ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO

1899

Wilmar N. Tognazzini, Compiler
2160 San Bernardo Creek Road
Morro Bay, CA 93442-2405

 DEDICATION

 In late December of 1987, I wrote to Mr. George DeBord, the editor of the San Luis Obispo TELEGRAM TRIBUNE, and suggested ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO as a feature column for the newspaper. The intention, as I explained to him, was to research 100 year old newspapers and include interesting things which had happened in that time frame.

Mr. DeBord accepted the idea and because of his enthusiastic support, my first column appeared on the op-ed page of the TELEGRAM TRIBUNE on Saturday, January 7, 1988. With the exception of a few times when controversial issues, politics or letters to the editor demanded a greater number of column inches, ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO has appeared every Saturday since. Often eight or ten pages of typed copy are submitted. Due to a limited amount of space available, I am allotted only a few column inches and because of this limitation, much of my research did not make the column.

John Noggle, the official bell ringer at the Old Mission, has been a close friend for years. I played the organ at his marriage to Neva Negranti and more recently provided the music as they celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. I was deploring the fact that all of my copy did not make the newspaper regularly that first year, and suggesting to him that it was unfortunate that much of my research had not been made available to the public. John made a sound suggestion: "Why don’t you put the unabridged copy into books?" This and the other eleven books are the result of that suggestion.

There is no way in which I can fully impart the influence of John’s suggestion. The books have been exceptionally well received, especially by staff members in the library who have placed them in a prominent position in the reference department, and who refer them to patron after patron, especially in matters of genealogy.

I hastily suggest, lest the reader think I am being too boastful, that I have only COPIED what was in the newspaper 100 years ago. I cannot take credit for HAVING WRITTEN IT. If there is anything to boast about, it is only that I have had the foresight to select it for possible use, and that Warren Groshong, the editorial page editor to whom I send it, has the acumen to find it interesting enough to include. The representative of the paper 100 years ago, whether the reporter or editor, gets the credit FOR HAVING DONE THE WRITING. A fact not to be overlooked, is that the representative also gets credit for mistakes or incorrect information including misspelled words, incorrect punctuation or typographical errors.

Because George DeBord and John Noggle were instrumental in furthering the cause of the column and the books, this book is dedicated to them. Unfortunately, George DeBord died recently and cannot know how I am expressing my appreciation. John Noggle with 41 years as a salesman of Cadillacs and Oldsmobiles still is actively engaged in that work for the Standard Motor Company in San Luis Obispo.

Thank you both, here and THERE.

Wilmar N. Tognazzini
February, 1999

 

INTRODUCTION

This is the 12th volume of ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO. It deals, as did the other volumes, with the history of San Luis Obispo county a century ago, but in it, the reader will note that gradually, there have been changes, not the least of which was the availability of the telephone. Another development was the "horseless carriage." It made an early appearance in San Luis Obispo in 1899 as part of a circus which came to town. An article in June of that year deals with "AUTOMOBILES AND GOOD ROADS," and portends of things to come.

Probably the greatest accomplishment for the city of San Luis Obispo in 1899, however, was the passage of bonds, not with little difficulty, which allowed the city to assume total control of its water and sewer systems and to take the first bold and necessary steps in correcting very unsanitary and impractical practices. A May article in the 1899 TRIBUNE under the cynical headline "A LOVELY SITUATION," starts by saying: "San Luis Obispo is an unhappy little town." Then it continues to point out that although there existed the "desire to be nice and clean and respectable, circumstances and people beyond its control are very decidedly interfering with its good intentions.

"Three or four thousand people cannot help creating a certain amount of dirt of various kinds, most of them objectionable, offensive to the several senses and detrimental to health. For many years it has endeavored to do its possible to dispose of its excretory and execrable refuse but with dubious success."

At that time, individuals dug cesspools on their property.These cesspools soon became full and as the TRIBUNE article pointed out, "placidly flowed forth over the surface of the ground." It takes no strong imagination to create an image of the unhealthy conditions and to visualize the predicament as the cesspool contents cascaded into San Luis Creek. The article continues: "Into this natural trench, the occupants of adjoining property poured their debris, holding their respective noses and persuading themselves that they had solved the problem. Unhappily there were others who failed to grasp the wholesomeness and purity of the solution and had the hardihood to invoke the aid of the courts to abate what they considered a nuisance. And the courts sustained their contention."

The reader is reminded that residents living some distance from the creek were without cesspools. Instead, somewhere in the yard of the residence or maybe in a vacant lot nearby, not too far from the back door, could be found a "one or two holer" properly equipped with an old Sears Roebuck catalogue. The primitive "toilet" leached its contents into the soil, from whence it made its way into the ground water and thence to many wells of the community.

This contamination was to be eliminated. In 1899 sewer and water bonds were approved by the voters. Financial support was guaranteed and some measure of modernization would take place. On page 59, the reader will find the results of the election and note that as intolerable as things were, a few residents still opposed both measures.

The story continues and can be found in the pages of this 1899 volume. Sewer access and a water supply, now became the responsibility of municipal ownership. It was the greatest accomplishment of the year.

1899 was full of other things which the reader will find interesting. From the standpoint of vital statistics, the book lists 118 births including three sets of twins, 174 deaths, and 163 marriages.

Recognizing that often it was necessary to explain a detail which might not have been understood without an explanation, 136 Compiler’s Notes have been included.

Enjoy!

 

 

Wilmar N. Tognazzini

 

 

January 1 through January 7, 1899

Marriage licenses have been issued to Madison Rockefeller and Miss Nellie Gold, both of San Francisco, and to Louis C. Tognini and Miss Lena M. Magoon, both of this city.

SITES FOR POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL.

Proposals for sites for the Polytechnic School will be received by Thomas Barrett, secretary of the committee on sites, at his office on Higuera street, San Luis Obispo. Proposals are invited of tracts of 10 to 100 acres anywhere within two miles of the court house, and should state the number of acres, price per acre, locality and improvements, terms to be held as confidential by the committee.

It must be understood that the committee has no power of selection or purchase but will hold the offers to present before such trustees as may be named in the Act authorizing such Polytechnic School or appointed by the governor to make such selection.

MYRON ANGEL, Chairman.

THE GRAND JURY REPORTS.

As the clock in the court room struck eleven yesterday morning the door opened and in walked twenty-four men who composed the grand jury. Their names are Angus M. Hardie, Andrew F. Fitzgerald, John P. Kavanagh, Tillman Fowler, Henry W. Lynch, Jas. I. Buffington, Clarence T. Greenfield, Ritner Dodson, David Smith Miller, Jonathan V. Webster, Benjamin B. Muma, John D. Seaman, Sylvester Ramage, Charles H. Forsting, Ira R. Whitaker, Geo. W. Hampton, Thomas T. Crittenden, H. H. Moore and K. Green. The jurymen through their foreman J.V. Webster tendered their report to Judge Unangst and then presented the report of the experts given them by the Board of Supervisors.

The jury has been in session for eleven days. Extracts from the report follow: (Compiler’s note: Readers interested in this grand jury report can find it in its entirety in the January 1, 1899 microfilm copies of the San Luis Obispo Tribune, January 1, 1899 of the San Luis Obispo Public Library.)

EXPERTS REPORT.

...The Honorable Board of Supervisors of the County of San Luis Obispo, California.

Gentlemen:—Pursuant to appointment by your honorable board we have examined the books and accounts of the county and township officers, from October 1st, 1897, to September 30, 1898, and now beg to report the results of our labors, as follows:

COUNTY CLERK’S OFFICE.

...he has received fees amounting to $2771.25 and has paid the treasurer $2771.50, thereby overpaying his account in the sum of 25 cents.

SHERIFF’S OFFICE.

...all fees collected amounting to $1444.84 have been promptly paid over as the law requires.

COUNTY RECORDER.

...for the period covered by this report amount to $3,448.60.

COUNTY AUDITOR.

...we can point out but two instances in which errors were made, viz: Warrant No. 1262 favor of Frank Fernandes for 637 squirrel tails drawn for $13.74 instead of $12.74, and hospital claim No. 2720 in favor of Waite & Ryan amounting to $5.33, drawn for $5.24.

He made redemptions of tax sales amounting to $4991.12 and received fees thereon in the sum of $232.00...

COUNTY ASSESSOR.

...His collections for this year were as follows:

Road taxes $2,204.00

15 per cent commission on same 330.00

Balance paid treasurer $1,873.40

State poll taxes $3,938.00

15 per cent commission 290.70

Balance paid treasurer $3,347.30

Personal property taxes $5,603.73

5 per cent commission 335.22

$5,267.51

Amount paid treasurer $4,277.70

Difference overpaid 10.19

DISTRICT ATTORNEY.

This officer has collected for the use of the county the following:

For licenses and costs thereon $573.46

For fees in state school land cases 230.00

Total $803.46

(Compiler’s note: The report continues with minor financial transactions for the Superintendent of Schools, Public Administrator, Tax Collector, County Hospital, Justices of Peace and Constables.)

Signed: L.H. KUES and P.A.H. ARATA, San Luis Obispo, Cal., Dec. 5, 1898.

NEW OFFICIALS.

At noon yesterday in the Court House, the outgoing officials yielded their places to the entering men. Ballou to Ivins in the sheriff’s office; Warner to Kelshaw as treasurer; Dorn to Campbell in the district attorney’s office, and Messer to Mrs. Woods as school superintendent. Carpenter became tax collector, Miss Scott making the transfer of keys, etc. County Clerk Whicher, Auditor Spangenberg, Recorder Fiedler, Assessor King, Surveyor Woods and Coroner Nichols simply transferred keys from one pocket to another. Supervisors Moore and Kester gave place to Gilliam and Freeman. Loomis became public administrator, Egan is again justice of the peace, and W.F. Cook is constable.

THE TREASURER’S REPORT.

Saturday afternoon the regular monthly count was made in the Treasurer’s office. District Attorney Dorn, Auditor Spangenberg and Chairman Mitchell of the Board of Supervisors assisted in the county. The report showed the following figures:

Amount of money that ought to be in the treasury $15,6711.51.Amount on hand: Gold coin: $113,840; Silver $3,743.38; Controller’s Warrants $40; Currency $7,534; County Warrants paid during month $16,352.72; Bank drafts in exchange in settlement with state $15,348.54; Over $147.13; $156,858.64.

DECEMBER WEATHER.

...Mean temperature for this month in 1894, 52; 1895, 53; 1896, 54; 1897, 51; 1898, 53. Mean temperature for this month for 4 years 52...

...Total precipitation (in inches) for this month in 1894, 8.96; 1895, .68; 1896, 3.04; 1897, .65; 1898, .64. Average precipitation for this month for 4 years, 3.33 inches.

...Number of clear days 19; partly cloudy days 5; cloudy days, 7; dates of frost, 9, 17, 23,24,28.

J.R. WILLIAMS, Observer.

RESULT OF EXAMINATIONS.

(Compiler’s note: The examinations can be found on pages 144-147 of ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, 1898.)

The Board of Education has given out the results of the examination just held for teachers’ certificates. There were nineteen applicants and but three were successful. The successful ones are Mrs. Mary F. Anderton (sic) of Santa Margarita, Miss Lesa (sic) C. Bell of Arroyo Grande, and Miss Alice Furman of Arroyo Grande.

Miss Ruth Nelson’s primary certificate was renewed.

The stumbling block for the greater number was arithmetic. The entire set of examinations was difficult and the small percentage of successful ones is not surprising.

Resolutions in praise of Mr. Messer’s services were passed by the board.

MARRIED.

JOHE - GUDEL–On Los Osos, January 5, 1898 by the Rev. Mr. Eastman, Leon Johe and Miss Rosa Gudel. (Compiler’s note: The typesetter is still using 1898.)

DIED.

FORRESTER - In this city, Jan. 5, 1899, Miss Alice Forrester, aged about 23 years.

WORK AT THE FRONT.

At present several men, teams, etc., are employed in straightening the S.P. road about and above Paso Robles. This work is rapidly nearing completion and is believed that upon its completion the entire force will be moved to the front to carry on the work of closing the gap.

A PETITION FOR ASSISTANCE.

TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FROM DISTRICT 5.

At the meeting of the Board of Supervisors yesterday the following petition was received. By the date it will be noted that the petition was sent prior to the recent rain.

TEMPLETON, Cal., Dec. 30, 1898.

A PETITION OF THE PEOPLE.

To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of the County of San Luis Obispo.

We, the undersigned taxpayers and citizens of the 5th Supervisorial District of San Luis Obispo

County, do hereby petition your Honorable Body to take cognizance of the condition of our people. Owing to the long, continued drouth the wants of many of our people have arrived at a very acute stage and unless they get an opportunity to relieve their wants by work it will devolve upon the county or state to furnish them with the necessaries (sic) of life. Therefore we would earnestly ask your Honorable Body to take cognizance of the distress of our people (a distress that is in its infancy and which will become more prevalent as the season advances) to devise some way in the manner of public road work that will enable our people to acquire the means to supply their daily wants and retain their self respect. May the prayer and petition of our people find a responsive ear.

We hereby appoint as bearers of this petition Messrs. J.C. Gibson, John Quarnstrom and Nels Johnson.

MAGAZINES.

The following are some of the periodicals to be found on the tables of the Public Library. Harper’s Monthly, Harper’s Weekly, Harper’s Round Table, Scribner’s, McClures, Cosmopolitan, Overland Monthly, Youth’s Companion, Munsly (sic), two scientific magazines,

San Francisco dailies, Californian, and daily and weekly papers throughout the county and state.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

Jan. 4.

...Matter of indigents was again taken up. Petitions were received from different parts of the county praying for aid for certain persons and sufficient proof being shown that persons below named are in distress and require assistance it is ordered that aid be and is allowed to the persons and for the amounts following, till the further order of the board.

(Compiler’s note: There follows a list of 23 indigents, allowances approved from $4 to $8, and suppliers of needed items in the amount specified.)

Count of squirrel tails: Jackson Lowe 33, Thos. Sandercock 24, P.A. Abeloe 27, E.F. Blinn 30, Harvey C. Kester 75, J.A. Cheda 20. J.G. Brown 40, Edwin P.Dughi 80, John Christensen 25. (Compiler’s note: The bounty on each tail was two cents.)...

...In re calaboose at Templeton. On petition of citizens of Templeton it is ordered that the Templeton calaboose be removed to a place near the fire station and supplied with necessary blankets and bedding under direction of Supervisor Smith, provided that all the expense incident to carrying out said order shall not exceed $25...

...In regard the ordinance. On petition of citizens of Cambria and vicinity the board does now pass and adopt an "ordinance prohibiting the sending, shipping and transporting of abalones and abalone shells out of the county of San Luis Obispo," which ordinance is passed and adopted by a unanimous vote...

An extra train passed through this morning at 2:30. It contained stock shipped from this county last season and now being returned to feed on prospective pastures.

BORN:

PRADAR - In this city, Jan. 5, 1898 (sic) to the wife of Phil Pradar, a son. (Compiler’s note: The typesetter has still not become accustomed to inserting the new year of 1899!).

January 8 through January 14, 1899.

IRRIGATION.

The last issue of the Paso Robles Record contained an article full of interesting suggestions as to the possibilities of securing an artesian supply of water for the country east of that city. It is a matter of surprise that experiment should not long since have determined whether or not such a chance for irrigation is practicable. Thereabouts are great areas of fine land, rich and fertile which would become very valuable if there could be certainty of crops, something of course that depends solely on a water supply. Agriculture in the past has been most precarious in that section, a good year giving magnificent returns but a deficient rainfall standing as a constant menace. The Record refers to several experiments which have been made and which although small have given great encouragement. (Compiler’s note: There follow in this January 7, 1899 issue of the TRIBUNE, several examples of irrigation in the Paso Robles region, which assured the production of crops during years with little rainfall.)

CRESTON.

...There are quite a number that are suffering from colds that are infecting them, a la grippe. A very large number of the people in this corner of Eden are greatly troubled with this dreaded disease. No money, no feed for their stock and a scant provision list, in fact there are cases reported of downright want. There is a case reported in Supervisor Smith’s District of a family suffering for the necessaries (sic) of life owing to the provider being incapacitated by sickness, from earning a living.

The scarcity of feed and the means to buy it with, are telling plainly upon the stock in the country. Already there are reports of horses dying. Mrs. Scholer lost the only horse she had. Mr. Munk reports a loss by death, of two. Mr. Stemper lost one of his fine black team horses and others report loss of stock. In fact cattle are suffering for the want of good relishable food. Hay is out of the question to many. Loose straw is selling from 7 to 10 dollars a ton. Such feed will probably keep the breath of life in the animal, but it will not furnish strength...

CAYUCOS.

ED. TRIBUNE: The blessings of heaven were showered down upon Cayucos Sunday night and Monday in a bounteous rainfall, and the glad heart once more prevails in this seaside resort. The supernal waterways had been so long closed against us that despair had filled the breast of everyone, and our citizens were only waiting the disastrous inevitable. During the season of ‘97-’98 the deficiency of rain was so great that there was no feed and no harvest, leaving the ranchers and the dairymen with vast herds of cattle and horses and short supplies from former years. Many thousands of cattle and horses were driven or shipped away and many hundreds more died or were killed to prevent starvation. The rainfall was 1½ inches, and is sufficient to start grass and the distress will soon be relieved. Dairying, of which Cayucos is the centre (sic), has suffered very greatly and the shipments of butter and cheese are only a small per cent of the normal volume this season, and these only by dairymen who have fed heavily with imported feed. Within a few weeks there have been shipped to Cayucos over 100 tons of ground mill feed and more than 75 tons of hay, while many tons have been hauled in from San Luis, Templeton and other interior points and 100 tons more to arrive by steamer soon.

An examination of the rain table carefully kept by James Cass, reveals the fact that in four years there have been only four days on which the rainfall was heavier than that of Sunday night last. During the season of ‘96-’97 the rainfall was 17.70 inches—about the annual average. During ‘97-98 it was only 7.68 inches; and from April 1, ‘97 to Jan. 1, ‘99 only 9.11 inches. Mr. Cass says the season of ‘97-98 was the first damaging drouth since 1849.

Mr. Neil Cook, of Harmony valley, departed for San Francisco last week and on Jan. 6th will go to Vacaville, where he will be united in marriage with Miss Mary E. Gifford at the residence of the bride’s parents...

...The attractions of Cayucos as the best seaside resort in this county are without number and occasionally a new one is added to make our rivals blush. Last week we had excellent mid-winter fishing. For several days the wharf was fairly lined with men, women and children, with fishing tackle of every description, primeval and modern, who caught hundreds of pounds of fine large smelt.

The opinion prevails that the Supervisors should re-enact the ordinance protecting abalone. Under the ceaseless onslaught of the Chinaman this shellfish, if not protected, will certainly be exterminated from our shore, whereas they should be preserved for the use and benefit of our own people and those attracted here by the beauties and resources of the seaside...

VIGILANT.

BOOKS ORDERED.

THE BOOK COMMITTEE OF THE LIBRARY SELECT VOLUMES.

Thursday afternoon the trustees of the Public Library met as a book committee to select new volumes...

SPECIAL TRAIN PASSES THROUGH.

Early yesterday morning a special train passed through this city en route to the front, and later in the day returned northbound to San Francisco. The train left San Francisco Thursday evening and sped southward passing through San Luis at 3:35 yesterday morning and reaching Surf at about 7. There, the new work was inspected and later the train returned to town at 10:27...

...A brief stop was made at the station, but the time was of sufficient duration for the reporter to engage the gentlemen in conversation...

...Mr. Frazier...said:

"We now have a force of about fifty teams at work below Surf and track laying is going on at the same time. The work is not being rushed, but is progressing steadily. There is also a force of men, a considerable force by the way, at work on line changes in the Salinas valley. The work there will detain the force for at least a month yet and possibly six weeks. We are not sure yet whether or not we will send this force to the front after it has completed the work in the valley. Of course we do not intend to stop the work below Surf, but may find employment elsewhere for the valley force. For example, there is much work to be done on some of the cuts south of here, where rebanking is necessary... (Compiler’s note: The reader is reminded that "the gap" was not closed until March 31, 1901.).

DIED.

FORRESTER - In this city, Jan. 5, 1899, Alice Agnes Forrester, daughter of the late P.A. and the late Maria Josefa Forrester, a native of Cambria, San Luis Obispo county, Cal., aged 24 years, 1 month and 26 days.

JOYCE - In this city, Jan. 7, 1899, Pearl Joyce, daughter of the late J.M. and Virginia Joyce, a native of Floyd county, Georgia, aged 25 years, 9 months and 17 days.

BURKE - In this city, January 13, 1898 (sic), Mrs. Frank N. Burke, a native of San Luis Obispo, aged about 19 years. (Compiler’s note: The typesetter is still inserting "1898" instead of "1899").

A LAMP CAUSES TROUBLE.

The residence of Mr. M.E. Ryan on lower Higuera street experienced a most narrow escape from total destruction last evening. Mr. Ryan’s presence of mind is responsible for the condition of the building at the present time. An exploded lamp with flames leaping high into the air followed quickly by the application of bed clothing, tells the story of last evening’s excitement.

At the time of the catastrophe Mrs. Ryan was not at home, but Mr. Ryan fortunately was. As soon as the explosion occurred Mr. Waite, Mr. Ryan’s partner in business, who happened to be at hand, blew the whistle of the planing mill adjoining, in order to inform the fire department. The telephone system was then used. Central was informed and soon the gong set going. Some boys in the neighborhood turned in the general alarm and the department was quick to respond. The engine dashed down Higuera street and connected with the hydrant near the junction of Marsh street. The hose companies soon came along and had just commenced to unreel the hose when information came to the effect that the flames had been extinguished.

The fire originated in the kitchen of the Ryan residence where two lamps were standing not far apart. One of these suddenly exploded and started the other. Mr. Ryan rushed to the room to find it a mass of flames. He immediately seized some covering from an adjoining bedroom and smothered the flames. In so doing he scorched his hands in several places but not seriously.

The injury to the house was very slight, and the blackened quilts represent the damage done.

Mrs. Ryan, as was previously stated, was not at home and the news came to her as a great shock. The lady fainted and medical assistance was called in. Mr. Ryan, whose health has been poor of late, collapsed completely after the excitement passed. Neither he nor his wife were sufficiently recovered to see the press representative when he called last evening. Later it was learned that both were recovering from shock.

A BASEBALL LEAGUE.

THE SCHEME IS PROPOSED BY AN OLD BALL PLAYER.

San Luis Obispo, Jan. 4, 1899.

ED. TRIBUNE:–Why does not San Luis Obispo county organize a baseball league? This question has been asked before but never acted upon. It seems to me that it is worthy of consideration. Every community where base ball is played to any extent has its base ball league, for that is the only means of securing good games. We have been playing here year after year in a sort of a loose manner. Sometimes two, sometimes three, and sometimes no match games during the season and when it is all over, four or five different clubs claim the championship. Then there is squabbling and published letters and there it always ends.

It seems to me that all this could be avoided and perfect harmony secured by such a league as I would propose. We have close together, a number of towns where nearly every year a baseball team is to be found. There are San Luis, Paso Robles, Arroyo Grande, Sycamore Springs, Santa Margarita, Santa Maria, Nipomo, Huasna, Cayucos and some other places where good teams are to be found. These very rarely meet each other and I feel safe in asserting that no one team has played each of the others. This condition should not exist if we desire to get the most out of baseball.

These towns, say about ten should organize a league immediately, arrange a schedule of games and carry it clear through. If this was done I think that the business firms of the county would get together and offer some trophy for the champion team. If we set to work on this without delay we can have all in readiness to play as a league by the end of February or later if desirable. I would like to hear expressions of opinion on this matter from all the clubs concerned, before acting in the matter. There appears to me no possible opposition to this plan. Let us decide at once.

AN OLD PLAYER.

A marriage license has been issued to Herman E. Knott and Miss Hattie Adams, both of Nipomo.

Sacramento, Jan. 10.–

The Polytechnic School bill is now before the legislature, having been introduced today by Senator Smith. Mr. A.S. Whitsel of San Luis Obispo and ex-Assemblyman Harris of Santa Barbara, who are here in the interests of the bill, predict success for the measure. Mr. Whitsel occupied a seat with Senator Smith in the senate today during the taking of the vote for United States Senator.

WORK NEAR SANTA BARBARA.

The Santa Barbara Press tells of the arrival of an advance guard of the force of the Southern Pacific road construction. Headquarters will be opened at Elwood. Superintendent Bosqui (sic) will have charge of the work. He has arrived with a small force of surveyors, telegraph operators, helpers, etc. Reinforcement in the shape of supplies, etc., are arriving. Appearances indicate that the party has come to stay and that the work will be begun without delay.

THE HEAVIEST STORM.

The heaviest storm of four seasons has just made its presence felt by means of rain and wind. It is the largest since the storm of January 1895, which began on the 14th and ended on the 20th, with a total of 4.71 inches rainfall. On the 16th when the storm passed, the barometer fell to 29.55 and the wind registered 33 miles an hour, northwest.

Yesterday’s storm shows 2.24 inches rainfall, lowest barometer 29.61, and highest wind 32 miles from the southeast.

It began at about 9 o’clock on Monday evening and continued with intermissions to 2 in the afternoon. Then it ceased until 8 last evening when it again broke forth.

Information could not be gathered from all points, but the following will show that the storm was general. Up to 3:30 p.m. yesterday:

San Luis Obispo 2.24 inches, Port Harford 1.80, Santa Maria 1.10, Arroyo Grande 1.25, Nipomo 1.01, Los Alamos 1.15, Los Olivos .63, Paso Robles 1.12, Pozo 1.67.

A late report last evening announced that 1.25 inches of rain had fallen at Los Olivos up to 10 p.m.

OFF THE TRACK.

The Osos Street car line experienced somewhat of an accident last evening. When near the Southern Pacific depot, about opposite the Chicago hotel, car number 21, while under way at full speed suddenly jumped the track. None of the occupants were injured, but the way was blocked and cars could pass neither up nor down. The conductor with the assistance of bystanders soon set matters aright (sic) and all went smoothly again.

OUR TEMPLETON LETTER.

FURTHER LIGHT ON THE GREAT CHARITY ACT OF A NEWSPAPER.

TEMPLETON, Jan. 11.–All fears of a dry year were dispelled as the new year was ushered in.

...One of the biggest fakes that has ever been imposed on our people was the charitable (?) scheme worked by some well known San Francisco individuals. With starving horses and hard times staring at the farmers, a petition was sent to those benefactors for relief. Three car loads of hay were sent to Paso Robles to be distributed to the needy, with certain restrictions attached. Believing that their cry for hay had been heard, quite a number of deserving citizens drove to Paso Robles to obtain the aid.

Owing to red tape and disgraceful examination to which they were subjected, very few obtained hay. Decent and respectable farmers were treated with no respect in regard to their financial status or impoverished condition, and in spite of the needed demand here, one and a half cars of hay were sent back to King City "as not needed." Such charitable farces will never meet the approval of decent minded people.

News of the death of Mr. Matthias Hansen, living on the Commatta ranch six miles south of Shandon, was brought in by his brother today.

CLOSING THE GAP.

If reports continue to come as they have started of late in regard to the construction of the coast line of the Southern Pacific between Los Angeles and San Francisco we may have the pleasure of seeing the big overland trains go through San Luis Obispo within the period of our existence. There is nothing besides a good, prosperous season that will satisfy our community better than to see the long delayed "gap" closed.

That "gap" has been in existence for some years now and has become a full fledged chestnut, but if it is eventually finished and in the time which the Santa Barbara Press announced it will be, it would be a revelation like unto the opening of a chestnut burr. (Compiler’s note: The word "chestnut" in this sense means "a stale story." The reader is reminded that the "gap" was NOT CLOSED until March 31, 1901!).Here is what the last issue of the Press says:

It is stated on the highest authority that the coast line of the Southern Pacific between Los Angeles and San Francisco will be completed within eight months. This statement is borne out by the great and increasing activity in the construction department of the company.

A STORY FOR SPITE.

A SCHEME THAT WAS ORIGINATED TO INJURE S.D. BALLOU AND F.A. DORN.

AN EX-CONVICT PLAYS EVEN.

(Compiler’s note: This story began in late July of 1898 with a story that can be found in ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, 1898, pages 82, 121,123, 127-128. Guy Lamb, Christen Portlock and Earl Tousley were charged with horse stealing and sentenced to San Quentin. The San Francisco Call and Examiner through their reporters, utilized their editorial columns for a lengthy abuse of San Luis Obispo county’s Sheriff Ballou and District Attorney Dorn. Subsequently the boys were pardoned by Governor Budd creating much discord in the county. This article continues the saga.).

The mystery, if such it may be termed, of the unwarranted and unjust attacks made upon ex-Sheriff Ballou and ex-District Attorney Dorn by the Examiner and Call, over the imprisonment of the three Bakersfield boys who stole a horse near Pozo, has at last been solved.

While in San Quentin the boys in some manner had their case vigorously discussed by the big dailies of the metropolis. These papers in bitter words denounced Messrs. Ballou and Dorn for railroading the boys to San Quentin.

The quiet, thinking public at the time looked upon the efforts of the Call and Examiner as emanating from a misapprehension of the facts and Messrs. Dorn and Ballou were little censured in this county, where it was known that the boys had stolen the horse and had really requested to be sent to San Quentin upon entering their plea of guilty. But the big papers built awful stories of wrong in their most striking sentences and flaring headlines until the authorities thought that a great wrong might be righted, and without investigation instituted the necessary steps for pardons which were finally granted.

The question has always been, who started the plausible story for the boys. That has now been solved along with the motive.

An ex-convict from San Luis Obispo claims to have instituted the row and that his motive was to injure Mr. Dorn and Mr. Ballou. This individual is Thomas L. Young, who finished a term of imprisonment in Folsom on September 9, 1898.

Young has learned to hate such faithful public officials, as Mr. Dorn and Mr. Ballou proved to be, and he grasped at an opportunity to originate a scheme to heap abuse upon their heads. Young is one of the most oily tongued individuals that ever inhabited the earth and possesses a thorough acquaintance with the newspaper reporters of San Francisco. It was easy to reach one of them and he promptly did so, picturing an opportunity for a "great plea for justice and a denunciation of two officials who would railroad three boys to prison."

The stories appeared thick and fast, bolstered by editorial wisdom and Young was happy for he had his revenge on Mr. Dorn and Mr. Ballou.

Young is now in Sacramento and openly boasted to a TRIBUNE representative that he was the one who had started the whole affair and that he designed it solely to injure Messrs. Ballou and Dorn. "And," said he, "if they ever come up for public office I can devise other things that will hurt them."

And this is the sequel of the "great wrong" that the San Francisco papers foolishly went wild over.

OUR SIDEWALKS.

ED. TRIBUNE:–Sometime ago there was an ordinance passed by the City Fathers prohibiting expectoration on the sidewalk.

For a month or more this was well enforced and the change was one which made us feel proud of the neat appearance of our little city.

However, like all other good things which have ever been started here, little by little this law was ignored until now our sidewalks are a disgrace.

There they are, a constant reproach, an eye sore, nasty, dirty, filthy, disgusting, a nuisance which the people should rise up in their righteous indignation and put a stop to. Let us hope the matter will be attended to at once.

SUE.

The bulkhead of the little bridge over Stenner creek in the vicinity of the Venable place, was washed out by the high water a few days ago.

January 15 -January 21, 1899.

A LIVE WIRE.

STRANGE MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE OF OFFICER MUNOZ.

About 11 o’clock last evening the report was received that one of the local lighting wires on Broad street had become detached and had fallen, which meant grave danger to the hapless passer by who should chance to strike it.

Officer Munoz was at once informed and proceeded to advise the Electric Light company of the accident, and presently returned to ask "if the wire was on the ground." Informed that it was, he went back and it is hoped had the trouble remedied.

The streets presented a more lively air yesterday than has been noticed for several weeks. Farmers and dairymen were about town and commenting on the good fortune of the country in being favored with the recent rainfall.

Rev. J. Storms, the new pastor of the Baptist church, is expected shortly to take up his charge. His recent examination of the condition gives him great confidence in the future of the church.

STILL "GAPING (sic)."

VENTURA PAPER TELLS OF THE PROGRESS TO BE MADE.

The old-told tale of the immediate completion of the coast line has at last an air of truth in the statement. The Southern Pacific is forced to continue the work as its franchise will expire within a short period and the astute Huntington fears that his powerful rival, the Santa Fe, will avail itself of the opportunity to construct a road and secure the coast patronage. Laborers and cars loaded with material are being sent rapidly to the scene and an order was sent to New Orleans for 200 cars to be shipped here, loaded with iron and rails.

The closing of the gap is fraught with much interest to Ventura county and will cause a stir of life in all industries. (Compiler’s note: The gap was not closed until March 31, 1901). Fourteen passenger trains a day will wake the echoes in silent canyons. The tourist travel is alone worthy of attention.–Ventura Independent.

A NOTABLE WEDDING AT RENO.

On New Year’s day a quiet wedding occurred at Reno, Nevada. On account of the prominence of the parties, gossip is set afloat at a rapid rate where the young people are known. On that happy day, our former fellow townsman, Mr. Thos. P. Brown, led to the marriage altar, Miss Elizabeth Dorland, a beautiful and accomplished graduate of the University of Nevada, and who is prominent in social circles...

...Mr. Brown is the eldest son of the late Dr. LeRoy D. Brown, ex-state commissioner of common schools of Ohio, and who organized the University of Nevada before acceptance of superintendency of the Los Angeles city schools, and who organized the San Luis Obispo High school about three years before his death. His mother, Mrs. E.E. Brown and family, also an uncle, Dr. Warren Brown, are residents of San Luis...

SALMON RUNNING.

The salmon run has commenced. Messengers came to town yesterday with the information. Early Saturday morning, Mr. Stanuseich went out into the stream which runs past the famous resort of which Giovan is the present proprietor, and speared five large salmon. This news will no doubt start our local salmon hunters out without further delay. We expect to hear of a good catch this season.

The run of the game fish of our streams will probably be large this season owing to the fact of the various creeks being short of water for two years past.

Wm. R. Mapes has been appointed postmaster at Parkfield.

BORN.

McINTOSH - In Arroyo Grande, Jan. 8, 1899, to the wife of G.A. McIntosh, a daughter.

Mushroom hunters are to be seen these days. San Luis Mountain was the scene of quite a crowd of them Sunday afternoon.

MEETING OF CITY TRUSTEES.

The Question of Turning on the Electric Lights Again Returns to Worry the City Dads.

Jan. 16.

...The report of the chief engineer gives the present status of the department, details the several fires which have occurred, cause, and damage sustained, condition of the several companies, and Chief Thaler makes the following recommendations:

That section 23 of ordinance 45 relating to fire proof buildings be strictly enforced and that applications of builders be fully considered before granting same; that water pipe on Higuera street be extended to the depot and that fire plug on the corner of Morro and Palm street be removed to the corner of Essex and Mill streets...

...It was suggested that the electric lights be turned on at the following places:

Corner of Osos and Mill, Buchon and Broad, Marsh and Higuera, Nipomo and Mill, Santa Rosa and Mill and on the road to the Hospital, being six in all.

Superintendent Armstrong being present stated that he could not see how the Company could afford to run only the lights named. The additional expense would be greater than the revenue derived. It required a special dynamo and the services of an extra man and horse.

The matter of having the electric lights turned on was referred to the street committee with power to act.

Trustee Shaw reported that the hydrant near the corner of Chorro and Monterey street was now 18 inches inside of the curb, it belonged to the city and should be removed. It would cost $15 to so move it.

On motion the matter was referred to the street committee with power to act...

...The matter of having gas light on the Chorro street fountain was referred to street committee with power to act.

THE PASSING OF ELBRIDGE MILES.

AN OLD AND RESPECTED CITIZEN CALLED BY DEATH.

Miles Station on the Narrow Gauge Was Named After the Deceased.

Early Sunday evening it was learned that Mr. Elbridge Miles had passed away at his home on Osos street. Saturday he suffered a stroke of paralysis and from that time forward continued to grow worse until he died. Mr. Miles and his family only moved to San Luis a short time ago and it was hoped the change would be of benefit to him, he having been unwell for some time previous.

Deceased was a native of Maine, aged 69 years and 6 months. Years ago he engaged in sheep raising near Fresno, and afterwards looked after his ranch in the Cholame country. Later on he moved to the place now known as Miles Station near Sycamore Springs, and after remaining there for a few years came to this city and remained for some time before going to the Oso Flaco where he resided for fourteen years, moving from the latter place to this city.

Deceased leaves a widow and eight grown children to mourn his loss besides many friends throughout San Luis Obispo county.

REPORT PROGRESS.

Recent advices from our special representatives at Sacramento, are encouraging on the whole. It does not appear that there is likely to be any rivalry manifested by other places for the Polytechnic school. Possibly this state of facts may result from a conviction that the chances of the establishment of the school anywhere are not brilliant. However, we will hope that there will be no contest and that there will be none, only because of the higher claims of this section to the distinction. So far as heard from and so far as our agents are able to judge, the members of the legislature are quite generally favorable to the establishment of the institution here. Nothing very definite can be ascertained as yet because of the senatorial fight which is absorbing the attention of the lawmakers to the exclusion of everything else. The question of finance will later have a material effect. It is deemed certain that this legislature will be a rather more economical one than others in the past but that will be in our favor rather than otherwise. With prodigal expenditures the chances are that Governor Gage would imitate the example of his immediate predecessor and make extensive use of his veto power. As it is, it will rest largely with the finance committee of the assembly as to whether our bill gets favorable consideration.

MUCH OUT OF NOTHING.

Many of the Barbarenos have been excited recently by the wild reports of some fertile minded persons that Santa Barbara was to have the railroad shops, yards and big wharf on the completion of the coast road. It turns out the rumors have been looked at with a large magnifying glass, and much has been made out of nothing. If any railroad shops are to be put up, San Luis proposes to take a throw at them herself.

Deputy United States Marshal Cook has received the insignia of his office in the shape of an elegant silver badge.

DIED.

LANE - At El Pismo, Dec. 17, 1899, Daisy, wife of B.R. Lane, aged 25 years and 9 months, a native of California.

MILES - In this city Jan. 15, 1899, Elbridge Miles, a native of Maine, aged 69 years and 6 months.

RIGHETTI - At Cayucos, Jan. 17, 1899, Rinaldo, son of Michael and Maddalena Righetti, aged 10 years and 17 days.

BUG JUICE AND UGLINESS.

WENT UP AGAINST A SALVATION ARMY PARADE.

There was a Run on McCaffrey’s Small Change Monday Night.

The big Salvation Army parade last evening struck a dangerous character who was rather too much for their efforts at conversion. He was chuck full of booze and ugliness and proposed to clean out the whole outfit. Marshal Cook kindly intervened and steered the warrior around to Judge Egan, who gave him a few hours in the dark cell for reflection.

McCAFFREY’S NICKELS.

SOME NIGHT WANDERER GETS AWAY WITH A HAT FULL OF CHANGE.

McCaffrey Bros. are mourning the loss of $8, chiefly nickels, that some scalawag swiped from their saloon at the corner of Broad and Higuera street Monday night.

On opening the saloon yesterday morning there was evidence in plenty of the incursion of a robber besides the absence of the coin. Alcoholic beverage apparently had no attractions for the tourist, all he wanted was coin, but the safe and the till in the slot machines only yielded the small sum named. Marshal Cook has an assorted lot of "clues" that he is working on but so far without result.

GOOD SHOWING.

THE MARSHAL TURNS OVER THE TAX ROLLS TO THE CITY CLERK.

Marshal Cook has turned over the city tax rolls to City Clerk Goodrich. The total tax roll for the city amounted to $13,757.14, and of this amount $12,706.20 was collected, thus leaving the sum of $1,050.94 delinquent. Of this amount it is expected that some of the big tax payers of the city who are delinquent will settle before the list is given out for publication. It is estimated that if such is the case only about $600 will remain due on the delinquent list.

This is a good showing for a year such as the past one has been and now that better times are in sight some parties who are delinquent will settle their accounts rather than wait until the list is printed.

WHY NOT?

FIX THE FIRE BELL TO RING BY ELECTRICITY.

While the members of the fire department are wondering where that $90 received from the insurance commissioner is going to be spent, perhaps it might be a good scheme to have the clapper on the big bell at the city hall fixed with an electrical contrivance so that an alarm could be turned in over the telephone system and thus ring the bell instead of by the present way where only a small gong is sounded, and then someone is compelled to ring the big bell, which is no small task itself. By having the proper electrical attachment the bell could be so fixed that anyone going to the engine house in case of fire could simply push the button and the bell would do the rest.

Perhaps that $90 might be enough to do this and it would be of great convenience in turning in an alarm late at night. There is no doubt the money will eventually be spent for additional improvements of some kind in the department.

LAID TO REST.

LARGE ATTENDANCE AT THE FUNERAL OF ELBRIDGE MILES.

The funeral of the late Elbridge Miles took place from the family residence on Osos street yesterday afternoon and was largely attended by friends of the deceased. Rev. E.M. W. Hills, rector of St. Stephen’s Episcopal church, delivered a touching sermon. The remains were laid to rest in the Odd Fellows’ cemetery.

Messrs. Shipsey, Rogers, Younglove, W. Sandercock, Vetterline and G.T. Gragg acted as pall bearers.

A carload of rails was taken south on the narrow gauge road to be sidetracked at Santa Maria.

A FIRE ALARM SYSTEM.

For some time past Engineer Park of the fire department has been planning a more complete system of turning in fire alarms. When he commenced to think about it he was unable to see his way clear to proceed from a monetary point of view. He believed it would be a difficult matter during the present times to induce the city council to make an appropriation sufficient to meet the cost of his proposed scheme. Since then the situation has changed somewhat and there may be a way to carry the idea into effect if the trustees and department will look with favor on the matter.

There is no doubt that the time is coming when San Luis will require a fire alarm system to take the place of that now in use, which is certainly badly out of date and leaves much to be desired.

A communication has been sent to an electrical supply house in San Francisco for prices, etc., pertaining to an alarm system. It is believed that a new arrangement can be put in for $200, or at the most $250. The department has already received $90 from the insurance commissioner and in six or eight months another installment will arrive from the same source. Probably the department could prevail on the trustees to advance the necessary amount still needed, say $160, and then let the trustees receive the next two appropriations from the insurance commissioner or so much as may be needed of the appropriations to come to pay off the loan.

Another way is possible. The next appropriation that comes could be put with the money already on hand and the department could give a ball or an entertainment to make up the balance. It is a matter which should interest every member of the organization.

It is understood by the older members of the department that the money received from the insurance commissioner is to be used by the department in making it more complete. Some members say that the money should be put into the social or sick funds, but now when there is a chance to put the department on a better footing it seems unwise to put the money into either of the above funds already amply provided for, but instead should be placed where it would be a benefit to the town.

In the electric system proposed is a complicated clock-work affair, its machinery governed by a weight which is regulated to make the machine run long enough to make the bell ring a continuous alarm.

The machine could be connected with the telephone system, and there would be a push button in the engine house by pressing which, any one could turn in an alarm at any time, and as long as the person kept his fingers on the button the old bell would keep ringing.

The present way is crude, as the clapper of the bell is connected with two ropes which run through numerous pulleys and make the labor of ringing the bell an arduous task. In fact it is about all the work one man can do to turn in an alarm now. Besides the pulleys and ropes get out of order continually.

But there is a point in the matter which will interest all of our people. This town is not blessed with a town clock, as most of the other towns in the state are, and persons who want the correct time go to a jewelry shop or some place where there is an electric clock. By the proposed new system the fire bell would be attached to the wires of an electric clock and every day, just at the noon hour the big gong would strike once which could be heard throughout the city. There would be some style to the new scheme and it is now within the reach of the department if the members will do their best to further it.

At the present time our little city has the honor of having one of the best equipped volunteer departments in the state, and people who visit here from larger places are surprised to see the modern improvements in use. The department is the pride of the members as well as of the people. Should the new idea prevail the department’s alarm system will be the best of any outside the larger cities of California. Let us have the electric system.

SANTA MARGARITA.

ED. TRIBUNE:–...The reporter has always wondered how big a place Surf is, but now he knows. It must be quite a town when a bright young man like Joe Castillo will get lost while looking for a restaurant and miss the train.

CHINESE NEW YEAR.

In the course of two weeks or thereabouts the Chinese intend to commence their annual New Year festivities. During the time of the celebration the music of the hideous Chinese orchestra and band will be heard from early morn until midnight.

Santa Rosa and the territory contiguous thereto within a radius of eight miles square, is soon to have a rural free mail delivery. The farmers living in the country within the limits prescribed will receive their mail every day.

MARRIED.

HASKINS - CONRAD–In this city at the Commercial hotel, Jan. 19, 1899, by Rev. Mr. Clayton, Mr. Arch Haskins and Miss Edna Conrad, both of Arroyo Grande.

VILLA - BARBER–In this city at the French hotel, by M. Egan, J.P., Mr. Epifanio Villa and Miss Adelaida Barber, both of Santa Margarita.

FILLING IN THE COAST GAP.

The Santa Barbara Press says:

A letter just received from a gentleman of this city, who went to San Francisco to investigate the many railroad rumors confirms all the published reports. He not only ascertained that the company would put men to work filling the "gap" but that the "Shore Line" would be completed and made a part of the through route as quickly as it can be accomplished by pushing the construction from both ends. Two hundred and seventy-five cars of rails have actually been shipped from New Orleans.

Says the Los Angeles Express:

The closing of the "gap" in the proposed coast line of the Southern Pacific company is still the principal topic of discussion in Santa Barbara and other points where the company’s activity is pronounced. On Friday the report that the company was about to establish a car factory at Santa Barbara gained extensive circulation, and was given credit everywhere. Later the report was denied by the railroad officials. The construction train which has been standing at the Santa Barbara freight depot since early last week, left Saturday for Elwood and the survey work is now in full swing.

WE’D LIKE SOME OF THIS.

A FEW REMINDERS OF WHAT IS GOOD FOR A COMMUNITY.

The following, though dished up from an exchange fits San Luis right:

More rain.

Home enterprise patronized.

A prosperous year to everybody.

More of our streets graded and curbed.

More sidewalks.

Success to our churches, schools and all beneficent institutions.

A large contingent of tourists.

Capital attracted to our coast and industrial interests established.

Improved town and country roadways.

The public library sustained.

A Government building erected for the City Post Office.

The band play frequently at the Plaza the coming summer.

The city better lighted by electricity.

Every worthy object supported that is good for the community.

Our people progressive and right up to the times.

No more "dry" years.

Better times for everybody and a "boom" for San Luis.

The drones and Silurian to take a back-seat until the next century.

Our people to work together for the general good of the city.

The "gap" speedily completed.

All our business men to advertise in the TRIBUNE.

All our people to subscribe for the TRIBUNE.

A good, Republican Senator chosen who will zealously strive for the advancement of California’s interests present and future.

A bountiful water supply.

January 22, 1899 through January 28, 1899.

ARRESTED FOR BEGGING.

STREET SUPERINTENDENT KELLEY SECURES MATERIAL FOR HIS CHAIN GANG.

A HOBO RINGS THE WRONG BELL.

Last evening while Street Superintendent Kelley was at supper he saw a fairly well dressed man approaching his house and a moment later the stranger knocked at the door and Kelley responded and asked the man his business. The man immediately demanded 10 cents and with that request Kelley made a grab for him. The tramp was not desirous of falling into the clutches of the law and put up a good fight and tried to escape but Kelley was too much for him and he soon gave up. Marshal Cook was summoned and the beggar was taken to the city jail.

At the jail the prisoner was searched. Nothing of importance was found except a letter purporting to have been written on January 5th by a physician named J.F. Fink of Martinez, in which it was asserted that the bearer was troubled with asthma and unable to work. This gag works well in some places. The prisoner says he is a sailor by occupation and returned from a voyage of eighteen months at sea, landing only four days ago. He was asked how it was that he had a letter dated January 5th if he had recently come ashore. This question was too much for him and he said nothing.

The prisoner, who is an imposter, gives the name of Charles Wilson, was seen with two other men when he went to Mr. Kelley’s house. The other men went to another house and on returning to the street and seeing the predicament their companion was in, they departed company for another part of town.

For nearly a week there has (sic) been a few of these professional beggars about town working the sympathy dodge. It is the intention of the marshal to get rid of this undesirable class as soon as possible. If the tramp element continues to exist, a rock pile and chain gang may be inaugurated.

AMATEUR PEDESTRIANS.

TWO YOUNG MEN TO WALK TO SAN FRANCISCO.

Messrs. Guy Eddy and Joe Righetti of Arroyo Grande, were visitors here yesterday. These two gentlemen will start from Arroyo Grande early Monday morning en route to San Francisco. They will walk the entire distance and believe they can complete the journey in about nine days.

Righetti’s brother and Arch Haskins were going with them, but the former is unable to stand the trip and the latter unexpectedly "flew the coop" by going off and getting married.

Should anything of importance happen during the journey of Messrs. Eddy and Righetti we have the promise of a communication from them in regard to it.

AFFECTING THE DAIRYMEN.

Senator Smith mails us a copy of a bill introduced in the legislature by Senator Dickinson to provide for the inspection of dairies as to their sanitary condition and the health of stock, to prevent the sale of diseased milk and the spread of disease among stock. Measures of the kind should have the close scrutiny of those especially interested in the business affected. Properly conceived and drawn, coercive laws may be of the greatest benefit, not only to the public but to the industry in question. Ignorantly or maliciously contrived they may be productive of great and lasting injury. It would be well for all interested to read attentively the act proposed to be made law and ponder well over the consequences which may result and if the law is not well conceived and calculated to advance the interests of the dairymen, then appeal should be at once made to the press or the legislature.

The act in question provides that no person shall have or sell any milk or cream or anything manufactured therefrom which is impure or drawn from a diseased cow; that the state dairy bureau must inspect all dairies and it may have inspections made by a veterinary surgeon who when he deems it necessary shall report to the agent of the state dairy bureau that an animal should be slaughtered for the benefit of the public health, whereupon the agent shall have the animal destroyed at the expense of the owner. Should the agent or inspector find any place where dairy products are manufactured not to be in a sanitary condition, he may require the owners to make such changes as he may think necessary. Should disease affecting stock break out the agent may quarantine the farm or other place where the disease exists and make regulations to prevent the spread of the disease. No person shall drive cattle along the public road without first securing a permit from the state dairy bureau to be issued upon an examination of the cattle in question which permit must be countersigned by the agent of the bureau in each county or district through which the cattle are driven. Every person having any stock under his control must make oath to the number of such stock and on demand of the agent of the dairy bureau must corral the stock or if that cannot be done must point them out to the agent for his inspection. The district attorney of the county is required to prosecute any violators of any of the provisions of the act and every violation is made a misdemeanor and punishable by fine or imprisonment.

We are under the impression that the bill as drawn is not entirely in accordance with the views of the stock and dairy men of this county and probably if the matter secures their attention, they may take action to change or modify its provisions.

A BIG TRAIN.

One of the longest trains that has left this city for some time went north yesterday morning. It consisted of forty box cars and was hauled over the mountain by three locomotives. The cars will be distributed at different points along the road this side of San Francisco. (Compiler’s note: Mike Furtney, a Union Pacific Railway official states that today as many as 90 to 100 cars may sometimes be hauled over the grade by 3 to 5 locomotives.)

SANTA MARGARITA.

There was a public combat on the main boulevard last evening. No one was hurt and the amateur pugs are now on friendly terms again..

CASH FOR COAST IMPROVEMENTS.

WORK ON THE RIVERS AND HARBORS PROVIDED FOR.

San Luis Obispo Harbor is Down for Fifty Thousand Dollars.

The following interesting piece of news was printed in yesterday’s Chronicle being a dispatch from Washington under date of Jan. 20.

"California is well treated in the report of the rivers and harbors committee which will come to the house Monday...

San Luis Obispo and San Diego harbors are each given $50,000, and Eureka receives $35,000 or half the amount asked..."

MARRIED.

KNOTTS - ADAMS–At Nipomo, Jan. 18, 1899, by S.M. Dana, J.P., Mr. Ed. Knotts and Miss Hattie Adams, both of Nipomo.

A LOCAL DEADLOCK.

THE TRUSTEES AND THE WATER COMPANY FAIL TO MAKE A DICKER.

The City Wants the Plant and the Water Company Wants to Sell.

The Trustees Would Offer Fifty Thousand, but the Company Wants More.

There was another attempted move in the water question yesterday, with, however, no happier results than attend the efforts of our state representatives in joint assembly convened.

As our readers are aware the water question is in a badly mixed condition. The Water company have (sic) a so-called system which is anything but satisfactory. It needs a great many new pipes, a few new reservoirs, a good deal more water and a few other things. During the last year the town supply has been drawn from a small well by a small pump. The reservoir was a jealously guarded reserve. The Water company are (sic) not without resources, and at considerable expense could doubtless arrange for an adequate supply of water for this small town at any season. But they don’t care to, perhaps they don’t dare to because the people might if they chose to do so, at any time put in a system of their own, supply themselves with water and leave the Water company with their works and so on, on their hands, without customers and without revenue. Thereupon the stock of the company would be worth nothing.

Under such circumstances it probably strikes the Water company that it is not the part of wisdom to spend much money in their business until they know where they are at. (sic) On the other hand, while the city has actually voted bonds to put in a plant of their own, their trustees realize that it would be only fair to the old company to compensate it for its outlay and not deliberately render its stock of no value and destroy a valuable property, and realizing as well that the old company would not be wiped out in a day but would persist in existing, probably for several years, occasioning litigation, which would profit no one but the lawyers, and dividing revenues which just now would be hardly sufficient to justify the existence of one good and well equipped system, have endeavored to effect a compromise with the Water company.

The trustees asked the Water company to name a price at which they would sell to the city, a price which the voters would regard as approximating the real value to them of the works and which they would vote to accept. The Water company declined but instead requested propositions from the trustees. The trustees after having the company’s system carefully appraised by their engineer, Mr. Story, offered all that he considered the system worth, which was $50,000. The Water company did not even respond. Then the trustees ordered suit to be brought to deprive the company of their privilege of selling water in the city. That suit is pending.

Yesterday we understand, three of the representatives of the Water company, General Murphy, Mr. J.F. Ryland and Mr. Lefranc arrived in town and had a conference in the first place at the Andrews bank. That was adjourned until last evening when the high joint commissioners put in another hour or two in discussing the situation. But the only outcome was that there was an agreement to disagree. The trustees do not propose to give any fancy price for the property and the Water company will not sell at what they believe to be a great sacrifice. And there they are. It is a deadlock.

The hobo named Wilson was given a sentence of five days in the chain gang yesterday. (Compiler’s note: See preceding article entitled ARRESTED FOR BEGGING).

A HEAVY GALE.

The heavy gale of Sunday could not very well strike the town without causing damage somewhere. The sheet-iron roof of the Southern Pacific’s round house south of town was unable to stand the strain and the greater part of it was lifted and hurled to the ground.

The day was the most disagreeable one that this city has witnessed in many years. A few days of such weather would put us back to a dry season again, but Monday was as fine a day as any one could wish for.

BORN:

BEEBEE - In this city, Jan. 23, 1899, to the wife of William D. Beebee, a daughter.

DIED.

JORDAN - In this city, Jan. 24, 1899, C.H. Jordan, a native of Michigan, aged 43 years, 3 months and 23 days.

SANTA MARGARITA JOTTINGS.

A BOY LOST–SAN LUIS PEOPLE WHO ARE VISITING ACROSS THE MOUNTAIN.

...Lost–A boy answering to the name of Tom or Butch; has been gone about three days. A reward will be paid for his return to Santa Margarita. Please leave him with the constable. This is the property of a pretty little Santa Margarita girl...

THE WATER COMPANY SOLD TO THE CITY.

SOLD FOR $50,000.

The Most Important Transaction in the History of the City.

After Many Months of Negotiation the Trustees Knock the Persimmon.

CITY’S OFFER ACCEPTED BY THE COMPANY.

Jan. 24.

Board met in special session pursuant to call regularly issued by the chairman for the purpose of negotiating with the San Luis Water company for the purchase of its properties in this city.

All members were present and the call was read. The representatives of the Water company, Messrs. Ryland and Lefranc were present and at their request the resolution of the trustees passed on October 10, 1898, was read, which recites the proceedings of the board taken previous to that time, the negotiations had with Mr. Graves for the purchase of the Water company’s property, the appraisement of the property, the offer made by the trustees to the Water company of $50,000 therefor. (Compiler’s note: The October 10, 1898 resolution can be found in ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, 1898, page 109).

On August 29th, the directors of the San Luis Water company held a meeting and authorized negotiations with the trustees of the city and in accordance with the authority so given they now offered to accept the offer so made by the city of $50,000. For the purpose of stopping expense they requested that the suits now pending between this city and the Water company be dismissed. The formal acceptance was then presented and read to the trustees.

The original minutes of the stockholders’ meeting of the San Luis Water company was (sic) then presented by Mr. Chas. A. Haskin, which showed a resolution duly passed at a meeting regularly called for the purpose, which authorized and empowered the directors of the company to make negotiation with the city of San Luis Obispo and sell all the properties of the company to the city, and also the original minutes of the meeting of the Board of Directors of the company, creating a committee to act in pursuance of the resolution of the stockholders and to sell the property of the company to the city, and appointing E. Williams, Henry LeFranc and J.R. Ryland as such committee.

The agreement for the transfer of the property being thus consummated the council adjourned until this evening at 8 p.m.

GOV. PACHECO’S LIFE CLOSED.

The San Francisco papers last evening contained accounts of the death of ex-Governor Romualdo Pacheco, from which we quote as follows:

"Romualdo Pacheco, ex-governor of California and the oldest Native Son of this state, died at 9 o’clock last night at the residence of Henry R. Miller, his brother-in-law, 328 Boulevard terrace, Oakland.

"The distinguished Californian had been ill about one month but his troubles became serious two weeks ago. His wife, Mrs. Romualdo Pacheco, the well known playwright (sic) and his daughter, Mrs. William S. Tevis, were with him when he died.

"The life of the former governor is linked with the earliest history of this state. He was born at Santa Barbara in 1831.

"When California came into the Union he took the oath of allegiance to the United States and became one of the state’s most active citizens. He held public office for thirty-five years. He was elected to the state legislature before he was twenty-one years old, attaining his majority before the legislature convened. He was elected lieutenant-governor in 1871, and became governor in 1875 when Newton Booth resigned to go to the United States senate."

Gov. Pacheco was well known in this city having many friends here. He represented this district in congress two terms. During the last presidential election he visited this city and renewed old acquaintances, and it was his intention to visit here again some time in February, but Death stepped in and called him away.

RAILROAD TALK.

Says the Lompoc Record:

The excitement over the prospects of an early resumption of work on the "gap" is unabated, and each day brings new evidence that reassures us of the intention of the company to enter upon the work in a most vigorous manner at once. Vast quantities of bridge and road materials are already on the ground and en route. Three thousand tons of rails are ordered at once to the Elwood (sic) division for progressive work from the southern end of the road.

TIME EXTENDED.

Yesterday was the time set for sentencing A.V. Serpa, who was found guilty of selling liquor to a minor in Judge Egan’s court, Tuesday afternoon by a jury. The time of passing sentence was postponed until Saturday afternoon at 2:30. It is said that the case may be appealed.

MET IN SPECIAL SESSION.

THE CITY TRUSTEES MEET AND FURTHER CONSIDER THE WATER QUESTION.

MONEY TO BE PAID WITHIN SIX MONTHS.

Preliminary Steps Also Taken for Calling a Special Election.

Jan. 26.

Council met in special session, all members present.

City Attorney Swinnerton being called upon presented form of contact which he had drawn between the San Luis Water company and the city, which he had exhibited to the attorneys of the Water company and which had received their approval.

The contract provides that the Water company shall sell all of its properties to the city for the sum of $50,000, and that the company would make a good and sufficient deed and deliver the same, the said money to be paid in six months by deposit with the Andrews Banking company, but not to be paid to the Water company until after a good and sufficient deed of the property shall be executed after being approved by the Trustees. Should the city become involved in litigation in raising said money, then the time of payment shall be extended until the litigation is terminated. In the mean time the Water company retains possession of the properties.

On motion the clerk was instructed to send the contract to the officers of the Water company for execution, accompanied by a letter designating the proceedings which it was desired should be taken by the Directors of the Water company authorizing and directing such execution.

The city attorney was on motion instructed to prepare the necessary Notice of Intention to call election, &c, and have the same ready for the action of the Trustees at the next regular meeting.

Adjourned till Monday evening.

GROWING TO BE A NUISANCE.

BOYS CULTIVATING THE HABIT OF BREAKING WINDOWS.

It is Time to Call a Halt, or the Authorities Will Act.

For several days complaints have been heard from different sources that some of the maliciously inclined youngsters living in the suburbs of the city have been breaking window panes in nearly every vacant house which they could discover. They seem to have a mania for doing mischief of this sort.

Not satisfied with their depredations in town some of them meandered out to the Fillmore ranch, now leased by Messrs. Shaw and Ivins, and finding the ranch house deserted proceeded at once to demolish every pane of glass in the building.

There are some other boys besides the gang that went out to the Fillmore ranch who are in the habit of throwing stones at the S.P. trains as they approach the depot.

Of course the injured house owners are put to some expense in putting in new windows whenever their houses receive a new tenant and it incites them, after tolerating this kind of mischief for a short time, to resort to the law.

The parents of these boys, most of whom are already known by the officers, had better call a halt at once if they are aware of their youngsters belonging to the "United Order of Glass Breakers," and if the mischief does not cease there will be a few boys who will probably get a chance to go to Ione or Whittier.

DIED.

BROWN - At the County Hospital, Jan. 25, 1899, Charles E., infant son of Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Brown of Morro, aged 3 months.

PARK - In this city, Jan. 26, 1899, Abbie W., wife of C. Park, aged 65 years.

POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL BILL

San Francisco Coming in at the Eleventh Hour With a Demand for a Normal School.

BUT THE STATE HAS ENOUGH OF THESE.

The Senatorial Fight Will Have No Influence Against Our Bill.

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 26.–Senator Smith stated today that the chances for the Polytechnic School bill were excellent and that the senatorial situation would not interfere in any way with the progress of the measure. And again, Governor Gage is too wise a man to allow his veto to be used as a means of retaliation against any member who voted for Grant. There is absolutely no element of danger to the bill from any of these causes.

A bill has been introduced appropriating $150,000 for the establishment of a State Normal School in San Francisco. Already the state has sufficient of these institutions and one in San Francisco would be nothing more than a state luxury. One the other hand, a Polytechnic school to educate the artisan, to dignify labor and to represent practical affairs in educational lines would prove of great advantage to the people of California.

The impression prevails that Assemblyman Burnett is doing nothing to boom the bill in the assembly. It is true that he is doing nothing just now as he and Senator Smith have made an agreement that the bill shall first pass the Senate. When it has gone through that body Mr. Burnett may be depended upon to work diligently for its passage in the assembly.

Messrs. Whitsel and Harris are doing good work every day. "Cap" Harris has a large acquaintance which helps him greatly. W.M.J.

THE POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL.

LOS OSOS PARLOR PASSES APPROPRIATE RESOLUTIONS.

Los Osos Parlor, N.S.G.W. has adopted the following resolutions:

Whereas, It would be a great benefit to the educational and material development of the various counties of Southern California, and of the County of San Luis Obispo in particular, that a State Polytechnic School be established in the County of San Luis Obispo; and,

Whereas, Bills have been introduced in the several Houses of the Legislature of the State of California for the accomplishment of said object; and,

Whereas, The fundamental principles of the order of the Native Sons of the Golden West are centered in the advancement of the entire great State, and the promotion of its institutions, therefore be it

Resolved, By Los Osos Parlor, No. 61, Native Sons of the Golden West, that we heartily endorse the project for the establishment of a State Polytechnic School in San Luis Obispo County, and commend to the lawmakers of this State for their favorable consideration.

Resolved, That copies of these Resolutions be transmitted to State Senator Smith and Assemblyman Burnett at Sacramento.

Dated, San Luis Obispo, Cal., January 23, 1898. (Compiler’s note: The typesetter made another error by inserting 1898 instead of 1899).

E. GREEN,

A. ROBINSON,

H.E. McKENNON,

J.F. FIEDLER,

Committee.

January 29, 1899 through February 4, 1899.

CAYUCOS.

CAYUCOS, Jan. 28–...After the recent rains the residents along the creeks prepared for trout and salmon fishing, but the streams are nearly dry again and the promised sport is postponed.

...During the recent rains the water ran in torrents down Old Creek grade doing much damage. In some places it was left covered with great bowlders (sic) and in others with a foot or more of mud. With such an expensive grade as this it would appear to be a matter of economy to have it patrolled during a storm to prevent washing and to remove obstacles to free drainage.

J.P. Negranti will go to Visalia Sunday to bring home a band of cows which were taken away last year when the feed failed at home.

THE POLYTECHNIC BILL.

Special to Tribune.

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 28.–The committee on finance of the senate today agreed to report Senator Smith’s bill for a Polytechnic school in San Luis Obispo.

The committee were unanimous in their opinion of the need and justice of the proposed appropriation.

A SCHEME TO BUY SOME BUGS.

PROPOSED APPROPRIATION TO SEND A MAN TO AUSTRALIA TO GET THEM.

Our Correspondent Doubts if They Will Ever Benefit San Luis Obispo County.

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 27.–The senate finance committee has recommended the passage of a bill introduced by Senator Cutter, appropriating $10,000 to send an expert to Australia, New Zealand and other countries, to collect and import beneficial insects. This is supposed to be a measure in the interest of the farmer of the state. But is it?

The expenditure of $10,000 of public money is no small matter in the eyes of the tax payers. All bills should first be weighed in the scales to determine whether they will prove to be of general benefit. This bill will not prove to be anything more than a chance for some person to enjoy a trip to Australia and send back a few bugs which will go to a few favored farmers in the state.

Let the measure be considered in a practical light. Will any of these imported insects ever find their way to the farms on the Estrella, be found buzzing around the orchards of Arroyo Grande, or the mesa of Nipomo? It is fair to presume that they will not. Then what justice is there in a proposition to make the farmers of San Luis Obispo county join in paying taxes to buy a few imported bugs for some farmer in the Sonoma valley? Legislation becomes altogether too "gilt edge" sometimes. W.M.J.

THE DEBATERS ORGANIZE.

A few days ago this paper made public the proceedings of a meeting called at County Treasurer Kelshaw’s office for the purpose of bringing those oratorically inclined, together in an organization for mutual benefit and pleasure.

In accordance with the action of those present at that meeting, another session was held last evening at the same place, and succeeded in effecting a permanent organization with the following officers:

President, John Kelshaw; vice president, Louis Lamy; secretary, H. King; treasurer, Walter Carpenter.

The meetings will be private as the debates are for the benefit of the members in helping them to overcome shyness in public and also for the benefit that they will naturally derive from the discussion of the pros and cons that occur in all the questions brought before the house.

Thus another society is launched in this city, that doubtless will prove of material benefit to its members, and which we hope will grow in numbers.

Later on the club may be induced to lay aside occasionally its rule against the public, and hold open meetings. They would be of interest and benefit both to the outsider and to the members.

(Compiler’s note: The above article has been included only as an indication that one hundred years ago, a form of the present day TOASTMASTERS’ CLUB, was already in existence and for the same purposes).

NATIVE DAUGHTERS WILL ORGANIZE.

The organization of a parlor of Native Daughters of the Golden West in this city is now certain to be accomplished within a short time.

Some time ago an attempt was made to start a parlor, but the necessary encouragement was lacking and the project was allowed to drop. Quite recently Miss Maude Scott took the matter up, and concluded that it was time to make another effort, and with her characteristic energy she took hold of it. Her interviews with her lady friends met with prompt encouragement, and in twenty-four hours she had nineteen names. As it only requires twenty members to secure a charter it will be seen that her efforts have been crowned with success, and doubtless the new parlor will start off with many members more than is needed.

Miss Scott is much gratified at her success as an organizer. She did not find it necessary to do much talking–simply presenting the proposition and securing the name.

It is too early yet to state when the parlor will be instituted, as that date must be fixed by the state installing officer.

It is expected, however, that it will not be long delayed, as such officer is now headed this way.

San Luis Obispo will be glad to welcome this new addition to her family of fraternal societies.

THE NEXT GRAND JURY.

The Superior court of this county yesterday made the following order:

Ordered that the number of grand jurors required for the year 1899 is thirty-five, and in accordance with said order the names of thirty-five electors are selected from whom shall be drawn grand jurors to serve during said year, to wit:

S. Clevenger D.F. Newsom

Jonathan Poole A.P. Rutan

Peter Tognazzini J.B. Kester

Capt. A. Clark H. Ludeke

D.A. Logan D.D. Barnard

Geo. Steele M. Iverson

Wm. Lane A. York

H.M. Warden M. Schneider

Easton Mills Wm. Dana Jr.

Milo E. Morgan Wm. Weathers

E. Morganti Geo. F. Bell

Levi Exline Geo. W. Lingo

J.P. Andrews H.C. Mehlmann

Wm. Sandercock H.H. Waite

T.C. Asmus J.J. Mahoney

M.F. Taylor T.J. Henessey

A.P. Seeman R.C. Heaton

Hans Peterson

VIOLATING THE GAME LAWS.

A REPREHENSIBLE PRACTICE IN THIS COUNTY THAT SHOULD BE STOPPED.

Game Birds of the County are Being Exterminated by Rapacious Pot-Hunters.

HOW THE LAW IS BEING EVADED.

(Compiler’s note: A "pot-hunter- is one who hunts game for food or profit rather than for love of the sport; especially one who pays small heed to game laws or sportsmanlike rules and conventions; generally used contemptuously).

For two months past certain parties living in this city as well as in other towns from Morro to Arroyo Grande, have been making a practice of shipping wild ducks and quail to San Francisco and other points outside the boundaries of this county.

The dodge is worked by sacking the game or packing it in boxes, etc., and then labeled as containing something other than wild game. Of course in such cases the transportation company receiving such packages for shipment are entirely blameless, as they are not supposed to question the shipper except to ascertain from them what the package may contain. In this county it is a misdemeanor to ship wild game out of the county.

The practice of killing and shipping game for the market is being practiced also on the other side of the mountains and quail have been sent by the hundreds to the San Francisco market, the shippers always labeling the packages as containing "any old thing" other than quail.

If this thing is kept up for any length of time there will soon be a scarcity of quail in this county, thus spoiling the pleasure of honest sportsmen.

On July 9, 1897, the Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance prohibiting the shipment of different game birds outside the county. The ordinance is still in force. The ordinance was passed, not so much for knocking out the pot-hunters, but for the purpose of allowing the birds to increase in numbers. Herewith are a few extracts from section 3 of the ordinance mentioned:

"Every person hunting or killing quail, bob-white, doves, partridge, pheasants, grouse, ruffled grouse, prairie chicken, wild turkey or wild duck, for any market situated without the boundaries of the county of San Luis Obispo, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Hunting for market, as used in this section is the taking of or killing of quail, duck and other birds mentioned above, with intent to ship or transport the same to any market beyond the boundaries of the county of San Luis Obispo, or to be sold in any place without the boundaries of said county, and any of the aforesaid wild birds offered for transportation or shipment in the county of San Luis Obispo to any point or destination beyond the boundaries of said county shall be considered prima facie evidence under this ordinance as having been taken or killed within the limits of the boundaries of said county for shipment and sale beyond the boundaries of said county, and any person or persons making such offer of shipment or transportation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor."

As will be seen by the above section of the ordinance, the custom of marketing the birds outside the county is a misdemeanor.

The law breaker in this case is punishable by fine or imprisonment or both. It is learned that the authorities in this city intend to do their best to put a stop to this business here, and no doubt the officers of other places in the county where shipments have been made will endeavor to do the same.

Mr. H.T. Pryne, editor of "Field Sports," in a recent communication to the Santa Barbara Press, says:

"By the stopping of the sale of the game, the farmer becomes the principal beneficiary, by making a larger market for his poultry. A carefully prepared estimate of the number of wild ducks sold in the markets of San Francisco was given a couple of years ago, with the result that it revealed the astonishing fact that the city consumed 1,404,000 ducks during the open season. Certainly the rest of the state will consume as many more.

"It must be remembered that the game that is killed by the men who shoot for pleasure cannot be taken into this estimate, or will in any way effect it, as none of the game killed by them ever finds its way into the markets. But again, if the market hunting is stopped, and the game becomes plentiful, large quantities of it will find its way on to the tables of the farmer, and every pound that his family consumes allows him to market just so many more pounds of the products of his farm.

"I am aware that a great many farmers look upon the game as their especial enemy, because of the fact that it does destroy a certain amount of their crops, and is the cause of a certain class of vandals shooting their stock and breaking down their fences. But the remedy is in their own hands. There is a law prohibiting any one from entering upon enclosed land where signs are displayed prohibiting shooting."

SOUGHT GREENER PASTURES.

TWO SHELL GAME ARTISTS INVESTIGATE THIS FIELD.

Last Friday two strangers with a shell game outfit arrived at Port Hafford by steamer from San Francisco. They intended to do business in their slick way of robbing some of the passengers who landed from the steamer, but they found that there were too many officials on the lookout for them. The two men came to this city and made arrangements to return to Port Harford on Sunday to engage in their little game after the arrival of two steamers at that time. But they seemed to scent danger from afar, as on Saturday morning they took the train for the north.

Our local officers were prepared to go to the Port and capture the men if they had remained until Sunday.

If is believed that shell game sharps are trying to start their game at different ports between San Francisco and San Diego, but officers along the coast are continually watching for such people and no doubt they will have to seek other parts of the country to continue their operations.

At one time the shell game was quite noticeable at Port Harford on different occasions, but two years ago that place became too warm for the operators and the game has not been worked since, until last Friday when it resulted in a failure.

BORN:

GANOUNG - Near Arroyo Grande, Jan. 24, 1899, to the wife of Albert Ganoung, a son.

McLAUGHLIN - At Avenales, Jan. 25, 1899, to the wife of Wm. McLaughlin, a son.

SILVA - In this city, Feb. 1, 1899, to the wife of M.V. Silva, a son.

BERTINOLA - In this city, Feb. 3, 1899, to the wife of A.F. Bertinola, a son.

BAD LITTLE BOYS ARRESTED.

THEY HAD BEEN SWIPING ORANGES FROM TREES.

Yesterday Marshal Cook and Constable Cook put in the best part of the day looking for the youngsters who have lately made a practice of purloining oranges from trees in private yards about the city. Their search was highly successful. Nine small boys were captured and taken to the "cooler."

After the boys had been locked up for a few minutes they were all taken before Judge Egan, who patiently listened to their testimony. When the evidence was all in the judge showed his kindness of heart by delivering a short but warm lecture to the gang and then told them to go their way and sin no more.

SANTA MARGARITA.

ED. TRIBUNE:–Thursday and Friday were two busy days over here as that was the time appointed by Mr. Ring, for the distribution of hay to the poor people and farmers of the surrounding country. At an early hour Thursday morning the crowd began to assemble about the Southern Pacific depot and by noon there were fully fifty men standing in a line waiting for their number to be called.

Each man was put through an examination and made to prove that he was really in need of the hay and could not get it otherwise.

Other towns have made some complaint in regard to the manner in which the hay has been distributed, but the Santa Margarita people have no kick to make at all. They were all treated fairly and squarely and the management of this business by Mr. Ring, was strictly first class...

...A reward of $25 will be paid for the arrest of the person who has the Santa Margarita Night Hawk caged. The person who has captured this bird will please release it at once and cause no further trouble. S.M. Jan. 28, 1899.

HONORED BY CLASSMATES.

SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY STUDENTS AT BERKELEY.

We are advised that Miss Maude Wildes of this city, has been elected secretary of the freshmen’s class at Berkeley by a handsome majority; and that Nathan Moran has been chosen one of the editors of the college paper, the Californian.

D.J. Muma of San Simeon, is made manager of the University football team—a high honor—by a vote of 237 to 140.

We are proud of our young people and rejoice in their triumphs.

BOYS IN THE DOCK.

JUDGE EGAN DELIVERS ANOTHER LECTURE TO THE URCHINS.

The boys who were charged with stealing oranges Tuesday, besides four or five caught since then, were in the Justice court yesterday. There are now about fifteen of them who have been rounded up. Nearly all of the gang was taken in hand by Judge Egan and District Attorney Campbell, and each one of the culprits received a good curtain lecture. (Compiler’s note: The term "curtain lecture" derived originally from a reproof or scolding given to a husband by his wife, therefore, behind a bed curtain. In this sense it means "a private lecture").

Two or three of the boys are past the reform period and it is probable that they will get to Whittier. The charge against them is still in force.

The other boys were released but should any of them get into the clutches of the law again they will receive a sentence sufficient to make up for what they escaped this time.

DIED.

ORMONDE - At Arroyo Grande, Jan. 31, 1899, John Ormonde, a native of Ireland (sic), aged 55 years.

GRABOW - At her home on Dry Creek, Jan. 28, 1899, Anna Grabow, aged 21 years and 6 months.

BURNETT - At the County Hospital, Feb. 3, 1899, Thomas J. Burnett, a native of Missouri, aged about 73 years.

The mountains were covered with snow yesterday morning. It was a sight that has not been in evidence for many moons.

A marriage license has been issued to E.C. Caligan (sic) and Rita Canet.

ARRESTED FOR BEING CRUEL.

Joe Espinosa was arrested by Marshal Cook yesterday afternoon on a charge of cruelty to animals. The prisoner was arraigned before Judge Egan in the Justice court and held in the sum of $100 bonds, which of course he was unable to furnish, and he is now stopping at Sheriff Ivin’s hotel until further notice. (Compiler’s note: Sheriff Ivin’s hotel is the usual attempt at humor used by the editor. The Sheriff’s hotel obviously was the jail).

Espinosa came to town from Lopez creek about 8 o’clock Tuesday evening and after tying his team to a fence hear the Home Stables, came down town and got on one of his hilarious jags.

His team remained where he had left it until yesterday morning, but on Wednesday evening some kind hearted person living in that neighborhood gave the starving animals something to eat and drink.

Yesterday morning Espinosa learned that an officer was looking for him and he left town with his rig. He never got any further on his way home than to Gaxiola’s saloon just south of town, where he left the team standing in the middle of the road and returned to town to purchase a bottle of whisky which he had forgotten. When he walked into town he found the arms of the law ready to receive him, and he was given a hearty welcome.

ESTRELLA.

ED. TRIBUNE:–...There has been some trouble lately in the Estrella plains school. It seems that Mr. Thompson, the teacher, has used the rod too freely to suit some of the parents. The board, however, has sustained him in his action, and notified this special family that if their children come to school they must submit to the rules or receive the punishment. We trust that there will be no more trouble over the matter...

Mrs. Mills, grand president of the Native Daughters of the Golden West, is expected to arrive here on the 26th of this month. While Mrs. Mills is here the new Parlor of Native Daughters will be organized.

February 5, 1899 through February 11, 1899.

We commend to our farmer friends throughout the county the following words of good sense which we find in the Pacific Rural Press, from the pen of a prominent citizen and a wise one, of this vicinity. We presume that the author will not assume that in what he has written he is urging any novel consideration upon his fellow citizens. But none the less he is giving most excellent advice and upon the accepting thereof and acting upon the programme laid out will depend very largely the future welfare of our community. This is exclusively an agricultural community. Every one not directly at work in the utilization of the soil is absolutely dependant (sic) upon those who are. They have invested their capital and are devoting their lifetime of effort to the various pursuits which are subservient to the farmer. If that individual is carrying on his business in such haphazard, stupid fashion that failure results, it is not only himself that he is leading to ruin, but the merchant, the tradesman, the mechanic, the professional man, all in fact with whom the farmer is doing business, whose time and capital, skill and industry, he lays under tribute and whose fortunes are constantly and consequently at his mercy.

LESSONS OF THE DROUTH.—Let us say again with all the heart that is in us, the drouth is over, and smiling plenty once more walks abroad among the fields. But in the revulsion of feeling let us not forget that as drouths have been, so will they be again, and let us not fail to lay heart the lessons of the dry season.

Let us—farmers, all—resolve that never again will we burn our straw, at least not until the following season has fully declared itself an d the next year’s feed is fairly in view. How many during the past year must have bitterly regretted the straw to which the match was so thoughtlessly applied in the fall of 1897! Had that straw been stacked at slight expense, there would have been no need of relief committees distributing hay to keep alive the stock upon which depends the workings of the farm and the livelihood of the farmer and his family. There would have been feed enough and to spare, as was abundantly evidenced in this neighborhood by the few fortunate men who were foresighted enough to stack and preserve their straw. One such prudent farmer is reported to have cleared $700 from sale of straw which cost him only $50 to put up, besides having plenty for his own stock.

SEED SUPPLIES.—Another precaution, no less important, is the keeping in hand of a year’s seed ahead. The grain farmer lacking seed and feed is in the position of Samson short of his locks. Unless he has money in the bank wherewith to furnish himself, he is forced to wait upon others, who on their part in doubtful years are compelled for their own safety to hesitate and reckon carefully the chances of the season before making advances. Never was this more plainly seen than in the present season, before the belated rains relieved the tension.

On the other hand, the man who has his own seed and feed provided ahead can go right on putting in his crop in good time, so as to get the full benefit of whatever the season may bring. He takes only the ordinary chances of the weather, to which all alike are subject, but is free from the handicap laid on the man who has left himself dependent on others for his seed.

It is easily within the power of every farmer to free himself from this handicap by reserving from his first good crop (this year, we hope!) enough seed wheat for two years—one year’s supply to put in the following crop, the other to be held in reserve in case that crop should prove a failure. Should he desire the unquestionable advantage of a change of seed, he can haul the reserved portion to the warehouse, along with the bulk of his crop and arrange to have it exchanged for seed of another variety, or from some other locality, as he may desire. The important point is that two years’ seed should be held in hand, free from any incumbrance. Those who have good granaries on their ranches can haul the seed home (if exchanged for new) on return trips from the warehouse. Otherwise they can leave it in the warehouse for safe keeping, taking the precaution to prepay the storage while the money is in hand from the crop just disposed of.

Only once will it be necessary to keep out two years’ seed in order to get the start of a year’s supply ahead. Thereafter the reserving of one year’s supply from each crop will keep in independent, except in case a crop failure necessitates the use of the reserve provided against just such an emergency, when, of course, the process must be repeated.

ADVANTAGE OF DIVERSITY.—The oft reiterated moral of "putting all the eggs in one basket" might also be urged here in favor of farming diversified at least to a small extent. Every grain farmer should at least carry a few beef cattle and sheep. In ordinary seasons he will never miss their feed, but will find them a comfortable source of profit. And if he will plant odd corners and waste places on the farm with drouth-resisting forage plants, such as the Australian salt bush, which experience has shown will make a good growth of fodder in the driest of seasons, the occasional year of drouth will lose most of its terrors, for his cattle will secure him against want. Prudent farmers here and there already practice these methods of insuring themselves against crop failures, and such farmers are never found in distress. It rests with every grain farmer to place himself in their position of independence.

J.H. BARBER. Paso Robles, Cal., Jan. 15, 1899.

OUR PROPOSED FIRE ALARM.

A Good System Could be Put in for a Little Over Two Hundred Dollars.

City Engineer Park who has just returned from San Francisco, says while he was in the metropolis he visited the different electrical supply houses to see the style of apparatus necessary for a fire alarm system in this city. He found just what he was looking for and was informed that the system necessary for striking the bell, as described in the TRIBUNE a few weeks ago, could be bought for $225.

Mr. Parks was also informed by some of the general insurance agents that if San Luis was equipped with a complete alarm system, with the necessary call boxes, etc., that the insurance rates here would be reduced nearly 25 per cent on all policies.

If such a reduction can be had by means of a complete fire alarm system here, the trustees and people generally should do everything possible for the establishment of it.

In the meantime the electrical outfit for sounding an alarm would be a good thing to purchase and it would at least be a step in the right direction.

THE POT-HUNTERS.

HOW A BOX OF QUAIL FAILED TO REACH SAN FRANCISCO.

Since the publishing of an article a few days ago concerning the law relating to the shipping of wild game out of the county, we have learned of several more incidents where pot-hunters have sent game to the San Francisco market.

A short time ago a man went to the express agent at Templeton and wanted to send a box labeled "Sample Fruit" to San Francisco. The agent received the box for shipment and becoming suspicious of its contents proceeded to knock the lid off and found the nicest bunch of quail one would care to see. The box never reached its destination.

Another case is reported when the game shipper sent a pasteboard box to one of the freight agents for the S.P. Railroad south of here. The box was labeled "Gent’s Shirts," but it looked strange to the agent that shirts should be shipped by freight and he opened the box and found therein a fine mess of wild ducks already picked and cleaned.

There is a movement on foot to stop this style of traffic, and if any shippers of game are caught it will go hard with them.

DIED.

BLUM - In San Francisco, Feb. 2, 1899, Mrs. H. Blum, aged 38 years and 7 months.

ORMAN - Near this city, Feb. 1st, 1899, John Orman, a native of County Waterford, Ireland.

PEYTON - In this city, Feb. 2, 1899, Mrs. Susan Peyton, aged 49 years.

Sunday morning at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. Lewin the rite of circumcision was administered upon their infant son. The event was followed by a banquet.

SOME INTERESTING FIGURES.

EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT OF DR. SINCLAIR.

Dr. Jas. Sinclair presented a report to the Board of Supervisors yesterday which will be considered by the board today. The report is quite extensive and pertains to a detailed statement concerning the hospital for the past six months from July 1 to Dec. 31, 1898. From portions of the document we found the following information:

"July 1, there remained over in the hospital forty patients, while since then fifty other patients were admitted, making a total of ninety patients up to January 1. During the half year, twelve patients died, and thirty-two other patients were discharged therefrom. On January 1, 1899, there remained in the county hospital forty-six patients. The cost of subsistence for patients, employees, private nurses and laborers amounted to 15 30/100 cents to each individual subsisted at the hospital. This calculation is based upon the fact that 9,106 days’ subsistence was furnished during said half year, costing $1,393 26 ¾ 100 (sic) and no more. (Compiler’s note: The amount for half year subsistence is written EXACTLY as it was in the newspaper. There is some question as to how that number is interpreted).

"The buildings, or at least some of them at the hospital are, in my judgment, in great need of repair and renovation and I suggest that the board appoint a committee to inspect the premises."

With the report were a number of exhibits forming a complete tabulated statement of the expenditures of the hospital. It is very complete, covering every detail.

(Compiler’s note: An article which relates solely to Santa Barbara county officer’s salaries and is therefore not included in its entirety here, points out that San Luis Obispo county with a population of 20,140, at that time was a 19th class city having 2000 more inhabitants than Santa Barbara county).

THE COAST LINE.

ONE OBJECT OF THE VISIT OF RAILROAD PEOPLE IN NEW YORK.

As told in the dispatches last week, an important meeting of Southern Pacific officers and stockholders is to be held in New York. Vice-President Crocker, Mrs. Stanford, and others have gone east to attend this meeting. H.E. Huntington left several days earlier, but before leaving he wrote to Mr. Ivison saying that the meeting would be held, and intimating that definite arrangements would be completed then to push the coast road to a finish.

This letter rather offsets the published reports that the meeting was a hastily arranged affair, and gives the first public intimation that the gap is one of the important subjects to be considered.–S.B. Press.

THE EAST AND WEST ROAD.

AN OLD PROJECT OF VITAL INTEREST TO THIS COUNTY AGAIN COMES UP.

CAPITALISTS ARE READY TO INVEST.

(Compiler’s note: First mention of the "East-West Railroad" was made in this ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO series of books in the 1892 volume, pages 27 and 28. Other excerpts have been indexed under "East and West RR" page 179. The topic is indexed and discussed still again, but briefly, in the 1893 and 1894 volumes).

A very important subject which was considered a few years ago and which by this time has been about forgotten by nearly everyone except the persons personally interested in it, bobbed up quite unexpectedly at the afternoon session of the Supervisors yesterday. It pertains to the proposed East and West railroad:

This railroad question was the main topic of conversation among the people of the entire county for a long time after it was first brought out, but of late years the interest has died out but from now on its chances for a steady revival are good.

Messrs. R.E. Jack and McD.R. Venable appeared before the Supervisors yesterday and each gentleman made a strong argument in favor of the building of the road and of the bright results to be derived in consequence thereof. J.K. Tuley also put up a good argument.

County Clerk Whicher read a letter sent to the board by Mr. Henry Brunner of San Francisco, urging that the county assist in paying for a survey of the proposed road. Following is the letter:

"Gentlemen: We have good reason to believe that the building of a railroad from Port Harford to San Joaquin valley is now possible, but prompt action is necessary in order to place the bonds before the present favorable condition of the market changes again.

"Now, before the matter can be presented to any one, it is necessary to do the following:

"1st—Make a preliminary survey of the road.

"2d—Get the right of way and terminal facilities and locations of land.

"3d—Get statistics about the resources of the country and the probable amount of freight and passenger traffic of the proposed road.

"The preliminary survey ought to be made at once, and the purpose of this letter is to interest your assistance to defray the expenses of this survey by an appropriation of $500 out of the $1000 advertisement fund at your disposition.

"I have found several parties willing to pay a portion of the surveying expenses, and if you make the desired appropriation the survey can commence at once.

"Please do not treat this matter lightly, and kindly act at your next meeting on same."

After the above letter had been read Messrs. Jack and Venable urged immediate action in the matter, but the board decided that the subject had not been fully considered and they would prefer to wait a few days and test the pulse of the public before taking definite action.

This is a matter of vital importance to the whole county as the proposed road, if built, would benefit this section more than anything in the way of promoting the farming industry. With the East and West road in existence the grain raiser on the borders of the Carrisa Plains and in fact throughout the entire outside country of this section of the state could market his grain nearly as cheap as those having ranches on this side of the Santa Lucia range. Thousands of acres in the eastern and northeastern part of the county would then be cultivated which up to the present time have never come in contact with a plow. Why such a wonderful change? Because the farmer living 120 miles from Port Harford can ship his crop to tidewater. For years the land has only been used for grazing on account of there being no way to ship the grain. With a railroad things would be different.

There are capitalists in Germany who have had their eyes on this portion of California for the past few years, who are ready to invest some of their wealth in building and equipping this new railroad, provided the people will show a disposition toward assisting in a small way. There are certain capitalists and land owners in this county and in San Francisco who have volunteered to donate nearly all the money necessary to make the preliminary survey.

The Supervisors are requested to appropriate $500 from the fund set aside for advertising the county and inducing immigration, as it is claimed that the money can be used for a project like the one proposed as it is for the best interests of the people whom they represent.

The gentlemen who are asking for the appropriation, and the amount is not large when it is considered what great benefit may follow the construction of such a road, represent persons and institutions paying a big share of the taxes in the county, and when such men ask for aid the subject is worthy of consideration.

Persons from various parts of the county who happened to be present expressed their opinion that the new road would build up the county and be of lasting benefit.

The proposal route to be surveyed is as follows:

From the Bay of San Luis northeasterly along the Pacific Coast railway, eight miles, northerly through Los Osos and Morro valleys, to Old creek, twenty miles, northeasterly up the middle fork of Old Creek, twelve miles, northeasterly down Paso Robles creek, ten miles, easterly thirty miles, then east to the center of the San Joaquin valley, forty miles.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

Feb. 7.

...In re San Luis Obispo Union High School Building Fund, Whereas, there is now in the county treasury $568.81 collected from the San Luis Obispo Union High School District as a building fund and whereas, the said district has lapsed and is no longer in existence, and whereas, the said money was collected from the thirteen school districts formerly composing said Union High School district. It is therefore ordered that the superintendent of schools apportion the said sum to the said thirteen school districts in such proportion as the said taxes were paid by said districts respectively, and that when so apportioned that said sum be transferred to said districts and that account of said district fund be closed.

In re Pecho road. Whereas, on the 8th of March 1898, A.S. Hazard was granted permission to maintain three gates on the Pecho road for one year, and it is now ordered that said permission be and is extended for one year from and after March 8, 1899...

...A petition was received from Henry Brunner praying for an appropriation for the purpose of inducing immigration by assisting in the preliminary survey of a railroad from Port Harford to the San Joaquin valley. Laid over.

Ordered that Wm. Shipsey be employed as counsel to assist the district attorney in conducting the prosecution and defense of all suits in which the county is a party, and that he be paid therefor in the sum of $75 per month, until further order of the board, said compensation to be paid on verified demand made monthly to the board...

BORN.

VAN GORDEN - Near Cambria, Feb. 6, 1899, to the wife of Edward Van Gorden, a son.

THE REPORTED DEATH AT MANILA OF YOUNG THOMPSON APPARENTLY CONFIRMED.

The TRIBUNE announced the probable death in yesterday morning’s issue of Henry L. Thompson at the battle of Manila Sunday. Since then it is said that Thompson’s father Mr. J.H. Thompson of Edna, has received word from friends in San Francisco confirming the sad news.

We learn that Henry Thompson and his tent mate had entered into a plan whereby if either one of them was killed in any battle that might occur that the survivor should telegraph to the parents as soon as possible to inform them of such an occurrence. It seems that both the young men were killed in the same battle.

This is sad news to Thompson’s relatives living at Edna, and they have the sympathy of the entire community.

The young man who gave his life for his country was well known in Edna and in this city. He was a most estimable fellow and only about 22 years of age. When the war with Spain commenced he desired to go to the front and went to San Francisco and joined Company M of the Fourteenth regiment of regulars, the regiment being ordered to Manila soon afterwards. He was a corporal of Company M. This company lost the largest number of men in the battle of last Sunday.

DEATH OF PETER LUNDBECK.

Word was received in this city yesterday about noon of the death of Peter Lundbeck in Paso Robles that morning.

Lundbeck was well known in this city previous to his removal to Paso Robles. He was a blacksmith by trade, which business he was following in Paso Robles at the time of his death. He had been in poor health for several months with consumption which was the cause of his death.

He leaves a widow and several children. He was a member of the Odd Fellows and Forresters (sic), and in the latter order he carried an insurance of $2000.

SUPERVISORS.

Feb. 8.

...In re abalone ordinance. It appearing by the affidavit of J.K. Tuley, one of the printers and publishers of the Reasoner, that an ordinance prohibiting the sending, shipping and transporting of abalones and abalone shells, out of the county of San Luis Obispo, has been published in said paper one week, it is ordered that said ordinance has been duly published...

...Ordered that the Western Union Telegraph Company be authorized to install an electric clock in the county’s recorders office at a rental of $1.75 per month...

...In re pheasants. Ordered that fifteen Mongolian pheasants be purchased of Jas. Rochel at a price not to exceed $50 and it is further ordered that said pheasants be distributed equally to the several supervisorial districts.

BOUGHT THE PHEASANTS.

The Supervisors passed an order yesterday for the purchase of fifteen Mongolian pheasants from Joseph Rochel of this city. Rochel has raised several of these birds and the county law makers have made a wise decision in buying them. (Compiler’s note: See Supervisor notes above). The pheasants are to be distributed in different parts of the county and if they are not killed by excited nimrods they will soon accumulate in vast numbers and will then afford a great deal of sport for the hunters.

RACINE FEET.]

I am the agent in San Luis Obispo county for the celebrated H.S. Blake & Co’s Racine Stocking Feet which are so cheap and serviceable that it no longer pays to "foot" or "darn." Send to me for terms and prices. Also for The Star Hat Fasteners; more effective than any others; they are pins but do not go through the hat.

MRS. J.D. HANNA.

San Luis Obispo Postoffice

BROUGHT FROM PASO ROBLES.

JAMES ARCHER LODGED IN JAIL BY CONSTABLE GANO.

He Resented the Attentions of Another Man to His Divorced Wife.

Constable Gano arrived from Paso Robles last evening and lodged Jas. Archer in the county jail. Archer is accused of striking A.B. Hubbard at Paso Robles with a club, breaking the latter’s wrist.

The account of this affair in our issue yesterday was necessarily lacking in details, but they are supplied by the Paso Robles Record of Feb. 8, from which we quote.

"Several months since Mrs. Archer secured a divorce from her husband, Jim Archer, since which time she has felt free to receive the attentions of other men.

"Monday evening Archer went to see Mrs. Archer and his children. While he was there Al Hubbard called, and finding that Archer was in, said he would not come in, but Mrs. Archer said that Archer was going away soon, and so Hubbard entered, and ere long there was a wordy war between the two men. Archer finally went out and was shortly afterwards followed by Hubbard, who had hardly got out into the street before he was waylaid by Archer who beat him unmercifully and left him for dead.

"After Archer was arrested for disturbing the peace, he acknowledged that he waylaid Hubbard, and as a reason said that although Mrs. Archer was divorced from him he would not allow others to pay attention to her.

"Hubbard’s right arm was broken, his nose mashed (sic), a big cut across his chin, and several contused places on his head."

CHINESE NEW YEAR.

The bias-eyed wrestlers of the wash-tub and other Mongolians will begin their regular New Year festivities today. Last night a few firecrackers were exploded and the Chinese orchestra had a private rehearsal in order to usher in the event in proper shape today.

SUITS COMPROMISED.

CASES OF N.H. HANSEN AND LIZZIE HANSEN AGAINST THE S.P. COMPANY.

DROPPED FROM THE CALENDAR.

THE AFFAIR RECALLS A SAD ACCIDENT WHICH HAPPENED NEAR SANTA MARGARITA.

(Compiler’s note: The accident considered in this suit was covered fully in ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, 1897, a companion issue to this volume and is indexed in that book).

The important civil suits of Lizzie Hansen vs Southern Pacific Railway Company and N.H. Hansen against the same company, were to have been heard in the Superior court yesterday morning, but when the cases were called up, the attorneys representing both sides of the cases requested to have the matter dropped from the calendar.

It will no doubt be remembered by our readers that on the morning of June 5, 1897, this city was startled by the sad news that the north bound passenger train of that date when near this old Eight Mile House this side of Santa Margarita, had run into a rig containing Miss Lizzie and Stella Hansen of Santa Margarita, and that the young ladies were fatally injured. They were picked up in an unconscious condition and taken on the train to Paso Robles, where physicians did everything possible to relieve the sufferings of the two ladies. Soon afterwards Miss Stella Hansen died, but in the course of time Miss Lizzie Hansen recovered, although she still bears the unfortunate results of her injuries. The place where the accident happened was in a dangerous locality and the ladies attempted to cross the Southern Pacific tracks but the passenger train came along unexpectedly at the rate of about twenty-five miles an hour and struck their rig and injuring them to such an extent that it seems miraculous that even one of them lived.

In due time the survivor of the accident, Miss Lizzie Hansen, commenced a suit for damages against the railroad company and Mr. N.H. Hansen began a similar suit for the loss of his other daughter. The law firm of Delmas and Shortridge of San Francisco, was employed to prosecute the two suits and the rail company instructed their attorneys, Messrs. Graves & Graves, to defend them.

While the suits were pending, efforts were made by both sides to effect a compromise. The plaintiffs demanded too much and the defendants offered too little, and so the cases have been dragging along through the court calendars until yesterday, when the matter was to have been heard. But the long siege of intended litigation came to a sudden end.

Wednesday night all the witnesses in the intended suits arrived in this city and Attorney Delmas came also. Later in the evening the interested parties held a consultation with the result that a compromise was effected for the sum of $3,750 and the agreement that each side settle its own costs, etc.

It is believed that the decision made in the California Supreme court on June 20, 1898, in the case of Herbert vs Southern Pacific Company, which was practically a parallel case to the present one, had considerable bearing toward the compromise. A portion of the decision says:

"The railroad track of a steam railway must itself be regarded as a sign of danger, and one intending to cross must avail himself of every opportunity to look and to listen for approaching trains. If the view of the track is obstructed he should take greater pains to listen. If taking these precautions he would have seen or heard the approaching train. The very fact of injury will raise a presumption that he did not take the regular precautions."

The above decision is similar to that of the Supreme courts in some of the eastern and southern states.

Attorney Dorn represented the plaintiffs on behalf of the law firm of Delmas & Shortridge.

The final settlement was to have been made last night, but had to be postponed. However, when the Southern Pacific’s check arrives the company’s attorneys, Messrs. Graves & Graves will settle the controversy.

Mr. Hansen and Miss Hansen are deserving of a great deal more than the amount they will receive, but the loss of a life and lasting injuries to a survivor are a claim for damages that can never be paid, no matter how great the sum might be.

NOTES FROM SACRAMENTO.

...Assemblyman Griffin has introduced a bill placing a bounty of $1 on coyote scalps. It will not pass. But by all means the legislature should appropriate money to pay the scalp claims under the old law.

Daniel Faeb (sic) brought in a big load of acorns yesterday which were to be sold for hog feed.

February 12, 1899 through February 18, 1899.

Governors Gage Refuses to Approve the Bill Sending a Bug Expert to Australia.

PERSISTENT WORK FOR POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL.

A Small Colony of San Luis Citizens at the Capital in its Interest.

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 10.—...Today Governor Gage sent in his veto to several measures. One of them which the governor refused to sign was the bill which appropriated $10,000 to send an expert to Australia to import some beneficial insects to California. The governor very wisely concluded in his veto message that it was not in the interests of the farmers and fruit raisers of the state to spend such a large amount of money in giving some politician a pleasant trip across the seas to secure some bugs that would prove of no benefit. Governor Gage hit the nail on the head. Such schemes as the bug bill are nothing more than a luxury for the taxpayers of the state.

There is quite a San Luis colony in this city at present including Wm. Sandercock, R.E. Jack, J.K. Tuley and S.D. Ballou. P.B. Prefumo is over from San Francisco for a few days taking a look at the law makers. John Barneberg is expected to arrive soon and Supervisor Smith also. Smith will attend the supervisor’s convention, but the other gentlemen are putting in some good work for the Polytechnic School bill. "Cap" Harris is also on the scene again in the interests of the measure...

...Senator Smith will get the bill on an urgency file in the senate at once and its fate in that body will be determined about the middle of next week...

...Assemblyman Arnerich of San Jose, has introduced a bill to protect pheasants distributed throughout the state. The penalty fixed for killing them runs from a fine of $25 to $500, or in days of imprisonment from 10 to 150, or both. San Luis Obispo county ought to be solid for this law in order to protect the birds the Board of Supervisors purchased of Jos. Rochel. W.M.J.

OUR NEIGHBORING COUNTY.

A NEWSPAPER WAR IN PROGRESS.

Santa Barbara People Accused of Being Wedded to Silurianism. (Compiler’s note: The Silurian period is in the Paleozoic era of the geological time frame. Reference to "silurianism" is intended to be a "tongue in the cheek" remark implying that Santa Barbara’s inhabitants were "behind the times."This letter was addressed to the editor of the Santa Barbara Press by Mr. Francis E. Wilson).

..."In an editorial in your paper of last Sunday morning’s issue you make a long complaint because San Luis Obispo county stands directly in line to get the new Polytechnic school that it is hoped will be voted at this session of the state legislature. I think that if you will look a little deeper into this subject, you will find plenty of good and valid reasons why San Luis should have this school in preference to Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara has the reputation (which I am sorry to say is totally unsustained) of being the seat of education and culture. We bank a great deal on our wonderful climate, as though that would make up for all sins of omission; we quarrel and bicker among ourselves; personal interests almost invariably take precedence over public interests, particularly when any public improvement is suggested; we are too fond of the ‘dog in the manger’ act, and consequently we are and have been retrograding while other places have been making hay while the sun shone.

"How would a beautiful Polytechnic school building, one say that cost $100,000, look in this neglected city with its shabby parks, dusty and unkept streets and unfinished sidewalks? I have no doubt that if the school were voted for Santa Barbara the people would fight so disgracefully over its street location or some other trivial detail that it would eventually be built elsewhere."

In the same issue the Press says editorially:

"San Luis Obispo is organized and making a systematic campaign to secure one of the state institutions—the Polytechnic school. They have advertised for proposals for sites to be offered as an inducement to locate the school there. If the legislature were to give the school to Santa Barbara we have a lot of silurians who would want to call a mass meeting to discuss the advisability of allowing it to come here. That is the difference between San Luis and Santa Barbara. San Luis will get the school."

While we do not care to mix up in the controversy yet at the same time we believe our little city of San Luis Obispo is justly entitled to the Polytechnic school and we hope to have it if hard work and perseverance cuts any figure in the matter.

THE SEWER QUESTION.

Aside from the problem of profitable existence, no question has given the people of this city so much concern as the question of the disposition of the sewage. We are too far from the ocean to hope to be financially able to conduct the obnoxious stuff thither. (Compiler’s note: Just the suggestion of using the ocean as an outlet for the sewage even if it were close enough to do so, is appalling. The public would have a lot to say about this today). The little stream that flows through the town is too feeble to have so great a burden imposed upon it as to make it the dump. Cesspools are out of the question as has been long ago demonstrated and the proposition of a "sewage farm" is an untried resource in this immediate vicinity and fills the minds of many of our citizens, particularly those whom it is proposed to honor with a close association with the farm, with great dread and ill-concealed hostility. The late Col. Waring, who was perhaps the greatest authority on the subject in the United States, was, it will be remembered, employed by the city to make plans for a sewer system for us and did so. The plans which he prepared have been carried out to some extent in the pipes which have been already laid. His plans provide for a sewer farm but in the last few years he had made many experiments with a view of finding a better and cheaper method of disposing of sewage and it was reported that he had met with success. His invention related, to a process of aerating the sewage, intimately mixing oxygen with it, and thereby effecting a chemical change and absolutely destroying the noxious conditions. We notice in an exchange an extract from the London "Daily Mail" which we append hereto. As will be noticed it speaks with positiveness of the success which has been met with in what seems to us an entirely novel direction. Without doubt we will in this city shortly be compelled to make some decided move in this matter. Our present arrangements are entirely inadequate and constitute, as our own court has decided, a crying nuisance upon a few of our citizens who are unfortunate enough to have to bear the whole brunt of our misdoing. The citizens have manifested their willingness to expend a reasonable amount in remedying the evil and it will become the duty of our trustees to determine how the money so proposed to be placed at their disposition, shall be spent. If they act injudiciously the money may be found to have been absolutely wasted and they will of course be censured and what is worse, the health and prosperity of the town will be in a measure sacrificed. It would seem to be the wise thing to do, and without delay, to gather all the possible data that can be secured in any and every direction as to the most recent constructions and experiments so that when the time comes to act, the city’s money will not be expended unadvisedly and injudiciously. If for instance this Exeter plan has proved as successful as is claimed, our trustees ought to inform themselves fully about it, that if practicable we may profit by it. The account we referred to is as follows:

In a pleasant riverside meadow on the outskirts of Exeter is a small railed-off area, within which has been put to practical test the invention of the city surveyor for dealing with the sewage of the borough. All that the visitor sees are a mound covered with grass and a shallow concrete lake neither being larger than the dining or drawing room in an ordinary house.

Yet for two years the sewage of a district containing a population of two or three thousand people has, after passing through the works, flowed into the river colorless and absolutely innocuous, and that without having received any mechanical or chemical treatment whatever.

The whole of the work is done by the merry microbe. The grass covered mound referred to is the roof of an air tight and light tight tank into which the crude sewage flows. There it remains for a number of hours.

The conditions are highly favorable for the multiplication of the bacteria which fatten on corruption, and so rapidly do they increase, and so voracious do they become, that in a short time all the solid organic matter in the sewage is dissolved into liquid. A valve automatically opens and allows the contents of the tank to escape into a little channel which conveys it to the concrete lake, the bed of which is covered with small coke, or ‘breeze."

The channel and the lake are the microbes’ Nemesis, for light and air are fatal to them, and consequently by the time the stream from the tank has filtered through the coke dust it has become clear and inoffensive. As a matter of fact, it is purer than the river into which it merges, and fish may occasionally be seen swimming in it right up to the edge of the filter.

As further evidence of the efficacy of the system it may be mentioned that the effluent has on more than one occasion been drunk by human beings without any disagreeable results.

The whole process is carried on without any attention whatsoever. The tank is divided into two parts, filling alternately. The filter lake is also divided, so that each section may in turn have a period in which to recover itself. The alternations however, are entirely automatic, being controlled by an ingenious piece of mechanism actuated by the flow of the sewage itself.

A $25,000 BLAZE.

HIGUERA STREET SWEPT BY FIRE.

TEN STORES GONE.

The Ancient Buildings Known as the Johnson Property Have Gone Up in Smoke.

What has been expected in this city for several years, happened last evening shortly before 7 o’clock, when a fierce conflagration mowed down the entire Johnson block from the Warden building on one side to Dutton’s grocery store on the creek bank on the other.

Many persons have remarked that if a fire even got a start in the Johnson block it was doomed, and it has been proven too plainly.

Shortly before 7 o’clock C.H. Meyer, proprietor of the Olive Branch saloon at the corner of Higuera and Chorro streets, commenced to make some coffee on a gasoline stove behind the lunch counter. Suddenly, without warning, the gasoline tank exploded and scattered the burning oil over the floor, and in an instant the entire room was on fire.

An alarm was turned in, but the first few taps of the bell were so slow that many people thought it meant a drill, as it had been intended to bring the engine out last night to pump water for the benefit of the surveyor for the fire underwriter, Mr. Harrison, who is in town. However, the bell soon sounded a different tune and the department got to work in good time.

By this time the entire corner was doomed with all the remaining wooden buildings in that part of the block. Then while the firemen were working on the north side the building occupied by Chiesa as a grocery, soon was in flames, and then a stream was turned on the adjoining buildings, but it was of no avail, and the old wooden structures were mowed down like grain before the reaper. It was the same result on the Chorro street side. The vacant store room next to the saloon went up in smoke, together with Woods’ cigar store, Pinho’s barber shop and the best part of Dutton’s grocery store on the creek bank.

The establishments of Chiesa, grocery store, Fleugler, bakery, Hoefer, harness shop, Steinhart, cigar store, Marshall, jewelry store, and the empty store room formerly occupied by O’Sullivan’s shoe store, were the places destroyed on Higuera street.

The contents of all the buildings except the saloon and the adjoining store and bakery, were removed to places of safety. Considerable stuff was also taken from the two latter places only to be burned in the street.

The buildings on the south side of Higuera street were badly scorched, and came near going, too.

It was the hottest fire that has occurred here for years, the spectators being driven back a long distance. The telephone, telegraph and electric light wires were falling in all directions but no one was injured as the light company turned off the current when the alarm was sounded.

C.H. Meyer and family lost everything they had in the corner building. Not a thing was saved but the clothes they wore when they fled into the street. Mr. Meyer places his loss at $2000, with an insurance of only $650. Walter Woods loses his building, while his stock of cigars, etc., is damaged in the moving. His goods were insured for $925 and the building for $250.

DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THOSE WHO LOST IN THE HIGUERA STREET FIRE.

(Compiler’s note: This front page story of the TRIBUNE’S February 14, 1899 issue, in addition to carrying an article about the fire, printed an extensive list of insurance coverage for the buildings and contents as well as a few other details about the conflagration. Readers interested may find the article in the microfilm department of the San Luis Obispo Public Library).

...The total losses as near as it could be estimated, will foot up (sic) to about $25,000. This is divided up as follows:

Ten thousand on the buildings, and $15,000 on the losses to stock and fixtures in the different business houses.

Mrs. P. Hoefer had to be carried from her rooms over her husband’s harness shop being too bewildered to help herself.

It was a touch and go for a few minutes with the buildings on the side of Higuera street opposite the fire, during the hottest time, the fronts being ablaze several times, a stream of water and numerous "hookies" with buckets, alone preventing the fire from crossing the street.

A. Sauer sustains quite a heavy loss in cracked plate glass windows on Higuera street. It could not be learned whether he carried any insurance or not.

The fine plate glass window in the front of the County Bank was completely ruined by the heat, and it will cost a pretty penny to replace it.

The men who are located in brick buildings were hugging themselves with delight last evening at their wisdom and forethought.

Miss Meyer, C.H. Meyer’s daughter, mourns the loss of a diamond ring, once her mother’s, and which she prized very greatly. Her father was obliged to flee so hurriedly from his burning saloon that he had not even time to put on a hat or save his outdoor garments.

Steinhart wisely kept his front doors closed and with selected assistants carried his stock out the back door and into O’Sullivan’s store in the Warden building.

When Wm. Johnson turned in the alarm one of the cables got jammed in one of the pulleys and he had to go up in the cupola of the city hall to ring the bell.

DEATH OF ARZA (sic) PORTER.

Hon. Arza Porter formerly of the Huasna ranch but lately of Santa Barbara, died in that city Saturday night. Deceased was well known throughout the county and his friends will deeply regret to learn of his demise.

INSURANCE SURVEYOR.

G.W. HARRISON COMES TO MAKE A NEW RULING FOR SAN LUIS OBISPO.

THE RATE MAY BE REDUCED.

Some Suggestions for Improving Our Facilities for Fighting Fire.

MORE HYDRANTS AND A HOSE WAGON.

Engineer Park’s Fire Alarm System Would Also be a Wise Move.

Mr. G. W. Harrison, insurance surveyor for the Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific, is in town on business connected with his position. He is here for the purpose of making a general inspection of San Luis in regard to its fire protection and to make a basis rate for insurance and after his report is submitted, men will be sent here to make a new plat of the town and a new rate may be established, according to the basis rate made by Mr. Harrison. The last rating for this town was made about ten years ago.

The surveyor will inspect the reservoir, the water mains, and he had a chance last night to see how much water the steamer can pump.

He says it all depends on the town itself as to what the insurance rating will be. If the water mains in the business part of the city were all 6-inch pipes and the buildings in that part of the city were with 300 feet of a hydrant they would be entitled to a reduction of 5 per cent, and with increased protection the rate would be cut down still more.

An insurance surveyor takes every detail into consideration and Mr. Harrison is thoroughly conversant with the needs of this place. The town couldn’t expect very much of a reduction in the present rates until our fire and water facilities are improved. He advocates the putting in of more hydrants, in fact there should be one within every 250 feet in the fire district. It would mean increased protection, and while the cost would be considerable yet in time the hydrants would pay for themselves by reduced insurance rates, in the saving of hose, and in such a case the steamer could force the water further and the strain would not be so great as at present.

He says the town needs a hose wagon and a horse to pull it. At present in the event of fire the engine arrives at the scene of action first and has to wait for the hose companies to arrive. With a wagon all the hose necessary would be on hand as soon as the engine, thus much time would be saved. The wagon would mean a saving to the hose as it would not be coiled on a reel as it now is. In a wagon the hose is folded in 12-foot lengths. Hose needs air, and when it is too tightly rolled as it is on the cars, the rubber near the couplings soon becomes rotten and then some time during a conflagration the hose bursts and before it is looked after, several feet of it is ruined. He states that if the town cannot have a hose wagon it should have three hose carts. One cart could be kept at the engine house and there should be one stationed at each end of town, so as to reach a fire quicker, according to the location of it. This would mean more protection.

With a fire alarm system the rates would come down several points.

Mr. Harrison could not say just how much the old rates might be reduced but with certain improvements mentioned above the would be less than at the present time. In the different towns of the state wherever the water works, etc., have been improved there has been some reduction.

For many years the insurance rates in San Luis have been too high, but the ratings are based to a great extent on the protection we have in case of fire. More protection means less premium on the policies.

From here Mr. Harrison will go to Arroyo Grande before returning north.

MARRIED.

ADY - HOWIE—In this city, Feb. 14, 1899, by M. Egan, J.P., Mr. Abel Ady of Morro, and Miss Lena Howie of Los Gatos.

DIED.

FISHER - In this city, Feb. 14, 1899, Mary, wife of J.F. Fisher, a native of Germany, aged 61 years and 14 days.

WHITNEY - In San Francisco, Feb. 6, 1899, D.H. Whitney, aged 64 years and 3 months.

D.H. Whitney was an old soldier, and served four years under the great General Sherman...

He was for many years a resident of this county, and had many friends here. His brother, B.C. Whitney lives at San Simeon, and is the postmaster there.

WILLIAMS - In Paso Robles, Feb. 13, 1899, Floyd Williams, eldest son of L. E. Williams.

HENDERSON - In Paso Robles, Feb. 15, 1899, Hiram B. Henderson, aged 53 years and 23 days.

AFTER THE BIG FIRE.

THE SCENE DRAWS A CROWD OF IDLERS AND SIGHT SEERS.

PLANNING THE NEW BUILDINGS.

Mr. Johnson’s Probable Future Actions Discussed From Every Point of View.

The crowd of spectators about the scene of the big conflagration of Monday night, expressed different opinions as to what would be done by C.H. Johnson, the owner of the ground on which the destroyed buildings had stood. Some said he would build a big brick building and others were of the opinion that he would lease the land and allow others to build. Then another spectator said the most profitable thing to do was to put up a two story hotel. Others however, argued that people would not lease any of the ground because they would be forced to put up brick buildings and there was no way to move such structures at the expiration of a lease.

The property, being the best in the city, will no doubt be improved very soon. It is said by intimate friends of Mr. Johnson that it has always been his intention, should his buildings ever be destroyed, to put up a brick block. He now has an opportunity to fulfill his intention.

It is said that Mr. Johnson intends rebuilding on his property as soon as possible...

SKETCH OF AZRA PORTER.

Short Obituary Notice From Santa Barbara Paper.

For the benefit of our readers we publish the following notice from the Santa Barbara Press of Sunday, Feb. 12th.

Summoned by the grim messenger, Mr. Arza (sic) Porter passed peacefully to his long rest at his home on lower Chapala street in this city at 10:11 o’clock p.m., Feb. 11th. Although he has six children, only his wife was with him at the last, his death coming so unexpectedly that it was not possible for his sons and daughters, who were in distant parts, to be present. Mr. Porter’s last illness (pneumonia) was contracted on his trip down from San Francisco on the steamer arriving last Wednesday.

Mr. Porter’s career was in many respects remarkable. Born in Lima, New York, in 1838, he went to Morris, Illinois, at an early age, and from thence crossed the Great Plains in 1858, coming to Southern California, where in Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo counties he has lived ever since. He was owner of the great Huasna rancho in the latter county, where during a great part of the last eighteen years he has resided, though often living for considerable periods at his home in this city. Owing to his many absences he was best known to the older residents here, by whom his benevolent life and large-heartedness was highly appreciated, although these characteristics were not unknown to later citizens. He was sheriff of Santa Barbara county for eight years, at a time previous to the separation of Ventura county therefrom. He was prominently connected with State politics, also, having served San Luis Obispo county in the Assembly from 1884 to 1886. Mr. Porter traced unbroken lineage back to a maternal ancestor who came over in the Mayflower. He would have been 61 years old in March.

Mr. Porter’s six children are: Mrs. Anton Kirkoff, Covina, Cal.; Mrs. Chas. Adam, Santa Maria, Cal.; Miss Rose Porter, of Santa Barbara; Isaac, Arza (sic) and Asa Porter. Mrs. H.G. Crane of this city, Mrs. Isaac C. Tilden of Morris, Ill., are sisters, and Mr. Asa F. Porter, of Peary, Iowa, is a brother of the deceased.

A NASTY SHOT.

A Printed Insinuation Creates a Lively Breeze.

Company No. 2 of the Fire Department, held an indignation meeting last evening at which a majority of the members of the company were present. The cause of their wrath was a report which had been published in the evening paper on the authority of a member, name unknown, of Company 3, suggesting the probability that some member of No. 2 out of a spirit of jealous rivalry had plugged the nozzle of No. 3 so that when water was turned on at the fire on Monday night the hose was useless. The No. 2 boys regarded the insinuation as infamous and in strong language the author of the report was denounced as a slanderer. The outcome of the deliberations of the meeting was that a resolution was passed offering a reward of $25 for the arrest and conviction of any member of their company No. 2, who should be found guilty of tampering in any such manner with the apparatus of Company No. 3.

MR. JOHNSON WILL REBUILD.

Mrs. C. H. Johnson was visiting in town yesterday. When interviewed with reference to erection of buildings on her husband’s property on Higuera street, she informed us that he would make arrangements to construct three one-story brick buildings there within a few weeks...

...The rest of the land will be leased to responsible parties for building purposes for a number of years. He prefers to lease the land rather than build, but if a desirable party cannot be found who will take the corner lot, then Mr. Johnson will erect a large two-story building thereon...

...We are glad to learn that Mr. Johnson does not intend to allow his property to remain unimproved.

TEMPLETON.

...Wild pigeons have been quite plintiful (sic) of late and our local sportsmen are bagging from 2 to 8 dozen a day which bring $1 per dozen in San Francisco.

CAYUCOS.

Hanna, Horstman and Hardie are exhibiting some alleged specimens of quartz rich in gold, said to have been found near Cayucos. Assayer Hanna says it will run ‘steen (sic) thousands of dollars to the ton, and that the woods are full of it. They will open up their mine as soon as the Mid California Railroad is opened to traffic as far as Cayucos. (Compiler’s note: It is difficult to know whether this article was written in jest or not. On the one hand it appears that gold may have been found in or near Cayucos. On the other hand it appears that the writer is saying "There is no gold in Cayucos, the sarcasm being that IF the east west railroad materializes the mine would be opened...considered to be an unlikely thing).

Mayhall and Hendricks have been prospecting for quicksilver near here and have found some very rich ore.

A CURIOUS STATE OF AFFAIRS.

SHORT SIGHTED POLICY OF SOME WORTHY PEOPLE.

Kluver’s Cigars are Better Known in San Francisco than in San Luis Obispo.

Curious it is that home talent is rarely appreciated and home productions are always at a disadvantage. Cigar stores have always been numerous and of course every saloon, and they have been still more numerous, has had its cigar department. But every smoker appears to think that no cigar, even a "two-fer," can be any good unless it has been brought here from San Francisco or New York. Every one know the foulness that may be concealed in a cigar. It may have been made in a New York tenement, under conditions which would turn the stomach of a dog. A San Francisco cigar, it is a ten-to-one-shot, is the product of Chinese cheap labor, and their scene of industry is too dreadful to bear description. It would take the Examiner to do justice to the subject and have the nerve to print the report. And yet the foreign cigar is first choice while the better article, made in our own town by experts of the first class, under surroundings of perfect purity and cleanliness, of the finest tobacco, perfect in smoking qualities, in flavor and aroma has to be sent elsewhere to find sale. It does not argue favorably for the good sense of our people, or for their business judgment. If we do not patronize our home industries, if we send abroad for the small supplies that we need, how can we expect that we ourselves, we others, will find customers and support? And yet it is the fact that our only cigar factory, that of Mr. Geo. Kluver, has to go to San Francisco to find a market, while our citizens think it necessary to go to San Francisco to buy their cigars. Mr. Kluver’s sales of cigars in San Francisco the past two weeks exceeded thirteen thousand and sold as first class goods and to first class houses where a poor article would meet with instant rejection. Mr. Kluver has recently made arrangements whereby he gets straight importations of Mexican tobacco from first hands and he is able to put a cigar upon the market which cannot be excelled by any so-called Key West manufacturers and will equal the Havana cigar that commands a much higher price. If we had a proper pride in the success of our townsmen and the right appreciation of the necessity of building up our home industries we would all of us insist on the San Luis Obispo production of our friend and neighbor in preference to the questionable result of the work of the peon of China or Cuba.

CITY TRUSTEES MEET.

The Board Offers a Reward for the Party Who Tampered With a Hose Nozzle.

Feb. 15.

...Trustee Pinho called the attention of the Board to the fact that at the recent fire it was discovered that a piece of wood had been inserted in one of the nozzles rendering it useless until the cause of the trouble was ascertained. The Fire Department had offered a reward for the discovery of the malicious offender and he suggested that it was a matter that called for the action of the Board. Hose Company No. 3, who had charge of the hose in question had offered a reward of $10 for the apprehension of the offender.

On motion of Trustee Lind the Board ordered the offer of a reward of $50 for information resulting in the arrest and conviction of the guilty party.

THE PARKFIELD OIL BOOM.

TWO COSTLY WELL BORING OUTFITS ON THE GROUNDS.

While Ten Others are Expected to Put in an Appearance Soon.

Henry Mallory of this city has received an interesting letter from his friend Walter Watkins at Parkfield. He says:

"Parkfield has begun to boom, there are two well boring outfits already here and ten more are expected soon. There must be something to the recent oil discoveries made here, as the outfits are worth about $2000 each. The parties interested used to live in an oil country in Pennsylvania and they say this place is destined to become prominent in due time.

...While Parkfield may not grow rapidly, if the flow of oil continues it will probably become a good sized town.

THE EAST AND WEST ROAD.

BAKERSFIELD PEOPLE ANXIOUS TO TAKE A HAND.

The proposition recently brought before the Board of Supervisors of this county asking for aid to make a preliminary survey of the proposed East and West road between San Luis bay and some interior point in Kern county, has aroused the newspapers and people of that section.

A late copy of the Bakersfield Echo has considerable to say on the subject of a practical nature. It suggests that it would be wise for the people of that town to ascertain how the people of San Luis Obispo really stand on the proposition, so that intelligent co-operation could be brought about. The paper referred to says a road to some point on the ocean will certainly be built in the not too distant future, and if San Luis Obispo wants to be the western terminus, and will unite with Bakersfield people, there is no reason why it should not have it.

This road would do more for this city and county, and the country between the coast and its eastern terminus than any other road that could be built. If this road is built it must come to our harbor, as there is no other point on the coast where a shipping point could be successfully established between Monterey and San Diego. The people here are willing and will do what is right.

RAILWAY BUILDER DEAD.

CONTRACTOR JOHN A. McMURTRIE PASSES AWAY IN DENVER.

A dispatch from Denver, dated Feb. 15, to the San Francisco Chronicle says:

"John A. McMurtrie, the millionaire railroad contractor, died at his home in this city tonight of blood poisoning caused by an abcess (sic). At the time of his death he was engaged with his partners in constructing a coast line for the Southern Pacific in California.

Deceased had many friend in San Luis. Of late years he had been in poor health. His last visit here was about two years ago.

THAT GAP.

Several prominent officials of the S.P. Company have received advices from New York that H.E. Huntington is now on his way to San Francisco with instructions from C.P. Huntington to expedite the work of filling in the gap on the Coast Division between Surf and Elwood. The distance is fifty miles and the estimated cost of this new piece of road is about $2,000,000.

For over a year past the contractors who have charge of the work have not had in their employ over thirty men, because of orders to that effect by the Southern Pacific. Whether H.E. Huntington is empowered to order them to increase their force of laborers to 200, 500 or 1000 men remains to be seen. Those who know say that it will take 1000 men about fourteen months to complete the road.

Local officials of the company see no good reason why this important enterprise should be longer delayed. The company was never in a better financial condition than at present and Mr. Huntington himself has so much available money that he is playing the role of a usurer. (Compiler’s note: A usurer is one who lends money especially at an exorbitant rate). He is loaning it on call at 2½ per cent which means the same thing.

When the gap is filled in there will be a new route from the city to Los Angeles. It will start from Third and Townsend streets and run by way of San Jose, Castroville, Salinas and San Luis Obispo to Santa Barbara and thence to Saugus and Los Angeles. The completion of this line will also mean the early construction of a cut off from Fourth and Townsend due south around the edge of the bay until the main line is again reached at Milbrae. There will be at least three tunnels on this cut off, which will be a double track. All the rights of way and surveys for this piece of road were perfected several years ago. When it is built the present line through the Mission will be used for freight, so it is said. —Ex.

BORN:

ROJAS - At Nipomo, Feb. 11, 1899 to the wife of J.E. Rojas, a daughter.

February 19, 1899 through February 25, 1899.

NIPOMO.

We are sorry to h ear Johnny Donovan has lost some twenty or more fine cattle in the last two days and report says it is caused by "Black Leg."

DONATIONS TO THE SCHOOLS.

GENEROUS ACTS OF PATRONS GREATLY APPRECIATED.

ED. TRIBUNE: During the last year the schools of this city have been inspired and stimulated in a great degree by the many little tokens of appreciation and approval presented to them from time to time by the good people of San Luis Obispo.

Ornamental shade trees, rare plants and elegant pictures have been gratefully received and thoroughly appreciated, and when the TRIBUNE generously presented to us a magnificent relief map of San Luis Obispo county, we felt that we could not be sufficiently thankful.

The map arrived at the school house in first class shape, and for many years will be an ornamental as well as useful piece of school apparatus.

Mr. Editor, please accept the earnest thanks and grateful acknowledgments of teachers and pupils, and may the generous actions of Messrs. Brooks, Hearne, Lind, Mrs. Atwood and others induce the friends and patrons of other schools to take a substantial interest in the welfare of their children, is the sincere wish of all our pupils.

F.E. DARKE,

Principal of Nipomo Street School.

Nipomo Street School, Feb. 18, ‘99.

DIED.

WILLIAMS - In this city, Feb. 18th, 1899, Frank E. Williams, son of J.P. and Nellie Williams, a native of Chariton county, Missouri, aged 24 years, and 4 months.

THE EAST AND WEST ROAD.

Mr. Henry Brunner and Civil Engineer W.M. O’Shaugnessy (sic) Arrive in Town.

Mr. Henry Brunner arrived from San Francisco Sunday night accompanied by W.M. O’Shaughnessy, a civil engineer. Mr. Brunner is interested in the proposed East and West road and hopes to see the time when the road will be a reality.

A short time ago the San Francisco Examiner endeavored to secure a successful interview with Mr. Brunner in regard to the new railroad, but little satisfaction resulted.

The engineer whom Mr. Brunner brought with him will probably proceed at once with the work of making a preliminary survey. Mr. W. N. Ent has been engaged to make some tracing maps and the engineer spent a few hours in the assessor’s office yesterday looking over the different maps, etc.

From all appearances we are inclined to believe that the survey for the East and West road will be made at once, whether the Supervisors lend their assistance or not.

In talking with prominent men yesterday the opinion was freely expressed that it would be an injustice if this county did not assist in paying its share for the survey. Some of the persons interviewed said that some men who were very small taxpayers could apply to the supervisors for assistance in an enterprise and receive some assistance, but when persons representing the largest taxpayers made an effort to get any assistance it was almost impossible to get it. It is hoped that the Supervisors will lend their assistance toward having the survey made. There is no county through which the proposed line will run which will derive so great a benefit as will San Luis Obispo.

The East and West road would do more towards making a large city out of San Luis than anything which might be proposed. Our citizens should lend a hand to help this matter along.

CITY TRUSTEES.

A PETITION TO HAVE GRANT (sic) AVENUE OPENED.

(Compiler’s note: There was no "Grant Avenue" in San Luis Obispo, nor is there one. The intention was "Grand" Avenue which is in what is known as the Phillips addition. It was the only thoroughfare in the city that was 100 feet wide. This is a striking example of how easy history can be altered through lack of proper information or through error).

...Petition received from R.E. Jack and others setting forth that some 25 years ago C.H. Phillips laid out Phillips addition and as part thereof an avenue named Grant (sic) Avenue, 100 feet wide and conveyed same to the city. That subsequently J.P. Andrews fenced up part of said street which occasions an obstruction in said street. Petitions asked that obstruction be removed. On motion the matter was referred to the city attorney to ascertain the rights of the city in the premises and to report at next meeting.

DIED AT MORRO.

GEORGE STOCKING PASSES AWAY AFTER A LONG ILLNESS.

It was with regret that we learned of the death of George A. Stocking at Morro Sunday noon. Deceased was a general favorite with all his friends a steady and industrious young man. For the past two years that dreaded disease consumption, had been gradually increasing its strength until at last death came as a relief.

Just before noon the young man had been sitting on a sofa and as he was suffering from pain his father advised him to take a chair and thus be able to rest easier. He did as requested and had no sooner sat down when he gave a short gasp and a few moments afterwards was dead.

Deceased was a son of Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Stocking and a brother of Mrs. J.H. Hollister, Mrs. W.B. McKennon, Miss Minnie Stocking, Frank, Charles and Ernest Stocking. The funeral. occurs today at Morro with interment at Cayucos. (Compiler’s note: Although Mr. Stocking was originally interred in the Cayucos cemetery, his body was later transferred to a family plot in San Luis Obispo).

DIED.

ESTUDILLO - In this city, Feb. 19, 1899, Olympia, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Estudillo, aged 12 years and 5 months.

STOCKING - At Morro, Feb. 19, 1899, George A. Stocking, son of J.C. and C.E. Stocking, a native of Bloomfield, Sonoma county, Cal., aged 27 years.

LATEWARD - In Phoenix, Arizona, Feb. 19, 1899, Frederic John Lateward, a native of England, aged about 40 years.

COFFEY - In Lompoc, Feb. 14, 1899, William M. Coffee, aged 46 years, 11 months and 23 days.

THURBER - In this city, Feb. 24, 1899, David P. Thurber, a native of Delaware county, New York, aged 65 years, 9 months and 12 days.

PRESSEY - In this city, Feb. 24, 1899, Beulah Augusta, beloved wife of M. Pressey, and mother of Mrs. M. Faustino, Mrs. G.B. Tuley, A.E. Pressey, G.B. Pressey and Mrs. F.P. Duley, a native of Maine, aged 67 years, 5 months and 6 days.

TEMPLETON.

Last Friday the youngest boy of Mr. Larson, living two miles north of town, suddenly passed away.

A CAYUCOS MUSSEL HUNT.

AN ORIGINAL PLAN TRIED BY A PASO ROBLES TRIO.

One of them Does the McGinty Act and Came Near Drowning.

CAYUCOS, Feb. 20.—The usual Sabbath serenity of Cayucos came near being one of desperate gloom last Sunday, but the episode fortunately resulted in nothing worse than a huge joke.

Ben Pierce and Billy Waiters of Paso Robles, and Miles Sanders of Cayucos, were three of a hungry lot of clam diggers on the beach. Having filled their sacks Pierce wanted to fill the wagon bed with mussels, whereupon Sanders prevailed upon him to swim to a rock off from the shore where the mussels, he said, were as big as butter boxes. They took a sack, a shovel, a pair of lines from the harness, and a hundred yards (more or less) of stout rope. The water about the rock was forty feet deep, at least Pierce said he lacked ten feet of touching bottom, and the lines tied together were thirty feet long.

It appears that Sanders misrepresented the size of the mussels, as they were no larger than a macaroni box, of which they filled a sack and sewed it at the top, and declare it weighed 200 pounds. This was lashed to Sander’s back and right arm with straps. The rope was tied to Sander’s left arm and the other end carried toward shore and grasped by Pierce and Waiters. Sanders was to jump at a given signal and the others were to draw him in like a donkey engine draws a big shop up to the dock. The signal was to be a laugh by Pierce. Pierce laughed! Sanders jumped! And how they hauled in on the towline! But like McGinty, Sanders and his load went to the bottom of the sea. By the furious tugging of Pierce and Waiters on their hawser the harness lines were broken and Sanders arose to the surface and was dragged ashore, but none too soon. He quickly revived and laughed at his peril.

Pierce mourned the loss of his sack of mussels, a shovel and the pair of lines. He rigged up some lines of binder twine and returned to Cayucos about noon. He said he would not drive into Paso Robles during daylight with this outfit for love or money, and did not leave here until about 4 p.m., vowing he would rather be lashed to the sack of mussels than have the newspapers hear the story of his day’s adventure and proverbial fisherman’s luck.

POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL BILL PASSES THE SENATE BY A VOTE OF 29 TO 1.

Senator Laird of Shasta County, Cast the Dissenting Vote---The Bill Will Go Immediately to the Assembly.

Special to THE TRIBUNE.

SACRAMENTO, February 22.--After a short debate the bill to establish a Polytechnic School in San Luis Obispo and an appropriation of $100,000 for its establishment, passed the Senate today at 4:10 p.m. by a vote of 29 to 1.

Senator S.C. Smith delivered a strong address in favor of the bill and urged its passing.

Senator Laird of Shasta, cast the only opposing vote. Seven Senators were absent. Three Senators did not vote. The bill now goes to the Assembly where it is expected to meet with favorable consideration.

NICKLE (sic)-IN-THE-SLOT.

ED. TRIBUNE: Sec. 330 of the Penal Code of California, provides that every person who deals, plays, carries on, opens or causes to be opened, or conducts either as owner or employee, whether for hire or not, any game, or any device played for money checks, credit or any representative of value, or bets at or against (such) is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100 or more than $500; or by imprisonment for not more than six months in the county jail or both.

Sec. 335 of the same Code makes it the duty of all officers from District Attorney to Policeman to prosecute and the neglect of such duty is also a misdemeanor.

The running of gambling devices, "nickle (sic)-in-slot" in this city has grown to be a scandal. It is said that men from other towns have such running boldly without hindrance. Boys are being ruined and their mothers say the town government seems to protect these vultures.

Would it not be well for the city to appoint one policeman, whose duty it should be to run these vultures and their machines out of town or in jail. One month at a cost of about $60 will do the work and give us a step up in civilization.

CITIZEN.

MARRIED.

DICKIE - MINOR—In Cambria, Feb. 22, 1899, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Lull, grandparents of the bride, by Rev. Isaac Baird of Cayucos, Mr. George S. Dickie and Miss Roberta E. Minor, both of Cambria.

THEY LANDED A SUCKER.

THREE LOCAL SPORTS ARRESTED FOR DRY-PICKING A WANDERER FROM SAN MIGUEL.

IN A QUIET GAME OF PEDRO.

Then a Constable From Over the Hill Gathers in the Countryman and Takes Him Home.

ON CHARGE OF JUMPING A HOTEL BILL.

Three of the town’s sports were arrested yesterday on a charge of euchring Frank Bartlett out of about $24 by means of a reflector in a card game on Tuesday night. (Compiler’s note: The word "euchring" means to trick or to cheat).

From all reports it is a case of getting even.

The sports sat down to a game of pedro, and while passing away the idle time Bartlett appeared and asked if there was any objection to his joining the game. He sat down and played for a short time, losing a few dollars, and then requested the return of his money.

Not getting it, he left and soon afterwards struck another game where he lost the rest of his money.

The reflector racket is as old as Methusalah and is rarely worn these days.

The peculiar part of the whole occurrence is that late Wednesday it is said that Constable Sitton of San Miguel, located Bartlett and placed him under arrest and yesterday morning took him to San Miguel where he was wanted on an alleged charge of jumping a board bill. Had Bartlett paid his bill with the money h e had instead of coming down to San Luis, he would have been better off and so would all the others with whom he came in contact there. It is a case of the complaining witness biting and then getting bitten.

ROASTED THOMAS.

THE SAN MIGUEL MESSENGER A HOT NUMBER THIS WEEK.

Yesterday’s San Miguel Messenger contains a number of accounts of James Thomas, who it appears has been making himself too disagreeable in his dealings with the people of that section of the county concerning the relief measures being made there to aid some unfortunate farmers. Thomas, whoever he is, evidently got the worst of it and a good "roasting" besides. We clip one of the articles from the Messenger which will give our readers an idea of the warm time which happened at a public meeting held there recently. He says:

While the ostensible object given out for calling the public meeting at the hall last Friday evening was to hear the local relief committee render its report and discuss other matters in connection with relief work, it was a well known fact on the streets of our town that Jas. Thomas, chairman of the meeting and "secretary pro tem" (!) of the relief committee, had openly avowed, for some time previous, three objects for calling the meeting, viz:

First, to assail the character and the work of the secretary (a lady) of the relief committee.

Second, to "turn down" Mr. L.M. King, the secretary of the relief commission and disapprove of his (King’s) appointments of business men to represent the commission at this place.

Third, "to rip up the back" the editor of the Messenger and endeavor to persuade the public to withhold its encouragement and patronage.

In fact, calling a meeting so that he (Thomas) could publicly give vent to his personal grievances.

What do you think of such a man? Do you think he ought to be chairman of a public relief movement? Do you think him capable of administering so noble and important a work as charity? Do you condemn us for opposing his appointment as one of the relief committee?

Our space is too limited to go into details in this matter. Suffice to say that all who attended the meeting know Thomas tried to carry out his narrow purposes, but even some of his friends refused to be a party to the proceedings and the meeting resulted in his humiliation and downfall.

February 26, 1899 through March 4, 1899.

CONTRACT FOR BRICK.

MR. JOHNSON PREPARING TO REBUILD HIS STORES ON HIGUERA STREET.

Hon. C.H. Johnson has closed a deal with Ah Luis for all the brick owned by the latter at his kiln north of this city. This, no doubt, means that the people will soon have the pleasure of seeing a new row of fine brick buildings on Higuera street adjoining the Warden building. It is asserted by some people that there are not enough bricks at the kiln to put up a small building, but very likely Ah Luis has a contract calling for more brick when the present supply is gone.

The contracts for the three new buildings have not been let thus far, but three contractors are bidding for the work and it is said the plans have been prepared.

Appearances about the burned district will be improved by the new buildings and perhaps other improvements will follow in due time.

The work will probably commence during the month of March.

One Alex Gorden was arrested last evening by Constable Cook on a charge of selling matches without a license. Gorden was given a hearing in the Justice court and was allowed to depart on the solemn promise that he would leave for other parts.

PIE-BITERS.

ENTERTAINMENT AT THE SALVATION ARMY BARRACKS TOMORROW EVENING.

Saturday night the great pie-eating contest is to occur at the Salvation Army hall.

DIED.

THURBER - In this city, Feb. 24, 1899, David P. Thurber, a native of Delaware county, New York, aged 65 years, 9 months and 12 days.

PRESSEY - In this city, Feb. 24, 1899, Beulah Augusta, beloved wife of M. Pressey, and mother of Mrs. M. Faustino, Mrs. G.B. Tuley, A.E. Pressey, G.B. Pressey and Mrs. F.P. Duley, a native of Maine, aged 67 years, 5 months and 6 days.

RAN INTO A TELEGRAPH POLE.

Late yesterday afternoon Dr. Nichols was called hurriedly to the assistance of Mr. H. Budan, who had met with a serious accident. The doctor as directed met him near the depot coming to town staggering with weakness and the shock, and bleeding profusely from a bad scalp wound across his forehead.

He had been driving home from town and his horses, which were young and spirited, got away from him near the cemetery, ran into a telegraph pole and threw Budan out, landing him on his head in the road and knocking him senseless. The team broke loose from the wagon and flew down the road, and Budan presently recovered his senses and concluded to come back to town in search of a surgeon. Dr. Nichols took him to Waite’s mill nearby and bound up his wounds, and Mr. Hampton coming along soon after, took charge of the victim.

GOT NINETY DAYS.

Jose Feliz who was recently found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon by a jury in the Superior court, received a sentence of ninety days in the county jail yesterday afternoon.

COYOTE SCALPS.

Coyote scalp legislation is getting down to a basis upon which men who believe that the state should pay its just obligations and more, can agree. There is evidently so much of fraud practiced in coyote scalp certificates that the whole matter may be looked upon with suspicion. On the other hand the state contracted to pay $5 for every coyote killed and the state ought to pay that sum for every such service performed. How to do this and protect the treasury is a problem which a bill now before the legislature will solve if passed.–Bakerfield Californian.

A GOOD IDEA.

The school trustees of this city are considering the advisability of putting electric clocks in the Court and Nipomo street schools. A number of public schools have been using these clocks and thus had the correct time. It is not likely that one of these delicate timepieces would be harmed in either of the schools here, but the public school at Santa Maria had one of these clocks and one quiet afternoon two or three mischievous youngsters broke it open "just to see the wheels go ‘round."

THE EAST AND WEST ROAD.

Messrs. Jack and Brunner are working hard for the preliminary survey for the building of the East and West road, and it is the wish of the majority of the people in this county that their efforts will be crowned with success. The latest issue of the Bakersfield Echo says:

H. Brunner, R.E. Jack and Engineer O’Shaughnessy, promoters of the proposed railroad from Port Harford to Bakersfield, met the Board of Trade Saturday evening in session at the City Hall and made known their proposition to this people. Mr. Brunner was chief spokesman and his statement of the matter is in substance as follows:

They want Bakersfield to give the right of way to the county line, terminal grounds and town sites wherever stations are established and $1000 to help pay for the preliminary survey of the route. This is what San Luis proposes to do.

With this assurance and the friendship of the people, Mr. Brunner felt confident, if there comes no radical change in the business outlook of the country that the capitalists he was talking for, would at once take hold of the enterprise and put the road through.

It was estimated that the proposed road would be about 150 miles in length. It is to go through Polonia pass, and by the way of Paso Robles. The highest point in the survey was estimated at 1700 feet.

After the explanation of the proposition, the Board of Trade appointed a committee of E.A. McGee, Sam Wible and J.B. Hunt to ascertain the desires of the community in the matter.

Mr. Brunner also stated that the supervisors of San Luis Obispo had agreed to contribute $500 toward paying the expenses of the survey. It is understood that the committee appointed by the Board of Trade will wait on the Kern county supervisors and find out what they are willing to do for the project.

It is understood that W.S. Tevis of the Kern County Land company looks upon the enterprise with favor as also does Henry Miller. It is thought there will be but little trouble in procuring the right of way. The proposition to raise that $1000 to help pay for the survey seems to be the sticker, which is infinitesimal when the prize it is to be put up against, is considered.

Mr. Jack is one of the wealthiest citizens of San Luis Obispo and a successful railroad promoter. It was mainly by his untiring enterprise that the Southern Pacific built its coast line to San Luis Obispo. He is a firm believer that this new road can be built and would be a grand thing for the two counties. All three of the gentlemen left last night for the north much pleased with their reception here.

NEARLY BURNED TO DEATH.

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD CHILD PLAYS WITH MATCHES.

Yesterday afternoon an accident occurred in this city that came near causing the death of a little child. The four-year-old son of Mrs. W.M. Haley, who resides out on East Mill street, in some way or other got possession of a bunch of matches, and crawling under the house, began igniting them one at a time. Before finishing the bunch his clothes were in flames and he began to cry loudly in pain and fright. His sister who is about twelve years old, fortunately heard his cries, and with some difficulty dragged the boy from under the house.

Mrs. Haley rushed to the rescue when she saw her boy in flames and tore off his clothes in a moment. The result of the above episode is that the boy is badly burned from his chest down to his knees, but it is thought he will recover. Mrs. Haley’s hands were burned severely, but to her belongs the credit for saving the boy’s life, as the youngster would have been roasted to death had not his mother came (sic) to his rescue when she did.

Several of the neighbors heard the child’s agonized screams but the trouble was about over when they arrived on the scene.

The Paso Robles Independence has commanded the seventh year of its existence. Keep it going, Bro. Arnold.

THE EAST AND WEST ROAD.

Mr. Henry Brunner of San Francisco and cashier of the Germania Trust Co., accompanied by Mr. M.M. O’Shaughnessy, a railroad civil engineer of the same city, arrived in this city early this week. They came here to make a preliminary survey for a road from Port Harford to Cayucos, and thence to this city, and from here to the city of Bakersfield in Kern county. They will be about two weeks, in making their preliminary survey. We hope to see this road built as it will open up a large territory and give this city an outlet to tide water, thereby insuring cheaper grain rates to the farmer, an item of considerable interest to him.–Paso Robles Independent.

THE NATIVE DAUGHTERS ORGANIZE.

The long talked of Parlor of the Native Daughters of the Golden West at length materialized last evening and under the pleasant guidance of the Grand President of the Order Mrs. Lena H. Mills, the very excellent material was marshaled into an organization which will take rank with any. There are some fifty members on the roll and of these there were present in the hall of the order forty-three. An election was duly held and the following were chosen as the first officers and duly installed as such of the San Luisito Parlor No. 160, N.D.G.W.

Past President, Miss Maud Scott; President, Mrs. T.J. Bowen, 1st Vice, Miss Lena Call; 2d Vice, Miss Carrie Barnes; 3d Vice, Miss Mossie McHenry; Recording Secretary, Miss Irene Felts; Financial Secretary, Miss Eva Ballou; Treasurer, Miss Nellie Thompson; Marshal, Miss Callie Sloan; Inside Sentinel, Miss Louise Egan; Outside Sentinel, Mrs. W.G. Johnson; Organist, Miss Dicie Graves; Trustees, Mrs. Flora Harloe, Mrs. May Jones, Mrs. Wm. Shipsey; Surgeons, Drs. Seaton and Nichols. (Compiler’s note: The February 28, 1899 article continues. Readers interested in more details may search for the story in the microfilm department of the San Luis Obispo Public Library).

Ah Luis, the king pin of Chinatown, is the proud father of another son, which arrived a few days ago.

MARRIED.

FISHER - THORNE–In this city, Feb. 25, 1899, at the residence of J.F. Fisher, by Rev. Mr. H ills, Mr. Eugene Fisher of this city, and Miss Bessie Thorne of Huasna.

CATHEY - HARGROVE–In this city, March 3, 1899, by M. Egan, J.P., Mr. Chas. Cathey of Fresno, and Miss Mary Hargrove of Arroyo Grande.

ROPKA - STEINDL–In this city, March 1, 1899, by M. Egan, J.P., August Ropka of Arroyo Grande, and Miss Dorette Steindl of this city.

THE POLYTECHNIC BILL.

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 28.–The ways and means committee of the assembly today reported the San Luis Obispo Polytechnic school bill without recommendation.

THE GAP WILL BE CLOSED.

COAST LINE TO BE COMPLETED BEFORE NEXT YEAR.

C.P. Huntington at Last Confirms the Flying Rumors.

Yesterday’s Chronicle contained a dispatch that is of more than ordinary importance to the people of this section, which is as follows:

"New York, Feb. 27–The report of Collis P. Huntington, president of the Southern Pacific railway, has ordered the building of the fifty mile gap between surf and Elwood, on the coast line, was confirmed today at the office of the Southern Pacific. The rails are to be laid before 1900. (Compiler’s note: The gap was not closed until March 31, 1901)

BAD BOYS ARE AT IT AGAIN.

Stole Faucets and Sold them to a Junk Dealer ---Candidates for Whittier.

Early last evening Constable Cook nabbed a young lad by the name of Brazil and put him in jail to be held on a charge of petty larceny. The nature of the crime is different from the usual run of petty occurances (sic), as it is alleged that the prisoner is charged with having purloined every faucet that he and another boy could get away with from the old Callender place on the road leading to the hospital.

The boys took their plunder to Philbrick’s junk shop on the outskirts of the city, where they sold it for a small sum.

When it was discovered at the Callender place that there wasn’t a faucet in sight an inquiry was made, and Marshal Cook and Constable Cook were requested to make an investigation. Inquiry was made at the junk shop where it was learned who the culprits were and that the faucets had been sacked up with some other trash and sent to the Southern Pacific freight depot for shipment to the city. Marshal Cook procured a search warrant last evening and he found some of the faucets. Altogether about a dozen faucets were stolen.

The boy who was arrested has done business with the officers before, and as he was one of the gang of boys who were up on a charge of stealing oranges not long ago, he stands an excellent chance of going to a reform school.

The members of the Catholic church should make an effort to improve the priests’ residence part of the Mission by building an addition to be used for sleeping apartments as the present quarters are damp and said to be unhealthy. It is understood that a small debt exists for improvements made a few years ago but this should not interfere with a needed addition like the one mentioned.

The county recorder’s fees for the month of February were $248.05 and the county clerk received fees to the amount of $159.95. (Compiler’s note: Monthly fees collected from the Recorder’s office today amount to more than $50,000. Clerk fees including marriage licenses, passports, fictitious name registrations, and the like, bring in more than $10,000 each month).

The little son of Mrs. Haley who was severely burned while playing with some matches Monday afternoon, is in a bad condition but hopes are entertained for his ultimate recovery.

A well dressed stranger who missed the steamer yesterday morning drowned his regrets in wine and attempted to take a siesta on the steps of the County Bank, but was politely told by Marshal Cook to move on.

Michael Silveira, a former patient at the County Hospital, died of consumption at his home on Mill street yesterday afternoon. (Compiler’s note: Vital statistics in the same issue of the newspaper indicate that Mr. Silveira was about 19 years old).

BORN.

PIPER - In this city, Feb. 27, 1899, to the wife of James Piper, a son.

A CHILD BURNED TO DEATH.

FEARFUL FATE OF A TODDLING BABE AT LAS TABLAS.

Its Clothes Took Fire From the Kitchen Stove During the Temporary Absence of the Mother.

The infant son of G.W. Gillis, living on Las Tablas creek between Cayucos and Templeton, was burned to death Sunday while the mother was absent from the kitchen for a few moments.

The little one’s clothing caught fire from the kitchen stove, and when the mother came back from her errand outside, the child was all ablaze. The house was open and a strong wind fanned the blaze causing it to burn furiously, burning the child horribly.

The baby was an only child, 13 months of age and just beginning to walk.

THE EAST AND WEST ROAD.

Prominent parties of this city were talking yesterday of the prompt action of the people in Bakersfield in reference to the East and West road as published in the TRIBUNE yesterday morning. They say it would be a black mark against this county if the same interest is not shown toward assisting to have the preliminary survey made. Capitalists will not invest their money in such an enterprise unless it is clearly proven to them that the general public favors such a road. The proposed railroad would be of great advantage to San Luis Obispo county as well as to Kern.

FEBRUARY WEATHER.

...Total precipitation (in inches) for this month in 1895, 1.82; 1896, 0.00; 1897, 4.40; 1898, 2.20; 1899, 0.28. Average precipitation for this month for 4 years, 2.10 inches. Total deficiency in precipitation during month, 1.82 inches...

Several car loads of material for the Southern Pacific’s bridge at La Honda, have arrived here and is (sic) being unloaded in the railroad yard. It will be taken to the front as it may be required.

Applicants for free lodging in the city jail are getting very numerous lately. The majority of them are men without funds who are walking to Surf to get work on the railroad. They are allowed a good breakfast in the morning after performing two hours’ labor for the city.

THE SCHOOL BILL AMENDED.

COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE CUTS THE APPROPRIATION DOWN TO $50,000.00.

Special to the Tribune.

SACRAMENTO. March 3.–The San Luis Obispo Polytechnic school bill was considered on second reading today in committee of the whole.

Assemblyman Valentine of Los Angeles, submitted three amendments to the bill. The first is that the act shall not become a law until January 1, 1900; second, reducing the amount of the appropriation carried by the bill to $50,000; and third, that all claims before being paid be audited by the state board of examiners.

The committee then arose and reported the bill as amended to the assembly without recommendation.

The report was adopted, and the bill ordered printed.

RUN IN BY THE POLICE.

Yesterday morning about 1 o’clock Officers Johnson and Munoz arrested a Portuguese named John Silva, who has been loafing about town for several weeks and who at times has acted as if he had "wheels." Silva was charged with vagrancy and is confined in the county jail.

Friends of the prisoner have endeavored to help him and offered him work, but he was too lazy to do any labor whatever. The officers in their travels have found him wandering aimlessly about at all hours of the day and night and so at last they decided to "run him in."

Silva has been given lodging three different times in the city jail within a month when he was unable to pay for a bed.

DEFINITE NEWS OF THE GAP.

HUNTINGTON’S LETTER TO A SANTA BARBARA MAN.

The following article and letter in the Santa Barbara Press concerning the Southern Pacific road between Surf and Ellwood, is of interest. It shows that "Uncle" Collis has his mind on the "gap" just like the rest of us in this country, and his intentions are good, according to the following:

The San Francisco and Los Angeles papers have been full of encouraging railroad news of late. Few of these papers have received encouraging news over the signature of the president of the Southern Pacific company. Mr. Edward Ivison, to whom so much credit is due for having reminded the president of the great road so often that this section was being neglected, received Wednesday evening the letter published below.

Mr. Ivison considers this definite and conclusive and that no more correspondence will be necessary.

Mr. Collis P. Huntington’s letter follows:

"MY DEAR SIR: Your letter has reached me en route to Virginia, and I am glad to be able to say something encouraging in the matter in which you and other residents of your section of the country are so much interested.

"We have succeeded in getting Mrs. Stanford and Mr. George Crocker (who are now in New York) to agree to go on and close the gap between Surf and Ellwood as soon as it will can be; at least, to work up to the economical point; and I hope the trains will be running through your city in about twelve months after we get fairly to work. You and your friends have certainly had to wait much longer than we expected you would, when we agreed to build the road. Very truly.

"C.P. HUNTINGTON."

(Compiler’s note: The gap was not closed until March 31, 1901, over 24 months later).

March 5, 1899 through March 11, 1899.

WILL PASS.

"Cap" Harris came up from Harris Station yesterday morning. He says the Polytechnic School bill will pass the assembly all right, if properly managed.

Mr. Harris received a telegram from Sacramento yesterday afternoon which informed him that Assemblyman Valentine had offered the amendments (already mentioned in the TRIBUNE) and that the senatorial fight remained unchanged. The telegram also stated that Senator Bettman would aid our bill in every way possible.

Steward McLeod’s rig and Zumwalt’s hotel ‘bus met in a collision Friday night on Osos street, the result of which was one smashed rig and the slight injury of three or four persons.

LOMPOC SECURING RIGHTS OF WAY.

Chief engineer Hood of the Southern Pacific Railroad received a report yesterday from the citizens’ committee of Lompoc notifying him that free right of way has been obtained through the town and only awaits the formal action of the Supervisors to make it official. Lompoc is scattered over a considerable area, and free entrance to the most desirable point for a terminal station is quite an item in the nine or ten miles of right of way that the residents of the valley have promised to grant if the railroad will build a branch in to Lompoc from the coast station at Surf. Much of the other distance through farming land has been promised, and the energetic committee is very hopeful of accomplishing its work in time to have the railroad completed into Lompoc by June 1st.–S. F. Chronicle.

WILL IRRIGATE THEIR LAND.

I. Gordanier has a four inch pump in position at his place near Estrella and will flood quite a stretch of land and prepare it to raise a crop and not depend upon the rainfall. He has plenty of water for the purpose and has no doubts of the success of his undertaking. Other parties near him are preparing to irrigate their land by similar means.

This kind of enterprise is vastly better than growling about and waiting for the uncertain rain.–San Miguel Messenger.

The saloon men have begun a war on the ice combine in Bakersfield and propose to fight if they have to get along without ice all summer. It is claimed that the present prices are too high.

BORN.

FLEUGLER - In this city, March 7, 1899, to the wife of Emil F. Fleugler, a son.

ALBERT - In this city, March 7, 1899, to the wife of Wm. Albert, a daughter.

Attorney Ernest Graves had a severe hemorrhage Monday night and has been confined to his room since then.

FOR AND AGAINST OUR BILL.

THE POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL CONSIDERED IN THE ASSEMBLY.

Special to the Tribune.

SACRAMENTO, March 7.–The Polytechnic school bill was called up at 3 o’clock in the assembly today. Cosper of Tulare, making the opening speech in its favor.

Fairweather of Fresno, earnestly favored the bill, but Larner of Placer, opposed it on account of the dry year. Clough of Plumas, thought there were schools enough in the state without the Polytechnic.

Carminetti of Amador, denounced Cosper’s criticism of the State University, but he said he would vote for the bill. Conrey of Los Angeles, opposed it, and Burnett spoke for it.

Grove L. Johnson took the floor to speak, but a point of order was made that the hour of 3.30 (sic) had arrived, which had been set for the consideration of the appropriation bill, and Johnson was ruled off the floor and the bill went over until 2 o’clock tomorrow.

The vote will be close.

BURGLARY AT NIPOMO.

Surprised While at Work by E.R. Ketchum, George and Ed. Dana and John Cook.

Constable Barr arrived from Nipomo yesterday afternoon with a man who was captured there while in the act of robbing the store of John Cook of that place, and lodged him in the county jail.

The prisoner gives the name of Benito Ortega, and is a stranger both in Nipomo and this city. Our correspondent "Cheerful," gives the following account of the affair.

Tuesday night about 11 o’clock, a burglar was discovered in John Cook’s store by E.R. Ketchum, who was riding past and saw a light, and becoming suspicious that all was not right, he rode past and hitched his horse. He came back on foot and while watching, the burglar struck a match and then it was plainly seen that it was not Mr. Cook, but a burglar.

Ketchum hurriedly found Ed. and George Dana and after securing arms Ed. Dana stood guard at one end of the store and George Dana watched at the other end. Ketchum and Mr. Cook then entered the store. Just as Mr. Cook attempted to light a lamp the burglar tried to rush out at the front door, but Ketchum pointed a gun at him and ordered him to stop and hold up his hands, which he promptly did. Then the outside guards and Ketchum watched the prisoner while Mr. Cook tied him securely with ropes, and Constable Barr was sent for and on his arrival the rope was cut and a pair of handcuffs put on the burglar.

It was found that the burglar had broken a front window of the store to gain entrance. No one seems to know him. He is a Spaniard and came here Monday with J.R. Rojas.

MUNOZ MAKES A CAPTURE.

THREE INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE MAKING THE NIGHT HIDEOUS.

Last evening about 11 o’clock the attention of Officer Munoz was attracted to the sounds of revelry and wassail up near the electric light works. On investigation he discovered a trio of joyous individuals on the bridge with a jug of wine. They were holding some kind of a ratification meeting, but as the time and place had been chosen with poor judgment the officer felt it his duty to break up the session. On his appearance on the scene the meeting was promptly adjourned, the three roisterers making off in the darkness with celerity and in different directions.

Munoz finding it impossible to follow all of them at once took after one of them and soon had him in custody. He proved to be a fellow named Pinero, and was locked up on a charge of disturbing the peace.

From the way the other two disappeared in the darkness the officers thinks they may be professional sprinters.

POLYTECHNIC BILL DEFEATED.

Ayes 23, Noes 30–Cosper Will Move for a Reconsideration Today.

Special to the Tribune.

SACRAMENTO, March 8.–The Polytechnic school bill was defeated in the assembly today. The vote stood, ayes 23, noes 30.

Cosper changed from aye to no and will move to reconsider the bill tomorrow.

MARRIED.

RIGHETTI - GIBSON–In Arroyo Grande, March 8, 1899, by Rev. Mr. Bell, Mr. Jos. B. Righetti and Miss Addie L. Gibson both of Arroyo Grande.

DIED.

TERRA - At the Laguna, March 8th, 1899, Lucien Garcia Terra, a native of the Azores islands, aged 64 years and 4 days.

HOWE - In this city, March 9, 1899, Elisha W. Howe, a native of Rhode Island, aged 72 years, 4 months and 8 days. (Compiler’s note: The TRIBUNE carried a lengthy biographical sketch of Mr. Howe in addition to this short vital statistic).

FOR BONDING THE CITY.

ORDINANCE NO. 107 PASSED TO ITS FIRST READING.

Fire Bell To Be Repaired–Merchants Must Not Block the Sidewalk.

March 8.

The Trustees met yesterday afternoon in executive session for the purpose of preparing an ordinance bonding the city for a sewer and water system and then adjourned until evening. At the appointed time the Board met in special session with all members present, the object of the meeting being to consider the matter of bonding the city for water and sewers, and ordinance No. 107, covering the matter, was introduced and passed its first reading. The ordinance will come up for final passage at the next regular meeting, and includes the amount of $36,000 for sewers, and $80,000, covering the amount agreed upon to pay the Water company for its plant and for extension and improvements, amounting in all to $116,000.

Trustee Shaw brought up the matter of repairing the fire bell. The Board is anxious to put in the electric alarm system and will do so as soon as they can see their way clear. It was agreed to make temporary repairs, and the committee on police, fire and jail were empowered to see what could be done in the case.

The matter of obstructing sidewalks by our busy merchants was brought to the attention of the Board by Mr. Lind, who said there was general complaint with reference to this nuisance. The ordinance allows merchants to use two feet of the sidewalk in front of their stores, and the Board thought it was decidedly wrong to blockade the whole walk. The matter was referred to the city marshal with instructions to notify the business men to keep the sidewalks clear in accordance with the law or take the consequences.

Freight bill of $5 on flues for engine, ordered paid.

Adjourned until next regular meeting.

PAUL SINSHEIMER HONORED.

ELECTED EDITOR OF THE BLUE AND GOLD.

His College Mates Recognize Ability and Make a Wise Selection.

Special to Tribune.

BERKELEY, March 9.–Paul Sinsheimer was today elected editor of the Blue and Gold, by a large majority.

Mr. Sinsheimer is one of our San Luis boys and we are glad to learn of his advancement to the highest position in the gift of the students on the staff of the "Blue and Gold." He has already served his time as an assistant editor of the same paper and has written a number of very able articles. The paper named is managed and edited by students of the University of California, and has a large circulation throughout the state.

Mr. Sinsheimer has at various times served as local reporter of the TRIBUNE, and we take pleasure in informing the people of this city of his good fortune. He has the ability to fill his new position with honor and profit to the University paper and we are sure his friends here will join us in wishing him all manner of good luck.–ED.

CAYUCOS BY THE SEA.

CAYUCOS, March 9:–Willie Drouth & Sons are preparing to establish a brick making plant on their Toro creek ranch, ten miles from town, having recently discovered a good bank of clay. Their first kiln will contain about 75,000, and they offer to deliver them in Cayucos at $11 per thousand, in which event the burned district will be covered with substantial buildings. Mr. Drouth is a brick maker of long ago...

Some Chinamen last week got away with the abalone ordinance. Three sacks of abalones and twenty sacks of shells were presented at the wharf for shipment, and the Citizens’ Investigation Committee at once advised the District Attorney, offering to prosecute the case, but before action could be taken the freight was withdrawn. A prosecution such as was proposed would have enforced on our bias-eyed residents a very wholesome respect for local laws, and it is greatly regretted the opportunity was lost...

HIGH SCHOOL DANCE.

The pupils of the high school had a dance at Maennerchor hall. A jolly time was the result and it was late when the music ceased.

March 12, 1899 through March 18, 1899

THE COMMERCIAL PINCHED.

A RUN ON THIS BANK COMMENCES AS SOON AS THE DOORS ARE OPENED.

IT LASTED ABOUT TEN MINUTES.

The Other Banks in the Town Will Weather the Storm.

The news of County Bank closing its doors, as announced in our issue yesterday morning, spread like wild fire. Saturday was the worst day in the week for such news to come, as the people from out of town always come here on that day to make their purchases an d attend to business matters.

Small crowds could be seen in different parts of the city, and in some of them were men who were telling of their misfortunes in having all their savings in the County Bank while others laughed and shook hands with themselves to think that they had no money to be troubled with. (Compiler’s note: The story, a long one, continues to discuss the problems of the Commercial Bank and other county banks ending with the remark that San Luis Obispo is now suffering the greatest misfortune that has ever been experienced in its history and that the effect of another dry year is apparent. The story continues that money is tied up all over the county and it is the general wish of the people that the present financial crisis in this city will soon be over. Reader’s who hold a particular interest in finances may search out the complete story as it unfolds from issue to issue starting with March 12, 1899.)

SENT TO THE HOSPITAL.

MRS. M. MOTZ EXAMINED YESTERDAY BY A COMMITTEE OF PHYSICIANS.

Her Mind is Failing and it is Feared She Must Go to the Asylum.

Yesterday afternoon Drs. Norton, Hays and Sinclair examined Mrs. M. Motz, at the request of her husband, as to her sanity, and the physicians ordered her sent to the County Hospital. It is hoped she will improve as otherwise, within the next three weeks, it would be necessary to commit the lady to the asylum.

Mrs. Motz for the past few years has taken a deep interest in religious matters, and of late during her spare moments would go about town selling religious papers and tracts. Her mind has been so occupied on such subjects that for the last few months it has been failing.

It was hoped that with care and rest she would soon rally and be herself again. Friday afternoon she became wild and hysterical and her husband decided that it would be necessary to have her examined as to her sanity.

It is a sad case. Mr. Motz and his wife have lived happily together for many years and it is with profound regret that he is compelled to place her where she will be safe from harm.

Mrs. Motz’s friends, and there are many of them, will be pained to learn of her sad misfortune.

Some people thought that County Treasurer Kelshaw had some funds on deposit in the County and Commercial banks, but the gentleman informs us that every dollar of the county’s money is in his vault where it belongs.

CATTLE THIEVES VISIT JASPER’S PLACE SOUTH OF TOWN.

G. Jasper who owns a ranch a few miles south of town, mourns the loss of a fine steer. Some cattle thieves paid his place a visit Tuesday night and slaughtered a steer leaving the hide and legs as a reminder of their visit. Not satisfied with their infamous work, they proceeded to Mr. Jasper’s chicken house and stole a large gobbler of the bronze species. Mr. Jasper hopes to bring the offenders to justice before he quits.

GOOD ORDINANCE.

INDIGENTS KEEPING DOGS WILL BE REFUSED COUNTY AID.

The following taken from the Santa Barbara News, would be a good idea for the supervisors of San Luis Obispo county to adopt:

It is understood the following, or about the same words, will be introduced at the next meeting of the Board of Supervisors:

ORDINANCE NO. BLANK (sic)

Whereas it has been called to the attention of this Board that the indigent funds of the county are wasted in feeding useless dogs owned or kept by the families receiving county aid; and

Whereas, in the opinion of this Board the rearing of worthless curs, and fleas, is not an industry entitled to public support at the cost of the taxpayers.

Therefore, the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara, State of California, do ordain as follows:

Sec. 1. That from and after taking effect of this ordinance the said board will not entertain, consider, nor grant any application for county aid unless it shall affirmatively appear from such application, and also on the hearing thereof, that neither the indigent person therein named, nor any member of his or her family is the owner or keeper of any dog whatsoever.

Sec. 2. That wherever it shall be shown to the satisfaction of said board that any beneficiary of county aid, or the children or the household of such beneficiary, own, or keep any dog or dogs, it shall be held sufficient and conclusive ground for the immediate withdrawal of all county aid to such beneficiary.

Sec. 3. This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon the legal publication thereof.

THE COMMERCIAL BANK MAKES NO ATTEMPT TO RESUME BUSINESS AT PRESENT.

(Compiler’s note: This article continues to tell about the Commercial Bank’s financial difficulties. It can be found in the March 14, 1899 San Luis Obispo Tribune.)

THE CITIZENS BANK CLOSES.

SHUT UP TO AWAIT THE PASSING OF THE STORM.

Considerable Excitement at Paso Robles - a Cigar Dealer Assigns.

PASO ROBLES, March 13.– The Citizens bank failed to open its doors this morning and the following notice was posted:

"In order to protect our customers and for self protection we have decided to close until the prevailing excitement subsides. A.F. Horstman, secretary."

In an interview with Mr. Horstman he stated that his bank was prepared to carry all their customers over what now looked like a dry year, and meet all demands. Their suspension is only due to unusual demands made on account of the closing of the Bank of Paso Robles and two banks at the county seat.

H.H. Waver, dealer in cigars and tobacco, made an assignment today to the Board of Trade of San Francisco. Liabilities about $800, assets small.

There was some excitement here today owing to the closing of the banks. The effect on the business community is yet to be learned.

The news was received here Sunday from Sacramento that Mr. Paul Hoefer had died there that morning of pneumonia.

SANTA MARGARITA NOTES.

...Quite a gang of men, working for the Pacific Improvement Company, came to town Tuesday last and commenced work on the foundations of the new steel bridge to be put up three miles west of town.

Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Bowen’s twin daughters, Mary and Alma, celebrated their 6th birthday Sunday afternoon. A number of little tots were present and a jolly time was had, the termination of which was a feast of goodies.

ECHOES FROM SACRAMENTO.

A Hard but Hopeless Fight Waged for the Polytechnic School Bill.

Mr. A. Whitsel traveled about town yesterday assimilating the evolution of the past few weeks during which he has been absent in Sacramento. Of course he had received daily information of the chances and changes transpiring, but it is one thing to read of a fire and another to stand on the ruins; one thing to read of the translation to another world of this or that old acquaintagee (sic) and friend, and another to note the vacant store or dwelling house and the new made grave which alone represented him. He had much to relate of his stay in the state capital. It was a period of hope and fear. There were long delays hardly borne, temporary triumphs and repeated depressions, carefully laid plans and endless combinations. The assembly was from the first the weak point. The senate was occupied by our doughty representative, Senator Smith, and as the result proved it was devoid of terrors for us. The court of last appeal, the governor, was with us. The last phase of the bill was in accordance with his views and practically was guaranteed his support. But ion the assembly we had no champion, and in that chaotic mass there was but a slender chance of victory. We had many friends and they were the most influential people in the house, but unhappily our own assemblyman was a very rock of offence. He had the faculty of antagonizing every (sic) who might have been a help.. He had the gentle art of making enemies down to a fine point, and when the crucial test came there were a score at least who approved of the bill on the whole, who, under happier auspices and influences, would have worked for it; who in many instances had given every assurance of support, who when the time came recollected only their disesteem (sic) for the assemblyman from our county and voted against us. Nor could they be changed. A reconsideration was found to be hopeless of good; noses were counted and the necessary two-thirds was not to be gotten. And so our disgusted representative returned home to be greeted at every step with the news of some fresh disaster for our poor little town...

BORN.

WEIMER - In this city, March 12, 1899, to the wife of Thos. Weimer, a daughter.

GILL - In Cambria, March 5, 1899, to the wife of Wm. Gill, a son.

DIED.

HOEFER - At Sacramento, March 12, 1879 (sic), Paul Hoefer, a native of Germany, aged 75 years. (Compiler’s note: The obvious typesetting mistake is the number 7 instead of the correct number 9.)

TOMASINI - At Cayucos, March 12, 1899, Elisa R. Tomasini, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alessandro Tomasini, a native of Cayucos, aged 20 years and 17 days.

MACHADO - Near this city, March 17, 1899, Manuel de Brum Machado, a native of Pico, Azores, aged 35 years.

VANDALS.

A GANG OF THEM DO CONSIDERABLE MISCHIEF AT TEMPLETON.

The tramp question is becoming a greater nuisance continually as Templeton progress (sic), and a vigilance committee will have to be appointed if matters keep on, as the following article from the Templeton Advance will show:

A number of hoboes broke into the Eureka school house, about six miles southeast of town, sometime between the close of school Friday afternoon and Monday, for the sake of the warmth and shelter they hoped to find. They left marks on the window casings where they had cut away the wood trying to find the window stops. Being unsuccessful in this they finally thrust one of their marauding fists through a pane of glass and releasing the window they raised it and climbed in. A paper of tacks on the teacher’s desk furnished the means of fastening the curtains on the sides to prevent any light shining out; a candle was stuck to one of the desks near the stove, and burning to the wood left a large black spot upon the top of the desk. Beyond the breaking of the pane of glass which was a large one as the sash contained but one pane, the burning of enough wood to keep them warm as long as they stayed and the theft of a pair of gloves left in the school house, no great damage was done.

Friday or Saturday last, during the absence of Mr. Ekel Myers and wife from their home on the Murphy ranch near Paloma, the same gang probably that entered the school house, broke into their house and after turning things topsy turvy inside, left, taking a gold and silver watch, some highly prized rings and a few other things.

The matter of tramps, beggars and hoboes will, if this dry year continues, no doubt assume serious proportions. The people who have suffered from the drought cannot feed them and the larger number passing through on their way to more favored localities will be quite likely to take other than their usual method of obtaining sustenance. The only way to prevent this is to deal summarily with every hobo caught out of his place, if indeed he have any place.

STRAIGHT TIP ON THE GAP.

Must be Completed by the First Day of May of Next Year.

(Compiler’s note: The gap was not completed until March 31, 1901.)

The following taken from yesterday’s Chronicle will be of interest to readers now:

"We let a contract last Saturday to Murtrie & Stone of this city, to complete the coast railroad to Santa Barbara by May 1, 1900," said Director H.E. Huntington to a reporter yesterday.

"The northern terminal on the gap is now Honda, a station five miles below Surf," continued Mr. Huntington. A very large force of horses will be put to work as there is much grading to be done. One fill alone, located at Cojo canyon will required will require 256, - (sic) yards of earth building. (Compiler’s note: The microfilm copy of the newspaper bears only the number "256-" at the end of a line of type and the beginning of the next line is not discernible. It is probably 256,000 yards due to the nature of the terrain at this point.). Men are now at work on the foundations to a large viaduct below Honda. From the nature of the country to be traversed along the broken coast line some pieces of work will require more time than others, and the probabilities are that the force of men and teams will be altered. It is probable, also, that work will progress from both ends at the same time, and that the track may soon be laid some little distance from Elwood, the present southern terminus of the gap. However, these matters are all within the province of the contractor. It is too early to talk of the possible names and locations of the new stations."

PASO ROBLES.

...The excitement over the banks closing has somewhat subsided and people are moving about as usual. The city of Paso Robles, as a city, is somewhat financially embarrassed as Mr. Bennett, the treasurer, has all the funds deposited in the two banks and some of our city officials are asking about their next month’s salary.

City Treasurer Ed. Bennett of Paso Robes, is reported to have been nipped in the closing of the two banks in the Springs City. He had about $2500 of that town’s funds deposited in an open account in the banks.

CAYUCOS.

Drouth & Sons have purchased the lumber required in constructing their new brick kiln and yard, and will begin work at once. They anticipate being ready for the new buildings which are likely to be erected in the spring.

Robert Powell Evans, the famous lion hunger and tamer of San Carpojo was in town last Friday. He came to inspect our seaside resort and to get a glimpse of civilization...

...Mr. Withers, the father of Mrs. A.E. Ladner of Josephine, died at his daughter’s residence and was buried in the Odd Fellows’ cemetery near Cayucos last Saturday.

A notice, "store closed - will be reopened next week," signed by the proprietors, was posted on the doors of DeGottardi & Righetti’s general store last Friday, since which time it has not been open to the public. They feel unable to carry the credit business they are forced to under existing circumstances, and have voluntarily closed their doors to wait for a better season, and in the meantime will take an account of the stock. (Compiler’s note. The action by DeGottardi and Righetti undoubtedly was the result of the "closing of the banks" scare.)...

...If reports are true, all is not peace in school on Old Creek. It is stated knives were drawn in regular frontier order by two pupils a few days ago, and that famed stream would have flowed in claret had not each fainted when he saw the gleam of the steel in the other’s hand, besides other naughty things. One trustee has resigned, and the other two have started a Sunday School.

March 14th.

March 19, 1899 through March 25, 1899.

BORN.

KESTER - At Adelaide, Feb. 21, 1899, to the wife of Newton Kester, a daughter.

SHAW - Near Arroyo Grande, March 14, 1899, to Mr. and Mrs. Ed. S. Shaw, a son.

AUTHENTIC RAILROAD NOTES.

OFFICIAL INFORMATION ISSUED TO S.P. LOMPOC AGENTS.

They Can Assure Farmers that the Company Will Handle Crops this Fall.

Mr. H.E. Huntington has officially advised the Southern Pacific agents at this point and at Surf that it will be entirely safe for the farmers in their vicinity to count on rail transportation for the present years’ crop over the road to be built between Surf and Lompoc. This is merely a confirmation of the understanding which was general that the company had secured the rights of way which it desired for the branch in question and what it was proposed to go on at once with the construction.

As previously stated the material for the steel bridges, seven in number, for the new construction between Surf and Elwood is steadily arriving, about one half of the whole having already reached this point. The bridges are built complete in the eastern factory an d are held at this point until everything is in readiness to put the different parts in position. Held here the steel is measurably preserved from rust and the sections can be assembled so as to be forwarded without confusion. It is stated that all the men are being employed that can work to advantage and the force will be steadily increased as fast as it becomes possibly to do so. It is probably a certainty that the through road will be in operation according to the announced program, early in 1900. (Compiler’s note: March 31, 1901!)

DIED.

CLEVENGER - Near Ramona, San Diego county, Cal., March 11th, 1899, Archibald Clevenger, aged 87 years an d 7 months. (Compiler’s note: An account of Mr. Clevenger’s life is given in the vital statistics.)

MILES - In this city, March 21, 1899, Gladys Belle Miles, infant daughter of William J. and Stella Miles, aged 4 months and 11 days.

CITY TRUSTEES IN SESSION.

THE BOND ELECTION FOR WATER AND SEWERS WILL BE HELD APRIL 20.

...Ordinance No. 107 calling a special election to bond the city for water and sewer purposes, in the amount of $80,000 for water and $36,000 for sewers, election to be held April 20, 1899, in two precincts—No. 1 on the north side of the creek, and No. 2 the rest of the city, polling places for precinct 1 the Andrews building, and for No. 2, the city hall. On motion the ordinance was passed unanimously.

CAYUCOS BY THE SEA.

THE PLEASANT RESORT HAS FURTHER EXPERIENCES WITH THE FIRE FIEND.

RESIDENCE OF C.H. HORSTMAN BURNED.

It Rained at Cayucos, too—Some Improvements in the Building Line.

CAYUCOS, March 21. – No sound strikes terror to the Cayucosite so quickly as an alarm of fire. It is a true maxim that burned children dread fire, and we have had our share of experience.

Last Saturday evening soon after 8 o’clock, fire was discovered in the residence of Chas. W. Horstman, and before help arrived the entire house was in flames, and was quickly consumed. Nothing was saved from the contents. The building was owned by Mrs. Minetti of Watsonville, formerly of Cayucos, whose loss is about $600, insurance unknown. The loss on the contents was about $500 with no insurance. Mrs. Horstman is in Templeton, and during her absence Mr. Horstman has been cooking his own meals, and since the fire started soon after he had finished supper and left a hot fire in the stove, the origin is supposed to have been an overheated pipe.

Mr. Horstman appears to be fatefully pursued by fire. On Sept. 8 last he suffered a loss in his store by a fire which is supposed to have been incendiary. On Oct. 10 his stock was damaged by removal during the general conflagration, though he sustained no loss by fire. For some time he has been having a close out sale, and will depart during April. Mr. Horstman drove to Templeton Sunday to convey the news of his loss to his wife and other friends.

On Sunday night there came near being another fire that would probably have swept all the portion of the town left by the October blaze, caused by the breaking of a lamp in a room in the rear of Henry Hanna’s barber shop, near the postoffice on C street. A crowd of boys was seen about the place, but what connection they had with the fire is unknown. Whether the lamp exploded and the fire died out after it started, or whether the lamp was broken by the boys and the fire was extinguished by them before they deserted the place, has not been determined. The woodwork is badly charred and the fire appears to have gained considerable headway, yet the loss is only nominal.

The rain record for Cayucos for the season is as follows: Prior to this storm 7.14; March 15, .10; March 16, 1.44; March 17, .65; March 20, .92; March 21, .10. Total, 10.35.

Everybody is jubilant at the prospect of better times. Conditions are favorable for more rain.

A. Canavescini has commenced the erection of a residence which will be built of dressed stone, indicating that an era of permanent improvements is at hand. With an abundance of fine building stone near at hand and the promise of cheap brick very soon, it is hoped the good work may continue.

BASEBALL RULES CHANGED.

THE UMPIRE GIVEN POWER TO FINE PLAYERS.

For the benefit of the baseball players of this city we publish the following item, which may be of interest to them:

The rules for playing baseball in 1899 will probably be a trifle different from those the base skippers worked under in 1898. The committee on rules from the National League have finished their labors in regard to changes in the rules for the coming year, among the principal changes being the following:

The umpire is given the power of fining once ;more, $10 being the amount of the fine. There are other recommendations for preventing disorder, and if a player gets too funny, he can be removed from the field.

The balk rule was not overlooked by the committee, for under the new ruling a motion to throw a ball to a base constitutes a balk. The rule regarding home runs was fixed so that a ball batted over a fence, at a distance of less than 285 feet entitled the batter to a two-bagger only, and above that distance to a home run.

WORKING ON THE GAP.

SANTA BARBARA FINDS OUT IT IS NO DREAM.

The Sight of a Train Load of Grading Implements Tickles Our Neighbors.

The Santa Barbara News of Last Saturday morning says:

At last we have what is indisputable evidence that work on the gap is to be pushed right through at once. Although the first shovel full of dirt at this end has not yet been turned it may be said that in the preparations made a great deal of work has been done.

Friday night ten cars of graders arrived. With the cars were a number of men, and things looked very prosperous about the freight depot.

In Los Angeles things are booming with relation to the gap. Contractor McCormick is gathering his forces and a man of authority who came up on Friday night’s train said that on Monday 200 teams with their complement of men would be here to go directly to Ellwood.

Mr. McCormick, who will have charge of the work commencing directly at Ellwood has stated that he will make things fly when he got on the scene. "They kept me idle for three years," he said, "and now they want everything done at once." He is to begin with a ten-foot cut just beyond the Ellwood station and things will move.

Mr. Boschke said that work was to be commenced in a couple of days and it is learned from Los Angeles headquarters that work will commence at Ellwood the first of the week and that 500 men will be at work on this end before the end of the month. As many more will be at work at Surf, making 1,000 in all. These men will be under a number of sub-contractors working on sections for Messrs. McMurtre (sic) & Stone. Mr. Marsh, another contractor, will be here as soon as Mr. McCormick has his gang firmly established.

BURN OUT THE CHIMNEYS.

People throughout the city owning houses would do well to put a few old papers in the stoves and fireplaces and thus burn out their chimneys. There is no danger from fire at this time as the roofs are damp and not liable to get on fire. If your chimney begins to burn don’t call out the fire department, but let ‘em smoke, as Engineer Park would say.

TWO BANKS WILL RESUME BUSINESS.

Two of the four banks that suspended payment in San Luis Obispo county last week have felt the result of the recent copious and opportune rains. Communications were received by the Bank Commission yesterday from the officers of the Commercial Bank of San Luis Obispo and of the Citizens’ Bank of Paso Robles, stating that owing to the enhancement in value of the real estate held by them, caused by the storm, they were prepared to resume business...

GANG OF LABORERS ARRIVE.

ARE IN CHARGE OF CHAS. ERICKSON OF THIS CITY.

Will be Put to Work on the Road Between Ellwood and Surf.

There is no mistake about the inclination of the railroad people to boom the work on the "gap" and another straw was shown yesterday which shows that the wind blows strongly in that quarter.

Yesterday there arrived on the evening train a gang of laborers from San Francisco who within a few days are to tackle the "gap," not at on end or the other, but in the center. Chas. Erickson is the contractor under whose directions they are to work and they are to commence grading about midway between Ellwood and the northern terminus. This work is to be commenced at once.

Contractor Erickson joined his men last evening when they arrived and went to the front with them.

The work is to be rapidly pushed to completion. (Compiler’s note: The gap was completed on March 31, 1901.)

CLOSING UP THE GAP.

Over a Thousand Men Will Shortly be Shoveling Dirt on the Grade.

The closing of the "gap" is going on steadily below Surf in the vicinity of La Honda and a big gang of men are kept continually on the move. There will be over 1,000 laborers employed within a very short time and every evening when the train from San Francisco arrives here a number of men can be seen who are heading for Surf to go to work. There is a big crowd of them coming very soon. There will no doubt be as much work done from this end of the "gap" as that to be performed from the southern end.

The completion of the Southern Pacific line and with the good times ahead of us, will put San Luis in the front rank and will increase our population.

In about two months there will be one thousand men employed on the "gap." The best part of the story is that Colonel Stone, the contractor for the coast line, has stated that local mean and local teams will have the preference; and that local markets will be patronized as far as possible.

Yesterday the work of establishing camps at Ellwood for the construction forces began. It will be three or four weeks before the buildings and machinery for the work shops, blacksmith shops, etc., are completed, and before the foreman and skilled workman have the lines started, and things in shape generally for the coming of the large forces. Three hundred men will be put on at Ellwood about May 1st, or possibly earlier. The wages paid are $1.75 per day for a man who drives a single team and $2.00 for a man who drives four horses. A large number of teams will be brought in, but all good local horses that are offered will be taken for $10 per month for the team, with feed, shoeing and care furnished by the contractors, who become responsible for the horses. The best of care is guaranteed. The men are boarded and lodged at the camp for $5.25 a week.

Colonel Stone has had some discouraging experiences in hiring local help, but he has been assured that the class of laboring men in Santa Barbara is high, and hopes to procure all help needed. At Salinas, were he was railroad building last summer, the same preference was given local m en, but it was not forthcoming to any great extent; still the complaint went up to San Francisco about "no employment," and the Examiner made capital out of its "generosity" in starting a subscription list for the "starving families" in the vicinity of Salinas. In the meantime, outside help was anxious for the work, and easily obtained. He can now get all the help he wants for $1.50 per day if he would accept it; but the local men will be given first choice at the wages named, and no outsider will be brought in, until it is demonstrated that no more help can be secured in this county.

It has been the general custom of the contractors to bring in their help and supplies, but here no "store" will be established, and local merchants who are willing to sell at a living profit will be patronized.

Some of the heaviest work to be done on the line comes in the first two miles beyond Ellwood. Two deep gulches are to be crossed, but instead of bridges being built, more permanent and more expensive improvements will be provided, solid fills, with arched stone culverts. It will require seven months’ time to complete these two miles, but in the mean time, sub-contractors will be scattered along the route beyond and by the time the big Ellwood fills are made the road bed will be ready for the track from there to Gaviota.

The larger force will work from La Honda south. The big trestle across La Honda creek will soon be finished and by fall the line will be approaching Gaviota. The road will be turned over to the company as completed in parts, and as the two ends come nearer together, trains will be run through to each terminus and the narrowing "gap" will be spanned by a short stage line for the accommodation of the coast travel during next winter’s work.

CAYUCOS.

ED. TRIBUNE:..

...Louis Pedraita has bought the residence property of his brother, Ruffino Pedraita, on the bank of Little Cayucos creek, and about May 1st will open a hotel. As the proprietor of the late Swiss American hotel he became well known to the traveling public...

...The Misses Lillie and Annie Kester, two young school girls with the aid of a pitchfork captured a large salmon in Old creek near town last Saturday.

The Western Union Telegraph Co. appears to h ave relegated the San Luis Obispo.Cayucos.Cambria line to the realms of luck–at any rate it has a very persistent tendency to be out of order whenever it is needed, and recently has gone to the ground whenever much more than a heavy fog prevailed. The poles are old and decayed and patched up, and are not able to withstand more than a breeze nor to carry the load caused by the condensation on the wires. A repairman some time ago went over the line to estimate the cost of removing it to the county road from cross-country and put it in good order, and his report was that it would be equal to constructing a new line and the company forthwith dropped the project. Your correspondent has it on authority that an impress prevails among the force that the line may be abandoned by the company at any time not very remote.

In the last communication from this place reference was made to a disturbance in a neighboring school. The item was based on a trivial affair, and the intended joke is evident on careful reading. The writer had no desire to injure the feelings of the teacher, trustee or others, and to all concerned this apology is cheerfully made.

POINTER.

The train from the north is a few minutes late every night during the rainy weather.

This is caused by the road bed being soft between Templeton and Santa Margarita and the train slows down between these two places, causing them to lose time.

CREEKS ARE BOOMING.

NO STAGE ARRIVED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON FROM UP THE COAST POINTS.

Up Stage Got as Far as Cayucos and Could Neither Go on Nor Return.

OLD CREEK TOO DANGEROUS TO CROSS.

The South Bound Stage Hung Up in Cambria for the Same Reason.

No Cambria stage yesterday. It has been several years since we have been called upon to note the failure of Uncle Sam’s mail to arrive or depart on time. The cause of this unusual state of affairs is high water in the creeks...

CRESTON.

ED. TRIBUNE: The outlook is encouraging for the future prospects of this part of the Edenic garden. The extreme dry spell has been surely cracked this time. Dame Nature puts on a smiling garb and it is infectious–the business man, merchant, mechanic, farmer and laborer are highly pleased and in fact, overjoyed with the future prospects that are looming up. Quite a number of parties throughout the county during the prospects of another dry and disastrous year, began to hedge in their belongings for safety, but it is all changed now and why the change? There has not arisen another Christ, or a Mohamed (sic), or a Joe Smith. No. But the Creator, the Giver of all good gifts, that thundered from Sinai’s top: I am the Lord thy God, and thou shalt have no other God before thee, hearkened to the silent petitions of his lowly ones–the farmers, the laborers and the keepers of the flocks, for rain, that the dews of heaven might descent in mighty volumes and give the parched land a sufficient quantity of moisture for the crops of grass and grain, that the cattle and sheep might disport themselves in the luxuriant verdure that would spring upon the thousands of hills and valleys of this poverty stricken country.

The cry of the lowly ones was hearkened to without any intervention of these church chappies and the rain came, and what a blessing! New life was seen in all animate things, even the so-called brute creation evinced pleasure and gratification as the invigorating and life giving drops descended. (Compiler’s note: This Creston article continues but not nearly in the enthusiastic way in which it started. The rains undoubtedly had a great influence.)

March 26, 1899 through April 1, 1899.

TRAFFIC RESUMED.

THE STAGE FROM SAN SIMEON ARRIVES ON TIME YESTERDAY.

The storm being over, the stage traffic between San Simeon and way points has been resumed and the stage arrived from the north on good time yesterday afternoon.

One of the stages used on the line is now a wreck in Villa creek, north of Cayucos, where it landed bottom side up about three days ago. Driver Lenahan previous to fording the raging torrent, saw that he might have trouble and so tied the mail sacks on the backs of the horses. Then he started. When about half way across the current was so swift that the wagon was overturned and Lenahan cut the harness, thus letting the horses loose and team and driver reached the opposite shore in safety.

THE FIRST RECOVERY NOTED.

THE CITIZENS’ BANK OF PASO ROBLES OPENS TOMORROW.

A Sackful of Coin Arrives to Pay Off any Demands Upon the Institution.

Special by Telephone to the TRIBUNE.

PASO ROBLES, March 25.—The first recovery from the recent financial calamities that overtook our banking institutions will be the reinstatement of the Citizens’ Bank of Paso Robles. With the consent and approval of the State Bank Commissioners, the bank will reopen its doors Monday morning.

Mr. Brunner arrived here this evening with a respectable sack, quite sufficient to meet all immediate demands and arrangements have been definitely made with the depositors so that the element of danger in that direction is eliminated.

There has been no question of the solvency of the concern and the bountiful rains assuring probably the most successful season that this section has ever known, makes the value of the securities gilt edged. Nothing was needed but the current coin of the realm to meet any demands which the fears of timorous depositors might occasion and it has apparently been no difficult matter to arrange that detail.

[Paso Robles is to be congratulated upon this record of its financiers and we hope to be able to chronicle very shortly that our own banks have rejoined the ranks of the living and the prosperous. ED.]

FROM THE FRONT.

Mr. Ingram returned from Surf yesterday morning. He reports that at least 500 men are preparing to go to work at the front and at present all hands are busy establishing a camp along the surveyed route. Mr. Ingram has a contract to furnish the crews of men between Surf and Cojo with meat, and is doing a good business. Three corps of engineers are at work between La Honda and Gaviota.

Miss Stella Huyck, who has been in the employ of the Sunset Telephone company here for some time past, departed for San Francisco yesterday morning. On her arrival there she was to become the bride of Louis Peterson formerly of this city, who is now living in the metropolis, where he has a good position. Miss Hettie (sic) Huyck succeeds her sister in the telephone office.

BORN:

SHAW - Near Arroyo Grande, March 14, 1899, to the wife of Ed. S. Shaw, a son.

SMITHERS - Near Cambria, March 23, 1899, to the wife of Amos Smithers, twin sons.

MADONA (sic) - Near Cambria, March 24, 1899, to the wife of Peter Madona (sic), a son.

DIED:

SPANGLER - In San Francisco, March 22, 1899, Mrs. J.E. Spangler, mother of Mrs. B.F. Pettit of this city.

A CHINAMAN ARRESTED.

IT IS ALLEGED THAT HE PURLOINED A WATCH WHILE CALLING FOR SOME WASHING.

About noon yesterday Marshal Cook arrested a Chinaman named Ah Ging on a warrant charging the Mongolian with burglary. The prisoner, had been in the habit of calling for the washing at the Carvao residence. In the morning Mrs. Carvao had left her watch, valued at $45, on a stand near an open window and seeing the Chinaman near by she discovered that the timepiece was gone. She questioned the Chinaman who was acting in a suspicious manner. An officer was summoned and the suspect was caught and taken before Judge Egan who fixed the prisoner’s bail at $500, which was furnished.

INTERESTING MEET.

THE GUN CLUB HAD A SUCCESSFUL SHOOT SUNDAY.

The Gun Club held the first meeting of the season at their "shooting" grounds south of this city Sunday afternoon. A large number were present and there was (sic) some good records made.

A SAD JOURNEY.

The remains of William Richards, who died at San Jose a few days ago, arrived on the train last night and were taken to Bowen’s undertaking parlors. This morning the body will be taken to Cambria, where the funeral is to occur in the afternoon. Mrs. Wm. Richards, mother of the deceased, accompanied the remains. Deceased was a resident of Cambria, aged 26 years.

OUR FUTURE PROSPECTS.

DARK CLOUDS OF DOUBT ARE AT LAST BEGINNING TO ROLL AWAY.

GLIMPSES OF THE SILVER LINING.

The Speedy Completion of the Railroad Coast Line Means Much to this City.

San Luis is not in such a poor position as she was and has been for a few years past. At present everything indicates a grand season for crops and business generally. The dry year scare and the depression in every line of business, occasioned by such seasons, have disappeared and there is a general awakening all around. The future of San Luis is assured.

When the Southern Pacific’s coast line is finished, and the indications are that it will be just as soon as the big forces of men now at work can finish it, there is bound to be a large increase in our population and more business transacted here. The railroad will bring tourists of means to our town and some of them will purchase property and make their home here at certain seasons of the year. Then there are other classes who will go into business because the place will be up to date. A city like this on a through line of railroad and with its advantages is certain to go to the front rank.

The news is now received, and its source is, we believe, authentic, that when the Southern Pacific coast road is finished the company will make San Luis the end of the first passenger division and the terminal of the second freight division south of San Francisco. Repair shops will also be established which will give employment to several men, and altogether it will make the town of considerable importance on the line.

The chances are favorable for the Railroad company to acquire the beautiful Hotel Ramona which could be used for an eating station. Should the company ever get hold of this property it would be of more benefit to the town than if owned by private individuals.

We have all undergone some hardships occasioned by the dull years of the past, but we are again approaching good times and our sufferings will fade away like mist in the sunlight.

A gang of men are now engaged in unloading bridge material for the Railroad company at the Ramona switch. All the available space in the railroad yards is filled with materials for the contractors at the front, hence the utilizing of the switch above mentioned.

AN ABALONE CANNERY.

Montery (sic) has a new industry. An abalone cannery has been established and will soon begin operations. It is reported that there is considerable capital to keep the cannery going. San Luis Obispo county might have had a cannery of this style a few years ago, but not now as the abalone would be exterminated as the Chinese fishermen have got away with the surplus.

THE CALL’S BAD BREAK.

SAYS THE SAN LUIS POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL BILL HAS BEEN SIGNED.

BUT IT IS ALL A MISTAKE.

The Reporter Evidently Got Into the Waste Paper Basket of Some Assembly Clerk.

IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE BILL TO HAVE BEEN PASSED.

The Call’s List of Bills Signed Includes Many Not Passed by the Legislature.

Yesterday there was some excitement among a number of our citizens over an item in Wednesday’s San Francisco Call. The news was such that it would cause any one of our citizens to ask, "Is it really so?" But it does not seem possible that it can be. The Call published a dispatch from Sacrament, which stated that Governor Gage had sent a big batch of signed bills to the secretary of state, and in the list appeared the following:

"Chapter 142—Senate Bill 29—An act to establish the California Polytechnic School in the county of San Luis Obispo, Cal., and making an appropriation therefor."

Had the circumstances been different regarding our Polytechnic School bill, we might have some cause to rejoice, but as it is we fear a mistake has been made, but naturally would wish that the information was correct...

...More than likely the Call’s reporter at Sacramento got hold of some bills which were not considered along with those receiving the governor’s signature.

DIED AT SANTA MARGARITA.

MRS. MARIETTA M’MICKEN SUDDENLY SUMMONED BY DEATH.

Dr. Nichols was summoned yesterday to hold an inquest, it being reported to him that a woman named Mrs. Marietta McMicken had fallen dead at her home on a ranch situated about nine miles beyond Santa Margarita toward Pilitas.

Arriving at the place a jury was called together consisting of R.S. Brown, foreman, L.S. Sumner, T.A. McKinnon, E.P. Bean, E.P. Cowl and Alec Gardner.

It was ascertained that the deceased had reached the age of 68 years, but the helplessness of her years was increased by her physical condition, as she was enormously stout, weighing about 360 pounds, and had been suffering from ill health for a long time. She was a widow owning the ranch of 160 acres which was her home, but it is of small value and did not afford her a living and she h had been obliged to rely on county aid.

An old friend named Bise, was stopping at the house and he testified that she got up Wednesday morning but was feeling so badly that at his suggestion she went back to bed again. But toward evening she got up and Bise went out to get some wood and hurried back but only to find the aged woman lying on the floor dead.

The jury, on the evidence and the examination of Dr. Nichols, found a verdict of death from natural causes. The body was buried beside that of her late husband on the ranch.

CAMBRIA.

ED. TRIBUNE:...

On Thursday night the 23rd there came to the home of A. Smithers two little boys who have come to stay, and will when able to prattle, call Mr. Smithers papa. On the 24th inst. there arrived at Mr. P. Madonna’s a youngster, who will hereafter be considered as one of the household... (Compiler’s note: Vital statistics for these births appears earlier.)

...The remains of our friend of years ago, Willie Richards, are to be brought here from San Jose, where his death occurred a few days ago. (Compiler’s note: See vital statistic printed earlier this week). His remains are to be placed beside those of his three sisters who preceded him to that bourne from whence no traveler returns. The aged mother and his surviving sister have the sympathy of all here...

...Salmon will no doubt be plentiful in the streams when the water runs down a little...

UNCLE SAM.

MARRIED.

PETERSON - HUYCK—In San Francisco, March 25, 1899, by the Rev. W.S. Urmey, Louis H. Peterson and Estella L. Huyck, both of San Luis Obispo.

BURNETT - MARTIN —In San Francisco, March 29, 1899, by the Rev. J. Fuendeling, Thomas J. Burnett of San Francisco, and Miss Elizabeth Martin of San Luis Obispo.

DEATH OF ROBERT HANNA, JR.

Robert F. Hanna Jr., well known in this city, and for several years slaughterman for James Taylor and later for Griffin Bros., died in Monterey Monday, March 27th, at the home of his parents. He was taken sick several months ago with a dropsical affection, which terminated in diabetes. (Compiler’s note: Readers are invited to read the rest of this article in the March 31, 1899 issue of the San Luis Obispo Tribune found in the microfilm department of the public library.)

CACTUS FOR CATTLE.

The drought of the past season in California discovered many resources hitherto unknown. Mr. Strathearne in Ventura county, had to carry 800 head of cattle through the dry time, and did it by feeding them the prickly pear cactus. The plant was placed in piles with brush and set on fire to burn the thorns off. The cattle did well feeding on the pulpy leaves. The burning being a troublesome affair the plant was finally fed chopped up fine, thorns and all, and the cattle ate it with no inconvenience from the thorns. Milch cows especially did well on cactus. We may soon expect the appearance in the market of the cactus brand of beef and butter.—Ex.

WORK ON THE SOUTH END.

IT HAS BEEN COMMENCED ON THE GAP AT BELL CANYON.

JUST NORTH OF ELLWOOD.

Thursday a TRIBUNE representative visited the scene of the construction work on the southern end of the "gap." This work is in charge of Contractor McCormick, and was commenced last Monday. It is at the mouth of Bell canyon, about a mile and a quarter north of Ellwood.

It is proposed to make a big fill from both sides of the canyon, which is probably 400 yards in width. The fills from either side will be connected by a short trestle work. Many would have suggested a steel bridge to span the canyon, but the engineers evidently knew their business in deciding upon the fills.

Work is now being prosecuted on the fill on the south side of the canyon. The dirt is being procured directly from the face of the canyon and for several hundred yards beyond, it being necessary to make a big cut to reach the surveyed level. The work commenced Monday with three teams, which had been increased on Thursday to eighteen. More teams will be placed on the work as soon as they can be conveniently utilized.

Laborers are leaving Santa Barbara every day for the construction camps. They seem to have swarmed up the coast for this purpose.

Contracts will be let for the work of straightening out the present road from Ellwood into Santa Barbara. In its present condition it would be unsafe and unsatisfactory for the heavy travel which will come to the coast line when the "gap" has disappeared.

Jim Meyers, formerly of this city, who now drives the stage between Surf and Lompoc, says that times are very lively at the camps at the northern end.

A SANITARY DISTRICT.

A petition numerously signed by residents of Arroyo Grande, has been filed with Clerk Whicher, praying the Board of Supervisors to call an election on May 20th, on a proposition to form a sanitary district. The proposed district is quite large, with Arroyo Grande as the central point.

A marriage license has been issued to L.E. Norman of Bakersfield and Miss Lizzie Bunce of Sycamore Springs.

April 2, 1899 through April 8, 1899.

CARLOADS OF CHINAMEN

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN CELESTIALS CAME DOWN LAST EVENING.

LIVELY SCENES AT DEPOT

They are To Be Set to Work in the Beet Fields Below Santa Maria.

THE BIG STEEL BRIDGE AT HONDA CREEK.

In About Two Weeks the Steel Superstructure Will be Commenced.

The train from the north was longer than usual last night by two extra coaches. At Salinas 115 Chinamen were taken aboard and on arriving here were transferred to the narrow gauge road.

It was rather a remarkable sight to the loungers about the depot watching this crowd of gesticulating, jabbering heathens, with their heterogenous collection of bundles and boxes swarming out of the broad gauge cars into the narrow gauge train that took them down south.

It took two more cars to the train on the latter railway to accommodate the gang besides two box cars for their baggage.

The Mongolians were taken to Betteravia, where they will be put to work pulling weeds on the beet lands adjoining the sugar factory.

HONDA CREEK BRIDGE.

W.E. Marsh the Southern Pacific civil engineer who is in charge of the work at the front, was in town yesterday and reports that work on the big bridge which is to span the Honda creek is progressing rapidly.

The stone masons will complete their labors on the structure in two weeks. The placing of the steel in erecting the bridge will depend a great deal on the weather. If the wind is light there will be no delay, but should it blow too strong more time will be required, as it is no small task to put up the steel girders, spanners, etc., which are seven feet wide and sixty feet long.

When the structure is completed it will be 102 feet high and 630 feet long.

Mr. Marsh returned to Arroyo Honda on the evening train.

A NEW FIRM.

A new firm comes into existence in this city today. It will be known as Muzio & Dorsey. Mr. Muzio has successfully conducted a grocery store for several years and has decided to enter into partnership with Mr. Lawrence Dorsey. The latter gentleman has been a faithful and trusted employee for Mr. Muzio for the last nine years. If any one wants good groceries call at Muzio & Dorsey’s store on Monterey street.

A WEDDING.

This morning at 6:30, Mr. L.E. Norman of Bakersfield, and Miss Lizzie Bunce of Sycamore Springs, are to be united in marriage at the parlors of the Catholic church.

After the ceremony the couple will visit San Francisco and then proceed to Bakersfield where they will make their home.

The bride to be, who is the charming representative of one of the old California families, is well known in this city and county, and the groom is a prosperous merchant of Bakersfield.

BORN.

HASLAM - In Arroyo Grande, March 29, 1899, to the wife of Byron Haslam, a son.

GILBERT - At Creston, March 4, 1899, to the wife of J.R. Gilbert, a daughter.

DIED.

HERNANDEZ - At Morro, April 1, 1899, Georgia, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hernandez, aged 1 year, 2 months and 3 days.

GAXIOLA - In this city, April 1, 1899, Jerome, son of Maggie V. and the late P.G. Gaxiola, Jr., aged 9 years and 4 months.

A marriage license has been issued to W.D. Wood and Addie E. Carpenter.

BOND ELECTION CALLED.

THE QUESTION OF THE CITY OWNING ITS WATER WORKS WILL BE DECIDED.

April 3.

Council met in regular session, all members present...

...Petition received from A.G. Pinho for permission to erect a barber pole in front of his place of business on Monterey street, and was on motion granted...

...Form of notice to be given for the election to be held for bonding city for water works and sewer systems was then presented and adopted and ordered to be published till the day of election...

...Chief Engineer Payne called the attention of the Board to the condition of the engine, repairs being required, and he desired permission to lay off the engine for a week. Matter was referred to police, jail and fire committee with power to act.

Mr. Zumwalt asked the Board for an increase in the price of furnishing meals to prisoners, rise in price of provisions making his contract unprofitable. He was informed that the Board could not change without calling for new bids...

ARRESTED ON A BENCH WARRANT.

TWO ALLEGED MOONSHINERS PAY GOOD MONEY FOR BAD ADVICE.

Marshal Cook returned last evening from a trip up Van Ness canyon bringing with him a couple of the residents of that section, Charles Goessel and Joseph Brendel, wanted by the United States District court of Los Angeles to answer a charge of moonshining.

The parties were arrested some time since and were released on bail to answer at a given date, but they failed to appear at the time set, whereupon a bench warrant was issued for them and it was under that that they were now arrested.

They had been advised, so they say, by their attorney that the charge had been settled and they need not obey the mandate of the court. The advice was not good and they will now be compelled to board with mine (sic) host Ivins until an escort is provided to see them safely into the August presence of the federal judge.

DIED AT TEMPLETON.

An old gentleman by the name of Wightman died at Templeton Sunday. Deceased was about 90 years of age, and had resided for the past ten years at Templeton. He formerly resided on the Los Osos, and was well known here.

The body went to Oakland yesterday, where the interment takes place.

THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

...In re squirrel tails. The following persons were granted certificates for bounty on squirrel tails... (Compiler’s note: There follows a list of 17 who received such certificates covering 1,078 tails.)

...In re of Superintendent of schools. On proper showing to the necessity therefor, it is ordered that the County Superintendent of Schools be authorized to purchase for the use of the office a typewriter...

BOARD OF EDUCATION.

...The different members of the board were assigned sets of questions to make out for the teachers’ and pupils’ examinations. Two sets of examination questions will be prepared for the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th years, the first to be sent out May 1st to the schools that close early, and the other will be sent about June 25th...

...All schools having 100 census children and one teacher will not be examined in music and drawing by the County Board...

...The 8th year examinations in arithmetic will include a few problems in simple equation in algebra, but will not include the metric system. The history examinations will include a review of the whole history...

An unfortunate named Felise Corroti, was examined in the Superior court yesterday and ordered committed to Agnews insane asylum. He will be taken to that place in a day or two.

SLOT MACHINES TO PAY LICENSE.

The Ordinance Will Not Go Into Effect Until the First of July.

Before the Supervisors adjourned yesterday afternoon, the new license ordinance was considered and passed by a unanimous vote of the Board. According to the new order, which is to go into effect on the first day of July 1899, the owners of slot machines will have to pay a license of $12 per quarter. The section of the ordinance relating to the machines says:

"Every owner, manager, lessee or operator of any of the devices known as nickel in the slot machines, shall pay a license of $12 per quarter for each machine, and this section shall apply to all machines of this character, without regard to the kind of coin, check or other substance or article dropped in the slots of such machine. Any person who has any such machines in his place of business shall be deemed the manager thereof and be liable to pay the license herein provided for."

CAN SEE THE MISTAKE NOW.

Our own county can now witness their mistake in sending a Democrat to the last assembly. Had we been favored with a representative in touch with the majority and with the head of the administration, the Polytechnic school bill would have been passed and the school put in operation in 1900. As it was the bill was defeated in the assembly by the actions of our own representative. Senator Smith passed the bill through the senate with but one dissenting vote but it met its Waterloo when it reached the lower house.–Arroyo Grande Oracle.

Santa Barbara intends to have a celebration when the "gap" is completed. Guess San Luis will have cause for rejoicing and indulge in a grand blowout also.

PASSING OF ANDREW FORSTING NEAR ARROYO GRANDE.

Andrew Forsting, an old and respected resident of the Los Berros valley, died suddenly Tuesday night at his home a few miles south of Arroyo Grande.

He had been unwell for a few days but not seriously. Coroner Nichols of his city, was notified and he ordered Justice Rose of Arroyo Grande to hold an inquest. The jury brought in a verdict of death from natural causes. Deceased was a native of Holland, about 78 years of age, and owned the small ranch upon which he resided. The funeral will occur today. (April 6, 1899).

MARCH WEATHER.

Mean temperature for this month in 1895, 52; 1896, 56; 1897, 51; 1898, 53; 1899, 54.

Total precipitation (in inches) for this month in 1895, 2.44; 1896, 3.16; 1897, 3.17; 1898, 0.91; 1899, 0.28.

A marriage license has been issued to A.F. Silveira and Miss M. De Rosa, both of Morro.

MR. JOHNSON’S VACANT LOTS WILL BE COVERED BY MODERN STRUCTURES.

Plans all Drawn and the Buildings are To Be Finished By July Next.

We are pleased to be able to announce that the work of rebuilding on the Johnson property on Chorro and Higuera streets will commence very soon. Architect Laird has the plans drawn, and only a few details remain to be worked out.

All the space swept by the fire is to be filled with brick structures, from the creek on the north to the Warden building on the south. On the corner of Chorro and Higuera streets, where the old Olive Branch stood, will be erected a handsome two-story modern building, and flanking it on either side will be one-story stores. Mr. Johnson believes in building for the future, and feeling confident that the town will soon outgrow these small buildings, will construct them so that another story can be added when he feels justified in doing so.

This improvement is right in line with the feeling that is beginning to be felt here that the better times we have been looking forward to are coming at last. The buildings are to be ready for tenants by July 1st, and the tenants are ready to move in when that time comes.

DIDN’T SMELL LIKE VIOLETS.

A RUNAWAY SWILL CART DISTRIBUTES ITS FAVORS WITH STRICT IMPARTIALITY.

The balmy air of the sweet April day, laden with the perfumes of a thousand flowers, was rudely disturbed last evening when the animal attached to Cook’s swill cart took a sudden notion that he would light out for his stable. (Compiler’s note: Swill is something suggestive of slop or garbage, a semiliquid food for animals [as swine] composed of edible refuse mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk.) He came down Morro street hill at breakneck speed and the delectable fluids with which the vehicle was burdened decorated the highway sideways and lengthways in novel hues, and the air was purple with perfume and swear words.

When last seen the jaunting car was still flying and the empty tubs and boxes were bobbing up and down and the owner was making fair time a long ways in the rear.

MARRIED.

RODONI - GILFORD–In Eureka, Cal., Feb. 24, 1897 (sic), at the residence of the bride’s parents, Paul Rodoni formerly of this county, and Miss Annie Gilford. (Compiler’s note: The typesetter undoubtedly pulled a "7" in setting the year of this marriage. Obviously it should have been a "9.")

April 9, 1899 through April 15, 1899.

RUSHING THE WORK ON THE GAP.

(Compiler’s note: Contractor Stone missed the date on which the trains would run by a year. The gap was closed on March 31, 1901.)

Colonel George Stone, a member of the firm of contractors which is filling in the fifty mile gap between Surf and Elwood on the coast division on the Southern Pacific, has returned from the scene of operations.

He says a large force of men and teams is being collected with the intention of completing the new piece of road within a period of about ten months. At the present time 500 men and 300 teams are at work. A tunnel 800 feet long is now being bored, and another of the same length will be commenced shortly. It will not take long to finish both and when they are completed the force of laborers will be increased to about 1300 men and 800 teams.

Unless some unexpected delay occurs through trains will be running between this city and Los

Angeles by the way of San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Saugus, by March 1, 1900.—Examiner.

A NIPOMO BARBER SHOP RANSACKED FRIDAY NIGHT BY A HOBO.

CONSTABLE COOK ARRESTS A SUSPECT.

The Nocturnal Prowler Took Everything in Sight From the Tonsorial Parlor.

Friday night a burglar broke into Berne Knotts’ barber shop at Nipomo, and decamped with eleven fine razors and a lot of other materials used by the tonsorialist. A suspicious character had been seen lurking about the town, and when the robbery was discovered yesterday morning, Constable Barr of Nipomo, began to look around for the marauder. Barr learned that the stranger had left for this city on the morning train. The official notified Constable Cook of this city, who commenced a search for the suspect. He learned that his man had alighted from the train just before it arrived at the Southern Pacific depot, and later on he found a man who answered the description in every particular except that he was whiskerless, but the constable caught him and lodged him in the county jail.

The constable then resumed his search for the plunder but found nothing except an elegant assortment of whiskers which the suspect had got rid of in a box car in the railroad yard. He evidently had made good use of one of his new found razors.

Late yesterday afternoon Constable Barr arrived from Nipomo to identify the suspect. The officers believe they have got the right man.

LOS BERROS.

...No one was aware of any great disturbance Friday night after twelve, but people in the valley think some spirit of mischief must have been abroad from the state of affairs Saturday morning, April 1st. Cart wheels had taken a raise, and one had ascended the schoolhouse belfry, while its mate had gone on a visit to Mr. Persing’s (sic) front porch. A wagon wheel was seen proudly perched on the water tank at the depot, while Mr. Griffin’s buggy was apparently among the missing. These were among the most astonishing results.

HOPE.

Francis Gagnon, aged 81 years, died at the Hospital yesterday. He was an old war veteran.

(Compiler’s note: An article in the April 12 issue of the TRIBUNE covers in detail, the life and death of Mr. Gagnon.)

BORN.

SHIELDS - At Nipomo, April 5, 1899, to the wife of Rev. Joseph Shields, a son.

GRAVES - In this city, April 10, 1899, to the wife of E. Graves, a daughter.

LEHMAN - Near Cambria, April 8, 1899, to the wife of F.W. Lehman, a son.

DIED.

MATHEW - In San Francisco, April 2d, 1899, John H. Mathew, a native of Wisconsin, aged 36 years, 7 months and 20 days.

VILLA - In this city, April 12, 1899, Charles Villa, aged 21 years and 11 months.

DAWSON - Near the Arroyo La Cruz, April 7, 1899, John Dawson, a native of Ireland, aged 28 years.

UP TO THEIR OLD TRICKS.

A TRIO OF THE HUGHES GANG RUN IN BY THE CITY POLICE OFFICERS.

WERE HAVING A JOLLIFICATION.

At present there is quite an aggregation of a family by the name of Hughes in the county jail. Yesterday morning about 10 o’clock Marshal Cook arrested Kimball Hughes and Young Hughes and charged them with battery, and Bernice Duffy, who is said to be a Hughes, who is charged with vagrancy.

The trio were having a high old time when the officer appeared on the scene and gathered them in. They had partaken too freely of "roof paint" or some other liquid equally as strong and indulged in a free for all scrap.

They are to have a hearing in Judge Egan’s court today.

JOHN DAWSON FINDS HIS DEATH IN A SMALL LAKE.

It is Supposed He Was Teaching His Horse to Swim When it Happened.

News reached this city yesterday through a dispatch to Coroner Nichols, of the death by drowning of John Dawson, a well known and respected young man living about twenty miles above Cambria on the Hearst ranch.

At the inquest held yesterday at San Simeon by Acting Coroner Franklin of Cambria, the following facts were brought out:

On Friday afternoon, Mr. Dawson, who conducted a dairy on the Hearst property, left home, on horse back. He announced his intention of teaching the animal to swim, the place selected for the lesson being a pond or small lake on the ranch, recently created by the rains. The return of the horse without its rider later in the day alarmed the household, and search parties started to investigate. Not finding any sign of the young man the pond was inspected, and after grappling for some time the body was found and recovered. The verdict of the jury was in consequence, accidental death by drowning.

This unfortunate affair is greatly regretted by the people living in that part of the county. His funeral will take place at San Simeon today.

A COYOTE CHASE.

Dr. Dial and Attorney Nelson were out for a coyote chase Sunday on the Fillmore ranch. The pack of hounds managed to run down the game, but the chase was a long one lasting from the morning hours until 5 o’clock in the afternoon. The doctor and the attorney had the opportunity of a life time for plenty of exercise.

W.D. Brady was arrested yesterday and charged with cruelty to animals. He came to town Monday with his team and left the animals tied to a post for nearly a day and a half without feeding.

A RIDE ON A LOCOMOTIVE.

AN HUMBLE PENCIL PUSHER ENJOYS A NOVEL EXPERIENCE.

A TRIP ON A "HELPER" ENGINE.

The Railroad Company is Now Engaged in Putting in a Steel Bridge Near Santa Margarita.

The other day a TRIBUNE reporter was kindly invited by Mr. William Hebard, superintendent of the Southern Pacific round house, to take a ride on engine No. 1554 over to Santa Margarita and return.

The sensation of riding in the cab of a locomotive is unique. At fifteen minutes to 5 in the afternoon the iron horse started and it was only the matter of a few minutes when the big grade was reached. The passengers aboard the trains going over the hill can hardly conceive the continual raise of the grade, which is about 115 feet to the mile, but when sitting in the cab of the engine one can see the ascent, which is steep. And then in the tunnels the rails glisten like silver from the scant reflection of light from the entrances.

The fireman, Gus Soderer, who is a hostler at the round house was on board and the amount of coal which he put into the fiery furnace was astonishing, and the man with the shovel (not the hoe) was kept busy until the summit was passed.

Mr. Hebard looked after the throttle in such a manner that even a novice could judge that he had been there before. The engineer has his hands full al the time when the engine is moving. He is constantly looking ahead and at the same time regulating the speed and attending to the tiny lever controlling the air brakes.

The latest labor saving invention on a locomotive is the system for ringing the bell. The engineer or fireman can give the bell cord one pull and the bell will continue to toll its notes of warning until stopped. This is done by air which is forced through a small pipe connecting with the crane of the bell, with sufficient pressure as to cause it to revolve forward and backward constantly when the bell rope is pulled.

The engine cab on a cold day would be a comfortable place, but during warm weather the heat is great.

Arriving at Santa Margarita the engine was turned around on the turn-table at that place, and after taking a new supply of water, it was backed down the tracks and coupled to an engine and freight train which had just arrived from the north. Then the trip homeward again, the two iron monsters puffing away and emitting immense clouds of black smoke as they slowly pulled them long train up to the summit, where engine # 1554 was "cut out" and the train went on its destination, followed fifteen minutes later by the engine that had assisted it.

The country looks grand and there is an abundance of feed. The grass is much thicker on this side of the mountains than on the other side.

At present the Railroad company has a force of eighteen men employed in putting in a small steel bridge across the first creek beyond the town of Santa Margarita. The foundation for the bridge will be of concrete work. It will soon be finished.

PETER FRANKLIN GROSS, AN OLD RESIDENT OF THIS COUNTY PASSES AWAY.

FATHER OF MRS. J.A. CHEDA.

Mrs. J.A. Cheda received a dispatch yesterday morning from Sacramento announcing the death of her father, Peter Franklin Gross, at Elk Grove Tuesday night.

Deceased, who was about 74 years of age, had been a resident of Cambria for nearly thirty years, where he had engaged in farming until a year ago, when the prospects of a dry season caused him to lease his ranch. He then went with his wife to Elk Grove to visit his son, Gill Gross, who resides there and has business interests in Sacramento. Mr. Gross had been in fairly good health until lately when he took a severe cold, but he recovered and was able to be around again. Tuesday evening he retired as usual and soon afterward he died.

He was well known in this county, and leaves a widow and five grown children, two sons and three daughters, the latter being Mrs. J.A. Cheda of this city, Mrs. A. Patterson of Cambria, and Mrs. Russell of Sacramento. His estate consists of a fine ranch on San Simeon creek.

BOUND FOR THE FRONT.

EIGHTEEN CAR LOADS OF MATERIAL WENT DOWN LAST NIGHT.

The freight train which came in last night about 8 o’clock, contained eighteen cars loaded with teams, scrapers, &c. for use in railroad building below Surf.

NIPOMO.

...Posters are being put up by the firm of M. Fleisher & Co. of Santa Maria, calling for 500 men, women and children to work at the beet sugar factory and vicinity thinning beets, the work to commence in about two weeks and will last two or three months, with free wood and water. They claim that children eight years and older can earn 75 cents to $1 per day, and adults $1 to $1.50.

The poor man with ten or more children should make a raise when such an inducement is at hand...

THE WORK AT THE FRONT.

Camps of Sub-Contractors are Scattered Over a Distance of Seventeen Miles.

SEVEN HUNDRED MEN ARE AT WORK.

Several Steam Schooners are Anchored off the Coast Unloading Lumber.

Mr. William Sandercock returned from his visit to Surf and the Cojo ranch yesterday morning, where he spent two days. He says the work of "blanketing" that is covering the sand with adobe, along the line from Surf to a point this side of Honda, will be finished with one week. The adobe used for this purpose is procured at Casmalia, where a long train is loaded with the aid of a steam shovel, and when the flat cars arrive at the point where the dirt is required, it is unloaded by a steam scraper. The entire train is unloaded in about twenty or thirty minutes. The "mud train," as it is called by the workingmen, makes from four to five trips per day.

For a distance of seventeen miles south of Surf the camps of the sub-contractors are scattered. Charles Erickson of this city, has the last camp at this end of the "gap," being located near the Cojo ranch house, a mile below Point Concepcion.

There are about 700 men now at work at different parts of the road as far south as the Erickson camp. The work is being forced along and not a minute is lost during the time that daylight lasts.

At the mouth of the Jolama creek which separates the Jolama and Cojo ranchos, there is a small fleet of steam schooners at anchor and their big cargoes of lumber are being "surfed" ashore.

Colonel George Stone is looking after the work along the line where the firm of McMurtrie and Stone are interested.

Mr. Sandercock says the grass and grain look fine along the coast and horses and cattle are in prime condition.

CRESTON CROPS LOOK WELL.

THE HOTEL CHANGES HANDS.

Judge Cliff of Creston, paid this city a flying visit yesterday. He was accompanied by Chas. McNeal of Bakersfield.

The judge says the Creston hotel has been rented to a Mr. Hitt for a term of two years, with the privilege of purchasing the property in the meantime. He reports the crops in fine condition with prospects of a fair yield. Another inch of rain would increase the output considerably. There is plenty of feed on the stock ranges.

He states that some of our insurance agents were in the Creston country a short time ago looking for grain insurance and they had evidently expected to find the harvesters already at work in the fields. He says they should have waited until the grain had sprouted.

April 16, 1899 through April 22, 1899.

A marriage license has been issued to Fred A. Brizzolara and Miss Belle Zolezzi, both of Santa Margarita. (Compiler’s note: A news article about this wedding can be found in the April 19, 1899 microfilm copy of the TRIBUNE in the library.)

LAST YEAR OUR STOCKMEN SOUGHT FEED FOR THEIR FLOCKS ABROAD.

OUR PASTURES NOW IN DEMAND.

Stock Owners From the Southern and Eastern Part of the State are Inquiring for Feed.

SEVERAL THOUSAND ACRES ALREADY RENTED.

Sheep From San Joaquin and Kern Counties Will be Fattened Here.

The land owners of this county need not worry over the fact that they have more feed on their ranches than can be consumed by the live stock which they now possess. There is no doubt that feed is more plentiful than it has been for many years. The reason of an over supply is caused by the scarcity of cattle and horses in this section at the present time. A year ago, when the dry season became apparent, every ranch owner who was short of feed immediately sold his live stock or shipped it to the northern parts of the state or to Nevada to be pastured.

Within the last few days several letters have come from the San Joaquin valley and elsewhere in the southern part of California making inquiries concerning grazing lands in San Luis Obispo county. A number of sheep and cattle owners in the south will be "cinched" for feed for their stock in their own localities, and the sheep men now being prohibited from using the government reservations must seek new pastures. They have heard of the vast amount of grass in this section and will try to secure some of it. The opportunity is good for some of our land owners to realize a fair price for their surplus feed.

This section of California has been greatly favored this season and the outlook is very bright for the best season ever known in its history.

Yesterday Messrs. Ivins and Shaw sub-let 2500 acres of the Fillmore ranch to Messrs. Pedro Erro, Juan Urrutia and Martin Lassart of Bakersfield, for a term of six months. The latter parties will use the land for pasturing a large band of sheep.

Some sheep owners from the San Joaquin valley have recently rented 2500 acres of grazing land from Sinsheimer Bros. The land is located across the mountains.

NO SPUR TRACK TO LOMPOC.

TROUBLE OVER RIGHT OF WAY.

Property Owners Who Imagined they Saw a Short Cut to Wealth.

TWO TRAIN CREWS HAVE BEEN LAID OFF.

Until the Bridge Over the Honda is Completed—Gravel Trains May be Resumed.

We understand that the building of the spur track from Surf to Lompoc by the Southern Pacific company has been abandoned for the present.

It was expected that work on the track would commence Monday, but the men expecting to be put to work there got orders to return to this city, and they are now here awaiting the pleasure of the company.

It is alleged that certain farmers over whose lands the road was to run, had demanded of the Railroad company a sum which the corporation thought too might, hence the change in the programme.

Of course the Railroad company has no particular object in building the road to Lompoc, as the proposition to construct the spur came from the enterprising citizens of that town. It is hoped that this rumor may prove to be untrue, and that the hitch, if any hitch there be will be ***** the improvement may be carried out. (Compiler’s note: Asterisks indicate that the newspaper copy was not decipherable at this point.)

In the mean time the crew which expected to go to work on the spur, will probably be laid off until the completion of the big bridge over the Hondas below Surf, as no more track can be laid until that work is finished. It is expected that this will take about two months.

GRAVEL TRAINS WILL RUN.

THE WORK OF BALLASTING THE NEW TRACK SOON TO COMMENCE.

Friday night two crews of Southern Pacific train men were laid off. However, the gravel train is to be put on the line very soon, when the men will resume work again.

The men had been employed on the "mud train," which has been running for some time between Casmalia and Honda, carrying a supply of adobe for "blanketing" purposes, along the road now being constructed beyond Surf. This work was finished Friday afternoon.

MARRIED.

O’BRIEN - FORRESTER—At Sacramento, April 2, 1899, Henry O’Brien of San Francisco, and Miss Carrie H. Forrester of San Luis Obispo.

A PARK FOR SAN LUIS.

In view of the prosperity which will undoubtedly visit this place in the near future let us make it evident to the people who will visit us that we are a wide awake community and up with the times.

One way of doing this will be by having a park. We do not wish to cast any reflections on the one we already possess but we do believe it might be improved a little.

In all enterprising towns and cities there are a few blocks used as a park. In so many places there is a square here and there where trees, grass and shrubs have been planted, and a few benches placed in the shade where people can rest and enjoy themselves. Such a place as this would not only enhance the beauty of our city but add greatly to the value of property.

Take for instance the lots opposite the Pavilion. The old ramshackle stables which at present adorn the spot, have long since served their time, their usefulness is a thing of the past. So let them be taken away and in their place have some trees and flowers and grass. There are a number of places along the street car line from the Southern Pacific depot into town which would make very attractive squares or parks.

There is nothing like making a good "first impression: on people and that is certainly what San Luis would make on the stranger coming here if these improvements are made.

It is hoped that property owners will realize the fact that such improvements will more than repay the little trouble and expense it will take to make a move in the right direction.

There is scarcely one who would not gladly donate a shrub or a tree to such a good cause and we believe that by a little active agitation of this question great results may be gained for our little city.

DIED:

PENNINGTON- In this city, April 18, 1898, John Pennington, a native of County Armagh, Ireland, aged 79 years, 11 months and 2 days.

SUTCLIFFE - At the hospital in this city, April 20, 1899, Hamlet Sutcliffe, a native of England, aged 50 years. (Compiler’s note: A news article about Mr. Sutcliffe’s death appeared in the microfilm copies of the TRIBUNE of the public library on April 21, 1899.)

"OILING" THE ROADS.

The use of petroleum on county roads, as a means of laying the dust, has been adopted in several cities of the west. While it is still largely an experiment, much satisfaction has resulted. Very infrequent applications of the crude oil keeps the dust down and the roads in better shape than daily sprinkling of water. The San Bernardino Supervisors have contracted with a Los Angeles man for oil sprinkling of some of the roads, and he agrees to keep the roads selected free from dust by the proper use of petroleum from May 1 to December 1, of this year for $204.60 per mile.

 

FOR WATER AND SEWERS.

A CHANCE FOR THE CITY TO TAKE A LONG STEP IN ADVANCE.

Revenue From the Water System Will Pay the Interest and Principal.

Next Thursday is the day fixed for the bond election. There are two propositions to be voted on:

One of $36,000 for extending the sewers, and one of $80,000 for water.

The $36,000 sewer proposition was voted on last September, and carried by a sweeping majority; but unfortunately, the day on which the election was held happened to be a legal holiday, and that made the election void. For that reason the same proposition is to be voted on now again, and we have no doubt, it will again carry by a four or five to one vote.

The water question always has been a very annoying one to the people of this town. The trouble between the people and the Water company is so well understood that it is not at all necessary to go over the matter. After much wrangling and negotiating, the company has agreed to sell all its property and rights to the city for $50,000. Careful estimates show that it will take $30,000 additional to put the plant upon a satisfactory basis, making the total cost $80,000, for which amount it is proposed to bond the city. The bonds are to bear interest at 5 per cent per annum, and are to run forty years:

That is, one-fortieth of the principal ($2,000) and the annual interest on the unpaid principal is to be paid each year till all is paid. The amount to be paid the first year would be $6,000; that is, $2,000 principal and $4,000 interest. The annual payments would decrease gradually from $6,000 the first year to $2,100 the last year.

The chances are that from the start the revenues from water rates would pay the bonds as they become due. According to the best obtainable information the present company has been collecting an average of $1,000 per month, or $12,000 per year for water rates. Allowing that their running expenses are about $200 per month or, say $2,500 per year, then they have been making a clear profit of $9,500 per year. Allowing that we are mistaken in supposing that the company has made so large a clear profit, we can thrown off $3,500, and we still have a clear profit of $6,000 per year. With the property in the hands of the city, there is no reason why the city cannot make as large a profit out of the business as the company has been making and with a clear profit of $6,000 per year, the city can, even from the start, pay off the bonds as they become due, without adding a cent to the property tax.

The water proposition now about to be submitted to the people of this city appears to us to be a first class business proposition, and one that we should not hesitate to accept.

POTATOES.

Potatoes are so scarce on this coast that, in order to avert a famine in that popular edible, the transcontinental railroads have reduced the rates on this commodity from Eastern shipping points and large shipments are expected to arrive from that quarter in a short time. Meanwhile, speculators will keep potatoes at a high figure. However, the scarcity will not continue much longer as new potatoes are already appearing in the markets.

GEORGE W. LULL DIES IN SAN FRANCISCO.

A few days ago we announced the departure of Geo. W. Lull of Cambria, to San Francisco to seek medical advice, and today we have to announce that the trip was taken in vain, as he expired in that city on Sunday. (Compiler’s note: Vital statistics published a few days later indicated that Mr. Lull was a native of Vermont, aged 68 years, 10 months and 18 days.)

A marriage license has been issued to Harry H. Cahill and Allie E. Waggener.

CRESTON.

...A few of the young men hereabout have loosened themselves from mamma’s apron strings and have gone to the sugar beet land for work and to study the peculiarities of the heathen Chinee...

...Will Webster got his anatomy somewhat jarred up by trying to ride an unbroken horse last Saturday. However, nothing serious happened.

...On Saturday night a fire occurred on the widow Simkin’s ranch. Her home and the contents went up in smoke. There was no insurance.

SUCCESSFUL STUDENT.

Theo. Krebs of this city, has successfully passed the examination at the School of Pharmacy in San Francisco, and is now entitled to pose as a druggist. Mr. Krebs’ friends here will be pleased to learn of his success. He was the youngest student to pass the examination in a class of eighteen, his percentage being the highest.

BONDS CARRY.

PRACTICALLY NO OPPOSITION TO MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP.

"The bonds have carried by a sweeping majority" is the expression which could be heard from one end of the town to the other last evening after the ballots had been counted and the result declared...

...It could easily be seen in the early morning hours that the prospects of the election were bright for those interested in water and sewers.

In precinct No. 1, the vote was as follows:

For water 129

Against water 11

For extending the sewer system 117

Against sewers 22

In precinct No. 2, where the largest vote of the day was cast, the result was as follows:

For water 202

Against water 22

For extending the sewer system 185

Against sewers 31

AT THE FRONT.

Edward Ivison gives the Santa Barbara Press the following summary of conditions at the Bell canyon railroad camp, beyond Ellwood:

Number of men engaged, 125; teams, 90; horses, 180. There is employment for all good men, willing and capable, who may apply. They work ten hours a day.

Mr. McMahon is the superintendent and has under him five foremen. Mr. Hannon is the bookkeeper; Mr. O’Donnel is time keeper for the contractors and Mr. Booley, is time keeper for the railroad company.

The kitchen is in charge of three Chinese cooks, and the food is abundant and of excellent quality. The well just bored twenty-two feet deep gives a good supply of water.

Pay day comes on the twenty-fifth of each month.

The length of the fill upon which they are working in Bell canyon is 1100 feet with an average depth of 42 feet. At Tecolote canyon the fill will be of about the same length and depth.

The men in charge are intelligent and well posted in all details of the work.

It will take from five to seven months to complete both fills.

April 23, 1899 through April 29, 1899.

CHAS. LEE FALLS OUT OF HIS BUGGY.

Last evening about 7:30, there was a runaway and fatal collision on Higuera street, as a result of which Charles Lee now lies cold in death, surviving only half an hour the shock and injuries sustained in being violently thrown from his buggy.

Mr. Lee had been in town all day and was about leaving for his home on the Chorro. A friend assisted him by unhitching his horse, which was restless, and Mr. Lee was cautioned to be careful.

He started out all right and arriving at the corner of Chorro and Higuera streets turned into the latter thoroughfare and drove west. In front of the California bakery Mr. Klaucke was sitting in a light spring wagon awaiting for a party when Mr. Lee went by and the as latter gentleman failed to judge his distance his buggy in a moment more collided with the spring wagon and Mr. Lee went head foremost onto the crosswalk in front of Lind’s store. The rig then went down the street at breakneck speed and at the same time a number of friends of the injured man rushed to his assistance. He was carried into Greenleaf’s drug store where Dr. Nichols attended him.

Mr. Lee was unconscious when carried into the drug store and never regained his senses. His face was badly bruised and cut and he no doubt sustained internal injuries, as a result of one of the wheels passing over his body. Dr. Nichols proceeded to dress and sew up the gashes about the face, but it soon became apparent that life was slowly ebbing from the sufferer. It was at first thought that the injuries were not serious but and that he would revive when the shock passed off. But such was not the case and in half an hour from the time of the accident death came. It resulted from the shock and internal injuries.

The remains were removed to Bowen’s undertaking parlors, where Coroner Nichols will hold an inquest today.

There were but few people who failed to know Charles Lee, for he has been a resident of the county for many years. He owned a fine ranch on the Chorro, where he lived alone. He was a great admirer of horses and was considered one of the best judges of racing stock in this section. At tone time he had a race track on his ranch where he took great pleasure in speeding his horses. He was in his greatest element when during a visit to this city he could find a willing listener to HWM he would dilate (sic) upon the merits of some one of his horses.

Deceased was a native of Sweden, aged 69 years. His seventieth birthday anniversary would soon have been reached. He became a citizen of the United States in 1853, his final papers being taken out in Alameda county, where he at first resided on coming to this state. Mr. Lee was well liked by all who knew him. It is believed that he has no relatives in this country.

The runaway horse was captured on Higuera street a short distance below the junction of Marsh. It had not sustained a scratch and the buggy remained unbroken.

TO SPRINKLE THE ROADS.

Supervisor J.W. Gilliam has ordered a triple-action pump, to be placed in position to raise water from the creek for use in sprinkling the roads of this district. With the aid of the pump water will be secured much cheaper thus enabling, as the Supervisor says to cover more ground. It is his intention to sprinkle the roads of the valley as far in either direction as possible and it is probable the entire road between town and the beach will be sprinkled thus making the drive to Pismo a pleasant and refreshing one, free from the dust and dirt of former years when the travel to and from the beach has been immense.—Arroyo Grande Oracle.

BORN.

HODGES - Near Arroyo Grande, April 14, 1899, to the wife of Harvey Hodges, a son.

WITTER - In Paso Robles April 18, 1899, to the wife of G.F. Witter, Jr., a son.

PAULSEN - At Nipomo, April 22, 1899, to the wife of S. Paulsen, a son.

DIED.

GREENING - In Paso Robles, April 17, 1899, infant child of Mr. and Mrs. D. Greening of Cholame.

DELOE - At the Hospital April 25, 1899, Clara E., wife of E.H. Deloe, a native of Grass Valley, Nevada county, Cal., aged 34 years and 8 months.

LIFE-GIVING SHOWERS VISIT ALL PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY.

LATE GRAIN GREATLY BENEFITED.

Early Barley in the Coast Region May be Badly Lodged by the Heavy Rain.

The glorious rain has made its appearance again, much to the joy of the farmers who sowed their grain after the last big rain, but the farmers who planted their crops early are not so well pleased, as their grain had already commenced to head out and the rain has caused it to fall down. However, such grain will be all right again with some warm weather when the storm is over...

...The rainfall at various points up and down the coast is as follows:

Reported by the Pacific Coast Railway company yesterday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

San Luis Obispo .90

Arroyo Grande .42

Nipomo .28

Since the above measurements were taken the rain has continued to fall. It rained nearly all of last night.

SUIT FILED TO PREVENT THE SALE OF CITY BONDS.

But the Attempt to Prevent Advancement Must Surely Fail.

Those of our people who voted for the water and sewer bonds at the election held last week, need not get discouraged because there are alleged impending breakers ahead of the proposed bonds.

Santa Rosa was forced to struggle against numerous obstacles thrown in its way by people who were opposed to that town’s bonding for water works or anything else, but the progressive citizens fought the opposition from start to finish and today that town owns its water plant and it contemplates bonding again for the purpose of purchasing an electric light plant.

What Santa Rosa has done the city of San Luis Obispo can do, and if, by judicial decision, any flaw may exist in the recent election or in the issuance of the bonds, the people will demand that another election be held.

Let us stand by the water and sewer proposition. The vote of last Thursday showed that the people of this town are for water and sewers and propose to have them if there is any way under the sun to get them. And we think there is.

A PRETTY KETTLE OF FISH.

THE INJUNCTION AGAINST THE USE OF THE PRESENT SEWER SYSTEM WILL BE ENFORCED.

ACTION OF TRUSTEES LAST EVENING.

The Citizens Now Using the Sewers Will be Ordered to Disconnect Forthwith.

MATTER OF ENJOINING CITY BY N.S. ROBINSON.

City Attorney Ordered to File an Answer to the Complaint of Obstructionists.

April 26.

Board met pursuant to call of the president, all members present. The call was for the purposes of considering the suit began for enjoining the city from carrying into effect the election recently held, the existing injunction granted to prevent the use of the present sewers and the purchase by the city of the sewer grounds heretofore contracted for.

With reference to the first object of the call, the city attorney being called upon reported that in his view the suit brought in the name of N.S. Robinson was simply a menace, that the suit was not brought in good faith or with the object of being prosecuted, but in all probability was intended simply as a threat to intimidate intended purchasers of the new bonds. His advice was to immediately file an answer and demand trial and compel immediate progress with the litigation. The same tactics were resorted to in Santa Rosa, purely for purposes of delay.

With reference to the existing injunction against the use of the sewers, the city attorney advised the Board that a general order might and would have to be made ordering all citizens now having connections with the sewer system to discontinue the same. A reasonable time, say ten or fifteen days ought to be given, after which it could be made the business of the street superintendent to compel compliance with the order of the Board.

On motion with reference to the negotiations with Mrs. Schow for sewer dumping grounds the president and Trustee Shaw were appointed a committee to confer with the owner with power to act.

Trustee Lind moved, duly seconded, that an order be made by the Board requiring all persons whose premises are now connected with the present sewer system be required to disconnect forthwith. The motion carried.

Trustee Mallagh and Pinho voted no.

Trustee Pinho strenuously opposed the action proposed to be taken. He conceded that the people in the lower section of the town had been very considerate but it was hardly right to take snap judgment now on the rest of the citizens of the town.

It was explained that the city really had no option in the matter. The injunction against the use of the sewers was actually in existence and a simple motion on the part of the plaintiff in the action would put the council in contempt, and compel the proposed action.

On motion the city attorney was instructed to proceed forthwith in defense of the action brought by N.S. Robinson to enjoin the city from proceeding under the bonding election just held.

Adjourned.

THE RAMONA TO BE REOPENED.

S.W. HARNEY OF SAN FRANCISCO, WILL TAKE CHARGE.

The people of this city will be pleased no doubt, to learn that the elegant Hotel Ramona is about to be opened to the public again, after being closed for a long time, The Ramona is the pride of the city and no more desirable stopping place could be desired by the tourist or traveler as a place of rest and comfort...

OAK PARK.

...Chas. Kramer and Wm. Awalt have returned from the La Panza country, where they have been trying their luck at placer mining. They washed out a few colors and when they are not looking at them they are kept in their inside pocket...

LITTLE WILLIE.

THOUSANDS OF CIGARS SEIZED.

BOXES STAMPED WITH COUNTERFEIT STAMPS.

Parties Having the Cigars are Innocent of Wrong Doing.

Deputy United States Internal Revenue Collector D.J. Flannery arrived in this city last evening.

His business is to look up illegally stamped cigars, there being an organized band in the east who are engaged in the business of making on a large scale, counterfeit internal revenue stamps, which are used on the weeds. The gentleman, we are informed, came down on the regular passenger train as far as Santa Margarita, and then came on to this city on the freight train which came in some hours later.

It is said that he found between 3,000 and 4,000 cigars in this vicinity which were adorned with stamps that were bogus. It could not be learned who were the victims, but the parties were innocent of all wrong doing, having purchased the cigars in good faith, not knowing the stamps were counterfeit.

Mr. Flannery returns to San Jose this morning, where his headquarters are.

MARRIED.

BLAINE - BURKE—In San Francisco, April 26, 1899, Walter S. Blaine of San Francisco and Miss Mary T. Burke of Salinas.

April 30, 1899 through May 6, 1899.

LOS BERROS.

ED. TRIBUNE:

...There was a meeting of the citizens of this vicinity Friday night at the schoolhouse to hear a discussion on the proposition of establishing a Sanitary district which will include Arroyo Grande, Pismo, Verde and Los Berros. The subject was ably handled by well known citizens of Arroyo Grande and we wish them God speed in their undertaking.

HOPE.

TEMPLETON

ED. TRIBUNE:

...The question has often been asked, "What has become of the Sanitary district?" Owing to the difficulty in getting proper rules and regulations the board has been unable to proceed with its regular business. But now that the board has fulfilled the requirements of law they have begun in earnest to eradicate the saloon, the one principal object of creating a Sanitary district.

Last Tuesday John Stumpf, who conducts the only saloon in town was arrested at the instance of the Sanitary Board for selling liquor. The trial will take place next Tuesday in Justice Carr’s court, and the result is being watched with interest by both sides...

...York’s big vineyard six miles west of town is also reported killed. This is a bad blow for Templeton as a large number of acres of trees will be dug up, owing to the uncertainty of the seasons.

CAHILL-WAGGENER NUPTIALS.

The wedding of Harry Cahill, a well-to-do rancher of Parkfield, and Miss Ollie E. Waggener, a prominent young lady also of Parkfield, occurred at the Alexander hotel in Paso Robles on the evening of April 26th.

GONE TO ELLWOOD.

Norman Sandercock left on the evening train for Ellwood, where he will superintend the work of hauling railway material for McMurtrie & Stone. Mr. Wm. Sandercock has secured the contract for such work and Norman goes as his representative.

The Chinese had a little blowout in Chinatown yesterday afternoon. The dragon flag was hoisted and a few ear-splitting selections were given by the Chinese orchestra.

HYMEN’S TORCH BURNS BRIGHTLY.

COUNTY TREASURER KELSHAW WILL MARRY TODAY.

This afternoon at 2 o’clock, Mr. John Kelshaw of this city, and Miss Grace E. Tilman of Templeton, will be joined in marriage at the home of the bride’s parents in Templeton.

Miss Tilman is a charming young lady, highly cultured and a favorite with her numerous friends. Mr. Kelshaw is a respected young gentleman of pleasing address and who has made many friends wherever he has seen fit to go. He is the treasurer of San Luis Obispo county and has already proved himself to be an estimable young man.

The couple will reside here, Mr. Kelshaw having leased the Cherry cottage on Morro street near Marsh.

(Compiler’s note: The vital statistics column includes the Rev. Will A. Betts, as the officiating clergyman.)

LAIRD - ARANA.

The wedding of Robert M. Laird and Miss Elena Arana took place at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jose Arana, yesterday afternoon (April 29). Only a few intimate friends and relatives of the bride and groom were present when Rev. Father Aguilera spoke the words which made them one.

The bride is a young lady born and raised in this city, and highly respected for her pleasing ways and manners. The groom is a promising young man, a son of Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Laird, and chief clerk of the grocery department in the store of Lasar Bros.

Mr. and Mrs. Laird will reside in this city.

DIED.

HERNANDEZ - At San Bernardo creek, near Morro, April 29, 1899, Delfreda, daughter of Juan and Rita Hernandez, a native of San Luis Obispo county, Cal., aged 18 years, 1 month and 18 days.

WICKENDEN - At Los Alamos April 29, 1899, James D. Wickenden, a native of California, aged 36 years, 6 months and 10 days.

Two bands of sheep, 3000 in number were driven through town yesterday morning on the way to the San Julian and Las Cruces ranches in Santa Barbara county.

AT SYCAMORE SPRINGS.

OVER SEVEN HUNDRED PEOPLE ENTERTAINED AT THE RESORT SUNDAY.

The Pavilion Was Packed With Dancers the Entire Day–Fine Music by the Band.

The festivities at Sycamore Springs in honor of Admiral Dewey’s victory at Manila, a year ago, took place according to the advertised program Sunday. There was an excursion over the Pacific Coast railway from Los Olivos and way points, and when the long train arrived at the Springs over 150 passengers alighted and made their way to the hotel, pavilion and bath houses, while others found suitable places for picnicking beneath the shades of the tall sycamores. A large crowd of visitors arrived by private conveyance, and with the people who went from this city on the 1 o’clock train, there were at least 700 persons, enjoying the day at the springs.

The San Luis Military band supplied the music and the pavilion was crowded with a happy lot of dancers and spectators until the hour of departure was at hand.

(Compiler’s note: The lengthy article found in the May 2, 1899 issue of the TRIBUNE relates in more detail, the activities of the day: waltz contest, selection of best looking railroad man, best looking baby contest, the fat man’s race, 100 yard foot race, bicycle race, 30 yards girl’s race, and the finest looking rig on the grounds.)

AT ESTRADA GARDENS.

There was a good crowd out to the Estrada Gardens Sunday afternoon. The attraction there was a regular old fashioned California barbecue followed by a dance in the pavilion. George Robbins, who was master of ceremonies had left nothing undone in the preparations and the beef was cooked to perfection and there was a sufficient supply of bread and salsa to go with it. After the barbecue m any of those present sought the pavilion where Professor Pico’s string orchestra furnished excellent music for dancing, and the crowd was not long in taking advantage of it.

During the afternoon, Messrs. Bloehs and Jacoby, the two German musicians, who are very able artists with the trombone and cornet, played a number of patriotic airs much to the delight of their audience. These gentlemen are en route to San Francisco, where they will make preparations to make a tour of the world on horseback, along with four other musicians.

Late in the day the crowd returned to the city after having passed an enjoyable day.

WORK WILL SOON COMMENCE.

Sidney Hampton has received a contract from C.H. Johnson, to clear the rubbish from the ruins at the corner of Higuera and Chorro streets. Mr. Hampton commenced work yesterday and states that within two weeks’ time he will have the place cleaned. It is expected that within a week or two afterwards that the work of laying the foundation for the new Johnson block will be started.

A NEW RULE.

SOUTHERN PACIFIC WILL NOT ALLOW SALOONS AT RAILWAY STATIONS.

The Southern Pacific Railroad Company has issued an order which will banish liquor from the restaurants over which it has control or which are leased from it along its lines throughout the state. An order with this purpose in view has been issued and goes into effect on June 1st. It will affect a number of eating houses in railway stations and depots which have been in existence since the earliest days of the road.

One of the purposes of this order is to prevent employes (sic) of the company from being tempted into indulgence in liquor while on duty, which may incapacitate them and cause, possibly, a wholesale loss of both property and life.

The order also aims to discourage, among operatives, a desire for indulgence in liquor at any time and is based upon the theory that, if there is no liquor to be had, the taste for it may gradually be destroyed.

There has been, for a long time, a rule of the company in force, prohibiting employes (sic) from visiting places where liquor is sold while those employes (sic) are on duty.

The company has also endeavored, at all times to discourage its employes (sic) from visiting drinking places even when not on duty. It has been the experience of the corporation that, as a rule, its men have been very careful in this respect and that many of them have completely abandoned the drinking habit, rather than to be suspected as to their reliability by the public or the corporation.

The company has still another purpose in cutting off this liquor traffic and that is to be absolved from responsibility, direct or indirect, for any accident to life or which may be sustained by any passenger because of losing his faculties, as a consequence of drink, which he may have purchased from a restaurateur in a station of the company.–Oakland Enquirer.

CITY TRUSTEES MEETING.

THE SCHOW SEWER FARM MATTER.

City Agrees to Purchase the Same Within the Next Two Years for $1650.

BONDING ORDINANCE NO. 108 PASSED.

The P.C. Railway Wants To Be Relieved From Paying a City License.

...Trustee Shaw, representing the committee appointed to investigate the proceedings in regard to the proposed sewer farm on the Schow property, stated that Mrs. Schow would not renew the bond to sell her land to the city, the time having expired, but was willing to give the city all the time wanted in which to make the purchase, provided the Board would agree to pay the interest due on a note secured by the aforesaid property, the amount due on next August being about $250.

Moved by Trustee Lind that report of committee be accepted. Trustee Pinho suggested that the matter should be laid aside for future consideration. Trustee Shaw stated that some action should be taken...

...Attorney R.V. Bouldin appeared on behalf of the Pacific Coast Railway company and requested the Board to repeal subdivision 37 of section 14 of the city ordinance referring to license imposed on railway companies for carrying freight and passengers within the city limits. It was a hardship on the company as the Southern Pacific company was exempt from paying the license being protected by the interstate law. On motion of Trustee Pinho the application was referred to the finance committee with instructions to report at the next meeting...

..Street Superintendent Kelley informed the Board that a street roller was needed to crush the red rock put down on some of the streets, and that he could secure the use of an 8-ton roller now at Santa Maria, if the Board would pay the freight on same to this city and return later. The freight charges both ways would only be $12.

Ordered the road roller be procured.

In re sewer farm. Moved by Trustee Lind that the proposition submitted by the committee be accepted and that the agreement be renewed to purchase the Schow property for a sewer farm for $1620 from Mrs. Schow within two years, the city to assume all unpaid interest on note existing against the aforesaid land up to August 1, 1899, such interest to be allowed as part payment on said sewer farm. The motion carried...

GOOD LUCK OF SAN LUIS.

GETS TWO CONVENTIONS IN 1900.

G.A.R. STATE ENCAMPMENT.

THE GRAND COURT OF FORESTERS OF AMERICA, ALSO MEET IN THIS CITY.

San Luis Obispo has suddenly sprung into great renown from one end of California to the other. The news which we impart to the people this morning is news which is fresh, and will remain fresh for one whole year.

(Compiler’s note: The article continues to expand on the information found in the above headlines. It can be found in its entirety in the microfilm files of the May 4, 1899 issue of the TRIBUNE in the San Luis Obispo public library.)

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

May 3.

...In re squirrel tails. The Board having determined the number of squirrel tails presented to the county clerk for the month ending May 2, 1899, and having caused all of said tails to be destroyed by fire, now order that the certificates be issued to the persons and for the following number of tails:

W.L. Davis 2330, John Schwab 120, P. Taylor 80, J.C. Buffum 194, Daniel Faeh 90, Abel Hanson 68, T.J. Sandercock 60, L.L. Patter 66...

...In re West Los Berros School District. Petition received from residents of said district requesting that the word "West" be dropped from the name of said district and called "Los Berros school district" and that library be turned over to the school in such district...

THREE BRAZIL BOYS ARRESTED BY THE CONSTABLE.

Charged With Battery on the Person of Another Boy.

The Brazil boys are again in the meshes of the law. Yesterday afternoon the three Brazil brothers were arrested by Constable Cook on a warrant charging them with battery on the person of Master Ferdinand Casson, the complaint being issued at the instance of the latter’s father, Mr. Geo. Casson. It is alleged that the little fellow was treated severely.

This is not the first time that the youngsters bearing the name of the empire which Dom Pedro once ruled, have been before the local court.

The prisoners were taken before Judge Egan during the afternoon. Johnny Brazil was released on his own recognizance, his case being continued, but Masters Anton and Manuel Brazil were detained, and will have a hearing at 10 o’clock this morning.

TORO VALLEY.

ED. TRIBUNE: Since Toro Valley was last heard from, the devil and Jacob Frost swept down upon it with blighting results, a sin which the Lord has since endeavored to atone for with a soaking rain, but nevertheless the rain has failed to restore to the people the wilted fruits and many varieties of garden plants, Jack Frost sent to the road of decay on the night of the 22d ult. nearly all the prunes and almost all other fruits have been killed. Following the frost came a profuse rainfall continuing for the most of twenty-four hours, which will, if no unforeseen calamity intervenes, produce grand results to those having late sown grain and corn.

I have no funerals, no weddings or births to report from Toro valley or creek...

...Toro Valley lies at the head of Toro creek which empties into Morro Bay, halfway between Cayucos and the town of Morro, the latter being the famous camping grounds during midsummer.

Toro valley is a small yet beautiful valley, nestled down at an altitude of 800 feet in the Coast Range mountains, 9 miles east of the bay, and, if I was a real estate agent, I would add that it is absolutely free from frost, notwithstanding the fact that Jack Frost has just obliterated the farmer’s calculations. But I am no honest farmer and cannot lie.

GENERAL TORO.

MARRIED.

SILVEIRA - DeROSA–In this city at the Catholic church, May 4, 1899, by Rev. Father Aguilera, A.F. Silveira and Miss Mamie DeRosa, both of Morro.

CRESTON.

ED. TRIBUNE: The Crestonians celebrated the first day of May right royally. The citizens began to assemble in the early hours to take part in the May day festivities and quite a large procession formed in line on Webster street, between First and Second, and headed by the C and G band wended their way to the pleasant grove, where the May day recreations and games were enjoyed. It was a regular old time basket picnic and barbecue combined. The barbecue was voted to be the best one that has been held in this vicinity and in fact on this side of the mountains for a long period.

The band boys gave some of their choicest pieces of music at short intervals during the day. Quite a number of the usual May day games were participated in by many.

There were over three hundred people who had assembled to celebrate the May rites, renew acquaintances and to enjoy a social time. Everything about the picnic was managed in a decorious (sic) manner. The baseball players lined up and played a few games. The one thing that was a little exciting to some, was the horse race. All did well but the losing ones.

The Creston hotel opened up for business on May 1st. The new proprietor gave a May day ball which was a grand affair. The orchestra consisted of Norman Cliff first violin and Mr. Ponce de Leon guitar. Young and old enjoyed themselves and had a merry time...

ED.

THE SANITARY ELECTION.

ARROYO GRANDE HAS A LIVELY CONTEST ON HAND.

There promises to be a lively time at Arroyo Grande on Saturday, May 20, the time set for the sanitary election. It will be a warm contest as it is estimated that 450 votes will be cast. The result will be watched with interest by the people of this city.

Applications for transfer cards are coming in lively at the county clerk’s office from parties desiring to cast their ballots at the election and nearly the entire vote of the district will be polled.

A NEW GROCERY.

A.T. BRAZIL HAS GONE INTO BUSINESS FOR HIMSELF.

Mr. A. T. Brazil who has been a resident of this city for a long time and has been working in the grocery business for over twelve years, has gone into business for himself and will open his new grocery store in the McAllister building on Higuera street, this morning. The public is invited to call and inspect the fine, new stock of groceries, provisions, etc.

The place will be known as Brazil’s Cash Grocery, and the proprietor intends to supply customers with the best goods in the market at the lowest prices for cash.

May 7, 1899 through May 13, 1899.

PUT IN A SAFE PLACE.

THE TWO BRAZIL BOYS COMMITTED TO THE REFORM SCHOOL OF WHITTIER.

THEY ARE INCORRIGIBLE URCHINS.

The public has heard about the last of the Brazil brothers, Manuel and Anton, for several days to come. Yesterday the youngsters were ordered sent to the Reform school at Whittier, there to remain until they become of age or such time as the state authorities there may decide to release them. It is hard for their parents to give them up, but it is in this case the best possible course. The record of the two boys was aired in the Superior court. That they have been bad boys no one will deny, but when they return here again they will probably be "on to themselves."

We are informed that no less than fifteen saloons will soon be in full running order out at Ellwood. (Compiler’s note: Ellwood is the terminal towards which the railroad workers are working to close the gap.) Outfits may be seen on the way there nearly every day. Such "outfits" usually consist of a small load of boards, a few pieces of 2 x 4 pine and half a dozen casks and kegs filled with "stock." Contractor McCormick complains of this state of affairs. He doesn’t relish the idea of seeing saloons pitched near his camps. They interfere with the work of his men. But the contractor’s regulations with his employees will cover any case of drunkenness that may turn up.–Santa Barbara News.

WHERE BRUIN IS.

Charley Younglove’s bear has been heard from again. The former owner and W.G. Johnson with others went out to look for it and found tracks on the Fillmore ranch yesterday a short time after the animal had been seen by George Andrews. The search will be resumed this morning.

MARRIED.

SHEEHY - GRAVES–In Watsonville, May 3, 1899, by Rev. M. Hassett, James B. Sheehy and Mrs. Hattie Graves, both of Watsonville.

GRANGER - COOLEY–In San Francisco May 3, 1899, by Superior Judge Sewell, Mr. Alfred Granger of San Francisco and Miss Maud Cooley of Paso Robles.

SANDERS - SLOCOMBE–In San Francisco May 4, 1899, at the residence of the bride’s parents by Rev. Samuel Slocombe, Mr. Davis G. Sanders and Miss Effie M. Slocombe, both formerly of Cayucos.

DIED.

FRIBERG - Near Paso Robles, May 1, 1899, Carl Johann Friberg, a native of Sweden, aged 21 years and 7 months.

ARRESTED FOR LARCENY.

LOUISE LUGO TAKEN INTO CUSTODY ON COMPLAINT OF GEORGE PRICE.

Says He Lost Ninety Dollars.

Louise Lugo, one of the denizens of the tenderloin, fell into the clutches of the law yesterday on a charge of grand larceny. (Compiler’s note: The word tenderloin implies the district of town devoted to vice, the red light district, the place where the prostitutes lived.)

George Price swore out the warrant. He alleges that the damsel robbed him of $90 while he was under the influence of liquor.

Marshal Cook arrested the woman and brought her into Judge Egan’s court where her bail bond was fixed at $250, which she secured.

RUMORED ARREST OF FINDLEY.

SAID TO BE NOW IN CUSTODY IN MEXICO.

Pending the Arrival of Extradition Papers From this Country.

Last evening a rumor was current on the streets that our late tax collector, S.M. Findley, had been arrested in Mexico, and that the authorities of our neighbor republic were holding him until the proper extradition papers arrive.

It is understood that the surety company who was on his bond, has been quietly but persistently looking for him ever since he levanted, and the rumor may have a good foundation. (Compiler’s note: The word "levant" means "to run away from debt.")

It could not be learned last evening how the report of his arrest started.

SCHOOL CHILDREN.

THE CENSUS MARSHAL HAS FINISHED COUNTING THEM

School census Marshal Pollard has completed his labors and has submitted his report.

It shows that there are 1108 children, between the ages of 5 and 7 years in this city, divided as follows:

Whites, boys 557, girls 541; Chinese, boys, 5, girls 5.

There are 272 children under the age of 5 years –265 whites and 7 Chinese.

In regard to the 1108 within the limit of school age, 636 attend the public schools, 229 private schools and 243 are non-attendants.

BORN.

SHARP - At Oceano, May 4, 1899, to the wife of Wm. Sharp, a daughter.

 FINDLEY CAUGHT IN PERU.

THE EX-TAX COLLECTOR TRACED TO LIMA WHERE HE IS ARRESTED.]

Special to the Tribune.

LIMA, Peru, May 9.—11:30 a.m.—Samuel Findley was arrested at Lima, Peru, on the application of Detective John Frazer of San Francisco. Frazer traced Findley to Barranco, a suburb of Lima, and found him living there. He had deposited in the local bank $7200 in gold and 294 Peruvian sols.

In yesterday’s issue the TRIBUNE advised its readers of the reported capture of Samuel M. Findley, the missing tax collector of this county. At 11:30 yesterday forenoon the special dispatch printed above, reached the TRIBUNE and it became known that Findley was really in the clutches of the law.

The fact that so much money was found in his possession, or to his credit in the banks of Peru, leads one to believe that the wily Sam, the "good thing" of the "joints" around town, had grown shrewd in his travels, or else there was an absence of nickel-in-the-slot machines in the lands through which he has wended his way.

The surety company which were upon Findley’s bond, determined to capture him and to that end they endeavored to get the Board of Supervisors of this county to offer a reward. The Board refused to do this and the company employed a detective at their own expense to trail down the outlaw.

Their selection for this work was John C. Frazer of San Francisco, known among the officials of the state as one of the shrewdest sleuths of the craft. He has been on the trail for several months and finally located his man Monday of this week.

The surety company will recover something like $8,000, and they will be well repaid for their efforts. The detective will no doubt claim a liberal free for such a difficult and long chase, but some of the funds found with Findley at Peru, the company will be enabled to return to the vaults of the treasury of San Luis Obispo county to apply upon the shortage.

It cannot be determined just how soon Findley will be brought back to this city to visit the court house, not as an official, but as a criminal brought to the bar of justice.

It can be safely judged that Findley made his trip to Peru overland. The fact that he sent keys of the tax collector’s office to this city from Juarez, Mexico, about two weeks after his disappearance, showed the course he pursued.

The story of Findley and his crime will readily be recalled by the people of this city and county. It was a crime prompted by the impending danger of a shortage being made known to the public, a shortage occasioned by extravagance, riotous living and heavy betting upon defeated individuals in the campaign of last fall. Findley bet heavily on the fusion candidate for congress in this district and with that gentleman’s defeat found it necessary to leave the county and in doing so Findley appropriated all the available funds in his office which he could carry.

He was appointed tax collector in December 1897, upon the death of George W. Ramage, and left this county in November 1898. His bond was for $50,000, held by the Fidelity and Deposit company of Maryland, which has at last effected his capture. The warrant for Findley’s arrest was sworn out December 1, 1898.

It is presumed that much of interest will be brought to light upon Findley’s return here and with a clear case against him he may consent to make a confession.

A well known citizen last evening stated that while Findley was here he was ever discussing the merits of Peru for business ventures and seemed to have his mind centered wholly on that country. He would spend hours in the rear end of a certain saloon learning from an ex-sailor who resides here, everything that the old marine knew of the South American republic.

SENT BY TAG.

A LITTLE GIRL ON A TRIP TO FRESNO COUNTY.

As the burly drummer and the professional traveler jostled one another about the ticket window of the Southern Pacific depot in this city yesterday morning, there was one tiny passenger unaccustomed to it all, and she was bound on a long journey. It was all new to her and she looked with wondering eyes from a bright, dimpled face upon the ponderous train, and while waiting for the conductor’s "all aboard," munched a few sweet crackers.

This little passenger was only four years of age and she was going all alone to Selma, Fresno county. Her name was Gerome Rodgers. She has been in this city with Mrs. Chavez for sometime. Mrs. Chavez was at the depot to buy her ticket and with needle and thread sewed a big tag upon the sleeve of the little girl’s dress, labeled, "Gerome Rodgers, Selma, Fresno county, California." The little passenger will change cars at San Jose, then at Tracy, and reach er destination at 10 o’clock tonight. She will probably be lost in dreamland, but some thoughtful conductor or brakeman will see that she is awakened and put off at Selma.

AFTER THE BEAR.

NO SIGHT OF BRUIN—A WILD CAT CAPTURED.

Yesterday afternoon another expedition left town in quest of Younglove’s lost bear. It consisted mainly of Mike Price and his hounds, which Jim Beckett states are the best dogs of all the canine tribe in the state to follow a trail.

Mike went on horseback and with him were Johnnie Martinez, Jim Beckett, D. Ivins, C.A. Younglove and others. They failed to find bruin, but the dogs ran down a big wild cat which was the sum total of the trophies of the chase.

Engineer Marsh brought up a number of men yesterday morning to load iron for the big bridge at La Honda. The steam crane was brought up from Surf Monday to load this material. The crane is also used for switching to and from the track where the material is being loaded.

A BIG TIME AT POZO.

AN EVENT WHICH WAS CELEBRATED IN MERRIMENT.

It is Proposed to Have a Grand Celebration on September 16th.

A. Lazcano of Pozo, was in town yesterday bringing cheerful reports from his section as regards crop prospects and current events.

Pozo observed the glad May time with a big picnic, barbecue and dance on the 5th inst. The barbecue was given by Madison Graves in honor of the christening of the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Herrera. The child is a nephew of Mr. Lazcano. There was a large gathering of people and after the barbecue the afternoon was given over to horse racing and other sports. In the evening Vidal Garcia gave a dance in Herrera’s hall.

Mr. Lazcano states that in view of the good crops and favorable conditions, Pozo will observe September 16th, the anniversary of Mexican independence with an elaborate celebration. Since they gave way to Santa Margarita last season, this year’s event will serve for the past as well.

CAYUCOS NOTES.

CAYUCOS, May 9—A bloody encounter between two young Swiss milkers occurred Monday morning at the ranch of Biaggini & Storni on Villa creek. The assailant, Jose Machado Lorenco, plead guilty to assault before Judge Mac and was fined $5, while his victim had a long gaping scalp wound sewed up by the doctor.

The citizen s of Cayucos last fall raised a fund of $700 as a reward for the arrest and conviction of the individuals who burned the town in October. The time in which the reward might be claimed expires May 10th, and as there have been no claimants the money will be returned to the subscribers. While no results have been gained on the line on which the money was raised there have been indirect benefits. During the past six months a quiet has reigned that would do honor to any rural section.

The Parkfield Sand Storm is a small paper, but it blows about as swiftly as its name.

INTERESTING STORY.

THE LITTLE GIRL WHO WENT ALL ALONE TO SELMA.

Yesterday the TRIBUNE told of the sending of little Gerome Rodgers to Sel ma, Fresno county. In relation to the little girl the following interesting story is told to a TRIBUNE scribe:

It seems that it is a favorite pastime of Rodgers and his wife to leave their children on unsuspecting friends whenever the opportunity presents itself.

The little girl who was sent to them Tuesday has been with friends in this city for the past nine months. Rodgers asked as a great favor that the child be allowed to stay for a week at the end of which time he would send for her. The week passed, as did also many others, and still no word came from the unnatural parents.

At last the persons with whom she had been left came to the conclusion that Rodgers had no intention of sending for the child, so, being unwilling to shoulder the responsibility any longer they notified the father that Gerome would be sent to him.

There is a brother who has been left in the same manner near Morro and there is also a baby who was left to the care of strangers when but 19 months old.

Marshal Cook was on a still hunt yesterday morning for some one who stole half a box of cigars from an individual on Palm street. The cigars are of the "Grand Master" brand.

FINDLEY TALKED TOO MUCH.

HIS WAGGING TONGUE PROVED HIS UNDOING.

His Trail So Plain that a Blind Man Could Have Followed It.

Around town yesterday the chief topic of interest for discussion was the article of the TRIBUNE giving the news of Sam Findley’s arrest. There was a wide diversity of opinion. Some thought that it was just as well to let Sam enjoy the balmy air of the South American republic, since the surety company was good for the amount of the shortage, occasioned by Sam’s hurried "resignation" of the honors of the office of tax collector and his efforts in taking with him a substantial "remembrance" of his arduous duties as a servant of the people.

The sheriff’s office has received no advices in regard to the matter.

The story of Detective Frazer’s hunt for Findley is told in detail in the metropolitan press of yesterday. The clew to the direction Findley took was gained by the detective through the return of the keys of the tax collector’s office to this city. It seems that the keys were registered at the City of Mexico and re-addressed at Juarez, it being the mistaken supposition in this city at the time that the keys came direct from Juarez. Assistant Superintendent Frazer of the Pinkerton Detective agency, proceeded at once to Mexico where he found that Findley had registered on November 24 at an obscure Mexican hotel under the name of William Miller. In sending the package of keys to this city he gave the name of O’Keefe.

November 28, Findley still going by the name of Miller, left the City of Mexico and visited different points along the coast, stopping a few days at Tehauntepec (sic) where he purchased some wearing apparel and gave out the information that he was a special detective connected with the United States Treasury Department at Washington and was on his way to South America. In Tehuantepec he had cards printed giving the name of J.E. Miller.

Findley drifted on south. At times he stated that he was going to New York, but it was only a blind. In leaving Panama he went direct to Lima, Peru and the (sic) United States it became necessary for the secretary of state to confer with the representative of Peru at Washington, and through the courtesy of the Peruvian government they concluded to turn Findley over to the United States through Mr. Frazer, the Pinkerton representative.

CAMBRIA.

...A quiet wedding took place here at the residence of Mr. W. Shaug on the evening of May first, when Mr. S. Mayfield and Miss M. Shaug were joined in the holy bonds of matrimony...

...It seems sad when we think of so many of our settlers passing away, yet such is life, and it is hard to fully realize that Mr. Geo. Lull now sleeps that last, long sleep, as well as Mr. Frank Gross. We knew them for many years and can only say "The Lord’s will be done..."

UNCLE SAM.

THE DELAY IN WORK ON THE GAP.

If reports from the railroad camp beyond Ellwood are correct there has already been considerable delay in construction on the coast line. Owing to the difficulty experienced in getting sites for camps and other privileges, Contractors Ramish and Marsh have not yet arrived with their outfits; they expected to be at work a few days following the beginning of operations by McCormick, but their men and horses are still at Los Angeles waiting for a settlement of the dispute.

The contractors are prone to talk much about the late developments.

McCormick’s contract is progressing satisfactorily, and if Ramish and Marsh could supplement efforts at the front, results would be very gratifying.

The Chamber of Commerce is taking a hand in the controversy in which the Southern Pacific railroad finds itself over a portion of the right of way for the Coast line railroad, that led to the threat from C.P. Huntington to stop the work of closing the gap between Surf and Ellwood. At last night’s meeting of the Chamber of Commerce a motion was introduced by S.E. Crow, that was adopted as follows:

Moved, That the Chamber of Commerce write a letter to C.P. Huntington, president of the Southern Pacific Railroad company, assuring him of its desire to co-operate with him in overcoming all opposition and obstructions that are being placed in the way of the early completion of the railroad between Surf and Ellwood, such letter to be signed by the president of the Chamber of Commerce.—Santa Barbara Press.

The San Francisco Chronicle of yesterday contains the following important dispatch:

"LOS ANGELES, May 10.—Work on the Southern Pacific Coast line between Surf and Ellwood was ordered stopped today. A property owner, across whose land the line was to run, made some demands for the right-of-way which were considered unreasonable by the company, and as a result the contractors were notified to discontinue work on the gap pending adjustment of the difficulty. Two hundred and fifty men are thrown out of employment.

"The Chamber of Commerce has decided to address a letter to Huntington assuring him of its desire to co-operate in removing the obstacles in the way of the construction of the line."

This is a delay which the people of the coast section will hope to see ended in short order.

May 14, 1899 through May 20, 1899

BORN.

DRUE - At Serrano Station, May 13, 1899, to the wife of Patrick Drue, a son.

McCURDY - At Nipomo, May 14, 1899, to the wife of A. McCurdy, a son.

OLLY (sic) A SCARE.

BUT THE RESIDENCE OF THE McCABES MIGHT HAVE BEEN BURNED.

Yesterday afternoon about 1:30, an alarm of fire was turned in at the engine house by telephone. The department turned out but its services were not required.

The scare was occasioned by a blaze at the residence of George W. McCabe on Pismo street. A lace curtain was found to be in flames but it was quickly smothered by Miss Kate Bynum, a niece of Mr. McCabe who is in charge of the house with the children during the absence of Mr. and Mrs. McCabe in San Francisco.

The curtain caught fire from a lamp which Miss Bynum had been using to heat some curling irons to curl little Mabel McCabe’s hair. The damage was very slight.

The headers will miss but very little grain as a result of what fell down during the last storm. The stalks were green and rank at the time and in the words of the granger, they have "elbowed," straightened up until the heads will all be caught.

The red rock put down on Broad street is fast forming into a compact, smooth road bed. The sprinkling cart is taken over it every day and the water serves to pulverize the rock.

FINDLEY IS HOMEWARD BOUND.

THE CAPTURED EX-TAX COLLECTOR MAKES NO CONTEST.

He Will Voluntarily Return to the Scenes of His Crime.

Samuel M. Findley is willing to return to San Luis Obispo, where he will rely on the hopes of being leniently dealt with. Yesterday’s Chronicle contains the following dispatch:

"LIMA, Peru, May 11.—Samuel M. Findley, the defaulting tax collector of San Luis Obispo, Cal., has waived all formalities of extradition and will voluntarily return to California for trial. He expresses the hope that such a course will bring more leniency than if he contested the proceedings."

No doubt he expects to set up such a defense as will appeal to the sympathy of his former fellow citizens. His story will be interesting, but the jury will have to judge upon facts, no doubt.

THE "GAP."

Santa Barbara county is up in arms against Huntington in view of a statement that work on the "gap" is to be stopped pending settlement of certain rights of way. Senator Boyce leads the fight against the magnate. Wm. Sandercock has advices from Surf that work is still in progress and is not expected to stop. So it may all blow over.

BLOCK THE TRAIL OF THE IRON HORSE.

TROUBLE OVER THE RIGHT OF WAY ON THE GAP.

Santa Barbara Citizens Active --R. E. Jack Writes a Pointed Letter.

Santa Barbara is having an exciting time over the railroad situation and the proposition to close down work on the gap pending the settlement of the refusal of certain parties to grant right-of-way.

The whole trouble is laid by the Press to Louis G. Dreyfus a real estate and insurance agent of Santa Barbara who refused to grant right-of-way over his lands. The same stand was taken by the managers of the lands of the Hollister estate.

Energetic citizens of the Channel city assisted by the Chamber of Commerce are doing all within their power to straighten matters out and pave the way with roses for the railroad company, which it is hoped they will succeed in. Just at present it looks dark, but the darkest day always occurs before the dawn. The old right-of-way committee of Santa Barbara refuses to do anything in the matter claiming that they have fulfilled all their duties and agreements with the railroad. They transfer it all to the Chamber of Commerce.

The Santa Barbara Press of Friday publishes considerable correspondence in relation to the matter. One of the letters is written by R. E. Jack of this city and is addressed to W.M. Eddy of the old right of way committee of our neighboring county. It is as follows:

"San Luis Obispo, Cal., May 9, 1899. W.M. Eddy Esq., Santa Barbara.

Dear Sir—I have just returned from San Francisco and while there had occasion to call at the railroad office and met Mr. C.P. Huntington. He complained very bitterly of the treatment that they were receiving from the owners of land along the line of construction. From all that I could gather, the situation is critical. The contractors are much alarmed, having received notice not to increase their force, and further notice that during the next two weeks they may receive orders to discharge their entire force and quit work.

"I called on Mr. Hood, chief engineer, and he is certain that the work will cease if these parties do not accede from their extortionate demands. Mr. Huntington said to me that this road was not a necessity; that they can get along without it, and will, unless they are permitted to build without taking every man into court whose land they touch. It seems that the Hollister estate and Mr. Dreyfus are giving them the most trouble. I trust you may be able to do something to clear the way, for I know that the situation is most dangerous.

Yours truly, R.E. JACK.

At Bell Canyon it is stated that the Contractor McCormick is practically at a standstill. He is still at work, but the force is being decreased. San Luis Obispo safely piloted the trail of the iron horse to the boundaries of our neighboring county and it is hoped our neighbors will not block its progress and retard the advance of the two counties.

RESCUED FROM DEATH.

PERILOUS ADVENTURE OF FOUR SWISS GENTLEMEN ON THE CAYUCOS BEACH.

SAVED BY MILES SANDERS.

CAYUCOS, May 15.—Only dashing courage and a cool head prevented a sorrowing calamity at this place Sunday, and Mike Tonini of Los Osos, G.B. Lanini, Donati Biaggi and Peter Sargenti of Morro, owe their lives to Miles Sanders.

About 10:30 Sunday morning the four Swiss named went fishing on the beach near Cayucos and took their position on a large, flat rock, known as "Copper rock," (usually submerged only at large high tide,) about 100 yards from the bluff. The very low tide was just on the turn at that time and Copper rock was not difficult of access. They took lunch and prepared to stay nearly all day and escape on the afternoon low tide. But in making this calculation they reckoned without an official tide table. The high tide at 2:56 p.m. was followed by a higher low tide at 7:01 p.m., the difference between which was only a few inches.

A furious northwest gale prevailed all the afternoon, and Copper rock was awash a greater part of the time. The wind was piercing cold and their clothing was wet from head to foot by the dashing spray, but they waited patiently and suffered for hours for the ebb tide which came not.

Tonini had three children in the wagon on the beach, who were huddled together under the thin blankets to conserve the heat of their tiny bodies, while the father was a prisoner on the miniature island, and to him the distress was double torture.

During the entire afternoon, owing to the cold wind, no person ventured on the beach to pass the men in exile, and Copper rock is so low behind the high bluff that passersby on the coast road could not be seen, and the adverse wind only carried the sound to seaward when they cried aloud together. The sun was on the horizon and the dusky shades of night were peeping up in the east, but no succor came and the four men were contemplating the fate, which now had a woeful air of inevitableness. By an amazing intervention of fate they espied a man on horseback driving cattle on the mountain on the ranch of James Cass, more than half a mile away, and by loud yelling and most frantic gestulations arrested his attention. It was Charlie Cass, and he went to the beach with all speed and learned their terrible predicament. He brought the word to town, and within twenty minutes forty men, women and children had gone to the rescue.

Miles Sanders was the hero of the hour and to him belongs all the glory of the occasion. First on horseback he tried to throw a life line to the men, often riding into the water, but the horse could not be forced near enough against the high breakers. Sanders then stripped to the waist and ventured even beyond safety and cast his line. After several unsuccessful attempt Tonini caught the line, and quickly tied it around his chest. Sanders retired to a safe footing, and when a large breaker had passed signaled to Tonini to jump. Mike obeyed and disappeared from sight. He rolled over and over and went down again and again and it required Sanders’ most heroic efforts to bring him to ground on which it was safe to venture. Sanders assisted him to his feet and he soon recovered from his strangling and proceeded to dry sand with some assistance. He had a narrow escape from drowning.

The line was recast and Lanini followed with less difficulty. Biaggi became tangled in the rope and was helpless and floundered around in the water several minutes before he could be extricated. He also narrowly escaped drowning. Sargenti escaped with little difficulty.

The poles and about sixty pounds of fish were left on the rock, but all were recovered next morning by the early beach walkers.

Sanders’ feat at life saving was as brilliant as it was daring. The men were over joyed at their rescue and Tonini shook hands around with the crowd. Lanini, on behalf of the party, tendered Sanders a $20 gold piece, which the latter refused to accept.

It was after 7 o’clock when the last man was safely landed. Not one of the men could swim, and an attempt to reach the beach through the heavy breakers would probably have resulted fatally, and to have undertaken to wait for the morning low tide would have been equally disastrous as they would have all been washed off the rock and drowned by the high tide and heavy seas.

Only a few months ago Sanders performed a feat scarcely less daring when he in like manner saved three citizens of Paso Robles, who became stranded on a rock while hunting mussels.

TORO VALLEY.

ED. TRIBUNE: The Toroites can with the various other localities, heard from through the clever columns of the TRIBUNE, boast of having been blessed with a luxuriant growth of pasture and the most encouraging prospect for a prolific growth of grains and garden crops.

Nothing of notice has transpired in this valley since our last writing. Marriages or deaths we have had none. Births we hope for none as this is a bachelor and widower community.

A most inviting summer resort for old maids and widowed ladies is on Bretz’s ranch. On the banks of a crystal water brook is located a grove unparalleled for beauty and climate and for camping grounds it has no equal and to which all old maids and widowed ladies, irrespective of age, color or size are cordially invited to pitch their tents and spend their summer vacation. Mr. Bretz welcomes both male and female visitors.

Preliminary steps are being taken now by William Drouth to burn brick in this valley in order that every bachelor in the valley may build a brick mansion in which to welcome the old maids as they wander this way.

Rumor has it that Mr. Bretz of this valley is about to join the TRIBUNE’S staff. Still another rumor is out that he is about to bend his energies in behalf of the Farmer’s Mutual Fire Insurance Association of Paso Robles.

GENERAL TORO.

THE VEXED SEWER QUESTION.

RESIDENTS OF LOWER HIGUERA STREET HOLD A MEETING.

Instruct their Attorney to Enforce the Existing Injunction.

An important meeting was held last evening at Waite and Ryan’s shop in the western part of the city. It was called for the purpose of discussing the sewer trouble, a very vital question with the citizens in that portion of the town.

Mr. Smith, the wagon maker, presided, and every phase of the troublesome question was gone over. It was agreed that the citizens of lower Higuera street have been very lenient with the city in this matter and have tolerated a nuisance for a long time in hopes that the city would ultimately vote the required bonds to make the necessary extension of the sewer. The bonds were carried, but the end seems no nearer and it was the sense of the meeting that the interested attorney proceed to secure at once an enforcement of the injunction granted against the city. This means a closing of the sewers.

SAM FINDLEY.

DESIRES VERY MUCH TO RETURN TO THIS COUNTY.

According to a dispatch in the San Francisco Call of Sunday, Samuel M. Findley, while possessing every advantage in being able to remain in Peru, desires to return to this county, confess his guilt and rely upon the sympathy of his former fellow citizens. He left for this county May 13 by way of Panama in the custody of Detective Frazier. The Call runs a picture of the absconding Tax Collector, which is far from being an excellent likeness. The Call comments editorially as follows:

"Samuel Findley, the embezzling Ex-Tax Collector San Luis Obispo, who was captured in a suburb of Lima, says he will return voluntarily to California. It is very kind of him, but he might have said something about a return of the money he stole."

HOME OF DICK BARBER BURNED.

The Building Was Insured for Fifteen Hundred Dollars.

News has reached this city of the destruction by fire of the residence of Richard Barber near Creston, the owner being in Paso Robles at the time the fire occurred.

The house was insured for $1500 in the Insurance Company of North America, the policy being written by A.F. Fitzgerald, the agent in this city.

"Ed," our Creston correspondent, sends the following information by last evening’s mail:

"On Saturday night the 13th, between 9 and 10 o’clock, a fire occurred about 2½ miles northeast of town. Richard Barber’s fine residence went up in smoke. No fires have been in the house for a few days it being without an occupant. The fire looks like the work of an incendiary.

The building was one of the finest in that section of the county and is quite a loss to its owner.

THE HITCH AT SANTA BARBARA.

People in this section of the country are watching with considerable intrepidation (sic) the operations of the citizens in Santa Barbara in their altercation with the managers of the Southern Pacific railroad. It is some twenty-five years since it was first regarded as a probability that the big corporation would extend their route through these shore counties. Considerations of economy repeatedly suspended and delayed the continuance of construction and the climax was at last reached when the rails finally touched Santa Margarita, at the foot of the mountain range which subdivides this county and obstacles which it was obvious enough it would take millions to conquer, barred the further progress of the iron horse. It will be recalled that it was a matter for unmeasured rejoicing that the promise was gained from Mr. Huntington, that if the right of way should be secured for the road, that as fast as economical conditions would permit, the work of building the road would be carried on until it should finally be completed. Citizens in this vicinity understood or thought they did, what the promise meant. It was to be a continuous construction which would ultimately result in the completion of the road between Elwood and Santa Margarita but the question of time must of necessity depend upon very many contingencies, some of which might be foreseen and more could not. Sensible people were quite willing to be satisfied even with so indefinite a promise because it seemed to give the only shadow of hope that the road we so much needed would ever be built at all. It did not appear to be good business for any road or any union of capital to invest in the construction. No rival to the Southern Pacific would be likely to attempt it and brave the opposition of that powerful corporation already in occupation of the territory and the direct revenues which might be anticipated offered no sort of adequate return upon the enormous investment which would be required. It was stated at the time on the authority of competent engineers that probably five millions or more would have to be expended to complete the work. There was no local business to encourage such expenditure. Only in the perfecting of the Southern Pacific system, the diversion of their through traffic from the San Joaquin valley, along the coast and along the western shore of the bay of San Francisco, could there be found any reasonable expectation of the so greatly desired construction. This was the view taken by prominent citizens of the several counties interest in the construction when after months of agitation of the matter a convention gathered in San Jose to devise plans for railroad connection with the rest of the world. It was unanimously agreed that there was no hope of having the road required, except through the Southern Pacific. It was felt that we had no good business reasons to urge upon the managers of that concern for a compliance with

our desires. We could make no probably showing of revenues which the railroad could earn, which would be at all flattering.

We could only insist that our interests demanded the road and we appealed to a just an d considerate use of the power which only the Southern Pacific possessed, to build the road anyhow. We secured the concession. We do not assert that agreement was made entirely as a favor. It is doubtless true that in the years and ages to come it will be to the profit of the Southern Pacific system as a whole that the new road should be a part of their system. Mileage, grade and climate will make it so. That doubtless was the deciding fact. But the weakness of our position locally was understood and so much so that propositions were considered of offering to the Southern Pacific, the inducement of subsidies in addition to right of way. And it was considered as a distinct triumph and a matter for general congratulation that the railroad people declined to consider any proposition o any money assistance and when we received the distinct assurance that nothing would be asked or expected from the people along the proposed line except the right of way. But that much we were advised, would be expected. San Luis Obispo very willingly and enthusiastically accepted the understanding. Its population quite generally took hold of the proposition and devoted time and money to hasten the moment when the condition so far as we were concerned should be fulfilled and the promised construction commenced. And we took great pride in the fact that, practically unaided, the people of this town and their money procured the whole right of way from Santa Margarita to the southern boundary of our county. There were those who had no sympathy at all with the movement and were not disposed to assist it. There were others who were simply conscienceless and were ready to seize the opportunity to grasp and cinch. They had to be reasoned with but if they were not susceptible to reasoning, of course their fellow citizens had to stand their imposition and give them their evil will. Apparently, our friends in Santa Barbara are having a little of the same sort of trouble. It is unfortunate but the exigency will have to be met. Unless our neighbors are working under a very different understanding with railroad company from that which we had, it is purely a matter between the citizens themselves, something with which the railroad has nothing to do and the sooner the trouble is disposed of the sooner we have a railroad and until it is disposed of, the road it is to be feared, will not be built. (Compiler’s note: From the standpoint of journalistic excellence, the content of the "hitch" at Santa Barbara, appears to be well done. The reader will note, however, that the entire article, as long as it is, has been included in ONLY ONE PARAGRAPH.)

CAYUCOS-BY-THE-SEA.

ED. TRIBUNE: The Swiss-American hotel has been renamed the Cottage Hotel. It will be repainted and will soon look as pretty as the spring millinery.

...George Gillespie of San Simeon has bought an interest in the Pedrotta blacksmith shop, and will again become a citizen of Cayucos.

...An exciting foot race of 50 yards dash on Ocean Avenue Sunday, between Bob Mayhall and Roy Hardie, was won by the latter by a fraction of a second...

VIGILANT.

DIED.

RALEIGH - At Serrano May 18, 1899, Mrs. Bridget Raleigh, beloved mother of Mrs. P. Drue, a native of county Limerick, Ireland, age 62 years.

MR. HUNTINGTON IS MILDER.

HE WRITES AN ANSWER TO THE RECENT OPEN LETTER OF SENATOR BOYCE.

The Indications are that Work on the Road at Elwood Will Not be Suspended. (Compiler’s note: It is interesting to note that there is no conformity in the spelling of the word Elwood/Ellwood.)

The latest move in the trouble over the right-of-way in Santa Barbara county is a reply from C.P. Huntington to the caustic open letter of State Senator Boyce. The railroad magnate in the course of his letter which appeared in the San Francisco Call last evening defines his position as follows:

"I have no doubt whatever that in this matter of railroad construction your townspeople believe me when I say that I am desirous of closing the gap between Surf and Ellwood just as soon as it can be economically done. I have never made, and am not making, any pretensions that we are doing this work simply for the citizens of Santa Barbara or those living along the proposed road without regard to the effect of the railroad owners, for we would build and operate railroads as a matter of business, basing our action on our best judgment as to the probable financial outcome of the work, sometimes being fully aware that we cannot expect for several years, to get much, perhaps not any, return for our investment, but nevertheless satisfied and confident that the time will come when the investment will prove a paying one, and therefore we are willing to wait for our money. At the same time we do not lose sight of the fact that the improvements we make are found far more to the aggregate benefit of all those whose property is immensely enhanced in value through the facilities we give them than to our own, and we do not hesitate to say so, because it is a fact. I am glad that it is so, although perhaps Senator Boyce may not conceive the possibility of such a sentiment exciting in the mind of a railroad owner.

"Finally, let me repeat again, that we are ready to complete the gap as soon as it can be well and economically done, but we do not of course, propose to go ahead blindly, without knowing definitely what we are to expect with reference to the rights of way not yet secured. In the work of clearing up such doubtful questions, I and my associates are ready to co-operate fully and fairly with the people of Santa Barbara and others interested alike with them; and I am glad to be able to say that I believe they will reciprocate as heartily on their part, for we have no fault to find with the people of Santa Barbara, whose attitude toward us has always been fair and friendly."

LOS BERROS.

...The boys have found something with which to while away the hours that would otherwise pass very wearily. They are busily engaged in thinning beets. A very pleasant employment they seem to find it, judging from the melodious duets and quartetts (sic) which sometimes proceed from the fields where they are at work. It seems to develop their musical powers as nothing else will.

A large (?) (sic) crowd gathered at the school house Friday to listen to a very elaborate program as they supposed. They were, however, disappointed, as nothing more interesting than a spelling match occurred...

May 21, 1899 through May 27, 1899.

SHOW A DECREASE.

The reports of the school census marshals show a decrease in the number of children of school age in a number of districts in the county. Paso Robles has 452 this year, as against 509 in 1898, a decrease of 57. It still retains its present number of teachers, but in San Miguel and Templeton the decrease reduced the number of teachers. It is probably due to the fact that so many families moved away during the dry year and have not yet returned.

MARRIED.

NEW - FRATIS—In this city, May 20, 1899, by Rev. J.M. Hilbish, Mr. John S. New and Miss Rose Fratis, both of Arroyo Grande.

BROWN - FOURCADE—In this city May 21, 1899, by the Rev. Father Aguilera, Mr. Amzi Brown and Miss Vera Fourcade, both of this city.

BRANDT - HANSEN—In this city, May 24, 1899, by Rev. J.C. Eastman, Mr. Soren Brandt and Miss Annie Hansen, both of this city.

A band of cattle passed through town yesterday morning for pasture in northern Santa Barbara county.

ESCAPED FROM JAIL.

THE NIPOMO BURGLAR GAINED HIS LIBERTY ON SUNDAY MORNING.

Sheriff Sees Him Near Santa Margarita.

Took Three Shots at Him But the Man Succeeded in Getting Away.

Sunday morning the usual quiet of the town was broken into by the startling news that one of the prisoners had tunneled his way out of the county jail in broad daylight and had made good his escape.

At 6:30 Sunday morning Deputy Sheriff Eddy released Joe Williams from cell No. 2 and allowed him the freedom of the big room where the meals are served and where the prisoners are allowed to spend the day. He was alone in this apartment, there being only two other prisoners, both of whom were in one of the big square rooms looking out on Osos street.

No doubt, as soon as Deputy Sheriff Eddy stepped from the jail apartments into the office and the big iron door was closed, Williams went to work to secure his freedom. It was a simple matter and Williams was well supplied with tools, such as they were.

Sometime, probably on Saturday, Williams had fashioned the blade of an ordinary table knife into a saw and with this cut the bolts holding one of the flat iron braces on the corridor door. This brace was wrenched loose and broken off and in order that its absence might not be easily detected, the wall where it was, had been daubed with lime until the even whitewash coating, showed no break. This flat bar about two feet in length and shaped like an arm together with two table knives, one of them the saw, and a stick of stove wood were secreted in the big room.

After being left alone Sunday morning Williams began active work on the brick wall beneath the casing of one of the windows. Picking the lime from the crevice between two bricks with one of the table knives, he gained a place to insert the flat iron brace, which he drove with the stock of stove wood. It was easy then to tear down the wall.

Having cut out a hole about ten inches in depth and eighteen inches in width, Williams dropped all his tools just inside and wiggled through. It must have been a tight squeeze, as Williams was rather stout of build.

At 8:30 Deputy Sheriff Eddy went into the jail to give Williams his breakfast and then the flight of the jail bird was discovered. No one had seen him depart and the officers were all at sea, as to what direction to take. Sheriff Ivins, Deputy McFadden, Marshal Cook and Constable Cook left in various directions and spent the day in scouring the hills.

Sheriff Ivens (sic) and Deputy McFadden left town late last night and went in the direction of Santa Margarita. They stationed themselves behind a big white oak tree so as to command the approach to the town on both the wagon road and the railroad. About 10:30 o’clock their man came in sight on the railroad track. Williams was on the lookout and gaining a glimpse of them wheeled, darted down the track with Ivins after him for several 100 yards, jumped the fence and disappeared in the hills. Sheriff Ivins took three shots from a six shooter, but failed to wing his man. He and Deputy McFadden spent the night at Santa Margarita and Ivens (sic) left again on the trail in the direction of the Rinconada, while McFadden went north on the morning train to make sure that their man was not following the railroad.

Sheriff Ivins struck the trail, which led off in the hills towards the Rinconada. He learned also where Williams had secured breakfast. Constable Rodrigues and party continued on the trail, while Sheriff Ivins returned to this city. He left last evening for Santa Margarita where he was joined by Deputy McFadden and they started out in the direction of the Rinconada.

The escape, (sic) Joe Williams, or Willems, as he gave his name, was held under $1,000 bonds for burglarizing Berne Knott’s barber shop in Nipomo, Friday night, April 7. He was captured in this city by Constable Cook. While in Nipomo awaiting his examination before Justice Dana, he endeavored to effect his escape from the calaboose there. He was regarded by the officers as a dangerous prisoner and his great desire to get away, is good evidence of that fact that there is some serious charge against him elsewhere. Only recently he wanted to plead guilty to burglary in the second degree, if he would not be sentenced to states prison. He was to have been arraigned May 23.

Williams had no doubt planned his escape for some time and wished to change his appearance as much as possible. A week ago he asked for a razor to shave himself, but the officers refused the request, whereupon Williams sharpened a table knife to a razor edge and shaved himself as smoothly, as though he had been in a barber shop. This altered his appearance greatly. He is about five feet nine inches in height, of stout build and dark complexion.

BORN.

SPANGENBERG—In this city, May 21, 1899, to the wife of E.A. Spangenberg, a daughter.

HURD—In this city, May 22, 1899, to the wife of John H. Hurd, a son.

WAITE - Near Shandon, May 21, 1899, to the wife of Herbert E. Waite, a daughter.

DIED.

HANSON - In Los Gatos, May 22, 1899, William R. Hanson, aged 39 years.

ARATA - In this city, Sunday, May 21, 1899, Ida H., wife of P.A. H. Arata a native of Santa Barbara county, aged 28 years.

PIMENTHAL - At the Los Osos, May 25th, 1899, Manuel Ignacio Pimenthal, a native Azores Islands, aged 75 years.

BYER - At Santa Margarita, May 24th, 1899, Ida Byer, wife of Louis Byer, native of Sweeden (sic), aged 36 years.

DEATH OF WM. ROBSON.

Yesterday about 11 o’clock, Wm. Robson, the tailor passed away at his home in this city. He had been in feeble health for sometime. Deceased leaves a wife and three children. William Robson, was a native of Newcastle, England and in the land of his birth served an apprenticeship as a tailor and became one of the leading men in the trade, having much to do with the nobility. He had been in several foreign countries before coming to the United States.

NIPOMO.

...Four large 6 and 8-horse teams camped here last Friday night on their way to Elwood to work for contractor Sandercock on the S.P. Ry...

...A. McCurdy is putting in switches and side tracks at Betteravia. (Compiler’s note: The sugar beet factory was at Betteravia.)

CHEERFUL.

THE LOST IS FOUND.

JAIL BREAKER WILLIAMS CAPTURED ABOUT A MILE FROM POZO.

The lost has been found. Williams, the jail bird who so easily made the escape from the county jail Sunday morning, is once more confined within that structure, this time in one of the new steel cages.

Williams was captured about 11 o’clock Monday by Eddie Bean, Jr., and John W. Yeary of Santa Margarita, on the Pozo road about a mile from that town and at a point east of the Pippin ranch house on the river road. The officers and the whole population of Santa Margarita and Pozo were out scouring the hills, but it was reserved for Bean and Yary (sic) to prove themselves the successful man hunters.

Eddie Bean left Santa Margarita Monday afternoon and drove to the Yeary place on the Rinconada, where he remained until evening. While there Williams, the escape (sic) came to the house and got a drink of water, but got away before any move could be made to effect his capture. H was followed a short distance, however.

Williams struck out on the line of the so-called mountain road to Pozo. Bean and Yeary figured that he would later on take the main road into Pozo, so they drove rapidly forward on the river road. They journeyed on to a point on the main road between Pozo and the Pippin ranch and concealing themselves by the road side on the right hand side leading into Pozo awaited the coming of Williams. They had not been mistaken in their calculations and about 11 o’clock Williams came into view.

When within fifteen feet of them Yeary commanded Williams to halt and give himself up and the order was enforced by the "present arms" of a rifle. Williams came to a standstill and protested against such a thing as being wanted for any crime. He was a law abiding citizen, quietly traveling by moonlight. The bluff "did not go," however and he was bundled into the buggy and started for San Luis. He was first searched by young Bean, who discovered a big butcher’s knife in his possession.

Williams said nothing during all his long drive to Santa Margarita, which was reached at 3 o’clock yesterday morning. A short stop was made and then the journey was continued to this city. On the way over Williams acknowledged that he was the man wanted, and coming in sight of the county jail remarked, "The same old boarding place."

It was just 5 o’clock when Bean and Yeary drove up to the corner of Morro and Monterey streets with their prisoner with the intention of getting something to eat Paiarola’s (sic) restaurant. As they were about to enter this place Williams made a dash around the corner for liberty. Yeary called him to a halt on Morro street and no time was lost in landing him in the county jail. Deputy Eddy gladly greeted the prisoner, early as it was.

Great credit is due to Messrs. Bean and Yeary for their success in capturing Williams. They were allowed the reward of $25 given by Sheriff Ivins.

Sheriff Ivins and Deputy McFadden are home ;again after a long chase, and find their man caged.

A BOGUS DEPUTY SHERIFF.

PRETENDED TO BE AN OFFICER FROM SAN BERNARDINO.

But Appears to be an Ex-Convict Sent Up From This County.

An interesting story unraveled itself yesterday by the appearance of an individual at the sheriff’s office.

About 9:30 a.m., a man stepped hurriedly into the office and asked to see the prisoner, Joe Williams, who had just been returned to the county jail after his escape. The man gave the impression of being an officer. D. Ivins, son of Sheriff Ivins was in charge of the office, Deputy Eddy being up in the court room. A TRIBUNE scribe was also present in the office.

The stranger gave the name of E.J. Biglow and said he was a deputy sheriff of San Bernardino county and thought that Williams answered the description of a man wanted in his county for burglary.

The stranger was allowed to see Williams and the two had some brisk words. Biglow asked Williams if he had ever been in San Bernardino and the prisoner said that he had. Biglow’s question as to whether Williams had ever gone to Folsom from San Bernardino, met with a sharp retort and Williams walked back into his steel cage.

There was something suspicious about the stranger’s appearance, He was well dressed and shrewd, but he seemed slightly wild in his statements. Was he a deputy sheriff?

A TRIBUNE scribe walked down town with him and presently sought out Deputy Sheriff Eddy and the pictures in the rogues’ gallery at the sheriff’s office were gone over. The whole matter of the alleged Biglow’s identity was solved in a moment.

In the array of photographs of those who had served time in San Quentin and Folsom was found a remarkably close likeness of the man, who was endeavoring to pass himself off as a deputy sheriff from the sand hills of "San Berdoo." The name of the pictured man was not Biglow, but Chas. Reed and he had only been released on April 30 of the present year after serving a seven years sentence in San Quentin for forgery. He was sentenced from this county by Judge Gregg. His number was 15502. He had forged a check on Pete Olehan of Arroyo Grande in the spring of 1893.

Reed has a great record. The term he had just ended in San Quentin is his third one in state’s prison.

Later in the day Ex-District Attorney Dorn, who prosecuted him, recognized him on the streets, then the bogus deputy sheriff speedily left the town.

Lydia, the little daughter of A. Ferrasci who resides near Morro was severely bruised by being thrown from a horse. The child was returning from school.

AT THE FRONT.

INCREASE IN THE FORCE OF MEN EMPLOYED AT BELL CANYON.

McCormick’s construction camp at Bell Canyon, on the gap, is reported as being very lively. Sixteen more men were added to the force of laborers Sunday.

The force now consists of 150, which is an increase of nearly 40 for the last week. Contractor McCormick is now in Los Angeles purchasing supplies and buying mules and horses for the work.

THE GRADUATES.

COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES OF THE CLASS OF ‘99 AT THE PAVILION TONIGHT.

This evening at the Pavilion the class of ‘99 of the high school will entertain the public at their commencement exercises. The friends of the class are all invited.

The graduating class is composed of Ralph Kaiser, Richard Goodchild, Minnie Orcutt, Lulu Egan, Susie Tuley, Edna Venable, Ella Hathaway and Minnie Moskowitz.

CAYUCOS BY THE SEASIDE.

EFFORTS TO ESTABLISH A STAGE LINE TO PASO ROBLES AND TEMPLETON.

CAYUCOS, May 24—...Efforts are being made to establish a Saturday-to-Monday stage line from Paso Robles and Templeton, with some promise of success...

...E.P. Loring has filed a notice of location of the Prodigal Son mine, about two miles north of Fairview school house on Toro creek...

...Biaggini & Storni are buying hogs and have already made two shipments by steamer...

VIGILANT.

FINE LIGHT IN THE FRENCH.

THAT PRODUCED BY THE ACETYLENE GAS APPARATUS.

The French hotel, always in the front rank owing to the enterprise of its proprietor, Mr. Fredericks, has been provided with new lighting apparatus, the invention of the Nichols Acetylene Gas Machine Company of San Francisco. It gives entire satisfaction and is easily in the lead of all similar lighting apparatus.

Of the Nichols Acetylene Gas Apparatus it can be said that there are no bolts or screws to fasten; no rubber packing to rot away or leak; no high pressure cast-iron generators; but all parts of the machine are composed of the best possible material that money can buy. The simplicity of the entire apparatus must especially commend itself to all who are in isolated districts, where tools, materials and mechanics are scarce.

In addition to the great brilliancy of Acetylene, as shown by the comparative table, the quality or color of the light is one of its strongest recommendations. It is free from all purplish tints.

Mr. John B. Edgar is the agent in this city.

HE DIED IN HIS CELL.

SAN LUIS OBISPO CONVICT EXPIRES IN SAN QUENTIN.

Rufino Vasques Found Dying by the Prison Guard.

SAN QUENTIN PRISON, May 23.—Rufino Vasques, a convict serving a two years’ sentence from San Luis Obispo county on conviction for grand larceny, died in his cell at 5 o’clock this morning under peculiar circumstances. Vasques had been working on the road gang for the past week. Yesterday he fell from a construction car used in building the Tiburon boulevard. He was on his feet again in a moment, and nothing was thought of the accident.

Upon returning to the prison he made no complaint of feeling ill. He was locked up as usual and nothing more thought of the accident. This morning, at 4 o’clock, when the first prisoners were unlocked, their attention was attracted by groans from Vasques’ cell. An investigation showed that the man was in a semi-conscious state. A few moments after the physician’s arrival Vasques expired.

Vasques was one of a family of criminals. His father Mateo Vasquez, died here on Dec. 4, 1898. At that time there were four of the family in the penitentiary. Manuel Vasques and Umicindo Vasques, two brothers were discharged recently, while yet another is in Folsom. Vasques spent much of his time in the hospital during his present term, where he was treated for tuberculosis.—S.F. Chronicle. (Compiler’s note: Vasques’s most recent offense involved the stealing of cattle. This offense is covered on pages 29, 31 and 33 of the 1898 volume in this series of ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.)

TWO YEARS FOR BURGLARY.

JOE WILLIAMS THE NIPOMO HOUSEBREAKER, GETS HIS SENTENCE.

HE ENTERED A PLEA OF GUILTY.

Joe Williams, or Willems, as he gives his name will soon be locked up in San Quentin. He plead guilty yesterday afternoon in the Superior Court of the crime of burglary, having burglarized the barber shop of Berne Knott’s last April in Nipomo.

Judge Unangst sentence him to two years in San Quentin. Williams may yet have to answer for the crime of breaking out of the county jail last Sunday.

MAUSER RIFLE.

ONE OF THEM CAN NOW BE SEEN IN ARROYO GRANDE.

Mr. Tanner, who was a nurse in the army, stationed in the Phillippines has returned to his home in Arroyo Grande, bringing back with him one of the deadly Mauser rifles, which he secured lying by the side of a dead Filipino. He brought back a number of the cartridges, some of which he distributed around among his Arroyo Grande friends.

A public exhibition of the force of one of these Mauser rifles, was given in Kansas City the other day.

A ball shot from it against the flat side of a common flatiron penetrated the iron, leaving a hole as smooth as if it were a pine board.

The ball, in going out on the opposite side, scaled the iron as an ordinary bullet would a board. Then three shots were fired against a steel axe blade. Two of them gouged deep holes into the steel and the third bulged it on the opposite side.

FROST AT SAN MIGUEL.

SAN MIGUEL, May 24.—The heavy frost of Monday night did more damage than at first thought, especially in the lowlands, where ice formed, particularly in places close to the Salinas river. Frost at this time of the year in this locality has not been known for years. In some places north of here the grain crops have been almost entirely ruined by the frost and the grain has been cut for hay. The most sanguine estimates of the yield in this vicinity only place the product at half a crop, except in some of the western districts, where the yield will be greater.—Associated Press Dispatch.

ALL OBSTACLES ARE REMOVED.

The Uninterrupted Prosecution of Construction Can Now Go On.

There is no longer any reason for delay in completing the coast railroad. C.P. Huntington has been notified that he can expect a hearty co-operation of Santa Barbara county in removing any obstacles to the construction of the road on the right of way as originally granted. He can reasonably ask no more. The people, represented by their executive committee, will see that the company gets all that was promised—a clear right of way for the unfinished portion of the road.

It is safe to assert that all known obstacles have been already, or will soon be, removed. It is not expected that any more will present themselves, but the prophetic powers of the committee are not sufficiently strong to provide now against possibilities that may arise six months hence.

The committee cannot be expected to present to Huntington a written guarantee that the future shall be all roses, and they cannot be asked to remove a thorn before its existence has been discovered. There is now no block to progress at Ellwood. The Dreyfus controversy has been closed, and Ramish & Marsh are free to begin their contract so far as the property owners are concerned.

But Huntington has said that the force will not be increased until the last obstacle is removed. He has voluntarily agreed to aid in the removal of these difficulties, and he has the promise of our people that their assistance shall not be wanting. What, then, remains to be done? Nothing, save the uninterrupted prosecution of the construction work.

Let it go on, Mr. Huntington.—Santa Barbara Press.

TWO GRADUATES.

YOUNG LADIES WHO RECEIVE THEIR DIPLOMAS FROM THE CONVENT.

On Wednesday, June 7, the graduating exercises of the school of the Immaculate Heart of Mary will be held at the boys’ school building.

There are two members of the class of ‘99. They are Miss Elena E. Ready and Miss Louisa Soto.

NOVEL SCHEME PROPOSED BY THE PASO ROBLES TRUSTEES.

The Paso Robles Leader gives the following account of a part of the proceedings of the session of the board of city trustees of that place on Monday evening:

An ordinance was read for the first time which intends to limit saloons to one for every 50 voters in the place. It brought out considerable discussion. The ordinance will not close any saloon now running, but will stop issuing any license to start a new saloon, and should a saloon close, it will stop that place from being reopened, until the number drops below one for every 50 voters.

May 28, 1899 through June 3, 1899.

MARRIED.

MELLO-MACHADO—In this city, May 27, 1899, at the Catholic church, Mr. Jose M. Mello and Miss Mary Machado.

City treasurer Fitzgerald was compelled to sign his name 3,300 times to the coupons of the sewer and water bonds. They will be advertised for sale Monday evening.

HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI.

WALTER CARPENTER ELECTED PRESIDENT FOR THE ENSUING YEAR.

A regular meeting of the Alumni association of the high school was held yesterday afternoon, in the high school rooms of the Court school, Miss Daisy Nelson presiding. The eight graduates of the present year were enrolled as members, raising the total membership to 23.

Officers for the following year were elected as follows: President, Mr. Walter Carpenter ‘97; vice-president, Miss Edna Venable ‘99; secretary, Miss Jennie Darke ‘98. Another meeting will be held next Friday evening.

Last Thursday the ten year old son of F.L. Vinch of Corbett canyon had the tendons of the right ankle severed and his foot badly mutilated by being caught in a mower.

Twenty-five carloads of railroad ties are being shipped daily from the Boulder creek to the gap between Surf and Santa Barbara. This is sufficient for laying a mile and a half of track a day.

Andrew Edward Nelson of Paso Robles is a member of the class of ‘99 of Stanford university. He graduates from the course in Germanic languages.

THE CITY TRUSTEES.

MARSHAL COOK PREFERS CHARGES AGAINST OFFICER MUNOZ WHOM HE DISMISSED SUNDAY.

Munoz is Reinstated Until That Time by the Votes of Mallagh, Pinho and Shipsey.

THE MAN HOLES TO BE PLUGGED.

It is Ordered That the Sale of the Sewer and Water Bonds be Advertised.

May 29.

...Marshal Cook submitted written charges against Officer Munoz for insubordination and refusing to obey orders of the marshal.

On behalf of Officer Munoz, L. Lamy, Esq., proffered a denial of the charges and stated that he was ready to proceed with the hearing of the charges at any time. It appearing that charges of the Marshal referred to certain conversations and that the officer required him to produce witnesses, the matter was postponed until Wednesday, at 8 p.m.

With reference to the suspension of the officer, the Marshal reported that he had suspended Munoz for the reason that he had refused to carry out his orders.

Mr. Lamy requested that until the charges were investigated the officer should be reinstated. On motion of Trustee Mallagh, duly seconded the officer was reinstated until the trial should be had. Shaw and Lind voting no...

...Application of Dr. J.M. McCurty to erect a sign post on Marsh street between Broad and Nipomo on the outer edge of the sidewalk, in front of his premises and under the direction of the street superintendent was, on motion granted.

Street Superintendent Kelley reported that he had served notices in accordance with the orders of the board on all parties connected with the sewers instructing them to disconnect but with the exception of two or three, none of the property holders or occupants had complied with the order. The general response was that they did not refuse but that they did not know how to comply with the order. He desired further instructions.

Trustee Lind was of the opinion that the city should plug all the man holes throughout the whole extent of the main sewers.

He moved that the people be given until Saturday, June 3d, to sever their connections with the sewers and cease using the same and that if the order be not complied with that on the Monday following, the street superintendent be ordered plug up the manholes. Objection being made he then moved that the street superintendent commence on Wednesday morning to plug all manholes in the sewers, and the motion was carried, Pinho and Mallagh voting no...

BORN.

EASTICK - Near Arroyo Grande, May 20, 1899, to the wife of J.H. Eastick, a son.

DUTRA - Near Arroyo Grande, May 24, 1899, to the wife of J.S. Dutra, a daughter.

GAXIOLA - In this city, May 30, 1899, to the wife of D.V. Gaxiola, a daughter.

BRANCH - Nipomo, May 30, 1899, to the wife of Harry Branch, a daughter.

A LOVELY SITUATION.

San Luis Obispo is an unhappy little town. It is between the devil and the deep blue sea. With every desire to be nice and clean and respectable, circumstances and people beyond its control are very decidedly interfering with its good intentions. Three or four thousand people cannot help creating a certain amount of dirt of various kinds, most of them objectionable, offensive to the several senses and detrimental to health. For many years it has endeavored to do its possible to dispose of its excretory and execrable refuse but with dubious success. Some individuals have dug cesspools. But in many parts of the town the soil is chiefly cement and the "pool" refused to contain more than its cubical measurement. The speedy remainder placidly flowed forth over the surface of the ground and speedily attracted the attention of the police. There is a ravine of modest proportions which meanders through the centre of the town which at some seasons of the year contains a slender stream of water. The whole performance is known as San Luis Obispo creek. Into this natural trench, the occupants of adjoining property poured their debris, holding their respective noses and persuading themselves that they had solved the problem. Unhappily there were others who failed to grasp the wholesomeness and purity of the solution and had the hardihood to invoke the aid of the courts to abate what they considered a nuisance. And the courts sustained their contention. Then the city took hold of the difficulty. The authorities virtuously decreed that the use of the creek in so objectionable a way was, as the courts had decided, a nuisance and further that it should be a misdemeanor involving legal pains and penalties. Then the city borrowed some money, built some stretches of main sewer and proceeded to dump the sewage which it was so much trouble and expense to collect–into the creek. It further decreed that everyone who could, should join with it in committing this misdemeanor and that no one should dispose of their sewage in any other way. But unfortunately a number of the citizens who were inconsiderate enough to own property in the immediate vicinity of the public city nuisance, considering themselves to be particularly affected thereby, appealed for protection to the courts and after some years secured the mandate of the Supreme court of the state forbidding the city from using the sewers which it had been at so much pains to construct. The general public conceded the justice of the claims of the neighbors of the city pest place, and then proceeded to borrow some money and continue the construction of the city sewer to some more distant point where the nuisance should at least be minimized. They voted the loan and issued the bonds but again fetched up against the process of the courts issued on complaint of a probable representative of a small majority of the people, who were opposed to any action in the premises. Now our unhappy householders are in several kinds of quandry. They cannot dig cesspools, the city ordinances and natural difficulties forbid. They cannot run to the "creek," the injunction of the Supreme Court effectively bars their way in that direction. They cannot carry out the project of continuing the sewers beyond the city limits as in all probability the pending suit attacking the validity of the recent election and the bond issue thereunder will scare off the intending investors in the bonds. If they break their present connections with the sewers there will be a large individual loss aggregating many thousands of dollars. The disuse of the main sewers will it is not unlikely, result in great damage to them, probably thousands of dollars more. The situation is beautiful.

Paso Robles is going to reorganize its brass band.

CHARGES DISMISSED.

MARSHAL COOK AND OFFICER MUNOZ REACH AN UNDERSTANDING.

All is serene on the police force now. Marshal Cook and Officer Munoz held a consultation last evening, as a result of which the Marshal agrees to dismiss the charges pending against Mr. Munoz.

Papers were signed to the effect that Officer Munoz denied every having uttered the words attributed to him, but that if he had used such language it was in a moment of anger.

So there will be no investigation tonight before the council.

SAM FINDLEY IN NEW YORK.

THE EX-TAX COLLECTOR WILL SOON BE HOME.

Special to Tribune.

NEW YORK, May 31.–Samuel M. Findley, the defaulting tax collector of San Luis obispo county, California, who was captured a few weeks ago in Peru, by a detective in the employ of a surety company which was on Findley’s bond, arrived in this city today in the custody of his captor, Detective Frazier.

Findley brings back with him, or rather the detective does, $10,000 of the stolen money. The detective and his prisoner arrived on the steamship Advance. The journey across the continent to San Luis Obispo will be commenced at once.

ACTIVITY IN CONSTRUCTION ON THE GAP NORTH OF ELWOOD.

Ramish & Marsh, Southern Pacific contractors who will build the coast line roadbed from the north end of the McCormack contract have their outfits ready to move at once to the front and begin work.

Mr. Marsh is here to complete arrangements for a camp site and get ready to receive the first trainload of graders’ materials, that he says is being loaded and will be shipped at once.

Work is to begin without further delay on the Ramish & Marsh contract, a camp site having been secured on the T.B. Bishop tract. It will be probably a month before the camp can be fully established, when there will be at least 150 mean put to work.

The Ramish & Marsh contract covers between three and four miles of the heaviest work to be done on the new road. There is a fill of 100,000 yards in Eagle canyon that will take several months to complete. There will be but few horses used in the work, but instead, will be employed cars that run by gravity on little temporary rails to carry the dirt down into the fill.–Santa Barbara Press.

THE ROW IS OVER.

We had announced that with reference to the city’s sewer problem, that our burgh was between the devil and the deep sea. We hasten–because it seems to be necessary to hasten–in this time of lightning changes–to state that both the devil and the deep sea apparently vanished. Which was the devil and which the deep sea we will not attempt to state. The citizens in the western part of the city who were the unwilling custodians of the massive dump have smoothed their ruffled fronts and suspended their appeal for justice. Weary of years of imposition, they have considered that patience was no longer a virtue in view of the imminent probability that their sufferings were to be prolonged for some indefinite period. But there came a rift in the cloud and hope for the beleagured. The suit to enjoin the city from selling the newly voted bonds and to declare the election by which their issuance was authorized, invalid, happily passed to different hands and it became probable that the bonds would be sold and the new sewers constructed. So the strain is removed. The injunction against the use of the sewers is hung up, and everything is again lovely. There are already many prospective purchasers for the new bonds, the bonds will doubtless be sold, sewer construction will be presently resumed, the old nuisances will be abated and we will be in a position to tackle new ones. Old things have passed away.

A CHALLENGE.

The San Luis baseball club herewith challenges the High school club for a game in this city, Sunday afternoon, June 4, 1899.

Manager San Luis Club.

A SCBSTITUTION (sic) OF COUNSEL.

THE LATEST MOVE IN THE TROUBLE OVER THE SEWERS.

Kelley Does Not Plug Up the Man Holes and the Matter May End.

There was a ray of light which shed a gleam of pleasing brightness into the turmoil of municipal affairs yesterday. The complication over the closing of the sewers began to unravel and matters look very hopeful just now for a settlement of the whole affair in a satisfactory manner, and in such a way as shall work no hardship upon the property owners and occupants of houses throughout the city.

With the dawn of yesterday people were troubled. Street Superintendent Kelley went to work making a number of plugs with which to plug up the manholes about town in accordance with an order of the city council made at Monday evening’s session. The order of the board was to be strictly enforced and the city was to go back to the methods which characterized it in its primitive days. Kelly (sic) worked diligently and the plugs were about ready to terminate the further uses of the sewer system, when there came a change.

Councilman Shaw had been wearing out the tire of a faithful bicycle rushing about town in frantic efforts to solve the problem and bring order out of chaos. People little dreamed that it could be accomplished, but it turned out that it could.

The first thing to arrange was to get at a plan to control the case against the sewer bonds brought by N. Robinson, who had of record on the docket of the Superior Court, V.A. Gregg, as his counsel. It turned out that Mr. Robinson asked for a substitution of counsel and the withdrawal of Mr. Gregg from the case was speedily announced about town.

Later in the day, a document was filed in the Superior Court to the effect that in the case of N. Robinson vs. The City of San Luis Obispo Albert Nelson had been substituted as counsel for plaintiff, in place of V.A. Gregg, resigned. People breathed easier for they saw a solution of the whole matter gradually shaping itself.

As matters now stand, with A. Nelson as attorney for Mr. Robinson, the city is in a position to direct the litigation. The case may be dismissed, or if it is required in order to test the validity of the bonds to dispose of them, the case can be speedily tried. In short Mr. Nelson is an attorney for plaintiff, with a high sense of regard for the welfare of the municipality.

The people on lower Higuera street, who were granted an injunction against the sewer nuisance, think that they see an early solution of the whole matter and they are willing to call a halt in their previously expressed demand to have the sewer system plugged up.

It is to be hoped now that it will all be settled soon, the bonds sold, and the sewer system perfected and the city march along in the pathway of improvement.

DIED.

BEEBEE - In this city, May 31, 1899, Hon. William L. Beebee, a native of Oswego, New York, aged 69 years, 6 months and 10 days. (Compiler’s note: A news article about Judge Beebee appears in the June 1, 1899 issue of the Morning Tribune.)

BAUM - In Indianola, Ill., G.N. Baum, aged 70 years, father of Mrs. M.F. Dorsey of this city.

WORK AT THE GAP.

GOOD LABORERS ARE WANTED.

The Steel Viaduct of the First Canyon South of the Northern End Soon to be Finished.

Many Thousand Cubic Yards of Dirt For a Big Fill at Cojo.

Work on the gap is now in full blast. At the first big canyon south of the northern end of the gap Otto Crassfield is superintending the erection of the big steel viaduct for the Thompson Bridge Company. This structure will be 540 feet in length and 120 feet above the lowest point of the canyon which it spans. The contractors expect to have it up in three weeks, at the most.

This viaduct is the smallest of eight to be built along the line. At Gaviota Pass, the largest one will be constructed. It will be 1400 feet in length, though 115 feet high. At this point which is thirty-six miles from Surf, forty men are working. The eight viaducts, all of which are to be constructed by the Thompson Bridge Company, will aggregate 5800 feet in length.

The first construction camps after leaving Surf are those of the general contractors Stone & McMurtrie. They have three camps and are working in all about 200 men. Around camp No. 1 there are two gulches which had to be provided with stone arches, one 250 feet in length and the other 180 feet. These have been constructed. At camp No. 3 the rock blasted from the face of a rocky hill rolls into the ocean.

After leaving the McMurtrie camps R.F. Smith & Co. are the first contractors to be met with. Mr. Smith has about 40 men at work with teams and expects to have his two and a half miles of road graded ready for the track layers by July 1.

McLaughlin Bros. & McKay have the next three miles south of Smith. They want more men to work. At present his men are engaged in filling a canyon 400 feet across and 125 feet deep. It is the first fill south of Surf. Forty men and thirty teams are at work. They have already finished one fill and have two more besides the one they are now at work upon. McLaughlin expects to finish one mile of his three in about a month. At the Smith and McLaughlin camps the wind blows a hurricane and the men are compelled to protect their eyes from the sand.

Next to McLaughlin, Gus Peterson has 70 men at work in culvert building. Good stone cutters can get work with him.

Two mile below Peterson’s camp Carney, Ray & Higbee, who did so much work on the road around San Luis have the contract for constructing two tunnels. The first one of these tunnels, which will be about 800 feet in length, is near Sudden’s old landing. They are planning to finish this tunnel by August 1. The second tunnel, 700 feet in length will be near Gaviota.

Near Point Conception, David & McMasters began a contract of grading Sunday, May 28th. Five miles below them is situated the largest camp on the road, that of Chas Erickson & Co. They are twenty miles from Surf and have all the grading and masonry work to do for a distance of seven miles. At Cojo they have a fill that will require 300,000 cubic yards of dirt. Two hundred men and an army of mules are at work under these contractors.

Below Erickson the camp of Ramish & Marsh is being pitched at Naples, Bertelson & Dillon of Los Angeles employing 44 men are constructing a big culvert, which they hope to have completed by July 1. They have two others to construct. Work goes a little slow as the rock is hauled a distance of six miles.

The surveyors are now in camp two miles south of La Quemada and expect to be in the field for a year yet.

At present there are about 900 men employed at the various camps. More help is needed at some of the camps. Contractors complain that good men are hard to get.

June 4, 1899 through June 10, 1899.

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.

LIST OF NEW BOOKS WHICH HAVE JUST BEEN RECEIVED.

The patrons of the library will be pleased to learn that a number of new books have just been received. Following is the list:

David Harum, The Forest Lovers, The Castle Inn, Rupert of Hentzan, I, Thousand the Other One, In Kedar’s Tents, A Tent of Grace, Following the Equator, Pietro Gleisteri, Mr. Isaacs, Saracenesca, Saint ‘Ilario, Mario’s Crucifix, Paul Pataff, Our Helen, The Story of a Short Life, Sara Crew, Saint Elizabeth, Two Little Pilgrim’s Progress, Lady Jane, The Young Marooners, Milton’s Poem’s, Pope’s Poems, Browning’s Poems.

STRUGGLE OF A SANTA BARBARA OFFICER WHO IS WELL KNOWN HERE.

Peter Storni, a constable in Santa Barbara city, and formerly a resident of Cayucos in this county had a close call Tuesday night while in the discharge of his duties in the channel city.

He had arrested a drunk and was taking the disturber of the peace to jail in a closed hack, when that individual drew a dirk from one of his boots and slashed Pete across the head laying the scalp open in a frightful manner. (Compiler’s note: A dirk is a long, straight-bladed dagger.)

A long struggle ensued and Pete finally overpowered his prisoner, but only narrowly escaped with his life. Santa Barbara city secured a faithful and brave officer when its citizens elected Peter Storni as constable last fall.

STATE HIGHWAYS.

State Senator Smith in his paper, the Bakersfield Echo, has this to say concerning a state highway system:

"Highway Commissioner Maude still has that fool proposition about state highways in his head. It is amazing that as bright a fellow as he is cannot understand the difference between conditions in Massachusetts and in California. The former state, with its millions of people and its billions of taxable property, could be stowed away in Kern or San Diego county. If we had the people and the wealth of one of those little eastern states her in Kern of course, we would have stone roads from one end to the other. But California—that is a totally different thing." (Compiler’s note: Although Senator Smith lived in Bakersfield, his district included San Luis Obispo county.)

FOUND.

On Monterey street, three doors below the post office, the store in which you should do your trading.

Courteous treatment. Country produce taken in exchange for goods. Cash paid for eggs. Try the new store.

CALIFORNIA GROCERY,

J.B. CARLON, Prop.

Telephone red 136. (sic)

CAMBRIA.

ED. TRIBUNE: This is Decoration day, and many have been out to the cemetery among the pines to place a floral offering upon the last resting place of their loved ones. The graves of those having no kindred near were not forgotten. Every one having a chance seemed to enjoy the sad, sweet duty. (Compiler’s note: The name Decoration Day has been changed. It is now called Memorial Day. In the day in which this article was written, Decoration Day was a day for all families to gather baskets or tubs of flowers from their own gardens and take them to the cemetery to adorn the graves. The event was very important in the lives of the people living at that time, a tribute to all dead.)

C. Hitchcock has been employed by F. S. March at the Enterprise saw mill, which will start up in a few days.

Mrs. T. Dawson has lately had a fine piece of marble work erected at the grave of her husband at the cemetery...

C. Warren, a dairyman near here, sold his dairy cows and quite a lot of young stock a few days ago...

Dr. Walters has recently secured the building formerly used as a drugstore, located near the band (sic) building and had it renovated much for the better. The doctor will soon have as fine an assortment of drugs upon the shelves as can be found in any country village on the coast...

A coyote of enormous size has been seen by quite a number on the main road leading from here to the coast. He must be a real old forty-niner according to the description given of him...

W. Leffingwell and son have sold out their interest in the quicksilver mine at the head of San Simeon creek...

UNCLE SAM.

Laboring men are said to be scarce this year. The hay and grain fields will employ a great many.

There are a good many places in this city overgrown with weeds, which give the place a rather bad appearance.

DIED.

MARTINEZ - In San Francisco, June 1, 1899, Frank C., beloved son of Antone C., and Mary T. Martinez, a native of Oso Flaco, San Luis Obispo Co., Cal., aged 18 years, 8 months and 7 days.

CASTRO - In Paso Robles, May 28, 1899, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Castro.

GILLESPIE - At Arroyo Grande, June 2, 1899, A.G. Gillespie, aged 66 years.

RODRIGUEZ - At East Santa Fe, near this city, June 6, 1899, Rodolfo Rodriguez, a native of Avila, San Luis Obispo county; aged 33 years and 18 days.

GOV. GAGE APPOINTS THE DIRECTORS FOR OUR AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

According to a Sacramento dispatch Governor Gage has appointed the following as directors for agricultural district, No. 16, comprising the county of San Luis Obispo:

Smith Shaw and E.C. Ivins of San Luis Obispo; R. Righetti, of Edna; L.C. Routzahn, of Arroyo Grande; R.M. Shackelford, of Paso Robles; Capt. M.F. Taylor, of San Simeon; J.V. Webster, of Creston and J.C. Gibson of Templeton.

ANOTHER CAMP PITCHED.

Ramish & Marsh arrived in Santa Barbara Thursday with their construction outfit and had it at once removed out to the gap. They pitched tents on the Bishop property. Laborers for the camp arrived Friday from Los Angeles.

SCHOOL TRUSTEES.

RESULTS OF THE ELECTIONS IN A NUMBER OF DISTRICTS.

In a number of school districts there were contests at the elections held Friday, while in some there was no contest whatever. The TRIBUNE is advised of the results in the following districts:

Los Osos cast 19 votes. W.H. Warden was elected receiving 13 votes as against 6 for D. Filliponi (sic).

Samuel Donati was re-elected at Cayucos. He received 40 votes to 3 for Dr. B.F. Dawson.

Sand Hill district only cast 5 votes, all of them going to Antonio Souza.

R. Righetti was re-elected in Corral de Piedra. Frank Rice secured a few votes.

Oak Park cast 21 votes, all of them for D.T. Houston. It was a big vote for no opposition in the field.

Mrs. E.A. Atwood was re-elected in Bellview district, receiving all 12 votes cast.

Santa Fe had two trustees to elect and cast a big vote Squires with 40 votes and Henry Bunce with 30 votes were the two elected. Mr. Peterson received 13 votes.

M. Gilbert won in Morro without opposition.

Banning district elected Joe Birra.

A new enterprise in the shape of a fish market is to be opened Tuesday in the old Nevada market building, on Higuera street, opposite the city hall. The firm will be known as James V. Stromberg & Co. It will keep all kinds of fish in stock.

ARROYO GRANDE.

As we go to press we learn of the death of Addison I. Gillespie, aged about 65 years and a native of Alabama...

THE NATIVE DAUGHTERS PARLOR AT PASO ROBLES ORGANIZES THE 9TH.

The parlor of Native Daughters of the Golden West will be formerly organized in Paso Robles Friday evening, June 9th. At a preliminary meeting held recently the following officers were selected: Mrs. Felson, past president; Mrs. Brooks, 1st vice; Mrs. Brewer, 2nd Vice; Mrs. Knight, 3d vice; Mrs. Richards, marshal; Miss Silvia Herrick, corresponding secretary; Miss Sarah Wayland, treasurer; Misses Hayes, O’Neil and Doyle, trustees.

J. W. HOBSON AND CONSTABLE GANO THROWN FROM A BUGGY.

Special to the Tribune.

TEMPLETON, June 3.—At 6:30 this evening there was an exciting runaway at the county road near the Blackburn homestead just south of town.

A horse driven by J.W. Hobson and Constable Gano of Paso Robles became frightened at the freight train and overturned the buggy throwing both men out. Mr. Hobson’s back was sprained and Mr. Gano’s right knee was treated in the same way, but neither one was seriously injured. The horse made a mad run, tearing up the buggy considerably.

All Templeton and many from Paso Robles, Santa Margarita and other points joined today in celebrating the completion of the new warehouse at Asuncion. There were fully 600 people present.

A fine barbecue was the attraction of the day. The Templeton band made the woods ring with sweet music. Dancing filled in the afternoon. The dance is still in progress tonight in the big warehouse.

MARRIED.

FREEMAN - MARTINEZ—In this city June 3, 1899, by (?) Egan, J.P., Mr. N.J. Freeman of Cayucos and Miss Frances Martinez of this city.

PERRY - MAUTES—In Gonzales, June 7, 1899 by Rev. J.M. Helsley of Ceres, Stanislaus county, Orrin H. Perry of Paso Robles and Miss Dorinda Mautes of Gonzales.

Yesterday morning the two extras on the Southern Pacific going north from this city crashed into each other at the mouth of tunnel No. 6 and the caboose of one train and the tender on the engine of the other were smashed up. The wreck delayed the north bound passenger train 45 minutes.

BORN.

BELLO - On the El Chorro, June 5, 1899, to the wife of John N. Bello, twin sons.

RAMIREZ - In Bakersfield, June 2, 1899, to the wife of A.F. Ramirez, formerly of this city, a son.

BICKMORE - At Arroyo Grande, May 27, 1899, to the wife of Gilbert Bickmore, a son.

BRANCH - Near Arroyo Grande, May 28, 1899, to the wife of Ramon Branch, a daughter.

IVERSON - In Paso Robles, June 4, 1899, to the wife of Hans Iverson, a son.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

June 6.

...The report of the trustees of Excelsior school district in re special election to raise $400 for building school house, was received and placed on file. (Compiler’s note: Before the Morro Bay schools became a part of the San Luis Obispo Unified School District, the Morro Union Elementary School District was comprised of the Morro Elementary School District and the Excelsior School District. At one time, these districts were autonomous with a board of trustees for each.)

...The board made short work of a typewriter agent, refusing to buy any of his machines.

...The board appropriated $30 for the purpose of sending two children, Opal and Winfred Pullen, to San Jose, to be placed in homes by the Children’s Home Finding Society of California. There is a story connected with these children. They were reclaimed by Mrs. E.J. Kearns of the society, who is now here. This society is doing a noble work.

...The board then tackled the deadlock over the election of a member of the county board of education. (Compiler’s note: The board took fifteen separate ballots to elect the member, J.A. Ford, S.V. Wright, George Story, A.L. Walker, C.H. Woods and D.S. Snedden contending.)...

...James A. Ford was declared elected on the fifteenth ballot, receiving three votes to one each for Story and Walker.

THE SAILOR PUGILIST.

SHARKEY, ONE OF THE CHAMPION PUGILISTS OF THE WORLD APPEARS HERE.

HE PUNCHES THE BAG.

And Gives An Exhibition of His Fighting Methods in a Three Round Bout.

HIS OPINION ON THE COMING FIGHT.

Thinks Fitzsimmons Will Win but Not if it Goes Beyond Ten Rounds.

San Luis Obispo has seen for the first time one of the great fighters of the world in action in one of its halls. Thomas J. Sharkey, the famous pugilist who has stood before some of the greatest audiences ever congregated together in the United States, last night appeared at Maennerchor hall and won the plaudits of about 250 people, some of whom came from as far as Santa Maria to see him.

Mr. Sharkey arrived on last evenings (sic) train from Paso Robles, where he is now in training accompanied by Mr. R. J. Horrington (sic) of Vallejo and Arthur Glass of San Francisco. A curious crowd was gathered at the Southern Pacific depot to see him and all eyes followed him as he disappeared from sight in the Ramona coach. At the Ramona he was given a suite of four rooms. On the hotel register, in a bold plain hand, the sailor wrote his signature, "Thomas J. Sharkey, Vallejo,

California."

At 8 o’clock last evening he was driven in an open hack to Maennerchor hall. As he entered he was given enthusiastic applause.

After music by Pico’s orchestra, Mr. Sharkey was introduced and made a neat little speech. He told of his past battles and said that he was much pleased with the reception tendered him here. He stated that he was only awaiting the result of the coming fight between Fitzsimmons and Jeffries and stood ready to challenge the winner to fight a battle for the championship of the world. He would be willing to meet the winner in five weeks, six months or ten days. He was heartily applauded.

Sharkey then appeared in tights and punched the bag, making the leather fly through the air as it encountered his terrific right.

After more music by the orchestra, the audience was treated to a sparring match of three rounds between Sharkey and Arthur Glass, a nervy gentleman from San Francisco, who was often hit by the champion, but who good naturedly stayed with it to the end. It is needless to say that Sharkey landed anywhere and often, but they were only taps.

After the performance and applause by the audience many of those present shook hands with Sharkey.

Mr. Sharkey appeared on behalf of the San Luis baseball club and that organization feels very grateful to him.

To a TRIBUNE representative Sharkey stated that he expects to see Fitzsimmons defeat Jeffries, but if Fitzsimmons does not win in ten rounds, Jeffries stands a chance of winning. He calls Jeffries an awkward fighter.

Messrs. Sharkey, Harrington (sic) and Glass returned to Paso Robles this morning.

GRADUATES OF THE ACADEMY.

MISS ELENA READY AND MISS LOUISA SOTO THE CLASS OF ‘99.

A large crowd gathered last evening to witness the exercises which marked the graduation of the class of ‘99 of the Academy of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

There are two members of the class, Miss Elena E. Ready and Miss Louisa M. Soto, both of San Luis Obispo.

(Compiler’s note: The program for this graduation is included in the June 8, 1899 issue of the San Luis Obispo Tribune. Readers interested can find it in the microfilm of the reference department in the San Luis Obispo Library.)

NIPOMO.

The dog poisoner is at work and dogs are less in number now...

...The counterfeiter is in this part of the county and has some very good specimens of silver dollars 1884, mint O, and 1898 mint S. We hear he disposed of twelve at Guadalupe Tuesday and some at Santa Maria last evening. Parties here from Santa Maria today are anxious to see the "gentleman" and do business with him.

June 6, 1899

CHEERFUL

The San Luis baseball club extends a special vote of thanks to Frank Denman for his kindness in selling tickets for the Sharkey entertainment of last evening.

Joe Lind, the popular stationer, kindly loaned the punching bag for the Sharkey reception. The San Luis baseball club says thanks.

It is expected that by next week the trains will run through to Lompoc.

FIRE IN PASO ROBLES.

A BARBER SHOP AND A CIGAR STORE DESTROYED.

PASO ROBLES, June 7.—Last night about 11 o’clock the fire bell called the fire boys out. The fire was in the barber shop of Walter Overton, and when the firemen got to work the flames were making good headway towards J.E. William’s cigar store, and only the gallant work of the fire boys saved the entire block. Twice the fire broke out anew but the boys kept the flames from spreading.

Nothing was saved from the barber shop, but all the goods from L.E. (sic) Williams’ store were carried into the street, also most of the stock in W.E. Bennett’s drug store which was not necessary, but it would probably have been damaged more or less by water.

Insurance on barber shop, $100; on L.E. Williams’ cigar store $500, insured in Northwestern Insurance Company, E.M. Bennett agent.

FINDLEY IS DUE.

It was expected that ex-Tax Collector S.M. Findley would make his appearance here on last evening’s train in charge of an officer. It was given out that he was due here Tuesday evening. He may arrive tonight, or any night now and will be taken as a prisoner to the county jail.

H.E. Huntington, who has been making a tour of the construction camps along the gap with Engineer Hood, is raising a big howl against the saloons put up around the various camps. He says that it greatly interferes with the laborers.

CAMBRIA.

ED. TRIBUNE: ...There was a little dance at San Simeon bay last Saturday night where the young folks enjoyed themselves until the clock’s hands began to tell of the near approach of the Sabbath when the assembly dispersed regretting that time, like the tide, waits for no one...

...There has been another little enterprise started here in the way of ice cream parlors. The public can now get ice cream every Saturday at the principal meat market.

...Old lady Webb, who has resided for many years at the bay will come here to live for the future with a daughter.

SCHOOL CENSUS.

There are 5,156 children in this county who come within the school census age, between 5 and 17 years. Of these 5,123 are whites, 15 negroes, 8 Indian, 10 Mongolian.

Of the number 3,903 have attended public school, 262 private schools. Those who have not attended any school at all number 991.

The total number of children in the county under five years of age is 1711.

The total number of children is 6,867 of which 6,796 are native born and 71 foreign born.

THE ROAD TO ELLWOOD (sic).

RIGHT OF WAY AGENT IS NOW IN SANTA BARBARA.

J.W. Nier, right of way agent for the Southern Pacific, is in the city arranging preliminaries for securing the right of way for the changed route of the coast line between this city and Ellwood. He will begin work at once, and within a short time it will be known just what changes will be made.

It will be remembered that Engineer Botsche’s first work in the vicinity last winter was to survey a new route from Ellwood to and through Santa Barbara. It was stated that more than one route had been surveyed, and that the right of way privileges might effect (sic) the acceptance of one and the rejection of others.—Santa Barbara Press.

NOTHING DEFINITE ON FINDLEY.

The report which has been in circulation for some days in the effects that our defaulting tax collector, Sam Findley, was hourly expected, seems to be entirely without foundation.

The authorities have not been notified of his departure from New York City and he is probably in charge of the detective in the great metropolis, awaiting requisition (sic) papers.

The other day Deputy Sheriff Eddy stated that there was a probability that some representative of the sheriff’s office might leave to go to New York City to bring Findley to San Luis Obispo. If such should be the case, Findley will not be seen here for probably a month.

June 11, 1899 through June 17, 1899.

ATTEMPTED BURGLARY

AMATEUR CRACKSMEN ENTER THE STORE OF DE GOTTARDI & RIGHETTI.

BUT LEAVE EMPTY HANDED.

After Monkeying With the Safe For a Time the Burglars Depart.

STRONG BOX CONTAINED A SMALL FORTUNE.

The Midnight Prowlers Leave No Clue to Their Identity.

CAYUCOS, June 10.—An attempt was made last night to burglarize the general merchandise store of DeGottardi & Righetti, but unsuccessfully. After the first in October last, the firm fitted up and have since occupied as a store room what was formerly their warehouse, the front entrance to which is closed by a rolling door, secured by a padlock. The heavy staple was cut with a pair of bolt cutters and the padlock removed, when the door was free to open.

Having gained access to the store room the office window, facing on Ocean avenue, was closely covered with an extemporized (sic) curtain, and operations commenced on the safe. The safe had passed through the fires of ‘93 and ‘98, and presented a rather forlorn appearance, and the would-be burglars, who had doubtless often observed this fact, perhaps supposed it would offer no resistance to their skill. How they expected to open it does not appear, as there are no drill holes nor other evidence of violence, nor tools nor fuses about the place. However, in manipulating the handle a small pin dropped out, releasing the former from the bolts permitting it to move freely round and round in either direction without any resistance. The pin was found on the floor next morning by the proprietor. What caused the burglars to give up the attempt is unknown, except that they saw no possibility of being able to throw the bolts even if they blew the safe. A large number of burned matches were left on the floor near the safe, and others were scattered about the store, showing that a general prowling around was done, but the proprietors missed nothing whatever. Had the safe cracking been successful the burglars would have reaped an abundant harvest, as the strong box contained more than $1000 in cash, besides negotiable papers in considerable amount.

The bolt cutters were taken from John W. Brown’s blacksmith shop, where entrance was made through a window, and were considerately returned by the obliging burglars. Sheriff Ivins was in town that night, and he and Constable F. W. Hardie were out on the trail very early in the morning, but were unable to find a clew (sic), and suspicion directed against no person, though the bungling work is credited to home talent. De Gottardi & Righetti were preparing to move their store to the Brockseib room on Ocean avenue, adjoining the Brockseib residence—in fact began moving the next morning —and the cracksmen selected this as their last occasion; and yet it appears strange they should not have selected another night, as on that evening the Beach entertainment committee was giving its first summer dance at the Exchange free pavilion, and the merry-go found continued until after 2 a.m. This is the first effort at burglary here since the attempted robbery of the Bank of Cayucos, in 1892, which was likewise unsuccessful but more disastrous to the perpretators.

L.W. Booker brought back two opossums from Georgia, the real genuine animal that the colored race consider the finest roast on earth.

A. Nelson, the attorney, will deliver the oration at the Fourth of July celebration in this city., It is a good selection.

BORN.

McCARTHY - In San Miguel, June 7, 1899, to the wife of P. McCarthy, a daughter.

LISO - In Paso Robles, June 7, 1899, to the wife of Felix Liso, a daughter.

HANSEN - In this city, June 14, 1899, to the wife of Henry C. Hansen, daughter.

TRAGEDY AT PARKFIELD.

A FATAL ENCOUNTER BETWEEN TWO OLD RESIDENTS OF THAT COMMUNITY.

WOUNDED MAN LIVED HALF AN HOUR.

James O. Gillette Shoots John B. J ones as the Latter Turned to Ride Away.

VICTIM’S WIFE WITNESSED THE SHOOTING.

The Men Were Brothers-in-Law and the Quarrel Was of Long Standing.

SAN MIGUEL, June 12.—The residents of the lower end of Monterey county in the valley known as the Little Cholame, have been greatly shocked over a tragedy which occurred near Parkfield Sunday evening between the hours of 5 and 7 o’clock, the principals to the terrible affray being well known citizens of that section.

As nearly as can be learned at this writing, John B. Jones and James O. Gillette, farmers, met on the county road near the home of the former at the time stated, and it is supposed, an old and bitter feud over land differences which existed between them was renewed, culminating in Gillette shooting Jones in the back as he (Jones) was riding away on his horse, the weapon used being a 45 60 (sic) calibre rifle.

Although Jones’ back was broken by the ball which passed through his body in the region of the stomach, the victim lived for about half an hour, and was able to talk. His wife witnessed the tragedy from their home and was immediately on the scene. As far as now known Mrs. Jones and Gillette were the only ones present at the time of the murder.

Gillette went to Parkfield and gave himself up to Deputy Sheriff Uriah Sloan, coolly remarking that he had shot Jones, but "guessed he didn’t hurt him much."

To those best qualified with the parties the shooting seems to be the natural sequence of differences that have existed between Jones and Gillette for a long time past. Both married sisters—Murley by name—and the apportionment of some land by the elder Murley proved unsatisfactory to Jones and caused unceasing strife between them (sic) and Gillette and which we believe has been at several times aired in court.

Jones was a tall, spare built, but powerful man and was over six feet in height. He was blind in the left eye and which would doubtless place him to some disadvantage in case of being assailed. He was a native of Missouri and was about 35 years old. Besides his wife a family of five children survive him. In addition to farming and stock raising he engaged in hauling freight occasionally between Parkfield and San Miguel and which caused him to become well known. He was agreeable in manner but was known to be very impulsive and quick at resentment.

James O. Gillette was probably not so well known as Jones though both had lived in the same vicinity for a number of years. He has a wife an d family.

Mr. Somerville, formerly of Salinas, a young man who is a relative of the deceased and had been employed by him during the six months past, and Ed Wallace of Parkfield, drove to San Miguel early this morning and telegraphed the news of the killing of Jones to Coroner Muller at Salinas and that official and District Attorney Andresen will arrive on the afternoon train and go out to Parkfield and hold an inquest. The young men alluded to are very reticent in talking of the occurrence.

The sudden taking off of Jones by his brother-in-law is the one topic of discussion here today. In whatever light it is looked at it is generally deplored.

Maynard Jones who was married in San Francisco Decoration day and who but recently brought his bride to Parkfield, is a brother to the deceased.

Marriage licenses have been issued to Thaddeus J. Crowley and Nellie Connelly and Ulrich Hege and Elizabeth Horch.

WILL HAVE THE BALLOON.

It is now practically settled that there will be a balloon ascension in this city on the Fourth of July. Mr. J. Crocker returned Sunday evening from San Francisco and reported favorably upon the proposition to secure an aeronaut.

Walter Woods is manager of a baseball club which stands ready to accept challenges from any other club which will agree that it is entirely unfamiliar with the national game. In any game to be played, if the ball is hit, the player is out. This sort of game would be a picnic for an umpire. The club is composed of J.W. Cook, H.E. McKennon, E. Green, R.E. Lee, Geo. Miller, Smith Shaw, L. Viera, W.B. Staniford and Walter Wood. All challenges should be addressed to Walter Wood. The club plays its first game when it takes a notion. They will not join the league. (Compiler’s note: Baseball was at this very time becoming a very popular sport in the nation. San Luis Obispo regularly played other teams. It is hard to know whether the above article is serious or a "tongue in the cheek" item aimed at poking fun at the sport.)

The examinations for the 6th, 7th and 8th year grades began yesterday at the Court school house. George Story is conducting them and there are 35 pupils of various schools in attendance.

DIED.

COPELAND - At the County hospital, June 12th, 1899, William Copeland, a native of Scotland, aged 68 years.

BORDE - In this city, June 15, 1899, Henry Joseph Borde, a native of New Jersey, aged 37 years, 6 months and 15 days.

HELD FOR MURDER.

JAMES O. GILLETTE WHO SHOT JOHN B. JONES OF PARKFIELD.

SAN MIGUEL, June 14—James O. Gillette, who killed John B. Jones at Parkfield Sunday evening was held by Justice Smith of that place for murder to answer for the crime in the Superior court of Monterey county.

The coroner’s jury adjudged him guilty of the killing. He will be taken to Salinas tomorrow evening.

MARRIED.

RIGHETTI - DOTHEROW—In this city, June 14, 1899, by Judge Egan, Eliseo Righetti and Martha Dotherow, both of Nipomo.

CROWLEY - CONNELLY—At Arroyo Grande, June 15, 1899, by Rev. Father Lynch, Mr. Thaddeus Crowley and Miss Nellie Connelly of Arroyo Grande.

PHEASANTS.

HOW KERN COUNTY IS BEING STOCKED WITH THE BIRDS.

Yesterday a TRIBUNE scribe was shown a fine flock of young pheasants by Mr. J. Rochel at his place on Court street. There are seventeen of them and they are two weeks old.

A novel scheme of making wild quail hatch pheasant eggs is being tried in Kern county. The pheasant eggs are quietly placed in the nests of the quail, which hatches them out with her own eggs.

By transferring the eggs the pheasant will keep on laying to the number of ninety eggs before stopping. In this way the county will be stocked with the new game birds much more rapidly than by turning the pheasants loose, and the birds grow up acquainted with the California fields and woods.

GAVE HIMSELF UP.

Francis Rhyne, who was convicted of rape in the Superior court and who was sentenced to twelve years in San Quentin, came in last night and gave himself up to the sheriff. He was out on bail pending an appeal to the Supreme court and that court affirms the verdict of the jury of the Superior court.

EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS OLD.

A. McKENNON OBSERVES (sic) HIS ANNIVERSARY YESTERDAY.

Yesterday, A. McKennon attained the eighty-fifth anniversary of his birth. That many years ago he was in Canada.

The day was observed by a dinner party in the evening at the McKennon home on Board (sic) street. A number of the intimate friends of the family were present.

The many friends of Mr. McKennon in this city and county wish him many more anniversaries of the day.

June 18, 1899 through June 24, 1899.

SAM FINDLEY IS HERE.

RETURNS VOLUNTARILY TO THIS CITY.

He Will Stand Trial For the Alleged Offense Before a Jury.

Samuel M. Findley, defaulting tax collector of San Luis Obispo county is once more in the court house. This time it was not to walk up the cement pavement from the main entrance to the yard, mount briskly the stone steps, turn to the left in the corridor and enter the office of the tax collector, as an official of the county; it was to enter the court house yard by the gate in the rear where the wood haulers drive in, pass around the side walk by the side of an officer of the law, walk under the arch of the stone steps, turn to the right and disappear from view in the darkened corridors of the county jail. This the picture of the going away and the coming back of a man, who saw fit to prove himself false to a public trust.

It was expected that the prisoner would arrive Friday evening but he did not. With the assurance that he would be an arrival on last evening’s train, many were out at the Southern Pacific depot to see him. Their curiosity was doomed to disappointment.

Detective Fraiser (sic), who captured Findley in Lima, Peru and who has accompanied him on his long trip was in charge of him when he arrived here. A telegram was sent ahead to Sheriff Ivins, advising him that the prisoner and officer would leave the train at Goldtree station and to meet them there. This was done and the crowd at the depot was fooled. The Sheriff with Frasier and Findley in the cart drove in, reaching the court house about 5:40. A large crowd already gathered there and to some of those whom he recognized, Findley nodded too (inc).

Last evening a TRIBUNE representative spent an hour and a half conversing with Findley in his cell at the jail. He is in the best of spirits and health and told the story of his travels in a very interesting manner.

According to his statements he returns voluntarily to this place from Peru and will stand trial. He could not have been brought back had he decided to remain in Peru.

On his way down he was shadowed by two detectives but evaded them. He calls Detective Frasier a very shrewd man. He had $7,500 on deposit in the Peru, Londers (sic) bank when Farsier (sic) showed his hand. After being arrested he was again released as there was no law to hold him, but he was advertised all over Peru and decided to come back to San Luis. He was in New York ten days before the proper extradition papers were made out to bring him to California. Frasier was in Lima several months before the arrest was made.

Thomas L. Berry, auditor of the Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland, which was on Findley’s bond, arrived last evening and will investigate the affairs of the tax collector’s office as it was when Findley absconded.

Yesterday there was a bundle of tame oats on exhibition at A. Vollmer’s store, which was brought in from Joe Welch’s place on the Pecho. The stalks were 8½ feet in length.

F. Chiesa is fixing up the Maison Doree Restaurant and expects to have it open for business in about a week. He promises the public the very best of meals and service in his line. The TRIBUNE hopes to see him succeed in the line of business which he has entered upon.

ATTENTION BUSINESS MEN.

The TRIBUNE will soon introduce a new and interesting feature in newspaper advertising under a heading "The TRIBUNE Bargain Columns," which will consist of well-worded advertising from the enterprising firms of San Luis Obispo. This idea is new and is meeting with great favor with advertisers in the eastern cities. The bargain columns will be made a special feature of the Morning and Weekly TRIBUNE for a period of three months in every issue, at a small cost, in order to interest every one and demonstrate its value. The space devoted to each firm will be uniform in size and changeable if desired. The TRIBUNE representative will call and explain more fully, and any contract made with him will be carried out by The TRIBUNE.

MARRIED.

MEYER - LOWTHER–In this city, June 17, 1899, by Rev. J. C. Eastman, of the Presbyterian church, Mr. Harry B. Meyer of this city and Miss Virginia H. Lowther of Oak Park.

LOPEZ - MAGETTI–In this city June 17, 1899 by M. Egan, J.P., Joaquin Lopez and Miss Selena Magetti, both of San Luis Obispo.

DIED.

ESTRADA - In this city, June 17, ‘99, Amada, youngest daughter of Rosamel, and Josefa Estrada, native of San Luis Obispo, aged 17 years, 1 month and 5 days.

BRUMBAUGH - At Arroyo Grande, June 15, 1899, Mrs. Katherine W. Brumbaugh, aged 73 years, 6 months and 9 days.

CURTIN - At San Miguel, June 21, 1899, Anna, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Curtin, aged 27 years and 7 months.

McCONNELL - In Paso Robles, June 21, 1899, Isabel McConnell, daughter of Gibson and Eliza McConnell of Parkfield, Monterey Co., aged 18 years, 7 months and 18 days, a native of California.

The TRIBUNE this morning runs a special column for the benefit of those who are interest in baseball and other sports. (Compiler’s note: The TRIBUNE frequently carried stories about sports but this is the first time that a COLUMN was devoted to them. Perhaps this might have been the beginning of a movement towards a SPORT PAGE.)

McCauley says: Advertising is a business. What steam is to machinery, motive power. Try a little steam in The TRIBUNE Bargain Columns.

Five thousand people will read your "ad" in The TRIBUNE Bargain Columns. It will pay you.

A feature that has inducements to readers as well as advertisers. The TRIBUNE Bargain Columns.

A gold standard. A TRIBUNE adlet, Bargain Columns.

You might as well be dead as forgotten; try an "ad" in the TRIBUNE Bargain Columns.

A marriage license has been issued to Frank Barnett and Mary S. Herrick, both of Paso Robles.

A COUNTERFEITER’S DEN.

THE BUSHNELL HOUSE ON THE PISMO ROAD RAIDED BY THE OFFICERS.

MOLDS AND BOGUS COIN FOUND.

Two Old Criminals Rent the House and Proceed to Manufacture the Queer.

BOTH OF THEM NOW UNDER ARREST.

One of the Guilty Men Directs the Officers in Finding the Outfit.

A genuine abode of counterfeiters has been found by Marshal Cook at Pismo, who acted in his capacity as Deputy United States Marshal. Last Friday he arrested and placed in the county jail here one, J.H. Ormandy, whom he knew to be a counterfeiter. Cook got his clew by careful work, after the arrest of Raymond at Santa Maria over a week ago. Raymond and Ormandy were living in the Bushnell house near Pismo. Ormandy manufactured the "queer" and Raymond passed it.

After placing Ormandy in the county jail here, the next thing to do was to capture the outfit of the two men. Marshal Cook solved this problem, by having Raymond brought here from the county jail in Santa Barbara by Deputy Sheriff Stewart of that county. Yesterday Raymond directed the officers in the location of the outfit.

In the house they found a dynamo and other utensils. Across the road from the house is a big rock and back of it three big cans were dug up, from which ten finely executed moulds (sic) were taken. They were the work of an expert. In a grain field near the house the officers unearthed over $240 of bogus money in the denominations of five dollars, halves, ten cents and dollars. The dates run from 1890 to 1898. The moulds (sic) found were for dollars only. The moulds (sic) for the other coins had been destroyed. The dollars are a little light, but it would take the superintendent of a mint to distinguish the fact that the ten cent pieces are counterfeit. The men had rented the house of Mr. Bushnell for the sole purpose of having a place to manufacture the coin.

Ormandy was sent up from Los Angeles county in 1895 for counterfeiting and got out about five months ago. Raymond has served three terms for as many different offense.

Deputy Sheriff Stewart returns by steamer for Santa Barbara this morning with Raymond. He paid a high compliment last evening to the good work done in this case by Marshal Cook.

FINDLEY ARRAIGNED.

Samuel M. Findley, the defaulting tax collector, has started on the legal battle for conviction or acquittal of the crime of embezzling the funds of the county. He has employed A.J. Monihon as his attorney and has been granted until Friday, June 23 to enter his plea. There are some who state that owing to the manner in which the affairs of the tax collector’s office were conducted, after Findley’s departure, that he can be acquitted on technicalities. Findley’s name was stamped upon the records long after his departure. It will be an interesting case.

FOUND.

On Monterey street, three doors below the post office, the store in which you should do your trading.

Courteous treatment. Country produce taken in exchange for goods. Cash paid for eggs. Try the new store.

CALIFORNIA GROCERY.

J.B. CARLON, Prop.

Telephone red 136.

Deputy Sheriff McFaddin returned last night from taking Francis Rhyne to San Quentin.

The class of ‘99 of the Arroyo Grande high school will have no commencement this year. Everything was being arranged for the exercises and undoubtedly the affair would have proved a great success and would have resulted in obliterating much to the feeling against the high school, shown by some of our neighbors, had not the students and faculty become involved in words which resulted in the exercises being declared off. If the teachers are not interested, and the students do not work to build up the school, certainly they cannot blame those who are prejudiced for trying to wreck the institution and cause the disbandment (sic) of the district.–Arroyo Grande Oracle.

SERENADED.

Last evening the Military band boys gave a serenade to Harry B. Meyer and his bride on Chorro street where they are residing. After playing several times the boys were entertained at a banquet.

COUNTERFEITERS.

The outfit of the counterfeiters, Raymond and Ormandy, has been sent to the secret service agency in San Francisco. Both men will have their crime brought to the attention of the Federal Grand jury in Los Angeles and with such a clear case against them as exists, they will probably plead guilty.

While Marshal Cook was arresting these men, manufacturers of the bogus coin were being arrested in Los Angeles and San Rafael. It is not so easy to "make" money, after all.

TORO CREEK.

...Before passing on to the events of the week we will notice that Mrs. E. Wasgott, a widowed lady and a merchant of Santa Maria, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Wm. Drouth of this valley. She is the first widowed lady who has put in an appearance hereabout since Bretz pulled down the fence around his exquisite shady grove and extended a cordial invitation to all maids and widows to pitch their tents and spend their summer vacation therein. Whether it was at the instigation of the aforesaid cordial invitation, or the publicity through the columns of the TRIBUNE of the prevalence of widowers and bachelors around this neck of woods which brought her this way, she alone can answer, for we know not. At any rate, all the bachelors are wondering and combing their hair, whilst Detective Ady, who has no hair to comb, washes his head exceedingly often...

...Prof. Ady, who once upon a time sought to immortalize this nation by capturing Chilly lone handed, has deserted the crew of Toro bachelors. He has gone and got married and gone to raising bees and making honey on the McCoffers ranch over in Vaness valley. He is in a sweet business, isn’t he.

GENERAL TORO.

THE ROAD TO THE COAST.

BAKERSFIELD THINKS IT SHOULD GO TO VENTURA RATHER THAN HERE.

A few months ago this county was agitating a proposition to secure the building of a railroad from Bakersfield through this county to the coast. Only at the last meeting of the board of supervisors the proposition came up on a request of Mr. R. E. Jack to have the board appropriate $500 to aid in surveying the proposed route, but met with no encouragement.

It seems that Bakersfield is out for a road to the coast, but thinks that the line should run through to Ventura. Speaking of this the Bakersfield Echo says:

"Most everyone we meet would like to see that railroad built from here to Ventura. They claim it would open up a much better country than would a road from here to Port Harford and in consequence do the community more good.

"This proposed road is estimated to cover a distance of ninety miles, and would not only open up rich farming and stock raising localities but valuable mineral sections.

"It is mentioned by those who have been over the ground that the building of a railroad over the mountain to Ventura could be accomplished much easier than toward San Luis Obispo, besides it would pass through comparatively little worthless desert country as would be covered by the other route.

CHARGED WITH CATTLE STEALING.

SEDRO SOLES BROUGHT IN FROM SANTA MARGARITA LAST NIGHT.

Admits His Guilt But Says That Hunger Led Him to Kill the Cow.

Last evening Constable Rodriguez and Pen Summer arrived from Santa Margarita with one Sutra Soles, who they placed in the county jail on a charge of grand larceny.

Soles, who is aged about 85 years, stole a cow on June 17 from We. Epperly near Santa Margarita. Soles admits his guilt, but says that he though the cow belonged to Gen. P. W. Murphy and not to Epperly. He was in need of meat for persons depending upon him for support and consequently he butchered the animal.

Soles made an effort to escape, but was captured by Constable Rodriguez of Santa Margarita, out in the Adelaide country. He was making his escape on a mule. The commitment is signed by Justice S. Sumner of Santa Margarita.

June 25, 1899 through July 1, 1899.

A NEW TRAIN SCHEDULE.

THIS CITY AGAIN MADE THE END OF A PASSENGER DIVISION

ON THE BROAD GAUGE ROAD.

Eight Train Crews Will Now Have Their Headquarters in This City.

Commencing yesterday this city was again made the end of a division for the Southern Pacific passenger crew. There will be three passenger crews and three freight crews between this city and San Francisco, and two crews running between here and Surf and Lompoc.

WANT MORE MEN.

THE RAILROAD CAMPS ENDEAVORING TO GET MORE LABORERS.

The railroad camps along the gap are in need of more laborers and they are scouring all over the country to get them.

Not many workmen in their own homes fare better than do the railroad graders. Here is a specimen dinner at McCormick’s camp, the bill of fare of yesterday: Roast beef, stewed lamb, boiled potatoes, beans, bread and good butter and lots of both, sago pudding, coffee.

BORN.

JANNEY - In Paso Robles, June 15, ‘99 to the wife of R.L. Janney, a son.

MARRIED.

BARNETT - HERRICK–In Paso Robles, June 21, 1899, by Rev. Marks of the Methodist church, Mr. Frank Barnett, of Paso Robles and Miss Sylvia Herrick of Berkeley.

SMITH - WRIGHT–In Paso Robles, June 22, 1899, by Rev. Mr. Betts, Mr. Clark S. Smith and Miss Olive M. Wright, both of Paso Robles.

HUNTSMAN - FENN–In this city, June 28, 1899, at the parlors of the Commercial hotel, by Rev. J.M. Hilbish of the Methodist church, Mr. John A. Huntsman of Huasna and Miss Gracie M. Fenn of the Avenals.

GROSS-CARLISLE–In this city, June 28, 1899, by Rev. J.C. Eastman of the Presbyterian church, Mr. James H. Gross of Santa Maria and Miss Leila O. Carlisle of Hollister.

YOUNG - THOMPSON–In San Francisco, June 22, 1899, Mr. Archie Young of Vallejo and Miss Thompson of Paso Robles.

YOUNG - DOWER–In San Luis Obispo, June 27, 1899, Mr. E.F. Young and Miss Mary A. Dower, both of Paso Robles.

DIED.

GABEL - Near this city, June 24th, Lucian Gabel, native of West Virginia, aged 71 years, 1 month and 7 days.

MULLIN – In this city, June 29, 1899, Frank C., infant son of Frank D. and Catherine Mullin, aged 6 months and 3 days.

BUDAR - In this city, June 30th, 1899, Rita T., infant daughter of R. and M. Budar, aged 2 months and 27 days.

Mrs. Maria Breed, sister of J.V.N. Young of this place, and a resident of Arroyo Grande for a while several years ago, died in Los Angeles June 16th, after a lingering illness and much suffering. Mrs. Breed was 80 years and 5 months of age.–Arroyo Grande Herald.

CAYUCOS-BY-THE-SEA.

...Whales in large numbers, accompanied by a few sword fish, have entered the bay within a few days. Their presence is considered an indication for early and good fishing.

...A young son of Seconde (sic) Minetti fell from a wind mill tower last Tuesday and was injured quite seriously. He remained unconscious nearly a day. Arthur Ramonetti coasted down the Cayucos creek hill on a bicycle the same day. He doesn’t know how it happened, but since then has been carrying his left optic in a sling.

Mike Righetti has erected a frame building between the drug store and the Exchange Hotel, to be occupied with a meat market by De Gottardi & Righetti and a barber shop by Henry Hanna. The carving in the meat shop will be done by Alfred Canevascini, while our expert barber never does any carving.

...The north bound and south bound steamers were tied up at the same time, the 18th inst. and loaded and unloaded large cargoes of freight. The north bound took a cargo of hogs. The wharf was crowded with citizens and campers and with all this bustle Cayucos put on an appearance of a metropolis...

Examination of applicants for teacher’s certificates began Monday at the room of the county Board of Education in the court house. The questions are being wrestled with by twenty-five persons from various parts of the county.

NOTICE.

Ordinance number 9 relating to the impounding of animals running at large within the city limits will be strictly enforced. If you wish to keep your dog, procure a tag at once from the City Marshal.

Dated San Luis Obispo, June 27, 1899.

John H. Kelley, Poundmaster.

CAYUCOS BY THE SEA.

A BIDDER ON THE PORT HARFORD BREAKWATER HEARS SOME GOOD NEWS.

WHILE AT THAT SEASIDE RESORT.

He Gets a Fifty Thousand Dollar Contract That Will Last a Year.

MATERIAL WILL BE TAKEN FROM MORRO ROCK.

CAYUCOS, June 27.–A.A. Polhemus of San Diego was here Monday and received a telegram conveying the information that he was the successful bidder on the Port Harford breakwater contract, the bids on which were opened at Los Angeles at 11 o’clock that morning. Mr. Polhemus appeared quite jubilant over his success when seen by your reporter. The stone will be taken from Morro Rock, for which he will receive $1.66 per short ton or $1.86 per long ton, measurement by displacement. (Compiler’s note: A long ton is considered to be 2,240 pounds avoirdupois. A short ton is commonly estimated at 2,000 pounds.) The contract involves a cash consideration of over $52,000 and will require over 30,000 tons of stone and more than a year of time to fill it. He will work 15 or 20 men on Morro Rock, six or eight on the steamers and lighters, and a dozen at Port Harford, and will begin work as soon as the necessary hands can be secured. Mr. Polhemus worked at Morro Rock on the breakwater contract several years ago and knows all the difficulties attending it, but believes he is more than able to meet them.

...The first kiln of brick at the new brick yard of William Drouth & Sons on Torro (sic) creek was opened a few days ago, and on Sunday a load of five hundred was brought to town. The distance is eleven miles, but there was not a broken brick in the load when they arrived. They are of good quality and bright red in color. Mr. Drouth will at once put up a kiln of 40,000, and offers to deliver them in Cayucos at $10 per thousand.

...An infant child of Paul Madonna died last Saturday and was buried Sunday.

...The proposed stage line between Paso Robles and Cayucos will be put in operation soon. Ben Pierce will leave Paso Robles every Saturday morning at 8 o’clock with a 4 horse 9 passenger Concord coach and arrive here about noon. The returning stage will leave Monday to suit the convenience of the passengers. The fare will be $1 one way, $1.50 round-trip. This will be a great accommodation to Paso Robles people who desire to spend Sunday on the beach and attend the usual Saturday evening festivities here. This is another evidence of the growing importance of Cayucos as a seaside resort.

..Surf fishing from the wharf is good and campers are catching large numbers.

AUTOMOBILES AND GOOD ROADS.

The "Good Roads" crusade which has been assuming such great proportions in the last few years in this country is likely to receive renewed impetus from the success of the automobiles which would seem to be the coming means of general locomotion. The other day, one of the new machines worried its way from Cleveland to New York, a distance of some 700 miles, a good part of the haul over villainous roads at an average speed of about fifteen miles an hour and at a cost which is understood to be trifling. The probabilities are that if Mr. George Stephenson had had the inflated rubber tire to work with, the steel rail would have been neglected. It is a question of economy of traction and it would be a queer reversal of affairs if the discarded omnibus should again assert its superiority over the street car in our cities and the producer should once more find himself independent of the transportation companies whose assumed exactions are a chief cause for the existence of a national political party. We do not expect to see the railroad plants of the world relegated to the scrap heap but it does not seem too much to expect to see our city street car systems largely supplemented by automobile cabs and omnibuses. That as a matter of fact is already true in European cities and some of our own and the marvelous success already attained in a very few years will doubtless be immensely increased by the ingenuity of the American inventor. The crying need of the farmer is more especially for cheap transportation from the farm to the line of railroad transportation and it becomes not improbable that the automobile, a cheap and practicable road wagon, will come to meet his necessity. But the essential factor is the good road. One condition will compel the other. It is the fact that the bicycle has vastly improved the road systems in many parts of our country. But the bicycle although possessing great elements of usefulness is still chiefly used for pleasure and amusement. The question of profit, money making, is not largely affected by it. Bu the road wagon, as a vehicle for the carriage of passengers or freight, presents a new solution for the transportation problem. A private vehicle, traveling at a speed approximating that of the present locomotive would be an infinitely pleasanter and a much more independent method of getting over the earth’s surface than even the most luxurious triumphs of Wagner or Pullman an d a road locomotive capable of making fairly rapid progress and hauling freight economically would speedily result in the creation of innumerable "fast freight lines" which would not be dependant (sic) upon any monster aggregation of capital for a chance to do business while the new conditions would make it a difficult matter for combinations to exist to the detriment of the producer. What would happen would be an agitation for good roads that would assume national proportions.

THE FINDLEY CASE.

S.M. FINDLEY PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO THE CHARGE OF EMBEZZLING.

S.M. Findley was brought before the Superior court yesterday afternoon and after hearing the reading of the indictment pleaded not guilty to the offense charged.

The defense asked that the bonds which were fixed at $10,000 be reduced to $3,000 or $5,000 on the grounds that Mr. Findley had returned within the jurisdiction of the court of his own free will and that there was no possibility whatever that he desired or would attempt to avoid trial.

A SHOOTING SCRAPE.

SOME VERY POOR PISTOL PRACTICE AT CAYUCOS.

Word was received yesterday afternoon of a shooting affair that took place at Cayucos.

A Swiss named Cicalotti was driving some chickens belonging to Antonio Stornetti, from his place.

Cicalotti was caught in the act and a quarrel followed, and as he was climbing over the fence to settle matters Stornetti fired three shots, missing the man each time.

The shooting occurred about noon and before 3 o’clock Stornetti was tried before Judge Mac of Cayucos and held to appear before the Superior court, with bonds fixed at $1,000.

Stornetti was in the employ of J. Cass and supposed to be a steady fellow.

John Barneberg who has returned from San Francisco reports that his son, Chester, is doing finely since he had his foot amputated. It was taken off at the ankle and the heel was carved out away from the bone, which was taken off with the toes, and pressed up against the ankle where it is expected to grow fast.

ESTRELLA.

...On the 16th inst. the marriage of Mr. Hege and Miss Hirsch was solemnized at the adobe church by Rev. Hege. After the ceremony over one hundred invited guests repaired to the residence where a bountiful dinner was served and a social afternoon interspersed by music was enjoyed by all.

Marriage license have been issued to H.E. Young and Opal Roberts and to G.E. Walls of San Jose and Miss Sadie E. Hover of Arroyo Grande.

Manager Sutliff of the Western Union telegraph office received a new typewriter last evening. It is of the most improved pattern and does fine work.

The bridge over Honda creek is completed and tunnel number 8 will be finished by August 15.

July 2, 1899 through July 8, 1899.

FAIR TO BE HELD.

AGRICULTURAL EXHIBIT AND RACES FOR THE WEEK COMMENCING SEPTEMBER 24.

The directors of the Sixteenth District Agricultural association met yesterday afternoon at the office of its secretary, Judge Egan.

There were present Directors Shaw, Righetti, Routzahn and Thomas. A.C. Gibson, who was recommended for appointment to the Governor, to fill a vacancy, was present, but had not yet received his commission. He will probably receive it soon.

It was decided to have the fair held in San Luis Obispo September 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29.

It was ordered that the park committee have full power to arrange for the races and the race track.

Chairman Shaw announced the following appointment of committees:

Finance–M.F. Taylor, E.C. Ivins, and R. Righetti.

Pavilion–L.C. Routzahn, R.M. Shackelford and Smith Shaw.

Park–Smith Shaw, E.C. Ivins and R. Righetti.

Premiums–L.C. Routzahn, Alex Gibson and A.L. Thomas.

The directors discussed many matters of interest, arranged a premium list, etc.

It is the general impression throughout the county that it will be a successful fair.

The directors adjourned to meet in this city August 5th at 10 a.m.

Following the precedent established since 1868, the date of the establishment of the TRIBUNE, the employes (sic) of the paper will join in the festivities of the celebration of the natal day of the Grand Republic, and on the fifth day of July there will be no paper issued.

TODAY’S BIG BLOWOUT. (Compiler’s note: 4th of July.)

A LONG PROGRAMME OF INTERESTING EVENTS HAS BEEN PREPARED.

THE TOWN WILL BE THRONGED.

The Balloon Ascension Will Take Place From the Johnson Lots on Higuera Street.

BUSINESS HOUSES GAY WITH BUNTING.

Baseball Tournament Commences at Eight Thirty This Morning.

It is going to be a celestially hot time in this fair city today and the procession of patriotism and gayety (sic) will go right along from sunrise until sunset. The "bill of fare" of interesting events follows so fast, that you will have to practice a sort of mental phlebotomy to keep up with it, or have it keep up with you.

From all indications the town will be thronged with people and the restaurants and hotels will do a big business. In addition thereto the ladies of St. Stephen’s Episcopal church will serve a dinner on Monterey street, under the Salvation Army hall. The Presbyterian Ladies Aid Society will sell ice cream, cake and lemonade in the building on Higuera street recently occupied as a meat market by G.F. Deiss. Hampton and Beckett will serve clam chowder on the corner of Chorro and Higuera streets.

Vosmer, who is to make the balloon ascension late in the afternoon arrived Sunday evening from San Francisco and was arranging yesterday for his ascent into the sky. He will go up from the Johnson lot on Chorro and Higuera streets.

The business portion of the town yesterday was being decorated with flags and bunting and will present a fine appearance when the parade wends its way through the streets. There is to be music galore.

The baseball tournament, the literary exercises, the sports and games, the growlers, the balloon ascension and the Streets of New York at the Pavilion in the evening, which is to be followed by a dance, are all drawing cards. From the performance at the Pavilion last evening it is safe to say that the play tonight will prove entertaining to all. The specialties are fine, the actors are all stars and the music is charmingly rendered by Pico’s orchestra. The tickets on sale at McManus, for tonight, should be procured at once, as but a few good seats are left. The Pacific Coast Railway train does not leave for the south after the play.

The program for today in detail is as follows. See the official programs about town printed at the TRIBUNE office: (Compiler’s note: The program and prize money offered in different events, can be found in the July 4, 1899 microfilm file at the San Luis Obispo Public Library.)

AN ESCORT.

THE MILITARY BAND WILL HONOR THE SANTA MARIA BAND.

The Santa Maria Band will be compelled to return home on the 6:10 train this evening, as the members are managing a benefit ball in that town tonight.

As they depart for the depot they will be escorted by the members of the Military band. The Military band boys remember the good time they had in Santa Maria, Dewey Day as a result of the hospitality of the Santa Maria band and they desire to show their appreciation in this way.

GRANTED CERTIFICATES.

Of the twenty-three applicants for teachers’ certificates the following were granted primary certificates:–Miss Josie Thaler, Miss Ethel Woods, Miss Martha Meserve (sic) and Mrs. Kate Smith of San Luis Obispo; Miss Clara Angus, of San Juan; Miss Mary Musick, of Nipomo; Mrs. J. Stringfield of Newsome; Miss Amy Hodges and Miss Edith Carpenter of Arroyo Grande and Miss Rose Porter of San Simeon. Miss Angus received the highest percentage. Miss Ruth Nelson was awarded a grammar grade certificate. She was the only one who took the grammar grade examination.

CITY TRUSTEES.

...The matter of special policemen for the 4th of July was taken up and the marshal was authorized without notice to put on three specials for the occasion.

Some discussion arose as to whether the churches and individuals proposing to sell refreshments on the 4th of July were subject to license. The matter was referred to the city marshal with power to act.

There will be a balloon ascension at 10 o’clock tonight from Meyer’s place on the corner of Garden and Higuera streets.

AT LAW IN KERN.

A CASE WHICH ORIGINATED IN THIS COUNTY.

Judge Mahon on the 26th inst. decided that W.V. Morrow is entitled to his children, as against the contention of their mother now Mrs. Sid Turpin. The children were awarded to Morrow by the San Luis Obispo court which granted the divorce and it is claimed that their custody was obtained contrary to their interests and welfare. The Turpins will now take the case into the court in which it originated and confidently expect to have the order giving the children into the hands of Morrow, set aside.–Bakersfield Californian.

The above clipping recalls some interesting events in the Superior Court of this county in relation to the case. It was here that Mrs. Morrow secured her divorce. Morrow had considerable trouble over his failure to pay alimony and was brought back from a northern county at one time to show cause why he did not produce the coin the court said was due his wife.

MARRIED.

RICHARDSON - POTTER–In this city, July 3, 1899, by Judge Egan, Robert F. Richardson and Jane Potter, both of Santa Margarita.

ROSA - PARKER–In this city, July 3, 1899, by Judge Egan, Frank de la Rosa of San Luis Obispo, and Grace Parker of Fresno.

WALLS - HOVER–At the home of the bride’s parents in Oak Park, July 5, 1899, Mr. George Walls of San Jose and Miss Estelle Hover of Oak Park.

TRACE - WALTENSPEIL–In San Jose, June 28, 1899, Mr. Verne Trace, formerly of San Miguel and Miss Alice Waltenspeil of San Jose.

THE BIG DAY. (Compiler’s note: 4th of July).

The Arroyo Grande Club Wins the Baseball Tournament at the Ramona Grounds.

THE BALLOON ASCENSION A PRETTY SIGHT.

B.F. Latimer Gets the Prize for the Best Decorated Business House.

The big day has passed into history and everybody expresses satisfaction over the results. The city was thronged with people, fully 6,000 strangers mingling with the townspeople in one of the most glorious occasions our city has ever known on the Fourth of July. The early train from the south brought hundreds from Santa Maria, Nipomo and Arroyo Grande and the excursion train came a little later on loaded down with humanity from those towns. From the country roundabout everybody came.

People were pleased to note that the various features of the program were promptly carried out. The committee of arrangements had worked hard to this end and chairman Bowen looked happy when he saw that there was no hitch. The decorations of the business houses and residences were a delightful feature and gave rest to the eye. And again the visitors noted their satisfaction over the efforts of the committee in having numerous long benches placed along the business streets.

At sunrise a national salute awakened the town and then the big celebration was on. The small boy and the firecracker and the Dewey torpedo and all the din of such a day held full sway from one corner to another.

(Compiler’s note: The July 6 article then details the events of the day. Miss Millie Wildes was the Goddess of Liberty surrounded on a float by "little misses" representing the various states. Harry McIntire rode a gorgeously decorated bicycle and Albert Nelson presided as President of the day.)

BALLOON ASCENSION.

IT COULD NOT HAVE BEEN BEATEN FOR BEAUTY.

The balloon ascension was a success–it was a magnificent success. Prof. Vosmer did more than most aeronauts do; he went up promptly on time. It was a beautiful sight to see the big canvass of hot air with the parachute contrivance and Vosmer dangling at the end, shoot heavenward. Up and up it went for fully three thousand feet and then the parachute was released and opened out like some huge flower. The descent was slow, much slower than is usually the case and the people had a long time to enjoy the gorgeous spectacle. Vosmer alighted in the rear of the Mission. The ascent was made from the Johnson lot on the corner of Chorro and Higuera streets, so the balloon drifted but little after leaving the earth. A more successful ascension could not have been made.

THE GROWLERS.

One of the last numbers on the program was the growlers, who turned out in procession in grotesque attire and masked faces that would stop a clock. They had a band that outclassed "all others" and finally wound up at the corner of Chorro and Higuera streets where the orator of the day, Hon. Will Lye, of Los Osos, "spouted" to the multitude.

Prizes were awarded for the best sustained characters.

BORN.

MALLARD - In Paso Robles, June 28, 1899, to the wife of O.E. Mallard, a son.

Mrs. Modesto (sic) Castro died at the home of her son J.C. Castro in Alameda the other day at the advanced age of 83 years. The remains were interred at Monterey, July 5th. Her death will be mourned by many in this county. She was a member of the most noted families of early California days.

DIED.

BRUM - At Arroyo Grande, July 2, 1899, Mrs. Maria F., beloved wife of Manuel S. Brum, a native of Fayal Azores, aged 49 years and 3 days.

JOHNSON - Near Paso Robles, July 2, 1899, Joseph Johnson, a native of Sweden, aged 77 years and 6 months.

IT IS A MYSTERY.

CORONER NICHOLS EMPANELS A JURY TO INQUIRE INTO HOWARD’S DEATH.

CIRCUMSTANCES ARE NOT CLEAR.

AN IMPORTANT WITNESS MISSING.

Constable Cook Makes Diligent Efforts to Locate Him Without Result.

(Compiler’s note: There follows a lengthy article on the mysterious death of James Howard. Readers who wish to pursue this story can find it in the TRIBUNE microfilm files at the San Luis Obispo Public Library, July 8, 1899.)

CITY AFFAIRS.

...The balance on hand in the city treasury June 30th amounted to $459.35.

The street department labor for the month of June cost the city $102.59.The number of days labor performed by prisoners amounted to 16.

The city pound turned $2.50 into the city treasury during June.

City Recorder Loomis collected $8 in fines from prisoners and sentenced four who had no coin.

City Marshal Cook sold $30 worth of dog tags during the month of June.

The receipts by the city for the month were as follows: Taxes $757.99, Licenses $83.32, Dog tags $80, total $920.31...

FIGURES THIS YEAR AND LAST.

The Decrease in the Total Valuation Not So Great as Anticipated.

County Assessor King has prepared his report to the State Board of Equalization on the value of all property within the county on the first Monday in March of the present year 1899. Following is a summary:

Real estate other than city

and town lots $ 7,225,725

Improvements on same $ 736,340

City and town lots $ 817,920

Improvements on same $ 838,918

Total value real estate and

improvements $ 9,648,903

Personal property $ 856,011

Money and solvent credit $ 194,606

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Total value of all

property $ 10,769,520

(Compiler’s note: The most important of the personal property interests of the county are listed. These include stock cattle, cows and heifers; hogs; mules; horses and colts; sheep and lambs; poultry; farming utensils; wagons and vehicles; lumber; machinery; musical instruments; sewing machines; furniture; harness, saddles, etc.; merchandise; pipe; fixtures; grain; franchises; libraries; watches and jewelry and liquor. Readers interested in more details can find the article in the microfilm file of the San Luis Obispo Public Library, TRIBUNE of July 8, 1899.)

July 9, 1899 through July 15, 1899.

CAYUCOS BY THE SEA. 

CAYUCOS. July 8–The Cayucos brass band furnished the music for the big Fourth of July celebration at Cambria, and Cayucos furnished the sprinter who captured the prize in the foot race, Mr. Roy Hardie...

...A few smelt have been caught from the wharf since the 4th, but good fishing cannot be expected to begin within about three weeks. (sic)

E. Genardini has taken V. Nicola as a partner in his saloon.

The Chinamen this week made a large shipment of sea weed, and those who handled the bales assert that they contained large quantities of dried abalones. The shipment of abalones and shells was recently made a misdemeanor by the enactment of an ordinance by the supervisors, but it is well known that the Chinamen have not been less industrious in gathering them on that account. The citizens are becoming indignent (sic) in the matter and the law will doubtless be enforced if further shipments are made...

CERTIFICATES ISSUED OF THOSE PASSING FROM THE 8TH TO THE 9TH GRADES.

The Board of Education yesterday announced that it had issued certificates to the following who had passed the examinations required for admission into the ninth year grade.

Paso Robles–Robert Gill, Allie Frost, Theresa Abernethy, Clytie Exline, Marguerite Elder, Marian Penman, Amanda Slater, Leonord (sic) Burnett, Bertha Dresser.

Santa Margarita–Louisa Zoletti, Mary B. Barba.

Arroyo Grande–Madge Craghill, Leo Hover, Willie Silva, Harriet Houghton, John Shannon, Annie Gray.

Hesperian–Lottie Smithers, Ula Carroll.

San Marcos–Morgan Foster.

Nipomo–Daisy Runnels, Frankie Swartz, Dario Dana, Ernest Wineman, Lucretia Deleissigues.

Alta–Lottie Woodworth.

San Miguel–Winnie Hutson.

Excelsior–Isabel J. Tanner.

Lincoln–Bertha E. Miner.

Oak Grove–Henry W. Gould, Benjamin F. Ramage.

Phillips–Agnes McDonald.

Mission–Mary F. Cheda, Belle Williamson, Hattie M. Dyer, Alice L. Loomis, Lillie McCaffrey, Emma Mehlmann, Amee (sic) Kallmeyer, Millie Wilds, Vivian Grose, Mary E. Danini, Ehruy (sic) Van Schaick, Rockwell Loomis, Joe Seaton, Lena Ottesgard, Warren A. Sinsheimer, Dan Nuckolls, Lucica (sic) Defosset, Fred W. Bradford, Ethel Cook, Julia O’Leary, Julia Williams, Clarence McCabe, Ernest Vollmer, Willie Fleugler.

Engine 1960 assisted engine 1378 over the grade yesterday.

CORONER’S JURY CANNOT DECIDE ON THE CAUSE OF HOWARD’S DEATH.

The inquest over the remains of James Howard was concluded yesterday forenoon and the Coroner’s jury by their foreman, E.A. Wood, brought in a verdict that the deceased came to his death from causes unknown to them.

District Attorney Campbell was present yesterday to attend to the examination of witnesses and if the circumstances attending Howard’s death continue to look mysterious, he may proceed with an investigation to be conducted by his office.

There was a ring missing from Howard’s finger when he was brought back to the Cosmopolitan hotel after Wednesday night’s spree and it may be that some one removed it from him.

BORN.

STEELE - Near Arroyo Grande, July 5, 1899, to the wife of Thos. Steele, a son.

KING - In San Miguel, June 23, 1899, to the wife of F.B. King of Pleyto, a daughter.

MARRIED.

YOUNG - ROBERTS–In Paso Robles, July 4, 1899, by Rev. W. A. Betts, Mr. Harry Young and Miss Opal Roberts, both of Paso Robles.

HOFF - SILVIA (sic) – In this city at the parlors of the French hotel, July 12, 1899, by M. Egan, J.P., Mr. H.F. Hoff of this city and Miss P.M. Silva (sic) of Folsom, Sacramento county.

WILLETT - MATHEWS–At Whittier, Los Angeles county, July 6, 1899, by Rev. J.T. Ford of Los Angeles, assisted by Rev. G.W. Maxon of Rivera, Rev. George Willett of San Luis Obispo and Miss Martha Mathews of Pomona.

ARROYO GRANDE HIGH SCHOOL

MUCH TROUBLE ARISES OVER THE PROPOSITION TO CONTINUE THE INSTITUTION.

ANTAGONISTIC BOARD OF CONTROL

It Organizes With W.B. Buck of Oak Park as President and Geo. Slack Secretary.

THEY ARE OPPONENTS OF THE SCHOOL.

Teachers’ Salaries Placed at a Figure to Shut out Applicants.

There is considerable trouble over the Arroyo Grande high school again and the opponents of the institution assert that they will terminate its existence.

The members elect of the board of control were sworn in at a meeting Saturday and now the board has a majority opposed to the school.

W.B. Buck, who represents Oak Park district on the board of control, and who is decidedly opposed to the high school, was elected president of the board and Gus Slack of Branch district, was elected secretary. Messrs. Buck and Slack, with B. Miossi of Pismo, were selected as an executive committee.

The board proceeded to fix the salaries of the teachers for the next year. It was voted to allow the principal $40 per month and the assistant principal $25 per month. The friends of the school state that the purpose of the low salary schedule is to prevent teachers being hired, in which instance the school will cease to exist.

It was voted to allow $125 expenses of the school for the ensuing year, divided as follows, $50 for incidental, $50 for rent and $25 for janitor.

President Buck of the board of control says that the school is dead. The friends of the school will make a hard fight to continue it.

TO RECEIVE SCHOLARSHIPS.

In the examinations for promotion from the eighth year to the ninth year or high school course, Julia O’Leary and Emma Mehlmann of this city each attained 93 per cent. Robert Gill received the next highest, 89 per cent. Chestnutwood’s Business College of Santa Cruz gives free tuition at that institution to the two holding the highest per cent.

RAILS BY THE MILE.

MANY CARLOADS BEING RUSHED TO THE FRONT.

Every freight that comes into Santa Barbara brings several cars of rails or other material for the coast line. There are now thirty cars of steel rails side-tracked at the freight depot, to be forwarded to Goleta, where twenty-four carloads are already stored. Large quantities of cement, for use in building the arches in the fills beyond Ellwood are also being received; a train of twelve cars went forward to Ellwood yesterday morning.

The rails are among the heaviest used, weighing 72 pounds to the yard. They are shipped in box cars, and a hole two feet square is cut in the end of the car in order to load and unload them. They are consigned by way of New Orleans and Los Angeles.–Santa Barbara Press.

PUBLIC LIBRARY.

SOME INTERESTING FIGURES FROM THE ANNUAL REPORT.

The trustees of the public library have submitted their annual report for the year ending July 1, 1899.

Since July 1, 1898, 108 books have been added to the library, 69 of which were purchased by the board, the remainder being donated.

The total number of pamphlets received amounted to 1,448.

The library had a balance on hand July 1, 1898 of $352.34 and received during the year $739.43 making a total of $1,091.77. The disbursements for the year amounted to $820.51, leaving a balance in the treasury on July 1, 1899 of $271.26.

The total number of visitors to the library for the year amounted to 12,639.

The board requests of the city council $2000 for the institution for the current year.

On the morning of July 5th, Mrs. A.J. Hudson passed away at her home near Templeton.

Mr. R.O. Worley, superintendent of the Santa Ysabel Ranch, was thrown from a horse July 3rd and was seriously injured. His arm was broken. A wild bull gored the horse on which Mr. Worley was riding which caused him to be thrown.

GAME LAWS.

IMPORTANT CHANGES MADE IN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY.

Important changes in the county game laws were made by amendments to ordinance No. 224, as follows:

The open season for deer is fixed between July 15 and September 15. The state law allows three months, to October 15.

Quail–November 1 to March 1. State law opens the season a month earlier.

Doves–August 15 to February 15. State law July.

Market hunting is forbidden altogether.

Clams are protected for three years, where planted.

Crawfish–Close season, April 1st to August 15th.

There is no open season allowed on pheasants, grouse, wild turkeys, prairie chicken and bob white quail.

Violations to the laws are punishable by a fine of not less than $50 or more than $500 or imprisonment.–Santa Barbara Press.

DIED.

HUDSON - At Templeton, July 5, 1899, Mrs. A.J. Hudson, a native of Knoxville, Illinois, aged 52 years, 9 months and 20 days.

NEVINS - At San Miguel, July 9, 1899, Mrs. Nevins, aged 65 years.

PHILLIPS – In this city, July 9, 1899, Mrs. Louisa A. Phillips, a native of Orwell, Vermont, aged 79 years 7 months, 24 days.

MASONRY WORK ON THE GAP.

James Wiley, the well known stone mason, departed last night for the front. He has three big jobs of masonry to do on the gap between Gaviota and Ellwood, at a point about six miles north of the latter place, each job containing about 700 or 800 cubic yards. (Compiler’s note: The reader will note that there seems to be no consistency in the spelling of Elwood/Ellwood.)

Mr. Wiley will go to San Francisco Friday to secure derricks, etc. for the work and will return to the front about Monday and commence work at once. He will employ between forty and fifty men.

Work on the gap is on the rush just now and thinks look bright indeed.

At all the construction camps there is considerable activity and men are being employed as fast as they put in an appearance. Some more laborers went to the front on last night’s train.

CITY TRUSTEES.

...Matter of procuring a horse for the use of the pound master was referred to the street committee with instructions to examine and report to the board.

Last evening a stranger under the influence of liquor fell on the sidewalk on Higuera street and sustained a cut on his right cheek.

HEAVY FARM HORSES SHOW GOOD SPEED ON HIGUERA STREET.

The races this year will be a success and the directors of the Agricultural Association are pleased to note that even the heavy farm horses in this county can make good time.

Yesterday afternoon four of Alva Paul’s big work horses broke the running record for the coast on Higuera street and stopped in front of the TRIBUNE office, where it was ascertained that the total loss was a broken tongue on the small Studebaker wagon to which the horses were attached. One of the wheel horses had a few pieces of hide torn from its shank.

The horses started to run near Crocker’s store, one of them getting its foot over the traces. Several times the wagon was on the point of turning over, but Fred Miller and Alva Paul who were hanging on with dear life to the ribbons, prevented it. There were a number of Paul’s threshing crew in the wagon, but none were injured. One rolled out soon after the horses started to run, but escaped without a bruise.

LASAR PROPERTY SOLD.

JOS. FREDERICK PURCHASES IT TO MAKE MORE ROOM IN THE FRENCH.

The negotiations which have been in progress in reference to the Lasar property on Chorro street yesterday came to a climax and the property passed into the possession of Jos. Frederick, the owner and the proprietor of the French hotel, for a consideration of $4,750. The lot fronts 36.15 of Chorro street and is valuable property and at present is adorned with a fine two story brick building. (Compiler’s note: Readers interested in more details concerning this transaction may research the TRIBUNE microfilm file at the public library for July 13, 1899.)

Yesterday afternoon Coroner Nichols was advised by telephone that his services were required in the Pilitas country about fifteen miles southeast of Santa Margarita, to hold an inquest over the dead body of John R. Bartlett...

...For several days past nothing had been seen of Mr. Bartlett by his neighbors and some of them grew suspicious that something was wrong and went to his cabin to investigate. Opening the door, Bartlett was found dead in bed.

There was no evidence of any foul play and the supposition is that Bartlett died a natural death. He probably retired for the night an d passed away in peaceful slumber.

Deceased was a native of Massachusetts, aged about 73 years and lived all alone in a little cabin on a government claim.

The indications are that Bartlett had been dead several days when discovered and decomposition had already set in...

...John R. Bartlett had been a resident of this county for fully thirty years, most of which time he has lived on the Pilitas. Some time since he sold his old ranch to A. Paiarola, the restaurant keeper of this city, an d at once took up another claim about two miles distant from his first place.

TROUBLE IN THE PECHO HILLS.

Mr. Beltrone Alleges That they Tore Down and Demolished His Fences.

There is trouble in the quiet Pecho hills, and Constable Cook returned last night from that section with three men under arrest and is still in quest of a fourth man.

The men who have been placed under arrest are charged with malicious mischief.

Mr. Beltrone, who lives on the Pecho, alleges that they have been demoralizing his fences and giving him general cause for complaint. (Compiler’s note: Obviously the typesetter misread the headline of the story and replaced the word "demolished" with "demoralizing" in the body of the text.)

A marriage license has been issued to E.W. Fairbush of San Francisco, and Miss Gertrude McAuliffe, daughter of John McAuliffe who resides on Villa creek north of Cayucos.

PROMOTIONS.

(Compiler’s note: In the July 15, 1899 TRIBUNE appear lists of students who were promoted from one upper grade to another at the end of the 1898-1899 school year. The lists are too extensive to include here, but readers who are interested may search them out in the microfilm department at the Public Library. The lists include students from San Luis Obispo, Paso Robles, Arroyo Grande, San Miguel, Hope, Sunderland, Laguna, Oak Park, Sand Hill, Stowe, Creston, Hesperian, Cayucos, Santa Margarita, Park Hill, Ranchita, Summit, Alta, Nipomo, Alliance, San Marcos, Los Osos, Olmstead, Oak Dale, San Jose, Cantinas, Cholame, Cienega, Salinas, Pacific, Pleasant Valley, Pilitas, Belleview, Branch, Encinal, Geneseo, Highland, Home, New, Newsome, Oak Grove, Orange and Oso Flaco school districts.)

Another fine brood of young pheasants can be seen at Mr. J. Rochel’s shop.

SAMUEL M. FINDLEY.

There was the usual crowd sitting in the easy chairs of one of the down town cigar stores after the noon hour yesterday. Havanas filled the air with fragrant smoke and contentment was pictured in the scene for each one present had evidently just come from a fine lunch.

After a few words, discussion centered upon Samuel M. Findley, whom Attorney Monihon (sic) expects to soon have out on bail.

A man who has had a great deal of experience with juries and understands to a considerable extent the qualifications of a citizen for that all important duty in the criminal courts leaned back in his chair and remarked:

"It will be no easy matter to secure a jury to try Samuel M. Findley. It will require a venire of fully 200 men and probably then just the wrong 200 will be summoned and it will require a special venire.

"There is a vast amount of sympathy for Samuel M. Findley throughout the county and there are a great many who would very willingly resolve a doubt in his favor. No one seems to deny the embezzling of the funds of the tax collector’s office by Findley, but the case has no end of circumstances which tend to aid the prisoner.

"The fact that the surety company which was upon Findley’s bond did not promptly make good the shortage in full, and still refuses to pay the deficiency in the license money has placed the company in disfavor with the citizens of the county and a sharp lawyer can work wonders with a jury, when he pleads for his client, as against the surety company, a grasping corporation which does not pay its debts. A great picture can be drawn here and everyone knows that the public has a dislike for corporations.

"What juries have done in the past they are apt to do again and the chances are that Findley may be a free man in the course of say six months. It is ten chances to one that the first jury will disagree."

With this the speaker closed and the discussion gradually dropped into other channels.

July 16, 1899 through July 22, 1899.

EAST AND WEST ROAD.

Mr. Adolph Horstman of this city acting for others, has been engaged for the last two weeks in securing the right of way for the east and west road. Mr. Horstman had secured the road way as far east as Shandon last week and expected to push on until he reached Bakersfield, the eastern terminus.

The western terminus is the port of Cayucos and the proposed route is to strike the river between Paso Robles and San Miguel and then to proceed south through Paso Robles and strike an old survey west of Templeton, thence to Cayucos.

To the query "Is there anything in the proposition?" Mr. Horstman unhesitatingly said, "Why of course there is. Preliminary arrangements up to securing the right of way have been made and this they would not want if they did not intend to build the road."

The right of way contracts call for a completion of the road in three years.

Mr. Horstman returned to town last Wednesday, having secured all the right of way to the Kern County line.

The balance of the route eastward to Bakersfield will be attended by the people of that county.

Mr. Horstman starts again Monday to work on the route along the Salinas river and to the coast.

The road is to be known as the California Mid-Land Railroad.–Paso Robles Record.

Yesterday the open season for dove hunting began. There are quite a number of the birds this year.

The work of securing rights-of-way for the change of the railroad line between Santa Barbara and Ellwood has come to a standstill for the present. Mr. Nier, the right-of-way agent of the company, has brought the work almost to a close. The company will at once bring condemnation suits to secure the remaining portion of the right-of-way.

SKIPPED WITH WATCH AND COIN.

Last evening a brawny toiler, who had left the railroad construction camps, appeared in Judge Egan’s office and told a tale of woe to the officers.

He gave his name as Jerry Faley and stated that his partner Mike–somebody–had decamped with $65 in coin and a watch and chain which had been placed in his keeping by Jerry, while said Jerry was absorbing tanglefoot juice about town.

A warrant was issued for the missing individual who was seen to leave in the direction of Morro.

City Marshal Cook gave pursuit but failed to come in sight of the man he wanted and returned to town about 8 o’clock. He will continue the search this morning.

SIXTY DAYS IN JAIL.

Yesterday Judge Egan’s court was occupied with the trial of a stranger named Burke who stole a watch and chain from Sam Gibson of the Cuesta, on the Fourth of July.

The evidence clearly proved the guilt of the man and his honor took the case under advisement until evening when he gave Burke two months in the county jail. The watch and chain were recovered.

BORN.

TARWATER - At La Panza, July 14, 1899, to the wife of John L. Tarwater, a son.

RICE - At Edna, July 13, 1899, to the wife of Herbert Rice, a son.

LAMBRECHT–Near Shandon, July 16, 1899, to the wife of Peter Lambrecht, a daughter.

MARRIED.

FURBUSH-McAuliffe–At the home of the bride’s parents near Cayucos, July 16, 1899, by Rev. Father P. O’Reilly, Mr. Ellis W. Furbush of San Francisco and Miss Gertrude McAuliffe of Cayucos.

TO BUILD A PAVILION.

STOCK COMPANY TO BE FORMED IN PASO ROBLES.

Every One Should Attend the Meeting Next Friday Evening.

The spirit of progress seems to have come to our town all at once.

A proposition to formulate a stock company and build a pavilion was launched a few days ago and is gaining much headway.

The proposed structure is to be a skeleton frame building fifty by one hundred and twenty feet long with a twenty foot stage and a gallery.

The building will cost at most $2,500.

The most feasible plan devised to raise the necessary money is to form a stock company and sell shares.

IT IS CAMP JERSEY.

VETERANS NAME THEIR CAMP IN HONOR OF A DECEASED COMRADE.

Sunday will be a big day at the encampment of the Central California Veterans association at Arroyo Grande. The old soldiers will hold memorial services and Rev. Reyburn will deliver the memorial sermon. All of the churches in Arroyo Grande will suspend services for the day that the congregations may meet with the soldiers.

Today Commander Dille of the department of California and Nevada G.A.R will arrive and will be accompanied to the encampment by S.D. Ballou, the delegate who so ably represented Fred Steele Post at the department encampment at San Diego in May.

The old soldiers are having a good time. Thursday evening Commander Orcutt delivered his annual address and there was an interesting program of exercises. The veterans were welcomed to Arroyo Grande by Rev. W.B. Bell of the Methodist church.

The name of "Camp Jersey" has been applied to the present camp in memory of R.M. Jersey, an old soldier who died about a year or so ago in Arroyo Grande...

No more important enterprise has been submitted to the business men of the town and they should devote an interest to this matter.

It is proposed to make the shares of $10 denomination each so that all may have a chance to lend a helping hand to a good cause.

A meeting has been called for next Friday evening July 22nd, to be held at the City Hall and it is to be hoped that a rousing meeting will be held at that time.

Mrs. D.D. Blackburn has headed the list of a donation of a lot valued at $500 and several others have already signified their willingness to take $100 in shares.

The need for such a building is apparent to all.

The success of the coming fair depends largely upon the erection of this building. The town h as been thoroughly canvassed and a place of suitable size cannot be found.

Our city is on the verge of a new era of prosperity and we must be up with the times. Meet prosperity half way and extend an invitation of welcome and it will respond to the call.–Paso Robles Record.

Bids will soon be wanted for the erection of a high school building at Salinas–Louis S. Stone, architect.

INDICATIONS ARE THAT THE PRICE OF WOOD WILL GO UP.

Wood dealers in this city assert that the price of stove wood will probably be something like six dollars a cord next winter.

For the past few years the price has been gradually getting lower but now wood is hard to get and but very little is being cut, as the laborers have all been employed in farm work and will be until late in the fall.

Our rural friends who have wood will be pleased to know that the possibilities are that once again they are to get a good price in the market.

In 1893 wood sold for five dollars on the streets, but it has gone steadily down since that.

DIED.

ROMERO - In this city, July 19, 1899, Maria Dolores, daughter of the late Jose Romero, and Domingo Romero Naidez, aged 9 years and 4 days.

FROM CHIEF PAYNE’S REPORT.

For the benefit of the members of the fire department the TRIBUNE presents the following figures and facts from the regular quarterly report of Chief Payne for the quarter ending July 17th.

The department has responded to the following alarms during said quarter: (Compiler’s note: The fire department reported over 3,200 calls a year on August 20, 1998, many of which were medical assist calls.)

May 5th, 1 p.m., alarm turned in from Mill street near Toro at which the following buildings were totally destroyed:

Barn belonging to C.E. Ash estate. Loss $100, no insurance. Barn belonging to P.W. Murphy and occupied by the San Luis Water Co. Loss $300, insurance none. Cause unknown.

May 12th at 1:30 p.m., fire at G.W. McCabe’s residence on Pismo street. Loss $49.25, fully insured. Cause unknown.

The entire property has been completely overhauled and painted and is in first-class condition.

We have at present 2,000 feet of hose available for use. (Compiler’s note: The fire department reported 22,000 feet of hose on August 20, 1998.)

The membership of the different companies is as follows:

Tiger Hook and Ladder Company No. 1, 19 members; Good Will Hose Company No. 2, 13 members; Vigilance Hose Company No. 3, 11 members: total membership, 43.

I have issued ninety-three permits during said quarter.(The fire department reported 54 paid employees, 45 of whom were firemen, on August 20, 1998.)

A VAGUERO OF THE SEAS.

IN SAN LUIS WE LASSO CATTLE, IN SANTA BARBARA IT IS SEALS.

The seals over on the channel islands are in danger of being lassoed. If Captain J.R. Mullet is successful in a trip he is about to make, fifty of these inhabitants of the channel will be caught an d sent to Paris or Cologne where the captain has orders for as many as he can catch.

At one time Mullet was the captain of "H.C.Almy," a vessel belonging to this port and for years he has caught seals for the market. Twenty-five years ago he was in Santa Barbara and since then he has been in the sea lion business.

The islands boast of a large seal population. But it is no easy trick to catch the animals. It is possible to shoot them but dead seals are not marketable. Captain Mullet expects to catch his fifty in a reasonably short time but he may be several months at the job.–Santa Barbara News.

SPECIMENS FROM BARBARY COAST.

A TRAIN LOAD OF MEN SHIPPED TO THE RAILROAD CAMPS.

They Claim to Want to Work, But They Never Will.

To the person who has been through the regions "south of Market" in San Francisco, there was a plain picture of the "tough" life of Barbary Coast and the water front centered in the smoking car of last evening’s train.

The demand for laborers at the construction camps at the front on the railroad has induced the contractors to bring down car loads of men from San Francisco. Not a week passes but what several car loads of men arrive. In the gangs transported here upon "construction passes" there are to be found some men who have the stamp of honest toil upon their faces, but for the most part they are of that class who would feel insulted if they were asked to work.

The free ride to the southern part of the state and the determination to "bum" the rest of the way to Los Angeles, brings this army of "grafters" from the dives that make prosperous times for the police courts of San Francisco. Possibly they have gazed so many times upon the faces of the police judges that they have concluded to take a change of pasture.

The gang which occupied the principal portion of the smoking car last evening would doubly discount any of them which have yet arrived upon this free pass trip. On the way down there was a constant flourish of whiskey flasks and just a few fights to make things interesting. One young chap, a veritable cigarette fiend, thought fist-fighting was altogether too slow for such a swift crowd and "swiped" his seat mate across the face with one of the whiskey flasks, inflicting a deep and ugly wound, as the flask was broken.

At the dept in this city there was a constant flow of "mild" phrases from the car windows until the iron horse speed (sic) away for the south with its precious (?) load. While they were here, Constable Cook stood and watched that n one were left behind. Had one of these "South of Market" individuals dropped off the whole police force would have run for shelter and probably Johnson and Munoz would have put in the night dodging about the doorways keeping away from the "terror." This is just a matter of guess work and might be entirely wrong.

It is very doubtful if the gang brought down last evening will even so much as apply for work when they arrive at Surf. They will probably tramp into Santa Barbara and rob hen roosts, on the way.

July 23, 1899 through July 29, 1899

PASO ROBLES PAVILION.

COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO SOLICIT SUBSCRIPTION TO STOCK.

A representative delegation of citizens met in the city hall Friday night to discuss plans for the erection of a pavilion in this city.

F.A. Earll presided and a committee consisting of E.C. Watkins, W.S. Lewis and F.D. Frost was appointed to ascertain the amount of capital that could be raised.

The proposition is to form a stock company and erect a building at a cost of $2,500, including furnishing.

The committee will proceed to work at once.–Paso Robles Record.

THE JOHNSON BUILDING.

Yesterday afternoon C.H. Johnson announced that the contracts had been awarded for the construction of the new building which he is to have erected on the corner of Chorro and Higuera streets.

Jos. Lind gets the contract for building section No. 1 for $8,000. It will front about 100 feet on Higuera street and be 75 feet deep and consist of five one story brick stores.

Contractor Stephens of Los Angeles is the lucky bidder for section NO. 2. It is the corner building. He has a front of 96 feet on Chorro street and 45 feet on Higuera. The corner building, a two story brick, will be 45 by 56 feet. Adjoining it on Chorro street will be two one story brick store rooms; one 18 by 40 and the other 20 by 60 feet. The price named in the contract is $9891.

Building will commence within a few weeks and there will be lively times for our mechanics and laborers.

MARRIED.

HUNT - HUNTSMAN–In this city, July 22, 1899, by Judge Egan, J.P., Mr. Thomas Hunt and Miss Alice Huntsman, both of Arroyo Grande.

TILSLEY - DARKE –In this city, July 27, 1899, by Rev. George Willett of the Congregational Church, Mr. Edward C. Tilsley and Miss Gertrude Darke, both of this city.

DIED.

EICKLER–At Los Berros, Sunday, July 16, 1899, Frederick Eickler, a native of Germany, aged 46 years.

DANA - At Nipomo, July 25th, 1899, Frederick A. Dana, a native of Nipomo, Cal., aged 50 years, 1 month and 13 days.

HATHWAY - Near Arroyo Grande, July 26, 1899, Camden Riley Hathway, son of A.R. and Mrs. E.S. Hathway, a native of Kentucky, aged 27 years and 4 months.

EX-JUDGE GREGG PASSES AWAY.

The community was shocked Sunday evening to learn of the sudden death of Ex-Judge Virgil A. Gregg at his home on east Monterey street in this city.

The Judge was about town early in the evening and as usual seemed in the very best of health. He dined with Mr. and Mrs. H.F. Osgood at 6 o’clock and then went to the postoffice and got his mail returning by way of the Osgood home on Osos street and leaving there about ten minutes before 7 o’clock, he drove directly home.

Arriving home he unhitched his horse, turned it loose in the lot and ran his buggy into the shed.

Before leaving the Osgood home he had jokingly remarked that he was going to shoot a cat which had been molesting his sleep. So after putting away his horse and buggy, he had evidently proceeded to carry this out. He secured a shot gun, a single shot repeating Winchester and had slipped around to a point at the edge of a cyprus (sic) hedge in the yard. The cat was in the open and the Judge had shot, killing the cat, for it laid dead in the yard.

Just as he shot he was stricken evidently and had started to walk to the house. The gun was found leaning against the hedge and the dead body of the Judge was found lying face downward at the other end of the hedge near the kitchen door. Several of the neighbors heard the shot.

N.S. Robinson, who lives near by and furnished the family with milk came on his regular evening mission and discovered the body. That was about 7:30. Mr. Robinson called first for Mr. Booker and then for Mr. R.B. Morton, who lives next to the Gregg residence. Mr. Morton, who was in h is yard at the time heard the call and came over.

Examination convinced Messrs. Robinson and Morton that Judge Gregg was dead. Mr. Morton came down town and notified relatives of the deceased and Coroner Nichols. Dr. Hays was also called. It was the opinion of the Coroner that the death had resulted instantly.

(Compiler’s note: The article continues in great detail telling about the inquest, Judge Gregg’s family, and much about his life. Interested readers may find the details in the July 25, 1899 microfilm copy of the TRIBUNE at the Public Library.

FREDERICK A. DANA OF NIPOMO ACCIDENTALLY KILLED YESTERDAY.

Another sudden death shocked our community yesterday afternoon when the intelligence was received, that Mr. Frederick A. Dana of Nipomo had met with an accident which had resulted fatally. Coroner Nichols was notified of the sad event and took the train in the evening for the purpose of holding an inquest and was accompanied by a TRIBUNE representative. Last evening a jury was impaneled composed of E.R. Ketchum, foreman, W.J. Sutherland, P. Rojas, John Kish, G. Lockwood and Geo. Cook. The facts elicited were that the deceased had gone to the depot in his buggy about eleven o’clock to get some bundles of lath that were there for him. That in attempting to drive away he dropped one of the lines and in stooping over the wheel in the effort to recover the lost rein, the horse moving with the cramped buggy, he was drawn over to the ground and struck on the top of his head with much force. Mrs. Knotts and Mr. Geo. McNeill saw the accident and went at once to his assistance and carried him to the residence of Mr. S.A. Dana. He was unconscious and remained so until his death which occurred about a quarter to four, although he had the ministrations of Dr. Brown who was called immediately. It was determined that death had resulted from internal hemorrhage of the brain and the verdict of the coroner’s jury was to that effect and that it resulted from unavoidable accident in the fall from the buggy. There were no marks upon the head of the unfortunate man. He was 50 years, one month and 13 days old, and leaves a widow and eight children, six sons and two daughters.

The funeral will be held in this city at 10:30 o’clock Thursday morning.

To all the old residents of the county, the deceased was well and most favorably known and his untimely demise will be learned with the deepest regret.

THE GAME OF GOLF.

EVERYBODY PLAYS AND THE GAME INCREASES IN INTEREST.

The TRIBUNE Sporting Editor Reviews the Game in Detail.

Baseball is the national game and this year, more than in many a one past, has elicited a deep interest throughout the county. After all a new game has sprung into prominence being introduced by the San Luis campers at Avila beach. It is the game of golf.

Golf provides exercise for both the mental and the physical faculties. The game is always full of surprises and holds the interest of the player throughout. One is always looking to see how his ball has been placed. He is interested to see whether it lies in a position for a clean stroke or whether it has landed in a hole. The position of the opponent’s ball must also be studied. While walking the 150 or 200 yards of the drive one is wholly absorbed in revolving the question as to the possibilities of the next stroke. One must use good judgment in the selection of a club. He must know whether to use a drive (sic) or a lofter (sic), a masher (sic) or a brassie (sic). This must be determined from the position of the ball.

As a physical exercise the game of golf is unsurpassed. The old and the young, the weak and the strong, all may play the game with equal pleasure and profit. It does not take an athlete to play golf, although it is frequently the case that the athlete makes the best player.

The quality most essential for a successful golf player is nerve. A person of nervous temperament can never play golf ; that is successfully. The reason of this is that to compete with an opponent one must exercise a great amount of judgment combined with skill and accuracy in making a stroke. It is not necessarily the heavy nor the forceful stroke that makes the successful drive. More depends upon the manner in which the ball is struck. A stroke either too high or too low loses its force. If the stroke is too low the club loses its force by stroking the ground, if too high the ball is driven into the ground and deadened. A heavy stroke, if not properly placed may result in sending the ball not more than twenty feet.

There are two styles of golf playing, the match game and the medal game. In the former the number of strokes are counted between each hole, the competition making the fewest, winning the point. In the medal play the number of strokes are counted for the whole course. In the match play the tally is started afresh after each hole is made. This gives a more even chance.

Great caution and judgment must be exercised in approaching the green. The first stroke from the teeing ground is generally a hard drive. As the ball nears the hole the stroke must be regulated so as not to drive it through the green to the opposite side of the hole. This is one of the places where the scienced (sic) golf player shows his skill and accuracy because the least misjudgment in calculating and executing the stroke may lose him the game.

There is only one drawback to golf. That is the fact that it is not an interesting game for the spectator. The amount of ground covered is too great to permit the spectator to follow the game without walking around with the player. This the average spectator does not care to do as the distance on a nine-hole course is from a mile and a quarter to a mile and a half, and on the eighteen-hole course, double the distance. (Compiler’s note: Although the distance on a nine-hole course varies some from club to club, the average is considered to be 1,780 yards or exactly a mile of 5,280 feet.) Unless one is playing the game, he does not usually care to walk four or five miles to watch a gutta percha ball. (Compiler’s note: Gutta-percha is a tough plastic like substance from the latex of certain Malaysian trees. It resembles rubber and is now used mostly for insulation and in dentistry.)

While the game on the coast is in what might be termed its infancy, the showing made by California players has been exceptionally good. It is to be hoped that the scenes of camp life at delightful Avila beach will develop some fine players and the game become a fixture in this county.

NEWS OF THE RAILROAD CAMPS.

Nearly all of the camps at the front expect to move within the next three or four weeks.

McMurtrie and Stone’s camps Nos. 2 and 3 will move to the Santa Anita rancho in a few days.

It is expected that the tunnel will be finished inside of the next thirty days and by that time the grading will also be completed to the creek. It will be but a short time when the track will be laid to the creek and ten miles more of the gap will be closed.

Labor seems to be difficult to secure. The Los Angeles Express publishes the following interview:

Adolph Ramish said today that the Surf line gap cannot in his opinion be completed this year. Martin C. Marsh, his partner, is constantly on the work. The contractors on the job say that they can give employment to 200 or 300 men, while on the northern end of the line 500 or 600 more can find work.

It is the experience of the Southern Pacific company during the past three or four months that at least three out of every ten men sent to Surf quit after the first pay day and wander to some other section.

Just at this season of the year farmers and orchardists need a great deal of help. They cannot get all they want, and are eagerly looking for men. They pay more than the railroad for common labor. Men sent out by the railroads are therefore easily induced to quit and go to work in the orchards and harvest fields.

It was stated at the Arcade depot today that gangs of men when sent to work on the southern end of the new line frequently jump off the trains carrying them from Los Angeles and either find employment or wonder (sic) back again to Los Angeles.

CAMDEN R. HATHWAY IS KILLED BY HIS HORSE.

The Funeral Will Take Place Today at 3 P.M. in This City.

At an early h our yesterday morning Coroner Nichols was notified of the death of Camden R. Hathway at the home of Fred Branch in Branch district, as a result of an accident which befell him Tuesday afternoon about 5 o’clock on the Huasna. Hathway and Joe Wilkinson had gone on horseback from the Arroyo Seco to Porter’s ranch and were returning. At a point on the road "Cam," as everybody called him, put spurs to his horse and the animal began bucking and fell over on its side.

Hathway’s head hit the ground with terrible force and he was unconscious when picked up. He was brought from the Huasna to the home of Fred Branch, three miles from Arroyo Grande, where a brother, A.R. Hathway, Jr. was employed. Dr. Clark of Arroyo Grande was summoned and worked all night with his patient, but to no avail. The injured man never regained consciousness and died at 6 o’clock yesterday morning. (July 26, 1899)

Camden R. Hathway was a son of Dr. and Mrs. A.R. Hathway of this city. They were at the bedside of their son when death came. Deceased was a native of Kentucky aged about 28 years. He leaves a wife and two children. The remains were brought to this city last evening.

Yesterday at 11 a.m. Coroner Nichols held an inquest over the remains at the Branch home.

The jury was composed of the following: T.W. McGuire, foreman, Chas. Noe, George F. Lingo, Augustus Slack, B. Estrada and J. F. Branch.

The jury rendered a verdict that deceased came to his death by an unavoidable accident, the result of a horse falling upon him.

RAILROAD NEWS.

It is not uncommon to see gravel trains of twenty to thirty cars arrive in Lompoc.

Some forty laborers arrived on Wednesday’s train and were taken immediately to camp.

In another fortnight the railroad work will be at an end in Lompoc. Then the bustle will be confined to regular trains.

There is a complaint against railroad contractors to the effect that they refuse to aid the county assessors to collect road and state poll taxes. This county is not getting in what it is entitled to by any means...

...The first contracts south of Surf are nearing completion and soon there will be a move southward and new camps and new contracts under way. Mr. J. Smith will soon move from Honda viaduct to Gaviota, where he will be domiciled until the road is finished.

It is estimated that it will take six weeks for Roy, Higbee & Carney to complete the tunnel; then commences work on the next great steel viaduct, four hundred feet in length. Work is now progressing most satisfactorily and with better speed than before.–Lompoc Record.

The annual water shortage is upon us. All consumers were served yesterday with a notice from Supt. Haskin that sprinkling could only be indulged in to a very limited degree until further notice. Bad for the gardens.

Judge Samuel Cliff of Creston was in town yesterday, sporting a misfit slipper of great size and hobbles with a cane, all the result of a misstep which badly sprained his ankle.

CAYUCOS-BY-THE-SEA

...The citizens of Cayucos have been interested in the recent reports concerning the east and west railroad which is scheduled to pass within a mile of town, but the price of land along the proposed route has not yet been advanced in anticipation of its building.

The announcement has just been made of the marriage of Miss Florence Peterson of Toro creek and Mr. Thompson of Los Osos, which occurred at Santa Cruz sometime between June, 1898, and May 1899, and has been kept secret until now...

...An exciting race between Willie Nonella on horseback and Walter Pierce on a bicycle occurred on Ocean Avenue Sunday afternoon. It was won by Pierce...[EP

...A conservative estimate of the grain shipments over the Cayucos wharf for this season has been placed at 75,000 to 100,000 sacks...

...Since the telegraph office at Cambria has been closed, Cayucos has been made the end of the line, and dispatches for points beyond here are delivered by the stage driver. It is reported that Capt. M.F. Taylor of the Hearst ranch is making an effort to purchase the line, in which case it will be reopened and operated to San Simeon in connection with the Hearst telephone line...

Hanna & Garcia last week caught a 62-pound man-eating shark in their deep water net outside the harbor. It was brought in town and exhibited as a curiosity, after which it was taken in charge by J.H. Sanders, chef of the Crown Hotel, Paso Robles, who baked a large section of the same and invited a few friends to sample it. They all ate freely of it and pronounced it equal and similar to sturgeon in every respect...

...Cayucos is already experiencing the good results of the Saturday-to-Monday stage line from Paso Robles, run by Ben Pierce. Citizens of the Spring City can now spend a day delightfully at the beach at small cost. The round trip rate is $1.50. Last Sunday, Mr. Pierce had eight horses in the stable here.

CRESTON.

...Creston is noted for its piety. The ancient burgh sports one church, one hotel and barn, two saloons, two nickel-in-the-slot machines, a women’s prayer meeting, which meets every Tuesday afternoon, Christian Endeavor and W.C.T.U. What more is required to boost up an inland town. An insurance agent also holds forth, that dispenses insurance that insures.

Quite a lively stir in front of the Oak saloon occurred last Sunday. Some of the tough boys indulged in a short fisticuff. Blood was drawn on both sides and the scrap ended in a draw off.

On Sunday at the Lutheran Church, in the German settlement, the Rev. Claus united in marriage Mr. August Schwartz of San Francisco, and Miss Ida Gruenhagen, the youngest daughter of Wm. F. Gruenhagen, of Creston...

PASO ROBLES SENSATION.

Today in Paso Robles there will be a sensational case up for examination before Justice Brower. The Rev. John Bergstedt of Linne, will be examined on a charge of assault to commit rape. Awaiting examination he has been under $1500 bonds. Cooley and Putnam will appear for the defendant.

The Paso Robles Leader writes up the sensational affair as follows:

"Some two years since Rev. John Bergstedt received a call to the pastorate of the Swedish Baptist church at Linne and Paso Robles. For a time all things went well, but shortly there were rumors that the new preacher was extremely fond of the female members of his flock. Shortly after he was installed pastor of the Linne church, so the story goes, he was at the coast and there met Miss Emily Olson, one of the young ladies of his flock, and one evening invited her to take a walk. She declined at first but finally allowed the privilege asked, walked a short distance, refused to go further and they sat down to talk upon a sand hill, where, while so sitting, he made an assault upon her, but was repulsed. Miss Olsen did not at that time mention the assault.

A few weeks since at her home, Miss Olson found it necessary to go to a neighbor on an errand and found the Rev. Bergstedt there. When she was ready to go home he desired to go with her but she declined his company, still he pressed his company upon her and accompanied her away from the house and when out of sight he again made an assault with the intention of committing rape upon her. She escaped from her tormentor and shortly after, in confidence, she told a girl companion of the experience she had had, and the latter girl in turn told her mother, and then the "cat was out of the bag." O.F. Olsen, a brother of the girl, has sworn to and is pressing the suit.

The accused, it is understood, denies the charge and asserts that it is a scheme concocted to injure him.

SCHOOL ELECTION.

Messrs. N. Cook, J. Bianchini and J.J. Brians, the trustees of Harmony school district, have ordered an election to be held on the 12th day of August for the purpose of submitting to the voters of that district the proposition to vote $1,000 bonds to build and furnish a new school house.

COLLIS GETS THE RIGHT OF WAY.

HE COMPROMISES WITH THE DIRECTORS OF THE HOLLISTER ESTATE.

Everything Settled Satisfactorily For the Railroad People.

SANTA BARBARA, July 26.–A settlement of the utmost importance to Santa Barbara was made today between J.W. Nier, right-of-way agent of the Southern Pacific, and the directors of the Hollister estate. The settlement gives the company peaceable possession of seventeen miles of right of way through the Santa Anita rancho, through the lack of which possession work on over half the gap was stopped over two months ago. The delay has thrown the completion of the road back more than six months. The settlement has been reached just in time to allow the company’s contractors to establish their winter caps and to increase the force of workmen on the line by fully 50 per cent.

(Compiler’s note: The article continues for the greater portion of a newspaper column. Readers interested in further details may search the microfilm files of the TRIBUNE at the Public Library for July 29 1899.)

July 30, 1899 through August 5, 1899.

Chester Barneberg returned from San Francisco last evening. Since having his foot amputated he has been improving in health. Miss Grace Barneberg accompanied her brother to this city.

BROKE OUT OF JAIL.

LOUIS LONG, THE CAMBRIA BURGLAR, MAKES GOOD HIS ESCAPE.

A second time within a few months the town has been awakened by a jail break.

Sometime between 6 and 7 o’clock Friday evening, Louis Long, held for trial for burglary at the Oceanic quicksilver mine near Cambria, cut his way out of the bastile and made good his escape.

The prisoner climbed upon top of the new iron tanks and cut and burned a hole thirteen by seven inches in dimensions in the floor, four feet above the tanks, leading upward into the Assessor’s office. It was accomplished by means of a saw, probably an ordinary knife converted into that tool, and a candle flame, which scorched its way into the wood, while the handle spoon was utilized to scrape away the charred coal. A razor, picked up in the jail, had evidently been used to cut the linoleum on the floor of the Assessor’s office. None of the tools used, with the exception of the candle and the spoon were found.

Reaching the interior of the Assessor’s office, Long lighted the gas and walked out through the rear entrance of the court house. The escape was discovered but the officers did not give out the information until morning. However, the search was commenced at once and Deputy McFadden put in the night watching the railroad approach to Santa Margarita. In the morning he went to Paso Robles. Sheriff Ivins left for the south.

Cards were sent out all over the country giving the following description of the escape:

American, 5 feet 8 inches, 20 years old, dark complexion, black hair, black eyebrows, shaved smooth, one front tooth gold, has tatoo (sic) heart and arrow on back of left hand, black coat and pants, white sweater, white or black fedora hat, patent leather shoes; pointed toes.

It was reported that Mr. Swain, the hotel man, had seen Long this side of Santa Margarita. Swain was driving along the road and saw a man coming down the hill toward the county road. Seeing Swain the individual returned to the hills rather hurriedly. It might have been Long.

Long is a very shrewd individual and will give the officers a hard chase.

GAP WORK IS DELAYED.

FOR WANT OF LABOR WILL NOT BE CLOSED TILL NOVEMBER 1900.

"We could willingly give $1000 or $1500 in cash to any man who would furnish us with 500 laborers to remain at work on the coast gap for three months," said a member of the engineering department to a San Francisco Chronicle reporter. By that we mean good workmen–able to drive a team or handle a scraper. The lowest wages we are paying are $1.75 a day, the men boarding themselves either on their own account or paying 75 cents a day for their board at the camp maintained by the company. We pay $1.75 a day to a driver of a two-horse team, $2 a day to a driver of a four-horse team, $2.25 a driver of a six-horse team, $2 a day to plowholders, $2 a day to wheeled scraper holders and extra high wages to especially good men for special work.

 

Yesterday County Treasurer Kelshaw redeemed $8,500 of outstanding bonds against the county. They are of the issue of 1882. The fund for the redemption of bonds only contains $239.38 now.

BORN.

SQUIRES - Near Miles station, July 27, 1899, to the wife of Geo. W. Squires, a son.

MURPHY - In this city, July 28, 1899, to the wife of C.E. Murphy, a son.

GARCIA - Near this city, Aug. 2, 1899, to the wife of Mentor Garcia, twin daughters.

MARRIED.

SCHWARTZ-GRUENHAGEN–At Creston, Sunday, July 23rd, 1899, August Schwartz of San Francisco to Ida Gruenhagen of Creston.

DIED.

OLVERA (sic) - In Paso Robles, July 25, 1899, at the residence of Joe Castro, Ed Olvera (sic), aged 39 years.

MILES - At Reedley, Cal., July 28, 1899, Homer P. Miles, youngest son of the late Elbridge Miles, a native of San Luis Obispo, aged 25 years and 11 months.

BRAZIL - At Morro, July 31, 1899, Mary S., wife of Samuel S. Brazil, a native of Azores Islands, aged 44 years, 11 months and 16 days.

WAGERS - In this city, Aug. 3d, 1899, Frank Wagers, native of Azores Islands, aged 47 years.

LONG IS CAPTURED.

THE JAIL BREAKER IS APPREHENDED BY CONSTABLE GANO IN PASO ROBLES.

Louis Long, the jail breaker, is once more safe behind the bars of the county bastile. He was brought down from Paso Robles on Sunday evening’s train by Deputy Sheriff McFaddin, who managed the hunt for him in the northern part of the country.

McFaddin was convinced that he was headed for the north. He and Constable Gano had been on guard all Saturday night on the San Miguel road leading out of Paso Robles. Just before day break Gano came back to Paso Robles.

Standing in the shadow of a tree near the railroad track, Gano saw a man and going in that direction he found the individual to be Long, who was evidently waiting for a gravel train, which he intended to board and continue his journey northward. Constable Gano has been making a splendid record ever since his election as a peace officer in Paso Robles and this is another laurel for him.

MRS. JOHNSON THROWN FROM BUGGY.

About 6 o’clock last evening Mrs. W.G. Johnson was thrown from a buggy on the county road near the Vachell place west of town and sustained a compound fracture of the right limb just above the ankle.

The accident happened in this way, Mrs. J.H. Kelly and daughter, Miss Beulah, Miss Beulah, Mrs. Rose Young and Mrs. Johnson were returning from Sycamore Springs. Mrs. Young was driving. A newspaper dropped out of the buggy and scared the horse. The animal made a jump forward and stepped over one of the shafts. Mrs. Johnson, who was in the rear seat, stood up in her fright, and as she did so, Mrs. Young turned the horse around to keep it from running away. The motion of the buggy threw Mrs. Johnson out and her right foot caught in the wheel, breaking the bone above the ankle until it protruded from the shoe, larcerating (sic) the flesh and causing a very bad fracture.

Mr. Dunlap, who was on his way to the Springs, stopped the horse before it could run away.

Mrs. Kues brought Mrs. Johnson to this city and the broken limb was set by Drs. Nichols and Hays. N one of the other ladies were injured. The only damage to the buggy was a broken shaft.

THE DAUGHTER OF MR. JOHE OF LAGUNA SHOT IN THE ARM.

Sunday, the sixteen year old daughter of Mr. Johe, who resides near the Laguna, was the victim of an accident which might have resulted fatally under other circumstances. Mr. Johe and his daughter had gone down to the Laguna to show several boys from San Luis, who were hunting, where there was a wild duck’s nest.

As they passed the spot, the duck flew and Miss Johe ran forward towards the nest. At the same time the boy, who had a twenty-two rifle, fired at the duck. The bullet struck Miss Johe in the left arm, just grazing the bone and lodging in the flesh of her side, where it was easily extracted by Dr. Norton. Had the bullet failed to strike the young lady’s arm it would have pierced her heart and caused instant death.

Sunday evening the four months old son of Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Schmidt died in Paso Robles. The remains were brought to this city on last evening’s train and interred.

Judge Unangst returned Sunday evening from his month’s outing and the superior court is again open for business.

The fees of the county Recorder’s office for July amount to $221.15 and those of the clerk’s office $89.50. The small amount in the clerk’s office was due to the fact that the superior court was not in session during July.

NARROW ESCAPE.

There came very near being a big conflagration on Chorro street the other day. The little sons of George Martin, who lives in the old Norcross house, accidentally set fire to a wood shed in the rear part of the lot.

The wood shed was scorched but the flames were extinguished before they gained any headway. A fire in that portion of the town might have proven very destructive had it got past control.

Edgar Lynn has leased to D. Beffa for five years his ranch on Santa Rosa creek containing 1000 acres. The terms are $600 for the first year and $700 for the next four years.

The new schoolhouse at Pismo is fast being completed. It will be a very neat temple of learning for the seaside town and a fine improvement.

William Crow was yesterday committed to Agnews asylum by Judge Unangst. Crow has been an inmate of the county hospital for several weeks and was adjudged to be crazy. Drs. Nichols and Hays examined him.

It was Jack O’Brien who was out with Jim Beck on a dove hunt yesterday. They secured 94 doves and 9 rabbits.

Dove shooting is affording excellent sport now. Bags of over one hundred have been made by several persons.–Paso Robles Record.

FROM UP THE COAST.

... DeGottardi and Righetti are to commence the erection of a new frame building in Cayucos at once. It will be occupied by E. Genardini as a saloon. It adjoins the Odd Fellows lot...

VISIT TO THE FRONT.

The work at Honda viaduct is fast assuming a completed condition and the contractors are making ready for an advance movement to new quarters and new contracts further south. The ground between the present work and Gaviota will be all occupied within the next three months. The Stone & McMurtrie commissary department and headquarters will be moved to Gaviota within the coming thirty days, which indicates general progress, for so long as the belt of work was nearer Honda creek than Gaviota the quarters would remain at that point. The great viaduct is receiving its last coat of paint, making the stately structure look grandly beautiful.

Construction trains now pass on south over Honda viaduct, and as one by one the big arroyos are spanned or filled, the trains will pass on until the construction forces shall meet at some point near El Capitan.

There is a grandeur about this railroad work found in the construction of but few roads in the world. The contractors say this is the best and most expensive piece of road the company has ever built, and it has constructed many thousands of miles.

What now most concerns the people is the probable date at which the last spike will be driven and the road rendered serviceable for traffic and travel. The company is in doubt as to the exact time for however good its intentions may be to push the work to completion, there seems an unavoidable delay caused by a dearth of laborers. The contractors along the line would take on a thousand men more were they to be had, but they are not, and are not likely to be received until the winter months, when from storm causes, work may be practically suspended until the early spring of 1900.–Lompoc Record. (Compiler’s note: The gap was not closed until March 31, 1901.)

August 6, 1899 through August 12, 1899.

A marriage license has been issued to Juan Bulbon and Andre Gastelo.

WHOSE SCHOOL HOUSE?

Goodwin school house stands on the land of E.G. Albright and there can be no question of the fact that this temple of learning, built by a tax imposed upon the land owners in that section is rightfully the property of Mr. Albright.

The county has never received a deed for the land on which the building stands and Goodwin school district lapsed in October, 1894. Mr. Albright has no desire to hold the school house, if the county can devise a plan to take the "white elephant" off of his hands.

Mr. Albright writes Mrs. Woods, County Superintendent of Schools as follows:

I promised to give a deed for one acre of land, as long as used for school purposes, but the district failed to get the deed, simply because they did not attend to it. I am thinking some of selling and do not know whether it would interfere with your disposing of it (the school house) or moving it off at any time if I sold without any reference to it."

The matter was referred to the Board of Supervisors yesterday, but that August body seemed decidedly puzzled over the matter. They were of the opinion that Mr. Albright had a school house on his hands.

Goodwin has a fine school house, probably one of the finest in the whole state considering the conditions of the district. On April 2, 1892, the district voted $3,000 to build and furnish a school house. The tax was voted through the influence of San Francisco people, who held the controlling power above the small land owners. (Compiler’s note: According to Dr. Edwin Ruda’s doctoral thesis on the schools of San Luis Obispo county, on file in the Public Library, the Goodwin school was started in 1891 and was annexed to Simmler in 1909. The Simmler district became a part of the Atascadero Union High School District in 1920.)

Thirty thousand trout are to be turned loose in Gabilan and Carmel creeks in Monterey county. San Luis Obispo county ought to stock up the streams.

MARRIED.

SCHILLING - FOREMAN–At Glenwood Springs, Colo., Aug. 6, 1899, by Rev. Bullis, Mr. C.F. Schilling of Cripple Creek, Colo., and Miss Anna Foreman of San Luis Obispo, Cal.

SCHOLZ-BROWN–In this city, Aug. 7, 1899, by Rev. J.C. Eastman, Mr. J.L. Scholz and Miss Belle J. Brown, both of San Diego.

FOOTE - KETCHUM–In Arroyo Grande, August 10, 1899, by Rev. C.H. Reyburn of the Presbyterian church, Mr. Fred Foote of San Francisco and Miss Elsie Ketchum of Arroyo Grande.

Marriage licenses have been issued to Fred E. Foote of San Francisco and Miss Elsie Harriet Ketchum of Arroyo Grande and to J.L. Scholz and Belle J. Brown, both of San Diego.

FIRST GRAIN FROM CAYUCOS SHIPPED.

Saturday the steamer Bonita carried away the first shipment of grain from the Cayucos wharf for this season. The amount of the shipment was 2547 sacks.

Horstman & Mac, residents of Cayucos, made the shipment. They brought in grain from the following ranchers, A. Tomasini 1917 sacks, T.W. Mable 400 sacks and Buffington Bros. 230 sacks.

Last season there was no grain shipping from the Cayucos wharf. In 1897 the first grain to leave the wharf was on August 3rd, so the first shipment this year is just two days later than that season. The freight rate from Cayucos to San Francisco is $2.25 per ton.

There will be a vast amount of grain shipped from Cayucos this season, for there never before has been so much grown in that country. Owing to the dry year of 1898 and the consequent loss of cattle, dairymen resorted to farming and many ranges were sown to grain...

COUNTY HOSPITAL.

THE SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT MADE.

At this session Dr. Sinclair submitted to the Board of Supervisors his report as Superintendent of the County Hospital for the first half of the year 1899.

The report states that on the first day of January 1899, there remained over in the hospital a total of 46 patients and during the entire first half of the present year there were admitted into the hospital 71 other patients, making a total of 117 patients in the hospital during the said half year and during said half year there were discharged 69 patients and there died 8 other patients, leaving remaining over in the hospital on the first day of July 1899, a total of 40 patients.

The cost of each article of subsistence during the entire first half of 1899 aggregates $1385.87.

The aggregate of all claims certified for payment to the Board of Supervisors from the hospital for the six months amounts to $3428.28½. The salaries of the superintendent and steward are not included in this. These salaries amount to $750, which makes the total expenditure $4177.28½.

Figuring in all the expenses of the hospital, salaries, etc., the total cost of each patient per day during the first half of the year 1899 amounts to fifty cents and a fraction. The cost of subsistence per diem for each patient is 14 cents and fraction.

Yesterday morning the members of the board visited the hospital and found everything kept in the most approved order.

An arrangement has been made between C.H. Johnson and Mrs. Dughi, whereby Mrs. Dughi gets the privilege of a half interest in the brick wall to be built for the north side of the Johnson building, in return for allowing said wall to be built upon a stone foundation owned by her and already constructed. Mrs. Dughi expects to build soon.

BORN.

WALDORF - In Arroyo Grande, Aug. 2, 1899, to the wife of Louis Waldorf, a daughter.

McQUAID - In this city, Aug. 8, 1899, to the wife of John McQuaid, a son.

RALEIGH - At Arroyo Grande, Aug. 2, 1899, to the wife of Percy Raleigh, a daughter.

TAPPA - In this city, August 8, 1899, to the wife of James Tappa, a daughter.

OVERTON - In Paso Robles, Monday, Aug. 7, 1899, to the wife of W.B. Overton, a daughter.

DIED.

HARDEN - In Cholame valley, Aug. 6, 1899, Jacob Harden, a native of Perry County, Ohio, aged 63 years, 4 months and 10 days.

RANSOM - In this city, Aug. 9th, 1899, John Ransom, M.D., a native of Ceres, Pennsylvania, aged 72 years, 10 months and 21 days.

KELLY - At the county hospital, Aug. 11, 1899, Edward Kelly, a native of Ireland, aged 45 years.

A petition is on file with the county supervisors that a bounty of $1.50 be placed on cayotes (sic).

WORK ON THE GAP.

Encouraging news comes every day of the progress of the work being made on the work of closing the gap.

Tunnel No. 8 will be completed shortly and the track will be laid to a point twenty miles south of Surf in less than two weeks. Jolama creek will then be the northern terminus of the gap.

The camp of McMurtrie & Stone, known as camp NO. 4 has been moved to the Santa Anita ranch and the crew will commence work on tunnel No. 9 very soon.

The headquarters are being moved to Gaviota and all the contractors expect to be in their new camps until the gap work is completed.

The work on the two big tunnels is showing marked progress. They are being driven through the solid mountain at the rate of about 90 feet a week.

Squads of men have joined and left the camp of each contractor, but each consignment of laborers arriving has left a few good steady men who will work.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

Aug. 8.

...The board proceeded to hear the applications of various persons asking for liquor licenses. There was a long list of them, in-so-much as they covered the liquor business of the entire county. Clerk Whicher proceeded with the reading of them and one after another they were duly approved by the board...

...The applications for liquor licenses were approved as follows:

F. Albertoni, Ontario House, near Miles Station; J.G. Arana, Junction House, near San Luis Obispo; A. Ayers, San Miguel; Chas. E. Anderson, Cambria; O. Borradori, Edna; F.F. Babcock, Arroyo Grande; V. Brunoni, Cambria; J.A. Brown, Oceano; Fred Blume, Paso Robles; L. Brenckle, Paso Robles; Frank Cochran, Arroyo Grande; G. Castillo, Santa Margarita; T.E. Craighill, Santa Margarita; E.H. DuFault, Paso Robles; Ella Davis, San Miguel; W.E. Dana, Nipomo; Peter L. Edgar, Pismo; John G. Engel, Paso Robles; D.A. Ferrari, Santa Margarita; Owen Goven, Sycamore Springs; G. Guerra, Cambria; Efram Genardini, Cayucos; B. Gutierrez, San Luis Obispo; A.L. Gemetti, Cayucos; Ghezzi & Guibbini, Cayucos; R.W. Gruenhagen, Creston; E.B. Harlan, Paso Robles; Frank Herrera, Pozo; Hoff & Robasciotti, San Luis Obispo; S.I. Johnston, Pismo; Knotts Bros., Pismo; E. Knotts, Nipomo; Manuel Lima, Brick Saloon near Miles Station; Jerry Leoni, Nipomo; A.W. Music, Cambria; Merryman & Son, Paso Robles; John C. McCormick, Paso Robles; John C. McCormick, San Miguel; John I. Matthis, San Miguel; C.H. Meyer, San Luis Obispo; Otto E. Never, Paso Robles; Peter Olohan, Arroyo Grande (2); Oneto Bros, Port Harford; H.S. Oaks, San Luis Obispo; A. Paiarola, San Luis Obispo; M. Pfau, San Miguel; Riordan & Wisecarver, San Miguel; Mary Ramonetti, Cayucos; A.P. Scolari, Edna; Bernardino De Souza, Arroyo Grande; A.J. Speegle, San Miguel; F. Sparks, Paso Robles; M. E. Swain, Santa Margarita; W. F. Sauer, San Luis Obispo; Edward Trussell, Huasna; Otto Tullman, San Luis Obispo, Vicente Vasquez, Morro; Joseph Wilson, Creston; Watts Bros., Paso Robles; Walter & Gilardi, Morro; S.T. Worden, Shandon; Ed Zopdi (sic), Cayucos; L. Zolezzi, Santa Margarita; John Stumpf, Templeton.

Eight or ten other applications which came in during the present session were set for hearing for September 5th...

...A petition was received from D.F. Newsom reading as follows:

"Owing to the enormous growth of vegetation, a fire will cause a great loss of property and perhaps life, you are hereby requested to consider the advisability of having no open season for quail shooting this year."

The petition was placed on file and the board took no action.

The matter of the Goodwin school house on the land of E.G. Albright was referred to the district attorney to give an opinion to the board at the September meeting.

A report was received from the school superintendent stating that the following districts having less than 10 census school children should be suspended. Washington 7 pupils, Cantinas 7, Orange 9, Park Hill 7. The board ordered the matter laid over until the next meeting...

Saturday, August 19 is the anniversary of the founding of the San Luis Mission–it is San Luis Day, and a memorable occasion in the history of this section of the state.

J.B. Berkemeyer returned yesterday by steamer from Santa Barbara, where he has been employed for a number of months in the St. Charles market. He will open the Union meat market in this city about the middle of next week in the brick building adjoining Dutton & Bubo’s on Higuera street. The TRIBUNE wishes him every success.

Ben is a first class workman in the trade and will no doubt demonstrate it to the satisfaction of the people of this city.

SANITARY CASE DISMISSED.

Yesterday Judge Unangst dismissed the action pending against John Stumpf for selling liquor contrary to the laws of the Templeton Sanitary District. It was stated last evening that Stumpf had again been arrested. His counsel are P.O. Chilstrom and S.M. Swinnerton.

CAMBRIA.

...Several different parties around here have had horses dying with symptoms of lung fever. In some instances the stock lost was considered to be of considerable value.

...Why those smiles of George Allan’s lately? Oh! don’t you know? The new boy which arrived about the 16th of last month is the cause.

...There is a prospect of the telegraph line, recently cut off from this place, being re-established, which would be quite an accommodation to the people.

August 7th, 1899

UNCLE SAM.

SALMON FISHING.

Salmon fishing is first class in Monterey bay now. At Capitola the catches are large and numerous, while at Monterey the fish are funning finely. Every day all the fishing boats at Monterey are out, while on some day most any old tub is brought into use so that tourists and "natives" can enjoy the sport.

Thus far some large fish have been caught by amateurs, while the veterans ship large quantities to San Francisco market every day.–Salinas Index.

The above item will come very near starting Jim Beck to Monterey, while Ike Lasar and Spaulding, will feel in the same mood. There has not been a good run of salmon at Port Harford this year.

There are a number of people in this city who pride themselves on driving good horses. C.H. Meyer rides behind two blacks and never takes any dust.

Marriage licenses have been issued to Antonio Victorino and Josefa Hill, and C.O’Leary and Maggie G. Emerson.

August 13, 1899 through August 19, 1899

DIED.

LAMBERT - In Paso Robles, August 9, 1899, Rev. J. Lambert, a native of Ohio, aged 69 years.

MILLER - At Cholame, Aug. 8, 1899, Mrs. M. Miller, a native of Scotland, aged 75 years.

CLEMONS - At Arroyo Grande, Aug. 14th, 1899, Maggie Ellen Clemons, daughter of Geo. B. and Armanda Clemons, aged 20 years and 1 month.

McCLAIN–At Santa Margarita, Aug. 16th, 1899, Marguerite S., daughter of Jose and Gertrude McLain, a native of Casmalia, Santa Barbara Co., Cal., aged 16 years, 3 months and 12 days.

DROPPED DEAD

Sunday one of the passengers on the Coos Bay, bound south, died at Port Harford and was brought to this city and an inquest was held over the remains yesterday by Coroner Nichols at Bowen’s undertaking parlors.

The circumstances of the death of the man are these: He left the steamer and came down the wharf to the hotel where he called for a drink, asking that it be something which would benefit him for a trouble which he complained of in his chest. He took the drink and going outside took a seat on the bench and talked for some minutes with Dr. Hayes, telling him of his travels, etc. Finally he went back to the steamer and in going aboard he fell just at the end of the gang plank. Dr. Hays was called and found the man dead. The remains were brought to this city..EP]

(Compiler’s note: An inquest determined that the man died from heart disease and that his name was Reinhold Robert Werner. Further details can be found in the August 15, 1899 microfilm copy of the TRIBUNE at the Public Library.)

CITY TRUSTEES.

The work of excavating for the Johnson building recalls to the memory of the old timers the days of the Mission gardens. A portion of the old wall which surrounded this garden, is being unearthed.

Four masons arrived from San Pedro yesterday to work for Contractor Stephens on the Johnson building.

PACIFIC COAST RAILWAY NOTES.

The Pacific Coast Railway is one of the busiest lines in California just now. All the bridges and crossings between Avila and Port Harford are being strengthened in preparation for the long seige (sic) of grain hauling.

The grain is coming up from the south at a lively rate. The passenger train brought up several car loads yesterday and the evening previous, twenty-four carloads composed the regular freight train. (Compiler’s note: The reader is reminded that as of this time frame, the Southern Pacific Railroad rails had been laid only as far as Lompoc. The word "south" refers to south county, therefore Arroyo Grande and Nipomo.)

Seven car loads of bituminous rock are on the side track at Rock Siding at Edna, awaiting shipment.

Apple shipping from Arroyo Grande will soon be on in full blast.

A new floor has been put down in a portion of the warehouse at Steele’s station.

FERY (sic) RINARDY.

One of the finest violinists in the world will stay for a short time in this city, and will be pleased to give lessons. Orders may be left for him at the San Luis jewelry store.

Mr. Rinardy will introduce himself to the public at the entertainment to be given by the Catholic Ladies Aid Society.

GEORGE HARLOE’S RETURN HOME.

In a few days more the soldiers from California will sail in through the Golden Gate returning from the scenes of conflict in the far off Philippines. A grand reception has been planned for them by the people of San Francisco and the streets are to be a blaze of glory and the city will be turned over to them, but it is safe to say that none will return to a community that will extend a more sincere welcome than that given to George Harloe, son of Capt. and Mrs. M. Harloe, Sunday by his friends from the various sections of the county.

The return of the young man, who has been a member of the Hospital Corps at Manila was the occasion of a barbecue given in his honor in a beautiful grove on the Arroyo Grande creek. It is the same spot where many barbecues have been given and the mirth of a people has mingled with the glad songs of the birds, but these occasions of the past, little measure the joy which prevailed in welcoming home a boy who has been in the service of his country.

The invited guests numbered about one hundred and they came from all sections on the coast side of the county. From San Luis Obispo the following were noted: Hon. and Mrs. Chas. A. Barlow, Mrs. A.J. Monihon, Mr. and Mrs. F.S. Finney, Messrs. P.H. Dallidet, Will Bond, H.M. Payne, John Norton, W.H. Brown, Albert Nelson and M. Phelan.

A fatted steer has been killed for the occasion, just as the fatted calf was killed to observe the return of the Prodigal son. The barbecue was attended by experts under the supervision of Fred Branch and the results were most satisfactory. The feast which followed was enjoyed for an hour or more. Everything had been provided in abundance, thanks to the hospitality of Capt. and Mrs. Harloe.

BORN.

WHEELER - At Arroyo Grande, Aug. 12, 1899, to the wife of Wells Wheeler, a daughter.

PFLEGING - In this city, Aug. 15, 1899, to the wife of Jacob Pfleging, a son.

McKenzie - At Arroyo Grande, Aug. 11th, 1899, to the wife of A.J. McKenzie, a daughter.

MARRIED.

SMITH - MIKESELL–In this city, at the Commercial hotel, by M. Egan, J.P., Aug. 13, 1899, Mr. Fred H. Smith of Palo Alto and Miss Grace Mikesell of Cambria.

OLOHAN - ELDRIDGE–In Sacramento, August 12, 1899, Mr. Edward Olohan and Miss Missouri Eldridge, both of Arroyo Grande.

HEATH - GREEN–At the home of the bride’s parents near Pozo, August 13, 1899, by Rev. Joseph Shields of Nipomo, Mrs. (sic) Charles Heath of Santa Barbara county and Miss Minnie Green of Pozo. (Compiler’s note: The unfortunate typographical error marries a Mrs. to a Miss. Obviously Charles Heath was Mr. Charles Heath. The typesetter put an "s" where it did not belong.)

EXPERT’S OPINION.

During the baseball game here between the Paso Robles and Sycamore Springs clubs several Sunday’s ago there was a decision which aroused much comment and no little trouble.

The play was as follows: There were three men on bases. Without being forced off first base the base runner left the bag and went down to second, where there was also a base runner, who refused to give up the base. The man on third also held his base. The pitcher threw the ball in home and the umpire declared the man on third out, and also the man on second out, both on a forced run.

The matter was referred to Charles Dryden, the well known baseball editor of the Examiner and his reply states that decision was wrong. Here is what he says:

"San Francisco Aug. 11, 1899.

DEAR SIR: Your query is too long to answer through the paper, as space is valuable. To begin with. The Paso Robles pitcher should have thrown the ball to first base instead of home. There was no force play according to your description of the situation; consequently the men on second and third were not compelled to vacate. As for the man on first he was at liberty to run to second and back again as long as the pitcher held the ball, or made the mistake of throwing it home. If the ball was not hit and the men on second and third stood fast, the mere fact of the man on first touching second did not open that bag to him. First base was his only refuge and he did well to recover it.

Yours truly,

C. DRYDEN.

Saturday the first load of rock for the breakwater under the present contract will arrive at Port Harford from Morro. Capt. Polhemus has his arrangements made to carry the work forward much faster and more satisfactorily to himself than in the past.

BARGAINS FOR HOUSEKEEPERS.

For one week, Mrs. Kuhl will sell, at her residence, corner Board (sic) and Pismo streets, China and glassware and kitchen furniture very cheap. (Compiler’s note: Aside from the fact that "Broad" has been misspelled, the article is interesting in that the event was probably a forerunner of today’s "garage sales," in a time when there were no garages.)

San Miguel school district defeated by a vote of 35 to 22, the proposition to bond the district for $600 to hire an additional teacher for the school, which would make three instructors.

As the citizens of Templeton are so peaceful and law abiding they have dispensed with their Constable, Ben Bierer, and he and his wife are spending a few weeks at the beach.

THE COYOTE BOUNTY.

The supervisors appear to be of the opinion that there is no use in passing a coyote bounty ordinance unless the counties adjoining Kern have a similar law. They think as fast as our own would be killed, the ranks of the pestiferous creatures would be replenished by others from across the lines, and to get rid of the pest Kern would have to kill all the howlers of the adjoining counties. There is something in the idea. To ascertain what these counties think of a proposition for each to pass a coyote bounty law, the clerk has been instructed to communicate with the several boards of supervisors on the subject.–Bakersfield Echo. (Compiler’s note: San Luis Obispo and Kern counties have coterminous boundaries at the eastern border of our county.)

Dr. Norton was called upon yesterday to attend Miss Juanita Aranjo of Paloma who was thrown from a cart on the road a mile east of this city. She sustained a few bruises about the head, but no serious injuries. Mary Aranjo, a sister, who was also thrown out, very luckily sustained no injuries.

Kern county is following Santa Barbara’s example and trying oiled roads. One thing is certain and that is that the roads in San Luis Obispo county will be badly cut up this year after the heavy grain hauling starts in and some scheme should be adopted here to keep them in good condition as possible.

Lucile, a daughter of A.E. Dart, residing on Santa Rosa street, was bitten by a dog Tuesday evening. Dr. Norton attended the wound and the patient will suffer no serious results.

CAYUCOS CELEBRATION.

CAYUCOS, Aug. 15.–Everything looks bright for a big celebration of the anniversary of Swiss independence at this place.

The balloting for the election of two young ladies to represent Helvetia and Columbia respectively, is quite spirited.

Those being voted for to represent Helvetia are the Misses Tonina Paracchini, Ednia (sic) Muscio, Artila Tonini and Jennie Gada.

For Columbia, the Misses Cora Ramonetti, Laura Righetti, Nellie Hardie and Miss Burroughs.

(Compiler’s note: Helvetia is the female representation of the early Celtic people of Western Switzerland. Columbia, after Christopher Columbus, is the female representation of the United States.)

Yesterday morning a horse which was loose on the streets dashed upon the sidewalk in front of Crocker’s store and fell. As it did so it struck a step ladder upon which stood Charles Osgood, who was attending to the electric lights. Charley, ladder, horse and all fell in a heap but no damage or injury resulted.

IMPROVEMENT NOTE.

The spirit of improvement seems to be abroad in San Luis Obispo and those who have been picturing brighter days for the town assert that their dreams are about to be realized.

Of course, the time when the town is to make its big jump is set for the day when the last spike is driven on the "gap," but just now there are many evidences of progress.(Compiler’s note: The "gap" was closed on March 31, 1901.)

Work on the Johnson building is going ahead to the entire satisfaction of the many self appointed bosses who are found daily at their posts on the sidewalk, or leaning against the railing of the Chorro street bridge. (Compiler’s note: This is reference to the brick building on the corner of Chorro and Monterey). The main work at present is the excavating for the basement under the corner building, which will take probably two weeks to complete.

Years ago an immense olive tree stood upon the corner of Chorro and Higuera streets. It was from this tree, planted by the Mission fathers, that the corner was always known as Olive Branch. The historic old olive tree is still to have its memory perpetuated. Over the corner entrance there is to be a plaster of paris panel upon which will appear a dove with an olive branch in its beak.

The front of the Cosmopolitan hotel is to be changed entirely within a few weeks. L.L. Wilson has the job and the old doors and windows are to be removed and each replaced with fine plate glass and casings, with plaster of paris ornaments. The doors to the office and main entrance will be filled with beveled plate glass, which will extend within about sixteen inches of the floor. It will make a very attractive front when finished. The office is to be provided with new fixtures.

The contract for the erection of the Dughi building on Chorro street has been awarded to F.C. Mitchell for a price approximating about $1,400. It will be brick and steel.

Four windows are to be placed in the north wall of the Warden building. The work commenced yesterday.

The moving of the Grutli was got well under way yesterday and it is now well out on Monterey street and travel will be obstructed for a short time. Mr. Forni will have the building placed upon a brick foundation in its new location on the corner of Osos and Higuera streets. There will be a basement.

There are rumors of more new buildings to be erected in the near future.

Judge Egan looked daggers at a small boy yesterday, brought before him on a charge of "swiping" fruit from a yard in town. Judgment was suspended and the urchin is out on his good behavior.

NIPOMO.

...The tax voted on yesterday failed to carry, the vote being 20 to 16...

...Mr. Tilford Dagger takes charge of the deputy ship of the postoffice this morning the 14th as Harry Branch has given up same and moved to F.A. Dana’s place...

...[The election spoken of in the above item was one held Saturday August 12th to vote on the proposition to bond Nipomo school district for $2000 to build an addition to the school house and to furnish the same.–ED.]

FAIR PRIVILEGES.

The Directors of Agricultural Association No. 16, will receive, up to Saturday, Aug. 26, 1899, at 1:30 p.m., sealed proposals for the sale of privileges during the coming fair.

AT THE PARK.

1. Bar privilege.

2. Selling pools.

3. Ice cream and soda, fruits, nuts and candy.

AT THE PAVILION.

1. Ice cream, soda water, candy, etc.

2. Coffee stand and restaurant.

3. Bootblack stand.

The directors reserve the right to reject any and all bids. Bids may be presented for one or all of above named privileges. All bids must be indorsed "Bids for Fair Privileges," and left with M. Egan, secretary.

Provided, no game of chance played with cards, dice, or any device, for money, checks, credit, drinks, cigars, or other representative of value, or for any object whatever, shall be permitted at the Pavilion or at the Park.

MORE THRESHING OUTFITS.

The threshing of the immense grain crop in the county is commencing to give the farmers much concern. They are now of the opinion that many settings of grain will be caught in the early rains and there is a general effort being made to get more machines into the county.

W.G. Long who lives near the race track was in town yesterday and stated that there are fully 12,000 sacks to be threshed in his immediate neighborhood. Up the coast there is a general demand for another machine.

The threshing outfit of Mr. Jones of Paso Robles has been in the grove near the junction of Marsh and Higuera streets since Tuesday. It is tied up, owing to the fact that the engine which is to be used is held in litigation. The trouble may be settled in a few days and there will be one more outfit at work on the coast side, but there is plenty of work for others.

Yesterday a TRIBUNE scribe visited the warehouse of the Pacific Coast railway in this city. Mr. F. Lusardi is in charge and he stated that there are about 7,000 sacks of grain in the building at present and it keeps coming in almost as fast as shipments can be made. In one forenoon 26 wagon loads arrived from the neighboring country. Most of the grain is in the warehouse at present, there being only several small lots which have been stored.

The TRIBUNE sounds the key note of warning to the farmers and hopes to see them all work lively and keep their grain from being caught in the early rains. Rush the work.

A drunk added five dollars to the city treasury yesterday morning. One of the five day men refused to work and was placed on a bread and water diet. Before noon yesterday he had concluded to go to work and enjoy full rations.

August 20, 1899 through August 26, 1899.

BORN.

ANDREWS - Near this city, Aug., 18, 1899, to the wife of George H. Andrews, a son.

STRINGFIELD - At Arroyo Grande, Aug. 14, 1899, to the wife of James Stringfield, a son.

HUGHES - In Paso Robles, August 14, 1899, to the wife of Roland Hughes, a son.

BARNARD - In this city, Aug. 23, 1899, to the wife of D.D. Barnard, a daughter.

OLIVERA - On El Chorro, Aug. 25, 1899, to the wife of John S. Olivera, a son.

SEE’S HORSE WINS THE RACE.

Hats went off yesterday to Jake See in the height of his glory for his horse had won the great Derby stakes. His mare, "Jennie T" threw dust in the eyes of "Perrene," a horse owned by Walter S. Heath of Tulare on the San Luis track and won for her owner the fifty dollars that Heath had deposited as a guarantee that his animal would be the one to glide under the wire first.

This horse race is an evidence of the return of better times for our county. It brings memories of the days when money was plenty "down the line" and the pulse of excitement was throbbing. In dry years and dull times people don’t think of such unnecessary amusement as a horse race. This year the sun shines upon a different class of people.

Yesterday afternoon there was a large crowd at the track to see the sport. G. W. Long officiated as starter and Messrs. P.McHenry and Chester Barneberg as judges.

The event was a three-eighths of a mile running race. L. Jones rode Heath’s mare and Eddie See held to the bare back of See’s. The horses got an even start. "Perrene" led up to the quarter, when "Jennie T" was let out for a dash and came under the wire a winner by almost two lengths. It was a good race and the crowd looked on with much interest. Several ladies from See canyon were in the grand stand and cheered for the horse which came from their locality. Their joy at seeing it win was unbounded. Time .39.

NOTES:

Did you See the winner come in.

The betting favored the loser and quite a little money changed hands.

It means that the races in September are going to be well attended and the sports will all be there.

There was more shouting after the race than occurs after the election of a president.

Sam Carson said it was a square race and there is a possibility that next Saturday there will be another match.

Heath didn’t get any run for his money at all–only three-eighths of a mile.

Al Hazzard’s threshing outfit is at work on Los Osos on Mark Elberg’s place. His oats are turning out 38 sacks to the acre, 800 sacks to a setting.

Early days were recalled yesterday by the appearance of a man sledding wood through the streets.

RECORD OF ACCIDENTS.

Sunday evening, Jake Schiefferly and Engineer G.H. Hunt of the Southern Pacific who accompanied him, were badly burned by a flash of lighted gas. The two had gone to examine the acetylene gas machine in the rear of the Cosmopolitan hotel. Schiefferly was the one who looked after the machine, which supplies light for Stenner’s saloon, where he is employed.

The light being dim Sunday evening he and Mr. Hunt went to investigate into the cause. Hunt was bending down over the apparatus when Schiefferly reached over with a candle to enable him to see, the gas having been shut off.

There was some gas left and it ignited from the candle and flashed up burning Hunt severely about the face and hands. Schiefferly’s left hand was burned. Dr. Norton attended them both. One of the tanks exploded, but the explosion was not due to any fault of the machine.

Manuel Encinas saw the flash and ran to the city hall, intending to turn in an alarm, thinking it might develop into a conflagration.

CLOSE CALL.

Frank Silvia, who farms up on the Biddle ranch, came very near being killed Thursday morning. He was loading loose grain on his wagon when the horse took fright and started to run. He grabbed them by the bits and was swung around directly between the horses and dragged for quite a distance.

His scalp was split open for five or six inches but although bruised in many places he received no greater injury. It was an exceedingly close call and those who picked him up were astonished to find he was not killed. Arroyo Grande Herald.

HARVESTING SWEET PEAS.

L.C. Routzhahn (sic), manager of the McClure Seed Company is harvesting the forty acres of sweet peas near Oceano. There are two hundred varieties and a yield of a thousand pounds to the acre is expected. Burpee, the great seed man of the east, says that sweet peas thrive better on Arroyo Grande soil, than any other place he knows. He will procure his sweet pea seed of Mr. Routzahn (sic) hereafter, instead of having it grown in Europe as has been his custom. The McClure Seed Company has sixty acres of onions in Tar Springs Canyon and thirty acres of lettuce and fifteen of salsify, or oyster plant.

B. Miossi, who represents Pismo school district on the board of control of the Arroyo Grande high school, was in town yesterday and stated that the board will hold an exciting meeting next Saturday when final steps will be taken to close the school. Dan Donovan, who succeeds Dr. Daily as a member of the board from Los Berros district, is opposed to a continuance of the school.

C.N. Barr of Nipomo was in town yesterday. He reports that the sugar beet crop will be much better than was expected. The season was late, but after all the profits on the crop will be good.

Every farmer should attend to his grain crops speedily as possible. Save it from the early rains. Remember this.

PASO ROBLES.

...Fred H. Smith gave his friends a surprise party by getting married one quiet day last week.

THE UNION MARKET.

The Union Market will open for business on Thursday morning, August 17, 1899, with the very best of meats of every description at the very lowest prices.

J.B. BERKEMEYER.

...J.C. Brown will go to San Francisco to see the arrival of the California boys. His son Chris is one of them and will be gladly welcomed home. (Compiler’s note: Chris Brown was a brother To Joe Brown, who was the father to this compiler’s wife, Henrietta Brown Tognazzini. J.C. Brown was her grandfather.)

...Baseball has nearly been forgotten as most of the boys of the teams are working.

Dr. Dial has lost two fox hounds which he valued very highly.

FATAL ACCIDENT.

Yesterday afternoon L.A. Campbell, a machinist employed at the Betteravia sugar factory died from the effects of a broken leg, sustained by being run over by the factory train on the branch line of the Pacific Coast Railway.

Campbell fell beneath the wheels while in the act of coupling and his leg was crushed and broken near the hip. Drs. Lucas and Bagby attended him. Campbell was at once time employed by the Pacific Coast Railway in this city.

DIED.

FLOOD - At Toro creek, San Luis Obispo county, Aug. 22d, 1899, Clarence H. Flood, a native of California, aged 22 years, 8 months and 29 days.

BRUCE - In Paso Robles, Aug. 19, 1899, the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. A.L. Bruce of Shandon.

ADELSDORFER - In this city, August 24, 1899, Mrs. Jaenette (sic) Adelsdorfer, mother of Mrs. B. Constine and Mrs. H. Loobliner, a native of Frankfort (sic), Germany, aged 78 years, 7 months and 5 days.

ATTEMPTED MURDER.

San Luis Obispo came close to recording a murder last evening and it is purely by a fortunate accident that Mrs. Guadalupe Cordova is now alive. About 8:15 last evening Mrs. Cordova was stabbed by her husband with a small butcher knife and frightfully cut about the shoulders and arms.

There has been trouble in the Cordova family for several days. Tuesday Guadalupe Cordova, or "Lupe," as he was familiarly known, had some words with his wife and threatened to kill her. The outcome of it was that she left her home on the corner of Santa Rosa and Mill streets and went to the Tweed residence next door.

Mrs. Cordova feared that her husband would carry out his threats to kill her and yesterday morning she swore out a warrant before Judge Egan and had him arrested on a charge of threatened offense. Guadalupe was released on $250 bonds.

He had left his coat at the Tweed home and about 8 o’clock last evening he knocked at the door and in response to Mrs. Tweed’s question, as to what he wanted, replied that he desired to come in and get h is coat. He entered and called for his wife who was about to retire in an adjoining room. Mrs. Cordova refused to come out of the room, whereupon she was dragged out, and Guadalupe drew from his pocket a small butcher knife with a blade about five or six inches in length and began to stab his wife with it. His intention evidently was to stab her over the heart, but as she had her back to him and was in a corner of the room he was unable to strike on that part of the body, but stabbed her about the shoulders and arms.

All that saved Mrs. Cordova’s life was the breaking of the knife blade. In striking the right shoulder blade, about three inches of the blade of the knife was broken off and dropped to the floor where it was found later by Manuel Herrera and George Brown. After the blade was broken, Cordova made several more slashes at his wife, one of which was on the left side of the neck. Had the knife blade not been broken at that time, the jugular vein would have been severed and death would have resulted almost instantly.

Finding that he could not kill his wife with the broken knife, Cordova rushed out of the door and disappeared in the darkness and Mrs. Cordova, her clothes and body covered with blood, ran to the residence of J.M. Carlon next to the Tweed residence and a messenger was sent to summon a doctor and notify the officers. Marshal Cook and the TRIBUNE scribe, followed by Dr. Norton, were soon on the scene.

Mrs. Cordova was suffering intense pain. Dr. Norton dressed the wounds, the worse of which is a cut over the right shoulder blade ranging downward. There are only two cuts on the right arm, but there are a number on the left arm, two of which reach the bone. A slash was made across the left wrist, which laid the flesh open to the bones. Mrs. Cordova, in endeavoring to protect herself, grabbed the knife blade in her left hand and in this way two of the fingers were almost severed from the hand. None of the wounds will prove fatal and the injured woman has only to fear blood poisoning. She is a sister of Ramon Morillo, a carpenter.

There can be no doubt of the fact that Guadalupe Cordova intended to murder his wife and that the breaking of the knife blade alone prevented such a terrible crime. Marshal Cook and Constable Cook left on the road leading north from the Court school house and others followed on different roads. The Cooks returned about 10:30, having found no clew. Constable Cook left again in the direction of Santa Margarita.

Cordova, as he rushed out of the house, told J.M. Carlon that he had killed his wife. He ran east on Mill street.

Cordova has been in the courts before.

OFF FOR FRISCO.

San Luis Obispo is truly patriotic and yesterday morning a number of our people departed for San Francisco, taking advantage of the excursion rate to visit the metropolis and join the vast throng of humanity that is to extend a glad welcome to California’s returning heroes from the Philippines. This morning a number of others will depart. Those who left yesterday were:

Mr. and Mrs. M.A. Marshall, Mrs. T.A. McCaffrey and son Willie, Chas. St. Clair and Miss Alida St. Clair, E.C. Ivins, D. Muzio, J.F. Harrington, F.J. McHenry, T.J. Bowen, F.C. Mitchell, H. Waite, Lawrence Hourihan, E. Buck, Smith Shaw, James Beck, J.R. Robasciotti, L. H. Booker, Rufus Fowler, Frank Evans, A. Brizzolara, M. Price, J. Brizzolara and W.H. Mark and Gus Thompson who came up from Surf to go.

When the train pulled out of this city the coach and smoker were both filled with people. A number of Arroyo Grande people got on board at Oceano. It was stated that no extra cars could be added to the train until Castroville was reached so the Santa Margarita, Paso Robles, Templeton and San Miguel delegations were given standing room as the only accommodation available.

CORDOVA CAPTURED.

About 4:30 o’clock Thursday morning Guadalupe Cordova was captured on Monterey street in front of Hoff & Robasciotti’s by Officer Munoz. Cordova was coming cautiously up the street when Munoz told him to halt and surrender, which he did.

Cordova, after running away from the house where her endeavored to kill his wife, went into hiding in a certain house in this city. About 4 o’clock he made his appearance on the streets and inquired of B. Herrera, who is the night bar keeper in Gutierrez’s saloon on Morro street, as to the condition of his wife.

That he intended to resist arrest is shown by the fact that he wanted Herrera to loan him a pistol which request was refused. He made no resistance when arrested, but there can be no doubt of the fact that he would have done so, had he been armed.

Guadalupe Cordova claims to have been drunk when he so brutally attacked his wife and he expressed regrets that it had occurred.

Constable Cook traveled to within four miles of Pozo Thursday night expecting that Cordova had gone in that direction in order to reach Bakersfield.

Mrs. Cordova is resting easily and her wounds are giving but little pain.

CAMBRIA.

ED. TRIBUNE: The leading question of the day is "Which will come first, a threshing machine, or the winter rains?"...

...The John L. of Cambria has been on the war path again. Look out, John, for some day you will meet a Jefferies...

CRESTON.

...The Vachell ranch turned off 3892 sacks of wheat, averaging about 145 pounds per sack and 1010 of barley of 108 per sack...

...Some of the young men are beginning to make calculations to go to the beet sugar factory in Santa Maria. John L. Cliff starts tomorrow, and other young men expect to follow soon.

WITH THE CRIMINALS.

IGNACIO HERRERA IS ARRESTED FOR THE HEINOUS CRIME OF RAPE.

For a week or so past Marshal Cook has been working upon a case which yesterday was made public by the arrest of Ignacio Herrera on a charge of rape. The prisoner is no relation to others of the same name in this city.

The victim is a girl named Juanita Arguello, aged between thirteen and fourteen years and her condition is most lamentable. The wretch, Herrera has been intimate with the girl’s mother, and in fact made the Arguello house his home.

Herrera was held yesterday by Judge Egan under $2,000 bonds to appear for trial before the Superior Court. He is almost certain of a trip to the pen.

CLOTHED HIMSELF.

Constable Cook yesterday arrested Frank Hilton, a stranger in town, who had been working for a week for Mr. Frederick of the French hotel, for purloining some clothing from a room in the hotel, which belonged to one of the waiters, John Ghigliotti. Mr. Frederick paid him off Thursday evening, but allowed him to remain at the hotel over night.

Hilton took advantage of this and stole the clothing, a portion of which he was wearing when arrested. He pleaded guilty and was given thirty days in the county jail.

The brick for the Lind section of the Johnson building is being hauled and work will soon commence thereon. Mr. Stephens has commenced erecting the wall on the east side of the corner section in the basement. Mr. Mitchell will shortly commence work on Mrs. Dughi’s building and then it will be a lively corner.

August 27, 1899 through September 2, 1899.

BORN:

BARBER - In Oakland, August 19, 1899, to the wife of J.H. Barber of Paso Robles, a son.

FROST - In Paso Robles, Aug. 26, 1899, to the wife of Frank D. Frost, a son.

GARCIA - Near Santa Margarita, Aug. 30, 1899, to the wife of Jesus Garcia, a daughter.

MARRIED:

PRICE - SIMS – In San Francisco, August 17th, 1899, J. S. Price of Pismo and Miss Lucy M. Sims of Arroyo Grande. (Compiler’s note: Mr. John S. Price was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Price.)

MOON - HOPPER – In this city, August 28, 1899, by Rev. J.C. Eastman, Mr. Albert Moon and Miss Mary Hopper, campers at Sycamore Springs. They will reside in San Luis.

Pozo celebrates the anniversary of Mexican independence Saturday, September 16th and Cayucos observes the anniversary of Switzerland’s natal day, Wednesday, September 20.

The assessed valuation of property in this city is $1,267,091, divided as follows: Real estate $493,425, money and solvent credits $114,730. The Southern Pacific will probably add $23,265 and the Pacific Coast railway $7,000 when passed upon by the state board of equalization. (Compiler’s note: The assessed valuation for 1997-1998 for the city was $2,416,022,000!)

MARSHALL’S BARN BURNED.

Shortly before 12 o’clock Sunday night the fire department was called out by the long continued ringing of the fire bell by Manuel Encinas.

The barn of M.A. Marshall in the rear of his residence on Marsh street was fast being consumed by flames when the department arrived on the scene and there was no chance to save the structure, although the flames were soon extinguished. Probably a ton of hay, all that the barn contained was destroyed.

The cause of the fire is generally attributed to some hobo, who had taken advantage of the hay in the barn for a night’s lodging. Mr. Marshall was at Port Harford, but his family were at home.

The barn was insured for $200 in the London, Liverpool & Globe of which M. Lewin is the agent.

FOUND HE WAS WRONG.

An Individual Who Stirred Up an Argument.

Some weeks since the TELEGRAM dealt editorially with an objection registered by a subscriber against the insertion of patent medicine advertisements in the local newspapers.

It is the custom now days for the long list of self-appointed bosses, who gather along the sidewalk and "superintend" the construction of the Johnson building, to discuss the questions of the day and comment upon any topic which come (sic) to mind. (Compiler’s note: The Johnson building referred to, is at the southwest corner of the intersection of Higuera and Chorro.)

One of these "bosses" who has not missed a day watching the colored gentleman mix mortar gazed at the bill board across the street and remarked upon the vast amount of money spent for advertising and wondered if there really was any profits to be derived from it.

He was followed by a second gentleman of ease, who was firm in his statement that people do not read the patent medicine "ads" in a local paper.

A local scribe happened along at this time and examined the gentleman in question and found out that even he who said that no one reads the "ads" knew all about what they contained.

He knew that Ivory soap floats; that Hood sells one hundred doses for a dollar; that Royal Baking Powder is absolutely pure; that Dr. Pierce at some time or another had made a medical discovery that was golden, and this fund of information came to the man because he had read the newspapers and all the advertisements in them.

The conversation changed and the positive individual admitted that he was wrong.

RECORDER’S OFFICE.

Aug. 26.

...Deed–L. Maxwell to John Tognazzini, $80.97 and the assumption of debt by mortgage. Part of lots 55 & 56 of rho (sic) Corral de Piedra, being in the town of Maxwellton, including saloon and small rooms adjoining, hotel and small building adjoining also other buildings. (Compiler’s note: The abbreviation "rho" is one used in the written language of the Recorder’s Office to indicate "rancho. The name Maxwellton, derived from Mr. Maxwell’s own name, did not seem to take hold. The town became Edna.")

The San Luis Obispo county boys in the First California regiment just returned from the Philippines are Corporal Tony A. Graves of Company M, George Lull of Company K, Percy Bayer of Company I, C.J. Brown of Company L.

FOR CATTLE MEN.

The Quarantine Line Established by Gov. Gage.

For the benefit of cattle raisers and those interested in stock cattle, the TRIBUNE presents the following proclamation issued by Governor Gage establishing a quarantine line for the purpose of preventing the spread of Texas fever among cattle in this state.

"Beginning on the Pacific coast, where the southern boundary line of Marin county connects with the Pacific ocean; thence easterly with the Pacific ocean; thence easterly and northerly along the southern and eastern boundary lines of Marin and Sonoma to the intersection of Sonoma and Solano counties; thence following the western, northern and eastern boundary lines of Solano county to the Sacramento river; then northerly along the eastern boundary line of Yolo county to its intersection with the boundary line of Sutter county; thence easterly along the boundary lines of Sutter and Placer counties to the intersection with the western boundary line of El Dorado county; thence southerly and easterly along the southern boundary line of El Dorado county to the intersection with the western boundary line of Alpine county, thence in a southerly direction along the western boundary lines of Alpine, Mono and Inyo counties to the southwestern boundary of Inyo county; thence east along the southern boundary of Inyo county to its intersection with eastern boundary line of California.

"No cattle are to be moved across this line from the south, or west of this line to the north, or east of it unless they shall have been dipped under the supervision of an inspector of the bureau of animal industry, United States department of agriculture, in such a solution as may be required by the secretary of agriculture, and a certificate of such fact given with a bill of health from such inspector." (Compiler’s note: It is obvious that San Luis Obispo, and other central and southern California counties were not affected by the quarantine. It is important to note that Gov. Gage’s action in establishing quarantine areas and laws governing the movement of cattle from one area of California to the other, may have prevented a serious state-wide outbreak of the Texas fever.)

LAST EVENING’S CIRCUS.

An Individual With a Loud Voice Who Talked an Hour.

A small crowd gathered on the corner of Chorro and Monterey streets last evening and were entertained with an hour’s lecture by "Capt. Biglow." The individual announced that his lecture would deal with Cuba and after commenting upon his assumption that the audience was to (sic) small too (sic) show a fair appreciation of the genius which he possessed, began his harangue. (Compiler’s note: The incorrect use of the words "to" and "too" points out that even the editors one hundred years ago had certain frailties in composing their articles.)

At times he called the crowd to order for interruptions and after dealing with Cuba and the Philippines closed with an appeal for socialism and when the "applause" of the small boy had died away, made a bee line for a steam beer. The rumor that he was sent here to inaugurate Bryan’s campaign for 1900 in this state, is unfounded.

A BOILER EXPLOSION.

About 6 o’clock yesterday morning a messenger came hurriedly to town to summon Dr. Norton to the Ferrasci ranch on the Morro road, a mile south of the Union creamery, where a frightful accident occurred.

The report about town was that the engine connected with the threshing outfit of W.H. Jones of Paso Robles had blown up killing one man and more or less seriously injuring others.

Dr. Norton was followed to the scene by a TRIBUNE scribe.

There had, indeed, been an explosion, and one which under less fortunate conditions, might have proved fatal to a number of men. As it was, only one man was seriously injured and he was the fireman, Harry M. Sargeant of Soledad, Monterey county. At first it was thought that his injuries would prove fatal but after receiving the careful attention of Dr. Norton, he was brought to this city by William Mitchell, one of his fellow laborers and taken to the hospital, from which institution came the glad report last night that he will survive his injuries and ought to be out again in the course of a week or so.

It was about 5 o’clock that the explosion occurred. Everybody was ready to commence the day’s threshing. Without the slightest warning, save that the steam pressure had run up higher than was usually kept, there was a report and both ends of the boiler went flying through the air and the escape of steam was playing havoc with everything in sight.

Sargeant, the fireman who was standing directly in the rear of the engine was blown backward fully fifty-five yards. He was scalded by the escaping steam and bruised about the chest by the rough handling he had.

Roy Brubaker of Shandon, had a narrow escape from instant death. He was sitting on the tongue of the engine and the front of the engine as it went whizzing by clipped the crown from the hat which he wore. Had it gone half an inch lower, Brubaker’s skull would have been crushed. The side of his face was slightly scalded.

J. Rutherford of Shandon, the engineer, was on top of the engine when the explosion occurred. He was thrown backward about fifty feet, but very luckily escaped with only a bruised right arm and shoulder and a few bruises on the right side.

The front of the engine passed between the separator and the derrick and landed about thirty feet beyond.

Harry Gould, the roustabout, was rolled out of his blankets by the force of the escaping steam, though he was fifty feet away.

J.O. Tobey and A. Gomez were thrown down from the derrick wagon and others of the crew were shaken up.

The outfit was threshing for Walters and Gilardi. The engine was usually run at 70 to 80 pounds pressure and it being allowed to run up to 125 pounds was too much for the old engine, which has seen about 20 seasons. It is the old Roselip engine.

Mr. Jones expects to get a new engine and continue threshing.

Mr. Jones threshing crew is made up as follows:

J. Rutherford, engineer, Harry Sargeant, fireman; C.A. Beck, separator tender; A. Gomez, Orrin Tobey, Gilbert Ayer and Frank Morris, hoe downs; Wm. Mitchell and Joe Contrearos (sic), forkers; C. Lilienthal and Jim Jones, fork drivers; H. Garcia, sack tender; Steve Alviso and Tom Gambel, sack sewers; Fred Lilienthal, straw buck, with six other men filling minor positions. (Compiler’s note: The job of threshing grain in the field, which took 20 to 25 men 100 years ago, is now done by one man!)

SEVEN HORSES.

Yesterday horsemen were interested in the appearance in the town of Col. Wallace F. Randolph, agent for the United States government and commissioned to purchase horses for cavalry service in the Philippines.

About thirty or forty horses were examined yesterday and of these, seven were purchased, the price paid for each being $50. Several other horses were deemed eligible, but their owners would not sell at the price offered. The horses purchased will be taken to the city at once.

Col. Randolph returns today.

JAKE SEE’S HORSE, ONCE A WINNER, LOSES IN A FIVE HUNDRED YARD RUN.

An exciting running occurred yesterday at the track. As evidence of the interest manifested, there was a much larger crowd than on a former occasion and there were more ladies in the grand stand. This is a reminder of the fact that the races during fair week are going to make things hum.

The race yesterday was for 500-yards between Jake See’s "Jennie T" and Walter Heath’s "Perrene."

About two weeks since Jennie T came under the wire winner against Perrene in a three-eights of a mile dash, but yesterday the fortunes of war were reversed and Perrene was the victor. The race was for a wager of $50 a side.

There was some difficulty in getting the horses started and they were called back several times. Finally they were off. Perrene led from the start and came under the wire three lengths in the lead of Jennie T. Time .19.

Jake See stated to a TRIBUNE scribe that he is ready to give Heath another race.

RECORDER’S OFFICE.

Deeds–Mrs. Mary L. Lull to Mrs. Mary E. Week, $1,000.00, lot 174x250 feet, on county road leading from Cambria to Beach.[EP

S. Williams to Alice Williams, $5.00, lots 3 and 4, blk 35, Paso Robles.

Mrs. Annie E. Roberts to F.W. Kilshaw (sic), $10.00, lot 1, blk 39 Paso Robles...

NIPOMO

...Cards are out for the wedding of Miss Bertha L. Cook and Rev. Samuel S. Sampson at the home of the young lady’s parents, next Thursday evening, Sept. 7 at 8 p.m. Rev. W.B. Bell of Arroyo Grande will officiate.

We learn that cards our out announcing the wedding of Cramer Williams and Miss Donovan of Dos (sic) Berros.

...Mr. M. Peterson, who is farming the Callender tract, has a new three-horse power thresher and will try and thresh his own grain. The first thing he did was to break the machine and give the San Luis foundry some casting to do...

August 30, 1899. CHEERFUL.

H.M. Moore has secured a contract to construct a new residence for Mr. Blinn on the place just east of the Vachell tract on the Sycamore Springs road. It will be a neat cottage.

The money in the county treasury was counted yesterday by the proper officers. The amount was found to be $66,550.79.

HIS BURNS FATAL.

At 1 o’clock yesterday morning, Harry M. Sargeant of Soledad, who was so frightfully scalded and bruised in the boiler explosion Wednesday, near the Union creamery, breathed his last at the county hospital.

From the start Dr. Norton regarded his chances for recovery as being very poor. The remains were taken to Bowen’s undertaking parlors where Coroner Nichols will hold an inquest today at 10 a.m. The remains will be interred here.

Deceased leaves a wife and one child, aged about two years.

IN CAMBRIA.

Miss Minnie Williams Is Elected as Eureka.

After a spirited contest the matter has been settled as to who shall be the one of Cambria’s fair and beautiful daughters to represent Eureka in the Native Sons Admission Day celebration. The honor was won by Miss Minnie Williams, who polled over 1000 votes, the next highest being 674 for Miss Irene Elston.

Cambria’s celebration which occurs on the 8th is going to be a magnificent affair. Much interest is centered in the baseball game between the Sycamores and the Cambria nine. The Cambria ball tossers have secured new uniforms for the occasion.

The fees of the county clerk’s office for August amount to $192.40 and those of the recorder’s office to $195.75. It has been many months since the fees of the two offices came so nearly being equal.

RAILROAD WORK.

Affairs are livelier than ever in the railroad construction camps and if work keeps up for a while longer as it is going now, the dream of years will be realized, the "gap" will be closed. How often we have heard that said, but now there seems but little chance of work stopping before the coast division is finished.

The last tunnel is finished and the grades with one exception are completed to Jolama creek.

McLaughin (sic) & McKay have finished the last fill and now the track layers are hard at work. It is thought that the track will be laid to Jolama creek by Saturday night.

All the grading camps are now on the Santa Anita and Cojo Ranchos, Carney, Roy & Higbee and McLaughin (sic) & McKay’s camps having moved this week.

Davis & McMasters will begin work on the Jolama bridge as soon as the track is layed to that point and J. McCarthy is at work fencing this side of the Honda creek.

September 3, 1899 through September 9, 1899.

NO ONE BLAMED.

Yesterday forenoon Coroner Nichols inquired into the death of Harry M. Sargent (sic) who died from the result of being scalded in the boiler explosion near the Union creamery last Wednesday.

There were no new facts brought out other than those already detailed in these columns. W.H. Jones, who owns the ill fated engine, testified that it had been tested at 125 pounds cold water pressure and was considered safe at 100 pounds steam pressure. He had cautioned his fireman to keep down to between 80 and 100 pounds. The engine had a safety valve, but no pop valve. Mr. Waite, John Hanna and the engineer, Mr. Rutherford, told much the same story. Dr. Norton testified.

The jury composed of Messrs. Joe Maino, J.J. Simmler, L. Tomasini, A.J. Green, I. Howell and W.A. Hampton brought in a verdict "That the deceased came to his death by the explosion of a steam boiler on Chorro ranch in this county; we further find that it was an accident, which could not be avoided; nor foreseen by any one who was present.

IN THE PROPER LIGHT.

Engineer Rutherford Not to Blame for Wednesday’s Explosion.

Those who are aware of the exact circumstances of the boiler explosion last Wednesday near the Union Creamery on the Ferrasci ranch are a unit in their statements that the Breeze dealt very unjustly and unfairly with the engineer, Mr. J.T. Rutherford, of Shandon. (Compiler’s note: The Breeze was a second San Luis Obispo paper published at the time. The TRIBUNE and the BREEZE seemed to take pleasure in disagreeing with each other.) Both locally and editorially the ability of Mr. Rutherford as a competent engineer is seriously questioned and many of his associates resent in the strongest terms the treatment which he has received, and cite facts to prove the correctness of their assertions that Mr. Rutherford is well known in this county as a thoroughly reliable and trustworthy man in charge of an engine and one who possesses the necessary requirements to give satisfaction.

Misfortune often times comes to every person but the deplorable accident which occurred last Wednesday to an engine in charge of Mr. Rutherford does not signify that it was due to any carelessness or negligence on this (sic) part. On the other hand those who are in a position to know assert in the most positive terms that Mr. Rutherford is in no wise to blame. The engine was old and to that more than anything else may be attributed the cause of the explosion. In fairness and a desire to see proper justice done, this statement is volunteered by the TRIBUNE.

ABALONES.

An Article of Food Now Protected in This County.

Since the board of supervisors passed an ordinance protecting abalones along the coast of this county from the destruction of the Chinese fishermen and seaweed gatherers, that species of shell fish is increasing in numbers on the rocks.

The abalone shell fish was first discovered as an article of food some three hundred years ago by the Japanese along the coast of Japan. It is found on the Pacific Coast from Oregon to South America and abounds especially in the locality of Monterey bay.

There are two species of abalone, the black and the red, which are distinguished by the colors of the shell. The shell consists of two folds. The black shell has dark green color in exterior and pearly colors in interior both sides being comparatively smooth. It is used largely for inlaying and for buttons and other ornaments. The black abalone is inferior for the reason that it is indigestible.

The red abalone has yellowish color in exterior and in interior has pearly color, mixing with grass green color. The shell is much inferior for making ornaments to the black, but the meat is more suitable as an article of food, being white and soft.

The black abalone is seldom found in water more than three or four fathoms deep and at the same time it rarely ever moves from place to place like other shell fish. The red abalone on the contrary seems to move in the bottom of the ocean in thirty fathoms or more of water, but is more frequently found in from ten to fifteen fathoms. It moves comparatively little and generally at night.

The abalone exists entirely upon seaweed or kelp, and is never found in localities where there is no grass, except occasionally on the rocks along the shores. When heavy swells or rapid currents destroy the sea weeds, abalone meets starvation and generally ceases to live. Besides that, devil fish, star fish and several other fishes eat the abalone as their food.

TWO BAD ACCIDENTS.

Al Hazzard was brought into town yesterday with a broken leg which Dr. Nichols set and encased in plaster of Paris.

Mr. Hazzard was moving a log which was in the way of his traction engine and one end swung around striking him and throwing him off his feet with the result that his right leg was broken half way between the knee and ankle.

The fracture is not a bad one and Mr. Hazzard should be around again in a few weeks. The accident occurred on the Los Osos, where Mr. Hazzard’s threshing outfit is now at work.

Last evening on the Cuesta grade, a horse owned by John Word of Cholame and driven by his son ran away. Young word was thrown from the buggy, but escaped without injury. The horse continued its mad flight to the foot of the grade, where it ran into a wire fence. It received several deep and ugly cuts.

AN OLD CITIZEN.

Last Monday, August 28th, John Frederick Langenbeck, the cobbler, was 85 years old. He is still hale and hearty and boasts of never having been sick or drunk. He has worked continuously at his trade for about 70 years. He came to California thirty years ago and has lived in San Miguel about seven years. His wife, five daughters and one son are still living and he claims twenty grandchildren and one great grandchild.–San Miguel Messenger.

MARRIED.

McCORKLE - PIERCE – In Stockton, Aug. 23, 1899, Mr. John McCorkle of Santa Maria and Miss Fannie Pierce, of Arroyo Grande.

WILLIAMS - DONOVAN – At Los Berros, Sept. 4, 1899, by Rev. Father Lynch of Arroyo Grande, Mr. Cramer Williams of Nipomo and Miss Katie Donovan of Los Berros.

LYONS - GAMBERT – Near Arroyo Grande, Sept. 7, 1899, by Rev. Father Lynch of Arroyo Grande, Mr. Jas. F. Lyon and Miss Marie Gambert, both of Arroyo Grande.

GOULD - CLEVELAND – In San Miguel, Sept. 6, 1899, by Rev. S. D. Belt of the Congregational church, Mr. Wm. Gould and Miss Emily Cleveland, both of San Miguel.

DIED.

DIXSON - In Arroyo Grande, Aug. 27, 1899, John W. Dixson, a native of Clinton county, Ohio, aged 74 years, 1 month and 24 days.

BARBA - In this city, Sept. 4, 1899, Mary Beatrice Barba, aged 18 years, 4 months and 17 days.

GRUENHAGEN - At Creston, Sept. 6, 1899, Edward W., eldest son of R.W. and Bertha W. Gruenhagen, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, aged 17 years, 8 months and 11 days.

VEGA - In this city, Sept. 9th, 1899, Eliza M., wife of Maximiano (sic) Vega, a native of Sonora, Cal., aged 45 years.

A LEGAL VOLCANO.

There is war in the Philippines and war in the legal fraternity of San Luis Obispo. The latter rages fiercely and to such an extent that one of the leading members of the bar throws down the gauntlet to the wearer of the ermine, as deliberately and unconcernedly as though he were merely bringing a point at law before his honor for consideration. It is not alone a matter of legal controversy but it involves questions of local politics which will probably be increased in interest until the next election for Superior Judge in this county.

At 9:30 today the case of Pedro Quintana vs. E. Graves et al will be called for trial before Judge Unangst. E. Graves, the counsel for the defense, desires that the case be transferred, or another Judge be called to this county to try it. It is this desire which led him yesterday to file a sensational affidavit with the county clerk charging Judge Unangst with being prejudiced against him and making other accusations of a serious nature. The affidavit also makes serious objection to advantages which the defendant’s counsel alleges are accorded to McD. R. Venable, the attorney for plaintiff Quintana, in trials before the Superior Court of this county.

The following quotations from the affidavit on file will be read with interest:

"The defendants in said case cannot have a fair and impartial trial before the Hon. E.P. Unangst, the Judge of the Superior Court of San Luis Obispo county, about to try said case, by reason of the prejudice and bias of said judge. That affiant is a Democrat in politics and generally votes the Democratic ticket, with the exception of the offices of Supreme Justices and Judges of the Superior Court, and for said last offices he votes, and always will vote, for the persons whom he may think best qualified to fill said positions; that at the general election of 1896, affiant saw fit, not to vote for the Hon. E.P. Unangst, Judge of said Court, but voted for William Shipsey, a Republican in politics; and affiant is informed and he verily believes, and on information and belief alleges, that by reason of affiant voting against the said Hon. E.P. Unangst, at said election, said Unangst has become greatly prejudiced against affiant and against defendants; that immediately after the said election of 1896, the said E.P. Unangst remarked that he would get even with affiant and his co-defendants for not voting for him for Judge of said Superior Court."

The affidavit then cites a number of cases which were tried before the Superior Court in which E. Graves appeared as counsel for one side or the other and alleges that in each case Judge Unangst acted with prejudice and bias to the detriment of the side for which Mr. Graves was counsel.

After citing nine of these cases the affidavit continues as follows:

"Affiant is informed, and on information and belief alleges, that the Hon. E. P. Unangst is greatly biased in favor of McD. R. Venable, one of the attorneys for the plaintiff in this case; that the said McD. R. Venable is an active practitioner before said Superior Court, and that in all cases tried by said McD.R. Venable before said E.P. Unangst, he is always biased in favor of said McD. R. Venable; affiant is also informed that said McD. R. Venable has not yet lost a case tried by him before said E.P. Unangst, and that said E.P. Unangst frequently consults and advises with said McD. R. Venable, with reference to cases being tried before him * * * (sic) that the Judge of said Court would in every case in which said McD. R. Venable was attorney, decide said case for him."

There is much speculation among members of the bar, as to what will be the outcome of this matter in court this morning. Many allege that the affidavit is a matter of contempt and speculation is rife as to what will be the action to be taken by Judge Unangst.

THE NEW LIBRARIAN.

The board of trustees of the public library met yesterday afternoon in regular session. Present, Mesdames Armstrong, Reed, Venable, Sinsheimer and Greenfield.

The resignation of Miss Alice Hays as librarian was accepted and the board proceeded to elect her successor from a long list of applicants. Mrs. Frances Milne was duly elected. Mrs. Milne is well known in this city and to the literary world at large, being a writer of ability. Many have read with pleasure and profit her delightful poems.

The following books were received, The Eagles’ Nest, Men and Books, Through Armenia on Horseback, Countess Rudolstadt, Richard Carvel, Among the Tibetans.

It was decided that the library should be kept open from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

SUPERIOR COURT.

CIVIL.

Biaggini & Storni vs Juan Hernandez (sic) et ux. Complaint filed to quiet title and for $200.00 damages. Venable & Goodchild attys for plff.

THE JEWISH NEW YEAR.

With sundown last evening (September 5) closed the observance in this city of the religious festival of Rosh Hoshana held in connection with the beginning of the Jewish New Year, which marks the commencement of the 5660th period of the Jewish mundane era. On Thursday evening of next week, however, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar begins. It is known as the festival of Yom Kippur, or Day of Atonement, and continues until sundown of the day following. The days intervening until Yom Kipper, are known in the Hebraic faith as "penitential days," which are devoted to praying and visiting the graves of deceased relatives. During these days the "sophar" or "Ram’s Horn" is sounded in all synagogues the wide world over.

Fasting marks the twenty-four hours of Yom Kippur. It is the custom for members of the Faith to abstain from eating, drinking or following any business vocations. As the mention of the Lord’s name at the services on this day, as it was pronounced in the temple at Jerusalem by the high priest, all persons in attendance prostrate themselves. This is the only occasion and the only day when the Hebrew worshiper kneels during services.

ADJUDGED IN CONTEMPT.

Yesterday when the Superior court convened at 9:30 a.m., the case of E. Graves et al vs Pedro Quintana was to have been placed on trial, but the case was lost sight of in the interest manifested by a considerable array of attorneys and spectators, as to what would be the action of Judge Unangst in reference to the affidavit filed Tuesday by Attorney E. Graves and making sweeping charges reflecting upon the court. (Compiler’s note: See previous article A LEGAL VOLCANO.)

Attorney Graves for the defendant, he who had thrown the bar into a state of feverish excitement, occupied a chair at the table reserved for counsel, his outward appearance little indicating the turmoil he had instituted and there being no indications shown by his demeanor to lead a stranger to think that he would calmly "rip the shingles from the judicial roof" with an eight page affidavit without, what he considered were good reasons so to do.

Attorney McD. R. Venable appeared for the plaintiff, Mr. Quintana.

"Is the case ready for trial?" inquired his honor.

There was a long silence. Then came the intimation that there was an affidavit on file bearing upon the case and being the basis of a motion to have a judge, other than Judge Unangst, selected to try the case, on the grounds that said Unangst was biased and prejudiced against Attorney Graves and was controlled in his actions by the dictations of Attorney Venable, counsel for the plaintiff. Judge Unangst refused to consider this affidavit until it had been read in open court.

Attorney Graves was suffering with a severe cold, which made it difficult for him to speak and Judge Unangst suggested that some other person be named to read it.

Mr. Graves retorted: "I don’t want any one fined for contempt of court for reading it." It fell to the lot of deputy clerk Mallagh to read this important document. When this was over Attorney Venable stated that the plaintiff was willing to have another judge called to try the case, or have it transferred to some other county.

Judge Unangst stated that there were other matters connected with the affidavit to be considered and as he did not wish to act hastily he laid the whole matter over until 1:30.

In the afternoon there was a fair sized crowd in attendance. Any one would have risked a fortune on the fact that Judge Unangst was going to lay it on heavy and impose a good fine upon Attorney Graves for contempt of court. His face rarely beaming with a smile, wore a darker cloud than usual.

When he called court, his honor read the troublesome affidavit and then declared that it contained statements which were maliciously false and were in contempt of court. He closed by ordering that Attorney Graves pay forthwith a fine of $400, or failing to do so, that he be imprisoned in the county jail for one day for each $20 of said fine, not to exceed 20 days.

By consent of counsel the case of Graves vs. Quintana was then set for Wednesday, September 13.

Later Mr. Graves appeared in the judge’s chambers represented by Attorney Shipsey and was granted a stay of execution until Thursday at 1:30 p.m.

It is understood that Mr. Graves will take an appeal.

For the same offense for which Mr. Graves was fined $400, Attorney Swinnerton was fined $20 by Judge Unangst.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

...in re deceased soldiers, it was ordered that J.D. Fowler be designated as the person whose duty it shall be to cause to be decently interred the body of any honorably discharged soldier, sailor or marine, who may hereafter die, without having sufficient means to defray funeral expenses in accordance with an act of the legislature authorizing such expenditure. The expenses of each burial shall not exceed $50...

...The County Superintendent of Schools reported in writing that the total amount of county school funds required for the ensuing year is $30,936...

...A communication was received from the Board of Supervisors of Kern county requesting that this county join in a move to offer a bounty on coyote scalps. The board decided not to join the ‘coyote county’ in this request. Kern can offer the bounty and this county can furnish the scalps.

G. Leff made a kick to the board in a communication alleging that he had in previous years been allowed to grow lettuce and onions at the hospital, but this year he had not and consequently the table was deprived of these articles of food.

(Compiler’s note: Bounties were then ordered paid on 3,928 squirrel tails by 20 county residents, listed by name.)...

PASO ROBLES FAIR.

Much enthusiasm prevails among exhibitors and Secretary Brendlin is kept quite busy these days sending out letters and registering applicants.

The proposition to build a fountain and music stand in the center of the building is being considered and will meet with consideration of the committee meeting today. This will be a most attractive feature if carried out according to design. The flower and plant exhibit will be arranged so as to surround the music stand and fountain and make an attractive central ornament to the hall.

The Fuhrer orchestra is attracting attention of music lovers and will make the afternoons and evenings pleasant with their excellent music.

Secretary Brendlin has found it necessary to appoint his assistant already and has selected W.S. Lewis who served with efficiency at the last fair, and Miss Emma Brendlin who will also be a valuable aid to the secretary in chief.–Paso Robles Record.

It is too bad, said a citizen yesterday that that good old ordinance "No expectoration on the sidewalks" is a back number. There was a time when we were proud of our walks, but just now they need several buckets of water or a good rain.

A lineman of the Western Union Telegraph Company arrived on last evening’s train and goes to Cambria today to put in an office for the company at that place.

GRAVES’ COMMITMENT.

The commitment papers in the case of Lawyer Graves for contempt of court, were completed last evening by County Clerk Whicher and placed in the hands of Sheriff Ivens (sic) for service. The papers were not served last night as it is understood that Graves had been granted a stay of execution for 34 hours which would extend the time to this morning.

Yesterday morning Louis Lamy left on the train for San Francisco, armed with papers to file with the Supreme Court for a habeas corpus in behalf of the defendant. It was common talk around town last night that Graves had also gone to the city, it being reported that he had driven from this city to Santa Margarita where he caught the train. (Compiler’s note: Although Mr. Graves may have had some other reason to go to Santa Margarita to catch the train, it appears that he did that to avoid being seen boarding the train in San Luis Obispo.)

THAT DANGEROUS CROSSING.

Another Narrow Escape From Death Near Boronda’s.

ED. TRIBUNE: Hopeless as it may be to do so, I want to add one more to the many protests which have been made at the utter disregard for the lives of travelers manifested by the Southern Pacific railway at their crossing of the highway at the Eight Mile house north of Boronda’s. Yesterday driving by that point with my grandchild, we barely escaped with our lives. The train flashed by just missing us. Fortunately we were in a cart which the horse in backing failed to upset. Had we been in a buggy we could not have escaped injury. We had no warning and heard no whistle and do not believe that the whistle was blown at all. It is an outrage that the county road is made to cross the track at all. It would not be a matter of much expense to build the road on the east side of the canyon, and whatever the cost, human lives are of far more importance than any amount of money. RANCHERO. (Compiler’s note: A serious accident causing the death of Stella Hansen and maiming her sister, Lizzie, occurred at this crossing in June of 1897. Interested readers will find the story of that tragedy in ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, 1897, pages 56, 57, 59 and 60. Details on the suit which followed this accident can be found in the same volume.)

The track is laid to the Jolama creek and the hard work on the gap has commenced.

THE RAILROAD.

Lompoc begins to realize what it means to have the terminus of the Southern Pacific in the town. Business was never better. The hotels were never more prosperous, and the daily stir and hustle generally, point to a prosperous future. It will require some energy on the part of our people to keep pace with the new order of things. As in other parts where these changes have come, population will be changed, new industries will be started and prices of lands go up.

From present indications there will be many more thousands of acres farmed in this end of Santa Barbara county next year than ever before. The better facilities for marketing and fair prices conduce to this result.–Lompoc Record.

The monument to C.E. Ash will be unveiled at Odd Fellows cemetery on Sunday afternoon with appropriate service. (Sunday, September 10, 1899).

Word was received last night from Attorney Ernest Graves stating that he was in San Francisco and that the application made in his behalf by Louis Lamy before the Supreme court of the state had been successful, and a stay of proceedings had been granted in the enforcement of the sentence imposed by Judge Unangst for contempt of court...

A marriage license has been issued to John Nicholas Miller of Los Alamos and Miss Grace Munger of Arroyo Grande.

THE CONTEMPT MATTER.

The following telegram was received at the TRIBUNE office yesterday afternoon:

"Supreme court in bank unhesitatingly grant writ of certiorari (sic) in contempt matter. Stayed all proceedings. No trouble to get away with despotism."

ERNEST GRAVES.

The telegram signifies that the Supreme court will review the entire proceedings in the contempt matter. Before leaving this city Mr. Graves asserted that should he gain his point he would easily knock out the fine of $400 against him for contempt of court and cited authorities to prove his assertions. The fact that no counter affidavits were filed to Mr. Graves affidavit, for which he was adjudged in contempt, is an error upon which Mr. Graves will no doubt hope to win.

DEATH OF MRS VERGA. (sic)

At 9:30 yesterday morning, Mrs. Eliza M. Verga (sic) was found dead at her home on Mill street in this city. An hour previous Mr. Vega (sic) had gone down town and upon his return discovered his wife lying upon the floor dead. Mrs. Vega was subject to fits and was probably seized by one. Coroner Nichols held an inquest over the remains and a jury composed of D. Thaler, foreman; L.B. Kendall, J.A. Cheda, Chris Anholm, R.F. Fruits and George Anholm returned a verdict that death resulted from natural causes. Deceased was a native of Sonora, California, aged 45 years.

BORN.

MATHISON - In this city, Sept. 8, 1899, to the wife of H.P. Mathieson, a son.

WAITE - In this city, Sept. 8, 1899, to the wife of A.W. Waite, a son.

September 10, 1899 through September 16, 1899.

THE FIRST SHOWING.

Yesterday the first carload of beets grown in this county went south over the Pacific Coast railway to the beet factory in Betteravia. They were grown by Mr. William Sandercock on land near the Vachell’s. Special cars have to be made for this business so arranged with convenient gates so as to allow of speedy unloading. The beets are apparently the best kind, of standard size and rich in saccharine matter.

THE NEW STATE TAX.

County Clerk, Whicher has prepared a rate of tax levy for the action of the Supervisors at their next meeting which is doubtless approximately that which will be adopted. It provides 32 cents on the hundred dollars for the school fund, 63 cents for hospital, salary, interest, sinking and general funds and say 27 cents for road fund, making for county purposes $1.22. The state levy being 60.1 cents makes a total rate of about $1.82 as against $1.65 last year. This increase results from a slight diminution in the total assessment roll and an increase in the state levy from 48.8 last year to 60.1 this year. Special provision had to be made this year for some of the bonded indebtedness of the county which is being rapidly paid off. After this year the county will be in debt only about $70,000.

C.F. Bondshu is on bail to appear before Justice Egan Monday on the charge of having threatened to beat his wife.

RED HOT DAY.

The ice man was the happiest individual in town yesterday and his stock of condensed coolness was given out all day as an antidote for the heat which Old Sol presented from on high. The only way to wear a collar and keep from wilting down was to put it in a refrigerator. The thermometer ran up to 99 degress, the highest for any day during the season. The lowest, which was early this morning, was 52 degrees. The summer has been a comparatively cool one and probably now the warm weather is to prevail as autumn is at hand.

BORN.

MATHISON (sic) - In this city, Sept. 8, 1899, to the wife of H.P. Mathieson (sic), a son.

WAITE - In this city, Sept. 8, 1899, to the wife of A.W. Waite, a son.

McLENNAN - In Paso Robles, Sept. 8, 1899, to the wife of J.R. McLennan, M.D., a son.

EMMERT - In this city, Sept. 13, 1899, to the wife of J.M. Emmert, a daughter.

MARRIED.

WILLIAMS - DONOVAN–At Los Berros, Sept. 4, 1899, by Rev. Father Lynch of Arroyo Grande, Mr. Cramer Williams of Nipomo and Miss Katie Donovan of Los Berros.

LYONS - GAMBERT–Near Arroyo Grande, Sept. 7, 1899, by Rev. Father Lynch of Arroyo Grande, Mr. Jas. F. Lyon and Miss Marie Gambert, both of Arroyo Grande.

GOULD - CLEVELAND–In San Miguel, Sept. 6, 1899, by Rev. S.D. Belt of the Congregational

church, Mr. Wm. Gould and Miss Emily Cleveland, both of San Miguel.

MILLER - MUNGER–At Arroyo Grande, Sept. 10, 1999 (sic) Mr. John N. Miller of Los Alamos and Miss Grace Munger of Arroyo Grande. (Compiler’s note: The readers attention is drawn to the typographical error in this vital statistic.)

PEZZONI - ALBERTI–In this city, Sept. 11, 1899, by Hon. E.P. Unangst, Mr. Patrilo Pezzoni of Guadalupe and Miss Anastasia Alberti of Oso Flaco.

SAMPSON - COOK–At Nipomo, Sept. 7, 1899, by Rev. W.B. Bell, Rev. Samuel S. Sampson of Santa Maria, and Miss Bertha L. Cook of Nipomo.

MATTOCKS - DOANE–At the residence of Rev. J.C. Eastman, D.D., on the corner of Nipomo and Buchon streets, San Luis Obispo, on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 1899, Walter A. Mattocks was married to Miss Mary G. Doane. Both the parties were from the vicinity of Santa Maria.

DIED.

VEGA - In this city, Sept. 9th, 1899, Eliza M., wife of Maximiano Vega, a native of Sonora, Cal., aged 45 years.

FELIZ - At Morro creek, San Luis Obispo county, Cal., Sept. 12th, 1899, John Feliz, son of the late Ramon and Delfrida Feliz, a native of San Luis Obispo Co., Cal., aged 25 years 2 months and 17 days.

Interment will take place at 10:30 a.m., this day, Thursday, Sept. 14th, at the family homestead, Morro creek.

FUNERAL OF JOHN FELIZ.

Sorrowing relatives and friends conducted the last solemn services over the remains of John Feliz yesterday morning at his late residence about four miles El Morro (sic). The funeral cortege walked from the house to the knoll of the hill where all that was mortal of the beloved young man, was interred.

ATTORNEY GRAVES HOME.

Attorney Graves and Louis Lamy having returned to this city, interest again centers in the contempt proceedings against Mr. Graves, who comes armed with a writ of certiorari granted by the Supreme court of the state, staying all proceedings against him. (Compiler’s note: A writ of certiorari is a writ of a superior court to call up the records of an inferior court or a body acting in quasi-judicial capacity.)

...Judge Unangst has twenty days in which to make a showing before the Supreme court.

When asked for an interview yesterday, Mr. Graves gave out the following statement to the local press:

"I don’t desire to discuss a case that is pending in the Supreme court. The Supreme court has already said that it manifestly appears that Judge Unangst has exercised judicial functions in excess of his jurisdiction, and that is the end of the matter with me. Judge Unangst is now a defendant before the Supreme court. I hope that he will make an able defense of his conduct, with some degree of respectability, and with still a greater degree of personality."

George A. Knapp has been awarded the privilege of selling pools at the track during the races. He bid $58.35 for the privilege...(Compiler’s note: The item refers to the horse racing track. Horse racing was a popular sport in San Luis Obispo one hundred years ago.)

SUPERIOR COURT.

Sept. 11.

Charlotte Frost vs John M. Frost. Cause tried and submitted and decree of divorce granted. Alimony fixed at $10.00 per month. $25.00 atty fee and plff waiving all costs.

Bernarbe Matienzo vs Felicita de Matienzo. Cause tried and submitted and decree of divorce granted.

Angelini Hackney vs Edward Asebez. Complaint filed to recover $1,000 damages for breach of promise of marriage. E. Green, atty for plff.

ELECTION TODAY.

San Luis Obispo citizens will vote today for the third time upon the proposition to bond the city for a water system and at the same time for an extension of the sewer system. No one has any doubt as to the result of the election and as the proceedings leading up to the calling of the election seem to be legal and regular in every way there are hopes that this time, after all the years of litigation that the bonds will ultimately be sold and the municipal improvements contemplated be commenced. (Sept. 12, 1899)

Probably no city in California has had so much trouble over bond elections as San Luis Obispo. The city seems to have been a "studio of experiment" for municipal law, as almost every phase of it relating to bonded indebtedness has been passed upon in connection with cases involving issuance of bonds here.

The troubles began in September, 1895, when water bonds were voted but were declared void by the Supreme court on an opinion written by Commissioner Chipman to the effect that the voting was not in accordance with the law stating that the "yes" or "no" should be written or printed by the voter, instead of his placing an "X" after either of the words as was done... (Compiler’s note: Details on the passing of the water and sewer bond election held in 1895 can be found in the companion book to this series, ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, 1895, page 94. The invalidation of that election took place two years later and can be found in ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, 1897, pages 50 and 51. The election on September 12, 1899 was to override the invalidation by strictly following the election laws).

 WOODMEN REMEMBER A BROTHER.

Sunday, Eucalyptus camp, Woodmen of the World, unveiled a monument erected in memory of a departed brother, C.E. Ash and his deceased wife. J.W. Cook, as the executive officer of the camp conducted the impressive services. A choir composed of Mrs. A.J. Monihon, Mrs. Throop and Messrs. F.J. Rodriguez and H.J. McIntire rendered appropriate music and Hon. Chas. A. Barlow read a poem. An eloquent address was delivered by State Organizer W.L. Temple. (Compiler’s note: While other organizations refer to their various organizations as lodges, circles, groves, etc. the Woodmen referred to their groups by tree names, therefore the Eucalyptus camp was the San Luis Obispo group. C.E. Ash died in December, 1897. His wife, Doris, died in August of 1898. Both died of apoplexy (stroke). Their deaths are covered in the companion volumes to ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, 1897 and 1898.)

The hydrants about town are all being painted and numbered. All hydrants south of Higuera will bear the odd numbers and those north of that thoroughfare, the even numbers. This is a plan proposed by Councilman Pinho and is a good one.

CASE OF INCENDARISM. (sic)

At 3:15 this morning an alarm of fire was turned in by Officer Johnson, who discovered the rear of the Cosmopolitan hotel blazing. After the fire boys arrived they made short work of the flames and a fire that might have left another business block of our city in ashes, was quickly ended.

It was a clear case of incendarism (sic). The fire was started in the interior in the southwest corner of the west wing.

The loss is light, not more than twenty dollars and is covered by insurance.

The officers may have a clew. Officer Johnson heard some one run away.

THE BONDS CARRY.

San Luis Obispo voted yesterday for the third time on the proposition to bond the city for municipal improvement and the majority this time in favor of the bonded indebtedness was much larger than on the two previous occasions.

The vote was light. There was no indication of any opposition to the two propositions presented to the people for their consideration and the few who cast votes in the negative, while they deemed their judgment good no doubt, must feel in the face of the returns, that they are an adverse factor in determining what is good for the city...

...The total votes cast was 222. Six votes were not counted, leaving 216 figuring in the result.

For $80,000 to establish a water system, the vote was 198 votes for, to 19 votes against, a majority of 179 in favor of the bonds.

For $36,000 to extend the present sewer system, the vote was 191 for to 23 against, a majority of 168 in favor of the bonds...

In precinct No. 1 four ballots were not counted. Two were thrown out. One was marked on the back of the ballot and the other was voted in Spanish in favor of the bonds, the word "Si" appearing for what should have been "Yes." This could not be counted.

In precinct No. 2, two ballots were thrown out on irregularities...

SATURDAY’S RACE.

Yesterday, Jake See and Walter Heath agreed upon the conditions for a race at the race track, Saturday, between "Jennie "T" and "Perrine," the two animals which have each won a race. Honors are now even and Saturday they go for three eighths of a mile for a purse of $50 a side. The money has been deposited with W.M. Duff. Mr. See has choice of the side of the track to keep the same during the entire race. The horses start at 2 p.m.

NOTABLE WEDDING AT NIPOMO.

(Compiler’s note: The article covering the wedding between Rev. S.S. Sampson and Miss Bertha L. Cook of Nipomo is too lengthy to include herein but readers might be interested in searching it out the article in the San Luis Obispo Tribune for Wednesday morning, September 13, 1899 because not only are the guests listed, but all gifts presented to the bride and groom, as well, an exceptionally interesting list.).

RESUMED PRACTICE.

Mr. Paul M. Gregg has taken offices in the Call building and resumed the practice of the law.

Mr. Gregg is well known as the son of the late Judge Gregg, is a graduate of Stanford university and an able and industrious member of his profession and will doubtless achieve the success to which his unquestioned ability entitles him.

WAR AT ARROYO GRANDE.

There are a number of citizens who are anxious on one ground or another that the educational facilities of the Arroyo Grande region should embrace a high school. There are numerous others there who are equally determined that there shall be no such institution. It is a contest of long standing which has been conducted with much bitterness. It is popularly believed that it is chiefly due to this intestinal (sic) trouble that our late County Superintendent of Schools, Mr. Messer, failed of a renomination at the hands of the Republican party. There had been an election for a Board of Control which had resulted in the selection of gentlemen who were opposed to the continuance of the High school and when they got the reins in their hands, they directed matters according to their best convictions. It was their privilege and duty to fix the compensation of the teachers to be employed and they did so. They named salaries so low that teachers properly qualified would not accept them and then the school had to stop. But Mr. Messer took the view that the law required him to overrule the action of the board and he did so. He fixed a different schedule of salaries and the Supervisors sustained him, and the school went on. It was assumed that at the next election the voters would straighten out the mess and dissolve the school. But they did not but simply elected a new board of control which simply repeated the act of their predecessors fixing an absurdly low schedule of salaries with the exception that no teachers could be found to accept them. As we are advised, the advocates of the school proposed at first to raise enough by voluntary contribution to satisfy the teachers. How that worked, we are not informed but the latest developments would seem to indicate a lack of success. We learn that Mr. O.M. Pence, a prominent attorney of Arroyo Grande has appealed the Superior. He has filed what in this instance is known as an "accusation" on behalf of one Music, representing a citizens’ committee, against W.B. Buck and his coadjutors on the Board of Control of the Arroyo Grande High school, setting forth that the defendants, as such Board, had failed to fulfill their duties which they were elected to perform in that they had failed to adequately provide for the continuance and support of the school but on the contrary had taken measures intended to injure and destroy it. And upon the filing of the accusation, Mr. Pence yesterday obtained and order requiring the defendants to appear before the court on the 20th of September and show cause why they should not be punished for their failure to carry out their duties, which punishment, it appears, consists of forfeiture of office and a fine upon each defendant of $500.00. Probably there will be Music in the air.

Yesterday a TRIBUNE representative visited the two railroad depots in this city and found that a chief article of traffic now is grain.

At the Pacific Coast railway depot some three or four thousand sacks were piled upon the platform while there were fully 35,000 sacks in the big warehouse...

...At the Southern Pacific yards, the Milling company of that name has 25,000 sacks stored in its warehouse and was engaged in loading cars...

POZO’S CELEBRATION.

Mr. A. Lazcano of Pozo in a letter has the following to say in reference to the grand celebration of the anniversary of Mexican independence to be held there next Saturday, the 16th.

"We expect to have a grand celebration. A great Ramada, or brush house is under construction at the school lot close to town. J.M. Blanco brought a load of lumber from San Luis for the tables and three young beeves have been secured for the barbecue and there will be salsa and tortillas–everything free.

"Lots of giant powder has been ordered. (Compiler’s note: Giant powder is a form of dynamite. Its use is uncertain but it is assumed that it may have been used to create entertainment in much the same way that pyrotechnics are used today.) The day’s program includes a barbecue and picnic, literary exercises, horse races and other amusements and dancing in the evening for which two halls have been secured to accommodate the crowd."

It is stated by a Paso Robles officer that two notorious women of that place, held to appear for trial on charges of vagrancy, jumped their bonds and left for the north on the train from Bradley to which place they had driven during the night previous.

CRESTON.

IT’S SORROW OVER THE DEATH OF EDDIE GRUENHAGEN.

ED. TRIBUNE: On the 6th inst. this community was startled by the announcement of the decease of Eddie Gruenhagen. He had been sick many a day battling with a burning fever, which burned out the vital spark. In the death of Eddie this community lost a sterling young man, possessed of a noble principle of right, morally, socially and religiously; and in the words of the Psalmists, "he walked not in the ways of the ungodly." While many of his former schoolmates and companions were idling their time away at the saloon and the card table, Eddie held a nobler and better idea of life, and occupied his time in storing his mind with things that were beneficial and not of a debasing nature. We sympathize with the parents and relatives in their bereavement, over the loss of Eddie...(Compiler’s note: The article ends with a religious analysis of whether Eddie is truly dead or not.)

NEW INDUSTRY.

Mr. Geo. Griffith has leased the asphalt mines on the Tar Springs ranch and will commence taking out the raw material immediately. He was in town yesterday and paid a visit to the mine and made all arrangements for commencing operation. He is engaged in the wood and coal business at San Jose and has "dropped" on a unique industry that promises to be very profitable. He takes coal dust, crude oil and asphaltum and the refuse trimmings from trees and by combining them together and compressing them makes a fuel that is superior to either coal or wood. He left orders yesterday for a car load of asphalt to be shipped to him just as soon as it could be mined and shipments will commence early next week.–Arroyo Grande Herald.

S.M. Findley, ex-Tax Collector and embezzler of county funds still remains a prisoner in the county jail, getting fat and apparently enjoying himself on the expense of the county. It is neither justice to Findley nor the people that the trial should be put off so long.–Paso Robles Leader.

R. Pedraitta’s (sic) house at the quicksilver mine, on the Rinconada road was burned to the ground Thursday night. A cat in the house tipped a lamp over. The house was a total loss; insured for $350.

The effects of R.R. Werner, who fell dead at Port Harford recently, were sold at the County Court House yesterday by County Treasurer Kelshaw for $3.20.

One of the "soiled doves" from the "Klondike," who rejoices in the nom de guerre of Big Lena, is in the caboose awaiting trial on the charge of vagrancy.

September 17, 1899 through September 23, 1899.

Cards are announcing on the 20th, at the residence of the bride’s parents in Arroyo Grande, the marriage of Mr. Will Bauman to Miss Ella May Goodrich.

WILL WED ON WEDNESDAY.

The wedding of Miss Hettie (sic) Huyck of this city and J.T. Capito of Los Angeles, will be held next Wednesday morning at 7 o’clock in the Congregational church. The ceremony will be performed by Rev. Mr. Willett.

THE EARTH TREMBLES.

This city was shaken up by an earthquake early last evening (Sept. 17). The shock was felt perceptibly about half past 7 o’clock. The TRIBUNE building was shaken violently as were other buildings, including the telephone office in particular. The shock lasted about five seconds. Paso Robles also felt a tremblor (sic) about the same time, but nothing was felt or heard of the quake at San Miguel or Salinas. Weather Observer Williams did not know anything about it and he was skeptical when told of the occurrence. "The indicator in my office gives no signs of an earthquake, or unusual disturbance," said he. "There were no signs all day do indicate the probability of an earthquake. Besides, this is not earthquake weather." No damage was done as far as could be learned.

REPRESENT HELVETIA AND COLUMBIA.

The voting for the selection of the young ladies to represent Helvetia and Columbia at the Swiss celebration at Cayucos ended on Sunday afternoon at the store of DeGottardi & Righetti. The voting was animated and a lively interest was taken by the friends and admirers of the young ladies.

The vote resulted as follows: For Helvetia, Edna Muscio, 2229; Giovanina Gada, 1190; Tognina Parachini, 808, and Artila Righetti, 71; for Columbia, Cora Ramonetti, 768; Nellie Hardy (sic), 68, and Flora Muscio, 36...

A tug-of-war contest has been arranged for in addition to the already elaborate program of field sports and athletic entertainment. Fun and excitement is promised in this game of skill and strength.

The contest will be between the single and married men and each side is determined to win. Miles Sanders represents the married men in the arrangements being made, while the interest of the single men are being looked after by D.E. Righetti...

A number of young people came up from Arroyo Grande yesterday to attend the high school in this city. Those who are here now are Misses Georgia Phoenix, Mary Keown, Celine Musick, Chas. Phoenix and Geo. Clevenger. (Compiler’s note: Readers who have followed the story of the Arroyo Grande High School problems, will know that because of local friction, the high school in Arroyo Grande has been threatened with closure.)

ACCIDENT.

Last evening, Johnnie, the little son of Host (sic) Fitzpatrick of the Laughrey house was run over by a wagon, on the corner of Morro and Higuera streets and has his left shoulder dislocated, left collar bone broken and received a deep cut on the head.

A marriage license was issued to Wm. F. Banman and Miss Ella M. Goodrich of Arroyo Grande.

PERIODICALS.

The following named monthly Magazines and Reviews are received regularly at the San Luis Obispo Free Public Library.

Harper’s Round Table, Harper’s Magazine, The Overland, The Cosmopolitan, The Coming Age, The Munsey, McClvres (sic) Magazine, Scribner’s Magazine, Review of Reviews, What to Eat, The Forum, Consular Report, Short Stories, Woman’s (sic) Home Companion, Pall Mall Gazette, Contemporary Review, The Fortnightly, The Nineteenth Century, Frank Leslie’s Magazine, Good Health, Official Gazette, U.S. Pat. Office, Weekly, The Nation, Weekly, Harper’s Weekly, The Literary Digest, Weekly, Literature, Weekly. (Compiler’s note: Only four magazine bearing the same or similar names as those listed in this article, are now a part of the county library collection: Harper’s, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan (in Spanish), and The Nation.)

AT THE CELERY FARM.

The celery farm at the lower end of the valley presents a beautiful appearance just at this time. There are ninety acres of the succulent vegetable that stands eighteen inches high and ten acres more that stands about a foot high, making one hundred acres that are planted to this valuable crop...

There are probably four or five hundred acres of peat land at the lower end of the valley and the organization of a company to plant it all to celery would be a paying investment.–Arroyo Grande Herald.

MEN NEEDED IN BEET FIELDS.

According to the Santa Maria Times, a hundred men could find employment in beet fields there today at fair wages–$1.25 to $1.50 per day and board. The scarcity of laborers is working a hardship on our farmers and is not doing the Sugar Company any immense amount of good. The wheels of their big mill are still because the beets are not coming fast enough to start work.

A carload of laborers, all honest looking men, went through to seek employment at the railroad camps last night.

THE NEW OIL REGION.

The Arroyo Grande Herald says that for the past three or four weeks much interest has been manifested in the development of oil throughout that section, and experts have been there representing half a dozen different companies, and have looked the country all over from Port Harford to Hasbrouck’s and from Hasbrouck’s to the sea. Their unanimous opinion is that there is oil there in plenty and that it only requires capital to develop it. This capital is coming, they say.

One of these companies has located lands on the Hasbrouck ranch on the upper Arroyo Grande, another has located near Sycamore springs, and a third one will undoubtedly commence operations near there some time between now and the beginning of the year. The location of these claims show a diamond shaped area fifteen miles from point to point and the real oil territory probably extends outside these lines several miles.

STEALING MAIL.

Officer Munoz last evening caught Charlie Sing, son of Sam Sing, the Chinese merchant, opening a box at the post office belonging to Mr. Forrester and attempting to purloin the mail which it contained.

The facts were reported to Marshal Cook, who in turn notified the father of the boy. An arrest may be made this morning.

SIGNS OF PROGRESS...

THIS WE WANT.

San Luis Obispo will ask for the establishment of a Polytechnic School in this city and county, at the hands of the next legislature. It lost it last session because the people of the county had a member of the assembly of an opposite political faith from that of the Governor and all over San Luis Obispo county one hears this sentiment expressed and with many regrets that such was the case. Many say that Mr. Burnett was only elected because the county was heavily "fusion" and his was a political office and the United States Senatorship was involved. Such was the case as everyone admits, but if San Luis Obispo can secure a polytechnic school, the institution will stand as an ornament to the town long after Democratic and Republican United States Senators have been laid to rest in their graves, and it will do the town more good. A Republican in the next Assembly, acting in conjunction with a Republican Governor and a Republican State Senator, Hon. S.C. Smith, can secure the school. If the Governor and State Senator were democrats the TRIBUNE would say that it would be wise to elect a Democrat or a Populist to the Assembly, but such is not the case. We want that school as one of the many evidences of our county’s progress.

BORN.

LEWIS - At Edna, Sept. 20, 1899, to the wife of Frank W. Lewis, a son.

MARRIED.

CAPITO - HUYCK–In this city, at the Congregational church, Sept. 20, 1899, by Rev. George Willett, Mr. John T. Capito of Los Angeles and Miss Hettie E. Huyck of this city.

SCALDED TO DEATH.

The remains of Allen P. Jones, the engineer of the Southern Pacific Railway company who was in the wreck near Camp Capitola last Monday, were buried in this city yesterday afternoon. The deceased stood bravely by his post in the face of impending disaster, and was scalded to death. He died at Pajaro.

The funeral ceremonies were conducted by Rev. J.C. Eastman. The pall bearers were representatives of the railroad company and Masonic fraternity. They were R. Trewick, H. N. Symms, J. Bradley, County Clerk Whicher, County Treasurer Kelshaw and H.E. McKinnon (sic). The funeral was in charge of Undertaker Bowen. The remains were interred in Odd Fellows cemetery.

The all absorbing topic of conversation about town is the fair for next week...

There will be a prize for every exhibitor at the Pavilion and the secretary, Miss Nellie Nesbitt will be present Tuesday morning to receive exhibits. Every farmer for miles around should bring in some sort of an exhibit, that his ranch may be represented in the grand display.

There is sure to be some great sport at the track, as the long line of stalls presents one brilliant picture calculated to enthuse to the highest pitch, those who rejoice in the race. Many good horses occupy these stalls and all are booked for their best speed...

SLACK-WEATHERS.

Last evening about 5:30 o’clock, Mr. Augustus Slack of Arroyo Grande, was united in marriage to Miss Bessie Weathers...

...The groom is an industrious young farmer of the Arroyo Grande valley, and the bride is an estimable young lady who possesses many friends...

The old Carissa ranch house occupied by Frank Fotheringham has been burned. The house was built forty years ago and was one of the land marks of the plains.

The case against C.F. Bondshu for having threatened to beat his wife, was dismissed yesterday afternoon on motion of District Attorney Campbell on the grounds that the evidence did not justify the character of the complaint filed...

September 24, 1899 through September 30, 1899.

THIRD TIME THE LOSER

Yesterday afternoon there were a few people in from the country, but they were not numerous. Grain hauling and threshing occupies the attention of the ranchers and they cannot lose the time to come to town to swap the usual Saturday yarns on the street corners, or around the stores.

During the afternoon a number of the town people visited the race track to witness the one-half mile running race between Jake See’s "Jennie T" and a sorrel horse owned by J.C. Kennedy. The latter won easily. Time 52½. See’s mare made the dust fly for the first quarter, but was not in it to speak of at the finish...

...Around the track there is much life these days. There is a small army of horsemen and jockeys in attendance and the sporting fraternity is in evidence to a considerable extent, which is always an indication of better times...

A marriage license has been issued to Jos. F. Fisher and Louise Pullen.

Compiler’s note: Those who are interested in fair and horse track news can find many column inches devoted to these events in the papers for this week and a few days into the next week. Microfilmed copies of the newspapers can be found in the San Luis Obispo Public Library reference department.

A STRINGENT FOOD LAW.

The law enacted by the Missouri legislature, ... which prohibits the manufacture or sale of any article intended for food or to be used in the preparation of food, which contains alum, arsenic, ammonia, etc., places that state in the lead, in the matter of sanitary legislation.

Laws restricting the use of alum in bread have been in force in England, Germany and France for many years. In this country, in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and several other states, direct legislation in reference to the sale of alum baking powders has also been effected. In several of these states their sale is prohibited unless they are branded to show that they contain alum, and in the District of Columbia, the sale of bread containing alum has been made illegal.

Following are the names of some of the brands of baking powder sold in this vicinity which are shown by recent analysis to contain alum. Housekeepers and grocers should cut the list out and keep it for reference:

BAKING POWDERS CONTAINING ALUM.

K.C. Contains alum. Manufactured by Jaques Mfg. Co., Chicago.

CALUMET Contains alum. Manf. by Calumet Baking Co. Chicago.

HOME Contains alum. Manf. by Home Baking Powder Co., San Francisco.

BEE-HIVE Contains alum. Manf. by Washington Mf. Co., San Francisco.

CLOVER LEAF Contains alum. Manf. by Pacific Mfg. Co., Los Angeles.

In addition to these, many grocers sell what they call their own private or special brands...

It is quite impossible to give the names of all the alum baking powders. They are constantly appearing in all sorts of disguises, under different names and at kinds of prices (sic), even as low as five and ten cents a pound. They can be avoided, however, by the housekeeper who will bear in mind that all baking powders sold at twenty-five cents or less per pound are liable to contain alum, as pure cream of tartar powders cannot be produced at anything like this price.

The Paso Robles Leader is authority for the statement that the crop of acorns is very heavy over the mountains this year. This means that there will be large flocks of wild pigeons about the 15th of November in that section and some good sport hunting them.

The Templeton Milling Co. is having constructed a new warehouse 50 x 100 feet in size and have leased the Templeton mill and warehouse to the Del Monte Milling Co., who started in to grind flour Wednesday. It is the intention of the people in Templeton to give a grand ball in the new warehouse building as soon as it is completed.–Paso Robles Leader.

...On Friday, September 29, San Miguel celebrates the anniversary of the founding of the Mission at that place with an entertainment and grand ball.

WANTS A BABY SHOW.

The Arroyo Grande Oracle wants a baby show held in connection with the fair at that place and concludes its appeal for that attraction as follows:

"There is plenty of material also from which to select judges, thus saving the cost of importation. For instance there is "Pop" Ryan who we venture to say can give the pedigree of every baby within a radius of ten miles. I. Aron who also has an intimate acquaintance with the genealogy of each infant. Then there’s will Conrad, Adam Brown and Tony Freitas, who have no babies but would like to have, and Sam Phillips, P. Olohan or I. Benchimol, all authority on good looks when embraced by the female sex, and dozen of others who might be named but space will not permit of enumerating all those capable of sitting as judges at a show of this kind."

THEY ARE OFF TO CAYUCOS TODAY.

Cayucos celebrates today the 608th anniversary of the independence of Switzerland and the program of festivities is very extensive.

FINDLEY WILL BE ON TRIAL.

There are three criminal cases set for trial before the jury called for Oct. 30th. One of these is the celebrated case of the People vs. S.M. Findley, ex-tax collector, who is charged with embezzlement.

The people of the county are all watching this case, although interest in it has somewhat died out of late.

BORN.

ANDREWS - In San Miguel, Sept. 17, 1899, to the wife of George Andrews, a daughter.

HANSEN - Near Arroyo Grande, Sept. 18, 1899, to the wife of L.P. Hansen of Tulare, a daughter.

WEAR - At Arroyo Grande, Sept. 21, 1899, to the wife of J.S. Wear, a daughter.

MARRIED.

CONRAD - MORAN – At Fort Klamath, Oregon, Sunday, September 17, 1899, by Rev. Frank Conrad, Charles F. Conrad of Arroyo Grande, Cal., and Miss Alice Moran of Fort Klamath.

BAUMAN - GOODRICH – In Arroyo Grande, Sept. 20, 1899, by Rev. C.H. Reyburn of the Presbyterian church, Mr. Wm. F. Bauman and Miss Ella M. Goodrich, both of Arroyo Grande.

SMITH - HENDERSON – In this city, Sept. 26, 1899, by M. Egan, J.P., Mr. David N. Smith and Miss Eva Henderton (sic), both Arroyo Grande.

SUDDEN DEATH.

Peter Henry Paulsen (sic) died suddenly yesterday afternoon at his home near Miles station. After eating dinner he laid down to take a nap and never awakened.

Deceased was a native of Germany, aged about 62 years and had many friends in this county. Coroner Nichols will hold an inquest over the remains today.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

Sept. 25.

...In the matter of railroad assessment and taxation: The board now order and declare that the main track of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, in the County of San Luis Obispo, as assessed by the State Board of Equalization, is 72.60 miles; that the main track of the Pacific Coast Railway Company, in the County of San Luis Obispo, as assessed by the State Board of Equalization, is 39.50 miles. The board thereupon determined the amount of taxes due from said railroads and adjourned. (Compiler’s note: The county assessor on September 28, 1998 reported that the State Board of Equalization has determined that there are now 101.75 miles of railroad track being assessed. Tracks of the Pacific Railroad company no longer exist.)

NEW ORDER INSTITUTED HERE.

Yesterday afternoon at the Ramona hotel, San Luis Obispo Hive, No. 45 of the Ladies of the Maccabees was organized by Deputy Supreme Commander Mrs. E.S. Moffatt...

A RIDICULOUS CHARGE.

A San Jose dispatch to the San Francisco Call says that ten thousand dollars for alienating the affections of a wife is the basis for a sensational suit commenced in the Superior court of Santa Clara county by L.A. Cole, a Los Gatos carpenter, against ex-sheriff S.D. Ballou of San Luis Obispo county.

Prior to March 12, 1897, Cole and his wife lived happily together at Los Gatos where she was engaged in teaching school. On that date she left her husband. Ballou is charged with wrongfully contriving and intending to injure plaintiff and deprive him of his wife’s comfort, society and aid, it being said that on the above date he maliciously enticed Mrs. Cole from her husband’s residence in Los Gatos to a separate residence in Ventura county, and has ever since detained and harbored her against the consent of the plaintiff. By reason of these acts, Cole alleges he has suffered great distress of body and mind, and asks damages to the extent of $10,000.

The substance of the dispatch will be but little believed in this county, where Mr. Ballou has many friends. It is easy to allege without cause.

THERE WAS TROUBLE ON THE LINE.

Last night Officer Munoz was called upon to place Jake Schiefferly in the county jail, which he did.

The complaint which was lodged against the prisoner was to the effect that he had made partially successful efforts to demolish several houses of ill fame "on the line." On inspection of the scene of the trouble the fact was disclosed that one house possessed a door from which a panel had been broken, while in the interior a lamp had been kicked from the table and broken in pieces.

At another house close by, occupied by one, "Big Lena," who is now figuring in the police court on a charge of vagrancy, the window had been broken in, and a bullet hole in the door told of the work of a pistol. Altogether it was a lively time.

THE SCHOOL CASE IS COMPROMISED.

In the Superior court yesterday the troublesome case involving the liberty and financial accumulations of the members of the board of control of the Arroyo Grande Union high school was compromised and the trustees who had been cited to appear, were allowed to go their way.

The conditions of the compromise are to the effect that the board of control agrees to hire an assistant principal and keep the institution running with two teachers.

It is understood that Prof. Isaac Wright, formerly of the San Luis high school, has been selected assistant principal and that Prof. Stringfield continues as principal.

Here the case rests until the next move on the checker board.

October 1, 1899 through October 7, 1899.

A FRACTURED SKULL AT POZO.

On Tuesday of last week Ray Green, a ten year old son of J.W. Green of Pozo, was out herding some horses on the hills about two and a half miles from home. While guarding the band he hit a horse with a rope, and it is thought that the horse must have kicked him, but from this point the boy’s mind was a blank for several hours and he does not know whether he was kicked from his horse or not, but about an hour and a half after the event he came home on his horse with a two and a half inch fracture in his skull and wide enough to expose the brain.

The mystery of the affair is, if the child was kicked off his horse, how did he get back on, and if he was kicked while on the horse by one horse being higher up on the hillside than he was, how did he stay in the saddle after such a blow?

Dr. McLennan of Paso Robles who attended him says that now the child is quite rational, but still is in a very dangerous condition.

The fees of the county recorder’s office for the month of September amount to $219.00 and of the clerk’s office $164.75.

Governor Gage has signed an order for the release from San Quentin prison of Victorino Olivas, of this city, who was sentenced for grand larceny. He will be released on October 12.

A FIVE THOUSAND EDITION.

The TRIBUNE is now working up a special edition to be published in October.

It will contain general descriptive and statistical information concerning this section and the county in general, including a business review of our city setting forth the commercial importance and advantages offered by San Luis Obispo merchants and institutions.

The services of Louis R. Leonard have been secured to attend to the extra work involved in the publication of such an edition; he is a trained journalist of large experience in special newspaper work and well known throughout this coast.

Duck hunters were out Sunday and met with considerable success. Quail usually very plentiful in the Oak Park country are very scarce in that section this year, hardly any being seen, while in most other sections of the county they are numerous this year.

MAY RUN 400,000 SACKS.

So great is the grain yield in San Luis Obispo county this year that the best authorities have been almost forced to give up the task of estimating it. That it will far exceed 300,000 sacks is agreed by all the authorities, and it would not occasion the least surprise if it runs away above 400,000 sacks...

...Never before have there been such scenes of activity as there are these days at Port Harford. Thousands upon thousands of sacks are piled there. Every vessel that can be utilized has been pressured into service to carry the grain away. And as fast as one pile is removed, another is dumped in its place from the cars of the Pacific Coast Railroad company...

...Excellent as the transportation and storage facilities (are), they are utterly inadequate. Both railroad companies, however, have increased their working forces and are working night and day to prevent any serious delay in shipments. There is no rest for the time being for the threshers, shippers and railroad men.

SAN LUIS OIL COMPANY.

San Luis Obispo county, through the exertions of R.E. Jack, Esq., is to have an oil boom. That oil abounds in large quantities in this county even the most skeptical has had no doubts. Mr. Jack for years has been trying to get capital interested and at last has succeeded. About six weeks ago he persuaded Capt. Frank Barrett, one of the most successful operators in the field to visit this section. Capt. Barrett developed the Fresno and San Benito fields, having drilled the first wells at Coalinga, and in the Vallecitos valley, and at present has three rigs running in the Parkfield district in Monterey county. Capt. Barrett was so favorably impressed with the outlook that he soon returned and went over the field. The more he saw of it, the better he liked it and finally telegraphed Harry Francis of the financial firm of Frances & Tucher (sic) to come down and go over the field with him. The result of which was, Mr. Jack was telegraphed to go to San Francisco last week, a company was formed with $1,000,000 capital and every dollar of the stock subscribed for. The company contains such names as Leon Sloss, Joseph Sloss, Richard Sloss, Capt. Niebaum, Mr. Gerstle, Harry Francis and others. Capt. Barrett who is also a stockholder and general manager of the company, is now here perfecting arrangements. Two complete rigs have been purchased and a third will be brought in in the immediate future. We wish them abundant success and hope our citizens will encourage them in every way.

A marriage license was issued to Chas. A. Lancaster of Oakland and Mercedes A. Wightman of San Luis Obispo; to Clement Albright and Ziepah Wilson.

DEFICIENCY IN THE HOSPITAL FUND.

The hospital fund is overdraw $3,200, as was shown in reports made yesterday to the board of supervisors. There was about $960 available per month under the levy of 10 cents on the hundred dollars during the last fiscal year and the expenditures aggregated over $1,000 per month, which occasioned the deficiency. (Compiler’s note: Newspaper copy showing the amount of overdraw is smudged. The amount may read $2,200.)

The levy for the next year, fixed last month by the board is 13 cents on the hundred dollars, for the hospital fund which will make the amount available over $1,000 per month. It is expected that the county will soon receive $6,000 from the state due on amounts paid to orphan and half orphans. When this amount arrives the distress to the fund will be relieved...

CITY TRUSTEES.

Board met in adjourned session, Trustees Shipsey, Lind, Mallagh and Pinho being present.

The special business before the board was the determination of the rate of tax levy for the ensuing year. the total assessed value of the property subject to the tax is according to the assessment roll, $1,275,366.

The total rate on the $100 was fixed at $1.63, divided as follows:

Interest $ .0670

Higuera street .1044

Bridge .0889

Sewer (old) .0581

Chorro St. Bridge .0151

Pacific St. Bonds .0100

Library .0550

General .7315

Water bonds (1899) .3500

Sewer bonds (1899) .1500

Total $1.63

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

Oct. 3.

Board met pursuant to adjournment. Present a full board.

In re peddler’s licence (sic). Upon the production of proof of honorable discharge from the naval service of the United States, it is ordered that License Tax Collector issue a peddler’s licence (sic) to H.G. Blodgett without fee.

It is ordered that permission be granted to Dow Wood to have in his possession the eggs of quail and prairie chickens for the purpose of propagation...

...The board by an (sic) unanimous vote passed an ordinance repealing the bounty of two cents each on squirrel tails. This ordinance takes effect on January 2, 1900, so squirrels may be killed until that time. The two cent ordinance has been in effect since August 3, 1897 and still the squirrels are numerous. During the past few months there have been but few claims filed for the county.

The board ordered the purchase of three Hartford typewriters, one each for the Tax Collector, Recorder and Assessor at a total cost of $150, payment to be made at the meeting of the board in January 1900...

...Adjourned.

MARRIED.

LANCASTER - WIGHTMAN–At the residence of Judge Unangst, in this city, on Oc. 4, 1899 (sic), by Rev. Geo. Willett, Dr. Charles E. Lancaster of Oakland, Cal., to Mrs. Mercedes Wightman of San Luis Obispo.

DIED.

VALDEZ - In this city, Oct. 4, 1899, Mrs. Louisa Valdez, relict of Alexander Valdez, native of San Luis Obispo, Cal., aged 45 years.

DEATH OF J. de M. LUGO.

A character well known to the people of this city Juan de M. Lugo, passed away at his home on Morro street about 3 o’clock yesterday (October 6, 1899).

To people about town he was known by the sobriquet, "Tomale" (sic) Lugo, because he frequently peddled that article of food about the streets and down town resorts of a night. (Compiler’s note: THAT article of food was a "tamale" not a "tomale," a sure indication of the lack of ability to speak or write the Spanish language by the person who wrote the article.)

He was a welcome visitor about midnight to the sleepy and hungry player in a poker game at the card table, who called a halt just long enough to devour one of the tomales (sic), which Lugo carried around in a bucket, and then was again absorbed in the tricks of the pack of cards and the uncertain handling of coin. The tomale (sic) man, who has now gone to the mysterious great beyond, would watch the game a few minutes, pocket his fifteen cents and hold up a lounger on the rail of the saloon bar for the sale of another tomale (sic).

And yet there were days when Mr. Lugo was not the vendor of tomales (sic) and accustomed to the rude jest of tin horn sports and would-be tough "guys" to whom he sold his stock in trade. There were brighter days in the long ago, when in the historic old town of Monterey, "Tomale" Lugo was Senor Juan Lugo and the smiles of fortune were directed upon him; when wealth that was all his own numbered in the thousands. The music of the waves dashing against the rocks of Monterey bay, the happy peals of laughter among the distinguished Senors and Senoritas as they danced in the old custom house where the first American flag waved in California, the low murmuring of the beautiful pines around Carmel Mission, all these charmed the ear of Senor Lugo, for he was a man of wealth and social standing in that city of his nativity. (Compiler’s note: It would appear that in the type fonts of the TRIBUNE used to set up the newspaper one hundred years ago there was no tilde (_) or that the writer of the article was unfamiliar with this Spanish punctuation mark else Senor and Senorita would have been Señor and Señorita.)

Men tipped their hats to Senor Lugo in those days for they loved to revel in the generous hospitality which made him popular.

With the passing years there came a change and the ease and comfort of early California days came in contact with the stern brisk customs of the emigrants from the east and generosity was taken advantage of. In the great change, Senor Lugo drifted into those channels where luxury ceased to smile upon him and the sobriquet "Tomale" (sic) Lugo attached itself to him on the streets of San Luis Obispo, from the mode of earning a living which he adopted.

May his soul rest in peace in the brighter land to which it has flown. Death has claimed a man whose early life was spent in the sunshine of California’s happiest days, and was none the less to be respected, because it terminated in the surroundings of adversity.

(Compiler’s note: In the vital statistic which appeared during the week, "Tomale" Lugo’s age was given as 67.)

PROPOSE A GENERAL "TRADE DAY"

(Compiler’s note: This article has been included to remind the readers that what we call a "Farmer’s Market" today, is not such a new concept!)

Merchants are talking of arranging for a "trade day." The proposition is set apart one day each month for the special reception of goods from ranchers in the outlying districts, something on the plan of the old "market days." Inducements would also be offered to people from other sections to come here on the day specified to do their trading and purchasing.

It has been suggested that prizes be offered to those coming from the most distant places with produce or whatever they might have to offer for sale. These prizes could be made of sufficient importance to attract considerable business which at present is going elsewhere. The scheme is regarded not only as feasible but is being enthusiastically entered into by some of the progressive business men.

"Trade days," it is suggested, could be made very important occasions and would prove fruitful in advertising the city and opening up new avenues of commerce. "This is the time to push the business," said a TRIBUNE advertiser last evening. "The business can be had if we only reach out for it."

Advertising pays.

October 8, 1899 through October 14, 1899.

SUPREME COURT TALKS.

Another step has been taken in the long struggle, which San Luis Obispo has experienced over bond elections and proposed bond issues.

At 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon a telegram came from the clerk of the Supreme court to the effect that that August body had sustained the decision of Judge Lorigan of San Jose in declaring the sewer and water bonds voted last April illegal. The case was tried before the Santa Clara judge here, Attorney A. Nelson representing the plaintiff contesting the issue of the bonds...

There came very near being a runaway on Chorro street yesterday when the horse attached to Atwood’s fruit wagon started to make a wild dash, which was stopped by Ed Hampton capturing the animal.

COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

...A certificate of promotion from the 8th to the 9th year was issued to George Schneider of Morro.

FOOTBALL TODAY.

The San Luis Obispo football eleven leaves early this morning for Santa Maria to meet the eleven of that place in a game this afternoon.

The eleven from here will be composed of Charles Felts, Roy Hebbard, Louis Enes (sic), Elmer Lewis, Charles Phoenix, Burt Nichols, Jim Hassen (sic), Frank Villa, Charles Brown, Manuel Garcia and Ernest Taylor.

CARTRIDGE EXPLODED.

Last night Budd Jackson of the Rinconada was brought to this city, with injuries which it was feared would result in the loss of his eye sight.

A rifle cartridge, with which he was endeavoring to load a gun, exploded and the powder flashed into his face.

Dr. Dial attended to his injuries and found the eye sight uninjured.

SAW THE ELEPHANT.

..."Circus Day" beat the Fourth of July in drawing a crowd and when the parade passed through the streets at 10:15 p.m., the shady sides of the streets along the line, could not accommodate the people and many stood in the blazing, red hot sunshine and looked with wondering eyes on the elephant and the gorgeously painted wagons.

The parade, of course, was the "same old thing" with one or two exceptions. One of these was the automobile–the horseless carriage–which glided along so easily that it is a safe bet that half the farmers who saw it will go back to the ranch determined to sell or trade their best horses for one of these wonders...

...The biggest elephant carried a flashing advertisement for the White House and the baby elephant one for Billy Duff’s Farmers Cash Store. This does not signify that these two stores have a white elephant on their hands, as they are both doing a lively, big business. (Compiler’s note: A white elephant is an object, no longer of value to its owner but of value to others; something of little or no value.)

When the circus passed the people followed it to the grounds where they looked at the pictures on the canvas of the side show tent, heard the deep lunged (sic) individuals make their "spiel" and finally crowded into the side show tent where it was like a bake oven.

The side show was well supplied with the usual attractions and a colored band.

One of the attractions was the tattooed man. He is a human picture gallery. He has designs upon himself and one of the lady circus riders has designs upon him.

Oh! it is perfectly true,

You can beat a tattoo,

But you can’t beat a tattoo man...

RETURNED FROM KLONDIKE.

John Barneberg, jr., returned last Saturday evening after an absence of over a year, during which time he has visited the Klondike and worked in the mines of the frozen north. His friends are glad to see him home again.

The Board of Supervisors of Santa Barbara county at its meeting this month passed an ordinance prohibiting the killing of eagles, gulls, terns and pelicans. To destroy these birds is therefore from now on a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of from $25 to $50 or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 30 days.

Four fruit packing houses are in operation in the valley packing this season’s crop of apples and pears. Several carloads of fruit were shipped from Oceano this week in addition to the many shipped from the station here.–Arroyo Grande Oracle.

The Pacific Coast Railway train brought up about 300 people yesterday from the south who wanted to see the elephant...

BORN.

BRANCH - In this city, October 9, 1899, to the wife of Edward Branch, a son.

WILLIAMS - In Jamestown, Tuolumne county, Sept. 17, 1899, to the wife of H. E. Williams, formerly of Paso Robles, a son.

FROST - In Paso Robles, Sept. 30, 1899, to the wife of E.P. Frost, a son.

RICE - At Arroyo Grande, Oct. 12th, 1899, to the wife of Lerue Rice, a daughter.

DRAKE - At Oakland, Alameda county, Oct. 11th, 1899, to the wife of Geo. F. Drake, a son.

MARRIED.

RIGHETTI - PARACHINI –In Cayucos, Oct. 9, 1899, by Will Mack, J.P., Mr. David E. Righetti and Miss Tonina Parachini.

FULLER - HATHAWAY–In this city, Oct. 9, 1899, by Rev. W. A. Betts of the Methodist church, Mr. Ben Fuller and Miss Florence Hathaway, both of this city.

Joe Arana, the popular proprietor of the Junction house on the Sycamore Springs road, will soon have a house erected on his lot on Palm street adjoining the residence of F. Chiesa.

THE NEWS OF ARROYO GRANDE.

...There are several more oil men looking over our territory.

It is estimated that 30,000 boxes of apples will be shipped from this valley this fall...

...A wood famine is imminent. Most of the dry stove wood has been shipped away and none is to be had at any price...

...This seems to be a week of large things. Wednesday Mrs. J.D. Skidmore gave us a tremendous strawberry, a good ten inches and a trifle more around its juicy sweetness. It took more than one or two bites to down it.–Arroyo Grande Herald.

The people of San Jose extend a special and cordial invitation to the people of the state to visit the Garden City and help celebrate the grand golden jubilee on December 20th, which marks the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the state government of California. It will be a big time. (Compiler’s note: The first capital after the State Constitution was ratified on November 13, 1849, was San Jose. Within five years, the seat of the government would be moved from San Jose to Vallejo; back to San Jose; back to Vallejo; to Sacramento; back to Vallejo; to Benicia; and at last, in 1854, permanently to Sacramento.)

Chas. St. Clair yesterday took control of the agency for the Call, Chronicle and Examiner and all papers in the future will be delivered from the stand on Monterey street, where Mr. Lewis has held forth in the past. If people fail to get their papers they should report there.

DIED.

WALKER - In this city Oct. 10, 1899, Mrs. Mary E. Walker, mother of the late Mrs. Ell Dora Ash, a native of Dunkirk, Chautauqua county, New York, aged 77 years, 4 months and 15 days.

PETTIT - In this city, Oct. 12th, 1899, Helen B., wife of B.F. Pettit, a native of Penyan, Yates Co., New York, aged 49 years, 6 months and 5 days.

...The Elks are just the class of fraternal people to have a good time. In the past they have enjoyed among themselves and a very few select friends social sessions–unlimited in the enjoyment which they provided.

They have arranged this time to give a grand public entertainment at the Pavilion theatre, enlisting therein the best local talent that the city possesses. New and novel features are to be introduced. Things that are ancient are to play no part in this great affair.

For two nights the people are to be delighted with this splendid entertainment–on New Year’s eve and New Year’s night. (Compiler’s note: San Luis Obispo Elks lodge # 322 was organized by the election of its first officers early in November of 1895. Installation of the new lodge was held November 9, 1895.)

ATE ALL THE BREAD.

"Everybody had bread but me" sang the man who had been in town several days as he stepped to the counter to pay his bill at the restaurant. And there was more truth than music to his song.

Every restaurant in town ran out of bread on Monday, and yesterday they again found that they had for the second time failed to meet the demand.

"There were over 3000 loaves of bread eaten at the restaurants and hotels circus day," said Mr. Fleugler of the California Bakery. "Two thousand more loaves could have been used if the bakers had made them. Some of the hotels, it will be remembered, make their own bread. We were out of bread by 11 o’clock in the morning.

"Everything in our line from doughnuts to ice cream was cleaned out. Yesterday we ordered 200 extra loaves and the baker put in 100 loaves more, and still we did not have enough. Trade in our line is better than it has been for some time.."

There certainly is considerable more transient business, too. (Compiler’s note: The arrival of the circus causing people to descend in large numbers, upon the city from outlying areas, was obviously a major factor in the "bread shortage" crisis.

FIRST RAIN OF THE SEASON.

The long expected rain finally arrived yesterday (Oct. 11). It began falling about 6 o’clock in the morning, and continued at intervals until nearly noon. Then the clouds rolled away and the sunshine came back again.

Early in the evening the rain returned and by 11 o’clock it was coming down with a steady pour as if it was here to stay for awhile. The weather bureau indications for today are "cloudy."...

THE RAIN FOR THIRTY YEARS.

H. Dittrich, the civil engineer, has now on sale in this city the Rainfall Tables which he has prepared and had lithographed.

This publication is one of the most valuable which this county has seen for years and for reference it should be in every home in this county.

The table starts in with the rainfall of the winter of 1869-1870, and that of each succeeding winter is given down to the last one. There are blank squares upon which can be recorded the rainfall for five years.

SOME NEWS WITH THE HUNTERS.

The opening of the hunting season finds the local sports as interested as ever in making the quails and ducks less numerous.

There are a great many quail in this county this season. There were two broods and in some places the birds are only about three-fourths grown. The hunter who appreciates what real sport is, will refrain from killing these smaller birds where he finds them in a flock. The best quail hunting is reported to be on the river road near Pozo...

...Some great stories are being told by the quail hunters. So far Emery Armstrong, the popular tonsorial artist, leads in the list of pot shots, he having bagged seventeen birds with one shot.

Cottontail rabbits are not so numerous this side of the mountains, as in previous years.

ABOUT SIDEWALKS.

ED. TRIBUNE: Cannot something be done in the way of putting down sidewalks for the protection of the health of the pupils of the Court School? The slush that the children are obliged to wade through in winter from the corner of Palm and Osos streets is a disgrace to a prosperous community like ours.

If the property owners in that neighborhood are not alive enough to their own interests to put in sidewalks the patrons of the school should have interest enough in their children’s welfare to buy a few boards that would serve the purpose.

ONE WHO’S BEEN THERE.

October 15, 1899 through October 21, 1899.

CAYUCOS.

...Citizens of Cayucos were indignant at the report in last Sunday’s Examiner, telegraphed from San Luis Obispo, to the effect that this place was in danger from fires raging in the vicinity. There were no fires within forty miles, and only a penny-a-liner would burden the wires with such a fake...

Marriage licenses have been issued to Henry A. Claussen of San Miguel and Mary Hamm of Adelaide; John C. Biggs and Belle Schroder, both of Creston and Peter C. Krogh and Mamie Marshall, both of San Luis.

A NUMBER OF BAD ACCIDENTS. 

Felix Dolan of Arroyo Grande is at the county hospital with a broken leg sustained in a fall near Los Berros.

Last Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Campbell four miles from Arroyo Grande on the Huasna road their four year old son had a leg broken by being kicked by a horse. The child was in the buggy with his father and mother when the horse began its kicking. Dr. Paulding of arroyo Grande set the broken limb.

The deadly game of football has claimed another victim at Arroyo Grande. Thursday afternoon Will Cervenka had his collar bone broken while playing the game. Dr. Paulding attended him.

Mrs. A. Ayers of San Miguel sustained a fracture of the bones of the right arm last Saturday the 7 inst, in a fall.

Lou Clemons, a drayman of San Miguel, had the nail torn from the thumb on his right hand while loading some boxes on his wagon.

Cards have been received in this city announcing the marriage of Mr. Charles Williams and Miss Madge Parker in Healdsburg. They formerly resided in Paso Robles.

On Wednesday in San Francisco, Mr. W. R. Spence of that place was united in marriage to Lena Call of this city.

On Oct. 11th, Mr. William Morgan and Miss Minnie Edrington of Los Berros were married.

Announcement is made of the wedding of Isaac Porter of the Huasna and Miss D. Adam of Santa Maria, which is to occur Oct. 18th.

On October 20th, Mr. John Fulton, a popular employe (sic) of the Pacific Coast Railway is to be married to Miss Emma Music of Arroyo Grande.

HEAVY LOSS TO ARROYO GRANDE.

ITS MAGNIFICENT SCHOOL HOUSE IS IN ASHES.

ARROYO GRANDE, Oct. 14.–At 3 o’clock this morning the public school building here was completely destroyed by fire, only a small portion of the furniture being saved.]

The loss is estimated at $11,000 and the building was insured for $7,500. The pupils of the school lose all their books, etc.]

The cause of the fire is said to have been a stroke (sic) of lightening, but there are some who hint at incendiarism. There was no probability of the fire being started from a stove in the building.]

There was no chance to save the building and the walls soon fell in.

There is still due on the bonds voted to erect the building the sum of $2,500.

LAST SAD RITES.

The remains of the late Mrs. B.F. Pettit were laid to rest in the Odd Fellows cemetery. The services at the house were conducted by Rev. E.M.W. Hills. The pall bearers were J.F. Fiedler, Philip Ready, C.M. Martin, F.W. Vetterline, J.P. Lynch and F.C. Mitchell.

The roads in the vicinity of town have received a coat of straw which aids in making them more pleasant to drive on. The Huasna hill has also been covered with straw much to the delight of the teamsters hauling from that section.–Arroyo Grande Oracle.

MARRIED.

KROGH - MARSHALL – In this city at the Catholic church, Oct. 14, 1899, Mr. P.C. Krogh and Miss Mamie Marshall, both of this city.

SPENCE - CALL –In San Francisco, Oct. 11, 1899, Mr. W.R. Spence of San Francisco and Miss Lena M. Call of San Luis Obispo.

MORGAN - WEAR – At the C.P. Church in Arroyo Grande, Oct. 11, 1899, by Rev. C.H. Reyburn, Wm. Morgan and Miss Hermie Wear, both of Los Berros.

RICH FIND OF PRECIOUS STONES.

What may prove to be a better thing than the Klondike has been discovered between this city and Arroyo Grande. Sparkling stones that are almost as valuable as diamonds have been found on the Biddle ranch, just on the summit where the San Luis road turns off on the road to the town south of here. Considerable interest has been caused by the discovery and several prospecting parties have already gone out to see whether fortunes are to be picked up as fast as they have been in the frozen north and the diamond fields of South Africa.

The discovery of the valuable stones was made by a wood-chopper named Ike Forkner, who was employed on the Biddle ranch. His attention was attracted to a peculiar looking pebble on the ground, and when he picked it up he was surprised to see how it glittered and sparkled. They were bright gems and the wood cutter picked up quite a quantity of them. Mr. Clevenger of the Arroyo Grande Herald says Mr. Forkner submitted them to a San Luis jeweler who pronounced them valuable.

They were mostly agate–Scotch pebbles. Some of them were moss agates and some of them were inlaid with little squares. Mr. Forkner confided to Mr. Clevenger where the beach was located and a week ago gave permission to him to make the information to the public and the other day in company with Mr. A. Phillips, he visited the beach and gathered about a gallon of the pebbles.

They were submitted to Mr. Grey, a jeweler of Arroyo Grande, and he easily picked out pretty specimens of onyx, quartz emeralds, carnelian, pure, variegated and black bloodstone, opals and amethysts. There are also represented in the collection every other stone represented in Christendom. The pebbles are all either round or oval and show plainly that they were washed on the beach for ages. The most common of them when broken will cut glass as readily and sharply as a diamond, which indicates ages of exposure.

DIED.

FORBES - At Gridley, Butte, CO., Oct. 8th, 1899, Louie Carlton Forbes, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.B. Forbes, aged 14 months.

AROUND THE COURTHOUSE.

SECOND CALL FOR THE PAYMENT OF DELINQUENT POLL TAX.

The price of votes is going up–that is the privilege of casting them is being quoted at a higher figure than it was a few months back, when the poll tax was due. And furthermore all the voters who fail to discharge this little public obligation before the days of December have passed into the sweet subsequently, another dollar will be tacked on by the law, thus bringing the tax up to $4.

Poll tax became delinquent on the first Monday of July last, and all those who neglected to pay at that time are now required to pay $3, the additional dollar being added as a penalty for the delinquincy (sic). In December an extra dollar will be added. While the poll tax law is obnoxious, there is no means of evading it without risking the loss of franchise. The delinquent list is a long one.

 YANCY McFADDEN’S BROTHER.

Straight from the famous copper mines of Bisbee, Arizona, came Ed. McFadden, brother of Deputy Sheriff McFadden, for the purpose of visiting the latter and to engage in mining in the eastern section of this county. Mr. McFadden is an old time miner and is regarded as an expert in copper. He has some excellent properties in this section, and this winter will drive a 400-foot tunnel. The ore from his claims in this county run sixty per cent in copper. A company has been organized to push the work.

ARROYO GRANDE, Oct. 17.– At a meeting of the people last night, $400 was raised toward securing and furnishing rooms for temporary school purposes on account of the schoolhouse fire last week. The new rooms will be ready for the pupils Monday next.

A marriage license has been issued to James H. Meenah and Jane A. Guilford.

On account of objections from the outside the high school students have been forbidden to use the name of the school in connection with parties. The invitations for the masquerade to be given next Friday have been issued by the "Entre Nous Club."

ANY OLD SCHOOL BOOKS?

The fire that destroyed the Arroyo Grande school last week also destroyed the books belonging to the children. The loss is a serious one in many cases, as it is quite an item of expense to provide several children with such books as are necessary in connection with their studies. Superintendent of Schools Mrs. Woods, has made a timely suggestion that the children of this city might send their old school books to their young friends in Arroyo Grande. This would be a gracious action and would be appreciated by the people of the neighboring town. All books can be left at the office of Mrs. Woods in the county court house, and she will attend to the sending of them to Arroyo Grande.

MORE IMPROVEMENTS ON THE S.P.

The Southern Pacific Company will spend $1,500 making improvements on the railroad between this city and Santa Margarita. It is proposed to change the road in the vicinity of the Eight Mile House so as to do away with the two crossings between the two towns...

...It is the intention of the company to have the improvement in the road made by some local man under the supervision of the Board of Supervisors. The sum of $1,500 will be given the county for the purpose of having the work done. The sum is considered fully sufficient to have the changes made in the best possible manner. It is not so very long since the company gave $900 to have a small change made near Santa Margarita...

PRODUCTION OF PETROLEUM.

Interest in oil increases in San Luis Obispo county as each day brings forth additional evidence of the existence of petroleum in this section in great quantities. While the production of oil is in its infancy here, there is no question but that it will prove an important and profitable industry. The oil is here. Capital is all that is required to develop it...

BORN.

SHAUG - In Cambria, Oct. 14, 1899, to the wife of Lawson Shaug, a daughter.

LITTLETON - In this city, Oct. 16th, 1899, to the wife of C.M. Littleton, a girl. (Compiler’s note: The birth of a "daughter" was always the way in which a birth vital statistic has been handled in previous issues of the TELEGRAM. That the birth of a "girl" is noted, is only a matter of interest for the reader.)

BIGGEST AND BEST SHOW ON EARTH.

There is another circus in town and its managers declare that it’s the biggest and best show that ever traveled over the pike or swapped trunks with an elephant. It is known as the Tigers of San Luis Obispo and it is controlled by a dozen or more boys who make their homes in this city while they are preparing to carve their fortunes out of life later on.

Main’s circus has aroused the young America to a desire to emulate the example set by the lion tamers and bareback riders of the big show. (Compiler’s note: The professional Main Circus had just "come to town.") The costumes that consist principally of atmosphere artistically trimmed with tinsel and large glass diamonds, have made a hit with the boys and girls–but there won’t be any girls in this show unless they ante up their five cent pieces, or induce their escorts to do so.

The boys have erected a large tent on the lot back of the Dana residence at Osos and Pismo streets. They are going to have a circus that will be a wonder. The date of the performance has not been set yet, and won’t be until a sufficient number of tickets have been sold to make the performance a financial success. These boys know a thing or two about finances as well as about circuses.

This circus will certainly be a wonder. There will be a wild man from Huer Huero, a two-legged dog and a dog without any tail; a one-eyed cat and a boy that never smoked a cigarette. The greatest curiosity will be a horse with his head where his tail ought to be. Ben Zumwalt, Fred Myers and Courtney Cook will be the star performers as clowns. Leslie Cook will be the spectacular feature of the show–he’s the tattoo man. And as for acrobats, there will be no end of them including Frank Zumwalt, Sam Cook, Irvine Thyle and Harry and Phil Harney.

Tamed and untamed animals will be kept in iron bound cages. There will be curiosities of many kinds, including money that can be used for heating purposes. The last rose of summer and the day that it bloomed will be in a cage with the man in the moon. Altogether it will be the warmest show that ever came to town. (Compiler’s note: What young lads have never been inspired to put on a circus after having visited their first REAL circus?)

ONCE A NOBLEMAN NOW A PAUPER.

Drearily treading the pathway leading into the shadowy realm of life, after spending the major portion of his three score and ten years amid the fleeting pleasures of the primrose path of dalliance, a nobleman of one of the oldest and most aristocratic houses of Hungary turned in his old age to the hospital for the poor of San Luis Obispo county for shelter. The man who had once basked in the sunshine of royal favor and had enjoyed the luxuries of wealth and position, came over the hills from Los Berros to this city to become an inmate of the County Hospital.

It is a sad story, though not an unusual one, that explains the recent arrival and departure of Frederick Banyafy at the hospital. He appeared at the institution last month and was taken care of by Superintendent McLoed (sic). He was in poor health, although he bore the weight of his 71 years well. Tall and of commanding physical appearance, his face partially hidden by heavy black whiskers, Banyafy is a man to attract attention anywhere. He was exceedingly talkative while in the institution, and was not backward in telling of better days spent in the fatherland.

The loquaciousness of the man caused most of the people he came in contact with at the institution to regard his assertions of nobility with incredulity.

Nevertheless Banyafy was all that he claimed for himself. He lost his standing at the court of Austria-Hungary through political intriguing, which resulted in his banishment from his land. He became a wanderer on the face of the earth. His title and rank were taken from him, and his wealth was soon dissipated.

A few years ago Banyafy appeared in the vicinity of Los Berros, and he has since lived the life of a hermit. Penniless and alone he is spending the remainder of his day. When he became ill recently, the good people of Los Berros induced him to go to the County Hospital for treatment. A few days ago he had recovered and at once left to return to his life of loneliness.

ENTIRELY TOO MUCH OF THE BOOZE.

Booze is one of the causes of the delay in pushing the work of construction on the "gap" section of the Southern Pacific railroad. Since the day that the first saloon was opened on the line of construction, there has been more or less trouble, and as a rule, it has been more than less...

...All the contractors are complaining bitterly that the men cannot be kept sober, according to the Santa Barbara News. Often as many as twenty or thirty men get dead drunk from the force of a single camp. The effect that this has in delaying the race can well be understood.

The contractors are making every possible attempt to get the work along as rapidly as possible. It is to their interest to finish as soon as possible and it is to the interest as well, of the people, to have the road completed. (Compiler’s note: The "gap" was not closed until March 31, 1901.)

WOOD OR STONE SCHOOL BUILDING.

Whether to erect a frame, stone or brick school building is the question that is causing considerable discussion among the people of Arroyo Grande. There seems to be a decided difference of opinion on the subject, and the matter is arousing lively interest.

Rev. Mr. Bell, the pastor of the Methodist church in the town, is an earnest advocate of a frame structure. He claims that several reasons can be advanced in favor of a wooden building, his chief claim being that it is most desirable from a sanitary point of view. The reverend gentleman is supported by quite a number of property holders.

On the other hand, there is a strong sentiment in favor of the erection of a more substantial school house. Stone is plentiful and easily obtainable although the cost would be somewhat higher. Among the advocates of a stone structure is ex-Supervisor Pat Moore, who was in this city yesterday. Mr. Moore believes that the wisest policy would be to put up a building that would be as near fire proof as it is possible to make it.

Los Berros offers abundance of stone of a superior quality and Mr. Moore has generously offered to haul all that is required from the quarry to the school site free of charge. Stone from this quarry has been used in building the residences of Contractors Erickson and Peterson in this city, and has given excellent satisfaction.

RICH OIL DISCOVERY.

Oil has been found in such quantities on the ranch of A.B. Hasbrouck southeast of this city, near the Huasna country, that capitalists have associated themselves with the owner of the property and steps have been taken to begin operations on an extensive scale. The surface indications are that there is almost an inexhaustible supply of the petroleum. The necessary machinery is now on the road from Los Angeles and will be erected without delay.

Mr. Hasbrouck’s ranch is known as the Ranchita, and is about twenty-five miles from this city. It comprises about 8,000 acres of land. Oil experts have been looking over the territory for about three weeks, and are unanimous in the opinion that they have found one of the richest fields in the country. Adjoining properties also give promise of oil.

Numerous indications of the liquid have been found, together with vast amounts of oil sand of a superior quality. The sand when rubbed on the hands leaves a pronounced genuine oil smell. It burns freely in a stove.

The experts say that at least 2,000 acres of the ranch give evidences of producing petroleum in abundance. One of them remarked: "Hasbrouck has a fortune running down hill and it couldn’t be stopped with a brake."

Burdette Chandler, a prominent citizen of Los Angeles, who has large interests in oil, is interested with Mr. Hasbrouck, and some other gentlemen in the development of the property...

HANGED HIMSELF IN JAIL.

BERNARD LEVY, WHO WAS KNOWN AS B. LOEWE, ENDS HIS LIFE WITH A ROPE.

Hanging to the bars of his cell in the County jail yesterday morning was the body of B. Loewe, the German who was arrested a few days ago at Salinas on the charge of stealing a horse and buggy belonging to Guthrie’s livery stable of this city. He had evidently been dead several hours. The body was cut down and taken to the undertaking parlors of T.J. Bowen.

Loewe came to this city a few weeks ago from Paso Robles and announced that he had leased the Cosmopolitan hotel. His lease proved to be merely imaginary on his part and his sudden departure occasioned no surprise. He drove from here to San Miguel with the team hired at Guthrie’s and abandoned it at San Miguel.

He was brought back to this city and since his incarceration he had frequently declared that he would do away with himself. About midnight on Thursday night some of the prisoners in the jail heard a racket in the cell occupied by Loewe, but no particular attention was paid to it. Yesterday morning when the cells were opened by Under Sheriff Eddy, Loewe did not put in an appearance in the corridor where the prisoners are permitted to exercise.

Guadalupe Cordova, who is awaiting trial on the charge of attempting to murder his wife, was one of the prisoners who had heard the noise in the cell during the night, and his curiosity led him to look inside. He saw Loewe’s body suspended in the air. The deceased had taken a heavy cord from his bed and used it to accomplish his self destruction.

Two letters were found on the body, one being addressed to Coroner Nichols and the other to lawyer F.A. Dorn. The deceased stated that his true name was Bernard Levy, declared that he was innocent of the charge made against him, and in a rambling manner told of family troubles and of having been separated from his wife and two children, who are (sic) in San Francisco for six years. He said that he was a Jew and asked to be buried according to Jewish rites. In his letter to Mr. Dorn he begged forgiveness for his rash act. He also gave the names and addresses of several friends and relatives residing in San Francisco.

A coroner’s jury was empaneled, consisting of R. E. Lee, foreman, John Foley, J.H. Hoque, Tony Quick, A.J. Green and A.H. Sheldon. After hearing the testimony of some of the prisoners who had heard the man declare his intention of doing away with himself, they rendered a verdict in accordance with the facts. Loewe, or Levy, was at one time employed as a waiter at various places in this city, and was generally known.

The disappearance of a woman who accompanied the deceased when he returned to this city, has occasioned no little speculation among the authorities. It is well known that the woman was not his wife. The man was apparently afraid of her and frequently remarked that if she had "gone back on him it was all up with him." The woman was probably 33 years of age and of commanding presence. She disappeared shortly after he was arrested. It is said that she had followed him from Nevada and that his fears were grounded on the fact he had robbed her in Nevada, and she was seeking restitution. This story, however, seems to be mere idle rumor.

Loewe or Levy was the only man who ever committed suicide in the county jail.

ONLY LEGAL HANGING.

The only legal execution that ever took place in this county was recalled yesterday by the suicide of the prisoner Levy in the county jail. Since the formation of the county there has been but one legal hanging, and Levy is the only man that took his own life while in prison.

In was on August 23, 1859, that Luis Carrizoza was hanged for the murder of Francisco Alviso. J. Carrillo was district judge at the time and presided at the trial. W.J. Graves was the district attorney and William C. Dana was foreman of the jury that found the accused guilty of murder in the first degree. Francisco Castro was the sheriff and conducted the execution.

The records of the case which are beginning to turn yellow with age, are filed in the office of County Clerk Whicher. The following is a copy of the sentence as imposed by Judge Carrillo.

"You, Luis Carrizoza, have been legally tried before this court upon an indictment preferred against you by the grand jury of the county of San Luis Obispo, for the crime of murder for killing Francisco Alviso, on the first day of March last in that county. To this indictment you pleaded ‘not guilty,’ upon which you were tried before an impartial jury of citizens, who, after hearing and weighing the evidence, and the law of your case, have rendered their verdict, finding you guilty of murder in the first degree. You say now that you have no legal cause to show why judgment should not be pronounced against you. The judgment of this court is:

"That you, Luis Carrizoza, be taken hence in the custody of the sheriff of San Luis Obispo county, and be safely detained and imprisoned by him until the 23d day of August, A.D., 1859, on which day, between the hours of 9 and 11 in the forenoon, you shall be taken by said sheriff, and within the walls or yard of the county jail of said county, or at some other convenient private place within said county, and then and there be hung by the neck until you be dead; and may God have mercy on your soul."

The order of the court to the sheriff commanding him to hang the convicted man, states that Carrizoza was found guilty on July 20 of that year.

On the same day of the hanging Sheriff Castro filed his report of the execution, in which he said:

"This certifies that I, Francisco Castro, sheriff of said county did, between the hours of 9 and 11 o’clock, to wit: About the hour of half past 9 in the forenoon on this, the 23d day of August, A.D., 1859, in the old Mission building, in the rear of the jail of said county, the same being a convenient private place, having first invited the Hon. Jose Maria Munos (sic) county judge; William J. Graves, district attorney of said county; Thomas R. Thorp, M.D., a respectable physician of said county to attend and be present thereat, inflict the punishment of death upon the within named Luis Carrizoza, by hanging him, the said Luis Carrizoza, by the neck until he was dead.

"And I further certify that at the request of said Luis Carrizoza, I invited the Rev. Juan Compala, a minister of the gospel, and the said minister was accordingly present and attended said Carrizoza at said execution."

The records are attested by P.H. Forrester, who was then county clerk.

October 22, 1899 through October 28, 1899.

A marriage license has been issued to Albert Robert Fulton of this city and Emily F. Musick of Arroyo Grande.

Through a typographical error in the TRIBUNE Friday, the grain yield on the ranch of A.B. Hasbrouck was given as having been estimated at 1,000 sacks. It should have been 8,000.

Constable Gano of Paso Robles arrived on last evening’s train with a crazy man named Alexander Olympia, who was lodged in the county jail for ten days. A man by the name of Olympia ought to be crazy after all the trouble it had in the late war.

THREE LOVELY TYPEWRITERS.

COUNTY OFFICERS WHO NOW HAVE AN EASY TIME OF IT.

Music of typewriters rang in every office of the County Court House yesterday, the occasion being the arrival of three new machines of the Hartford make for use in the offices of the Assessor, Tax Collector and Recorder. Every man in the various offices looked askance at the machines but finally concluded that they would tackle them. And so the hum of the machines made many people think that the Supervisors had opened a school for type-writing. The officers that are without machines look on with jealous eye, but find consolation in saying that they have too much business to attend to, to be fooling with typewriters.

The traffic of San Luis Obispo County this fall is the heaviest in its history. Never before have the roads been so crowded with teams pulling heavily loaded wagons. It has been a year of immense production.

RETURN OF THE SOLDIER BOYS.

Corporal William B. Price is now in San Francisco, having returned on one of the transports from the Phillipines (sic). He expects to arrive in a few days to visit his parents at Pismo...

...Chas. Hasse, another San Luis boy who served in the war, has arrived in San Francisco, and may be expected home soon...

...Will Clark of Arroyo Grande passed through homeward bound on last evening’s train, having just been released from the Marine Hospital in San Francisco, after battling for weeks against typhoid fever...

... Frank Bouchard, who was a member of Troop C, 4th United States Regulars and served over thirty engagements in the Philippines, has been mustered out and on Wednesday returned to his home at Los Berros...

(Compiler’s note: The article is much more detailed. Those interested in searching out further information can find the completes article in the TRIBUNE for October 22, 1899.)

The San Miguel Messenger says that Mr. Frank Mills, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jed Mills of Estrella, was united in marriage Wednesday to Miss Ada Westing formerly a resident of the plains but later living near Stockton.

BORN.

WHEELER - At Oceano, Monday, Oct. 16, 1899, to Mr. and Mrs. T.V. Wheeler, a daughter.

CANET - Near Morro, Oct. 15, 1899, to the wife of Jos. Canet, a son.

DOWELL - At Arroyo Grande, Oct. 19, 1899, to the wife of W.H. Dowell, a son.

WINEMAN - Near Santa Maria, Saturday, Oct. 14, 1899, to the wife of John Wineman, a son.

BUNCE - In Santa Maria, Friday, Oct. 13, 1899, to the wife of A.L. Bunce, a daughter.

MUSCIO - In this city, Oct. 23, 1899, to the wife of R.R. Muscio, a daughter.

TO CAN CLAMS.

W.J. Oaks departed yesterday for Los Angeles. He expects to return here in about a week and will then proceed at once to establish the clam cannery at Pismo beach which he has so long contemplated.

"I feel assured," said Mr. Oaks to the TRIBUNE scribe, "that this industry can be made a success. There is a great demand for clams and those from Pismo beach are reputed to be the finest and best from any point on the Pacific coast. I expect to conduct the cannery on a broad scale and ship the canned goods to all portions of the United States."

The TRIBUNE welcomes this new industry among the many evidences of our county’s now rapid advancement and wishes Mr. Oaks every success.

MARRIED.

KINNEY - GRANT–At Auburn, Placer county, Wednesday, October 11, 1899, by Rev. Richmond, John S. Kinney of Arroyo Grande to Miss Cora Grant.

STANIFORD - GRAVES–In this city, Oct. 26, 1899, at the Methodist parsonage, by the Rev. W.A. Betts, Mr. W.B. Staniford and Miss Dicie May Graves of this city.

LIDDLE - DOYLE–In this city, Oct. 26, 1899, by M. Egan, J.P., Mr. Frank Liddle, and Miss Georgie Doyle, both of Paso Robles.

Judge Egan yesterday sentenced a drunk to fifteen days in the county jail. The fellow made himself obnoxious by using obscene language on the streets.

The pupils of the Nipomo street school have donated a large number of old books for the use of the pupils of Arroyo Grande, who lost all their books in the fire.

The Arroyo Grande Herald has entered upon its thirteenth year. The TRIBUNE offers congratulations and wishes it many more years.

Duck hunters had good sport Sunday. It was just the sort of day to kill the birds.

ARROYO GRANDE SCHOOL OPENS.

ARROYO GRANDE, Oct. 23.–The Arroyo Grande public schools re-opened today.

The various grades are located in the following halls:

Grammar Grande–G.B. Huston, teacher–at G.A.R. Hall.

Higher Intermediate–Mrs. Watson, teacher–at the Wood’s building opposite Union Hall.

The Primary, Miss Young teacher, and the Lower Intermediate, Miss Gillespie, teacher, at Columbian Hall.

The town and its enterprising citizens are battling hard to overcome the disaster resulting from the burning of (sic) magnificent school building and it is safe to say that in another year there will be a new temple of learning.

The Herald says that many of those who were awarded premiums for their exhibits at the recent fair have turned in part or all of said premiums and quite a sum can be placed in the hands of the trustees in a few days for the purpose of supporting the various grades in their present locations and assisting in erecting another building.

Judge Venable of San Luis has offered fifty double desks on behalf of Mission district and Jos. Lind of San Luis has offered to sell the district all the furniture and give all the time necessary. He also offered to donate twelve double desks. These offers are much appreciated by the people here.

WANTED.

A Japanese wants to get a contract to chop wood. He wants to chop 500 cords or more. He wants to get contract this month, if possible. Apply at this office or P.O. Box 166.

IMPROVING COAST MUNICIPALITIES.

NOTES ON BONDS VOTED OR TO BE VOTED.

Other Things in Connection With Our California Cities.

Yreka has voted bonds for water works.

Ferndale is considering the sewerage question.

Pomona is considering the sewerage question.

Lakeport’s new water system is nearing completion.

Palo Alto has passed a house-numbering ordinance.

Santa Clara has let a contract for enameled street signs.

Martinez sold a general electric franchise on October 10th.

Hanford contemplates bonding the town for sewer purposes.

Berkeley has repealed its license tax on merchandising.

Salinas has just started a High School building to cost $24,880.

The Los Angeles Council is considering a vehicle-license ordinance.

Belvedere has voted to issue sewer bonds to the amount of $10,000.

Nevada City is talking about establishing a public library; also to install a municipal lighting plant.

Redlands is using oil for street sprinkling purposes, and the city officials think that it will prove a success.

The city of Alameda has advertised for the construction of two combined hose wagons and chemical engines.

Livermore contemplates re-incorporation under the general law so that it can acquire its own light and water systems.

Pleasanton is preparing to call an election to authorize a bond issue for the purpose of extending its water works system.

Emeryville is considering plans for a sewer system in connection with that of Oakland, and also an independent system.

Alameda’s contract for feeding prisoners calls for one kind of meat, two kinds of vegetables and one cup of coffee with sugar and four slices of bread in individual plates at 20 cents each.

(Compiler’s note: These subsequent items are taken from a follow-up article dealing with the same subject, i.e., the encouragement of San Luis Obispo to enter upon a new era of progress by noting what other cities in the state had done. [October 26, 1899])

...Fresno proposes to experiment with oil for street sprinkling.

Visalia citizens are agitating the matter of acquiring an immense tract of land for park purposes.

Lompoc, well satisfied with municipal ownership of the water works, has denied an application of a corporation desirous of installing an electric lighting plant. The town proposes to furnish its own lights.

The San Diego water works case is to be appealed. The lower courts declared the bond issue of $1,500,000 to be illegal. This will seriously delay the proposed acquisition of a water system.

The ladies of Healdsburg are interesting themselves in town improvements. They propose to furnish a complete outfit of street signs and also to improve the sidewalks and public square.

Watsonville has awarded the construction of its new sewer system to Williams, Belser & Co., for the sum of $12,379. The contract for furnishing the materials had been previously awarded, the approximate price being $17,000.

Martinez is considering the propriety of pushing the suit brought by the city several years ago to recover possession of its water front.

Oakland has been made the recipient of $50,000 for a public library building, the gift of Andrew Carnegie. This is the second gift of the kind that Mr. Carnegie has made to cities of this state, San Diego having been similarly favored a short time ago.

Santa Cruz has made arrangements to purchase the water plant owned by the private company of that place and which has been a source of competition and irritation for many years.

The wedding of Isaac Porter of the Huasna and Miss Anastacia Adams of Santa Maria, occurred at the latter place yesterday.

WORK ON THE GAP.

Approach of winter is causing the contractors engaged on the construction work along the "gap" of the Southern Pacific railroad to push the work with all possible speed in the hope of making as much headway as they can before the heavy rains set in to seriously delay them. Storms have already interfered with the progress of the work as the ravines and gulches have been roaring with floods from the mountain sides.

The contractors generally feel satisfied with the amount of work that they have finished so far this year, and with as favorable conditions and no further cessation of work, they figure that the road will be ready for the first train by November of next year. (Compiler’s note: The reader is reminded again that the gap was not closed until March 31, 1901!) The reports that the road will be built by next spring are absurd. With the present force of men it is impossible to finish within a year.

Contractor Gus Peterson, who has a contract for a large part of the masonry work was in town Monday. His camp is now located at Gaviota. "The work is getting along good" said Mr. Peterson to a TRIBUNE reporter. "The rains have interfered some, though. Nobody is losing any time on the job but it is hard for me to say when they expect to get through."

Contractor McCormick will finish the work on the big fill at Bell Canyon in less than two weeks. The probability is that he will take another contract on the gap. McCormick has the reputation of rushing things and doing good work.

A car load of laborers went through to the front Monday.

ESTRELLA.

...Frank Mills and Ada Westing were married in Stockton last week and came down to the home of his father, Mr. Jed Mills last Thursday, where they are visiting before settling down...

STAGE LINE DISAPPEARS.

A dispatch in yesterday’s Chronicle is of great interest to the people of this county. It is as follows:

SANTA BARBARA, Oct. 23.–Railroad officials in this city announce that trains will be running over the Coast line as far south as Gaviota within a few days. The rails have been laid within a mile and a half of that point. When trains begin running, two stage lines which also have the government mail contract, will cease running.

THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION.

Special to the TRIBUNE.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25–President McKinley issued his Thanksgiving proclamation today, designating Thursday, Nov. 30th as the day.

BUSINESS MEN MEET.

STEPS TAKEN TO IMPROVE TRADE AND ADVANCE THE CITY’S INTERESTS.

The merchants and business men have organized and out of the meeting at the City hall last evening, though not filling that edifice to the doors, is to come the spirit which is to lead San Luis Obispo into the bright pathway of genuine progress, and increase to a great extend its volume of business. The election of L.M. McManus as permanent chairman was a wise choice and the tone of his speech, when he expressed his thanks for the honor, carried with it a most favorable impression and gave assurance that he will work harmoniously and diligently with his fellow business men to advance the interests of the city and gave new life to its commercial affairs.

(Compiler’s note: For readers interested in further details, the complete article can be found in the October 26, 1899 issue of the TRIBUNE available in micro-film form at the public library.)

GRAIN DRILLS.

A CARLOAD THAT ARRIVES FOR SINSHEIMER BROS.

We notice that a solid car load of the latest improved Disc Grain Drills has just arrived for Sinsheimer Bros. They came direct from the factory at Louisville, Kentucky thereby enabling Sinsheimer Bros. to give the latest factory prices and carload rates. They had the foresight to buy early before the raise in prices and thus give their customers the benefit. The good results shown in saving of seed and increased crops, have fully demonstrated that the only way to put in grain is with a drill and farmers see it.

WHOSE PUMPKINS ARE THE LARGEST

When the frost is on the pumpkin

And the fodder’s in the shock

is the time to determine who has raised the biggest pumpkin of the season...

JA Renetzky, one of the shoe dealers of the city gave out pumpkin seeds last spring, with the understanding that prizes would be awarded to those raising the largest pumpkins from said seed. He offered prizes as follows: First prize $15, set of single buggy harness; second prize, $4 pair of shoes; third prize, $2.50 in cash; fourth prize, to girls under 15 years of age $2.00, pair of shoes; fifth prize, to boys under 15 years of age $1.50 pair of shoes.

The contest closes next Saturday, October 28, at 1 p.m. when all who raised pumpkins will please present the same at Renetzky’s shoe store where judges will be selected to weight the same and award the prizes.

Mr. Renetzky ought to have pumpkin pie galore for his Thanksgiving day dinner.

OIL INDUSTRY.

The oil boom is no boom, but a real thing.

Captain Barrett who is now here, spent yesterday at Santa Margarita. The derrick is already up there and as soon as the rest of the machinery arrives boring will commence.

The project is backed by heavy capital in San Francisco and will be pushed for all there is in it.

There is trouble in the foot ball world and Santa Maria refuses to play another game with the San Luis eleven.

DIED.

BUDAR - In this city, Oct. 26th, 1899, Carmel Arana, widow of the late Antonio Budar, native of Santa Cruz, Cal., aged 50 years and 5 months.

October 29, 1899 through November 4, 1899.

Ernest Tognini of San Luis Obispo is one of the latest graduates from Heald’s Business College hailing from this county. Ernest is a bright young man and pursued a wise course in obtaining a business education at this popular college.–A.G. Oracle.

STRAYED.

A 2-year old bay horse colt. Lower jaw shorter than natural. Valuable reward to finder. Leave word at this office or at Sinsheimer’s store.

HE WAS BRAVE.

We are daily hearing of heroic deeds, but the following story of a small boy of the Arroyo Grande valley is worthy of being placed among the first:

A few nights ago while Thos. McGuire was absent from home on business a drunken tramp went to his house. With some difficulty Mrs. McGuire persuaded Weary Willie that his presence would be more welcome elsewhere. As she closed the door and looked around she saw her little son, very pale, holding his father’s gun in his hand exclaiming in childlike words that if he could not shoot he could scare the man.

INTEREST IN COPPER MINING.

Interest in copper mining in this county has been stirred up again by an expert in that line, Mr. E. W. Ames, who is now in this city as a representative of outside capital.

He has filed notices with County Recorder Fiedler locating the "California" and "Illinois" mines. Both are in section 27, township 29, south of range 12.

Mr. Ames left yesterday for Los Osos to inspect an old copper mine which was worked thirty years ago.

This move is good evidence of the fact that outside capital is coming to San Luis Obispo county.

The claims located may be worked in a few months.

THERE WERE SOME PUMPKINS.

Twenty-four pumpkins were exhibited at Renetzky’s shoe store yesterday afternoon. They had all ben grown from seed given out by Mr. Renetzky and were brought in to compete for prizes offered by him for the largest grown.

R.E. Lee and H.E. Green, both of whom know how to eat pumpkin pie, but are no experts on how to raise them, were the judges.

The prizes were awarded as follows:

Largest pumpkin, weight 140½ pounds, $15 set of harness, N.J. Downer of Arroyo Grande.

Second, weight 136 pounds, $4 pair of shoes to L.B. Hunter of Arroyo Grande.

Third, weight 129 pounds, $2.50 cash to Mrs. Ingram of Arroyo Grande.

The fourth prize offered for competition for girls under 15 years old, a $2 pair of shoes, went to Gertie Stewart.

The fifth prize, offered for the competition of boys under 15 years old, a $1.50 pair of shoes, went to Edward Canet, weight of pumpkin 85½ POUNDS.

The fourth largest pumpkin was raised by E.H. Eddy in Oak Park. It weighed 116½ pounds.

BORN.

BROOKS - Near Arroyo Grande, Oct. 25, 1899, to the wife of W.H. Brooks, a daughter.

NEGRANTI - At Cayucos, Oct. 26, 1899, to the wife of James P. Negranti, a daughter.

NICOLA - At Cayucos, Oct. 19, 1899, to the wife of Gualtiero Nicola, a daughter.

MARRIED.

PORTER - ADAM–At the home of the bride’s parents in Santa Maria, Oct. 25, 1899, Rev. M. Lynch officiating, Miss Anastacia Adam of Santa Maria to Isaac Porter of Huasna.

VILLA - BARCCA (sic)–In this city at the Catholic church, Oct. 29, 1899, by Rev. Father Aguilera, Mr. Eligio A. Villa and Miss Ercilia Barcca, both of Cayucos.

DeMORTOS-BRAZIL–In this city at the Catholic church, Oct. 30, 1799 (sic), by Rev. Father Aguilera, Juan Silva de Mortos of Morro and Miss Maria Brazil of Cayucos.

DIED.

MOORE - In this city, Oct. 28th, 1899, Libbie M., wife of H.M. Moore, a native of Ontario Co., New York, aged 58 years, 4 months and 20 days.

RODRIGUEZ - At East Santa Fe, Oct. 30th, 1899, Miguel A., son of Zenobio and Porfiria (sic) Rodriguez, aged 4 years and 1 month.

CARDOVA (sic) - In this city, Oct. 29th, 1899, Ramona, infant daughter of C. and Louisa M. Cardova, aged 6 months.

HAMILTON - In Paso Robles, Oct. 31, 1899, Marion, only child of George W. and Mamie F. Hamilton, aged 2 years, 7 months and 27 days.

GASTELLO - In this city, Nov. 2d, 1899, Nativada (sic) J. Gastello, a native of Santa Cruz, Cal., aged 57 years.

PROSPECTS OF OIL.

Prospecting for oil, with good prospects of striking an abundance of the fluid, is setting San Luis Obispo county wild. It is anticipated that an immensely profitable industry is soon to be launched.

The Paso Robles Record says that Paso Robles is surrounded by a surface indication of oil. Near Adelaide the water of several springs has been found to be filled with hydrocarbon substances. One of these springs is on the ranch of Edwin Smith near Adelaide. Just east of town about three miles a well has been bored on the ranch of A. Brendlin to a depth of 214 feet, at this level and in the midst of black sand, water was found but of such a foul nature as to be scarcely fit for domestic use and the water has every indication of containing petroleum substances. On the San Luis Orchard Company’s property a well was dug to a considerable depth. The workmen built a fire near the dump and to their surprise the soil taken from the well began to burn, another unmistakable indication of the presence of a petroleum substance.

Arroyo Grande is equally wild over the prospects in that section. The Herald of last week says:

The Lahabra Oil Co. has shipped its drilling plant from Whittier to this place and it will arrive in a few days and be put up in the Phoenix canyon, we understand. The Puenta Oil Co. through W. H. Toland has secured leases on 25,000 acres of land on the Huasna an d we understand will commence boring early in the spring. The Los Angeles Petroleum Development Co. will commence operations in December or January in Tar spring canyon.

The Lompoc Record says that responsible parties have secured options at a cost of ten thousand dollars on lands sixty miles north of Santa Barbara. This would reach the Lompoc property where many fine indications of oil are found.

Articles of incorporation of the San Luis Oil Co. were filed last Saturday. The capital stock is $1,000,000; amount subscribed $5,000, $1,000 each being held by G. Nenbaum, Leon Sloss, Joseph Sloss, Harry Francis and R. E. Jack, who are to act as directors for the first year.

Every indication points to a big boom in the oil business in this county.

Hallow Een. (sic)

Will be observed with all proper ceremonies at the Skating Rink, on Tuesday evening, Oct. 31st. All people, both old and young, who wish to look into the future, should be present...

HUASNA SCHOOL REPORT.

The following is the average per cent made by the pupils of the Huasna district in examinations for the month ending Oct. 18, 1899: Clara Phoenix 88, Alice Berwick 85, Bertha Phoenix 87, Earl Phoenix 86, Ernest Phoenix 92. Ida M. Lane, teacher.

The Findley trial has called to this city, J.C. Fraser, the employe (sic) of the Pinkerton detective agency. He is the man who effected Findley’s capture.

THE MEETING TONIGHT.

AN OPPORTUNITY FOR BUSINESS MEN TO START SAN LUIS OBISPO FORWARD.

This evening at 8:15 o’clock every merchant and business man should be present at the city hall to aid in the good work of formulating plans for the advancement of our city and the increase of business transacted here.

Are you going? Why don’t you go? Haven’t you got time to go? Are you not interested in the future of the town? Don’t you know that the more business men who attend, the stronger will be the assurances of success and the more encouraging will be the prospects? Don’t you think that you ought to attend the meeting?

These are the questions to be considered by the business men of this city with the greatest of care.

Our towns are applauding the efforts of the meeting held last Thursday night. Hear what the Santa Barbara Press says:

San Luis Obispo is on the right track. The business men have organized to improve trade and advance the city’s interests. "Pull together" is the right motto.

Other papers are saying the same thing, and San Luis Obispo should do something for itself.

In the agricultural history of the state of California there never has been any such showing as there is this season in San Luis Obispo county. Prosperity prospers here. Here we have the biggest grain crop ever known in the history of the state. Here we have the most fertile soil. Here we have the best petroleum indications ever discovered within the borders of the United States and outside capital is looking this way.

Next year will be bright and San Luis Obispo has its opportunity presented to do something tonight that will make it a city of prominence.

The people of the county are anxious to know who the business men are who are interested in building up the town and county. They want to know which ones are joining in this effort to help our county seat known (sic) far and wide. They want to do their trading with that class. The TRIBUNE will give the list of business men present at tonight’s meeting and before the meeting is held and when no words of censure can be spoken against the paper, it will say that it is this list of business men who are alive and entitled to the trade of the country people. Men who are too lazy to attend a public mass meeting are not entitled to the business of the people. (Compiler’s note: A follow-up article can be found in micro-filmed copies of the TRIBUNE for November 3, 1899.)

LOS BERROS SCHOOL REPORT.

Following is the Los Berros school report for the month ending Oct. 20, 1899:

The pupils who stood highest in deportment are Olive Lockwood, Iola Shaw, Lloyd Whittemore, Harry Cheadle, Mae Morgan, Maud Strobridge, Alma Chitwood, Ruth Ross, Edna Cheadle, Cecil Chitwood, Clover Daily, George Ross and Ethel Daily.

The following were neither absent nor tardy: Ruth Ross, Edna Cheadle, Velma Morgan, Cecil Chitwood and Alma Chitwood.

MARGARET BURCHELL, Teacher.

Quail on toast every day at the Maison Doree.

Gay Coney Island was the scene last night of pugilistic enthusiasm, resulting from the Jeffries-Sharkey fight.

San Luis Obispo thanks, to the enterprise of Wood’s cigar store and the Whisper saloon, was furnished complete bulletins of the fight by rounds and both places were thronged with people anxious and eager to learn the full particulars of the mill.

Jeffries was given the decision and is still the champion, but it was a surprise to everyone that he was the winner after the great advantages gained by Sharkey by furious fighting throughout more than ten rounds.

(Compiler’s note: There follows an innings (sic) by innings (sic) description of the fight. Interested readers can find this in the November 4, 1899 micro-filmed copy of the TRIBUNE in the public library.)

CAYUCOS SCHOOL...

Following is a report of the Cayucos school for the month ending October 27.

GRAMMAR DEPARTMENT.

Number of boys enrolled, 17.

Number of girls enrolled, 19.

Average daily attendance, 32.

The following pupils were neither absent nor tardy during the month:

Atilyo (sic) Filiponi, Ester (sic) Biaggini, Katie Filipponi (sic), Ida Pelucca, Frank Villa and Americo Ramonetti.

Nancy Nonella’s name should have appeared last month. D.H. Foree, Prin.

PRIMARY DEPARTMENT.

Number of boys enrolled, 30.

Number of girls enrolled, 21.

Average daily attendance, 44.

The following pupils were neither absent nor tardy: Henry Minetti, Ida Minetti, Nina Minetti, Secondo Minetti, Eddie Biaggini, Inez Filipponi, Olga Ramonetti, Valdo Filiponi (sic), Robert Filiponi (sic) and Elsie Pelucca.

The name of Henry Minetti should have appeared on this list last month.

EFORA E.S. FOREE, teacher.

Tommie Hourihan, the news boy was waylaid while on his rounds last night. As he passed the cypress hedge by the railroad crossing three hobos jumped out and gave chase but fortunately for him he was the best sprinter of the outfit and escaped.

A BIT MINING DEAL.

A COPPER MINE ON LOS OSOS IS SOLD TO A BIG

T.T. Ames, whom the TRIBUNE noted few days since as being here interested in the location of copper mines in this county has made a deal with Messrs. A.C. Gibson and Denis Filliponi (sic) of Los Osos, whereby he now controls and owns a valuable copper mine in that section of the county.

On the Gibson ranch the ledge crops out from the main shaft for 1800 feet. This property is now owned by the syndicate of which Mr. Ames is the representative. Mr. Filliponi (sic) has relinquished his title to that portion of his ranch, upon which the company desires to erect buildings.

Mr. Ames stated that the mine will be worked at once and that in the course of time several hundred men will be employed...

CATTLE KILLED.

Yesterday forenoon a runaway team attached to a heavy farm wagon dashed into a drove of cattle on the Los Osos road and killed two of the bovines. The cattle belonged to J.S. Jones of this city. He has bought all the dairy cattle on H.M. Warden’s ranch and was bringing them to this city for shipment.

The Santa Barbara Press runs big scare headlines in its issue of last Thursday morning, the first of which says, "Oil In San Luis Obispo." Who says that this city and county is not being watched by the state at large?

November 5, 1899 through November 11, 1899.

THREE JURORS NAMED.

WHO WILL WEIGH THE EVIDENCE AGAINST SAMUEL M. FINDLEY.

The trial of Samuel M. Findley, the defaulting tax collector of San Luis Obispo county was commenced yesterday in the Superior court and three jurors were sworn in, after which an adjournment was taken until 9 a.m. Monday.

Attorney William Graves is associated with the district attorney’s office in prosecuting the case and it is understood he will attend to almost all the work. He represents the interests of the surety company, a corporation which is determined to secure Findley’s conviction.

Only three jurors were secured in the case yesterday. They are J.L. Anderson, L. Tomassini and P.H. Moise.

A.J. Monihon is the attorney for the defendant.

Pinho’s tonsorial parlors have been adorned with a set of fine new mirrors which give the place a splendid appearance.

The Oracle says that the man who has sufficient enterprise to get in and start a bank in Arroyo Grande now will reap his reward when the oil industry is fully launched and in working order.

MARRIED.

LONG - WILLIAMS–In Paso Robles Nov. 1, 1899, by Rev. Wm. Claque, Mr. Wm. C. Long of San Luis Obispo and Miss Hattie Williams of Paso Robles.

CLARK - COCHRAN–In this city, Nov. 8, 1899, at the home of C.S. Kendall, by Rev. Will A. Betts, Geo. W. Clark and Minerva J. Cochran, both of Arroyo Grande.

ISOM - MILLER–At Edna, Nov. 8, 1899, Ira W. Isom and Helen E. Miller, Rev. Geo. Willett officiating.

EASTIN-VERNON–At the home of the bride’s parents near this city, Nov. 8, 1899, by Rev. R.C. Grace of Newman, Stanislaus county, Mr. Thomas D.Eastin of Newman and Miss Louise M. Vernon of this city.

BATTLES - HOURIHAN–In this city at the French hotel, Nov. 8, 1899, by Rev. Father Lynch of Arroyo Grande, Mr. U.G. Battles and Miss Ella F. Hourihan, both of Santa Maria.

MANKINS - CASTEEL–In this city, Nov. 9th, 1899, by M. Egan, J.P., Mr. Fred Mankins and Miss Jessie Casteel.

SEVEN MORE JURORS.

All of yesterday was taken up in an effort to secure a full jury to try the defaulting tax collector, Samuel M. Findley, but the court took an adjournment at 5 p.m., with that desired and having not been attained. Two more jurors are required.

out of the remainder of the regular venire only two jurors were sworn to sit in the case. They were H. Lockwood of Los Berros and Harry J. Logan of Chorro.

The sheriff brought into court a special venire of twenty-five at 3 p.m. and the wheels of justice once more turned.

Out of this special venire the following were sworn as jurors: W.A. Evans of Templeton, John Cheda of Chorro, A.J. Green, Cyrus Ramage and John Edgar of this city.

There will remain four more of the special venire to be examined, touching upon their qualifications to serve. They are J.E. Lewis, E.W. Lawrence, E. Vollmer and James Beck.

A great many were excused yesterday because they held fixed opinions. W.A. Cook stated that his opinion was that Findley was insane when he took the money. Thos. Hourihan said that he did not believe two-thirds of what he read in the newspapers.

The regular venire of jurors not sworn in on this case have been excused until next Monday at 9 a.m.

Wednesday there will be a wedding at Edna. The contracting parties are Mr. Ira Isom and Miss Helen Miller, two popular young people of that place. A dance will be given in their honor in the evening at Rock Siding.]

CITY TRUSTEES.

...There being but $136 in the general fund, matter of auditing claims was postponed.

With reference to lighting the city Trustee Mallagh reported that the Electric Light company had reconstructed its system so that everything was in readiness to turn on the lights whenever orders were received from the city to do so...

BONDSHU TALKS.

Yesterday afternoon, the TRIBUNE representative had an interview with C.F. Bondshu, the erstwhile school teacher who is now in the county jail deeply interested in several suits brought against him by his wife, one of which is a suit for divorce. Mr. Bondshu has left the children with friends, but refuses to state where. He states that the only fight which he will make is over the custody of the children, whom he desires to retain.

San Luis Obispo county is awakening to the fact that it has oil fields, and news received from there a few days ago makes known that oil in large quantities has bee found in the Huasna district, southeast of the city of San Luis Obispo, and that drilling tools and oil well supplies were on their way there from Los Angeles. This latter fact is confirmed by R.H. Herrin & Co. of this city who state that one rig was shipped there from here last week and that they will ship in another one this week.–Los Angeles Times.

Another large grading outfit is soon to arrive from Arizona for work on the "gap."

S.M. FINDLEY ON TRIAL

The Findley trial is now on. After several special venires the jury was completed yesterday by the acceptance by all parties of J.E. Lewis and John McGlashan.

Before court took its noon recess Deputy Clerk Mallagh had read the indictment brought against Findley and District Attorney Campbell had made his short, yet pointed statement of what the prosecution expected to prove.

The taking of testimony began upon the convening of court in the afternoon. The court room gradually filled up with interested spectators.

At the end of one of the long benches sat Detective Fraser, the man who caught Findley in Peru. It is customary in cases of this character to have the detective at the elbow of the prosecuting attorneys, but the detective in this instance was kept in the back ground, due probably to the fact that the prosecution had to combat the prevailing sentiment that it is the detective and the surety company that are determined to secure Findley’s conviction. So the quiet, sharp appearing Fraser remained with the multitude, that his presence and interest in the case might not excite further prejudice.

County Clerk Whicher was the first witness called by the people. It was established by his testimony that Samuel M. Findley had been appointed tax collector of the county of

San Luis Obispo, that he had taken the oath of office and filed the necessary bond, the Fidelity and Deposit company of Maryland as the surety. County Recorder Fiedler testified that he had filed the bond at the request of Samuel M. Findley. All of the above documents were offered as exhibits in the case by the prosecution.

Auditor Spangenberg was placed on the stand and testified that when he turned the tax roll of 1898 over to Findley in October there was due on it the sum of $197,059.90, which was increased later by the assessor. The October settlement in 1898 by Findley amounted to $6,743.96. The attorney for the defense had a long siege with the auditor. The defense is endeavoring to show that the tax rolls may have been changed.

The crowd of spectators today will be much larger.

DON’T LIKE THE TYPEWRITERS.

The assessor, recorder and tax collector are registering a "kick" against the Hartford typewriters recently procured for their respective offices by the board.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

Nov. 7.

...The board ordered that a steamer ticket be provided James Foley an inmate of the county hospital, with which to send him to San Francisco...

...The board ordered that L.R. Leonard be paid $75 for 1,000 copies of the San Luis Obispo Weekly TRIBUNE of Nov. 3, the same containing a general write up of benefit to the county...

...The board purchased for the sum of $75 a horse from F.J. McHenry for the use of the county hospital.

TEMPLETON.

...Herma, the three-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson of Vasa district died last Saturday from inflammation of the bowels. The remains were taken to the Swedish church where a touching and impressive service was held. The remains were taken to the Templeton cemetery where the little one was laid to rest. The bereaved parents have the sympathy of many friends who were present at the burial.

...Miss Mable Downey is confined to her room with chicken pox...

MORE OUTSIDE CAPITAL.

For several days past representatives of heavy eastern capital have been interested in locating mines from which ore can be obtained for the big Cardegie (sic) concern in Pennsylvania. P.B. Prefumo and others are said to have a big deal on the tapis with these men. (Compiler’s note: The term "on the tapis" means "under consideration.")

E.P. Loring, who resides on Toro creek, was in town the other day and stated that he has discovered fine prospects for a copper mine on this ranch, which will probably be developed in a short time by outside capital.

COYOTE SCALPS.

Coyotes are becoming very numerous in many counties of the state. At its session of this month, the board of supervisors received a communication from Ventura county board requesting them to join in placing a two dollar bounty on each scalp. It is only a short time since Kern county made a similar request. The board took no action on either request.

BORN.

MARLOW - Near Watsonville, Oct. 31, 1899, to Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Marlow, a son.

HITCHCOCK - At Canyon, El Dorado Co., Nov. 5, 1899, to Mr. and Mrs. Hitchcock, a son.

BOARD OF TRADE ORGANIZED.

Last evening at the City Hall there was every indication that the business men and citizens of San Luis Obispo are thoroughly alive to the importance of having an organization such as shall voice their demands and aid in rapidly building up the city. (Compiler’s note: Officers and committee chairmen are listed in the article. Readers who are interested in the business organizations which shaped the growth of San Luis Obispo, may search out the article in the November 9, 1899 issue of the TRIBUNE in the microfilm files at the library.)

The Union Oil Company has placed their apparatus on the Beckett land near the line of the Pacific Coast Railway and about four hundred yards north of the Arroyo Grande depot. They will commence boring for oil in less than a week. All Arroyo Grande is in a wild stage of excitement.

DIED.

LITTLE - At Lompoc, Nov. 8, 1899, Harry Little, a native of San Luis Obispo, Cal., aged 29 years, 7 months.

DORHAN - At the County hospital, Nov. 9, 1899, Michael Dorhan, a native of Ireland, aged 51 years.

TORO VALLEY.

...Ed Pierce has a new suit of dude clothes...

...A. Bretz who lives alone on his ranch, and who has not a soul to feed save himself and visiting friends as they come along, must anticipate many visitors. He has on hand, of his own make, five gallons of golden prune butter, five gallons of grape jelly, currant, grape and prune jams and canned fruits without end. We wonder not that he is a chronic dyspeptic.

Albert Ford, like the rest of us is endeavoring to sell his ranch and move somewhere into God’s country whose Christian Sciences hold a preponderance. We wonder why Christ will come down this day and generation, to earth and heal the sick and don’t bring with him merchants for our ranches...

..GENERAL TORO.

DEVELOPING AN IRON MINE.

The iron mine that the TRIBUNE spoke of some days since is to be developed soon. It is to be on property of P.B. Prefumo which has been leased by outside capitalists.

The records of the county recorder’s office show the following lease:

P.B. Prefumo et nx to Alfred A. Wheeler. Lease for two and one-half years at 12½ cents royalty per long ton of iron ore and 50 cents per long ton of chronic ore, said royalty to be not less than $100.00 per month. Said lessee to begin operations within 1 year, with right to buy property for $40,000. Right to mine and export iron ores from lot 71 of rancho Canada de los Osos and lots 1 and 2 and ne¼ of se¼ and se¼ of nw¼ of sec 1, twp 31 s r 11 e, 677.50 acres.

OIL DEVELOPMENT.

FIVE COMPANIES IN THIS COUNTY WITH FULL EQUIPMENT OF MACHINES FOR BORING.

Within Few Months San Luis Obispo County Bids Fair to Become the Most Prominent Among the Oil Sections of the State.

(Compiler’s note: A lengthy article on oil development in San Luis Obispo county can be found in the November 10 issue of the TRIBUNE. A microfilmed copy of this issue can be found in the reference department of the library.)

JUROR MOISE TALKS.

SAYS IN OPEN COURT THAT THE PROSECUTION IS ALTOGETHER TOO SLOW.

The trial of Samuel M. Findley closes its first week today and it seems very much as if the prosecution has only presented probably one-third of its case.

P.H. Moise, one of the jurors, yesterday created quite a sensation in open court during the forenoon session by stating that it looked very much to him, as if the prosecution was attempting to delay the case and that his time was just as valuable as that of the attorneys for the prosecution, therefore he desired to see the case hurried along.

Miss Nellie Nesbitt, who was a deputy in the tax collector’s office during the time that Mr. Findley was the incumbent, was on the witness stand all day. She testified as to the collection of taxes and a number of stubs were admitted in evidence, also, an account book in which Miss Nesbitt noted all money collected by her. Over this last book there was a long wrangle.

Seeing that the case will continue for some time, Judge Unangst has ordered that the remainder of the regular venire of jurors be excused until Monday, November 20th at 9 a.m., instead of Monday, November 13th as designated in a former order.

It is doubtful if the case can be finished by that time.

DAIRYMEN TO REPORT.

By a recent enactment of the legislature, known as the Dairy Inspection Law, it was made mandatory that all dairymen in the state should send a report each year to the State Dairy Bureau, from which it shall prepare its annual report.

Each dairyman is expected to give the name of the dairy or cheese factory the conductor (?), manager, lessee, or owner, location, post office address.

Total number of stock used for dairy purposes.

Number of thoroughbred dairy stock and what breed.

Number of graded dairy stock and what breed predominates.

Whether they send milk to a creamery or cheese factory.

How many gallons of milk and also of cream sold for consumption in cities and towns during the year ending October 1, 1899.

How many pounds of butter made during the year ending October 1, 1899.

How many pounds of cheese made during the year ending October 1, 1899.

To what market is the product of the dairy or factory shipped.

A number of dairyman (sic) in this county have not sent in their records and in last evening’s mail from San Francisco the following notice came addressed to various dairymen from the State Dairy Bureau:

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9, 1899.

Dear Sir: Some time ago we mailed to you a letter of explanation, a copy of the Dairy Inspection Law, and a statement to be filled out and returned to this office in a self-addressed, stamped envelope. You are one of the few persons in your county who has up to the present time, failed to return a statement.

You will observe that the law makes it a misdemeanor, which is punishable by a fine, for neglecting or refusing to make these statements.

Another blank is enclosed herewith, which we ask you to kindly fill out and return to this office within ten days, and thereby assist us in the difficult task of compiling accurate statistics as to the condition of the dairy industry in this state.

Respectfully yours,

STATE DAIRY BUREAU.

WM. VANDERBILT,

Agent and Secretary

LIGHTS ARE ON.

Chairman Mallagh of the street committee for the council has ordered that the electric lights be turned on and they now shine out brightly. At its next meeting the board will either sanction or disapprove the order.

November 12, 1899 through November 18, 1899.

The remains of the late Henrietta Lattin of Cholame were taken to Pomona by steamer, yesterday.

C.E. BONDSHU’S TROUBLES.

HIS WIFE IS NOW HERE TO PROSECUTE THE CASES AGAINST HIM.

One Is a Suit For Divorce.

And the Other is to Recover One Thousand Dollars She Loaned Him.

BONDSHU CAME HERE TEN YEARS AGO.

And Taught School In the Oak Park District.

The troubles of C.F. Bondshu, now in the county jail read like a romance. Mrs. Bondshu arrived from San Jose and will see to it that the cases against her husband are vigorously prosecuted.

Chas. F. Bondshu came to this county in 1890 and he taught the spring term of school in Oak Park. During those four months he paid more attention to gaining the affections of one of his young lady students then he did to imparting knowledge to the rest of the pupils. The result was that at the end of the term of school he was married to Miss Bertha Patchett.

Mrs. Bondshu has now filed a suit for divorce against her husband and also brought suit to recover $1,000 which she loaned him.

The case is expected to furnish some sensational news when it comes to trial.

(Compiler’s note: Mr. Bondshu, while a teacher at Oak Park made the news over the "barbarous treatment" of one of his pupils. That story can be found in the 1890 issue of ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO by this same compiler, pages 75, 76, 86 and 92.)

Francisco Flores, R.E. Childs and Graciano Castillo have filed a notice locating the "Gloria" quartz mine, seven miles north of Santa Margarita.

It is rumored that the oil well being bored on Supervisor J. E. Redmond’s place near Parkfield, has developed about eight barrels per day.–San Miguel Messenger.

The company having oil lands leased in Phoenix canyon took out several loads of drilling machinery this week and development work will begin as soon as the same can be placed in position.–Arroyo Grande Oracle.

FINE HORSES.

Uncle Harris reported the sale yesterday of four of his big Clydesdale horses to Mr. W. Wineman of Nipomo. Uncle has fourteen more of the same kind that he is willing to dispose of. The horses are fine animals bred in Cambria of the Van Gorden stock, four and five years old, finely bred. Anyone hunting for grand stock, call on Uncle.

DIED.

BECK - At Avila, Nov. 11th, 1899, Arthur, infant son of John and Martha M. Beck, aged 1 year, 11 months and 14 days.

Interment will take place at 2 p.m., this day Sunday, Nov. 12th, at the I.O.O.F. cemetery.

Marriage licenses have been issued to L.A. McCabe and Lottie Whittaker, Santos Trejo and Claytilda Garao.

FREE, FREE, FREE.

Three elegant prizes will be given away free Dec. 31, 1899 at 8 p.m.

With each and every 50 cent cash purchase of any goods kept in our store, you will receive a ticket which will entitle you to a chance in the drawing. First number drawn will get a handsome Dewey Album, Second number, a Plush Shoe Box with cards and envelopes, and Third number, a Fancy Box of Writing Paper and Envelopes. The following are some of our prices:

15½ lbs. Best Gran. Sugar, $1.00.

Coffee: 15, 20, 25 and 35 cents per lb.

16 lbs. Best Quality Rice, $1.00.

25 Bars Tuxedo Soap, $1.00.

30 Bars Royal Savon, $1.00.

16 Bars King Lily Soap, $1.00.

25 Bars Tube Rose Borax, $1.00.

20 Long bars Cocoanut (sic) Toilet Soap, $1.00

Extra fine Salad oil, qut. bottles. 25¢

Tea, 35¢, 40¢, and 50¢ per lb.

Other goods in proportion.

CALIFORNIA GROCERY.

J.P. Carlon Prop.

Tel. red 136 3 doors below P.O.

PUBLIC LIBRARY.

A Partial Report for the Month of October.

Following is the report of business transacted by the library during the month of October, 1899, to wit:

Number of borrower’s cards issued, 20.

Total number to date, 556.

Total number of books loaned, 747.

Number of books returned, 563.

Character of books loaned:

Fiction, 463.

History, 22.

English Belles-Letters, 13.

Poetry, 11.

Biography, 16.

Travels, 18.

Magazines, 66.

Science, 10.

Philosophy, 6.

Religion, 1.

Number of visitors, 1,133.

Daily average of visitors, 36.

FRANCES M. MILNE, Librarian.

CHANCE FOR A LIBEL CASE.

Our genial friend, Sam Donati has a good cause to sue Editor Seay (sic) of the Santa Maria Times for libel. In speaking of the Odd Fellows’ blowout in that town a short time since, the Times editor calls Sam the little man from Cayucos.

OUR GREAT FUTURE.

SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY IS ATTRACTING THE ATTENTION OF ALL CALIFORNIA.

CHRONICLE ON THE IRON MINE.

The Bakersfield Echo Says That This Will Be The Greatest Town on The Coast.

BETWEEN LOS ANGELES AND SAN JOSE.

Santa Barbara Press and Palo Alto Live Oak Note Our Advantages.

San Luis Obispo county continues to advance rapidly into notice and each day looks brighter for it.

The San Francisco Chronicle of a recent date gives it a prominent editorial notice and other papers in every section of California point with pride to this county, knowing that of all the interior counties it is soon to lead the state.

Business is better in San Luis Obispo county than it has been for years and the farmers are entering upon one of the most prosperous seasons in our history. A wet winter will insure heavy crops in every section of the county and the Board of Supervisors will have to place a high board fence around the county to keep the twenty-dollar gold pieces from rolling out and burying neighboring settlements in Kern, Monterey and Santa Barbara counties, just as the volcanoes buried the cities of the old world.

Prospects were never so bright and before January of 1901 the coast road will be completed, and then things will hum like the clatter of a million factories. (Compiler’s note: The coast road (gap) was closed on March 31, 1901.)

Here is what the San Francisco Chronicle says:

It is true that an inexhaustible deposit of iron ore has been found in San Luis Obispo county, which will pay for working, a very valuable acquisition has been made through it to the resources of the state. The only iron ore found heretofore is the deposit at Clipper Gap which cannot be profitably worked because of the lack of suitable fuel for smelting and the presence of too much refuse with the mineral.

The Santa Barbara Press is attracted to the brilliant prospects of securing an iron mine in this county and says:

San Luis Obispo county, not satisfied with an oil boom, is about to venture into the development of iron mines. A company of capitalists will begin operations soon. If the iron materializes in paying quantities it will be a great boon to California.

Senator Smith in the Bakersfield Echo says that San Luis Obispo will some day be the greatest town between Los Angeles and San Jose...

Away up in Santa Clara County the Palo Alto Live Oak joins in paying its compliments to this county in the following editorial:

The San Luis Obispo TRIBUNE issued a special edition November 3d which was a very creditable exposition of the resources of that great county. The county is great in size and natural resources and it is reaching out for population and capital.

BROKE AN AXLE.

Yesterday morning the street car bringing a load of steamer passengers up town, came to a standstill on Higuera street near the corner of Broad. One of the axles broke squarely off.

DRUIDS INSTALL OFFICERS.

District Deputy Grand Noble Arch J. N. Johnson, assisted by Otto Tullmann as grand marshal installed the following officers of Mission Grove, No. 87, United and Ancient Order of Druids, last evening: Fred Rust, noble arch; M. A. Marshal, vice arch; Warren M. John, secretary; Otto Tullmann, treasurer; John Ambrogio, inside guard; M.J. Schmit, conductor.

MARRIED.

CARR - GRAVES–In this city, Nov. 15, 1899, at the Commercial hotel by Rev. W. A. Betts of the Methodist church, Mr. Maurice G. Carr of Templeton and Miss Ruan (sic) Graves of Paso Robles.

MONTIJO - LOVIER–In this city, Nov. 15, 1899, by M. Egan, J.P., Mr. Jesus Montijo of San Simeon and Maud Lovier of Cambria.

...The growing of sugar beet near the city of San Luis Obispo is practically in an experimental stage, but results have shown that it can be raised profitably and to better advantage here than in most sections where it is already flourishing. All that portion of the county south of Miles station is suitable for this beet of saccharine sweetness.

It is estimated that there are about 7,000 acres between the lagoon, just west of town, and the Corral de Piedra that are suitable for this purpose. There is no question as to the fertility of the soil and that success will come...

(Compiler’s note: Anticipation of an oil strike in San Luis Obispo county caused the TRIBUNE to highlight the possible event with a special and regular column entitled NEWS FROM THE OIL FIELDS. Readers interested in oil production in the county are encouraged to search out these columns in the microfilmed copies of the TRIBUNE in the reference department of the library.)

Marriage licenses have been issued to Jesus Montijo and Maud Levier, Maurice G. Carr and Ruan Graves, Christian Heer and Maria Rematzke.

Maria Rables (sic) aged 16, died at the county hospital yesterday morning.

Yesterday there was (sic) filed with the county recorder, twenty-seven notices of location of claims upon which to bore for oil. All of them are in the Arroyo Grande country...

(Compiler’s note: Readers will remember that Samuel M. Findley, tax collector, embezzled thousands of dollars and disappeared. A detective representing the bonding company caught up with him in South America and returned him for trial. The first trial concluded with a hung jury, and is covered in the TRIBUNE. Those interested in knowing more about it, are invited to search out the trial stories in the microfilmed copies of the paper in the reference department of the San Luis Obispo library. The trial started in mid-November of 1899 but because of the length of the details are not included this volume.)

The Paso Robles Leader on the 17th of this month was 13 years of age–an unlucky number, but all Wright with that rustling paper. (Compiler’s note: The attempt at humor can readily be recognized. Mr. Wright was the editor of the Paso Robles paper being mentioned.)

BORN.

DANA - At Nipomo, Nov. 16, 1899, to the wife of H.C. Dana, a daughter.

DIED.

NETO - In this city, Nov. 17th, 1899, Manuel Rodriguez Neto, a native of Azores Islands, aged 70 years.

November 19, 1899 through November 25, 1899.

(Compiler’s note: The trial for Samuel M. Findley, tax collector who embezzled thousands of dollars from the county continues this week. It came to a surprising conclusion when the attorney for the defendant submitted without argument which waived the right to argue the case. The prosecution’s attorneys could not speak again so the judge declared the arguments closed and the court took a short recess. After three days of deliberation, the jury stood six to six and on November 21st was discharged. Readers can search out the lengthy details of this trial, in the microfilmed files of the TRIBUNE at the San Luis Obispo library. Interestingly enough, a final note in the trial coverage reminded San Luis Obispo residents: "It may be interesting to the tax payers to know that the trial just concluded cost the county something over $1,700.")

TO BE A DETECTIVE IS A LUXURY.

"How would you like to be the ice man?" runs the popular air. It can well be changed to, "How would you like to be a detective?" Here is a brilliant opportunity for some genius with an inclination to write spring poetry, or parodies.

Detectives are a luxury. Truths which are self evident need but little proof, but a few facts may be cited just to strengthen the assertion.

John C. Fraser, who captured Samuel M. Findley in Lima, Peru, and who was subsequently subpoenaed as a witness for the prosecution in the trial of the case just concluded, fi