anaheim-gazette 1904-05-05

Anaheim VOLUME XXXIV. ANAHEIM J. M. Griffith Co. A Corporation Lumber Dealers Los Angeles St. near S. P. Depot Keep constantly on hand Doors, Windows, Mouldings, Posts, Shakes, Shingles, Lath and Cement. HENRY M. ADAMS, Anaheim Agent WITH A FULL LINE OF Drugs, Stationery, Sponges, Etc., Etc., We are ready for any emergency. Do not fail to call if in need. . . . HUTCHINSON'S Drug Store. REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE CALL AND SEE US FOR ALL KINDS OF improved and unimproved orchard, farm and city properties, amongst which we have some real bargains. How about that place you wish to sell? Come in and list it with us, we are here to give you reliable service, and protect your interests. What can we do for you? SANDILANDS & BACKS, or. Los Angeles & Chartres Sts., Anaheim. C. G. McKinley Los Angeles street, Anaheim Dealer in Hay, Grain, Wood, Coal, PETERS' DIAMOND BRAND SHOES O.S. DAVIS DISTRIBUTER ANAHEIM. LADIES' PATENT COLT LOW-CUT SHOES CHEAP FOR CASH : TENNIS AND RU BER BOOTS: All Cheap for Cash at Davis' Palace : Meat : Market W. E. HOUK, Proprietor. Beef, Mutton, Pork, Fresh and Salted Meats, Hams, Bacon, Sausage, Lard, Prompt attention given to all orders. Telenphone Main 5 SANDILANDS & BACKS, or. Los Angeles & Chartres Sts., Anaheim. C. G. McKinley Los Angeles street, Anaheim Dealer in Hay, Grain, Wood, Coal, Illuminating and Lubricating Oils Native and Imported Sulphur Agents Aetna Mineral Water Call and get prices. ...Wilbur's and Grant's Animal Foods DR. F. H. HOUCK DENTIST. OFFICE IN FEDERMAN BLK UP STAIRS HOURS 9 to 6 ANAHEIM jy15tt Herbert Allan Johnston, M.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 OFFICE AT RESIDENCE 309 West Center street. Telephone 191. ANAHEIM, CAL. FRITZ RUHMANN'S Germania Halle. BCKS' NEW BUILDING LOS ANGELES STREET Keeps on hand a Large and complete stock of liquors, wines and cigars. Cold beer always on draught Boston Bakery FRESH BREAD, PIES AND CAKES. Ice Cream and Confectionery B. Kistler, Proprietor F. BACKS, UNDERTAKER And Dealer in FURNITURE. Palace : Meat : Market W. E. HOUK, Proprietor. Beef, Mutton, Pork, Fresh and Salted Meats, Hams, Bacon, Sausage, Lard, Prompt attenton given to all orders. Telephone Main 5 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 CENTER MARKET Carries a choice line of Fresh and Salt Meats Telephone Main 123 Center Street, ANAHEIM G. F. MARTIN, Proprietor The Fastest and Most Perfect Train Between Chicago and Southern California GOLDEN STATE LIMITED via EL PASO Southern Pacific and Rock Island Short Line Solid vestibuled and electric lighted Pullman train of double drawing room, observation and state room sleepers, buffet library car and dining room with the latest improvements without change: 66 Hours from Chicago to Southern California SUNSET EXPRESS Via NEW ORLEANS Solid vestibuled train of observation, standard Pullman and tourist sleepers and dining car to New Orleans. Meals a la carte. Connecting there with vestibuled limited trains through the sunny south to all points east. Washington and New York without charges. 66 Hours from Chicago to Southern California SUNSET EXPRESS Via NEW ORLEANS Solid vestibuled train of observation, standard Pullman and tourist sleepers and dining car to New Orleans. Meals a la carte. Connecting there with vestibuled limited trains through the sunny south to all points east. Washington and New York without change. SOUTHERN PACIFIC The Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. SUBSCRIPTION, - $150 Per Year. Six months...$1 Three months...2 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. March 16, 1904. 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...4:07 pm Daily...6:14 pm Pass Loara Station: To Los Angeles: From Los Angeles. Daily...7:56 am Daily...9:45 am Daily...4:17 pm Daily...6:07 pm LOS ALAMITOS TRAINS: Leave Anaheim Arrive Anaheim 4:40 pm 9:40 am 10:35 am TUSTIN BRANCH: Leave Anaheim Arrive Anaheim 9:49 a.m 4:07 p.m. Daily except Sunday. NEWPORT BEACH RAILWAY. Daily title. Leave Anaheim Arrive Anaheim 9:49 a.m 7:52 a.m. Santa Fe Time Table Effective Dec. 1, 1903. Trains on the Santa Fe Route leave Anaheim for points named as follows: To Los Angeles-7:55 am 9:57 am 12:09pm 5:20 pm To San Diego-9:20 a.m 2:50 m. To Santa Ana-9:20 am 2:50 pm 5:54 p.m. To Riverside and San Bernadino-11:35 am 5:54 p.m. To Redlands-11:35 am. To San Jacinto and Hemet-11:35 am. To Escondido-2:00pm. To Fallbrook-9:20 am. To Redondo Beach-7:55 am.. Trains marked with a * are daily except Sunday. All others dally. J. H. CLABAUGH. Agent. 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. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1904. REFUSE TO MEET ISSUE ON ITS MERITS Opponents of Land Legislation Endeavor to Create Prejudice Against the Transcontinental Railroads [Special Correspondence of the Gazette.] WASHINGTON, April 29.—The opponents in Congress of any legislation to repeal the land laws have largely refused to meet the question upon its merits, and have exhausted their oratory in charging the great railroads of the West with being behind the movement for the purpose of increasing the value of their own lands. It is a fact that the great transcontinental lines have supported the campaign to repeal the Timber and Stone Act, the commutation clause of the Homestead Act and the Desert Land Act, which it is well known are constantly belug used to acquire great bodies of land without residence and settlement. James J. Hill, the president of the Great Northern, which owns no land, has actively favored the irrigation and land repeal policy for several years, and in a speech, January 14, before the Minnesota Agricultural Society, he specifically urged that these three laws should be repealed. It is not difficult to see why Mr. Hill and all the great roads running lines through the desert States, whether they own land or not, should favor the repeal of these laws, especially the Desert Land Law and the commutation clause of the Homestead Law, which operate almost solely to build up great cattle and sheep estates and tend to retard homemaking and put off settlement indefinitely. What the great Northern and the Northern Pacific and the Burlington and the Union Pacific and all the roads desire, above all things, is settlement and population along their lines. They want 160-acre into single ownership for the purpose of cattle and sheep ranging; and of Senator Dubois of Idaho, where the commutation clause has been found most useful to big timber syndicates in stealing great tracts of Government forest land, and various others—granting their claim, for the sake of argument, that the railroads will benefit their property by the repeal of these land stealing laws, is that any sufficient reason, as Congressman Reeder of Kansas said in a speech the other day, why they should not be repealed? Is that a reason worthy of statesmen why the best of the remaining public lands—lands which can later be irrigated and made to support families upon twenty and forty-acre tracts—should be practically stolen from the Government through a set of land laws so loose and so open to evasion that millions of acres are going through them every year without settlement and without home-building—laws so miserably constructed and capable of abuse that since national irrigation became a fixed policy, the public land disposals have increased annually by leaps and bounds—increased from 8,453,896.92 acres in 1898 to 9,182,413.16 in 1896, to 13,453,-887.96 in 1900, to 15,562,796.30 in 1901, to 19,488,535.30 in 1902, to 22,824,299 acres in 1903, and at the present rate of increase will be fully 25,000,000 acres in 1904? The railroads are openly in favor of the repeal of these laws. They are showing but common sense and business wisdom in urging such legislation and doing everything they can to promote it, for they desire to see their lines built up and their freight traffic increased by the shipment of varied agricultural products, and this can only be accomplished by settlement and population and farming and growing agricultural diversification rather than livestock ranging for the next fifty years. Lewis and Clark Centennial Celebration BRYAN'S OPINION OF PARKER Nebraskan Pays Respects to Probable Democratic Nominee for President. William Jennings Bryan has served notice upon the Democracy that he will have none of Parker. In an address at Chicago some days ago Bryan referred as follows to the New Yorker: "When some two years ago I became satisfied that ex-Senator David B. Hill was planning to be a candidate, I pointed out the objections to his candidacy. When the Cleveland boom was launched I pointed out the objections to his candidacy, and now that Mr. Parker seems to be the leading candidate (though not the only candidate), among the reorganizers, I desire to present some reasons why he cannot be considered as an available candidate for a Democratic nomination, and I find these reasons, not in his personality, but in his position upon public questions. For a year he has been urged to speak out and declare himself upon the important issues of the coming campaign, but he has remained silent. If this silence meant that nobody knew his views, those who have been loyal to the party in recent years would stand upon an equal footing with those who deserted, but it is evident now that while to the public generally his views are unknown, they are well known to those who are urging his nomination. Whatever doubt may have existed on this subject heretofore has been dispelled by the platform adopted by the New York state convention, and taking this platform as a text I am sanguine enough to believe that I can prove to every unbiased mind that Judge Parker is not a fit man to be nominated either by the Democratic party or by any other party that stands for honesty or fair dealing in politics." It is not difficult to see why Mr. Hill and all the great roads running lines through the desert States, whether they own land or not, should favor the repeal of these laws, especially the Desert Land Law and the commutation clause of the Homestead Law, which operate almost solely to build up great cattle and sheep estates and tend to retard homemaking and put off settlement indefinitely. What the great Northern and the Northern Pacific and the Burlington and the Union Pacific and all the roads desire, above all things, is settlement and population along their lines. They want 160-acre farms, not great cattle ranges with twenty miles between shacks, for the farms will bring them traffic beyond the ranges ten to one. Men from the Northwest say that what has built up the Great Northern to its present highly prosperous condition has been the rapid advance in settlement and cultivation of the territory through which the road runs. James J. Hill, great railroad man and financier that he is, it is said would rather than anything else go and sit down with some old farmer along his line and discuss for an hour the best methods for him and his neighbors to improve their stock and breed it up and improve their methods of cultivation and introduce new and better crops and get bigger yields per acre. The direction of attention to the gain which will come to the railroads through the supposed advance of their lands if the Federal land laws are repealed is a clever shift which has been put forward as a reason why those laws should not be repealed, and saves the land-grabbers the necessity of meeting the issue squarely. Considered carefully, it is demagogy, based upon the assumption that because the railroads are urging any legislation some people will turn against that legislation, whatever it may be. As a matter of fact, how will the repeal of the Desert Land Act, for instance, enhance the value of the several million acres of land owned by the various railroads? That land is held mostly at $1.25 per acre, and the railroads are glad to get that for it, especially if they can get somebody to settle upon it. The defenders of the Desert Land Law claim that in order to get title from the Government it requires an expenditure of at least $4.25 per acre—a cash outlay of $1 per acre per year for three years and $1.25 additional payment to the Government. If there is any railroad land desired for agriculture where land is being taken up under the Desert Land Law, would it not today be purchased preferably at $1.25 from the railroad than at $4.25 per acre? Much the same may be said of the commutation clause of the Homestead Law, which requires a residence of 14 months and a payment of $1.25 per acre. If there is any railroad land which is competing with homestead land that is being commuted, would it not be purchased outright from the railroads today at $1.25 per acre rather than from the Government at the same price, when the government also requires 14 months' residence? Lewis and Clark Centennial Celebration International scope is assured to the Lewis and Clark centennial exposition to be held at Portland, Oregon, from June 1st to October 15, 1905, by President Roosevelt's approval of the act of Congress making an appropriation for the exposition and his invitation to foreign countries to participate. Portland's exposition will represent a total outlay of over $5,000,000. Though covering 405 acres of land and natural lake, it will be compact in form and the average person will be able to see and comprehend it all in a few days at moderate cost. The cream of the foreign and domestic exhibits to be made at St. Louis this year will be transferred to Portland at the close of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The United States exhibit will be moved entire to Portland and installed in buildings to be specially erected. This exhibit will be worth $800,000. In addition Portland will have many features which will not be seen at St. Louis, such as exhibits demonstrating the life, customs and industries of Japan, China, Hawaii, Siberia, Russia, Alaska, Australia, New Zealand the Philippines and India. The Lewis and Clark centennial will be the first international exposition under government patronage ever held on the Pacific coast. It will be in every way a western exposition. The railroads will make low rates from Missouri and Mississippi river points to Portland, and exceptionally low rates will be in effect between Portland and the Rocky mountain region. Settles with Soldiers SAN FRANCISCO, April 30.—The Santa Fe has made a settlement with the soldiers injured on its tracks near Hartoun early last Sunday, when two soldiers, James Bowers and E. R. Koons, were killed outright. The remaining fourteen were brought to this city and arrived at the Presidio Hospital Monday. Though no one was supposed to reach the men during their confinement in the hospital, a settlement has been made already with seven of them on a cash basis, and strenuous efforts are being made to reach a settlement with the remainder. The day after the arrival of the soldiers at the hospital, representatives of the railroad company appeared there and very quickly brought seven or eight of the injured showing but common sense and business wisdom in urging such legislation and doing everything they can to promote it, for they desire to see their lines built up and their freight traffic increased by the shipment of varied agricultural products, and this can only be accomplished by settlement and population and farming and growing agricultural diversification rather than livestock ranging for the next fifty years. Lewis and Clark Centennial Celebration International scope is assured to the Lewis and Clark centennial exposition to be held at Portland, Oregon, from June 1st to October 15, 1905, by President Roosevelt's approval of the act of Congress making an appropriation for the exposition and his invitation to foreign countries to participate. Portland's exposition will represent a total outlay of over $5,000,000. Though covering 405 acres of land and natural lake, it will be compact in form and the average person will be able to see and comprehend it all in a few days at moderate cost. The cream of the foreign and domestic exhibits to be made at St. Louis this year will be transferred to Portland at the close of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The United States exhibit will be moved entire to Portland and installed in buildings to be specially erected. This exhibit will be worth $800,000. In addition Portland will have many features which will not be seen at St. Louis, such as exhibits demonstrating the life, customs and industries of Japan, China, Hawaii, Siberia, Russia, Alaska, Australia, New Zealand the Philippines and India. The Lewis and Clark centennial will be the first international exposition under government patronage ever held on the Pacific coast. It will be in every way a western exposition. The railroads will make low rates from Missouri and Mississippi river points to Portland, and exceptionally low rates will be in effect between Portland and the Rocky mountain region. If we are to take the New York platform as an indication of what the next Democratic platform is to be in case the reorganizers control the convention, then who will be able to deny the secret purpose of the reorganizers to turn the party over to a predatory wealthy class? With such a platform and a candidate who would be willing to run upon it—the party who could secure as large a campaign fund as the Republican party has ever secured, but in securing it, it would, like the Republican party, secretly pledge the administration to a construction of the platform satisfactory to the corporations and the combinations. "The New York platform is ambiguous, uncertain, evasive and dishonest. It would disgrace the Democrats of the nation to adopt such a platform, and it ought to defeat an aspirant for a Democratic nomination who would be willing to have it go forth as a declaration of his views on public questions." Evidently Mr. Bryan is getting good and ready to bolt the party ticket. And if he does he will no doubt have a large and active following. Cruiser California. culture where land is being taken up under the Desert Land Law, would it not today be purchased preferably at $1.25 from the railroad than at $4.25 per acre? Much the same may be said of the commutation clause of the Homestead Law, which requires a residence of 14 months and a payment of $1.25 per acre. If there is any railroad land which is competing with homestead land that is being commuted, would it not be purchased outright from the railroads today at $1.25 per acre rather than from the Government at the same price, when the government also requires 14 months' residence? And always the real settler has the privilege of going upon 160 acres of Government land anywhere, and home-steading it and living upon it and getting it for absolutely nothing—free for his residence upon it. But even granting the claims of Senator Hansbrough of North Dakota, where the commutation clause has been freely utilized to enable cattlemen to increase their land holdings; and of Senator Clark of Wyoming and Senator Warren of Wyoming, where the Desert Land Act has resulted in the acquirement of immense landed estates The largest sum paid was $500, to Noble Hill, both of whose legs were broken. Harvey Vogle and F. Thompson, who were similarly injured, accepted $140 apiece. John McNesse was paid $200. George Plumber, M. C. Hardman, Frederick L. Newbauer and Ira N. Craig are said to have received $100 apiece, though there is some doubt as to whether Craig has been settled with. The men who are still holding out are E. Bargo, Walter Hawkins, Joseph Wilfong, Jacob W. Sunburg and H. E. Hendrickson. Cruiser California. The armored cruiser California was launched this week at the ship yards of the Union Iron Works in San Francisco. The electric button which started the vessel on her way to the water was touched by Mrs. Walter S. Martin, daughter of Henry T. Scott, president of the Union Iron Works, and the cruiser was christened "California" by Miss Florence May Pardee, daughter of Governor Pardee of the State of California. The launching took place under the auspices of the Native Sons of the Golden West, whose grand parlor is now in annual session at Vallejo. Governor Pardee and staff, E. E. Schmitz, mayor of San Francisco; Major-General Arthur MacArthur, U. S. A., and staff, representatives of the navy from the Mare Island navy yard and officers of the State militia viewed the launching from the United States tug Slocum, while four large ferry steamers carried nearly 5000 members of the Native Sons' order. Half-holiday was granted in the public schools of the city, and thousands of school children gathered at the ship yards to see the launching. Business was suspended in all departments at the city hall and the board of trade took a half-holiday. Every available craft on the bay was pressed into service to carry passengers, and it is estimated that 30,000 persons saw the big steel hull slip down into San Francisco bay. It is claimed that the Cruiser California embodies the latest and best in vessels of her class. There are to be five vessels like her, but at present the Gazette. NUMBER 28 OPINION OF PARKER Pays Respects to Probable Democratic Nominee for President. Bennings Bryan has served the Democracy that he one of Parker. In an ad-cage some days ago Bryan follows to the New Yorker: some two years ago I became ex-Senator David B. Hill to be a candidate, I point objections to his candidacy. Cleveland boom was launch-out the objections to his hand now that Mr. Parker is the leading candidate (the only candidate), reorganizers, I desire to reasons why he cannot be an available candidate oratic nomination, and Iasons, not in his personal position upon public For a year he has been look out and declare himself important issues of the combut, but he has remained siness meant that nobody news, those who have been party in recent years upon an equal footing with asserted, but it is evident able to the public generally the unknown, they are well those who are urging his Whatever doubt may upon this subject heretofore spelled by the platform New York state convening this platform as a text enough to believe that I every unbiased mind that is not a fit man to be neither by the Democratic other party that stands fair dealing in politics. nearest approach to her on any waters is the model British cruiser Drake. The construction of the California was authorized by Congress March 3, 1899, and the contract for her construction was let about a year later. She will cost complete, $5,000,000, her hull and machinery costing $3,800,000 of that sum and her equipment and armament the remainder. Her principal dimensions are: Length on load water line 503 feet, extreme breadth 69¼ feet, mean draft 24 feet and displacement 13,440 tons. She will have twin screws and triple expansion engines of 23,000 horse-power, capable of developing a maximum speed of 22 knots. The California carries out the American ideal of a fighting ship. Her main battery is composed of four eight-inch rifles placed in two armored turrets, one forward and one aft; fourteen six-inch and eighteen three-inch rapid fire guns. The secondary battery consists of twelve three-pounder semi-automatic guns, four one-pounder automatic, four one-pounder rapid fire Hotchkiss guns, two thirty-centimetre Gatlings, six thirty-centimetre automatic Colts, together with two three-inch field pieces to be used by landing parties. When completed the California will have a belt oil steel armor 7½ inches wide on the water line and varying in thickness from 3½ to 6 inches, as well as the five-inch casement above the belt of armor for 232 feet of the vessel's length. The end of this side armor will be joined by traverse armor four inches thick, thus forming a steel enclosure for ten of the six-inch guns. The other four six-inch guns are separately protected by five-inch armor at each corner of the superstructure. The eight-inch guns are protected by armor six inches thick on the slope. Contest for an Estate A contest is in progress at Santa Ana between rival heirs for possession of the estate of the late Leta Mathilda Seeger, which is valued at $30,000. LOCAL JOTTINGS OF INTEREST Wall of a Lost Spirit Orange Post. The Gazette's reasoning that Senator Caldwell was doing James McFadden's bidding in opposing Senator Perkins' re-election is not very perspicacious. If there is a more ardent supporter of Perkins in Orange county than James McFadden, then he is keeping pretty effectually in the background. Had the editor of the Gazette seen and heard the manifestations of disapproval in the legislature last winter over Perkins' Cuban policy, he would know that Senator Caldwell was not in the minority and that Perkins was re-elected simply because no other person contested the place. As for the unit rule, it is a machine device for suppressing a part of the representation chosen by the people, or rather an excuse for counting some of the votes contrary to the way they were cast. It has never been applied in the history of the country, and it will not be received with favor by the voters. "BETTER ELEMENT"—SCISSORS! Orange Post. The Anaheim Gazette thinks the Orange Post is not well informed in county political affairs because it ventured the remark that so far as heard from Orange county Republicans were favorable to returning Daniels to Congress. That remark was made with reference to the better element of the party, commencing with the chairman of the congressional committee and coming on down the line of those who believe in square dealing in politics. Daniels is no more responsible for Tom Hays than Editor Kuchel is for the man who stole his shears. Allmony Proceedings. Edward M. Kraemer of Placentia was before the Superior Court this week. Contest for an Estate A contest is in progress at Santa Ana between rival heirs for possession of the estate of the late Leta Mathilda Seeger, which is valued at $30,000. The property originally vested in the name of Mrs. Seeger's husband, Paul Seeger, but two years ago he became mentally unbalanced, and on going to the Patton asylum deeded the entire estate to his wife. She maintained possession of it until her death, when by the provisions of her will it was discovered that she left practically everything to her daughter by a former husband and to several grandchildren, providing only for the maintenance of Mr. Seeger until his death. This disposition of the property cut out Mr. Seeger's heirs entirely from a share of what they believe to be their rightful inheritance, and they are making a contest to set aside the original will and force a new distribution. Soon after Mrs. Seeger's death her daughter, Mrs. Katie A. Besser of Windom, Minn., to whom was willed most of the estate, filed a petition to have herself appointed guardian of the estate of Paul Seeger, as provided for in Mrs. Seeger's will, and last week a counter petition for letters of guardianship was filed by Alfred Leech of Orange, acting for the other heirs. The contest for the property therefore is centered around the guardianship of Mr. Seeger, who, although discharged from the asylum as cured, is regarded as incompetent to care for his own affairs. The hearing will be held May 6th before Judge West. PROBING INTO WELLS, FARGO SAN FRANCISCO, April 30.—More books of Wells, Fargo & Co. were inspected and more of its officials examined by the Texas authorities in the suit brought by that state to put into effect the new railroad commission tariff reducing the rates of express companies between nine and ten percent. In the course of cross-examination the fact was developed that Wells, Fargo & Co., in 1903, made a deal with the Southern Pacific railroad by which it got a renewal for thirteen years of the exclusive express privilege on the Southern Pacific lines. For this privilege the express company paid the railroad a bonus of $3,000,000, including $750,000 of express company stock, and agreed to give it 40 percent of its annual gross earnings. The Texas officials are probing deeply into the company's statement of its expenses in Texas, and also into the volume of its receipts in order to show that the company can afford to have its tariff reduced as proposed by the Railroad Commission. Allony Proceedings. Edward M. Kraemer of Placentia was before the Superior Court this week on special citation to show cause why he should not continue to pay allony to his divorced wife, Mrs. Emma Kraemer, in accordance with a decree of divorce granted her in January of last year. Mrs. Kraemer at the time of the divorce was allowed judgment for $3000 and allony of $15 per month, which Kraemer paid without protest until three months ago. Judge West issued an order requiring Kraemer to pay all arrearages and to appear again tomorrow to have a settlement in reference to further payments. Kramer was married again last month to Miss Rosie Kneipp. After Apricots. The Gregory Fruit company of Redlands contemplates the operation of a large apricot drier at Santa Ana this season, with the expectation of handling between 500 and 1000 tons of fruit from Santa Ana, Orange and Tustin orchards. R. R. Sutherland, representing the company, was here yesterday, and stated that operations will be commenced if contracts can be signed up for not less than 500 tons. In the past most of the local crop has been dried by individual growers and handled through the agency of the Santa Ana Valley Dried Fruit Association. Growers Disatisfied. The Placentia Cabbage Growers' Association sold its entire output, a number of carloads, to the California Vegetable Union for $25 a ton, being $5 less per ton than was paid last week. The growers were dissatisfied with the reduction, as one farmer here had received a telegram from Seattle, Washington, offering $40 a ton. A meeting was held at Placentia schoolhouse, but no action was taken, as the association had already signed an agreement to stand by the prices fixed by its two representatives and representatives of the union. School Census In view of the extra work involved, the time for completing the school census has been extended from May 1st to May 10th. In previous years the census marshal has merely taken a list of the children with their ages and a few other details, but this year a full tabulation of all children, their parentage, former schooling, present attendance, whether or not vaccinated, physical imperfections, such as deafness or blindness, and other points, are required that render the aggregate work of the census taker much greater than Work platform is ambiguous and dishonest. Since the Democrats of the such a platform, and it an aspirant for a Democrat who would be willing to go forth as a declaratory on public questions." Bryan is getting good bolt the party ticket. The will no doubt have a following. Cruiser California wasreek at the ship yards on Works in San Francisco button which served on her way to the aid by Mrs. Walter S. Water of Henry T. Scott, the Union Iron Works, was christened "Calliope Florence May Pardee, Governor Pardee of the California. The launching order the auspices of the Golden West, whose now in annual session Cruiser California wasreek at the ship yards on Works in San Francisco button which served on her way to the aid by Mrs. Walter S. Water of Henry T. Scott, the Union Iron Works, was christened "Calliope Florence May Pardee, Governor Pardee of the California. The launching order the auspices of the Golden West, whose now in annual session Mexico Objects. The Mexican government, through its Ambassador in Washington, has made a protest against the bill introduced by Representative Daniels of California, declaring the Colorado River in California non-navigable and making its waters available for irrigation. This protest was rather expected at the State Department, and it is believed that the fact that Mexico has entered a protest will serve in the long run to lead to negotiations that will ultimately declare the river closed to navigation and make it really available for irrigation on both the American and Mexican sides of the border, the water of the stream to be divided pro rata between the two nations. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigged, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. WEST & TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, WAIDING, KINNAM, & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's catarrh cure is taken internally acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c per bottle. 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She was thin and weak and paid one dollar for a bottle of Scott's Emulsion, and by taking regular doses had gained twelve pounds in weight before the bottle was finished. Eight cents a pound is cheap for such valuable material. Some pay more, some less, some get nothing for their money. You get your money's worth when you buy Scott's Emulsion. We will send you a little free. SCOTT & BOWNE, CHEMISTS, 9 Pearl Street, New York. 50c and druggists