Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-21


San Francisco's normal rainfall is inches This
the precipitation to date nearly twelve inches
Evidently there is plenty of California rain to "go
round" and to spare.
The university professor who undertook to tell the
legislature all about taxation said STAMP taxes might
be another source of revenue" Yes, they might be-
but they won't in California.
Tacoma must have very loose financial methods
which allow of embezzement of $4,000 by city
treasurer and failure to discover the deficit until
too late to recover from bondsmen.
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The legislatures of Illinois and Wisconsin are back
ing the president in his railway tilt by commenda
tory resolutions other legislatures to follow
suit Californias statesmen should lag behind
The California club which rendered its first formal
reception Thursday night at it's club house. is
housed in the finest and best equipped building of its
kind the Pacific coast owned and occupied solely for
its purposes.
The lemon shippers report that their product is sell
ing in the marketes at much better prices
than have been received before in number of years.
full and excellent quality the reports that
come generally from the lemon groves.
1t deserved compliment that the Merchants
and Manufacturers association paid at the annual cleo
tion to its president and secretary President Niles
Pease elected for fourth term and Secretary
Zeehandeaar reelected "as usual"
Secretary of State Hay credited with having frus-
trated any covert attempt that may have been started
in Europe for division of the Chinese empire The
secretarys domestic knowledge convinces him that
broken China would be good for nothing
A junketing committee of assemblymen is slated to
start for the southland. A commerce and
navigation contingent will visit San Pedro They are
not supposed to be investigating the difficulties of land
navigation where there dangerous shoals and bars.
An unexpected benefit from the new Kern river
electric power plant which Los Angeles is
ported from Bakersfield At point in the river bed
where the water is taken out by the power company
gold bearing gravel has been discovered that yields
high as SO to the pan.
In the agricultural department of the state university
the fact has been demonstrated that fowls victims
of tuberculosis but the kindly given TO the
public that "the transmission of this disease through
eggs does not seem probable" AS hot temperature is
supposed destroy germs may considered safe to
consume poultry except in state.
The important news is cabed from London that
Ambassador and Mrs. Choate will be entertained at
Windsor castle as the guests of the king and queen
for two days next week" When "Joe" Choate was
merely lawyer and a good fellow in New York years
all he pretended to know about kings and queens
was that they graded just below the ace.
That extraordinary stoppage of the electric lighting
service reported from San Bernardino may afford a
hint for the Los Angeles dispensers of such product
When the familiar complaint to the office that
neighborhood is in darkness it would be relief to
change the theadbare by responding Cats are
tangled in the wires at the top of pole"
Former Mayor Snyder is well equipped by his six
years of official experience for the new business ON
which he is entering. He is president Of the City Rub.
Dish Removing company, new concern organized to
give the most satisfactory service" in respect to san-
tation and cleanliness. 1t is much easier job than
handing the human rubbish that Uttered the city hall
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The disastrous collision the Midland railway of
England involving the death of persons and the
injury OF large number is reminder that such caIam
ties are not peculiar to American railways The
accident on the Midland is attributed to fog and the
subsequent burning Of the indicates that England
has progressed farther than the United States in
safeguarding life railways.
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There is no discount the Observation-Disclosures of
the women who control the St Louis Humane society
Because the president of the association was credited
with killing raccoon when with coon hunting party
he was deposed from the presidency of the society
But there might be wide field of usefulness for him
II ne should now conclude to cunning for Missouri
political coons on the high perches
The president of the Y. M O. A.. Frederick f.
Rndge indicates promptly that he means to be very
active head of that excellent institution Mr. Rindge
is announced to deliver address before the asso-
citation Sunday afternoon at o'clock He and the new
vice president Arthur Let's, entering "heart and
soul" into the project for Y NJ c. building
IN this city OF which all citizens will have cause TO feel
oroud