The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-07-27
A Popular Democrats Candidacy for
the Shrievalty-A Yacht Race.
University Students

statements were not signed by the property
| owners, and waxed eloquent on the duties
| of property owners and the assessor. Coun-
| Gilman Venting, Disguised. out of patience
and tired of his harangue, asked him If he
had signed his own property statement.
| Weile replied that he had. You haven't
done anything of the kind" retorted Went
ling 1--WE looked it up and here it is, UNI
signed" Weile said he had signed it last
year, anyway.
The improvements made by the Electric
Light company. and It's landed property,
were all subjected to a raise, the real estate
going from $500 up to $1,000, and the poles.
wires and machinery from $500 to $4,000.
The assessment on the stock Of the Santa
Barbara Lumber company was put at &c.
900, having been at $s0O0
A Coming Yacht Race
The lovers Of yachting are trying to ar
range race between the yachts Olita.
owned by Mr.. Newman, and the Petrol.
VIII Bates vessel. The proposed match is
the result of a newspaper controversy over
| the merits and achievements Of the two
| boats.
| When the Petrol returns from the Chan
mel islands cruise she is now making, a
race will come of. No money will be put
up by the yachtsmen, as they do not in
| dulge in betting.
A jolly boating party left the wharf Sun
day afternoon. Only gentlemen went, and
the refreshments, solid and liquid, suffered
In consequence. 1t was 1880 p. m. when they
returned. OF the party were Capt. George
Gourley, Julius Gourley, Owen O'Neil,
Frank and Charles Miller. Elmer Smith,
Eugene Farnum, J. A. Macleod. Jack
Cochran, George Raffour, DR.. Harrell and
| Gilbert Kemberley.
| Another party went out on the Geneva,
being Mrs. c. Y. Roop, Miss Victoria Meyer,
Miss Leeche, Miss Casal Miss Thomas.
Master Wendell Roop, and Messrs. ]. p
Wade, Benz. Meyer, Edw. Meyer and DR..
| Schwarz.
| The Fishermen's club, which angles for
soles, being an adjunct of Grace NJ. Il.
church, held its first anniversary Sunday
evening. President Frank Vandenberg
opened the meeting and read an interest
| Ing paper. The secretary Harry Stoddard,
made an exhaustive report of the years
work. Rex Smith read the scripture les
son. The church was decorated by Mrs.
e. w. Hayward and Miss Eva McPhail.
Would-Be University Students
An Increasing number of young people
from Santa Barbara elect to take the uni
versty course each year. There is reg
ular colony of young Barbarenos at Berke-
ley, and one student attends Stanford.
Among those who expect to go this year are
Misses Della and Cora Lewis and Messrs.
| Chester Noble, Lewis Reed, Jesse Hanford
and young Gregory and Mr.. Shuster. Harry
Ross has decided ON Stanford.
w. S. Goodfetllow, a prominent attorney
| c., I'D rvyit bal
Fair estate, is in this city. He and his
party came over last evening on the yacht
La Paloma from Catalina and sailed today
| for San Francisco. The Junior Mr.. Good
fellow, who Is one of the party, causes TIE
quick departure, through his desire to be
at Stanford university when the doors open
| for study.
| A Candidate for Sheriff
| man with an enviable record is before
the people a candidate for sheriff of
Santa Barbara county, subject to the in
dorsement of the Democratic county con-
vention. C. E. Sherman has for many
years been highly respected citizen, and
without regard to politics is universally
popular. He is not inexperienced as a
sheriff, having held that office three terms,
being the first incumbent under the new
|
cessor of Nick Covarrubias. Sherman is a
man of unfiinching courage. During his
time in office the notorious criminals, Dick
Fellows and Clarence Gray. were in the
county Jail. A mob had gathered, propos-
| ing to lynch the last named, whom the
sheriff should come out with him on his
way to the steamer. Sherman handcuffed
| Gray to his own arm, and thus united
walked through the midst of the crowd to
the steamer lying at the wharf northbound
Personal Notes
Miss Annie Boyer, who left this city ten
months ago to study at the Boston school
of domestic science, teegraphed her pa
rents here tonight that she was on her
way home, being then in Pittsburg. Pa.
Frank Smith, one of the Stearns Wharf
company, with George Boyer, yesterday
went to Elwood to the Cooper ranch and
selected and marked for the cutters and
trimmers $50 fine piles for wharf repairs
| this fall.
| DIR. Otto returns tomorrow from a pro-
fessional trip to Los Angeles.
Clarence A. Gutierrez who belongs to
one of the first Spanish families here, was
yesterday united in marriage to Miss Vie
toria Ortega, Justice of the Peace H. G.
Crane performing the ceremony.
Frank Shepherd of Carpinteria, after ten
| days at Catalina, is home once more.
Lewis w. Andrews OF Ventura, we'll
konwn attorney there, came up on the noon
train today on professional business. He
will be the Republican nominee for district
Aattorney this coming election and his
| chances are very bright indeed.
| ]. H. Burson was today summoned TO
Fillmore to the bedside of his father, VINO
| Is seriously Ill.
Brevities
| Charles D. Patterson has been heard
from through a letter written by James
Birnbaum to his mother here, both being at
| Dyea or thereabouts. Patterson was about
to leave for Dawson, where the transporta-
| ton business offered better chances.
| The Sharpshooters held the first drill for
| some time this evening. Their drill nights
| are less frequent now, as all are in perfect
training and the war outlook Is lessening
| license to two popular Carpinterians to
wed was Issued today, the parties being
Eugene Fowler and Jessie Belle Turner.
A. Soltau was today brought out Of jail