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4 DAILY HERALD. PUBLISHED—— SEVEN DAYB A WEEK. JOSEPH D. LYNCH. JAXXS J. AYBBS. AVERS & LYNCH, - - PUBLISHERS. | Entered at the postoffice at Los Angeles as second-class matter. | DELIVERED BY CARRIERS At «Oc Par Week, or 80c Per Month. nBMS BY MAIL, INCLUDING POSTABB: Daily Hbbald, one year *8-0O Daily Herald, six months ».25 Daily Hbbald, three months 2.25 Wbxxly Herald, one year 2.00 Wibxly Hbbald, six months 1.00 Wbbxly Hbbald, three months 80 Illustrated Hbbald, per copy 16 Office of Publication, 223-225 West Second street. Telephone 156. Notice to Mail Subscribers. The papers of all delinquent mail subscribers to the Los Angeles Daily Hbbald will be promptly discontinued hereafter. No papers will be sent to subscribers by mail unless the same have been paid for in advance. This rale Is inflexible. AVERS <fc LYNCH. TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1891. The opposition to the issue of bonds for a new courthouse and jail in San Bernardino is waxing very sultry. The supervisors, however, appear to stand very firm on the proposition, and say that as the buildings are an absolute necessity, they will erect them by a di rect tax if the election goes against the bonds. Such a course would, indeed, raise a most terrific row. The saloon keepers of San Diego have get ahead of the city authorities $21,000. That is the sum they owed for licenses; but they fought its enforcement in the courts on technicalities until the author ities concluded to let bygones be by gones, provided the saloon men would agree to pay their licenses in the future. The saloon men are just that much ahead; for it goes without saying that they collected the money from their customers by watering their stock so as to cover the license they didn't pay. The sources of wealth that now lie neglected are very numerous in South ern California. Take, for instance, the contemptuous way in which the stones of the apricots, peaches and cherries, which are canned or dried, are allowed to go to waste. In Europe they would be worked up into Kirsch-wasser, a high priced cordial which is held in high es timation, and which is imported into this country in considerable quantities. The day is not distant when we will be too sensible to waste a thing that can be converted into a staple of great commer cial value. President Coli.is P. Huntington, of the Southern Pacific railway, has lately issued an order which will be of great benefit to Los Angeles, and which can not fail to please our merchants. He Las directed that hereafter all supplies required for the railway south of Mojave shall be bought in this city. The pur chasing agent of the company, Mr. H. Stevenson, will in the future divide his time between Los Angeles and San Francisco. We learn from an authori tative source that this new regulation means the disbursement of between $400,000 and $500,000 yearly in this city. This is a marked sign of the growth of a very friendly spirit towards Los An geles in Southern Pacific circles. "The people," says the Alta, "should not be deceived by the report from Wash ington that, notwithstanding the de crease in the federal revenues, the sur plus in the treasury is increasing. The surplus now is not descriptive of the fund described by that term before this administration came into power. The reserve funds of the treasury have been added to the available funds, in order to prevent the appearance of a deficit. In fact, by the book-keeping that showed the balances until this change was made, there is now a deficit; and the falling off in receipts means that it will increase rather than diminish" The fact that Secretary Foster has been compelled to force a -balance to appar ently meet current expenditures is proof enough that the surplus is gone and that the treasury is shinning for funds. Ex-Mayor Workman has offered to deed a tract of land to the city at Boyle Heights for a public park. This offer includes the free use of his cement res ervoir and the six-inch pipe leading to the tract. The tract is 300x500 feet. The city should not hesitate to accept any gift of this kind. The more parks we have, large and small, the better it will be for our city hereafter. Sagacious foresight in growing cities in reserving large tracts for public parks avoids the expenditure of immense sums after wards for these indispensable conveni ences when real estate has risen to great value. The people of Chicago have been very far-sighted in this respect, and the result is that some of the finest and most extensive parks in the country are to be found in that city. The marked falling off in the audi ences attending the performance of Lord Fauntleroy shows that the public soon tire of pieces that invade the nursery. Precocious infants soon pall on the pub lic taste. They may be tolerated and even admired for a brief—very brief— season, but when they are forced for ward as a regular thing, theater-going people willsay with Hamlet, "Something too much of this." There is a mere tricious tendency among modern play wrights to insert parts for precocious juveniles. And yet, every seasoned theatre-goer is ill at ease when they occupy the stage. There is a feeling that it is not the proper place for a child —that their prattle, however interest ing at the home and in the family circle, is not the pabulum upon which grown people want to feed. The tendency to ; put forward children in public is not i confined to the stage. Parents, too. often make the mistake of showing off their little ones in public exhibitions. The evil of this is that it implants a , i false idea of smartness in the child, and |, is calculated to make it forward and ill mannered. It takes away the pollen of innocence from them, and detracts from the interest we should all feel for the lit tle ones. __________ THE PRODUCTIVE BOOM. Boom notes —notes lounded on boom production—are very abundant in Los Angeles of late. A reporter of the Her ald, for instance, has learned from the officials of the Santa Fe railway com pany that that corporation alone are shipping to the east from three to eight carloads of potatoes a day. The Santa Fe officials admit that the Southern Pa cific railway company controls even a larger area of potato producing country than their own road, and we are thus confronted with the proposition that now from six to sixteen carloads of that tuber are being daily shipped from this county to east ern cities. These large shipments will continue until the first of July, when the eastern farmers will take a hand in the game. The same informant who gave the reporter of the Herald these interesting facts states that there are now fully 12,000 acres in potatoes in Los Angeles county, and that the railway average on recorded production in this county is half a carload to the acre. Taking no account of home consumption, this would give us 6000 carloads of spuds as available for the eastern market. The farming proposition in Los An geles county is one of unusual interest. Take potatoes, for instance. There is no difficulty whatever in making here abouts three crops a year of this escu lent. We gave an instance some time ago of the wonderful spontaneity of our soil down towards the Vernon district. A Chinaman to whom Mrs. Anna P. Spencer leased a portion of her ranch raised three crops of potatoes and one crop of peas within fourteen months. Such miracles of vegetation are so fre quent here that nobody is surprised by them, but they would be very astonish ing indeed to the industrious market gardener of the east —a class which is greatly needed here. A farmer in this exceptionally favored re gion can raise a crop of early po tatoes, succeed it by a crop of cabbages, and then be ready for a winter crop of early potatoes. He can raise each specialty at the time when it will yield the most remunerative returns, and he will frequently be able to sell his cab bages in the eastern market at ten cents a pound. At such figures a man can get rich on ten acres of land in half a dozen years. A single Italian in the neigh borhood of Downey last year shipped ninety carloads made up of cabbages and cauliflowers to the eastern markets, and got fancy prices for them. The fact is that California is destined to supply the east in the future with both fruit and winter and early vegetables. While Florida may be depended upon to produce a limited amount of oranges and some of the other semi-tropical fruits, the very soil in which they are grown has to be created. The Floridian grows no vegetables. Everything he creates he imports from New York and other eastern ports. The section around Norfolk, Virginia, which gives New York some early spring vege tables, cannot enter into the winter com petition with üb. Then there is the im mense region between Los Angeles and Chicago whose people must take both their fruits and their vegetables from Southern California. As a matter of fact, no industrious man can fail to make a handsome competency who will engage in the fruit or vegetable business in Los Angeles county. We note that that-monumental fraud, Census Commissioner Robert P. Porter, lately passed through San Francisco on his way north. It is a pretty comment ary on his statement that only 509 acres were planted in potatoes during the past year in Oregon, Washington and Cali fornia, that a single county of the fifty four counties of California last year shipped east —to say nothing of home consumption—six hundred carloads of that esculent, and that this year prob ably six thousand carloads will reach the same market from the same source. Los Angeles is the Paradise of the in dustrious and self-reliant farmer. Let him come here and be happy and as vir tuous as he pleases. Had the powers placed the same con struction upon the international obliga tion of neutrals in 1776 aa the United States now places upon its duty towards the Balmaceda party in Chile, it is questionable whether we would have emerged from the revolutionary war as an independent nation. Whoever has paid close attention to the politics of Chile must know that Balmaceda is a usurper; that he has violated the con stitution of his country, and set himself up as dictator; that the congressional party represents the cause of patriotism and the constitutional rights of the peo ple ; and that the men now in arms against the dictator are fighting for liberty. If Balmaceda should win in his fight against the patriots, Chile will be reduced to a condition of absolute sub jection to one man backed by an oligar chy of wealth. The United States gov ernmejt in its. policy of Btrict neutrality is doing all it can to bring this about. Our government should not hesitate to grant belligerent rights to the congres sional party, and that would cut the gordian knot of a situation which, by the modem conatruction of the interna tional obligation of neutrals, forces the people of a free nation to appear before the world as the supporters of a tyrant and a usurper; a violator of the consti tution of his country, and a traitor to the cause of civil liberty. Two rather interesting decisions were handed down in the supreme court of j the United States yesterday. The first ! iffirmed the constitutionality of the ' original package law. The second de- ; termined a point raised by Mr. Cleve- ; land while president. That official re- J moved a territorial judge of the United < States for Alaska, and the decapitated ' )fficial sued for his salary on the ground t THE LOS ANGELES HERALD: TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 26, 1891. that it waa not in the power of the pres ident to remove a federal judge during the term for which he waa commis sioned. The supreme court, Judge Mar ian delivering the opinion of the bench, holda that a territorial judge is not a federal judge, and that the president consequently only exercised one of his rightful powers in making the removal in question. There were three dissent ing opinions in this case, and amongst them was that of Mr. Justice Field, of this state. _ The recent constituting of Redondo aa a port of entry with a resident deputy collector is a deserved recognition of that rapidly growing place. It does today a business which places it in the front rank of Pacific coast porta outside of San Francisco, and at the rate at which her imports have swollen Redondo will soon discount San Diego in the amount of ton nage handled. The new traffic arrange ment with the Southern Pacific, which is evidenced by the V which has lately been put in at the junction of the tracks of the Southern Pacific and Redondo railways, out near Jefferson street and Grand avenue, shows that the large bus iness heretofore done at Redondo is about to be largely increased through the co-operation of the former corporation. With two railways, the Santa Fe and Kedondo narrow gauge, this new and ambitious port may be excused for put ting on airs. In ratio of growth it dis counts anything ever known on the southern coast, and it bids fair to main tain the impetus with which it started. The Fakir and His Fun at the Los Angeles. It goes with a pop-fizz-ah ! action, doeß the Fakir. The girls of the company are all sizes, weights and complexions, and they have not much to do except to wear wondrous gowns and look their pleasantest. But the men, or at least two of them, are a show in themselves. Mr. Alf. Hampton, the Col. Lexington, is bub bling over with new conceits and fresh stage business; and Mr. Max Arnold the Fakir himself, does, among a lot o clever specialties, a clog dance that al most deserves to be characterized by that much abused term, artistic. There is some fine singing, too little, dancing, and constant fun making. If you are of the class who like to take their pleasure seriously, or if you have convictions regarding the mission of the drama, or are accustomed to a point of view of affairs dramatic so high that the rarified surrounding at mosphere makes laughter a pain, why do not venture to see the Fakir ;* for he is all nonsense, all jingle, all joke. But there are a few of us left who like such things occasionally, and who will enjoy seeing this latest dramatic syllabub. It is billed for tonight and tomorrow night only, at the Los Angeles theater. KATIE EMMETT. Miss Katie Emmet t, one of America's foremost soubrettes, has made for her self a most enviable reputation as a star from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific. The Waifs of New York, the play in which Miss Emmett appears this sea son, is one of tbe strongest plays before the public, and tells a simple, touching story of the trials and sufferings of two friendless and homeless waifs cast adrift upon the cold charity of the world in the great metropolis, and of their subse quent rise to prosperity. It is a play that teaches a good moral, and one that should be witnessed by every mother and child in the country, as there is nothing to be seen during its actions to offend the most fastidious. Miss Em mett and her company will appear at the opera house Wednesday, June 4th, for four nights and Saturday matinee. NOVELTY THEATER. People continue to throng this popu lar resort and evince much pleasure with the entertainment afforded. The aim of the management is to present plenty of amusement for a nominal cost, and people must be satisfied with the qual ity and quantity or else they would not flock there as they do; This week's programme contains many features and an entire new company will arrive next Saturday. FREE METHODISTS. The Close of Their First Confer ence. Sabbath, the closing day of the Free Methodist conference, at their church on Fifth and Wall streets, was a great day amongst them. The love feast was an old-time one. The church was packed to listen to a masterly sermon by General Superin tendent B. T. Roberts, on the theme The Character and Composition of the Church of God. Clear ness, simplicity and pungency char acterized the discourse. At the close of the sermon Rev. C. B. Ebey, the pastor of the church, presented the matter of the remaining indebtedness upon the church. It a few moments it was paid in and subscribed, and Rev. Mr. Roberts offered the dedicatory prayer. The chapel is a model of neatness and sim- Elicity, capable of seating about two uudred people. In the afternoon at 2:30 Rev. J. A. Wood, of the National holiness associa tion, preached a very clear discourse on the subject of Perfect Love. At the close of this service, General Supesintendent B. T. Roberts set apart to the office of deacons J. S. Nickle, Frank K. Dubois, A. B. Phillips and E. C. Shipley. At 7:30 o'clock Mr. Roberts again preached to a crowded house on the Ne cessity of Radical Work in Religion. The altar was crowded with seekers. Seven persons united with the church during the services. The church here has been greatly encouraged by these services, and the new pastor, Rev. Thos. Fluck, enters upon his pastorate hope ful of a successful year. Pabst's Blue Ribbon Beer Is the finest brewed. Nothing better as a tonic. California Wine Company, Sole Agent. RED RICE'S. THE WEATHER TODAY IS LIKELY TO be slightly rainy. Red Rice's, Tuesday, May 26th—Its mighty good policy to be honest, says Red Rice; yes, yes. It turneth away a great array of envious reproach. Reader it is our and your good for tune that we have made some rare good buys in rich and expensive furniture, very cheap. Come and see for yourself. You who have never visited Red Rice's, a genuine surprise awaits you, for verily Red Rice keepeth not a junk shop, but great stores wherein are neatly . displayed the greatest stock of merchandise pertaining to house furnishing in all this fair land; all of which is being sold very, very cheap.! Yes, come and see how well you can do this week, both in quality and price at Red Rice's Bazaar, 143 and 145 S. Main st. Los An- i geles. AMUSEMENTS. THE SUPERVISORS. Bridge and Road Matters — Ex-Tax Collector Piatt's Bondsmen.' The board of supervisors met ip. regu lar session yesterday. Among the busi ness transacted waa the ordering of the bridge across the wash in the Hammel & Denker rancho, on the Los Angeles and Santa Monica central road, to be in creased in length by 16 feet, and bridge No. 2, on the same road, to be length ened four feet. J. D. Mercerean, the contractor, was allowed $106.65 addi tional for these changeß. It was decided that the board should today visit the Garvcy and Monterey pass road and Electric avenue in the San (Jabriel road district. An order waa iasued for the sale of the buildings on the city prop erty at the corner of Temple and New High streets. The buildings are three in number and will be sold at public auction on _me 27th at 12 m. to the highest bidsfl). During the session an interesting dis cussion took place between Charles Johnson, the referee in the case of the county against the bondsmen of ex-Tax Collector Piatt and the supervisors. The county will maintain that the bondsmen must be reaponaible for Piatt's receipts aa shown on his cash book, but Johnson holda that if double assessments have been collected, Piatt is only liable for what was legally due the county. No action was taken in the matter. NO SALARY GRAB. The Mayor Knocks Out a Nice Little Scheme. Mayor Hazard has refuaed his ap proval to the demand for salary by the commissioners in the matter of opening Sixth street, the opening having failed and there being no chance to pay them out of the assessments. In his message, on the subject the mayor says that the claim of the commissioners looks all right on the face of it, but that the amount charged, $600 for three men, is exorbitant, and that $60 would be amply sufficient. He goes into the de tails of possible abuses permitted by the system of allowing the commissioners to .fix their own salaries, and suggests that the council fix the amount to be paid before any more commissioners are ap pointed. NEW SUITS. Complaints Filed Yesterday With the County Clerk. Among the documents filed with the county clerk yesterday were the prelim inary papers in the following new cases: S. M. Sevier sues J. C. Whittingston et al. for $2150, damages caused by the action of the defendants in tearing up a certain two-inch pipe which supplied the land of plaintiff with water. Hannah Van Every sues T. N. Mc- Cracken et al. to foreclose a mortgage on section 15, T. 7N., R. 13 W.. amount ing to $1000, and for $200 attorneys' fees. S. S. Chaffe suea Katie C. Firßich to foreclose a mortgage for $2500, and for the appointment of a receiver. R. A. Guthrie & Co., merchants, file papers in insolvency. Their unincum bered assets are scheduled at about $5500 and their liabilities at $4754.40. Anna H. Johnson suea Thomas W. Johnson et al. to obtain partition of an estate. II Change «f Loral lon. Donahue's Grocery House will remove, May 25th, to 216 and 218 8. Spring St., with Seymour & Johnson Co. • Prof. D. Morgenstern, Chiropodist and Manicure, Late of New York. And Denver, Colorado, has taken rooms at Ham mam Baths. 230 South Main street, upstairs. Office hours from 9 to 4 p. m. Calls by appoint ment. Telephone, 374. * A Pure Cream of Tartar Powder. Superior to every other known. Used in Millions of Homes— 40 Years the Standard. Delicious Cake and Pastry, Light Flaky Biscuit, Griddle Cakes, Palatable and Wholesome. No other baking powder flo;r. such work. DR. ABERNETHY'S * GREEN GINGER BRANDY. Cures CRAMPS and COLIC. "It Is composed of the pures materials, and represents the full medicinal value of Jamaica Ginger in the highest degree of perfection." (**- t»sf-4 WM. T. 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