The herald., 1897-03-20
members stood seven for conviction and

members stood seven for conviction and
five for acquittal.
The Thursday Night club gave anoth-
er Of its social dances at Odd Fellows
hall last night, and the music and the
dance went on till late hour, all pres
ent enjoying themselves to the fullest
extent
The flag contest was decided yesterday
by the comrnittee in favor Of the fourth,
fifth and sixth grades of the Fourteenth
street school. The class is composed Of
nine boys ard sixteen girls, and they will
receive the flag at the hands of Major
Clarkson at his reception at the Lorins
next Monday evening. Misses Lacy.
Hancock and Walters are the teachers
r these three grades. There were three
scholars from each grade.
An anti-expectoration ordinance Is
being prepared to present to the city
trustees at their next meeting.
That it is pretty hard to suit every
one Is again demonstrated in the fact
that many Of the farmers In the Ales
sandro valley are complaining of too
much rain-that 1t Is injuring the bar
ley. While this may be true in SOM
| instances, 1t is pretty evident that a ma
| jority of the ranchers are happy. The
| wet, cool weather is just the thing to
make the wheat stool. A drive out over
| the Perris country, returning by the
| Alessandro valley route, yesterday
| showed to your correspondent the coun-
| try looking more promising as to grain
crops than 1t has Off years.
| Mrs. w. SkaliclSy, who lives on the
| East Side, has applied to N. r. Condee,
clerk of the board of supervisors for
aid She claims to be the wife of tall
| or, who she said, left home with his va
| lise full of samples two weeks ago for
| Perris, and that he had not since been
| heard from. The empty valise was re-
| turned to her by express from Spadra
about one week ago. The woman has
| five children and the family Is in des-
| titute circumstances.
Quite a sensation occurred in River
side late this afternoon. Mrs. Pycke Of
| Los Angeles arrived in the city today
armed with confession that Miss
Waller of Riverside had cohabitated
with Mrs. Pycke's husband. To an Of
| ficer she showed the document signed
| by the girl, at the same time stating that
| she had horsewhipped the girl after the
paper was signed. The girl has sworn
| out a warrant for the arrest of the wo-
| man, claiming she had been forced to
| sign the confession at the point of a six
| shooter, and that the woman had horse
whipped her afterward. Mrs. Pycke's
| husband is a member Of the firm of
| Pycke, Bleekman & Co., of Omaha, fruit
| shippers, who had an office for awhile
| in this city during the rush in fruit buy
| ig, but now has an office in Los Angeles.
| 1t is said that Mrs. Pycke has had pri-
vate detective in Los Angeles employed
| on the case for some time, and that the
| detective made two visits to Riverside
The claim of Mrs. Pycke is that the girl
had been making semi-weekly visits to
Los Angeles to visit her husband. This
| is denied, however, by parties who claim
that the girl accused has not been away
| from Riverside for the past year and a
| half. Mrs. Pycke with her baby and
| nurse were seen to get into buggy and
| drive away this afternoon and took the
3:30 train for Los Angeles. Arriving at
Orange the party was stopped by an Of
| ficer and brought back to Riverside. A
| hearing of the case will be had tomor-
row.