Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-06-10
san Francisco News.

SAN FRANCISCO. June 9.-William
Blanchard & Co, have been appointed
agents for this Pacific Mail Steamship
Co., for this Coast. and took possession
of the Company's Office to-day.
1t is stated that Waddell, of Shen-
andoah' fame, will be removed from
the Superintendency of Docks.
At fire in Chinatown this morn
ing, two Cinnamon were burned to
death. A Chihaman suffering with
smallpox was removed from the
burning house and was suffered to re-
remain In the street for two hours be-
fore being removed.
Leland Stanford, President, and E.
H. Miller, jr., Secretary of the Central
Pacific Railroad, were arrested to-day
on a complaint of J. r. Robinson, a
stockholder of that Company, for re-
fusing to allow the complainant to see
their books. They were bailed out.
Silver coin Is to 5 and trade dol
lars to eight per cent. discount.
Produce and fruit commission mer-
chants have agreed to collect and pay
all bills weekly, hereafter.
Burglars entered the house of John
Fitzgerald, on Larkin street, last
night, and carried off $500 worth of
property.
In tie list of marine disasters dur
ing May, there was not a vessel
named belonging to California
The Anti-Coolie clubs of South San
Francisco have done such effective
work that 1t Is stated not one China
washman or vegetable peddler can
find employment or trade.
The tax levy for the next fiscal year
was set to-day at one dollar and forty
five cents on hundred dollars. Over
three million dollars will be required
to run the city government.
The Habeas Corpus case of Harry
McCabe, the little boy who was taken
from Montgomery Queens circus by
the Society for Preventing Cruelty to
Children, was up before the Fifteenth
District Court to-day and was contin-
ued till July l4th, in order to get test
imony from New York. The first
Commissioners appointed at that city
attempted to bribe the Society with a
thousand dollars, and would take no
evidence, and consequently he was re-
moved by the Court to-day, and an
other Commissioner appointed.
Hon. Zach. Chandler, Secretary of
the Interior, has directed the Land
Offices of this State not to enter any
more soldiers bounty warrants for
public lands unless personal applica-
tion is made 10y the soldier. A large
quantity of land has been gobbled up
in this State within the past few
months. One Washington firm alone
have located tens of thousands of acres
of the finest timber land in the State,
applying in the Susanville district for
from forty to sixty thousand acres of
valuable sugar pine. In the Socra-
mentO district the same parties have
located over forty thousand acres Of
timber land in the vicinity of Truckee,
and SO, 900 acres i'm the Visaiia district;
also large quantities in the San Fran
cisco district. From the manner in
which the business has been conduct
ed 1t is evident they had it reduced to
system, and II may not be uninter-
esting to know the modus operandi.
One member of the firm spent several
months in Missouri and Arkansas
picking up the names of soldiers who
had entered less than l60 acres of land
as homestead, and wherever they
could be secured procuring from such
soldiers an application for an addi-
tiOnal entry, with two powers Of at
torney, all signed in blank,t be filled
in at some subsequent period, which
papers, together with certified copy
of the soldiers discharge, were then
forwarded to another member of the
firm in California, who had come to
this State for the purpose of selecting
the lands to locate.
The libel case of Charles DeYoung
was called in the City Criminal Court
to-day and continued.