The herald., 1895-09-23
SAN BERNARDINO NEWS
The Defaulting Attorneys Friends and
Relations Busy
Claims to Be Settled and Criminal Proceedings
Avoded-A Chess Game and
Desert Wind


effort is being made on the part OF the
friends ami relatives of Attorney E. Z.
Rowell to settle all the claims against
him and avoid crimin proceedings.
His breaches of trust happened to be dis
closed by new discoveries. The first trans
actions with Mrs. Sarah Hinckley were
settled and husiei up, all the parties
concerned having given pledges OF secrecy.
which were faithfully kept. True, his
mothers home was sacrificed, but the sac
rifice was made without a murmur, and
the public would never have learned of 1t
except that notes bearing Mrs. Sarah G..
Hinckley's name appeared which she de-
clared to be forgeries, and these facts be-
came known Thursday afternoon.
Whether it will be possible to settle the
notes which are pronounced forgeries is
"a question which no one can answer.
Rowell stood high at the bar in this
city, and if he could overcome his weak
ness for the gaming table could COM
mand a position that would work his
fortune. Not long since he formed law
partnership with Judge Arson Brunson,
late OF Los Angeles, and the firm has
case in court during tle year.
Judge Brunson, Rowell's partner, left
for the coast at 0:40 a. m. yesterday, but
before going related to friend how
Rowell by his dissipation had lost the
biggest fee which ever came to him.
About six weeks ago Judge Brunson
started to Kern county on hunting trip.
At Los Angeles he met A. 6. Hubbard of
Redlands, who remarked: You are just
the man / want to see," and then told
him that all the parties in interest were
preparing to foreclose on the Bear VAL
ley company. II want you to draw up
the complaint" said Hubbard. Brunson
said it would take at least ten days to get
together the facts on which to base the
com plant. aid continued: IN tele-
graph for Rowell, have him get the ia It's,
and come back in ten days and draw up
agreed upon. The counsel in the case on
behalf of the English creditors is Will
liam ]. Hunsaker. chief counsel for the
Southern California, but the Britishers
deferred to Mr.. Hubbard in the cnoice of
additional counsel.
Roweil was telegrapned for, arrived the
next morning and received his instrut-
tons from Judge Brunson. who then
started north. Rowell looked several
times too often on the flowing bowl,
making a spectacle of himself. His con-
duct was noticed by the creditors, and
they unanimously dropped the finn Of
Brunson g. RoweIl from the case. Brun-
son knew nothing of the dismissal until
he returned to Los Angeles.
WE BEAT EN-.
The San Bernardino chessmen yester-
day succeeded in making draw on the
sixty eighth move in a friendly match at
the King of games with the pest player
in California. G. f. Pierce of the Los An
geles Athletic club. In the first game
they beat him on the thirty-fourth move.
These matches were begun about five
months ago, and the moves were made by
postal cards. Under the rules, forty
eight hours after the receipt of the card
were allowed for a move. This gave am.
pie time for exercise of scientific knowl-
edge OF the game and did not interfere
with the vocations of the players. f. ".
Richardson, e. n. Buck, L. r. Annabls
and c. c. Haskell were the team at the
start. but after the game progressed Has
KEEL and Annable had charge. As leader
opposed to them was G. +. Pierce, who j.
reckoned as having no superior in thi.
state as chess player, and the local mer
have reason to felicitate themselves upor
having beaten him once and made draw
in the second match.
ZEPHYRS FROM THE DESERT.
Yesterday was decidedly breezy. Old
timers stood on the street corners wher.
ever they could find protection and dis
cussed similar breezes OF older days, and
all agreed that yesterday was a star day
for Old Maa Boreas.
Down at Rochester they had what tb,
! cheap theater man would call ''dou biz
+, bill" A brush fire up in the focthill,
and iorty-knot breeze to push it dowi
town. SO that the people decided like thu
Irish peasantry, cheaper to move than t,
stay and make repairs, and moved out
A bout $3.50. when the evening zephyr hat
| quieted down so that it would not ruff
| o lock of Rialto whiskers. the Rochester
| folks carried over few buckets of water
pu. the fire out and moved back home
| again.
In Highland they say it was this bigges
wind ON record. Every body had to stol
irrigating because the wind was in tn
wrong direction and the water ran bacl
up into the mountains. Some of the or
chards out there had few limbs broker
off, but no serious damage was dune. For
! tunateiy arrangements had been made be
| forehand, so that the wiEd was too lat
to hurt deciduous fruits and was playing
too early date for the citrus varieties, 81
nobody lost cent.