anaheim-gazette 1897-12-02

Anaheim VOLUME XXVIII. S. G. WILSON, M. D. Office and Residence: Over H. A. Dickel's Store. CENTER ST., ANAHEIM. DR. WM. FREEMAN, FULLERTON, CAL. OFFICE AND RESIDENCE: Chadbourne's Block. Hours—8 to 9 a.m.; 3 to 5 p.m. nov25tf G. S. EDDY, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OFFICE—First door East of Boston Bakery. Residence—The Witte residence on Center St., opposite Catholic Church. CALLS ANSWERED AT ALL HOURS. ANAHEIM CAL. A.W. Bickford, M.D. PHYSICIAN, SURGEON (Successor to Dr. Champion.) Will occupy the office and residence of Dr. Champion. ANAHEIM CAL j=24tf DR. F. H. HOUCK DENTIST. OFFICE NEXT DOOR to P. O. (Federman Block, up stairs.) HOURS 9 to & ANAHEIM CAL jy15tf Paul A. Derge. Graduate in Pharmacy. DRUGS, MEDICINES, Perfumes and Toilet Articles. Don't BUY any old Plow that is Offered you There is Only one GOODENOUGH The California Special Sulky Plow. SOLD ONLY BY WM. F. LUTZ CO. AGENTS ... Studebaker Wagons, Moline Cultivators, Top Buggies & Road Wagons At the Old Stand, RUHMANN'S BUILDING, LOS ANGELES ST., ANAHEIM J. W. WHANN, MANAGER. CITY MEAT MARKET. KEeps on hand all kinds of FRESH AND SALTED MEATS, Fresh and Smoked Sausages, Hams & Bacon, and the Purest Lard of Our Own Rendering Highest Market price Paid for Fat Stock. PLEASE GIVE ME A CALL. VEIT BENTZ. R. H. SEALE DEALER IN DR. F. H. HOUCK DENTIST. OFFICE NEXT DOOR to P. O. (Federman Block, up stairs.) HOURS 9 to 5 ANAHEIM CAL. jy15tf Paul A. Derge. Graduate in Pharmacy. DRUGS, MEDICINES, Perfumes and Toilet Articles. BEST 5-CENT CIGAR IN TOWN MEDICAL HALL, KOLL BLOCK. PUBLIC TELEPHONE OFFICE. L. NEMETZ. Carriage Painting & Trimming New Buggies for Sale. 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. N HART'S PLACE. DEALER IN... FINE LIQUORS! AND... Choice Wines FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES, Fine Domesticand Imported Cigars. Hart's Building, Center St., - Anaheim, Cal. E. B. Merritt & Co. FURNITURE Dealers. CITIZENS' BANK OF ANAHEIM Hippolyte Cahen · President W. T. Brown · Vice President L. Goldwater · Cashier DIRECTORS: Kaspare Cohn, W. T. Brown Richard Melrose, L. Goldwater Hippolyte Cahen. STOCKHOLDERS Herman W. Hellman, T.J. F. Boege, W.T. Brown P. Nicolus, Richard Melrose, L. Goldwater, Kasspare 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. 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. 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 nails. 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. REBELS AT HAVANA. The Palace a Shining Mark for Their Bullets. NEW YORK, Nov 25.—Sunday morning for the first time in the Cuban war, rebel bullets sought the palace in Havana, says a dispatch to the Herald from Havana. The shots came from Casa Blanca, 600 yards across the entrance of the harbor, and while nobody was hurt, the palace with its electric lights was a shining mark and must have been hit. The Spanish authorities attempted to make light of the affair, but at the same time a reporter for La Lucha, who wrote and attempted to publish the facts in the case, was arrested and is still in prison. The attack on Casa Blanca was made by Brig.-Gen. Cardenas and fifty rebels. They entered the town shortly before midnight on horseback, and at the end of four hours each man led out of the town a horse, with one extra one which he had appropriated, laden with clothing, provisions, silver plate and considerable money. Before they left they fired two volleys across the narrow harbor entrance at the palace, then coolly retired to a friend's house inside the Spanish lines and took supper previously ordered. All this was under the guns of Cabanas and Moro. It is learned from an inside source that the object of the rebels was to 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. L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT & SHOE MAKER. Corner Adele and Los Angeles Streets Thousands are Trying It. In order to prove the great merit of Ely's Cream Balm, the most effective cure for Catarrh and Cold in Head, we have prepared a generous trial size for 10 cents. Get it of your druggist or send 10 cents to ELY BROS., 56 Warren St., N. Y. City. I suffered from catarrh of the worst kind ever since a boy, and I never hoped for cure, but Ely's Cream Balm seems to do even that. Many acquaintances have used it with excellent results.—Oscar Ostrum, 45 Warren Ave., Chicago, Ill. Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged cure for catarrh and contains no cocaine, mercury nor any injurious drug. Price, 50 cents. At druggists or by mail. Quickest Time Between Los Angeles and the East. Commencing Tuesday, October 26th, the Santa Fe Route limited train service will be re-established between Los Angeles and the East. This train, which will be first-class only, will leave Los Angeles every Tuesday and Friday at 8 a.m., reaching Kansas City 6:10 p.m. Thursdays and Sundays, St. Louis 7 a.m. Fridays and Mondays, and Chicago at 9:43 a.m. Fridays and Mondays. Connection will be made at Barstow with the train from San Francisco, so that there will be no delay to passengers from the north. The through dining car and buffet smoking car will be under the management of Fred. Harvey. Scrofula is the advertisement of foul blood. It may be driven from the system by the use of Hood's Sarsaparilla, which thoroughly purifies the blood. Hood's Pills are easy to take, easy to operate. Cure indigestion, billiousness, A NORTHERN AURORA: BY R. F. OBERLANDER. It was one calm beautiful night in mid-August while crossing Lake La Barge, that queen of lakes in Alaska, on our way to Forty Mile Post on the Yukon, that we beheld one of the most beautiful sights ever permitted to human eyes. Far to the north, about 10 or 11 p.m., while it was yet light enough to distinguish objects more than a mile ahead of us, we noticed what seemed to be a forest fire that tinted the high mountain peaks on our right with beautiful fantastic colors flaring now and then in a vivid brightness, now in an apparent cloud-of vapor, then almost hiding behind the mountain until, about midnight, it had grown dark, or dark enough to call it night. Then came a fire-red spot, looking something like a full moon, stealing over the mountain toward us, throwing a beautiful shower of light over the lake, and setting, as it were, the entire mountain side on fire. The pine trees along the shores appeared to be soldiers, the branches of the trees their guns; and, as we slowly rowed along underneath them, we looked in wonderment upon the enchanting scene that seemed to send down upon us a host of midnight spectres, arrayed in red, white, blue and bright green, while the soft summer breeze sighed through the foliage along the bank, furnishing appropriate music for the revel of the Northern Aurora, for such it was. Higher and higher came the fiery monster, until night was turned into bright day, and we could see ahead of us a distance of three or four miles quite plainly. Fascinated by the wonderful sight we rested upon our oars, hardly daring to breathe lest we should frighten away this midnight wonder, when, as if angry at being stared at so persistently, a mighty ray of bright white light shot across to the east, extending away beyond our sight: then, bursting, it sent around about the heavens millions of little stars, falling close enough upon us to make us think that some of the little sparkles might burn us. Continuing the report says it has been a mooted question for many years with the heads of the executive departments whether women can render as good general service as men, because the latter may be transferable at all times to any positions, whereas women may be confronted with duties in a sense indelicate or which require too much manual labor, but it is seldom that duties devolve on any clerk or officer which cannot be properly performed by women. The conclusion of the department is that altogether the services of women have proven almost if not equally satisfactory with those of men. The report is based on a request of the German government as to what has been the general experience of the government with women employes. DURRANT INNOCENT? Startling Letter Written by the Widow of Murderer Blanther. FORT WORTH. Tex., Nov. 25.—The former wife of J. E. Blanther, alias Arthur Forbes, who was arrested at Meridian, Tex., charged with having murdered Mrs. Philippina Langfeldt in San Francisco, and who committed suicide in the Bosque county jail, was located in this city to-day by the police officials. The woman now goes by the name of Ada Taylor. She says that she married Arthur Forbes at Little Rock in 1892, and that their honeymoon was spent in Europe, they visiting all the leading cities of that country. Forbes left her with his relatives in Vienna and went to San Francisco and contracted a marriage with a woman whose name she refused to divulge. Mrs. Forbes remained in Vienna until 1896, when she returned to her parent's home in Texarkana. Later she was joined by Forbes and the two went to Kopprel, in Bosque county, where they taught in the public schools. They had some trouble, during which he shot her three times, and the marks of the wounds she carries to this day. About this time Blanther, alias Forbes, was arrested, charged with the ent employees in the postal service are women. Continuing the report says it has been a mooted question for many years with the heads of the executive departments whether women can render as good general service as men, because the latter may be transferable at all times to any positions, whereas women may be confronted with duties in a sense indelicate or which require too much manual labor, but it is seldom that duties devolve on any clerk or officer which cannot be properly performed by women. The conclusion of the department is that altogether the services of women have proven almost if not equally satisfactory with those of men. The report is based on a request of the German government as to what has been the general experience of the government with women employes. SNAP SHOTS AT THE NEWS Mrs.J. E. Cowan of Tustin, who was recently discharged from the asylum at Highlands as cured, has been returned to that institution. Her malady has returned in aggravated form. County Auditor Hall has received a draft for $979 87 from the Southern Pacific railway company as taxes on the Anaheim and Los Alamitos branch, which had been erroneously assessed by the State board of equalization to Los Angeles county. The first carload of oranges shipped from Riverside this season was sent out on Nov. 2, and reached New York on Nov. 16. Returns have been received and show that the fancy navels brought $4 25 per box. The average for the entire car was $3 75 per box. Assistant-Secretary Vanderlip at Washington on Friday signed what is known as a pay warrant directing the treasurer of the United States to deposit in the treasury the sum of $18,-194,618, representing the proceeds of the sale of the Union Pacific sinking-fund bonds. A prairie fire last week swept over the country south of Clayton, N.M. The grass is very high, and there had been no rain for weeks. The course was through the great cattle-range belt, and for over two hundred miles there was no barrier in its path. The wind blew hard from the north. Thousands of sheep were in danger, and were rushed to places of safety. Farmers in the Corral Deterrra country in Monterey county, are being terrorized by California lions, which, for the past few days, have destroyed a large number of sheep and hogs. The lions have never been known to come down the mountains so far before. Rewards are being offered for their capture. A pension claim which has been pending twenty-seven years and which would carry backpay of $25,000 if allowed, was rejected last week by Assistant Secretary of the Interior Davis. It was the claim of Gottleib Ellersick of Missouri for alleged total blindness due to a disease of the eyes contracted during military service in 1864. The decision holds that the claimant's statements Higher and higher came the fiery monster, until night was turned into bright day, and we could see ahead of us a distance of three or four miles quite plainly. Fascinated by the wonderful sight we rested upon our oars, hardly daring to breathe lest we should feighten away this midnight wonder, when, as if angry at being stared at so persistently, a mighty ray of bright white light shot across to the east, extending away beyond our sight: then, bursting, it sent around about the heavens millions of little stars, falling close enough upon us to make us think that some of the little sparks might burn us. Neither tongue nor pen can describe such mighty scenes in their wondrous beauty as we witnessed from that time on until we reached the shore of Lewis river about three in the morning, to pitch our tent for a few hours rest. Still higher came the fiery monster, until it seemed to anchor right above our little craft, waving to and fro as if undecided which way to turn. Then, flattening towards the east, it burst, sending thousands of fiery arrows into every part of the heavens. These, in turn, bursting, fell down in millions of little stars that made it appear as if the heaven were coming down to meet the earth, then a moment of darkness in which the monster gathered his scattered forces together. In the twinkling of an eye the panorama was changed, and once more a white light like that of an immense electric light hung in the shape of a monstrous umbrella, the handle of which seemed to be in our reach. For fully a minute this hung over the lake when, disappearing, it formed a mighty sheet of brightness toward the east, falling lower and lower until it dipped into the water of the lake showing above it the pale stars of a summer night in Alaska. Slowly it arose and returned to the skies, but not as it had come down, for upon it was photographed the lake and surrounding country; showing the most wonderful mirage ever seen by man, in the midst of which was the picture of our boat, and so plainly did it show that we could make out the features of one or two of our companions. Spellbound we sat in our little boat looking agast at the beautiful picture. We drifted on until the enchanting sight-faded slowly away, when we resumed pulling at the oars, but even when tired out with twenty hours of hard work, we laid down to sleep, the heavens were lit up with beautiful lights, the memory of which will stay with us forever. WOMEN IN THE POSTAL SERVICE. A Query from Germany Concerning Them Elicits a Favorable Answer from Washington. WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—First Assistant Postmaster-General Heath has transmitted to the Postal Administration of the German government through Second Assistant Shallenberger a comprehensive report on the employment of women in the government service. He states that there are 71,022 post-offices in the United States, at each of which there are several employees, who lawfully may be either men or women. Postmasters at third and fourth-class offices select their own employees without consulting the department, and it is accordingly impossible to give the little sparks might burn us. Little Rock in 1892, and that their honeymoon was spent in Europe, they visiting all the leading cities of that country. Forbes left her with his relatives in Vienna and went to San Francisco and contracted a marriage with a woman whose name she refused to divulge. Mrs. Forbes remained in Vienna until 1896, when she returned to her parent's home in Texarkana. Later she was joined by Forbes and the two went to Kopprel, in Bosque county, where they taught in the public schools. They had some trouble, during which he shot her three times, and the marks of the wounds she carries to this day. About this time Blanther, alias Forbes, was arrested, charged with the murder of Mrs. Langfeldt and lodged in jail, where he subsequently committed suicide by taking morphine, which his wife says he always carried with him. Mrs. Forbes then left Kopprel and spent a short time at Dallas, and then came to Fort Worth. She says there is no doubt as to Blanther being the murderer of three San Francisco women. He often told her he was well acquainted with Minnie Williams and Blanche Lamont, having been introduced to them by Theodore Durrant; that he often referred to the murders in such a manner that she was convinced that he knew of them. Mrs. Forbes, or Ada Taylor, says that one of her trunks is still in San Francisco, where it was used in evidence during Durrant's trial. She to-day wired Durrant as follows: "Have courage; believe you to be an innocent man; if I can help to prove your innocence command me." Ada Taylor is an educated woman, and was born in Jefferson Tex., 22 years ago. She was 17 when she married Arthur Forbes. According to the records in the office of the chief of police of San Francisco Blanter deserted his wife in Georgia on January 29, 1896, and registered at the Lick House on February 2, 1896. Blanche Lamont was murdered on April 5, 1895, and Minnie Williams on April 12, nine days later. How to Prevent Pneumonia. At this time of the year a cold is very easily contracted, and if left to run its course without the aid of some reliable cough medicine is liable to result in that dread disease, pneumonia. We know of no better remedy to cure a cough or a cold than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. We have used it quite extensively and it has always given entire satisfaction. — Olagah, Ind. Ter., Chief This is the only remedy that is known to be a certain preventive of pneumonia. Among the many thousand who have used it for colds and la grippe, we have never yet learned of a single case having resulted in pneumonia. Persons who have weak lungs or have reason to fear an attack of pneumonia should keep the remedy at hand. The 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by P.A. Derge The facts in connection with the sensational disappearance of a citizen of Montreal has just come to light. For days local newspapers contained columns describing how Albert E. Lewis a real estate man, had been kidnapped and murdered at a lonely spot on the outskirts of Montreal. His hat and gloves and evidences of a struggle were found near the place. It is now discovered that the finding of the hat and gloves was only a part of a pre-arranged plan concocted by Lewis himself to deceive his family and the public and lead them to suppose that he had been done away with. Lewis is son of a leading Montrealer and about 45 years old, and was in his early years. In Monterey county, are being terrorized by California lions, which, for the past few days, have destroyed a large number of sheep and hogs. The lions have never been known to come down the mountains so far before. Rewards are being offered for their capture. A pension claim which has been pending twenty-seven years and which would carry backpay of $25,000 if allowed, was rejected last week by Assistant Secretary of the Interior Davis. It was the claim of Gottleib Ellersick of Missouri for alleged total blindness due to a disease of the eyes contracted during military service in 1864. The decision holds that the claimant's statements were inconsistent. Dollars better in the quantity of silver they contain than those turned out by Uncle Sam's mints are in circulation at San Francisco. Several of them have been detected at the United States Sub Treasury. So good an imitation of the genuine is this bogus coin that it passes current at the banks and there are few clews as to the manufacturer. Such of the coins as have been detected are not molded, but are made with a die. The milling is defective in places. In fact, this is the most noticeable flaw in the coin. Campbell Smith, an aged reclusue of Beatrice Neb., was found dead in his house, where he lived alone, last Thursday night by neighbors. The condition of the body indicated that he had been dead two days. Rats had mutilated the body. Smith was well-to-do, but eccentric and miserly. His living expenses were $25 a month while in his trunk were found demand certificates of deposit on local banks city warrants and deeds to farms and city property aggregating many thousands of dollars. He was a lawyer and highly educated. His relatives, if he has any, live in Ohio or Illinois. Orders were issued by Secretary Alger on Friday to advertise for proposals for the building of the breakwater at San Pedro harbor. Cal. This is irrespective of the decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury, who has been asked whether there is any available fund from which the expense of advertising can be paid. Of the $50,000 appropriated by Congress for the expenses of the commission and other things, about $17,000 remains. If it shall be held, as seems probable, that this is applicable to the project, there will be sufficient means to advertise the project, but not to pay the civil engineers and inspectors and the other necessary expenses of the general plan. The Kansas board of agriculture has issued a final bulletin showing the State's crop yields so far for the year of 1897. The total yield of winter wheat is 50,040,374 bushels, worth $33,-798,612 or almost 160 per cent more than last year's crop. The combined value of winter and spring wheat, corn and oats is $66,768,788, an increase of $15,071,930 over last year. The probable total acreage of winter wheat sown during the present autumn is about 3,845,000 acres over shearage of the previous year, or over 16 per cent. The net increase in value of this year's agricultural product over that of 1896 is $20,045,246, and of live stock $20,508,805—a total net increase of $40,554,221; or somewhat more than 21 per cent. Lee Pitts, a negro Pullman porter, living in St. Louis, Mo., is a prisoner charged with robbery. Mr. Hill of Providence, R.L., alleges that he tried to steal from his pocket an envelope containing $39,000 in certified checks and $3000 in cash. Hill was a passenger on a Baltimore & Ohio train. At The Four Courts Hill related his story WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—First Assistant Postmaster-General Heath has transmitted to the Postal Administration through Second Assistant Shallenberger a comprehensive report on the employment of women in the government service. He states that there are 71,022 post-offices in the United States, at each of which there are several employees, who lawfully may be either men or women. Postmasters at third and fourth-class offices select their own employees without consulting the department, and it is accordingly impossible to give the exact number of women employed in the postal service. There are, however, 7670 women postmasters, and perhaps 80,000 women to whom the oath of office has been administered to qualify them to assist in conducting the business of the postoffice. There are 167 women employed in the Postoffice Department proper. Women, the report says, are employed in all branches of the postal service except as letter carriers, clerks in the railway mail service and postoffice inspectors. They are not debarbed by rule or regulation from entering any branch of the service. In fact, there are postoffices in the United States at which there are only women employed. The same salary is paid them as to men for the same character of work. In the postoffice department the salaries now paid to women vary from $240 to $1800 per annum, according to the service performed, though there is no rule preventing them from receiving more than that, and as postmasters or assistants they sometimes receive much larger salaries. Some of the most faithful and efficient body of Isadore Poirier, a farmer, was found on Monday at his house at St. Canut, near Montreal. Poirier had been murdered, the body showing many stab wounds and his throat had been cut. Mrs. Poirier, when questioned as to the killing, said he had killed himself. The woman at first made a good showing of grief, but later treated the matter lightly. Detectives were sent for and Mrs. Poirier and a man named Samuel Barstow, who had been paying attention to her, were arrested, charged with the crime. Barstow made a full confession. He says that on Sunday evening, urged on by Mrs. Poirier, he stabbed Poirier with a butter knife. Poirier was in bed asleep at the time. Mrs. Poirier denies any complicity in the affair. She claims that she does not know anything about the murder, and that she was at her father's house at the time that Barstow says he stabbed her husband. A white boy was brutally murdered by a negro at Southport, N.C., and the murderer was burned at the stake by an infilated mob of white farmers. During the fall a party of farmers had been fishing on Thorny Grove beach near Little River, S.C. Nov. 1 one of the farmers' boys, by the name of Stevens, left for home on the Waccamaw river with an ox cart, carrying a package of money. The father went able total acreage of winter wheat sown during the present autumn is about 3,845,000 acres over the acreage of the previous year, or over 16 percent. The net increase in value of this year's agricultural product over that of 1896 is $20,045,246, and of live stock $20,508,805—a total net increase of $40,554,221, or somewhat more than 21 per cent. Lee Pitts, a negro Pullman porter, living in St. Louis, Mo., is a prisoner charged with robbery. Mr. Hill of Providence, R.I., alleges that he tried to steal from his pocket an envelope containing $39,000 in certified checks and $3000 in cash. Hill was a passenger on a Baltimore & Ohio train. At the Four Courts Hill related his story as follows: "Just as the train passed Odin, Ill.," says Hill, "the porter pulled the curtains aside and reached into my berth. He took $10 out of my trouser's pocket and then thrust his hand into my inside coat pocket, where I had an envelope containing $42,000 in cash and checks. I awoke just in time to save the envelope. I grappled with the negro, and the encounter attracted the attention of the Pullman conductor, J.B. Hodges. He ordered the negro to return the $10 he had taken." Hill is the owner of several lead and zinc mines at Joplin. The body of Isadore Poirier, a farmer, was found on Monday at his house at St. Canut, near Montreal. Poirier had been murdered, the body showing many stab wounds and his throat had been cut. Mrs. Poirier, when questioned as to the killing, said he had killed himself. The woman at first made a good showing of grief, but later treated the matter lightly. Detectives were sent for and Mrs. Poirier and a man named Samuel Barstow, who had been paying attention to her, were arrested, charged with the crime. Barstow made a full confession. He says that on Sunday evening, urged on by Mrs. Poirier, he stabbed Poirier with a butter knife. Poirier was in bed asleep at the time. Mrs. Poirier denies any complicity in the affair. She claims that she does not know anything about the murder, and that she was at her father's house at the time that Barstow says he stabbed her husband. A white boy was brutally murdered by a negro at Southport, N.C., and the murderer was burned at the stake by an infilated mob of white farmers. During the fall a party of farmers had been fishing on Thorny Grove beach near Little River, S.C. Nov. 1 one of the farmers' boys, by the name of Stevens, left for home on the Waccamaw river with an ox cart, carrying a package of money. The father went MOTS AT THE NEWS Cowan of Tustin, who was discharged from the asylum as cured, has been returned to institution. Her malady had in aggravated form. Auditor Hall has received a 1987 from the Southern Pawnee company as taxes on the land Los Alamitos branch, been erroneously assessed by the board of equalization to its county. Carload of oranges shipped inside this season was sent out and reached New York on returns have been received at the fancy navels brought box. The average for the was $3 75 per box. Secretary Vanderlip at on Friday signed what is pay warrant directing the of the United States to de- tre treasury the sum of $18.. representing the proceeds of the Union Pacific sinking- fire last week swept over my south of Clayton, N.M. is very high, and there had been in for weeks. The course with the great cattle-range over two hundred miles no barrier in its path. The hard from the north. Thou-sheep were in danger, and led to places of safety. In the Corral Deterra countery county, are being ter- California lions, which, for few days, have destroyed a herd of sheep and hogs. The never been known to come mountains so far before. Reeling offered for their cap- claim which has been twenty-seven years and which now backpay of $25,000 if allowed last week by Assistant of the Interior Davis. It was of Gottlieb Ellersick of Miséled total blindness due to the eyes contracted during service in 1864. The decision of the claimant's statements home, but found nothing had been heard of his son since he had left the beach. It was learned a negro named Nathan Willis had borrowed a gun and left the beach shortly after Stevens' son had departed for his home. A posse was organized by the sheriff and Willis was traced about thirty miles to Town Creek, N.C., where he was found, having in his possession Stevens' ox cart and a hat full of shot holes. He was carried by the sheriff and posse on Thanksgiving day back into South Carolina. Willis was taken from the sheriff on Thursday night by a mob of farmers and carried off into the woods, where he was chained between two box-faced pine trees. Light wood was piled around him and he was burned to death. In the case of Spier vs. the board of supervisors of Tulare county, Judge Gray sustained the demurrer to the complaint and held that the primary election law is valid and constitutional. The plaintiff asked for an injunction commanding the supervisors to desist from proceeding further under the primary election act. The judge stated that he examined the act known as the primary election law of 1897, and also the decision of the Supreme Court on a previous and similar act and reached the conclusion that the present act is valid and constitutional. It is a general law and not subject to the objection made against the former law, on the ground that it was only applicable to San Francisco and Los Angeles. The court ventured the opinion that the Supreme Court could not hear the appeal on the ground that it was a moot case, all the points involved being agreed upon by the attorneys, both Populists. No authorities were submitted and the case was not argued. The case has been appealed to the Supreme Court. Miss Hattie Hellifaich of Brooklyn, N.Y., arrived in Caliente, Cal., to marry Frank Potts, a gold-mining contractor of Havilah. Miss Hellifaich never saw Potts until the day of ner arrival, and all their courtship was carried on by correspondence. Miss Hellifaich is a beautiful brunette of 24 years. She took the adventurous journey all the way across the continent to better her condition in life. Even though she had never seen her lover, motion to vacate the order of probable cause. After a consultation with the Chief Justice, he announced that such a course would not be followed, and it is probable that other action defining the next move of the prosecution will soon be taken. Acting Attorney-General Carter has received word from his chief to the effect that he will advise Warden Hale of San Quentin prison to carry out the execution of Durrant, irrespective of any legal proceeding that may be instituted by the prisoner's attorneys, after the present legal quibble shall have been decided. Durrant will be resentenced as soon as the controversy now pending is settled; after which the Attorney-General of the State believes that no legal step can accomplish further delay in the postponement of the tardy execution of the Emanuel-Church murderer. Judge Hughes of San Diego awarded damages of $15,000 to S. A. Barbour of Chicago, in his suit against Warren J. Flick of San Diego county, which grew out of an exchange of Barbour's equity in a tenement house in Chicago for the large ranch of Flick, in San Diego county, which exchange was made without Barbour seeing the property. Flick was to retain a $13,000 mortgage on the ranch. The case was hotly contested and Judge Hughes decided that the ranch value had been misrepresented to Barbour. The decision wipes out the mortgage and gives Barbour $2000 besides. According to the weekly report issued by the surgeon-general of the marine hospital service, giving the returns to the 19th inst., there had then appeared during the yellow fever epidemic in the South, a total of 4829 cases, of which 446 had proved fatal. Of the total number of cases, 1847 were reported from Louisiana, 1625 from Tennessee, 16 from Texas, 4 from Illinois, 3 from Georgia, and 1 each from Florida and Kentucky. All but ten of the cases reported from Louisiana are credited to New Orleans. About 10% per cent of the cases proved fatal. In Mississippi the death rate was less than 6 per cent of the total number. At New Orleans 11-3 per cent of the patients died, and at Mobile less than 13 per cent. At New Orleans all efforts are being bent upon removing quarantine Baton Rouge has reported... better in the quantity of silkaint than those turned out from mints' mints are in circulation Francisco. Several of them detected at the United Treasury. So good an immi-genuine is this bogus coin current at the banks and new clews as to the manufactur of the coins as have been not molded, but are made. The milling is defective in fact, this is the most notice-able coin. Smith, an aged recluse, Neb., was found dead in where he lived alone, last night by neighbors. The body indicated that he had two days. Rats had the body. Smith was well-cecentric and miserly. His senses were $2.50 a month. His trunk were found demand of deposit on local banks, bills and deeds to farms and many aggregating many thousands. He was a lawyer and located. His relatives, if he were issued by Secretary Friday to advertise for pro-duction of the break-in Pedro harbor, Cal. This is one of the decision of the war of the Treasury, who has whether there is any avail-ance from which the expense of can be paid. Of the $50,000 paid by Congress for the ex-treme commission and other out $17,000 remains. If it did, as seems probable, that capable to the project, there efficient means to advertise but not to pay the civil en-监察ors and the other expenses of the general plan. As board of agriculture has final bulletin showing the yields so far for the year the total yield of winter wheat is 404,374 bushels, worth $33, almost 160 per cent more year's crop. The combined winter and spring wheat, corn $66,768,788, an increase of over last year. The prob-acreage of winter wheat making the present autumn is 1000 acres over she acreage previous year, or over 16 per cent increase in value of agricultural product over is $20,045,246, and of live 88,805—a total net increase 21, or somewhat more than 15. a negro Pullman porter, St. Louis, Mo., is a prisoner with robbery. Mr. Hill of R.I., alleges that he tried from his pocket an envelope $39,000 in certified checks cash. Hill was a passen-ultimore & Ohio train. At courts Hill related his story. Miss Hattie Hellifaich of Brooklyn, N.Y., arrived in Caliheli, Cal., to marry Frank Potts, a gold-mining contractor of Havilah. Miss Hellifaich never saw Potts until the day of her arrival, and all their courtship was carried on by correspondence. Miss Hellifaich is a beautiful brunette of 24 years. She took the adventurous journey all the way across the continent to better her condition in life. Even though she had never seen her lover, she was confident she would be happy with him when married. Potts is a stout, vigorous fine-looking gentleman and considered to be a thorough miner. The couple seem to be happy, and appear as though they had been dear friends for years—They were married in Bakersfield the day before Thanksgiving. Mrs. Potts says there is many a nice girl of the East who would jump at the opportunity to marry, had they chance to better themselves. She says there are hundreds of girls who are working in factories, that make a mere living and have very hard lives to live. She seems to think her trip was a daring undertaking, but after having been in company with her companion she seemed more than highly elated over the successful journey and becoming married to a man she had never seen before. Chesterfield, Ind., was almost wiped off the map at an early hour Friday morning by the explosion of eighty quarts of nitro-glycerine in an open field a half mile from the town. Marion Mansey and Sam Maguire were working at a gas well near by when the explosion occurred. Mansey was thrown fifty feet, but not fatally injured. Maguire was thrown a hundred feet in the air and badly injured, but will recover. James Golds' house, 300 rods distant, was torn to pieces. The explosion tore a hole in the ground down to the water line. A three-ton engine was torn to fragments and every animal in the neighborhood was killed instantly. The town is a mass of ruins. Every house was moved from its foundations, windows shattered, doors smashed in, every light put out and the plastering shaken from the walls. Several people were shaken out of bed. At Dalesville, two miles away, and at Yorktown, five miles distant, the damage was almost as great. Many people were injured and it is a miracle that none were killed outright. The jar of the explosion was felt for fifteen miles in all directions. The gas in the well was blown out and a workman named Cooper lighted it and caused another explosion, in which he was fatally burned. The damage cannot be estimated. Fifteen thousand employees of the Missouri Pacific—Iron Mountain—Railway system, whose salaries were cut from five to twenty per cent in 1893 owing to the prevalent hard times, have been made glad by a proclamation issued by President George Gould, restoring wages to their former basis. The men whose salaries were cut included officials, office men, engineers, conductors, trainmen, telegraph operators, station agents and machinists. Their salaries range from $50 a month to $10,000 a year. About 3000 employees live, or have had headquarters, in St. Louis. Five hundred clerks are employed in the Auditor's office. The remainder of the 3000 are in the yards and freight depots. Gould's Thanks giving to his men will be all the more appreciated, because unexpected. The Missouri Pacific system, including the cars to the bed inst., there had then appeared during the yellow fever epidemic in the South, a total of 4829 cases, of which 446 had proved fatal. Of the total number of cases, 1847 were reported from Louisiana, 1625 from Mississippi, 740 from Alabama, 52 from Tennessee, 16 from Texas, 4 from Illinois, 3 from Georgia, and 1 each from Florida and Kentucky. All but ten of the cases reported from Louisiana are credited to New Orleans. About 10½ percent of the cases proved fatal. In Mississippi the death rate was less than 6 percent of the total number. At New Orleans 11-3 per cent of the patients died, and at Mobile less than 13 per cent. At New Orleans all efforts are being bent upon removing quarantine. Baton Rouge has removed restrictions, and Mississippi will follow within a day or two. The marine hospital service has closed its work,and yellow fever is officially dead. The Supreme Court has rendered an opinion in the case of J. H. Carter against L. R. Tilghman, the treasurer of the Big Rock Creek irrigation district of Los Angeles county,the electors of which district voted $4000 "for repairs,maintenance and protection of the district." Immediately thereafter the board of directors apportioned the sum to the "expense" fund,the "illigation"andthe "engineers"'fund.A bill for $13 accrued for labor and a warrant was drawn upon the treasurer,tothe charge tothe "expense"fund.The treasurer,L.R.Tilghman.refusedto paythe warrant,givingashisreasonthattherewasnomoneyinthe"expense"fund,"butacknowledgingthattherewas sufficientintheotherfunds.Ona mandamus suitbeing broughttheSuperiorCourtgavejudgmentfortheholderofthewarrant.TheSupremeCourtaffirmsthejudgmentholdingtheelectorshadvoteda taxforthemaintenanceofthedistrictandtheboardofdirectorshadnopowerto"playhideandseek"withthefunds. Ada Rehan in silver is to be outdone by William McKinley in gold.The added fame whichtheactressacquiredbyposingfortheMontanastatueofsilver exhibitedattheWorld'SFairin1893istobeapproached;ifnoteclipsed,bylestbemostcarlylumpofpreciousmetalthepeopleofthemodernworldhaveeverseen.F.D.HigbyofChicagohasbeenretainedbywesternmillionairestomanufacturethestatuewhichwillbeplacedonexhibitionattheParisexpositionin1900.HigbyisinWashingtontogettheconsentofPresidentMcKinleytoposeforgreater.Higbytoakaprominentpartintheheadquarters'managementofthelateNationalRepublicancampaignaskedfornooffice,andisconfidentofsuccess.“Youknow,sayshe,"thatIdesignedandbuilttheMontanastatueattheWorld'SFairforwhichAdaRehanposed."This statueofthePresidentwiththebasewillbebeffectedbyheldonCayugaIslandintheNagaraRiverin1899areanioustohateitcompletedintimetoexhibittherefirst.Islikelythatis arrangementwillbemade.Icannotdivulgeasyetwhoyethecapitalistsarewhoarebackoftheproject,bbuttherearehalf'a dozenofthem,andeverythingisreadytobeginworkonthestatue，asthedesigniscompleted." Sacramento county has lostthebeet-sugarfactorywhichwastohavebeenerectedbyHenryT.OxnardofNewYorkhadthefarmersandtheowners a negro Pullman porter, st. Louis, Mo., is a prisoner with robbery. Mr. Hill of R.I., alleges that he tried to his pocket an envelope $39,000 in certified checks on cash. Hill was a passenger Baltimore & Ohio train. At courts Hill related his story "Just as the train passed says Hill, 'the porter pulls aside and reached into He took $10 out of my pocket and then thrust his tiny inside coat pocket, where envelope containing $42,000 in checks. I awoke just in time envelope. I grappled with and the encounter attracted of the Pullman conductor, Mrs. He ordered the negro one $10 he had taken." Hill is one of several lead and zinc plin. of Isadore Poirier, a farm-land on Monday at his house but near Montreal. Poirier murdered, the body showing wounds and his throat had Mrs. Poirier, when questioned the killing, said he had himself. The woman at first good showing of grief, but died the matter lightly. Devere sent for and Mrs. Poirier named Samuel Barstow, who paying attention to her need, charged with the crime. Made a full confession. He on Sunday evening, urged on Poirier, he stabbed Poirier other knife. Poirier was in at the time. Mrs. Poirier is complicity in the affair that she does not know any-thing about the murder, and that she father's house at the time now says he stabbed her husband boy was brutally murdered at Southport, N.C., and river was burned at the stake related mob of white farmers. Fall a party of farmers had long on Thornny Grove beach River, S.C. Nov. 1 one of their boys, by the name of fit for home on the Waccamaw with an ox cart, carrying a lot of money. The father went away system whose salaries were cut from five to twenty per cent in 1893 owing to the prevalent hard times, have been made glad by a proclamation issued by President George Gould, restoring wages to their former basis. The men whose salaries were cut included officials, office men, engineers, conductors, trainmen, telegraph operators, station agents and machinists. Their salaries range from $50 a month to $10,000 a year. About 3000 employees live, or have had headquarters, in St. Louis. Five hundred clerks are employed in the Auditor's office. The remainder of the 3000 are in the yards and freight depots. Gould's Thanksgiving to his men will be all the more appreciated, because unexpected. The Missouri Pacific system, including the Iron Mountain, gives employment to 20,000 men. The monthly payroll averages $1,000,000. The cut, which is now restored, was effective June 1, 1893, "until further notice." Salaries of employees making from $50 to $75 a month were reduced $5. Between $75 and $100 a month, the reduction was five per cent. Ten per cent was deducted from salaries between $100 and $200, and twenty per cent from salaries above $200, including the highest officials of the road. It was said when the cut was made that it was the aim of the management to reduce the salary account ten per cent. This meant an average saving of about $80,000, or $960,000 annually. The cut was in effect three years and five months. On a basis of 10 per cent, the management is said to have saved $4,800,000 through its retrenchment policy. The earnings of the system have increased steadily for several months, a full force is working overtime in every department and the management believes that the revenue will justify the restoration of reduced salaries. The advance dates from November 1. Vice-President Warner of the Missouri Pacific in regard to the general advance of salaries says: "There were only a few men who were cut in 1893. Engineers, conductors, trainmen, telegraph operators, agents and machinists were not cut then. It has been decided to restore the 10 per cent to such office clerks and a few officers who had held their positions when changed from 1893, when the reductions were made to date, the total amount of which will be between $3000 and $4000 annually." The attorneys for Theodore Durrant have filed a document with the clerk of the Supreme Court, in the form of a petition for a writ of mandate to compel Judge Bahrs to set a date for the trial of Durrant for the murder of Minnie Williams. It had been understood that Acting Attorney-General Carter would file with the Supreme Court about seven feet in height and will contain bullion to the value of $1,050,-000. While it was designed primarily to first exhibit the statue at Paris in 1900, the directors of the American Exposition to be held on Cayuga Island in the Niagara river in 1899, are anxious to have it completed in time to exhibit there first. It is likely that this arrangement will be made. I cannot divulge as yet who the capitalists are who are back of the project, but there are half a dozen of them, and everything is ready to begin work on the statue, as the design is completed." Sacramento county has lost the beet-sugar factory which was to have been erected by Henry T. Oxnard of New York had the farmers and the owners of available land guaranteed 10,000 acres to raise beets for the next five years. Negotiations for the promotion of an industry which would have netted enormous profits, are at an end so far as Mr. Oxnard is concerned, as is indicated in the following telegram addressed to the Sacramento chamber of commerce: "CHINO, Cal., Nov. 22, 1897. "Signed with Hueneme Saturday, they having guaranteed 10,000 acres. "HENRY T. OXNARD." At a meeting of the committee appointed on Oct. 6th to secure contracts for the necessary land, it was decided to return immediately the agreements of those who had supported the proposition. A circular letter was sent to each one stating that the committee after a thorough canvass of the county and those portions of Sutter and Yolo counties which would have been benefited by the enterprise, that it had been ascertained that it would be impossible to comply with Oxnard's terms by Nov. 1st, the time agreed upon. When the proposition was made it was believed that no difficulty would be experienced in securing 10,000 acres of land. That a failure has been the result is a disappointment to those who struggled for the prize. This has not disheartened the committee, which intends to commence a campaign and exploit the best-sugar industry until enough land to support a factory is obtained. The peculiar condition of the land in Sacramento county is the main reason attributed for failure. Nearly all the farms available for beet culture are leased for one or two years from companies or individuals. The time required by the contract was five years, which makes it impossible for the lessees to sublet the property. For Sale Eight first-class, heavy mules, with harness and wagon if desired; also six heavy horses; for cash or approved security.[oct28-tf] J.B.PIERCE.]