The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 4, 1895, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1895. ¥ 5 S0 LATEST OAKLAND NEWS A Serious Difficulty Confronts County Auditor Whidden. WILMERDING SITE PLEDGE. Ex-Chief of Police Schaffer Lays the Foundation for a Suit. 0AxLAND OFFICE SAN Fr 0 CALL,} 908 Broadw Sept. 3. |} Auditor Whidden is in a quandary. He has two assessment-rolls and there is a difference of $1,600,000 between them and he does not knc h one to use. On the third Monday i ember the Super- visors must fix the tax levy on the figures furnished by the Auditor. The Auditor is compelled first to estimate the rate of taxa- tion for the various school districts of the county. There are t een of them, and until he secures the correct assessment- roll he cannot comm The difficulty that onts the Aunditor now is the question which set of figures to use in calculating the various estimates that are necessary. The litigation before the Superior Court, he claims, is a bar to further progress until the questions there under consid ion are determined and the disput assessment valuation are settled. The Wilmerding School. itizens who are work- of the Wilmerding are meeting with much ing for tb School in Henshaw § 00, J. J. Emery $100 hombs Prather $100, William J. , William R. Davis $100, William and George Clark Davis $100, qua $100, M. J. Keller $100, 0, Johu Crellin $100, F. K. Shat- 2. M. Fitzgerald $100, James Mofi it 00, Quincy Chase $1 0, C. W. Wendte % R. Glascock §5 0, J. M. Wright $50, J. s Jurgens $50, A. A. Moore $50, ompany £50, W. E. Miller , Judge Stanly $100, Mrs. 0, 850, H W. Percy E. M. Vrooman $50. Short-Lived Liberty. Ross, one of the young fellows arrested with the Holland or the robbery of the drugstore ratt & Taggart, but who was afte: again arrested yester- home on the San Leandro road, street, upon the charge of rob- g woman. Grace Walls of San o. He was apprehended w! n the act of escaping through a side window. is accused of entering tne woman's , with another younj fellow, and re- her of $20 at the point of a pistol. companion was captured, but Ross m ed to escape to Oakland. Grace Walls, the woman who claims to have robbed, served a term in the Oakland 1 some months ago on a charge of va- ancy. Church Officials. The fourth quarterly conference of the First Methodist Church was held last .. The district embraces forty-two urches, and all were represented. he following trustees were elected for the ensuing thr 0 Backus, Baxter Booth, Charles W. Johnson, €. H. Holt, L. V. F. Lewisand W. . Besic the trustees_there en stewards elected. W. F. elected lay delegate to the lay al conference of the State, with n T. Holcomb as reserve. Want a Hermit's Gold. yme of the non-resident devisees of the hermit, Morris Goldberg, are r & share of the §250,000 left to be buted among thirty or forty legatees. en perso on, asking for ,500 in the following amounts: Mrs. 1ssa Shirman, $3000; Mrs. Sarah Parsch, 0; Fannie O. Leopould, $1000; M. C. ps, $2000; Francis Phillips, $2000; v Chillips, $2000; Beatrice Sells, $2000 The Gymnasium Costume. The Board of Education quickly disposed the High School gymnasium costume 3 the request of Mr. Mackinnon that his daughter be excused from attend- ing the gymnasium. Director Friend said there was no foundation for any objection ed against Principal McChesney’s , and the other direciors thought the same. Schaffer Wants His Pay. Schaffer, ex-Chief of Police, filed for_salary to-day with the Works. d the other for his cferk, Louis 1s were not allowed by The action is probably preparatory to a contest for the office. two HISTORY OF A DAY. Alameda County Happenings Told in Brief Chapters. OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, ) 908 Broadway, Sept. 3. { Nearly every freight train that arrives at the yards has a full carload of tramps on board. The squad of detectives at the railroad yards now numbers but seven men. The company formerly had nine statioried at the yards. The total receipts of the County Recorder’s office for August were $167175. The receipts for the same period last year were $2077. A certified copy of the articles of incorpora- tion of the Farmers' and Mechanics’ Savings Bauk of Sacramento has been filed with the County Clerk. It is incorporated with $500,000 ital, of which $300,000 is paid up. Women’s Political Equality Club of Ala- ia County met yesterday afternoon and se- ted Rev. J. K. McLean, D.D., as honarary president; dent, d Maurice Woodhams of Berkeley with, has been reading the complaint filed by the sttorney for Dr.J. M. Selfridge in the quo LOSS OF JANHOOD. \URED IN 20 DAYS by DR. EDISON ELECTRIC BELT and VITALIZER or money refunded. Tt cures loss of sexual power, seminal loss at stool or with urine: it stops nightly dreams and loss of vitality, cures varicocele, rheu- matism, kidney and bladder trouble. Dr. Edison’s Electric Belt and Vitaiizer is na- ture’s remedy. They give new life to weak- ened organs. The cur- Z rent of Dr. Edison's Kleciric Belt is felt 2 instantly upon appli-#" catlon. = J. M. Carter of 264 Santa Clara avenue, San Jose, writes: Your Electric Belt and Vitalizer has cured me of loss of vitality and enlargement of the prostrate glands much sooner than you guaranteed they would. From every part of the country comes thankful letters written by those who have been lifted Into vigorous health and strength by Dr. Kdison's Electric Belt and Vitalizer. A bottle of Vitalizér sent free. Send for circular. For sale by GEO. DAHLBENDER & CO., Druggists, 214 Kearny St., San Francisco, Cal. ilson and Detective Hol- | by passing a_resolution | One was for him- | Mrs. George W. Haight of Berkeley, | warranto proceedings instituted by the latter. In & legal sense he deciares in & demurrer that he can’ttell just whether Dr. Seliridge wants one seat or five, or whether Selfridge and Beck- with claim thesame seat or different seats. Judge Ogden to-day sustained a demurrer to the complaints of Isaiah and Hezekiah Bing- ham against the Sevilla Fruit and Vineyard Company, in which the plaintiffs alleged that they were induced to {nvest by reason of false representations. The Supervisors this afternoon oraered bids for the constructionr of a sewer of vitrified stone pipe eight inches in diameter from the County Infirmary to the bay, a distance of three and a half miles. The bids will be opened September 16. The stockholders of the Morning Times Com- pany sold to C.L. Maxwell last night the en- tire plant of the corporation, including the pa- pers the Morning Times and the Weekly Times. A meeting of the creditors of the corporation wiil be held to-morrow. ADVERTISING THE STATE. Half-Million Club Working Up a Sys- tematic Method. Circular letters are being sent out by the Half-million Club to various classes of trade inviting financial support of a move- ment to advertise this State by a series of lectures. After the Atlanta Exposition it is pro- posed to send out from Chicago, as a head- quarters, lecturers to describe the indus- tries, scenery, products and attractions of the State, and men to give cooking ex- hibits, these to go in pairsand to jointly visit the jobbing-houses and retail trade of each city, placing, wherever possible, emall permanent exhibits in conspicuous windows and leaving printed matter for distribution. LATE NEWS OF ALAMIEDA, Holders of Warrants Against the City in a Quan- dary. Stopping of All Warrants Against the City General Fund — No Money for Two Months. ALAMEDA, Sept. 3.—The city officials and holders of warrants whose salariesare | pavableout of the city general fund are wondering where they are at. The city general funda is reported at $8368 93, just of October and November. An order was i | issne no warrants against the treasury un- til further notice, and no salaries or de- mands will be paid out of the fund for August, September and October. Those | who are affected areinclined to take things | philosophically—in fact they cannot help themselve: nd make the best of a bad bargain until the taxes come rolling in in ovember. | Special Library Tax. There seems to be a considerable differ- ence of opinion as to the power of the Board of City Trustees to levy a special tax for the creation of a fund to_erect a public library building. The City At- torney, while claiming not to have gone deeply into the matter, knows of no law which gives the City Trustees power to make the special tax levy for the building. The board could levy a tax for library urposes, but not for the erection of a ibrary building. They could naturally | make the general fund large enough to appropriate money out of that to erect the library. He said that when the beard came to him for his cpinion it would be time enough to look into the law closely. Those in favor of the library building project are not losing any_sleep worrying about any point that may be raised against the legality of the tax levy. They are simply waiting for the board to take favorable action, and are confident of | success. | A Chapter of Accidents. !‘ L. A, Parker, a cargentcr, working on | the interior of John | on_Santa Clara avenue, fell from a step: ladder this morning and snapped the bone of the right leg at the ankle. | Matt Maloney was injured at the pump- ing station of the narrow-gauge line, at ns are represented in the | the foot of Encinal avenue, this morning. | o distribution of | One of the cocks of a new boiler which | had just been put in at the tankhouse blew out and the escaping steam scalded | his face horribly. Yesterday afternoon J. F. Taylor, while driving with Walter Teller at Fitchburg, | was thrown out of a wagon through the upsetting of the seat and sustained a frac- | ture of the collar-bone. | Referred to the Architect. At the meeting of the Board of Trustees | last evening A. J. Campbell, superintend- | ent of the George H. Tay Company’s iron | shops, submitted & report on the cornice | work 'mow being done at the new City Hall. He regarded the work as an average job and found that in some minor details | the specifications had not been strictly complied with, though there were but few | deviations, and those not detrimental to | the general effectiveness and durability of the work. Arthur Ryan of the San Fran- | cisco Metal-workers” Union appeared be- fore the Trustees to reiterate his statement | as to the inferiority of the work done by | Contractor Gros. - The matter was referred | to the architect. Death Was Accidental. An adjourned inquest was held this aft- ernoon on the body of Charles Tracy, who died on Monday morning at the Sunny Cove Baths from injuries to the skull re- ceived while bathing Sunday afternoon. The jury found that death was accidental and as the result of the fracture of the skull, but recommended that the manage- | ment of the baths post warning signs as to the danger from diving when the tide is | low, the testimony showing that the boy | had been cautioned in this respect. Didn’t Know It Was Loaded. | William Kohler, & machinist, was arrest- ed this afternoon upon information fur- | nished by Kohler's wife. The Kohlers have not been living harmoniously to- | gether, and at 2 o’clock this morning Koh- er picked v %a revolver on the buread and, as he says, the weapon went off on its own accord. | ‘Wolf Has Vanished. | R. Wolf, who owned a delicatessen-shop on Wellster street, has disappeared and | several small creditors would like to know | his present whereabouts. Wolf was at- tached a few days ago for $18 by A. W. J. | Gibbs, Messrs. Denke and Steinmentz be- | came his bondsmen, however, and the at- tachment was released. On Saturday Wolf sold out his business to E. Blackman of Ban Leandro and vanished. 3 Thirty-Three Arrests. . The police made thirty-three arrests dur- ing the month of August, classified as fol- lows: Battery and vagrancy, one each; disturbance ‘of the peace, 6; larceny, 8, | and violation of ordinances, 17. i A Locomotive Derailed. The broad-gauge sprinkling train was ditched at 3 o’clock this morning, The tracks at the switch near the freight depot | parted and the locomotive got off the track. —————— A Republican Club Reception. The West End Republican Clubof the Thirty- eighth Assembly District tendered a reception 1ast evening to Joseph Mann, one of the oldest members, who is paying this Zity a flying visit. The affair was entirely impromptu,and Mr. Mann was taken by surprise. He is at present employed in the office of theSecretary of State at Sacramento. In speaking of the Native Sons’ celebration to be held in the eity of his sdoption, he claims that the affair will out- rival anything of the kind ever before held in the State. At the ncs]a;tmn speeches were made by John Grace, Hugh Crummey, C. C. Morris and M. Gorman. . A Bloomer Ball. There will be & bloomer ball at tne Ocean Beach to-morrow night, in the big pavilion at the terminus of the Park and Ocean Railroad. The affair will be strictly b{ invitation, and only those in the recognized bicycle costumes wu{ be allowed upon the floor. enough to pay the August claims and | | leave a little for September, and no money | w. | will come in until between the latter end | issued to City Clerk Lamborn last night to | ale’s new building | | | | i | | WILL SEND A TEAM EAST The Oakland High School Anx- ious for National Athletic Honors. PLEDGES ARE SOLICITED. A Manager Will Shortly Be Elected, and the Team WIiill Commence to Train. OAKLAND OFrIcE SAN FRANCISCO CALL,) 908 Broadway, Sent. 3. The Oakland High School decided to- day that it would join the International League of High Schools and send a team to New York next year to join in the Na- tional high-school contests. The team will consist of ten of the best athletes in the school, and the boys antici- pate being capable of holding their own and capturing some of the trophies. They have received much encouragement from the recent tour of the Berkeley team. The Oakland High School has for some time been a member of the league of which the Round Table is the organ, and now that they have decided to branch out and seek National honors athletics will re- ceive a boom, as there is much rivalry as to who will ultimately be the ones chosen to uphold the honor of Oakland’s High Scheol in the Empire State. A general meeting will be held in a few daysand a manager will be elected who will at once put into practice all the avail- able material. After that the boys will commence to obtain pledges for financial aid, as it will require about $1600 to defray the expenses of the trip. The next international High School con- tests will be held in the summer, but en- tries are now being made, and Oakland will not be dilatory in outlining the events for which she will seek tocarry off the honors. “The sending East of our team will be one of the best things that ever the High School undertook,” said one of the 0. H. S. athletes to-day. “It will call attention to our school and to Oakland, and will let thousands of people know that we exist who are in doubt just now as to where Ozkland is. We have been debating the proposition of sending a team East all this year, but after we saw what a lot of atten- tion was shown to the Berkeley team we | could see no reason why we should not try a similar touramong the crack Eastern high schools. We do not anticipate any trouble in raising the necessary fund, as we think the noise we shall make will prove a very valuable advertisement for this city.” (LATEST BERKELEY ITEMS, Committee on Students’ Af- fairs Summons the “Josh” Staff to Appear. No Personal Matter Allowed In the Publication—‘Freshie”- “Sophle” Rush. BERKELEY, CaL., Sept. 3.—The staff of the proposed new comic paper, soon to be published at the university, was called before the committee on students’ affairs, consisting of Professors Soule, Edwards and Bacon this afternoon for a consulta- tion as to the policy which will govern the edition. The editors and artists were given to nderstand that if the paper was to be on he plan of the “Harvard Lampoon’ or “Yale Record,” as had been reported, it would receive the sanction and hearty support of not only the committee, but of the entire faculty; but if it was to be per- onal in its character and to serve as a means of inflicting pain upon individuals connected with the university its publica- tion would be at once prohibited. “It will be given extensive leeway so far as generalities are concerned,” said one of the committee, ‘‘but we propose to take the strongest measures possible to prevent publication of matter which will wound the feelings of individuals. be allowed to indulge in any personality whatsoever.” The boys were given to understand fur- ther that any infraction of this rule would serve as ground for summary action on the part of the faculty. No censorship will be inaugurated, but the matter for publication and 1llustration will be left entirely to the judgment of thcse responsible for the ap- pearance of the paper. After the formal adjournment of the committee, the three professors were shown as individuals several'of the sketches which are to be used in the initial number, and they were beartily approved. It is ex- pected that the first issue of this new funny paper will appear September 11. Board of Education Meets. At the meeting of the Board of School Directors held last evening the Committee on Schoolhouses and Sites presented bids for_the construction of a_ small school building in the rear of the Kellogg Schcol and recommended that the work of con- struction be commenced at once. Princi- pal Waterman of the East Berkeley schools reported that the number of pupils at gresent enrolled are as follows: High School, 200; Kellogg, 364; Rose-street, 62; Whittier, 284; Lorin, 263. Total, 1563. J. W. Warwick, principal of the West Berkeley schools, reported that the total enrollment in his district is 468, An animated discussion wok place over the action of the board at its last meeting in raising the salflri of Principal Congdon. It appears that such action was illegal, the board’s employment of a teacher being, according to law, in the nature of a con- tract, the terms of which cannot be altered during its existence. It was proposed by Director Norton to declare the office of Mr. Congdon vacant, with view to getting over the difficuity by re-employing him, but the matter was left undecided. Ready for the ‘‘Rush.”’ The sophomore class held an excitin, meeting this afternoon, and amid lou roars of applause formally accepted the challenge of the freshmen for the custom- ary annual ‘‘rush” to-morrow evening. The question of supremacy will be de- cided on the football field near the south entrance to the campus, and the onset of the *‘sophs” will be made at 8 o’clock. For several years past the freshmen have come out victorious, having sncceeded in tying ur their opponents, but this year an unusually bhhrd one is expected, as the classes are very evenly divided. About 700 men will take part in the affair. West Berkeley Notes. Poundmaster Lauderback held an auc- tion sale yesterday morning at the public pound. Quite a large gathering was pres- ent, as it was announced a few days ago that three calves were on hand unsold. They were sold, however, to their former owner. A meeting of the West Berkeley Pro- gressive Club_was held to-night, at which plans were discussed for the proposed ferry system to San Francisco. Farewell Reception. To-morrow evening at the Trinity Metho- dist Church a farewell reception will be tendered Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Davidson, who nssisted in founding the Methodist missions in Japan. Law Students Elect Officers. An enthusiastic meeting of the members of the senior class of 1896 of the Hastings Col- lege of the Law occurred at the college building on Montgomery street yesterday afternoon. The following officers wereelected: President, Stephen L. Sullivan, A.M.; vice-president, L. A. Gibbons; secretary, Sylvain J. Lazarus; treasurer, Robert H. Morrow; historian, Henry Blaney: serlgnnl-lb-lmn, William = Penn Humphreys, PROFIT FOR THE WORKER. John M. Reynolds Addre; the Insti- tute of Applied Christianity. John M. Reynolds addressed the Insti- iute of Applied Christianity on the sub- ject of “Profit” last evening. He said: Profit is the aim of the merchant, transporter, manufscturer and contractor, and {o attain it some lie, some cheat, some bribe officials, some oporess their employes, compelling them to work like slaves for a bare subsistence, and some fawn and flatter. The condition of the wageworker at present who does not receive the profit of his labor is in many cases worse than that of the negroes of the South in 1860. Outside of the forcible separation of iamilies, 1 believe the negro slave was really better paid than many of our miners. It is often stated that the average valueofa day’s work in the United States is $7 and the average pay to laborers is $125aday. The average cost of distribution is $1 for this product, leaving $4 75 for the profits of the money lords and landlords, domestic and foreiga. We propose to £0 on with the work that has already been started, and by agitation and | education ud by practical and political co- operstion to socialize the productive and dis- tributive industries of the United States, so that the profits of their labor shall go to the workers, instead of as at present to the idlers, or those who do not earn it. In order to do this we propose to increase the speed of this movement which has already given us the postoffice, parks, schools, asylums and hospi- tals. We say thi® is just and in harmony with true applied Christianit; T0 ANSWER FOR MURDCR Louis Muhlner Does Not Sat- isfy Judge Wood of His Innocence. A Witness Testifies That She Was Threatened by the Police. 0ARLAND OFFICE SAN FrANcisco CALL,) 908 Broadway, Sept. 3. | Louis Muhlner was held to answer this evening for the murder of Miss Jennie Lewis at the house of Professor Moore about a month ago. Miss Alice Sparhawkstated that she had been threatened by the police if she testified in a certain way. Although there wasno testimony that conflicted with hers, Justice Wood decided to hold Muhiner for trial. The prosecution closed its case Friday last and Miss Sparhawk was the first wit- ness for the defense. After telling the same story as she told at the inquest, that the man she saw walking away after the shooting looked more like Miller than Muhlner, Attorney Nagle asked if she had not been called upon by many persons who represented that they were from the po- lice department. She said tbat she had. “I have been called upon by many,” she said. *“One came the other night who said his name was Hatfield, and he said that Chief Lloyd bad sent him to see me, and he said that if I did not change my testimony Chief Lloyd would send the patrol wagon for me and send me to Ban Quentin.” She said she had sent Mr. O’Brien, a reporter, for Mr. Nagle because of the abuse she had re- ceived from the police department. Chief Lloyd was called by the defense and admitted that he knew of Mr. Hat- field’s visit to Miss Sparhawk. Mr. Hatfield volunteered to go, and the witness stated that he thought it mizht be well for him to go, as the witness wanted Miss Spar- hawk to teil the truth. Her statements | directly after the shooting were so at vari- ance with her evidence at the Coroner’s jury that the witness. thought that she might have become confused and made a mistake in her testimony. In response to Mr. Mclvin Chief Lloyd testified that Mr. Hatfield had said to him that Miss Sparhawk told him that Muhl- ner looked very much like the man she saw leaving the scene of the shooting. - GUARD AGAINST CHOLERA. The State Board of Health Applies to the Government for Aid—Pre- cautions to Be Taken, The reports of the prevalence of Asiatic cholera in the port of Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, and in the Orient have led the State Board of Health to consider measures to prevent its spread to this coast, and the ; | aid of the United States Government has You shall not | been invoked to render the precantions which will be taken by the local quaran- tine authorities more efficient. A special meeting of the board was held at the residence of Secretary J. R. Laine yesterday to consider the matter, the fol- lowing members being present: Dr. Wins- low Anderson, vice-president, San Fran- cisco; Dr. J. R. Laine, secretary, Sacra- mento; Dr. C. A. Ruggles, Stockton; Dr. W. F. Wiard, Sacramento. Dr. Anderson explained the object of the meeting and the following resolution was presented : Resolved, That the secretary be directed to communicate to Surgeon-General Walter H Wyman of the Unitea States Marine Hospital service the general reports concerning the prevalence of cholera at Oriental and island Tts having steamer communication with Inited States Pacific ports, asking that, if our information is corroborated by United States Consular advices, the Government deciare such Oriental and island ports infected, and that it proceed to establish such quarantine against them as shell insure compliance with the quarsntine laws and regulations of the United States. The resolution was finally passed by a unanimous vote, and the secretary was in- structed to telegraph the following to the Surgeon-General of the United States Ma- raine Hospital service: To Walter H. Wyman, Surgeon-General United States M. H. S.. Washington, D. C.—S1r: 1 am directed by the California State Board of Health 1o communicate with you that it is currently reported that Asiatic cholera prevallsin sev- eral Oriental ports having steamer communi- cation with United States Pacific portsand that it prevails also at Honolulu in the Hawaiian Islands, a foothold having recently been ob- tei 1 by the disease at that point through . ger travel by steamer from China and apan. Should this general and unofficial in- formation be corroborated by Consular reports it is deemed advisably that the Government should declare such Oriental and island ports infected and proceed to establish such quaran- tine against them as shall insure compliance with the gquarantine lawsand regulations of the United States. Should the Marine Hospijtal authorities decide to take the matter up they will be asked to send inspectors to infected ports to watch outgoing ships and prevent freight and passengers that have been ex- posed to contagion from sailing for Ameri- can ports. These men will remain on duty as long as the dread disease is prevalent. e AMATEUR THESPIARS, “Captain Swift” at St. Joseph’s Hall To-Night. The initial dramatic entertainment of St. Joseph’s Literary Society will be given to- night at St. Joseph’s Hali. The drama to be produced will be “‘Captain Swift,” the star production, it will be remembered, of the Frawley Company, of strongly marked dramatic worth. X The cast of the play will be as follows: Captain Swift, Thomas Hickley; the Enrdener. Daniel Fitzgerald; Mr. Sea- rooke, Milton Bernarc; Harry, son of Mr. Seabrooke, Patrick Ryan; 'filr.eu, W. H. Hamilton; Mrs. Seabrooke, Annie Daly; Lady Stanton, Fannie Regaudiat; Stella Darbisher, Annie Peeters. The presentation of the play is said to be an exceptionaily strong one. e A Fi Alarm. A false alarm was turned 1n at the corner of Kearny and Geary streets, box 48, at 12:15 o'clock this morning. ’ N FARM AND ORCHARD, E. F. Baumard’s Fine Prune Ranch in San Luis Obispo County. WHEAT -RAISING IN FOMONA. Notes From the Dairy. Poultry- Yard and Apiary—Some In- structive Hints. The advice recently given to fruit-grow- ers by TEE CALL to combine and employ reliable agents to dispose of their fruits, after the method of wholesalers who send out commercial travelers, is thusechoed by the Walla Walla (Wash.) Statesman: The best thing for the shippers in this val- ley to do, it seems, would be to club to- gether and hire trustworthy men in each of the principal Eastern markets to take care of and disposc of the ffuit. If this were done it would be to the mutual advantage of all and tend to increase the price of this product, from which we should derive a much larger revenue. The Oregon hop crop last year amounted to about 70,000 bales. Director Payne of Oregon weather service, after a reasonably careful inquiry as to the present condition and prospect of this year’s crop, reports that it will equal and probably exceed that of last year. The prune crop of Washington is esti- mated at 3,500,000 pounds, says the Seat- tle Times. This is about four times as fm“ aslast year’s product. The sales of ast year 1n the East were so satisfacto that inquiries for the present year’s prod- uct are very numerous. At the last meeting of the Sonoma County Hop Growers’ Association the price for picking hops was fixed at 60 cents per 100 pounds. Letters were received from rominent hop-growers in several States, Keing of the opinion that the hop outlook was poor. Many members of the associa- tion were of the opinion that it would not pay to pick hops, even at the low price of 60cents per 100, unless the market improved. Some of our exchanges, in speaking of the operation of beet factories this year, state that the business is thriving without the aid of a bounty, says the Watsonville Pajaronian. There is no evidence to show any prosperity to bragabout. All branches of the sugar business are enjoying profits more in expectation than in reality, and the farmer lost a dollar per ton when the bounty was cut off. The close of this sea- son’s run will show if the beet-sugar busi- ness can be conducted profitably at pres- ent prices for sugar and without a bounty. Henry Sauer of Geer Springs, nine miles northwest of Weston, Or., furnishes some figures on bean-raising: Six acres of beans, white, average, per estimate, 2!4 tons per acre. He has been offered by the contractors for the entire crop 34 cents per pound. Cost—Rent of land, $60; seed, $12 50; harvesting and thrashing, $25; sacks (606 at 415 cents each), $27; total, $124 50. Value of crop—Two and a balf tons per acre, 6 acres, 15 tons, or 30,000 ounds, at 334 cents per pound, $1050. 'his gives for one man’s labor for one- four th his time'for four months, $935 50, wages which will show up as quite liberal during such_times as these, or, in fact, in any season, be current wages high or low. Indian corn is a new source of revenue for the farmers of the San Joaquin Valley, and the Stockton Independent states that the experiment of raising Indian corn has proven a great success as far as the present prospect fora crop is concerned, and on some of the land which has been seeded with the well-known Illinois erop the owners will realize quite handsomely. On one piece of land, which belongs to Eaton, Newell & Buckley, there has been put in 140 acres of corn. It is now fifteen feet high nearly all over the field, and on most-of it the stalks bear three ears each, which .are filling out beautifully. It is estimated that the crop will run at least 120 bushels to_the acre. The care of the corn involves a little more care than the care of wheat or other grain, but at the present price of wheat the differ- ence in income will more than pay for the extra labor. Farming that yields from $50 to $100 per acre per annum is something for tillers of the soil to tie to. Thisis what sugar-beet farmers do at Chino, saye the Pomona Times. One year with another, sugar- beet farming is the surest for profit. Itis a kind of farming which gives results in proportion to the work put upon prepara- tion of the soil and care of the growing beets. The better the cultivation the larger the yield. The market is sure—in fact, the crop is sold before it is planted at a fixed price. There is no chance of ioss by exposure to weather in harvesting, for the beets are taken from the ground direct to the factory. Every year some of the ten- ants of land on the Chino ranch who grow beets become land-owners from the sale of beets grown on rented land. Good farm- ers should carefully look into this busi- ness. E. F. Baumard, who has a fine prune or- chard across the river, is probably favored with the best crop of prunes for a five- year-old orchard in this productive coun- try, says the Templeton (San Luis Obispo County) Advance. He has about four acres set out with about 140 trees to the acre. It is estimated that the yield will be upward of twenty tons to the acre. This, at current prices, would make the income from one acre of ground $280. Mr. Bau- mard has been offered $1000 for his pruue crop on the treesand has refused, for he is confident that he can do better. The success of Mr. B. is success for every resi- dent of Templeton, for it means fifty more just such orchards the coming year, with thirty-five to fifty new families coming to our thriving little town. It means a change from the unsatisfactorv mode of tilling the soil and raising grain and by hard scrabble be just able to make both ends meet to the easier mode of fruit rais- ing. The Garfield (Wash.) Enterprise gives this example of three crops from one sow- ing: Two years ago A.J. Houchin had a fine crop of wheat on 200 acres of his farm on Dry Creek that looked as though it would make thirty-five or forty bushels to the acre. But owing to the continued wet weather he was unable to barvestit. He plowed it under, and without seeding it raised a crop that made an average yield of twenty-three bushels per acre. This season he has all but forty acres of it thor- oughly summer fallowed. The forty acres volunteered a crop that he has just thrashed which made twenty bushels to the acre, being the third crop the ground bas produced since it was sowed. Talk about your wheat countries! Where are you going to find one to beat that? This soil wiil grow wheat in spite of hail and high water. S. R. Thorpe of Carlsbad, San Diego County, last winter selected a piece of land thickly covered with brush, and located not far from ihe ocean where the condi- tions ceemed to him about such as would persuade the healthful bean to thrive. He cleared the land, planted beans, and now has ten carloads of excellent navy and kidney beans ready for market. They re- ceived no irrigation whatever, the bean having the peculiar and valuable ‘preperty of drawing 1its sustenance from the air and drinking in moisture from the fog. The success of this venture, says the Los An- geles Journal, means very much to the country along the San Diego County coast line, where the soil is good. but water is so scarce that hardly a gum tree will grow without encouragement. Deciduous fruit trees, by persistent cultivation, make a brave effort to produce bountifully, but the dry rancher is and has been greatly handicapped, and if he can now turn his attention to a crop that, like beans, always brings a fair price and thrives under condi- tions that are adyverse to the success of most crops, he will never lack good crops and ready markets. Educate your fruit-growers, your pack- ers, your evaporators and your canners to aim at quality instead of mere quantity, says Colman’s Rural World. Make the fruit both beautiful to the eve and de- licious to the palate, and you need bave no apprehension recarding the future of your fruit industry. I base this remark upon the apparent fact that a large proportion of the fruit-growers (as well as some of the packers and canners) either lack the necessary knewledge or skill to secure the best results, or are ignorant of the fact that choice, delicious goods can generally be sold at a reasonable price, even when com- mon, unsightly geods go begging at a loss. But this is not all. Every pound of un- palatable dried fruit and every can of sloppy, unripe fruit discourages the pur- chaser from duplicating his order, while every pound of delicious prunes and every can of ripe, fine-flavored apricots, pears and peaches, packed in good syrup, whets the appetite for more, until the fruit finds nhregu]ar place on the table of the pur- chasger. Some Big Peach Exhiblts. ‘We were shown a peach this morning from the orchard of Hatch & Rock, Rio Benito, which measured 11x11}¢ inches in circumference and weighed exactly 16 ounces, says the Willows Journal. It was of the Sellers cling variety and was a beautiful peach. Mr. Hiett, the proprietor of the Biggs stage line, informed us that the aforesaid orchard was full of such peaches, and that a box was shipped from there yesterday containing twenty peaches, the weight of the peaches alone being twenty-four pounds. While we were writ- ing the above. L. W. Boswell entered our office with several large peaches in his hand, which on measurement proved to average 11}4x11 inches in circumferance. Mr. Boswell informed us they were from the Hammond place, adjoining that of Hatch & Rock, above noted, and the fruit was the Sicily cling variety. He had seen 250 boxes packed, and every peach in them was as large as those brought to this office. Mr. Boswell also informed us that the Orange cling and the Muir freestone grew 10 a size as large and larger in the locality, going to prove that the lJand in Hamilton Township is peculiarly adapted to the culture of peaches. Just think of a box containing twenty peaches weighing twenty-four pounds, and then tell us that old Butte is not a good county for fruit. Here is the suggestion that the Willapa (Wash.) Pilot makes to its rural readers: In tue absence of creameries and at pres- ent, when milk is abundant and butter cheap, 1t pays better to convert the milk into other products than butter. Milk is worth 60 cents ger 100 pounds and it re- quires 100 pounds to make 4}4 pounds of butter. Cheese is worth 12 cents per pound and it reqires 9 pounds of milk to make a pound of cheese. There is very little de- mand for butter at present and prices un certain; then why not make chees Cheese can be stored away and kept until prices are satisfactory and when winter comes around butter can be made again and it is then that the demand and price are both at their best. ? Canaigre Arizona. Fowler Bros. are now planting five acres of canaigre asan experiment, says the Phce- nix (Ariz.) Gazette, and if this does well they will probably engage extensively in that industry, grow a few thousand acres of this tannin plant and erect suitable works for the reduction of it to tannic acid. While they call it an experiment, from the fact that they have not yet ascertained just how to grow the plant most success- fully, it has been well demonstrated that here the weed is indigenous. They are planting three, two and one foot apart in rows, with a view of ascer- taining just how to get the best yield. They are also splitting some of the roots, to see if it will not grow just as well that way. The method of growing canaigre is very similar to that of growing sugar beets. By planting in the early fall harvest comes in early June, before” there is a pos- sibie shortage of water, thus insuring a full crop each year. The plant 1s harvested with a plow. Then the roots are gathered and aried, after which they are ready for shipment, or perhaps the most practical way is to have a reduction plant on the grounds. It has been but a few years since this plant became well known, but now it is almost certain to suvply the world with tannic acid. Only a few daysago a farmer of this valley had a set of harness made, the leather of which was tanned with can- aigre. Leather so tanned seems soft and does not harden by being in the hot sun, making a finer harness leather than the usual product. Four years Has developed the canaigre industry until now it bids fair to rank with mining, cattle-growing, fruit-raising and growing alfalfa. ‘The Davie Company Sued. D. A. Curtin has begun suitagainst the Davie Ferry and Transportation Company to recover on uotes of §000, given on October 18, 1893, 10 A. J. McGovern. HEROIG WOMEN, Their Struggle Against a Common ond Herciless Enemy. fEPEPIAL TO OUB LADY READERS.) ‘Woman'’s hero- — == ism is not evinced by fearlessness or enterprisein time of danger, but her courage and forti- tude are unques- tionable in time of suffering. Think of the woman who smiles and tries to make those around her cheerful, while she is racked with the excruciating tor- tures of womb trouble. Think of one who, day by day, begs her physician to help her, while the torture of tortures could not add to her misery. Does she yield ? No! She endures her agonies, and meefs her friends with cheerfuiness. 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Applications must ba sent, in duplicate, to Regen: Albert Miller, 53% California st., S. F. J. H. C. BONTE, Secty. Berkeley, Cal.. August 23, 18 LEGAL NOTICES. LOUISE E. DUFF, deceased. No. 16315. De- partment No. 10. Notice is heréby given by tha undersigned, JENNIE HENDERSON executrix of the estate of LOUIS! ceased, to the creditors of, and claims against the said_deceas 3J_persons having ,'to exhibit them with the necessary vouchers within four (4) months after the first publication of this notice to the said executrix, at_the office of her atiorney at law, P, ALEXANDRE BERGEROT, rooms 142-143, Crocker building, the same being her place for the trausaction of the business of the said estate in the City and County of San Francisco, State of Califor- nia. JENNIE HENDERSON McLEOD, executrix o8 the estate of LOUISE E. DUFF, deceased. Dated at San Francisco, September 3, 1895. 0 HON. WM. S. BARNES, DISTRICT AT< torney of the City and County of San Franciscos Please take notice that on or about the 7th day of October, 1895, an application will be made 10 the Governor of the State of California fos the pardon 0f JOHN COONEY, who was convicted on the 28th day ot January, 1887, in the Superior Court in and for the City and County of crime of robbery. JAMES H. CAMPBELL, Attorney for said JOHN COONEY. 7, THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE CIT® and County of San Francisco, State of Califors, nia.—In the matter of DUFFY BROS,, insolvent, debtors. Notice is hereby given to ail the creds itors of CHARLES E. DUFFY, an insolventy debtor, who have proved ielr debis, that saidk CHAELES E. DUFFY has filed in said Superior, Conrt his petition for adischarge from all his debt: and liabilities, and that by an order of sa'd_cou all said ereditors are required to appear before sai court, at the courtroom thereof, Depirtment Now 10, In the New City Hall, in said City and County, on'the 234 day of September, A. D. 1895, at th hour of 10 A. 3., and then and there show ca a0y they have, why the sald CHARLES E. DUFF Y should not be di from all bis debts, in e ancl cordance with the statutes in such cases m; provided. Attest my hand and seal of said court this 21sg day of Augast, 1595. | “[mar. C. F. CURRY, Clerk. . A. DEANE, Deputy Clerk. k%