Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-04-06
LAST NIGHTS NEWS.
Especial to the Herald by the Western
Union Telegraph Company.l
Pacific Coast News.



gard to certain lands in that city,
which the parties at the meeting
assume are held by certain indi-
viduals and corporations without
legal title. 1t is now determined
to jump the lands in question and
tue first movement will be made
on those held by the Central Paci-
fic Railroad and II. w. Car
pentier. Those present at the
meeting signed roll pledging
themselves to obtain firearms and
defend by force the land jumped.
They claim to be In correspondence
with parties in San Francisco and
state that within few weeks they
will number one thousand men,
ready to dispute their claims with
their lives. The Oakland Tribune
will this afternoon print an article
based on authentic information
that, in fact, a number of working
men have been considering the
feasibility of getting up coloni-
cation scheme to purchase tract
of land and divide it up among the
members Of the company, and that
certain Communist leaders seized
upon the occasion to announce that
the lands above referred to were
not legally held by their possess
ors, and urged those engaged in
the movement to take them. A
few credulous men concerned in
the original movement believed
the statement, and there may be
half a dozen of them who would
be willing to try the experiment of
jumping claims.
New Laws doing Into Effece-Ia the
Interest of Lawyers Assess.
imeUs.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 5th.-
Judges Dwinelle, Daingerfeld and
Morrison met this afternoon and
organized preparatory to selecting
the new Board of Police Commits
sioners. Judge Dwinelle was
chosen President and Judge Dain
gerfield Secretary. They adjourned
subject to the call of the President.
The new law taxing each certifi.
cate issued from the books of min.
ing companies ten cents, which
has to be paid by the brokers, is
preventing great deal of unneces-
sary transferring. What is prov
ing of considerable annoyance to
brokers is the late action of the
companies controlled by Flood g.
O'Brien in requiring q power of
attorney at every transfer of stocks
on the books, in accordance with
the letter of the law. The San
Francisco Stock Board has appoint
ed a committee to work for the
removal Of the obstacle, if posi-
BILE. The attorney of the Board is
of opinion that he can defeat the
matter in the courts, as each stock
certificate bears on its face the
words: transferable on the books
of the company by Endorsement
hereon and the surrender of this
certificate" The attorney of the
mining companies takes a differ
ent view, and in all probability a
test case will be tried in the courts
Yellow Jacket this afternoon
levied an assessment of So pei
share.
Invesiigating Altered street con
tracts.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 5th. The
Finance Committee of the Board oil
Supervisors to-day are examining
the matter of the alteration in the
figures of street contracts. The ev-
idence taken Is quite voluminous.
From the testimony of John Hagan
late Superintendent of Streets, il
was shown that, during his admin.
istration, several clerks in the Of
flee of the Superintendent had &C.
cess to the contracts and the
changes might have Teen affected
during his administration. J. A.
Skidmore, Deputy Superintendent
says the alterations must have been
made in the Office. The contracts
are now kept under lock. All the
clerks had access to them. He had
neglected to comply with the Or
der of Superintendent Hagan 10
procure lock and key for their
safe keeping. Louis Enricht and
E. F. Ohm, contractors, seemed
very ignorant about the matter OF
what price they were to receive for
doing work and the charge of at
tempting to bribe Hagan was sus-
tanned by testimony against the
former. The investigation will be
continued tomorrow.
Examination OF tho Alleged Muir.
derers Of More Continued.
SAN BUENAvENTURA, April g.
On the opening of the Court, at
P. M, on motion Of the prosecu.
ton, the Court adjourned to the
Palace Hotel, to take the testi-
mony of N. H. Hickerson, who
was too i'll to be brought into Court.
The prisoners and counsel accord
ingly removed to the Palace Hotel.
N. III. Hickerson, being duly
sworn, said, after the usual prelim-
inaries: "TwO nights after the
murder 1 was applied to to act as
a guard, Sprague seeming to antic-
ipate that q mob from Ventura
were coming to hang him. While
on guard together he told me that
he had assisted in the murder, and
that Curlee, Jones, Mozart, Swan
son, Churchill, Cook and Floyd
were present. He gave me the
whole particulars. He said that
More, when shot down and when
the crowd ran up to him, said: 'For
Gods sake don't kill me! You see
1 am shot, Sprague said, Damn
you, take that and fired the bull
let into his BRAIN"
At this point the attending ply
stefan insisted that the witness,
who was SO weak and sick that he
had to be stimulated while giving
his evidence, was too i'll to proceed
further, and the direct examina-
ton was resumed.
An adjournment was then had to
the Court House, where George
Ferguson, who was employed at
the ranch at the time OF the MUIR
der, was sworn. His evidence did
not vary any from that given at
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