Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-09-14

Hon. J. f. Crank, President Of the
Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley
Railroad, was at the office of the com
pany yesterday. The surveyors are &C.
lively at work locating the line, over
an excellent grade that will permit Of
high speed and low fare. =
We regret to learn that County Clerk
Potts is confined to the house by an
acute attack Of his old enemy, the rheu-
matism. His legion OF friends are unani.
nous in the wish that the disease may
be short-lived and that Mr.. Potts will
be able to resume his official duties ere
many days elapse.
Mr.. James Leonard, Of San Buenaven-
tura, had this year $50 acres of barley
that yielded 80, $50 bushels, Of No.
barley, making crop Of sixty bushels to
the acre. The land was plowed early
and deep. and thoroughly pulverized
with harrow. Some of onr farmers
can make n note of this and do like
wise.
How writer in contemporary saw
meteor across the river in the south
east, at an elevation Of ninety degrees, is
surprising to those who have been
taught that ninety degrees elevation
meant a point in the zenith. A friend
suggests that during the heated term the
zenith may have moved nearer to the
horizon to get the benefit of tbs sea air.
Mr.. j. Kiefer, the well-known horti-
culturist and wholesale merchant, of this
city, has raised some monstrous pipin
apples this Fall, one of which, measur-
ing II inches in circumference, was pre-
sented to Gen. w. T. Sherman on Tues
day. The old veteran accepted it with
pleasure and handed it over to one of
the ladies of his party as kind of
watermelon that grew on trees in this
country
Land in Sonoratown appears to be
awake as well as in other parts Of the
city. A few weeks since an item in the
HERALD showed that Messrs. Pomeroy
& Mills had purchased more than half Of
Upper Main street property. They ap-
pear to be unloading it now in Il very
lively manner, selling Sl9,7 of it last
night after the publication of the Real
Estate Record.
By announcement in other columns it
will be seen that Merrill Lodge. /. o.
G. T., will hold one Of their delightful
"Open Lodge" entertainments to-mor-
row Saturday, evening. An excellent
programme, consisting of vocal and in
strumental music and literary exercises,
has been prepared, the whole to con-
clude with an address by Mrs. Leavitt.
OF Boston, noted temperance lecturer
The people Of Compton have taken
the law into their own hands and
sacked the saloon at that place and de-
stroyed the property of the owner in
defiance of the law. 1t may be that
these men want to see the quail law en-
forced, while the law against theft, riot
and HOUSEKEEPING is not to be enforced
in Compton and Lompoc. These little
outbreaks will develop into storms by
and by.
The Queen Chop House opened again
yesterday in fine style. The range has
been removed to the rear, and row Of
private tables placed in its stead, max
ing great Improvement in this popular
restaurant, which is open day and night.
The whole establishment has been paint
ed and decorated in rich and tasty
manner throughout by the popular pro-
prietors, Messrs. j. Marietich & Co., who
intend to have the best of everything.
We observe lately the names of
great many Los Angeles people regis
tered at the Palace Hotel. San Francis
co. This house which, at fret, was dis
tinguished principally as the resort of
tourists, has latterly become quite
commercial center for Californians. 1t
is, as a consequence, the favorite stop
ping place of all our vine and orange
growers, so that there is always little
Los Angeles colony to be found in this
center Of San Francisco.
We had the pleasure Of call yester-
day from MIR. c. L. Magee. of Pitts
burgh, who. with his wife and sister, is
paying Los Angeles brief visit. He
leaves for Santa Barbara to-day and will
return East via the Northern Pacific
Railway. Mr.. Magee is one of the
ablest and most Influential OF the Re-
publican leaders in Pennsylvania and
ia HE H.
at an age when few men are ever heard
of in public life. We regret that his
visit is not one OF longer duration.
The accident at the Pico Canon, on
Wednesday, by which Mr.. P. Ward was
killed and G.. Lamar, Chas. Hall, J.
Heany and A. Brockley were seriously
injured, was caused by the fall Of the
scaffolding. % feet high, ON which these
men were standing while engaged in lift
ing heavy iron plate that was to form
part of the cover to large iron tank for
storing 20. 900 gallons OF petroleum. The
iron fell upon them with terrible force,
killing and wounding as previously an
nounced. !.
The Associated Press dispatches yes
terday morning brought us, all the way
round by Eureka, Nevada, the intelli-
gence that Oscar Baker, of New York,
who was making trip to California,
had persisted from thirst on the desert
near FL Dorado Canon. This news was
published in the HERALD nearly two
weeks ago, and as the telegram is
couched in ALMOST the same words as the
item contained in the HERALD, the
Eureka press reporter shows himself to
be, ii not an enterprising news gatherer,
at least man of good taste.
Jose Montana filed an information be-
fore City Justice Morgan, yesterday,
charging Antonio Corona with assault
to commit murder. The accused was re-
leased ON his own recognizance to APP
pear for examination at 10 A. NJ. to-day. |
The weapon used by Corona was the
point Of a scythe, about foot long, fur
nished with handle, such as is used
for cutting cornstalks. The complain |
ant was also armed and seemed ready to
defend himself to the death, but a po-
liceman took both would-be bloody
minded belligerents into custody before
any damage was done, thus spelling a
sensational item.