anaheim-gazette 1889-10-31

VOLUME XIX. LODGE MEETINGS. NAHEIM LODGE, NO. 207, F. & A. M. holding our meetings on the Monday presenting the Hall Union in each Saturday breakfast in good time are cordially invited to attend PHILIP DAVIS, W. M. GARDEN, SECRETARY MALVERN HILL PORCH, NO. 131, G. A. R. holding our meetings on the Monday in each fourth Saturday of each month K. BARK, P. V. GARDEN, SECRETARY HERCULEAN FRIENDS MEETS THE FIRST Saturday evening on each month at 8 FOLLOWER'S HALL WM. M. McFADDEN, Counsellor WHITE SECRETARY NAHEIM LODGE, NO. 207, F. & A. M. holding our meetings on the Monday Tuesday evening visiting J. H. BULLARD, N. G. HAWKSEN, SECRETARY NAHEIM LODGE, NO. 207, F. & A. M. meetings on the first and fourth Friday of every J. HELMSEN, M. W. HAWKSEN, SECRETARY NAHEIM LODGE, NO. 207, F. MEETS on Thursday at 9:45 a.m. at Old Fellow's Hall ROBERT MENZEL, N. G. HAWKSEN, SECRETARY PROFESSIONAL CARDS. H. E. P. L. A. R. D., A. B. M. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Residing either Hermione and Chartres with his office at Powers' Hotel OFFICE HOURS: 12 p.m. and 6 to 7:30 p.m. HARD MELROSE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Block Anaheim will be in his office at Temple Block, Los Angeles every week to probate matters. LEE BURTON, ARCHITECT. MISCELLANEOUS. HIPPOLYTE CAHESI DEALER IN General Merchandise Keeps Always on Hand the Best of GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS, HARDWARE, TINWARE, STATIONERY, AGAT WOODENWARE, Boots and Shoes. Men's Furnishing C All I sell my Stock of Dry Goods and Ladies', Money' and Children's Shoes at Cost for Cash Corner Center and Los Angeles Sts., Anaheim, Cal. T. J. F. BOEG Wholesale and Retail Dealer in WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS KEeps Always on Hand A COMPLETE STOOf the Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars. WINES AND LIQUORS BY THE KEG, GALLON OR BOTTLE. Orders by Mail: Promptly Attended PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. ROOMS: 22 and 6 to 7:30 p.m. OFFICE HOURS: HARD MELROSE, ATTORNEY AT-LAW. Block: Anaheim. Will be in his office at 21 Temple Block, Los Angeles every week. After the given to PROBATE matters. DEL BURTON, ARCHITECT. South Street, Los Angeles, Cal. Rooms 27 & 28 Newell Block. ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER. CAL. CLEES PAMPERL. Dealer in: WARE, CROCKERY, and HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS STREET: Anaheim PIONEER BOOT & SHOE MAKER. and Los Angeles streets. GRIEBAUER BOOT AND SHOE MAKER. Anaheim and receiving at the lowest cash price. All work guaranteed. FRANTZ'S BARBER SHOP. First-Class Style. BATHS. - 25 Cts. PLEASE GIVE ME A CALL. Frantz's Depot. opp. P. O. Center St. J. S. WEBER. STOVES, TINWARE AGATEWARE, Pumps, Pipes and Brass Goods According to the San Francisco Sanitation Law, to keep your house整洁 and free from snail. Quick Moal Gasoline Stove. All agent for the HALIDAY WINDMILL. House Movers. N. L. GALBRAITH & CO., Santa Ana, Cal. P. O. Box 232. THE ANAHEIM Pharmacy WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS 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' HOT Center Street, Anaheim, Cal. N. H. MITCHELL, PROP. Headquarters for Commercial Trades 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 Goods GROCERIES AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE I sell every article on its merits. Call and see for yourself STORE ON BROADWAY One-half mile west Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, near M. H. CHEESEMA House Movers. N. L. GALBRAITH & CO. SANTA ANA, CAL. P. O. Box 232. THE ANAHEIM Pharmacy Removed--Backs' Build SALE! SALE! SA AT A. T. WALLO CLEARANCE SALE! I AM KEEPING UP WITH THE TIMES. SELLING O MY LARGE STOCK OF DRY GOODS, NOTIO FANCY ARTICLES, LADIES' UNDERWEAR, HAT AND SHOES, ETC., TO DO ONLY AN Exclusive : Grocery : T — COME AND GET — GOOD BARGAINS: REDUCED PR Times are hard and I will sell close for cash THE GAZETTE JOB OF Prompt Attention! Lowest ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1889. E CAHEN, merchandise and the Best of HARDWARE, ONERY, AGATEWARE, OILS, s Furnishing Goods. Children's Shoes at Cost for Cash. Southwest O E G E, retail Dealer in S AND CIGARS. S ON HAND — TE STOCK! liquors and Cigars. D LIQUORS LON OR BOTTLE. The Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. AGRICULTURAL NOTES. Orange Shipment. Ever since the last car of the last crop of oranges started on its journey, we have been trying to get the figures in such shape as to correctly give the number of boxes shipped from each station on the several railroads. It has been a very variations and troublesome task for the reason that one railroad would haul from one station and turn over the cars to another railroad at another station, each station getting credit for the shipment, thus doubling the apparent amount. By the aid of the officials of both the Santa Paula line and the Southern Pacific it is believed that the following figures are almost absolutely correct. The shipments by steamer, as well as the home consumption cannot be obtained, but it is not an extravagant statement to place the total amount of the last orange crop at 3,000 carloads of 20,000 pounds each, counting 286 boxes to the carload. SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY. Station. Boxes. Riverside... 290,661 San Bernardino Highlands... 3,650 Other places... 6,446 Redlands... 12,304 Ontario... 392 North Ontario... 206 Colton... 5,656 Mound City... 975 Nahant... 1,890 Total for county... 292,180 If we may be allowed to count as Redlands district, the oranges shipped from Mound City, Nahant, and the direct shipments from San Bernardino that were grown here and shipped from Draw station although billed from San Bernardino, it will give us a total of 21,615 boxes, or almost 75 carloads. And it is just as fair and reasonable so to do as to count all oranges shipped from three stations in Riverside as Riverside's. LOS ANGELES COUNTY. Station. Boxes. 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 friendish. Look at a man's countenance are you prod him under the ribs. If his skin and eyeballs have a shallow tinge, you may infer also that his tongue is furred, his breath apt to be sour, that he has paints not only beneath his ribs, but also under the right shoulder-blade. Also, that his bowels are irregular and his digestion impaired. Instead of making a jocose demonstration on his ribs, recommend him to take, and steadily persist in taking, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the finest, anti-billious and alternative medicine extant. Incomparable is it, also, for dyspepsia, rheumatism, nervousness, kidney trouble, and fever and ague. Church Announcements. GERMAN METHODIST CHURCH—John G. Vogel, pastor, Sunday school at 9:45 A.M.; preaching at 11 A.M. and 7 P.M., Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 7. Song service Friday at 7 P.M., Preaching at Pullierton Sundays at 2 P.M. ST. MICHAEL'S (Episcopal) CHURCH—Rev F.J. Myndard, pastor, Services every Sunday at 7:30 P.M. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH—On Philadelphia street, Sunday school at 10 A.M., Services at 11 A.M. and 7:30 P.M., Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7:30 P.M., D.O. CHAMBERLAYNE, Pastor. GERMAN EVANGELICAL CHURCH—Services every Sunday at 3 P.M., Rev J.M. Schuartia, Pastor. ST. BONIFACE CATHOLIC CHURCH—Services every Sunday morning and evening, Rev P. Storyteller, pastor. The Verdict Unanimous. W. D. Sall, druggiat, Bippus, Ind., testifies: "I can recommend Electric Bitters as the very best remedy. Every bottle sold has given relief in every case. One man took six bottles, and was cured of rheumatism of 10 years' standing." Abraham Hare, druggiat, Bellville, Ohio, affirms: "The best selling medicine I have ever handled in my 20 years' experience, is Electric Bitters." Thousands of others have added their testimony, so that the verdict is unanimous that Electric Bitters do cure all diseases of the Liver, Kidneys or Blood. Only a half dollar a bottle at Wm. M. Higgins' drugstore. Carriage Painting. Now is the time to get your buggy painted. After the season at the seaside have your buggies repainted for the winter. Don't forget to call on S.A. Dennis before going elsewhere. A Woman's Discovery. "Another wonderful discovery has been made and that too by a lady in this county. Disease fastened its clutches upon her and for seven years she withstood its severest tests, but her vital organs were undermined and death seemed imminent. For three months she coughed incessantly and could not sleep. She bought of us a bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption and was so much relieved on taking the first dose that she slept all night and with one bottle has been miraculously cured. Her Lame is Mrs. Luther Lutz." Thus write W.C. Hamrick & Co., of Shelby, N.C. Get a free trial bottle at Wm. M. Higgins' drugstore. Bucklan's Arisaica Salve. 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 guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box For sale by Wm. M. Higgins. Consumpition Surely Curd. 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 to you. Colton... 5,656 Mound City... 975 Nahant... 1,890 Total for county... 292,180 If we may be allowed to count as Redlands district, the oranges shipped from Mound City, Nahant, and the direct shipments from San Bernardino that were grown here and shipped from Draw station although billed from San Bernardino, it will give us a total of 21,615 boxes, or almost 75 carloads. And it is just as fair and reasonable so to do as to count all oranges shipped from three stations in Riverside as River-side's. LOS ANGELES COUNTY. Station: Los Angeles... 23,412 Winthrop... 46,281 University... 300 Nadeau Park... 1,240 Ivy... 300 Vernondale... 40,940 Dodaworth... 13,008 West Glendale... 769 Tropico... 20,988 San Fernando... 853 Inglewood... 3,410 Alhamba... 39,596 San Gabriel... 24,442 Savannab... 14,363 Monte... 20 Puente... 1,006 Sprada... 905 Poinona... 16,100 Downey... 5,178 Norwalk... 5 Anaheim... 34,658 Orange... 16,946 Santa Ana... 17,919 Rivera... 31,310 Fulton Wells... 1,289 Los Nietos... 5,666 Whittier... 1,437 Tustin... 20,651 South Pasadena... 2,480 Raymond... 1,550 Passadena... 43,400 Lamanda Park... 15,500 Duarte... 29,140 Azusa... 11,160 Chapman... 3,720 Monrovia... 1,550 Claremont... 930 Glendora... 930 Total... 493,343 VENTURA COUNTY. Station: Santa Paula... 9,479 Camulos... 1,407 Total... 10,886 SUMMARY. San Bernardina county... 292,180 Los Angeles county... 493,343 Ventura county... 10,886 Total... 796,409 This giving us counting 286 boxes to the earlof of 20,000 pounds; 2,784 carloads as the shipmate of South California for the season of 1888-89. The San Bernardino oranges will average—to the grower—a trifle of over a box; the Los Angeles something less probably $1.50. If the growers all over South California averaged $1.75 per box then the value of the orange crop to the grower was $1,393,716.75. The consumer of course paid more than double this amount. From these figures it is easy to see where orange growing has been made a complete success from a business standpoint and we command these figures to those who desire to embark in the business as a business—Redlands Citrograph. Sensible Words About the Vine Disease. In his June report of this year Mr. Clarence Westmore, then chief viticultural officer, suggests that the name of the vine disease last year in the import telegrams to Chile is seventh. A very small portion of Chile includes merchandise in 1887 hardware. Of country hardware trade into Germany ourselves United States be unchained of the repress machinery tent of Blaine's oak of the Chilean Assistance by providing goods tersely thither He says: The trot do nothing these third German ones that not going no avail. How men in decay of oak nuts between States make memorable Chilean comments republic enough to tie to ole no avail. But he market for in a county of these a in American Chile pay on London be had at the fact that of Chile part to the seasports. Francisco can treat can be difficult line of scarce city. As soon way westward From that grow big which co Chaseade and make the eastern farmers on the chinook when they do When they Buckles's Arnica Salve. The best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Cornea, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box For sale by Wm. M. Higgins. Consumptives Surely Cured. 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 st., New York Avery and Everhardy's Lard comes in plain tin can. Buy no Lard, represented as ours, that is sold in stamped packages. Apl18tf Avery and Everhardy's Lard comes in plain tin can. Buy no Lard, represented as ours, that is sold in stamped packages. Apl18tf Notice. I will not be responsible for any debts contracted by any person whomsover on my account, without my written order. T. A. DARLING. Anahiem, Cal., Oct. 14, 1889. 4t Go to A. T. Wallop for best of maple syrup and sugar and rock candy syrup or any other make. jy2 Go to A. T. Wallop for fresh ranch butter. jy2 Ask your butchers and grocers for Avery & Everhardy's Home-made Lard. apl18ft 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. apl18tf Farmers, bring in your calves and get highest cash price at Avery & Everhardy's. Avery & Everhardy, the butchers, want all the calves and hogs that they can get. Farmers, bring them in and receive the highest market price for your stock. oct17tf Avery & Everhardy want hogs and calves, and they pay the market price. oct17tf $2 a box; the Los Angeles something less, probably $1.50. If the growers all over South California averaged $1.75 per box, then the value of the orange crop, to the grower, was $393,716.75. The consumer, of course, paid more than double this amount. From these figures it is easy to see where orange growing has been made a complete success from a business standpoint and we command these figures to those who desire to embark in the business as a business—Reilands Citrograph. Sensible Words About the Vine Disease. In his June report of this year Mr. Clarence Watmore, then chief viticultural officer, suggests that the name of the vine disease in Los Angeles and surrounding country should be properly called the Los Angeles vine disease. It is, he adds, confined to that country, and it is entirely proper to call the disease the Los Angeles disease. It is against this that we wish to object. Hardly any name could be less suitable. The disease did not originate in Los Angeles. It was first observed in Anaheim, in Orange county, and it spread from there to different places. It should more properly be called the Anaheim disease. But even of this we cannot approve. It is almost certain that the disease was imported to that place from Europe. We will have to deal with a foreign disease to find its name, and must hunt the records of the Mediterranean countries where the disease may yet be known or where it may have already spent its course. But, even temporarily, we object to placing a stigma upon Los Angeles, Anaheim, Santa Ana, or upon any other of the fair and beautiful towns of South California. How would we like some disease to be called the Fresho vine curl, the Woodland leaf-hopper, the Sonoma phylloxera, or the Napa vine blight. Such names are easily created, but they are very rarely obliterated, and only discarded with the greatest difficulty. Any place stigmatized by such a name will and must unduly suffer, and for many years to come most people would hesitate to plant vines in a country which has given its name to a terrible vine disease... On these grounds we object to the name. Perhaps in a very few years this bacterial disease will have spent its course, it will develop gradually into something less dangerous, vines will be replanted in the non-infected districts, and flourishing vineyards may very soon be men in the places of those now stricken. Indeed, no confident are the vineyard there that this will be the case, that they already talk of replanting. Why, then, if this will be the case, should we create a made that one never be gotten rid of, a name that will hardly injure less than the disease... NOTES. the last crop of money, we have been of boxes shipped several railroads, and troublethat one railroad and turn over at another stacredit for the shipapparent amount. both the Santa Pacific it is begreges are almost apartments by steamamption cannot an extravagant amount of the carloads of 20,000 boxes to the COUNTY. Boxes. 289,661 3,650 6,446 12,304 392 206 5,656 975 1,890 292,180 to count, as Redshipping shipped from the direct shipthat were grown Draw station alarmardino, it will boxes, or almost 75 fair and reasonoranges shipped verside as River- COUNTY. Boxes. itself, a name that will cause many to curse the originator: It is much better to find a name that will injure none, will compromise no one, and which will still be telling and easily understood. We propose for this disease, which we are sure will soon be checked, the name of the "vine plague." Like the red plague it is imported from the East; like the former it is caused by bacteria, and like the same it is likely to soon run its course to be forgotten again for perhaps hundreds of years, until a new combination of, to it, favorable circumstances may call it into existence. The "vine plague" will suggest at once a cause and remedies to be tried, whereas, the "Los Angeles disease," or any other name taken from locality, will refer to nothing except the locality, where, after all, the disease did not originate. — Presto Erpistor. Chile Leads the Way. The Pan-American Congress is yielding fruit before the expected harvest time. Chile anticipated its action by placing on the free list agricultural implements, mining machinery and tools, iron, steel and copper wire and pipes, telegraph and telephene instruments, steel rails, railway material and cars. Of all these goods the United States has a surplus for export, and Chile is a large importer. In the year 1887, which is the last year for which we have complete returns, the importations of machinery, railroad and telegraph supplies and hardware generally, to Chile amounted to $7,080,000—about one-seventh the total imports of the Republic. A very small proportion of this total came from this country. Our total exports to Chile in 1887 were only $2,062,000, and this included flour, kerosene and all classes of merchandise. Great Britain supplied Chile in 1887 with $2,055,000 of wrought-iron, hardware and machinery. Of course the mere repeal of the duties on hardware and machinery will not throw the trade into our hands. Great Britain and Germany will have the same advantage as ourselves, and so far as Europe and the United States are concerned the position will ing of what he had known the chinook to accomplish, Mr. Gongreve said this: "I have seen sight feet of snow—that is eight feet measured as it fall from time to time—go off the ground in twelve hours. That was the hardest winter I have ever known in Washington. Usually the chinooks are so frequent that the snow has no opportunity to accumulate. But as winter is lays nineteen days before melting. The farmers had not prepared for it and the cattle had a hard time getting through. There was an interesting exhibition of the instinct of the poor brutes. At the first sign of the chinook the old cows, which had been about to drop with hunger, could be seen staggering toward the top of the hills. They seemed to know that there the snow would malt faster and the grass be uncovered soonst. In eastern Washington you can see teams working in the fields every month in the winter. We have days which are cold and when the ground freezes to some depth, but one day's chinook will take all the frost out of the ground. You may not believe it, but I have seen six inches of frost go out of the ground in one hour." That is a pretty big story to tell farmer's back in the Mississippi valley, but it is true." Annaheim Abroad. The following extract is taken from the New York Evening Post of October 10th. The author is Henry T. Finck, who sometime ago was a visitor at the residence of his brother-in-law, Mr. Max Nebelning in this city; and who visited this section for the purpose of writing it up for New York papers: After taking in the sights of Los Angeles, including the palms and orange groves, the cable-car scenery and Chinatown, which have been often enough described, it will pay the tourist to devote a week or two to a round trip through that part of the State which lies south of Los Angeles, as far as San Diego and Tia Juana on the Mexican border. Take a ticket to Riveraide, via Orange, and stop over a day at Anaheim, which commands a specially view of the snow... last year for which we have complete returns, the importations of machinery, railroad and telegraph supplies and hardware generally, to Chile amounted to $7,080,000—about one-seventh the total imports of the Republic. A very small proportion of this total came from this country. Our total exports to Chile in 1867 were only $2,082,000, and this included flour, kerosene and all classes of merchandise. Great Britain supplied Chile in 1887 with $2,055,000 of wrought iron, hardware and machinery. Of course the mere repeal of the duties on hardware and machinery will not throw the trade into our hands. Great Britain and Germany will have the same advantage as ourselves, and so far as Europe and the United States are concerned the position will be unchanged. The only substantial effect of the repeal will not enable Chile to get her machinery and hardware cheaper to the extent of the duty that is abolished. Mr. Blaine's objective point, which is the capture of the Chilean market, can only be reached, as Assistant Secretary Batcheller remarks, by providing transportation for American goods. Mr. Batcheller puts the case so tersely that his words are worth repeating. He says: The trouble is in transportation. We can do nothing without some means of sending these things to their market. At present German and British steamers are the only ones that sail into Chile ports. They are not going to carry our produce to this market. We must have our own transportation in order to avail ourselves of this opportunity. This action of Chile will inspire activity, but, in order to accomplish anything, Congress must be prompt to pass measures granting aid to American steamers so as to build up American lines of transportation. It is a matter of transportation. If we have no transportation, all the concessions that may be made to us, such as this of Chile, are of no avail. How readily nay, anxious leading statesmen in Chile are to arrest the gradual decay of the once active interchange of products between their country and the United States may be learned from a perusal of the memorable message of President Pinto to the Chilean Congress on June 1, 1851, and of the comments thereon in the official paper of the republic. President Pinto was farsighted enough to realize that Chile ought, if possible, to effect her interchange of merchandise with this country in preference to Europe; but he realized the difficulty of finding a market for Chilean copper, wheat and wool in a country which is itself a large producer of these articles. He ascribed the falling off in American trade largely to the fact that Chile pays for her importations in exchange on London. New York exchange is not to be had at Valparaiso. This is mainly due to the fact that England is the chief consumer of Chile products; but it is also due in part to the want of regular steam communication between Valparaiso and the American seaports. If we could import into San Francisco the Chilean copper ores which we can treat here more economically than they can be treated at home, we should have no difficulty in obtaining return cargoes for a line of steamships, and there would be no scarcity of American exchanges. The Chinook As soon as you got into the Dakotas in the way westward you hear of "the chinooks." From that as you go westward the stories grow bigger. The chinook is a warm wind which comes from the Pacine, crosses the Cascade and the Rocky mountain ranges, and makes its genial influence felt as far as the eastern border of the Dakotas. The farmers on the prairies do not know whence the chinook cometh or whither it goeth, but they do know that it is a blessed reality. When the mercury is away down in last year for which we have complete returns, the importations of machinery, railroad and telegraph supplies and hardware generally, to Chile amounted to $7,080,000—about one-seventh the total imports of the Republic. A very small proportion of this total came from this country. Our total exports to Chile in 1867 were only $2,082,000, and this included flour, kerosene and all classes of merchandise. Great Britain supplied Chile in 1887 with $2,055,000 of wrought iron, hardware and machinery. Of course the mere repeal of the duties on hardware and machinery will not throw the trade into our hands. Great Britain and Germany will have the same advantage as ourselves, and so far as Europe and the United States are concerned the position will be unchanged. The only substantial effect of the repeal will not enable Chile to get her machinery and hardware cheaper to the extent of the duty that is abolished. Mr. Blaine's objective point, which is the capture of the Chilean market, can only be reached, as Assistant Secretary Batcheller remarks, by providing transportation for American goods. Mr. Batcheller puts the case so tersely that his words are worth repeating. He says: The trouble is in transportation. We can do nothing without some means of sending these things to their market. At present German and British steamers are the only ones that sail into Chile ports. They are not going to carry our produce to this market. We must have our own transportation in order to avail ourselves of this opportunity. This action of Chile will inspire activity, but, in order to accomplish anything, Congress must be prompt to pass measures granting aid to American steamers so as to build up American lines of transportation. It is a matter of transportation. If we have no transportation, all the concessions that may be made to us, such as this of Chile, are of no avail. How readily nay, anxious leading statesmen in Chile are to arrest the gradual decay of the once active interchange of products between their country and the United States may be learned from a perusal of the memorable message of President Pinto to the Chilean Congress on June 1, 1851, and of the comments thereon in the official paper of the republic. President Pinto was farsighted enough to realize that Chile ought, if possible, to effect her interchange of merchandise with this country in preference to Europe; but he realized the difficulty of finding a market for Chilean copper, wheat and wool in a country which is itself a large producer of these articles. He ascribed the falling off in American trade largely to the fact that Chile pays for her importations in exchange on London. New York exchange is not to be had at Valparaiso. This is mainly due to the fact that England is the chief consumer of Chile products; but it is also due in part to the want of regular steam communication between Valparaiso and the American seaports. If we could import into San Francisco the Chilean copper ores which we can treat here more economically than they can be treated at home, we should have no difficulty in obtaining return cargoes for a line of steamships, and there would be no scarcity of American exchanges. The frontier editor C. O. Ziegenfuss of the San Francisco Post contributes the followingecdote to the department entitled "Journal and Journalists," in his paper. When William N. Byers, the Colorado pioneer of journalism, first started in print the Rocky Mountain News he had a pretty tough time of it, and experienced lively enough to suit a Ute Indian agent. News was plentiful enough, and it was not generally supposed that the press would make any editorial attacks upon the citizens of Auraria, as Denver was then called; so one day when Byers found fault editorially with the killing of a Mexican by Charles Harrison, a gambler, the latter a friendly armed, gathered about and made an attack upon the log house occupied by The News. The editor and his reporters and type-setters were so surprised at the suddenness of the attack that they did not have time to make any resistance. Editor Byers was taken captive to Harrison's saloon, called the "Criterion." The crowd wanted to kill him on the spot, and knives and pistols were flourished in his face. Harrison had once been a Mason, and knew that Byers was a member of the fraternity, so under the pretense of taking him into a side room to talk he got him out of the place... The Chinook As soon as you got into the Dakotas in the way westward you hear of "the chinooks." From that as you go westward the stories grow bigger. The chinook is a warm wind which comes from the Pacific, crosses the Cascade and the Rocky mountain ranges, and makes its genial influence felt as far as the eastern border of the Dakotas. The farmers on the prairies do not know whence the chinook cometh or whither it goeth, but they do know that it is a blessed reality. When the mercury is away down in thirties below zero, so near the bulb that there is danger of its going out of sight, the eyes of the people of three of the four new States turn hopefully to the west. By and by there appears just above the western horizon a gray cloud, like floating mist, no larger than a man's hand, perhaps. That is a sure forerunner of the chinook. The cold may be intense; water courses may be frozen to the bottom; cattle may be perishing from hunger; the ground may be covered many inches deep with snow; existence may seem a burden to all things animate. Then the cloud appears. Twelve hours later, what transformation! There is the breath of spring in the air. The snow is going off. The cattle are browning on the bunchgrass. The couleurs are full of running water. Doors are ajar, windows are open, and everybody is out in the open air. The chinook has wrought the change. When you ask the Dakota about the blizzards he admits that they are severe, but as an offset he glories the chinook. In Montana the big stockman still holds to the theory that he can carry his herds through the winter without feeding if only chinooks are frequent enough. But in Washington on the big prairies between the Cascades and the Rockies, the most marvelous tales are told. In the closing hours of the constitutional convention at Washington, a delegate offered a resolution to effect that there be incorporated in the instrument a declaration that hatives of this new State be known hereafter as "chinookers." The appropriateness of the name, he argued, was found in the fact that chinook meant warm breath. He believed it was much better than the present custom of calling Washington people west of the Cascades "clam-eaters," and those sent "banchgrassers." S. G. Gongrove of Pomeroy is the department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic for Washington. He enjoys the distinction of being the only private elevated to that position. He came West from Ohio, where he was a prominent educator. Tell-