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c, The Herald By Pur Hr.p.AtP Publishing Company. JOHN BRADBURY, President and Qtsjafsl Manager. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT: No. 20S New High Street. Telephone 150, John T. Gapeey Managing Editor. BUSINESS OFFICE: Bradbury Building, 222 West Third Street. Telephone 247. Dorui.As White Business Manager. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1895. It is Salt Lake or bust. Ransom goes to Mexico. We lead— the others follow. Have you signed the petition? The days of Congress are numbered. The people are signing the petition, How do you like the Sunday Herald? Don't the Easterners look surprised': Don't forget that Los Angeles needs a big hotel. What a glorious country Southern Cali fornia is. Gee whiz! how the railroad lobby is working. Now only Senator Frye of Maine stands in the way. Now is the opportunity—get in and con tribute to the Fiesta. Good news for Southern California! Dolph is turned down! Mcßride may be an unknown quantity, but Dolph was against us. This Legislature seems to be doing nothing uncommonly well. Of course the administration would overlook Southern California. These are anxious days for men holding subordinate county positions. Will the Sacramento Bee thank God when this Legislature adjourns? England will not let the Provisional Government at Hawaii execute Rickards. There is an end to all things —the Legislature is in the sere and yellow leaf. See to it that New Orleans is eclipsed by Los Angeles' festival. Money will do it. And poor old Queen Lil is to be sentenced to rive years' imprisonment. Where? Every dollar expended in making the Fiesta out rank Mardi Gras, will return threefold. It is not necessary to tell your acquaint ance it is a line day in Los Angeles—all days are fine. It will he a frosty day when that Reilly measure goes through. The harbor will be built at San Pedro. "Senatorial courtesy" counts for some thing sometimes. It made Senator Kan eom Minister to Mexico. Wonder what Hawaii will do with the rebels? Those ordered deported the ships wiil not receive on board. Coals to Newcastle with a vengeance! A carload of oranges was shipped from Los Angeles to St. Augustine. f It is possible that the railroad from Los Angeles to Salt Lake will be built before the first spike is driven on the Valley road. In the present state of feeling at Hawaii it will not be policy for the ins to be too severe. The outs should not be lost sight of. If those Indians down on the desert would only inagurate a war of extermina tion, it would pay Uncle Sam to keep his hands off. If these plans do not fail, San Francisco can build her Valley road without excit ing the least discomfort on the part of Los Angeles. Washburn, Ransom, Coke, Dolph—a Huntington quartette in opposition to San Pc lro—dangerous no longer. There's a God in Israel! The locomotive engineers have won their fight with the Southern Pacific. Huntington expects to get even through Mr. Reilly's bill. Another opponent of the San Pedro harbor has been defeated—Dolph of Ore gon will never again do Huntington's bidding at Washington. San Pedro is assured. Agitation has hastened the consummation of that en terprise. The Salt Lake railroad is more than a possibility. Agitation will accom plish that purpose also. If that San Francisco Grand Jury in dicts 0. P. Huntington for violating the interstate law, what a luxurious trip the United States marshal will enjoy bring ing the magnate across the continent. There will be a special car and "hxins." The Reilly refunding bill was downed by a petition; the San Pedro Harbor proposition was assisted by a petition; the Salt Lake railroad will be forwarded by a petition. Who will now have the hardi hood to class a petition with "waste basket literature?'' Some timid souls are constantly fearing the disaster of the future—observing ghosts, as it were, in the shallows of com ing events. Just now these rabbit-hearted prophets of impending evil are predicting that tiie proposition to bond Los Angeles county to build a railroad to Salt Lake is "unconstitutional." It may be that these expressions are, after all, but covert op position to any effort on behalf of com peting railroads, but in any event they are discouragements and consequently detrimental to the interests of public en terprise. A WORD TO THE DELEGATION Southern California has not benefited largely by this session of the Legislature. Only a few days of the session are now available. These may be advantageously occupied in the passage of a law that will enable the counties of this section of the state to accomplish something for the en hancement of our future prosperity. A committee of leading citizens will leave tomorrow for Sacramenuj to present our claims to a solid recognition. This com mittee will he backed by the unanimous sentiment of Los Angeles and presumably of Southern California. 'They will lay their proposition before the representa tiTes of tbe people. They will ask the Southern*Californian delegation to make common cause on behalf of their constit uency. And they will insist that this effort shall not be half-hearted. There must be no shirking or excuse when it shall be decided what course shall be pur sued. If the representatives of Southern Cali fornia undertake to force a measure of the'characler required through the Legis lature, success will crown their efforts. A solid phalanx is irresistible. This is an urgency measure. The com mittee who will visit Sacramento next week know what they want and are pre pared to face all odds in the presentation of their claims. The committee is itself representative and will carry weight with the representatives of the citizens ot Southern California. This is an opportunity that may not occur again under circumstances as fortui tous or as critical. It is apparent that San Francisco will look closely after her own interests and no other. Just now Loa Angeles does not enter into Iter calcu lations at all. Her effort is to secure all the trade north of Tehachepi. Los An geles must took alter Iter own interests. This site will do; and Salt Lake is iter objective point —Salt Lake and San Pedro. A SUBTLE SCHEnE. Had the worthy and philanthropic Mr. Huntington consulted some of the older members of his lobby at Washington he would not have stated that the idea of constructing a deep water harbor at San Pedro originated in the ambition of the people of Wilmington ami San Pedro, two towns which he says grew up by reason of "unnatural gravitation." The lobby would have reminded him that under his direction they had year by year, while the present breakwater at San Pedro was being constructed, worked hard for ap propriations for that purpose; and had Mr. Huntington, whose memory is get ting very bad, only paused to think, he might hare recollected that he only be came aware of the unavailability of San Pedro, when a rival railroad corporation purchased Rattlesnake Islahd and secured terminal facilities better than those cf Mr. Huntington's road. It was then that Mr. Huntington de termined to leave San Pedro and locate in "the really right place tor a harbor, Santa Monica." Of course Mr. Huntington's idea of "the really right place for a good harbor" is one entirely controlled by his corpora tion anil where no "small interests' can interfere witli his monopoly. His generous declaration that his cor poration will allow other roads to use his approaches to the proposed Santa Monica harbor is as candid an admission of the monopoly he enjoys at that place as une could desire. Mr. Huntington is ingenious, plausible and original, and his originality lias mainly been developed in the line of filching; he has probably invented as many ways of legally stealing as any man who ever lived, excepting, perhaps, the late Jay Gould. Take, fur instance, Mr. Huntington's plausible anil surely original solution of the irrigation bum! question. I nave thought that if some scheme could be gotten up by which one general bond could be issued and the amounts subdivided for the different districts, all to be handled by some one banking house, so that on any sales there would be a distribution pro rata among the different districts each, of course, receiving consideration according to its importance, that would be the bestsolutlonof the question, as the Eastern and European public have to be firsteducated concerning the value of the securities they think of investing in. In other words, Mr. Huntington being the proprietor of several million acres of very bad desert land, having sold off most of the good land presented to him by bis generous and too confiding country, Would now organize desert land districts in It is bad lands,and as these bonds would of course be practically worthless lie pro poses to form a pool of all the irrigation districts in the state —issue one set of bonds and divide the proceeds pro rata among the districts. And yet some peo ple doubt the purity of motive and single ness of purpose of Mr. Huntington, a man who, according to his own state ment, spent twenty years of his life and over twenty millions of dollars at Wash ington explaining to obtuse Congressmen the necessity for just such legislation as he now desires for the purpose of locating the deep-water harbor at Santa Monica or a bill to pool irrigation bonds. ARIZONA'S GOVERNOR Whereas, Governor L. C. Hughes has been charged with betraying his party in the last campaign by conspiring to secure the defeat of the Hon. John C. Herndon, our nominee for delegate to CongrdSS, and the election of Hon. N. Oakes Murphy, the Republican nominee, as well as to se cure tbe election of Republican members to tbe Tentorial Legisatore; and Whereas, After a full and careful In vestigation we are thoroughly convinced of the truth of said charge; now, there fore, Resolved, That we. the executive com mittee of the Democratic Central Com mittee of Arizona, earnestly appeal to the President of the United States to remove said L. C. Hughes from the office ot Gov ernor of Arizona at the earliest practicable moment. Resolved, That the chairman of this committee, Hon. B. A. Fickas, be and he is hereby Instructs 1 to mail a copy of this resolution to the President and all" other to the Secretary of the Interior, to gether with letters ol explanation setting forth more in detail the facts upon which it is based. The above resolutions were adopted by the executive committee of the Democratic Territorial Committee of Arizona at a re cent meeting. It is understood that in addition to adopting resolutions the com mittee bus forwarded to Washington a stroll.' presentment of the case agai: st the Governor. It is rarely the governing power of a political party makes such a radical de parture from party usage as to formally denounce an official of its own political faith, and when it is done it is usually for one of two causes, either because of party treachery, as when an official betrays the political body which placed him in power by allying himself with the opposition, or when the acts of an official are so no toriously unpopular with all parties, that his own party desires to disavow respon sibility for iiis acts. The first cause seems to have actuated the Commission in the present instance; Whether any other reason exists we are not at present inVniied.but in any event, it probably makes but little difference to the Governor; lie lias been practically read out of his party by a body which is ordinarily supposed to be competent to act in such cases and lie will now have to justify his acts in the eyes of his fellow partisans before lie can assume to repre sent the party which placed him in pow er. Indeed, at. the present juncture, it would not be a bad idea for Governor Hughes to sue Francis J. Heney, ex-At torney General of the territory, for libel, for if Heney is not trinity of libel Hughes LOS ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1895. should resign or the authorities in Wash ington should remove him. A CHANCE FOR HtINTINQTON The Herald today publishes an interest ing symposium. One of the participants sC. P. Huntington and the others are engineers— government and civil. The discussion concerns the respective merits of San I'edro and Santa Monica as proper sites for a deep-sea harbor. The "testi mony seems to be overwhelmingly in favor of San Pedro and it is unimpeachable. Even Mr. Huntington, who presents the minority report, must admit that the en gineers are competent to pass on the question, and he will not assert that their judgment is warped by personal motives or that their decision is based on illogical premises or interested considerations. It may lie deemed somewhat unfair to compel Mr. Huntington to discuss this mat er in a convention so decidedly op posed to his view of the question, but Mr. Huntington is used to this sort of opposi tion—the majority is always against him. Like Ishmael, his hand is against all men as the hands of all men are against him. Besides, hitherto Mr. Huntington's ulti mate arguments have always proved more effectual than verbal logic or the stern presence of irrefutable fact. It may surprise the thoughtless that The Herald has permitted Mr. Hunting ton to utter himself in columns that have teemed with unfriendly comment upon his policy. It is only necessary to reiter ate, however, that The Herald is a news paper and that its columns are open to receive the news from any source. Mr. Huntington is as welcome as any of his critics, and even Mr. Reilly may defend his refunding bill to his heart's content. The Herald, nevertheless, reserves the right to enter the arena armed with its own weapons. GRAY'S SUCCESSOR f"/ -Senator Ransom Appointed Minister to the City of Mexico Washington, Feb, 28.—- The President today nominated Hon. Matt W, Ransom, Senator from North Carolina, for Minister to Mexico, to succeed the late Hon. Isaac P. Gray. The nomination was received by the Senate at 10:2f> o'clock. Few nom inations have been sent to the Senate which have received greater favor. The entire Senate, with two or three excep tions, and those exceptions because of relations with the executive, had joined in the recommendation of the appoint ment. Mr. Hansom has been a member of the Senate continuously for the past twenty three years, being" first chosen in IHT'J. During the war he filled in succession the grades of Lieutenant-Colonel, Brigadier- General and Major-General. Senator Ran som is (JO years of age, but is well pre- 1 served and does not show his age. He is ( a man of polished manners and of much j tact, and his colleagues unite in the opin- I ion that he will make an ideal diplomat. [ The Senate went into executive session immediately after receiving the nomina- | tion and confirmed it by unanimous vote. The confirmation was moved by Senator Sherman, who in making the motion, addressed the Senate briefly as to the fit ness of the nomination of which he spoke as in every way deserving and appro- i priate. When the vote was taken there I was a general response in the affirmative. The executive session lasted only five minutes. Senator Hansom made his escape to his committee room when the executive session was moved, and was not present during the executive proceed ings. Senator Ransom said after his confirma tion that he would not qualify until after the fourth of March. After that time he would be prepared to proceed to Mexico as soon as the Secretary of State desired him to go. DEATH ON THE RAIL A Mardl Qras Train Ditched and the Cars Burned Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 23, — A terrible wreck occurred on the Louisville ami Nashville Railroad about forty miles south of Montgomery. It was a Mardi (iras train and many persons are reported injured. A special train left here at once I for the scene with all available physicians 1 in the city. The wreck occurred on the Mobile and | Montgomery division of the Louisville and \ Nashville at Greenville. Although it is reported that seven passengers were killed, there is no telegraph station at the scene and it is difficult to obtain accurate in formation. Eight coaches were overturned, all filled with passengers bound for Mardi-Gras at j New Orleans. The coaches at once caught j fire and are now burning. Wanted In San Francisco Salt Lake, Feb. 23.—-A telegram has been sent to San Francisco by the United States Marshal here to intercept Alexander Wil kinson, of Ogden, who. with two other citizens of that place, has Keen Indicted for conspiracy in altering ballots in the last election. The trio are accused of having doctored the vote in the Weber county ballot boxes after they were deposited with the Utah Commission in this city. Wilkinson left Ogden last Monday for San Francisco with the intention, it is said, of taking a steamer for Alaska or Australia. Gilbert, the Democratic candidate in wliose interest the fraud is alleged to have been committed, is said to have gone to South America, presumably Via San Fran cisco. TO CONGRESS "These monster petitions that are ex pected to accomplish so much, have no effect whatever, said Congressman Geary in speaking of the funding hill. So it was in the days of the anti-slavery movement. Petitions* were spurned, scorned and thrown under the tables. But the people wil' be heard. Now is the time to revive John Pier pout's poem, published as early as L*.'i7. JOHN MKRPONT (1937). What! our petitions spumed I The prayer Ot thousands—tens of thousands—east, Unheard, beneath your Speaker's chair! Hut ye will hear us, first or lust, The thousands that last real ye loomed Are millions now. Be warned! Be warned! There's a cloud blackening up tho sky ! Eut, West and North its curtain spreads; Lift to its muttering folds your eye! Beware, foV, bursting on your heads, Jt hath a force to hen r you down; 'Tis au insulted people's frown. Ntf, start not from your chairs, in dread Of cannon shot or burst! ng shell! These shall not fall upon your head, As once upon your home they fell. We have a weapon firmer set And better than the bayonet. A weapon that comes down as still As snow-flakes fall upon the sod, But executes a freeman's wi 1 As lightning does fte will of God; And from its force nor doors irr locks Can shitdd you—'tis the ballot-box! Black as your deed shall be the balls That from the box shall pour like hail! And when the storm upon you falls, How will your craven cheeks tim pale I For at its coining though ye laugh, 'Twill sweep you from your hall like chaff. Not women now—the people pray, Hear us—or from us ye shall hear. Beware! a desperate game ye play! The men that thicken in your rear, Kings though ye be. may not be scorned. Look to your move your stake! YeT i warned Drir Shasta Water; Woollacott, agent. Wall a per Oc, 7J4c per roll, 328 S. Spring A CROWNING SUCCESS IS OUR SUITS „ W^— OVERCOHTS. PRICES ARB BOUND TO WIN. GOOD VALUES AT$lO.O.O, $11.00. $12.50. NOW VERY REASONABLE AT $13, $14, $15, NOW $JQ # 9O TRADE WINNERS AT $16, $17, $18, NOW WERE OUR PRIDE AT $19, $20, $22.50, NOW FOR BIG R6TURNS FOR YOUR MONEY SEE BRO WN BROS., 249=251 SOUTH SPRING STREET. CONTROL OF THE PACIFIC ninlster Thurston Responds to a Toast In New Jersey Trenton, N. J. Feb. 23.—At the annual banquet of the Trenton Board of Trade last night the Hon. Lorin A. Thurston, Hawaiian Minister to the United States, responded to the toast The Commercial Control of the Pacific. After expressing his pride in representing the youngest re public in the world, Mr. Thurston quoted figures showing the magnitude and the growth of commerce in the Pacific ocean. Not a vessel, he said, could go across the Pacific ocean without stopping for coal. The great nations are taking strides in subsidizing the traffic in the Pacific, pay ing greater attention to the Pacific islands than to Africa. Canada has recognized the value of the commerce of the Pacific and has started four steamship companies from Vancouver, ami every effort is being made to push traffic. Mr. Thurston said one ot the means of establishing closer re lations with Hawaii was by building the proposed cable. This he earnestly advo cated. Sepiil veda-Burnes The wedding of MI S3 Lena Sepulveda and Mr. Martin J. Burnes, took place Thursday evening, February 14th, in the Church of Our Lady of the Angels, in the presence of a * large audience of friends. Immediately after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Burnea and the wedding party were driven to the home of the oride's parents on Date street, which was taste fully decorated With lilies and carnations. A bountiful wedding supper was enjoyed and congratulations offered. Following is a list of the guests. Mr. and Mrs. Sepulveda, Mr, and Mrs. 0. Bryan, Mr. and Mrs. Booth. Mr. and Mrs. Forell, Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Hodg man, Mr. and Mrs. P. Eternal, Mr. and Mrs. Sepulveda, Mr. and Mrs. Tucker, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Sepulveda. Mr. and Mrs. Scott, Mesdames Armstrong, F. <■< in per, Woodthorpe, Hover, Woods, W. Bailey, Misses Bauche't, Moreno, Sepul veda, EstUdUlo, Uassagane. Bernard, S. Sepulveda,Messrs. Duffy, Domingo, Sepul veaa.Gurtett, Redican, Bperson, Bauouet. Visalia Wants the Road A rousing railroad meeting was held at Visalia yesterday afternoon in the interests of San Joaquin Valley road. Jt was attend ed by people from all over the county. A subscription list was circulated and $15,* 000 raise rin a few hours. It is expected to raise $76,000 in this city at most, be sides securing rights ol way, giving depot sites, etc. A railroad meeting was also held at Woodvilte yesterday evening. Meetings will be held* every place in the county within tho next lew wcks. To Reorganize a Bank Washington, Feb. 23.—Authority has been granted to Marville \V. Cooper and his associates to reorganize the Standard National Hank of New York city. The La Grandee and Southern Pacilics will cross bats today at 1 p. m. on the First street grounds. The batteries are: La Grandest. Neath and Henry; Southern Pacilics, Hood and Saley. The Maier and Zobeleins and East Sides will nlay at 3 p. m. Batteries—-Maier and Zobeleins, Friel and Brown; East Sides, Grotzinger and Moher. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The best salve in the wor d for cuts, bruises, Eores, nlfl srs, salt rheum, fever sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains corns and ail skin eruptions, and positively cures piles or no pay r quired. It is gnarnnleed to give perfect sat isfaction or money refunded. Price, 'It) cents per box. For sale by (J. F. lleiuzcmau, 2'Jt'J- S. Main street. Fitzgerald, house and sign painter, 222 Franklin; telephone 1449. Low prices. Kregelo it IJresee, funeral directors, Broadway and Sixth street. Tel. 24X Redlands oranges at Althouse Bros. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder World's Fair Highest Award. 1 i 1/\ Like a Be . Brick -Lj Wall! -Cjl Stands the advertising of this house— 1 a perfect bulwark against misleading statements and misrepresentation. We find it pays to advertise the truth ' because it is the truth. Here are some ■. curtain truths that ought to interest 1 every house owner and every home maker: " gj . _l 12 pairs large, lovely Egyp tian Lace Curtains, ex- trenjely rich and servicea- (t» ff\ ftf\ '■ ble, that have been $15 the J) j|| || \j pair. Now, New, dainty, winsome Pciat d* T d'Esprit Curtains at, the _J pair, And up. 1 I 9 Exquisite Point d'Esprit Sash Curtains, by the yard at And up. A bewildering showing of fino lE/-, Curtain Muslins,3oinches ItjC I wide, at, the yard, t And up. These only hint to you of what may be found in the greatest Lace Curtain collection in this city. One thing more ; | every pair is direct from the maker to J to you, with only one small profit to f pay. You really would not think there was any profit at all in them. I I 1 1 . I i J 225=227=229 S. Broadway. The Wide.t Street In the City. | _—I ii ~~ i i i ~i I !: I i — "" ~ T