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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-01-03

Tony Kraaynebrink, a young Hol-
lender, aged twenty-five years, is dead
at Canton from injuries received In
a runaway accident. Kraaynebrink
was hauling corr from the field to the
crib when his team suddenly started
to run away. The mar ran after
them and jumped upon the end of the
wagon in an endeavor to secure the
lines. He fell on the end board In
such a way as to crush his stomach.
Only three months age his sweetheart
came from Holland, and was married
70 the young man, who had come on
ahead to make a home for her.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22

From the standpoint of picturesqueness,
utility and economy no home has ever
been devised to compete with the Califor-
mia bungalow, of which a typical speci-
men is given herewith. and interest in the
attractive little houses the country over
has been such that ''The Bungalow Brown
Rook,'' now in press, will be greeted with
& cordial reception upon it's issuance next
month.
Admirers of the bungalow will be well
repaid for a perusal of Architect T. 9.
Browns little brochure. The book will
contain half tone reproductions of 100
pretty Los Angeles bungalows, with floor
plans and cost estimates for each, as well
as a number of more pretensious houses
of conventional design and few of the
colonial type.
Mr.. Browns book corrects the erroneous
impression prevailing among the unini-
tiated that bungalows" are adapted only
to the California climate. Such is not the
case, for they may be built. with but
slight construction changes, for use Ia
any climate, the details and effects re-
naming unimpaired.
Los Angeles and Southern California arc
famous the country over for the coy
cottage homes, and Mr.. Brown has pre-
pared book which is more than worth
the dollar charged for it.
At his offices, 625 Security building, Los
Angeles. are innumerable photographs
taken to make the book up to date. both
with regard to the type of houses repro
duced and the plans drawn for each
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22
OLD DE La MAR MINE
HAS SPLENDID FUTURE
Bully Hill Copper Mining Company
Has Practically Torn Down For-
mer SmeIter and Built
New One

With the expenditure of nearly one mil
lion dollars, by the Bully Hill Copper
Mining company, in the construction OF its
plant at Delamar, the completion of the
Sacramento Valley & eastern railway,
the seat of old Captain De La Mars
smelter promises to be easily the secord
city of the mineral county of the Golden
State.
The fluctuations in the red metal mar
ket and the tightnesS deters not the ac-
tive installation of the Bully Hill plant
or the completion of the railroad that
means so much to the magnificent min
eral, lumber and horticultural belt Of
Shasta county.
When it is realized that the Bully Fill
smelter and converting plant was che
most up-to-date in Northern California,
not excepting the Mammoth smelter, as
first built, and that the whole thing has
been torn down. much of it consigned to
the junk pile and the rest worked over
at an estimated outla. running over the
half-million dollar mark, tha. the douple-
compartment shaft to the 970-foot level
has been retimbered and converted into a
treble-compartment shaft, is positive
proof of the value of the world-famed
mine of ,Shasta's eastern copper belt.
Bully Hill ore is probably richer than
any other ore in the county and its goll
values are practically good for the work
ing expenses, as was the product from
the famous Iron Mountain mine when the
English company first commenced, CON
dition that existed for the first five years
of it's operations.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22

the price of commodity the more profit
there is in producing it, says the Sar
Francisco Chronicle
Conditions in southern Arizona and
southeastern California are virtually
identical with those IN northern Africa.
where the date comprises large portion
of the food of the people. The date palm.
when welF grown, produces very abun-
dainty and requires little care Three re-
quirements are essential for the produc-
ton of the desirable varieties of dates--a
long frostless season, very hot sun and
great abundance of water. The two
former can be found in perfection any
where in the Colorado desert and the low
er parts of Arizona. Wherever to those
an abundance Of water can be added there
is no trouble in producing excellent
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22

Permanent Los Angeles Home
to Be Erected at East Third
Street and Santa Fe Tracks
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22
WHOLESALE
AND JOBBLNG
MILLIONS INVESTED IN THESE
LINES
Los Angeles interests Progressive and
Active in Furthering Welfare of
City-Annua Business
Immense

The wholesale and jobbing district Of
Los Angeles includes three states and
territories and has rapidly Increased in
volume and Importance for several years
past The greatest advance has been
during the past year, due, according to
Secretary Willard of the Jobbers' asso-
citation, to the growth of Los Angeles
city, the competitor of new railroads into
Nevada and Utah and the situation at
year has made the northern city less ag-
gressive commercially.
Our jobbing district covers the lower
third of California. two-thirds of Nevada
and the whole of Arizona.
Discrimination in freight rates is now
less a stumbling block in the way than
was formerly the case; recent new tariffs
established by the Southern Pacific and
the Santa Fe having contributed to this
result IT is needless to say that the
concessions were not secured without OPP
position and a great deal of hard work.
1t is only a question of short time
when large business will be done with
Mexican ports on the west coast Mex
leo desires to trade with this city for
many reasons.
The completion of our great commercial
port dI SdIl I6uIO Will SUN bc Il SIcdl
factor in the development of our jobbing
trade.
Z 1t is for obvious reasons difficult to give
even an approximate estimateTof of the an
nual volume of the jobbing trade of Los
Angeles 1t is not less than $l00,00000O.
There are nearly thousand retail gro
Gerry and provision stores and the volume
of business transacted in this line viii,
run over $30,0O0,000, The produce trade
amounts TO $lO,0OOOOO The jobbing vol
ume in building materials runs from $685.
O00 900 to $4,000, 000
Dry goods. boots and shoes. wines and
liquors machinery, hardware, clothing.
cigars and tobacco. furniture, metal and
many other lines are well represented.
Many San Francisco houses removed to
this city after the fire.
1t was definitely established years ago
that Los Angeles was big enough and
strong enough and progressive enough toJ
handle and increase It's own jobbing
The Jobbers' association of Los Angeles
includes in its membership between sew
enty-fve and hundred concerns, and the
organization has done much to promote
the interests not only of the jobbing ir-
dustry generally but of the city as a
whole The successful fight for lower
freight rates may be cited by way of IL
lustration
Los Angeles now has three great stor-
age plants and the capacity of year ago
has been quadrupled. No less than $780,
600 worth of eastern eggs and $65O,OOO
worth of eastern butter are handled an
nually by the local produce exchange.
The whole amount ought to be produced
right here in Southern California. and 1t |
undoubtedly win be in few years
The Los Angeles city market is said
to be the largest in the country west Of
New York, thus showing the Importance
OF this city as a wholesale produce and
fruit center,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22

dates, 1t is in such situations that the
Department of Agriculture has estab-
lished one or two date plantations. partly
to demonstrate the possibility of success
full date culture, and partly to supply
suckers from approved varieties for pri-
vate plantation. The necessity of govern
ment action arises from the difficulty.
uncertainty and expense of procuring the
original trees from Africa There are as
many varieties of dates as of apples. and
as much difference in them. The African
are quite alive to the value
OF their monopoly of the date industry.
The date palm is propagated from suck
ers which grow at the roots of bearing
trees. All date suckers look alike to most
people, and the African followers of the
prophet are quite equal to paluiing on
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22

any old date sucker on intrusive Yankees
seeking to break into the trade. Conse-
quently it required the resources of the
national government to obtain a sufficient
supply of suckers of the desired varieties
to start us in business and make sure
that when they bore they should be found
of the right kind. The government found
suitable spot which was appropriately
named Mecca. in the Imperial valley or in
that vicinity where the principal date
farm is located. There is also a farm in
the Salt river valley, in Arizona. where
dates do we'll, but owing to the elevation
and occasional severe frosts, the location
is not so good as at Imperial. The trouble
is with the young trees. When they grow
up out of the reach of the frosts they
are all right in the Salt river valley"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22
DESERT DATE, CULTURE
IN COLORADO DISTRICT

1--WE think of the date as an article of
luxury. or at best as a very agreeable
dessert fruit. An abstemious people like
the Arabs thinks of it as an important
staple article of ordinary diet. The food
value of the date is large. and, while it is
not. likely in this country to take place
among the articles of common diet, the
only reason why it will not do so is that 1t
will be rather too costly. And the higher
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22
STEEL PLANT
PLANNED FOR GARY, IND.

u addition to the s75OOO,OOO originally
appropriated to provide for the construc-
tion of the steel plant and the municipal
works of the new industrial town of
Gary, Ind, an additional S45OOO,OOO has
been set aside to be used in widening the
scope and extent of the steel plant
proper. When it is considered that in
the neighborhood of S120, 900, 600 is to be
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22
REPORT ON CALIFORNIA PROPERTY VALU.

The aggregate assessed valuation of
real estate in the state of California, as
shown by the annual report of State Con-
troller N. is ST. ,O55, ,222. .O93, with improve
ments and other returns by auditors
making the grand total 1875, ,661 ,035 The
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22
A. Fl. KOEBIG

A. H. KoEBIG was born in Prussia.
He is a graduate Of a technical uni-
versity in Germany and was in that
governments service until 1877. He
came to America in 1880 and engaged
himself in the higher branches of min
ing and the construction and operation
| of railroads in Colorado. Wisconsin,
New Mexico and California. Mr.. Koev
| big became identified with the earlier
developments in California irrigation,
and was an active element in the dis
|entanglement of the itigated question
Of water rights.
He was connected with the develop
ment of many hydro-electric enter-
prises and has practiced engineering
in a general form. being associatad
with the largest and most important
undertakings in the history OF Cali
fornia and the middle west.
Mr.. Koebig has resided in California
since 1885 and in Los Angeles since
1885. He is an active member of the
California club. several university
clubs and other prominent organIza-
tions.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22

cisco. The indebtedness of Los Angeles
county is $4,000, while that of San Fran
cisco is 1885,, 100; assessed value of Los
Angeles county mortgages, $6,S33,170; for
San Francisco, $65, ,055. $685.
Below is Controller Nye's annual report,
in f,,II
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22
BY STATE CONTROLLER NYE

full tabulated report given below shows
the value of property in each county in
the state, together with the county in
debtedness and the tax rate. Los An
geles county is close second to San
Francisco in property valuation while
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22

expended at once in forming this nucleus
of the new industrial center at the south
ern end of Lake Michigan the magnitude
which that center may be expected to
assume within the next few years is
difficult to overestimate.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22

Los Angeles leads all counties in real
estate Improvements. The real estate
valuation for San Francisco is $3.50 6S9, ,SO6;
for Los Angeles, s2O3, ,92s, $40 Valuation of
real estate improvements for Los Angs-
les county, $S4, 020, being $17,242, ,S19
prea fer than tha recorded for gan IRA NJ
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22
He Saw Her Home

81 saw her home"
''Yet you seem disheartened."
Yes: it is such a stately mansion that 1
lear for poor clerk to aspire to her hand
were utter madness Houston Post.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-22
i. ". BRAUN
TEMPORARY ADDRESS
4O0-4l5 East Third Street. Los Angeles Cal.
TEMPORARY ADDRESS

XK7E ARE headquarters for Heavy Chemicals
w and Commodities for Manufacturing, Ranch
ing, Mining and Metallurgical Work and Processes
and for all operators in industrial lines. We have
complete stocks Of Assayers Supplies Chemical and
Physical Apparatus, Microscopes and Psychological
and Reagents.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-14

The competitors have to don the sacks,
which are then tied firmly round the neck;
then at the given signal away they go, hopping,
jumping or running with little short steps.
1t is very amusing, owing to the many tunl-
bles the runners get, and the nimble way they
sometimes recover their equilibrium, though
very often no sooner are they up than they
are down again.
There usually follows this a mad kind of
steeplechase three times round the course,
which is everywhere impeded with obstlue-
tions, the favorite ones being barrels with
both ends knocked out. Through these the
com petitors have to crawl, if they be not long
legged and agile enough to vault right over
them.
The dancing and the bagpipe playing attract
great attention. and with these the games us
ually conclude.
The dancing commences with sailors horn
pipe in character, and right merrily several
Of the competitors foot it on the floor of wood
that has been laid down on the grass for the
purpose.
Next comes the Highland fling, danced in
Highland dress, to the wild "skirl' of the
great Highland bagpipe. Then the reel of
Tulloch to the same kind of music.
Here there are, of course, four Highlarders
engaged at one time.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-14

the right hand on a level with the head for
few moments, you send it flying from you as
far as possible. There is not only great
strength required, but good deal Of skill,
which practice alone can give.
TOSSING THE CABER.
The caber is small tree, perhaps a larch
with the branches all off. You plant your
foot against the thin end of it, while a man
raises it right up heavy end uppermost-aud
supports it in the air until you have bent down
and raised 1T on your palms.
The immense weight of it makes you stag
ger about to keep your balance, and you must
toss 1T SO that when the heavy end touches the
ground, it shall fall right over and lie in lire
towards you.
This game requires great skill and strength,
and it is seldom indeed that more than one
man succeeds in tossing the caber fair and
square.
There are heavy and light hammers, there
are heavy and light putting Stones but there
is but one caber, and at this game the mighty
Donald Dinnie had no rival.
The jumping and vaulting approach more
to our style of games, and need not be here
described; and the same may be said about
the, racing; with probably one exception-the
sack race.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-14

the velocity and force that can be commu1
Gated to it.
Donald Dinnie, though close to fifty years;
ranked high among the athletes and wrestlcrs
of the. world. There is a good story told of
Donald when exhibiting his prowess for the
first time in America. The crowd, it seems,
gave him a too limited ring. They did not
know Donald then.
Gang back a wee Bit" cried Donald
The ring was widened.
Gang back wee yet," he roared.
The crowd spread out
But when third time Donald cried "Gang
backl" they laughed in dersion.
Then Donald's Scotch blood got up. He
swung the great hammers it left his hands,
and few right over the heads of the onlookers.
alighting in the field beyond.
No one in San Francisco would compete
with Donald; so he got the records of othef
athletes, and at public exhibition beat them
all.
Throwing the light hammer is another game
of the same kind.
PUTTING THE STONE
The stone, as an Irishman would say, is a
heavy, round iron ball. You plant the left
foot firmly in advance of the right, then, bal
ancing the great stone or ball on the palm If
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-14
Besieged BY a Snake

snakes, and his dreams were often haunted
by the enormous serpent that devoured Sinbad
the Sailors luckless comrades or the still
larger African monster described to him by a
sailor friend of his father, (which was so big,
look ye, that when it crawled across the path
IN front O. me. l had to stand and wait an
hour by my watch fore it was all gone past"
1t was some comfort to see through a crack
in the wood that the snake seemed quite mo-
tlonless; but might not this be only trick
to entice him out?
What was he to do? One chance he had,
indeed, n through its being just supper time; for
II ne did not go down, his father and mother
would pc sure to come up or send some one
to call him: But what if the snake were 10
fall upon. them? or what it, getting tired of
waiting for, him to come out, the monster
1T and him together like nut and its kernel?
"A feat that seemed quite possible to poor
Wlllie's haunted imagination
Something, must be done, however, and
narrow press (half filed with clothes az It
was) was growing more and more unendur-
able every moment.
At length, in spite of his fear of the mon
ster outside, he was forced to open the door
an inch or so, to avoid being cholxed outright.
Up to this time he had not dared to call for
help for fear of rousing the serpent into ac-
tion; and, indeed. he was too breathless with
terror ter: to have made his voice heard if he had
the tiny chink that he had opened, he sudden
ly. saw, or thought he saw, the snakes head
turn slowly round, as if drawing itself up Cor
spring. ~
This was more than poor Willie's over
wrought nerves could bear, and he screamed
at the top of his voice.
Help, help! A snake, a snake!"
His cry was answered by shout from be-
low, and then hurried steps were heard an.
preaching, and his father burst into the room, p
with lighted candle in one hand and h,ayy
stick in the other ''
But when Mr.. Somerford caught sight of
the snake, instead of starting back as Willie
expected, he broke into roar of laughter
that seemed to shake the whole room.
"Oh, Willie, my boy, you're fairly caught
this time!" said he as well as he could spe1k
for laughing. "This is what comes of ieay-
ing things around instead of putting 'em
away; Do you know what that snake is that
has been keeping you penned up here ali
this time? 1t is nothing more than thai hit
of rope that you were playing with this after
noon; and if you had slowed It away, as / toll
you, this wouldn't have happened"
Poor Willie! the shame Of that single n, =
ment was sufficient punishment for all his
misdeeds. But. worse still, the story of his
blockade by this imaginary snake soon got
abroad, and every one enjoyed it SO much
that he has hardly heard the last of it yet.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-14
The Mother Goose Partv

OF generous frankness, "but I didn't even
know a daffodil was yellow until Rue told
me. Then it was too late for me to do any
thing. 30 she planned and made my gown.
Praise her-not me-"
Evelyn had disarmed them all with her
candor. No one felt like criticising her trans
gression of her own rule.
Yours is the prettiest costume in the lot
Eve" said Rosina. $50 you must lead the
dance"
''Then the little old cobweb woman shall
be my partner. Come on. Mother Hubbard
and Boy Blue! Marjorie Daw, YOU dance
with Tom Piper"
The little schoolmate Evelyn had thought
she would not give copper penny for by
the dozen, became upon acquaintance her
most valued friend
ut doesn't pay to say such things" Eve
lyn confessed. II believe, after all, it's the
quiet, shy ones that know how to do the
most"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-14
Something About Rats

other direction. In an Omaha wallpaper
store, a medum-sized rat makes its appear
ance after the store is closed for the dag, or
soon after six o'clock, and its favorite resort
is on the ledge inside of the large plata
glass window 1t engages largely IN the puT.
suit and capture of the flies that buzz about
and alight upon the windowglass within
reach of its active little front feet and its
hungry mouth. 1t is remarkable to see how
rapidly the little creature can capture flies.
1t devours fly with few quick crunches
and gulp, and then races away to get another
one. The rat will sometimes spring clear oil
all four feet, and knock fly from the window
to the ledge below, where it pounces upon 1t rs
quick as a flash, and seldom let's a victim es-
cape The animal continues this pursuit until
darkness comes on or until some one scarcs
it away from its favorite feeding grounds.
This makes the third season that this rat
has followed fy-catching in the windows OF
that store.
Here is another story which seems to prove
that rat can be obstinate-perhaps we ought
to say "mulish." In a certain Canadian
town lives a man who was greatly troubled
by large gray rat. He tried to poison it,
but the rat was too shy. Then he set big
steel trap and the gray rat investigated The
queer concern. The first pass he made at
the trap he got his tail cut clean OH 10 Where
that appendage formed junction with his
spinal column. Not being satisfied with the
fondling he received at the jaws of the trap,
he returned after his wound had healed, and
had another set-to with the trap, in which
encounter he lost hind leg. After this hid
gotten well. he returned to the trap and
thrust his head into it. That settled him, of
course. He had never heard, or did not be-
lieve in the old adage that "the burnt ehl.d
breads the fire.
Lastly we have a religious rat, or, rather,
musical rat. In Baltimore a large black
rat was seen only at night, and then only
when there were services at the Trinity Epis-
copal Church or the Broadway Baptist Church.
He seemed to be in very placid humor VII n
there were services in but one of the churches
named. But when the two congregations were
worshipping at the same time, as is the case
on Sunday nights, he became uneasy, and
kept up a constant running between the two.
The ladies of the respective churches did rot
like him at all; but the attendants were rather
inclined to encourage his visits as he enjoyed
well behaved and evidently enjoys the choir
the choirsinging and the organ-playing
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-14
Our Strange ReScuers

morning, both his father and mine accompa
MED us to the spot, where all was found as
we had left it.
The female panther had grim, fearful
look as she lay dead under the trees, and her
stout limbs showed how powerful she must
have been in life.
Taking off her coat of light gray, we car
ried it home, together with the three white
nestlings, which were by this time so hungry
that they would eat greedily from our hands,
One of them died in a few days, but the other
two lived to attain full size, and were objects
of much curiosity to visitors who heard the
story connected with them.
Our, adventure created lively interest in
the place where we lived, and is, no doubt,
still fresh in the recollection of many people
near the mountains; They will tell you how
two small boys, right there in the neighbor-
ing woods, once owed their lives to pair of
great Canada owls.
Since then / have always entertained feel
ing of respect for the big Bird of Minerva"
which, l am fully determined. shall never
fall before any shot of mine