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C5 (Xmclcs SuncMij CEuius. i SUNDAY. JANUARY JV 1000. w. HOT CAKES.

CHANGES, Boils, Pisnplss PTAIN FOR CHIEF; IG SALE OF "MIDWINTER. Indication were' not visible and the sky was cloudless, Fresno rejoices over a good downfall, with promises of more today. Wheat farmers and stockmen are greatly encouraged. The ground la no In shape for plowing and seedln" and green feed UJtl And BlEcklisad KERN GOES HIGHER. All Piano Selling :) Records Broken Buyers Quick to Take Advantage of Unheard-of Bargains.

$5270 Saved Yesterday by 31 Fortunate Buyers. Is growing fast on the stock ranges. The Times correspondent at Can Ber THRONGS OF PEOPLE LEAVE ORDERS FOR THE ANNUAL. 'Are Caussd by Blood Impurity Which May Be Removed In a Few Days by Stuart's Calcium Wafers. Trial Package Sent Free.

Why suffer bolls, iiimples, blade-heads, tetter, eczema, rash, scabby iskin and eruptions of all Borts, when you may by the tsimple act of letter Never Cefore Were the People so Eager for This Favorite Issue of "The Times" Tremendous Pres. fcure on the Postoffies Mining Part a Winning feature of the Number. Said ouo happy buyer at our store yesterday, "I've Been many piano sales, but never Mich opportunities aa you nardino writes: "While the ranchers are fearing a dry year, a glance at the records for the past thirty-nine yeare furnhsbe good ground for looking at the probabilities with more of a smile than soma have. Tuking the record In this city, the rainfall today Is within a fraction of the average precipitation during ihe. long period mentioned.

Up to the present date the total here has been 3.68. The average for the season to date covering the past tvvetitv years has been 4.54, and fur the thirty-nine years It has ben 4.ijti., The rainy pea-son is lust half over, but tha ereater iZ- ftaEH ui offering today. K'hy, I've bought Yesterday was one of the busiest tli vt'ty piano for $310 today that you refused 125 for two days before and ruofct bustling days ever known In The Times business oliice. CrovvJd besieged the counters all day and till late at night. Said another en.uu.lly pU'aaod buyer: "I've always wanted a Ludwig, and had about given up hope, because I Never before lias there been such an precipitation has invarlablv come between January and March, so that eager deinunu for the Midwinter feH that I could not afford so fine a Number of The Times as has greeted there is every reason to expec that this season's rainfall will at be an the Bi'eat issue this year.

Already the average one." first edition of copies Is dwin- dllng', and the demand is growing Instead of diminishing. reparations WALNUT GROWERS SUED AGAIN. The Anderson-Barngrover Company are making for a second edition of the of San Jos6 renewed its contest with the Fullerton Walnut Growers' Associa Midwinter Times, which will also embrace the supplement containing the piano. Now I am happy, because I have my heart's desire, and I have saved $173 In tho transaction." Such expressions as theso have been common among the hundreds' of buyers with which our temporary quarters at South Broadway have been thronged today. Some have had to aAiit the convenience of our salesmen because of the crush which began as early as 8: SO, the more energetic purchasers coming very early.

However, our force Is and delays are short. u- epoit of tha Pu.sudena Tournament of Rosea. guarantee and may be exchanged at any time within one year from date of sale If not wholly satisfactory, at its full purchase pticeA SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY FOR COUNTRY BUYERS. People from near-by towns who have long wanted good pianos may make this a golden opportunity and save from $100 to I3W) on a piano that 19 better than they had ever hoped to On Monday they will be com From many sections of the country have come orders hi advance for "The Midwinter" nnd thousands of copies in writing to you pr.ioi mar. may be purified in a few days or woqKs at the latent? Stuart's Calcium Wafers contain th most powerful biood purifier known to Kcience Calcium Sulphide.

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It is wholly a matter for your approval. Thousands of peo answer to this demand are speeding to all points of the compass as fast as 1 ih i hi i ii ii 1 1 i steam can take them, yet. there are many who will probably wonder why they do not get their looked-for "Mid 1 ing in numbers though many were Chief of Police Edward Kern, slated for member of Board of Public Works next Tuesday. fortunately able to get on nuiuiuu, and their pianos are now on the way tion over patent rights to a process for bleaching nuts, yesterday, by tiling a new Bult in the United States Circuit Court. The complaint, after recittng the history of.

a former suit. In which a judgment against the Fullerton association was obtained for $25,101.65, alleges that, In spite of this, the defendants have continued to use the patented process. An Injunction Is asked, and damages. RECEIVES DISTRESSING NEWS. Gen.

Robert Wankowskl received a cablegram yesterday from bis wife, who is In Paris, saying that her mother, Mrs. J. M. Davles, is at the point of death. Gen.

Wankowskl returned not long ago from Paris, where he went with Mrs. Wankowskl, when her mother was first taken ill. She had almost recovered when he left for home, and since his return has received three cablegrams from his wife, each telling of a change for the worse. I. 4 i winter" on time.

"Patience is the word whispered at the postofllce. So great has been the amount of mall, including the which has deluged tha I.os Angeles postolilce that it will take the hard-working clerks extra time to get every paper started correctly on its way. So carefully has the present Midwinter Number been compiled that its features will be of pertinent interest during the whole year. Of especial interest Is the mining supplement of the Midwinter Number, This shows a map of the great empire IS! Which Is tributary, comercially, to Los 1 1 jf Angeles. is full of practical infor niation.

io their homes. ASSORTMENT REMAINS PERFECT. With the exception of some of the very cheapest pianos offered, our assortment for Monday and Tuesday 1 buverit will he unbroken. In all lines an" elegant stock, nearly two hundred pianos in all, are being shown, and the buyer still has ample numbers from which to select. FULL POCKETBOOK NOT NEEDED.

Odr easy payment plan, the most liberal and popular ia the West, is at the service of every First payments on medium priced pianos may be made in moderate sums and the balance arranged in regular monthly Installments. Fcr the convenience of our friends our temporary store be open evenings until every piano our floors Is sold. INSURANCE SETTLEMENT A BOO FOR BUYERS. The prompt settlement of our surance claims and the liberality the adjusters makes this sale and the great Baving to buyers possible. Altogether the Midwinter Number of The Times this year is a big winner and it will be a patriotic act foi ev ery citizen and business house in Los Ansreles to send as many copies of BETA THETA PI ORGANIZES.

Members of the Bota Theta Pi fraternity met, last evening, at Levy's Cafe and affected a'permanent organization, to be known as the alumni of the Beta Theta PI of Los Angeles. The officers are: Roy V. Preppy, Stanford, '02, president; Fred B. Braden. Stanford, '02, vice-president: Dr.

S. Merrill, Beloit, '02, secretary, and Harry M. Jack, Beloit, '02, treasurer. REDWOOD PARK WINNING. "The Midwinter" to the East as pos sible.

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12 EXEKOUS IIAIN v' 'J BUYERS SAVE $50. At the time this advertisement Is being written, 2:45 o'clock, there had been sold just 31 fine pianos. The net saving to tha purchasers being $5270, or an average of $170 per piano; and we have every reason to believe that the total for the day will be above fifty pianos on which Los Angeles and near-by purchasers will have saved In actual cash about $8500. In the main, good pianos have been chosen, Knabes, Mason Hamlins, Conovers, and. others have found a very ready sale, because of the greai reductions In tho prices.

Knabes worth and always sold from $G50 to $700, according to size and case design, are going at $4(10 and $480, while grand pianos have been sold at even greater Sempervirens Club Finds Its Project Is IS REPORTED. Encouraged by the State Administration. ASSOCIATED PRESS NIGHT REPORT SAN JOSE, Jan. 2. A.

H. Briggs, president of the State Board of Trade, Superior Judge J. E. Richards, and A. P.

Murgotten, the committee appointed by the Sempervirens Club to CENTRAL PART OF STATE GET3 GOOD DRENCHING. visit Sacramento in tha interests of STORK GETTING CARELESS. NEW TORK, Jan. 2. One oft the first babies to be born in New York In the new year, entered the world at the Third-avemie elevated station at o'clock last night.

Mrs. Eliza Christen, 23 year? of age, of Elizabeth, N. is the mother. She was on her way to a hospital, accompanied by her brother, when the stork made his visit. When an aenbutanee surgeon arrived a baby girl crying loudly, found.

the State Redwood Park in the Big Basin, returned today greatly pleased South 6o Far Is Overlooked, but Indications Are Promising Study of Records Gives Every Reason to Expect Season's Precipitation Will Be an Average One. with the result Of their mission. They report that the State, engineer has prepared plans for a water and sewer system in the park and that the State Forestry hereafter will adhere to the policy of preventing any cutting of timber, even dead wood, in the park, the Governor is favorable to an appropriation for, the construction of a public road in the park, via Saratoga. A bill appropriating $25,000 for this purpose has been prepared by the above committee and nirju I 1 M'l? 1 Generous rains have fallen In, the northern and central parts of California, but up to an early hour this morning no precipitation had been reported south of the Tehachepl. The weather forecast for Los Angeles today Is merely "cloudy, with light southwest wtoi" The Indications are promising, Mrs.

Ethel Henderson, a widow of 2S years, leaped, through a parlor window at her father's home in Brooklyn, Friday night, and sustained injuries from which it is feared she cannot recover. She Is a daughter of Andres Gray, a well-to-do insurance man. Her mind was temporarily, unbalanced as the result of grief over the death of her husband several years ago. reductions. The favorite Ludwig has been in great demand because of the known quality of the piano, Soma of them ard less than $300 in price, and they are going fast.

Packarda have been in demand, too. Most beautiful they; are, the $500 going at $365, 'and the smalitir ones in proportion. Klngs-burys, selling regularly at $360 to $400, are marked fit $219, $227, and $235. Handy piarios they are, and selling fast. Tito favorite and splendid Wellingtons, always sold at $200, are being placed In many fine homes n.t prices ranging from $195 to $230.

Every one in perfect condition, the cases in some are slightly marred. NO WATER DAMAGED PIANOS SHOWN. We positively refuse to sell any piano damaged, no matter how slightly by water, preferring to hold these until fully dried out and the absolute damage has developed. There 13 no risk incurred by the buyer during this sale every piano bears an unqualified will be introduced in the House by however. San Diego states that though Mr.

Bohnett and in the Senate by Mr. yesterday's prediction was for rain the Walker. Every claim, of ours was promptly srt tied and on a most satisfactory For this reason only are the prices' now quoted on standard high grade pianos so low. On violins, guitars', sheet music, band Instruments, small goods, mandolins, prices are cut in half: $15 violins are sold at $5.50 and $6, while $10 and $12 guitars, wholly uninjured, go at one-half price. Mandolins, banjos, in the same ratio.

Monday should and will see our store crowded. If you have ever dreamed of possessing a piano, now is your opportunity. Be sure and come. You will be gratified even though you do not buy. 428 So.

Broadway Is the place. Open evenings. a The Next Chief of Police, Capt. Thomas Broadliead, who will be promoted. I wMr mmmm ammoth rop i fcn II it Demonstrates Wonderful Productiveness of IT WAS officially determined by the police board yesterday that when tha name of Edward Kern, present Chief ef Police, is sent to the Council Tuesday for confirmation as member the Board of Public Works, as it iwlll be.

It will be accompanied by the bam of Capt. Thomas Broadhead as acting: Chief of Police. That Kern would be named for the place now filled by D. K. Edwards has long been known, but Capt.

Thomas Broadband' promotion was not determine- until late yesterday afternoon. Fop oereral days the Police Commission baa been deadlocked on the selection of Kern's successor. The Mayor and Commissioner Cole favored James A. Craig for the place. Commissioners WoodUl and Tufu favored Capt.

Broadhead, and Commissioner Lewis declined to cast his rote until yester-iar, when he announced himself in favor of Broadhead. This settled the choice. Capt Broadhead, it is understood, will remain as acting Chief to preserve his civil-service standing in case of a change of administration a year from now. Kern will retire as Chief of Police Just as soon as- his appointment is confirmed by the Council. At present it Is understood seven Couneilmen and possibly eight, will vote for his confirmation.

There have been efforts to prevent confirmation, but the Council-men have not regarded the objections strong enough. Kern served two terms as Councilman from the Seventh Ward, and In the last was chairman of the Board of Public Works. Because of his experience there the Mayor deemed him fitted for appointment as Edwards's successor. Edwards will probably make a trip abroad as soon as his duties as member and inspector of public work terminate. The Mayor has also the appointment of a successor to Nathan Cole, as- a police commissioner, a successor to Dr.

John R. Haynes as member of the Civil Service Commission, and two library directors to succeed Willoughby Rodman and S. O. Mar8hu.tr. whose terms will expire tomorrow.

These appointments will not be made Tuesday. 428 South Broadway WMmmiMi1 mw TRADE Ran oh IS ltisv i I TRADE fJEWEDf MARK THIS TRADE MARK is cast on every genuine "Jewel" Gas Range for your protection. Any other so railed "Jewel," not having this trade mark is an infringement, and anyone manufacturing, buy-trig or selling a Jewel Gas Range not having it is liable to prosecution. MARK On the Colorado River Bottoms SPIRITED "LUCIA." Yields Return of $80 Per shade and a spirited climactic precision utterly missing in "Faust." A number of the opera people will be heard in the benellt performance to be given at the Mason Operahouse this afternoon for the earthquake "foworl I III LfWEL Acre on Virgin Soil Four tons of millet per acre on virgin soil I This remarkable record, established by rancher John Daniels last season. Is conclusive proof of the great fertility of the Colorado River Bottoms.

Experts In the U. S. reclamation service unhesitatingly pronounce the soil at Blythe Ranch In every way equal to that of the famous WWW i ll Hi HIGHWAYMEN SUCCESSFUL. Relieve Citizen of His Cash and a Gold Watch at Ord snd Hill Streets. F.

A. Hardaker of No. 736 North Mill street was overpowered by two men about 11 o'clock, last night, at Ord and Hilf streets and robbed of $17 and a gold watch. Then he was ordered by the highwaymen to remain on the corner until they were well out of the way. Hardaker was on hrg way home when the men leaped out from behind a pepper tree, pinioned his arms arid went through his pockets.

Neither of them displayed a weapon. The victim was unable to give a description of his assailants. Lambardi Company Give Surprisingly Good Performance of Time-honored Work. Lambardl's "Lucia," last night, was ono of the finest performances of his season, and tho singing of the sex-totte and the ensuing la-loans which closes the act, was in brilliant stylo which called down a series of terriflo encores, compelling: not only tho repetition of the sextette, but of the entire latter part of the act, as weU. The evening- was especially marked by tha "arrival" of Battain.

From various members of the company we have teen receivlnc ecstatic report concerning Battain's talnnts ever siaco the organisation's arrival, but these seemed In CO way to fair fulfillment until bis last night's essay of Kdgardo. He put an intensity and sweeping dramatic ardor into the contract scene which fairly lifted the conventional old dance melodies into a similitude of the graphic modern tnolodrama of Italy. Fortunately, hla voice was in especially reliable condition, and he was able to go tnrough the whole act at that steadily prevailing high pressure, and then to repeat It. without suffering a diminution of his clear and fluent tone. He ia cast for Canlo.

In "I Fagli- STLYES AND SIZES WRITTEN GUARANTEE When the ofMcern of Gas Companies pay ea.h for a Detroit Jewel Range, -hn they eon have their choice of any other make for nothing, shows they will have the best. Whn a dealer says he sell ymi another mnke ef Oaa Range as rood es the Detroit Jewel, he is trying to convince you that his runs la something line rnnke special amristements for easy payments, at a aligiit advance our cash price. Iipnifr who r. nnaPtovis that do net eiv complete satisfaction aren-emllv i.iv the trouWe to poor gae; their guarantee is a dream, and you keep tbe Range. Th peculiar p.irt about th Petrolt Jewel Gas Range Is that they do not cost auy more than the experimental kind.

Over 5000 City References rV S7 1,. 1 a-t. occi," on Monday night, and if he is In as good condition as last evening he should make something near a sen valleys of the Nile. A farm on the Colorado will never wear out the water used for Irrigating brings in a constant supply of fertilizer and continually renews and enriches the soil. Blythe Ranch Is the one place In California where you will find an absolutely Inexhaustible soil and an unlimited water supply always available at no cost for Its development.

Water rights at Blythe Ranch accompany the land. At $33.00 per acre and up you can secure the richest farm lands in the entire Southwest WITH WATf-R RIGHTS. Blytho Ranch lands are unexcelled for alfalfa, grain, sugar beets, cotton, eucalyptus, deciduous fruits and vegetables. Crops mature in time for the early market. If you're looking for good farm lands.

Blythe Ranch Is the one place which will Interest you. Get our literature and maps today. Interstate Land Company 622 South Broadway Main 3020 Home 1G05 H. V. Blenkiron, President Louis Evans, Vice-President W.

L. Blenkiron, Secretary and Treasurer iff if I 1 I ill sation. Ilmatsonl sans finely an Ashton. 5 -1 'j ft pvi te a. A hit reliable voice and self-contained.

Exclusive Agents McWhorter Bros. 456 South Spring Street fdty ertistry being manifest during -au-ssssaL -m $2.75 Grates ANYWHERE" "ANY STYLE ANY SIZE ANY PRICE H. d. BRAINERD every situation. Mme.

Temantl-Zava4cht sang music with spirit and emotional rfppth and a very fair decree of grace. The rendition of the nial sctne was twi ki ai ia any way, but tt may be accounted a very creditable piece of work. The difference in the orchestral out-piit. comr-ared with the flair of the previous night, waa noU-able to ateadr attendant, led, and though lis di-rortor! stjis is somewhat i authority Is nevertheless con-MM fiy Riamff-vt. and as a consequence lW! ac-ire there was a unity a pifcUicm of temp an i i.e si ti hiiitd of Petit aiiJ Manufacturer and Builder of We sell this basket grate, 20 Inches, for $2.75.

Don't pay Broadway and Spring Street rent prices for same. J. W. Frey Mantel Hgus3 Ccr. 12th and Los Angeles St.

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