Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-27
BAY CITY BREEZES.
The State Board OF Horticulture
Re-elects Officers.


SAN FRANCISCO, October 26.-The State
Board of Horticulture to-day elected an
nnal officers, as follows: President, E.
w. Hilgard, of Berkeley; Vice-Presi-
dent, A. T. Hatch, of Suisun; Secretary,
E. ]. Wyckson, of Berkeley; Treasurer.
r. j. Trumbull, of San Rafael.
News was received this afternoon by
the State Board of Horticulture that the
forest fire in the Santa Cruz mountains
now covers several square miles and is
approaching the town of Santa Cruz.
The residents of the county are ex-
hausted with their efforts to stay its pro-
gress.
Six cases of smallpox have been dis
covered in the City and County Hospital.
The health officer states that all the cases
developed were in one ward, and the
germs must have been recently brought
to the institution in the clothes of some
one recently admitted.
The steamship Arabic, from China, to.
day, brought 2O2 Chinese, ia of whom
have certificates. q
Some of the freight agents here say
that the recent shipment Of raisins across
the Atlantic have been for the
purpose of realizing q higher price
on them on this market than would
otherwise be received. They profess
to believe that some shipments have
gone to Spain to be re-shipped here as
the finest quality of Spanish raisins and
sold at increased prices.
DR.. j. Milton Bowers, now in the
county jail under sentence of death for
poisoning his wife, and with whose case
the mysterious death of Henry Benhayon
is interviewer, in an interview with
q reporter of local paper to-day,
charged Mrs. Benhayon, the mother OF
the last named, with the murder of her
son, presumably to obtain his life in
surance. John A. Dimmig, a book
agent, is now awaiting trial on the charge
OF poisoning Benhayon. lanl =,
is AN IMPORTANT RULING. E,
In the matter of the application of w.
". Richards for powers Of administra-
ton on the estate of his deceased wife,
his plea, holding that as her divorce from
her former husband, T. T. Cook, never
had been entered as judgment, the
marriage of Richards and Mrs. Cook
was null and void. Yesterday, how
ever, the court reversed the former
decision and ruled that the marriage was
legal, and Richards therefore is entitled
to her property. This is considered an
important ruling here, as it affects the
legality of many divorces and later
marriages.
CAPTAIN wALLACE's LICENSE RESTORED.
Captain Henry s. Lubbock, Superyis-
ing Inspector of steam vessels, trans-
mitted letter to-day to Captain Thomas
Wallace OF the steamer City of Chester,
which was sunk in the bay two months
ago. The Supervising Inspector declares
null and void the recent action of the
local Inspectors in revoking the license
OF Captain Wallace as master and pilot.
He states that he makes this decision
because the local inspectors did not fol-
low the rules of practice which require
the inspectors to furnish the accused
with copy Of the charges.
DRIED FRUIT IN DEMAND.
The California Dried Fruit Association
to-day sent to agents In New York, Chi
cago and other Eastern cities, samples of
apricots, peaches, plums, prunes, rais-
lns and almonds, by which buyers will
be guided in making purchases. Dried
raisins are now sold for 81 cents per
pound, netting the producers about $18
per ton for class grapes, for which
the wineries formerly gave but $40.
The advanced rates are due to the fact
that the members of the association hold
the greater part Of the dried grapes in the
market. The four thousand boxes of
Fresno raisins exported to London are
reported to have been preferred to the
famous layers from Malaga, Spain. In
of this venture, orders have
been received from Amsterdam, Vienna Il.
and Australia for fine dried fruit from
his Stale.