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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-07-02
ASHLEY=BALDWIN EVIDENCE
Testimony Adduced 70 Contradict the
Defendants Statements
Lots Of DisreputabIe Things Hinted at but the
Judge Is Mercifui to a Suffer.
ing Public

SAN FRANCISCO, July IA. H. An
derson was again a witness in the Ash
ley-Baldwin suit today. He repeated
in detail the story of what he claims to
have seen while Baldwin and Miss Ash
lev were together at Santa Anita. An
effort was made to learn what the wit
ness knew of Baldwin's relations with
other women, but Judge Slack refused
to admit the testimony.
While under DISCRIMINATION An
derson admitted that at one time he had
an agreement by which he was to re-
ceive certain percentage of any judg-
ment which Miss Ashley might receive.
This agreement was produced in court
today and was offered in evidence by
the attorneys for Baldwin. 1t is dated
October II, 1894, and shows that for his
services in the case Anderson was to
receive 10 per cent of Miss Ashley's pros
pective judgment. This agreement was
rescinded July Z, 1895. The considera-
ton was 81, and in addition Miss Ashley
agreed to pay small sum of money
due from Anderson to her brother
Attorney Crittenden invited a sensa-
tional disclosure on redirect examina-
ton He offered to prove that when
Baldwin was in st. Louis in 1898 he
was living on intimate terms with a
young girl Judge Slack refused to al
low the testimony. The witness was
simply allowed to state that he had seen
Baldwin in company with girl "all
over ST. Louis" He was not permitted
to state whether Baldwin was at the
time travelling with a gray-haired wo-
man who had little girl with her.
Attorney Crittenden next introduced
the name of Bessie Riley to the record.
He desired to know if Baldwin had not
told the witness that on account of his
betrayal of Bessie Riley he had been
compelled to convey property worth
S35 900 to the girls mother. Mrs. Rich
ards.
Counsel for Baldwin objected and, the
objection being held good. the question
was not answered.
Anderson was succeeded on the
stand by Miss Emma Ashley, sister of
the plaintiff. She was called to contra
dict John Osborn, an Oregon farmer,
who, when called as a witness for Bald
win, told a damaging story of alleged
intimate relations with Miss Ashley in
Boston. According to Miss Emma s
story, Osborn courted her sister and
sought the fair Lillian in marriage He
was said to have asked the consent of
the mother. Lillian did not view Os-
born's suit with favor and refused him.
The reputation of the plaintiff was
further defended by her brother. e.
Porter Ashley. He described the occur
rences in the hotel at lakewood. He
denied that his sister was intimate with
Falvey. He was certain that they never
went riding together. The witness re-
called without difficulty numerous oc-
casions when his sister went riding
with BALDWIN. This was direct contra
dction of Baldwin, who testified last
week that he never took Miss Ashley
riding.
Young Ashley also called to mind an
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IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Joseph Chamberlain, since he became
secretary of state for the colonies, has
scandalized the bureaucrats by habit
ually giving news to the press, and early
one morning actually sent out cigars
and whisky to the reporters waiting for
official news announcing Jamesons
capture of johannesburg.
A new invention of interest to rallroa1
men Is an electrical weeder, which Will
run at express speed and cut down all
weeds that line the track. An ordinary
fiat car is equipped with metal brushes,
which extend out over each side or the
car. Their height is regulated so that
they will brush the tops of the weeds
as the cars move along. A dynamo on
the car, run while the train Is in motion,
is connected with the metallic brushes,
which receives the full force of the cur
rent. The circuit is then grounded
through the wheels to the track.
When the current is turned on 1t passes
from the metal brushes through the
weeds to the ground, thus completing
the circuit The current is so powerful
that the weeds. which serve as con-
ductor, are instantly shriveled up. 1t
is necessary to wet the weeds in order to
make them good conductors, so the
mowers wait until after the rain.
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AFRAID OF FOREIGN TRADE

The following from the San Francisco
News Letter is brimful of sound sense.
Every disciple of the illusion that trade
consists of all selling and no buying
should read it until the light of its OBJ
vious truths penetrates his befogged
intellect. The News Letter says:
There is something almost ludicrous
In the alarm affected by our Republican
newspapers over the prospect of in
creased trade with Japan. The able
editors of these publications are so
stepped in protection doctrine that they
see in a cargo from foreign port moth
ing but menace to American industries.
A trading ship, in their eyes, is danger
Gus invader if it come laden with prod
ucts of foreign labor, all of which is, of
course, "pauper labor" 1t would please
these gentlemen, however, to see ships
sail out of this port. bearing away to
distant lands the products of our or
chards and vineyards, Of our fertile
fields, our mines and our workshops. An
export trade from San Francisco, with
money coming back in payment for ship
ments, would fill their idea of long
felt want But as for return shipments
of merchandise, that is something not
to be tolerated. And yet it is very old
law of trade that commerce cannot be
wholly sided. No nation, if it can
do better elsewhere, will buy much from
any country that takes little or nothing
in return. Exchange of commodities. in
fact is the very life of foreign trade The
chief reason why San Francisco does not
IL vi
tariff system is barrier to traffic with
the outer world. 1t even imposes tribute
on imports of coal, for the benefit of
few mine owners, though everybody
knows that cheap fuel is one of the most
crying needs of our manufacturing in
dustries. The present Wilson tariff is
repressive of foreign trade, being only
little less onerous than the Mckinley
tariff of odious memory. Our local Re-
publican statesmen, however, are too
much concerned for the protection of the
New England calico mills, against posi-
bilities of competition from Japan, to
see for this seaport any opportunity for
trade and development from the new life
that is stirring in the Orient. The great
est of oceans is at our doors, but the
enterprise of our merchants is paralyZed
by the dogma of so-called protection.
Despite all the shouting over the pre-
tended need of protection for our
raisins, prunes. oranges, lemons and
some other products, the fact re-
mains that not one man out of
twenty, or one industry out of twenty,
in the state of California, receives any
benefit whatever from the tariff, either
directly or indirectly. 1t operates merely
to keep US in perpetual bondage to east
ern manufacturers and producers, to the
hindrance of the foreign trade that
should be San Francisco's by right of
her unsurpassed maritime position.
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SHIFTING TAXES

The city council of Chicago has in
creased the rates of fire insurance for
the people of that place. 1t did this by
imposing a tax of two per cent on the
gross premiums of the outside fire in
surance companies doing business in
Chicago. These companies have retail
lated by raising rates five per cent in the
city, and it is announced that they in
tend ito hold this increase over the
heads of the people as a club to force the
repeal Of the obnoxious ordinance" This
little incident illustrates the shifting
possibilities of some kinds of taxation
a tax on what people use or consume
be it money, goods or insurance-is al
ways paid by the user or consumer. 1t
is passed along the line included in the
price, until the user or consumer of the
thing taxed pays It. This is a natural
result that no legislative legerdemain
can get around. The people who con-
sumo tariff-taXed goods pay the tariff
The people who borrow money in a state
where money is taxed pay the amount of
the tax. These propositions may be dis
tasteful to people who hold to certain
ly incontrovertible. The operation of
the law of gravitation is sometimes I'M
pleasant-for instance, the descent from
the top of a fiVe-story building is bound
to have hurtful termination-but there
is no known means of suspending the
law, so ii must be respected. The effort
to make the foreigner pay our taxes
through tariff or to tax capital through
the agency of mortgage tax, income
tax or premium tax laws involves a
wanton waste of time and effort, to say
nothing about any consideration of
equity. There is in fact, but one tax that
political economists have agreed can
not be shifted, tax on land
Some of the New York papers in re-
ferring to the pampas plumes so con-
spcuously in evidence at the st. Louis
convention make the erroneous state
ment that the plumes were imported
from South America. This is inexcus-
able. The fact that the plumes came
from California, most, if not all of them
being supplied by Mrs. Harriet Strong
of Whittier, received such wide mention
in the press at the time of the conven-
ton that even the New York papers
should have learned it, The st. Louis
| convention was not the first one of the
kind that the graceful plumes waved in.
| California sent liberal shipment to the
Minneapolis convention to be used by
the Blaine boomers as very appropri-
ate emblem for the candidate upon
whom Ingersoll some years before had
bestowed the sobriquet of the "Plumed
Knight" For some years an Anaheim
grower has been sending pampas plumes
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occasion when Baldwin had urged him
and his sister to leave the lakewood no.
tel and remove to the house where Bald
win was stopping.
my sister refused the invitation"
said the witness. "She told Baldwin
that she could not go to his house be-
cause he had two disreputable women
there"
Ashley was not blind to the intimate
relations which are said to have subse-
quently existed between his sister and
Baldwin. He declared that on at least
a dozen occasions he had seen Baldwin
enter the room Of his sister in the Bald
win hotel
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-07-02

c. H. Rundel left yesterday afternoon
to visit friends in New York.
Drs. Bicknell, Rogers and Smith left
yesterday for a short visit to Kern river
valley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter B. Cline are at
the Hotel Arcadia, Santa Monica, for
the summer.
Mrs. McCrea and family left yester-
day for Catalina, to remain until the first
of September.
Miss Matte Russell and the Misses
Averill will leave today for Santa Monica
to be gone two months.
Mr. and Mrs. w. T. Nordholt have
taken cottage at Santa Monica for the
months of July and August.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. Chapman have re-
moved from South Grand avenue to their
new home, 104S Lincoln. street.
Mr.. Henry ]. Kramer and pupils will
give their closing reception It kramer's
hall, Tuesday evening, July It'll
Mr.. Knight, leader of the Berkeley
Glee club, passed through the city yes
terday on his way to Catalina.
Miss Cowen. who has been the guest
of DR.. and Mrs. w. G.. Cochran, left yes
terday for San Francisco. Friday she
will start for Europe, to be gone several
years.
Mrs F. w. Riordan of No. $50 Metcalf
street, accompanied by her daughter
and Miss Katie Morey, will leave for
Catalina Thursday to join Mrs. Riordan,
and Mrs. +. O'Rourke.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. II. Busch will leave
Friday for Catalina to spend the sum-
mer. They will occupy the Kendall
cottage. Mrs. Busch will not return
to Los Angeles until late in the fall, as
she will visit in San Francisco.
Mrs. j. Ross Clark entertained with a
box-party Tuesday evening in honor OF
her daughter. Those present besides
the hostess were Misses Echo Allen, Mel
lie, Clark, Gertrude Mason Mamie Dill
lon. Grace Stevens, Emma Graves, Eli
"a Bonsall, Helen Smith. Louise Bourke,
Ella Clark, IneZ Clark.
Mrs. Charles de Szigethy was the guest
of honor yesterday at a pretty luncheon
given by Mrs Frank King at her home
on Westlake avenue. The table was
very artistic with combination of pink
gladioli and gypsifillum. The other
guests were Mines. John Massin, Wal
tiers, Ryan, the Misses Ryan and Miss
Walters.
All prices of wallpaper greatly reduced.
A. A. Eckstrom 1924 South Spring street.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-07-02
THE POLITE WORLD

Mr. and Mrs. Milton Hammond were
at home informally but very delightful
ly last night at their pretty residence,
corner Flower and Washington streets
to a few of their friends. Three tables
were arranged for progressive hearts.
which were much enjoyed. AT the con-
clusion of the games tempting viands
were served and the prizes awarded.
The first ladies' prize was a Bohemian
glass bonbon dish; the gentlemen's was
a Dresden china atomizer; the consola-
ton a pretty water color. Those who
enjoyed the pleasant evening were: Mr..
and Mrs. Albert Crutcher, MIR. and Mrs.
Sheldon Borden, Mr.. and Mrs. LeGrand
Belts, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Goodhue OF
Long Beach, Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Grant,
Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Wiemore.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-07-02

Miss Viola Meyer entertained num-
Der of her friends very charmingly yes
terday afternoon in honor of her seventh
birthday. The little guests passed a
happy time on the lawn playing games,
after which they were invited into the
house, where they found a dainty re-
past awaiting them. Miss Viola re-
ceived many pretty presents from her
fri nds. Those present were Misses
Ethel May, Rosie Wampfier, Minnette
Levy, Hazel Fuller, Marjory Esters.
Julia Weber, Agnes Weber, Margaret
Orr, Kittie and May Dignent.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-07-02
Pleasant Evening

A very enjoyable evening was spent
at the home of Miss Dollie Shepardson,
S44 S. Olive street, Tuesday evening, in
honor of Miss Nora Young and her
brother, Mr.. Oscar Young, who leave
for Denver in a few days.
The evening was delightfully."- spent
in music and recitations. One of the
features of the entertainment was
Chinese string band and an Indian war
dance, wphich was executed by >. w.
Krater in a realistic manner. The spa
cious rooms We're beautifully decorated
with profusion of roses, pinks and
maidenhair ferns.
Among those present were the Misses
Ethel Hodges, Viola Holmes and Eva
Kratzer. and Messrs. Geo. Rayler, w.
E. Kratzer, L. Oswald Hall, Don w.
McDaniels and Len Shepardson.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-07-02

The recent suicide of an unfortunate
woman-one of the victims of that So
cial disorder which manifests itself in
cases of moral depravity-through the
instrumentality of morphine, threatens
to precipitate discussion as to the re-
sponsibility for the facility with which
people obtain death-dealing drugs. The
idea that the laws regulating the sale
OF the latter can in any way discourage
or prevent suicides is purely arbitrary
1t has nothing in reason to rest on The
only real good accomplished by such
laws is in preventing children and in
competents securing too easily commo-
dities they do not appreciate the dan
gerous character of. But as long as
there are means other than those sup
piled in drug stores for the accomplish
ment of self destruction people who re-
ally wish to commit suicide will not be
restrained by enactments governing the
sale of morphine, choroform, strych-
nine and such like wafters-hence. There
are numerous other ways of escaping
from this world that cannot he affected
by nan-made law.
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by the carload to Germany. 1t is true
that the plant was brought originally
from South America to California. but
it has been many long day since it was
necessary to go outside the United States
for its product,
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-07-02
He Had 'Em

At 80 this morning Harrison Smith
aroused the inmates of a lodging house AT
Sixth and Spring streets with agonizing
appeals to be saved from the snakes bugs
and horned toads which his mistaken Wis
ion discerned crawling into his boulder UNI
der the door, through the keyhole and over
the transom. An officer went to Mr.
the reptiles crawleth not. the police station.
where he was booked for medical treat
mpnt
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mt. Lowe Railway Creditors

The creditors have taken possession of
the Mt Lowe railway and will continue
to operate it until it can be gotten out of
debt. Prof. Lowe will remain president.
The whole arrangement has been made
with view of preventing legal embro-
glios, and in the interest of all concerned.
Three of the present directors of the
road will resign and their places will be
filed by three trustees representing the
cred ifnrc
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The price of THE HERALD has
NOT been reduced.

NOTICE-Any bonus offered by the
Typographical Union to new sub.
scribers to THE HERALD is bona
Hde. The price of THE HERALD Is
SO cents a month. Any rum0r that
reduction has been made from
this price Is untrue.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-07-02
Sudden Death

Word was received at the coroner's
office at o'clock this morning that an
old soldier named James Butler had
died suddenly at the Palms house, near
the Arcade depot The body was sent to
Kregelo & Bresee's undertaking rooms,
where an inquest will be held on the
body today.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-07-02

Master Roy Silent celebrated his sixth
birthday yesterday at the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Silent, by en-
pertaining in a delightful manner few
of his friends. Target shooting for
which Keith and Royden Vosburg car
ried off the honors, was one of the fea-
lures of the afternoon. Birthday deli
cacies We're served in the house, the at
tractive center piece of the table being
on illuminated cake. The young hosts
guests were: Annett Thomas, Louise
Hunt, Masters Bancroft, MCGOWAN,
Chester Silent, Keith and Royden Vos-
burg
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-07-02

There are undelivered kilograms at the
Western Union Telegraph office, corner of
First and Spring streets, for Mr.. John VIM
Smith. w. HI Webster..J J. r. Augabrite,
Irene Well, CHas. s. PaPinter. VIM: Booth.
Mr.. James Terjnent, Geo. Moulton Barrett.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-07-02

If the Cuban insurgents blow up Ha-
vana they blow up the prospects OF
Cuban independence in the near future
at the same time. Such a barbarous act
as dynamiting a whole city and destroy
ing the lives and property of disnterest-
ed people would deprive the rebels of
the consideration and support of the re-
mainder of the world. For the credit
of the insurgents it is to be hoped that
the report that they contemplated such
q scheme is unfounded.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-07-02

The latest and by far the most appro
pirate designation of NJ Antonius Han
ma, the head of the syndicate which deals
in Canton presidential goods, is the
Road Agent of Prosperity" The in
dividual who coined that appellation
struck the fact right in the middle.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-07-02
HOTEL ARRIVALS
NADEAU.

NADEAU.
G Moore, Alberg &c II Conant &wf,S 81
G G Weber. S Louis w N Bush f.
W w Fisk, Chieago j r Lamb. mo & dr.,
c MWilliams, S Paul Omaha
NJ Levi. + Roads, Visalia
+ Arrillage. Gtmala G p Hildebiand city
j II Rohr, N York S Johnson, city
w TT Waterman, CHI! A johnson, city
w II Small, Boston S M Hsrtley, city
A Kiser, S + Fl Burns. city
j Dillingham; Lem'rlJ A White, eVntura
w Fl Edwards, Chi G. Fl Clegg L Beach
w c Barrett, Chgo S Bittner, st. Joseph
WESTMINSTER.
f Goodhall &wf, ST. A M Stone, s T.
Miss M Muller f Mrs Spaulding Bar
Mrs Brooks, SMoncal Mrs. Wallace, do
b c Dick. Oakland j l. Truslow, do
NATICK.
F H Gorrell. Millers-l e s Perry Escdido
burg, Q p A Carr &wf Tehapi
L A buchanan, F. NJ B Fassett, Ontario
Miss M Yuchanan,dol
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Paint. floor. 75c. s2s g. Spring.
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All prices of wallpaper greatly reduced.
A. A. Eckstrom. 1924 South Spring street.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-08-21

MICHELSEN'S BAY RUM IL PINT
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RUM, Sc.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-08-21

been hunted so pcrsistcntly. 1t Is cstinint-
cd thnt the relentless pursuit of this man
has cost 20 lives. Often his confcderatcs
were killed or captured. Ho fought when
there was y chance to win, and when there
was not he nado for the mountain fast
nesscs which no man knew as he did, and,
snfc whcro none could follow, hc planned
tho establishment of Illicit stills in other
places.
He is now about 80 years old, of mighty
physique, picturesque and Of nnc bearing,
man with many of the attributes of tho
fox and the eagle. His operations have
been carried on In six states, chiefly in
South Carolina and Georgia. Whom his
band WAS driven out Of Georgia, he went
to Shannon county, Mo-, where, in the
widest bit of country in tho state; he and
his lioutcnants began to brew trouble and
whisky, the first for Uncle Sans men and
the last for the natives who Ind fond
ness for mountain dew"
United States Marshal Lynch finally de-
tailed Deputy Marshals Brennan, Snyder
and Fitzpatrick to bring him in" living
or dead. They located still in valley
where they believed the headquarters of
tho gang was. They crept upon tho still
ut midnight. The fire had not burned out,
but the "king' and his merry men were
gone.
Tho mnrshals set about destroying the
still. AS they worked shout and the
crack of q rife interrupted them, md on q
mountain peak above they snw Wheeler
and his men waving their hats In defiance.
The challenge angcred tho nnrshals and
they decided to follow the lnoonshincrs In
to tho hills 1t was long chase and a
hard one. But ut last tho quarry, beliey-
ing they had shaken off tho hounds, stop.
| pod for sleep in n little hut three miles
| from Houston. Fitzpatrick and Brennan,
after waiting until they were sure tho
moonshincrs were asleep, crcpt from the
timber and approached the enemy. They
found Wheeler and Lou Macarthur, one OF
his lieutcnants, in deep slumbcr, their
! rifles beside them.
| Fitzpatrick kicked the rifles out of reacl
and stood over Wheeler with revolver
Brennan did tho same for Macarthur. Tht
| men made no resistance, realizing that
they would he killed If they did. The
| prisoners were handcuffcd and led over ,
we'll nigh impossible road to tho neares
railroad station.
Wheeler is handsome, fearless man, o.
whose capture the revenue officials lont
dcspaircd. He has escaped so often
sometimes under fire, that he grew care
less. Had the hut been guarded while HI
slept, rs it was his custom to have it. h,
might still be brewing whisky. Now ,
lung term of imprisonment is before him