The herald., 1898-07-09
The DESERT QUEEN
A ONCE FAMOUS MINE TO BE
OPENED AGAIN
The Republican Split at San Bernar-
dino Over the Governorship.
News Notes

| SAN BERNARDINO, July s-Several
years ago a rich gold mine was located by
the McHaney brothers, which they named
| the Desert Queen, and brought out from
| it gold bricks with such regularity and fire.
quency that the mine became a legal bone
of contention for score of miners and
prospectors. At last, to end the strug-
| gle, sale of the mine was made, and soon
after it was given out that all the gold
| that had been coming out of the mine was
| simply a pocket" and the source had
pnched out and the mine was valueless.
That settled the suits, and the lawyers
| dropped the Improbable game, all work
was stopped and the name of the once
famous Desert Queen was scarcely men
| toned.
| The owners think the time has now come
to push the work. and are preparing to put
| in fine machinery, including an excellent
cyanide plant, and by next winter again the
gold bricks will come flowing in from tn,
| Desert Queen.
plan is on foot to celebrate Admission
day with series of field SPORT that have
never been excelled in this section.
Three fights in one day is not bad rec
ord for war year. Yesterday as John
Downs tried to collect rent from a tenant
| the latter turned or his landlord, but the
latter nearly used him up. wild Irish
man, covered with blood, sought the dis
| trict attorney to have a saloon keeper, Pete
Beam. arrested for hitting him over the
| head with club, an dhe had just gone out
TO sober up when a disheveled woman
rushed in and said her husband was look
rg for a gun.
| Last evening the executive committee of
the Republican party met to discuss the
convention scheme, and as they could not
| agree, the whole matter was left to the
county central committee, which was sum
moned to meet next Wednesday. The ex-
| ecutive committee passed the following in
relation to the Gage aspirations for the
governorship:
Resolved. that 1t is the sense of this
committee that it is for the best interests
| Of the Republican party and of Southern
California that this end of the state should
! not ask for the governorship, but that we
should be unit in demanding United
| States senator to succeed Senator White"
| The death of Judge Charles s. Huse at
the Highland hospital on Wednesday night
| removes an eccentric character He was
IS years of age at the time of his death,
Dnd his case has been a noted one in legal
circles, through the desperate attempt in
the courts to have him set free two years
ago. His remains left this morning for
Santa Barbara, where they will be in
TERED.
! The new county board of education or
| ganized yesterday with the election OF
| Of bo hoo rI
the position he filled last year; Miss Belle
Mogeau, deputy school superintendent. act
ing as clerk of the board. The new men,
bers. Prof. N. A. Richardson of this city,
and Prof. Jefferson Taylor of Ontario,
took their seats. The following was
passed:
| Resolved, that the examination of appi-
cants from the eighth grade be held a.
the office of the county superintendent OF
schools at the county seat; at the Red
lands high school building in Redlands
and at the public school building at On
tario, on Friday, September 16, 1898, al
a. m. Examines having failed in the
June examination will then be permitted
to write on the subjects in which they fell
below Is per cent or If their average was
above rs per cent, then on such as were
below ou per cent. but tney may at tHclr
pleasure write all
There was granted to Eliza J. Perley a
| grammar grade certificate on q state life
diploma of the state of Maine. The board
Remembered the Maine"
Charles d. Gleason, principal of the
Chino high school, has resigned and ac-
copied a position as vice principal of the
San Jose high school. He has gone to
Natick, Mass, to spend his summer vaca-
| ton.
Louis James Searcy has been ordered
back for resentencing July 16. He is the
negro who killed man near Bagdad and
was sentenced to be hanged, but his al
torneys took an appeal to the supreme
court, and that body has affirmed the YER
dict of the lower court.
Juan Hernandez pleaded guilty TO bur-
glary in the second degree and was given
two and half years in San Quentin.
| A marriage license was issued to Levin
Becheiver McReynolds and Sarah Genres,
both residents of San Bernardino.
| John Hastings, a native of Scotland, was
naturaiized yesterday.
| In the case of the people VS.. X. D. Brock,
the sick juror was unable to attend and
the jury was discharged, and the case set
for the trial calendar Of July 49,