, because the United States Court had ordered the reservoir company to pay a blackmailing price for certain waste land or restore the same to the owner. The company chose the latter course, and to do it wasted millions of cubic feet of valuable public property—water." "The community, perhaps, deserved little sympathy, as it was a jury there that awarded $335 per acre for land not worth over $250, and for which $75 had already been offered." "The incident shows the necessity of decent laws settling water questions." "Our investigations," continued the Senator "have fully satisfied the committee engaged that on public lands water must be irrevocably related to soil. It also has established the folly of ditch-owners trying to retain such property in order to create a perpetual rental. Land-killers and water-musers will willingly pay a large price outright for their water conveniences and rights, but they will as surely, having a vote, legislatively squeeze the rental plan out for a complete system of community water and ditch ownership." "The water problems for a State are mostly of law and administration, based on public ownership and control. The adoption of a good system of engineering supervision is necessary so as to prevent the duplication of works, of waste in wrong locations, as is the case, for example, in Kern county. Plans for the permanent utilization of mountain and other surplus water must be adopted and put under way. There are now 3,000,000 acres irrigated, each of which is worth from $50 to $1,000." "There are three systems in operation, that of the foothills and central region, which is served by small ditches and rather shallow wells; that of the San Joquin valley, from Merced to Kern counties, in which the ditch system is quite large, though often bad and wastefully placed; and then the fruit region proper, which has grown so much of late years, and includes Los Angeles, Orange," IRRIGATION. Mew Mallions of Minden Volunteer a long interview pubmark Herald, has this to one problem, especially California and Arizona: that I agree that the flood cannot be limited political boundaries, but must be conpoint of topography which necessarily treat and sub-humid areas as natural whole. Numerous cases of the highest legal into the irrigation San Bernalime and San Diego counties. It includes most of the citrus orchards, and other of the mini-tropical fruit-growing area. In it are the cities of Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, Amherst and San Bernardino. It is intersected by railroads and dotted all over with colony settlements. The fruit and water will average at least $250 per acre. The small farm is the king of the situation. The Riverside farms contain about nine acres each. There are two within its 3,000,000 tributary acres of 196 acres each, and several of half an acre. The man who cultivates ten well in San Bernardino county is a rich man. He can easily net $400 per acre per annum and many do better than that. Twenty acres of fruit land with water rights is a fortune. After five years it will bring $10,000. The irrigable possibilities of California are estimated at 13,000,000 acres. I believe it is nearer 20,000,000. "Arizona—I only passed through the southern portion—has enormous possibilities. The valley of the Gila is as fertile as the Nila. In that section there are 10,000,000 acres that can be reclaimed, one-third from the surface waters alone. Arizona has about 150,000 acres in cultivation, possibly 250 miles of ditches, and one large reservoir at Walnut creek, in the central portion. "New Mexico has exhausted irrigation so far as the present limits are concerned. Storage only can increase the area. It is the opinion of well-informed persons there that 25,000,000 acres can be reclaimed when the water supply may be obtained. "The valley of the Rio Grande offers one of the best illustrations of the engineering questions involved in irrigation. The discussion at El Paso of the proposed international dam and reservoir in the river above that place, for the purpose of permanently fixing the river bed and providing for a regular supply of water to both sides of the river, brought out from Major Powell a luminous description of the Rio Grande valley from its source to the gulf. "Northwest Texas belongs largely to the plains regions. Colorado and Wyoming, on the east side of the Rockies, are with the Southwest. Central Kansas and Nebraska are parts of one great division." Fifty-first Congress—the ratio of representation will be advanced to 192,999. An apportionment on that basis will transfer considerable power from the Northeast to the West. For instance, it will give one if not two additional Representatives of California and an additional Representative to Oregon. The Pacific Coast will pretty soon number eight Senators, ten Representatives and one Delegate in Washington. They will have Shawna, eight senators in the Electoral College—that is to say, as a group they will count for more than any of the great States excepting only Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania and New York. They will march a little army of thirty-sight delegates into National Conventions. The thirteen votes which the new Staats will add to the Editorial College, no matter how the apportionment may come out, will add enormously to Republican strength. With the Electoral College at 414, it will take 208 votes to elect a President. The Democrat, if the South is allowed to stand at 153 cannot win with New York, Indiana and Connecticut on the apportionment supposed to be probable—that is to say, 192,999 for each representative. That there will be a falling off in population in most of the Southern States is believed to be certain. But Texas and Missouri have been unquestionably growing. FUNGUS OR NO FUNGUS. The Battle With the Mysterious Vine Disease On Thursday afternoon of last week Commissioner J. de Barth Shorb of Los Angeles delivered a short address in the rooms of the Viticultural Commission at San Francisco on the vine disease that is ravaging the vineyards of this county. There were present Commissioners George West, Dr. Harkness, President of the Academy of Sciences; President Wetmore of the Viticultural Commission, Secretary Turrill and members of the press. Mr. Shorb, after referring to the fact that he had been appointed by the Vittu- The valley of the Rio Grande offers one of the best illustrations of the engineering questions involved in irrigation. The discussion at El Paso of the proposed international dam and reservoir in the river above that place, for the purpose of permanently fixing the river bed and providing for a regular supply of water to both sides of the river, brought out from Major Powell a luminous description of the Rio Grande valley from its source to the gulf. "Northwest Texas belongs largely to the plains regions. Colorado and Wyoming, on the east side of the Rockies, are with the Southwest. Central Kansas and Nebraska are parts of one great drainage system dominated by the Arkansas and Platte rivers. There is more activity in Colorado, even than in California, and certainly a more liberal understanding of the legal principles that must govern the control and beneficial uses of water within an arid section." Apples for the Eust. The condition of the Eastern apple crop, and the demand for that fruit which has arisen in Europe, suggests an idea for California fruit-growers which is worth looking into. In nearly all portions of the Atlantic region the crop of apples is small, and much of it is very poor and wormy. That state of affairs prevails even in Canada, where hitherto much good fruit has been grown. At the same time the demand which has been created in Europe by liberal exportations of American apples cannot be supplied, and as a consequence a good opportunity for profit is lost. While it is true that California is now, as it always has been, a heavy importer of apples, still there is no reason why, with due diligence and enterprise, she should not become a large exporter of that fruit. As has been pointed out many times, the great mistake made by California fruit-growers has been in attempting to produce good apples side by side with oranges and other fruits that thrive in the warm valleys of the interior. While it is true that apples may be grow in such localities, still it has been abundantly proved that such fruit is invariably of poor quality. Experiment has shown, however, that the foothill region along the coast, and the higher foothills and much of the mountains of the interior are admirably adapted to the apple, and that as fine fruit of that kind can be raised there as in any part of the world. There are tens of thousands of acres of such land that has been cleared of its timber and can be purchased for a very low price. In such localities, where the insect enemies of the fruit trees have not penetrated, and where they can easily be prevented from going, may be found the best opportunities for the cultivation of apples on a large scale. The mountains and foothills can in a few years' time be made not only to supply California with all the apples needed, but there can be a large surplus for export both to the East and to the West that will command the best of prices. The apples is the best of all fruit for shipment, and when packed with ordinary care will stand carriage to any part of the world without loss. There is no reason why California apples should not be made as popular and command relatively as high prices in the East as do our pears, plums, peaches, oranges and other fruits. Not the least inducement for embarking in the cultivation of apples in the regions referred to is the fact that while land suitable to the production of the other fruits mentioned commands a comparatively high price, good apple land in the foothills and mountains may be had for but a few dollars an acre.—Chronicle. On Thursday afternoon of last week Commissioner J. de Barth Shorb of Los Angeles delivered a short address in the rooms of the Viticultural Commission at San Francisco on the vine disease that is ravaging the vineyards of this county. There were present Commissioners George West, Dr. Harkness, President of the Academy of Sciences; President Wetmore of the Viticultural Commission, Secretary Turrill and members of the press. Mr. Shorb, after referring to the fact that he had been appointed by the Viticultural Commission a committee of one to direct the investigation of the vine disease, stated that he had been engaged in that labor about four hours a day ever since his appointment. Assisted by Ethelbert Dowlen he had pushed the investigation on various theories, but had obtained no satisfactory results until they began treating the vines on the theory that the malady was a fungus disease. The remedy applied (Ongerth compound) had done good work in checking the disease and storing the vines, but no official conclusion could be reached till after the present month has passed. August being the month in which the malady performs its most deadly execution, as an example of the effect of the compound, Mr. Shorb stated that when the investigation began two badly diseased vines were placed in a hot house, in order that the process of decay and death might be closely observed. These vines became affected with mildew and were treated with the Ongerth powder, with the result that they began to recover, and at the present time are apparently entirely free from the disease. This led Mr. Shorb to use the powder on a great many vines in his 600 acres of vineyard, and it had exercised considerable control over the malady. While Dowlen had never declared the disease to be a fungus, Commissioner Shorb believed it to be such, but on the other hand Dr. Harkness had asserted emphatically that the disease was not fungoid. The idea that the disease was caused by foul soil appeared to be answered by the fact that the disease affected the vines in all kinds of soil, on light, heavy, high or low lands. In reply to a question by Commissioner West, Mr. Shorb stated that in three applications of the mixture the vines in the vineyard to be free of the disease and that those not affected last year, and the cuttings that had been set in the places of the vines that were killed by the disease, were thoroughly healthy and vigorous. Replying to a question by President Wetmore, Mr. Shorb stated that Pierce, the Government expert, though offered the benefit of the experience of expert Dowlen and himself, had ignored their invitation to come and see the result of their investigation. President Wetmore said that Pierce was sent out here chiefly through the efforts of the Viticultural Commission. But the expert had located in a section where the vines were all destroyed, and was making nothing more or less than a post-nortem investigation of the vines. He had failed to co-operate with the commission, and from his interviews in southern papers was inclined to make himself personally important rather than to arrive at a conclusion regarding the disease; and he could not therefore expect to accomplish much this year. During the discussion that ensued Mr. Shorb said that fertilizers were being employed to learn if the treatment of the soil would affect the disease, and President Wetmore asserted his belief that the theory of treating the soil was the correct one. He called attention to the fact that fruit trees in various portions of the State were taller... How Political Parties Stand Today. There are forty-two States in the American Union to-day. Three of the four new States have gone Republican. The result in Montana is mixed. There is said to be a chance for the election of the Democratic Senators, but the Representative is Republican. The Senate of the United States consists of seventy-nine members. When the New States have chosen their Senators it will be composed of eighty-four members. There are now thirty-nine Republican Senators and thirty-seven Democrats. The Republicans have also the Vice President and therefore the casting vote in case of a tie. When the eight new Senators are admitted the Senate will stand forty-five Republicans to thirty-nine Democrats if the Montana reports prove true. This will be the largest majority held by the Republicans in that body for some years past. It assumes Republican ascendancy in that Chamber for many years, even in the case of Republican disaster. The House now consists of 225 members. When the Representatives of the new States are added the number will be increased to 330, and the Republican majority to 8. The census is to be taken during the current fiscal year. It will be sufficiently advanced to warrant apportionment, if not at the first session of this Congress, certainly at its second. The last apportionment was a compromise between the two great parties, as the Democrats were in possession of the House. The next apportionment will be Republican. No more is meant by this statement than that under it the Democrats will be allowed no unfair advantage. What effect the admission of the new States will have in the next Presidential election cannot be figured exactly, for the reason that nobody knows what the apportionment is going to be. The ratio of representation—that is, the population required for a member of Congress—is now 151,912. If it should be decided not to increase the House—that is to say, not to add any new members to the 330 of the Carriage Painting. Now is the time to get your buggy painted. After the season it is safe to have your buggies repainted for the winter. Don't forget to call on S. A. Dennis before going elsewhere.