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The herald., 1897-08-20
ANOTHER CHAPTER OPENS
In the Romantic Rogers-Lewis Mar
riage Case

Joseph R. Rogers. the young fellow
who, after winning a pretty young wife
despite the opposition of her mother
then lost her, is not content to sit down
and bite his thumbs in despair or end the
matter by suing for a divorce.
Yesterday he filed suit against Mrs.
Elmira Lewis, the mother of his inam-
orata, in which he demands 100000 as
damages. AS a groundwork for this de-
mand he alleges that on August he
was living with Annetta Belle Rogers.
his duly welded wife, and cohabiting
with her in happiness and content. Or
that day, he alleges, Mrs Lewis showed
very fine italian hand, by spiriting his
wife away with the intention of injuring
the husband and depriving him of the
assistance, society and comfort of his
wife. He claims that Mrs Lewis ina
liciously enticed her away, and has since
harbored his wife and prevented her
from returning" to her husband.
For the suffering in mind and body taat
such course of action has occasioned
the damages are asked.
The herald., 1897-08-20
HOW 1T IS DONE
Over $246 Paid on $50 Note and SAT
Still Owing

complaint was filed in the superior
court yesterday in which facts are set
forth that form a very excellent object
lesson in a mathematical proposition of
compound interest.
On June "a. 1893, Robert L. Couts, re-
siding at 451 South Grand avenue, made
note to w. E. De Groot for $50, and to
secure it's payment a chattel mortgage
was given on a Christie upright piano.
The note was to bear interest at the rate
of ten per cent per month, and it is not
hard to conceive how, at such a rate the
note might increase and multiply at an
inconsiderable rate. Up to June 2, 1897,
various sums were paid by Mr.. Couts to
get rid of this monetary incubus aggre-
eating $246.55. But the debt was not paid
by any means for at that time there was
outstanding for interest $3.50, and on ac-
count of the principal $S2. Neither of
these amounts having been liquidated
suit has now been brought to recover,
with ten per cent interest on the aggre-
gate amount of $47.90 from June of this
year.
The herald., 1897-08-20
A Healthy Body and q Clear Head

Ii indigestion, constipation and bilious
ness torment the body. che head cannot be
clear. These disorders react upon the
brain most hurtfully, and produce a
cloudiness in the organ of thought not
experienced by a healthy man. Happily,
these brain-oppressing maladies may be
entirely dispelled by that peerless altera-
tive, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. which
cheers, refreshes and invigorates the brain
and nerves. while it regulates the organs
of digestion. assimilation and bilious Sc
erection. 1t eXpels the morbid humors which
poison the system through the bowels and
urinary passages and exerts powerful in
vgorating influence as well. Its cathartic
action is never irritating. violent or pain
ful, but even natural and progressive.
AS an appetizer and Sleep promoter the
Bitters is unrivaled; it mitigates the in
hrmities of age, relieves the ailments
peculiar to the gentler sex, arrests pre-
mature decay, and builds up an enfeebled
physique.
The herald., 1897-08-20
A HooDooED HOTEL
Mrs. Doria Jones Wants Possession of
the st. Elr1o

1t seems as if something very like a
hoodoo has been lowering around the St.
Elmo hotel. On several previous occa-
sions difficulties have arisen and now
again there is trouble brewing,
Yesterday Mrs. Doria Jones of Santa
Monica filed suit against M. A Dudley.
the present lessee of the hotel for resti-
tuition of the premises and back rent.
She alleges that by verbal agreement
entered into on January Dudley en- tered
into possession of the fully furnished
hotel, the monthly rental being fixed at
S126.65, payable upon the 1st day of each
month. AT that time Dudley paid $50
on account of rent and hasn't paid cent
since. A demand for the possession of
the premises and the rent due has been
made, but the lessee refuses. the one de-
mand and ignores the other. Now Mrs.
Jones demands judgment for $7O9. 80. the
amount of rent due to July 1, and such
further sum as may accrue from that
date to the time of the rendition of the
judgment and restitution of the premises.
The herald., 1897-08-20
Januarx last Rurns and the GIRL bekan

January last Burns and the girl began
an Illicit intercourse that has had rather
unhappy results. She made no denial
of the fact, however, that she herself
had been quite acquiescent and had not
been betrayed-to use the ordinary
phrase But she had a grievance all the
same, and stated that when she yielded
herself to the embraces of her colored
friend she did so on the distinct under
standing that If that happened which
has happened then he was to hustle off
tothe court house, procure license, and
marry her in due form. If Miss Maggie
had little consideration for her morals,
at least she had for her reputation.
Mr.. Burns, however, refuses to make
any amends to his sweetheart by mar
rying her. and so she desired COM
plant. Being over the legal age, the
rape charge would not lie; on the girls
own showing it was not a case of Sc
duction, and the only way to call time
on Mr.. Burns appeared to be by civil
suit for breach of contract. Maggie
Burles by her business methods got her
self very nicely tangled up in legal
proposition which Mr. James Is taking
under advisement."
The herald., 1897-08-20
WANTS 1T BACK
A Property Owner Seeks to Recover a
Useless Strip

An application has been filed to the
city council by E. H. Linsenbard asking
that the city give him a quitclaim deed
to strip of property lying alongside the
petitioners lots at Georgia and Sixteenth
streets. When the street was improved
in 1894, by an alleged error of the sur
veyor the eastern boundary line was
fixed from two to five feet too far west,
and when the improvements were com
pleted a small strip was left between the
sidewalk and Mr.. Linsenbard's proper
ty. The petitioner accordingly asks that
an ordinance be passed abandoning the
useless strip.
The herald., 1897-08-20
Patents and Pensions

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17-California
patents: Daniel Best, San Leandro, car
bureter; George S. Binkley, San Fran.
cisco. brake wheel for hosting engines
Louis j. Borie. San Francisco, apparat.
us for handling pulp in wine making
Edwin T. Earl, Oakland, ventilator fol
refrigerator cars; George E. Foster, Pla.
cerville, governor valve; Harry S. Mer.
rill, Los Angeles pla atform rotary print
ing press; Didricks r. Rose, San Fran
cisco, ships port ventilator; Ernest ]
Verrue, San Francisco, water heater.
California pensions: Original-Edwir
Stevens, Kings City. Reissue-Edwart
G. Folsom, Santa Monica.
The herald., 1897-08-20
MAYORS VIEW
How He Regards the Busi-
ness Situation
IRRIGAT0RS LACK WATER
AND ASK THE zANJA COM
MITTEE FOR RELIEF
A Property Owner Seeks to Recover
aStrip of Land Not Needed for
Road Purposes-Notes

In response to telegraphic request
from the New York Journal to give his
views of the business situation in this
region, present and prospective, Mayor
Snyder yesterday wired that paper the
following reply:
Il have not as yet observed, a ma
terial improvement IN mercantile
lines in this city over a year ago.
Throughout Southern California, how
ever, better conditions prevail. The
rains last winter and this spring were
very heavy and there have been bour
tiful crops of hay, barley and wheat.
The pasturage has been and is good.
All farmers expect to realize good
prices for their product this fall Dur
ing the last seven or eight mouths there
has been an unprecedented amount OF
mineral prospecting in Southern Cali
forbia. Numbers of mines are being de :
veloped on an extensive scale ard are
proving big producers. A new field of
employment has thus been opened
which promises to grow better right
along.
"As soon as the construction of 4
deep sea harbor at San Pedro is be :
gun, there will be employment for al
in this vicinity looking for work 1t
is hoped that the troubles bow in the
way of this Improvement will soon be
removed, and that at an early day the
work will be we'll under way With
bountiful crops, with rich pasturage
for cattle and with the extensive de-
velopment of our mineral and other re-
sources, the coming fall will certainly
be most prosperous ore for Los Ar
seles and for all of Southern Califor-
ria -
The herald., 1897-08-20
FOR EXTRA HELP
The Extra Charges Of the County Sur.
veyor Not Legal

In the various offices of the county
government there is not much leeway
for enlarging the list Of employees. Most,
If not all, the officials have the full staffs
allowed by law and when any increased
help is needed the not unfamiliar process
popularity known as beating the devil
around the stump" has been INDUCED in,
Not infrequently a bit of surveying has
to be done somewhere in the county and
then, on the plea that he is fully engaged
in experimenting the map making and
general affairs of his Office, the county
surveyor appoints an outside surveyor
to go and do this field work at cost to
the county of $3.50 per day. The board
of supervisors asked the district attor-
ney to pas upon the question of employ
ing outside help under these conditions,
and the following opinion of Deputy Dis
trict Attorney James, filed yesterday
with the board of supervisors, will be of
interest in this connections:
To the Board of Supervisors of Los
Angeles County: Gentlemen-You re-
quest the opinion of this office as to
whether of not expenses incurred by tn ;
county surveyor, when said official en-
ploys persons other than those named
in the county government act as his as
sistants to make surveys, are legal
charges against the county. We under
stand that the county surveyor and his
assistants are frequently engaged in
office work when outside surveys ars
required, and that in such instances
an extra" surveyor is employed to do
such outside work, payment for which
is sought of the county; that the question
whether or not such demands are proper
charges is the matter upon which ali
opinion is desired.
Subdivision 12 of the county govern
ment act of 1897, page 500, statutes 1897
provides that in counties of the second
class the surveyor shall be allowed ter
dollars per day for all work performed.
and In addition thereto all necessary
expenses and transportation for worl:
performed in the field; provided, that in
counties of this class there shall be. ana
hereby is, allowed to the surveyor one
chief deputy and seven draughtsmen.
who shall be appointed by the surveyor
OF said county and shall be paid as fol-
lows: One chief deputy at a salary of
$14O per north, five draughtsmen at a
salary Of 500 per month; two draughts-
men at the rate of s75 per month"
Thus the legislature has provided for
working force for the office of county
The herald., 1897-08-20
Marriage Licenses

The following licenses issued yesterday
from the office of the county clerk:
William Beattie, native of Ireland
aged 81 years. and Ebheland McClain
native of Indiana, aged "a years, both
residents of Long Beach.
Allen j. Stone, native of Illinois
agen 20 years and resident of Los An
geles, and Katie M. Brady a native oil
Illinois also, aged 20years and resident
of Greenwich, Ills.
Harry w. Bricker, a native of Nilsson.
ri, aged 20 years, and Edna Brownins
Brocksieper, a native of Connecticut
aged Is years, both residents of Los An.
geles.
The herald., 1897-08-20
WHITTIER ESCAPES
Keep Moving in and Out of the City
Prison

Whittier escapes are partially occupy
ing the attention. of the city police. John
Jones, one of the boys who escaped in
the wholesale runaway of Wednesd sday
evening" and who was recaptured by
Officer Phillips on Also street was re-
turned to the reform school yesterday
afternoon in charge of an official sent up
for that purpose.
Eugene McDermott, strapping big
fellow, bearded like pard, was yester-
day taken to the city prison by Officer
Davis of the state school, and booked
as Whittier escape. McDermott took
flight from Whittier about two weeks
ago, and for the past week he has been
iaboring in the hayfields southwest of
the city. He will be returned to this
school today.
The herald., 1897-08-20
AN ODD CONTRACT
Maggie Burles Provides for Guarding
Her Reputation

A very pretty but somewhat self-as-
sertive colored girl named Maggie Burles
loomed up in the district attorneys Of
flee yesterday. She was only II years
old, but SO rotund of form that had she
been a man an air of pomposity would
have been given to the we'll shaped fig
ure; in her case there was cause.
Maggie wanted a complaint drawn,
and wanted it very bad. She explained
to Deputy District Attorney James that
a certain colored gentleman named Wat
son Burns, who resides at ITO South
Alameda street, had entered into a YER
bal contract with her. which he has
failed to live up to. She then unfolded a
rather curious story to Mr.. James, anu
did it in very matter of fact way
1t appeared that some time during
The herald., 1897-08-20
Died on the Train

Leopold Romiez is the name of the
6-year-old Mexican boy who was found
dead in Southern Pacific train at River
station yesterday morning. Coroner
Campbell held an inquest over the little
body at Kregelo & Bresee's undertaking
rooms yesterday afternoon, and found
that the death was caused by bronchial
fever. The body was Immediately
buried.
The herald., 1897-08-20
His Summer Hat

Manuel Burriel was gathered in by
Officer Phillips yesterday noon and
booked at the police station on suspi-
cion. In Burrieps possession was q
pretty wicker basket, which he could not
satisfactorily account for, merely say
ing that he hoped to use is as hat.
The herald., 1897-08-20
A Protest Filed

A protest against the acceptance of
the grading or Beaudry avenue between
First and Second streets has been filed
with the city clerk by Mrs. j. Vandam,
for submission to the council Monday.
The grounds for the protest are that the
petition to grade was changed after the
council had passed upon it; that notices
Of intention were not posted according
TO law, and further that ingress and
egress to lot block 5 has been prevented d
by reason of the cut.
The herald., 1897-08-20
COURT CALENDAR
Cases to Be Called in the Several De-
partments Today

All of the departments will be in holiday
recess this week save for urgent ex-parte
matters, which will be set as occasion
arises and heard by Judge York. The first
regular cases set for hearing will be heard
on August 23d, in department four, by
Judge Van Dyke.
TOWNSHIP COURT-Justice Young.
Holmes VS.. Arnold g.
People VS.. Cue Ting; 80.
Riley VS.. Juenger; 4.
Stephens VS.. Merchants Ad-Sign COM
pany; 80.
The herald., 1897-08-20
Court Notes

Peter Feliz and Andre Faure, charged
with chopping wood in the government
reservation, were given partial hearing
before United States Commissioner Van
Dyke yesterday, but as all necessary wit
nesses were unavailable the cases were
con tinued until next Wednesday.
The herald., 1897-08-20
Peekn. PicO. Poca

Peeko means come and see it; Pico, the
location, and POGO, right away. 1t is a
neat. 4-room cottage. little bathroom, good
improved lot, chicken yard and barn, in
Pico Heights, two blocks from car line
Price, $725, at s12 month and whatever
you can afford to pay down. Langworthy
Co., 226 S. Spring st.
The herald., 1897-08-20
Santa Catalina Island

Grand illumination Avalon bay and erup
tion sugar loaf next Saturday. Famous
marine band; daily concerts. Best fishing.
boating, bathing. Grandest mountain stage
road in the world. Only glass-bottom boat
Banning Co.. 222 S. Spring ST. TEL main sc.
The herald., 1897-08-20
Wants to Connect

D. W. Stewart has applied to the coun-
Gil for permission to connect his prop
erty at Belmont avenue and Council
street to the Belmont avenue sewer by
means Of an alley adjoining his lot.
The herald., 1897-08-20
Accounts Correct

City Auditor Nichols has filed with the
city clerk report to the council stating
that upon auditing the accounts of City
Treasurer Hartwell for the month of
July the same were found to be correct.
The herald., 1897-08-20
JOTTINGS
Our Home Brsw

Maier = Zobelein's lager. fresh from their
brewery. on draught in all the principal
saloons; delivered promptly in bottles or
kegs. ONCE and brewery. 4l0 Also street;
telenhona 81.
The herald., 1897-08-20
Battered Into Bed

Deputy Constable Joe Mugnemi yes
terday arrested L. Zurich on warrant
charging him with assault with a deadly
weapon. The complaint is sworn to by
The herald., 1897-08-20

G. Wurcherer, who alleges that he was
engaged to dig a we'll; that Zurich, in
an unbecoming manner, endeavored to
secure the work for himself; that he re-
monstrated with Zurich for so doing,
and in return was attacked and grievous-
ly beaten, so that he was forced to retire
to bed to recover.
The herald., 1897-08-20

For dynamos, motors and electrical sup.
plies see Machinery and Electrical com.
pany S5l-353 North Main street.
The herald., 1897-08-20

500 bargain sale, vehicles, Aug. 10th to
S1st. Corner Broadway and Fifth street.
The herald., 1897-08-20

Klondyke. Chicago. New York. Denver,
Salt Lake tickets cheap. DeCamp G Leh-
man, 213 South Spring street.
The herald., 1897-08-20

Traps worth sls5 on sale for s1c0. Corner
Broadway and Fifth streets.
The herald., 1897-08-20

For all kinds of electric lighting and
power plants see Machinery and Electrical
company. 1858 North Main street.
The herald., 1897-08-20

Surries worth $780, phaetons worth $3.50,
buggies worth $3.50. all going at $780, Now
is your chance to get bargain. Sale
closes Aug. S1st.- Hawley, King & Co.,
corner Broadway and Fifth street.
The herald., 1897-08-20
To Be Called Tomorrow

TOWNSHIP COURT-Justice Young.
Cowels VS.. Waddengham 2.
People VS.. Blackman; 10.
Olshauser VS.. Lord ct al. $50.
The herald., 1897-08-20

Latest style Of wall paper at A. A. Eek
sti.m .. Sz4 south Spring street.
The herald., 1897-08-20

Each vehicle first floor, 500; genuine bar
gains. .Hawley King &c Co., corner Broad
way and Fifth street.
The herald., 1897-08-20

Drink Glen Rock water Address F. L
Smith. ZIG South Spring street. Tel g.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-22
The Serious Side.

II is gallant and funny too, for
Carl Decker, the New York Jour-
nal correspondent, to go to Cuba,
break open a Spanish prison and
release prisoner of war, who
happened to be a female, but sup
pose Spain makes a formal de-
mand on this government for the
return of her prisoner and the
breaker of her prison, as she has
a perfefect right to do under ex'
listing laws and treaties, what is
Carl and the Journal going to do
about it?
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-22
Ours The Sofest.

The reply Of Governor Biloxi
ham to the proposition to merge
the state Board of Health into a
National Board. was forceable
and to the point. He simply
pointed to the fact that Florida's
State Board had kept the fever
out of of this state ever since its
formation, and the further fact
that fever had slipped by the U.
S. Marine Quarantine Stations
and gotten into other states
therefore he could see no good
reason for desiring a change.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-22
AZ Ally To Poverty.

In Ireland socialism has grown
at RAPID pace, yet toiook for any
good which IL has wrought would
be in vain. 1t cannot do away
with Irelands fanines or her ma
tional misery. 1t only excites
what II cannot ailay, ''cui bono2"
Pensacola News. 4
!. Ituot ply .exeites what 4 eanrot
aiiay, SIT breeds and fosters !
spirit of unrest and confusion that
tends to make famines possible in
any land.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-22
No Hope For Them.

After a man has become thor
oughly bad, reformation seems
impossible with him, several con-
victs in the Pennsylvania peneten-
tiary were detected the other day
with a complete outfit making
counterfeit money. Thus COM
hitting crime while undergoing
pun ishment for crime.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-22

My Fall and Winter stock
of Dry Goods is now COM
plete. | have n nice line OF
calicoes, ginghams, cotton
plaids, bleaching, sea
islands, shirtings, cheviots,
stripes, tickings, sheetings'
pants goods, cambrics, lin
ings, flannels, blankets
gents and ladies' underwear.
Also nice line Of ladies dress
goods at.
w. w. w alker's.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-22
Senator JoDes At Rest.

The death of U. S. senator Charles
w Jones, in an insane asylum al DE-
troit Michigan was indeed a sad ending
~ II life once full Of brilliancy 0nd
promise,
senator Jones began To rise from the
time that he entered the u. :. Senate
IA Floridas honorable representative.
and in II remarkably short time, his
ability and superior worth was recor-
niaed by every member of congress and
his reputation a. constitutional law
yer and able dcbater soon spread al,
over the land.
He was a hard worker, and having
risen from u poor Irish boy to the high
est office. within the reach ola foreign
cr, in the United States, his ambition
urged him on to such strenuous. efforts,
that his great mind broke down under
the strain
His infatuation for Miss Palms, vi
Detroit, who rejected his attentions,
brought upon him shower of sarcas~
tic ridicule from the newspapers oil ov-
or the land, which no doubt added To.
his failing mentality, which was at
that time not known to any except u
few Of his most intimate friends.
1t was discovered later on that his
strange and persistent infatuation for
one who rejected him, was the result
Of an already overtaxed and failing
mind, and that his insanity was not
the result Of the niatuation.
lie never came back to Florida, sun.
til carried To Pensacola last week for
burial.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-22
Where Ia Her HUBBY

MRS.. Josephine K. Henry, of
Kentucky hobs up serenity as a
candidate for president of the
United States and promises un-
limited gold, silver, and paper
money, if she is elected. Prom
isses on that line can be made
with perfect impnnity by a wo-
man.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-22
TeosiDe The British Lion.

The starvation and death of w.
Hughes. the London newspaper
correspondent, OIL the streets OF
Havana, after being robbed ami
maltreatedSy Spanish guerilla
is charged up to SPANS account
and the roar Of the British Lionis
listened for.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-22

The catching of a fifteen foot
shark with a COLI in its stomach
that it had swallowed Il lew hours
before, together with lot of Old
paper and trash, and a piece Of
iron wire, sounds pretty fishy, but
Key West claims il as n solid fact.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-22

Treasurer Feaster, OF Brevard
county, must have been feasting
on too many good things and
costly viands. The county com
missioners have figured him out
ten thousand dollars short in his
account with the county.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-22

If the world depends on Eng
land 10 remonetize silver, or watt
for her to take ny.actior tending
in that direct,an,, the silver advo-
Gates might as we'll go to hanging
their harps OH at4.weeping willow
bush.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-22

If YOU don't believe in a mans
religion, you need not adopt it,
Don't kick up a row with him, go
on with yours and let him teach
his. and God will take care of the
creed that is most acceptable to
him, :.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-22

The degrading effect of attend
ing a murder trial was more
clearly demonstrated this week by
the crowd that gathered to hear
the disgusting details in the Lsiet
CERT trial. y
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-22

Governor Bloxham refuses to
suspend Peter o. Knighs sps'atzJ
solicitor of Hillsboro county,fsip7
on the petition of the Law anil
Order Society, A stronger petit
ton it seems was sent up an his
favor.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-22

The Luetgert jury made mis-
trial. 9 stood for conviction aud
) for acquittal.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-22

General Blanco, the newly APP
pointed governor general OF Cuba
cannot make Cuba much banker
than Weyler has made it.