The San Francisco call., 1909-01-25
'DISTRUST ATTACHES
TO APPROP PRIATION
Employees of MendOcinO HOSpi=
tai for Insane Interested
in Land Deal
Want State to Purchase Prop
erty They Own for
Institution
| Special Dispatch 10 The Call

SACRAMENTO, Jan. 24-Suspicion
attaches to an item of $4,000 in the
proposed appropriation for the Mendo-
emo State hospital for the insane be-
cause of the fact that the money is to
pe utilized for the purchase of tract
OF iahd In which managers of the in
stltutlon and other state officers are
financially interested. If the appropri-
atlon Is allowed +. L. Caughey, clerk of
the supreme court, Philo Handy, post
master of Ukiah, and J. l.. McNab,
manager of the hospital will benefit
financially. being the moving spirits
IN the Mendocino vineyard company.
which owns the tract
IL IS charged by Senator J. B. San
lord That the ground which is offered
TO the state is worthless and that the
manner IN which the appropriation
was introduced was not only an at
tempt tos settle political grudge, but
suggested that the prospective bene-
nclar1es might have hoped to have the
matter passed over without close
scrutiny by those acquainted with the
facts
On file In the office OF the secretary
OF state are the Incorporation papers
OF the Mendocino Vineyard association.
the directors of which are j. l.. McNab,
+. M Roeder, +. L. Caughey, Frank
Sandelin and Philo Handy. On the
board of managers of the Mendocino
state hospital are j. l.. McNab. A. ].
Fairbanks and W. A. Foster, all mem
bers of the republican machine. Fred
Handy, son of Philo Handy, is steward
or the institution and was the ma
chine candidate for the assembly last
fall, when he was defeated. At the
present time the principal possession
of the Mendocino Vineyard company
is so acre tract of land, which is not
under cultivation, and which is the
property the state is asked to buy.
Senator Sanford. who represents
Mendocino county III the upper house.
was asked today if it were not peculiar
that the directors of the institution in
his county should recommend the pur-
chase of land in which they were per-
sonally interested.
OPPOSES PURCHASE.
This matter is new to me, as 1
have not had, and will not have, any
hand in the securing of an appropria-
tion for the purchase of that land" he
replied Indignantly. "On the other
hand i Will oppose this item on the
floor of the senate and in committee
contrary to all customs. l did not in
troduce the appropriation bills for the
not sent to me. as they always have
been in the past.
WATER NOT AVAILABLE
81 have been informed that the man
ayers want the State to buy this land
to secure water which is on it. / will
state that there is no water on the
land, that no water rights go with
it. and that even if there were it would
be necessary to install expensive
pumping plant to raise the water to
the level of the hospital Practically
all of the water in the section is inn
pounded in canyon above the hos
pital and flows to the Institution. The
State cannot SECURE the slightest BEN
eft from that ground, and l will GER
tainly oppose the appropriation.
The managers of the hospital, sew
eral of whom are the leading lights
in the machine, undoubtedly intended
to discredit Preston. who defeated
Handy for the assembly, by giving out
the impression that he could not get
the bills through. This may have
been one of the reasons for having
Martinelli INTRODUCES the bill in the
senate and Flavelle in the assembly.
but it looks very much as if the prin-
cipal reason was that it was hoped
to keep this proposed donation to the
cause in the background"