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The herald., 1893-05-08

WHAT CONSTITUTES A STREET.

A public street ia a piece of land con-
tinuously aggregated from the realty of
individuals and given over to the use
OF the general public in order to enable
them to transact their business with the
least possible wear and tear of shoe
leather. The streets OF all cities have
generally been conceded to be the prop.
erty of the municipality, and all legisla-
ton in relation thereto has been, so far,
based upon that hypothesis.
The passer-by along the crowded thor
oughlares of Los Angeles will note just
at present several very large brick edi-
fees in course of construction, notably
the Bradbury block on Broadway and
the Stimson block at Spring and Third
streets. To make the latter building a
possibility, Mr. Stimson razed to the
ground a building that was paying inter
est on $50, 900 When man does that
he deserves concessions of an unusual
character, and, while we believe the
streets to be- the property of the people,
still we like TO see men afforded every
POnoAblp AADAilbJ AoA tAO OACOblOh vi bQCll
magnificent aud costly buildings, in or.
der to save as much as possible of the
expense necessary to their construction.
The Bradbury block has caused several
bad accidents since its commencement.
Bricks unloaded from wagons within the
fence have bounded over the fence and
struck passers-by and caused luckily no
serious injury. The great danger has
been to foot passengers from the drivers
of passing vehicles, notably women who
drive out for pleasure.
Now another building is being erected
next to the city hall and portion of the
middle of the street is usurped for the
purpose of brick dumps and mortar
beds, obliging foot travelers to go as far
out into the streets as at the Bradbury
block. This new concern is a cheap af-
fair and deserving of no such eonces
sions as those made to the Stimson O.
Bradbury blocks. There should be mu
nicipal legislation on this point and tina
without delay, based upon the height o
the building for which the permit il
| asked.
We make this suggestion TO the coun
Gil because we are satisfied that tn,
street superintendent is giving too mucl
The herald., 1893-05-08
ZINE yanderbilt pistrlct.

The rich mineral resources OF this
county are beginning to come to the
from. The new mining center known as
Vanderbilt is said by the Needles Eye
to be wonderful discovery, and has
more ore treasured up in it's rocky hills
than any other part OF the glorious state
of California, and the developing hand
of capital is reaching out to obtain q
large percentage of it. Here are found
ledges ranging in value from $40 to 500
in gold and from four to sixty feet in
width.
In fact, the desert country is at last to
be the gold producing section OF the
state. The mines are far richer than
any of the blue gravel diggings in the
north, and as soon as water can be OBJ
tained the thousands of acres OF placer
grounds in the north end of the noun
tains will be worked at great profit.
The desert country rs spotted over with
placer ground that some day will pro-
duce immense wealth.
The herald., 1893-05-08
Rich Placer Mines.

The Redlands Citograph states the
fact that placer diggings have long been
known to exist in the cations and gorges
Of Old Baldy has lately started a system
attic prospecting OF the whole region ad-
iacent to it. The result of rioh strike
is now announced by an agent of the
company, who came to San Bernardino
for supplies this week. The company
comprises several Denver capitalists,
who are beginning operations on an ex-
tensive scale. A roadway is to be built
to the new diggings and large pipe line
will be laid to convey water under inn
mense pressure for hydraulic purposes.
1t is said that the discovery is one OF
the richest ever known and is located on
the northeastern slope of the mountain
about 1000 feet below the peak.
The herald., 1893-05-08
THE RUSSIAN RxrRADrrIoN TREATY.

George Kennan, in the May number
OF the Forum, has very temperately
written article on this subject which
cannot fail to attract wide and profound
attention, and which will undoubtedly
reopen discussion rs to whether the
treaty 10 one which the United States
should have ratified. 1t 10 unfortunate
That Mr.. Kennan's reasons why treaty
OF this character should not have been
subscribed to by our government were
not published before the United States
senate acted affirmatively upon it. We
feel assured the treaty would have failed
before the citation of facts and the in
vincible arguments set forth in this
paper.
Mr.. Kennan starts out by laying down
che well-eatablished principle of inter-
national policy that an extradition
treaty ought not to be concluded be-
tween two nations whose systems OF
criminal jurisprudence are notin accord,
and whose political institutions are
based upon mutually contradictory and
entagonistic conceptions OF the citizens
relation to the state.
An extradition treaty between Russia
and the United States cannot be practi
cally reciprocal in its action between
the two countries for the reason that our
criminals cannot be conceived to take
refuge in r tssia. The mere fact that
foreigners in Russia are under constant
s.n1,oa arvaitlav,oa xuot,tI annuOb %o
deter an American criminal from the
impossible attempt to hide his identity
In that country. The very thing that he
would wish to escape from he would at
all times be confronted with there. He
must furthermore have passport vised
by Russian consular officer before he
could enter the country, and tits not con-
ceivable that any criminal would secure
such a paper in advance of committing
an extraditable crime. Hence the prin-
cpal object of extradton on our part
can have no practical existence.
On the other hand, however, the et-
feet of extradition with Russia would
be to send back from the United States
Russians not necessarily guilty to a
country where many of the fundamental
principles of civilized jursprudence are
disregarded, and where official authority
and administrative license have usurped
to great extent the places of justice
and law. A speedy and fair trial is
out of the question in country whose
system of Jurisprudence is not based
upon just aud immutaole principles
and that is certainly not the case il
Russia, where trial bv jury and in open
court is unknown in great number OF
provinces. Even in the few provinces
where trial by jury is admitted, gres
variety of offenses are withdrawn from
the category entitled to that right. No
a single political case has been sub
mitted to Russian jury since 1878, and
In the trial of nearly all cases the Judi
ciary are subordinated to the secret &C
tion OF the bureaucracy.
But there is another fatal differences il
the administration of law in the two
countriss which would render extra di
tion on equal terms with Russia impos
sible. Many of the provinces and most
of the great cities are annually declare,
under martial law, and the governors
general can at their option Withdraw
any class OF cases from trial by jury and
The herald., 1893-05-08
STATE DIVISION OPINIONS.
Gaining In Favor.

Says the Chino Champion: estate
division seems to be gaining in favor all
the time, and there apparently need
only be some popular pretext to precipi-
tate vigorous agitation in favor OF
new state OF Southern California" If 8
vigorous state division campaign were
now begun, and prosecuted to success as
it could be, wouldn't Scipio Craig crow
Yes, and wouldn't we all crow with him
right heartily, and crown him as the
pioneer of the movement? You bet we
would Riverside Reflex.
The herald., 1893-05-08

room TO building contractors. No foot
passenger should be asked to step of q
sidewalk to facilitate the construction OF
any building less than three stories
high. In English cities 40 part OF the
middle OF the street can be appropriated
at all and only the sidewalk in case OF
four-story building. There the streets
are made for the people, which is cor
rect principle.
The herald., 1893-05-08
New Diggings.

There ia great excitement in the South
Fork and Kernville country, says
the Bakersfield Californian over the
new placer mines recently struck near
Mountain springs, in the Argus mining
district. People are striking out for the
new diggings like all possessed and
they may have good reason, for the
other day ohe nugget weighing $50 in
gold was washed out.
These dipgings are about fifty miles
from Indian Wells, i1 the direction OF
Darwin. There is a little water, and
only little, but if there are many $50
nuggets, dry diggings will pay.
The herald., 1893-05-08
"rhe Noble Art of salf Defense" i"

SET FORTH BY AN AuTHoRTTY-Sel defense is
instructive Persons who find themselves af.
flicted with heart disease as manifested by its
many symptoms, pnlpitaHon, short breath, ir.
regular pulse, pain in side or shoulder, smother
ing, falnting or dropsy, etc.. naturally desire q
defense against what may terminate fatally.
For his express purpose no remedy has ever
approached DR.. Miles New Heart Cure, sold by
6. H. Hance l77 N. Spring, on a guarante e..
Mrs o. f. Perkins of Northwood, 1e., says,
DR.. Miles New Heart Cure saved her h'e. She
suffered from palpitation and heart would tre-
quently beat as high as 125 a minste. Was
not expected to live Was mere skeleton, no
relief from physicians New Heart Cure cured
bar
The herald., 1893-05-08

THE boarding OF the schooner HRlcyon
Friday night at Redondo by an armed
force from San Pedro, has resulted in
the death OF one OF the boarding party
and possibly another. From all the
facts ascertained, the object of the
boarding party was to force or entice the
Halcyons crew to leave the vessel.
There seems to be no doubt that the
boarding party belonged to the coast
seamen's union, and that they adopted
this high-handed msthod of getting the
non.union sailors out OF the vessel.
They were met, however, with a
volley from the captain and those In
charge of the vessel and retired
under fire. From all the facts We have
been enabled to learn in this matter, no
doubt is left that the boarding party
had taken the law into their own hands
and drew upon their own heads the pun
ishment they received. Perhaps the
lesson--severe though it be-will show
the union seamen that they cannot with
impunity board ships and take nom
union seamen off by force. The law
ought to be strong enough to protect
vessels from euch high-handed outrages /;
but ii it is not, there will always be
found some captains who will meet force
with force.
The herald., 1893-05-08

Cry HALL--Council meeting ut 10 a. m.
SUPERIOR CoUBT-Miles murder trial, at 10
q. m.
trabandista.
The herald., 1893-05-08
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

The papers OF all delinquent mall subscribers
.Athe bAILY Herald Ii be promptly discon-
kinued hereafter No papers Will Dc sent 10
subscribers BY mali unless the same have been
paid for in advance. This rule / inilexible.
L, r Fisher, newspaper advertising agent, Fl
Mefchants' exchange, Ben Francisco, Is an
authorized agent. This paper is kept on file In
his Office.
The HERALD is sold at the Occidental Hotei
news stand, San Francisco, for Sc copy.
The herald., 1893-05-08
Hang Lee.

Importer and dealer in Chinese and Japanese
fancy goods All kinds of silks, silk dress pat
terms, embroidered silk dressing gowns, shawls
and handkerchiefs, and gents furnishing
wear 1 respectfully call the attention of the
public to the fact that all my stock IS now on
special sale, regardless of cost. NO. sos North
Main s.reet, Opposite The plaza, Los Angeles.
The herald., 1893-05-08
Imnortant Mining sale.

Conveyance was made yesterday, says
the Cotton News, of gold mining prop
erty in the Pinacste mining district of
Riverside county, in which Cotton par
ties are interested. The consideration
was $47 800. Pasadena parties were the
purchasers. A ten stamp mill will be
erected on the property at once.
The herald., 1893-05-08

The inspectors OF the board OF health
found fifteen buildings in Chinatown
that are in an indescribabIy filthy con-
dition, and go permeated with the foul
ness of disease breeding rottenness as to
be menace to the health OF the whole
city. On this report, the board of health
will today petition the city council to
order these buildings to be destroyed. 1t
is, of course, doubtful whether this can
be done legally. The courts would have
to fEst pass upon these buildings as
nuisances, and even then their destruc-
ton could only be ordered In case no
other means of purifying them could be
adopted. Yet it lie shameful that
such disease breeding dens should be
peDmitted to exist in a civilized city.
Especially should the authorities be
armed with some peremptory method Of
extingusbing such nuisanceH st time
when we must prepare to meet threat
ened epidemic of cholera. II the conta-
gion should reach this coast it will find
just such breeding places SIS exist in
Chinatown to hgrbor, develop and
spread it. 1t is utterly impossible to
clean and purify some OF these old adobe
rookeries that have been for many years
given up to the filthy occupation Of a
people who have an utter disregard for
the laws of health or cleanliness. If it
could be done, the people of this city
generally would be glad to see the un-
wholesome and poison-breeding dens OF
Chinatown all razsd to the ground.
The herald., 1893-05-08

The man WHO is not assigned to get drunk
and make fo0l of himself generally, surely
ought not be ashamed to accept any reasonable
means for becoming sober. Garten Gold Cure
Co., loom 9, l241z s. Spring ST.
The herald., 1893-05-08

new3... BIRD hie in the
parks "A Chinaman's views op the Chinese
question. Houses In Chinatown that shV uld
be destroyed :. Suicide Of Nets Florinn at
Redondo. Death OF Undertaken Caesar.
non committal verdict given by the Cor
oners 8 jury in the case Of the death of San
Pedro Frenchy "a 10.year-old child re-
ported as lost. "A Chinaman said to have
hung himself In the willows. The base
ball games yesterday,
The herald., 1893-05-08
AN INDEX TO YESTERDAY.

BY TELEGRAPH-A terrible railway disas-
ter At Lafayette, Ind "A fnghtiui steam
boat ACCIDENT at Moberlyi Mo Death Of
Mrs. Chauueey NJ. Depew Carlyle Harris's
last day on earth -. Worlds fair gates kept
closed on Sunday. . President Cleveland
refuses to be bored by office-seekers
hereafter Eight-houi demonstrations
in Europe. The late dynamite
outraRes IN Dublin. German poll
ties boiling -. Rector Ahlwart srrested
...A terrible tragedy In San Francisco. "A
big fire 10 Seattle Murderer HasGins Ar
kansas record q. Rottenness in the Yuma
prison General news glesnIngs.
The herald., 1893-05-08
AMusE EMgNTS.
The cast OF the opera Oontrabandista,
which will be given by an excellent COM
pany at the new Los Angeles theater
this evening, is as follows:
4 stron9 and carefully Il

A strong and carefully trained chorus
and excellent principals should make
the merry music 60 we'll. The work ia
one Of the brightest of Sir Arthur Sulli-
vans many efforts, and shines with
many beautiful and brilliant number.
Under the direction of II. G.. Aylesworth
and f. r. Sullivan, the piece has been
carefully studied and worked.
The herald., 1893-05-08
California VINEGAR works

55 Banning street, opposite soap factory, near
A lam eda and First streets, one-half block from
el eCtric hight Hekks.
The herald., 1893-05-08
POINTERS FOR TO-DAY,

NEIGHBoRING TO wNS--Capistrano notes
-. Matters at Pasadena
The herald., 1893-05-08

One of the star attractions of the
season will visit this city at the Grand
Opera house next Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, it being the famous Boston
Howard Athenaeum Star Speciality com
pany. The leading feature of the organ
ization this seReon is Miss Ena Bertoldi,
an equilibrist hand and jaw balancer.
Miss Bertoldi has never been seen on
the coast before, but the furore che
created in the east has reached our ears
long ago. Then comes Kara, the Adonis
of all jugglers, the San Francisco press
describing him as marvellous. Misses
Melville and Stetaon, topical vocalista
and dialect imitators. The Alisons,
Terpachorean artists. Will FL. Fox, in
his original satire, termed Paddywhis-
kie. The Brothers Dixon, England's
famous musical clowna. Fulgora, Eu-
ropes greatest trans6gurstors. Servais
Leroy, Belgian conjurer. O'Brian and
Carroll, comedians, and many others.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-09

Scott, Secretary Gresham and the late Sec
rotary Window. Both the latter were or
dered by the government and hung In the
treasury. Mr.. Mcdonald Is at present put
ting the finishing touches to an ideal figure
study, to be used for exhibition purposes.
Several Of Mr.. McDonald's paintings were
exhibited at the worlds fair and attracted
much favorable criticism.
Perhaps the most eminent artist among
the non-residents is Mr.. Thomas Hoven-
den, whose marvellous figure paintings are
familiar to all lovers of art. Mr.. Hovenden
has recently settled in Washington, giving
as his reason for doing SO because 1t is
the most utterly delightful and perfectly
paintable place / know Of" He Is most
enthusiastic over the city and it's environ
ments, and expects to remain for some
time. Among the various paintings exhib-
tied by this artist at the Columbian ex-
position was Breaking Home Ties" pic
ture too well known and universally ad-
mired to need a description. Mr.. Hoven-
den Is an academician and life member
OF the American Water Color Society, and
is great acquisition to Washington's artis-
tic fraternity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-09

newest hat marker is Of gold bearing the
anne OF the owner. SO that anybody who
steals the hat gets away with a valuable
marker also. Another gift for a man is a
gold cigar cutter. Silver has diminished so
much in value that articles made Of IL
nave gone down % per cent in price. Silver
backed brushes. worth $50 last year, can be
purchased this season for S15
A new idea Is to make whist counters ont
OF silver dollars, the coin being used as a
case for revolving wheel showing num-
bers. TO evade the law forbidding mutila-
tlon or the currency, trade dollars are en-
ployed for this purpose. because they are
not current nor legal tender. PRAYER books
and likewise hymnals are made in solid sill
yer bindings. One such prayer book for
pride has blank marriage certificate in the
'front.' part. Razor strops are mounted with
silver. Solid silver gilded appears in MANY
beautiful articles Of use and ornament 1t
mas all the appearance of pure gold being
used in the shape of fruit dishes finger
powls, dessert spoons and pastry forks and
knives, &c. Pin cushions for men are made
IN the shape OF little Jockey caps of silver
ana plush, the latter showing the colors of
princeton, Yale and Harvard respectively
FOR foot ball player of one of those COL
leges such gift would be particularly ap-
propriate and not very costly
Match boxes of silver and gold are made
this year with little flags in enamel on
them, bearing the name of one college or
another. In fact the difficulty of finding a
suitable present for man has been practi-
cally done away with. The trouble is to
choose within ones means among all the
beautiful things made expressly to tickle
masculine taste and vanity Handsome sill
yer cases are actually made to hold boxes
or patent-leather polish: bag tags are for
sale In solid silver, and wire cutters have
silver handles. Manufacturers have ex-
hausted their ingenuity in the invention
and production Of novelties in the precious
metals for the use and convenience of the
sterr er sex.
Not least interesting among the articles
Tor CHRISTMAS exposed for sale in the Jewell
ers shops are things in leather The leath-
ers o. fashion have multiplied of late, and
the most remote parts of the world have
oeen called upon to contribute the skins OF
strarge animate hitherto unknown TO the
tanner. One OF the victims of this new TAD
is tne poa constructor. Another unfortunate
Is the so-called Java lizard-a reptile with
nne scales and peculiar grayish notified
color. 50 large is IL that a single hide will
furnish half a dozen card cases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-09
BEAUTY AT THE BALL GAMES.
What Means the Presence Of Women
at Foot Ball COntestsf

What Means the Presence of Women
at Foot Ball Contestsf
From the New York World.
Girls at Springfield wearing punches of
roses and waving red flags; girls wearing
violets and Haunting blue banners Girls
at Manhattan Field staggering beneath the
weight of their yellow chrysanthemums and
black and orange streamers. What does IL
all mean? Is it possible that the gentle
maids IF America love to behold fierce con-
fiict, delight to see heads battered and limbs
broken? Can it be that the same passions
are rampant in the feminine heart that stir
red the Roman matrons at the gladiatorial
contests and make the Spanish women draw
aside their lace mantillas the better to be-
hold the fierce bull fights?
OF course it is possible to maintain that
the young women who attend inter-collegi-
ate games take warm interest in the
scientific part of the game whatever that
may be. But they don't They haven't the
fainteSt glimmering of a notion as to what
1t is all about They can no more distin-
guish between half-back and a center
rush than they can fly. The scientific prin-
ciples OF the game would be Greek to them
They only see mad scrimmages brutal hat
terings, the resolute knocking of heads to-
gether. But they sit there, the gentle crea-
lures, with eyes wide open and ablaze with
excitement and voices tremulous with emo
ton. They hear shouts and cheerings and
they breathlessy demand:
oh! Mr.. Cambridge, what does that
mean? Who has done anything and what
has he done? And has our side won?'
That is the intelligent sort of interest a
woman takes in the game of foot ball She
would have given her eyes to attenI had
attendance on easier terms been denied her
And what does it all mean if not that .he
love of beholding conflict is Unborn in the
feminine heart? Is not the young woman
of America with her higher educa tlon, her
clubs, her philanthropy, her class at the
mission and the red rose or the blue violets
in her gown extremely like the benighted
Roman ladies to whom colleges and clubs
were denied and whose only recreation was
the contest? Are the ladies of Spain, whose
soft Eyes kindle and whose faces flush VIXEN
they behold the enraged bulls, 50 very un-
like the Boston or New York girl who
watches with eager interest her brothers
chun being battered into shapelessncsso
Or is it, perhaps, only that the American
girl has the charming characteristic Of be-
ing able to interest herself in whatever ner
brothers find all absorbing?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-09

Mr.. W. G. Randails work is also unusual
ly clever, though lacking many of the OPP
portunitles enjoyed by other artists. Mr..
Randall has SO utilized his American pre-
negatives that his INDEPENDENTLY in por-
tralture, compares most fayorably with that
or older and much more experienced men
Much OF his work is in North Carolina
where he has distinguished himself by his
portraits OF prominent state officials. He
is just now engaged on a life-sized painting
of the late Chief Justice Merriman of that
state. and also a large canvas of Miss Her
bert. daughter of Secretary Herbert which
promises to be one of his most successful
productions.
The studio of Mr.. T. ]. Fisher is crowded
as usual. this winter with the artists work
and pupils.
One Of Mr.. Fishers most striking DOR
traits IS that of the late Gen. Pike The
color and likeness are well reproduced, and
the entire painting is carried on in the ar
lists happiest vein. Mr.. Fisher ably as
sisted by his wife, who is also an artist,
has one of the largest painting classes in
the city.