Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-06-18

corded amounted TO StOO,OOO.
A Phillips excursion of two carloads
went out yesterday morning en- route for
the East.
There was tony" funeral in China
town yesterday in which hearse and
many carriages figured.
Col. G.. Wiley Wells is getting better
quite rapidly. For the past two days
he has been sitting up short time each
day.
Wednesday night four cars of oranges
went out for the east. One car came in
yesterday from Pasadena by the l.. A.
4 s. g. V. R'y.
Sheriff Geo. Gard went up to San
Francisco yesterday with Kalkman. who
is sentenced to five years in San Quentin
for assault to rob.
Rev. ID. Schneider will lecture this
evening at 7:45 in the Synagogue in
German. No lecture will be delivered
in the next two months.
Mr.. Chas. f. Day has bought the A.
w. Potts house on the hill, and is re-
moving it to fine slightly lot on Court
House street, near Olive.
The walls of the new NJ. s. Baker &
Co. foundry, on Buena Vista street, are
beginning to rise conspicuOusly above
the Southern Pacific car yard.
The Also street street-car bridge is
finished, accepted and paid for. The
cars are not running across yet. but will
be in day or two, as soon as the rails
are laid.
1t is expected that the Temple street
cable road will start up ON trial trip
tomorrow, and that regular trains for
travel will be put on at schedule time
next Monday.
The Chaffey College of Agriculture
will hold the closing exercises of the
term to-day at Ontario. The train leaves
at o'clock in the morning and returns
in the evening.
MIR. Bradbury will build on the A. w.
Potts lot, corner of Hill and Court
streets, residence eclipsing everything
heretofore IN Los Angeles. 1t will cost
about 100000.
The new express trains on the G. s.
R'y to San Diego will be put on sunday.
Excursion tickets below steamer rates
will be sold good to go and return
between this city and San Diego.
A Chinaman employed at the Puente
on the work going forward on the rail-
way at that point. got his foot caught
between two cars and had it crushed
very badly. The accident happened
yesterday.
There are now being distributed along
the line Of the Hewland electric road
three carloads Of iron, two of ties aud
two OF poles to carry the wire which
supplies the electricity to the motor on
the cars.
Another twelve.inch flowing well of
pure water has Just been struck at San
Fernando. ut depth of only 80 feet,
that yields large delicious stream.
Three different artesian basins were
pierced in sinking to the depth of eighty
feet.
F. Siebert. who was charged with
drawing a knife on c. Campbell in the
haymarket some time ago, was dis.
charged and the charge dismissed when
he came up for examination. Campbell
was found guilty Of assault and battery
and fined $40.
The last meeting OF the High School
Literary Society will be held this after
noon in the Assembly Room of the Nor
NAL School, beginning at l:30 o'clock.
A special programme will be presented
by the Middle Glass, and all friends are
cordially invited.
The gardeners have new grass which
they are planting freely in the gardens.
1t is called Bermuda grass, and grows
almost without summer irrigation. 1t is
propagated by planting little punches of
the roots, which soon fill in and cover
the whole lawn. 1t is good fodder
grass as well.
s. P. Woodward, long known at Ell
Monte, hurt his foot there sometime ago
and the wound gangrened. He was
brought to the Sisters Hospital in this
city week or so ago, where he died last
Wednesday. He was buried yesterday,
and many old Monte people came in to
the funeral.
Ellwood Cooper, OF Santa Barbara,
whose olive grove of 5000 trees is now
10 years old, says that number OF them
gave two gallons of berries in their
fourth year OF permanent plantation
| from the one-year.old rooted cuttings.
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