The herald., 1896-02-20
LICENSE OR NO LICENSE
Is the Question the Riverside Citizens
Want Solved
Bush Gets q Modification OF Sentence The
Ranchers Are Praying for Rain.
Fine Fruit Specimens

RIVERSIDE, Feb. 19.-Before the meet
ing of the city trustees yesterday the
question of submitting to vote Of the
people at the coming city election the
question of license or no license for
saloons was discussed here and there,
but now it is being discussed every
where, and there is but one opinion
with the great majority. That is that
the question should be submitted, thus
allowing men to be placed before the
people for trustees unhampered by the
issue. A number of attorneys have
been consulted as to the legality of
placing the question upon the regular
ticket, and all gave it as their opinion
that it would in no way invalidate the
election of officers. There are very
few found, in fact only one out Of
about fifty, who are opposed to the
submission of the question to square
vote of the people. The ones consult
ed were about equally divided on the
question of saloons or no saloons, as
we're those who placed their names to
the petition presented to the trustees
yesterday asking its submission.
MODIFIED PUNISHMENT.
The cause Of the city vs. Il. J. Bush
came up in the superior court yester-
day afternoon, and w. A. Purington,
city attorney, appearing and consent
ing that the sentence and Judgment of
the recorders court may be modified
in this particularly striking out
that portion OF the Judgment and sem
tence ordering the defendant to be con-
fined in jail for thirty days, and that
tho fine he reduced from $3.50 to $12O
An attachment was placed on the
French American restaurant on
Seventh street, today, by Constable
Burrell, on claim in favor of George
Beam, wholesale liquor dealer, San
Bernardino.
County Superintendent Hyatt went
out into the county today to visit
schools.
Thoss who heard Rev. G. E. Garst
yesterday evening at the United Breth-
rem church, Oh Scotland, were very
highly entertained. Mr.. Garet is a
, pleasant speaker, and his lecture was
very instructive.
The reports as to the prospects of
grain and hay crops coming III from
throughout the county are not encour-
aging, unless rain should come in a
, very few days. A good soaking rain
| Just now would insure fair crops.
City Marshal Wilson ia circulating a
petition to have his name placed upon
the ticket at the approaching city elec-
tion. No opposition to Mr.. Wilson has
yet developed.
PRESIDENT Frost of the city trustees,
| ha ~ hof dv,v
terday, called attention to a piece of
vandalism which should not be repeat
ed, and that is the setting fire to orna-
mental trees on Magnolia avenue.
It is understood that the insurance
on the 4. r. Skelley packing house and
machinery destroyed by fire Monday
night will be adjusted today. The
companies represented by Lettey &
Goodhue. agents aere, carry the whole
of the insurance.
| There is magnificent bunch of grape
fruit in the window of the Riverside
Fruit exchange rooms. There are forty
two on the bunch, and the whole weighs
fully thirty-flve pounds. They were
| raised on three-year-old tree on the
place of George FL. Dole of this valley
! There is another cluster of seven,
weighing fully pound each, from the
same orchard.
Those who desire to see fine navel
oranges, and of the kind Riverside has
yet fully, 1000 carloads, can be
gratified without going to the packing
houses or to the orchard by stopping
in front of the fruit exchange building
and viewing some picked from the or
chard OF l.. G. Waite on Iowa avenue.
Invitations are out for the wedding
of Robert J. Spooner and Miss Nettie
P. Waite, at Calvary Presbyterian
church. Saturday, February 22d, at
2:3O pm.
Foreman N. Il. Simpson, with J. A.
Fairuhild, the contractor who paved
several blocks in Riverside recently
with asphaltum, ia here and erecting q
plant on the vacant lot ON the bloek
between Eighth and Ninth and Main
and Orange streets, with which to pre-.
pare asphaltum to repair the broken
places in the paved streets where the
old street car line was taken up, and at
other points where the ground was soft