Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-04-23


formed, Irregularities being care.
fully planned, it is supposed, for
the purpose of transferring money
from the Treasury to the pockets of
favored contractors and their con.
federates. The Irregularities seem
to have been confined chiefly to
routes west of the Mississippi river
and those in the Territories.
Not i0dors-d ny Garfield.
WASHINGTON, April 22.--In con.
versation President Garfield ex-
pressed regret at the tone of Frye's
speech, saying he was not in sym.
pathy with crusades against the
South for political effect.
An Order Affecting Possa, Cards.
WASHINGTON, April 22.-An or
der has been issued declaring pos.
tai cards unmailable with any thing
but the direction OH the address
side.
No Barxnin.
WASHINGTON, April 22.-The
statements made about q bargain
or coalition between Conkling and
Democratic Senators for the rejec.
ton OF Robertson are entirely un.
founded. There has been neither
bargain nor coalition, though a
number of Democratic Senators
express n determination to vote
with Conkling. This grows out of
a belief that the administration Is
unfriendly to the South and not
from any understanding with
Coo king. Friends of Conkling
say he could not make such Goa
lition il he desired, and would not
If he could.
7He Foods AEas..
COUNCIL BLUFFS, April 22.-The
present, the second Missouri river
flood of the season, equals the
former in magnitude and extent of
area. The water has been rising at
the rate of about one inch an hour
to day and tonight Is 81 feet 10
inches above low-wster mark, being
five inches higher than during the
first flood. Reports from up the
river of n continued rise are re-
garded here with considerable I'D.
prehension, as the low lands adja-
cent to the Car works already have
~ much water as they can stand.
Railroads ceDteriDg here are again
sufferers, the Union Pacific tracks
being washed out for several hun.
dred yards just west of their depot,
and everything has to he transfer
red over n temporary platform. No
trains go out Of Omaha for the
west. 1t is expected that the bridge
Of the Union Pacific, seventy-nine
miles west of Omaha, will break
to day.
ElrcstS" "t Aiehts"H. Top. ka aaa
santa Fu Directors
Topeka, April 22.-At the an.
nuai meeting of the Stockholders
of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe Railroad Company to-day the
following directors were elected:
7. J. Coolidge, J. II. Burr, Alden
Shear, B. G.. Cheney, s. l.. Thorn
dyke, G. J. Paine. G. A. Gsrdner,
G. w. Price, W. Powell Mason, of
Boston; S. A. Kent, of Chicago; G.
K. Holiday, B. f. Stringfellow and
l.. LeDery, Of Kansas, after which
the following officers were elected:
J. L. Coolidge, President; w. b.
Strong, Vice-President and General
Manager; S. L. Thorndyke, Comp
troller; +. +. Wilder, Secretary
and Treasurer; G.. l.. Goodwin, As.
sistant Secretary and Treasurer; J.
p. Whitehead, Auditor. This Com
pany is now operating more than
2 500 miles of railroad in Kansas,
Colorado and New Mexico valued
at $25,O00,000. During the past
year they have constructed 400
miles of new road, purchased a
million and half dollars worth of
rolling stock and expended half a
million dollars in improving the
lines already built.
A Coid-Bic"ded Slaughter.
ST. LOUIS, April ga special
says that band of armed men rode
up to the house of man named
McLauren, living In the little town
of Frio, Edwards county, Texas,
last Tuesday and deliberately MUIR
dered McLauren, his wife and a
young man living with them
named Lees. No cause Is given for
the horrible act,' and the perpe-
traitors of it are unknown. Plunder
evidently was not their object as
nothing in the house was disturbed.
ssili aislng.
OMAHA, April 22.-The Missouri
continues slowly rising and at noon
reached twenty-five feet four ipon-
es. Lumber yards are losing con-
siderable stock with each inch Of
rise, but the railway shops, smelt
ing works and distillery are with
standing the flood and doing finely.
They can sustain several feet more
risa without appreciable damage.
River men calculate that the Mis-
souri, will reach q standstill here
by tomorrow.
Auas.scsn PDrk Rnied aus Of
Turkey.
CoNSTANTINoPLE, April % The
Porte has prohibited the importa-
tion of American pork. A COM
mitee OF Americans will ascertain