anaheim-gazette 1897-12-16

Anaheim VOLUME XXVIII. G. W. SHERWOOD, C. E. (Assoc. Mem. Am. So., C. E.) Civil Engineer LICENSED SURVEYOR. Engineer Anaheim Union Water Company. P.O. Address: Fullerton, Residence: Placentia Road, near Botsford's Ranch. 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. G. S. EDDY, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OFFICE—First door East of Boston Bakery. Residence—The Wilte 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. DR. F. H. HOUCK DENTIST. OFFICE NEXT DOOR to P. O. (F. derman Block, up stairs.) 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. (F. derman Block, up stairs.) HOURS 9 to 5 ANAHEIM - Cal Jy15tf Paul A. Derge. Private in Pharmacy. DRUGS, MEDICINES, Perfumes and Toilet Articles. BEST 5-CENT CIGAR IN TOWN MEDICAL HALL, KOLL BOOK PUBLIC TELEPHONE OFFICE. HARD MELROSE CORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Anaheim, Cal special attention given to PROBATE matters. 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 JOBSING 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. N HART'S PLACE. DEALER IN... 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. Groceries and Provisions! First-Cass Stock of Goods! My Prices Defy Competition. A share of the public patronage is respectfully solicited. Koll Building, Los Angeles St., R. H SEALE, Proprietor. CITIZENS' BANK OF ANAHEIM Hippolyte Cahen - President W. T. Brown, Vice President L. Goldwater, Cashier DIRECTORS: Kaspare Cohn, W. T. Brown Richard Melrose, L. Goldwater Hippolyte Cahen. STOCKHOLDERS: Heron W. Hellman, T.J. F. Boege, W. T. Brown P. Nicotus, Richard Melrose, L. Goldwater, Kasparine Cohn H. Cahen, J. A. Goldwater, J. Schlesinger, M. A. Newmark & Co. CORRESPONDANTS: 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 80 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 calls. 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. Don't be persuaded into buying liniments without reputation or merit—Chamberlain's Pain Balm costs nomore, and its merits have been proven by a test of many years. Such letters as the following, from L. G. Bagley, Hueneme, Cal., are constantly being received: "The best remedy for pain I have ever used is Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and I say so after having used it in my family for several years." It cures rheumatism, lame back, sprains and swellings. For sale by Derge. VOICE OF THE PRESS. CHINO HARVEST ENDED. From the hawkton, Dec. 10. The beet crop of 1897 is all harvested, delivered and in the bins at the sugar factory, and before this paper reaches most of even its local readers, will have been sliced. The gates are closed, the sheds and dumps are being cleaned and throughout the factory the men wear a look of expectant relief. Slice will be finished this afternoon, when the machinery will gradually be shut off, commencing with the upper end. A quantity of brown sugar to work over will keep the lower end of the factory busy a day or two longer, when all will be silent. By Monday it is expected steam will be shut off, and then cleaning up will commence. We understand this work will be rushed through with a larger force of men than usual, that the force may be transferred to Hueneme when the machinery... 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 Domestic and Imported Cigars. Hart's Building, Center St., Anaheim, Cal E. B. Merritt & Co. FURNITURE Dealers. CENTER STREET. OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE 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 Shoe on East Center Street Handles Cudahy Cold-Storage Meats, Inspected by the Government Inspector. 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. L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT & SHOE MAKER Corner Adela 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. Gcl4-tf factory, and before this paper reaches most of even its local readers, will have been sliced. The gates are closed. The sheds and dumps are being cleaned and throughout the factory the men wear a look of expectant relief. Slicing will be finished this afternoon, when the machinery will gradually be shut off, commencing with the upper end. A quantity of brown sugar to work over will keep the lower end of the factory busy a day or two longer, when all will be silent. By Monday it is expected steam will be shut off, and then cleaning up will commence. We understand this work will be rushed through with a larger force of men than usual, that the force may be transferred to Hueneme when the machinery arrives for the new factory there. Up to the time of going to press the number of tons registered over the slicers is 98,617. The fields are practically all cleaned up, and in a much more satisfactory manner than was feared some weeks ago. The total from the Chino ranch is 52,151 tons. Next week we hope to give a complete resume of the crop and campaign. 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. Before buying your new Carriage, Buggy or Harness, call at Jacobson Bros., Santa Ana and you will save money. All work guaranteed. Agents for the celebrated Bain wagon. Boys, if you want to stand in with your best girl, you must ride in the new Staver Special Top Buggy at Wm. F. Lutz's. Christmas is Coming! Why not remember your friends by sending them a case or two of Assorted Wines? Particulars at Rust's Winery. deo2-3t Weim Weekly Gazette ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1897. any old There is BUGH The Real Sulky Z CO. Buggies & Road Wagons LES ST., ANAHEIM MARKET. INDS OF RED MEATS, Sausages, of Our Own Rendering for Fat Stock. CALL. NTZ. LE CHRISTMAS TREES. Fir Sapling Cutters Swarming Through Maine-An Unprecedented Demand ORLAND, Me., Dec. 13.—The Christmas tree hunters, who began about twenty years ago to cut the most promising saplings firs from the Maine hills for the New York and Boston holiday markets, are all over Maine this year loading vessels on the seaboard and whole trains of cars inland with the greenery that will decorate many houses. For four or five years it has been estimated that from a half to three-quarters of a million of these trees were cut in Maine every season. This year the dealers have contracts for more than a million, and nearly every one will make his orders overrun, so it is likely that Maine will send out more than a million and a quarter of firs by Dec. 15th. In addition to firs, which are used almost exclusively for Christmas trees, the contractors have large orders for the ground pine, or lycopodium, a species of creeping evergreen which grows everywhere if dry, shady woods. Many barrels of wild raisins, a shrubbery plant that bears a profusion of coral red berries which hang to the gray limbs all winter. are also shipped to the cities for making wreaths and adding bright bits of color to the prevailing greenery. The ground pine is crowded into sacks or pressed in bales like hay, but the berries must be more tenderly cared for, as they are liable to drop off under hard usage. Little labor and less care are required in preparing the trees for market. One man cuts the trees in the thicketlets and trims them slightly to free the base from limbs; another man ties the trees in bundles of ten to fifteen, according to size, and carries them out to the nearest cart road, and there a man with a pair of horses attached to a hay rack takes them and delivers his load at the nearest wharf or railway station. As a rule the contractor gets from 2 to 6 cents apiece for the trees when brought out, the purchaser paying the freight, which amounts to more than the cost of the trees. These firs pass through several hands before they San Bernardino; Durrant, of San Francisco; Chavez, of San Diego; Hill, of Oakland; Ebanks, of San Diego; Fellows, of Riverside; Knott and Mill, both of San Francisco. All are to be resentenced. SAN JOSE, Dec. 10.—The body of Harvey Allender was brought here this afternoon, and will be buried to-morrow. A short funeral service will be conducted by Rev. Dr. Buck, pastor of Centella Methodist church. Allender's mother is dead, but his father is living, and is an esteemed citizen. He is a member of Centella church. The friends of the family would not permit the remains to be seen, and the brief exercises at the grave to-morrow morning will be private. Allender's body lies in a plain coffin in the room where the bodies of his victims lay after he had killed them. CALIFORNIA WALNUTS. Prices Have Gone Off Fully One Cent per Pound, With a Downward Tendency. NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—The Journal of Commerce says: There has been a decided decline in the price of California walnuts, which is attributed to the fact that sellers on the coast have been too anxious to make sales, and not being satisfied with the progress made by commission houses through which their goods have heretofore been distributed, they have resorted to general consignments to move stocks out faster. Eastern traders, who have been obliged to recognize California, on the merits of its products, as a potent factor in the dried fruit and nut market, have attempted to protect and foster the interests of the Pacific Coast producers, which they believe to be identical with their own, but have been handicapped by the tendency of California producers to attempt to market goods in the East and middle West by flooding those sections with stock. It is charged against California producers that they seem to be less interested in securing a permanent market for their goods than in finding an immediate outflow. SNAP SHOTS AT THE NEWS A resolution was offered in the House by Representative Castle of the Seventh District of California on Thursday reciting that as the imperial government of Russia forbids American Jews faith the ordinary privileges enjoyed by other citizens, travel or residence in the empire, the Secretary of State be requested to do mand of the Russian government that it accord the same rights and privilege to Hebrew citizens as to other Americans. Castle proposes to make a fight for the passage of the resolution, which went to Foreign Affairs Committee. The light of the experiences of Mr. Kunner of Fresno, who last spring was denied the privilege of visiting relative in Warsaw. Advices from Juneau bring information of a move on the part of imprisoned gold seekers in the Klondike county which, unless greatly exaggerated, will result in materially improving the threatening condition reported by Dawson. George Lodge, a boiler maker now employed at the Treadwell mine on Douglas island, write friends saying that according to a letter brought out from Dawson under date of Oct. 23, 5000 men have started out from Dawson in an endeavor to reach civilization not only for their own safety but to lift prove the prospects of those who face force of circumstances, are compelled remain. According to the consensus of opinion of those comprising the Dalton party, which recently came out not more than 5000 are in the gold field country, and the departure 2000 in this way, which number is said to have gone to Fort Yukon and neighbor boring settlements, where supplies are plentiful, means the saving of lives of those compelled to remain. An investigation now being made by the officials of the congressional library and the officials of the postoffice department at Washington promises to throw a deal of light upon the recent widely discussed shortage of former Ibrarian A. R. Spofford. An investigation by the treasury department about a year ago showed Spofford to be $3000 short in his accounts. Few people who knew him looked upon this at time... Little labor and less care are required in preparing the trees for market. One man cuts the trees in the thicket and trims them slightly to free the trees in bundles of ten to fifteen, according to size, and carries them out to the nearest cart road, and there a man with a pair of horses attached to a hay rack takes them and delivers his load at the nearest wharf or railway station. As a rule the contractor gets from 2 to 6 cents apiece for the trees when brought out, the purchaser paying the freight, which amounts to more than the cost of the trees. These fires pass through several hands before they reach the retailers, and when they are finally sold it is a poor fir that will not bring 25 cents; the price of the smallest trees. A dollar or more is often obtained for a tree that is ten feet tall. Until last year nobody thought of charging stumpage on his growth of firs, most landowners being glad to get rid of them; but now there is such a brisk demand for such goods that a few men are putting a price upon the product of their waste lands, the stumpage on some fir grows realizing from $10 to $25 an acre. Down in Lincoln county, where the wood has been mostly cut off, the farmers are beginning to prize their firs so high that they are asking for an export duty on the trees. As soon as the up-river landowners heard of it they invited the cutters to go inland, where firs are still growing on more than a million acres. The growers want to get these cut off as soon as possible, so as to make room for more valuable timber. PAID THE PENALTY. The Murderer’s Body in the Same Room Where His Victim Lay. Harvey Allender, the double murderer of San Jose, was hanged at San Quentin penitentiary at 10:30 Friay morning. Despite the fact that Allender announced before retiring the night before that he would sleep soundly at the foot of the gallows, because he did not fear the end, the condemned murderer only slept for two hours, the rest of the night and the early morning being spent in reading the Bible and chatting with his guards. After breakfast, Allender was visited by Chaplain Drahms, who offered him spiritual consolation until the time arrived for the condemned man to prepare for the short journey from his cell to the gallows. While dressing himself for the last time, Allender expressed the opinion that it would be more humane to allow a condemned man to die in the early morning, as his nerves would not then be unstrung by the preliminaries, which he considered entirely unnecessary. Though exceedingly nervous, Allender braced himself up for the final ordeal, which was expedited for fear of a collapse. Upon reaching the gallows Allender paled perceptibly, and when the noose was adjusted he tottered and swayed to such an extent that it was necessary to support him. The drop fell at 10:31 o’clock, and though the body twitched convulsively for a couple of minutes, Allender’s neck was broken immediately. Life was not, however, declared extinct until thirteen minutes later. The crime for which Allender paid the extreme penalty was a most revolting one, prompted by jealousy. He was infatuated with Miss Wallberga Fielmer, an intelligent and industrious girl of irreproachable character, who repulsed him and became betrothed to general consignments to move stocks out faster. Eastern traders, who have been obliged to recognize California, on the merits of its products, as a potent factor in the dried fruit and nut market, have attempted to protect and foster the interests of the Pacific Coast producers, which they believe to be identical with their own, but have been handicapped by the tendency of California producers to attempt to market goods in the East and middle West by flooding those sections with stock. It is charged against California producers that they seem to be less interested in securing a permanent market for their goods than in finding an immediate outlet for what they have on hand. The course of the market in California walnuts is pointed to as an instance. At the opening of the season holders on the Coast did not see fit to meet the views of Eastern buyers. By holding to their prices they lost, it is said. a good part of the early trade in the East and middle West, as Grenoble, being relatively cheaper than California nuts, were bought in preference. After these contracts for foreign nuts were made, it was found out that the California crop had turned out to be much larger than was expected. A large number of buyers, East and West, had already covered their requirements by purchases of imported nuts, and as the latter were beginning to arrive in large quantity, the market for the California product began to sag. Western buyers, when they found the market for California nuts declining, sought to dispose of their receipts of foreign in New York, and thus brought about the demoralized condition here. The California market has continued to decline under pressure of stocks, and within the past three days spot prices have gone off fully one cent per pound, and the tendency still seems to be in the buyers’ favor. How’s This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F.J.CHEENY & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We the undersigned, have known F.J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. WEST & TRAUX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all drug gists. Testimonials free. E.W. McCollum has a full line of ‘97 Bicycles and Bicycle Supplies. He will sell you any make of Bicycles that you want, from $12 to $100. Wheels to rent All kind of repairing done. Cabbage Plants. Early variety; Winigstadt; good strong plants. For sale by John Wagner, Placentia. DEATH OF MOTHER M’KINLEY. President McKinley’s mother died at the family residence at Canton, O., Saturday morning at 2:30 o’clock. The President and all the members of the family were at the bedside when the aged sufferer passed away. “Mother” McKinley had been ill for ten days. At the dawn of Friday it was felt that the end was at hand, for about that time she experienced one of the sinking lives of those compelled to remain. An investigation now being made by the officials of the congressional library and the officials of the postoffice department at Washington promises to throw a deal of light upon the recent widely discussed shortage of former Dearman A.R. Spofford. An investigation by the treasury department about a year ago showed Spofford to be $3800 short in his accounts. Few people who knew him looked upon this at this time as anything more than an evidence of clerical negligence in his department. Now it appears that a large part if not all, of this deficiency, which Spofford promptly made good out of his pocket, will be accounted for by a great batch of old money orders which he absent-minded librarian forgot cash. Just what the total sum we amount to has not yet been established but it probably will come nearly without out the discrepancies in Spofford accounts. The largest life insurance policy ever issued was issued last week to George W. Vanderbilt, of New York, previous to his departure for Europe. The policy is in straight life, twent-year class, and amounts to $1,000,000. Va derbilt is to pay an annual premium of $35,000. Until a few years ago a police for $100,000 was considered the maximum amount any company would write upon the life of an individual. In last year or two this sum has been a few cases doubled on the lives healthy men whose financial ability enabled them to pay the necessary premiums, but never before has this amount of a single policy reached an thing like the sum carried on the life of Vanderbilt.Vanderbilt in his travel will visit China, Japan and India. The last name country he intends hunt big game, including tigers. D spite the fact that in this past time will be subjected to imminent peril, this insurance policy contains no restrictive clauses. One of the mostatrocious murders recorded in Thursday night in Simpson county Miss. Brown Smith, a farmer, left his family at his home in the country too town for shopping purposes, thinking of no possible danger for them. The next morning when he returned found his wife and five children living in their own blood, and apparently dead. An alarm was raised immediately and the entire neighborhood turned out to hunt for the perpetrator or crime. There being no telegramic connection, details of the murder came in slowly, but one of little girls supposed to be dead, revived enough to tell what she knew of their occurrences. She said she knew that man who committed the deed; that was a negro, and described him; posse started out at once on the trail of the murderer; and there is great probability that he will be apprehended; and there is little doubt of his meeting speedy justice when caught, without waiting for the formality of a court Mrs. Smith and other four children are dead. Sheriffs have gone into scene of the murder with training bloodhounds. An attempt to rob the west-bound Southern Pacific passenger train Stein’s Pass, ninety miles west of Denver,N.M., at 9 o’clock Thursday night was foiled by the prompt action of armed guards in the express car, which succeeded in killing one of them who held it up. The robbers rode before this paper reaches its local readers, will have been cleaned and the machinery will gradually commencing with the quantity of brown sugar will keep the lower end busy a day or two longer. It will be silent. By Monday it steam will be shut off, and up will commence. We work will be rushed with a larger force of men that the force may be transmene when the machinery the new factory there. Time of going to press the tons registered over the 617. Are practically all cleaned a much more satisfactory man was feared some weeks the total from the Chino 151 tons. We hope to give a com- mence of the crop and campaign. To Prevent Pneumonia. Some of the year a cold is very reacted, and if left to run its out the aid of some reliable medicine is liable to result in disease, pneumonia. We better remedy to cure a cold than Chamberlain's remedy. We have used it positively and it has always been satisfaction. — Olagah, Bain wagon. The only remedy that is known brain preventive of pneumonia the many thousand who for colds and la gripe, never yet learned of a single result in pneumonia. No have weak lungs or have an attack of pneumonia in the remedy at hand. The extent sizes for sale by P. A. dec buying your new Carriage, Harness, call at Jacobson Ana and you will save work guaranteed. Agents celebrated Bain wagon. you want to stand in with girl, you must ride in the Special Top Buggy at Wm. nov18t Christmas is Coming! remember your friends by a case or two of Assorted particulars at Rust's Winery. dec2-3t Early variety; Wingstadt; good strong plants. For sale by John Wagner, Placentia. DEATH OF MOTHER M'KINLEY. President McKinley's mother died at the family residence at Canton, O., Saturday morning at 2:30 o'clock. The President and all the members of the family were at the bedside when the aged sufferer passed away. "Mother" McKinley had ill for ten days. At the dawn of Friday it was felt that the end was at hand, for about that time she experienced one of the sinking spells common to the illness, and for a long time seemed so nearly inanimate that it appeared no rally was possible; but the rally came, and with it a condition in which she was able to take a small amount of nourishment—the first she had taken since last Monday. This was followed by such peaceful repose as to revive the hope, which was realized, that she would live through the day. In the afternoon another period of anxiety was experienced by the watchers. Another sinking spell came, and for a time it seemed as though it would be the last. President McKinley continued his vigil all day, as he had the preceding days. He sat almost constantly in the sickroom, and there secured all the rest he had. He had the newspapers at his side, and when his mother rested most peacefully he glanced over their columns for the news of the day. Late in the afternoon he and his wife emerged from the house and took a few turns on the porch for exercise and a little fresh air, and a little later he and his brother Abner had a similar walk. Aside from this he has scarcely been out of the room. Buy Wagons, Carriages, Farm implements, and Repairs of Mathews Implement Co. and Arnott & Sumuer consolidated.) 120-124 S. LOS ANGELES ST., LOS ANGELES, CAL. THIS SEASON finds us fully prepared to meet the demands for the best and latest improved farm machinery. A combination of circumstances make it possible to offer BETTER TERMS than you are liable to get from any other house. Write today for Free Catalogue. TWOMEY & MILLS, - - AGENTS. An attempt to rob the west-bound Southern Pacific passenger train at Stein's Pass, ninety miles west of Deering, N.M., at 9 o'clock Thursday night was foiled by the prompt action of armed guards in the express car, which succeeded in killing one of the men who held it up. The robbers rode to the station a short time before the train was due, and after robbing Agent St. John and Section Foreman McMullen, cut the telegraph wires and washed for the train. When the passengers train pulled into the station, one of the bandits covered the engineer and fineman with a Winchester rifle, while others prepared to attack the express car. Express Guards Thacher and Jennings, who were on board the car at once opened fire, and the leader of the robbers fell with a bullet in his brain. His companions immediately mounted their horses and rode away. The body of the dead robber was placed on the train, which proceeded to Tucson. The name of the dead train robber has been ascertained to be "Sandy" Collins. Collins until recently has been employed as a cowboy on the San Simone valley ranges in Eastern Arizona, and his companions, stead of being the "Black Jack" gang, as originally supposed, are now known to have been a band of cowboys organized for the purpose of the robbery which was attempted. The United States marshal and a posse were in this immediate vicinity of Stein's Pass pu-suing the "Black Jack" gang, and they were at once notified and started a pursuit. The chances of the capture of the remaining robbers are therefore good. But little money was secured from the station agent and sextic foreman. The original "Black Jack" gang are still thought to be hiding their retreat in the Sierra Madras, old Mexico. The railroad company had been expecting trouble, and had been employing extra guards for several years ago between the defences... SHOTS AT THE NEWS Revolution was offered in the House Representative Castle of the Seventh District of California on Thursday that as the imperial governor of Russia forbids Americans from residing in the empire, the city of State be requested to deliver the Russian government that it has the same rights and privileges now citizens as to other American castle proposes to make a fight message of the resolution, which Foreign Affairs Committee, in part of the experiences of Mr. Kutresno, who last spring was deprivilege of visiting relatives law. Lines from Juneau bring information move on the part of imprisonedakers in the Klondike country unless greatly exaggerated, built in materially improving the living condition reported at George Lodge, a boiler maker, employed at the Treadwell mill, Las Island, write friends saying ordering to a letter brought out by Dawson under date of Oct. 23d. I have started out from Dawson endeavor to reach civilization, for their own safety but to immeasurable prospects of those who, from circumstances, are compelled to According to the consensusion of those comprising the party, which recently came out, more than 5000 are in the gold country, and the departure of this way, which number is said gone to Fort Yukon and neighboring settlements, where supplies are. means the saving of the those compelled to remain. Investigation now being made by officials of the postoffice detest at Washington promises to ideal of light upon the recently discussed shortage of former Li.A.R. Spofford. An investigahe treasury department about go showed Spofford to be $30,-t in his accounts. Few people saw him looked upon this at the ant and Mrs. McAllister. Mrs. Hinckley says that she is not willing to pay for Miramonte $95,000, or any other sum. She admits the execution of the agreement, but says she did so in consequence of deception, and at a time when she lacked business knowledge and experience. She asks that the prayer of the complainant be denied, and that she have judgment and her costs. The house committee on invalid pensions has taken action intended to correct the rapidly growing abuse of young women marrying old soldiers and sailors for the purpose of becoming their widows and drawing a pension from the government. This subject has been much discussed in view of a comparatively large number of widow claimants on account of the Revolutionary war of 1812 and the Mexican war service of husbands. The committee authorized Chairman Ray to obtain from the committee on rules and order a rule permitting an amendment to the pension appropriation bill providing that no pension shall hereafter be granted to the widow of a soldier or other person who is married to such soldier or person after the passage of this act, excepting soldiers, sailors and officers now in or who may hereafter enter the military or naval service of the United States. One of the biggest robberies in the history of the New York postoffice, it has just been learned, occurred in November. The amount involved is said to be in the neighborhood of $100,000, and was taken from registered letters in the railway mail service on that section of the Central Railway of New Jersey, known as the New York, Somerville and Eastern branch. Nov. 9 it is stated that two packages containing $50,000 were taken. How long the robberies had been going on before has not been ascertained. Maj. Charles L. Lewis of the Philadelphia branch of the government has been investigating the matter, which has been kept quiet by the postal authorities. The postoffice officials at Washington admit there had been a number of losses of registered mail reported on the railroad referred to, but say the amount would not reach so much as $100,000. Some weeks ago Eli Vandement applied to the county clerk of Fresno West and in the vicinity of the great lakes. The establishment of additional forecast stations, the Secretary thinks, would be greatly to the benefit of the fruit industry of California, which suffers considerably when there are no proper warnings of approaching storms, while on the lakes extra stations are needed for the protection of the maritime interests. Another branch of the service which requires more money is that of the microscopic division, which inspects all meats designed for export. The force now available is inadequate, the Secretary says. Michael Purcells, a boilermaker, was making some repairs inside the smoke-stack of the steamer Wellington at the Folsom street wharf at San Francisco when six fires were carelessly started below him. He was strapped in a chair suspended from the top of the stack about forty feet from the dampers below. It was impossible to go up, and to go down without assistance meant being roasted alive on the hot dampers. Dense volumes of hot smoke began rolling up the stack while Purcells shouted loudly for help. The heat increased every moment, until the boilermaker's clothing caught fire. He beat on the iron with all his power and shouted for fully ten minutes before he helped on the outside, Martin Philpot, realized his plight and rescued him just as the rope supporting him was catching fire. Purcells lies at his home in a critical condition. He is badly burned, and his lungs are filled with coal gas. The execution of the Pittsburg negro, Philip Hill, which was set for last week, has been postponed indefinitely. Failing to hear favorably from Governor Hastings upon the application of Hill's mother for a respite, his attorneys took out a writ of error to the Supreme Court on the morning of the execution and upon advice of counsel, that the appeal acted as a supersedeas. Sheriff Lowry postponed the execution. The writ of error is returnable October 1 next. Hill was convicted of the murder of George Lawrence, a rail road laboring boss. The postponement of the execution of Hill and the developments in the case have caused a sensation in legal circles. George H. Kane, one of the young members of the bar, who acted as Hill's counsel is sur- Investigation now being made by officials of the congressional library officials of the postoffice detain at Washington promises to deal of light upon the recently discussed shortage of former L.A. R. Spofford. An investigator the treasury department about go showed Spofford to be $30.00 in his accounts. Few people saw him looked upon this at the anything more than an evidence local negligence in his departure. Now it appears that a large not all, of this deficiency, which promptly made good out of his ticket, will be accounted for by batch of old money orders which sent-minded librarian forget to Just what the total sum will has not yet been established, probably will come nearly wipe the discrepancies in Spofford's report. Largest life insurance policy ever was issued last week to George Underbilt, of New York, previous departure for Europe. The was in straight life, twent-year and amounts to $1,000,000. Van is to pay an annual premium of Until a few years ago a policy 000 was considered the maximum any company would write the life of an individual. In the or two this sum has been in cases doubled on the lives of men whose financial ability encem to pay the necessary preem but never before has the of a single policy reached anyone like the sum carried on the life Underbilt. Vanderbilt in his travels at China, Japan and India. In name country he intends to play game, including tigers. De fact that in this pastime he subjected to imminent peril, the vice policy contains no restrictive of the most atrocious murders on in the South was committed day night in Simpson county, Brown Smith, a farmer, left his home in the country to go for shopping purposes, think no possible danger for them. But morning when he returned he his wife and five children lying down blood, and apparently all An alarm was raised immediate the entire neighborhood turn-o hunt for the perpetrator of one. There being no telegraphy, details of the murder is slowly, but one of the little supposed to be dead, revived to tell what she knew of theaces. She said she knew the no committed the deed; that it negro, and described him. A started out at once on the track murderer, and there is great utility that he will be apprehended there is little doubt of his meetd justice when caught, withing for the formality of a court with and the other four childs dead. Sheriffs have gone to see of the murder with trained units. Attempt to rob the west-bound on Pacific passenger train at Pass, ninety miles west of Dem.M., at 9 o'clock Thursday night, by the prompt action of the guards in the express car, who died in killing one of the men it up. The robbers rode up in the railway mail service on that section of the Central Railway of New Jersey, known as the New York, Sommerville and Eastern branch. Nov. 9 it is stated that two packages containing $50,000 were taken. How long the robberies had been going on before has not been ascertained. Maj. Charles L. Lewis of the Philadelphia branch of the government has been investigating the matter, which has been kept quiet by the postal authorities. The postoffice officials at Washington admit there had been a number of losses of registered mail matter reported on the railroad referred to, but say the amount would not reach so much as $100,000. Some weeks ago Eli Vandement applied to the county clerk of Fresno county for a license to marry Mrs. Mary A. Morgan of Kingsburg. The clerk, on questioning Vandement, learned that his fiancee was divorced from her former husband last February, and a license was refused because she had not been divorced for a year as required by the law passed by the last legislature before a divorced person can marry again. Vandement had won his suit and he determined not to be baffled so easily in his purpose to marry the lady. He instituted mandamus proceedings in the Superior Court to compel the clerk to issue the license to him. The case attracted much attention, and after taking it under advisement Judge Risley sustained the action of the county clerk. But Vandement succeeded in baffling the court. He went over into Madera county and obtained a license there. The marriage ceremony was performed by Justice McDonald, and Mrs. Morgan is now Mrs. Vandement. When Vandement applied for the license in Madera the clerk asked him no question as to whether or not either of the contracting parties had been divorced within a year previous and no question was raised regarding the issuance of the license. Mr. and Mrs. Vandement are legally husband and wife, because a provision in the new law states that marriages in violation of it are valid until nullified by a court of law. It is not likely that anyone will interest himself to bring suit in order that their marriage may be nullified. December wheat went to $1 09 on Chicago board of trade on Friday. This was 16 cents over Minneapolis and Duluth; 10 cents over New York, and 7 cents over St. Louis. The wheat of an eight-acre Kansas farm with a land value of $15 per acre, was worth more than the land itself, farm equipment, house and barn. Not a farmer in Minnesota or the Dakota with 2400 bushels of wheat, the product of eighty acres of last harvest, but what could have sold his grain for more than his land would bring, and have a few hundred dollars to the good. While the bulls and bears on the board of trade, in an international wrestling match, were shoving the price of the cereal upward from $1 01 to $1 09, they were making enormous profits for the farmer whose grain is still in store. Somebody must pay for this, and that somebody is the bear "short," reported to be dynamiting the ice in Lake Superior to get his boat cargoes into Chicago before the final settling day. The situation in speculative circles was extraordinary. The Leiter combination dumped hundreds of thousands of bushels into the pit to keep the price down to other markets, while the bears hugged and squeezed quotations in frantic endeavors to find a stopping place, but the rise came, with a close at $1 07. Some prophets, who see great punishment in store for big men without wheat, tell of $1 25 or $1 50 for wheat before Christmas day, a present which the Leiters, father and son, may heartily relish with their turkey. The "Curse of Gold." a play written by a New York newspaper man, in which W. J. Bryan and Mrs. Bryan. Lucy Parsons and J. Pierpont Morgan appear as leading characters, is causing so much trouble among the Democrats that Chairman Jones of the National Committee and other prominent Democrats have been asked to suppress it. Upon the invitation of Sergeant-at-Arms Yoder, a number of local Democrats assembled at the Metropolitan Hotel in New York, a few nights ago and heard the play read by the author. At the conclusion,$1500 was subscribed to put the play on the stage. Since that time the policy of such action has been canvassed by personal friends of Mr. Bryan, and most of the original subscribers have withdrawn their financial aid and countenance from the project. The play opens with a stockholders' meeting in Pullman, Ill., where wages are cut because of the silver craze. The rest of the play deals with the resulting labor troubles in Chicago. Mr. Jones said that in all probability an injunction would be applied for. Judge E. M. Merriam of Little Rock, Ark., who once defended Jose E. Blancher when Blanther, under the name of Forbes, was charged with a crime in that city gives out a public statement in which he reiterates his previously expressed belief that Blanther, and not Theodore Durrant, murdered Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams in San Francisco. He declares that the execution of Durrant will be a judicial murder. He insists that there can be no question but that the confession produced in Texas is in handwriting of Blanther, and he declares that this confession must be accepted as true against the merely circumstantial evidence involving Durrant. The fact that Blanther was seen in Atlanta, Ga., between April 12 and 15, 1895, Merriam puts aside with the argument that Blanther may have been in Atlanta at this time, and still have been the murderer of the girls. He argues that there is no proof that Blanche Lamont was murdered on April 3 and Minnie Williams on the night of April 12, as opposed to Blanther's alleged confession that both were killed at the same time, and he maintains that Blanther might have been seen in Atlanta between April 12 and 15 and still have been in San Francisco to do the bloody work. He argues that Blanther could have left Atlanta on April 4 and been in San Francisco in time to murder two girls on the attempt to rob the west-bound San Pacific passenger train at Pass, ninety miles west of Dem-M., at 9 o'clock Thursday night, led by the prompt action of the guards in the express car, who in killing one of the men and it up. The robbers rode up on a short time before the was due, and after robbing Agent A and Section Foreman McMullan the telegraph wires and waited train. When the passenger killed into the station, one of the recovered engineer and fireman a Winchester rifle, while the prepared to attack the express Express Guards Thacher and his, who were on board the car, opened fire, and the leader of robbers fell with a bullet in his His companions immediately and their horses and rode away. One of the dead robber was placed in the train, which proceeded to be named the dead train has been ascertained to be Collins. Collins until recently been employed as a cowboy in Simon valley ranges in East-Zona, and his companions, including the "Black Jack" gang. Finally supposed, are now known been a band of cowboys organized the purpose of the robbery was attempted. The United marshal and a posse were in the state vicinity of Stein's Pass purge "Black Jack" gang, and they once notified and started in The chances of the capture of training robbers is therefore But little money was secured the station agent and section The original "Black Jack" still thought to be hiding in threat in the Sierra Madras, in Mexico. The railroad company is expecting trouble, and had employing extra guards for some time. Since Blythe Hinckley has filed fever to a suit recently brought in Francisco to compel her to pay for the property at San Rafael Miramonte, at one time the late Hall McAllister. The son of the suit is a written agreement to have been entered into years ago between the defender body must pay for this, and that somebody is the bear "short," reported to be dynamizing the ice in Lake Superior to get his boat cargoes into Chicago before the final settling day. The situation in speculative circles was extraordinary. The Leiter combination dumped hundreds of thousands of bushels into the pit to keep the price down to other markets, while the bears hugged and squeezed quotations in frantic endeavors to find a stopping place, but the rise came, with a close at $1 07. Some prophets, who see great punishment in store for big men without wheat, tell of $1 25 or $1 50 for wheat before Christmas day, a present which the Leiters, father and son, may heartily relish with their turkey. Further reports of the capture of Guisa, according to Havana dispatches, confirm previous reports, and add that the entire garrison of the town, composed of 800 men, died heroically without surrendering. Only forty-five Spanish soldiers survived, and they were made prisoners by Gen. Garcia. A Spanish officer's report describes the terrific effects of the pneumatic dynamite gun used by Garcia. The insurgents fired seventy-two shots on the fort. Each shot wrought terrible havoc. The gun was operated at a short distance from town. Not a house remains. All were blown to pieces. Besides dynamite guns, the insurgents used two field pieces, six and eight pounders. Garcia sent word to the Spaniards before the bombardment that they would be pardoned if they would surrender. The only answer was a shout of "Long Live Spain" and a general volley from all the forts. The destruction of the town was completed in 12 hours. Besides the 800 regular troops there were at Guisa some 300 others, militia and volunteers. The total loss of patriots is not known, but it is large. Col. Tovar, who arrived with his column to rescue Guisa, reports that the scene in the town was shocking. Dead Spanish soldiers were half buried under the rubbish of the forts. Col. Tovar commands the Spanish brigade at Manzanillo. He attacked the insurgents at Piederaz, and according to Tovar's report, he dislodged Garcia from his positions. Captain-General Blanco signed a decree releasing forty-one persons who have been imprisoned on charges of complicity in the insurgent movement. The members of the house Committee on Agriculture have had a conference with Secretary Wilson responding to needs of the Agricultural Department, and have been informed that the Secretary desires increased appropriation, for weather stations in the far The fact that Blanther was seen in Atlanta, Ga., between April 12 and 15, 1895, Merriam puts aside with the argument that Blanther may have been in Atlanta at this time, and still have been the murderer of the girls. He argues that there is no proof that Blanche Lamont was murdered on April 3 and Minnie Williams on the night of April 12, as opposed to Blanther's alleged confession that both were killed at the same time, and he maintains that Blanther might have been seen in Atlanta between April 12 and 15 and still have been in San Francisco to do the bloody work. He argues that Blanther could have left Atlanta on April 4 and been in San Francisco in time to murder the two girls on the night of April 12, or possibly the night before, after which he might have returned immediately to Atlanta. The lawyer expresses the belief that Blanther committed these crimes as the hireling of some one who wanted to put the two girls out of the way. NEW YORK. Dec. 11.-A Paris dispatch says: It is beginning to be whispered in select circles that serious trouble has arisen between the Count and Countess Castellane over the Count's insensate extravagance. Even the vast fortune of Jay Gould's daughter is proving unequal to the drain made upon it by the financial follies of Count Boni, and the question of possible separation-by mutual consent, or if not in that way, by legal decree to be applied for by the Countess-is being discussed by relatives and lawyers acting in behalf of both husband and wife. Matters appear to have been brought to a crisis by the refusal of the Countess to advance any more money to meet the constantly increasing demands for the accomplishing Count Boni's folly of building on the Boise de Boulogne a duplicate of the grand trianon at Versilles. The outlay on the costliest marbles alone is said to be fabulous, while it was supposed that the palace would include a theater, gorgeously decorated by the principal living artists and provided with most perfect modern scenic appointment and having an auditorium large enough to seat 500 guests. The extravagance of Count Boni in all directions amounts to a mania. Much sympathy is felt for the Countess on account of her unfortunate marriage into which the glitter of a great title and glamour of a famous family drew her. The talk of separation is regarded by friends of the family as more of an attempt to frighten Count Boni into putting a curb on his expenditures than a serious project, but he is so monstrously vain that the ultimate crash may not be avoided very long.