The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 26, 1895, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1895. 8 FOUGHT WITH DRUSES Sweeping Victory of the Turkish Troops Is Reported. THOUSANDS WERE SLAIN Official Dispatches From Beyrout Tell a Story of Terrible Slaughter. SERIOUS DISORDERS AT TARUS. Missionaries and Their Families Flee to Marsina for Refuge. CONSTANTINOPLE, TurkEy, Dec. 25.— Dispatches from Beyrout say that there was serious fighting between the Turkish troops and the Druses near Suediah on Ds- cember 21. The official account is that the | Druses lost 12,200 killed. On the Turkish " side, according to the official report, only seventy were killed and fifty wounded. Disorders are reported at Tarus. The disturbance was quelled by the officials. No details have been received, but it is believed that the trouble now reported ex- plains the arrival at Marsina of the Rev. Mr. Christie, a missionary, and his family, as well as many others, who undoubtedly went there to seek protection. sty T RUSSIA BARS THE WAYX. Opposes Vigorous Measures to Prevent a Massacre at Zeito LONDON 5., Dec. 25.—The Times to- morrow will print the following Constan- tinople dispatch, under date of Decem- ber 24: Handbills were profusely scattered last night, even being thrust into carriages and the pockets of passers-by, announcing that the Sultan would be deposed to-day or to-morrow. Consequently the jewelers, expecting a commotion, closed their shops to-day. The meeting of diplomats yesterday was chiefly occupied with the Zeitoun troubles. There was a unanimous desire to prevent the threatened massacre, but Russia's grest solicitude to maintain concord in- dispos! lidoff, the Russian Minis- ter, to acquiesce in any measure sufficiently vigorous to be effective. Consequently energetic proposals were set aside. Baron von Calice, the Austrian Embas- sador, t a communication to the Grand Vizier, expressing the earnest and united hope of the diplomats that no extreme measures would be adopted at Zeiton. The Sultan gave audience to M. Nelidoff. R POPE LEO’S ENCYCLICAL. The Holy See to Treat Upon the Armenian Question. ROME, Iravry, Dec. 25.—The Pove is about to prepare an encyclical letter on the situation in Armenia. The relations between the Vatican and Austria have been harmonized. The Pope will recall Nuncio Agliardi, and the Aus- trian Embassador to the Vatican, Count Revertera-Salandra, returns to Rome at the end of the present month. e ARREST OF A PRIEST. The Porte Claims to Have Found Incrim- inating Letters. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 25.—The Turkish legation received from the Sub- lime Porte the following telegram under to-day’s date: “An Armenian priest belonging to the revolutionary committee was arrested at Marash. His whole correspondence with the chief of the Zeitoun insurgents was found on him.”” Minister Terrell’s Movements. LONDON, Exc., Dec. 25.—The United Press correspondent at Constantinople tele- graphs that United States Minister Terrell has returned from Smyrna. His mission there was to secure protection for American residents. e Sunk in a Collision. LONDON, ExG., Dec. 25.—The French steamer Emile Eloise has been sunkin a collision at Algiers. There were thirty- four persons on board. Four weredrowned. VAIN ATTEMPTS AT RESCUE. The Crew of a Wrecked Bark Off the Coast of lIreland Cut Off From Escape. LONDON, Exc., Dec. 25.—A dispatch from Kingston, Ireland, says that an Eng- " lish bark which was reported in distress off there yesterday is full of water,and that wreckage from the vessel is coming ashore. The men on the bark are hud- dled behind the deckhouse. So far all efforts to rescue them have been unsuc- cessful. The Poolbeg lifeboat crew have made several vain attempts to reach them. The trawler Sunrise of Aberdeen has been lost in a gale] with all hands. The crew consisted of five men. i irgeei HEPPNER JAIL BREEAK. Tewo Young Criminals Escape Through a Jailer’s Carelessncss. HEPPNER, Or., Dec. 24.—John Masters and John Jenkins, young men who were sentenced to the County Jail for six months at the last term of court, escaped yesterday ihrough the carelessness of the jailer, who carried their meals to them and then withdrew, leaving the jail un- locked. When he came back the prison- ers were gone and they have not been re- captured. McAhf, who is in jail awaiting trial for perjury, refused to go with the boys. SEeg T :Blockade in the Cascades. SEATTLE, Wass., Dec. 25.—Last night and during the forenoon to-day there was a- complete blockade, by the extreme heayy snowfall in the Cascade Mountains, of both Northern Pacific and Great North- ern railroads. On the upper Heights of the the Cascades, a fall of 10 feet snow is re- ported. Freight service on the railways is being partially resumed. Murder at Silver City. SILVER CITY, N. Mex., Dec. 25.—Su- perintendent William Reed was found at the enirance of the Native Copper mine sterday with a bullet in his brain and s skull crushed in, Two discharged miners are under suspicion of committing the crime. SR Drowned in the South Umpgua. CANYONVILLE, Og., Dec. 25.—Two cons, aged 8 and 11 years, of Edward Ma- loney, a farmer residing seven miles north of Canyonville, were drowned in the South Umpgua River yesteraay. The boys crossed the river to zet some provisions and were drowned on their return trip. The boat was found empty floating down the river, Their bodies have not yet been found. e ROBBERIES AT SAN RAFAEL. One Man Held Up for a Gold Watch and His Money. SAN RAFAEL, Carn. Dec. 25.—This town isin a state of excitement over the highway robbery of one man and an at- tempt at housebreaking. Sheriff Harrison was notified this morn- ing by Edward Connolly, of 1631 Market street, that he was held up on Petaluma avenue by three men,who gave him asevere beating and took his gold watch valued at §200, and $16 60 in coin. ) Three tramps were arrested on suspicion and their description tallies with that of those who robbed Connolly. It is believed that they are the same men who attempted to rob Judge Angellotti’s house last night, but escaped when an alarm was raised be- fore the arrival of the officers. e RACES AT MODESTO. Zrotting Events and a Bicycle Race on Christmas. MODESTO, Car., Dec. —Christmas was celebrated at the Modesto race track by trotting races for horses without rec- ords in the county, and a bicycle run. The attendance was large. Following is a sum- mary of events: Three minute class, best three in five, H. Hughson’s Empire won, M. L. Gar- lock’'s Billy second. Best time, 2:4814. Four minute class, best two in three, Dr. >. W. Evans’ colt Phrantza won, L. D. impsons’ Modesto Maid second. Time, vt.!\'mrter nile bicycle race won by Al Dallas in .37 IRRESTED AT SAN DIEGD! George Hoffman, Wanted in Okla- homa, Captured by Officer Ellsworth. He Will Be Returned to the Territory to Serve a Four Years’ Sentence. SAN DIEGO, Car., Dec. 25.—Officer Ellsworth made an important arrest to- night in the capture of George Hoffman, who is wanted in Oklahoma to serve out a four years’ sentence in the penitentiary for robbery and assault. Hoffman was formerly a private in the Tenth Infantry, stationed at Fort Sill, and deserted. He was captured and court-martialed, and dishonorably discharged. Later h tacked a lieutenant at the post, knocked him down and robbed him. The military authorities again took him in charge, and he received a sentence of four years in the penitentiary. On the way to prison he outwitted his guard and knocked one of them down and escaped. How Hoffman made his way to San Diego 1s not known, but it was suspected that he would eventually turn up here, as his company was formerly stationed at San Diego barracks. Letters were sent here to the police describing Hoffman, and Officer Ellsworth had been on the lookout for the man for some weeks. The other day Ellsworth saw Hoffman in the Palace Restaurant, on Fifth street, where the fellow was washing dishes. He gave the name of Martin, but answered the description of Hoffman. Last night the arrest was made and it was then found that he bore upon his arm three marks described in the circular concerning Hoff- man. Officer Ellsworth turned his man over to the officers at the barracks, and Hoffman willno doubt be returned to Oklahoma under military guard. He practically ad- mitted that he was the man wanted, in a conversation with his captor, and added that he only wanted permission to die. He bought a big dose of morphine, but Ellsworth took it from him. Hoffman was slightly intoxicated when first arrested, and by the time he reached thc barracks he was so drunk he could not talk, so his version of the story could not be learned. P s Will Be Married at Santa Ros. SANTA ROSA, CaL., Dec. 25.—Miss Ger- trude A. Rue and A. Pierce Preston are to be married in the First Presbyterian Church in this city on New Year’s eve. Miss Rue is a niece of Mark L. McDonald of Santa Rosa and also of Dr. R. H. Mec- Donald of San Francisco. Her mother was a member of the Women’s Board at the Worlad’s Fair. g Oregon Qutlaws Convicted. PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 25.—A jury in the United States court lasi night returned a verdict of guilty in the cases of John Case and James Poole, who have been on trial all of this week for hoiding up a Southern Pacific train in Cow Creck Can- yon. The time for sentence has not yet peen fixed. [ . Crew Transfer at Mare Island. VALLEJO, CaL., Dec. 25.—The revenue cutter Ranger went out of commission yes- terday and the crew was at once trans- ferred to the Adams, which was put into commission immediatelv. She will be ready for sea within another week. The Indignant Reporter, There is no man who is exempted from the story-teller, the genius who draws a group around him, generally before a bar or in a hotel, and proceeds to relate all the good things he has heard on his friends and enemies alike, even reporters, who are supposed to originate the anecdotes published about leading men and the bumerous things they have done. One member of the craft recently told this on another: It was when the reporter had just-started on his career. He was placed on a district and told to get anything he could. On the third day the reporter rushed in under great excitement. Sitting down he dashed off a few lines concerning some unimpor- tant local happening and started off in the same rush, The city editor stopped him and asked the cause of such haste. The reporter re- plied: “There is a_scoundrel down town who almost killed his wife this morning. I'm going down and help hang him.” And the indignant reporter darted off Jon his mission of vengeance without hav- ing written a line about the attempted murder.—Louisville Post. - The Cost of a Launch. That it costs something to launch a big battleship is shown by the statement that the expense of getting the Victorious, the latest addition to England’s fleet, afloat was about $10,000. She is_a sister ship to the Magnificent and the Majestic, and is 390 feet long, 75 feet beam and 2714 feet draught. There were used up on the ways over which she slid into the water 7000 pounds of Russian tallow,160 gallons of train oil and 700 pounds of soft soap. The gross weight of the ship, equipped and ready for sea, is 1 Itis an interesting fact that Maine was the birthvlace of three noted singers, Annie Louise Cary Raymond was born in Durham, Me., Lillian Norton Gower, (Nordica) was born in Framingham, Me., and Emma Eames Stow was born in Bath, Me. FIRES AT SAN JOSE. Three Alarms Between Midnight and 2:30 0'Clock. ARRESTED FOR ARSON. William Sharratt’s Promptness Gets Him Into Trouble With the Police. THREE BARNS SET ON FIRE. In Two There Was an Aggregate Loss of $1300—Five Horses Burned to Death. SAN JOSE, CAL., Dec. 25.—William Shar- ratt, 20 years of age, is in the City Prison, held onachargeofarson. There werethree fires between 12 and 2:30 o’clock this morn- ing, ana Sharratt is supposed to have started all three. He was the first person at two of the fires. Sharratt has told sev- eral stories in accounting for his where- abouts during the night, but they are frail and the police say they will have no trouble in tearing them to pieces. The first fire was in a stable belonging to W. W. Wright, at the northeast corner of Third and San Carlos streets. While an alarm was being turned in Sharratt ap- peared on the scene and succeeded in put- ting out the fire before any loss was in- curred. The second alarm was at 1 o’clock for a fire in a barn belonging to Manuel Perry on San Salvador street, between Seventh and Eighth. The barn, four horses and a colt were burned. The loss will reach $800. Sharratt, who was at this fire also, at- tracted the attention of Officer Piau. The third alarm was for the burning of the barn of J. M. Gray at 456 South Tenth street at 2:15 o’clock this morning. The barn was destroyed. Loss about $500; fully insured. Sharratt, who had been conspicuous at the two previous fires, was the first on the scene at this one, and Officer Pfau placed him under arrest. There havebeen a great many fires of incendiary origin of late and the police hope to connect Sharratt with several of them. Sharratt has figured in the Police Court under accusation of being a chicken-thief and all-rouna tough, and his reputation is generally bad. ey DEAD IN H1S BUNK. Mate Andrews of the Danielson Takes His Own Life. SAN JOSE, Cawn., Dec. 25.— Coroner Secord yesterday afternoon went to Alviso and held an inquest upon the remains of Samuel H. Andrews, the mate of the schooner Danielson, who was found dead in his bunk yesterday morning. Andrews had been ill and taken some morphine, which resulted in his death. Tue jury found that death resuited from morphia poisoning, but was unable to decide whether the poison was taken with suicidal intent or not. The deceased was a native of Maine and about 40 years of age. About three months ago he married a girl in Francisco, but soon became dissatisfied and left her and shipped as a sailor. e e ARGUELLO BLOCK LOAN. Purchase of Capital Stock in the Pacific e, SAN JOSE, Cav.,, Dec. 25.—An agree- ment was filed in the Recorder’s office yes- terday whereby Mrs. Louisa L. George (nee Arguello) executed a promissory note for $15,000, secured by a mortgage on the Ar- guello block, on South First street, in favor of Cornelius F. Sullivan of San Francisco. The instrument states that the transaction is for the purpose of securing a loan upon the property, and in consideration of Cor- nelius J. Sullivan securing the loan of $15,000 Mrs. George agrees to purchase $12,- 000 of the capital stock of the Pacific States Life Assurance Company. The remaining $3000 is to be paid over to Mrs. George. B Wild Man of Saratoga. SAN JOSE, CAL., Dec. 25.—Benjamin George, who has been leading the life of a wild man in the vicinity of Saratoga for some time, was brought to the County Jail last evening to await an examination as to his sanity. George, who is a middle-aged laborer, has been living under a bridge near Saratoga and has steadfastly refused to_have anything to do with his fellow- beings. His only food has been nuts, fruit and vegetables. Thelast few days he has been acting queerly and the neigh- bors have become afraid of him. MYSTERY AT ELLENSBURG Mrs. Hess Travels From Colorado to Give Her Relatives a Surprise. They Had Left for Genessee Overland and No Trace of Them Has Been Found. SPOKANE, Wasm., Dec. 25.—Mrs. Susie Hess of this city, but formerly of Pueblo, Colo., n sore trouble. She rvecently lost her father, mother, sister and brother, and her husband died at Pueblo a short time ago. She concluded to come to her folks in this State, but in order to give them a surprise did not send word of her coming, and when she reached Ellensburg, where they had lived, found that they had sent their household effects by freight to Gen- essee, and had started for that place over- land with a wagon. Mrs. Hess traced them along the route a short distance and then lost them abso- lutely. This was some six weeks ago, and they have not yet reached Genesee, and no trace of them can be found. They had considerable money, and Mrs. Hess greatly fears they have nfi been mur- dered, but as no ciew to the bodies has been found, the idea is not seconded by the police. Search is now being instituted for the lost famaly. STABBING THE DALLES. The Theftof a Spool of Thread Causes a Serious Fight. THE DALLES, Or., Dec. 25.—Word comes from Wamy settlement in Wasco County, twenty-two miles south of The Dalles, that a serious cutting affray hap- pened there Sunday evening. Ed Stoey stabbed Tim Edmondsen so seriously that it is expected he will die. The trouble arose over some trivial dispute, it being claimed by the Stoeys that Mrs. Edmond- sen took a spool of thread from the for- mer’s household. Sunday afternoon, at 5 o’clock, Stoey came to Edmondsen’s home and called him out on the porch. After some conversation the stabbing occurred. NEAR A doctor was summoned from Dufur, twenty-five miles distant, and he pro- nounced the wounded man’s injuries prob- ably fatal. Stoey has been arrested. TWO SANTA ROSA WEDDINGS. Miss Hattie Talmage Married to G. L. Ayres and Miss Alice Marshall to John Farmer. SANTA ROSA, CaL., Dec. 25. — Miss Hattie Talmadge and G. L. Ayres were married to-day at high noon at the resi- dence of the bride’s parents, at the corner of Beaver and Cherry streets. Rev. T. A. Atkinson of the M. E. Church South per- formed the ceremony. The handsome home of Mr. and Mrs. Talmadge was splendidly decorated in honor of the event. A large number of invitations were issued, and the house was thronged with guests. An elegant repast was served after the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Ayres left on the south-bound train this afternoon for a wedding trip 1o San Francisco and San Jose. They will make their temporary home at Forestville, this county. Miss Alice Marshall and John Farmer were married in Santa Rosa Tuesday at the home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. Mary Marshall, on Slater street by the Rev. E. P. Dennett. The wedding was a private one, only intimate friends and relatives being present. The bride is prominent in social circles and the groom is in the em- gloy of the railway mail service on the vuthern Pacific. They are spending their honeymoon in San Francisco. —_— SHOOTING AT WATSONVILLE. A Barkeeper Probably Fatally Wounds a Woman. SANTA CRUZ,CAL., Dec. 25.—A shooting affair occurred last evening at Watsonville which will in all probability result in the death of Blanche Edwards. The shooting occurred about 9o’clock in the evening in the Clipper restaurant, and was done by the bartender, Thomas Atkins. Thecause of ti.e shooting is supposed to have been jealousy. The bullets were from a 38- caliber pistol. One entered at a point near the right stoulder-blade and passed through the right lung, causing an inter- nal hemorrhage; theother cut tiie muscles of the face. After the shooting Atkins made his escape, but to-day he 1s in cus- tody. ——— FIRE AT LOS ANGELES. Duwelling of F. B. Howes Damaged to the Extent of $7000. LOS ANGELES, Car.,, Dec. 25.—The beautiful dwelling of ¥. B. Howes, cashier of the Los Angeles Ngtional Bank, was al- most totally destroyed by fire this after- noon. The bouse is located at the corner of Thirty-second and Royal streets, in beautiful grounds, and was one of the handsomest residences in that portion of the city. The cause of the fire was a de- fective flue. Loss about $7000; partially insured. — PORTZLAND TRAINS DELAYED. Snow Blockades in the Cascade Moun- tains Hinder Travel. PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 25.—Snow block-. ades in the Cascade Mountains are inter- rupting travel on the overland lines, both the Union Pacific and Northern Pacific being late. Monday night's express on the Northern Pacific did not reach here until last night, an hour behind the regu- lar schedule. The delay on the Northern Pacific was caused by the deraiiment of engines while trying to move freight train stuck in a cut. A Woman Luawyer. SANTA RO CaL., Dec. Fannie McG. Martin, ex-County Superin- tendent of Sonoma County Schools, has been admitted to the practice of the law by the Supreme Court. Mrs. Martin was twice elected County Superintendent on the Republican ticket. She made a vigor- ous and successful eampaign against strong opponents and won quite a record as a speaker on live poltical issues. - — Burglars at Watsonville. SANTA CRUZ, Cav., Dec. 25.—Burglars are about Watsonville. The store of Jacob Boehler, in the Odd Fellows' block, was entered by way of the front door last night and goods to the amount of $160 were taken. SRt Portland Team Defoated. PORTLAND, Dec. 25.—About 5000 peo- ple witnessed to-day’s football game on the Multnomah field between the Port Townsend eleven and the Multnomah Athletic Association club. The score wus 6 to 0 in favor of Port Townsend. — Seattle Eleven Wins. SEATTLE. Wash., Dec. 2 ball game to-day batween the Seattle Ath- letic Club eleven and the Portland Uni- versity team terminated in victory for the former, the score being 12 to 6, = et - Fed the Poor at Santa Cruz. SANTA CRUZ, CaL., Dec. 25.—The Sal- vation Army of this city gave a big dinner this afternoon to the poor. Hundreds of people were fed. NEW CONDITIONS OF WAR. A Magazine Gun That Is Practically Irresistibie. The arrival in this country of a Maxim gun of the latest model is evidently not considered an item of great importance, and yet it is possible that the modern rapid-fire gun may be a potent element in determining the history of future war, and in determining it in a direction most acceptable to the sensible, peace-loving citizens of this Repub! This gun, weighing only 127 pounds, and consequently easily portable, and with every part as efficient as an ordinary breech-loader, with perfectly adjustable sights and calculable range, has a capacity for placing 600 bullets a minute wherever they will do the most harm. Inasmuch as a live of infantry charging at the double quick would not be able to cross the range of the gun in less than eight or ten min- utes, it does not seem unreasonable to claim than the gun cannot be taken. The Pickett charge at Gettysburg thirty-odd years ago would not be a circumstance compared with the slaughter that would await a charge on a battery of these new guns. A partial trial of the macazine gun has been made by the English in the Chitral expedition and by the French in the Mada- gascar campaign. In both cases the re- sult was decided quickly and with com- paratively httle bloodshed. The magazine gun_was practically irresistible. A very brief test sufficed to demonstrate this. It has been often urged that any in- crease in the efficiency of the weapons of war meant a decrease in the horrors of war. In the new magazine gung we have reached a perfection of efficiency which in- dicates that war may be rendered impos- sible. Such a consummation would be an inestimable gain to humanity. The mere prospect is enough to make ail the friends of peace wish success to the deadliest machines of war. —————— The Sheriflf Had Sense. Sheriff Holman, who was fined $10 by Judge Broaddus, is doing his best to pay the fine. He is eating three meals at the jail and religiously charging up 50 cents a dey to the county. That is what the law allows him for the board of the prisoners, and he is counting himself as & &riuoner within the meaning of the law.—Richmond Register. - George Muller, of Bristol, England, re- cently celebrated his ninetieth’ birthday. His orphan houses, whici are known all over the world, have been wholly sup- ported by “‘prayer and ‘faith” during the sixty-one years of their existence. e has received for them altogether the sum of $6,866.743 and has provided for the main- tenance and instruction of 120,763 children. AN JONDUIN ERUITS Productions of the Great Valley in the Vicinity of Fresno. SHASTA TO TEHACHAPI And From the Sierra Nevadas on the East to the Coast Range West. RAISINS FOR A GREAT NATION. Soil, Climate and Irrigation Also Adaptable to the Culture of Citrus Fruits, FRESNO, CaL., Dec. 25.—Nowhere in the State of California has nature more generously bestowed the conditions requisite to the production of all fruits for which this State is famous than in the San Joaquin Valley. This great central basin of California, walled by the Sierra Nevadas on the east, the Coast Range on the west, guarded by Shasta on the north, and circled by the Tehachapi on the south, em- braces a vast area adapted to fruit culture by reason of its fertile soils, specific cli- matic conditions and unrivaled advantages for irrigation. This basin is but a few hundred feet above sea level, while the Sierras, ap- parently springing from the plain, sharply ascend until their summits, many per- petually snow clad, pierce the clouds at elevations of from 10,000 to 15,000 feet. Within these mountains and on their loity summits are stored the unlimited supplies of water that are used for irriga- tion on the plains during the last summer months. The Coast Range on the west has an elevation of about 2000 feet. Along its line are many passes through which the cool sea breezes are drawn into the great valley. This physical configuration gives to the valley opportunities for irrigation, and those peculiar elements of climate so es- sential to a varied fruit culture that are found so perfectly nowhere else on the continent, if in the world. The San Joa- quin Valley is about 260 miles long, with an average breadth of about fifty miles. The land gently slopes from the foothills on either side to the trough of the valley near its center. Itis within the last twenty years that sheep pastures and grain farms have given way to orchards and vineyards. To-day the scene is rapidly changing from the former unbroken plains, dotted with bands of sheep and fields of grainand scattaring cabus, to a Jand of fruit and flowers surrounding handsome dwellings— a land where the horticulturist is king. Fruit-raising in the valley had 1ts greatest growth in the counties of Fresno, Tulare, Kings and Kern, notably in Fresno Coun- ty. More attention was early given to irrigation in these counties than elsewhere in the valley, because water could be brought from the mountain streams out upon the plains at less cost and in greater volume than elsewhere. It is now about twenty years since the first exneriments in fruit culture were made in the region of Fresno. From this small beginning has grown the wonderful fruit industries of this sec- tion. The planters then little dreamed of the wonderful development that was to follow their industry within a decade. The vigor and healthfulness of growthsand the perfection with which the many kinds of vines and trees planted would produce their fruit has been beyond the early experimenter’'s most sanguine anticipa- tions. To-day the fresh and dried fruits of the San Joaquin Valley are known all over the Union. 8till the grower of to-day has but a faint idea of the possibilities of develop- ment in the fruit industry during the next ten years. These possibilities are best illustrated by a recital of the growth of the raisin industry. In 1878 the raisin pro- duct for the valley was one ton. In 1890 Fresno County alone shipped 13,200 tons. In 1894 that was increased to 30,000 tons, while the shipments from the balance of the State for that year equaled only one- half of the Fresno shipments, and the larger portion of that 15,000 tons was grown in the southern counties of the San Joaquin Valley—Tulare, Kern and Kings, the latter county having the largest raisin vineyard in the world. The rise or the raisin industry in the valley has been so phenomenally rapid as to withdraw attention from other lines of fruit. Yet all branches of fruit-growing have been wonderfully advanced. Tne valley already has a wide reputation for its wines, especially its sweet wines. Fresno alone has eight large wineries that are worked to their fullest capacity. This is the home of the peach and the nectarine. In growth of tree, freedom from disease, abundance of yield and quality of fruit this valley is not excelled by any other locality. The pear and the prune also find here a congemal soil. The largest prune-orchard in the world is located in Kings County. In the foot- hills at an elevation of 2500 feet the apple tree thrives, and yields abundantly the choicest quality. Apples are also grown on the valley lands, but their quality does not equal those of the foothills. The apricot grows vigorously, but is not. as sure a bearer here as in some localities nearer the coast. Within the past few years experiments have proved that the soil and the climate of the valley are adapted to olive culture. In bearing and quality the product is not equaled else- where in California. The figs of the San Joaquin Valley are unequaled, and this industry has become very extensive. The planting of citrus fruits during the last three or four years has demonstrated the fact, previously discredited, that the orange and lemon can be profitably grown in the open valleys as well as in the shel- tered spots in the foothills. Evidences of this fact are to be seen in the gardens and door-yards of hundreds of homes from the Tehachapi to the mouth of the San Joaquin River. An orange orchard of fifteen acres was planted to Washington navels in 1890 on the Sunny Side fruit farm, located on the plains six miles east of Fresno. In 1894 the orchard bore a light crop of fruit. In 1895a good crop was produced, many of the trees bearing from 100 to 130 fine oranges each. This fruit was marketed the last week in November and the first week in December. Porterville, in Tulare County, and Centerville, in Fresno, are already famous for the quality of theircit- rus fruits. The orangesin this valley ripen from three to six weeks earlier than those grown south of the Tehachapi, thus en- {and the abling the growers to meet the early mar- kets, which are the most profitable. The orange grown in this valley is thin-skinned, of close texture, juicy and fine flavored. The extreme heat and light of the| months of Juiy, August and September | develops the highest qualities of sugar, flavor and beauty injhe fruit of this val- ley, and the unlimited water supply for irrigation purposes makes possible the as- surance of crops in all portions of the val- ley. ‘While the water supply is tapped by many miles of canals, yet there are vast volumes going to waste that await the | demand of the farmer, fruit-grower and | home-seeker. Fresno County alone has | 300 miles of main canals and 5000 miles of | lateral ditches. | The claim that irrigated fruits were Jacking in sweetness and flavor and that they would not stand shipment has been most thoroughly disproved in the San Joaquin Valley as elsewhere in California. | And yet the fruit-growers of this valley are still in the experimental stages of the industry, but as they have supplied the | Nation with raisins so will they soon be | rivals of the famous Santa Clara growers of prunes, which fruit they are adding to the long list of the products of this section of the State. J Fresno will hold her first citrus, fair, commencing on January 3, when ‘fruits from the various points here named will be presented and their reputation for ex- cellence will be sustained. Facts and statistics and the fruits themselves will be in evidence of the claims that have been here set forth of the weaith of soil, advan- | tages of climate and opportunities for irrigation in the San Joaquin Valley. AN OBTIMIST'S OUTLOOK. Traditions of Sturdy Manhood and Pnre Womanhood Will Be Maintained. The pessimists have so long had it their own way, and have been able to justify | their lamentations so well by pointing to the divorce courts and tne scandal of mod- ern fidtion, that the easily led world was bezinning to believe not only that mar- riage is a failure, but that the whole social | state is deliquescent. 1t has occurred to some one to challenge this conclusion by | an appeal to the sound part of society, and get the testimony of wives on this subjec: The result, appearing from time to time in an English periodical, promises to be over- whelmingly in favor of happy mar S. We know that the great mass of society is | always sound, or it could not hold to- gether. It is the exceptionally discon- tented who are oftenest heard, and it is the exceptionally unfortunate or vicious who attract most atten- tion. The complaints of the one and the visible and flaunted misery of the other furnish us a sufficient spectacle of a world gone wrong, and sufficient illustra- tions for those who adopt depressing theo- | ries, and apparently enjoy the prospect of pretty nearly universal unhappiness. The | wise know, indeed, that no one is happy at all times, and that no one escapes suffer- | i ad that the experiment of two lives | as one, though of nature’sown devis- | ing, is notalways successful. Yetin the | t mass it is reasonably successful, and | is at any ratea condition better for human- | ity than any other that has been tried. | Writers are apt- to judge both the morals contentment of men by the| congested cities, just as our travelers used to represent the empires of China and Japan as utterly immoral from | their experience of the seaboard | cities. But even in the cities it is| a fractional view of life upon which the | pessimists base their theories of the mis- ery of life and the misfortune of marriage. The fairly contented and the reasonably happy are silent; the mass of domestic life | is unrevorted. And this is why the mod- | ern newspaper, which reports day by day | the accidents and the unusual in life as | news, is such an untrue reporter of the actual state of society and will be such a | poor guide to the historian who refers to it alone for his estimate of the social | life of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. It is more misleading than the satires of Juvenal. But when we go out | of the cities and large towns into the | country and among the smull villages, either in KErgland or America, where | there is less rivalry in ostentation, and less strife for luxury and less congestion of ill living and poverty, the civilization of these latter days makes a very good show. Considering tue actual frailties of human nature, and the natural hardships of any state of development, growth and decay. it is realiy wonderful to see how happy and cheerful the world is. how much kind- ness there is and helpfulness and content- ment. Itcannot be that the fundamental conditions of iife are all wrong, and that the conjugal and family relations are makeshifts or in a moribund state. I lately made a little tour in the west and south of England as a_mere spectator of the ordinary popular life, 1 doubtif there | have ever been in the world communities | happier, better ordered and cared for | than there. I will not say there are not | too many public houses; that there isa great chance for youthful ambition or change of condition; and I could no doubt bave brought away stories of individual discontent and misery enough to make a disagreeable volume. ~ But [ am sure that life in the main there is wholesome and prospereus, or at least enjoyable, and as free as humanity can be, in our present state of ignorance, from great evils. I did not see Sir Richard Granville at Stow, nor did 1 meet Charles Kingsley at Bideford or Clovelly Court, but I am sure that there remains 1n this region a majority of people who think as they did about religion and honor and the domestic virtues; that there are enough, at any rate, of such to keep up the old English traditions of | sturdy manhood and pure womanhood.— Charles Dudley Warner, in Harper’s Maga- zine. ——————— UNION AND SOUTHERN NAVIES. Second Volume of the Official Record Comes From the Press. The second volume of the official records of the Union and Confederate navies in the War of the Rebellion has just come from the press and will soon be ready for issue by the Government. The publica- tion 1s distributed through Congress, and not from the Navy Department, although it is prepared there under Secretary Her- bert’s direction by Lieutenant-Commander Rush and Robert H. Woods. This volume takes up_the story where it was left by volume I and covers the period from January 1, 1863, to March 31, 1864, and | makes a stirring tale of sea warfare, cover- | ing the operations of the celebrated Con- federate cruisers Florida, Alabama and | Georgia, and the chases made by the Fed- eral cruisers. One chapter extracted from the log of Commander Semmes, on the Alabama, telis how he enticed the United States steamer Hatteras,® a steamer of almost equal armament and strength of crew, away from the blockading squadron at Galveston and sunk her in a desperate en- gagement. Then there are the stories of the escape of the Florida from Mobile, the seizure of the Virginia, the escape of the Gibraltar (formerly the Sumter), the cut- ting out of the United States revenue cut- ter Caleb Cushing, the Johnson Island expedition and the Chesapeake affair. he volume is embellished by fine pic- tures of the famons craft Georgia, Wyo- ming, Wachusett, Rhode [sland, Sabine, Vanderbilt, and finally the famous old acht America, which was taken into the nited States naval service as a dispatch- boat after her great international victory. e In an old English aeed, dated 1302, John de Camoys, son and heir to Sir Ralph de Camoys, *‘delivered and yielded up, of his own free will, to Sir William de Paynel, his wife, Margaret de Camoys, and ] wise gave and granted to the said Sir W liam all goods and chattels of which the said Mnrgnrez was possessed, and con- sented and granted that the said Margaret shouid abide and remain with the said Sir ‘William during his pleasure.” HARRISBURG ~ CRIME: Miss Ethel Riddle Again Fired Upon by an Assassin. JEALOUSY THE CAUSE. Growing Belief That Anothep Woman Is Determined to Take Her Life. NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH, For the Fourth Time the Girl's Pursuer Fails in the Attempt to Murder Her. HARRISBURG, Or., Dec. 25.—So far na yrogress has been made by the detective brought here from Portland to identify and arrest the miscreant having made several attempts to assassinate Miss Ethel Riddle. She is a modest, respectable gir] and nothing but jealousy can be ascribe as the cause of the attacks made upon her, While Miss Riddle was in the yard of her uncle’s house for a few minutes Mone day evening, a pistol ball in very dangere ous proximity whizzed by her ear. Bee wilderment robbed her of the power to shriek for help, but she saw a figure rise from the ground not twenty feet from he# and dash away. It was enveloped in such a manner as to make its identity ime possible. The girl's life has thus been in jeopardy a number of times in the past four months. It is feared the cowardly | assassin may accomplish his or her pum pose and a pure, innocent life be sacrifieds It is known that Miss Riddle has beem keeping company with a well-known gentleman here, but their relations are only those of friends; yet the indications point to a woman infatuated with this man as being the person mendcing Miss Riddle’s life and rendering her existence a burden. It is not proposed to effect the arrest of any one until sufficient proof is | at hand to secure a conviction. One evening Miss Riddle was going home from her uncle’s store, ana had gone as far as the City Hall, when some one sprang at her and she beat him off with an umbrella. The next attempt was made the last of October, two shots being fired at her as she descended the steps to the basement of her home. The would-be assassin was concealed under the steps, but she was evidently closer to tne building than was thought, for both shots missed her. Her face was powder burned. She saw a figure disappear in the darkness; but could not tell whether it was a man or woman. The third attempt occurred on the evens ing of November 20. Miss Riddle opened the kitchen door to bring in her easel (she isan accomplished artist) and was push- ing the screen door back when a club was thrown at her from the south side of the building, striking the easel and knocking it against the screen, which came against her with considerable violence. She plainly saw her assailant, who was masked and wore a dark storm coat, M. Lugne Poe is going to try a new form of theatrical entertainment in Paris this winter. It is a guignol, or puppet show, in which living actors will take the part of ets and make the gestures, while the showman. NEW TO-DAY. 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