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The herald., 1896-05-24

bard. F. P. Morrison. F. p. Meserve and
David Meacham Of Redlands; Charles
Cluskey of Ell Casco; j. w. Roberts, II.
NJ. Barton, 1. w. Hazlett, ]. H. Boyd,
Il. Somer, Sumner Wright, w. z. Van
Slyke, l.. c. Currier, Bert Heath, Mrs.
A. A. Hall and Mrs. Ella Frizella of San
Bernardino. j. w. Roberts was elected
treasurer, and each of the incorporators
put up 500. forming fund of $500 with
which to begin operations Messrs.
Van Slyke, Barton and Currier were
constituted locating committee, to de-
eide where to put down the first shaft.
The company has filed on 800 acres Of
land, and will begin work at once on the
Alessaudro road, about six miles south
of this city, where the presence of the
oil is most in evidence.
Ozrow Roberts, who lives two miles
west of Ell Casco. in the same section,
was in the city Tuesday with a sample
of oil found bubbling out of the ground
along a small stream on his ranch. Mr..
Roberts says that he has for years no.
ticed the small black globules, but gave
no serious thought to them until he
heard of the intentions of the new COM
pany. Bursting these globules, he no
ticed their oily substance, which, sep
arated from the water, would burn free
~ He bottled a sample, and knowing
ones here have pronounced 1t quite
equal to that produced from the Los
Angeles wells. Mr.. Roberts declares
his intention of sinking a we'll at once
as far as $4,000 will go if necessary, but
believes that fifty feet will develop a
fine flow.
This is probably the vein that supplies
the Los Angeles and Puente fields This
section is likely to indulge in another
boom" in a very short while.-Citro-
graph.
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Old Campaigners Look for Sharp
Work at st. Louis
WILL HISTORY REpEAr7
Four Chiefs Who Are Camping on
McKinIey's Trail
The Combine Of the Anti.Mckiniey Leaders
Expected to Make the Fur Fly.
Are Fierce Fighters

NEW YORK, May 15.-Old campaign
ers on both sides of the political renee
the men who have been participants IN
national conventions for the past TWO
decades agree that the RepuDllcan con-
yention at ST. Louisville engender a
feud which will take first rank among
the internal political wars OF the CEN
fury.
1t seems to be an accepted fact that
Platt, Quay, Clarkson and Nancy are
camping on the trail of the ONO man.
and the capacity of these four men TO
work injury to any political asplraht
cannot be doubted. Particularly does
this apply to Platt and Quay. W nat
their tactics at the st. Louis convention
will be cannot be specialized upon, eX-
cept on the general lines that they VIII
exert every trick of the craft to wreck
the nomination of the OHIO statesman.
In glancing over the careers OF THESE
leaders and the careers OF their pred
ecessors, history shows quite clearly
that the power of a great boss is usually
exerted in a negative direction. In 9th
err words, the big boss starts out with
some pet project of his own ana when
he discovers the impossibility of forcing
It to a successful issue he merely uses
It as club to batter away the plans of
the men who wrecked his own hopes.
not caring who reaps the harvest as
long as these particular enemies are de-
feated.
1t was the same when Alexander
Hamilton defeated Aaron Burr for the
presidency and practically awarded the
plum to Thomas Jefferson. Henry Clay
and Daniel Webster both of them log
ical candidates for many years. were
repeatedly thwarted in their presiden
tial efforts by the Vaccinations of po-
litical enemies. John Sherman could
tell even more than he wrote in his book
about the same thing if he were so in
Clined. James G. Blaine's life was en-
The herald., 1896-05-24
A Sad Reality and
A Well Established Fact

Is that most men will hunt and strive
for something above their reach and
abilities, thereby wasting their strength
and energies, which necessarily brings
about state of disappointment and dis
couragement. Judgment and experience.
often too late, teaches them that they
would have done better by recOnnoiter-
ing and making place first before COM
mencing the battle.
But there is a way out of this calam-
1ty by testing our strength and abilities
before we commence work. There is an
old and foolish phraseology, like. Il have
only bad luck" or THAT man succeeds
in everything because he is such lucky
fellow There is no such thing as luck.
true saying is that every man Is the
architect of his own fortune, and as he
smites the iron so it will form. "
1t makes one shudder to see thousands
of educated men and women in every
profession in the greatest need, almost
on the brink of starvation, to most of
whom habit and mistaken points of hons
or forbid to choose another field more
suitable to their energies and adapta-
tionS. 1t surely is better TO be good
mechanic than to be poor lawyer or
doctor. The fault is mostly to be placed
upon the parents, who fill their chill
drens heads with high and nonsensical
notions instead of developing their COM
mon sense. Every one has certain
amount of it, but it must be used in or
der to retain and strengthen it, just as a
muscle of our physical body. This life
is full of opportunities for every one, bu.
in order to benefit by them we must
learn how to grasp them, and this we
can only do by acquiring knowledge and
mastery of ourselves. Any one desir-
ing to gain such knowledge should con-
suit Prof. a. Myers, who has made a
HE study OF man and all his latent
The herald., 1896-05-24

standard as now in use by the worlds
most civilized governments.
Sound money is vital to our nation
al and commercial prosperity. Any I'M
certainty on this score dwarfs the re-
sources of our country and the energies
of our people. The national conventions
soon to be held in Chicago and st. Louis
will offer opportunities for the clear ex-
preston and adoption of sound princi-
pies bearing upon this important subject
for the future government of our legis-
lators in Washington, such principles
which. If carried out, would bring re-
lief and lasting benefit to our suffering
industries and people.
THE state of Maryland has always
been foremost in advocating the main
tenance of currency inferior to none
in purchasing power in the markets Of
the world. Her commercial life is so in
tertwined with that of her sister south
ern states that whatever affects them
must necessarily react upon her.
I'm view of the pressing importance
If this question, we advocate the neces-
sity of holding a sound money conven-
ton in Chicago or in st. Louis at an
early date"
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but q tariff tax upon what the people
consume. 1t is now claimed by the Nc
Kinley tariff cranks that the present
tariff should be replaced by the McKin-
ley tariff. The present Wilson tariff is
higher than the war tariff of 1852 Its
average duties are only about per cent
less than the Mckinley tariff. Under
the present tariff the manufacturers Of
this country are selling their goods out
side of this country.
A country with every advantage of
soil and climate, with unlimited water
power, with vast mineral wealth. with
people skilled in mechanic arts and
great in inventive genius, we need fear
no competition. A so-called protective
tariff is nothing but the servant of
trusts, combinations and rings by which
they can rob and plumber the people at
will. 1t makes the rich richer. and it's
weight of taxation falls almost entire
ly upon the agricultural middle and
poorer classes. whom it makes poorer
New York World.
The herald., 1896-05-24

1t is now established almost beyond a
doubt that the region about Redlands
is very rich in coal and oil Some of the
shrewdest business men in the county
have faith in the evidence that has been
brought to them. and have formed an
association to develop the evidence into
a tangible. paying fact. The ball was
set rolling by the discovery of extensive
coal fields in the san Tmoteo hills, two
miles west of town. This discovery was
kept quiet until the operators got be-
yond the prospecting stage and began
sinking shafts. Experts say that coal
underlies the entire range of hills two
and half miles wide and six miles long.
Monday afternoon a number of cap
italists met at the San Bernardino Ma
tional bank and formed corporation
for the preliminary work of sinking
shafts in the new fields. The incorpor-
ators, sixteen in number, are A. G. Hub
The herald., 1896-05-24
rIoKin,ev and Prosperity!

DESPITE the unreaSoning enthusiasm
for Mckinley among the masses of ig-
noraHt voters who are foolish enough
be Immediately and permanently re-
stored by the passage of new tariff
bill, the distrust and even dread of the
Ohio candidate among business men in
creases as the time for the nomination
approaches and he refuses to say
whether or not he opposes the free coin
age of silver and faVors the gold stand
ard. We have never before had a case
where such coWardice was displayed on
the burning issue of the day as the lead
ing candidate for the Republican nom
ination now manifests in his fear to
define his position This would be alarm
ing enough in the case of any man: it
becomes far more threatening when the
voted for free coinage in 1887 and for the
silver-purchase act as the next best
thing to free coinage in 1890; that al
though he said something against free
coinage in 1891, he was trying to curry
favor with the silVertes again in 1893
during the arduous struggle for the re-
peal OF the silver purchase act; that he
Is now running on a platform declaring
for "bmetalism" which he does not
define, and that his one aim in his whole
public life has always been to keen "in
close touch with the people," so that he
never would think Of Vetoine the most
reckless financial measure that could
get through congress.-New York Eve
ming Post
The herald., 1896-05-24
FOR THE GOLD STANDARD
Sound Money Convention Favored by BaIti
more Board of Trade

The board of trade of Baltimore on
May adopted the following declaration
urging the maintenance of the gold
standard:
The continued uncertainty arising
from the failure of congress to enact
legislation looking to a reform of our
defective financial system is paralyzing
trade and intensifying the distrust which
European nations have acquired toward
our institutions. Having uppermost in
our minds the welfare and progress Of
our country and realizing the necessity
of relief from the present alarming stu
alton. the board of trade of Baltimore
city. which has so often stood up for the
sound financial principles demanded by
commercial honor. once more places it.
self on record as being unequivocally
opposed to any debasement of the cur
rency. and recognizing the fact that the
United States cannot adopt the unlimit-
ed coinage of silver without the concur
renee of the great European nations. a
result only to be reached through inter
national conference. this board favors
and urges the maintenance Of the gold
The herald., 1896-05-24
THE SHADOW CLOUDS THE FEAST

5000 more Italians were either on their
way to this port or about to embark for
it. The number of such immigrants to
be credited to the month of April at this
port will probab bly, be about 49, 900 The
chief cause of this influx from Italy is
the desire of Italians to avoid military
service in Africa.
can neither read nor write. OF the 7001
who arrived at this port during the first
three months of the year, 500 per cent
were illiterate. The percentage has been
larger during the present month. Of
31I4 Italians over II years of age who
were brought on four steamships since
April LIST, 2147, or 676 per cent. We're
illiterates. Nearly all of these 3147 i'm
migrants Cor 95.3 per cent? were destined
for New York, New Jersey, Pennsylva-
MIA or New England, and more than two
H. the city or in other cities Of this
state These four shiploads are believed
to present a fair average of the entire
number of Italian Immigrants for the
month of April. We presume that very
few of those who cannot read or write
will ever emerge from their illiterate
condition.
Is this country benefited by the adj
mission of so many illiterate immi-
grants? Are not the six states New
York New jersey. Pennsylvania. Con-
setts) in the cities of which more than
nine-terths of them remain injured in
some measure by these additions to
their population? The character of re-
cent immigration should direct attention
to the bill now pending in congress for
subiecting the immigration movement
tc an educational test-New York Times.
The herald., 1896-05-24

Coils P. Huntington owes the gov
eminent many million dollars loaned
him and his partners years ago. That
money was used by them to build the
Central Pacific railroad which they own
and owe the government for and do not
intend to pay. He has two bills pend
ing before congress. one is to put Off
the payment of the debt beyond the
middle of the next century, when he
and all of US now living will be dead.
Meanwhile he has a lobby pushing
through the senate bill requiring the
government to spend 100000 900 in MAX
ing a harbor at Santa Monica as a ter
minal for his Southern Pacific railroad
"a railroad, by-theby, into which he
has SO put his stealings from the Cen
trail Pacific as to leave the government
without sufficient security for the col
lection of the debt that road owes
Terre Haute Gazette.
The herald., 1896-05-24
WILL STUMP THE COUNTRY
Young California Portia In New
Role
Studied the Money Question and VIII Preach
Popuilst Doctrine-She Anticipates
Triumphai Progress

Miss frankie Lane, a young lawyer of
Oakland, Cal, has decided to take part
i'll the coming presidential campaign to
the extent of stamping the entire coun-
try for the Populists. She has made
elaborate preparations for the venture
and looks forward to a triumphal prog.
ress. Miss Lane graduated from a law
school in Minnesota, but before making
her mark at the bar has determined
to take a turn at politics. The money
and railroad questions are engrossing
her attention, and she is going to tell
the people how they should be settled.
Miss Lane expects to eXpound her doc
trine in all the states of the union She
The herald., 1896-05-24

A New Jersey farmer, who raises veg
etables for the New York market. has
spent $4,000 in electric culture and ia
cilities, and is said to have increased
production from 40 to GO per cent. There
should be no trouble in keeping boys on
the farm when the work isconfined to
touching button and cutting coupons.
The herald., 1896-05-24

From January LIST to April 18th the
number of Italian immigrants landed at
this port was 1896. and about 5000 of
these arrived during the first two weeks
of this month. On the 18th inst. nearly
The herald., 1896-05-24
scandslous r.srespect for the Judge

Great commotion was caused in the
Palais de Justice lately by the APP
pearance of a witness dressed in full
bicycling costume. This votary of the
iron horse is an artist, and when he
stood before the magistrate presiding
over the correctional chamber that
legal official could not believe his eyes.
What. sir" said the irate function
airy. do you dare to come here so
scandalously dressed? Have you no
regard or respect for the majesty of the
law and the justice Of your country? The
bicycling artist was thunderstruck. and
could only stammer out that he had
come up from the country Immediately
after he had received the subpoena. as
he was DESTROYS not to lose time. The
magistrate accepted the explanation,
and the matter dropped, the artist VOW
ing as he left the court that he would
assume tall hat and frock coat on
his next appearance in the witness box.
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will declaim in favor of governmental
ownership and will endeavor to expose
the iniquty of the funding bill now in
progress of considera ton in congress.
Miss Lane can scarcely be more than q
years old and looks much younger. The
young lady, however. says that she feels
perfectly competent to grapple with the
great questions that are now agitating
the country.
In speaking of her project recently
Miss Lane said: Il graduated from
law school in Minnesota and have my
diploma. All l have to do to be adj
mitted in this state is to have friend
make a motion in the supreme court.
But what is the use of practicing law
without clients? 1 know some lawyers
do, but am not one of that kind. am
going to make a reputation in this coun-
try for the Populists during the national
campaign and expect to make my start
the latter part of this month. The money
question is the great issue in this cam
paign, and I will handle the subject
without gloves. have given these ques-
tons deep study. and now / feel as
though ! were In a position to go before
the people and tell them of my investi-
cations. I am but a young woman
but l believe I can make my mark in the
political world. Chicago Chronicle.
The herald., 1896-05-24

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The Van Buren press., 1896-05-09
Missionary Diaz Tells About spanish
Bateheries on the Island.

TassssFs, "a Ia. IssTr 22-RRssT slli5s-taa
Diaz. the naissionery Of the Southern
Baptist Church IN Cuba. who wa
recently arrested and expelled from the
island q the order Of Captain General
Weyler. gives an appalling account d
the atrocities committed by the Spanish
solaiery.
In the three weeks. prior 70 M
deportation from the island SAYS Mr
Diaz, more than 100 innocent Cubans
were butchered IN Havana province
alone Appalling az this statement
may seem. It Is strictly true. for I my.
self saw the natilated eorpses Of many
Of the victims
The bzteheries were perpetrated IN
the rural Districts of Miguel del Padron
and Ninaa, not far from Havana The
officer IN command Of those distriets is
Colonel Fondeville. 2 bosom friend Of
Captain General Weyler.
In every case the Spanish official
reports say that these people were killed
in battle That these reports are false,
however. is proved by the fact that
many women and children were among
the slain.
The most horrible affair occurred
in the Minas district shortly before I
left the island Colonel Fondeyille
column came upon a gathering Of
Cubans, composed Of men, women and
children. As the spsniards approached
the Cubans fed, and the troops opened
FIRE on the fugitives. killing Is outright
and wounding many more. Among the
killed were four women and Eve
children the ages Of the latter ranging
from 10 IA years. The Spaniards left
the eorpses where they fell and they
were buried secretly at night By
Cubans.
Another devilish affair In which
Colonel FondeviIle figured occurred in
the Miguel del Psdron District. Eleven
unarIned CubaDs were taken by the
5paniards while At work By Colonel
Fondeville orders the prisoners were
forced to take spades and dig long.
deep trench When the trench was
completed the II men were made % get
in it and were then riddled with bullets.
The spaHiards threw little earth
over the bleeding eorpses and marched
On to seek more victims.
Just before the steamer Oh which
sailed LEFT Havana. news war brought
on board that q more peaceable citizens
had been butchered by order Of Colonel
Fondeville
The horrors Of Armenia, con
cluded Mr.. Diaz, ARE being duplicated
daily in Cuba by the Spaniards. -
The Van Buren press., 1896-05-09
What Champ Clark Says Of the
Arkansas Senator's.

From the = Louis kegabllc.
The Arkansas delegation was the
youngest On the average in the Fifty
| third Congress. and consisted Of men Of
approved capacity and fidelity. Texas
Missouri and Arkansas usually stood
together for all measures favorable 10
the development Of that magnificent
Democratic empire which Jefferson and
Polk added 10 the Union.
How II ever came 10 be the fashion
now happily passing away To poke fun
At Arkansas is a mystery for In natural
resources she Il second 10 Missouri
only and from the first her public men
have cut respectable, frequently a
conspieuous. figure. She has furnished
her quota Of statesmen and soldiers.
The names Of Yell, Albert Pike and her
other great worthless are fit to adorn the
battle abbey Of the Republic.
To Senators Jones and Vest more than
10 any othef two men is the country
indebted for the blessed fact that we
secured any relief from the Mckinley
incubus. Senator Jones grew more
during those troublous days than any
other man In America. While he
wrestled with the senatorial kickers. /
sometimes thought that in the answer
% the old question: WHO was the
most patient mani" the name Of Job
should be stricken ont and that Of James
X. Jones inserted. Senator Jones il
splendid specimen Of mental and
physical manhood He is Of fair com
plexion, with hair and whiskers
prenaturely white has a shapely head
set squarely On broad shoulders. and
most winning manner When he and
Governor Clarke were pitted against
each other the snowy plume Of Henry
Of Navarro wouldn { have been Ia II.
for the youthful Governor has such
white hair that mis- admirers call him
"cOttont0p.
The Van Buren press., 1896-05-09
EEPt BLit4s KUeTI0x.
1t 6TeHs 81 Apaes a. IAAagHrste4 b
Eait9r Mathews.

The Republican ruetlou pTseipltatss
b. Editor W D Mathews, q the
Stuttgart Free Press. grows 2paee.
Mr.. Mathews continues 10 IRE bet shot
into the eamps 4 the enemy Ia Al
editorial which appeared IL the current
issne v his paper be says
II IN 81 Admitted fact among
Republicans. who are Republicans f-oza
priaeiple-#hOse only object in being
Republicans Il lot simply the eaaolu-
Deats IF ofaee-that under the
Is.szsi i y i.issattioF.s Of Gsn Powell CIzy boa
sna his eoserle Of PIE hunters the party
has beer debase6 debsuched and dis
rupBed and that unless purified and
reg1venztsds sueeess locally cannot Be
expected. That Gen Clayton and h3s
corrupt machine % not wish success Il
the polls IL self evident. There must
be 10 division Of authority No Repub.
Lean must be elected TO Congress or &c
2 State Office. for In that ease TIE il
huerce Of Gen. Clayton in controlling
the Federal patronage would Be
materially leesened This crowd O
spoilsuaen during the campaign in :
Presidential year try 10 make big
showing Of loyalty to party and rally
10 the conventions with great blzster
and On dress parade are the most
valiant Republican warriors 10 be found
in any state. North Or South. The
inside wheel revolves smoothly under
the manipulation Of the fine Italian
hand e the boss. and the hungry
horde hustle around TIE big wheel lof
fortune 10 thenl in hopes that the
needle VIII stop On the lone star CT
lucky number. Il is tie intention to
make Republican leaders think that
Powell Clayton II the Republican party |
Of Arkansas This rabbits foot
scheme has been worked with perfect
sueeess for years, but be have reason to
know the Northern leaders are looking
with suspicion upon this cut and dried
programme. They are inquiring for
results. They want to know what
became Of the money that has in times
past been placed In the hands Of the /
Clayton machine They wonder why
some Of the Republican candidates are
not elected. In fact the brigand style
u politics is understood somewhat. -