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Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-14

dumped the occupants on the sidewalk.
Charles was thrown against hydrant
and badly injured.
Mrs. Elizabeth Carr snd her daughter
were seriously injured by being buried
under the debris OF their houee.
The tornado piled the house at 1412
North Twelfth street, in the rear, about
the heads of Heinnel Wepzsl, stone
mason, and his family. Wenzel's wife
aud three children were sitting in the
front room of their house, which is a
one. story brick cottage, when the storm
arose. Suddenly the house collapsed,
and all were buried in the ruins. Neigh
bors came to their assistance and oil
we're taken out alive and but slightly
hurt.
There was terrible excitement at the
natatorium during the storm. Between
500 and 600 gils and men we're there,
dancing as is usual on Sunday afternoon
The building was shaken, and seemed
on the point of being wrecked. Several
women tainted, but no cne wac injured
The passengers on the Ferguson, Mis-.
souri,, accommodation train had mar.
row escape, and they congratulate them.
selves now that dozen or more of them
did not have their heads cut off. How
they escaped is a miracle. Colone
Thomas Thoroughman says the train had
left the station and proceeded as
far northward along the rive,
front as Knapp street and the
cempany's lumber yards, when the
water poured down in such quantities
that no one could see the outside of the
coaches. Slowly the train proceeded
and when everything looked darkest
suddenly there was a smashing of glass
that rose above the din. and then plankt
came shooting into the coach windows al
one side and went out at the other ius
as though they had been fred from 6
huge cannon. What few passengers
were in the passenger coach crouched
down close to the floor, and the lumber
went flying over their heads. The
storm of plsnks and wood vas so heavy
that it crashed every pane of glass in thu
second coach, anG the wind jammed i
in pile on the track between the trucks
stopping the train. There tho cars stoot
until the storm abated, when the trair
crew got out and cleared the roadway,
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TIE ST. LOUIS CYCLONE.
Fatalities, Thrilling Incidents nm
Hatrbreadth EscaDes

| Ha1rbreadth Escapes.
| sST.. LOUIS, January 13.-There ware
four families in the three-story buildino
at 10l South Twentieth street. yesterdaSs e
afternoon, when the roof was lifted of,
by the passing tornado. In one room q
husband and children were patharad
about coffin which contained tha lata
wife and mother. As the wind tore awov
the roof the terror of the children was
pitiful, and it was long before the neigh h.
bors could calm them. No one was hnrt
in the building. --Ni
William Brady was passing the corner
OF Fifteenth and Morgan streets. when
the tornado struck and toppled the snira %
Of Emanuel church. A fragment of br;cb
struck him on the head, telling him 70
the pavement. His scalp was torn and
his skull fractured.
Benjamin Veerfield ran to the door.
way. of the ST. Louis Manufacturing Com.
pany's works for shelter when the storm
arose. The wind was driving directly
upon this door, and succeeded in hurst.
ing it's fasteninge. Veerfield was thrown
down the stairway into the basement
by the wind. He was injured internally
and his right leg was broken below The
knqe.
John Charles and two companions
we're crossing Jefferson avenue when the
Wild swept their carriage across ths
street in spite of the horses weight, and
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would complete the outfall work. Now
We are told that it will cost
over one-quarter of a million dollars
moro than the former estimate. What
better guarantee have we now that this
last is all the outfall will cost, than we
had last August that $4,000 would be
sumcient? The fact is that we seem to
DO entering an unknown sea of expendi.
ture In this outfall sewer business, and
the taxpayers, who were greatly exer-
cised at the first estimate, will be seized
with panic at the idea of piling another
quarter OF million on top Of that.
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THE CRISIS IN PORTUGAL.
Minister Comes, Reformation Ac
cepted-St0rmy DemOnstratfOns.


cePted-StoFmy Denominations.
LISBON, January 13.-The Cabinet has
resigned. Pimental, the Liberal Con-
servative leader, voted with the minor
ity at the meeting of the Council when
the demands of England were acceded
to. The minority was in favor of evacu-
ating the Shire district, but opposed the
other demands made by England, unless
that country submitted the dispute to
arbitration forthwith. There is much
excitement in the city. A crowd pa
raded the streets last night crying "Viva
Pinto" and viva Portugal"
Senator Comes, at session of the
Chamber OF Peers, made full state
ment Ut the recent negotiations with
England. He declared that he always
sought to maintain an agreeable under
standing with England, and hoped the
divergent views of the two countries
might yet be reconciled. The President
then announced that the King had &C.
charged Pimental to construct Cabinet.
Many shops are closed in consequence
of the agitation in the streets. The patri-
otic demonstrations throughout the day
have been in favor of Pimental. Rioting
entrance into the Chamber of Deputies,
but only deputation was admitted, for
the purpose of presenting to the Presi-
the streets are etill thronged with per-
visited and cheered every legation in
the city except the English.
| 1t is now reported that Senior Pimental
| N Ill town, q v,oipicfru ord H,pfuor;bo;u -
will take the portfolio of Foreign Affairs.
Comes personally expressed to Glynn-
Petre his regret at the insults offered to
him. The Government officials assured
the Minister that the escutcheon would
be replaced, all damage repaired and all
persons connected in the outrage pun
ished.
There is movement for the formation
of patriotic league to put into operation
an international boycott against English
commerce. fermentation in the streets
continues. Students in the street in the
neighborhood of the Cortes are shouting
"Viva Portugal" "Vivs Pinto" At q
meeting of students it was proposed to
wire congratulations to Serpa Pinto. A
public meeting has been called to pro-
test against the submission to England g
demands.
LONDON, January 13.-The Times says !:
The impudent attitude of Portugal re-
quired sharp treatment. We rejoice that
Salisbury was equal to the occasion.
The Post has dispatch from Zanzibar
reporting that the Mozambique authori-
ties have proclaimed that Portugal shalt
exercise absolute control throughout the
whole Shire district.
PARIS, January 13.-Temps declares
that the wrangle between England and
Portugal comes within the Berlin treaty.
and advises Portugal to appeal to Eu-
rope.
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The Mayor has, by good luck, caught
another transaction Of the City Fathers
that would otherwise have resulted in q
swap of lots by which the city would
have been very badly worsted. The
Land Committee, who are directly re-
sponsible for this attempt to barter valu,
able realty for less valuable, are called
upon to rise and explain. AS private
individuals they would never have made
such a mistake against themselves in a
dicker, and the people would like to
know what they are there for if it is not
to see that the city is protected in every
transaction.
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ON THE CANADIAN sHORE.
Ihe Cyclone Gets in its Work Mt
Niagara Falls.

NIAGARA FALLS, Ont., January 13.-A
cyclone struck this place today, and the
wind attained velocity of ninety miles
an hour, carrying everything before it.
The greatest sufferers are the Canadian
Web Company. The roof was torn from
the brick walls of their building, and the
north and west walls fell in upon fifteen
girls who were employed in the
upper story. AL escaped except
Alice Dicker, who had a leg
broken and was badly bruised
about the body. Two guys of the foot
and carriage suspension bridge, which
had been rebuilt last spring, snapped
and fell into the river. The greatest
anxiety was felt for the bridge itself. but
the storm decreased in violence about
noon, preventing further damage. Tele-
graph and telephone wires are down in
every direction. A tree fell across the
railroad track in front of freight train
near the suspension bridge, New York.
The engine and nineteen freight cars
were thrown into the ditch. The en-
glneer was badly hurt.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-14

WE SEE that the City Clerk has again
advertised for bids from banks to receive
and disburse the city funds. The last
time this was done the highest bona fde
bid was not accepted and no reason
given. 1t was a mere arbitrary refusal
OF the Council to obey the mandate OF
the charter. Are we to have another
farce of going through the form of asking
for bids and treating them with contempt,
or does the Council mean business this
time? We shall see.
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The Sewer and Drain Proposition,

80 SS"oA uhu DHhIn propositions
The Council yesterday passed ordi
nances declaring the necessity for an in
terror sewer system, storm drain, and
an outfall sewer, and next week will
probably pass ordinances calling fo,
three separate elections authorizing the
people to vote upon each proposition
The vote will be first on the interior sys
tenn, to cost $4,000; second, on the
storm drain, to cost $527 300; and third
on the construction of an outfall sewer, tc
cost $6s6,775. The storm drain expend
lture will doubtless be voted down. We
have had ample proof this winter that nc
underground drain the city can construct
will be of capacity sufficient to carry of
the waters that occasionally come from
our nils. Surface escape can alone re.
lleve the overflow, and the streets
through which it will naturally make ite
way can be made to carry it off nicely il
they are paved with bituminous rock.
we do not say that there are not some
places where storm drains can be put
down to advantage; but as these are
included in the whole scheme, they
Will have to be provided for
at another time. The outfall sewer
will doubtless meet the same fate as it
did before. If the reasons for it's defeat
on the SOsh of August last were good,
they are reinforced this time by the fact
that the cost Of construction has been
increased under the new scheme from
b44O,000 to 1896, US. This extraordinary
increase in the estimate is calculated to
weaken the faith of the taxpayer in any
estimate made by the engineers. We
we're assured last August that $40. 900
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vacancies I'm the state Board OF
Agriculture.

AAs she state hoard O1
Agriculture.
AT the close OF January the terms O
three members of the State Board o
Agriculture will expire, and the Gov
ernor will have to fill the vacancies. A
present the Board has four member
from Sacramento county, two from Sar
Francisco, one from San Jose, one from
Stockton, one from Colusa, one frou
Monterey and one from Southern Cali
tornta. All the vacancies to be fillet
next month should be appointed from
this part of the State. The only membel
on the Board from Southern California
is G. F. Swan, who lives at Los Alamol
in Santa Barbara county, and he is ont
of the three that 60 out. The other two
are the famous G.. w. Hancock and hi,
colleague from Sacramento, Fred Cox
If the Governor will give Southern Cali
fornia the three vacancies Sacramento
will still have two members in the
Board, as many as San Francisco has
and that is more than her share. The
Chamber of Commerce has sent name
to the Governor, and the San Bernardine
Index suggests also the name of Richard
Gird. He would be very acceptable
member from this end of the State.
We have seen that the formation of the
Board in the interest OF the Northern
part of the State has led tt
serious complications in relation
to the proposed Citrus Fair fol
Southern California. The appoint
ment of a Sacramento man to take
charge of fair in this section to bt
held for the especial purpose of dis
playing citrus fruits. was very justly re
sented by our people, and looked upon al
an exercise of authority offensive anG
insulting. When we consider that the
person designated was known as one O.
the cranky crowd who have for severa
years been claiming that the Northerr
part of the State was just al
much a citrus belt as tht
Southern part, the improperly ant
bad taste of the appointment is made
glaringly apparent.
Now, ii the Governor will give u.
three members in the Board of Stats
Agriculture, and if the Board, wher
organized, should do the fair thing ans
place Southern member as Superin
tendent over the Citrus Fair, we see nc
reason why we should not get up ths
proposed exhibition some time in March
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-14
California Rajsin..

New YORK, January 13.-The Com.
nercial Bulletin says odd lots Of Cali
fornia raisins have been worked off This
market, and that the prices are cheap in
comparison with competing foreign goods
The appearances are favorable to a cood
outlet later on, with firm, if not hicber.
prices. Jobbersl control the buif al
really desirable raisins and grapes,
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Methodist church was moved from n.
foundation, the cupalo and roof were
torn from it, and the Chandeliers were
found several hundred yards distant
dispatches from many points in Texas
report damage by the storm "e
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-14

HE illegally contracted bills for alter
ations in the old City Hall will doubtless
be ordered paid by the Council. If some
taxpayer should enjoin the Treasurer
from cashing the warrants, the question
would be tested whether the Council can
play at shuttlecock with the city charter,
and obey it or set it aside according as
it suits the whim or purpose of the gov.
erniDg municipal body.
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Perish d I'm tho Storm.

CALGARY, N. w. T., January 13.-It is
supposed John Mcdonald, who started
from Rosebud on Thursday, with team.
to drive Mrs. Wilson and three children
to Gleichen, must have perished in
Thursday nights storm, which was yerv
severe, as they have not beer heard from
since.
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The Tornado i'm Texas.

DALLAS, Texas, January 13.-Much
damage was done by last nights storm
IN this vicinity. At Oak Cliff, a suburb
OF this city, q building in the: course of
construction and several outhouses were
blown down. Al Louisville, four miles
from Dallas, many houses and fences
we're destroyed, and The residence of A.
Jasper was badly wrecked and his wife
9adly injured. Half q dozen other resi-
dences we're partly iunrooted. The
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Meets with Favor at Brussels.

BRUSSELS, January 13.-The PROPOSE
tion to settle in the upper Congo country
q colony of negroes from the United
States meets with much favor here. IL
is thought this would greatly facilitate
the peaceful introduction of the ideas and
methods of industry and commerce of
civilized countries.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-14

The merry war between the local Re.
publican papers still draws it's slow
length along. The public is beginning
to feel about this fight as the old lady
did about the encounter OF her husband
with the bear. They don't care conti-
mental which whips,
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Dynamite Aboard.

New BEDFORD, Mass, January 49,
News was received here today that the
bark British Monarch, with ten tons of
dynamite aboard, caught FIRE in mid
ocean, November goth. The crew put off
in boats and watched the great explosion.
1t was something fearful, and on a shin
l3O miles distant was taken for falling
meteor. Part of the crew were taken b7
whaler to Cape Town and the others
doubtless escaped.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-14
The Cycione,. T.,,C

OIL CITY, Pa, January 13.-The tail
end OF the western cyclone struck this
section this morning doing great damage
70 property. 1T least ohe-fourth of the
oil derricks in this neighborhood were
destroyed, Telephone lines were blown
down and no outside telegraphic com
munication could be had until after 2
H.. M
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Phenomenal Fog mt wos,or

BosToN, January 13.-A phenomenal
fog shut down in Boston and vicinity for
several hours this morning. Nothing
like it had been seen before in this city,
1t was impossible to discern objects from
across the street. Trains entering Boston
were delayed.
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Train Blown from the Track.

MONTREAL, January ia dispatch
from St. Hllaire says the Grand Trunk
train for Montreal was blown from the
track today. The conductor, brakeman,
mail clerk and three passengers were
severely. and several other persons
slightly, injured.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-09-21

by being brought closer to or moved farther
from the first stick, will form the pincers
to pick up every object, no matter how
small it may be. The combination of these
two manmuvres, produces figure Sd, and
you can see how easy and graceful it be-
comes.
No matter how awkward you foreigners
may be with your hands, it is impossible
that you should succeed in using the chop
sticks at your first trial. The proof of it is
that European children are the first to use
them with us, and so soon as they have
picked them up, they lose entirely the use
of the fork, and it is only with great diff
Guilty they acquire it again, much to
the disgust of their parents. One
should be able to do everything
with our chopsticks, but the SUI
preme test of ability is to take eggs one
by one from a plate and place them in
basket, situated on the floor, between the
legs (see fig. ~. In doing this it is neces-
sary to avoid with great care the X, for then
the stick becoming crossed either brushes
the egg or it falls and is broken. In one of
the stores here. filled with household uten-
sils which one of our emperors of this ff-
teenth century brought home from the
temple of Nara, can be found several sorts
of chopsticks for eating, and various kinds
of models which goes to prove that even
at that early age We Japanese were eating
with neatness and grace, while your ances-
tors were eating with their fingers.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-09-21

these figures, they have expressed their sur
prise by cries of establishment, accompa-
MED by awkward and droll limitations with
their fingers. "Sodeska. Is it possible?"
In short, this habit is complete surprise
to them. "A smart trick, in TRUTH they
say, ito carry ones food to ones mouth
with tool that resembles pitchfork more
than anything else" and they think that
one is in great luck if it arrive there with
out slipping away and falling back into the
sauce or spattering the tablecloth. How
graceful and neat" they cry ont disdain-
fully. There is good reason to believe, too,
that those awkward tools which you cali
forks will not long be used after You have
learned something of Japanese cooking and
their manner of eating. By what follows
wish to incuicate in my readers some idea
of the grace Of our little Japanese chop
sticks. So refined and 50 neat at table,
when they are handled with proper dex-
terity and grace.
No one has accurately described their
function, because no one can adequately
understand it. First examine the characte,
at the head of this letter, to which allusion
has already been made, and which serve to
designate the chopsticks. You will at once
see that it is easier to write and pronounce
than the word fork. And now let us com.
pare the two objects. On ona hand We ini
barbaFity in form. enormous weight, tool
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designed for the storage of hay and grain,

designed for the storage of hay and grain,
extra vehicles, harness and blankets.
One of the objects to be attained in the
building is TO make the cost Of running it
as low as possible. In carrying out this
idea the basement, second floor and top
floor will be fitted with tracks and a car,
which one man can operate. Starting on
the floor Oh which the feed is kept, man
will load the car, run it to the power eleva-
tor, which runs from the basement to the
top floor, descend with it to the second
floor or the basement. The tracks run
way one man can attend to as many horses
as three can without the system. Another
use for these cars will be found in cleaning
out the manure. Loading car it will be
taken to the second floor, from which an in
cline runs out of large window directly to
a wagon below. The manure will thus be
quickly disposed Of in large quantities,
with very little handling.
Everything has been done to insure
strength and to reduce the chances of loss
by fire. On each floor and the basement
there will be stand pipes, with hose at
be fitted up with fire-proof shutters. The
front will be supported with iron columns,
made by the John Stedman foundry, and
steel beams. All the girders will be trussed
with steel rods, as we'll as the joists, insur-
ing perfect rigidity and permanency. The
elevation OF CQ6 OluoTeuG STORIES III Gue
clear is as follows: Basement, nine feet;
first floor, ID; second, IL; third, 10. The
main entrance on the first floor will be
fourteen feet wide, capable of taking in
two bnggies at the same time. The build
ing can be emptied of all the horses in five
minutes.
Mr.. Hickey designs to lease the building
on its completion to some thoroughly re-
liable party who understands the livery
business, and in case he does so before the
structure is completed. will endeavor to
conform to the wishes of the lessee as to
the Office or the details. Room will be left
for box stalls, SO there will be ample ac-
commodation for LEO horses. The design
is Mr.. Hickey's and the building will be
put up under his personal supervision.
Messrs. King and Anderson have the con-
tract for the brick work. The completed
structure will represent an investment of
So, 900 and will be ready for occupancy
about Nov. Goth. It will be the best, warm
est and safest livery barn in Montana, and
far ahead of anything of the kind between
st. Paul and Portland.
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the poor man nor the rich are ever served
twice with the same chopsticks. were it
even for the simplest meal. With us they
are made exclusively of wood and invari-
ably burned after each repast. When
seated at the table each guest finds at his
place sealed envelope, containing a pair
of chopsticks made of wood and immacu-
lately white. And to show that they have
never before been used they are cut from
the same piece of stick and are not entirely
separated from the bottoms, precisely as
your sulphur matches are made. When the
first course has been served each guest IN
seals his envelope. picks up the chopsticks
and separates them by breaking the wood.
By observing the following instructions
one can readily learn how to use the chop
sticks. Take the first stick and in the man
ner indicated in figure l place one end in
the angle formed by the base of the thumb
of the right hand and the forefinger, the
middle of the stick resting lightly on the
third finger. which must be slightly ex.
tended. Under these conditions, the chop
stick, without any effort of pressure,
remains rigid and immovable-ap part Of tn,