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in the chest, knocking him senseless.
Stewart raised his companion up, when
the horse kicked him on the leg, cutting
to the bone. The horse did not try to
run but kept on kicking until George
Lauterborn came along and held the
horse till they could get out of it's way.
The wounded men were taken to the
hospital and their wounds dressed.
Smith was unconscious for over an
hour and it is feared he is injured Sc
verely internally.
A fight between three guests and the
landlord of the Ackerman house about
8 o'clock Monday evening made things
lively for a few minutes and landed
one of the guests, after he was we'll
pounded by the butt of revolver in the
hands of the irate landlord, in the Jail
for the night.
Byron Waters arrived Monday from
San Francisco to attend to little law
business. He reports that the stories
of his having left the employ of the
Southern Pacific company to be irrele-
vent, immaterial immature and not
founded on fact, as he is still the official
claim adjuster of the great road. He,
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he may resign and go back to his first
love-the law-and locate in San
Francisco.
DR.. ]. r. Pratt and family have arrived
from Wichita, Kansas, to make San
Bernardino their future home.
c. H. Mattingly is in Los Angeles to-
day engaged in getting out papers for
a big damage suit for a client.
Miss Leoti Sweesy came home from
her visit to Pasadena Monday and
Tuesday morning left for Dale City
with her father, Col. CIV. Sweesy, to
take up her residence there. The Leoti
mine, named after her, is one of the
richest in the district.
Attorneys C. c. Haskell and e. r.
Annable have commenced proceedings
in the suit of Sumner Wright VS. the
East Riverside irrigation district, look
ing to knock out the district unless the
defendant makes a compromise and
buys them off as it has done before in
similar cases. There are suits similar
to this one comprising about 1000 acres
and it is thought the time for compro-
mise is past. The district has been an
octupus that has ruined many families,
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istence better times are expected.
The first blood has been scored by
the board of education in it's suit with
II. j. Allison over the janitorship of the
high school. Allison, who is veteran
of the late war, claimed that the board
could not discharge him under the law
passed in 1891. The defense took a
general demurrer which was argued last
week, and Monday the decision was
handed down in banc, that the office of
janitor was not one to come under the
provisions of that law, as it was not a
state position, although portion of the
state school moneys went towards pay
ing him. The demurrer was sustained
and the plaintiff will now appeal to the
supreme court.
A petition for letters of administra-
tion on the estate of George w. Wentz,
who died suddenly Oct. 20, was filed
Monday by Public Administrator John
Taylor, who claims the estate to con-
sist of pair of horses, harness and
wagon, valued at $125; watch $40. cash
$50, and several accounts aggregating
about 5000, of unknown value. The
nearest relatives are four cousins, Mrs.
Millie Curtis of Eldorado, Cal; w. l..
Hammaker, of Findlay, o.; Emanuel
WentZ, of Delta o.; and Reuben Wentz
of Tedrow, o.
The rainfall Saturday night amounted
to .36 of an inch. making the total rain
fall to date 223 inches. There was but
little damage to the raisin crop from
this storm.