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close attention to the local interests and
make a showing of fact such as might in
duce outsiders to appreciate the resources
of the south, and by settling here keeI
on developing the industries of the re
gion. Mr.. Editor grew restive and
threatened if the directors interfered with
his management to quit some evening
stuff his pockets full of copy and thus
tie the paper up The danger was immi-
nent, and was discussed at length by the
board of directors at meeting called by
Judge Widney for that especial purpose
1t was agreed that the policy decided up
on was the only true one to follow, but
the threat of the rambunctious editor
had not been without effect What was
to be done? Finally Judge Widney
stated that if the editor cleared out as he
had threatened to do he himself would
edit the paper until proper person could
be secured. The board thereupon per-
emptorily gave orders to the rebellious
subordinate that the paper be edited in
accordance with previous instructions.
That evening about O'Clock the foreman
hurried to Judge Widney's office with the
information that the editor had, sure
enough. gathered up all the copy and re.
fused to give out any to the compositors
unless the board of directors would re-
scnd its order and permit him to run the
paper in the manner he desired
Such state of affairs had not been un-
expected, and Judge Widney was quickly
on the scene. The ''comps" were stand
ing around waiting for copy" and the
amateur editor, minus his dinner, set to
work to grind that which would serve as
mental pabulum for the patrons of the
paper next day. Being we'll posted on
the country and its resources, an excel
lent showing was made, and so popular
was the demand for that local issue that
large supply of extras had to be struck
off to accommodate the demand for mail
ing east in answer to letters of inquiry.
Interest was aroused, and the subscrip-
tion list went bounding upward. In the
weekly the whole of the new matter was
run, and over one thousand extra copies
were sold, and then much of it was in
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embryotic stage of its existence again
takes definite shape in the memory.
The population ranged from 5000 to
5000 inhabitants, largely made up of ar
rivals from the eastern states engrafted
upon the Spanish Mexican population
that founded the City of the Angels.
The intersection of Main and COM
mercial streets was then the very center
of the business portion of the city, al
belt turn had been made down Spring
street so that there were few business
houses opposite the Temple block on
Spring street. The Pico House and the
Bella Union were the two leading hotels,
the former kept by man named Knowl
ton, who had earned honorable distinc-
ton with the Confederacy during the
war, and the latter by Staples & Ustick.
The United States, low two-storied
structure, was popular albeit second
rate hotel.
The only line of railroad actually hav-
ing access to the city was the Los Angeles
and San Pedro railroad now the Will
mington branch of the Southern Pacific,
but work had just been inaugurated upon
the northern and eastern extensions
of the Southern Pacific. There was
gap, however, on the north extending
from Delano to Los Angeles, and the
grading had not yet reached eastward be-
yond the city limits. OF so much rail-
road as then existed Colonel Hewitt was
the most courteous of superintendents
The home where the infantile HERALD
was launched upon the world has since
been re1nodeled out of recognizable
shape, but had its location on Spring
street, nearly opposite the new Bullard
and Temple blocks. 1t was one-story
building of modest pretensions and was
owned by F. P. +. Temple, who was at
that time tower of financial strength in
the city, and in that respect shared
supremacy with l. w. Hellman, who
was the cashier of the Farmers and
Merchants bank. There existed keen
business rivalry between these two, but
Temple was generous and unsophisti-
Gated, while his opponent was shrewd,
careful and adhered with scrupulous ex-
actness to business.
1t was c. A. Storke, Esq, now of Santa
Barbara, who had the courage to publish
THE HERALD, and with Taylor cylin-
der press and a three-horse power Baxter
engine, gained the honor of issuing the
first paper in Southern California that
was printed by steam power Both en-
gine and press were pigmies compared to
those now in use in the press-room of the
paper but they served admirably the
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c. w. Gould, deputy clerk.
S. H. Mott, deputy clerk.
c. E. Thorn, district attorney.
E. M. Ross, assistant district attorney.
T. +. Rowan, county treasurer.
William McFadden, Superintendent of
schools.
George Carson, public administrator
F. Lecouvreur, county surveyor.
D. Boutiller, county assessor,
Joseph Kurtz, coroner.
H. Forsman, supervisor.
A. L. Bush, supervisor.
F. Palomares, supervisor.
S. B. Cassell, supervisor.
]. r. Toberman, mayor.
]. r. Wolfe, marshal
George R. Butler, treasurer.
A. w. Hutton, city attorney.
NJ Kremer, clerk.
William Moore, surveyor.
DIR. Wise, health officer.
H. D. Barrows, president George
Smith, William H. Workman, William
Pridham, M. Kremer, trustees.
1t will be noted that among the above
names are not a few gentlemen still
taking active part in the city's welfare,
while others have coined the great ma
jority," and one or two others have left
the vicinity OF their early endeavors.
Petroleum was just beginning to create
excitement by the discovery of a deposit
near Lyons station, now Newhall, and an
announcement of an assessment on the
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purpose for which they were intended at
the time. Indeed, people focked from
far and near to see the plant that was
then far ahead of anything that had up
to that date been seen in the city.
AS competitors in the journalistic field
were the Star, owned and edited by
Major Ben Truman. and the Express,
owned by Tiffany & Painter, two printers,
and edited by J. J. Ayres, who was even
then a man of marked ability but
cramped by his narrow field of labor.
THE HERALD was i'll politics liberal
and independent Democratic. 1t dealt
more with current issues than past mem-
ories, and showed little reverence for the
traditions of the party. 1t was consist
emily anti monopoly and anti-ring at all
times and the friend of labor in all its
forms. The city was strongly Demo
cratic in politics, so much so, indeed, that
the Republicans seldom took even the
trouble to make nominations for either
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booming the city of Los Angeles. THE
HERALD published with his assistance,
too, about that time, map which pur-
ported to be the railroad map of the
future Southern California. When the
Los Angeles & Salt Lake road is COM
pleted, as it will be in the near future,
that map will be perfect for the purpose
for which it was drawn, and will serve to
illustrate the keenness of mental vision
that distinguished some of the early resi-
dents of the city.
The herald., 1896-04-22
The Los Angeles Herald
GIVES ALL THE NEWS
ALL THE TINE

Life is so short and uncertain that no
afford to spend several hours in the morning
vainly trying to find out what happened yester-
day. Readers who thus wasting large por-
ton of their existence i'll wading through the
dismal and uninteresting details dished up by
the banket-sheet newspapers, should subscribe
for THE HERALD. In its columns will be found
the worlds events for the previous twenty four
hours, presented in such a concise and condensed
form that 1t is pleasure and not pain to peruse
them. Compare it with any other California
newspaper not only in price but i'll contents and
style of makeup. Why pay nearly twice the
amount for inferior journal The subscrip-
tion price of THE HERALD is only
The herald., 1896-04-22
Los ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.
Ten Thousand Questions Answered.
Its Agricultural Manufacturing and
Mineral Resources.
Its Geographical and Commercial
Positions.

Its Harbor and Railroad Systems, with
Map of Our Back Country. Re
printed from Weekly Herald of April
4, 1874
Several thousand copies of these were
struck off and sold at 10 cents each and
in short time not one was left on hand.
Three weeks after the self-opinionated
editor was deposed-or, rather deposed
HIMSELF. M. Bassett took hold of the
editorial management, Judge Widney re-
turning to the serenity of his law and
real estate business.
The herald., 1896-04-22
"LOOKING BACKWARD"

The Infant Paper Born Into the World
to People Animated by High Hopes
In casting backward glance to Octo-
Der 2, 1873, when the first issue of THE
HERALD was given to the cosmopolitan
population of the young city, the present
marks of civilization, culture and refine
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stock of the Petroleum Refining compa-
ny appears in the HERALD's first issue,
with notice of the appointment of a
committee to initiate operations as
speedily as possible.
The sheriff of the county also adver-
tised that he had in his possession at
Stephens corral certain horses, describ-
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city and county appeared in the frs
issue:
R. M. Widney, district Judge.
1gnacio Sepulveda, county judge.
]. G. Howard, court commissioner.
B. D. Wilson, state senator.
Thomas D. Mott, assemblyman
Asa Ellis, assemb1yman.
William r. Rowland, sheriff.
AL D. Johnson, under-sheriff
]. M. Baldwin, deputy sheriff.
A. w. Potts. county clerk.
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FURTHER ENTS

Banker Hellman Obtains Control and
Leases the Paper to Ayers & Lynch
Some of the stockholders in the enter
prise were compelled, for financial rea-
sons, to abandon the enterprise, and 1.
w. Hellmau, the banker, secured by
purchase controlling interest in THE
HERALD, and with the assistance of Mr..
Bassett, who retained editorial manage
ment, conducted the paper.
Not for long, however, did Mr.. He'll
man rejoice in the distinction of being
the owner of newspaper for he leased
it in 1875 to Messrs. Ayers & Lynch, who
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city or county. The Spanish element of
the population controlled the elections,
and when Ignacio Sepulveda ran against
Andrew Glassell for county judge in Oc-
tober, 1873, the former received 1888
votes in the city to 2S9 polled for his op-
ponent.
THE HERALD was four page paper OF
the size of the present pages. The fol-
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ing them, taken from Tiburcio Nasquez's
band of robbers, and requesting owners to
claim and prove ownership, pay charges
and take the stock away.
During the first month of issue, on Oc-
tober 23d, to be speci6c-an article ap-
peared entitled "The Right Place to Set
t1e." The article was from the pen of
R. NJ. Widney, at that time district judge,
The herald., 1896-04-22

"Some read to think these are rare !;
some to write - these are common and
some read to talk = and these form the
great majority. ."-Colton.
"Reading maketh full man confer
ence ready man, and writing all exact
man; and therefore if man write little
he hath need of a great memory and if
he confer little he had need have pres
ent wit and if he read little he need
have much cunning to seem to know
that he doeth not. ."-Loyd Bacon.
The herald., 1896-04-22

The story of the evolution of news
paper is, in epitomized form, the story of
the progress made by the community to
which it has been accessory.
While rejecting the various vicissi-
tudes attending the moral, intellectual
and financial advancement of such COM
munity, the daily newspaper has to EN-
counter many difficulties peculiar to it.
self and to surmount oppositions which
may threaten its power for good, as
well as it's financial standing and pros
perity.
Time, while solving old difficulties,
constantly adds new ones and renders
more complex that marvel of mechani-
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1896-09-04
Ii Hung Chang.

New YORK, September LII Hung
Chang passed busy day, and ap-
parently one profitable and pleasant
to himself. The first formal event
was the presentation to him of an ad-
dress by the Foreign Missionary Boards
expressing the appreciation of the
favor which the Chinese Government
has for many years shown towards the
missionaries To this Ii made a for
NAL reply, complimenting the Mission
aries in terms of high praise.
The American Missionary Societies
united in presenting the addresses re-
presented the following Churches;
Methodist Episcopal North and South),
the Baptist North and South), Presby-
terian North and South), Congrega-
tional, Protestant Episcopal and Re-
formed, all together aggregating in
Church membership 747, 200.
The Merchants Club gave a recep-
ton to Ii this afternoon and later on
the Vic roy drove through China.
town.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1896-09-04
Railroad Rate War.

WASHINGTON, September 1.-The
Seaboard Air Line to-day filed with
the Interstate Commerce Commission
a new tariff of passenger rates, to go in
to effect Friday, September 4, making
lower rate in passenger fares than
was in effect by the tariff previously
filed, which as a result of Judge Sim
onton's order was withdrawn August
Is. The new tariff makes the rate he
tween Norfolk and Atlanta $S
against SO under the tariff withdrawn
with corresponding reduction to
points north of Norfolk. The Seaboard
has not yet filed amended freight
tariffs.
PORTSMOUTH, Va, September l.
Vice President st. John of the S. A. l..
today, in the course of an interview OIL
the subject of Judge Simonton's recent
decision dissolving the temporary in
Junction against the seaboard Air Line,
said there was no reason why the Sea
board should not return to rates in
effect previous to the issuance of the
restraining order. Referring to in
timations that the Southern State
Freight Association is preparing a
tariff on the basis of so per cent. re-
duction to Seaboard competitive points.
ignoring the long and short haul clause
of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, the Commission, he said, will
enforce in its own way law which
demands that no higher rate shall be
made for shorter than for a longer
haul, and that the Seaboard would obey
this feature of the law in tariffs to be
issued, as in the past.
THE present disturbance in rates,
said Mr.. St. John, "results from the
Southern's efforts to destroy our reve-
nues and business. We shall defend
our property and our rights from at
tack, from whatever source it may come
and we will continue to oppose to the
millions of their bankers the sturdy,
unwavering loyalty of the merchants
shippers, farmers, manufacturers, pro-
ducers, and the good people of all the
territory tributary to our line in whose
interest the conflict is waged, as we'll
as our own.n
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1896-09-04
Armenians Massacred.

CoNsrANTINOPLE, September L.
The number of persons killed in Sun
days rioting at Hasskein is estimated at
two hundred. The owners Of the houses
which were looted in that town are re-
turning, and have succeeded in getting
some of their lost goods restored to
them. Much of the plunder were found
in Jewish houses.
Over one thousand persons were mas
sacred in the Psamatra district, three
hundred Armenians having been
drawn out of their houses and murder
ed by one Khan alone. The Kurdish
porters in the Custom House killed
their Armenian comrades during the
late rioting, and horribly mutilated
their bodies.
Tile foreign families residing here
continue to hang from their windows
the flag Of their various nationalities.
Baron de Calice, the Austrian ambassa-
dor, has had several interviews with
the Sultan, who repeats his assurances
that ample measures have been taken
to ensure quiet. The Porte will have a
large amount of indemnity to pay to
foreigners whose houses and offices
have been broken into and looted by
the mobs.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1896-09-04
Alabama Convention.

MONTGOMERY, September 1.-Con'
gressional conventions were ordered
by the Democratic State Committee tc
he held to-day in all the districts. AS
far as heard from, the following candi.
dates have been nominated: Second
District, Jesse Stallings, without oppo.
sition; Third District, Henry D. Clay
ton, no opposition; Sixth District, John
H. Bankhead, on first ballot; Ninth
District, Oscar Underwood, by accla.
nation,
The Fourth District Convention met
last week and after over nine hundred
ballots adjourned until the II inst.
The First Congressional Convention
is dea Hooked. There are four candi-
dates, two sound money and two free
silver. The sound money men have
% votes and free silver 23. Adjourned
until tomorrow.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1896-09-04
A Big Fire at Norfolk.

NORFOLK, Va, Sept. 81 a. m,-The
extensive factory of S. R. White 6.
Sons Company, manufacturers of agri-
cultural implements, located on East
Water street, was burned tonight. The
flames are still raging and the entire
fire department and fire tugs have
turned their attention to saving ada
cent property.
At midnight the fire had spread to
the Union stock yards on Nebraska
street containing several hundred cat
tie, and the animals were rescued, bnt
the entire block between Water and
Nebraska streets, is doomed. In this
square is located the iron foundry of
w. Anderson, which strenuous efforts
are being made to save. Fears for the
safety of the steamship wharves of the
Old Dominion and Clyde Lines are en-
tertained.
Rumors are rife that two men per-
ished at the stock yards, but they have
not been confirmed, and no lives are
believed to have been lost.
The loss will easily approximate
$250,0O0, and the fire is not yet under
control. The fire has caught across
Nebraska street, and the Hotel Glad
stone is in danger.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1896-09-04
Pickpockets. Il

CLEVELAND, o., September 1.-The
pocket-picking gang still cling close tc
Candidate Bryan. They secured six
pocket books from persons who accom-
panied him on the train from Ripley,
N. Y, to Cleveland, yesterday. AT
the Lake Shore station they reaped a
rich harvest from the crowd there as
sembled to greet the nominee. One of
them was detected in the act of extract
ing purse and was mobbed by those
near by. He was knocked senseless
by blow from a cane and taken to a
police station.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1896-09-04
LODGES.

Regular meetings Of Mt. Lebanon
Lodge No. III A. F. & A. M. are held
in their hall, corner Of Nash and Colds
boro streets on the Ist and 3rd Monday
nights at 7:3o O. clock P M. each month.
D. Bullock, W. M.
Regular meetings of Mt. Lebanon
Chapter No. 27 are held in the Masonic
Hall every 2nd Monday night at 7:3o
O'Clock P. NJ. each month.
Lat Williams, H. P.
Regular meetings of Mt. Lebanon
Commandery No. 4 are held in the Ma
sonic hall every 4th Monday night at
y7:3o O'Clock each month.
w. H. Applewhite, E.r.
Regular meetings Of Wilson Lodge,
X. of H. No. 1904 are held in their hall
over the First National Bank every 1st
Thursday evening at $3.50 o'clock. P. M
B. F. Briggs, Director.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1896-09-04

Bryan's Visit to Chicago.

CHICAGO, September l. The trouble
some question as to whether W. J.
Bryan will remain in Chicago from
September A to 7, and address the
union working men on the latter day,
which Labor Day, according to a
promise he made during the conven-
tion, was, Settled yesterday by the re-
ceipt of altelegram from the nominee'
stating he would speak here Labor
Day. Mr.. Bryan will arrive Septem-
Der 4 4hd no arrangements have yet
been made for speech-making in or out
of Chicago between that and Labor
Day. The time will probably be spent
at headquarters in conferences and in
Testing.
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y
AUSTIN, September 1.-State Com
missioner of Agriculture A. G. Ross
yesterday issued crop bulletin cover
ing 12O counties in the agricultural
portion of the State. Itputs the aver
age yield of lint cotton at only 80
pounds per acre; corn, seven bushels;
wheat, nine bushels, oats, II bushels.
The increased acreage in cotton is put
at Is per cent. The report says it is
doubtful if Texas has experienced a
more general and more damaging
drought in the past thirty years during
the crop season.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1896-09-04

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, September /
The Democrats and Populists of this
State yesterday agreed to unite on the
ELECTORAL ticket. The committee OF
thirteen appointed to confer. and about
twenty other representatives of the
party met with Chairman Holt, of the
Democratic State Committee, and sew
eral of the Democratic nominees for
State officers, and after various PROPOSE
tions had been made, back and forth,
1t was agreed that the electoriai ticket
shall be divided between the two par
ties.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1896-09-04
Election Officials Decline to Serve

BALTIMORE, September 2.-Over 100
democratic election officers in this city,
who have announced their unwilling
ness to support the Chicago nominees,
have been excused by the supervisors
of electionsand their places filled with
Bryan adherents. For the first time in
the history of the city, colored men will
serve this year as election officials.
Three colored republican registrars
have been appointed and several negro
ballot clerks are also to be chosen.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1896-09-04
A New Trial After Being Twice Sentenced.

RICHMOND, VA. September a.
Circuit Judge Coleman sitting at
Farmville to-day granted new erial to
Mary Abernethy, twice convicted of be-
ing implicated in the murder of Mrs.
Pollard, Of Lunenburg, and sentenced
tobe hanged. The ground was that
the evidence did not justify the verdict.
1t is thop4ht now that the case will be
pole pfosequied, and that Mary Barnes
now serving term in the peniteptiary,
she having been convicted of COM
plicity in the crime, will be pardoned.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1896-09-04
POLICE (:
D. P. CHRISTIAN, Chief.
EPHRIAM HARRELL, FRANK FELTON,
JAMES MARSHBoURNE.
CHURCHES.

St. TimotE, IS Episcopal church,
Rev. ]. c. Wingate, Rector; morning
services II o'clock, evening 1890
o'clock. Sunday School at 3 clock,
P. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday and
and Friday, S O'Clock P. M.
Methodist Church, Rev. T. N. Ivey,
Pastor; services at II A. M. and 7:3o
P. M. Sunday School, S P. NJ, ]. F.
Bruton, Supt. Prayer meeting We'd
nesday night at 1890.
Disciples Church, Rev D. w, Davis,
Pastor services on Second, Third and
Fourth Sundays at HOO A. NJ. and
7:S0 P. NJ. Prayer meeting every
Thursday night. Sunday Schoolat 5
o'clock, P. NJ, Geo. Hackney, Supt.
Presbyterian Church, Rev. James
Thomas, Pastor; services on the First,
Second and Third Sunday in every
month and at Strickland's church
every Fourth Sunday. Sunday School
at 5o'clock, P M.
Baptist Church.-Service as follows:
Preaching Sunday morning at II
o'clock and at $40 pm. Rev ]. A..
Rood Pastor, Prayer meeting We'd
nesday evening at 8 o'clock. Sunday
School at 5p. m. d. S. Boykin, Supt.
Primitive Baptist Church, preaching
on end Sunday by Elder Jas Bass; on
3rd Sunday by Elder Jas, S. Woodard;
on the 4th Sunday and Saturday before
by the pastor, Elder P. D. Gold. Ser
! vices begin at II A. NJ.
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PETERSBURG, VA, September 2
The protracted drought in the counties
of Southside Virginia has wrought
great destruction to crops Of allkinds.
In some localities there has been no
rain ofconsequence for more than six
months. Farmers say that not half a
crop of corn or peanuts will be made
and the cotton crop will be short. The
smaller streams are fast drying upland
in some places wells are ba &
dry.
The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1896-09-04
Fire at Winston.

WINSTON, September IA fire
broke out in Masonic Hall, over Mith's
drug store, at 230 this morning. Dam.
age by fire and water to the drug stock
Justice & Barower's bookstore, Schwal.
ler's dry goods store and O'Hanlon's
drug store, all in the same block, will
aggregate $4,000.
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J. w. CRowELL, Sheriff,
RoBT. WHITEHEAD, Deputy.
]. D. BARDIN, Clerk of Superior Court.
w. M. WELLS, Register Of Deeds,
w. T. FARMER, Treasurer,
F. w. TAYLOR, Standard Keeper,
DR.. c. E. MOORE, Coroner,
JAMES w. TAYLOR, Surveyor,