Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-18
Items of Interest

A large band OF Gypsies are camped at
Evermorc.
A heavy immigration into Montana is
predicted this year.
A new schoolbouse TO cost $50, 900 is
TO be built at Tulare.
An olive orchard near Santa Barbara
paid $50 tree last year.
Fig brandy promises TO be leading
industry in Ventura county.
Young lambs in John Day county, o.,
are being carried off by eagles.
The altitude of Hawthorne is 1850
feet. Nearly mile lower than Bodic.
There are thirty y-nine patients in tho
Washington Territory Insane Asylum.
Telephone communication is talked
of between Los Angeles and san Der
nardino.
A small bed Of natural oysters has
been discovered in Hoods canal, on Pu-
get Sound.
The German element in Seattle, w.
t., are desirous OF establishing Vice
Consulate there.
In spite of tic reports to the contrary
the Chico papers say they viii hold
district fair this year,
The Democratic County Convention
met at Portland last week and elected
delegates, but did not instruct them.
Gilo Pietro was instantly killed by
tho upsotting of n cage in n mine nj
Nashville, FL Dorado county, last week.
Five divers are employed in preparing
the sunken steam collier Umatllla for
being raised by means of n collier dam.
A man named Edward Lemon was
convicted at Victoria last week OF mur-
der and sentenced to DEATH He killed
widow.
There is so much snow in the Sierra
Nevadas that it will be several weeks be-
fore tho sawmills in the neighborhood of
Truckee can start.
An order has been issued at Fort As
sinibone, NJ. T., requiring the Indians to
keep off the military reservation and
away from the post.
A hen in San Bernardino laid an egg
last week that measured six and one
half inches around one way, and seven
and ono.half the other
Clarence Gray. year-old
boy, is under arrest at Chico for stealing
grain sacks. The boy has been operat-
lng tor long time and quite extensively.
The thieves who plundered j. Olsen's
iewelry store at Sacramento last week OF
$3.50 worth of diamonds, have been cap
tured and most of the property recov-
cred.
Merchants at Nreka are said to be
getting goods from San Francisco via
Portland saving time and cost in freight.
The Central Pacific have been petitioned
to run the main track of the rund to the
town.
A Washington Territory paper says;
eastern houses are shipping bacon
along the Northern Pacific towns at
such low rate that our meat curers say
they can find no market for their pro-
ducts"
II. II. Sweet, stopping at Lincoln,
Placer county, some time ago Put some
kind OF an acid on a corn on his toe,
and poisoning resulted. Part OF
the toe was amputatcd without stopping
modification, and now his life can only
be saved by amputating the foot
Reports from the seal fisheries in the
neighborhood of Cape Flattory indicate
that the vessels engaged have met with
very gratifying success. Up to March
23i the following catch was reported
from Neah bay: schooner Tcnscr, 100;
Lotte, $50; Vanderbilt, 30; City OF NaFa,
l3S, Mist, 95; total, COB.
The Shasta county Dcmocrat says;
"Wells, Fargo 4 Cos express box that
was lost at the time OF the drowning OF
Harry Lee, at the Millvile crossing OF
Oak Run, was found last Monday hy
Andy Riggans, FIVE miles, by the course
OF the creek, below the crossing. The
box was o. X. with 5000 in it, and MIR,
Eiggans will get the 800 reward,