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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-07-26
A woMAN's LIFE.

'Tis true, one-half of woman's life is hope,
And one-half resignation. Between there lies
Anguish of broken dreams, doubt, dire sur-
prise,
And then is borne the strength with all to cope.
Unconsciously sublime, life's Swallowed slope
She braves, the knowledge in her patient eyes
Of all that love bestows and love denies
AS writ in every woInan's horoscope.
She lives, her heart-beats given to others needs,
Her hands to lift for others on the way
The burdens which their WEAKNESS forsook.
She dies, and uncrowned doer of great deeds.
Remembered? Yes, as is for one brief dey
The rose one leaves in some forgotten book.
MARY A. TOWNSEND.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-07-26

THE human face is an index to character.
We have before us the portraits of Harvey and
Horr. We read in Harvey's face the blending
of goodness and intellect, and in Horr's the
blending of intellect and evil. Both men are
representatives of the principles they advocate.
Harvey spent small fortune in trying to right
wrong. Harvey is Washington Horr is a
BENEDICT Arnold. If we had no other light up
on the questions of issue, we would follow the
man of both heart and mind, instead of him of
the mind without heart Doubtless, many men
of the gold-standard advocates are sincere, but
II is a great stretch of charity to believe that
Horr is sincere. Too much intellect to be mis-
led, he prostitutes his brains to mislead others.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-07-26
THE BANK BOYCOTT.

THE BANK BOYCOTT.
Dispatches tell lis that J. R. Sovereign is
about to inaugurate boycott on national banks,
with request that all labor organizations and
Populists unite in the movement.
If there could be a union of all these forces
in compliance with this request, and those in
terested stood firm to the work. there can be
little doubt that, in the agitation that would re-
suit, the lower of the banks would be curtailed,
in great degree, if not entirely wiped out.
The banking business, if conducted in an
honorable and legitimate manner, is useful ur-
til the country is prepared for their abolition.
But these banks are not satisfied with such
course. This power enters politics, corrupts
legislation, creates panics, speculates Oft the
government, forces bond issues, bulls and bears
markets and produces results that are far-reach-
ing and destructive of any industry upon which
it fastens its tentacles.
There is no benevolence, no conscience and
no limit to the audacity and greed of this money
power. If you want dollar from its vaults, it
demands three-fold security. If you make a
deposit, it must be done on conhdence-a CONN.,
dence that is often outraged, and that has
brought sorrow, suffering, poverty, despair and
suicide to thousands of homes. 1t brushes the
weak and trusting as merciessly as it ruins
great enterprises or loots the treasury of the
nation. 1t showers its favors on community,
and thrift walks hand-in-hand with industry;
Commerce spreads her white wings to the breeze
of prosperity; the husbandman sings at his toll,
and his children shout and laugh around his
threshold. This is the legitimate sphere of
wealth, but it is the seed-time, and all the skies
are smiling. Legitimate results never satisfy
the remorseless man of greed There must fol-
low the reaping of harvest that will fill Golfers
with ill-gotten gain.
This power so mighty for good LOSES coNFI-
pENcE, and timidly (hellishly) wthdraws in
vestments. Industry languishes, prices fall,
labor becomes unproductive, enforced idleness
follows, Vice raises his hideous head close on
the heels of temptation; want, degradation,
beppary, desperation, starvation and crime fol-
low in quick succession; great factories close
their doors and gigantic enterprises topple and
po down with crash that shakes the whole
business world. The creditor reaps his relent-
less harvest, and the usurer laughs above the
holocaust.
It is such power that Sovereign and his or
der, backed by recruits from the ranks of labor
everywhere, propose to meet and vanquish
The results of the battle no one can foretell
If successful, the struggle will be long and
bitter, but the triumph glorious. If it fails,
the agitation provoked will bring out the best
thought of the nation and probably score an
advance in the right, direction, to-wit, the en-
lightenment of the people.
The heroism of those who inaugurate this
fight is unquestionabe.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-07-26

THERE will be three-days picnic over in
Nodaway county, Mo-. next week, OH which
occasion speakers representing three different
political parties will discuss the issues of the
times from their respective standpoints The
Populists will be represented by Mrs. Mary +.
Lease and the Democrats by Governor Stone.
We did not learn the name of the Republican
speaker.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-07-26

THE FL Dorado Industrial Advocate arises to
remark: '"The masses of the Populist party in
this Butle- county are dead against anything
that resembles fusion in even the remotest de-
gree" Yes; and the masses of the Populist
party all over the state are in the same fix If
the self-constituted leaders in the various coun-
ties that have adopted fusion don't get left we
miss our guess. Fusion is confusion.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-07-26

Mrs. Leland Stanford will have fifteen thou
sand tons of grapes on her rancho this season,
from which she will make a million gallons OF
brandy, and the rest in wine. She expects to
sell it, and, with the proceeds, pay the running
expenses of Stanford University for this year,
where thousand young men are to be educat-
ed. wonder if they will be taught 'Woe unto
him that putteth the bottle to his neighbours
lips" and that no drunkard shall inherit the
kingdom of Heaven. Better-far better-close
the doors of Stanford University forever than
keep them open by such means. Shamel
shame!! shame!!l
The Christian Endeavorers, in their national
convention at Boston, "resoluted" beautifully,
and wound up by resolving that they would not
declare their allegiance to any political party,
but would use their influence for temperance Ill
all parties. The National Liquor League meets
in national convention and swears allegiance to
the party that is 'the most liberal to the trade.
soThe children of darkness are wiser than the
children of light"
The Clevelands have named their "new wo-
man. Marian. Good, sweet name. Some one
suggested that Goldie would be fitting name,
and some one else wanted her called Bondette.
Never mind Grover will not be allowed to for
get his traitorous attitude toward the people
and their money even though his new daugh-
ter did get sensible name.
The beer picnic at Bismarck Grove, Law
renee, last Sunday, was such success that the
Kansas City anarchists have decided to have
another picnic next Sunday. Twenty-Five cents
admits you to the grove and gives you ticket
good for FIVE glasses of beer. And this III pro-
hibition Kansas! Great God what if Kansas
had never been redeemed!
About forty of the elite of Emporia, among
whom are the Hoods, Eskridges and others
equally prominent, were arrested and lined tor
not ringing their bicycle bells at street cross
ings. l presume they thought the law was
only meant for the common herd.
Rank Commissioner Breidenthal was invited
to make silver speech at Louisburg, Miami
county, he to name his own date, but he says
if he talks, it must be on the financial question
as a whole, for he will not discuss the silver
question alone. 'Rah for John!
At Macon, Ca, woman was appointed stamp
clerk, and now her husband files complaint be-
cause the government has "robbed him of his
wife" and thinks she ought to be sent home.
Governor Morrill, has appointed Judge M. B.
Nicholson, of Council Grove, as the Populist
member of the reformatory board. The Judge
is rnidde-of-the-road Populist.
Quay, of Pennsylvania, is for Reed or Nc
Kinley for president, and against free coinage.
think Reed and Mckinley ought to be proud
of Quay's endorsement.
Republican primaries at Topeka cost $500
Whew What will it cost before the election is
oyerl They must have had an irrigation plant,
testing its usefulness.
Redskins are on the waf-path in Montana. :
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-07-26

No GOD but Mammon, and Rothschild is his
prophet no country but the millionaires no
flag for the free, and no home for the masses, is
xthe port.forswhich we are heading, and the pol
ticians 81 Both old parties are sailing the craft
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-07-26

Ir may safely asserted now that Robert Lin
coin is a candidate for the presidency. Here
tofore, Mr.. Lincoln has never been anything
but the son of his father and the attorney of
the Pullman car company, but recently, in his
eagerness to do something of personal distnc-
ton, he has publicly damned the mugwumps.
A pull on Pullman and an imprecation for men
who own themselves go long way in the Re-
publican party toward presidential nomina-
ton. Mr.. Lincoln is certainly in training, and
may, should he have such trainers as Cy Leland,
become formidable opponent of Tin McKin-
ley and Gar Reed. Mr.. Lincoln has now only
to declare in favor of "sound money!" monop-
oily and gatling guns, and his future is assured.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-07-26

COPS law is to Glove thy neighbor as thy
self.n Plutocratic lawis, Grasp, absorb, fitch
the earnings of thy neighbor; defraud him,
rob him. lie to him, reduce him to poverty, let
him, his wife and little children starve, and if
he don't keep quiet, shoot him with gatling
guns. 'N -
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-07-26

IT was our intention this week to publish the
platform, or resolutions adopted by the con-
vention of reforners recently held at Staten
Island N. Y, but the copy of the resolutions
was mislaid and we must defer their publica-
ton until another time. This was meeting of
earnest, honest reformers, who sincerely desire
to see united effort on the part of the REFORM
ers of the country, and their deliberations are
commended by the best reform journals of the
nation-among them the Topeka Advocate, the
Nonconformist and other Populist papers we
might name, besides the leading Prohibition
papers God speed the union.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-07-26

Ex-Governor ST. JOHN will soon be on the
platform again. battling for humanity. He is
an earnest advocate of the union of all reform
forces, and will put forth every effort to that
end. On the sd of August, he will speak on
the silver question at Battle Creek, Mich.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-07-26

A FIGHT is to be waged against Senator Cal
Brice by Allan w. Thurman and other Ohio
Democrats. Thurman says the free-siver men
will openly oppose Brice for the senate
WILL some bowler who has seen a full-weipht
$40 gold-piece that was we'll ENOUGH to be
around attending to business, in the past year,
please hold up his hand?
THE county attorney of Sedgwick county
says that if the saloons of Wichita are not re-
opened, the Republicans will lose that county.
HoRR went after Harvey on Harvey's scrip
tural quotation in "Coin," and, like the Devil
on the mount, he got left.
MAN is the greatest handiwork of God, and
by man men are treated worse than the beasts
of the field.
WoN'T somebody please take a magnifying-
glass and tell us where the silver party is at?
HARVEY is ahead so far, and still coming.
Be sure and read the debate.
THE paper manufacturers are organizing
trust to force the price up.
Stick to principle, let the results be what
they may;
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1895-07-26
AxsAs AGtTAT0R: GARRETT, KANSAS. tttY 2S, 1898.
WHISKY WAR.

Just now, there is considerable excitement in
various parts of the state over the liquor ques-
ton, and in some places it amounts to whisky
war. In Wichita the excitement is greater
The herald., 1895-12-20
Highest all in Leayenng Power.-Laes U. S Govt Report
R>!a!a!!! Rsk!Rs
ABSOLUTELY pURE
CHAMPION LACROSSE
The Local Team to Play Riverside on Christ
mas Dny


The Local Team to Play Riverside on Christi
mas Day
The game Of lacrosse that will be played
on Christmas day between the Los Angeles
club and the Riverside team will be for
the championship of Southern California.
The Los Angeles boys now hold the DAN
ner, but the Riverside men have challenged
them to play for it and for the title OF
champions.
A. c. Way is the captain of the Los An
geles team, and is busy organizing and
getting the men into shape. d. Z. Well
come, the well-known handball player,
will be on the team, and most of the most
promising athletes in the club are in daily
practice for the event. The Riverside men
are known to be excellent players, and
will make hard struggle for the game.
Consequently every effort will be made to
have as good team as possible in the
field on Christmas day. The loss OF Dr.
Mackenzie, the Canadian, will be felt by
the Los Angeles men, but there is still
plenty of good material for tirst-class
team.
There is at present no chance for foot
ball game on Christmas day at Athletic
park. The clean, or upclean, backdown
of the Berkeley men, and the impossibiliy
of getting any other team of prominence
to take their place, has disguised Secretary
McStay, and no further effort will be made
to get game for the Occidental team.
The Butte City men have altered their
tour. and will not come down to play in
Los Angeles, combining themselves TO San
Francisco and the neighboring region.
Los Angeles will not see the cracks of the
gridiron this year.
The herald., 1895-12-20
The Sewer Committee and the
Street Superintendent
RECOMMENDATIONS MADE
Contractors Who Say Boot" to the
City Council
The City Is Not In Law Responsible for the
Acts Of Any of Its EmpIoyees-A
Mares Nest In Franchise

The sewer committee was yesterday APP
pealed to by the legal representative of
northern sewer pipe association, to over
rule the decision of tine street superintend-
ent, who a few days ago condemned two
carloads Of pipe which was to have been
utilized for sewer purposes in this city.
The committee declined to interfere, say
ing it had no jurisdiction.
The following recommendations were
made for action by the council. on Monday:
Recommend that the petition from j. II.
Call, asking permission to connect his
premises, lots and IL, Bellvue Terrace
tract, block LOG, with the sewer on Sixth
street, be granted and the street superin-
tendent instructed to issue the necessary
permit.
Recommend that the petition from the
Masonic Temple association ct al. be re-
ferred to the city engineer to report the
condition of the sewer on Hill street be-
tween Second and Seventh streets.
Recommend that the petition from N. II.
Morrison ct al, asking to have sewer
constructed on Second street from Chicago
street to point :'2 feet west OF the west
line of Mott street, and on Soto street from
Second street to a point 80 north of the
north line of Fourth street. and on Third
street from Soto street to point So feet
west of the west line of Mott street, be re-
ferred to the city engineer to present the
necessary ordinance of intention il he finds
abe same practicable.
The herald., 1895-12-20
BOND ELECTION IN SIGHT
Money Will Soon Be Needed
for Waterw0rkS
1T WILL REQUIRE MILLIONS
the First Chapter in the Financial
Story
The Answer to the Pomeroy COLONIZATION
Suit viii Be Filled NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Alone VIII Cost Over S6oo,o 900

The time is gradually rolling around
when the voters of the city will be asked
to endorse bonds in large amount for the
building and ownership of municipal water
works. The answer of the defendant in
the suit of the city VS.. Pomeroy. con-
demning the site for the headworks for
the proposed system. will be filed on Mon
day, after which the case will at once be
set for hearing in the superior court. The
issue. City Attorney Dunn says, will be
tried in January or February, and by the
middle of April the bonds for the proposed
headworks are expected to be submitted to
the people for endorsement. The money
for purchasing the Pomeroy site is at
present in the city treasury. 1t was voted
for the purpose to the amount OF SoO,OOO
last May.
On December 81, 1891. j. H. Dock
weller, then city engineer. submitted to a
water supply a lengthy and exhaustive re-
port, which was accompanied by two sep
arate and distinct plans for a water sup
ply. DOckweiler estimated that one plan
complete would cost the city 1927 900,
and the cost of the second plan would be
81 1000. The daily expense for pump
ing under the first plan would be SOS, and
addition the estimated cost of a plant to
meet the then requirements was es imated
under one plan to be S2,500.000 and un-
der another 81 ,079,00O.
The above estimates did not include the
cost for right-of-way or land for reservoir
sites, or fire hydrants. meters or pressure
regulators, for which 100000 was re-
quested. the latter sum being expected to
procure 1000 meters, 1000 pressure regu-
lators and 1000 fire hydrants.
The estimate for the mains we're based
upon cast iron pipe at a cost laid down
here of SAL per ton, which was then con-
sidered to be very low price. 1t was fig
ured out that the plant would need 10000
tons of pipe. Dockweiler's figures placed
the cost to build and equip the headworks
complete at seas, 900.
After the headworks bonds have carried,
should the election for the purpose result
affirmatvely, there will be another issue
and the next time for an amount approxi-
mating into the millions. That will go to
complete the system and perhaps to pur
chase the complete plant of the Los Ange-
les Water company. But that is of course
another story.
The herald., 1895-12-20
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Bids for the Steam Laundry for the
County Hospital Presented
From OverfIows From the San Gabriel
General Routine Business

At tho r,eatino IF the hoard of slIperyis
S..s.,, SLa;ur,.n Er.no;soa ,,ro.
sided and all the members were present.
The opinion of Judge Mckinley in the
Stearns case. deciding that the Jurors were
o,,.:.,., .. ,,,;In.,, ,,;rn q. ,rd r.turn;no
eiH'ieu " ,'i''o"eo so'ne " GU us
from tneir homes Oh aoJourliiieh'' ""s ie
ceived and filed.
petition was presented from certain
land owners Of the Cerritos COLONY asking
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'""' VIC oo"'u on s. ' ~, % ~.
sary 10 protect tne Puoiic highways VI Ier-
Iitos colony, Long Beach road district,
from overflows from the San Gabriel
river and subscribino s11O az a contribu.
80 - .''..a
''"n io' .n"' p ~ ri' MIL, ;. An
On motion OF supervisor field II was de-
cided for the board to visit the Long Beach
road district December %, for the purpose
of inspecting the roads and determining
what can be done TO prevent overfiows.
In the matter of the petition for a bridge
over the arroyo that crosses Stephenson
avenue about q quarter OF mile east OF
the city limits, it was decided, on motion of
Supervisor Hay, that committee of the
board should visit the site of the proposed
bridge December ~.
The following bids for constructing the
steam plant and laundry equipment for
the county hospital were received, and, on
motion of Supervisor Field. were taken I'M
der advisement: The Machinery Supply
company, Sl725: II. j. Crawford, $500:
John Zeller, $500; Schmidt d Sears,
$2325; Halleen d Bergstrom. $500.
The certificate and exhibits OF the board
of trustees OF Llano school district con-
corning the issuance of Sl1OO bonds for
the building of school house, showing
that the bond election had carried. were
filed. On motion of Supervisor Hanley the
usual publication was ordered. Bids will
be opened January and the bonds will be
dated January %.
A number of claims were rejected for va
rious irregularities.
Ex.Gov. II. II. Markham was granted
liquor license for the Hotel San Gabriel, on
motion OF Supervisor Woodward.
On motion of Supervisor Hay the matter
of burying INDECENT dead was referred to
the hospital committee. with power to act.
The management of Evergreen cemetery
have notified the supervisors that after the
The herald., 1895-12-20
Licensed to Wed

The following marriage licenses were
Issued by the county clerk yesterday:
Vincent Sentous, a native of France, aged
3S years, and leila Meysan, native of
California, aged 20 years, both residents of
Los Angeles.
Walter W. Morse, native of Illinois,
aged % years, and Mary A. Turner, ma
tive of California, aged "a years, both
residents of Los Angeles.
John E. Fithen, a native of Ohio, aged 50
years and resident of Pasadena, and Ada
H. Chase, a native of Massachusetts, aged
10 years and a resident of Covina.
Louis Dillmann, native of Germany,
aged 90 years, and Mrs. Matte NJ. Smith,
q native of Canada, aged 60 years, both
residents of Pasadena.
Anthony Carneau, native of Canada,
aged 20 years. and Dolores Perret, ma
tive of California, aged & years, both resi-
dents of Los Angeles.
Harry Munson Brady. a native of New
York, aged 33 years, and Mrs. Minnie
Sadie Wood, native of Missouri, aged %
years, both residents of Los Angeles.
Peter +. Wise, a native of England, aged
81 years and resident of Los Angeles.
and Amanda NJ. Youngmau, native of
Illinois. aged 40 years and resident of
Oakland.
The herald., 1895-12-20
STOCKWELL SAYS IT'S so
The Councilman From the First Ward Takes
q Discovery

The Councilman From tn. First Ward Takes
Discovery
Councilman George Stockwell, who is
chairman of the committee investigating
the right of the Los Angeles Railway COM
pany to remove or shift the viaduct near
River station, is authority for the state
ment that under the franchise of the COM
pany the latter cannot be compelled to
move the structure. Stockwell thinks that
in view of the opposition which has mani
tested itself, the approaches to the viaduct
will probably be heightened so as to per-
nit of the passage of the electric cars,
which will soon be running to Boyle
Heights. The members of the committee
having, with Mr.. Stockwell. the matter in
charge, are Councilmen Savage and Sny-
der. A report upon the subject will be
ready by Monday. f.
The herald., 1895-12-20
NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR AuENTS
The City is Not Compelled to Abide by the Acts
of an Employee

The City is Not Compelled to Abide by the Acts
Of an Employee
The city attorneys Office is just now
congratulating itself. The decision in the
suit of Mackey and Young, handed down
on Wednesday by Judge Van Dyke, in
favor of the city, emphasizes the point for
which City Attorney Dunn has SO long and
so often commended, and that is that the
city cannot be held responsible for any
changes in contracts or any Indebtedness
OF liabilities incurred through unauthorized
statements or orders of its inspectors,
superintendents or other officers; that the
city can only contract or become liable in
certa in ways specified in its charter. The
many attempts made to compel the city to
pay damages for acts of it's officers or
agents, or of contractors working for the
city, have thus far always proved unsuc-
CQsnfIl
The herald., 1895-12-20
THE BOXING EXHIBITION
Began and Frazier 0etting Ready for Their
Coming Match

Began and Frazier 0etting Ready for Their
Coming Match
The coming boxing contest at the Los
Angeles Athletic club promises to be one
of the fines. exhibitions that has been Civ
en- in this city for some time. Both men
are getting into the best shape possible,
and their regulations for quickness, clev-
erness and speed promises to be all the
greater by the time that the coming con-
test 10 brought off.
Fred Began. the San Francisco boy,
claims the championship of the Pacific
coast for featherweights. and has never
been beaten in the ring. His weight is
122 pounds, and he is strong. willing
fighter and a very clever boxer. Jack Fra
zier, his opponent. is a Los Angeles boy,
and though probably not as clever as Boz
gan, is stronger and has greater endurance.
His ability to stand punishment is also
strong card in his favor. and he will make
things interesting for bis opponent at all
stages of the game. The men will meet
at catchweights on the night of December
26th, at the gymnasium of the club, for
fifteen rounds, anG a very clever contest
may confidently be looked for.