anaheim-gazette 1893-04-27

THE NEW RIVER COUNTRY. Two Interesting Letters from the Well Diggers. At a Depth of 326 Feet One of the Side Chains to the Lever Breaks, Causing a Delay of Several Days—Interesting Field for the Student of the Natural Sciences—Evidences of a Pre-historic Population—Converse the Trapper Bids the Boys Good-Hye—How They Put in the Time-At Night They Commute With the Stars—Provisions Short. IN CAMP, BLUE LAKE, NEW RIVER COUNTRY, April 14, 1933. EDITOR GAZETTE.—We have broken one of our side chains to the lever and dispatched two of our party to Volcano Springs, fifty miles away, to telegraph to Los Angeles for a new one. The accident causes a delay in our work of probably four or five days, and this forced leisure gives me an opportunity to indite a few lines to you. The well is now down 326 feet, and in clay of a more favorable character than any strata we have passed through, leading us to hope that we may tap a vein of aresian water are the 400-foot level is reached. However, we have 175 feet of pipe on hand and propose to drive the last joint of it, if necessary, if it takes all summer; provided parties interested will keep us supplied with feed and provisions. Failing in that, when our present supplies give out we shall pull out pretty pronto, as I can assure you this job is no sinseure. As a muscle developer, running a set of well tools discounts any athletic exercise known to the profession. Our most disagreeable experience has been with the water we have here, as it is only obtainable from small lakes or lagoons which were filled up by the last overflow, almost a year ago, and are now getting shallow by evaporation. They lose nothing by seepage, for their bottoms are as impervious to water as an earthen pot. We sank a hole six feet deep within six inches of the edge of the lake, thinking the water would percolate through the intervening soil, but none came. Then we tunneled under the lake with no better result. Cattle frequently wade in too far to drink, get mired down, die and decay; their putrid juices mingle with the lake, forming with their strange fauna and flora, are all the result of natural causes. They offer an interesting field of exploration to the student of the natural sciences. The botanist would probably find unknown plants to classify, the ornithologist would add strange land-birds and water fowl to his collection, the mineralogist secure new specimens for his cabinet, and the geologist would never tire of reading the record of the ages on its rocks. These half-million acres of virgin soil have never known the touch of the plowshare, and only await the coming of capital and labor to make them as productive as any in the world. Capital to furnish the water, and labor to apply it and speed the plow. Then railroads will come, villages spring up and thousands of happy homes surrounded with blooming orchards and waving grain, will dot the landscape o'er, and the contrast between then and now will be as paradise is to that other place where theologists delight to consign the unrepentant sinner. There are some evidences tending to show that this valley may have sustained a dense population in the long ago. Broken pieces of pottery are scattered over the surface, stone implements apparently designed for pulverizing food products are sometimes seen, and whole ollas have been found. The fact of these relics being more plentiful around the outer edges of the valley might support the theory that this was once a vast inland sea with a good border of arable land around it. It may have been the site of the somewhat mythical "seven cities of Cibbola," but as we have no ruins to show we cannot successfully dispute the location with our neighbor, Arizona. Near Indio, where the mountains rise abruptly from the plain, there is a perpendicular face of solid rock of considerable height, on which are well-defined marks showing the water level at two or three different periods. These marks are many feet above the present surface of the valley, and the best defined one is about on the sea level of to-day. Still above these marks and cut on the face of the cliff are a number of hiero-glyphics, or picture writings, of which neither Indian or savant can give a translation. These few vestiges are all that remain of a vanished race. Of their origin and extinction history is dumb, and leaves us to vague conjecture and doubtful theory. Living Indians have a tradition that once, ever so long ago, a huge tidal wave suddenly submerged the entire valley, and but very few of the then numerous people escaped to the bills. When we consider the topographical situation—many feet below the sea level—the story does not seem so improbable. Of one thing we are certain—they are not here now, so let them requiscal in pace, while we quietly absorb the fair domain they left behind, or above them, as the case may be. We were over to the east side and inspected a portion of that river of many names. New potato. Mr. James rear of his roost. The Direct meet in regular. To the Lo north: Do no forgiven. T. S. Green A constat why Landlord Because he's a A frolicious erne's Academy you last Saturday back in Lewis. The dress Hoopskirts had got as far as C tremble to this. The wear Sacramento by places Anabeihe latest up p. The case al., an action Placentia district plaintiff in th. Mr. Darlin on his lot west Southern Pacific it will be used as manager. The South necteion with agents, will sit Ana May 2d without change. A meeting held in this city of Pull particular found set forth. The Journits attitude our favors the hip opposed to the city! Still tha of about ten t. The case Colton, an avanced in a transferred law court to set of well tools discounts any athletic exercise known to the profession. Our most agreeable experience has been with the water we have here, as it is only obtainable from small lakes or lagoons which were filled up by the last overflow, almost a year ago, and now getting shallow by evaporation. They lose nothing by seepage, for their bottoms are as impervious to water as an earthen pot. We sink a hole six feet deep within six inches of the edge of the lake, thinking the water would percolate through the intervening soil, but none came. Then we tunneled under the lake with no better result. Cattle frequently wade in too far to drink, get mired down, die and decay; their putrid juices mingle with the lake, forming a kind of extract of beef, which some people might think delicious, but I don't like mine made that way. As the evaporating process goes on the water gets green in color, revolting in taste, and thick with protophasic germs and microbes, that may be nourishing as a food product, yet the bouquet and flavor does not seem to agree with our epicurean taste. To render it palatable we use to dilute it with something out of a demijohn, but, alas the demijohn is hors du combat, as it were, and no longer responding to our gentle touch it lays empty and forsaken in some oblivious corner, its joy and inspiration a thing of the past! Great evils sometimes require heroic treatment, therefore we have ordered a barrel of mescal, duty paid, per underground railroad from Mexico. This mescal is a fluid extract of the century plant prepared by the scientists of Lower California, according to the formula handed down from their jolly old Aztec ancestors. We impatiently await its arrival while debating the best method of using it, and finally arriving at the conclusion that it shall be used moderately to rectify our drinking water, by adding a pint of mescal to each teaspoonful of water. That proportion will tend to discourage the microbes and render the beverage innocuous to health. Oh! for the gurgling sound of a bottle that's gone, And the gentle touch of a vanished demijohn! The Government surveyors are in this valley running the boundary line between the United States and Mexico. They make no change from the original survey, merely re-running the old line with the intention of setting monuments every two or three miles to prevent future complications. They are attended by an escort of five colored soldiers who fill the evening air with their vocal music. The Colorado Irrigation Company have their surveyor in the field between here and the river. They are incorporated with a capital of $7,500,000 and propose to construct a canal 125 feet wide on the bottom and 150 miles in length, at sufficient elevation to cover the whole valley from the Mexican line to India. As they have ninety miles to build from the river this valley it will probably be a couple of years before it will be available to settlers. H. D. Converse, the veteran trapper and prospector, is camped here with us. For forty years he has hunted, trapped and mined all the way from Alaska to Mexico. All the mountains, rivers and deserts are as an open book to him. With his two burros and his trusty rifle he traverses these wilds alone where larger parties fear to tread. His sixty years sit lightly on his head, and the hardship and privations of a frontier life have left but slight trace. From his wide experience he evolves an exhaustless fund of anecdotes of persons, places and events, and is a most welcome guest to our campfire. He is an omniverous reader—with him everything goes, from a paper covered novel to the profoundest works on science, art or political economy. Of more than ordinary intelligence, he is a good conversationalist. These few wetegats are all that remain of a vanished race. Of their origin and extinction history is dumb, and leaves us to vague conjecture and doubtful theory. Living Indians have a tradition that once ever so long ago, a huge tidal wave suddenly submerged the entire valley, but very few of the then numerous people escaped to the bills. When we consider the topographical situation—many feet below the sea level—the story does not seem so very improbable. Of one thing we are certain—they are not here now, so let them requiescar in pace, while we quietly absorb the fair domain they left behind, or above them, as the case may be. We were over to the coast side and inspected a portion of that river of many names. The cattlemen call it Alamo, others speak of it as Carter, and some call it Salton. It is said the Government surveyors favor the latter,and we suppose it will appear on their maps as Salton river. On the Mexican side of the line we found pools of good water at short intervals along the channel, but none on this side for the few miles we traced its course. While in Mexico we improved the opportunity to replenish our larder with a few quail. No game law there. Here our friend Converse bade us goodbye. Astride his noble burro, with mien erect as a militia Brigadier on review, he headed toward the rising sun, and the majestic form of the old trapper was soon lost to view in the dim distance of the meaos. In a few days he will enter the cool shades of Yuma, in much the same style as another person of some historical renown is said to have done Jerusalem several years ago. Morgan has gone home sick, and Walker takes his place as head teamster, or grad master of mules. By his promotion we have lost our chef de cuisine, which we deplore much, as no one else has the artistic skill to make common bacon and beans taste like spring lamb and green peas. The declining sun admonishes "Special" that it is time to crawl from beneath this umbragrone mesquit and assist in preparing the evening repast. Toresume: Glancing over this wide domain of tar weed and sage brush, it does not seem possible to evolve anything out of corebral gray matter that will interest you or your many readers. It has been remarked that when you can't find any subject to talk about, the weather affords an unfailing topic. Well, the weather here is all right. We let it do just as it has a mind to and don't pick any fuss with it. When it gets up to 100 in the shade, as it was to-day, you don't want to fool with it. Just attend strictly to business and pay no attention to it. When it finds out you don't notice it or say any cuss words, it gets disgusted and goes off and pouts itself down to 70 degrees by sandwow, and you have no kick coming then. By bedtime it has sulked down to about 60 degrees and your cup of joy is overflowing. Then spread your blankets on the bare bosom of mother earth, remove your hat from one extremity and your boots from the other, and your toilet de nuit is complete. Carefully placing your boots for a pillow, with graceful abandon you assume a reclining position. While wooing the caresses of Morphus,the cool night wind blows through your whiskers and toys with your silken curls. You gaze up into the ethereal blue, and viewing the gleaming stars you discover many an old acquaintance—the Dipper, Arcturus,Pleiades,jupiter,Mars and all the rest. Yes, they are all there, just the same as they were many a long year ago, when you took your first lesson in astronomy at a loving mother's knee. They were there when the Patriarchs herded their flocks on the Arian plains; they saw Xerxes invading Greece with his barbaric borders; they shone on Alexander the Great when he camped his A meeting held in this city questioned our Full particular found set forth. The Journey its attitude one favors her lips opposed to this city! Still there is no about ten bites. The case Calton, an avanced in an transferred law court up for trial here. In the rainy bury's college week Joseph adds fifty-fifth the fastest sprint in the school. Prof. Grace a ready 662 chilts to date, and tails up on place on the census children thus upwarded will give us some feedback. Telegram feet that she shipped to Lily and would have hurt for the faire Mediterranean gets a clear answer. Professor tonsoral artistry column 34 May 14th Sunday. The o'clock Saturday their customers capture. Attention tiseasure of Dale a new store Commercial groceries prepares lowest price to all parts of everything in town last week but about it. We give letter from Dale high school think it ought right to Doctor argue for the primary agreed upon when the news forty years he has hunted, trapped and mined all the way from Alaska to Mexico. All the mountains, rivers and deserts are as an open book to him. With his two burros and his trusty rifle he traverses these wilds alone where larger parties fear to tread. His sixty years sit lightly on his head, and the hardship and privations of a frontier life have left but slight trace. From his wide experience he evolves an exhaustless fund of anecdotes of persons, places and events, and is a most welcome guest to our campfire. He is an omniverous reader—with him everything goes, from a paper covered novel to the profoundest works on science, art or political economy. Of more than ordinary intelligence, he is a good conversationist, equally at home on every question pertaining to the advanced civilization of today. He has made three important discoveries in this region, viz: Lithographic stone, rooding slate and phosphate beds, from which you may hear more anon. He is now preparing to make his annual excursion towards the head of the gulf, among the Cocopah Indians, to hunt egrets for their plumes, which are worth twenty-four dollars per pound. This is the paradise of coyote hunters, who mostly secure their game by poison. Small pieces of fresh meat charged with strychnine are placed in tempting array near the water holes and next morning from one to five defunct coyotes are ready for the scalping knife. At five dollars each it is a remunerative occupation. When coyotes get scarce on this side of the line the hunters in their innocent imaginative way float the boundary line ten or twenty miles further south as their business interests are best subserved. Game is not now as plentiful as it was on our first arrival. Geese are all gone and but few edible ducks remain. Quail are pairing off and we abide by the law as all good people should. Cottontails are plentiful, and our nimods can bag a dozen at an hour's notice. Along with the rabbits they usually bring in one or more rattlesnakes—the large ones, four to five feet long. We preserve the skins, and every Adonis in camp has a nice one laid by for a present to his best girl. There does not seem to be any live rattlers in the immediate vicinity of the camp, but we occasionally shake a scorpion or contipede out of our blankets by way of variety. BUSHWHACKER. Second Letter. BLUE LAKE, NEW RIVER COUNTRY, CALIFORNIA April 18th, 1893. EDITOR GAZETTE.—Our informed idleness still continues, and having no one else to toss, the spirit moves us to inflict you with another splash, hoping you will bear up under the infliction with your usual patient serenity. There is a kind of fascination in this free and easy frontier life, where everything is just as it comes from the hand of Nature. Here nothing is due to art or the labor of man. The lagoons, hills and plains, Carefully placing your boots for a pillow, with graceful abandon you assume a reclining position. While wooing the caresses of Morpheus, the cool night wind blows through your whiskers and toys with your silken curls. You gaze up into the ethereal blue, and viewing the gleaming stars you discover many an old acquaintance—the Dipper, Arc-turus, Pleiades, Jupiter, Mars and all the rest. Yes, they are all there, just the same as they were many a long year ago, when you took your first lesson in astronomy at a loving mother's knee. They were there when the Patriarchs herded their flocks on the Arian plains; they saw Xerxes invading Greece with his barbaric border; they shone on Alexander the Great when he camped his victorious legions on the banks of the Ganges; they were a welcome vision to the tired toilers who reared the pyramids of Egypt; they looked down on Columbus plowing a pathless sea towards a new and unknown world, and have seen the ocean waves roll over the spot we tread to-day! They have witnessed the grand procession of the ages, and shone for all the generations of the pre-historic past, the same as they shine for us to-night; the same as they will continue to shed their lustrous light on the countless millions yet to be! While musing thirsty we glide off into sweet refreshing sleep, that only the pure and good can know. Perhaps you dream that some one is filling a cross-cut saw, and awaken to find it is only your next neighbor anoring with volcanic energy. Au revoir, BUSHWHACKER. WILL COME HOME. PROVISIONS RUN SHORT, AND THE WELL. WILL PROBABLY BE ABANDONED UNTIL NEXT FALL. A. E. Putnoy, the Compton well-borer, who was in charge of operations at the well, left the camp on Monday on his way to Indio, and sent word in by Mr. Rimpau, whom he met on the train on his way home from Yuma, that it was necessary that provisions and feed for the horses be sent out at once by those interested in the well. The men would await an answer at Mammoth Tank, the nearest telegraph station, until Tuesday evening, failing to hear of anything by which time they would break camp and come home. Some of the money subscribed has not been paid in, and funds are consequently short. Tuesday afternoon Ed Morgan telegraphed them to this effect, and the camp is by this time probably broken up and the mea on their way home. It will take them two weeks to get in. There are 175 feet of well pipe yet unused at the well. This will be left on the ground, and used when operations are resumed on the well, which will probably be some time next Fal. Pretty as a saddle of one of the aboard the county last week, but about it. We give letter from D high school think it ought right to Doctor argue for the prime agreed upon when the new In another very interesting field, who is superintending well for recital field writes abandon, and write upon, make skill have thus far and are well Captain resignation Company G members of their attendee absent they refuse to pay good active we hope that lively interest that the Capitorous and may be induced In the Christopher against Gorcisco, M. Alfred Gold the amount involved this action was on the farm this city was fense was San Francisco Santa Ana. The lin Southern Action report Mr. Andrew Co., Chicago of land from Buena Park property, and Herald remit to another which water and industry they have d are all the potatoes are in the market. Mr. James is putting up a barn in the rear of his residence. The Directors of the irrigation district meet in regular session Tuesday next. To the Los Angeles ball tossers in the north: Do not come home and all will be forgiven. T. S. Green of Pasadena has purchased the French place at Placentia, consideration being $28,000. A constant subscriber steps in to inquire why Landlord Helmsen is like Bismarck? Because he's a man of blood and iron! See? A frolicsome party of pupils from St. Catharine's Academy picicked in Santiago Canyon last Saturday, making the trip up and back in Lewis' bus. The dreaded infliction is upon us! Hoopskirts have arrived. They have only got as far as Calton's show window, but we tremble to think of the results. The weather-crop bulletin, issued at Sacramento by the State weather service, places Anaheim in Ventura county. That's the latest up to date. The case of Wesley Alma vs. Long et al., an action to quiet title to lands in the Southern Pacific district, was decided in favor of plaintiff in the Superior Court on Monday. Mr. Darling is erecting a frame building on his lot west of his residence below the Southern Pacific depot. It is reported that it will be used as a store, with Louie Bolz as manager. The Southern Pacific Company, in connection with A. Phillips & Co., excursion agents, will start a tourist car from Santa Ana May 2d and run it through to Chicago without change. A meeting of the orange growers will be held in this city even though the question of organization and co-operation. Full particulars of the plan proposed will be found set forth on the first page. The Journal is slightly inconsistent in its attitude on the high school question—it favors the high school at Fullerton but is opposed to the establishment of one in this city! Still the school will carry by a vote of about ten to one. The case of J. B. Pierce vs. J. W. Culton, an action to recover $153 75 advanced in a real estate transaction, was transferred last week from Judge Landell's court to the Superior Court, and will come heim pointed the way of all the colonies of Southern California, which are all that have been established so far in this State, and it is pleasant to know that her splendid example is going to be repeated in her own neighborhood. A letter received by Prof. Grogan from his brother J. E. Grogan who left with his wife last week for their home in Minnesota, brings the unwelcome information that their trunks were burned in a railway wreck in Arizona last Wednesday night. Mr. and Mrs. Grogan had collected a large variety of mementos while here, and these were totally consumed with their clothing. No one was hurt in the wreck, so far as known, the telegraph being unaccountably silent as to the nature of the disaster, and Mr. Grogan's latter, dated at Las Vegas, New Mexico, says he and his wife were standing the trip very well notwithstanding their loss. Mr. F. A. Gates bas on his farm at Garden Grove a couple of date trees—the only ones in this country—one of which is laden with a large and rapidly ripening crop. The trees are fifteen years old, and this is the first crop they have had—only one of the trees, however, being in bearing. The fruit has been one year on the tree, and seems to be just nearing the ripening stage. Mr. Gates sent two bunches of the fruit to the Chicago Fair with the Orange county exhibit, shortly after the dispatch of which, so great was the curiosity, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce sent down for a bunch to send along with their exhibit. The three bunches will be kept together, and will no doubt be objects of great interest in our display at Chicago. Mr. Gates prizes his trees very much and thinks that in the coming years date raising will be one of the leading industries of Southern California. The Anaheim Odd Fellows, accompanied by their families and friends to the number sixty-five or seventy, went to Riverside yesterday, where they took part in the celebration of the seventy-fourth anniversary of the establishment of the order in this country. The first delegation went down on the 7 o'clock train, which took them to Santa Ana, where they were guests of the Odd Fellows of that city, who entertained them at an early lunch. The second delegation went down on the 9 o'clock train and met the Santa Ana delegation at Orange when the run to Riverside was begun. It is doubtful if the Orange City ever held so large a throng as assembled there yesterday. At 2 o'clock there was a grand parade of all the subordinate and Robekah lodges, under escort of Canton Riverside and Canton Orion. The parade was through principal streets to the Loring Opera-house, where a programme of interesting exercises was held at the fernwood. At 30 o'clock evening Mr. Williamson Dunn was down from Angeles yesterday on a short business day. Judge Mehbitt of Yuma was in town few days last week on a visit to Lyons. William M. McFadden Jr. has been Sacramento during the week as a delegate to Grand Parlor N. S. G. W. Miss Lottie Beckington, whose health been poorly for some weeks past, is visiting friends in Los Angeles. Fred Backa, who has been attending ness college in Los Angeles, has graduated and received his diploma. Henry Glass of the firm of Glass & The Los Angeles book binders, was in town Tuesday on a short visit. Wm. A. Witte will leave on Sunday San Francisco as a delegate to the Lodge of the American Legion of Honors. Mrs. Florence Richards delivered very interesting lectures to large audiences at the Presbyterian Church last Saturday and Sunday evenings. George L. Alexander, representing P and Rey, type founders of San Francisco was in town on Tuesday and made an appeal at this office. Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Bancroft have their departure for Portland, Or., they will remain some time for the bldg of Mrs. Bancroft's health. Mrs. Bertha Hartman, Miss Amy man, F.A. Hartman and Robert Thiele well known in Anaheim, left San Fran on Monday for an extended visit to Gerris The party will stop off at Chicago en route to take in the World's Fair. L Hache arrived from Chino on Mr. give attention to boost planting in section. Mr. Hache has been giving farmers instructions in the various deets of beef raising, and says the beets Anaheim look better than those at Chi Mr. I.E. Sherman of Binghamton York, has been visiting with old friends in town during the week, then of Mr. Rogers. Mr. Sherman is looming around at our country, with which he is favorably impressed, and may become a permanent resident. Welly Alma left for Los Angeles y day, where he will join Mr. and Mrs. man and their party on their camping to the Yosemite Valley, Mount Shasta the different points of interest in the arm part of the State. The party wi A meeting of the orange growers will be held in this city this evening to discuss the question of organization and co-operation. Full particulars of the plan proposed will be found set forth on the first page. The Journal is slightly inconsistent in its attitude on the high school question—it favors the high school at Fullerton but is opposed to the establishment of one in this city! Still the school will carry by a vote of about ten to one. The case of J. B. Pierce vs. J. W. J. Culton, an action to recover $153 75 advanced in a real-state transaction, was transferred last week from Judge Landell’s court to the Superior Court, and will come up for trial before Judge Towner. In the rapid computation drill at Woodbury’s college in Los Angeles one day last week Joseph Backs reached the speed of adding fifty figures in ten seconds. This is the fastest speed yet attained by any pupil in the school. Good for Joseph. Prof. Grogan informs us that there are already 662 children on the census rolls up to date, and there are probably a dozen more to place on the rolls. Last year we had 577 census children, the increase being this year thus upwards of a hundred years. This will give us ten teachers next year. Telegrams from England are to the effect that the last carload of navel oranges shipped to Liverpool brought $3 65 per box, and would have brought $4 50 to $5 a box, but for the fact that the market was full of Mediterranean oranges. At $3 65 the grower gets a clear profit of $1 60 per boy. Professors Frantz and Fox, the eminent tensorial artists, give notice in our advertising columns this morning that beginning on May 14th, their shops will be closed on Sunday. Their shops will be open until 11 o’clock Saturday nights to accommodate their customers. Capt. Healey of Long Beach, accompanied by Col. Bob Northam, was in town yesterday afternoon. Capt. Healey is making preparations to begin the immediate survey of the 2,000-acre tract of land at Buena Park recently sold by Col. Northam to Major McNally of Chicago. Attention is directed to the new advertisement of Dominick Lieb, who has opened a new store on Center street, opposite the Commercial Hotel, where he keeps a line of groceries, provisions, hardware, etc., all at the lowest prices. Dominick delivers goods to all parts of the city, and advertises that everything in his establishment is first-class. Give him a call. Our esteemed contemporary The Orange Post has dunned a brand new head—a sort of Easter bonnet, as it were—and is just as pretty as a Japanese wedding, besides being one of the ablest and best written papers in the county. We had intended saying this last week, but singularly enough forgot all about it. We give place on the fourth page to a letter from Dr. Higgins in opposition to the high school. While we favor the school, think it ought to be carried, still we concede the right to both sides to be heard. The Doctor argues in favor of more school room for the primary grades, which we are all agreed upon, and which will be forthcoming when the new high school building is erected. In another column will be found two interesting letters from Mr. S. Little. The first delegation went down on the 7 o’clock train, which took them to Santa Ana, where they were guests of the Odd Fellows of that city, who entertained them at an early lunch. The second delegation went down on the 9 o’clock train and met the Santa Ana delegation at Orange, when the run to Riverside was begun. It is doubtful if the Orange City ever held so large a throng as assembled there yesterday. At 2 o’clock there was a grand parade of all the subordinate and Robekah lodges, under escort of Canton Riverside and Canton Orion. The parade was through the principal streets to the Loring Opera-house, where a programme of interesting exercises was held during the afternoon. At 8:30 last evening the grand anniversary ball took place at Armory Hall. Excursion trains were run to Riverside during the day, and the parade and exercises were attended by thousands of spectators. The visitors returned last evening. One day while Ed Morgan was hunting rabbits down on the desert at New river he came across a huge rattlesnake, coiled up under a mesquit bush, with its head aloft and tongue darting out, as if ready to strike. Ed had his gun ready for any stray rabbit that might come down his way, and when he came upon the snake, blazed away at it instantly, then beat a hasty retreat, until the smoke and dust cleared away. When he had reached a safe distance he turned and surveyed the field and found that his snakeship was writhing in the jaws of death, as it were. The reptile had been hit in the neck, and when it succumbed Ed cut off the head and skinned it. The rattler measured six feet, and had seven rattles, the end of the rattles having been broken off. Experts say it must have had twenty rattles. The skin is a very beautiful specimen, and is now in the possession of Mrs. Everhardy, to whom Ed presented it some time ago. The Horticultural Commissioners hold a special meeting at Orange last Monday morning to discuss the shipping of a quantity of Orange trees from Long Beach by a Mr. Cunningham to Theo. Staley of Placentia. Mr. Staley wrote Mr. Perry notifying him of the expected arrival of the trees, and asking him to inspect them at the depot here. Mr. Perry failed to receive the notice in time to intercept the trees, and when he went to Mr. Staley’s place he found them already planted out in orchard form and also found them infested with both white and black scale. Messra. Cunningham and Staley met with the commissioners on Monday, and realized that they had been guilty of a misdemeanor, expressed themselves as being willing to do whatever the commissioners required. They were directed to use the resin wash thoroughly upon all the trees, and then ask for another inspection, repeating the operation until not a living scale could be found in the orchard. “A. K. L.” Those are the hieroglyphics that struck our reporter in his meanderingings through town one day last week. Just exactly where they occurred we don’t propose to say in this edition further than that it was on the property of one of our most estimable citizens, who had rented it on the consideration of $1 50 for the first month, and so on. On inquiry of that “Major Domo” in charge we ascertained that A.K.L stands for “Anabeheim Kids’ Lodge.” A further investigation showed quite a number of maps tacked to the wall, a long bench and table, on in the corner, anugly ensoused, and in the corner, anugly ensoused, Mr. Theo. Rimpa returned on Mr. afternoon from Yuma, where he and daughter Miss Sophia went last week visit to their relatives there. The heat is temporary sojourners in the Territory improving, which will be pleasant near their many friends here. Miss Sophia mains with her mother at Yuma. The Earl of Craven, whose marriages Miss Bradley-Martin in New York last has given the society jenkineses a chair spread themselves, visited Los Angeles year, and stopped at Nadeau, which had the distinction to fire a bullet revolver into an expensive mirror. TheOf mirror was a mere bagatelle, ever to a young fellow with an income $400,000 a year. Miss Lizzie Friese, daughter of Mrs.A.Friece of this city, took her picture yesterday for Chicago, where she accepted a very flattering musical entrance to continue during the opening of World’s Fair. Miss Friese posed well-modulated mez soprano voice; she already attracting wide attention; and she has been sent for to become one galaxy of famous singers to appear at concerts is indeed very flattering To She will be absent several months best wishes of her many friends in Anglo with her for a safe trip and speedy return. Miss Polly and Harriet Levy of San Francisco were in town one day last week visit to the family of Gus Davison. for a pillow, volume a recliners of balows through your silken therese blue, you discover Dipper, Arc and all the just the same ear age, when astronomy at a were there their flocks on oxes invading; they shone on camp his banks of the division to pyramids of Columbus adds a new and on the ocean thread to day! and procession these generations same as they be as they will light on glide off into only the pure you dream cut saw, and next neighbor Au revoir, WHYHACKER. HOME DID THE WELL ABANDONED on well-borer, sits at the well, this way to In-Ripman, whom gray home from that provisions out at once well. The men mammoth Tank, until Tuesday thing by which and come home.cribed has not consequently Morgan tele- and the camp is up and the will take them the 175 feet of well. This will end when opera-which will final. IN THE SUPERIOR Court on Monday Christopher Gonber recovered judgment against Gordon and Whitney of San Francisco, M. L. Wicks of Los Angeles and Alfred Goldthwaite and others of this city in the amount of $4,927 30. The property involved is the Del Campo Hotel, and the action was brought to foreclose a mortgage on the furniture. Mr. H. W. Chynoweth of this city was plaintiff's attorney, and the defense was represented by W. S. Allen of San Francisco and J. G. Scarborough of Santa Ana. The line of continuous development in Southern California is indicated by a transaction, reported a few days ago, in which Mr. Andrew McNally, of Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago, purchased two thousand acres of land from Mr. Robert Northam, near Buena Park. He proposes to colonize the property, and no doubt, as the Los Angeles Herald remarks, we shall soon be treated to another magical scene of development in which water development and enterprise and industry will do their perfect work, as they have done so often in the past. Ana- "We give place on the fourth page to a letter from Dr. Higgins in opposition to the high school. While we favor the school, and think it ought to be carried, still we concede the right to both sides to be heard. The Doctor argues in favor of more school room for the primary grades, which we are all agreed upon, and which will be forthcoming when the new high school building is erected. -In another column will be found two very interesting letters from Mr. S. Littlefield, who is down in the New River country superintending the sinking of an artesian well for reclamation purposes. Mr. Littlefield writes with an easy grace and free abandon, and has an interesting subject to write upon, which he handles with consumable skill. The letters are the best that have thus far been sent in from the desert, and are well worth perusal. -Captain E. Browning has tendered his resignation as the commanding officer of Company G. We learn that some of the members of the company are not regular in their attendance at drills, and others have absented themselves without permission and refuse to pay their fines. There are many good active members in the company, and we hope that they will see to it that a more lively interest is taken in the company, and that the Captain, who has been a most meritorious and energetic commanding officer, may be induced to withdraw his resignation. -In the Superior Court on Monday Christopher Gonber recovered judgment against Gordon and Whitney of San Francisco, M. L. Wicks of Los Angeles and Alfred Goldthwaite and others of this city in the amount of $4,927 30. The property involved is the Del Campo Hotel, and the action was brought to foreclose a mortgage on the furniture. Mr. H. W. Chynoweth of this city was plaintiff's attorney, and the defense was represented by W. S. Allen of San Francisco and J. G. Scarborough of Santa Ana. "The line of continuous development in Southern California is indicated by a transaction, reported a few days ago, in which Mr. Andrew McNally, of Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago, purchased two thousand acres of land from Mr. Robert Northam, near Buena Park. He proposes to colonize the property, and no doubt, as the Los Angeles Herald remarks, we shall soon be treated to another magical scene of development in which water development and enterprise and industry will do their perfect work, as they have done so often in the past." Ana- "A. K. L." Those are the hieroglyphics that struck our reporter in his meandering through town one day last week. Just exactly where they occurred we don't propose to say in this edition further than that it was on the property of one of our most estimable citizens, who had rented it on the consideration of $150 for the first month, and so on. On inquiry of the "Major Domo" in charge we ascertained that A.K.L stands for "Anahisim Kids' Lodge." A further investigation showed quite a number of maps tacked to the wall, a long bench and table, on which were the remains of two wax candles, and in the corner, anugly enclosed, was an ordinary plain lantern, the smoke on the casing of which showed that it didn't give much light. The Major Domo in question informed us that the A.K.L Lodge had 98 cents in the treasury and that it intended to furnish better lights for the members. A dice box with six of the blackest of dice spoke volumes as to the literary character of the exercises held there by the kids. We questioned the Major Domo as to the membership of the society, and names were revealed that will set some of our best citizens wondering where their kids go o' nights. Mr.C.B.de PasofSanFrancisco, representing L.Euphrat & Co.,the wholesale wine merchants of that city,was in town on Friday renewing old acquaintances. It has been three years since Mr.Das visited us,having in the interim taken the northern Pacific route.Heresafter he will be with us every ninety days.Mr.Das has the reputation of being the most versatile commercial traveler on the road.When our reporter was introduced to him at the Commercial he lit out on a Cockney harangue about Anahiom—dropping his h's then picking them up again,tunil the reporter thought a demented Coster had broken lose and was about calling the police.Of a sudden Do Pas switched off to an Hibernian—in the handling of the brogue of which he is notably "great"—then a FrenchmanItalian,German and Scotchman stood before us in one continual round of side-splitting hilarity.The gentleman is the greatest dialect comedian we ever saw off the stage,and like all commercial travelers,a apt reconsteur and kept a large crowd of friends convulsed with laughter for a couple of hours untill he had to leave to take the evening train for Los Angeles.Mr.Das pas will always meet with a large circle of friends when he comes to Anahiom. See posters and Fullerton Tribune for prices of Stern & Goodman's great Spring Opening Sale; commencing April 26th to May 6th. See Stern & Goodman of Fullerton for bargains. ture yesterday for Chicago,where attentive to accept a very flattering musical event to continue during the opening of World's Fair.Miss Friese poised a well-modulated mez soprano voice;will be heard at the Fair concerts she already attracting wide attention;and she has been sent for to become one galaxy of famous singers to appear at concerts is indeed very flattering to She will be absent several months.best wishes of her many friends in Augo with her for a safe trip and speedy visit. Misses Polly and Harriet Levy of San Cisco were in town one day last week visit to the family of Gus Davis.were taken on a drive by Philip Day points of interest in this section,and the Santa Ana,Tustin and Orange,and simply carried away in delight at what saw of our imperial county.Miss Hass contributed to the San Francisco,and will no doubt record her observation in paper on her return to the mettaShe had heard a great deal of our sectorever her visit here,但 once she beauteour county were revealed to her,surethe half had not been told.The have returned to their home in the now. J.E.Hoy of Washington,D.C.,has chased a part of the Joel B.Parker Villa Park.Hepurchased forty acres,the nine of which are in Mediterranean orce trees in full bearing and good condition.Conservative estimates place crop of this season at 9,000 boxes.dently Mr.Hoy has made a good bwe understand from the Orange New orce has already refused an advance onthe price paid,bwhich was $21,000has arranged for the planting of elevenof the vacant land to lemons,and wince mence to creat a fine dwelling on themuses at an early date.He expects comfortably domiciled in his new early August. Mrs.Littlefield entertained her frienda most enjoyable party given at her dence last Friday evening.at which number of invited guests were present spacious parlor was transformed into roses,the chandeliers being built with mistletoe,making a very cute effect.During the evening Miss Frieedored the company with a couple of raresselections,and Miss Trower recited usual capital manner.Parlor gave dancing were enjoyed,and a booth spread of refreshments were served for full justice to,and later the party diary. Call on Stern & Goodman for farmmeats,groceries,dry goods,boots,hats,caps and furnishing goods. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. ISAAC LYONS, ...DEALER IN... Groceries, -:- Provisions! Hardware, Crockery, Tinware, Agateware, Glassware, Lamps and Lamp stock, Coal Oil and Lubricating Oils, Paints, Oils, Varnishes & Window Glass Woodenware, Stationery, Confectionery. Table and Pocket Cutlery, Razors, SCISSORS, Ammunition. Gasoline, Wood and Coal Stoves. Farming Implements. ROPE. 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