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MONDAY. FEBRIJIRI 17, 185 JO.
Crippling Our Fruit Industry.
We have eaid heretofore that the whole
system of the protective tariff is so ar
ranged as to afford the greatest possible
benefits to the manufacturers and the
least to the farmers of the country. In
View ef pending legislation in Congress
looking to the removal of the present
duties on sugar and fruits, we have ad
verted to the effects of such a step on the
industries of this State. Great Britain
is at present the greatest manufacturer
*f jams, jellies and preserved fruits in the
world. There is no dietetic problem
more important to the health and gen
eral well-being of the people than this of
providing cheap fruits in ail the forms
they are used in. In Great Britain
jams, jellies and conserves are not hfx
uries in any sense of the word.
They are as common as bread and meat
on the tables of even the poor.
We do not realize, here in Cali
fornia, what expensive luxuries fruits
are in the East. They are too
expensive to permit of their gen
eral nse and are costly delicacies
known only to the well to do. If given a
fair opportunity, California can produce
fruit enough to supply the entire coun
try with fruits and fruit preparations
much cheaper than the people of Eng
land now buy them. But this infant in
dustry, as it truly is, is strangled in its
cradle like the young Alcides was like to
be by the serpents sent by jealous Juno,
by the iniquitous system of the tariff
that discriminates so heavily against all
farming interests. This is not a politica 1
tirade. It is not a free trade diatribe, as
many may be inclined to look upon it.
This is a plea to the party in power to
treat this State more justly.
Let us look at a few facts and figures
Canned frnits contain bnt little sugar
and the only effect the tariff has oi
this industry is in the cost of
the tin that coats the cans. Jams,
jellies and conserves of fruit con
tain from 50 to "5 per cent, of sugar, and
the vessels that hold them are quite costly.
England makes all her own glass and
pottery. She admits sugar free of daty.
In America there is an import tax of
about 50 per cent, on both the sugar and
the vessels used in putting up fruits.
The difference of the price of sugar in
England and America is on an average
$3 per hundred, or 3 cents a pound. A
dozen pots, each holding a pound of jam,
cost in England 37 }■> cents, and in Amer
ica 62 } i cents. Here is a difference of
cost in favor of the English manufacturer
of 25 cents a dozen, or 66% per cent.
Our sugar co3ts 50 per cent, more than
that used by the English fruit-packers.
Taking average prices in the two countries
and this result is reached: To make
twelve pounds of strawberry jam 8.4
pounds of sugar are used. This quantity
of sugar costs in England 39.81 cents ;
in the United States the cost is 65.10
cents —a difference of 25.29 cents.
Adding to this the 25 cents difference on
jars, the total difference on twelve jars ol
strawberry jam is found to be exactlj
50.29 cents. This difference is alread)
about 40 per cent, of the English whole
sale price of the jam. Now tun
to the schedule on the manufacture,
jam or jelly, and the discriminatioi
against the farmer becomes patent. Thi
duty on the fruit conserve is thirty-fivt
per cent, ad valorem, and twenty
five to thirty per cent, on the jar
that contain it. This gives the importet
English stuff a net advantage of 7 to 8 pc
cent, over tne home production. Tha
of course would be an enormous profi
for the manufacturer to make, and en
ables the Eoglish article to keep th<
American out of the markets of the world
including those of our own country
There is the further difference of cost o
tbe labor and the capital employed ii
the two countries. Republicans make i
great outcry about our party, and its pol
icy of delivering the American market
over to England, but it is just such quee:
tariff vagaries as the above that fetter
American enterprise and give up out
markets to England.
Now look at the result. In Englani
the poor use jam as a common article ol
diet. It is cheaper by 4 to 10 cent*
per pound than butter, for which
it is largely substituted. England
produces about $20,000,000 worth
of small fruits, much more than
50 per cent, of which is converted into
conserves of some sort. We convert
about $2,000,000 of our fruit into jams and
jellies. Nearly every town of import
ance in Great Britain has a fruit pre
nerving establishment, and all the fruit
in the vicinity finds a good market. In
Dundee. Scotland, one firm employs
1,000 hands in this business. A firm in
Glasgow uses thirty tons of strawberries
a day. In Great Britain, in 1887, there
were more than 48,000 acres devoted to
email fruits. In the county of Kent
there are many growers who plant 100
acres in strawberries alone, and some
who plant several hundred. About 50,
--000 persons in this single county are
engaged in the production of small
fruits.
The above results are the direct effects
of cheap sugar and cheap glass and pot
tery. AYe in California have all the
advantages cf nature on our side, but the
artificial restrictions put in our way by
the Republican tariff schedule more
than discount our natural advantages,
aud deliver us over to the English to
spoil us.
What is the remedy ? Take the tax
off sugar, and glass, and pottery? No.
This is a plea for the farmer. The plead- j
THE LOS ANGESjES DAILY HERALD: MONDAY JkWRNIWtt, FEBRUAKI' 17. Ib9o
ing is not to the country, but to the
party in power. It is not an argument
on the protective doctrine iteeif, but a
plea to the advocates of that system to
deal fairly with the fruit-growers of this
State and with the sugar planters of the
South. Do not remove the duty from
the fruits of this State. Do not
discriminate further against the farm
ers by removing your protection from
the only products of the earth that
cDtne under its influence. They are few
enough. Pleading as we are with pro
tectionists to deal fairly with the farmer,
we should rather say raise the duty on
imported jams, and by your own meth
ods, as you say, shut out the English
stuff and let California supply the
markets of the country. If sugar and
the packages used for conserves are pro
tected on an average of 40 par cent., then
tax the imported conserves 45 per cent,
and give the fruit-growers of Cali
fornia some benefit. If sugar is left
protected and your tenets hold, then in
a short time California will supply the
country with all the sugar it needs. Let
the owner and tiller of the soil reap a
little of your boasted system's benefits,
and do not give it all to the iron manu
facturers and glass blowers. If your
purpose be to encourage home indus
tries, remember that this great State is
above all things a producer of fruit, and
let her cv] >y a small modicum of these
vaunted blessings you tell us of.
Things are moving in Southern Cal
ifornia. Those who do not know the facts
may think it was all boom, and that the
boom was all hollow inflation. It was
not half boom, and the boom was not
one-tenth part inflation. It was mostly
healthy growth with a natural and legiti
mate enhancement of values. There is a
depression following, as is often the case,
but there will come a reaction from
that again before long, and then
it will appear that the prices of
the boom period were not so wild
as they seem now. Here is a little speci
men of how things move here in the
lines of development. Four years ago
the Yorbas owned an old sheep walk at
the mouth of the Temescal creek, where
the San Juan de Santiago canon opens
northward towards Riverside. Some
eastern people went in there and bought
up the Yorba ranch, piped out the water
and laid out a townsite, South Riverside,
on the plain. It was a bald
mesa, as bare as the back of
one's hand. At the end of four
years here is the record of its tree
planting: Peach, 1,180; pear, 1,532;
apricot, 2'JO; English walnut, 2tio; olive,
884; lemon, 4 years old and over, 74;
orange, 4 years old and over, 1,710;
orange, 3 years old and under, 35.258;
orange, in nursery, 53.750. There are
twenty-nine acres of raisin grape vines
and 500 acres of orange trees not in nurs
ery. There is progress in that,and the fact
that there are orange trees enough in
j nursery to set out 500 acres proves that
the development is in no respect arrested.
Senator Frye's report on the Union
Pacific railroad is more important to na
here than might at first glance appear.
It will strike all readers as extremely
liberal io its dealings with the subsidized
road. It also endorses that road's policy
of extending its branches in many direc
tions, and says that it is to those exten
sions the road owes much of its preeent
prosperity. These points both interest
us to a large degree, for on
just such views depends the extension
of that system to Southern California.
Of course the managers of the road had
means of learning what views tbe Senate
committee, who went over the road, had
obtained from the survey they took last
summer of its affairs. It was on this
assurance of a liberal construction of the
road's relations to the Government that
the building of the extension into Fevada
was undertaken, and it is on this
liberality at the hands of the
Government that its construction to Los
Angeles depends. And why should not
this end of the State derive come benefit
from the benefactions of the Government ?
The subsidizing of the Pacific roads in
the first place gave the central part cf
California connection with the East; the
allowing of further time to pay the debt
back to the Government will enable the
Union Pacific to build to the Coast, with
Los Angeles as the terminal point.
The magnificent (streams of gold and
silver that California poured into the
Union stimulated all its industries and
made possible all the progress of the
past forty years; and made it possible,
too, to carry on the great civil war. The
demonetization of silver from 1873 to
1878 was the direct cause of all tho stag
nation in business and consequent hard
times of that period. The partial
restoration of silver to its proper place as
a precious metal in 1878, and the com
pulsory coinage of some silver monthly,
is the direct cause of the prosperity of the
decade now closing. Restore silver fully
to its place, and there will at once be
ushered in an era of general prosperity
such as no age or country has seen. It
rests with the present CoDgress to quit
Ub internecine war for party advantage,
join hands irrespective of party and pass
a bill compelling the Treasurer to coin
the lull measure of silver contemplated
in the Bland bill. So well would this
work that it would lead very shortly to
free coinage of the white metal.
Ot'R columns yesterday contained a
very interesting letter from Nicaragua,
from along the route of the big canal
which it is proposed to construct there.
It notes the fact that many people are
coming there under the impression that
the work is now in progress on the
canal, and find themselves without
money in a strange land where no work
can be found. There has not been a rod
of dirt touched on the great enterprise
yet, and there will not be for a long time
to come. Even when the undertaking is
actually nnder way, the writer warns
mechanics and laborers that they should
not rush in there without having some
means of subsistence until they secure
a jib.
THE PACIFIC ROADS.
A Plan Proposed for Their
Refundment.
ABLE TO PAY THEIR DEBTS.
The Union Pacific to be Granted
Fifty Years' Time aad the
Central Seventy-Five.
Associated Press Dispatches to the Herald.
Washington, February 10—The Sen
ate special committee on Pacific railroads,
after many hearings, thorough investiga
tion and careful consideration, have
finally accepted the reports of Senator
Frye on the Union Pacific and Senator
Davis on the Central Pacific, and agreed
upon a bill providing for refunding their
debts. The report on the Union Pacific
reaches the following conclusions:
One—That the policy of building or
acquiring branch lines was wise, and
through the period covered by their in
quiry, honestly and economically carried
out.
Second—That the main line has de
rived an immense advantage from the
branches, and there is no foundation for
the charge that the latter have received
undue benefit at the expense of the main
line.
Third—That the building of the Ore
gon Short Line, and the subsequent ac
quirement of the Oregon Railway and
Navigation Company's lines, instead of
being a menace to the interests of the
Government, have proved a decided ad
vantage.
Fourth —That the recent consolidation
of several branches under the name of
tho Oregon Short Line and Utah North
ern Railway Company simplifies the sys
tem of the Union Pacific, makes possi
ble a more effective and economical
management and in no regard evidences
any purpose of evading obligations to the
Government.
Fifth—That the branches, instead of
being maintained at the expense of the
main line, contribute at least $;!,000,000
a year to the treasury of the company.
Sixth—That improvements have been
for several years past greater on the
main line than on the branches, some
of them being very important and expen
sive.
Seventh —That there is no evidence of
any purpose on the part of the company
to surrender ttiat portion of their road
over which the (Jovernment has a statu
tory lien ; on the contrary, there is every
reason tending to satisfy any candid per
son that no such purpose exists.
Eighth—That this is a capable, well
managed road, abundantly able to pay
its debts, requiring only, like every other
railroad, time iv which to pay.
Ninth—That the present management
is honestly trying to effect an adjustment
with the Government.
Tenth—That the interests of the Gov
ernment and the railway company will
be promoted by a settlement, and that
one has been made, under which every
dollar owing to the Government, with
interest, will be paid.
It ends: "Tne present security is
a statutory lien on tne road, commeii?
ing three miles west of the Missouri
river and extending to a point five miles
west of Ogden; and on the other road,
commencing half a mile west of Kansas
city and extending to a point 388 miles
westerly—commencing in a prairie and
ending in one. It is not enough to pro
tect the Government debt, if it shall not
be adjusted until it becomes, due by fifty
million dollars, while under the bill to
be reported the security obtained will be
twice the Government debt in value, and
payment according to the terms of the
bill is absolutely certain."
The report on the Central Pacific finds
that the United states has for security a
statutory lien on the road, commencing
at a point five miles west of Oiiden and
extending to San Jose, without terminal
facilities at either end, made subject to
a mortgage to secure bonds equal in
amount to the original indebtedness cf
this company to the United States; that
that portion of the road from Ogden to
the western slope of the Sierra Madras
is practically only a bridge without any
local business <jf any amount; that the
lines reaching from the main line into
Nevada do not now pay actual expenses •
that the present security of the United
States upon this property is entirely in
adequate ; that the foreclosure of the
first mortgage would substantially ex
haust, in the satisfaction thereof, tho
entire property, and that it would be in
exoedient for the United States to re
deem from said first mortgage or to
become owner of tne property through
redemption and foreclosure.
The report finds that it is expedient,
necessary and practicable to adjusi and
further secure the indebtedness to the
United States upon extended time at a
reduced rate of interest, within the abil
ity of the company to pay, upon such
terms as advance the development of
tne country through which said roads
pass, and afford the inhabitants thereof
reasonable rates qf transportation for
passengers and freight.
From the report it appears that the
Central Pacific has not the ability to
pay at all equal to that of the Union Pa
cific, but under the terms of the bill to
be reported can make final and fall pay
ment reasonably certain.
The bill agreed upon includes within
its provisions the Union Pacific Railroad
Company, the Kansas Pacific Railway
Company, and the central branch of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, consol
idated under the name of the Union Pa
cific Railway Company and the Central
Pacific Railroad Company, successor to
the Central Pacific Railroad of California
and the Western Pacific Railroad Com
pany.
It provides for funding the present
worth of the of the Union
Pacific Railway Company, on July Ist,
1890, and for the payment to the United
States of that amount, with throe per
cent, interest, payable semi-annually;
also a portion of the principal semi-an
nually, so that the entire debt will be
paid in fifty years.
It requires that the Union Pacific railway
shall give a mortgage on all its property,
of every name and description, real,
mixed and personal, and also preserves
to the United States a list of the present
statutory lien. In the event of the fail
ure of said company to accept the pro
visions of the act, there shall be carried
to the credit of tne sinking fund one-half
of the compensation for services ren
dered for the ( Government, and in
addition thereto the sum of two
million dollars a year or seventy
tive per centum of the whole net earn
ings of the Union Pacific Railway Com
pany, extending also the provisions of
the Thurman act to the Kansas Pacific
Railway Company and the central
branch of the Union Pacific Railroad
Company; that on the failure to pay, a
receiver shall be appointed to take charge
of, manage and operate the road,
branches and lines of said company, un
til the principal and interest debt shali
have been fully paid.
Section 0 provides for the ascertain
ment of the present amount of the debt
of the Central Pacific Railroad Company ;
then for the payment of interest at the
rate of 2 per centum per annum, payable
semi annually, and ho much of the prin
ciple as shall result iv the payment of
tlie entire debt in seventy-five veara.
But in order to relieve the road from too
great a burden duringjthe next ten years,
as it is necessary for it to make some ex
tensive improvements, it capitalizss for
that time one-half of the two per cant, to
be paid.
The bill requires the mortgage of the
entire property of the Central Pacific
Railroad Comptuy, including some very
important roads in California, and also
by that section and a eunsequent one,
that the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany aud Central Pacific t-hall make the
present lease subsisting between them
an additional security to the United
States for the payment of the debt.
Either of said companies may extend
payment or refund indebtedness prior to
the time required for payment by the
United States, to the extent f par
value of such first mortgage bonds, at a
rate of interest not to exceed 5 par cent.
la the event of any default for ninety
days in the payment of interest or prin
cipal, as required by the act, the entire
deM shall immediately mature.
The recording of the niortgagg by the
Secretary of the Treasury, In conformity
with tho law of the various States and
Territories where the property is situated,
is provided for. The United States may
retain all the mouey due to these com
panies for tet vices until the installments
of the principal and the interest upon
the bonds next maturing after such ser
vices are rendered shall be fully paid.
The companies shall pay no dividends
unless the same shall have been actually
earned, and unless such company shall
have paid all the interest and matured
indebtedness.
Section 18 provides for the repeal of
the law requiring Government directors;
also the laws imposing limitations on the
rights of the companies to acquire prop
erty, extend their railways, elc.
San Francisco, February IG —A
special dispatch from Washington save.:
It is, of course, provided that the first
mortgage of $25,000,000 on the Central
Pacific held by private persons remains
as at present.
It can be stated on authority that the
Southern Pacific people will not accept
tlie terms offered, and the battle will be
fought out in Congress. A gentleman
high in railroad circles remarked : "The
Government ueks us to givo our unaided
lines aB security, something they have
not got now. We would rather abandon
the aided line from Ogden to Sacra
mento, and lot them tight it out with the
holders of the first mortgage than ac
cept such terms."
Firi'V-I'IRS I' < ONUKESS.
What tlie Two Home* Rave Before
Tii.-in This Week.
Washington, February IG. —For the
first time since the present Congress
met, the House is to have an old-fash
ioned suspension day tomorrow, the re
sult of the new code of rules.
The World's Fair committee will
probably request the House to adopt its
programme for the disposition of its bills,
aud the simple majority vote necessary
to make this order will doubtless be se
cured.
The pension appropriation bill will
probably be reported to the House Tues
day.
Sherman has given notice that he will
ask the Senate this week to consider his
bill declaring trusts unlawful; and to
morrow Piatt, from tho committee on
Territories, will report favorably the bill
for the admission ol Idaho.
"KED JIM" ItIcULUnOTT.
lie Says Parnell Must Step Down
aud (int,
New York, February It; —The World
this morning has a column talk witn
"Red Jim" McDermott, from its London
correspondent, in the course of which
McDermott says he returned from New
Zealand at the solicitation of Laboucehre,
but wonld not Bay on what busi
ness. He said: "You may quote
me as saying that it is the opinion of
the staunchest followers of Parnell that
he must step down and out as the leader
of the Irish party before Parliament has
been in session two months; perhaps
much sooner than that. I assure you
that the expenses of the Parnell com
mission have crippled the resources of
the Irish party ko badly that they are at
their wi's ends. A great deal of money
is gone that cannot be accounted for."
WICK Dl I H KS.
The Hlrinlns-iiani Rurrtevor Con
template* Suicide.
Birmingham, Ala., February 10.— Last
night Dick Hawes wrote two letters, one
to Miss May Storey, the young lady
whom he married in Columbus, and the
other to Ed. Weaver, of Marion, Indiana.
He gave them unstamped to Deputy
Ellard. Both said that when received
the writer would be dead, which plainly
meant that Hawes intended to commit
suicide. The letter to Miss Storey said
the late confession in which he claimed
ho paid John Wylie to kill hie Wife aad
his daughter Irene was false. He did it
to get even with Wylie, who had once,
while in jail here, betrayed a plot that
Hawes and other prisoners had on foot
to escape.
sect;Essrci. 111. viik n ah..
A Wealthy Citizen Worked for
Two Thousand Dollars.
Springfield, Mass., February 16. —A
successful attempt at blackmail, of
which Amaeiah Mayo, a wealthy citizeD,
was the victim, has just come to light.
Last November Frank C. Algerton,
a medium, enticed Mayo to his room, and
under pretense of receiving a massage
treatment put Mayo in a compromising
attitude. Algerton's confederate, George
A. Mason, broke in the door, and, claim
ing to be a detective, threatenedto arrest
both men. He finally agreed to settle
for $4 000, and Mayo paid him his half
of this amount, while Algerton gave a
bogus check for his share.
Stabbed in the Neck.
New York, February 10.—James Mil
ler, colored, was this morning stabbed in
the neck and killed, by Morris Miller,
also colored. The latter pleads self-de
fense as an excuse for the murder. Tne
trouble was caused by bad feeling be
tween the murderer and a negro named
Stephenson, who was arrested last week
on the charge of passing counterfeit sil
ver dollars. Stephenson was accom
panied by James Miller at the time the
deed was committed, and James was
killed during an affray which ensued
when the pair met Morris.
Last Week's Exchanges.
Boston, February 16 —The total gross
exchanges for last week, as shown by
dispatches from the leading clearing
houses of the United States and Canada,
were $1,081,249,916, a decrease of 2.5 per
[cent, compared with last year.
A DAY'S HAPPENINGS.
i Heavy Snowstorm in the
Sierra Nevadas.
THE NEW NEVADA BANK DEAL.
Mr. Hpllmau's Name Inspires Cou
li deuce — General News
Gleanings.
Associated Press Dispatches to tho Herald.
Tbuckee, Cal., February, 10—The
heaviest storm of this Btormy winter
raged in the mountains today. The
snow fell four inches per hour. The old
snow was packed like ice and crusted so
that a loaded team could pass over the
surface. The wind swept the new snow
in huge drifts, leaving the surface of the
old snow bare. When east-bound train
No. 1 reached Cascade cut this morning
the snow had drifted so deep that the
train was blocked. All the train except
the four rear cars finally reached Sum
mit. The snow was five feet deep on
each side of the imprisoned cars. A
Sacramento excursion of forty-seven
pleasure-seekers, who were coming to
Truckee to see the snow scenery, is in
the rear car of the four that are snow
bound.
The snow shovelers at Cascade struck
this afternoon because of the severity of
the storm, the snow blowing back into
the cut as fast as the shovelers could get
it out. Trainmaster VVaddell nas knot
the plows running all day to tunnel 13,
and a snow plow will run east and west
all night. Superintendent Wbited, of
the Truckee division, reports that the
storm is raging all along the line to Win
nemucca. Train No. 3is at Cisco, and
the cyclone plow is between Cisco and
Cascade.
The latest report is now that the shov
elers are again working at Cascade, and
the officials state that the road will bo
clear by midnight.
Ditch Flat, Cal., February 15.—1t
has been snowing since 7 p. m. yester
day, with high winds and low barome'er.
The road is clear west of Cisco. Train
No. 1, of '.Le 15th, is stuck in the snow
at Cascade, with a p*rty of excursionists
front Sacramento, who wore going to
Truckee to see the grand winter Ecenes.
No. 3of the 15th is lying at Cisco. Tlie
storm in the mountains during the past
twenty-four hours is as severe as at any
time "this winter. Train No. 2" is at
Truckee waiting for a clear track before
starting west. Several cars <;f shoveler-i
were rushed to the front today. Tne
railroad people have hopes of getting a
clear track tonight.
W"*""". ÜBIMUWJ 10. « vu.u
menced snowing here at G o'clock this
morning and continued throughout the
day. About eight inches have fallen.
The storm subsided tonight. No fears of
another blockade are entertained.
THE NEVADA BANK DEAL,.
Mr. Hellman's Name Gives Solldlty
to tbe Institution.
San Francisco, February 18.—Speak
ing of the proposed sale of the Nevada
Bank, Captain Niebaurn, one of the di
rectors of the Alaska Commercial Com
pany, and who is associated in
business with Louis Sloas and
Louis Gerstle, said: "I do not
think Louis Sloss knows much
about the proposed purchase, except in
a general way. Members of our
own company have made and
received propositions to purchase with
others an interest in tho bank. So far as
we are concerned our willingness to in
vest depends upon the bank's
future management. We regard Mr.
Hellman, of Los Angeles, as
an able banker, and if he is willing to
take charge of the bank's affairs, we are
willing to invest money on it.
The mere name and business of the
bank are not of much value
without a competent manager to carry
on its affairs. Some time ago
Mr. Sloss looked into the ques
tion of purchase, and found that
if he invested he would have to
devote considerable time to the man
agement of the bank's business. This
didn't suit him, and he dropped it.
Later, when Mr. Hellman expressed a
willingness to take hold of the bank,
we agreed to subscribe a certain
amount of the needed capital. Tho
bank has done well lately, and has a pay
ing business, but its owners are not
desirous of devoting their time to
it, and are willing to dispose of the ma
jority of the stock, but wish to retain a
considerable share. The situation is
simply this: If Mr. Hellman will
take hold of the bank we will
put in a certain amount of capital
with him. A good commercial bank,
well handled, is an excellent investment
for money."
THE iRAI»('ALL.
Heavy Precipitation Throughout
the State.
San Bernardino, February 16.—1t has
been raining steadily here all day.
Santa Cruz, February 16. — The
weather has been showery for the past
twenty-four hours, with cool winds.
Bakerseield, February 16.—This
morning there were hieh winds, fol
lowed by two hours of rain, during
which seven-hundredths of an inch of
water fell.
St. Helena, February 16.—Heavy
rain fell last night and today, accom
panied by heavy winds, cold and vari
able, and several severe hail storms.
The hills surrounding the valley are
covered with snow.
Modesto February 16. —The heaviest
south wind of the season blew all last
night, accompanied by rain, precipitat
ing fifty-nine hundreds of an inch. The
weather is clear and cold tonight.
Newman, Cal., February 16—After
three weeks of fine weather rain began
falling last night, and continued until
this morning, the precipitation being .91.
Farmers have been busy seeding aud
plowing, and everything points to a pros
perous season for the west side of the
San Joaquin valley.
San Francisco, February 16.—There
was a heavy storm here last night, but it
did no further damage in the bay than
to cause several ships to drag their an
chors.
A GREAT SUCCESS.
Tbe Riverside lair Closed and
Premiums Awarded.
Riverside, February 16.—The first an
nual fair of the Twenty-eighth Agri
cultural District closed in this city last
evening, with the reading of the awards.
The fair has been the most successful in
every particular of any fair ever held in
this section. The display of citrus fruits
was very large and fine. Tbe receipts
from all sources were about $1,500.
There was a large attendance laet
evening to hear' the reading of
the awards. The bos* display of oranges
grown by one person, was made by J.P.
Castleman, of Riverside, who received
the first premium, $100. The best box
of Washington navel oranges, by any
grower, open for competition to all'grow
ers in the United States, was displayed
by W. H. Backus, of Riverside, who re
ceived a gold medal. The best display of
bananas was made by W. S. (Jorwig of
Highlands, first premium.
CXI ME IN UOTHA M.
A fiory Tragedy Enacted Early
Sunday Morning-.
New York, February 15 —Isaac Jacob,
a resident of Brooklyn, killed Herman
Royozinsky, at day break, in a stable at
47 Ridge street. From there he went to
the murdered man's residence, 54 Ridge
street, to kill his wife Johannah. She
was comiug through the door as he ap
proached, and he shot her with a revol
ver. The ball entered her neck. The
woman's eighteen-year-old son, Otto,
bounded from the room and leaped at the
muiderer. Jacob turned and fled. When
near the corner of Broome street, Jacob
turned on the young man and aimed the
revolver. Otto dodged behind a wagon, .
and Jacob, seeing two police officers ap
proaching, placed the muzzle of the re
volver to his own temple and fired. He
died in a few minutes. Mrs. Royozinsky
was taken to a hospital in a very critical
condition. Various canses led to
the shooting. The trouble be
gan three years ago. At that
time Jacob is said to have smuggled a
lot of diamonds into tbe country, which
he placed in the murdered man's keep
ing. When the danger was over Jacob
apked for the return of the diamonds.
Royozinsky. it is said, refused to give
them up. This led to a quarrel. An
other cauoe is found in the fact that
Jacob was enamored of Royezinsky's
niece. His suit prospered until it was
learned th.it he had a wife and children
living with him in Brooklyn, when
Royozinsky refused him the house. Fre
quent and bitter quarrels ensued. Jacob
went to the house at 4:30 this morning,
knocked on the door and told Royozinsky
somebody was stealing his horses. Royo
zinsky dressed himself and went out,
and the tragedy followed.
UNFORTUNATE KEDSKINS.
Disease ana Hunger Decimating
Their Kan ks.
Minneapolis, February It; —Reports
from the Miile Laca Indian reservation,
in advance of the report of the visiting
commission, indicate that a severe and
fatal attack of the epidemic disease, la
grippe, is said to have been quite equal
to the epidemic of smallpox, and in some
encampments there are not enough well
Indians to fend the sick, even if they
had sufficient food. The head chiefs are
expecting aid from the Government in
response to telegrams sent to Washing
ton, but none had como. Estimates
place the deaths at from forty to fifty.
Indian Agent Schuler hat sent medical
aid and some supplies from Brainerd,
Minnesota.
St. Pai l, February 16 —Indian Aeont
Cragie, at Devil's Lake reservation,
North Dakota, told a Pioneer Press re
porter today that the destitution among
the Indians ol that agency has beeu un
derstated. The winter is very severe, and
in his opinion, if the $3 000 recently
authorized for their relief by the Presi
dent had been delayed longer, there
would have been few Indians to have re
ceived any benefits therefrom. He
further saya that unless more help is
quickly furnished, it is doubtful whether
all of the 900 Indians on the reservation
will live until spring. Already a num
ber of deaths have resulted from starva
tion.
YUUTHI'tiL 'I R IMPS.
A Remarkable Joiirner Made by
Two Tacoma Lads.
Cuicaoo, February 16 —A dispatch
from Jelfarsonville, Ind., says: Daniel
and Edward Seek, aged respectively 15
and 16 years, have just arrived at the
home of their grandfather after a re
markable experience. The boys ran
away from home at Tacoma, Washing
ton, January 19th, being unable, as they
say, to get along with their step-mother.
They had no baggage and possessed only
:J5 cents between them, yet never
entered any house nor asked food or
assistance from anyone. Their diet con
sisted of corn taken from the fields and
eaten raw, or roasted by a fire in the
woods. They stole or begged rides on
when they could, and walked
part of the way.
A Homb Exploded.
New York, February 16.—Tonight
some unknown person threw a bomb into
an alleyway at 149 and 151 Elizabeth
street. The missile exploded, blowing
down a brick wall and part of a wooden
fence and shattering the windows in the
rear of the house. No person was found
in the place. Nobody was injured. The
police are investigating.
Crime In Ohio.
Columbus, 0., February 16.—William
Dohn, a tinner, this morning, while in
toxicated, attempted to kill his wife by
shooting her. The ball struck her in
the arm, und he then suicided. Thomas
Ryan, a saloon-keeper of Georgesville,
shot and killed Napoleon Sever, aged 19,
Saturday night, and also fatally shot
Joshua Stephens. The trouble arose
over a game of cards.
No Use for Public Schools.
Newark, N. J., February 16.—Mons
signor Doane, who was recently given
the title of Prothonotary Apostolic, by
the Pope, notified the parißhoners of St.
Patrick's cathedral to day that they must
take their children from the public
schools and place them in parochial
schools, on the penalty of ex-communi
cation and denial of absolution.
A steamer Suuk.
Jacksonville, Fla., February 10.—The
steamer Louise, of the Jacksonville and
Mayport line, ran into an obstruction
early this morning near Hunter's Mill,
on the St. Johus river, and sank. One
man was drowned, and the other pas
sengers and crew escaped with difficulty.
Died from Injuries.
San Francisco, February 16 —Thomas
Yelverton. proprietor of a small lodging
house here, died this afternoon from in
juries received a week ago while engaged
in a scuttle with John Carey, a lodger in
the house. An inquest will be held to
morrow. Carey is now in custody. Be
fore his death Yelverton stated that his
injuries were caused by a kick in the
stomach from Carey.
A Pugilist Attempts Robbery.
Stockton, February 16.—Billy Mc-
Pherson, the colored middleweight
pugilist, was arrested this m6rning for
the attempted robbery of a bricklayer
named Robert Haas. McPherson drew
a knife and demanded Haas's money, but
Haas seized the negro and held him till
the police arrived.
Sudden Benin at Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz, February 16.—Charles
If off, the assessor of thia county from
1872 to 1879, died suddenly here this
morning.