The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-20
THEY WANT SOME WATER
Poured From Jupiter PIuvius' Biggest
Sprinkiing Pot
Dynamite Bomb Intended to Lift
chinaman to Kingdom Come

AZUSA, Nov. 19.-1he farmers of the
valley are ANXIOUS for change OF tn e
very warm, sunny weather that has pre- =.
vailed for several days. II Jupiter flu-
vius wonld Just turn the spouts OF his
watering pots toward the earth for few
days the horticulturists would give HIM
Ia generous vote OF thames. But, nil Dies
perandum! There is time enough for a
good rain com N encsmsnt. and NO are
eontsnted With the idea that our best az
ricultural seasons have been those in
which the pluvial dispensation has held
off until the ides of December. The
taste of wet weather we bad q couple Of
weeks ago was not only a grateful vista
ion agriculturallv considered, but it 20
laid the Dust IN the roads az to secure
tho thanks OF everybody who holds the
reins above his animated quadru cycle.
The people of this burg are on the qui
vive to see what the supervisors will do
about town inspection next THURSDAY,
when their second petition comes up for
hearing. Tie cbntenti0n 6etweeu the
town people and the adjoining ranch
owners Is about the boundaries to be es.
tablished. The latter want to be left out
OF the incorporation, and tho former
Azusa ranch. They point out tine fact
that it has always been tie policy IN
this state to grant the new town incor-
porations generous area Uf territory so
that taxation could be rated at the mini
mum, and to enable the municipality "a
have such an ampe basis of assessable
property as to enable it to carry VI such
public works as are Indispensable to
town corporations. Riverside has fifty
six square miles of territory, Pomona ten
miles, MonrovIa five miles, ana no new
town has as contracted an area as the
ranch owners are bent upon restricting
Azusa to. A larse delegation of repre-
sentative Azussns will be present at the
meeting Of the board onI thursday to back
up :he petition.
Someone tried to blow Hop Sing, our
chief Chinese laundrvman, up to the
moon Sunday night ny setting off dy-
Mantle bomb under his ned. But insteai
of venting its force upward, the bomb
exploded its terrible strengtn in the 9th
er direction and made sad bavoo in the
floor. Instead of being blown heaven.
ward. had the bomb been placed above
Hop Sing, he would have gone in the
directi n that Gioster told Henry VI to
go when he rnn his sword through him.
Hop Sing is the man who collects all the
blackmail exactef in this bailiw from
the Chinese by the Wong Yup company,
and he follows up the coolies with q
sharp stick. Besides that il is said he
runs tan ana other games in his laundry,
the Tang. 1t IS supposed that some re.
calcitrant MongoI who had been forced
to divide his earnings with the company
on the pricniple of the litisant who got
the shells while the lawyer swailo wed
the lusciou. hivalvs, or that some moor
devil who had bsen cheated out OF his
shekels by brace game of tan, was the
author OF this hardy attempt to ssnd
Hop singing to the happy gardens where
bis ancestors are hopI ing around the
houris OF the Celestial Nirvans. Hop
escaped unscathed, but scared nigh unto
death.
This seasons orange crop IS in hne
condition, and the packing houses are