The herald., 1896-08-20
IS STILL MAKING HISTORY
The Signor NicoIetti, Late of Los Angeles
Again Heard From
Pedd'ing Silver Literature at the National
Capital and Arrested for BIockad-
Ing the Sidewalks

stephen Nicoletti, late of Los Angeles
but now of Washington. d. c., is still
making history. Nicoletti will be re-
membered in this city as the keeper of
tough saloon up on New High street,
and afterwards as a fish pedder He
was something of a character in mis- way
and at one time cut quite figure in
ward politics, attending several Demo-
cratic conventions as a delegate. He
also figured in an episode which came
near disrupting the local Democracy,
and wanted to bring suit against The
Herald. then under the control of Hon.
j. d. Lynch, for libel, mic" taking as
personal to himself Mr.. Lynch's remark
referring to certain Democratic dele
gates as ''pimps and pariahs." Nico-
letti never amounted to much after this,
and finally left the city. The following
Washington special to the San Fran
cisco Call would indicate that he has
not changed since he left Los Angeles:
California's Italian colony in Wash
ington consists of Celso Caesar Moreno,
formerly premier to King Kalakaua,
which office he held twenty-four hours,
and Stephen Nicoletti of Los Angeles.
Moreno has just served sentence in
jail for libeling Baron Fava, Italian
minister to the United States, and now
Nicoletti has been arrested and Jailed
for obstructing the sidewalk with his
push cart from which he peddles a book
entitled The Great Gold Conspiracy, or
the Worst Form of Finance in the
World
The strange spectacle of this timer
ant perambulating literary Italian ped
ding his own book from a banana cart
has greatly amused the Washington
people. He declares that he wrote the
book himself, but his broken English
seems to belle his words. He pushes his
cart up and down the main thorough
fares of Washington, crying out that
he has literary wares for sale. "Nice-a
book, nice-a book, fifta cent-vera
cheap; 1 write-a myself-a." Nicoletti
has displayed conspicuously on his cart
framed autograph letters from promi-
nent politicians and statesmen, among
them being Senator White of California.
Nicoletti also exposes to the gaze of
pedestrians the illteracy of M. c. Ran
kin, treasurer of the national Populist
party, who, in his letter to Nicoletti
says he "seen a copy of it and wants
four more copies for educational pur
poses"
Nicoletti was haranguing a crowd on
fenHSylNdHld avenue anu crylHS his
book for sale when an official of the war
department engaged him in debate on
the money question and other economic
questions The street was soon crowded
and the sidewalk impossible. The by
ISLANDERS evidently thought Nicoletti
was getting the best of the argument
| for they cheered him wildly, which irri-
| tated his adversary The latter went to
the police station, swore out complaint
IN CT ha 10 Io cd
| The silver cranks are eXaggera ting the
| Importance of this incident, and tomor-
rows New York Journal will declare
that it is an outrage on the part of the
Cleveland cucl<oos to arrest poor old
Nicoletti. 1t is hardly believed, how
ever, that the Italians imprisonment
will assume interna tional proportions.