Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-05-04

The c. S. R'y sent out 10 cars Of or
anges last Saturday.
The s. p. Co. sent out an orange spe-
cial OF about dozen ears last night.
A woman had her pocket picked in
the crowd near the Pico House yester.
day.
The sale Of real estate yesterday
amounted to $50, 900, while the mortga.
ges were only $1,000
The superb IHustrated annual HER
AID has arriUed, and is nor on sale
at this office. Price, rs cents a copy.
Number 10 Turner street was bur
glarized Sunday night at o P. NJ. and
some clothes belonging 10 a roomer
stolen.
MIR. J. Harry Conlan goes to Santa
Monica to-day with big force Of men
TO decorate the Ocean House for the
summer season.
The house just finished by DIR.
Wheeler, corner Hill and First streets is
reported leased for boarding house at
a monthly rental Of 5000.
The MesRrs. Lathrop & Stackpole have
temporary house put up at Lathrop
The railroad company will begin next
week to put up hotel at Lathrop 2S5
feet long.
Rev. J. w. Ellis, on Sunday after.
noon, left his horse and buggy standing
on Bunker Hill avenue. The animal
ran away, upsetting the vehicle and
breaking it all to pieces.
The grain crops Of the country are look
ing very well and promise fine harvest
in a couple of months. At San Gorge.
MO there is probably 5000 acres of bar
ley in. 1t Is breast high, with great
heavy heads on it.
From ali sources come the reports that
San Diego is booming in every sense OF
the term. Houses for residence and
brick blocks for business going up all
over town, and real estate ''goes up"
faster than them all.
The people of San Gorgonio all spent
May Day in the mountains at picnic.
A right royal time the gay party had
climbing over the great boulders in the
picturesque co Mons. A fine lunch was
a feature of the day.
To-day Mr.. w. H. Kirk, of the s. p.
Co., begins to build spur track into
the Tuiunga Wash, from which gravel
will be aken to ballast the track. Ii Is
the intention of the company to repair
their road bed all along this division.
Mr.. Ellis, having leased the college
for hotel purposes is now getting ready
to build new seminary on the eastern
corner of the grounds. He will later
erect on the southwest corner of the lot
a latin school under military dicipline
for boys.
Messrs. Lathrop & Stackpole, Of the
Mojave Hotel, have removed building
belonging TO the A. & P. R'y. at Dag
gett, to Mojave, to be used as hotel
while new house is being put up to re-
place the one burned last week. 1t is |
ready for use to-day.
Some thieves got into tent on Fourth |
street near Pearl Sunday morning and
stole some clothes, a silver watch and
$84 in coin from the occupant, Mr.. So
per, an old soldier and a cripple. This
Is all he had in the world. Some MEM
bers of the police force contributed a
sum of money to relieve his present
needs
Joe Eldridge, the bartender who was
cut by Santos 0cafia in saloon on
Upper Main street Easter Sunday morn
ing, died Sunday at the county hospital.
The Coroner held an inquest on the re- |
mains yesterday and the verdict was
that death resulted from the wound. |
died just one week after the
melee.
Some stupid people in the Duarte are
putting obstacles in the way OF the new
railroad reaching their property and
its value. Before they get
awake, it may take trend down toward
Savannah and FL Monte and leave
them out in the cold. There are rea-
sons why it should go down nearly
parallel to the :. p. Co.'s track any
way.
In paper on harbors, Prof. l.. Nj.
Haupt mentions that from New York to
the Gulf of Mexico there are only four
natural entrances where the depth at
mean low water is over sixteen feet,
while the largest ships draw from twen-
ty-six to twenty-eight and a half feet.
So it appears there are only four har-
bors ON the Atlantic coast between New
York and Corpus Cristi that has as great
depth OF channel as San Pedro.
Yesterday the Committee on Fire and
Water recommended the purchase of
SlS5.00 wagon for the Chief Engineer OF
the Fire Department, Col. Walter 5.
Moore. Mr.. Breed said that il this
wagon was purchased for the Chief
Engineer the Street Superintendent and
other city officers would want landaus,
cabriolets, etc. The matter was de-
ferred for one week, aud in the mean
time the Chief Engineer will hustle
around in his gig.