Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-12-13
In our advertising columns will


placed on the boards at Turnverein
Hall, weather permitting, on the
evening of Saturday, December
oath. AS the object Of this enter
tainment Is most meritorious
one, to say nothing Of its artistic
strong points, we expect to see
Turnverein Hall crowded.
According to the Los Angeles
papers there must be about
{, 200, 900, goo, GOO, 000,0 900 of stran-
gers in that city.-Sen Diego
News.
When our genial friend penned
that paragraph he not only saw
double but was looking through a
ninety million magnifying glass,
"of double hextra power" to en-
ploy the language Of Sam Weller.
But the fact is that that there are
q good many strangers here, and
they are a-coming still, and from
oil points of the compass, and
many OF them mean to stay.
That Los Angeles is making
striking advances in the line of
liquidatlng her debts and lessen
ing her expenses we can prove by
few figures cleaned from the
office of City Clerk Robinson. Last
year the tax levy WAS 1914, 870. II
and the delinquent tax list was
$l0.335 81. This year the tax levy
is only $75. 749 20, while the delin-
quent tax list has shrunk to
81, 498.47. Year before last the de-
linquent tax list was upwards of
SIG, 600, while the year before that
it was more than $4,000. Proba-
bly, no city In the State can make
as gratifying an exhibit as is in
volved in these figures. The saw
ing in the tax levy is within q
fraction of $4,000, while the
amount of taxes delinquent is on
ly about forty per cent, as compar-
ed with last year.
The electric light tower Of San
Jose, constructed upon the plan
suggested by Mr.. Owen of the San
Jose Mercury, is now nearly ready
for use. Says tho Mercury of Dec.
18th: "The iron work OF the tower
is now ready for the lamp fixtures
and reflector. The conducting
wires were set up yesterday from
the top of the tower to GiIlespies's
planning mill on FL Dorado street.
The machinery will all be ia place
to. morrow, and there now seems
to be no obstacle in the way of
turning on the light, as we prom
ised, by Tuesday evening. The
excursion from San Francisco will
probably not take place until the
scaffolding is taken down and the
tower shown at the best advan-
tage: We shall then have fine
large engraving of the tower ready
for use, which we intend shall first
appear in an illustrated edition of
the Mercury which we are prepar-
ing for the press.
Judge Adams disposed of the fol-
lowing culprits yesterday: Ball,
Austin and McCord, all arrested
for trespassing in the railroad oil
car, got three days each. MeElroih,
John Reynold and Thomas' Kelly,
for being drunk and dlsorderly,
grace the chain gang for the next
nine days. All Sam, who was ar
rested on the compliant of a. Gra-
ham, charged with an assault with
doo n n nnui a. al IN
the ground of insufficient evidence,
1t appearing that Graham was
really the offender, as he had
thrown cups, saucers, and every
thing available in the way Of
crockery at All Sam before he re-
taliated, and that several times
during the fracas, II All Sam so
intended, he could have inflicted
serious bodily harm on Graham.
j. s. Wilson, for being drunk ana
0isorderly got twelve days, us this
was lis second efiense.
The following official communi-
cation shows that the California
Southern has at last adopted q
route:
s. G. EVANS, ESQ Dear Sir:
In view Of the fact that you have
shown real interest in the que5-
ton of the location of our road, l
desire that you shall be promptly
Informed NJ to Mr.. Nickerson's
action In the matter. After care
fully reviewing the facts, he to-day
instructs me by wire 10 adopt the
Box Springs route.
RegrettiHg that this letter can
not afford you pleasure, as we'll as
Information, am yours very
truly, Jos. y. OsaooD,
Chief Engineer.
San Diego, Dec. l, 1881.
That the decision don't suit Riv-
erside il shown by the following
extract from the Press and H0rti-
culturist:
Now that the Company has de-
cided definitely on the route, we
suppose workmen will be employed
all along the line between this
place and Laguna, and the connec-
ton with the Southern Pacific
male as speedily as possible.