anaheim-gazette 1891-07-02

VOLUME XXI. LODGE MEETINGS. ANAHEIM LODGE, NO. 207, F. & A. M., hold regular meetings on the Monday or preceding the full moon in each month. Sojourning brethren in good standing are cordially invited to attend. W. M. McFADDEN, W. M. H. W. Chryxoweth, Secretary. ANAHEIM LODGE, NO. 199, I. O. O. F. REGULAR MEETINGS every Tuesday evening. Visiting others always welcome. OLIVER HILL, N. G. W. R. HARKER, Secretary. ANAHEIM LODGE, NO. 85, A. O. U. W. MEETINGS on the first and fourth Friday of every month. W. H. AVERY, M. W. T. S. GRINSHAW, Secretary. ORPHEUS LODGE, NO. 237, I. O. O. F., MEETS every Thursday at 8 P.M. at Old Fellow's Hall. ROBERT MENZEL, N. G. MAX NEELUNG, Secretary. ORDER CHOSEN FRIENDS MEETS THE FIRST and third Saturday evenings in each month at 8 o'clock. Old Fellow's Hall. CLARA MOSEMANS, Counsellor. A. L. LEWIN, Secretary. EVERGREEN COUNCIL, AMERICAN LEGION of Lourn.: Meet a second and fourth Wednesday of each month, at 8 P.M. Mrs. W. A. WITTE, Mrs. L. G. BAYES, Secretary. Commander. ANAHEIM COURT, I. O. F., MEETS SECOND and third Fridays of each month. S. O. WOOD, Financial Secretary. Chief Ranger. PROFESSIONAL CARDS DR. J. H. BULLARD, A. B., M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office and Residence, corner Hermine and Charires streets, near Planters' Hotel. OFFICE HOURS: 7 to 3:30 a.m.; 12 to 1:30, and 6 to 7:30 p.m. Business Chance. MY HOUSE and STORE For Sale. CHARLES PAMPERL MISCELLANEOUS. Commercial (Corner Center and Lemon St) J. J. EVERHARTY, - PR First-class Accommodations for Fa THE COMMERCIAL, FORMERLY KNOW them Hotel, has been thoroughly renovated in first-class style. A share of the public pa solicited. SAMPLE ROOMS ATTACH The Finest of Wines, Liquors and Cigars DUBLIN STOUT, PALE ALE, HAL Fashions Luxury Stables in connection with Hotel furnished with or without drivers. CABINETS---$3.50--- Full Figure $3 50 an AME QUALITY WORK GUARANTED $5 WORK. 111 East Fourth Street. A. B., M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office and Residence, corner Hermine and Charires streets, near Planters' Hotel. OFFICE HOURS: 7 to 3:30 a.m.; 12 to 1:30, and 6 to 7:30 p.m. Business Chance MY HOUSE and STORE For Sale. CHARLES PAMPERL ...Dealer in... HARDWARE, CROCKERY, and HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS Los Angeles street, Anaheim. CHAS. SCHINDLER, CONTRACTOR and BUILDER. ANAHEIM, - CALIFORNIA. GEORGE BAUER BOOT AND SHOE MAKER. Center street... Anaheim. Making and repairing at the lowest cash price. All orders promptly attended to. All work guaranteed. L. GUNTHER, PIONEER BOOT & SHOE MAKER. Corner Adele and Los Angeles streets. H. P. LARSEN, CONTRACTOR & BUILDER. Estimates given. Contracts made and do a general Jobbing Business. CENTER STREET, - ANAHEIM. FOX & BUTLER, City Barber Shop. FOR A FIRST-CLASS SHAVE! HOT AND COLD BATHS. FRANTZ'S BARBER SHOP. First-Class Style. BATHS, - 25 Cts. PLEASE GIVE ME A CALL. W. A. FRANTZ, Prop., Center Street. C. C. HAMILTON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Rooms 1, 2 and 3. Savings Bank Building. SANTA ANA, CAL. H. W. CHYNOWETH, Attorney-At-Law. Metz Block, Cor. Center and Los Angeles streets. Real Property Law a Specialty. CABINETS---$3.50--- Full Figure $3 50 an AME QUALITY WORK GUARANTEE $5 WORK. 111 East Fourth Street. We Are Not We are Selling Out at W Cost. Our Prices EVERYTHING :: Not Giving Goods Away, at Cost. Plain English Nuff GOLDEN EAGLE CLOTHES Under new United States H S. E. Corner Main and Reque LOS ANGELES, CAL. Ed. B. Webster, Manager IF :- YOU :- V Job Work of an Come : to : the : Gazet A Large Assortment of New T C. C. HAMILTON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Rooms 1, 2 and 3. Savings Bank Building. SANTA ANA, CAL. H. W. CHYNOWETH, Attorney-At-Law. Metz Block, Cor. Center and Los Angeles streets. Real Property Law a Specialty. ANAHEIM, CAL. F. BACKS, UNDERTAKER. And Dealer in FURNITURE. Wall Paper, Cornices, Window Shades, Picture Frames, Upholstery Goods, Paints, Oils and Glass. Sewing Machine Supplies, Etc. Corner Los Angeles and Chartres Streets. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Center street. ANAheim, Cal. Special attention given to PROBATE matters. S. O. WOOD, ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER, ANAheim, CAL. VICTOR MONTGOMERY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. SANTA ANA, CAL. Rooms—No.4, 5 and 6, Commercial-Bank Building. BOSTON BAKERY. J. KREISS, PROP, Fresh Bread Delivered to all parts of Anaheim and vicinity. Los Angeles St. City Stables, Center Street (Opposite Kronger's Block), ANAHEIM A. L. Lewis & Co. Proprietors. THESE STABLES ARE THE BEST VENTILATED and most commodious in the town, and special atention will be paid to Boarding and Grooming horses. The charge in all cases will be reasonable. Single and Double Teams Furnished at short notice, and careful drivers, familiar with the country, supplied when required. The attration of the public is respectfully solicited. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1891. MISCELLANEOUS. Commercial Hotel. (For Center and Lemon Streets) ARTY, - PROPRIETOR. Modations for Families & Tourists FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE ANAn thoroughly renovated, and will be conducted share of the public patronage is respectfully ROOMS ATTACHED TO HOTEL. Luigors and Cigars T, PALE ALE, HALF-AND-HALF. connection with Hotel. First-class turn-outs without drivers. Horses bought and sold. $3.50---CABINETS. $3.50 and Bust $4. WORK GUARANTEED AS OUR FORMER The Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. SHISCRIPTION, - $2 Per Year. Six months. Three months. 75 Payable invariably in advance. Transient Advertising. Space One square..... Two squares..... Three squares..... Four squares..... 1 week 2 weeks 3 weeks 4 weeks $1.00 $1.25 $1.75 $2.00 $2.00 $2.50 $3.00 $3.50 $4.00 Customary Reductions on above rates will be made on advertisements running for longer periods. Usual discounts on large advertisements. The Gazette is issued every Thursday morning, and sent to subscribers by the early mail. It is delivered by cain Anaheim on the morning of publication. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter. Items of news and correspondence on all live 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. Ordered Ten Shot to Death. General John McNeil, who dropped dead in St. Louis a few days ago, was known as the "Butcher of Palmyra," a name given for his slaughter of prisoners at Palmyra, Mo., in 1862. He was born in Halfax, Nova Scotia, in 1814, learned the hatter's trade in Boston, was in business in New York, and came West to St. Louis. At the breaking out of the war he responded to the call for troops, and was elected colonel of a regiment of the reserve corps. In 1862 he was placed in command of a cavalry regiment and ordered to Northeast Missouri to operate against Sterling Price. In October, 1862, Andrem Alman was taken prisoner and carried off by a band of rebel guerrillas. Colonel McNeil arrested ten of the most important people of Palmyra, and. NANCE'S APPEARANCE HE TALKS ON IRRIGATION, AND THE DISTRICTS TO INDORSE CHOICE OF AN ENGINEER ATTORNEY. J. W. Nance of Perris, San Diego President of the State Association of tion Distress, has addressed a circular Presidents and Boards of Directors various irrigation districts, in which it might be needless to explain the necessity that exists for establish more thorough and general understand to the facts on which rest the stalk the several irrigation districts and those of their bonds. "I have it on the best authority chief reason why bonds of these district weak in the money market is because fairs of the districts have thus far been sent to the financial world wholly by parte and what are thought by finance to be prejudiced statements in each it." "An irrigation district enterprise is less venture on the part of the co-property owners of the district, represented by the District Board of Directors, as though the projects were a scheme part of an incorporated company for water or lands; and is to be managed same principles and must ultimately on its intrinsic merits. Each district doubles less has merit, but some may radical and fatal defects as well." "Securities based on this, the devel- class of venture, are judged of in five circles (in the other communities of tha and Europe especially) on the report professional experts or specialists, w generally known, are thoroughly well ed for and are recognized as having reputations, and consequently their bu directy at stake." "Each of our irrigation districts has sure, its engineers and its attorneys, in the respective district authorities h due confidence. But we must re- We Not Fakirs! Calling Out at Wholesale Cost. Prices Talk. THING ::- GOES. Goods Away, But Selling at Cost. English! Nuff Said! EAGLE CLOTHING CO. New United States Hotel. Main and Requena Streets. OS ANGELES, CAL. Oster, Manager. OU ::- WANT ark of any Kind the : Gazette : Office. ment of New Type on Hand. "Butcher of Palmyra," a name given for his slaughter of prisoners at Palmyra, Mo., in 1862. He was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1814, learned the hatter's trade in Beeston, was in business in New York, and came West to St. Louis. At the breaking out of the war he responded to the call for troops, and was elected colonel of a regiment of the reserve corps. In 1862 he was placed in command of a cavalry regiment and ordered to Northeast Missouri to operate against Sterling Price. In October, 1862, Andrem Alman was taken prisoner and carried off by a band of rebels guerrillas. Colonel McNeil arrested ten of the most important people of Palmyra, and without trial of any kind, ordered them shot to death. One of these victims was a lad about seventeen years old, and all of them were non-combatants. The stain of this atrocity clung to him all his life, though he claimed to be acting under orders from General Halleck and General Schofield. When news of this bloody affair reached Richmond ten Federal colonels were ordered held as hostages, and a demand was made on the United States for the surrender to the Confederacy of McNeil to be tried for human warfare. He was never given up, and the colonels were released. McNeil served through the war and fought with distinction, but was always under the cloud of the Palmyra butchery. Since the war McNeil has been in politics, but never elected to any office, though often a candidate. He has held many appointive offices, however. Corn at an Unusual Price. The deficiency in the corn crops of Guatemala and the other Central American republics has led to a considerable increase in the amount of orders for corn from those States in the local markets. The failure is due, perhaps, to natural causes, perhaps to the land being left uncultivated during the progress of the war between Guatemala and San Salvador last year. The local market has also been, to some extent, cornered by H. Dutard, who has obtained control of the majority of the corn grown in the southern part of the State. The price has been gradually advanced, until it stands to-day at an unprecedented figure, white corn fetching $2 15 and yellow $1 89 to $1 90. These prices will enable corn from the North Central States to be brought into paying competition, so that the limit has probably been reached.—S. F. Call, June 19. Changes of Climate Kill more people than is generally known. Particularly is this the case in instances where the constitution is delicate, and among our immigrant population seeking new homes in those portions of the West, and where material and typhoid fevers prevail at certain seasons of the year. The best preparative for a change of climate or of disease and water which change necessitates, is hostetter's stomach Biltens, which not only fortifies the system against malaria, a variable temperature, damp, and the debilitating effects of tropical heat, but is also the leading remedy for constipation, dyspepsia, liver complaint, bodily troubles specially apt to attack emigrants and visitors to regions near the equator, mariners and tourists. Whether used as a safeguard by sea voyagers by landers or of agriculturists in heavily populated districts, this fine specific has elicited the most favorable testimony. In a Bad Fix. Niuncane called in on Mike Leary's oldest boy, Tim, one day and found that line broth of a boy pale about the gills, losing flesh and the picture of despair. Howly Moses, Tim, its murtherin' ill ye're lukin! Pwat in the name av th' kraken's the matter!" YOU WANT work of any Kind the : Gazette : Office. Executed with Neatness and and at Lowest Rates. MERCHANT TAILOR. Need a complete assortment of GMO Goods of latest styles which the attention of the citiand vicinity is directed. from - $25 up. from - $6 up. On is cordially extended there examine this stock. FRED CRIST BLACKSMITHING AND WAGONWORK. All Kinds of Jobbing. HORSESHOEING A SPECIALTY. Agent for the Bradley Manufacturing Company, dealer of all kinds of Agricultural Implements, Farming Utensis, Plows, Harrows, Etc. Successor to, E. A. WHITE. An invitation is extended to my customers and the public generally to call and examine my stock. JOHN SCHAUMAN In a Bad Fix. Finucane called in on Mike Leary's oldest boy, Tim, one day and found that fine broth of a boy pale about the gills, losing flesh and the picture of despair. "Howly Moses, Tim, its murtherin' ill ye're lukin'! Fwat in the name av th' kraken's the matter!" "Finucane!" "Yis." "Ye know that blatherin's spalpeen av a Widdy Costigan's second husband's stepson, Jamie?" "That I do." "He bet me a dollar to a pint I couldn't sohwally an igg without br'akin' th' shell av it." "Naw!" "Yis." "Did ye do it?" "I did." "Then what's ailin' yet!" "It's doon there. If I joomp I'll br'ak it and cut me stummick wid th' shell. If I kape quiet the thing'll hatch out, an' I'll have a Shanghai roosher a clawin' me insides." Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When she had Children, she gave them Castoria. Miss Cora Hounson wishes to announce that she is prepared to take views. Satisfaction guaranteed. All orders left at Dr. Hunt's Pharmacy, Anaheim, or with Ford & Evans of Fullerton, will receive prompt attention. Buy and recommend Farmers' Healing Liniment because it is a genuine healin- remedy. For sale by W. M. Higgins, drug gist, Anaheim, Cal. Farmers' Healing Liniment is a sure cure for piles. For sale by W. M. Higgins, drug gist, Anaheim, Cal. For chafing, itching, poison oak, sunburn; scalds, burns, etc., use Farmers' Healing Liniment. For sale by W. M. Higgins, drug gist, Anaheim, Cal. As matters now stand the failure in one district in this State, from any one news of a serious attack on any one district communicated abroad will very easily hurt the credit of all the districts. We have some authoritative statements for district to prevent this. "We must uphold the system in way possible, whether we are out of woods in the initiatory sale of bonds or we owe it to districts yet to come for us owe it to the State; we owe it those have supported us before the public; owe it to the landowners within the tricts, because high credit for the system will bring population to the district enhance land values and make prudent while low district credit means jeopardize." Therefore, in order to expedite work and be able to suggest to the several trust boards some definite line of action lay before them the name of an enwhom the controllers of financial services in San Francisco would vouch for as highest professional and personal status I, acting as President of your State Administration of Irrigation Districts, after testing sentiment and receiving suggestions from leading bankers of San Francisco, has ceased in selecting William Ham B consulting engineer and Wilson & Will attorneys. These gentlemen have been proved by the bankers and capitalists of Francisco. "It is needless for me to tell the majority of irrigators of California who Hall is. I am credibly informed that good standing abroad can give some best of references in New York London, and that on his reports several enterprises and blocks of securities been promptly placed within the past. The indorsement given him by the San Cisco financiers ought to render his favor report worth very many times its cost district. On the other hand, should I port be unfavorable on a district, thenerty owners therein will probably have saved from disaster, and, moreover, good and sound district in the State have been saved from the depressing ence of the continued public attacks on unsound, and from general harm to the which would surely come should the unkeep on to its failure. Although the Wright Act, as well supplemental Act of 1889, providing for firmation proceedings, have been fully tained by the Supreme Court of this year everybody does not know even their real fact. Much less is it known to whose good opinions we ought to have confirmatory proceedings have been any given district, or that the court acts jurisdiction, or that the decrees was made in form. Therefore, adopting the sugars contained in the reply I received from gentlemen addressed on the subject engineer, and canvassing the sentiment..." JULY 2, 1891. ANCE'S APPEAL. BASKS ON IRRIGATION, AND ASKS DISTRICTS TO INDORSE HIS PRIOR OF AN ENGINEER AND CORNERY. Nance of Perris, San Diego county, of the State Association of Irrigation, has addressed a circular to the states and Boards of Directors of the irrigation districts, in which he says: "It be needless to explain to you that exists for establishing a rough and general understanding as states on which rest the stability of total irrigation districts and the value bonds." it is on the best authority that a son why bonds of these districts are the money market is because the affrican districts have thus far been prejudiced statements in each instance. Irrigation district enterprise is a busisure on the part of the combined owners of the district, represented District Board of Directors, as much as the projects were a scheme on the incorporated company for selling lands, and is to be managed by the ciencies and must ultimately stand primarily merits. Each district project is merit, but some may have and fatal defects as well. ities based on this, the development venture, are judged of in financial in other communities of the East ope especially) on the reports of experts or specialists, who are known, are thoroughly well controlled are recognized as having their nons, and consequently their business, at stake. Of our irrigation districts has, to be engineers and its attorneys, in whom objective district authorities have all aidence. But we must remember them, I found that Messrs. Wilson & Wilson were an available firm of attorneys to employ to report on the organization and confirmation proceedings for each district. "In conclusion, I counsel you not to allow a wrong impression to get abroad as to the nature of this proposed arrangement. There must be no announcement that the banks or the bank presidents or managers of the banks have consented to act as a committee for the purpose of having the examinations made, nor that they have named an engineer and an attorney for that purpose. The gentlemen at the head of the leading banks, in their personal capacities, have simply consented in order to act as references for the experts' names, certify to their worthiness and ability. The Examiner says: The conference of a few weeks ago between the representatives of the irrigation districts and the bankers and financial authorities of the city has led to a first practical step toward bringing irrigation bonds into favor. The bankers and financial men objected to indorsing the bonds because it would be necessary to investigate in the case of each district whether the bonds were valid and the district would be able to pay them. The President of the State Board of Irrigation Districts now announces that a single engineer and attorney, who have the confidence of capitalists, will oversee the work of the engineers and attorneys of the local boards. The object of this is to give assurance that the plans are practicable and can be accomplished for the sum calculated, and that the district has been organized and the bonds issued in strict compliance with the law. The steps taken should clear away most of the difficulties that lie in the way of disposing of irrigation bonds. If the banks and capitalists can be assured that the bonds issued by any given district will be paid, interest and principal, as stated on their face, there will be little difficulty in floating the bonds of that particular district. There is no longer doubt of the validity of the irrigation act. Successive decisions of the Supreme Court, with changing membership, place it on as firm a footing as any law on lists in the United States navy. The Senior Rear Admiral dies the blue flag with two stars, the next in rank the red, the third the white flag. Admiral Kimberly is Rear Admiral of the blue in our navy. Admiral Gherardi's is Admiral of the red, and Admiral Braine, who retires so soon, and his juniors are admirals of the white. When only junior admirals are together Admiral Braine dies the blue, but let Admiral Gherardi's ship appear and down goes the blue to be succeeded by the red, while Admiral Gherardi vessel flaunts the blue. And then let Admiral Kimberly happen along; down came the blue and the red, to be succeeded by the red and the white; and behold, it is Admiral Kimberly's craft that displays the white-starred blue ensign. Just this happened at the Washington Centennial, two years ago, when the junior admiral was first on the ground, and had, unwillingly it seemed, to go down one peg every time a senior appeared and broke his ensign at his fore. Maximilian's Memory. A dispatch from the city of Mexico to the Globe-Democrat, under date of June 19th, says: At 10 o'clock this morning the funeral services that are annually held in San Fernando Church in honor of Maximilian, Mejia and Miramon, who were executed at Cerro de Las Campanas, near Queretaro, twenty-four years ago to day, were commenced by the intoning of mass before a congregation composed principally of aristocratic Mexico. The church was not decorated ostentationally. On the contrary, every ornamentation was of a somber hue and in good taste with the services that were celebrated there. In the Latin cross formed by the naves was raised the sopulchral monument composed of three large platforms forming three distinct levels concentrically arranged, and each rising above the other in pyramidal form. This catafalque was covered with black velvet, fringed with gold, and upon its extreme height was placed the symbol of redemption. On one side were seen the golden italic letters M. M. M.-Maximilian, Miramon and Mejia. The presbytery and naves were adorned with hangings of black, as were also other parts of the temple, and there were of our irrigation districts has, to be engineers and its attorneys, in whom district authorities have all evidence. But we must remember districts are many, that the experts serving and of law who have participated in the work of design and advised in the proceeding of organization are several for each cannot expect even our warmest amongst the bankers to keep posted standing, ability and trustworthiness these experts, and be prepared to all of them or of enterprises based on reports, when they know nothing of what appeared to for specific information any district. Yet the standing securities abroad depends and ever upon advices through interneutral channels from here. advisability of centering upon some degree of wide and good reputa and attorney of highest standing to reabore of the many heretofore enforcing several districts, for the informational public, has been suggested and urged upon, a number district representatives by managers leading banks of San Francisco quite often. It was plain intimated that if someone a long step would have been rendered it possible for these gentlemen us without compromising the war which they preside. fight against misunderstandingance of our organizations and our own been made by district representat San Francisco, and much good has to the cause of district irrigation; have not reached the goal where we are. Our bonds, which, in the case districts at least, should command a share with difficulty, and in small being placed at 90 cents. district authorities in this State have raised as well as official business duty in this matter. It is not alone sets whose bonds are yet to be sold concerned in this. When your seize gone to the world it is your own creditors, as well as yourselves taxpayers, to uphold them. To all the bonds of a district is not to permanently established its credit, and have done all that its authorities really bound to do to uphold the measure it has secured. matters now stand the failure of any act in this State, from any cause, or serious attack on any one district, created abroad will vary seriously credit of all the districts. We must authoritative statements for each to prevent this. must uphold the system in everyIBLE, whether we are out of the initiatory sale of bonds or not, to districts yet to come forward; to the State; we owe it those who reported us before the public; and we are laudowners within the disease high credit for the district will bring population to the districts, fraud values and make prosperity, assurance that the plans are practicable and can be accomplished for the sum calculated, and that the district has been organized and the bonds issued in strict compliance with the law. The steps taken should clear away most of the difficulties that lie in the way of disposing of irrigation bonds. If the banks and capitalists can be assured that the bonds issued by any given district will be paid, interest and principal, as stated on their face, there will be little difficulty in floating the bonds of that particular district. There is no longer doubt of the validity of the irrigation act. Successive decisions of the Supreme Court, with changing membership, place it on as firm a footing as any law on the statute books. If the district is organized in strict compliance with the law the bonds issued by it are secured by the property in the district as much as county bonds are secured by the property in the county. The bonds once pronounced legal in form, the question arises whether the plans for irrigation are feasible and can be carried out for the amount to be raised. One of the capitalists at the recent meeting asked what would be their security in case they should buy the bonds and it should be found that the works could not be built for the money. The reply was that the property of the district would be valuable enough to pay for the bonds even if the works failed. Yet the objection was a serious one, and it is probable that some difficulty would be found in collecting interest and principal in such cases if the bonded indebtedness was near the assessed valuation of the property of the district. To settle the doubts of capitalists so far as possible the Board of Irrigation Districts have named William Ham Hall as the consulting engineer to report on the plans and estimates of the various districts, and the firm Wilson & Wilson to report on the legal questions in the same manner. If this plan is accepted by the Directors of the various districts the way will be open to increase largely the confidence in the irrigation bonds. The districts will serve their own interest by promptly taking advantage of the arrangements thus made for them. These points settled they will have only to show that the property in the district will be able to support the bonded indebtedness. No chance should be lost to secure and confirm the confidence of capitalists in these important enterprises. The Post says: A special committee of members of the State Board of Trade has investigated the value and validity of bonds issued by irrigation districts organized under the Wright law. The committee has made its report—a very favorable one to the issuance of these bonds. It is but a few months ago when these bonds were regarded by capitalists in this city as of doubtful value and validity. The issuers found a difficulty in selling the bonds in foreign markets without endorsement from San Francisco bankers. They attacked the business men of this city with a vigor that proved their determination to secure that investigation which would establish forever the value and validity of the bonds. Their success has been a sweeping one, and they are to be congratulated upon their persistence and victory. The greatest barrier to the sale of the bonds having been removed, the increase of acreage under irrigation must continue until every section of the State requiring artificial means of water supply will be brought under the beneficial operations of the Wright act. This satisfactory enterprise may well be regarded as one of the greatest advantages to the successful development of the resources of California, and influence will extend to this city in The church was not decorated ostentatiously. On contrary, every ornamentation was of a somber hue and in good taste with the services that were celebrated there. In The Latin cross formed by the naves was raised on suspical monument composed of three large platforms forming three distinct levels concentrically arranged, and each rising above other in pyramidal form. This catafalque was covered with black velvet, fringed with gold, and upon its extreme height was placed the symbol of redemption. On one side were seen the golden italic letters M. M. M.-Maximilian, Miramon and Mejia. The presbytery and naves adored with hangings of black, as were also other parts of the temple, and there were many plants and wreaths. Fray Isidro Comacio officited at the ceremonies, assisted by Frays Basso Ochitrian and Francisco Vecine. The grand orchestra was led by Sr. Clemente Menesses, and the music was of the most solon nature. All the gentlemen present bore candles in their hands, and the catafalque was incensed three times. The services were concluded about noon, and were both impressive and solemn. A Vienna dispatch of the same date says The Emperor of Austria spent the day in seclusion, it being twenty-four anniversary of the death of his late brother, Friedrich Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, who was executed by shooting at Queretaro. The day is not observed as one of general mourning, but the Emperor always devotes a portion of it to retirement and prayer. As a blow to his affections, the fate of Maximilian is said to have been second only to the suicide of Rudolph. The subject of a renewal of diplomatic relations between Mexico and Austria was recently broached in Vienna through the Colombian representative in that city, and the Imperial Ministry was strongly inclined to favor the proposition on account ofthe growing commercial interests both of Austria and Mexico. The Emperor himself, however, put a firm veto to the subject and showed bythe emphasis of his action that he never would forgive Mexico forthe death of his brother. The probability is that as long as Francis Joseph lives there will be no direct diplomatic intercourse between Austria and Mexico. With his death, however,the personal objections will disappear, as the crown will then go to a nephew to whomthe death of Maximilian will be a matter of history only. Going to FireS Asleep. Fireman Gustave Nagel of 70 First avenue has been an all-round utility man at 25 Engine's house in Fifth street for nearly six years. He has just been made assistant foreman. One night he went to his cot as usual, fell sleep and dreamed furiously. His cot is only two feet fromthe sideofthe holein floor throughwhichthe sliding-pole passes.Ontheothersideofthehole sleptthe engine driver. About 2:30 in following morning Fireman Finland was standing nearthe door ofthe engine-house looking overthe listof firemen on duty. Oneofthe horses became restless,and finally gottohis feetwithascrambleanda clatter.Fireland heardafterwarda soundofa footstep upatramp,andbeforehado timetolookupNagelshotpassedhimjustgrazinghisshoulder,andstruckflatonthe flooronhisbackandonthebackofhishead. Fireman Finland and Fitzpatrick picked up Nagel,whowas apparently lifeless,and carried himtoa benchwherehewasrestoredtoconsciousness.Hewas takentoBellevueHospital. Dr.Bensonfound.onexamination,thatapieceofoneofthevertebratehadbeenchippedoff.Nagel'sheadwascutopen-inasevere matters now stand the failure of any act in this State, from any cause, or serious attack on any one district, located abroad will very seriously credit all the districts. We must authoritative statements for each to prevent this. must uphold the system in every viable, whether we are out of the initiatory sale of bonds or not, to districts yet to come forward; to the State; we owe it those who reported us before the public; and we are the landowners within the district will bring population to the districts, land values and make prosperity, new district credit means just the before, in order to expedite matters able to suggest to the several disks some definite line of action, and them the name of an engineer the controllers of financial sentiment francisco would vouch for as of the professional and personal standing, as President of your State Association Districts, after testing the and receiving suggestions from the bankers of San Francisco, have succeeded William Ham Hall as augurer and Wilson & Wilson as Those gentlemen have been appointed the bankers and capitalists of San needless for me to tell the great irrigators of California who Mr. I am credibly informed that he has indeed abroad, can give some of the references in New York and in mind that on his reports several large and blocks of securities have nearly placed within the past year. Sentiment given him by the San Francisco ought to render his favorable with very many times its cost to any On the other hand, should his refravorable on a district, the propos therain will probably have been disaster, and, moreover, every sound district in the State will saved from the depressing influence continued public attacks on the land from general harm to the causeuld surely come should the unsound failure. through the Wright Act, as well as the final Act of 1889, providing for con- proceedings, have been fully sus- the Supreme Court of this State, body does not know even this gen- Much less is it known to those opinions we ought to have, when our proceedings have been had in district, or that the court acquired or that the decree was regular Therefore, adopting the suggestion in the reply I received from the subject on the subject of an and canvassing the sentiment among They attacked the business men of this city with a vigor that proved their determination to secure forever the value and validity of the bonds. Their success has been a sweeping one, and they are to be congratulated upon their persistence and victory. The greatest barrier to the sale of the bonds having been removed, the increase of acreage under irrigation must continue until every section of the State requiring artificial means of water supply will be brought under the beneficent operations of the Wright act. This satisfactory enterprise may well be regarded as one of the greatest advantages to the successful development of the resources of California, and the influence will extend to this city in a proportion which will be felt in a most liberal manner more and more every year. The persistent endeavor to place the irrigation bonds in a good marketable condition has been so far successful that the struggle has narrowed down to the one effort to secure the approval and acceptance of every one of the irrigation districts of the engineer and attorneys chosen by the President of the State Association of Irrigation districts to fill the positions of official investigations of the value of the water supply and the validity of the bonds. It is impossible to conceive of any reason why the irrigation districts should not be a unit on the matter of the approval and acceptance of Mr. Nance's choice of officials, because there is everything to gain by prompt acquiescence and much to lose by partial antagonism. The struggle to secure recognition of the value of the bonds has been almost heroic, and the leaders are worthy of admiration and respect of whole States for the success they have achieved. They have shown too much intelligence in their fight to warrant any doubt about their ability to unite all the districts in approval of their last and most effective stroke of policy. The Chronicle says: The irrigationists show their confidence in the value of the securities offered by them when they boldly challenge the bankers of San Francisco to point out what defects, if any, exist in the district banks offered for sale. It is worth noting that while many questions worthy of cautious men were asked by the bankers none of them indicated more than a desire for information. In other words, the moneyed men of San Francisco, by their representative bankers, virtually admitted that the bonds were all right. Admiral's Colors. When we read that Hon. John Bying, admiral of the blue, was shot on his own quarterdeck by sentence of court-martial we think after the first feeling of pity that his rank was a queer one—admiral of the blue! What did it mean? It was 130 years ago that he was executed; of course the rank doesn't exist now, and, any way, it was an English rank; history will explain it. But the rank does exist now, and what is more, it ex- Henry Jessen, proprietor of the Santa Ana marble works, begs leave to inform the public that he has lately received an invoice of monumentes; very fine designs in Italian marble, Scotch, Swede and Barre granite. Call at his yard and be convinced. He defines competition. All work guaranteed. Respectfully, Poultry raisers complain of their chickens and turkeys dying of swelled head or roup. Farmers' Healing Liniment is guaranteed to cure this. For sale by W. M. Higgins, druggist, Anaheim, Cal.