Los Angeles herald., 1892-03-08
REDLANDS.
NOTES ABOUT THE COMING CITY
ELECTION.
A Lively Time Expected-Some of the
Candidates and Their Qualifications.
Notes and Personals.
Special Correspondence to the HERALD. |

1sEDLANOo, lsldICA
The excitement over the election to
take place on April 18th has now full
swing. The Citizens convention will
take place at the Academy of Music on
Monday night and it will be the liveliest
one ever experienced in this place.
There are two places on the board of
trustees to be filed, as well as the Offices
of city marshal, city clerk and city
treasurer. Messrs. Sinclair and Glover,
the retiring members of the board have
declared they will not accept renom-
ination. j. N. F. Diss, one of our best
known citizens is being pushed by his
friends for the nomination to fill one of
the vacancies. A better nomination
could not be made and judging from the
hearty support he is receiving, he will
no doubt act on our board for the COM.
ing two years. There are eight as.
pirants for the Office of marshal, and
there is where the fight will lie on Mon
day night. j. w. Baker seems to be
the most popular for that position. L.
w. CLARK, the present city clerk, and F.
P. Morrison, the present city treasurer,
will have no opposition.
THE SAFE BLOWING.
A bold attempt was made at o'clock
this morning to rob the safe of the
Southern California Railway company
at the Santa Fe depot. At the time
above mentioned Steve Kendall, the
night policeman, heard loud report.
and judging it to have been in the
neighborhood of the depot he made
hasty tracks in that direction, but when
he reached there everything seemed to
have the usual appearance and no one
was to be seen. On returning he was
met by Ed. Andrews, and seeing raised
window in the ticket Office, and hearing
some little noise Kendall approached, at
the came time saying, hello there" and
pointed his pistol. He had no
sooner uttered words than for his
answer he received the report of pistol
in the hands of some one on the in
side, the fellow at the same time saying,
"you - -" Kendall also COM
menced shooting into the darkened
room and nine shots were fired, four
from Kendall and five from the intruder,
the last one of the latter striking the
officer on the back of the head luckily,
glancing off.
This stunned the officer, and he fell
to the floor. Andrews being unarmed |
was close behind Kendall when the
first shot was fred, and states he could |
feel the whiz of the bullet as it passed |
by him. He Immediately summoned |
assistance from the building close by,
but before he was back the robber had |
made his escape through the side doors |
of the depot. A hole had been drilled |
in the main door of the safe, and with |
the assistance of powder it was blown
eight feet, across the room, and landed |
in the large ticket case, smashing the
case all to pieces, and scattering tickets
and Office utensils in all directions. A
large amount of powder must have been
used, as the door is broken into dozen
different parts. 1t is supposed that
after the fuse had been lighted the
would-be robber had left the building to
watch developments, as the window
was down when Kendall first made the
examination, and strapped bundle of
steel drills and braces of handsome
make were found in the lumber yard !
about 200 feet away later on this morn
ing. The safe was new one, and had
only been in the Office three days, and |
had never been opened, as the combina-
ton sent from the manufacturers was
the wrong one, 30 that should an en-.
trance have been gained through the
inner door, nothing would have reward
ed the daring thief. The wound of
Kendall was dressed by DIR. Riggs. who |
was Immediately summoned. Kendall |
thinks there were two men in the place |
at the time of the shooting, as he heard
q noise in another part of the Office as
though SEINE one was going out.
NOTES.
Gen. and Mrs. Leonard J. Ross, OF
Sioux City, Iowa, have been the guests
of their first cousin, Mrs. H. H. Day,
for some days at the Sloan house. They
are high in their praise of Redlands and
will invest in an olive orchard. Mr..
Ross is wealthy cattle man of Iowa,
and has some large farms there.
Engineer James Tay ior, of Alessandro,
was over Friday and completed arrange
ments where the contract tor lining tun-
mel No. 1, at that place, was let. Charles
Leonard, of Los Angeles, received the
contract. The cost OF the Improvements
will be about $4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. P. Meserve will visit
the citrus fair on Monday.
The Windsor hotel has put on hand
some new bus.