Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1883-01-18
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Passengers south and East
FRRsso, January 1.-THE following
is list Of south bound passengers pass
ing here to-day;
Mrs K Seymour, Miss McCready. ] I
Douglass, San Francisco; NJ d Converse,
New York; w L Clark, Tombstone; Mrs
+ T Hoyt, Mrs G A Grow, Miss Hoyt, A
Hartley, Oakland; r Manning. Cincin..
natl; Moyse. Willcox;E Sinclair and
wife, New Brunswicki I u Peacock, y
II Snder, San Bernardino; Mark Hall,
Leadville; VIM Smith, Napa; EJ Knapp
and wife, Santa Barbara: Chas Cause,
Socoro, N M;J Wallace, Pasadena; } y
Parker, Yuba Dam, Call G B Coons, d
r Coons, Elk Grove.
The Legislature.
SACRAMENTO, Jan. l7.--SRsArE-The
uncontirmed appointments OF Governor
Perkins were taken up and the report Of
N. Greene Curtis for Regent OF the
University was referred to the Judiciary
Committee. J. +. Houghton for Trustee
Of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum
was rejected. /. W. Hellman. for Re.
gent OF the University, referred to tho
Judiciary Committee. Chas. M. Cog.
Ian, for Trustee Of the State Burial
Grounds, l.. Tosier for General Of the
Fourth Brigade, w. Crowell for General
Of the First Brigade and j. q. Wall for
General of the Sixth Brigade were re-
iected. Leland Stanford, for Regent OF
the University, was referred to the Judi.
ciary Committee. j.. II. Redding and
w. w. Taylor, for Fish Commissioners,
and Martin p. Miller, for Prison Com
missioner, rejected. Bills were intro.
duced by johnson providing for tho in
corporation and classification of cities,
except those with population of more
than 100, 900, and by Cox, to encourage
the use OF steam as motive power on
roads and highways and granting aro.
ward Of $780, 900 to anyone who shall
construct and operate road engine
capable of moving freight at nominal
cost.
AssEMBLY--The Judiciary Committee
has reported on about thirty bills. A
concurrent resolution was presented by
Hollister that Congress BIO urged to use
all means to secure the return to the
United States of all unoccupied public
lands granted to railroads or other cor.
porations, which have not complied
with oil the conditions under which such
grants were made. Bills were intro
duced, one by 'Levison to prevent COM
mon carriers from making discrimination
and unjust and extortionato charges on
carria % Of goois in violation Of law,
and one BY Booth providing for compil.
ing, illustrating, electrotyping and copy.
Fighting State series Of school text
books. A bill was offered by Granger
providing for municipal and county con-
troll Of the liquor traffic.
Ed. schienelin's Enterprise Re.
warded.
san FRANCIsco, Jan. l7.-Some
months ago mention was made Of pros
pecting expedition having started for the
upper waters Of the Yukon river, Alaska,
under the lead of Ed. Sceffelin, vet.
eran miner. Information has now been
received that fifteen hundred miles up
the Yukon, at tho confluence of the
Taunanna river, rich and extensive
gravel deposits have been discovered
averaging dollar and half to the pan.
The country Is difficult Of access, the
Yukon being closed by ice until next
June, while the trip overland from
Sitka ia as bad as Siberian journey.
The stock Board.
SAN Francisco, Jan. l7.--Virgnia,
80; Mexican, %; Ophir. 10; Eureka,
100; Belle, o..