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REPORT OF THE CONDITION
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-28

Kohn, q Rock Island commercial
traveller, got his cheek damaged in a
railroad accident over in Iowa, and
had to quit work. No commercial
traveller can do business while his
cheek is out of order
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-28
California and Cotton.

The California Farmer expresses
itself upon this subject thusly:
"The subject of cotton growing is a
fixed fact in California, and in less
than ten years, the number of cotton
bales annually exported from Cali
fornia will be counted by the tens of
thousands. The MERGED Tribune
shows an increasing interest in cotton
culture in that region, and states that
there are eight citizens who will plant
six hundred acres with cotton. We
have no doubt. from the facts in our
possession, that this year there will be
planted $500 acres of cotton in Cali
fornia, and even this amount may be
doubled. One thing is very certain,
California could produce more cotton
than any state in the Union.
In Colusa, Suffer, Yuba and Yolo
counties the soil and climate is well
adapted to this important staple. In
all these counties cotton growing has
been thoroughly tested, and with sue
cessful results. Colusa county has
probably tested the matter upon a
more extensive scale than any of the
Northern counties. Will S. Green, Of
the SIN, has long argued upon the
people Of that county to engage in this
important industry. We give the
San credit for being the foremost of
the press in its efforts to encourage
cotton-growing in the Sacramento
valley Suffer Banner,
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-28

the case in point, is as follows: "That
all lands, the claims to which have
been finally rejected by the Commits
sioners in manner herein provided, or
which shall be finally decided to be in
valid by the District or Supreme Court
shall be held, deemed and con-
sidered as part of the public domain of
the United States.
This reservation exists whether
there is any suspension made by the
Surveyor General or not. The Sur
veyor Generals suspension seems in
this instance, think, to identify the
particular lands claimed by Diaz. 1t
is but reasonable to suppose that the
grant claimants, while prosecuting
their claims in the courts, would see
that the Government did not dispose
Of the land they claimed while their
suit was pending.
1t appears that for some time prior
to 1878, this Office regarded the Diaz
grant as finally adjudicated, upon the
ground that no appeal was taken from
the decree of the District Court, but
the recent action of the Supreme
Court in the case shows that view to
have been erroneous.
The right of the railroad company,
under my decision of Feb. 10, 1862, in
the case of c. H. Barton, Shasta Dis
trict, attached to the lands in the
granted limits of this road, upon the
receipt of the order of withdrawal at
the local office, which was in your dis
trict, Nov. 25th, 1867. At this latter
date the case of Diaz was still pending
in the Courts. A decree was entered
in the Circuit Court on the lst of July,
1867, and finally, by the Supreme
Court on the Sd of March, 1873.
BY recent decisions of the Secretary,
the right to select indemnity vests at
the same date as the grant in place;
therefore the status of the land at that
date must determine the question as
to the right of the railroad company.
If it be held that this right vested by
definite location, which was prior to
the aforesaid withdrawal, as decided
in other cases, the result of this con-
test will not be changed-the lands
having the same status at both dates.
/ therefore decide that the land in
question is excluded from the opera
ton of the grant to the railroad COM
pany, and that the State selections
shall have been allowed. You will
notify the respective parties of the
decision, and allow sixty days for APP
peal. Very Respectfully,
WILLIS DRUMMOND,
Commissioner.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-28
POsT-oFFICE DIRECTORY.

Eastern, San Francisco and Northern-Tele-
graph Stage Line-Arrive at $500 p. NJ; close
at :l5 NJ. Letters intended for registry
must be presented before ii A. M.
Coast Line-Stations between San Francisco
and Los Angeles, via Santa Barbara-Ar-
rive at 1890 z. NJ. closes at9:30 p. NJ.
San Diego Line-San Diego, Anaheim, Gala
tin, Capistrano, etc.-Arrves at u NJ,
closes at 345 +. NJ.
Southern Arizona-Tucson, Yuma, Arizona
City, and Way Stations-Tri-Week Ser
vce-Arrives Sunday, Wednesday and Fri
lay at II NJ; leaves Monday, Wednesday
md Saturday; Mail closes at 3:45 p. NJ.
Northern Arizona-Prescott, Wickenberg and
Way Stations-Semi-W eekly-Arrives Mon
day and Thursday at 500 p. NJ; leaves Tues
day and Friday; mail closes at Z. NJ.
San BernardlnO and Way .Stations-San Ga
briel, FL Monte, Riverside, ETC.. arrives at
500 p. NJ; closes at $3.50 p. M.
Wilmington and Way Statons-Arrves at
2:30 p. NJ. closes Mt 9:30 A. NJ.
Cerro GordO, Lone Pine and Havilah--ATives
Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 300 p.
NJ; leaves Monday, Wednesday and Satur-
day; closes at ll:45A A. NJ.
Domestic and Foreign Money Order Office
Open from $3.50 A. NJ. to 4a0P NJ, except on
Saturday, when Office closes at 300 p. M.
Office Hours-SO0 A. M. to 700 p. NJ.
II. X w. BENT, p. NJ.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-28
FOR EICN.
LONDON, March 26tl

LONDON, March Goth.
The Times Madrid special says Ser
rano renewed the attack on the Car
lists before Bilboa early yesterday
morning, and at one o'clock tele-
graphed to Madrid that the combat
was obstinate, but that the advantages
were with him.
A special from Berlin says that Bis
marck is in state of great prostra-
ton.
The remains of Livingstone left
Alder on the Esd inst. on the steamer
for England. The body was fully re-
cognized at Zanzibar.
LONDON, March 9th.
The ship st. Mark from San Fran
cisco for Liverpool, arrived to-day with
fourteen feet of water in the hold. Her
pumps choked and she was compelled
to throw overheard five hundred tons
of her cargo.
HAVANA, March Goth.
The financial crisis hourly increases.
Gold is now quoted at $50.
KEY WEST, March Goth.
Havana advices say the Spaniards'
loss was very heavy In the battle near
Puerto Principe, the Cubans remain
ing in possession of the field,
VIENNA, March Goth.
II is reported that the Emperor will
visit Naples, there to meet the King
of Italy and accompany him to Turin.
MADRID, March Goth.
The Cabinet has telegraphed its con-
gratulatiOns to SerranO.
MADRID, March 9th.
Serrano telegraphed to the Minister
of War that his troops drove back the
Carlist lines, capturing them at the
point of the bayonet. Several villages
were occupied Wednesday. Several
batteries were also silenced.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-28
Freights and Fares in the Northwest

The Legislatures of Iowa, Minnesota
and Wisconsin have now passed laws,
similar to that of Illinois, for the
regulation Of railroad freight rates and
passenger fares. These four North
western States are thus the pioneers
in this effort of the people to break
down the eXtOrtionate rule of monopo-
lies. 1t now only remains for the
courts to support the action of the
Legislatures to make the reform
complete. Our only fear is, that. our
Legislators, in their eagerness to do
something in response to the demands
of the people, are really trying to do
too much. In aiming at good
target, there is reason to apprehend
that they will ovelshoot it, and that,
after all, their work will practically
amount to but little. And yet if it
will have the effect of causing rail-
roads to be more reasonable and con-
siderate in their general policy and
dealings with the producers and ship
pers, the present efforts ofour Western
Legislatures will not have been in
vain,
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-28

No more "divorces secured without
publicity" in Illinois. The bill which
has finally passed both houses of the
Legislature, and been approved by the
Governor, requires that all evidence
IN divorce cases shall be given in open
court. This ends the underground
trickery of the Chicago divorce shys-
tiers
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-28
Late kilograms,
EASTE r N.
WASHINGTON, March 9th.

WASHINGTON, March 9th.
The Senate passed the bill to relin-
quish the interest of the United States
in certain lands in San Francisco.
Kelly from the Public Lands Com
mittee reported favorably on bill to
create an additional land district in
Oregon, to be known as the Dalles
land district.
The Chair laid before the Senate
the resolutions of mass meeting of
citizens of Portland, asking Congress-
ional aid in the construction of the
Portland, Dalles and Salt Lake Rail
road.
CHICAGO, March 9th.
At Jackson, Miss, yesterday, w. A.
Spears, drove in a carriage to the Of
flee of Robert J. Miller, called him out
and as he approached, shot him fatal
ly. The cause of the act is unknown.
Spears was taken to Jail amidst great
excitement. There are threats of
lynching him.
RALEIGH, N. c., March Goth.
A dispatch says that the shocks at
Bald Mountain were more violent last
night than ever before.
KITTANING, March Goth.
The wooden factory and warehouse
of Goodwill & Hendener were burned
this forenoon; loss, 100000.
PORT JERvIs, NY, March 9th.
The strike of Erie employees at the
Susquehanna depot has nearly sus-
pended all through travel.
BALTIMORE, March 9th.
One man was fatally and three seri-
ously injured by gas explosion Oh
Saturday.
JACKSON, Kansas, March 9th.
On Wednesday last one Ames was
killed by his son-in-law, Pierce, who
was yesterday taken from the Jail by a
mob and hanged.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-28
Pacific Coast kilograms.
SAN FRANCISCO.
SAN FRANCISCO, M

SAN FRANCISCO, March 9th.
An investigation into the affairs OF
II. C. Bennett, the missing pension
agent, indicates that he is defaulter
to large amount. AS the examlna-
ton of the accounts is not yet con-
cluded, the exact amount Of defalca-
ton is not known. His wife is still in
this city, but Bennett has never been
heard from since he left Omaha.
If the weather is favorable Professor
Barber will make free ascension at
Woodward's Gardens tomorrow in his
Paris mail balloon Lezcors, carrying
ten persons.
No news yet from the steamer Coli
ma, and as her delay is protracted
public anxiety increases. 1t is gener-
ally believed that her machinery is
disabled and that she is making way
under sail. The Union Insurance
Company has decided to take all addl-
tional policies on her cargo at regular
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-28
DR.. j. M. JANCSO,

OFFICE IN JUNGE'S DRUG
" Store, opposite U. S. Hotel.
BH-Special attention to Diseases of Children.
marltf
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-28

rates. The steamer Arizona may bring
news Of the Colima if she does not
arrive before Sunday next.
An affray occurred last night at the
corner of Third and Bryant streets, in
which man named Sterling was
stabbed severely by man named
Valentine. The wounds are not dam
gerOus. No arrest made as yet.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-28
THE STEAMER
ssCaIifOrnia.''

p1-Carrying Combustibles,-3 a
And other freight, will leave San Francisco
for San Pedro and San Diego and all Way
Ports.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-28
Tuesday, March Gath.

Returning, will leave San Pedro Tuesday
March 3st.
The CALIFORNIA has recently been fitted
up especially for a Stock boat, and has ample
accommodations for 5000 Sheep.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-28
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DIR. M. S. JONES,

FORMERLY OF ST. LOUIS, Mo-,
a has locatad in Los Angeles, where he
will give his special attention to diseases OF
the Eye, Ear. Nose and Throat.
OFFICE: Spring ST., opposite Temple Block.
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Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-28

"DOes one women in fifty fill the
lower half of her lungs with air ?" is
the stern inquiry of sanitary ex-
change. The editor of that paper
never heard the voice of an infuriated
mother in-law.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-28

Many of the Connecticut farmers
will abandon the cultivation of tobac-
co. Last Summers crop did not prop
erly mature, and still remains on the
hands of the producers, although in
some cases offered at half the usual
price.
Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-28
Fine Cattle.

The San Jose Mercury of March oath
has the following:
Yesterdays freight train for Salinas
City carried the finest band of blooded
cattle ever brought to this coast. They
were consigned to that pioneer stock
raiser, Jessie ID. Carr. There were
two bulls and eight cows, all English
Durham breed, and Carr paid for the
lot the magnificent price of $1,000.
The sale was effected in Canada few
weeks since. The cattle will be placed
on Carr's ranch in Monterey county.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-06-27

J. B. Baker, of this place, has two
boys, aged about eightte en- and twenty
We RS, living OH the old Chenoweth
ranch, on the Ross Mountain, five
miles above the mouth of Russian
river, and about twenty miles on an
air line westerly from Healdsburg.
Some weeks ago the boys killed a
large female panther, or California
lion, that measured nine feet from tip
to tip. The week before last their
dogs freed a young male lion, supposed
to be one of the cubs. The boys had
heard that Woodward would pay q
good phi ;e for young California lion,
and they determined to capture the
animal alive. One climbed the tree
and threw a moose over the lions head.
After tying the rope securely, they got
another rope around his hind legs,
and then dashed him to pole, lower
ell him to the ground, and carried him
home alive and unhult The feat was
not performed without some risk, for
the lion is about year old, and
nearly SIX feet from tip to tip; but the
boys managed the capture so we'll that
neither got hurt except that one had
finger split by the sharp claw of the
beast. They have written to Wood
ward, and expect to sell their prize to
him to add to the menagerie in his
gardens.-[Russian River Flag, June
18th.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-06-27
~ Local Option wing-dams

THE San Francisco Bulletin claims
that the friends of the railroad at
tempted to load FREEMAN's Freights
and Fares bill with impractical
amendments in order to defeat its pas
sage or render it unpopular should it
become law; but that the supporters
of the bill saw the intention and voted
down the amendments as fast as they
came up. This is weak. The bill was
as impractical as it was possible for an
impractical man to make it when it
left Mr.. FREEMAN's hands, and any
amendment made could not but i'm
prove it. Besides, if the friends of the
bill were sufficiently powerful to kill
all amendments offered, how was it
that they did not pass the bill itself :?
The power to do one was all that was
required to do the other.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-06-27
Liability Of Stockholders.

AS there appears to be a wrong i'm
preston in the public mind regarding
the liability of stockholders in incor-
porated companies, we give the fol-
lowing extract from Section 1913 of the
Civil Code, as amended at the last
session of the Legislatures:
SECTION 322. Each stock holder of corpor-
alton is individually and personally liable for
such proportion of i debts and liabilities as
the amount of stock or shares owned by him
bears to the whole of the subscribed capital
stock or shares of the corporation and for a
like proportion only of each debt or claim
against the corporation. ANY creditor of the
corporation may institute joint or several ac-
tons against any of its stockholders for the
proportion of his claim payable by each, and
in such action the Court must ascerta II the
proportion OF the claim or debt for which each
defendant is liable, and a several judgment
must be rendered against each, in conformity
Herewith.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-06-27

THE press of Sacramento city is op-
posed to Local Option and the people
themselves will only consent to vote
for no-license with proviso. They
are willing to do away with the retail
liquor business during the dull season;
but during State Conventions and
sessions Of the Legislature they wish
to be exempt from the provisions of
the temperance law. 1t is on these
occasions Sacramento reaps her har-
vest. Then the poorest class of whisky
is sold at two bits drink, hash houses
adopt the prices of first-class hotels,
rooms that are empty all the remain
der of the year rent at fabulous rates.
Sacramento has an eye to State Con-
ventions and Legislative sessions.
They are the nets in which she catches
her annual supply of fish, and she
does not want them interfered with
by Local Option wing-dams.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-06-27
Compulsory Voting.

The HERALDs suggestion made a
few days ago on the advantage of COM
pulsory voting has met the approba-
ton of thinking men. A number of
letters have been received by the ed
itor indorsing the idea and urging a
further agitation of the proposition.
A careful study of the plan only
strengthens the conviction that it Of
fers the only practical means by which
the honest portion of the community
may defend themselves against the
wrongs growing out of the influence
of bad men over irresponsible voters.
If all vol ed who have the right, we
should have fewer bad officers, and
public positions would be filled with
honest, conscientious men, who would
discharge their duty with credit to
themselves and honor to those placing
them in positions of power and trust.
This reward ought to be sufficient in
centive to secure the vote of every le-
ultimate voter, but experience has
demonstrated that it is not, and we all
know how large proportion of those
possessing the right ofsuffrage fails to
exercise that right at all ordinary
elections. By enforcing the payment
of poll-tax the law compels men to
purchase the right to vote, but the law
does not exact the legal exercise of
that right after it is secured. 1t would
probably shut out many bad votes, or
at least benefit the State by compell-
ing those bad men who use them to
pay the tax, to require every man
who presents himself at the ballot box
to show his poll-tax receipt before de-
posting his vote, and we are quite
confident that law compelling each
legal voter to vote would reduce the
value of corrupt votes and ultimately
so purify the ballot-box that honest
men would no longer regard it as use
less to attend elections.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-06-27
Indian Management.

"Lo, the poor Indian" or rather the
privilege of looking after his interests
and the right to swindle him out of
his supplies, is giving the Government
no small amount of trouble, besides
causing a good deal of ill feeling
among those good people who
are struggling for big Indian offices
and Indian supply contracts. The
truth is the Indians of the United
States are a much wronged people.
OF all the robberies practiced by Fed
eral officials, those worked OH the In
dams are beyond doubt the most bare
faced and the most cruel. The Gov
eminent has under its protection hun
dreds of tribes whose lands and homes
have been taken from them, and they
moved upon Reservations. They are,
under the contract, to receive certain
amounts of clothing and provisions
annually; bat while the Government
actually pays for these things, the In
dians never receive them. The peo-
pie pay for the best quality of Indian
supplies and the Indians receive the
poorest quality that can be found in
the market. The people are robbed
and the Indians are robbed. These
robberies are the work of the agents
the middlemen-between the Govern
ment and the Indians. Contractors
and Indian agents as general thing
soon get rich. The process is simple
and easy. The agent makes out re-
QUESTION for the full amount of the
best supplies and the Government
pays the bill. The Indians receive
the smallest possible amount and OF
the poorest quality. The difference
between ten sacks of mouldy flour
which the Indians get and the thous-
and sacks of good flour which the Gov
ernment pays for, assists the agent in
making his fortune. The Indian COM
plains, but he can only do so to the
agent, and the agent tells the Indian
that the Government is responsible for
the short supplies. Any whining,
hypocritcal rascal is smart enough to
defraud the Government and starve a
tribe of Indians into killing few
white women and children.