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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07
VALUABLE MINING PROPERTY
Bonanza King Company Wants Deed
Set Asids

A comnlaint in equity has been filed in
the United States circuit court by the 3D.
nanza King Mining and Milling company
of New York against ]. H. West, Daniel
Murphy ct al. August Z. 1884, the mining
and milling company was the owner of six
valuable mining claims in San Bernadino
county in the Trojan mining district.
A mill was built and other Improvements
made from which gold and silver bullion
to the amount of 1902 ,05036 was shipped
| from January /. 1888, to July Is, 1885, The
average value of the ore produced was SCI
| ton from which the stockholders received
dividends at the rate of $4,000 a month.
! At a forced sale, plaintiffs claim, the sum
of $3.50 900 would be very low price for the
six mining claims as there are from twelve
to fifteen thousand tons of ore now in sight
exceeding in net value the dumps and tail
ings $500 .000
| A conf1agration destroyed the mill and
ruined a large quantity of machinery and
appliances belonging to the company since
which time only perfunctory work has
been done for the maintenance Of said
property and safeguarding the same under
the direction of Ernest Kuhn, since de-
ceased.
| Some time in the year 1886 emma Jim
took possession of the property, claiming
that plaintiffs had employed him to take
care Of 1t at $40 month and secretly so in
formed defendants. He assigned his
claim for alleged unpaid wages to West
and Murphy. Suit was brought in the SUI
perior court of San Bernardino county on
the claim, judgment was obtained agains.
the company and the mines sold by the
sheriff Of that county. The sheriff's deed
passed. conveying the property to West
Murphy ct al. The mining and milling COM
pany now alleges that 1t had no notice of
"China Jim's" claim for wages nor of the
proceedings by which defendants obtained
sheriff's deed and therefore asks the
court to set it aside.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07
FOUND DEAD
A Supposed Ranch Hand Found Yes
terday Morning

"A 0uPPOSCu 4sdnCAA AAdAA = 0uAA L Co
terday Morning
The body of an unknown man was dis
covered in the rear of the Elkhorn saloon
at the northeast corner of First and Will
mington streets early yesterday morning.
The man was apparently about 25 years of
age. and was lying on the ground covered
by couple of gunny sacks, while rolled
under his head for a pillow was an old
quilt. The man had evidently been dead
for some hours and but for slight frothing
about the mouth, which might have been
caused by poison. there was nothing found
to indicate what had occasioned his death.
There were no signs of violence on the
body. .
Coroner Campbell had the remains re-
moved to the undertaking rooms of Bresee
Brothers. The pockets of the dead man
were searched but no papers or cards were
found which could throw any light upon
his identity. There was ticket from San
Bernardino to Riverside, issued last March,
discovered in the coat, but this told MOTH
ing. The man was dressed in common,
cheap suit of clothes. 1t is supposed tina:
he was farm hand and had worked on
some ranch in the vicinity of San Bernar-
dino. Nobody about the Elkhorn saloon
had seen the man before, and 1t is sdp-
posed that he walked through an alleyway
from Wilmington street to the rear Of the
saloon and there utilized the sacks and
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07
PLAYED FOR SUCKERS
A Clairvoyant Runs Her Harpoon Int
Would-Be Bucket-Shop Players

| Several people who have been duped by an
alleged clairvoyant and spiritualst medium
would very much like to know of her where
| abouts, and the money they entrusted to
her on the strength Of her power 10 pierce
beyond the veil of the future. But the clair
voyant "has came and she has went" A
| tail, thin man, with short Furnishes, who
gave the name Of DR.. Smith, and woman
who said that she had occupied the relation
| of landlady to the woman Of lucid frances,
made complaint at the district attorneys Of
flee yesterday about that person. and init
mated that the deputies didn't know much
about their business, that there was no law
for defrauded people, and shifted scornfully
when told that the law could not relieve
suckers devoid of judgment and common
sense when the swinder had kept within
the boundaries Of the statutes that define
crime.
The wonderful cairvoyant whose name
In the heat of the debate was not ascertianed,
came to Los Angeles in January and imme-
diately became very popular among Spirit
ualist cranks and gulls She discovered so
many things in her frances that she was as
valuable as witch hazel water detecter in
a desert In one of her hypnotic spells she
saw fine mining claim in EDolcomb valley,
San Bernardino county. She took out two
men with her to the spot, and sure enough,
right where she had seen II with her minds
eve was the mine Just as described. The
two men prospected around for while and
also found a very rich claim. Fearing tina,
the clairvoyant might get on to that they
covered up the prospect hole, but she, of
course, with the perspiouity that only me-
diums possess, found out all about it, and
purchased the claim from them That, at
least, is what the two fellows told to the
Spiritualists when they all came back to
town, and greater became the clairvoyants
fame and influence.
She. with her knowledge of the shadow OF
coming events, had it all her own way with
bucket shops, as matter of course. There
fore when she told DR.. Smith, her landlady
and a few other people whom she let in on
the ground floor with her, that she had
realized 5000 out of $50 in few days at the
board Of trade" run by Mr.. Decatur they
were all wild to let the medium Try her hand
with their money The doctor yielded up
$500, the landlady $125, and It is not known
how much the other suckers dropped but
the aggregate that the woman hypnotized
her victims out of is considerable. She
claimed to be specializing. and was always
going to close up the deals, but didn't.
Finally she announced that she would settle
up on Wednesday last.
The medium. however, didn't keep her
promise, but skipped out, and she was SO
hurried about her movements that she did
not even gather up the clothes in her room,
nor pay the rent she owed the landlady.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07
Court Notes

T. G. Williams yesterday sued Jones Tay-
lor to recover 1926 on a note.
Barbara Bartlett has commenced a suit
in the township Justices court to foreclose
a chatte1 mortgage for $3.50 against Elmo r.
Meserve, secured by greenhouse and
plants at 633 and 635 South Broadway.
A petition for letters of administration
with the will annexed to the estate of Thos
]. White, valued at $4,000, was filed. White
died in 1861. and the executors under the
will, as well as the other heirs, have also
died since, leaving only T. Jefferson White
now % years old, who consents to the APP
pointment of ]. A. Stanwood as admins
traitor.
DR.. Jules F. Roth has applied to have the
will of Nancy A. Gilbert, who died on July
2, probated. Her estate, consisting of rea
and personal property, is valued at $4,000
There are a number of devisees, including
the executor.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07

The trip of the battleship Oregon around
Cape Horn, a distance of 1900 miles, with
out doing any particular damage to her
complicated machinery, is an achievement
in which we all take pride. 1t is like the
man or woman who reaches the ripe old
age of 100 years by safely passing all the
shoals of disease in the pathway of life.
Very few do it, but a great many could if
proper care be taken of the health. AT the
first sign Of disorder in the stomach, liver
or blood, help should at once be secured
by taking HostetSars Stomach Bitters. The
stomach is the starting point of nearly
every disease, and the Bitters correct he
ailments of that important organ. With
the digestive organs in a healthy state, the
length of life is increased. Good health
means a good stomach. The Bitters make
the sick well by making the stomach we'll.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07
Were Found Asleep

Chas. Sherman, Tom Murphy, Robert
Hurley and Jos. Mansfield, quartette of
the genus hobo, were arrested in vacant
house at the corner of First and Los An
geles streets by officer Ziegler yesterday
and sent to the police station on a charge
of vagrancy. The men claimed that they
had been given permission to sleep in the
house by saloon keeper. Justice Owens
continued their trials until this afternoon
in order to investigate the matter more
fully.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07

DR.. S. Cole, so Thirty-tirst street, Chicago
in speaking of distilled water, says: Il am
using 1t in my family and in my practice
and find 1t free from organic and inorganic
impurities.
ITO those desiring good water I would
unhesitatingly recommend distilled water
In kidney disease I believe 1 have noted
marked advantage from its constant en-.
ployment."
Puritas Is regularly prescribed by many
of the leading physicians of Los Angeles
1t is the safest water to use for general
drinking purposes. Ice and Cold Storage
Co. Tel. 22S.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07
They Were Released

In the matter of the arrests of Isaiah
Lindsay and Paul Humbel, a couple of little
boys, on a charge of having entered the
factory of Bishop & Co. and stolen a guam
tity of candy, the boys We're released on
their own recognizance by Justice Owens
under promise of their parents to produce
them in court for trial as soon as several
larger boys who are thought to have been
the rinsleaders in the burglary shall have
been captured by the officers.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07
Stamps on Deeds and Mortgages

The commissioner of internal revenue at
Washington, N. B. Scott telegraphed to
County Recorder E. c. Hodgman yester-
day as follows: Mortgages executed before
July list but presented for record on or after
that date require stamp; deeds fplly exc
cuted and delivered before that date do not
require stamp though presented for record
after that date, unless there are provisions
of law making record essential to their va
lidity.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07
Stole a Pomona Horse

Chief Glass was advised yesterday by tel
ephone from Pomona that gray riding
horse weighing about $50 pounds had been
stolen from the streets of that place Tues
day night. The animal had been tethered.
A fine red leather saddle and plated bri-
die were taken with the horse. 1t is sup
posed the thief came to Los Angeles, and
Chief Glass instructed his officers to keep a
lookout for him.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07
Must Provide for His Children

Mrs. Marguerite Gers, Frenchwoman.
secured complaint against her husband,
Baptiste, yesterday, for failing to supply
hiS four minor children, the eldest, being
IA and the youngest years of age, with the
strict necessaries. Gers is slipper maker
who has a stall at the southwest corner Of
Also and Alameda streets, where he also
sells tobacco and cigars and he lives separ-
ate from his wife and family. On Sunday
they had a row over one of the children and
both were arrested. Gers had money and
was released, but the woman had to stay in
jail all night with her little daughter. She
pleaded guilty and was fined $40, while her
husband employed lawyer and got off.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07
Got q Light Fine

A. L. Dillman, the switchman of the Los
Angeles Railway company, was fined $50
by Justice Owens yesterday afternoon Tor
battery. Dillman struck Officer Harvey
Davis over the head with revolver but he
was allowed to plead guilty to the charge
OF battery instead of an assault with a
deadly weapon as had originally been
brought against him.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07
Marriage Licenses

Lester ]. Wooley, 80, California, and Anna
Thacker. 81, Germany. residents of Redon-
do.
VIII s. Sparks, a. Maryland, and Olivia
Saunders, q. Louisiana, residents of this
city (coloredD.
Arthur G.Willard, q, Missouri, and Grace
" Bennett q, Iowa, residents of the city.
Herbert G. Bixby, 80, California, resi-
dent of Buena Park, and Clara r. Edgell,
3D. Indiana, resident of Hollywood.
Fred Ebeling, rs, Wisconsin, and Joseph
inc Ebeling, 26. California, residents of this
city.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07
Crazy Hypochondriac

Alexandra Cervantes, a young man 20
years of age. who has no home and no pa
rents, was brought from the county hos
pital to be examined by the insanity COM
mission yesterday. The only person that
the young man could think of as an ac-
quaintance is Mrs. Helen Solomon of New
High street, his godmother. He is the vic
tim of evil habits and is uncleanly. His
special deluson is to believe himself hot
bed of all kinds of diseases. Judge Clark
committed the youth to the Highland asy-
lum.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07
A CHINESE PARTNERSHIP
It's Twists Are as Involved as Thoug]
an American Joint Venture

In Department six of the superior court
much Chinese was spoken yesterday when
the suit of Wong Jone Kong and
Mar Chung against Mar Cong, Quong
Ming Gan and Mar Kang, came
up for adjudication before Judge AL
len: The plaintiff claimed that a partner
ship existed between all parties, known as
the Ydck Lee company, in the gardening
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07
He Fined Her

Justice Owens fined Mrs. Gribble of Fifth
street and Colyton avenue IS yesterday for
having disturbed the peace. On June 2Sth
the children of Mrs. Gribble and Mrs. Hen
derson got into quarrel and the mothers
took hand. AS Mrs. Gribble evidently
started the fuss with Mrs. Henderson, she
was fined,
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07
Accused of Bigamv

A complaint was filed yesterday in the
township Justices court charging L. c.
Lemon, a negro. with bigamy. He is ac-
cused of having married colored woman
named Matte Carter on December 14th Of
last year, his first wife being still alive and
not divorced. Lemons examination was set
for Saturday afternoon.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07
Will Change Its Name

The Los Angeles Mutual Life and Acct
dent company wishes to change its name
to that of the Decimal Mutual Life Insur-
ance company and to remove its principal
place of business to San Francisco. 1t will
abandon the accident isurance business
hereafter. The petition to the superior
court to bring about the change is signed
by Samuel Merrill, j. c. Salisbury and w.
T. Saffender, a majority of the board of d.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07
Red Cross Club

All boys and girls should become members
of 1.-THE Chtdren's Red Cross Club" which
meets every Monday and Tuesday at 8
o'clock at GA South Hope street to work for
the sick soldiers. Membership fee rs cents
and dues 10 cents month.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07
NEW CHARTER
Initiative and Refe rendum

A Kansas City drug store has an Ameri-
can flag in its window, across which is
pinned a white stripe reading: use Our
Celebrated Corn Cure"
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07
JoTTINGs
Our Home Brew

Our Home Brew
Maier & Zobeein's lager. fresh from thaIr
brewery, on draught in all the principal
saloonsi delivered promptly In bottles or
kegs Office and brewery, $40 Also street;
telephone g.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07

Largest variety Concord business wagons
and top delivery wagons. Hawley, King u
Co.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07

Hawley. King & Co., cor. Fifth ST. and
Broadway, agents genuine Columbus Buggy
company buggies and Victor bicycles.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07

| See Blumve & Jay for good garden hose
| 1875 South Broadway.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07

Agents Victor, Heating, World, Stearns
and March bicycles. Hawley, King & Co,
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07

Everything on wheels. Hawley, King &
Co., corner Fifth street and Broadway
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07

Wall paper. late styles, low prices, at
A A. Eckstrom's, 1924 South Spring street.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07

quilts for bed clothes. He had only n
penny and piece of Chinese money in
his purse
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07

Latest styles wall paper at A. A. Eel
strom's, 1924 South Spring street.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-07

United States Court Notes
The company of twenty-nine Chinese ac-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-05

dered to the authorities here today aft
er notifying them of his intention by
long-distance telephone. The convict
was George w. Finch, of Kansas City,
who followed young Frank Swofferd
here from Paola, KAN, and murdered
him for a few dollars. hiding the body
in the bushes Today Finch called up
Sheriff Wheeler by phone from La
mont, Mo-, and said he would be here
on the evening train to help mend the
Jail bars that he had broken.
Finch escaped from the combined
federal and state prison. here on Tues
day last, in company with seven other
prisoners. He says he rode from here
to Kansas City on a freight train, that
he lodged near police Headquarters
there on Tuesday night. and that the
next day he went to visit his mother
and sister on q farm near Lamont.
From the time of his arrest he said his
one ambition was to see them again.
After staying over night with them
he went to Lamont and asked con-
stable to accompany him back to pris-
or. 1t was then that he called up
Sheriff Wheeler and gave notice of his
coming. Sheriff Wheeler thought Finch
was bantering and wired the officer at
Lamont to hold him. However, when
the Memphis train came in tonight
from Lamont the sheriff and 800 citi-
Zens were there to- re- eceive the convict.
While they were waiting the murderer
arrived on another railroad, and smok-
ing a. cigar, he walked with his escort,
the Lamont constable, leisurely up the
street to the prison door.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-05
DETAILS OF EPP'S DEATH.
No Effort Made by the Japs to Bring
the MurGerers to-
Justice.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4-The presi-
dent today transmitted to the senate
correspondence received at the state
department concerning the murder Of
Frank Epps and William Montgomery,
United States sailors killed in Japan.
Consul Abercrombie, writing to Min
lister Buck from Nagasaki. under date
of Dec. 10, gives this account Of the
death of Epps:
At about $50 p. m, on the night OF
Dec. II, men on board the British sail
ing ship Saint Enoch heard scUhling
and a cry for help from the sampan
near by. Two of the sailors jumped
into a boat and sculled to the spot, but
not quick enough to intercept the
sampan men, who extingushed their
lights and got away, but they secceed-
ed in picking up cap with the "Olym-
pia" cap ribbon, and the ships name
marked thereon.
Later, according to consul Aber-
crombie the sampan men were arrest
ed and held for trial.
1t appears from Admiral McNair's
letter to Secretary Long that the Jap
anese authorities made no attempt to
secure the dispositions of the mate and
seamen of the Saint Enoch, who were
witnesses of the murder of Epps. and
that at the examination of the alleged
murderers mo person representing any
branch of the United States govern
ment was allowed to be present"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-05
LAKE SHORE ROAD ABSORBED
Two Vanderbilt Properties Are to
Be Operated as "a Single
System.

NEW YORK, Feb. 4-The Lake
Shore railroad today became the prop
erty of the New York Central & Hud-
son River Railroad company. The
final arrangements for the transfer of
the Lake Shore system to the control
of the Central were made this morn
ing, when the directors of the Central
met here to consider the proposition
made some time ago for union of the
two roads into one system, to be OPP
Grated hereafter as one road from
New York to Chicago. Nearly all of
the directors were present, and those
who could not be on hand sent poXies
favoring the purchase by the Central
of the Lake Shore.
Chauncey B. Depew, president Of the
Central, presided, and represented the
Vanderbilt interests in both the Lake
Shore and the Central. Francis Stet-
son was there as representative of
the Morgan interests. There was
full and free discussion of the plan
proposed to unite under one manage
ment the two roads, and the result was
that the directors voted without dis
sent to take over the Lake Shore.
In accordance with their plans, the
directors authorized an issue of $780,
100000 of 100 year 312 per cent collateral
gold bonds. Each 81 900 bond is to be
given in exchange for five shares of
Lake Shore stock.
The operation which this announce
ment brings on involves the $40, ,466. 800
of Lake Shore stock outstanding. The
Vanderbilt holdings constitute a con-
siderable majority of the outstanding
stock. so that their assent to take
bonds for their shares essentially car
ried the operation with 1t.
Two vacancies on the board OF di-
rectors Of the New York Central were
flied today by the election Of George
S. Bowdoin to succeed Erastus Corn
inp of Albany, and Ashbel Green to
succeed George c. Buell., of Rochester,
deceased.