anaheim-gazette 1897-12-30

Anaheim VOLUME XXVIII. ANAH G. W. SHERWOOD, C. E. (Assoc. Mem Am. So., C. E.) Civil Engineer LICENSED SURVEYOR Engineer Anaheim Union Water Company. P.O. Address: Fullerton, Residen e, 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.; 2 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. J-241f DR. F. H. HOUCK 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. 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. DR. F. H. HOUCK DENTIST. OFFICE NEXT DOOR to P.O. (Federman Block, up stairs.) HOURS 9 to & ANAHEIM CAL. Paul A. Derge. Gradua'e in Pharmacy. DRUGS, MEDICINE8, 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. Shop on Center street, near the opera-house. Anaheim, Cal. NICK HUGO BLACKSMITHING, WOOD WORK, HORSE-SHOEING, AND A GENERAL JOBBING BUSINESS. Los Angeles street, Anaheim, Cal. ALL KINDS OF PLOWWORK Executed In Workmanlike Manner, and at Lowest Living Rates. Give Me a Call. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Center street, Anaheim, Cal. Special attention given to PROBATE matters. 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. 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 Groceries and Provisions! First-Class 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: Herman W. Hellman, T.J. F. Boege, W.T. Brown P. Nisolus, Richard Melrose, L. Goldwater, Kaspar Cohn H. Oaken, 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, The Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. SUBSCRIPTION, $1 50 Per Year. Six months... 1 90 Three months... 75 Payable invariably in advance. Transient advertising rates, $1 per inch per month. The Gazette is issued every Thursday morning, and is sent to subscribers by the early mails. It is delivered by carrier in Anaheim on the morning of publication. Entered atthe Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter. Items of news and correspondence on all live subjects are solicited by the editor. 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.CHENEY & 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. JOHNSON'S CHRISTMAS PRESENT. A Rich Jerseyan Finds a Son He Doesn't Want. VINELAND, N. J., Dec. 25."You are my father. You have denied me for thirty years. My mother—your true wife—died of a broken heart GO TO THE Oak Barber Shop FOR A IST-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. OPOSITE POSTOFFICE PALACE MEAT MARKET F W. Fleischmann, PROPRIETOR Beat Meats the Market Affords Always on Hand. Also keeps on hand Sausages, Bacon, Ham, Lard, Etc. Meats delivered to all parts of the city free o harge Shop on East Center Street Handles Cudahy Cold-Storage Meats, Inspected by the Government Inspector. 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. L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT & SHOE MAKER. Center Adela and Los Angeles Streets CITY RESTAURANT F. SADELIUS, Preprietor ENLARGED AND IMPROVED Backs' Block. Los Angeles St. ANAHEIM. Meals at all hours. The best the market affords. Special attention given to the preparation of Spanish dishes. On SHORT ORDERS. oct21if MEALS, 25 CENTS. 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, 80 cents. At druggists or by mail. 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. JOHNSON'S CHRISTMAS PRESENT. A Rich Jerseyan Finds a Son He Doesn't Want. VINELAND, N. J., Dec. 25.-"You are my father. You have denied me for thirty years. My mother—your true wife—died of a broken heart because of your villainy. You know I am your legitimate son; that these other children have no right to your name. You know this, you dog. I've told it to you before, and you have not dared to face me in court. Your—villainy will not tritmph. I will avenge the wrong you did my mother." A young man burst into the house of Colonel Edward Johnson, a rich and prominent resident of this place, this evening, and, after this speech, drew a pistol and attempted to shoot Johnson and his son Phelix. He was seized and disarmed and is now in jail charged with assault to murder. His story is an astounding one. It is to the effect that, in 1861, Johnson, then Captain Johnson of the Thirty-first New York Volunteers, caused word to be sent to his wife in New York that he had been killed at the battle of Ball's Bluff. She, believing herself to be a widow, went to California at the suggestion of her husband's brother, who brought her the news of Johnson's death, and who subsequently wrote that her husband's body had been interred in Greenwood Cemetery. Years afterward, when she applied for a pension as the Captain's widow, she learned her husband had not been killed. "I did not want to kill my father," said George Johnson. "I wanted to force him to have me arrested so that I could bring him into court and make him face the evidence I have. I'm not after money. What I want is to punish him for the wrong he did my mother. I have given the best years of my life to tracing him; I have ruined myself in health and fortune, but I have succeeded." "Utter nonsense," Colonel Johnson said. "Why, during all the years the young man says I was married to his mother in New York I was in California. I am not his father, nor do I know or care who he is." 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. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1897. any old There is BUGH The Al Sulky Z CO. Buggies & Road Wagons ES ST., ANAHEIM MARKET. BANDS OF OLD MEATS, ausages, of Our Own Rendering for Fat Stock. CALL. NTZ. NEW PRIMARY LAW. Its Provisions go Into Effect Next Month — Sweeping Changes From the Old Method. The new primary election law, which goes into effect with the new year, provides that during January of each year in which general elections are to be held, it shall be the duty of Boards of Election Commissioners of each county, or city, to select the names of not less than fifty electors, to be made from each of the political parties then existing, in as nearly an equal proportion as practicable. These names shall be placed in a box and kept until required for use. Twenty days before the holding of a primary election, the board of election commissioners shall open the box and take out, and place in another box in the presence of representatives of the several political parties, the necessary names to be drawn, to serve in the precinct. In the several counties other than San Francisco, Boards of Supervisors constitute the board of election commissioners. All political parties desiring to participate in the primary election must petition the commissioners of election at least twenty days prior to the date of said primary election. Participation of others by petition is also provided for, where less than three percent of the vote was polled. Persons chosen as election officers must serve, subject to a fine, the same as general election officers. All of the primary elections shall be held at the same time and the same officers must act for all political parties. The general primary election will next year be held the last Tuesday in March, at which delegates will be elected, voting directly for delegate, to the State and District conventions. The second general primary election in 1898 will be held on the second Tuesday in July, when delegates to the county conventions will be chosen. MR. KOEBIG'S VISIT: A Silly Story Regarding the La Habra Reservoir Site Set at Rest. EDITOR GAZETTE—Dear Sir: I think I can straighten out the cock and bull story about Engineer Koebig's visit here. Several weeks ago I met him in Los Angeles. Our conversation naturally drifted to irrigation works, as he is the engineer of the Bear Valley reservoir, also of the Arrowhead reservoir company, is our company's consulting engineer in the Jurupa litigation, and I being interested in all irrigation works, etc. He remarked that as the years go by and more places made to catch winter water, the more water there will be for summer irrigation from the river; and if we only had a submerged dam at the head of our ditch we would always be insured against seasons of drought or scarcity. My reply was that we had borings made and if my recollections served me aright, that such work would be very expensive; that I thought we had a reservoir site that could save more-water at less cost than a submerged dam. He remarked that he was not aware that we had any such site. He said that he was very much interested in reservoiring water and had given such matters a great deal of attention. He said further that he would have business in Santa Ana in a short time and if it would not be too much trouble to me he would like to come out and look over our site for his own information and satisfaction. I told him when he was ready to come out to drop me a line and I would meet him. He did so. I met him; took him over the La Habra site, and gave him the reports of Kelogg, Schuyler and Wood. The Board of Directors knew nothing of his coming, nor did he make any proposition about building a ditch to the beet lands or any where else. It was purely a non-official visit from an eminent hydraulic engineer, who is SNAP SHOTS AT THE NEW BUREAU: Evans of the pension bureau is a strong advocate of the policy of publishing the entire list of persons who draw pensions from the government. He expects that a bill for this purpose will be introduced in Congress when it reassembles in January. William Brown, known to all love of baseball throughout the United States as "Big Bill" Brown, died in week at his home in San Francisco. About two years ago Brown, once perfect specimen of physical manhood became afflicted with lung trouble. He sought relief in the Hawaiian Island Southern California and Arizona, but in vain, and last week the end came his home. Deceased was 32 years of age. A pension was last week granted to the widow of Knud Knudson, a soldier in the late war, the back pay of which aggregates $400. The man was a native of Norway, and was married to a woman who now gets the pension April, 1858. Knudson emigrated from this country in 1861. Enlisted January 27, 1862 in Co. H. Fifteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and died in service October 16, 1863. The widow never left her home in Norway. A dispatch from Pekin states that great alarm is felt throughout China concerning the coming eclipse of the sun next month (Jan. 22d) and which is feared will prove a token of ill omission to the imperial house. By royal proclamation the day is to be observed one of worship, and the emperor arrives court will spend the entire twenty-four hours in a penitential hall. The proclamation applies to Chinese ambassador consuls and others the world over, as presumably to colonies in other land. Jos. Duffy contracted to build new land tunnel. Chicago and after completing the work brought suit recover the amount claimed to be due him. He was on Friday given a vdict of $218,452 against the city. Duverred he was obliged to do a large amount of rock excavation for which One Hundred Dollars Re-ay case of Catarrh that can- by Hall's Catarrh Cure. EY & Co., Props., Toledo, O. undersigned, have known F. for the last 15 years, and be-perfectly honorable in all transactions and financially out any obligations made to TRAUX, Wholesale Drugdo. O. WALDING, KINNAN Wholesale Druggists, Tolecarrh Cure is taken intern- directly upon the blood surfaces of the system over bottle. Sold by all drug limonials free. Tom Payne's old farm is to be turned into a cemetery, which will rival in beauty and importance New York's celebrated necropolis — Greenwood. The general primary election will next year be held the last Tuesday in March, at which delegates will be elected, voting directly for delegate to the State and District conventions. The second general primary election in 1898 will be held on the second Tuesday in July, when delegates to the county conventions will be chosen. Twenty days before the time set for the primaries the Supervisors are to open the box of names and placing all from the election precincts, which belong to one primary precinct, draw from it. The first name drawn will be the inspector, the next two judges and the following two clerks. In case the two judges or clerks should be of the same political party, the last name drawn must be laid aside and others drawn until one of another political faith is secured. The names left over are again put away for use in any district, county or city primary which may come during the year. The Supervisors must furnish each officer serving as a primary election officer with a certificate setting forth the fact, with the date of such service, and when the certificate is presented to any court it shall excuse such person from jury duty for a period of one year. The clerk of the board must publish a general statement of the primary election twice, fifteen days before it is held, setting out the parties who are to participate, officers which are to be nominated by the delegates elected, the election of officers and location of polling places, which shall not exceed one to every three precincts as given for general elections. Electors who have voted at primary elections are not eligible to sign the petition for independent candidates. Having served once any elector may be excused from serving the second time on making the demand. Ballots for use at the primary elections are to be different colors for the various parties. This law has been passed upon by the courts and pronounced constitutional. A great sensation was created in railway circles and among the traveling public when the Chicago Limited was put on the Santa Fe route between Los Angeles and Chicago. This train, which now leaves Los Angeles at 8 A.M. every Tuesday, Friday and Sunday, is the most magnificent train run between Los Angeles and Chicago, and is strictly first-class in every respect. It carries a full equipment of the latest pattern of Pullman Palace Sleeping, Dining and Buffet cars through. Only first-class tickets honored on that train. The daily overland Express on the Santa Fe route, which carries a full equipment of Palace and Tourist Sleeping cars, Los Angeles to Kansas City and Chicago, and Reclining Chair car to La Junta, and La Junta to Chicago without change, makes 24 hours quicker time to Chicago and the East than corresponding trains of competing line. Meals at Harvey's dining rooms. You can secure tickets, and make sleeping car reservations for these trains by applying to the ticket agent of the Santa Fe route at the depot in Anaheim. Tom Payne's old farm is to be turned into a cemetery, which will rival in beauty and importance New York's celebrated necropolis — Greenwood. The property is new New Rochelle had given such matters a great deal of attention. He said further that he would have business in Santa Ana in a short time and if it would not be too much trouble to me he would like to come out and look over our site for his own information and satisfaction. I told him when he was ready to come out to drop me a line and I would meet him. He did so. I met him; took him over the La Habra site, and gave him the reports of Kelogg, Schuyler and Wood. The Board of Directors knew nothing of his coming, nor did he make any proposition about building a ditch to the beet lands or any where else. It was purely a non-official visit from an eminent hydraulic engineer, who is gathering information for himself. Any reports to the contrary are made out of whole cloth, without authority or information. I personally would like to see a reservoir built. I have been a crank on the subject for years, but I do not expect that the stockholders of the Anaheim water company will ever agree with me upon the benefits to be derived from the use of a reservoir: no night irrigation, a greater revenue by getting day prices, and an absolute security against any possible shortage of water. Yet this has nothing to do with two private citizens going out to look over property not owned by the company, for their own gratification. Respectfully yours. W. M. McFADDEN. Placentia, Dec. 23. — Rheumatism is due to latic acid in the blood. Hood's Sarsaparilla neutralizes the acid and cures the aches and pains of rheumatism. Be sure to get Hood's. Hood's pills are easy to take, easy to operate. Cure indigestion, billiousness. CANNED FRUIT PACK Largest in the History of the Industry. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 25. — The Herald of Trade and Finance prints the following review of the canning industry of this State: “This year's pack of canned fruits is the largest in the history of the industry. It is not only the largest pack, but stocks in first hands at the close of the year are the smallest for years. The low prices at which several kinds of fruits, notably apricots, were placed at the commencement of the season contributed largely to the big distributive demand, for so far as we are able to learn, there has been very little, if any, speculative buying. Another thing which has contributed to the exceptionally good demand was the small crop of fruits in the new and old world, and wage earners, as a rule, being in better position than for two or three years. The short crop of peaches at the east created a big demand for California canned and dried fruits, although the pack was fully up to 700,-000 cases, yet the supply now on hand is very light, particularly of lemon peaches. The apricot pack was also quite large, going over 400,000 cases. The following is an authentic estimate of the total pack by counties of the canneries in the State: Counties: Canners: Cases. Santa Clara: 7 371,000 Alameda: 3 305,000 San Francisco: 9 1,047,000 Sonoma: 3 65,000 San Bernardino: 2 50,000 Los Angeles: 3 185,000 Napa: 1 255,000 Fresno: 1 300,000 Visalia: 1 400,000 Benicia: 1 38,000 Sacramento: 1 125,000 Northern part of State: 6 148,000 Much excitement was caused by Havana one morning recently when small white warship bearing a strong resemblance to the United States guide boat Annapolis, was seen slowly proaching the harbor. A rum spread that an American warship was coming in and the people became frenzied when the stranger's guns opened in a salute to the forts, many laying the city was being bombarded. It was soon apparent that the vessel was German school ship Stein, but several hours elapsed before quiet was restored in the city. A party of four hunters were frozen to death by the roadside near Dawes Creek Ark., one morning late week. It is believed from description of the dead hunters that they were H. Hughes, A. H. Dolphin, John Bright and Samuel Sevier, who outed at Little Rock a couple of weeks ago. They claimed Chicago as their home, and it is said they pass through Marshall in Searcy county early last week, saying they were going into into Boston Mountain game. It is believed that the party lost their way in the jungle of Dawes Creek bottom. Articles of incorporation were filed in Los Angeles on Thursday by the international Wave Motor company. The purpose of the organization is to acquire quintenary countries in wave motors, whereby the wave movements of the ocean are made available as a motive power for the generation of electricity. The capital stock $1,000,000,$5000 of which has been totally subscribed. The principal business will be transacted in Los Angeles. The directors are J. H. Bullard, Frank D. Bullard, Parvin Wright. K.Widowcz and H.S.G.MeCartney, of Los Angeles. An expedition left Los Angeles some days ago for the northwestern geographical field which is one of the most important to go from that city. The paper comprises J.E. Perring, C.Kettle, E.Phenning, J.W. Dolphin, Fr Smith, Harvey Mitchell, William Wiltefelt, S.Wallace,G.J.Rolls Elmer D.Morrow,S.A.Thompson Robert ShawJ.V.Dilley,V.B.Dley and E.E.Dilley.With theception of the last three who are from Norwalk,the party is composed Los Angelenos.all of whom are leaving remunerative positions in the hope acquiring sudden wealth.The men have been quiet preparing for their trip during the last five months.Angup upon advices received from Dawes and Ogilviethe number of the park has been limited to sixteen.each whom contributed a stated sum to their general fundwhich is to be expenditure in purchasing the entire outfit for their tripThey have agreed to standone another in every emergency areaonly released from their control MARRH Cure is taken internally directly upon the blood surfaces of the system water bottle. Sold by all drug minials free. CHRISTMAS PRESENT. Marseyan Finds a Son He Doesn’t Want. No, N. J., Dec. 25.—“You never have denied me my years. My mother—your died of a broken heart your villainy. You know I legitimate son; that these men have no right to you and know this, you dog. I've been before, and you have not be me in court. Your—will not tritmph. I will wrong you did my mother.” Man burst into the house Edward Johnson, a rich and resident of this place, this day, after this speech, drew an attempt to shoot Johnson Phelix. He was seized and is now in jail charged with murder. An astounding one. It is not that, in 1861, Johnson, in Johnson of the Thirty-York Volunteers, caused sent to his wife in New Jersey had been killed at the still’s Bluff. She, believing he a widow, went to Callie the suggestion of her husher, who brought her the Johnson’s death, and who subwofrote that her husband’s been interred in Greenwood. Wardward, when she applied son as the Captain’s widow, other husband had not been want to kill my father,” the Johnson. “I wanted to have me arrested so that him into court and make the evidence I have. I'm not nor. What I want is to punor the wrong he did my have given the best years of racing him; I have ruined health and fortune, but I added.” Consense,” Colonel Johnson say, during all the years the says I was married to his New York I was in California not his father, nor do I know he is.” For Sale first-class, heavy mules, with wagon if desired; also sixes; for cash or approved [oct28-tf] J. B. PIERCE. The daily overland Express on the Santa Fe route, which carries a full equipment of Palace and Tourist Sleeping cars, Los Angeles to Kansas City and Chicago, and Reclining Chair car to La Junta, and La Junta to Chicago without change, makes 24 hours quicker time to Chicago and the East than corresponding trains of competing line. Meals at Harvey’s dining rooms, You can secure tickets, and make sleeping car reservations for these trains by applying to the ticket agent of the Santa Fe route at the depot in Anaheim. Tom Payne’s old farm is to be turned into a cemetery, which will rival in beauty and importance New York’s celebrated necropolis — Greenwood. The property is near New Rochelle, and has just been sold to a syndicate of New York millionaires, who propose to enhance its beauty as to make it one of the most romantic graveyards in the world. It was sold to the syndicate by John H. Trenor, a rich citizen of Rochelle. Its three hundred acres brought $200,000. In the bosom of this land repose the mortal remains of the author of “The Age of Reason” and of “The Rights of Man.” Above his dust stands a monument much more humble than many that have been erected to men of far less renown. This land was the spot on which the Huguenots settted when they landed in America. 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. VOICE OF THE PRESS. ONE “GOOD EFFECT” AT RIVERSIDE. From the Press. The present cold snap will have one good effect—it has demonstrated that all orange growing sections of Southern California are liable to killing frosts. Of the above thirty-eight canneries, five canners packed 1,187,000 cases, and one of the five alone packed 367,000 cases, probably the largest pack of the kind made in the United States, if not in the world. Considering the capital invested and that the entire pack must be made in ninety days’ time, the industry is the least remunerative of any industry known in the State. Grand total...2,426,000 The value of the above pack is about $5,000,000, as follows: Tin, 58,224,000 cans, $1,145,000. Sugar, 700,000 pounds, $357,000. Fruit, 86,000,000 pounds, $2,087,000. Asparagus, 4,900,000 pounds, $100,000. Peas, 2,100,000 pounds, $244,000. Tomatoes, 21,600,000 pounds, $100,000. Boxes and labels, $291,000. Labor, $727,000. Fuel, etc., $160,000. Of the above thirty-eight canneries, five canners packed 1,187,000 cases, and one of the five alone packed 367,000 cases, probably the largest pack of the kind made in the United States, if not in the world. Considering the capital invested and that the entire pack must be made in ninety days’ time, the industry is the least remunerative of any industry known in the State. Buy Wagons, Carriages, Farm Implements, and Repairs of Mathews & Arnott Co. [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, Wilmer G. Wallace, Elmer D. Morrow, Robert Shaw, J. V. Dilley, V. B. Dilley and E. E. Dilley. With the exception of the last three who are from Norwalk, the party is composed of Los Angelenos, all of whom are leaving remunerative positions in the hope acquiring sudden wealth. The man have been quietly preparing for their trip during the last five months. After uping advises received from Dawsen and Ogilvie the number of the parish has been limited to sixteen each month contributed a stated sum to them general fund which is to be expended in purchasing the entire outfit for their trip. They have agreed to stand one another in every emergency aid are only released from their contract by a two-thirds vote of the other members of the expedition. Failing secure the requisite release a member leaving the party thereby forfeits right to any share in the general fur outfit. The giant of ocean liners, Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, of the Norwegian Lloyd line, arrived in New York on Thursday from Bremen Southampton and Cherbourg a day late. She brought over 461 cabin ad 393 steerage passengers. From Chichester she met gale after gale from southwest and northwest. The occupied high on her weather bow and bulwarks, retarding her progress. On the third day out from Cherbourg while a heavy sea was running away nearly all the passengers were sick their berths, the ship's machinery was suddenly stopped. Passengers rush from their staterooms to inquiry cause of the halt. All sorts of reptiles were forthcoming. Some of the officers said the machinery had broken down others that the engines had gone pieces,and others that the rudder was disabled. After the ponderous vessel was hove to she began to drift. By eight hours the steamer was adrift,she was fifty miles out of her course Then she started again. When they passengers reached quarantine it was said the cause of her eight hours' delay was the giving out of the package of the valves of the port engine.Will had really happened was this: One Chief Engineer Baum's assistants came aware on the evening of Dec. that the head of the main boiler would wobbling.In investigation showed that one of the steel bands had broken off To prevent the boiler from vibrating and a possible explosion.it was necessary to draw fire from the furnace stop the ship and allow the parts cool.To do this required more time than the actual repairswhich were made by the staff of seventeen engineers. Secretary Wilson of the Agriculture Department is displaying much interest in the encouragement of the exportation of horses for sale in European marketsHe believes there is no good reason SHOTS AT THE NEWS missioner Evans of the pension is a strong advocate of the policy washing the entire list of persons law pensions from the govern-He expects that a bill for this will be introduced in Congress reassemblies in January. Am Brown, known to all lovers ball throughout the United States is "Big Bill" Brown, died last his home in San Francisco. Two years ago Brown, once a specimen of physical manhood, afflicted with lung trouble. He believed in the Hawaiian Islands, on California and Arizona, but and last week the end came at the Deceased was 32 years of age. Passion was last week granted to row of Knud Knudson, a soldier late war, the back pay of which taxes $400. The man was a native way, and was married to the who now gets the pension in 1858. Knudson emigrated to country in 1861, enlisted January in Co. H. Fifteenth Wisconsin Infantry, and died in service 16, 1863. The widow has left her home in Norway. Patch from Pekin states that arm is felt throughout China being the coming eclipse of the first month (Jan. 22d) and which it will prove a token of ill omen imperial house. By royal promen the day is to be observed as worship, and the emperor and will spend the entire twenty-four a penitential hall. The procla-applies to Chinese ambassadors, and others the world over, andably to colonies in other lands. Duffy contracted to build the old tunnel Chicago and after ing the work brought suit to the amount claimed to be due he was on Friday given a ver-218,452 against the city. Duffy he was obliged to do a large of rock excavation for which why the United States should not supply many of the horses used abroad, and he is especially impressed with the belief that we could breed in this country, particularly in the Western States, horses that could be serviceable for cavalry purposes. The agents of the department in London and other places have been instructed to make reports on this subject, covering the demand, price, etc. This information will be embodied in one of the bulletins soon to be issued. Mr. Stubbs, agent of several horse associations in this country, will leave in a few days to investigate the horse markets of Europe with special references to cavalry horses, and such data as he shall obtain of general interest to horsebreeders who might be induced to embark in this new field of competition will be turned over to the Department of Agriculture for publication. The Department of Agriculture at Washington is chagrined over a bulletin recently sent out by the Department of Fruit Raising. It contained some of the most unpardonable mistakes pertaining to that industry in California ever made by the department. The bulletin states that no oranges are raised in California. Ordinarily no attention would be paid to such a matter, but the document has been given the official endorsement of Secretary Wilson, and has been sent broadcast over the world. The bulletin makes no mention for the production of grapes south of latitude 39, that territory embracing the Fresno region and other big grape-raising sections. Figs are not mentioned as a California product, but it says that the industry is flourishing wonderfully in Florida. No mention is made of raisins. The State is not credited with any ability to produce walnuts, and very little notice of many varieties of apples and peaches is made. The reports give nine apples as a leading product of the State. The recent unfortunate mission of Col. Ruiz to the camp of Col. Arangueren in the province of Havana, where he was executed by the insurgents as a spy, has called attention to the re-vantage will be taken of Dwina River, at the mouth of which Riga is located, and of the Dnieper River, which flows into the Black Sea and at the mouth of which Cherson sits. It is frankly admitted by the Russian authorities that the canal is being built for military purposes, just as the transsiberian railway is being constructed, but they say that the water way will be of benefit commercially. Laden with Christmas presents for expectant little ones, George Smith of Woodland, aged 40, was struck down by the Berkeley train near the B-street station at Oakland at 11:30 o'clock on Friday. The train hands picked up the unconscious form and took it to the Sixteenth-street station, where the ambulance was in waiting. A start was made for the Receiving Hospital, but the man died before reaching there, and the body was removed to the morgue. It is believed that he left the train at the station and had started down the track. He did not hear the approaching engine, and was seen by the engineer, too late to save his life. The engine must have struck him squarely, breaking his back and inflicting internal injuries that caused death. The Journal of Commerce says that, although at present the demand for California dried fruits, as far as the eastern trade is concerned, is light, a stronger feeling has developed, particularly in raisins, prunes and apricots. The depression in the former is caused by liberal offerings of rain-damaged and other inferior grades. Much of this stock has been worked off through consuming channels, either in original form or seed. The best grades of loose California raisins, which have all along, according to report, been scarce, are now said to be difficult to obtain even at outside prices. There has been an active export demand for apricots and prunes, and foreign buyers also seem to have shown more interest in peaches and pears, particularly the latter. Much seismic activity is reported on the western coast of Mexico, where The excitement was caused in one morning recently when a white warship bearing a strongance to the United States gunnapolis, was seen slowly aping the harbor. A rumor that an American warship was in and the people became when the stranger's guns open-salute to the forts, many be the city being bombarded soon apparent that the vessel German school ship Stein, but hours elapsed before quiet was in the city. City of four hunters were found to death by the roadside near Greek, Ark., one morning last It is believed from descriptions dead hunters that they were W. Hes, A. H. Dolphin, John W. and Samuel Sevier, who outfit little Rock a couple of weeks they claimed Chicago as their land it is said they passed in Marshall in Searcy county, last week, saying they were goo to the Boston Mountains for It is believed that the party air way in the jungle of Dawes bottom. Lines of incorporation were filed Angeles on Thursday by the Internal Wave Motor company. The of the organization is to accents in foreign countries for motors, whereby the wave move-of the ocean are made available electric power for the generation electricity. The capital stock is 100, $5000 of which has been subscribed. The principal busi-ble be transacted in Los Angeles,ectors are J. H. Bullard, Frank Bard, Parvin Wright, K. W.uzz and H. S. G. McCartney, all Angeles. Expedition left Los Angeles some no for the northwestern gold which is one of the most impor-vo from that city. The party sees J. E. Perring, C. Kettle, F. Fanning, J. W. Burge, Fred Harvey Mitchell, William Mtit, S. Wallace, G. J. Roller, D. Morrow, S. A. Thompson, Shaw, J. V. Dilley, V. B. Dilie, E. E. Dilley. With the ex- of the last three, who are orwalk, the party is composed of gelenos, all of whom are leaving creative positions in the hope of big sudden wealth. The men been quietly preparing for the ing the last five months. Actu-ons advises received from Dawson Invlie the number of the party en limited to sixteen, each of contributed a stated sum to the fund, which is to be expended using the entire outfit for the they have agreed to stand by either in every emergency and released from their contract broadcast over the world. The outbreak makes no mention for the production of graps south of latitude 39, that territory embracing the Fresno region and other big grape-raising sections. Figs are not mentioned as a California product, but it says that the industry is flourishing wonderfully in Florida. No mention is made of rains. The State is not credited with any ability to produce walnuts, and very little notice of many varieties of apples and peaches is made. The reports give nine apples as a leading product of the State. The recent unfortunate mission of Col. Ruiz to the camp of Col. Aranguen in the province of Havana, where he was executed by the insurgents as a spy, has called attention to the remarkable circumstance that a Spanish officer, and also a messenger from the American consulate, could reach the insurgents' camp in a few hours after leaving Havana, when the troops never found it, and causes sharp comment on the military operations. The camp six miles from a Spanish fort, and has been located there for nine months Ruiz's friends among the volunteers and armed firemen of Havana continue censuring Gen. Blanco, and demanding that he execute vengeance on the insurgents. From their camp the insurgents have sent a defiant message for the troops to come and take it. A dispatch received from Havana late Thursday evening says that the flames of a large sugar plantation, ignited by the insurgents, were plainly visible from the city. A post-mortem held on the body of Jacon Weinand, who was found dead in his kitchen at St. Louis, Mo., one evening last week, developed that the man had been gugged and bound and murdered. A towel was found tightly twisted about his throat, but the post-mortem revealed a peculiarly fiendish method the murderers had resorted to. In the dead man's throat, tightly imbedded at the bronchial tubes, was a wad of thick cloth that had been wrapped with horse hair. Fingers could not have reached that far, and a stick was probably used to ram the wad down. The old man was garroted with a towel. In 1893 a soldier at Jefferson Barracks who had saved about $1000, which he carried in his pocket, was found murdered in his room. He had been bound, a wad of horse hair pushed down his throat and choked to death with a towel. The similarity of last week's murder with that of the soldier four years ago caused excitement in police circles. Every effort is being put forth to discover Weinand's murders, who are supposed to have been two, but the only clew found is a button and a piece of cloth torn from the coat of one of them. The following appeal to the American people has been issued by the Government: DEPARTMENT OF STATE. WASHINGTON, D.C. DEC. 24, 1897 By direction of the President, the public is informed that, in deference to the earnest desires of the government to contribute by effective action toward relief of the suffering people in the island of Cuba, arrangements have been perfected by which charitable contributions, in money or kind, can be sent to the island by the benevolently disposed people of the United States. Money, provisions, clothing, medicines and the like articles of prime necessity can be forwarded to General Fitzhugh Lee, the Consul-General of the United States at Havana, and all articles now dutiful by law, so consigned will be admitted into Cuba free of duty. The Consul-General has been instructed to receive the same and to co-operate with the local authorities and the charitable boards for dis- Much seismic activity is reported on the western coast of Mexico, where quakes have felt at Salina Cruz, the Pacific terminus of the Tehuantepec railway, at Tehuantepec, Jilitepec and the city of Oaxaca, where there was a prolonged subterranean roaring, causing conformation. The movement was both horizontal and vertical. Scientific men regard the frequently reported phenomena with interest, and the belief is expressed that either there is a subsidence or rise of the coast going on, but nothing can be as yet accurately determined. Seismic activity has prevailed in all that region for two years even being noticed at sea by fishermen along the coast of state of Oaxaca in the Pacific ocean. The government has detailed engineers to study the matter and to report. Fortunately there has been no loss of life, owing to precautions taken by the inhabitants. Lady Millais, late President of the Royal Academy, died in London on Thursday. Lady Millais was the divorced wife of John Ruskin who voluntarily gave her up when it was evident that she loved Millais. Ruskin stood by in church while, in 1855, she was married to Millais. The death of Lady Millais furnishes a tragic end to a life which was full of romance. Cancer, that was fatal to her distinguished husband, sixteen months ago, was fatal to Lady Millais also. She was the willing victim of her love and her wife devotion. When her husband fell ill, his surgeons, the best in England, told Lady Millais that the cancer that was killing him was surely contagious. For her own safety they ordered her not to kiss him; lest she catch the disease. They told her, too; she must constantly use disinfectants, spray her throat and her clothing, so she might escape contagion. Millais knew he could not escape; but he had not the remotest idea he could communicate the cancer to his wife; that her devoted attention to him was dangerous to her; that she risked her life by nursing him. She on her part could not bear to stab the dying man by seeming to be cold and unfeeling, or by appearing before him reckling with disinfectants. So she utterly disobeyed the surgeons, and two months before Millais died the cancer developed itself in her and made rapid progress. For a while Lady Millais permitted the surgeons to try to arrest the progress of the disease; for her son still lived. But young Millais died a few months ago. From the moment of his death his mother cared no longer to live; longing to rejoin her husband and her son; she could not permit any operation to be performed for her relief. Three Tacoma ship-building firms are busily engaged on nine steamers for use on the Yukon river and Lakes Bennett and Teslin. Boston men have ordered the Tacoma Iron Works to build a steamer sixty-five feet long and fifteen feet beam, costing with fur- The men quietly preparing for the ing the last five months. Act on advices received from Dawson Valley the number of the party limited to sixteen, each of contributed a stated sum to the fund, which is to be expended causing the entire outfit for the they have agreed to stand by either in every emergency and released from their contract two-thirds vote of the other members of the expedition. Failing to the requisite release a member of the party thereby forfeits all any share in the general fund. A giant of ocean liners, Kaiser Man der Grosse, of the North Coast Lloyd line, arrived in New York Thursday from Bremen, Anthem and Cherbourg a day before brought over 461 cabin and storage passengers. Cherry met gale after gale from the east and northwest. The ocean high on her weather bow and sails, retarding her progress. On third day out from Cherbourg, heavy sea was running and all the passengers were sick in norths, the ship's machinery was fully stopped. Passengers rushed their staterooms to inquire the halt. All sorts of replies forthcoming. Some of the officers had machinery had broken down; that the engines had gone to land and others that the rudder was still. After the ponderous vessel came to she began to drift. For hours the steamer was adrift, till fifty miles out of her course, she started again. When the steppers reached quarantine it was due cause of her eight hours' dearness the giving out of the packing salves of the port engine. What really happened was this: One of Engineer Baum's assistants beware on the evening of Dec. 19, head of the main boiler was engaged. Investigation showed that the steel bands had broken off. Sent the boiler from vibrating, possible explosion, it was necessitated the fire from the furnace, he ship and allow the parts to do this required more time for actual repairs, which were by the staff of seventeen engineers Wilson of the Agricultural Department is displaying much interest encouragement of the exportation for sale in European markets. Moves there is no good reason government to contribute by effective action toward the relief of the suffering people in the island of Cuba, arrangements have been perfected by which charitable contributions, in money or kind, can be sent to the island by the benevolently disposed people of the United States. Money, provisions, clothing, medicines and like articles of prime necessity can be forwarded to General Fitzhugh Lee, the Consul-General of the United States at Havana, and all articles now dutiful by law, so consigned, will be admitted into Cuba free of duty. The Consul-General has been instructed to receive the same and to co-operate with the local authorities and the charitable boards for the distribution of such relief among the destitute and needy people of Cuba. The President is confident that the people of the United States, who have on many occasions in the past responded most generously to the cry for bread from people striken by famine or dire calamity, and who have beheld no less generous action on the part of foreign communities when their own country-men have suffered from disastrous floods, will heed the appeal for aid that comes from those at their own threshold. And especially at this season of good will and rejoicing, give of their abundance to this humane end. (Signed) JOHN SHERMAN. The Russian government will next spring begin upon a stupendous piece of engineering work which, like the transsiberian railway, will be of great strategic and commercial value to her when completed. The project contemplates the construction of a canal connecting the Baltic and Black seas, which can be traversed by battleships of the heaviest tonnage at six knots per hour. By means of the canal Russia will be able to mobilize a huge fleet in the Baltic in 167 hours by bringing to that sea the Black Sea squadron, or can collect in the Black Sea in the same time the Baltic and Black Sea fleets. In case of a general European war over the division of China at the time of the completion of the canal it would not be difficult for Russia to send her fleet through the Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmora and the Dardanelles into the Mediterranean and down the Suez Canal across the Indian Ocean, to China while she could utilize the transsiberian railway to transport troops. The canal will remove the necessity of sending a fleet across the North Sea and down the Atlantic in order to reach the Mediterranean and through that sea reach the Suez Canal and China, and it was pointed out that in case of war Great Britain and Germany would take measures to see that the Russian fleet did not pass through their waters without a hard struggle. It is officially stated that the canal when completed will connect the city of Riga, on the Baltic, and Cherson, on the Black Sea. Ad. Three Tacoma ship-building firms are busily engaged on nine steamers for use on the Yukon river and Lakes Bennett and Teslin. Boston men have ordered the Tacoma Iron Works to build a steamer sixty-five feet long and fifteen feet beam, costing, with furnishings, $10,000. A prospecting party of eighteen men will use her on the Yukon. She will be knocked down for shipping north. The same works are building a seventy-foot steamer for use on Lake Bennett. She will carry forty passengers, besides towing freight barges and logs. The sawmill for Lake Bennett of 10,000 feet daily capacity, is nearly finished. At this shipyard the first Yukon steamer of the Yukon-Puget Sound Trading and Transportation Company is also building. She will be 134 feet in length, and equipped with powerful machinery, The Seattle and North American Commercial Company has just contracted with Capt. F. Beutlich for building two large light-draught Yukon steamers. Work on the first was started last week. They will be 150 feet long, 30 feet beam, and 5 feet deep, with a capacity of 200 passengers and 300 tons of freight. One will be named Uranii, and Capt. Beutlich will also superintend the construction of a Yukon steamer 135 feet long and 30 feet wide, which the Tacoma and Klondike Transportation Company has contracted for. 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