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atoe VOL. IV. IIOLBROOK, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1899. NUMBER 35 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Some Important Happenings in the Seuth THAT MAY PLEASE OUR READERS An Assortment of Newsy Events That Occurred In our Midst that Cannot Fall to Interest. Madame Modjeska is resting in San Diego. Garden Grove has an outbreak of whooping cough. Louis Moulton of El Toro Í3 suing his wife for a divorce. Riverside is to have a big wheel meet on Admission Day. Long Beach is making war upon back-room poker games. Santa Barbara's new crawfish .can nery will soon be completed. John Leek of Santa Ana is building a newly patented automobile. A kfssing bug found in South Pasa dena was promptly chloroformed. Farmers in the Santa Ana valley ex pect only half a crop of apricots this year. The municipal lighting plant at An aheim is paying about $200 above run ning expenses. A petition is In circulation for the teaching Spanish in the schools of Santa Barbara. The Pomona cannery will handle over 700 tons -of peaches during the coming season. Colonel G. G. Green is the largest taxpayer on the rolls of Pasadena. He is assessed at $2s8,965. Frank McConnell, a step-son of Sen ator Boyce of Santa Barbara, 13 ill with typhoid fever at Skaguay. The water companies in and about (P) Redlands have combined for mutua! protection and to maintain prices. Chas. Myers writes to friends in Pasadena that he has excellent gold prospects at Kotzebue Sound, Alaska. The automobile has come. A horse less carriage was received from the east by S. R. Henderson of Los An geles. San Bernardino still burns electric ity upon the streets, notwithstanding that the city has formally abrogated its lighting contract. Andrew Carnegie has offered to give $50,000 for a public library building in San Diego. The conditions are that a site shall be donated. A newly-made grave with no corpse has been unearthed on the Garden Grove ranch near Santa Ana. Noth ftg is known of the mystery. Should the Oxnard factory be com pleted in time for the beet harvest it is now doubtful if the Chino sugar fac tory will be operated this year. Earl Bernard Buckland, the 2-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Buck land of San Bernardino, was drowned Monday evening in a water ditch. Miners are scouring the mountains of Southern California under the the ory that recent earthquake shocks have uncovered new mineral ledges. The shipment of canned goods from Ventura to Europe will commence next week, consignments being billed to London, Glasgow, Australia,Egypt and Salrabala, India-Over-indulgence in morphine, co caine and liquor is blamed for the seeming insanity of H. A. Clarke, an Englishman, who has a ranch in the Kingsley tract near Pomona. The brewery interests have engaged Frank F. Davis of Los Angeles to de- , feat, efforts at the formation of sani- tary districts in Southern California. Pasadena had a $2000 fire recently. Z. Horikoski, who represents large commercial interests in Tokio, Japan, is in San Diego, to look over the com mercial field. He is greatly pleased with the harbor and shipping facili ties. Herbert Hadden, a Pasadena soldier Curving in the Philippines, was shot 'n the head during the recent engage ment at Calumpit. He expects soon to be discharged and will at once re turn home. The Santa Monica Outlook print this paragraph: "A pedestrian reports the kissing bug abroad on Oregon av enue at 10 o'clock last night. It wore trousers and its antennae encircled a gaudy shirt waist." The body of F. Norton, a seaman of the coasting schooner Comet, was re covered from the bay at San Pedro yesterday. Norton was accidentally drowned while in his cups. He had been sailing coastwise for twenty-five years. Deputy Fish Commissioner Kerche- val of-Los Angeles arrested John Stew art of Las Posas, Roy Thorpe of Santa Paula and Rev. E. W. Osborn, a Meth odist minister of New Orleans, who is visiting in Santa Paula, for shooting quail out of season on Lady Broome's ranch, Guadalasca. There is quite a rivalry among apri cot growers near Anaheim as to who has produced the best crop this year in proportion to trees. It is gen erally conceded, we are told, that Mrs. Stely leads the procession. This is true. There are few ladies in Southern California who work harder for success in anything they undertake to do, than this lady, and the beauty of it all is, she succeeds. Her ranch takes a back seat for none in productiveness. The Fresno Republican says: "Just before the hot wave a Fresno boy found some birds' eggs, took thom home and put them on the parlor ta ble, where they promptly hatched. It is a good thing he didn't leave them out in the sun; they would have tried." Here, where the weather is simply beautiful, one is filled with dismay for the people of the raisin land, for if this boy had found these eggs during the hot wave, both boy and eggs would have been hard boiled. Fresno is certainly a red-hot town, for they themselves have said it. There is a cast-iron law which for-- bids the importation' of tick-infested cattle from Mexico. While it works some hardship to consumers for a time through scarcity and high prices, it is the only effective measure to insure a future supply of healthy and fair priced meats. Cattle Inspector Hill at San Diego, in refusing to pass a herd of Lower California cattle is simply doing his duty, and the lusty oiitcry of the wholesale butcher is no certain indication that any one else but him self and congeners are hurt by it. Los Angeles Times. A diver in armor is about to gather specimens from the bottom of the sea. at Avalon, and will, while under wa ter, illustrate the work of a diver on wrecks. This notice should draw a whole raft of underwriters and their agents from San Francisco, for it has ever been a dark mystery just how a diver at work on a wreck managed to put in so much time and do noth ing but look tired at $25 per day. The dier at real work on a real wreck is a practical illustration on the part of tae underwriters of "what the eye does not- see, the heart does not grieve about." Los Angeles Times. Long Beach is to be congratulated on the fact that a jury did actually find a foul-mouthed and obscene black guard, who voided his vocal filth in public, guilty of disturbing the peace, though it required two whirls to bring the full jury to time. Only four of them held out, and this fact gladdens the hearts of the law-and-order peo ple. It is now in order for hack men, hotel runners and others in citing the attractions of the town to visitors to give the osseous frame of the whale a rest, and trot out instead the only simon-pure jury that ever found a ver dict of guilty in the town ef Long Beach. " The lack of water for sprinkling the streets in Pasadena causes Street Superintendent Buchanan to estimate the loss or damage resulting there from at $50 per day. This is a seri ous thing, and will doubtless turn the attention of Pasadena's progressive business men to the successful appli cation of oil to the streets and roads in other ' cities. It is conclus'.vcly proven that oil is cheaper and better than water to protect a roadbed and keep it free from dust. With oil at $l'per barrel, much ground could be covered for $50 per day, anJ. inci dentally, the oil industry would be benefitted. -Los Angeles Times. San Gabriel township is in lino fcr high honors, In that her neople insist teat blackguard and otherwise unruly boys must -behave or be punished. An outraged citizen cuffed a oung mischief-maker and all the country-sido came c:it to see the father of the boy a well-to-do man defend his son. A jury of men who have known the innate deviltry of unchecked boy-ns-turo gave a verdict agaiust the boy, and ali creation will giv? a verdict against the father. Therj is a wMe and enlarging field here for Spartan jurispiudence, for many parents, seem to bo as blind here as the San Gabriel faher. True love, if needs be, will be cruel, tc be kind thereby. SPUNKY KANSAS GIRLS. Independence, Kan. The girls' clubs of .several Southern Kansas towns have resolved never to marry a young man unless he served with the famous Twentieth Kansas, regiment. They say they are determined to keep their agreement, and that sooner than marry a man who stayed at home, they will remain single all their lives. They intend to. give the boys of tha aegiment a big reception when they re- j turn. PACIFIC COAST'NEWS important Information Gathered Around the Coast. ITEMS OE GENERAL INTEREST A Summary of Late Events That Are Boiled Down to Salt oar Busy Headers. The steamer-Aorangi, which sailed from Victoria, B. C, for Australia, had 230 tons of beer for Honolulu. Fresno The first carload of dried peaches to leave Fresno this season was shipped by Griffin & Skelley. It is consigned by W. H. B. Tottan & Co. of New York. To make sure that his condemnation of the slot machine was just, Judge Treadwell of San Francisco played at one himself and decided it a "sure thing game," and that "no player ever came out ahead of it." Seattle A. Finley, third officer -of the steamer Garonne, now being fitted up for a transport, has received word from England that, trough the death of bis father, he is heir to an estate amounting to nearly $4,000,000. Ukiah J. M. Byrnes, an inmate of the county hospital, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a dull case knife. After causing the wound, Byrnes put a blanket around his neck and went to dinner. The. wound was then discovered and sewn up. Byrnes lived until morning. Seattle, Wash. Henry Spears of San Francisco, who arrived here a few days ago from Dawson, complained to the police that he had been robbed of $3200 in gold and bank notes. Two French women, Levita Mignon and Helene- Martin, were arrested on sus picion of being the guilty parties. San Francisco The Southern Pa cific has decided to erect a building of its own at the Paris exposition, where will be exhibited the resources of such portions of the state as are tapped by its various lines. For this purpose the road has set aside the sum of $50, 000 and its expediture has been placed in the hands of W. H. Mills, who will superintend the scheme. San Francisco J. J. Noel, colered, from New Orleans, who arrived here on the steamer Colon, says that he and 150 others went to Guatemala to work on the Northern railroad under the be lief that they were to receive $6 a day. Instead, they were given $1.50 a day and their food was insufficient. Noel claims that the men could obtain no relief from the American consul. Lee Sang, a highbinder at San Francisco, horribly carved a Chinese woman to death in a room on the top floor of a Chinese lodging house at 809 Stockton street, and then made his es cape through a window and over the roofs of adjoining bouses. Sang had been consorting with the woman for some time, and it is believed ' that jealousy prompted the deed. The weap on used to hack the woman was a butcher's cleaver. San Francisco Albert Ballinger, who is in the receiving hospital await ing examination as toehis sanity, is un der confinement because of his wild wooing of Blanche Bates, the San Francisco actress now playing in a lo cal theater. He has been writing her tons of letters, throwing massive bou quets at her from front seats, and has lately became violent at sight of the actress. Ballinger calls himself "The Indian Kid." He is 30 years of age, and is said to have a wife and fam ily. - Redding -Sheriff Charles F. Biack ington of Socorro, N. M., started back with Ernest Gentry, who is wanted at Alamo Gordo for stealing $6000 in government script. The penalty for robbery in New Mexico is; death by hanging.. The sheriff considers Gentry a desperate man and to prevent his escape Blackington has his prisoner hand-cuffed and feet shackled. The New Mexico sheriff has killed several men, and he says he will kill another if Gentry makes the slightest attempt to get away. y United States Senator George C. Perkins, who has reached Seattle from a trip to Alaska, thinks there is noth ing to arbitrate in connection with the Alaskan boundary. He said: "It would certainly be Just as. reasonable for us to Insist on taking up the boun dary question between the United States and Canada again and declare our dissatisfaction with the forty ninth degree of latitude. England long ago recognized the boundary for which we are contending. . She did this when the Hudson Bay company, which at that time . was practically Canada, executed a ten-year lease from 'Russia, for which she la now contend ing. She leased it from Russia and renewed the lease for a second ten years. The San Diego Land and Town Com pany isr hereby promoted to a seat in the progressive band wagon, because it has originated and placed upon an eager market two brand-new articles of commerce in the shape of lemon oil and citric acid, which are made at its factory at National City. Another rea son for this great distinction is the fact that this is the only concern of its kind in the country, and that its managers have the pluck, ability and business acumen to make- it a signal success from its inception. The local press might slip a cog in its wheel of grief and profitably exploit this really deserving undertaking. Bakersfleld, with, confessedly, six teen peace officers residing within, the city, is all torn up over the disgraceful street orgies of the hoodlum element, and both local papers contain red-hot editorial condemnation of existing conditions. If a facetious allusion to Bakersfleld as a jay town is made, these same papers resent it. Now In view of their own bitter complainings it would seem that there is much to entitle that burg to such a name. At the gateway, between the north i and south, an object of interest to all who come among us, it is poor executive ability that permits such' complaints to be possible. Bakersfield's law of ficers should place her in the proces sion. Los Angeles Times. Two bicyclists crashed their wheels together at Pasadena, one of them be ing a woman. She was on the right side of the street, and made the man pay for repairs to her wheel. The Los Angeles method is something as follows: He is riding in on Main street, on the right side, she is driving out, but on her left side. Her course was triangular, and at Tenth street she crowded him into a hitching post over which he turned a foot spring and slid ten feet along the gutter. He arose with his mouth full of mud and Volapuk, his body full of pains, and his soul full of wrath. She eyed him with disdain. He said, with much feel ing: "My dear madam, you are on the wrong side of the street." "Dear nuthin'," she snorted, "guess you don't own this street," and she drove on. He .emptied his mouth of mud, and ; curtain. THE ALUM BAKING POWDERS. Names of Some of the Principal Brands Sold in This Vicinity. The recent discussion in the papers of the effect upon the human system of food made with alum baking pow ders and the opinions that have been published from noted scientists to the effect that such powders render the food unwholesome, have caused nu merous inquiries for the names of the various alum powders. The following list of baking powders containing alum is made up from re ports of State Chemists, Food Commis sions or other reliable authority: Baking Powders containing alum: K. C ..Contains Alum. Jaques Mfg. Co., Chicago. CALUMET Contains Alum. Calumet Baking Powder Co., Chicago. HOME Contains Alum. Home Baking Powder Co. San Fran cisco. . BEE-HIVE Contains Alum. Washington Mfg. Co., San Francisco. CLOVER LEAF Contains Alum. Pacific Mfg. Co., Los Angeles. In addition to these, it is learned that many grocers are selling what they call their own private or special brands. These powders are put up for the grocer and his name put upon the labels by manufacturers of alum powders in' San Francisco and else where. The manufacturers, it is said, find their efforts to market their goods in this way greatly aided by the am bition of thq grocer to sell a powder with his own name upon the label, es pecially when the grocer can make an abnormal profit upon it. Many gro cers, doubtless, do not knowkthat the powders they are thus pushing are alum powders which would be actually contraband in many sections if sold without disguise. It is quite impossible to give the names of all the alum baking powders in the market They are constantly appearing in all sorts of disguises, un der all kinds of cognomens and at all kinds of prices, even as low as five and ten cents a pound. They can be avoided, however, by the housekeeper who will bear in mind that all baking powders sold at twenty-five cents or less per pound are liable to contain alum, as pure cream of tartar baking Powders cannot be produced at any thing like this price. The Rome correspondent of the Daily Mail says: Mascagni's hymn in honor of Admiral Dewey was per formed at Pesaro Sunday, for the first time, before an audience of 2000 per sons. It was greatly appreciated and is considered the finest hymn Mascag ni has written. - . ,- . HINES AND MINING. FIRST EXPERIENCE. Just before the departure of a group of returning San Roque miners from San Diego, they were discussing their recent experience in the land of the Montezumas, when one of them exhib ited a nugget about the size of a small . filbert and asked his companions if they knew what it had cost him. No one venturing a guess, he said: "That little piece of gold, worth about $3.50, cost me almost that many dollars. I figure this way: All the mining I did was in partnership with four others who went down with me from Los Angeles, where I had just closed out my business when the San Roque excitement came on. We worked for almost a week before we struck anything, and then the first, last and richest thing we struck was this nug get. We owned it together on a sort of socialistic basis until we concluded to separate, when the question arose as to how all parties could get a square deal, and still leave us something to show for our experience. We all thought it would be rather picayunish business to divide It in equal shares, even by selling it to a broker, so we concluded we would auction it off among ourselves to the highest bid der. "Every fellow in the gang was bound to have the nugget, the blamed thing being at last knocked down to me for $20. and if I hadn't had the bulge on the rest of the fellows in the way of a long pocketbook, I guess it would have cost me double that amount. Now, my trip in thé way of traveling expenses and outfit has cost me $300, and I have paid for the product of about a week of the hardest work I ever did $20 more, ' making the total cost of that little chunk of the single standard $320. That's the only souvenir I have ot my first experience as a miner. It cams high, and I am going to keep it, as I consider it in that light worth even more than it cost." GREAT MINK The Gold Bank is the leading quartz mine near Oroville and is well known as a steady producer. It is operated as a business proposition and it pays. The manager, H. P. Stow, has demon strated his ability as a mine manager. The majority of the men employed in the works have been there for years and changes are few and far between. The 40-stamp mill on .the property crushes 40,000 tons of ore per year, running steadily day and night. The plant is well equipped, a large can vas plant and chlorination works be ing on the ground for saving and re ducing sulp.hurets, the ore in the Gold Bank ledge being heavily sulphuretted. Montana copper production for the month of May amounted to nearly 22, 000,000 pounds. Owing to the increased price of sil ver, the little town of Pine Flat is at tracting the attention of capitalists from all parts of the state. A ten-ton furnace will be completed in a few weeks at the C.loverdale mine and it is estimated that the output will exceed 150 flasks per month. The managers of the Sheba mine at Patterson creek have been .making a clean-up of the mill during the past few days, which amount to about $12, 000 for the last, four weeks' run. The Bunker Hill and Mayflower mines, north of Amador City, that have been idle because of financial em barrassments, are, it is reported, about to pass into the hands of a new com pany. Owing the high price of copper and lead and to the increased price of sil ver, many claims that have heretofore laid idle can now be worked at a good profit, and claims are being leased and others will be. William C. Ralston, manager of the Melonee mine, has been advised by telegraph that his property has been listed on the Boston stock exchange. This is the fourth California property that has been listed in the Hub. The average price of silver in New York during last May was 61.23 cents an ounce, as against 59.98 cents an ounce during May, 1898. The average price of copper during May of this year was 18.25 cents a pound as against 12 cents a pound in May, 1898. Mines in the Ballarat district, Inyo county, are rapidly making a good name for themselves. The camp 13 only two and a half years old, but it has already demonstrated that it pos sesses some of the richest gold quartz ledges ever discovered in California John H. Hand has sold the Heskell copper mine, which is situated three miles from Pohasky, to Henry B. Ver go for $25,000. Mr. Vergo represents an English syndicate, which also owns the Copper King mine and other cop per properties in Fresno county. It is reported that large smelters will be erected at once and the Haskell mine developed on a large scale.