The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 24, 1897, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24 TEHEMA COUNTY'S . VERIED RESDURCES Rich Acres That Yield an Abundance to Tillers of the Soil, From Grain, Fruit and Wool a Large Iacome Is Derived Each Year. Red B'uff, the Ccunty Seat, One of Northera California’s Most Pros- perous Cities. RED BLUFY, CarL., March 2L.—One of the most productive counties in the State, and one whose resourses are most abund- ant and diversified, is Tehama. Its west- ern-boundary is the summit of the Coast Range, and its eastern the summit of the Sierras, on the sides of which are im mense t:mber forests. While the valieys and foorhills are covered with orchards and viney whose product brings great fevenue to the count: many thousan there are yet | of acres grown to grain. | although they do not appear so crowded | nery. where hundreds T dise. Deer are found in plenty, and some bear are in the Coast Range to tempt the hunter, while the hills and valleys are full of quail, and the streams are well stocked | witn fi Through the efforts of Attorney John J. Wells, Antelope Creek (which haid been parily fished ont) was restocked with trout in and Battle Creek in 189 Many parts of Battle Urcek, however, needed nothing more to make it one of the best trout_streams in the State. At its mouth is situated a larze salmon hatch- ery, erected by the State in 1895, ana also the larcest hatchery in the world, erected by the United States Government in 1896, at which nearly 30,000,000 eggs were taken the first season. b The county-seat of Tehama County is the town of Red BInff, situated on the west bank of the Sacramento River, a cool and placid stream. In its waters abound fish of many varieties and in great quan- ies, and as a means of transportation it | has been much more successful in regu- lating freight rates than hasever been any | Railroad Commission, Regular steamers make weekly trips from Sacramento to this point, and they come well laden not only with goods for Red Bluff merchants, but with good-sized cargoes consign d to merchants in the northeastern portion of the State and Southern Oregon. All of this freight formerly went to Kedding by rail, but after the opening of the river to navigation by the United States Govern- ment a iew years ago (through the efforts of Congres men Geary and Caminetti) Red BIuff became the great entrepot of the north. The Supervisors wisely under- took the improvement of the roads from Red Bluff to the Shasta County line, and now the heaviest of loads can be transported over them with ease. This makes the trip from the country to the northeast a littie longer than it i< to Rea- ding, but the advantage Red Blufl has in the matter of ireight rites more than over- comes the difference in time required for | the big teams to make a rouna trip. The streets in Red Bluff are wide, and, Kimbail Company. The upper story of the building is fitted up for lodging pur- poses and for offices, while the company occupies nearly the entire lower floor and’ a large ceilar. ‘It hasin addition a large warehouse in wuich it keeps the heavier portion of its goods and wares. Major G. G. Kimball, the president of the company, and D. W. Gedney, its secretary,’are men known far and wide for their business ability and integrity, They do not only a large retail business, but are wholesalers and jobbers of no mean note, and every boat” brines to them large consign- ments of goods, in car lots. There you a bit of cheese or a yard of calico, to a combined harvester or a complste stock of general merchandise for a country store. They handle many thousands of dotlars’ worth of dried fruit, nuts and raisins every year. | Immediately south of the Cone & Kim- ball store is the place whither one always oes 10 find the man he is looking for. It is the spacious walk in front of the Tre- mont Hotel. This is a building_that would be an ornament to a town of 20,000 people. On its site formerly stood a weil-known hosteiry of ihe same name, but on a fatal night in 1894 it feil a victim to the dreaded enemy—fire. On | the ruins of the old building was erected | the present structure, and on January 1, 1895, 8, E. Murphy opened it to the pub- lic. While the old building was roomy and pleasing to the eye, its memory i now a nightmare compared to tha p building. Broad and winding stairs lead | to the second and third stories, where | comfortable rcoms are found, equipped | with all the latest improvements to_make lifein a hotel more pleasant than® in a private home. And for fear some one will 1magine that home life is to be pre. ferred, Mr. Murphy keeps at command for tae table all the delicacies to be had in either local or San Francisco_markets. | Another one of Red Bluff's industries | of which sbe 15 most proud is the can- are employed Oa the southern boundary Jine, east of | as would narrower ones and thus do not | throughout the fruit season. The label of can buy anything from a sewing needle, | the coast have gone bome cured. A com- munication addressed to E. B, Walbridge, Tuscan, Tehama County, Cal., will bring one n pamphlet giving full particulars re. garding the waters of these wonderful springs. In September, 1895, Red BIuff lost one of her wealthiest citizers, Hon. J. 8. Cone, and the management of his business was leit to his eldest child and only son, Douglas S. Cone. He took hold of the business right where his father left off, and managed it with such success an with so much ability as to astonish all during the adminisiration of the estate. When the property was distributed to the heirs the home ranch, siiuated about four miles southeast of Red Bluff, feil as a part of his share to him, Included thereon are several.of the most profitable orchards in the county, one pear orchard alone pro- ducing fifty carloads in & single season. He is one ot the largest producers of wool in the county, his flocks ranging in the hills east of the home place, and he naturally takes an activeinterest in every- thing done to advance the sheep interest, his clip being of the finest. Besides look- ing after every detail of his sheep inte: ests, he gives careful atention to his farming operations; has several thousand acres in grain and hundreds of acres of alfalfa, which he converts into beef. He isan open-handed, generous young man, devoted to all ontside sports, and a great favorite in society. A brilliant future is predicted for him. He is_also a large stockholder in the Cone & Kimball Com- pany, the Bank of Tebama County and ia the Red B.uff Electric Lizht Company. The electric light company, of which W. Runyon is president, receives its power from the waters of Antelope Creek, on the lands of Mr. Cone. Wires run from | there to Red Bluff and the town is fav- ored with the best and most steady of electric lights at nominal cost. All of the business houses are lit with either arc or incandescent lights and the streets are dotted with arcs of 1200-candle power— all from the same source. The manager, John Clements, is an active worker, \© POST OFFICE, TELEPHONE =2, oo T ummunuu\lnnuunmnmlmmuu\nnuuIluulllllllumfinflmulu PN 2 5 AND TELEGRAPH OFFICE TUSCAN SPRINGS,TEHAMA CO, CAL. R N I S0 T DT DN 8 ot s v A L e T Ty e e rr e rrr e e vvevveseasy” THE TREMONT HOTEL -RED BLUFF S.E.MURPHY - PROP A R umumuk;l SCENES IN RED BLUFF AND VICINITY. the Sacramento River, is situated the famous Stanford vineyard and winery, where thousands of gailons of the purest o distilled and fermented juices from the grape are each year placed on the market. In that immediate vicinity are orchards from which more than 100 carlozds of dried peaches are shipped every year, be- ies many hundreds in the fresh state. ose same orchards bring thousands of llars to their owners as returns for the £pricots, prunes, apples, pears, nectarines and other fruits which they yield. But not that immediate portion of the county alone is adapted to froit. On the con- trary, from the foothills on the west, both in then hern and southern portions of 10 the foothills in the eastern ion, sre found many profitable or- chards, which are successfully farmed by their owners, the natural resuit of which is a bappy end contented people. Several of these orchards contain from 100 to 300 acres each, while the little tracts devoted to horticulture, comprising from five to ten acres each, number hundreds. And in their midst is the only colony tract that has done anything in the way of gen- erally advertising Northern Californiain recent years—the Maywood Colony, at Corning, which has advertisiag literature | scattered through every region of the United States and which owns a hundred or more separate iruit farms. Away to the east, near to the pine tim- ber, and skirting the Shasta line, is the Manton country. To get there one must cross a few miles of as rough and uninvit- ing & bed of lava as isito be found in the Siate; but when he reaches that settle. ment, one surprise follows another. On every hand are seen orchards whose growth and productiveness will astonish the tourist from the best known fruit re- gions of the State. Only a few years ago it was thought that beans alone were the profitable crop of that section of the county, vet to-day its beans are unheard of because of the fame of its fruit, though 't produces more of the “Boston straw- Yberry” than it ever did pefore. The road hither is now being macadamized, and it will soon be a delighttul drive, instead of rough trail. : Many thousands of dollars’ worih of waol 18 produced in Tehama County, and many more thousands of doilars’ worth is marketed at Red Biuff every year. In fact the wool marketed bere cuts such a large figure in the San Francisco murket that it i quoted by itself as ‘*Red Bluff Wvool." Tehama County is @ sportsman’s para- I present such a bustling appearance as | they might and as the amount of traffic | on them would indicate they should, they are a joy and pride to the residents and to | the transient public. All are well graded | and free from dust and the residence por- tion of the town 13 one of the preutiest to be found anywhere. said that it takes a_hilly country to make | a pretty town, Red Bluff traverses and de- | niss that such is the case, and points to herself to illustrate *the position thata beautiful city can be buiit on the piain. In nearly every yard are two or more orange trees, which through the fall and winter dazzle all with their beautifully colored fruit, which grows here to perfec- tion, though, strange to say, none have yet planted orange groves for commercial purposes, except one belonging to D. 8. Cone. The foliage of a few lemon and | olive trees is also to be seen, and they produce good crops every year, the olives in this locality being very prolific. The town just now moarns the comine departure of her most distingaishad citi- zen, General N. P. Chipman, who wul soon remove 10 San Francisco to assume a place on the Supreme Court Commission. In all affairs pertaining to Northern Cali- fornia and especially to the frmt industry General Chipman’s name has become a household word. But aside from his ef- forts in these lines he has devoted the most of his time to the practice of his profession, and has jong been one of the leading lawyers of the north. He will be succeeded in_his practice by John J. Wells, who has been his confidential clerk for many years. He is a young man who bas given evidence of being well adapted to the profession he has chosen. The Sierra Lumber Company, of which Hon. Peter Dean, president of the Mer- chants’ Exchange Bank of fan Francisco, is president and general manager, has its principal worss at Red Bluff, just across the river from the town. The institution gives employment to several hundred Bands. Their product is shipped largely to Ausiralia, besides the California cas- tom. There is one thing noticeable about the town, and that is the concentration of its business into one locality. Unlike most places itis not spread out over several streets, but not & business house is to be found off Wasnut or Main streets, Wa'- nut being the principal street leading into the town from the west, past the railroad denot. When one gets off the cars and goes to- ward Main street he is soon in view of a maguoificent block owned by the Cone & Though it has been | | the Red Bluff Canning and Packing Com- | pany has come to be recognizad in several | Eastern markets as a standard of purity, | for the company packs no inferior goods. | In 1892 the farmers and business men erscted a small cannery, not with any ex- pectation that it would ever be anything more. But they secured for manager one of the most experienced canners and best business men in the State, James Feeley, long associated with the J. Lusk Com- pany.of San Francisco. After managing the “business for the company_for two years Mr. Feeley and Geor:e H. Kraft bought up most of the shares of stock in the company and proceeded to enlarge the plant. They have made several additions 10 1t, and to-day it is one of the largest in the State. Not content with the cannery business alone, that only taking their time for a portion of the year, Mr. Feeley and Mr. Kraft ventured into the buying and ship- ping of dried fruit to the Eastern markets. They were 30 successful in that line that it bécame necessary to enlarge the scope of the old cannery-company or to create a new corporation. This latter they did, and a few weeks ago incorporated under the name of the James Feeley Company. They will so6n erect a acouring plant for wool at Red Biuff. Another industry with headquarters at Red Bluff that gives employment to a large number of men is the Holt & Gregg Company. They have larze lime kilns and brickyards in Shasta County, and are interasted in nearly every large contract for brickwork_from the Oregon line to far south of Rea Bluff. The healthfulness of Red Biuffasa place of residence is attes'ed by the reports of the State Board of Health. Butif a man feels at all run down and needs a litile change, all he bas to do isto take a drive or zet into Walbridge’s conveyance and be driven about nine miles northeast of Red Bluff. Here are the famous Tuscan Sprines, owned by E. B. Walbridge, with postoffice and telegraph and telephone connection with the outside world. There are about fifty springs in all, and their medicinal quatitles are as varied as are the number of springs. Their best adver- tisement is the thousands whd have been treated in the wal For rheumatism and as blood purifiers they bave no equal on the coast. In fact, many patients have been cured here after trying without avail the waters of celebrated Eastern as well as coast springs. Treatment there for kid- ney, liver and skin diseases has been so successful that many who have been treated for years by the best pbysicians of as is the president, Mr. Runyon, in all affairs of public interest. Mr. Runyon is also president of the Bank of Tehama County, being one of the youngest bank presidents in the State, and also one of the most populat. It is gratifying to see the large number of tourists and Eastern peo- ole visiting Red Bluff this spring. PURE FO0D ORUSADE. ral More Grocers Arrested and to Be Arrested, and Cases Set for Trial. ‘The pure food crusade continues with unabated vigor, and vesterday Chief Food Inspector Dockery secured warrants for the arrest of the following grocers on the charge of selling adulterated jellies: John N. Nolan, George Schomaker, E. Johnson, ‘A. Quade. N. P. Olsen, Barclay J. Smith, Goldberg, Bowen & Co., Kavanaugh & Co., Irvine Brothers and Salomon Broth- ers. The following arrests were made yaster- day: Louis Hartler, Louis Feusier, Jo- seph A. Stolz, Azthur L. Whitney, D, von der Mehden, John 8. Elliott, Warren Dut- ton, F. Mechi and Louis Getz. Each was releasea on giting $50 cash bail. George F. Johnson, grocer, 8 xth street, pleaded guilty in Judge Campbell’s court yesterday of selling adulterated jelly and ‘was sentenced to pay a fine of $25, The cases of Chris Nuhrenbery and Ba: clay J. Smith, charged with selling b; of condensed milk which were aduite; d, were continued till April 23 to enable the defense to procure evidence from New York, where the milk is manufactured. Other cases were set for trial as follows: Fred Welker, March 29, by the Judge; A. A. Bruner, April 1, by a jury; Henry Rathjen, April 2, by a jury; A, Quade, April 5, by a jury; Jobn Kemp, April 6, by a jury. The casesof N. P. Olsen and Herman Schroder were continued till to- day to be set. ———————— He Will Recor Tne man who blew out the gasin a room at 22 Sacramento street on retiring Sunday night recovered consciousness at the Receiy- ing Hospital yesterday. He is Thomas Wilson, a decknand on the Acow scooner Frances E. M. Benard. He hus no recollect ion of golng t0'the room or blowing out the gas. He hada narrow escape from death. o You'll | g1sasea at ve your eyes buying specs and eye- Berteling Optical Co., 14-16 Kearny* 1897. REACHING FOR A USURER'S GOLD A Suit That May Break Asa Fisk's Last Will. Children by the First Wife Make D:mands for Their Shares. The Escapades of the Money-L ndcr Exposed in an Action by the Elder Son. The will of the late Asa Kisk, the suc- cessful jmoney-lender, is to be contested. From an action in equity, filed yesterday in the United States Circuit Court, itis believed that the contest will be bitter, spirited, and even sensational. Those who unfortunately were obliged to borrow money from the capitalist little realized that back in the life of the capital- ist there was a romance, the aftermath of which must no doubt have caused him many a day and night of regret and worry. Asa Fisk in his earlier life was rather popular with the fair sex, and his first known conquest resulted in his marriage with a Massachusetts girl. After three children had blessed the union Fisk saw and was smitten by the charms of another, who completely won him from the side of his lawful spouse and thair offspring. As soon as Mrs. Fisk took in the situa- tion she made matters verv tropical for her recreant husbund, who at that time was well-to-do in the world’s goods. She undertook to get her part of the com- munity property besides alimony. The prospect of losing 80 much money caused Fisk much annoyance, and he pleaded that he might have the handling of what would be two estates for the benefit of | their children. The mother relented and Fisk, with his latest conquest, started for California, where he lived, grew richer cn the neces- sities of others, and died. He left a will, in which h» bequeathed his estate as best pieased himseir. This did not plense_the elder son, Asa Wellington Fisk, of Denver, Colo., for, as stated, he yesterday brought action in the United States Circuit Court against Lydia B. Fisk, who is Mrs. Fisk No. 2, and her children by Fisk, Arthur G. Fisk and Fiora Elma Wertheimer. His own brother and sister, Thomas Hollis ana Parnella, are included to preserve the iegality of the complaint. The complaint is pariicularly directed agamst Mrs. Fisk No. 2 and her first- born, Arthur G. Fisk, the “‘pretended offi- cial executors of the last will and testa- ment of Asa Fisk.” The document is full of life and sensa- tional features,for it attacks the legitimacy of the first-born of Mrs. Fisk No. 2and it is asserted that the complainant seeks the United States coarts, as he fears that he cannot secure the proper reliel from the State Probate Court. ‘The complaint charges that most all of the estate of Asa Fisk before he made his will was the estate and lawTul earnings of an estate held by the deceasea in trust for the complainant his sister and brother and not subject to devise and deed by Fisk, but, on the contrary, was held by him solely to use, accumulate from and finy at or before his death to deliver to the children of the first wife or to leave to them through a trustee so that & legal title to the same might pass to the complainant and his brother and sister in the following proportions: To Asa Wel- lington Fisk, the undivided three- sevenths; to Parnella MxHollis, the undi- vided one-seventh, and to Thomas H. Fisk, the undivided three-sevenths. The complaint_explains the matter of the trust by saying that it was created and brought about between his mother and the deceased Asa Fisk in considera- tion of forbearance and suspension of liti- gation existing between the mother and father concerning the estate of the former at the time they were living together. An interesting feature showing the skeleton in the Fisk closet is exposed in the document, which roeson to say that Asa Fisk, deceased, and Parnella Hollis, mother of the complainant, were married in 1843, and that ‘“‘while husband and wife, the deceased became attached to the said Lydia B. Fisk, and meretricions rela- tions became established between said | Asa Fisk and said Lydia B. Fisk.” While that, relll.ionsh!g) was being .carried on Lydia B. claimed that Asa Fisk was the father of her unbora chiid, subsequently Arthur G. Fisk. Mrs. Fisk No. 1 obtained a divorce from Asa Fisk in Massachusetts, and in their settlement it was agreed that if the father should make suitabie provi- sion for their children she would forego permanent alimony and that further liti- gation for her rights should end simply with the divorce. He was also to give her $8000 in money, and_property should be allotted to her as trustee for her three children, which she would advance to them by deed. Iisk was to take the remainderof their j estate and the remainder of his in estate and place the same under his best management and make itearn as much as fit might for the benefit of the three chil. ren. Asa Fisk was evidently, for once, ina position when he had to accept these terms, and the mother fulfilled her part of the agreement. The compiaint further states that but for his mother making these terms with his father, she might have continued the litigetion against nim to his financial un- doing. Hadshe not relied upon him keep- ing his word, she would have secured the lion's share'of the community property. This agreement of terms was made and sertled in 1869, and in thatyear Fisk went 1o California, taking with him -about $25,000, which he united with & part o: the trust estate, which made a total of about $75,000. A part of the trust estate he left in Massachusetts. Later he married Lydis B. Fisk. In 1880 he made fulfiliment of the trust by signing a conveyance of the trust and its obiigations to Monroe Greenwood, now deceased, who was made thereby the trus- tee for the complainant and his brother and sister, to be heid and msnaged by Greenwood for them in this manner: First, Asa Fisk was to enjoy the same during his life; second, Greenwood should, at the demise of Asa Fisk, take control of the estate and ascertain what was trust estate and what was notand pay over one- half of the trust estate to Asa W., Thomas H. and Parnella as follows: To Asa W., tnree-sevenths; Thomas three- sevenths, and to Parnella, on h, and invest the balance in Unitea Government bonds. This agreement or deed of trust was made and signed in duplicate. Since the death of Greenwood the deed of trust has been mislaid, but its contents are well known to the complainant. The latter says that during the holding of the trust estate Asa Fisk united the same with an- other estate and at present it cannot be ascertained how much ol the estate is thus affected. In conclusion, the complainant asks that the Federal court take m of the estate and order ti spection of Fisk’s books, papers and accounts by the urt Commissioner or other officials in ofder that the two estates, the trust estate lnnd the other,'may be separated. This action promises to be filled with to-day. them now. cheap. | | | | NEW TO-DAY. All Roads Are Down Hill To Our Going Ont of Business Sale. And its popularity keeps on growing every day. We have something important to announce We have just finished going through our Lace Curtain Department, which, owing to its magni- tude and variety, we were unable to reach during the two days we were closed marking down stock. TO-DAY We are going to commeace the sale of our Lace Curtains, and if you want any, or if you will want * any within the next year, it will pay you to buy I buy my Curtains in large lots from the manufacturers’ agents in New York, and I am going to close them out at less than manufacturers’ cost, so you can rest assured that this sale will be the chance of a lifetime to buy Lace Curtains C. CURTIN, 911 and 913 Market St. POCOOCOSSOL0-0-0 § 0-0-030OVSSHOCK, —Fring the little | aarlings to us | . and et a §6 sul: for $150. sny color you can name that s <ood for weac and 18)7 style. Just from_the lead: ing Latloring house of N. Y. City. © isall we ask for little | White Shoes for the baby —not anoher house in town will sa~ less than 75¢ for these liutle beauties. See them at once. 43 {as $1 25. C will buy Ladies’ or big . house wear. Only & siz's Lo closo at this price. Worth 2 50. : ters elsewnere. in this lot. Sure we can fit you if you call. at 25c a can. We close 60 cases only at 7c. 1(: Baby Boy Corn is the finest paci Quality White Muslin OVERFLOWING © buys Working Gloves for men. right, and so is the price. D0 10, argue with yoursei as o how this 13 thus, but come and get the gloves. Sav advertised will buy Ladies’ Russet city made, set or Tan Oxford Slipper for ladies, sizes 8 to 7. génuine bargain You'll marked $1 50 on bargain coun- 2 8 20 for Men's Fine Sunday Shoes, lace or Congress, the $3 shoes at credlt stores. ked. You never had better on C is our price for good Black Siik Kibbon, beaded. 2 inches With goods from cellar to roof. We want to unload them—price is no object. We mean business—others may sell at aloss or at 300 er cent profit. We buy or cash and are shtistied with a small profit on each article. “Big sales’ is what we depend on. They ura all C for Tomatoes. rezular , 10g cans, ;rom leading packers. We want 10 sell 1000 dozen only st this cat-rate price. Every can warrauted ss pure 00d ac- cording to Board of Health standard. Shoes, the ) is our “Call ’em home’ for Sardines in ofl. i others do, sud buy them over and over at credit stores for 10c. find them Nosmall sizes the table. Couldn't get it better C 1s what we ask for Ladles, orGents' Silk Taffeta Glove sc will buy a fine Al full size, extea lenigin, iront, © donbie Mafed’ and sewing warranted. Dthers got 780 t0 81 for such s garment. C will buy the best every- day shirt in town dark or light colors, wash like Iiuen, wear like leather, looks 1 wide, worth 10c totrim giris' hais Otbers get it read nearly all colors but black. rs got 25¢ for this fine glove. All stable sizes in tbe lot. C is our cash price for ail Siik and Satin Riboons, va- riecy of colors, rignt width | for hair ribbous and right colors. Others ask 10c, 123ac and 156 for same thing © for Wool Stockings for big gIris or boys, regular golf or bicyele styles. sizes B, 8y ouly. A genuine bargain at 25¢ a0y whi C 1s our price for the Cele- | m . for Back Seamless Hose for Iadies’ or little folks, as almost llke silk, We ' make them and warrant every stitch. You'll pay six bits for worse garment at creuit siores. brated Adamantine Only 400 dozen at this price, | Hegular 5cpapers at creditstores | value. Pins. good as gold, p-rfectly Tast cu.ore Less than half their real CASET STORE, MARKET ST., NEAR FERRY. sensational features and may bold for many a month in the Federal courts. o v g S FISK’S WILL CONTESTED. Proceedings Begun In the Probate Court of This City Yesterday. Asa W. Fisk has filed a contest to the will of his father, the late Asa Fisk, money-lender and successful usurer, who left an estate worth $500,000. In presenting his case the contestant makes the same allegations regarding Mra. Lydia Fisk as are made in the case in the Federal courts. The averment is also made that Asa Fisk was mentally unsound, that his mind was weakened by being concen- trated on the subject of gain, that his second wife exercised undue influence, and that the paper filed for probate is not in fact the last will or any will of said Asa Fisk, deceased. : Under the pleadings in the case it will Fbe competent to go into an inquiry con- cerning all the peculiarities and idiosyn- crasies of the dead money-lender. 1f the trial goes on,a great many interesting developments may be expected. The gation will be long and expensive. If the spirit of Asa Fisk is able to return and w.tness the way in which his estate is to be expended in the law couts, for the winner must in the end pay from tie property recovered, there 1s reason to sup- se that there will be at leas: one un- appy shade haunting the new City Hall for the next ten years or so. FOR THE CARNIVAL, Schools to Be Interested —An Open Campfire Under Military Au- spices—Floral Display. An open campfire is one of the new features in connection with the carnival projected by the committee which has re- ceived the hearty support of the Grand Army veterans of San Fraucisco. Early in the carnival preparations Seven Pines Circle of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic appointed a committee, cor- ng of Mrs. M. Wittingham, Mrs. M. J. Finch and Mrs. L. C. Scholten, to tak: hold of their part of the carnival proceed- ings. General Warfieid has promised the ladies a detail of military to assist in making the affair complets. Professor E. E. Smith, secretary of -the State Floral Society and floral director of the carnival, has been compelled to es- bli uarters at the carnival treet, in view of the oondence relating_ to the floral display and floral show. For the_floral display, which will take place on Van Ness avenue on May 5, $1060 has been set aside for prizes for the five best floats, vehicles and decorated carriages. In response to invitations received from local floral societies Professor Smith will visit towns within a radius of 100 miles of San Francisco to explain the details of all matter relative to the carnival and the floral display to intending exhibitors. Ore of the features of the floral show, which will take place at Odd Fellows’ Hall, is to be displays by sections, for which suitable places will be offered. Through the courtes of Charles L. Bar- rington, president of the Board of Eauea- tion, letters have been addressed to all the principals of the puolic schools noti- fying them of an offer by the carnival committee of $60 in prizes to the children who can form the greatest number of words from the words “Carnival of the Golden Gate.” Similar letters have also been addressed to the principals of private and denomi- national schools. ————— Lenten Discoprse. The Rev. Father Powers, C.S. V., will de- liver his fifth Lenten discourse on the Passion of our Lord, at the Paulist church, California street, this evening at 7:45 o'clock. Subject, “The Denial.”” 0Y’S VEGETABLE SARSAPARILLA WILL bring to your cheek the pink of health, the roses of life. It cleanses the blood. JOrS O 0Y’S VEGETABLE SARSAPARILLA TAKES away the surplus bile and leaves the liver in perfect order. Itisa true liver regulator. Y’S VEGETABLE SARSAPARILLA CAN be used by old or young. Take it moder ately. Remember that moderation in everye thing tends to longevity,