The herald., 1895-05-30
HARPOON'S SAN DIEGO news
The Abandoned Cable Railway,
to Be Sold
YSAYE NOT APPRECIATED
Windy Scheme for an Eastern Railway
Boosted by Book
Coronado Having a Boom -DiIatery chanbag
of Commerce Peopie--Success Of ths
Council In Doing Nothing
SAVE NOT APPRECIATED
special Correspondence to The Herald:

an action having ebeen commenced BY,
the latter corporation to recover $l5, 0Oo
said to be due on note dated April 2jt*
1891. with interest compounded at perl
cent per month after July 25. 1891. THE;
would amount to more than the pr0perty'
is now considered worth.
At the floral pageant to be given here
Saturday of this week the dances by var14
ous flowers which attracted SO much 4t.l
ten.ion at the Los Angeles fiesta will b..
reproduced by something over one hun-,
d red pretty girls.
Thcre'wiIl be some good time made 81
the bicvole races on the Coronado track
Memorial Day, as several of the speediest,
men in town are entered, and records Of
2:27 are being made at practice, which,
will be hattened our considerably whom
the boys are put to it.
Among the many nuisances to which
tins place is subject, and there are plen.l
" OF them. that OF moving houses from
one part of the city to another is about
the worst Nothing is thought Of block-
ing up the principal streets for days at,
a time, and the long suffering public does
II Ut seem to have backbone enough to
register an emphatic kick.
The progress made by the city council
in matters which are supposed to have
for their object the welfare of the city.
forcibly reminds a disinterested observer
of the record made by the Eng ish house
of lords, in shat the various member Of
time in doing nothing and actually make
q success of it,
When the recent grand jury was con-s
veDed it was supposed that it would at
least attend to the business for which II
was drawn, but the nineteen men com.
posing it have been at work nearly two.
weeks now, at the expense of the county,,
and Just what they have accomplished mo-
other fellow knows.
Ysave scored n triumph here. at Least
that is what the papers said. and a. tn.
audience got three encores for which Il
did not have to pay anything extra, the.
recital was voted a grand success. To
the di scredit of the musical people OF San
Diego, however, it must be said that
there was a mighty slim house.
business was unearthed the other day in
going over the tax lists OF 1SS9-9O. BY
which a clerical error in entering delin.
ouent taxes to the account of the Coro-
nado Beach company lost the county the
neat sum OF $14, ,310.l0. This sum the
county was obliged to pay to the stat.
on the usual pro rata basis, and but Tor
the su bsequent redemption OF the prop
erty bv it's original owners there would
have been a deficit OF that amount in the
county treasury.
What came near being serious acci-
dent occurred in the harbor Sunday
night. when six of the sailors of the.
British ship Dowan Hill were caPsizedI
in q small boat which they had stolen to|
get on board with after being out for :,
considerable salt water had been mixed
with their whiskey, and the boat wa4
picked up the next day on the beach.
Weineke's bondsmen are not as willing
to pay as they were at first to make good
his deficiency, and now say that they will
wait until the county has found out
whether the ex-tax collector is guilty or
not. and also whether his assistants
have had anything TO do with the shortage.
The outcome will probably be that tho
county will not get anything but the
trouble of trying to convince non-resis'
denis that they Still owe for the taxea,
which they have already paid.
Out of pure charity the City Guaro
band is holding weekly concert on ths
plaza and there are usually over thOus-
and persons out to hear the exceliene
music. hut as yet no one has been liberal
enough to start the public subscription
that was to be raised to support this de-
serving class of outdoor entertainments.
In connection with the seventy odd
other societies which serve as a sort OF
distraction to the monotony OF the bay n
climate here, there is one called the Pa
triotic Sons of America. which restricts
its members to those having had an
cestors in the revolutionary war. From
the numb ber now enjoying this distinction
it is reasonable to suppose that the time
ously fatal as history reports it.
The San Diego. Pacific and Eastern
railroad scheme has raised about 5000
toward presenting its windy proposition
to the various railway brotherhood
throughout the country and OF this
amount which the guileless public gave
for strictly advertising purposes, there
has been spent some 500 for gaudy-i
colored book which will have no weight
whatever in convincing sensible railroad
4 A1...t 4 Nod fNnn fSnvs
them to invest their hard-earned wages
in. This was brought about by one OF
the talkative origl1ators OF the fake who
gets commission on the sale OF the
pamphlet thus palmed off.
NJ. LIZARD, who was recently succeeded
by District Attorney Sweet, after hard
battle in which the supreme court was
obliged to decide who should have the
office. has decided that he will keep what
cash he has instead of applying for re-
hearing of the case, as it was his inten-
tion to do up to few days ago.
The revenue cutter Wolcott, under COM
mand of her nav captain, Milton l..
Philips has cleared for the north and
the only defense this long stretch of coast
now.possesses is two old muzzle-loading
cannon that do service as signal and sun 1
set guns.
The report that has been sent out from
here that the fruit exchange was handling
the orange and lemun output is not cor
rect Il s only twenty-four car loads have
gone out through this source, the major
ity OF the large growers consigning their
own crons. This does not give San Diego
county the showing ii would have in the
general statistics given for publication.
On June 4th the first junketng water
committee appointed by the council will
leave on a presumable tour OF inspection,
and the public Will pay the bills. all OF
which proves that there is such thing
as a city council that kows how to be
kind to ITSELF
riverside county will be served with
writ of mandate soon by the district at
torney OF this county to compel the re-
turu of $2776.7l. claimed to be due this
county as its share OF Southern Pacific
railroad taxes for 1886. Serving the writ
is one thing and getting the money is an
other. and the supervisors will pi obably 4
find that they have sent good money al 4
ter bad before the case is ended.
The directors of the chamber of com.
merce met the other day and passed \
resolution that it would be advisable to
take steps to secure the terminus OF the
new Japanese line of steamers at this
port. a committee was appointed to dc
the business, and the members were seen
on the street later on, trying to lind out
wnere they should send their invitation,
and while they were SO engaged word Wa