The herald., 1898-07-28
SUNDAY OBSERVANCE
SAN BERNARDINO Is BATTLING
WITH THE QUESTION
Annual Statement Of County Taxes.
Work on the Arrowhead Reser-
voir to Be Renewed

SAN BERNARDINO, July N.-It Is prob
able that next Sunday will be the last day
of closed saloons in San Bernardino, for /,
Is the intention. so expressed, of the board
of trustees to let down the bars and give the
saloons the privilege of running "a hours
in the day and seven days In the week.
Redlands Is graphing with the same ques-
ton, only there It is the billiard table that
has been made the bone OF contention. Pa
pers have been filed in an appeal from the
city recorders court Of Redlands in the
case Of Nat A. Blake, who is making test
of the constitutfonality OF the law that will
forbid him to do business on Sunday. He
was fined $40 In the lower court, and now
seeks the opinion Of the higher courts, in
tending to carry the case as high as the
supreme court Of the state If necessary.
Should he fail there. he may fall back on
his prerogatives under the constitution Of
the United States in the highest court of the
land. As this is the vacation of the superior
court in this county, the case will not come
to trial until September.
County Taxes
The county tax collector has sent in his
annual statement to the state, showing that
only 5 per cent of the taxes was delinquent
the past year. The amount turned over 20
the collector was 1920 900, and the total fig
ure charged up to the state is SIS, 1892 l3, of
which there is sl2.71556 delinquent, s151O.07
for penalties, sloS2.59 for advertising, and
s104 for delinquent poll tax.
Hymeneal Activity
After seven days with no marriage IL
with three in one day. These were Thomas
Bradford aBssett of Kansas, aged %, a
resident of Searchight. New, and Kate
Johnson Davis of California. aged 20, res
ident of Pasadena; Charles Hyppolita Louis
of France. aged so, and Nellie Sheasby of
Canada, aged 80, residents of San Bernar-
dino; Cleburg Wesley Killian of California,
aged q, resident of West Berkeley, and
Carrie Elsie Clausus Of Wisconsin, aged
20. resident of Etiwanda.
The Arrowhead Reservoir
Work will begin again on the great Ar
rowhead reservoir system in the lining with
cement of 1000 feet of tunnels, to bring the
water from the north side of the San Ber-
nardino range, where 1t is lost in the sands
of the desert, through on this side, where
1t will be worth millions of dollars for the
fertile plains, that are now dry, and also
furnish another water power for electric
purposes. This scheme has been under way
for the past ten years. but, owing to its
magnitude and difficulties, work has pro-
crossed slowly. The last setback the COM
pany received was In the failure Of the Los
Angeles contractors who had the contract
to cement the tunnels to pay the men work
ing for them, and the placing Of score Of
mechanics liens on the works, stopping all
progress for year. The company has
now ordered machinery and wsl complete
the work as rapidly as possible. The tun-
nels, except where they run through solid
rock, are to be cemented on all sides, maxi
ing of the tunnels gigantic cement pipes
perforatlng the mountains and bringing the
water through without loss by seepage.
When completed this will be the most eiab.
crate water system in the state.