Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-09-21

Mr.. j. Rowe returned yesterday
morning from three months residence
at the grain fields OF the San Fernando
Valley, where he has been running q
thresher engine for several grain grow
ers. The yield Of wheat is equal to the
estimates of the HERALD.
We had the pleasure of meeting yes.
terday that robust old Granger, Hon.
Asa Ellis, Of Savannah. He is hearty
and cheerful, as beseems a man who has
garnered a full crop. has made money
and is away ahead of his creditors.
The cumulous clouds over the Sierra
Madre mountains yesterday. better
known as "thunler leads" were I'M
mense and awe inspiring, attracting
much attention by their beauty. They
undoubtedly indicated not only rain in
the mountains, but storm on the des-
ert.
Mr.. A. NJ. Hearne, professor of PEN
manship, announces by advertisement
elsewhere that he has opened writing
school in room IL, Downey Block. He
will receive classes both day and even
ing and give lessons at eastern charges.
A school Of this kind is very much need
ed in our city and ought to succeed.
Bears who live in the various southern
counties appear to be hunting their fall
supplies, before the rains which will
give them mountain feed. One weighing
300 pounds, was killed at the Santa
Rosa rancho, San Luis Obispo county, on
Monday. 1t required six shots to kill
the monster member Of the tribe Of
bruin.
We learn that Bishop Mora has pur-
chased two valuable lots at Pomona on
one OF the principal streets, on which
will be Immediately erected Roman
Catholic Church with capacity for
seating five hundred persons. The edi-
fee is o'be built of brick, and the cost
is estimated at about five thousand dol
lars.
The old street railway track on Main,
Olvera and Alameda streets, SO long un-
used that it's franchise was considered
forfeited, has been for some days past,
again in operation for the first time in a
number Of years. The City Council has
repeatedly ordered the road removed, Oh
account of the violation of the fran
chise.
The new Methodist Episcopal Church
at Pomona, will be dedicated on SUM-
day, the Both inst, by Rev. B. F.
Brasee, the scholarly gentleman recently
appointed as pastor Of the Fort street M.
K Church, Of this city. The new house
of worship in that thriving settlement,
Pomona, will without doubt. be prosper
Gus in every way
J. w. Towner aud J. II. Hickman filed
for record in the county Recorders office,
yesterday, notice of location of Oil King
Petroleum mining claim on N ] of the
NE / of Section 8, Township south,
Range west. Also, Little Pittsburgh
Petroleum claim on of SW 1 of Sec
ton 4, same township and range, each
containing 20 acres.
Wells, Fargo & Co.'S large wagon was
again almost entirely filled yesterday
morning with fruit and vegetables. Al
though the usual amount was shipped to
Las Vegas Hot Springs, but small por-
ton was sent to the Territories, the
bulk Of it being billed for Fort Worth,
San Antonio, Galveston, and other dis
tant cities in Texas.
Mr.. William H. Workman reports his
Zinfandel, Riesling and other foreign
grapes to yield not over half crop,
while bis Mission grapes yield fair av-
erage crop. Mr.. Workman has more
foreign than Mission vines. but he says
that the old Mission is the .'old relia-
ble," after all. He has been a grape
grower for the past 20 years in Los An
geles.
The shower announced in the HERALD
yesterday as having prevailed along the
Sierra Madres, it seems leaped over from
the crest of old San Antonio in the
Sierra Madre to the heights of San Juan
below Anaheim, and left lively shower
in its train from one mountain range to
another. These early showers will re-
vive the springs which are very low and
feeble all through the country.
James A. Eakin writes from Rush,
Texas, making enquiries for his brother,
w. D. Eakin, who was last heard from
in Los Angeles in 1861. "Hs married a
widow lady of Los Angeles with four
children, and when heard from was keep.
ing boarding house for brick build
ing company" Any one knowing any
thing Of the whereabouts of w. D.
Eakin will confer q favor by writing to
James A. Eakin at the above address.
In City Justice Morgan's Court. yes.
terday, Edward Nicholas and F. 9. Fos-
ter. drunk and disorderly, each got ten
days labor on the streets; NJ. Mule, for
the same offence, was sent up for twenty
days; j. b. Espey, for disturbing the
peace, got the same number of days;
John Colson, same offence, paid So. Gin
Lee, for violating the ordinance prohib-
iting butchering within the city limits,
was fined S25 or 25 days.
Sir knight d. NJ. Baldwin. who visited
Los Angeles on his trip to the Conclave,
has returned to his homo at Red Wing,
Minnesota, and we see by the Argus, q
most excellent newspaper published at
that place, that Mr.. Baldwin is we'll
pleased with this section of the country
and with the reception and entertainment
given to him and the other cultured gem
tlemen who accompanied him. They
are the kind of visitors who can appre-
ciate Los Angeles and its suburbs.
In addition to the eleven vags whose
arrest for sleeping in empty cars was
noted in yesterdays HERALD, five more
were taken in later in the night. Among
the number were lot of boys with
bootblacking outfits who. ON being ar
raigned before City Justice Morgan, yes
terday, were discharged. The rest of
the party, consisting OF James Murphy,
Wm. Wetzell, Charles Morton, Wm.
Pafcell, VIM. O'Brien, John Baker and
Charles Anderson, were found guilty Of
vagrancy and each sentenced to ten
days labor on the streets. Jas. Neary,
another Of the gang. was a little obstrep-
alous, and got fifteen days.
| Mr.. Burdett Chandler has returned
from Petrolia and reports the Snow well
down two hundred and four feet. In
the Chandler & Bower well the conduc-
tor pit was dug seventy.five feet without
being timbered before drilling was be.
gun. After drilling about thirty feet
the little earthquake that shivered
through the earth last week, dislodged
some rocks and earth from the sides Of
the pit and tumbled into the well, SO that
it will have to be carefully cleaned out be.
fore drilling can be resumed. When
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