Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-18
SOMETHING WILL DROP.
THE FAMOUS REDLANDS LIQUOR
CASES ON TRIAL.
The Community Deeply Stirred Over the
Question-Preparation of Redlands for
the Citrus Fair-Miss Florence Blythe
Visits the Famed Foothill City.

REDLANDs, CAL, Feb. 17.-[Special to
the HERALD. 1.-The second of the locally
famous liquor cases commenced this
morning before Justice Camp. The
news of the acquittal of Druggist Stewart
the evening before, after the jury had
been out only four and one-half minutes
was sufficient to pack the court room.
Judge G. w. Rowell and John Brown,
jr., of San Bernardino, and Judge @. E.
Truesdell of Redlands, appeared for Drs.
Rigg and Spoor, the defendants, and
District Attorney Fording was assisted
by Mr.. Evans in the prosecution. The
forenoon was spent in securing jury.
In the afternoon, Howard Hisson, Priv
ate Detective Burgess, of Los Angeles, Ed
Andrews, a clerk in Riggs & Spoor's
drug store, and City Trustee H. H. Sim
clair were called as witnesses for the
prosecution. Very little evidence of
any material consequence had been OBJ
tanned from them when court adjourned.
The trial will be resumed tomorrow
morning at 8 80 O'Clock. There is con-
siderable feeling among all classes on
this question, and the end is hardly in
view, even with the disposition of the
cases at issue. Something, it is inti-
mated, is bound to drop as the result of
this prosecution.
Manager Hoag and the finance COM
mittee having in charge the Redlands
exhibit at the Cotton and Los Angeles
citrus fairs are working day and night,
with excellent results. Redlands, hav-
ing secured first premium for artistic
display at the state fair in Los Angeles
a year ago, feels that she has
nothing further to gain in that direc-
tion this year, and will compete purely
on the merit of her fruit, both at Los
Angeles and Cotton. The fruit for the
Cotton exhibit is being selected, and ar
rangements have been made to ship it
straight to the fair building, thereby
doing away with unnecessary carriage.
growers will go down to Cotton to ar
range the exhibit. Mr.. Hoag is desir-
GUS that all growers who can convent
and put in an appearance. The finance
$500 toward their guarantee fund, and
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J. B. Menasco, of Haas, Baruch q
Co., of Los Angeles. is registered at the
Sloan house.
A party from Redlands parlor, No.
1853, N. S. G. W., went to San Bernar-
dino this evening, accompanying J.
Wallace F. Diss, d. D. G.. P. at large, for
this county, who went to pay an official
visit to Arrowhead parlor, of the county
seat.
Mr.. Dyer, Riverside banker, and
party OF friends came up from Riverside
this morning and were driven about the
city for several hours. The party in
cluded Mrs. Dyer, DIR. r. III. Mcdonald
of San Francisco, and last, but by no
means least, even in such company of
moneyed people, Miss Florence Blythe,
the celebrated heiress of the muchly-
contested Blythe estate.
The war between the Santa Fe and
Southern Pacific roads over the latter's
extension from Redlands to Grafton,
which seemed to have been ended by the
recent decision OF Judge Campbell of
San Bernardino, sprang into renewed
life this morning. Two days ago the
court dissolved the Santa Fe injunction
and ordered that company to tear up the
tracks which had been laid to obstruct
the progress of the Southern Pacific line,
and the Santa Fe obtained stay OF
execution until this morning at 7
O'Clock, when it pulled up the
tracks, and engineer Tasheira, of the
Southern Pacific commenced building
and laid track for an hour and half,
when he was stopped by an Injunction
granted by the attorney general of the
state, and the hearing was set for 10
O'Clock tomorrow morning, before Judge
Cape of Santa Barbara, sitting in place
of Judge Campbell. The Santa .Fe
people have claimed all along that the
line over which the Southern Pacific
road wac building, was not street. The
new injunction was granted on the plea
that the road is on street, but is
nuisance.
Details for the disposition of the crop
of the Orange-growers association Of
Redlands are being contaminated by
the committee of management, consist
ing of F. p. Morrison, Charles sR. Paine
and George III. Lea.
Invitations age out for an assembly at
Terracina hotel the night Of Washing
toms birthday.
w. P. Mcintosh, J. w. Fisher, John
T. Jones, A. B. Russell and ]. E. Whit
Of Los Angeles, are registered at the
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