Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-05-20
Items OF Interest.


w. H. Horn Of Santa Cruz has white
rabbit that catches and kills rata.
Eagle City, in the Ceur d. Alene min.
ing district. has been connected by tel
egraph with Bslknap, on the Northern
Pacific road.
Safe-crackers were at work In Wood
land few nights ago. and an attempt
was made to open the Puget Sound Lum-
Der Company's safe.
The Humboldt river Is spreading itself
up ct Welles. 1t has spread all over
the valley, but has mot yet begun to
climb the mountains.
The Piuts Indians at the Walker Lake
(Nev. Reservation will hold big pow
WOW in June, when several matters Of
Importance will be considered.
At Torres, station between Hermo-
sillo and GuaymAs. Mexico. the freight
depot and several thousand packages Of
freight were destroyed by the explosion
Of coal-oil lamp.
Richard Linjans. who lives near Campo
Seco, brought into Stockton the other
day seventy-fve wildcat hides, he hay.
ing killed that number of posts within
the last five years around his place.
On Monday night w. I. Raokliifs's
house ON Dry Creek with all iss contents
was burned to the ground. II is not
known how the Ere originated The
family barely escaped with their lives.
A mule belonging to b. Roberts, .
rsucher near Aussin. New. astonished
his owner recently by presenting him
with healthy young colt. 1t u said
that but two similar instances are on
record in this country.
johnson Sidss, Piute Indian chief,
says that the order of the Virginia and
Truckee Railroad. prohibiting the free
riding Of Indians, Is beneficial TO the
tribe, aud that there are less MANNED
redskins than formerly.
The constitution TO be submitted to
Montana voters next November exelnpts
from taxation all mines and mining
claims, but all improvements, mac hiuery
etc., aud the annual net proceeds Of said
mining claims are to be taxed a. pro-
vided by law.
A new post Of the Grand Army Of the
RepubIic was organized in Hollister last
wssk. sisrting with twenty.seven men,
bsrs. IL will be known a. Jesse l..
''campfrs" was held in the evening,
after the installation ceremonies.
Two boys, l3 years Of age, while tish-
ing In slongh near Eureka. Humboldt
county, tho other day, were attacked by
. wild deer. They broke his horns off
with club, and efter . hard fight sue
ceeded in knocking the animal down,
when they cut IL throat with pocket
knife.
The Sacramento Bee says; "In the
case Of John Harris, Folsom prisoner.
who sought to be released on habeas cor
pus, Judge Armstrong has decided that
the practice Of giving credits Of two
months on one-year term is wrong, aud
no one septenced for less than two years
is entitled to credits under the Goodwin
Act"
The Ceur 'Alene Nugget says: "Uns
less one keeps pretty well posted on the
new names which are being assigned TO
towns in the Ceur d'Alene, he Is likely
TO become an entire stranger to the
places with which he is bost acquainted.
Belknap is to be known a. Enterprise,
Murrayvills as Curry, Eagle City as
Eagle, and Osborne has been named
Binghiser."
John Acker was discharged from the
Folsom Prison after eleven years i'm
prisonment last week, and Il was sought
to hold him ON another judgment and
sentence for ten years from Santa Clara
county. pronounced in 1875, and also
ssnteaoe Of thirty days from Marin coun.
ty, bat the Sacramento Court held that
this cannot be done. ~ prosscutiorq.by
Marin and Santa Clara counties &re
barred by the statute Of limitation.