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SANTA CRUZ EVENING SENTINEL THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1899. "SENTINEL" JOTTINGS. LAWTON'S DEATH. A BILLION DOLLAR COUNTRY. 0 SS BE EXPOSED HIMSELF FEARLESSLY DE- St.

Louis Globe-Democrat, A few years ago one of our lawmaking bodies was stigmatized as a "billion-dollar Congress." The American people have now a billion-dollar country. It is a billion dollar country Are in store for everybody Christinas morning, but let us show you some of our store surprises today in PURE PLAIN CANDIES, FRENCH CREAM CANDIES. NUTS and ORANGES, DATES, FIGS. RAISINS, DOLLS, WAGONS, TOYS, BOYS' WHEELBARROWS and AXES, CROCKERY and FANCY ARTICLES. See our big window display of Seasonable Goods and Popuiar Trice's 3 ss ss ss SS Morgan FRESH FROZEN SS ss ss ss ss S3 ss ss cm 0 Holiday shoppers were numerous Wednesday.

Five of the applicants for teachers' certificates failed in the test studies. On B. Bertling shipped thirty crates of grapes to San Francisco. We learn that M. C.

Sarmento contemplates opening a butcher shop in Boulder Creek. The Chinese lottery case has been continued in Justice Stanley's Court until after the holidays. The other day B. Bertling killed a coon on his place near Soquel that weighed twenty pounds. Two prisoners were brought up from Watsonville Wednesday to serve thirty days for petit larceny.

The funeral of the late Henry Richmann took place Wednesday. Interment was in the Odd Fellows' 2 Pacific Av. HINKLE'S CASH STORE OYSTERS jj jj gj jj fj fJ ss SANTA CRUZ DESCRIBED. Impressions of a Resident Who Recently Located in This City. The following is from a letter written by Col.

J. H. O'Connor, who resides on Beach Hill, to the Helena (Arkansas) World under dater of Santa Cruz, Nov. 29th: Imagine, if you please, a vast amphitheatre in the crescent form of the moon, not quite half full, the concave side a smooth sandy beach sloping gradually to the east, upon which the ocean waves are constantly rolling and breaking, producing a white surf line irom point to point ot the crescent nearly a mile long, a beautiful driveway and promenade that is liberally patron- I Mzed in fair weather. Then further uiutfciue iiaiumi icimce iiuy to sev-enty-flve feet high standing almost in I a true circle inland from the last horn I Inf thp crpancnt tr tliA ntlinr nn ))iq I south, inclosing what may be termed I n.

i ii e- I 0e "H-ee-iourmB or a mile wide through the center east and i on 21! Hill an elevation of oO to -5 feet, near- tj lu iuiiu, liauig itu gentle slope from near the center of the beach line, having an area of about 25 acres on top, mostly covered with residences, some very fine, and nearly all surround ed with beautiful flowers and well kept walks and lawns, and you have a fair conception of the'stage overlooking the amphitheatre, with Monterey Bay andwuie )iu mm iiC the dim outlines of Monterey moun-, was easl'y distinguishable because i in a double sense. The money in circulation, which has been increasing rapidly and continuously for a long time, was so close to the $2,000,000,000 line at the beginning of December that it must have passed that mark by this time. This is, of course, far in advance of any point ever touched previously by the country's circulation medium, It is a matter of profound gratinca-' tion, too, that much the greater part of the increase in circulation is made by gold. Just twenty years have pass ed since the resumption of specie payments. On the first day of 1862 the treasury and the banks of the country ceased to pay out gold and silver on de- mand, and both of these metals at once went to a premium.

A few weoks after the beginning of that year, or on February 25, the first of the laws was passed which created the greenbacks, and as this currency grew in volume the gap between its face value and that of gold broadened. On July 11, 1864, $2 85 in greenbacks or any other American currency was required to buy $1 in gold. That date, which was near the darkest period of the war of secession, saw American currency drop to the lowest level it ever touched. In financial credit and general political prestige the people who are living today see a widely different country from that which those alive in 1862-78 saw. The downward movement of currency and the upward movement of gold a3 quoted in terms of currency, which began in 1862, and which culminated in 1864, was reversed as soon as the war ended in 18G5, and, with a few temporary reactions, the gulf between the paper and the metal narrowed.

It disappeared altogether on January 1st, 1879, when the gold resumption law of 1875 went Into operation, and has been absent ever since. But the change for the better since the beginning of 1879 has, in one re spect, been as marked as It was be- tween 1862 and tnat tlme The entlre amount of money in circulation in 1879 wa3i in round flgureg 000, whle it is $2,000,000,000 now. The gold part of the money, however, has grown in a far higher ratio than has the rest of the circulation, for the gold total of 1138,000,000 twenty years ago has increased to an aggregate of 000,000 at the present time. This is a cause for congratulation by the entire American people. No other country in tne worm nas made advances in wealth and general financial power in uie I'ilSL 8( ore 01 years a- approacn ing the expansion scored by the Uni ted States.

YDA ADDIS UNDER CLOSE SURVEILLANCE. SANTA BARBARA. Yda Addis Storke, whose charge of attempting to murder was dismissed several days ago WUJ1 serving a years sen tenee in the County Jail, is again being carefully watched by the jailer and the Sheriff's office. For some tfme complaints have been made to the Sheriff by persons who have received anonymous letters, charging them with the filthiest things. Young girls have been accused of intimacy with men of questionable character, while heads of families have also received pretenses of i warnings.

Almost every one who has received one of these letters was in some way connected directly or indi-1 rectly with the notorious libelous letter case. Mrs. Storke has been allowed to send and receive letters at will and none have been tampered with by the Sheriff's ollice. She has also written letters i to persons in this city, in which she accuses the jailer and Sheriff with gross and criminal negligence, stating that the male and female prisoners have been allowed to remain in the same cell, and other offenses. These reports reached the Sheriff's ofilce and a close watch has been kept on Mrs.

Storke for some time, and it was in this way that the officers were convinced that she was again sending out libelous letters. NOT INSANE, BUT ILL. SAN FRANCISCO Jacques Reculet, who was picked up on the street by a policeman and charged with insanity, was examined by the local Commissioners on Lunacy. It was found that he was in his right mind, but sadly in need of medical attendance, and he was at once sent to the City and County Hospital. Reculet recently spent five months in the Agnews' State Hospital for the Insane and was discharged as cured on December 9th.

He was sent i to Agnews from Santa Cruz Co. i YESTERDAY'S HOTEL ARRIVALS. HOTEL ST. GEORGE. Paddock, A Mackie, Geo Jack-: son, A Hays, Jesse Levy, Stanford, Clark, Worcuser, i II Collier, Swanton and wife, I Miss Pearl Swanton, Speyer, A Marks, Wallace, I Green, San 1 Francisco; Mitchell, Castrovllle; I Danbe, Chicago.

Ill; Spence, Alameda, AIDING PROF. PELTON. Yictory Over the Insurgents He Was in the Act of Attacking, Followed His Death, MANILA, Dec. 20. General Lawton left here on Monday night, having returned from his northern operations Saturday, to lead an expedition through Mariquina valley, which has been an insurgent stronghold through- out the war.

The valley has several times been invaded, but never held by the Americans. General Geroninio was supposed to have there the last organized force north of Manila, and General Otis wished to garrison Mariquina. The night was one of the worst of the season. A terrific rain had begun and is still continuing. Accompanied by his staff and Troop 1, Fourth Cavalry, General Lawton set out at 9 o'clock in advance of the main force, consist ing of the Eleventh Cavalry and one' battalion each of the Twentieth and Twenty-seventh Infantry, which start ed from La Loma at midnight.

With a small escort he led the way through an almost pathless country, a distance of fifteen miles, over hills and through cane brake and deep mud, the horses climbing the rocks and sliding down the hill. Before daybreak the com mand had reached the head of the val- iPV gan Mate0 was attacKed at 8 0.clotk and th ho fl This resulted in but few casualties on the Araei.k.an Blde apart from the deatn of General Lawton, but tne attack was difficult because of the natural defenses of the town. General Lawton was walking along the firing line within 300 yards of a small sharpshooters' trench, conspicu- i0U3 in th big white helmet he always The sharpshooters directed several close shots which clipped the grass near by. His staff officer called Gen- eral Lawton's attention to the danger he was in, but he only laughed with his usual contempt for bullets. Suddenly he exclaimed, "I am clasped his hands in a desperate effort to stand erect and fell into the arms of the staff officer.

Orderlies rushed across the field for surgeons, who dashed up immediately, but their efforts were useless. The body was taken to a clump of bushes and laid on a stretcher, the familiar white helmet covering the face of the dead general. Almost at this moment the cheers of the American troops rush ing into San Mateo were mingled with lie rule volleys. Aftw fhf fieht. six stalwart cavalry- men forded the river to the town, car- rying the litter on their shoulders, the staff proceeded with the colors and a cavalry escort following.

The troops filed bareheaded through the building, where the body was laid, and many a tear fell from the eyes of men who had long followed the intrepid Lawton. The entire command was stricken with grief as though each man had suffered a personal loss. Owing to the condi tion of the country, which is impass- 1 ar a hi ed to LliC 1 tumult V-JUiv uut uiviiftuw Manila today. Mrs. Lawton and the children are living in a Government residence, formerly occupied by a Spanish general.

San Mateo lies between a high mountain and behind a broad shallow stream in front with wide sand bars, which the insurgent trenches and the buildings command. The Americans were compelled to ford the river under fire. It was while they were lying in the rice fields ana volleying across, preparatory to passing the stream, that General Lawton was shot. All except tlr officers were behind cover, A staff ofiicer was wounded about the same time and one other officer and seven After three hours' shooting the Fili pinos were dispersed into the mountains. Colonel Lockett took command when General Lawton fell.

WASiiTMP.TnN TIpc. 20. The War Department last night received the fol- owing official confirmation of the kill- Jng 0 General Lawton near San Mateo, lUZOu: ta'TT A Cpnonl nwtnn while engaged in driving insurgents from the San Mateo section of the country northeast of Manila, was killed in- taTltlv fit q.on vpotprdav morninc 1" 3 ne- A 1 OTIS." AT THE RECORDER'S OFFICE. Reported dally for the "Sentinel" by Makinney Dake, Searchers of Records and Conveyances. No.

2'i Cooper St REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Rebecca Schwartz, executrix, to E. E. Clark Part of Lot 1 of the Camp-. bell Tract, $1,100.

William Crook and wife to Bauten The W. of N. E. of N. W.

of Sec. 6, T. 10 R. 2 M. D.

M. 20 acres, $10. MORTOAOEH. Mortgages for $350 and $3,000 filed. Mortgages for $700, and $2,400 satis- fle(J CASTOI1IA.

Boars the 1 hB Kind You Have Always Bougte i i i 12 SS f2 S3 S2 8 SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Sheriff Besse is in San Jose. Mrs. T. L.

O'Neil is in San Jose. S. Barnet is down from San Francisco. L. D.

Holbrook was in town Wednesday. W. C. Peyton has returned from the East. County Treasurer Bias is in Sacramento.

Miss Celia Cooney is home for holidays. the Mrs. J. W. Lewis has returned from San Jose.

Under Sheriff Mullen is San Francisco. back from Mrs. TV! tli.t!n Mnnn at Santa Clara, J. W. Forgeus is confined to his home by illness.

Miss Agnes Ward is visiting relatives in San Jose. Miss Martha Cooney is home from the Normal School. Miss Mildred Bliss left yesterday on a visit to San Jose. Ed Dickerman and wife from near Pescadero. are down Mrs.

E. E. Harvey was Watsonville Wednesday up from Mrs. Alex. Skelton returned to Boulder Creek Wednesday.

Prof. W. W. Wilson is spending a few days in San Francisco. Mra.

J. E. Kent is confined to her home at 23 Pine St. by illness. Miss Josie Turcot will be home from Stanford University this week.

Wm. Barnes, of the State University, is visiting relatives in Soquel. F. R. Walti is back from San Francisco, where he bought 150 turkeys.

Samuel Faneuf and Chas. Wilson, of the State University, arrived Wednesday. Percy Hicks of the State University is spending his vacation in Scotts Valley. Miss Kate Hanahan has gone to San Jose to visit her sister, Mra. George Shelton.

Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Swanton and Miss Pearl Swanton returned Wednesday from San Francisco.

Mrs. E. Benner and son were down from their Bonny Doon home Wednesday to purchase gifts for Christmas. E. L.

Holliday returned Wednesday from San Francisco, where he purchased a carload of fancy dressed beef. Mrs. F. Lewis of Capitola, who came to California with the Donner party, is attending the golden jubilee at San Jose. W.

N. McCarthy, who has visited Santa Cruz several times with his yacht Ramona, was Tuesday united in marriage in San Francisco Hall, a popular actress. to Edith COMMISSION MERCHANTS FAIL. Head of the Firm Formerly Was a Resident of Santa Cruz. a liicrin Sr Cn rnmmiasinn nur- XU flllikJVM JVf chants in San Francisco, suspended business Wednesday.

Mr. Allison explained the failure of his company as follows: 'I nave lost over $100,000 in a mine Shasta coun- ty during the last few years and owe the Crocker-Woolworth National Bank considerable money. This was a good year in iub nuit auu piuuutc uuoiutos and I reduced my indebtedness about $5,000 and had no idea that the bank would refuse to accomodate me. Checks which I drew on the bank last Saturday, in settlement for produce sold, were thrown out by the bank and protested. That brought on my failure I can not say at this time how much I owe, as a statement from the books has not been prepared.

No money is ow- i ing to firms in this city outside of the bank, but there is considerable due to shippers of produce in the country. My failure is complete, dollar in the world." I have not a A meeting of the creditors may soon be held. It is reported that the Crocker-Wool worth Bank has attached the mining property owned by Mr. Allison. Campodonico and Burns will probably make an effort to continue the business of the D.

E. Alllsan Co. In 1865 Mr. Allison purchased of J. D.

Hyde a half interest in the Mr. Allison and his brother came to Santa Cruz to practice law. He only held his interest In the "Sentinel" six months, selling it to B. P. Kooser.

After disposing of his interest Mr. Allison moved to San Francisco. He seldom visited Santa Cruz. Subscribe for the i i MeWpil rnntpmrlntpa oraniincr I a bath-house on McNeil beach, and I building a stairway from the Cliff I Drive. i It is practically settled that Jos.

i Enright and L. Williams will manage the baseball team next season, and that I the team will be in the league. On Dec. 27th the Moreland Notre Dame Academy in Watsonville will be i dedicated with imposing ceremonies, Bishop Montgomery will deliver an address. Wm.

Crook was in from Ben Lomond Wednesday. He informed us that he has sold his 20-acre tract in the English Settlement, near the Ben Lomond vineyard, to N. Bauten of Alameda. Mr Cook expects to go to South Africa. On Wednesday evening the following officers of the Young Men's Institute were elected: Chaplain, Father McNamee; Past President, T.

W. Kel-ley; President, J. D. Tait; First Vice-President, Henry Kinsley; Second Vice-President, George Crininon; Rec. Sec, Chas.

Gallagher; Fin. Sec, T. W. Kelley; Treasurer, J. J.

Roney; Marshal, J. M. P. Walsh; Inside Sentinel, Thomas Thompson; Outside Sentinel, Thos. Kane; Executive J.

J. Dor-an, J. T. Stanton, Thos. Kane; Physician, Dr.

J. F. Christal. Richards Pringle's famous Georgia Minstrels, a mammoth minstrel aggregation, will appear at the Opera House next Sunday evening. Their show this season is bigger, better and brighter than ever, and will completely dwarf anything ever attempted in this popular lineof entertainment.

Half a hundred performers are included in its makeup, a score of novelties, a troupe of Arabs, a military band, and its orchestra of 10 pieces. This combination travels in its own special train of Pullman cars. The ladies of the Christian Church gave a chicken pie dinner at Lower Masonic Hall Wednesday, which was largely attended. The first table was in red. At the table were Mesdames W.

H. Crowe, I. Fields, Misses Walker and Bardin. At the second table were Mesdames D. L.

Smith, Ellery, and McCormick. Pink and green were the colors used for decoration. The third table was in charge of Mesdames Lewis and Icanberry, Misses Dearing and Bowen. Decorations were in yellow. Mesdames Truax, Gould, Short and Tyler were in the kitchen.

Mrs. Waggoner was general manager and Mrs. Muckler cashier. An entertainment and candy pull were given in the evening. SENATOR FERKINS' TII0UGI1TFULNESS.

Ed. The Free Library of Santa Cruz is indebted to our Senator, the Hon. Geo. C. Perkins, for his timely thoughtfulness in ordering the Daily Congressional Record to be sent for our use.

It was thought that we had been forgotten, and accordingly a letter was addressed to the Senator requesting a continuance of this favor which we enjoyed during the last session. But lo, and behold! The very-next clay a letter and the Record from the beginning, were received, informing ns that we were not dropped. So now those who wish to read the Congressional proceedings, not less than five days old, can find them at the Free Library. C. L.

A. MAMMOTH SUGAR PLANT. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20 Nathan Cole a large land holder in Antelope Valley, this county, has just returned from the East. Mr.

Cole says that as a result of his absence Antelope Valley will soon have a big beet sugar factory in active construction. Cole and his associates own large interests in the Antelope Valley and they have been at work upon the sugar factory project for a long time. The enter-, prise is now stated to be assured. The factory will havea capacity of 350 tons a day and will cost about $4,000,000 to build and equip. i A large sugar interest is behind the project and Mr.

Cole will go East again early in January to complete the neces- 1 sary details for beginning active opera-' tions. The new factory will it is ex-' nected be ready to receive the beet crop in 1901. The company behind the enterprise has prepared to plant ten thousand acres in beets in the Antelope Valley on lands already secured for the purpose which are to be cultivated by irrigation. DYSPEPSIA CAN BE CURED BY Using Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets. One 1 little Tablet will give immediate relief or money refunded.

Sold in handsome tin boxes for 25cts. For sale by S. A. Palmer, 40 Pacific Av. tains, twenty miles distant, for a back- ground on the east.

In front to the south, west and north, the parquet, in which are located the principal business enterprises of the city, numerous residences, large and small, hotels, churches, school build- ings, a fine Court House of yellow pressed brick on quite an elevation ot i blue stone, ashlar style, a Hall of Rec- ords and a substantial jail Looking west we have the S. P. R. R. depot two blocks away, at which the broad and narrow-gauge roads from San Francisco converge.

To the right we look down upon nearly the whole length of Pacific the principal street of the city, paved with asphalt or bituminous rock (as mined a few miles from town), with walks about 12 feet wide on either side, paved with the same material. Electric cars run up and down the avenue to the depot, around Beach Hill and up the beach to the principal bath-houses. Still further to the right is a horse-shoe shaped bend, toward the city, of the San Lorenzo river, utilized by the citizens for water carnival displays. The electric cars leaving Pacific Av. at its north end turn to the left and climbing to the top of the first terrace, follow it around to the ocean cliffs on the south and to a point appropriately called Vue de L'Eau, where one has a magnificent view of the ocean rolling in over detached rocks and frequently sending its spray forty to fifty feet hltrh, variegated on a sunny afternoon with all the colors of the rainbow.

The terraces mentioned are mostly occupied with residences, overlooking the city, seme of them very fine, with beautiful lawns and fancifully arranged foliage plants and flowers. Indeed, flow- ers are a noticeable feature or tins 'country. No matter how small the lot 'or how poor the improvements, flowers will be found in every available corner, I could even take you to a blacksmith shop where potted flowers are standing oi.nnt Mnmino- u-ith no mimh fmtr. ranpe' nl bPautv as if in "mv ladv's bower," despite their grimy surround- auu iuuiwy piw lammig iub thetic taste of the brawny workman who would thus seek to keep in touch with the lovely in nature. This city of Santa Cruz, (city of the Holy Cross), claims a population of about nine thousand, with several thou- sand added during the summer season.

it has eleven churches, seven large, two story, well built public school build- uigs anu some mauuiaiaui ing interests, but not of any great extent. I have found the citizens very friendly and sociable so far as my rather recluse uauus eiiiiuiu me iu juuftc, uue iau no doubt to their constant intermin- gling with visitors from all parts of the country, thus unconsciously imbibing cosmopolitan ideas not possessed by many other places differently situated. Nearly all the buildings, whether for residence or business purposes, are con- structed of wood, a fact not peculiar to this city at all, but more or less true of every other city and town in the State, where redwood Is employed for building material. Exposed to a fire it chars and smoulders with very little flame, at least so I am told, and is easily extinguished, consequently the largest and finest buildings are constructed mostly of redwood. SUPERIOR COURT PROCEEDINGS.

Wednesday. Ethel M. Montgomery vs. J. H.

Mont-E-nmerv Divorce Granted to nlaintiff Estate of T. Jameson N. Struve, P. J. Friermuth and F.

Seigmann ap- pointed appraisers. Wagoner vs. Sllva Demurrer to amended complaint. i Estate of F. J.

McCann Sale of real 1 estate confirmed. iul 1 i I I i 1 I LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20. At the County Teachers' Institute here today a motion was made and unanimously I carried that each teacher will for one year contribute one per cent of his or her salary to J. C.

Pelton, the pioneer teacher of California, who is in i straightened circumstances. David Starr Jordan spoke at the Institute.