Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-09-22
THE LATEST!
Especial to the HERALD By the Western
Union Telegraph Compsny.I
PACIFIC COAST.
s.a--e .ger. south aud East.

ssassc ngers south mud East.
FGnsSo, Sept. 2l.-The following is a
list or south bound passengers passing
here to-day
EE Wise and wife. h A DeCamp,
Lena Weiss, II Siegel. Los Angeles Geo
r Williams, Oakland; A j Pattison,
Ogden, u 7; N Keller, Texas; VIM
Hesse and wife, Il u Sawyer, z Samuels,
b X Taylor, ii Darling, San Francisco;
w N Tettis, Oakland; X Ruiz and wife,
Mexico; Claude Davis, Oakland; o w
Osborn, vi Dorado; Dave Fonda. Mil.
pitas, Cal.
Gray on the staad-The Opium
Cases.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2L--Gray, ex-
Secretary of the Harbor Commissioners,
testified to day that he had helped ex-
Wharfngers Haynie and Fairfield to the
extent OF Sl2,009, TO make good their
defalcations for vessels that were entered
at less than their real tonnage. He
states that he also helped Quirk to the
extent OF $1,000, and further testified
that all the money due the State. except.
ing SIS, 080 and the receipts for the first
part of March OF the present year, were
sent to the State Treasurer.
In the case Of the big seizure of smug-
ged opium taken from the steamship City
Of Toxic, in January of last year, Cir
cult Judge Sawyer to-day sustained the
decision of Judge Hoffman, that the
opium was smugglod and coniscated to
| the United States. Counsel for the
claimants gave notice of an appeal to
the Supreme Court Of tho United States,
and the appeal bond was fixed at $500 to
cover costs, the Government having pos.
session of all the goods.
A Final settlement.
SAN FRAScIsco Sept. 2l.--Adolph
Hartman, Secretary OF the Humboldt
Saving aud loan Society, committed
suicide to-day by shooting himself
through the heart. He lett letter
stating that he was short Sis, 200 in his
accounts. This is given as the cause Of
his last desperate deed. lie leaves a
wife and children.
second Day OF the Railroad Cam
| ference.
SAN FRANelsCo, Sept. 2l.-At the
opening of the second meeting this
morning of the railroad managers, Potter,
of the Burlington 4 Missouri River road,
offered the following resolution, which
was adopted: 1t is the sense of this
meeting that the several roads now con-
cerned in traffic between the Eastern
States and the Pacific Coast should be
worked in harmony and upon equal
rates.
This resulted in the formation of a
committee, composed solely of freight
managers. with instructions 10 devise a
plan whereby the earnings might bo
pooled and distributed among them in
such proportion as would be equitable to
all. The Conference then adjourned to
Monday next.
Among outside railroaders the feeling
gains ground that the Northern Pacific
will continue to maintain the independ
ent position attributed to it, relying
upon the good offices OF the Un'on Pa
citic to sustain it in its demands. All
the more that can be extracted from the
Central Pacific, against which the fight
is chiefly aimed, 80 much the better for
those two particular roads. Besides
WIS tut Afpt uiitt tSihS
know they have n better chance to make
a good bargain now than they would
have after disastrous winter
Action Of Anti-DebrIsts Depre-
Gated.
NEVADA, Csl., Sept. 2l.--The Board
OF City Trustees adopted u resolution
deprecating the action of the Anti-Debris
Association in trying to prevent the Sec
retary OF War from allowing an appro-
priatiou to be made towards ameliorating
the injuries hydraulic mining had caused
to agricultural lands; that an industry
which had turned into commerce twelve
hundred millions of gold should not be
ignored,
The stock Board.
SAN FRANcisco, Sept 2l.-Best aud
Belcher, 800; CholIar, 300; Consol-
dated Virginia. so; Crown Point. / 25;
Eureka Consolidated, 600; Gould &
Curry, 2.G0; Hale & Norcross, Ais;
Mexican, 2.70; Northern Belle. -;
0phir, $50; Potosi, LIS; Savage, 90;
Sierra Nevada, 4.05; Union Consoli-
dated, AIS; Jacket, 325.