anaheim-gazette 1897-05-06

ANAHEIM VOLUME XXVII. Dr. J. A. Champion PHYSICIAN, SURGEON AND ACCOUCREUR. 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. L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT & SHOE MAKER. Carner Adela 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 DO YOU BUY MUSIC? I have just received a supply from the East, and should be pleased to have you call. Remember also my large stock of Books, Stationery, Magazines, Notions, Cutlery & Harmonicas. CIGARS, CIGARETTES & TOBACCO Being Agent for all Papers and Magazines, I respectfully solicit your subscriptions. JOSEPH HELMSEN. 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 R. H. SEALE DEALER IN GO TO THE Oak Barber Shop FOR A FIRST-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. Anaheim, Cal Special attention given to PROBATE matters. GRAY BROTHERS & WARD Cement Contractors Shillinger Patent Contracts for RESERVOIRS, IRRIGATION MITCHES, 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. 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 Informs her customers and the general public that she is prepared to sell goods at the smallest margin possible. She buys for cash and therefore can sell for a very small profit, giving her customers the benefit of low prices. No charge for showing goods or answering questions. Come one, Come all! All Kindsof Produce and Poultry Taken in Exchange 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. CITIZENS' BANK OF ANAHEIM. 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. 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 the United States and foreign countries. TREES IN THE STREETS: A Society In New York City to Beautify the Avenues. Without doubt the Tree Planting association of New York has undertaken a most beneficent work. So far as it proves to be practicable, it will contribute as much as any other scheme that could be projected for the embellishment of the city. The incorporators are to a considerable extent the same as the incorporators of the Botanic garden—men well known for public spirit and intelligence. Thus the society begins under the most favorable possible auspices, for caution and discrimination as well as for enterprise. Of course its work will be largely experimental. There are streets, even residential streets, in New York in which it may not be wise to attempt tree planting at all, for the reason that the space cannot be spared, either from the sidewalk or the roadway, for the boxes that must protect the young trees or for the trunks of such as live to maturity. Even in those streets in which there is room enough for trees there are many places in which no trees can thrive by reason of the lack of sunshine, and, indeed, there are scarcely any streets in New York below the park in which trees can be expected to do so well as in a place like Washington, where the streets are so wide and the buildings so low as to give all trees that may be planted a fair chance for life. Almost the only streets in New York that are as favorably situated are the Broadway boulevard and the Riverside drive. The boulevard has been until within the past few months a dismal monument to municipal neglect. Now it is kept in order, but time is required to replace the trees that have been allowed to die, and the double row of trees that were meant "high overarched to embower" does not embower at all, but presents upon the whole a scraggy and dismal spectacle. This, of course, comes mainly from neglect, for there is no reason why trees in this thoroughfare should not thrive if they can be made to thrive anywhere in New York. The general introduction of electric lighting will do much for the trees unless gas is still carried through 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 Living Rates. Give Me a Call. PALACE MEAT MARKET F.W. Fleischmann, PROPRIETOR. Beat 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 o harge Shop on East Center Street. Handles Cudahy Cold-Storage Meats, Inspected by the Government Inspector. F. CRIST Merchant Tailor LATEST STOCK OF SPRING SUITS Suits, $18 up. Pants, $5 up. Goods of Latest Styles. Call and see my stock Center Street, near Opera-house. JOSEPH BACKS, DEALER IN FURNITURE Repairing Done. Funeral Director. Store in Backs Building (next to irrigation district office). Los Angeles street City Stables, A. L. LEWIS & CO.. PROPS Center St, opp. Kroeger Block BICYCLES FOR SALE OR RENT. Single and Double Teams Furnished at short notice, and careful drivers familiar with the country, supplied when required. The patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. 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 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. Musical Recitation. Although the Quakers, as a sect, do not favor music, regarding it as a profitless amusement indulged in by the world's people, there are occasionally stories told which show that the love of music sometimes steals its way into a Quaker household in spite of discipline. George Thompson, the famous English abolitionist, while lecturing on the abolition of slavery in the British provinces, stopped one night with a Quaker family. He was a great lover of music, and at that time was a good singer. During the evening he sang "Oft In the Stilly Night," which was listened to with the closest attention. In the morning his Quaker hostess appeared somewhat uneasy. She wished to hear the song again, but it would hardly do; she thought, for her to request its repetition. At last, however, her desire overcame her scruples. "George," she said, with a faint pink color in her soft cheeks, "will thee repeat the words of last evening in thy usual manner?"—Youth's Companion. Spring medicine is a necessity which Hood's Sarsaparilla grandly supplies. It purifies and vitalizes the blood and thus gives tone and strength to the system. Hood's Pills are the only pills to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla. Cures all liver ills. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1897. USIC? should be pleased to lagazines, hmonicas. TOBACCO pectfully solicit your MSEN. Seeds! that she is prepared buys for cash and other customers the benor answering questen in Exchange LE The Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. SUBSCRIPTION, - $150 Per Year. Six months... 1,000 Three months... 76 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 or second-class matter. Items of news and correspondence on all live subjects are solicited by the editor. ORANGES AND LEMONS. Interesting Statistics From the Orchards of Southern California—Rapid Development of the Industry. In response to a request for information from J. A. Fillmore, manager of the Western system of the Southern Pacific Railway, A. D. Shepard of Los Angeles, a well known authority on the subject, sends the following tabulated statement of the number of orange and lemon trees in bearing in Southern California: Jan. 1st, 1897, orange trees in California; Bearing trees over 4 years old...1,460,096 Non-bearing trees under 4 years old...1,964,655 Total...3,424,751 Jan. 1st, 1897, lemon trees in California; Bearing trees over 4 years old...231,510 Non-bearing trees, under 4 years old...965,398 Total...1,196,908 Orange production: Season 1896-7, from 1,460,096 bearing trees...7,000 cars Four years hence, 1900-1, at same ratio...16,324 cars This estimate seems liberal, for many Cuba, have been intolerable in amount. At this moment band of desperate men are scouring the countryside, committing all kinds of excesses. The Octroi buildings (where taxes are collected upon produce coming into towns) have been sacked, farms illaged and burned, shops locked and yet the government cannot share soldiers to suppress the brigands or money to succor the starving people. THE WAR IN THE EAST. Will the Powers Interfere, or Vill There be Another and Decisive Battle? PARIS, May 1.—The powers, including Germany and Austria, have agreed that the moment is opportune to intervene between Greece and Turkey. LONDON, May.—It is believed that a decisive conflict will be fought at Pharsalos to-morrow. A special dispatch from Athens says that reports of the Turkish assaults on Pharsalos are officially confirmed. A special from Athens says that tonight five classes of the reserves and two classes of the territorials are making hurried arrangements to leave for the front. ATHENS, May 1.—Dispatches from Pharsalos, the headquarters of the Greek army in Thessaly, give further particulars of the recent fighting between the Turks and Greeks at Velestino, ten miles west of Volo. The Turkish attacking force consisted of 8000 infantry, 800 cavalry and thirteen guns. The charges of the Turkish cavalry were firmly withstood by the Greeks posted on Kartasi hill. The entire Turkish regiment was destroyed. NEW YORK, April 30.—A dispatch from Salonica says: "From Vienna to Nish, in Servia, and to the Turkish frontier, all the news was. Of Greek defeat and everywhere there was great rejoicing, because the Greek is detested in all of Southeastern Europe. In Austria, Hungary and Servia it is said that the Greek individual is equal to three Oriental Jews; therefore Austria, Hungary and Servia all presented a broad grin at the constant news of Greek reverses. In Servia they said: SNAP SHOTS AT THE NEWS Los Angeles is said to be the most rapidly growing city in the Union. Eastern reports are to the effect that frost has killed nine-tenths of the crop of plums, peaches and cherries in New Jersey and Delaware and along the Hudson river. The monthly statement of the public debt shows that at the close of business on April 30, the debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to $998,244,132 a decrease for the month of $5,718,068. Irvin Shaw and Gertie Fisher each sentenced to one year in the Wilmington, O., penitentiary for joint horse theft, were wedded in the jail parlors by Mayor Grady. Gertie's mother of Daton gave her consent. Gertie is a pretty but naughty little girl and her husband a beardless boy. The Riverside trustees were preparing to bring an action against the Southern Pacific company to collect a $10,400 bond for failure to build its line through the city limits, a franchise having been granted the company for that purpose, the road to be completed May 11. Last Wednesday evening, the 28th, the road took the town by surprise. The grading outfit arrived and on Thursday morning work on the line began and it is aimed to complete the road this week. James Corbett, the prize fighter, has brought suit at Trenton, N. J., against Inventor Edison to restrain him from manufacturing and selling photographic films of the Corbett-Courtney sparing match. Corbett alleges that he was induced to spar with Courtney before a camera by the Kinetoscop Exhibition company, under a contract providing that he should be sole owner of the films. Without any authority Edison has been making and selling photographs in large quantities and realizing large profits. The distinction between the offenses of grand larceny and petty larceny recently received consideration at the hands of the Supreme Court. Harry McElroy and James Shaw were collaborators on a farm in Tulare county and silent in the open air near each other. The image contains a page from a historical newspaper with columns of text. The headings are in bold and vary in font size. Below the headings, there are several paragraphs of text. The first section is titled "THE STREETS." It discusses the expansion of the Tree Planting service in New York to include more gardens and other amenities. The second section is about the Botanic garden, which offers public spaces for young trees or for those living to maturity. It mentions that there are many places where trees can thrive by reason of sunshine, and indeed, any streets in New York are to attempt tree plantation. The third section describes the Turner societies of St. Louis, focusing on a large influx for the twenty-seventh annual fest of the North American Turnerbund, which convenes in that city this week, beginning to day. The fourth section discusses the organization being particularly strong in Milwaukee, Lincolnnaft, New York, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. It mentions that committee members confidently expect 50,000 visitors while other estimates run as high as 100,000. The fifth section talks about the organization being particularly strong in Milwaukee, Lincolnnaft, New York, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. It mentions that committee members confidently expect 50,000 visitors while other estimates run as high as 100,000. The sixth section discusses the organization being particularly strong in Milwaukee, Lincolnnaft, New York, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. It mentions that committee members confidently expect 50,000 visitors while other estimates run as high as 100,000. The seventth section discusses the organization being particularly strong in Milwaukee, Lincolnnaft, New York, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. It mentions that committee members confidently expect 50,000 visitors while other estimates run as high as 100,000. The eighth section discusses the organization being particularly strong in Milwaukee, Lincolnnaft, New York, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. It mentions that committee members confidently expect 50,000 visitors while other estimates run as high as 100,000. The ninth section discusses the organization being particularly strong in Milwaukee, Lincolnnaft, New York, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. It mentions that committee members confidently expect 50,000 visitors while other estimates run as high as 100,000. The tenth section discusses the organization being particularly strong in Milwaukee, Lincolnnaft, New York, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. It mentions that committee members confidently expect 50,000 visitors while other estimates run as high as 100,000. The eleventh section discusses the organization being particularly strong in Milwaukee, Lincolnnaft, New York, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. It mentions that committee members confidently expect 50,000 visitors while other estimates run as high as 100,000. The twelfth section discusses the organization being particularly strong in Milwaukee, Lincolnnaft, New York, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. It mentions that committee members confidently expect 50,000 visitors while other estimates run as high as 100,000. The thirteenth section discusses the organization being particularly strong in Milwaukee, Lincolnnaft, New York, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. It mentions that committee members confidently expect 50,000 visitors while other estimates run as high as 100,000. The fourteenth section discusses the organization being particularly strong in Milwaukee, Lincolnnaft, New York, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. It mentions that committee members confidently expect 50,000 visitors while other estimates run as high as 100,000. The fifteenth section discusses the organization being particularly strong in Milwaukee, Lincolnnaft, New York, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. It mentions that committee members confidently expect 50,000 visitors while other estimates run as high as 100,000. The sixteenth section discusses the organization being particularly strong in Milwaukee, Lincolnnaft, New York, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. It mentions that committee members confidently expect 50,000 visitors while other estimates run as high as 100,000. The seventeenth section discusses the organization being particularly strong in Milwaukee, Lincolnnaft, New York, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. It mentions that committee members confidently expect 50,000 visitors while other estimates run as high as 100,000. The eighteenth section discusses the organization being particularly strong in Milwaukee, Lincolnnaft, New York, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. It mentions that committee members confidently expect 50,000 visitors while other estimates run as high as 100,000. The nineteenth section discusses the organization being particularly strong in Milwaukee, Lincolnnaft, New York, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. It mentions that committee members confidently expect 50,000 visitors while other estimates run as high as 12 million cars per car. Actual cost to producer: f.o. b. cars California; Oranges; $128 per box Lemons; 176 "Oranges" in orchard form in ten counties; San Bernardino; 1,937-179 Total trees in orange orchards in 45 counties; 3424-75 Total in ten counties as above; 3327-179 Total orange trees in 35 counties not named; 97-592 San Bernardino has of the total set; 2935-189 per cent Riverside; 2455-189 "Los Angeles"; 2194-189 "Total," 3 counties: 758-149 per cent Lemon trees in orchards in ten counties; January 1st; 1897; San Diego; 345-372 Los Angeles; 287-715 Santa Barbara; 143-715 Riverside; 133-772 Ventura; 97-588 Orange; 58-942 San Bernardino; 41-120 Glenn; 25-500 Tulare; 20-741 San Luis Obispo; 19-795 Total; 1164-550 Total lemon trees in 45 counties; 196-988 "Charles" in quilted white petticoats back in chairs in the sunshine,and in the concert halls music and beer flow together,and men and women flirt,d drink and smoke together as if the fate of Babylon will be never be repeated. "Jews swarm the streets selling goods and counting money." Albanian doormen in quilted white petticoats back in chairs in the sunshine,and in the concert halls music and beer flow together,and men and women flirt,d drink and smoke together as if the fate of Babylon will be never be repeated. "Cablegrams from the field of battle are all alike—all Turkish,practically dictated by a staff officer of the commander-in-chief.All dispatches thus dictated must go via Constantinople,and are subjected to strict censorship.This seems quite unnecessary,becauseas all know,Turkey must win and win quickly.unless the powers interfere.To-day she has almost double as many men in the field as Greece and has millions ready to take arms,而Greece has no more men." STATE DIVISION! Taxes in the New State of Southern California Would be Half the Present Rate. An old teacher said that the wise man first counted the cost before building a tower.An organization movement will soon be commenced to complete the erection of the state of Southern California,the foundations for which were laid thirty-eight years ago.The cost for running a state is like that of running a county or city,或 indeed a private affairThere must be sufficient revival.Inventor Edison to restrain him from manufacturing and selling photographs of the Corbett-Courtney sparing match.Corbett alleges that he was induced to spar with Courtney before a camera by the Kinetoscope Exhibition company，under a contract providing that he should be sole owner of the films.Without any authority Edison has been making and selling photographs in large quantities and realizing large profits. The distinction between the offenses of grand larceny and petty larceny recently received consideration at the hands of the Supreme Court.Harry McElroy and James Shaw were collaborors on a farm in Tulare county and slept in the open air near each other.Upon retiring Shaw placed his trousers containing $17,beneath his head,and during the night McElroy took the money.Hew was convicted of grand larceny.The defendant appealed claiming that the section of the code under which he was convicted was not proper one,for he contended,the did not take any property "from the person of another." The Supreme Court held that this view was correct.in that a man's bed is no part of his person;and，while reversing the judgment of the lower court,says that it does not feel that the defendant should be discharged upon the fault information，但that there seems to be competent evidence obtainable to convict him of petty larceny. The Turner societies of St. Louis look for a large inflow for the twenty-sixth annual fest of the North American Turnerbund，which convenes in that city this week.beginning to day.The committees confidently expect $50,ooo visitors while other estimates run as high as 12oooo.The North American Turnerbund has societies in all parts of the country,the organization being particularly strong in Milwaukee,Cincinnati,New York,Brooklyn,Pittsburgh and St.Louis.Nearly every other city of any size has announced that it will send representatives to compete for the honors in the gymnastic arena.The California division has arrived bearing with it laurel to make the wreaths which will be distributed as prizes There will be a street parade Thursday.May 6,the opening day,and the exercises will begin the same day at the fair grounds.Henry Braun,national president of the bund,是a resident of St.Louis,and in conjunction with the national committee will manage the details of the festival.The programme is announced as the most extensive ever arranged for such a demonstration.An innovation at this festival is the attention given to bicycle races. The City Council of Pomona recently found among the archives in the City Hall a bond given by the Southern Pacific Company with half a dozen weary men in Los Angeles as securities for $16ooo,tobe forfeited in case the company did not build a branch line from Pomona to Chino within one year from May 11，1896。It was given in exchange for certain free rights of way through the streets of Pomona for the branch from Pomona to Lordsburg and Covina. This line was finished to Covina last September,但 nothing was ever done about the branch to Chino.The council gave notice that Pomona would begin suit on the bond ifthe road to Chino was not done byMay 11th.Last week 2oo graders with teams，wagons and tents were landed at Murchisonville and work onthe new road to Chino was begun in earnest Property owners in the southern part of the town，where the road is to run through orchards，armed themselves and stood guard over their property.At Mrs.Eagers' place several military armed with rifles patrolled up Total four counties...75.97 per cent The very interesting and instructive statistics furnished herewith is accredited by Mr. Shepard to the report just presented by the California Citrus Growers' Tariff Committee to Congress, and it may be relied upon as being correct. Mrs. A. Iveen, residing at 720 Henry St., Alton Ill., suffered with sciatic rheumatism for eight months. She doctored for it nearly the whole of this time, using various remedies recommended by friends, and was treated by physicians, but received no relief. She then used one and a half bottles of Chamberlain's Pain Balm, which effected a complete cure. This is published at her request, as she wants others similarly afflicted to know what cured her. The 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by P. A. Derge. STARVING IN SPAIN. Brigands Have Full Sway and No Soldiers are Spared to Suppress Them. NEW YORK, May 1.—A Sun special from London says: If Europe were not so engrossed with war news, the state of affairs in the southern provinces of Spain would attract universal attention. While the Government is spending millions to crush the Cuban insurgents, thousands of poor people at home are suffering the pangs of hunger and hundreds have died of actual starvation. Such a situation would cast an indelible disgrace upon any other government in Europe, but the Spanish government appears to see no cause for shame. Queen Regent Christina has urged vainly that immediate measures be taken to save these wretched people, even if it is necessary to suspend the dispatch of troops to Cuba in order to obtain the necessary funds. Worn out with worries and anxieties, the Queen Regent is now suffering from what the court physicians call extreme nervous prostration. But then of course she is not a Spanish woman, but a mere Northerner. Castillian nerves are stronger and not affected by mawkish sentiment. The trouble originated in the failure of the crops, owing to the prolonged drought following previous bad years. Farmers everywhere were ruined, but, despite this, strenuous efforts were made by the tax collectors to obtain full payment of the taxes, which, since the outbreak of the insurrection in Santa Barbara has of the total set...11.92 per cent Riverside has of the total set...11.17 per cent STATE DIVISION! Taxes in the New State of Southern California Would be Half the Present Rate. An old teacher said that the wise man first counted the cost before building a tower. An organization movement will soon be commenced to complete the erection of the state of Southern California, the foundations for which were laid thirty-eight years ago. The cost for running a state is like that of running a county or city, or indeed a private affair. There must be sufficient revenues. State revenues are derived mainly from taxes. The tax levy is a certain percentage of the assessed wealth of the territory of the proposed State of Southern California. The law of 1859, which divided the state, includes the counties which are named. The figures are taken from the last report of the state controller (that of 1896) and are as follows: Counties. Assessments. Los Angeles $99,520,611 Orange 10,819,492 Riverside 12,794,972 San Bernardino 18,365,974 San Diego 24,130,538 San Luis Obispo 13,822,324 Santa Barbara 14,723,870 Ventura 7,808,990 Total $202,166,771 That part of Kern county south of the sixth standard meridian south of Mount Diablo will also, by law, be in the new state. The figures for the fraction of Kern are omitted, because they have not been calculated for the purpose of this article, but would add materially to the grand total. The tax levy for 1896 was 42.9 cents on each $100 worth of property. The total tax levy, therefore, of Southern California was $847,275.44. Would this amount have been sufficient to have run a separate state government for that year? That depends on what a state government costs. The annual costs of several states are as follows: Oregon $300,000 Minnesota 500,000 Delaware 120,000 Florida 400,000 New Hampshire 500,000 Vermont 400,000 Their levies run from 10 to 25 cents. According to these states, Southern California, as a separate state, could cut the present levy to 42.9 in two and run its state government on 21 cents. What taxpayer will say, in the light of the above facts, that it will not be cheaper to have state division?—San Diego Progress. This line was finished to Covina last September, but nothing was ever done about the branch to Chino. The council gave notice that Pomona would begin suit on the bond if the road to Chino was not done by May 11th. Last week 200 graders with teams, wagons and tents were landed at Murchisonville and work on the new road to Chino was begun in earnest. Property-owners in the southern part of the town, where the road is to run through orchards, armed themselves and stood guard over their property. At Mrs. Eagers' place several men armed with rifles patrolled up and down under orders to shoot any one who attempted to lay railroad iron or to disturb the earth there. The property owners say they will never give in until their claims are paid in advance. Settlement of claims of property-owners for damages was made, the company paying in full the damages claimed by ranchers and orchardists. When the money was paid and a deed given the armed guard was withdrawn. Graders immediately entered upon the work of constructing the new roadbed across the disputed property line. August Norman, a young man who has been making his home at Knute Hillstead's farm at Larlmore, N.D., attempted to enter Mrs. Hillstead's bedroom during the absence of her husband some time after midnight Friday night, and demanded admission, and when the woman locked the door, he announced his purpose to be to kill all the family if she did not comply with his wishes. She continued to refuse, and Norman went upstairs and cut the throat of her son Peter K. Hillstead, aged 15, with a razor. After trying again to get into Mrs. Hillstead's room, he proceeded to carve the 13-months old son Thomas, after which he cut the throats of Adolph and Oscar, aged 11 and 3. He then forced his way into the mother's bedroom, assaulted her, promising not to kill her and her two little girls if she would yield. She did so, and saved her life and the lives of her two daughters. The oldest sons are still alive, but with little hopes of recovery. The murderer stole a horse and made off. Residents of the San Jacinto and Pleasant Valley irrigation district in Riverside county have begun suit in the Superior Court of that county against the collector of the district, to obtain a judgment that the sale and delivery of $220,000 in bonds of the district was void and to remove the cloud from plaintiffs' title to lands. Plaintiffs ask that the collector be enjoined from executing any deeds to the dis- HOTS AT THE NEWS Meles is said to be the most growing city in the Union. Reports are to the effect that called nine-tenths of the crop reaches and cherries in New Delaware and along the river. A highly statement of the public that at the close of business the debt, less cash in the amounted to $998,244,132, for the month of $5,718,068. New and Gertie Fisher, each one year in the Wilmington millitary for joint horse wedding in the jail parlors Brady. Gertie's mother of her consent. Gertie is aaughty little girl and her beardless boy. Beside trustees were preparing an action against the Pacific company to collect a bill for failure to build its line the city limits, a franchise granted the company for sale, the road to be completed last Wednesday evening, the road took the town by surging grading outfit arrived and by morning work on the line it is aimed to complete the week. Corbett, the prize fighter, has met at Trenton, N. J., against Madison to restrain him from buying and selling photographs of the Corbett-Courtney sparring. Corbett alleges that he had to spar with Courtney berger by the Kinetoscope Company, under a contract that he should be sole owner of. Without any authority he been making and selling in large quantities and large profits. Conduction between the offenses recently and petty larceny received consideration at the Supreme Court. Harry and James Shaw were colab-farm in Tulare county and open air near each other. trict for lands sold by him for taxes. If the suit is successful, all bonds disposed of by the district will be declared void, except $25,000 that were sold for cash. Upon the filing of the complaint was issued an injunction restraining the collector from executing deeds to the plaintiffs' property as prayed for. The suit is exciting much interest and will be contested to the last. J. A. Filcher, secretary of the State board of trade, has departed for Hamburg, Germany, where he will represent California at the Hamburg exhibition. He will set up the California exhibit, make out the premium list and start the cooking booth, where California dried fruits will be prepared and given away free. Several large shipments of California products are now on the way. The value of the exhibits is estimated at $7500. News has been received from San Diego that two prospectors from Santa Ana, brothers named Peterson, were lost on the desert below Salton, but had finally made their way to the camp of J. M. Stone at Palm Springs. They had a terrible experience after their supply of water gave out, and when they arrived at Stone's camp their tongues were so swollen that they could not speak. They were nearly starved, having thrown away their provisions so as to be unincumbered in their hunt for water. They had shaped their course for San Jacinto mountain, and came upon Stone's camp by accident. Another day on the desert would have ended their lives. John and Sam Hunt, living at Washita River, Oklahoma, tied Charlie Goodall, aged 17 years, to a wild horse and pushed them over a steep bluff into the river. Young Goodall had been hired boy on the Hunt farm for more than a year and the brothers claimed he ruined their sister Amelia. They compelled him to get on the horse, threatened him with death and then made the horse run for miles at full speed. When the horse was exhausted they pushed him with the rider over the cliff. Men near rescued the boy and he may live. The Hunts have left the country. They are bad men, and neighbors will probably lynch them if caught. The elders subsequently appealed to Gov. Johnson for protection, representing that they had been threatened with death if they remained in the State. The governor promised to protect them and has instructed the sheriff of the county to make them his special charge. The governor says the constitution of the State guarantees religious liberty, and that the mormons are entitled to it; moreover, that the elders teach the bible and refrain from preaching or practicing polygamy, and the fact that they believe Joseph Smith to have been an inspired writer should not lay them liable to persecution. Some damage has been done to olive orchards at Pomona by an unknown insect. Specimens of the insect have been submitted to examination by Prof. Cook, who reports that it is a pest previously unknown in Southern California, which he has not yet classified. It is not believed that the pest is of a serious character. Another source of some damage to olive trees at Pomona is the army worm, which has attacked a few orchards in the past few days though the damage is yet is not great. John Forepaugh, the circus man, and two Spaniards of Tampa. Fla., named Andresene Circas and Joaquin Sierra, were killed in a railroad accident in that city one evening last week. A fast mail train on the Florida Central railroad crashed into a street car on a suburban electric line, smashing the car to splinters, killing outright the three men named and throwing the other passengers in the car some distance from the track. None of the others were seriously hurt. The motorman on the electric car was responsible for the accident. There are no conductors on the electric line, and the motorman, with his car running at full speed, was engaged in a fight on the rear platform with four of his passengers, some of whom had failed to pay their fares. The electric car dashed on to the Florida Central track just ahead of the fast mail and was struck squarely in the middle by the locomotive. Immediately after the accident the motorman fled to the woods and has not since been seen. C. F. Smurr, general freight agent of the Southern Pacific Company, is in John and Sam Hunt, living at Washita River, Oklahoma, tied Charlie Goodall, aged 17 years, to a wild horse and pushed them over a steep bluff into the river. Young Goodall had been the hired boy on the Hunt farm for more than a year, and the brothers claimed he ruined their sister Amelia. They compelled him to get on the horse, threatened him with death and then made the horse run for miles at full speed. When the horse was exhausted they pushed him with the rider over the cliff. Men near rescued the boy and he may live. The Hunts have left the country. They are bad men, and neighbors will probably lynch them if caught. "Prof." Edwin T. Green, awaiting trial on a charge of rape, preferred by Miss Ruby Fitch of Santa Ana, filed a novel deposition in the Superior Court. Green declares that he is physically incapable of the crime of which he is accused and was so incapacitated for a period of at least three months prior to his arrest; that he believes if a proper medical examination were made to his condition the physician's testimony would prove a good defense. According to his statements, he has been refused the privilege of having such an examination performed on his own account, hence his appeal to the court. On the strength of the prisoner's affidavit, Judge Ballard made an order that the examination be made as requested. Green's case came up for trial on Tuesday. Charles Weese, 17 years old, who has been working for Farmer Jobes in Crawford county, Ind., some months as a teamster, turned out to be a young lady named Emma Ward, whose parents reside at Quinnimont, Va. She left home in order to get rid of the impurities of her two brothers, who insisted that she marry a man she did not love. During her employment she refused to attend places of amusement but went regularly to church and got the reputation of being an exemplary youth. After the discovery of her identity her parents were notified of her whereabouts, but she refused to return home, from which she has been absent for a year. In that time she has done hard farm work usually done by strong lads of her age. The girl is possessed of an attractive figure. Oliver W. Winthrop was given a life sentence for kidnapping James Campbell, the Honolulu millionaire, in San Francisco, and attempting to extort money from him. Winthrop has been confined in the county jail pending an appeal to the Supreme Court. The stay of execution expired, and recently the sheriff expressed his intention of removing Winthrop to San Quentin. To prevent this Winthrop's attorney petitioned the Supreme Court for a writ of probable cause. Chief Justice Beatty denied the application, giving as a reason that he found no "probable cause for an appeal in the record." The decision resulted in Winthrop's being taken to San Quentin immediately. From Judge Beatty's language it would seem that the court has no intention of granting the kidnaper a new trial. Eight hundred young Irish immigrant girls arrived in New York by the steamer Majestic one day last week. This is only a starter. Five thousand more are booked to sail within a few months is consequence of which the steamship lines will raise rates. Assistant Commissioner of Immigration McSweeney sought to explain this eruption of Mollie Bawns. There has been an enormous demand for servants, and the labor bureau has been unable to supply it, although thousands of other passengers in the car some distance from the track. None of the others were seriously hurt. The motorman on the electric car was responsible for the accident. There are no conductors on the electric line, and the motorman, with his car running at full speed, engaged in a fight on the rear platform with four of his passengers, some of whom had failed to pay their fares. The electric car dashed on to the Florida Central track just ahead of the fast mail and was struck squarely in the middle by the locomotive. Immediately after the accident the motorman fled to the woods and has not since been seen. C. F. Smurr, general freight agent of the Southern Pacific Company, is in receipt of advices from the East which indicate that there will be a good market for California green-fruits this season. According to his information frosts have destroyed 90 per cent of the Georgia peach and berry crop, 80 percent of the Delaware crop and about two-thirds of the Maryland crop. indications point to a big fruit harvest in California and if the destruction of the Eastern crop is as great as stated, California growers may expect a most profitable season. The Southern Pacific Company shipped 4000 loaded cars of deciduous fruits to the Eastern markets last year, and Mr. Smurr hopes to see twice that amount move this year. Last year's crop was below the average. The biggest year thus far in the matter of green-fruit shipments to the East was 1894, the year of the railroad strike, when 6500 carloads were handled. The first shipment of fresh fruit the present season, consisting of a consignment of cherries from Vacaville, was sent east last week. The Supreme Court of the State passed upon several of the provisions of the act of 1885, relative to street improvements, and usually termed the Vrooman act. The city council of Stockton called for bids for grading certain streets and the bid of Contractor McCarthy was the lowest presented but the council set aside the award to him and let it to Contractor Owens. J. Simon became delinquent in his assessment for work and suit was brought against him by the contractors. The defense was that the work was not properly constructed and that the council did not have the power to set aside the award of McCarthy. The Supreme Court decides that the council had the power to determine if McCarthy was a responsible bidder, and that from its action proclaiming that he was not there was no appeal; also that the defendant lost his right of contest in not appealing to the city council within thirty days after the completion of the work upon his statement that the work was not performed according to specifications. The statistician of the United States Mint in San Francisco has forwarded to the Director of the Mint at Washington the annual report on the gold and silver production of California, which covers the yield of 1896. According to the returns received the gold yield of the State last year was $17,181,562 70, which is an increase over 1895 of $1,847,245 01. The yield of silver was $422,436 60, a decreased production of the year of $177,353 10. The total gold and silver product of the State for the year was $17,604-026 30, which is a total increase over the previous year of $1,669,918 91. The leading county in bullion production for 1896, as in 1895, was Nevada. It has also the distinction of having made the largest increase—$599,124 76. Second in rank is Placer, which made an increase of $76,627 23. Calaveras is third, with a decrease of $171,094 29. Fourth is Amador, with an increase of It was given in excerpt certain free rights of way streets of Pomona for the San Pomona to Lordsburg. This line was finished to September, but nothing done about the branch to the council gave notice that would begin suit on the bond if Chino was not done by Last week 200 graders with tons and tents were landed onville and work on the Chino was begun in earn-tery-owners in the southern town, where the road is to orchards, armed them stood guard over their At Mrs. Eagers' place sevened with rifles patrolled up under orders to shoot any attempted to lay railroad iron carb the earth there. The owners say they will never till their claims are paid in all claims of property-owned wages was made, the company will all the damages claimed by and orchardists. When the paid and a deed given the old was withdrawn. Graders entered upon the work of the new roadbed across property line. Norman, a young man who making his home at Knute farm at Larimore, N. D., also enter Mrs. Hillstead's during the absence of her time after midnight night, and demanded admission the woman locked theounced his purpose to be the family if she did not his wishes. She continued and Norman went upstairs throat of her son Peter K. aged 15, with a razor. After he to get into Mrs. Hillstead, he proceeded to carve the old son, Thomas, after which throats of Adolph and Osler and 3. He then forced into the mother's bedroom, her promising not to kill her two little girls if she did. She did so, and saved the lives of her two daugh-oldest sons are still alive, little hopes of recovery. The mole a horse and made off. of the San Jacinto and Valley irrigation district in county have begun suit in Court of that county collector of the district, to judgment that the sale and $220,000 in bonds of the dis-uld and to remove the cloud off' title to lands. Plaintiff the collector be enjoined setting any deeds to the dis- Eight hundred young Irish immigrant girls arrived in New York by the steamer Majestic one day last week. This is only a starter. Five thousand more are booked to sail within a few months is consequence of which the steamship lines will raise rates. Assistant Commissioner of Immigration McSweeney sought to explain this eruption of Mollie Bawns. There has been an enormous demand for servants, and the labor bureau has been unable to supply it, although thousands of Irish girls have arrived during the year. These found employment the moment they landed, and they doubtless wrote home telling their friends of their good luck; and, as a result, many others packed up their little bundles and sought new fortunes in the new world. McSweeney estimates that at least ten thousand Irish girls have been brought to this country this year, in excess of arrivals of last year. August Mangin of Oakland, 72 years old, asked the Alameda court to appoint a guardian of the person and estate of his father-in-law, Nicholas Heniker, aged 76. Both men are widowers. Not long ago Heniker went to San Francisco, and while in a saloon was buncoed. A valise containing $2,-500 in gold coin was produced and a bet of $100 offered that he did not have that amount of money. The old man saw a chance to earn $100, and drew $2700 from the bank and placed it in a valise. At the saloon the money was counted and he was declared the winner of the $100 bet. Taking up his valise he went home, where he found he had been packing a valise full of lead. The bunco men had changed valises on him. Heniker admires Mrs. Annie Cashmore, wife of George Cashmore. He says that she saved his life by nursing him in sickness. He deeded her a home with the understanding that he should be cared for during his lifetime. Then somebody told him he had been swindled. He made a demand for the property and it was returned. Finding that Mrs. Cashmore was honest, he gave her a thirty years' lease at a rental of $1 per month. When Mangin learned of the valise trade and the lease of the property he came to the conclusion that his father-in-law was not competent to care for his interests, and he now desires to take charge of the old man and his money. The latter intends to stubbornly resist any interference with his affairs. One night last week some religious partisans in Jackson county, Ala., carried into the woods, stripped and severely whipped two Mormon elders. The total gold and silver product of the State for the year was $17,604,-026 30, which is a total increase over the previous year of $1,669,918 91. The leading county in bullion production for 1896, as in 1895, was Nevada. It has also the distinction of having made the largest increase—$599,124 76. Second in rank is Placer, which made an increase of $76,627 23. Calaveras is third, with a decrease of $171,094 29. Fourth is Amador, with an increase of $184,106 62. Number five is Trinity, which shows an increase of $128,327 89. Sixth is Siskiyou, with an increase of $141,733 74; and seventh is Tuolumne, which shows an increase of $403,403 36. These seven counties produced over $1,000,000 in 1896. Nevada is the only one which had a yield of over $2,000,-000. A car containing 331 boxes of Washington navel oranges, in an unsound condition and shipped from Riverside Heights, was sold at auction in New York on Friday for $1517. This is an average of $4 57 a box, gross, or net in California, $3 12. This is the highest price ever obtained for a carload of California oranges in the New York market. The 80 size sold for $4 25 a box, the 96 size bringing the same price, the highest figure for the season for these sizes. The 150 and 176 size brought $5, which is likewise the record price of the season. The car was disposed of in less than five minutes after it was put on sale. The consuming trade is showing more interest in California raisins, the comparatively low prices quoted attracting attention in spite of the fact that the demand is rather below the average, even for this time of year. The supplies on spot are comparatively light and the tendency of prices is upward under increasing demands of consumption. The stocks of prunes are being steadily reduced under quiet but regular demands of consumption; a conservative estimate places the available supply in New York in first and second hands at not more than forty cars. Peaches and apricots are receiving more attention, but neither home buyers nor exporters are inclined to place orders for more than is needed to cover immediate wants. Not exactly right is the way thousands of people feel. It is because their blood is poor. Hoods' Sarsaparilla, the One True Blood Purifier, will promptly set them right. 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