anaheim-gazette 1900-06-14

Anaheim VOLUME XXX. Dr. A. W. Bickford. OFFICE OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE. Telephone Central. Residence near Christian Church. Telephone 671. ANAHEIM, CAL. HERBERT JOHNSTON, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office and Residence: Corner of Broadway and Los Angeles St.. ...Telephone 656.... Office Hours 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., evenings. DR. IDA MENGES BOYD. 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. jy15tf S. G. WILSON, M. D. Office and Residence: Over H. A. Dickel's Store. CENTER ST., ANAHEIM. DR. H. ARENSBERG German Physician aud Surgeon REMEMBER that quality is the standard of cheapness; that there is a broad distinction between "pianos cheap" and "cheap pianos." If you desire a reliable make at a moderate price, do not fail to look at our large and handsome stock of fine pianos. Our company is one of the few large music houses of Southern California that buy and ship their pianos in carload lots direct from the Eastern factories. Owing to our low rents we are enabled to undersell our Los Angeles competitors from $25 TO $50 ON EVERY PIANO. Sold on easy payments. Old instruments taken in exchange. Patronize a home concern that is here to make good its representations, and you take no risk. PYNE MUSIC CO., Cor. 5th and Main Sts., Santa Ana, Cal. Heart, Rheumatism, Kidney, Bladder and Diseases of a Specific Nature CURED by the use of this Balsam. Simple in its application and certain of beneficial results PYNE MUSIC CO., Cor. 5th and Main Sts., Santa Ana, Cal. Heart, Siberian Balsam, Rheumatism, Kidney, Bladder and Diseases of a Specific Nature CURED by the use of this Balsam. Simple in its application and certain of beneficial results DOSE: One teaspoonful after each meal. This medicine is not for sale in the general market, and can only be had by addressing ALEX DE BORRA, ELSINORE, CAL. CONSULTATION, by letter or in person, FREE. Anaheim Bakery, PETER SYRE, PROPRIETOR. FRESH BREAD CAKES & PIES CONFECTIONERY, ETC. Wedding Cakes a Specialty. Los Angeles and Cypress Sts ONLY FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT! - IN TOWNIn Connection with Boston Bakery. S. KISTLER, PROPRIETOR. JOSEPH BACKS, Undertaker and Embalmer DEALER IN Furniture and Bedding Repairing Done. jel5 Get your Shoes repaired Rubber heels put on while you want...60 Men's shoes soiled and heeled...75 Men's shoes soiled and heeled; hand sewed.$1.00 Ladies' shoes soiled and heeled...50 FINE CUSTOM WORK A SPECIALTY. Herman Schindler, Next to Spoerl*. Send your LACE CURTAINS to THE Santa Ana Steam Laundry 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. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter. RAILWAY TIME TABLE. Time of Arrival and Departure of Trains. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. Trains on the Southern Pacific pass Anaheim as follows: To Los Angeles. From Los Angeles. Daily...7:52 am Daily...9:49 am Daily...4:23 pm Daily...6:03 pm Pass Loara Station: To Los Angeles. From Los Angeles. Daily...7:56 am Daily...9:48 am Daily...4:27 pm Daily...6:59 pm LOS ALAMITOS TRAINS. Leave for— 9:49 a.m. Sugar Factory Arrive from— 6:03 p.m. Alamitos trains do not run on Sundays. NEWPORT BEACH RAILWAY. Daily Schedule. Leave Anaheim. Arrive Anaheim. 9:49 a.m. 7:52 a.m. 6:03 p.m. 4:23 p.m. All trains connect at Santa Ana with Newport trains. Santa FE ROUTE. Local time table. In effect November 10. Trains on the Santa Fe route leave Anaheim as follows for points named: Los Angeles—7:55 am; *10:02 am; 11:19 am; 4:54 pm. Pasadena, San Bernardino and intermediate points (via Los Angeles)—7:56 am; *10:00 am; 11:19 am. San Bernardino and Riverside (via Orange)—9:41 am; *10:47 am; 5:50 am; San Diego—9:41 am; 2:50 pm. Santa Ana—9:41 am; 2:50 pm; 5:56 pm. Redlands—9:41 am; *10:47 am. San Jacinto, Temecula and intermediate JOHN KELLENBERGER, Prop. Having purchased the butcher business formerly conducted by Velt Bents, I desire to say to my friends and the public generally that I have entirely overhauled and renovated the premises, and will in future carry on the business as a first-class market. The best of meats will be kept constantly on hand, as well as Hams, Bacon, Lard, Sausages, etc. A share of the public patronage is respectfully solicited. JOHN KELLENBERGER. LITTLE GEM BARBER SHOP Frank Dyer, Prop. First-Class Tonsorial Artists. Shop 1 door east of McCollum's cyclery. We keep constantly on hand the best of hair Restorer, Dandruff Cures, and other articles found in a well-appointed barber shops. A share of the public patronage solicited GO TO THE Oak Barber Shop FOR A FIRST-CLASS SHAVE OR HAIR CUT. TWO DOORS WEST OF BANK. HUSMANN BROS. A. FREISE, ...KEEPS THE FINEST OF... Wines, Liquors And Cigars. LOS ANGELES BEER ON DRAUGHT. Koll Block, Los Angeles Street. F. BACKS, UNDERTAKER And Dealer in FURNITURE. Wall Paper, Cornices, Window Shades, Picture Frames, Upholstery Goods, Paints, Oils and Glass Serving Machine Supplies, Etc. Cor. Los Angeles & Chartres Sts. Get your Shoes repaired Rubber heels pnt en while you wait....60 Men's shoes soiled and heeled.....75 Men's shoes soiled and heeled; hand sewed.$1.00 Ladies' shoes soiled and heeled.....50 FINE CUSTOM WORK A SPECIALTY. Herman Schindler, Next to Spoerl's. Send your LACE CURTAINS to THE Santa Ana Steam Laundry Every facility for doing the best work. E. W. McCollum, Agent, Anaheim Roman Wisser Favorite Saloon. Finest of Wines, Liquors & Cigars Pool & Billiard Tables Schindler's Building, Center St., Anaheim LOS ANGELES BEER ON DRAUGHT. FRITZ RUHMANN'S Germania Halle. BACKS' NEW BUILDING LOS ANGELES STREET Keeps on hand a Large and complete stock of liquors, wines and cigars. Cold beer always on draught NEWS AND OPINIONS OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE THE SUN ALONE CONTAINS BOTH Daily, by mail, $6 a year Daily and Sunday by mail, $8 a year THE Sunday Sun is the greatest Sunday. Newspaper in the world. Price 5c a copy. By mail,$2 a year. Address THE SUN, New York. PALACE MEAT MARKET F. W. Fleischmann PROPRIETOR. Best Meats the Market Afford Always on Hand. Also keeps on hand Sausage, Bacon, Ham, Lard, Etc. Meats delivered to all parts of the city free of charge. Shop on East Center St. N. HART'S PLACE SCHLITZ MILWAUKEE BEER ON DRAUGHT DEALER IN.... FINE LIQUORS AND.... Choice Wine FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES, Fine Domestic and Imported Cigars. Headquarters for the famous Schlitz, M waukee, beer. GRAY BROTHERS & WARREN Cement Contractors Shillinger Patent. Contracts for RESERVOIRS, IRRIGATION, DITCHES, Cellar and Stable Floors, Sidewalls Etc. OFFICES—No. 125 N. Broadway, Los Angeles Cal. Telephone—236. No. 316 Montgomery St., San Francisco, Os ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1900. OUR TRADE UNDER EXPANSION Wonderful Growth of the Volume of Business with Hawaii—Expansion Will Bring Great Things in the Philippines. [SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE GAZETTE.] WASHINGTON, June 7. — Senator Lodge is one of the most careful and thorough investigators of the expansion question in all of its bearings. He has just been examining the growth of our trade with Hawaii, and finds that five years ago, in 1895, the total Hawaiian trade with the United States amounted to only $11,500,000. Last year it reached $33,500,000, having increased almost threefold within five years, and most of this increase has occurred within the past eighteen months. The Senator says we may not think that a business of $33,500,000 amounts to very much, when our foreign trade is now running up into the billions, but to compare our trade with the Hawaiian islands, with their handful of people, with our trade with some of the larger countries of the world, gives a better idea of the value of colonies to the United States. As a result of his investigations Senator Lodge finds that— Our trade with the Hawaiian islands is over 100 per cent larger than our total trade with Austria-Hungary. It is 75 per cent larger than our trade with Denmark. It is 60 per cent as large as our total trade with Italy. It is nearly four times as large as our trade with Portugal. It is over 150 per cent greater than our total trade with Russia. It is almost double our trade with Spain. construction and reconstruction of railroads in Cuba, a special provision has been inserted in the tariff which allows railroad companies to import these supplies into the island for a period of twelve months from the date of promulgation at a rate of 10 per cent ad valorem. Some few changes have been made in the free list, one or two additions being made, and one or two articles being taken out and put on the dutiable list. The Cuban postal frauds are being thoroughly investigated by the administration. Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General Bristow is now in charge there, and the criminals will be punished as quickly as the law permits. Deig.-Gen. Theo. Schwan's report to the War Department shows that most of the large towns in the Philippines are garrisoned by American troops. More trouble is caused there by the Filipino brigands than from any other cause. The Boer incident was diplomatically and courteously terminated by President McKinley, and the envoys have been socially entertained by the Secretary of State. Politically the matter is ended just as completely as the Macrum affair. Secretary Hay soon showed the envoyes that the United States government had not only done all it could in the interests of peace, but is the only nation that has shown any interest in stopping the war. The Boers in March appealed to all European governments and to the United States to intervene, but the United States was the only one that complied with the request, and this offer from President McKinley, as the world already knows, was declined. BIRDS AND FRUIT GROWERS. Destruction of Birds Can only Result in an Increase of Pests on the Farm. From an economic point of view the value of bird life and the relation of the birds to the farmer and fruit growers cannot be overestimated. They play the part of an important factor in the preservation of fruit from the depredations of insect pests, and as such should have the fullest protection from orchardists. Their economic value was not investigated to any extent until some ten years ago, when the United States Department of Agriculture formed a Division of Economic Ornithology for the scientific and careful examination of the food of birds. Since that time bulletins have been regularly issued on the beneficial birds found throughout the United States. Of the 13,000 species of birds known to science about 1000 are known to North America. Of the land birds there are some 360 which live entirely on insects; 630 live more or less on insect life; while nearly 100 depend entirely on such foods as the seeds of weeds and wild grain this year round. Birds occupy a secondary place in the scale of life (animals occupying them first) and are almost closely related to reptiles, as we find the earliest types having teeth, representatives of the early Jurassic period. Birds are found at home from pole to pole equally content whether on ocean wave, in Arctic snows, on arid deserts or in the dense shade of the tropical forests. Every day we find that the birds are preventing the increase of injurious insects and small rodents as well as harmful plant seeds. Take any one day and consider the amount of food a bird consumes, particularly when they have cheapness; that there is cheap化 price; do not fail pianos. Our company in California that buy the Eastern factories. Versell our Los Angeles PIANO. In exchange. Patronize representations, and you C CO. Santa Ana, Cal. Balsam of a Specific of this Balsam. gain of beneficial results As a result of his investigations Senator Lodge finds that— Our trade with the Hawaiian islands is over 100 per cent larger than our total trade with Austria-Hungary. It is 75 per cent larger than our trade with Denmark. It is 60 per cent as large as our total trade with Italy. It is nearly four times as large as our trade with Portugal. It is over 150 per cent greater than our total trade with Russia. It is almost double our trade with Spain. It is 125 per cent greater than our trade with Sweden and Norway combined. It is more than double our trade with Switzerland. It is ten times as large as our trade with Turkey. It is nearly thirty times larger than our trade with Greece. Comparisons with countries on the American continent show that Hawaiian trade with the United States is equal to 30 per cent of our trade with the whole Dominion of Canada. It is nearly 150 per cent greater than our trade with nearly all the Central American states. It is 60 per cent as large as our trade with Mexico. It is 50 per cent larger than our trade with all the British West Indies. It is nearly five times as large as our trade with Porto Rico. It is three times as large as our trade with the Danish, Dutch and French West Indies, with Hayti and San Domingo included. It is almost twice as large as our trade with Argentine. It is almost half as large as our trade with Brazil, whence we import most of our coffee. It is nearly 400 per cent larger than our trade with the United States of Colombia. It is nearly fifteen times larger than our trade with Ecuador. It is more than six times larger than our trade with British, Dutch and French Guiana. It is ten times larger than our trade with Peru. It is ten times larger than our trade with Uruguay. It is more than five times larger than our trade with Venezuela. He then makes comparisons with countries across the Pacific, and finds that our trade with Hawaii is within six million dollars of being as large as our trade with the empire of China. It is more than three times as large as our trade with Hongkong. It is nearly half as large as our total trade with all the British, Dutch and French East Indies, which send us such supplies of sugar. It is equal to 65 per cent of our total trade with Japan. It is more than five times larger than our last year's trade with the Philippines. It is nearly twenty times larger than our trade with Asiatic Russia. It was larger by four million dollars than our trade with the whole of the Australasian colonies last year, with dent McKinley, and the envoys have been socially entertained by the Secretary of State. Politically the matter is ended just as completely as the Macrum affair. Secretary Hay soon showed the envoys that the United States government had not only done all it could in the interests of peace, but is the only nation that has shown any interest in stopping the war. The Boers in March appealed to all European governments and to the United States to intervene, but the United States was the only one that complied with the request, and this offer from President McKinley, as the world already knows, was declined by Great Britain. Samoa's trade last year amounted to about a million dollars, rather more than half being imports. The bulk of it was transacted with the Australasian colonies. The share of the United States amounted only to $127,000, but will now rapidly increase. Internal revenue receipts during the first ten months of this fiscal year were $243,187,210, an increase of $19,390,849 over the corresponding months of the previous fiscal year. Chairman Kerr, of the Democratic congressional campaign committee, says that he has sent out practically no 16 to 1 speeches this year. There is no demand for silver literature, the subject being a dead one. RURAL FREE MAIL DELIVERY. Its Recent Establishment and Rapid Growth in the Post Office Department. As recently as 1893 the Postmaster-General reported to Congress that the introduction of any system of rural free delivery of letters and papers would be impracticable as involving an expenditure of $20,000,000 a year without any commensurate revenue. In his annual report for 1894 Postmaster-General Bissell declined to spend the appropriation of $10,000 made by Congress to test the feasibility of rural free delivery. When Congress increased the appropriation for a test to $20,000 in 1895, Postmaster-General Wilson adopted the opinion of his predecessor of the house committee on Post Offices and Post Roads that the plan of establishing rural free delivery was wholly impracticable. He added that he had assumed control of the department too late in the fiscal year to take action under the appropriation, but should Congress see fit to make it available for the current year he would carry out the experiment ordered by the best methods he could devise. Congress made $40,000 available for the purpose, and in 1896 Postmaster-General Wilson put the idea to its first test. The experiment was entirely successful, and since then the system of rural free delivery has been so generally extended that it now includes 383 distributing points in forty-one of the forty-five States, the exceptions being Idaho, Montana, Mississippi and Wyoming. By degrees the appropriation has been increased from $20,000 to $150,000, and it is $300,000 for this year. Birds occupy a secondary place in the scale of life (animals occupying their first) and are almost closely related to the reptiles, as we find the earliest types having teeth, representatives of the early Jurassic period. Birds are found at home from pole to pole equally content whether on ocean wave, in Arctic snows, on arid deserts or in the dense shade of the tropical forests. Every day we find that the birds are preventing the increase of injurious insects and small rodents as well as harmful plant seeds. Take any one day and consider the amount of food a bird consumes, particularly when they have broods of from four to nine, each little mouth taking in several ounces per day. This destruction of injurious material does not only go on through each day but is continued through the night by the owls, nighthawks and poorwill Swallows and swifts keep down the insect growth in air, while various species of flycatchers, warblers, vireos and humming birds are busy in about the foliage. Woodpeckers, nuthatches, titmice and gnatcatchers, are always busy working over the limbs and tree trunks, which innumerable varieties of thrushes and sparrows are continually at work in the ground seeking terrestrial insects well as worms and seeds. Birds digest their food so rapid that is difficult to determine just how much they consume during a day's feeding. E. H. Forbush of the Board of Agriculture of Massachusetts stated that the stomachs of four small chick deets contained 1028 eggs of the cannery; the stomachs of four others bore about 600 eggs and 105 female mothers; the canker worm in them. It was estimated that one chickadee feeding for 25 days would destroy some 138,750 eggs of this noxious worm, a phenomenon amount for so small a bird. Prof. Forbes, Director of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History found in the stomach of a single rook 175 bibs (a fly) which, in the larval stage feeds on the roots of grass. For a few facts of this nature we can what an economic factor the birds are flitting about our farms and orchards day and night. Hawks and owls especially that are usually so condemned by farmer and sportmen in genetics are constantly protecting the crop killing off thousands of small rodents so destructive to grain and trees also by consuming millions of grubs. Dr. A. K. Fisher, Assistant Officer of United States Department of Agriculture, found in the pellets cast up barn owl that 200 contained 450 sermmals, no less than 250 of these ing sculds of the field and meadow in Still we find that in many of our Stain a bounty is offered for the head hawks and owls. The State of Pennsylvania sustained a loss of nearly two millions of dollars in eighteen months from the killing of over 100,000 of birds. From my personal experience of one nesting site in an old sycamore limb, along the edge of my orchard says W. O. Emerson of Haywardshire, recent fruit growers' convention, I from a barn owl's nest five pigeons, two wood rats, three lizards and two snakes. This was It is more than three times as large as our trade with Hongkong. It is nearly half as large as our total trade with all the British, Dutch and French East Indies, which send us such large supplies of sugar. It is equal to 65 per cent of our total trade with Japan. It is more than five times larger than our last year's trade with the Philippines. It is nearly twenty times larger than our trade with Asiatic Russia. It was larger by four million dollars than our trade with the whole of the Australasian colonies last year, with their five millions of people. It was larger last year by more than three million dollars than our trade with the entire continent of Africa. Senator Lodge says the increase in our trade with Hawaii has been very marked since its annexation to the United States, and he looks for equally rapid improvement in our trade with Porto Rico and the Philippines. These colonies will absorb some of our surplus manufactures, and they will also draw upon this country for their provisions, thus increasing the demand for the products of American farms. The War Department has again revised the schedules of the Cuban tariff, to go into effect June 15th. It is expected that this will increase the imports from the United States, as we now have less than half the trade of the island. A previous reduction of the duty on foodstuffs and live stock has not lessened the cost of food to the consumer, so that no changes are made in the revision in the food duties, except to reduce the duty on flour from $1.30 to $1 a barrel, and on salt cod and stock fish from $2 to $1. In view of the necessity for the condition of postoffice authorities, however, the present system is only in its incipiency, and among the plans in view for its further extension is one for rural free delivery of mail by electric cars. Some farmers and other residents of the northeastern part of Massachusetts and the adjoining New Hampshire territory have taken steps in this matter, the idea having occurred to them a few weeks ago, when they first received an electric car service in place of the stage coach which formerly ran between Exeter and Amesbury. The free delivery of letters in cities was first inaugurated by the Postoffice Department in 1863, when the whole number of letter carriers in the United States, now 15,000, was less than 700. It did not increase materially until 1880, when the number of cities and towns having free delivery of letters had risen to 104. Ten years later, in 1880, there were 519, and the number is now 745. There were, by the last Federal census, 713 cities or towns in the United States having a population in excess of 5,000, and practically all these places and a few others besides have now free delivery of letters by carriers. One remarkable and salutary effect of the extension of the rural free delivery system has been the great improvement it has brought about in country roads. The extension of the system being optional with the governable for the current year he would carry out the experiment ordered by the best methods he could devise. Congress made $40,000 available for the purpose, and in 1896 Postmaster-General Wilson put the idea to its first test. The experiment was entirely successful, and since then the system of rural free delivery has been so generally extended that it now includes 383 distributing points in forty-one of the forty-five States, the exceptions being Idaho, Montana, Mississippi and Wyoming. By degrees the appropriation has been increased from $20,000 to $150,000, and it is $300,000 for this year. At the head of the States served by rural free delivery is Ohio, the most favored State, with forty-nine routes. Indiana having forty-four and Iowa twenty-three. The development of the system, however, has for topographical reasons been very irregular. Thus in Texas there are only two rural free delivery routes, while in South Carolina there are twenty-one. In Washington there is one only, while in California there are fourteen, and in Louisiana, Alabama and Florida there are three routes only, while in Maine there are seven. In the opinion of postoffice authorities, however, the present system is only in its incipiency, and among the plans in view for its further extension is one for rural free delivery of mail by electric cars. Some farmers and other residents of the northeastern part of Massachusetts and the adjoining New Hampshire territory have taken steps in this matter, the idea having occurred to them a few weeks ago, when they first received an electric car service in place of the stage coach which formerly ran between Exeter and Amesbury. The free delivery of letters in cities was first inaugurated by the Postoffice Department in 1863, when the whole number of letter carriers in the United States, now 15,000, was less than 700. It did not increase materially until 1880, when the number of cities and towns having free delivery of letters had risen to 104. Ten years later, in 1880, there were 519, and the number is now 745. There were, by the last Federal census, 713 cities or towns in the United States having a population in excess of 5,000, and practically all these places and a few others besides have now free delivery of letters by carriers. One remarkable and salutary effect of the extension of the rural free delivery system has been the great improvement it has brought about in country roads. The extension of the system being optional with the governable for the current year he would carry out the experiment ordered by the best methods he could devise. Congress made $40,000 available for the purpose, and in 1896 Postmaster-General Wilson put the idea to its first test. The experiment was entirely successful, and since then the system of rural free delivery has been so generally extended that it now includes 383 distributing points in forty-one of the forty-five States, the exceptions being Idaho, Montana, Mississippi and Wyoming. By degrees the appropriation has been increased from $20,000 to $150,000, and it is $300,000 for this year. At the head of the States served by rural free delivery is Ohio, the most favored State, with forty-nine routes. Indiana having forty-four and Iowa twenty-three. The development of the system, however, has for topographical reasons been very irregular. Thus in Texas there are only two rural free delivery routes, while in South Carolina there are twenty-one. In Washington there is one only, while in California there are fourteen, and in Louisiana, Alabama and Florida there are three routes only, while in Malne there are seven. In the opinion of postoffice authorities, however, the present system is only in its incipiency, and among the plans in view for its further extension is one for rural free delivery of mail by electric cars. Some farmers and other residents of the northeastern part of Massachusetts and the adjoining New Hampshire territory have taken steps in this matter, the idea having occurred to them a few weeks ago, when they first received an electric car service in place of the stage coach which formerly ran between Exeter and Amesbury. The free delivery of letters in cities was first inaugurated by the Postoffice Department in 1863, when the whole number of letter carriers in the United States, now 15,000, was less than 700. It did not increase materially until 1880, when the number of cities and towns having free delivery of letters had risen to 104. Ten years later, in 1880, there were 519, and the number is now 745. There were, by the last Federal census, 713 cities or towns in the United States having a population in excess of 5,000, and practically all these places and a few others besides have now free delivery of letters by carriers. One remarkable and salutary effect of the extension of the rural free delivery system has been the great improvement it has brought about in country roads. The extension of the system being optional with the governable for the current year he would carry out the experiment ordered by the best methods he could devise. Congress made $40,000 available for the purpose, and in 1896 Postmaster-General Wilson put the idea to its first test. The experiment was entirely successful, and since then the system of rural free delivery has been so generally extended that it now includes 383 distributing points in forty-one of the forty-five States, the exceptions being Idaho, Montana, Mississippi and Wyoming. By degrees the appropriation has been increased from $20,000 to $150,000, and it is $300,000 for this year. At the head of the States served by rural free delivery is Ohio,the most favored State，with forty-nine routes。Indiana having forty-four和Iowa twenty-three.The developmentofthesystemhowever,hassfortopographicalreasonsbeververyirregular.InTexasthereareonlytworuralfreedeliveryroutes，whileinSouthCarolinatherearetwenty-one.InWashingtonthereareoneonly，whileinCaliforniatherearefourteen,andinLouisiana.AlabamaandFloridatherearethreeroutesonly，whileinMalnethereareseven. Intheopinionofpostofficeauthoritieshowever,thepresentsystemisonlyinitsincipiency,andamongtheplansinviewforitsfurtherextensionisoneforruralfreedeliveryroutes，whileinSouthCarolinatherearetwenty-one.InWashingtonthereareoneonly，whileinCaliforniatherearefourteen,andinLouisiana.AlabamaandFloridatherearethreeroutesonly，whileinMalnethereareseven. Intheopinionofpostofficeauthoritieshowever,thepresentsystemisonlyinitsincipiency,andamongtheplansinviewforitsfurtherextensionisoneforruralfreedeliveryroutes，whileinSouthCarolinatherearetwenty-one.InWashingtonthereareoneonly，whileinCaliforniatherearefourteen,andinLouisiana.AlabamaandFloridatherearethreeroutesonly，whileinMalnethereareseven. As time rolls on and vast stretch land come under cultivation we seetheneedofgivingmoreattentiontothestudyandprotectionbirdsasthebirdsseekhomesaboundpremises,tousealreadycheckedwithoutaGreatoutlayonandmoney,bbutwhichcanbecheckedifwewillgiveprotectiontothifebywiselegislation.Theamher harmful seeds destroyedbythethroughouttheyearmountsinlittousofpounds.asoneoftheStatesDepartmentofAgriculturethologistshasfiguredout.OnerowseedeatingbirdsoftheJuncoconsumesattherateofone-fourthounceperday,andtheyaverjuncostoeachsquare mileoflarge200daysthisspeciesintheSlowIowaalone consumes875tonsofweedseedinasingle season.Letthefiguresseemtheycertainlyfshortofthe reality. In treatingoftheeconomicwildbirdsithasbeenmainlytoshowasconsuming insectsonlywhereherefindthemeedingonthousandspoundsofharmleweedseedswhichfacthasnotbeenfullyappreciated.Oneofoursmallsparrowswillfillhiscropthousandseedsofthepigweed Gazette. AND FRUIT GROWERS. of Birds Can only Result in Release of Pests on the Farm. The economic point of view the bird life and the relation of the farmer and fruit grower is overestimated. They play an important factor in the onion of fruit from the depredation pests, and as such should fullest protection from orchid. Their economic value was not used to any extent until some ago, when the United States went of Agriculture formed a Economic Ornithology for wildlife and careful examination of birds. That time bulletins have been issued on the beneficial birds throughout the United States. 1000 species of birds known to about 1000 are known to North Of the land birds there are which live entirely on insects; more or less on insect life; while 20 depend entirely on such food seeds of weeds and wild grain the soil. Occupy a secondary place in life (animals occupying the are almost closely related to bees, as we find the earliest ing teeth, representatives of Jurassic period. Birds are home from pole to pole equally whether on ocean wave, in snow, on arid deserts or in the shade of the tropical forests. Day we find that the birds are using the increase of injurious insects small rodents as well as of plant seeds. Take any one day under the amount of food a bird, particularly when they have breakfast, and as many as 7500 seeds have been counted from a dove's crop. Among many of the birds which feed on seeds are the pawhees, song sparrows, lark finches, horned larks, grosbeaks, gambels, golden crowned and field sparrows as well as seven varieties of goldfinches and others. I find thirty-one species noted feeding on seeds about my home. There are eighty-four species that can be found through parts of the year that live entirely on insects. Among them are three forms of wrens, five warblers, two titmice, four vareos and woodpeckers, juncos, kinglets, Audubon's warbler and two species of goldfinch. I have seen two species feeding on the apricot scale. The bush tit, warbling vireo, yellow warbler and plain titmouse will hunt the pear and apple orchard over for larvae of the codlin moth. Of birds that have been proven harmful to the orchardist may be mentioned more particularly the house-finch, sometimes known as the red-headed linnet. They will eat the base of the prune and cherry blossoms for the sweet juice of the flower. Gambels and golden-crowned sparrows are the worst pests for destroying fruit blossoms and young peas. The two sparrows named leave soon after the trees have blossomed and are only a winter resident with us. There is only one remedy for them—powder and dust shot. From the following subjoined notes from the laboratory work of investigation of birds' stomachs from the Department of Agriculture will be seen the character of foods of many of our common birds: In 330 stomachs of the robin 42 per cent was animal matter, 19 per cent consisted of beetles; caterpillars, 6 per cent; grass-hoppers, 30 per cent; vegetable matter, 7 per cent, besides wild fruits. The food of the wrens is 98 per cent insectivorous the year round, only 2 per cent LOCAL NOTES OF INTEREST. New Voting Precinct. Residents of Placentia have petitioned the Supervisors for the formation of a new voting precinct, to be cut off Fullerton. The boundaries embrace the Placentia district, Kraemer ranch, Olinda ranch and the oil wells at Soquel canyon, and go a half-mile west of Placentia avenue. That a new precinct will be formed is admitted, but that the lines will run as asked for by the petitioners is doubted by Supervisor Potter, who inclines to the opinion that the new voting place should be in the La Habra valley. He believes that if the Soquel oil territory is embraced in a precinct with La Habra, and the Placentia territory remains as at present, a greater number of voters will be satisfied. Fullerton is talking of organizing as a city of the sixth class, so Supervisor Potter states, and if the petition now before the board should be granted, there would probably be a strip of territory to the east of Fullerton which might be placed in an awkward predicament as to its voting place if Fullerton should incorporate. The Supervisors have the matter under advisement and will not act until the people of all the sections affected are given a chance to be heard. However, the new precinct will be formed, in all probability, before the Fall election. Fumigating Tents. The Supervisors have taken under advisement until next Monday, the 18th, the petition of fruit growers asking for an appropriation of $500 for the purchase of fumigating tents. It is proposed that these tents be operated by the Horticultural Commissioners in places where it is impracticable for the professional fumigators to go. The opinion prevails that the board will make the appropriation. An active occupy a secondary place in the life of animals occupying the earth are almost closely related to insects, as we find the earliest living teeth, representatives of Jurassic period. Birds are home from pole to pole equally whether on ocean wave, in snow, on arid deserts or in the shade of tropical forests. Today we find that the birds are using the increase of injurious insects small rodents as well as of plant seeds. Take any one dayider the amount of food a bird eats, particularly when they have been from four to nine, each little taking in several ounces per day. Instruction of injurious material is going on through each day, continued through the night by bees, nighthawks and poorwills, and swifts keep down the in-wing in air, while various species of fishers, warblers, vireos and humids are busy in about the foliage. Hackers, nuthatches, titmice and others, are always busy working on limbs and tree trunks, while variable varieties of thrushes and bees are continually at work on and seeking terrestrial insects as worms and seeds. The digest their food so rapidly it is difficult to determine just how they consume during a day's feed. H. Forbush of the Board of Nature of Massachusetts states that stomachs of four small chicka-tainted 1028 eggs of the canker the stomachs of four others had 500 eggs and 105 female moths of lark worm in them. It was estimated that one chickadee feeding for would destroy some 138,750 eggs in noxious worm, a phenomenal for so small a bird. Forbes, Director of the Illinois Laboratory of Natural History, on the stomach of a single robin (a fly) which, in the larvae feeds on the roots of grass. From facts of this nature we can see an economic factor the birds are about our farms and orchards by night. Hawks and owls espesethat are usually so condemned by fisher and sportsmen in general, constantly protecting the crop by off thousands of small rodents destructive to grain and trees, and by consuming millions of grasses. A. K. Fisher, Assistant of the States Department of Agriculture found in the pellets cast up by aowl that 200 contained 450 small mails, no less than 250 of these beaks of the field and meadow mice. We find that in many of our States county is offered for the heads of owls. The State of Pennsylvania sustained a loss of nearly four tons of dollars in eighteen months the killing of over 100,000 of these mice. From my personal experience nesting site in an old sycamore along the edge of my orchard, W. O. Emerson of Haywards, at a fruit growers' convention, I took a barn owl's nest five pocket murs, two wood rats, three small snakes and two snakes. This was the two sparrows taken care soon after the trees have blossomed and are only a winter resident with us. There is only one remedy for them—powder and dust shot. From the following subjoined notes from the laboratory work of investigation of birds' stomachs from the Department of Agriculture will be seen the character of foods of many of our common birds: In 330 stomachs of the robin 42 per cent was animal matter, 19 per cent consisted of beetles; caterpillars, 6 per cent; grasshoppers, 30 per cent; vegetable matter, 7 per cent, besides wild fruits. The food of the wrens is 98 per cent insectivorous the year round, only 2 per cent being vegetable. They feed on bugs, spiders, caterpillars, flies and larvae wherever found. All thrushes' food consists of beetles, bugs, spiders, grasshoppers, caterpillars, earth-worms and a few seeds and wild fruits. Of the orioles' food caterpillars constituted 4 per cent of that found in 173 stomachs, other insects being bugs, bettles, ants, wasps and grasshoppers, besides larvae and bark lice. Of 238 stomachs of the meadow lark examined animal food, that is, insects, constituted 73 per cent; vegetable matter, 27 per cent; 14 per cent of which was hard weed seeds and grain. They consume cutworms by thousands also wireworms and beetles. The bee martin or kingbird is a great feeder on insects. Out of 281 stomachs collected from different parts of the country only fourteen honey bees were found, the majority being droves. The great bulk of food of this species is largely noxious species of beetles (the May and click varieties), wireworms, wasps, weevils, crickets and grasshoppers. All the flycatchers, of which there are many species, are among the most beneficial of the birds frequenting orchards. Grossbeaks feed largely on vegetable buds of forest trees and wild fruits. Of insects they consume corn worms, beetles, caterpillars of all forms, and in Colorado they have been known to clean out noxious potato beetles when nothing else would touch them, bringing their young to the patches to feed as soon as they could fly. Bluejays, we find, have a hard name, but from 292 stomachs examined animal matter comprised 24 per cent and vegetable matter 76 per cent of this bird's diet. Only five stomachs had any remains of small birds or egg shells. Besides this food the jay eats mice, salamanders, snails, beetles, grasshoppers, caterpillars, more than 19 per cent of their whole food consisting of harmful insects. In the fall months their food consists of from 64 to 83 per cent of acorns. While many of our birds are known to now and then eat of our fruits, if we carefully compare the benefits accruing from their work the balance will easily be in their favor. Why should we not give them some protection? Thousands are being killed every month by some means or another and they threaten to soon become scarce about our homes and orchards. One instance I wish to give as showing the wholesale destruction of bird life for the San Francisco markets which is now going on: In a letter to Chester Barlow, secretary of the Cooper Ornithological club, The two sparrows taken care soon after the trees have blossomed and are only a winter resident with us. There is only one remedy for them—powder and dust shot. From the following subjoined notes from the laboratory work of investigation of birds' stomachs from the Department of Agriculture will be seen the character of foods of many of our common birds: In 330 stomachs of the robin 42 per cent was animal matter, 19 per cent consisted of beetles; caterpillars, 6 per cent; grasshoppers, 30 per cent; vegetable matter, 7 per cent, besides wild fruits. The food of the wrens is 98 per cent insectivorous the year round, only 2 per cent being vegetable. They feed on bugs, spiders, caterpillars, flies and larvae wherever found. All thrushes' food consists of beetles, bugs, spiders, grasshoppers, caterpillars constituted 4 per cent of that found in 173 stomachs, other insects being bugs, bettles, ants, wasps and grasshoppers, besides larvae and bark lice. Of 238 stomachs of the meadow lark examined animal food that is，insects，constituted 73 per cent; vegetable matter，27 per cent; 14 per cent of which was hard weed seeds and grain. They consume cutworms by thousands also wireworms and beetles. The bee martin or kingbird is a great feeder on insects. Out of 281 stomachs collected from different parts of the country only fourteen honey bees were found,the majority being droves.The great bulk of food of this species is largely noxious species of beetles (the May and click varieties), wireworms，wasps，weevils，crickets和 grasshoppers.All the flycatchers，of which there are many species，are among the most beneficial of the birds frequenting orchards. Growth Beak Company has filed articles of incorporation.The capital stock is $500.000.of which $350 has been actually subscribed.The principal place of business will be at Fullerton.The board of directors are:F.G.BalcomofSanta Ana,C.CChapman.J.G.Hanst.E.P.WightmanJacob Stern.E.C.CulmerandW.L.HaleOfFullerton. The Carbon Canyon Oil company has filed articles of incorporationThis isthecompanywhichhas purchasedtheHermanKosterranchinSoquelCanyon.Thecompanyiscapitalizedfor$500.000.ofwhichamount$40hasbeenactuallysubscribed.TheprincipalplaceofbusinesswillbeinLosAngeles.Thepresentboardofdirectorsare:F.W.Gregg,SanBernardino;J.R.Greer Jr.,Pasadena;J.R.Westbrook.W.F.West,C.E.Price,LouisW.MyersLosAngeles;GeorgeM.HawleySanDiego. The Puritan Oil Mining companywith principal placeofbusinessinLongBeach,hincorporatedwitha capitalstockof$600.000dividedinto$20sharesofwhichamount$7840hasbeensubscribed.ThedirectorsareBrewsterC.KenyonGeorgeC.Flint KenyonCox,LongBeachEdwinA.SaxtonPortlandOr.;ArchibaldBarklieNewYork. Giant Powder The explosionofa stickofgiant powderatthebottomofthecresspoolinrearof Fleischmann'sbutchershoponThursdaymorninglast,shortlybefore10o'clock,gaverisetoreportslhanearthquake shockhadjustbefelt.Thecesspoolhadfillwedwithwater,anditwaswithaviewto drainingitofftheexplosivewasused.Thepower From my personal experience in nesting site in an old sycamore along the edge of my orchard, N. O. Emerson of Haywards, at a fruit growers' convention, I took a barn owl's nest five pocket squirrels, two wood rats, three small mice and two snakes. This was the brought the young in one night. The only found two species of hawks harmful about the habitations of the owls all are beneficial. Time rolls on and vast stretches of come under cultivation we shall need of giving more attention to study and protection of bird life, the birds seek homes about our houses, to raise their broods and rename valuable service in keeping in thick millions of noxious insect pests. Stated as a fact by one of the lead entomologists of the United States insects alone cause an annual loss least $200,000,000 to the agriculturists in this country. Thousands of trees in our great city parks as vast forests are already affected by species of scale, which cannot be sked without a great outlay of time money, but which can be kept in mind if we will give protection to bird by wise legislation. The amount of painful seeds destroyed by birds throughout the year mounts into millions of pounds, as one of the United States Department of Agriculture ornithologists has figured out. One species seed-eating birds of the Junco family assumes at the rate of one-fourth of an acre per day, and they average ten acres to each square mile of land. In days this species in the State of Ohio alone consumes 875 tons of noxious seed in a single season. Large as figures seem they certainly fall far apart of the reality. In treating of the economic value of seeds it has been mainly to show them consuming insects only, whereas we have find them feeding on thousands of kinds of harmful weed seeds as well, which fact has not been fully known and appreciated. One of our many small sparrows will fill his crop with a thousand seeds of the pigweed for its While many of our birds are known to now and then eat of our fruits, if we carefully compare the benefits accruing from their work the balance will easily be in their favor. Why should we not give them some protection? Thousands are being killed every month by some means or another and they threaten to soon become scarce about our homes and orchards. One instance I wish to give as showing the wholesale destruction of bird life for the San Francisco markets which is now going on: In a letter to Chester Barlow, secretary of the Cooper Ornithological club, from W. B. Sampson of Stockton, and dated February 14, 1898, Mr. Sampson states that on the day before he happened along a levee some distance from the city, where the brush is inhabited by thousands of small birds. He noticed that two Italians had a fine mesh net 50 feet long stretched over the brush, as he thought, for repairs, but was surprised at seeing them beat the brush with sticks 100 yards beyond the end of the net, driving all the birds into it. They were snaring them, as they said, for the markets. Mr. Sampson saw them take out 50 birds and they had some 300 caught as the result of a day's work. They were questioned and admitted having practiced snaring for some time, and had captured as many as 2000 birds in a day and sent them to the San Francisco market as "reed birds." No doubt there are many more practicing this destruction in other parts of California and if it is kept up the results can be foreseen. It will result in an increase of pests on our farms and consequent damage to the fruit growing industry. Many States have enacted strict and most commendable laws to protect the native birds from such wanion slaughter. Why shall not California do the same? It is a question vitally important to the fruit grower of the future. A Good Cough Medicine It speaks well for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy when druggists use it in their own families in preference to any other. "I have sold Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for the past five years with complete satisfaction to myself and customers," says Druggist J. Goldsmith, Van Etten, N.Y. "I have always used it in my own family both for ordinary coughs and colds and for the cough following la grippe, and find it very efficacious." For sale by P. A. Derge, druggist. Giant Powder The explosion of a stick of giant powder at the bottom of a cesspool in rear of Fleischmann's butcher shop on Thursday morning last, shortly before 10 o'clock, gave rise to reports than an earthquake shock had just been felt. The cesspool had filled with water, and it was with a view to draining it off that the explosive was used. The powder was placed in a cigar box weighted with a rock, and a fuse attached. This was placed in the water and permitted to settle to the bottom. The fuse soon connected with the powder with the result that a small upheaval was felt in the immediate neighborhood. The shock was felt several blocks away. A Few Pointers The recent statistics of the number of deaths show that the large majority die with consumption. This disease may commence with an apparently harmless cough which can be cured instantly by Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs, which is guaranteed to cure and relieve all cases. Price 25c and 30c. For sale by all druggists. Strawberries The types made ducks and drakes out of our item about the fine strawberries last Thursday, and doubtless Mr. Stanley was quite surprised to read that he had placed us under obligations to him for two boxes of large, luscious and exceedingly beautiful berries. M. I. Wheeler is the gentleman intended for the favorable comment, and he has called at our office again with more berries to prove that not all the nice ones in the patch were gathered at the first picking. The berries are pronounced by a number who have seen them the finest they ever saw. This is saying a good deal, but in the case of the strawberry editor it is true, every word of it. Call again, Mr. Wheeler. Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Base, a powder. It eures painful, smarting, nervous feet and ingrowing nails, and instantly takes the sting out of cornsand bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen's Foot-Base makes tight or new shakes feel easy. 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