Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-01-05

formed by a letter from the super.
intendent of their we'll in the Sespe
that fine strike had been made.
He writes, under date of Friday,
that they had had considerable
trouble with the gas blowing dry
mud into the hole and choking the
oil pump up SO that it would not
work, but that they had overcome
the difficulty and that the pump
had been working in frst-class order
for day and half. 1t had pump
ed out one hundred and eighty bar
rels of oil in that time. They had
tested the pumping capacity of the
| well about two hours before the let
ter was written and it had pumped
twenty gallons in six minutes and
a half, which is at the rate of 105
barrels day. The writer expected
to have all the company's tanks
full of oil by last night. This is
highly gratifying news and we con-
gratulate our enterprising fellow
citizens upon their success.
The Los Angeles County Medic-
al Association held its regu.
lar monthly meeting Friday
evening with the President, DR..
Orme, in the Chair. A resolution
was passed instructing the Secre.
tary to notify all persons practic-
ing medicine contrary to law of
their error and to inform them that
they must procure license or cease
practicing; otherwise they will suf.
fer the penalty of the laws of our
State. The Society then went in
to the annual election of officers
with the following result: Presi.
dent, DR.. Joseph Kurts; Vice-Pres-
ident, DR.. w. Lockhart; Treasur-
er, DR.. H. s, Worthington; Secre-
tary, DR.. Walter Lindley; (re-
elected). The President appointed
Drs. Widney, Lindley and Barton
committee to make arragnments
for the annual public address,
which will occur next month.
Last year this address was de.
livered to large and intelligent
audience by DR.. Widney. This |
year DR.. Orme will be the speaker.
The benefit to tho Bert Dramatic |
Troupe at Turn-Varein Hall last |
night was in overy sense success. |
A large and fashionable audience
enjoyed the "Colleen Bawn." Mrs.
Tompkinson as "Eily O'Connoru
was welcomed with great cordial
ity and gave full evidence of the
histrionic gifts which made her
popular as Fanny Morgan Phelps. |
The ladies of the troupe acquitted |
themselves admirably, and we can
not forbear warm testimony to
the artistic aud capital manner In
which Mr.. James o. Barrows gave
the double impersonation of Miles
Ma Copalleen and Danny Mann.
This gentleman shows talent of a
various order. We understand
that the company 60 from Los An.
geles to Wilmington, at which
latter place they will give one or
more representations before EN-.
barking ON the steamer for San
Francisco.
Officer Lockwood yesterday
morning arrested VIM. Collins and
John Durham, two old offenders,
on the charge Of having broken
into and stolen from the shoemak.
er's shop of Pantaleon Zabaleta, on
Commercial street, two pairs of
boots and lot of shoemaker's tools.
A h. Ia pf< 81. |
leta was screw.driver with which
the thieves tried to pry open the
door of watchmaker's shop on
Requena street, but, the implement
breaking, they were foiled in the
attempt. A broken screw.driver
was found in their possession which
fitted exactly to the piece found in
the watchmaker's door. Later in
the day Chief King recovered a
buggy blanket that had been stolen
from Mr.. Benps buggy, among the
effects ofthe arrested burglars.
We announced some time ago
that we had engaged, at high SAL
ary, one of the leading merchants
of Los Angeles, who was about
making a trip to Arizona, to write
US a series of letters descriptive of
the country he passed through.
The first of the hundred letters he
proposes to write appears in the
HERALD to-day. We shall watch |
the effect of these missives upon |
our readers. If they survive the
first half dozen we shall cancel a |
contract we have already partially |
made with Cahuilla Indian to
waylay and murder the writer ere |
that terrible complement of the
hundred is completed.
Attention is directed to the dou-
BILE column advertisement of
Messrs. Dillon & Kenealy, which
appears elsewhere, in which extra
ordinary inducements are offered
to purchasers. The goods are all of
the best quality and latest styles
and are only offered at such greatly
reduced rates in order to make
room for an immense new stock. The
ladies of Los Angeles should by all
means avail themselves of this op-
portunity, as 1t is one that rarely
occurs.
There will be Union prayer meet.
ing in the M. e. Church South, on
Spring street, each evening this
week according to the programme
of the Evangelical Alliance for the
Week of Prayer, except on
Wednesday evening, when the
subject of temperance will occupy
the evening and the meeting will
be addressed by Mrs. DR.. E. J.
French, of Philadelphia.
Mr.. Parker formerly of the New