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Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1891-11-06
PIGS FOUND THE COPPER.


From the Detroit Tribune.
! How was the Calumet and Hecla
discovered? you ask. Here, Captain
Duncan, you tell this man what he
wants to know"
Thus appealed to, the broad-should-
cred smiling-faced man whose spirit
preyades the great copper mine step
ped up to the little group waiting
for dinner in the hotel at Calumet.
q" It was pigs, 4" he said.
" Yes, it was pigs" echoed the
group.
Pigs" | exclaimed increduOlusly.
" Pigs, and no mistake" remarked
the captain. "Back in 1863 an ex-
ploring party came here to try and
find copper. They built shanty to
live in and Of cource they brought
some pigs. One night the pigs were
lost. The clearinghouse keeper
started out to find them. After a
long search, he heard the pigs roofing
and squeallng, but he could not see
them.
=" The noises seemed to come up from
down In the earth. Next morning, a
party ofmen went back to the place
whence the noises came, and after a
search, they found a pit 10 or 10 feet
deep. The mouth was covered with
bushes, and the growth of the trees
about the sides gave evidence that it
had not been used for centuries.
There the pigs we're contentedly root
ing among the broken pieces Of rock.
"A rude stone hammer and some
charred sticks gave evidence of earlier.
explorers who had evidently gone
away unsuccessful. The hammer was
Of the same kind as the other imple-
ments which had been traced back to
the days Of the predecessors Of the In
dians whom the French found in DOS
session Of the lands-the Indians who
built the mounds, and who overran
the whole country from Mexico to
Lake Superior, where they got copper
for their implements and utensils.
The mound-bullders, like the ex-
plorers who had discovered the ancient
pit, looked for copper only in masses,
as it had been deposited in fissure
veins and in the lava flows. The huge
chunks Of virgin copper Weighing
many tous, and the smaller masses
hanging in the rocks like metal icicles,
were the only kind known to the an
clients, and the moderns had been as
sured by the learned geologists that
copper could be found only in rocks
formed from lava
"But the pigs had turned over pieces
of rock formed by the action of
water-aqueos rock-and in these
eonglomerates there certainly was
copper. This seemed a find indeed.
But when the matter was reported, !
science scoffed at the explorers, saying
that the copper conglomerates found |
were simply freak OF nature, and |
that money would be wasted if an at
tempt were made to work them.
$50 Mr.. Hulburt, who owned the
ands, continued to give his attention
10 the Huron mine, which was work
ng the lava flows. For the money he
borrowed for ths Huron, he gave to
quincy Shaw of Boston the lands on
which the conglomerates were found.
Mr.. Shaw soon began to work these
'ocks, and from these beginnings, the
'ichest, most stable and the best prom
sing copper mine in the world has
been built up
"GoId is coming back to America in
Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-08

the cast are also FRANKIE. Lamb, Samuel
Edwards, T. M. Hunter, 7. @. Valen-
tine, Joseph Humphries, Herbert Ayl-
ing, j. B. Hollis, Maud Haslam, Lulu
Klein, Marie Greenwald, Alvina White,
Kate Denim Wilson, Winona shannon,
Kate Stevens, and others of known
capability and reputation.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY.
In this issue of the HERALD will be
found descriptive announcement of
the great coming event, on March 21st,
at Hazards pavilion. Parties having
subscribed should be on hand promptly
at 10 O'Clock, Saturday, March 14th, at
Bartlett's music store, to select their
seats. This entire day will be devoted
to subscribers only, and as it costs no
more to subscribe than to wait for the
regular sale, which will not commence
until Monday, everyone should do so.
Subscription cards can be found at the
box Office of the New Los Angeles thea
ter, or any OF the leading stationery or
music houses. Mr.. Stanley is in splen-
did health and will arrive in Los An
geles in his private car on the date OF
his lecture.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-08

One G.. SEVERANCE, a Vermonter who
is suffering from nostalgia and constitu-
tional inertia, in letter to his home
paper draws lugubrious picture OF the
condition of affairs in Los Angeles. 1t
is one of those stories so often repeated
of men who go to new countries without
possessing any of the qualities for sue
cess, and impute their failure to the
country and it's conditions instead OF to
their own want of energy and lack of
ability to cope with fortune. Every
body has met such men time an again.
They are race of unfortunates who are
always with us. We came across scores
of them in the mines in the days when
every ravine, every river bank and every
bar in the mountains was rich with virgin
gold, to be had for the taking. But the
funny part of this shiftless Green
Mountain boys lamentation is that he
holds that the possibilities of success of
man of muscle and brains in his native
state are infinitely better than in South
ern California. This is indeed the worst
evidence OF nostalgia madness we ever
met with. The idea that Vermont,
where hundreds Of thousands OF acres of
Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-08
SPRING MILLINERY.
NEWEST STYLES, LATEST SHAPES.
LARGEST ASSORTMENT
In Los Angeles of Fashionable Millinery.
Mozart's, Agents for Eastern Manu-
facturers-The Cheapest Place for Fine
Millinery.

The early arrival OF spring millinery,
consisting of all the latest novelties in
misses and ladies' headwear, flowers
and laces, enables us to be first in the
field.
To dispose OF our immense stock at
the beginning Of the season we make
this unprecedented offer to early buyers.
Remember, new millinery goods, latest
styles, just from the eastern factories, at
10 per cent above the cost. Large brim
hats, 15c; lace straw dress shapes, 25c;
fine Milan hats at Soc; long wreathes Of
flowers at 10c, 25c and 50c, any one
worth double; velvet pansies, in all
colors, at 25c per dozen; Margarittes,
all colors, at 10c per DOZENS 3 dozen vio-
let's, all colors, for 10c, entirely new de-
signs in flower effects velvet roses, jac-
queminot roses and an endless variety OF
elegan. sprays, all at 10 per cent above
cost, which places this new lot. of fash
ionable flowers at price never before
offered in this city.
We mean business, and defy competi-
ton. Nothing but new millinery at 10
per cent advance. Avail yourselves OF
this opportunity.
Mozart's, Milliner, store painted
white, No. 240 South Spring street, be-
tween Second and Third.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-08

AssRMBLYMAN BRUNER has been neatly
trapped, and his explanation is SO weak
and transparent that it had better not
have been made. He accepted $400
from a reporter-detective of the Exam
liner for his influence in securing the
appointment of a man he had never
seen, and who in reality had no exist
ence, on the police force of San Francisco.
Bruner is the author and promoter OF
the bill increasing the force in that and
other cities, and claimed through his
agents that his recommendation for the
appointment of two men would be rec
ognized and favorably acted upon by
the San Francisco police commissioners.
He probably had this promise in requital
of having fathered and pushed through
the bill. But Bruner seems to be one
of those politicians who are not satisfied
with the popularity which patronage
honestly and properly bestowed is likely
to bring them. He prefers gold, and
forthwith put the places he was promis-
ed up for sale at $400 each. He has ask
ed for an investigation. If, however, he
cannot do better before the committee
than he did in his explanatory speech
in the assembly when the affair was ex-
posed, he Will do well to hold his peace.
This is one of the clearest cases of cor
ruption that has ever come to light
since the Charley Watrous exposure.
But it is likely his co-members will see
way to ply the kalsomine brush for his
t,nnpfit
Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-08

THE Warde-Bowers Shakespearean'
season closed last nightwith an excellent
presentation of Macbeth. The curtain.
was raised to full houses every night,
and no better proof of the fine discrimin-
ination of our people and their apprecia-
ton of the standard drama, when inter
preted by actors OF merit, could be given
than the very liberal patronage they
have accorded to Mr.. Warde and Mrs.
Bowers and their very excellent support.
These artists have demonstrated the
fact that it will always pay to repro
duce Shakespeare's plays by company
capable of doing justice TO the immortal
bard's creations.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-08
DEEDS OF CONVEYANCE.

Massachusetts, has adopted the Aus
tralian system of voting, and now her
young and progressive Democratic gov
ernor is urging the importation OF an
other important reform in legal meth
DDS from the antipodes. This is in the
line of simpler modes of conveying title
to real property. The English system,
which was in vogue in Australia until
recently, is cumbersome and costly. A
good many of our own states have meth
DDS far from simple. In California a
good deal in the way of reform has been
done, but there is room for further i'm
provement.
The Australian law which Governor
Russell commends to Massachusetts is
known as the Torrens act, it's author
having been Sir RichardsTorrens, who
went to Adelaide, South Australia, from
Ireland fifty years ago. Your
Ceit is not often hide-bound in
his devotion to ancient forms,
but is usually a man who does
his own thinking, and is ready for inno-
vation and reform at all points. When
Torrens first introduced his reform as
to deeds into the parliament of the col
cny, he found all the lawyers in the
country opposing him, but he persisted
in his fight until the people sustained
him and passed law calculated to re-
lieve them of 80 many expenses.
The Torrens act provides that any
landowner may ask the registrar-gen-
eral to register his land. He may then
surrender his deeds and all other instru
ments constituting or affecting his title
to that official, who examines them,
and, if without flaw, a certificate is is
sued which thereafter constitutes al in
defeasible title to the land. In other
words, no claimant ever afterward can
oust him from possession because of de-
iective title. The possibility of injus
tice to such claimant is provided ior
by an assurance fund created by levying
a percentage of a half penny on every
pound of the value of the land when
first brought under the act, and up
on the value of land transferred
upon the death of registered pro-
prietor. This amounts to the govern
ment's insuring the proprietor and
charging therefor 1c. on every $4.67 OF
valuation. 1t is provided for avoiding,
or reducing to lowest terms, subsequent
demands of claimants by advertise
ments and the serving of notices on in
terested parties at the time OF registra-
tion.
The act provides for the Endorsement
on the certificate of all membranes,
liens, ETC., so that the exact status OF
the property may appear. A claim Tor
the system is made that it is so simple
that after an owner has once registered
his property he, in most instances, may
without aid, do all that is necessary in
transferring, etc. In selling it is only
necessary to give the certificate to the
luyer, who then registers the transac-
tion.
To show the extent to which the orig.
inal system has found acceptance in
Australia, it may be- instanced that up
to the close of 1888, in New South
Wales, 1892, ,20s acres, valued atnearly
$50, 900, had been registered un-
der it.
To make 10000 sale under the pro-
visions of this law would cost the seller
only $40, for the evidences of title.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-08

THE legislature is now sitting without
pay, the constitutional limit having ex-
pired. Heretofore the members have
generally held out about a week over
their time; but they will be apt to do
better than that this session. The pos
sibilities that are in senatorial cleo
tion are SO attractive from financial
point of view, that the cessation OF the
per diem will cut no figure in their will
ingness to continue to serve the "dear
public" Unless Rrer Otis succeeds in
his patriotic efforts to eliminate the sack
from the senatorial fight, the members
Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-08
AT WINEBURGH'S.
THE TREMENDOUS SALE.

The great expiration of lease sale is
causing a great excitement, customers
vieing with one another to obtain some
of the special bargains now being offered.
The rush continues great as ever; they
are busy from morning to night.
This great sale is boon to the pur-
way. Note few of the bargains being
offered.
/. Ladies' white skirts, deep founce, good
muslin, 40c; worth Csc.
3 Ladies' night gowns, two rows inserting,
rulle embroidery full length, soc: worth 75c.
3. Ladies' drawers, tucked and ruffied, 25c;
worth 40c.
l. Ladies' long sleeve jersey ribbed shaped
s. Ladies' long sleeve all-wool ribbed vests,
Use: worth 81.
s. Infants saxony allwool vests, sizes,
7. Children's fast black, white sole, long
ribbed hose, 121ac; worth 20c
8. Pure silk cashmere satin edge and moire
ribbons No. z, 10c; worth l5c a yard; No. 8,
same, 1216c; worth zoe; No. ~, same, 15c;
o, Ladies' all-wool extra long seamless fast
black cashmere hose, 25c; worth 4Oc pair.
TO- Ladies' fast dye fine eclipse black hose,
seamless, 25c; worth 4Oc.
IL. Pure whalebone genuine p. N. cOrsets
best ftting cork protectors, 75c each: worth
IL. 3s-inch black silk lustre sicilian, 25c a
yard; worth 40c.
I3. 54-inch black silk lustre mohair alpaca,
99c yard worth $l.50.
IA 3s-inch black silk warp Henrietta, $1.10;
wor h $50.
Is. Black surah silk carriage parasols, black
silk lining, black handles, joints, 81. 50 worth
$2.25.
l6 Lace edge cambric corset covers, all
sizes, 22c: worth 40c.
II. 6O-inch bleached table damask, pure
linen, 35c; worth zoe.
Is. Grey twilled heavy flannel, 15c; worth
csc yard.
19. 12-inch long fine black Isle gloves, 15c;
worth 25c.
20. "a white Shaker flannel, 1Oc a yard;
worth zoe,
!. 81 wide ecru lace curtain scrim, 7lsc;
worth 1215c.
o. Heavy twill Nashua canton flannel, SC;
worth sac.
%. "A white lonsdale muslin, &c yard;
worth 10c.
"a Fancy striped crinkled seersucker, Sc;
worth 12l,c yard.
I 25 l.adi. g fast black, trimmed seams hose,
lie; worth 15c pair.
26. Gents white dress shirts, double rein
forced, soc; worth 81.
1t is impossible to mention a quarter OF the
bargains we are offering. 1t will pay you to
call.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-08

will remain at their post to the end.
We take great pride in the fact that Los
Angeles has man at the capital who
will see to it that we shall have at least
one senatorial election in which trans
cendent ability shall alone form the
standard Of legislative selection.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-08
SILVER AND GOLD.

The advocates of single standard
have of late become very much embold-
ened, and seem to think they have won
their battle already. The action of the
coinage committee OF congress, and OF
that body as a whole, has given the gold
bugs their new confidence. But it is an
absolute necessity of the country that
free coinage OF silver, as well as OF gold,
be allowed. Two or three fundamental
principles must not be allowed to be
obscured by any special pleading or
specious fallacies.
There is not enough circulating
medium in this country at the present
moment to do the business OF the coun-
try with ease and dispatch. We have
only to compare our rate per capita with
that of France, the most prosperous
country on the globe, to establish this
fact. We have hardly half as much
money in proportion to our numbers as
that country has. We ought to have at
least fifty per cent. more than she has.
If all the idle silver in the country were
converted into coin tomorrow there
would not be enough.
Our industries can never flourish as
they might, and we shall never be able
to compete with England and
other nations in the markets OF the
world until we get cheaper money.
There is no good reason why the rate OF
interest among us should be SO much
higher than it is in England and France.
There was no disturbance between
the relative values of silver and gold
until England and Germany demonetized
the white metal. Nor did their act
effect much disturbance, until by a
fraudulent trick silver was degraded to
the level OF a commodity in the United
States. Ii the laws discriminating
against silver were repealed tomorrow
the relative values would at once be-
come established.
The product of the gold mines of this
country last year was $4,000 more than
the year before. The product of silver
was 100000 ounces more. That is no
proof that silver is worth one hundred
times less than gold. There were many
more miners employed in the digging OF
silver. More silver is used in the arts
than gold.
Legislation in favor OF silver in this
country alone has lifted its price from
70 cents per ounce to as high as III
cents; and in spite of the failure OF the
free coinage bill, the price of the white
metal is maintained at 104 cents.
If there was an average of 20 cents an
ounce appreciation in the price of silver,
that means that England paid us that
much more for all she was obliged to
purchase from us, and thus we are
that much richer. Their Indian wheat
cost that much more, and thus the price
OF our wheat sold to Europe was that
much higher, and our farmers are that
much better off.
Keep these indisputable facts before
the minds of the people and silver will
win in the end, and the country will be
correspondingly enriched.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-08
JACOBY BROTHERS.
For the Week Commencing Saturday, March 7th, 1884,
ending Saturday Night, March 14th, 1891.

m m bgn in al o
s h yadedh a to interest % Mm must %ay
has @ by advertise m o say he
tdehd mm #
Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-08

THE stock markets of New York, and
of course of other eastern cities, con-
tinue to be very dull and lethargic.
1t is hardly to be wondered that this is
so. The wonder is that there should be
any market at all for railroad and trust
securities. In California we are all
familiar with the methods used to dupe
the people in dealings in mining stocks.
We know how the few manipulated
affairs, SO as to bull or bear stocks and
"mllk the market for the benefit of
those on the inside, and the ruin of the
public. The stock markets of the east
are managed on exactly similar princi-
pies. Stocks are watered and dividends
passed or paid without much reference
to cash value or earning capacity OF
the properties. The public is becoming
awake to the way things are done.
There was time when honest men
managed railroad property, and then
the stockholders had some chance Of
getting some usuiruct OF their
investments. The Messrs. Fisk
and Gould, in their manipulation
of the Erie, when they first got
their fingers in that pie, showed with a
vengeance how not to do this; and
their methods have become very popu-
lar ever since. The wonder is that any
sane person can be found to put dol
lar into such hands. But there are a
great many people who lack both skill
and inclination for business. If the
people who put their money into Gould
railway stocks had business capacity,
they could come here to Los Angeles,
plant fruit orchard, and be sure of
20 to so per cent. per annum interest
on their investment. Or they could
form a syndicate to buy and ship to
market the fruits raised by other peo-
pie, and grow rich in their ventures.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-08
OUR PHILADELPHIA SHOE H0UG

128 and 100 NORTH SPRING ST.
E.
COLA $3.50; $5l
Ladies' French kid handuned shoes actual value &C
Ladies' oxford es patent leather tips 81
actual Iva value :. - IN. &C
tyh actuai value
Children's school shoes
Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-08
Los ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING. Issl

farms have been abandoned to the state
for taxes. should be compared with a
state where ordinary lands are worth
$50 an acre and the best worth over a
thousand
Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-08
RED RICE'S.

nED RICE'S, LOS ANGELES, SUNDAY,
IL March S-If you noticed the announcement
last week in the papers OF the marriage OF MI.
we'll not mention names-they are now
Mr., and Mrs. M, pretty sensible couple,
too not v, ry rich, but with little means to be-
gin married life with. Both being OF an econ
omical turn, they, of course, came TO Red Rice
for the outfit for the four-room cottage they had
rented on street. To be sure ne hsd an
idea that they had better go to one OF the hlgh.
priced houses and pay more for the outfit, but
the gray mare being the more sensible horse OF
the two suggested that if they could buy for $40
at Red Rice's what at the other places would cost
TO Red Rice's they came. Now read the list and
prices OF what they got. tell me what you thlnx
about it. For their modest parlor they bought;
nice silk plush parlor set ......... 80? W
Walnut, marble top center table, oO
large steel engravings. in nice frames 90
o5 rsrds a RrnSsels carpet Mt Csc ~. rs 90
. w;IIow rockers 8 SO
4 window shades ~ Q 40
sundry artfolesof bric-a-brac forthe wall 3 ~ ~
1 hanging lamp. ..,.......+,:....''',--- . oo
For the dining room; 20 IN
1 solid walnut sideboard. ....s.. ~ W
l6-fOot extension table, antique. ..-.-.. W
dining chairs, H. b., antique ....-..- W
Set s. tot Of dishes h % and glassware complete 10 90
/ antique ia Dsb bed room set. t............ II SO
wool mattress ..... SO
l woven-wire mattress ...-...........-. W
o feather Dijlo,ys s......... 3 90
Is yards carpet ..........-.,..-......... w
Cook stove ] and utensils complete ..... 10 90
2 Kitchen chairs, 35c. 70
Oilcloth for 8 90
/ combinatIon kitchen table - SO
s165 90
Then finding the outfit had not cost as
much as was expected, they bought 2
And a pair Of lace curtains for the par
lor '....I.. 5 90
They had a great notion to take the piano at
$55 We think they will be back and get it
vet for it is big bargain: SO you see those
sensible young folks begin housekeeping by
only expending $178.6O. They were happy
when they had figured up the entire cost. con,
BY buying at Red Rice's Now, Find reader,
this is true story. You will also find that by
visiting us you can save money. Red Rice's
Bazaar is at 143 and l45 South Main street.
Evening journal., 1891-05-11

MAXWELL, Mich, May 1.-THE forest
fires have done great damage in this vicin
ity today, and fire watchmen are patrol.
ling the town to guard against fire. Gin.
ton, on the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North.
ern Michigan railroad three miles north
Of here, was totally destroyed Yesterday.
not a building being left standing. The
mil q Wagner & Pierce at that point and
2,OO0Oo0 feet Of logs are total loss. and
about 100000 feet OF lumber was AZ.
stroyed, owned by Hyde Bros, of Stanton.
The people had barely time to escape with
their lives
The sawmill Of u s. Pringle. situated
three miles south Of Farweli, went the
same way, together with several buildings
About 100000 feet OF lumber and 500. 600
feet OF logs owned by Mr.. prinele 400
cords Of bolts owned by Eugene Rounds
several hundred ties owned by the Flint
q Pere Marquette company were burned
Evening journal., 1891-05-11
THE NEWs IN RRIEE.


dom from Various Places.
Il. a. Douglass tannery and curryinl
shop at Chautauqua. the largest ia north
ern New York and other buildings. yers
burned. Loss. S75,0 900.
All efforts to smother tho fire in the IL.
high Coal company's colliery No. 4 al
summit Hill, Pa, have proved futile.
Hon. Peter Ward died IA his honre In
Newburg, n ", Sunday morning. He
was noted railroad contractor. Polite
ally he was a Democrat, and as such waa
elected mayor Of Newbnrg and senator for
for the Thirteenth district, filling the va
cancy caused by the death Of Hon Henry
X. Low. Mr.. Ward was sixty-three years
old
The temporary suspension Of the decree
TOT eXpelling the jews from Russia il be
lleved to be the prelude to permanen4
revocation Of the decree
There seems 10 be a strong probability
that the man friendly arrested. charged
with being New York's Ripper. is not
the man lac is supposed to be and that he
- guiltless Of Carrie Browns murder
The Rev. Mr.. Scudder of the Jersey CITY
tabernacle, denounced the grand Jury Of
hudson county for not having found in
dictments against the bookmakers at the
race track.
The papers of General George pomutz. n
brave Union soldier and ex-eonsul general
to -. Petersburg who died ten years aso
and was buried in potter's field, have been
discovered and show that he left much
property