The herald., 1898-08-26
ALL SORTS OF CRIMES
A GENERAL MIx-UP AT SAN
BERNARDINo
Indian Section Hand Has His Head
Cut on by Car and His Friends
Cremate Him

SAN BERNARDINO. Aug. 25.-Just be-
fore dusk last night successful attempt
at robbery was made at the corner Of
Fourth and q streets. where, with several
women looking on. q stranger deliberately
knocked an elderly man down and went
through his pockets and disappeared. A
little boy who happened along went down
to the police station and gave description
Of the robber and the officers soon had him
in JAIL, but the old man who was robbed
got up after the occurrence and went away
without making any complaint and his
Identity Is not known. The robber was Of
the tramp species, many Of whom are
congregating here for the fall and winter
season.
Harrison Bemis is a man Of considerable
property and strong desire to go on a
drunk. On one of his periodicals a few
months ago he felt the war spirit coming
on, and taking a shotgun he blew to pieces
the door Of one Of his houses. driving the
tenants out and going in shot the windows
out from the inside. Last night he drove
the tenants out again, when the police were
summoned and 1t took two of them to land
the irate landlord in the cooler.
Recently two youthful Indians tried to
hold up Chinaman, with the result that
they got eight and nine years respectively
In Folsom. Ever SINCE the father Of one of
them, Indian Charlie" and the daughter
of the latter, have been after the scalp Of
Wong Bing, the interpreter, and Wong
MIN, the plaintiff in the case, and have
made life burden to the two Celestials,
until at times they have been compelled to
seek the protection of the police. Yester-
day Charlie, seeing Wong Bling on the
street, started after his scalp, but Bing
was the fieetest and escaped He swore out
a warrant and had Charlie arrested, but
the charge was changed to plain drunk.
and he was given five days in Jail in which
to sober up.
A challenge has been issued by W. j.
Cutter of this city for two races, at so and
100 yards, at Riverside on Admission day.
He offers to pick two men from the three
Cutter, Rodden and Lewis-to meet any
TWO men at Riverside, Nowlin of Corona
and Avery of Pomona preferred, each man
to put up $25 and the first money to go to
the winner of the 50-yard race.
There is trouble between the settlers Of
Cucamonga who obtain their supply of
having half the 2O3 inches continuous flow
and the Cucamonga Vineyard company the
other half. The Cucamonga Water COM
pany is trying to deprive the settlers of
the first half and they appealed to the SUI
perior court. On hearing the complaint
Judge Campbell granted a temporary In
junction against the water company.
An Indian section hand at Needles while
working on hand car Tuesday evening
fell on and the car cut his head off from
his body completely. The Indians gathered
around the remains and after two hours of
singing and wailing they took the body
down the river and cremated 1t. The cor
oner thinks that is not a square deal with
him, as he obtains no fee. A friend stated
that he gathered UP some Of the ashes ia
send to him for an inquest but the wind
blew them away.
Mrs. s. A. Pease and family and Mrs. H.
A. Reed and daughter came down from
Camp Dewey last night Most of the party
have been at the mountain camp for nine
weeks.