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Arizona silver belt., 1888-07-14
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In the last week in February sue eession of festivities and eeremonles took place at Kalawewa, in Northern Ceylon, to celebrate the restoration by the Government of the greg~ tank f1 that place. The policy of |
 the ancient and stnpendous irrig,
 works of Ceylon, though it did
 originate with Sir Arthur Gordsn. will make his administration memora- ble in the history of the island, foe these huge reservoirs, which a'a called tanks in India and Ceylen, spre,
 tiYaticn and fertility over large |, g of country which, without them, ? <. gwen ever to marsh and jungle. Northern Ceylon, especially districtq which in the early centuries of our era supported large populations, are now owing to 'hs rain of the irr ton works of the ancient kings,
 most uninhabitable For some ye
 past the Colonial Government hr steadily directed their efforts
 storing these mighty works. and
 in the present year the Kalaa
 tank, the largest aud most impor,
 in Ceylon, was declared completed, tho formal opening by the Governor talk ing place on February g, although the various festivities were spread over several days. The tank ras con. structed in 460 A. D., to supply the ancient capital of Anuradhapura and the neighborhood, the water being conveyed from it by canal fifty-four miles in lenght, which, on its way, supplied large system of village tanks. It has an area of 4425 acres, or about seven square miles, with contour of thirty miles. On all sides but enc It is surrounded by hiet ground, from which 1t is fed On tAe remaining side an enormous embank- msnt was constructed, which meas ures sir miles in length, with q breadth of 20 feet at the top and an average height of 60 feet. Itis formed of large blocks of stone and earth- work, and provided with fine spill wall 260 feet long. 200 feet wide and about 40 feet hlgh. Just beyond this wall was the great breach which de- stroyed the tank at some unknown period. It was 1000 feet broad, and it is not known whether 1t was caused by a heavy flood or by an invader. This is the brs,eh s nlUh has just been ra ra,5..ired. 4 huge masonry wall has been thrown across, the canal has been renewed, and regulating Sluices and other works have been provided. The whole has taken four years. It is de- scribed by Mr. Burrows in bis Buried Cities of Ceylon," as the grandest ex- perimentinlrrigation ever undertaken in modern Ceylon, for its completion means the resnscltatien of the most important part of the second largest province in the island. When the work of restoration began the bed of the tank was quite hard and dry. It IS now covered with seven square miles of water 20 feet deep, and sup plies towns and villages over an area as great as an English county, and filing tanks belonging to considerable towns more than fifty miles away, winch, m their turn, become centers of distribution. With all this, the Government of Ceylon ill the nine teeenth century is cnly restoring tue work of the Government of the fifth century.
Arizona silver belt., 1888-07-14
snalan pepreGlaelons.

All persons who haye olaims against the Government for losses sustained through In. dian lepredatians in Arizona and New Mexi- ca, ',iIl find i5 to their interest 70 communl- cate immediately with the undersigned in re- gard to lhe same, t they desireto take a d,an tase of tLe laws recently paesed by Congress to reimburse all parties who have suffered such lUssas. NAG. c. 0'NEIII,
 Attorney st law,
 Prescott, Arizona, r!ccqtF
Arizona silver belt., 1888-07-14

Sam Davis says that the roundup from Fort Sumner this way has been broken up and abandoned for lack of water and grass. There IS enough water In the water holes to meet the wants of the cattle, thanks to the re- cent rains, but grass is so scarce that the horses used on the roundup must be daily fed. Then, they must be rid den long distances to water. Crops which have been once planted must be either re-planted or abandoned. It is acknowledged the worst time in six years.-Las Vegas Optic.
Arizona silver belt., 1888-07-14

An experiment made to test the re- spective railroad operations of En- gland and this country shows that on the Pennsylvania Railroad each loco- motive does upward of six times the work, runs annually nearly twice the mileage. and, with less than one.half the charges for traffic, earns nearly twice the revenue that one does on the London and Northwestern Rail way. As general rule, English lines are far better constructed than American; the gradient are easier and the curves less abrupt, and yet in the two lines above specified the English locomotive costs in repairs and renew als about double the American for the same amount of work performed.
Arizona silver belt., 1888-07-14

A grocers conferences has been called in the interest of purer foods. It meets on Coney Island in July. It seems at last that adulteration has gene 80 far that the groeerymen are afraid to eat what they sell. Besides, the better class of retailers find it inn possible to obtain honest articles. There will be at least 5000 exhibitors of materials; and it is believed the dis cussion wlll not only be practically valuable in thowing light on hidden ways, but tbat there can be brought to bear heavy force on manufactu- rers to put more honest articles on the market. No proposition of more lm- portanee will come before any of our summer conventions than this of pure food and honorable dealing.-St L2us Globe Democrat.
Arizona silver belt., 1888-07-14
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Arizona silver belt., 1888-07-14
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Arizona silver belt., 1888-07-14

At the beginning of the next fiscal year, Governor Ress will make re- quisition for the congressional appro. priation for militia equi ? m n [ s. When the arms arc received be n thorough reorg
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Arizona silver belt., 1888-07-14

The celored race is changin9 in ap- pearance and losing some of the birth marks peculiar to if. The new gen eration is showing the effects of a highor culture. Especially is this no ticeable in the towns, VI
Arizona silver belt., 1888-07-14

The rapid growth of our national area, and the benefcent working of our Public Land laws are significant ly emphasized by the appearance in the June number of Woman of an iu- teresting and instructive paper enti- tied "Wemen as Land Owners in the Vest Female "bomesteaders8 and apre-emptors' of Government lands are becoming yearly more numerous in tho Western territories, So that at length NC find a desire to know more about the system, growing in the East to which this paper is a sensi
 comprehensive reseonse.
Arizona silver belt., 1888-07-14
sUB&oHlPrGO2 RATES.

Advertising Rates ,aade known on application,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-28
The Democratic Convention.

The Democratic Convention to nomi-
nate candidates for city offices will meet
in Turnverein Hall at l O'Clock this
afternoon. Should the Convention nom
mate strong ticket it will stand good
chance of winning, notwithstand-
ing the large Republican majority
rolled up here at the Presidential
election. The vote polled at such
an election is no criterion of the way the
same vote will go at municipal election.
The city is divided into two classes, a
liberal class and an illiberal class. One
is in favor of governing with the least re-
straint compatible with public morals and
good order; the other is in favor of a
hide bound policy, of subjecting the
community to narrow restrictions and
constrained lines. One class believes
in the largest liberty consistent with
the right of all the other believes only
in that liberty which tallies with its own
contracted prejudices. The latter is in
tolerant; the former is the reverse. II
is needless to say that if these are the
issues before the community there will
be division among the people outside o.
strict party lines, and that large per-
centage of Republicans will refuse to
follow in local election its leaders il
such contest.
We recognize the fact that the Repub
licans have nominated ticket of some
personal strength. In order to have {
fair chance to win, the Democrats mus
also put in the field ticket of represen
tative men who have the confidence o
the community and who will poll th'
liberal vote OF both parties. 1t is for thu
Convention to find such men and t.
nominate them.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-28
HE DIDN'T RUN AWAY.
Rabbi Messing Denies Having Been
Duped by Big Bertha.

CHICAGO, November 27.-Rabbi Mes
sing, of San Francisco. who has been
visiting here four days, was called on by
Daily Meas reporter and shown a
special dispatch from San Francisco say
ing that his reader in the synagogue had
been moved for talking disrespectfully
OF his superior and would hold Messing
responsible for 81, 100 damages for caus-
ing his dismissal. 1t wound up with the
revival of the story said to have
been circulated some time ago
alleging that the Rabbi had been duped
by "Big Bertha" the well-known conf
dence woman, to secure her entrance
into Jewish society in San Francisco,
that she might ply her calling, and said
it was intimated that the Rabbi had come
east in order to avoid testifyipg at her
trial.
"It's an infamous lie." said Messing,
hotly "Big Bertha did come to me. it is
true, with letters of introduction, but
made her acquainted with no one, and
that is the extent of my connection with
the affair. L did not run away from San
Francisco to avoid testifying at her trial
either. | am here to visit my old friends
and after my trip to Pittsburg will go
back to San Francisco
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-28

ing Of twenty-five or thirty delegates to
a Knights of Labor general convention,
which he expects to assemble here to
start the proposed new opposition organ
ization. Tie meeting, it is understood,
will issue a declaration of principles.
This declaration, as far as present
evolved, is to repeat all the charges SO
frequently made against the Powderly
ad administration, and will specifically de-
mand the eight-hour day, the abolition
of child labor, the regulation of female
labor, manual training and factory and
store inspection. 1t will deilounce the
alleged antagonism of the Knights OF
Labor to the Trades Unions, and partic-
ularly the intolerance of Knights to
members OF the Federation of Labor.
| Unlike the Knights, the new organiza-
ton will not debar for membership the
Federationists. The declaration will
charge that the Knights are too largely
composed OF Irish and Americans.
The new organization will aim
to be cosmopolitan. The individual
local assemblies will be independent
acknowledging no general executive
board and pay no tribute to the general
officers, but will keep their money al
home for use in the struggle for the eigh
hour day. The organization is to be se
cret in the same sense as the Knights O
Labor, but it is inter ded that there shal
be open meetings for the purpose of dis
cussing political questions. Indeed tn,
chief distinguishing feature of the new
organization is to be the active interes
it will take in politics, and for this pur
pose the order will use either Democrat
or Republicans as locality or other cir
cumstances demand.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-28

ACCORDING to the vote at the recent
election, Los Angeles county has some
what more than half as many inhabi
tants rs this city, while the assessment
is less than half as great. Is every San
Franciscan worth three times as much
as every Angelef1o ?-[San Francisco Ex-
aminer.
No; but we can name ten men in San
Francisco who are worth more than all
the people of Los Angeles combined.
Yet, whilst that is fact, we will lay it
down as a proposition susceptible Of
proof, that there are ten men in Los An
geles county who pay more taxes than the
ten multi-millionaires Of San Francisco.
The idea that the wealth of the financial
and commercial metropolis of the Pacific
coast should be assessed at only $780,
600, ,O0Ol Why that amount would hardly
represent the wealth in her warehouses
and places of business alone without
counting her real estate and buildings.
One billion dollars would be a low
estimate for the annual taxable wealth of
San Francisco. Really the Examiner is
too modest. 1t is in the midst of an aggre-
CATION of wealth that knocks Ormus and
Ind int6 cooked hat and that paper
should recognise the fact.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-28

LITTLE doubt exists that the disease
which has been affecting the vines in
this section is fungus growth on the
roots and stems of the plant. 1t is best
first to learn exactly what the trouble is !;
for until this is known no one can pre-
scribe a remedy. If this surmise is
correct then the course to pursue is
clear. To destroy this fungus growth,
plenty of lime in the soil, and little
bluestone about the plant are all that
will be necessary. Fungus is product
Of impoverished soils and attaches itself
to plants whose vital forces are low. 1t
is we'll known fact that the soil of this
section is lacking in lime. There is but
little lire rock in Los Angeles county
and there are few large streams
to carry what there is disintegrated
from this to the lands below where it is
found in the mountains. All sections
whose soils are mostly disntegrated
granite, as ours, need the addition of
lime. 1t has been thought here that our
soils were so rich that they could not be
worn out or impoverished. AS matter
of fact we have been for century doing
the very thing Of all which will to GER
tainty impoverish soils. That is flood
ing the vineyards and orchards with
water, put on in the usual way of irriga-
ting. 1t washes and leeches the ground,
taking all it's fertile components away.
No soils will stand cropping forever un-
der any system, least of all under that
of irrigating 30 much in vogue here. Our
soils.at this moment are greatly in need
of fertilizing, and there is little doubt
that the introduction of the lacking ingre-
dents in the soil will remedy whatever
Of evil there now is.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-28
GENERAL TOPICS.
Fragments of Ships Washed
Ashore.
THE ALLENTOWN SURELY LOST.
Belated Election Returns-Barry'
Plans for the Future.
Notes.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.
CoHAssETr, Mass, November 27.-All
day long wreckage Of various descriptions
has been coming ashore along the beach
and more particularly at Sandy Cove.
Huge timbers, spars, cabin furniture,
fine inside furnishing, chairs, life pre-
servers and other articles appertairing to
steamers outfit. and many Of them
stamped with the word Allentown" )"
have been seen in the breakers off shore
and scattered along the water front. This
wreckage tells too plainly that the fine
iron steamer Allentown has been broken
up on one of the huge suuken ledges of
this port, always a terror to mariners.
Captain Nathaniel w. Treat, one OF
Cohasset's oldest sea-faring men, and
from whom the first intimation of the
disaster came, said, in his opirfion, the
vessel had foundered either on the sea
lodges or on grampus, which are long,
sunken lodges lying about three miles
from the nearest point of the main land.
| If such is the case, the vessel must have
gone down with all on board within a
very few minutes after striking. Since
| the early reports of the supposed catas-
trophe many of the villagers have been
seen, and they say they distinctly heard
a steamers whistle shortly after noon on
Sunday, repeated at brief intervals of an
hour or more, as if signaling for assis-
tance or pilot. The weather was so
thick at the time that nothing could be
seen at so great a distance from shore,
and if any observation could have been
made, no boat could have lived in the
| tremendous sea then prevailing.
The schooner Lasona, before reported
as stranded on Pleasant Beach, has gone
the vessel and piled in a confused mass
schooner.
Summer cottages and similar struc-
lures on the water front are wrecked and
their ruins line the beach. Many of the
beautiful drives to summer residences
are washed away or badly gutted and
covered with wreckage. The great dam.
age to land property is along Crescent
B each, between Green Hill and Gun
Rock. Along this stretch is a
line of from twenty to thirty
small summer cottages, averaging
in size about twenty by thirty
feet. There is not single one Of these
that does not bear marks of the terrible
force of the storm. Some OF them were
lifted from their foundations and carried
back several feet. The total loss tc
property on this beach will reach many
| thousands OF dollars.
At the Hotel Nantasket the covered
promenade connecting it with the Rock
land cafe was partly destroyed by the
wind. The roadbed of the Nantaskel
Beach branch of the Old Colony railroad
is entirely washed out from the Hote
Standish to point half mile northeast
Of the Ocean House,
The wrecked brig Alice is rapidly
breaking up and has been stripped Of
of everything portable.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-28

thousands, but literally hundreds
of thuusands-of people in the East
who could we'll afford to spend f0Gr or
five months here every winter; and they
would do SO if they knew what you have
in your climate. 1t is no longer any
thing to cross the continent. The roads
are putting on vestibule trains with every
comfort attached. 1t is only week 3
travel from Boston, and one arrives here
as fresh as the day he leaves home.
There are SO many who would come
here, own their own villa, spend, say
from now until March or April, if they
but could be made to feel as do to-day
what charm there is in day like this
at this season." FFere is suggestion to
the Chamber Of Commerce. Advertise
this section. Now is the time to do it, as
| it has never been done yet.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-28

The Council will probably take final
action Friday upon the Southern Pacific
Company's petition for right OF way to
their new depot. 1t is exigent that this
question should be disposed of promptly.
Until it is, the advantages to the city OF
the new depot the company has erected
on Alameda and Fifth streets will
not be realized. 1t is very important
to the city that this fine depot should be
opened to the public as soon as possible.
The Eastern immigration is beginning to
pour in upon us, and first impressions Of
new city go very far with strangers.
To be set down here at beautiful depot
in the midst OF fine surroundings and
whirled through our most attractive
streets to the hotels, will have far bet
ter effect upon the newcomer than to
reach the centre of our city through
mean and squalid approaches, as they do
now,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-28
THE HRONEK TRIAL.
Startling Revelations Made BY the
States InfOrmer.

CHICAGO, November 27.-The trial of
John Hronek for conspiracy to blow up
Judges Gary and Grinnell and Police In
spector Bonfield with dynamite, was con-
tinued to day. The first witness was
Frank Chleboun, one of the conspirators,
who turned States evidence. ard testi-
fed as to the circumstances under which
he first met the prisoner. Afterwards
he met Copek and became intimate
with both. He was a frequent Wis
itor at Hronek's house. The last
Sunday in May, Hronek told the witness
how he had great scheme to burn up a
lumber yard, but it had been discovered.
He had also missed chance to kill Bon
field and was afraid he never would have
another. He testified at length concern
ing their experiments with dynamite, and
then said that on several occasions
Hronek had said that he must have re-
venge for the death of the Anarchists.
He showed pictures of Grinnell Gary and
Bonfield. A German named Schneider,
told where Grinneil lived, and showed a
plot of Aldine Square, and on July 4th
Hronek, Copek and witness went in
search of the house. They finally found
the house and took good look at it.
WANTED TO KILL THE PRESIDENT.
On the way home Hronek said Presi-
dent Cleveland had narrow escape
when on visit here. At this time he
,Hronek) had bomb ready to throw at
the Presidential carriage, but was pre-
vented by Schneider and Nikolunda.
Hronek's plans were to kill Bonfield
first, but on talking it over with Copek
he decided to put an end to Judge Grin
nell first. He said that if no better op-
portunity offered he would 60 into the
courtroom and throw bomb at the
Judge. Then if the police tried to CAP
ture him he would use bomb on them.
and if this failed he had a revolver and
would shoot the officers and then him
self. If he got chance at Grinnell or
Gary on the street he would use knife.
HRoNEK THREW THE HAYMARKET BOMB.
Chleboun admitted reluctantly that he
was an Anarchist and had drilled with
the Lehr and Wehr Verein in the old
days before the Haymarket episode. He
also said he had gone to Copek's house
to receive instructions in the art of max
ing dynamite. He paid two dollars for
the lesson but did not learn anything.
He said Hronek had told him on the trip
to Riverside that he was the man who
threw the bomb at the Haymarket. At
first Chleboun did not believe this, but
after he saw bombs in Hronek's posses
sion he thought it was the truth, and q
few weeks later he told Attorney Fischer
about it. He had told none else prior to
this. At this point an adjournment was
taken until tomorrow.