The herald., 1897-10-28
SAN BERNARDlNO COUNTY
SAN BERN NARDINO

| SAN BERNARDINO, Oct 27.-(Reg-
ular Correspondence The once ia
| nous Desert Queen mine that threat
ened to flood the courts with litigation,
has been laid away to rest. Attorneys
| G. B. Cole and b. Il. Bledsoe being the
pail bearers and Judge Campbell the
sexton at the last sad rites. This was
in the form Of a suit brought by George
Simons against James McHaney to
compel the latter to acknowledge him as
one of the proprietors of the then sup
posed bananza. The mine pinched out
and is merely a useless hole in the
ground, and when this suit was dis
missed it closed the history of the Des-
ert Queen, over which columns of praise
have been written. 1t is possible there
is "freeze-out" in closing the mine and
that when all outside claims are dropped
it may be reopened with its former sue
cess
The employment of Attorney T. c.
Chapman against the old soldier. Fl. j.
Allison, in the latter's suit to retain his
position of janitor at the high school on
the grounds of being a veteran of the
war, has brought to light copy of AS
sembly bill No. 36. presented at the last
legislature, which was drawn up by Mr..
Chapman at the request of the G. A. r.
post, intending to secure such places for
veterans and prevent their discharge ex-
cept for incompetency. That Mr.. Chap
man, himself an officer of the G.. A. r.
post, should fight against an old soldier
on the same grounds against which the
bill was aimed is causing considerable
feeling and it is probable he may be
called up before the post to explain.
In bringing in the verdict at the in
quest over the killing of Abitia at Chino,
the jury tried to avoid an expression of
opinion as to whether the man killed
himself or was killed by some other per-
son. Coroner Keating refused to re-
ceive the verdict and the next day the
jury added to it said wound was in
flicted by the hands of one Luis Ortego."
The case was plain enough but the jury
evidently feared the friends of the
murderer.
Arthur Bull has filed on 100 inches of
water flowing in the Blum canyon, di-
verted about 500 feet above the upper
falls and located on the northeast quar-
ter of section ~, township l north,
range west. The water is to be used
for irrigatng the land of section 26 OF
same township and range.
Myron Simmons has filed on 16O inches
of water flowing above and below the
surface in what is known as Oak Spring
canyon, to be diverted about $50 yards
up the canyon and used on 100 acres of
land at the mouth of the canyon.
In the first half of the last series of
games in the duplicate whist contest at
the Arrowhead club the games We're
tie and the last half will be watched
with interest to see which will prove the
champion team. The players are Judge
Gregg, Judge Oster, James Fleming and
]. B. Parazette. A challenge has been
received from Redlands to play the
winning team a championship game.
A small house belonging to A. d. Bed
ford located on F street near Base Line
avenue was burned Tuesday evening
about 8 o'clock. 1t was unoccupled at
the time and the loss was light.
The norther Tuesday evening kept the
users of electric lights in alternate light
and darkness as the swinging wires
would give out an alternating current
that was annoying for fear it might put
out the lights entirely, but this did not
happen.
Ex-Governor Joseph p. Gill left Tues
day for his home at Murphysboro, ILL.,,
on business, leaving his wife and child
here with her parents. Mr.. Gill expects
to be away until about Christmas when
he hopes to arrange his business so he
can make his home here permanently.
Manager Carruthers Of the Rialto
Canaigre company has followed his at
torney, Judge Henderson, and gone
home to Iowa. He leaves his family for
the winter, but whether he intends to
return or not is unknown.
AS James Brown, well known ranch
er living beyond Cajon pass, was out
on his horse Wednesday morning near
the railroad, a train came along that
frightened his horse, which fell over
backward upon its rider, knocking him
senseless and breaking one leg. The
trainmen saw the occurrence but did not
stop to render any assistance, but noti-
fled a train coming down to look out for
the man. The trainmen tried to and saw
Mr.. Brown still lying unconscious where
he was thrown, but the train was on
such a down grade it could not be
stopped until too far away to render
any assistance, and it was impossible
to back up the grade. The injured man
was afterward found and cared for.