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The herald., 1898-07-26
FINALLY DECIDED
The Street Sign Contract Let to J. D.
Newman & Co.

In accordance with the recommendation
Of the board of public works. council yes
terday awarded the street sign contract to
]. D. Newman & Co. for 81, 997, the lowest
bid.
This question has been pending for sew
eral weeks, and the contention was made
by other bidders that Newman & Co., by
making a lump bid, did not comply with
the specifications. Not little bad feel
ing was engendered, and Councilman Ma
thuss was accused of holding the matter
up. This made the Third ward represent
ative indignant. very naturally, and when
1t came to vote on the question of the
award yesterday he insisted that the roll
be called, thereby putting every member
on record. The vote was unanimous for
the approval of the committees report.
The contract Is for the furnishing of
$500 posts, with two signs attached to
each, 1900 unattached signs to be fastened
on posts already owned by the city and
900 unattached signs for use on buildings
in the business portions.
The herald., 1898-07-26

ferred to the board Of public works; f. NJ.
Stone and others, for an electric light at
the corner of Ninth and Albany streets, re-
fered to light committees; H. l.. Randall,
for reduction of assessment, board of
equalization; Frank B. Harbert, for
sewer connection in Bush and Crawford's
subdivision, sewer committees; Allison
Barlow & Co.. for the grading, crawling
and curbng of Victoria street between
Fourteenth and Tennessee streets and the
grading, graveling, curbing and sewering
OF a portion of Stanton avenue, board OF
public works; Joseph Mesmer. for the
grading and graveling of a portion of San
Pedro street, board Of public works; r. 7.
Nelson and others, for the privilege of
erecting an oil pumping cable across First
street between Belmont and Union avenues
oil inspector; H. Freeman ct al, for sewer
on a portion of kenslngton road, sewer
committee; Antonio Avila and others, for
the grading of portion of Echandia street.
board of public works; Frank B. Harbert
for the grading Of Kingsley street, board Of
public works; r. B. Bernal, for sale of a
city lot In Arroyo de Los Posas, land COM
mittee; Mrs. Fitzgerald, for a sewer con-
nection; sewer committee; w. E. Keller
and others, for a sewer on Palmetto and
number of other streets, sewer committee;
NJ S. Crosswell. for privilege of pumping
an oil well across Union avenue, oil in
spector; Chas H. McNelly and others, for
privilege of improving portion of Orchard
avenue by private contract, city engineer; j.
H. Cook. for a sewer on South Griffith av-
enue, city engineer; property holders on
De Long street, for the Improvement Of a
portion of said street, city engineer.
John W. Francis and other properly own
ers on Guadalupe street evidently have a
very patriotic regard for the hero of the
Merrimac. having asked council to change
the name of their street to Hobson. Their
petition was referred to the board of public
works.
B. Lorenzi, who was recently awarded
the contract for sewering a portion of Ruth
avenue, finds that he made an error in the
figures of his bid, by which he took the con-
tract at Sc cents per lineal foot, when it
should have been &c cents. He has there
fore petitioned council to release him from
the contract. The sewer committee recon-
mended that the petition be granted and
such action was accordingly taken.
The herald., 1898-07-26
DENIED THE PETITION
Traction Company Will Not Get to the
Arcade Depot on Fifth Street


Manager Hook and Attorney Lamme, of
the Los Angeles Traction company, will
now have another chance to ignore the
edicts of the city council, which yesterday
took action in accordance with the recon-
mendations of the board of public works
in the following report:
'In the matter of the petition from the
Los Angeles Traction company, we find
that the recent action of the council in
granting similar privilege has resulted
in relieving congestion at the intersection
of Fifth street and Central avenue. and
your committee Is of the opinion that to
further complicate matters by allowing a
curve to be put in and a third company to
use this portion of Fifth street from Cen
trail avenue to the depot grounds would be
a serious detrlment to the convenience of
the public. The fact that the petitioner
has secured an entrance to the depot over
private property, coupled with the above
reasons, causes your committee to rec
ommend that said petition be denied"
The Traction company had made ar
engagements to extend their lines to the
depot grounds over a vacant lot next to
the northeast corner of Central avenue
and Fifth street, but when the Los An
geles Street Railway company was al
lowed to get to the depot by way OF a
Fifth street extension. Mr.. Lamme did not
See why all companies should not be grant
ed the same privilege.
The herald., 1898-07-26
Cause and Effect

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Herlad:
The invincible ring has long had California
in the "sure thing" column" San Pedro
harbor could go-well, where Cervera S
fleet went; and the Seventh could stay
where 1t was. But the three reform par
ties fused! Tehn did each individual men,
Der of the ring tremble in its respective
shoes; and they began to do lots of nice
things for us at the eleventh hour-or did
they. perchance. daily beyond the eleventh
What If we should be peter by the ring
only to have the state go the right way
after all; wouldn't 1t be nice? Great is f,i.
sion. CLOUDESLEY JOHNS.
The herald., 1898-07-26
Republican District Committee Meets

meeting of the Sixth congressional dis
trict Republican committee was held yes
terday afternoon at the Hollenbeck hotel
for the purpose of naming the date and
place of convention which will be held
to nominate a congressional candidate. The
committee is made up as follows: l.. G.
Brown, chairman; Guy Woodward, James
Dougherty, George Kiefer, John Kingsley
and l.. v. Youngworth, all of Los Angeles
Charles r. Willoughby of Ventura, ]. w.
Taggart of Santa Barbara, H. Reed of San
Luis Obispo, w. j. Hill of Monterey and G.
G. Radcliffe of Santa Cruz. The last two
counties were represented by proxy.
1t was decided that the congressional con-
vention should meet at Sacramento August
23d, on the evening previous to the state
convention, and that it should be made up
on the basis of one delegate for every POO
votes cast for Mckinley in 1896 and one at
large for each county.
The matter of apportionment aroused con-
siderable friction, but it was finally agreed
to accept that recommended by the state
committee for the state convntion, viz, Los
Angels, So; Ventura. s; Santa Barbara, 10;
San Luis Obispo, 8; Monterey, 10; Santa
Cruz, 10.
The same delegates who go to the state
are to comprise the congress
sional convention.
The herald., 1898-07-26
CITY ENGINEERS REPORT
Large Bunch of Final Ordinances fol
Street Improvement Passed

City Engineer Dockweiler's report to
council yesterday placed number of street
improvements on the high road to actual
naturalization, recommending, as it did,
the passage of sixteen final ordinances.
Council passed the ordinances in accord
ance with the recommendations of the re-
port providing for the following work to
be DONE
Grading of Twenty-ninth street from
Budlong avenue to Rosedale; of Rosedale
avenue from Adams street to Jefferson; of
Budlong avenue from Adams street to
Jeiferson of Avenue so from Pasadena av-
enue to Alviso street; of Avenue SO from
Pasadena avenue to Longfellow street;
of Avenue 81 from Pasadena av-
enue to Longfellow street; of Az
enue IS from Pasadena avepue to Car
lotta boulevard of Longfellow street from
Avenue So to Avenue So; of the north side of
Twentyfourth street from 2S2 feet west
of Toberman street to Union avenue; of
Avenue so from Pasadena avenue to Echo
street. and of Stewart avenue from Seventh
street to Lynwood.
Final ordinances were also passed for the
construction of sewers on Pleasant avenue
from Bridge street to Michigan avenue;
on Ohio street from Lakeshore avenue to
First street; on First street from Boyleston
street to Kern, and for the paving with
decomposed granite and the curbing of
Wiltshire boulevard from Benton boulevard
to Vermont avenue.
In accordance with the engineers recon-
mendations, the petitioners for the grading
of Boyle avenue were instructed that 1t
would be necessary to present a majority
petition and that the petition must ask for
the work to be done under the specifications
now in use in the making of such improve
ments. AS the city's signature will be nee
essary to make a majority petition the
mayor was authorized to sign 1t, thereby In
Guiding the frontage of Hollenbeck park.
The engineer was instructed that the
curb to be placed on Leroy street from
Main street to the river should be of ce-
ment. The assessment diagram for the
sewering of Temple and Hill streets was
presented and adopted. The engineer re-
ported that he had furnished the city attor-
ney with the necessary descriptions for the
opening of Eighth street between Mateo
street and Santa Fe avenue.
The herald., 1898-07-26
LICENSE TRADING STAMPS
That Is What the M. and M. Associa.
ton Would Have Council Do

The Merchants and Manufacturers asso-
citation is after the scalps of those dealers
who are employing the use of trading
stamps as an inducement to customers.
This method Is looked upon by the associa-
ton as a rebate on sales, and is considered
an illegitimate proposition, and undesirable
to the merchant who seeks to give his trade
full value for their money. The asso-
citation has therefore been trying for
some time to conjure up some means of
downing the scheme, and in the action
taken yesterday they think their purpose
will be accomplished
In petition TO the council the associa-
ton asks that an ordinance be passed re-
curing the payment of a $3.50 monthly IL
cense by all those persons furnishing
trading stamps to merchants. The coun-
Gil referred the petition to the finance COM
mittee, and lively time may be expected
when 1t comes up for consideration at the
committees meeting on Saturday next.
The herald., 1898-07-26
OUR FIRST WAR TROPHY
The Spanish Flag Taken From the
Cavite Arsenal

The first war trophy captured from our
hostile enemy has just reached our shores.
William E. Mason, United States senator
from Illinois, is the proud and fortunate
possessor of this historic relic. Tt is the
Castillian flag which foated defianty from
the heights of the Cavite forts and arsenal
at Manila on May in the face of Admiral
Deweys squadron. After the lombard
ment and surrender the flag was taken by a
body of marines from the Olympia, and
shortly thereafter the crew in a body sent
the flag to Senator Mason in recognition
of his manly and patriotic denunciations of
Spanish intrigue and treachery In the de-
The herald., 1898-07-26
TROUBLE OVER FURNITURE
A Real Estate Broker Arrested for
ALLEGED Embezzlement

. A. H. Mikesell, a real estate broker, was
arrested yesterday by Officer Rico on a
warrant charging him with embezzlement.
j. T. Martin, the furniture dealer of 531
South Spring street swore to the complaint.
Martin claims that some time ago he
sold a quantity of office furniture to Mix
elsell and E. w. Peck on the installment
plan. There still remained $35 due. Last
Saturday Martin went to the officd of the
men in the Gardner & Zellner building and
saw Mikelsell. Martin observed that prac-
tically all of the furniture they had pur-
chased from him was missing, and to his
inquiries Mikelsell declined to give any in
formation regarding its disposition. Mar
tin claims further that he learned that the
men had disposed of an art rug to w. f.
Dunning for slo.. The case, will be on trial
next Tuesday.
The herald., 1898-07-26
City Attorneys Report

City Attorney Dunn yesterday presented
an ordinance providing for the Issuance OF
the recently authorized park and tunnel
bonds, and 1t was duly passed by the coun-
Gil, and the same action was taken in regard
to an ordinance for the widening and
Strengthening of Lyon street. The ordi-
nance for the opening of Eighth street
from Santa Fe avenue to Wick's subdiv-
sion was referred to the board of public
works.
A deed from Allison & Barlow Of this
city was accepted, but one from W. H.
Cook will be held for formal action until
Mr.. Cook has attached to 1t the necessary
revenue stamp.
The herald., 1898-07-26
CITY NEWS
INDEX OF LOCAL EVENTS


4 Farewell reception at Unity church 1
+ to DR.. Wendte.
\ Fire destroys the uncompleted resi- \
4 dence of E. T. Earl.
+ neighbours need induces Chier
\ Glass to indiscretion; the chain gangs
4 work.
4 Elderly woman from Garvanza dies
4 in the receiving hospital from apo I
4 plexy.
4 Uncle John Bryson questions the
\ validity of the elevator inspection or 4
4 dnance.
4 Street protests occupy the attention
4 of the council; no action on the water
4 qlestion.
+ The mutual matrimonial woes OF
\ Mrs. Frank Mcclellan and Charles
4 Schrener.
4 An old soldier convicted Of simple 4
4 assault upon an S-year-old child at
4 Santa Monica.
4 Board of education attending to re-
\ furnishing the schools during the va 4
+ cation season.
4 Work of extending the Valley road
4 from Stockton to San Francisco rap 4
4 idly being pushed.
4 Attorney Finlayson shows temper 1
+ because asked for a complaint against 4
\ Wells-Fargo for violation of the reve- 4
4 nue. stamp law.
+ Interesting address on the necessity 4
T. for government assistance in provid- 4
4 ing water storage for arid lands, by 4
4 G. Fl. Maxwell.
+ Argument in the injunction suit of 4
+ the water company against the city 4
4 to be heard today by Judge Oster of 4
+ San Bernai dino; speculation as to the 1
4 companys arbitrator. 1
The herald., 1898-07-26
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

DR.. Brill, office 3411a South Spring street.
Call TEL main PAS for ambulance. B-eses
Brothers, Sixth and Broadway.
C. D. Howry, undertaken, Fifth and
Broadway. Lowest prices in the city.
Robert Sharp & Co., funeral directors. ISL
and 1853 South Spring street. Tel Main 1928,
Robert Murphy was arrested In Central
park yesterday on suspicion by officer Ed
wards.
Watches cleaned, rs cents: main springs
80 cents; crystals, 10 cents. Patton, "a
South Broadway.
Adams Bros. dentists. 1894 South sprlne
street. Plates from 81. Painless extractiug
90 cents. Filling a specially. Hours, s to 5;
Sunday, 10 to II.
Do you know that framed picture makes
a most desirable wedding present? II yor
are looking for anything in that line do moi
fail to call at H. G.. Lichtenbergers art en-
porium, POP South Spring street.
Chief Glass is in receipt of letter from
F. ]. Fries of San Francisco, asking for
assistance in locating John Goetz of New
York, who started for Los Angeles last
March and has not been heard from since.
Justice Owens took the petty larceny
case against Frank Fisher, boy, under adj
visement yesterday Fisher has been
charged with stealing some shoe findings
worth IS cents. from the room of C. Olsen.
In your vacation trip and summer outings
don't forget that Sanborn, Vail & Co. car
ry complete sketching outfits. Full lines
of all art materials in water-color oil
pastel. crayon and pencil outfits. 1873 South
Spring street.
DR.. Rebecca Lee Dorsey, Stimson block,
first floor, rooms 1873. 1874. 1876. Special at
tention given to obstetrical cases, and all
diseases Of women and children. Electricity
scientifically used. Consultation hours, /
to s. Telephone 1927.
All Sing, a Chinese, was arrested yester-
day by police detective on warrant
charging him with having sold lottery
tickets. All Sing was taken before Justice
Owens and pleaded not guilty. His trial
was set for this Afternoon.
Andrew McGarry was arragned before
Justice Owens yesterday on a charge of
forgery. McGarry is accused of having
forged two checks for small sums on the
California bank and endeavored to pass
them on storekeepers. His examination
was set fof liext Tuesday.
The herald., 1898-07-26
Smith Appointed

Isaac S. Smith, who has for several
months been In charge of the city's free la
Dor bureau during the illness of the late
manager, s. M. Perry, yesterday petit
toned council to appoint him to the posi-
ton made vacant by the death of the man.
ager. The county supervisors, who pay
one-half of the salary connected with the
position, had already appointed Mr.. Smith,
and as he is thoroughly conversant with
the duties of the office, the council granted
the petition and formally made the ap-
pointment A number of office seekers are
thereby disappointed.
The herald., 1898-07-26
General Notes

The council was invited to attend the an
nual session of the League of American
municipalities, to be held in Detroit on
August and 2. 1t was accepted. but as no
TRANSFORMATION was enclosed and the time
is too short to walk the distance, Presi-
dent silver thinks that Los Angeles will not
be represented at the meeting.
The hitching ordinance was as usual car
ried over another week.
The city engineer was instructed TO lay
out a new route for the alley between Hill
and Broadway from Fifth to Sixth streets,
in accordance with a map submitted by the
board of public works The alley will be
straight, excepting at the north end, where
IT makes Jog to accommodate the property
of Mr.. Gebhart, and this gentleman is now
the only protestant.
The herald., 1898-07-26
ALL SORTS OF PETITIONS
How Council Treated the PRAYERS O
the People

An unusual number of petitions came be.
fore the city council at yesterdays session
but none of them were of sufficient i'm.
portance to precipitate debate and they
were rapidly disposed of by reference tc
the proper committees or officials, as fol.
lows:
The petition of E. J. Roller and others for
some action looking to their relief from the
unsanitary condition created by the large
number of teams allowed to stand on Hill
street between Third and Fifth, was re.
The herald., 1898-07-26
He's After Pointers

Barney H. Smith, one of the city dads"
of Prescott, Arizona, was a guest at the
council chamber yesterday. Mr.. Smith
states that his city contemplates municipal
ownership of the water system, and he Is
in Los Angeles to secure such information
as he can relative to ways and means of ac-
Quiring possession. The desired pointers
will, of course be forthcoming.
The herald., 1898-07-26
Wanted a Drink

Charles Sansan, contractor. was before
Justice Owens yesterday on a charge OF
battery preferred by William Henry, a
oolored man. The men got into dispute
last Saturday over the amount of time due
Henry, but settled the difficulty. AS Henry
was about to leave the saloon at the corner
of Fifth and Spring Sansan called ana
asked If he would not treat. Henry replied
in the negative, whereupon Sansan pro-
ceeded to smash him. Justice Owens found
Sansan guilty and fined him SIS.
The herald., 1898-07-26
Braun Was Brawny

A. Braun was before Justice Owens yes
terday to answer a charge of battery pre-
ferred by w. Il. Gctz, Il jeweler on South
Broadway. Getz claimed that Braun had
struck him during quarrel in an alleyway
between Third and Fourth streets and
Broadway. Braun pleaded not guilty and
his trial was set for next Friday.
The herald., 1898-07-26
A Pair of EiectorS

L. S. Blossom and Adam Arid, who
elected c. S. Eicholz from the office of the
Clerks Exchange In the California Bank
building last Saturday were before Justice
Owens yesterday OIL charges of disturbing
the peace. Eicholz was also charged with
O Similar offense. All pleaded not guilty
and their trials were set for next Friday.
The herald., 1898-07-26
Disturbed the Peace

Justice Owens set the trials of Bill Young,
Bill Rogers and Bill de Coursey, charged
with disturbing the peace, for today. The
men are charged with assauting a Santa
Fe railroad conductor at the corner of Third
and Main streets early Sunday night. The
trio pleaded not guilty yesterday when in
the police court.
The herald., 1898-07-26
RED CROSS
Donation From San Fernando-Boys
Lemonade Euterprise

The Ladies' Soldiers Aid society of San
Fernando sent in to Red Cross headouar-
tiers a package containing the following ar
ticles for shipment to San Francisco:
Twenty-Five housewives, fourteen Manila
caps eighteen field pillows, eight sheets.
Two little lads peddled lemonade yesterday
The herald., 1898-07-26

Miss Leila A. Breed of st. Paul, Mimi. is
spending the summer with her mother at
Monrovia. Miss Breed is well known in
musical circles in this city. Since leaving
Los Angeles she has made number of
trips abroad, studying under the leading
masters inl Berlin and Paris
The herald., 1898-07-26
Final INSPECTION

Street Superintendent Drain will this
morning at o'clock make final inspection
of the work just completed in the improve
ment of Albion street from Main to Ave-
nue. 81. Any one who wishes to protest
against the acceptance of the work must
be on hand or forever hold his peace"
The herald., 1898-07-26
A Party of Nimrods

Captain of Police Roberts, Clerk Hensley
Detective Auble and Officer Harris will
start for the Tehachapi mountains today to
pass their vacation. They are DESTROYS of
shooting bear and other big game.
The herald., 1898-07-26

ent license applying to laundries be SO
amended as to make the fee for each laun-
dry S., be denied; that the demand of M.
S. Cummings, of $780, for POS yards gravel
alleged to have been taken by the street
department from certain property in Boyle
heights. be referred to the street superin-
tendent for information regarding the JUS
tice of said claim; that the petition from
]. H. Lane, asking for rebate in the amount
paid by him for taxes of 1898 by reason
of excessive valuation of improvements,
be denied; that the petition from T. A.
Black, mortgage, asking rebate Of $42.1S
by reason of payment of taxes for the year
1898 upon an excessive valuation OF i'm
provements, be denied.
Sewer Committees Report
The council approved the following re-
port of the sewer committee:
In the matter of the petition from ]. B.
Hughes, asking that the contract recently
awarded to him for sewering Broadway
from Third to Seventh streets, be set aside,
and stating as the reason therefor that the
recent enforcement of an old ordinance
requires an additional outlay in replacing
the surface of the street not provided for
in the plans and specifications for the work
bid upon, and by reason of his attention not
having been called to this additional out
lay his bid was made without reference
thereto, and made too low to admit of doing
the work as required under the combined
defect of the ordinance, plans and specifca-
tions; the facts having been found as
stated by the petitioner, your committee
recommends that the petition be granted
and that the action Of the council in award
ing the contract herein mentioned to Mr..
Hughes be rescinded, that the bond given
hereupon be released; and also that the
clerk be instructed to readvertise for bids
for the performance of said work.
The herald., 1898-07-26

Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Varcoe of Los An
geles were passengers on the steamer UNI
bria, which sailed from New York for
Liverpool Saturday,
The herald., 1898-07-26
V!EzH3;y.1I!ys iEyrII1YS1ZY2
for the benefit of the Red Cross and brough,

for the benefit of the Red Cross and brought
In 81 as the result of the enterprise.
Donations: A lady, $40; J. M. Griffith, $50.
New Members: Mines. Alice Turner. Shell
ley Tolhurst Misses Matilda Barruch, Mag
gle Sullivan, H. 2. Dunn, Edgar Baruch,
Dr. Walter Lindley. This completes total
membership Of S96.
An instructive lecture on fevers will be
given this evening at 1880 at the medical col
lege, Buena Vista street. by DR.. Joseph
Kurtz. All interested are invited to at
tend.
The herald., 1898-07-26
FINANCE COMMITTEES REPORT
It Does Not Favor the Petition Of the
Empire Laundry

Council acted in accordance with the fol-
lowing recommendations of the finance
committee:
That the petition from the Empire Steam
laundry and Others asking that the pres
The herald., 1898-07-26
THE WEATHER

TEMPERATURE-Rec of observations
taken at Los Angeles July 25th The
barometer is reduced to sea level.
Time Ear. rh'r. R. II. win, Vel Weather
BAN. % 90 90 SO Calm Q Clear
Bpm. 30 81 ~ 90 W 9 Clear
Maximum temperature, IS.
Minimum temperature, &c.
Forecasts
Forecast for oSuthern California for
Tuesday: Fair; northwest wind.
The herald., 1898-07-26

DR.. Max Wassman. dentist. rooms 225 and
226 Potomac block, Broadway, between
Second and Third. Tel. Brown 1913.
The herald., 1898-07-26

B,umve & Jay, plumbing and gas fitting
i3S South Broadway. Tel. Main 1895.