anaheim-gazette 1898-01-13

Anaheim VOLUME XXVIII. NICK HUGO BLACKSMITHING, WOOD WORK, HORSE-SHOEING, AND A GENERAL JOBBING BUSINESS. Los Angeles street, Anaheim, Cal. ALL KINDS OF PLOW WORK Executed in Workmanlike Manner, and at Lowest Living Rates. Give Me a Call. L. NEMETZ. Carriage Painting & Trimming New Buggies for Sale. Shop on Center Street, near the opera-house. Anaheim, Cal. G. W. SHERWOOD, C. E. (Assoc. Mem. Am. Soc. 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. 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. 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 Witte residence on Center St., opposite Catholie Church. CALIS ANSWERED AT ALL HOURS. ANAHEIM A.W. Bickford, M.D. PHYSICIAN, SURGEON (Successor to Dr. Champion.) Will occupy the office and residence of Dr. Champion. ANAHEIM DR. F. H. HOUCK DENTIST. OFFICE NEXT DOOR to P.O. (Federman Block, up stairs.) HOURS 9 to 4 ANAHEIM 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 Shop on East Center Street Handles Cudahy Cold-Storage Meats, Inspected by the Government Inspector. Paul A. Derge. 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 Cahn · President W. T. Brown · Vice President L. Goldwater, · Cashier DIRECTORS. Kaspare Cohn, W. T. Brown. Richard Melrose, L. Goldwater STOCKHOLDERS Herman W. Hellman, T.J. F. Boege, W.T. Brown P. Nicolsus, Richard Melrose, L. Goldwater, Kaspare Cohn H. Cahn, J.A. Goldwater, J.Schlessinger. M.A.Newmark & Co. OBRESPONDENTS: 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 00 Three months...75 Payable invariably in advance. Transient advertising rates,$1 per inch per month. The Gazette is issued every Thursday morning, and is sent to subscribers by the early mails. It is delivered by carrier in Anaheim on the morning of publication. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter. Items of news and correspondence on all live subjects are solicited by the editor. $100 Reward $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address, F.J.CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75 cents. Southern Pacific Local Time Table. Southern Pacific Railroad Time Table.-Trains pass Anaheim as follows: To Los Angeles Lv. From Los Angeles. Daily...7:54 am Daily...9:45 am Daily...4:25 pm Dally...6:01 pm Daily trains connect at Mirroires with train for Trustin, and at Studebaker with Whittler trains. In effect May 30th, 1897. Street cars connect Best Meats the Market Allords Always on Hand. Also keeps on hand Sausages, Bacon, Ham, Lard, Etc. Meats delivered to all parts of the city free o charge Shop on East Center Street Handles Cudahy Cold-Storage Meats, Inspected by the Government Inspector. Paul A. Derge. Graduate in Pharmacy. DRUGS, MEDICINES, Perfumes and Toilet Articles. BEST 5-CENT CIGAR IN TOWN MEDICAL HALL, KOLL BLOCK. PUBLIC TELEPHONE OFFICE. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Center street, Anaheim, Cal Special attention given to PROBATE matters. 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 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. Corner Adela and Los Angeles Streets H. A. STOUGH. GENERAL BLACKSMITHING! All work done in first-class manner, and at prices as low as the lowest. Horse-Shoeing Neatly and Promptly Done. — shop in Har' Block, Center St., Anaheim. 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, 60 cents. At druggists or by mail. Southern Pacific Local Time Table. Southern Pacific Railroad Time Table.—Trains pass Anaheim as follows: To Los Angeles Lv. From Los Angeles. Daily...7:54 am Daily...9:45 am Daily...4:25 pm Daily...8:01 pm Daily trains connect at Miranda with train for Tustin, and at Studebaker with Whittier trains. In effect May 30th, 1897. Street cars connect with all trains. LOS ALAMITOS TRAINS. Leave for— 9:48 a.m. 6:03 p.m. Sugar Factory Arrive from— 7:52 a.m. 4:25 p.m. "My daughter, when recovering from an attack of fever, was a great sufferer from pain in the back and hips," writes Louden Grover, of Sardis, Ky. "After using quite a number of remedies without any benefit she tried one bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and it has given entire relief." Chamberlain's Pain Balm is also a certain cure for rheumatism. Sold by Derge. Twenty-six young waitresses were "shipped" some days ago from Denver to California by the proprietor of an employment agency. The proprietor's orders now on file include one for sixty good looking girls for the same purpose in the same place. A.W. Bailey, proprietor of Hotel del Coronado, at Coronado Beach, wrote the agent, asking for sixty girls to use in the dining room. Twenty-six of these were started a few days ago, and it is expected that the remainder will be ordered in a few days. Bailey is very particular about his waitresses, and he does not want any who are not good-looking, nor will he have any who wear short hair. One letter includes an order for from fifty to sixty girls. In another letter Bailey sets forth the graces required, such as length of hair, etc. He says he would not put a girl on the floor who weighs more than 160 pounds. Although his agent does not understand why Colorado waitresses are any better than those of lower altitudes, she fills orders with great care, and selects only those who are within the requirements of her patron. When Bailey first went to Colorado and managed the hotel at Glenwood Springs, Colorado help was not good enough for him. He sent all the way to Boston to get fifty girls as waitresses, but he soon discovered that the sprightly vim and nervous energy characteristic of the Colorado female was best, and since going to a lower altitude he has concluded to secure all of his help from the mounains. Weekly Gazette ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1898. IS STILL ON DECK. Mr. House Writes to Say that He is Doing Quite Well, and Drops Into Verse. EDITOR GAZETTE.—As it is seldom I nowadays ever get down that way to see my many kind friends thereabouts, I send you a few lines to remind them that I am still on deck, and although I seldom get to see them I have the consolation of knowing that should I be sent down there in a box sometime, they would all turn out and give me a grand send-off, and see that I was planted in good shape; and should any like to know how I would like to be buried when that time comes, I would answer them as Socrates did his friends when asked that question. They can bury me as they please provided they can catch me. But I hope to remain several years yet to afflict them with my nonsense before moving out of this Old House. Wishing yourself and all the rest of my friends a Happy New Year, I remain, yours truly, T. J. HOUSE. Tis sixty years the diales say Which mark the lapse of time on earth Since dawned a chill December day That bears the record of my birth No great event it was I trow For men or angels to proclaim, And why I came I know not now, Hence no good lesson can I name. Some how or other it had to be— By accident or by design, By freak of fate or destiny— I'm sure it was no choice of mine. So just as soon as wide awake, As near as I can now recall, I thought it was a great mistake, And mad with grief began to squall. But lamentation was no use, For here I was and had to stay, So then with fate I made a truce, And let her have her own sweet way. So here I've been for three-score years In battle with the ills of life, Lake Worth, where millions of all kinds were frozen. Families for miles around are living on frozen fish, picked up along the shores and even in the water. One firm shipped twenty barrels of pompano to New York to-day, and it is feared that the lake will never again be noted for its fine fishing grounds. Thousands of homesteaders and small farmers have lost their all. The Florida press and certain correspondents are suppressing facts in interest of land agents and hotels, but so severe was the cold in some places that the hotel help remained in bed to keep warm. NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—New York dealers in Florida oranges and southern vegetables say the reports coming from Florida indicate that the frost there Sunday night was more severe than the great frost of two years ago, and the damage will foot up millions of dollars. About 80 per cent of the orange crop has been picked, but the dealers here say the balance will be almost a total loss. The damage to the trees will be enormous. The dealers here say that such a frost as is reported will almost totally destroy not only next year's crop, but that of several years to come. P. Ruhlman, a prominent Florida fruit dealer here, said to-day: "There is no doubt that the crops in Florida have been destroyed. At West Palm Beach, on the Atlantic coast, just south of Indian River, the thermometer fell to 26. Two years ago it fell only to 26, and killed everything above ground. Some idea of the effect of this frost can be got from the results of the last one. The orange crop then was estimated at 5,000,000 boxes; 3,000,000 had been picked, and the balance was destroyed. But the great loss was to the trees. "Last year the crop was only 125,000 boxes. On account of the destruction of the trees, orange-growers planted an immense number of new trees after the frost two years ago. These trees are still young and very tender, and frost would certainly destroy them. It takes six years for an average tree to get to snow." SNAP SHOTS AT THE NEW The Klondike rush has commenced. Prospectors are coming in so fast that the British Columbia resources are taxed to accommodate them. The steamers City of Seattle, Tees and Rose Lee from Vancouver have been obliged to refuse accommodations and large number of Australian and Canadian prospectors are taking the next steamer. An order for 10,000 of the latest pattern of military rifles and 5,000,000 rounds of ammunition, has been placed with the Winchester Arms company at New Haven, Conn., through its San Francisco office. The orders are to be shipped at the earliest possible moment. The order comes from the Russian government, the company having had an agent negotiating with the government for several weeks. Oshkosh, Wis., has a strong man August Shane, a Dane fisherman, over six feet tall and weighing 300 pounds while Fitzsimmons was at that place challenged him to an arm-twisting contest. Fitzsimmons accepted. The two men clasped hands and braced their elbows upon the counter. At every trial the pugilist's hand was forced down to the counter. Fitzsimmons acknowledged his defeat and accepted it good naturedly. The horticultural clubs of Southern California have just issued a set of resolutions regarding the San Jose scale, a fruit pest, for publication. The resolutions are intended to correct the impression that serious damage being done by the pest, and declare that the San Jose scale is never found upon citrus trees, and though it sometimes seen on deciduous fruit trees here, it is never on high-clay fruit shipped East, and it is doing such slight damage that it is not regarded seriously. A sensational tragedy occurred on the banks of Noncennah Creek, in the outskirts of Memphis, Tenn., Friday afternoon. The horticultural clubs of Southern California have just issued a set of resolutions regarding the San Jose scale, a fruit pest, for publication. The resolutions are intended to correct the impression that serious damage is being done by the pest, and declare that the San Jose scale is never found upon citrus trees, and though it sometimes seen on deciduous fruit trees here, it is never on high-class fruit shipped East, and it is doing such slight damage that it is not regarded seriously. A sensational tragedy occurred on the banks of Noncennah Creek, in the outskirts of Memphis, Tenn., Friday afternoon. Dr. S. A. Rogers, professor of anatomy at Memphis Medical College, ex-president of the board of health, and one of the most prominent physicians of the city, was shot by Mrs. Martha Sandbrink, a widow, at last count, was lying in a dying condition at St. Joseph's Hospital. After shooting Dr. Rogers, the woman turned the revolver to her breast and sent a bullet through her heart. No one witnessed the shooting. Before lapsing into unconscious Rogers blamed the woman for the deed, saying that she had decoyed him to the place by writing him a note. It is said that she was infatuated with the doctor and on one occasion threatened to kill herself in his presence. The family claim that Rodgers had broken an engagement to marry her. Salter D. Worden, the train-wrecker who is now in Folsom awaiting execution for the murder of Engineer Clark during the railroad strike of 1892 was told by Warden Aull Friday afternoon no of the action of the United States Supreme Court in the Durrant case, and stating that Durrant had died game. The prisoner remarked that in the future it would probably considered fruitless to take appeals habeas corpus matters to the United States courts, and it would be no longer done. He said he was resigned, and would die without making any trouble. The date set for Worden's execution February 11, and owing to his having been reprieved by the Governor, will not be necessary to resentment him. When Paul Fitch, who lives near Grass Valley, returned home Thursday day evening, after an absence of two-four hours at the mines, he fouls his house in darkness. A search revealed the dead body of his wife five feet from the cottage. Every vestige of clothing had been burned from his body, only her shoes remaining. The lower portion of the body had been burned to a crisp, the legs being twisted into peculiar shapes by the hearth. The face and head were not badly burned, but they might as well have been for they had but furnished for ravenous coyotes and rats. The head was torn and presented a terrible sight. Fitch next searched for his four-months-old child. He found it its cradle almost naked, with its heavily burned and chilled through exposure, as the mother in rushing out of the building had left the doors wide open. It is doubtful if it will live. Is believed Mrs. Fitch was starting fire in the fireplace and in doing caught her dress in the fire, enveloping her in flames, and in her frantic forts she probably threw a piece of the burning dress on her baby's head. A peacancies indicate that she had rolled to the ground several times, hoping... When recovering from fever, was a great sufferer of the back and hips," writes over, of Sardis, Ky. "After a number of remedies with fit she tried one bottle of his Pain Balm, and it has been relief." Chamberlain's also a certain cure for Sold by Derge. Kay young waitresses were some days ago from Denver by the proprietor of an agency. The proprietor's son file include one for sixty girls for the same purge place. A. W. Bailey, of Hotel del Coronado, at beach, wrote the agent, ask girls to use in the dining-room-six of these were start-ups ago, and it is expected saunter will be ordered in a Bailey is very particular attresses, and he does not who are not good-looking, nor any who wear short hair. In another letter forth the graces required, fifth of hair, etc. He says he about a girl on the floor who wee more than 160 pounds. Allegent does not understand no waitresses are any bethese of lower altitudes, she with great care, and selects who are within the requireeer patron. When Bailey Colorado and managed the lenwood Springs, Colorado good enough for him. He away to Boston to get fifty dresses, but he soon discoversprightly vim and nerv-characteristic of the Colo-was best, and since going attitude he has concluded to his help from the moun- Perfect as to need no interpretation by the courts. Yet litigation is more flourishing in this country than in any other of the world. Nor does any other country depend so much upon lawyers for the making of its laws as does this. The parliaments of Europe are not now, and without notable exceptions, never have been so dominated by lawyers. Old World legislators are chosen from every department of activity. Laborers, artisans, musicians: artists, cab drivers, men skilled and unskilled in the professions abound in the parliaments on the other side of the Atlantic. And we do not hear that the laws of Europe are any less skillfully drawn than in the United States. It may be that the lawyers in this country are more ambitious for parliamentary careers than are those of Europe, or that the people of the United States, for no apparent reason, prefer members of the bar as lawmakers to men in other callings. Whatever is the reason of the preponderance of the legal profession in our legislative bodies, the fact is obvious that this preponderance is increasing rather than decreasing. And it cannot be claimed that the statutes now show more wisdom or perfection than they did at the earlier stages of the Nation's history, when lawyers were not so much in evidence in the law-making bodies as at present. Mothers whose children are troubled with colds, croup or whooping-cough will do well to read what Dr. R. E. Robey, of Olney, Mo., says on this subject. He writes: "For years we have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and always keep it in the house. It is regarded in our family as a specific for all kinds of colds and coughs." The 25 50 cent bottles for sale by Derge. jan FLORIDA'S FREEZE. Most Disastrous Experienced in the State For Years. WEST PALM, BEACH, Fla., Jan. 7.—Full authentic reports have been received from all over Southern Florida, showing that the freeze just experienced has been one of the worst that has ever visited the State, as far as early vegetables and tender tropical fruits are concerned. The severe cold weather lasted four days, and ice and frost were found as far south as Miami. Thousands of acres of tomatoes were totally killed and pineapples suffered greatly. A convention of pineapple-growers met to-day at Jesen and authentic reports state that at least 50 per cent of the crop was ruined. Young plants may survive, but the loss at the lowest estimate will amount to $500,000 to pineapple-growers and truck farmers. One of the most disastrous effects of the freeze was the killing of fish in clean appearance; if not a clean conscience. Mr. and Mrs. Durrant reached the Warden's office at 9 and at once arranged for the religious rite with the condemned man during his last moments. Mrs. Durrant wept some the previous night, but next morning she was as calm as she ever was. The father's eyes were red and swollen with weeping. He was evidently breaking down, but the mother was like her son, not a tremor in her was noticed. The parents of the condemned man met Warden Hale and Rev. William Rader and Chaplain Drahms in his office, and there it was finally decided that no one except Father Lagan should attend Durrant. Durrant spent an hour and a half from the time of the arrival of Father Lagan in consultation with the priest in the presence of his mother, who remained with him until 10:20. His father kept to his room all the morning. At 10:25 Executioner Lunt entered Durrant's cell and pinioned his arms, and the condemned man marched to the scaffold, accompanied by Father Lagan, Warden Hale and three or four other officials. Durrant mounted the scaffold with a firm, unfaltering step and after looking at the crowd beneath him, turned to the Warden appealingly and receiving an approving nod, made a short address in which he protested his innocence and expressed the opinion that he had been persecuted by the newspapers. He, however, declared that he forgave all who had persecuted him. As he concluded his speech Hangman Lunt stepped to his side, pinioned his legs, placed the black cap over his head, and a moment later the drop fell. The physicians selected to perform that task gathered around the dangling form and after an examination pronounced that Durrant's neck had been broken by his fall and that he was dead. At 10:50 the body was cut down and the law's demands having been fully satisfied the corpse of Durrant was turned over to Undertaker Porter who immediately left the prison with it for San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8.—No resting place has as yet been provided for the remains of Theodore Durrant. No burial permit has been issued or applied for and, interment having been refused by several cemeteryes and the crematories having declined to receive the body, the bereaved parents seem at a loss to know what to do. It is probable, however, that by to-morrow some arrangements will be made for the interment in some Roman Catholic burial place, Father Lagan of San Rafael who baptised Durrant just before the execution, having promised to conduct funeral services, and having urged out of consideration for the father and mother, that there be no further delay. SHOTS AT THE NEWS Alondike rush has commenced. Robbers are coming in so fast that Irish Columbia resources are to accommodate them. The City of Seattle, Tees and Rosa Vancouver have been obliged refuse accommodations and a number of Australian and Canadians are taking the next order for 10,000 of the latest patrol military rifles and 5,000,000 of ammunition, has been placed at Winchester Arms company at seven, Conn., through its San Diego office. The orders are to be sent at the earliest possible moment. The order comes from the Rustermann, the company having negotiating with that agent for several weeks. Wis., has a strong man. Shane, a Dane fisherman, over half and weighing 300 pounds, zzzsimmons was at that place, led him to an arm-twisting contraband simmons accepted. The two armed hands and braced theirapon on the counter. At every pugilist's hand was forced by the counter. Fitzsimmons led his defeat and accepted featurely. Articultural clubs of Southern California have just issued a set of laws regarding the San Jose fruit pest, for publication. Solutions are intended to correct session that serious damage is one by the pest, and declare San Jose scale is never found in trees, and though it is seen on deciduous fruit tree, it is never on high-class capped East, and it is doing such damage that it is not regarded national tragedy occurred on the Noncennah Creek, in the out-Memphis, Tenn., Friday afternoon. In the fight that followed between the robbers and passengers, one of the former jumped from the train and the other was hurled to the ground. The conductor was informed of the robbery, but did not stop the train. Only $12 was secured by the robbers. Dayton, who was identified by a memoranda found in his pocket, is supposed to have formerly been a property man for some theatrical company. A girl named Decousset waylaid a clerk named Verdier in Paris on Saturday, threw vitriol in his face and stabbed him in the back. Verdier shot her with a revolver as she was running away. He then knelt on her head and shot her three times, killing her. He was arrested and taken to the nearest hospital, where he was found to be terribly burned. He said the woman had followed him for a year, attempting to kill him. A portion of the Lompoc valley is making strenuous efforts to arouse enough sentiment in its favor to secure the severance of the valley from Santa Barbara county and annex it to San Luis Obispo county. Very naturally the San Luis people are strongly in favor of the proposition, which will take into their county some of the finest country in that section. Dissatisfaction with the treatment they receive at the hands of the Santa Barbara people is one of the most prominent causes for the movement, which is supported by many of the most influential citizens of the Lompoc valley. Captain Hall fell from the surface to the 600-foot level in the Lerol mine at Rossland, B. C., one day last week, and his body was crushed almost beyond recognition. He had been making his daily inspection of the mine and coming to the surface stepped from the skip to a narrow beam dividing the double compartment shaft. He lost his footing and plunged down to death. The only witness of the tragedy was the engineer who saw Hall stumble and fall, catch desperately at the beam and vanish into the pit. A man working on the 300-foot level, near the shaft, heard a cry and saw a fleeting glimpse make the round trip to Council Bluffs or Omaha in a half a day. The distance by rail is eighteen miles. Superintendent of Schools Greeley has made the following apportionment of public school moneys: Alamitos, $337; Aliso, $187; Anaheim, $3,129; Bolsa Grande, $676; Buena Park, $349; Centralia, $644; Chico, $311; Cypress, $642; Delhi, $323; Diamond, $335; El Modena, $708; El Toro, $351; Fairview, $325; Fullerton, $1,005; Garden Grove, $1,502; La Habra, $347; Laguna, $187; Magnolia, $329; Mountain View, $682; Newhope, $349; Newport, $347; Newport Beach, $311; Ocean View, $1,027; Olive, $678; Orange, $2,439; Orangethorpe, $646; Peralta, $325; Placentia, $646; San Juan, $845; Santa Ana, $5,920; Silverado, $301; Trabuco, $299; Tustin, $1,789; Westminster, $706; Yorba $618. The Hawaiian government opened 200 kegs of beer on the Oceanic wharf at Honolulu the day before the steamer Miowera sailed for Vancouver. It was a sight long to be remembered. The beer was a lot shipped to Honolulu a few months ago from Portland, Or., on speculation, and was an excellent quality of article. None of the local dealers could buy it, as all are under contract with houses in San Francisco and on the Sound. No one was willing to pay duty on the stuff, so the collector-general condemned it and ordered it destroyed. Bung after bung was loosened, and the beer ran out upon the dock and escaped into the sea through a dock close by. It actually brought tears to the eyes of some of the thirsty sailors who witnessed the performance. The schooner Talbot and a steamer lay near by at a dock, and the crews did what they could to stop the waste. Beer at 25 cents a glass up town, and being dumped on the ground at the dock! It was too much for the honest fellows. They drank until they could drink no more, and then filled every available bottle and bucket, but the greater portion of the beverage went into the sea. Judge Van Dyke of the Los Angeles Superior Court one day last week listened to the reading of briefs in a bad- Pictorial tragedy occurred on the Noncennah Creek, in the out-Memphis, Tenn., Friday after Dr. S. A. Rogers, professor at Memphi-Medical College, sent the board of health, and the most prominent physicians in city, was shot by Mrs. Mary Mack, a widow, and at last accusing lying in a dying condition Joseph's Hospital. After shoot-Rogers, the woman turned the to her breast and sent a bullet other heart. No one witnessed it. Before lapsing into unness Rogers blamed the wosthe deed, saying that she had him to the place by writing note. It is said that she was led with the doctor and on one threatened to kill herself inrence. The family claim that had broken an engagement to her. D. Worden, the train-wrecker now in Folsom awaiting exform of the murder of Engineer driving the railroad strike of 1894 by Warden Aull Friday after the action of the United States Court in the Durrant case that the execution of Durrant seemed considerably affected news. He requested Warden drive him the particulars, and so, going at length into the of the appeals in the Durrant and stating that Durrant had done. The prisoner remarked the future it would probably be freed fruitless to take appeals in corpus matters to the United courts, and it would be no longer he said he was resigned, and he without making any trouble. He set for Worden's execution is May 11, and owing to his having reprieved by the Governor, it be necessary to resentence Paul Fitch, who lives near Valley, returned home Thurs-ing, after an absence of twenhours at the mines, he found he in darkness. A search re-ene dead body of his wife fifty on the cottage. Every vestige had been burned from her only her shoes remaining. The portion of the body had been so a crisp, the legs being twist-specular shapes by the heat-kee and head were not badly but they might as well have they had but furnished food venous coyotes and rats. The torn and presented a terrible Fitch next searched for his birth-old child. He found it in the almost naked, with its head turned and chilled through from it, as the mother in rushing out building had left the doors wide it is doubtful if it will live. It need Mrs. Fitch was starting a fireplace and in doing so her dress in the fire, envelopin flames, and in her frantic efforably threw a piece of the address on her baby's head. Apples indicate that she had rolled around several times, hoping to for the movement, which is supported by many of the most influential citizens of the Lompoc valley. Captain Hall fell from the surface to the 600-foot level in the Lerol mine at Rossland, B.C., one day last week, and his body was crushed almost beyond recognition. He had been making his daily inspection of the mine and coming to the surface stepped from the skip to a narrow beam dividing the double compartment shaft. He lost his footing and plunged down to death. The only witness of the tragedy was the engineer who saw Hall stumble and fall, catch desperately at the beam and vanish into the pit. A man working on the 300-foot level, near the shaft, heard a cry and saw a fleeting glimpse of the falling form. The alarm was given and men descended immediately to the 600-foot level. The body had fallen across a skip and was mangled beyond recognition. Each of thirty-four European fire insurance companies doing business in this State has been presented with an official demand by Insurance Inspector Clunie for unpaid license fees, which, in a majority of the cases, run back twelve years, and which aggregate $279,580 98. These license fees were imposed by a law enacted March 3, 1885, requiring foreign insurance companies operating in this State to pay annually 1 per cent on their premiums to the treasurer of every county or city and county in which the business was done, for the benefit of the firemen's relief fund of such county, or city and county. The law has not heretofore been enforced, because of a decision of the Supreme Court, obtained soon after its enactment, holding that it imposed a municipal tax, which could be levied only by a municipality. Commissioner Clunie, however, maintains the State's right to impose such a license as the one contemplated, and that it is the duty of the Insurance Commissioner to deny the companies refusing to pay the fees permission to do business. He declares, moreover, that he will enforce the law in case his demands shall not be honored by Feb. lst. The ministers of South Carolina are paying much attention to the prevalence of the crime of murder in that State, and as a general thing they attribute it to the habit of carrying concealed weapons. J. A. McColough, a member of the State legislature from Greenville county, will introduce a bill at the coming session which will deal with this matter in a stringent manner. The minimum penalty is fixed at a fine of $100 and six months' imprisonment. The bill makes it unlawful to have a hip pocket in the rear of the trousers or coat. A violation of this provision is a misdeemeanor, with a penalty of $100 and six months. The carrying of a concealed weapon is made a misdemeanor, as under the present law, but the bill allows a pistol to be carried under certain conditions. If for any reason a person should wish to carry a pistol, he must apply to the clerk of the court of his county, and give his reasons for desiring to do so. If the reasons are good the clerk may issue a license to the applicant who will have to wear a metal badge in a conspicuous place on the lapel of his coat. The badge will read: "I have my gun concealed." The clerk of the court is to keep a public record in which the names of all armed persons shall be entered. The book will be open for public inspection at all times. The "loaded" badges are to be supplied by the Secretary of State to the clerk in all the counties. Applicants for concealed weapon licenses will have to pay a fee of $2. It is doubtful if the bill will be passed. The politicians say they will oppose it, because it in- ed, and the beer ran out upon the dock and escaped into the sea through a dock close by. It actually brought tears to the eyes of some of the thirsty sailors who witnessed the performance. The schooner Talbot and a steamer lay near at a dock, and the crews did what they could stop the waste. Beer at 25 cents a glass up town, and being dumped on the ground at the dock! It was too much for the honest fellows. They drank until they could drink no more, and then filled every available bottle and bucket, but the greater portion of the beverage went into the sea. Judge Van Dyke of the Los Angeles Superior Court one day last week listened to the reading of briefs in a badly tangled case, in which lawyers were accused of selling out the interest of their client, and praying for a substitution of attorneys. Last September Charles H. Young brought suit for divorce from his wife, Lulu Young. The decree was ordered granted, but before the papers had been signed Young died. The attorneys for Mrs. Young were H. A. Pierce and W. D. Gould. Young's death was the cause of another struggle to determine whether the divorce was effective or not. Before the case was heard, Pierce and Gould consented by stipulation to the signing of the divorce decree, which was done by Judge Van Dyke Mrs. Young now avens that she did not give her consent to this proceeding, and that Pierce and Gould acted against her instructions in order to get $500 fee which they had been promised shouldthe divorce be granted.The attorneys, in turn, accuse Mrs. Young of prevarication, saying that when she found that she had been mentioned in her husband's will, which made her heir to a one-fourteenth interest in the estate of J.B.McCullagh of St.Louis,said to be valued at $876,427,she lost interest in the divorce proceedings and consented tothe stipulation.Judge Van Dyke granted an order substitutingthe law firm of Winder & Davis for Pierce and Gould,anda struggleto nullifythedivorceisnowexpected. The belief grows daily in Chicago that Joseph Leiter's enormous wheat transactions are backed by English capital; that he and his friends are possessedof secret information regardingthe future demand for wheat abroad,andthattheyareloadingupinanticipationofwar.oratleastsuch rumorsofwarasshallenablethemto selltheirtremendouslineatabigprofit. With 10,000,000 bushels of cash wheat on his hands in Chicago,every bushelofwhichhasbeenpaidfor,andwiththreeorfourmillionsmoreinstoreatMinneapolisandDuluth,joeLeitersteppedlastweekintoaargingmarketandtooka coolmillionofMayoption. "Howcanhedoitifsomeoneabroadisn'tbackofhim?"askedthepit. "Ishisbrother-in-law,GorgeN.Curzon,amemberofSailsburyCabin,theEnglishheadofthesyndicate?"queriesthecurb. Leiter,sinceDecember15th,hassumulateda lotofMaywheat,andeveniftherewasa sacrificeonthelineofcash,themightfollowsuchanadvanceinMayaswouldmorethanmakeupforthecashconcession. "IhavegonetotheLeiterpeoplewithinquiriesastotheprices,"saidaseboardcashbroker."Thereplywasthattheyheldtheiwheatso muchabovethepresentpricesitwasuselesstotalktothematpresent.Theeyidentlyhaveaplanofsomesort.Certainlytheyarenottryingtomakeany salesforcashnow." Columbia theater in San Francisco gutted by fire Thursday. The flames caused about $12.50ages to the interior walls, ceilings, the furniture, but the damage before the fire was extinguished considerably increased this the insurance was $2000. It was due that the fire, which started on the electric light wire, broke out more than 7:45 in the evening, when there were only about 100 persons in water. At the first sound of the bell the people were quickly escorted to the box office, where their was returned. Meanwhile Matthias Bulger, who had been playing Coney Island, superintended removal of the scenery to the fireault. While engaged in this both inhaled smoke, and were suffocated. They were subse- revived, however, and this nearest approach to a casualty spread rapidly throughout the flames feeding readily on immobile theatrical furnishings. Shot out through the roof to a few twenty feet a few minutes after was discovered. Two generals were turned in, the water quickly reduced the blaze, and she was extinguished before the fire was totally destroyed. Les Dayton, who is supposed to lived in New York, was found under a railroad trestle across the Creek, in East St. Louis, Ill. Supposed to be the robber who down from an Illinois Central train night before after attempting to passenger in the smoking car. He got on the train at East St. Just as it was pulling out of the depot, and took a seat back of smoking car. After the train had the viaduct, and was going at variable speed; the men arose and shed a prosperous-looking man about the middle of the car, asked him to change a bill, and drew a roll of money from his one of the robbers grabbed it. He must apply to the clerk of the court of his county, and give his reasons for desiring to do so. If the reasons are good the clerk may issue a license to the applicant who will have to wear a metal badge in a conspicuous place on the lapel of his coat. The badge will read: "I have my gun concealed." The clerk of the court is to keep a public record in which the names of all armed persons shall be entered. The book will be open for public inspection at all times. The "loaded" badges are to be supplied by the Secretary of State to the clerks in all the counties. Applicants for concealed weapon licenses will have to pay a fee of $2. It is doubtful if the bill will be passed. The politicians say they will oppose it, because it interferes with personal liberty in abolishing the hip pocket. In South Carolina that pocket is used oftener to carry a half-pint of dispensary liquor than for a gun. One of the best-known men in Iowa is Martin Martin, who lives a few miles south of Loveland. He is a Scotchman, and has been in Iowa for years. Martin's ambition for years has been to build a great castle on his farm and make it the most notable place in that part of the country. He has waited until he has acquired enough of the adjoining land to give him a large domain, and on the highest point of this property he has begun the erection of this castle. The building has been in progress for three years, and although it has grown into an immense structure, Martin will not say how near it is to completion. He has named it Martin Castle. The castle is built upon modified plans of one of the oldest Scottish castles in the highlands, and is a most striking structure. It sits on a high plateau between two of the highest hills that overlook the river, and passengers on the Northwestern trains catch a glimpse of it from trains between Council Bluffs and the Missouri Valley. Martin intended originally to call the great pile of masonry and timbers Melrose Castle, but as it progressed he decided to make it inseperable from his own name. During the last three years he has had a force of forty men at work on the building and grounds all the time. Artificial lakes are placed just where they should be to make the landscape attractive. Few people except the workmen have ever seen the inside of the castle. He boards the workmen, and requires the strictest compliance with his wishes as the first condition to employment. The Boyer River washes one side of the castle grounds, and an immense high brick wall shuts out intruders on the other side. Moored in the Boyer is a little steam launch. This has sufficient power to make headway against the strong current of the Missouri River and make ten miles an hour. Martin intends to make it the only means of communicating with the outside world. He can "Is his brother-in-law, George N. Curzon, a member of Sailsbury Cabinet, the English head of the syndicate?" queries the curb. Leiter, since December 15th, has accumulated a lot of May wheat, and even if there was a sacrifice on the line of cash, there might follow such an advance in May as would more than make up for the cash concession. "I have gone to the Leiter people with inquiries as to their prices," said a seaboard cash broker. "The reply was that they held their wheat so much above the present prices it was useless to talk to them at present. They evidently have a plan of some sort. Certainly they are not trying to make any sales for cash now." Superior Judge Gray of Tulare county has rendered a decision in the matter of the Alta Irrigation District, comprising over 100,000 acres of land in Tulare county, situated north of Visalia. The Court holds that the entire bonded debt of the district is void, notwithstanding a confirmation judgment in the Superior Court confirming the same. The bonds amounted to $541,000. Of these $410,000 were exchanged for the irrigation system of the 76 Land and Water Company. Judge Gray now holds these bonds to be invalid. The remainder of the bonds were issued for the construction of additional canals, and were claimed to be invalid under the decision of the Supreme Court of California in Hughson vs. Crane, because issued in payment for contract work, although the officers of the district undertook to cover up the transaction by a pretense of purchasing completed canals. The plaintiffs contended that the whole bond issue was void because no plan of a system of irrigation works was ever adopted by the board of directors of the district before the bond election was called. The case has been prosecuted by the Alta-District Defense Association, an organization formed about one year ago by the leading landowners in the district, who claimed that the transactions under which the bonds were issued were grossly fraudulent. The case was tried during June and July, and was one of the most bitterly contested cases of kind that has ever come to trial. The case was very fully argued before Judge Gray orally, and was also submitted on exhaustive briefs on the legal questions involved. The decision is peculiarly important at this time because of the bonds being held void in face of the judgment in the confirmation case decreeing their validity. Catarrh in the head, that troublesome and disgusting disease, may be entirely cured by a thorough course of Hood's Sarsaparilla, the great blood purifier. Hood pills cure nausea, headache, indigestion, billiousness. All druggists.