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Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17
WEST COAST NEWS.
Erastus Hankins Pard0ned
by the Governor.
RAILROADS BADLY CRIPPLED.
Widespread Destruction Caused by
the Freshets-POm0na Wines
in Demand,
Associated Press Dispatches to the HRnAID.l

Associated Press DISPATCHES to the HERALD.
SACRAMENTO, December 16. - Cover
nor Waterman today issued pardon to
Erastus Hankins convicted OF man
slaughter in Los Angeles county in
December, 1888, and sentenced to five
years. imprisonment. The prisoner is
80 years of age and killed ! man'named
Everson. The Governor says: 1T has
been shown by the evidence presented
to me for examination that the prisoner
was the victim OF long-continued perse.
cution at the hands of the deceased
eEyerson) and deceased's wife: that he
was peaceful. good citizen and bore an
excellent reputation; that the shooting
of said Everson was not premeditated
and was clearly Of an accidental chsrac-
ter. The petition for executive clemency
has been signed by all but two Of the
Jurors Zone being dead), and by about
two hundred leading citizens of the city
and county of Los Angeles"
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17
r,au ANA WIG are one.

SAN FRANCISCO, December l6.-H.
Miller and his wife, of San Diego, were
some time ago tried and convicted OF
conspiracy, the hu band being sentenced
to one wear in the County Jail and the
wife find 81. An appeal was
taken on the ground that the
inforn,ation does not charge two
persons with the ofense because
q man and his wife being in law one per-
son. no prosecution con be maintained.
The Supreme Court, in reversing judg.
ment, says that the claim OF the appel
ant was rule of common law, and there
is nothing in the code or statutes 10 indi'
cate the intention of the Legislature &c
change II.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17
brazilian Oitixenship.

New York, December 16.--The Brazil
ian Minister today received dispatch
from President Fonseca, announcing
that general naturalization was promul-
gated by decree today. All foreigners
are declared Brazilian citizens
from the date of the proclamation OF the
republic, unless they refuse it. All
foreigners shall be considered Brazilian
citizens after two years residence il
they accept, and shall enjoy all civil
and political rights, but not be eligible
for the office of Chief Of State.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17
DAMAGING FREsH HETS.
Railroads BADLY Crippled In South-
erm California;.

SAN DIEGO, December 16.--It is esti-
mated that the damage by the recent
storm in this vicinity will reach from
100000 to $2O0,00O. The California
Southern railroad. will probably lose
5000. Six bridges have been washed
out between Soledad cafion and this
place. There is little prospect of any
trains moving before tomorrow night.
The Pacific Beach road is badly dam
aged at Roses canon, where 1000
feet of roadbed has been destroyed.
It will probably be a week before the
road can be repaired. The Cuyamaca
road was badly washed out in Charles
valley. The Coronado belt line and
National City road both suffered con.
siderable loss. The race track at Pacific
Beach is badly damaged and it is
thought the loss will reach $40, 900.
MASTER MECHANIC DROWNED.
@. w. Wilson, Master Mechanic of the
Pacific Beach road, was drowned yester-
day. He started from Pacific Beach
with motor engine to ascertain the
damage to the road. He left the engine
at Rose caf1on VIII ere a washout had
occurred and was not seen alive again.
His body was found by his wife, buried
In the mud.
AT SANTA ANA.
SANTA ANA, December 16.-The storm
prostrated railroad and telegraph service
between here and San Diego. The wires
are working this afternoon for the first
time for thirty-six hours. No trains
since yesterday morning. The fret mail
from the East since Friday arrived this
evening",
THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC.
ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, December 16.-
Heavy rains are prevailing along the
Atlantic and Pacific, and passenger
trains are behind time. Last nights
train was abandoned owing to flood
over the track this side of Flagstaff, and
this afternoons Ntrain is ten hours be-
hind. A number of miles of track has
been washed away.
FARM LANDS BENEFITED.
BgaGs, CAL, December 16.--Previous
estimates as to the damage by the foods
throughout this section are thought to be
erroneous. Farmers say that with the
exception of losses to fencing, the inun.
datiou will be a material benefit. =
THE FLOOD IN SUFFER- COUNTY.
MARYsvtLLE, CAL, December l6:-A
danger from high water in the tules OF
Suffer county has now passed, ns the
water has receded several feet, and the
leyees are now considered safe where
not already broken. Estimates made bJ
the largest ranchers whose lands havt
been covered place the loss at much les'
than at first supposed. It is though
that fully fifty per cent. of the eeedet
grounds will grow crops. No mail hal
vet been sent to Median, and communi
cation with the people in reclamation
district No. 70 is still shut off. Severa
people have been in from that vicinity
and say several hundred head of live
stock have probably been lost.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17
mermon 0fsiciaIs Arrested.

SALT LAKE Cry, Utah, december
16.-City Marshal Solomon, County
Recorder Cannon. Selectmen Weller,
Brig and Hampton, all Mormon officials,
were arrested here this afternoon. There
are six indictments against Solomon,
charging him with missppropriating
public funds, and one indictment against
each of the others, charging them with
conspiracy. They we're released upon
furnishing bonds to secure their appear.
ance in the District Court Saturday.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17
sam Frnncisco rIniches.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 16.--The
Directors Of the California Athletic Club
tonight postponed the fight between Ike
Weir and Billy Murphy to January 18Th,
one of Weir's hands having been injured
hv gun shot. The Directors fixed
February 20th as the date for the meet
ing between Jack McAuliffe, of New
York, and Jimmy Carroll, the clubs
lightweight instructor.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17
Now Trial Grantea.

PORTLAND, Ore, December 18.-The
Supreme Court today, in the case of
Sandy Olds, sentenced to be hanged for
the murder of Emil reversed the
decision of the lower court and granite I'd
defendant a new trial.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17
raE muRoHIs0N BRAND.
Pomona Wines I'm Great Demand
I'm Eng land.

POMONA, CAL, December 16.-The
third order this year for large quantities
of wine to be shipped to England came
to the Pomona Wine Company today
from the company's agent in London.
The order was for $1,000 gallons OF port,
sherry and white wine to the sent by
ships from San Francisco to- Liverpool.
The agent says wine buyers there insist
that the wine shall be shipped by water
because the voyage does the wine good
and makes it more salable in Europe.
The agent also writes that he believes
there is good opening for about rs, ,09C
gallons Of California wines annually in
Ireland.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17
AFTER THE VERDICT.
The CroniM Jurors Refuse 10 b
Interviewed.

Inter viewed.
CHICAGO, December 16--After the
Jury was discharged this afternoon, and
while the gentlemen were waiting for
their certificates, crowd of reporters be-
sieged them for information about what
had transpired in the jury room, and the
cause of the long delay. "It's no use"
said Juror McArlor, 1--WE agreed not to
heard since ! got back into the world,
the newspapers have been doing
some pretty tall lying. Juror Culver
was not the cause of the delay, and there
was not any unpleasantness or any
knocknown, as one paper has declared. !"
Juror North was angry at the state
ment mentioned above. "The man who
wrote tho story of the row in the jury
room ought to be punished" said he /;
"there was no trouble at all, and we
passed the time as pleasantly as we could
under the circumstances"
toNeENEcKEE bispLEAsED.
Judge Lopgenecker when asked il he
was satisfied with the verdict. replied
that it was Conpromise verdict, and
that's all anybody could say about it. 1t
was quite plain the States Attorney WAS
not pleased at the outcome OF the case.
Juror John Culver was seen at home
in Evanston this evening, and refused to
to make any statement as to
what took place in the jury room,
or whether or not be was the dissenting
member. ALL he would say was: ~
took what to me was the only jus!
COURSE"
Mr.. Culver warmly denied the stories
OF auarrels among the jurors.
BEGGs A FREE MAN.
John F. Beggs left the jail this after
noon soon after court had adjourned il
company with his lawyers and friends
As he stepped into the street q free man
Beggs was heard to say: "I'm goinl
to spend the rest of my life hunting dow
the men who killed Cronin. Beggs spen
a few minutes at his Office and ther
buried home, where he positivel.
refused to receive callers this eve ming.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17
The Orockor Hen.ains.

SAN Francisco, December 16 Per-
mits were given by Secretary Hoesch,
OF the Health Department, for the re.
movsl Of the remains of the late Charles
Croker and his wife, Mary A.. Grooker,
from Laurel Hill cemetery, in this city,
to Mountain View cemetery, Oakland.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17
NOT TALKING FIGHT.
sullivan Lets the Other Fellows Ds
the Taking,

SAN Francisco, December 16.-The
Egaminer's New York special says:
John L. Sullivan was interviewed on
board a train en- route from Boston to
New York. Sullivan said there was no
truth in the statements purporting to
have been made by him concerning .
match with Jackson. "The match be-
tween myself and Jackson" said Sulli-
van, "isn't practically settled yet by any
means. / haven't talked fight since l
left Mississippi, because l maintain that
il would not be policy for me to do 30.
Next year l shall be ready to talk busi-
ness with Kilrsin, Jackson or Slavin,
but until then shall let them do all tho
talking"
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17
new maii CIerx ,

SAN FRANCISCO, December 16.-Henry
w. Clarke, of Albuquerque, has been
made mail clerk on the line between
Albuquerque and Los Angeles, vice FL.
d. Corbett, resigned.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17
Express Office Robbed.

Express office Robbed.
SAN ANGELO, Texas, December 16.-
Five men entered the express Office at
Brownwood last night, knocked the night
clerk senseless and robbed the safe of
81, 900.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17
Oalifornia YaInations

SACRAMENTO December 16. The State
Controller has prepared circular
showing the values of property in each
county in the State for 1889. The cir.
cnlar gives the total valuation Of taxable
property at 81, Ill 500, O,979.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17

Catarrh is caused bv scrofulous taint In the
blood, and is cured b. Hoods 6arsaparilla.
which purifes and enriches the blood and
gives the whole system health and strength:
Try this peculiar mediciUe." 1t Is prepared
by q. /. Hood 4 Co., Lowell, Mass.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17
bank Failure i'm :

NASHVILLE, Tenn, December 16.-
The Baak Of Gallatin, Sumner county,
assigned today. Assets about 500, 900 ;
lab ilities about $40 600.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17

Mems plush slippers, SOC, 75c, 81, 81 25,
ST.. SO, ST. rs, 80. At any price and to suit any
oA'' S - Meyer Lewis & 90.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17
Free |!

The most beautiful array OF toys ever seen in
our city. We give them all away Come aud
so MEYER LEWIS 4 Co.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17

UIcndennInss Case Postponed.
SAN DIEGO, Dscem Der 16.-The case of
the people against CleDdennin, who shot
Judge Pierce August 18th, was called to-
day, but postponed one week.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17
Elegant slippers.

For disordered liver try Beechan's 5 Pills.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17
Death of AssembIxman Fasse.t.

SACRAMENTO, December 16.-Hon. L.
FL. Fassett, member of the Assembly
from Sacramento county, died at his resi-
dence near Florin this morning.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17

Mullen, Bluets s. Go.
Are showing the best lines of children's suits
In Los Angeles.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17
had washomt on the Sou,
Pacific.

The washouts caused by the late severe rains
will prevent great many people from visiting
ieweIry at a5l North Main street, under st:
Elmo hotel. but those who do 60 there will
save from 25 to rs per cent. on anything they
day presents.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17
GLADDEN. the young

Hearts with some of our beautiful toys. Come
aud get all you want
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17

We aim to please the-public
by giving the best values to
be procured and the choicest
lines to select from. We can
give you the daintiest Silk
Lisse Handkerchiefs, beauti-
fully embroidered by hand,
in Pansy, Lily of the Valley,
and Marguerite designs; and
we can give you the choice Of
twenty-five different patterns
in hand-embroidered Linen
Handkerchiefs.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-17

In,iss ON having Eisin condensed milk
, 1889-12-14
French and English.

1 have often heard that the English
TAX their pleasures sadly. l am not
prepared 10 say hat l indorse this
opinion; but l can affirm that the
French have a wonderful capacity for
enjoying themselves. They know
how and when to throw off conven-
tional restraints. Take the watering
places for example. What fine oppor-
tunities the English seem to throw
away there for enjoyment.
In French places of the kind, all
holiday makers form but one big fam
lily, as it were. The children play to-
gether without restraint. In the even
ing the children of a larger growth
meet at the Casino, where, by paying
So a month, they can enjoy good mu-
sic, have the use of the billiard rooms,
smoking rooms, reading rooms, etc.,
and the entree of frequent balls Snd
soirees. All mix and all are happy.
| have seen aristocratic ladies of the
most naughty type-persons who in
Paris or their country homes would
hot think Of associating with any one
outside their w class-put in an APP
pearance at these Casino balls and
dance with the first conner who asks
them for a waltz or a polka.
These acquaintance are made for
the pleasure of the moment and do not
last. No Frenchman takes advantage
of such an acquaintance to go and
call on the people he thus meets-nay,
more, if he meets elsewhere a lady
with whom he has danced at the sea-
side he puts her completely at her ease
by not showing signs of recognizing
her, unless she herself makes advances.
Ii he behaved otherwise he would be
Immediately stamped as an i'll bred fel
low.
The Englishman who passes his
time in standing sentry at the door Of
his dignity is almost always bored to
death al resorts. If he have a large
family all may go well, but iSagine
an Englishman with u wife and q
daughter at the sea. If a week OF
wet weather set in, poor fellowl What
resources has he but the local library !
On the beach he looks around, and
says to himself that all the people look
decent enough, but there is no know
ing who they are at home. That man
over there looks jolly; but, alasi per
haps his grandfather kent a shon. II
Is too horrible to think of the risk one
may be running by making acquaint-
ance with him. So John Bull retnres
into his shell l-Max OrRell.
, 1889-12-14

Cocaine, as is now well known, is a
very valuable but an exceedingly dan
gerous drug, and NJ. Dufournier has
lately published in The Archives de
Medicine the remarkable results of his
Investigations into its use. Cases where
accidents have occurred are very numer-
Gus, and there is hardly a surgeon using
cocaine who has not had occasion to wit
ness them. As early as in 1887 DIR. Mat
tison published the account of forty such
instances, INT the roll of victims who
have lost their life from a lose of CO.
ain has now reached as high as nine.
In a large number of cases it has given
rise to a species of poisoning, from which
the patient usually RECEIVERS. Among
the phenomena characterizing this form
of poisoning, one observed in a patient
of DIR. E. Bradley is worthy of mention.
This patient was taken with facial par
alysis, from which he did not recover for
six months. Other symptoms are hallu-
cinations, great excitement and cerebral
agitation, and, finally, DR.. Leslie Cal
loghan in one case saw the entire body
covered by a scarletiniform rash.
DIR. Szunman, wishing to remove a
large wart situated at the base of the
thumb of ayoung girl of 20, injected I'M
der the skin, close to the wart, one cubic
centimeter of n one-in-ten solution of
cocaine. The patient felt no pain, but as
the little wound was being sewed to-
gether she suddenly lost color and faint
ed, her pulse became weak and slow, and
her hands and feet stiffened. Water was
dashed in her face and she recovered
consciousness, but she did not regain at
, 1889-12-14
curIou. Figures on the surplus"


The weight and bulk of the gold and
silver coins now held in the United
States treasury form the subject of much
inquiry among people of a mathematical
tur of mind, one of whom has ascer-
tanned that the gold alone weighs Sol
tons of 1000 pounds, and that the silver
weighs 8 1000 tons. Corded along the high
way, as wood is corded, the gold would
make a wall 4 feet high and 4 feet thick
for a distance of 1856 feet. The silver, if
similarly packed in a solid wall, would
extend 4,24S feet, or about five-sixths of
n mile. If packed in carts, a ton to EACH
cart, the procession would be nearly SO
miles long, of which distance the carts
containing gold would cover two and
one-half miles, and the silver ladened
carts a fraction over 30l miles.-St.
Louis Republic.
, 1889-12-14

But the problem of Arab dominion is
not on the coast at all, but in the interior
of Africa On the coast the European
states can make their influence felt, but
it extends no further than a narrow strip
of land, beyond which barbarism reigns
supreme. And here we arrive at one of
the most remarkable phenomena OF the
age in which we live and the planet we
inhabit. The aboriginal inhabitants of
Central Africa are savages, sunk in hea-
thenism, afflicted by the evils and weak
nesses of savage life, and perhaps inferior
in mental and physical vigor to the
stronger races of mankind.
Over them has passed, like a tempest
from the east, a horde of men of another
and a stronger race, which marks them
out for slavery and destruction. The
Arab invasion of Africa is characterized
in every part to which Europeans have
penetrated by desperate valor in arms,
by an utter indifference to human life,
and, above all, by an enthusiastic and
fanatical belief in the faith of Islam.
They remind us of those ardent fol-
lowers of the prophet who, in the first
ages of Mohammedanism, bore his blood
stained standard and his intolerant creed
from Spain to the confines of China, and
wellnigh overthrow the faith and civili-
cation of the ancient world. Indeed, if
we are not mistaken, they are the same
men-the living inheritors of the pas
sions, the valor and the faith of the SOL
diers Of Mohammed.
Before the strength of the Christian
states they are now reluctantly compelled
10 bow; but over the unarmed and untu-
tored native races of Africa they are su-
preme. Accordingly, what we are now
witnessing in Africa, since it has been
partially opened to u view, is an amaz-
ing recrudescence and fermentation of
Mohammedan power. On the Congo it
is not the native population, but the
bl~oodthirsty Arab slave dealers, who OPP
pose II progress of civilizations; the ma
tives ask for protection from these for
midable tyrants.
On the Nile the fierce chiefs of this
new warfare have made Khartoum a
seat of power and authority over the
ne%ighboring tribes, for since the over
throw of the Egyptian government in
the south they are masters of the Sou
dan. The capture of that important po-
%sition, and the defeat and death of the
heroic champion of civilization who per-
ished there, were much greater events
than they even seemed to be at the time
they occurred; for they established a
power, whether it was that of the Mahdi
or any other name, which commands the
interior and the river.-Edinburgh Re
view.
, 1889-12-14

The following remedy was discovered
in Germany and is said to be the best
known: AT the first indication of diph.
iberia in the throat of a child make the
room close; then take a tin cup and pour
into it n quantity of tar and turpentine,
equal paris. Then hold the cup over a
fire SO as to fill the room with fumes.
The little patient, on inhaling the fumes,
will cough up and spit out all the mem.
branous matter, and the diphtheria will
pass off. The Fumes of the tar and tur.
pentine loosen the matter in the throat,
thus affording the relief that has bafied
the skill of physicians.-New York Tel
egram
, 1889-12-14
THE KINGS

whin you was out q lady called,
A lady foine and fair,
Wild swate blue eyes, and purity mouth,
And lovely banged up hair.
And whin she asked eff you was in,
Says /, mo, mum, she's not;
But eff you'll lave your card wild me,
IN see it's not forgot"
"oh, niver moind, s. says she; Il came
A little news to bring
About some poor we're doing for
I'm dau'ther av the king"
Thin. howly saintsl 1 lost me wits,
Andsurtesied down so low;
That Win the princess left the door,
1 niver saw her go.
But gettin' quick me senses back,
hurried down the strate,
And, bowin' low, says I to her,
Pray won't your hoighness waltz
She looked at me and smiled most swate,
Wild all her white teeth shown;
NO, not today; I'll come again,
It's tonne l must be goin'."
Now, though I am a dimmycrat,
All kings and q~ueenses hatin',
And bein' an American,
All white folks equal ratin'.
I'd loike to know the princess name,
And who moight be her father,
And what she's doin' over here
So far across the wather.
And eff her royal hoighness wants
A maid to wait upon her,
III do it on these blissed knaes,
Sure's me names O'Connor.
Mary l. Henderson In The Century.