Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-20
PASADENA LAD ACCIDENTALLY
SHOOTS HIMSELF
]. p. WOOD is POLICE JUDGE
New City Budget completed-IndIana
Suspects Start for Home In
Charge Of Sheriff Smith.
Other News
Pasadena Agency,
ia East Colorado Street.

PASADENA. Aug. 19.-Jesse Ralston,
19-year-old lad living with his parents
on Click avenue. Just outside the city
limits, lies at the point of death at the
Pasadena hospital. because of what
seems to have been the accidental dis
charge Of a rifle. About D. m. young
Ralston and two other lads, Lloyd Boyd
and Walter Smith, were coming home
from a hunting trip. His two COM
Ralston sat behind. A rifle leaned
against the front seat of the wagon
with the muzzle pointing backward.
Suddenly there was the crash of a dis
charge, so the lads say, and they turned
to find that Ralston had a gaping
wound in his abdomen, from which the
blood was gushing. Capt Sutton, whose
house at the corner Of Mountain and
Hill streets the wagon was passing at
the time, telephoned for a doctor ana
the ambulance, and the wounded boy
was hurried to the hospital. where
everything possible for his injury was
done. But the bullet had gone clear
through the stomach from the front and
It was a desperate case. The boy is in
considerable pain and is not likely to
survive the night. 1t is said that the
wounded boy was attempting to draw
the charges of the rifle on the seat be-
fore him when the accident occurred.
His companions were so overcome by
the affair that they could offer no ex-
plantations, saying that they had no
idea how it occurred.
New Police Judge
Attorney J. Perry Wood is the new
police judge of Pasadena. Mayor
waterhouse laid the appointment Of
the popular young lawyer before the
city council early this forenoon and it
was unanimously accepted. AS Mr..
Wood was obliged to be absent in Los
Angeles throughout the day he did not
take the oath of office, but he will do
30 early Monday and begin his new
duties Immediately Nothing but
satisfaction is expressed at the mayors
choice. Lawyer Wood is a young man,
a graduate of Dickinson college and
Yale university and has been in prac
tice in Pasadena about two years He
has a good clientage and many warm
personal friends.
Budget for 1905-6
Pasadena's budget for the fiscal year
1866 was announced this morning and
made a matter of record in the city
Of
$216,134.74 for conducting the public
business of the city and estimates the
city's income from fines, licenses and
other sources at $34,500. This leaves
to be raised by taxation $1s1,634.74
Thirty-five thousand dollars will be
raised for the educational fund. This
with the $4,000 coming from the state
fund for the payment of high school
salaries, will make the total amount
asked by the board of education. Other
departments of city work are kept
down to the lowest notch and the tax
rate is fixed at $1.31 1-2 on each 800
assessed valuation. This rate is 16 1-2
cents on the $10O less than the rate of
last year for the city as then bounded.
The total assessment of the city as at
present constituted is set at $18, 1853, 474.
In addition to this valuation there is
outside territory coming in for a por-
ton of the tax amounting to $1.S49,5 525,
making the city's grand total assessed
valuation upon which tax can be
placed. meaning the Pasadena city
school district. s2OO12.99S.
Takes Prisoners Homo
Sheriff ]. F. Smith left this evening
for his home in Bedford, Ind, taking
with him heavily manacled Mace
Hitchcock and John Carter, the two
desperate characters arrested by Chief
Pinkham in Los Angeles recently.
Sheriff Smith intends to take no
chances with the men and will make
the return trip by easy stages, stopping
over occasionally along the way and
locking the men in local prisons, while
he rests up for the next stage of the
journey. There is considerable discus
sion about the city building as to where
the reward for the mems arrest will
go should there be any reward It
looks as though Chief Pinkham and
Officer Coping, who ferreted out the
whereabouts Of the men and effected
their capture, even before word arrived
from Hoosierdom that the men were
wanted ought to get the reward II
there be one. But there is some doubt
as to whether the law will allow them
TO receive such reward. At any rate
Hitchcock and Carter will not come to
Southern California for a hiding place
should they need one again.
Wanted-An Heir
Michael Haley for many years a
familiar character on South Orange
Grove avenue. where he was gardener
for Benjamin Blossom. died yesterday
OF acute pneumonia. He was unmar-
ried and as far as known has no rela-
tives. Should any such appear an es-
tate Of some two thousand dollars will