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THE PERMIT IS GRANTED
Official Recommendation for the
Boring for Natural Gas
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
East Side Cyclists Wont Relief From
the Council
The City Assessor Wants Some Legal
Information—Another Big Sewer
Completed'
The board of public works acted upon the
following yesterday, all of which will come
bafore tho council on Monday:
Recommend that petitions No. 185 and
180 from A. W. Fisher in regard to the
walk on the east side of Flower street be
tween First and Second, and in regard to
trendies across First street under the
tracks of the Los Angeles Railway Com
pany, be referred to the street superinten
dent with instructions to attend to the
matters complained of therein and give
relief therefrom.
Recommend that petition No. 183 from
F.sterdy Bros., asking for the privilege of
running a two inch pipe across Figueroa
street south of Temple street for tho
purpose of conveying natural gas from
oil wells on the east side of tho
street to the west side, bo granted and the
street superintendent be instructed to issue
the necessary permit.
Recommend that tho street superinten
dent he instructed to remove all obstruc
tions from the intersection of Elysian park
and Sumner straot, and make tho street
pa-sable for teams, and notify tho Pasa
dena and Pacific Railroad company to fill
between their tracks.
Recommend that the bid of Stansbury &
Moore to improve Douglas street, from
F.dgcwaro road to Sunset boulevard, at
$1.47 per lineal foot for grading and grav
eling complete: 15 cents per lineal foot for
redwood curb; 30 cents per lineal foot for
cement curb, and 12 cento per lineal fool
for glitters be accepted, and the accom
panying resolution of award atlopted.
COMPLAINT FROM CYCLISTS.
The following was yesterday filed:
Tlie undersigned representing tho East
Side cycling club, an organization consist
ing of about 150 members, would respect
fully represent to you that tbe streets lead
ing to Fast l.os Angeles are in such con
dition that they demand the immediate at
tention of the city council and of the street
sunerintetideuf s otllce.
This condition consists mainly of the
street car tracks being elevated from two
to six inches above the road-bed, of depres
sions in the road-bed between the rails of
piles of dirt and rock that have been
thrown between the tracks and left to
bo beaten down by tho traveler instead of
being removed, thereby leaving a level sur
face for public travel. We believe it to be
the duty of the street car companies, un
der their franchises, to pave the tracks be
tween the rails and for two feet on each
side of the same, and keep their tracks in
this condition. We understand it further
to be their duty, antl also to be the duty of
the street superintendent antl sewer con
tractors, after making any repairs in the
streets, to take such steps as are neces
sary, either by filling up excavations to a
level with the balanoe of the street, or by
removing any dirt or stones from the
street and restoring it to its original condi
tion.
"All of the streets leading to Fast Los
Angeles, especially Main, Upper Main and
Btiena Vista, show constant and flagrant
violation of these rules and regulations.
The Fast Sids Cycling club and the wheel
men of Los Angeles, a body at least 5000
strong, would be under personal and last
ing obligation to you if you will call the at
tention of the city council to this matter,
and see that the evils to which we have re
ferred are immediately remedied."
THE ASSESSOR WANT'S TO KNOW
The City Assesscr George Hull has ad
dressed to City Attorney W. E. Dunn a let
ter as follows:
I herewith address the following ques
tions for your opinion, to-wdt:
First—At what rate for taxation shall I
collect for personal property not secured
by real estate located in tbe annexed terri
tory in tho northeast part of the city.
Second—Must the real estate and perso
nal property located in the annexed por
tion of the city be placed on the assess
ment roll in a separate book and by itself,
or should it be distributed alphabetically
with the rest of tho property in the city,
aud designate each particular piece of
property located in that section by stamp,
or will it bo necessary to take any notice
of it more than any other section of the
city.
Third—ls there any recent state law
compelling the assessor to assess all mort
gages that appear of record, whether the
same have been claimed by mortgagor or
not, and will it invalidate tbe assessment
if the assessor refuses to assess any mort
gage whatever, whetherclaimed for assess
ment or not 7
An early reply to the foregoing questions
will be appreciated.
Dunn will forward a reply to the above
ooiuiuunication today.
A HQ JOII CiIMn.ETF.n
The assessment for sewer district No. I.
C. L. Powell, contractor, was issued yester
day. This assessment covers the following
streets:
Albany, Sixteenth to Pico; alley between
West Beacon street and Union, Ninth to
Seventh; Buckley, Tenth to Ninth j Bixel,
Orange to oixth; Cambria, Union to Ver
non; Eleventh, Union to I.rattan: Eight
eenth, Union to Cherry; Eleventh, 1. rattan
to Sentotis; Eleventh, Union to Burlington;
Eighth, Union to Vernon j Eighth, Whittier
to Vernon; Grattau, Eleventh to Tenth;
Girard northeast corner lot 1, block 7,
Williamson tract, to Sentous; Grattan,
Tenth to Ninth; Ingrabam, Vernon to
Lucas; Ingrabam, Lucas to Bixel; Lucas,
Ingrabam, west of Lucas and east of Lucas;
Ninth, Buckley to Whittier; Ninth, Whit
tier to alley between West Beacon and
Union; Ninth, Buckley to Blame; Orange.
Witmer to Bixel; Pico, Union south of
Pico to north of Pico; Pico, Union south of
Pico to Albany: Rich, Sixteenth to Pico;
Sixteenth, Union south of Sixteenth to
north of Sixteenth; Seventh, Whittier to
Witmert Seventeenth, Union to Cherry;
Sixteenth, Union to Bond: Star, Sixteenth to
Pico; Seventh, Whittier to Union; Seventh,
Witmer to St. Paul's; Tenth, Grattan to
Buckley; Twenty-fourth, Union to Tobor
maii; Twenty-third, Union to Tobermau;
Twenty-second, Union to Tobermau;
Twenty-lirst, Union to Tobermau-
Twentieth, Union to Tobermau;
Twelfth, Burlington, Sentous, Tenth, Grat
tan, Union, Union avenue. Hoover, Wash
ington, Union avenue, Washington, Six
teenth, Union avenue. Sixteenth, Pico,
Union avenue, Pico, Twelfth, Union ave
nue. Twelfth. Eleventh, Union avenue.
Eleventh, Ninth, Union avenue. Ninth,
Seventh, Vernon, Sixteenth, l'ico, Vernon,
Eighth, Seventh, Whittier, Ninth, Seventh
Wintleld, Burlington, Sentous, West Bea
con, Eleventh, Ninth, Winner, Seventh,
t Irange.
The total cost of the work has been $48 ,
-013.03. The total length of the sewer is
■18.069.40 feet.
CHARGES AGAINST A FIREMAN
William Mays, a callman in the lire de
partment, attached to engine company No.
7, lias filed written charges against En*
gineer Myers of his organization, accusing
tho latter of having used tho city's supplies
for feeding his own horse and of having
frequently beon absent from duty without
tear*. Chief Mooro failed to brlni the
matter before tlie lire hoard at its last
meeting, and Mays was yes enlay on band
to fltld out the reasons. The chief does
not. after an investigation, consider tlie
eliar.es made to be of very serious im
port.
IHE Kru.MNG B«O0»»
New building permits of importance
wero yesterday recorded as fol lows:
To J. C. Lindsay, for a 119150 dwelling
on Lincoln street, west of Moon.
To \V. H. White, for a $1500 dwelling
on .Johnson street near Downey avenue.
To A. J. Newton, for an .SIBOO dwelling
on Rock avenue near Central avenue.
To D. P. Riley, for a $1000 dwelling on
Denver street near Tenth.
To 0. A. I lay born, for a $1500 dwelling
on Eighth street near Golden.
GOT 100 DAYS
Tom Atwood, a Hard Character, Csrrled Con
cealed Weapons
Justice Rossiter, sitting in department
two of the police cotirt.yesterday gave Tom
Atwood a fine of $100 or 100 days in jail
on conviction of carrying concealed
weapons.
Atwood is a bard character who was ar
rested by Officers Steele and Robbins on
December C last on a charge of burglary.
On the !)th of the same month he was held
in $3000 bail to answer to the superior
court and on January 7 of this year was
discharged by a jury in department one,
before Judge Smith. He was gathered in a
night or two ago while with a drunken
rancher named Phillips, whom he was try
ing to rob. Considering bis previous bad
record and the facts in the latest case the
justice gave him a long term in jail.
Delicate and delicious—food prepared
with Dr. Price's Baking Powder.
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Gold Medal Exhibit of Southern Cali
fornia Citrus Fruits
The Finest Lot ol Commercially Peeked
Oranges and Lemons Ever Gathered
Together—Attendance of Dealers
The gold medal exhibit of citrus fruits
was continued yesterday at the chamber
of commerce, and judging progressed so
far as marking for packing was concerned.
Under tbe rules adopted by tbe manage
ment the exhibit is restricted to one box of
fruit of each variety from a single grower,
and instead of the carloads of fruit ar
ranged with the view of securing artistic
effect by contrast of color, the exhibit em
braces, all told, seventy boxes of fruit
packed ready for shipment, entered for
premiums, and a dozen more boxes sent in
for exhibition only, and packed in papers
bearing the trademark and labels of vari
ous of the exchanges.
| Not a part of the exhibit, yet placed near
lit and attracting no little attention,is the re-
I arranged table of Hivera'rto fruit, embrac
i ing magnificent specimens of nearly every
variety of fruit grown in the southern coun
try. A committee consisting of Messrs.
Garcelon, Backus and Cutter devoted a few
hours to its replenishment and arrange
ment, taking full advantage of every op
portunity to increase the attractiveness of
the display by arranging the specimens
with reference to size and color and shape,
thus making the table doubly noticeable.
The quantity of fruit in the exhibit
proper is small, but what it.lacks in quan
tity is made up in the quality. Practically
every orange and every lemon in the ex
hibit is a perfect specimen of its particular
variety, and it is wrapped and packed with
tho best skill obtainable, and the grower to
whom the gold medal shall be awarded
wdll have the satisfaction of knowing that
the winning fruit approached very near to
theoretical perfection.
There will be no room for charges of par
tiality on the part of the judges. Under
the system adopted neither the manage
ment nor the judges can secure knowledge
as to the grower of a given exhibit, nor
even of the locality from which it came,
until the awards are completed and the
lists compared.
The exhibit, though altogether lacking in
the artistic display which has character
ized Ihe citrus fairs of the past, is the best
setting forth of citrus fruit growing as a
business that has been given, and the fruit
shown is the finest display ever got to
gether in California.
The judgment as to boxing concluded,
the fruit will be unpacked and decision
made on quality, after which the fruit will
be sold at private sale, ready for delivery
to purchasers on Monday.
The attendance at the chamber indicates
the presence in the city of a large number
of eastern visitors, many of them dealers
in or commercially interested in the
marketing of California products. Several
times yesterday Superintendent Wiggins
was appealed to for specific information as
I to the residence of growers of certain pro-
I ducts exhibited at the chamber, and in two
| instances, one a Boston restaurateur and
j the other a New Jersey provision dealer,
followed up an inquiry by a immediate de
parture for the Ventura bean fields. The
Boston man feeds a thousandpeopleaday,
and proposes to get bis staple article of
diet from the first hands; Ihe New Jersey
; man has divers and sundry orders on hand
j aud desires to fill them with the best goods
to bo obtained.
The gold medal citrus exhibit is not
the equal of any of the citrus fairs as a
' show; as regards its business effects it is
J likely to bo more valuable than all of them
cotubined.
PITTSBURG MAN'S DOWNFALL
Ssld to Be In This City With $100,000
Questionable Funds
There are quite large numbers of prom
inent Pittsburg people in the city just now,
and they are much excited over the ab
sconding of John L Cowan of the large
lumbering firm of Cowan Se Son of the
smoky city. Mr. Cowan was quite promi
nent in society and religious circles, and
his defalcations, which it is said amount to
$100,000 or more, is a great surprise.
About 250 mourning creditors are using
every effort to secure his arrest. He is
charged with forgery, raising of checks and
tlie appropriation of trust moneys. He was
seen by people who know him on Wednes
day, but at that time the faot of his dis
honesty was not known. He is a man past
middle life, and his character stood very
high in his community. It would seem
that he has been leading a double life for
some years past, but was successful in
avoiding detection, and would have con
tinued to do so had he not had
too many female charmers, one of
whom in a fit of jealousy betrayed him
and thus compelled his (light. It is
believed that he had a large amount ot
money with him, as Jimmy O'Donohueof
ttie Nadeau cafe, who waited on him,
changed a $20 gold piece for him which he
banded in payment for a drink out of a
handful of coins of the same denomina
tion. He was seen by a Hekald reporter
in the lobby of the Westminster, then af
terwards at the Hollenbeck and Natick, he
said that he was touring Southern Califor
nia and would be in Los Angeles for the
fiesta. Detectives from Pittsburg are in
hot pursuit, but up to last night had not
caught their man. The outgoing trains
have been closely scanned without success.
It is probable that he has taken the alarm
and is in biding either in the city or in one
of the suburbs. When seen on Wednesday
he was slightly intoxicated, very nervous
and looked tired out. His son, who was
ins partner, and is highly respected, is
tnatly distressed over his father's sad
fall and is seriously ill in consequence.
The London Economist says the Cuban
war is costing Spain $5,000,000 a month.
Cuban securities have depreciated 20 per
cent.
jLOS ANGELES HEKALD: SATURDAY MORXIXG. MARCH 7. 1896.
SANTA FE WILL NOT MOVE
No Change in Terminal l acili
ties Ever Contemplated
WHAT MANAGER WADE SAYS
The Purchase ol tbe Sepulveda Tract
Has Not Be:n Considered
The Present Depot on First Street Answers
All the Requirements—An Old Story
In a New Oress
An afternoon paper on Thursday revived
the story that tho Santa Fo company had
purchased, or at least had an option on tbe
Sepulveda property, at tho junction of
Mission and Alameda streets, and that the
depot would probably be changed to (hat
point. It was stated that tlie change was
to be made in tho interest of suburban
traffic, and to meet tho competition of tho
Southern Paci lie on these lines. The tract
of land consists of about twenty-five acres,
and is held at $25,000, and an entrance
could be had at the corner of Alameda and
Macy streets, where the old orphan asylum
now stands. To get to this point it would
b3 necessary to acquire a right of way for a
considerable distance, at what cost it was
not stated, but it would be a very consider
able amount.
Mr. K. H. Wade, general manager of the
Southern California road, was seen at bis
office in tho Bradbury block yesterday aft
ernoon and when shown the article in
question and asked as to its correctness,
said that it had absolutely no founda
tion in fact. Mr. Wads said
that the matter bad been azjtated
three or four times since he has
been the general manager of the Southern
California, which is the western terminal
of the Santa Fe. and that in every case all
propositions looking to that end had been
declined. Mr. Wade said that the present
terminal facilities of the Santa Fe in Los
Angeles were in every way satisfactory,
and that there was no disposition on tbe
part of the company to abandon its pres
ent station, La Urande depot, which was in
every way satisfactory. The company, on
his recommendation, had invested a gre-\t
deal of money at their present location on
First street, and be had never heard a word
about the abandonment of that depot..
There are now three lines of street cars to
La Grande station, by which easy access
was had to every part of tlie city, and a
removal to the junction of Alameda anrl
Mission streets, ins cad of neing a benefit,
would prove a positive detriment to travel,
not only suburban, but transcontinental.
As it was now. passengers by tlie Santa Fe
were landed in easy distance of the leading
hotels, as well as the business center of the
city, and there was no disposition to
change the existing order of things.
As a railroad man, he bad no hesi
tation in saying tiiat the present terminal
facilities of tlie Santa Fe system were sec
ond to none in the country. The company
had invested a largo amount in leveeing
the river, and hundreds of acres had been
reclaimed whicli was the property of the
Santa Fe, and the company did not pro
pose to jeopardize the rights that it had
bought and paid for, especially when the
site in question was too small even now to
handle the business, to say nothing of the
future growth of the city.
As a matter of fact this same proposition
has been before tho public three or four
times already, in one shape or another.
Toward the end of the boom a movement
was started to secure this same tract for a
union depot, to stop the southwestern
movement of business, but the matter fe 1
through. From that timo up to the pres
ent, from time to time, the story has been
revived that either the Southern I'acilic or
the Santa Fe were trying to buy this site
for terminal facilities, and at least one
five-story building has been erected in that
section of tho city to accommodate the
railroad offices when the new depot was
built, but this depot has never been built.
The Santa Fe has ample facilities at the
head of First street to handle all its busi
ness, with plenty of room for future expan
sion for years to come. The Southern Fa
cine has good depot facilities at the Ar
cade, ana while greater space could be
utilized, there is plenty for years to come.
This being the case, there is but little pros
pect of the Sepulveda property being util
ized for railroad purposes, and, so far as
the Santa Fe is concerned, General Man
ager Wade says positively that a change
has never even been contemplated.
Dr. Price's Baking Powder is perfect in
purity, strength and wholesomeneas.
Central Union W. C. T. L
The Central Union W. C. T. U. held its
regular weekly business meeting yesterday
at Temperance temple. It was resolved to
ask John G. Wooley to lecture before the
W. C. T. U. during his visit to Southern
California. Mrs. Helen M. Gouger has
been engaged to speak under the auspices
of the union at lllinoi 1 hal , March 27th.
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Gladness C^r^
With a better understanding of the
transient nature of the many phys
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forts—gentle efforts —pleasant efforts —
rightly directed. There is comfort in
the knowledge that bo many forms of
sickness ere not due to any actual dis
ease, but simply to a constipated *ondi
tion of the system, which tho pleasant
family laxative, Syrup of Figs, prompt
ly removes. That is why it is the only
remedy with millions of families, and is
everywhere esteemed so highly by nil
who value fjood health. Its beneficial
effects are due to the fact, that it is the
one remedy which promotes internal
cleanliness, without debilitating the
organs on which it acts. It is therefore
all important, in order to get its bene
ficial effects, to note when you pur
chase, thatyou have the genuine art lcle,
which is manufactured by the California
Fig Syrup Co. only, and sold by all rep
utable druggists.
If in the enjoyment of good health,
and the system is regular, then laxa
tives or other remedies are not needed.
If afflicted with any actual disease, one
may be commended to the most skillful
physicians, but if in need of a laxative,
then one should have the best, and with
the well-informed everywhere, Syrup of
Figs stands highest and is most largely
used and gives most general satisfaction.
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