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Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03
0nr Th,rtr-seoona volume.

The HERALD enters on its thirty-second
volume to-day, and the sixteenth year OF
its existence. That is not great news
paper age in Eastern Cities but for Los
Angeles it may be considered some
what lengthy career. During that time
the city has witnessed great and re-
markable changes. In 1S74the business
and wealth of the city was clustered
around the court house, and embraced
but few blocks, mainly covered by one
story adobe houses. Now the business
of the city extends in all directions from
that centre, and covers several miles
of blocks. The character OF our
business architecture has changed
from adobe to the most elaborote
and costly stone and brick buildings,
and will compare favorably with the
architecture of any city in the Union.
Our residences are spread out for miles
in all directions and are marked by
beauty of design and costliness OF fin
ish, and generally are set in
luxuriant garden spots. A population
of five or six thousand has
swelled to eighty or ninety thousand in
those years, and the assessed value OF
two millions has grown to valuation OF
thirty millions. The HERALD has kept
pace with the rapid growth of the
city, and from a small qusrto sheet
with q few hundred subscribers, it has
grown to be an eight-page paper with a
circulation of many thousand copies. We
have also kept pace with the news facili-
ties of the great dailies in other cities,
and our columns are now filled with in
slant dispatches, giving in detail the
news of every part of the world. What
our city of to-day is to the Los
Angeles of 1874, the HERALD of to-day
is to the little sheet which first saw the
light of day fifteen years ago. We can
only conjecture what the HERALD will
be when it has doubled its present age
but all may rest assured that its progress,
in everything that goes to make news
paper in line with the times, will be
commensurate with the progress of our
city.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1889.

Now THAT Forestry Commissioner
Moore has placed a large quantity OF
shade trees at the disposal of the Board
of Supervisors to be donated to parties
living on the line of the projected boule-
ward to the sea, let there be move all
along the line to plant them out. This
will be at least beginning to the splen-
did drive out of this city SO long talked
about and SO earnestly urged by the
HERALD. Next, let work be done on the
road itself. Santa Barbara has COM
menced to build an eight mile boulevard
drive. 1t ought 70 be ca sy for Los An
geles to build one only twice that length
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03

WE give elsewhere the details of q
very interesting interview with Mr.. A. B.
Chapman, leading orange grower OF
this county. The scale is slowly losing
its hold on our trees, and will perhaps
naturally die out in the course of a few
years. If we had q sufficient supply of
the Australian insect that preys upon
the scale, we would soon rid our
trees altogether of the pest. But the diff
fculty is to get this scale-enemy. The
think that the Govern
ment ought to furnish us with an ample
supply. But why wait for the Govern
ment to do what we should do ourselves
Why cannot the men who are SO deeply
interested in getting rid of the scale send
to Australia themselves for the exter-
minating insect, and thus save time and
avoid red-tape? We are assured that it
can be had in unlimited quantities. The
only drawback is that it must have scale
bugs to feed upon IN traRsitU, and the
scale bug is getting scarce in Australia.
We would have no difficulty in furnish
ing the scale from here, but in
doing so, We would be obliged
to ship it on live trees; and that would
be serious piece of business. Perhaps
our orange growers could meet the diff
Guilty by bringing the scale-enemy in
carefully selected families so that they
could be made to propagate their species
here. If they could do that it would
solve the problem.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03
WE are getting at facts in regard to the

We are getting at facts in regard to the
bill to quarantine Arizona cattle. Mr..
Damron was right when he claimed that
the bill failed to pass the House. The
vote on its passage stood; ayes, %; noes,
Al. Notice of motion to reconsider
was made by Rennison, of Mon
terey, but, when the time ar
rived to put it, the mover failed
to materialize, so the last chance to gall
vanize the measure into life lapsed. Now
the question arises, how did that bill get
into the Governors Office properly at
tested by the officers of the House as
a constitutionally passed bill, and
there receive the approval of
the Executive, and to all outward
appearances become law? There
have been some very strange and won
derful doings in the Executive Office
during the administration, and this is
among the strangest. If Governor
Boruck and his subaltern, Waterman,
have been carrying on complete
Legislature of their own, and making
laws without the aid of both Houses, the
people ought to know it. The cattle
quarantine bill was deft nuisance that
would have landed the price of beef to
figures, and placed every small
salary man in the State on vegetarian
diet 1t would have been a fat thing for
the rich California cattlemen, but a
mighty lean thing for the people.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03

IT is fortunate that the Courts have
stepped in to stop the cutting through of
First street hill to Olive street. A cut
such as would have been made in the
hill there would have ruined property in
the vicinity, and worked lasting injury
to that neighborhood such as
was done to Rincon Hill in San
Francisco by the celebrated Second
street cut. At one time the finest resi-
dence property in that city was on the
elevation south of Folsom street. 1t is
now an eye-sore and blemish. The
proposition to run wide tunnel
through First street hill has a double
merit - it would be economical
and would preserve the SYM
metry of the hill site. Besides the sur
face ground on the street could be sold
for enough to pay for the work. The
tunnel might be carried through to Pearl
street, and that would give the people
west of the hill easy ingress to the
business heart of the city. Ii
is great pity that Fort hill
from one end to the other has been dis
figured by rectilinear streets. Had it
been originally terraced, and the streets
been made to conform to its topography,
it would have been made accessible by
easy grades, and been preserved as a
thing of picturesque beauty.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03

GREAT regulations are often subject to
sharp declensions. A druggist in
Fresno county yesterday incontinently
punched" Judge David S. Terry, who
was supposed to be Mars's lieutenant in
California. From this we should be in
clined to look for blood on the face Of the
noon. Judicious friends Of this redoubt-
able gentleman would advise him to coli
leet himself. He can scarcely afford to give
a second chapter of Bully Dawson,
whipped by half the town, half the town
whipped by Bully Dawson"
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03

THE HERALD is indebted to III on.
Stephen M. White for a copy Of the
brief, in the Supreme Court of the
United States, entitled Chae Chan
Ping, appellant, VS.. the United States,
appellees. The brief was prepared by a
very distinguished array of counsel, in
cluding Lieut.. Governor White himself,
Hon. John F. Swift, recently appointed
Minister to Japan, with the cooperation
and approval of Hon. G. A. Johnson,
Attorney General of California. There
can be no doubt, in cur judgment, that
the California presentment of the matter
will win. A great change has taken
place in Eastern sentiment of late on the
Chinese question, and the cause of Cau-
casian labor will undoubtedly be re-
spectfully considered, thus Sc curing from
the court of last resort in the United
States the most liberal Interpretation of
laws intended by the lawmaking
power to abate a great and growing
evil. Public sentiment on such ques-
tions has great and rightful influence.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03
A AHUs:...rp;sS REVENGE.
He Carves the Destroyer of His
Peace tn Pieces.

TExARKANA, April "A farmer named
W. Wilkins, who lives near Marshal,
Texas, was called away two weeks ago
from his home, ard on his return found
that man in his employ named Sutton
and his wife had decamped. He started
on a search for them, and located them
near Texarkana. The wronged husband
dashed into the room where they were,
brandishing huge knife, with which he
attacked the destroyer OF his home and
literally cut him to pieces, Wilkins
eecaped,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03
AnOrher Opium seizure.

SAN Francisco, April 2-The Gus
tom House officers this morning seized
2.224 five-teal boxes of opium, valued at
,56S, which had been smuggled. The
drug was found concealed under pile
of fat in the soap and candle factory
conducted by Richard Ahlf in South San
Francisco. Ahlf and H. Gaehdez, a sa-
loon. Keeper at the mail dock. were
arrested and held by Judge Sawyer in
$4,000 bonds. 1t is thought that the
opium was lowered from the China
steamer into the water and taken to the
candle factory. Other arrests are ex-
pected to follow,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03

The colored race not only fought nobly
during the war, but it is fighting nobly
now. The resolutions of the American
citizens of African descent against the
Los Angeles Times smack of the noblest
days of chivalry. Our contemporary on
the corner of First and Fort had better
haul in it's horns or it will be impaled on
the horns of dilemma. The celebrated
jewel in an Ethiop's ear spoken of by the
poet has crystalized in these resolutions.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03

THE attention of the Supreme Court
yesterday morning was occupied by the
argument in the case of the new city
Charter. Mr.. w. T. Baggett, San
Francisco lawyer, presented the matter.
The judges very frequently interpolated
counsel, and the indications are that the
matter will be decided on broad constitu-
tional instead OF technical grounds. 1t is
to be hoped that the Supreme Court will
handle this matter Immediately, as the
whole well-being of this community
hinges upon the issue. The Legislature
will not meet for two years, and unless
we are living under an organic law sub
stantially solid, downright anarchy would
seem to be imminent. The whole point
upon which the validity of the new
Charter is contested is the failure to ap-
prove it by bill. On the other hand, the
explicit and "sure thing'' language OF the
Constitution, is that the ap-
proyal Of the Senate and House
enacts the new Chatter into
lawful being. The HERALD has always
contended that many controverted points
in the new Charter will have to be liti-
gated, and that the decision will probaa
bly, be against their validity. This is
embarrassing, but it is not absolutely
anarchical and revolutionary. A decision
against the validity Of the Charter itself
would, to use phrase employed in dip
lomatic circles, leave us with no modus
Uiuendi. If the Freeholders we're unwise
enough to make an instrument which
needs good deal Of judicial tinkering,
the circumstance is unfortunate, but it
can be remedied in the ordinary deci-
sions of the court. To leave Los Ange-
lee, on the other hand, with absolutely
no clearly indicated city govern
ment would be disastrous. The rule
of the majority, in democratic
republican government, is very whole
some principle to go by; and, while not
presuming to forecast its action, we be-
lieve that the Supreme Court will be
largely influenced in its decision by the
somewhat pronounced language of the
Constitution of California and the die
tates of wholesome common sense.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03
THE SCALE BUG.
How He Is disappearing From
the Land.

the Land
A. B. Chapman, Esq, Of San Gabriel
was in the city few days ago. He said
about the scale bug in the orange groves
No, 1 am not doing much to fight the
scale excepting in the way of fertilizers.
L am putting plenty of strength into the
land, which will go into the trees and
support them in spite of the ravages Of
the destroying parasite.
Yes, l think the bug is disappearing.
There are not 80 many as there were a
year or two ago. But there are still
enough of them to make very formid-
able and very dangerous enemy to this
most profitable Of our industries.
The best way to fight the scale is.by
means of the parasite that feeds on it.
We know that this enemy of our enemy
will destroy the latter. What we want
now is to get plenty of this
parasite. We are pretty wide.
awake in matters of agriculture, but
we are blind from an chronological point
of view. Agriculture is all very well in
dealing with this pest, but one open eye
will not do. We must open our entomo-
logical eye in dealing with the scale. It
is well known that the parasite will de-
stroy the scale, but at the present rate of
propagating the insects it will be long
before the scale is done away. We ought
to have half dozen skilled men at work
in this State, and there should be two or
three commissioners in Australia instead
of one. These could study the habits of the
scale and those of the antogonistic parasite
and they could send them over here in
large numbers, to be distributed in the
orchards. If this we're done vigorously,
it would not require much time to rid us
Of the pest.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03

THERE is a question of great import
ance to teachers which is now agitating
educational circles. 1t has been the rule
heretofore in this city to consider the
entire corps of teachers discharged at the
end of each school year. In other words
the tenure of office with this class Of pub
tic employees is only for one year, so
that at the beginning of the next year
the entire force is appointed de noUO.
AS a general thing the same teachers
have been reappointed to their old places,
but the rule creates feeling of
insecurity, which, it is argued,
operates to the disadvantage of our
schools. For, the element Of uncertainty,
which enters into the matter of re-elec-
ton, causes the best teachers to accept
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03
A jap Reception.

WASHINGTON, April 2.-The President
gave special reception at the White
House this evening, in honor of Prince
and Princess Takehaiti of Japan. The
President was assisted in receiving by
Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Mckee and the
ladies of the Cabinet, The parlors were
profusely decorated. Secretary Blaine
introduced the members of the diplo-
matte corps. and Colonel Wilson made
the other presentations. The marine
band played number of musical selec-
tions, including several Japanese ma
fioral airs.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03

MExIco has boycotted American lard.
We would like to reason with Mr..
Blaine before he declares war with our
neighbor Republic on this momentous
issue. We deny that the United States
is exporting into Mexico American lard,
Lard is no longer manufactured in this
country. 1t has been superseded
by q spurious article made out of
cotton seed oil and hog Scraps.
Such thing as pure lard is only known
to farmers who try it out themselves.
But the ''lard" of commerce is sophis-
ticated and very probably highly dele
terioug article. Because the enlightened
people of the United States rest passive
whilst this disgusting slush is forced
down their own thrnats, that is no rea.
son why our neighbors, who are less
enlightened, but better served by their
Government, should, also be forced
to swallow it. To be sure, Mr..
Blaine has a precedent for COM
pelling the Mexican people to
to eat our spurious lard, even at the can
mons mouth. Great Britain forced
opium upon the Chinese by the aid of
shot and shell. But this is not 1S43.
The world has moved since then, and
whilst the people of the United States
have to grin and bear Armour's porkless
concoction, they are not going to spill
their blood and waste their treasure in
forcing the nasty stuff upon their Mexican
neighbors. So we would advise Mr..
Blaine to go slow. Let the cotton-seed-
fat men fight their own battles. Their
Armour is less penetrable than ours.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03

offers elsewhere, where permanency
during good behavior and continued effic-
iency is secured. Perhaps our Board of
Education might look into this matter,
and if they find that the rule is hurtful in
its tendency without accomplishing any
public good, its adjustment would be
advisable.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03
The Om,nhn MURDER Case.

OMAHA, April 2.-The case OF the State
against Elizabeth Beechler, charged with
the murder of Harry w. King, Jr., in
this city in November last, was called
day. A large crowd, among whom
was q number of ladies', was in attend.
ance. The day was consumed in the
effort to secure jury, which WAS accom-
plished when the court adjourned this
aftarnoOn
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03
Didn,t Keep Up His Lick.

WASHINGTON, April 2.-Jacob III. Din
nick, Postage Stamp Agent at New York
City, has been removed for neglect of his
official duties.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03

JOB PRINTING DEPARTMENT-owin to
our greatly increased facilities we are prepared
to execute all kinds of Job work in superior
manner. Special attention will be given to
conn mercial and legal printing, and all orders
viii be promptly filed at moderate rates.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03
Notice TO mail subscribers.

The papers of all delinquent mail subscribers
10 the Los Angeles DAILY HERALD will be
promptly discontinued hereafter. No papers
win be sent to subscribers by mail unless the
same have been paid for In advance: This rule
IS iniexible. AYERS d LYNCH.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03
Waller TO be Banqueted.

LONDON, April "A banquet will be
given at the Hotel Metropole, on May I'd,
in honor of Waller, the retiring United
States Consul General.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03
Lord ssRandv,, Don,t,Wan,Tt

LONDON, April 2.-Lord Randolph
Churchill has declined to return to be-
come candidate for the vacant Parlia-
mentary seat in Birmingham.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03
The Home RuIe Contestnnt.

LONDON, April 2.-William Phipson,.
Home Ruler, will contest the seat in the
Commons made vacant by the death Of
John Bright.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03

LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS from adjacent towns
specially solicited.
REMrrrANcEs should be made by draft, check,
postof1ce order or postal note. The latter should
be sent for all sums less than S5.
OFFICE OF PUBLICATION, 1855 West Second
street. between Spring and Fort Los Angeles.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03

Worth deigned to copy one of Mrs.
Miller's dresses.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03

TENTS at Foy's harness snop. 217LosAngeles
street.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03

Beeeham'a PiIls cure bilious and nelvons ills.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-03

HamOny king Of herbs. l4s E First'stFeet
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-13
Presidential Apprentices.

WASHINGTON, Feb. I'm the execu-
tive session of the senate, this afternoon,
Senator Plumb from the committee on
agriculture, fayorably reported the nom
nation OF Norman j . Coleman of Missou-
ri TO be secretary of agriculture. OBJ
lection was made by Republican sena-
tor to consideration at this time and
Democratic senator then objected TO the
discussion of the nomination, and under
rule il went over until the next executive
session. 1t is understood the nomination
viii be confirmed, however, when 1t
again comes before the senate.
The nominations OF Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury Thompson to be civil ser
vice commissioner IN place of Edgerton,
removed, and of First Assistant Postmas-
ter-General Stevenson to be judge of the
supreme court of the District of Column
bia, will be subjected to the general
rule adopted by the majority of the
senate respecting political nomina-
tons. The objection to Mr.. Stew
enson is said TO lie in the fact
that his nomination is in violation
of the Republican platform concerning
territorial offices, that they shall be
filed by residents. The appointee in this
case Is not considered as coming within
the meaning of the word If the Repub-
licans continue to hold this position 1t
means the appointment of a Washington
lawyer to the bench. Mr.. Thompson Is
objected to on the score of his alleged
extreme offensive partisanship in South
Carolina elections
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-13
Annther Cabinet Possibilitr.

INDIANAPOLIS, md, Feb. PA new
star has been discovered in constellation
of cabinet possibilities in the person of
Gen. Noble of st. Louis, one of the
leading attorneys of that city. His name
is being coupled with the office of at
torney-general as the representative of
Southern or border states. Gen. Noble,
although not in the enjoyment of a
national reputation as a lawyer, is we'll
known to President Harrison :.
He graduated at Oxford college, Ohio,
the year before Gen. Harrison finished his
scholastic course and friendships formed
in college days has remained intact TO
this date. What particularly recon-
mends and renders possible if not proba-
BILE the selection of Gen. Noble, is the
fact that he is not identified with any
party faction in his state. 1t is said the
withdrawal of Gen. John Henderson IS
name from the list of cabinet possibilities
was necessitated largely upon these
grounds.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-13
Blaine on Cuba.

WASHINGTON, Feb 12.-Recently
Congressman Milliken of Maine and his
cousin, Seth Milliken of New York, who
is a large manufacturer and has invest
ments in the South, called on Mr.. Blaine
on private business. During the CONVEX
Sation the merchant, who has known
Blaine for years, asked him if he was in
favor of the annexation of Canada. Mr..
Milliken says that Blaine replied he was,
but that he did not think it would be
brought about by agitation. In the
course of time he thought the Dominion
would naturally gravitate into the Amer
lean Union. ''Canada said Mr..
Blaine, sis like an apple on
a tree just beyond our reach.
We may strive to grasp it, but the
bough recedes from our hold just in
proportion to our effort to catch it. Let
it alone and in due time it viii fall into
our hands. Il we were reaching after
territory to increase our wealth and
strength, as well also to protect the
health of the nation, should say Cuba
is an outlying island which the inter
ests of the United States would naturally
seek first. As to its relation to health,
Cuba is the natural home of pestiIential
the direction of our sanitarians 1 have not
the slightest doubt that the existing cause
this disease could be exterminated froUu
every part of Cuba. In point of ecOno-
my it would be cheaper for the United
States to buy the island from Spain at
any cost, rather than it should be con-
slant menace TO the health and pros
perity of the Southern States The cost
directly and Indirectly to the business of
the country during the last yellow fever
epidemic in the Mississippi valley was
greater than the value Of Cuba even if you
put it on mere money basis; but when
you consider the peril to life which the
fever constantly brings, its purchase
would not be dear at any price. The
next object which makes it valuable is
its relation to the United States as a
strategic point 1t lies close TO the south
err extremity of Florida, and its western
end is still nearer Yneatan. In this way
it practically controls the gulf of Mexico.
1t actually commands positions which we