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Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-24

Mitchell had marked out for him long
and distinguished career.
A singular circumstance of these fa-
talities is that they occur so often to
persons whose skill as huntsmen and
knowledge of the use of firearms has
often run into a proverb. About the
time of this fatality to Mitchell, an
other happened to Dolph de Cells, dep
uty sheriff, on another hunting expedi-
ton. He was drawing his gun from
the wagon and blew the top of his head
off. His skill in the handling of fire
arms was noted all over the lower
country, and yet such was his end.
The agitation which is now under
way for city and county of Los An
geles is not altogether new. From time
to time it's obvious advantages have led
to it's discussion in the press. Years
ago it has been handled in the columns
of The Herald substantially as 1t has
treated it now. There has been an as
piration for a city reaching from "the
mountains to the sea-" There are por-
tions of our territory to the north and
east that it would perhaps be better to
allow to organize into counties for
themselves. Pomona has had the am
bition to be the center of new county
The ample Antelope valley might set up
a court house at Lancaster or some
other convenient spot. The rest of the
present county seems to present very
homogeneous territory and practicable
conditions. 1t is hard to realize that,
only the other day, the county line ex-
tended to San Juan Capistrano. The
excision of Orange county seems to
have had results entirely satisfactory
both to the people of the old one and Of
the new.
Arthur BuIlock's Career
1 have received a letter from Rev.
Canon j. B. Good of San Diego, in
which he comments on the career Of
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-24
Written for The Herald by Col. Joseph D. Lynch

Missouri meal be enjoyed than in his
place He had a very handsome
daughter, who was married to gentle
man named Belts, who was the father
of Mrs. Erskine M. Ross, the wife OF
the accomplished federal circuit judge
who sits in the Tajo building, and OF
BILLY" Belts, deputy sheriff, who
died six or seven years ago in San
Francisco, and who was extensively
known all over California. This old
Missourian was a rare character. He
died long ago, but left his impress on
the country as one of its notable
pioneers.
Accidents to Hunters
The daily press is full of accidents to
hunting parties in which one of the ad-
venturers is sometimes mistaken for a
deer, or some other animal, and unin-
tentionally killed. An incident of the
kind occurred some years ago which
threw this whole community into pro-
found mourning. Sheriff H. M Mitchell
was one of the most popular young
men who ever figured in Los Angeles
county. He commenced his career as a
reporter on one of the Los Angeles
dailies. He read. law and was admitted
to the bar. He was an enthusiastic
Democrat. Shortly after he received his
sheepskin he was elected sheriff and
administered the office to the satisfac-
tion of everybody. He was married to
a daughter of the late Andrew Glassell,
u beautiful and accomplished lady. The
smiles of fortune were lavished upon
him in every direction.
In an unlucky moment he started out
on a hunting expedition with his friend,
W. E. Dunn, a fellow attorney who has
attained high standing at our bar, and
one of these lamentable mistakes oc-
Cured, and Mitchell's life was the for
felt, to the great grief and calamity of
all concerned. Everyone who knew
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-24

Arthur Bullock, at one time teller of
the old Temple & Workman bank. 1t
will be seen from my correspondents
letter that Bullock is dead. Many old
time Angelenos will be very sorry to
hear this melancholy account of his
later career. Alas! Poor Yorick! He
that was wont to set the table in a
roar has had a most pitiful ending. 1t
thus appears that every one connected
with the old Temple & Workman bank
old man Temple, Tom Temple, Bull
lock and Ledyard-have gone to the
great beyond. I append Mr.. Goods
note:
I'm that interesting account you
wrote for the last Sunday Herald upon
the Englishmen who made Los Angeles
their headquarters some years ago, you
include a description of one Arthur Bull
lock who, you say, subsequently went
up to the Puget Sound, made money in
real estate, and then went back to his
mother land.
"I knew him we'll for he lived in my
parish, Vancouver, B. c., for years,
running a dry goods business, which
paid him handsomely. Also he bought
considerable property in the town, and
though very close in his business was
considered by his friends as the very
pronounced good fellow, and was fond
of giving evening parties. He went
back to England and lived riotously for
some three years, losing pretty nearly
all he had. All his property was mort
gagged and eventually sold He re-
turned to Vancouver and became an
open sot, lost all his friends and died
a pauper. He is buried in the old ceme-
terry at Nanamo. His sisters and con-
nections in England were among the
best, but could not turn him from his
evil ways. I have known Nanaimo
since 1851 and was rector OF st. Paufs
for over 20 years. "I. B. GOOD"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-24
SCHOOL HAS BEGUN

They cut the pants of brother Jim
To fit the legs of little Tim.
All. me! twas years ago when Bill
And / would chase and race and run
To reach the school house meath the hill
Tc pick out seats ere school begun
Poor little Tim! He had to pose
Upon the low front seat; his toes
Were then two inches from the floor.
His brother Jim and Bill and l
Picked out our seats behind the door
For reasons that were smooth and sly.
| see her yet, a prim, sedate,
Staid parsonage. who sat in state
Upon the little platform where
She ruled with ruler. and with grim
Determination she would stare
Into the eyes of little Tim.
Poor little Tim! He seemed to grow
In wisdom on the front seat row;
But us big fellows by the door
Were satisfied to peg away
And learn little or no more
Than just enough to keep from play
Upon the farm is brother Jim
He wears the castoff pants of Tim.
Bill runs a rural barter store,
Yours truly's on a salry small
The chap who couldn't reach the floor
Will run for county judge this fall.
Horace Seymour Keller in New York
Sun
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Copyright, 1905, by Joseph B. Bowles.l
T YER since we knew the show was
billed for Philadelphia for Satur-
day, and that we would have to
stay over Sunday in that town, there
has been symptoms of revolt. Every
body connected with the show has a
horror of being found dead in Phila-
delphia. They claim it is too dead for
live people, and not very satisfactory
tc dead people.
A performer who was with the show
last year says that nobody but the
newspaper people who had free tick
cts attended the performances, and
some of them wouldn't go in the tent
unless the press agent promised to
set up a free lunch, with devilish gin
ger ale to drink, and that the press
people got riotous on ginger ale. A
ginger ale jag is terrible. When
man is full of ginger ale his intestines
loop the loop and tie up in knots, and
grippe like cholera infantum and un-
less his friends hold him he goes out
mIO Ine Worlu anu wants " MIL IiiS
women and children, and non-com-
hatants.
Press Agents at Work
Last year our press agents filled up
the members of the local press with
ginger ale, and when we struck Phil
adelphia this time the newspapers had
sworn out warrants for our show, on
the charge of compounding a felony,
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and done for by such transparent
dodge. 1t gave the managers of the
Harrison campaign all the material
they needed, while the effect on the
Irish vote was disastrous in the ex-
treme.
Tonner Had a Good Laugh
| have not the pleasure of knowing
Mr.. Osgoodby, who is still living near
Pomona, l think, but I knew Tonncr
well, and believe that he must have
had many a merry hour at the results
of his ingenious plot. The idea that
he and Osgoodby, sitting quietly down
at Pomona, could have convulsed two
nations, and determined a presidential
election, must have tickled him tn
death. Speaking of death, reminds me-
that he died some little time ago. lie
was undoubtedly the deus eX machine
of cne of the most memorable incidents
in the history of American politics.
Pomona was just about a dozen years
old when she was thus so sensationally
projected into American politics, hold.
ing the lime-light during whole CAM
paign. 1t is really strange what has
been done out there on the old Palo-
mares rancho. Before the Southern
Pacific began to build out toward Ari-
zona, Spadra was the center of a beau
tiful region, beginning at the eastern
boundary of the Puente ranch, ana
going eastward to the Chino and Palo-
mares ranchos, and on to the Etiwandn
country and beyond. In those days a
handsome house belonging to Chino"
Phillips and the unique old mission
tavern of old Billy Rubottom were the
only things of note outside of the old
Palomares hacienda.
The Rubottom inn and it's proprietor
were noted all the country round
Even far into Arizona was "old" Billy
Rubottom famed. Not in all California
could a more thorough, old fashioned
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saved. The fat woman got her dog
all right, and when pa came up from
the stake where they were going to
burn him and congratulated her on
recovering her dog, she turned on pa
and accused him of being the leading
cannibal and that he was the one who
put UP the whole job to steal the dogs.
She jabbed him with a parasol, but pa
was innocent.
Indians Ate Weinerwurst
The Indians got back to the tent
along toward morning, and the cam
nibals went back with us, and we had
to feed them on weiners, which was
the nearest to roast dog we could get
for them at that time of night
Pa seems to get it in the neck in
this show, cause everything that goes
wrong is laid to him, and if anything
goes right somebody else gets the
credit and 1 think he would resign If
il was not for his pride. After the
trouble about the Indians and the
cannibals the manager called pa up
and reprimanded him for indulging
the TRIBES in the wild orgies, and said
we couldn't maintain discipline as long
as pa mixed up with them and en-
couraged them in such things
Pa tried to explain that he was the
victim instead of being the cause OF
the dog roast. but the manager dis
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-24
CIRCUS OF THE PAST
Times Were Merrier When only One
Clown Performed

Clown Performed
From McClures Magazine.
l feel kind of sorry for the poor lit
tie young ones that grow up and never
know what a clown is like. oh, yes,
they have them today, after fashion.
They stub their toes and fall down the
same as ever but there is a whole mob
of them and you can't take the inter-
est in them that you could in one, the
only, the inimitable clown there used
to be, character of such Importance
that he got his name on the bills. He
was a mighty man in those days.
The ringmaster was a kind of stuck
up fellow, very important in his own
estimation, but he didn't have spark
of humor. Not a spark. And he'd be
swelling around there, all so grand,
and the clown, just to take him down
a peg or two, would ask him conun-
drum. And do you think he could ever
guess one? Never. Not one. And
when the clown would tell him what
the answer was, he'd be so vexed at
himself that he'd try to take it out on
the poor clown, and cut at him with
his long whip. But Mr.. Clown was
lust as spry in his shoes as he was
under the hat and he'd hop UP on the
ringside out of the way and squall out;
"A-a-a-ah! Never touched mel" We
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-24
GEORGE ADE's FARM
Thrifty Humorst Makes 1t Pay Him 8
Per Cent on Investment

A reader of I'm Babel" or Fables IN
Slang would scarcely expect their
author of leanings toward the simple
life Certainly, as that first title would
indicate, no writer of today, except
perhaps o. Henry, deals more essen
TALLY with the crowded hours" of
more or less glorious life"
George AIDES first care when the
dollars began to roll in was to get to-
gether a farm near his birthplace.
Kentland, Ind. His place. Hazelden,
comprises 900 acres and the farm is by
no means merely plaything. Mr.. Ada
makes it pay him per cent.
recent visitor reports the yield Of
oats close to fifty-five bushels per acre
and the corn the tallest in all Newton
county. Indiana is proud of George
Ade and the president of, the Big Four
railroad has promised to make his
name permanent in the state, if his
books fail to accomplish it, by naming
the station near Hazelden on a new
branch of his road George Ade."
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-24
Ex-Governor of wisconsin,.

were taking turns danciEg and eating
roasted corn, and they had barrel OF
beer and 1 knew enough about Indians
to keep away from them when they
mix beer with green corn, for 1t has
about the same effect as committing
suicide with carbolic acid.
Pa Put His Hat On
Pa put his hat on one side of his
head and went right into the midst of
the Indians, and grabbed chief called
"One Ear at a Time" and hit him with
the tent stake and knocked him down,
and said: Nov, you git" Well. sir,
that Indian had no more than struck
the fire in sitting position, and filled
the air with the odor of fried buckskin
tefore the whole tribe jumped on Pa,
and they kicked him with their mocca-
sins, and were going to murder him,
while the chief who acted as the burnt
offering, got out of the fire and sat
down in the cold mud to cool himself.
He held up his hand as a signal for
attention, and he called a council of
war, while the squaws sat on pa to hold
him down.
The council of war sentenced pa to
be burned at the stake, and they tied
him to a tree and began to pile sticks
around him, and pa told me to go to
the circus lot and give an alarm and
sends the hands to rescue him. Gee.
but didn't 1 run though, and yell an
alarm big enough for a massacre.
l told the hands, who were sleeping
under the seats or playing cards on the
trunks that the Indians were burning pa
at the stake, and some of the hands
said that would serve him right, and
the fellows that were playing cards
said they didn't want to break up the
game when they were losers to rescue
nc baldheaded curmudgeon. 1 thought
pa was a goner, sure, and 1 thought
l could smell flesh burning. Oh. but
was scared for fear they would burn
pa alive.
Just then the man who had charge
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which 1 suppose is the legal name for
ginger ale. The way the Quakers pat
ronize a show is to put on their gray
clothes and their big white hats and
stand on the corners when the parade
goes by and never crack a smile or
act interested, and when the parade
has passed they go to the circus lot
and see the balloon ascension and
stand on wagon wheels and try TO
look over the side of the tent at the
performance, and then they kick be-
cause the audience on the back seats
cuts off their view from the wagon
wheels.
Last year our show killed a Quaker
and the community is down on us.
The Quaker got in the show because
he owned a half-inch of ground that
its tents were on and he stood right
by the ring, and when the champion
female rider was suspended in the air
between two bareback horses he
leaned over too far inside the ring,
and she kicked his hat clear up to the
roof of the tent, and female trapeze
performer up there caught it and sat
down on it on the trapeze. The old
Quaker had heart disease and fell
dead. What the Quakers complained
of was that after the Quaker's re-
mains had been removed from the
ring that the show went right on.
They claimed that we ought to have
shown nrnner resnect to the dead by
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little quarrel, and since you acknowl-
edge it so handsomely, 1 don't mind
saying 1 was just teeny bit to plane
myself, but enough to count.
I wonder sweetheart, that 1 didn
stop to think Kitty Jones was telling
-. But no, in charity, shall not
write it down. Certainly, as you point
ed out, her finger is much too large to
ever have worn so tiny a circle.
l shall be home all tomorrow even
ing, and in the meantime can only sign
myself, yours till death. BESS.
p. S.--A million kisses.
N. B.-Father will be out.
P. S.-The dog is chained up.
N. B.-More kisses.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-24

BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK

of our cannibals, who each had dog
that they were looking for a place to
roast, came along and 1 told him about
the Indians corn roast, and he ordered
the cannibals to go drive the Indians
away from their fire and roast their
dogs. Well, it worked like charm
and the cannibals made a rush for the
Indians and drove them away just as
they had lighted the fire around pa
and we were not a minute too soon.
After the Indians had skedaddled for
the woods and we cut the cords that
and skun the dogs and began to cook
them, and pa looked on until it made
MIN squirmish, but he was so tickled
at being saved from the Indians that
HI tried to be good fellow with the
cannibals I guess it would have been
all right only the cannibals got to
drinking the Philadelphia beer, and
then 1t was all off, cause roast dog
wasn't good enough for them and they
wanted to roast pa.
F1rSt tney OlIeTeu pa Jug W eat, Dul
he had swore off on dog and passed on
IL, and that made the cannibals mad,
and they got ready to roast pa, and L
guess they would have eaten him half
cooked If it hadn't been for the per-
formers and freaks who had missed
their pet dogs, and the circus hands
told them the cannibals had just gone
to the woods with a mess of dogs to
roast for a dog feast
Well, they were just getting fire
around pa, and he was giving the
grand hailing sign of distress when
the performers, headed by the fat
woman, whose peeled Mexican dog was
lost in the shuttle, came in amongst
the cannibals, and pa and the other
dogs were rescued in the darnedest
fight 1 ever saw. The performers just
walked right over the canibals, and
mauled them with stakes, and all the
dogs that had not been killed were
pulled away from the heather and
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missed pa by telling him not to let 1t
occur again. Then to show the incon-
sistency of the manager, he ordered
pa to go ahead of the show to New
York and advertise that the cannibals
ir our show would give an exhibition
of roasting and eating human being,
and to offer a reward for anybody that
would consent to be roasted and eaten
in public.
Pa has gone to New York to look
for somebody who will take the posi-
ton of meat for the cannibals and he
is instructed to spare no expense to
find such a man. He thinks he may
find somebody connected with the
Equitable Life insurance scandal, who
has lost all desire to live any longer
and who will gladly go into this ''mu-
tual' scheme. / don't know.
This circus business is too much for
me, cause I am losing friends all the
time. Even the monkeys have got SO
they seem to be ashamed to be seen
talking to me, and when / pass the
monkey cage they turn their backs on
me as though did not belong to their
set. When fellow gets so low that
monkeys feel above him and throw
out sarcastic remarks when he goes
by it is time to change your luck
some way.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-24
THE "C0MING NATION"
Canadians Await With Anxiety the En-
franchisement of $4,000 Americans


franchisement of $4,000 Americans
Now the American immigration ques
tion in Canada has reached a climax.
1t takes only three years for an i'm
migrant to earn vote in Canada, and
75, 900 former American voters will soon
come into their Canadian suffrage.
There are in round numbers 100000
males more than eighteen years of age
in western Canada who formerly lived
in the United States, 100000 of whom
are old enough to vote. There are now
between 100000 and 100000 settlers,
with a possible voting population of
240 900, high percentage because many
cattlemen without families are emigrat-
ing from Montana and Wyoming. By
the end of 1905 the American vote in
the Canadian west will be overwhelm-
ing.
In eastern Canada thousands of peo-
pie believe that this invasion means the
ultimate annexation of western Canada
by the United States. 1t is called "the
coming nation"
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closing the show for thirty days and
wearing Grape on our arms, but cir
Gus is not built that way.
Quiet in Philadelphia
Ordinarily it may be quiet enough
in Philadelphia ON Sunday, but pa
found that he had more of run for
his money than at any place we have
been so far. We have had a tribe of
Indians with our wild west depart
ment all summer, and pa has not
stood very we'll with the Indians since
he was in charge of the show at Fort
Wayne, and they all got drunk, and he
had them tied UP to the poles around
the ring until they got sober. They
have laid for pa ever since and 1t was
only matter of time when they got
him. Then at Pittsburg our manager
picked up a company of cannibals that
had got left over from the ST. Louis
fair and who agreed to perform for
their board and clothes, and as they
don't wear any clothes to speak OF and
only eat dog week days, and hope to
get a human being to roast on Sunday
il seemed a pretty good bargain.
Well, the Indians got permission to
hold a green corn dance in piece of
woods near the circus lot, and the
management got them wagon load
cf corn, and they had built fire and
were roasting the corn and dancing,
and pa didn't know about it, and just
after dark the Quaker who owned the
woods complained to pa, who was on
watch Sunday night, that his Indians
had got off the reservation and were
preparing to go on the warpath, and
he wanted them to get off his premises.
Pa said he would go right over and
drive them back to the tents.
1 tried to get pa to let the police go
and drive them off, but he said he
hadn't no time to go and wake up the
roliee, and they wouldn't get around
anyway before the middle of the week.
So pa took a tent stake and started
for the green corn roast, The Indians
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last result was due to two men, the
Rev. DR.. Burchard, his enemy. and to
Gen. Pat Collins, his friend. The presi-
dent showed his appreciation of the
service by making the shrewd Bostoni-
an consul to Liverpool, the most lucra-
tive position in his gift.
Another Case
There had been before that time a
striking instance in which one man,
named Smith, made John Quincy
Adams president. In 1924 the election
was thrown into the house of repre-
sentatives. Smith was the congress-
man from Missouri. Each state count
ed but one vote, that from Missouri
counting as much as that from New
York. At the advice of his friend,
Henry Clay, Smith gave the deciding
vote for Adams, and started a bargain
and sale controversy which figured to
the end of Gen. Jackson's career.
Did an Angeleno make Benjamin Har-
rison president in 1888? Personally 1
have no doubt of it, and 1 think those
who recall the circumstances attending
the publication of the Murchison letter
will have no difficulty in reaching the
game conclusion.
In the fall of 1888 there were two men
residing in Pomona who put their heads
together and concluded to take part
in the campaign, which proved fateful.
One of these was T. C. Tonner, an Irish
man, and what most Irishmen are not
a Republican. He had been school
master and, at the time, was lawyer
He was of a shrewd, scheming tempera-
ment He was on intimate terms with
an Englishman named Osgoodby,
farmer.
In his last message to congress
Cleveland had taken pronounced free
trade stand, favoring the admission oil
free wool as a beginning of new de-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-24
Bags for School

Corduroy is. much liked for school,
bags.
These corduroy bags with leather
trimmings, cost seventy cents to $1.5O,
being fitted with straps or handles
Tor girls handles are preferred.
All bags are leather trimmed, the
all-leather ones not having met with
success. Possibly because they were
mostly of imitation leather.
English waterproof bags are said to
be satisfactory. They cost sixty cents
to $1.25, while canvas bags may be
had at prices ranging from twenty-five
to seventy-fve cents.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-24
Refined Pork

Harold was playing keep store and
had prevailed on his grandmother to
become one of his patrons When she
appeared in the role of customer he
said:
"Have some nice vegetables, or fruit.
or meat? Here is some extra nice
boiled ham. Have some?"
mo, thank you," she said. II don't
like ham,"
20, but 1 think you'd like this,
ma'am. 1t is hardly bit hammy."--
Lippincott's Magazine.