anaheim-gazette 1897-02-04

Anaheim VOLUME XXVII. ANAH POSENER'S S Will cease Business in Santa Ana on March 1st. Until that date SOLD REGARDLESS This Absolute and Final Clearance Sale Commenced REMEMBER—Everything comprising this Splendid Stock, the Largest in Orange County, will be off It would be an impossibility to quote prices on all the enormous stock. We will, therefore, note a few of the Unparalelled Bargains Offered. This is the Greatest Sale Ever K See These Disco Dress Goods.....40 Per Cent Dress, Fancy and Waist Silks.....40 “ “ Velvets, Plushes, Satins, Trimmings of all kinds.....40 “ “ Linings and Dress Findings.....25 “ “ Infants' Wear, Wrappers, Capes and Jackets.....50 “ “ Corsets, Gloves, Hosiery, Muslin and Ribbed Undewear.33 1-3 “ “ Ginghams, Outing Flannels, Calicoes, Shirtings, Sheetings and Muslin .....25 “ “ All Merchants wishing to Purchase all or part of the Stock or Fixtures will be allowed a Liberal Disc Dr. J. A. Champion PHYSICIAN, SURGEON AND ACCOUCHEUR. An Object Lesson in Southern California's Industries. Dr. J. A. Champion PHYSICIAN, SURGEON AND ACCOUCHEUR. Office—Center street, opposite Derge's drugstore. Residence—Center street, near Clementina. Office Hours—8 to 12 a.m., 1 to 5 p.m., 6 to 9 p.m. DR. CHARLES E. LEE (Successor to Dr. Bullard.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office and Residence—Corner Hermine and Chartress Streets, Anaheim. Office Hours—7 to 9 a.m.; 1 to 3 p.m.; 7 to 8. Paul A. Derge. Graduate in Pharmacy. DRUGS, MEDICINES, Perfumes and Toilet Articles. BEST 5-CENT CIGAR IN TOWN MEDICAL HALL, KOEL BLOCK. PUBLIC TELEPHONE OFFICE. W. A. CONNOLY. GENERAL BLACKSMITHING! Horse-Shoeing IN ANY STYLE. Bad Feet Carefully Attended To, and Shod Properly. GO TO THE Oak Barber Shop FOR A IRST-CLASS SHAVE OR HAIR CUT. TWO DOORS WEST OF BANK. HUSMANN BROS. 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. A. McWilliams. Contractor AND Builder. Office; first door east of City Hall. An Object Lesson in Southern California's Industries. HOME PRODUCT EXHIBITION Hazard's Pavilion, Jan. 16 to Feb. 6,'97 LOS ANGELES Special amusement features each day. Special excursion rates. Season tickets good for 6 admissions, $1.00. 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 Kinds of Produce and Poultry Taken in Exchange Anaheim Bakery PETER SYRE, PROP. FRESH BREAD, Pies and Cake. Free Delivery Wagon to all parts of the city. A share of the public patronage respectfully solicited. BAKERY, on Los Angeles Street, corner of Cypress. Lockhart's Start In Life. It would only be natural that the Blackwood of today should resent the least imputation directed toward the Blackwood of 1817. In that year Blackwood paid young Lockhart, who wanted to go to Germany, £800 for a proposed translation of Schlegel's lectures. The intimation is conveyed by Mr. Lang that it was rather a rash thing for Blackwood to do. A writer in a recent Blackwood makes the following comment: Mr. Blackwood acted the part of a Civil Engineer. Irrigation and Hydraulic Work a Specialty. Surveys and Estimates made at Reasonable Rates. OFFICE—East of Santa Fe Depot, Anaheim. H. A. McWilliams. Contractor AND Builder. Office; first door east of City Hall. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. enter street, Anaheim, Cal. Special attention given to PROBATE matters. GRAY BROTHERS & WARD Cement Contractors Shillinger Patent. Contracts for RESERVOIRS, IRRIGATION DITCHES, Cellar and Stable Floors, Sidewalks, Ete. OFFICES—No. 125 N. Broadway, Los Angeles, Cal. Telephone—236. No. 316 Montgomery St., San Francisco, Cal. L. NEMETZ, Carriage Painting & Trimming New Buggies for Sale. Shop on Center street, near the opera-house. Anaheim, Cal. PALACE MEAT MARKET F W. Fleischmann, PROPRIETOR Best Meats the Market Affords Always on Hand. Also keeps on hand Sausages, Bacon, Ham, Lard, Etc. Meats delivered to all parts of the city free of charge Shop on East Center Street. Handles Cudahy Cold-Storage Meats, Inspected by the Government Inspector. Anaheim Bakery PETER SYRE, PROP. FRESH BREAD, Pies and Cake. Free Delivery Wagon to all parts of the city. A share of the public patronage respectfully solicited. BAKERY, on Los Angeles Street, corner of Cypress. A. FREISE, ...KEEPS THE FINEST OF.... Wines, Liquors And Cigars. Beer on draught Metz Block, Center St., opposite Postoffice. WHEAT, BARLEY AND ALFALFA HAY For Sale. Apply to SAM KRAEMER, 3 mil northeast of Anaheim. NICK HUGO BLACKSMITHING, WOOD WORK, HORSE-SHOEING, AND A GENERAL JOBBING BUSINESS. Los Angeles street, Anaheim, Cal. ALL KINDS OF PLOWWORK Executed in Workmanlike Manner, and at Lowest Living Rates. Give Me a Call. JOSEPH BACKS, DEALER IN FURNITURE Renairing Done. Funeral Director. Store in Backs Building (next to irrigation district office), Los Angeles street. Lockhart's Start In Life. It would only be natural that the Blackwood of today should resent the least imputation directed toward the Blackwood of 1817. In that year Blackwood paid young Lockhart, who wanted to go to Germany, £300 for a proposed translation of Schlegel's lectures. The intimation is conveyed by Mr. Lang that it was rather a rash thing for Blackwood to do. A writer in a recent Blackwood makes the following comment: Mr. Blackwood acted the part of a magnificent Macenas rather than that of a bookseller, and we do not think that less can be said than that he gave young Lockhart his start in life. The transaction is veiled in mystery, never having been once referred to, so far as we are aware, by the giver, though proclaimed by the recipient, as a generous mind naturally would. If thou serve many, tell it not to any. If any serve thee, tell the tale to many. That admirable maxim could not be better exemplified. The young man went to Germany by means of this windfall. He went to Weimar and made the sublime acquaintance of Goethe, which afterward helped to secure the much more important and valuable friendship of Scott. Profoundly influential upon his character and life was this beginning. If his biographer thinks that the two volumes of Schlegel, published more than two years afterward, fully repaid and made up for it, we are far from being of his opinion. This initially fact, therefore, published for the first time by Mr. Andrew Lang, whose proficiency is not to glorify but to diminish the benefactor, and whose testimony is therefore doubly to be relied upon so far as redounds to Mr. Blackwood's credit is one of very distinct importance in Lockhart's career. This Is Your Opportunity. On receipt of ten cents, cash or stamps, a generous sample will be mailed of the most popular Catarrh and Hay Fever Cure (Ely's Cream Balm) sufficient to demonstrate the great merits of the remedy. ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren St., New York City. Rev. John Reid, Jr., of Great Falls, Mont., recommended Ely's Cream Balm to me. I can emphasize his statement, "It is a positive cure for catarrh if used as directed."—Rev. Francis W. Poole, Pastor Central Presbychurch, Helena, Mont. Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged cure for catarrh and contains no mercury nor any injurious drug. Price: 50 cents. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1897 R'S STORE Until that date Every Article in Stock will be OLESS OF COST The Commenced WEDNESDAY, FEB. 3d. Orange County, will be offered at Prices which Will Sell Them. will therefore, note a few of the Discounts we will allow, and the public may judge delled Bargains Offered. Ever Known in Santa Ana! Use Discounts. House Furnishing Goods, comprising Blankets, Comfortables, Table Linen, Napkins, Towels, Draperies, Curtains and Portiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 “ “ Laces, Ribbons, Embroideries, Veilings, Fans and all Fancy Goods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 “ “ Art Materials, Yarn and Worsteds . . . . . . . . . . 50 “ “ Notions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 1.3 “ “ e allowed a Liberal Discount from Invoice Prices. TARIFF ON ORANGES EFFORTS BEING MADE TO SECURE LEGACY ISLATION ON THE SUBJECT—RE PRESENTATIVES TO BE SENT TO WASHINGTON NEXT SPRING. In consideration of the fact that Congress is to be convened in extrasession to enact a tariff law as soon as President McKinley is fairly seated in the Presidential chair, the citrus fruit growers of Southern California have started a vigorous campaign in behalf of California or anges. The mass meeting of citrus fruit growers held in Los Angeles December 26, 1896, gave an impetus to the movement by bringing to the horticulturists of this country a full realization of the seriousness of the present crisis. The present tariff of 2 cents a box is a mere bagatelle to importers, when the cheapness of production in foreign lands is compared with the cost of landing a box o Southern California oranges in Chiicago or New York. After the great Florida freeze, many of the growers went down in Mexico. There they could and did purchase large tracts of land acmiably adapted for growing citrus fruits, at $10 or $15 per acre. Irrigation was not necessary, and labocould be obtained at 50 cents a day in Mexican money, or 25 cents adcording to the American standard. The freight charges for landing Mexican fruit in Chicago are no more than the cost of sending tha same amount to the same destination from California. LOST NAVY OF SPAIN HER STRENGTH AT SEA ENDED WITH THE ARMADA’S DEFEAT. It only needs the most transient glance at the naval history of Spain to convince the timorous Jingo that unless the statesmen of that country are entirely bereft of the ir senses, no war will be forced upon the United States over the Cuban question. Spain has been peculiarly unfortunate in the matter of warfare at sea, even when she was the most formidable power the world over. Now she ranks but eighth while the United States is entitled to the fifth place and perhaps the fourth. If the offensive strength of the various powers could be accurately measured it might result in showing that there are only two naval powers entitled to precedence over the United States—namely, Great Britain and France. Russia, Germany and the United States are very nearly on equal terms, and the great number of first class warships now under construction by the latter will definitely place this government above the others within twelve months. Spain has not kept pace with the other great nations during the past five years in the matter of new warships. She has been too poor to attempt it. Her modern navy to-day is a small affair. She has one good battleship, the Pelayo, and six first class cruisers. She has scores upon scores of other vessels, but they are worthless from a war-making standpoint. The Pelayo, the best of the entire fleet, is not a match for the battleship Indiana. The Texas, a second class battleship, but a newer type than the Pelayo, would be an even opponent for the latter. Spain’s downfall as a naval power dates from that fatal third Sunday in July in the year 1588, when the wonderful Spanish Armada appeared in the English channel for the purpose of seconging up the whole of Ana. The English warship Revenge, of forty guns, commanded by the historic Captain Drake, singled out the Santa Ana and gave her such a drubbing that the Duke de Medina himself had to sail back with a large number of ships to rescue the Santa Ana from the English. The fighting on that Sunday afternoon was only the initiatory round in Spain’s downfall as a naval power. Monday morning the battle was resumed and many English successes were scored. The great Spanish fleet was too big to be effectively controlled, and owing to the close range and the heavy clouds of smoke they fired broadsides into each other as often as they fired into the English. Besides, the experience of Sunday afternoon had disheartened many, the gallant showing of the English being regarded as supernatural. Several of the galleons were captured on Monday and each prize meant a fortune. The Rosario was one of the first to be captured, the victor being Capt. Drake, and when the prize was afterward ransacked at Dartmouth 55,000 ducats in gold and 500 diamond hilted swords were distributed among the captors. Tuesday’s fight was the hottest of the series. First came a fierce brush early in the morning, when Drake, Lord Howard and the leaders of the English fleet, after a daring attempt to work in between the Spanish and the land, had at last moment to tack, baffled for want of sea room, and were closed in by enemy in the act of going about. Exultantly came on the galleons with flashing rows of oars, shouting and cheering amid the blare of trumpets and ruffle of the drums, in full confidence to run down and sink the light-built English vessels. It was a moment of extreme peril—until the fortune of the fight of a sudden changed. As the Spanish were in the act of closing on the Revenge and the ships with her, in a flash as it were the English sails filled, ship by ship, and altogether, and then stretching out with bowsprits pointing seaward, the Revenge, Victory, Ark Royal and the rest cleared the enemy, pouring so fierce a fire as they passed that the Spanish ships had to sheer off. This was the first action of the day. Later the wind, going round with the sun, shifted, and gave Drake and Howard the weather gauge, on which came on the most desperate encounter. Lord Howard, in the Ark Royal and Drake in the Revenge, with the ships nearest at hand, driving ahead before the wind, pushed into the thick of the Spanish main body and attacked the enemy, gun muzzle to gun muzzle, in a long and furious battle that lasted until the afternoon sun was nearing the horizon. Thursday’s fight was off the Isle of Wight and the Spaniards stood sulAfter the great Florida freezes many of the growers went down into Mexico. There they could and did purchase large tracts of land ammirably adapted for growing citrus fruits, at $10 or $15 per acre. Irrigation was not necessary, and labor could be obtained at 50 cents a day in Mexican money, or 25 cents a cording to the American standard. The freight charges for landing Mexican fruit in Chicago are more than the cost of sending them same amount to the same destination from California. There is not only the difference of $150 or more per acre in the actual price of land to the horticulturist or Southern California, but he heaviest expense of the irrigation required to bring the fruit to perfection. There is also the cost of picking, packing, fumigating, curing and shipping with high-class and high-priced labor. It is no wonder that the present tariff of 20 cents a box is check whatever upon the flood or the foreign fruit that threatens to keep the California product out of the markets altogether. The growers cannot afford to compete by selling fruit at less than the cost of production. Another great danger to the once ange industry of Southern California lies in its importation of Mexican fruit infected with the dreaded orange worm. This pest is by far far most serious that has ever threatened life and reputation of the California orange, and if it once gets a foothold there is no telling where it may end. The large exportation of buddha stock to Europe within the last few years is another reason why a protective tariff should be placed upon oranges. Washington navels are already being sent across the ocean constantly increasing quantities, and between cheap European and cheaper Mexican oranges, the citrus fruit is dustry in Southern California but but a small chance of future existence if the present conditions continue. Fully realizing this, the California Citrus Growers’ Tariff Committee leaving no stone unturned to secure needed legislation. The members of the committee are E. F. Klokhe, Orange county; F. O. Storm Los Angeles county; N. W. Blake chard, Ventura county; B. A. Woodford, San Bernardino county; E. H. Hollister, Santa Barbara county; H. H. Chamblin, Riverside county; R. H. Young, San Diego county; T. Hutchinson, Kern county; the Executive Committee includes T. H. H. Chamblin; F. O. Story and E. F. C. Klokhe; a spirited address has been issued to all citrus fruit growers asking for subscriptions that will enable their committee to send two or three representatives to Washington to secure the prohibition of fruit from infected districts in Mexico, and a duty on other foreign fruits sufficiently high to place the cost marketing it on an equality with that of California oranges. A memorial to be presented to Congress has already received nearly four thousand signatures and great hope only be natural that the of today should resent the direction directed toward the 1817. In that year Blackung Lockhart, who wanted many, £300 for a proposed Schlegel's lectures. The conveyed by Mr. Lang rather a rash thing for do. A writer in a recent makes the following comp wood acted the part of a Maccaes rather than that later, and we do not think he be said than that he gave his start in life. The is veiled in mystery, never once referred to, so far as by the giver, though pro- nce recipient, as a generously would. are many, tell it not to any.rable maxim could not be amplified. The young man firmly by means of this went to Weimar and made acquaintance of Goethe, ward helped to secure the important and valuable Scott. Profoundly influen- character and life was this If his biographer thinks volumes of Schlegel, pub- han two years afterward, and made up for it, we are king of his opinion. This inti- forere, published for the Mr. Andrew Lang, whose job to glorify but to dimin- motor, and whose testimony doubly to be relied upon so sounds to Mr. Blackwood's of very distinct importance is career. Is Your Opportunity. of ten cents, cash or stamps, sample will be mailed of the Catarrch and Hay Fever Cure Balm) sufficient to demon- mat merits of the remedy. BROTHERS, S Warren St., New York City. Reid, Jr., of Great Falls, Mont., Ely's Cream Balm to me. I see his statement, "It is a pos- catarrh if used as directed."—W. Poole, Pastor Central Pres- ema, Mont. In Balm is the acknowledged Catarrh and contains no mercury serious drug. Price, 50 cents. This was the first action of the day. Later the wind, going round with the sun, shifted, and gave Drake and Howard the weather gauge, on which came on the most desperate encounter. Lord Howard, in the Ark Royal and Drake in the Revenge, with the ships nearest at hand, driving ahead before the wind, pushed into the thick of the Spanish main body and attacked the enemy, gun muzzle to gun muzzle, in a long and furious battle that lasted until the afternoon sun was nearing the horizon. Thursday's fight was off the Isle of Wight and the Spaniards stood sul- lenly off to the eastward in an effort to stave off further hostilities until the coast of Flanders could be reached, where 30,000 soldiers were waiting to join them. But the English kept the fighting going, also on Saturday and Sunday, and Sunday night Lord Howard sent the famous fleet of fireships among the Spaniards, causing untold disaster. Monday, July 29th, occurred the great battle off Graveslines, and it was a fatal day to Spain. The ships fought within pistol shot range from 6 in the morning until 4 in the afternoon. Howard, Drake, Hawkins and Frobisher led the English attack on the Spanish rear, and when every thing was confusion, with the Spanish vainly trying to work to the van, Seymour and Winter began their attack on the leading vessels of the squadron. By 2 o'clock in the afternoon the Spanish were so demoralized that the English were working right through the fleet in all directions, sinking and capturing the enemy. Then began the long chase up the coast of Scotland, the Spanish seeking to get home by rounding the north coast and then down by the coast of Ireland. Here the gale overtook them, smashing many warships on the rocks of Connemara and drowning 8,000 men. This was Spain's end as a great naval power. Two centuries and a quarter later she combined a great Armada with one equipped by France but Lord Nelson and the battle of Trafalgar terminated that effort. With many of her warships now engaged in the Cuban struggle and the Philippine islands' insurrection it would seem that the Washington statesmen who have all that she will not attempt war with this country are basing their opinions on Spain's common sense. the Executive Committee it cludes T. H. R. Chamblin; E. G Story and E. F. C. Klokke. A spirited address has been issued to all citrus fruit growers, asking for subscriptions that will enable the committee to send two or three abl representatives to Washington secure the prohibition of fruit fro- tion the infected districts in Mexico, and a duty on other foreign fruits suf- ficiently high to place the cost marketing it on an equality wi- that of California oranges. A memorial to be presented to Congress has already received nearly forty thousand signatures, and great ho- of success is entertained. THE SUGAR-PLUM TREE BY NUGENE PIRLD. Have you ever heard of the Sugar-Plum Tree? It blooms on the shore of the Lollipop Sea in the garden of Shut-Eye Town: The fruit that it bears is so wondrous sweet (As those who have taste it say) That good little child can have only to eat Of that fruit to be happy next day. When you've got to the tree, you would have hard time To capture the fruit which I sing: The tree is so tall that no person could climb To the boughs where the sugar-plums swirl But up in that tree sits a chocolate cat, And a gingerbread proportionately attest. And the chocolate cat goes cavorting around From this leaf limb unto that! And the sugar-plums tumble, of course, to groundHurrah for that chocolate cat! There are marshmallows, gum-drops and p- permit canes, And you carry away of the treasure that raas much as your apron can hold! So come, little child, cuddle closer to me In your dalyty white nightcap and gown And I'll rock you away to that Sugar-Plum Town. $100 Reward,$100. The readers of this paper will be plea- to learn that there is at least one dreas disease that science has been able to cure all its stages and that is Catarrh. Ha Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Cat being a constitutional disease, require constitutional treatment. Hall's Caure is taken laterally, sitting directl- on the blood and mucous surfaces of system thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient streak by building up the constitution and assist nature in doing its work. The propriet have so much faith in its curative pow- that they offer One Hundred Dollars any case that it fails to cure. Send for GALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY Gazette. NOBLE 15 SNAP SHOTS AT THE NEWS. Miss Charlotte Brown, a teacher in the St. Louis schools, was struck in the face Friday afternoon by an unruly pupil and rendered unconscious for a period of forty minutes. The identity of the embryo pugilist who "put out" Miss Brown can not be learned, as the victim of the assault up to last accounts positively refused to tell his name. Miss Brown had attempted to discipline the boys of her room when he struck her a blow with his fist on the jaw which rendered Miss Brown unconscious. The teacher is not seriously injured and resumed her usual duties Monday. A romantic wedding was solemnized at Benton Harbor, Mich., when Dalber Mittan and Miss Edwards were made one. Mittan had been on trial charged with the subbing of the American Express Company at Niles of $2000. The charge implicated his sweetheart, Miss Edwards, as principal witness. The trial interfered with their wedding that was to have been private. The jury returned a verdict denying Mittan innocent of the charge. Immediately afterward Mittan and Miss Edwards stopped before the Judge and were married publicly. They received bouquets, presents and the congratulations of many spectators. The police were unable to suppress the din of the impromptu evasion. The people gave them a public rejection. News typically Russian come from a village near Ternsk, where lives a blacksmith named Tomeyakoff. His wife had been unaffectional, and finally her husband dragged her to the forge, tied her up by her bar, and shod her with a pair of iron shoes which he had especially made for the purpose. The woman naturally fainted when she wore driven into her feet, and would have died had she not been rescued by villagers. The rescueers turned the husband over to the authorities, who released him after two days' imprisonment. The breaking of marital vows is common among the Russian peasantry, and the authorities treated the husband leniently as a means of showing that in their opinion the unfaithful wife simply got her deserts. Seven years ago John Willy, aged 75 years, died and was buried at Vale, Or. At the time of the funeral it was noticed that there was a peculiar look about the aves entrance to the boiler could be gained, and was lowered to the bottom at 11 o'clock. When the factory whistle announced the noon hour one of the workmen climbed to the top of the boiler and shouted for Connors. There was no reply. A workman was lowered into the boiler, and Connors was found lying dead across the furnace. The upper part of the body was burned to a corpse. Connors had evidently been overcome by the famer, and had fallen on the furnace. The Southern California Acetylene Gas company filed papers of incorporation in Los Angeles last week. The purpose is to manufacture, buy and sell gas machines, generators and apparatus; construct, sell or lease gas manufacturing plants and works; contract to furnish light and heat, etc. The capital stock is placed at $100,000, divided into 100,000 shares of the par value of $1 per share, all of which has actually been subscribed. The directors are Robert J. Northam, George E Nolan, Edwin A. Messer, all of Los Angeles; D. J. Greger, Berkeley, Cal.; W. E. Sharpe, Philadelphia, Pa. Gov. Franklin of Arizona has issued a proclamation calling for a special election in Yuma county on Tuesday, Feb. 9, to supply the vacancy in the Territorial Legislature caused by the resignation of Murat Materson, the representative from that county. The Legislature has been in session two weeks, and Yuma has been without representation in the lower house, Materson being in New York. In view of the fact that a bill providing for the removal of Arizona's penitentiary to Prescott has been introduced in the Legislature, Yuma's lack of representation will be disadvantageous. A telegram from Milan announces that the Princess de Chimay, formerly of Detroit, Mich., and Janos Rigo, the Hungarian gypsy musician, who recently eloped with her, have quarreled violently. The screams of rage from the Princess and the forcible language of her lover disturbed the residents of the hotel where the two were stopping, and the guests complained to the landlord because of the noise occasioned by these outbursts of passion. At the end of a quarrel the Princess packed her trunk and quitted the hotel, going to Monte Carlo. She paid her own bill, but left Rigo's unsettled. The latter is said to be in an awkward position for he is without funds and has no immortal the great Florida freeze the growers went down in California. There they could and did the large tracts of land adadapted for growing citrus at $10 or $15 per acre. Irrigatus is not necessary, and labor obtained at 50 cents a day can money, or 25 cents according to the American standard. Right charges for landing fruit in Chicago are no an cost of sending the amount to the same destination california. is not only the difference of more per acre in the actual land to the horticulturist of California, but the heavy of the irrigation required to the fruit to perfection. Then the cost of picking, packing, curing and shipping, high-class and high-priced it is no wonder that the preriod of 20 cents a box is no whatever upon the flood of sign fruit that threatens to California product out of excess altogether. The growers afford to compete by selling less than the cost of production of Southern California the importation of Mexican sected with the dreaded ormor. This post is by far the most that has ever threatened and reputation of the Calirange, and if it once gets there is no telling where it large exportation of budded Europe within the last few another reason why a propariff should be placed upon Washington navels are aling sent across the ocean in only increasing quantities, and cheap European and cheap oranges, the citrus fruit inn Southern California has small chance of future exef of the present conditions condentializing this, the California growers' Tariff Committee is no stone unturned to secure ed legislation. The member of committee are E. F. C. Orange county; F. O. Story. Angeles county; N. W. Blancventura county; B. A. Wooden Bernardino county: E. P. Santa Barbara county; T. Chamblin, Riverside county; Loung, San Diego county; A. Schinson, Kern county. Of the Executive Committee in T. H. B. Chamblin; F. O. And E. F. C. Klokke. critical address has been issued trus fruit growers, asking for options that will enable the tree to send two or three able intiatives to Washington to the prohibition of fruit from district in Mexico, and on other foreign fruits suffihigh to place the cost of it on an equality with California oranges. A mea- to be presented to Congress ready received nearly four signatures and great hope faithful, and finally her husband dragged her to the forge, tied her up by her hair, and shod her with a pair of iron shoes which he had especially made for the purpose. The woman naturally fainted when the nails were driven into her feet, and would have died had she not been rescued by villagers. The recuerds turned the husband over to the authorities, who released him after two days' imprisonment. The breaking of marital vows is common among the Russian peasantry, and the authorities treated the husband leniently as a means of showing that in their opinion the unfaithful wife simply got her deserts. Seven years ago John Willy, aged 75 years, died and was buried at Vale, Or. At the time of the funeral it was noticed that there was a peculiar look about the eyes and mouth of the supposed corpse, and some of the spectators were inclined to believe that life was not extinct. Just before placing the coffin in the grave, the lid was removed to give the friends of the old man an opportunity of taking a last look. The body was lying upon its back in regular position for burial. The lid was closed and the coffin placed in the grave. Last week the body of the old man was disinterred. The coffin was in a fair state of preservation and was easily handled, but the most peculiar phase of the affair, and one that starled those who opened the coffin was to find that the supposed corpse had turned over in the coffin, thus proving that the old man had come to life after being placed in the grave. His left arm was around under his side and doubled back as if he had tried to crawl out, and finding his condition, had used his right hand in an endeavor to free himself. In the San Diego Superior Court Judge Torrance rendered an important decision in a case involving water rates. The suit was that of Ward against the San Diego Land and Water Company, which was an action brought to contest the right of that corporation to raise the rates for water furnished to ranchers in Chula Vista. Judge Torrance holds that where a water company, in the absence of rate established by the Board of Supervisors, has fixed and collected rates, these shall be deemed to be the legally established rates until they shall be changed by the Supervisors, and the company shall have no power to increase them. Judge Torrance also holds that a water company may make any contract with a consumer that sees fit, and when so made the company is bound by it. These views are directly opposed to those laid down by Judge Roos in the case of Lunning vs. Osborne, decided by him last September. Bartholomew O'Keefe was taken home to Middletown, Coa., on Saturday from New Haven visibly insane. He left his home in May 1883, to go to Buffalo. From there he drifted to nearly all the Western cities at San Miguel, Cal., in 1888, he was nearly suffocated in a fire and was severely wounded on the bread and was taken to a hospital at San Francisco. This injury turned his brain and he became a wanderer, traveling under assumed names. All trace of him was lost by his friends two years ago. He seems to have decided to get home, and reached Waterbury in December, when he went to the New Haven jail for thirty days as a tramp. He was released Thursday and was found that night barefooted and nearly frozen. When he was brought home the police recognized him as the long-lost O'Keefe. His brother, T. W. O'Keefe, was sent for. Bartholomew at first did not know him. He was told of his father's death, but did not seem to realize it. He was committed to the issuance hospital, and it thought that he will recover. Property was left for him by his father, and his brother had searched for him. The Supreme Court on Saturday ruled upon the question of forfeiture of a bidder's check, holding that the amount deposited to show good faith could not be forfeited if there was reason to believe the proceedings were irregular. The North Pacific Paving Company bid upon a street paving contract in Pasadena and deposed a certified check. On her dying bed in a rickety waterfront boarding house of San Francisco Mrs. W. H. Thompson, an aged woman, confessed to her husband that though he was about to lose her, she would leave behind her a small fortune, which she had spent thirty-six years in saving for a "rainy day." The best verification of the story was the money itself. The Supreme Court on Saturday ruled upon the question of forfeiture of a bidder's check, holding that the amount deposited to show good faith could not be forfeited if there was reason to believe the proceedings were irregular. The North Pacific Paving Company bid upon a street paving contract in Pasadena and deputed a certified check of $3000 as a guarantee that it would complete the work if awarded the contract. The company became convinced that the proceedings were illegal and refused to proceed and the municipality refused to return the check and cashed it. Upon action being brought for its recovery the city was defeated. The Supreme Court holds that the plaintiff proved facts fully establishing the illegality and invalidity of the proceedings By entering into such a contract he would have received nothing on account of the illegality, and could not hope to receive any remuneration from any source. The law contemplates forfeiture only when the proceedings are regular. Two California students at Harvard, Stanley Hollister of Santa Barbara and Charles Caldwell Ball of Belmont, who are prominent in athletics and society circles, were arranged in court in Boston on Saturday and fined $15 each for using firearms within the limits of the city of Cambridge. Three other students were also arraigned, but their cases were continued. Summons will be served upon twenty-five other students for the same offense. The arrests are the climax to one of the biggest sensations of the season at Harvard, and consternation reigns among the students. On Tuesday, at midnight, a large number of students charged firearms in celebration of the mid-year examinations, when half of a year at college was completed. Residents in the vicinity of Harvard Square were terrified by the explosion of firearms and small cannon in the square and from rooms in different dormitories. Two policemen had narrow escapes, as the firearms were loaded with ball instead of being blank. The cornice of one of the new buildings was riddled with bullet holes, and a residence across the street was perforated. There is much excitement over the case. John Connora, 50 years of age, met a shocking death on the steamship Eastern Prince, lying at Brooklyn, N.Y. The vessel arrived last Thursday from Brazil with her boilers strained from the effects of the storm. Connora was sent with several others to make necessary repairs to the interior of one of them. Before beginning operations the men lowered into the boiler a charcoal furnace, with which the ironwork was to be heated. Connors climbed through the manhole, the only means by which anensus of opinion before the salary schedules are made up. Accordingly Senator Smith and Assemblyman Burnham were instructed to offer the following resolution in each house. "Resolved, That the Committee on County Government be and it is hereby directed to report in favor of creating the office of County Expert, such office to be held ex-officio by the auditor. And that the office of auditor shall not be attached to or consolidated with any other office." On her dying bed in a rickety waterfront boarding house of San Francisco Mrs. W. H. Thompson, an aged woman, confessed to her husband that though he was about to lose her, she would leave behind her a small fortune, which she had spent thirty-six years in saving for a "rainy day." The best verification of the story was the money itself. The secret was told by the wife only when she felt death approaching. Then, calling her husband to the bedside, she told him to tear up the carpet in the bedroom at a certain place. He did so, and found $8,000 neatly concealed Mrs. Thompson finished her story by saying that she also had $15,000 in the Hibernia Bank. "British Bill" was dumfounded and asked his wife how she had got together so much money. She replied that she had been saving ever since 1861 when Thompson had started a boarding-house. She said she fully understood "Bill's" generous ways, and felt that if she did not quietly put away some money they would have none when they became old. Thompson is one of the characters of the waterfront. He is about 65 years of age. He has an excellent reputation among men of his class, and three years ago astonished the entire waterfront by joining the Salvation army. He is now an officer in the crops. An effort is being made by the Chicago Historical Society to secure the passage of a special act of Congress to pension Mrs. Susan Winans of Santa Ana, who is the sole survivor of the Fort Dearborn massacre of 1812. In a letter relative to the pension, the President of the society tells of the hardships experienced by the survivor of the massacre as follows: "It has recently come to the knowledge of the Chicago Historical Society that a single survivor of the Chicago Massacre of 1812 still lives. She is Mrs. Susan Winans, a widow, residing in Santa Ana, Orange county, Cal., now in her 85th year. She was the daughter of John Simmons, a corporal in Capt. Herald's company, First Regiment, United States Infantry. He was killed in the fight between the garrison of Port Dearborn and the Pottawattamie Indians, on August 15, 1812, known as the Chicago massacre. His wife, Susan Milhouse Simmons, followed the garrison on foot with her infant daughter, (now Mrs. Winans) then 6 months old in her arms. She and her child were taken prisoners by the Indian and remained in captivity some eighteen months, suffering terrible hardships and finally being ransomed by our government. She lived until Feb. 27, 1857, and was granted a pension, but only received a single payment of $30 before her death. Her daughter, whose life spans the whole history of Chicago, is now in straitened circumstances and in need;