Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-03-06
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The Utah Legislature has killed the
| Austr allan ballot bill.
In the Superior Court at Fresno, Judge
Campbell decided in favor of the MADEIRA
irrigation district in the suits brought by
Miller, Lux and others to be excluded
from the district.
At meeting of the Oregon Republican
Central Committee it was decided to hold
the State Convention in Portland April
10Th, when full State ticket and Con-
gressman will be nominated.
In dense fog at Sprague, Wash, a
gine. A. Anderson, fireman of the
switch engine, was thrown under the fire
box and crushed to death.
A large mass of rock and earth from
the mountain slid down on the Edwards
grade, between Nevada City and North
Bloomfield, effectually blocking all travel
in that direction. 1t will take two or
three days to reopen the road.
John s. Day, aged about rs. was found
dead in the Western hotel at Santa ,
Barbara. He arrived from Los Angeles
last Friday, and registered from San
Diego. The verdict of the Coronsr's,
jury was death from heart disease.
Vancouver, B. G., ass donated a site.
for a sugar refinery. Building operations
Will comm. .eu0e immediately, and the re-
nnery will be in operation within, eight
months. The promoters are New York
parties connected with the Havemeyers.
Entries for the spring meeting of the
Blood Horse Association have closed,
and they will be made public as soon as e.
all the mails are in. The meeting will,
be held in San Francisco, a contract hav-
ing been signed with the manager of the
Bay District track.
| Orders have been received instructing
the Second United States cavalry, sta
toned at Walla Walla, under command
of Colonel Clendenin, to exchange sta
tions with the Fourth cavalry, Colonel
Grierson commanding, now in Arizona,
the change to take effect about May 1st.
At Yreka, CAL, Saloonkeeper Neufer
and young man named Mann, while
under the influence of liquor quarrelIed,
and Neufer went behind the bar and
secured an icepick and attacked Mann.
The latter drew a pocket knife and
stabbed his aggressor five times, inflict-
ing severe and probably fatal wounds.
At Virginia, Neb., two Chinese wood
choppers had desperate fight in their
cabin. LIE Hoy killed his antagonist,
who was known as "Sjx- City" by
chopping his head open with Ratchet.
Hoy was also seriously wounded, but.
he resisted arrest and held the cabin,
some time before he was finally cap.
tured.
At Helena, Mont, fire broke out in
the Horsky block. A number of men,,
headed by Chief Detective Walters, en-
tered to fight the fire, when terrific ex.
plosion of gas took place. All the men
were badly burned, the flesh dropping.
off in large pieces from some of the in,
jured. Walters inhaled burning gas.
The loss is several thousand dollars.
AT Redwood City the depot of the,
Southern Pacific railroad was entered by
burglars. An attempt to crack the safe
failed. The combination was battered
off, so that the safe cannot be opened.
Several hammers and chisels were found
in the depot by the agent, left by the
burglars, who were frightened away.
The Idaho Quartz Mining Company, of
Grass Valley, has begun suit in the
Superior Court against the South Yuba
Water and Mining Company to recover
S., 900 damages for the failure of
the defendant to furnish suf1i-
cient water during the big snow
storms this winter, to keep the machin-
cry of the Idaho mine in operation.
Plaintiff claims that q proper effort was
not made by the Water Company to keep
their bitches from being blocked by