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The herald., 1895-03-29
SEWER GAS GALORE
WILLIAM HENDERSON
To the Editor of the Herald:

To the Editor of the Herald:
The prevalence of sewage odors through
out the city is strong enough during the
some other method besides that at present
adopted by the health authorities Is a
necessity if the city wants to retain its
reputation for health. An observer can
note the large array of pipes terminating
through roofs at various points
open manhole covers on streets over sew
ers, houses with yard closets having soil
pipes standing upright above them. cess
pools with their escape pipes either twelve
feet perpendicular over them or carried
back to the house and extended hive feet
above the eaves--is most abOminable
method.
Two story houses alongside of cottages
or houses on face of hills with their
bedroom windows open in line with the
vent pipes on roofs of lower houses or
cottages. with cesspools and yard closets
with vents in like position are infected
with those gases.
All these pipes and manholes being
active vents, are continually pollutng
the atmosphere with their odors and dis
ease germs.
In fact. were premium offered for the
most thorough method of polluting the
air we have to breathe, the system now
IN use could not be improved on. Many
people consider that these pipes through
roofs are not necessary. Certainly they
are. but not as active vent pipes, as they
are under the present CITY regulations.
The riSinator of this method of house
sanitation did not intend them to be
used for that purpose. Their purpose
was to prevent siphonage of traps by their
own action or from the passage of water
from other fixtures or back pressure when
upper fixtures are discharged.
In 1882 the National Board of Health
had practical experiments conducted on
large scale in Boston 10 determine the
safest method for house plumbing and to
recommend for adoption by the various
local boards OF health.
The necessity was demonstrated of hav-
ing a running underground sewer gas cut
off trap on house dram branch. between
dwelling anI main sewer, and separate
air pipes from all traps.
There being no laws to enforce these
recommendations and the difficulty and
the expense being great OF running vent
pipes to roofs from lower fixtures in old
buihiingS, it was deemed safest to leave
a handhoe on the said trap open to act
as Il back pressure outlet.
This vent has always been considered
dangerous, but now as the original intent
is being carried out in Los Angeles Of
venting ali traps, this handhole should
he closed. as the separate vents on traps
relieves back pressure. (Los Angeles
Health Board rules prohibit the use Of
this trap.)
Wncn waste pipes are run inside OF
bindings the air III them is raretied
The herald., 1895-03-29
HOMES FOR THE MILLION

A meeting full OF Importance for West
ern America WAS held in Boston few
DAYS since 1t was called by William Z.
Smythe chairman OF the executive com
mitt. .e Of the National Irrigation Con-
grtss ami was presided over by Edward
Everett Hale. This meeting was the in
itial one of series to be held in the East
ern cities to interest capitalists and phil
anthropsts in the project to secure
homes on the arid soils of the West for
the thousands of now homeless families
in the coneested tenement districts of
American cities. The venerable phlan-
thropist who presided at the meeting
made a ringing address and likened the
new move to that other movement which
was starred in the shadows of Fanuel Hall
nearly half century ago ana which had
for its object the freedom OF the black
man from slavery. 1t is lifting that this
effort to sccure change from the slavery
Of the tenement house to the sovereignty
OF the soil should he inaugurated within
sight of the spot where the historic tea
boxes were dumped into Boston harbor
as a protest. against British taxation
While there are many millions Of acres
of rich land in the West fit for cultiva-
ton. if irrigating water can be secured,
which must lie idle ior years. there are
men and women enough out of work in
the far Eastern states to till these lands
and make them productive, if means can
be devised to bring these untitled acres
and these homeless people together The
subject is OF too large magnitude for pri-
yatc settlement and whatever is done on
any extended scale must be done by the
general Government or by large corpora
tons. This suggestion smackS somewhat of
paternal sm, but as this is government
for the people. any object having in
view the provision OF independence for
its citizens should meet with general en-
couragement. All that is asked by the
lea,iers Oi the new movement is that the
Government shall demonstrate two
things-discovery and distribution. The
d d.ocovery ot where water exists which
can be used for irrigation, and upon
The herald., 1895-03-29
LAND PRICES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

An occasional new conner to this land of
sunshine and flowers registers vigorous
and rotund kick because the values of un-
improved land have reached what he
deems to be d high water mark price. As
rule these people overlook the fact that
a large part of this value in our lands is
directly attributable to the knowledge
which we now have of the uses to which
this land may be put A score of years
ago land in Riverside was selling at $50
per acre, but no man knew whether it was
good for oranges, or walnuts, or almonds,
or apricots. Planters set out all sorts of
trees at haphazard. only to dig up three
fourths of them few years later, because
the soil and climate were found to be un
fitted for some kinds of fruit trees, while
being peculiarly adapted to others. AS
matter of fact land is cheaper today at
5000 per acre than it was twenty years ago
at one-fourth that price. There are thou
sands of acres of land in Los Angeles and
San Bernardino counties which can be
purchased today at from $50 to $50 per
acre. some with water and some without,
which are very much more productive
than Illinois farming lands which are
held today at from $40 to 500 per acre.
AS matter of fact, when we consider
climate. soil. nearness to markets and
shipping advantages, the lands of South
ern California are cheaper today at ruling
prices than lands in any other portion
of the United States.
The herald., 1895-03-29
STRICTLY PERSONAL

Miss Blgrami. of Hyderabad, the first
Mahometan girl to try university ex-
animation. has passed in arts and in
Arabic with honors at the Madras In
dia) University. AS she was not allowed
to leave the zenana, she prepared herself
in her own home.
General Robert K. Scott of Napoleon,
o., was one of the last of the volunteer
Brigadier- Generals to be mustered out of
the service after the war. and later was
twice elected Governor of South Carolina
on the Republican ticket. 1t is related of
him that during his second campaign for
Governor he frustrated a plot to kill him
IN railroad car by riding to the capital
with navy revolver lying in plain sight
across his knee.
Mrs. Margaret Deland author of John
Ward, Preacher. is a great favorite in
Boston. She is the owner of one of the
largest mastiffs in the city, who accom-
panies his fond mistress in all her walks
and rambles. He is noted for his polite
ness to smaller and inferior dogs, fire.
auently giving up some choice morsel to
mongrel ours. Mrs. Deland's home is a
cozy house in one of the oldest but most
pleasant streets in the city, where a
glimpse of the blue waters of the Charles
River may be obtained from bay window
over the front door. She devotes the en-
tire morning to writing. Whether vol
ume of poems or new novel is to be an.
nounced is not whispered in literary cir.
Cles, H.
The herald., 1895-03-29
THEIR POINT OF VIEW

The first thing to do is to cultivate a
spirit of local patriotism. There is no
room for jealousies and chickering's in
prosperous community.-Visa Times.
4 4 4
If about dozen of the fraudulent land
grants of Southern Arizona are knocked
out by the land court the country will
soon settle up with prosperous farmers
Nogales Vidette.
Those fellows who have alrady COM
menced to run for the Presidency need
good legs and plenty of wnd, for they will
get awfully tired before the convention
meets. Tucson Star.
4
When the shackels of the land grant
sharks are shaken from Southern Ari-
IONA. she will forge ahead and hundreds
of prosperous farmers will occupy her
rich and productive lands.-Border vi
dette.
Pasadena might send to the Fiesta a
gigantic horn of plenty filled with fruit
and flowers which could be thrown at the
people. We could carpet the streets OF
Los Angeles with roses and not m iss
them.-Pasadena News.
4 4 4
Vacaville will have to 60 little more
careful after this. Not only has she lost
$3.50, 900 worth of fruit by the late FROST
but she is about to lose her reputation as
1.-The early fruit belt. Woodland Re-
porter.
4 4
The legislative records show that the
LIQUOR associations of California went to
market for wool and came home shorn.
1t is another instance of miscalculation
concerning the patience OF the people,
Sacramento Record U Mon.
= = =
One would think that with three o,
four international complications on its
hands American citizens generally would
stand by the administration. But to such
lengths has partisan bitterness gone that
Republican editors and politicians all
over the country seem so delights ted to be
able to imagine that the President is ''in
role' that they would welcome bloody
and costly war to prove that he was in the
wrong. San Jose Herald
The herald., 1895-03-29
THEIR IDEA OF HUMOR
INCOMPATIBILITY


The Househy-That moth and his wife
have separated.
The Cockroach--Yes they were thor
oughly incompatible. He was very fond
of books while she cared for nothing but
clothes.
LET IN THE WOLF
Landlady-Well, must do something to
keep the wolf from the door.
Boarder-I don't know that it is alto
gether necessary. let him come in and
tackle one of your breakfasts and | don t
think he'll ever trouble you again.-De-
troit Free Press.
GOOD FOR A COLD
''Can you tell me what is good for a
cold?' asked the individual with a frog
in his throat.
~ have tried many things replied the
trifier but | don't know as there is any
thing more sure than sitting in wet feet
with the temperature in the ighborhood
of zero boston Transcript.
THOSE NUDE TREES
First Boston Lady-Isn't it awful, in
comprehensibly terrible.
Second Boston Lady-What?
First Boston Lady-That the city would
allow the trees to pose as living pictures
all the winter lone.-Syracuse Post
WAS IT SKIRT DANCING?
"Did you enjoy the play ?"
Every much. 1t could hardly have been
more enjoyable without making respect
able people ashamed to be there. detroit
Tri bIIne
The herald., 1895-03-29

enough to maintain . vacuum. insuring
during sleeping hours, and in the event
Of any leaks or defects arising in waste
pipes they will inhale at the defective
parts.
The sheltered position occupied by Los
Angeles as bordered by mountains and
sea, the cold, calm atmospheric pressure
from the mountains or moist atmosphere
from the ocean fogs, creates a downward
current. forcing the escaping odors and
germs from vent pipes to the earth; when
convenient bed room windows or venti-
lators are not left open to iphale them.
Some vent pipes which are run on out
side of buildings act as cold air imlets to
supply active vents and manhole gIatings.
| trust this letter will be the means Of
getting further light on this important
subject from some Of your correspond
ents
The herald., 1895-03-29

what lands the water can be distributed
to good advantage. Having done these
two things, through competent board
of engineers, the state can take advantage
OF the knowledge, through the Carey law,
and provide for a settlement of the lands.
In settling the lands it will be neces-
sary, probably, to adopt some such form
of community settlement as is now being
given trial in Southeastern Idaho, in
the Payette valley. In the case cited, ten
sections of desert land have been taken
up by number of gentlemen. water
being placed thereon from a neighboring
stream. the land has been subdivided into
twenty-acre tracts and ownership is to be
limited to single tract for each family.
In the center of this body of land vii
lage of half-acre lots has been laid out and
each land owner is expected to live in
this village with his family, thus giving
them the benefit of companionship and
social advantages. Their lands are to be
planted to vegetables, alfalfa and fruits.
The neighboring mines will afford a
market. at good prices, for all their pro-
duce, and IN brief period fiourishing
village can be built up on what is now
practically voiceless desert. This COM
munity, if successful, can be duplicated
in hundreds of other valleys of the great
West from the eastern line of Colorado to
the southwestern corner of California.
Even within one hundred miles of Los
Angeles, in Los Angeles San Bernardino
and Riverside counties there are thou
sands of acres of fine land, and thousands
of inches of water going to waste, upon
which a score of such communities as
that outlined above could create prosper
Gus and happy homes.
The herald., 1895-03-29
SOUTH OF TEHACHEPI
Orange county

Orange county has seventy -four sch ools.
new evening paper-The San Dieg"
Republican.
A large number of orange trees are being
planted at Mesa, Ariz.
The first pig tin ever produced in the
United States came from the Temescal
mines in Riverside county.
There are $50 900 acres Of unentered
Government land in San Luis Obispo
county.
Santa Barbara county produces be-
tween so, 00o and 10000 sacks of mustard
seed ever year.
A rich strike has been made at Sulphur
Springs Valley, Ariz., and Tom bstone
will reap good harvest from it.
A good many Tucson people are max
ing preparations to be in Los Angeles dur
ing Fiesta week. says the Tucson Star.
The herald., 1895-03-29
THE WHITNEY ACT AND JURY TRIALS


1t was only a few days ago that the Su-
preme Court inflicted serious wound to
that part of the Whitney act denying Jury
trials to persons accused of certain mis-
demeanors, unknown under the common
law but created by the statutes from time
to time, as increased re eiinement in Grim
inal methods made it necessary. by dis
charging a pris soner, under hahcas corpus
proceedings. who had been refused such
a trial by Los Angeles police Judge, for
purely statutory offense, namely, that
OF practicing medicine without a proper
license.
Yesterday Judge Smith punctured the
act again by reversing two judgments
and remandng for new trials the cases of
men who had not been allowed new trials
in the Los Angeles police court and had
been convicted by its judges for gaming
The court was OF opinion that the SUI
preme tribunals decision made it almost
impossible to decide with any degree OF
certainty when a jury might be safely de
MED Il person charged with q statutory Of
fense. If the Whitney act was not uncon-
stitut;onal in this particular part. il WIS
at least discrim NATIVE because il took
away from person in city OF over 30. e.
600 inhabitants rights which were inalien-
able now to another in Il community Of
merely 5000.
Under such decisions it is hardly pos
siblc that iurieS will hercaftcr be denied
by police magistrates when demanded.
The popularity OF statutory offenses is
that in nearly every Instance where arrests
The herald., 1895-03-29

a snake. But this one proved to belon
to a superior class of reptiles. 1t had two
perfect heals, one at each extremity.
The son. se"ing his nakeship moving off,
remarked that he thought his father had
killed the snake. Then. on examining
the snake more closely, they discovered
its peculiarty, but it was too late to cap
ture the reptile with both heads alive.
and Mr.. Johnston finished killing it by
sticking his pitchfork through the other
head. The dried skeleton. with skin in
tact, is in possession OF b. 0. Snider the
jeweler at Jackson, and will be sent to
the Smithsonian Institute.
The herald., 1895-03-29
NORTH OF TEHACHEPI

At Fresno there is an epidemic of shop
lifting.
A highbnder war is imminent in Sac
ramento.
Santa Clara county will have a Rose
Festival at San Jose in April.
Alameda, with population of Is, 900.
has three healthy daily newspapers.
There are six ,hipyards at San Fran
cisco. AZ foundries, 60 warehouses, and
$50 manufactures.
At Mendoto there are three brothers
who make a business OF stealing houses
from government lands Usually the
houses are taken piece but recently
one was carted off intact with all its con
tents.
The herald., 1895-03-29
THE REAL ESTATE nAN'S REVERE

JAG HUMPHREYS
MY soul today
Is far away,
Where ripping waters laughing play: &. r.
Where high o'erhead
The green deep bed o
OF Spring times gorgeous show is spread. =
The mass of leaves q
About me weaves
phantasy the eye deceives; Is
And on limb. q
Remote and dim, a
Some songster chants a morning hymn. =
It's but dream s
To gently wean
Me from the cares of Ii e so keen: 4
My body's not -
Upon the spot, 4,
But is trying to sell an outside lot. y
Or. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Award.
The herald., 1895-03-29
A DOUBLE EFFECT
Here's Wild Yarn From Tennessee,
Which You Need Not Believe
unless You Want to
ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC

Several weeks ago, while A. J. Johns
ton and his son were loading hay in a
field near Jackson, Tenn, they uncovered
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-10
THE WOMEN WORSTED.
Lively Battle Between Squatters' Wives
aid Vii, Employees.

Lively Battle Between squatters' Wives
aud Mii' Employees.
MARINETTE, WIS, Aug. lO.-The
first blood in the fight between the
squatters and mill owners was shed
during the morning. Six women,
wives of squatters, sailed out to tear
down fence which had been erected
around their homes during the night
and they were attacked by the mill
company's crew. A pitched battle en-
sued and the women were worsted.
Four of them were taken from the
ground covered with bruises and bleed
ing. Jack Lundberg and Dick Cor
man of the mill company were ar
rested.
The affair is causing great excite.
ment and crowds Of people besiege the
squatters' district Mrs. Mary Berger.
son, who was arrested Wednesday,
was found guilty and given l5 days in
Jail. The officers had great difficulty
in arresting her, and if she had not
finally consented to the arrest would
never have been brought before jus.
| tice, as her neighbors were on hand tC
defend her. The women in the squat.
| ters' district are all excited now and
refuse to be pacfied or listen to advice,
and loss OF life may result from the
affair.
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STUBBORN CONTEST.
Prepar ations for n Hot Fight on the Mo
ton to Dust Receivers.

Prepar rations for n Hot Fight on the Mo-
tion to Gust Receivers.
TACOMA, Wash, Aug. l0.-The attor-
neys for the Northern Pacific gathered
here are preparing to stubbornly con-
test the suit to oust the receivers,
brought by Counsel Petit at Seattle.
Ex-senator John &. Spooner and G. w.
Bum, general counsel at st. Paul,
arrived here on special train, and
We're joined little later by ex-senator
j. n. Dolph of Oregon. A long confer
ence was held with j. NJ. Ashton, west
ern counsel, at which the plan of de.
fense was outlined. The attorneys will
go to Seattle and agree on day for the
argument of Mr.. Pettit's motion. Re-
celver Payne went to Portland. Mr..
Bum, counsel at St. Paul, denies that
the position Of western counsel was
ever rendered to Andrew F. Burleigh,
at Seattle.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-10
STATE LAND SALES.
Thirty ooe Minnesota Counties Will Have
Them This Fall.

Thirty-oue Minnesota Counties viii Have
Them This Fall.
ST. PAUL, Aug. 1O.-State Auditor
Dunn has begun to send out blanks to
the state appraisers, who have been
appointed to estimate the value Of state
lands to be sold this fall. Under the
law, as modl fed by the legislature last
winter, there are three appraisers OF
state land in each county. One is ap-
pointed by the governor, one by the
state auditor and the third is elected
by the county commissioners Of the
county in which the land is to be sold.
Sales are to be made this fall in the
following counties: Anoka, Benton,
Blue Earth, Carlton, Carver, Crow
Wing, Dakota, Dodge, Faribault, Fill
more, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston,
Jackson, Kanabec, LIE Sueur, Martin,
Morrison, Mower, Nicollet, Olmsted,
Pine, Rice. Scott, Sherburne. Stearns,
Steele, Wabasha, Wadena, Winona,
Wright and Waseca. The law pro-
vides that none of this land may be
sold for less than s. per acre.
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THREE MORE BODIES.

Still Uncovsring Dead Men in the New
YorS Building Ruins.
NEW YORK, Aug lO.-The workmen
engaged in clearing away the debris in
the collapsed building at West Broad
way and West Third streets, at $50
a. m, unearthed right foot on which
was shoe. This is said to be the right
foot missing from the body of Peter
son. At o'clock another body, the
fourth victim of the disaster, was re-
covered. 1t has not yet been identified.
The bodies Of two more victims were
discovered in the ruins shortly before
noon. One was identified as that Of
Michael Finn. His body was drawn
from beneath mass of wreckage on
the first floor. The other body was un-
identified. This was found beneath the
first floor.
The workmen have not yet reached
the spot where most of the bodies are
believed to be lying. Most of the work.
men who lost their lives are believed to
have been in or near the center of the
building when the rush came and most
of the bodies are expected to be found
near the center.
That there are many bodies beneath
the ruins there is no doubt. Only two
Of the men reported to have been lost
have reported themselves alive, and il
is believed there are at least ten bodies
which will be discovered. before the
ruins have been turned over by the
workmen.
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PLATINUM AND ANTiMONY.
Production oS the Latter Increases-Ths
Former Still IDsignificant.

Prod uction os the Latter Increases-The
Form,r Still Insignificant.
WASHINGTON, Aug. l0.-The review
of the mineral resources of the United
States now being issued gives a short
account Of antimony and platinum. 1t
says that antimoniaI ores have been
found in number of Western states.
chiefly in Arkansas, Idaho, Colorado,
Montana and Utah. 1t is usually found
in the form of sulphite, but also
occurs combined with iron, copper and
lead. The product of the United
States has risen from go tons in
1890, to 250 tons in 1894, valued at
$45, 900. Nearly the entire supply is
from California and is smelted at San
Francisco A lesser, but considerable
quantity, came from Nevada. The i'm
ports were small in 1894, being valued
at only s2I3,OO0, about two-thirds the
usual amount
The production of platinum is still
insignificant. The results of the ex.
animation of the black sands Of the
Oregon beaches have proved disap-
pointment, the amount Of platinum
being scarcely noticeable, although the
sand contains 81. .55 in gold per ton.
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SCATTEREDCHOLERA
Soldiers Have Disseminated
the Disease Over All
Japan.
FRUIT NOT TO BE TOUCHED,
So Largely lmpregnated With
Germs 1t Is PerilouS to
Eat 1t.

PITTsBuRG, Aug. ,0.-The ravages Of
cholera in Japan are set forth this
week in letter received by the friends
of Miss Annie Davis Of this city, mis-
sionary i'll Japan. Heretofore, Miss
Davis states, the cholera has been con-
fined to certain places and densely pop
ulated districts. But, owing to the
war, the soldiers have scattered every
where, and in their tracks the cholera
has followed, until safety is found
almost nowhere.
Miss Davis, who is located at Toxic,
has gone with other friends to the
mountains for the heated months. Ar
ticles of food hitherto priced by the
missionaries during their brief rest In
the mountains have been the fruits
brought from the near towns. This
season the fruit cannot. or must not be
touched. 1t is SO largely impregnated
with cholera germs that it is perllous
to partake of it. Of perils from the
sword, the missionaries in Japan, Miss
Davis states, stand in no danger.