The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-04
SAN BERNARD|NO MATTERS
A Search for a Dying Man in
Cajon Pass
HE IS SICK AND STARVING
Mysterious Surveyors Cause Talk Of
New Railroad
A Very Sad Case Of Destitution and Suffer-
ing-Worls Done at the Creamery.
Local Notes of Interest

day afternoon poor consumptive was dis
covered in a cabin III Cajon Pass, fifteen
miles from this CITY, actually dying of
hunger. He had become SO weak from
the effects of the disease and from lack If
food that he could scarcely speak and
was unable to move. The poor fellow was
found by chance, lady who was stroll
ing in the mountains happening upon
the hit. For days he has been subsistlI
upon the cactus fruit and was then SO
weak he could scarcely drag himself out
to procure even that article OF food.
The man is German, who is an inva.
lid from that fatal disease consumption.
he had gone up to the mountains in
search OF health, with the hope that is
always present in the breast of one
afflicted with that disease, and had erect
ed in his stronger moments rude hut
to shelter him and endeavored to pro-
cure in one way or another the simple
necessaries to keep life In hin, depend
ing upon the pure mountain all to re-
store his wasted strength and hoping
agaisnt hope that he would :come down
to the plains again in erfect health.
AS is usually the case, his hope was a
delusive one and ho became weaker and
weaker until he founu himself unable
to procure even the most necessary arti-
cles of food, and in his hunger be turned
to the cacti which grew around him
and endeaovred to sustain life on them,
for he was now SO weak from actual star
walton that he could not reach his near.
est neightor to make his wants known;
the end had almost arrived when the
uys, anti tom havn noI <nr hat
way and discovered the wan and ema-
ciated form of the starving man.
She was too poor herself to take him to
her house and care for him, SO she bast-
ensd to the city and reported the case
and Supervisor Newberg at once had a
hack procured and persons sent up to in
vestigats and bring the starving man
down to the hospital.
But the m eSsengers were not familiar
with the locality and could not find the
cabin. They searched for him last night.
finally returning 10 the city. Another
conveyance was dispatched today and one
of the party SAID he knows where the
CABIN is and that he would return with
the sick man tonight. A.
MYSTERIOUS SURVEYS.
A party of surveyors has been at work
west and southwest OF the city since Fri
day, and their movements are clothed
with SO much secrecy that no small
amount of curiosity has been aroused.
The party is under the direction of James
Taylor, a civil engineer Of Los Angeles
and Riverside, and the members of the
party refues to say anything that will give
clue to the object OF the surveys being
made.
1t may be in connection with rail-
road. bnt more probably some water
proposition that is to be developed. Two
hundred inches of water from I.ytle creek
are available a short distance below this
city, and it is thought that pla" is on
foot to convey this water to the lands at
West Riverside.
WORK IN THE CREAMERY.
Another month has closed with Its
round of the work done at the creamery
and the prices obtained for the butter,
ana it is an excellent one for that insti-
tuition.
On the first of the month they were
paying 80 cents per LOG pounds of 4 per
cent milk, with butter at % cents, whole
sale. Butter sells at 80 cents per pound.
hence the October price was $l.0S per loo
pounds of per cent milk.
The average daily receipts of milk the
preceding month were HOO pounds, while
through October the daily receipts were
1900 pounds. -
1t is said that the wet lands in this vi
entity are the best dairy country in the
United States. They give fresh fodder in
great variety che year round, while at
the east they only have few months of
fresh fodder and the first of the year they
feed dry. In consequence of this the milk
tests on the average show over AS per
cent of butter. This is the largest show
ing OF any creamery in the United States.
showing that we have here the richest
milk in the country. A Santa Ana, San
Jacinto and other creameries do not
show as high as even 4 per cent, the
figure the company selected as standard
to measure by.
This shows enc of two things, or per-
haps both are true. The Introduction in
this valley of Jersey and Holstein stock
has raised the grade of COWS to a more
valuable figure as regards the quality of
the milk. or the feed on the rich moist
lands Is better than elsew here, perhaps
both are true.
One feature of the gain by the cream
cry business is that in consequence the
price of cows has just doubled in the
short. time the institution has been run
ming, as it is found that with ready
and steady market for the milk COWS are
to be very much more valuable than be-
fore.