Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-09-28
AT the oratorical and musical


At the oratorical and musical
entertainment at Metropolitan
Temple, San Francisco, last Wed.
nesday evening, in aid of the vel.
low fever sufferers, Col. Ayers of
this city was one of the speakers.
We clip from the Cdlps report Of
the entertainments:
Colonel J. J. Ayers, of Los An
geles, gave u synopsis of his ad-
dress on "Pioneer Times" delivered
some time ago before the California
Pioneers. He said the principal
object he had in view was to disa-
buse the popular mind OF the err
roneous idea that the days OF '49
were days Of semi-barbarism. If
the State had progressed since then
in material sense, it had also
kept pace in crime and i'm morality
with the other adjuncts of modern
civilization. In early days, the
mining camps were united in a
federation, and though there were
no written laws or regularly insti-
tuted magistrates, yet law and
order were there in the most SUBJ
stantial sense. Justice was weigh
ed with scales as true as ever
known in older communities. The
vulgar crime of larceny was rare,
and summarily punished when
discovered. Assaults were more
frequent, but 1t was not safe for
desperadoes to go outside their own
class in their traul', and const
quently the serious affrays were
confined principally to the
gamblers. Persons and prop.
erty were safer in the mines In
'49 than day in San Francisco.
The speaker said that Bret Harte
and Mark Twain had created an
entirety wrong impression of the
character OF the pioneer, who was
generally an educated and intelli-
gent man.
Col. John ID. Graham, of the Tol.
tee Mining Syndicate, in Southern
Arizona, looked In on US yesterday.
He has just returned from his trip
to the Santa Rita mines. He has
been absent about six weeks; and,
though he has sweltered much un-
der the torrid sun of that region he
is the picture Of good health. Col.
Graham Informs US that a great
mining revival is going on in Arl-
IONA which is quite paralleled by
the Railway revival. Eastern
Railway men are proving fully
alive to the opportunities offered in
that rich mineral section. The
Santa Rita, the Arivaca, the Tomb .
stone and other districts, all look
well and are being rapidly pros.
pected. Arizona has never wit
messed such an influx of people be-
fore, and of people who mean bus.
iness. There is universal conf.
dence In both the extent, richness
aud permanence of the mines.
Mr.. Jesse Yarnell left per steamer
Orizaba to attend the meeting OF
the Grand Lodge OF Good Templars
of California and Nevada, which
will meet at Vallejo next Tuesday.
Mr.. julius Lyons will leave for the
same purpose to-day and Mr.. w.
d. Gould to moro W, the latter two
going overland. These gentlemen
will represent Merrill Lodge No.
299 of this city.
Some thirty witnesses have thus
far been examined by the prosecu.
ton in the examination of the
charges against Postmaster
Dunkelberger. The investigation
will be resum u this morning, and
the prosecution will endeavor to
close to-day. AS special agent
Sharp leaves for San Francisco this
afternoon, further investigation
will then be postponed until next
Tuesday or Wednesday.
A Hog Herders Association has
been organized on the mesa, Gospel
Swamp, in opposition to the Hog
Raisers Protective Union, its OBJ.
ject being to protect the members
Of ths fraternity from any en-
croachments by the III. R. p. U.