Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-01-14

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class securities to the amount of
$4,072, 575. 03, with outstanding liza
bilities of only $l37, 500 0S. These
figures speak volumes for the care
ful management of the affairs OF
the company by its Board OF d.
rectors.
District attorney Brown yester.
day appointed John G. Morgan,
Esq, formerly Of Santa Monica,
Deputy District Attorney to attend
to criminal business before the
City and other Justices Courts.
Mr.. Morgan filed his appointment
and oath of Office with the County
Clerk yesterday and is now ready
to enter upon the discharge Of his
official duties. Mr.. Morgan is
regularly admitted attorney and
was Justice of the Peace for four
years at Santa Monica.
The Eastern express via the
AtchisoD, Topeka and Santa F6
and the Southern Pacific Rail-
roads, due here at 4:45 last even.
ing, is not expected to arrive until
this morning. The detention
arises, we understand, from the
ditching Of freight train, cOnsist-
Ing Of eight or ten cars, fifty miles
west OF Yuma. The accident was
caused by sand storm on the des-
ert. No particulars can be learned.
The regular San Francisco express
did not get off last evening, but
will await the arrival of the de-
tanned train.
Railroad cars blockaded by snow
In Southern California is some
thing phenomenal and hitherto
unheard of. and yet it is true. On
Thursday night two special freight
trains, one going East and the
other coming West, ran into snow
drifts Ia the San GorgoniO Pass
and were detained there until
nearly noon yesterday, although a
large force OF mon had been work.
ing all the night before to clear
the road 80 that they could proce I'd
to their respective destinations.
All the cuts in the Pass were filled
with drifted snow to depth OF six
to eight feet.
In Judge Sepulveds's Court yes
terday, Charles Free, the 10 year
old boy arrested in the act of plac-
ing distractions on the Southern
Pacific Railroad, was convicted aud
sentenced to six months imprIson.
ment In the county Jail. The little
miscreant had spiked q piece Of
iron In such a way across the rail
that a passing train would have
been wrecked. Captain P. M.
Darcy, section boss, testified that a
train was due in fifteen minutes |
after the obstruction was discov.
cred and that it would undoubtedly |
have been thrown from the track.
The jury brought In a verdict of
guilty after being out less than !
five minutes.
There has been considerable rich |
rock Brought in from the location |
supposed to be the same, or nearly |
the same place that was discovered |
by Lee several years ago, and the
mines he was going to when he was
lost on the desert. The location is
q hundred and forty or fifty miles
east of here. The ore IL TO all APP
pearapces the same as that found |
at Tom bstone in the Toughnut aud |
other mines there. If any differ.
ence, it is the richer rock Of the
two. This is SO represented by an
old miner who knows all about the |
ore at Tombstone and one who has
done a great deal of asssying there,
and has examined the specimens |
brought in from the location re-
ferred to above.-San Bernardino
Index.
The Ventura Signal says: Romu-
aldo Pacheco is Chairman Of the
House Com mittee on Public Lands.
A shrewd man, and q man who |
desired to stand by, and gain the
good will of his constituents, would
ride back into Congress on that
appointment. But Romualdo is
not shrewd man, far from it.
Romualdo does not desire to stand |
bv his constituents. The only |
thing RomualdO does desire to |
stand by is RomualdO's pocket
and some day he is going to fall
by it. And not rap cares Romu-
aldo for the goodwill of the people,
or for the goodwill OF anybody,
except the bosses who nominate
him. He knows that he was nom.
mated to catch the Spanish vote,
and II he serves his masters we'll
he knows that he will bs nomin-
ated again, for the same purpose.
If he IL, he will probably find that
there are two or three hundred
American voters, at least, in this
Congressional district.
Mr.. Matthew Cooke lateyl re.
turned from his official visit, as
State Horticultural Officer, to San
Bernardino and Riverside. sDur-
ing his trip he has also inspected
Orange, Westminster and other
regions of Southern California.
With regard to the specific charge
made by Mr.. l. M. Holt, of the
Riverside Press and HOrticulturist,
that Mr.. l.. J. Rose has been sell.
ing grape cuttings infected by the
scale-bug, Mr.. Cooke tells us that
he has made an exhaustive inves-
tigation of those portions of Mr..
ROSES vineyards from which the
cuttings are taken, and that he has
failed to discover the slightest in
dication of this insect. Accompa.
MED by Mr.. Chapmapy the owner
of an adjoining ranch, Mr.. Cooke |