anaheim-gazette 1897-08-19

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, Ete. OFFICES—No. 125 N. Broadway, Los Angeles, Cal. Telephone—236. No. 316 Montgomery St., San Francisco, Cal. L. NEMETZ, Carriage Painting & Trimming New Buggies for Sale. Shop on Center street, near the opera-house. Anaheim, Cal. 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. 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. 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 E. L. BENTZ & CO. Wholesale and Retail Butchers Anaheim, Cal. 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 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, Ete. 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 heartress 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. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. center street, Anaheim, Cal Special attention given to PROBATE matters. 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. Holman, T. J. F. Boege, W. T. Brown P. Nicotus, 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. Courteous and attentive waiters. COUNTY ASSESSMENT ROLLS The Returns Show a Big Decrease, but Fifteen Counties Are Increased. Up to the present time all of the county rolls for 1897 have been received by the State Board of Equalization except those from Alpine and San Bernardino counties. The footings of the rolls are approved together with the valuation fixed by the board in 1896: COUNTIES. Alameda... $93,849,417 Amador... 4,126,281 Butte... 13,618,686 Galvaveras... 5,014,915 Colusa... 11,907,067 Contra Costa... 13,810,286 Del Norte... 1,877,630 El Dorado... 5,763,710 Presidio... 29,049,725 Glenn... 9,864,355 Humbolt... 16,160,840 Inyo... 1,451,168 Kern... 14,814,270 Kings... 15,716 Lake... 3,224,047 Lassen... 2,467,242 Los Angeles... 100,370,825 Madura... 5,470,178 Marin... 11,557,850 Mariposa... 2,077,547 Mendocino... 11,007,934 Merced... 12,636,528 Modoc... 2,632,473 Mono... 909,938 Monterey... 15,438,445 Napa... 12,298,170 Nevada... 5,981,770 Orange... 10,188,805 Placer... 7,608,826 Plumas... 2,113,866 Riverside... 11,278,728 Sacramento... 23,929,640 San Bernardino... 14,698,233 San Diego... 20,533,435 San Francisco ... 1745,359,469 San Joaquin ... 32,608,388 San Luis Obispo ... 12,779,495 San Mateo ... 14,629,475 Santa Barbara ... 13,834,280 Santa Clara ... 54,859,420 Santa Cruz ... 10,621,140 Shasta ... 5,649,140 Slivera ... 12,678,758 Slivera ... 12,678,758 Skellyou ... 6,760,973 Solano ... 16,004,156 Sonoma ... 26,329,820 Stanislaus ... 12,494，300 Sutter ... 6，416，046 Tehama ... 9，486，515 Trinity ... 12，610，619 Tolumine ... 4，509，840 Ventura ... 7，179，609 Yolo ... 16，272，509 Yuba ... 5，216，835 "Let me give you a pointer," said M.F. Gregg,a popular conductor on the Missouri Pacific railroad. "Do you know that Chamberlain's Colic,C cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy cures you when you have the stomach ache? Well does." And after giving this friend bit of advice,the jolly conductor passes off the advice. BEST 5-CENT CIGAR IN TOWN MEDICAL HALL, KOLL BLOCK. PUBLIC TELEPHONE OFFICE. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Center street. Anaheim, Cal. Special attention given to PROBATE matters. L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT & SHOE MAKER. Corner Adela and Los Angeles Streets E. B. Merritt & Co. FURNITURE Dealers. CENTER STREET. OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE. H. A. McWilliams. Contractor And Builder. Office, first door east of City Hall. A. FREISE, ...KEEPS 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 generous 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. Finest Wines, 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 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. "Let me give you a pointer," said M.F. Gregg, a popular conductor on the Missouri Pacific railroad. "Do you know that Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy cures you when you have the stomach ache? Well, does." And after giving this friendly bit of advice, the jolly conductor passes down the aisle. It is a fact that thousands of railroad and traveling men never take a trip without a bottle of this Remedy, which is the best cure for bowel disorders in the world. And 50 cent bottles for sale by P.A. Derge. Twenty thousand dollars in currency was shipped from Stockton Wednesday to supply the needs of the rush to the Klondyke. The amount was forwarded by H. H. Hewlett of the First National Bank of Stockton to the Bank of California of San Francisco, on request of the latter institution. The fact is considerable importance, in that it shows the financial effect of the Alaska rush on the monetary situation of the coast. Hewlett said: "The Klondyke excitement is draining the coast of its small gold, change and paper money. The men who go to Alaska do not want to carry any more gold than enough to pay their expenses on the way up. They can stow away $1500 or $2000 in their pockets easily if they have currency. There has been a great rush on San Francisco banks for that kind of money, and the result they are about out of it." A Remarkable Cure of Chronic Diarrhoea In 1862, when I served my country as a private, in Company A, 167th Pennsylvania Volunteers, I contract chronic diarrhoea. It has given me great deal of trouble ever since. I tried a dozen different medicines and several prominent doctors without a permanent relief. Not long ago friend sent me a sample bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and after that I bought a took a 50-cent bottle; and now I can say that I am entirely cured. I cannot be thankful enough to you for the great Remedy, and recommend it to suffering veterans. If in doubt wry me. Yours gratefully, HENRY STEVENBERGER, Allentown, Pa. Sold by A. Derge. Heim Weekly Gazette ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1897. The Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. SUBSCRIPTION, - $1 50 Per Year. Six months... 1 00 Three months... 75 Payable invariably in advance. Transient advertising rates, $1 per inch per month 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. SUGAR BEET CULTURE. Gustav Hansen Writes to a Chicago Paper Relative to Our Advantages. We take the following from the Chicago Evening Post, a well-known German newspaper of that city, of recent date: "From Anaheim, Orange County. Calif., (about 25 miles Southwest of Los Angeles.) The Post has received the following communication: "EDITORS EVENING POST: — For many years I was a resident of Chicago and conducted a wholesale business in the handling of produce until about three years ago, when I removed to Southern California. I still continue to take the Evening Post. I see by its news columns that times are not any better. Since my residence here I have become a farmer, and my principal product is raising sugar beets for the new Alamitos sugar factory, which was erected last winter. In my opinion this is the very section where a man of some means can do well—a good living is assured and a small surplus can be put aside. "The cultivation of the sugar beet pays well; and the climate is of the bear, and the leaders of the respective movements believe that they can count upon enough votes in both houses of congress and on executive approval to bring about the desired results. The bill for the admission of New Mexico will be introduced in the house early next session by Mr. Ferguson, who is himself a Democrat, with silver sympathies, and the eagerness with which sound-money Republicans will rally to the support of the bill is an open question. One of the strongest workers for the admission of New Mexico is Brig.-General E. A. Carr, retired. Arizona will apply for admission through her delegate, Marcus A. Smith of Tucson, and Senator Carter is expected to add his efforts in the Senate. GOES TO THE BOTTOM The Steamer Mexico Sinks in Alaskan Waters—The Passengers Saved. The Pacific Coast Steamship Company's steamer City of Mexico struck a rock at the entrance to Sitka harbor on the morning of the 5th and sank in 65 fathoms of water. The captain was in bed when the accident occurred, about 4:30 o'clock Thursday morning. From time the steamer struck until it disappeared beneath the waves, about two hours elapsed, Captain Thomas and Pilot Connell being the last to leave the sinking ship. The self-control of the passengers was commended by Captain Thomas. He said there was no unnecessary excitement. The passengers were aroused and put in the boats with as many of their personal effects as possible. Perey Higgenbotham, who went up on the Mexico as far as Dyea and came back on the Topeka today, describes in a graphic manner the sinking of the ill-fated vessel. He said: "The vessel went on a rock early in the morning, and when the officers said that the passengers had better take to the lifeboats every one was cool and calm, and the ladies, when going down the ladder over the side of the steamer to get into the small boats, sang Christian Endeavor songs." "The captain was cool, but could not realize that his boat was doomed." SNAP SHOTS AT THE NEW YORK At the New York price the silver standard dollar is worth ten-42.62 cents. Three anarchists were arrested Milan on Friday with valuable paper. The police claim they give evidence an international plot to kill the head of governments. Color is given to story by the attempt to assassin President Faure of France and K Humbert of Italy in the last year two, and by the boast of Golli, Canon slayer, that Faure would be the next die. The Moqui Indians will hold their annual snake dance on the reservoir of the tribe to-day and to-morrow. The feast is a picturesque affair and been the subject of endless magazine articles. The scene of the ceremony is 70 miles north of Holbrook, Arizona from which point the trip is made stage. A large number of East tourists and scientists will witness dance this year. Fruit shippers of Southern California are getting down to business this year. Patent pit-splitting, cutting, heating other contrivances are being used to facilitate their work and produce best results Pomona canneries are receiving some very large peaches, most of them measuring four inches in meter. A large fruit dealer of Pomona has been shipping peaches, plums and nectarines to the City of Mexico where they sold for 60 cents a pound. Counting out the freight that is still a handsome profit. News has been received at Redding from Coffee Creek to the effect that $40,000 more of gold dust and nuggets were taken out of the pocket out which the Graves Brothers took that $42,000 last week. Another exuberant rich discovery of gold is reported on Morrison Gulch, about two miles from the scene of the Graves Brothers discovery. It is said $18,000 was taken out, and that two miners are taking gold on an average of $40 to the price This strike is on the same vein as Graves claim and is supposed to be extension of the same. The coming vintage is looked forward to by the grapegrowers of northern part of the State with The handling of produce until about three years ago, when I removed to Southern California. I still continue to take the Evening Post. I see by its news columns that times are not any better. Since my residence here I have become a farmer, and my principal product is raising sugar beets for the new Alamitos sugar factory, which was erected last winter. In my opinion this is the very section where a man of some means can do well—a good living is assured and a small surplus can be put aside. "The cultivation of the sugar beet pays well; and the climate is of the best; there being lots of sunshine. We harvest from 7 to 20 tons per acre. The factory pay $3.25 per ton for 12 per cent beets and for every additional per cent 25 cents more. The beets raised by me show 16 per cent, so I will get $4.25 per ton. The price of land is $50 to $100 per acre, and beets are raised without irrigation, which give a higher per cent than can be reached in any other locality. Beets that show 20 per cent are plentiful, and the highest test has shown some to go 26-21-0 per cent. This year there was planted for the Alamitos factory 3500 acres, and for Chino factory (60 miles from here) 4000 acres. Next year—in consequence of an increase in the tariff on raw sugar—I expect to see this acreage doubled. "The climate here is very pleasant, the thermometer has not shown over 90 degrees and the nights are always cool. There are a great many Germans engaged in the cultivation of sugar beets here. "I herewith send you a copy of the ANAHEIM GAZETTE, which contains the sugar beet test of last week. Respectfully, GUS HANSEN." The Evening Post publishes the following editorial: In the copy of the ANAHEIM GAZETTE of July 29th, which was sent us, we see an article on the harvesting of sugar beets for one week and the shipments from the stations of Anaheim, Buena Park and Benedict, averaging between 600 and 700 tons daily, and with the information that the Chino sugar factory had telegraphed that the shipments should be increased to 1100 tons daily. The sugar test list to which our correspondent calls our attention shows that 61 farmers delivered beets and that the lowest percentage was 14.3. The general average was 17.5, and several beet farmers delivered beets that tested 21.2, 21.3 and 22.9 per cent. A correspondent from Los Alamitos writes that the average at that point was 184 per cent, and stated that one farmer who had fifty acres of new land in beets, was harvesting 21 tons to the acre, and at an average price of $450 per ton, his land yield him $945 per acre. But this is undoubtedly an exception, but shows what careful cultivation will accomplish. This is a splendid outlook that we here behold and it cannot be doubted that the neglected "corner of our country" is the best place for the cultivation of the sugar beet, and through this fact win for itself fame. The Gazette, which we quote from, also shows another interesting item in that the new tariff should further benefit the beet raiser, and further states that the Alamitos factory had contracted for beets at $75 and $3 per ton of 12 per cent beets, whereas the Chino factory was paying $325 per ton, and asks the farmers (notwithstanding the higher tariff on raw sugar), who expected a better price, how this suits them. This paper figures out that the factory, out of a crop of 110,000 tons of beets, will there was no unnecessary excitement. The passengers were aroused and put in the boats with as many of their personal effects as possible. Percy Higgenbotham, who went up on the Mexico as far as Dyea and came back on the Topeka today, describes in a graphic manner the sinking of the ill-fated vessel. He said: "The vessel went on a rock early in the morning, and when the officers said that the passengers had better take to lifeboats every one was cool and calm, and the ladies, when going down the ladder over the side of the steamer to get into the small boats, sang Christian Endeavor songs." "The captain was cool, but could not realize that his boat was doomed. Some one rushed to him and asked: 'Can I get my baggage in a small boat?' Calm yourself,' said Capt. Thomas. 'You had better get into a small boat yourself, and leave your baggage to take care of itself. It is impossible that the Mexico will sink.' Some of the passengers rushed to him for advice later, and the captain said: 'Take no chances, but get into the boat. I am going to save my ship if I can. She will not sink; she cannot sink.'" "Within twenty minutes after the shock the steamer's hold was filled with water, and baggage was floating around. We could hear the swish of water and could feel the steamer settling." "Just two hours and ten minutes after the rock was struck, the Mexico's bow sailed out of sight. Then the bow bobbed up again and her stern sank. Suddenly the bow shot upward in a perpendicular line, and the Mexico went to the bottom like a shot, stern first. The lifeboats then pulled for Percy Island, thirteen miles distant, where the passengers were landed on a rock, and had something to eat. Then the long row was renewed, and the passengers were landed at Metlakatla, seventeen miles from the island and thirty miles from the point where the vessel went down, and where all remained until the arrival of the steamer City of Topeko, bound south." VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 11.-The steamer Mexico, which was wrecked at the entrance of Sitka Harbor at 4 a.m., August 5, had been running at half-speed because of the dense fog, until a few minutes before the rock was struck. Pilot Connels then rang for full steam ahead, and soon after there was a terrific shock on the starboard quarter. So great was the momentum that the ship was carried through the reef, which is believed was the West Devil rocks, and into deep water beyond. Instantly there was a call for the crew, and without the slightest confusion, the seventy-five passengers were safely placed in the ship's boats. Soon after the vessel struck the fog cleared, and it was bright and sunshiny when she sunk. There was no excitement on board. The passengers and the watch were awakened by the shock. The alarm was given and all were quickly dressed, and reassured by the coolness of the officers, awaited their turn to enter the boats. The vessel was valued at about $100,000. GREEK GEORGE'S STORY. How He and Others Broke Jail in New York City. NEW YORK, Aug. 13.-The Journal and Advertiser says George Polyeranis, otherwise known as "Greek George," one of the four desperate prisoners who escued from Ludlow-street jail on January 14, of this year, and who has just been placed safely in his cell in this city having been captured in Chicago. News has been received at Reddit from Coffee Creek to the effect that $40,000 more of gold dust and nuggets were taken out of the pocket outweighing the Graves Brothers took that $42,000 last week. Another exciting rich discovery of gold is reported on Morrison Gulch, about two miles from the scene of the Graves Brothers discovery. It is said $18,000 was taken out, and that two miners are taking gold on an average of $40 to the price. This strike is on the same vein as Graves claim and is supposed to be extension of the same. The coming vintage is looked forward to by the grapegrowers of northern part of the State with fingers of encouragement, as they will be large notwithstanding their ages made by phylloxera. S vineyards heavily loaded with fruit will be injured on account of their destroying the leaves, thus allowing berries to be exposed to dierays of sun thereby reducing amount of juice and destroying flavor. The wineries are disposing all the wine possible to make room this year's yield. Negotiations are now pending for purchase of 1460 acres of land nearinas for colonization purposes. I proposed to bring Germans from twenty-one States to start the colony and divide the tract into farming sections from 20 to 100 acres each, to be for growing of sugar beets for Salinas factory. The families will come to settle the tract are all plea means and will arrive within next two months. The town of Garden Grove is moving with Widow Huntonan, an estimate resident of that place. Thursday afternoon her 9-year-old son Arthur Chicka spring hard by her kitchen door was drowned in two feet of water. Boy was taken with an epileptic fetreed to his death without a gift not ten feet from where his mother sewing. Later in the afternoon ad son was thrown from a run horse and mangled or bruised so recovery is improbable. Associate Justice Stephen J. Fiee on Supreme Court of the United States on Monday broke the record for tinnious service on the Supreme Benefit having served 34 years, 6 months days, or one day longer than For Chief Justice Marshall, whose recourse has hitherto been lost since the establishment of the tribe It has been generally under that Justice Field would retire at bench when his length of sea exceeded that of Former Chief Judge Marshal. It is probable that his upon the bench will become vacant soon Upon his retirement Attty McKenna, according to present denialness, will succeed him. The price of hay has more doubled within past few days prices demanded being from $116 per ton, and farmers are hoping their crops with expectation this price will advance beyond this mark. Livery-stable keepers have vanced their rates for boarding hand during winter months unless have the privilege of advancing rates if price of hay advances ther. The hay crop in California been light, and this is the prime reason advanced for the increase prices. The consumption of hay San Francisco amounts to over 100 tons annually. The Supervisors of various counties of The State are considering a sale forthe consecutive numberingofthe Pacific railroad. "Do you Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera Remedy cures you whenthe stomach ache?" Well it And after giving this friendly passage by jolly conduct passed he give you a pointer," said M. a popular conductor onthe Pacific railroad. "Do you Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera Remedy cures you whenthe stomach ache?" Well it And after giving this friendly passage by jolly conduct passed This is a splendid outlook that we here behold and it cannot be doubted that the neglected "corner of our country" is the best place for the cultivation of the sugar beet, and through this fact win for itself fame. The GAZETTE, which we quote from, also shows another interesting item in that the new tariff should further benefit the beet raiser, and further states that the Alamitos factory had contracted for beets at $2 75 and $3 per ton of 12 per cent beets, whereas the Chino factory was paying $3 25 per ton, and asks the farmers (notwithstanding the higher tariff on raw sugar), who expected a better price, how this suits them. This paper figures out that the factory, out of a crop of 110,000 tons of beets, will manufacture 40,000 pounds of sugar and at a profit of 2 cents per pound will clear $800,000 over and above all expenses. A few years ago when the price of beets was $3 50 per ton the Chino sugar company sent a notice to each beet raiser, in which it stated that they would raise the price 25 cents per ton if the sugar bounty (2 cents a pound) would again be adopted. The factory owner therefore offered that by the making of $800,000 or 40,000,000 pounds of sugar, out of 110,000 tons of beets, they would generously give the farmers $27,000, or in other words to these 600 farmers they would give $43 apiece, and put the remainder of the $800,000, which is $772,500, into their own pockets. The GAZETTE is of the opinion that a profit of $800,000 a year is sufficient, and requesting the Government to make them a present of a like amount in addition is all wrong. Senator Perkins is commended on his stand against the re-enactment of the sugar bounty clause, and it is hoped that it may never be heard of again. Such proof coming from the heart of the sugar beet paradise should for all time silence the cry for a sugar bounty, and should at the same time teach a low tariff on raw sugar. The tariff has been raised 95-hundredths for the very reason to assist the sugar beet raisers, and notwithstanding this the Alamitos sugar factory reduces the old price of $3 25 to $2 75 and $3 per ton for 12 per cent beets. In all probability one more state will be added to the American galaxy during the McKinley administration. The President, it is understood, looks with favor upon the admission of New Mexico, and it is likely she will be next to join the union. The citizens of the territories of New Mexico and Arizona have been for several years persistently knocking at the doors of congress for admission. More systematic machinery is being set in motion and more potent influences brought to dressed, and, reassured by the coolness of the officers, awaited their turn to enter the boats. The vessel was valued at about $100,000. GREEK GEORGE'S STORY. How He and Others Broke Jail in New York City. NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—The Journal and Advertiser says George Polyanis, otherwise known as "Greek George," one of the four desperate prisoners who escaped from Ludlow-street jail on January 14, of this year, and who has just been placed safely in his cell in this city, having been captured in Chicago, in an interview described the getting away of the prisoners. He said: "I did not have anything to do with arranging the escape, but I accidentally discovered that the other prisoners had sawed the bars. It took them six hours to saw away the bars on inside, but the bars on outside gave way in five minutes. Small jeweler's saws were used. When Masso, Egan and Post saw that I had found out, they had me go along with them and threatened to stab me, as they were afraid I would give them away and prevent their escape. "After supper we all went to our cells, and a little while later we went one by one to cell No. 87. We all escaped through this cell. Here I found one of the iron bars sawed off and the others twisted so that a fellow could crawl through. I saw one of the men crawl through. I went back and kissed my hand to my wife, who was locked up in a cell near by. Then I followed through. I was afraid for a few minutes after I got through, and did not know whether to jump to the roof or not. It looked risky. Then I jumped to the roof of the house next door. I found the scuttle open and went down through the house, scaring a woman as I went by. "I went to the door, mixed in with the crowd and walked down Grand street to the Bowery, where I took a cable car and rode to Twenty-fourth street and Third avenue. Here I got off and went into the Compton House. I stayed at the Compton House in my room for two days, and then went direct to Chicago, where I started in the fruit-peddling business." Judge Pierce and others buy the Extra Newton beet wagon. Take a look at that fine new lot of sterling silver Flat Ware at Luedke's It's worth your inspection. $16 per ton, and farmers are hoisting their crops with the expectation that the price will advance beyond this mark. Livery-stable keepers have vanced the rates for boarding hats and will not contract to board hats during the winter months unless have the privilege of advancing rates if the price of hay advances ther. The hay crop in California been light, and this is the print reason advanced for the increase prices. The consumption of hay San Francisco amounts to over 14 tons annually. The Supervisors of various counties of the State are considering a sale for the consecutive numbering of houses along country roads. They has been adopted in Contra county with satisfactory results. Nearly all are applied to the roads of a county as great a distance in a general area as practicable. Each mile of road is divided in ten equal blocks. These blocks have frogs but no depth or area. Each hour a block has the number of that if there be more than one hour block the places may be distinguished by placing "a," "b," "c," etc.,the number for each. When they pass through a village or a town numbering ceases but the measure continues and the numbering remains summed beyond the town. Amount numerous benefits such a number scheme are mentioned the opportunity to easily measure distances and ease with which a place remote any town or from other dwelling be found. The steamer North Fork, which ed Saturday from San Francisco Alaska, carried to the gold ranch Blanche King of 47th street York, a tall, good looking young man who had the most astonishing outfit that has yet been recorded Klondike rush. The principals are: Three sealskin cost several trunks full of clothing; iions for two years,a colored maid,a piano,a pet saddle horse St.Bernard dogs,一辆 spaniel,a four canary birds and $10,000 in "always travel that way,"said King."I wouldn't go if I could comfortable,and I don't want to such an opportunity for invest My plan is to buy interests in whenever I find good opportunity am confident of a very successful future." Miss King has paid a price for the best apartments on the Fork and bought tickets for cook and her maid. She has also in advance for the transportation her piano,horse,dogs and birdsthat troubles her is that she TOP SHOTS AT THE NEWS The New York price the silver in standard dollar is worth to-day events. The anarchists were arrested on Friday with valuable papers. Police claim they give evidence of international plot to kill the heads of governments. Color is given to the by the attempt to assassinate President Faure of France and King Carl of Italy in the last year or died by the boast of Golli, Canovas' that Faure would be the next to Moqui Indians will hold their snake dance on the reservation tribe to-day and to-morrow. The pictureque affair has the subject of endless magazine articles. The scene of the ceremonies miles north of Holbrook, Arizona, which point the trip is made by a large number of Eastern scientists will witness this year. Shippers of Southern California set down to business this year. Pit-splitting, cutting, heating and contrivances are being used to make their work and produce the results. Pomona canneries are reeling some very large peaches, many on measuring four inches in diameter. A large fruit dealer of Potas been shipping peaches, plums decoraries to the City of Mexico, they sold for 60 cents a pound, counting out the freight there a handsome profit. Has been received at Redding Coffee Creek to the effect that more of gold dust and nuggets taken out of the pocket out of the Graves Brothers took their last week. Another exceeding discovery of gold is reported Harrison Gulch, about two miles from the scene of the Graves Brothers'ERY. It is said $18,000 was taken and that two miners are taking out an average of $40 to the pan. Strike is on the same vein as the claim and is supposed to be an indication of the same. Coming vintage is looked forward to by the grapegrowers of the lower part of the State with feel- may be too severe for the canaries. This is the boat that Charley Rogers is on. An employee of Washburn's circus swore at a woman during the performance at a place near Quebec, and she struck him. He began to beat her and a free fight began with roughs, police, citizens and circus hands participating. The circus people turned the elephant loose on the crowd, and several women and children were trampled upon. The animal then broke away and ran trumpeting through the town, creating havoc. He was finally caught in a back yard. The circus barely got out of town. About a dozen people were hurt. Oil producers are mourning over their lot and oil prices continue to tumble. The best quality of oil is now selling for 60 cents at the tanks in Los Angeles and those who know predict that it will go to 50 cents and possibly lower. The whole trouble has arisen through the diverse opinion actuating producers. Every plan that could be devised to get them together for a stand has failed. Time and again a combination seemed to be possible but the small producers would break away, demand impossible conditions or arbitrarily decline to regard anything but their own immediate interests, and the result has been a steady bearing down of prices from $130 per barrel to the present low rate of 60 cents. A mob of 200 persons waited on Mayor Muir of Harper, Kan., and demanded his immediate resignation because he refused to close a saloon that had been opened on Sunday night. The Mayor climbed upon his desk and attempted to make a conciliatory speech. The temperance crowd passed him and two or three got hold of him and attempted to throw him off, when the Mayor's friends came in by the back doors and drove the crowd away with clubs. The agitators then proceeded to the council chambers, put out the lights and broke up the meeting in a general row. Violence and a revolution of the city government has been threatened. The city officers are now under an armed guard. The Southern California citrus growers' tariff committee held a meeting at the chamber of commerce rooms in Los Angeles on Friday, and it was due necessity of attention to other important business interests. W. S. Leake will represent Spreckels in the management of the paper, and it is announced that no change in either policy or personnel will be made for the present, at least. The entire crew of the British steamer Dorothy, lying at Sayannah, Ga., deserted for the Klondyke and left a very sanguine note for their first while captain, informing him that in about two years he might expect their return with enough gold to buy the ship and present it to him as a pleasure yacht. Several wealthy young men of Brunswick, Ga., combined with the deserters in the purchase of a small steam yacht with which they will round Cape Horn for Alaska. The vessel is said to be well stocked with provisions and mining tools. Mrs. Kate Gallagher, for twelve years a school teacher in Galveston, Texas, was found on Monday with her throat cut from ear to ear and her body charred beyond recognition. Virgil, a 20-year-old son of the woman, has been arrested and confessed that he committed the crime to get money to spend on a variety actress. The crime was deliberately planned and executed. The youth packed a trunk and was ready to leave. He had the furniture insured, and, with the money, expected to leave Texas as soon as the loss was adjusted. But the fire was discovered in time to prevent the destruction of the building, and the crime was brought to light. Assemblyman Howard E. Wright of Alameda has filed a petition in insolvency. His liabilities are placed at $87,687, with no assets. In January, 1893, Wright entered into partnership with Leroy G. Harvey and John M. Beck, in the real estate business. At that time Harvey enjoyed the full confidence of the business community and the new firm started out with very bright prospects, which, however, did not long continue. Harvey soon developed peculiar business methods and became involved in serious litigation. One result was that the partnership was dissolved in December, 1895, Harvey assuming all assets, as well as the liabilities. He paid none of the debts incurred by the firm, according to the petition filed, and it devolved upon Wright to pay them. The coming vintage is looked forward to by the grapegrowers of the town part of the State with feel of encouragement, as the crop large, notwithstanding the ravage made by the phylloxera. Some orchards heavily loaded with fruit are injured on account of the pest laying the leaves, thus allowing berries to be exposed to the direct heat of the sun, thereby reducing the amount of juice and destroying the trees. The wineries are disposing of wine possible to make room for year's yield. Obituaries are now pending for the case of 1460 acres of land near Salem colonization purposes. It is used to bring Germans from two States to start the colony and to tract into farming sections. In 20 to 100 acres each, to be used for growing of sugar beets for the factory. The families who come to settle the tract are all peo-means and will arrive within the two months. Town of Garden Grove is mourned with Widow Huntoon, an estimable man of that place. Thursday after her 9-year-old son Arthur fell into hard by her kitchen door and crowned in two feet of water. The was taken with an epileptic fit and sent to his death without a groan, but feet from where his mother was lying. Later in the afternoon a second was thrown from a runaway car and mangled and bruised so that injury is improbable. Associate Justice Stephen J. Field of Supreme Court of the United States Monday broke the record for consummation service on the Supreme bench, served 34 years, 6 months, 6 for one day longer than Former Justice Marshall, whose record of abuse has hitherto been the longest in the establishment of the tribunal. It has been generally understood that Justice Field would retire fromench when his length of service ended that of Former Chief Justice Hal. It is probable that his seat at the bench will become vacant Upon his retirement, Atty.-Gen. Jenna, according to the present un-ending, will succeed him. The price of hay has more than been within the past few days, the has demanded being from $1150 to ten ton, and farmers are holding crops with the expectation that price will advance beyond the $200. Livery-stable keepers have added the rates for boarding horses will not contract to board horses during the winter months unless they take the privilege of advancing the price of hay advances furthest. The hay crop in California has light, and this is the principal reason advanced for the increase in the consumption of hay in Francisco amounts to over 150,000 annually. The Supervisors of various counties in the State are considering a scheme for consecutive numbering of farm parcels. The Mayor climbed upon his desk and attempted to make a conciliatory speech. The temperance crowd passed him and two or three got hold of him and attempted to throw him off, when the Mayor's friends came in by the back doors and drove the crowd away with clubs. The agitators then proceeded to the council chambers, put out the lights and broke up the meeting in a general row. Violence and a revolution of the city government has been threatened. The city officers are now under an armed guard. The Southern California citrus growers' tariff committee held a meeting at the chamber of commerce rooms in Los Angeles on Friday, and it was decided to continue the organization in order to be in position to meet any emergency that may arise in the matter of collecting the revenues under the new method of weight instead of measurement. Complications have already arisen and there is every indication that the importers will endeavor to make the new way as burdensome and annoying as possible. According to the Fruitman's Guide, however, Uncle Sam is disposed to construe the law as it reads and see to it that importations bear the burden intended and according to the method outlined in the law. Mrs. George Ruthman of Beaver Falls, Pa., heard a peculiar noise on the back porch of her residence and went out and found her two sons, one aged seven and the other one year old, in a corner. The babe was on his back. The elder brother had inserted the tube of a bicycle pump in the baby's mouth and was filling 'him with wind as fast as he could work the pump. The infant was unconscious and its stomach was inflated like a balloon. The mother pulled the tube from the child's mouth and the air followed with a sharp sound like the exhaust of an air brake on a railroad train. The baby recovered consciousness. William Randall Roberts, a former merchant prince of New York, who was also a politician of international repute, died Monday a charity patient in Bellevue Hospital. Roberts was a United States Minister to Chile in Cleveland's first administration. On May 18th, 1888, Rogers was stricken with paralysis and in the following year was brought back to New York by C. M. Sieberts, formerly secretary of the legislation, and lived with him, although he had a wife and son here, ever since until the 2d of this month. On that date he was sent by Sieberts to Bellevue. Mr. Roberts was born in county Cork, Ireland, in 1830. J. A. Knowlton, a live stock commission merchant of Kansas City, Mo., bought in Oregon $80,000 sheep, which are now being driven overland to Kansas, where they will be fed next winter and marketed the following winter and spring. This immense herd has been divided into twelve bands, each of which are driven by eight men. The sheep are allowed to graze along the roadside each day. The drivers are furnished with horses and a camping outfit, and while sheep rest as night, she sheeperders stop in tents. The bands are driven about twelve miles apart, and Knowlton expects to reach Kansas by October. By driving the sheep overland instead of shipping them by rail, the commission merchant will save perhaps $60,000, as the transportation charge from Oregon to Kansas amounts to $1 a head. High life society at Santa Monica is confronted by a problem which must be answered, but to which as yet there has been no solution. Colonel and Mrs. John Bradbury are about to take their residence again at that seaside His liabilities are placed at $87,687, with no assets. In January, 1893, Wright entered into partnership with Leroy G. Harvey and John M. Beck, in the real estate business. At that time Harvey enjoyed full confidence of the business community and the new firm started out with very bright prospects, which, however, did not long continue. Harvey soon developed peculiar business methods and became involved in serious litigation. One result was that the partnership was dissolved in December, 1895, Harvey assuming all assets, as well as the liabilities. He paid none of the debts incurred by the firm, according to the petition filed, and it devolved upon Wright to pay them. Fred Garcelon, a member of Chas.G.Yale's Twelve Temptations Company, which played an engagement in River-side one night last week, is lying at the Riverside jail in a precarious condition. He met an old friend there named Younkan, and the latter asked Garcelon to spend the night with him. The invitation was accepted and shortly two men retired for the night. Younkan was awakened by some one choking him, and his assailant also struck him on the head with a coal oil lamp. Younkan jumped through a window and alarmed the neighbors, who surrounded the house. Garcelon attempted to run away from the house, and not heeding a command to halt was shot by Charles Rich, two loads of No. 6 bird shot finding lodgment in his body. Younkan, who was not seriously injured, says Garcelon attempted to rob him. Garcelon refuses to make any statement. The outcome of his injuries cannot be foretold. According to the recent ruling from Washington August 15 was the last date on which it was possible to qualify as a Cherokee citizen in the "Cherokee Strip," and as a consequence a great number of scheming white men hunted up Indian girls for wives to take advantage of the laws and become a squawman before that date. Each Indian girl is entitled to 160 acres of land in the Indian Territory and a share of the large sum of money held in trust by the government for the Cherokees. Thousands of white men have already acquired valuable lands by marrying into the tribe, and all the eligible Indian maidens were being counted with as much ardor as foreigners display in their efforts to win hearts and fortunes of American heiresses. Notwithstanding the mercenary motives of their suitors susceptible Indian girls readily accept marriage proposals from white men, observation having taught them that most squawmen treat their wives with more consideration than do the full-blood braves. The boom in the matrimonial market became greater as the day approached when citizenship rights could no longer be acquired by marriage, and all the ministers on reservation and even on the Arkansas border had their hands full. Many Cherokee girls, despite their dark skin, possess considerable beauty and intelligence, and some of them are graduates of the best Indian schools. The results of intermarriage with whites are being watched with interest by students of the Indian question, and the belief is gaining ground in the west that the allotment of Indian lands in severalty and the gradual assimilation of Indians by the dominant race will, in a few years, relieve the government of a problem that would otherwise never be satisfactorily solved. John C. Svenningsen, a veteran of civil war, lately returned to America after thirteen years' in Chile, visited The Soldiers' Home at Santa Monica Tuesday of last week in search of The Supervisors of various counties in the State are considering a scheme to increase the number of farms along country roads. The plan has been adopted in Contra Costa County with satisfactory results. Names applied to the roads of a county for treat a distance in a general direction practicable. Each mile along road is divided in ten equal parts blocks. These blocks have frontage no depth or area. Each house in block has the number of that block. There be more than one house in each block the places may be distinguished by placing “a,” “b,” “c,” etc., after number for each. When the road runs through a village or a town the obbering ceases but the measurement remains and the numbering is reed beyond the town. Among the numerous benefits of such a numbering scheme are mentioned the opportunity to easily measure distances and the ability with which a place remote from town or from other dwellings may be found. The steamer North Fork, which sail Saturday from San Francisco foraska, carried to the gold regionsache King of 47th street, New York, a tall, good looking young woman, who had the most astonishing it that has yet been recorded in the Andyke rush. The principal features are: Three sealskin costumes, several trunks full of clothing, provisions for two years, a colored cook, a plano, a pet saddle horse, two Bernard dogs, one spaniel, a parrot, one canary birds and $10,000 in cash. I always travel that way," said Miss King. "I wouldn't go if I couldn't be comfortable, and I don't want to miss an opportunity for investment. Plan is to buy interests in claims whenever I find good opportunities. I confident of a very successful venture." Miss King has paid a premium on the best apartments on the North Park and has bought tickets for her back and her maid. She has also paid advance for the transportation of piano, horse, dogs and birds. All that troubles her is that the climate sheep are allowed to graze along the roadside each day. The drivers are furnished with horses and a camping outfit, and while the sheep rest at night, the sheepherders stop in tents. The bands are driven about twelve miles apart, and Knowlton expects to reach Kansas by October. By driving the sheep overland instead of shipping them by rail, the commission merchant will save perhaps $60,000, as the transportation charge from Oregon to Kansas amounts to $1 a head. High life society at Santa Monica is confronted by a problem which must be answered, but to which as yet there has been no solution. Colonel and Mrs. John Bradbury are about to take up their residence again at that seaside resort, and will soon occupy the home where the recent "romance" had its first chapter written. Colonel Bradbury's relatives disclaim any knowledge of his intention and apparently have little concern about his movements. But the former friends of the couple seem to be well assured of their homecoming, and the question is, How will they be received? It is evident that a number of Mrs. Bradbury's friends intend to make a strong effort to secure her replacement, and that others will combat such a plan to the end. A pretty tea table tempest is already rising and will be ready to break if the report of the return proves true. It develops that Alice M. Barrett, the pretty typewriter who committed suicide in Boston on July 24, under circumstances so peculiar that for two weeks the motive (embezzlement) was not discovered, made a will three days before killing herself. This will found by her mother, at her home in Waltham, was offered for probate at once. It is a peculiar document, couched in legal phraseology throughout, and much the same as a millionaire might make. It bequeathes her belongings and her bank deposit to her mother, dividing her interest in two small mortgages between her brothers and $150 additional to "my younger beloved brother Charlie." It then disposes of nine pieces of bric-a-brac and jewelry among her young women friends and relatives, including her aunt, three cousins and several Waltham associates. She had an accident policy for $2500 and personal property appraised at $1375. The San Francisco Call appears with the name of John D. Spreeckels at the head of its editorial columns as proprietor and publishes a short statement over the signature of Charles M. Shortridge, to the effect that he has been compelled to transfer the paper on account of failing health, need of rest. Cherokee girls, despite their dark skin, possess considerable beauty and intelligence, and some of them are graduates of the best Indian schools. The results of intermarriage with whites are being watched with interest by students of the Indian question, and the belief is gaining ground in the west that the allotment of Indian lands in severalty and the gradual assimilation of Indians by the dominant race will, in a few years, relieve the government of a problem that otherwise never be satisfactorily solved. John C. Svenningsen, a veteran of the civil war, lately returned to America after thirteen years' in Chile, visited the Soldiers' Home at Santa Monica Tuesday of last week in search of old army comrades, and was astounded to find that he himself had been registered as an inmate of that institution for more than two years. As a result of his investigation Peter Mikelsen, 75 years of age, is under arrest subject to prosecution by the government. Mickelsen admitted the deception. The story is an interesting one and dates back thirty years, when two men formed an acquaintance in New York city. Upon his return from the war, in 1864, having served in the First New York Infantry, Svenningsen had been induced by Mikelsen to take board with the latter at his place at 6 Morris street, and the two men became very intimate. Mikelsen is very decrepit, while Svenningsen is but 58, and of robust build. After having seen the pension commissioner and made an affidavit to the facts, the old soldier said: "I am very sorry for Mikelsen and have no desire to see him punished. He is a poor old man and entitled to sympathy on account of his age if nothing else. I hope the government will let him off easy. I did not start any prosecution against him and would not have done so except to protect my own rights. I cannot let another usurp my record as a soldier and my right to a pension or shelter in a national home, if by reason of age or disability I come to be in need of it. After the old fellow owned up to everything and I saw him, I was sorry I hadn't stayed in South America." Svenningsen says that about a year ago, before coming to California, he had found through an American consul that somebody was apparently drawing a pension in his name. He didn't understand it, but let the matter rest. Svenningsen came to the home from San Francisco on Tuesday of last week, and says he supposes he will have to remain there to give testimony against Mikelsen, though he prefers to drop the case now his identity is established.