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

w. H. Horn Of Santa Cruz has white
rabbit that catches and kills rats.
Eagle City, In the Ceur d. AleDe 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 ia spreading itself
up at Welles. II has spread al over
the valley, but has not yet begun to
climb the mountains.
The Piuts Indians at the Walker Lake
New Reservation will hold q 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 Linjsns. who lives near Campo
Ssco, brought into Stockton the other
day seventy-five wildcat hides, be hav-
ing killed that number Of pests within
the last five years around his place.
On Monday night w. I. Rackliifs's q
house on Dry Creek with all It's contents
was burned to the ground. 1t IL not
known how the fire originated The
family barely escaped with their lives.
A mule belonging TO B. Roberts, .
rsucher near Austin. Nes.. astonished
his owner recently by presenting him
with healthy young colt. lis said
that but two similar instances are on
record in this country.
johnson Sides, Piute Indian chief,
says that the order of the Virginia and
Truckee Railroad, prohibiting the free
riding Of Indians, Is beneficial 10 the
tribe, aud that there are less manned
redskins than formerly.
The constitution to be submitted to
Montana voters next November exempts
from taxation all mines and mining
claims, but all improvements. machinery
etc.. and the annual net proceeds of said
mining claims are to be taxed as pro-
vidsd by law.
A new post OF the Grand Army Of the
Republic was organized In Hollister last
wsek, sisrtinR with twenty seven mem
bsr. II will bs known as Jesse l..
Reno Post No. s.. An old-fashioned
campfire" was held in the evening.
after the installation ceremonies.
Two boys. l3 years Of age, while tish-
ing in slough near Eureka, Humboldt
county, the other day, were attacked by
wild deer. They broke his horns of
with club, and efter . hard fight sue
cseded in knocking the animal down,
when they cut it, 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 o one-year term Is wrong, aud
no one ssptenced for less than two years
is entitled TO credits under the Goodwin
Act"
The C@ur d'Alsne Nugget says: "Uns
less one keeps pretty well posted on the
new names which are being assigned to
towns in the Ceur PAlene, he Is likely
TO become an entire stranger to the
places with which he is best acquainted.
Belknap is to be known a. Enterprise,
Murrayvills as Curry, Eagle City as
Eagle, and OsborLe has been named
6inghiser."
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 q
sentence Of thirty days from Marin coun-
ty, but the Sacramento Court held that
this cannot be done. a. proescutiorssby
Marin and Santa Clara counties are
barred by the statute of limitation.