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4 LOS ANGELES HERALD pcblisbjd SEVEN DAYS A WEEK. Joseph D. Lynch. Jam la J. ayirs. AVERS & LYNCH, PUBLISHERS. I Entered' at the poftofflce at Loa Angelea ac second-class matter.] DELIVERED BY CARRIERS A.t Me Per Week, or SOc Per Month. T2BMB BT KAIL, INCLCDING POSTAGEI Daily Hebald, one year $S OO Daily Hbbald, six months A 25 Daily Hbbald, three months 2 25 Daily Hbbald, one month 80 Witt kly Hebald, one yesr 2 00 Weekly Hbbald, six month* 1 00 Webxly Bzbald, three month* 60 Illustbatxd Hbbald, per copy 20 Office of publication, 123-225 West Second street. Telephone 156. Notice to Mall Subscribers. The papers of all delinquent mail subscribers to the Los Ancbles Daily Hebald will be promptly discontinued her, after. No papers will be sent to subscribers by mall nnlces the same have been paid for in advance This rule is inflexible. AVERS A LYNCH. THVKSDAY, AUGUST »5, 180*. India is supposed to have 300,000,000 population, and it cost $1,000,000 to take the last census of that country, which bad to be printed in seventeen different languages. A man was taken to San Quentin last week with thirty-nine years' sentences chalked up against him. By the time he gets ont, people will be talking about something else than the tariff. These striking coopers who went into a man's sbopß in Berkeley and damaged his tools and engines, ought to be Bent to the penitentiary, and it would not be any great calamity if walking delegates were sent along with them. A taper says that Freeman, tbe his torian, could address a Greek audience in their own tongue, and so could Mr. Gladstone. That's nothing. O'Donovan Bossa and Sconchin Maloney could both do the same thing, and cot half try. Twenty-siy sailors on the whaling ship Northern Light, of New Bedford, are now in custody in a San Francisco jail for refusing to Bail the ship back to that port from Ounalaska. The ship is about 60 years' old and leaks like a eieve. The blowing up oi a car laden with steel ingots and consigned to the Carne gie works at Homestead, was unworthy of any good cause. It will be impossi ble for Americans to sympathize with those who resort to dynamite, the cow ard's weapon. It is estimated that there are 130,000 Chinese in America; and under the new exclusion act, the internal revenue de partment, is required to have a photo graph of each yellow mother's gander of them. What an album poor old Uncle Sam will have, to be sure. The "rogue's gallery," oi the New York police office, will be nowhere in comparison. Tub adjournment of the Santa Bar bara convention, to reassemble in this 'icity on tbe 10th day of next month, bodes no good to the party. The con vention was called for Santa Barbara, and shoul4 have made its nomination there. Let us hope that sensible action will be taken on the occasion of reas sembling, aud the business dispatched with promptness. The little Express applies the term of "blacksmith" to this office in a' way that is inappropriate. Each of the Hekald'B : owners served a full ap prenticeship to "the art preservative" at a period when five years waa the term of service demanded by tbe typo graphical unions at the East. When the editor of the Express used to allude to his imposingstone as "tbe anvil" this paper pitied his verdancy and treated it with the charity of silence. The efforts of Mr. Hubert Howe Ban croft to sell his alleged library to the United States for a half million dollars, will only provoke ridicule when the proposition comes to a vote in congress. There was once a historian, named Ban croft, who waa secretary of tbe navy un der Mr. Polk and other Democratic presidents, but he is dead and "dead men's clothes soon weaf out." There is no sunehine in the shadow of a great name. Hubert Howe Bancroft is as big a literary quack as can be found in America. A large number of his his torical work, so-called, waß done by a vagrant who sleeps on the sidewalks of Portland, and who has forgotten more about elegant writing than all the in mateß of the "History building" ever knew. It is stated by those who are in a po sition to know what they are talking about, that the great railroad strike is leading up to a famine in New York City, because of the inability of the railroads to get fresh supplies of provi sions into New York. Of course, the poorer classes are the greatest suf ferers, as they are only able to lay in their provisions from day to day. The docks of Brooklyn, Jersey City and the metropolis are crowded with little urchins, trying to catch fish enongh to atone tor the absence of meat at home. Two weeks more of this bus iness will see great suffering in the Em pire city; and all because wages have been reduced to enable railroads to pay dividends on stocks watered up to six times their actual value. Whether tbe Examiner's recently unearthed scandal really amounts to anything, bo fai ac the defensive armor of the new lighting shins is concerned, time alone will tell. When that paper caught hold of old John Roach's tinker ing with the Dolphin and other veesels of war, some people said it was a 'tempest in a teapot," while others de LOS ANGELES HERALD: THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 25, 1892. nounced it as "a scandalous attempt to wreck the reputation of a representative American mechanic." The Examiner was right, and every steamboatman in America knew it. A fair sample of Roach's work was that wretched iron coffeepot, the Alaskan, which foundered near Coos bay in 1889. At that time it was represented that there was a frightful gale of wind raging, that sunk tbe steamer. It so happens that some of the shipwrecked crew were picked up and saved by the crew of a dredger, which was being towed from San Francisco to tbe Columbia river. Any man who has ever handled a steam boat knows that a dredger or a pile driver is the very meanest thing ever handled at sea; and that if the Alaskan had been properly built, the dredger would have foundered first. We begin to think the Examiner has some foun dation for its charge against the Carne gie works. THE MEXICAN GRANT-HOLDERS ENEMY. Probably there never was in America, from the opening of the current century to this very day and hour a class so op pressed under a republican form of gov ernment as the native population of California, to whom graats were made by the parent government of Mexico prior to the treaty of Queretaro. By the terms of that treaty the United States government was to recognize and confirm the validity of those grants in and to tbe lands therein mentioned, wherever the same were properly au thenticated. The history of those grants and their owners who were, for the most part, wholly ignorant of American court procedure, is a sad and pathetic picture. Their cases were carried from court to court till they were impoverished. First went all their money; then tbeir flocks of cattle were sold for less than half their value, to keep up the incessant strain of the courts; and finally, when the lands were confirmed to them, their substance was devoured in court costs and lawyers' fees. Suppose the government had Baid— we will respect these grants just this far. We will survey these lands and sell them at $1.25 per acre just as we sell all other public lands. But we will reserve 25 cents per acre out of each sale to cover the cost of Burvey, and pay the remaining $1 per acre to the grant hold ers. Such was Dr. Gwin's idea of the case, but General Fremont who owned a grant himselF, overruled him and Gwin withdrew his bill. A commission composed of J. D. Thornton, Alpheus Felch and another whose name is now forgotten, came out here during Mr. Pierces administration, to adjudicate on these claims. If the claimants were dissatisfied with their judgment, they had tbe right of appeal to the United States district court, whose judge up to a year ago was Ogden Hoffman. As is well known to many of our readers, Judge Hoffman made five or six pilgrimages to the City of Mexico in search of information that would en able him to adjudicate more clearly upon the most of these cases, but a few of which ever went up to the supreme court of the United States. Generally speaking, they were all determined prior to 1865, and since then have passed through a dozen changes of ownership. It was reserved for Attorney General Miller, the former law partner of Benja min Harrison, now president, to take measures contemplating the reopening of these land grants, until rebuked by Senator Stanford, who told bim that such procedure would make California a Democratic state till the very crack of doom. Tbe president, being a shrewd politician, and not wishing to impair his chances of re-election, ordered at once that all proceedings in this line should terminate. The grant holders of Cali fornia, as well as those who have pur chased from them, cannot afford to vote the ticket of a party whose chief legal officer has virtually declared that there is no such thing in law as an innocent purchaser. THE BAY STATE FOR CLEVELAND. Tbe Boston Post is an old-established paper, and is addicted to conundrums. About tbe time that the Kentucky reso lutions of 1798 first appeared in print, the Post gave its original conundrum: "Why is an elephant like an oyster? Answer: Because neither of them can climb a tree." After nearly a century of rest from such an arduous labor, the same paper now asks, Why should Mas sachusetts vote for Cleveland? But, in total discordance with the former occa sion, it fails to provide an answer to its question. We can tell the Post why Mr. Cleve land should receive the electoral vote of the old Bay state. It is because he is candid, and has the courage of bis con victions ; because he speaks and acts without resorting to the employment of conscience-keepers ; and because he was manly enongh to prefer defeat to equiv ocation. He treads no dark and devi ous paths in his walk before tbe people ef this country. Hia errand in life is an honest one, and every citizen who knows anything about the public affairs of the Ration, knows just where Mr. Cleveland stands upon every important question and practical issue of the day. How, then, can Grover Cleveland hope to carry that state, whose electoral vote has always gone Republican for the past thirty-six years ? For the simple reason that the peo ple, of the old commonwealth are people who read and remember what they read; because there ie sufficient moral courage yet left in the land of Daniel Webster and Rufua Choate, to back np a man whose candor is proverbial and his integrity unquestioned; because pop ular education has reached a higher pitch in Massachusetts than in any other state in the union; and because the blood of Bunker Hill and Lexington is not yet run out. Massachusetts is the home of free thought—it was the cradle of Wendell Phillips and a score of other masterly intellects, not excluding Prescott and Bancroft among historians; Wendell Phillips and Daniel Webster among orators; Touro and Whittier among .philanthropists; to say nothing of George Peabody, Dr. Holmes and Starr King. The cradle of free thought will have a support for Cleveland that will astonish the far west. She has elected several Democratic governors, but this time Cleveland will catch her maiden Democratic electoral vote. BRAVE BUT BOGUS BATTLING. The Sham Fight at Camp Anacapa Yesterday. Camp Anacapa, Ventura, Cal., Aug. 24—A good deal of powder was burned in camp this afternoon, when a sham battle was fought, with Companies B and F, as the defending force, and the other four companies of the regiment as the attacking force. Companies F and B remained in camp, having the gatling gun stationed in tbe rear and the ho witzer stationed on tbe right near the colors. The four companies forming the attacking force left camp at 1 o'clock, tbe defending force immediately forming on the parade ground. At this juncture tbe other companies of the attacking force appeared on the railroad track in large numbers, which so intimidated the defeni-e that they drew bask, leav ing their cannon unprotected, except by the squad with it, which was soon over come. As soon as tbecannon was captured it was turned around and used with great effect against the fleeing enemy. The rest of the force had gotten into camp aud formed in tbe rear of the can non, while the two retreating compa nies succeeded in getting under cover and strengthening their position by bringing up the Gatling gun. A general advance of the attacking force was then ordered, but they were nnable to take the position of the de fense, by reason of the vigorous firing of the gatling gun, and were finally forced to retreat. The colonel's horse was shot, and there were! make-believe killed and wounded on both sides. The wounded were cared for by the field musicians, who were de tailed as litter bearers, and a field hos pital was established under tbe care of the hospital steward. The battle was viewed by hundreds of interested spec tators. The Bhooting contest for the Ventura cifzens' medal was continued today. The match now lies principally between Sergeant Case, with a score of 81; Pri vate Splittstoeser, with a score of 81, and Private Reilley, with a score of 86. POLITICAL MATTERS. TAX COtLKCTOK WHITNKVB AT- Tft3ll*l' AT EXPLANATION. Those Tax Receipts Cause Him to Cn wlsely Rush iuto Print—A Report tbat Mr. Blame is Com ing—Notes. The distressed Express comes to the rescue of Tax Collector Whitney, and with great ease plunges that excusing officer deeper than ever into the inex plainable. He is now in the same depths aB the other official McGintys exposed by the Herald. Mr. Whitney makes a statement, after a year's time, as to why last year, when election wis a long way off, be awarded the contract for the printing of the tax receipts to Kingsley & Barnes without asi leg for bids. He says, " — I bad no time to look aronnd for bide." That is his excuse. Will it go with the tax payers? This year Mr. Whitney thought it prudent, election day approaching, and having plenty of "time." to ask for bids; the result was tbat the receipts were printed on a superior quality oTpapor to that used last year, and the cost to the taxpayers Was less than half the amount paid to Kingsley & Barnes. Mr. Whitney takes the same line of defense adopted by his confrere, Mr. Ward, in the matter of awarding the contract for the printing of the great register to the distressed Express—that is, that he had the power to do so. Like Mr. Ward, he appears to be somewhat morally myopic. The power to do a thing does not make it right. It does not excuse wasting the people's money. Mr. Whitney, in his accusatory ex cusing, says : "The law does not require me to let tbe job on contract. I can give it to whom I please. fixed by tbe supervisors allow me to pay $750 for this job. It was done by the firm I gave it to for a little over $600." He claims credit for getting the job doncjor something like $150 less than it might have cost, when as a matter of fact, it should have cost $450 less! That is a fine explanation is it not, Messieurs the taxpayers of this county ? Does it satisfy you? Is it business-like? The Express refers to the article in yesterday's Herald, on this subject, under the heading "Blowing Away at a Broken Reed;" that is correct, the "broken reed" is Mr. Whitney. He who excuses accuses, is a true saying, for that is what the Express al ways manages to do for every one of the many unfortunate office-holders it has attempted to protect. BLAINE MAY COME. There is a report that tbe Blame fam ily has secured rooms at the Hotel Coro nado for the fall, says the Examiner, and that it is quite likely that the idol of the California Republicans will be in tbe state during the latter part of the campaign. If such should prove to be the case the state committee will make an earnest effort to induce him to speak at a half dozen different points before the election. It is understood tbat influential Re publicans are in communication with the plumed knight, and that he will be urged to come out and obtain ocular evi dence of his popularity in California. In looking over the Ninth ward it will be observed tbat there are more candi dates to the square inch than can be found in any other ward in Los Angeles. There is Collins, for supervisor; Frame and Reese, for the assembly; Richard son and Rogers for constable; Cobb for justice of the peace; Sonneman and Ward for county clerk; Perry for sher iff; Bull and Loomis, Campbell, Clark, Irvin, Ferguson, O'Bryan for council man, and Wirsching for supervisor; be sides one candidate for mayor, one for county auditor, in the person of Lopez, and one for city auditor, Fred Teale. Several more are talking of entering the field for tbe various other offices. If any other ward can show a more numer ous gang for office, that ward can take the bakery. The People's party expects to control tbe election of councilman in the Ninth ward the coming fall, and also the elec tion of mayor of the city. Tbe balance of power is a nice thing for any party to have. FRUITS OF THE EARTH. FINK SPECIMENS AT THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Recent Additions to the Varied Show. World's Fair Matters Making; Great Progress — Donations Received. The exhibit of neighborhood products nnder charge of the chamber of com merce has been kept fairly well supplied with fruitß and vegetables of late, but the replenishments seemed not alto gether satisfactory to Superintendent Wiggins, in view of the fact that the present is the harvest time of a large proportion of Southern California pro ducts. The superintendent, therefore, took a little rustling tour to Beveral of the neighboring towns the other day, reminding fruit growers tbat a small portion of the firstlings of the horticul tural flock might well be dedicated to increasing the _ attractiveness of the chamber's exhibit. As a result, the customary offerings have been supple mented by many others, and a stream of specimens has been pouring into the exhibit ball during the past two days. Among the noticeable donations re cived yesterday were the following: The Rosecrans ranch sends an exhibit of Bartlett pears, Kelsey plums, Hunga rian prunes, orange cling and Muir peaches, all raised without irrigation, of good size and unusually fine flavor. Dr. B. B. Briggs, o"f La Cros-centa, sends clusters of Bartlett, Flemish beau ty and russet pears. J. W. Cook, of Tropico, sends an ex- Libit of white winter Pearmain apples. Peter Mullen, South New Main street, sends a number of lemon cling and Crawford peaches, weighing three-quar ters of a pound each. L. S. Ottman, Fruitland, sends some Crawford peaches weighing a pound each. These specimens have been put into preserving fluid for exhibition at the world's fair. W. W. Blin, Duarte, sends in dusters of French prunes and Kelaey plums, which will also be preserved for exhi bition at Chicago. W.C. Andrus, Mr. Dole and Sheurman Bros., Pomona, send plums, pears and prunes. ' G. N. Lewis, Azusa, orange cling peaches for world's fair. J.F.Edwards provides the chamber exhibit with the first large squash of the season, his specimen measuring 6 feet 4 inches in circumference, and weighing 136 pounds. J. F. Jenkins, city, Ponderosa tomatoes of unusual solidity and regularity of shape. S. J. Coleman, Glendale, sends a num ber of the finest Flemish Beauty pears which have graced the exhibit tables this season, each pear weighing three fourths of a pound or more, and being as smooth as wax. Mrs. A. L. Hooper sends Crawford peaches. C. 0. Thompson, Pasadena, sends some branches loaded with Hungarian prunes as a sample of the crop raised in his orchard. Mr. Thompson yesterday shipped east five tons of these prunes, and Messrs. Earl & Co., through whom the shipment was made, assert that they were the finest fruit their firm had shipped this season, excelling in size and quality the best product of the northern section. O. A. True, of Boyle Heigh Is, sends a pie pumpkin weighing about 30 pounds. 18. F. Boone, Ramona, sends black berries. The berries are few in number, but every one is two inches long. The chamber is now receiving appli cations for space at the horticultural fair, to be held under the auspices of the chamber of commerce from the 3d to the Bth of October. world's fair notes. The Committee having in charge the matter of securing material for the local exhibit at tbe world's fair, reports that dried fruit is coming in in satisfactory quantity, and of unexcelled quality. Bliss brothers, of Duarte, send four sacks; Becker brothers, of Lamanda, one sack, and H. P. Phelps, of San Ga briel, two sacks. This fruit will be re sorted and placed in display boxes. Fancy display boxes for dried fruit were yesterday sent to Redlands, Pasa dena and Sierra Madre, and two cases of glassware, to be filled with fruit for ex hibition at the world's fair, were for warded to Piru city, Ventura county. The Pomona board of trade has al ready prepared a handsome display of fruit in glass jars. The exhibit includes pears and peaches weighing from one to one and one quarter pounds each. The demand for jelly and jam jars is very much greater than the supply, the secretary now having orders for thirty five dozen oriental jars which have been ordered. One case of glassware was re ceived yesterday consisting of jars for tbe jelly palace, which willjbe distributed as soon as orders are received from the jelly palace committee. One of the attractions of tbe orange grove at the world's fair will be an or ange tree three feet high and three feet across tbe head, bearing fifty-six or anges. Tbe tree comes from the orchard of A. O. Thomson, at Duarte. The work of setting out a hundred ornamental and shade trees, was yester day completed at the state forestry sta tion, at Santa Monica. The trees are planted in boxes preparatory to ship ment to Chicago, next spring. The committee is anxious to obtain samples of orange, lemon, olive and almond wood, cut in sections four feet long and six to eight inches in diameter. Parties able to do so are requested to send wood of this character to the chamber of commerce. The committee also requests samples of grains, which will be properly prepared for exhibition, and due credit given to donors. W DELICIOUS Flavoring Extracts NATURAL FRUIT FLAVORS. Vanilla 01 Perfect purity. Lemon ~ Of great strength. 9r ~ ' Economy In their use RoseetCjrr plavor aa delicately and ctoltolously aa the f reeh trmr> THE COLUMBIA COLONY, In Southern California. 6520 Acres of Land Offered by the Southern California Land Company, 230 North Main Street, Adjoining the First National Bank. 1630 Shares at $100 Each, in Installments of $5 per Month Without Interest. NOT fi LSND DISTRIBUTION, BUI AN INVESTMENT OF MONEY! Each Share Will Earn 5 Per Cent rev Month on Each $100 for Five Years From the Date of the First Subscription, and Has the Best Real Estate Security. BOOKS OF SUBSCRIPTION NOW OPEN. wi,h\ X l eenhU^f £daDdthlrtyBbarC ' at?loseaCllwUlbu y bowler Ranch ol 6520 acres, with the present improvements and the prospective Improvements to be made by the present owners »• a cost to them ot $30,000. This splendid proporty la situated on the border line of Tulare and Kern counties, four miles west of tu e Valley Road of ,he tiouthern Pacific Railroad, and four miles north of the branch line to the oil wells, and twelve miles weft of the present line to Ban Francisco. A survey of the Banta Fe line has been made through the western por tion of this trace. „ * e "' frult and vlne lan<l In 'f'e. m the heart of the artesian belt. To be subdi vided into 40-acre tracts, including a townsite, with artesian wells and an irrigating canal of twelve miles, broad avenues with trees, and water for conveyance to each subdivlr-ion. These improvements to be paid for by the present owners, and are included in the contract of sale to this company. For these lmprovem-nts $30,000 is set aside. Title perfect and undoubted. *' 11 — :±..::. , - ....ggsst OPENING OF THE CAMPAIGN & ON THE PART OF -)iTHE DEMOCRACY^ Under the instructions of the State Central Committee mass meetings will be held in all the considerable cities and towns in the State on Saturflay EvenißS, Anpst 21, 1892. Good speakers will address the people on the live political issues of the day. The meeting in LOS ANGELES CITY will be held at the Broadway front of the Courthouse, and will be addressed by HON. STEPHEN M. WHITE, HON. R. F. DEL. VALLE, HON. O. F. ORONIN, end HON. GEO. S. PATTON. Other speakers will be as follows: AT PASADENA: Frank G. Finlayson and Gen. J. R. Mathews. AT POMONA: C. F. Harris and J. R. Graff. v AT LONG BEACH: W. A. Ryan and J. W. Mitchell. AT REDONDO: Maj. W. R. Burke and Geo. W. Merrill. AT SANTA MONICA: Col. J. J. Ayers and T. E. Gibbon. AT AZUSA: Clarence A. Miller and W. S. Creighton. AT VENTURA: Col. Messmore and H. D. Cassiday. By order of the Auxiliary Committee of the Democratic State Central Committee. GEORGE J. DENIS, Chairman. W. U. MASTERS, Secretary. THE JONES NATIONAL FENCE. .NO g . , .8 FOR mß'fWi FUDGES That will take up the slack, retain the crimp, and lock tho stay, preventing sagging, and stock from spreading the wires. THE COMING FENCE Turns Chickens and Rabbits, as Well as Every Kind of Stock. This Lock and Stay applied to either plain or barb wire makes a better fence, with posts 100 feet apart, than any other process with posts 6 feet apart, and is tbe cheapest, strongest and most durable fence in existence. Samples of fence and gate on exhibition opposite new post office. Investigate this see tern of fencing before using any other, and thus save money. Sup plies end machines for making fences and using this patent Lock and Stay for sale by J. Q. AVARS, Owner of Patent for Southern California and Arizona, and General agent for Pacific Coast States and Territories, 424 SOUTH MAIN BTREaT, LOS ANGELES, CAL. AGENTS WANTED. suwem HIGHLY IMPROVED PAYING FARM FOR SALE! Containing 62 acreß of land, all in high state of cultivation ; cottage bouse, hard-finished, of seven rooms, bath and kitchen, together with small cottage of three rooms for laborers; about four acres in bearing Washington Navels; 5 acres English Walnuts; 5 acres Winter Ap ples ; two artesian wells; about 3000 feet service pipe and hydrants. First-class corn, alfalfa and orange land; all fenced and cross-fenced. Apply at once to JOHN DOLLAND, 8 . 10 . 1 m 115 South Broadway, Los Angeles, Cal Fred. A. Salisbury wood, coal~m7mmd CHARCOAL AND THE CELEBRATED CALEDONIAN COAL, ALSO WELLINGTON COAL.. No. 345 South Spring Street. *Tel. 226.