The herald., 1895-02-22
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDITORS

Los Angeles wants morgue. San
Francisco can spare hers, now thai she
has risen from the dead and is preparing
to clothe herself with the mantle of a
competing railroad. .-Hanford Democrat.
We suggest to our Legislators that they
enact law, making it somebody's busi-
ness to return overcharges collected from
our tax-burdened citizens, and that with
out fees or missions.-Booth' S Bazoo.
1t is showing and blowing in the East,
but the sun shines warmly, the birds
sing sweetly and the merry bathers bathc
comfortably in the ocean here every day.
Who wouldn't enjoy life by the sea these
winter days.-Santa Monica Outlook.
The fact that the train robbers who
looted an express car recently took only
the gold coin aboard leaving all the
silver behind, will doubtless be pointed
out by the silver-plated statesmen as an
other goldbug bug discrimination against
the white metal.-Santa Barbara Morn
ing Press.
Mayor Sutro is tremendous enemy of
the Southern Pacific--with his mouth.
His purse, however, does not Cooperate
and the reason seems to be that they run by
separate mechanisms, the former being
by donkey engine, independent of the
main ne.-Pasadena Evening Star.
Southern California seems to be stand
ing in with the elements or at least the
orange crop does. On top of the double
freeze in Florida and the frost in Valen-
cia, comes the news that snow has dam
aged the orange crops in Sicily. Surely
the prospects look bright for Southern
California and her immense crop of
golden fruit.-Long Beach Eye.
The Los Angeles Herald, which was
mainly responsible for the plan to build a
railway from that city to Fresno, now
urges the construction of line to Bakers
field, to meet the "Spreckels road.
The suggestion is an excellent one, but
if the Los Angeles people really mean
business they would better not wait for
the materializing of the sugar kings
windy scheme. Let them build to Bakers
field and when they get there probably
they will find clear field for their orig
inal plan for a line to Fresno. Riverside
Enterprie.
And now it is denied that there was
anything like torture attempted by the
Hawaiian Government, or its representa-
tives, to wiring confession from the
mouths of unwilling witnesses. The
whole story being denounced as made
from whole cloth, there is no more proof
of its truth than of its falsity. To make
the matter entirely plain a searching in
vestigation should be made by the Gov
eminent and conducted in such way as
to leave no room for doubt regarding the
correctness of the findings. San Diego
Union.
Various rumors are af1oat in regard to
the intention of the Pacific Beet Sugar
Company, until the last meeting of the
stockholders known as the Anaheim Co.
operative Beet Sugar Company. One re
port has it that line of railway from Los
Angeles to Santa Ana will be built down
through new town to be built up around
the factory, which is to be located six
miles west of Anaheim, taking in either
Westminster or Garden Grove. Santa Ana
Evening Blade.
Flax culture is attracting the attention
of this state, and it is reported that con-
tracts for the purchase of some 2000 tons
of fax seed at about $40 per ton have been
made. 1t is believed that 1000 pounds of
seed per acre may be easily produced on
our good lands which should make the
crop profitable, especially if the straw
should be utilized as it ought to be-
We need to diversity our crops, and it
is well to investigate flax, tobacco, sugar
cane and beets in great many localities
where they are not now grown.-San Ber-
nardino Times-Index.