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The morning news., 1889-03-15

Several republican organs are calling at
tention to the fact that one or two of the
members of Mr.. Cleveland's cabinet we're
quite wealthy. They are trying to work up
to the point whore they may charge that
the wealthy members were appointed for
raising campaign funds Thus far Post
master General Wanamaker is the only
cabinet officer in the history Of this govern
ment who was appointed for such a reason
The republicans of Pennsylvania are
threatened with family quarrel. Il is
stated that Senator Quay has determined TO
prevent the reelection of Senator Cameron,
and 70 make a senator out Of Postmaster
General Wanamaker. Quay is shrewd
politician, but this Cameron job is a bigger
one probably than he can handle success
fully. --~-..-.
The morning news., 1889-03-15

President Harrison's nominations are
being confirmed with celebrity that is re-
markable in comparison with the course Of
the republican Senate with regard to those
made by Mr.. Cleveland during the latter
part of his administration. And yet Mr..
Cleveland made nominations only where
there were vacancies. OF course the Senate
is right in confirming Gen. Hairison's uomi-
nations, II they are proper ones, but it was
land's
The morning news., 1889-03-15
a Harsh Criticism.

The New York Times, speaking of the
killing of Capt. Dawson, says: Few men
in the south have striven more earnestly to
repress the homicidal propensity whose
frequent outbreaks have justly deprived
that section of the country of the right to
call itself civilized, than F. w. Dawson.
and he himself has now fallen victim to
the brutal prLctice he so much deplored.
Of course, murders may be committed at
any time and in any community, but it is
their frequency, their unprovoked charac-
ter, and their prevalence among decent and
enlightened persons in the southern states,
not to speak of the family "feuds" which
make the social history of that part Of the
union at once so picturesque and so horrible,
that have in part justified the use of the
term semi-barbarous in describing the man
ners and customs of the southern people"
This comment is more severe than Just,
but it must be admitted that in the south
there is readiness among the better classes
of people to resort to the use of deadly
weapons upon very slight provocation
that is greatly to be regretted. A gradual
change for the better is noticeable, how
ever, and it is to be hoped that the day is
not distant when no self respecting man in
the south will make practice of carrying
a deadly weapon. Capt. Dawson went to
DR.. McDow's office unarmed. If the doctor
had been unarmed there would have been
no bloody tragedy.
The doctor says he was assaulted. If he
was he bore no marks of it. He also SAYS
he shot Mr.. Dawson in self-defense. He did
not act after the killing like man who had
a valid excue for his bloody deed, To an
outsider it looks as if the doctor became
angered at being charged with his immoral
conduct, and in a sudden fit of rage hot
Capt. Dawson. Capt. Dawson lived from
three-quarters of an hour to an hour. If
the shooting was in self-defense, or if there
were any other excuse for it, why did the
doctor not make the deed known as soon as
it was committedl Does it not look as if he
we're afraid of an ante mortern statement by
Capt. Dawsonl
If there were more hangings, human life
would be regarded as more sacred.
Juries do not appreciate the wrong they do
society by turning murderers loose on frivo-
lous pleas, but juries only reflect public
sentiment. The people must be taught to
look at the taking of human life differently.
i
The morning news., 1889-03-15

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Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23

can stand a good deal of rough usage on
the dome of thought. Unless Patsy.
therefore, is unusually hard of fist, alert
of body and obdurate of head, it is
pretty safe to assume that the suave col
ored professor from Australia will do him
up Friday next. If the conditions of the
combat were so altered from the Marquis
of Queensberry or London Prize Ring
Rules as to admit of Cornish "purring"
match, in which the respective hardness
of shins should be the standard which
would determine the result, Cardiff
would be a rushing favorite. AS it is,
the odds are heavily against him. Skull
against skull, the African will come out
ahead every time. Shin against shin the
odds would be five to one in favor of the
Caucasian brute.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23
Notice to NAH Subscribers.
TUESDAY, APalL ss. 1889.
Waterman,s Opportunity.


The selection of San Bernardino county
in which to locate the new Insane Asy-
lum will give wide scope of territory
from which to choose q suitable eite for
the new institution. Territorially, San
Bernardino county is nearly as large as
the whole State of West Virginia; two
and half times larger than New Jersey /;
twice as large as New Hampshire; as
large as the States of Massachusetts,
Maryland and Delaware together; and
half as large as the State of New York.
1t must be apparent to people abroad
that San Bernardino offers an ample
field to hold the insane, not only of this
State, but of the whole Union. The
most distinguished alienists hold that
no individual is 80 mentally per-
feet that he has not touch
of lunacy on come particular point.
Should this idea be elaborated,
and all sorts and degrees of insanity in
the United States seek asylum in South
ern California, it would not be for lack
of territory that the new institution
could not be made large enough to hold
them. San Bernardino has many locali-
ties that are well suited for an asylum.
Nothing could be more salubrious than
her mountains. By the way, Governor
Waterman's old home near Arrowhead
Springs would make most excellent site
for the new asylum. 1t has natural me-
dicinal springs of great curative value,
and bosky gulches where the pure water
of the mountains ripples along peren-
nially. 1t would indeed be an obdurate
case of insanity that would not yield to
to the hygienic virtues of the Waterman
springs and their surroundings. As the
Governor is immensely rich, and has
a net income of over $500 day from
only one of his mines, it would be the
neat thing for him to do to donate three
or four hundred acres of his home ranch
to the State. Besides, he will want an
Insane Asylum handy to his home when
he retires to private life. 1t is not to be
expected that man who has spent four
years in wrestling with the lunacies Of
Boruck and Maslin can break off sud-
denly from such associations with i'm
punity. He will want to taper off gradu-
ally, as the heavy drinkers have to do,
and the proximity of an Insane Asylum
would be the exact thing suited to his
case. Let us hope that, for his own sake
and for the sake of the State, he will
present the Commissioners with the re-
quired site.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23
Preparing for simmer.

The Union Ice Company is making
great improvements in its plants in
Southern California, owing to the belief
of its managers that the coming summer
will be very warm. On Alameda and
First streets they have made additions to
their storage house and have expended
about 5000 so far. At Pasadena the
Company has built new ice house and
stables, and at San Bernardino and Santa
Ana like improvements have been made.
About $40, ,0U0 in all has been expended
in Southern California during the last six
months.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23
An AIimony Case.

In the Billam vs. Billam case in De
partment No. of the Superior Court
yesterday, motion to set aside the or
der for allowing alimony of $40 month
was granted on the ground that the
amount was excessive. The defendant
in the suit, who is VIM. Billam, the hus
band alleges that, as he only earns about
$40 month, he cannot pay such sum
to his wife. He declares that he left his
wife because she subjected him to a
number of petty annoyances, and that
che compelled him to support her grown
up son by former marriage.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23

IT is remarkable how good natured and
indulgent the Republican press can be
when it comes to the peculiar perfor-
mances of Republican office-holders, es-
pecially members of the cabinet. This
illustrates the old saw, that it makes
great deal of difference whose OK is
gored. Thus, our esteemed confreres OF
the Republican press guild, have moth
ing to say about the peculiar procedure
of Judge of their own party in Indiana
concerning the attempt to prosecute the
"blocks of five" scoundrels, headed by
Dudley. They looked approvingly on
when Wanamaker raised his 100000
corruption fund for the election of Harri-
son, and the President, thus elected,
seems to be conveniently oblivious of
any turpitude hingeing upon the name OF
the pious Wanamaker, as the grand
son of Tippecanoe appointed that god
like clothier to position In his
Cabinet. The Republican press stom-
ached these somewhat abnormal, nay,
even sensational, Republican departures,
with all the ease with which they swal-
lowed without gulping the addition,
division and silence" letter of Kemble,
the Pennsylvania pardon-broker, about
his friend, Titan J. Coffey. The latest
development, in which the Philadelphia
clothing house of Wanamaker & Brown
are seeking to use the United States
Postoffice for the extension of the BUSH
ness of that firm, don't seem to shock
them bit. 1t is true that Wanamaker
is Postmaster General, but he has retired
from the firm, and the Wanamaker in
question is simply his brother. Delicate
distinctions founded upon relationship
count for nothing with the present exem-
plars of the great party OF "moral ideas"
If, however, while Villas was Post
master General, there had been firm Of
Villas & Smith running clothing house
out in Wisconsin, and prostituting the
Postoffice Department with the view Of
incr Easing its business, how resonant and
unceasing and musical would have been
the Republican howls at the infamy of
Cleveland's administration Yea verify.
Dot and carry one. Hide not your light
under bushel, and do your good acts in
secret, SO that nobody shall see you, in
order that the Lord, who seeth in secret,
shall reward you. Sancho Panza could
have supplied few more appropriate
texts for this Republican appreciation OF
what is now going on in this blessed
nation, but for the present we have run
out of them.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23

Yesterdays Tribune contained long
and rambling account of the remarkable
sagacity shown by General Vandever in
advocating proposition to pay Mexico
$40, ,O00, 600 for Lower California. Sagac.
ity of that kind would soon leave the
National Treasury bankrupt, and the
United States with reputation
which would invite the presence
of the international fool-killer. The
Tribune has perfect right to indulge in
adulation of the Congressman OF the
Sixth District, if it likes to do so. That
is an affair between itself and its readers
1t has no right, however, to in
dulge in downright misstatements
about that specially worthless region
known as Lower California. 1t
has entered with zeal into the
business of playing "capper" for a
lot of unscrupulous spectators who find
it very difficult to make ends meet. In
describing Lower California as substan-
TALLY like Los Angeles county and the
rest of the eligible portions of Southern
California, a great injustice is done to
this section. In effect, it is being stabbed
in the back by journal which ought to
stand by it. Those Fasteners and
foreigners who have seen Lower Cali
fornia, and whose acquaintance with
the southern portion of Alta California
is confined to riding over its desert parts,
will, if they accept the Tribuae's ac-
counts of the country in which it is PUB
lished, as true, dismiss the whole south
western end of the United States as good
for nothing. The sagacity involved in
proposing to give $40, 10000 for an al
most worthless territory, is hard to iden-
tify by any such emollient name. The stall
wart old General undoubtedly played
his cards on bluff, and as very shrewd
device for tickling his San Diego constit-
uents without much expenditure OF labor
or the grav matter of the brain. When
the Tribune says that Vandever's pro-
pcsal was generally approved of by the
Eastern press, it says what is most
exactly not the truth, the sentiment
being almost universal in the Eastern
States that the proposition ought on no
account to be entertained, journalistic
opinion leaning very generally to the
idea that the movement was thin cloak
for an attempt to resuscitate the spirit OF
Gen. William Walker and his tilibuster
projects. Our esteemed contemporary
should for a while indulge In daily les-
sons Of telling the truth, 60 that in the
future the practice may be lees difficult.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23

A GREAT deal of interest centers on the
approaching prize-fght between Profes-
sor Jackson, the colored champion OF
Australia, and Patsy Cardiff. This has not
so much a pugilistic as a physiological
interest with intelligent people. There
have been white pugilists who have had
infinitely more force and agility than the
Professor, and who, in scrspping match
and general rough and tumble, could do
him up while you could say Jack Robin
son, so to speak. But the gentlemen OF
African descent have two very marked
peculiarities. One is the length of their
tibia, which leaves their shins very weak,
and the other is the admirable hardness
of their skulls. Their occiputs being at
least four times as thick as those of the
Caucasian, a blow upon them is equiva-
lent to smashing the Caucasian fist
upon rock of flint, while the compare
tive thinness of the white mans skull,
particularly about the temples, makes q
blow in that region specially dangerous.
To man of brains, with the slender and
delicate environment of the organ OF
thought, square blow from a fist like
Sullivan's would mean instant death.
Fortunately, professional pugilists are
not celebrated for sln abnormal cerebral
and even the white pugs
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23

THE great Labor Exchange "fake" was
knocked out by the City Fathers yester-
day, the casting vote of President Fran
kenfeld giving it the coup de grace.
What is wanted in this city is the fur
therance of public works OF unquestioned
public utility, which will give employ
ment to deserving workingmen, and not
a bourse on which chin music will be the
principal staple of exchange. The Coun-
Gil has shown a horse sense which the
people will endorse.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23

THE State Medical Society, at its late
session in San Francisco, was kind to
Los Angeles. 1t selected DR.. Walter
Lindley to preside over its councils, and
chose our city as the place for holding
its next annual session. AS this society
is largely attended by members Of the
medical profession from all parts of the
State, it forms very large and select
body of very intelligent gentlemen when
it gets together. We would be glad to
have all the State organizations pay us
visit. There exists a great deal
of ignorance in the North in
regard to the exact condition Of affairs
in Los Angeles. Some otherwise we'll
informed gentlemen at the Medical Soci-
ety's Convention were honestly impressed
with the idea that Los Angeles was a
city of only about $4,000 inhabitants
Ignorance of this unspeakable density
will be readily dissipated by visit to
our busy and populous city. Our neigh
bors in the northern counties are very
much in want of little kindergarten in
struction on the subject of Southern Cali
fornia and its commercial metropolis.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23
RutledRe.Erust.

Miss Carrie Ernst, a we'll known Los
Angeles lady, was married yesterday at
San Francisco to Thomas Rutledge, of
Santa Rosa. The wedding took place in
the morning in the presence of only init
mate friends. An elegant wedding
breakfast followed the ceremony and the
happy couple left on the afternoon train
for the Hotel Del Monte, where they
will spend their honeymoon.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23

THE Council yesterday extended for
six months the time in which the Los
Angeles Cable Company shall complete
their system. This action was proper
one. The system is vast and
beneficial, and employment for the
summer is thus assured to q
large number of workingmen. The
cable system which the Chicago capital
lists are building in Los Angeles is one oi
the half dozen largest in the world.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23
I for the past three years :

If the Council expects to carry on the
city government this year for less than it
cost last year, they will have to exhibit a
greater regard for economy than they
have 30 far shown. The multiplication
of offices, together with the increase OF
standard salaries provided for in the new
Charter, will be apt to deplete the treas
ury long before the year has expired. The
people will be glad to see the commence
ment of the retrenchment which the
Council contemplates in order to bring the
expenses within the dollar limit, even
with the increase of the tax roll ten and
a half millions.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23
Am Impor tant Factor I'm Her
Growth

We neglected to notice last week that
the Los Angeles HERALD had entered
upon the sixteenth year of its existence.
The HERALD has been an important fac
tor in the growth of Los Angeles, city
and county. 1t has kept pace with the
marvellous growth of Southern Califor-
mia, and promises to keep up its lick in
the future. At the present time the ed
itorials are exceptionally good-chaste in
diction, timely in comment, and able
in the sweep and manner of treatment.
The Outlook extends its kindly greeting
to this pioneer journal that has done yos.
man service for this end of the State land
expresses the hope that its future jour.
nalistic career may be such as to deserve
even a greater measure of success
-[Santa Monica Outlook.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23
CITY Assessment ThIs Year.

The new charter provides for a one
dollar limit as the tax-rate on every one
hundred dollars of assessed property
But this limit is exclusive of the money
necessary to redeem outstanding bonds
falling due. The City Council yesterday
determined that nine cents on the 500
would cover the bonds, SO that the rate
will be 81 90 on the 500. The rate last
year was $3.50 on the 500. The total
assessed valuation reached $50, 9,479, l72,
which produced 1868, ,999S9. The Coun-
Gil has determined that the expenses can
be cut down to $545,OOO, which will re-
ouire the City Assessor, at the reduced
rate, to raise the valuation to $5o,OOO,OOo.
The following table will show the tax
levies for the past three years:
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23

THERE was but single bid for the city
moneys at the meeting of the Council
yesterday, that of the Los Angeles Sav.
ings Bank, which bid a OF one per cent.
a month, or three per cent. a year.
This is on the basis of daily balances.
AS this was the only bid, the Finance
Committee, to which it was referred,
will doubtless report in favor OF its
adoption.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23
Collector Hager,s Congo >,

SAN FRANCISCO, April 22.-Collector Of
Customs John s. Hager this morning
received an official letter from the acting
Secretary of the Treasury, notifying him
that President Harrison had accepted his
resignation, to take effect as soon as his
successor, Timothy G. Phelps, could
qualify.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23
Prohibition Reaten.

Boston, April 22.-One hundred and
fifty-eight cities and towns, outside of
Boston, shows total vote on the con-
stitutional amendment; yeas, 43,354 /;
nays, So 1928. The amendment is defeated
by from 35 900 to 40, 600,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23
John swIft,s send-off

SAN FRANCISCO, April 22.-John F
Swift, Minister to Japan, was banquetteC
last evening in San Francisco, by the
Chamber OF Commerce, previous to hiE
departure for the land of the Mikado.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23
Yerd,ct of AcauittnI

SANTA BARBARA, April 22-In the case
of the People against F. A. Blake, ac-
cused of embezzliDg $4,000 in the sale of
the Englenook property, the jury this
evening returned verdict of acquittal.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23
.Ionnuin WaIkn Out.

SACRAMENTO, April 22.-Joaquin Mil
Ter to-day returned his commission as
one Of the Forestry Commissioners of
the State to the Secretary of State.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23
A Pioneer Editor pead.

SACRAMENTO, April 90. - Konradf
Frederic Freimeier, editor of the Sacra-
mento Journal, died this afternoon Of
dropsy. The deceased has been resi-
dent of Sacramento for quarter of a
century.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23
Two ratnera nrnwnah

VIcroRIA, B. B., April 22.-While two
miners were out sailing in Nanaino har-
Dor on Sunday afternoon, their boat cap
sized aud both were drowned.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23
THE soLDIERs' CAMP.

THE SOLDIERS CAMP.
The train stopped at the military post,
where the white tents OF the soldiers and
the officers tents, surrounded by the
national colors, were a gratifying evi-
order. Troop D, 9th regiment Of cavalry
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23
DAILY HERALD

CITY OFFICIAL FAFLN'
Kptered at the postofice at Los Angeles ~
Becond-claEs matter
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-23
DANGEROUS FoRDING.

ARKANSAS Cry. April 22-Compara-
lively few of the "boomers' wagons and
men reached the Oklahoma line until
last night, and this morning Salt Creek,
which winds through the strip, and on
the banks of which the Ponca reservation
is situated, caused the settlers much de-
lay. The rains had made it so high
that fording was dangerous, and only a
few were foolhardy enough to venture it.
Friday morning fully 700 wagons wanted
to go across. A woman and two children
and number of cattle were drowned at
the ford.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-08-06

all the ore, and much more, needed
by the Fort Scott smelter.
After investigating theGaudaloupe
group and finding that Mr.. Gitford's
representation to us concerning these
mines was in every way borne out
by the facts as we found them, we
retraced our steps to Lampazos sta
ton, and next visited the mines of a
Philadelphia syndicate at Vale Dan
ma which we reached over a narrow
gage railway ascending the mountain
at the rate of 500 feet to the mile, on
the top of which we found a very
prosperous mine, the profits of which
are enormous, the railroad up the
mountain, costing $3.50, 900, being
built out of the profits of the mine.
Adjoining this mine in the Vulcan
Gloria, of which Mr.. Clifford is part
owner, which looks to me to me to
be as good property as the Philadel-
phia mine.
Leaving this region we next visited
the historic city of Monterey with its
curious homes, with their backs
turned to the streets and their yards
in the back part of the enclosures;
its magnificently decorated churches,
Imposing puDllc oullulnSS anu StreetS
lit up with kerosene lamps. The
valley through which the railroad
runs is peculiarly productive and
fertile, three crops of corn and grain
are raised on the same land each year,
castor beans grow without replanting,
and general bountefulness character
ICES all the crops.
Our trip over the Mexican Gulf rail-
way as the guests of director general
J. A. Robinson was pleasing one to
US.
In conclusion Mr.. Moore said, II
am very well satisfied with my jour-
ney and my investment in the Fort
Scott syndicate mines and believe
that our people who have money in
vested the same as have will reap
a good reward"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-08-06
Is CONSUMPTION Incurable?

Read the followiug: Mr.. C. Fl. Morris, New
ark, Ark, says: "Was down with abcess of
lungs, and friends and-physicians pronounced
me an incurabe comsumptive. Began taking
d.. Kings New Discovery for Consumption,
am now on my third bottle, and able to over
see the work on my farm. 1t is the finest
medicine ever made.
Jesse MiddIewart, Decatur, Ohio says:
Had it not been for DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry for Consumption | would have died OF
lung troubles Was given up by doctors. Am
now in cest of health" Try it. Sample bot.
tie free at Dreiss Il ThompsOns Drugstore.