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The herald., 1897-10-07
CARRYING THE WAR INTO WALL
STREET

The allied goldbugs of Greater New
York must have come to the conclusion
yesterday morning, after reading the
account of the Henry George ratifica-
tion meeting, that silver is not dead, af-
ter all. That is, if they read fair ac-
count of the meeting. 1t is not often the
case that a silver meeting gets fair
reatment from the New York press, as
a whole.
The Associated Press, which is nom
partisan, and which cannot in any event
be accused of partiality for silver, said
that the Henry George Cooper Union
meeting was the greatest outpouring
of the people seen in this city during the
present campaign" In less than two
minutes from the time the doors were
opened every seat in the big hall was oc
cupied. Hundreds were turned away.
Several thousand disappointed ores held
open air meetings.
The platform, as we'll as the nomina
ton, was ratified This paper has al
Ii was constructed for the common peo-
pie to stand on and was written by Mr..
George. The Democratic nominee was
careful TO draw the lres. He said:
Fellow Democrats, men who voted for
William Jennings Bryan, 1 accept your
n animation" The free silver idea was
made pre-eminent. Mr.. George spoke
only thirty-five minutes. That one
thing alone ought to be worth five
thousand votes to him.
No doubt the splendid George meet
irg will cause the allied goldbugs, COL
lectively, factionally and individually,
to try to overcome the effect Of that
meeting by trying to outdo it. Big halls
will be hired and filed The platforms
will be occupied by prominent citizens"
whose business address is Wall street
or its contributory territory, and whose
names will be set forth in large black
type in the goldbug newspapers as the
conservators of the city's political ard
social fortunes. Senators and money
kings Will harangue the assembled null
tutudes; yet with all their efforts, the
allied goldbugs cannot exceed in num-
bers or enthusiasm the spontaneous
tribute of the meeting to ratfy the
nomination. of Henry George.
Mr.. George may not be elected-the
time has hardly arrived when silver
man can be elected mayor of New York
city-but when the election is held the
goldbug nominees will know they have
had fight. 1t looks now as if Mr..
George would poll larger vote than he
did eleven years ago, when 6S, 900 ballots
were cast for him. Silver is strongly
entrerched in the chosen camp of the
enemy.
The herald., 1897-10-07

had been completed the two cute attor-
neys stepped up and signed their names
as witnesses to the ceremony. The at
torneys who did this are Shinn and Conk-
ling of this city.
1t is sharp practice Of this sort-setting
the machinery of the law to defeat the
ends OF justice-that is bringing our
courts into contempt with right-think-
ing people. 1t is such episodes as this
which too often prove successful in turn
ing red-handed murderers and criminals
OF the worst sort loose upon defenseless
community that is justifying and pro-
noting the idea of Lynch law as the only
law that can be promptly and surely en-
forced
Such contemplate and vicious prac
tees should be severely rebuked, and
their perpetrators visited with exem
plary punishment. If there are no laws
by which such illegitimate schemes t.
eXculpate criminals can be reached, then
laws should be adopted to reach them
One thing is certain: Law cannot long
be maintained when it is subjec. to such
wretched perversions that it falls into
universal contempt. The question with
the American people is: Shall we havl
law, or shall we have anarchy? The
practice of shyster lawyers is making
rapidly towards anarchy.
The herald., 1897-10-07

ed to the repairs with the same care as
was exercised by the contractors dur
ing the first five years of the life of the
pavement it need never have got into the
condition in which it now is. The prov
erb says that "a stitch in time saves
nine" and it is equally applicable to the
asphalt street where small patch in
time will save mine.
Around the Arcade depot there is con-
siderable activity in laying new as
phalt pavement; two entirely new cross
ings are also beirg put in at Central av-
enue and Fifth street and San Pedro and
Fifth streets and the Los Angeles Rail-
way company is laying another new
track of heavy rails from San Pedro
street to Central avenue. French and
Reed have the contract for the roadbed
and concrete foundation and Fairchilc
and Gilmore for the asphalt surfacing,
The work Is being pushed and the tenn
porary inconvenience to traffic will soon
be overcome.
A Chicago paper of late date gives the
annexed information on the dullrass of
real estate there, and about the mar
gin" system of buying which prevailed
In that city for years. which produced
great real estate imitation, and which re-
suited there, as it inevitably must result
everywhere, in producing great succeed
ing depression:
"The principal movement in the mar
ket is the sale of equities. Everyope who
has anything which is encumbered Is
hunting for some one who will take the
property off his hands, and pay or the
encumbrance, no matter how much OF a
sacrifice is necessary to effect such
transfer. 1t is natural anxiety, devel-
oped by distrust, which is inevitable so
long as things are so mixed in the cour''
try. Hard times are in this way proVin 6
blessing to Chicago. In prosperous
days men thought nothing of assumin g
rs per cent of their purchases, relying
upon continuance of flush times to-en-
able them to meet their obligations.
This thing prevailed to an insane extent
in Chicago for years, and these very
acts, based upon universal prosperity
were all the time destroying this pros
perity, and undermining all correct
methods Of dealing. 1t was inevitable
that operations would sooner or later
be drought up starding' with shock
so sudden and violent as to unsettle the
market ard create timidity of capital
which would. seriously check sales and
remove the foundations on which these
airy castles were created.
How to Get True Valuation of Real
Estate.-"Many-we might say the ma
jority-of real estate owr,ers value the
real estate they own, even when they
wish to sell, at 25 to so per cent above its
true value. To get true valuation oi
property, an owner has only to ask him
self: 'If I was not a seller but buyer
how much would be willing to pay fol
this property" In other words, if til:
seller puts himself in the other mans
that is, the buyer's-place, and strikes E
medium between his, the sellers, effor
to sell at too high price, and the buyer:
The herald., 1897-10-07
Mortgages

There were twenty-one mortgages and
trust deeds filed on the 5th inst, amount
ing to $16,166
The following list gives the particulars
of all mortgages filed on the above date,
which amounted to $1,000 and over
Edith M. Sutton ct al. to- Southern
California Loan Association-Lot 12.
Juanita tract ten years, per cent,
$1,000.
Arthur T. Blain ct al. to H. D. Everest
Lots IA and Is, Logan tract, years, II
per cent, $1,000.
Maude F. Walker to San Gabriel Val.
ley bank-Lot 10, A. C. Macomber tract,
three years. 10 per cent, $2500.
Same to Adams-Phillips Co.-Same.
Payable in installments, II per cent,
$12O7.9S.
Sherman A. Siddall to Henrietta Has
So slberger-Lots 5 and 6, Stephenson's
subdivision, two years, 10 per cent, $1,000
Philip Eichholz and Emma Eicholz to
Emma Kaiser-Lot Is, and part Of lots
16 and II, block 1, Wolfskill Orchard
tract. five years, II per cent, $4,000.
j. j. Osmer ct al. to Julia P. Brown
Lot 10, block j., Menlo Park tract, sub
division No. 2. $3.50 at per cent, $1,000,
three years, at II per cent, $1750.
The herald., 1897-10-07

D. c. Peck, in communication to the
New York Times, takes issue with the
assertion made by Carroll D. Wright
poor are growing richer. Mr.. Peck de-
clares that they are rot, and presents
statistics in support of his contention
Whichever is right, it is certain that
there is something radically wrong
about our financial and industrial sys-
TENS that is working havoc to all except
the creditor classes.
The herald., 1897-10-07

The Express tells of a contractor who
is constructing large business block on
Broadway, and who is rot obstructing
the sidewalk and street with lumber.
mortar and other material, but our con-
temporary fails TO give his name. THAI
is rank injustice. The contractor is en-
titled to monument medal, diploma
vote of thanks, anything he may wish,
for he is unique and BILE,
the Only one of his kind on earth.
The herald., 1897-10-07
THURSDAY, OCTOBER :. 1897.
JUGGLING WITH JUSTICE

Immediately following the preliminary
examination of Dewitt F. Crandall
charged with the murder of Jack Bow
man. which was held in Justice GuidIn-
gers court at Santa Monica yesterday,
there was an episode, designed to defeat
the ends of justice, which ought to call
forth the strongest reprobation from all
decent people. If the bar of Los An
reles has proper respect for itself it will
make an example of the attorneys who
engineered and accomplished the sharp
practice and the justice Of the peace
who lent himself to the miserable scheme
ought to be impeached.
It will be remembered that the mar
Crandall, who figured as mac" in Los
Angeles until he was driven out by the
police, had been living with and subsist-
ing on the shameful earnings of woman
named May Froiis. This woman was
present when the murder was commit
ted, and was, accordingly, the states
most important witness. Before Gran
dall's preliminary examination it be-
1ry;I "a N
made to have the prisoner married to the
girl Froiis, so as to prevent her from Civ
ing testimony against him. Under the
law a wife cannot testify against her
husband.
This scheme the authorities refused to
accede to, knowing that it was designed
solely to forestall the ends of justice.
During the investigation the effort was
renewed but the sheriff acting under
the advice of the district attorneys of
flcc, positively forbade the marriage to
take place. Meanwhile, however, the
girl had slipped up to Los Angeles and
had procured a license, with which she
was fortified on her return to Santa
Monica.
After the conclusion of the investiga-
tion, Crandall having been held without
bond, the prisoners attorneys, evidently
by a prearranged plan, managed to en-
gage the under sheriff and the deputy
district attorney in conversation in diff
ferent portions of the court room The
girl was beside the prisoner with her
license in hand, and by a strange coinci-
dence Justice Wells of Santa Monica
was there also. Quicker than the pro-
verbal Jack Robinson, Justice Wells
united the couple in the so-called holy
bonds of matrimony That justice Of
the peace, elected to conserve the public
welfare and sworn to uphold the laws
should invade the court room of another
judicial officer, override the wishes of
the district attorneys office and lena
himself to a contemplate trick to defeat
the ends of justice, almost surpasses be-
lief. 1t is one of the most dastardly out
RACES ever perpetrated in the name Of
the law.
As soon as the short shrift ceremony
The herald., 1897-10-07
The Woodmen's War

FULTON. ILL.,. Oct. 6.-Among the bills
of indictment returned by the Grand
Jury of Whitside county was one against
Ju6ge johnson, head, attorney for the
Modern Woodmen of America, on the
charge Of riot. Johnson was the man ac-
cused of having organized a party in
Rock Island August 18th, which came
near securing the head Office of the Mod
err. Woodmen of America.
The herald., 1897-10-07
MAKING HOME THE swEETER

1t isn't just the roaming round
That makes our outings dear;
Vacation adds a Sweet" to home
The balance of the year.
/
The mountains, brooks, and trees and rocks
Are taken in with zest,
But somehow landscapes don't replace
The old familiar nest.
Boston Transcript.
The herald., 1897-10-07

The fruitgrowers and merchants of
Southern California will be pound fool
ish if they do not go after the trade of
Germany on a large scale and in real
earnest. The Hamburg exhibit made a
splendid impression and the time. to act
is while that impression is fresh ir the
minds of the German people.
The herald., 1897-10-07

Denver is agtating the auditorium
question again. 1t is in precisely the
same fix that Los Angeles is, lacking a
large convention hall BY the way,
what has become of the several commit
tees that were to take the local auditor
ium matter in hand?
The herald., 1897-10-07

II is an agreeable surprise to learn
that the advent of the Liberal party
was well received throughout Spain, es-
pecially as it was coupled with the an
rouncement of far more liberal policy
attitude of the Spanish masses has been
misrepresented.
The herald., 1897-10-07
Los ANGELES DAILY HERALD
SWORN STATEMENT CIRCULATION

State of California. County OF Los Ange-
1es.-ss.
L. NJ. 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. 1897,
to June 30. 1897 Gnclusve), the total circu-
lation of the said Daily Herald was .29o 655
copies, being an average daily circula-
tiOn of 1904.
That the weekday circulation during the
above time was 1,O71567, being daily
everaEe of S3O6 copies.
That the Sunday circulation during the
above time was 219059, being an average
for each Sunday of 1O,431.
L. NJ. HOLT
Superintendent of Circulation.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
10Th day of July, 1897.
FRANK ]. COOPER,
Notary Public in and for the County OF
Los Angeles, State of California
The herald., 1897-10-07

If the performance equals present t
promises the orange crop that Southern
California will market this coming sea-
son would fill car 100 feet high, 100 feet
wide and 72O feet long
The herald., 1897-10-07

C. A. Towne, the free silver champion
is making an extended tour through
Iowa and Ohio, speaking at the principa
cities. He does not expect to compete
his campaign before November 10th.
The herald., 1897-10-07

Chicago is suffering from an October
hot spell and from dense smoke caused
by prairie and timber fires. There Is
always something the matter with Chi
cago weather.
The herald., 1897-10-07
It's a Branch
OF a Big Tree
The -.
} Clothing
Corner /

That Hat Department in our Clothing Corner" :"
It's good tree which sustains it. We like Hats
We know we have the biggest and best line on the
street. Our Hats at S., $4, 50, 81 and any other
price are ALL RIGHT. One grade you have heard
we mention agan-don't forget our own special
The herald., 1897-10-07

Plots are on tap in all the Central
American states. 1t must be a great
place for novelists, playwrights and de-
tectives.
The herald., 1897-10-07
Telephones Didn'k Paw

VISALIA, Cal, Oct. 6-The Mount
Whitney Telephone company, with 200
miles of wires connecting Visalia, Tu-
Iare. Porterville and Bakersfield, has
filed a petition in insolvency.
The herald., 1897-10-07

1t was the refinement of cruelty to
paign fund had beer sent to Cuba
The herald., 1897-10-07
to buy at too low price, he will arrive
at point near the truth"


The large use of brick In building IL
recommended by the Santa Fe Real Es-
tate Circular as being for the benefit OF
property owners in that city, and the ad-
vice may have some application here.
The Circular says: In face of the fact
that brick residences cost but third
more than wood and business buildings
but quarter more, it is wonder that
more brick is not used in this city. Tins
is proving the use of brick In building.
Wooden houses that are ten years old
will not rent when tenants can get new
ones for the same price. 1t has been
urged that San Francisco is overbuilt,
because of the large number of vacant
houses here. The vacant houses. how
ever are chiefly old ones, and the ereason
new houses and flats are continually be-
ing built is not to accommodate an in
creasing populatio so much as to entice
tenants from old houses to new.
The herald., 1897-10-07

Wall paper, late styles, low prices, at
A. A. Eckstrom's. a24 South Spring street.
The herald., 1897-10-07

The tables given in the Investor col
umn of this paper on the Sd inst show
that the transfers for the past month
amounted to $7S2, 597 as against $719,S
for the month of August. While these
figures demonstrate considerable fall
ing off from the same months of prior
years, yet it is believed that they repre-
sent but a small amount of specula tive
buying and may, therefore, be taken as
a fair index of SUBSTANTIAL prosperity.
In part confirmation with this idea it
may be noted that the September build
ing permits numbered 1856 amounting to
S227,677 as against 162 permits amount
ing to $1S5,SS3 for September, 1896. No
better evidence could be given of the
fact that the buying now being done is
for purposes of actual investme Mt rather
than with the idea of speculation.
The herald., 1897-10-07
REAL ESTATE
Weekly Review of the
Local Markets
INVESTORS SOMEWHAT SHY
BUT DEMAND FOR RESIDENCE
PROPERTY CONTINUES
INVESTORS SOMEWHAT SHY
The Question of Landlord and Tenant.
Overbuilding of Business Blocks.
Another Spring st. Petition

The general aspect of business con-
tirues to be not only satisfactory, but
promises we'll for the future. In real es-
tate the activity in building continues.
Dealers report very few transactions,
but say that the volume of inquiry has
increased rather than diminished. Sew
eral prominent agents say that the de-
mard for residence property is more
lively than it has been for long time
and they state also that buyers of in
vestment property are little shy, ap-
parently with the expectation of being
able to purchase to better advantage in
a little while. Judging. however, by the
stiffness exhibited on the part of owners
of desirable business property, the ten
dency will, more likely, be in an upward
direction. The fact is that in the most
desirable part of the business locations
there are no Straps" to be had and in
consequence the buyer of equities finds
his occupation gone.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-21
A blockade Venture.

n,ring the blockade of Bucnos Ayres
o,inrcr bark laden with -four was htteu
out ot Boston with the express purpose u
running in. The late Augustus h'inen.
wny was her supercargo. After 'eui '..,,
voyoge she arrived of Buenos Ayres anu
roHrd his blockade too close to run H.
and was compelled to cruise OF ana , on,
wniting for a change in her favor; "hlle
Tins la2ily accommodating, she SPOKE " We
sell from Valparaiso, which reror'eu, a lam IN,
inc there. MIR. Hcmenway at once u'o nv w, !"
to trv Valparaiso The captain hes''a l,1.'
NE said his vessel was not adapted 10 uou.
Mo cane Horn in the dead OF winter. Du'
younq Hemcnway assumed the eh,'re l re
snonsibility, and the captain yl'lGSu ~
Ind favorable slant round the born ' ~,
roachcd Valparaiso in safety, where n d,
nor,o was sold at high prices. Inc Ni III
ans were so grateful for the tlmriy r'l,.
that they loaded the bark as deep Us ~ ~
could safely swim with copper ore ana a, a.
concerned in the venture made i1rVu ~
Iatcr Mir. Hcmenway opened a trauc ~
Valparaiso in copper, wool, nitrate, eso a
lave which he became one of the rlches' iii'
~ Boston.-Harper Round Table
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-21
me Opera House Orchestra,

This 10 strictly first-class, up-to-date
organzati ton and in every way prepared
to furnish the very best OF music Tor ga
cred and 81 cuar concerts, parties, etc, IN
any part of the Upper Peninsula. NO
amateur affair, but professional music by
professional musicians, Charges moder-
ate. For terms and dates apply to the
musical director and manager, Mr. Max
yon LEM, 205 Eighth street, Red Jacket
Special music arranged or supplied on
short notice without extra charge.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-21
washington Irving's Blessing.

A house in William street New ro o.a
...aa, iryinys birthplace, on April - l,oo'
wa, was n,;,;sh were soon to evacuate the ci'y'
u, Washington to take possession oil IT.
a ,'.. Ir,ing. n warm hearted woman ol
,"r.,,'.,, birtb ynd an ardent patriot Oh inc
nn land said "Washington's work i
NV and the child shall be named ai,'r
. ~, ;, The child was still in the care Oh ("
III nnrsc. when one day she saw INC
president, as Washington enr,, We" 'spIcnse.
a shop, and after him she VEN, ho;rr was
',aur honor said she, here a M'iri We VOC
YOU. YOU, aS,cr vou." The president laid ms
h nun, ON the boys head and gave nm
blessing, which he never io'e''
man. -
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-21
KATE GREENAWAv.
- Has Done Much tn Revelutionize che
Dress Of Children.

Every one has heard the name of Kate
lircenaway, the talented English artist,
who has done more To reyolutionize chill
drens dress than any other living woman.
No woman IL better known I'm England
and in America than she, and yet no WON
ans personal life and habits are less
known and talked of than hers. The rea-
son of this lies In the fact that she regards
her private life as something sacred to her
self and her friends, and has never allowed
any one to interview her, and refrains from
accounting attentions and entertainments
that would bring her into conspicuous
position. She lives, however, In an old
and picturesque house in the neighborhood
| of Hampstead Heath and has her studio
here on the top floor "a large, well lighted
and coy room. Its long windows open out
into a balcony, where Miss Greenaway
loves to sit OF pleasant days She is most
industrious, and 10 her hard work, oriRi-
nality and love for children is attributed
her great success.
Like every other successful man and
woman, Kate Greenaway toiled long and
earnestly before fame smiled upon her.
First she studied at the art school In south
Kensington and next at the life classes al
Heatherley's, another famous London
studio, and at the Slade school. When hel
first pictures were exhibited at the Dudley
gallery, they attracted some attention an'
, much praise, and 1t was after this tina
Miss Greenaway devoted herself to illus
trating children's books and to DESIGNING
, Christmas, birthday and dinner cards
: menus and all kinds of pretty and artisti
novelties A collection of pretty colore'
a sketches of children dressed in the quaint
old fashioned gowns of a century ago, pun
9 lshed under the title of Under the Win
4 dow" brought her fame This was no
a only confined to the artistic brotherhood
/ but fashion quickly recognized the char
r and style of these picturesque costume
and adopted them. Until then childre
e had been overdressed or unattractivel
IS dressed, and. the beautiful and numerot
a fashions in dainty gowns and cloaks an
n hats which combine sensible comfort al
y. warmth with aesthetic taste in color an
y form all date from Miss Kate Greenaway
re efforts 10 years ago.-Boston Globe.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-04-21
BOY FALLS AND IS KILLED.
Drops Four stories Down an Elevator
shaft in brewery.

Chicago. April 2O.-ln sight OF his ID
ther who was conducting him through
the Gottfried Brewing companys brew
cry sunday afternoon. Joseph SEEKER
= hoy of l6 years. fell through an ele-
vator shaft from the fourth floor OF the
huilding and was killed.
The elder SEEKER is an employe OF the
brewing company. and Sunday alter
noon decided to take his son through
the huilding. The elevators were clossu'
81 they walked through the different
Ooors until the fourth was reacheu'
Here the boy grew tired and sat down
beside the elevator shaft, while the Ia
,her moved few feet away TO exam,
inc some new machinery. SEEKER hdu
D., bts hack turned for a moment anu
,,.bile he was not looking the boy arose
a,l walked toward the shaft. toe door
or which was open. Just as the iall'eI
tr,ned around ne saw the boy s'ep Iol'
I'D and disappear into the Hha' l.
rJu,,.yine down the four iighi'- -
stsfrs seeker found The child al inc DOT
ton, of the shaft crushed ana " ulse'
nv The fan. lie lived a few hiIiu ~
,Itar his father reached him. ~ ~
INDY was taken to the home a' %
Tveutv-fourth street