Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-01

25th. The Council refuses to make an
appropriation for the Fourth of July
celebration.
26th. The citizens contribute liber-
ally to the relief of the Louisiana suf-
ferers.
9th. The firemen have grand
torch-light excursion. Excursion on
the street-car line.
2Sth. Excursion to San Fernando.
Frenchmen picnic at Arroyo Seco.
29th. John Mcdonald, the keeper Of
cheap boarding. house, kills his wife
with a butcher knife, while she is
nursing her babe.
30th. Picnic of the Hebrew Sunday
School. Fears entertained that Nc
Donald, the wife murderer, will be
moboed, and the Jail guarded by SOL
diers.
lst. A new company organized to
prospect for oil. DIR. J. HI. Mckee en-
ters on the duties of Health Officer.
I'd. The Councilmen, as individuals,
make liberal donations to the 4th of
July fund.
Sd. John o. Wheeler goes to work as
Deputy L. S. Collector. Carmen Lugo,
who murdered a lad at Verdugo
Ranch, arrested in San Diego county.
Great land sale at San Fernando.
4th. The "glorious Fourth" " OBJ
served in grand style. The Grangers,
soldiers, firemen, Turner'S, Mexican
war veterans and citizens generally
participate. Not a single accident and
"naryn arrest. Ten thousand visitors
in the city.
5th. Mining machinery shipped TO
Panamint.
9th. The Los Angeles Savings Bank
commences operations. A dairyman
named Welch attempts suicide on
Main street.
9TH. The Changers at Azusa decide
pletion of the national monument to
Washington on the Potomac.
Sth. Col. J. J. Warner appointed U.
S. Commissioner in Bankruptcy Ma
sonic honors to the memory of John
Collier, deceased. The Turner's select
Joseph Kurtz as their President.
9th. California capitalists come to
Los Angeles with heaps of coin and
loan the same out at one per cent. per
month.
10th. The Also Flour Mills destroyed
by fire. Loss $4,000 on building and
machinery; insurance $500; also
heavy loss in flour and grain.
1lth. San Franciscians in the city
purchasing thousands of sheep.
12th Samuel Prayer elected Presi-
dent Of the Hebrew Order of B'nai
Birth, and visiting brethren from
San Francisco entertained. Death of
John Reed, respected pioneer of Los
Angeles county.
18TH The people of Los Nietos decide
to build large hotel.
18th. The Good Templars excurt to
Gallatin. Geo. Milliken, of the City
Ice Works, thrown from a buggy and
badly injured.
18th. The Chamber of Commerce
pronounces the "Local Option Law
dangerous to American liberty.
10th. Joe Murphy in town. Effort
to drive the scarlet women from
the city.
18th. The Los Angeles Tobacco AS
sociatiOn commences to gather its first
crop, a fine one. The Grange Store
doing a stunning business.
18th. Prof Denton delivers course
of interesting lectures. Circus in town.
10th. Big row in Sonora; the mob
fight the police, but are conquered.
Goth. The Castac Water Ditch and
Placer Mining Company organized, to
operate on the Santa Clara river.
2lst. Large orders received from the
East for Los Angeles wines.
22d. The Jews pay their annual visit
to the graves of their dead.
23d. Messrs. Potts & Co. purchase
100000 orange, lemon and lime trees.
Oath. The Grangers decide to erect a
paper mill. Fire at Wilmington.
Corona, an acc0mplice of Vassuez,
found guilty of robbery.
25th. The subscription list of the
HERALD looming up beyond prece-
dent; sixty : six subscribers to the
weekly and seventeen to the daily in
one day.
Goth. Big rush to the surf baths at
Santa Monica.
9th. The people of San Bernardino
in mass meeting pledge themselves to
cooperate with Los Angeles in build
ing railroad to Inyo county.
2Sth. Firemen's ball at Turner Hall.
Man stabbed in Sonora. The authori-
ties at Auaheim shoot a desperate
named Moreno.
29th. Attempt to blow open safe at
the railroad depot at San Gabriel.
Destructive prairie fire near Spadra.
3Oth. Officers of Olive Lodge No. 26,
knights of Pythias, ]. w. Wolenberg,
p. c., installed.
3lst. The Cool Templars censure the
members of the Chamber of Commerce
for their denunciation of the Local
Option Law. Gold excitement at San
Fernando.
1st. Our officials go on hunt fo1
Chavis, Vasquez's lieutenant, who
kills another man in SOledad Canon.
Col. Peel returns from his petroleum
wells with most favorable reports.
Cd. Arrival of Geo. b. Davis to erect
works for the Alden fruit drying pro-
cess. The pleasure-seekers at Santa
Monica suffer from sneak thieves.
Sd. Row among the saw-bones about
diplomas. Sam Meyer elected Presi'
dent of the Hebrew Benevolent Soci-
ETY..
18th. Visitors from Inyo county re.
port slight earthquake in that Sec
ton.