The herald., 1896-10-17
Fire Fighters Injured by Ex-
plosion of Dynamite
NO ONE is SERIOUSLY HURT
And the Work Of Extinguishment
Goes On
Republican Leaders Laying in Stock
Of ReadyMade Enthusiasm-Wheel
Notes-News Brevities.

NORTH FdSdueHd WciS llIJui GU eAiAs 'iASN'N
ing by the explosion of a stick Oh dyna-
mite. Mr.. Banbury is at his nome on
South Fair Oaks avenue, having come
down Immediately after the ACCIDENT.
Twelve men were fighting the fire IN
Dead Mans canyon at about CLOCK
this morning. They were back-hrlng
near an oak tree, under which some one
noticed an empty box and bucksaw.
This seemed strange. and Mr. Banpury
approaching heard something like the
burning of a fuse. The men ran away
but nothing happening, they returned
and Mr.. Banbury began shoveling away
the sand and elders from the place
where the sound had come from. A
quantity of dynamite, buried little pc
low the surface, exploded, and the shock
nearly stunned him. His face and hahds
were cut and bruised and his eyes
painfully hurt. lie was aDie 10 Walh
down from the canyon, and on the way
DR.. Rosenberger, who had been sent lor,
met him and attended to the injuries.
Pete Steil and Jack HartWeli have re-
turned with their party and report the
fire out in Millard's canyon and on the
east side toward Echo Mountain motel
and Mount Lowe railway. The othef
party is still fighting fire in the arroyo.
Mr.. Steil says his party has now put
out five fires, and they are ready to go
ont and stamp the last one out if the
authorities decide to send them out.
They are to be notified tomorrow.
READY-MADE ENTHUSIASM.
The Republican meetings have shown
Pasadena people new kind or en-
thoosiasm"-of the ut-and-dried. made
to-order sort-and all the meetings thus
far held have been characterized by a
display of this "'you-pull- e-strins-and-
We-do-the-rest" brand of cheering. en-
anating from the Merry Cuss" club.
Los Angeles voters are to be treated to
the same brand of machine-made en-
thoosiasm" at the Republican meeting
Saturday night, unless the guying the
club members are receiving over the
orders given last night causes them to
be rescinded and some other tack taken.
According to the orders given last night.
while the speaker is reeling off his pom
derous arguments" in order to insure
against any of the members taking d
pleasant journey into dreamland, as well
as for another reason, presently to be
mentioned, each: and every one is eX-
pected to keep his weather eye open for
a signal from the leader. According to
the nature of this previously arranged
signal will be the character of the ap-
plause, just as when the organ-grinder
turns the crank after having set the
machine for another tune. At a certain
signal Company A will rise and yell
Justify; then, at another prompting,
Company B bobs up serenely, after
which Company-C, if they can muster
men enough for three companies" !"
comes up smiling at the pull of the
string, then altogether" swell the
spontaneous and enthusia site applause"
AT other points, where applause seems
to be needed to punctuate the speech,
a pull of the string brings up the boys,
like unto Jack-in-the box and so the
campaign. with the Hanna trademark
branded all over it, goes merrily on
"Made-to-order" seems to characterize
the whole arrangements.
Ihe following are the instructions
given to the Americus club for their trip
to Los Angeles:
When Capt. Bougham blows his whis-
tie and the club responds with Rah!
Rah' Rah!
When the speakers say anything COM
plimentary of the Amerlcus club they
all shout THANK you, sor"
When they say anything of McKin-
ley Company A says. whats the mat
ter with Mckinley" Company 3 re-
sponds, He's all right" then Company
G says, "Who's all right?" and then the
whole club responds, Mckinley"
Whenever the speaker makes point
Company A says, do you catch that
point?" then Company B is to respond,
"You bet we do
Republican papers please copy.
G. o. P. SPEAKING.
The Americus club and the Republic
an speaking last evening in the wigwam
called out good crowd. A. r. Metcalfe
of this city, the first speaker, got off the
usual denunciation of the Chicago plat
form as anarchistic and wondered that
the people should forget the teachings of
such leaders as Hill and Russell and ac-
cept those of Bryan, Altgeld and Till
man. The question Is how to protect
ourselves from such men as Altgeld and
Bryan. Silver advocates fatty CONTRA
dict themselves by saying that silver
bullion would go to s1.29 an ounce un-
der free coinage when they say with the
same breath that people would be bene-
fited by diminishing the dollar one-half
Free coinage might benefit the debtor
class.
Major Donnell, the second speaker
said that under Republican rule we had
good times. Referring to the silver
question, he designated the Mexicans as
"greasers," and said that if we had free
coinage they would come over here with
$3.50 to the San Francisco mint and go
back with $1,000. Our enormous inland
trade was largely due to protection. He
said that another free silver calamity
would be the paying of the army vet
erans' pensions with diseased money"
wherever that grows. Why should not
the government grind the wheat of the
farmer, weave the wool of the wool
grower, etc, as well as give the silver
mine owner the benefit of the coined
dollar? That's one of Major Donneli's
questions. 1t looks easy. To reverse the
operation, why shouldn't the govern
ment let the money loaner coin his own
dollar and strike out the law that for
bids counterfeiting? That's surely as
sensible as Major Donnel's question. I
SOME FAMILY FUN.
Four colored people, all members of
one family living out on Mountain av-
enue, appeared before the recorder this
morning to settle family difficulty,
Vincent Boyakin. the family's head
piece drives all express wagon and his
wife drives him. Vincent felt injured
when he had to sleep in the barn because
his wife and family wanted the house to
themselves, but he was so greatly griev-
ed when his stepson, A. j. Ridley, threat
ened him with a hammer that he swore
out a complaint. But here the fun had
to end for Vincent's wife, stepson and
stepdaughter-i in-law formed ring that
Vincent could not break. They all re-
fused to say anything against Ridley
and the case had to be dismissed.
THE WHEELMEN.
The bicycle race to Lamanda Park to-