The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-25
LARGE SUMS SUBSCRIBED
Eminent Attorneys to Lead the
= Fight in the Supreme
Court.
PLANT OF ALEssANDRO MEN
In a Bitter Mood Over the way
the Districts Affairs We're
Managed.

SAN DEMANDING, CAL, Aug. "a
As the time approaches for the Supreme
Court of the United States TO pass upon
the recent decision of Judge Ross, which
declared the Wright act unconstitutional
and therefore null and void, there is an
unusual amount of quiet work being done
=" in the surrounding irrigation dlstrlcts 10
have the decision sustained. Robert
Berry of Moreno is in the city to-day, and
as one of the directors OF the lessandro
:. irrigation district did not hesitate to say
= that not only in his particular district but
in many others the feeling against the
:present system was so strong that active
:. measures were being taken to use every
j.: means possible to present the side OF the
Observation-Disclosures before the Supreme
=: Court. in the hopes that it would have due
weight in sustaining Judge Ross decision.
So far has this opposition gone that
eminent attorneys have been retained to
represent the landowners as against the
districts when the hearing comes up before
the Supreme Court. To meet the expenses
of such a fight popular subscriptions are
now being secured, and at a meeting held
this week a Defense Club was organized
and over $4,000 subscribed toward the nee
essary expenses. This move was followed
by similar one at Moreno, where A. ].
Condee headed the list with $1,000.
The Alessandro irrigation district, in
which Moreno is situated, is in bitter
mood over the manner in which it has
been treated, and is ready to make the
strongest kind of fight to get out of the
tolls which have been wound around it.
After this district was organized it turned
over to the Bear Valley Company $765, 900
= ln.bonds and received in return contract
60. to have 5000 inches of water delivered on
the district. These bonds were all sold by
the Bear Valley Company, the cash frit-
tered away-no one knows how or where
and thus far the Alessandro people have
received but 900 inches of water. For this
misery flow 81 per acre is paid annually
to the Bear Valley Company, while the
local assessments are fully So an acre more,
with nothing to show for it.
This is making the propertY-owners
.wrathy and they are willing to spend even
more money to free themselves of the load
TREY are now carrying.
HADLETS ALLEGED FORGERY.
.: .Hotc the A ccassed Rott,ig Han Is SaSd to
SAN BERNARDTNO, CAL, Aug. "a
Cashier de Fleur of the Hillsdale Bank of
:: Hllsdale, Mich, will appear against w. S.
Hadley at the preliminary hearing next
Friday at Redlands. In regard to the
forged draft Mr.. de Fleur says the case is
somewhat mysterious throughout. For
three years previous to coming to Cali
fornia Hadley was employed in the Hills
dale Bank.
In 1892 the $500 draft was drawn in favor
of j. S. West and on the National Park
Bank Of New York, but was cashed in a
few days by West and Immediately can
celed, stamped, paid and put away with
other Cancelled drafts in the vault. On
May it appeared again at Hillsdale Bank
with the date changed from July, 1892, to
February IA, 1885, the cancellation marks
: covered with fine tissue paper and the paid
mark erased.
.Hadley left Hillsdale for California some
time in November or December, 1894 and
claims he got the draft from one Joe
Brown at Los Angeles, who claimed to be
a former resident of Hillsdale. How the
draft got out of the vault is mystery at
present. Hadley, it IS claimed, worked
very smoothly, depositing the draft on the
1st of April, knowing it would be month
before the bank in New York would settle
with the Hillsdale bank