Los Angeles herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1890-1893, 1891-11-08
Serious Trouble Over Com
plicated Land Matters.
p. G. TOnner and DR.. Nichols
Roundly Denounced.
Proceedings at the Mass Meeting Held
Last Night.
A Detailed Statement of the Trouble and
Its Origin-Great Excitement Last
Evening = Bitter Resolutions
Unanimously Adopted,
Special to the HERALD.

Special to the HERALD.
POMONA, Nov. This afternoon ane
tonight has seen more excitement thar
ever was before felt in this lively town
This afternoon Mr.. Tonner disappeared
but committee found DIR. Nichols and
called on Linn at the appointed hour
WITCH was 8 o'clock. He was asked to
meet the committee Of 200, but reso-
iuteiy declined, though he was offered
safe conduct.
This evening early, masses OF people
commenced moving in the direction oil
the opera. house, which was filled from
stage to dome with solid mass of ex-
cited, almost frenzied, humanity. The
spirit Of revenge was abroad. A feeling
that dishonest, cruel act towards hon
est humanity had been committed
seemed to animate each man. Every
body was serious, determined and grim,
and throughout all the excitement, all
the feeling of outraged Justice. the level
headedness characteristic of Americans
kept at bay the savage desire that those
guilty of the act that caused all the
feeling should be summarily punished.
Mr.. 0. ]. Brown called the meeting
to order andJ. V. Packard, on behalf of
the committee which had been APP
pointed to see Tonner and Nichols, re-
ported as follows:
"We went to the Office OF DIR. Nichols
at the appointed times O'Clock this
afternoon. DIR. Nichols met us by say
ing that if we had any demand to make
we might as we'll retire at once. How
ever, we did make the demand that he
should do what was right-what was
just between man and man. He would
not give US any satisfaction whatever,
and after some further conference we
asked him if he thought the deed to
Burr was right thing. He answered
that he did, and that in his opinion it
was for the best interests of the general
public.
"He was asked if he considered Ton
ner's claim good. He replied that at
first he thought that the claim was a
swindle, but that lately he had been
assured by some attorneys that Tonner
might be able to get it sustained by the
courts.
"We asked DR.. Nichols what conside-
ration Mr.. Burr paid for the land con-
veyed to him by the deed, but to this
the doctor would not reply, nor would
he give us any satisfaction. The doctor
added that his correspondence with
Mr.. Burr was personal matter and had
not been brought before the board OF
directors of the Pomona Land and Water
company"
Other members of the committee cor
roborated the report, which had intensi-
fed the excitement.
One speaker asked "Who is back oil
Tonner in this matter?" and man in
the audience replied "Old Nick" This
reference to the doctor elected storm
of cheers and laughter.
Mr.. Cogswell moved that it was the
sense of the meeting, that all moneys
paid to Tonner by land owners had been
fraudulently obtained and should be re-
turned. This was noisily and unani-
mously passed.
The committee on resolutions then re.
ported q singing document. The de-
tails of the case were recited and the
proceedings so far had. The substance
of this expression of opinion was that
the community condemn and denounce
the conspiracy of DR.. Nichols, B. G.
Tonner and Mrs. Palomares as a base
conspiracy against the real owners o.
the land involved in the Pomona valley
and characterized it as an attempt tc
levy blackmail.
The resolutions could not have beer
written in more bitter style against
the parties above named or against the
Pomona Land and Water company.
After the resolutions were adopted, by
order of the meeting two kilograms
were sent off. One was addressed to Mr.
Burr. 1t recited the trouble which had
arisen from the conveyance to him by
Tonner, and asked him to have the lane
covered by TONER'S deed conveyed
back to the real owners. 1t was signif
cantly added that, in default of thil