The herald., 1897-11-20

certain to lose his position. Immediately
preceding the last interview above men
toned between me and the said Axtel
I saw that the said Axtell and the sal
Cooper had an interview together at sal,
Sentous-street school in my office, whicl
interview, to the best of my recollection
lasted for about thirty minutes. Sal,
Axtell came directly from Cooper to me
I being at the moment in the hall of th'
school, and, referring to his interview
just then closed with Cooper, said t.
me: II HAVE FIXED THAT CASE
ALL RIGHT AND WILL ATTENI
TO YOUR CASE IN A FEW DAYS"
then insisted that he should inform m,
of what he meant by that statement
and then followed the interview con-
cerning my case as above stated.
Affiant further says: On or about the
7th day of November, 1897, the said E
e. Cooper stated to me that in June
1897, he. the said Cooper. paid the sun
of $50 for the purpose of securing his re-
appointment as such janitor for the cur
rent school year; that he had paid the
said sum of money in response to state
ments made to him by the said c. H
Axtell, in which the said Axtell told the
said Cooper that he must pay the sum
Of $65 in order to secure such reappoint-
ment, and said Cooper further stated
that pursuant to said demand made by
said AXtell the said Cooper carried to
the said Axtell the sum of $65, but said
Axtell refused to receive the same and
said to the said Cooper: You cannot
pay that money to me-pay it to Brother
Pitman"; that pursuant to said instruc-
ton the said Cooper did pay the said
sum of $65 into the hands of j. S. Pitman.
the wife of said Cooper being then and
there present; that afterwards the said
Pitman returned to Cooper the sum of
SIS, saying that that was all that he had
been able to save from the wreck.
Affiant further says: c. E. Latham is
and at all the times herein mentioned
was q teacher in said Sentous street
school. He has repeatedly stated to me
that prior to the said June election of
teachers in the year 1897 he had an inter
view with the said ]. F. Adams. in
which the said Adams advised the said
Latham substantially as follows: why
don't you apply for the Sentous street
school?" Latham replied that he did
not know there was to be a vacancy.
Adams answered: THERE WILL BE
IF PHILLIPS DOESN'T DIG UP. AND
DIG UP MIGHTY WELL, TOO. AS you
want a principalship, you had as well
take good one as any" To which La
than responded nothing for a moment,
and then said: What did you say?" to
which Adams replied in substance re-
peating the same thing the second time.
T T. PHILLIPS
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
18th day of November, 1897.
[SEAL.1 F. j. WHIFFEN,
Notary Public in and for the County of
Los Angeles, State of California.
SHORT BUT SWEET
State of California. county of Los An
geles. S.:
c. f. Latham. being duly sworn, says:
am and at all the times herein men
toned was a teacher in the public schools
Of the city of Los Angeles, and in the
Sentous street school; that in June. 1897
and prior to the annual election of the
teachers of the public schools of said city
L had a conversation with ]. F. Adams.
Il member of the board of education of
the city of Los Angeles, at the Office Of
the beginning of said conversation, the
said ]. F. Adams referred to the fact
that had applied to the board of edu-
cation requesting that be appointed to
the principalship of some school in said
city. Said Adams asked me why I
didn't apply for the principalship of the
Sentous street school. Then 1 replied
that I didn't know that there was
vacancy in the principalship of the
Sentous street school. The said Adams
then said to me: "UNLESS PHILLIPS
DIGS UP PRETTY WE'LL HE CAN'T
HOLD THE JOB" I said WHAT"
He then repeated: Unless Phillips
ligs up pretty WE'LL he can't hold his
job. AS you are applying for a princi-
palship, you might as we'll have a good
one"
And further deponent saith not.
c. E. LATHAM.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
18th day of November, 1897.
(SeaD II. c. AUSTIN,
County.
A BLUFF THAT FAILED
State of California, county of Los An
5eles, S.:
r. r. Emery, being first duly sworn,
says: 1 am and at all the times herein
was a teacher in the public
schools of the city of Los Angeles and
of the Eighth street school, In
the early part of June, 1897, my school
was visited by j. +. Adams and J. c.
members of the board of
a1 11Ioo .,f I,a oit af
who were members of the committee on
visiting and janitors of said school
board, the said Adams and McInerney
)eing accompanied by c. H. AXtell, su-
of buildings and janitors