The herald., 1896-01-19
RIGHTS TO BE CONVEYED
Appear to Be Very Difficult Of Dis
COvery
San Bernardinans Wondering About Carlson q
Railroad Purchase -Hadley Sentenced
and Will Not Appeal

note CnaC people VINO are acquainCeQ
with the situation are wondering what
interest Mr.. Blake has to transfer, in
view Of the fact that there are judg-
ments for about $150,000 pending
against the property, and the people
who are holding the judgments are
only waiting for the statutory six
months to expire, which will cut off
the right to redeem, when they intend
to do something with the road. The
San Diego dispatch said that a deed
had been filed in this city by which
Isaac E. Blake transferred all of the
road to VIM. FL. Carlson, mayor of that
city.
But the aforesaid deed has not yet
been filed in the recorders office. That
is one of the queer things about the
story. However, it seems to have been
lost by the way, as the following dis
patch was received at the recorders Of
flee Thursday, two days ago:
SAN DIEGO, JAM 18th.
Omitted to inclose 81 to cover your
fee for recording deed mailed you per
this afternoons train. Hence have tele.
graphed you money.
WILLIAM H. CARLSON.
And the recorder has 81 carefully put
away waiting for deed which shall be
recorded.
But the interest which Mr.. Carlson
will acquire in the Nevada Southern
road by means of a deed from Isaac E.
Blake is difficult to discover The Ne
vada Southern railroad was sold under
two attachments several months ago,
the property being bid in by K. B. An
derson, who represented r. w. Wood
bury, of Denver, the Atlantic and Pa
Ciic company and other creditors who
had joined in bringing suit. The de-
cree has been given, the judgment
ordered, the road sold, and before Mr..
Blake or any other former stockholder
can sell tho road that Judgment for
$l5O,0OO must be paid, and there are
not many months left in which to do it.
LIGHT SENTENCE
w. S. Hadley will serve a fifteen
months sentence in San Quentin for
negotiating draft for 1925, which he
passed at Redlauds bank, and which
it was proved had not been issued in
the regular method.
The case is a peculiar one. Hadley
is himself an ex-bsnk clerk, and it was
while in this position of trust in an in
stitution in Hillsdale, Mich, that the
opportunity came, and this draft came
into his possession. II that is thu
case, and that is the thory of the prose-
cution, he Was then anticipating a trip
to California as means of prolonging
his life, and took the dgaft for the pur-
pose OF using it should it become abso-
lutely necessary for him to do 80 after
coming west.
This was stated in court this morn
ing by Assistant District Attorney
Sprechsr, and he also said that without
doubt Hadiey expected that the draft
would be taken up and paid by his
relatives, when it arrived in Hillsdale.
But instead of doing SO the prosecu-
ton and conviction followed. Mr..
Sprecher said that in that view Of the
case, he felt it his duty to say that he
thought justice would be subserved by
the inhiction of sentence which would
not be severe.
George B. Cole called attention to
the fact that the jury was out forty
six hours, and then recommended ex-
treme mercy, and with this the case
was left with Judge Campbell. He re-
viewed it, commsnted on Hadley's
previous good character, and ended by
sentencing him to serve fifteen months
in San Quentin. The case will not be
appealed.
NOTES OF THE DAY
The Arrowhead company's stations
on the mountain report to the office in
this city that rain began to fall in tor
rents at p. IN. and is still continuing.
j. M. johnson was arraigned before
Judge Otis this morning on the indict-
ment recently returned by the grand
on h naff oa% I
demurrer, objecting to the indict-
ment on the ground that it stated two
separate acts, and that neither of them
constituted public offense. The case
was argued by attorneys w. A. Harris
of Los Angeles and @. G. Chapman of
this city for the defendant, and by Dis
trict Attorney Daley for the state.
The demurrer was Overruled and John
sons trial set for January %
Word has been received in this city
from President Lloyd of the San Ber-
nardino Electric Light company, who
is now in San Francisco, that he has
s1c3eeded in purchasing the entire
plant of the Electric Light and Power
company, with the exception of the gas
works. This includes the plant at East
Riverside, the lines to the city and
along all its streets, and the incan-
descent plant on G street south of
Third.
Elijah Q. Phelps has filed suit against
Luke Davis for the collection of a note
dated May l, 1894, and given for 5000
w. i. Van Slyke has filed suit against
w. R. Porter, demanding dgment for
$1009.26. On May Ia, 1894, Porter and
Van Slyke executed a note payable to
the Farmers Exchange bank, for $3.50.
Porter as principal and Van Slyke as
surety. The latter subsequently paid
the note, which with interest amounted
to $1009.26, for which amount the suit
is brought.
l. II. Levy. in former years promi-
nent business man of this city, but
since 1877, resident of San Francisco,
died in that city yesterday.
Rosseau J. Wilraot Of Ontario has
filed petition of insolvency, his liza
bilities being $273360, and with no
assets except his homestead which is
valued at $4,000 and mortgaged for
$500.