Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-01-18
LAST NIGHTS NEWS.
Especial to the HERALD By the Western
Union Telegraph Com pany.
Pacific Coast 9e@s
the Coavem.ion-Anernoon.

The nsion-AfiernOOn.
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 17.-Secretary
Johnson rendered his resignation,
saying in his letter to the Presi-
lent, that be regretted the step,
but it was necessary in the per-
formance of a duty which he could
uot shift. He expressed surprise
at the movement made yesterday
during his absence to forestall his
resignation aud place a stigma
upon him. The resignation was
accepted.
The Convention went into an
election for Secretary. Ed. Il.
Smith received So and George A.
Thornt on Al votes. Smith was de-
clared elected.
The Convention then went into
Committee of the Whole on city
and county organizations.
Debate on section nine was sharp
and spicy. A motion to strike oul
| the section was lost. An amend
ment authorizing the State to send
y Minister to the empire of San
Francisco was ruled out of order.
Section thirteen, providing that
taxes should not exceed a certain
limit on the Que hundred dollars
valuation, was stricken out
Section fourteen was adopted. 1t
denies the legislative power TO i'm
pose taxes upon counties, cities or
towns for county or municipal pur-
poses, but provides that it may by
general laws vest in the corporate
authorities thereof the power to
assess and collect taxes for such
purposes.
Section fifteen was passed with
out amendment. 1t prevents the
Legislature from interfering, by
| special commissions, in the man.
agement of municipal improve
ments.
Resistance was made to section
sixteen. 1t provides that no State
| Office shall be continued or created
in any city or county fer the in.
| spection of merchandise or any
com n odity, but county or city,
when authorized by general law,
! may appoint such officefs. A mo-
tiOn to strike out the section was
lost. The Committee rose.
Adjourned.
suit Against the CentraG raesfic.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17th.-F.
v. w. Rathbone has brought suit
in the Fifteenth District Court
| against the Central Pacific Rail-
road Company to recover $1,000
| damages for the refusal Of the SER
wants of the defendants to accept a
passenger ticket bought by the
plain tiff on the 10th of last Novem.
| Der to travel by train from White
Rock to San Francisco, and in be-
ing forcibly elected from tho cars.
work at the "Front."
YUMA, Jan. 17th.-The reporter
of the Arizona Sentinel, just in
from the front, reports the end Of
the Southern Pacific Railroad
track tonight at q point forty
eight miles east of Yuma. Eighty
four hundred feet of track were laid
to-day and ten thousand feet yes
terday. Over ten miles have been
laid since last Friday night. Grad.
ing is far ahead Of the track and
everything Is going on like clock
work.
Tne YoacsM Murder Case.
BAKERSFIELD, Jan. 18th. - In
the Yoahum murder case to-day J.
w. Rice testified that prior te the
murder Of Johnson, Tucker had a
conversation with Thomas
Yoakum regarding locating the
mine by the deceased which
Yoacum claimed. Yoacum said
that any attempt to locate these
mines would not be healthy for the
locators and that he would run
them out OF the county. w. A.
Atchisou and Thomas Yoacum said
| Tucker and johnson had no mines,
that they belonged to the Yoacurn
brothers and that they could carry
off no rock from those mines alive
| e. Marshall testified to the vari-
GUS actions of W.. j. Yoacum on
the night after the murder and as
to the wound received by Johnson.
1t was most horrible and was in
flicted by rifls.
VIM. +. Mcfarland testified that
he has a brother at Long Tom. A
few days before the killing Tom
Yoacum told him to get his brother
away, that there would be trouble
and somebody would get hurt. Mo.
Farland advised legal measures,
but he replied that that it would be
too expensive. He admitted that
they had no patent to the mine
and had not performed the work
required by the law The Court
adjourned until 0 o'clock to. m or.
row, when the prosecution will
probably examine one witness and
then the defense will take up the
case.