Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-05-05

A Warner Bros. u Crosby excuraion
got in yesterday over the G. S. R'y and
its connections.
The pile drivers at the Also street
railway bridge will finish their part of
the work to-day.
The C. s. R'y train due here Monday
night at o:l5 did not get in here until
nearly o'clock yesterday afternoon.
A Raymond & Whitcomb excursion by
special train over the c. S. R'y and its
connections is due here at about 4 P. N
to-day.
The fees at the County Recorder s
Office on Monday were over $3.50, the
largest amount ever received before in
single day.
Col. 7. s. Harris, of the Lancaster
Nees, yesterday pure based 4s0 acres
Of goverament land in Kern county.
Who wouldn't be an editor and own a
good farm II he could?
Yesterday morning about three o'clock
some person unknown threw a gunpow-
der bomb through the window of a
house in Chinatown. The bomb ex-
ploded but no damage resulted.
The Pasadena Star, II. j. Vail editor
and publisher, is new candidate for
public favor. The Star is handsome
eight column sheet full OF local items OF
interest, and Republican in politics.
DR.. Wise colt, which made such re-
markable time at Agricultural Park
few days ago, is Rajah, and not STAN.
boul, as printed. The latter, grand
stallion, belongs to Mr.. l.. j. Rose.
Work was at last begun yesterday re-
moving the top of the street in front of
the City Hall lot, preparatory to paving
the same with asphaltum. The Spring
street face is where work is in progress.
The tickets for the grand ball of the
Ladies Benevolent Society are going off
in lively manner. The ladies need
~. 900, and all those who wish to help
them along should buy their tickets at
once.
Mr.. Joe Corcoran and MIR. Harry
Wyatt leave here this morning for trip
to San Diego. San Bernardino, Cotton
and Riverside, where they will make ar
rangements for the appearance OF the
Birch 4 Cotton minstrels.
A great bargain is advertised in the
columns of the HERALD to-day in the
offer of 10000 acres OF land in the
Rancho San Felipe in San Diego county
at "a. so per acre. 1t is in the great gold
mining region and well adapted for
grain and stock rancho. See notice.
Mr.. Berke, at the corner of Second
street and Bunker Hill avenue. is about
to move his cottage back onto the Hope
street line and put up fine two.story
house of about fifteen rooms on the
Bunker Hill avenue frontage. The in
vestment will pay the enterprising gen
tleman well.
Madame Modjeska opens an engage
ment at the Baldwin, San Francisco,
July IL next. The lady announces her
intention of spending the summer in
Southern California, where she was born
and where she has u ranch near Anaheim.
She will probably play at the Grand
during her stay here.
The lot on Bunker Hill avenue, one
number north of the Second street
crossing, which belonged to Mr. 5. He'll
man, has been sold to an eastern gentle
man for 81, 800 The lot is cheap at the
price The purchaser will at once put
up fine house costing $500 on the
lot.
To date the y. p. Company has shipped
to all points from semi-tropic California
about round thousand carloads of
oranges. Figures for the G. S. R'y are
not obtainable yet, but it is not probable
that line has carried any less than 800
cars. There are more than 100 cars still
to go.
Mr.. Ben Strauss, Postmaster at Mo-
lave, writes to the HERALD that the
mail at that place was lost in the fire
and not saved, as reported in the
HERALD. After the fire HERALD re-
porter asked Mr.. Strauss if the mail
were saved, and he replied eyes. He
must have mistaken the word saved for
lost.
United States Commissioner Ellis re-
turned Monday from San Francisco with
orders to release Mrs. Noberta Ortega,
who was held on a charge of selling
liquor to Indians at San Bernardino.
She is the mother of three children.
The release is made on her own recog.
nizance to appear before the United
States courts in San Francisco for trial
on the charge.