The herald., 1893-08-09
PASADENA.
The Botoh That Has Been Made In tho
Paving Matter.

PASADENA.
rhe Botoh That Has Been Made in tho
Paving Matter.
PASADENA, Aug. 8.-For the benefit OF
numerous parties who may be more or
lsss interested in the street paving in
Passdena, which has already caused
ssour citizens 90 much trouble and tax
payers goodly sum OF hard cash, the
HERALD predicts that not an inch OF
: paving will be laid under the contracts
! now let but not signed by the Perine
PAving company. This announcement
will doubtless fall with something of q
sickening thud upon the ears OF several
officials who have engineered this PRO-
q ject through upon peculiar and entirely
Y original ideas of their own, regardless OF
r,the laws OF the state and apparently re-
I, gardless OF good common sense.
It will doubtless, however, gradually
become apparent to the before-men.
j. toned individuals in the Sweet very
soon" that little attention to the stat
ues of the state of California in certain
cases is highly essential, and will work
ont much more satisfactory results than
by tho 'go-it-on-your.own-hook plan."
Indeed, 1t has been whispered in very Sc
blunders have been made is beginning
to dawn upon them, which doubtless &C.
counts for the presence of the city en-
gineer on South Fair Oaks this after
noon with his tripod, engaged In vain
attempts to find the center Of the street.
Il 10 even rumored thk contracts have
been let to pave certain OF our streets
!. straight Rcroes from building to build
) ing, doing away. it would seem, with
sidewalks, or at least burying them un-
der with asphaltum. But enough for
the present. Whsa this has been fully
masticated by these ''original idea"
parties, the HERALD will furnish few
more items for reflection.
s THE srEIL CASE.
The hearing of the demurrer in the
case Of the People vs. Peter Steil, for vi
olation of the ordinance regulating the
sale Of liquors. came up in Recorder
Rossiter's court this morning.
Colonel Wellborn of the well.known
Los Angeles firm OF Wellborn & Hutton
Was present representing the defendant,
Two additions were made to the orig
inal demurrer; first. that the complaint
does not allege the provisions or passage
was arrested; and, second, that it fails
to specifically state that defendant is the
owner or chief agent of the place where
the liquor 10 alleged to have been sold.
The demurrer as amended was submit
ted without argument and WAS prompt
y overruled by the court. A plea of
not guilty WAS then entered by defend
ant through his attorney, and the caee
set for hearing on Tuesday next at 10
q. m.
1t has not yet been decided whether a
jury will be called. but il this is done an
interesting case may be looked for, "a
both sides are represented by able attor-
neys and hard fight will be made.
A CHANGE OF VENUE.
A change of venue in the case of the
people We. J. N. Mundell for disturbing
the peace, from Justice Merriam's coart
has been asked for by defendant, upon
the grounds that the court is biased and
prejudiced and that he believes he cam
not obtain fair and impartial trial.
The grounds upon which the belief is
based are quite lengthy and, among
other things, 1t 10 charged that the COM
planning witness after consulting his
lawyer, BENZ. Hahn, went to Justice
Merriam with his attorney and dis
cussed the case with him, and that the
justice drew up the complaint. 1t is
also claimed that certain evidence
which came out in previous. case be-
tween the same parties would naturally
prejudice the justice, and for these rea.
sons change of venueis asked for.
Justice Merriam was unwilling to pass
upon the matter until both sides should
be heard, and set tomorrow morning as
the time for the hearing.
The case proper comes mp tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock and defendants
gave notice that they would ask for
jury in case the change of venueis not
allowed.
The belated overlsnds continue to
sfraggle in at the rate of two or three
day.
Mr.. Joseph Blick and family left this
morning for protracted stay at Cata-
lima.
Mr.. Lester Lippincott returned from
. weeks outing at the island YESTERDAY.
The committee on refreshments for
the Lowe reception is earnestly request
to meet at the board of trade rooms
SThursday afternoon next at Bpm,
'ocyange details for the reception.
hr.,Yg to an oversight in the rush OF |
o..a DuD at the meeting of the council |
no action was taken regard
.Ak .nS lselest Of the board of trade that
h.i;S hi;Ssoutol recommending q general
Lu1y anu banquet on August 23d,
~ passsu' InI matter will be attended
g next MondA,'s meeting.
Iigleeeor keyee leaves in q few days
on lecture tour through the .ontheyn
Rsrt OF the state, inS the interests Of
AnrooP Polytechnic instit1te.
htoworrow the Methodist Suuday
uCQ0Ol and friandn vvv;n ~