The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-08-12
STOOD ON HIS RIGHTS
A SERIOUS ROW OVER A DAM ON
LYLE CREEK
J. D. Lakin Shot Under the Arm and
Thrown Into Jail-Mining
Notes From Dale

SAN BERNARDINO, Aug. 11.-Another
chapter is written in the history of the
water pollution of Lytle creek, and J. d.
Lakim not only is suffering from a gun
shot wound, but is also prisoner. The
trouble occurred at a mill on upper Lyle
creek that has been run by Lakim for
years, the water for which is turned from
the creek by means of few rocks placed
across the creek to throw the current on the
Wheel the water then flowing on into the
creek.
The campers on the mountain streams,
especially on Lytle creek, are accustomed
to build a dam across the creek to raise
the water enough for bathing purposes at
the camp. There are dozen to twenty of
them along the stream. The water after
being used for bathing purposes flows on
into the pipe line and is used as drnkin g
water by the people of the city and of
Rialto and Bloomington. To protect the
users of the water who depend upon the
stream for domestic purposes, the county
health officer appointed Constable Hum
phreys of Rialto to patrol the stream and
prevent the pollution. The latter ap-
pointed G. F. r. B. Perdew deputy officer
to do the work and he went up the stream
with orders to tear out the bathing dams
along the creek.
| There has been a personal grudge be-
tween Perdew and Lakim, and the former
took advantage of his brief authority, ap-
parently, to tear out the Lakim dam as
he went up the stream. Lakim. who was
away at the time. returned and replaced the
dam and on the return of the party of
Il ck hon m LOT
| as 1t was his private property and had been
there for years. Perdew gave the order to
tear 1t out again, when Lakim ordered the
men to stop, emphasizing his demands by
drawing his revolver. Perdew watched
his chance and drawing his gun shot La
kim, giving him a bad flesh wound under
the arm. AS Lakim dropped his revolver
they all jumped on him. bound him and
brought him TO this city. The examination
is set for next Thursday. The charge is
resisting an officer, and his reply that no
one informed him the men were officers.
as he took them for campers.
San Bernardino Notes
Word has just been received from Camp
Merritt that two members of Company X
are not expected to- live. Their names are
Harvey Mourning and Walter J. Davies.
The intense hot weather seems to have
no depressing effect upon the marriage
market. The following are In evidence for
marriage certificates: Paul Walter VIII
mot OF Connecticut, aged ~, and Emeline
r. Brown of California, aged 10, both resi-
dents of Redlands. Also Robert Smythe of
Canada, aged 81, resident of Ell Paso. Tex,
and Della Swift of Kansas, aged 26, a res
xIr,-
party are Elmer Tearl Hills of Indiana,
aged %. resident of Daggett. and Lucy H.
Davis Of Missouri aged 20, resident of High
| land. A fourth pair are Arthur William
Cook of England, aged 80. and Lolita Bum
gardener of Kansas, aged %, both residents
| of Redlands.
Joe Ingersoll has just returned from Dale
City and reports that mining camp very
furnishing. His new mill for the o. K.
company is dropping stamps night and day.
handling seven tons per day, and the COM
pany is about TO put in a ten-ton cyanide
liant and a gasoline engine for the hoist
at the mine. The Arbios mill Is running
day and night and operates a concentration.
The Meacham mill is about ready to start
up. The Reitz & Sherman mil Is running
most of the time. There Is now plenty of
water and It Is Of excellent quantity. The
maximum temperature for the time Mr..
Ingersoll was there ranged daily from ia
to 1876 until the third of August, when 1t
dropped to liz and the next day to 10s, and
they began to suffer with the cold. At
p. m. the mercury would usually stand at
40 to lis and one night 1t did not go below
10 oil night. He says the men keep at
work right along and do not seem to mind
the heat In the least.