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Graham guardian., 1898-11-25

1t is gratifying 10 learn that the
Verde canal and reservoir propo
sitlon is again getting on its feet.
The report comes from New York
that the bonds have been placed
If this be true the enterprise will
be pushed to an early completion
and that splendid tract of country
adjacent to the upper Salt River
valley, and part OF IT, known as
Paradise valley, will be redeemed
and will soon become one of the
most favored spots in central Ari-
zona. III that canal never does
more than bring that splendid tract
OF country into cultivation it will
have amply fulfilled its mission
Herald.
Graham guardian., 1898-11-25
For sale.

A good two.horse cart and har
ness for sale cheap, For particu
lars inquire at thus Office. IT,
Graham guardian., 1898-11-25
Pertshed on the Desert.

Word came from Hedges We'd
nesday that boys body had been
found on the desert a mile south OF
the railroad track and four miles
west of Ogilby station. The spot
is right in the hottest portion of
the desert. The place was on the
trail from Cameron's Lake to the
railroad, and is marked by many a
CHASTITY tragedy, The body was
almost denuded of flesh, the skele.
ten lying in the sands with the
bones Of the hands gone. The
boy was about fifteen years of age.
He wore No. 5 shoes in which the
flesh of bis feet was still found
dried by the great heat A blue
jumper, cotton flannel underwear
and white socks were found, but
no trousers. The wood chopper
who found the body estimated that
it had been dead several months.
Nothing was found to indicate the
cause of the lads death, but it is
that be was with a des.
ert prospecting party and lost his
way and died of thirst. Yuma
Sentinel.
Graham guardian., 1898-11-25
Wood Wanted.

For tho next thirty days, those
who are owing subscription TO the
GUARDIAN may pay the same in
wood.
Graham guardian., 1898-11-25

A quiet ceremony was performed
at the residence Of Chas. Banker in
this city ea,ly Monday morning by
Justice Tenple which united as
busl and and wife Benjamin M,
lyar, Territorial organizer for The
ada OF Red Men and Sarah A,
Ien,e of this city The happy
couple left shortly after the cere-
uohv Tor the east on a wedding
torr GIohe Times.
SIR. aud Mrs. Legg spent several
dl.ts ID Stafford on their way east.
Graham guardian., 1898-11-25

Fine writing desk and sewing
machine combined at Ijams Il Go.
tf
Graham guardian., 1898-11-25

THE article which was published
in the GUARDIAN of Nov. llth, was
by mistake creited to the Los An
geles Mining Ne,oS. 1t should
have been credited to the Los An
geles Mnning,Rerieo. The R'rie~
takes more interest in the mines OF
this Territory than any other paper
outside our borders and its numer
GUS articles or the mines OF the
Territory are doing us a wonder
full amount of good and should b
highly appreciated by our people
Graham guardian., 1898-11-25

The Spenaxuma Mining com
pany are gong right ahead with
the work as LAID out some time
ago, on their mines at Black Rock
Besides their mines at their pres
ent location they arc purchasing
good claims in all directions. We
understand that vast amount OF
new machinery has recently ar,
rived and will soon be placed III
working order. Several members
of the company are expected from
tho east in a short time.
Graham guardian., 1898-11-25
zsSsse2eSSSSs$>ss

Fine groceries, dried and canned
fruits, meats and fish at John
Blake & Co. tf
Graham guardian., 1898-11-25

All the buggies in the Groesbeck
livery stable are new and first
class. If.
The herald., 1898-05-01

Portugal is scarcely greater than that
of the little state of Maine and its popu-
lation falls below five millions, yet its
colonial possessions comprise an area Of
nearly a million square miles, embracing
tribute-paying population exceeding
seven millions. Portuguese Africa con-
tairs five and half million people, while
Portuguese Asia embraces another mil
lion. A disturbance of the more or less
amcable relations that exist between the
colonies and the mother country, the one
contributing largely to the annual reve~
nues of the other. with favorable trade
privileges over other nations, would be
disastrous to the little kingdom, which
in itself is little more than principalty.
But whereas, its leanings toward the
Spanish contention are only natural, it
can scarcely afford to become an open
ally of the Dons or to invite the hostility
of the United States. 1t has a navy of
367 vessels and an active list of exceed
ing 50O0-a sea power obviously dspro
portionate-but this would cut a. sorry
figure pitted against a single squadron
Of Americas modern navy.
The herald., 1898-05-01
AS A WAR MEASURE

The determination of the Dole govern
ment to attach Hawaii to the Uniteo
States has not been weakened by the
precipitat ton Of a war with Spain. In
deed, if the information contained in our
dispatches from Washington this morn
ing is reliable, the American emblem al
ready floats over the islands. 1t is as
serted that the president of the south sea
republic took home with him the draft
Of a bill, to be submitted to the Hawaiian
congress, providing for an American pro-
tectorate, in the event of WARRIOR the
voluntary raising of the American flag
by the existing government and for the
acceptance of the tender by President
Mckinley as a war measure. 1t is said
that this plan had the approval of mem
bers Of the senate committee on foreign
relations, though the suggestion is weak
ened by the fact that the administration
members of that committee, only day
or two ago, made another abortive effort
to secure consideration for the treaty.
It is conceded that this would be in
0n1tely less ODJeCtlOHdDle tudH The Pio-
posed acquisition Of the islands by
treaty; that it would be less obnoxious
than the scheme of attaching Hawaii to
California.
The war has not yet demonstrated the
necessity for the annexation of the ISL
ands, though greater accentuation may
be given the claim by possible events of
the near future. 1t is also probable that
England will now be less jealous Of
American occupation than she was sup
posed to be six months ago. Her isola-
tion from Europe has since become more
impressively emphasized, and her desire
for a closer alliance with the United
States has become more pronounced. 1t
would be obviously in her interest to
have this stopping place in the pathway
of her commerce with Australia con-
trolled by the United States, rather than
by another power less friendly. At all
events, the administrations ambition to
control the islands is still as strong as
ever, and it is not likely the president
will hesitate to employ his war power"
to crafty it.
The herald., 1898-05-01
THE TONNAGE TAX

The pending revenue measure proposes
TO increase the tonnage tax from three
to twenty cents, an increase that prom
ises to bear very heavily upon foreign
owners of vessels plying in the Atlantic
trade. OF the four thousand thus en-
ployed. not more than hundred are
owned in the United States. There will
be no discrimination, of course, but OF
that the foreign owner may not so easily
be persuaded. At all events the new de-
parture has created CONSERVATION among
this class in Great Britain, France, Ger
many and one or two other nations
largely concerned, and appeals have al
ready been made to the governments Of
those countries to file a protest against
the proposed new exaction.
A twenty-cents tax upon each ton Of
merchandise imported would cost an At
lantic liner of 10000 tons capacity round
$4,000 for every cargo. To what extent
the owners may recoup this tax from i'm
porters, by way of increased freight
rates, may not be stated with accuracy
but it is almost self-evident that, as In
the case of import duty, the consumer
will eventually pay the tax.
Following so speedily upon the heels
of the onerous exactons of the Dingley
tariff law, the proposed increase in the
tonnage tax is not calculated to popu-
larize American institutions in foreign
lands
The herald., 1898-05-01

passioned speech in that body on Friday,
he not only reasserted his claim that he
was upon the eve of final triumph in
Cuba when recalled, but that he would,
in addition, have made good his prom
Use to Canovas," that "by April 1898, he
would be in position to offer him $4,000
veterans with which to attack the United
States"
These late utterances of General Wey-
Ter, coupled with the language of the
latest pronunciamiento of the autonomist
leaders in Cuba, prove conclusively, if
any additional proof were needed, that
the intervention of the United States
was not undertaken day t"u soon; that
further delay would have been fatal to
the remaining survivors of the Weyler
regime, and hazardous to the peace of
this country. They show that. while
Castillo was feignng friendship for the
United States and General Woodford was
making soft speeches to the queen. an
invasion of the United States was in
actual contemplation. The development
also serves to clear the atmosphere re-
garding the character Of the men COM
posing the autonomist government set up
by Blanco in Cuba, and to the tender
mercies of whom a considerable element
in the United States was DESTROYS of de-
livering the patriot host of the island.
The herald., 1898-05-01
A LOYAL Chinaman

Here in Los Angeles. go where you will,
the same spirit of Yankee independence is
found No one seems to doubt what the
ical belief blend on the common ground
which finds expression in the sentiment
1.-THE United States can lick Spain,' and
Cuba must be free" In front of The Her.
aid bulletin board, where a crowd gathers
from sunup to well along toward midnight
each day, you can find every shade of ma
tional and political colorlng. More war
talk is INDUCED in in front of that bulletin
board than anywhere else in the city. Mon
day there was lively scrap lasting few
minutes, between a darkey and China
man. The row, which was dandy while
it lasted, was precipitated by the China
man, who is thoroughly Americanized and
a fighter from Fightersville according to
Chinese rules) resenting the colored mans
loud-mouthed assertion that the only ma
ton Spain could lick was China. Quick as
a flash John smashed the coon, and as
Sambo was game, the row went merrily
on, until stopped by the crowd separating
them. The Chinaman made many admir-
ers by the remark, Spain lick Cubans,
but no lick China or anybody else."
1t developed later on that John had
learned to fight in Uncle Sans navy, as
he had served his time on the gunboat
Adams as officers or mess room cook.
He is now working in one Of the Spring
street hotels. Los Angeles correspond
ence Ventura Independent.
The herald., 1898-05-01
A VOICE FROM THE PAST

Weeks before the war with Spain be-
fat profits from afar, met to arrange the
preliminaries of a response to the bond
call which they felt sure the govern
ment would soon be obliged to Issue,
and the money for which they expected
to have monopoly of providing. The
gold standard press, quick to take the
hint, enlarged upon the beauties and
benefits of having the bonds payable in
gold, maintaining that lower interest
could be obtained than for "coin" bonds.
The New York Evening Post boldly de-
clared that the moneyed men Of the
country, having no god but gold would
hold sternly aloof regardless of the gov
ernment's necessities, unless the bonds
were made payable in the yellow metal.
The Wall street shylocks very soon
heard from the people. There was voiced
an overwhelming demand that, if loan
was made, it should be a popular loan,
in small denominations, thus giving the
masses chance to both prove their pat
riotism and invest their savings safely.
1t was quickly made evident that gold
bond issue was but an itching dream Of
plutocracy.
But there is limit to bond issues, and
in the event of a prolonged war it is
soon reached. Then what? Like voice
from the past come the words of Senator
Calhoun speaking upon the loan bill of
1913, more than half a century ago; and
yet the words might have been spoken
today:
When we borrow we merely give the
credit of government to the banks and
borrow 1t back at interest. The gov
eminent should issue Its own treasury
notes instead. This can be done with
out one dollar for interest. Well may
Wall street rejoice and clap its hands
over the passage of this measure, Mr.
President. Ever since 1 have been a
member of congress (some twenty
years or more), its whole time has
been occupied over the interests of in
dviduals, of banks tariffs-but for the
people, not one day, not one hour.
The herald., 1898-05-01
TRUTH COMING TO LIGHT

1t was not necessary for the butcher
Weyler to reiterate the obvious fact, as
he did in the cortes on Friday, that had
he been granted six months extension
of license he would have reduced Cuba
to the quietness of the grave. The rec
ords of deaths from starvation, kept by
his own officials, fully warranted this
conclusion. They are amply verified by
the later testimony of General Lee, his
first reports having been purposely falsi-
fed, lest the truth should be questioned
in Washington. They are again attested
in the latest proclamation of the auton-
omist governor of the island, which in
ferentialy approves of the policy that
robbed five hundred thousand non-com-
batants of life by the cruelest methods
known to criminal history.
AS accentuating the inconsistency and
hypocrisy Of the Spanish people, it is
noted that they supplanted Weyler with
a more humane ruler, in obvious submits
sion to the demands of christendom, and
in their subsequent appeals to the head
of great church their disapproval of
Weylerism was paraded as a virtue 1t
is true that no authoritative reputation
of his acts was ever entered of record.
but the discredited butcher was pru-
IDENTIFY kept in the background during the
entire period covered by the negotiations
with the Vatican. Indeed, it was limited
at the time that Weylers loyalty was
doubted, and apprehensions were alleged
to be felt lest he should, at the head of
a sympathetic army, undertake to over
throw the dynasty and establish upon its
ruins military despotism. With the
failure of the ecclesiastical plan, however
and the rejection of Span's appeal for
European Intervention, the mask is
thrown aside by this alleged Christian
people, and Weyler is welcomed in the
cortes as martyred patriot. In an i'm
The herald., 1898-05-01
MUST NOT BE LEFT IN DOUBT

In Fridays debate on the Dingley reve-
nue. bill Mr.. Bland declared that Demo-
Gratis cannot agree to the issue of any
more coin bonds, to be construed by
Republican administration to mean gold,
and gold only. Only under extreme
stress will the Democrats in congress
consent to an increase of the bonded
indebtedness of the country--only under
such stress will their constituents ap-
prove of such an increase. The stress is
not yet felt, nor need it be felt for long
time, if the administration party will but
show a disposition to look away from
Wall street for money with which to
carry on the war. The fact that the pro-
posed issue of bonds is made redeemable
in coin and that the secretary of the
street in arranging for the placing of
the loan, fully justifieS Mr.. Bland in the
assumption that tacit agreement has
been reached with the money interests
that a satisfactory definition of the term
"coin" will be made later. Secretary
Gage has been candid enough to declare
that coin, as defining the character Of
money in which the present bonded in
debtedness of the United States shall be
redeemed, means gold and gold only, and
there is no room for doubt that his con-
struction will be accepted by his party
if, indeed, it may not be said to have al
ready accepted it.
The herald., 1898-05-01
A PETTY SPANISH ALLY

The government and people of Portu-
gal make no concealment of their SYM
pathy for Spain in it's contention with the
United States. The declaration of neu-
trality, withheld in the obvious interest
Of her neighbor until Intercepted rather
crisply by this country. is perfunctory in
one instance and no doubt purposely am
biguous in an another. 1t leaves little
doubt of the intention Of Portugal TO
aid Spain to the extent of it's ability
and within the limits of safety.
1t can i'll afford to antagonize the Co.
lossus of the western hemisphere, and
yet it has greater reasons for desiring
the triumph of Spain than perhaps any
other European power. 1t is a small
state, with vast insular possessions, and
1t is justified in it's apprehensions that
the success of the revolutionists in Cuba
and the Philippines will encourage re-
volts in its own colonies. The area of
The herald., 1898-05-01
The Chance of a Thousand Years

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Herald:
Please say to the single men. and especially
to the young men of our state and nation.
that this is the chance of a thousand
years. ar's
Tell them to enlist in the United States
service, go to Cuba, drive away the Span.
iards then ask to be discharged in the
young nation of Cuba. Then let them en-
ter into the agricultural and political or
ganization and share in the upbuilding of
the young republic. Let them see to 1t that
the nation of Cuba Is organized on the true
socialistic principles of the people. for the
people and by the people, and see to it that
Christianity is not known in state affairs,
and soon they will have the most desirable
nation on earth. Try it. A THINKER.
Liberty Hall, Summerland, April 49, 1895.
The herald., 1898-05-01
spaniard Cut Down the American Flag

A Spaniard of the name of Alvarez com-
planned to an usher at the Bijou theater
last night that the American flags sus-
pended from the gallery to the upper boxes
were obstructing his view. The man sud-
denly drew knife from his pocket and
cut the rope, letting the flags fall on the
heads of the audience below. Policeman
Cronin seized the Spaniard and was about
to eject him when he turned and stabbed
the policeman in the hand. With the aid Of
other employees, the policeman finally sues
ceeded in putting the Spaniard out Of the
house.-From New York dispatch.
The herald., 1898-05-01
So Ever the Cycles Run

Man means with his last BREATH
groans
In the change called death.
Yet death is but birth
Into free and enlarged conditions, where
The soul may prove it's worth.
The old year wanes and dies
Amid the chilling SHOWS and leafless trees,
Meath leaden winter skies.
The new year brings the spring,
And from the cherries tomb Of winter
SHOWS
Comes forth each lovely thing.
So when cycle dies
Gloom and distress Ger all the world Is
spread,
And Justice bleeding lies
Waiting for that bright morn
When man mourns as his own his brother S
woe,
And worldwide peace is born.
So, ever the cycles run,
night,
Bringing the new days sun.
Be still, then, moaning heart,
And strive to do with this unchanging law,
Bravely and WELL thy part.
C. M. N.
The herald., 1898-05-01
Horne bv the Wind

How the sweet scent doth move!
Here in this summer land the brooding
dove
Hath told her tale of love,
And on the blossomed grove
1'he April sun shines with golden blaze.
Within the garden trim are all the ways;
Tall ranks of callas and the festive train
OF roses are bejeweled by the rain,
And pearls and diamonds flash on per-
fumed sprays!
The golden poppy mods above the mold;
The feathered grasses drop and fit away;
The floral tale upon the hill is told,
And leaf and stems decay.
There brooks snow fed still run
Down to meadow sea. The April sun
Shines coldly on those gardens. One by one
The hardy snow drops lift head to nod
over the faded sod,
While pink arbutus on the hillock's moss
Awaits her time to weave wax buds across.
The apple buds are in their hoods of gray,
Waiting the darling May,
To greet the winds with buds and blossom
ed spray.
Blow winds Of balm,
Lift fronds of palm,
And bear the fancy far and far away,
Where that sweet scent breathes DER the
happy day.
SYLVIA LAWSON CONVEY.
The herald., 1898-05-01
lnVincible

"What do you think" said Mr.. Hiland,
"of the action of the government in nam-
ing two of the newly acquired vessels the
Yale and Harvard?''
THAT will be all right" replied Mr.. Hall
ket, 'if the ships are manned by football
players and the men are instructed to fight
against Spain and not against each other"
-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
The herald., 1898-05-01
THE HERHLD'S MUSE
War, and Interpretations by Mary

MARY, the war Is sure to come. List
List to the warning sound;
hear the beat of the martial drum and the
thunder of feet on the ground!'
Eyes, Tom punched a hole In his drum to.
day and Charley got scratched in the
face;
The cook has asked for her monthly pay
and there isn't cent ON the place"
Far away in the south is a lovely land
where the treacherous Spaniard
reigns,
And under the touch of his iron hand, wal
war blackens her fertile plains!'
''If we don't get rain we're in bad boat
Say, how did you dent your hat?
The grocer insists that you pay that note
and the coachman has drowned the
cat
"And shall it be said that a nation free
stood quietly looking on,
And witnessed those horrors of tyranny
and never a sword was drawn?'
"Oh, that makes me think of that carving
set, they ratified it off last night.
1t was drawn by the minister's wife; I'll
bet those raffes are fixed, all right"
Down, down with the butchers who revel
in blood, wherever their flags I'M
furled;
Wen pour on their hostile shores a flood
that shall sweep them off the world.
Speaking of butchers. ours ought to be
paid, he sent in his bill last week
He's getting uneasy, I'm much afraid, some
days he'll hardly speak,
1--WE swear to thee, Cubans, who fought
and bled at the foot of Liberty s
shrine,
To give the villains a storm of lead, and
Liberty shall be thine.''
There's a sand storm raging in San Ber-
doom; that's why it's so hot down here
It's going to be bad if it don't rain soon.
Berries are awfully dear"
"Oh, Liberty! we will strike a blow
"Say, how did the strike come out %
"Confound the luck I'm going to go where
I'll know what I'm writing about"
ALFRED I. TOWNSEND.
The herald., 1898-05-01
SPECIAL EDITION

The Herald of next Sunday May Sth
will be a special edition of not less than
thirty six pages, with cOlOred cover and
four pages of half-tone pictures, besides
many special features of great interest
1t will contain n full budget of war news,
all Of the usual departments. the latest
local g1eanings and, in fact will be a
thoroughly up-to-d ate paper. 1t Will be
Just the thing to send away as sample
of Los Angeles newspaper enterprise. A
large edition will be printed. Orders for
advertising space and extra copies
should be entered early.
The herald., 1898-05-01
Send for Copysightsd
Treatise on Cona1i@ptleAs1

which, in the form of its teeth and in
other characteristic features, closely res
sembles a species of shark that inhabited
the ocean in that UNNECESSARILY remote
period called in geology the devonian age.
A similar shark was captured by the
prince Of Monaco's yacht off the Madeira
islands in 1889. These two specimens, with
a few others found in the Japanese seas
which are remarkable for the number Of
survivals of ancient forms of life they con-
tain-constitute the only known represent.
atives now on earth of the devonian sharks.
The herald., 1898-05-01
TRUTH Is MIGHTY

My dearest friend and I one day
While on a truthful spell,
Agreed on this, that, come what may,
Each others faults we'd tell
We pointed out the facts and fears
For less than half a week;
And now it's quite a dozen years
Since we were known to speak.
Detroit Free Press.
The herald., 1898-05-01
Gallant and Cautious

II am not at all sensitive" said Miss
Cayenne, cover the fact that men do not
propose to me-"
There is no reason why you should be-
replied Willie Washington. "They doubts
less prefer cherishing vague hopes for the
future to being rendered totally disconso-
ate."-Washington Star.
The herald., 1898-05-01
Silver Certificates

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Herald:
In an editorial in your Issue of the 2Sth
you say that silver certificates were issued
in payment of the silver purchased under
the Sherman act, up to the value of the
bullion purchased, and take the position
that now the seigniorage should be coined
1 think you are mistaken in saying that
any silver certificates were issued in pay
ment of bullion purchased. Such certificates
were and are issued only to those who pre-
sent coined silver and ask for them. Hence.
they read that the bearer shall be entitled
to so many silver dollars upon presenta-
ton. II. II.