anaheim-gazette 1897-02-18

Anaheim VOLUME XXVII. POSENER'S Will cease Business in Santa Ana on March 1st. Until that SOLD REGARDLES This Absolute and Final Clearance Sale Commence REMEMBER—Everything comprising this Splendid Stock, the Largest in Orange County, will It would be an impossibility to quote prices on all the enormous stock. We will, therefore, note of the Unparalelled Bargains Off This is the Greatest Sale Ever See These Dis 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 Undewean...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 Dr. J. A. Champion PHYSICIAN, SURGEON AND ACCOUCHER. 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. BUY A SUPERIOR BEET DRILL The only successful beet drill used at Chino and Los Alamitos. And step in and see JUMBO Implements and Harness and vehicle 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, KOIL BLOCK. PUBLIC TELEPHONE OFFICE. L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT & SHOE MAKER. Corner Adele and Los Angeles Streets. 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. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. enter street, Anaheim, Cal Special attention given to PROBATE matters. BUY A SUPERIOR BEET DRILL The only successful beet drill used at Chino and Los Alamitos. And step in and see JUMBO. Implements and Harness and vehicle sold by MR. A. H. PATTERSON & CO, Anaheim, Cal. 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 therefore can sell for a very small profit, giving her customers the best fit of low prices. No charge for showing goods or answering questions. Come one, Come all! All Kinds of Produce and Poultry Taken in Exchange R. H. SEALE. DEALER IN Groceries and Provisions First-Class Stock of Goods My Prices Defy Competition. A share of the public patronage is respectfully solicited. Koll Building, Los Angeles St., R. H. SEALE, Proprietor. 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, CITIZENS' BANI OF ANAHEIM. Hippolyte Cahen · President W. T. Brown · Vice President L. Goldwater · Cashi AND Builder. Office, first door east of City Hall. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. center 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, Etc. 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. 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. PALACE MEAT MARKET F W. Fleischmann, PROPRIETOR Rest Meats the Market Affords Always on Hand. Also keeps on hand Sausages, Bacon, Ham, Land, Eic. 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 PLOW WORK Executed in Workmanlike Manner, and at Lowest Lying Rates. Give Me a Call. JOSEPH BACKS, DEALER IN FURNITURE Repairing Done. Funeral Director. Shares in Santa Barbara (next to irrigation district offlux), Los Angeles street. CITIZENS’ BANK OF ANAHEIM. Hippolyte Cahen · President W. T. Brown · Vice President L. Goldwater · Cashi DIRECTORS. Kaspare Cohn, W. T. Brown Richard Melrose, L. Goldwater Hippolyte Cahen. STOCKHOLDERS Herman W. Hellman, T.J. F. Boege, W.T. Brown, P. Nicolus, Richard Melrose, L. Goldwater, Kaspi Cohn H. Cahen, J. A. Goldwater, J. Schlesinger. CORRESPONDENTS: Farmers and Merchants' Bank of Los Angeles London, Paris and American Bank, San Francisco Importers and Traders' National Bank, New York City, N.Y.; First National Bank, Santa Ana. Exchanges for sale on all the principal cities of United States and foreign countries. Nursery Stock. Yearling buds, Washington Navel orges, free from scale—A No. 1 stock. Quantities to suit. Apply to W. L. HaPullerton, or W. F. Botsford, 808 Wedgwood Road, Los Angeles. This Is Your Opportunity. On receipt of ten cents, cash or stamp, a generous sample will be mailed of the most popular Catarrh and Hay Fever Curse (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, Monroe, recommended Ely's Cream Balm to me. can emphasize his statement, "It is a positive cure for catarrh if used as directed." Rev. Francis W. Poole, Pastor Central Presbyterian Church, Helena, Mont. Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledgment cure for catarrh and contains no mercury nor any injurious drug. Price, 50 cents. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1897. ER'S STORE On March 1st. Until that date Every Article in Stock will be WARDLESS OF COST The Sale Commenced WEDNESDAY, FEB. 3d It in Orange County, will be offered at Prices which Will Sell Them. We will, therefore, note a few of the Discounts we will allow, and the public may judge Unparalelled Bargains Offered. Le Ever Known in Santa Ana! These 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 “ “ will be allowed a Liberal Discount from Invoice Prices. A ET DRILL Chino and Los Alamitos. The Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. SUBSCRIPTION, - $1 50 Per Year. Six months. 1 00 Three months. 75 Payable invariably in advance Three love-sick little girls, Marguerite Flerns, Grace Norwood and Annie Miller, after a conference, all took morphine with suicidal intent at a Spokane, Wash., lodging-house. Each girl is under eighteen, and they were all smitten with sailors on the revenue cutter Grant. Shortly after the girls took the drug, they were discovered unconscious, all three toselves. SNAP SHOTS AT THE NATIONAL ATTORNEYS ARE TO LOOKING TO locate Norman Babco up to 1889, was a resident of Col. He is supposed to be somewhere in Southern California A fortune of $40,000 awaits Colonel H. G. Otis, editor of Los Angeles Times, left last year the east, where he expects to the inaugural of President-elect Kinley. Col. Otis will stop ton, and will from there pro-Washington as a member of McKinley's party. Sixty-five hundred acres will be planted in Chino this year and the factory will have been 4500 acres in Orange county 2000 acres in Ventura county ing a total of 13,000 acres, going about 130,000 tons of beets the coming season. This is than twice as many as it had year. John Randolph Tucker, was a striking picture in America tics in the stirring epoch dur­ after the rebellion, died at his in Lexington, Ky., after a life illness. Mr. Tucker was a new Virginia. He was a strong act of secession while holding the of attorney general. At the war he resumed the prairie law, and was associated in fene of Jefferson Davis. The gambling house of Ikra house, a well-known horser Butte, Mont., was almost wreck the explosion of a stick of powder thrown into one stoves by some one who has heavily at the games, and souvenge. No game was running room at the time; the only injured was a janitor, who was cut by flying pieces of the Had the explosion occurred minutes sooner many men wo doubtedly have been killed. CAPT. M'GIFFEN DEAD KILLS HIMSELF IN A HOSPITAL WHILE INSANE — WAS DISTINGUISHED FOR HIS BRAVERY. New York, Feb. 11.—Capt. Philo McGiffen, who commanded the Chinese ironclad Chen Yuen in the battle of the Yalu River, in September, 1894, during the Chinese-Japanese war, committed suicide early this morning in the Post-Graduate Hospital, to which he was recently admitted for treatment. He shot himself over the right ear. A nurse found him dead propped up by pillows. Blood was streaming from an ugly wound on the right side of his head. On a little table directly at the head of the bed was one revolver, and on the floor near the bed another. One chamber had been discharged from the pistol on the table. On the table was a note written with a lead pencil. The paper appeared to have been torn from a note book. In substance the note said that he left his respects to the people and his friends, and that he regretted the act he was about to commit. How he came into possession of the pistols is not yet known. Capt. McGiffen was taken to the hospital last month by friends. About the middle of January he became insane, and it was found necessary to have him confined. He was taken to a room on the second floor of a building, with a window opening on Second avenue. He had had mental trouble for months before it developed into insanity, and on his being removed to the hospital he was so violent that it was found necessary to place him in a straight-jacket. Dr. Hammond attributed his condition to wounds received in the battle of the Yalu River. Capt. McGiffen was born in Washington, Pa., in 1862, and was the son of Capt. Norton McGiffen, who served in the Mexican war with distinction, and was colonel of the Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers during the rebellion. Deceased graduated at the naval academy at Three love-sick little girls, Marguerite Flerns, Grace Norwood and Annie Miller, after a conference, all took morphine with suicidal intent at a Spokane. Wash., lodging-house. Each girl is under eighteen, and they were all smitten with sailors on the revenue cutter Grant. Shortly after the girls took the drug, they were discovered unconscious, all three together in one bed. Physicians were called in, and after two hours’ hard work succeeded in saving their lives. The girls made no secret of their attempt to end their lives, and plainly said they had talked the matter over and decided to take morphine because they were heartsick. Norwood was the prime mover in the plan of death and secured the drug from a neighboring store. At her suggestion each of the young women took five or six pills. The girls express no regret for their action, but seem to regard it as an achievement in the cause of love. Representative Cummings of New York has introduced a resolution requesting the Secretary of State to give the House of Representatives any information he may have concerning the incident of the stripping of three lady prisoners on board the United States mail steamer Olivette in the harbor of Havana, by Spanish soldiers and detectives. The resolution recites that the alleged occurrence was described in New York to the Foreign Affairs Committee, and a report is expected this week. Mr. Cummings said as to the resolution: “If an English woman on an English vessel had been stripped by Spanish officials, as it has been alleged an American woman was stripped, within forty-eight hours Moro Castle would come down or some apology would be made for it. I doubt even if Japan would have stood it. Furthermore, if the American government stands it, in my opinion, it indicates a total loss of manhood and the sympathy with savage inhumanity.” Norman Babcock, in company with J.M.Sutherland, tramped into Aspen district early in the eighty’s and followed the occupation of prospector and miner until 1889, when he became discouraged and left for new fields, deeding his interests to Sutherland. Since leaving the claims have developed into valuable properties, and Sutherland sold out at a handsome figure and removed to Beaver Dam, Wis., where he recently died. In his will Sutherland bequeathed to Babcock $40,000 in consideration of his kindness and generosity in early days. H.A.Schume, a former Aspen business man, but now also located at Beaver Dam, was named to take charge of the money in trust for Babcook until the missing miner could be found, and through Aspen attorneys is trying to locate him. Babcock has been traced to Creede and Cripple Creek, but at the latter place all trace of him has been lost, beyond learning that he left there about two years ago, stating that he war he resumed the prairie law, and was associated in fences of Jefferson Davis. The gambling house of Ikebusei, a well-known horseraceist, the explosion of a stick of powder thrown into one stove by some one who had heavily at the games, and souvenge. No game was running room at the time; the only injured was a janitor, who was cut by flying pieces of fire. Had the explosion occurred minutes sooner many men would doubts have been killed. Robert F. Thomas, passenger giner on the Southern Californians running between Diego and Los Angeles, was dead in his bed at the Internet hotel, National City, Friday ing, when called for his run coroner's jury found death from heart disease. “Pap” passed through Anaheim then before on his run in apparently health. At the time of the rainstrike a year ago last summer was the only engineer who ran to quit his post, and he held up to the time of his death. He been an engineer for thirty and leaves an estate valued $5 million. The assembly committee on prisons has voted in opposition to Governor's proposition to solidate the State prisons, and stead favors the creation of an penitentiary in Southern California. A resolution was adopted to ported to the House emperor tisan committee of five—two officers and three assemblymen locate a site for the proposed institution. This location must be one of the counties of San Bernardino, Oro Valley, Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Tucson Fresno, Kings, Kern or Inyo. committee is to select the site for legislation adjournings and make their choice to the next legislative Five thousand dollars is applied for expenses. Kern county offered 2000 acres of land on Kern river for the site. The statue of Abraham Lincoln at the old Hall of Representative Washington was draped in American flag and wreathed in roses on Friday in honor of the eighth anniversary of his birth but the house did not suspendness. On the contrary, it celebrates the anniversary by a discussion of necessities of the postal service and passing the Postoffice Administration Bill. The perennial star made to strike out the aviation of $196,000 for special facilities from Boston to New York but was defeated—46 times although that portion of the aviation providing special facets for Boston and New York stricken out after it had been saddened that this part of the appropriation has not been expended for several years. The bill as passed cost $95,435,714. John Leahy and Perley Hooper troops in Uncle Sam's cavalry On Second avenue, he had mental trouble for months before it developed into insanity, and on his being removed to the hospital he was so violent that it was found necessary to place him in a straight-jacket. Dr. Hammond attributed his condition to wounds received in the battle of the Yalu River. Capt. McGiffen was born in Washington, Pa., in 1862, and was the son of Capt. Norton McGiffen, who served in the Mexican war with distinction, and was colonel of the Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers during the rebellion. Deceased graduated at the naval academy at Annapolis with high honors in 1882. By personal bravery Capt. McGiffen won admiration long before the battle of the Yalu River. He was thrown in the accident of travel into the midst of the great railroad strike in Pittsburgh in 1877, and tendered his services to the city. They were accepted and he distinguished himself by personal bravery, running an engine single-handed through a mob of strikers to rescue railroaders imprisoned in a roundhouse. He was given a gold medal and a vote of thanks by the city council. When a naval cadet in Annapolis, McGiffen received the thanks of the secretary of the navy for rescuing two children from a burning building. Two years later he was complimented in a general order from the secretary of the navy for an act of personal bravery in going aloft to secure a spar on the Constitution during a hurricane, when the sailors would not venture into the rigging. After graduating near the head of his class, McGiffen was honorably discharged in 1884, owing to a reduction in the number of midshipmen. He entered the service of China during the Franco-Chinese war, and was distinguished for gallantry. He was sent to England to superintend the construction of ironclads, and at the outbreak of hostilities with Japan he was put in command of the Chinese squadron. Dr. Coffin, the dentist, in his office in the Metz block on Monday and Tuesday of each week. Blood is life and upon the purity and vitality of the blood depends the health of the whole system. Experience proves Hood's Sarasaparilla to be the best blood purifier. Hood's pills not easily and promptly on the liver and bowels. Cure sick headache. In order to avoid errors, I desire to inform the public that W. A. Stark is not in any way connected with the Palace Meat Market. F. W. Fleischman, Prop. 111f The necessities of the postal service and passing the Postoffice Act are maintained by John Leahy and Perley Holt troopers in Uncle Sam's cavalryachment stationed at West Point. They fought a duel with sabres for little Katie Medler, the blacksmith daughter. At a ball given by engineer Leahy, she was the first swain, and jealous Howard provided challenged him to a duel. Other troopers acted as seals. After the usual preliminaries man drew his sabre and swished through the air, then came down business, and in a few minutes fighting, Howard with one sweep sent Leahy's sabre flying left him defenseless. With this turn sweep his sharp and weapon caught his defensive tagonist on the lip and through as clean as a surplice knife could. Leahy yelled "murder" and the seconds tried to staunge blood, but the efforts were fruitful and his lips were sewed up by hospital surgeon. He told them tor he got the injury accident while fencing with Howard. Medler, while sorry for Leahy's fortune, is the happiest and most enviied girl at the post. Stephen Mott, the son of Thomas D. Mott, formerly City of Los Angeles, and later a member of the State Legislature, wooed Miss Marguerite Hupp, a talented and exceedingly vivacious lady, well known in Los Angeles San Francisco. The wooing led to meeting with the approval of young man's parents, so Mr. procured a marriage license to Santa Ana and was united to object of his choice by a Justice of the Peace. The marriage regains the age of the young man and that of the bride as 18, thus persons who ought to know... NAP SHOTS AT THE NEWS. Colorado attorneys are attempting to locate Norman Babcock, who up to 1889, was a resident of Aspen, Col. He is supposed to be located somewhere in Southern California. Fortune of $40,000 awaits him. Colonel H. G. Otis, editor of the Los Angeles Times, left last week for the east, where he expects to attend the inaugural of President-elect McInley. Col. Otis will stop at Canion, and will from there proceed to Washington as a member of Major McKinley's party. Sixty-five hundred acres of beets will be planted in Chino this year and the factory will have beets from 500 acres in Orange county and 300 acres in Ventura county, making a total of 13,000 acres, giving it about 130,000 tons of beets to work the coming season. This is more than twice as many as it had last year. John Randolph Tucker, who was striking picture in American politics in the stirring epoch during and after the rebellion, died at his home Lexington, Ky., after a lingering illness. Mr. Tucker was a native of Virginia. He was a strong advocate secession while holding the office attorney general. At the close of the war he resumed the practice of law, and was associated in the deme of Jefferson Davis. The gambling house of Ike Morehouse, a well-known horseman ofatte, Mont., was almost wrecked by the explosion of a stick of giant powder thrown into one of the horses by some one who had lost heavily at the games, and sought revenge. No game was running in the room at the time; the only person injured was a janitor, who was badly hit by flying pieces of the stove. And the explosion occurred a few minutes sooner many men would unubtedly have been killed. that they are both under age. Mrs. Mott, the mother of the young man, stated when interviewed that she had obtained her first information in regard to the ceremony from the newspapers. Mr. Mott Sr., who is well-known as a politician and property owner, was angry and declared emphatically that the marriage had not and never would have the stamp of his approval. Cobb's Island, a famous summer resort six miles off the Virginia coast in the Atlantic, seems to be doomed to annihilation by the action of the sea. A terrific storm swept the island last October, wrecking the main hotel and flooding the island, making a trench across the center. Since then integration has been steady and recently when high tides submerged the island and washed nearly all the buildings into the surf. The hotel, church and a number of cottages have been destroyed and there is no longer any doubt that the island is doomed, and only phenomenal action of the wind and waves can possibly restore it. The life-saving station which was recently moved back from the encroaching sea is now less than 200 feet from the waves. L. Gilmacher and others of Santa Ana have brought suit in Los Angeles County against C. F. Mansur, et al., assignees of the insolvency estate of B. F. Seibert, who failed many years ago, leaving liabilities aggregating $100,000. Properties were placed in the hands Mansur the value of which was estimated at $120,000. During the time that Mansur has been engaged in winding up the insolvent's affairs he has paid creditors various dividends amounting to about $50,000. It is claimed by the plaintiff that the defendant has never accounted to any court for any of the accounts paid; that they still have a large amount of funds in their hands which the creditors should receive. to state how serious Hemsworth's injuries are likely to result, but unless he is hurt internally they hope to save his life. His arm in all likelihood will have to be amputated at the shoulder. Six men had a race with death on the lake at Chicago Thursday night and won by a hair's breadth. They were the crew of a big supply tug which carries provisions to the crib in the lake and while returning to dock the boat sprung a leak while backing a tremendous ice floe. For three hours the men battled with the ice and faced death while they were trying to keep their boat afloat long enough to reach the dock. The tug managed to get into the Calumet river, but the fire was dead. The men were up to their knees in water when the boat reached the dock. In answer to signals of distress the fireboat Chicago responded and took the crew ashore. The Governor has vetoed a bill appropriating $75,000 to meet the deficiency in the State Printing Office. To support the argument upon which he bases this action the Chief Executive recites facts which convict the management of extravagance. The regular appropriation for the State Printing Office is about $200,000. Last year when the Legislature was not in session, the State Printer expended $146,000.59, of which $51,293.84 remains unaccounted for on his books; the original sum, $200,000, is far in excess of what the public printing of this State should cost. The public printing of Indiana, let by contract, cost $50,000 per year. In Illinois, during the last biennial period, the total for printing, binding and the purchase of stock was $90,000. Michigan spent $196,000, and Wisconsin, which had a blue book and census to put in type, $117,241. The Supreme Court has set aside The war he resumed the practice of law, and was associated in the dean of Jefferson Davis. The gambling house of Ike Morehouse, a well-known horseman ofatte, Mont., was almost wrecked by the explosion of a stick of giant powder thrown into one of the horses by some one who had lost heavily at the games, and sought revenge. No game was running in the room at the time; the only person injured was a janitor, who was badly hurt by flying pieces of the stove. And the explosion occurred a few minutes sooner many men would unintentionally have been killed. Robert F. Thomas, passenger engineer on the Southern California railway, died in his bed at the International Hotel, National City, Friday morning, when called for his run. The officer's jury found death to be from heart disease. "Pap" Thomas passed through Anaheim the day before on his run in apparently good health. At the time of the railroad take a year ago last summer, he was the only engineer who refused to quit his post, and he held his run to the time of his death. He had been an engineer for thirty years and leaves an estate valued $75,000. The assembly committee on State讼 has voted in opposition to Governor's proposition to condone the State prisons, and instead favors the creation of another sententiary in Southern California. Resolution was adopted to be relied upon to House empowering an committee of five—two senators and three assemblymen—toate a site for the proposed institution. This location must be in one of the counties of San Diego, Berside, San Bernardino, Orange, Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Tulare, Isno, Kings, Kern or Inyo. The committee is to select the site after legislature adjourns and report its choice to the next legislature. The thousand dollars is appropriated for expenses. Kern county has reused 2000 acres of land on the river for the site. The statue of Abraham Lincoln in Old Hall of Representatives at Washington was draped in the American flag and wreathed in flowering Friday in honor of the eighty-fifth anniversary of his birthday. The house did not suspend business. On the contrary, it celebrated its anniversary by a discussion of necessities of the postal service, passing the Postoffice Appropriation Bill. The perennial fight made to strike out the approval of $196,000 for special mail services from Boston to New Orleans, but was defeated—46 to 107, though that portion of the appropriation not been expended for several years. The bill was passed carries 3435,714. John Leahy and Perley Howard, peers in Uncle Sam's cavalry detainees County against C. F. Mansur, et al., assignes of the insolvency estate of B. F. Seibert, who failed many years ago, leaving liabilities aggregating $100,000. Properties were placed in the hands Mansur the value of which was estimated at $120,000. During the time that Mansur has been engaged in winding up the insolvent's affairs he has paid creditors various dividends amounting to about $50,000. It is claimed by the plaintiff that the defendant has never accounted to any court for any of the accounts paid; that they still have a large amount of funds in their hands which the creditors should receive, and the court is asked to require an accounting from the defendants of what they have done under their trust. Orange growers at Azusa are alarmed at reports of the rapid spread of a new citrus fruit skin disease. It is difficult to tell just how menacing the new trouble is, for reports are conflicting, but there appears to be a certainty that it has caused considerable loss to shippers. Manager Chamblin of the Fruit Exchange at first thought that it had only been noticed in a few shipments, but inquiry shows that a number of carloads had been sold at a loss as a result. The disease does not show itself until the fruit has been packed for some time, so shipments may leave looking well and arrive in unmarketable condition. One firm of shippers at Azusa is reported to have lost fifteen carloads by its ravages. Its cause is unknown and no remedy has been suggested, expert entomologists and horticulturists being nonpulsed. Miss May Wescott of Oakland told infirmary in the same town, that she loved him and that she would marry him when the weather cleared. The weather cleared and Leon and May went to Los Angeles to be married. He took along all his coin, jewels and government bonds. May smiled her sweetest during the trip. After Marsh had squandered considerable money, awaiting Miss Wescott's pleasure to fix the wedding day, she finally told him that she loved another. By that time Marsh was a financial wreck. He appealed to the chief of police for sufficient funds to get home. They failed to develop and Marsh yet lingers in Los Angeles. So does May. The police put her in jail so that the young men of Los Angeles might not be smitten by her alluring smile. Whatever may be the decision concerning New York's representation in the incoming Cabinet, the Empire State seems likely to gain the plum of the diplomatic appointments, and Dr. Chauncey M. Depew will, in all probability, be the next Ambassador of the United States to the Court of St. James. The appointment of Dr. Depew, while not officially announced, seems to have been practically decided upon and will probably receive confirmation within the next few days. It has been the desire of the administration leaders to confer some remark of distinguished consideration upon Whitelaw Reid, and Reid having already served as Minister to France, the Ambassadorship to England seemed to be the only mark of additional honor he could A deed of gift has been made by Mrs. Jane Stanford to the university grounds on the corner of California and Powell streets in San Francisco with all of its valuable and rare contents. This princely donation will be enjoyed by the university after the life-time of the grantor, and is made as she explains it to the board of trustees to carry out the intentions of her husband, and do what he would have done had she been first called hence and he have remained behind. The deed was presented to the trustees of the university at a meeting held at the house, and was formally accepted by them in a resolution of thanks voted to the giver. In presenting the deed Mrs. Stanford delivered an address setting forth her purpose in making the gift, and expressing some of her wishes, which it may be desirable for the trustees to carry out when they take upon themselves the full responsibilities of the management of the Stanford University. Doctors and lawyers, capitalists and merchants and city people of all classes were present one night last week in the assembly hall of the academy of sciences at the first farmers' institute ever held in San Francisco. The institute was conducted under the auspices of the University of California, and was the first of a series of similar affairs to be held throughout the State during the spring months. These meetings are intended for the benefit of the dairymen, the stockraiser, the horticulturist, the farmer, and all persons engaged or interested in agricultural pursuits. Representatives John Leahy and Perley Howard, papers in Uncle Sam's cavalry department stationed at West Point, right a duel with sabres for pretty Katie Medler, the blacksmith's lighter. At a ball given by the neerer, Leahy was the favored man, and jealous Howard promptly elenged him to a duel. Two other troopers acted as seconds. After the usual preliminaries each drew his sabre and swished it through the air, then came down to business, and in a few minutes of sitting, Howard with one sharp tip sent Leahy's sabre flying and him defenseless. With the reeves sweep his sharp and heavyapon caught his defenseless antist on the lip and cut it though as clean as a surgeon's tie could. Leahy yelled "murder," the seconds tried to staunch theod, but the efforts were fruitless, his lips were sewed up by the hospital surgeon. He told the doche got the injury accidentally be fencing with Howard. Miss Meller, while sorry for Leahy's misune, is the happiest and most loved girl at the post. Stephen Mott, the son of Hon. Thomas D. Mott, formerly City Clerk Los Angeles, and later a member of State Legislature, wooed and Miss Marguerite Hupp, a beau- and exceedingly vivacious young man, well known in Los Angeles and Francisco. The wooling failed meet with the approval of the king man's parents, so Mr. Mott insured a marriage license, went Santa Ana and was united to the act of his choice by a Justice of Peace. The marriage register is the age of the young man as 21 that of the bride as 18, though persons who ought to know assert Doctors and lawyers, capitalists and merchants and city people of all classes were present one night last week in the assembly hall of the academy of sciences at the first farmers' institute ever held in San Francisco. The institute was conducted under the auspices of the University of California, and was the first of a series of similar affairs to be held throughout the State during the spring months. These meetings are intended for the benefit of the dairymen, the stockraiser, the horticulturist, the farmer, and all persons engaged or interested in agricultural pursuits. Representatives of the university will assist in delivering the lectures, the idea being to encourage a discussion of topics and an exchange of opinions. Addresses were delivered and papers read by Regent A.S.Hallidie, Prof. Hilgard and Marsden Manson. The institute was continued the following night by lectures on profitable uses of small pieces of land by Mrs. Harriet N. Conness and city farmers' clubs by Alfred Holman. Robert Gardiner, a young man who arrived in Los Angeles three months ago from Chicago, has been undergoing an absolute fast. He has completed his fortyth fast day, and will not state how much longer he will prolong the test. He refuses to say what is the exact purpose of his experiment, but it appears to be some part of his faith. Before entering upon the period of his fast, which began January 6th, Gardiner was known among his few acquaintances as a rigid vegetarian. It was fully a week after he began fasting before anybody knew anything of his doings. He seems bright and chats freely about his physical condition, but refuses to state what is his motive. When the ordeal began he weighed 127 pounds and has fallen off thirty-two pounds. He sleeps about twelve hours every day and drinks nothing but warm and cold water. Although somewhat emaciated, he walks about freely and spends his days sitting in a chair or lying on a lounge. Although a member of no church, he studies the bible for hours. He is apparently a man of fair means, with no occupation, of good education and polished manners. He is reticent and desires to avoid publicity.