anaheim-gazette 1900-12-13

This Paper not to be taken from the Library. Anaheim VOLUME XXXI. 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. 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., evenings. DR. F. H. HOUCK DENTIST. OFFICE NEXT DOOR to P. O. (Federman Block, upstairs.) HOURS 9 to 5 ANAHEIM CAL. jy15tt S. G. WILSON, M. D. Office and Residence: Over H. A. Dickel's Store. CENTER ST., ANAHEIM. Paul A. Derge. Graduate in Pharmacy. DRUGS, MEDICINES, Perfumes and Toilet Articles. BEST 5-CENT CIGAR IN TOWN MEDICAL HALL, KOLL BLOCK. UBLICT TELEPHONE OFFICE. Christmas AND New Year Presents xxxxxxx Albums, Photograph, Autograph & Scrap Books---Poetry, History, Picture and Story. Candies, Candles and Tree Ornaments, Dressing Cases, Manicure Sets and Work Boxes. Games and lots of other Nice Presents, at Joseph Helmsen Anaheim Bakery, PETER SYRE, PROPRIETOR. FRESH BREAD CAKES & PIES CONFECTIONERY, ETC. Wedding Cakes a Specialty. Los Angeles and Cypress Sts SUBSCRIBE FOR THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE OLDEST PAPER IN ORANGE COUNTY Subscription $1.50 Per Year. Send For Sample Copy. The Weekly Gazette. Oil. The output of oil from the Orange Paul A. Derge. Graduate in Pharmacy. DRUGS, MEDICINES, Perfumes and Toilet Articles. BEST 5-CENT CIGAR IN TOWN MEDICAL HALL, KOLL BLOCK. UBLICT TELEPHONE OFFICE. 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. GALLS ANSWERED AT ALL HOURS. ANAHEIM 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 Roman Wisser Favorite Saloon. Finest of Wines, Liquors & Cigars Pool & Billiard Tables Schindler's Building, Center St., Anaheim LOS ANGELES BEER ON DRAUGHT. GO TO THE Oak Barber Shop FOR A FIRST-CLASS SHAVE OR HAIR CUT. TWO DOORS WEST OF BANK. HUSMANN BROS PALACE MEAT MARKET F. W. Fleischmann, PROPRIETOR. Best Meats the Market Affords Always on Hand. Also keeps on hand Sausages, Bacon, Ham, Lard, Etc. Meats delivered to all parts of the city free of charge. Shop on East Center St. J.M.Griffith Company A CORPORATION LUMBER DEALERS 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. Pacific Coast Steamship Co. The Company's elegant steamers leave as follows: For SAN FRANCISCO, calling only at Redondo, Port Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. Leave REDONDO — SANTA ROSA and QUEEN, Wednesdays and Saturdays, 9 a.m. Leave PORT LOS ANCELES — SANTA ROSA and QUEEN, Wednesdays and Saturdays, 12 m. Arrive at San Francisco, Thursdays and Sundays, 3 p.m. Leave SAN PEDRO-CORONA and BONITA, Sundays and Thursdays, 6 p.m. Leave EAST SAN FEDRO-CORONA and BONITA, Sundays and Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. For SAN DIECO. Leave PORT LOS ANCELES — SANTA ROSA and QUEEN, Mondays and Thursdays, 4 p.m. Leave REDONDO — SANTA ROSA and QUEEN, Mondays and Thursdays, 9 p.m. Due at San Diego, Tuesdays and Fridays, 6 a.m. For further information obtain company's folder. The company reserves the right to change steamers, sailing days and hours of sailing without previous notice. W. PARRIS, Agt., 120 W. Second St., Los Angeles. GOODALL. PERKINS & Co., Gen. Agts., San Francisco. 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. 7:52 am Daily 9:49 am Daily 4:22 pm Daily 6:08 pm Pass Loa Station: To Los Angeles. From Los Angeles. 7:56 am Daily 9:45 am Daily 4:27 pm Daily 5:59 pm LOS ALAMITOS TRAINS. Leave for— Arrive from— 9:49 a.m. Sugar Factory 7:52 a.m. 6:08 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. 6:08 p.m. All trains connect at Santa Ana with Newport trains. OH. The output of oil from the Orange county wells during the month of November is as follows: Santa Fe, 10,000 barrels; Graham & Loftus, 9000; Fullerton Consolidated, 3000; Brea Canyon, 4000; Union, 3000; Columbia, 5000. This production is the record-breaker. The average price received for oil was during the year about $110 a barrel. Producers say they will be unable to renew contracts at as high prices on account of the low prices in Bakersfield, where oil sells as low as 60 cents a barrel. Two companies declare they will store oil after the first of January unless they can get 85 or 90 cents a barrel. The Excitement Not Over. The rush at the drug store still continues, and daily scores of people call for a bottle of Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs for the cure of coughs, colds, asthma, bronchitis and consumption. Kemp's Balsam, the standard family remedy, is sold on a guarantee and never fails to give entire satisfaction. Price 25c and 35c. The Supreme Court of California by a vote of four to three has decided that under the laws of this state a city or town has absolute power to control, regulate or prohibit the sale of all liquors provided interstate commerce laws affecting the same are not interfered with. The Jordan "AAAI" brand of Cutlery will delight and please all fair-minded and sensible people. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Estate of George Stadtegger, deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN BY THIS undersigned, Executrix of the last will and testament of George Stadtegger, deceased to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against, the said deceased, to exhibit the same, with the necessary vouchers within four months after the publication of this notice to the said Executrix at the office of Richard Melrose, Center street Anaheim, the same being the place for the transaction of the business of the estate in the County of Orange. Dated this 9th day of November.A.D.1900 MARGARETH STADTEGGER, Executrix of the last will and testament to George Stadtegger., deceased to Richard Melrose, Attorney for Executrix. ANAHEIM RESTAURANT Backs' Block, Los Angeles St. Come and get a square meal cooked by young lady. PRICE 20 CENTS. MISS EMILIE C. MARTIN JOSEPH BACKS, Undertaker and Embalmer F. W. Fleischmann, PROPRIETOR. Best Meats the Market Affords Always on Hand. Also keeps on hand Sausages, Bacon, Ham, Lard, Etc. Meats delivered to all parts of the city free of charge. Shop on East Center St. J.M.Griffith Company A CORPORATION LUMBER DEALERS Near Railroad Depot, Anaheim, keep constantly on hand Doors, Blinds, Windows Mouldings, Posts, Shakes, Shingles, Lath, Hair Plaster of Paris. L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT AND SHOE MAKER. Corner Adele and Los Angeles Sts. Send your LACE CURTAINS to THE Santa Ana Steam Laundry Every facility for doing the best work. E. W. McCollum, Agent, Anaheim ONLY FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT! IN TOWNIn Connection with Boston Bakery. S. KISTLER, PROPRIETOR. LITTLE GEM BARBER SHOP AUG. BAUM, PROP. First-class Tonsorial Artist. A share of the public patronage is respectfully solicited. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. Trains on the Southern Pacific pass Anaheim as follows: To Los Angeles. Daily...7:52 am Dally...9:49 am Daily...4:22 pm Dally...6:08 pm Pass Loara Station: To Los Angeles. Daily...7:56 am Dally...9:45 am Daily...4:27 pm Dally...5:50 pm Los ALAMITOS TRAINS. Leave for— 9:49 a.m. Sugar Factory 7:52 a.m. 6:08 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. 6:08 p.m. 4:23 p.m. All trains connect at Santa Ana with Newport trains. SANTA FE ROUTE TIMETABLE Effective Nov. 11, 1900. The Southern California Railway Passenger trains leave Anaheim Station as follows for points named: To Los Angeles—7:55 am., 9:57 am., *12:04 pm., 5:00 pm. Leave Los Angeles—8:45 am., *11:00 am., *2:00 pm., 8:05 pm. To San Diego—9:36 am., *2:50 pm. To Santa Ana—9:36 am., *5:54 pm. To Riverside and San Bernardino—*11:45 am., 5:54 pm. To Redlands, Temecula and San Jacinto—*11:45 am. To Pasadena—Trains leave Los Angeles for Pasadena—8:30 am., 4:30 pm., 7:15 pm., daily. To Redondo—7:55 am., 9:57 am. To Escondido—*2:50 pm. To Fallbrook—*9:36 am. To Chicago, Denver, Kansas City and all Eastern points—5:05 pm., 5:54 pm. Trains marked with a * are daily except Sunday. O. L. ZEUS, Agent. F. BACKS, UNDERTAKER And Dealer in FURNITURE. Wall Paper, Cornices, Window Shades, Picture Frames, Upholstery Goods, Paints, Oils and Glass Sewing Machine Supplies, Etc. Cor. Los Angeles & Chartres Sts. A. FREISE, Wines, Liquors And Cigars. LOS ANGELES BEER ON DRAUGHT. Koll Block, Los Angeles Street LET US REMOVE THE DOU In your mind as to what piano to buy. Our word for it and get a VOSE. It's a grand instrument at a popular place. The people who make it are good for e-promise they make regarding it, and we good for our endorsement. HUNDREDS of VOSE PIANOS are in this locality. You cannot make a miss in buying one. Sold on easy terms and questions answered promptly and glare Write for prices. GEO. J. BIRKEL, aug2 1050 FOURTH ST., SAN DIEGO, ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1900. THE MARVEL OF IRRIGATION. Continuation of Mr. Smythe's Paper upon "An International Wedding." It is only in recent years that the American people as a whole have begun to learn that irrigation is an immense improvement on rain. But the secret has been known for a long time to those who live where the rain is happily insufficient for agriculture. The three prime factors in plant life are soil, sunshine and moisture. Now, there is no comparison between the soils in eastern and western portions of this continent. Science has recently demonstrated why the western soils are so far superior. It is that happy circumstance of aridity again. In the East the rain of centuries has washed from the soil all these valuable ingredients which are soluble in water. This accounts for the poverty of eastern lands when compared with those which, during the long centuries of the past, have retained these valuable elements. Professor Hilgard of the University of California tells us that an analysis of over a thousand samples of soil taken about equally from the region east of the Mississippi River and a region west of the one hundredth meridian, shows that upon an average the western soil contains three times as much potash, six times as much magnesia and fourteen times as much lime as the eastern soils. It has long been a maxim that "limestone countries are always rich countries," but the maxim of the future will say that "arid lands are always rich lands when irrigated." So, too, the West is superior in the second prime factor in plant life, sunshine. In the Southwest there are fully three hundred and fifty days of clear sunshine in each year. Practically, it is all sunshine. Those who know and love the West, and particularly California, call it the Land of Sunshine. has limited the competition by giving this region a monopoly of these peculiar conditions. The capacity of the United States to consume what these lands can produce in advance of other sections is sufficient to warrant good prices for these products. Major John W. Powell, founder and for many years chief of the United States Geological Survey, once told the writer that the Colorado Delta would be densely populated in time, because the conditions there are such that "the rewards of industry will be great." It was Major Powell who made the most famous exploration of the Colorado River, a feat which is as much a part of our history as the expedition of Lewis and Clark to the Northwest under President Jefferson’s administration. THE QUESTION OF MARKETS. The problem of an outlet for surplus products is very important in a new country. It cannot be said that it is of first importance, because before all else comes the question of living. This has been overlooked during the speculative era of California. Settlers have striven to get rich before getting a living. The plan always fails. Chinese and Italian farmers have made fortunes furnishing gentlemen fruit-growers with the products of the garden, dairy and poultry yard. The marvelous success of the Mormons in the settlement of Utah was due to the wisdom of their leader in insisting that they should cater first of all to the market in their dining-room. It is difficult to find anything on the most elaborate bill of fare which cannot be successfully and systematically produced by the fortunate settler in the Colorado Delta. He can defy panics, and revolutions, if he has the good sense to organize his little farm on the theory that there can be no over-production of three meals a day. The settlement of the Colorado Delta country will involve the development of a symmetrical, industrial and social to insure the early settlement of their lands by an industrious people. They have entered into a contract with the leaders of the Mennonites who, next to the Mormons themselves, are the most wonderful settlers the West has ever known. The Mennonites are a people with a history, and an honorable history, too. They were a product of the religious upheaval in Holland four centuries ago. Even earlier than William the Silent they proclaimed their devotion to the principle of complete religious toleration. They are non-combatants. But their mild manners and simple goodness withstood the cruel assaults of the Spanish Inquisition. They were called Anabaptists in those days. The present leaders of the church in America have agreed to direct their overflow to the Colorado Delta, and to have them assist in the construction of the canals if thoughest best. This arrangement guaranteed the early inauguration of settlement at the hands of those who have shown their capacity, under many different skies, to tame the wilderness and make it blossom with homes. AFTER THE DESERT, WHAT? What are the economic possibilities of the great empire which awaits the fructifying touch of the waters of the Rio Colorado? To contemplate this question is to bewilder the imagination. We can imagine the industrial and social structure which must inevitably grow up here when we take it into our tail, but the thing as a whole—that beyond comprehension in advance—the actual achievement. It is to be a new civilization, and a cornerstone will be the little farm. That little farm is another of the precious gifts of irrigation. Even in Illinois they have found that irrigation will triple the products of a given area. How then about these wonderful lands of the Delta, lying under the unfolding sunshine and fertilized by the suns? Out of oil from the Orange is during the month of No. 15 follows: Santa Fe, 10,000 Alabama & Loftus, 9000; Fuller-dated, 3000; Brea Canyon, 3000; Columbia, 5000. This is the record-breaker. The receipt received for oil was due about $110 a barrel. Pro- they will be unable to renew it at high prices on account prices in Bakersfield, where now at 60 cents a barrel. Two declare they will store oil first of January unless they for 90 cents a barrel. The Excitement Not Over. At the drug store still con- dially scores of people call of Kemp's Balsam for the old lids, asthma, bronchitis and poison. Kemp's Balsam, the family remedy, is sold on a land never fails to give entire Price 25c and 35c. Extreme Court of California by four to three has decided that laws of this state a city or absolute power to control, re- ohibit the sale of all liquors, interstate commerce laws the same are not interfered In "AAAI" brand of Cuttery will please all fair-minded and sen- sive TO CREDITORS. George Stadtegger, deceased. IS HEREBY GIVEN BY THE design. Executrix of the last will the creditors of, and all persons against, the said deceased, to some, with the necessary vouchers four months after the sale Executrix at Richard Melrose. Center street, the same being the place for the man of the business of the estate in of Orange. Is 9th day of November. A.D. 1800. MARGARETH STADTEGGER, of the last will and testament of Stadtegger, deceased. Get a square meal cooked by a young lady. PRICE 20 CENTS. EMILIE C. MARTIN. JSEPH BACKS, taker and Embalmer ern soil contains three times as much potash, six times as much magnesia and fourteen times as much lime as the eastern soils. It has long been a maxim that “limestone countries are always rich countries,” but the maxim of the future will say that “arid lands are always rich lands when irrigated.” So, too, the West is superior in the second prime factor in plant life, sunshine. In the Southwest there are fully three hundred and fifty days of clear sunshine in each year. Practically, it is all sunshine. Those who know and love the West, and particularly California, call it the Land of Sunshine. To its matchless soil and uninterrupted sunshine, the West adds its scientific control of moisture. In arid regions, although there are many devout souls, no one prays for rain. There are some things which the good God intended that we should do for ourselves. With one hand He points to the river, with the other He points to the desert. A man who cannot take such a hint as that is unworthy to live in a country of extraordinary resources. This matter of irrigation is much deeper than it looks at first sight. Scientific agriculture means not merely that water shall be artificially applied to dry land; it means that we shall ascertain just how much water is needed for different crops, and just when and just how it should be applied to produce the best results. For instance, the orange tree is far thirstier than the prune. Why, then, should we permit it to rain on the prune every time the orange calls, through the unmistakable language of its leaves, for a drink? We may have strawberries growing side by side with sugar beets. The strawberries are hard drinkers and must have their water often and regularly. But the sugar beet only calls for water in its infancy, in order that it may have a sturdy growth. When it is well started what it craves is the uninterrupted sunshine, that it may accumulate saccharine matter in the most concentrated form. It is possible to raise a beet half as large as a flour, barrel, but the manufacturer declines it. It is unprofitable to hunt the sugar over so large a territory. What he wants is a medium-sized beet full of sugar. So we might run the list of fruits, vegetables and field crops. Each has its separate desires and scientific agriculture caters to their several individualities. Really, there is no more likeness between agriculture by dependence on rainfall and agriculture by irrigation, than there is between the tallow dip and the electric light, or between the stage coach and the modern limited train. The one is crude, the other scientific. We should have learned all this more than two centuries ago, if the good Old Pilgrims had happened to land at San Diego instead of Plymouth. But looking at it from our own selfish standpoint, we are inclined to be thankful that they lived and died in ignorance of the better half of our great country, and left it to be the peculiar conquest of the better century and the better race that are coming. We have spoken only of the agricultural earth containment in the settlement of Utah was due to the wisdom of their leader in insisting that they should cater first of all to the market in their dining-room. It is difficult to find anything on the most elaborate bill of fare which cannot be successfully and systematically produced by the fortunate settler in the Colorado Delta. He can defy panies, and revolutions, if he has' good sense to organize his little farm on the theory that there can be no over-production of three meals a day. The settlement of the Colorado Delta country will involve the development of a symmetrical, industrial and social life. Hence, there will be markets at home to consume a considerable share of the surplus products. Although there are ten thousand little farms in Utah, that State is still importing farm products very largely. The demand of mining camps and urban populations has a little more than kept pace with the growth of agriculture, although the people are so largely engaged in pastoral pursuits. So they must be here to a considerable extent, for there is a rich surrounding mineral country, and there is a natural law which furnishes a man in the town for every man on the farm. But all the markets now open to California will be open equally to those who shall live and labor in this new California. Moreover, they will have the supreme advantage of earlier production already mentioned. Another peculiar advantage, they will have proximity to the great cattle ranges of Arizona, which now largely ship their lean stock to be fattened in the alfalfa fields of the San Joaquin Valley. The cattle can reach the alfalfa fields of the Delta on foot, and thereby save railway charges. If half a million acres of alfalfa fields could be spoken into existence today, every acre would be in demand tomorrow by the cattle-owners of Arizona and adjacent localities. THE PROBLEM OF SETTLEMENT. It has sometimes been difficult to find settlers for irrigated lands in the West. It will not be at all difficult to settle the Colorado Delta. It will settle itself. Let us tell you why. The price of land in the principal irrigated sections of the West ranges from $25 to $100 per acre, and in Southern California the range of prices is from $100 to $300 per acre. Now, these incorporably rich lands of the Colorado Delta, producing much, if not all that will grow on the lands above enumerated, not excepting the three-hundred-dollar lands of Southern California, can be sold, including a perpetual water right, for from $10 to $15 per acre. This is marvelous, quite the most marvelous thing in the long real estate history of the West. It is due to the fact that Nature provided extraordinary conditions, and to the fact that the magnitude of the enterprise is such as to reduce the acre cost of land and water to the smallest terms on record. Where will the settler come from? From everywhere, but largely from the State of California itself. The people of California have no mistaken notions about the character of the Colorado Delta. They are fully aware that it is to bewilder the imagination We can imagine the industrial and civil structure which must inevitably grow up here when we take it into our tail, but the thing as a whole—that beyond comprehension in advance—the actual achievement. It is to be a new civilization, and cornerstone will be the little farm That little farm is another of precious gifts of irrigation. Even in Ninois they have found that irrigation will triple products of a given area How then about these wonderful lands of the Delta, lying under the unfriendly sunshine and fertilized by the sladen waters of the Colorado? By many times will productive powers multiplied under these conditions will compare with the farms of New York and New England? Irrigation may small farms possible even in temperate zones. The census of 1890 shows average in Utah to be twenty-seven acres. The most ideal colony in Idaho is based on the twenty-acre unit. Western Colorado, where the Grunnison and Green Rivers come together to make the Colorado, they now advocating ten acres. The same philosophy would bring us to five acres in the Delta, and we may get to that time. Think of social possibilitiesthe small farm. Twenty acres m eight times as many neighbors m hundred and sixty acres; ten m mean sixteen times as many neigh- Now the truth is that in such a coun- as the Delta we shall have all th e advantages of town associations bined with independence o cry life. So it is already at River California. This is an agricu- country, or rather horticultural yet the population is five hundredthe square mile. What will be the density of th eulation in the Colorado Delta? Massachusetts it is 270; in Rhode Is- 276; in England, 500. But there country which is far more like Delta than any of these. That i n Nile country of Egypt, which sup- a population of 1227 persons to square mile. Doubtless, settle will begin here on comparatively areas, but it must tend inevitably swiftly to the very smallest farm on the American continent. And those two factors, which men sought through all the ages, lie hope of the new civilization and new race. In such a country we shall see large town or city and many villages; one merging into other. It will be hard to say where town ends and the country begins there is water-power here, and it will be electricity, and that means motors moving the people and products from their lands to river, to sea, to the continental railways. These will be independent, for innually or collectively they can provide everything they consume. They not go on making old misse these twentieth-century farmers send wool to Boston to be sourced made into cloth, hides to New Era Drying preparations simply develop dry catarrh; they dry up the secretions, which adhere to the membrane and decompose, causing a far more serious trouble than the ordinary form of catarrh. Avoid all drying inhalants, fumes, smokes and sniffs and use that which cleanses, soothes and heals. Ely's Cream Balm is such a remedy and will cure catarrh or cold in the head easily and pleasantly. A trial size will be mailed for 10 cents. All druggists sell the 50c size. Ely Brothers, 56 Warren St., N.Y. The Balm cures without pain, does not irritate or cause sneezing. It spreads itself over an irritated and angry surface, relieving immediately the painful inflammation. With Ely's Cream Balm you are armed against Nasal Catarrh and Hay Fever. Some Reasons Why You Should Insist on Having EUREKA HARNESS OIL Unequaled by any other. Renders hard leather soft. Especially prepared. Keeps out water. A heavy bodied oil. HARNESS An excellent preservative. Reduces cost of your harness. Never burns the leather; its efficiency is increased. Secures best service. Stitches kept from breaking. OIL Is sold in all Localities Manufactured by Standard Oil Company. Continued on Fourth page RESERVOIR CONSTRUCTION. Likely to Engage Congress at this Session West Should Stand Together. There is a great need that everyone interested in seeing the Government take hold of the question of the reclamation of its arid lands should stand together at this session of Congress, and be ready to do whatever possible to secure concerted action. The great prominence given to the meetings of the National Irrigation Congress at Chicago, and other influences, have shown to thoughtful members of both houses of Congress that this irrigation question is something that has to be settled with, and that there is no use in trying to think it can be indefinitely put off. The question with them is how to do it. Eastern statesmen are asking this question now. It is probable that some definite plan of action will be put forward this winter to secure reservoir construction. If so, every man in the West should wake to the opportunity. The favorable action of Congress on the question of building some particular reservoir would be the beginning of a general policy of reclamation of the deserts. It would be an entering wedge. It is a matter of the most tremendous interert to the West and to every interest in the West. This point should not be overlooked: that whatever reservoir site it is proposed to concentrate the attention of Congress upon, and in whatever State or locality, every other State and Territory should bend every effort to secure the construction of this first reservoir. This would start the movement. In the meantime every newspaper in the arid belt should take up the fight from now on and urge upon the people of the West the great opportunity which is now before them. Congress is now ready apparently to listen to about $142,000,000, as against about $138,000,000 for the year just closing," said the Secretary last night: "There are a little less than 1,000,000 names on the roll now, and these are being added to by recent legislation. Under the old law, soldiers' widows not wholly dependent on their own labor for their support were not entitled to draw a pension. A recent law made it legal for a widow receiving an income not above $250 a year to receive a pension. This and certain amendments bearing on the construction of the disability of veteran applicants have added several thousand names to the roll." No country in the world is so liberal with its pensioners as this government, and this fact has prompted dishonest men to take every sort of mean advantage of the government. No doubt there are many fraudulent pensioners on the rolls today, but as fast as trickery is discovered the proper measures are taken to check it." Anti-Saloon. The Fullerton Anti-Saloon League has issued the following announcement: We are glad to announce that the voters of Orange county have passed by a large majority the ordinance closing the saloons of the county outside of the incorporated towns. The anti-saloon league of Fullerton has no quarrel with any citizen that intends to obey this law; and furthermore would cordially invite all whose business is adversely affected to take up other lines of business in Fullerton and vicinity. On the other hand the league holds that all good citizens will and should obey all laws, and especially this one, which was passed by the people themselves, where the will of the majority is supposed to rule. Should there be those in our midst who propose to defy this, the will of the majority, the league proposes to use all of its power, backed by the State anti-saloon league. This point should not be overlooked: that whatever reservoir site it is proposed to concentrate the attention of Congress upon, and in whatever State or locality, every other State and Territory should bend every effort to secure the construction of this first reservoir. This would start the movement. In the meantime every newspaper in the arid belt should take up the fight from now on and urge upon the people of the West the great opportunity which is now before them. Congress is now ready apparently to listen to some fair proposition which does not resemble a raid; but the West should back up the demands of its representatives in Washington by a united and persistent demand that the time has come for some Governmental action. There are enough Western Senators and Congressmen to carry the Federal irrigation proposition to a triumphant issue, if they will stand together, and every man of the West should sit down and write a personal letter to his member of Congress and to his Senator at Washington, and tell them why they should work to get a bill passed providing for the construction of reservoirs by the Government to store the floods. No man, no locality is uninterested in this plan. Every industry of the West would be stimulated and developed wonderfully through the carrying out of a policy which would reclaim 75 million acres of arid land. If the people of the great West ever were interested in anything, they are interested now in seeing that this question of national irrigation is pushed forward and pushed forward strongly within the next two months. Guy E. Mitchell Pension Roll. New York, Dec. 5. — Secretary Ethan Allen Hitchcock of the Department of the Interior, who is here on private business, will return to Washington tonight. "The pension roll for the coming year will call for the expenditure of is destruction of lung by a growing germ, precisely as moldy cheese is destruction of cheese by a growing germ. If you kill the germ, you stop the consumption. You can or can't, according to when you begin. Take Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil: take a little at first. It acts as a has no quarrel with any citizen that intends to obey this law; and furthermore would cordially invite all whose business is adversely affected to take up other lines of business in Fullerton and vicinity. On the other hand the league holds that all good citizens will and should obey all laws, and especially this one, which was passed by the people themselves, where the will of the majority is supposed to rule. Should there be those in our midst who propose to defy this, the will of the majority, the league proposes to use all of its power, backed by the State anti-saloon league and public opinion, to see that such men are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. By order of the Executive Committee of the Anti-Saloon League of Fullerton, California. F. D. REED, President. J. S. DEAN, Secretary. The announcement is accompanied by the following statement: We, the undersigned citizens of Fullerton and vicinity, heartily endorse the sentiment expressed and the stand taken in the above by the anti-saloon league, and pledge our fullest support in aiding to enforce the law: C. C. Chapman, Theodore Staley, A. T. Pendleton, L. B. Benchley, W. R. Collis, O. M. Skinner, J. C. Sheppard, E K. Benchley, E.W. Dean, F.R. Holcomb, L. P. Drake, A.A. Mills. Electric Railway. An electric railway line from Los Angeles to Santa Ana will probably soon be in operation. The Los Angeles supervisors, acting on the application presented by D. P. Thomas of Santa Ana, decided last week to advertise for bids for a franchise for the new road. Thomas represents a number of Chicago capitalists and Los Angeles men. The proposed line will be about forty miles in length. It has been partially surveyed. M. L. Swineheart, the Santa Ana surveyor, appeared before the board of supervisors some days ago on behalf of Thomas: He said the proposed line would extend from Santa Ana to Whitier, passing through Anaheim, Fullerton, and La Mirada and thence to Los Angeles. The line is to enter Los Angeles from the east, at about Fourth or Fifth streets. The exact route will not be selected until the franchise is awarded. A Gift to Give. It is often difficult to decide what to get your friends for holiday gifts. Here is a suggestion: "Good morning, Jennie, I have brought you a nice present," said Gertrude, as she handed her friend a neatly wrapped package. The pale, weary looking girl, who was slowly recovering from severe illness, opened the bundle and held up a large bottle of clear, rich medicine. "Hood's Sarsaparilla!" she exclaimed. "I have been reading about it today any wished I had a bottle." On New Year's Day Jennie was able to be out on the street, and to her friends who remarked how well she was looking she simply said, "Hood's Sarsaparilla," and everyone of them knew it was this great medicine that had given back her health. It will be hard to say where the ends and the country begins, for life is water-power here, and there be electricity, and that means swift rivers moving the people and theirDUCTS from their lands to the sea, to the trans-mental railways. These people must be independent, for individ-uality or collectively they can produce everything they consume. They will go on making the old mistakes, the twentieth-century farmers, and wool to Boston to be scoured and into cloth, hides to New England to be tanned and made into shoes, cotton across the continent to be woven in cloth. No, we shall have another island here, full of genius and enter-ance, and sufficient within itself. Na-tion has made it possible. The aspiration of men will demand it. This will be commonwealth, and it will be true its best possibilities, for here we are the broad foundation for a life that should be truly great. Independent by reason of their wonderful agricultural and horticultural opportunities, and brought into close neighborly association by the small unit, men should realize here all the best possibilities of country and of town life. The town man should no longer be a tenant and servitor. The farmer should not longer be a drudge, spending his best days in dreary isolation. In the future civilization of the Great Southwest, these two prime facto-ries of society will be brought close together, knowing each other and sharing each other's burdens and benefits. The beauty of Damascus is the theme of poets. "The cause of its importance in a city in all the ages is easily seen by you approach it from the south," says a recent writer. "Miles before you see the mosques of the modern city the fountain of a copious and perennial stream springs from among the rocks and brushwood at the base of the Anti-ebanon, creating a wide area about them, rich with prolific vegetation." These are the "streams of Lebanon," which are poetically spoken of in the songs of Solomon, and the "rivers of Damascus," which Naaman not unna-nerally preferred to all the "waters of Israel." These streams, with their moldy cheese is destruction of cheese by a growing germ. If you kill the germ, you stop the consumption. You can or can't, according to when you begin. Take Scott’s Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil: take a little at first. It acts as a food; it is the easiest food. Seems not to be food; makes you hungry; eating is comfortable. You grow stronger. Take more; not too much; enough is as much as you like and agrees with you. Satisfy hunger with usual food; whatever you like and agrees with you. When you are strong again, have recovered your strength---the germs are dead; you have killed them. If you have not tried it, send for free sample, its agreeable taste will surprise you. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, 409 Pearl St., New York. 50c. and $1.00; all druggists. Shake Into Your Shoes Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powder. It cures painful, smarting, nervous feet and ingrowing nails, and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen’s Foot-Ease makes tight or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain cure for sweating, callous, and hot tired, aching feet. Try it today. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores. By mail for 25c in stamps. Trial package free Address. "Good morning, Jennie. I have brought you a nice present," said Ger-trude, as she handed her friend a neatly wrapped package. The pale, weary looking girl, who was slowly recovering from severe illness, opened the bundle and held up a large bottle of clear, rich medicine. "Hood’s Sarsaparilla!" she exclaimed. "I have been reading about it today any wished I had a bottle." On New Year’s Day Jennie was able to be out on the street, and to her friends who remarked how well she was looking she simply said, "Hood’s Sarsaparilla," and everyone of them knew it was this great medicine that had given back her health. Citrus and Deciduous Trees Orange and lemon trees, Royal apricots, Reuter peaches, and a full line of ornamental trees, plants, shrubs and grape vines. All stock guaranteed true to name. We will also lay out your land and plant your orchard. Everything planted by us is guaranteed. W.E.JONES, Santa Ana, Cal. Residence, West Orange. dec13-1t* The Imperial Farmer. Sample copy sent free on application. It contains extensive information relative to resources in Southern California in general and the reclamation of the Colorado Delta in particular. Address, IMPERIAL FARMER, 404 Bradbury Block. Los Angeles, Cal. dec13-1m An Opportunity. The Southern Pacific (north of Los Angeles) and Santa Fe railroads have both made a rate of 11-3 fare to Corodado, Cal., and return, on the occasion of the meeting of the Field Trials club to be held there beginning Jan. 14th. 1900. This rate goes into effect on Dec: 31, 1900, and is extended to all persons who wish to attend the trials. The indications are that there will be hundreds go as the reduced rate and favorable conditions for showing the bird dogs off to best advantage makes the meeting of special interest. A Keen Clear Brain. Your best feeling, your social position or business success depend largely on the perfect action of your Stomach and Liver. Dr.King’s New Life Pills give increased strength, a keen, clear brain, high ambition. A 25 ct. box will make you feel like new being. Sold by P.A.Derge, Druggist.