Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1886-08-05

The Tuesday 's'train from the East did
not arrive here until ga. M. yesterday.
The train yesterday was only couple
of hours late.
BY telegraph from Fresno it appears
that the Los Angeles Baseball Club was
victorious over the Fresno nine by a
score of 6 to 9.
The line trees from the Bixby lot, COR
ner Second and Fort streets, are being
removed to the Second street park, on
the cable road.
As Modjeska plays Mary Stuart this
evening the regular meeting Of the Gale
donia Club has been postponed until
Monday evening. in honor of the great
! actress.
Contracts we're yesterday let for re-
moving $50 feet of adobes stween North
Main and Upper Main streets, prepare
tory to the erection of brick buildings in
their places.
The train from the north was late
about an hour and half yesterday. 1t
| and that going north met at the depot
here. The track to the eastward is now
reported all right.
II is reported that the railroad has or.
ders to furnish 100 fruit cars to carry
early grapes from the valley this month
and next. There ought to be fifteen
times that many shipped.
The City Council OF Pasadena has
called public meeting to consider the
proper way to entertain the G. A. r. on
| It's return trip from San Francisco. The
meeting win be held next Saturday.
The attention OF land buyers is called
to an advertisement in another column
in which 30, 600 acres Of farming land in
| Kern county are offered at $7.5G per
acre. That seems cheap enough.
Esinore Lake is midway between Los
Angeles and San Diego. 1t is 1900 feet
above sea-level and supplied with a
| Yacht, fifteen sailboats, and one little
steamer. Lakes so are scarce in Southern
California that when one is found it is
well patronized.
The water from the old zanja Madre
will be to-day turned into the brick cul-
vert from Upper Main street to Olvera
street. and the old channel filled up.
North Main street will now be graded
through to the Los Angeles river.
There are many who do not know
that the Calico District in San Bernar-
dino county, this State, got its name
from the variety of colors observed in
the rocks. They are very pinto, as the
| Spanish has it. Perhaps few years
ago the place would have been called
dolly Warden.
The steel rails for the extension OF the
l.. A. Il s. G. V. r. r. arrived on Tues.
day evening, and track laying has been
begun again. A series of plans for rail
road depo.s has been prepared for this
railway and the remaining stations will
lie ornamented with these architectural
beauties.
In the memorable revolution of time,
that never.to- be forgotten day on which
l.. Osborne of the Enpress first saw the
ght came around yesterday. The &C.
| casion was celebrated by dinner at MIR.
| 0sborne's residence, to which his rela-
tives and few particular friends did
full justice.
Within few weeks it is said Sacra-
nento capital to the extent of $4,000
has been invested in Los Angeles prop
trty. 1t is also rumored that sl00,000
more is to follow. The source of supply
is not many miles from d. o. Mills
bank. Is it the cold of the north
countree" or the ague along the river
bottom which is frightening this money
to Los Angeles