Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-03-21

and his only offsnse seems to
have been that he was In
Langdon's employ.
Sabbath School Convention.
BAN FRANCISCO, March 20.-The
Fifteenth Annual Convention OF
the California Sabbath School As
sociation will be held 10 Stockton
on May 18th and continue three
days. Delegates are expected from
all parts Of the State, and ample
preparations will be made for their
accom- M odation at Stockton.
supdsy Law Observed-raymep
on AcoOuns OF x. u. Tsxss-Ar-
rived.
SAN DIEGO, March 0th.-Every-
body obeyed the Sunday law here
yesterday. No case of violation
has been reported, except one OF q
hotel whose proprietor claims that
the law excepts him.
The Southern Pacific Railroad ts-
day paid $25,000 on account Of
county taxes for 1ss0-Sl, under
stipulation that the payment
should not prejudice their case and
an agreement not to seek to re-
cover should the courts decide in
their favor.
Arrived, United States Steamer
Richard Rush from San Francisco.
Dr. Taggsrt's Conditi0p.
YUMA, A. T., March 20th.-The
condition of DIR. Taggart is very fa-
vorable to-day. The only bad fea-
ture is his unRccountable weak
ness.
Gas at Tucson-Ssm BrsnDan n ar
TUCSON, March 2Oth.-The Tue
son Gas Company turned on the
gas tonight. All the principal
places are Illuminated.
A large copper strike Is reported
in the Democrat mine of the Santa
Rita Land and Mining Company.
Sam Brannan married Castil-
lian lady of Guaymas on Saturday
night.
Two OF the carp brothers and
Doc Halliday arrived here tonight
from Tombstone. Virgil carp
passed en- to Cotton with the re-
mains of his brother Morgan, who
was assassinated Saturday night,
at Tombstone. A body OF fifteen
armed men accompanied the
brothers from Tombstone to Con-
tention and six into this place.
There ia no danger OF their being
molested here.
Suow Slides.
BoDIE, March 2o.-Last Wednes-
day night snow slide In Lake
Caf1on buried several men, four of
whom, Robert Trumball, Alex Nc
Keon and d B Grant, miners. and
Henry Schumacher, engineer, were
killed. The bodies were recovered,
but q secosd slide buried them un-
der forty feet OF snow. Over forty
slides occurred in Lake and Mill
Creek Csi1ons, burying in all 3S
persons. With the exception Of
those named, only one was seri.
ously injured, Christian Hobletzel,
who was buried for nineteen hours,
and is likely to die from his iDju-
ries. Heavy storms have isolated
Bodie for several weeks.
The situation az Ttuehse-The
Town Harisd sn snow.
TRUCKEE, March 2Oth.-The
storm Is over. Truckee is literally
buried in the snow. The smaller
buildings ars out OF sight and the
snow is piled up even with balco-
MES of buildings along Front
street. The whole population is
out breaking thorOughfares and
opening up communication W ith
neighbors. The blockade on the
railroad continues at this writing,
3 P. NJ, but the prospects are
that it will be lifted tonight. The
snow pIow which was fast in the
drift at Coldstream has been re-
leased. As far as can be ascertain.
ed there are no further breaks in
snow sheds along the line. The
snow plow which was under the
management OF conductor Avery
has had severe fight with the ele.
ments. They have been showed
in two or three times, have been
Off the track a number of times
and dispatch has Just been re-
ceivsd that they jumped-ths track
again between Blue Canon and
tunnel No. l. This may delay the
opening of the road q few hours
longer. The east bound passenger
train is still at Colfax. The west
bound is on it's way from Reno and
will reach this place about 4P. NJ.
A plow, with several engines,
started east from here vests rday af-
tsrnoon but when it reached Pros.
ser Greek, about seven miles from
this place, 1T got stalled in the
snow and was not released till this
morning. Railroad men all say
that this has been by far the hard.
est storm they ever had to contend
with. The wind has been SO strong
that it would drift snow on the
track as fast as they could plow it
out. A plow, with six engines,
will start west from here and 60
al aaI ~ the On