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The herald., 1897-07-23
VERY PECULIAR

There is something very peculiar
about certain phases of the case of the
bogus claims against the Pacific Coast
Steamship company, in which a well
known young man about town is in
volved
A crime has been committed. At least
the officials of the steamship company
say openly that certain claims and ac-
ceptances presented to it for collection
are forgeries. Forgery is a crime. If
a crime has been committed, why are
not steps taken to discover the guilty
person or persons and punish them ac-
cordingly?
1t is not sufficient excuse to say that
money has been lost and that the matter
is being kept quiet in an effort to recover
the lost funds. 1t will not do to nullify
the law and condone crime in such a
manner. Such course only inspires a
contempt for the law in the minds, of
those who are inclined or tempted to
break it, and renders the dispensation of
justice more difficult.
There is an institution known as the
grand jury, and an instrument of the
law known as the district attorneys Of
flee. Why does not the latter take cog
nizance of the fact that a crime is al
legged to have been committed and file
an information. To repeat, the officials
of the Pacific Coast Steamship company
say that certain claims and acceptances
that have been presented to them are
forgeries Is not that sufficient basis
for action on the part of the district at
torney's office?
II g poor devil had stolen some trivial
The herald., 1897-07-23
CONSIDER THESE THINGS

The newspapers Of this state-and
there are not any better qualified to ad-
vise-are unit in urging people who are
smitten with the Clondyke fever not to
attempt to go there this season unless
they are well provided with money and
provisions.
The last regular boat of the season
will leave,for the nearest port this week.
and it will be necessary to arrange
for specially chartered boats in order to
get into the country before the first cold
weather sets in. To reach the gold
fields this year will require pluck. en-
durance, money and grub.
The warning note sounded by cor
respondent in Wednesdays Herald
Zone Who Has Been There" should be
needed by all who contemplate going to
Alaska from this section of the country
1t is nothing more nor less than suicide
for those in poor health to attempt the
journey and subsequent battling with
the elements and unfavorable condi-
tions.
A few men will perhaps make great
deal of money at the new gold fields, but
they will form very small proportion
of those who go there. 1t is we'll to con-
slider these things.
The herald., 1897-07-23
FILL THOSE HOLES

The city authorities have begun to fill
the side streets, but Main, Spring ard
Sixth streets still form a virgin wilder
ness of bad places. If these principal
thoroughfares are left in their present
winter very serious responsibility will
rest upon sonnet body, ard the people will
hold the responsible person or persons
to strict account.
It is no valid excuse for delay to say
that these streets cannot be resurfaced
until the sewers and conduits are laid.
Resurfacing is not the question at issue
just now. 1t is well to attend to one
thing at time and that thing the most
urgent.
1t would be most unwise to leave the
streets in their present condition until
the underground work is done. That
would mean. another year of delay at
least. In the meantime the condition
of the streets IS making very unfavor-
able impression upon strangers. 1t is
impossible to properly clean the streets
when they are so full of holes as they are
now, and that condition means serious
loss to the merchants.
Let us settle one thing at time. Take
up the resurfac cling question when it
comes to a head, and, in the meantime,
let us put our leading business streets in
a condition not dangerous to human life
or damaging to property.
The herald., 1897-07-23
FRIDAY JULY 70, 1897
DINGLEY's SHARPNESS

As one of the results of the tariff con-
cent AID valorem, was reduced to- Is per
cent, pursuant to the demands of the
house committee. 1t will be remem-
bered that this was one of the schedules
the con. sideration of which in the house
led to a warm exchange of compliments
between the representatives of the New
England manufacturing districts upon
the one hand and those of the western
producers of raw materials upon the
other. The advocates of protection
from the eastern or trust standpoint
could not see the policy of protecting
hides and would have been quite willing
to have placed them upon the free list
The western producer naturally desired
to be made sharer in the benefits"
of protection, and while he received but
scant recognition from Mr.. Reed, the
senate was more complaisant and fixed
his protection at 20 per cent ad valorem
But while the trust made bold attempt
to conflscate the stockman's hides by
its effort to leave him unprotected
against South American and Asiatic
.competition. and failed, up to the time
of the sitting of the conferees, it had still
the assurance of ultimate success in this
instance as we'll as in the case of the
other contested schedules The Is per
cent arrived at by the conference has
string to it which, a moments reflection
will show, amounts to the practical de-
feat of the schedule, so far as any real
protection is concerned. 1t is provided
"that upon all leather exported, made
from imported hides, there shall be al
lowed drawback equal to the amount
of duty paid on such hides, to be paid I'M
der such regulations as the secretary of
1.-THE treasury may prescribe In other
words, the manufacturer to whom the
imported hides are consigned will pay
10 per cent ad valorem duty upon re-
ceiving his consignment and at the ex-
piration of a prescribed period there
latter will produce affidavits and vouch-
ers to show that he has exported leather,
y in some or any form, to cover the hides
upon which he paid duty, whereupon a
warrant will be drawn in his favor to
cover the amount of duties SO paid. 1t
is easy to perceive that as against sys-
tenn like this the home producer is pow
erless, and if he can find any market at
all it will be just such market as the
American 1aborer enjoys in competition
with the imported laborers of Europe
This is what may be considered as
"smartness" crystallized into tariff law
The herald., 1897-07-23
TRUTH FROM SAN DIEGO

The San Diego Vidette administers a
severe but deserved rebuke to Judge
Kinney, who popped up in the Trans
mississippi congress with a resolution
against. the improvement of San Pedro
harbor. The Vidette says:
He was a self-appointed delegate and
his conduct was wholly unauthorized
by San Diego, as it was at Los Angeles
with Mr.. Bryan. Nine-tenths of the
citizens of San Diego are opposed to the
idiotic and malicious fight made by the
San Diego Union, Mayor Reed and a
few jealous people who always act
like dogs in the manager. Both of the
California senators and all of our con-
gressmen favor the expenditure of the
appropriation at San Pedro and severely
denounce the secretary of war for his
violation of the law in not going on with
the work as directed by congress.
Now that is Something like" 1t is
news to learn that Mr.. Kinney was not
officially appointed delegate to the con-
gress, but, in view of his action, ii is
no surprise, because as rule meddling
busybodies do not come we'll Endorsed.
The Vidette is entitled to the hearty
thanks of all the people of Southern Cal
ifornia for its manly stand for the right
instance, its language in commenting
upon the course of those who have
sought to interfere with the construc-
ton of the harbor is severe, but GER
tainly it is deserved. Los Angeles and
Southern California in general have no
quarrel with San Diego, nor will they
brook unwarranted interference with
the dispensation of justice.
The action Of the senate, and the reso-
luton passed by the Transmississipp;
congress show sufficiently what official
and general public opinion in the matter
are, and it is refreshing to find a San
Diego newspaper that cannot only judge
the situation, but has the courage of its
The statements of the Vidette con-
corning the sentiments of the people of
San Diego are unknowingly corroborat-
ed by the Pasadena Star, which says:
The San Diego delegate to the Trans
mississippi congress who opposed any
harbor for Southern California, unless
it be located at San Diego, does not
represent the people in and around San
Diego. The people of that city whom
we have met display no such envious
disposition.
The herald., 1897-07-23
CALIFORNIA OPINION
What Shall We Do With Them

This state provides for the care and
training of abandoned children. 1t pro-
vides literally for the orphan and the
alf-orphan. 1t takes especial care of
the child that promises to become bad
and drift into the criminal class because
of vciousness. 1t assists in the support
and raising to good citizenship of the
founding. But there is another class,
dangerous to society for which the state
makes no provision.
This is the class of children, who, hav-
ing fathers and mothers, are neverthe-
less so neglected, placed in such an at
mosphere and brought up under such
influences that they are morally certain
to become criminal dependents, at least
to become enemies to society, against
whom it must maintain an armed force
of police.-Sacramento Record-Union.
The herald., 1897-07-23
The Russian Harvest

The London Daily Mails correspondent,
writing from st. Petersburg July s, says
that the harvest prospects, in Central and
South Russia are getting worse and worse.
Continuous rains are destroying the hay
crops, while the exceptionally poor beet
crop in Podolen (Podolia) has practically
ruined the sugar industry. He also says
that the crops in some of the Baltic prov
inces have suffered heavily from rains, and
significant sign of the gravity of the sit
uatlon is the fact that an unusually severe
censorship is exercised over news concern
ing it. There is every likelihood that the
present will be one of the darkest years in
Russian history.
The herald., 1897-07-23
The Peach Crop

The late frost which so seriously in
jured the peach crop in Maryland and
Delaware has been followed by the cur
'culo, with the result that the crop is
almost a total failure. The scarcity of
peaches should have a tendency to Gre
ate a greater demand for California
fruit, and in fact the reports for the past
week have shown firm market and sat
isfactory prices, with the exception of
those offered for plums, and prunes.-
San Jose Mercury
The herald., 1897-07-23
A LYRIC

Beneath the lilac tree.
With its breathing blooms of white,
You waved parting kiss to me
In the deepening amber light.
Your face is always near,
Your tender eyes of brown,
I see your form in dreams; hear
The whisper of your gown.
Once more the lilac tree
With twilight dew is wet;
But, oh, would that you might be
Alive to love me yet.
Edward M. Hume in Kansas City Star.
The herald., 1897-07-23
SENATOR WHITE AND ANNEX
ALTON

Some time ago the San Francisco Ex-
aminer criticised Senator White because
he did not regulate his attitude on the
Hawaiian annexation project in accord
ance with a resolution adopted by the
California legislature of 1898. 1t Is con
coded, of course, that that legislature
did pass a resolution favorable to an
neXation, but it is denied that such ac-
ton has the binding force of instruction
on a senator of the United States for all
subsequent time.
AS against such a construction we may
cite the action of the legislature of 1895
Mr.. Kenyon of Los Angeles county in
troduced a resolution favoring annexa-
ton in the assembly on January "a, 1895.
1t passed the assembly on the 18th of
February of the same year, and was
on in the senate and defeated by % to g.,
on March 1, 1895. The vote was as fol-
lows:
Ayes: Senators Beard. Franck, Hen
uersOH, UT, Feuldr, SHlHe, 0lIHpSOH
VOORHEES, and Withington-9.
Noes: Senators Arms, Androus, Bert
Burke, Denison, Dunn, Fay, Flint, Ges-
ford, Gleanes, Hart, Holloway, Ma
honey, Martin, Mathews, McAllister,
MCGOWAN, Seawell, Seymour, Shippee,
Toner and Whitehurst-22
So, if we allow that the resolution of
1898 had any binding force ct the time
the obligation was in effect removed by
the defeat of a similar resolution in 1895,
and the Examiners criticism falls to the
ground
The herald., 1897-07-23
THE LESSON OF THE STRIKE

To secure better terms and conditions
by laborers is the object of all strikes
Whether the coal miners have received
the wages they deserve or whether their
demands are reasonable or not, it is not
our purpose to discuss.
One fact has been brought to light
which probably has not generally been
akIown-and tits that the coal companies
have established stores in the various
The herald., 1897-07-23

The striking coal miners have shown
their good intentions and willingness to
abide by any fair and responsible trb-
unal's decision by asking President Nc
Kinley to use his good offices in procur-
ing a settlement of the strike. The
miners did not stop work for the fun of
it, nor because they wanted to make
war on capital.
The herald., 1897-07-23
Possibilities to Be Deplored

The compact entered into with the
trusts and combines for the election of
Mckinley, was the sole consideration
that Influenced the conduct of the pres
ent leaders of congress. They will have
paid their party's debt to the trusts with
the sweat and blood of the producers of
American wealth. Aldrich admits that
the new tariff will not assist the govern
ment in paying it's bills.-St. Louis Re-
public.
The herald., 1897-07-23
Now That He's Gone

Strange how few of the newspapers on
this coast found out till he died that Col.
Fred Croker had so many great virtues.
But it's the same old story-a mans
good qualities are scarcely thought of
and rarely mentioned till he's gone
Visalia Times.
The herald., 1897-07-23

The third congress of the Afro-Ameri-
can league is in session at Fresno this
week, and its deliberations and conclu-
sions will undoubtedly be of great bene-
fit to the colored people. The Asso-
ciated Press dispatches say that the
congress is composed Of very intelligent
men and women. The colored people
are making rapid progress, but it takes
some special event like the gathering at
Fresno to make the people appreciate ii.
Since the Atlanta exposition, however,
the real position of the negroes has been
better understood.
The herald., 1897-07-23

article there would be no cause for criti-
cising the laws Indifference or delay
because there would be none. If justice
in this town is troubled with astigma-
tism. let us get her new pair of spec-
tacleS
The herald., 1897-07-23
In Which Housed

Wall street has again showed in which
house it's voice is potent. The senate
added to the tariff bill a clause taxing
stocks and bonds. The house, in confer
ence, erased the clause.-Stockton Mail.
The herald., 1897-07-23

A local paper says that fishing at Ava
lon is at its best, and that every body has
broken his or her best record. 1t must
be a good season for fish stories as we'll
as for fishing.
The herald., 1897-07-23

Yellow Hair and Sam Grow, two
Cheyenne Indian murderers, have es-
capped from prison. Any officer or good
citizen who meets an Indian with golden
hair hanging down his back is requested
to arrest him without further cere-
mony.
The herald., 1897-07-23

Senator Tillman says he is negotiating
for Senator Quays speech for filibuster
ing purposes. Will he give his pitch
fork for it?
The herald., 1897-07-23

The esteemed San Bernardino Sun
gets after this paper because we praised
the action OF the Transmississippi con-
gress in adopting aAresolution in favor of
free silver as representing the intelligent
sentiment Of the west, and then failed to
The herald., 1897-07-23
Identity Uncertain

"Where did you learn French?" asked
the Partisan.
From a native" proudly replied the
tourist.
"Ah! A native of what?"
philadelphia American.
The herald., 1897-07-23

commend the congress for favoring the
annexation of Hawaii. In matter OF
fact, the point would seem to be we'll
taken, but, really, the intelligent senti-
ment of the west was led astray in the
Hawaiian matter. The congress has
favored free silver for many years; ii
knew just where 1t stood; but the an
nexation question Is merely conjectural,
and not concrete. The Intelligent SEN
timent" of the west will become better
informed regarding the subject before
annexation really becomes live issue.
The herald., 1897-07-23
Heartless or Blind

There are editors of newspapers who
are so heartless or SO blind that they
make the assertion that the strike of the
coal miners has been brought about for
political effect.-San Diego Vidette.
The herald., 1897-07-23
Damage bv Storm

1t is estimated that the damage done by
storms and floods in central and southern
France recently amounts to $40, 0O0, 900.
Some 800 persons have lost their lives and
thousands have been made homeless.
The herald., 1897-07-23
Getting Together

Not week passes that one or more
interpretations of fruit growers do not
take place, and in all the fruit growing
districts of the state.-Pomona Times.
The herald., 1897-07-23

The sultan has acceded to the de-
mands of the powers in the matter of the
settlement with Greece. But he made
an elegant bluff.
The herald., 1897-07-23
History and Expectation

Watermelons have been exhibited at
the state fair in this city that weighed
over 100 pounds.-Sacramento Bee.
The herald., 1897-07-23
Nothing Left to Wish Fo,

People who have been living on cli-
mate can now add waterrnelons to their
diet.-Pasadena News.
The herald., 1897-07-23

It Is said that the new tariff law will
result in. the forma ton of a syrup trust,
which will be another sticky thing.
The herald., 1897-07-23
LOS ANGELES DAILY HERALD
SWORN STATEMENT CIRCULATION.


State of California, County of Los Ange-
Less.
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 1, 1897,
to June 80. 1897 Qnclusive), the total circu-
lation of the said Daily Herald was 1890, 635
copies, being an average daily circulation
of seO4.
That the weekday circulation during the
above time was 1,071,567 being daily aver.
age Of $500 copies.
That the Sunday circulation during the
above time was 2ls,O5s, being an average 70
each Sunday Of 1O;431.
L. NJ HOLT,
Superintendent of Circulation.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
18th, day of July, 1897.
FRANK J. COOPER,
Notary Public in and for the County of Los
Angeles, State of California
The herald., 1897-07-23
$1,000
for good word-guessers.

for good word-guessers.
You must send in your
yellow tickets and words
by August 31st-the sooner
you begin, the bigger your
chances at the prize.
Rules of contest published in large
advertisement about the first and middle
of each month. AaA
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-25
LEGAL soTICEA

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fhe lands and premises referred to and
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farVcloeed and sale thereof had, are
slfnated in the County OF King, State OF
Washinston. and particularly bounded
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ne City Of Seattle, State OF Washington
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clace Of the Auditor OF King County,
PRESTON. CARR q GILMAN.
Plaintiffs ATTORNEYS
YoetoAsce address: Seattle, King County.
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Date Of frat publication: November 1sfh,
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-25
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