The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-07-02
TIME IN ASSESSORS OFFICE
The Dull Routine Of Official Work Was
Pleasantly Disturbed
Statement Of Business Done 10 the Office Of
the County Clerk
riguses Of the County Auditor for the Month
sfJune-Funds In the County Treasury.
A Restraining 0rjer-case Re-
vived-court News


barren is in despair at finding that he
is a married man.
He is only cow-milker. speaks, in
addition to his own language, only a
little Spanish, and claims that his wife,
under the law, got the bulge" on him
and married him while he was drunk
and knew nothing about it. He visited
the court house yesterday with J. P.
Goytino, for the purpose of finding out
whether the marriage that his other half
told him about had been by license or
was snap affair. Sure enough the rec
ord showed that license had been is
sued on Monday last to one Encarnacion
v. Sanchez, otherwise Familiarity known
by her intimates as "Chona."
1t appears that Iribarren had been
carrying on an intrigue with Chona, and
as the latter could not extort any money
from him she ascribed the fact not to
his poverty, but to his stinginess. On
Monday last he had occasion to visit
the office Of j. Marion Brooks, the we'll
known attorney, and Chona accompa-
MED him. She wanted him to take her
into the court house and show her
around, but he refused. To the illiterate
Basque going into the court house meant
going to jail. Not to be rebuffed, the
fair Chona went alone and found her
way into Cupids den, where she obtain
ed marriage license. Being una
quainted with the patronymic of the
swain to whom she had lost her heart,
she gave his name as Martin Elizeveri,
and his age as q, three years under the
mark, and her own as 81 years, an over
sight of several chilly winters.
Hbn 1,t,.x
n1zed the same evening by Judge Smith
at the house of Mrs. Eloisa S. de Quit
terez, 322 Wilmington street, sister of
Chona and lady who is noted for the
excellence of her Spanish menu. When
Judge Smith arrived, however, the bride
groom was not present, and the bride
forthwith chased around to Also street
where he boarded and logged him
around. When he saw Judge Smith he
wanted to know who he was, and for
the moment was satisfied when Chona
represented him as one of her friends
During the ceremony when orthodox
folks Join hands, the bridegroom became
FESTIVE.
Give me your hand" requested Cho-
ma in dulcet tones.
My hand. What in the - will 1
give you my hand for?" responded the
groom, with drunken gravity
what, you won't give me your hand
as friend?" queried Chona, and she
had her way.
When the question was put relative
to his taking the woman to be his wife
Chona interpreted the words by saving
the man wanted to know if he didn't
come to see her now and then. and
wouldn't he let her have dollar or two
If she was broke. To this Martin nodded
his head in the affirmative, and the trick
of matrimony was DONE
The newly made husband left his bride
and went to bed at his boarding house
Kept by a countryman named Domingo
Hiriart. The brand new Mrs. Elizeyeri
or Iribarren came along to claim her
hubby next morning, but he strained the
Basque dialect to its fullest capacity in
venting his ire upon his spouse But
the blood-curdling explosives fell far
short of moving Chona to deny her rights
in the premises.
you know you are my husband and
gave me your hand last night before that
stranger" urged the wife
You lie" retorted Martin. and then
in the choicest Basque he set out Che
mas various discrepancies of face and
figure.
Me marry you" he exclaimed, you
have only one eye and your face is full
of holes.'
1t is too true; it is minus an optic and
the raVages of smallpox have left tell
tale marks.
And this is how Martin says he was
buncoed into matrimony He seeks now
to have it annulled, and as Chona tried
sometime ago to hold one Nicholas
Juanco, also a Basque, by an invalid
marriage contract, it is likely his efforts
in this direcstion will not be in vim
Very naturally, Judge Smith has been
surprised by the turn of events. When
a hack came for him he was perfectly
ready to be of such a happy use as to
unite two loving hearts. Everything ap-
peared regular, and Martin nodded his
head at the crucial point, and in so do
ing completed the act of his own matri-
monial undong