The herald., 1898-09-27
SANTA ANA'S BUSY DAY
PECULIAR CHARGE OF HIGHWAY
ROBBERY
Board Of Supervisors Fix the Railway
Assessment Of the County for
the Coming Year

SANTA ANA, sept Z6-A warrant was Is
sued today by Sheriff Nichols for the ar
rest Of w. ]. Brady of Downey, who is
wanted here on q charge of highway rob-
berry, preferred by w. ]. Piggott of River
side. Brady was moving his household
effects from Moreno to Downey when he
met Mr. Piggott and family in the canyon,
en- route to Riverside from Long Beach.
The road at the meeting place is very mar
row and some trouble was had In passing
and one of Brady's wagons went over the
embankment, doing some damage to his
goods. He claimed that Piggott was to
blame and demanded 500 payment. Piggott
refused and Brady threatened to kill the
entire party whereupon Piggott gave him
ali his money and a gold watch belonging
to his wife. He was then allowed to depart
and went at once to Riverside and sent
here for a warrant for the mans arrest.
At meeting today of the board Of super
visors the railway assessment in Orange
county was fixed as follows: Main track Of
Southern California railway, 62.63 miles;
main track of Southern Pacific railway
23.78 miles; main track of P. P. Car COM
pany, G263 miles. The clerk was instructed
to notify the Southern Pacific Railroad
company that the board requested them to
remove the switch frog from the center Of
the county road at Almond station.
Marriage licenses were issued today to
Miss Helen A. Benchley, aged 20, of Fuller
ton, and ]. r. Carhart, aged %, Of Bur-
bank, Los Angeles county; VIM. Willis
aged Sc, of Eel Toro, and Ivy Thompson,
aged %, Of Riverside: Marshall r. Zimmer-
man. aged &c. of Kansas City, and Martha
Hanson, aged &C. Of San Francisco.
Thomas r. Jennings of Anaheim has an
nounced himself as an independent candi-
date for the Office of supervisor from the
Third district. in opposition to II. A. Nc
Williams and W. G. Potter.
Charles N. Vanderlip left today for the
Stonewall mines in San Diego county.
Mrs George w. Ford left yesterday for
Springfield, ILL.,. to Join her husband, who
is there with his race horse, Neernut.
Rev. s. W. Walker returned this morning
from the South Methodist conference at
Downey and will leave In a few days for
Los Angeles where he will remain a month
before going to Georgia to remain.
Rev. c. w. Hoag Of the Bellevue avenue
church, in Los Angeles, will succeed Rev.
Walker hera
Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Bevans left today for
Victor. CAL, to remain several months for
the benefit Of the latter's health.
The Wisconsin picnic, held Saturday in
the Orange county park, was a great sue
cess. A permanent organization was ef-
fected with c. T. Barnes of this city as
president and Evan Davis Of Orange, Sec
retary.
An aged Chinaman was knocked down
on Main street Saturday evening by three
Messrs. Bullock & Miller have returned to
their homes in Westminster. after a sew
eral months trip to the Klondike gold
fields. They returned very much dis
couraged and disguised with the prospects
there and are glad to get home.
Mr. and Mrs. Lndner of Westminster
announce the birth OF son and Mr. and
Mrs. Prethero of the same place daugh-
ter.
W. B. Lamson has traded his forty-acre
ranch at Garden Grove for property in
Perris and will shortly move there to take
possession.
The ladies OF the Maccabbees gave an ice
cream social in the X. of P. hall Saturday
evening.
the past few days and are caught by the
hundreds. It was estimated that 100 yell
lowtail were landed on the pier yesterday
while two tons of sardines were seined Sat-
urday.
The residence Of Julius bernstein, on the
corner of Fifth and Bush streets, caught
fire this afternoon and was partially de-
stroyed.