The herald., 1897-04-06
RIVERSIDE

reSpOndence.) Under the new law reg
ulating the salaries of county and town
ship officers there is no fortune to con-
stables and justices in this county
Salaries of justices and constables are
as follows, as figured out by r. A. Con-
dee, clerk of the board of supervisors:
Riverside township, population 1850,
salary $50; Temescal population 2o15,
salary SIS; Perris, population 1875, $40;
San Jacinto, population 1920, $40; Dia-
mond, population 525, IS; Elsinore, pop
ulation 995, $5; Moreno, population 800,
SIS; Murieta, population $780, S5; Union,
population 9S5, $5; Temecula, population
250 Sh: Hemet population 929 So: San
Gorgonio, population IT'S. IS; Indio, pop
ulation 250 IS. The calculation shows
total vote at the last election of 1871, and
a population of 1885 in the county.
]. F. Hook has applied for letters OF
administration on the estate of Evan
Harer, deceased. The property con-
sists of half interest in a crop of grow
ing barley on 200 acres, half interest in
a header, four horses, wagons and agri-
cultural implements.
w. F. Bray of Perris Is in the city at
tending to legal business.
Allan Keith of the Elsinore Press is
in the city today
ceived a telegram from Henry Hamilton.
his deputy on the Cahuilla reservation
stating that he had located Sepulveda,
the Spaniard wanted for horse stealing
at Nenach, Los Angeles county. Mr..
johnson Immediately started for Te
mecula canyon, where the Spaniard is
said to be. Sepulveda is an old offender,
having served fifteen years in the Fol-
som prison and three terms in San
Quentin. and there may be trouble in
his arrest.
AS r. P. Winters. superintendent of
the Russ Lumber company with his
wife and children. were driving down
Victoria avenue in the direction of where
their new house is being erected on Sun
day evening, their horse took fright and
became unmanageable. Mrs Winters
attempted to jump out of the buggy.
and in doing SO fell between the body of
the vehicle and the wheels, one of her
feet becoming fastened between the
spring and axle, and she was dragged
fully 100 yards before Mr.. Winters got
the horse under control She was pretty
badly bruised up, and it is feared her
spine is injured. She remains con-
scious, however, and hopes are enter
tanned that her injuries will not prove
fatal. Fortunately the horse ran across
plowed ground else Mrs Winters would
doubtless have been killed outright.
AN IRRIGATION CASE.
An opinion which involves more than
million dollars was read from the
bench by Judge Noyes in the superior
court of Riverside county this morn
ing. If Judge Noyes' decision should
hold good in the higher courts, to which
the case will undoubtedly be carried,
$765.o00 in irrigation bonds will be de-
clared illegal and non-collectable, anG
there is little doubt from the courts
opinion but that the opinion will be sus-
tanned.
The case is that of John Hansen VS..
w. F. Carnahan, collector Of the Ales-
sandro irrigation district. The plain
tiff seeks to restrain the defendant from
executing deeds to the district by vir-
tue of q pretended sale of plaintiffs
land made in pursuance of section 29
of the Wright act. The principal facts
ELECTED from the evidence are that at a
meeting of the board of directors in
1891 Of the Alessandro irrigation district
F. f. Brown, for the Bear Valley COM
pany. offered a proposition to furnish
the district $1,000 acre water right cer-
tificate for bonds of the district in the
amount of $765,000, and that the board
of directors adopted a resolution ac-
cepting the proposition of the Bear VAL
ley company, stipulating as condition
to the issuing of the bonds that 1t should
Uc lOT lHt puIPOSt VI CONSTRUCTING the
necessary irrigating canals and works.
and acquiring necessary property and
rights therefor and otherwise carrying
out the provisions of the Wright act''
1t further appears that no engineer
was ever appointed by the directors or
ever acted until after these proceedings
were had, nor was any plan of canal or
canals. storage reservoirs or works. ever
adopted, nor was any estimate of the
cost of canals etc. ever made or sub
mitted by the engineer of the district
The bonds were issued in the amount
specified and delivered to the Bear VAL
ley company. and contract setting
forth all the requirements entered into,
and upon its execution the 81 900 class
b water right certificates were deliver
ed by the company.
1t also appears that at the time Of
this transaction the Bear Valley COM
pany did not own any water or water
rights by means of which they were
able to deliver the water agreed, and
that subsequently the company deliv-
cred about 700 inches of water on the
lands of the district. 1t further appears
that the company relied entirely upon
its future ability to appropriate and
develop water in the noun
tains in order to carry out its
and to perform all
and singular the conditions of its con-
tract and to fulfill it's obligations by