Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-08-04
LOCAL HREVITIES.


our New To-Day.
Mr.. George s. Stafford, railr oad
agent at Pantano, Arizona, is home
on q short visit to relatives and
friends.
The regular monthly meeting oil
the Los Angeles Club will be held
at the Club rooms this evening.
See notice.
Major w. G. Furrey and Col. G.
E. Huber are passengers by the
train from San Francisco to arrive
this morning.
The Board of Supervisors yester.
day appointed r. 7. Harris Con.
stable of Westminster township
vice J. D. Hart. resigned.
The August schedule of the Pa
cific Coast Steamship Company
will be found on the first page ol
this mornings HERALD.
Col. J. J. Ayers, editor of the
Express, went over to Catalina
Island yesterday for a fortnights
fishing and hunting.
1t is reported that cloud burst
this side of Pantano, Arizona, or
Tuesday night caused the washing
away OF about three miles of rail
road track.
We are indebted for compliment
ary tickets to the 10th exhibition
of the Mechanics institute, which
opened at San Francisco on the 2nG
instant and will continue until
September 3rd.
Mr.. 1. w. Hellman, who hal
been attending special meeting
of the Regents of the State Univer
sity at Oakland, is a, passenger by
the San Francisco train due thit
morning.
The City Librarian reports 104;
books loaned during the month o1
July. This is an increase of 81
over the June report and 2S2 ovel
July, 1880.
The ladies who sang in thu
"FlOwer Queen" last winter az,
requested to meet at the Con
gregational church next Friday
evening at 8 O'Clock.
Postmaster Dunkelberger look
for the arrival Of Eastern mail by
the southern route again in day
or two. The break at PantanO Cal
probably be obviated by carrying
the mail around.
A drayman named Vampo wa
up before City Justice Adams yes
terday on the charge of drunken
ness. 1t being his second Offenc
he was sent up for fifteen days.
County Recorder Lamb yester
day RECALLED the Court House off
cials with ice cream and cake, il
honor of the second birthday of hi
little daughter, Ruby Edna Lamb
Since writing an item which ap
pears elsewhere, We learn that Col
Chalmers Scott has been sum
moned to San Francisco for consul
ta,ion with the railroad authorl
ties, leaving his party her to avail
the result Of bis conference.
We regret to learn that Rev. NJ
M. Bovard, President of the Uni
versity of Southern California,
confined to his house by a seriou
= attack of illness, the result of over
work. His disease Is believed t
be cerebro spinal meningitis. Dl
up. Widney is the attending ply
sician.
Col. Chalmers Scott, of th
. Southern Pacific Railroad Engi
,, neers, came up from his home q
the Buena Vista Rancho, Sal
0 Diego county, yesterday, and witt
? his party left last evening fo
Wadsworth, Nevada, to commenc
= the survey of a line for a railroa
from that point to Mojave station
on the Southern Pacific Railroad
Bonds amounting to So. 900 for tn
purpose of building a new schot
house at Ell Monte were yesterda
, ordered to be issued by the Board {
Supervisors and the Clerk was IL
structed to advertise in the Los Al
y geles Daily HERALD for propose
| . L. 10 of hA hnnf
will run for ten years, bearing II
terest at the rate of 8 per cent
payable annually.
!, Master Karl Kurtz, son Of D
dJoseph Kurtz, met with an acc
dent on Monday last, by which /
broke his leg near the ankle.
appears that Karl and some con
panions were playing with q hant
car on the railroad at Santa Nor
lea when he was Knocked down b
q the car and the wheels passed ovt
his ankle, fracturing the bon
, The injury will probably keep hi
. In the house for two or thr'
= months.
h The Board of Supervisors yeste
day granted wharf franchises
Z. 1000 feet each to lhe Southel
Pacific Railroad Company, Il
f. Pacific Improvement Compar
and Charles Croker along Il
: water front of Wilmington Ha
Y Dor, to run for twenty years, beil
the wharf now In process of CO
struction by the Southern Pacil
Railroad Company at that place.
"a Mr.. 8. I. Mayo, who is memb
b. of Col. G. B. Griffin's Atlantic 81
Pacific surveying party, arrived
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