The herald., 1897-11-03
SAN BERNARDiN0 COUNTY
SAN BERNARDINO

SAN BERNARDINO. Nov. 2.-(Regu-
| lar Correspondence The resignation
of N c. Bledsoe as teacher of the sew
enth grade in the Fourth street school
to accept a position in the Los Angeles
schools caused vacancy that was filled
Monday night by the board Of education
by transferring Mr.. Kraemer from the
third, fourth and fifth grades of the
Metcalf school and replacing him by
Mrs. Belle Williams. In the Fourth and
F street schools the first grade is so
crowded that each teacher has about 60
pupils, and it was proposed to have half
attend in the morning and half in the
afternoon, but after discussion it was
decided to send a portion of the little
folks to other schools where there is
more room. Those of the Fourth to &c
to the B street house and those of the F
street to the Ninth street. Thanksgiv-
ing will be celebrated in the city schools
| by a vacation on Thursday and Friday
of that week, and the Christmas holi-
days will extend from December II to
January 8, period of two weeks.
According to the county treasurer's
report the expenses for the last month
We're $2S,090.77, while the receipts were
but S3,S5S40. The amount of money in
the treasury is sS9,OS7.39, divided up as
follows: Gold, s34O0; silver 1926. 20; cur
rency, $4,000; certificates of deposit and
warrants, S3,392.19.
In the report of the county hospital
there appears the death of only one
man, but that one has been somewhat
noted since his arrival from the east
with a wife and three children looking
for health. The family were in very
poor circumstances, the man being
victim of consumption, and shipped out
here by physician as last resort, ar
irving without money and dependent
upon the neighbors and veterans of the
G.. A. r. The wife, about to become
mother, broke down and became mildly
insane and was sent to the asylum,
where she gave birth to a babe and then
died. The children were sent to friends
at the east and the father placed in the
county hospital, where death finally
closed his sad career.
The expense of running the county
hospital last month was $S6116, being
cost for each patient of 391s cents per
day, while there was expended in per-
manent improvements $S36.40. The
number of patients at the beginning of
the month was g.; admitted, 90; died, l;
discharged, 13; remaining, 70. The to-
tai number of days, 2029.
The INDECENT list of county wards for
the last month was IS, who were paid
$140 in cash, and 81, who were paid
$46550 in merchandise, making a total
of rs indigents that cost S605.50, or a
trife over IS each.
There We're but q prisoners in the
county Jail during October, to whom 5O6
meals were served at an expense of
$685. There are but few hobos lodged
there yet.
Owing to the apparent success of the
asphalting process on the Fourth street
bridge, which is also to be put on the
bridge over the Cucamonga wash at the
winery, the board of supervisors con-
cluded to have the Cotton avenue bridge
given coat, and also the bridge across
the Lytle wash about 600 feet to the west
of the Fourth street bridge, and also on
a short bridge over the Cucamonga
wash about a mile from the other.
Lugarda c. Abitia, the wife of the
Mexican murdered at Chino recently
by Ortego, is being cared for with her
ldiiiy ny tHe COUNTY Willie waiting tO go
on the stand as a witness at the trial.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed for the Upland Citrus association
with the principal place Of business at
North Ontario, and the following di-
rectors: N. w. Hawkinson, w. b. Stew
art, II. ID. Blakeslee, Il. X. Brant and
j. N. Huehn. The object of the associa-
tion is to secure the uniform picking,
handling, grading and packing of the
citrus fruit of the members and it's mar
keting to the best advantage
Mrs. Amanda Webb and Mrs. Fannie
Hale, daughters of Mr.. and Mrs. John
II. Knox of this city, arrived from the
state of Washington Monday They
brought with them some monster ap-
pies from trees that Judge Knox set out
thirty-five years ago, that are now as
large as forest trees and loaded with