The record-union., 1897-02-27
OUR SIDE SHOW.


! Los Angeles Herald: If San Francis
co merchants want tourists to visit
that city they ought to go East after
| them, and not poach on our preserves
by trying to coax them away from Los
Angeles Our business men and prop
erty owners are spending from $4,000
to 10000 annually through the Cham
Der of Commerce alone in advertising
| Southern California, and the work is
being done from Bangor to Tacoma
and from Duluth to New Orleans. AS
a result of this work we get thousands
Of visitors annually, and we intend to
make it so pleasant for them that they
will remain here until after La Fiesta,
| in April, and when they do finally go
home they will begin to make prepara-
tions for removing here permanently.
! ANOTHER PRESS ASSOCIATION.
| Tulare Register: Newspaper men to
the number of twenty or more assembled
at Fresno on Saturday for the purpose
| Of organizing press association COM
prising in its membership all the news
papers and newspaper workers in the
San Joaquin Valley. The meeting was
| successful and the association was or
ganized with C. d. Radcliffe of Merced,
President Mr.. Radcliffe having been
the originator of the idea and the cause
of the brethren being called together, 1t
was entirely fitting that he should be
| elected President for the first year.
| J. W. Short of the Fresno 'Republi-
can" was chosen Vice President and w.
| w. Barnes of Hanford, Secretary. Each
county not being represented by one of
the above officers was accorded men,
Der of the Executive Committee and b.
NJ. Maddox of the Nisalia Times" was
chosen to represent Tulare County.
hTe next meeting of the association
will be held at Visaha on the first Sat
urday in May, and 1t is the purpose OF
the association to go about from place
to place until all the members become
fully acquainted with the entire San
Joaquin Valley, and all of its advanta-
ges and attainments. This will help the
newspaper men and help the valley, and
such is the purpose Of the organization
SPAIN
Los Angeles Times: 1t begins to look
| somewhat as if Spain were trying to
force a quarrel with the United States
as the only means of covering up the ap-
parently inevitable failure of her Cuban
campaign, without a revolution at home
| which would certainly follow the ad-
| mission that she had been unable to
put down the Cuban insurrection, after
sacrificing such an enormous amount
of blood and money. Spain is in
pitiable condition, morally and finan-
cially. The once proud mistress of the
world apears to be in the last stages
of decadence.
ZERTUC1A.
Fresno Expositor If 1t is true that
DR.. Zertucha, the traitor who lured
Maceo to his death, has been killed, let
every lover of liberty doff his hat. The
world can i'll afford to lose a patriot,
whatever may be his nativity, but it has
no use for traitor Let the world re-
| foice over Zertucha's death.
WHO'S AHEAD?
Los Angeles Express: Anything about
tho bie fellows at Carson passes as news.
A good deal of the stuff is far from
baino news and much of 1t is imagina
tive. At present it is a competition of
lonuac;ty. with the Corbett forces a lit
| tie ahead.
THE HIGHWAY PLAN.
| Los Angeles Herald: The State Bu-
reau of Highways aims to build for the
whole people system of State roads,
and then let the counties and districts
look after their own. The State board
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