Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-03-01
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NEWS lTE MS.

magnate, is seriously ill.
The thermometer indicated nineteen
degrees below zero at Eureka, Nevada,
on the night of the 23d.
Donald Mckay and band of his
Warm Springs Indians will go East
on a tour about the middle of this
month.
The subordinate. Oranges Of Santa
Clara county will meet at San Jose on
the 23d for the purpose of organizing a
County Council.
The epizootic has made its appear-
anee in New York, and other Eastern
cities, as well as in Oregon and some
of the Territories.
A lot of mountain quail that were
shipped alive from Sacramento to Con-
necticut are doing well, and another
shipment was made afew days since.
Kern county has received a monster
pillow, capable Of cutting furrow four
feet wide and eighteen inches deep.
1t will require sixty horses to draw it.
General Harvey recommends that
anyone who is caught selling whisky
to the Indians should be shot downor
hung up on the spot. That is radical
treatment, but it would cure few.
The Reno Journdl says there are
three feet of snow in Honey Lake and
Surprise Valleys, and that cattle are
dying atthe rate Of thirty day. Hay
cannot be had at any price, and straw
sellsfor $50 ton. -
Judge Stidger, very forcible writer,
has retired from the Nevada Daily
Transcript and settled at North San
Juan. His old partner N. p. Brown,
will continue to run the transcript.
Query-Will the Judge revive the old
Var Club?
A letter has been received in San
Francisco from the East stating that
Joe Daniels has bought the celebrated
racers, "Joe Daniels" and "Hubbard.n
and that he will shortly arrive there
to take charge of them.
A colored woman in Marysville is
said to be the mother of twenty-one
children. II there are many such
families in that town, the School
Board can afford to establish a separ-
ate school for the young "American
citizens of African descent" " -
Luttrell has presented in the House
of Representatives the resolutions of
the California Legislature, asking
Congress to grant pensions to the
Mexican War Veterans, and appropri-
ate funds to pay for turning San Diego
river.
The Superintendent Of the Sacra-
mento Valley Railroad testifies before
the Senate Committee that that road
under the rates established by the
Freeman bill would have run behind
last year S2O, 900, beside the interest on
it's bonds. ili Jsfl HH#l 1I915Ed ml
The Oakland Improvement Compa-
ny has been organized. Its object is
to dredge a ship channel across the bar
at the mouth of san Antonio Creek,
to improve the channel of that stream
and connect it with San Leandro Bay,
oud hnilI xybarvaGI tffsHG ~ 1871 E
The Belcher Mining Company, of
Nevada, yielded during the year 1878
over ten million dollars in bullion, a
little over half of which was gold and
the balance silver. The Enterprise
. predicts that the gold and silver yield
of the mines of the State of Nevada
during the present year will reach
$4O,0O0,0OO. 4 4-H III M
Money is very plentyin Boston, and
the banks are begging their customers
To take it off their hands at a low rate
of interest If some of their surplus
currency was brought to the Pacific
coast, and loaned at a fair rate of in
terest, as currency, principal and
interest payable in greenbacSs, the
business would be profitable alike to
loaner and borrower.
The State Grange of North Carolina
met in Raleigh on the 18th. of last
month, 1870 Oranges being represented.
There are 235 Oranges in the State,
numbering about 1000 members, and
the order is rapidly increasing. Dr.
Columbus Mills of Cabarras was elect
ed Master, and Richard Williams of
Pitt was chosen Overseer.
The shipments of treasure from San
Francisco for the week ending on the
10Th was 500, 1893, all silver. -,
Trade of all descriptions is reported
quiet in San Francisco.
Another fine schooner has lately
been launched at Humboldt Bay, and
will shortly sail for the Society ISL
ands with load of lumber. af ssh
4 The Surveyor and Collector of the
port of New York annually receive
over $4,000 each in moieties, under
the law giving half the penalties for
violation of the revenue laws to In
formers. M