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Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-04
A GLANCE AT THE PAST.

Great Estates and What Became OF
Them Some Startling Bedrock
Figures twenty-five Years Ago.
The Great PtcO and Stearns Es-
tates General Notes Pasadena
and the San PaSqual Ranch.
There have been some remarkable
changes of values in the three million
SIX hundred thousand acres of Los Ange.
les county. Estates have been parted
with here for mere song by old Califor.
MIA families which, if they had been held
till to-day, would have made their own
ers immensely wealthy even at the low
est figures which followed the so-called
collapse of the boom.
To begin with, there is Pho Pico. the
last of the Mexican governors, a gentle
man who is now enjoying hale old age,
with the consciousness that he has parted
with more acres than any man who ever
lived in California, and who, If he
had kept his possessions, would
rank with the Astors and Vanderbilts.
The old Ex-Governor had always an
insatiate appetite for litigation, and he
was also caballero of the high old Cas-
tilian kind. He is said to have lost
$6O, 600 on single horse on the Los An
geles course in his palmy days, and to
have greeted the failure with a serene
smile. In 1866 Pho Pico sold the superb
santa Margarita ranch, which lies just
over the Los Angeles line, in San Diego
county, and which now belongs to the
Flood .estate, for $l00, 900, payable in ten
annual lnstallments of $4,000. The
ranch consisted Of los 900 acres. In 1873
or "a Pio Pico got into litigation with
Don Juan Forster over this same Santa
Margarita ranch. At the opening of the
controversy Don Juan offered to settle
the dispute by paying Pico $50, 900. The
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-04
A Series of Temblors.

ST. ELENA, Ecaudor (via Galveston),
March ga sharp shock of earthquake
was felt here last night. 1t lasted about
fifteen seconds, and was followed few
minutes later by four other shocks.
Shocks were felt at intervals during the
night and to-day.
GUAYAoUIL, Ecuador (via Galveston),
March "A violent shock OF earthquake
was experienced here last night. Dur
ing the night and this morning there
were thirteen other shocks of less
severity. The telephone wires are down,
and a panic prevails among the people.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-04
Crooked Election work.

ST. LOUIS. March 3.-The first fruits
of the investigations of the Democratic
State Committee into the big Republi-
can majority in st. Louis at the Novem-
Der election is given several columns of
space in two morning papers. The COM
plete canvass of the city has been under
the direction of Assistant United States
District Attorney Knapp, and in the re-
ports received by that official it is
claimed that dead men, non-residents
and negroes not designated as colored on
the registration lists were voted. The
assertion is made that prominent citizens
are involved and a great sensation is
promised. AS result of these investi-
cations, four persons, all colored, have
been arrested by the United States au-
thorities. 1t is said that other arrests
will follow.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-04

A SUSPICIOUS rumor reaches US from
Kiel that shots had been exchanged in
Samoan waters between the German cor
vette Olga and an American man-of-war.
At last accounts the Olga had been or
dered to the African Coast. How news
of this character should have first
reached Kiel, on the Baltic, is something
we cannot understand. 1t is probably a
canard.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-04
A Brutal Prize Fight,

ASHLAND. Wis, March 3.-Gov. Van
heest, champion feather-weight of the
Northwest, and Billy Walsh, fought l16
rounds, London prize ring rules, before
a select crowd here to-day. The fight
was given to Vanheest. Welsh was
fairly covered with blood and his right
hand was broken.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-04
A Truce with Nsetaafa.

LONDON, March 3.-Advices have been
received from Samoa to the effect that
truce has been declared between the
German Consul and Metaafa until after
the Berlin conference. Metaafa agrees
to prevent the destruction of German
interests.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-04
Another Irish M. p. Jailed.

DUBLIN, March 3.-Dr. Tanner, mem
ber of Parliament for Cork, who was ar
rested in London Friday last, arrived at
Clonmel this morning. Tanner refused
to enter the prison wagon, whereupon
three constables forced him in and held
him on the seat. A crowd followed the
wagon groaning and throwing stones at
the police, both before and after the
prison was reached. Six persons were
arrested
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-04
Mormon Recruits.

ATLANTA, Ga, March ga party of
fifteen Mormons passed through the city
early this morning on their way to Utah.
They came from south Georgia, and were
in charge of two missionaries.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-04
sacling Up Boulanger.

PARIS, March Five thousand letters
were seized in the Office OF the Patriotic
League. A cursory examination shows
a large number of them are from subal-
terms and field officers in the army, and
indicate the adherence of the writer's to
Boulangerism.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-04
PeruVinn PnIIfice.

LIMA, March 3.-The Cabinet has re-
signed, but the reason is not published.
No action will be taken by the executive
until Wednesday.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-04
small Arms stores Burned.

LONDON, March 3.-The Governments
small arms stores at Weldon were burned
to-day, causing loss of $780, 900.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-04
DAILY HERALD.

-PUBL1sHHD-
9EVEN DAYS A w EEK
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-04

entered at the restoface at Los Angeles a.
second-elass megter.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-01-24
EsQUIMAU ARITAMETIC.
They Measure Time by the SUN and
Stars.
I

The ape which (or perhaps whom)
Mr.. Romanes has succeeded in teach
ing to count five seems to tread closely
on the heels of some of the races of men.
In paper on the Esquimau of Point
Barrow, Mr.. John Murdoch of the Ma
tional museum said, that, like the rest
of those peoples they ordinarily do not
use numbers greater than five, but
speak of six and all higher numbers as
''many." Their real numbers are one,
two, three, four, five, ten (Which means
the upper part of the body, namely,
the number of digits on the upper ex-
tremities), fifteen (perhaps) and twenty
(which means "a man complete" !. e.,
all his digets used up). These numbers
are almost identical with those used in
the other dialects, while the interme-
diate numbers are quite different,
though expressed in u similar manner;
that is to say, $50 many on the next
hand or foot"
With such clumsy numerals arlth'
metical process are practically impossl'
BILE, though they practice sort OF crude
addition, arriving at the number of a
large series of objects by grouping them
together in fives. In counting the or
dinal numerals are used. This is also
the same as in the other dialects.
They originally had no standard OF
dimensions for space, but of late years
have learned to use the fathom in
trading for cloth, etc.
Time is measured by the sun and
stars. For example: The star Arctu'
rus is the sealnetter's timepiece. When
he is in the east dawn is near, and it il
time to stop fishing. The year is divi
ded into four seasons-early winter
winter, early summer and summer
Nine lunar monthsare known by name
The rest of the year "there is no moon
only the sum- They begin to coun
the moons from the early autumn, the
time when the women go off into the
little tents to work on deerskins. The
first moon roughly speaking, October
is slime for working, i. e., sewing;;'
November, "the second time for sew
ing;" December, 1.-THE time for dane
ing" (this is the season of the grea'
semi-dramatic festivals); January
"great cold," or "little sum- lin thl
month the sun just reappears at noon
February, "the time for starting (ol
the winter deer hunt; March, "th'
time for starting home;;" April, "th'
time for making ready the boats' ITO
whaIing); May, ''the time for fowl
ing" and June, "the time for bringing
forth the young" when the birds la!
eggs).
They clearly distinguish "to-day,
Yesterday" and tomorrow" but ida,
before yesterday" an" day after tomor
row" are the same; and beyond that al
is "some time ago'' or "some tim
hence" (the same word) till it gets t
be "long ago" or "by and by" Ther
are no dates in their past or future
except what has ShapIehed or is to haE
pen.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-01-24

The Pomeroy, Ohio, girl who, in an
swer to an advertisement for wife
iourneyed to Long Prairie, Minn., has
returned home without having changed
her name. She made the trip on con.
dition that should she not like the
groom after personal acquaintance
ofa few weeks, she would be at liberty
to return to her people at his expense
After Remaining at Long Prairie five
weeks she decided that she would pre-
fer another husband, and, according tc
agreement, the Westerner purchased a
ticket, saw her to the depot, and puI
her on train for home.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-01-24
A Remarkable Rock.
A Stone Weighing Twenty-Five Tons
Which Can Be Moved BY
the Hand.


New London Tclegnph.l
Prof. Henry Beals, a fellow OF the
Royal Society of London, at present In
New Haven, is about completing the
work allotted to him two years ago, that
of making a study of the erratic bowld-
ers, which are so commoR in New Eng
land and on the north side Of Long
Island. He has been making q special
search for ''rocking stones" His jour
neyings which are now nearly ended,
have been very successful. His search
for "rocking stones" has been made in
connection with geOlogist on the con-
tinent, who are seeking to establish
beyond controversy the theory that
these great rocks and curfously balanced
stones, which In many instances are
as large as a small house, were carried
on floating icebergs during the mys-
terious era known as the glacial period.
OF the rocking stones he has discovered
but one new example in addition TO
that already known. This is at Noahk,
on the farm of Caleb Haley, New
York fish dealer.
The store is estimated to weigh twen-
ty-five tons. 1t has rocking scope oil
six inches, and can be readily moved
by the hand. Only one other stone is
known of in New England-that at
Lanesborough, Mass. A photograph
has been taken of Mohegan Rock talso
known as Shehegan,) in the town oi
Montville. This rack was used as
fortress and watchtOwer by the Mohe-
gan Indians. It is now known to be
the largest specimen of erratic bowlder
in this country thus far discovered. II
is forty-five feet high and seventy feet
long, and is calculated by scientists to
weigh ten thousand tons, an enormous
load for a foe of ice to carry. 1t is
evidenced by the large flakes of the
stone which the insinuating frost and
storms of centuries have Clipped from
it. One of these fragments is sixty
feet long and twelve feet thick, and its
estimated weight is | 200 tons.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-01-24
LEGAL NOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given, that on the 7th day of
IN January, 1889, at regular session of the Board
of County Commissioners of Henry county, there
was presented to the said Board, who caused the
said county, whereit now remins for the inspection
of any pesson interested petition, the substance
and prayer of which is, that the said Board of Com
missioners may organize into an Incorporated vii
lage the following described territory situated in the
county of Henry and State of Ohio, to-wit: The
village of olton now plated and laid off into lots,
and the adjacent territory embraced in section
twenty (2l) in township six (6), north of range
eight(S) east, known as the township of Washing
ton, In Henry county, Ohio.
The said Board of County Commissioners have fixed
the 9th day of March, 1885, at 10 o'clock M for hear
ing of the said petition at their efc5 in the court
house in Napoleon in said county of Henry.
JIM. HAAG,
ian l0-it Agent.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-01-24
LEGAL NOTICE.

LIENRY SCHROEDER, Mary Stockman, Nina
Il Winkelman, Christina Ripke, Dora Olukin,
Mary MOhring, - MohriDg, whose first and full
name is unknown. heirs at law of Deitrick Schroe-
der, deceased, whose places Of residence is un-
known and George II Haase one Of the heirs ut law
of Dorotha Schroeder, deceased, whose place OF
residences is unknown, will take notice that John
Haase, administrator of the estate of Deitrick
Schroeder deceased on the 2Sth day of December,
A. d. 1885, filed his petition in the Probate Court
within aud for the county OF Henry, and State OF
Ohio, alleging that said Deitrick Schroeder died
possessed of the sga ttle in fee SIMPLE to the fol-
lowing described lands, to-wit: Thesoutheast quar-
of the southwest quarter of section number thir-
ty (3Ol, in township Ave (5 north of range six (6)
ofore sold to one George schesser, and that in his
lifetime the said Deitrick Schroeder on the Attn day
of March, 1880, contracted in writing with one Will
liam Schroeder tosell and convey In fee simple to
said William Schroeder, by bequest In his last Will
and testament the said premi ses with the appurten-
ances, in consideration of said William Schroeder
paying to said Deitrick Schroeder the sum OF $500
on or before the Let day of April 1880, and $500 on
before the first day ofApril, 1881, and an annual
rent Of hundred fifty dollars per year from June
lst, 1880, 10 equal quarterly payments during the
life of said Detrick Schroeder and his wife Dorotha
Schroeder and furnishing them other conVenlences,
and that said contract was not completed in the life
time of said eitrct Schroeder, and that plai ntn
desires to complete the same according to the stat
ute in such case made and provided.
The prayer of said petition is, thai upon the Sc
curing 10 be paid to said estate its just part and
portion of said consideration of said con ract the
court may authorize the said John Haase as such
administrator and gal representative of said Deit
rick Schroeder, deceased to complete said contract
and to execute good aud sufficient deeds for and on
behalf of the heirs at law to said purchaser, which
shall be as binding on said heirs at law as II the
same had been made by said deceased In MS llte-
time, and for all proper relief.
The persons first above mentioned will further
take notice that they have been made parties de.
fendant to said petition and that they required
to answer the same on or before the 9th day Of
March, 1889.
JOHN HAASE,
Administrator as aforesaid.
By Haag & Ragan, his attorneys.
Napoleon, o., Jan. 7, 1889. jan 10-R
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-01-24

Perhaps no local disease has puzzled
and baffied the medical profession more
than nasal catarrh. While not imme-
diately fatal it is among the most dis
tressing, nauseous and disgusting ills
the flesh is heir to, and the records
show very few or no cases of radical
cure of chronic catarrh by any of the
multitude of modes of treatment until
the introduction of Ely's Cream Balm
a few years ago. The success of this
preparation has been most graf flying
and surprising. 2t
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-01-24

Go where you will, you will find peo-
pie using Dr., Bulls Cough Syrup, and
unamions ATS praise.
Isuffered most severely from rheuma-
tism during winter. After using Sal
walton Oil two days the pain entirely
subsided, and now am q well man.
w. X. Kurtz, Baltimore, Md.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-01-24
Piles! Piles! why not Cure Them.

When it can be done so easily and cheaply
We have many letters like the following from
Indiana:
81 was troubled with Piles from infancy
until I was twenty eight years old, and for
one year was confined to my bed. Nothing
used did me any good until tried Brant's
Turkish Ointment Two bottles of it COM
pletely cured me, and for the last four years
/ have been entirely free from the trouble"
A. ]. BOWMAN, ..
TAssrNoNa, PORTER Co., IND.
25 cents buys it, "
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-01-24
Sheriff 8 Sale.
John Shelf ct. al :,


Frankie May Adams.
Order ofsale from Henry county Court of Common
Pleas.
By virtue of an of sale issued from the above
named court and to me directed Sheriff of Henry
county, will offer at public sale at the north door
of the Court House. in Napoleon, Ohio. on
Saturday, January Goth, 1889,
atthe hour of O'clock p. M, of said day, the fol-
lowing described real estate, situated in Henry
county, Ohio. to-wit:
The undivided one-ffth (1-5) part of the north.
west quarter Q4) of the south quarter (14) of
section fourteen 14), in township No. five (5). North
of Range Seven az east in said Henry county, Ohio.
Appraised at $24O
Terms of sale Cash.
EFT. BARNES,
Sheriff of Henry county, Ohio
Haag h Ragan, attorneys for plaintiff.
Napoleon, Ohio, Dec. 20, 1888. $3.50
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-04-04
NORTH DANVILLE.

Charles A. Kelley has bought James
Webb's farm; price 81 900.
Rev M. Atwood was called to
Strafford last week to attend the
funeral of lady there.
Christian P Andersen of Dart
mouth college has been visiting his
sister, Mrs o. H. Stevens
Mary, the little daughter of Byron
Varnum, has been quite sick with
scarlet fever but is now convalescent.
At the auction sale of the property
of the ]. D. Harris estate the stock
and things in general sold well. The
COWS sold from $25 to $40.
ST. JOHNSBURY EAST.
The railroad bridge was finished
Sunday.
Miss Mary Huse is visiting this
week in Richford.
Mrs. Frank Carlton of Island Pond
is visiting her mother.
The Band of Promise will give a
concert on Easter Sunday.
Marshall Montgomery of ST. Johns
bury has no plans completed as yet
in regard to the Lawrence shop.
Perry Hollis has sold his best cow
to c. H. Locke.-H. E. Wood has
sold his Jersey cow to Sullivan Ran
Adams has sold his
cow that took the first premium for
mich COWS at the fair last fall for
SIS.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-04-04
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.

An esteemed subscriber and occa-
siOnal correspondent writes us the
following under the nom de plume of
IF" The story carries its own
moral
AS those in authority are for that
reason objects of special interest, it
may be noted that some 80 years ago
goodly sized young man somewhat
bashful and awkward, went from
Ohio to the then infant city of Vino
ma, Mimi, to grow up with the coun-
try. He there made the acquaintance
of the first lawyer and first mayor of
the towr-Martin w. Sargeant-a
with him formed the partnership of
Sergeant & Window The latter has
been generally successful having again
become Secretary of the Treasury, al
though at times bitterly opposed by
his party associates in his adopted
state The former had beyond all
question the most intellectual force
of any boy reared in ST. Johnsbury,
and might have had the honors
which fell to Window had he over
come the demon of drink. 1t is a
quarter of a century since his light
went out into darkness and storm.
Old residents may remember him as
the son of Christopher Sargeant, and
grandson of Martin Wheeler, and
grandnephew of Gen. Joel Roberts
all of St. .Iohnsbury Four Corners.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-04-04

gets which the board found there, it
would have been less likely that the
switchman could have passed them
in the darkness without their light
having awakened his thoughtfulness
into sense of the condition of this
switch. No precaution should be un-
needed in railroad service to keep the
switchman's senses active in all the
details of his duty, and, if the COM
paratively inexpensive outlay of pro-
viding lanterns on these switches, in
so direct connection with the main
line as this 'Y' for this night switch
ing will tend to diminish this mis-
placed switch class of accidents,
there can be no excuse for their tardy
Introduction. Such accidents as this
emphasize their need, if they have
any value over the old target method
of signaling, and that they are safer
device is attested by their general
adoption on the roads having large
traffic and trains running at short in
tervals, as they did at this point on
the night in question"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-04-04
SUPREME COURT DECISION.

The supreme court have affirmed
the decision of the Caledonia county
court in the case of the Syracuse car
riage firm against S. L. Moore ofthis
place. About two years ago Mr..
Moore bought three wagons of this
firm, representing that he was the
owner of a nice little stable at ST.
Johnsbury. Almost as soon as the
wagons arrived he mortgaged them
to the late L. B. Atwood. The COM
pany finding out that Mr.. Moore
only leased his stable and that he
had mortgaged the wagons, sent on
their Mr.. Phillips who brought
action against Mr.. Moore for fraud
The jury brought in verdict against
Mr.. Moore of $3.50 for the wagons
and $50 exemplary damage. Mr.
Moore appealed his case and it was
tried before the supreme court last
fall at Montpelier. The decision of
the lower court has been affirmed
and the damages placed at 5000.
Ide &, Stafford for the plaintiff Bates
& May for the defendant.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-04-04
HE LEFT OFF TOBACCO.

A well known and hard working
man of this place was taken sick last
fall. He had to quit work and call a
physician. A slight exertion put him
out of breath. The physician said he
had a difficulty of the heart He was
an inveterate user of tobacco. His
doctor told him he must cut that
down to half rations The patient
replied that he could not do that,
but hecould stop using it altogether;
and he did stop then and there. 1t
was a struggle of course, but the man
said he would not have tobacco a
master over him. Before very long
his health began to improve and has
been improving ever since. Last
week, after four months of idleness,
he went to work again an apparent
ly healthy man; at any rate happy
and a clean one. Perhaps the leav-
ing off of tobacco did not cure him );
if it did not he does not know what
did. This is no romance, or story
for effect; the parties are we'll known
to the writer. And yet boys keep
right along forming the tobacco
h hit