anaheim-gazette 1897-08-05

Anaheim VOLUME XXVII. DR. F. H. HOUCK DENTIST. OFFICE NEXT DOOR to P. O. (Federman Block, up stairs.) HOURS 9 to 5 ANAHEIM CAL. jy154f A.W. Bickford, M.D. PHYSICIAN, SURGEON (Successor to Dr. Champion.) Will occupy the office and residence of Dr. Champion. ANAHEIM CAL. jy24tf 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. NICK HUGO BLACKSMITHING, WOOD WORK, HORSE-SHOEING, AND A GENERAL JOBBING BUSINESS. Los Angeles street, Anaheim, Cal. ALL KINDS OF PLOW WORK Executed in Workmaplike Manner, and at Lowest Living Rates. Give Me a Call. A. Pfahler & Son. DEALERS IN... FARMING IMPLEMENTS. Newton Beet Wagons A SPECIALTY. COME IN AND SEE THEM. Shop on Los Angeles St., opp. Backs' Block, Anaheim. 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. REMEMBER US FOR COOD COFFEES AND TEAS NOTARY PUBLIC center street Anaheim, Cal. Special attention given to PROBATE matters. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. 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. GO TO THE Oak Barber Shop FOR A IRST-CLASS SHAVE OR HAIR CUT. TWO DOORS WEST OF BANK. HUSMANN BROS. PALACE MEAT MARKET F. W. Fleischmann, PROPRIETOR. Best Meats the Market Affords Always on Hand. Also keeps on hand Sausages, Bacon, Ham, Lard, Etc. Meats delivered to all parts of the city free o harge Shop on East Center Street Handles Cudahy Cold-Storage Meats, Inspected by the Government Inspector. DR. CHARLES E. LEE (Successor to Dr. Bullard.) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office and Residence—Corner Hermine and heartst 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. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. NOTARY PUBLIC center street Anaheim, Cal Special attention given to PROBATE matters. L. GUNTHER. Notions, Cutlery & Harmonicas. CIGARS. CIGARETTES & TOBACCO Being Agent for all Papers and Magazines, I respectfully solicit your subscriptions. JOSEPH HELMSEN. REMEMBER US FOR COOD COFFEES AND TEAS. Our 50c. Uncolored Japan Tea Is Delicious In the Cup. WM. BOYD & SON. 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. Nicolaus, 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. Hotel Reception —FULLERTON, CAI. C. B. Huggans, - Proprietor. First-Class in Every Respect. Meals Served At all hours. The finest the market affords always on hand. Game and Oysters served in any style. Courtesey and attentive waiters. ON TO HAVANA. A Large Body of Insurgents Raid the Suburbs of the Cuban Capital. HAVANA, July 30—Havana's outposts have again been attacked by a large body of rebels, who, before the Spanish troops could be gathered to resist, had swept through the suburbs, carrying everything before them. They used rapid-firing guns and a large quantity of dynamite. The attack was made late last night. To-day there is an inclination among the Spanish officials in Havana to deny the fact that rebels had evaded the forts and swept into Havana's limits. The facts, however, remain, and the path left by the rebels through the suburbs southeast of the city may be plainly traced. At the first sounds of firing last night the Spanish soldiers in the city and the suburbs sprang to arms. They proceeded hurriedly to the southeastern part of the city, from where the rattle of musketry, followed by the boom of heavy guns or dynamite could be heard plainly all over Havana. Then the sound of firing increased, and finally, after a few hours, died away, showing that the rebels had retired. Several wounded Spanish soldiers were brought into Havana and removed to hospitals after the engagement, and several were killed. The reticence of the Spanish officials prevents any knowledge of the result of the attack becoming general. It is a fact, however, that great damage was done by the insurgents on their bold raid and that a considerable quantity of dynamite was used. There was great excitement in Havana during the rebel attack. Hundreds, aroused by the heavy firing, poured into the streets and the word passed along, "the rebels have attacked the city" created almost a panic in some quarters. There is still great excitement here, due largely to the refusal of the officials to give out information. This attack on Havana was not unexpected. For weeks the rebels have been within sight of the capital, and have practically moved without interference. The insurgent leaders near Havana are Brigadier Gen. Castillo, with a large force, at Mariano, nine miles southwest, and Col. Nestor Aranguen, of Guanabacoa, across the bay. Gen. Alexander Rodriguez, rebel commander of Havana province, with a BEST 5-CENT CIGAR IN TOWN MEDICAL HALL, KOLL BLOCK. PUBLIC TELEPHONE OFFICE. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. NOTARY PUBLIC. Anaheim, Cal. Special attention given to PROBATE matters. L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT & SHOE MAKER. CHAS. S. ROGERS Civil Engineer. Irrigation and Hydraulic Work a Specialty. Surveys and Estimates made at Reasonable Hats. OFFICE—East of Santa Fe Depot, Anaheim. H. A. McWilliams. Contractor Builder. Office, first door east of City Hall. A. FREISE, KEENS THE FINEST OF... Wines, Liquors And Cigars. Beer on draught Metz Block, Center St., opposite Postoffice. H. P. LARSEN, CONTRACTOR & BUILDER. estimates given. Contracts made and do a general business. Hotel Reception FULLERTON, CAI. C. B. Huggans, Proprietor. First-Class in Every Respect. Meals Served At all hours. The finest the market affords always on hand. Game and Oysters served in any style. Courteous and attentive waiters. Finger Wipes, Liquors and Cigars. Beer and Ale, Etc. Found Hanging AT 5 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING AROUND Hahn's Stables TO GET HIS TEAM FED, ANAHEIM 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. This Is Your Opportunity. On receipt of ten cents, cash or stamps, a generous sample will be mailed to 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. Interesting Report From the American Consul at Madgeburg. WASHINGTON, July 31.—Consul Muth at Madgeburg, Germany, has sent a report to the State Department concerning sites for beet-sugar factories. The report is considered especially interesting at this time on account of the prospects of increased beet-sugar production in this country. The consul says: "Factories should be erected only in localities where it has been demonstrated beyond a doubt that sugar-beets can be grown successfully. Experience has shown that the sugar-beet grows in almost any soil, provided a proper fertilizer is applied. A rich, deep soil with a porous, well-drained subsoil should be selected. It is not necessary to plant large areas; small patches here and there will answer for experimental purposes, and in this way a large district can be covered without obtaining an accumulation of beets." The factory must be as handy as possible, and therefore should be situated in the heart of the district from which it draws the beets. Besides beets, the principal products used to run a sugar factory are water to wash the beets and limestone for purification of the beet juice. All that is used in the manufacture of sugar should either be close or easily accessible. "Beet-sugar manufactories principally manufacture sugar to be sold to refineries. From the nature of the sugar industry in the United States, the beet-sugar factories probably will find it more advantageous to manufacture granulated sugar and sell it for direct consumption." For a first-class buggy at the lowest price go to A. Pfahler & Son. [m27-tf] ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1897. The Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. SUBSCRIPTION, - $1 50 Per Year. Six months... 1 00 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 as second-class matter. Items of news and correspondence on all live subjects are solicited by the editor. ROAD LAW VOID. A Very Fine Point Revised by the Supreme Court Relative to the New Road Law. The Supreme Court has declared void another of the laws enacted by the late Legislature. The Clark road law was introduced by Asssemblyman Clark of Alameda, and provided for the election of boards of trustees to take charge of all road matters, the law to go into effect sixty days after approval. This time fell on May 31 of this year. It also provided that the election of trustees should take place on the last Saturday of May. By a strange fate the last Saturday of May fell on the 29th, or two days before the new law was to go into effect. The Supervisors of Alameda county construed this to mean that the election should be held, on the date set, of the next year. On this conclusion they proceeded to go on with the road work under the old law and directed the superintendent of the Piedmont road district to have certain work done that amounted to about $50. The work was performed by several men, who assigned their claims for the payment for the work to Fred A. Davis, who upon receiving the order for the money from the Supervisors wish to attend the school. All of the school buildings are likewise reported to be well ventilated and supplied with furniture. During the year school was maintained for nine months. There have been twenty-five male teachers and sixty-eight women teachers, the average monthly salary being $69. The total receipts for the year amounted to $97,680 80, which includes a balance of $18,823 95 left over from the preceding year. The expenditure amounted to $80,292 55, leaving a balance of $17,388 25 still on hand. The total valuation of school property is given as $211,795. There are two high schools in the county, the city High School in Santa Ana and the Union High School at Fullerton. The Santa Ana high school has had two male teachers and four female teachers, with 146 pupils. It has apparatus worth $750, and library books to the value of $3000. The total expense for the year has been $5645. The Fullerton High School has expended $2375 56, paying $200 every month for salary to two teachers. Thirty-eight pupils have been enrolled. CURLED WALNUT LEAVES. Caused by an Insect Which May Be Killed by Spraying With London Purple. At the meeting of the Farmers' club at Mr. Schwenckert's place in June, Walter Eyman exhibited specimens of curled walnut leaf, which it was determined to forward to the Southern California Academy of Sciences in Los Angeles for examination. No one present knew the cause of the curled leaf, or what means to employ to eradicate it. The subjoined letter from the Secretary of the Academy of Sciences, in answer to Mr. Eyman's communication, would seem to settle the matter, for we learn that the curled leaf is caused by a microscopic insect, which may be destroyed by an application of London purple. Horticulturists should preserve the formula, and incidentally send in their application for membership, as interesting questions such as SNAP SHOTS AT THE NEWS The fiscal year just ended shows a larger and more varied export trade from this country than ever before known. It amounted to $1,051,987,091, an increase over 1896 of $168,380,153. Leon Godchau, the largest sugar-producer in the United States, telegraphed to the manager of his seven plantations in Louisiana to advance the wages of all employees 164 per cent from August 1 on account of the passage of the Tariff Bill. John Harris, a San Francisco negro, has brought suit to recover $25,000 damages from Adolph Sutro. On July 4 he visited Sutro's baths and purchased a ticket entitling him to admission, and the use of a bathing suit and dressing room. Because of his color he was refused a bathing suit, and was not allowed to make use of the baths, and it is on this account that he bases his claim for damages. In the case of Public Administrator McCabe vs. Tulare county, Judge Gray of Visalia has rendered a decision holding that the provisions of the County Government Act regulating the salaries of county officials is unconstitutional, on the ground that it is special legislation. He holds that the sections regulating the classification of counties is valid. McCabe sued for $1000 salary per annum under the provisions of the general law of 1893. The case goes to the supreme court. Jeannie Young, otherwise known as Baroness von Turkheim, has commenced suit for a divorce against Charles J. Arnold, alias Robert Ludwig von Turkheim, upon the ground that at the time of the alleged marriage, von Arnold had another wife from whom he had not been legally separated. In the complaint she sets forth the circumstances under which she was induced to marry Von Arnold, whom she subsequently discovered to be a detective in the employ of C. J. Still vell, and states that she believes the marriage to be part of a scheme on the part of D. M. Delmas to get her out of the country. From advices received by the steamer Alameda it is learned that the brig Peroy Edward, which sailed for the Of Insurgents Raid the Cuban Capital. July 30.—Havana outlived been attacked by a rebels, who, before the could be gathered to re- through the suburbs, thing before them. They big guns and a large ammite. The attack was night. To-day there is among the Spanish offi- ted the forts and swept limits. The facts, how- and the path left by the suburbs southeast be plainly traced. Bounds of firing last night soldiers in the city and the arms. They pro- ly to the southeastern from where the rattle followed by the boom on dynamite could be all over Havana. Then increased, and final- ing, died away, show- ers had retired. AdDED Spanish soldiers to Havana and removed the engagement, and killed. The reticence of officials prevents any result of the attack. It is a fact, how- damage was done by on their bold raid and able quantity of dyna- great excitement in Haine rebel attack. Hun- by the heavy firing, the streets and the word the rebels have attack- atated almost a panic in there is still great ex- duce largely to the reci- cials to give out inform- sion. Havana was not unex- weeks the rebels have right of the capital, and moved without inter- insurgent leaders near Ignigrad Gen. Castillo, force, at Mariano, nine, and Col. Nestor Aran- abacoa, across the bay. Rodriguez, rebel com- mpanies province, with a election or a arrest should take place on the last Saturday of May. By a strange fate the last Saturday of May fell on the 29th, or two days before the new law was to go into effect. The Supervisors of Alameda county construed this to mean that the election should be held, on the date set, of the next year. On this conclusion they proceeded to go on with the road work under the old law and directed the superintendent of the Piedmont road district to have certain work done that amounted to about $50. The work was performed by several men, who assigned their claims for the payment for the work to Fred A. Davis, who upon receiving the order for the money from the Supervisors applied to the County Auditor for the warrant. This the Auditor refused to give and Davis applied to the Supreme Court for a writ of mandate to compel the Auditor to issue the warrant. The Supreme Court decided the matter last week, but in order to do so it had to resort to what might be called hair splitting. As stated the whole thing hung on the matter of precedence. The first was to find when the Governor signed the two bills, and it seems the Governor's signature was affixed to both bills on the same day. The next move was a search which developed the fact that the Clark road law was recorded on page 374 of the statutes of 1897 and the county government bill appears on page 452 of the same statutes. As the latter repealed all previous acts the Supreme Court decided that the Clark road law does not hold in this case. In fact it was virtually repealed by the former act. Consequently the writ of mandate was issued as prayed for by Mr. Davis and the much talked of Clark road law was void. This decision will undoubtedly affect many of the other counties in the State. WORE MEN'S CLOTHES. A Young Wife Who Masqueraded In Male Attire. LANCASTER (Pa.), July 29.—A story that reads like a romance has developed itself in the arrest of Mr. and Mrs. James De Witt Pierce, who on Friday last were taken into custody at Columbia, while stealing a ride in one of the freight cars of the Pennsylvania railroad, bound for the Pacific Coast, and who are now in jail here awaiting to be sent to their home in Brooklyn, N.Y. Early in 1895 the good people of Bath Beach were thrown into a state of excitement over the elopement of Miss Irene Jarvis, one of the society bellies and the daughter of a prominent Government Inspector of Tobacco for the port of New York. Miss Irene was then sixteen and her husband fifteen. They sought parental forgiveness, but it came not. Since then they have wandered all over the Americoan continent. When taken into custody on Friday Mrs. Pierce was masquerading in male attire. When they were brought to jail here Pierce claimed to be a journalist. When searched a reporter's card of the San Francisco Chronicle, dated May 5, 1896, was found in his pocket, as also a letter of identification and recommendation from ex-Mayor Adolph Sutro of San Francisco to Governor James H. Budd of California, in which the former stated that the bearer was a reporter of the Chronicle. When interviewed at the prison regarding these papers Pierce said: After our marriage we beat our way to San Francisco on the overland route. When fall comes and brings it with time for renewing the annual contracts with the sugar company the farmers will have a creamery in operation. The farmers will demand a considerable advance in the price of beets, and falling to get the price demanded, they will sow large bodies of moist land, on which the beets are now grown, to alfalfa and use their funds to purchase cattle. The fact that the land company is not tied down to the sugar company and that the farmers are all free from alliance with the company at the end of each season makes it possible for fruit growers was held at Santa Rosa on Saturday under the auspices of the Sonoma County Horticultural Society to take combined action regarding prices for which green fruit was to be sold, particularly with reference to prunes, pears and peaches. For picking prunes a minimum price of $1.50 a ton was adopted. With reference to the prices for which good quality green fruit is to be sold, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: Resolved That it is the sense of this society that the producers of prunes In Havana was not unexcelsive the rebels have right of the capital, and moved without interruption leaders near Giralder Gen. Castillo, Force, at Mariano, nine miles, and Col. Nestor Aranabacoa, across the bay. Rodriguez, rebel commander, with a dear Minar, and Col. Aranabacoa, across the bay. Rodriguez, rebel commander, with a dear Minar, and Col. Aranabacoa, across the bay. The consul says: Should be erected only in it has been demonstrat that sugar-beets can successfully. Experience has sugar-beet grows in al-Provided a proper fertilizer. A rich, deep soil with undrained subsoil should not necessary to plant small patches here and easier for experimental purification way a large district without obtaining an of beets. It must be as handy as therefore should be sit-tart of the district from the beets. Besides municipal products used to factory are water to wash limestone for purification juice. All that is used texture of sugar should not easily accessible. Manufactories principalize sugar to be sold to realize the nature of the sugar United States, the beetles probably will find it unequivocal to manufacture sugar and sell it for direct mass buggy at the lowest Pfahler & Son. School Superintendent Greeley has completed his report of the condition of the schools of Orange county during the year just closed. The report shows the schools to be in good condition, and to have experienced a general improvement over last year. Both as regards the attendance of pupils and the accommodations for carrying on school work, the schools of the county have been brought up to a high standard of proficiency. There are thirty-five school districts in the county, with forty-six primary classes and forty-seven of the grammar grade. The number of pupils enrolled is 4066, and the average daily attendance 2995. In all of the thirty-five districts there are reported to be sufficient accommodations for all the children who When they were brought to jail here Pierce claimed to be a journalist. When searched a reporter's card of the San Francisco Chronicle, dated May 5, 1896, was found in his pocket, as was also a letter of identification and recommendation from ex-Mayor Adolph Sutro of San Francisco to Governor James H. Budd of California, in which the former stated that the bearer was a reporter of the Chronicle. When interviewed at the prison regarding these papers Pierce said: "After our marriage we beat our way to San Francisco on the overland route. While there we lived on Ellis street and I worked on the Chronicle as a reporter. My wife helped me in my portorial work. This spring we returned to the East by the same route, beating our way, both being in male attire. When I reached home it was my intention to write a book of our experience. The people related to my wife made life unbearable in Brooklyn, so we determined to go West again, and when we were arrested were in a car that contained freight for the Mare Island Navy Yard. My wife was wearing my clothes, and in all our travels this was the first occasion where her identity has been detected, although she has been before Captain Lees and Chief Crowley of San Francisco, in the same attire, when assisting me on the San Francisco Chronicle." The story as told by Pierce and his wife has been corroborated by dispatchers from the authorities at Brooklyn. Although they are both in their teens, they have traveled over the entire continent. Mrs. Pierce is pretty and her parents are wealthy. Money has been sent here to send them home and they will go to Brooklyn to-morrow. SCHOOL STATISTICS. School Superintendent Greeley has completed his report of the condition of the schools of Orange county during the year just closed. The report shows the schools to be in good condition, and to have experienced a general improvement over last year. Both as regards the attendance of pupils and the accommodations for carrying on school work, the schools of the county have been brought up to a high standard of proficiency. There are thirty-five school districts in the county, with forty-six primary classes and forty-seven of the grammar grade. The number of pupils enrolled is 4066, and the average daily attendance 2995. In all of the thirty-five districts there are reported to be sufficient accommodations for all the children who When fall comes and brings with it the time for renewing the annual contracts with the sugar company the farmers will have a creamery in operation. The farmers will demand a considerable advance in the price of beets, and falling to get the price demanded, they will sow large bodies of moist land, on which the beets are now grown, to alfalfa and use their funds to purchase cattle. The fact that the land company is not tied down to the sugar company and that the farmers are all free from alliance with the company at the end of each season makes it possible for the farmers to act for their own welfare, while the land company, having all the pulp from the factory, is offering the farmers this excellent cattle food for almost nothing. Heretofore the farmers felt obliged to carry on beet culture, but the tables seem to have been turned, and if, as they declare they will, the farmers should carry out their idea of turning the Chino ranch into a great alfalfa field in case of the refusal of better prices for beets next year, the factory will be obliged to pay a living price for beets. A Remarkable Cure of Chronic Diarrhoea. In 1862, when I served my country as a private, in Company A. 167th Pennsylvania Volunteers, I contracted chronic diarrhoea. It has given me a great deal of trouble ever since. 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A laygaly attended and enthusiastic meeting of fruit growers was held at Santa Rosa on Saturday under the auspices of the Sonoma County Horticultural Society to take combined action regarding prices for which green fruit was to be sold, particularly with reference to prunes, pears and peaches. For picking prunes a minimum price of $1.50 a ton was adopted. With reference to the prices for which good quality green fruit is to be sold, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: Resolved That it is the sense of this society that the producers of prunes should not sell their present crop of green prunes for less than $25 a ton. Resolved That we further establish a minimum price of $15 a ton for canning pears; $15 a ton for freestone peaches. It was the sense of the society that the producers better dry their fruit than accept prices lower than those named in the resolutions. The Sonoma County Hop-growers Association met at Santa Rosa Saturday afternoon, and after much discussion fixed the price for picking this year's crop at 75 cents per 100 pounds. This is an advance of 5 cents over that paid last season. There was a large attendance, nearly all the hop acreage of the county being represented. The first of the big transatlantic passenger boats to arrive in New York since the Dingley Bill became a law was the Majestic, which tied up at her dock the day after he bill went into effect. The new tariff act has materially restricted the privileges of tourists in regard to the quantity of wearing apparel of foreign manufacture they may bring into the country, and these restrictions were not generally understood on the other side of the ocean when the Majestic sailed. In anticipation of confusion and in order to obviate it as much as possible, the Surveyor of the Port went down the bay to meet the steamer, and before stop at quarantine had all the passengers assembled on deck, where he informed them of the changes in the Tariff Bill that would be likely to effect them. This prepared the passengers to make ready their declarations before the steamer reached her deck, where an extra force of fifty-five inspectors had been detailed for duty. Considering the circumstances the passengers were subjected to but little delay. More than $3000 was collected by the customs officials on the baggage of the Majestic's passengers. Maximo Martinez was hanged at Floresville, Tex., on Friday. A brass HOTS AT THE NEWS A year just ended shows a more varied export trade in country than ever before amounted to $1,051,987,091 over 1896 of $168,380,153. Michau, the largest sugar-producing United States, telegraphed anger of his seven plantations to advance the wages of all persons per cent from August 1 on the passage of the Tariff. Mr. Harris, a San Francisco negro, suit to recover $25,000 from Adolph Sutro. On July 1st Sutro's baths and purse entitling him to administer use of a bathing suit and room. Because of his color used a bathing suit, and was to make use of the baths, this account that he bases for damages. House of Public Administrator Tulare county, Judge Gray has rendered a decision that the provisions of the government Act regulating laws of county officials is unqualified, on the ground that it is violation. He holds that the regulating the classification of valid. McCabe sued for per annum under the prosecution general law of 1893. The supreme court. Young, otherwise known as Jon Turkheim, has commenced divorce against Charles J. Allison Robert Ludwig von upon the ground that at the alleged marriage, von Arnoother wife from whom he had legally separated. In the case sets forth the circumferer which she was induced on Arnold, whom she subdiscovered to be a detective officer of C. J. Still vell, and believes the marriage to scheme on the part of D. M. get her out of the country. Doces received by the steam- it is learned that the brigard, wholly sailed for the band played while the hanging was in progress and furnished music at the jail for the prisoner before his execution. Several thousand people gathered in the little town at an early hour and spent the day in merrymaking, in accordance with the condemned man's request. The crime for which Martinez was hanged was committed on the night of June 6. He assaulted and then murdered his sweetheart, Juanita Acosta, and with an ax killed Pluto Correillo and his wife, the aged grandparents of the girl. Martinez then fled toward Mexico, but was overtaken near the Rio Grande border. Jacob Yaeger has found that his mine up in Trabuca canyon contains rich deposits of platinum. The mine produces gold, but the greater part of the product is pronounced by assayers to be platinum. The metal was tested in every way, and as a last resort the platinum test was applied and it was successful. Yaeger has been mining in Trabuca canyon for eighteen years. He has a stamp mill in operation and fifteen men employed. He has staked off a townsite and located about forty claims along the hillside. The ore which he is now digging out contains gold at the rate of $20 to the ton, besides the platinum. Samples of the ore have been forwarded to San Francisco to obtain the evidence of the best mining experts of the coast as to the genuineness of the product. The supreme court has decided in a case brought from Alameda county that the Clark road law is void, having been superceded by the county government act. The question hinged upon which of the two acts was last approved by the governor, both having been approved the same day. By reference to the printed statutes it was found that the Clark road law was printed upon page 374 and the county government bill, which "repealed all acts" on road matters conflicting with its provisions, was printed on page 452, and the conclusion is that the Clark road law was passed prior to the county government bill, which continues the supervision of road matters in the board of supervisors. Thirty-seven high schools in various parts of the State have been declared deficient in English by the university would promptly respect an intimation of this kind. Editor Patterson of the Argus; a colored paper of Montgomery, Ala., was shot and killed in the colored Baptist Church in that city one day last week. A conference was in progress at the time, and the admission of Brown, a deposed pastor of the Dexteravenue Baptist Church, was under discussion. Patterson opposed Brown's admission, and Slokes, pastor of the Columbus-street church, fayored it. Hot words ensued. Patterson struck Slokes in the face. The report of a pistol was heard and Patterson fell dead. Several arrests have been made, and there is great excitement among the negroes. By far the greatest exodus of gold-seekers bound for the Alaskan gold fields yet carried from San Francisco was witnessed Wednesday last when the steamer Excelsior, chartered by the Alaskan Commercial Company, left Mission-street pier at 2 o'clock. This steamer sailed direct for St. Michael's, and is the last of the company's fleet which will connect with the Yukon river steamers this season. For hours before the departure of the steamer the wharf was thronged with people. Such was the demand for berths that after the sale of tickets had closed those who had been fortunate enough to secure them were besieged by intending prospectors, who offered three times the original amount for them, and one instance is recorded where a passenger changed his mind after receiving such a flattering offer as $1500 for a pasteboard for which he originally paid but $150. Probably the fact that the Excelsior was the first to bring the news of the great strike, added to the interest taken in her departure, for over two thousand people gathered upon the wharf to bid farewell to the 110 passengers for Klondyke. A dispatch from Rio de Janeiro says that information has reached that city to the effect that more than three thousand Brazilian soldiers have been killed in a big battle near the site of Canudos. The fanatics, numbering more than ten thousand men, all well armed, attacked the government troops. Whole brigades of the soldiers were it is learned that the brigade which sailed for the islands in search of an Adam's stranded in a dismantled Fiji. The Peroy left Suva for Auckland with forty of its crew on board, but en- hurricane on the tenth day so badly damaged that she difficulty worked back to it. It is extremely doubtful we can be repaired sufficient another voyage. The most destructive hail town in South Dakota passed Falls early Friday morning. Started three miles west of and went in a southwestern destroying absolutely in its path around Garrett-things is a total loss. One the storm that passed over town and Luverne, Minn., paths one north of Luverne, near south clear across Rock counties. The path of this storm is over ten miles estimated that fully one mile of crops were destroyed by hundreds of farmers will loseage of their crops. Anderson, aged 60, died Friday night on the Cave twenty-five miles north of T. He and his wife started my morning in a phaeton to son, who is spending the Cave Creek Valley. Before they had lost their way, aside from the road when miles from their destination, horse the last water re-the canteen. At 5 o'clock noon, a miner named Moore of the carriage tracks that had recrossed the road. He tracks, which ran almost and finally overtook the day had been one of the war known. Even the horseazed with thirst. The course buggy were delirious. On awailowed some water; did not soon regain her Anderson was apparently too drink. The miner attached to his wagon and drove them to a house on a canal. Anson on the way. The wife will Anderson was a retired His residence was New whither the couple were coming after a stay in Arizona. Attended and enthusiastic fruit growers was held at on Saturday under the Sonoma County Horticulture to take combined acting prices for which green he sold, particularly with prunes, pears and peaches. Prunes a minimum price ton was adopted. With the prices for which good fruit is to be sold, the solutions were unanimously That it is the sense of this fruit growers was held at on Saturday under the Sonoma County Horticulture to take combined acting prices for which green he sold, particularly with prunes, pears and peaches. Prunes a minimum price ton was adopted. With the prices for which good fruit is to be sold, the solutions were unanimously superceded by the county government act. The question hinged upon which of the two acts was last approved by the governor, both having been approved the same day. By reference to the printed statutes it was found that the Clark road law was printed upon page 374 and the county government bill, which "repealed all acts" on road matters conflicting with its provisions, was printed on page 452, and the conclusion is that the Clark road law was passed prior to the county government bill, which continues the supervision of road matters in the board of supervisors. Thirty-seven high schools in various parts of the State have been declared deficient in English by the university authorities, and their graduates must enter the State University conditionally or pass an examination. As the large number of graduates effected have until August 9 only in which to prepare for the unexpected test of their abilities it is probable that the number of limited students will be larger than ever. Among the high schools which have failed to reach the university standard are those of Arroyo Grand, Fresno, Coronado, Monrovia, Pomona, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Paula, Paso Robles, Kern county, Bakersfield, Fullerton Union, Esparton Union and Escondido. The onslaught of the Examination Committee has affected some of the schools of the highest standing in the State and is without precedent. A man named Tom Hynes was stabbed to death at Marysville on Friday afternoon in a rather unaccountable manner. Hynes and his wife have been occupying a house owned by Edward Quinn, a blind inmate of the county hospital. On several occasions lately the pair have sent their blind landlord to join them in a drunken carousel. Thursday while her husband was out of town the Hynes woman sent for Quinn, and they put in the day drinking beer. The next morning Hynes returned home and took part in the debauch. Late that afternoon the neighbors heard loud screams coming from the house, and upon rushing in found Hynes dead. A small cannery knife lying at his side had pierced his heart. The woman and Quinn were too drunk to give any account of the affair, but it is generally supposed that the woman did the killing. Enlisted men at the various army posts are making protests against the present system of paying them. They want a return to the old way, and the War Department is considering the advisability of making the change. Under the former system the men were paid in cash by the army paymasters. Then The War department decided that it was costing too much money for the transportation of paymasters to all the posts. Besides, paymasters were occasionally held up by road agents and relieved of large amounts of government money. The system of paying the men by individual checks sent through express companies was adopted. It has not worked well. The principal complaint from the enlisted men is that whenever a check is lost the soldier must wait six months before he can get his money. At the paymaster-general's office it is said it takes fully six months to unwind all the red tape necessary to have lost checks reissued. Miss Lucy Coates, who eloped with 19-year-old David Sweeney from her home in Tulare county and thereby caused much consternation in her household, is now returned to her parents at Armona and Sweeney is back in Hanford. The events preceding the reconciliation were exciting. The couple went to Fresno, where they engaged rooms in a downtown lodging area and it was thus that they met. Thirty-seven high schools in various parts of the State have been declared deficient in English by the university authorities, and their graduates must enter the State University conditionally or pass an examination. As the large number of graduates effected have until August 9 only in which to prepare for the unexpected test of their abilities it is probable that the number of limited students will be larger than ever. Among the high schools which have failed to reach the university standard are those of Arroyo Grand, Fresno, Coronado, Monrovia, Pomona, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Paula, Paso Robles, Kern county, Bakersfield, Fullerton Union and Escondido. The onslaught of the Examination Committee has affected some of the schools of the highest standing in the State and is without precedent. A man named Tom Hynes was stabbed to death at Marysville on Friday afternoon in a rather unaccountable manner. Hynes and his wife have been occupying a house owned by Edward Quinn, a blind inmate of the county hospital. On several occasions lately the pair have sent their blind landlord to join them in a drunken carousel. Thursday while her husband was out of town the Hynes woman sent for Quinn, and they put in the day drinking beer. The next morning Hynes returned home and took part in the debauch. Late that afternoon the neighbors heard loud screams coming from the house, and upon rushing in found Hynes dead. A small cannery knife lying at his side had pierced his heart. The woman and Quinn were too drunk to give any account of the affair, but it is generally supposed that the woman did the killing. Enlisted men at the various army posts are making protests against the present system of paying them. They want a return to the old way, and the War Department is considering the advisability of making the change. Under the former system the men were paid in cash by the army paymasters. Then The War department decided that it was costing too much money for the transportation of paymasters to all the posts. Besides, paymasters were occasionally held up by road agents and relieved of large amounts of government money. The system of paying the men by individual checks sent through express companies was adopted. It has not worked well. The principal complaint from the enlisted men is that whenever a check is lost the soldier must wait six months before he can get his money. At the paymaster-general's office it is said it takes fully six months to unwind all the red tape necessary to have lost checks reissued. Miss Lucy Coates, who eloped with 19-year-old David Sweeney from her home in Tulare county and thereby caused much consternation in her household, is now returned to her parents at Armona and Sweeney is back in Hanford. The events preceding the reconciliation were exciting. The couple went to Fresno, where they engaged rooms in a downtown lodging area and it was thus that they met. The case of Mrs. Carrie E. Ford vs J.J.Bushard and Joseph Mesmer, has been on trial before Judge Allen and a jury in Department Six of Los Angeles Superior Court. The suit was brought by H.A Ford and Edwin Clark to recover $7000 damages. The case was tried before Judge McKinley about two years ago, and Mrs.Ford, who had been substituted as plaintiff, was awarded $2000 damages by the jury. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court, which reversed the judgment appealed from, and orderedthe case retried. The Superior Court findings were reversed on account ofthe substitution of Mrs. Ford as plaintiff, and also on account ofthe fact thata judgment had been rendered against Mesmer. Bushard originally madeawritten contract with Ford and Clarkto furnish them 1500 Washington navelorange trees and 500 Mediterranean Sweets. He was to shipthe trees from Hermosillo,Mex4 Before Bushardwould enter intothe contract he askedFord and Clarkto advance him $300withwhich to paythe freight.MesmervouchedforBushardthatifthetreeswerenot deliveredhewouldbegoodforgothe $300.The contractwas enteredintoandMesmer'sname signedtoitasa subscribingwitnessbyhisclerk.Mesmersayshis clerkmadethesignaturewithoutordersfromhim.Theplaintiff alleges that Mesmerdirectedthe signature.Bushard received2000orange trees from Mexicoandsoldthetemsoldwbereferiortothoseordered. The jury inthe case were C.W.Almes, Jesse Davis,R.C Archibald.Mood,G.E.H Adams,G.W.Diffender,Famuel WilsonJohn Y.Anderson,H.N.Short John A.Engel,Cash.T.RobinsonandF.A Marks. whither the couple were attending after a stay in Arizona. attended and enthusiastic fruit growers was held at on Saturday under the Sonoma County Horticulture Society to take combined acclimating prices for which green apples were sold, particularly with apples prunes, pears and peaches. The prunes a minimum price was adopted. With the prices for which good apples fruit is to be sold, the resolutions were unanimously accepted. That it is the sense of this that the producers of prunes sell their present crop of apples for less than $25 a ton. That we further establish a price of $15 a ton for canning apples for free stone peaches. We for good quality of fruit. The sense of the society that farmers better dry their fruit at prices lower than those resolutions. Sonoma County Hop-growers' meeting at Santa Rosa Saturday, and after much discussion the price for picking this at 75 cents per 100 pounds. Advance of 5 cents over that season. There was a large attempt all the hop acreage of being represented. Of the big transatlantic passages to arrive in New York Dingley Bill became a law majestic, which tied up at her day after the bill went into the new tariff act has materialized the privileges of tourists to the quantity of wearing apparel manufacture they may have the country, and these rewere not generally under the other side of the ocean Majestic sailed. In anticipation and in order to obmuch as possible, the Surge Port went down the bay to Seattle, and before the stop one had all the passengers assembled in deck, where he informed them changes in the Tariff Bill he be likely to effect them. Indeed the passengers to make declarations before the reached her deck, where an amount of fifty-five inspectors had been led for duty. Considering instances the passengers were too but little delay. More was collected by the customs baggage of the Majestic's Martinez was hanged at Tex., on Friday. A brass edited into and Mesmer's name signed to it as a subscribing witness by his clerk. Mesmer says his clerk made the signature without orders from him. The plaintiff alleges that Mesmer directed the signature. Bushard received 2000 orange trees from Mexico and sold them to Ford and Clark for $1200. The purchasers set the trees out on thirty acres of land at Fullerton. The suit was brought on the ground that the trees sold were inferior to those ordered. The jury in the case were C. W. Almes, Jesse Davis, R. C. Archibald, M. Good, E. H. Adams, G. W. Diffenderfer, Samuel Wilson, John Y. Anderson, H. N. Short, John A. Engel, Chas. T. Robinson and F. A Marks. Hidden away in the bulky conference report on the tariff bill is a little clause which will revolutionize the methods of the cigarette and tobacco manufacturers. It was slipped in during the conference, for it was not in the original bill. It reads as follows: Nor shall there be affixed to, or branded, or stamped, marked, written or printed upon said packages of smoking tobacco, finect chewing tobacco, or cigarettes, or their contents any promise or offer of, or any order of certificates for, any gift, prize, premium, payment, or reward. It will be seen that this new law breaks up all the gift enterprise business in cigarettes. No more sending ten coupons of the Great American cigarette and receiving a picture of a warship, or an actress or a collection of flags. The cigarette people are very much disturbed because, they say, one of their best advertisements has been taken away. There will also be complaint from the lithograph companies for their revenues, now amounting to a large sum from the printing of flags and other colored pictures, will be materially decreased. The proposed law will also curtail the receipts of the newspapers, for many of the companies advertise their prizes. Representative Dingley said that the clause had been agreed upon because the internal revenue officers complain that the prize-giving results in an evasion of the revenue laws, and also because many of the cigarette pictures are obscene in their nature. Chamberlain's Colloe, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy always affords prompt relief. For sale by P. A. Derge. The new Canton cultivator, sold by A. Pfahler & Son was tested by J. B Rea at his Ketella ranch and pronounced to be superior to other cultivators tried by him.