anaheim-gazette 1903-05-14

This Paper not to be taken from the Library. Anaheim VOLUME XXXIII. C. G. McKinley Los Angeles street, Anaheim Dealer in Hay, Grain, Wood, Coal, Illuminating and Lubricating Oils SEEDS Agent Fancher Creek Nurseries. Citrus and Deciduous Fruit Trees, SHRUBS, ETC. Call and get prices. ...Wilbur's and Grant's Animal Foods J. A. TYLER, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Telephone, Main 75... OFFICE—Center street, opposite City Hall. 10 A.M. to 11 A.M. 2 P.M. to 4 P.M. 7 P.M. to 8 P.M., evenings. Residence—Corner Center and Palm streets. DR. F. H. HOUCK DENTIST. OFFICE NEXT DOOR to P. O. (Federman Block, up stairs.) HOURS 9 to 6 ANAHEIM CAL. jylstf Herbert Allan Johnston, R.D. Office and Residence: Corner Los Angeles St. and Broadway Hours 11-12 a.m. 2-4 p.m. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA Dr. A. W. Bickford THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ANAHEIM OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS: W. F. BOTSFORD, PRESIDENT JOHN HARTUNG, VICE PRESident C. E. HOLCOMB, CASHIER FRANK SHANLEY AND PETER WEISEL Drafts sold direct on all European Countries PETERS' DIAMOND BRAND SHOES O.S. DAVIS DISTRIBUTOR ANAHEIM AT COST FOR 30 DAYS 150 Pairs Working Gloves—As good as can be found anywhere 250 Men's and Boy's Hats—These are certainly great bargains 250 Pairs of Shoes—You must see them to appreciate the value of this offer AT COST FOR 30 DAYS 150 Pairs Working Gloves— As good as can be found anywhere 250 Men’s and Boy’s Hats— These are certainly great bargains 250 Pairs of Shoes— You must see them to appreciate the value of this offer All seams in Shoes we sell are guaranteed not to rip, and if they do we sew them up free of charge. A shoe-mending department in store SUBSCRIBE FOR THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE OLDEST PAPER IN ORANGE COUNTY Subscription $1.50 Per Year Send For Sample Copy THE HAILWAY. Upon the iron highway, wreathed in smoke, Or cast or west the clanking engine reels, The weary dust spins onward at the stroke Of half a hundred wheels. It comes, the breathless driver staring straight Through misty eyeboles, with the sudden gleam Of burnished dome, and cranks of ponderous weight And clouds of blissing steam. Old countrymen that trudge from new plowed lands And on high bridges stay their weary feet See faces flashed beneath them, waving hands That may not stay to greet. Or slow, with hollow blast and wealthy din, By wide armed signals oreeps the laden train, High vans with shuddering jolt and clinking pin And hiss of clattering chain. Wide eyed, affrighted cattle, meek and still, And murky coal for city folk to burn, And dusty blocks hawed from some wostern hill And wreathed in twisted fern. But, best of all, when, in the sullen night, Along the dim embankment, hung in air, Shoots the red streamer, linked with cheerful light, The wide flung furnace glare. Lights the dim hedges and the rolling steam, Then passes and, in narrowing distance, dies, Tracked by the watchful lanterns’ lessoning gleam— Two red, resentful eyes. —"Lord Vyet and Other Poems" by Arthur Christopher Benson. In Vienna the height of a house must not exceed 52 feet. The floor of the last story must not be more than 65.6 feet above the level of the street. When the ground slopes, this measure must be taken from the highest point. The house must not have more than five stories, including the cellar and attic. A Man's Diagnosis. "George, did you notice Mrs. High roller's new bonnet?" "Yes, of course. Wasn't it lovely? It looked like one of your lace tidies wosped up with two feathers, a decanter stopper and a wad of red necktie sticking out of it." — New York Truth. The Chain Gang. "Those gentlemen who are attired in" 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. Daily... 7:52 am Daily... 9:49 am From Los Angeles. Daily... 4:22 pm Daily... 6:06 pm Pass Loara Station: To Los Angeles. Daily... 7:56 am Daily... 9:49 am Daily... 4:27 pm Daily... 5:59 pm LOS ALAMITOR TRAINS. Leave Anaheim— Arrive Anaheim— 8:30 am TUSTIN BRANCH. Leave Anaheim 9:49 a.m. Daily except Sunday. NEWPORT BEACH RAILWAY. Daily Schedule. Leave Anaheim. Arrive Anaheim 9:49 a.m. Daily except Sunday. Santa Fe Time Table Effective Jan. 25, 1903. Trains on the Santa Fe Route leave Anaheim for points named as follows: To Los Angeles—7:55 am 9:57 am 11:49 am 5:06 pm To San Diego—9:35 a.m 3:07 pm To Redlands—11:31 am To Riverside and San Bernardino—11:31 am 6:54 pm To San Jacinto and Perris—11:31 am To Santa Ana—9:35 am 3:07 pm To Santa Ana and Azusa—7:55 am 9:57 am 11:49 am 5:06 pm To Escondido—3:07 pm. GO TO THE Oak Barber Shop FOR A FIRST-CLASS SHAVE OR HAIR CUT. TWO DOORS WEST OF BANK. HUSMANN BROS. W. P. Turner, Pharmacist DRUGS, MEDICINES Perfumes and Toilet Articles. BEST 5-CENT CIGAR IN TOWN MEDICAL HALL, KOLL BLOCK. PUBLIC TELEPHONE FFICE. To The East Some tourist cars have all the comforts and convenience of the palace sleepers; they lack merely the luxury. The Pullman Tourist Cars in Santa Fe overland trains are of the newest pattern, especially arranged for the comfort of ladies. SANTA FE A Man's Diagnosis. "George, did you notice Mrs. High roller's new bonnet?" "Yes, of course. Wasn't it lovely? It looked like one of your lace tidies wopsed up with two feathers, a decanter stopper and a wad of red necktie sticking out of it." — New York Truth. The Chain Gang. "Those gentlemen who are attired in the peculiar uniform that fancy ascribes to the pirate and freebooter," says an old time Washingtonian, "now known as the 'chain gang,' do not belong to a modern institution, as it is generally supposed. While it may be a new custom in some parts of the country to work the offenders of municipal law on the streets, the custom has prevailed in this city for about three-fourths of a century. The corporation of Washington established the asylum in 1821, and the male inmates of the penitentiary department were ordered to report for work on the streets Nov. 23, 1823. The asylum, or poor and work house, was located then on the square bounded by M, N, Sixth and Seventh streets northwest, and in the early days those placed in the gang were so small in number as to attract no attention. I do not think that any attempt to place the offenders in the black and white stripes was made till long after the asylum was moved to the banks of the Anacostia, about 1846." — Washington Star. A Good Roadmaker. Edwin McIntyre, who lives a hermit life in the house near Warren where Dr. Pilton R. Baker was shot, has a queer hobby. One of the prettiest and best pieces of road in Maine passes in front of his retreat. It has been built by Mr. McIntyre, who for the last 22 years has been picking up the rocks and stones near his home and pounding them into pebbles, which he has put in the highway. In 28 years' time he has pounded 900,000 stones and made them ready for road use. The town authorities, recognizing the value of the work, for years have compensated the man by giving him his road tax. He estimates that he has placed on the road 20 cords of these manufactured stones. Other towns might envy Warren such a faithful roadbuild ar. — Rockland (Me.) Star. Santa Fe Time Table Effective Jan. 25, 1903. Trains on the Santa Fe Route leave Anaheim for points named as follows: To Los Angeles—7:55 am. 9:57 am. 11:49 am. 5:05 pm. To San Diego—9:35 a.m. 3:07 pm. To Redlands—11:31 am. To Riverside and San Bernardino—11:31 am. 5:54 pm. To San Jacinto and Perris—11:31 am. To Santa Ana—9:35 am., 3:07 pm., 5:54 pm. To Pasadena and Azusa—7:55 am., 9:57 am. 11:49 am., 5:05 pm. To Escondido—3:07 pm. To Fallbrook—3:35 am. To Redondo—7:55 am., 11:49 am. To Chicago, Denver, Kansas City and all points East—5:05 pm. 5:54 pm. Trains marked with a * are daily except Sunday. All others daily. 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 Rehindler's Building, Center St., Anaheim LOS ANGELES BEER ON DRAUGHT. Nasal Catarrh quickly yields to treatment by Ely's Cream Balm, which is agreeably aromatic. It is received through the nostrils, cleanses and heals the whole surface over which it diffuses itself. Druggists sell the 50c. size; Trial size by mail, 10 cents. Test it and you are sure to continue the treatment. Announcement. To accommodate those who are partial to the use of atomizers in applying liquids into the nasal passages for catarrhal troubles, the proprietors prepare Cream Balm in liquid form, which will be known as Ely's Liquid Cream Balm. Price including the spraying tube is 75 cents. Druggists or by mail. The liquid form embodies the medicinal properties of the solid preparation. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA. THURSDAY. MAY 14. 1903. Editorial Note and Comment I wonder what Statesman Hazard of the Peat thinks of Mr. Huntington's investment of $200,000 in realty at Bolsa beach. Following his customary tactics I suppose he will lie awake nights thinking up schemes to incite the Peatlanders to rig up scarecrows to frighten away the electric railway surveyors now in that locality. There can be no doubt Mr. Huntington's purchase was brought about in large part by the gentlemen who, some years ago, purchased the adjoining tract at Bolsa Chica, and whom Mr. Hazard and a few others have since viciously sailed. It is a pity that men who come to Orange county looking for investments should be subject to such treatment, and it is to be hoped we shall have no more of it. Mr. Hazard and his party of shellgatherers are down on "millionaires" and since the advent of the Bolsa Chica people have kept up a running fire against them, for whatever cause the Lord only knows. In this he has succeeded in nothing except to harm the good name of the county, and to retard many improvements had in contemplation by the purchasers of this hitherto unimproved property. These gentlemen purposed, besides the erection of their extensive club-house overlooking the ocean, building some fifty cottages for members of the company along the beach. These officials have also introduced the New York Bartlett Pear into the English markets with much success. The last carload of this fruit that was sent to London sold at a price 40 per cent higher than that prevailing in Jew York. The Bartlett Pear is largely grown in the south of England in the Channel Islands and in France, and the quality is just as fine as the same kind of fruits produced here, and consequently there is no much of a field for New York pears in England unless the crop in the latter country should be a failure. General passenger agents of Chicago believe the month of May will break the records for California travel. It so happens that during the next thirty days there will be held on the coast, either at Los Angeles or San Francisco, half a dozen conventions and gatherings which will attract many thousand people. Estimates of the number who will travel on the cheap excursion rates granted for these occasions within the month vary from fifteen thousand to twenty-five thousand. The prevailing rate will be $50 for the round trip, less than the regular one-way fare. Arrangements have been made by the roads out of Chicago for the operation of fifteen special trains from Chicago to California before May 31. Prop. Ralph E. Smith, the pathologist of the agricultural department of the University of California, MARKETING WALNUTS AND DRIED FRUITS Advantages of the Exchange Movement as Set Forth by an Experienced Grower. Paper read by J. B. Neff, general manager of the California Fruit and Produce exchange, Los Angeles, at the State Fruit Growers convention, Los Angeles, May 7, 1903: THE MARKETING OF WALNUTS AND DRIED FRUIT. Having been successful in growing and curing walnuts and deciduous fruits, the next thing which confronts the grower is the problem of getting the walnuts and dried fruit into market in such a manner that he will get a fair share of the price which consumers are willing to pay for them. Marketing through or by associations is likely to be the plan that is finally decided upon, as associations in all other lines are much more effective than single efforts. The first fruit associations of this state were loosely held together. Joining the associations did not mean that the member was to ship his fruit through the association unless it suited his pleasure at shipping time. While this method was followed the association did not, and could not give any better returns than any other shipper. Experience has shown that membership in a co-operative marketing association must be accompanied by a contract which will secure to the association all of the product of its members, in order to be at all successful, and that the contract of membership should be for a long term of years. A joint stock company or a co-operative association having a charter from the state seems best suited to such cases. Chica people have kept up a running fire against them, for whatever cause the Lord only knows. In this he has succeeded in nothing except to harm the good name of the county, and to retard many improvements had in contemplation by the purchasers of this hitherto unimproved property. These gentlemen purposed, besides the erection of their extensive club-house overlooking the ocean, building some fifty cottages for members of the company along the beach. These would cost probably from $2,000 up. When Hazard and his inciters to riot talked about blowing up the company's dock by means of dynamite; when they talked about destroying the property wherever it could be found, these people, giving ground to him in nothing, simply discharged their force of carpenters and other skilled labor and called a halt to building operations. They had already developed artesian water and natural gas, and had carried forward to completion many improvements. Let their work proceed in future without hamper. Now comes Mr. Huntington with an initial purchase of $200,000 in joining property. He seeks to gridiron Orange county with electric railroads. Let us extend a welcome to all these gentlemen, even if they have more of the collateral that cheers than have we. We need them in our business. The more Huntingtons, the more Botsfords, the more Bordens, the more Torrances and men of that kind we have investing in property here, the better. Yea, verily. The investments of these wealthy gentlemen in Orange county realty marks what is probably the beginning of the most extensive work of development in the history of this section. Probably before the year is over we shall have an opportunity of witnessing the beginning of some of this important work. Mr. Huntington has also made extensive purchases of realty at Olinda and here in conjunction with Mr. Botsford and Col. Bailey, he will incorporate a town, where his electric lines will form a junction of tracks extending in several directions. Singularly enough the townsite will be within a stone's throw of the old boom town of Carleton, where we had the only real taste of the piping times of the real estate upheaval of fifteen years ago. Here we also saw the collapse of the era of speculation and inflated values. We saw the widely advertised "town" go back to the sportive jack rabbit, and the bank vault became a nesting place for taranad. Prof. Ralph E. Smith, the pathologist of the agricultural department of the University of California, has issued a warning to the growers of asparagus in this state in which he says nearly the same conditions now exist here that prevailed in the East several years ago when asparagus crops were entirely destroyed. He says the "rust" disease is prevalent in all of the asparagus regions in California, and that it will increase in severity after 1904. The disease is now present in the whole region from San Jose to Sacramento, and threatens very seriously the future of the asparagus industry in the state. Prof. Smith, however, does not regard the situation as hopeless, and states that experiments will be carried on at two stations, one at Milpitas and the other on Bouldin Island, where every effort will be made to devise measures to combat the disease. The prairie schooner has been revived as a means of crossing the continent by settlers. During the spring some two hundred families from Tennessee, Missouri and other states have arrived in the Northwest by this means. One party of 100 families came from Missouri using 105 teams and wagons. They took the southern route over the plains, through Kansas and Nevada, and then up through Oregon. Some of the immigrants remained in Oregon, and most of the settlers have gone into Washington. T. A. Sessions, who was a member of this party, drove his family from Carthage, Mo. Sessions frankly admits that they traveled in this manner to save railway fare. The total cash outlay for himself and family was less than $50. Sessions declares that there are thousands of poor tenant farmers in the East and South complaining that they are barred by railroad rates from reaching the better country on the Pacific Coast. He points out that the cost of a single ticket will bring out an entire family as he and others have proved. It took little over three months from Carthage to Tacoma, and the team he drove was in gnod condition on arrival here. While this method was followed the association did not, and could give any better returns than any other shipper. Experience has shown that membership in a co-operative marketing association must be accompanied by a contract which will secure to the association all of the product of its members, in order to be at all successful, and that the contract of membership should be for a long term of years. A joint stock company or a co-operative association having a charter from the state seems best suited to such cases. Co-operation seems to move slowly among deciduous fruit growers, while they are certainly the people who are to be most benefited by such movement when properly carried out. They seem to have a wonderful ability in drafting "resolutions" of good intentions, which are always passed unanimously—and then forgotten. To succeed in forming a prosperous association there must be at least one man of moderate ability in the community who has the confidence of the growers and who is willing to do a large amount of work in that line, in season and out of season, without much compensation, though all labor of this kind is very valuable to the producer and should be fully compensated. Co-operative marketing was forced upon the citrus growers because of the rapid increase of their product, but while the dried fruit product is very large and increasing, the producers seem to be at sea, as far as any concerted method of marketing is concerned. The walnut growers have made more progress, but seem disposed to stop much short of the position they ought to occupy. Nothing has been devised so far which gives as good results as the Exchange plan of marketing, either in walnuts or dried fruit. The walnuts which have been marketed in that way during the past five years have averaged the growers more money than by any other method now in operation. The local association fixes a price which the Exchange agents take as a minimum price, and by judicious handling and smaller selling charges succeed in paying the larger prices. It may be said that the growers do not get the money as soon as by that f.o.b. plan, but anyone can get money for walnuts f.o.b. by paying $50 to $20 per car for that privilege. The Exchange prices frequently being that much above the f.o.b. price, and payments are not delayed more than 2 days. This is a rate of interest which should satisfy the most exacting. Some extracts taken from the last report of the Anaheim association will serve to illustrate this, when it is remembered that the price establishes on walnuts was: No. 1 softshells 10 per pound, No. 2 softshells 8c, No. hardshells 91c, and No. 2 hardshell 7c, with a discount of 6 per cent to thе selling agents. The report read as follows: Paid to growers: For No. 1 softshells $9.87 per 100 lb For No. 2 softshells $7.55 per 100 lb town, where his electric lines will form a junction of tracks extending in several directions. Singularly enough the townsite will be within a stone's throw of the old boom town of Carleton, where we had the only real taste of the piping times of the real estate upheaval of fifteen years ago. Here we also saw the collapse of the era of speculation and inflated values. We saw the widely advertised "town" go back to the sportive jack rabbit, and the bank vault became a nesting place for tarantulas. We had not yet quit smiling at the ridiculous venture when the state was electrified by the discovery of one of the largest oil fields in the West upon this identical spot. We did not know in boom times that Carlton overlay one of the most extensive deposits of oil there existed in California. But it was even so; at least, if the oil was not there then it has seeped through from somewhere or other since. Now comes the electric railway, and, on top of that, Mr. Huntington's large investment in property thereabout. Let the process proceed. Last season, the department of agriculture officials superintended several experimental shipments of Georgia peaches to London, it being the first time that this kind of eastern fruit was ever sent to a foreign market. They made the trip to New York in cars cooled by ice, and from there were transferred to the refrigerator compartments of fast steamers. They reached London in good shape, and were sold for $3 net per carrier of six small baskets, against $1.75, the New York price. California shippers have been sending peaches to London for some little time, the dry climate of the state producing a hardy peach that stands shipment better than the eastern variety. The department of agriculture declares that there are thousands of poor tenant farmers in the East and South complaining that they are barred by railroad rates from reaching the better country on the Pacific Coast. He points out that the cost of a single ticket will bring out an entire family as he and others have proved. It took little over three months from Carthage to Tacoma, and the team he drove was in good condition on arrival here. Senator W. A. Clark of Montana, who recently bought 420 miles of the Oregon Short Line southwest from Salt Lake City, to Calientes, in Nevada, from Mr. Harriman, in order to use it as the northeast end of his Salt Lake and Los Angeles road, will in a few days, according to dispatches, pay Harriman the purchase price of $12,000,000. It will be paid in the new 5 per cent bonds of the Salt Lake and Los Angeles road. Clark and his associates in the new road, United States Senator Kearns and W. S. McCormick of Salt Lake. R. C. Kerens and Bemis Brothers of St. Louis and his brother, J. Ross Clark of Los Angeles, are preparing to issue $50,000,000 of bonds. After paying Harriman and setting aside $15,000,000 for future use the reminder of the bond issue will be used to build the gap southwest across Nevada from Calientes to Riverside, the present terminus of the Los Angeles section of the road. While Clark has purchased outright the Salt Lake and California, a section of the Oregon Short Line, he has contracted with Harriman for the joint use of the Short Line's terminals in Salt Lake for ninety-nine years. By the new route the distance between Salt Lake and Los Angeles will be 800 miles. The gap mentioned, which is 400 miles in length, will be completed within two years. The present distance between the two cities by rail, via Sacramento, is 1800 miles. The walnuts were all sold by the agents of the Southern California Fruit exchange at prices ranging from 10 cents to 12 cents f.o.b. California for No. 1 softshells, and, as appears from the report, the growers received their benefit in prices which have never before been paid to growers by any association. The Anaheim association takes walnuts from the grower as they come from the orchard and does the bleaching, grading, etc., at a cost of 18 cents per 100 lbs., which is rather more than more favorably situated association and makes a very noticeable difference where the growers grade and bleach for themselves. If the Anaheim growers had done their own bleaching and grading they would have received $10.05 per lb. for No. 1 softshells, and if they serve had been paid, a total of $10.05 per 100 lbs.would have been paid thus but this grading and bleaching is cheaper and more uniform by this sociation than can be done by individuals. The price received by the walnuts by marketing through the change was about 50 cents per 100 lbs.more than if marketed in the way. Successful dried fruit marketing have to be conducted on the salt lines, with the growers agencies. Gazette. ING WALNUTS AND DRIED FRUITS of the Exchange Movement set Forth by an Expertienced Grower. led by J. B. Neff, general of the California Fruit and Exchange, Los Angeles, at the Growers convention, Los May 7, 1903: METTING OF WALNUTS AND DRIED FRUIT. been successful in growing walnuts and deciduous next thing which confronts is the problem of getting and dried fruit into market manner that he will get a fair price which consumers to pay for them. g through or by associatively to be the plan that is used upon, as associations in lines are much more effective efforts. fruit associations of this loosely held together. Join-ociations did not mean that there was to ship his fruit association unless it suited the at shipping time. his method was followed the did not, and could not give returns than any other ship-price has shown that member-co-operative marketing assoc-ist be accompanied by a con- will secure to the associa-the product of its members, be at all successful, and contract of membership should long term of years. A joint many or a co-operative asso-aving a charter from the best suited to such cases. established in the distributing and consuming centers. The growers must control their marketing agents in every respect as fully as they do their assistants in the orchard or packing house. The saying that "no man can serve two masters" is also true when applied to fruit marketing. It is not possible to have brokers who have several lines of goods and who are paid a percentage on their sales, work with the faithfulness of a man whose sole duties and business is that of selling the product of his employer. If business in dried fruit is dull and sales hard to make, the broker would be more than human if he did not divert his attention to other lines, where sales were more readily made and commissions more easily earned. Considerable has been said about f. o.b. sales at an established price, but it is not likely that dried fruit producers will ever be able to realize the best prices by such sales. Conditions do arise when sales can be made at fair prices f.o.b. the producing point, but when that can be done better prices can usually be had nearer the consumer, and in these days of fierce competition, no manufacturer nor any producer, except the farmer, thinks of waiting for some one to come to him to buy. Growers' associations can agree on a minimum price and hold their product until such price can be obtained, if found advisable, and by having fruit stored near the consuming points and their own selling agents, they are likely to get all the product is worth, and that is all that can reasonably be expected." A Costly Nap It cost Peter Griffin $700 and may cost him his little farm near Cleveland to have taken a two minutes nap one day last week in the Grand Central railroad station in Chicago. FIRE IN THE MAPLE BOWLING ALLEY Oil Supposed to Have Been Ignited by A Cigarette. An incipient blaze in the bowling alley in the Dreyfus building, on Center street, called out the fire department in a hurry at 11 o'clock on Thursday night. Little damage resulted, as the place was flooded before the flames attained more headway than to scorch the doors and walls in the small room where the blaze originated. Geo. Fitzmier, manager of the place, was in the act of cleaning up the alleys preparatory to closing down for the night. He and a number of attendants had been engaged in giving the maple alleys their customary coating of an oil preparation with which they are treated each night, when the sound as of an explosion coming from a small room in the rear used for waste paper, attracted the attention of those in the place. A blaze immediately shot up over the low intervening ceiling. An alarm of fire was immediately rung in. Fritz Yungbluth, who was on his way home at the time, seeing the extreme danger of a fire in the very heart of the city, turned in a general alarm, which brought almost the entire populace. The two billiard tables in the place were hastily removed. The blaze threatened great danger until the arrival of the fire department, when the fire was subdued with a flood of water. The loss is nominal and is covered by insurance. Fruit Crop Short Reports based on existing fruit conditions show that the crop will be less in the Santa Clara valley than the average, although the quality will be above it. The prune yield will not be quite as large as that of last season, which did not reach the average, but the size A Costly Nap It cost Peter Griffin $700 and may cost him his little farm near Cleveland to have taken a two minutes nap one day last week in the Grand Central railroad station in Chicago. Griffith told Inspector Lavin at the Harrison street police station later that he only "closed his eyes for a bit" but that was long enough for a clever thief to cut open a seam in his trousers and abstract a large leather wallet secreted therein. The wallet contained $700 in gold, saved by Griffin after six months of hard work in the gold fields of California. With it he intended to make his wife and children happy by paying off the mortgage that falls due within a month on their little farm near Cleveland. Griffin arrived in Chicago from California, and, tired from his long ride, walked into the railroad station and putting his big gripsack on the floor, sat down upon a chair and fell asleep. On awakening he felt a peculiar lightness on the side where he had hidden his bag of gold, and looking down discovered that his trousers had been cut open from hip to knee, and the money was gone. Viewed With Alarm W. H. Morrell of Gridley, who is promoting a ditch and power-plant scheme of great magnitude, contemplates the use of water of the Feather river where it pours through a tunnel which was put in at Big Bend by R. V. Pierce of Buffalo. Morrell has a project which is viewed by many who live near the proposed works with alarm. He proposes to build a dam at a point on the Feather river where the banks slope up to the top of a considerable mountain and instead of using cribbing or concrete he will charge the face of the mountain with dynamite, and when all is ready will blow a great mass of rock into the bed of theream, thereby making a dam which would retain the water at a considerable height above the present level of 350 feet. A lake several miles long would be formed and there is likely to be much opposition to the scheme, as the fear is expressed that such a dam will not safely hold back a large flow of water. Interesting Figures The following figures from the state controller's report will be of interest to the people of the three Southern California counties that are so closely related in their varied interests: Riverside county: Value of real estate, $6,213,261; value of improvements on real estate, $3,435,125; value of personal property, $1,133,760; money and solvent credits, $87,575; value of property as returned by auditors, $10- The two billiard tables in the place were hastily removed. The blaze threatened great danger until the arrival of the fire department, when the fire was subdued with a flood of water. The loss is nominal and is covered by insurance. Fruit Crop Short Reports based on existing fruit conditions show that the crop will be less in the Santa Clara valley than the average, although the quality will be above it. The prune yield will not be quite as large as that of last season, which did not reach the average, but the size will be larger. Of cherries there will be a fair crop of blacks and a heavy crop of whites; both of good quality. The apricot crop is coming out better than anticipated. A half crop or more will be realized. The outlook for plums and small fruits is very good. Berries of all kinds are plentiful. Grape Vine Pest Doomed A bulletin outlining a successful method of combating the phylloxera, the dread grapevine destroyer of California, has just been issued by the University of California Agricultural department. The bulletin is the work of Prof. Edmund H. Dwight, instructor in viticulture in the university. One of His "Whist Days" Andrew Jang once called at the house of the late James Payn to inquire about his health. The servant informed him in a broad accent that it was one of the novelist's "whist days." Mr. Lang imagined that the servant referred to Mr. Payn being worse and expressed his regret and walked away. But the woman meant to say that it was the day on which Mr. Payn was wont to receive three old friends, who made a four at whist. Both gentlemen were amused at the mistake which deprived each of the pleasure of meeting. At the Reform club in years gone by there was a certain group of well known whist players, among whom James Payn was certain to be found enjoying "the rigor of the game." "We did not move speeches in those lays," Miss Willard was in the habit of saying with reference to the beginning of the temperance work, "only speechlets." Miss Catherine Spence has been appointed the first woman member of the institute board for South Australia. This board cares for the paupers of the province. A Long Farewell The Blond—Did he bid you a long farewell? The Brunette—Yes, from 9 p.m. until 2 a.m.—New York Journal. More Honor To Them. Spain is laughing at us because we couldn't get O'Biggins. But that's all right. The Old Hartys are with us—Atlanta Constitution. Little Tomnie—Sister Lillian likes to have you come here. Mr Simperling—Aw, indeed! How do you know that? Little Tomnie—Well, people always like what makes them glad, don't they? Mr Simperling—Generally But now... Interesting Figures The following figures from the state controller's report will be of interest to the people of the three Southern California counties that are so closely related in their varied interests: Riverside county: Value of real estate, $6,213,261; value of improvements on real estate, $3,435,125; value of personal property, $1,133,760; money and solvent credits, $87,575; value of property as returned by auditors, $10,869,721; value of railroads as assessed by state board of equalization, $2,628,664; grand total value of property, $13,498,385; original assessed value of mortgages, $670,789; funded debt $150,000; total state and county rate of taxation, $2. San Bernardino county: Value of real estate, $8,684,655; value of improvements on real estate, $4,181,550; value of personal property, $1,323,620; money and solvent credits, $139,925; total value of property as returned by auditors, $14,329,750; value of railroads as assessed by state board of equalization, $4,358,173; grand total value of all property, $18,687,023; original assessed value of all mortgages, $98,575; total state and county rate of taxation, $2. Orange county: Value of real estate, $6,789,515; value of improvements on real estate, $2,541,190; value of personal property, $1,377,990; money and solvent credits, $107,625; total value of property as returned by auditors, $10,-728,320; value of railroads as assessed by state board of equalization, $1,156,-596; grand total value of all property, $11,882,916; original assessed value of mortgages, $230,515; funded debt, 90,-000; total county indebtedness, $90,000; total state and county rate of taxation each $100,$1.55. 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