anaheim-gazette 1898-10-27

Anaheim VOLUME XXVIIIII. G. S. EDDY, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OFFICE—First door East of Boston Bakery. Residence—The Witte residence on Center St., opposite Catholic Church. CALLS ANSWERED AT ALL HOURS. ANAHEIM CAL. A.W. Bickford, M.D. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. Office Opposite Postoffice. Residence near Christian Church. ANAHEIM CAL. HERBERT JOHNSTON, M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office and Residence: FEDERMAN BUILDING. (Up Stairs) Open Day and Night. Entrance: Next door to Postoffice. je30 S. G. WILSON, M. D. Office and Residence: Over H. A. Dickel's Store. CENTER ST., ANAHEIM. I. L. Menges, DENTIST. Metz Building, Anaheim. feb24 DR. F. H. HOUCK DENTIST. OFFICE NEXT DOOR to P. O. (Federman Block, up stairs.) HOURS 9 to 5 R. H. SEALE DEALER IN Groceries and Provision 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 Anaheim Bakery, PETER SYRE, PROPRIETOR. FRESH BREAD, CAKES & PIECES CONFECTIONERY, ETC. Wedding Cakes a Specialty. Los Angeles and Cypress ANAHEIM BREWERY Pure Lager Beer I. L. Menges, DENTIST. Metz Building, Anaheim. feb24 DR. F. H. HOUCK DENTIST. OFFICE NEXT DOOR to P. O. (Federman Block, up stairs.) HOURS 9 to 5. ANAHEIM CAL. jy1847 DR. GARRISON. CANCER, TUMOR & RUPTURE SPECIALIST. Knife Not Used 108 E. Fourth St., Los Angeles. Opp. Westminster Hotel. augt-6m 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. J.M.Griffith Company A CORPORATION LUMBER DEALERS Neer Railroad Depot, Anaheim, keep constantly on hand Doors, Blinds, Windows, Mouldings, Posts, Shakes, Shingles, Lath, Hair Plaster of Paris. Anaheim Orlet Mills operating on Wednesdays and Saturdays of each week. Grain, feed, meal, etc., of all varieties. Corn shelled and shipped. N. HART'S PLACE. SCHLITZ MILWAUKEE BEER ON DRAUGHT. DEALER IN... FINE LIQUORS! AND... Choice Wines FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES, Fine Domestic and Imported Cigars. Headquarters for the famous Schlitz, Milwaukee, beer. Hart's Building, Center St., - Anaheim PALACE MEAT MARKET F.W.Feischmann, PROPRIETOR. Best Meats the Market Affords CONFECTIONERY, ETC. Wedding Cakes a Specialty. Los Angeles and Cypress ANAHEIM BREWERY Pure Lager Beer Made from Pure Malt, For Sale by the Bottle or by the Keg. PURE CRYSTAL ICE DELIVERED TO ANY PART OF THE CITY AT ONE CENT PER POUND. The Patronage of the Public is Solicited. F. CONRAD, - Proprietor CITIZENS' BANK OF ANAHEIM Hippolyte Cahen - President W.T.Brown, Vice President. J.Hartung, Cashier DIRECTORS. Kaspare Cohn, W.T.Brown. Richard Melrose, J.Hartung. Hippolyte Cahen. STOCKHOLDERS Kaspare Cohen, H.W.Hellman, W.T.Brown, R.Melrose, John Hartung, R.Courreges, M.A.Newmark & Co., Pierre Nicolas, H.Cahen, T.J.F.Boege. CORRESPONDENTS: Farmers and Merchante' Bank of Los Angeles; London, Paris and American Bank, San Francisco; Importers and Traders' National Bank, New York City, N.Y. Exchange Bank, Santa Ana. Exchanges for sale on all the principal cities in the United States. The Weekly Gazette Established 1873 SUBSCRIPTION, - $1 50 Per Y Six months. Three months. Payable invariably in advance. Transient advertising rates, $1 per month. The GAZETTE is issued every Thursday morning. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as one-class matter. Items of news and correspondence are solicited by the editor. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, frostes, tetter, chapped hands, chilblades, and all skin eruptions, and it actively cures piles, or no pay requirment. It is guaranteed to give perfect sanction or money refunded. Price per box. For sale by P.A.D. RAILWAY TIME TABLE Time of Arrival and Departure Trains. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. Trains on the Southern Pacific pass heim as follows: To Los Angeles Daily... 7:54 am Daily... 9:45 am Daily... 10:55 pm Daily... 12:55 pm Dally trains connect at Miriamore train for Tustin, and at Studebaker Whittier trains. In effect May 30th, 1897. Street cars nect with all trains. Los Alamitos Trains; Leave for -9:45 am 6:00 pm. Arrive from -7:52 am 4:25 pm. SANTA FE ROUTE. Trains on the Santa Fe route leave from Santa Fe Station. PALACE MEAT MARKET F. W. Feischmann, 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 of charge. Shop on East Center St. L. NEMETZ, Carriage Painting & Trimming New Buggies for Sale. Shop on Center St., near Opera-house, Anaheim. E. B. Merritt & Co. FURNITURE Dealers. CENTER STREET. OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE ONLY FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT! IN TOWNIn Connection with Boston Bakery. S. KISTLER, PROPRIETOR. RICHARDMELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW And Notary Public. Special attention given to Probate Matters. —Center Street, Anaheim— L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT AND SHOE MAKER. Corner Adele and Los Angeles Sts. JOSEPH BACKS, DEALER IN FURNITURE Repairing Done. Funeral Director. Los Angeles St. - Anaheim, Cal 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. STOCKHOLDERS Kaspare Cohen, H. W. Hellman, W. T. Brown, R. Melrose, John Hartung, R. Courreges, M. A. Newmark & Co., Pierre Nicolas, H. Cahen, T. J. F. Boege. 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 Bank, Santa Ana. Exchanges for sale on all the principal cities in the United States and Foreign Countries. RICHARDMELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW And Notary Public. Special attention given to Probate Matters. —Center Street, Anaheim— L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT AND SHOE MAKER. Corner Adele and Los Angeles Sts. JOSEPH BACKS, DEALER IN FURNITURE Repairing Done. Funeral Director. Los Angeles St. - Anaheim, Cal 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. RAILWAY TIME TABLE Time of Arrival and Departure Trains. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. Trains on the Southern Pacific pass hemlm as follows: To Los Angeles. Daily...7:54 am Daily...4:25 pm Daily...6:00 pm Daily trains connect at Miraflores train for Tustin, and at Studebaker Whittier trains. In effect May 30th, 1897. Street cars nect with all trains. Los Alamitos Trains; Leave for-9:45 am 6:03 pm. Arrive from-7:52 am, 4:25 pm. SANTA FE ROUTE. Trains on the Santa Fe route leave hemlm for points named: Los Angeles-7:55 am, 10:25 am, 5:10 pm Pasadena, Azusa, Redondo, San Bernardo-7:55 am, 10:25 am. San Diego-9:36 am, *2:50 pm. Santa Ana-9:36 am, *2:50 pm. San Bernardino and Riverside-9:36 pm. Redlands-9:36 am. Trains marked with a * are daily ex Sunday. All others daily. TIME TABLE SANTA ANA & NEWPORT RAILWAY EffectivesOct. 4, 1898. Leave Santa Ana, 9:50 am; 10 am; *2 pm. Arrive Newport, 10:30 am; 2:30 pm. Leave Newport, 3:45 pm. Arrive Santa Ana, 4:15 pm. Daily except Sunday. Santa Fe depot.*Steamer days only. JAMES MCFADDEN, General Manager. How to Prevent Croup. We have two children who are injected to attacks of croup. Whenever attack is coming on my wife gives the Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and always prevents the attack. It household necessity in this country no matter what else we run out of would not do to be without Champlain's Cough Remedy. More of it sold here than all other cough remedies combined.-J.M.NICKLE,Nickle Bros., merchants, Nicklew Pa. For sale by P.A.Derge. Remember the "Bail!" No wagon equals it in quality price. Popular vehicles at Baker Hamilton's, Los Angeles, Cal. Money to Loan. In sums to suit. Apply to H.Cynoweth, Secretary Building Loan Association, Anaheim Cal. E.W.McCollum, dealer in bicycle and bicycle supplies. New and second-hand wheels for sale. A full stock bicycle supplies; also agent for Santa Ana Steam Laundry. I run wagon that will call for and deliver your laundry three times a week.j Heim Weekly Gazette ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1898. SALE Provisions! k of Goods! competition. respectfully solicited. MR. H SEALE, Proprietor. Bakery, PRIETOR. AKES & PIES RY, ETC. Los Angeles and Cypress Sts. BREWERY Beer MAGUIRE, AND THE SINGLE TAX. All things good, true and beautiful are claimed for the single tax, just as they have been claimed for State socialism, free trade, free love, or any other one of the kindred reforms that have had their day in the world and died out of it; but a calm inquiry into each of the beneficent contentions for the single-tax will disclose its chimerical character. If the rental value of land paid all taxes, those who pay other than land taxes would be relieved to that extent; but if this made houses cheaper, and so cheapened the cost of living, it would tend to make wages lower, as the standard of living of the working man is the determining factor in fixing the standard of wages; but it is by no means certain that rents would be cheaper. Rents would be fixed according to what people would be willing to pay, and the highest bidder would fix the price then, as now; and, as the rich could bid higher than the poor, only the poor places would be left for poor people. Besides, where is capital to come from for the construction of homes for the people when half the capital in the State has been confiscated by a single blow? Labor is powerless to produce without the aid of capital, and the confiscation of land values would not only not increase capital available for industry in California, but would frighten what remained out of the State through fear of other forms of confiscation in the direction of a complete State socialism, toward which the single tax would have progressed half way. Therefore, instead of there being more work there would be less, and if, in California, labor undertook to go directly upon unused land, it would starve for want of water for irrigation, which only capital can develop. In his speech in San Francisco at the opening of the campaign, Maguire said: The great monopolies which afflict society are not of land, or of the natural sources of wealth. They are of transportation, industrial production and commerce, which the single-tax system would free from all taxation and make stronger than ever. The sugar, coal and oil trusts are not oppressive in the first production of their several commodities, but in their marketing, by crushing out competition. The monopoly is not in getting these and other commodities out of the earth, or in mining them from the earth but in their marketing afterward. It is in control of markets and franchises, not natural sources of wealth, that monopolies find their opportunities to crush the people. The single tax would be powerless to effect an equality of conditions among the people. The rental value of lands the world over is decreasing. Vastly more people live on the interest of money loaned than on the income from land rented. The great fortunes of the multi-millionaire are not invested in real estate, but in stocks, bonds, railroads, telegraphs, telephones, and interest-bearing securities. While the single tax would deprive the land owner of all except the bare right to rent of the state or communities, it would give a bonus to other species of wealth that would make the inequality of condition between laborer and employer, cultivator and capitalist, more marked than ever. Of the seventy-two billions of estimated wealth in this nation, only twelve billion consist in land—the natural sources of wealth. It would not be the landowner alone who would be deprived of his capital by the confiscations of the single tax, but every owner of every sort of interest in land. Savings and other banks which have loaned their deposits on real-estate security—the adoption of the single tax would smash the last one of them. Insurance companies would go the same way for the same reason. The prospector delving in the mountains, if he made a strike and finds pay dirt, would be pounced upon by the tax gatherer to the extent of the full rental value of his mine—as nearly as the assessor, looking into a hole in the rocks, could guess the value to be. The railroads of the State would pay merely on the rental value of the narrow strips of earth upon which they DR. CASTLE AND CALAM BY SENATOR T. J. JONES Mr. Editor.—How can an Arbitrator listen to such speeches? Castle is making in his canvass, consider it an insult to the intellect of his audience? I understand a Ana, a Chinaman indignantly and left the hall when the Doc speaks, saying "That man what he is saying about this country not true." Does the Doctor suppose thaticans don't know of the unpreceduous progress our country has made usously in everything since 1860; during the Democratic administration of 1893-97, when we took a back for four long years? He howls and howls and howls on the accumulation of wealth, and on the laboring man to know what gets out of it. Here are a few statistics which prove that the working man's tion has constantly improved Republican legislation since do not these throw doubt upon theror's cry of calamity? 1898—Nearly all factories are ning at full capacity, and many lots of dollars are being investiecting plants for new enterprises. "In 1890 the wage earners' country, under protection, had per capita more money to spend in 1890 under free trade. Durir time, aided by, and as the legal and almost invariable result of tion, labor steadily gained on in the division of the carnin BREWERY Beer t, Los Angeles and Cypress Sts. LIVERED TO ANY PART RENT PER POUND. Public is Solicited. Proprietor Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. SCRIPTION, - $150 Per Year. months. $1.00 months. 75 payable invariably in advance. resident advertising rates, $1 per inch. GAZETTE is issued every Thursday. need at the Anaheim Postoffice as seccess matter. of news and correspondence on all objects are solicited by the editor. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. best salve in the world for cuts, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever letter, chapped hands, chilblains, and all skin eruptions, and posicuences piles, or no pay required. guaranteed to give perfect satistion or money refunded. Price 250 ox. For sale by P. A. Derge. AILWAY TIME TABLE. of Arrival and Departure of Trains. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. is on the Southern Pacific pass Analis follows: From Los Angeles. 7:54 am Daily. 9:48 pm trains connect at Miraores with or Tustin, and at Studebaker with per trains. ect May 30th, 1897. Street cars conduct all trains. lamitos Trains: Leave for—9:48 am. Arrive from—7:82 am, 6:09 pm. SANTA PE ROUTE. is on the Santa Fe route leave Ana- Labor is powerless to produce without the aid of capital, and the confiscation of land values would not only not increase capital available for industry in California, but would frighten what remained out of the State through fear of other forms of confiscation in the direction of a complete State socialism, toward which the single tax would have progressed half way. Therefore, instead of there being more work there would be less, and if, in California, labor undertook to go directly upon unused land, it would starve for want of water for irrigation, which only capital can develop. In his speech in San Francisco at the opening of the campaign, Maguire said: Republican organs are declaring that the single tax would drive capital from the State. Let us see about that. What is capita! Capital is movable property applied to the production of new wealth. Now all such property would be exempt from taxation under the single tax system. Would expetion from taxation drive capital State? It would not drive capital out of the State. It would bring capital into the State; whether it is good or bad, it would bring capital into the State instead of driving it out. Capital that would come into a State which had just confiscated investments in land having an assessed value of $654,225,114, would be sillier than the fly that walked into the spider's parlor, and never walked out again; capital, the most proverbially timid of all things! Is it conceivable that men who have suffered the confiscation of their capital to the state would submit to seeing other forms of capital owned in severality? The plea of Maguire is plausible, but false. The single tax system affords no elasticity in the amount of taxation. It would simply take all the rental value of land, be it much or little, and would produce just so much, no more, no less. If it did not produce enough taxes the state would be financially stranded. If more money were produced than was needed for an economical administration of the commonwealth, the politicians would be led into all manner of extravagance and jobbery. A rational system of taxation provides means according to needs, but the single tax does not, and is therefore irrational. A difficulty under our present system of taxation is the inequality of assessments. Assessors are human, and subject to all the defects of judgment and character that the unredeemed are heir to. Not all taxable property is found, and not all that is found is assessed impartially and equally. These defects are admitted, and many there are who are seeking to cure them. But under the single-tax system, assessors would be none the less human, no more impartial, no more honest, and the difficulties of assessing rental values would be far greater than in assessing selling values. Where all the rental value is sought to be taken how tremendous will be the pressure upon assessors to prevent the taking of it all! Could any system be devised that would be more productive of malfeasance in the assessor's office? Who knows what the ground occupied by a city building would rent for if the building were not upon it? Who can know the rental value of a mine the secret of the richness of which lies deep in the bowels of the earth? Why should one who is able to put but a one-story building upon his city lot pay as much ground rent—as much tax to the State—as one by his side who is able to build a sky-scraping building with a thousand rooms in it—a human bee-hive? Like many another theoretical scheme of economical salvation, the single tax would fall to the ground when attempted to be put into practical operation. It simply could not be done. The entire tax of a State could be put upon land, but it would have to do the same way for the same reason. The prospector delving in the mountains, if he made a strike and finds pay dirt, would be pouenced upon by the tax gatherer to the extent of the full rental value of his mine—as nearly as the assessor, looking into a hole in the rocks, could guess the value to be. The railroads of the State would pay merely on the rental value of the narrow strips of earth upon which they have constructed their roadbeds and built their depots. Their stocks, bonds, franchises, roadbeds, buildings, rolling-stock—all would be exempt from taxation if the single tax system were adopted, or Assembly Amendment No. 40 (heretofore referred to) were passed by the Legislature and approved by the people, the Legislature being bribed to do the business. The Republican party does not purpose to exempt the Southern Pacific or other railroads from taxation. The single-taxers do, and Maguire is noted for nothing except for being a simon-pure single-taxer. How the State is Assessed. State Controller Colgan has completed a statement of great interest to taxpayers of California. Among other things it gives the grand total value of assessed property in, and the indebtedness of each county. San Francisco leads with a total assessment of $352,533,515, while second on the list is Los Angeles with $93,256,089; Grand Total Value of Assessed Property. Alameda 85,795,217 828,669 87 Alpine 269,057 17,536 30 Amador 4,204,971 17,536 30 Butte 14,313,152 42,342 79 Calaveras 4,849,157 42,342 79 Colusa 11,990,410 14,511,190 1,000 00 Del Norte 1,804,550 3,714 43 El Dorado 3,923,467 102,000 00 Fresno 27,538,142 90,000 00 Glen 10,002,130 60,000 00 Humboldt 15,340,149 20,000 00 Inyo 1,602,979 60,900 00 Kern 6,497,098 32,000 00 Kings 2,788,912 50,520 89 Lake 2,608,684 681,500 89 Lassen 93,256,089 681,500 89 Los Angeles 85,795,217 828，669，87 Alameda 85，795，217 828，669，87 Alpine 269，057 17，536，30 Amador 4，204，971 17，536，30 Butte 14，313，152 42，342，79 Calaveras 4，849，157 42，342，79 Colusa 11，990，410 14，511，190 1，000，00 Del Norte 1，804，550 3，714，43 El Dorado 3，923，467 102，000，00 Fresno 27，538，142 90，000，00 Glen 10，002，130 60，000，00 Humboldt 15，340，149 20，0 RAILWAY TIME TABLE. Of Arrival and Departure of Trains. Southern Pacific Railroad. Us on the Southern Pacific pass Analis follows: Angeles — 7:54 am Dally — 9:45 am Mena, Azusa, Redondo, San Bernarlos — 5:55 am 10:25 am Belogo — 9:36 am *2:50 pm Ana — 9:36 am *2:50 pm Bernardino and Riverside — 9:36 am Santa Fe Route. Us on the Santa Fe route leave Analis points named: Anglesea — 7:55 am 10:25 am 5:10 pm Mena, Azusa, Redondo, San Bernarlos — 5:55 am 10:25 am Belogo — 9:36 am *2:50 pm Ana — 9:36 am *2:50 pm Bernardino and Riverside — 9:36 am TIME TABLE. ANA & NEWPORT RAILWAY CO. Effective Oct. 4, 1898. Newport, 10 am, *22 pm. Newport, 10:30 am, 2:30 pm. Arrive Santa Ana, 15 pm. except Sunday. Fe depot. *Steamer days only. JAMES McFADDEN, General Manager. How to Prevent Croup. Have two children who are subattacks of croup. Whenever an is coming on my wife gives them perlain's Cough Remedy and it prevents the attack. It is a hold necessity in this country and better what else we run out of, it not do to be without ChamberCough Remedy. More of it is here than all other cough remecombined. J. M. NICKLE, of Bros., merchants, Nickleville, for sale by P. A. Derge. Remember the "Bain!" Wagon equals it in quality and Popular vehicles at Baker & ton's, Los Angeles, Cal. s1-6m Money to Loan. Dums to suit. Apply to H. W. Sweth, Secretary Building and Association, Anaheim Cal. f10-t W. McCollum, dealer in bicycles supplies. New and second-wheels for sale. A full stock of the supplies; also agent for the Ana Steam Laundry. I run a that will call for and deliver laundry three times a week. jy 14 Colorado Soldier's Defi. (From the Denver Post.) I would like to write a sonnet and put loving trimmln's on it. To the pretty little girl I left behind me. But she's got another feller, and I simply want to tell her. That her loss with bitter tears will ne ver blind me. Here in beautiful Manila, far across the bounding billow. I have found another sugar plum, God bless her! And although she is the color of a fried New England cruller. It will never drain my pocketbook to dress her. Hers a figure like a Juno, doesn't try to hide it you know. With the finery our Yankee girls so covet, And her mouth is a creation, built for blissful osculation. With the very cutest nose on earth above it. And her smile! Of holy Moses! What a vision it discloses. Of a rosy portal gemmed with grinders pearly; O! there are no files upon her, and I fear I am a-goner. To the wiles of this sweet Filipino girlie. So the girl I left behind me, isn't very apt to find me. Shedding tears of disappointment should I lose her. For I'm really quite enraptured with the native belle I've captured. And she's gone upon her Colorado snoozer. So exultantly I tell her, that her once best steady feller. Whom she thinks she downed forever in the soup. Has been happily re-lovered, has quite easily discovered. That she's not the only chicken in the coop. So great is the volume of local, coast and overland shipments that there is a cry for more cars from many shipping points, and although the Southern Pacific company's officials are receiving numerous empty cars from eastern cities, it is still impossible to supply the demand. It is estimated that 25,000 cars are now in use for California business. Convenient for Mailing. "Didn't she give you back your engagement ring?" "Well, she sent me the pawn ticket." Commission of 1896 the amount wages and stockholders was as to wit: 5372 general officers, a 957; stockholders, $87,000,000; employees below the rank of $460,000,000. If you discharge the officers, vide their salaries among the employees they will get about four more pay each per day, and be in management. Divide the amelements by the stockholders ameemployed and they will have accents each more pay per day without stockholders they can railroads, and must seek emploisewhere. Now, who is the mute terrested in the success of the ration? I should say the workmen, and they. Dr. Castle asserts that the wthe nation is held by only one-the people. If that tenth is far heads of families he may be near rect. That would make about 7 of capitalists, and as the wealth nation in 1890 was $65,031,091, would give them an average car $9,290. Not a very dangerous one that any of us would be able possesses. The true wealth of a nation d= consist in capital possessed by millionaires, but in the mentalthe correct habits, the commonand the strong and willing armpeople; coupled with the amcompensation annually distributed them in exchange for their labors. Because of the enterprise of otalists and the American stanwages, there is at least times as much wealth distamong our people as among all number of wage earners of ancountry. Editor Carr, of Cadie England, when he wrote of this try: "It is the paradise of the man." The further my inquiries the more convinced I become thacountry a working man earns much as he would in England, cost of his living, except in the rent and clothing; is about thaEven in the matter of clothing efference is not great except brough about by the general much better clothing." Emigrants are flocking to our from all parts of the world much than we want them, because know that this is the best place world for a working man. Dr. Castle is going from town fouly misrepresenting his own while all Europe at this very standing agast with wonders amazement at the wonderful prece we have attained in everything t OCTOBER 27, 1898. MR. CASTLE AND CALAMITY. BY SENATOR T. J. JONES. Mr. Editor.—How can an American citizen listen to such speeches as Dr. Castle is making in his canvass, and not consider it an insult to the intelligence this audience? I understand at Santa Ana, a Chinaman indignantly arose left the hall when the Doctor was speaking, saying "That man knows that he is saying about this country is true." Does the Doctor suppose that Americans don't know of the unprecedented progress our country has made continually in everything since 1860, excepting the Democratic administration 1893-97, when we took a backtrack four long years? He howls and howls and howls about accumulation of wealth, and calls the laboring man to know what he is out of it. Here are a few statistics which will prove that the working man's condition has been constantly improving under Republican legislation since 1860; not these throw doubt upon the Doc's cry of calamity? Men, Women and Children employed: 1,312,000 829,000,000 $269 2,054,000 775,584,343 377 2,732,595 947,953,795 347 4,712,000 2,282,823,265 485 1,255,552,796 Product of Manufacturers: — $1,885,861,667 $4,232,345,442 $5,369,579,191 $9,370,107,624 $5,247,200,269 Nearly all factories are running at full capacity, and many millions of dollars are being invested in selecting plants for new enterprises. In 1890 the wage earners of the country, under protection, had $196 capita more money to spend than 1860 under free trade. During that time, aided by, and as the legitimate almost invariable result of protec-tion, labor steadily gained on capital the division of the earnings. SNAP SHOTS AT THE NEWS Manuel Fellows, the half-breed who murdered Dolores Garcia, a Capistrano saloon-keeper, in cold blood at that place on June 16, 1897, has been granted a new trial, and will be brought back to Santa Ana to be tried again for his crime. Mestizo, as Fellows is familiarly known, was convicted of murder in the first degree in the Superior Court of Orange county on September 23, 1897, and was sentenced on October 8 of the same year to be hanged December 9, 1897. His attorneys appealed to the Supreme Court for a new trial, and the execution was postponed, pending a decision. A new trial has been granted on the grounds of an error on the part of the Court in appointing the Coronor Elsor for the purpose of summoning a special venire to try the case. The twenty-third State Convention of Fruit Growers of California will convene at Fresno, under the auspices of the State Board of Horticulture, on Tuesday, November 29th, and continue in session four days. A cordial invitation is extended to all fruit growers, shippers, packers, nurserymen and others interested in horticulture and kindred pursuits, to be present and take part in the proceedings of the convention, and it is expected that every branch of the industry will be well represented. Among other matters of importance to producers that will be considered will be marketing and increasing the consumption of California fruit products. Eminent horticulturists will present essays during the sessions on subjects deemed of the utmost importance to the fruit industry in general. Ample time and opportunity will be afforded visitors to visit orchards and vineyards, also raisin packing-houses in operation. Albert Martin, a rancher living near Cheyenne river in Siebeck county, S. D., enlisted as a volunteer at the beginning of the war, and fought at the battle of El Caney. After the battle he met Ramona Perez, the daughter of an officer of Garcia's command, and they became sweethearts. Soon afterward he was attacked by fever and sent home on sick leave. He was engaged before his departure for the war to the Product of Manufacturers:— 1890—Nearly all factories are run at full capacity, and many millions of dollars are being invested in erecting plants for new enterprises. In 1890 the wage earners of the country under protection, had $196 capita more money to spend than 1880 under free trade. During that time, aided by, and as the legitimate almost invariable result of protection, labor steadily gained on capital the division of the earnings. In 1890 labor received $44 50 and in 1890 50 out of each hundred dollars' worth of net products, while capital had $55 50 in 1890 and $45 50 in 1890. Labor advanced from $289 to $485, or per cent, while capital went from $1 to $408, an advance of only 40 per cent. This shows a difference in favor of labor at 30 per cent. In 1860 under free trade policy, $785 of capital had $790 worth of raw material, gave employment to one hand, who produced $1,385 in finished goods. The value products over cost of material was 90. Of this sum, labor received $289 about 44% per cent, while capital had $360 or about 55% per cent, for excesses and profits. In 1890, under the protective policy, it required $1,385 of capital and $1,095 in raw material for both hand employed. The finished product amounted to $1,988, or $893 above cost of material. Of this amount labor received $485, or about 54% per cent, while capital had $408, or about 51% per cent, reversing in the interest labor the division of net products. While the capital required to keep one employed had to be increased 76 per cent, from 1860 under a free trade policy, to 1890 under protection, and the needed raw material was over one-third greater, the product of labor was only increased 38 per cent. The increase in earnings over the cost of material was $243 per hand. Of this increase labor received in enhanced wages $196, while capital only received as its share of this gain." As over $5,000,000,000 worth of raw material was required to supply the stories in 1890, employment was given to miners of coal, iron lead, copper, zinc and silver; to lumbermen of grades; to farmers, in growing cotton, wool, tobacco, hemp, hides and other materials for manufacturing purposes; besides the millions of dollars worth of food consumed by the operatives. In every case profitable employment was given to the laboring man. At the same time let it be remembered that everything he needed himself and family, except breads, he could buy in 1890 and 1892 at half the price he could in 1860; his hours of labor were at least the hour less per day. Again—How is labor abused by the railroad companies? According to the report of the Interstate Commerce Commission of 1896 the amount paid to ages and stockholders was as follows: wit: 5372 general officers, $12,497; stockholders, $87,000,000; 821,248 employees below the rank of officers, 200,000,000. If you discharge the officers and disable their salaries among the other employees they will get about four cents ore pay each per day, and be without management. Divide the amount received by the stockholders among the employees and they will have about 34 cents each more pay per day. But without stockholders they can have no railroads, and must seek employment elsewhere. Now, who is the most invested in the success of the railroads? should say the workmen, and so say choice. Tillage and water will accomplish wonders. If you could go back to the year when I purchased a certain piece of land which I now own, then in a bearing orange orchard, and see its then poor, scrawny looking trees, you would scarce wonder that I then proposed to dig up the trees and reset the land with good trees, under the then prevailing opinion that a stunted tree could not profitably be brought up. But pre-occupation prevented me from digging them up that year and the next, and the next I did not dare dig them up. What did it? you will ask—simply tillage with water; not a pound of fertilizer of any kind. My method of tillage this year has done wonders in the absence of water. There is a common fallacy that the Azusa irrigation company directors' trees get plenty of water because their trees look so well, and another that I have plenty of water by reason of my vast reservoir. I will only take time to say that my trees have had no more water per acre than any other person's trees in our district since the water went on turns, but I did put on all the water I could handle last March, and have kept the cultivator going ever since. My usual rule in a normal winter is to let the weeds grow in my orchard so long as the water they consume does not cost me anything. Then, at the proper time, according to the season, I start the Gale gang plow and plow both ways, following this with a smoother of my own make. This I would follow in two or three weeks with a cutaway disk to loosen up the ground deep and cut up the weeds to assist in their decomposition, and I would follow this with a leveller of my own make. As soon as I have the weeds out of the way I start a cultivator and see that the teeth are long enough to do some scratching. The old saying that the lazy man irrigates while the industrious man cultivates is nullified this year because it takes an awfully industrious man to get water, but constant cultivation with a very little water will carry trees through a dry season and in a normal season for water, the more cultivation the more growth. I was once talking to a man who was a vendor of fertilizer and who was the fortunate, or unfortunate, owner of an orange orchard, and I told him he did not cultivate enough. Why, he was surprised at my remark, he "cultivated after every irrigation." I was, the other day, talking to another rancher and he told me that he cultivated his orchard once a week. And I know he doesn't get water as often as that. But the next orchard to his gets more water than his does, but the trees are dry oftener and much drier than his too. Two springs ago I trusted to the Lord to irrigate my land "just once more," but He did not do it, and it took me several weeks with lots of work and lots of water to get caught up if I have ever succeeded. Last spring I kept on trusting, but put on all the water I could handle with the force I then had, and I made up my mind that though the Lord would bless my work He would not do the work for me. Hence hereafter, I shall always see that my land is always kept wet in winter by irrigation if not by rains. Now, to sum up. What is good tillage? Do not wait for rains when water can be had. If it doesn't rain, irrigate and cultivate; never let a dry February or March go by and leave your land dry. Soak all the water into your land that you can handle. Plow your weeds under. Do not allow your land to produce weeds that you must haul off—too much waste Postal Inspector Flint, under direction of Postmaster General, is endeavoring to root out the practice which he has discovered to be all too prevalent in several little country towns. Mr. Flint has found that the postmasters of fourth-class offices are frequently made the victims of petty spite on the part of ex-postmasters and their friends. This is easily done by cutting down the income of the postmasters who depend for their compensation upon the number of stamps they cancel on matter mailed at their offices. Instead of putting their mail in the postoffice, thus giving the postmaster a chance to make his small percentage, the spiteful members of the community put their mail in the mail car and it does not go through the postoffice at all. Each of the postmasters of fourth-class offices is allowed 100 per cent on the first $50 worth of stamps cancelled by him, 60 per cent on the second $100, 50 per cent If you discharge the officers and divide their salaries among the other employees, they will get about four cents more pay each day, and be without management. Divide the amount received by the stockholders among the employees and they will have about 34 cents each more pay per day. But without stockholders they can have no railroads, and must seek employment elsewhere. Now, who is the most interested in the success of the railroads? Should say the workmen, and so say they. Dr. Castle asserts that the wealth of the nation is held by only one-tenth of the people. If that tenth is from the heads of families he may be nearly correct. That would make about 7,000,000 capitalists, and as the wealth of the nation in 1890 was $65,037,091,197 that would give them an average capital of 290. Not a very dangerous sum; or be that any of us would be afraid to assess. The true wealth of a nation does not consist in capital possessed by a few millionaires, but in the mental ability, the correct habits, the common sense, and the strong and willing arms of its people; coupled with the amount of compensation annually distributed among them in exchange for their labor. Because of the enterprise of our capitals and the American standard of wages, there is at least three times as much wealth distributed among our people as among an equal number of wage earners of any other country. Editor Carr, of Cadiff Mail, England, when he wrote of this countryside: "It is the paradise of the working man. The further my inquires extend, so more convinced I become that the real truth of the matter is that in this country a working man earns twice as much as he would in England, and the cost of his living, except in the matter present and clothing, is about the same. Even in the matter of clothing the difference is not great except as it is brought about by the general use of such better clothing." Emigrants are flocking to our shores from all parts of the world much faster than we want them, because they know that this is the best place in the world for a working man. Dr. Castle is going from town to town fully misrepresenting his own country while Europe at this very time is ending agast with wonder and amazement at the wonderful prosperity have attained in everything that conludes in this newspaper. Germany's apple crop is smaller in quantity and poorer in quality than has been gathered in recent years, according to United States Consul-General Frank Mason at Frankfort. Older apples demand three times the usual price, and no older will be made outside of Wurtemberg. Even cooking apples of an inferior grade are selling in Frankfurt for 8 to 9 cents per pound. This deficiency is said to extend more or less to France, Bohemia and Northern Italy, so the conditions favor a large importation of American apples, though whether this will be practicable or not will depend upon first, the supply in the United States; and second, the spirit in which the German officials enforce the inspection laws. Mr. Mason believes in view of the uncertainty of the trade that the future development will be in the direction of dried and preserved fruits. Mr. Flint has found that the postmasters of fourth-class offices are frequently made the victims of petty spite on the part of ex-postmasters and their friends. This is easily done by cutting down the income of the postmasters, who depend for their compensation upon the number of stamps they cancel on matter mailed at their offices. Instead of putting their mail in the postoffice, thus giving the postmaster a chance to make his small percentage, the spiteful members of the community put their mail in the mail car and it does not go through the postoffice at all. Each of the postmasters of fourth-class offices is allowed 100 per cent. on the first $50 worth of stamps cancelled by him, 60 per cent on the second $100, 50 per cent on the next $200, and 40 per cent; thereafter until the total compensation reaches $250 per quarter, when the percentage ceases. By boycotting the postmaster his enemies manage to reduce his income to little or nothing. When this condition prevails the mail cars will be closed and no mail will be received by the mail cars until the spite work ceases. The residence of Postmaster B. A. Osborn of Watsonville was entered about 2 o'clock last Wednesday morning by two men and his daughter, Edna, a child of about 12 years, carried from her bed out into the rear yard, where she managed to escape by making an outcry. The officers found a clew in the shape of a receipt for a load of beets, which was delivered at the factory in the name of James Redman, in the bottom of the buggy, and arrested the driver of the wagon and his partner, to whom the receipt had been delivered by the weigher. Both are young men of Spanish extraction. One is named Romero, but the other declines to give his name. A further clew was obtained in a quantity of the child's hair, which was found on the coat buttons of one of the men. While they have not been formally charged with the crime both are held on suspicion. Residents of Watsonville have been greatly annoyed of late by repeated burglaries and they are much excited over this sensational climax.