Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-30
GLENN COU STY,
A stormy Meeting of Citizens of Colusa
County Last Might.

The meeting OF Colusa county people in the
Assembly chamber last night was one of the
largest and liyeliest ever held in that hall For
the first half hour the audience wes standing
and nothing like order prevailed.
At $50 p II. ]. C. Campbell called the meeting
to order and requested Mr. Mathews, of Te-
mama county, TO preside
Frank Freeman. hr. Hoekmyer and others
objected
Mr.. Mathews said he had been called upon
to preside, and proposed to do So
Mr.. Shanahan said that Mr. Mathews had
not been elected by the meeting and had no
hight 70 preside.
Mr Bugs sad that the meeting was called by
those opposeGsto The dtyisioa of the county, 10
present their side of tie case. This was a we'll
known fact. Alter they had concluded present.
lns III II side, 10 coubs the other side would
nave been Esflted o present. their case All
they asked was = ieir ard just hearing.
Mr. Mathews SID That the people OF Glenn
county. so.cailei: mad had their day il Court
The committee had refused to hear the other
side OF the question, therefore Mr. Campbell
| asked to be beard here, and that was the object
OF the meeting. Mr. Campbell and his constit-
uents must be heard
running fire was kept up ON both sides half
dozen me n attempting TO talk at time
Finally +. Leake was elected Secretary and
it WIS agreed to tase testimony on b tn sides
one after the other, Richard Bayne conducting
the case for the anti-divisionists and H. Hurl,
uTt for the Glenn county people.
The testimony given was substantially as fol
lows;
Thomas Knoch was then called to the stand
and he made bis statement He said he resided
mi aud a half Forth of Orlani, in Coiusa
I'm y. he people of that precinct were prac-
tic unanimously against tue division Ont
OF II woes cast at The last election l75 had
signed a remonstranoe against the division In
e WhOle district, com rrising a whole tier of
townships, you could not find more than ono
man in a hundred who favored the bill In the
who c section he could not count SIX men i'm
iavor OF IT. oriand IS three miles from the
noitherD boundary of Colusa county,
On cross examination by Mr. Hurlburt he ad-
mitted that Orland had once been Candidate
for the county seat and he had signed a petition
for a new county of which Orland was to be the
county seat.
Mr.. Storke suggested that members of the
Legislature take front seats and some of the
people from Colusa, who were acquainted with
the facts, take back seats
Mr.. Hurburt asked that the petition signed
By MIR. Knoch be read, which was partially by
pensed with.
NJ. Knoch stated that if he wanted a gray
horse at one time il did not follow that he
wanted a blue donkey now.
Thomas Nichols, of Orlsnd, was called and
Questioned by Mr.. Hurlburt. he had resided at
Uriand ever since it existed. II : vas well az
quainted with the people there, s..ci through
the northwestern rediCk of TX .Iui.ty, and
the no thern tier OF TOWNSHIPS of a,olusa county
He WAS a lawyer and located at .Orland in the
expectation that there would be new county
mere was strong feeling in favor of new
county, but the people OF Orland had been
made shuttle cock of by the people of Colusa
VINO set'.he people of 0rland against the people
OF Willows. The remonstranee referred TO was
gotten M by a man named Rogers editor of the
Orland Estcs seut there by the people of Colusa
and rcrrssss n ( the people of Colusa much
section.
Gross esamined by Mr.. Payne he said that all
OF the people OF OrlaDd would favor the division
II Orlaed was to be the county sest. They adj
init that the county is loo large, but the diff
Guilty is aboutfhe location of the county Sc II.
Mr. hurIburt asked j; Can you name a single
man at orland who favors the oille'
g They would all favor it," said the witness
II the county seat would be at Oriand =
witness admitted that at the time of the sign.
ing OF the petition referred TO there 10 rail
i. \. Scribnerfsstified that he resided AT Or
land; was acquainted with the town of New
Vile and bad been in business there for fifteen
years. Ii was situated in the northwest mart Of
Colusa county. He knew the sentiments of
every man in the Newyille precinct. and if his
Information was correct every man, with one
oae man was MIR Julian, and he understood that
he Eas also opposed to the division, The cues
ton had been discussed two years, and there
had been no converts either way. He had re-
sided and done busiaess in the neighborhood
for tltrtyone years. That was the extreme
northwestern TOWNSHIP of Colusa county
Crosse xamined by Ny, Hurlburt. he said the |
vote OF MELVILLE Pfecfnet was 7S. The division |!
question Vas not an issue in the election The /
candidates of both sides stated 10 the people |
that they were against the division. first, last |
and all the time. He voted for Mr. Campbell /
and there was no stronger s1ti divi{onist than
himself He understood that Mr. Rose was on
a platform and pledged against the division
all he knew about Mr.. Campbell was that he
said he was opposed to the division. He was
not in the Republican Convention, and did not
know that il refused TO pledge the candidate
against the divi>ien- He did know. from the
papers, that the Democratic candidate was
pledged against division. He could not say
Why Il was that Rose received los votes and
campbell rs, while Cleveland received 1903 aud
harrison 30. They were opposed to division
because it would increase the taxation. The
ax rate was 81 - on the 500, The precinct of