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The herald., 1896-01-15
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Articles of incorporation of the Pomona
Fruit and Flower mission were filed with
the county clerk yesterday. The incorpo-
ration is to exist fifty years, and the pur-
pose is to minister to the wants and neces-
stiles of the sick. and to bury the INDECENT
dead. There is no capital stock. The fol-
lowing are the directors for the first year:
Annie W. CasoG, Maria f. Ellis, Alice Nj.
Gutterson, Julia A. Howe and Anna
Dreker.
Articles of incorporation of the Sierra
Madre and Antelope Valley toll road COM
pany were also filed. The purpose is to
build toll road over the mountains from
Sierra Madre to Antelope Valley. The
capital stock is SIS 900. divided into 5000
shares of the par value of So each, of
which $l75 has been subscribed, as fol-
lows. the subscribers being the directors
for the first year: Harvey S. Gaines,
Arthur n. Carter, n. G.. Carter, Wilbur NJ.
Siurtevant, Lewis T. Newcomb, A. G.
Strain, all of Sierra Madra. $25 each John
L. Hartwell, Pasadena, $25.
Articles of Incorporation of the Los An
geles Bridge company were also filed. The
purposes of the corporation are indicated
by the name. The principal place of busi-
ness is Los Angeles, and the corporation is
to exist ten years. The capital stock is
$4,000, of which $1,000 has been actu-
ally subscribed, the subscribers being the
directors for the first year: d. W. f. Saw
YER 5000. B. j. Arthur $50, r. AZ Sawyer
500, Z, L. Arthur $3.50, j. p. Spence 500.
The herald., 1896-01-15
THREE LYNX CLUB

The Officers Who Have Been Elected for the
Ensuing Year
At the last regular meeting of the mem-
bers of Three Lynx CLUB, located in the I.
o. o. f. building, the following officers
we're elected for the ensuing year: Pres-
dent, +. W. Chase; vice-president, l. D.
Barnard; secretary, c. N. Hopkins; treas
urer, V. Il. Theobald; trustees, W. B.
Kimball, ]. A. Watt, Lee w. Wells, E. d.
Gibson, H. B. Cary.
The club is composed of many of the
leading Odd Fellows of the several lodges
of the city, and is fast growing in popular
ity and membership, and is an excellent
place to spend the evening, of which very
many visitors are taking advantage. Each
visitor is furnished a key, on application,
and thus has access TO the rooms at all
times. Their rooms have been recently
refitted and the billiard and pool tables re-
covered, and many of the leading maga-
zines and papers added to the reading
room, and taken as ~ whole their quarters
are very neatly and tastefully arranged.
One very striking feature is noticed in the
fact that no liquors of any kind are sold in
the building. 1t is almost an idsal club.
and one which promises E. l.. and Il. The
members are always willing to extend the
right hand of fellowship.
The herald., 1896-01-15
HERR ANTON ScH0TT
The Tenori Robusto to Be Heard at nusio
Hall Friday Evening

Hall Friday Evening
Herr Anton Schott, the great Wagner
tenor, will be heard on Friday night in con-
cert at the Music hall. Anton Schott was
born of noble family in the neighborhood
of the "Schwarzwald" near the mighty and
celebrated royal castle "Hohenstaufen,"
Germany, where Frederic Barbarrossa was
throned. He was educated in the same
university (karls-schule) where the great
est German poet. Frederick V. Schiller,
graduated just 100 years ago, after which
he entered the renowned German military
school of Ludwigsburg to study military
science.
During the Franco-German war, 1870
and 1871, he commanded as captain a
battery, and his many medals which adorn
his breast give proof of his valor as a SOL
dier. He was the lion of the day in society
and one of the most favorits officers of tho
court of Emperor William. His first in
struction in singing he received by Mrs.
David +. Strauss (author of The Life of
.lesus). formerly celebrated singer on the
German stage. After years of musical and
dramatic study in Germany and Italy he is
again found engaged as tenori robusto at
the royal opera in Munich, Bavaria.
Crowned with unprecedented success, he
has acquitted himself in the operas in Ber
lin, Vienna, London, New York and else
where. Many citizens of Los Angeles have
had the pleasure of hearing Schott in
Europe and are delighted at having the OPP
portunity to do SO again here.
The herald., 1896-01-15
THE BANKERS ALLIANCE
OF California and Its Wonderfully Pro.
gressive March
The Annual Meeting Held Yesterday-Un.
precedented Showing in the Sec
retary's Report.

The Bankers Alliance, an institution of
which Californians, and especially resi-
dents of Los Angeles, are justly proud.
held it's annual meeting yesterday after
noon at the Offices of the company. There
was fair representation of policy holders.
and harmony characterized the proceed
ings throughout.
The unprecedented progress shown by
the secretary's report would indicate that
the insuring public is rapidly declaring it.
self in favor of the "natural premium sys-
tenn of life and accident insurance.
The statement of the years business
shows an increase in receipts of $42, ,S39
over that of 1894. The increase in new
business over lhe previous year was shown
to be S4 ,O16 800, or over 90 per cent, and
the business in force at the close of 1895
was 5 i 5 ,576.5OO, as against $1O,592 800
in force December 81, 1894, thus showing
gain of AZ per cent.
Perhaps the most satisfactory gain was
in the percentage of gain of increase in
the amount of insurance in force for 1895
over 1894, as against 1894 over 1898,
this being no less than 27S per cent.
No stronger argument of the extreme
popularity of the exclusive issues of the
Bankers Alliance can be adduced than
the remarkable percentages of gain in ali
directions.
The Bankers Alliance makes unmistak-
able gains in all The lines where gains are
to be hoped for, and in this the company is
to be congratulated. 1t is also to be con-
graduated upon decrease which is in the
right direction; it's death rate per 1000 be-
ing only 4.59 as against 5.56 for 1894.
The company has paid out since organiza-
ton nearly$350, 900. and has accumulated,
or ba of
$3.50 600, and has no liabilities.
The following officers were elected to
serve for the ensuing year: Gen. E. p.
Johnson, trustee and president; DR.. David
W. Edwards, trus ee and dvice-president; ].
M. Elliott. trustee and second vice-presi-
dent: +. G. Howes, trustee and treasurer; +;
DR.. w. G. Cochran, trustee; ]. n. Russell,
jr., secretary; E. P. johnson, jr., assistant
secretary; Char es Ii. Kopf, cashier; ]. N.
Priest, superintendent of agencies; Judge
William Z. Gardner, attorney; Col. q. w.
Stone, general agent; and j. ii. Blagge,
general manager of the accident depart
ment.
DR.. Edwards, the new trustee and vice
president. comes to the company ripe in
insurance experience. having only recently
resigned the presidency of large and
ing business in the east. He was made
president of the national convention of
Mutual Life underwriters during the yycar
1S94-95, and it ia confidently expe6 Cd
that his knowledge of insurance and wide
acquaintance among insurance men with
whom he is justly popular. will prove an
added impetus to the progressive company
with which he is identified.
BY adding 20 drops of DR.. seigerts Angos
tura Bi ters to every glass, diseases from drink
ing polluted water are avoided
The herald., 1896-01-15
THE HUMANE SOCIETY
Ostfiches That Are Not Cruelty Treated at
NorWalK

Ostfiches That Are Not Cruelty Treated at
Norwalk
The Los Angeles County Humane society
held its regular monthly meeting at 81
W. Sixth street yesterday afternoon.
There were present DR.. Walter Lindley.
president; Miss Elizabeth Mills, secretary
Mrs. j. s. Vosburg, Chas. Cassett Davis, N.
P. Conroy, Chas. Walton and Chief Glass
The report CT Captain Clark, the special
officer of the society, was read. in which
he spoke of having cared for abused child
rem and horses.
A letter was read from Edward Cawston
of the Norwalk ostrich farm in which he
described the methods pursued in remov-
ing the feathers from the birds at the farm.
He said that the feathers are not pulled off
but are cut away except where they are
ripe, and then they are allowed to fall out.
This communication was in reply to a
letter from woman residing in Richmond,
Va, in which she had expressed the thought
that possibly the birds were cruelty
treated.
The matter of the resignation of DIR.
Lindley from the presidency which had
been postponed at the former meeting, was
then taken up, and after general discus.
sion was accepted, to take effect month
hence
The herald., 1896-01-15
FEBRUARY WEATHER
Past Facts as Indicating the Future Prol
bilities

Past Facts as Indicating the Future Proba-
bilities
The chief of the weather bureau directs
the publication of the following data. COM
piled from the record of observations for
the month of February, taken at this sta
ton for period OF seventeen years.
The facts thus set forth will prove of in
terest, showing as they do the average and
extreme conditions of the more important
meteorological elements and the range
within which such variations may be ex-
pected to keep during any corresponding
month.
Temperature-Mean or normal temper
ature. SO degrees; the warmest February
was that of 1885, with an average OF 6O
degrees: the coldest February was that OF
1850, with an average of 81 degrees; the
highest temperature during any February
was SO degrees, on February %, 1881
the lowest temperature during any Febru-
airy was 2S degrees, on February 6, 1888;
average date on which last "killing" frost
occurred Tin spring., none.
Precipitation (rain or melted snow)-Av-
erage for the month, 3.37 inches; average
number of days with .O1 of an inch or
more, q; the greatest monthly preclplta-
tion was 1887 inches in 1884; the least
monthly precipitation was trace in 1883 !;
the greatest amount OF precipitation re-
corded in any "a consecutive hours was
3.94 inches on February l4-l5, 1887.
Clouds and weather-Average number OF
cloudless days, IA.
Average number of partly cloudy days, g..
Average number of cloudy days, 8.
Wind Tho prevailing winds have been
from the northeast.
The highest velocity of the wind in any
February was forty miles on February II,
1854.
The herald., 1896-01-15
Had Lots of Time

Frank Allen was sentenced to pay fine
of $50 or remain corresponding number
of days in Jail for having violated the Sun
day license ordinance. He was the clerk
in the drug store of f. c. Mckinney on San
Fernando street, AMI confessed to having
sold liquoron Sunday, contrary to the or
dnance. Justice Owens asked him if ne
would pay his fine, to which Allen replied
that he did not think so, as he had more
extra time on his hands than money, and
he thought he would stay in jail until his
employer could be heard from.
The herald., 1896-01-15
Honest
Advertising

Out of this store comes the
inspiration for a great Janu-
airy business. We shall make
the Red Letter News very
plain, as it will appear in the
papers from day to day-but
it will be honest-worthy of
your reading and investiga-
ton.
The herald., 1896-01-15
OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE RESUMES

Regular Ciasswork Will Commence Tomorrow
Morning
Occidental college, whose handsome
building was recently burned to the ground,
will resume work tomorrow morning at 8
o'clock in temporary quarters at the Sum
day school and classrooms of the Boyle
Heights Presbyterian church.
Arrangements have been made for reg
ular classwork. Students are requested to
take notice and to be on hand promptly at
the place designated.
The herald., 1896-01-15

Just think of the most slightly location in
all this city, overlooking beautiful West
lake park, and the only property from
which you can actually see the park, (you
can get glimpse of it from few other
spots), now offered for half the price for the
''spot," from which you can get only
glimpse, only $1,000 for a lot 5Ox15O, from
which you can get fine view of the park
and lake from your front door or yard, alb
solutely unobstructed no matter how many
or how big the houses are built between
you and the park. Leonard Merrill, sole
agent, 24O-24l, Bradbury block.
The herald., 1896-01-15
The Modern Mother

Has found that her little ones are i'm
proved more by the pleasant laxative,
Syrup of Figs, when in need of the laxa-
tive effeet of gentle remedy than by any
other, and that 1t is more acceptable to
them. Children enjoy it and it benefits
them. The true remedy, Syrup of Figs,
is manufactured only by the California
Fig Syrup company.
The herald., 1896-01-15
Died at Work

H. Johnson died yesterday morning from
the effects of hemorrhage. He was en-
ployed as the engineer at the oil pumping
plant at the northwest corner of Court
street and Edgeware road, and was at
tackled about 8 80 o'clock, while at work.
The remains were removed to the UNDER
taking rooms OF Orr d Hines. where an in
quest will be held by the coroner.
The herald., 1896-01-15
Our
Greed

We could not afford to cut
prices as we do during the
Red Letter days and sell on
credit-hence, during the Red
Letter Sale, strict cash will be
our creed. Your full free
choice of our entire stock of
Carpets at these prices-no
odds, no ends-all new full
pieces; all the best.
The herald., 1896-01-15
He Did a Welsh

Wong Look was held to answer yester-
day by Justice Owens to a charge of grand
larceny, bail being fixed at $4,000, which
Wong was unable to give. He is the Chi
naman who grabbed the watch and chain
from an inebriated man in Plaza alley and
ran away, but was caught by Special Off
Ger Ford
The herald., 1896-01-15
Licensed to Wed

The following marriage license was is.
sued by the county clerk yesterday:
William Henry Stephens, native of
England, aged 27 years. and a resident of
Los Angeles, and Ellen Dyer, also a native
of England, aged "a years, and resident
of San Gabriel.
The herald., 1896-01-15
He Wanted a drink

r. Harrington will be examined on a
charge of burglary on the 18th inst. at 2 p.
IN. Harrington is the man who smashed
in the plate glass window of a saloon on
San Fernando street after midnight yes
terday and was arrested with bottle in
his possession, which he had taken.
The herald., 1896-01-15

Not entered at the postoffoe in Wash
ington as fourth. class matter -
we could afford to print nothing
short of first-cIaSs.
The herald., 1896-01-15

A few secondhand Stearns bicycles in
excellent condition for sale cheap. In
qHiEe w. E. Patterson, Hotel Broadway.
The herald., 1896-01-15

Our engraved wedding cards are as fine as
Tiffany's, and we have no rival in printed
ones Can we make hundred for you? II. NJ .
Lee and Bro. 14O n. Spring street.
The herald., 1896-01-15

Try our port and sherry wines at rs
Cents per gallon. T. Vache g. Co., Com
mercial and Alameda streets. Telephone
400.
The herald., 1896-01-15
The Anheuser q, snr;ro st

he AnHcuser, 24S ,. Spring st.
Concerts every evening from until IL
the Anime Sisters orchestra. The i'm
ported Tucherbrau and Plsener, as drawn
at the Anheuser. have captured the lovers
of the foamy. Chas. Bauer, proprietor.
The herald., 1896-01-15
DEATHS

Notices Of deaths, without comment inserted
under this head free Funeral notices 10 cents per
line.
The herald., 1896-01-15
Ye.Red Letter

PUBLISHED BY
THE LOS ANGELES FURNITURE co.
CITY
The herald., 1896-01-15

Call tel. 243 for ambulance. Kregelo G.
Bresee, Sixth and Broadway.
The herald., 1896-01-15

By adding 20 drops of DR.. seigert's Angos
tura Bi ters to every glass, diseases from drink
ing polluted water are avoided.
The herald., 1896-01-15
BIRTHS

Notices under this head free.
The herald., 1896-01-15

Permits have SO far during the present
week been issued for new buildings to cost
$2O,345, the most important being as fol-
lows:
To Bertha o. McCaland for a $4,000 res
idence on Scarf street, near St. James
park.
To E. P. Normandn for $3.50 dwell
Ing on Union avenue, near Sixteenth.
To E. s. Robinson, for $250O dwelling
on Union avenue, near Tenth street.
To 5. Davenport, for $1,000 dwelling
on lngraham street, near Wilmer.
To d. F. Hill, for $4,000 set of frame
mats on Fifth street. near Maple avenue.
To T. d. Valient, for $1,000 dwelling at
Twenty-ninth street and Maple avenue.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-14

another hat, thus forming a primitive re-
coptacle for the ballots.
No liquor was allowed within a hundred
yards of the wolf pit, that being the liberal
construction which the Crackers had put
upon the law providing that no liquor shall
be sold or given away within a mile of any
election precinct in Georgia on election day.
Now and then one Of the clerks or managers
would get a little thirsty when voting
would be suspended until he could pay a
visit to the llog and slake his thirst with Il
tin cup full of corn whisky so strong that
one could sec the smoke rise as 1t was drawn
from the wooden spgot. As the day wore
on the scene grew lvclior. and the friends
Of the various candidates, stimulated by the
generous potations rodoublcd their efforts
for their iavoritcs, and the yelling grew
louder and more vociferous.
At last some body began calling for a
speech from Big Bill Branch, and the rival
faction raised a yell for Black Jim Fletcher,
and then the scene begEarCd pandomOnium.
Urged by his supporters Big Bill, a stall
wart Cracker with grand sweep Of whis-
kcrs, mounted a stump and got as far as
MY fellow citizens" when his voice was
drowned by the yclls Of the opposition
crowd. This was kept up for a few min
utes, when the first blow was passed, and
in two minutes there were 200 men engaged
in a regular knock down and lraE-out fight.
They fought with hands. feet. tooth and
nail until the weaker ones began to dis
cntangle themselves from the mass of
struggling humanity and to investigate the
extent OF their injuries, My acquaintance
of the morning had got off with a pair Of
black eyes. and approached the kcg to re-
fresh himself smiling and happy in the
thought that he had secured a piece OF the
ear OF his antagonist, which he could pre-
serve as a trophy Of his prowcss on that
CyCntful occasion.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-14
AN EXCITING ENCOUNTER.
4 Maine Hunter Narrowly Escapes
Drnth from Hrnln.


Thursday evening, October 20. four tired
but well satisfied hunters returned to Ban
gor. Me, after a weeks trip into the wids
of Maine, bringing as spells six handsome
deer and a great big black bear. The six
deer are well deserving OF more or less
praise, but they cut very little ice with the
bear as far residence was concerned.
The party consisted of |. y. Goldsmith OF
Boston, William Sykes Wood, an experienced
hunter: Fred Moon senior member of the
firm of Moon & Crafty, proprietors of the
Penobscot Exchange, and Henry w. Lash,
proprietor of the Electric Grill, and the
hero of the party.
The men left Bangor Saturday over
the Bangor & ArOOstook and established
headquarters at East SchOis. Each had a
guide, and early one morning Mr.. Lash, aC-
companied by his faithful hunter trusty
rifle, etc, started into the woods after game
and big game at that Seated on a log
Harry waited patiently for his guide to
scare up something" After an interval
of an hour or more. becoming somewhat inn
patient, he wandered for some distance up
runway and spied great, big, ugly
black bear, sinking eff. With the instinct
of natural born hunter he brought his rifle
to his shoulder and located an ounce or
more of hot lead in the bears hind quarter.
Maddened with rage bruin turned and,
standing on his hind feet, eyes ablaZe and
mouth fOaming, approached Harry, who was
much taken aback by the warlike tactics of
his excelency. Again he tried to pump a
cartridge into the barrel OF his rifle, but for
obvious reasons the gun refused to be broken
down like an ordinary shotgun, so Harry
dropped 1t as though 1t had been red-hot
iron and pulled out a small penknife-his
only remaining weapon of defense-and
made up his mind. as he stated to friend
afterward, "if the bear had ever got near
enough to me he would have known that
he was in a fight"
Faster and faster came the bear and
whittier and whittier grew Lash, till finally
brun got so near that his hot breath nearly
famed Harrys feyered cheek when "crack,
crack" sounded from near by and the bear
dropped dead with a bullet through the heart
from the rife of the faithful guide.
"Whew" said Harry, 81 have had some
pretty narrow escapes in the Rocky noun
tains and at Old Orchard, but this Is the
nearest l ever came to saying my prayers
In the woods Of northern Maine"
The bear is on exhibition at the Electric
Grill on Exchange street and Mr.. Lash has
taken much delight In recounting his ad-
venture to his admiring friends who have
"a lied
Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-14

descent by third Eight, returning between
the other two?
You perceive that Napoleon's and Fred
oricks tombs at Paris and Potsdam are the
aim OF the architect
He burics his man In a column-encircled
basement In a red smcophagus he has a
floor above the Cross or Christian chapel
form, to let the people pass around, and by
that cross form he elEets into the corners his
two stairs and two cabinets, and between
them his four deepaarches, as high as the
dome, to transmit the upper daylight
Tho tomb | think adds to Napoleon's the
feature OF the observatory.
The warrior dust housed In temple,
exhacs his pilgrims to the sky; they look
far down upon him again, and then, by little
concealed stairways, they pass between the
inner and outer domes to the roof and see
the wonderful epitome OF the civilization
the sword beneath them saved and extended
That civilization is toleration. or the
chastising of indiyiduaism and It's prejudices
to submission to the golden rule
This man was a result OF the above law
and OF the fixed institution OF a state army,
which specially educated him for war.
He preserved both influences, toleration
and talent, and moved up or down as lie
determined, but. In the last, pity became his
patron saint. and all the world grew tender
at his dissolution.
Eleven years have passed, and still his
tomb is going up.
The mans influence seems to grow.
Whether II does or not his influence upon
this city will be noble because the city
cherishes in its midst the hero idea; not
Grant, but American personal example; 1t
becomes the nation city, the welcomer of
the humble Illustrations, of Ulysses and
Acneas.