Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-12


Judge Noah Levering is slowly recov-
ering from very severe attack OF cry
sipelas.
Hon. H. z. Osborne on Wednesday
took possession of the Office OF collector
of customs at Wilmington.
Mr.. Sparks B. johnson, son of Gen.
E. P. Johnson, who has been dan
gerously i'll with typhoid fever, is recoy-
ering.
Prof. Ira More started for Sacramento
yesterday noon, to attend the meeting OF
the state board of education, which con-
venes at Sacramento.
w. A. Clement of this city leaves to-
day for Manchester, New Hampshire,
on a visit to relatives and friends. He
will be away about two months.
Jacob S. Taylor, Esq, OF Del Mar, who
has been forced resident of Los Angeles
for several months on account of law
matters, is confined to his room on
Broadway by illness.
Mr.. Jno. Tobin started for Salt Lake
City yesterday by the noon train over
the Southern Pacific. He will stop but
one day there, then proceed to Boston
with the Phillips excursion.
Mrs. w. A. Davis, who has been in
the city for the past six weeks visiting
her parents, Rev. and Mrs. d. Hughes,
S43 Hemlock street, leaves today for her
home in Con ira Costa county. She is
accompanied by her two children, War
rem and May This is Mrs. Davis's sec
ond visit to Los Angeles.
The hotel arrivals at the Hotel Temes-
cal, South Riverside, since Monday last
are: Emma Kiehl, H. E. Taylor, Liz
zie J. Hendricks, G. D. Frazer, W. A.
Bingham, G. d. Mcmillan, E. w. Free
man, VIM. A. Witte, w. E. Sons, H. X.
Snyder, E. T. Lee, George Jones, Mrs.
R. B. Taylor, Mrs. S. X. Root, r. +.
McGregor.
George A. Merrill, OF the department
of sciences of the Cogswell school of San
Francisco, passed through Los Angeles
Yesterday. en- route to San Diego. He
returns to Los Angeles today and will re-
main several days. Mr.. Merrill is not
only very pleasant, well-informed gen.
tleman personally, but is connected
with one of the finest schools in the
state.
Thomas A. Wallace, one of San Fran
cisco's police officers, and bailiff of po-
lice court No. 2, after sojourning in Los
Angeles and vicinity for about ten days
past, returns to the Golden Gate city
today. Mr.. Wallace came here for his
health, and leaves the angel city much
improved, as we'll as astonished at
Southern California's wonderful stride
during the past few years.
Colonel George Butler Griffin, besides
doing all of his duty as assistant city
engineer, is employing his leisure in
translating lot of original documents
pertaining to the early history of Cali
fornia, loaned the Historical society by
Adolph Sutro, Esq, of San Francisco.
Colonel Griffin is thoroughly acquainted
with the Spanish language, laws, history
and customs, and is pre-eminently quail
| fled for the work. Already his transla-
ton OF these documents has discovered
a good many important items of early
history that wholly escaped the atten-
ton of H. H. Bancroft The transla-
tions will be published by the Historical
society.
Samuel Flint, superintendent of the
railway mail service of the Eighth dis
trct, and VIM. P. Campbell, assistant
general superintendent of the railway
mail service, with headquarters at
Washington, D. c., are in town. Both
gentlemen have been since Monday last
travelling Southern California in spec
ial car with view Of improving the pos
tai service. Mr.. Campbell has been for
twenty-five years connected with the
postofice department and has held the
position of assistant general superin-
tendent for fully fifteen years. His
knowledge of mail matters is exception
ally good.
Theodore S. Van Dyke, that most de-
lightful writer on Southern California,
has been in Los Angeles few days, and
left yesterday for Anaheim. Mr.. Van
Dyke is personally investigating all the
irrigating districts of Southern Califor-
MIA for the purpose OF writing book
upon that subject. What he writes is
always from personal observation and
knowledge, and is thoroughly reliable.
Mr.. Van Dyke is a correspondent foI
many eastern sporting publications. His
books, The Still Hunter, Rifle, Rod and
Gun, Southern California-Its Re-
sources, etc., and several interesting
novels with plots laid in this section,
together with his latest production, The
Millionaires of Day, place HIM among
the foremost of writers.