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Volume 8 Oxnard, Ventura County, California, Friday, March 9, 1906 Number 10 LIBRARY MONEY READYJ'OR USE Carnegie Directs His Cashier to Honor Calls From Oxnard Authorities to Extent of Ten Thousand Dollars. Tbe following leltei was laat Tueday by the President of the Board of City Trustees: New York, Match 1, 1906. R. ti. Haydock, President Board of Trustees, City of Oxuard.

Dear or. February 2Lst received. Mr. Carnegie has intisruoled bis cashier, Mr. R.

A. Franks, Home Trust Company, Hou.oben, N. to honor tbe calls of the autboritieaof the City ot Oxnard, California, tor sums needed to complete their library i i as the work progresses to the extent of 830,000. Please communicate with Mr. Franks hereafter.

Respectfully yours, JAMES BERTRAM, P. Sec. By this letter it will be seen tbal the question of having a free public i i is bt lust definitely settled, once and for all. Nothing now remains save the receiving of the awarding of the contract and tbn actual building of the btruclure. Mr.

Haydock is vary busy getting information as to plans, etc. lie is nuakiog exhaustive Investigations of other libraries of similar cost and dimensions, and hopes Boon to arrive Ht a satisfactory conclusion as to what tterjerai style of architecture will be beet for tbe purpose. It is to be hoped tbat the actual work of building will begin in the very near future, and that within a few months the Oxnard Free Public Library will have sprung from a mure or lese hazy dream into a very substantial reality. VILES WILL RUN FOR COMPANY COUNTY RECORDER' ELECTS OFFICERS We publish tbis week the announcement of Earl Viles as a candidate fot tbe office of County Auditor and Recorder. Mr.

Viles has lived in and about Oxoard ever since the founding of tbe town and baa served efficiently aa Manager ot tbe Oxnard Gas Company since tbe formation of tbat company, tie was for a time an official assistant of Sheiiff McMartin at Ventura, and is--we believe--uncommonly well fitted for the position to which fee now aspires. Miners' Law. It is often difficult to persuade our eastein cousins that life and propertv among tbe miners of tbe far weal ie as safe as ID any part of Massachusetts; nevertheless, statistics will show tbat tbis ia actually tbe case. The eastern idea of lawlessness among our miners, IB tbe result of the reading of sensational fiction which describes tbe gold miner as ready ou all occasions to "sboot at tbe drop of tbe bat, 1 and tbat makes stage robbing ao almost every-day occurrence. In truth, these novels are far less reliable In local colot than tbe uo-called "historical novels" of tbe present day.

There are still ID California and some of (be other states, communities and towns ot several thousand souls, wbohy dependent on mining, where lUe miner cau be observed on bis native beatb, all hH peculiarities observed and cbionicled. Severn! of these towns bare excellent governments, with all the accessories of a highly civilized existence--bigb school, churches, concrete sidewalks aud electric light- Ing. In even tbe largest of these towns it will be found that tbe police courts have next to nothing to do. Take, as au example, the cities of Nevada and Grass Valley, in Nevada County, eacb baring a population of several thousand. The recoids of tbe police court in both cities for the past year sbows less than one arrest a rnoiitk.

even including tbose the most trivial Can this be equaled anywhere else in I he Burro AS in Sunset Magazine for March. "Standing Pat." Tbe phrase "stand pat" an expression borrowed from poker players, is little short of idiotic when applied to business aCfaiia, says tbe American Farmer. Progress is made by still, bnt by moving along. Att tbe country develops hud conditions change, the lawn and baaineea must be adapted to them. Tariffs, railroad rates, of com modi In (act everything entering into national development, are subject to this natural taw, and when politicians talk about "standing pat" they are in effect declaring against growth, reform and progets.

While audlden and frequent bad, no changes are HIM worse. "While realizing tbat tbe rolling stone gatbera no mow, we aboald remember that it la equally trae tbat tbe setting ben never growa fat. annual meeting of the stockholders of the Colonia Improvement Company was held at 10 o'clock last Tuesday morning, March 6th. The following officers were elected for tbe ensuing year: J. A President; T.

Walker, Secretary; P. H. Thatcher, Treasurer. Tbe directors for ensuing year were also elected, and areas follows: J. DrlfBll, fi.

R. Hill, Mrs. 3. G. Hill, J.

W. Rose and J. A. Oonlon. Red Man and White.

An official In the Land Office at Washington relates bow Dr. WhippJe, for a long time Bishop of Minnesota, once undertook to bold religious services near ao Indian village ID one of the western states. It appears that the Bishop's effects were scattered about the "lodge," and when about to go out be asked tbe chief if it were safe to leave them theie while he went to tbe village for the service. "Plenty safe," granted the Indian, "no white man in a hundred miles from Weekly. This story calls to mind another, which also baa to do with Bishop Whipple'a dealings with the noble red man.

Big Thunder, cblef ot one of the old tribes of Minnesota, bad been converted to Christianity aud bad done so much towards farthering the friendly relations between his people and oars that tbe JBisbop, while on a visit to Washington, spoke highly of tbe Indian to President Grant, Accordingly tbe President gent as a gift to Big Tiiauder a handsome band- carved saddle, which be asked the Bishop to present to tbe chief as a token of respect and esteem. Ou bis teturu to tbe frontier tbe Oisbop forthwith assembled tbe tribe of Big Thunder and presented the latter with tbe saddle, delivering to bim Jit tbe saoae lime a conventionally courteous verbal message from President Grant. Tbe Indian took tlie saddle, bowed, sod said never a word. Ihe Bishop waited foi a moment, and then said: "Big Thunder, the Great Father at Washington sends ycu this suddle, and be sends with it a message to you. Have you no message to seud to him in retmn?" At this tbe Indian, as though awakening from a dream, drew bim- celf proudly erect and Tephed: "The white man thinks with bis bead and speaks with bis tongue.

Tbe red man tfaitiks with hia heait, and the heart has no tongue. 11 AN IDEAL CIR- NEW BOOKS CUS PROGRAM Norris Rowe Has Provided Many New Features This Season. ISowe teiiu their sbow this "The First Prize IdeaJs," and from tbe program submitted, it would seem tbat the lei in ia not exaggerated. The bare-back riders iucJ ode such American and -European celebrities as i-Jdna Alaretta, lady tomereault bareback rider; Frauk aud Dolly Miller i their superb four horse carrryiug a lid IIocuui, principal riders; Melvilie and her high school horses; Erie Stetson, ooe of the very few women who can turrj a complete aomersalt orj the bare back of a Lorse while he is running swiftly around the riag; Edith Maskelyn and Mark Hayden are riders from the Paris hippodrome--they ara considered the champion riders oC the world; Herbert Rumley is a dare-devil lougb rider, bis sensational dashes around the ring cieflte consternation among tbe tonre timid spectators; Wm. and' Edith Stack perform a two-horse carriyng act, always one of the most graceful and pleasing of numbers.

Mr. Stack rides two horses at cmoe, at the game time carrying his sister in his arms, in tbe meantime Miss Stack is assuming (til sorts of picturesque poses while tbe horses dash steadily around the arena; Austin King is tbe famous jockey and hurricane hurdle rider; little Geo. Settler has tbe best chance to show off, for he has four pure-white well-educated Shetland ponies and tbeae be rides and drives in a original manner.The number is a pretty one and appeals especially to tbe (if tie ones. Korris Rowe will exhibit their all new big shows at Oxon SATURDAY, MAKCB 17th. FOR TEACHERS Manual Training Urged by County Superintendent of Schools.

A. Del mas, Oxnard's pioneer jeweler, made a business tiip to Los AngeJes tbe Srst of the week. At EI meeting of the County Board of EJacatJou beld February IT, lOOlJ, tbe i books were adopted as teachers' desk books aud library books: Lads and Lassies of Other L. Price. Tbo Wr for independence.

E. T. Tomliusoo, Rhymes of Little Johnon. Pishing and il. Mott, In Field and Dattou.

Christams Dickens. Waster Bennett. Stories of Mother Goose A. Eigham. Child's Garden of Kobt.

L. Stevenson. Paper Sloyd for Primary A. Rich. George L.

Sackett, County Superintendent of Schools, in a circular letter which be has just sent out to all the teachers of Ventura County, calls particular attention to tbe last- named work--Paper Sloyd for Primary Grades--edited by Miss A. Rich of Santa Barbara, and urges every teacber in the county who has charge of all or any of tbe first three grades to ask tbe trustees of bis or her school to purchase a desk copy of the book and HJJ the orber materials necessary for carrying on the Sloyd work. "Manual a i i gays Mr. Sackett, "is bound to be the requited education in fhs near future, and I trust tbat it will goon become the foundation for out courses of study, lather than an addition to our already over-crowded curriculum. "lake time to educate the hands atid hearts of our children, as well as their minds.

This cardboard Sloyd mHy be substituted for tbe drawing wnrk in tbe first, second and third years. I shall endeavor to arrange wittj Mies Rich to meet all teachers interested in tbis line of work, at several central points in tbe county, and assist in introducing the 1 Despondency Leads to Double Suicide Aged Chinaman and Wife End Their Lives in Modest Home on Saviers Road. It All Depends. "Pop "Yei, my ton. 1 "Men who write pi ays make a lot of Done; from royalties, don't they?" "Yes, my boy." "Whit rich man Shakeipeare would hare been, pop? 11 "Perhaps not, ray son; perhaps they wouldn't bare let him Into the tnwt! 1T --Exchange, Millinery opening at the New York todtj One of tbe most ghastly tragedies of the decade was brought to light Wednesday evening, wben Marshal Reno entered (be residence of Soo Wab on Savlers Bead, just back of tbe Wineman Company's store, and found the latter banging by tbe neck, dead by bis own act, while tbe lifeless body of tbe Chinaman's wife lay stretched on the ted, dressed aa for a holilday, with ber neck broken aud the marks of a rope around ber necK.

Tbe dead man was himself dressed in clean raiment aud with scrupuslous care, showing that the couple bad plntuer) and fixecnted their work of self-des- ttuclion witb the stoicism aud deliberateness vrbicb characterizes tbo Oriental in all his both great nnd email. Some cousins of Soo Wab bad driven over from El Kio to visit their kinsraao. They went to bia bous at about seven o'clock and found the doois and windows closed aud fastened. Suspecting that something was wrong, they notified Marshal Reno, who forced an entrance to tbe place and found the boides as we have described. Dr.

Potts was immediately called, and Coroner Leroy S. Beckley was sent for. Both Soo Wab and hia wife had been dead for several bonre before their bodies were discovered. Tbe unfortunate man, who was a laundry man by trade, was fust seen alive choitly before noon on tbe day of the suicide, tie delivered several of laundry to hla varions and gave back one or two of clotbM which be bad not waahed at all, flaying tbat be was through with washing and would take mon work. To one or two of bis customers he remarked tbat be and his wife were going to die.

Tbe woman was last seen at a boar, nine o'clock in tbe morning, cleaning tbe bouse as usual, while bi busbaod busied himself in wrapping up tbe unwashed clothes which be afterwards retained to bis patrons. Soo Wab came to Oxnard shortly after the founding of tbe town and has been here longer tLau any other mtujber of bis lace. About five yeais ago be leased from tbe Colouia laiprovemcat Company tbe plot of ground back cf the WJneruan store bought froo tbe Peoples' Lumber Company tbe materials with which he built his modest house. Home six or eight H. 1.

bought tbo laud from the Company. (In Hi is land Mr, is to erect a Jimldinc which he will lease to the F. 13. Pefr.is Hard ware Company, aod despondency over their approaching eviction from the premises where tbey bari lived so long, led tbe old Chinaman bis wife to take tbier lives. Vestreday morning tbe Coroner's jury reodeted verdict to tbe effect that the man had committed suicide and that woman had met ber death at tbe bands of her husband, Soo Wab was sixty-one years old and hla wife was sixty-seven.

Both were born io China. Tbe couple tiore an excellent reputation for hnesty and tbrlftincss. So far as can be learned, tbey left no debts of any sort. They will be burled tbla morning In the Ventora Cemetery by the memteta of the Chinese Maaonlc Lodge, of which Soo Wab WM a member. Tbe taneral party will leave Oxnard at half oast eleven o'clock.

WOLFF SELLS BIG RANCH J. F. Lewis, Popular Camarillo Ranchman, Buys Mammoth Guadalasca Comprising 8,200 Acres. A deal was closed last Tuesday by which J. F.

Lewis, one of the best known aud most popular ranchers of our vailey, purchased fiotu M. L. the noted grain and bean broker, tbe mammoth tract of boau and barley laud knowu of old as tbe Guadaiasca Kancho. Tbis fertile tract of laod, which of recent years has, been colloquially calied tbe Sloss Ranch, comprises 8200 acres and covers a long strip of the extreme eastern side of our vailey, all of tbe foothills beyond, and extends over these foot- hills well iuto tbe Cooejo section. The totaJ value of the ranch was roughly estimated in the Courier of January 19tb as about twenty-Qve dollars per acre.

Mr. Lewis' son, Guy, who has just returned from Pasadena, will leave tomorrow morning for San Francisco, wjjere he will take a coarse at the Healds Business College, ou tbe uompJetion of which he will return to Oxuard and take entire charge of bis father's new possession. Mr. Lewis, will continue to run his old ranch at Camarillo. THE BOSTON WILL ANCHOR AT VENTURA George L.

Sackett of Ventura has received he following letter: Dear to previous correspondence in reference to obtaining the presence of a United States war vessel in tbe barbor of Ventura during the meeting of tbe Grand Parlor of tbe Native Sons of tbe Golden West, beg to advise tbat 1 am just in receipt of a commumicatioD from the Acting Secretray of! tbe Navy, in which he states that arrangements have been made to have tbe United States Ship Boston at Ventura from April 23d to April 30tb. 1 trust tbat this arrangement will be satisfactory to your committee. Yours truly, FRANK P. FLINT. Tbis looks pretty good for the coming COD vent ion of the Native Sons.

Tbe Boston is one of the earlier cruisers of our navy and is surrounded with a halo historical fame. She was one of tbe ships of tbe famous squadron which, under Dewey, sailed into Manila Bay of a Sabbath Mayday morning eight years ago and wrought each sad havoc among the galleons of Spain. A Jolly Birthday Party. One of tbe moat pleasant social events of tbe season was a surprise birthday social at tbe Methodist parsonage on last Wednesday evening in honor of tbe birthday anniversary of tbe pastor 1 J. H.

Henry. They say a woman can't keep a secret. You can never again convince the pastor cf the Methodist Chnrcb of that fact again. The ladies of tbe churcb planned tbe surprise and even took tbe pastor's wife into their confidence, and ret no one breathed a word of it to him. When be arrived at tbe parsonage door from tbe piayer meeting service be found tbe house filled with a most genial company of friends, wbo greeted him witb congratulation? upon his airivHJ at another milestone of bis euitbly pilgrimage.

After a social hour or I'wo the friends wcie invited to i i room.where a meat suooptu'ius feast h'id been pre- to which nil did ample justice, the tuuuy cake? upon the was oue of exquisite mould, with white icinc, with jiiuk i order snd the dates--1841 and tbe pastor 1 a uame Ju tbe center. At a reasonable hour tbe company i happy wishes Foi tiie pns1Taod liis family, and with the of having done a graceful thing in strewing a few floweis of cheer and kindness aiouc tbe pathway of the pastor's journey, lo tbe neighborhood of sixty were present, and tbe occasion will not soon be gotten by tbe pastor and bis wife. At tbe risk of baring our veracity questioned, we will add that the oc- casion of this jolly event was Jr. sixty-second birthday. No one would believe it to look at him, i but such Is indeed tbo case.

BURSON'S NEW HORSE Mammoth New Engine for BakersfielcJ-Ventura Railroad. Renewed activity in the construction work of tbe Bureon electric railway is now quite evident. mammoth brand new locomotive arrived in Oxnard last Monday dircet from the Fittsbnrg Works, and is now plying over the rails of of tbe Burson lines throughout tbe valley. Tbe new "horse" is an oil burner and ia one of toe latest models in locomotives. While the Courier has not had aa opportunity to iutreview Mr.

Baron since tbe arrival of the "speeder," it is reported tbat two more of the same breed are on the way and should arrive in a short time. It is frutber stated that sixty miles of new road is to be built immediately and tbat it will extend from Oxnard far into theSespe. In referring to tbe arrival of tbis new engine, tbe Ventura Daily Democrat eays in part: "The eastern engineer who accompanied tbe engine was unwittingly confidential. Tbe engine was one of three ordered by a California man, woo was to build 90 miles of electric, road, but tbe man's name bad 'slip- pert bis Tbe engines are to be delivered in Oxnard. The other engines are nearly ready--one a wood burner for use in the tbe mountains.

He lived in the enigne and bad been 37 days on the road, with no hot boxes-, A speed limit uf 20 miles an hour was tbe rule laid down, with frequent stop over There are other rumors floating in Ibe aii, involving a deal of gigantic pronortioud, to which tbe introduction ef these uevr tuques and tbe repotted tmieage of road to be built, lead great which i be wbtcbed with much interest by the general inibjic. Tbe Courier will give full iuforms- tiou couccrum.n tbis rumor as toon acy facU trail be M'DCNALD STOCK CO. TO PLAY FOUR NIGHTS WORK WANIED-The 1 Aid Society of tbe Methodist Episcopal Cbarcb will be glad to take orders for making aprons, etc. Quills tied or quilted from op. For farther information, enquire nf MRS.

P. H. THATCHER, Sec'y, FJrat Stieel, facing D. 104 Auditorium, lour uJgbts, commencing Sunday, March lllli, tbe McDooald Stock Company bold the bosi3s at tbe Auditorium iu a series of magnificent attractions, com Arising comedy, diatns. music aud dancing, interspersed up-to-date specialties, making a con- tiaaous snow from start to finish, On Suorifty evening the four-act comedy-drama er.tltl*d, ''A Honor 11 will be presented.

Thla is tbe best show of tbe season lit popnUr prices 25e, 35c aud oOc. Band concert twice daily, at noon and at m. aeats now on sale at drug store. For rent-- Nice room. Inquire at Gray's ciger NEWSPAPERrlRCHIVE' 3.