The herald., 1898-12-03
klONGOLIAN MIXERS
FLOURISHING BUT FORBIDDEN
TRADE IN SAN JACINTo
City Treasury Again Running Dry.
Wheat in the Alessandro Valley.
Temescal Water Company

RIVERSIDE, Dec. 2.-Two OF San Jacin-
to's foremost Chinese merchants are IN
trouble because they have followed the loot
steps Of dishonest white men and sold
uor to Indians. The men are All Tom and
An King, and they were arrested upon the
complaint of DR.. wainwright, who is in
charge of the Indian reservation at Saboba.
The men were given preliminary examina-
ton by the justice of the peace at San Ja-
cinto, who sent both men to the county Jail
to await trial. Today the Chinamen's at
torney sued out writ of habeas corpus and
upon the hearing in the superior court
Judge Noyes discharged the defendants on
the ground that it was not shown by testi-
mony in the examination htat the person
to whom the liquor was sold was an Indian.
Constable McKim, however, was present
with a new warrant and the men were re-
arrested and taken back to San Jacinto to
undergo another examination on the same
charge. The Cinnamon, who are quite intel
lgent and speak good English, say that they
are being made the scapegoats for white
men, the real culprits, who sold the liquor,
and it is believed that if a trial is had some
racy testimony concerning the liquor traffic
in San Jacinto will be developed.
RIVERSIDE NOTES
only man on the fusion county ticket elected
at the last election, filed his official bond
as superintendent of schools in the sum OF
$4,000 today.
A lively and disastrous runaway occurred
on Magnolia avenue late last night in which
bicycle rider was quite badly injured
Francisco Estudillo of San Jacnto left for
San Francisco today in response to word
that his son, Frank Estudillo, was lying
dangerously ill from pneumonia.
The county tax collector completed foot
ing up his books yesterday and today he be-
gan adding the Is per cent penalty on all
first half taxes not paid. The collections to
date have been considerably in excess Of
those made to the same date last year.
County Clerk Phelps, who has been in
Los Angeles for some days posting himself
on the methods in the clerk S office there,
is home again.
The city trasurer has made report to
the city clerk in which it is shown that the
city has only Sl55 cash on hand. Although
quite an amount of the present years levy
Of city tax has been collected, the cash in
the strong box is light for the reason that
one of the funds of the city, the electric
light, is far overdrawn and it is taking about
all the spare cash obtainable to make good
the overdrafts on that fund.
Captain j. Sanders, large land owner
in the Alessandro valley, while here today
stated that thousands of acres OF land in
the valley are being planted to wheat. The
farmers, or at least the majority OF them,
are confident that the signs point to wet
spring, which will give good crops. The
grain is being sown mostly on the dry and
unplowed ground; in fact, the seed is being
narrowed into the dust. Captain Sanders
and some of his neighbors prefer, however,
to save their seed until there is a better
promise of rain.
The Temescal Water company, which sup
piled the settlement of Corona, is to make
considerable improvements to its pipe sys-
TEN and is receiving quite lot of steel pipe,
which will be used in the work.