anaheim-gazette 1891-11-12

VOLUME XXII. LODGE MEETINGS. ANAHEIM LODGE, NO. 207, F. & A. M., hold regular meetings on the Monday of 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. CHYNOWETH, Secretary. ANAHEIM LODGE, NO. 190, I. O. O. F. REGULAR meetings every Tuesday evening. Visiting others always welcome. E. A. CHAMPLIN, N. O. W. R. HARKER, Secretary. ANAHEIM LODGE, NO. 55, A. O. U. W. MEETINGS on the first and fourth Friday of every month. W. H. AVERY, M. W. T. S. GRIMSHAW, Secretary. ORDER CHOSEN FRIENDS MEETS THE FIRST and third Saturday evenings in each month at 8 o'clock. Odd Fellows Hall. MRS. EMMA SEARLE, Councillor. A. L. Lewis, Secretary. EVERGREEN COUNCIL, AMERICAN LEAGON of Honor. Meets first and last Wednesday of each month, at S.P.M. MRS. E. A. JAMES, Mrs. L. G. BATZ, Secretary. PROFESSIONAL CARDS DR. J. H. BULLARD, A. B., M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office and Residence, corner Hermine and Chartres streets, near Planters' Hotel. OFFICE HOURS: 7 to 8:30 a.m.; 12 to 1:30, and 6 to 7:30 p.m. H. W. CHYNOWETH, Attorney-At-Law. Metz Block, Cor. Center and Los Angeles streets. Real Property Law a Specialty. ANAHEIM, CAL. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Center street, Anahelm, Cal Special attention given to PROBATE matters. MISCELLANEOUS. Commercial Hotel (Corner Center and Lemon Streets) J. J. EVERHARTY, - PROPRIETORY The commercial, formerly known as Theheim Hotel, has been thoroughly renovated, and will be furnished with or without drivers. Horses bougainvillea. Cash! Cash!! Cash! Is THE POWER that Makes TIME? I am determined to sell ONLY! I INTEND TO BUY FOR MY AND SELL FOR IT, H. W. CHYNOWETH, Attorney-At-Law. Metz Block, Cor. Center and Los Angeles streets. Real Property Law a Specialty. ANAHEIM, CAL. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Center street, Anaheim, Cal. Special attention given to PROBATE matters. C. C. HAMILTON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Rooms 1, 2 and 3, Savings Bank Building. SANTA ANA, CAL. S. O. WOOD, ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER, ANAHEIM, CAL. H. P. LARSEN, CONTRACTOR & BUILDER. Estimates given, Contracts made and do a general Jobbing Business. CENTER 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. FRANK FOX, City Barber Shop. FOR A FIRST-CLASS SHAVE! HOT AND COLD BATHS. H. A. McWILLIAMS. CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Office and shop, first door south of Ferdinand Backs' Furniture Store. Los Angeles street, Anaheim. F. BACKS, IS THE POWER that makes I am determined to sell ONLY! I INTEND TO BUY FOR AND SELL FOR IT, AND GIVE MY CUSTOMERS THE AND KEEP THE MONEY RO Come and See What Cash Will CHEESEMASTORE ON BROADWEST Anaheim. F. CRIST, MERCHANT T Just received a complete assortment of fall and winter Goods of lace and fabrics, to which the attention zens of Anaheim and vicinity is dire. Suits to order from Pants to order from An invitation is cordially ex public to call and examine this stock. T. J. F. BOE Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Wines, Liquors and C KEEPS ALWAYS ON HAND A COMPLETE ST Of the Finest Wines, Liquors and CIGARENTES AND LIQUORS BY THE KEG, GALLON OR BOTTLE Orders by Mail Promptly Attend H. A. McWILLIAMS. CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Office and shop, first door south of Ferdinand Backs' Furniture Store. Los Angeles street, Anaheim. 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. J.M.Griffith Company (A Corporation) LUMBER DEALERS (Near Railroad Depot) ANAHEIM. Keep constantly on hand Doors, Blinds, Windows, MOULDINGS. Posts, Shakes, Shingles, LATH, HAIR, PLASTER OF PARIS. ANAHEIM GRIST MILLS OPERATING ON Wednesdays and Saturdays of each week. Grain, Feed, Meal, Etc., of all varieties. Corn helled and shipped. W. T. BROWN, Agent. BOSTON BAKERY. J. KREISS, PROP, Fresh Bread Delivered to all parts of Anaheim and vicinity. Los Angeles St. KEEPS ALWAYS ON HAND A COMPLETE STOCK Of the Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars WINES AND LIGHTS BY THE KEG, GALLON OR BOTTLE Orders by Mail Promptly Attend GOODS DELIVERED FREE OF Opp. S. P. Depot, ANAHEIM Bentz & Steadmore Wholesale and Retail B Anaheim, Cal. Dealers in Beef, Pork, Mutton, Veal, Sausage Of Our Own Make. Highest Market price Paid for L Hello, What's the Mat? GUS DAVENPORT Informs his customers and the general public that to sell goods at the smallest margin possible. He buys therefore can sell for a very small profit, giving his cut off of low prices. No charge for showing goods or tions. Come one, Come all! All Kinds of Produce and Poultry Taken ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1891. Special Hotel. (and Lemon Streets) BY, - PROPRIETOR. ations for Families & Tourists MERLY KNOWN AS THE ANAghly renovated, and will be conducted the public patronage is respectfully OMS ATTACHED TO HOTEL. and Cigars LE ALE, HALF-AND-HALF. ention with Hotel. First-class turn-outs drivers. Horses bought and sold. Cash!!! Cash!!! What Makes Things Go. ned to sell for it LY! TO BUY FOR IT, OR IT, The Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. SHUSCRIPTION, $2 Per Year. Six months... 1.00 Three months... 75 Pavable invariably in advance. Transient Advertising: SPACE: One square..... $1.00 Two squares..... $1.50 Three squares..... $2.00 Four squares..... $2.50 1 week 2 weeks 3 weeks 4 week 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 mails. It is devered 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 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. Where the Profits Go. A correspondent of an Oakland paper, writing from Niles, Alameda county, on the recent fruit harvest, complains sadly that the larger fraction of the profits therefrom went to the railroad company, still another goodly share to the commission men, while the farmers, for their labors, received but a very small fraction of the amount that should have been theirs. The correspondent says a San Francisco paper, is doubtless correct. The California fruit-grower, as so usually works today, is virtually at the neroy of the transportation and other companies. Putting his fruit on the market greet, he is forced, with his crop ripening faster than he can have it picked and packed to accept the best terms he can are thirteen stars and at the bottom the date of coinage. On the reverse side appears the seal of the United States as adopted in 1782, an eagle with open wings, on the breast a shield argent, six jalys gules, a chief azure, holding in its claw an olive branch, representing peace, and in its sinister claw a sheaf of thirteen arrows, representing war. In its beak the eagle holds a scroll containing the motto, "E pluribus unum," assigned above and about the head with thirteen stars environed by clouds. This will be the design of the halves and quarters. The dime on the obverse, in place of stars, will have "United States of America." "In God we trust" will be omitted from the dime. The reverse of the dime will be the same as at present in use. The reverse of the halves and quarters is a return to the design of almost the first coinage of the country. The Terminal Bond Coming. Ex-Mayor W. H. Workman of Los Angeles, one of the Pacific coast directors of the Los Angeles Terminal Railroad, has returned from a month's trip East, undertaken for the purpose of ascertaining what the prospects are of completing the road from Salt Lake to Los Angeles. He went to St. Louis and met gentlemen interested in the Terminal road, then to Salt Lake and over the proposed line of the extension in a wagon. He brings the welcome news that the railroad will be built and completed in time to take the people from Southern California to the World's Fair. There is a gap of 340 miles to build, which it is estimated, will cost $5,000,000. This money has been raised; Mr. Workman says, and no thanks are due in the matter to the people of Los Angeles, who have throughout maintained a claim-like indifference, while the citizens of Salt Lake have worked with much enthusiasm. Connections will be made with one or two lines running from Salt Lake into Southern Utah, the Union Pacific or the Rio Grande Western. The objective point in California will be Ludlow, a station on the Atlantic and Pacific about seventy-five miles east of Baratow, over which road trains will run into Los Angeles. On either of the roads mentioned there is a down grade of 1 per cent to Los Angeles. Not a treasure, bridge or tunnel is necessary. The country traversed contains TO BUY FOR IT, OR IT, CUSTOMERS THE BENEFIT THE MONEY ROLLING. That Cash Will Do at HEMAN'S IN BROADWAY. Anaheim. ARCHANT TAILOR. complete assortment of Goods of latest styles in the attention of the citivicinity is directed. m - $25 up. m - $6 up. is cordially extended thermine this stock. FRED CRIST BOEGE, and Retail Dealer in DORS and Cigars. MAYS ON HAND — TE STOCK! les, Liquors and Cigars. ND LIQUORS ALLON OR BOTTLE. Promptly Attended to. writing from Niles, Alameda county, on the recent fruit harvest, complains sadly that the larger fraction of the profits therefrom went to the railroad company, still another goodly share to the commission men, while the farmers, for their labor, received but a very small fraction of the amount that should have been theirs. The correspondent, says a San Francisco paper, is doubtless correct. The California fruit-grower, as so usually works today, is virtually at the neroy of the transportation and other companies. Putting his fruit on the market green, he is forced, with his crop ripening faster than he can have it picked and packed, to accept the best terms he can make from those upon whom he depends for his market and whose business it is to make a profit from his land. Is there no reason for this state of affairs? At the present writing we have before us certain figures of the season's work just completed of the fresno Canning Company, a concern in that county that owes its origin to the necessity rising from just the conditions indicated by the Niles writer. The total pack of the cannery for this year amounts to 52,000 cases, each case holding 24 cans. The fruit consists of apricots, pears, peaches, plums and grapes. In all, the concern handled this season 4,290,000 pounds of fruit. It has so far shipped out 173 cars of the canned goods which have been sold throughout the East by its San Francisco agents, who are large stockholders in the company. During the busy season the cannery has given employment to some 600 women and children, who, it is claimed, have earned an average of about $7 per week, besides whom the works have employed a force of about 50 men. The report states that the outlook for next season's pack is also very good, as the city agents have already received orders for these goods from some of the largest jobbers in the East. The company has paid out for fruit alone this season the sum of $53,615 09. For labor in preparing the fruit, etc. $41,034 19 For cases $6,100 12 For sugar used in the boil. $17,913 10 For cans $41,000 81 For coal, solder, labels etc. $11,200 32 Making a grand total of. $171,472 32 Besides handling this immense amount of fruit the cannery company has shipped about forty cars of peaches to San Francisco. The advantage to be gained by putting fruit in shape that admits of its being held for the past year or two been fully recognized by growers, and a large number have dried their prunes, apricots, peaches and pears and held them for a better market. But this system is not without its disadvantages. The fruit has been of varying quality, much of it the inferior product of inexperienced work, and the isolated grower has been almost as much the victim of the transportation companies as he had been with his green fruit. Here again, then, is a condition of things calling for that co-operative action which alone is to be the salvation of our California farmers. All can do together what no few of them are prepared to undertake. The cost of operating a fruit cannery is great, and the history of the industry in this State has shown that the business can only be successfully operated in a large scale. Niles, the town from which the correspondent referred to writes, is in the center of a pioneer fruit district. Orchards were under cultivation in portions of that valley when the gold fever first broke out in California, and when nearly everywhere else the country was but one wide expanse of grazing land, with lakes and there vast grain tracts covered with the only crop supposed to be of any value in the State. The objective point in California will be Ludlow, a station on the Atlantic and Pacific about seventy-five miles cast of Barstow, over which road trains will run into Los Angeles. On either of the roads mentioned there is a down grade of 1 per cent to Los Angeles. Not a treasure, bridge or tunnel is necessary. The country traversed contains mountains of Bossemer iron ore and coal mines into which two horse teams can drive and load, the richest being not over 400 miles from Los Angeles. It is estimated that coal could be laid down here at $5 per ton. The distance from Los Angeles to Chicago will be shortened by this line 300 miles. The company desires eventually to train into Los Angeles over its own line and Mr. Workman urges that the people of Los Angeles bestir themselves to aid the project. In about two weeks President Palmer, of the Denver and Rio Grande Western, and other prominent railroad men will visit Los Angeles in connection with this enterprise, and the Chamber of Commerce will give them a rousing reception. Upton's Tactics Supplanted. The Government has ordered the use of new drill regulations for the regular army, and as the militia' throughout the Union is compelled to make one of the system used by the regulars, the National Guard will feel interested in the subject. The Los Angeles officers have received copies of the new runs, and have put the local companies there through the new drill. Many important changes have been made in the order of things and in a few months Upton will be as far out as Hardoe is at the present time. The support, reverse and secure arms have been entirely done way with. The single rank formation is also dispensed with, all company movement being executed in double rank. When the company or battalion is formed there is to be a space of six inches between each man; the left arm being raised high enough to crook the elbow sufficiently to touch the right arm of the next man in rank. Thus a twelve mile front formation will take up as much room as the twenty mile front under Upton. If the new regulations are adopted in their pressent form an entire reorganization of the National Guard will have to follow in order to conform to them, as it is provided that three companies shall constitute a battalion and four battalions regiment. Each battalion will be commanded by a major, thus making four majors to a regiment in place of one at the present time. The colonel of each regiment will therefore occupy the same position in relation to the battalions in his command as a brigadier general does to his regiment under Upton. This change will also increase the number of officers to each regiment, as each commander of a battalion will have a staff, while the colonel's staff will remain as at present. The increase of officers will appear of doubtful expediency to most people. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. STEADMAN, Retail Butchers. Heim, Cal. Button, Veal, Sausages and Lard Own Make. Price Paid for Live Stock. 'S the Matter? THE GENERAL PUBLIC THAT HE IS PREPARED IN POSIBLE. He buys for cash and profit, giving his customers the benefit showing goods or answering queries. POULTRY TAKEN IN EXCHANGE The region for miles is divided into small holdings—orchards of from twenty to forty acres, all in a high state of cultivation. It is one of the wealthiest sections in the State, and its wealth has, for the most part, been picked from the trees everywhere to be seen. Yet to-day, as in years gone by, the orchardists await the bids of canners and dryers from a distance, or ship to the city or laboriously dry as much of their crops as they can and market it disadvantageously in that form. If our growers, instead of following these methods, would unite, form a company and put up a large cannery or dryer, or both, the enterprise would work a revolution throughout this section. There is high-grade fruit enough grown in this immediate vicinity to keep a large establishment busy throughout the season. There is not a town in the State that has better shipping facilities. The entire product could be sent East direct from here, if that were desired. At the Fresno cannery no goods are sent out on consignment, but are sold direct from there on f. o. b. basis. The section is within easy reach of three good-sized cities, San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose, from which placeas a more than sufficient supply of labor could be drawn, and there ought to be enough shrewd executive talent in the community to conduct the affairs of the concern successfully. With such an establishment to take our crops, there would be small opportunity for men to write that railroad companies and commission men had left us but a small fraction of the profit derived from our season's work. Under authority of an Act of Congress approved September 26, 1890, the Director of the Mint has prepared a new design for silver coins, which has been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury. The design is intended for half-dollars, quarters and dimes. On the inverse face of the coin is a female head representative of Liberty, looking to the right with an olive wreath and Phrygian cap. On the band, or fillet, over the front of the head at the top of the coin, "In God we trust." Around the medallion occupy the same position in relation to the battalions in his command as a brigadier general does to his regiment under Upton. This change will also increase the number of officers to each regiment, as each commander of a battalion will have a staff, while the colonel's staff will remain as at present. The increase of officers will appear of doubtful expediency to most people. 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 chung to Castoria, when she had Children she may Castoria Real Estate Transfers The following transfers of real estate have been recorded during the week: Alexander McDermont and Alice McDermont to Ida L. Schumacher—N of E of SE of NE of NW of Sec. 33 T 3 R 10; $625. Frederick Eichler and Lillie Eichler to John Rasmella—Lot 50 feet N and S by 240 E and W in Vineyard Lot G 4, Anaheim; $500. Natalia Castaing and Jean Castaing to Francis Chapell and Ascension Chapell—Lot 71 feet N and S by 50 feet E and W in Vineyard Lot D 3, Anaheing; $60. Stearns Ranchos Co. to P.A. Stanton—E of NW of NE of SW of Sec. 7 T 4 R 10; $10. Stearns Ranchos Co. to F.A. Stanton—E 20 acres of NW of SW of Sec. 7 T 4 R 10, agreement to convey; $900. P.A. Stanton to J.S. McAlpine—Assignment of above. P.A. Stantan to John Arntgrong Simpson E of SW of NE of Sec. 7 T 4 R 10; $100. Stearns Ranchos Co. to E.P. Fowler—NE of NW of Sec. 28 T 4 R 10; $10. Joseph Radlick to Bernhardt Rea—Part of lot 34, Anaheim Extension; $100. Stearns Ranchos Co. to M.O. Williams—NE of SE of Sec. 9 T 5 R 10; $10. Stearns Ranchos Co. to A.P. Pritchard—E of NE of SE of Sec. 7 T 4 R 11; $900. B.F. Pritchard to William F. Morris and Annie Morris—Same property: $900. Stearns Ranchos Co. to William Graham—E of SW of SW of Sec. 23 T 5 R 11, agreement to convey; $1,900. William Grahaud to C.F. Winters—Assignment of contract. B.F. Pritchard to W.A. Parker—Same property; $10. and at the bottom the in the reverse side appears the United States is adopted in open wings, on the breast of the salary gules, a chief azure, now on olive branch, reprenents its sinister claw a sheaf representing war. In its its a scroll containing the stars, will have "United In God we trust" on the dime. The reverse the same as at present in of the halves and quarters design of almost the first entry. The Chilean Affair UNUSUAL ACTIVITY IN OUY NAVY YARDS—ALL VESSELS BEING MADE READY FOR SEA. It is plain that before long there will be a very strong fleet of United States ships in the West Indies or somewhere further south. All the ships at the Brooklyn Navy Yard are preparing rapidly to go to sea or to be in readiness for orders to do so. The Petrel, which was taking ammunition at Fort Wadsworth and was on her way to China, was ordered back to the Navy Yard, by a dispatch from Washington. The Bennington is ready to put to sea. She was to have gone to Gardiner's bay for target practice, but when the Chilean trouble developed she also was ordered to stay at her dock. The Concord will be fit for business in a short time, when she has a new steering quadrant, and the Charleston is on her way back from China. The Philadelphia, flagship of the North Atlantic squadron, sailed last week from the navy yard in Brooklyn on her way to Barbados, her first stopping place in the West Indies. There she will be 1,000 miles or so nearer Chile. The Philadelphia had on board 316 more shells than she ever carried before. Her magazine had been enlarged, the added ammunition being for the six-inch guns. She has 1,000 rounds of ammunition for her big guns and 100 armor-piercing projectiles. Her armament consists of twelve six-inch breechloading rifles, four 6-pound rapid-firing guns, four three-pound rapid-firing guns, two one-pound rapid-firing guns, three revolving cannon and four Gatling guns. The crew numbers 360 men. A private dispatch received last week from Valparaiso says that the cruiser Baltimore is in serious danger, and that there is reason to believe the Chileseis, believing war inevitable, will not allow the United States to select their own time to declare war, but will suddenly give Egan his passports and at once attack the so-called payment of £6,525 on account of the claim of the British' bark Prince of Wales, and also a prompt satisfaction for the arrest of three officers of the British naval frigate Forte, which in June, 1862, were taken into custody by the police guard of one of the towns of Brazil (they being in citizens' dress) for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. The minister declared that if the government of Brazil failed to comply with the demands he would order the admiral commanding the British forces at Rio Janeiro to decide the question according to instructions from the British government. The Brazil minister of foreign affairs replied on December 29 protesting against the payment, and declared that no satisfaction could be given in the case of the three officers, as no insult was offered to them. On the 31st of December the British minister sent a letter to the British consultate stating that, the demands of the British legation having met with no satisfaction from the Brazilian government, he had ordered Admiral Warren to make reprisals upon Brazilian property until the proper satisfaction was obtained. On the same day three British warships left the harbor of Rio, and on January 4 one of the British warvessels returned to the port of Rio and the fact was made known that five Brazilian sailing vessels and one steamer under the Brazilian flag had been captured and taken charge of by the British men-of-war, and were held in a Brazilian harbor on the coast of Rio. On the 15th of January a council of State was held in the city palace, the emperor presiding, at which it was decided that the question of the arrest of the officers of the naval frigate Forte be submitted to the arbitration of a friendly power, and the king of the Belgians was proposed to determine whether any insult was committed against the British government by the arrest of the said officers. The council further decided that the demand of the British government for damages on the claim of the bark Prince of Wales be paid by the Brazilian government in London under protest, the Brazilian government having no means of resisting the demands of the British government. The king of the Belgians decided that no insult had been offered the British government or to the officers who had been ar- money has been raised, and no thanks are due to people of Los Angeles, but maintained a claim like the citizens of Salt Lake much enthusiasm. Condidate with one or two lines Lake into Southern Utah, the Rio Grande Western. In California will be in the Atlantic and Pacific miles east of Barstow, aims will run into Los Andulos the roads mentioned of 1 per cent to Los Beattle, bridge or tunnel is country traversed contains semire iron ore and coal two horse teams can drive not being over 400 ugles. It is estimated that known here at $5 per ton. Los Angeles to Chicago by this line 300 miles. exists eventually to run ugles over its own line and that the people of Los Ambiente to aid the project. President Palmer, of the Made Western, and other men will visit Los Angeline with this enterprise, and inherence will give them a sose and secure arms have away with. The single also dispensed with, all being executed in double company or battalion is a space of six inches the left arm being raised the elbow sufficiently to the next man in rank. Front formation will take the twenty mile front nations are adopted in their reorganization of the will have to follow in order as it is provided that an constitute a battalion regiment. Will be commanded by a four majors to a regiment at the present time. Regiment will therefore relation to the command as a brigadier regiment under Upton. Also increase the number regiment, as each commission will have a staff. It staff will remain as at least of officers will appear away to most people. A private dispatch received last week from Valparaiso says that the cruiser Baltimore is in serious danger, and that there is reason to believe the Chileans, believing war inevitable, will not allow the United States to select their own time to declare war, but will suddenly give Egan his passports and at once attack the Baltimore, so as to have the first blow at an advantage. It is not believed among the foreign residents of Valparaiso that the other foreign men-of-war at Valparaiso harbor would permit this treachous act on Captain Schley, but would demand that fair notice be given him to quit Valparaiso. Captain Schley, however, is keeping a vigilant lookout. The assault on the American sailors at Valparaiso and the state of affairs there is thus described by an eye-witness: He says he saw Turnbull, a sailor of the Baltimore, running up a street pursued by a mob with drawn knives. He was overtaken by a man who plunged a knife into his body. Turnbull fell at the feet of the witness, who stood over him and defended the prostrate man. Not knowing whether he was alive or dead he assisted him to a chemist's shop. The chemist was loath to shelter the wounded man, fearing the people. The witness insisted that he should help wash and dress Turnbull's wounds. Then they took a carriage and started to an English hospital. The driver was afraid and said the man must go to the Chilean hospital. The witness took him there. The witness was afterward arrested and insulted by an officer of police, who put a loaded gun to his head, threatening to shoot him if he opened his mouth about the matter. He claims that his body was bruised by blows. He asked the protection of Captain Schley. He says he is afraid of his life ashore. The suggestion that San Francisco might be bombarded by warships of Chile ought to carry a lesson to Congress and the country. It is a serious fact that San Francisco would be to-day at the mercy of the Chilean fleet, and while the existing forts would enable us probably to prevent the approach of such a fleet, the warning is not the less clear to put the Pacific coast in a proper state of defense. Chile is not the only or the chief power to be guarded against, and even defense against Chile's crippled navy might take away the torpedoes, guns and mortars intended for the Atlantic coast, and perhaps needed here, should the Captain Pratt be free at the right moment to attack. What then can be done to provide proper defenses for San Francisco? One specific thing is the establishment of government gun factory like those now existing at West Troy for the army, and at Washington for the navy. The World's Fair agents have been ordered home from Chile. The order is inspired not so much by fear for their physical safety as that it would impolitic to press the subject of World's Fair appropriation while public sentiment against Americans is running so high. Balmaceda's Government has appropriated $100,000 for an exhibit and the special commissioners were trying quietly to get the new Government to approve of that appropriation. Santiago has been startled by the discovery of a conspiracy against the new government with its center in that city, and a branch at Buenos Ayres. It is alleged that $2,000,000 has been subscribed to carry out the plans of the conspirators. A private dispatch received last week from Valparaiso says that the cruiser Baltimore is in serious danger, and that there is reason to believe the Chileans, believing war inevitable, will not allow the United States to select their own time to declare war, but will suddenly give Egan his passports and at once attack the Baltimore, so as to have the first blow at an advantage. It is not believed among the foreign residents of Valparaiso that the other foreign men-of-war at Valparaiso harbor would permit this treachous act on Captain Schley, but would demand that fair notice be given him to quit Valparaiso. Captain Schley, however, is keeping a vigilant lookout. The assault on the American sailors at Valparaiso and the state of affairia there is thus described by an eye-witness: He says he saw Turnbull, a sailor of the Baltimore, running up a street pursued by a mob with drawn knives. He was overtaken by a man who plunged a knife into his body. Turnbull fell at the feet of the witness, who stood over him and defended the prostrate man. Not knowing whether he was alive or dead he assisted him to a chemist's shop. The chemist was loath to shelter the wounded man, fearing the people. The witness insisted that he should help wash and dress Turnbull's wounds. Then they took a carriage and started to an English hospital. The driver was afraid and said the man must go to the Chilean hospital. The witness took him there. The witness was afterward arrested and insulted by an officer of police, who put a loaded gun to his head, threatening to shoot him if he opened his mouth about the matter. He claims that his body was bruised by blows. He asked the protection of Captain Schley. He says he is afraid of his life ashore. The suggestion that San Francisco might be bombarded by warships of Chile ought to carry a lesson to Congress and the country. It is a serious fact that San Francisco would be to-day at the mercy of the Chilean fleet, and while the existing forts would enable us probably to prevent the approach of such a fleet, the warning is not the less clear to put the Pacific coast in a proper state of defense. Chile is not the only or the chief power to be guarded against, and even defense against Chile's crippled navy might take away the torpedoes, guns and mortars intended for the Atlantic coast, and perhaps needed here, should the Captain Pratt be free at the right moment to attack. What then can be done to provide proper defenses for San Francisco? One specific thing is the establishment of government gun factory like those now existing at West Troy for the army, and at Washington for the navy. The World's Fair agents have been ordered home from Chile. The order is inspired not so much by fear for their physical safety as that it would impolitic to press the subject of World's Fair appropriation while public sentiment against Americans is running so high. Balmaceda's Government has appropriated $100,000 for an exhibit and the special commissioners were trying quietly to get the new Government to approve of that appropriation. Santiago has been startled by the discovery of a conspiracy against the new government with its center in that city, and a branch at Buenos Ayres. It is alleged that $2,000,000 has been subscribed to carry out the plans of the conspirators. Senior Juan presiding at which it was decided that the question of the arrest of the officers of the naval frigate Forte be submitted to the arbitration of a friendly power, and the king of Belgium was proposed to determine whether any insult was committed against British government by the arrest of the said officers. The council further decided that no insult had been offered the British government or to the officers who had been arrested, but as a result of the incident diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Brazil were broken off and not renewed until two years had elapsed. When the British press undertakes to show that the Americans engage in bluster when dealing with weaker nations, and by implication that England does not, it calmly ignores the fact that Great Britain has always acted the bully in dealing with small countries. The San Diego Union recalls the following instance to illustrate the truth of this assertion: In 1882the British Vice-Consul at San Jose, Guatemala, Mr. McGee, was challenged to a boat race to an incoming Pacific Mail steamer by the boarding officer of the port. Mr. McGee was successful and was on the gangway ladder of the steamer just as the boarding officer reached the step, but two went aboard together. Mr. McGee's success so incensed the officer that he notified Gustave Malenal authorities that Mr. McGee had violated the customs law by preceding him aboard the steamer. Mr. McGee was arrested, convicted and punished with fifty lashes on his bare back. He explained the occurrence to his home Government, and within thirty days a British man-of-war was in the port and demanded that the Vice-Consul be paid $1,000 for each lash, and that the boarding officer be taken out and shot or the city would be bombeded. The demand was complied with. Jeff Davis' Halment. An incident with an important bearing upon one of the most interesting episodes of the closing days of the civil war happened recently at the war department. For twenty-six years an iron chest, whose contents were unknown to all except different secretaries of war and the particular officer charged with its safe-keeping, has lain in the vaults of the war building. The mystery surrounding the chest and its contents has been at last disclosed. It was in recent years in charge of Maj. A.J.McArthur; it is now in charge-adjusted general of the army. This change of custodians necessitated the opening of the chest and its examination and inventory of its contents. It was brought into the ante-room of the Secretary's office and there unlocked and opened in presence of witnesses. After the inventory was made and receipts exchanged double locks of the chest were refastained and it, with its contents, was again placed in one of the strong vauls of great triple department building. The contents of this carefully guarded strong-box were: First, a large, old-fashioned water-proof of ample dimensions, such as was worn in the days when gossamers were not known; secondly, a cashmere shawl; and thirdly, a pair of rusty spurs. There is a story behind them; for they are mute testimonials of the truth of long-doubted, much-denied story that Jefferson Davis,the fallen President ofthe Confederacy,"was when captured disguised in woman's The World's Fair agents have been ordered home from Chile. The order is inspired not so much by fear for their physical safety as that it would be impolite to press the subject of a World's Fair appropriation while public sentiment against Americans is running so high. Balmaceda's Government has appropriated $100,000 for an exhibit and the special commissioners were trying quietly to get the new Government to approve of that appropriation. Santiago has been startled by the discovery of a conspiracy against the new government with its center in that city, and a branch at Buenos Ayres. It is alleged that $2,000,000 has been subscribed to carry out the plans of the conspirators. Senior Juan McKenna, one of the political refugees in the United States legislation, is accused of being the chief party in the movement. The other principal persons concerned are said to be officials formerly under Balmaceda, but now on parole. The main object of the conspiracy is said to have been the assassination of Gen. Canto, commander of the Congressional land force. It is said that dices were cast to decide who should kill him, and it fell to the lot of Lieut.-Col. Gandarillas of Balmaceda's army to do so. The exposure of the plot is due to the fact that one of the conspirators repented of his complicity in it and informed Barras Arama, the Chilean historian. Senior Arana made known the facts to the government. Gandarrillas was arrested and taken to prison. The police are devoting all their energies to the task of unraveling the plot. Great indignation prevails both at Santiago and Valparaiso. People in prominent circles are implicated. The conspirators to the number of forty-five met at a house owned by Senator Cullera. The conspiracy has progressed so far that committees have been formed to carry out the different parts of it. Ex-Gen. Velasquez was also one of the prime figures in the plot. Preparations had been made for a conjunction with Balmaceda's friends in Buenos Ayres. Minister Gerrero has received threats from them. Minister Egan says that there is not the slightest truth in the report that Senor McKenna was engaged in the conspiracy or that any other political refugee at the United States legislation was concerned in it. The steamer Itata arrived at Valparaiso Thursday and her officers and crew were most heartily received by the population. In view of certain criticisms of leading English newspapers; based upon an erroneous statement indicating that the government of the United States had made a hasty and peremptory demand upon the Chilean government in the case of the Baltimore sailors at Valparaiso, it may be pertinent to relate that on December 5, 1863, the British minister at Rio de Janeiro sent an ultimatum to the Brazilian government demanding the The story of their disguise has often been told and as frequently denied by those who believed that Mr. Davis would not resort to so undignified a ruse to avoid capture. During all these contentions the existence of this cheat and its confirmatory contents has never been made public. The officials of the war department would gladly be rid of the garments, but they are public property and no one is authorized to destroy them; so they must be kept. The waterproof is of light gray cloth, the lower part thickly coated with hard, dry mud, gathered, it is said, on the roads and in the woods of Georgia twenty-six years ago as the fugitive President and his party vainly sought safety in flight. The shawl is of cashmere, the body of a dark red color, with a wide black margin running around it. Mr. Davis, according to the story, denied the waterproof, threw the shawl about his head, picked up a bucket and started as though to get a pail of water. Thus clad he looked like a tall woman, the waterproof completely covering his own clothing, while the shawl about his head hid his masculine features and beard. This ruse must have succeeded but for the spurs he had unluckily forgotten to remove. A trooper spied them protruding from under the waterproof. He was followed, halted, discovered, captured. Such is the story and in proof of it are the muddy waterproof, the red shawl and the rusty spurs. From reports gathered from fruit growers in all parts of California south of Fresno it is found that the total fruit crop in this region this season has been one-eighth of a full crop. In Penona valley it has been even smaller than that. Many orchards that bore fifty tons last year did not bear three tons this year. The last of the Pomona prune crop has been shipped to Chicago.