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Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-17
Award Of Contract for Grad
ing and Improvement of
Virgin Street. between Yale
and Upper Main Streets.

Notice is hereby given that at the meeting Of
the Council Of the city Of Los Angeles, held on
the 14th day Of April, A. D. 1884. q contratt
for the grading and improvement Of Virgin
Street, between Yale street and Upper Main
street, In accordance with Resolution No. 151,
approved September 18th, A d. 1883, was
10y said Council awarded to z. Gay Co. fer
the sum Of sI777.57. w. W. ROBINSON,
Clerk Of the Council Of the city Of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles. April 18th, A. ID. 1884.
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Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-17
LEGAL.
Notice to creditors.
In the Superior Court Of the County
of Los Angeles, State OF California.

In the matter Of the estate Of Walter B. Work.
man, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the undersigned, ad-
ministrator Of the estate Of Walter D. Workman,
deceased, TO the creditors Of, and all persons
having claims against the said deceased 10 exh 1t
them with the necessary vouchers, within ten
months after the first publication OF this notice,
to the said administrator, at his residence,
N. W. corner Of Eleventh and Main streets, In
the city Of Los Angeles, county Of Los Angeles,
State OF California.
ELIJAH II. WORKMAN,
Administrator Of the estate Of Walter b. Work
man, deceased
Dated at Los Angeles, April 4, 1854.
VIM. A Cheney, Attorney for Administrator
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Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-17

Clerk of the Council Of the CITY Of Los Angeles
Los Angeles. April 18th. A. u. 1884. spi6 8
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Macy street

From Old Also Road To the covered bride.
at the expense OF the property owners.
And all parties Interested are referred to
SAID Resolution OF Intention on file In the office
OF the Clerk OF the Council for further particu-
lars; copy OF said Resolution may be found in
the Office OF the Superintendent OF Streets
l.. n. BOYD,
Superintendent OF streets.
Los ANGELES. April Is. 1884. apI0-i5t
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-17
Eagle Corps, ". G.. G.

RgoULAR meetings at the Armory, Cour
street. every Friday evening at o'clock.
W. II. II. RUSSELL,
Captain Commanding.
c. A. EsrLKR. First Sergeant. ie24tf
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-17
Notice of Street Work.

Public notice Is hereby given that the Council
OF the city Of Los Angeles passed on the Slst
day OF March, A. ID. 1854, a Kesolation of In
tention which Resolution was approved on the
LIST day Of April, 1884, providing for the
grading Of
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-17

At II o'clock A. NJ, at the Court House door, In
the city and county OF Los Angeles. state OF Cal
ifornia, ali the right, title, interest and estate
Of the said Juana Reyes de Ramires. at the time
of her DEATH and all the right, title and interest
that the said estate has by operation OF law or
otherwise acquired other than or In addition to
that OF the said Juana Reyes dc Ramirez, at the
time Of her death, In and to the real and per-
sonal property described as follows, to:wit:
That certain real estate situate In the city and
county Of Los Angeles, State Of California, be-
ginning Oh the east side Of Main street at the
point OF intersection Of the east line of said
street with the northery line OF Moran's lane;
thence northeasterly with the east line OF Main
street 1S3. 80 feet more less. to the corner OF
fence; thence with said fence s. AZ Al east
20 10 feet; thence with said fence s, So 30 east
154. SO feet to the corner ef fence: thence s.
az 45 west 1866 feet to the north line Of Mo-
rams lane: thence with north line Of Moran,s
lane l69. .05 feet to point OF beginning. being the
same property described ard laid down on a map
thereof made by A. @. Ruxton, filed as exhibit
No l TO petition for sale OF real and personal
estate In this cause, said tract having been sub
divided into lots ], 2, 3, and I, respectively.
Reference IL m de to said map for full partic,i-
lars. Said land will be sold in one body.
Also the following described personal property,
towit; One-half cord fire wood one stove and fix
lures, one table, one.hal barrel Of lime, one
metate. old garden tools, and three punches
shingles.
Terms and conditions Of sale. Cash in U. 8.
paid at time o. sale. balance on Confirmation Of
sale by said Court. Deed at expense Of pur
chase. WM. II. N0RDHOLT,
Administrator Of Estate Of Juana Reyes de Ram
irez, deceased.
March 20. 1884. mar21td
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LEGAL.
Morsase Sale.

In the Superior Coxt Of the County
Los Angeles, State Of California
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-17
sUMMONS.

In the Superior Court Of the State d
California, in and for the County
Of Los Angeles.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-17
K. Of p.

OLIVE LODsE No. 26 Meet first and third
THURSDAYS in the month at Odd Fellows Hall
p o. Building. Sojourning knights invited.
j. Il. SUMMERS, q. G.
A. YoRRA. X. OF X. and 4. jal-ly
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-17
Los Angeles Lodge No. 1925, K. of Il.

Regular meetings Of the above Lodge are held
every we1nesiay evening at Old Masonic Hall
Spring street. Visiting brothers are cordially in.
vited TO attend. IT, G. AUSTIN
m2 Dictator.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-17
Masonic Notice.

wv Los ANGELES LoDeX No. az, Y. q A.
AA M.-Thc stated meetings Of this Lodg'
" Mare held on the first MONDAY Of each
month at 1880 ?. NJ Members OF Pentalpha, No
2O2, and all Master Masons in good standing are
cordially invited.
By order OF the w. NJ.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-17
Application to Sell Real Estate.
In the Superior Court Of the State Of California
in and for the County Of Los Angeles

In tho Matter Of the Application Of St. Paul
Protestant Episcopal Church Of Los Angelo
City, state Of California, Corporation. TO
an order authorizing sale Of certain Rec
Estate
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-17
Order Of Notice to orsdIsorA
In the Superior Court Of the lpunty o
Los Angeles, State Of Caiit<nia.
In The Matter Of 5. Coin. an I.soIys.t Debtor

9. Cohn, an insolvsnt debtor, haying. sppl'ea
to this Court for a discharEs iron hls debts. J
Is hereby ordered that the Clenof TINS coui,
debts to appear before this Court, the Court
room thereof, on tho N
ssth Day or April. ls4.
Al the hour of 10 o'clock A. n, and now cause
II any they have, why the said =. Con shouit
not be discharged from all his dsbts, ! accord
ance with the Statutes In such cases mde An'
provided "A
IL is further ordered that notice cf SAN appli
cation ~ given 10 the creditors by mall Snd B..
pubIicatiou for four wsska In the Los Agel,
pAiLy HxRALp, . Newspaper published IA
county. v. T. HOWARD
mss "a Judge Of the Superior Cot
Thos. ,. Bfowa. Attorney for Petite ner
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-17

Notice to all creditors who have proved their
debts:
Notice Is hereby given to all creditors who
have proved their debts in the matttr NJ T..
kuck, an insolvent debtor that said b. Ruck has
apphed TO this Court for discharge from all his
debts and 20 appear before this Court at the
Court Room Of the Hon. V 4. Howard at the
Court House, In the city and county Of Los An.
geles. California.
On the Isth day OF May, 1854.
Al 10 O'Clock A. ~, and show cause, 10 any they
have, Why the said u. kuck should not be dis.
charged from all his debts In accordance with
the statutes in such cases made and provided
Dated April 9th, lssi.
tsEALl AW POTTS. Clerk.
By A. RiMfAU, Deputy, apll-iw
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-17
Knights Templar.
American Legion of Honor.

SAYKTY COUNCIL, No. ga, meets First and Third
Thursday evenings Of each month at Good Tenn
plars Hall
Visiting Companions always welcome.
ID. II. PAYNE. Commander
c. O. Wf!LMAN, Secretary. ap5-3ni
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-17
AaRIEFLBT AT HIS HEARyLBT.

I've . grieAst at my heartfelt
That naught on earth will cue,
I've sipblet In my soullet
hardly can endure.
I'd . girllet at the daDeelet--
Ten dollars all around;
Ny last conflict took skiplet
And loft me hard aground.
There's no hopelet In my liielet,
I'm n sad, despondent man,
There's a damlet In my mouthl't
From Be-ersheba to Dan.
And tho whylct OF my grienot.
can tell you p. d. q.
Twas the pallet Of the pirliet
Who sought an interview.
When the glrllet reached her hnpetlet,
The old man met us late.
And his footlet In his bootlet
Caught me hanging on the gate.
Merchant Traveller.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-17
lothian Bixby and
Humphrey w. WiIlett, Plaintiffs,
vs..
William M. johnson and
Felipe Alvarado, Defendants.

Action broughtin In the Superior Court Of the
State Of California, In and for the County Of
County Of Los Angeles, In the Office Of the Clerk
Of said Superior Court.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-17
Notice of Street Work.

Public notice Is hereby given that the Council
Of the city Of Los Angeles passed on the 21th
day Of March, A. ID. lss4, = Resolution OF Inteu.
ton, which resolution was approved on the 10th
day OF March, 1884, providing for the grading Of
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-17
Sheriff Sale.

Iu the Superior Court Of Los Angelo
County, State Of California.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-17
Los Angeles Council No. II, Royal
and Select Masters, F. & A. M.

Hobs its stated assemblies on the 9Th Mon
day Of each month at Masonic Hall, at !, 80 p NJ
sotouming COMPANIONS in good standing are
frateInally invited to attend.
BY order Of the Tn. m.
r. q. CUNNINGHAM. Recorder
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-17
Washington street

Between figueroa street and the west boundary
OF the city, at the expense Of the property
owners.
And all parties interested are referred to said
Revolution Of Intention file In the office Of the
Clerk OF the Council for further PARTICULAR; a
copy Of said resolution may be found in the office
of the Superintcnde mt OF Streets
z. II. BOYD,
Superintendent OF Streets
Los Angeles, April Is, 1884
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-17
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Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-17
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Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-17
Los Angeles Chapter No. 3S, r..
A.. M.

Stated cosvocations on second MONDAY OF each
month, n p. w., at Masonic Hall. sojourning
companions in good standing cordially invited
By order Of SAMUEL PRAGER H. p
NJ. LEVI, Secretary.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-17
Confidence Engine Company.

RKeuLAR meetings Of this Comps
- sg any on the first wcdesaay evening
.s<T,ozsvof each month, at 7:3ooolock.
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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-12-31
A Cool Duelist.

EUeyy Other Saturday tells the fol.
lowing anecdote: The GOODNESS and
self-possession of that very remarkable
man, S. S. Prentiss was strikingly
illustrated in the following anecdote
of his second duel with the late Henry
s. Foote Gen. Foote}, which is taken
from his memoir by his brother. The
meeting was on the right bank of the
Mississippi River, opposite. Vicksburg,
and at the first fire, Mr.. Prentlss' pistol
snapped, while Gen. Foote missed, the
bullet going over his opponents head,
This increased the eagerness of the
large crowd assembled to witness the
affair to such degree that they
pressed up on each side of the line
until there was left a very narrow
space, scarcely room enough for the
passage of the balls. After the parties
had returned to their positions, pistol
in hand and triggers set, awaiting the
word for second fire, everything
being as still as death, Mr.. Prentss
observed little boy, who, anxious to
see the fun, was climbing a sapling in
his rear, and said 70 him: my son,
you had better take care; Gen. Fcote
is shooting rather wild"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-12-31
Carving Cigar-shop Indians.

In little room, reached by going
through long passage-way and as
cending two flights of rickety stairs,
lust off Harry Howard square, one
day last week Tribune reporter found
two men working away with mallet
and chisel, while under their well d.
rected blows pine logs grew into noble
redmen, clowns, Indian Princesses and
other familiar shapes that adorn the
fronts of tobacco shops, all over the
country.
FLOWS business 81 asked the re-
porter.
"Well," replied one of the "sculp-
tors there amt much danger OF
overstocking the market. There's not
more than a dozen and half manu-
facturels of wooden figures in the
country, and OF this number, ten are in
this city. But times amt as good as
they might be" and he deity Clipped
away at a clowns neck until 1t was
shortly encircled by an Elizabethan
ruff. Before rents got so high that
all the shIp-building and repairing
was driven down east, around Ports
mouth and Maine, there was q good
deal of Observation-Disclosures and
the like, which pay better than cigar
store figgers-to be done about here.
Now it's all gone and We have to
fall back on wooden Indians. Some
times we get wooden coat of arms to
make, like that lion and unicorn you
see against the wall, for some rich man.
They pay pretty well. Wooden figgers
don't pay so well. This Indian chief
will cost the owner $50, that Sultana
$45, the little Indian squaw TO the
right of you $25, and so on. They
have begun to make castiron figgers
at some of the iron works and that cuts
in on us, of course. We get our de-
signs from every source. We 60 to
the theatre and pick out figger from
among the actors and study him and
go home and chisel him out. Most of
the clowns are cut from photographs
of Fox the original Humptv Dumpty.
Sometimes, we take the pictures on
the inside of the cigar boxes as models
Last week, | cut out model of Sir
Walter Raleigh for tobacco store
down on South Street. | have an Or
der to make black with patches on
his knees and plug of niggerhead,
the sailors delight, in his hand. Bar.
nun and Forepaugh also buy good
many niggers for their band wagons
and vans. They will put a live man
on a wagon to dance and half dozen
wooden ones TO keep him company and
half the people who watch the process
sion will never know but what they
are all alive"
"Where does the wood come from %
Sometimes we take the seasoned
masts and spars of wreck, but gen.
orally it is white pine logs from
Maine, Pine chips easy, you see"
Are there any apprentices in the
trader"
"Oh, yes, but not many Of course.
A good workman jean make So day
at this business"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-12-31

THE San Francisco Chronicle says:
"There has evidently been big steal
by someone at Fort Bliss, in Texas.
The FORT was located on property to
which the Government had no good
title, and an appropriation of $4,000
has been expended, although
there is nothing to show for it but
buildings worth about $4,000. 1t is
such opportunities as these which
make frontier army posts and Indian
agencies attractive to men who have
not large bumps in the chronological
region of morality" This is but
another instance of waste of money
that could have been probably EN-.
ployed in sinking artesian wells and
otherwise improving the National
domain in Nevada.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-12-31

Every day l saw a snowy lady of
most veluminous proportions and
gorgeously arrayed Z americana,
driving out in dashing victoria or
slowly gliding along like frigate
under full sail through the narrow
streets. Everybody looked after her,
for she was most look. after.able per-
son. l could not tell why believed
her to be an American, unless because
of her elaborate costumes, for she was
a vivid brunette, such as one sees a
thousand times oftener In France than
in the United States, ard her heavily
powdered complexion told of no tales
of a nativity anywhere between Chi
cago and Timbuctoo. Upon inquring
| was told that she was Cuban widow
immensely rich, and staying at the
Roches Noires. One day she sailed
past us upon the beach as | sat there
in company with certain New York
criminal lawyer. Icalled bis attention
to the snowy Cuban widow.
"Cuban p he exclaimed, in startled
astonlshment; "why, that is the once
famous Josie Mansfield -Ilroaoillc
Cor. Chicago Herald.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-12-31
RIGHT YOU ARE, NEIGHBORs.

The Reno Gazette says: Pyramid
Lake Indians have quarter of a
million acres of land and the finest
body of water between Salt Lake and
the Pacific shut off for their ostensible
benefit, but in reality more for the
benefit of those who live ON the trade
and fish catching. 1t would be good
llfe's work for Congressman WOODBURY.
to have the reservation cut down to
embrace five miles of river and fifteen
miles of shore, divided between Pyra-
mid and Mud Lakes. The Gazette
understands that he is posting himself
on this subject.
To which the Austin ReueiUe adds:
All of the fairest portions of Nevada
are set aside for Indian reservations.
Aside from Pyramid there are three
other reservations, that one at Walker
Lake embracing the only respectable
land in that section. Yet, bad as this
would seem, the Indians do not live on
these choice lands, but are Longing
around the towns, cumming, begging
and stealing food and clothes, while
the Indian agents are drawing the
ratlons for them. All this is wrong.
If the whites of Nevada are forced to
support the Indians they ought to have
the privilege of using the Indian lands.
Mr.. WOODBURY. will do we'll to get
those reservations either entirely abol-
ished or, at least, have only one in the
State, which will be ample for all
requirements. This matter should be
agitated by the press.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-12-31
GIVE THEM A REST.

The Eureka Leader says At every
session of the Legislature since this
State was organized much time has
been spent in a, so far, fruitless attempt
to regulate the operation of railroads,
ltSseems to us that the approaching
Legislature might well pass the mat
ter. 1t hardly seems probable that
any beneficial result can grow out Of a
renewal Of the contest at time when
The local roads are hardly earning
enough to pay interest on the money
invested, let alone paying dividends,
and they seem just now to be run more
as public benefit than for anything
they may be earning. AT least, there
should be no attempt to annoy or
cripple them so long as their present
financial condition continues. The
State ought, of course, never to relin-
quish the undoubted right it has to
regulate the operation of railroads on
the high ground of the interest the
public has in them as common carriers.
Under their. present crippled condition
we think they are fairly entitled to
rest, at least. The great and powerful
corporation known as the Central Pa
ciflic is now in the hands of the
National Legislature, where we think
it legitimately belongs. There seems
to be good chance that something
beneficial will be accomplished. If
the whole subject of railroad legislation
could be avoided in the next Legisla.
ture the the Utoplan dream of the
Enterprises thirty day session.
might be realized Then would the
occupation of the lobby indeed be
gone; besides it would greatly assist
toward purifying legislation of that
pernicious and wholly dishonest prac-
tice of trading votes-more dangerous
to good legislation than downright
bribery. 1t very frequently happens
that really valuable bill is defeated
or a pernicious one passed through
trades made in the lobby, and members
are often induced to vote measures that
do not meet their approval IN order
that some scheme of their own may
succeed. Let them rest.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-12-31
Reading Character in the Finger
Nails.

A foreigner has discovered a new
branch of the curious methods of
physical research into the physical
character. 1t is the study of the finger
nails, the shape and color of which are
said to indicate certain traits of charac-
ter. Finger nails, according to the
experts of the new fad, if long and
slender, denote imagination and poetic
feelings, love of art and laziness; if
long and flat, they are the sign of pru-
dence, good sense and grave, mental
faculties; if wide and short, of anger
and rudeness, controversy and obsti-
macy; healthy color signifies virtue,
ubealth, happiness, courage and liber.
atty; dry and brittle nails are signs of
anger, cruelty, quarrel, eliminating
even in murder; curved In the shape OF
clsws, hypocrisy and wickedness; soft.
feebleness of body and mind; and
lastly, we are told. that short nails.
gnawed down to the flesh, signifies
Stiffness and dissipation.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-12-31
THE STATE QUESTION.

All talk about the injustice to other
States in the representation of Nevada
in Congress is wasted, as nothing can
be done. Nevada will retain her
place in the Union by simply doing
nothing. There Is however, a method
for increasing both area and popula-
ton, which will be greatly to the bene-
At of the territory concerned. Mono
and Inyo Counties, of California,
properly belong to the State of Nevada.
They are mining counties and have the
same general physical characteristics
rs Nevada. Nevada Is a mining State,
and its laws are such that mining
interests are paramount to all others,
while in California the conflict between
agriculture and mining has resulted
In legislation adverse to mining. The
people of those counties would be
pleased to come over to us, as their
highway to the ouside world is through
our State and all their business inter
ests and customs are identical with
ours. A bill providing for the cession
of these counties was once introduced
in the California Legislature by a
member from Inyo County, but, owing
to false State pride, it was defeated,
California would not suffer in losing
this comparatively small part of its
territory, while Nevada would be
largely the gamer and would gladly
welcome its near neighbors, who are
now almost members of its household.