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Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-15
PRIDE OF THE NAVY.
The GunbOat Yorktown Proves "a
Beauty.

PHILAJELPHIA, February IA. - The
United States steel gunboat Yorktown
returned this morning from her trial
cruise down Delaware Bay and out into
the ocean. Commodore Fitzhugh spoke
generally in high praise of the craft. On
Wednesday, run was made straight out
to sea, and, in coming back, the York
town made run Of four hours with a
forty-knot breeze dead on, and behaved
admirably. Captain Steele says she
did not roll or pitch, and he never
had vessel that was more
plumb or steady. In another
four hours run she made an average of
fifteen knots an hour, or about twenty
miles, thus proving her to be very
steady one. The engines of the York
town proved to be perfect marvels for
steadiness and power. Each engine, on
the regular test, marked 157 revolutions
q minute, implying horsepower far
ahead OF, the contract requirements, but
the exact sum of which cannot be given
for some days, or until the indicator
cards can be computed and differen-
tiated. The ship was tried in every
conceivable manner in the river, the bay
and the ocean, and was particularly
maneuvred by Captain Steele under the
direction of Commodore Fitzhugh, as if
engaged in battle. She answered every
movement of the helm promptly, and
moved with most satisfactory celerity,
all the time steady and solid, SO that her
guns might be used with the very best
effect in action. One of the marvels of
these maneuvres was the starting of
the Yorktown ahead at full speed and
backing her at full speed. This feat was
accomplished in one minute and fifty
seven seconds, an extraordinary result un-
der any circumstances. While at sea the
sails were tested, and it was found that,
in this particular, the ship was as trim
and complete as any other. The officers
and the crew, from the Commodore
down to the stokers, are loud
ln their praise of the Yorktown,
and believes that she will prove to be
the pride of the American navy, at
east until the mammoth cruisers, Balti-
more, Philadelphia and New York, shall
come forth to bear the American flag.
Commodore Fitzhugh promptly an
bounced the general result to the Secre-
AIRY of the Navy. There seems to be no
loubt that his report will be extremely
avorable, and that the gunboat York
own will be accepted and prepared at
,nce to receive her commands.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-15
THE DISTILLERY CASE.
The CrOss-Exam mination of Ell II.
Davis Continued.

The trial of W. More Young, who il
charged in the United States Court with
having falsified revenue returns, attracts
good many visitors since the unfortu.
nate connection of Mr.. Cuddy with the
affair has brought it into prominence.
The first witness in the case, whose di-
rect examination took most of the day
Wednesday, was Ell B. Davis, the
former superintendent of the distillery
of which Young was the book.keeper.
The day was consumed yesterday with
his cross.examination.
He testified, in answer to questions
from the defense, that he had frequent
conversations with Young about the
business of the distillery, and that the
latter was we'll aware of the capacity of
the still. ''My orders were," said the
witness, "to make as little showing as
possible on the books which were to be
submitted to the Government. These
orders came from Young" The witness
then gave from the books of the COM
pany, which were offered in evidence,
the exact amount of brandy manu-
factured and the quantity smuggled into
the hidden tank. "As superintendent of
the winery" said Davis, SIT was my
OuoiAOoo W ICCclvc tuc grapes ana nOto
the quantity handled. We kept
straight book from which Young copied
the statements into his ledger. 1 don't
remember that Young ever took a hand
in this part of the business. His name
is not to be found signed to any of the
receipts"
The witness explained the process of
distilling, and said that one who was not
practical distiller could not tell how
much brandy was being made.
II was Witness" said Mr.. Davis.
"before the Grand Jury on the examine
ton of the case against Young. was
myself under indictment for removing
and concealing liquor. When was ar
rested I saw Thomas, the special agent of
the Government, before l went to Jail,
and afterwards at his Office. l asked
whether, if told all I knew, I would
still be prosecuted, and he said he could
not tell. made up my mind to tell the
whole truth, and take my chances. 1
talked also with the District Attorney,
and he said he could not promise any
thing"
The case will be continued o-day.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-15

Mr.. RICHARD MELRosE has returned
from Sacramento, where he went, at the
instance of some citizens OF Anaheim, to
give correct representation of the senti-
ment of the people of that city and
neighborhood against county division.
He says that the Santa Ana divisionists
have had an active and eloquent lobby
at work, consisting of the Messrs. Spur
geon, McFadden, Look, Moye and Good
win, and some other local auxiliaries.
Notwithstanding Brierly's active opposi-
ton, the Assembly has passed the bill to
its second reading, and it will 60 through
if no energetic measures are taken
against it by the other portions of the
county. Mr.. Melrose regards petitions
as of comparatively little weight. In a
communication to the Anaheim Gazette,
he puts the whole matter in nutshell,
thus:
"It is to Senator White that we must
look for defeat of the bill. He is a
leader in that body, and would certainly
encompass the defeat OF the scheme were
he not handicapped by Glenn county
'boodle.' If the Senate creates Glenn
county it will probably create Orange
county, and yet have such confidence
in Senator Whites ability and influence
that l would not be surprised at his
snatching victory out of defeat. 1t has
been widely stated that Mr.. Spurgeon
and Mr.. White have made combine
by which the latter is to seemingly op-
pose the bill while really favoring it..
There is no truth in the story. Senator
White is straightforward and open in
whatever he does, and gross injustice
is done him by any intimation of
duplicity on his part.
l think, however, that Senator Whites
efforts to kill the bill should be seconded
by the presence at Sacramento OF num-
Der of taxpayers who are opposed to di-
vision, to offset the work of the lobby
who are favoring it. The question is one
in which the Senators, other than White
and McComas, have no special interest,
against the measure in proportion to the
influences and arguments brought to
bear upon them. The ease with which
signatures can be obtained for any kind
of petition divests that form of protest of
all weight, and when the Senators find a
numerous lobby in favor of the passage
of the bill, and no one opposed to it, ex-
cept the one Senator from Los Angeles,
they will be justified in believing that the
measure is desired by the people most
and will probably vote accord
ingly. / could name half dozen men in
Los Angeles who, if they would go to
for a week, would effectually
kill the bill. Unfortunately, the men l
would name are immersed in business
affairs, and cannot, or think they cannot,
afford to give q weeks time to such 3
cause. An effort will be made, however,
to impress upon them the necessity of
such action as suggest"
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-15
A Case of Hardship.

The sentencing of Thomas j. Cuddy to
six months imprisonment in the County
Jail by Judge Ross, in the contempt pro-
ceedings of day before yesterday, still
continues to be leading topic of conver'
sation in Los Angeles. In considering
the matter, this community is almost
equally divided between q profound
Difference for Judge Rosa gentleman
who is second to no one man in Califor-
MIA for high judicial qualifications and
high character-and feeling that Cuddy
was indiscreet rather than Intentionally
criminal. In holding to high and pune
tilious sense of the demands imposed
upon him by his exalted station, Ange-
lefios feel that the traditions of the bench
have been properly sustained by the
eminent judge who presides over the
United States District Court. Still null
titudes of people who have read the evil
dence, think that Cuddy meditated no
infraction of the law or invasion of the
dignity of the court, that he was led
away by an impetuous desire to serve
his friends, and they point to the fact
that even juror McGarvin him
self nowhere intimates that he
was approached corruptly. There
is a peculiar hardship in the case of a
young man who has hitherto stood well
in this community, whose impulses have
been generous and law-abiding, being
immured in prison for six months, to
the sacrifice of his business interests and
just at the time when he is receiving a
visit from his widowed mother and a
young sister. These people hope that, on
some newly discovered evidence. Judge
Ross may find it consistent with the
dignity of his court to reopen the case ;
and finding mitigation of the offepse,
may mitigate the penalty. The HERALD
has no hesitation in saying that having
known Mr.. Cuddy long time in his pub
lie and private capacity, it knows much
good and very little ill of him, and that
there is much in his career amongst us
that would call for the favorable con-
sideration of the court. We say this
without desiring to trench upon Judge
Ross's prerogatives, or to reflect upon a
judgment that undoubtedly represented
that distinguished iurist's appreciation OF
the facts as they commended themselves
to his conscience at the tune.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-15
THE SMITH TRIAL.
Testimony I'm Relation to the Kill
ing of PletrO PaGltnsO.

ing of PletrO PagltnsO.
The trial of the youth Stephen Smith,
ior the killing OF al Italian boy named
Pietro Paglinso, near Glendale last No
vember, continued through the day yes
day in Judge Cheney's court. The first
witness called in the morning was Frank
Paglinso, the uncle of the deceased and
the owner of the farm where the shooting
took place. He testified to meeting the
boys and his ordering them to give up
their guns. These he took and locked in
the house, and then agreed to give them
up the next day on payment of $40 as a
fine for trespassing. He then went TO
Los Angeles, leaving the place in charge
of his nephew, whom he never saw again
alive.
On cross-examination several facts
were brought out. One was that the
land on which the boys we're hunting
was not fenced in. When the witness
came upon the boys he had rife in his
hands. They tried to run away, but he
made them halt.
1. N. Mundell, the City Marshal of
Pasadena, to whom the boys made some
thing in the nature Of statement of the
affair on the day that they we're arrested,
was next put on the stand. 1t appeared,
however, that the statement had been
made under an assurance from him that
it would be best for them to make clean
breast of the whole thing. This was
viewed by the Court in the line of an
official inducement, or threat, and the
evidence was disallowed. Similar testi-
mony from ex-Deputy Sheriffs Botello
and Slater was also refused. The guns
offered in evidence were identified by
Under Sheriff Murietta. The case will
continue through to-day.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-15

OUR President is certainly fighter.
He does not propose to die. tamely; but
showers his Parthian arrows regardless
of whom they may strike, among friends
and foes alike. His flight of barbed bolts
appears in our telegraphic columns to-day
The message reaches the Office at very
late hour, and our space is already filled
to repletion. Mr.. Cleveland's views will
merit more attention later.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-15
A Matter of Urgency.

WASHINGTON, February 14.-The House
Committee on Foreign Affairs to-day in
structed Chairman McCreary to report
favorably the Senate bill appropriating
$3.50, 900 for the protection of American
interests and citizens at the Isthmus OF
Panama. In view of the fact that work
on the canal ceases tomorrow, the com.
mittee resolved to make an effort to Sc
cure immediate action by the Houses.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-15
AMUSE MENTS.
sunday Night at the Los Angeles
Iheatcr.

Mrs. May Mozart will lecture Oh Sun
day evening next at the new Los Angeles
Theater, the subject being, History
Travel, Art, Architecture and Mythol.
ogy." She will be assisted by Mr.. Mo.
zart, who will illustrate the same with
100 beautiful dissolving views, thrown on
a twenty-foot canvas by the use of the
Royal Photo-optican. The press in the
cities where the lecture has already been
given speak of it in the highest terms.
Mrs. Mozart has travelled extensively in
Europe. and lectures entirely from her
own personal knowledge of the scenes
shown. The lights will be turned down
promptly ats O'Clock.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-15
A TnUCE IN SAMOA.
A German Backer Of the Rebels
Recalled TO Berlin.

Recalled to Berlin.
AUCKLAND, February 14.-Latest ad-
vices from Samoa say that there has
been no change in the situation since
last reports. There has been no fighting
and Tamasese and Matsafa remain in
their strongholds. The British Consul
has warned British subjects not to sup
ply the natives with arms and to main
tain strict neutrality. The British war
ship Calliope has replaced the war-ship
Royalist. The German and American
war-ships remain stationary. Herr
Branders, a leading partisan of Tamasese,
has been recalled to Berlin.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-15
Cleveland,s Last Reception,

WAsHINGroN, February, 1.-THE last
OF the state receptions Of President Cleve.
land to official society drew an unusually
large crowd to the White House to-
nlgnt. The reception was to the army
and navy. The decorations were elabor.l
ate and beautiful. o'AS
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-15

The Legislature has at last struck
big sensation. If half the allegations be
true, the list of convicts in the prisons
will be increased by the addition Of some
Of the directors, etc.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-15
Next Week at the Grand.

Next week Mr.. Frederick Warde will
appear at the Grand. Following is the
repertoire to be presented: Monday and
Thursday, The Mountebank; Tuesday,
Wednesday and Friday, William Tell;
Friday, Virginius; Saturday matinee,
CASTOR 'Cadol; Saturday night, Richard
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-15
This Week.

Joe Emmett continues to draw rather
small houses at the Grand; and
the Royce & Lansing combination
at the Los Angeles draws even smaller.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-15
New Mexico Dropped.

WASHINGTON, February lathe House
has ordered its conferees on the Territor-
isl bill not to insist on the admission of
New Mexico by vote of 1876 to 106.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-15

The District School means fun all along the
line.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-15
Notice to maii subscribers.

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Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-15
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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-02-14

that the women had first been stran-
gled and that her body had been mutt
lated, the abdomen being ripped open
and the legs and arms twisted and
broken. Bury says that he
left White Chapel three weeks
ago. He refuses to say why he
left White Chapel and acknowledges
that he had no business requiring his
attention In Dundee. He says that he
and his wife drank heavily last night
before retiring and that he does not
know how he got to bed. Upon awak-
ing he says he found his wife lying
upon the floor with q rope around her
neck. Actuated by sudden mad i'm
pulse for which he cannot account, he
seized knife and slashed the body.
Upon reason returning he became
alarmed and hastily crushed the body
into the chest in which it was found,
thinking to fly and make his escape.
He found, however. that he could not
leave his wife's remains and he finally
resolved to inform tina police. The
theory of the police officials is that
Bury's wife knew of facts connecting
him with the East End atrocities and
that she took him to Dundee in the
hope Of preventing recurrence of the
crimes.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-02-14
Raj combius Iuvs,t,v..;on. .


ST.. LOUIS, Feb. Ex-Governor Hum
phrey of Kansas has selected st. Louis
as the place and March 18th as the
time for holding the interstate conven-
ton to investigate the alleged beef and
pork combine. The convention VIII be
composed of joint committees of three
senators and five representatives from
the legislatures of Kansas, Nebraska.
Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, Indiana. Illinois
Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Ark
ansas, Texas. Colorado. New Mexico.
Arizona, and Wyoming, Several of
the states have already been heard
from. favorably but there is but little
doubt but that all of them will be
represented. The governor OF Penn
sylvania has expressed a desire to
have that state represented, although
Pennsylvania was not invited to join
the movement.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-02-14

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 1.-THE Republican
this morning announces that it has
good reasons to believe that if General
Boulanger, the central political figure
in France at present, obtains divorce
from his wife he will shortly thereafter
marry the divorced wife of Joseph D.
Lucas, of this city. The lady in ques-
ton was before her marriage Miss Fan
ME McLaren, daughter of Col. Charles
McLaren, one of the old prominent
citizens of S. Louis. Her union with
Mr.. Lucas, whose father, James II.
Lucas, was the wealthiest man in this
city before his death, was an unhappy
one. and she obtained a divorce a year
or two ago, since when she has been in
Europe, and is now in Italy. She is a
very handsome and accomplished
woman, and first met the general in
New York in 1881, at a reception given
to the delegation of French notables
who came to this country to participate
in the celebration of the battle of York
town. He is said to have been much
impressed with her beauty on that oc-
casion. Later again he met her in this
city, and 1t is said that he has i'm
proved this acquaintance since Mrs.
Lucas has been in Europe.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-02-14
The Kansas Delegation Returning HONS.

81. LOUIS, Feb. 9.-The Kansas dele
CATION which went to Indianapolis to
urge the name of Senator Plumb for
the treasury portfolio passed through
st. Louis today en- route home. Col.
J. Il. HallOwell, assistant attorney
general of the state, and a member of
the delegation said to an Associated
Press representative: when
we arrived at Indianapolis
we sent word to General Har-
rison asking him TO appoint a time for
an interview. In his response he SAID
that be would receive US informally
and he did. We met the general in his
parlOr. There was no other person
present except Benjamin Harrison
Mckee, the generals grandson. The
general carried the little fellow on his
shoulder during part of the
interview, making it pleasantly
informal. OF course it would
not be proper to discuss the
interview under the circumstances. but
there is one thing he said which
Judge Is not private. because l heard
1T from several sources and that it is
| his opinion that there is now greater
need OF strict enforcement Of the
civil service regulations than ever has
peen since the enactment. Before
going to Indianapolis 1 Thought our
journey would probably amount to
nothing more than deserving com.
pliment to good man but I am now
of opinion that Kansas will be repre-
sented in the cabinet.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-02-14

FORT DODGE, Iowa, Feb. 1.-THE
receipt of the news of the passage of
the Des Moines river land bill caused
very little interest here. Still the
heavy owner of lands says he regards it
of no consequence. and cares not
whether it is signed by the president
or not, as previous decisions of the
United States supreme court have con-
firmed the title. Nearly all the settlers
consider the matter in the same light.
Smell has set apart lands recovered by
eviction, and will sell them on war
ranty deeds, while other lands he holds
for rental and is putting in improve
ments. AL agree that although some
inconvenience may arise from delay.
thesupreme court will, if the president
signs the bill, again decide in favor OF
the company's title. Other settlers
who are not yet evicted, but against
whom writs are obtained and ready fol
execution are jubiiant, thinking that
the passage of the bill will postpone
the eviction until the case is reached
unless it is vetoed.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-02-14
PsiIurs Of the Coal 8 Iron oomp.n,

COLUMBUS, Feb. 1.-THE failure of
Glidden & Curtis, of Boston. and the
subsequent attachment of the property
of the Ohio & Western Coal s. Iron
company has created considerable ex-
element aud uneasiness in the Hook
ing Valley, where the property of the
company is located. Saturday was
pay day with the company but the
men received nothing. The shutting
down will throw 800 to 0 men out
of employment.
A strange fatality has been connect
ed with the property out of which the
Ohio s. Western grew. James
L. Burnley, who committed sui
eide in st. Louis hotel
was harrassed by thoughts of the
fortune he had lost among the Hooking
hills; George Lee. who killed himself in
New York hotel, was haunted by the
spectre of ruin in the coal fields of
Ohio; Royal NJ. Pulsifer, the founder
of the Boston Herald, took his own life
some months ago and though he had
many other business complications to
pull him down he too sought the tabled
wealth or wealth said to be buried
there.
The Standard Coal & Iron company
out of which the Ohio s. Western grew
was a colossal affair with a capital OF
S75, O0O. 900. This is the company in
which James G. Blaine and Stephen B
Elkins were interested and E. l.. Har.
per. president of the late Fidelity bank
at Cincinnati, had $500 GOO of its bonds
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-02-14
Barb wire Patents VOID.

ST.. LOUIS, Feb. 13.-The most i'm.
portant discovery has been made here
that the control of barbed wire patents
is not vested in any American firm or
corporation, because the device OF
barbej wire was patented in France to
Louis Janen, on April 19, 1865. The
law of this country, as declared by the
United States supreme court, is that
"a foreign patent for the same thing,
or a description of the thing 10 Tor
eign publication. is as effectual to void
patent as if the patentee had seen the
prior invention, notice to him not being
important Ii this decision holds,
and there is no appeal from it. the
claims of certain persons for royalty
under the Glidden and other barbed
wire patents are void, and all the money
paid to them by barbed wire manut9c-
turers who had no interest in the Gid
den patents is believed to be subject to
recovery.