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Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-08

The financial condition OF Los An
geles, as shown by the half-yearly state
ments of our banks, is certainly very
gra' flying. We yesterday called atten-
ton to the splendid exhibit of the
Farmers and Merchants Bank. To-day
the statements Of the University Bank
and the Childress Safe Deposit Bank are
advertised. These are comparatively
new institutions, but their sworn state.
ments show their condition to be emf
nently sound and fourishing. We be.
lieve that the wise and conservative
course Of the men at the head of our
financial institutions has averted dis
astrous reaction from the late tendency
to over-speculation, and brought the
community back into the high road to
prosperity. The good effects of their
sound financial policy are sensibly fell
in the confidence that exists in business
circles, and in the very positive signs Of
a healthy revival in realty sales.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-08
All Pleaded Gut,tv.

SACRAMENTO. July I'm the Superior
Court this afternoon Henry Myers, John
Olsen and William Drager were brought
up for arraignment on the charge oi
grand larceny, and also charged with the
murder of John Lowell. An order. was
entered that the defendants be taken to
Ell Dorado county on the complaint of
murder, and that the grand larceny cases
be postponed in this county until after
the Ell Dorado trials. On arraipnment
Myers pleaded guilty, and stated be with
the two others had stolen the property.
Drager finally pleaded guilty, and Olsen
entered the same plea afterwards. The
pleas were permitted to be withdrawn
until Monday to give the attorney for
the defendants an opportunity to exam
ipe into the legality Of the Information.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-08
The Turf.

CHICAGO, July 7.-Washington Park
Weather fair, attendance large. The
track was safe and good, but not extra
fest.
Six furlongs-Queen OF Trumps won,
Bonnie Bounce second, Red Light third ;
time, .07.
Nine furlongs-Yum Yum won, Ame-
liza P. second, Prose third; time, :57.
One and one.half miles-Montrose
won, Longalight second, Woodcraft third
time, 2 :37.
Seven furlongs-Lepanto won, Castil-
Seven furlongs = Jennie McFarlin
won, Gray Cloud Second, Hornpipe third
time, :29A.
One mile-Badge won, Orderly Sec
ond, Leila third; time :42.
MONMOUTH PARK, July Weather
fine, track fast. Seven-eighths of ofmile-
byses third; time l :29.
Three quarter mile-Favordale won,
Winfield second, Diablo third time :16.
One and one quarter miles-Belvider
won, Elkwood second, Langstone third
time, 2:10H.
One and one-half miles-Sir Dixon
won, Los Angeles second, Prince Royal
third time. 2:371a.
Three-quarters Of a mile-King Crab
won, Fulton second, Miracle third
time, 1:16.
One mile-Long Knight won. Golden
Reel second, Housatonic third; time,
:431a.
Steeplechase-R Referee won, Bassano
second, Major Pickett third; time 5 :09.
John Henry and King Troubler fell.
John Henry was killed and his jockey,
Dickens, seriously hurt.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-08
PACIFIC COAST.
Uncle Sam Lays Claim to Los
Angeles Realty.
VALUABLE PROPERTY INVOLVED.
The Surveyor General Throws q.
Cloud on Important Titles
In this City,
Especial to the HERALD ]

lSpeclal TO the HERALD
SAN FRANCISCO, July THE Examiner
this morning publishes dispatch from
Washington containing report made by
Surveyor General Hammond, of Califor-
mia, to the Commissioner Of the General
Land Office. which discloses evidence of
the ownership by the United States
Government of valuable property in the
heart of Los Angeles, lying northeast of
Commercial street and southeast of Main
street, and now occupied by Mrs. M. A.
Woodwork and by parties named Flash
ner, Mayfeld, @. Ducommun, Griffith
and Slivan. M
Surveyor-General Hammond states in
his report that he has discovered among
the Spanish archives in his office, and
also obtained from Los Angeles officials,
deeds and other documents which show
that Don Pic Pico, the last of the Mexi-
can Governors in Upper California,
whose authority ceased in that depart
ment in July, 1846, established Los
Angeles as the capital Of the de-
partment, and on April /, 1845,
more than year before his authority
ceased, purchased the aforesaid tract of
land on behalf of the Mexican Govern
ment, and with the funds of the Mexi-
can Government, from one Julian Will
liams, for the sum of S., 900. There was
building on the lot at the time, which
Governor Pico used for Government pur-
poses. After the American occupation
the United States troops occupied this
property and took possession of it as
Government property. No records
can be found Of any relinquish-
ment of title by the United
States, but in December 1849,
after the United States troops had been
removed from the property, Julian
Williams decided the same property,
which he had. previously transferred to
Governor Pico, to one D. B. Wilson, and
and from the latter person the present
occupants now claim title to the land.
The report contains the original deed
from Williams to Governor Pico, also the
testimony recently given by Governor
Pico, and other documentary evidence.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-08

The Pittsburg lockout is costing the
wage-workers of that city 500, 900 per day.
This is one of the beautiful results oi
over-protection. It closes the markets Of
the world against our manufactures, and
compels our iron wage-workers to en-
forced idleness whenever the home mar
ket is glutted, or to accept starvation
wages. Verify, American workingmen
should be delighted with a protective
tariff which protects the employers by
expressing the sometimes employed.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-08
Coast Cuttings,

At Stockton the body OF Willie Huddle-
ston, a 13-year-old colored boy, drowned
in the San Joaquin river, Thursday, last,
was found Saturday afternoon.
The Nevada county Board Of Super
visors offer a reward of $500 and the
sheriff reward of 500 for the arrest and
conviction of the murderers Of Joseph
Kneebone.
| At San Francisco, Carl Jensen, Nor
wegian sailor, was drowned in the bay
by the upsetting of small boat in which
he and two others were pulling ashore.
The other sailors escaped.
The prize of $40, offered by the Board
of Horticulture for the best essay on cry
stalizing fruit, has been awarded to j. J.
Pratt, superintendent Of the Sutter Cam
ming and Packing Company.
The Cornish wrestling matches began
on the Fourth of July at Grass Valley,
CAL, Saturday afternoon. There were
forty-eight contestants and six coin
prizes. James Cross won the champions
ship and 500.
The steamer Montserrat, from San
Jose de Guatemala, with the first con-
signment of tropical fruits ever shipped
to San Diego, passed Ensenada on Satur-
day and was expected to arrive at San
Diego early Sunday morning.
At Yuma, Ariz., Antonio Lorette, ex-
County Treasurer and a prominent Yuma
merchant, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head. Depression
caused by sickness Of many years stand
ing was the supposed cause.
The schedule Of Barclay & Robertson,
the San Francisco commission merchants
who assigned some two weeks since, was
filed on Saturday. Their total liabilities
are $27 ,230; assets, SIS $685.. The Bank
of British Columbia is their chief credi-
tor, $12.2 .284.
Small boys playing with frecrackers
set fire to the office of the Lodi, (Cal.}
News. The fire gained such headway
that before anything could be done, the
Office of the News, San Joaquin bakery,
residence owned by ]. Nevins and the
residence of DR.. Grant were entirely
destroyed. Loss, $1,000; insurance, un-
known.
N. B. Breckenridge, the. Mendocino
county timber dealer, who obtained con-
siderable notoriety in, the Clara Belle
Mcdonald divorce case by testifying that
he had been employed by r. III. McD0n-
aid to pretend an attachment for Mrs.
Mcdonald in order to cut out Seneca
Swain. was arrested at San Francisco on
Saturday on the charge Of obtaining
money under false pretenses- in land
transactions. He will be taken to Mem
docino county shortly.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-08
MARYSVyLLE.
Insurance Heing Adjusted-Gettlng
Rid of Tough Characters.

MARYsvILLE, June IA large number
of the insurances have been adjusted, !,
and the adjustments thus far aggregate
about $400, 900, or one-half the insurance
on the whole property burned on the
9th inst. Most of the property owners
in the burned district will rebuild at
once.
In the Superior Court to-day, Judge
Keyse affirmed the decision of the Police
Judge in refusing to allow VIM. McCooi,
convicted of vagrancy, jury trial. He
cited many decisions justifying his judg-
concluded by saying that the statute re- re-
lating to this would become a dead letter
if left to juries. Marshal Maben says,
under this ruling, he will soon rid the
city of tough characters.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-08
Storm II, Arkan sa 8 .

ST. LoU1s, July IA Post dispatch
from Evening Shade, Ark, says: A ter
rible rain and hail storm visited Sharp
and independence counties Wednesday
The damage was great. Sixty-fve farmers
in the vicinity Of Charlotte lost every.
thing in the way of crops, corn, oats and
cotton being entirely destroyed. The suf-
ferers are nearly all poor, and steps have
been taken to aid them. The destruction
is almost equally as great beyond Even
ing Shade. Fencing, crops and trees we're
felled. Corn in tassel was cut down as il
by knife. In the fields not stack ol
cotton is left standing. A fourteen-year-
old boy was struck by lightning during
the storm. No other lives were lost as far
as reported.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-08
stolen securities Captured.

PROVIDENCE, July THE Union Bank
officials have received word by cable that
whole bundle Of securities, bills receiv.
able and other property, stolen by Chas.
A. Pitcher, the defaulting teller, has been
recaptured in London. Pitcher had
mailed them 81. A. Roberts," his as
suned name, and believed them safe
from the bank, and that it was in his
power to keep their hiding place q secret
until the bank would be ready to compro-
mise and come to terms on the basis OF
Pitchers holding on to $150,O0O cash.
His stealings aggregated 500, 600.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-08
Eiectinr settlers.

san FRANCISCO, July The Exam-
insy's special from Topeka, Kan, says:
Suits were commenced to-day in the
Supreme Court to eject 300 settlers in
Allen county from their .farms. The
controversy relates to about 80. 900 acres,
Of q grant Of land made by Congress inl
1862 to the Missouri, Kansas and Texas]
Railroad. The question 10 whether the
description fled by the road covero theee|
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-08

The Oakland Enquirer says that in no
city in the Union was Fourth of July
observed in meaner or more reprehen-
Bible way. II this criticism had been
INSIDE by N outeider the Oakland news-
papers would have made the air sul-
phnrous VIII their denials and denunciar
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-08
TRANs.CONTINENTAL LINES.
The Association still ln Session.
Perplexing Questions.


Perplexing Questions.
CHICAGO, July THE Trans-C Conti-
mental Association has not yet concluded
it's labors. The fact is there has been no
end Of wrangling and that this wrangling
is not yet over. There is considerable
trouble brewing between the Southern
Pacific and Union Pacific roads ON ac-
count of the sugar traffic. The Cana
dian Pacific road has taken shipments
of sugar at rates much lower than
are charged by the direct lines from
San Francisco to Omaha. The Scathern
Pacific is anxious to makes rates 90 high
that the traffic will be driven from its
lines entirely. The Union Pacific wants
to make low rates and the result is a
locking of horns. Another thing that is
bothering the transcontinental lines is
their reluctance to permit the opening Of
the Burlington Mount Shasta Line ffom
Portland to Denver and the East at San
Francisco rates.
The transcontinental lines have always
required Eastern lines selling their excpr-
sion tickets to make tickets in the form
OF an exchangeable order on Missouri
river points. This arrangement compll-
Gated business for the railroads and for
the passengers. The Western lines have
now agreed to issue circular under the
terms of which Eastern lines. if they see
fit, may ticket their passengers through
from the East to the West provided they
use the form of tickets desired.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-08

A LOCAL contemporary raises q howl
against the Mills bill because it has
placed jute on the free-list. The farmers
of California will take no stand in this
howl. Until the Stats started jute works
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-08
Undeltvered Teleeram..

Undelivered kilograms at the Western
Union Telegraph Office, No. s Court
street, ct 10 F. NJ, July 7th: Mrs.
Emma B. Spangler, Mrs. Sadie shaw.
A. G. Whitcomb, Edgar F. Pierce. j, o.
Doneoughe, A. A. McCloughry, AuRuet
Schubert, Jos. Tlton, VIM. H. and ] ( &.
oosy, Robt Purbis, Jos: a: Thomas 3.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-08
a suicide.

An inquest was held last night on the
body of Mrs. Maria Brain, who died from
the effect Of poison on Friday night, at
the Three-M Mile House. The evidence
showed that she had been sick for some
time, and had taken nitric acid while 4
labo!ins under the impression that she
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-08
Nesice 20 Mail subscribers.

tu the IOs Angeles DAILY HERALD will be
promptly discontinued hereafter. No papers
VIM be sent to Subscribers by mail unless the
same have been paid for in advance. This rule
Il innexible. AYERS d LYNCH.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-08
-,,x, nv vA11.. 1NcLup1Ne POSTAGE:

LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS from adjacent towns
specially solicited.
RxMIrrANcEs should be made by draft, check,
euut0face order or postal note. The latter
ok0Qld be sent for all sums less than $o
JOB PRINTING DEPARTMENT-Owing to
olr greatly increased facilities, we are prepared
= execute all kinds Of Job work in superior
manner. Special attention will be given to
commercisI and legal printing, and all orders
VIII be promptly h1led at moderate rates.
OFFICE OF PUBLICATION, 1885 West Second
street, between Spring and Fort. Los Angeles.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-08
FOR v1CE-PREs1D1

To enforce .frugality in public eapendi
lures and abolish unnecessary taxation.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-08
DIVERS OPINIONS.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.

Gear, of Iowa, announced himself in
favor of the amendment for the reason
that it was sound practical business
proposition.
Henderson, Of Iowa, was for the
amendment. g
Andsz.op. KsnsAs. sxpsssssd earnest
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-08

FOR CONGRESS, SIXTH DISTRICT
REEL B. TERRY, of Fresno.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-08
SUNDAY, JULY 8, 1858.
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET.

FOR PRESIDENT
GROVER CLEvELAND,o of New York.
FOR vICE-PREsIDENT-
ALLEN G. THURMAN, OF Ohio.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-10-05
4EFOLD sTORE

You may call it Irritation. or what not,
But don't see that 1 was to blame.
How could know that you loved me,
When you never once mentioned the samsT
I've walked n the starlight with many,
And have risked my life on the bay,
Yet among them I've never found any
But had something decided to say.
1ou thought that your silence had told meg
The silence that's golden we've heard;
But the girl of today prefers silver
Coined into words sweet and absurd;
There are lovers whom there's no installing,
Whose language leaves no one in doubt;
There are Others who leave ones heart aching
For word there's no living without.
But since the sweet year has grown older.
And you've failed as n special pleader
Shall be left out in the rOld, cir,
Because 1 was not a mind reader2
You blame, 1 think, without reason;
If you really had something to say.
What matters the time or the season?
Why can't We be happy-tO-da
-Harper's Monthly.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-10-05
A lusicaI Decanter.

A cut glass decanter with a musI-
cal box concealed in the bottom is
the latest novelty in the line Of fancy
articles with musical attachments.
The decanters are tinted in a variety
of cOIOrs, which serve to conceal the
false bottom, under which the mech
anism is placed. Clear glass bottles
are also made, and when partially
filed with wine or a cOlOred liquid
conceal the works still more effect
ually. The musical box is wound by
means Of a button under the bottom,
and plays only when the de:anter is
placed on the table.
Musical plates are made in a SINH
lar manner, but the mechanism in
them does not play when the plate is
on the table, but when it is lifted to
be passed around. A concealed
spring underneath starts and stops
the works. The plates and decanters
cost 81 so each.
The most elegant fancy article that
emits musical sounds Is a gold snuff
box. 1t is elegantly wrought, and is
marvellous in its working. Pressure
upon a small disc causes a circular
lid about the size of a silver dollar to
fly open. and a little bird pops into
view. The feathered sOngster MARBLES
In exact imitation of q canary, dan
cling about and moving it's head and
bill the while, and as it utteFs the
last note it disappears from view,
and the lid closes with a snap. On
the other side of the box d larger lid
opens into a receptacle for snuff.
These trifes cost from $1O0upWards,
according to the amount Of Orna-
mental work and dwelling that is
done upon them. Like all of the
most expensive musical boxes, they
are made In Switzerland.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-10-05
An Instantaneous Mental Process.

The imaginative writer, like the in
ventor, performs his mental work by
a less conscious effort than others,
and by an instantaneous mental pro-
cess. The ideas are evolved, or the
principle of the machine is conceived
he knows not how. We do not mean
that such ideas or inventions are ar
rived at easily, without previous
study or thought, but that the vital
idea comes to the writer or inventor
instantaneOusly, and without con-
sciOus effort. Thackeray tells in his
letters how he was in despair for a
novel he was writing. He had con-
suited friends to whom he read his
manuscript, but they were unable to
aid him; but one night he was sudden
ly aroused from sleep, and jumping
out of bed he ran like one mad three
times around his room, crying,
Vanity Fairl Vanity Fairl l''-Susan
Charming in The Writer.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-10-05
Wendell Phillips Grave.

No stone yet marks the place where
Wendell Phillips is buried In the old
cemetery at Milton, Mass. But a
monument is soon to be erected by
Mrs. Green his sister. 1t viii be a
rough, weather-stained granite bowl
der five feet in height, and In the front
center viii be placed a sunken tablet
bearing an inscription. The stone
VIII be placed In the rear of the lot
and in view Of the path.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-10-05
PublIe Lnnds Going Very Fat

For the fiscal year 1878 the sales of
public lands IN this country amounted
to 81, O05, 900, compared with 50, 600, OOO
of the year previous, and So, 600, 600 for
each of the two preceding wears. As
early as 1856, says the New York Com
mercial Bulletin, the land sales rose
nearly to 50, 900, 600, but then they fell
off and went as low rs S152, 900 IN 1862,
and never rose above 81, 900, 600 again for
twenty years. In 1892 they again reached
IS, 900, 600; In 1888, nearly SO, 600, 600; in
1884, nearly SO. 600, 600, and then after
two years at So, 900, 900 they began TO
rise, and for the year Just closed reached
their highest mark
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-10-05

John Smith had a board fence around
his corn field to keep out his neighbor
Browns COWS. Mr.. Brown didn't like
this fence at all. His past ures were lean
and dry, and he thought it would be "a
fine thing if his COWS could get into Mr..
Smiths field Accordingly he set to
work with Mr. Smiths hired man and
persuaded him by arguments and brides
to pull down part of the fence.
One day when Mr.. Smith was looking
over his farm he found the man at work
removing some of the boards from the
fence.
what are you doing there?" de
manded Mr.. Smith.
Pm reforming the fence, sorr-
there's dale too much Of it for the good
of the corn"
''But you'll let in Browns COWS. and
they'll trample down the whole field, D
urged Mr.. Smith,
''Bedad, it won't be so bad as that,
SOFT. Pm only taking down Is or 20 per
cent of the fence. There's enough of it
left to protect the corn, SORT. Pm only
reducing the average of the fence.
Sure, its there still "
1t is enough to say that Mr.. Smith
didn't see the point.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-10-05

Caller: "DQes Miss De Guzzle live
here?" Bridget: ''Yis, sOrr. . Caller:
''Isshe at homer Bridget (who has
received her instructions and thinks
she Is following them: 'sYis, SORT
she's at home, but she amt IN
Albany Journal
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-10-05
BAeE aTTEELPT no ROR.
s3r. James n. Buckley and PreGssso
E.oEaaaGe.
Editorial Rooms of "Christ.iall Advocate, -
james NJ. Buckley, D. D.. Editor.


EsOsasGGs.
Editorial Rooms OF "Christial Advocate. -
James NJ. Buckley, D. D., Editor.
New York. August 20. 1855.
Prof A. Loisette-Ny Dear Sir. You
may remember that, alter took your lee
lures upon the Improvement and Proper
Use of the Memory, " personally, at your
Office, 2S7 Fifth Ave, declined to allow
you to publish a certificate over my Wn
name, IN harmony with a rule formed
many years ago; but, having seen the base
attempt to rob you, depart from the rule,
aud send you, unsolicited, the statement
that IN my opinion If your exercises are
practlced sufficiently to master the system,
it Is of great advantage to even a strong
memory, and furnishes incalculable aid TO
a weak one.
I viii also say that having various sys-
TENS, and not being unacquaiuted with
that taught by DR.. Pick, believe that,
with the exception of such parts OF your
system as you frankly aYOw to have been
taken from the common treasury of litera-
Uure upon such subjects, the stamp OF orig
lnality Is upon your work; and that the
parts that are plainly original are worth
Tar more than all the rest.
A sin Of cOmmissiOn-NIoret than ten per
cent.
One of the largest furniture stores in
Nebraska is that Of Hardy i Pitcher at
Lincoln.
Edna Proctor is visiting the poet Whit
tier at his Maine residence.
Houkusai, Japanese author, has pub
lished new novel in ninety volumes.
Minneapolis has decided to build an art
school.
The Australians are going to start a
newspaper in London for themselves.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-10-05
Protection from Lightning.

The London Society Of Arts has thor
oughly discussed the subject of protec-
ton from lightning. The most thorough
investigation is summed up by Professor
Lodge, in the statement that for isolat-
ed chimneys and steeples, as well as
powder magazines, there is no better
protection than a number of lengths of
telegraph wires A number of thin
wires is better by far than n single thick
one; and their capacity Is increased by
connecting mp metallic masses such as
lead roofs; but do not connect with
balconies and other accessible places"
As to a roof, he would run a barbed
wire all around the caves and ridges,
but he would run no rods up above the
highest point of buildings, because
thereby flashes are precipitated that
would otherwise never occur. So it
seems that Our ordinary lightning rods
are a source of danger rather than Of
protection. -GlObe-DemOcrat
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-10-05

When Be by was sick. We gave her CastOria.
When she was Child. she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss. she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children. she gave them CastOrla.