anaheim-gazette 1897-09-09

Anaheim VOLUME XXVII. DR. F. H. HOUCK DENTIST. OFFICE NEXT DOOR to P. O. (Federman Block, up stairs.) HOURS 9 to 5 ANAHEIM CAL. A.W. Bickford, M.D. PHYSICIAN, SURGEON (Successor to Dr. Champion.) Will occupy the office and residence of Dr. Champion. ANAHEIM CAL. je24tf GRAY BROTHERS & WARD Cement Contractors Shillinger Patent. Contracts for RESERVOIRS, IRRIGATION DITCHES, Cellar and Stable Floors, Sidewalks, Eto. 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. 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 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 PLOWWORK 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 hartress Streets, Anaheim. Office Hours—7 to 9 a.m.; 1 to 3 p.m.; 7 to 8. Paul A. Derge. Graduate in Pharmaoy. DRUGS, MEDICINES, Perfumes and Toilet Articles. BEST 5-CENT OIGAR IN TOWN MEDICAL HALL, KOLL BLOCK. PUBLIC TELEPHONE OFFICE. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Anaheim, Cal 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. Nicoula, Richard Melrose, L. Goldwater, Kaspare Cohn H. Cahen, J. A. Goldwater, J. Schlesinger. M.A. Newmark & Co. 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. EXCHANGE, Santa Ana. Exchanges for sale on all the principal cities in the United States and Foreign Countries. Hotel Reception —FULLERTON, CAI.— C.B. Huggans, - Proprietor. First-Class in Every Respect. Meals Served A crisis has been reached in the long-drawn-out fight between the lemon-growers of Chula Vista and the San Diego Land and Town company, owners of the Sweetwater dam and water system. The crisis was precipitated last Wednesday by the issuance of a circular by the company to every water consumer on the tract, notifying them that unless they signed contracts with the company, agreeing to pay the new rate of $7 per acre, just twice the old rate, their water would be turned off at 7 o'clock Saturday morning. Sept. 4. The gravity of the situation was increased by the knowledge that this also meant the shutting off of the domestic supply as well, although there has been no dispute over domestic rates, and as there is scarcely a well or other source of water supply in the district the greatest excitement prevailed, and threats of violence were freely made against the unfortunate employee who should be detailed to shut off the water. Out of the 300 ranchers owning and cultivating 3000 acres not a man proposed to pay the new rate. They have been fighting it since it was proposed, Jan. 1, 1896. At a big mass meeting held Wednesday night they decided to resist the company to the bitter end. Judge Haines and Col. C.H. Rippey, owners of ten-acre tracts, secured injunctions out of the Superior Court restraining the company from shutting off their water supply. None of the other ranchers made a move. At 4 o'clock Friday afternoon General Manager John E. Boal announced that he must carry out the orders of the company and turn off the water. A crowd of excited ranchers gathered around the company's office at National City and persuaded him that such action would surely result in bloodshed, and that night a telegram was received from the Boston head office authorizing him to extend the time to Monday. The ranchers are jubilant, and believe the company is frightened and afraid to carry out its threat. A Cure for Bilous Colic. RESOURCE: Screven Co., Ga.-I have been subject to attacks of bilous colic for several years. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is the only sure relief. It acts like a charm. One dose of it gives relief when all other remedies fail.-G.D.Sharp. For sale by P.A.Derge. DRUGS, MEDICINES, Perfumes and Toilet Articles. BEST 5-CENT OIGAR IN TOWN MEDICAL HALL, KOLL BLOCK. PUBLIC TELEPHONE OFFICE. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY AT LAW. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Anaheim, Cal special attention given to PROBATE matters. L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT & SHOE MAKER. 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 H. P. LARSEN. CONTRACTOR & BUILDER. estimates given, Contracts made and do a general jobing Business. Exchanges for sale on all the principal cities in 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. Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Beer and Ale, Etc. Found Hanging AT 5 Q'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 Cyprus. 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. Chancellor, Helena, Mont. Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged cure for catarrh and contains no mercury nor any injurious drug. Price, 50 cents. A Cure for Rilous Colic. RESOURCE, Screven Co., Ga.—I have been subject to attacks of bilious colic for several years. Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is the only sure relief. It acts like a charm. One dose of it gives relief when all other remedies fail.—G. D. SHARP. For sale by P. A. Derge. The Southern Pacific Company will sell round trip tickets to Sacramento and return Sept. 4th to Sept. 18th inclusive, good returning Sept. 20th, for $21 10 on account of the State fair. Remember the date and the fare. Take the S. P. when you go to Los Angeles because their trains make quick time. The Santa Ana branch trains are all first class in every respect and they take you right into the business part of Los Angeles city, stopping at First and Commercial streets, a block only from the largest wholesale houses. Connection has been made at Santa Ana with the tracks of the Newport railroad, enabling freight or passengers to go through without transfer from one depot to another. E. W. McCollum has a full line of '97 Bicycles and Bicycle Supplies. He will sell you any make of Bicyles that you want, from $12 to $100. Wheels to rent. All kind of repairing done. The extra Newton beet wagon, 3½ by 4 truck, holds the record for hauling in the largest load of beets to the Chino factory—7 tons 1,190 pounds. Fully guaranteed by the agents, A. Pfahler & Son. A case of a maker of a promissory note, who became insolvent before a note was due and them promised to pay the original amount, has come before the Supreme Court. William Schmalz gave Richard Lambert a note for $750, but before it became due Schmalz filed his petition in insolvency proceedings. Schmalz told Lambert that he would pay the $750, any did pay off some of the interest. He then refused to liquidate the entire amount. Lambert brought suit, and the lower court granted him a judgment for the face of the note, together with interest. On appeal the Supreme Court holds that the action of Schmalz in paying the interest and promising to pay the amount of the note and no interest, made him under obligations to pay only $750, the face of the note. The plaintiff is ordered to refund the amount paid in excess of the $750. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 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 Gazetta 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. HARD TIMES PASSED: The Secretary of Agriculture Speaks Hopefully of the Future. CHICAGO, Sept. 1. — James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, has returned from a trip through the Western States, where he has been investigating conditions regarding irrigation and other matters which will tend to widen the scope of agricultural industries. Mr. Wilson is enthusiastic concerning the agricultural future of the West and confident that hard times have passed for the farmers west of the Mississippi. During his month's trip through the Western States he examined into the conditions existing among the farmers. He found that the latter had felt the wave of prosperity and that they were buying new machinery, making numberless improvements and are able to pay off their mortgages. "I have been through the mountain States," said Mr. Wilson, "in order to learn what could be done regarding irrigation in the range lands of Western Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, part of Idaho, Montana and North Dakota. The principal object of my trip was to ascertain a dozen orange trees from Bahia, Brazil. They were said to bear fruit of excellent quality and seedless. When they arrived after their long voyage, which in that day was not made as quickly as it could now be, two of them were fixing. Only one of these survived after being planted. Mr. Saunders thought it would be a good thing to see if these trees could be successfully grown in California and Florida. He sent out under the name of Bahia navel oranges a few trees grafted from the parent still living, to Mrs. Tibbitts at Riverside, Cal. Shortly after that, what was known as the Riverside navel orange appeared. It produced a finer fruit than had ever been secured from the orange tree in the United States. It was at once taken up by other fruit growers of California, whose spirit of enterprise caused them to change its name, in order that River-side should not get too much credit through its excellence. They called it the Washington navel orange, and they boomed it as only enterprising California could. Ever since that time the navel orange has been regarded by fruit dealers everywhere as par excellence. With this history behind the orange tree still standing at the Department of Agriculture, there is little wonder that it is the object of so much interest among orange-growers from California and Florida. Not long ago a wealthy Californian visited the hot-house of the department, and when this tree was pointed out to him, and its history made known, he took off his hat, bowed low before it, remarking that he wanted to show his reverence for the tree, as its progeny had made him a fortune of $80,000. Many orange-growers have asserted that if the Department of Agriculture in its entire history had done nothing more than to introduce the navel orange in the United States, all the money that had been expended on its account had been well spent. GERMANY AND FRANCE. SNAP SHOTS AT THE NEW Judge Ellsworth of Oakland has ruled that a bicycle is personal property and exempt from execution, if used by the owner in his daily business. The State of Oregon is now without a United States District Attorney, the commission of D. R. Murphy having expired. Thus far the congress delegation have failed to agree on a candidate. The last two steamers which sailed from Havana for Spain carried 1500 sails and disabled soldiers. Capt.-Gen Weyler received 'from Spain last week $200,000 in silver to be used in defraying the expenses of the war in Cuba. A carrier-pigeon which was released on Chilcoot Pass, August 25, arrive at Portland on Friday, nine days from the Pass. It had a note from Ton Cain to a friend saying: "Tell everybody you know enough not to come this year." J. D. Chafee of Garden Grove has petitioned for letters of administration on the estate of Ruth Ann Cook. Edwin L. Sherman, who committed suicide at Santa Ana some weeks ago, acting as administrator of the estate at the time of his death. Cholera has broken out among the hogs of Mission Valley near San Diego and over 140 animals have died and been buried in the sands of the river bed. Most of the animals lie under less than a foot of sand and are said to pollute the water of the river. Sookawak, an Indian chief residing in lower Nicola valley, B. C., has been arrested after a hot fight with members of his tribe by the provincial police for tying his aged squaw to a horse by the heels and then having a young buck lash the horse to a gallop, with the result that she was dragged to deaah. The record-breaking deadlook in the Tenth District Republican convention at Winfield, Iowa, was broken by the nomination of J. D. Palmer, for Congress, who was chosen by acclamation on motion of W. D. Copp, his opponent from Henry county. A recent study has revealed that the agricultural future of the West is being shaped by the increasing demand for farmers to adapt their practices to meet new challenges. The report highlights how the Western States have examined the conditions existing among the farmers. It found that the latter had felt the wave of prosperity and that they were buying new machinery, making numberless improvements and are able to pay off their mortgages. "I have been through the mountain States," said Mr. Wilson, "in order to learn what could be done regarding irrigation in the range lands of Western Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, part of Idaho, Montana and North Dakota." The principal object of my trip through the States was to ascertain to what extent they could add to the annual production by further irrigation. During the course of my observation I have found that these States have already used up the waters in many districts without being able to irrigate the bottom lands. They are now agitating the theory of damming the waters in winter. "I have an agent in Europe at the present time investigating the requirements for heavy draft, carriage horses and animals needed for army purposes. I have very little doubt that if the range horses in the Western States were properly cared for they would be able to compete with European horses. I hope to bring about such a competition and to make the market for American horses lively in European countries." "During my trip I found a very extensive interest in growing sugar beets to make sugar. Grand Island, Neb., is on the edge of a dry belt. Sugar beets are one crop that grows independently of droughts. About 3000 to 4000 acres of land are necessary to cultivate a sufficient crop of beets to keep a factory in operation. "The dry product, or the pulp, is not being used to the best advantage. At Grand Island and Leight, Utah, it is fed to range steers. The amount of it that would make two pounds of gain in a first-class steer, worth 6 or 7 cents, would make a pound of butter, but such has not occurred to the sugar beet growers." PRAYED FOR HER HUSBAND'S LIFE. Stirring Appeal of a Woman to Governor Atkinson of Georgia. ATLANTA (Ga.), Sept. 2.—The refusal of Governor Atkinson to commute the sentence of Horace S. Perry, who is sentenced to be hanged in Decatur Sept. 8th for the murder of Billy Lanier, led to scenes in the executive office in the State capitol to-day that are much more familiar on the stage than in real life. The final effort to save Perry's neck came before the Governor on a plea for a commutation based on the grounds that the killing was the result of an assault made by Lanier upon Mrs. Perry. The condemned man was represented by several of the most prominent lawyers of the State, headed by the former Secretary of Interior, Hoke Smith. A great number of affidavits from both sides bearing on the alleged new evidence were filed, and then Mrs. Perry was escorted into the executive chamber. She is a little pale-faced woman, and she showed the effects of the long agony which she has endured since the killing. The Governor told her in kindly tones he would consider her petition with all the others and made an effort to end the interview. Mrs. Perry's pale face grew paler, her eyes opened wide and she fell on her wealthy California visitor the norther house of the department, and when this tree was pointed out to him, and its history made known, he took off his hat, bowed low before it, remarking that he wanted to show his reverence for the tree, as its progeny had made him a fortune of $80,000. Many orange-growers have asserted that if the Department of Agriculture in its entire history had done nothing more than to introduce the navel orange in the United States, all the money that had been expended on its account had been well spent. GERMANY AND FRANCE. Ever-Present Possibility of a Conflict Over Alsace-Lorraine. BERLIN, Sept. 2.—It is asserted upon authority that Germany will demand from France an explanation of the dispatch sent by M. Meline, the French premier, in reply to a message of congratulation of the Alsace-Lorraine society upon the signing of the Franco-Russian alliance, in which dispatch M. Meline expressed the hope of a reunion of Alsace-Lorraine with the French republic. Germany, it is announced, will also demand satisfaction for excesses committed before the German embassy in Paris on the evening of President Faure's return from his visit to Russia. PARIS, Sept. 2.—The attitude of the French press and public toward Germany is distinctly more resolute than it was before the Franco-Russian alliance was announced. Various rumors concerning the government's intentions are in circulation among others one to the effect that upon the reassembling of the chamber of deputies, M. Hanataux, minister for foreign affairs, will make an important speech on the subject of the alliance, which will be in the nature of a manifesto and will reverberate throughout the country, and that the chamber will immediately adjourn without transacting any further business. This effervescence apparently due to the celebration of Sedan day. BERLIN, Sept. 2.—The anniversary of the battle of Seden was celebrated here to-day. There was much less enthusiasm than usual; the evident desire being to divest the anniversary of all elements irritating to France. Flags are flying from public buildings and the school children were given a holiday. Still smarting under the completion of the Franco-Russian alliance, most of the leading German papers embrace the opportunity to convey to France the hint that she must abandon any idea of restoration of Alsace-Lorraine. EXPORT BOUNTIES ON BEET SUGAR. Treasury Department at Washington Confronted by a Puzzling Question. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—The question of whether beet sugars exported from Holland to the United States shall be practically excluded from this country by the imposition of an additional duty equivalent to the bounty paid by the Dutch government is one which the Treasury Department will have to decide in near future. At present such sugars are allowed to come in on the payment of the duty fixed by the sugar schedule in the tariff bill, with wealthy California visited the northern house of the department, and when this tree was pointed out to him, and its history made known, he took off his hat, bowed low before it, remarking that he wanted to show his reverence for the tree, as its progeny had made him a fortune of $80,000. Many orange-growers have asserted that if the Department of Agriculture in its entire history had done nothing more than to introduce the navel orange in the United States, all the money that had been expended on its account had been well spent. THEN DISTRICT Republican convention at Winfield, Iowa, was broken by his nomination of J. D. Palmer, for Congress, who was chosen by acclamation on motion of W. D. Copp, his opponent from Henry county. The end was reached after 6011 ballots had been taken, each resulting in a tie. Thomas Lindsey, an insurance agent of Chico, has been held to appear before the Superior Court of Butte County on a charge of manslaughter, with bonds fixed at $5000. Lindsey is said to have treated his wife so cruelly and brutally during her confinement in child-birth that her death resulted. There is much feeling against the prizer at Chico. The body of a beautiful woman naked and mutilated, with the skull crushed in, has been found in the River Seine at Paris. In the middle of this woman's back was tattooed the words "Long live Poland," and "Death traitors." The remains are supposed to be those of a Nihilist who incurred the suspicion of her fellow-Nihilists. A cloudburst on Friday convertedthe streets of Needles into veritable rivers. The water ran fully three feet deep in the business streets. Mongehan & Murphy's cellar was filled with water, and goods to the amount of $3,000 were destroyed. Phelan's meat market tumbled down, and an adobe lodging house was wrecked. Nearby every house in town suffered no less damage. The tracks of the Santa Fe road were washed out in several places. Postmaster General Gary has issued a formal order establishing the exchange of mails once a month between post offices at Dyea, Alaska, and Davenport City, Canada. The service is to consist of one round trip each month; first trip to commence at Dyea upon arrival at that place via Juneau; mail steamer scheduled to leave Seattle September 17, and to arrive at Dyea on 20th; and subsequent trips to commence upon the arrival at Dyea of mail from Seattle. The mails in question shall contain only letters and post cards; to exclusion of all other articles. Judge Stewart of Denver has decidedthe Colorado anti-gambling law unconstitutional. The decision is underdecrease of the Supreme Court in the law case, which in effect nullifies allthe important laws of State. Encouraged by this decision, the district courts of State will be flooded by attacks on various laws which are claimed to come under the ban ofthe Supreme Court. If the Appropriation bill is attacked, as seems likely,the Governor may be forced to reconvenethe legislature. A test case is to be made in The Superior Court of Alameda county that will interest all persons who are concerned in the mortgageing processto acquire debts.Mary Gooby, who been sued under foreclosure by Phelan H. Stubbs, filed a suit to restrainthe Sheriff from serving a writ to abutStubbs to secure possession of her property.She claims that under laissez passé by the last Legislature she twelve months in which to redeemwhereas Stubbs claims that they Treasury Department at Washington Confronted by a Puzzling Question. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—The question of whether beet sugars exported from Holland to the United States shall be practically excluded from this country by the imposition of an additional duty equivalent to the bounty paid by the Dutch government is one which the Treasury Department will have to decide in the near future. At present such sugars are allowed to come in on the payment of the duty fixed by the sugar schedule in the tariff bill, with the understanding that if it is found that the additional duty applies it shall be paid. Section 5 of the Dingley act provides that when any country shall pay, either directly or indirectly, any bounty or grant upon the exportation of any article or merchandise, it shall be subject, when imported into the United States, to an additional duty equal to the export bounty. This is aimed especially at sugars, and the Treasury Department has called upon the State Department to secure, through the Consuls and Ministers abroad, detailed information as to all export bounties paid by foreign governments. It has been generally assumed that the new Dutch sugar law, which went into effect yesterday, provided for an export bounty, but this seems to be open to considerable doubt. A draft of this law has been forwarded by the Minister at The Hague. The treasury officials have not yet examined it carefully enough to decide whether it provides in any direct way for a bounty on exportation. The draft of the new law shows that premiums are allowed on beet sugars produced and withdrawn from the sugar factories, but this does not seem to be an export bounty, as it is the same on sugars withdrawn for home consumption as on those shipped abroad. It is doubtful whether this can be construed to be a bounty or grant upon the exportation of sugar, and this may lead to a decision that no additional duties can be levied on Dutch sugars on account of the bounty. The effect of such decision would be to give Dutch beet sugars an advantage in the American market over German, Austrian and French sugars, as these countries pay bounties on the exportation of their sugars, and when they are imported into the United States they must pay additional duties equivalent to the bounties. A Missouri editor in response to the question, "Do hogs pay?" says: A great many do not. They will take the paper for several years, and then some day, the paper will come back marked 'refused.'" The Supreme Court on Friday decided that a constitutional vacancy exists only until the expiration of the term office for which a candidate was elected. S.A. Holmes was elected Judge of Fresno county for a term of five years, which term was to expire January 4, 1897. He resigned in December 1894, and the Governor appointed S.A. Carter to fill his office until the election and qualification of his successor. In November 1896, George F. Church was elected to fill the unexpired term of Judge Holmes. He qualified November 23, 1896, and demanded of the State Controller his salary until January 4, 1897. This was refused on the ground that the Legislature of 1887 passed an act abolishing the office of one Judge of Fresno county. A man date was presented to the Supreme Court and that tribunal holds that the act provided that it should take effect upon the expiration of the term of office of the incumbent, and that this would mean, in the present case, the expiration of the term for which S.A. Holmes was elected. Willie Cox, aged 7, and Eddie Coaged 9, sona of a farmer living near Mannsville, Ky., met a terrible death from rattlesnake bites, while playing hide and seek with some children. The first named ran into the bushes and failed to reappear at the proper time. Presently his brother heard cries from him and hastening to his aid found he first thought that his head had been fastened in the trunk of an oak stump. In trying to pull him from the stump Eddie found that four big rats were biting William time and again. Greatly frightened, but determined to rescue his brother, Eddie reached in a better hold and was bitten repeated. The cries of the children attracted some men and the boys were finally rescued from their perilous position but not until they were past all a One died in five minutes, the other ten. The four snakes were killed, Gazette. NUMBER 9, 1897. SHOTS AT THE NEWS Ellsworth of Oakland has rulled bicycle is personal property except from execution, if used by or in his daily business. State of Oregon is now without States District Attorney, the son of D. R. Murphy having thus far the congress delegated to agree on a candidate. At two steamers which sailediana for Spain carried 1500 sick soldiers. Capt.-Gen Weyler from Spain last week $2,-aliver to be used in defraying causes of the war in Cuba. Inter-pigeon which was released Spot Pass, August 25, arrived and on Friday, nine days from it. It had a note from Tom friend saying: "Tell every know enough not to come this Chaffee of Garden Grove has read for letters of administration state of Ruth Ann Cook. Edwin man, who committed suicide at some weeks ago, was acting distrator of the estate at the his death. A has broken out among the Mission Valley near San Diego, or 140 animals have died and dried in the sands of the river most of the animals lie under less foot of sand and are said to one water of the river. Sk, an Indian chief residing Nicola valley, B. C., has been after a hot fight with membersobe by the provincial police for aged squaw to a horse by the old then having a young buck horse to a gallop, with the re-she was dragged to deah. Record-breaking deadlock in the district Republican convention held Iowa, was broken by the son of J. D. Palmer, for Conno was chosen by acclamation of W. D. Copp, his opponent It was found that the youngest child had jumped into their nest in the hollow of an olk stump. A forty-ton fly-wheel at the Burgess steel and iron works at Portsmouth, O., was burst by a 4800 pound ingot stopping a roll. The mill was crowded with workmen at the time. John Murphy was hurled thirty feet and badly bruised. The roof was riddled. Beams two feet square were cut in two like straws. The mill was set on fire but soon extinguished and the furnace destroyed. The loss is considerable, and will close the mill until a new fly-wheel is secured. A million dollars a day at low estimate is the money that is being sent out by the banks of Chicago to help the farmers move the big grain crops which they have begun to harvest. Fifteen million dollars is a close approximation to the sum which has been sent to the West and Northwest during the past two weeks, and yet the movement has only begun. It shows signs of growing in strength every day. The bulk of the money thus far sent out has gone to Kansas City and Omaha, but large shipments are reported to Minneapolis and Duluth and the Northwest. The financial statement of the Committee of '97 of the sixteenth International Christian Endeavor Convention held in San Francisco in July, shows a balance in the hands of the Treasurer of $2274. Of the entire receipts, $32,331, the business men of San Francisco contributed $18,000 and the various Christian Endeavor societies $7500. It is proposed to distribute the surplus as follows: One hundred dollars to the Epworth League gospel wagon, $600 to the work among sailors (floating work), under the Alameda county union, and the balance for the purchase of a naptha launch to be used in work among the sailors on the Bay of San Francisco. Dist.-Atty. Olcott of New York has made public a remarkable statement made by Herman Nack, husband of Mrs. Augusta Nack, who with Martin Thbrn is charged with the murder of place under arrest. The woman said that when she made the contract to marry the man she thought she was a divorced woman, but upon her arrival in San Jose she discovered that she was still untied to her first husband, and that the latter was in the Klondike and the possessor of five rich mining claims. This husband, she alleges, had written to her to join him at once and share his wealth, and she intended doing so when she wrote to Ghiorso and declined to keep her contract. She agreed to give Ghiorso her note for the money he had advanced upon her written agreement to marry him, provided he would have the complaint against her dismissed, and this proposition the man accepted, and the woman was released from custody. Charles A. Wetmore, the wine man who has been experimenting with tobacco on Roberts Island, near Stockton, claims to have discovered a process which will produce cigar wrappers the equal of genuine Sumatra. He took some of his tobacco to a cigar-maker to have it made into cigars and apologized for the spots on the leaf by saying he was not an experienced grower of the weed, but he hoped in time to blot out the supposed blemishes. The manufacturer informed him that he had been paying about $1 50 a pound for wrappers containing that particular spot, and asked him how he produced it. The two talked the matter over, and Wetmore has investigated the spot till he has come to the conclusion that he can produce it on his finest tobacco leaves. He is of the opinion that it is caused by an insect in some instances, but just how the insect produced the spot, he says is the knowledge that is of great value to him, and therefore will not enter into details about it. He is raising considerable tobacco on his island ranch, and will devote his time in the future to growing the quality used for cigar wrappers. A writ of mandamus was sued out by J. J. McKinnon, a miller residing at Sacramento, on Friday against the Board of Trustees of that city, to compel them to pass an ordinance for the holding of primary elections under the In the sands of the river rest of the animals lie under less foot of sand and are said to one water of the river. Break, an Indian chief residing Nicola valley, B. C., has been after a hot fight with members by the provincial police for squaw to a horse by the old then having a young buck horse to a gallop, with the recharge was dragged to deah. Board-breaking deadlook in the District Republican convention field, Iowa, was broken by the union of J. D. Palmer, for Condo was chosen by acclamation of W. D. Copp, his opponent County county. The end was after 6011 ballots had been such resulting in a tie. Lindsay, an insurance agent has been held to appear besuperior Court of Butte County large of manslaughter, with ed at $5000. Lindsay is said to hated his wife so cruelly and during her confinement in that her death resulted. much feeling against the prishicoo. Body of a beautiful woman, and mutilated, with the skull has been found in the River Paris. In the middle of the back was tattooed the words live Poland," and "Death to" The remains are supposed case of a Nihilist who incurred action of her fellow-Nihilists. Dubburt on Friday converted sets of Needles into veritable The water ran fully three feet the business streets. Monafurphy's cellar was filled with and goods to the amount of fire destroyed. Phelan's meat rumbled down, and an adobe house was wrecked. Nearly house in town suffered more or age. The tracks of the Santa were washed out in several Master General Gary has issued order establishing the exmails once a month between at Dyea, Alaska, and DawCanada. The service is to one round trip each month, trip to commence at Dyea upon al that place via Juneau of steamer scheduled to leave September 17, and to arrive at the 20th, and subsequent trips once upon the arrival at Dyea from Seattle. The malls in shall contain only letters and to the exclusion of all other Stewart of Denvar has decided rado anti-gambling law uncontrol. The decision is under the Supreme Court in the feewhich in effect nullifies all the laws of the State. Encouragthis decision, the district State will be flooded by non various laws which are too come under the ban of the Court. If the Appropriation attacked, as seems likely, the may be forced to reconvene literature. Case is to be made in the Suport of Alameda county that rests all persons who are containing the mortgageing of property debts. Mary Gooby, who has had under foreclosure by Perry Ross, filed a suit to restrain the from serving a writ to aid no secure possession of her promo- claims that under the law by the last Legislature she has months in which to redeem, Stubbs claims that the old Of the entire receipts, $32,331, the business men of San Francisco contributed $18,000 and the various Christian Endeavor societies $7500. It is proposed to distribute the surplus as follows: One hundred dollars to the Epworth League gospel wagon, $600 to the work among sailors (floating work), under the Alameda county union, and the balance for the purchase of a naptha launch to be used in work among the sailors on the Bay of San Francisco. Dist.-Atty. Olcott of New York has made public a remarkable statement made by Herman Nack, husband of Mrs. Augusta Nack, who with Martin Thbrn is charged with the murder of William Guldensuppe. Nack says that his wife has been killing infants for a number of years. He gives the whole career of himself and wife during their married life from 1886 to October, 1896. Nack states that his wife made a living through illegal operations involving the murder of children. At one time there were as many as six dead infants preserved in spirits in bottles in his room in their house. He also states that she murdered from two to three children every year for a period of from eight to ten years. Nack also alleged that his wife was assisted in all the details by a number of physicians. Aristocratic residents of Lenox, Mass., are anticipating pleasurablely the contemplated visit of Prince Alexander George, the youngest son of the Duke and Duchess of Teck. The Prince will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Burrell Hoffman at their magnificent country seat, Brookhurst. The date of his arrival is not fixed, but preparations are in progress for a fitting reception of the royal personage. The Prince is a brother-in-law of the Duke of York, the future King of England. His stay in America is limited. Probably three weeks will be spent at Lenox and some days at Philadelphia. Among many plans for the Prince's entertainment is a hunting trip beyond the Rockies. George W. Adams of Cripple Creek has returned from the gold fields of South America. Fourteen months ago Adams left Denver to try his fortunes in South American mines. He went to the gold fields, three hundred miles from Georgetown, in company with eight Americans, remaining there eleven months. Of the entire party of nine he alone escaped death from the fatal fever. One by one he saw his companions die of the terrible disease; saw a hole scooped in the ground and their bodies, twisted from pain, covered with earth. He was attacked twice himself with the malady, and nearly died, and finally after seeing the last of the eight die in agony, he became terror-strikeen and fled from the country—a country from which he says, not one out of seventy-five white men ever return alive. Representatives of Santa Barbara county appeared before the State Board of Equalization at the meeting at Sacramento on Thursday in response to the citation to show cause why their assessment should not be raised. Assessor Frank Smith and William May and Mr. Newhall were the chief witnesses examined. They told a story of extreme hard times and poor crops, mortgage foreclosures and wornout land, and declared that next year there would be a further reduction of the assessment, and that it should have been further reduced this year. It is understood that the board will this year reduce a large number of interior counties instead of raising San Francisco, as originally intended; this owing to the fact that there are not enough votes on the Board to raise San Francisco. The result of this will be A writ of mandamus was sued out by J. J. McKinnon, a miller residing at Sacramento, on Friday against the Board of Trustees of that city, to compel them to pass an ordinance for the holding of primary elections under the new Stratton election law. The petition recites that the Trustees refused to pass an ordinance in compliance with the law, thereby threatening the petitioner with the loss of opportunity to vote for municipal officers this fall, and likewise endangering property and entailing the expense of costly litigation upon the city. Judge Hughes signed the order, making the writ returnable at 4 o'clock that afternoon. At the session of the court Judges Hughes, Hart and Johnson, sitting in bank, the Trustees were ordered to hold a meeting before 12 o'clock that night and pass the ordinance for holding a primary election under the Stratton law. The Board of Trustees met subsequently and pursuant to the writ of mandamus issued by the court, passed an ordinance providing that the primary election shall be held under the Stratton primary election law. Subsequently a resolution was adopted, against advice of the corporation counsel, ordering that an appeal be taken to the Supreme Court. W. Russell Ward of Santa Monica who became notorious through his connection with the elopement of Mrs. Bradbury, wife of Johnny Bradbury, met his death near Wheatland, Iowa, Friday morning by falling or jumping from the east-bound overland limited on the Northwestern railroad. His body was picked up two hours after his death, and lay for some time at the city hall, awaiting disposition by friends. At 5 o'clock Friday morning the crew of a west-bound freight train on the Northwestern railroad discovered the remains of a man, attired in a suit of under clothing, lying by the double tracks, about half a mile west of Wheatland. The body was picked up, and later conveyed to the depot. The dead man was apparently about 35 years old. Later it was learned that the dead man was W. Russell Ward, and that he had been a passenger on the overland limited, which passed at 2:45 a.m. Ward's ticket from San Francisco was found in the clothing. There are two theories accounting for the cause of death, one being that he committed suicide by throwing himself from the car while the train was running at a rapid rate; the other that he arose from his berth in the sleeping-car, and mistaking the vestibule door for the door of the toilet room, stepped off the swiftly-moving train to his death. He was untouched by the wheels, but his hip was broken, and the means of his instant death was apparent from an ugly wound in the forehead. The body was otherwise badly bruised. The Coroner returned a verdict of accidental death. Secretary Sherman and the new Minister from Peru, Senor Eguigeren, had a conference at the State Department over long pending case of Victor McCord. It has been stated recently that the United States has presented an ultimatum to Peru, damning an immediate payment of $50,000 in settle- on various laws which are to come under the ban of the Court. If the Appropriation attacked, as seems likely, the may be forced to reconvene the case is to be made in the Supreme Court on Friday deciding that constitutional vacancy exists till the expiration of the term of which a candidate was elected. Holmes was elected Judge no county for a term of six which term was to expire January 1997. He resigned in December, and the Governor appointed S. L. Infill the office until the election qualification of his successor. Chamber, 1896, George F. Church entered to fill the unexpired term of the Holmes. He qualified No. 23, 1896, and demanded of the controller his salary until January 1997. This was refused on the basis that the Legislature of 1895 had act abolishing the office of Judge Fresno county. A man was presented to the Supreme Court that tribunal holds that the evidence that it should take effect in the expiration of the term of office document, and that this would be in the present case, the expiraction the term for which S. A. Holme is cited. The Cox, aged 7, and Eddie Cox, son of a farmer living near Willis, Ky., met a terrible death battlesnake bites, while playing with some children. The armed ran into the bushes and reappear at the proper time. Only his brother heard cries from hastening to his aid found, as thought, that his head had been strenued in the trunk of an old dog. In trying to pull him from the Eddie found that four big rat bitebiting William time and again, frightened, but determined to his brother, Eddie reached in for hold and was bitten repeatedly. Niles of the children attracted them and the boys were finally taken from their perilous position, until they were past all aid. And in five minutes, the other in the four snakes were killed, and mento on Thursday in response to the citation to show cause why their assessment should not be raised. Assessor Frank Smith and William May and Mr. Newhall were the chief witnesses examined. They told a story of extreme hard times and poor crops, mortgage foreclosures and wormout land, and declared that next year there would be a further reduction of the assessment, and that it should have been further reduced this year. It is understood that the board will this year reduce a large number of interior counties instead of raising San Francisco, as originally intended; this owing to the fact that there are not enough votes on the Board to raise San Francisco. The result of this will be to raise the tax levy, but how much would only be guess work, and would depend upon how many interior counties are reduced and to what extent. The reduction may, however, be so extensive as to raise the tax levy. The attention of the State Department has been drawn to the fact that the State of Iowa has attempted to discriminate against foreign insurance companies doing business there. As there were indications of a similar intention on the part of certain other States, and the matter was clearly a violation of the treaties made with certain nations, Secretary Sherman addressed the following letter to the Governor of Iowa: Washington, July 2, 1897. Hia Excellency, the Governor of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa.—Sir: It has been orally represented to this department by the Minister of Switzerland at this capital that the State of Iowa has laid a tax upon the premium income of Eureanean insurance companies greater than the tax imposed upon the premium income of those of America. As this action operates to the disadvantage of Swiss insurance companies doing business in Iowa, the department submits that it is a violation of the rights of Swiss citizens, as set forth in Article II of the treaty consummated Nov. 25, 1850, between the United States and Switzerland. In order that the represented measure upon the treaty rights of Swiss citizens may be duly taken into account I have the honor to quote the pertinent provision of said Article II as follows: "No higher import, under whatever name, shall be exacted from the citizens of one of the two countries, residing or established in the other than shall be levied upon the citizens of the country in which they reside, or any contribution whatever to which the latter shall not be liable." JOHN SHERMAN, Secretary of State. Mrs. Kate Whitman, the woman whom John Ghiorso of Sonora, Tuolumne county, charged with a felony in securing $80 from him under the false pretense of contracting to marry him in San Jose on August 30th, was located by the police in the latter town and for the door of the toilet room, stepped off the swiftly-moving train to his death. He was untouched by the wheels, but his hip was broken, and the means of his instant death was apparent from an ugly wound in the forehead. The body was otherwise badly bruised. The Coroner returned a verdict of accidental death. Secretary Sherman and the new Minister from Peru, Senor Eguigeren, had a conference at the State Department over the long pending case of Victor McCord. It has been stated recently that the United States has presented an ultimatum to Peru, damanding an immediate payment of $50,000 in settlement of the McCord case. It is learned from official sources, however, that no ultimatum had been presented, although a courteous but firm note was addressed by Secretary Sherman to Peru. There is good reason to believe that Peru's answer will be of such a nature as to do away with any chance of friction between the two countries, and that final adjustment will be made at an early date. At the same time Peru will make it clear that any adjustment is due to a desire to continue friendly relations long existing between the two countries, and that the claim of McCord is not regarded as a just one. Senor Eguigeren was seen at the Peruvian legation and consented to give Peru's side of the case. It differs in many respects from the statements made in connection with the so-called ultimatum. In brief, it is contended first, that McCord was not, as claimed, a United States Consul at the time the alleged indignity occurred, but was superintendent of the National Railway of Peru and without any official connection with the United States; second, that the fine and imprisonment imposed on McCord were justified by the fact that his action during the revolution of 1885 led to the transportation of a large body of armed troops from Mollendo to Arequipa, where a bloody conflict ensued resulting in the death of a great many people; third, that any grievance that McCord may have had was long ago settled in writing by Mr. Thorndike, his superior in the Peruvian railways; and finally, that McCord is now a resident of Peru, and is not desirous of having the United States urge the claim. 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