Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1886-05-15

the city looking into the matter of start
ing glass mandatory.
1t cost Loo Look Just S. yesterday
to leave his team unhitched. Perhaps
Loo will "look a leedle oudt" hereafter.
The train from San Francisco was
over five hours late yesterday. She got
in after dark. The up train was on
time.
The Union Band will give an annual
picnic at the Arroyo Seco on the Both
instant, Of which due notice will appear
in the HERALD.
The farmers out in the country are
cutting hay with self-binders, which
makes the hay easy to handle and saves
baling Afterwards.
Mr. Bland is preparing to start the
Missouri Laundry" on the corner OF
Second and Olive streets, employing
only white labor.
The site for the new Ellis Seminary
for young ladies is almost graded aud
the carpenters will begin to put up thei
building in few days.
F. Luhring, who exceeded the pace
prescribed for driving, was taken in yes
terday by officer Weed, from South Fort
street, and put up five dollars.
The cable road had gang of men at
work yesterday pumping out the pond
of water made by their embankment on
Second street, between Hope and
Flower.
Riverside is agitating the subject of
getting electric lights. San Bernardlno,
Cotton, Lugonla and Riverside will all
be in one circuit, with the plant in San
Bernardino.
A burglary is reported of the street.
car shops on Olive street. The thief
got away with set of wooden planes,
stamped "D Woods, short hand-saw,
with the same mark, a set of auger BITS,
a file and set of chisels.
jim Wong was caught yesterday with
half dozen contraband chickens in a
bag and taken to police headquarters,
where he deposited five dollars, which
was forfeited, The fowls are in the Jail
yard, awaiting an owner.
The S. p. Co. are putting in two sid
ings, each of about 2000 feet, out near
the powder house, on the road to San
These are to help little in handling the
large amount of business coming over
the road from the east.
A. j. Towner, juror IN theakalkman
robbery case on trial before Judge
Cheney, rose yesterday in his seat and
charged w. w. Weed, a shorthand re.
porter, OF bribery in offering him 500
to influence his views. Weed proved an
alibi
There was an error in the reported
sale of the south corner of Fort and
First. Mr.. Riley only gets about 80
feet on Fort by some 80 feet on First.
He pays $3.50 foot, measuring only the
Fort street frontage. That is So, $50
for the little square block.
The new park with lake in it recent.
ly laid out by the cable road people is a
very pleasant feature along the road. 1t
is getting to be a popular resort for pic.
nicers and ramblers. The place is a
pleasant one to recreate these warm
days,
Justice Austin will soon move his
court into the new City Hail. occupying
what is now known as the Mayors
courtroom The Mayor will hold his
court in the Council chamber, but the
| prisoners will not be allowed to occupy
the city dads seats.
About three weeks ago Charles Gun.
ningham, from Massachusetts,, while
working ms a carpenter on the railroad
bridge at Yuma, fell into the river and
was lost to sight. He was about "a
years old, feet A inches high, of light
/ complexion, and was a new arrival.
Mr. J. T, Richardson, the agriculture
implement man, who returned yesterday
from a trip to Cotton, reports the conn
try looking very we'll The wheat and
barley are superb, healthy, bright and
| heavy with grain. He saw also field
OF volunteer oats of great promise.
Captain C. l.. Hooper, of the u. s.
steamer Rush, accompanied by Messrs
j. w. Tabor and w. N. Cowles, and +
T. Dickens and Fremont Morse, of the
U. s. Coast Survey, came up from San
Pedro yesterday evening, and went out
to Sierra Madre Villa to spend tn,
night.
Stanton Post, G. A. R., last nigh
accepted the invitation of Doctor Fay tc
attend religious services at the Crane
Opera House on Sunday May 30tb, Dec
grafton day. The regular services Of thai
day will be held on Monday, May 3lst
Of which due notice will be given here
after.
The lot corner of Fort and First, sole
by Frank Carpenter some time ago t.
Messrs King, Denis and Howes, i
again conveyed, Mes.rs. King and Deni
transferring their interest to MIR. d. Nc
Farland. The original consideration
was $40, $50. The present price is no
made public.
Short has evolved a new cartoon, en-
titled Captain james handling the Chi
nese question" 1t represents the ole
skipper having in hand the hirsute APP
peadage of the heathen's caput, by
means of which he is gyrated as a boy
whirls a shingle tied to a string, tn,
dark nebula forming hazy circle as thu
mongol is sent through space.
An itinerant dispenser of moral an,
religious ideas held forth briefly las
evening at the corner of Main and Sec
ond streets. His subject was sin, AM
his advice to avoid committing it. Tn
hoodlum element guyed him, and h'
closed with "God bless you, boys, t.
which one Arab replied, irreverently
And God bless you"