Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-09-19
LAST NIGHTS NEWS.

lsppaiai to the Herald by the Western
Union Telegraph Companyl
Pacific Coast News.
No Glue az t,s,, Protested Taxec.
SIX FRANCISCO, Sept. 1stbs-The
Finance Committee of the Board
of Supervisors this morning ex-
amined the books of j. M. Wake T.
& Co., of which firm ex.Tax Col
lector Austin was member, to as
certain how Austin drew the city's
money. The great bulk or the
amount of over quarter of mill
lion was drawn out by Austin's
checks, ranging mostly in hun
dreds, inInearly every case raya-
BILE to bearer, leaving no clue as to
the disposal of the funds. The COM
mittee are as much in the dark as
ever.
A Variety OF News.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. Is Con
tribu,ions for the South received by
the Citizens Committee $33, 500; by
Wells, Fargo & Co. S24. 800.
Pursuant to an order of the Board
OF Supervisors, the extra clerks in
the different departments of the
city government have been dis
charged to the number of 35, saving
$4 900 n month.
The Register and Receiver of the
United States Land Office received
the following dispatch from WASH
ington to-day:
WAsHINGToN, Sept. IS. 1873.
To the Register and Receiver,
San Francisco: Receive no more
applications TO select lands under
the one hundred and fifty thousand
acre grant, the full quantity hav-
ing already been selected.
(Signed)
j. A. WILLIAMSON,
Commissioned.
The dispatch relates to the Agri.
cultural College land grant set
aside by the United States for the
benefit of the University of Califor.
mia.
III the matter of the bankruptcy
Of the Sierra Flume and Lumber
Company of Shasta, Tehama and
Butte counties, the company has
been adludged bankrupt on its
own petition. A warrant in bank
ruptcy has been issued out Of the
United States District Court
against said bankrupt, giving
notice of a meeting Of creditors to
be held at "a court of bankruptcy on
the 30lh instant, TO choose one or
more assignees Of the estate. The
Gre ditors number over twenty.one
hundred.
The state Fair isscts
SACRAMENTO, Sept. lSth.-A
large attendance. In the ladies'
equestrianism exhibition to-day,
Miss Kate Cross, of Woodland, got
the first premium, Mrs. May
Stevens Billings the second. Elev.
EN- premiums were awarded to
eleven contestants.
There were four starters in the
2:23 class race-Nutwooj, Tommy
Gates, Doty and Pat Hunt. Pat
Huut was distanced in the first
heat. Nntwood won the first, Sec
ond and fifth heats; Tommy Gates
the third and fourth. Time, o:24,
2:243. 2:27a, 2:2sa, 2:26a.
The starters in the four. year old
race we're Poscora, Hayward, Bell
Davis and Bessie. Poscora won
the first heat In 2:37, the second in
2.39, the third and race in 2:39a.
Bessie was distanced.
Guilty OF Manslaus hter-Dead.
SAN JOSE, Sept. 1Sth.-The trial
of Victor Elanos. for the murder of
Marcus Beckwith, at the Guada.
lupe mine, on the lst of last Febru-
ary, was concluded in the District
Court to-day, the jury finding the
defendants guilty OF manslaughter.
Last evening Thos. Bodley, ex
Assemblyman. eX.Under Sheriff
and ex-Distrlct Attorney, died at
his residence in this; city of cancer
of the stomach.
sttver Ore shipment.
YUMA, Sept. 1Sth.-Fourteen
thousand pounds of silver ore ar
rived here to-day from the Globe
district, eleven thousand of which
is from the Mcmillan mine and Is
considered very rich, former ship.
ments having assayed $4,000 per
ton. 1t went forward to San Fan
cisco this evening.
Miner Mardered by CbinsmeD.
YREKA, Sept. 1Sth.-A miner
named Turowski, was found MUIR
dered on his claim near Happy
Camp last Friday. The murderers
are supposed to he Cinnamon, The
citizens of Happy Camp. who are
greatly excited, have all the Chi.
namen In that vicinity coralled and
declare that they will find out the
perpetrators of the deed and that
the Chinese must leave. This is
the third or fourth murder of white
men by Cinnamon in this vicln-