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The record-union., 1899-08-12
THE "KLONDIKE KING"
No Credence Given the Report That
Mcdonald is Bankrupt.

SEATTLE, Aug. lin the absence
of confirmatory advices no credence
is given here to the report that Alex
ander Mcdonald, the Klondike mining
king, is an insolvent.
So far as can be ascertained the story
of McDonalds failure is based on the
mere statement of Thomas Kilkenny,
a returned Klondiker, to the effect that
lust before he left Dawson friend OF
his told him that Mcdonald had filed
a notice of insolvency at the Court
house.
A number of reputable Klondikers
who left Dawson subsequent to the
date on which Mcdonald is reported to
have filed his notice of insolvency say
they heard nothing of it, and believe
the story has no foundation.
VICTORIA (B. CO, Aug. lie. Mer-
men, who has just returned from Daw-
son, contradicts the statement that
Alexander Mcdonald has filed a notice
of insolvency in. the Dawson courts.
He is a personal friend of Mcdonald.
and says there is not the slightest
ground for the statement. The day be-
fore he left one of McDonalds mule
trains came in from Bonanza with from
100 to 200 pounds of gold dust. Ills
check is good for an almost limitless
sum in any of the banks of Dawson"
says Mermen, land the big fellow is
richer to-day than he ever was in his
life"
Mermen says Mcdonald has about
sixty claims on Ell Dorado, Bonanza
iDawson, Sulphur. Hunker and other
hcreeks He can ascribe no other reason
for the reports circulated regarding Mr..
McDonald's financial embarrassment
than jealousy.
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To Overcome stammering.

1t is found upon investigation that
very beneficial results follow special
treatment for cases of Stammerlng.
Some of the methods practiced at the
different schools or institutions in eX-
iStence for this purpose can often Je
applied home with good effect where
the affection takes a mild form. The
mother of boy of y. who has been
with her son for two months in an in
stitute while he was being treated Cor
most aggravated case of stammering,
says that large part of the treatment
consisted in slow speaking. This was
practiced not only by the lad himself
but by everybody connected with the
institution. She, with the rest, was
obliged to speak with great slowness
and perfect distinctness. Most stam-
mering arises from nervousness, and to
restore confidence by eliminating haste
seems a rational method of treatment.
In the case of this lad who stammered
so badly that he was in danger of COM
pletely losing his power of speech, the
eight weeks treatment restored him to
his family and fellows as glib talker
as a boy of his age usually is.
A young woman who contracted the
stammered found relief in another in
stitution only after a much longer
treatment. It is said that cases of
stammering acquired by mimicry often
prove the most obstinate and it is sig
nificant that in this instance the broth
er, who was a born stammerer. recov-
cred quicker and more completely than
the sister, who acquired the aff1iction.
The first treatment for the young lady
consisted in three weeks speechless-
ness. She was not permitted to make
an articulate sound during that time,
writing all her requests and wishes
This was to restore tone to the vocal
organs by resting them.
Where a child betrays tendency to
stammer, the trouble may often be con-
trolled at the very beginning by in
sisting upon slow speech, both on his
part, and, so far as possible, on the
part of those associated with him. It
is unwise, however, to call his atten-
ton constantly to it.-New York Post
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While the British Warship GoIdfinch Has a
Very Close Call.
The Bark Carlisle Castle Goes
Down During a Heavy Gale, and
All on Board Lost, and Eleven
People Were Drowned by the
Wrecking of the Ship City of
New York.

VANCOUVER B. C.), Aug. 11.-De-
tails of the loss of three vessels in Aus
tralian waters are brought by the
steamer Miowera.
The bark Carlisle Castle, 1,344 tons,
bound from Liverpool. to Freemantle.
was totally wrecked off Rockingham.
The vessel went ashore during heavy
gale on Safety Bay. All on board were
drowned.
The ship City of York, in command OF
Captain P H Jones, l ,167 tons regis
ter, laden with a general cargo, includ-
ing 744,O0O feet of redwood lumber
from San Francisco, consigned to West
Australian Shipping Association, Free
mantle, went ashore at Rottnest Island,
July 18th Eleven were drowned.
The steamers Excelsior and Edna
collided on Hobsons Bay, Melbourne.
The Excelsior was sunk in fifteen min
utes. None of her eighty passengers
We're drowned, but seven were injured.
H. M. S. Goldfinch was nearly wreck
ed on the run between Auckland and
Sydney The Goldfinch encountered
hurricane and had an extremely narrow
escape.
General Dodds inaugurated AT the
Military Club at Noumea on the 30th
of June the first experiment in wireless
biography made in Caledonia Inc
result was considered so satisfactory
that arrangements are being made for
connecting by means of wireless tele-
graphy the lighthouse with the town OF
Noumea and with various parts of the
island.
J. Endicott of Auckland, n. T., clans
to have invented an electric cannon
which is noiseIess and smokeless. The
weapon is five feet in circumference
and will carry five miles. The cost will
be Flo per shot.
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R0! 81! s s;';;ss
" ABSOLUTELY PURE
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
sAkMo CO. Ew
Osgood Held to Answer.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11.-George
l.. Osgood must stand trial in the SUI
perior Court on two charges of biga7
my. The defense practically admitted
guilt, and the hopes of the prisoner now
depends solely on the uncertainty of
legal technicalities. Police Judge Mo-
gan rendered his decision promptly,
holding Osgood to answer on both
charges and fixing the bail at Sl,OUO IN
each case. 1t is understood that the
defense bases hopes on the fact that
while one of the bigamous marriages
took place in Stockton and the other
in Oakland the prosecution was lnstl-
tuted in San Francisco. Another nope
is the contention that Osgood was ap-
pretended in Oakland and should have
been prosecuted in Alameda County.
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HOSTILE INDIANS.
Attack and Badly Beat Man on
Round Valley Reservation.

COVEI4O, Aug. 11.-Frank Layton.
the proprietor of a blacksmith shop at
Ukiah, while visiting the Round Valley
Indian Reservation for the purpose of
inspection, :, became bewildered, and
seeking a group of Indians, stopped to
make inquiry to the road to the reser-
walton, and was set upon by the In
dams and beaten. He finally escaped
to the brush, when a fusilade of shots
followed his retreat. Layton escaped,
badly bruised. A famous medicine man
named Wahmooh is responsible for the
Matching of the hostile demonstration.
Excitement is intense and fears of an
Indian outbreak are entertained
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The Dreyfus Letters.

For many weeks a most Infamous
campaign was kept UP in the columns
of '.L'Echo de Paris" LIE Petit Jour-
nSl," LIE Gaulois' and Il 1ntransl-
eeant" against Dreyfus. So varied IN
character and so ingenious in concep-
ton were these libelous tales that t
became impossible for the friends OF
the condemned man to make an ade-
quate defense. DreyfuS counsel, Maltfe
Demange heard the stories and could
do nothing The verdict of the court
martial closed the door to legal redress.
The devoted wife of Dreyfus at first
attempted to reply to them in lie
Figaro" Parisians laughed at her mai
yete. She was not the only deceived
wife in the world. they said. AT
length. wearied of the unequal combat
one woman against a horde of anti
Semitic vilifiers-she gave to the world
a volume of letters written by her hus-
band to herself. 1t was her desire SIM
ply to show him as he was, to rehabili-
tate the prisoner as husband and a
father in the eyes of Frenchmen. But
LES Lettres dun Innocent" have done
more than this. To the women. or
France, at least, they have established
the innocence OIL the Hail. 4NO OiiC SehlA
read these letters without being struck
by the absolute sincerity of the writer;
bv his love for his wife and his fam
ily and for his country: by his devo-
ton to duty and to the traditions OF the
arny whose heads had so remorse!E
sacrificed him; by the utter hopeless
ness of his position. When, in the pa
ners of January g. 1895, the story of
his dramatic degradation was published
TO the world, the French people pre-
tended to see his proud, fearless de-
meanor, as his uniform was stripped OF
insignia and his sword broken before
him. a criminal stoicism that would
have been impossible in an innocent
man. Many English and American
readers recognized simply the final des-
perate appeal of an entirely innocent
man. The sentiment that was then
aroused outside of France will be en-
nhasized by LES Lettres dun Inno-
cent" Although not destined to have
the judicial and logical weight OF the
testimony before the Cour de Cessation,
thew have a sympathetic and persua
siye significance that is eminently hui
man. The evidence before the court
proves that Dreyfus did not write the
bordereau. The letters convince one
that he was incapable of treason
Harper's Bazaar.
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Death From Apoplexy.

STOCKTON, Aug. 11.-William Bur-
nett of Mariposa County, who was sent
from that county to the State Asylum
here several months ago, and was dis
charged as cured last June, died to-
day at the detention hospital in this
city while in straight jacket. He
came to the police office yesterday and
said he was crazy and wanted to be
taken care of or he would do himself
harm. He asked to be placed in a
straight Jacket because he felt that he
would soon be violently insane. He
died from apopleXy.
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Here We Go Again.

Up-to-date doctors have for some
time sounded a warning against the all
too common invalid diet of toast and
tea Few things, say they, are harder
for the weakened stomach to digest
than hot buttered toast. Now the ply
sicians' warnings have received REIN
forcement from the French chef at
Sherry's, who says: Il am no doctor,
but if / We're I would not let my pa
tients, eat hot buttered toast. fully
believe it causes as much indigestion
as hot griddle cakes. In this country
the average woman eats hot toast with
quantities Of butter on it every day."
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WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Below the Normal in
California Valleys.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1.-THE
following maximum temperatures We're
reported from stations in California
to-day: Eureka SO, Fresno 90, Los An
geles 80, Red Bluff SO, San Luis Obispo
"A, San Diego -, Sacramento IS, In
dependence SO, Yuma 1O2.
San Francisco data: Maximum tenn
perature so, minimum "a, mean 81.
The pressure has fallen over Oregon
and Washington. The pressure changes
over the northern half of the Pacific
Coast are unusually rapid, and proba-
bly, indicate the proximity of a large
low area over the North Pacific.
The temperature has risen slightly
over Oregon and Southern Idaho, and
has fallen in the great valleys of Cal
ifornia. Throughout California the
temperatures are from 2 to 8 degrees
below the normal
A thunderstorm is reported at Kali
ispel.
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IMPORTANT DECISION.
Rendered by the Superior Court Of
Alameda County.

OAKLAND, Aug. ia jury in an
Alameda County Superior Court to-day
brought in a verdict in damage suit
that will prove far-reaching in its eff
feet. 1T was a verdict awarding Ras-
mus Larsen 81 500 damages against the
Western Fuse and Explosive Company
for the wrecking of his little home at
Melrose through an explosion caused
by murderous Chinese.
The suit is the first of its kind ever
tried in this State, and its appeal to the
Supreme Court, which naturally fol-
lows, will give rise to a line of new
decisions.
Thirty-two similar suits are to be
filed within a few days, and no doubt
these will be followed by others in
The record-union., 1899-08-12
FATAL CROSSING ACCIDENT.
A Woman Killed and Two Other
Persons Injured.

LONG BEACH, Aug. 11.-Mrs.
Arthur Brentner was killed this after
noon at San Pedro by a Southern Pa
cifc train, and Miss Scribner and Willie
Scribner We're seriously injured in the
same accident.
The trio were driving across the rail
way track at Sixth street when a train
backing down the track struck their
carriage.
Mrs Brenter was instantly killed,
and besides internal injuries Miss
Scribner's right foot was cut off and
her hip badly fractured. The boy was
also injured internally. but how seri-
ously it is not at present known.
The responsibility for the accident
will be fixed by the Coroner, who will
hold an inquest tomorrow.
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EXCITING EPISODE.
One Woman Arrests Another ON a
Charge Of Swindling.

Charge Of Swind1ing.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11.-There
was an exciting episode on Market
street to-day when one woman arrested
another and held her until a policeman
arrived and took charge of the prisoner.
Mrs Katie Buick made the arrest,
and the woman she captured gave the
name of Mrs. JEANNE Howard. The
latter had been swindling various wom
en- by means of bogus Postoffice money
orders. @e
When Mrs. Buick saw the woman
who had victimized her this afternoon,
without waiting until a policeman APP
peared, she seized and held her tightly
despite the womans protest to the
crowd. A policeman soon arrived, and
Mrs. Howard expressed the greatest
Indignation at the charge.
THAT woman is crazy" she said.
'ShN has been following me all day.
You had better lock her up"
1t was with difficulty that Mrs. Buick
could convince the policeman that she
was not insane. Finally he called for
the patrol wagon, and both women
were taken to the central station. There
| it was found that Mrs. Howard is an
old offender with many aliases.
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Millionaire Martin Badly Beaten.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12.-William
H. Martin, the millionaire mine owner
and prominent club man, was brutally
beaten last night on Post street, just
above Grant avenue, by two roughly
dressed men. After knocking Mr.
Martin down and kicking him about the
body in a brutal manner, the two men
ran down Post street, making their es-
cape before the police arrived
The aged mine owner was picked up
in a semi-conscious condition and as
sisted into a saloon, where stmulants
We're given him. He afterwards was
taken to the Palace Hotel.
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Thirty-Fifth Regiment.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11.-Lieuten-
ant Louis Chapleat of the new Thirty
fifth Volunteer Regiment received or
ders to-day from the War Department
to proceed to San Diego and various
cities in Southern California to en-
deavor to enlist more men for the
regiment. During the last week but
one recruit has been secured-a China
man born in this country, who lives at
Santa Ana.
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The Bonds Are Void.

SAN DIEGO, Aug. ia special to
the Tribune" says Judge Ballard of
Orange County has just rendered a de-
cision at Santa Ana in the long con-
tested bond case of this city for test
ing the validity of million and half
dollars of bonds voted to buy water and
own a share in water works, that the
bonds are void The grounds are not
stated in the special dispatch received.
The case was tried by him through the
disqualification of the local judges in
this county.
The record-union., 1899-08-12
Independent Order Of Red Men.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11.-For the
first time in the history of the organiza-
ton the Supreme Lodge, Independent
Order of Red Men, will hold it's session
in San Francisco. The Supreme officers
will arrive here on Sunday morning,
and will be received by the members o.
the local organizations at the ferry,
who will escort them through the prin-
cipal streets of the city to Turn Verein
Hall, where the session of the Supreme
body will be held during the succeed
ing days.
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A woman's Fatal Jump.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11-Mary
McKenna, aged sc years, jumped from
a fire escape at st. Mary's Hospital late
this evening. and sustained injuries
from which she died in a short time.
The woman had been taken to the hos
pital Thursday by J. P. Gegan, who
had her removed from the San Fran
cisco Sanitarium, where she had been
for several weeks past 1t is supposed
she was insane.
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Identification of a Suicide.

Los ANGELES. Aug. 1.-THE Main
street suicide has at last been positive
ly identified as Aaron Wolfson of ST.
Louis. Wolfson up to the time he
came to Los Angeles was travelling
salesman for Huguerell & Bechlar Of
Philadelphia, manufa of neck
wear. His family live at 116 North
Eleventh street, ST. Louis, and the
young man was born in that city.
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State Typographical Union.

OAKLAND, Aug. 1.-THE State
Typographical Union held the conclud-
ing session of it's convention to-day.
The election of officers for the next
year resulted as follows: c. S. Coolidge
of Santa Rosa, President; J. f. Caller
of San Francisco, Vice President; NJ.
r. Innis of Oakland, Secretary Treas
urer; P. B. Coates of Stockton, State
Organizer. Executive Committee-F E.
Caller, San Francisco; C. E. Backess,
Oakland; III. J. Maloney, San Francisco.
1t was decided to meet next year at
Santa Rosa.
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Samoan Commissioners.

SEATTLE, Aug. 11.-George Bartlett
Trip and Baron Won Sternberg of the
Samoan Commission, passed through
here to-day on their way to Vancouver.
They will return East by way Of the
Banff Hot Springs.
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included in one of the two pamphlets
sent to the officers of the regiments.
and he asks their views upon them ana
upon the whole course OF the warfare
in the Philippine Islands, promising, IL
permitted to print the letters, to make
a careful selection therefrom, whether
adverse to the position l have taken,
or sustaining it.
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other sections where powder works ex-
plosions have created havoc and left
wrecked homes and corpses in their
wake
1t can easily be estimated that the
Larsen judgment will prompt others in
litigations involving hundreds of thou
sands Of dollars damages.
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Judement FOR Coit & Co.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. ia jury
in the United States Circuit Court gave
judgment to-day for So, 200 in favor of
Colt & Co. of Chicago and against Sui
Ivan, Kelly & Co. of Sacramento. The
judgment represents money due on an
account for goods sold and delivered.
The record-union., 1899-08-12
Rich Claim in Cape Nome District.

STOCKTON, Aug. 1.-THE news
came to the relatives of Frank Buffers,
a miner who went from this city to the
Cape Nome section, that he had struck
a claim in which he took out the first
day S1S5, and that the claim could not
be worked out in three years. Buffers
spent nearly two years in Dawson, and
came out from there last winter with
money On his way back to Dawson
he went up to Cape Nome to prospect
the district.
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Reuufred Assistance.

Klubbman Con getting home at a.
m Especial meetin' at club, mdearsh,
an (hic) really couldn't get way till
now.
Mrs. Klubbman--And who finally
helned YOU ?-Town Topics.
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Suicide at San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11-William
c. Deffren, an Englishman, committed
suicide last night by gas asphyxiation.
He was unemployed and lacked funds.
He was about 30 years of age.
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Circumstantial Evidence.

Husband (after the performance)-I
didn't enjoy the show very much:
forgot my glasses.
Wife-Perhaps you did, dear, but
your breath doesn't indicate it.-Chi-
cago Daley News.
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Deed Of d Jealous Husband.

OROVILLE, Aug. 11.-Jealousy was
the cause of James Purdy of Forbes
town shooting and fatally wounding his
wife to-day, after which he set fire to
his house and then killed himself
Purdy was a miner about 80 years of
age.
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More Fighting Reported at Samoa.

CHICAGO, Aug. IL special to the
Tribune from San Francisco says: A
bulletin telegraphed from Victoria, 3.
c.. says there has been renewed fight
ing in Samoa. No details are given.
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brook" sour mash whisky. Theo
The record-union., 1899-08-12

The Best Prescription for malaria
and Fever is a bottle of Groves Tasteless
Chill Tonic. 1t is simply iron and Quinine
in a tasteless form. No .cure-no pay.
Price, Soc.
The San Francisco call., 1899-02-19

Park olive grove near Cloverdale, is
the admiration Of every visitor.
The large table filed to overfiowing
with the prize oranges of all kinds in
twelve is the leading attraction in the
pavilion. Such mammoth specimens
have never before been seen here.
]. G.. Caldwell has an interesting ex-
hibit of samples of genuine coal taken
from a vein on his Geyser Peak ranch
The list of prize winners was an
nounced tonight The judges We're J.
S. c. Thompson, editor of the California
magazine and the West Los Angeles;
Newton G. Finley. president Of the So
noma County Horticulturist Society,"
and Thomas G. Longmore, superintend-
ent of the A w. Foster stock ranch at
Hopland. The awards were as follows:
Most artistic display of citrus fruits
First prize. San Jose electric tower, Presi-
dent William Caldwell; second, Liberty
Bell. F. Yordi; third, Russian River
bridge. C. L. Domino.
Most artistic display Of oranges-H. F.
Snyder.
Most artistic display of lemons-A. c.
Leger.
Most artisFc display of wines-Clover-
dale Wine Company.
Best twelve navel oranges-Dr. H. H.
Hubbard of Preston.
Best twelve Mediterranean sweets-Mrs.
I. E. Shaw.
Best twelve Joppa oranges-M. M. Ent-
han.
Best twelve Japanese oranges-George
B. Baer.
Best twelve Malta blood oranges-Mrs.
William Caldwell.
Best twelve Villa FRANCHISE lemons
DR.. Hubbard of Preston.
Best twelve Lisbon lemons-Mrs. H. L.
Preston.
Best twelve Sicily lemons-H. J. Crocker.
Best display of limes-James Shaw of
Kenwood.
Best display of navel oranges-Preston
joint exhibit.
Best display of pomeles-M. NJ. Enihan.
Best display of lemons-J. G. Holloway.
Best display of picked olives-Dr. A.
McCoomes.
Best display of olive DILL. A. Kleiser.
Best display of dried fruits-A. n. Clark
of Dairy Creek.
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painted two excellent pictures for the
exhibit. II. f. Snyder has veritable
curiosity shop Of old relics and MINER
illogical specimens. There are many
scenes in water cOlors.
Among the exhibitors of the Preston
display are Madam Preston, w. APP
pleton, Henry Meyers, DR.. Hubbard
and T. ]. Cottle. This is the most elab-
crate exhibit of the fair.
The different booths are in line with
the general decorations. Each one Is a..
gem unto itself. Miss Sallie Criglor,
dashing blonde, presides at the tamale
booth, ably assisted by two of Clover
dale's pretty buds-Misses Adah Will
liams and Essie Marshall. A charming
nook in the pavilion is the candy booth
in charge of Miss Maude Graham,
whose assistants are Misses Clara Gra-
ham and Elf1e McKoon. Mrs. j. r.
Vassar and Miss Mae Dobbins are in
charge of the orange booth, where
pretty baskets Of luscious Cloverdale
oranges are sold to the visitor The
Ladies Guild OF the Episcopal Church,
famous for it's excellent dinners at past
fairs, has charge of the lunch BOOTH
where all manner of delicacies are
served. Frank Yordi is the dispenser
of temperance liquids in another booth
tastily decorated. Miss Carver, repre-
senting Proctor & Reynolds of Santa
Rosa, is selling the Sonoma County
Atlas in great numbers as an advertise
ment Of Sonoma County. The dainty
booth where ice cream is served is un-
der the direction of Mrs. F. w. Brush
and Mrs T. B. Wilson. Mrs. Glendore
has a fish pond, where the susceptible
youth gets rid of his nickel to sport
with hook and line.
Mrs T. j. de Hay has an excellent
display in spiral form of jellies and
nuts c. B. Smith has some enormous
vegetable productions on exhibition.
Postmaster Baer's exhibit of apples,
deciduous fruits and canned fruits is
quite an attraction. James Shaw of
Sonoma has, a large plate of lines. He
has always taken the prize on lines
J. A Kleiser's large exhibit of olive oil
and picked olives, made from his South