anaheim-gazette 1893-06-01

VOLUME XXIII. LODGE MEETINGS ANAHEIM LODGE, NO. 207, P. & 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. CURROWTH, Secretary. ANAHEIM LODGE, NO. 199, I. O. O. F. REGULAR meetings every Tuesday evening. Visiting brothers always welcome. A. M. WILLIAMS, N. O. W. R. HARKEN, Secretary. ANAHEIM LODGE, NO. 85, A. O. U. W. MEETINGS on the first and fourth Friday of every month. B. R. GROGAN, M. W. T. S. GRIMSHAW, Secretary. ORDER CHOSEN FRIENDS MEETS THE FIRST and third Wednesday evenings in each month at 3 o'clock. Odd Fellows Hall. MRS. L. F. LEWIS, Councillor. A. L. LEWIS, Secretary. EVERGREEN COUNCIL, AMERICAN LEGION of Honor. Meets second and last Wednesday of each month, at 8 p.m. WM. CROWTHER, W. A. WITTE, Secretary. Commander. MALVERN HILL POST, NO. 131, G. A. R., meets every fourth Saturday in Chalbourne's Hall, Fullerton. All comrades and visiting comrades are welcome. M. H. DUNN, Commander. J. B. McCOLLON, Adjutant. INVINCIBLE PARLOR, NO. 74, NATIVE SONS of the Golden West, meets the first and third Saturday of each month. Visiting brothers always welcome. H.W.DYER, President. FELICIDAD PARLOR, NO. 52, NATIVE DAUGHTERS of the Golden West, meets the first and third Thursday of each month at 3 o'clock P.M. MISS LOUISA WEIMEYER, President. MNAHEIM TENT, NO. 9, KNIGHTS OF THE Macabees of the World, meets the second and fourth Saturday of every month. Sojourning brethren in good standing are invited to attend. W.T.BROWN, Commander. E.S.WAKE, Record Keeper. PROFESSIONAL CARDS D. W. HUNT, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Also U.S. Examining Surgeon. At my residence, 7 to 8 A.M.; at my office, 10:30 to MISCELLANEOUS. WM. R. HARKEN ...DEALER IN... Harness, Saddles, Robes, BRUSHES, COMBS, Repairing - Neatly My Harness Shop will compare favorably with or adjoining Counties. Call and inspect my stock purchasing elsewhere. It is my aim to please my customers, and I am paired than ever to give the public Great Bargains in partments of my large Harness Store. KROEGER'S BLOCK, CENTER STREET. Commercial Hotel (Corner Center and Lemon Streets) J.J.EVERHARTY,- PROP First-class Accommodations for Families THE COMMERCIAL, FORMERLY KNOWN Theim Hotel, has been thoroughly renovated, and in first-class style. A share of the public patron solicited. SAMPLE ROOMS ATTACHED The Finest of Wines, Liquors and Cigars DUBLIN STOUT, PALE ALE, HALF-AN PROFESSIONAL CARDS D. W. HUNT, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Also U. S. Examining Surgeon. At my residence, 7 to 8 A.M.; at my office, 10:30 to 12 M.; at my residence, 8 to 9 P.M.; at my office 1 to 3 P.M. FRANK T. RIMPAU. DRUGGIST AND CHEMIST, Graduate of College of Pharmacy. $65 North Main street, opposite Baker block, Los Angeles, Cal. Prescriptions carefully compounded. The patronage of the public respectfully solicited. H. W. CHYNOWETH, Attorney-At-Law. Helmsen Building, Center street. NOTARY PUBLIC. 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. T. S. CRIMSHAW. Lumber. Sash, Doors, Blinds, Scroll Sawing, Planing, Turning, Moulding. Shop work of every description. Orange boxes in any quantity and at reasonable prices. Lime, Hair and Cement in any quantity. Grist Mill in Operation Wednesdays and Saturdays of each Week. FULLERTON, CALIF. L. NEMITZ, THE PAINTER, Shop on Center street, near the opera-house. I am ready to do first-class Carrlage Painting & Trimming GENERAL JOBBING. L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT & SHOE MAKER. Corner Adele and Los Angeles treets. ALBERTSON & MIDDLEHAM House Painters! Paper Hanging, Kalsomining. J. J. EVERHARTY, PROPRIETARY First-class Accommodations for Families THE COMMERCIAL, FORMERLY KNOWN Heim Hotel, has been thoroughly renovated, and is in first-class style. A share of the public patronage solicited. SAMPLE ROOMS ATTACHED TO THE Finest of Wines, Liquors and Cigars DUBLIN STOUT, PALE ALE, HALF-AAN F. CRIST, MERCHANT Just received a complete assortment of latest styles and fabrics, to wittention of the citizens of Anaheim is directed. Suits to order from Pants to order from An invitation is cordially e public to call and examine this store Bentz & Stead Wholesale and Retail Anaheim, Cal. Dealers in Beef, Pork, Mutton, Veal, Sausa Of Our Own Make Highest Market price Paid for GUS DAW Groceries and Informs his customers and the general public that to sell goods at the smallest margin possible. He therefore can sell for a very small profit, giving his effit of low prices. No charge for showing goods or tions. Come one, Come all! L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT & SHOE MAKER. Corner Adele and Los Angeles streets. ALBERTSON & MIDDLEHAM House Painters! Paper Hanging, Kalsomining. All work done with greatness and dispatch. A share of the public patrolage solicited. Opposite Postoffice. A. D. Porter. H. A. McWilliams. PORTER & McWILLIAMS. CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. Office and shop, first door south of Ferdinand Backs' Furniture Store. Los Angeles street, Anaheim. H. P. LARSEN, CONTRACTOR & BUILDER. Estimates given, Contracts made and do a general Jobbline 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 ers promptly attended to. All work guaranteed. FOR SALE. Ten, twenty and forty acre tracts, improved and unimproved. Low prices. Apply to H. D. POLHERUS, Miraflores, Cal. Postoffice address—Anaheim, Cal. GUS DAW Groceries and Informs his customers and the general public that to sell goods at the smallest margin possible. He therefore can sell for a very small profit, giving his effit of low prices. No charge for showing goods or tions. Come one, Come all! O. R. LUEDKE, Watchmaker and J A FINE ASSORTMENT OF WATCHES Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware and Optical Goods Always on Hand. Center Street, Opp. Commercial Go To WM.BOY Groceries and Provenance Confectionery, Cigars Tobacco Grain, Mill Feed, Etc. Hiqhest Price Prices Delivered Free! BACKS' BLOCK, LOS ANGELES STREET, ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1893. SCELLANEOUS. HARKER, DEALER IN... DLES, Robes, Whips, S, COMBS, ETC. Neatly - Done! Compare Favorably with any shop in this and inspect my stock and prices before my customers, and I am now better prepublic Great Bargains in the various desns Store. CENTER STREET. ANAHEIM. Special Hotel. (ater and Lemon Streets) TY, - PROPRIETOR. ations for Families & Tourists MERLY KNOWN AS THE ANAroughly renovated, and will be conducted of the public patronage is respectfully WOOMS ATTACHED TO HOTEL. and Cigars ALE ALE, HALF-AND-HALF. The Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. SHUSCRIPTION, - $2 Per Year. Six months... 1.00 Three months... 75 Payable invariably in advance. Transient Advertising. SPACE. 1 week 2 weeks 3 weeks 4 week One square.... $1.00 Two squares... 1.50 Three squares... 2.00 Four squares... 2.50 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 delivered by carrier in Anaheim on the morning of publication. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter. Items of news and correspondence on all 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. Evans and Sontag Again. Samuel Black, a private detective, and Thomas Burns of Visslia, were waylaid at Camp Badger, twenty six miles east of that city at 9 o'clock last Friday night, by Evans and Sontag. Black and Burns had been playing pedro at the hotel at Camp Badger, and at the hour named went to the cabin which they had been occupying for a short time. As they reached the house a shot was fired at Black, the small shot taking effect in the right leg, left hand and one entering the abdomen. Evans and Sontag were about thirty-five feet from Black when they opened fire, and they retreated as they kept shooting, firing legal fees have frequently been extorted from pensioners. It is a risky business. Any attorney caught at it is disbarred from practice before the bureau. The attorneys secure the names of possible pensioners from persons for whom they have procured pensions in the same neighborhoods. It is hardly possible for any who has a reasonable claim to escape knowledge of the fact. Sometimes a single ex soldier will receive as many as a dozen circulators of the kind referred to inside of a week. The Pension Bureau now contemplates several measures for weeding out fraudulent pensioners. A circular has already been sent to 110 special examiners in different parts of the country, directing them to inquire in all localities which they visit as to the existence of such cheats. It is a part of their regular duty to examine witnesses for the purpose of obtaining testimony in respect to all applications for pensions. They will ask every such witness if he or she knows of anybody who is reported to be drawing a pension fraudulently. Cases thus learned of will be fully investigated. In every important town there is at least one board of examining surgeons employed by the Pension Bureau. Each board is composed of three physicians. These surgeons are all Republicans at present. During Mr. Cleveland's former administration one Republican was selected for each board, to serve with two Democrats, in order that politics should have no control over decisions. The Democrats complain that under Mr. Harrison they got no representation whatever, every board being exclusively Republican. Many changes in the personnel of the boards are soon to be made. The new men will be instructed to make the examinations much more strict. They will inquire of all applicants as to reported fraudulent pensioners. Furthermore, by a new rule of the Pension Bureau, every claimant under the law of 1890 must furnish the affidavits of two credible witnesses as to whether his disabilities are due to vicious habits or not. These things have never been done before. To the same end the Pension Bureau will utilize Postmasters all over the country, particularly in small towns. At the post-offices in little towns, neighborhood scandals of every sort are talked over and the local pensioners are well known. The postmaster A complete assortment of SUMMER GOODS and fabrics, to which the attaches of Anaheim and vicinity is cordially extended this stock. Steadman, and Retail Butchers. Heim, Cal. Mutton, Veal, Sausages and Lard Your Own Make. Price Paid for Live Stock. DAVIS and Seeds! The general public that he is prepared margin possible. He buys for cash and small profit, giving his customers the benefit showing goods or answering queries. Samuel Black, a private detective, and Thomas Burns of Vizalia, were waylaid at Camp Badger, twenty six miles coast of that city at 9 o'clock last Friday night, by Evans and Sontag. Black and Burns had been playing pedro at the hotel at Camp Badger, and at the hour named went to the cabin which they had been occupying for a short time. As they reached the house a shot was fired at Black, the small shot taking effect in the right leg, left hand and one entering the abdomen. Evans and Sontag were about thirty-five feet from Black when they opened fire, and they retreated as they kept shooting, firing about sixteen shots, only the first of which took effect. Black fell when shot and crawled into the cabin, there securing a Winchester rifle and firing two shots. Burns ran back to the hotel when the shooting commenced, though Black called to him to stay with him. When the desperate first shot Black said: "You murderers, you would not give a man half a chance." To which Evans or Sontag replied: "Give them —, there are others in the cabin." Black went to the mountains last October and has been cutting wood, hauling lumber, etc., going armed and watching for the bandits all the time. He came in sight of them only once before Friday night, but was not near enough for an encounter. The desperados soon had him spotted and ten days since sent him word by Tom East, a mountain rancher, that if he would not leave they would kill him. Black paid no attention to the threat, with the result stated. He has a poor opinion of the bandits as shots, and says he would have been killed were they marksmen. Black says there are at least a dozen men about Camp Badger, rendering assistance to the outlaws. Black is resting easily and during Saturday smoked several cigars. Three buckshot struck him in the right leg, above the knee, four in the right hip, one in the left side and others in the calf of the left leg. Many men are in the hills, looking for the bandits, waiting to get the drop on them. Evans and Sontag say they will not leave the mountains till they have got even with the officers hunting them. Mrs. Evans is said to be in the mountains with her husband. Specimen Cases. S. H. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis., was troubled with neuralgia and rheumatism, his stomach was disordered, his liver was affected to an alarming degree, appetite fell away, and he was terribly reduced in flesh and strength. Three Bottles of Electric Bitters cured him. Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, Ill., had a running sore on his leg of eight years' standing. Used three bottles of Electric Bitters and seven boxes of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and his leg is sound and well. John Speaker, Catawba, O., had five large fever sores on his leg, doctors said he was incurable. One bottle Electric Bitters and one box Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured him entirely. Sold by W. M. Higgin's Drug Store. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY TIME TABLE. Trains pass Anaheim as follows: FROM ARRIVE AT ANAHEIM. Tustin 7:23 A.M. Santa Ana to Los Angeles 8:13 A.M. *Los Angeles to Santa Ana* 10:40 A.M. *Santa Ana to Los Angeles* 5:10 P.M. *Los Angeles to Santa Ana* 6:58 P.M. Anahiem to Tustin 6:37 P.M. Except Sundays. Street cars connect with all trains. Santa Fe Route. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RAILWAY COMPANY TIME TABLE—In effect January 1, 1883. Trains pass Anaheim as follows: NORTH BOUND. Los Angeles Accum., daily 8:00 A.M. Belt Line Express, daily 9:27 A.M. Los Angeles Express, daily 12:24 A.M. Whatever, every board being exclusively Republican. Many changes in the personnel of the boards are soon to be made. The new men will be instructed to make the examinations much more strict. They will inquire of all applicants as to reported fraudulent pensioners. Furthermore, by a new rule of the Pension Bureau, every claimant under the law of 1890 must furnish the allidavits of two credible witnesses as to whether his disabilities are due to vicious habits or not. These things have never been done before. To the same end the Pension Bureau will utilize Postmasters all over the country, particularly in small towns. At the post-offices in little towns, neighborhood scandals of every sort are talked over and the local pensioners are well known. The postmasters will be requested to give information of cases reported to be fraudulent. In addition to these measures, thousands of cases where pensions at high rates have been allowed will be withdrawn from the files for re-examination. According to the Pension law of 1890, which granted from $5 to $12 a month for disability, a claimant, in order to obtain the maximum allowance, must be seriously disabled. But it is asserted that thousands of names now on the rolls are those of persons not entitled to this high rate. Of 400,000 such cases approved during the last four years, more than 300,000 got the maximum of $144 a year. Before the law of 1890 went into effect there was only a few over 400,000 pensioners on the rolls; now there are 958,000. This law cost the Government more than $100,000,000 last year. The Democrats claim that of this vast sum $20,000,000 was expended illegally, the object held in view being to grind out as many pensions as possible, with a minimum of care in investigating claims. Thus, it is alleged, has come about a condition of affairs which obliges the United States to spend more money annually on account of the war than is expended by any of the armed nations of Europe. Hucklen's Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruses, Sorces, Ulceris, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by W. M. Higgin's. Renal Estimate Transfers. The following transfers of real estate have been recorded during the week: George W. Rogers, M. A. Rolf, formerly Wayman, and Matt E. Copeland—Agreement to surrender right to use for road, 50 foot strip through vineyard lot A, Anaheim. Alfred Goldthwaite to Ellen Goldthwaite -35 1.5 acres in WI ot SEI; Sec 26, T 3, R 10; $889. Stearns Ranchos Co. to Wm. Jones—N of SEI of SWI; Sec 27, T 4, R 10; $10. Same to E. M. Johnson—NE of NWI; Sec 2, T 5, R 10; $10. E. M. Johnson and Cass Johnson to Robert L. Greuleleaf—Same property; $2,-250. W. R. Hearst to C. H. Bohannon—NE of SWI of NEI; Sec 14, T 4, R 11; $1. C. H. Bohannon and Luu E. Bohannon to J.B. Pierce—Same property; $350. Stearns Ranchos Co. to R.M. Stewart-90 66 acres in section 35, T 4, R 10; $10. R.M. Stewart and M.J. Stewart to J.M. More—Same property; $1,500. Hiram L. Knowlton to Effie L. Riley-N of SEI of NEI; Sec 22, T 4, R 10; $500. Edward Amerige to Anna McDermont—Lot 61, Fullerton; $150. Stearns Ranchos Co. to Ludwig Hommering—S 5 acres of WI of NEI of NEI; Sec 23, T 4, R 11; $1。 LUEDKE, R and Jeweler. ALL WORK CAREFULLY Repaired AND Warranted pp. Commercial Hotel. L.BOYD For and Provisions. Bry, Cigars Tobacco. Highest Price Paid for Produce. Delivered Free I SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY TIME TABLE. Trains pass Anaheim as follows: FROM ARRIVE AT ANAHEIM. Tustin... 7:23 A.M. Santa Ana to Los Angeles... 8:13 A.M. *Los Angeles to Santa Ana... 10:40 A.M. *Santa Ana to Los Angeles... 8:13 P.M. Los Angeles to Santa Ana... 6:58 P.M. Anaheim to Tustin... 6:17 P.M. *Except Sundays... Street cars connect with all trains. Santa Fe Route. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RAILWAY COMPANY TIME TABLE—In effect January 1, 1893. Trains pass Anaheim as follows: NORTH BOUND: Los Angeles Accum., daily... 8:00 A.M. Belt Line Express, daily... 9:27 A.M. Los Angeles Express, daily... 12:24 P.M. Belt Line mall (daily)... 3:04 P.M. Atlantic Express, daily... 5:53 P.M. SOUTH BOUND: Santa Ana Accum., daily... 6:58 A.M. Pacific Express, daily... 2:07 A.M. Belt Line mall, daily, except Sunday... 11:55 A.M. Santa Ana Accum., daily, except Sunday... 2:43 P.M. San Diego Express, daily... 6:25 P.M. D.S. HILL. Agent. Santa Ana Railroad Time Table. (Daily except Sunday.) In effect November 23, 1891. Leave Santa Ana—9:20 A.M. Leave Newport—4 P.M. (On steamer days there will be an extra train leaving Santa Ana at G.P.M.) Dr. Gunn's Onion Syrup. This remedy is a sure cure for all diseases of the throat and lungs, caused by taking cold. It will stop a cough in one night, no matter how severe. It is just what its name implies; an onion syrup, compounded in such manner as to do away with the unpleasant taste and odor of the vegetable. When in need of a cure for a cough or cold, try it. Price 50 cts. Sold by J. Reid, druggist. Buy a McCormick mower at John Schanman's. It is the best. Buy and recommend Farmers' Healing Liniment because it is a genuine healing remedy. For sale by W. M. Higgins, drug-gist, Anaheim, Cal. For Rent. Ten acres to rent on shares. Enquire at this office. Frauds in the Pension Bureau. Fifty thousand attorneys are now regularly practicing before the Pension Bureau. They are scattered all over the country. The fee which they are allowed to receive in each case is fixed at $10. This sum is taken out of the first payment of pensions by the United States Pension agent and is forwarded to the attorney by draft. The latter can no instance exact more than $10, and the claimant is so notified. Nevertheless, il- W.R. Hearst to C. H. Bohannon—NE of SW of NEI. Sec 14, T 4, R 11; $1. C.H. Bohannon and Luila E. Bohannon to J.B. Pierce—Same property; $350. Stearns Ranchos Co. to R.M. Stewart—90.86 acres in section 35, T 4, R 10; $10. R.M. Stewart and M.J. Stewart to J.M. More—Same property; $1,500. Hiram L. Knownton to Effle L. Riley—N of SE of SE of NWI. Sec 22, T 4, R 10; $500. Edward Amerige to Anna McDormont—Lot 61, Fullerton; $1,500. Stearns Ranchos Co. to Ludwig Hommering—S 5 acres of NEI of NEI. Sec 23, T 4, R 11; $1. First Presbyterian Church of Fullerton to American Baptist Home Missionary Society—Lots 19, 20, 21 and 22, block 15, Fullerton; $1,000. Estate of Sophia E. Spoonable, deceased, certified copy of deocrse of distribution, to Minnie A. Crawford and Julia A.H. Knownton—Undivided interest in lot 11, block 14, Hawkins add, Santa Ana, and in lot 24, block A, Mellotte and Evans tract; and to Julia A.H. Knownton and Emery G. Huntington undivided each of undivided interest in E of NEI. Sec 35, T 3, R 10. Stearns Ranchos Co. to E.M. Hannna—N of NWI of NWI. Sec 26, T 4, R 10, except 79-100 acres; $10. D.J. Sorenson, deceased, estate of, certified copy of deocrse of distribution, to William Sorenson, Adelbert Sorenson and Edwin Sorenson, minors—Lots 5 to 8 inclusive, block 4, Santa Fe tract, Anaheim, and lots 30 and 31, block 22, Cal. Cooperative Colony tract. Completely Uprooted. How many remedies there are which merely relieve without uprooting disease. The contrast with sterling medicines which such palliatives afford not only enhances the dignity of the former but serves to emphasize the folly of employing half-way measures when thorough ones are available. A marked instance of this is the effect on the one hand of Hostetter's Stomach bitters in cases of chills and fever and billous remittent, and on the other of ordinary remedies in maladies of this type. By the littles, material complaint in every stage, and of the most malignant type, are completely conquered and lose their hold upon the system. They are rarely if ever disliked by the ordinary resources of medicine although their symptoms may unquestionably be mitigated through such means. The same holds good of indigestion, biliousness, kidney complaint, rheumatism, nervousness and debility. By the litters they are cured when many remedies fail. Here's a Nice Point Settled. The requirements of etiquette, as regards the obligation of one smoker to give a light to another from his cigar, are rather dimly It is a risky business, but at it is disbarred from the bureau. The attorneys have possible pensions from them have procured penny neighborhoods. It is hard why who has a reasonable knowledge of the fact, ex soldier will receive as circulars of the kind rea week. Bureau now contemplates our weeding out fraudulent circular has already been examiners in different city, directing them to inspect which they visit as to cheats. It is a part of to examine witnesses for obtaining testimony in relations for pensions. They witness if he or she who is reported to be fraudulently. Cases thus fully investigated. In town there is at least one long surgeons employed by the board. Each board is commissioned at present. During Mr. administration one Rejected for each board, to Democrats, in order that we no control over decisions complain that under any got no representation board being exclusively changes in the personnel soon to be made. The new decided to make the examinatory. They will inquire as to reported fraudulent moreover, by a new rule of law, every claimant under must furnish the allidavits themselves as to whether his vicious habits or not, never been done before the Pension Bureau will all over the country, small towns. At the post-annual, neighborhood scandals talked over and the local well known. The postmaster understood in this country. The man who is asked for a light usually gives it rather than take the trouble of refusing, on the same principle as paying fare for hanging to a car platform, or going to a theater to obtain a rear view of an extensive variety of feminine headgear. In Havana the traditions of Spanish formality combine with the universality of smoking to form a clear and well-defined code on the subject. The request of one smoker to another for a light must always be honored in Cuba Your well bred Havana smoker would as soon think of refusing another the privilege of breathing the same air with him as of refusing a light. To meet the requirements of full courtesy, also, the light must be given from the end of the cigar, no matter how wide the difference of rank in the cigars thus brought into contact. To save a Concha Especiale from the pungent flavor of a Wheeling two-fer by preferring a match, as is often done here, would in Havana be regarded as a snub too refined in its significance for open resenting, but at the same time too crushing for any future amicable relations. To give the stub of a cigar to serve as a lighter and tell the applicant to throw it away when he has used it, is a deadly insult and calls for blood. What would be done in Cuba if the requested light should be refused is not known, for the reason that no such case has ever arisen. This is unfortunate as it leaves us without precedents to judge of exactly that case in this country. One smoker in New York, inspired by Havana customs, requested a light from another and was refused, whereupon the aggrieved person smokes the other with such force that he was knocked out. We must decline to regard this as coming within the Spanish-American code. It has too much brutal downrightness for the delicate ethics to which we have referred. Those refined principles would not dream of revenging such a slight by any more violent method than calling the offender out and sticking a slender rapier into him strictly according to the code. Still since the penalties of refusing a light seem to be very decided in both countries, smokers may as well make up their mind to grant the favor. Gentlemen who are fastidious about having their cigars handled may avoid the difficulty by smoking only in their NEWS IN BRIEF After more than twelve years' servitude in San Quentin Prison, it transpires that Quan Ah Cheo is innocent of the murder of Chin Quan Lim, another Chinaman, for which he was convicted, and his pardon has been decided upon by Gov. Markham. Chin Quan Lim was shot during a game of dominos in a Chinese shop in San Francisco. The other Chinamen present swore that Quan Ah Cheo was the murderer, and upon their evidence he was convicted and sentenced to prison for life. One Chan Ah Yee, a highbinder, who was mixed up in the case, was hunted diligently by the police at the time, but he led Australia. Several local detectives have recently become interested in the affair, having long suspected Quan Ah Cheo's innocence, and an investigation has finally began. Facts have been brought to light which hasten the crime on Chan Ah Yee and vindicate the inmate of San Quentin. He will be released in a few days. A bombshell was exploded in the Los Angeles City Council one day last week in the shape of a suit against each member of the Council on the part of William Ferguson, a resident and taxpayer, praying that the defendants be enjoined from selling the $826,000 worth of bonds voted last fall for the purchase of a city water works. According to the complaint the election was held in a most negligent manner, and a number of strong legal points are claimed by the complainant to invalidate the issue of the bonds. Outside of any technical point the allegation is also made that the city's contract with the City Water Company prevents the city from entering into competition with that company. The Council was in session for the purpose of closing a contract with N.W.Harris & Co. of New York for the purchase of the bonds when the injunction was served on them. The hearing was set for Monday. This is but the preliminary step in a long course of litigation between the city and the water company. Suit has been commenced in the Superior Court in San Diego by Henry T. Gage and others against John G. Downey and other owners of the Warner ranch, the complaint setting up that the parties are owners in fee and tenants in common of that part of the Pancho Vallejo San Jose known as Moss board being exclusively changes in the personnel to be made. The new attention to make the examinstrict. They will inquire to reported fraudulent were more, by a new rule of every claimant under must furnish the allidavits tresses as to whether his to vicious habits or not. never been done before. the Pension Bureau will all over the country, small towns. At the postneighborhood scandals talked over and the local known. The postmated to give information of be fraudulent. In addisures, thousands of cases high rates have been alldrawn from the files for according to the Pension law awarded from $6 to $12 a y, a claimant, in order to minimum allowance, must be But it is asserted that nines now on the rolls are not entitled to this high such cases approved duryears, more than 300,000 of $144 a year. Before event into effect there was 400,000 pensioners on the 958,000. This law cost more than $100,000,000 last estates claim that of this 000 was expended illegally, view being to grind out as possible, with a minimum rating claims. Thus, it is about a condition of affairs United States to spend fully on account of the war any of the armed native Transfers. transfers of real estate have being the week: Mrs. M. A. Rolf, formerly Attt E. Copeland—Agreeright to use for road, 50 vineyard lot A, Anaheim, white to Ellen Goldthwaite of SE¹, Sec 26, T 3, R Co. to Wm. Jones—N² 27, T 4, R 10; $10. Johnson—NE¹ of NW¹, 10. and Cass Johnson to leaf—Same property; $2. C. H. Bohannon—NE² 14, T 4, R 11; $1. and Lulu E. Bohannon to the property; $350. Co. to R. M. Stewart—N³ 35, T 4, R 10; $10. and M. J. Stewart to J. M. erty; $1,500. wilton to Effie L. Riley—N³ of NW¹, Sec 22, T 4, R to Anna McDermont—$1,500. Co. to Ludwig Hommer—N³ of NE¹ of NE², Sec Can This Man He Permitted to Roam at Large? Santa Ana Standard. The Examiner of Monday last had an excellent editorial upon the subject, "What is the matter with Arithmetic." It shows that in the public schools of San Francisco the science is outrageously neglected, and the teachers either cannot or will not teach it. The average of pupils in arithmetic is only 73½ per cent, while in other studies not of one-tenth its importance the average is far higher. It is precisely the case in our schools all over the State, and confirms what we have often said of our public schools, that they are an expensive fraud. Children will stand high in botany, music, drawing, physiology, anatomy, etc., and can scarcely spell the name of the science, parse a sentence or tell the number of cubes feet in a cord of wood. Half of them can't cipher through long division, or figure the semi-annual interest upon six per cent note. They pass good examinations in algebra and geometry, but know nothing of mathematics or anything else that is useful in business life. The great trouble with our system of school teaching is the teachers don't teach—they kill time and draw salaries, and the pupils leave school after years of valuable time worse than wasted, great big overgrown numbkalls, and then go to school teaching because they are fitted for nothing else. Yet people keep talking of high schools. We suggest that a few good low schools where common branches are taught be started first by way of variety. She Had Them On. A group of actors, writers and artists was gathered about a central figure in the parlor of the Players' Club in New York the other day! He was a dignified man of commanding presence, but consisted features. From out of the depths of his sunken eyes there flashed the fire of genius that even illness could not subdue. Edwin Booth was in a reminiscent mood and his hearers listened eagerly to his words. "Yes, gentlemen," he said, "I did try once to play a joke on 'Aunt Louisa Eldridge,' but I'll not try it again. It was during an engagement in London. On the lst of July I heard that Mrs. Eldridge was in London and I sent her complimentary tickets for the evening of the Fourth of July. "On the afternoon of the third of July my attention was attracted by the display of gaudy hoirery in a shop window. One of the pairs of hose was of silk, of barberpole length and made up of brilliant red, white and blue stripes. I bought them and ordered them sent to Mrs. Eldridge. "The evening of the Fourth came and I was playing "Hamlet." The house was crowded and Mrs. Eldridge was in her box with her friends. I had told the members of my company about the stockings, and we wondered what she would do with them. Light from another and was refused, whereupon the aggrieved person smokes the other with such force that he was knocked out. We must decline to regard this as coming within the Spanish-American code. It has too much brutal downrightness for the delicate ethics to which we have referred. Those refined principles would not dream of revengeging such a slight by any more violent method than calling the offender out and sticking a slender rapier into him strictly according to the code. Still since the penalties of refusing a light seem to be very decided in both countries, smokers may as well make up their mind to grant the favor. Gentlemen who are fastidious about having their cigars handled may avoid the difficulty by smoking only in their own houses or offices, and appearing on the street without the much desired spark. Can This Man He Permitted to Roam at Large? Santa Ana Standard. The Examiner of Monday last had an excellent editorial upon the subject, "What is the matter with Arithmetic." It shows that in the public schools of San Francisco the science is outrageously neglected, and the teachers either cannot or will not teach it. The average of pupils in arithmetic is only 73½ per cent, while in other studies not of one-tenth its importance the average is far higher. It is precisely the case in our schools all over the State, and confirms what we have often said of our public schools, that they are an expensive fraud. Children will stand high in botany, music, drawing, physiology, anatomy, etc., and can scarcely spell the name of the science, parse a sentence or tell the number of cubes feet in a cord of wood. Half of them can't cipher through long division, or figure the semi-annual interest upon six per cent note. They pass good examinations in algebra and geometry, but know nothing of mathematics or anything else that is useful in business life. The great trouble with our system of school teaching is the teachers don't teach—they kill time and draw salaries, and the pupils leave school after years of valuable time worse than wasted, great big overgrown numbkalls, and then go to school teaching because they are fitted for nothing else. Yet people keep talking of high schools. We suggest that a few good low schools where common branches are taught be started first by way of variety. She Had Them On. A group of actors, writers and artists was gathered about a central figure in the parlor of the Players' Club in New York the other day! He was a dignified man of commanding presence, but consisted features. From out of the depths of his sunken eyes there flashed the fire of genius that even illness could not subdue. Edwin Booth was in a reminiscent mood and his hearers listened eagerly to his words. "Yes, gentlemen," he said, "I did try once to play a joke on 'Aunt Louisa Eldridge,' but I'll not try it again. It was during an engagement in London. On the lst of July I heard that Mrs. Eldridge was in London and I sent her complimentary tickets for the evening of the Fourth of July. "On the afternoon of the third of July my attention was attracted by the display of gaudy hoirery in a shop window. One of the pairs of hose was of silk, of barberpole length and made up of brilliant red, white and blue stripes. I bought them and ordered them sent to Mrs. Eldridge. "The evening of the Fourth came and I was playing "Hamlet." The house was crowded and Mrs. Eldridge was in her box with her friends. I had told the members of my company about the stockings, and we wondered what she would do with them." Light from another and was refused, whereupon the aggrieved person smokes the other with such force that he was made up their mind to grant it for injury it, and ask for a receiver, and that it be apportioned among the several owners. It is surmised that the real object of the action is to cause partition of the property, which is now entirely under control of Governor Downey as holder of the largest undivided interest. If partition at once begins it is believed that the property will soon be divided into small tracts and sold. Moss League is but a portion of the famous ranch and is six miles long and from two to three wide. It is a swamp and gets its name from the rank growth of moss which flourishes there. Horsecannot cross it at any season, but cattle wade out and find excellent feed. It is the headquarters of the San Luis Rey river. The Infantia Enjuila. The Spanish Infantia is having a great time in this country. Last week she was the guest of the President and Mrs. Cleveland,and on Thursday morning was driven to the depot en route to New York in the President's four-in-hand escorted by four companies of cavalry.A dispatch from New York on Friday says: Eualia,the Spanish Infantia,是the guest ofthe metropolis.Despitea short delay.owingtoa hotbox,thetrain pulledintojerseyCityontime.at3o'clockthisafternoon,andthePrincessalighted,showinginaowwisetheeffectofherjourney.Awaitingherarrivalwasaspecialcommittee,consistingofGen.HoracePorter,HowardCarroll,CorneliusN.Bliss WhitelawReid.Col.S.V.R.Cruger.ComptrollerMyers和JosephJ.O'Donohue.General Porter escorted hertoa carriage,andtheyweredriventothewharf，wherethesteamboatGeneralSlocumwasmoored.WhentheInfantia'spartyandmembersofthecommitteeboardedtheSlocum,theSpanishwar-shipInfantiaIsabelbegainedfiringannationalsaluteoftwenty-onegune,andthesametimemanningheryardsandparadingmarquesonthequarterdeck. Duringtheailuptheriver,thepartreceivedwithhundredsofrivercraft.AsTheBrazilianmen-of-war,theRepublicanandAquidiban.werepassed,theyardsofthetwobigwarshipsweremannedandsalutesfired.FurtheruptheriverwereTheNewarkandPhiladelphiaoftheAmericanNavy.Bothshipmanmedtheyardsandparatedthecrews，whileeach firedsalutesoftwenty-oneguns.AsTheSlocumturnedatFifty-fifthstreet,thegunsoftheMiantomomahfireda welcome.AtThirty-fourthstreetlaundingmade.onThepriorwasTroopA,thecrackcavalryregimentofNewYorkwhichwastoactasguardofhonortotheInfanta.Theprocessionheadbyamountedband.wasformed,andmarchedalongThirtyfourthstreettoTheHotelSavoy.AlongtheentireroutethePrincesecreamedmostenthusiacreceptionwhichshemostgracefullyacknowledged.Thestreetswerelinedwithpeople,andfrom On the afternoon of the third of July my attention was attracted by the display of gandy hoisery in a shop window. One of the pairs of hose was of silk, of barberpole length and made up of brilliant red, white and blue stripes. I bought them and ordered them sent to Mrs. Eldridge. The evening of the Fourth came and I was playing "Hamlet." The house was crowded and Mrs. Eldridge was in her box with her friends. I had told the members of my company about the stockings, and we wondered what she would do with them. At the end of the soilliquy, "To be or not to bet" the audience rose in wild applause. I then noticed that the members of my company were endeavoring to prevent an outburst of merriment, and I turned toward the place which their eyes indicated, which was the box occupied by Mrs. Eldridge and her friends. She was holding a large placard on her lap, and the inscription on it could be plainly read: "I can't wave them because I've got them on." "She almost broke up the play." And the great actor relapsed into silence. Mrs. Mary de Brannen (nee Mary L. Caston) about five years ago married John I. Brannon in Los Angeles. He lived with her six weeks and then left her. She heard no tidings from him and eventually entered suit for divorce. While the suit was pending and after the default had been entered she heard that De Brannen had been killed in an accident at San Diego. She did not investigate the matter thoroughly, but accepting the report as true dropped the suit. A preacher an undertaken in good faith. Four children were born to them. While walking in the street in Los Angeles last week Marie bobbed dead husband stalking alou as lifelike and realistic as ever. She did not scream, faint or address him. She went to a lawyer, took up the divorce proceedings where they had been left off and Saturday Judge Van Dyke divorced her. A license was procured, she and Herman appeared at once before Judge Shaw and they were married forthwith. This proceeding legalizes the children. To Less. $1,200 on good real estate security. Apply at the law office of H. W. Chynoweth, ma25 Now Try This. 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