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The herald., 1898-12-25
ACCUSED Of MURDER
A FOUL DEED CHARGED TO E.
MELENDEz
A Tragedy Which Wound Up
a Cutting ARRAY at Hedges,
San Diego County

While searching for an attemped muir
derer, Epimenio Melendez, Mexican shot
and killed another member of the posse, and
in consequence will have to stand trial on
the charge of murder.
One week ago today at Hedges, San Diego
county, Guadalupe Rosales, Mexican, be-
came involved in quarrel over some trivial
matter with Carlos Salamon, also a Mex
lean. The men were in saloon at the time,
and heated with liquor, Rosales drew razor
and attacked Salamon. The latter tried to
defend himself, but Rosales slashed him in
terrible manner, and leaving him for dead,
made his escape from the vicinity The cit
zens gathered and started parties to search
for Rosales. The men divided through the
country, and among the searchers were John
Lee, colored cook who conducted a res
taurant, and Epimenio Melendez, a
relative of Salamon. According to the
statement of Melendez, he does not under
stand the English language, and when dur.
ing the search he saw Lee some distance
away, he ordered him in Spanish to halt
He claimed that Lee did not obey, and
thinking him to be Rosales, Melendez shot
the colored man three times. Lee died the
next day from his injuries. Lee made an
ante-mortem statement, in which he stated
that Meendez had deliberately shot
him. After Melendez met him, the Mexican
ordered him to throw away his revolver
Lee discarded the weapon, and then with.
out further words Meendez shot him in the
leg with a A caliber Winchester rifle. Lee
begged and pleaded with Melendez not to
take his life, and offered to give him any
sum of money that he possessed if he would
not harm him. Melendez, however, was
obdurate, and according to Lee, shot him
twice more.
When it was learned that Lee had
claimed that he had been murderously
assaulted there was great indignation
felt in Hedges against Melendez,
for Lee was very popular, and in the ex-
citement of the tragedy the original crime
of Rosales was forgotten. There was de-
mand for the arrest of Melendez, and he
was at once taken into custody At the
preliminary examination the statement of
Lee was introduced, and various witnesses
were examined. Whether Melendez was
actually a coldblooded murderer as Lee
claimed or not, he certainly did not exercise
proper discretion while serving on the posse,
and was held without bail to answer to the
charge of murder. Rosales was later cap
tured by partner of Lee, and turned over
to the authorities. He was held to an
swer in the sum of $4,000 for assault with a
deadly weapon. Both of the men were
brought to the city last night by Deputy
Constable +. 4. Wadham and Shorthand
Reporter +. Fl. Robinson of Hedges The
prisoners were locked in he city jail to
await the early train for San Diego this
morning, where they are to be given into
the custody of the sheriff.
The herald., 1898-12-25
nEkI VHEE Develops Weak Organs
nFN.H MHV BEN -BEY MEDICAL co..
- RmlV HIN land Bdway, Los Angeles, Cal,
SALE & SON, Agt., 220 S. Spring, Los Angeles

$i00 Last season an Englishman from
London lost f2S,000 (5l40,0OO) there, and a
Russian 936G00 ($lS0,000).
1t is seriously proposed in London news
paper that man should take wife on the
same principle as he engages house-for
three, five or seven years, renewable at the
husbands pleasure. This idea was once dis.
cussed in parliament.
Telephones are to be placed in the wards
of one of the Paris hospitals within reach
CT the bedridden patients, so as to enable
them to communicate with friends outside.
There will also be an arrangement whereby
the telephones may be switched onto wire
connected with concert hall, so that the
performance may be enjoyed by the inva-
lids.
A British manufacturer of bathtubs saws
that not quarter as many portable baths
are made now as formerly, and another re-
Gently referred to the fact of orders for 200
shower baths having been taken by a trav-
eler in one journey at some past period,
while he supposed that at the present time
a manufacturer did not sell three shower
baths in year. From this it would seem
that the shower bath is becoming obsolete
in England.
The herald., 1898-12-25
The Reading Terror

Wordsworth was a terror to his friends.
His pull was genteel, but very dextrous.
He could flash an MS. on you before yon
could say Good morning" lie read all Of
the Excursion" to Lamb, and Hazlitt once
wrote to Coleridge: Il tried to escape
Wordsworth because I knew he had new
poem with him, but he finally cornered me-"
In yesterdays with Authors" James T.
Fields innocently tells of how Wordsworth
graciously read aloud to him poem, SEEM
ingly not aware that Wordsworth was al
ways lying in wait for his prey. II am
blest with great bodily vigor," wrote Leigh
Hunt, $50 I do not much object to having
Byron read to me from his MS"
So we see that the desire to read ones pro-
ductons to some one else is a classic condi-
tion. myself occasionally tax the patience
of a good woman, although l never, like
John Jerome Rooney, took lady out to
lunch and read a play to her, and then
walked off, forgetting to order anything to
eat-The Philistine.
The herald., 1898-12-25
The Hand Organ Versus Grand Opera

The citizens of Greater New York con-
tribute annually more money to hand organ
grinders than is spent in supporting the
Metropolitan opera season. The fees col
lected by the proprietors of jingling little
organs aggregate in the course of year
several hundred thousand dollars. These
organs are licensed by the city and their
income can be calculated. The estimates
are those of a well known hand organ man
ufacturer Of Chatham square, who is famil-
lar with the incomes of his customers. There
are some 264 licenses issued for Manhattan
island. The number is limited to 300. A wise
government has calculated that 300 organs
would be the limit of public endurance The
fee is nominal. Each organ grinder must
pay 81, and this fee permits him to play
anywhere in New York as often as he
chooses, Sunday and holidays excepted. In
addition to this number Brooklyn, which
seems to be much fonder of such music than
New York, supports as many more. The
entire area of Greater New York is supplied
with $50 organs. There is an organ for every
800 of population. 1t will be difficult to
convince most people that there are so few,
but the figures are official According to
the Chatham square manufacturer the av-
erage daily income of each of these organs
is about $3.50. This is the income usually
OF two men, or man and {. woman. The
estimate is conservative. When times are
good the earnings often exceed this figure
This money represents the income on an in
vestment of 5000, which is the price of
very good organ. The army of organ grind
ers collect every day on an average of sl7OO
from Greater New York. There are 3OS
days in the year on which these organs are
allowed to be played, so that an aggregate
income for this orchestra is S523OOO.
Enough is known to make a fairly correct
estimate of sustaining the Metropolitan op-
era for a season. 1t is usually placed some
what below a half million dollars. II is
safe to say the income of the organ grinders
is 100000 more than the cost of the bril-.
liant opera season, with its lavish salaries-
New York World.
The herald., 1898-12-25
ATE DURING THE NAVAL FIGHT
Schley and Capt. Cook Not Worried
Enough to Lose q Meal

1t seems that Admiral Schley and Cap
tain Cook sat down to dinner while the
Brooklyn was chasing the unfortunate but
gallant Colon. There's American assurance
for you. At the close of a tremendously
important battle, which settled war and
changed the map of the world, the COM
manders on the United States flagship, pur-
suing at top speed the last of the enemy,
whose guns still belched defiance, sat down
to dinner, which, no doubt, was served in
style, and with a strict regard for gastron-
omical etiquet.
Il will have bit of the tomato soup,''
remarked the admiral. "Ah, that must
have been five and one-half inch shell, eh,
captain?"
Sounds like it-pass me the celery" re-
plies Captain Cook.
With the cheese and black coffee and
cigars the enemy is overhauled and driven
ashore, the Spanish sailors dotting the sea
The herald., 1898-12-25
PERSONAL

Senator Androus of Pomona is visiting in
the city.
Ed James of Santa Barbara was in town
yesterday.
Judge r. B. Garfield of Santa Barbara is
here on legal business.
j. ?. Broth, prominent physician of the
Needles, was in town yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sherman Clarke are visiting
in the city from Rochester, N. Y.
j. H. Godfrey, j. r. Dayman and T. E.
Gibbon of Los Angeles are in San Francisco
l.. Hache and F. G. Hampton of the Chino
beet sugar factory are in the city until
after Christmas.
H. M. Leete, advance agent for the Uni
versity of California Musical clubs, was in
the city Yesterday.
The herald., 1898-12-25
CLAIMS THEY STOLE
Saloon Keeper Thinks Two Men
Robbed His Bar

George Fischer and c. w. Grimes were
brought into the police station early this
morning by Officer Rico and booked on
charge of disturbing the peace. The pro-
prietor of the Washington saloon, who
caused the arrest of the men, stated that
they each attempted to steal some wine
from the rear Of the bar and that he caught
them in the act. The men tell an entirely
different story, however. They acknowl-
edge that they were both somewhat the
worse for liquor a the time, but that the
proprietor of the saloon was attempting to
cheat them out of their change. Both men
had some money on them when they were
arrested and presented the appearance of
being hard-working men.
The herald., 1898-12-25
LADIES AND OTHERS
Some Instances of the Various Uses of
an Abused Word

The word lady still has about it certain
halo which ought to prevent it's indiscrirh-
mate use. In this country we can hardly
expect to see social distinctions reflected in
the use of the word; and yet we might, per-
haps expect to see it employed more equit-
ably than it was by a certain dry goods
store keeper in a Massachusetts town not
very long ago.
The daughter of senator of the United
States drove one day from her fathers sum
mer cottage to store in a city near by and
ordered some articles to be sent to the
house.
When the goods were sent mistake was
made and the senator himself stopped at
the store to correct it. The proprietor
called the saleswoman, and, after consulting
with her, apologized for the mistake.
"You see, sir" he explained, 'the lady
who took the order didn't quite understand
what the girl said"
somewhat similar story was told OF a
remark made by Yankee servant of the
family of John Lothrop Motley, the his
torian. On one occasion when the historian
was at home on the ancestral estate near
Boston, and when his brother James was
also there, an intimate friend of the family
who was sojourning at the house came out
from Boston on late afternoon train. The
family coachman met him with carriage
at the station. On the way to the house
the guest said to the driver:
"Did anyone come out on the earlier
train?"
ooh, yaas," said the coachman, "the' was
four; the was John and Jim and two
ladies'"
The guest knew that "John and Jim"
were the historian and his brother, but he
wondered who the ladies were. Afterward
he found out that they were seamstress
and new chambermaid.
The most extraordinary use of the term
that we are likely to find any record of is
related from England. The house surgeon
of London hospital, we are told, was at
tending to the injuries of of woman who
had been badly bitten on the arm. As he
was dressing the wound he said:
"I cannot make out what sort of crea-
ture bit you. 1t is too small for horse Is
bite and too large for dogs"
ooh, sir" said the patient, "it wasn't a
hanimal-it was another lydy!"-Youth's s
Companion.
The herald., 1898-12-25
GRIPPE GETS ITS HOLD
Los ANGELES IN DANGER OF AN
INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC
DR.. HAGAN GIVES GOOD ADVICE
What Precautions Should Be Taken
to Avoid the Insidious Disease.
= Wear Woolen Underclothing

Even the sunny climatd of Southern Cal
ifornia meets its match when the dreaded
grippe" enters the lists against it.
1t is at least certain that the east is
suffereing more severely from epidemics of
this disease than the Pacific coast, although
in the last few weeks number of eases
have been reported in this city to the health
office by local physicians.
Police Surgeon Ralph Hagan says, con-
cerning the disease and it's effects in this
climate, that it is treated entirely too lightly
by people of this section who do not recog-
nize in the severe chill and high fever, the
first signs of the grippe, or mild Russian
influenza. "The first thing that the peo-
pie here should learn is the absolute neces-
sity Of wearing wooen underclothing, said
DR.. Hagan yesterday. Cotton next the
skin simply holds the perspiration for the
wind to chill the body with, whereas wool
will absorb the perspration as sooi as ex-
hailed. Of course | do not mean that this
is an absolute preventive, but yet is is a
precaution that many people would do well
to observe.
"1he digestion is also a weak point, and
well cooked, healthy food, placing the
stomach in sound condition, will do much
towards protecting the average person from
an attack. On no account should the city
water as it comes from the faucet be drunk
All water for drinking purposes should be
boiled or distilled.
'The actual cause of the disease is not
definitely decided upon by the medical
world, but the generally accepted theory is
that of the microbe. The disease spreads
with wonderful rapidity, and in 1890, when
an epidemic broke out in Russia, the entire
American and European continents were at
tackled by violent outbreak within forty
days. The first symptoms are severe chill
and painful aching OF all parts of the body.
The temperature runs up between SO and
103, and violent headache almost always
accompanies the attack. The patient
should be Immediately put to bed, and no
delay should be permitted in sending for
physician.
Grippe is usually harmless in itself,
but complications not infrequently occur
which may result fatally. Pneumonia is
most to be feared of all the various diseases
induced by the grippe, and numerous cases
are on record in which the patients have
entirely lost on their minds after a severe at
tack. 1t must not be forgotten by the peo-
pie of Southern California that our climatic
conditions offer little or no opposition to the
spread OF this virulent disease, and we can
no more afford to be careless in our precau-
tions than the people of Philadelphia, who
are reported as having 10000 cases of grippe
in their midst"
The herald., 1898-12-25
Struck by the Cars

SCRANTON, Pa, Dec. 24.-One person
was killed, one fatally injured and third
had leg broken by an accident at cross
ing on the Ontario and Western railway at
Peckville, near here, today. Lewis Weiss
berger, grocery wagon driver; a man named
Peter Wasnok and Joseph Walsh, aged IA
years, were crossing the railroad when they
were struck by the engine and Wasnok was
literally ground to pieces. Weissberger es-
capped with broken leg. The boy was
thrown upon the engine, practically unhurt,
but in the excitement tried to get Off and
was caught under the wheels and both legs
were cut off above the knees. lie will die.
The herald., 1898-12-25
CONSULAR REPORTS
Which Are Expected to Prove of,Some
Value

WASHINGTON, Dec 24-The bureau of
foreign commerce of the state department.
has just published in the advance sheets
OF consular reports an interesting compia-
tion of the reports from various consular
offices in regard to the policies adopted by
the respective governments to extend for
eign commerce. These reports come from
the consulates general in France. Belgium,
Great Britain, Netherlands, Austro- Hun
gary, Germany, Switzerland, Prussia and
Japan. Wherever there is an established
bureau of commerce, the consulates have
given full outline of it's scope and working.
Perhaps the most valuable information
contained in the reports is that relative to
the effect of technical schools in extending
foreign trade. The reports from Germany
and Great Britain are particularly full, in
the latter case embodying variohs circulars
and regulations issued by the British col
The herald., 1898-12-25
SUTRO--ENGLISH
"A San Francisco Heiress to Be Married
Here Today

Miss Clara Sutro of San Francisco, aged
81, will this afternoon be married by Bishop
Montgomery to William j. English aged 40,
OF Chicago. The couple are at the Van Nuys
hotel, Miss Sutro being accompanied by her
brother.
Miss Sutro came into some prominence
when her father, Adolph Sutro, died, or,
rather, just before his death, when her sis
ter, Mrs. DR.. Merritt, insisted on removing
the invalid from his home on Sutro Heights
to her house. Miss Clara bitterly opposed
this, and the incident was the occasion of
. family difference which has never been
overcome.
Mr.. English is u man of wealth and is a
relative of Governor English of Indiana,
who died shortly after making race for
the vice presidency on the Democratic
ticket some years ago.
How the marriage was arranged to be
celebrated by Catholic prelate is not un
derstood, for the bride-tobe is of Jewish
family and it is thought must have changed
her faith.
The herald., 1898-12-25
AND FRUIT RAISERS
To Meet at Redlands and Discuss
Agricultural Topics

An institute of the Farmers club of Red
lands will be held for three days of the week,
beginning January 2, 1899. Professor A.
j. Cook of Pomona college, who is the repre-
sentative of the University of California in
the south, will preside. Arrangements
have been made with the railroad by which
a rate of one and one-third fare has been
secured; the hotels of Redlands have also
greatly reduced their rates to accommodate
those wishing to attend
Attractive programs for the three days
have been prepared. Professors Hilgard
and Rioletti OF Berkeley will speak on agri-
cultural topics. Hon. w. S. Melick Of
Pasadena viii talk on Farmers Clubs in
Legislation" Abbot Kinney on Forestry"
and Professor A. j. Cook on Farmers
Club Institute" Members of the various
farmers and horticultural clubs of Southern
California will be present and present pa
pers of interest to ranchers and fruit raisers.
The herald., 1898-12-25
Petty Malefactors

Mary Butler, woman about As years of
age, who said she resided in Pasadena, was
arrested in the dry goods store of Fixen &
Co. on South Spring street, last night on
charge of petty larceny. The proprietor
claimed that the woman had tried to filch
a small roll of white ribbon, which was
found in her possession.
B. f. Settles was sent to the police sta
tion last night from Los Angeles street, and
booked on charge of suspicion.
Charles Jones and George Wild were sent
to the station last night from the corner of
Ninth and Main streets. They were charged
with vagrancy.
The herald., 1898-12-25

Like drowning rats, and the aged Cervera
tearing his beard in the agony of disaster.
Then, after quaffing a chartreuse, the
American admiral appears on deck and or
ders all boats lowered and all efforts made
to save the lives of the saturated Spaniards.
There ought to be fairly good material in
this incident for light opera. There was
nothing half so naive or amusing in "Pna-
fore."-Kansas CITY Star.
The herald., 1898-12-25

oninl offices to foster the trade between the
mother land and the colonies.
Another series of the advance sheets con-
tains series of special representatives, in
dicating the method of collection of rents
in foreign countries by an alien.
The herald., 1898-12-25

+ The theatrical rehearsal
r Aboard"
Yesterday Manager OFT highly idea, haluna-
hundred would
the Burbank with unusually
unusually high the
+ barrels a bimu
thought himself to
be
noticed
The the and still either
b. O barrels sight
smile,
in blocks
ALI rounddi town" nd ddeadaw
The herald., 1898-12-25
Another Hero
ce Boy-War is hell.

Office Boy-War is hell.
Bookkeeper-What difference did il
make to you? Why, you didn't go to Cuba
and lick the Spaniards.
Office Boy-No, but had to stay here and
lick about 500 revenue stamps every day.
New York World
The herald., 1898-12-25


rangement of the
delicate organism of her sex, to rely upon
an unskilled, inexperienced, general prac-
titioner is to risk her health upon gam
bler's hazard. Her only real safety is in
the careful well-digested advice of physi-
clan who has had wide, special experience
in diseases of this particular class.
The chief consulting physician of the fa-
nous Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute,
of Buffalo, N. ", DR.. R. v. Pierce, has de-
voted thirty years of special study and prac-
tice to the weaknesses and diseases pecul-
lar to women. His grand medicine, the
"Favorite Prescription" has done more to
restore perfect health and strength to wom-
en- than any other medicine. 1t is the only
proprietary medicine devised for this pur-
pose by an educated, skilled specialist in
woman's peculiar ailments
woman writing to DR.. Pierce regarding
herself may feel absolute assurance of re-
ceiving, free of charge, the best profess
sional advice by means of which the most
obstinate of these delicate troubles may be
promptly relieved and permanently cured.
Barbra A. Mudd of Indian Creek, Monroe Co.,
Mo, writes: '' 1 am very thankful for what DR..
Pierce Favorte Prescription did for me. was
all broke down from nervous prostration, but
since taking this medicine have had more re.
lief than from all the doctors Your Favorit9
Prescription did me world of good"
The herald., 1898-12-25

At the battle of Atbara number of Ital-
ian rifles were captured from the dervishes
by the Egyptians. The Italians lost them to
the Abyssinians in 1887 and the Abyssin-
ians in turn to the dervishes in 1889.
The herald., 1898-12-25

News Novelties From Abroad
Statistics show that on an average every
man who has gambled at Ostend has lost
The herald., 1898-12-25

A woman who1
takes chances with
her health is sim
ply gambling with
the Black Devil of
Disease. If she has
INV 1ueokrecc or do
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-11-18

Blanket collecting is one of the diver
sions Of the officers wives who follow
their husbands fortunes to western
forts. In New Mexico among the Nava-
joes these blankets are curious products.
The designs are original with each
worker and are interesting imprints OF
individual impressions. One displayed
by all army woman. lately returned from
a considerable stay at a fort near Santa
Fe, has black trains of cars wandering
over its red ground. The Indian who
made it evidently admired the sweep Of
q railroad train and reproduced it SO far
as possible in the blanket. Another in
the same collection has queer mixed
border Of scrolls and figures without ap-
parent relation and still jumbled to-
gether in q sort of harmony. This, the
present owner relates, was admired by
q friend of hers, and in consequence q
request to duplicate it was made of its
maker. But the old squaw promptly ro-
fused. A papoose of hers had died while
the blanket was being wrought, and in
her simple reasoning the two facts were
effect and cause The pattern had be-
witched the baby, and no inducement
could coax repetition of the work. -
New York Post