Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-08-09

ments of the investigation. Sew.
erai witnesses testified to the dis
charge of Mint employees by Dodge
because they were friends of Page.
Fatal Raiirosd Acc,dsns.
HAYwARDs, August sth.-The
Livermore train that reaches Hay
wards at $3.50 p. NJ, ran over and
killed Eli Huston and badly in
jured Levy Hensley, both of Alva.
RADIO, at the Mount Eden crossing,
about one mile above Haywards.
The men were driving q heavy
wagon with two horses attached.
The horses escaped injury. The
trees on both sides OF the road pre-.
vented them from seeing the train
in time.
rhe Tetal Wreck M,ne-Adverss
L,tigasion Commenced.
TUCSON, August S-Two actions
were commenced ia the District
Court Saturday, affecting the title
to the propertits of the Total
Wreck Mining Company in EN-.
pire district, this county. The To-
tal Wreck is regarded by mining
men as one of the best properties
in Pima county, the stock having
changed hands in New York at $8
per share. The attorneys for the
John Haynes and Hugh Farley.
storm-D-strucuvo Cloud Busss.
PHGNIX, August sth.-A severe
storm, accompanied by thunder
and llghtning and preceded by a
sand storm, visited Ph@uix Satur.
day. There was no damage out
side several trees blown down. The
storm was general throughout the
mountains to the north. A cloud
burst filed the channel of the Has
sayampa Creek, washing away six
teams, thirty-six animals and the
freight. The drivers barely e-cap-
ed with their lives. Ia Ph9nix
there have been several cases of
sickness owing to the high humid
lty and three deat1s in the last few
days. The deaths were H. B. Kel-
ly, who leaves wife and child at
Amador City, California; E. T.
Lowell, who leaves a family in
Bath, Maine, and Mr.. Ames from
Santa Barbara. A. ]. Mcneil, who
died Friday of Brights disease,
was from Carson, Nevada.
Iassressiog Items from Quay mas.
GUAYMAs, August I'd, via Tue.
son, August Sth.-Sam Brannan is
still here He proposes to go down
to his grant. notwithstanding the
Federal Judges Injunction of his
engineer. HIS engineers have left
him.
A few American desperadoes s
we're here some time ago and left
for Alamos, presumably to rob q
bullion train. It has been ascer-
taiued since that one of the party,
a Gsrman looking fellow, aged 10,
was shot and killed by his partner
He put bullet into his head with
a Winchester during a quarrel.
Names unknown.
Only twenty-five miles more
have to be laid to connect Hermo.
sillo with Guaymas by rail.
a large ship Is in the offing with
railroad iron. The schooner Firth
iof, of San Francisco, arrived to
day.
The fraudulent representative OF
the San Francisco Board of Com
merce, G. w. Sturtevant, after de-
frauding Guaymas merchants to
the tune Of $4,000 and those of Her.
mosillo out of $500, was success.
fully run out of the State short
time ago, aud though now in
United States territory, his where.
abouts is unknown.
A carriage containing 5000 eagle
dollars was stopped on the Altar
road, thirty miles from Hermosillo,
and tue money taken away. Que
thousand dollars reward is offered
for the recovery of the money and
the arrest of the thieves.
We have had no overland mail
from the States for a month, owing
to the disagreement between the
postal authorities and the stage
company.