Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-18
WHAT THEY SAY.
GleaninKs From the ssHerald,s,,
Local Exchange List.

The Milton Thomas place of 160 acres
of gas we'll notoriety, about three mile
northwest of town, was purchased re
Gently by Mr.. O. F. Roseorans, son o
the noted Gen. Rosecrans.- Compton
Independent.
E. F. Spence is having a fine larg
reservoir made, north of his residence
By the way, Mr.. Spence has his ground
beautifully laid out, and in a short tim,
it will be the most attractive place il
town. 1t will command the best view t
be had anywhere in the ighborhood
II Monrovis Messenger.
The cannery this week is running al
together on tomatoes, having thus faI
his eek put up1 about 900. cans and il
is the intention to run the factory on full
time the balance of the season, thus Civ
ing employment to about twenty-five
hands; later in the; season they will put
up large quantity of pears and the
beauty Of cur cannery is that the entire
pack has been sold in advance Whit
tier Pointer.
Monday Mr.. T. w. Mendenhall gath.
cred stuck Of corn which contained foul
ears of finely developed corn the four
ears contained 5000 we'll developed
grains, or nearly 800 grains to the ear
This is not the largest in the patch, Mr..
MeDdenhall having one that has five fine
ears, but he will let this get ripe before
pulling it. This corn was planted the
latter part of March, and has never re.
| ceived drop of water. Who says we
can't raise corn ?-[Whittier Pointer.
The work of closing the short gap in
the boulevard at the Soldiers Home lie
s.,s T1o = z..t
half way through the Home tract, and
will perhaps be completed this week
We shall then have completed thor
ough fare, by way of the Home, from
Santa Monica to Los Angeles. Owing to
the lateness of some of the work, certain
sections of the road will be somewhat
duty However, the rains will soon be
upon US, and then we shall. have about
eixteen miles of the finest road in the
Stste.-TSanta Monica Outlook.
d. L. Davenport, who has melon and
orange grove of over 1000 trees on the
Kingsley tract, has been at work for two
years in an effort to kill the black scale
in his orchard. He has sprayed and
washed his trees for weeks, but all with
no effect. The scale very slowly dimin-
ished. Mr.. Davenport recently found
several trees that were seriously effected
with black scale, and he marked them
for future spraying and washing. In a
few days he went out to do the work, and
was astonished to find that the black
scale bugs on the trees were all dead.
An examination with magDitying glass
for several hours proved to him that the
pest was really dead in his whole orch
ard. Mr.. Davenport found that the scale
had been killed by swarm OF light
brown flies, with small wings. Where
the flies came from, and their character
istics and names Mr.. Davenport does
not know, but he does know that they
have been worth several thousand dol
lars to him, and that they are multiply
ing aud extending their field of opera
tions.-[ Riverside Press.
IRRIGATION MATTERS.
| A meeting OF stockholders in the Ana
helm Union Water Company was held
at Kroeger's Hall last Saturday al fter'
noon, Louis Schorn in the chair. Theo
Staley acted as secretaiy. 1t being as
certsi.ed that there was not quorum
of stockholders present, the meeting waf
resolved into meeting of citizens, the
object being to discuss the advisability
of setting q price upon the property o
the old Water Company to be sold to the
new irrigation district. The subject wat
discussed by Messrs. McFadden, Grow.
ther, Kellogg, Weglein, Wiltshire, Eddie
and others. Judge Pierce offered the
following resolution:
| Resolved, That it is the sense of thif
meeting that it would be more satisfac
tory to all parties interested that the
| pao IL - nf ha A.. To-.
cation District proceed forthwith to con
demn all property necessary to the use
Of the district.
The resolution was seconded end car
ried unanimously.
This course was taken in order tc
arrive at an amicable adjustment between
the two companies. At a meeting held
two weeks ago it was agreed that $3.50 ,00C
be fixed as the price to be asked for all
property to be sold the new district
Some desired the price raised to 5000 600
while others favored larger amount
Among others the conclusion was
reached that the amount was altogether
too high. The directors of the new irri
cation district were known to be de.
cidedly averse to paying the sum fixed
upon. 1t was consequently decided to
allow suit in condemnation to be en-.
tered against the old company and thus
arrive at an amicable adjustment. The
cid company will of course take bonds
OF the new company in payment of al
claims. A similar course in condemn
ing the property of the Yorbas will prob
ably be arrived at. The entire expense
Of the new district is placed by those
com petent to know at not to exceed
$400, 900 -[Anaheim Gazette.
| THE EvANaEL OF FILTH.
The Los Angeles HERALD is a conser
vative as well as level. headed journal
Indeed, it stands second to none on the
Coast in these respe cts, as anyone who
knows Joseph D. Lynch would readily
expect. In yesterdays issue, we read ar
able editorial on the epidemic of crimef
of kindred vileness to that of the Edg
comb Garrett case that seems to have
broken out in Los Angeles. The writer
of the article in question bewails the
fact that ofenses against the weaker eex
have got to be 80 prevalent, and attri
butes it to the dissemination of immoral
books, either translations from the
works of the so.called realistic
school of French novelists OF
the productions of our native
school of "feshly" writer's, and to the
deplofable decay of belief in the teach
ings of Christianity among the people
consequent on the propaganda of mer