Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-15
NEW ELECTRIC
LINE PROJECTED
SAN BERNARDIN0 AFTER AN
OTHER ROAD
Board Of Trade Is Seeking Closer Re-
Iatlons With Rialto-Renewal
of Business Activity
Is Noticeable

Special to The Herald
SAN BERNARDINO, Jan. 14.-It is
likely that the board of trade of this
city will at once take up the question
of securing an electric line to the Rialto
colony on the west. Some months age
the question was agitated but the
management of the San BernardinC
Valley Traction company refused tC
consider the project on the ground that
there was insufficient business to make
the line pay. At the board of trade
dinner this week President Denman OF
the traction company announced that
his company was now willing to con-
struct the line If inducement in the way
of a right Of way was granted them
1t is believed that this can be secured
through the agency of the local board
of trade and the Improvement league
of Rialto. Rialto now sells more than
$300.000 worth Of citrus fruits every
year and the output will double in five
years, and the trade belongs to this
city.
Besides this the announcement of the
Santa Fe company that it will spend
a vast sum of money here the coming
year has inspired renewed activity
along business lines. In the past week
three new business blocks have been
commenced, while homes are building
all over the city.
Rain Benefits Crops
The rain which has been falling the
past forty-eight hours now amounts to
one and a half inches, making the total
for the season to date about five inches.
The rain has added to the renewal in
the confidence for the future as 1t in
sures good grain and hay crop. The
heavy early rains wet the soil down
deep, the moisture having been re-
tanned. Immense acreage of grain and
hay is being put in in all the grain dis
tricts in this part of the state, and the
crop this year will be the largest for
many years.
A lad giving the name of Paul Phil
lips was taken off a Santa Fe freight
train mere this noon by special officer
for evading railroad fare. The boy Is
said to belong to prominent family
in Pasadena. He was beating his way
from the east to his home.
John Baldwin was seriously injured
last night by being tripped up by Hol-
land Mccall. His head struck on the
cement walk, causing a small fracture
of the skull. He will recover.
Judgment Against Endler
Jacob Waldenburg, an eastern manu-
$500 in the court here against Harry
Endler, who is in business here, who
was formerly travelling salesman for
the plaintiff. Endler is said to have
claimed TO have lost his sample trunks
in a wreck. The firm was unable to re-
cover from the railroad, so Endler Sc
cured another large lot of goods, agree
ing to pay the debt from his earnings
He failed to do this, 1T is stated, and
came west and ignored the debt.
The basketball season in the Inter
scholastic league will open this week.
On Saturday the boys and girls teams
of the local high school will go to On
tario to meet teams from the high
school of that colony. The schedule of
games lasts until March.
James Phillips, a Los Angeles busi-
ne SIS man, this morning paid an $50 fine
and secured the release of a son from
the county Jail here, the boy having
been committed under a ninety-day
sentence for larceny. After the boys
incarceration he scrawled a letter home
telling them where he was and max
ing a pathetic plea that they secure his
release. He is 16 years of age and had
been missing from home for several
weeks.
Mrs. j. E. Hartell of Los Angeles yes
terday instituted a division of ladies'
auxiliary of the order of Railway Con-
ductors in this city with a charter
membership of twenty-siX.