anaheim-gazette 1897-02-25

Anaheim VOLUME XXVII. ANAH POSENER'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 o It would be an impossibility to quote prices on all the enormous stock. We will, therefore, note a fe of the Unparalelled Bargains Offered. This is the Greatest Sale Ever K See These Disc 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 Disc 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. 9 to 9 p.m. DR. CHARLES E. LEE (Successor to Dr. Bullard.) 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 vehicles sold by Dr. J. A. Champion PHYSICIAN, SURGEON AND ACCOUCHEUR. Office—Center street, opposite Derge's drugstores. Residence—Center street, near Clementina. Office Hours—8 to 12 a.m., 1 to 5 p.m., 9 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, KOLL 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. NOTARY PUBLIC. center street, Anaheim, Cal. Special attention given to PROBATE matters. GRAY BROTHERS & WARD 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 vehicles 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 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 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, KEEPS THE FINEST OF... Builder. Office, first door east of City Hall. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. 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. Beat Meats the Market Affords Always on Hand. Also keeps on hand Sausages, Bacon, Ham, Lard, Eto. Meats delivered to all parts of the city free of charge Shop on East Center Street. Handles Cudahy Gold-Storage Meats, Inspected by the Government Inspector. ANHEIM 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, 8 mill 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 Repairing Done. Funeral Director. Stores in Backs Building (next to irrigation district office), Los Angeles street. Hippolyte Cahen: President W T. Brown: Vice President L. Goldwater: Cashier 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, Kaspare Cohn H. Cahen, J.A. Goldwater, J. Schlesinger. CORRESPONDANTS: 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 the United States and foreign countries. Nursery Steak. Yearling buds, Washington Navel oranges; free from scale—A No. 1 stock. In quantities to suit. Apply to W L Hale, Pullerton, or W. F. Botsford, 808 Wedgewood Road, Los Angeles. 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, Monk, 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 Pres. Church, 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 25, 1897. R'S STORE March 1st. Until that date Every Article in Stock will be WOLESS OF COST Sale 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 called Bargains Offered. Ever Known in Santa Ana! House Discounts. House Furnishing Goods, comprising Blankets, Comfortables, Table Linen, Napkins, Towels, Drapeeries, Curtains and Portiers ... 30 " " Laces, Ribbons, Embroideries, Veilings, Fans and all Fancy Goods ... 50 " " Art Materials, Yarn and Worsteds ... 50 " " Notions ... 33 1.3 " " be allowed a Liberal Discount from Invoice Prices. DRILL and Los Alamitos. Harness and vehicles 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. architecture these old Spaniards must have been hard to excel. Well, this is all until some future time. I don't know a soul here, but meet plenty Americans, who are here the same as I, for health and more of them for speculative purposes. J. SCHAUMANN. ROMANTIC MARRIAGE. After Being Separated For Twenty SNAP SHOTS AT THE NEWSPaper An 8½ pound baby girl was born to the wife of Benj. Harrison at her home in Indianapolis on Sunday. Gov. Budd has vetoed a bill appointing $10,000 for a California exhibit at the forthcoming Nashville exposition. The Canadian typograph company, manufacturers of bicycles and the Rogers type-setting machine and the largest employers of skilled mechanics in Western Ontario, had notified their employees that if the Corliss feature of the immigration bill shall become a law in the United States, they will discharge every man who is not a Canadian. Man of their employees live in Detroit. The special election held in Yuma county for the purpose of electing a member of the house of representatives to succeed Murat Masterson, resigned, resulted in the election of Hale (Rep.) by a plurality of seven votes over Purdy (Dem.). The result is a surprise, as not until the next turns were received from the last three precincts in the county, which have heretofore been Democratic did it appear as though Hale had chance. The lower house of the Arizona legislative assembly now stands 21 Democrats and 3 Republicans. Judge Seewall of San Francisco decided against Nancy Abbott's claim that she was the wife of Thomas L. Quackenbush by virtue of a contract marriage, finding from the evidence that while the couple lived together the cohabitation had not been accompanied by such mutual assumption of marital duties and responsibilities as the law requires to constitute a marriage under section 55 of the Civil Code. This finding of the court disposes of Mrs. Abbott's suit to set aside the deeds by which Quackenbush conveyed a million dollars' worth of property to his daughter. When the decision was announced Mrs. Abbott... DRILL and Los Alamitos. Harness and vehicles N & CO, avis Seeds! ic that she is prepared the buys for cash and her customers the bens or answering queshen in Exchange Provisions ! of Goods ! petition. fully solicited. SEALE, Proprietor. INS' BANK ANAHEIM. President vn. Vice President Cashier RECTORS. The Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. SUBSCRIPTION, - 61 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. LEFTER FROM SCHAUMAN. LOCATED AT GUADALAJARA, MEXICO, AND LEARNING TO SPEAK SPANISH AS A PREREQUISITE TO GETTING ON IN THE LOWER COUNTRY GUADALAJARA (Mex.), Jan. 17, '97. EDITOR GAZETTE.-I suppose you would like to hear from me, and as I have time, I will write you about my journey and my impressions of Mexico. I had a rough trip of it. Twenty-four hours after leaving Anaheim we came right into a severe snowstorm at Flagstaff, Ariz. I left Albuquerque after a change of cars at 1:30 a.m. and arrived at El Paso, Texas, the next day. There they had what they called the first "norther" of the season. After a stop-over of three days I started for Pecos Valley, New Mexico. There again I had to get off at 1:30 a.m., and when I stepped off my feet sank down into an inch and a half of snow. The cold went right through me. I stopped at Eddy and Rosevell's for a week, but finding things too dull, and altogether too cold to suit me, I went back to El Paso and purchased a ticket for Chihuahua, Mexico. I arrived there at midnight, and also found it too cold, so I stayed only two days. I next bought a ticket to Aguas Calientes, and here for the sixth time since leaving Anaheim had the pleasure of getting off the train at midnight. The place, although it had an altitude of 6100 feet, had an agreeable temperature. Here I stayed twenty-five days. It is a city of forty thousand inhabitants, but it is the poorest, dirtiest and most immoral city I ever saw. Large smelting works are located here. I stopped here because I thought I might get employment at the snailter after awhile. The climate is very healthful; if it were not the people would die like sheep, on account of their filthy habits. I heard of a mill being put up at Iraputa, so I started for that place, but finding no opening I stayed only two days. This town I found to be a neat little place of fifteen thousand inhabitants. Later some straw-architecture these old Spaniards must have been hard to excel. Well, this is all until some future time. I don't know a soul here, but meet plenty Americans, who are here the same as I, for health and more of them for speculative purposes. J. SCHAUMANN. ROMANTIC MARRIAGE. After Being Separated For Twenty Years, An Eastern Couple Will Wed Again. New York, Feb. 20.-J. de Trafford Blackstone and Mrs. Blackstone will leave the Waldorf Tuesday for Philadelphia, where after a separation of twenty years, they will be remarried. Blackstone is the son of Lorenzo Blackstone, a wealthy manufacturer of Norwich, Conn. The author of "Blackstone's Commentaries" was his great-grand-uncle, and the founder of the American house of Blackstones. He was the first settler of Boston. Mr. Blackstone was graduated from Yale in 1868. He saw something of life before and after he left college. He owned horses and yachts, and made frequent excursions to New York. In one of his visits to the metropolls he met Elizabeth A. Whitaker, who, under the name of Lillian Osborne, was the reigning stage beauty. They were married, but separated a few years later, in 1877. Mrs. Blackstone was married in 1870 to Samuel Sondheim of the firm of Sondheim Brothers, brokers. She soon deserted him and went to Paris, where she became a favorite. Her salon was thronged with men and women known the world over. She had many admirers—artists, authors, a Russian Prince or two—yet she never married again. She became a pupil of Madasco, the portrait painter. She is a woman of unquestioned artistic talents. Her pictures were accepted by the French Salon in 1890, and for the last six years they have had a place in the salon. Several times she came over to this country and made trips to Norwich to get a glimpse of her son. She found him the last time a student in Yale, and during one of these visits she met her first husband. De Trafford Blackstone had married again in London. His second wife was dead. They were both free. They found after two decades that they still loved each other, and the boy said in his quiet way that nothing in this world would please him better than to see his father and mother reunited. They were both willing enough. Mr. Blackstone, since the separation from his wife twenty years ago, has made progress in the business and social world. He is a director of the Chicago and Alton railroad. DYNAMITE GALORE. Miss Hulda Duestrow, sister of Arthur Duestrow, who was hanged at Union, Mo., for the murder of his wife and child, and who is sole heir to the executed man's millions, will enter a Roman Catholic convent at St. Louis. It has been currently believed that she would marry Louise Trost, a young school teacher at Trenton Ill., but this is now denied By the terms of the will Hulda's annuity will be $30,000, but should she die without issue the fortune is to be devoted to certain charities named by the man who was hanged last week. She is not a Roman Catholic by education or heritage. When she becomes a nun her annuity will go to the church. Congressman "Jerry" Simpson appeared in Congress on Monday attired for the first time in his life in a tailor-made suit of clothes.The suit came to him by express from a Chicago tailor, and tucked away in the bundle was a pair of silk half-hose sent with the compliment of the season. Simpson wore these hose with his new clothes.House bought a pair of tan leather shoes and a silk hat. He adorned the latter with a half-mourning band and appeared at a Bryan meeting at Topeka, Kan., one night last week wearing the entire outfit and narnously escaped with his life. Some excitement was caused at Carson Monday morning by a message from the white settlers at Yerrington in Mason valley, fifty miles from Carson, calling for fifty armed militiamen and fifty extra stands of arms, to be sent by special train.A Piute Indian was killed by a white man at Yerrington Sunday by striking him on the head with a crowbar.The Indians became enraged and sent runners to Walker River reservation.All the male Indians from Walker River came in to Mason valley, after having sent the squaws to the mountains.Governor Saddler sent Adjunct General Galuhana on a special train to investigate the trouble The case of John Newbergin against Mrs. E. J. Vawter and E.J. Vawter of Santa Monica was tried before the Superior Court in Los Angeles, and developed a species of fraud prevalent to a large extent throughout the country.Mrs.Vawter at the solicitation of an agency of the plaintiff signed her name to a contract with W.Finley & Co.of Philadelphia for one copy of the edition de luxe of "World's Master-pieces of Modern Painting"to be published in ten sections at $10 per copy ANAHEIM. President own, Vice President new, Cashier RECTORS: ann, W. T. Brown rose, L. Goldwater polyte Cahen. STOCKHOLDERS: han, T. J. F. Bocge, W. T. Brown melrose, L. Goldwater, Kaspare A. Goldwater, J. Schlesinger. RESPONDANTS: chants' Bank of Los Angeles; American Bank, San Francisco; her's National Bank, New York national Bank, Santa Ana. YOUR Opportunity. ten cents, cash or stamps, apple will be mailed of the tarrh and Hay Fever Cure Balm) sufficient to demonmerits of the remedy. OTHERS. Warren St., New York City. Jr., of Great Falls, Mont. yrs.' Cream Balm to me. is statement, "It is a posilar if used as directed." Poole, Pastor Central Pres. Mont. ALM is the acknowledged and contains no mercury drug. Price, 50 cents. five days. It is a city of forty thousand inhabitants, but it is the pooest, dirtiest and most immoral city I ever saw. Large smelting works are located here. I stopped here because I thought I might get employment at the snailter after awhile. The climate is very healthful; if it were not the people would die like sheep, on account of their filthy habits. I heard of a mill being put up at Iraputa, so I started for that place, but finding no opening I stayed only two days. This town I found to be a neat little place of fifteen thousand inhabitants. I ate some strawberries at the celebrated Strawberry Station, where strawberries can be bought every day in the year. After my two-days' stay I bought a ticket to Guadalajara. This is the finest city which I have seen since I left California. Its altitude is 5054 feet; it has 120,000 inhabitants and is surrounded by very fertile land. I never laid my eyes on finer, country than that which I saw on the way from Sagos to Guadalajara. The climate is simply perfection; it far surpasses that of Los Angeles; no fogs; scarce any difference of temperature between day and night. I have seen no thermometer since my arrival in Mexico, so cannot say exactly what the temperature is, but I judge it to be somewhere between sixty and seventy degrees. During the fifteen days that I have been here it has certainly not varied more than ten degrees, either day or night, and I am told that there is not much difference between winter and summer. However, I will find out for myself, for here I intend to stay until I get work or get busted! I could have had a very good position in an implement house in this city, if I had been able to speak, read and write Spanish. It made me feel a little blue, not being master of the language. However, I will learn it before long. Well, this is the country for churches. On every three squares or so there is one and the balls seem to ring every ten minutes. The cathedral is the finest church I ever saw. Here you can see some fine work. It was dedicated the 15th of October, 1716; but it is good for several hundred years more. ford Blackstone had married again in London. His second wife was dead. They were both free. They found after two decades, that they still loved each other, and the boy said in his quiet way that nothing in this world would please him better than to see his father and mother reunited. They were both willing enough. Mr. Blackstone, since the separation from his wife twenty years ago, has made progress in the business and social world. He is a director of the Chicago and Alton railroad. DYNAMITE GALORE. General Roloff Goes to Cuba With a Big Expedition. New York, Feb. 23—The World this morning says: General Roloff with fifty men, 35 of whom are Americans, and a big supply of arms and ammunition, is said in Cuban circles to have sailed from a point on the New Jersey coast not far from Long Branch, for Cuba. It is said General Roloff is in charge of the largest flibustering expedition that has left this country during the present Cuban revolution. The Cubans have experienced so much difficulty with chartered steamers that General Roloff decided to purchase one. Her name could not be learned yesterday, but report had it that she came from the neighboord of Philadelphia and was larger than any which has yet carried men and arms to Cuba. The first intimation that General Palma had of General Roloff's proposed departure was about ten days ago. "I received a letter," said Palma yesterday, "from President Casneros informing me that General Roloff had spent a longer time in the United States than his through allowed and that he must return to Cuba at once." General Roloff walked into my office the next day to tell me he had received a similar communication. 'I shall obey the order within a fortnight,' was the only comment he made. His expedition was organized entirely indepen­dent of the junta." The ease of John Newbergin against Mrs. E. J. Vawter and E.J. Vawter of Santa Monica was tried before the Superior Court in Los Angeles, and developed a species of fraud prevalent to a large extent throughout the country. Mrs.Vawter at the solicitation of an agency of the plaintiff signed her name to a contract with W. Finley & Co.of Philadelphia for one copy of the edi­tion de luxe of "World's Master-pieces of Modern Painting," to be published in ten sections at $10 per section, payable upon delivery of each section. The complaint alleges that Mrs.Vawter has refused to pay for the sections, as per contract, and asks for a judgment of $100.Mrs.Vawter claims that she entirely misunderstood the meaning of the contract, thinking she was merely promising to pay for one section at $10.The case was tried in the Santa Monica justice court and a decision rendered for the defendant, but after it was tried and argued before the Superior Court, Judge Clark took the matter under advisement. Princeton is laughing and the college is humming a new song. But in the old Sidell mansion, where Grover Cleveland is to reside after March 4, solemn-visaged servants smile never a smile.A bit of the new song—it is essentially a drinking song—will explain how it is that mirth dares not show its face in the house of Cleveland. "Three truckmen gay moved earloads eight Of the household goods of Grover; But when they came to his bottle crate, They all soon got half seas over." In simple prose, the goods and chattles of Cleveland have arrived and have been removed from the Pennsylvania station to the Sidwell house, which he recently purchased,and one day last week, while a portion of the contents of the President's private cellar was in transit,sundry bottles of rare wine and whisky mysteriously disappeared.Four truckmen had a glorious time for several days,and an autopsy on one of the boxes disclosed a horrid void due to the removal of nineteen bottles.The Cleveland servants were shocked beyond measure.Mrs SHOTS AT THE NEWS. pound baby girl was born wife of Benj. Harrison at his Indianapolis on Sunday. Budd has vetoed a bill approving $10,000 for a California exert the forthcoming Nashville con. Canadian typograph manufacturers of bicycles and riders type-setting machines, largest employers of skilled workers in Western Ontario, have their employees that if the feature of the immigration will become a law in the United States, they will discharge every who is not a Canadian. Many employes live in Detroit. special election held in Yuma for the purpose of electing a member of the house of representatives succeed Murat Masterson, resulted in the election of (ep.) by a plurality of seven over Purdy (Dem.) The re-surprise, as not until the re-receiving from the last recincts in the county, which pretorefore been Democratic, appear as though Hale had a vote. The lower house of the legislative assembly now 51 Democrats and 3 Republicans. Seewall of San Francisco against Nancy Abbott's suit that she was the wife of L. Quackenbush by virtue extract marriage, finding fromence that while the couple together the cohabitation had been accompanied by such a assumption of marital duties responsibilities as the law re-constitute a marriage unction 55 of the Civil Code.uling of the court disposes of Abbott's suit to set aside the law which Quackenbush con- million dollars' worth of money to his daughter. When the lawsuit was announced Mrs. Abbott Cleveland arrived in Princeton on Tuesday. The town will give her and her husband a hearty welcome. John Cutler and others have obtained an injunction in the Superior Court of Kern county, restraining J.D. Pillsbury, collector of Alta irrigation district, from selling plaintiffs' property, which was advertised to be sold on Monday for delinquent taxes. The plaintiffs are the largest property owners in the district. Charles J. Boskowitz of San Francisco and others also obtained an injunction against the tax collector of Tipton irrigation district, restraining him from selling their property scheduled to be sold on Tuesday at delinquent tax sale. The suits are brought for the purpose of disrupting the irrigation districts. Cabinet makers assert that Judge McKenna will be named as attorney-general in the cabinet of McKinley, instead of secretary of the interior, as was first suggested. At the bottom of the change is said to be the opposition of congressmen interested in Indian schools, and the maintaining of these institutions on a non-sectarian basis. Opposition to McKenna, quiet but vigorous, has been going on for some time, by members of various organizations, principally the A.P.A. The fight has been made direct with the President-elect, and it is reported to have had effect. None of those opposing McKenna make any point against his ability. As an employee of O.B.Fuller was busy grubbing up trees at his place near Corona he made a ghastly discovery. He was engaged in grubbing up a very large cottonwood tree, when his grub hoe uncovered a human skull. After satisfying himself that what he had found was really a part of a human head, he laid it aside and went on with his work. Under another tree 40 feet away, he uncovered the rest of the skeleton and a bowie knife. The knife was rusty and fell to pieces when picked up. From there are some angry orchardists around Pasadena, and their feelings have taken definite shape in a criminal charge brought against nurseryman James J.McKenna by A.McDonald of Lamanda Park, who swears to a complaint charging McKenna with obtaining money under false pretenses. He alleges that on March 10, 1896, he bought 140 apricot trees from McKenna, and that they were represented as being of the royal variety, and that they had been budded upon seedling plants. McDonald claims that he planted the trees, and that they have not turned out as represented; that they are not budded and have proved a complete loss to the complainant. McKenna told different orchardists the names of persons who, he said, had budded his nursery stock, and those he named have denied that they did any budding of the nature claimed. The last evening reception of this administration was given by the President and Mrs. Cleveland at the White House Thursday night. It was held for the benefit of the general public, and the crowd was a record-breaker in point of attendance, it being estimated that between 5000 and 6000 people had been in line during the two hours of the reception. Many persons stood in line for hours before reaching the doors of the White House. The members of the Cabinet and their wives, besides a number of friends, were members of the receiving party. Notwithstanding the large crowd, everything passed off in an excellent manner. Gen.Wilson and Lieut.Gillmore made the introduction and the Marine band furnished the music. After the reception, the receiving party enjoyed a luncheon before separating. The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the lower court in the case of Charles A. Lee, a brakeman, against the Southern Pacific railroad company, and instructed the trial court to enter judgment in favor of against Nancy Abbott's that she was the wife of L. Quackenbush by virtue extract marriage, finding fromence that while the couple together the cohabitation had been accompanied by such aassumption of marital dutiesponsibilities as the law reco constitute a marriage unction 55 of the Civil Code. Idling of the court disposes of Abbott's suit to set aside the by which Quackenbush con- million dollars' worth of to his daughter. When the was announced Mrs. Abbott Hulda Duestrow, sister of Duestrow, who was hanged in Mo., for the murder of his child, and is sole heir executed man's millions, will Roman Catholic convent at It. It has been currently beast she would marry Louis young school teacher at Ill., but this is now denied. Terms of the will Hulda's an- be $30,000, but should she out issue the fortune is to be to certain charities named man who was hanged last he is not a Roman Catholic or heritage. When she a nun her annuity will go church. "Jerry" Simpson ap- on Congress on Monday, for the first time in his tailor-made suit of clothes. He came to him by express, Chicago tailor, and tucked the bundle was a pair of silk sent with the compliments Jason. Simpson wore these his new clothes. He pair of tan leather shoes silk hat. He adorned the with a half-mourning band dared at a Bryan meeting at Kan., one night last week the entire outfit and narcaped with his life. Excitement was caused at day morning by a mesa the white settlers at Yer- en Mason valley, fifty miles son, calling for fifty armed men and fifty extra stands of men sent by special train. A dian was killed by a white herrington Sunday by strik-on the head with a crowbar. Dians became enraged and hers to Walker River reser- All the male Indians from river came in to Mason valhaving sent the squaws to contains. Governor Saddler tenant General Galusha on a run to investigate the trouble case of John Newbergin Mrs. E. J. Vawter and E. J. F Santa Monica was tried the Superior Court in Los and developed a species of evalent to a large extent but the country. Mrs. Vaw-sollestation of an agency of stiff signed her name to a with W. Finley & Co. of this for one copy of the edi-luxe of "World's Master- Modern Painting," to be in ten sections at $10 per posing McKenna make any point against his ability. As an employee of O. B. Fuller was busy grubbing up trees at his place near Corona he made a ghastly discovery. He was engaged in grubbing up a very large cotton-wood tree, when his grub hoe uncovered a human skull. After satisfying himself that what he had found was really a part of a human head, he laid it aside and went on with his work. Under another tree 40 feet away, he uncovered the rest of the skeleton and a bowie knife. The knife was rusty and fell to pieces when picked up. From the fact that the skull was found under one tree and the remainder of the skeleton and the knife under another, it is thought the victim was beheaded. Who the victim was and when how he was killed remains a mystery. J. B. Kelly has been arrested in Los Angeles on complaint of the Postoffice inspector for using the mails to swindle the public. The swindle was prompted by this advertisement in a San Francisco paper: "In silk attire—To introduce our goods we will send ten yards of silk for $1, charges prepaid, if this advertisement is sent with the order. State the shade desired, black, brown, green or red. Only ten yards sold to one person at this price. Address Southern California Silk Company, P. O. box 706, Los Angeles, Cal." The persons who answered the adver-ment and sent their $1 received from the "silk company," which is J. B. Kelly, ten yards of silk thread and many of them wrote indignantly to the paper inclosing the installments of silk thread. Nine lives were saved in Piedmont by a parrot whose shrill screams aroused the Hume family from slumber, to discover their mansion in flames. George W. Hume, the shipowner, and his son got the ladies of the household out of doors safely, and the son tried to telephone to the fire department, but was driven out of the house by smoke and flames. The beautiful home with much of its valuable contents was totally destroyed and within a short time nothing was left save a blackening mass of wood and bricks. The Hume mansion was built twenty-three years ago in the center of a thirteen-acre tract, much of which is beautifully cultivated, and was the oldest home in Alameda county. Capt. Hume will rebuild. He carried $25,000 insurance, but his loss is estimated at twice that figure. Payton Wright, a Pittsburgh attorney, will play a prominent part id the swellest wedding of the year in London, for which place he departed last week. He will give away his sister, Miss Katheryn Wright, to Sir Edmund Lechmere, Bart, deputy lieutenant of Worcestershire. Miss Wright is 22 years of age and was the reigning belle of London last season. The marriage is the outcome of a romantic love affair. In the fall of 1895, while Miss Wright was visiting one of Sir Edmund's castles in Warwickshire, the castle took fire and she was hemmed in by flames. Sir Edmund saw her danc members of the Cabinet and their wives, besides a number of friends, were members of the receiving party. Notwithstanding the large crowd, everything passed off in an excellent manner. Gen. Wilson and Lieut. Gillmore made the introduction and the Marine band furnished the music. After the reception, the receiving party enjoyed a luncheon before separating. The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the lower court in the case of Charles A. Lee, a brakeman, against the Southern Pacific railroad company, and instructed the trial court to enter judgment in favor of the plaintiff for $8000. Lee sustained injuries while employed on a siding in Los Angeles, for which a jury awarded him damages in $8000. The railroad set up the technical defense that plaintiff had brought the action against the Southern Pacific railroad company, whereas the line had been leased by the Southern Pacific company of Kentucky. The trial judge set aside the verdict of the jury on the ground that it was at variance with the agreed facts, but the Supreme Court reverses this and orders that judgment be entered in favor of Lee for $8000. Asbury Lucas, a Chicago porter, was a colored man till two years ago, when he sustained a severe shock from a bolt of lightning which struck the ground near him. Now he is turning white. Shortly after the shock a white spot appeared on his hand. It grew in size, and spots showed on other parts of his body They spread, and at present there are three blotches left on his head One of these, on the cheek, has already begun to turn white. Lucas is 28 years old. He says he has some white blood in him. His parents are light, and his sister is almost white. He was born in the south,and has been in Chicago for six years. He was never sick but once when he had typhoid fever five years ago. When he first saw the pale spots on his dusky skin he owns he was frightened, but he finally consulted a physician, who told him he was turning white, and probably would lose all of his original color in a few years. His hair is what is sometimes described, when found on colored persons, as red, but is as kinky as that of the most pronounced negro. Lizzie Borden, the Fall River women who figured as defendant in a murder mystery a few years ago, turns out to be a kleptomaniac. Her case has features not unlike the Castle case, Miss Borden, like Mrs. Castle, being independently wealthy. "Love's Dream" is the title of a magnificent painting on porcelain which forms one of the decorations of Miss Borden's residence. This painting was missed from the store of the Tilden-Thurber company in Providence recently. A few minutes after Miss Borden had left the store another painting was missing. A warrant was issued charging her with larceny. From the reticence of those concerned, and from the fact that the warrant cannot be located, it is declared that a settlement of the matter has been effected. It is Case of John Newbergin Mrs. E. J. Vawter and E. J. of Santa Monica was tried the Superior Court in Los and developed a species of evilent to a large extent out the country. Mrs. Vawtion solicitation of an agency of stiff signed her name to a with W. Finley & Co. of Ohio for one copy of the ediluxe of "World's MasterModern Painting," to be in ten sections at $10 per parable upon delivery of ton. The complaint alleges that Vawter has refused to pay sections, as per contract, for a judgment of $100. The latter claims that she entirely stood the meaning of the thinking she was merely to pay for one section at the case was tried in the Monica justice court and a dedered for the defendant, it was tried and argued before Superior Court, Judge kirk the matter under advisement is laughing and the columming a new song. But and Sidell mansion, where Monica is to reside after solemn-visaged servants over a smile. A bit of the it is essentially a drinking al explain how it is that trees not show its face in of Cleveland. Kenmen gay moved carloads eight household goods of Grover; may came to his bottle crate, soon got half seas over." Simple prose, the goods and of Cleveland have arrived been removed from the monia station to the Sidwell which he recently purchased, day last week, while a porthe contents of the Presiivate cellar was in transit, bottles of rare wine and dysteriously disappeared. Kenmen had a glorious time all days, and an autopsy on the boxes disclosed a horrid to the removal of nineteen. The Cleveland servants fixed beyond measure. Mrs Payton Wright, a Pittsburgh attorney, will play a prominent part id the swellest wedding of the year in London, for which place he departed last week. He will give away his sister, Miss Katheryn Wright, to Sir Edmund Lechmere, Bart, deputy lieutenant of Worcestershire. Miss Wright is 22 years of age and was the reigning belle of London last season. The marriage is the out come of a romantic love affair. In the fall of 1895, while Miss Wright was visiting one of Sir Edmund's castles in Warwickshire, the castle took fire and she was hemmed in by flames. Sir Edmund saw her danger, wrapped himself in a sheet soaked with water, dashed in, picked up the insensible beauty, wrapped her in the cloth and ran through the flames to safety. Sir Edmund's hair and eyelashes were burned so that he was quite bald and his sight was threatened. Since the rescue he has been a constant attendant of Miss Wright, and the match is the talk of London. The marriage will take place March 15. For three years the parents of Miss Grace Alice Warner of St. Paul, Minnesota, have been seeking to prevent her marriage to George D. Cochran, son of the late Judge Cochran, a well-known railroad man of Toledo, O., but they were outwitted. Miss Warner is the beautiful daughter of Reuben Warner, member of one of the largest firms in Minnesota. Three years ago George Cochran, then a stenographer for the president of the Northern Pacific railroad, began to pay attention to Miss Warner, but her parents objected and sent her to school in Paris. Last fall Cochran went to Trail, B. C., to live, and Miss Warner's parents called her home. Letters passed between the young persons, those to Miss Warner being mailed to a neighbor and delivered to her without exciting suspicion. Last week Cochran arrived from British Columbia, met Miss Warner and arranged a wedding. The mother and elder sister of Miss Grace were induced to attend the matinee Wednesday at a theater. When they were gone Cochran and a minister appeared at the house and the marriage occurred at the home of the bride's parents in spite of opposition. The bride's father is worth $2,000,000. A technical error on the part of a Los Angeles Judge in overruling an objection has prompted the Supreme Court to set aside a judgment of $8.965 against the Southern Pacific Company, and to order a new trial of the case. In 1891 R.W. Pierce shipped two carloads of orange trees from Apopka, Fla., to River-side. The Southern Pacific hauled the cars from New Orleans, the agreement being that the shortest route to California should be utilized. Owing to heavy rains on the Southern Pacific route, the company shipped the trees over the Central Pacific to Colton and thence to River-side. While in transit the trees were frozen and totally destroyed. Suit was thereupon brought at Los Angeles, and Pierce secured judgment for $8965. The Southern Pacific Company appealed from the judgment, claiming that the court had erred in overruling certain objections. The Supreme court says: "We think the court erred in overruling the objection of the defendant to the proof of the market value of the trees at Riverside, instead off containing the inquiry to the cost or value of the trees at the point of shipment in Florida, as per contract, which, with the freight paid, was the true measure of the damages."