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.VOL. IV.
IIOLBROOK, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1899.
NUMBER 21
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Some Important Happenings in
the South
THAT MAY PLEASE OUR READERS
' An Assortment of Sewsy Events
Occurred In our Midst that Cannot
Fail to Iuterest.
other near-by towns want to stay
where they are they will have to throw
out anchors to the windward. Los An
geles Times.
J. W. Eddy of this city, general man
ager of the Kern-Rand company, the
purpose of which is to establish and
transmit electric power from Kern
river to Randsburg and other points, is
about to visit Washington to close
some details of business with the de
partment of the interior, it is expect
ed that at an early date Randsburg
That will have power at such a low cost
I that the mining industry there will be
: given new impetus.
Traveling Awheel Thomas Dutton,
'wife and two children, have arrived in
The first straw hats are in bloom, and ; Pasadena from Seattle, having made
the shirt waist is the real thing. ithe entire journey on bicycles. Dutton,
If liquid air will cool off the kind of who is minus a leg, had his two chil
air we have had lately, Mr. Tripler
ü i f TEIf f f. CT VEWC iported t0 tne oner, and Dr. Jones,
1 4 1 Pll I U 4 I lnV.1tne amending physician, ascribes the
lnV1UU " iLi " U 'cause of her death to eating canned lo-
matoes. Sunday canned tomatoes
i formed a part of the repast of the
Important Information Gathered Pid,ge family and yesterday the little
r girl and her brother were seized with
a..a -oc convulsions and the little girl died a
Around the Coast. -few hours Iater The ,iuIe boy is be
, lieved to be out of danger.
A week ago Sunday the little hov
was seized with a deathly sickness af
ter eating canned tomatoes, but his
sickness was not, at that time, attrib
uted to this cause.
HINES AND MINING.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
A Summary of I.ate Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.
HORSELESS STAGE.
A man in New Haven offers $500 for
evidence that the earth moves. If he
dren safely tiicked away in a basket j will come out here during the earth-
may send us a consignment c. o. d. and
p. d. q.
There is more trouble ahead. Riv
erside claims to lead San Bernardino
by over 1100 in the matter of compar
ative population.
The trouble about vaccination now
going on in San Diego comes a little
late in the game, but some people
think it better to have trouble late
than never.
Newport Beach promises "to be more
attractive than ever the coming sum- 'hgrmiP hav hp-n a leadine- feature
mer. A pleasure wharf, a new water !of tne paper, and helped greatly in its
supply and better train service are ;sale jn order t0 avoid the aw rUsh
among the improvements proposed. ! orders" had to be given and everybody
Colonel Robb of the Honcut Times ' worked night and day to get the book
explains any possible shortcomings in lout before the 19th
last week's paper by saying that he Los Angeles Times,
got married only the Sunday before, j It is interesting to watch the prog
That excuse will be accepted once. Iress of a consiliatory policy" in deal
The amount reported as having been j ing with the private water companies
expended by tb? health department of in Pasadena. When the campaign for
attached to the handle-bars of his
wheel. The party are now on a tour
of the 'coast, and expect to make the
return trip by water. He is said to
be interested in some of the richest
j mines near Dawson City, Alaska.
; The daily papers are not the only
tones that are in trouble over the idiot
iic Morehouse law. The staff of "Blue
land Gold." published at the University Heated condition.
jof California, have had a peck of
! trouble. The "joshes" directed at the
! faculty and students, while generally
quake season we will be glad to cover
his money, says the Oakland Tribune.
San Francisco Captain John Dillon
iof the United States transport Morgan
City has been found guilty of cruelly
i beating a sailor on the high seas and
: is sentenced to pay a fine of $3500.
I Dillon almost killed a sailor who had
struck his superior while in an intox-
Trial Trip Made Out of Stockton Gas
oline Motor Used.
Stockton The trial trip of a horse
i less stage was made at the instance of
; the Stockton and Jackson Stage com
; pany, which is operating a line be
' tween the mountain town and here,
where it connects with the old line of
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer re-
j ports the discovery of a large body of
.galena and gold ore in Snohomish
county. Wash.
A correspondent of Victor. San Rer.
nardino county. Cal., writes that T. H
Oxham. of Del Mar, Nev.. is there with
a party of ten miners. Their destina
tion is Gold Mountain, near Victor,
where they intend to reopen and thor
oughly examine the old mining proper
ties ownea oy ü j. Baldwin of San
I Francisco.
j The Portland Oregonian says there
are ten giants running on Evans and
Pleasant creeks and the prospects for
I a good paying clcan-up are growing
brighter every day. Water will Iip
abundant until the latter part of June.
An investment of $200,000 is contem
plated in the big Pleasant Creek ditch,
so the Ashland Tidings is informed.
Acton Rooster: The old Escondido
; steamers for San Francisco. The imay. after all, redeem its old name and
regular stage, which has been drawn j history. Dr. Gehring, who is opening
, with horses ever since it was put into the same, has some 6ix men at work
service, was attached to a horseless I anu last Saturday another good vein
wagon. The passengers took their seats ; oi rock was struck. This makes three
and the gasoline motor, being started, leages now, and all very good quartz.
Los Angeles on account of the small
pox visitation is $13,000. No one will
Counterfeits In San Francisco
counterfeit $5 gold pieces are in circu
: lation. John Keough, an associate of
I the man who uttered these coins, is
I in the custody of Secret Service Agent
; Brown. The police and federal detec-
tives are in close quest of Keough's
Instant--' Joseph Walker.
I The Territorial prison of Arizona is
: occupied to almost its full capacity,
;and with the accessions expected from
the courts of the Territory, all of
! the stage left the buisness part of the
; city on its regular trip. The sight was
so unusual that people on the streets
through which the vehicle passed
. turned and watched it out of sight.
It is the intention of the owners of
1 the line to use a horseless carriage to
operate the stage over the level roads
' between this city and Clements.where
the passengers will change to a ve
: hiele drawn by horses to take them
I over the mountain roads. A larger
and more powerful motor is to be con
structed to take the stage from one
municipal ownership was started.
stock of these companies was quoted
tho ! 'hieh are now in session, it is thought i end of the line to the other.
piuuauic nuuuiuuai nctuuuiiuuaiiuua , .Much better time can ue maae witn
rtrnv thaf this is an nnlnofcir nntnhcr o, 1: V,rc Tr ho, intimad lu uc tunan ulicu. jjpai- . tttls new Iorm Qt locomotion, ana IS
. -V ' " ""- " entl p;,hrr Iho rrimlnil lairs ore he j--: J
thP rirv m srht hnv the nlants. i . - utsigutu iu i cumnum ioS"s
the stock was marked up to
since the City Water Committee has
; passed a resolution to buy the proper-
; heretofore or the number of criminals
!is increasing.
i
of dollars.
The Santa Fe Railway Company has
let the contract for the construction of
a traiarht ni 1 1 f rif m EA fV. r n -,7 i o yi ,1 mnJt
u . t. , .u l umLiui uj w jtii i tin auu íuuif i ' - - - - , . , .,
feet long at San Diego. Evidently the ties, tne airectors tain 01 iuu to ia
per snare. it would appear tnat tne " " a" wiumpn amm ma
only "conciliatory policy" to adopt in n the ground that the greatest of all
dealing with some folks is to get on battleships has been named after that
lOD Of em with both feet state, wniie caiiiurnia nas oniy oeen
Pasadena anti-saloonists are much
lUOl t-HJ "'6'" 1 ' Uno- rv,no .....1 r.Tt-r.r.A ikon : i J
$60 NOW ' w - v . w. v, v v. vuu.. tuiü viciuity. lilt taiiiagr uatu ai
1 horarnfnro nr í Vi o mimVkoi nf crimínale t. : - : .1 i .:.u
present is provided with roller-bearing
axles and heavy pneumatic tires.
I
company has faith in the growth of its
business in that thriving city.
The citizens of San Diego are tak
ing hold of the effort to preserve ihe
old mission near that city with com
mendable zeal. By and bv these his
toric land marks of California will be i "Pastime Club,
appreciated at their real worth.
The announcement comes from Ven
tura that the establishment of a can
nery in that city is assured. This will
be one step toward the realization of
the purpose of the new progressive
movement that has been inaugurated
there.
During the next two years hunters
from abroad who get quail or ducks in
San Bernardino county will have to
stay in that county until they have
eaten their meat. The supervisors
prohibited shipping it. out of the
county.
exercised over the operations of the
of which a Los An-
able to- have a cruiser name in her
honor. That is all right, says the Sac
ramento Record-Union. That same
battleship was built in California, by
(rnlA.i nnrrmn lirtnnr rl Aa1ai is CoiH fft tta
f, . . , . . Tt . ,j California mechanics and was the pro-
the principal proprietor. It is a dodge . . , ... . . .. r.
for getting around the prohibitory or
dinance, and by paying 50 cents a
month you can "belong" with the priv
ilege of getting your beer at all hours,
in defiance of municipal regulations.
A Pasadena official, who has inter
viewed the sable proprietor, says he
j doesn't see the difference between this
club and any other "blind pig," ex
jcept that "the new institution perhaps
runs a little more to Ham."
A Huge Government Loss The Unit
ed States land offices of San Francisco,
1 uucl ut taiuuruia jiigeuuuy aiiu iu-
j vested capital. The other states can
Í have the names without our protest if
California is accorded the building of
the ships.
MAY DAY-DEWEY DAY.
! RAPELJl'S STRANGE ACT.
Tries to Save a Chinaman's Neck by
Taking the Blame.
Fresno At the resumption of the
coroner's inquest over the bodies of
the dead Chinamen, Hi Rapelji was
, placed on the stand and swore that he
had killed Leong Tung.and that Wong
Duck, who is charged with the crime,
is innocent. Rapelji is employed by
the Chinese companies as a special
watchman to guard their premises.
His evidence was a surprise to the
district attorney, as Rapelji had ar-
Dr. Gehring will begin soon to erect a
I steam arastra plant and will be abla
; to show up some fine bullion in the
'near future.
I A dispatch from Republic, Wash.,
says: "Buildings are going up as if
by magic. Travel is increasing rapidly.
;The Kettle Falls saddle train is doing
a rushing business and the state road
and Grand Fork stages are loaded ev
;ery day. Many are also coming in by
private conveyance, and not a few find
jit convenient to walk. Prospecting is
out of the question, as the snow cov
ers the ground.
Redlands Citrograph: The attention
of copper prospectors is called to the
east and northeast sections of this
county. Copper is known to exist in
many places, but on account of the
high rates of mule team freight pros-
. petting for that metal has not been
active. The buhding of railroads has
jt-heapened frieght, and the high price
of copper ought to develop many good
copper properties.
j San Dicgan Sun: News arrived by
telephone from Mesa Grande telling of
i a wonderful strike made by Samuel
1 Black in his "Dead Oak" gold mine.
The mine is located in the Shenandoah
j district, not far from Mesa Grande
'postoffice. Black has been working the
mine intermittently for over a year
. past with varying success, that is get
ting out about enough ore to keep him
RpAtrlp Tii Anpplfu: anA nthpr roast
South Pasadena will have more of cities h'ave combined to investigate al
jts streets sprinkled with oil. One of !ieged fraudulent homestead entries on
The ways in which the use of oil pre- libber lands in this state. During the
vents the dust from flying is that ipaSt fifteen years the government is
drivers or carriages avoid the greased saQ to have lost in this way upward of
road3 when possible, and therefore do ($4,000,000. Cases against a dozen per
not stir it up. I sons have been begun. These people
Two sidewalk spitters were recently !make no improvements, but
Gov. Gage Makes It a Holiday His
Proclamation.
Sacramento Gov. Gage has issued
the following proclamation:
"PROCLAMATION.
"Executive Department,
"State of California,
"Sacramento, April 19, 1899.
"On May 1, A. D. 1898, Admiral
Dewey, commanding the American
j fleet, entered the Bay of Manila. Phil
i ippine Islands, and in a conflict, to
cut down he famed in modern naval history,
rested Wong Duck himself, who, he j jn grub. A few days ago in the bottom
claimed on the night of the shooting, cf the shaft, SO feet deep, the ledge
had deliberately shot Leong Tung. i suddenly widened to four feet, and
The Chinamen who were expected samples of the ore which he took out
to testify that Hop Lee had killed one assayed from $500 to $1000 per ton.
man did not materialize. Outside of ijiesa Grande is excited over the find
Kapelji s testimony notning new was and Black is naturally elated, as there
arrested and fined in San Jose, and
the Californian calls attention to the
fact that Bakersfield, too, has an anti
expectoration 6rdinance. Los Angeles
has one also but it is not enforced this
side of San Jose.
The $13,000 expended by the health
department of Los Angeles in battling
with smallpox is but a fraction of
what the failure to report the first case
has cost the city. The amount which
has been lost in the way of business
will never be known.
The Pasadena Star refers with pride
to the appreciation of high-class enter
tainments in Pasadena as evinced by
the presence of over thirteen hundred
people at Ian Maclaren's lecture, but
omits to mention the number who
went to see John L. Sullivan.
The Santa Paula Chronicle says gold
th nine trprs anrt spII r'hpin tn lnmhfr i completely destroyed the hostile Span-
companies. In this way millions of ish flect. thereby manifesting the
'trees are said to liave been destroyed. Prowess of America upon the sea.
i ue isi uay ui iviay, -a. u. loa.wiu
The California Raisin Growers' as
sociation, recently reorganized at Fres
ino, starts off in a way that is indica-
tive of success. Now, if the members
will stay with it and work for it
indication will be realized.
FELL INTO A SEPARATOR.
A. F.
Balazari Has His Head Ground
to Pulp.
be the first anniversary of this cele-bráted-naval
engagement, and. it ap
pearing to the executive that said day
tlje should be set apart for appropriate
land patriotic public expressions by our
' people,
I "Now, therefore, I. Henry T. Gage,
governor of the State of California,
i by virtue of the authority vested in me
i by the constitution and laws of said
brought out-
Hop Lee. who, it is alleged, is the
leader of the local highbinders, was
released from jail on $500 bonds. Since
Hop Lee has been liberated a number
of merchants in Chinatown have left
here for San Francisco or other points
for fear of another outbreak.
At a meeting of the Chinese com
panies it was decided to ask the city
marshal to increase the police force in
Chinatown as a protection against the
detachment of hatehetmen, who, they
claim, are on the way from San Francisco.
seems to be a very large quantity or
the ore in sight. The owner is the same
; Black charged with the murder of
John Patterson at National City.
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
San Luis Obispo A. F. Balazari was I state, do hereby proclaim Monday, the
killed and horribly mangled at the
Guadaloupe creamery skimming sta
tion. He was standing beside the sepa
rator, which had just been set in mo
tion, when a bolt flew off the machine
and struck Balazari in the forehead,
rendering him unconscious and he fell
head first into the separator. Before
head was ground to a pulp In the sep
arator.
quartz was found last week in an oil ihis companions could rescue him, his
well being drilled on the Piru ranch,
and it is thought that the quality will
warrant its being mined. When a man
starts to bore a hole in the ground
he never knows what disappointment
may await him.
DEATH IN A SHELL.
1st day of May, A. D. 1899, a holiday.
"In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the great seal
of this State to be hereunto affixed this
19th day of April, A. D. 1899.
rSeal.
Signed. "HENRY T. GAGE.
"Governor of the State of California.
"Attest:
Signed. "C. F. CURRY.
"Secretary of State."
Washington United States Min'-'-?'
B'iageman has cabled the state de
partment from La Paz. Bolivia, that
the revolution thrrc has end-d, and
eerj thing is quie.
Gc-imany Scared -Tho entire Ger
man press is greaiiy aiu'-mod by the
news that Emperor William intends to
introduce in the Pruss'an Din: a gov
ernment creating the city of Ber'in
and its suburbs into a separaf? prcv-
GOLOVIN BAY GOLD.
Rich Discoveries Made in That Part of
Alaska.
San Francisco D. A. McDonald of
this city has received late advices from
Golovin Bay, Alaska, telling of rich
'gold finds in that section. The letter
is from B. B. Earle, manager of the
i North American Trading company of
St. Michael. The news was brought to
St. Michael over the ice and is accept
ed as thoroughly reliable.
I Dr. Kittleson, formerly saperintend
'ent of the government deer herds at
i Port Clarence and Unaklette, returned
from Cape Nome, seventy-five miles
I west from Golovin Bay. and reported
! great finds in the vicinity of Cape
'Nome, about five miles from shore.and
plenty of it. So far only two creeks
lhave been worked. but with most satis-"
factory results. Coarse gold was
! found two feet from the surface. On
ince. and largely destroying the city's 'the first discoveries six men rocked
Missile From an American
Explodes.
Warship
The Union Sugar Company of Santa
Maria is advertising for 500 men,
women and children to work in the
beet fields. Children can, it is said,
earn from 75 cents to $1 a day, and
adults from $1 to $1.50. There is little
excuse now for begging on this coast
by any one who is able to work.
For a concern that does
favor annexation on accouni
nard beet sugar company contributed Lí'fíí'S?!!, ZH iEsins U rom
pretty liberally to the war tax onj", , , l i uu i""""-
Wednesday "when it parted with $1400 ffif- I?e she11 PIoded. -k-
worth of revnue stamps on a deed i
transferring its property to the Amer
ican Beet Sugar company.
Havana Mail advices to La Lucha
Manzanillo say that an American snell.
fired last summer during the bombard
ment of the town by the United States
warships, exploded last Sunday, killing
s not snFi-iallv i"" f " uuuiu6 uiauy
-ennnr nf rVar i otners- 1 ae shell had been fired into a
sinei the ox cafe ealle1 the "Labyrinth of Gold,"
ing the room.
Three cases of yellow fever occurred
I here recently.
The Spanish bankers are attempting
Oxnard appears to be developing into !to corner silver, with a view of raising
a full-tentacled octopus. Not only its value. They are constantly pub
dwelling houses, but halls, mills and lishing reports of heavy shipments to
even lumber yards are being hauled to Spain.
the new town from neighboring local- j Numerous requests are received
ities and swallowed into the maw of ;from various districts in the island for
the boom. If Ventura, Hueneme and I implements and seeds, not rations.
FIVE THOUSAND A MONTH.
Mrs. Craven Will Try to Worry Along
On It.
San Francisco Mrs. Nettie B.
Craven filed a second petition in the
superior court for a family allowance
from the estate of the late James G.
Fair. The petitioner, as in the appli
cation filed some months ago, sets
forth that she is the widow of the dead
capitalist. She states that no allowance
has been made her from the $12,000,
000 estate of Fair, the income of which
is $300.000 a year.
She asks for an allowance of $500 a
month, to take effect from the date of
Fair's death, December 28. 1894. It is
said the filing of the petition heralds
the opening of the battle by Mrsu Cra
ven to establish her relations to Fair.
present self-government.
Sir Wilfred Laurier, the Premier, re
plying to a delegation of the Trades
and Labor Congress at Ottawa, Ont ,
spoke favorably of the imposition of a
$500 poll tax on Chinese entering Can
ada, but said he was opposed to a tax
on Japanese, whom he characterized
as progressive and allies of Great Brit
ain. Great Charities The estate left by
the late Baroness Maurice de Hirsch
de Geruth, who died April 1, has been
valued at 25,000.000. of which 20,
000,000 will be expended in charities
founded or fostered by the Baroness
and Baron. The Hirsch foundation in
New York receives 240,000 and the
institution at Montreal 24,000.
After several conferences with the
minister from Venezuela, the United
out $17.000 in three days. Kittleson's
claims are now paying, frozen as they
i are, $1000 a day on those same creeks,
i Another important discovery on
i Golovin Bay has also been reported.
Six miles up Casa de Paga, a tributary
of Neukluk River, $5 a pan from
frozen ground before bedrock is
reached is a common thing. This dis
covery was made by Leo Loewenherz.
Larger amounts to the pan have been
taken out from gravel near bedrock.
This discovery caused quite" a stam
pede to follow Loewenherz into this
new section
STRIKE IN THE DEAD OAK.
A strike is reported in the Dead Oak
i mine in San Diego county, ine san
; Diego Sun. in an account of the strike, '
isavs: "The mine is located in the
States poatoffice officials have entertd j Shenandoah district not far from Mesa
DEADLY CANNED TOHATOES,
Little Eileen Pidge a Victim of Acid
Poisoning.
San Francisco The death of little
4-year-old Eileen Pidge has been re-
into an agreement for a parcel-post
treaty with Venezuela. The treaty will
be sent to Venezuela for ratification,
and probably will be in operitlc.n
v ithin three or four months. The
aKveement is similar to thoae with
otrer countries, and provides that the
rate charged per pound shall be 12
certs, and the numbir of pounds in a
parkage limited so tleven.
Grande postoftlce. Black has been
working the mine intermittently for
over a year past with varying success,
that is. getting out about enough ore
to keep him in grub. A few days ago,
in the bottom of the shaft, eighty feet
deep, the ledge suddenly widened to
four feet, and samples of the ore
which he took out assayed yesterday
from $300 to $1000 per ton."
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