The St. Helena Star from St. Helena, California • 6

1 Ths Other Kind of Deer. TYben Israel Lane returned from the wedding of David Fletcher, who Is known in the Balmy creek country as a mighty hunter, he Immediately suught the village store, where fhe bridegrooms cronies were gathered, waiting for news of the ceremony. Well," one of the number, "bowd it go off? -Pret' fair, thanks to me," replied Israel. "Wbatd you do? demanded The municipality at Brest entertained the bluejackets of the American battleships on a great scale. Delegations of French sailors, soldiers aBd dockyard employes were invited to meet the Americans, and the guests were distributed around the different restaurants of the city, no one restaurant being large enough to accommodate all.

TERSE For many weeks a CALIFORNIA oi 8ur veyors bas been NEWS bugy jn j)eer creei pass and along the canyon that leads into the Sacramento valley, running lines that are undoubtedly intended to mark out a route that will be followed by a railroad. For some time it has been the general belief that the surveyors are in the employ of the Hill system, and that they are the forerunners of the road that he is to build into California from the north, as an extension of his Oregon Trunk Line, now under construction along the Deschutes river. Cl CC CH Tie eaDe tbe I tbe uni Irani ayors duel aiif lan 1 it tb jew ley raigl furs ered mer jiae. fete -UL -Bui an. Bui lots Geot i be1 dent Ired I cut ANbgetable Preparationfor As jula- ii isMikn 5Y inK Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest.

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'SUP, IP jGL-ii 3 EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. Sunset irt e-r, cka raft 1 i we "So Comfortable Winter Route. Luxurious Equipment. iey mil: stan Scenery and climatic conditions makes this a popular route to New Orleans and East. V1 Mi YI He fle (i Shot from ambush while his brother was absent on a trip to a store in Jamal, east of San Diego, was the fate of M.

G. Mau, an aged rancher of Law-son valley. The crime was discovered by Fred Mau, the dead mans brother, when he returned to the cabin the two had occupied. Every corner of the place had been ransacked In the search for money, a large sum of which it was believed the two always kept in the cabin. The body of the murdered man was found in the brush some distance from the building.

Pardoned from the Government prison, at Rilibid, Manila, P. and armed with letters of recommendation with which he hoped to start life anew and more successfully, Elmo W. Cook of Logan, Utah, formerly a private in the United States Army, was asphyxiated in a tiny room at 156 Tehama street. San Francisco. Dr.

E. R. Sparks, a veterinary surgeon, was arrested at Los Angeles on a charge of manslaughter, accused of causing the death of James a telegraph operator, by a blow of his fist. It is said that on December 8th Keisted was annoying Sparks while he was engaged in performing ah operation on a dog and the doctor knocked him down. His skull was fractured and he died in the County Hospital.

Sparks was released on $3000 ball. Jerry Simpson, a guard at the State Penitentiary, Salem, Oregon, was stabbed several times by Thomas ORourke, a convict. He may die. O'Rourke was being shaved with the other convicts, with Simpson guarding the room. O'Rourke objected to having his hair cut, and when reprimanded by Simpson, drew a knife from his clothes and assaulted the guard.

Where the convict got the material for the knife is a mystery. ORourke is under a three years sentence from Multnomah county, and has served about a year of his term. The statutes of Oregon prescribe it a capital offense to assault the superintendent, warden or a guard inside the walls of the prison. SAN FRANCISCO PRODUCE MARKET Latest Conditions and Prloea of Seasonable Products of California FRUITS. The Fruit market is quiet and featureless, hardly a change being reported in any department.

Apples are extremely weak. Berries drag without buyers on account of poor condition and Cranberries are of such damaged, spoiled quality that $12.50 in general was an extreme for them. Citrus Fruits- continued in the same old rut. Strawberries- per chest, $35 for large and $S10 for Longworths; Apples Ben Davis, New-towns, 7.7c$l.25; Spitzenberg, $1.75 2.25; choice other varieties, 6585c, common, 50 65c. Pears Wrapped Bartletts, winter varieties, (0cf5 $1 per box.

Grapes Per crate, Verdels, other varieties, $11.25. DRIED FRUITS The Raisin market displays a better tone and conditions are steadily improving. Although growers have been holding stubbornly for a 3-cent flat rate on Muscat Raisins lor more than two months, they have not succeeded in obtaining it, but 2 cens was offeted the latter part of last week, the only improvement noted in the way of prices for some time. Peaches continue very firm and the f. o.

b. rate has advanced to 6 cents flat, with a bid of 5 rents for choice yellows refused. Prunes likewise are strong. VEGETABLES. Summer Squash and Peas are both more firmly held at higher prices, but otherwise the Vegetable list is featuieless.

Potatoes are quiet but easy, and Onions steady. Potatoes Per ctl; River Whites, $1.30 1.40: Salinas Burbanks. $1.70 1 85; Otegon, Sweets, $2.70 2.90. Tomatoes, 3075c per box for Bay and 7590c for Southern; Garlic, 23c per lb; Hothouse Cucumhers per box, Egg Plant, 810c per lb: Green Peas, per 79c; String Beans, 812Vc Per lb; Summer Squash, per box. Peppers, lugs, 4060c; Celery, per crate, $1.50 Rhubarb, per box; Onions, per sk 1 1.15.

POULTRY. With over 200 cases of dressed Turkeys received Tuesday in addition to a good-sized carry-over from the previous day, the general range of quotations on Turkeys is an easy one and 24 cents, with rarely 25 cents, is the prevailing extreme, and then hard to get. Trade in them continues to rule ominously slow and utgurs little encouragement for good prices before Saturday. There were no more Eastern Chickens received and ninety-one coops was all that do-metic shippers sent in. Game was plentiful, but showed no improvement in prices.

Hens, per dozen: Small, $45; do, large, $56; do, extras, $S10; Old Roosters, $45; Young Roosters. $5 do, full grown, Friers, Broilers, large, do, medium, do, small, $3 Ducks, old, $67; do, young, $8 10; Pigeons old, do, young, do. Squabs, Geese, per pair, $23; Hen Turkeys, per lb, 2023c; Gobblers, live, 2123c; Turkeys, dressed, 2326c. BUTTER. On Wednesday extras went to 384c from 36c, due to scarcity of stock available.

Storage remains at 30 4c. The market Is steady EGGS. Extras opened at 36c Wednesday and closed at 37c, steady. Storage is 32c, firm. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES Through Drawing-room Sleepers, Dining, Parlor, Observation and Tourist Car sendee.

Go Su Magnificent Steamers, New Orleans to New York. Costs no more than all rail route. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Use For Over Thirty Years TMI CKNTAUft COM PANT. NEW TOM Express. AND St.

Helena. womh ROSSINI New Storey Stock 4 4 Prices reasonable. Give us aJ Mr. Hortop, his stock if igricnltaral Impish THE STAR ail ntli Winter is intensifying the famine In the Yang Tse Kiang districts, China. The authorities are endeavoring to suppress the sale of children, which has been so extensive as to be estimated at ever a million.

The majority of these hre girls. The roadways are dotted with starving and dead. The relief committee is now making appeals abroad for aid. Count Geza Szechenyi, first cousin of Count Szechenyi, who married Gladys Vanderbilt, was accidentally shot in the face while hunting on the estate of his brother. Count Victor, at Surpentele.

Count Lederbur Wicheln, brother-in-law of Count Victor, one of the hunting party, fired at a deer. The load of small shot struck Count Geza. His condition is almost hopeless. Queen Marys accouchement is expected in March. This will be the first birth at Buckingham Palace in fifty-four years.

The last child born to King George and Quen Mary was Prince John Charles, Ju'y 12, 1905. The Swedish stean et Cedric has been wrecked near Gefle, a seaport of Sweden. Twelve persons were drowned, including all the officers. DEATHS OF NOTED PEOPLE M. B.

Atkinson, one of the best known orchardists in the Santa Clara valley and a San Jose realty dealer with the firm of T. C. Barnett Company, passed away unexpectedly at his ranch home near Saratoga after a two weeks illness from pneumonia. Atkinson had been a resident of Santa Clara county for fourteen years and was one of the valleys most successful orchardists, having made a considerable fortune out of his fruit. Recently he became Identified with the realty business, in which he was successful.

A widow, five sons in the county and a son and a daughter in Canada survive him. He came to this section from Montreal, where he was engaged in mercantile pursuits. Senor Anibal Cruz, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Chile to the United States, was stricken with heart failure at Washington Sunday and died ten minutes later. He had attended the banquet of the American Society for the Judicial Settlement of International Disputes the previous night and retired apparently in good health. When he was stricken physicians were summoned, but tjie end came before they arrived.

President Taft and Secre tary Knox called at the Chilean Legation In the afternoon and offered Senor Don Alberto Yoacham, Charge dAf faires of the embassy, the use of an American battleship for transporting the body of the Minister to Chile. President Taft and Secretary Knox expressed the hope that the body might be returned to Chile under the American flag. A race between J. A. D.

McCurdy, in his sixty-horsepower aeroplane, and Jimmy Ward in a twenty-four-horsepower "baby Curtiss, marked the close of the aviation meet at Atlanta, Ga. Ward won on every point, remaining in the air thirty-six minutes and eleven seconds. McCurdy flew twenty minutes. Eugene Ely came to grief When, after a flight of nearly a mile, the standpipe of his aeroplane fell, splintering the propeller, while he was about 100 feet from the ground. Ho reached the ground sately.

A swarm of ball players have flocked to Bakersfield, to pass the winter. Henry Spencer has landed job in the oil fields as has Jimmy Smith. Hap Hogan of Oakland is look ing after a duck preserve just outside of the city and Brick Devereaux is the whole, show behind a cigar counter. Henry Ordeman, the Minneapolis wrestler, to whom Frank Gotch turned oer his title upon his retirement, won fiom Ernest Fenby of Shepard, in straight falls at Detroit, Mich. Both came in short order.

Acting on instructions received from acting Governor George Lambremont, Sheriff Parker closed the Big cocking main which has been in progress at Monroe, for the last week. It is estimated that $150,000 in side bets changed hands since the main opened. Jack Gleason is not married comes the report from his friends. Gleason is now at Hot Springs, Arkansas, where he is enjoying himself, and there is no telling when he will get back to the Coast. It is also said that Tex Rickard is at Hot Springs, so the two promoters of the Reno farce may be laying plans for some new deal.

Otto Ziegler, twenty years ago the acknowledged peer of the bicycle riders of the country, is lying probably fatally ill at his apartments in San Jose, Cai. Should he recover from bis Illness he will probably be blinded for life, according to physicians in attendance at his bedside. Five thousand dollars will be hung up as a prize by the Marin County Promotion League for the first aviator taking part in the coming aviation meet at Tanforan, who flies across the bay from San Francisco to San Rafael return. I saved parson coniderate of a shock and Marne some blushes," said Israel, with calm Just before they was ready to stand up in the parlor 1 says to Dave I dont know bat made me: guess it was meant to be 1 says. Le's see your license.

'Well. Dave banded it over, and 1 discovered it was a bunting license. Whats this?" 1 says, handing.it back, You aint got to bunt any longer: youve got her. It seems." concluded Israel, "that Dave just said he 'wanted a license. and of course the clerk thought be wanted the usual kind.

Youths Companion. A fairly vaooa rvppema. Kaffirs. North American Indians and the fat boy in Pickwick may well be quoted as fearful examples of voracity. but even their grastronomlc feats are exceeded by the full grown Eskimo, who will daily eat twenty pounds of flesh and oil if he has, the chance, while on the authority of Admiral Saritcbeff a Yakut of Siberia has been known to consume in twenty-four hours the hind quarter of a large ox, twenty pounds of fat and a quantity of melted butter for his drink.

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Lot 66x186. In Quire at Star office. rii Notices posted about Red Bluff state that a large part of the great Cone estate is to be sold at public auction cm January 16th. The chief part if this estate is the entire capital stock of the great Cone Ranch Company. This ranch is composed of thousands cf acres of fruit, grain and grazing lands, upon which are innumerable cattle, sheep and horses.

It is one of the old Spanish land grants and is known from one end of the State to the other. Acting Governor Porter has commuted the sentence of William D. Wright, sentenced to San QucMin for life from Santa Cruz in October, 1906, for the murder of his wife, to twenty years. The action was taken on recommendation from Judge Welsh, presiding Judge at the trial, who suggested that Wright is not a hardened criminal. The most extensive preparations ever made for a New Year's celebration in the history of Stockton have already been completed and a large sum of money has been collected tc carry out the details.

It is proposed to have a parade about 10:30 in the evening and there will be plenty of fireworks, red fire, confetti and everything, including noise, that goes with speeding the old year on its way and ushering in the new. A new railroad is to be built from the Southern Pacific line at or near Auburn to Cool on the south side of the American river in El Dorado county, a distance of six or eight miles, the way the road will have to run to ascend and descend the canyon walls. The road will be primarily for the purpose of opening up the vast deposits of limestone in the vicinity of Cool, where a great quarry enterprise is being developed by San Francisco capitalists. The lime is to be shipped to the Portland cement factories at Sul-sun and Napa Junction. An elevated train was intended to be used to transport the lime, but this plan has been changed and a railroad will be built.

The company has been forced to use engines to slide its heavy machinery up and down the side's of the canyon because the bridges on the county roads are not strong enough to carry such loads as some of the pieces made. Congress passed the urgent deficiency ap propriation bill in one hour and forty the measure carried GENERAL NEWS HAPPENINGS minutes. As $1,060,615, this was appropriating public funds at 110,000 a minute. As reported in the House, the hill carried 1850,000. but when it reached the Senate it had grown to $995,672, and the Senate added the remainder.

The sum of is included to pay Richard Parr, United States customs inspector, the remainder of the reward of $100,000 which he was awarded for bringing to light the existence of the sugar-weighing frauds in the New York Custom-house. The bill now goes to the President. The "city beautiful idea has reached the isthmus of Panama, according to the last issue of the Canal Record. The President of Panama, as an inci dent to a contract Just made with the United States regarding payment for municipal improvements in Colon and Panama, has issued a decree making it unlawful to erect any building or structure in either city before the municipal authorities have completely laid out and improved the section and paved the streets. The Panama Canal Commission is already preparing to aid the army of woikers on the Panama canal in hav ing a merry Christmas.

Already a large order for Christmas trees has been placed in this country, but that their freshness may.be impaired as little as possible the trees will not reach the isthmus until this week, stock of gifts is also being laid in for the children of the workers, including an assortment of toys. By private sale and by auction thir ty Everett, saloons are dis posing of their stocks before Januarv 1st, when the city becomes dry. The array of cut glass that gleamed on the back bars is shrinking, for many an Everettite is purchasing at cost various designs in wine and cocktail glasses in order that the housewife may utilize them to serve frozen desserts. Everett voted dry Nov. 8th.

On account of the fact that they are displeased with the methods of the Toyo Risen Steamship Com pany, the Japanese merchants of Honolulu are planning to swing their large freight business to the Pacific Mail, The proposition will be definitely de cided upon about the first of the new year. The plan is contingent on the action of the Japanese line. There is a report that the Toyo Risen Raisha is going to make a big ent in its freight rates between the Orient and that port, and if this is done the Japanese. probably will continue to'patronize that steamship line. The merchants say that they are not satisfied with the way their goods are bandied by the Japanese line.

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Liquors for Home Use OR PACKAGES 4 ill Tt, i i Goodman Bldg, St. Helena, mm'. JOHN JARDINE Successor to H. HORTOP, RUTHERFORD, CAL. as relit ton i "hi h- ie i 0e lei If 0 Tli "1 He Eu tre u-e ad I 0 ire etn Dv Having purchased from Groceries, Hardware, Paints, Varnishes, Oils, I desire to solicit a continuance of the liberal patronage upon him for many years, promising courteous treatnu prompt service and reasonable prices.

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