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COURT NOTES.

Findings and judgment were yester-
day signed in the Lytle Creek Water and
Improvement company's case in depart
nnent six.
Max Nickel yesterday filed his petition
in insolvency. His liabilities are placed
at $4271.91; stock of goods, $4,000, and
household furniture, $3.50.
The board of supervisors met yester-
day, but simply for the purpose of
winding up the business of the old board,
which will give place tomorrow to the
new one, whose official functions will at
once begin.
The charge preferred against Eugene
Behrendt of embeZzling rig belonging
to j. Weber fell to the ground yester-
day. and the case was dismissed by Just
ice Young. This case was the aftermath
of a suit brought by Behrendt against
Webber & Cohn.
Robert A. Taylor, the amateur detect
i've, held to answer on the charge of
perjury In connection with the Smith
divorce case, tried to escape yesterday
by the habeas corpus route in depart
ment one. Judge Smith took the mat
ter under advisement.
Athel Anderson, young man twenty
four years old, who was born in India
of Scotch parents, was yesterday COM
mittedi to Highland by Judge York. The
patient was sent from home to friends
at Hollywood to learn ranching, but be-
ing by hereditary bias predisposed to
insanity, developed bad habits and Is
now suffering from melancholia.
The remittitur from the supreme court
in the case of kid" Thompson was re-
ceived in department one yesterday, by
which the train robber is accorded a new
trial. In the case of the second appea al
it was dismissed by Judge Smith.
Thompson will now be brought back
from San Quentin to await retrial, the
outcome of which is problematical owing
to the disappearance and death of some
of the principal witnesses.
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THE WILLARD DIVORCE.
The Case Dismissed and a New Com
plant Filed by the Plaintiff.

The Willard divorce suit has ended,
and it has not ended. That may seem a
paradox, but it Is true.
Yesterday had been set by Judge Nc
Kinley for the hearing of argument by
counsel, mainly on the question wheth-
er or not Mrs. Willard. the plaintiff, had
condoned the charges brought by her
against her husband. When the case
was called Major Horace Bell, counsel
for Mrs. Willard. moved the court that
the case be dismissed without prejudice,
and this was accordingly done.
Very shortly after new complaint in
divorce was filed in behalf of Mrs. Will
lard, wherein the same charges as in
the previous complaint were set forth,
the grounds generally being cruelty and
failure to provide.
Christopher Dillon also filed his COM
plant in divorce yesterday against
Elizabeth Dillon, on the ground of cruel
ty.
George Persinger filed his complaint
against BERTHE Persinger, on the ground
of the desertion of the latter.
NJ. H. HAZEL was granted decree by
Judge Smith yesterday against ]. A
HAZEL, on the grounds of cruelty.
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signed by the mayor, or some other
person authorized thereto, In behalf of
the city, is In conflict with the general
law OF the state concerning the manner
Of creating contracts, and therefore
void under the constitution, declaring
that such charters shall be subject to
and controlled by general laws" We
may admit that the. charter provision
under view required some ceremony for
the formation of a contract and the
manipulation of the city's consent there
to In addition to the essentials of
like obligations described and declared
In the general law devoted to the sub
Ject of contracts; so has the law of such
corporations time out of mind; such
formalities are fixed by the character
as the particular method by which the
municipal officers must accomplish the
object of bringing the city into a con-
tract. but do not on that account add to
or take from the constituents of valid
contract decls led by the general law
Section 223 of the charter declares void
any Indebtedness (with certain excep-
tiors) contracted by tire city In excess
of $4,000, 000 the code imposes no such
yet we suppose there is no conflict he
tween the charter 2rd the code In this
particular. As to the provisions of Sec
tion 1922. Civil Code. that all contracts
may be oral except when required by
statute to be in writing, IL we concede
that IT has relevancy to the contro-
versy here, we are vet clearly of the
opinion that the charter is statute
within the meaning of that sectionj II
Is undoubtedly a law, though OF local
operation; the constitution declares It
to be the organic law of the city; II Is,
of course, a written law, and for many
purposes the terms statute" and writ
ten law" are used indifferently.
1t Is urged that "in equity the in
strument must be regarded as though
the mayor had signed 1t. The charter
provided the mode In which the city
could become bound, and certainly
equity will not decree that 1t shall be-
come bound In some other way In favor
of parties who have suffered no detri-
ment except the conjectural loss of
profits they might have made by per-
formance of the contract had II been
duly executed.
The judgment of the lower court is
affirmed.
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NEW SUITS FILED.

The following complaints in new suits
were filed yesterday in the superior
court:
The estate Of Ella c. Wilbur, deceased
The petition of Curtis D. Wilbur and
Henry G. ChiIson for probate of will.
The estate is valued al s1600.
Mrs. E. T. Draper VS.. Herbert E..
kronnick ct ala suit to recover $500
on note. $3.50 attorneys fees, costs and
decree of foreclosure.
Susan Strohm VS.. the city of Los An
geles-A suit to quiet title to lot 6. block
3. of the Homestead tract of the Pioneer
Building association.
Thomas E. Rowan VS.. Harry l. Wiley
"A suit to remand Judgment obtained
January 18th, 1892. for $40, ,52491.
John Clark vs.. the city of Los Angeles
"A suit to recover s542 claimed as being
due as wages earned as a laborer on the
zanjas.
The estate Of Horace W. Singer, de-
ceased--The petition Of Charles b. KIM
ball for probate of will. The estate is
valued at $325,00O.
The city of Los Angeles VS.. Charles F.
Bicknell. county auditor-A suit to re-
cover S1617.46 due to the city from the
county for tax collected in that por-
tion of the Vernon road district now
annexed to the city. and for s44.35 due
for the same reason from the Rosedale
road district fund.
Robert A. Newlyn VS.. George F. Tay-
lor-A suit to recover the sum of SIP, 800
as damages.
Elizabeth Salina Walford We. John
Wilson ct ala suit to recover $500 on
q note, with IA per cent interest, COM
pounded quarterly, from September /
1891. less the sum Of $451.55, paid on ac-
count of interest; 500 for attorneys fees,
costs and foreclosure of mortgage.
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EOS ANGELES SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY 8 1897

and Franklin streets a couple Of weeks
ago, when the jury disagreed. was again
day.
The evidence was much the same as
on the last trial, but as District Attor-
Eey McComas.in his ment.accepted
the boys statement that he was II years
old, and did not express any desire. as
on the previous trial, to send the lad
to the penitentiary but only to the indus
trial school at lone, the jury returned
verdict of guilty in short order
Judge Smith then sentenced Wilson
that he be committed to the Preston
School of Industry for the term of three
years. Wilson was "king-pin" among
the newsboys, and was president of the
organization. formed some time ago by
the boys, for the purpose of boycotting
the Times.
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or Mathuss. Mr.. Silver. It IL believed
will be elected president.
AGAIN IN THE TOLLS.

On Los Angeles street Just before
o'clock last night Detective Steele ar
rested o. H. Cobb while the latter was
trying to sell a coat and vest in a seconds
hand store. The garments had been re-
ported as stolen only a short time before
and the detective was out looking them
up when Cobb came in and offered the
clothes for sale.
1t has been only few days since Cobb
was released on a charge of petty lar
ceny. having been arrested with num-
Der of pairs of gloves'in his possession
for which he could not satisfactorily ac-
count. This time 1t is claimed there is
a clear case against him and be stands
an excellent show of a term on the chain
gang.
The herald., 1897-01-03
THE MONTHLY REPORTS.
OF the Several County Officials Placed
on File Yesterday.

County Clerk Newlin yesterday filed
with the supervisors his report for the
month of December 1896. The following
are the receipts from the several depart
uents of his office: Probate fees. $449 60;
civil. $1S61.30; miscellaneous. s52060; tc-
tai. s2s31.50; by refunds, $751; SIS; balance
$2S1295.
Law library fund, $265; salary fund,
$254795; total. $2S1295
THE RECORDERS REPORT.
The report of County Recorder Hoag-
man, filed yesterday. showed a total
amount on the fee book for the month of
December of s3107.15
THE AUDITORS REPORT.
The report of County Auditor Bickneil
showed that the monthly count of the
moneys in the county treasury had been
made, and that on January 1, 1897, the
following coinage was on hand in the
different repositories: Gold, $685.. .72o:
currency. s1S5.90O; silver. $40. 1S9. 81; total.
SS21, ,S09.31.
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ANOTHER WATER COMPANY
Files Papers of Incorporation and Es-
tablishes at Pasadena

The Lake View Domestic Water COM
pany yesterday filed papers of incorpor-
alton. The purposes of the incorpora-
tion are to supply water to the townsite
Of Lake View and other parts of the
tract; to buy and develop water for Go.
mestic and irrigating purposes; 10 owl
and deal in real estate, stock and certi-
1icates of other companies; to stablisl
electric light and power plants. etc.
The principal place of business will b.
at Pasadena, and the following art
named as directors: q. H. Coffin, Ed
win Stearns. W. j. Shields. NJ. l.. Wood
ali of Pasadena, and r. Z. Brown, o.
Chicago.
The capital stock is placed at s35, ,o0G
divided into 800 shares of the par valu,
of 500 each. OF this amount the sun
OF $500 has been subscribed
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RECORD OF MARRIAGES
The Increase During 1896 Merely Nomi
nal. Showing No Decided Increase

The marriages in the county during
the year ending December 81. 1896 were
only fourteen in excess of the number
that took place during the previous
year. This is the story told by the regis
ter Of marriage licenses in the county
clerks Office. and it would seem to indi-
cate that marriages are not increasing
even in proportion to population. The
following is the record for each year
since $780, For the year 1890, 945; 1891,
$40; 1892, 1923; 1898. 12O1; 1894, 1851; 1895,
1471: 1896 14S5
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THE HARBoR COMMISSIONERS.

The members of the harbor board are
still at the Westminster and are busily
engaged at work upon their report. Yes
terday Commissioners Rogers, Morrison
and Burr spent the day at San Pedro,
taking another look at the country In
that vicinity.
The board is working strictly in pri-
vate, and. so far as the outside world is
concerned, both Santa Monica and San
Pedro hang in the balance.
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DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS

The Democratic couEcilmen-elect held
another caucus yesterday afternoon. 1t
was found impossible to come to any
thing like an agreement, and no further
attempt will be made. At the meeting
tomorrow the Democratic compliment
tary vote will be distributed. Mr.. Nickel
will probably vote for Mr.. Ashman,
Hutchinson will vote for either Silver
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SPECIAL NOTICE.

The Broadway Department store is ad-
vertising the stock of II. Phillips. bought
by them for Csc on the dollar The sale
Will commence Monday. There will be
a tremendous rush, as the bargains are
immense. Broadway Department store,
Fourth and Broadway
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A SENSATION.

The Broadway Department store has
bought the stock of H. Phillips for o5c
on the dollar. There will be a great SEN
sation Monday when 1t Is placed on sale.
Broadway Department store, Fourth
and Broadway
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WHERE DID THEY GET IT?"

The Broadway Department store has
q lady's Dongola kid, button shoe, cloth
top, Patent tip for e9c; it is the marvel
of the age. Where did they get it? It
looks like a $3.50 shoe Broadway d.
partment store Fourth and Broadway.
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TO FRANK ROUGEY.

If this gentleman will call at the
business Office of The Herald, he will
hear something greatly to his advantage
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SENT TO lone

The Newsboy Who Liked Cigarettes
Well Enough to Steal Them
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KIEFER & co.

Proprietors Pacific Wine Co., estab-
lished 1878. removed to ia West Third
street, between Spring and Main Wines
and liquors. Wholesale and family trade
OnlX
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Hawley, King & Co., cor. Fifth st. ant
Broadway. agents genuine Columbus Bugg.
company buggies and bicycles.
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JOTTINGS
Our Home Brew

Maier & Zobeleins lager. fresh from their
brewery, on draught in all the principal
saloons: delivered promptly in bottle or
kegs. Of1ce and brewery. 44o Also street;
telephone 81.
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Largest variety Concord business wagon
and TOP delivery wagons. Hawley. King
Co.
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Everything on wheels. Hawley. King
Co.. cor. Fifth street and Broadway.
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RANDSBuRG GOLD FIELDS

Reached via Santa Fe route; leave Los
Angeles 1919 a. m; arrive RandSburg
$50 p. n. Through tickets S6.75.
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THE BEAUTIES OF CALIFORNIA

Are best seen on the trip around the
Kite-Shaped track. You pass through
each town but once. Tickets permit stop
overs.
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BORN

1868 lbs. Keatings-"3s5 days ahead OIL
them ALL Hawley. King & Co.
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DEATHS

CKWOOD-December 81, 1896 to the
wife of w. A. Lockwood, daughter
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William Wilson. the newsboy. who wa
tried ON the charge of burglarizing
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ToRECAsT-For Southern California; Fair on
sunday, with heavy frost In the morning in ex-
posed places; continued cool weather: light
northerly Winds
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Maximum temperature. 81.
Mlnlmum temperature. 3H
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The Van and Storage company, tel.
Main 1140.
Orr q Hines, undertakers removed to
81 South Broadway. Tel. Main 65.
Spanish dinners served at the Bel
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A NARROW ESCAPE,

"Come on, fellows; let's run up the
gorge on the rocks!'
IAN right we shouted; and moment
later we had started-six lively, venture
some boys.
1t was on the day Of the great Sunday
school picnic at Shadow gorge. But we
were rather tired of the picnic. Every
body was there, but some were too young
to interest us, and some We're too old; so,
after we had eaten all we could of the
jelly cake and other picnic dainties, liber-
ally seasoned with the silt from the big
pine trees that were shaking their tasscls
overhead, we started off by ourselves.
1t was a somewhat risky exploit that
we were undertaking. For more than Il
mile the river descended in series of
cascades, ploughing it's way with foam
and clalnor through gorge walled by
steep forest-crowned bluffs. In some
places the tree.tops almost met across the
chasm, and the spot was we'll named
Shadow gorge. In the spring the whole
space, from cliff to cliff, was filled with
frantic procession of struggling pillows
and plunging logs: but during the sum-
MGR the stream subsidized until it left a
stones close by the waters edge
Along this track we were now racing
at full speed, leaping from bowller to
bowlder, edging around projecting bluffs,
and taking all manner of unreasonable
risks lust for fun" in the fatuous fash
ion characteristic of youngsters of four
teen. 1t was not the first time we had
threaded that slippery path: but recent
rains had slightly swollen the river, and
we had little margin to squire.
AT length, however, we arrived near
the head of the gorge. On the side OPP
pOsite us still appeared an almost per-
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hand toward me. He couldn't quite
touch me, but could easily have
grasped his hand. Had / done so, both
would have persisted: we should have,
sunk together in the black whirlpool just
below. For though the space between
sWiftest part OF the current, the force of
which I.knew SO we'll. 1t would have
swept us away like straws. So / shook
my head--for / could not speak--and
kept out of reach. -. 1
Then the other boys held Fred by the
waist while he reached again but stll
shook. my head, They began to think
Then they all started up the island,
crossed the log. and ran down the shore
to the point nearest me. Here the space
between us was much wider, but the
depth and strength Of the current were
much less on this side. though still for
was little Jimmie Styles, who stood on
the very edge of the beach, extending
toward me a long pole which he had
caught up. | did not change nay posi-
ton; wanted frmer anchor than poor
little Jimmie before / relaxed my hard
Won foothold.
At last the boys understood. They
steep slope, and the hast man put one
arm about the trunk of Il small tree:
Again Jimmie held out his life-pole: l
grasped it with both hands; the boys
pulled, and pulled. and in Il moment l
was safe on the beach.
And oh! how good it. seemed! The
boys crowded around me, and it was so
delightful to be with them once more.
And the ground felt so firm, and the sun
was so warm. and the air so sweet.
Drenched and bruised and exhausted
though l was, my finger tips torn and
bleeding, cut as with a rasp almost to
the bone in my desperate grapple along
the bottom, don't remember that was
ever happier in my life. Anyhow, never
of living as did that day.
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THE TOYS i /,

My little son, who look'd from thoughtful
eyes, * Z ~ *~H-"r . 49, @= As
And moved and spoke In quite grown,up
wise, >,%s+ = - =
Having my law the seventh time disobey'd
1sstruck him, and dismissed =
With hard words and unktsS'd- ~ &-
His mother, who was patient, being dead 8
Then, fearing lest his grief should hinder
sleep, - ..
II visited his bed, ~.
But found him slumbering deep.
With darken'a eyelids, and their lashcs vet
From his late sobbing wet.
And /. with moan,
kissing away his tears, left others of my
OWns
For, on a table drawn beside his head,
He had put, within his reach
box of counters aud a red vetn'd stone,
, A piece Of glass abraied by the beach,
And six or seven shells,
A hottie Of bluebells,
And two French copper coins, ranged there
with careful art
To comfort his sad heart.
So when that night prayed
To God. l went and said:
All, when at last we lie with trancel BREATH
Not veNinS Thee in death,
And Thou rememberest Of what toys
We made our joys,
How weakly understood
Thy great commanded good
Then fatherly not less
Than l whom Thou hast moulded from the
clay.
Thou'lt leave Thy wrath, and say:
Il will be sorry for their childishness.''
BY Coventry Patmore.
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Half the Cows Worthless.

1t may be that progress is greater
knowledge and better practice is fastened
by wild and reckless statements thrown
out broadcast, but we never have been
convinced of it. The editor of one of
the leading dairy journals states that if
one-half the cows now giving milk, intel
ligently selected for that purpose, could
be slaughtered within d week, the re-
manning half would yield greater profit
than is now realized from the whole.
This is sweeping charge. 1t may be
true of the states of the Mississippi val
ley, but it is not of New England. There
there is still good cause for wedding, but
there is no such proportion that are not
paying their way as the charge claims.
A COW yielding 200 pounds of butter in
year, or its equivalent in milk, will
pay her way. One giving $50 pounds
Of butter yields a fair profit to her owner
We claim there are very few cows among
us but if we'll fed and carefully ham
died will return their owners the 200
pounds Of butter. This leaves but very
few that are not paying their way and
nothing like the proportion represented.
Farmers are not so stupid i'll these things
as some seem to delight to represent
them. There is need of wedding out the
poorest cows and always will be. Farm
crs are doing it right along, but there is
There are herds yielding 300 pounds of
butter to the cow, and dairymen prefer
that kind. But if all those that do not
come up. to that standard were sent to
the butcher. some of the people would
have to 60 without their butter and milk.
The aim should be all the while to 20
up higher.
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Last Of the DessOng.

An old steamer that once attracted it's
share Of attention in New York harbor is
soon to be broken up in Great Neck
shipyard, where she has been lying for
gotten by all but her owners This boat
is merely an old hulk now, and it would
be difficult to identify her as the once
famous Dessong. She was built as a
pleasure craft for the Khedive of Egypt.
and when the Khedive sent over the ODE
lisk, that now stands in Central park,
the Dessong was selected to transport it,
Because of this distinguished service the
Dessong received an American charter,
and later she was purchased by all Amer
lean company, and she sailed between
New York and Savannah. She was con-
sdemned and sold to her present owner,
who had her lowed to the shipyard at
Great Neck. The oystermen have since
alleged that when the Dessong was towed
into the bay the tide was SO low that the
big boat plowed up valuable oyster beds,
and they have tried to collect damages
New York Sun.
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WORLDS LARGEST FLAG.
1t will Consume 700 Yards OF Bunting
aud will Have Il 15O- Foot Pole.

1t will Consume 700 Yards of Bunting
aud will Have Il 15O-F Foot Pole.
Capt. George G. Beckley of the Wilder
Steamship company, Honolulu, who ar
rived here recently to take back the new
steamer Helena. lately launched here, is
having the largest flag made of which
shipping men have ever heard. It will
be of the extraordinary width of 40 feet
and will be 80 feet long, consuming in
all no less than TOO yards of bunting.
This monster flag is to be raised on
the Helene Oh the maiden trip of that
vessel as she leaves here for the Ha
waiian islands. 1t is a Hawaiian flag,
of course, and as such will dwarf every
other flag, no matter Of what nation, that
comes into port.
When the Helene gets to Honolulu the
flag will be taken down and will finally
be put on a gigantic pole, towering in
the air from the heights of Punchbowl
Hill. The pole will be. as Capt. Beck
of monstrous Puget sound fir tree. and
is now ell route to the islands on the
bark Klickitat.
The way Capt. Beckley happened to
get the idea of eclipsing the world i'll the
way of flags is peculiar. He is COM
been for over thirty-fve years with the
steamship company, of which he is a d.
rector. On the eve of his departure for
this country dinner was given him by
the employees of the company and he re-
ceived Il present of fat purse. Capt
Beckley said, as it was handed to him:
.''Che money will be used in the pur
chase of the largest Hawaiian flag ever
seen in Hawaii. 1t will be larger than
the great flag of the American league
and will fly from the foremost of the
Helene from San Francisco to Honolulu
Then it will float from Il tall pole in my
yard on the slope of Punchbowl Hill.'
This is why heavy flag manufacture
ing firm here is now busy with the great
flag.
''It will be the biggest flag Of which l
ever heard" said Capt. Becklcy. ''There
isn't another one like it in the world"
San Francisco Call.