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The herald., 1897-06-06
Finance Comittee Recon-
mends the Issue
L fHE AMOUNT is $4,000
AN ANCIENT CLAIM CHUNG UPn
IN SHORT ORDER
City Clerk Reports the Street Work
Over Which the Council Has Ac-
quired Jurisdiction

At a meeting Of the finance commit
tee of the council yesterday morning all
the members were present. Fire Com
msesioners Kuhrts and Sinsabaugh, with
Fire Chief Moore, appeared before the
committee in advocacy of the issuance
of $150,000 to buy sites and build engine
houses as we'll as purchase much needed
apparatus and the committee promptly
recommended the same. The following
Recommendations were adopted for sub
mission to the council on Monday:
Recommend that the auditors report
for week ending May 29th be filed.
In the matter OF the petition from E.
Williams ct AL, in reference to the cost
of paving the intersection of Broadway
and Main street, we find, upon investiga-
tion, that the former council did, upon
the oath day of June, 1895. accede to a
similar request on the part Of said petit
TONERS by adopting the following rec
ommendationl of the board Of public
works..
"The board Of public works report:
tlISl, III IHe IudlltI u IIOttSl XNO OfU
Of w. v. Newlin in reference to the cost
of the paving of the intersection Of
Broadway and Main streets, we recon-
mend that the city pay one-haaf for the
intersection, and that proper officers be
accordingly notified" In the presence of
this action taken by the former council
your. committee would respectfully rec
ommend that the petition be granted,
and that the superintendent of streets
be Instructed to endorse upon the war;
rants issued against the property in
volved a credit to the amount of one
half of the charges made against said
properties on account of the said inter-
section, and that the clerk be instructed
to draw a warrant for the amount of
said one-half- of e'aid assessments in
favor of the contractor.
In the matter of the request of the
board of fire commissioners that bonds
be issued to the amount of $4,000 for
the purchase Of land and the erection
of buildings for fire apparatus. and the
purchase of additional fire apparatus,
we recommend that same be approved;
that the board of fire. commissions be
requested to present to the council a
complete list of properties to be purchas-
ed, giving general location Of same, as
well ae specifications as to the additional
apparatus to be purchased, and that the
city attorney be instructed toprepare an
ordinance calling for an election for the
purpose of voting upon the issuance of
said bonds during the month Of August.
In the matter of the petition from
Thomas Stent, asking the payment Of
balance of SCI 90 due for services rem
dered as architect in preparing plans
and specifications for the lew school
buildings, and for the city court house
and Jail as per arrangement with
Charles L. Strange, former building su-
perintendent. we recommend that the
same be filed.
The herald., 1897-06-06
MINING EXCHANGE
The First Regular Call Will Be Held
Tomorrow Morning

The mining exchange is now in order
to do business. Under the management;
of Secretary Parsons, late of the Den
yer exchange, the business has been
systematized, and the first regular call
will be held tomorrow at the rooms on
Broadway. The membership Of the en-
change has increased considerably dur
ing the past few weeks. and the outlook
is very encouraging. The following
stocks hava been listed: Cariboo Mining
&C. Of British Columbia, capital. $780,
600; 100000 shares of treasury stock;
Gold Cliff Gold Mining Co., Pierce Ariz. /;
Wedge Mining Co. of Randsburg; Rand
Mountain Mining and Milling Co..
Randsburg; Pacific Consolidated of
Randsburg. Among the unlisted stocks,
Anaconda, Argentum Juentia, Mollie
Gibson, Portland and several others of
the more active Cripple Creek stocks.
OF the San Francisco mining stocks,
Alta. Hale & Norcross, Yellow Jacket
and consolidated California and Vir-
ginia are posted for trading.
The herald., 1897-06-06
WEIR BROWNS HIMSELF
He JUMPS FROM THE WHARF AT
= LONG BEACH
Left the City When Exposed a Few
Days Ago and. Had Not Been
Seen Since

An Associated Press dispatch received
last night bore the information that w.
NJ. Weir had jumped from the wharf
at Long Beach and committed suicide.
The man had gone out on the wharf
about 10 o'clock and disrobed. Leaving
his clothes on the planks, he plunged
into the waves and disappeared. There
were several witnesses to the act.
A sealed letter was left with the
clothes, addressed to Mrs. w. NJ. Weir.
319 West Eighth street, Los Angeles.
A note book was also found in the pock-
ct of the coat bearing the name of w.
M. Weir The contents Of the note book
were not learned last night.
Mrs. Weir was seen at her home last
night and stated that she had no doubt
the man was her husband. He disap-
peared several days ago, and she has
not heard from him since.
Weir will be remembered through his
connection with the forgery of deed,
by which the Columbia Savings bank
was swindled out Of $1,000 few days
ago. A. E. Davis, who secured the mon
ey, was placed under arrest and when
Weir's connection with the forgery was
exposed he left the city secretly. Every
effort was made by the detectives to
locate him, but they were unsuccessful.
Weir is the man who is supposed to
have planned the swindle. Davis stated
that he had secured the money for Weir.
who had paid him for the part he took.
He said that Weir came to him and rep
resented that he owned a lot on Wash
ington street, upon which he wished to
secure a loan. There were certain rea-
sons, however, why he could not mort
gage the property in person. He would
make out deed to Davis and have him
secure the loan.
AS soon as Weir learned that his name
had been connected with the swindle he
disappeared 1t is supposed that he was
overcome with remorse, and decided to
put himself out of the way rather than
be caught which in all probability would
mean long term in the penitentiary.
The herald., 1897-06-06
Vital Statistics

Clerk Reed of the city health depart
ment has filed his statement of vital
statistics for May. There We're 116 deaths
in the city during the month, an annual
rate per 1000 of 1851. AS usual the great
est number from any one cause was %,
Of consumption. of which 81 were native
born or natives of other states. There
was one suicide. alcoholism was respon-
sible for two deaths, and there were
seven deaths from violence and acct
dents.
Births for April as reported to May
5th were 105, of which SO were males and
81 females. Total births reported since
last report were 140.
The department also calls attention
to the following figures: OF the 116
deaths reported this month 10 were ma
tives Of the city, and seven Of the three
Pacific coast states outside of Los An
geles city, leaving ninety from
other parts. OF the 116 deaths 81 had
lived here less than ten years. There
were ~ deaths from pulmonary con-
sumption, divided as follows: Natives
OF Los Angeles. 1; natives of the Pa
ci1c coast outside Of Los Angeles, o.;
The herald., 1897-06-06
FORMER AN0ELEN0S
Mrs BACON SUES HER HUSBAND
ron 1rzANs OF SUPPORT
They Out Wide swath In Local So
ciety Circles Before Removing to
oakland-The Details

A suit has just been brought at Oak
land which possesses q considerable de-
gree of interest to people who move in
society circles In Los Angeles.
Mrs. Mamie c. Bacon has sued her
husband for support. 1t is not suit
for divorce. Mrs. Bacon in her COM
plant alleges that her husband, Frank
c. Bacon, wilfully deserted her and
their six minor children, and has since
failed to contribute to their support. She
asks that Bacon be compelled to pay her
SUFFICIENT sum for support. In
his answer the husband makes a general
dendal of the charges, but 1t Is under
stand that later he admitted the deser-
ton
Mr.. and Mrs. Bacon were married at
San Ga briel, December "a, 1874, and have
lived for eighteen years in Alameda
county. Previous to that time they re-
sided at Bacon's country place, near
Los Angeles. whre they lived in style,
keeping three servants. Mrs. Bacon was
at that time leader in the most select
circle in the local four hundred. and did
great deal Of entertaining.
Then the couple removed to Oakland
and resided on Oak street, still living in
very good style. Eight children were the
result of the marriage Their names
and ages are: H. d. Bacon, 21 years;
Julia s. Bacon, 10 years; w. s. Bacon.
Is years; ]. c. Bacon. 15 years; T. B.
Bacon, Is years; p Bacon, 10 years,
Catherine Bacon, 9 years, and Robert
Bacon, 2h years.
The affidavit declares the defendant
is the SON of H. D. Bacon, who died four
years ago. leaving an estate valued at
$500, 900, of which Frank Bacon received
q one-sixth interest.
At present the family. minus the
husband. live at the Alameda home,
which has twenty rooms and occupies
block of ground. Mrs. Bacon says she
has not the money to maintain such
place in the proper style. In court she
testified that she had been forced to
take the children from school since the
husband deserted her and put some Of
the older boys to work. Sixteen years
ago, Mrs. Bacon said, continuing her
testimony, she loaned her husband $4,000
in cash, which he has never returned.
Bacon left his wife ON July %. 1895,
and the latter says that for three months
after that time she was entirely without
money. being forced to pawn some of
her jewelry to obtain means of support.
Two diamond bracelets and other dia-
mond ornaments still remain with the
pawnbroker
The trial is attracting considerable in
terest in Oakland, where the couple are
very we'll known.
The herald., 1897-06-06
BRYAN's RECEPTION
The Silver Representative Must Hurry
Back to Salt Lake

The Silver Republican club has moved
into new quarters on Second street, near
Hill, where the arrangements for the
Bryan reception are now going on In
full blast. The Orange county members
of the committee which will assist the
local committee in receiving the distin-
guished visitor will consist of w. H
Spurgeon, ]. A. Booty. I. d. Mills. joe
Yoch, j. d. Beach and w. e. Winslow
In a letter just received Bryan writes
concerning his visit to Salt Lake in
time for the transmississippi congress
on July IA:
1.-THE political pressure upon me is
strong and continuous. I have had to
decline invitations from all the prom
inent places in California because of the
necessity of hurrying back to Salt Lake:
likewise in Oregon. I shall be compelled
to speak all day long and far into the
night in order to get there"
The herald., 1897-06-06
STREET WORN.
Over Which the Council Has Acquired
Jurisdiction

The city clerk yesterday filed the fol-
lowing report to the coun ell, giving the
street work over. which that body has
acquired Jurisdiction:
The improvement of Vermont avenue
from Adams to Twenty ninth streets.
Council acquired Jurisdiction June Sd
to pass tire final ordinance.
The Improvement of Vermont avenue
from Jefferson street to the south city
boundary. Council acquired jurisdiction
June Sd to pass the final ordinance.
The Improvement of Byram street
from Tenth to Eleventh Council ac-
quired Jurisdiction to pass the final or
dinarce June 3d.
The Improvement of Twelfth street
from San Pedro to Tennessee streets.
Council has acquired jurisdiction to
pass the final ordinance upon the de-
nial of TIE protest and the overruling
of objections.
The Improvement of Blaine street
from Ninth to Connection. streets.
Council acquired jurisdiction June 30
to pass the final ordinance.
The improvement of Buckley street
from Ninth to Connecticut streets
Council acquired jurisdiction June Sd
to pass the final ordinance.
The improvement of Eastlake avenue
from Main street to Mission road
Council acquired Jurisdiction June Sd TO
pass the final ordinance.
The Improvement OF Towne avenue
from Sixth to Seventh streets. Council
acquired jurisdiction June Sd to pass the
final ordinance.
The sideWalking of Ingraham street
from Kip street to Union avenue. Coun-
ell acquired jurisdiction June Sd to pass
the final ordinance.
The herald., 1897-06-06
BRYAN BarQIet

For fear that some Of our friends may
be overlooked in sending out invitations
to the banquet to lie rendered Hon. w. j.
Bryan on the evening of July 5, 1927, we
earnestly request those who have not re-
ceived invitations to send in their names,
as also those of their friends, at once.
Silver Republican Club 31S West Second
street
The herald., 1897-06-06

The fire and water committee Of the
council yesterday informally considered
NJ, p. Thye's proposition to put in a.
police telegraph system and take charge
OF the fire alarm system. No formal
recommendation was adopted. but 1t was
agreed to recommend to the council that
the matter be taken UP and investi-
gated.
The herald., 1897-06-06

Deiinquint Stat. and County Tax List
The delinquent state and county tax list
for the year 1896 will be published by the
Evening Express company June 5th, 18th,
18th and 2eth. Sale July O. 1897. at 10 a. m.
The herald., 1897-06-06
On the Sick List

Health officer Powers Is on the sick
list, and was unable to be at his office
yesterday. Clerk Reed is in charge In
the meantime.
The herald., 1897-06-06
Teachers' Vacation Tours to Yosemite

Tickets include verything-transporta
ton, sleeping-car and board. Five day
tour, s61.Go; six-day. $63.10; ten-day. s73.1O;
1j-day. $S3.10 Particulars General Office
SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO., 229 So. Spring
street.
The herald., 1897-06-06
Resumed His Duties

Councilman Baker OF the Second ward
has returned from San Francisco and
resumed his duties at the city hall.
The herald., 1897-06-06
pasad ens and Pacific

Pasadena and Pacific electric cars
for Santa Monica and dip in the surf;
frequent service.
The herald., 1897-06-06
Ca4aliaa Irlaad Teaina

Leave Southern Pacific Arcade depot.
week days, 1:40 p. M; arrive 11:55 q. m. /;
Sundays, leave, S:15 a. NJ; arrive, 1870 p IN.
Round trip, 1915 and $3.50.
The herald., 1897-06-06
Los Angeles Theater Annex

No. 225 South Spring street. formal
opening today. The public is invited.
George B. Taylor 6 Co., Proprietors.
The herald., 1897-06-06
Thye's Proposition

fsem other parts. n. OF the - deaths
Is had lived here less than ten years.
The herald., 1897-06-06

Don't Forget Days and Dates.
Prof. Conner and fifteen artists organized for
the season as Fiesta Park Band and Orchestra
The herald., 1897-06-06
Stage and Scenery

Stage and Scenery
Stage 40 feet long. covering 1900
square feet. Scenery 237 feet long,
painted at cost of over $1,000, covering
1922 square feet.
Fireworks
Set Piece, I8x24 feet, Grand Pyrotech-
mic Display, Cascades, Rockets, Water
Pieces, Maroons. Shells, Golden Shower,
Fountain. Opening Night is SAN Pc
DRO NlGHT-Point Iona Light
House, ''San Pedro wants her rights"
Holders of agent tickets, unre-
served, enter corner of Pico and Hope
streets. Stage entrance at Twelfth st.
and Grand ave. General entrance of all
reserved seats at Pico and Grand ave.
The most thoroughly lighted, seated and
policed Amusement Park in the United
States. Ushers and Park Attaches in
Uniform
Don't Forget Days and Dates.
The herald., 1897-06-06

See the Vision
Scene, The Elee-
trle Flower Bed,
Faust and Valen-
tines Electrical
Duel, Wondrous
Fiery Effects on
the Brocken, the
Great Dragon In
lis Aerial Flight,
Serpe n is and
Gruesoiae AMI.
mails spcuting fire
OH the Brocken
Heights. The Hu.
morous Scenes
between Mephisto
and Mart ha, The
Old Woman that
lived In the Shoe,
tn. final destrue.
tion Of the. City
by Fire, a Pic.
ture Of Unparal-
leled Grandeur
The herald., 1897-06-06

28o People on
Stage at one time,
50 Male Soldiers,
90 Peasant Cho-
rus Girls, 50
Peasant Chorus
Men, 20 Graceful
Ballet Dancers,
40 Beautiful Am
azon Soldiers. 90
Cute Little Chill.
dren in Children's
Ballet, 36 Princi-
pal Characters in
the Cast, a strong
Company
Mesa free press., 1897-03-19
HENRY w. GRADY'S Ar
RAlGNMENT OF THE
LIQUOR TRAFFIC.

Tonight it enters an humble
home to strike the roses from q
woman's cheeks and tomorrow it
challenges this republic in the halls
of congress. Today it strikes a
crust from the lips of a starving
child, and tomorrow levies tribute
from the government itself. There
is no cottage in this city humble
enough to escape ito palace
strong enough to shut it out. It
defies the law when it cannot coerce
suffrage. 1t is flexible to cajole
Tut merciless in victory. It is the
mortal enemy Of peace and order,
the despoiler of men and the terror
of women, the cloud that shadows
the face of children, the demon
that has dug more graves and sent
more souls unshrived to Judgment
ihan all the pestilences that have
" asted life since God sent the
plaques to Egypt, and all the wars
since Joshua stood beyond Jericho.
1t comes to ruin, and it shall proht
mainly by the ruin of your sons
aud mine. It comes to mislead
human souls and to crush human
hearts under it's rumbling wheels.
1t comes to bring gray haired
mothers down in shame and sorrow
to their graves. 1t comes to change
the wife's love into despair and her
pride into shame. L comes to
change the wife's love into despair
and her pride into sha 1t comes
20 still the laughter on the lips of
little childrens 1t comes to stltic
Ill the music of the home and till
t with silence and desolation. 1t
comes to ruin your body and mind
20 wreck your home, and it knows
t. must measure its prosperity by
he swiftLess and certainty with
which it wrecks this world.
Mesa free press., 1897-03-19

The greatest kite flyer we ha We
ever had in America. possibly the
greatest kite fye the world ha
ever known, is VIM. A Eddy, a
merchant of New York, and a resi-
deLt of Bayonne, in New Jersey.
Leslie's Weekly says he began maxi
ing kites for the amusement of his
children, and so became interested
in their construction and in flying
them. The fad was pursued 50
successfully that he has invented
new kinds of kites, and has raised
them TO attitudes never attained
before. Recently he has been ex-
perlmenting with kite = borne
cameras, and has taken snap shots
at the things below. 1t lis likely
that such photographs in time of
war might reveal the position of an
enemy and the condition of his de-
fe ases. The pictures so far taken
are certainly curious and interest
ing The small boy will be aston
i,hed to learn that Mr.. Eddy scorns
tail to any of his kites, and has
long ago discarded them as obso-
lete. Some of his kites are SC
large and powerful that he needs q
windlass to control them
Mesa free press., 1897-03-19

Among the non permissible
drugs in households, according to u
physician, is chloride of potassium,
which is most poisonous and dam
gerous. There is no antidote for
it, and little can be done for a per-
son so poisoned. The use of chlo-,
rate of potassium lozenges, unless
under a physicians orders, he very
strongly condemns. Laudanu N
should never be kept. It is noth-
ing but tincture of opium and there
is is danger in its presence. The
different coco-wines that are wide
ly used are but nerve stimulants
and should never be used except
by physicians orders and no longer
than the time specified.
Mesa free press., 1897-03-19

Santa Pe, PresDott& Phoenix
AtshBol, 1speia& Santa Fe
RAILROADS
The Shortest
AND Quickest Line
ANITA FE, REscoTT 4 pHoFNIx. R.R
TIME TABLE

(Mountain Time is Standard Time)
Leave Phoenix, north bound, at 80 n and
Arrive at Prescott, north bound, at 25 p NJ
d. 80 . m. and 2 25 N and 2 80 m.
Arrive at Ash Fork, northbound, at 30p m
and 90 m
Leave Ash Fork ,southbound,7 is pm aid a nj
Leave Prescott, south bound, 10 35 IN and
030 M, and 10 55 m and 10 45 am
Arrive at Phoenix, south bound. at 90 a m
N 8 p m
Dining station at Skull Valley. Connections
made at Jerome junction.
Connecting at Prescott with stage lines for
ali principal mining camps, at Congress juno
tion with Congress Gold Co for Congress
and stage lines for Herqua Hala Station and
Yarneil. At Phoenix with M s. P R R for all
points on the s System, also with s V X R
Close connections made at Ash Fork with
nta Fe Route fast trains to all points east
and west. Trains for California leave Ash
Fork at 70 ard 845 m, arriving Los
Angeles next afternoon at l 20 and SEN & an
isco second morning at 10 As. Train for the
east leaves Ash Fork at 25am
GEO. M.SARGEN T, G.P A,
Prescott, A T
Pres. q Genl Mgr, Prescott. r E WELLS.
EW GILLETT, Asst Genl Mgr. Phoenx
Genl Agent, Phoenix. Arizona
Mesa free press., 1897-03-19

The following from the Cincin-
natl Enquirer on the arbitration
treaty, contains more truth than
poetry: "The treaty was not de-
signed by its English authors to
promote peace only when peace
might be most convenient to
British interests. The senate is
not going to be run away with
by theorists and Tories, whose
greatest delight is to talk about
the amity which should subsist be-
tween the two great English speak
ing nations. There Is probably not
another country in Europe that
hates US more vigorously than
England does. There is not q
government that has done more to
retard our progress than Great
Britain. There is not one which
has hssA s1ilty of more meanness
towards us. There is no other one
which would take such delight in
the destruction of our institut ions.
Mesa free press., 1897-03-19

"Some surprise is expressed be-
cause a New Jersey court began
and finished murder trial In six
hours: hpt why should it take lon
ger?" asks the Philadelphia Ledger
"a murder is committed in single
moment. Surely, enough witnesses
to establish all the facts in the case
can be examined in a few hours,
and it need not take long for =
wise judge and an intelligent jury
to apply the law to them. There
is quite as little doubt that sub.
stantial justice was done when the
defendent in the case was convic-
ted and sentenced as there would
have been if the New York prac-
tice had been followed. and two or
three weeks consumed in legal
battle. ....s..-..s
Mesa free press., 1897-03-19

Mr.. Julius Hartman has undsr-
taken to found 9 beetY sugar in
dustry in South oard,Al. H has
recently returned from Germany.
where he spent some time among
the farmers in the interest of his
project. He will bring over 500
families from Saxony within the
next two years. He has secured
$4,000 acres Of land in South
Carolina, and will! divide it into
farms of 25, 80 ann 100 acres. The
average size of beet sugar farm
will be about 80 acres.
Mesa free press., 1897-03-19

The statistical 6ends are never
satisfied unless they give Us some
thing startling in the way of figures
One Of them has announced that
the annual aggregate circulation OF
tho papers OF the world to be l2,-
600, 100000 copies To aid the
mind to grasp the idea of the mag,
nitude Of these figures, he states
that it would cover surface space
of lO,450 sqnare miles, that it 10
printed on 79l, $3.50 tons OF paper,
ard further, that if the number Of
10000, 1000. 900 represented s.scoids
instead Of copies it would take over
333 years for them to elapse. Piled
vertically, the highest Alps would
be left far below, for when the
piling process was completed the
pile would reach the tremendous
altitude of 500 miles.