Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-04-03
There can no longer be any doubt


the possession of the Pico oil dis
trict. we have the Star Company,
behind which stands such capital
lists as Mark l.. Mcdonald; on the
other we have the Messrs. Beale
and Baker, both eminently "solid"
men. Judge Lake and the Messrs.
Mcconnell, Gould and Lawrence
represent the Star Oil Company
and the case of the plaintiff 10
championed by Brunson & East
man and Major e. M. Ross. Du.
ring a period of two years or more
the Pico oil district has demon
strated itself TO be q reliable pro-
ducer of petroleum. A tract of
land comprising but two acres is
thus far ali that has been made to
render tribute to commerce. Not
withstanding, the yield has been
large. What will it be when that
whole extensive belt Of country is
spouting oil?
We would be glad to know who
the pill is who tried to play off an
April Fool joke on US. We re-
ceived, through the mail on the I'd,
not the lst, of April, an deliberately
gotten up document. 1t had about
forty-six wrappers, earh of diff
ferent color. The frat was a plain
white one, and contained the etfi-
gy of II beautiful young lady whose
glory, in the language of Soloman
as applied to woman, laid in her
hair, which was abundant and
glossy, the elfigy being designed to
advertise HalPs Hair Restorer.
Next came u crimson wrapper,then
cream colored one, saffron, yell
low, green, mauve, bismarck
and other parti-colored wrappers
succeeded. The whole thing was
as Intricate as the concentric folds
of an onion. at last we struck
some tin foil, and in it was enclosed
three empty pill! boxes. The whole
embodied the delicate April fool
attentions of some pillgarlic, no
doubt. Thanks, gentle tool!
Under Sheriff Rowland will leave
on to-day's train to bring down
Price and Finney, whose arrest by
Sheriff Meany, at MERGED, was
noted in yesterdays HERALD.
Sheriff Mitchell called for the pris-
Oners on his way from San Fran
cisco but was unable to identify
them, hence the necessity for Mr..
Rowland's trip. Sheriff Meany
telegraphs that there were eight in
the party arrested by him and that
Finney, who gives his name as
Hall, CORES ponds to the description
furnished, but that he is unable to
identify Price. Chief Harris. who
advised Sheriff Meany of Prices
movements, and who would &C.
company Mr.. Rowland but that his
presence is required at San Buena
Ventura, thinks that some others
of the party may be wanted here.
They were well provided with guns,
pistols and other plumber when
captured.
The night was dark and all
around in gloom beneath the star
less night-when u man shouted
"Lets 90 TO Woods Opera House."
The Citizens Com mittee of Five
to prepare suggestions as to the
best means of carrying out the OBJ
jects Of the Citizens meeting of
last Saturday night, will hold n
second meeting at the County
Court loom to morrow night, at "A
o'clock. Meantime each membe
will prepare a plan embodying his
ideas OF the mode best calculated
to encourage home productions and
present it to the com mittee, who
will adopt the one that seems the
most feasible, aud report to an adj
juurEed citizens meeting to be held
On Saturday evening.
The report telegraphed from Ven-
tura that r. T.. MACPHERSON, APP
pointed Receiver for the PicO oil
wells by Judge Sepulveda pending
the suit of II. S. Baker ct al. vs.. the
California Star Oil Company, had
been driven Off by the employee, of
that company, is n mistake. The
fact is that Mr.. MACPHERSON went
to the wells on Saturday, read the
order Of the Court and on being re-
fused possession quietly got into
his buggy and returned to this city
and reported the facts To the
proper authorities
We find the following sensible
advice in n late number of Fitzger-
AIDS Home Newspaper: The writer
of this paragraph longs for another
taste of Southern California, whose
air soothes like an anodyne and ex-
hilarates like-choOse your own
simile, D gentle reader of this Home
newspaper. The rheumatic and
neuralgia martyrs of San Francisco
bay return from the orange groves
and the City of the Angels smiling
like seraphs and walking as ii OH
springs. Prescriptions gratis to all
climatic sufferers: Leave off drugs
ana 0SOutn.
The contract for building the few
Hall of the Good Templars was
awarded to Messrs. Perry, Wood
worth & Co., on Monday last. The
contractors have agreed to accept
an individual bond for $4,000 and
to wait for the balance of the con-
tract price until the Society can
secure a satisfactory loan OH its
property. The new building is to
be completed In ninety days from
the commencement of the work.
Judge Delos Lake made an argu-
ment yesterday, in the District
Court, in the case of II. s.. Baker ct
al. VS.. California Star Oil Company.
The case will be resumed to-day at
nine o'clock, when the Messrs.
Rr,nSon md MoC,uuall will ma L q