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den to myself. Was troubled with
smothering spells, also palpitation Of
the heart and that bearing-down feel
ing, and could not be on my feet much.
II was growing worse all the time,
until took your medicine.
"After taking three boxes OF Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Lozenges, the t,imor passed from me.
my health has been better ever
since, can now walk quite distance
and am troubled no more with palpita-
ton of the heart or bloating. rec
ommend your medicine to all sufferers
from female troubles"
It is hardly reasonable to suppose
that any one can doubt the efficiency
Of Mrs. Pinkham's methods and medi-
cine In the face Of the tremendous vol
ume Of testimony
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RAILROAD NOTES
News of Interest to Men Of Track and
Tic

Southern Pacific engineers and construct
ing gangs are very busy In the vicinity Of
Paso Robes making improvements, and
particularly opening large gravel pit in
that city and building long spur track to
1t. The Southern Pacific Is negotiating for
Wheeler's hot springs In the north fork Of
Matilija canyon, and IL purchased the COM
pany will extend the Ojai Valley branch to
that place, making 1t an attractive resort.
The people of Santa Ana are trying to or
ganize interest In the project Of building
a railway from that city to San Pedro. a
scheme that would utterly destroy the Sum-
day Observance road from Santa Ana to
Newport.
Reduced second-class rates to Chicago
and Boston go into effect today on the
transcontinental routes. To Chicago the
rate will be SAL in place of s445o, and to
Boston $51.50 1t Is uncertain how long the
reduction will remain in force.
Resident Engineer Swayne of the South
ern Pacific Is vacationizing at Catalina.
r. T. Burr. roadmaster of the Southern
Pacific is taking his vacation.
The heat on the Colorado desert has been
something indescribable of late and the
railway men have suffered accordingly.
the Southern Pacific now having three of
its employees in the Sisters hospitarof this
city who were Frustrated by the sun. They
are John Forbes, bridge Waterman at
Yuma; J. J. Thompson, freight brake
man. and J. ]. Mccarthy, section fore
man. They are all recovering and are ex-
pected to be out in a few days.
The Santa Fe company is having boom
in business, and the result is that the
gross receipts Of the road for the year
ending June 30 are increased over those
Of the last year by $3.50, 459. The net In
come for the same time was IS, 992, 100, an
increase of 1888, 1872.
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SIX CULPRITs ARRESTED
By Special officer Mead-Two Were
Goats

Goats
A highly sensational and important cap
ture was made by Special Officer Mead yes
terday, who is, moreover, deserving OF
great praise for his bravery in making the
arrest He captured no less than six cul-
prits, two of whom were goats. Officer
Mead discovered quartet of boys on Also
street. leading couple Of goats. They mad
offered to dislpse Of them to several peo-
Pile, but the proposition was declined with
thanks, so Mead became suspicious, and
approaching the boys, the oldest of whom
was about years Of age, he inquired, with
as much mystery as a star detective could
have done, where they had obtained the
goats.
please, sir" said little Charlie Glass
"a man told us that there were some goats
in yard and II we caught them we could
have them to sell. And WEI
But" interposed Practicing Detective
Mead, thinking he detected a flutter of
guilt In the boys left eye. He got no fur
Their with his impending question, however,
for, suiting their actions to his word. both
goats made a dash for the practicing de-
tective and but for the restraining ropes
In the hands of the little boys would have
bu1ted him over. This settled the fate of
the crowd. Such an attack was to the de-
tective a confession of guilt, so Mead had
the sextet of kids" sent In the patrol
wagon to the police station, where four Of
them were charged with petty larceny. A
charge of assault to butt" was to have
been made against the goats but Deputy
District Attorney Chambers on second
thought decided not to issue the complaint
as the defendants, being two to Meads
lone self, might have been able to have
outsworn him.
More trouble was experienced by the sta
ton officers in handling the goats than In
searching half a dozen drunken women.
Officer Marsh Singleton. who Is known as
the BILLY Goat" officer, on account Of his
successful battle against wild Billy some
weeks ago. was sent for, but could not be
found. 80 Oficers Bob Stewart and Rich
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INTERNAL REVENUE
DECISION BEARING ON WELLS
FARGO CONTROVERSY
When Mortgages, Promissory Notes
and Leases Must Be Stamped.
Mixed Flour Law in Effect

In the current internal revenue report.
ant decisions, one of which in reply to NJ
d. Kelley, freight commissioner, Trades
league, Philadelphia, bears indirectly OH
the Wells-Fargo controversy. The reply
is as follows:
"You ask as to whose duty 1t is to pay
for bills Of lading or receipts given by
common carriers.
II answer that the carrier who accepts
merchandise for transportation is re-
quired to furnish the shipper a stamped
bill of lading or receipt therefor. If he
fails to do this, he incurs criminal liabil-
ity; but If he refuses to accept the goods
for transportation. except on condition
that the owner Of shipper shall pay the
sum necessary to purchase the stamp or
stamps, in addition to the customary
charge for the transportation, the war
revenue law provides no remedy, nor does
any internal revenue law. 1t would seem
that in such cases the aggrieved parties
must depend upon the common or statute
law of the state defining the obligations of
common carriers"
A series OF decisions are given in reply to
Morgan & Co. of New York. relating to the
stamping of notes, leases, etc.
When a note is taken from farmer leas-
ing land, consideration being crop or cur
rency but no lease signed, it is considered
a promissiory note and should be taxed as
such.
note secured by mortgage on real es-
tate should be stamped as promissory
note.
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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-08-13
Amendment Number One

(BetnB senate COnstitutiohoA
No. 49,
A resolution to propose to the people Of
the state Of California an amendment 10
section eighteen of article eleven OF tns
Constitution, In relation to revenue an9
taxation, by which It Is proposed 10 ame"o
said section to read as follows:
Section IS. No county. city, town, LOVE-.
ship board of education or school distrlct
shall incur any indebtedness or llapinty IN
ing in any year the income and revenue
assent assent OF two-thirds Of the qualified cleo
tors thereof. voting at an eiect,onb 70 DC
or ora at the time 81 incufring such indebted
ness, provision shall be made for the col
lection of an annual tax suHiclent ~ ~ G Ty
due, and also provision to constitute
sinking fund for the payment OF the prin-
cipal thereof on or before maturity; wnicn
shall not exceed forty years from the time
Of contracting the same; provldea, h9% re
err. that the city and county OF san Fran
cisco may al any time pay the unpaid claims
nished to and work done for said city and
county during the forty-third and forty.
fourth fiscal years out OF the income ana
revenue Of ia any and a claims for max
ing. repairing, altering, or for any Work zone
upon or for any meaterial furnished ior any
street ans aey eo1nr pace n OF sewsr nr
savers In said city and county are hereby
excepted from the provisions Of this sec
tion; and in determining any claim per
ute Of limitations shall apply in any man.
ner; and provided further, that the city OF
Vallejo, in solano county, may pay Its ex-
str1ction of its water works, whenever two
thirds Of the electors thereof, voting at an
election held for that pTrRosSe snai, SO de-
contrary TO this provision. with the excep-
lion hefeinbefore recited, shall be void.
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Amendment Number Two.
being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 10)

A resolution proposing to the people of
the state of California an amendment to the
section, to be known and designated as sec
ton seven and one-half, article eleven
thereof. providing for the framing by the
goyernment acts for their own government.
The said proposed new section to read as
follows:
section IN. The inhabitants of any
county may frame county government
act for their own government, relating to
the matters hereinafter specified, and con-
sistent with and subject to the Constitution
and laws of this state. by causing board
Of fifteen freeholders, who have been. for
at least five years qualified electors Of
such county, to be elected by the qualified
Special election, whose duty 1t shall be
within ninety days after such election, to
prepare and propose county government
In duplicate by the members Of such board,
or a majority of them, and returned one
copy thereof to the board Of supervisors
and the other copy to be sent to the re,
corder of deeds Of the county. Such
proposed county. government act shall
then be sc IN sMn papers or Is 81 al
at att least twenty days, and within not less
s shai be submitted to the quaiiied electors
Of such county. at general or special cleo
tion and II q majority of such qualified
electors voting thereon shall ratify the
same. 1t shall thereafter be submitted to
the legislature for its rejection or appro-
val. as a whole, without power of altera-
ton or amendment, and II approved By
majority of the members elected to each
house, 1t shall be the county government
act Of such county, and shall in such case
become the organic law thereof and SUPER
sede any existing county government act,
and all amendments thereof, and all spe-
cial laws inconsistent with such county
government act.
A copy Of such county government act,
certified by the president of the board OF
Supervisors or other legislative body of
such county, and authenticated by the seal
Of such county, setting forth the submission
Of such county government act to the cleo
tors and its ratification by them, shall be
made in duplicate and deposited, one in
the office OF the secretary of state. the
other, after being recorded in the office
of the recorder Of deeds in the countv
among the archives of the county.
All courts shall take judicial notice there
may be amended at intervals of not less
submitted by the legislative authority Of
the county. to the qualified electors thereof,
at general or special election held at least
forty days after the publication of such
proposals for twenty days In a newspaper
Of general circulation in such county, and
ratified by at least three -flfths Of the quail
flied electors voting thereon and approved
by the legislature as herein provided for the
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ardson, both amateurs In the line Of goat
handling, had to cope as best they could
with the animals. The four boys were
locked UP in the police station, but later
were released when their parents called
for them. The parents Of the goats could
not be located, so the buffers will probably
be added to Captain Roberts menagerie.
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TUMOR EXPELLED.
Unqualified Success Of Lydia ID.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.

Mrs. ELIZABETH WHEELocK, Magno-
liza, Iowa, In the following letter de-
scribes her recovery from very criti-
cal conditions:
"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:-I have been
taking your Vegetable Compound, and
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.,
SACRAMENTO, July 80, 1888.

WHEREAS, THE LEGISLATURE OF
the state Of California, at its thirty-sec-
ond session beginning on the Fourth day
of January, A. d. 1897. two-thirds OF an
houses Of said iegisla ture voting in favor
thereof. proposed the following descripsd
amendments to the Constitution OF the
state Of California, to-wit:
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1870
is praises. It
has done won
1ers for me in
relieving me
of a tumor.
" My health
has been poor
for three years.
Change of life
was working
= upon me. I
was very
= much bloated
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Schleyette

Texas is all right. A girl baby in that
state has been named schleyette. Her hus-
band had better look sharp when he tries
TO slip out to "see a inan."-Kansas City
Times.
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Pears

Pretty boxes and odors
are used to sell such
soaps as no one would
touch If he saw them un-
disguised. Beware of a
soap that depends on
something outside of it.
Pears, the finest soap
in the world is scented or
not, as you wish; and the
money is in the merchan-
disc. not in the box.
All sorts of stores sell it, especially
druggists; all sorts of people are
using it.
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The Supply Is Limited
PROCLAMATION

approval of the county government act
In submitting any such county government
act any alternative article or proposition
may be presented for the choice OF the yot-
ers, and may be voted on separately With
out prejudice to others.
1t shall be competent In all county gov
eminent acts framed under the authority
given by this section, to provide for the
the terms for which the several township
and county officers, other than judges OF
me superior court. shall be elected or APP
pointed; for their compensation; for the
ton or segre cation of offices; for the num-
Der Of deputies that each officer shall have.
ana for the compensation payable to each
q such deputies; for the manner IN wnh, ;Hn,
the members Of all boards Of election shall
be elected or appointed; and for the con,
stitution, regulation, compensation ana
clerks and attaches; also, to prescribe the
manner and method by which all elections
by the people shall be conducted; and may
In addition determine the tests and condi-
lions upon which electors, political parties
and organizations may participate In any
primary election.
Whenever any county has, In the manner
and method herein pointed out, adopted any
have been approved by the legislature as
aforesaid, the directions of sections four
and five Of this article providing for the
ments thfEoSshouff the state. and ilSewlse
providing for the election and appointment
Of officers, and the regulation Of their COM
pensation. shall not apply. Said county
matters, hereinabove provided for and de-
clared by. such county government act,
not be, subject to any law or amendment
snasda 6{ ns T. facsp BY
and ratified In the manner hereinabove set
forth.
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ARRESTED FOR BURGLARY
Three Small Boys Charged With Big
Offense

Officer Fifeld arrested trio of boys yes
terday who are charged with having COM
United burglary on the notion and confec-
tionery store of Mrs. Alice williams on
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-08-13
Tuesday, November 8, A. D. 1898.

The said proposed amendments are to |
separately voted upon In manner and for
each ballot used at such election mu
contain written or printed thereon the fo
lowing words, whereupon the voter ma
express his choice as provided by law:
Amendment Number One, being. Sen
Al, (exempting certain claims against =,
the city and county of San Francisco Y
and the existing indebtedness Of the
city Of Vallejo for the construction
ions Of the Constitution requiring
such claims to be paid from the In
come and revenues Of the year In N
which they were incurred)
For the amendment?
Amendment Number Two. being, Sem
ate Constitutional Amendment NO. Y
10 (providing for framing local county, =
Government acts, by Inhabitants OF N
Counties for their government.)
For the amendment?
ate Constitutional Amendment No. a
(providing for the creation OF court
Of claims to determine claims Y
against the state. and to consist OF :
the governor. to serve without extra
compensatory
For the amendment!
Amendment Number Four. being ASH
sembly Constitutional Amendment =,
No. 81 (exempting consolidated cit Y
les and counties, organized or to be j..
organized or holding a charter un- N
der the Constitution, from certain
legislation in relation to counties.)
For the amendment
Amendment Number Five, being AS.
No. Sc (relating to office of governor. a,
providing for succession, thereto d,sH LIP 10 .
Nv Of lieutenant governor from hold N
ing other office during term.)
FOR the amendment
Amendment Number Six. being As
sembly Constitutional Amendment Y
No. SIS (relating to and defining gram-{ :
mar schools.) NJ
For the amendment?
Amendment Number Seven, being AS (
sembly Constitutional Amendment
No. 81 (providing for adjournment Of Y,
legislature for not less than thirty( -
nor more than sixty days during N,
each SESSION.
For the amendment? -.
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Amendment Number Seven
(Being Assembly Constitutional Amend
ment No. 34.)

A resolution to propose to the people Of
section two Of article four of the Consti-
tuition, In relation to sessions Of the legisla-
ture, by which 1t Is proposed to amend
said section to read as follows:
Section 2. The sessions of the legislature
shall commence at twelve o'clock meridian
on the first Monday after the first day Of
January next succeeding the election Of it's
members, and shall be biennial unless the
governor shall in the interim convene the
legislature by proclamation. The legisla-
ture shall then remain In session for TWEEN
some date not less than thirty nor more
than sixty days from the time Of adjourn
ment. If the two houses fail to agree upon
a time at which they will resume their ses-
sion, the governor shall, by proclamation,
fix date for such reconvening, which shall
be within the limits above prescribed. Upon
reassembling the legislature shall complete
its session. No pay shall be allowed to
members for a longer period than seventy;
in either house except at the first twenty
five days Of the session, without the con-
sent OF three-fourths of the members
thereof.
NOW, THEREFORE,, Pursuant to the
provisions of the Constitution. and an act
or the legislature of the state Of California,
entitled IAN act to provide for the submis-
sion of proposed amendments to the Con-
stitution of the state of California, to the
proved March Z, A. D. 1883, the above de-
scribed proposed amendments are hereby
published and advertised to be voted upon,
BY ballot, by the qualified electors Of the
state, at the election to be held throughout
this state on
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Amendment Number Five.
Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. 36.)

2NOs OO.J
A resolution to propose to the people Of
the state. OF California an amendment of
section fifteen and section sixteen Of article
hve OF the Constitution Of the state Of Cali
fornia, by which 1t Is proposed to amend
said sections to read as follows:
Section Is. A lieutenant governor shall
be elected at the same time and place and
in the same manner as the governor and
his term Of office and his qualifications
shall be the same. He shall be president
Of the senate, but shall only have a cast
ing vote therein.
Section Is. In case of the impeachment
Of the governor, or his removal from office,
death, inability to discharge the powers
and duties Of his office, resignation or alb
sence from the state, the powers and duties
of the office shall devolve upon the lieuten-
ant governor for the residue of the term,
or until the disability shall cease. And
peached, displaced, resign, die, Or become
office, or be absent from the state, the
president pro tempore of the senate shall
act as governor until the vacancy in the
office Of governor shall be filled at the next
general election when members Of the leg
islature shall be, chosen, or until such dis
ability of the lieutenant governor shall
cease. In case of a vacancy In the office
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Of governor for any OF the reasons above
named, and neither the lieutenant governor
shall succeed to the powers and duties Of
governor, then the powers and duties OF
such office shall devolve upon the speaker
Of the assembly, until the office of governor
shall be filled at such general election.
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torney Chambers and swore to the com
plants against the pair of men.
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Amendment Number Three
(Being Senate Constitutional Amendment
No. AZ

A resolution proposing to the people OF
the state Of California an amendment to
the Constitution Of the state, by adding
new section, to be known and designated as
section Ave and one-half, article six, there
by providing for the organization Of a
court, to be known as the court of claims
The said proposed new section to read as
follows:
Section 5h The court of claims shall
consist Of any three judges Of the superior
court who may be requested by the gov
ernor to hold court at the regular terms
thereof. The court Of claims shall have ex-
elusive Jurisdiction to hear and determine
all claims of every kind and character
against the state, under such laws as may
be passed by the legislature, ana its judy
mcnt thereon shall be final. The terms Of
the court Of claims shall be held as follows
In the city of Los Angeles commencing on
the second Monday Of March;
In the city and county of San Francisco,
commencing on the second Monday in July,
In the city of Sacramento, commencing
on the second Monday of November of each
year.
The judges holding such terms of court
shall receive no extra compensa ton there
for, but shall receive their actual expenses,
to be paid out of the general fund of the
state treasury. The legislature shall enact
all laws necessary to organize such court,
to provide. the procedure thereof, and to
carry out the provisions Of this section.
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Amendment Number Six

the state Of California an amendment to
section six, article nine, of the Constitution
Of the state Of California. relating to gram
amend said section to read as follows:
Section &. The public school system shall
include primary and grammar schools, and
such high schools, evening schools, normal
schools and technical schools as may be cs-
tablished by the legislature or by municipal
or district authority. but the entire rev.
enue derived from the state school fund,
exclusively to the support of primary and
grammar schools. Grammar schools shall
Include schools organized in a school dis
more than one thousand inhabitants. in
which course Of study shall be taught
which will prepare pupils to enter the ag-
of the University Of California.