Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1884-07-20
items of Interest.


The assessment valuation Of property
In Benieia is $50 600
1t proposed to change the name Of
Port Hartford to Port San Luis Obispo.
Two brothers named Jenkins are in
custody at Walla Walla, W. t., for cat
tle-stealing.
Salt Lake has had three showers with.
In week. something out Of the usual
weather routine.
Charles McAllister was severely it,
jured Benicia last week by the bursting
Of an emery wheel.
Some 800 women were registered to
vote at the city election In Seattle, W.
T., on the l4th inst.
The Mormon press is endeavoring .
belittle the reception given to Governor
Murray at Salt Lake.
NJ. Barrows died at Grantsville, New. :,
last week. He used rat poison in mis-
take for yeast powder.
The track Of the Denver and Rio
Grande road, recently torn up by Pres
ident Lovejoy, has been relaid.
William Bennett has been sentenced
to be hanged at Martinez on August 29th
for the murder of William o. Baker.
The cornerstone of the Catholic Con-
vent building at Woodland was laid last
Sunday. Bishop Riorjan officiated.
A family named Chandler, residing in
Portland, has been suffering for eight
months from the effects Of glucose syrup.
The starving Pleigan Indians in Mon
tana have begun 10 kill cattle ON rather
an extensive scale. Settlers are alarmed
for their lives.
Mrs. Alfred, whose husband was re-
Gently killed By the cars near Suisuu,
has recovered Judgment Of $500 from
the railroad company.
The Richmond works at Eureka, New,
closed down Saturday and some seventy
six men were Immediately thrown out
Of employment thereby.
The idaho Sun is the name of new
paper just started in the Ceur d'Alene
region. 1t is published at Murray City,
l. r., and will be issued triweekly.
An idiot child Of Mr.. and Mrs. Bar
ibau, recently divorced, has been aban.
doned by both parsnts at Stockton and
is now being cared for by the authorities
there.
The conyicts in the Utah penitentiary
the Fourth. The iollfcation consisted
Of songs. dances. wrestling, sparring and
baseball.
At Oroville last week Sin Yet, Chi
nese banker, died of fever caused by
mental anguish over the loss Of 500, 900
by contract with the California aud
Oregon Railroad.
Everybody in Missoula. M. T., by
order OF the Council, is required to be
Lome by midnight or be able to give an
excuse for being out. The town is beset
by band Of thieves.
Both the Eagle and the Nugget, pub
lished in the Ceur d'Alene mines, have
starved to death. This leaves Eagle City
camp without paper. The Pioneer, ol
Murray. has also suspended.
About 400 acres have been dyked and
brought under cultivation in the Swino
mish Indian reservation on Fidaldt
years. The work has been wholly &C
complished by the labor of the Indians
A young man named Ed Bogg-, EN-
ployed on q thresher in San joaquin
county, was nearly scaiped by having
the hair Of his head caught in the gear
ing on the side OF the cleaner. The tol
Of his head is as bald as peeled onion
Twelve Cinnamon made bold attemp
to rob the sluices Of the Canada mine a
ID. e. ...-Ixs
ago. Their intention was to kill the Nv,
white watchmen, bat their plan faile'
and some twenty shots we're fired befor
they were driven off.
The Napa Reporter is responsible 10
the following; "a chicken with fou
legs aud three wings was hatched abou
week ago ut the Insane Asylum. Thi
curiosity lived for nearly week and ha
been placed by the druggist in alcohol a
one Of the curiosities Of the place"