The San Francisco call., 1898-08-14
AN ARM|STICE.
 AT SUMNER ERLAND
Special Dispatch to The Call,

SANTA BARBARA, Aug. 19.-Hos- tilitfes have not yet been resumed at Sumnerland. The people have been tracing step by step the cunningly laid scheme of the corporation to seize Summerland by a coup d'etat. Inter esting facts bearing on the scheme are coming to light every day.
 Treadwen the Southern Pacific agent, first located and recorded, in the name of one Davis and others. a lot of fictitious placer mining. claims over patented pueblo lands granted in private ownership. and over the lands below high water mark on the Sum merland beach, It is known that these claims were recorded by and on behalf of Treadwell, though in other names. Then TreadweH applied to the Board of Supervisors for a wharf franchise. This was opposed by H. L. Williams, who had a franchise about expiring, his pecuniary circumstances not hav- ing permitted him to build the wharf in time. The Board of Supervisors were urged to and did ignore MT. Will Hams contest on the ground that Treadwen was ready to go ahead and accommodate the people with a wharf lOI COlI4IllSi Cidl pun pOSES, WHICH VI dS sadly needed to compete with the grasping Southern Pacific Company.
 In obtaining the franchise Treadwell selected an attorney not identified with the business of the Southern Pacific Company. His franchise once obtained he began to show his hand. He bored a well on the beach at the foot of his wharf and kept on keeping pace in wells with the growth of the wharf f,-oT a Y1ro cff inIy the Board of Supervisors of the county He then began to openly brag of being backed by the Southern Pacific Com panys capital. He claimed the control of the railroad rights of way along the roadbed and told Thomas D. Wood if he wished a siding for shipments of his oil he (TreadwelD would promote it or could grant it, as he held this land of the Southern Pacific Company along the beach under lease.
 His first discontinue was the ac- quiring by MT. Wood from H. L. Will Hams of large tract of oil land front ing the beach, When TreadWell started out with his fence along the beach he met with resistance. Then the attor- ney of the Southern Pacific appeared upon the scene of action and the legal bluff began. Agreements of comprom- 1se were finally drawn up and ten- dered, in which Treadwell, in the name of MT. Davis of Elizabeth, N. J., and in his own name, agreed to do most anything if he were only allowed to run by with his so-called wharf, but they were not so easily deceived. His would be dupes knew full we'll that once across the lands of the State with it's wharf the Southern Pacific Company would laugh them to scorn.
 These recent acts of the Southern Pa cif1c Company have caused the scommu- nity to consider and deeply resent the treatment of Santa Barbara by this corporation in reference to connecting this section with the outside world having violated all it's pledges in re- gard to the closing of the gap, which is about fifty miles in length, and the closing of which would make a direct line from San Francisco to Los Ange- les through Santa Barbara, thus short ening the distance and time greatly be- tween this part of the State and the northern part. The determination was expressed to-day by parties who had granted rights of way or executed con tracts for grants of rights of way to immediately serve notices of recession and to commence proceedings to work forfeiture of the grants.