Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-20
MAY GET ITS
WATER CHEAP
SAN DIEGO RECEIVES A GOOD
PROPOSITION
OFFERED TEN.YEAR CONTRACT
Southern California Mountain Water
Company Stands Ready to Sup.
ply the City at Considerably
Reduced Rates
OFFERED TEN-YEAR CONTRACT
Special To The Herald.

special 10 The Herald
SAN DIEGO, May 19.-At last even
ings meeting of the water committee
Of the city council proposition was
submitted by the Southern California
Mountain Water company to supply
the city with all the mountain water 1t
can use for the next ten years at four
cents per 1000 gallons, which Is about
one half of what it can be pumped for
from the San Diego river. The COM
pany agrees to commence delivery on
the first of next March and to supply
continuously thereafter for ten years.
1t is understood that the council will
accept the offer.
The remains of Ellen Lewis Patter-
son, teacher of the Indian school at
Captain Grande, who died suddenly,
Wednesday evening at the school,
have been brought to San Diego for in
terment. Miss Patterson was
niece of the late James G.. Blaine and
was born on the 9th day of July, 1S45,
at Lewistown, Pa. She had been a
teacher for many years and has been
superintendent of Indian schools for
the past twenty or twenty-five years.
A large portion of Linda Vista Irri-
ga tion district became the property of
Col. A. G. Gassen yesterday through
the decisions rendered In his favor
The total judgments amount to s137,-
957 Efforts are being made to see if
the Indebtedness cannot be wiped out
a. was the indebtedness of the irriga-
tion district at Escondido, by the pur-
chase of the bonds for the reduced
price at which Col. Gassen is ready to
dispose of them.
Invited to Participate in Parade
Mayor Sehon has received a letter
from the secretary of the parade COM
mittee of the Fourth of July celebra-
tion of the city of Los Angeles inviting
the people of this city to have a float
in the big parade.
Mrs Clara A. Hoke, the woman of
whose murder the coroner's jury ac-
cuses Anson Brown, was laid to rest
IL Mount Hope cemetery yesterday
The funeral, which was held from
Davis e. Anderson's chapel on the
plaza, was very simple. Rev. r. l..
Bruce of the First Methodist Episcopal
| church made few remarks and Of
fered prayer. Upon the bier was a
bouquet of flowers sent by a friend
who had known Mrs. Hoke in her
better days
Mrs. C. F. Judd who was injured by
the fall of the wall of a building at
Fifth and E streets, is reported by DR..
j Perry Lewis, her physician, to be
doing as well as can be expected. She
experiences considerable difficulty in
breathing, due to three fractured ribs
and u fractured sternum. Measures
have been taken to guard against
pleuro- pneumonia. Mrs. Judd also suf-
fers from contusions in different parts
of the body
A special bond election has been
called in Oceansde for June IA, to vote
on the question of bonding the district
for 5000 for school facilities
Last Victim Buried
The last of the funerals of the four
victims of W. p Robinson, whose in
discriminate killing startled this city
last Monday, occurred today when the
remains of II. w. Chase were buried
from the Christian church.
Chase's wife was called from San
Francisco by news of the tragedy.
The funeral of Harry Doddridge has
already occurred and the bodies of
Mrs. Stuart and her son Willie, the
other victims, have been forwarded to
Indiana, at the request of her father.
The body of the murderer Robinson is
e|ill a the morgue, no relatives having
claimed it,
Mrs. Doddridge, who was shot in the
back by Robinson and her husband.
who was badly injured while escaping
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