The herald., 1898-01-15
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
SAN BERNARDINO

SAN BEtN ARDlNO, Jan. l4.--ttteBu-
lar Correspondence The death Of
Judge j. d. ingalls, at Rialto Thursday
evening is announced. The deceased
was taken with a stroke of paralysis
Sunday but was thought to be improv-
ing until Thursday noon, when he sank
rapidly and the attack resulted fatally.
Judge ingalls, was native of Roches-
ter, Vermont, and was 68 years, 10
months and IL days old at the time of
his death. He came to Iowa In the early
days. residing at Des Moines and Indian
ola, where he served a term as county
Judge, following for many years after
wards mercantile business. He came
to Rialto with his wife just before
Christmas on a visit to their daughter,
Mrs. J. H. Carruthers, intending to pass
the winter there. Besides his widow and
the daughter at Rialto, he leaves son,
leading merchant at Des Moines, Iowa
The remains will be taken to his home
for interment on the overland on Sat
urday.
The target practice for the state shoot
of Company K took place Thursday with
the wind blowing across the range at a
rate of from twenty to fifty miles an
hour and at times blowing sand in the
eyes of the men till they could not see
through the sights. There were twenty
eight men turned out for the shoot and
their total score was 1898, or an average
of 1884. This Is about five points below
the last previous shoot. Those making
fifty and over out of a possible seventy
five were: A. D. F'rantz, 65; w. ]. Nicker
son, 60; w. s. Cooper, 55 A. B. Gazzolo,
55; r. Keyland, SO; K. T. Guernsey, 81;
H. j. Wait, 50. The best scores were
made just before the close of the day,
when the wind went down and made
good shooting a possibility. The result
of the days shooting was disappoinI-
ment to the members of Company X as
they had counted ON raising instead of
lowering their annual average on this
occasion.
There was rapid fall of temperature
Thursday, ranging from Al at 5 p. m. to
81 at IL p. m. and 25 at 2 a. m. Friday,
with a minimum of 23 at daylight, the
barometer ranged from 30.05 UP to 3012
during the same hours. AS this was
degrees warmer than the other recent
wave it Is probable there was little if
any damage done to the citrus fruits at
this time. Thursday morning the tem-
perature which was predicted to reach
the danger point was only 80 in San
Bernardino, while at Redlands, eight
miles away, it went down to 2S the re-
suit of a strong, warm wind that reached
here but did not touch Redlands.
During the trial of Melton Baca for
forgery, the prosecution placed in evil
dence a check to NJ. Baoa for $14, signed
by Tibbot Bros, on the San Bernardino
National bank, dated June l. 1897, which
was pronounced genuine and a check to
Melton Baca for $3.50 on the First Ma
tional bank of Riverside, dated July g.
1897, which came back with mo such ac-
count" attached. that was pronounced
a forgery. This was signed by "Tibbots
Bros" the name being spelled slightly
different. Louis Crawford, who took the
forged check, stated positively that he
did so on July 2, 1897, while the defense
proved perfect alibi for the prisoner on
that day. This, with his good character,
was the sole defense. For the latter
there were a large number Of witnesses
from Riverside, like DIR. ]. T. Jarvis,
Postmaster F. E. Abbott, L. Brown, J.
p Mccarthy and others, who testified
in his behalf o. B. Fuller, when on the
stand, quoted the names of large num-
ber of prominent citizens and county
officials of Riverside, until the prosecut-
ing attorney, L. M. Sprecher, sarcastic
ally asked why the witness did not quote
Judge NoyeS of the Riverside superior
court, as he had named all the other
county officials. and asked if Judge
Noyes did not recommend the prisoner
for his good character. Yes" said the
witness. Judge Moves recommended
Melton Baca very strongly as a good,
square, honest, reliable man, just the
man they wanted on the Republican
county central committee from the
Spanish quarter, and in consequence OF
his recommendation Melton Baca was
placed on that committee"