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Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27

WHILE the advocates of the bonds are
trying to keep stiff upper lip there is
no doubt but that they have lost heart
at an astonishing rate during the past
week. The attempt to commit the city
of Los Angeles to an issue of-$l ,2SO, 200
worth OF bonds with view to absolutely
throwing away her valuable sewage and
waste water has appalled, the taxpayers,
small and great. The opinion is rapidly
crystslizing that common sense and self
preservation call for the defeat OF the
present extravagant and ill-considered
scheme, and the formulation after it's
defeat of a well,digested plan for sewer
ing the city which shall do the work
within the city limits, which will take a
year, at least, leaving the final disposi-
tion of the sewage matter to the
matured judgment Of the people.
The indications are that the
bonds will not only fail to
receive two.thirds vote, which will OF
itself beat them, but that they will be
overwhelmed by a decisive majority OF
the popular vote. Old King Doodle
himself, were he to be present in per-
son, like Kris Kringle at high Christmas
tide, could net change this inevitable
result.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27
RAILROAD DISASTER.
A Vestibuled Train Smashed-G. A
II. Tourists I'm the Wreck.

STREAToR, ILL.,, August 26.-The vesti-
bule train on the Santa Fe route, running
between Kansas City and Chicago, met
with serious accident at Kinsman,
fifteen miles north of here, this morning.
The train was heavily loaded with Grand
Army Veterans and their friends, bound
for the Milwaukee encampment. By the
spreading of the rails two Pullman sleep
ers and the dining car were thrown from
the track down a steep enbankment,
forty feet. Word was telegraphed here
for a special train, to be sent with a
dozen surgeons. Those most seriously
injured were brought to this city and
taken to the hospital, where their wounds
were attended to. In all probability
fifty-nine persons were hurt and though
none were killed outright many are in a
very dangerous condition.
THREE DEATHS RESULTED.
Three of the injured are reported to
have since died, one of the three being
Mrs. Grace Peters, of Emporia, Kansas.
Exact information is hard to obtain,
o wing to the exit eme reticence of the rail
way company. The accident was caused
by chair car, which was the third be.
hind the engine, jumping tie track. 1t
was ditched lnstantly, taking with il
the three sleepers behind. A rail
was found projecting through the
bottom of the chair car and out
of the eide, about three feet from the
bottom. The car was full of passengers,
and the scene when the car left the
track was exciting in the extreme. The
train was running at high rate OF speed.
The track where the derailment occurred
is understood to have been in poor con-
dition. 1t is believed if the train had
been of the ordinary pattern, instead OF
vestibuled, the loss Of life would have
been fifty.
CONSTRUCTION TRAIN WRECKED.
LINCOLN, Neb., August ga con-
struction train on the northwestern ex,
tension Of the Burlington and Missouri
River road was wrecked Saturday night,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27
Auburn Haired Girls.

All young women possessed OF red
hair can remember that in the days of
their childhood their hirsute adornment
was a source of mocking merriment to
their friends, and the term "sorrel top"
or "straw berry blonde" was one of con-
tempt. They wondered, perhaps, why
it was that they were always called "red
headed" when their playmates were de-
scribed as being black, brown or golden
haired. But the "red-headed" girls
don't mind now that it is every young
woman's ambition to be auburn haired,
and she hopes by the use of hair dyes to
attain the shade which belonged to the
wicked Lucretia. If she gets exactly the
right shade, she does not'see why sim
gle head of her hair might not be pre-
served by the United States Government
and exhibited, as is the one 30
proudly shown in Florence as nav
ing belonged to the wicked Lucretia.
1t is odd how many famous women have
lad this Titan red hair. Catherine OF
Russia gloried in it, and Anne of Austria
had brown hair just on the verge Of
being red. Ninon de L'Enclos was
equally proud of her warm colored tresses,
and Mary Stuart seemed a daughter of
the sun. Jane Hading and Mrs. Potter
both have warm auburn hair, but IL does
not reach the real tinge, which is that
which crowned, in all her glory, the
head of the Empress Eugenie, she who
has known the extreme of happiness and
Of sadness. Atlanta Constitution.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27
FIfiE AT PORT COSTA.
shipping, Wharves and Grain De.
strOved-Loss, 100000.

PORT CosTA, CAL, August 28.-At
O'Clock this morning fire destroyed the
CIV. McNear warehouse here. The fire
originated at the grader, probably by
the overheating of the machinery and in
half an hour the whole of No. 2 house,
about l, 800 feet long and having ca
pacity of 20 900 tons, was enveloped in
flames. The fire spread with such rapid
ity that warning could not be given the
ships in time for them to let go their
lines. The Armenia was first to catch
fire. 7 crew were compelled to jump
overheard all succeeded in swimming
to shore Oh were picked up except Cook
Achnan, who is probably drowned.
After burning loose the ship dritted
down the bay, where che is total wreck.
The Kenilworth four-masted ship,
let go her lines, but she collided with the
Honauwar, and both were soon ablaze.
They lay at the dock until z O'Clock,
when the river steamer San Joaquin
towed them into the stream. The
Honauwar is burned almost to the water's
edge. Keniworth, it is thought, will
not be total less, but her cargo of wheat
will be ruined by the flooding of her
hold. Captain MeNear and family who
were aboard, lose everything. Switch
engines were brought from the round
house, and by the aid of fire pumps,
McNear's warehouse No. 1, and the
whole business part OF the town were
saved
The property loss will aggregate $780,
900, with an insurance of 100000. The
Armenia was western ship; the Kenil-
worth and Honauwar were British iron
vessels. The Aremenia had on board
300 tons of wheat, the Honauwar 300 and
the Kenilworth 1900 tons. The vessels
were insured in foreign companies and
their cargoes in San Francisco offices.
In all about II 900 tons OF wheat, valued
at $314 1000, were destroyed. The loss on
wheat on board the vessels aggregates
$4,000. The Armenia was valued at
$50, 900; the Honauwar, at $4,000, and
the Kenilworth, at 100000. Much
wheat stored in the warehouse belonged
to farmers and WAS uninsured Forty.
two freight cars of the Southern Pacific
Railway Company, loaded with wheat,
on the track near the warehouse, were
burned.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27

In A recent communication over bis
own signature,s Mr.. Fred. Eaton, the
City Engineer, published table showing
the cost per capita for the main drain.
age works in a number of cities. The
highest per capita cost is in Frankfort.
on-the- Main, $22 10. London, he says,
has spent for its sewers $6.33 per capita.
He sets down the proposed cost for the
Los Angeles system at $4 26 per
head. The object of the En-
gineer by this contrast is doubtless
to show that $4,000 or 1000 people in
Los Angeles can secure drainage sys-
tenn that will cost less per capita than
London, with 100000 inhabitants. But
if Los Angeles had a drainage system
such as London has-a system of sew
ers in all her streets, as she will ulti-
mately have, what would the per capita
be then? If at the mere beginning oi
her system the per capita cost will be
$4.26, how much will it rate to each in,
habitant when the system is entirely car.
ried out? There are thirty-six square
miles in this city: and it has nearly all
been laid out in streets.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27
NEW XORk,S SHAME.
Motion 10 Give Grants Remains
Good Decent Sepulsure.

GOOu Deceht Sepultures
WASHINGTON. August 26.-The Post to-
morrow will print an article urging that
the remains of General Grant should be
removed to the National capital. In the
course of the article it says: "The peol d,
were reconciled to the burial of General
Grant at Riverside simply because of
the distant assurance and pledge of New
York that a monument to his remem-
brance of surprising grandeur should be
erected there. The assurance and pledge
have come to naught but by
words of reproaeh, and the
solemnly. promised monument is but a
imagination of the remote and shadowy
future. Hence regret has become indig-
nation, and what was at first tacit as
sent, on certain conditions that remain
wholly unful6lled, is converted into a
vigorous and growing demand for the
removal of the remains from the place
where they repose but to be dishonored,
and whence they should never have
found sepulture.. The plea that the fame
of Grant is for all time, is no excuse that
it should take all time to build his mon
ument. But of her own acts or inactiop
let New York be her own Judge. The
country should wait no longer upon her
sordid and slow-paced motions. 1tshould
proceed at once to do the other and
greater than any monumental duty, OF
re-interring the body of the iliustrious
soldier upon the shores of the Potomac.
The Post urges that the Grand Army
at the present encampment should take
up the matter, and says Congress could
not say nay to such reasonable request
based upon high and patriotic motive.
The remains Of the old commander
should be taken from the neglected grave
at Riverside to the ompsnionship OF the
heroic dead at Arlington.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27

Ir is one of the dark and ominous
episodes in this Ballona sewer business
that the Council departed from their uni
form rule in making the right of way
contract with Mr.. A. Rose over his land.
Official contracts have always been
ordered to be signed by the Mayor. In
this instance, however, the Council
ordered the City Clerk to sign the con-
tract for the municipality. Mr.. Hazards
suspicious were excited by this extraor-
dinary departure from official usage,
aud he thought he would
take look at the contract.
To his amazement he found that
it contained forty stipulations, under
each of which, if not strictly fulfilled by
the city, Mr.. Rose would have the right
to plug up the sewer and proceed against
the city for damages. This extraordin.
ary instrument, with Mayor Hazards g
message, is published elsewhere, and
displays one of the most Machiavelian
tricks of underground tactics to get the
city in hole ever attempted. The un-
earthing of this "big joker" will form q
very important factor in influencing the
public mind how to vote on the boss
Doodle sewer scheme.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27

right. in common with the humblest
of his fellow citizens, to sign his own
name to contracts, official or otherwise,
has acted like good citizen as we'll as a
patriotic Mayor in calling attention to
this great peril to the city, as we'll as
gross breach of official procedure. The
plan has been to plunge the mu-
nicipslity into a sea of financial
and hygienic difficulties, as well as
to waste the invaluable sewage and
water of Los Angeles, and it is
well that We have Mayor who asserts
his personal right to affix his signature
or withhold it to an official document
and who, at the same time, stands as 8
buttress to the rights of his fellow citi'
zens.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27
BASE Il ALL.
A Lively Row on the Philadelphia
Ground.

PHI ADELPHIA, August 26.-The game
today was hotly contested and exciting !;
twelve innings were required. In the
last inning, with Kelly on second and
Brouthers on first, Johnston hit safely to
center. Kelly came in but Johnston, in
stead of running to and touching first,
turned when within ten feet of the base
and moved toward the dressing room.
In the meanwhile Kelly had secured the
ball Farrar waited to get it in order to
make the claim that Johnston was out
for not touching first. Kelly, however,
refused to give it up, and during the
wrangle the crowd broke into the field
and for a while it looked as though there
would be riot. Kelly finally got into
incident, although badly frightened
watch Johnston running to first, but
delphia, s. Boston, 4.
New YORK, August 26.-The New York
and Washington teams played this after
noon. The game was ''play ball'' from
start to finish, and the Senators there
fore got only what they earned by hard
work. Score: New York, IL; Washing
ton, /,
PIrTsBuRG, Pa, August 26-The
HoosieIs won today by lucky hitting in
the fourth. Score: Pittsburg, 2; Indian
apolis, A.
CLEVELAND, August pa wild throw
by Webeau today let in run in the
ninth, and another wild throw by Zim-
mer won the game for Chicago. Score :
Cleveland, 7; Chicago, s.
CINCINNATI, August 26.-Cincinnati,
19; Louisville, 6.
ST. LOUIS, August 26.-St. Louie, 2;
Kansas City, 8.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27
Yesterdays Races.

BRIG HToN BEACH, August 26.-One
and one-fourth miles-Troy won in
|2:11H, Lancaster second, Blue Line
third.
Seven-eighths of a mile-PIince Ed
ward won In :291s, Newberg second,
Utility third.
Six and one-half furlon gs-Auranis
won in l 20, Monsoon second, Gardner
third.
One and one-eighth miles-Speedwell
won in :5411a, Brussels second, Bonanza
third.
One and one.sixteenth miles-Pelham
won in :5O4, Pericles second, Spe-
cialty third.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27
Wanted for RigamY.

SAN Francisco. August 26.-The
Examiners Oshkosh, Wis, special says: !:
Theo Schlaebitz, who came here from
Los Angeles last April, left the city
Saturday to escape arrest on the charge
of bigamy, preferred by Augusta Hopper,
of Lincoln, Neb. She married Schlae-
bitz secretly, and he went to Los Angeles
to prepare home. From there he
came to Oshkosh and married Miss
Vaight, the daughter of his partner in the
grocery business.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27
A Thun derciap From a Clear sky.


The meeting of the Council yesterday
afternoon was enlivened by the reception
of message from Mayor Hazard stating
that he had not signed the contract for
the right of way for the Ballona sewer
over the property of Mr.. Anderson Rose.
This right of way over the Anderson pre-
serve was one of the fine executive per-
formances of the Council in it's memoir
able work of securing the right of way by
the Ballona route, and it suddenly ma
terialized to the Mayor as an accom-
plished fact, and attested by the City
Clerk. In this remarkable contract it
was stipulated that if, at anv time, the ci y
failed to deliver daily to Mr.. Anderson
Rose the amount of fifty inches
of sewage, that gentleman had
the right to tear up the sewer,
and leave our sewer system, like
the coffin Of Mahomet, of happy Arabian
memory, suspended between earth
and heaven, as it were. Here is possi-
BILE contingency of malodorous signifi
canoe both to Los Angeles, Santa Monica
and all the intermediate country. Thus
far the only things threatened in dire
way were the pockets Of the people ol
Los Angeles and the mouths and noses
OF the bathers on the beach and the in.
terests of the inhabitants of the exqui
site city of Santa Monica. Not only has
Mr.. Ander son Rose the right to this fifty
inches of sewage daily, but he has, as
we'll, after having torn up the sewer, the
right to cumulative damages against the
city of Los Angeles. Mayor Hazard
who is square-toed white man, of long
residence in this city, and who has the
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27

She Returns to Her Docks fn
Triumph-Fursher Tests.

SAN. Francisco, August 26.-The
cruiser Charleston, which put into San
Pedro Bay Saturday morning after
making successful trial run of six hours
on the previous day, left taere at 6
o'clock Saturday evening for San Fran
cisco, and arrived here this morning.
Coal and provisions were taken on at
San Pedro. With the exception Of a
few minor trials made yesterday, the re-
turn voysge was uneventful. Notwith-
standing the severe test which was given
the cruiser Friday, her machinery
worked perfectly all the way from San
Pedro to this port. No attempt WAS
made to force her. but the engines made
from seventy-five to eighty revolutions,
and an average speed of thirteen knots
was maintained. The Charleston would
have made the run of nearly four hun
dred miles in thirty hours had it not
been that thick fog was encountered
about o'clock last evening, and on this
account the engines were slowed down,
and the remainder Of the trip was made
under half-speed. The sea was quite
rough Saturday night, and much water
was taken over the bow, the spray flying
back some distance and drenching per-
sons on the bridge.
STEERING APPARATUS TESTED.
The hydraulic steering apparatus was
given careful test yesterday morning,
the cruiser being at fair working
speed. The helm was thrown suddenly
hard a-star board, the time occupied be-
ing half a minute, and a full circle
was turned in trife less than seven
minutes. The wheel was then thrown
hard a-port and another circle was COM
pieted in seven and quarter minutes.
Finally the helm was shifted suddenly
from hard over one way to hard over the
other by one man in thirty seconds. At
tention was next directed to the hand
steering gear. Six men were required to
throw the helm hard over, and the time
occupied was four and quarter minutes.
Twelve men were then stationed at the
wheel, and the helm was thrown from
hard over one way to hard over the
other in two and one-quarter minutes.
A circle was made in about the same
time as before.
The helm angle during these tests was
about forty degrees, which is supposed
by authorities generally to be the most
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27
Arms for the N. q. @.

General,O Orton has received notice from the
rata of arms supplied to the State by the
United States Army is now at the arsens |
.. ~ - toea
of California. The assignment consists
OF 700 stand of arm. They will shortly
be distributed among the companies of
the State.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27
ARMY EXPOSU RES.
Further Allegations of the Bru-
taifty of subordinate Officers.

ST. LOUIS, August 26.-The Post. Dis
patch prints another chapter OF its army
exposure. 1t shows a terrible state Of
affairs at Jefferson barracks, alleging
that recruits are treated like dogs. Men
are strung up by the wrists until they
swoon from weakness; that brutal SER
geants deem no cruelty too severe. II
relates how an insane man was heart
lessly tortured, while common soldiers
are imprisoned at the whim of their
superiors. II is also charged in the ex-
poee that in the guard-house, where
prisoners are packed into an enclosure
20 by 40, the sanitary condition is ter
rible.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27
Extra session Not Yet Determined

DEER PARK, Md, August 26 -Presi-
dent Harrison says he has made no an
nouncement to any one as to the calling
of an extra session of Congress. He
says he has of course discussed the pros
and cons of the matter with various per-
sons, however, and, it is understood,
the question is not dete mined.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27

THE City Council did bright thing in
stipulating away the projected Ballona
sewer to Mr.. A. Rose. Under this nice
little arrangement the city would be
completely at the mercy of that gentle.
man. There is doubtless job behind
this which the public have not yet
fathomed
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27

TIE West Enders are in arms against
the proposition to assess twenty-five
miles of frontage to pay damages for the
Temple street cut. This monstrous
proposition will be resisted to the bitter
end.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27

AS THE South-side Irrigation Company
is extending it's pipes so as to- reach a
wider area of lands with its sewage,
there must be more wind than fact about
the anxiety of that company to throw up
it's contract.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27
Charge Against Field wishdrawn.

STOCKTON, Cal, August 26-District
Attorney White received letter today
from Attorney-G General johnson, as
already published, and went before JUS
tice Swain with the letter. They agreed
that the instructions contained in the let
ter were binding upon the District Attor-
ney, and the charge of murder in the
killing of D. s. Terry was dismissed as
to Justice Stephen A. Field.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27
Jury Bribers Sentenced.

San FRANcIgco, August 26. = Felix
O'Brien and Edward r. Eaton, con-
victed of attempting to bribe jurors in
the case of Sheath We. Waterman, were
sentenced today to six and nine years
imprisonment, respectively.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27
mutfneer., sentences COMMITTED.

SACRAMENTO, August 26 Governor
Waterman has modified the finding of
the National Guard Court Martial, which
dishonorably discharged the bandsmen
who struck on the Fourth of July. The
Governor has changed the sentence to a
simple fine of $25.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27

THE pressure upon our columns is SO
great in this issue that we are reluctantly
compelled to lay over editorial comment
upon several subjects of local interest.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27
looming SOUTH. GOING NORTH :.

The steamers Queen of the Pacific and
Santa Rosa leave San Pedro for San Diego on
the dates of their arrivals from San Francisco,
and on their trips between San Pedro and San
Francisco call at senta Barbara and Port Hsr-
ford (San Luis Obispo) only. The Eureka and
Los Angeles call at all way ports.
Cars to connect with steamers leave 5. r. X Z.
depot Fifth street, Los Angeles, as follows: With
the Queen OF the Pacific and Santa Rosa st
$50 o'clock A. M; with Los Angeles ana
Eureka, going north, at 5:1C o'clock P. M.
Passengers per Los Angeles and Eureka via
Redondo leave Santa Fe depot at 5 BORN
49, plaDa nf ssoi n hinc Qt aQput'g of
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27

near Pine Ridge tunnel, near the north
western corner of the State. Eleven men
were hurt, two of whom, George Moore,
engineer, and James Murnsn, laborer,
will probably die.
TOW DRUNKs RUN OVER.
DURHAM, N. c., August 26--Last
vile railroad ran over Arthur Burcham
and Calvin Holder, near this city. Both
men were drunk and lying on the track
near the signal lights at which the
engineer was doubtless looking when
the accident occurred.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27
LINES OF TRAVEL.
Pacific Coast Steamship 20.

GooDALL, PERKINS d CO., General Agents,
SAN FRANCISCO.
NORTHEIRN ROUTES
Embrace lines for Portland, Or, Victoria B. o,
and Puget Sound, Alaska and all coast points.
SOUTHERN ROUTES,
Time Table for August, 1859.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-27
CONSTRUCTION TRAIN WRECKED.

LINCOLN, Neb., August Pa con-
struction train on the northwestern ex,
tension Of the Burlington and Missouri
River road was wrecked Saturday night,