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Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-15

As THE HERALD thought all along
would be the case. the sensational report
about the sinking of the United States
steamer Nipsic by the German corvette
Olga proves to be utterly without found
alton. Not only has there been no blood
shed at Apia, but the relations between
the German and American authorities
have been unusually amicable, and the
Germans have withdrawn their proclaim
alton of martial law in Samoa pending
the result of the conference at Berlin.
The common-sense view of the matter is
that it would be very hard to get up a
war between the United States and Ger
many, and Bismarck gave strong pledge
of his pacific intentions when he recalled
DIR. Knappe, the pragmatical German
Consul General. This later news is
reliable, and is received via Auckland of
date the 14th inst.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-15

OUR esteemed contemporary, the Or
ange Nesos, seems to have an idea that a
conspiracy is under way in this portion
of the county to unduly influence the re-
suit of the election which will determine
whether the county of Orange shall come
into being. We assure it that its fears
are groundless. Our people had some
natural regret at seeing the imperial
county of Los Angeles divided at this
time. They had a perfect right to cherish
this sentiment, but are prepared TO SUBJ
NIT to the inevitable. The Legislature
has chosen to make the people living
within the limits of the proposed new
county the arbiters of their own destiny,
and that ends the matter as far as the
people of Los Angeles are concerned.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-15

1T WOULD be- well for people who own
lots in out of the way parts of the city to
visit them often. If not they may wake
up some fine morning to find that, with
out their knowledge, the streets in front
OF them have been graded, sidewalked
and curbed, and the same assessed to
unknown owners. A gentleman who
owns several lots in the Mills and Wicks
addition to Second street happened to
pass them the other day and found that
the street in front of them had
been improved. He visited the office Of
the Superintendent of Streets, and there
found that his lot and all the lots in the
vicinity had been listed as belonging to
unknown owners. This is very handy
way of making the property owners pay
roundly for street improvements. Notice
cannot be served personally on unknown
owners, and no trouble is taken to
inform actual owners until the as.
sessment has become delinquent,
and then a swinging penalty is
added to it. 1t would seem that the
Street Superintendent ought to be re-
quired to consult the tax-roll and the
records wien he is making out street
assessment against property, and assess
it to the real owners. In nine cases out
OF ten they can be ascertained. This
unknown owner business is carried to
ridiculous extents in all the assessment
departments of this city and county, and
will lead to serious trouble.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-15

ALL of President Harrison's appoint
ments are not destined to give satisfac-
ton, if we are to judge from the charae-
ter of the comments his designation of
Louis Wolfey to be Governor of Arizo-
ma has called forth. The Phoenix GazeHe
in late issue discovers a connection be-
tween this appointment and the Reavis
claim to four million acres of the best
land in the sun-kissed Territory-a claim
which has been permitted to lie dormant
for some time past. This Reavis grant is
not dead, but only sleeping. 1t has pow
erful hackers, both at New York, WASH
ington, and in California. The "Bar-
opess of Colorado" and her husband are
indefstigable, and all the money needed
to prosecute their claims has been forth
coming from some mysterious source.
Says the Gazette:
The appointment of Louis Wolfey as
Governor of Arizona means the resurree-
ton of the Reavis grant, a restoration of
the iniquitous rule that, in years past,
plunged Arizona into debt to the tune OF
nearly seven hundred thousand dollars.
1t means the jeopardizing of the homes
of honest settlers in all parts of the Ter
ritory and the paralyzing of every indus
try, not only in the Gila and Salt River
valleys, but in all parts of the Territory
Wolfey is the tool of all schemers. Let
no man be deceived. In this appoint
ment the Tucson land ring, backed by
Senators Hearst, Teller and others inter.
ested in fraudulent land schemes, are
triumphant. Citizens of Phoenix, it il
not too late to prevent the consummation
of the dark tricks of these land pirates
Your homes and property are in danger
Bestir yourselves; ask the President
to withhold this nomination until you
can be heard. 1t is potent fact, known
of every man conversant with the history
of the Reavis grant, that, through the
Vaccinations of Royal A. Johnson
| Wolfey and others at this end of the line
| and Walker Blaine, Senator Teller
Robert Ingersoll and others in Washing
ton, the Reavis fraud was near bein,
spread over this fair land four years ago
and now the leading spirit in the con
spiracy is about to be made governor
We urge leading Republicans identified
with the growth and prosperity of th,
Salt River valley to take immediate
action. Delay is dangerous. Th
urgency of the case calls for immediate
action. Act promptly and vigorously.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-15

THERE was conference at the West
minister Hotel yesterday between Mr.. Fl.
M. Yerington, President of the Carson
and Colorado Railway, and the Messrs.
W. E. Jones, W. F. Fitzgerald, Jesse H.
Seligman, L. N. Breed, E. F. Spence, G.
E. Day, J. B. Lankersnim and G. Mul.
holland. Th ere was general talk con-
cerning the advisability of extending Mr..
Yerington's road from Keller to Mojave,
but no definite conclusion was reached.
The President of the Carson and Colo
RADIO road will remain with us for three
or four days, and during that time he
will doubtless look closely into the rail
way situation hereabouts.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-15
FATAL ROLLER ExpLOslOS.
The Building i'm Ruins aud MANY
NIen Killed and TniurHd.

NMGkA Ahu
PITTsBURG, March IA battery of
boilers at the boiler works of r. Monroe
& Sons exploded shortly after noon,
completely wrecking the plant and bury
ing number of men in the ruins. -Four
were taken out dead, and three badly in
iured. There are still a number in the
ruins. A dozen others are seriously in
jured, and several, it is thought, fatally.
The names of the dead recovered are
August lindebaugh, engineer; Charles
Altenbacke, Daniel Clark, and John
Renheimer. Two, William Connors and
one other, were taken out alive. Con-
nors will die. The work of rescue is
going on vigorously. At 2 O'Clock no
more bodies had been recovered. Four
are believed to be still in the debris,
and it is feared that many more were
caught in the wreck. The cause of the
explosion has not been learned. The
building was large one-story brick,
and nothing remains but mass of brick,
mortar and timbers. The loss is $40, 900.
The conclusion shattered windows and
damaged houses for three blocks.
LATER-The body of James Carton
has been taken out, making five dead re-
covered.
The work of rescue continued late this
afternoon but no more bodies were found.
All the employees have been accounted
for. OF sixty-five woIkmen five were
killed and eleven injured, number of
them quite seriously. one of whom is in
dangerous condition and will probably
die. The corrected list of the killed is as
follows: Gus Lenneban, engineer
James Carter, Jacob Rheinheimer,
Charles Aulenbache, ana Daniel Clark,
boiler makers. The cause of the explo-
sion is still mystery. No investigation
has been made as yet. Every one spoken
to on the subject expressed confidence in
the engineer and agreed that he was q
careful and competent man. The boiler
had been in use eight wears.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-15
A Blk Eyades Justice.

CHICAGO, March 14.-Wm. H. Davis.
q well-known builder and real estate
dealer. was arrested to-day, charged
victimizing President Tolman of the
Chicago Trust and Savings Bank.
Forgery was the specification, but the
purpose was to hold Davis for an extern
sive series of offences, such as selling to
each of anumber of people the same
piece of property. The prisoner quickly
gave bail on the forgery charge
and disappeared from the Justices
office before it was realized that
additional warrants were necessary.
To night it would appear that
besides the plumber from his alleged
crimes. he has made away with all his
real estate holdings. Where the money
has gone to is a mystery. Davis has
been in the real estate business in Chi
cago for ten years and has handsome
residence on the west side. The amount
fraudulently secured by Davis in his
dealings with Banker Tolman is said to
be about $4,000. The extent of his ILL
gotten gains from others ie not known,
but it is estimated to be large.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-15
mr. wanamaKer as a protectionist.


The New York World has brought q
curious fact to light. The special COR
respondent of that paper in Berlin has
discovered that the cloak department of
John Wanamaker's great Philadelphia
establishment is altogether supplied by a
branch manufacturing agency in Berlin.
The manager, S. Moritz, lets out the
contracts for the manufacture of cloaks to
master tailors who have the work done by
girls. These girls earn from six to
twelve marks week. A mark is worth
about "a cents, SO that the average wages
of these girls is from $1.44 to $2.88 per
week for about eight months of the year,
the time this kind of work lasts. Wana-
makers agent furnishes the master
tailors all the cloth and trimmings and
with the latest styles. Thus the labor
of these psuper-paid German girls is
brought into direct competition by
John Wanamaker with the sewing girls
of the United States. The difference be-
tween the wages in Berlin and those paid
in Philadelphia will probably pay the
duty on these cloaks. This information
possesses peculiar interest from the fact
that Wanamaker organized the manu-
facturers' fund to aid in the election of
Harrison, ostensibly in the interest
of the protection of American
labor from competition with the
pauper labor of Europe. Whilst
he was doing this he was manufacturing
cloaks in Berlin for the American market
at cost of from one and half to six
marks each. The six-mark ($1.44l
cloaks, the Worlds correspondent de-
clares, sell for about $40 each in the
United States. This is not merely cas-
ual or ephemeral industry of Wanamaker
in Berlin, it is a regularly estab-
lished manufacturing branch of his great
house in Philadelphia. If this expose
does not show the insincerity of the
gentleman who has been raised to q
Cabinet position as protector of Ameri-
can labor, we know of no way in which
it can be shown. When we come to test
the effect of the tariff reform as proposed
in the Mills scheme, we shall find that
it would have done away with this kind
of European labor competition with
American workers. 1t would have let
in the raw material of which these
cloaks are made free, and would have
raised to prohibitory standard the duty
on the made.up article. The effect of
this system would have made it impos-
sible for Wanamaker and others to have
their store goods manufactured abroad,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-15

THERE seems to be a unanimity of
opinion that the Legislature, now closing,
has been the most extravagant in every
respect we have ever had. Money has
been appropriated with a recklessness
and profusion such as has never been
seen before. The contingent expenses
alone of both Houses, as represented by
the numerous bills they have passed
on that head, have reached in the
aggregate a sum that minimizes all
previous Legislative efforts. Yet we do
not feel disposed to get very angry with
the body as whole. They have acted
far more fairly toward Southern Cali
fornia than any of their predecessors.
Our Just demands have been needed,
and several important public institutions
will be established in this end of the
State as q result of the spirit of sectional
fairness that prevailed among the
members.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-15
Miners Buried Alive.

MOUNT CARMEL, Pa, March 14.-In-
tense excitement prevails at the Black
Diamond colliery, where, by the run
ming of the pillars, six miners have
been closed in. Workmen are driving
heading for the purpose of liberating
their imprisoned companions, but sew
eral hours must elapse before it can be
ascertained whether they are alive.
At o'clock this afternoon the laborers
heard the faint sound of voices. Two
hours later they were enabled to hold
conversation with two of the men, who
said they were safe. A mass of ragged
top rock is hanging over their heads,
however, and may fall at any moment.
The other four men were cut off from the
first two by second fall of rock, and
their fate remains unknown at late
hour tonight. The work of liberation
is going on as fast as possible.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-15
A DEAL IN STEEL.
Three Large Chicago Firms
Consolidate.
STEEL RAILS WILL NOW GO UP.
The New Firm will be Quite the
Largest Mandatory in the
World, bar Krupp's.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.

Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.l
PHILADELPHIA, March IA special
to the Enquirer from Chicago says: The
most important deal in the steel trade
ever made in Chicago was announced
to-day, in the consolidation of the North
Chicago Rolling Mills Company, the.
Joliet Steel Company and the Union
Steel Company. Negotiations to this end
have been going on for two months, and,
we're practically concluded last week.
The news was kept very quiet, and only
leaked out through trade circles. The
name of the new company not yet
been decided upon, but will be
an entirely new one. The capital will
be $4,000 900, of which between So ,000,-
600 and $4,000, 900 will be issued for cash
now in the treasures of the respective
companies and the balance will repre-
sent the valuation of the three plants.
The stock in the new company will be
distributed to the shareholders in the
old ones upon basis agreed
upon in their consolidation. The
combined works will form the
largest steel plant in this country,
and will probably rank second only to
Krupp in Germany. Steel rails are the
principal product of the mills, and in.
rail-makiDg the new company will have
no competitors in the West worth men
| tioning.
The steel rail output of the country is
| turned out at nine mills, or, at least, SO
much of it that other concerns figure for
very little. There is only one west Of
Chicagc-the Colorado Coal and Iron
Company's mill at South Pueblo, COL,
and that is not of much account.
By the consolidation of the three Chicago
concerns local competition will be de-
stroyed, and better price realized for
the rails. Already plans are being
formed for securing to the utmost the
advantages of union. By dividing up
the work among the mills, every depart
ment of each can be run to the best adj
vantage. A reduction of expenses in
other directions will be effected, and it
is estimated that the cost of producing
the rails can be cut down 81 per ton. AS
the combined works manufacture one-
third of the total output of the country
aud can turn out 1000 tons q year
without much difficulty, besides 10000
tons of other steel material, this saving
is of great Importance to the stock
holders. Inventories of the plant and
assets OF the three concerns are now be-
ing made. The two iron furnaces of the
North Chicago mill at Milwaukee, which
have capacity of $4,000 tons of pig
metal year, are included in the deal.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-15
THERE has been a great deal of III

THERE has been a great deal of un-
necessary futtering in certain quarters,
if we may trust the newspapers, anent
the Flag Cottage. Itlooks very much as
if, after all, it will be case of all cry
and very little wool. The information,
as drawn by the District Attorney, only
alleges disorderly acts between the dates
of February 26th and March 7th. The
Judge has very properly confined the evil
dence to occurrences between those
dates. II a count had been inserted in
the complaint charging the MeCormacks
with keeping an assignation house, the
evidence would have had wider range,
and the general character of the Flag
Cottage could have been put in evidence.
1t is quite plain that, from the stand
point of the prosecution, somebody has
blundered.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-15
HINTS TO HARRISON.
Spirited Foreign Policy and Extens
sion of Commerce Suggested.

sion OF commerce suggested.
ST. PAUL, Mimi. March 14.-In the
State Legislature, yesterday, resolu-
ton was introduced by Speaker Graves
relating to the foreign policy of the Gen
eral Government. The preamble recites
that,
WHEREAS, The cause of patriotism is
advanced by the knowledge that the
National fagis seen all over the world,
and that the time is ripe for the COM
merce of Eastern nations to move west
ward to, and through the United States,
Therefore, this Legislature resolves
that the General Government should
adopt vigorous foreign policy; that the
United States should compete for the
commerce of the world that money
should be appropriated from the
Treasury for the construction and
operation of steamship lines from
New York to Europe and South
American parts; also from San
Francisco and Tacoma to Japan and
Australia; that the sea coast fortifiea-
tions should be strengthened and multi
piled that the treaty rights of the United
States should be religously preserved
that there is cause for deep solicitude in
regard to the action of the German EN-
pire in the matter of the late Samoan af-
fairs, inasmuch as the blow of the Ger
mans seems to be aimed at the commerce
of the United States and not at the saw
ages of the Samoan Islands.
The representatives of this State in
Congress are instructed to use all their
influence in carrying out the suggestions
of these resolutions.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-15
A OuarreI Arranped.

ST. PAUL, March 14.-President Cakes
of the Northern Pacific, in an interview
with a representative of the Associated
Press to-day, said the dispute between
the Union Pacific and Northern Pacific,
in Jefferson Canon, Montana, regarding
which there has been several rumors Of
serious trouble between the employees
of the two roads, has been amicably
settled. The Northern Pacific buys the
old grade of the Union Pacific. the latter
being allowed, when it SO desires, to use
the new road, which will be built i'm
mediately. The line will cut off one
hundred miles of the present route to
Butte, and will afford means for ship
ping Rocky Fork coal by the short line.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-15
A FALSE ALARM.
No Ground Whatever for the
Nipsic Story.
THE GERMAN BLUFF WITHDRAWN
Tamasese and Metaafa Still in the
Field, the Former with
Diminished Army.
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatches to the HERALD.

i@A710SANNNN ~
New York, March 14.-Following is
an exclusive dispatch received by the
Associated Press:
AUCKLAND, March 14-Advices just
received from Samoa show there was no
basis for the sensational rumor Of an
engagement between the Nipsic and the
German corvette Olga. So far from this,
the German officials on the island have
entirely given up their aggressive policy
The proclamation of martial law has
been publicly withdrawn and the Ger
mans have abandoned all claim to the
right of searching incoming vessels for
contraband of war. Both these eteps
have met with the hearty approval OF all
foreign residents at Apia, and have had
quieting effect. Unusual tranquility
prevails throughout the island. Mataafa,
however, has force of troops estimated
to be 5000 strong. Tamasese's 8 army con-
sists of about 700 warriors. Both Ger
mans and Americans still remain at
pia ready for any emergency that may
arise
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-15
Lost ON a Lee shcre.

NORFOLK Va, March 14.-The Ameri.
can bark Agnes Barton, bound from
Nassau to Baltimore, with a cargo of
phosphate rock, was driven ashore on
the Virginia coast this afternoon at 10
o'clock, during a heavy northeast gale,
about half mile north OF the Damneck
life-savipg station. Captain Benjamin
]. Knight, of Baltimore, Second Mate
James Richards, of Philadelphia, Peter
Florida, John Smith, Ned Forbes and
Charles Hobbs, seamep, were lost. The
first mate and three sailors were saved.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-15
THE FAKE BOOM AGAIN.
The Latest Frantic Attempt to
ROIster Up the Fraud.

ST. LOUIS, March IA statement
comes from Vicksburg, Miss, that a
syndicate composed OF G. P Huntington,
Mrs. Hopkins, widow of the late million
aire, and Leland Stanford, have bought
million acres of land in Lower Cali
fornia, and are buying more. Their OBJ
ject is said to be to develop that section
of the country, and part of the scheme
is the building of 1900 miles of railroad,
some of which is now being built. When
the engineering party were surveying
the route they struck gold on this prop.
erty, and this. it is alleged, has decided
Huntington to dispose Of all his railroad
property east of the Mississippi River
and concentrate all his interest in the
far West.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-15
The weayer,s strike.

FALL RIVER, Mass, March 14.-The
weavers still present an unbroken front.
The shut down on the King Phillip and
American linen mills has added 1000 to
the number of idle operatives and has
brought the strike home to great body
of operatives outside Of the weavers.
There was meeting in the park this
morning attended by 1000 strikers who
manifested much enthusiasm. The
agents of mills in Rhode Island and other
States are here engaging some of the
operatives.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-15
CANADA GETS UGLY.
Licenses Refused to American Fish.
ing Vessels to RuY Rait.

GLOUCESTER, Mass, March 13-Re,
ports from Newfoundland say that the
issue of licenses to American vessels for
the purchase of bait and other necessary
outfit is refused this season, and the
Government will coincide with the Do
minion Government in this policy. The
reason alleged is that American vessels
last season violated the licenses given
them, and bait purchased in Newfound-
land was sold to the French at st. Pierre.
Fishermen, recently returned from Fort
une and Placentia Bays, say that cutters
are already patrolling the coast, and
every port is strictly guarded, SO that no
violation of the Bait Act can be accom-
plished. Cargoes can be purchased for
export under a 81 900 bond that they are
to be landed in American ports, receipt
from the consignee through the British
Consul being also required.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-15
The situation I'm Oklahoma,

ST. LOUIS, March IA Purcell, In
dian Territory, special says: Oklahoma
Hill and party to-day sent p message to
President Harrison to the effect that the
situation in Oklahoma is critical, and
that it is national necessity to have ac-
tion taken at once. The telegram con-
cludes that ''if the thousands of actual,
honest settlers, clamoring for admit
tance, are compelled to depend upon
their right to settlement until too late to
make crop, actual starvation will fol-
low.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-15
A DISASTROUS FIRE.
The Anaconda Smelling Works al
Helena, Mont. burned.

HELENA, Mont, March IA The most
disastrous fire in the history of the terri.
tory occurred at 6 O'Clock this morning
at Anaconda, the lower works of the An.
aconda Smelling Company being en-
stroyed. The concentrator and stamp
mill alone were saved. The works were
filled with costly machinery, and were
thought to be the most extensive in the
world. The loss will probably reach a
half million. The fire is thought to be
incendiary. The Anaconda Company is
a member of the copper syndicate, and
the output is over 100000 pounds OF
copper per month.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-15

THE Anaheim Gazette savagely accuses
the HERALD of having plagiarized an
editorial from its columns. We are still
unconscious of having done SO, and the
crime, at the most, could not be more
than petty larceny. If, while in a
somnambulistic state, We were guilty of
such an incredible offence, we heartily
hope that we did not also borrow the
Gdzette's syntax.