Year: 1878

News reached this city ON Sun.


day that there had been o smash


UP near Frink's Station, on the


desert, about seventy miles this
side of Yuma, the night before


From all we can learn, terrific
sand storm was blowing at the


time, during which tho passenger
| train that left here on Saturday
afternoon ran into the rear end OF
the construction train which had
preceded it. Two flat cars, loaded
with ties, were smashed to smith


Greens and the loo c,motive of the
passenger train so badly damaged
as TO be rendered useless. Fortu-
nately no one was hurt. The
storm was SO fierce aud binding
that nothing could be done thai
night, but on Sunday u wrecking
train was sent out from here and
the iebrls removed. No train ar
rived here from Yuma on Sunday,
but yesterday the over due and
regular train both came in.


We find that we have inviting
ly killed Major Frank Ball, our old
newspaper friend. We not only
killed him, but we killed him in the
County Hospital. Thereat Frank
waxed mad and visited this office
with objurgations and reproaches
Now, as every one knows, Frank is
a wealthy man, and he would only
g. to the hospital to low b 8 AM
acharsis Clootz sympathy with the
universal man. 1t give us great
pleasure to learn that the Major is
alive and kicking, chat he has no
intention of dying, least of all in
hospitals; that, in fact he is slowly
eternalizing himself. May he live
two Thousand years, more or less,
less or more, rs he shall conclude
to be most agreeable, and may he
flourish like porphyry horse in ST
ezra Nevada or a green bay tree.
But another Ball did died at the
hospital. Hence those tears.


A thrill of paia ran through the
greater portion of our community
on learning of the death of Miss
Mary Chauvin. The young lady
had just rounded her twentieth
year. Some years ago We witnessed
a series of collegiate examinations
Of Miss Chauvin prior to her gradu-
alton under the auspices of Prof.
Luckey, She was the very picture
of vitality and beauty, and her in
tellectual attainments were well
calculated to make the hearts of her
parents throb with pride. Her
premature death has left them in a
depth of affliction which we
shall not attempt to disturb by an
obtrusive sympathy. In this case,
if ever, is applicable the old aphor-
ism, "Whom the Gods love die
young"


Our little bird informs us that
discussions are rife in the Second
Ward Workingmen's Club. At the
meeting last night, we learn, Mr..
T. w. Ferguson, who is q bona fde
Workingman, and who has been
consistent member of the party for
the past six months, Withdrew
from the Club, alleging as reason
that, as the organization had vio-
lated one of its most stringent by
laws in going outside of the party
for candidates for office, he could no
longer consistently or with self-re.
spect, remain member, especially
as the candidates selected were not
only not Workingnen, but had OPP
posed the party AT the last election.


Yesterday afternoon Officer Nc
Fadden was attracted by the sus.
picious movements of an old Offend
er whom he saw Igoing along Main
street with a bundle under his arm.
He followed him as far as Arcadia
street, where he overhauled him
and asked him what lie ha in his
bundle. The fellow replied that it
was pair of shoes which he was
tdhtus W udto Icpaileu. MCr au.
den examined the parcel and found
two comparatively new shoes, one
a number 8 and the other q No. 8.
The man being unable to give a
satisfactory account of how he
came by them, was locked up to
await examination before Judge
Peel this morning.


When it comes to being q candi-
date for Office, five minutes time is
enough in which to make o staunch
workingman. If politician can't
succeed in any other role, all he
has to do In Los Angeles Is to play
workingman to see the Wheel
horses of the party pushed aside to
make place for him. Sela!


Judge Stephens waited until II
O'Clock last night for a verdict in
the Thistleton case, but the Jury
having failed to agree up to that
hour, they were locked up till this
morning.