The San Francisco call., 1913-08-08
Father of Woman Who Lo-
Gated Ranch Said to Have
Forced Confession at
Point of Gun
DAM BLOWN UP
AFTER DISPUTE
Lillian Brown of Alameda
and Everett P. Carey Are
Principals in Drama

A woman unafraid. shotgun. some
father and high school instructor, are
the properties and cast in drama that
is just now being enacted in the
sierras
The woman is Miss Lillian Brown of
Alameda, who has located a ranch near
Darrah. in Mariposa county.
The instructor is Everett P. Carey.
teacher of geology in the Polytechnic
high school, and the. story has to deal
with a war between the woman and
the professor.
The scene of the drama has shifted
from the mountain ranch to the noun
tain town. and the next act is to be
staged in the Mariposa office of Justice
of the Peace William Trabucco. where
Professor Carey is to appear next week
! to answer to the charge of being
dynamiter. Not in the sense of the
desperate men of violence who blow up
regardless of life and property rights,
but because Miss Brown in her war;
rant for the arrest of the instructor
charges that he blew up a dam.
TWO RANCHES ADJoIN
The dam was built for the purpose of
imponnding water for use on the Brown
ranch. which adjoins the Carey ranch.
and trouble between the owners of the
adjoining properties led to the dynamit-
| ing Of the dam and the alleged forced
confession of Professor Carey at the
mouth of a double barreled gun in the
hands of William F. Brown. father and
protector of the young land pre-
empter
Carey and Miss Brown decided at
about the same time to avail them
selves of the opportunity of locating
public land. Both entered into pos
session of the land Carey buying out
several other property holders.
Overtures for the purchase of the
ranch of Miss Brown were futile and
bad feeling between the two land hold
es resulted
The dispute never assumed vital pro-
portions until the peace was violently
disturbd by the explosion of the Brown
dam.
MAN SEEN RUNNING AWAY
! c. r. Kendall of Boston, who is a
friend of the Browns. was visiting at
the ranch He arrived at the dam soon
after the explosion and just in time to
see man running from the scene.
Kendall saws that he can not identity
Carey as the man.
Brown shouldering a shotgun. went
on a still hunt for Carey and found
him at the place where the dam ought
to be-
The allegation is that on seeing
leveled the gun al the heart Of the
learned ranch owner and forced him
to confess that he blew up the dam.
The swearing to the warrant charg-
ing Carey with dynamiting the reser-
voir, his arrest and subsequent release
on $500 bail followed
The case is to come up for hearing
next week.
Carey owns 300 acres of land. but
his property is served from a different
source of water supply than the Brown
ranch.
The Alameda woman alleges that fol-
lowing her location of water rights
Carey tore down her notices OF loca-
tion and otherwise disturbed her peace,
the feud coming to "a crisis with the
explosion.
The Browns live at 1928 Bay street.
Alameda
The home address of Carey is Keith
avenue and Hart street. Berkeley
STATEMENT BY CAREY
Mr.. Carey said last evening at his
home in Berkeley:
This action was brought against me
with the sole intent of intimidation.
However nothing can prevent me from
defending my rights.
Il own property at Darrah, adjoining
which Is Miss Browns claim. stream
of water coming down through the
government forty above our land was
| diverted by Brown to his daughters
claim. As this Is unlawful, I turned
the stream back.
Brown met me and a companion
shortly afterward while we were walk
ing in the neighborhood of the prop.
erty. He pointed his shotgun at me
and asked my friend to step aside SO
| he could shoot me-
+ Now he has had me arrested, think
/ ing that | would be frightened and
drop the matter I can bring a more
serious charge against him of threaten
ing my life.
Il don't think | am charged with
/ dynamiting the dam, but with having
damaged it. Brown wants the water
on his daughters land because without
Ii fhe Ia nd would he of liff1e vaIue