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The herald., 1897-08-04
LOS ANGELES tERAID WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST T.

are resorted to for delay merely. 1t is
stated as probable that the hearings
upon such demurrers, If they were all
before one of the Los Angeles judges.
would consume all his time. In other
states penalties are imposed for filing
frivolous demurrers. such as imposi-
ton of costs and requiring an affidavit
of merit before pleading to the facts is
allowed.
Judicial proceedings can be simplif1ed
in many ways which will expedite busi-
ness and diminish the expense of liti-
CATION. 1t is to be hoped that the men,
bers of the commission are not 50 we'd
ded to what they are familiar with that
changes as would be improvements.
Lawyers are apt to be conservative and
opposed to innovations in judicial pro-
ceedings. They were so attached to the
them opposed the adoption of codes Of
practice.
1t is not through extensive and CON-
plicated machinery that power is most
effectively applied, but through that
which is simplest and most direct The
same principle is applicable to govern
ment. Let the commission labor with
view to placing California on the high
est plane for effectiveness of its laws
and the practice of all reasonable econ
omies by government.
The herald., 1897-08-04
The Condition of the Streets

To the Editor of the Los Angeles
Herald: Thanks for the Hold Them
Responsible" article. By keeping up
this kind of agitation until the improve
ments referred to are finally made you
will surely receive the thanks of every
one obliged to travel over said streets
on wheels. If the present condition Of
the city treasury will not permit the
work to be done in thorough manner at
once, then you might suggest that each
member of our city council dncluding
the president and mayor) might
donate one half or the entire
amount of his monthly salary
each month, until sinking fund
sufficiently large enough has been
raised to at least pay for pulling up
some of the large chuck holes In these
streets. This is the sort of timber this
city requires for councilmen and mayor.
Respectfully, TAXPAYER.
August 3.
The herald., 1897-08-04
WE MUST FIGHT, EHe

A London dispatch of the 31st ultimo
contains the rather startling assurance
that the United States will be called
upon at an early day to extend its good
offices, after very peculiar method, to
prevent a revolution in Spain. The
Spanish premier is reported as express
ing his settled conviction of the inability
of Spain to crush the Cuban rebellion
In this connection he is reported to have
said:
We can keep up the war in Cuba only
so long as our funds last and the time
when they will fail is almost in sight
When it comes, we must give up the
struggle. Now, we are too proud race
to do SO at anybodys demand, but We
can do so by pleading superior force in a
war with the United States. Such
result naturally would be very unpleas-
ant to us, but in order to prevent a
revolution in Spain and the overthrow
of the monarchy war is the only way
out
Then we are told that the premier is
fully conscious that the president of the
United States has no desire to engags
in such war but, on the contrary, that
he would be willing to make great sac
rifices to avoid war. But the premier
feels that the crisis in Spain will demand
this at least, if the monarchyis to endure.
When the last effort of the army in Cuba
shall have failed, as fail it must, there
will be the clash of civil war in Spain
unless the ministry can furnish foreign
war to divert the clutch of the fratri-
eide. Under these circumstances the
premier says that war must be courte~
against the United States as an imper-
ative necessity. 1t would, therefore,
seem clear that Uncle Sam will be re-
quired to take the medicine that is thus
in course of preparation, unless the un-
reasonable ferocity of the enemy can be
restrained. 1t is usually serious matter
for nation to go to war even to protect
her own rights, and it does seem a trifle
unreasonable to compel us to burn val
liable gunpowder in a case where no
rights would be involved. Yet, If the in
tegrity of the Spanish monarchy should
depend upon little circumstance o. this
kind it would probably be set down as
an act of International discourtesy to
decline the invitation to fight. General
Woodford should be promptly instructed
to hurry the business up, If it must be
done, in order that no unnecessary time
may be wasted in such Improbable work
Of benevolence But all such courtesies
should be emphatically discountenanced
in the future.
The herald., 1897-08-04
IF THEY BUT COULD

How often we hear discontented ones talk
OF grand opportunities lost,
And how by the waves of condemnable
luck
They've ever been ruthlessly tossed.
They'll tell in a sort of disconsolate way
OF laboring always in vain,
And how they would have the contract
If they
Could live their lives over again.
The man who has failed in his business
affairs,
The prisoner locked in his cell,
The welded ones battling with family
cares
All have the same story to tell.
Wherever we go that disconsolate cry
We hear in a pitiful strain:
You'd see matters different with me If 1
Could live my life over again."
We should never weep over milk that is
spilled,
But hustle around for some more.
We cannot recall opportunities killed.
Nor chances blown off from our shore
This word of advice is the best we can give;
Don't over the past sit and brood.
But tackle the future, determined to live
The balance OF life as you should.
-Denver Post.
The herald., 1897-08-04
RISE IN THE PRICE OF WHEAT

1t is very gratifying that the farmers
are getting better prices for their wheat
than they have been receiving for several
years. Not the farmers alone, but the
whole country is to be congratulated, fo-
what adds to the income of the tiller OF
the soil increases the wealth of the ma :
tion. Several causes have been assigned
for depression in the prices of agricul-
tural products, one being over-produc-
ton, and another inadequacy of the
money volume.
Whatever may have been the cause of
low prices the question now is what has
ministration say that it is the election OF
Mckinley, the restoration of confidence
and a lot of other clap-trap of similar
character. The rise could not have been
caused by the passage of the "monstros-
ity called the Dingley BILL" or that
"barbarous instrument" as the Argo-
naut designates it, nor indeed in an
ticipation of its passage, for there is
nothing in the measure that will tend
20 promote expectation. On the contrary
the bill is obnoxious to European nations
in general and calculated to prevent
them from buying of us any faster than
is absolutely necessary.
The cause Of the advance in the price
of wheat is easily understood when a
few facts are considered. The principal
countries which produce wheat for ex-
portation are Russia, the United States
the Argentine Republic. Australia and
India On the average.Ruseia annually
exports 25,0O0 900 bushels more than the
United States. During the last few years
India has exported about 80. 900. 900 bush
els annually and Australia as much OF
a greater amount. Great Britain is the
greatest wheat purchasing nation in the
world, and she has taken the entire sur
plus products of Australia and India
Those two countries for the last and pres
ent years have not only had no wheat to
sell, but they have been compelled tc
import in consequence of failure of crops
and productions in Russia, the United
States and Argentina were not greater
than usual.
There has been, therefore, decrease
Of supply and increase Of demand, which
explains the cause Of the advance in the
The herald., 1897-08-04
A PERvERSE JURY

The town of Leadville has always had
a smart reputation, and this distinctive
characteristic seems to have survived
many of the vicissitudes of the more
turbulent days Last week the judge OF
the criminal court took occasion to in
struct the grand jury concerning the ad-
visibility of restraining the operations
of the gambling fraternity of Leadville
The gentlemen Of the jury proceeded
to the jury room and promptly returned
indictments against the judge, the couu.
ty commissioners, the sheriff and the
mayor of the city, and now these gentle
men are indignant The jury was prob
ably dishonest or insincere, for while the
representative men of the community
were thus disgraced the gamblers,
against whom the machinery of the law
had been specially directed, We're ignored.
And thus it is that Leadville keeps well
to the front, and the second chapter re-
mains to be enacted, as the indicted off
cials are in consultation
The herald., 1897-08-04
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1907.
MAYBE, MAYBE NOT

The prompt acquiescence of the Brit
ish government in the proposition made
by the United States for a conference on
the sealing question has caused a storm
of bitter comment on the part of the
English jingoes. The st. James Gazette,
after treating the governments policy
from its own hostile point of view says:
"And once again we will confirm the
American political mind in the convic-
ton that John Bull always knuckies
statesmen are preparing future disas-
ters for both countries by carelessly en-
couraging this dangerous deluson."
That is one view. Another. quite as
recently advanced, is that Great Britain
is in the right in the sealing controversy,
and our government is so well informed
regarding the facts that to submit the
case to arbitration was equivalent to
winning it out of hand. 1t matters lit
tie whether this view is correct. Both
Great Britain and the United States can
well afford to abide by the result Of hon
est and intelligent arbitration.
But back of the first view is an inter
esting field for speculation Has Great
Britain been unduly meek in her diplo-
matte intercourse with the United
States? Admitting for the sake of in
vestigation that she has, what has been
the cause of policy so uncharacteristic
of John Bull?
The answer may make the citizen of
the United States either smile or eXclaim
in derision. 1t is the eastern question.
How far-fetchedl What has the
United States TO do with the eastern
question? Not much, it is true. The in
terest is almost altogether on the side
of Great Britain. 1t is the old story Of
the east against the west the Orient
versus the Occident, struggle that be-
gan before the first page of European
history was written.
We need not concern ourselves with
the ancient history OF the eastern ques-
ton; that of the present is pregnant
enough. And when we see through the
eastern question little-for the man
does not live who unders tands it all-the
halting policy of the concert of Europe
becomes more Ineligible.
The Orient in Europe. that is to say,
Turkey. is eventually to be wiped out;
1t is fate. But who shall lead the Occi-
dent against the Orient? Shall it be
Russia or Great Britain? Attempt to
answer the question and the splendid
Isolation of England is manifested.
The situation in Europe today is Of
grave portent to the island monarchy.
Russia controls the policy of France. In
the concert of Europe she is in harmony
with Germany. Nicholas is about TO
visit William. Russia rules in final de-
cisions all of Europe except Great Brit
ain and Italy, and all of northern Asia.
It is not necessary TO explain what the
partition Of Turkey in Russia's favor
would mean to Great Britain
It IL not strange, then. that Great
The herald., 1897-08-04
CALIFORNIA OPINION
Hard But Good

The bitter hard times of the past four
years have taught the producers of this
county a lesson which stands them in
good stead In the hard, school of eX
perience they learned rigid economy.
When the farmers found that the banks
would not lend money upon land they
began to live without borrowing money.
The lesson was hard. But they learned
it. Nor have they forgotten it. The re-
suit is good.-Stockton Mail.
The herald., 1897-08-04
A Blow to Individuality

The forced retirement of Prof. Ar
drews from Brown university for ex-
pressing his private opinion on issues of
the day is blow to individuality that
cannot be too soundly denounced. 1t
calls the attention of the people to the
power of wealth. No man is safe in his
opinion if he disagrees with the money
kings-Oakland Tribune.
The herald., 1897-08-04
A Good Appointment

The appointment of Mrs. Phoebe A.
Hearst as regent of the university by
Governor Budd will be approved by the
entire state. Mrs. Hearst is lady OF
culture, and many years ago possessed
one of the finest libraries in the state.
The university is to be congratulated on
this appointment.-Santa Rosa Demo-
crat.
The herald., 1897-08-04
Not Our Funeral Next Time

The Herald acknowledges receipt of
an invitation to attend a celebrati tion of
the cent-a-pound tariff rate at River
side 1t is rather hard on a Demo-
cratic editor to be asked to thus partici-
pate in festivities at Democratic fun
eral, but we trust that our neighbor will
walk up like little man and take his
medicine Star.
The herald., 1897-08-04
But Little Effect

If the Klondyke mines should produce
$50, 900, 900 year for the next twenty
years 1t would have but slight effect
upon prices It would hardly do more
than to stop the process of contraction
that would otherwise result from the
neutral increase in the general stock OF
commoditiessan Francisco Bulletin.
The herald., 1897-08-04
THE PUBLIC PULSE

(The Herald under this heading prints
communications, but does not assume re-
sponsibility for the sentiments expressed.
Correspondents are requested to cultivate
brevity as far as is consistent with the
proper expression of their views.)
The herald., 1897-08-04

Leverett H. Mesick has sold Ell Barba-
reno, Santa Barbara's literary weekly
to Charles L. Donohue, proprietor of the
Independent of that city. Mr.. Mesick
will go to Honolulu shortly.
The herald., 1897-08-04

The Chicago Times-Herald says that
Rider Haggard's new novel ought to go
we'll in Kentucky, because it is named
THE Swallow" 1t won't. There aren't
swallows enough.
The herald., 1897-08-04

There is one good feature about the
new tariff law, and The Herald cor
daily approves it. 1t is a clause doing
away with that form of seduction to sin
known as cigarette pictures
The herald., 1897-08-04

While Japan is in the business of
claiming everything in sight, why
doesn't she annex the Klondyke region =?
1t establishes the single gold standard
next October, and needs all the yellow
metal it can get
The herald., 1897-08-04

The mosquitoes and the office seekers
are making life burden for President
Mckinley in his lakeside retreat. 1t
is the female mosquito and the male Of
flee seeker that make all the trouble.
The herald., 1897-08-04

Pasadena Town Talk thinks there il
some danger that the gold mines of CAL
fornia and Colorado will be lost in the
shuttle. Not so long as they produce
100000 annually, as they are doing at
present
The herald., 1897-08-04

The hay crop this season will be the
largest for many years. Will the num-
Der of hayseeds be correspondingly
large? The Hon. Poker Davis would
like to know.
The herald., 1897-08-04

The Chicago papers now arrive at los
Angeles twenty-four hours earlier than
formerly The new fast mail service
over the Santa Fe out of Chicago does
the business.
The herald., 1897-08-04

The hot crop-destroying wave struck
Kansas before the wave of prosperity got
there. The Sunfiower state is having no
end of hard luck.
The herald., 1897-08-04
Los ANGELES DAILY HERALD
SWORN STATEMENT CIRCULATION

SWORN STATEMENT ClRCULAIlON
State of California, County of Los Ange-
les.-ss.
L. M. Holt, superintendent of circulation
of the Los Angeles Daily Herald. being
first duly sworn. deposes and says: That
for the five months from February l, 1891
to June 80, 1897 Qnclusive), the total circu-
lation of the said Daily Herald was 1,29O,6S5
copies, being an average daily circulation
of s6OA
That the weekday circulation during the
above time was 1,O71, ,567, being daily aver.
age of $500 copies
That the Sunday circulation during the
above time was 2lsO5s, being an average foH
each Sunday of 1O;431.
L. NJ. HOLT,
Superintendent of Circulation.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
18th day of July, 1897.
FRANK ]. COOPER,
Notary Public in and for the County of Los
Angeles, State of California.
The herald., 1897-08-04

1t need not be inferred, from reading
poker story in a morning paper that
every time California man wins q
jackpot he has to accompany it with an
affidavit.
The herald., 1897-08-04

Inc sultan is to reconstruct the Turk
ish navy in accordance with modern
ideas. What for?
The herald., 1897-08-04

has had doctor dancing around her
ever since"
who's to pay?"
Its a dead loss; but one thing will be
done, and that is, baby prices will be
raised to $40 day and extra for smash
ing privileges" DIXI.
The herald., 1897-08-04

The airship has retired in favor of An
dree's balloon.
The herald., 1897-08-04

yellow egg than first class artist could
ever hope to do with a round pail of saf-
from. And then he howled for more.
When 1 left he was shying his mothers
potatoes all over the table, had spilled
her drink and broken at least two plates
by trying them on as hats. Half doz-
en- soiled servettes were scattered over
the table, a good aim taken with cup
had overturned the glass fruit dish,
which in its descent had caused the loss
of my hot cakes. And even to the street
door 1 heard shouts of infantile laughter
amid the crashing of other hotel ware.
l again lounged beside the desk in the
evening. Pete had brought down load.
of traps, followed by the same lady and
child
my bill" There was a pressed to-
gether lip decisiveness in the sound of
the words.
give dollars?" And her words pitch
ed themselves out at highly Mortified
key. "You said three last evening"
"If you hadiread the notice on the back
of your door, madam, you would under
stand the cause of the extra charge"
'I never read notices-here's your
IS, and 1 shall inform the proprietor of
your insolence," and with toss and a
Jerk she gathered up her infant and de-
parted, the clerk looking grimly after
her.
Much damage?"I asked.
Eyes, rather. Plumbers bill for stuff
fing the bath pipe; plate glass window
and any amount of chinaware, to say
pothinq of No 27 I'll with heart dfaea Ne {
who took At when the brat yelled and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14
CUTS HER 7HR0AI WIH 4 BUCKLE
An Attempt of Beautiful Woman
With Sad History to Commit
Suicide in CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, ILL, Sept. ia beautiful
woman, about % years OF age, who from
the little she has SAID, is believed 10 be-
long to wealthy and well-known family
in San Francisco, IS in the detention hos
pital. The young woman, who gives the
name OF Mile Macdonald, attem pied to
end her lie at the Argyle fats, 8 Jack: on
boulevard, early this morning by cutting
her wrists and throat with the sharp edge
of silver buckle. Two or three times before
she had declared 1t would be better if she
was dead, and that she had disgraced her
self and her family and had nothing to
live for.
When the attic mpt was made the pro-
prietress called The Waterman of the
building and together they bound up the
young woman's wounds, and she was re-
m owed to the detention hospital, where
DR.. Fortner pronounced her suffering
from suicidal mania. She said her hus-
band year ago attempted to kill her,
striking her on the head with 4 heavy
TO tie. Dr.. Fortner believes this may
have brought about her mental ailmcnt.
There is mystery surrounding the iden-
thy Of the woman, which she has thus
far refused to divuge.
At Argyle flats she was known both as
Mile Mcdonald and as Mile Emmett
On two d three occasions she referred to
her family in San Francisco as being
wealthy, and spoke of her grandfather as
a colonel. She half limited at the story of
her life when she said she had become in
iatuated with and married a sporting
man two years ago. Since then she had
been estranged from her parents and
other relatives.
She is a woman of culture and finished
education, speaking French and Spanish,
and an accom- plisned musician on the
piano and mandolin. How long she has
been In Chicago or where she came from
to Argyle flats no one seems TO know. The
woman Is IN a serious mental condition
Sne continually points to her wris. and
cries: "See blood; see it drip"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14
CRUIKShANK FRAUDS.
Lady Randolph Churchill Victim OF
Crooked Railway Syndicate
Scheme.

NEW YORK. n. Y, Sept ia special
TO the World from London says: Frauds
on Lady Randolph Churchill, Mrs. Jack
Leslie and Mrs. Moreton Frewen by so
called Captain Cruikshank have excited
immense interest in English society.
Crrikshank. a commonplace and rather
seedy- looking fellow, seems 10 be en-
dowed with extraordinary plausibility.
He induced these three experienced
women of the world to part with $500 on
promise OF 400 per cent return on some
venture of his entitled railway syndi-
cate of whose existence they never de-
manded aany evidence. Their confidence
was gai{ed first by the fact that Cruik-
shank Was introd uced ty Mr.. Cadogan.
relatiysaf the Earl Cadogan, Vlceroy OF
Irelands
MrS.sLeslie and Mrs. Moreton Frewen
kept all knowledge of their transactions
from their husbands. ex pecting to have a
pleasant surp rise for them when their 1or-
tunes had been made by Cruiks ank' s
syndicate. They were merely a few of
the ladies' Cruikshank victimized, and
only one man was among his dupes,
The police have evidence against him of
frauds TO the extent of $75,COl, but he
maintains that the railway syndicate was
genuine undertaking, and the complain
ants invested money knowing its risk
with eyes open expecting big return.
An effort was first made by Lady Ran
dolph Churchill and others to recover
their money by civil proceedings. which
failed. and prosecution is now in the
hands OF the crown. They fee their po-
sltion acutely, tearing the chaff OF their
friends for succumbing so easily 10 the
wiles OF needy adyenturer.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-09-14

Social Democracy Meets and Discusses
thu HaSteton Tragedy.

Social Democracy Meets and Discusses
thu HaSieton Tragedy.
CHICAGO, Ill, Sept. 13.-Meetings of
the various branches of the newly organ
lied Social Democracy were held last
night 10 discuss the recent Hazleton PA. }
tragedy, and some decidedly lurid Ian
gnage was INDUCED IN by the speakers.
Resolutions were passed by Branch No 2,
which contained the following:
The blood OF the idle and US eIess aristocracy
is the most convenient medium for nourish-
ing the tree OF liberty. AN eye for an eye
and q tooth for tooth" For every miner
killed and wounded a millionaire should BE-
treated in the same manner. The millionaire
class Is responsible for the slaughter OF Sep
TENDER 10 and we regard the torch az the most
successful weapon to WELD against them.
Fitzgerald Murphy, president OF
Branch No. 2, made a speech in which he
said: The miners should carry arms and
use them, too. The time has come TO
meet force with force. | should have told
them to shoot to kill l would kill twenty
millionaires to-day"
Strong resolutions were also passed by
Branch No. and some fiery speeches
made. T. P. Quinn said: 81 will not carry
a musket; l will carry torch and a
knife, and L will carry both as far as
| can"
Leroy NJ. Good win, E. V. Debs' right
hand man, and director OF the nation al
board of the Social Democracy, in speech
said: Il would attack property with the
torch; would destr " their fine palaces.
Let us rebel when men are shot down as
they were In Pennsylvania"
Several Indignation meetings were held
in the Polish quarter and resolutions
passed condemnng the sh ooting OF the
Hazleton minerS, and appealing to the
United States Government for protection.