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The herald., 1898-05-27
Maximum temperature, 73.
Minimum temperature, so.
Weather Conditions

A trough of low pressure extends from
British Columbia along the Rocky noun
tain slope to the Mexican boundary. This
is causing cloudy and unsettled weather
on the Pacific coast Light rain has fallen
In Northern California and Oregon, and
thunder storm occurred during the night
at Roseburg. Light rain has fallen at Dem
yer. and a remarkably heavy rainfall is
reported from Dodge City, 532 inches hav-
ing fallen in twenty-four hours.
GEORGE e. FRANKLIN,
Local Forecast Official
Forecasts
Local forecast for Los Angeles and vicin-
ity: Partly cloudy Friday.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 26.-Forecast for
Southern California: Cloudy Friday, with
showers in the mountain regions; fresh
northwesterly winds.
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The Pine Tree State
association picnic. verdugo park, satur-
lay. May 2s. Train leaves via Terminal
hallway $3.50 am. Round trip Is cents,
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coNLEY INDICATED

Justice Sexton Dismisses the Charges
Against Him
Police Officer Jay J. Conley was acquitted
yesterday by Justice Sexton of the charge
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THE WEATHER

TEMPERATURE--Re OF observations
taken at Los Angeles May 26th. The
barometer is reduced to sea level.
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Trunks. Bags, Leather Goods
J. c. Cunningham. manufacturer. teaier;
repairing q speciality. ~ South 4aiA Al
ephone n uA
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EVENTS OF TODAY
Orpheum-Vaudeville.
Burbank-'"The White Squadron" "

= Burbank-"The White Squadron" 4
= =
= Board of public works meets-10 \
= a. IN.
4 War fund race meet, Agricultural \
+ park-2 p. M. =
+ Friday Morning club meets, Owens y
4 block-10:15 a. m. 4
= Monthly meeting Sunset club, Mai 4
+ son Doree-6 p. m. =
Third days session diocesan con- \
+ vention, st. Johns churchill a. m. \
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The bridge bonds were carried by the
narrow margin of 3S votes over the neces-
sary two-thirds of the total VOTE the vote
by wards being as follows:
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shipped from the island increased In a notable manner during the ten years, 1SS7- 1S96. The exports reported for 1896 were decidedly the largest of the decade, amounting to 5S7S0,000 pounds, with value of $13,379000. The average annual shipment during 1S92-1S96. was 1929, GOO pounds, valued at $1O,s72 900. as compared with 4O.S49OOO pounds, valued at s4945,O00, during 1SS7-1S91
 The exports of sugar on the other hand, fell off materially during the ten years lss1-ls96 The quantity shipped in 1896 was reported to be 122, ,9i6,000 pounds, with a value of S3,6040 900, and although these hgures were slightly in excess of the aver age for 1S92-1s9e, which amounted to 121,- OS5,O00. valued. at $s.4s4O00. they were con siderably smaller than that for 1SS7-1S91, which came to 197 660O0 pounds, worth $S,s23,O0O. The highest figures returned during the decade were those for 1Ss7 the earliest of the ten years, the quantity eX- ported reaching as high as ITS, 60O0 pounds with a value of $5. .06S 900.
 As has already been shown, products of agriculture comprise in value fully 95 perl cent of all the domestic merchandise shipped from Porto Rico Guano is the only non-agricultural export of any con- siderable importance. Of this article there were shipped in 1895, 15,491,476 pounds, having a value of S61O,921. The several other agricultural commodities exported had a combined valuation of less than $1O,- 000
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SMOKELEss POWDER

Washington, July 19.-All naval ships in the future will receive smokeless powder. The American volunteers will also be SUD- piled as rapidly as possible with a smoke less brand of explosive for their small arms.
 This Is the intention of the navy and army bureaus of ordnance, and every ef- fort is being made to expedite the manu- facture of smokeless powder. Captain Charles ONeil, chief of the naval ordnance bureau, told me today he was doing every thing in his power to replace the brown powder on the men-of-war with the smoke less powder, but the plants have a limited capacity. To fill the magazines of the ships now in commission and the battle- ships Kearsarge, Kentucky, Illinois, Ala bama and Wisconsin, which are under con- struction, Captain O'Neil has estimated that at least 2,600000 pounds of the explosive will be necessary.
 Both the DuPont powder works and the California powder works are manufactur- ing smokeless powder for the navy, and have considerably enlarged their plants. The department has made every effort to secure smokeless powder, even going so far as to purchase a supply abroad. Most of the smokeless powder manufactured in Europe is nitro compound, which is apt to decompose and endanger the safety of ship.
 The SmOKeleSS pOWQer De1ng manufactured for the navy in this country is known as the Navy K" brand and is free from nitric acids. It was developed by Lieutenant J. A. Bernadou, the hero of the Cardenas en- gagement
 The auxiliary cruiser Yankee Is the latest ship to be supplied with smokeless powder. While at New York she took on a supply.
 Besides the Yankee the ships now in service suplied with smokeless powder are the New Orleans, the Newark, the Cinein- natl and some of the gunboats. Captain O'Neil has given instructions for supplying smokeless powder for the cruisers Chicago and Atlanta.
 Although the army ordnance bureau has a reserve supply of 50,0OO Krag-Jorgensen rifles, it is not proposed to place them in the hands of the volunteers. These troops will retain the Springfield rifles, but they will be suplied with the smokeless powder cartridges.
 The campaign against Santiago has dem- onstrated the vital importance of equpping all our troops with smokeless powder, and this will be done in the future The army has been collecting supply of smokeless powder, and was told today that 1t had sufficient on hand to equip almost all of the troops which will be sent to Porto Rico,
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LoOkinq Towards Peace.

There is a great deal of vague peace talk in the air, but it is more than probable that the mouths of the, cannons will con tinue to bring that much desired result near. Spain is still hopeful. She claims that she has found a new explosive that will blow us out of the water. She Is buoyed by manipulated reports and any overtures on our part would be regarded as indications, if not of weakness, at least of weariness. She counts, too, on the active support of the Cuban climate and the dread fever, and every bit of news from the Santiago hospitals is to her an assur- ance of final victory. This may not be the view of the situation held by the best informed men in Spain, but the masses en- certain it.
 The Madrid mob and the mobs of Barce- Iona and other cities rule Spain very much as the mob in Paris rules France in a crisis. Nothing will more quickly bring the mobs to their senses than the appearance of Watson off the Spanish coast. The thunder of his guns cannot be heard in Madrid, but they can be in a dozen other impor- tant cities: and when one of them is torn by the 1S-inch shells, Madrid will hear of it. The news from Barcelona or Cadiz or Santander cannot be suppressed. They are distant by rail but few hours, and the plain fact that Spain has become powerless against such ships as we can send to her shores will make peace overtures possi- ble. The mob can deceive themselves over reports from Porto Rico or Manila or Cuba, but not from nearby towns.
 The prudent thoughtful and sagacious men of Spain undoubtedly know that all modern precedent sanctions an indemnity large enough at the very least to cover the actual expenses of the war. As a rule victorious nation does not stop at that point. Russia did not in her war with Tur- key in 1878, nor did Germany in 1871, when she overran France. At the end of that brief war she took one thousand millions and two fine provinces from France. Span ish statesmen know that Spain will be called upon to pay a large indemnity, and that it is growing larger every day; but they are powerless in the face of mobs. Watson's cannons are the only things that can prevail upon mob in a Spanish city to sue for peace. They are the best SUD- port that Spanish statesmen can have. If peace is to come soon, it must come from the mouths of the cannon.
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The Confederate Reunion.

The annual meeting of the United Con- fedrate Veterans today at Atlanta prom 1ses to be as memorable a gathering as the one held in this city four years ago. Alabama will be well represented, and Pettus' Brigade has opened headquarters in that city. Senator Pettus will attend the reunion. All indications go to show that the. present reunion will be rich in memories and in the renewal of associa- tions of generation ago.
 Not the least remarkable feature of the occasion will be the conjoint memory of the struggles of the Confederacy, and of the war against Spain. Cheers for the he roes of the Confederacy and for the heroes evoked perhaps by a single sentence The one in no way conflicts with or initiates against the other. The one was fought out and its results accepted just as the present cepted. Men, real men, quit fighting when a war is ended. They fight as men only can fight while the war is on, but when it is ended and peace is declared, they frankly and unequivocally accept its re- Bults. And so it comes about that the veterans in Atlanta, every one of whom is a real hero, will cheer the honored names of Robert D. Lee or Stonewall Jackson and they will also cheer the mention of such men as George Dewey and Commo- 6ore schley, and the hero of both wars, our own Joe Wheeler.
 Each and all were animated by love of country and by a desire to serve it to the best of their ability. Each and all were willing to die. if need be. to carry into ef-
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Gen. Fitzhuqh Lee.

There is a feeling in this section of the country that finds expression in complaints that no southern man need expect to be well placed by this administration-that the glory of the war is to be gathered by republicans, in short. It is claimed that this is shown in the inaction forced upon General Fitzhugh Lee, and in the with holding of all command from General Oates.
 This view of the case is scarcely in con sonance with the facts. In the first place only 25,0O0 men have been put in the field, mostly regulars. Over 100000 men remain behind, nearly all volunteers General Fitz- hugh Lee is a volunteer officer, and he is engaged in bringing a corps of volunteers into form and condition for actual service. He is rendering good service, although he is not winning any of the glory of the war. General Wilson, who was appointed a major-general of volunteers at the same time, is doing similar work. General Wheel CT was more fortunate-perhaps more inde- fatigable. He was sent to Santiago, where he is idolized by both regulars and volun- teers, and the southis by no means unrep- sented in the field while he is there. Gen. eral Oates is on the waiting list because of the appointment of too many general officers. He has good friend in President Mckinley, and doubtless he will be placed very soon.
 It is more than probable that General Fitzhugh Lee is held in reserve for tho movement against Havana. He knows the city and its surroundings well, and when the time comes to lay siege to the central town, he will not lack opportunities to strike heavy blows. General Lee is regard ed as an excellent executive officer, as well as a good soldier, and when Havana falls, as it will when the American army appears before it, he will doubtless be called upon to suppant the long line of captains-generals as military governor. Upon his broad shoulders will doubtless fall the task of restoring peace and order to the island. Until General Lee is left out of the movement against Havana, which promises to be the supreme effort of the war, it cannot be justly said that the south has been discrminated against. It would be qualification to Alabama if General Oates could take charge of a brigade that would include the First and Second regiments from this state and pos sibly this may be conceded. At least, it must be conceded that General Joe Wheeler has not been ill-treated, and until more troops are brought into active service, it is scarcely fair to sap that any one has been.
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sTAHLMEN COUNTERS

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
 MT. E. B. Stahlman, in replying to Rev. Steele of the Zion Outlook, deals that gem tleman heavy blow in exposing his in- gratitude and financial obliquities. MT. Steele expressed himself as being willing to contribute his part of the $2SS,00O toward refuding that amount to the government, and MT. Stahlman prints the fac simile of a note which he holds for $20O which he loaned MT. Steele some time ago and which has not been paid. He suggests that the reverend gentleman would do well to pay this debt on grounds of common honesty before contributing money on merely senti- mental grounds. This is @ solar plexus blow. By the way, that is very handy s2OO which MT. Stahlman owns. Some time ago when a distinguished Nashville editor was assailing Stahlman and charging him with corruptly using money, MT. Stahlman explained that the only money that had escaped him was s2oO which he had turned over to the complaining editor ''to be paid back whenever 1t was convenient" It would be interesting to know if s2O0 is the limit, or does MT, stahlpaaa ever wake it table stAkfsS
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LEE THE MAN

From the Jackson CTenn.) Whig.
 The reported intention of the president to appoint James H. Wilson military gov ernor of Cuba has raised a storm of indig- nation far and wide from the friends and admirers of General Fitzhugh Lee
 By both firmness and sentiment the posi- tion belongs to the man, who is universal ly conceded to be most conversant with the situation, and who filled the position of consul-general' at Havana as possibly no other man in America could have done. He faced danger and even death in con- serving the interests of his nation and the lives of his countrymen, and only left Cuba at the command of the president For weeks preceding the war he was the cen- tral figure, until his name and face are familiar to every boy and girl in the United States. His services at Havana do not need to be reeited They are familiar to al His record under the searching scru- tiny of an opposing political adminlstra- tion is without @ flaw. His faithfulness and honesty in serving his country has won for him the vindictive hatred of the SpaniardS and the esteem and confidence of the Cubans. He quilted Cuba amid jeers and misses from the Spaniards and he should now be returned as their mili tary governor. For the administration to "shelve' him in favor of any other man would be rankest injustice and an injustice that republicans as well as democrats should resent. No other American, though he might combine the military tactics of Napoleon with the statecraft of Richelieu. has claim supreme to that of Lee. If President Mckinley proceeds otherwise in his appointment to this office. he will soon be made fully aware that he has made a mistake.
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Water and Typhoid Fever.

The presence in alarming form of typhoid fever at Chickamauga and Fort Thomas is of course due to impure water. Impure water and typhoid fever go together. The latter cannot exist without the former. Nor does this quite cover the case-every case of typhoid fever can be traced to inn pure water Nothing else seems to carry the typhoid germs. True, milk, oysters, water cress, and quite a variety of other articles do convey the germs, but in every investigated instance those articles derived their germs from impure water.
 This fact has been illustrated on a suffi- ciently large scale to carry conviction The city of Munich takes its water supply from It is very pure supply, and Munich has not enough typhoid fever eases for illustra- tive purposes in the hispital clinics. MT. Hill an expert in the relation of water to disease, in a recent lecture before the fac ulty and students of the Ohio State Univer- sity, presented some telling facts officially gathered at Lawrence, Mass. In 1890 in that prosperous manufacturing city there were 12S deaths year from typhoid fever per 100 900 inhabitants. In 1891 municipal
 filtration was introduced The number of deaths fell in that year to 115: in 1892 to 1o2; in 1893 to 9S: in 1894 to 4S: in 1895 to 31, and in 1896 to 15 The figures for 1897 have not been officially reported; but it is be- lieved that if all the people can be induced to use filtered water, rate almost as low as Munich's can be established.
 There Is no need of introducing farther figures. Freedom from typhoid fever ab- solutely depends upon the use of pure water This proposition stands beyond the possibility of successful denial. It is not too much to say that health generally speaking largely depends upon the use of pure water, but. freedom from typhoid fe- fer admits of no qualifying clauses. The
 water at Chickamauga and Fort Thomas
 and Miami is, of course, aggravated by the massing of people, some of whom are none too cleanly in their habits. But no matter
 what their habits may be, they cannot have typhoid fever if the water that they
 absorb in one form or another be pure.
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feet their convictions. No more earnest men, no more patriotic men, ever met un- der flag than will be assembled in Att lanta today. Whether their brave com mander, General John B. Gordon, will be with them, is not certain. He has been se- riously i'll, but he is reported to be much improved in health, and perhaps the pres ent reunion of old comrades will be tonic that will restore him to his customary spirits, if not strength. If he is well enough to accept reappointment his serve again as their commander-in-ehief.
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HOW DIR. DEWEY SAVED SUMMER GIRL

From the RireSide Companlon
 As this summer approached, it seemed as if we were to have the summer girl no more. Popular fancy depicted the Spanish fleets sailing up and down our coasts, bom- barding our cities an downs, shelling our seaside hotels and villas, and driving us far into the interior for safety. During what was once the merry month of May, the rain poured almost necessarily, as if terrified nature were weeping over this ap- palling picture. Storekeepers and dress makers stood about disconsolate. Pro- prietors of seaside resorts and amusements consulted their lawyers as to the easiest road through the bankruptcy courts. No summer girls, no summer dresses, no sum- mer season. But when June came mat ters changed for the better. The sun shone out and frightened everything and every body Dewey had proved that a Spanish fleet could be smashed as easily as bas- ket of eggs The phantom crusiers that had been lowering along our coasts were bottled up in Santiago de Cuba. Then inc summer girl plucked up heart and ordered her seaside costumes, stopping in her shopping to wave fond adieu to the brave boys who marched or sailed off to the front. Presently the railway stations were blockaded with express wagons laden with those huge, square trunks that mean so much to the women who pack them and the men who pay for their contents. The summer girl had survived the out break of the war, and was starting for her accustomed haunts fully equipped and eager for the fray.
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 From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
 The fact that the senate resolution thank ing Hobson and his crew for the heroic sinking of the Merrmac at Santiago was held up in the house, and that that body adjourned without acting on 1t, has occa- stoned considerable surprise and indigna- ton. The San Francisco Call has made the following explanation of the facts in the case:
 "The story comes from Washington that when an attempt was made to have the senate resolution reported to the house for action it was defeated, largely through the influence of Dalzell of Pennsylvania, who wen1 about and warned the members that if the resolution were passed it would con fer upon the seven seamen who shared Hobson's heroic deed the privilege of the floor of the house for life. On that argu- ment the resolution was set aslde-s ma jority of the house concluded that 1t would be better to leave the brave men without recognition than to give them such thanks as, in accordance with precedent, would en- title the seamen to enter the august cham Der where congressman hold their delib- erations
 If this is true, we think that MT. DalZell should make an explanation of his reasons for denying these men the privileges of the hose Surely the men who risked their lives on the Merrimac has as much right there as any man in the United States. The suggestion that the honorable member from Pittsburg drew the line on a sociA basis has a nasty sound, and we do not believe it.
 In any event, the house has done grave wrong to the little party of heroes by ig- noring their services. Men do not volun- for for r,ann n willingly to what seems death if they think it necessary, and all that the nation asks for them is that official recognition of their services be recorded Hobson and his men should have been thanked. Why was not this done?
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These civil war figures relate to the fed eral army alone. It appears that the San tiago losses were relatively about as large as the union loss in the first great battle or the civil war and almost as large as the bloody assault on Fredericksburg Heights, where the troops. as at Santiago, were led against a fortified position of the enemy. But at Santiago the attacking army carried the enemy's position, which was not the case at Fredericksburg. The losses were heavy, but they yielded vic- tory General Shafters ''reverse" con sisted in not having been able to do all he said he would do in forty-eight hours capture the city itself. The lesson to him is the same as that of Chancellorsvile to Hooker-dont brag too loudly of what you're going to do
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THE GIRL LEFT BEHIND

From the Louisville Times. Three soldiers went at our lands behest To fight for the girls that their hearta
 loved best, And over the heart as a regular fixture Each fellow carried his dear girls picture. T would stake my soul," said one man, at
 night, My love is as true as the angels bright" And mine.' said the second, "has sworn
 by ali She'll die nun if chance to fan" si "And mine," cried the third, as he took q
 part, "Nows stays at home with broken
 heart.' Then all three swore they were pearls of
 pearls, And brought out the pictures of these true
 girls. z; What made them swear as they. turned
 away, What made they think twas cold, cold
 day? Alack and alas! twas burning shame, The dear girls pictures were all the same
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THE LOSSES AT SANTIAGO
l the Springfield Republican.

From the Springfield Republican.
 General Shafter's revised statement of losses during the two days battle before Santiago de Cuba makes out total of 231 killed, 1.2Ss wounded and S1 missing. The total United States force engaged numbered about sixteen thousand men, and it will be seen consequently that the per centage of loss was large. It was severe contest:
 Comparison with some of the more san guinary battles of the civil war will sus- tain such a characterization Of the Sam tiago fight:
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would be more secure by immediate re- moval to San Juan as a part of the new army of invasion. This seems hard after all they have experienced, but it may be the part of prudence
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POLITICS BY THE FORELOCK

T IOIIl tIIe IdIIttb IN6WS. The Denver News takes time by the fore- lock and launches the following:
 For President, Teddy Roosevelt, of the Texas Terrors.
 For Vice-President, Colonel Torrey, of the Wyoming Wildcats.
 Platform, Tighten yer cinches, hit 'em with the spurs
 and git there!.
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The Springfield Republican considers the trouble with Spain as a summer school in war. The national curriculum is now rounded out.
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Spain should remember that the indemnity bill is growing from one to three millions a day. and act accordingly A little busi- hess sense is needed over there.