Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1882-02-09

boy to Sheriff Bower, OF Kern
county, who will search the train
at Bakersfield and If he finds Har.
ris, will send him back to Los An
geles to-day.
The other day the first shipment
of wheat over the Southern Pacific
Railway to Europe, via New Or
leans, passed through our city. 1t
consisted OF fifteen carloads, and
was gathered up in the neighbour
hood of MERGED. We understand
that the through rail rate to New
Orleans was SIS ton. We shall
soon know whether this will not
prove an attractive bait to the
ships which ply between New Or
leans and Liverpool.
About Z O'Clock on Tuesday
evening a kerosene lamp exploded
in the residence of Mr.. G.. w. Fer
decker, at Downey City. The
flames communicated to a can Of
oil, causing it to explode, scatter
ing the burning oil over the room
and enveloping the whole house
which soon, with it's contents, was
a mass of ruins. The only property
saved was couple of trunks, The
house was owned by Mr.. Ferdecker
aud was valued at $1,000. on which
he holds q policy of insurance of
$3.50.
Mr.. James J. Gee, one of the pro-
priet0rs of the sometime Journal
Of this city, who has been at San
Buenaventura for the past eight
months, returned to Los Angeles
yesterday. He informs us that the
sheep are dying off rapidly 10 that
county from lack of feed and that
the farmers are dish eartened at the
almos certainty of dry season.
Another inch Of rain, how.
ever, the farmers there think
would insure partial crop
enough at least to save seed and
the expense of cropping.
As VIM. Hennesay was walking
from the hotel at San Gabriel to
the railroad depot about 7 o'clock
last Monday night, he was knocked
down and robbed by q Mexican,
who had seen him change $40
piece in paying for his supper. Mr..
Hennessy was not discovered un-
till 10 O'Clock, when it was found
that, in addition to cuts and bruises
on his face and body, his nose was
broken. Tuesday night he was
taken to the County Hospital,
where he lies In a critical condi-
ton. His assailant has not yet
been captured.
We have received Vol. l, No. l,
of the California Apioulturist, pub
lished at Oakland and Los Angeles
by the Agricultural Publishing
Company, with Mr.. N. lowering,
OF this county, as editor. The mum.
Der before US is q quarto of eight
pages and, as its name indicates, is
devoted to The honey interest. 1t
is the purpose of the company, Mr..
lowering Informs us, to increase its
size to sixteen pages OIL the next
issue and to keep on making addi-
lions from time TO time AS the in
terests of the bee keepers may re-
quire. We wish the new venture
success.
Though there is not much said
about Grapevine mining district,
it is not because there is nothing
going on there, for there il more
silver comes from there now than
from any other place in the ooun-
ty. 1t comes from the Waterman
& Porter mine, which everybody
knows to be a very rich one, but II
anything can be told from the ore
obtained In another place in that
district and from the assays, the
Waterman & Porter mine is not
the richest one there by any
meaDs. About eight miles from
the Waterman & Porter mine a
shaft was sunk about ten feet deep
where a ledge was struck and 700
pounds OF ore taken out that as
says an average of $4,000 to
the ton. There are large quaint.
ties OF wire silver found IN the
new mine. Work will soon be he
gun there when We may eXpect to
see more than double the present
amount OF bullion come from the
Grapevine district.-San Bernar-
dino index.
We encountered Hon. G. N. Fell
ton in Los Angeles yesterday. He
had come in from Newhall. We
banteringly suggested that we saw
MS name mentioned amongst the
list Of probable contestants for the
Republican gubernatorial nomina-
ton. Par parenthese, we may
suggest that his steady and persis-
tent friendliness to Los Angeles, in
all lines of development, would
make him as strong, in this sec-
ton, as any Republican candidate
could well be in year Ia which
Republican candidates everywhere
will receive scant courtesy from
the people. In reply to our badin.
age, he stated that he had never
been q candidate and did not pro-
pose to be; and that, in his opin.
ion, the exalted Office Of Governor
is one which should re spontan-
eously rendered by the people, and
not sought. On the whole, We are
inclined to believe that this may
not entirely exclude Mr.. Felton's
candidacy. Certainly, as respects
Los Angeles county, he would find
An oprt1iul rannunifinn nf his uraat