Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-07-14

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Forsyth, Theodore Lunlihe, VIM b
Smith, J P Dougherty, ] Goldman,
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Boyd, Mrs G Foreman, G Foreman,
Eliza Foreman, Mrs Gildmacher
and child, G w Marden and wife,
w Saalburg, D w Gelwicks, w S
Newhall, + Godfrey, and 140 pas
sengers for Los Angeles, of whom
100 are excursi0nists.
WsterspOut ON the Desert Rail-
road Track washed Away-NO
Train from YHsua.
SAN BERNARDINo, July 13.-The
bursting of a waterspout on the
Desert, between Dos Palmos and
the Colorado river, has washed
away the railroad track, and no
train from Fort Yuma has yet ar
rived at Cotton. A light shower of
rain fell here this forenoon, accom-
panied by thunder. 1t is fearfully
sultry.
Latest I0diau Nrw..
SAN FRANCISCO, July 13tli.--A
Umatilla dispatch says that the
Indians have burned Cayuse Sta
tion. Troops are now being dis
patched in hopes of cutting Off the
retreat of the hosties and bringing
them to bay. A dispatch from
Camp Supply, Arizona, reports the
drowning Of Lieutenants Henly
and Rucker, of the 9th Infantry,
by waterspout.
The Ventura Murder Trial.
SAN BUENAvENTURA, July 18th.
i his forenoon the trial of Sprague
was proceeded with. DR.. belmont,
the coroner, was first called upon to
prove the cause of death. He de-
scribed the location of ten bullet
wounds in the head, neck and body,
each of which, except two, were ne
cessarily fatal. None of them were
i'm the back of the head or body.
He had probed the wounds and had
requested leave TO make an autop-
sy at the time of the inquest but
relative of the deceased refused. He
could not describe the kind of
bullets particularly. From the
appearance Of the wounds some of
them were evidently rifle balls, and
the others either buckshot or pistol
balls, he could not tell which.
The Chinese cook was recalled
and severely cross examined, evil
IDENTIFY not SO much to break him
down as for an ulterior purpose.
The trial progresses very slowly,
the legal contest being keen and
close, exceptions and counter-eX-
ceptions following each other in
quick succession, each giving rise
to short arguments. The decisions
are prompt and 10 more often eX-
cepted to than Is usual in murder
trials. The Chinese cook testified
to-day for the first time, we be.
lieve, that on the night of the muir
der he saw five masked men. G.
A. Storke, sOn-in law of deceased,
was called, and proved a personal
quarrel between the prisoner and
deceased, few weeks before the
murder. On cross examination
he admitted that the collision
had occurred on land claimed by
Sprague, which WAS outside of the
claimed limits of the grant, and
also that on that occasion the ex-
amining magistrate refused to hold
Sprague for trial. After one hours
testimony, direct and cross, the
Court ordered it stopped, stating
that, at the proper time, he should
instruct the jury to disregard the
whole Of it.
Austin Brown, who lived within
half o mile of the scene of the MUIR
der, was next called to the stand
and examined by Col. Howard.
He had conversation with Sprague
two weeks before the murder, in
which Sprague said that More
ought to be killed, and would be,
and that men had been detailed to
kill him. In another conversation,
three weeks before the murder,
Sprague said he had just come
from Ventura, where he had talked
with Hines, who said the matter
must be settled in some other way
than by law. Sprague said: "More
threatens to take our water, and
turn his sheep loose ON US, and 1
have come to see you about killing
him, and there is party organized
to do it. Long before this Sprague
told the witness that More ought
to be killed; he said the party to
do it were John Curlee, Jesse
Jones, H. Cook, julie Swanson and
Churchill, and he wanted witness
to join. WitnessAsked how 1t would
he done, and he replied that
it was all planned and fixed; that
they had a turpentine ball to fire
the barn and bring More out of the
house, when they would shoot him.
He said they would be disguised
with barley sacks over their heads
SO that no one would know them
and had place ofrendezvOus where
they would meet at 10 o'clock at
night. The signal was low whis.
tie which would be re-
piled to and some one
would come to witness. Witness told
him his wife could not stay alone
at night, and therefore refused to
GO. If he Qhe witness) was out at
night, she would mistrust some
thing, and he could not go. This
closed Browns direct examination.
supposed Indiam Murders In Nom
lanR.
HELENA, M. t., July 1.-Two
miners named John Meyers and
John Lynch were killed last week
on Elk Creek, M. Il. The Indians
are believed to have committed the
murder. Elk Creek is on the line
of Cadets Pass, where two men
previously reported were killed.
Considerable apprehension is felt
by ranchers and stockmen on the
road from here to Fort Benton.
Gov. Potts has just returned from a