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6 THE HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY PUBLISHERS OF LOS ANGELES HERALD DAILY, SUNDAY AND WCTKLT. JOHN BRADBURY President JOHN F. HUMPHREYS Vice-President WM. LACY Secretary JOHN T. GAFFEY Managing Editor DOUGLA3 WHITE. Business Manager O. A. STEVENS City Editor OFFICE: HERALD BUILDING, 823 AND ::Z5 WEST SECOND BXHEIT. TELEPHONE 158. MEMHEK ASSOCIATED PRESS. Full Lbaskp Wittx Service. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. BY CARRIBR: Per Week * "j Per Mouth 80 BY MAIL (mc tiding postage): Daiiv Herald, one ye»r 8 OO Daily Herald. six months A » Dully Herald, three months 2 -o Dnllv Herald, oue month SO Weekly Herald, one year 1 SO Weeulv Herald, six months 1 OO Weekly Herald, three mont*is Jv j Illustrated Herald, per copy -O Entered at Hie l'ostotnce at Los Angeles as ti l oiid-ciMFs matter. ANNOUNCEMENTS. The papers of all delinquent mall subscriber tctbe Daily Herald will be promptly dlscon inued hereafter. No papers wll bo sent to subscribers by mall unless the same have been paid for in advance. J. P. Fisher, newsraper advertising agent, Jl Merchants' Excnanire, San Francisco, is an authorised asent. This paper is kept ou die iv bit oflice. Sole Eastern Advertlfln- Accnt, 8. P. Palmer, Bhinelandor Building, New York. Tho Henili) is sold at the Occidental Hotel Be wa fland. San Francisco, for oc a copy. No contributions returned. nrOXKSUAY, DKOatMBBB 19, 180*. Any person who cannot buy The Herald at newsstands in the city or in its suburbs or onrailroad trains, or at anyplace where a Los Angeles paper ihould be sold, will oblige vs by reporting the /act to the Her ald office, Los Angelee, THE THREATENED STRIKE. The people of California are appre hensive of another Btrike ou the South ern Pacific. Their sympathise are largely with the employees of the corporation whoße grievances are undoubtedly based on tbe reimlts of a flagrant tyranny and an utter disregard of right, justice or common humanity. This sympathy was demonstrated during tho iitrike last nmmer by the patience with which all classes and interests submitted to in convenience and financial lossea incurred through the criminal obutinscy of tho corporation. Merchanta and business men of every degree- and the traveling public hoped, aa thoy are vow hoping, that the diapnte between the railroad company and ita employees would be amicably adjueled. Tb* manner in which it was final!;' sattled was not at all satisfactory to honest, justice loving citizsne and the aftermath of tha trou ble proves that it waa not the boat set tlement tbat could have been made. In proof of thia assertion is tho exist ing condition of unrest and apprehen sion among the railroad employeea in» cited by tbe threat of the company to cut tbe wagea of the trainmen. On trains running out of Loa Angelea the method ia aomewhat peculiar. The wages are not disturbed but the "run" is extended. Kngineers, firemen and conductors who have been running to Rakers field—loss than 200 miles — must now run to Fresno, a distance of 295 miles. Tbe time on the former run was seven hours; the latter is 10 hours. The revised statutes of the federal government regulating tbe navigation of steamboats provide that no captain, pilot, engineer, fireman or other navi gating official shall he employed in that capacity longer than six hours, and the penalty assessed against the employer for violation of the la-v ia a firj» of not lees than $200 nor more than fIOOO, with the alternative of iuiprirjonment if the fine b» not paid. It would iieoua but justice to em, pie; ecu if railroad corporations would jmp'-l * similar enactment for their pro tection. At any rate, in the absence of such a law, tbo Southern Pacific has taken advantage of the situation and notwithstanding itn compact with the euglnears during tho recent Btrike, is compelling tlitm to t.uhmit to orders in direct defiance of tha provisions of that compact. It ia true that the corporation doea not reduce >-,„.,ea on thte division, but the evasion of un extended run is even more contemptible and hurrassing. It ia sincerely hoped by the genaral public that the existing disagreement betvepn the corporation and itß em ployees will be Amicably adjusted. Roth partie.fi to the. dispute should profit by the experience of tho past and realize that there iB a third element in the community that ie worthy of considera te n—an element on which both of theee disputants are in a very decided measure dependent for profitable exietence. SAN DIEGO'S WATER MONOPOLY. San Diego is in earnest in the effort to jecure municipal ownership of water worlts and City Kngineer Cuppß Las tiled a report o! piano for an entirely new nat«r distributing Byatem in contempla tion o! the intent of th« city to con struct an entirely new system and meet ail requirements of the present time. The plans provide for n system of cast-iron pipe throughout, with no pipes less than four inches, and with maxi-. mum gizsi 22 incheß in diameter. Three reservoirs are provided for—one on University Heights, one in the city park Rnd one on Joint Loma. The first two are each to be uOOxoOO feet and fare feet deep, and that at i'oint Loma to be I£s feet square and five feet deep. The plan is to deliver water first at University Heights reservoir, and con duct it ia • 22-inch main from there to about tbe intersection of Fillmore street nd tbe park, where the main will be aplit in two mains, one 18 and one 16 inchea. The Id-inch main will carry water to tapply Florence Heights, Point Lome and Pacific Beach. Tbe night flow to Roaeville will be accumulated in a reservoir there, and thua allow a smaller pipe to that point. The 18-inch main will carry water to the reaervoir, and from there all tbe lower lectiona of the city will be supplied up to the 140 --foot contour; all above that level to come from the Univeraity Heighta res ervoir. The total length of line of pipe will be r> 1 miles, and will cover every point covered by the preaent system and aome additional pointa. It will be a cir culating ayatem, with no dead enda where water can iie stagnant. The cost of cast-iron pipe is estimated at $30 a ton, delivered in San Diego. Tbe present price is $26, but freight rates will be advanced $4 after January 1, and allowance ia made for tbe ad vance. Ontbia basis the coat of tbe en tire eystem, laid and connected with tbe pipeaof the consumers and ready for use ia $585,000. Aa figured, it will have a capacity of 750 inches of water, but by adding mains can be made to carry 1000 inches. No city in tbo world, probably, is as completely in the grip of a water mon opoly as San Diego. Even Los Angela* cannot compare with San Diego in this reaped. This is owing to the extreme difficult? of getting water and tbe ex deiißE required to convey tbe supply. If under tbe plans proposed San Diego can emancipate harsfilf from an odioua aud oppressive monopoly, there ia hope for e7ory other city in the state. A SOUND CURRENCY CAMPAIGN. Toe late announcement by the Re form club of New York, of tb» campaign which it has planned in h.ti».f of sound currency has been promptly followed by the publication of a discussion ou na tional and state banks, by Mr. Horace White, aa the first number of tbe sec ond volume of a periodical entitled Sound Currency (the first volume of which waa published during tho few months following the Cooper Union meeting of 1891). Thia article of Mr. White's in in large measure hia Philadelphia addresi of 1593, brought down to date. It is ■ summary discussion not merely of the loading theories of banking and cur rency, but of the more important epi sodes in the history of our state and national banking experience, as well as of the eesentiala of a safe and elastic currency plan to take the place of our present ayatem, which, while releg .tun; to our banka the offico of supplying credit currency, ehall leave the national treasury free from entanglement with business ooncern not its own; though every reasonable safeguard is secured by administrative aeeistance on the part of the federal government. It is scarcely too much to say that, of the much that ha" beeu said and writ ten un its subject matter within the part two yeara, Mr. White's suggestions have had a wider circulation and produced v greater effect than all others combined. Especially is this true of his insistence, from tbe first, upon tho "banking prin ciple"—tbat is, that currency snail bs an incident of the general business which it serves, and can best be made aafe by limitiag its quantity in propor tion to the genera! security of tha issu ing bank, rather than by attempt—de structive to its utility and elasticity — to base it upon special deposit of secu rities. Upon thia point, bath in argument and elation of experience, tbe pamphlet in question is lull and cogent; while ita criticism of our national banking sys tem is pointed, and its argument in favor of the necessity of promptly re placing it by aome plan to provide for a safe and elaatic bank-note currency will be accepted by most as ooncluaive. District Attorney Dillon filed a suit yesterday againet R. F. House, in which be aeeka to recover $10,11193, which the supremo court of this state has de cided was illegally paid to defendant House on a oontract made with Attor ney-General H. H. Hart and State Comptroller Colgan, in consideration of certain fees to be paid from moneys which the aaid defendant House might be able to collect from the redemption of property Bold to the etate for taxes from 1870 down to and including the forty-second fiscal year. In one year under this agreement, which the supreme court of this state haa declared was illegal and made without any authority or sanction of law, defendant House collected as bis fees the amount now sued for. The reeult of this suit will bear close watching in ita course through tbe civil courts. There was method in Governor Waite'e madnesa. He was not gallop ing through "blood to the bridlea" merely for dramatio effect. It was a well laid advertising plot from start to finish. Governor Waits ia announced to deliver hie firat lecture at the Audi torium in Chicago on January 12th. He will then afflict New York and after wards wreak a comprehensive revenge on the rest of the conntry. FABJCKBSon the Pan Pedro complain of the big fish of that stream which relieve the cows of their milk when they go in to drink, it Is proposed to ask the legislature to offer a bounty for llsh scalps. [Tombstone Prospector. Having exhauated the coyote crop, which ho diaposod of at good prices to California, tho thrifty Arizonisn ia now preparing .to establish atl "infant in dustry" on his own resources. The practice of pardoning criminals in droves immediately preceding tha close of a gahnrastorial term ia a bud one. Tbe reason for this jail delivery at this particular time is probably based upon a desire to avoid tbe criticism tbat would result from snch action at an earlier period. Such criticism does not produce the effect after the governor haa retired irom office that it would while exercising the (unctions oi hia position. As a niat tOS ANGELES HERALD: WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 19, 1894. ter of fact a pardon at the beginning of a term ia aa logical and proper as at the clese; tbe reaaona for inch pardon are aa valid. But it hat been the custom to reserve theae pardons until the governor ia about to retire, with the result that gangs of dangerous orimlnala are turned loone on the community at the moat in opportune moment. The pardoning of criminals is not good policy under any circumstances. The latest United Statea oensui shows that Arizona has larger churoh mem* bernhip in proportion to population than any division of the Union except ing Utah and New Mexico. This ia not remarkable when we consider tbe de vout frame of mind in which the »ad« eyed cowboy and tbe pious rnstler go about their missionary work of preying on tbe gontle Apachei and the guile less tenderfeet. MUSICAL. Unity Church. —That remarkable hu man phonograph. Blind Tom, gave hi* opening performance last evening, be fore a large and enthueiaatic audience. Tho laat 10 yearn aeem to have miuie very little difference in him except, per hnpr., in the matter of embonpoint, and it ia as pathetic now aa it was tben, tbat auch wonderful material hae been so perverted ; that a touch ao exquisite, a tone so pure, and such wonderful (had ing, should net have been cul tivated and improved; tbe technique and execution made more perfect, instead of tbe same energy expended in imitations that any buffoou on tbe min strel stage could do aa well; imitations of locomotives and banjos; bag-pipee end rnuaio boxes; the Fisher's hornpipe with one hand, Yaukes-dootile with the other, and Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, with the voice ell at one and the aarne time ; *ll that is very well for anybody that can do no bettar ; but Blind Tom's in terpretation oi Mascagni'a exquisite in termezzo from Oavalleria Rnaticana, the fsiitaisie Item Trovatore, which opened the programme, and the wonderful tone effecte in a piece of his own composition, make it aeem pitiful that his faculty, wV.ch nmonnta to abso lute genius, could not have been kept to better and higher use. Hia imitation of Joaeffy'e Souvenir d'Amerique, which Miss Kate Ki.ier kindly played by re quart, vas remarkable, but the Hun garian rhapsody No. 2 showed rough places in the execution and was a dis appointment. His parformafce as a whole, however, is wonderful aud inter esting iv a way, and the performance thia afternoon und evening will prob ably draw bit; houees. E, M. C. AMUSEMENTS. In consequence of the heavy demand for scats through the mail* for tho Solviiii engagement, Manager Wyatt ll cornpolled to f-nnounne that no further orders can be considered through this channel, but theft ths diagram will be open to every one on Friday morn ing when tbe first comer will get the first choice. This is his only means of being free from the charge of partiality. The repertoire will be as follows: Mon day and Wednesday night, Victor Hugo's Ruy Bias; Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday eveningß, The Three (isiardsinsn ; Friday night, Don Cio.ar de Bazau ; and at the Saturday mat nee the fatuous paßtoral comedy, Friend Fritz. I _ THE OPERA. HOUSE. Manager Walter Will Mak* It an Orphonm. Another chapter was added to the checkered history of the Grand opera house yesterday afternoon, when its lease for an indefinite period wateecuted by Manager Gustav Waller of tbe Or pbeum, the leading vaudeville theater of Sau Francisco. It is his intention to repeat his northern success in the vaud eville line dowu here in Loa Angelee. Since tbe n«neon fiasco the Grand opera house haa been dark aud several efforts have been made to obtain posses sion ol it, but tha Ohilds estate, bene fiting by paat experience, had grown conaervatsve and wisely declined the advances of mere theatrical speculation. Manager Walter arrived in the city last wees: with the intention of securing the lease if possible. His road waa by no means easy, as he had to contend with aeveral rivals aa well as a freeze out combination. Until yesterday it looked uh if Manager Walter'j mission would be fruitless, as Mr. George Moth ersoleof Oakland had eecurad an option on the property and deposited the ne chsibtv money. Alter a careful investi gation into the bueir.aaa and financial merits of the rival aspiranta hy Attorney Monroe, representing the Childn estate, it was decided to favor Walter, and yea { terday afternoon Mr. Motbereole waa bought off aud the leaae and keye of the novae were turned over to the enter prising manager from San Francisco. The name of the house will be changed to that of the Orpbenm, and it will be conducted in conjunction with ita northern namesake. This local Or pheum will open on New Year'a eve, December 31at, with a high claaa vaude ville entertainment, headed by Misa Alice Raymond, a cornet virtuoao who ie vow a reigning sensation at tbe San Francisco (irpheum. She was formerly a Roßton society girl and ia tbe daughter of one of tbe merchant princes of the city of braiua and beana. Manager Walter waa interviewed by a i Hbbald reporter in hie rooma at the I Nadeau hotel lust evening. Here are | the facts regarding bis intentione with hia latest venture: "I shall keep the house open every night in the year with matinees on Sat urdays and Sundays. The place will be run in conjunction with a regular Or phean circuit which I am now organ izing, and which will ombrace Portland, Ore., San Franciaoo, Los Angeles, Den ver, Kansas City and St. Louis. The company ia incorporated and is known aa thr, Walter Orpbenm com pany. I shall run the house here on a tiret'Claas fashionable plan and endeavor to cater to tbe social craze for vaudeville thai ia in vogue. There shall be no drinking or smoking on the promisee, for 1 intend to make the Los Angelea Orpbenm a tit place for iadioa and chil dren to freauent. All artists ehall be brought from Europe for the Orphean circuit and popular pricea shall prevail, from 10 cents to $1. Mr. Petrioh shall be local manager, Mr. McGarvie treas urer and Mr. Fitzgerald Murphy adver tising and press repreoentative." Mr. Waiter built the San Francisco Orpheum iv 1880 and by his managerial ability made it the representative vaudeville theata.- west of the Rockies. Considering the°e facts there ought to be a bright future in etore for the new Lob Augolea Orpheum. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder Awarded Gold Mtdal Midwinter Fair. San Francisco. THE SILURIAN HOWLS. A Onuhlnf of F«i B « T*»»h la tho North •rn Gloom Bait. [From the San Francisco Ware.] A congress of supervisors from Southern California's seven counties is in session at Los Angeles. The telegraph dispatches inform us that they are overwhelmingly in favor of a di vision of California—a song we have heard sung before by the Markhams, Millard*, the lligginses and McLachlans, and thercstof the round-trip, oxcursion-rato tourist settlers from south of Tehachapi. When this unpa triotic scheme was lirst hatched in mind and broached to the public, a thrill of indignation swept over tho entire state. Tho pioneers, their sons-tho c who had laid the foundation for this commonwealth, those who loved and honored itin all its glory, those who braved dangers and suffered privations for its ad vancement—shrank from the contemplation of such a sacrilegious deed. Hince the nature and characteristics of the new people of tho south have come more prominently into view, since it has been fjund thai these people, though among us nre no part of us—we must confess there is a growing feeling In the north to procure divorcement at any cost. Hack in certain eastern ttfttci, whero hoar frost and forbidding winters have, through a long series of years, made mad attack upon tho lungs of weak humanity, there has grown up among the sturdy ami rugged New Enis landers, a race of expectorating and lungless beings, thoroughly apart from their associates, whose constitutions crave warmth and sun shine and to whose shattered lungs the soft semi-tropic air is like unto a soul sustaining breath from heaven. In those regions, too, where miasmatic roUon burdens all the at mosphere, another race of being*, with jaun diced and distended livers, has grown up, and it is from the tanks of these our southern counties har--been populated. Another class that came hard upon their heels, hungry lor plunder, was the keen-eyed "snapper-up of unconsidered trilles,*' tho wandering Ameri can noninil. the ne'er-do-well at home, who picks up a living by his Witt, first here, then there. If the phytic*! infirmity 0| tho two first mentioned classes constituted their only fault, they would be welcome; but they do not like California or its people; they have brought with th?m all the narrow selfishness Of confirmed invalidism, nil the and despicable trails of n race bred on an iceberg and cradled in bods of snow. They have among them lawyers -and Los Ang?les is one vast tick! of livcrlcss and lunglcss lawyers. Many of them hava inherited the fru.ts of centuries of 3iving coughing, and possess a competency sutheient to maintain them in case for the balance of their days; but the thrift and coughs of eenturiM are not to laid asid" in a moment. They brought the old tin sign along with them, too, whioh had done duty in the east, ami the boarding* houses and hotel corridors of the southern metropolis announce that *hey are ready to b d for practice against the older practition ers. ••Bid" is hardly the proper word, lor, as they most rem&lo in the hospital, they look upon a retainer as so much money found within their ward, and accept fees which an attorney's clerk would hiush to name as com penstition for more menial services. So lung as they confined their incursions t;> these lines, it was nruoner m of curs; hut when they demand a divorcement of the coughing court ties, when they mad" incursions upon our government, and inflict upon us Markhams, they become the subject for criticism The last Republican sute convention—t»nd that is the par.y which the.* affect—in obedi ence to their behests, drew acro*i the lt*te*U east and west line at Saerumento, north of which they refused to make nominations, to the disadvantage of a large an i important section of our state. When Mr. Markham, our present governor, had resided in the state of California but four years, his tenstit uents elected him to congress. Hardly was that term over before he was forced upon the Republican party for governor-and what a governor he has made! Republicans are in clined to declare that Markham's administra tion has been conservtitive—and cowardly they might add, His campaign opened with a wilful lie, and his administration has con tinued a lie through to the end. lie hroko faiih with hU expectorating friends in the SOUtb, until they fairly bate him iv a narrow, bigoted and spiteful way; he was false to the northern politicians who stood manfully by him through his campaign; his every appoint ment records the breaking of f;.ith witu some one who had befriended him It is not neces sary to refer ti rh- rumors abroad as to money transactions charged to him, further than to ■ay, true or untrue, they are the common property of the street. Now that Markham goes out. we have Millard, with whom we un deratand Mr. Hlgglns, ex-private secretary to Governor Markham, and another Los Angeles man Of short Standing, wields a larg? influ ence: and so the power of the south remains potent in the administration*, Twice in the history of that territory known to geographers as California, has a stranger race wrested its possession from the occu pancy of a self-satisfied people. First in his tory cam-s the swarthy invaders from the south, making their incursions across the desert of the Colorado. Within these fruitful valleys, commencing at Los Angeles and working slowly northward, they took up their abodes, enslaved the aboriginal races, and once havinc made conquest of the territory, relapsed into an indolent, enjoyment of its God-given blessings. Then followed the American adventurer, who broke in upon the pastoral quiet of a government which had fallen into a languid siesta, and, in the mad ru*h for gold, brushed aside the haughty don who, bowing with graceful resignation, gave way before the new invader. Now a third in vasion is at hand, which may ( be nipped In the bud if we but let the invader cut our state in two. The south wants division. So let it be. They have managed to wheedle thousands of dollars from our state treasury for needless public buildings. Let them keep them. Let them found a new empire if they can, wherein the only qualification for office will be a de sire to return east, a weak pair of lungs, and copious expectoration. Lm Ang-lni Ia Nnt Coy, [From the Visalia Daily Times.] The traffic association railroad for the Pan Joaquin valley seems to be as dead as a mack erel. If Los Angeles wants to go a sparkin' now is the time to do it, for this valley is ready to listen to tbe advances of any city who will promise deliverance from the rule of Hunt ington &. Co. •<* Mr.it 1 T Stand.'* [From the Pasadena Star.] The HFKALb is taking a manly stand In the railroad controversy and gaining raanv friends thereby. Th« Phantom Army. And I saw a phantom army come, With never a sound of rife or drum, But keeping step to the muffled hum Of wailing lamentation; The martyred heroes of Malvern Hill, of Gettysburg and ChancelloriVille— The men whose wasted bodies fill The patriot graves of the nation. And there came the unknown dead, the men Who died in fever swamp and fen, The slowly starved of prison pen, And marching beside the others Came the dusky martyrs of Pillow's fight. With limbs enfranchised and bearing bright, I thought—'twas the pale moonl'ght— Thoy looked as white as their brothers. Ami so all night marched the nation's dead, With never a banner above them spread, No sign save the bare, uncovered head Of their silent, grim reviewer, With never an arch but the vaulted sky, With not a flower save those which lie On distant graves, for love could buy No gift that was purer or truer. So all night long moved the strange arrays So all night long till the break of day I watched for one who had passed away With a reverent awe and wonder, Till a blue cap waved in the lengthening line, Till 1 knew that one who was kin of mine Had come, and I spoke—and. lo! that sign Awakened mfl from my slumber. —Bret Harte. VOTE ON THE A MENDMENTS. Aa Int.llJg.nt Ballot Oasl by th« OIU of thm ftSAta. [From the San Francisco Examiner J The complots vote on tho constitutional amenrlments shows that the people of Cali fornia vote conscientiously and intelligently on the legislation that is submitted to their judgment. Of the 284,547 electors who marked their choice for governor. 901,969 voted on the first amendment—tho amend ment thst received the most votes—and 175. 003 voted on the sixth amendment—the ono that received the fewest votes. The dccltion of tho people on the amend ments in this election, as in that ol two years ago, was that urged hy the Kxamincr. Tho only amendments defeated were those enlarg ing the stato board of equalization and in creasing tho pay ol members ol the legislature to $1000. Tho amendment Imposing an educational qualification for tho snffrago was carried by 100,774 votes in lis favor to 32,105 against. 'Two years ago whan it was brought forward as alimpls proposition to sccuro tne opinion of the voters there wero 151,320 in its favor and 41,059 against—a suhstaniial gain for the policy it represents. The amendment putting county division under general laws was carried by 140,520 to -14.UB0, which removes that causa of scandal from the legislature. The proposition to ex empt young fruit trees, and vines from taxa tion was approved by. 146,812 votes in its favor to 47,!•/':! against. A less decisive majority was given tho amendment forbidding alien ownership of real estate, it was approved by the sub stantial vot- of 119,13) to 57,609. The fact that it was described in misleading terms on the cOicial ballot may account fur the drop in tho vote. No such rca-on can explain the opposition j to the amendment striking out the part of the COnatitUtton forcing Pan Francisco to have two j boards of supervisors whether she wants them or no!. As the amendment was carried hy 100,040 to 02,213, we have no causo of com plaint, but it is curious to find that 02.243 voters aro unwilling to allow the city to choose for itself how many supervisors it will support. The vo;crs were evidently in doubt on tho stat" board of equalisation amendment. The proposition was defeated by the narrow mar gi.i of 88,395 against to 90,098 tor. It is plain that the voters feel avre tint something ought to lie Jons to reform the state board of equ>l izalim and i<re about ready to try any experi ment that may bo tuggestej, In our judg ment, howsver, the proper remedy is not to give the board >ne member for each equaliza tion disirict. but to elect tin members hy the voles of the state at large. I'll" approval by 185 599 to 46,205 of tho amendment exempting fr.'e libraries and free museums from taxation, and by 98,305 to 77,039 of the amendment making the presi dent and professor of pedagogics in the slate university members of the state board of.du cation shows the -ame gosd judgment that do cidel th« fate of the ciher amendments. The large Vote against the latter, is, however, a little hard to explain, It is difficult to sup pose that over 77,'Ji:0 voters of the state object to giving eur highest c.fucatioual Institution its share of Influence on cur schools. The. defest of fie amendment increasing the pay a| th» legislators was to te expected, but the vet* of 45.425 in its favor shows that many (iii/cii« bslfevt that belter pay would get better lervtOS than we now have. The 149,397 votes cast against it. however, make an emphatic protest aaalnst both the kind of legislative w rU we have been getting and the suggestion to increase expenses. Th- F MatlinJ. [From tfce Expositor. ] The theriff-clcot cf i.os Angeles conn tr, to escape thn importuniti- i of those desiring deputy-ships, left for Sin Francisco, and when it came time for him to qualify, the other day he did so by telephone. Now the question is raised that 11lls action is i legal, and that there is a vacancy in the offic-> of sheriff of I.os Angeles county. Here in Fresno our offi cials kcLp a large drawer and demand written applications When the candidate arrives the drawer is op tied and beds requested to lay his in on top. 1 hey mean to go to the Bay about 10 days-hence and telephone back their ap pointments. . Btrald'a',' N-w I)-p»rtnr«. [From the Pasadena star.] What the H BR A LB is going to do has aroused | some interest in Southern California. The Heraid has secured the services, w s under stand, o' Mr. Dougle' Whit*, which means that It it is to wheel Into line with thlleading papers of the coast. Mr. V. hit,, has long been associated with the Examiner and has the reputation of being the best business man in the newspeper field on th*coast, We da not Mijree with the HERALD politically, but con gratu'ete it on this evidence of new life, while die south is to be felicitated on securing so bright an accession to the ranks of its news paper men. Hang, the Kxp -na», [From the San Diego Union.] The estimates of f8,O00,O00 for state ex penses for the ensuing year is bo perfectly prodigious and out of all proportion to the cost in other states, that if there does not go fortli a protest from a,l over the state and a deniaod for retrenchment, it will appear th-t people have grunted about high taxes from mere force of habit. MarK-hnm may have been warlike, hut he seems to have not cared a ding as to ex [tenses. 20 Cents Each. SALAD DISH DS'JORATED AND GOLD-LINED Great AMERICAN IMPORTING TEA Go SKftfc. [LOS ANGELES. ( CH'N AWARE AT VASES / DINNER SETS WINNING < ORNAMENTS 1 TEA SETS tRICHf l O ROCKERY \GLABBWARE A Merry Xmas to All! FREE ! Cream Chocolate. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ t job : ! PRI NXI N<3 i ♦ ♦ £ Executed With Neatm.33 J ♦ And Dispatch at the ♦ I Herald Job Office I ♦ ♦ ♦ 309 W. SECOND ST. ♦ % J. W. HART, Manager, t ♦ ♦ <>&4> ♦❖♦♦^❖♦♦•^♦♦^♦^♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ C. F. HEINZEMAN Druggist & Chemist 222 N. MAIN ST., LOS ANGELES. Prescriptions carefully day or night i ■ AUCTION! S 9 Com '° u t^?.? M^, * r £' t S! o,ln s^ ut " leo from the World s Fair and _ Midwinter Fair. Marble and Terra Cotta Htatuary from Italy, Venetian Wood BC Carvings, Antique Tapestries, and many other rare and Wi _ valuable Works of Art suitable for 2 CHRISTMAS PRESENTS I • AT" CANINI'S • I WORLD'S FAIR ART STORE, • S 324 South Spring st. 2 ■ TODAY AT 2 AND ?:30 O'CLOCK P. M. THOS B - m DR. LIEBI6 & CO/S WORLD'S DISPENSARY \3r6r- l-os Angelos oflieei, so peraoas living in Angeles can have tin' beuetlt of ihe same treat- Ca.eK curablo guaranteed, no mallei how coin" tu^^r^^MllTT^Kl' sheetand confidential book for men ». iit' tr"«T : 0 a.m. lo A p.m.'and 7 10 d'3o p.oa, SQUTH MAIN street SECOND ANNUAL . io Per Cent Discount Sale! RECOGNIZING that the times are no better £ than a year ago, and that many will be the de- J mands during this the Holiday season, in £ order to give every purchaser an opportunity to get their Shoes at the lowest minimum cost, Wsnwill dur- f ing this month— December Only! f Cut 10 PER CENT off of every dollar's purchase at the Old Reliable, Jf The Queen Shoe Store 162-164 North Main Street. usual, a handsome Christmas Doll given away with every purchase of $2.50 and upwards. Our Parisian Celluloid Balls will please the little ones. 'TIS A LUXURY TO HtAD Whon what you read ia entertaining and when you don't have to «tr*in your eyes in perusing it. You cau afford to be reckiesa with anything hutyonreyes; you cau afford to use chanccK with anything but your aight. We make all sorts of *ldsseh forall aorta of eyes, and for their expert examinatkn no charge Is made. You will find in our find stock everything to Im* prove one* eveslght in the way of glasses, PACIFIC O.MICALCO., Scientific Opticians, 167 N. e-priug st. forget numb r. SPECIAL BARGAINS IN REAL ESTATE A fine Income property in East Los An geles $7000 Good 0 room house, bard-llnished, wide porches on three bides, new plumbing aud painting: 2 50-fojt lot-, near ear line, southwest part of city, not far out. $2650 10-acre ranch, orchard, house, well, pou - * try nouses, at Murijiu .$lOOO 80-ac c ranch In Temt seal canon; house, orchard, good springs; Hue ior health resort $4000 First-class land at Bouth Riverside, with water right, per uere $50 to $150 One ol 'he best ranches in Riverside county of over 100 acres; ita excellent investment. In vestigate this. Bargains in foreclosed properties In different portions of the country, Money to loan. Sat isfactory term? given. W. W. LOWft, ;:'-11-lm 105 South Broadway. j CHRISTM AS GIFTS! What Shalt I Give Mv Gentlemen Friends or Relatives ? i . - i p»ROP A POSTAL to Ernest K. Howell, P.O. Box 077, aud havo a solicitor call aud show you a line Hue of -shirt sam ples, with "tto latest," the Wm. E. How ell Patent Reversible Wristband, at tached, and see what a useful aud beauti ful gift you can present at a nominal fig ure. Shirts from $1.25 up — aiado toord jr and fit miaranteed. J. M Gnflitu, Pres. John T. Gillllih.V.-Pres F. T Grirtitli, Beorotary and Tr asuror. K. L. Chandler. Superlntendjnt. ,J. M. GRIFFITH COMPANY LUMBER DEALERS ' And Manufacturers of ' DOORS, WINDOWS, BLIND 3 AND STAIRS Mill Work of Eyiry Doscriptlon. Mi N. Alameda a-.-, Los Angalec.