Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1886-05-14


A great agricultural implement factory
will be established in Cotton, to employ
300 workmen.
A handsome new baggage car left here
yesterday for thenew road from Berenda
to Yosemite.
- Two lots corner Virginia and Pico
streets, in the Sisters of Charity tract,
sold yesterday for $3.50.
Frank Cross was arrested yesterday
for petit larceny. He had lot of wine
he failed to account for satisfactorily e
The many admirers of Miss Fuller's
superb voice will be given an oppor-
tunity to again hear her in a famous
song raEA ezsd
The s. P. Co. are sending forward
about ten cars of oranges a day. A
pretty good showing for the very tail
ings Of the season.
The train to Santa Ana is the only
mixed train going out of this city now.
1t is to be made an express and straight
passenger soon.
The readers of the HERALD will not
forget the anti.riparian meeting ON Sat
urday night, at the Board of Trade
rooms, at ~ o'clock.
The contract for the laying down of
the Pasadena gas works has been let to
G.. w. Lynch for 500, 900. The work is
to be done in ninety days.
The remains of Miss Martha r. Whit.
l,al all 20 lI,,o
city, have been taken to her late home
at Lancaster, Massachusetts,.
A member of the fire department yes
terday blew out all the fire hydrants
about the business center of the town.
1t is seldom fire calls one of them into
requisition in this city.
The two.horse street railroad il to be
extended at once from the corner of
Olive and Washington westward along
the latter street to the city limits. Citi-
zens along the line have raised $4,000 to
get the road extended.
A special car of the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Railway ar
rived yesterday to carry away Mr.. C. r.
Russell, of that road, who has been
spending the winter in the semi.tropic
paradise.
The Central Street.Car line is putting
in new switch near the Capitol flour
mills, so as to avoid being caught on the
way to the depot by long trains switch
ing in and out of the S, p, yard at that
point.
East Les Angeles lodge A. o. U. w.
took a picnic yesterday at Lamanda
Park They went by the L. A. & S. G.
V. R'y, filling five cars. There is a tine
grove at Lamanda, with dancing floor
and seats-a very attractive place for
such things.
Especial attention is directed to the
May musical festival programme for this
evening. The grand instrumentations
and brilliant solos by our best artists
ought to fill every seat. Where all are
so excellent it is simply impossible to in
dividualize.
1t is pretty well assured fact that
the Santa Monica new railroad, the Cali
fornia Southern, the Los Angeles and
San baDTlel AMY vi solle ONucI iiIlh VI
the A. T. & S. F. system, will buy the
Wolfskill and Coronel places--70 acres
in all, at $1,000 an acre--for their depot
and yard.
A public meeting will be held this
evening at Crescenta Block, East Los
Angeles, to discuss the matter of public
improvements, including bridges, rail-
roads, hotels and other important inter.
ests. Addresses will be delivered by
Mayor Spence, Major Bonebrake, Mr..
VIM. Lacey, G.. l.. Stearns and +. II.
Lowell
John Wilson, carpenter, who has
been here two weeks, and who says his
wife is east, was arrested yesterday for
taking improper liberties with an eight.
year.old girl on Alameda street. When
brought before Justice Austin, Wilson
said he was too drunk to know that he
was doing anything improper. He wa,
held on a bond of S25 for hearing to
day.