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Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-03

tiating for it's purchase. To the Southern
Pacific it would be valuable at once and
without any large outlay. To any other
railway company there will be a large ex-
pense in making the property available
for shipping purposes. To get at it from
the land side over the bluff will require
q heavy cut, reaching far back, and even
then considerable grade will be neces-
sary. 1t might be reached from Rattle
snake island by means of draw-bridge
over the inlet to Wilmington harbor.
The big wharf contemplated by the
Southern Pacific Company lies near
there, and in that connection the strip OF
property is worth a great deal. 1t is
reputed to have been bonded within q
few days for period of ninety
days, and the sum named for
it is 100000. 1t belongs to the widow OF
the late A. W. Timms. Who is behind
the real-estate agent? Is this part Of
the new railroad schemes developing
here, or is the Southern Pacific about te
secure this bit Of property?
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-03

THE latest development in railroad
circles heresbouts is the bonding of what
is known as Timms' Landing, San Pedro,
by q real estate agent of Los Angeles.
The San Pedro paper is lost in specu.
lation as to the significance Of this deal
in embryo. Timms' Landing is the old
landing place at San Pedro. Prior to the
acquisition OF the country by the United
States this was the embarcadero for the
Spanish population of this section. Be-
fore the railroad from Wilmington was
built nearly all the stuff received or
shipped by steamer or other vessel was
landed or embarked here. 1t con-
sists of about three acres of
land, lying between high water
mark and the high bluff, and about
twelve and o half acres of tide land
lying along the water front Of the other.
The frontage on the water is quite long.
On one end this property adioins the
yards and wharves of the Southern Pa
cific Company, and several times that
corporation have been reported as nego.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-03

A FEMALE crank near Kansas City who
trusted to faith cure methods in seri-
Gus illness has died. The Holiness doc
tors are to be prosecuted for malpractice.
A sister crank of the victim is lying at
the point of death and will not see any
physician excepting the faith curers.
The question liz q very difficult one to
deal with. 1t is q form of religious
mania of the most irreligious stamp. To
seek to suppress it by prosecution is as
in all such phases Of mental alteration,
to give it new life. Besides, if
the crsnks will not see any regular
physician how are they to be reached
There is no act of Congress to compel a
sick person to call in doctor. AS to
the Holiness physicians, it is not 80 diff
fcult TO proceed against them. They
could be prosecuted for malpractice, or
for practicing without license, but then
they become martyrs, and, like the
hydra, each drop OF blood spilled
develops into new monster.
After all, perhaps, the quickest way to
put an end to it is like certain diseases,
to conAne it to as small space as pos
sible and let it run it's course. The
death of the cranks by their own methods
may open the eyes of those who survive
and lead them back to rational views Of
life
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-03
Al Farrow Reinsrated.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 1.-The
Blood Horse Association tonight dis
cussed a proposition to- reinstate AL
Farrow, the stallion which broke the
4'year'old record at San Jose last spring.
and which, with Jockey GARLIC,
was ruled off the track for
crooked work done in the mile
and sixteenth race at Bay District some
months ago. The horse having been
sold by the former owner. Waters, to W.
Fl. Smith for $1,000, the association
finally decided to reinstste him. Jockey
Garlic, it. is said, is in the British Col.
umbia penitentiary.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-03

AT NEWARK, New Jersey, yesterday, q
big slice Of the profits of the English
beer syndicate blew up. That is not the
only item Of these profits the greedy
shareholders dream of that will never
reach their pockets. The god
of prohibition, if there be q
divinity SO blind as that, had
day of it yesterday, for big wine
house at Windsor caught fire, and all the
libations meant for Bacchus went to the
Detroit river god. Well, these are all d.
whites after the good old Greek types,
and there were no prohibitieniats among
them. They we're far too healthy Of
mind.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-03

The Council yesterday made some
notifications in the license law. They
imposed the same tax on wholesale liquor
dealers that has been paid by the retail
ers. This looks fair. They also imposed
a tax of 800 month on the gas and
electric light companies, respectively,
which those corporations can we'll afford
to pay. Now if this august, municipal
body will let out the city's moneys to the
highest bidder, as the law directs, the
taxpayers can take breath for moment.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-03
TIE SANTA FEE.
manvcf Talks About the
ReOrg Plan.


SAN Francisco, December Coon
corning the Santa Fe roads reorganiga-
ton scheme, President Marvel said to-
day:
"George G. Magoun, es the representa-
tive of the bankers interested in the
road, has submitted plan to the holders
of Santa Fe mortgages, by which the
company's finances can be reorganized
so, that the taxes and rentals shall
not exceed 81 800, 600 year, which
is practically all the road earns. II the
mortgage holders agree to the plan,
they will get new mortgages to run
for 100 years at a per cent.
interest, instead Of Elk. To make up Ethe
loss they will sustain in this way, they
will be given income bonds at per
cent. in addition to the interest to
be paid if the road earns enough.
The plan will undoubtedly be accepted,
40 it is business proposition that will
keep the system intact instead Of having
it split into fifty different parts, with .
receiver for each part"
Mr.. Marvel leaves the city tomorrow,
going first to Benson, Arizona, via Mo
i've and Albuquerque, then to Guaymas,
Mexico.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-03
More Production.

The HERALD frequently insists upon
the necessity of increasing production in
Los Angeles county. When we raise all
the butter, cheese. eggs and other pro-
ducts of the farm which we consume.
and have a surplus left for export, we
will then bs astonished at how plenty
money will become. In no country Of
the world is it easier to do this than in
the region below Point Conception, and
in this county particularly is the farmer
repaid for the minimum of trouble to
which he is put. With the ability to
raise from six to eight crops of alfalfa
yearly there surely ought to be regular
bonanza in dairy crops. Mr.. Herman
w. Hellman has two hundred and
fifty acre farm ont near the
powder house on the San Gabriel road,
from which he has got splendid volun-
teer crops during the past four years.
That is to say, during all of that time he
has never had occasion to pillow or put in
seed, nature herself doing all the work
except the harvesting. It would seem
that under such circumstances farming
would become very popular. The farmer
here gets about twice the price for his
corn received by his brother in the North
west, and our rich bottom lands are not
surpassed in the world, and yet we i'm
port our hog products and great pro.
portion of our poultry and eggs and but.
ter. The mere facts we have here stated
ought to bring to this region multitudes
of farmers, and We presume they will
come in time. Mr.. E. J. Baldwin has
announced his willingness to lease his
rich Puente and San Felipe Lugo lands
and take out his pay in third of the crop,
furnishing seed and feed, and even with
such an inducement tens of thousands
of acres are lying idle. Swiss, Swedes
and Germans, who are not afraid Of
work, are badly needed in Southern Cal.
ifornia. They would all get rich, and
through their agency the money of the
country would be kept at home. In
very extensive regions of Los Angeles
county, in addition to the ordinary farm
products, the settler could have his or.
ange orchard, and he would have the
satisfaction of knowing that he was no,
only engaged in a remunerative avoca.
ton but was creating a beautiful home
for himself. He can plant the
olive and the English walnut,
and while they are attaining the
stage of profit he can plant corn and
potatoes in between the rows, and have
from ten acres planted in either an indie.
pendent fortune.
With q market in Los Angeles thai
will take all we can raise, where are the
five thousand new producers we ought to
have to supply our enormously enhanced
population? When We get them we will
keep here the millions that we now send
to enrich the farmers of San Luis Obispc
county, of other portions of California
and of the Northwest.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-03
DEATHS VICTIMS.

Isaac L.. Millikcn, Samnel wiIke.
SON, q. n. Goddard and Others.
CHICAGO, December Isaac L. Mill
ken, ex-Mayor of Chicago, died today.
He was rs years old.
NEW York, December 2.--Samuel
Wilkeson, Secretary of the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company, died here
this evening Of heart failure.
DENVER, December "A Santa Fe
special says: S. II. Goddard, formerly
Grand Chancellor of the Knights of
Pythias in Nevada, and we'll known in
California and Colorado as contractor,
died suddenly this morning.
New ORLEANS, December 2.-Professor
Baptiste Peynaude. the aerial diver, who
was badly injured Friday night while
diving from tower at Farantas, died this
morning.
SAN BERNARDlNo, December 2.-Mrs.
Jas. A. Gibson, wife of Supreme Court
Commissioner Gibson, died in this city
this afternoon.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-03
TIE PEKALTA GRANT
Reported Upon by the
Surveyor General.

Tucson, Ariz., December 2.-The Sur
veyor-General has transmitted to the
Commissioner of the General Land Office
an adverse report on the Peralta grant,
claimed by James Addison Reavis, con-
tanning 5,000.0O0 acres of public lande,
including the cities OF Phoenix. Florence,
Solomonville, etc., valued at 1926, O00, 900.
1t was alleged that this grant was recon-
mended by Fernando vi. Of Spain in
l749, and issued to Miguel Psralta by the
Viceroy of New Spain in 1853 Reavis
first claimed the title. Later he
set up title in his wife
as lineal heir OF Peralta.
The Surveyor General holds proof
OF forgery and fraudulent invention
of papers in the archives, and the fabri-
cation Of documents. He recommends
that the claim be not allowed, and urges
vigorous prosecution Of parties guilty OF
fabricating this fraudulent claim.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-03

Notes of the Mimi eapoIts Fire Aid
and Sympathy.

II
and Sympathy.
MINNEAPOLIS, Decem Der 2.-No further |
victims of Saturday nights fire have |
been discovered. The Coroner this
morning impaneled jury and viewed |
the remains.
1t has not yet been definitely ascer-
tanned whether or not there are more
bodies in the ruins, it being impossible
rs yet to institute a thorough search.
Who the men were who were eeen to
shoot themselves rather than suffer from
the flames, has not vet been decided.
The women snd children who went no
into the building shortly before the fire
broke out, have turned up safe. Meas
ures for the relief of the sufferers and the
families of the victims are actively under
wav.
Newspaper men have frequent occa-
sion to report the bereavement of others,
but it is seldom go many are taken from
their own ranks at one time. Besides
the Associated Press men, Igoe and
Miles, the list includes Millman, of the
Tribune, and Pickett, of the Pioneer Press,
all good and true men. Tonight the
newspaper men of the two cities held
meetings for the purpose of giving ex-
pressions to their feelings, and during
the day the ministers of Minneapolis, as
we'll as the Board OF Trade, adopted res
olutions of sympathy.
AN HEROIC PAIR.
CINCINNATI, December 2.-The En-
qslirer has this editorial: If anything can
mitigate the horrors of holocaust such
az that in Minneapolis Saturday night, it
ia such an example of heroism as eet by
Ia he
daunted operator. Well may bitter
tears be shed by his widow, children and
friends because OF the terriblenees OF his
taking-ofr, but they can always remem-
Der with pride that he died brave man.
His children need look nowhere else for
lesson in devotion to duty. He knew
that beneath him the fire was raging
he "broke" his colleague In New York
to tell him the third story was on fire,
adding, "I'm or the seventh; =" he
knew the only way OF escape was by the
narrow winding stairway, yet he fsltered
| only moment, then he gave the signal,
go ahead, and with the roaring furnace
under foot, sat quietly at the key and
took 200 words. He stuck to his post to
the very last, and then flashed over the
wire his last message; "Boys, I've got
to stand you off; I'm the only one left
on the floor; everybody is gone and /
can't stay any longer" Poor Igoe had
stayed too long. He had been faithful
till death. Igos and Ogle! Well may
telegraphers feel their hearts swell with
pride when these names are mentioned.
Igoe the man, Ogle the woman, both
operators, both martyrs to duty.
THE OgIe referred to above is Mrs.
Ogle, the heroic woman who remained at
her post in the YOUNGSTOWN telegraph office,
warning other points in the valley be-
low, until she was swept away herself by
the great food
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-03
Bo.ron,s @1o.OOO P,avcr

San Francisco, December 2.-Michael
J. Kelly, Boston's $40, 900 baseball player
arrived today on business connected
with the players brotherhood. He
stated that he might return to Boston
Wednesday, if he could complete his
business by that time; otherwise he
might participate with the Bostons in
and Saturdays and Sun
days games.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-03

COPENHAGEN, December 2.-Slavonia,
New York.
BREMERHAvEN, December 2.-Fulda,
New York.
HAvRE, December p LaGascoene.
New York.
New York, December alaska, Liv-
erpool, Thingvslla, Christiansand.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-03
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
A Cashiers Very Mysterious
Disappearance.
HOLINESS DOCTORS IN TROUBLE
A Flood Of Beer-Heavy Snowfall in
Dakota-Suspect COughlin's
Defense, Etc.
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatches to the HERALD

Assoc.sIeo fress Dlspatencs 10 the HERALD
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, December g.
Clarence J. loot, cashier of the United
States Express Company here, is missing
under very mysterious circumstances.
When O messenger entered the office this
morning loot was not in his room, but
all the clothing he was known to possess,
including his hat and shoes, was there.
His watch and revolver lay on the floor
near the bed, and in his pants was his
money, keys and other personal effects.
The money safe in the Office had not
been touched, and its contents were in
tact A valuable package in the safe
had been opened, and two packages
which came from Cincinnati diamond
firm, value unknown, were missing.
There Ia no clue to Toot's whereabouts.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-03
STREAMS OF LIQUOR.
A Flood of Beer and a River o.
Wine.

A Flood of Beer and a River of
Wine.
NEWARK, December 2.--An explosion
occurred this afternoon in Treafz's brew
cry, presumably from gas escaping from
the ammonia pipes in the ice machine.
Instantly after the explosion great
food of beer gushed through the rear
windows where the watts stood and ran
in streams across into the street and
down to the houses below. Thousands
of gallons of malt liquid was wasted.
The loss is estimated at $125,0C0. The
brewery was purchased short time ago
by an English syndicate.
WINDSOR, Ont, December 2.-Le
Boueffe's wine house was burned today.
About % 600 gallons of wine ran into the
Detroit river. LOSS heavy.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-03
Hun Over an d Killed.

VIRaISIA, New, December John s.
Gularte was run over by the cars and
killed this evening in the Virginia and
Truckes railroad yards. He was riding
Oh two cars loaded with lumber, and
while passing through tunnel on side
track, was knocked off, the car passing
over him and almost severing the head
from the trunk.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-03
A Clever Forgery.

SAN FIR ANcIsco, September 2.-It has
developed that clever forgery was
committed on the California Title Insur-
ance Company last week. A man
walked into the Office and asked for q
duplicate of check for 81, 700, given
by the company on the Anglo California
Bank last September, to Henry Nelson,
which was collected at the time. A
clerk gave the man duplicate, and he
collected the money after forging Nell
sons Endorsement. The parties have a
clue to the individual.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-03
The BOY Goes to HIS Gran dina.

KANSAS Cry, December 2.-The APP
pellate Court today affirmed the decision
OF the lower courts in the noted case of
(. Garrison against Caroline Lyle, Of st.
Louis, in habeas corpus proceedings to
get possession of Lyle Garrison. grand.
son of Mrs. Lyle. Young Lyle is heir to
an immense property, and the 6ght for
his custody has been long and bitter
one. The Court ordered him into the
keeping of Mrs. Lyle.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-03
Old Fort sutter.

SACRAMENTO, December 2.-General j.
q. MARITIME has received letter from B.
Merrill, of Chicago, owner of the Suffer
Fort property, stating that he had fixed
the. price of it at $4,000, but he
will contribute $1,000 to the purchase
fund. F. d. Ryan, Grand President of
the Native Sons of the Golden West,
will issue an address to the various par
lors of the Native Sons, suggesting that
each member of the order contribute so
toward the purchase of the property.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-03
C0UGHLIN,s Defense.
Bebuttal of the KNIVES Evidence
Judge Wings Argument.

Judge Wings arg uments
CHICAGO. December AT the opening
of the Cronin case this morning testi-
mony in rebuttal was presented regard
ing the knives said to be Cronin's, found
on Coughlin when arrested. Anton Low
enstein, tailor, said he saw Coughlin
have knives similar to them April 9th.
Jake Lowenstein, Anton's brother, and
Coughlin's partner on the detective force,
swore that Coughlin owned two such
knives. Judge Wing then presented his
argument to the jury in behalf of the
defense.
Wing continued his review OF the evil
dence, and coming down to the two
knives supposed to be C-onin's, said:
This question is very easily disposed of
by two propositions. First, Coughlin is
either guilty or innocent. If innocent,
be could not have had those knives, if
they were Cronin's; if guilty, he would
not have had them, if they were
Cronin's." These two propositions, in
the mind of any reasoning man, would
be an end of that knife episode, the last
and grand climax that the State gave to
the case of the suspicion against those
men.
Judge Wing then took up the question
of the alleged conspiracy in Camp 20.
The State, he said, had to make out a
conspiracy because this case could not be
maintained in any court of justice against
the defendants unless the fact Of a con-
spiracy was established beyond all
reasonable doubt. Speaking of the ways
in which to establish conspiracy, he
said: "You can consider all the proven
facts, and from that infer the conspiracy.
Ii a conspiracy is proven by that process
beyond all reasonable doubt, it is fair,
and it is right under the law that when
you are weighing any circumstance
against Coughlin you should look at that
circumstance in the light of the law, but
not in the light of facts proven against
another man. object to this jury or the
Court taking a partly proven conspiracy
and from it giving color and character to
| individual circumstances and acts against
my CLIENT"
Wing then went on to say be had never
heard presented 80 absurd theory OF
conspiracy as the State presents in this
case. "The State pretends," he said,
"that there are multitude OF circum-
stances which, if considered, LEAD to the
conclusion of conspiracy independent
of Camp 20. That is not material; the
question ia whether the acts proven
against the men on trial indicate that
they were criminal participants in some
criminal conspiracy which resulted in
Cronin's death. 1t may be his death did
result from conspiracy, but that is not
what you are here to try. If it is uncer.
tain, then there must be an acquittal,
and that there is an uncertainty about it
from the inception to the end, is most
conclusively demonstrated.
The speaker then went on to argue
that various circumstances adduced in the
evidence to show Coughlir's connection
with the crime were consistent with the
theory of his innocence. AS to the
white horse, even if it were the animal
which drew Cronin to his death, still
Coughlin might be innocent; he might
not have known what the man from
Michigan wanted it for.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-03
The Montana r,enalock.

HELENA, Mont, December 1.-The
Senate met today with only the Repub.
licans, and adjourned until tomorrow.
The Republican House met, adopted
rules and adjourned until tomorrow.
The Democratic House held q short
session, but nothing of importance was
done. There is no prospect of any i'm
mediate change in the situation.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-03
Thieves Make a Haul.

SACRAMENTO, December Thieves
entered the home OF G. C. Merrill, on the
Curtis place on tie lower Stockton road,
yesterday and stole a valise containing
500 in coin, promissory note worth
$500 and bank receipts representing
$1,000. None of the paper is negotiable.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-03
TUESDAY, DECEMBER ,, 1886


We Neod Fuller Recognition.
1t is quite amusing to note the super
cilious way in which many people Of the
East speak Of the Pacific Coast. Its sig
nifcance il often belittled, and there
seems TO be Q complete ignoring Of the
important benefits this region has con-
ferred on the American Union. Any
demand for appropriations for rivers and
hasbors is regarded as downright pre-
sumption. In the case of one appropri-
ation which had been made by Congress
for the Improvement Of the Sacramento
river, and whose expenditure was placed
by the law under charge of the Secretary
Of War, MIR. Robert Lincoln, who filed
the office, fatty declined to dis
burse the money. There is not
q port in California thai is in q
position to be defended. The Huascar
could steam into the bay Of San Fran
cisco any day. and with q few shots
could demolish Alcstras, Black Point
and the Presidio. The paucity of har-
bors on this Coast has been commented
on-by every engineer of note who has
ever visited the Pacific, and yet few
hundreds OF thousands Of dollars as
againet hundreds of millions on the At
lantic Coast and on the lakes are all we
have been able to get, and that quite
grudgingly. And yetif it had not been
for California and the discovery of gold
here little of the phenomenal prosperity
that has characterized the United States
during the past forty years would have
been enjoyed. The only Eastern states
man who has conceded the important
part played by this State in creating
those flush times is Senator Vest. Of
Missouri. who, in an article in the North
american Review, ascribes to this dis
eovery of gold, and not to the tariff, the
activity of business in this country. Up
to 1885 upwards of a thousand million
dollars in gold had been taken out of our
mines and shipped through Wells, Fargo
4 Co.'s office, to say nothing OF the large
sums that had been carried East, of
which there was no official register, and
which was probably half as much more.
Since then upwards OF one hundred
millions additional has been taken out.
As there are only between seven and
eight hundred millions Of gold in the
United States by the most liberal con-
struction it follows that we should have
been utterly bereft of coin if it had moi
been for California. These facts should
be remembered. and they ought to
result in q more liberal treatment
of the Coast States. With anything
like concert of action on the
part OF our Senators and Representatives
a much more liberal treatment of our
interests could be secured. The late
Silver Convention in st. Louis was a
step in that direction, and in addition to
standing together on rivers, harbors and
Notifications, we can all cordially unite
on free coinage for silver. It would be a
bad break for any Pacific Coast Congress-
man to betray this imp ortant trust. The
new Senators and Representatives ought
to make new departure in legislation
for the Rocky Mountain and Pacific
Coast States, and they doubtless will.