anaheim-gazette 1896-08-06

Anaheim VOLUME XXVI. PROFESSIONAL CARDS DR. CHARLES E. LEE (Successor to Dr. Bullard.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office and Residence—Corner Hermine and Hartress Streets, Anaheim. Office Hours—7 to 9 a.m.; 1 to 3 p.m.; 7 to 8. Medical College of Ohio. New York Post-Graduate. Physician, Surgeon and Accoucheur. Dr. J. A. Champion Office and residence, on Center street, near Clementina. Calls Promptly Attended Day or Night. sept54f Paul A. Derge. Graduate in Pharmacy. DRUGS, MEDICINES, Perfumes and Toilet Articles. BEST 5-CENT CIGAR IN TOWN MEDICAL HALL, KOLL BLOCK. PUBLIC TELEPHONE OFFICE. NICK HUGO BLACKSMITHING, WOOD WORK, HORSE-SHOEING, AND A GENERAL JOBBING BUSINESS. Schauman's old stand, Los Angeles street. Having purchased the blacksmithing and wood work business heretofore owned by John Schauman. I take this means of informing the public that I shall continue the same and be ready to give satisfaction in all work entrusted to my care. The best workmanship and most reasonable prices. Give me a call. DR. S. S. TWOMBLY, D. V. S. Veterinary Surgeon Graduate from the Faculty of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Great Sacrifice Sale OF ... CLOTHING AND STRAW HATS THE SAN FRANCISCO CHEAP CASH STORE Calls the special attention of the general public to its Sacrifice Sale of Clothing and Straw Hats. It will pay you to call on us and get prices on these articles, as they will be slaughtered. Regardless of Cost. We also call the attention of the public to the fact that we keep the best School Shoes in Anaheim, and our prices are so low that you will save from 25¢ to 50¢ on each pair. Ladies' percale waists...Reduced to 40¢ German knitted worsted...from 25¢ to 20¢ Saxony yarn...from 12½¢ to 8¢ Dimities...from 10¢ to 7½¢ Percales...from 12½¢ to 9¢ Lonsdale Muslin...from 10¢ to 8¢ Ginghams...from 6¢ to 4¢ Reductions in our Shoe Department: Ladies' Dongola Oxford Ties...$1 50 to $1 00 Ladies' Dongola Button...$1 75 to $1 25 Men's working shoes...$1 75 to $1 25 Children's Dongola Button...$1 00 to 75 Remember, when you want to purchase GOOD AND FINE SHOES At low prices, call at the SAN FRANCISCO CHEAP CASH STORE OUR STORE IS LOCATED IN ODD FELLOWS' BUILDING, LOS ANGELES St., COR. OF CHARTRESS, ANAHEIM. WOOD WORK, HORSE-SHOEING, AND A GENERAL JOBBING BUSINESS. Schauman's old stand, Los Angeles street. Having purchased the blacksmithing and wood work business she before owned by John Schauman Jakke, this means of informing the public that I shall continue the same and be ready to give satisfaction in all work entrusted to my care. The best workmanship and most reasonable prices. Give me a call. DR. S. S. TWOMBLY, D. V. S. Veterinary Surgeon Graduate from the Faculty of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Late Professor of Chemistry and Veterinary Medicine at Agricultural College of Utah. Office—Center street, one door east of Harker's real estate agency, Anaheim. Residence, 1 mile east of Fullerton, on Placentia road. CHAS. S. ROGERS Civil Engineer. Irrigation and Hydraulic Work a Specialty. Surveys and Estimates made at Reasonable Rates. OFFICE—East of Santa Fe Depot, Anaheim. 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. H. A. McWilliams. Contractor AND Builder. Office, first door east of City Hall. GRAY BROTHERS & WARD Cement Contractors Shillinger Patent. Contracts for RESERVOIRS, IRRIGATION DITCHES, Cellar and Stable Floors, Sidewalks, Etc. OFFICES—No. 125 N. Broadway, Los Angeles, Cal.; Telephone—236. No. 316 Montgomery St., San Francisco, Cal. O. WARLING PIONEER SADDLER ...AND... Harness Maker. Having moved my stock of saddles and harness to the Krug building on Center st.; opposite the Commercial Hotel; I take this means of informing my friends and the public generally that I shall be pleased to wait upon them for any of their wants in my line. I shall carry an A stock of goods, which will be disposed of at prices cheaper than the cheapest. Give me a call. O. WARLING Men's working shoes.....$1 75 to $1 25 Children's Dongola Button.....$1 00 to 75 Remember, when you want to purchase GOOD AND FINE SHOES At low prices, call at the SAN FRANCISCO CHEAP CASH STORE OUR STORE IS LOCATED IN ODD FELLOWS' BUILDING, LOS ANGELES St., COR. OF CHARTRESS, ANAHEIM. E. B. MERRITT & CO., DEALERS IN FURNITURE AND A COMPLELE LINE OF House Furnishing Goods. Heath and Muliigan's best prepared Paints for all kinds of work. Wall Paper---Latest Designs. Pure, Raw and Boiled Linseed Oil, Varnish, etc. Agent for The Majestic Steel and Malleable Iron Range, the best on the market. The war is over; get our prices; you will find them right. Center Street, Opposite Postoffice, Anaheim, Cal H. A. DICKEL HEADQUARTERS FOR FRUIT JARS, JELLY GLASSES ...AND... FRUIT CANS. O. WARLING PIONEER SADDLER AND... Harness Maker. Having moved my stock of saddles and harness to the Krug building on Center st.; opposite the Commercial Hotel, I take this means of informing my friends and the public generally that I shall be pleased to wait upon them for any of their wants in my line. I shall carry an A stock of goods, which will be disposed of at prices cheaper than the cheapest. Give me a call. L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT & SHOE MAKER. Corner Adele and Los Angeles Streets. 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 J.M.Griffith Company A CORPORATION LUMBER DEALERS Near Railroad Depot ANAHEIM. esp 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 elled and shipped. W. T. BROWN, Agent. GO TO THE Oak Barber Shop FOR A FIRST-CLASS SHAVE OR HAIR CUT. TWO DOORS WEST OF BANK. HUSMANN BROS. JELLY GLASSES AND... FRUIT CANS. Ernest Bentz. Rudolph Bentz. BENTZ BROS. (Successors to Bentz & Bailey.) Wholesale and Retail Butchers Anaheim, Cal. Dealers in Beef, Pork, Mutton, Veal, Sausages and Lard Of Our Own Make. Highest Market price Paid for Live Stock! Mrs. G. Davis Groceries and Seeds! Informs her customers and the general public that she is prepared to sell goods at the smallest margin possible. She buys for cash and therefore can sell for a very small profit, giving her customers the benefit of low prices. No charge for showing goods or answering questions. Come one, Come all! All Kindsof Produce and Poultry Taken in Exchange Weim Weekly Gazette ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6. 1896. Price Sale RAW HATS P CASH STORE ic to its Sacrifice Sale of you to call on us and will be slaughtered The fact that we keep the prices are so low that in each pair. Reduced to 40c from 25 c to 20c from 12½ c to 8 c from 10 c to 7½ c from 12½ to 9 c from 10 c to 8 c from 6 c to 4 c $1 50 to $1 00 $1 75 to $1 25 $1 75 to $1 25 $1 00 to 75 SHOES CHEAP CASH STORE ED IN — ELELS St., COR. OF EIM. The Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. SUBSCRIPTION, - $1 50 Per Year. Six months...1 00 Three months...75 Payable invariably in advance. Transient advertising rates, $1 per inch per month. The Gazette is issued every Thursday morning, and is 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. FOOLING BUYERS OF WINE. A FRENCHMAN EMPLOYS SPIDERS TO SPIN WEBS OVER FRESH BOTTLES. There is a new wine trick just out in the East, and it is the cleverest ever concocted to deceive the lovers of ancient vintage. Spiders play the leading role. The industrious little creatures are turned loose by the thousands into wine cellars, and allowed to spin their webs over the newly corked bottles, thus giving them the appearance of having been stored for years. Simple as the trick is, it has put thousands of dollars into the pockets of some large merchants, and has also played an important part in the recent stocking of the cellars of some New York millionaires. The story came out last week, through the boastings of the spider raiser, who was feeling extra jubilant. He had just made a big contract, and as he walked around the wine district it was hard for him to keep his good fortune pent up. He had shown the liquor trade how to make money quickly and felt that he was entitled to some congratulations. "You see," said he, "it's awful hard for a wine merchant to sell 'new' goods. The public won't have them, and he must have a cellarful of twenty-year goods or get out of the business. Now, I am a Frenchman and was raised in the wine cellars of my native place. I have been in nearly every A Currency Catechism. THE REPUBLICAN VIEW. Question. What is meant by "sixteen to one?" Answer. That Congress shall declare sixteen ounces of silver to be equal in money value to one ounce of gold. Q. Are sixteen ounces of silver worth as much as one ounce of gold? A. No; it takes about thirty-one ounces of silver to equal in value one ounce of gold. Q. Can Congress alter this relative value by legislative fiat? A. It cannot; the relative worth of gold and silver is determined primarily by the relative production of these two metals. Q. What is commercial ratio? A. Commercial ratio is the ratio of actual value, the rate at which gold and silver can be exchanged. Q. Why has the price of silver fallen heavily since 1873? A. Chiefly because of its increased production. In the United States alone this increased from 27,051,000 ounces in 1873 to 66,500,000 ounces in 1892. Q. What is free coinage at 16 to 1? A. The coinage by the mints, without limit or restriction, of all the silver offered for that purpose into dollars containing sixteen times as many grains of silver as there are grains of gold in a gold dollar. Q. Would these be "honest dollars"? A. They would not. Each dollar would contain only about 53 cents' worth of silver and would be stamped with a lie on its face. Q. Why do silver dollars now existence, which contain only 53 cents' worth of silver, pass on a parity with gold? A. Because the United States, by pledging itself to keep all its currency at par, has made each silver dollar, like each paper dollar, ultimately exchangeable for a gold dollar. Q. Way would this not be the case under free coinage? A. Because the enormous increase in the number of silver dollars would speedily make their redemption in gold impossible. Q. Is it true that the suspension of free silver coinage in 1873 has contrained the currency and made money scarce? A. No; this statement is a brazen falsehood. THE DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE. Question. What is meant by 16 to 1? Answer. It means the amount of silver contained in a silver dollar short sixteen times as great as the amount of gold contained in a gold dollar. Q. Are sixteen ounces of silver worth much as one ounce of gold? A. The present commodity value of teen ounces of silver bullion is only one-half as much as the present commodity value of one ounce of gold bullion, but teen ounces of silver money, in the U.S., is to-day worth precisely as much one ounce of gold money. Q. Why this variation is valuable? A. Because this United States coinage ratio is 16 to 1, and at that same coinage ratio an ounce of silver will coin $1.29. Asia the coinage is 15 to 1, and at that same an ounce of bullion will coin $1.37, and all of these countries silver money is a tender in the payment of debt at the value of the coin. Q. Can Congress alter the relative value by legislative fiat? A. Value depends upon the law of supply and demand. Value is a relative term and of course cannot be legislated in thing nor out of a thing, but legislation can create a demand for a thing, and demand will enhance its value and its legislative demand is for the total available supply, and the legislative denies a price at which the total available supply will be received, it would be desirable for the value of the thing to fall below the legislative limit. It might rise at the legislative limit, but it could not, by possibility, fall below it. More than years ago the British parliament fixed value of gold at $20.67 per ounce, but it could be paid in gold coin. It also fixed coinage value of an ounce of gold at $20 and created an unlimited demand for bullion, consequently the value of bullion cannot fall below the price SHOES CHEAP CASH STORE ED IN — MELES St., COR. OF IM. & CO., URE NE OF Goods. for all kinds of work. Designs. nish, etc. lleable Iron Range, the ll find them right. Anaheim, Gal CKEL ERS ARS, ASSES ANS. WHAT MAY BE EXPECTED. CHEAP SILVER WILL DEPRECIATE THE VALUE OF PAYMENTS—SECRETARY CARLISLE'S VIEWS. LITTLE ROCK (Ark.), July 30. A statement was widely published by the press a few days ago that President G. L Greene of the Connecticut Life Insurance Company of Hartford, had issued a circular letter to policy-holders notifying them that in event of the government adopting the free coinage of silver, the company would be compelled to pay all claims in depreciated silver coin. F. W. Altop of this city sent a clipping of this statement to Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle with a request for an expression on the subject. He has received a reply from Carlisle, which is in part as follows: In case free coinage of silver should be established in this country I presume insurance companies and all other institutions would continue to make their payments by merchants, and has also played an important part in the recent stocking of the collars of some New York millionaires. The story came out last week, through the boastings of the spider raiser, who was feeling extra jubilant. He had just made a big contract, and as he walked around the wine district it was hard for him to keep his good fortune pent up. He had shown the liquor trade how to make money quickly and felt that he was entitled to some congratulations. "You see," said he, "it's awful hard for a wine merchant to sell 'new' goods. The public won't have them, and he must have a cellarful of twenty-year goods or get out of the business. Now, I am a Frenchman and was raised in the wine cellars of my native place. I have been in nearly every cellar in France, and just know the labor and expense that are necessary to produce twenty-year old wine. It takes all the gilt off the profits." "One day I was standing in one of the biggest wine vaults in Paris, when suddenly I noticed an immense spider lower himself from the ceiling and settle down upon the neck of a bottle. I was acustomed to spiders, for we have plenty of them there, but the great size of this one attracted me. "Slowly he moved from one cork to another, spinning his web as he went, until he had made a compli-tie chain. Marveling at his work, but disguised with his ugliness, I picked up a stick to smash him when the proprietor caught my hand. 'Don't do that,' he said, 'you will ruin my business.'" "Thinking he was joking, I laughingly asked him how his business depended upon such an intruder, and you may imagine my surprise when he answered that his business had really been built up by those little crawlers." "You see those bottles?" he said. "They look as if they had laid there for forty years, don't they? Well, they have been there just two months." I saw through it at once. The next day I began collecting spiders, and in another month sailed with several boxes of them for America. "I began breeding at once, and to day have twenty customers in this city who take all the spiders I can give them. I only sell them in hundreds and to the wholesale merchants, whose vaults are always filled with new stock. With my aid one of these merchants can stock a cellar with new, shining, freely labeled bottles, and in three months see them veiled with cobwebs, so that the effect of twenty years of storage is secured at a small cost. The effect upon a customer can be imagined and is hardly to be measured by dollars and cents. It is a trifling matter to cover the bin with dust. That is easy to the most inexperienced in the trade, but cobwebs span from cook to cook with cobwebs that drape the slender necks with delightful lace—the sign of years of slow mellowing—that is another story." WHAT MAY BE EXPECTED. CHEAP SILVER WILL DEPRECIATE THE VALUE OF PAYMENTS—SECRETARY CARLISLE'S VIEWS. LITTLE Rock (Ark.), July 30. A statement was widely published by the press a few days ago that President G. L Greene of the Connecticut Life Insurance Company of Hartford, had issued a circular letter to policy-holders notifying them that in event of the government adopting the free coinage of silver, the company would be compelled to pay all claims in depreciated silver coin. F. W. Altop of this city sent a clipping of this statement to Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle with a request for an expression on the subject. He has received a reply from Carlisle, which is in part as follows: In case free coinage of silver should be established in this country I presume insurance companies and all other institutions would continue to make their payments by merchants, and has also played an important part in the recent stocking of the collars of some New York millionaires. The story came out last week, through the boastings of the spider raiser, who was feeling extra jubilant. He had just made a big contract, and as he walked around the wine district it was hard for him to keep his good fortune pent up. He had shown the liquor trade how to make money quickly and felt that he was entitled to some congratulations. "You see," said he, "it's awful hard for a wine merchant to sell 'new' goods. The public won't have them, and he must have a cellarful of twenty-year goods or get out of the business. Now, I am a Frenchman and was raised in the wine cellars of my native place. I have been in nearly every cellar in France, and just know the labor and expense that are necessary to produce twenty-year old wine. It takes all the gilt off the profits." "One day I was standing in one of the biggest wine vaults in Paris, when suddenly I noticed an immense spider lower himself from the ceiling and settle down upon the neck of a bottle. I was acustomed to spiders, for we have plenty of them there, but the great size of this one attracted me. "You see those bottles?" he said. "They look as if they had laid there for forty years, don't they? Well, they have been there just two months." I saw through it at once. The next day I began collecting spiders, and in another month sailed with several boxes of them for America. "I began breeding at once, and to day have twenty customers in this city who take all the spiders I can give them. I only sell them in hundreds and to the wholesale merchants, whose vaults are always filled with new stock. With my aid one of those merchants can stock a cellar with new, shining, freely labeled bottles, and in three months see them veiled with cobwebs, so that the effect of twenty years of storage is secured at a small cost. The effect upon a customer can be imagined and is hardly to be measured by dollars and cents. It is a trifling matter to cover the bin with dust. That is easy to the most inexperienced in the trade, but cobwebs span from cook to cook with cobwebs that drape the slender necks with delightful lace—the sign of years of slow mellowing—that is another story." WHAT MAY BE EXPECTED. CHEAP SILVER WILL DEPRECIATE THE VALUE OF PAYMENTS—SECRETARY CARLISLE'S VIEWS. LITTLE Rock (Ark.), July 30. A statement was widely published by the press a few days ago that President G. L Greene of the Connecticut Life Insurance Company of Hartford, had issued a circular letter to policy-holders notifying them that in event of the government adopting the free coinage of silver, the company would be compelled to pay all claims in depreciated silver coin. F. W. Altop of this city sent a clipping of this statement to Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle with a request for an expression on the subject. He has received a reply from Carlisle, which is in part as follows: In case free coinage of silver should be established in this country I presume insurance companies and all other institutions would continue to make their payments by merchants, and has also played an important part in the recent stocking of the collars of some New York millionaires. The story came out last week, through the boastings of the spider raiser, who was feeling extra jubilant. He had just made a big contract, and as he walked around the wine district it was hard for him to keep his good fortune pent up. He had shown the liquor trade how to make money quickly and felt that he was entailed to spiders, for we have plenty of them there, but the great size of this one attracted me. "You see those bottles?" he said. "They look as if they had laid there for forty years, don't they? Well, they have been there just two months." I saw through it at once. The next day I began collecting spiders, and in another month sailed with several boxes of them for America. "I began breeding at once, and to day have twenty customers in this city who take all the spiders I can give them. I only sell them in hundreds and to the wholesale merchants, whose vaults are always filled with new stock. With my aid one of those merchants can stock a cellar with new, shining, freely labeled bottles, and in three months see them veiled with cobwebs, so that the effect of twenty years of storage is secured at a small cost. The effect upon a customer can be imagined and is hardly to be measured by dollars and cents. It is a trifling matter to cover the bin with dust. That is easy to the most inexperienced in the trade, but cobwebs span from cook to cook with cobwebs that drape the slender necks with delightful lace—the sign of years of slow mellowing—that is another story." WHAT MAY BE EXPECTED. CHEAP SILVER WILL DEPRECIATE THE VALUE OF PAYMENTS—SECRETARY CARLISLE'S VIEWS. LITTLE Rock (Ark.), July 30. A statement was widely published by the press a few days ago that President G. L Greene of the Connecticut Life Insurance Company of Hartford, had issued a circular letter to policy-holders notifying them that in event of the government adopting the free coinage of silver, the company would be compelled to pay all claims in depreciated silver coin. F. W. Altop of this city sent a clipping of this statement to Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle with a request for an expression on the subject. He has received a reply from Carlisle, which is in part as follows: In case free coinage of silver should be established in this country I presume insurance companies and all other institutions would continue to make their payments by merchants, and has also played an important part in the recent stocking of the collars of some New York millionaires. The story came out last week, through the boastings of the spider raiser, who was feeling extra jubilant. He had just made a big contract, and as he walked around the wine district it was hard for him to keep his good fortune pent up. He had shown the liquor trade how to make money quickly and felt that he was entailed to spiders, for we have plenty of them there, but the great size of this one attracted me. "You see those bottles?" he said. "They look as if they had laid there for forty years, don't they? Well, they have been there just two months." I saw through it at once. The next day I began collecting spiders, and in another month sailed with several boxes of them for America. "I began breeding at once, and to day have twenty customers in this city who take all the spiders I can give them. I only sell them in hundreds and to the wholesale merchants, whose vaults are always filled with new stock. With my aid one of those merchants can stock a cellar with new, shining, freely labeled bottles, and in three months see them veiled with cobwebs, so that the effect of twenty years of storage is secured at a small cost. The effect upon a customer can be imagined and is hardly to be measured by dollars and cents. It is a trifling matter to cover the bin with dust. That is easy to the most inexperienced in the trade, but cobwebs span from cook to cook with cobwebs that drape the slender necks with delightful lace—the sign of years of slow mellowing—that is another story." WHAT MAY BE EXPECTED. CHEAP SILVER WILL DEPRECIATE THE VALUE OF PAYMENTS—SECRETARY CARLISLE'S VIEWS. LITTLE Rock (Ark.), July 30. A statement was widely published by the press a few days ago that President G. L Greene of the Connecticut Life Insurance Company of Hartford, had issued a circular letter to policy-holders notifying them that in event of the government adopting the free coinage of silver, the company would be compelled to pay all claims in depreciated silver coin. F. W. Altop of this city sent a clipping of this statement to Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle with a request for an expression on the subject. He has received a reply from Carlisle, which is in part as follows: In case free coinage of silver should be established in this country I presume insurance companies and all other institutions would continue to make their payments by merchants, and has also played an important part in the recent stocking of the collars of some New York millionaires. The story came out last week, through the boastings of the spider raiser, who was feeling extra jubilant. He had just made a big contract, and as he walked around the wine district it was hard for him to keep his good fortune pent up. He had shown the liquor trade how to make money quickly and felt that he was entailed to spiders, for we have plenty of them there, but the great size of this one attracted me. "You see those bottles?" he said. "They look as if they had laid there for forty years, don't they? Well, they have been there just two months." I saw through it at once. The next day I began collecting spiders, and in another month sailed with several boxes of them for America. "I began breeding at once, and to day have twenty customers in this city who take all the spiders I can give them. I only sell them in hundreds and tothe wholesale merchants whose vaults are always filled with new stock. With my aid one of those merchants can stock a cellar with new, shining, freely labeled bottles, and in three months see them veiled with cobwebs, so that the effect of twenty years of storage is secured at a small cost. The effect upon a customer can be imagined and is hardly to be measured by dollars and cents. It is a trifling matter to cover the bin with dust. That is easy to the most inexperienced in the trade, but cobwebs span from cook to cook with cobwebs that drape the slender necks with delightful lace—the sign of years of slow mellowing—that is another story." WHAT MAY BE EXPECTED. CHEAP SILVER WILL DEPRECIATE THE VALUE OF PAYMENTS—SECRETARY CARLISLE'S VIEWS. LITTLE Rock (Ark.), July 30. A statement was widely published by the press a few days ago that President G. 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ROS. Butchers Sausages and Lard for Live Stock! Davis Seeds! public that she is prepared She buys for cash and her customers the benoods or answering quesTaken in Exchange few days ago that President G. L Greene of the Connecticut Life Insurance Company of Hartford, had issued a circular letter to policy-holders notifying them that in event of the government adopting the free coinage of silver, the company would be compelled to pay all claims in depreciated silver coin. F. W. Alsop of this city sent a clipping of this statement to Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle with a request for an expression on the subject. He has received a reply from Carlisle, which is in part as follows: "In case free coinage of silver should be established in this country I presume insurance companies and all other institutions would continue to make their payments by checks and drafts on banks as heretofore; but in my opinion the whole volume of our currency would sink at once to the silver basis and thus checks and drafts would be paid in silver dollars or their equivalent in gold, or its equivalent as is now the case. 'I presume no one supposes for a moment that it would be the duty of the government to attempt to keep the standard silver dollars coined for private individuals and corporations equal in value to a gold dollar; or, in other words, that it would be the duty of the government to attempt under a system of free coinage to maintain the parity of the two metals. The dollars would be coined on private account and delivered to private individuals and corporations as their own property, the government having no interest whatever in them, and being therefore under no obligations to sustain them by guaranteeing their value. 'Under our existing system, all silver dollars are coined on account of the government and are used by the government in payment of its expenditures and other obligations, and it would be an act of bad faith therefore to permit them to depreciate. Very truly, (Signed) JOHN G. CARLISLE." Jacobson Bros. have just received a dozen new 20th century Concord buggies, being far ahead in style and finish of anything on wheels, and the price so low that any one can have one. When in Santa Ana, go and see them. For your Protection.—Catarrh "Cures" or Tonics for Catarrh in liquid form to be taken internally, usually contain either Mercury or Iodide of Potassa, or both, which are injurious if too long taken. Catarrh is a local, not a blood disease, caused by sudden change to cold or damp weather. It starts in the nasal passages, affecting eyes, ears and throat. Cold in the head causes excessive flow of mucus, and, if repeatedly neglected, the results of catarrh will follow; severe pain in the head, a roaring sound in the ears, bad breath, and oftentimes an offensive discharge. The remedy should be quick to alleviate inflammation and heal the membrane. Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged cure for these troubles and contains no mercury nor any injurious drug. Price, 50 cents. Q. What would be the effect on the paper money in our currency if we should substitute the silver standard for the existing gold standard? A. The $475,000,000 of paper, to-day worth 100 cents in the dollar on the gold standard, would at once decline to fifty cents in the dollar on the silver standard, based on the price of silver to day, the immediate effect being to reduce the value of the paper now in the currency to $237,500,000. Q. By abandoning the existing gold standard for the silver standard what would be the first net result? A. The loss to the country of $1,154,-500,000, every dollar worth 100 cents by reason of the existing gold standard. Q. What do you deduce from this? A. That we need all the money we have, and that we want every dollar to be worth 100 cents. Q. How can we keep all the money we have and keep every dollar worth 100 cents? A. By preserving the existing gold standard. FARMERS' INSTITUTE DATES SET FOR THE FORTHCOMING MEETINGS—SANTA BARBARA AND VENTURA MEETINGS POSTPONED. The dates of the forthcoming Farmers' Institutes are now settled and arrangements fully made to make those meetings in the highest sense educational. Owing to the fact that the dates set for the Santa Barbara and Ventura institutes were the same as the opening of the university at Berkeley, it was found wise to postpone the institutes at Golite, Carpenteria and Fillmore. They will occur later in the season. The August and September institutes will occur as follows: El Cajon, San Diego county, August 24 and 25. Fallbrook, San Diego county, August 26 and 27. Fullerton, Orange county, August 28 and 29. Pomona, Los Angeles county, August 31 and September 1. San Gabriel, Los Angeles county, September 2 and 3. Santa Monica, Los Angeles county, September 4 and 5. At the Pomona and Santa Monica institutes, the experiment stations will be made prominent and probably one or more sessions be held at the stations. These institutes promise even better than those of the past. An unusual array of talent has been secured to aid in conducting them. A. Value or purchasing power money is regulated by the number of available for use. As the volume of money is expanded its purchasing power is diminished, and as the volume of money is increased its purchasing power is increased. All logical economists admit this proposition: if the free coinage of silver should add to volume of money available for use then chasing power of money would correspondingly decline; in other words, the precious commodities would rise. We would more money for our wheat, pork and corn for our fruit, land and cattle; for anyone we had to sell, than we now receive; but both metals had free and unlimited coins they would not part company. Q. Have wages depreciated in the United States since 1873? A. Yes. There has been a general reaction in wages except where they were retained or upheld by labor unions. Great mass of laborers are not member labor unions. Farm laborers who outburst all other laborers in the United States are not receiving one-half as much for labor as they did in 1873 And more than 3,000,000 laborers now have no employment at any wages; and a large number of employed are working half time only, practically amounts to working for wages. Q. What has cheapened the price of dote? A. A contraction of the volume of money available for use. A general rise or fall of the price of commodities can only be brought about by an expansion or contraction in volume of money. The price of a commodity may be affected by an abrupt or scarce crop, or by over-production or der-consumption, but a general rise or fall can only be brought about by expansion or contracting the volume of money available for use. This is an economic fact, as ultimately unchangeable as the law of gravity. Little Boy—The preacher says there no marrying in heaven. Little Girl—Of course not. wouldn't be enough men to go round. Gazette. 6. 1896. NUMBER 41 Snap Shots at the News. The bank of Perris, which recently suspended, has levied an assessment of $30 per share. The debt statement issued Saturday shows a net increase in the public debt, less cash in the treasury, during July, of $10,-857,258 30. Attorney General Fitzgerald has given it as his opinion that Monday, the 10th day of August—next Monday—will be the last legal day for registration of voters. The State board of bank commissioners has called upon all banks in the State of California to make reports showing their financial condition on July 31st of this year. Some monts ago Jim Carey immigrated to Clinton, Mo., from Iowa, and made his home with his uncle, W. C. Carey. During the latter's absence one day last week Mrs. Carey eloped with him, taking her baby along. A warrant has been issued, but it is thought they have fled over into Iowa. The question of the constitutionality of the four-year term of office for county officeholders was submitted to the Supreme Court on Friday. The decision on the point is not expected for several days, although it is understood the individual members of the court have their minds made up as to their decision. Warrants for the payment of the sugar bounty earned in 1894, except maple sugar payment, which was provided for in the appropriation of $5,000,000 in the deficiency act of 1895, were issued the other day. The approved claims were pro-rated, each claimant receiving under the $5,000,000 appropriation 84 per cent of his claim. The number and amount of the beet sugar claims paid are insignificant. Three warrants amounting to $11,944 were withheld, making the total amount of 49 issued $4,988,036. A mistake that is likely to cost the railroad company taxes on about $19,000 has been discovered in Kern county. The statement furnished the Assessor of machinery, coal, buildings, etc., was in the name of the Southern Pacific Company, and in that name the assessment was made. When the Board of Supervisors was sitting as a Board of Equalization Aaron Smith appeared with a petition in the name of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, asking for certain reductions. The Board did not notice the difference in the names and granted some of the reductions prayed for. As the County Clerk bling house, where he became infatuated with gambling, and seemed unable to quit it. He was finally penniless and thrown out. He then made his way East, visiting various towns, and gambling wherever he could, and when he could not get money in no other way he resorted to forging checks, which he cashed. He expressed relief at his arrest, and hoped it would finally release him from the mania for gambling which had taken possession of him. At 1 o'clock Monday morning the residence of Charles A. Seibert, a Beres, O., grocer, was partially wrecked by a dynamite discharge which had been placed under the house by unknown persons. Fortunately no inmates were injured. Seibert did not sympathize with the quarrymen in the late strike and refused many of them credit. It is generally believed the dynamite was placed under the house by strikers. The gold standard Democratic leaders have decided definitely upon a new convention to be held about September 1 in New York city. The announcement is authoritatively made that such a course is certain unless something wholly unfurious intervenes. The arrangements are already well under way, the New York leaders particularly regard matters as settled so far as the location and date of the convention are concerned, and being inclined to busy themselves now chiefly with the discussion of candidates. Satisfaction of judgment for $52,128 90 has been recorded in the office of the County Clerk of New York in the action of Esther Jacobs against Henry B. Sire to recover $50,000 for breach of promise. Miss Jacobs brought the suit in 1890. During the first trial in the Superior Court a juror dropped dead and the trial was discontinued. On the second trial Miss Jacobs obtained a verdict for $25,000, but the general term granted a new trial. On the third trial, Sire failed to put in a defense and Miss Jacobs was awarded $50,000. On Friday two men named Huff and Matthews were working on a road in Alpine county at a place known as Carson Spur. The roadway is very narrow, and on one side yawns a chasm 600 feet deep and almost perpendicular. They had a horse and cart to assist in their work. At this dangerous spot the horse became balky. Matthews tried to drive him past but failed. Then Huff took the lines, Matthews alighting. Thereupon the horse backed over the bank. It is not true. The relative value of gold and silver bullion is primarily determined by the relative production of the metals. At the time silver was the most valuable two metals. The commercial for the past 3000 years has ranged to 1 to about 31 to 1. The present ratio is about 31 to 1—the ratio never exceeded 16½ to 1—the legal ratio—until after the demonstraction of silver by the United States in what is meant by commercial ratio? The market price of gold and silver has compared with each other. Why has the price of silver bullion since 1873? Because the demand for silver bullion greatly been reduced by adverse silver ion. The demonstration of silver in United States, in the Latin union and here has reduced the demand for silver, consequently silver has fallen in value. Has not the overproduction of silver it fall in value? There has been no overproduction of the value of the world's production since 1873 has been greater than the value of the world's production of silver in the same period. The report of the war of the mint for 1894 shows that the production of gold since 1893 is $2,000, and the value of the world's production of silver for the same time was 910,000; the gold production being than $300,000,000 greater than the production. Did not silver bullion fluctuate considerably in value prior to 1873? Where was some fluctuation, but the never passed the legislative limit, 697 to 1873, a period of nearly 200 extreme variation in the commerce of silver bullion was from a ratio 6 to 1 to 16,26 to 1, or exactly twothirds, which, expressed in money, be 12 cents on the ounce. During the time, or at least during a portion of the, the legal ratio in Mexico was 16½ to the United States 16 to 1; in Europe; in Asia 15 to 1. Why do silver dollars now in circulation contain only 53 cents' worth of bullion pass on a parity with gold? because they are lawful money and a legal tender. Is there not a law in the United States regarding the government to redeem them? There is not. There never was such a tender free coinage would not be the purchase power on the silver course cannot be legislated into a moratorium out of a thing, but legislation will enhance its value and if the demand is for the total available will be received, it would be impossibly the value of the thing to fall below legislative limit. It might rise above relative limit, but it could not, by any chance, fall below it. More than fifty ago the British parliament fixed the gold at $20.67, and cannot fall below the price fixed; one legislative power that can fix and maintain the price of silver bullion. It is true that the relative value of gold and silver bullion is primarily determined by the relative production of the metals? On Friday two men named Huff and Matthews were working on a road in Alpine county at a place known as Carson Spur. The roadway is very narrow, and on one side yawns a chasm 600 feet deep and almost perpendicular. They had a horse and cart to assist in their work. At this dangerous spot the horse became balky. Matthews tried to drive him past but failed. Then Huff took the lines, Matthews alighting. Thereupon the horse backed over the bank, the animal, cart and driver going over the embankment. Huff went to the bottom of the ravine and was killed instantly, his neck being broken. The horse went half way down and escaped serious injury. Farmers, land-owners and business men from all over Monterey county gathered in attendance at the beef factory mass meeting in Salinas Saturday. Claus Spreckels, with W.C. Water, Superintendent, and P.M. Morse, bookkeeper of the Watsonville factory, were present. Spreckels reiterated his statement made to business men a few days ago that he would erect the biggest beet-sugar factory and refinery in the world, provided he was guaranteed an annual acreage of 30,000 acres of beets with which to operate the factory. He agreed to give $4 per ton for them, delivered at the factory, providing this guarantee was made. Speeches were made by Mayor Harris, Edwin Berwick of Pacific Grove, and others, in a very enthusiastic vienna, and there is no doubt that the requisite condition will be fulfilled. Mayor Harris was empowered by the meeting to appoint a committee of ten to wait on the farmers to see what number of acres could be pledged. Spreckels is very favorably impressed with the auspicious prospects and the interest of the people in the project. He was tendered a banquet at the Abbot House in the evening. This season will go down in the history of Columbia river fishing as the strangest of all. There have been unprecedented runs of salmon—one directly after the great strike and another at the present time. Old timers say that the run of fish Tuesday was the largest in the last fifteen years. Two steamboat men stated that when they were coming in at the mouth of the river, which was so clear that objects could be plainly discerned at a depth of twenty feet, the salmon were literally piled one on top of other. Many were killed by being struck by the propeller. The fish are all large, and owing to the clearness of the water, gill noters do far better than trap men and seine men. Catches of from fifty to 200 fine large fish are nightly occurrences. As a consequence the canneries are blocked. There are but few days left for the fishing season. Mr. Elmore, who has the largest establishment on the river, can pack 1,200 cases a day, and from the present indications the total pack will be 150,000 cases short. This shortage represents a loss of between $900,000 and $1,000,-000. The total pack may possibly reach 4,000,000 cases, representing a value of about $2,500,-000—quite sum for forty-three days' work. The rumor that Queen Victoria intends to retire in favor of the Prince of Wales is again current. Court circles are greatly troubled regarding the condition of the Queen's health. Such reports have frequently appeared in recent years, only to be semi officially contradicted later. But it now seems there may be some actual foundation for the statements made. It is added her Majesty has decided to spend her time in the future at Balmoral or Osborne and will give the Prince and Princess of Wales the use of Buckingham Palace and Windser Castle. There is no doubt she seems to feel greatly the weight of her years and bereavements. Her Majesty is quoted as having repeatedly remarked during her stay at Buckingham Palace upon Roundedman Snyder of the Los Angeles police had not heard of Father Kneipp's cure for nervousness and other ills—that famous cure which consists in getting up with the lark and tramping barefoot in the grass before the dew has vanished. His beat was in a fashionable part of the city, and he felt a keen and somewhat paternal interest in those who dwelt there. From one of the finest homes in his bailiwick he observed a dignified old man to issue, feet bare and trousers rolled above the knees. The sun had not risen and the streets were deserted. Out upon the wet lawn tramped the old gentleman, looking warily about as if to assure himself that no one was a witness of his actions. Then round and round he hoofed the dripping green, first slowly, but anon more rapidly, at last breaking into a trot, and pausing now and then to dance something that looked like the ghost dance of the Sioux. Around the corner stood Snyder, his eyes as big as saucers. "My God, my God!" he whispered; "what a pity!" Presently the old man withdrew into the house, and the solitary watcher moved sadly away. The next morning at about the same hour the same old man stole forth again, barefooted and bare-legged, and tramped and danced in the wet grass in the same way as before, muttering something to himself as he sped about the yard, and varying the first performance only by some prodigious efforts at lofty kicking and one or two spurts as though to break a record as a runner. And again stood Snyder, breathless, pitying from the moment the old man cautiously tiptoed down the stairs to the time he bound within his domicile. It bothered the good officer sorely. He couldn't banish the picture stamped upon his mind, and the more he thought of it worse he felt. "I hate to do it," he finally explained to the Chief. "I really hate to do it; but it seems to me he's too dangerous to be at large. Nice old man, too; but he's just as likely to break out and do a whole lot of harm as not; and if he did, where would we be at. I'd like to know? This gold and silver business is driving a whole lot of good people crazy, now, you hear me!" So the chief investigated. It developed that the supposed lunatic was Zach Montgomery, the distinguished lawyer. He was trying the Kneipp cure for rheumatism or something of that sort. And now Policeman Snyder wants another beat. A man of clerical appearance, and giving the name of J. F. Bard, was arrested at the Turf Exchange gambling-house in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on a charge of forgery committed in Omaha. In his possession were found testimonials to his character and standing as a minister of the gospel in San Francisco and Portland, Or. He said he had been a minister of the Christian Church in Portland, where he now has a wife and grown children. Some time ago he started on a trip East and en route went to Cripple Creek. He became interested in stock speculation, and finally drifted in a gam- The rumor that Queen Victoria intends to retire in favor of the Prince of Wales is again current. Court circles are greatly troubled regarding the condition of the Queen's health. Such reports have frequently appeared in recent years, only to be semi officially contradicted later. But it now seems there may be some actual foundation for the statements made. It is added her Majesty has decided to spend her time in the future at Balmoral or Osborne and will give the Prince and Princess of Wales the use of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. There is no doubt the Queen seems to feel greatly the weight of her years and bereavements. Her Majesty is quoted as having repeatedly remarked during her stay at Buckingham Palace, upon the occasion of the recent marriage of Princess Maude of Wales to Prince Charles of Denmark, "This is my last visit to London." Color is given to the rumors in circulation by the deep emotion displayed by the Queen as she bowed in reply to enthusiastic cheers of the multitudes which lined the route from Buckingham Palace to the railroad station, when she took the train for Windsor after the marriage ceremony. Near Wilmington a remarkable tide of calamity swept over an humble household. The Holbaugh family, as a result, mourns the death of a thirteen-year-old boy, and three younger children are dying. Early one afternoon last week George Holbaugh fifteen years of age, and his brother Sam, two years his junior, started from home on a hunting trip. Sam had a short double-barreled shotgun, which he carried between his knees, the muzzle resting against his side. They had gone but a short distance when George was stranded by the report of a gun, and by the time he recovered control of his frightened horse he found that his brother was dead, his breast having been frightfully torn and the wounded heart being plainly exposed. It is thought that by an oversight the weapon was left cocked, and that a jolt of the cart caused the discharge. George made his way home as rapidly as possible, only to find his parents already overwhelmed by another woe that had overtaken them. Three of their other children had just been brought home, dying from injuries received in a runaway. The eldest of the children, a girl of sixteen, had taken four of her brothers and sisters out for a ride in a big double-seated wagon. The girl is used to horses, and though the team she had was nervous and restive, felt no alarm. At about time the two charges of lead were tearing the boy's heart to pieces, the horses became frightened and ran away. The girl clung to the reins, and the children kept up their sport, thinking it all right to go so fast. Suddenly the team swerved and dashed into a barbed-wire fence. In a second the horses and children were all in a jumble. The elder girl escaped with a few braises and cuts, but three of the little ones were so grievously wounded that they cannot recover.