Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-05-06
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Passengers by the AncOn.
SAN FRANcIsoo, CAL, May 5.-Tht
steamer Ancon left this morning fol-
Los Angeles with the following passen
gers: Miss L Schley, b f Wood ano
wife. Mrs A M Bean, S Marshall, Witt
and daughter, August B Purfurst, Mrs
McCracken, Mrs Norton, Chas Langen
berger, S Porter, M Wheeler, Mrs M
Wheeler, Miss Wheeler, VIM A Ray, I
Lazarabote, Geo Shaw, wife and child
&c Graves and family, Miss Bedell, f 1
Morrison, Miss G j Jerbeck.
Anti-Chinese Address.
SAN Francisco, May 5.-An address
has been prepared by the Executive
Committee of the Anti-Chinese League
of California, and published. 1t is adj
dressed te the people at large, and urges
all to discontinue employing and patron
izing Chinese and to come and join then
league.
McGillivray Discharged.
SAN Francisco April 5.-The prelimi.
nary examination of j. G. McGillivray
took place in Oakland yesterday The
defendant is charged with assaulting and
terribly beating Archie Borland, the
prominent stock broker, several weeks
ago. 1t was thought that .Borland would
die for time. Owing to the very con-
Trajectory character of the testimony
the Court ordered the discharge Of Nc
Gillivray.
Order of Chosen Friends.
San Francisco, May 5.-The Grand
Council of the order of Chosen Friends
have elected the following officers:
Grand Councillor, I. M. Cook; Grand
Vice Councillor, G. o. Burton; Grand
Secretary, Isaac d. Lang; Grand Treas
urer, John W. Shaeffer; Grand Marshal,
A. H. Cummings; Grand Warden, Mrs.
Abbie E. Wood; Grand Guard, S. M
Perry; Grand Sentry, Charles H. J..
Luth; Grand Trustees, G. w. Watson,
w. A. Knowles, w. w. Moore, Gus
tave Winehill, j. M. Davies.
Market Report.
SAN Francisco, May 5.-Wheat is
stronger; No. white, $l.67a Feed
barley, strong, $l.67a bid; $l.70 asked.
Bran, stronger, $l53. Corn, yellow,
$l.70@l.72a.
Mining Assessment.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 6. Savage levies
an assessment of fifty cents.
Adultery no Excuse for Murder.
SACRAMENTO, May Sin the trial of
Joe Hurtado, yesterday, for murder,
Judge S. c. benson made ruling that
is at once remarkable, and will, if sus-
tanned, change the entire policy of the
law as interpreted by the Courts in cases
of Homicide. Hurtado killed Jose Es-
tuardo in broad day in the public street.
The defense is that Estuardo seduced
Hurtado's wife, and the defendant in
troduced to-day witness to prove that
the defendant had stated to witness the
facts relative to the infidelity of defend
ants wife. This brought this PROPOSE
ton before Court: Is the evidence of
the adultery of the defendants
wife with deceased admissible be-
fore a jury? The question was
ably argued by c. T. Jones for the
prisoner, and Grove L. Johnson for the
prosecution. Jones cited all the rulings
in the Sickles, Muybridge, Schroeder,
and other cases of killing for the wifes
adultery. johnson replied, urging the
Court to disregard all these and take the
Code of California as his guide, and hold
that such evidence is inadmissble as an
excuse for murder, and asked, docs
the seduction of mans wife authorize
him to kill the seducer? Judge benson
made ruling excluding the testimony
and sustaining the position of Johnson.
He said that the Code must be his guide.
He would regard the decision of other
Courts only so far as in accord with his
own views. Our law does not make Sc
duction an excuse for killing. Even if a
man caught another in an adulterous
act with his wife, it does not make it an
excuse, and if he kills under the impulse
of dishonor and in his rage, it reduces
the crime only to manslaughter.
The Debris Question.
SACRAMENTO, May 5.-The Supervi.
sors Anti -Debris Convention met here
yesterday. Resolutions were adopted
declaring the danger to the valleys from
debris so imminent that organization by
the Supervisors of the counties affected
thereby should be made at once, or an
Anti-Debris Association formed; and
that the Supervisors now form an Exc
cutive Committee to gather information
as to the Debris question, and ascertain
the best method Of dealing with it.
A Decisive Battle Looked for.
Tucson, May st is generally be
lieved here that the main body of Loco's
band has not yet been defeated. al
though the military have had two sue
cessful skirmishes with them. The tigh
and defeat of the band by General Gar
cia, across the line, was with the ad
vance body of hostiles who had the
women, children and stock. Loco's bant
of warriors, numbering over one hun
bred, was behind the troops aud passed
within eight miles of Galeyville on thu
25th. The soldiers having started Il
pursuit, the band left the vicinity o
Galeyville with stolen stock, women ant
children on the oath, and with whicl
they had an engagement before they ha'
crossed the line. Well confirmed re
ports say that Loco, withabout l25 war
riors, is now across the line in the Ire
Hermanos mountains. The death AM
capture of their squaws and childre
will make Loco desperate, and if tn
pursuit of the military is kept up tn
bloody fight of the campaign will tax
place any day, if it has not already com
off.