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, 1888-07-29

Quoted with remarkable skill, and that the
display of energy, persistcncy and fortil-
ity OF resource shown by the prosecutor
gave evidence of legal ability of a high
order.
Now of what use in the wide world is a
prosecutor who fails to prosecute? Is a
man elected and paid by the people to
prosecute and convict criminals and there
by render society more secure, or is he
simply to be a creature of shreds and
patches ready at any moment to answer
the behest of a not too well informed
newspaper Is he to be a man or is he to
be a mouse2
The statement Of the Sun that the two
Patterson cases cost the county 81 5000 or
500 900 is absurdly ridiculous. The last
trial cost about 5 $500; both trials not
over $4,000. II the Sun wishes to raise
a %yirtuous howl let it take the official fig
urs. Then it may at least make preten-
tons to honesty of purpose. AS it is now
it looks too much like a personal fight on
a man for the political effect it may exert
next fall.
Hold up your cards, Mr.. Sun, for some
body is looking over your shoulder.
, 1888-07-29

PRINCIPLES NOT PREJUDICES

PRINCIPLES NOT PREJUDICES
Where the Sun ~signally fails in its mis-
sion as a newspaper is in giving its own
private grievances the prominence usually
accorded to public calamities. In other
words, the basis of its criticism of public
officials is always private pique or political
bias. 1t has criticized the action of the
county commissioners sitting as a board
of equalization with a joytully frank dis
regard of truth which no newspaper with
any regard for common decency would
stoop to. Aotuated by private malice and
political motives it has endsavored to cast
aspersions on official character and at
tempted to hoodwink the public into the
belief that the county equalization board
with malice aforethought is unjustly len
lent in some directions and u~njustly OPP
pressive In others. Our contemporary
purposely overlooks the delicate duties
which a board Of equalization has before
it, and the utter impossibility of satisfying
the demands of all interested property
holders while still strictly complying with
the duties imposed by the oath of Office.
That these demands are often u~nreasona
Bile no one who has watched the proceed
ings of the board can for a moment doubt;
that the board gives due consideration to
all proper objections IS equally certain.
Then why not be just if you cannot be
generous2
THE LEADER is no apologist for the
county commissioners: they do not need
any a~pologists. They have performed
their duties conscientiously during the
most trying financial period in the his
tory of Laramie county. In the perfor.
nance of their duties they may not always
have been above criticism, but the criti-
cism of their public acts should always be
fair and honest. 1t has not been SO thus
far.
AS to the Suns criticism of the Patter.
son case it is of a piece with its other
criticisms. If Patterson had not been
prosecuted by a Democrat-aud one who
in the nature of things must prove a
dangerous adversary of the party which
the SIN represents, when its own private
interests do not in~tervene-if some Re
publican of the Eddy street clique had
been prosecutor then would the Sun
have been filed with gushy rhapsody,
yea, filed to OVERLOOKING. No less a man
than the leading lawyer OF the territory
stated yesterday that the case was CON
, 1888-07-29

The peculiar attitude which the dis
gruntled New York Sun occupies toward
President Cleveland, freely supporting
him for reelection while at the same time
criticising him with bitter frankness, is a
source Of ever increasing Joy to the Re-
publican press Of the country. A few
days since Mr.. Charles A. Dana, the
editor of the Sun, was in Chicago and,
while there, submitted to an interview
with a Herald reporter. Here is what he
said, and the Republicans may perhaps
find accented Joy in its perusal:
will you vote for Mr.. Cleveland"
II shall. answered Mr. Dana, prompt
ly.
With regard to the denomination of
Governor Hill, MI. Dana said he would
be renominated without any doubt, Tor
he was personally the most popular man
in the state. whenever he goes into a
public meeting he is greeted with a live
ller cheer than anyone else. and he has
the affection of the people as no one else
has it. You know that though Cleveland
only had a plurality of something over a
thousand, Hill the next year was elected
by a plurality of II 900.
Then you think it very possible that
Governor Hill may carry New York
and the Cleveland electors be defeated?"
Yes, hat is possible, but | don't
think that it is likely"
, 1888-07-29

U. S. ATTORNEY CAMPBELL, in his re-
port to the attorney general, states that
ALB civil cases we're commenced in the
courts of this territory for the year ending
July /, 800 were terminated during the
same period, 16l by judgments for the
plaintiff. thirteen by judgment for defend
ant, while lie were dismissed or discon-
tinued. The amount of Judgment for
plaintiffs was 1918, 259. Sc, and for de-
PENDANTS $3,264.S7. There were 312
cases pending July /. None of these
were United States cases.
, 1888-07-29

THE establishment of a weekly paper
at Saratoga, the Wyoming health resort,
was the best Investment ever made by the
people of that section of the country.
The Lyre fills the bill admirably and in a
few short months has done more to ad
vertise the section in which it is published
than all previous years have done. Cald-
well, the editor, is getting SO healthy in
that favored region, that there is talk of
turning him loose among the California
consumptives. The mere sight of his
gushing vitality has already snatched sew
eral debilitated people from the very Jaws
of death.
, 1888-07-29

The motto of California means. 1 have
found it. Only in that land of sunshine,
where the orange, lemon, olive, fig and
grape bloom and ripen, and attain their
highest perfection in midwinter, are the
herbs and gum found, that are used in
that pleasant remedy for all throat and
lung troubles. Santa Able the ruler of
coughs, asthma and consumption. DR..
W. n. Hunt has been appointed agent
for this valuable California remedy, and
sells it under a guarantee at 81 a bottle.
Three for 81, SO Try California Cat-R,
Cure. the only guaranteed cure for
catarrh. 81, by mail $l.l0.
, 1888-07-29
PROPOSALS FOR CoAL-Head-

PROPOSALS FOR COAL-Head-
quarters department of the Platte,
chief quartermaster' office. Omaha, Neb.,
July 6, 1888. Sealed proposals, in tri-
plicate, subject to the usual conditions,
will be received at this office until l o'clock
p. m, August 9th, 1888, when they will
be opened in presence of bidders for fur
nishing Rock Springs. Wyo. ard Canon
coal. Clear creek, Col, at the quatermas-
ter's depot and Fort Omaha, Neb. Coal
to be delivered in car load lots on the side
track at places above named. The gov
eminent reserves the right to reject any
or all proposals. Quantities required at
each place, with further particulars and
blank proposals will be furnished on APP
pllcation to this office. Envelopes con
tanning proposals should be marked pro
posals for coal" aud addressed to the un-
dersigned, WIN. B. HUGHES, Chief Quar-
termaster.
, 1888-07-29

Courtesy Of Nvo. Archives &
, 1888-07-29

Best Apron Check Ginghams ............
Good Bleached Muslin ............ ........
Good Sateens
Best French Imported Sateens............
Very Fine White India Linen............
Basket B%untings in all colors ...........
oeersuckers
Wool Etamine Dress Goods...............
Good Worsted Dress Goods.
Double width Henrietas a.,..
80 inch All Wool Surahs .................
Cd wide Ladies Cloth.
AZ inch All Wool Black Cashmere......
Extra quality Black eros Grain Silk.
very heavy go.
Very good Black Satin Merveleaux....
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-31
THE TOURIST SLUGGERS,
''Parson' Davies Talks for Mitchell
and Kilrain.

ST. LOUIS, December 3O.-The Kilrain-
Mitchell party arrived in st. Louis to-
day. Kilrain and Mitchell kept closely
to their rooms during the day, and Par
son" Davies did the talking for them.
The "Parson'' stated that a letter had
been forwarded tonight to Kilrain's New
York hackers to the effect that he would
meet the Sullivan party in Buffalo, NY,
on January 7th. The "Parson" stated
further that the match will be closed
within ten days, or the party who re.
fuses to fight will be shown up. Davies
claimed that Kilrain was not only
willing but anxious to meet Sullivan. and
would agree to anything in reason to
bring about match. As to Jackson,
the Australian wonder, he did not see
money or glory in meeting with the
black. There was nothing TO win and
everything to lose. The "Parson'
thought McAuliffe had been over-esti-
mated. Bill Bradburn defeated Glover
in nine rounds. 1t took McAuliffe forty
nine to beat him. His defeat of Conley
was a chance blow. Kilrain and
Mitchell think they have been misrepre-
sented. and that adverse comment is the
cause of their shabby tire .tment wherever
they 60.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-31
The New Years Solar Eclipse.

Tomorrow there will be total eclipse
of the sun. The centre of its totality on
this coast will run through line drawn
from Point Arena, on the Northern Cali
fornia coast to Winnemucca in Nevada.
The belt of totallty will extend for a
width of seventy-five miles. Professor
George Davidson, who is running the
Geodetic survey on this coast, and
whose camp is now located at Buena
Park, near Anaheim, has furnished the
Anaheim Gazette with very elaborate and
interesting data Of the phenomena, from
which we make the following excerpt:
The beginning OF the eclipse, in Pacific
standard time, occurs at Oh. 34m, 2Os.
P. NJ, January 1, 1889. The point of
first contact is 273 degrees 40 minutes
from the north point of the SUMS limb
counted round by the east. The time of
when 1905 digits will be obscured. The
ending of the eclipse occurs at 3h. I'm.
16s., and the point Of latest contact is
rs degrees 46 seconds from the north
point of the sun counted round by the
east. For the astronomical station of the
Coast Survey named Buena Vista (187O)
in Los Angeles (now occupied by the
High SchooD, the phases will occur
almost exactly one minute earlier than
the above times, and the points of con-
tact will be but slightly different. For
Anaheim and the adjacent towns the
phases will occur about twenty seconds
later than the above times; and the
points of contact will be nearly the same.
The reference to the High School III
the above is to the point where the new
Court House is being built. Professor
station was on that hill in
1870, and subsequently, viz. in 1928,
the High School building was erected
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-31
ELIJAH'S EPISTLE.
Mr. HaifOrd's Outgivings as 1,
HarrisOn's New Year.


HarrisOn's New Year.
INDIANAPOLIS, December 3O.-Presi.
dent-elect and Mrs. Harrison attended
church this morning as usual, accompa.
MED by Mr.. and Mrs. Mckee. There
was large congregation present, includ-
ing many strangers. There were num-
Der of callers at the Harrison home this
morning, the visitors being strangers who
IN every instance apologized for calling
on Sunday, but they wanted to shake
hands with the next President before
leaving the city.
On New Years day Mrs. Harrison
viii! receive at home from the hours OF
2 to 8 P. NJ. assisted by her daughter
Mrs. Mckee, and one or two lady friends.
General Harrison will be present and
will receive with the ladies. At g O'Clock
the ladies will go down to the new Deni.
son and receive for an hour or two with
the ladies of the hotel, twelve in num-
Der, including Mrs. Judge Martindale,
Mrs. Harvey Bates, Mrs. Geo. o. Taylor
and others. Each of the twelve ladies
has invited five friends to receive with
them, so If all are present there will be
grand reception by seventy-two of the
leading society ladies of the city. 1t is
not known whether General Harrison
will attend, but it is considered probable
that he will drop In and pay his respects
to the ladies. The hours for the recep-
ton at the New Denison are from to IL
O'Clock.
Regarding a special cable from Lon
don, printed this morning, purporting to
give an extract from letter said to have
been written few days since by E. w.
Hslford TO John G. Reid, formerly ef the
New York Times, wherein Halford is
said to have stated that Hon. John G.
New did not desire to go into General
Harrison's Cabinet, ard that Indiana
would probably be represented by Gen
eral Lew Wallace as Postmaster. General,
Halferd says that since his appointment
as private secretary to General Harri-
son, he has not written word regarding
the Cabinet or its possible composition,
to Reid or any one else.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-31
FIGHTING THE TRUST.
4 st. Paul House Fights the
whisky Combine.

PHILADELPHIA, December 30-G. w.
Hicks, vice. president and general man
ager of the St. Paul Distilling Company,
who is stopping in this city, said tonight
that the Whisky Trust having declared
war against the st. Paul company by
reducing the price of high wines ten cents
per proof gallon, his company would
tomorrow make the price of high wines
s1.01, which is three cents under the
figure named by the Trust. "The st..
Paul house," he said, lis owned and
operated by men Of the highest financial
standing and ability in the Northwest.
The Trust since it's formation has stead
lily advanced the price of high wines
to fictitious figure, making thereby an
enormous profit, large part of which is
set apart to fight the st. Paul and other
individual distilleries. The retail dealers
know taey ought to pay about $1.25 per
gallon for their goods no matter how
much the Trust raises prices. The deal
ers will not pay the jobbers' raise in
prices, and consequently the jobbers are
the ones who are squeezed. We don't
want to carry this fight to it's farthest
limit, but if we must go into Africa we
shall not object. Our aim is to do busi-
ness on business methods, with a fair re-
turn for the capital invested"
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-31
FOREIGN FINDINGS.
4 Mexican All-FOOl's Day
Hoax.
FLASHES FROM THE OLD WORLD.
The POpe's Encyclical Letter-End
Of the Jubilee Year-French
Communists.


Associated Press DISPATCHES to the HEaALD.l
Ell PAso, Texas, December 3O.-A
newspaper published in chihuahua, Mex
leo, on December 2Sth and received here
yesterday, contained thrilling accounts
OF an alleged Papist uprising in the City
OF Mexico. The story in brief is the
same as told in special dispatches last
night 1t was seized upon by
correspondent of a New York
paper and telegraphed from here.
This narrative was purported to
have been received by Chihuahua papers
by wire from the City OF Mexico. Upon
investigation the terrible tale turns out
to be huge hoax perpetrated by the
Chihuahua newspapers upon their
readers. December 2Sth is All Innocents'
day, and is celebrated in Mexico as
April lst has been in the United States
and elsewhere. Intelligent Mexicans of
this city place no credit whatever in the
Chihuahua story. 1t is limited that the
perpetrators of the canard will be called
to account.
AN ALL-FOoLs' DAY JOKE,
WAsHINGTON, december 3O:-SenOr
Romero, Mexican Minister, said to an
Associated Press reporter tonight that
he did not believe any such occurrences
had taken place in the City of Mexico as
were stated to have happened ia special
dispatch from Ell Paso, Texas, purporting
to give an account of great clerical up
rising in the Mexican Capitol, in which
over two hundred people, includirg
seventy priests were killed and great
number of priests captured and ordered
shot. Sei1or Romero said if anything of
such magnitude had taken place we
should have heard of it by cable via
Galveston, and not received the first
intimation of the affair from Ell Paso.
Besides" he said, 81 have Of
fetal dispatches by cable I'D to
last Friday evening, and they
do not say word about it. Ii
any such thing had happened they
would have said something about it,
especially if it had such an ending as is
given in the published dispatches" The
Minister added that it was the Mexican
custom for everyone on the 2Sth of
December to tell the biggest yarns he
could think of and then laugh at those
who belieI ed them. 1t was sort of
American April-fool's day, and he
thought perhaps the published story had
such an origin.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-31

Hon. TIMOTHY GUY PHELPS has an
nounced it to be his purpose to contest
the seat of Hon. Thomas ]. Clunie in the
fifty-first Congress. Even Republicans
admit that it would be a calamity to
replace the young, energetic and able
Clunie by fossil like Timothy Guy.
The latter has been forced into the con-
test by the Republican State Central
Committee and the Republican press
against his own convictions. Republican
spoilers" during the late O'Donnell
recount, claim to have discovered enough
OF Phelps's votes which were counted for
Clunie to more than counterbalance
Clunie's majority Of fifty-one. On the
other hand, Gen. Clunie's "spotters"
give Numerically opposite report. The
exact facts will soon be known.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-31

M. CoQUELIN and Nine. Hading will
pass through this city tomorrow even.
ing, on their way to Mexico, after splen.
did season at the Baldwin in San Fran.
cisco. These two artists are at the head
OF the French stage. They have drawn
immense houses in New York, Chicago
and San Francisco, and have given our
people correct idea of the perfection to
which the art dramatic has reached in
Paris. With two fine theatres here, and
hundreds of people anxious to witness
the finished performances of these emf
nent representatives of the French stage,
it is greatly to be regretted that our local
tmpressarie has not been able to effect an
engagement with them.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-31

THE California Board of State Forestry
has received donations of land in nearly
all parts of the State Tor experimental
forest purposes. The Head Forester says
that he has now S. 900 worth of rare and
valuable Seeding forest trees raised at
the chief experimental station and read V
for planting. The Board is desirous that
the Legislature sht uld make sufficient
appropriation to enable it to hold the
lands that have been donated for
experimental stations, and also to
utilize the trees they have already
raised. Forest tree culture in a
State like California is a matter OF
the first importance. Through the laxity
of the Federal land laws and the rapac-
ity OF some OF our people, the process of
forest denudation has been carried on to
very hurtful extent. If through the
experiments of the Forestry Commission
ers we should succeed in repairing the
waste and in laying out new forests that
would thrive, the value of the work
would be simply incompatible.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-31

The long existing disputes between
the Southern Pacific Railway and the
State of California seem to have been
adjusted at last. Col. Charles F.
Crocker, in recent interview published
in San Francisco newspaper, has
avowed it to be the purpose of his COM
pany to obey the laws, although he holds
that resistance to unjust exactions of the
tax gatherer or orders of the Railway
Commissioners is one of the reserved
rights of the corporation with which he
is connected. It is pleasant to know
that long standing source of agitation
has at length been removed.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-31

AMONGST the matters of general concern
that will come before the Council to-day
for action is the renewal of the electric
light contract. We would remind the
Council of the fact that in the past the
company has been very exact in its con.
st,uction of the exemption of moonlight
nights from service. If the almanac said
moonshine, that was enough. There
would be no electric light, though in fact
the fog or murkiness Of the atmosphere
might have made the night as dark as
Erebus. We want no more contracts
based on the assertions OF the almanac.
When the moon fails to perform her
duty, We want the electric lights to fill
her place.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-31

IT is a standing source Of wonder to
the HERALD that no energetic effort,
backed by adequate capital, has been
made to develop natural gas in Los An
geles. One of the veteran Pennsylvania
oil men assured citizens of this county
not long ago that this valuable fuel ex-
listed here in great quantities, and that
all that was needed to secure it in large
volume was to bore to the proper depth.
There are several points within the city
limits where oil escapes to the surface.
An old-time amusement was for the boys
to ignite this gas which escapes in guam
titles out Temple street and on the Ca
huepga road which skirts the hills. The
indications at dozen places in Los An
geles are quite as good as they we're at
East Liverpool, Ohio, where natural gas
was first applied for the purposes of fuel
and illumination.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-31
there. 1t was removed to sar A street
three years ago.

there. 1t was removed to sar A street
three years ago.
There is great deal of int ,,ast tolor
in the northern part of the x.,a in th;.
eclipse. A corps of vol' nicer amateur
photographers has been sryanized in San
Francisco to take obse rVat;ons at C,over-
dale, Mount st. H. Aseua and no;nts in
Colusa county. q 6 the Willows in that
county 'ne ecu use will be total; aud
american oos 1rvatories will be we'll rep
resen'eu az che best points. OF course,
Los Angei Is is far out of the line of OBJ
soura'io d, but We may look for disturb
'ne effects in the suns rays
aDo 1t the time of the eclipse.
hether these phases will be OF
any scientific interest is doubtful.
There are so many points in the line of
the eclipse's totality from which observ-
atoms may be made that we are certain
that very satisfactory and interesting
data will be obtained with reference to
the corona, which is just now the special
object of study by physical astronomers.
Professor Davidson, in his letter to the
Gazette, says that the total solar eclipse
is the browning glory of the heavens.
All other celestial phenomena pale be-
fore its awe-inspiring majesty. 1t is the
most marvellous of all splendors and the
most unexpected in its suggestiveress
1t opens living field of thought and
reflection to the lover of nature, the
specialist, the artist, the writer, the
orator and especially to the teacher and
the preacher. 1t startles even old OBJ
servers with an almost tangible realiza-
ton of beauties and powers that are
really at such incomprehensible dis
tances."
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-31

A LARGE portion Of the immigration
and tourist travel this year is finding it's
way into the northern and central coun-
ties. San Francisco is fuller of people
this year than it has been in the mem.
ory OF the Oldest inhabitant. The same
thing is measurably true of Oakland
San Jose, Sacramento and other we'll
known points in the northern part of the
State. This is all as it should be. The
people from the East are being enter
tanned in trust for us. The first genuine
cold spell which occurs up there will
send them down to Southern California
in search OF semi. tropic heat and COM
fort.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-12-31
"ExEUNTE JAM ANNo.v
Close Of the Jubilee Year-The
POpe,s Encyclieal.

ROME, December 3O.-Opening with
the words "Eaeunte jam annO," the Papal
Encyclical thanks God for the consola-
tions which the Jubilee rejoicings have
brought to the Pope, and His Holiness
thanks the Catholic world for its tokens
of affection and devotion. Turning to
religious matters, the Encyclical COM
plains that the tendency Of the age is
toward material interests, and that this
tendency is strengthened by worldly
pride, an evil press and drama, the de-
moralization of arts and changed educa-
ton in schools, materialistic and atheistic
teaching obscuring the true notions of
right. Secularism, Nihilism and Com
munism, it says, are also outcomes of
this addiction to material things.
The Pope attended the Te Deum SER
vice in st. Peters. to-day to mark the
close of the Jubilee.
IN FAVOR OF TEMPORAL RIGHTS.
BRUSSELS, December 3O.-At large
meeting at Liege to-day, at which Bishop
Doutreleoux presided, a resolution was
adopted in favor of the restoration of the
temporal rights to the Pope.
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM THE GEAR.
LONDON, December 30.-The Vienna
correspondent of the Times says that for
the first time in years, the Emperor Of
Russia has sent friendly Christmas
greeting of the Pope.