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The herald., 1897-08-25
ADMITTED HE WAS DEAD BROKE
Honesty Was Found to Be Best Policy
With a Car Conductor

Dead broke is not an accurate term
1t is relative. A millionaire considers
himself dead broke when he finds that
he has only in his pocket. Men Of
less means think they are dead broke
when they can find but quarter or a
half in their pockets. But with the mass
of people who haven't very much, even
when at their best, dead broke means
that condition in which man finds him.
self without nickel in his pockets.
Pennies don't cut any ice. Even three
or four of them won't pay a car fare, and
when man hasn't car fare the walk to
Cummingsvile at midnight seems long
awfuly long.
That's what allied me the other
night said a resident Of that suburb.
Il didn't have a nickel to my name-not
a nick. And you bet it was warm. So
l tried to work the conductor. When he
struck me l felt in my pockets, first one
then the other, and then looked dazed.
| i had a Nickel said, but blame me
if I know where it is
Too thin, old man. said the heartless
man in blue. You'll have to walk a
little, just for change, as you haven't
got it, Think of a man getting off a
joke like that.
/ II walked, but not far. Tried another
with the same racket. Didn't work. He
was heartless also. knew I'd get home
| If the cars kept coming, but the last
| car would be due soon. Then thought
of the old motto: Honesty is the best
policy I'll try it on.
Il got on the car and held up my head.
| When the man with the badge came
along l said:
I'm dead broke, old man. Let me
take sneak home, will you? Walking
is awful hot a night like this
THAT worked like charm. He was
the best conductor ever saw. He knew
1 was telling the truth. The others
thought 1 was lying, and I was, but not
in the way they thought. All he said
was:
"'All right old fellow. Don't give me
away though.
mot on your life,' said. Then 1
curled up and slept the sleep of the just
and the righteous. Hereafter I'm going
to tell the truth cost what it may
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DR.. r1EYERS
him fall, and. going out, found that he had
broken the bone ahava the knea Hiz

him fall, and. going out, found that he had
broken the bone above the knee cap. His
head was also pretty badly bruised.
The Continental Building and Loan assoc
citation has been firmly established in this
city, as Mr.. Ellis, the special agent, sold
over 600 shares while in the city, which rep
resents that $50, 900 capital stock has been
subscribed. Mr.. Ellis says that 1t shows
pretty thoroughly that San Bernardino is
not dead yet. He left this morning for
Los Angeles and Santa Monica.
| John Leffew. son of J. 7. Leffew of this
city, met with a painful accident yester-
day at his brothers ranch, just east of this
city. He run the tines of a pitchfork into
his groin. The wound is very painful and
dangerous.
The wife of Deputy District Attorney H.
c. Rolfe presented him with a baby boy
on Sunday morning.
Mrs. d. A. Smith of Ontario is In trou-
Bile, as today two liens were placed on =
building that she has Just finished. One
lien is for $6O15, in favor of r. o. Breck-
inridge Co., hardware dealers and
plumbers of Ontario; the other was levied
by c. A. Postil for $3.50 for carpenter
work.
r. M. Welsh of San Francisco has decided
to the San Francisco Savings union the
Citrus Belt Irrigation ditch of which 4500
feet has been excavated and 5000 feet lined
with stone, and another ditch between
Alder avenue and Laurel avenue eighty
rods in length
The county auditor has received notice
from the state board of equalization of the
exact assessed valuation of railroads in
this county:
Southern Pacific, SO. .o6 miles........ sS14.o7o
Atlantic and Pacific 206. 81 miles, l 741 1863
Southern California, 1856. 40 miles,. s21, ,62S
Southern California, motor, miles. 1000
Total, 3S2.42 miles. es...............s2 81 425. .sSS
M. I. Simonton and Miss Maggie Met
calf were married this morning and at
once left for San Francisco.
The complaint in the suit of W. A. Vale
ct al. VS.. the Arrowhead Reservoir COM
pany was filed today. The plaintiff asks for
$500 damages and costs. The complaint
sets forth a complete statement of facts
from the time the Arrowhead company got
the right of way for toll road down to
the present time, together with an agree
ment giving the Wales free transportation
over the toll road at all times. The COM
plant alleges several failures to live up to
the agreement The suit is brought for
these failures, the last one being on Aug
I'd, when Mr.. W. A. Vale was made to
unload a load of wood before he could
pass the toll gate.
Frank Donnatn of Collin has been ap-
pointed Southern Pacific agent in this CITY
What Joe De Yarmow will do is not at
present known.
Albert Fussel, Clyde King and John
Lawrence have left on a two-weeks' trip
to Holcomb Valley.
Miss May Lewis is home from Glenn
ranch
Miss Ida Vale left this morning for Long
Beach,
]. ]. Hanford and wife have gone to Re-
dondo.
Mrs. VIM. Irving left this morning for
the Greenlead mine
John Brown, jr., and family have re-
turned from the coast
c. D. Whitcomb has returned from Dem
yer.
Sheriff Holcomb and family returned
from the mountains today.
The herald., 1897-08-25
SANTA ANA

SANTA ANA, Aug. A.-(Regular Corre-
spondence.) The case against William
Schultz, charged with resisting an ofncer,
was begun today in Justice Huntington's S
court. The defendant had demanded trial
by jury, but 1t was found that under pro-
vision recently added to the code jury trials
in a Justices court were not vouchsafed
defendants charged with crimes wherein
the penalty is fixed at over $500 fine. The
maximum penalty which may be imposed
in Schulte's case, If he is convicted, is $o000
fine or five years imprisonment, Sheriff
Nichols, the arrestng officer, was on the
stand the greater part of the day. The
defense is making an effort to show that
certain property, consisting of boats and
seines, which belonged to Schultz. was
taken from tide land and stored in barn,
which afterward burned. Other belongings
of Schultz were dumped in the public road
near Laguna.
Miss Ella Sherman, who has been as
signed to a position In the First street
grammar school, has arrived from San
Francisco and is the guest of Miss Grace
Spurgeon on East Fourth street.
Misses Ethel Collins. Elizabeth Leslie
Josephine Yoch and Elizabeth McFadden
and Messrs. ]. T. Nourse, jr., Herbert
Cleaver and ]. H. Stewart composed a
party of students who left this morning for
Stanford university. Frank Galloway, who
will enter the California College of Dental
Surgery at San Francisco, leaves tonight
Miss Grace Spurgeon is visiting friends in
Los Angeles.
The Orange County Fair company has
about completed negotiations for race
between klamath, the Orange county trot-
ter, and Chehalis. the fleet Oregon PAGER.
Such an event would prove a drawing card
and the directors are making a great effort
to bring off the race during the coming
meet in this city
J. H. Conger of Los Angeles purchased of
the Anaheim school district bonds. has
exacted from the trustees a condition
which may result in the sale being called
The herald., 1897-08-25
AVALON

AVALON, Aug. A.-(Regular Corre-
spondence.) What threatened to be meat
famine in Avalon today was averted by the
prompt action of the company in sending
over the tug Catalina. She arrived at 80
p. m. with the delayed meat on board.
1t is officially announced that the steamer
Hermosa will certainly not be taken off
the run between San Pedro and Avalon
before September 18th, and may be kept
running until October 1st.
George B. Mclaughlin, assistant cashier
of the Citizens bank of Los Angeles, ar
rived yesterday and will spend part of his
vacation in Avalon. He registered at the
Glenmore.
C. Clarke Anderson of San Antonio, Tex.
who has been staying at the Metropole for
the last seven weeks, leaves on this morn
ing's boat. Mrs. Anderson, who accom-
panied him, has made a great record with
a rifle during their stay in Avalon. When
she came here she had never handled gun
with the idea of shooting anything, but
practice combined with natural talent has
done so much for her that yesterday at the
shooting gallery she broke the record at
inanimate birds. Out of fifty shots with a
22-caliber rifle she knocked down forty
nine birds consecutively. She also sue
ceeded in making twelve straight bulls
eyes at a two inch target. Mr.. Anderson
says he will take back very pleasant recol-
lect1ons OF his visit to Catalina, where he
says he could command everything to
order except the moon, which would not
stay full so long as he desired
Among the departures on the Hermosa
this morning were ]. Il. Quinn and S. B.
Appel of Wilcox, Ariz., who have made a
prolonged visit at the Metropole.
Mr. Stanton, a prominent attorney of
Riverside, returns home today.
Carl McStay, chief deputy in the street
superintendent's office, returns to Los An
geles today.
On Thursday, Friday and Saturday of
this week there will be two steamers leav-
ing Avalon for San Pedro, the Falcon be-
ing put on to assist the Hermosa
The herald., 1897-08-25
RIVERSIDE

RIVERSIDE, Aug. 24.-(Regular Corre-
spondence) Another hole was knocked in
the county government law of 1897 today
by Judge Ballard of Orange county sitting
for Judge Noyes of this county. The de-
cision was rendered in the case of County
Recorder E. II. Gruwell, who sued the
county to recover money due for copying
records. The new law provides that the
recorder of this county should receive 800
month salary and cents folio for
copying. The supervisors refused to pay
the bill for copying and the case was taken
into court by the recorder. Judge Ballard
decides that the law, SO far as it applies
TO the recorders case, was special legisla-
ton, and therefore void. The grounds for
the decision are that the law provided that
the terms of the law applying to the re-
corder went into effect on the passage of
the law, while in the case of other county
officers the changes affecting them do not
become operative until after their terms
expire, in other words, apply to the off,
GERS elected at the next election. The de-
The herald., 1897-08-25
DowNEY

DOWNEY, Aug. 24.-(Regular Core
spondence) Mrs. Marsh. the wife of r. A.
Marsh, a blacksmith of this place, stepped
upon a nail one day last week, and yester-
day she was buried, having died of lockja
on Sunday night. The husband and family
have the sympathy of the cummunity.
F. R. Bryant is taking out the stairway
from the interior of his building and hav-
ing it run up on the outside.
P. A. Brown of Norwalk was over last
evening visiting his parents, DR.. and Mrs
Brown.
A new well has just been put down at the
school house.
One DR.. Roberts, a dentist, also a holi-
ness preacher, delivered very startling
discourse on Sunday evening at the camr
ground. The doctor followed closely the
lines of the usual ''men only lectures, and
somewhat disgusted the large audience OF
women, young ladies, children and men
present.
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who lives with his mother at Linda Vista,
had an experience yesterday with a rat
tlesnake that he is not liable to forget.
He was out on the hills. and coming across
rattler stoned him until the snake was
thought to be dead. In triumph the lad
wrapped the snake over the end of a stick,
put the stick over his shoulder and started
for home. When near the house the boy
felt the poisonous fangs of the reptile
strike him in the back of the neck and his
cries for help soon brought the neighbors.
All sorts of remedies were suggested and
messengers dispatched for the doctor, but
Mrs. Robinson put her lips to the wound
and sucked out the poison. Meantime, the
boy was given wine literally and am
monia was applied, with the result that to-
day he is entirely out of danger
The herald., 1897-08-25
LONG BEACH

LONG BEACH, Aug. N.-(Regular Corre-
spondence) Through some inadvertence
the death of the wrong man was announced
yesterday. 1t was Louis Kirkland who died
at the residence of r. S. Talbot, instead of
the reverse, as was stated. Mr.. Kirkland
was native of Connecticut and has been
an invalid for the past forty years. He
came to Long Beach five years ago, and
his life was thus prolonged to the ripe age
OF So, with his mental faculties preserved
TO the last. He was a man of broad cul-
ture' remarkable intellectual acumen,
honorable in his dealings and upright in
character. His death is a happy release
from suiiering. The funeral services were
nelu .hls afternoon at o'clock and were
conducted by personal friends Of the do
ceased, w. p. Haworth. DR.. shultz and
MISS Johnson, with appropriate music. The
remains VIII be cremated at Rosedale. Los
Angeles. Mr.. Kirkland was an old soldier
The herald., 1897-08-25

of the water companies of this city few
months ago and the doubling by the exist
ing company of the water rates, supply of
water was promised that would be equal
to any emergency
The shooting gallery will close its doors
on the first of the month, the recently en-
acted law of the board of supervisors re-
quiring an additional license of SIS to be
paid quarterly, with the s15 license required
by this city, being more than the proprietor
can pay and expect any profit on the
amount of business being done.
There is an American eagle on exhibition
in the show window of the shooting gal
lery on Second street that was captured
by young Mexican and brought into town
this morning.
Miss Aver has resigned her position in
the schools here and a Miss Reed, who did
substitute work last year, has been ap-
pointed to take Miss Ayers place.
Kramer Morris of San Bernardino spent
Sunday in Pomona.
Mrs. C. D. Taylor and Miss Myrtle Bar
nard have returned from their outing at
Santa Monica.
M. J. Simpson spent last week at Newport
fishing.
Miss L. Horst left today to spend a week
with Frank B. Kings family at Long
Beach.
The herald., 1897-08-25

SAN JACINTO, Aug. 24.-(Regular Cor
respondence.) E. E. Chilson and sister,
Miss May, of Santa Ana, went to the Tau
quitz mines today.
The Corona mines are closed down. The
pay ore at the bottom of the shaft has
given out.
Herman Zuher of the Pioneer Truck
company of Los Angeles is in town.
Perrin Toland returned Saturday from
Prescott, Ariz.. after a three-months' visit
to relatives.
Mrs. Wardrobe and daughter Myrtle have
returned from San Diego.
DR.. Mary Noble is visiting her mother,
who IS camping at Strawberry Valley.
Miss Frye of Los Angeles is visiting her
mother at this place.
G. H. Phar is spending this week in
Strawberry Valley.
Rev. Haskyns and wife have returned
from their outing at Strawberry Valley.
The herald., 1897-08-25
The Handsomest Man in Newport

Clarence Andrews is probably the
handsomest man of middle age that has
struck Newport this summer.
The black and the gray are just about
even in the struggle for possession of his
carefully trimmed Vandyke beard, and
the touch of silver in his hair empha-
sizes the freshness of his complexion and
the brightness of his dark eyes.
When he sallies forth in his white
fiannels he is so utterly distingue that
he can give cards and spades to any Of
the foreign noblemen that are trotting
about and beat them at the game Of look
ing handsome.-NewY York Journal.
The herald., 1897-08-25
LOS ANGELES COUNTY

will be new, first-class and elegant and
the hotel will be in charge of Gen. Went
worth. who managed the Raymond up to
the time of its destruction by fire over two
years ago.
RECALLS OLD TIMES
Mrs. Harriet Kernaghan, the mother
of Pre- sdent Kernaghan of the Pasadena
National bank, was one of the thirteen
.l3-year-old girls who helped welcome La
fayette at the time of his visit to America
in 1921 Mrs. Kernaghans name then was
Harriet Force, and she remembers the time
very well. There is only one other member
of the little company of girls now living
Mrs. Kernaghan is in receipt of letter
The herald., 1897-08-25
PASADENA

PASADENA, Aug. A.-(Regular Core
spondence.) 1t has been announced that
Iiotei Ia Flnterosca' formerly the Painter
Will have 100 large and elegantly furrisbad
rooms when the projected improvements {
have been made. More than half of these
rooms will be en- suite. with private bath
and open fires. The house is to be thor
oughly remodelled and largely added TO
until 1t is one of the finest hotels on the
Pacillc coast. large new dining room will
be added, and there will be kitchen pro-
vided with cold storage accommodations.
In fact, everything about La Pintoresca
The herald., 1897-08-25
SAN BERN HARDING

SAN BERNARDINO, Aug. 24--(Regular
Correspondence In few more days there
will be no trace of the fire that occurred
on Fifth and E streets a week or so ago.
On last Thursday Mr.. Howard received
$64S insuranc on his building and already
the carpenters have the house as good as it
was before. Just as soon as the painting
is done Mr.. Posener will reoccupy the
building. Mr. Posenor received s45S for his
The herald., 1897-08-25
POMONA

POMONA, Aug. 24.-(Regular Core
spondence) Last evening one of the Po-
mona hose companies was out on the street
for practice and trial of the fire hydrants
around town showed the amount of water
inadequate 10 fight a fire should one oc-
cur. The force of water would not throw
a stream across Second street. This, too,
in face of the fact that the consolidation
The herald., 1897-08-25
ORANGE COUNTY

off. He states that he will not close the
deal until he has been furnished with certi-
fled statements of the supervisors proceed
ings in reference to the district from the
time of its organization some forty years
ago. His demand is considered unreason-
able, and it is quite probably that the pro-
ceedings so far taken in the matter will be
abandoned.
The herald., 1897-08-25
SAN DIEGO COUNTY

be refused. The work of enlargement for
the present will be the stock house, which
will be increased to 35, 900 barrels capacity.
The brewing apparatus, by working con-
stantly, can handle largely increased Or
ders.
George Lorenzo, a lad Z years of age
The herald., 1897-08-25
SAN BERNHRDINO COUNTY

losses. The house in which the fire started
was insured for $500 and the contents for
5000. 1t has been moved some twenty feet
nearer the street and a force of men are
at work rebuilding it.
Otto Brouse is a somnambulist and as a
result he is suffering from a broken knee
cap. On Sunday night it was warm and
Brouse decided to sleep in a little alcove
over the porch. Some time in the night he
got up, and, stepping over the railing, fell
to the ground below. His mother heard
The herald., 1897-08-25

For steam. gasoline or electric pumping
plants see the Machinery and Electrical
company, 351 North Main street.
The herald., 1897-08-25
NO PAY
TILL
CURED
RIVERSIDE COUNTY
SAN JACINTO

cision places the recorders office under the
old law so far as his salary is concerned.
The herald., 1897-08-25

Wall paper. late styles. low prices. a.
A. A. Eckstroms s. 324 South Spring street
The herald., 1897-08-25

Drink Glen Rock water Address r. Z
Smith. 216 South Spring street. Tel s.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-06-17
WARNING.

We wish to caution all users of Simmons
Liver Regulator on a subject of the deepest
interest and Importance to their health
perhaps their lives. The sole proprietors
and makers of Simmons Liver Regulator
learn that customers are often deceived by
buying and taking some medicine of q
similar appearance or taste, believing it to
oe Simmons Liver Regulator. We warn
you shat unless the word Regulator is on
the package or bottle, that it is not Simmons
Liver Regulator. No one else makes, or
ever has made Simmons Liver Regulator, OF
anything called Simmons Liver Regulator,
but ]. II. Zeilin & Co., and no medicine made
by anyone else is the same. = W. alone can
put it up. and we cannot be responsible, if
other medicines represented as the same do
not help you as you are led to expect they
willis Bear this fact well in mind, ifyou have
been in the habit of using a medicine which
you supposed to be Simmons Liver Regule-
tor, because the name was somewhat like
it, and the package did not have the word
Regulator on it, yo; lave been imposed
upon and have not been taking Simmons
Liver Regulator at all. D The Regulator has
been favorably known fa many years, and
all who use it know how necessary it is for
Fever and Ague. Bilious Fever, Constipa-
ton, Headache. Dyspepsia, and all disc ,ders
arising from a Diseased Liver.
We ask you to look for yourselves, and
see that Simmons Liver Regulator, which
you can readily distinguish by the Red q
on wrapper, and by our name, is the only
medicine called Simmons Liver Regulator
j. H. ZEILIN g CO.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-06-17
HOPE TO END IN TWO WEEKS
Republican Senators Still Expect
Rapid Work on the Tariff.
Washington Post.

Washington Post.
The sugar schedule of the tar
if bill is expected TO continue to
be the subject of consideration in
the Senate for the next day or
two. The Hawaiian treaty and
antitrust amendments are still
to disposed OF, and both will ex
cite considerable debate. With
the sugar question settled, the
agricultural schedule, which has
been partially considered, will be
again taken up, and will in turn
be followed by the tobacco sched>
ule, if III the meantime the Re
publicans agree upon its provls
ions.
The Republican managers hope
to also dispose of the spirit and
cotton schedules during the
week, and possibly to make some
progress with the hemp and fax
provisions. There will be no
great amount of debate on either
cotton or spirits. There was at
one time talk of an attempt to
add ccHepnsatory duties on cot
ton goods because of the duty
fixed on raw cotton, but this is
understood to have been abar-
doned, if ever seriously contem>
plated. The Democrats do not
find the present schedule OBJ
jectionable except in minor de-
tails, and will allow it to go
through with but little discuss
sion.
The Republican managers VINO
hope that the debate in the Seu>
ate will be concluded within the
next two weeks, notwithstand-
ing less than onesthird of the
bill has been gone over. They
have secured an agreement with
the Democrats that the sessions
shall begin at II o'clock instead
Of - after Wednesday next.
The House probably will con-
tinue its policy of ad~journing
from Monday over TO Thursday
until the following Monday. No
business will be done and the SEES
sions to-day and Thursday will
be merely perfunctory.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-06-17
SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

AT a recent meeting of the Elk.
ecutive Committee of the county
Sunday School Association &
committee was appointed to pre-
pare a suggestive programme &C
be used in the various township
conventions.
After meeting and consulta-
ton the committee submitted the
following:
/. WHAT the cl.ulch members
can and should do TO aid the
Sunday School.
2 The best method for the
Improvement Of discipline in the
Sunday School.
3. The irfuet c. of the each
er upon bis pupils.
4 Primary teaching:(a.) How
may our primary teaching be
made more eff"c i've. o. Should
same lesson be taught in al
classes Of the school. (c) VIVA
are the REQUISITES ut a good pr
mary teacher.
The above is respectfully sub
mitted With the hope that it may
aid those whose duty it is tc
prepare programmes aud at the
same time, to some extent al
least, unity the wotk in the diff
ferent township conventions
II. B. PARKER.
Secretary.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-06-17
OLD PEOPLE.

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