The herald., 1898-06-02
BURGLARIfS FREQUENT
THE RIVERSIDE POLICE HAVE A
CLEANING OUT
Twenty More Volunteers Accepted
Under the Second Call as
Filters

RIVERSIDE, June 1.-The frequency OF
burglares in the city of late has aroused
the police to the necessity for clearing out
the idle and suspicious characters, and 1t
is the intention to at once give several CT
this kind of men notice to either go to work
or else leave town under promise that they
will be vagged unless they do So
The concert band of this city has re-
ce.ved and accepted an invitation from the
managers of the Los Angeles Fourth of
July celebration to go to that city to supply
music for the parade.
Magnolia Camp of Woodmen of the
World has made arrangements for holding
memorial services at Odd Fellows hall
Sunday next. 1t is the intention to deco
rate the graves of former members of tie
order.
District Attorney Gill today filed an in
formation against Antonio Garcia charg-
ing him with attempting to murder r. Con
zales. Defendant was given until next
Wednesday to plead.
Virgil j. Woods, the San Jacnto boy who
burglarized the house of G. B. Hannahs,
was today committed to the reform school
at Whittier.
Miss Mary Strait of Los Angeles rs here,
visiting her brother, G. S. Strait, clerk in
the down town office of the Santa Fe COM
pany.
Nick Jergensen, a hard working Swede,
was paid off by his employer the other
day with check for $780, and forthwith
went on a drunk. When the police gath
cred him in he told them of the check and
said he had been robbed of it. A search
was instituted by the officers for the iaiss-
ing wealth, but without success. The Off
GERS even went so far as to notify the
banks not to cash the missing check. Last
evening when Jergensen was picking up
his clothes preparatory to leaving the
drunk cell in the city Jail he found the
missing check carefully laid away in
small time book, which he had hid under
the bed mattress when first locked up.
There were eighteen prisoner booked ut
the county Jail during May. OF this num-
Der, eleven were sent up for just plain, or
binary DRINKS acquired in this prohibition
city. Three were sent up on charges of
petty larceny, two for grand larceny, and
one each for disorderly conduct and as
saut. There were seven prisoners in the
Jail at the present time.
| Justice Mills has given Judgment for the
Riverside Land and Irrigation company
in the case tried by him in which p B.
| Goethals was plaintiff. The case is one in
which the plaintiff sought to collect n
claim for caring for a tract Of land belong
| ing to the company.
| Twenty men out of the rs who have Of
| fered themselves as volunteers to fill out
| the complement of men for company have
| been accepted; examination continues and
will until all the complement IS filled. The
names of those selected are as follow: Bet
Anderson, Nicholas Kunt, H. w. Cathay
M. A. Patton, Dorr Fairchild, August
| Haberlin, Cecil Funk, ]. d. Boyd, Law
| renee Preston. Thomas M. Nicol, r. L.
Henderson, C. P. Goforth, E. H. Parsons
| Ed. Mergen, w. A. Todd. Will F. Flint
D. v. holland, w. R. Flack, William
| Hoogendyk and J. S. Wolfoed.
During the Memorial day parade, and
while Charles Hanks was taking part in
| 1t his house was entered by burglars and
| several dollars stolen.
| Chris Cole, a restaurant keeper of the
city, was arrested last evening by the city
marshal on a charge of selling liquor
| Cole pleaded guilty, and the court imposed
a fine of so. which he paid. 1t is under
stood that at least one more arrest is to
be made. Coles arrest is the first one
made for this offense for several months