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Dispatch a 20 VOLUME XXXVI. UKIAH CITY. MENDOCINO COUNTY, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 10. 1905. NUMBER 18- LEGISLATIVE HAPPENINGS Warm Time in the Senate.

Briberv Charges. Investigation Demanded SACRAMENTO, Feb. 6, writing my last letter much has happened that will make this Legislature famous for many years to come. Two weeks ago it was predicted that the present session would prove to be the tamest and most uninteresting one yet had. But how things change! Now it promises to be the most sensational session the State has ever known.

Just as things had settled down to dry routine work a bombshell was exploded and the reputations of four Senators have been forever blasted. The Committee on Commissions and Retrenchment was investigating the various building and loan associations. The Continental Building and Loan Association was under investigation and its secretary, Wm. Corbin, had refused to heed the subpoena of the committee. The committee had haled him before the Sen.

ate to show cause why he shouid not be punished for contempt. Wm. Corbin came before the bar of the Senate and thru his attorney, Frank D. Nicoll, boldly charged four of the committee--Senators Emmons, Bunkers, French and Wright-with bribery, and presented affidavits to prove his charge. It was a master stroke engineered by the wily McNab who had set a trap to catch the unwary Senators.

According to the testimony, Joseph S. Jordan, a representative of the S. F. Post, was the go-between 10 make terms for the accused with the four associations that were to be held up as it were. Gavin McNab and Fremont Older of the Bulletin, with the assistancs of two detectives, laid a trap to catch Jordan.

As the story goes, Jordan was to be given a commission of $250 and each of the four was to receive $350, with the under'standing that the associations were to be given a clean bill of health. McNab and Older marked the paper money and took down the numbers for future identification. Then they gave the money to the detectives who came to Sacramento and made their deal with Jordan. The money was turned over to Jordan in four packages of $350 each, which were in turn given by him to the respective Senators, the detectiv.es being eye witnesses when Emmons and Bunkers received their packages. Jordan then gave Wright and French their share, but there were no witnesses to this transaction.

So this is the story that has paralyzed the Senate and forever blasted the reputations of the four Senators. Each of the accused Senators has denounced the whole story as false and claim that they can prove their innocence. They say that they never received one cent and had no arrangements with Jordan whatever. That if such a thing took place Jordan got the money and sold them out without their knowledge, It is surely a most deplorable condition of affairs, and if the story is false the Senators are still ruined forever, for there is no reparation that can be made that. will bring back -to them an untarnished The defense will begin to put iu their testimony soon.

They will attack the reputations of Corbin and the two detectives and try to show them to be unworthy of belief. February 7th. The accused Senators began put. ting in their defense this week. The testimony adduced was to show that detectives Tichenor and Hartling bore a bad reputation and were unworthy of belief.

Numerous nesses were called from Sierra county, Bakersfield, Los Angeles and San Francisco to prove this. But Gould, McNab and Nicoll in cross examination brot out the fact that many of the witnesses were prejudiced because the two detectives bad at some time or another used evidence against them. Some of the evidence against the detectives, however, was very strong, but the case of the accused was correspondingly weakened on account of the fact that some of the witnesses "used for the defense had been law breakers at some time in their careers. Senators Coggins, Bauer and Rambo were also called to show that the four accused Senators had run the work of the committee pretty much their own way by not consulting them. This was not a very material point, however, as these Senators were seldom present, naturally leaving the matter of committee work to those present--Senators Emmons, Bunkers, French and Wright.

So far few of the witnesses ever saw Jordan around the committee rooms. J. B. S. Union High School Banquet One of the prettiest banquets ofthe season was given at Sanford hall last Friday evening by the class of'06.

The hall was beautifully draped in streamers of blue, caught up in toe center by a huge bunch of mistletoe. Great knots of blue hung on the elec. tric lights and down over the stairway. The favored few assembled at eight o'clock, and, after a program which displayed no little talent, the sounds of the piano announced the grand march. At 11 o'clock all adjourned to the banquet room which was also draped in blue and the tables decorated with violets.

A great '06 made of violets was in the center of the table and clusters of violets lay at each plate. Alter the many good things had been eaten a few toasts were given. Mr. L. W.

Babcock gave a toast to the class and Mr. and Mrs. Westerman "To our Sweethearts." After the supper there were a few more dances which closed with "Home, Sweet Home" waltz. The souvenirs of the evening were white scrolis pierced with a gilt feather pen, which were tied in blue On these were written U. H.

These are pretty remembrances of the class of '06, and, in the years to come, when the class of '06 is no more, these will grace memory's with happy recollections of that pleasant evening. Those present were: L. W. cock, Mr. and Mrs.

Westerman, Miss Mary Poage, Miss Gertrude Ta, motte, Mr. and Mrs. Bernhard, Mr. Carpenter and Miss McAbee, Mr. Davis and Miss Taggart, Mr.

McCowen and Miss Odle, Mr. Bradley and Miss Lyons, Mr. Roth and Miss Clarke, Mr. Marks and Miss Held, Mr. Clarke and Miss Hoag, Mr.

Marks and Miss Stitt, Mr. Tindall and Miss Cooper, Mr. Pemberton and Miss Ford, Mr. Woodward and Miss Rennick, Mr. Henley and Miss Brown, Mr.

Eversole and Miss Metcalf, Mr. Falla's and Miss Williams. Kicked by a Horse Supervisor Lawson met with a painful, but not serious accident, one day last week by being kicked by a horse, which resulted in a fracture of a bone of his leg. In consequence Mr. Lawson was unable to be present at the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Supervisors, which convened Monday last.

Rape Case Rape Case The case of the vs. Wirt, Darr, charged with rape, i is now. on trial in Judge White's Court. Be sure to notice the change in Fallas' price list each week. LOCAL NEWS EPITOMIZED Comings, Goings and Doings of Mendocino's Gay Metropolis.

About fifty Ukiah people availed themselves of the cheap excursion rates to Willits yesterday. The barbers of Ukiah have entered into a stipulation agreeing to close their respective shops on Sundays. Letters formerly addressed to Alpine Mill, Mendocino county, should now be addressed to Duffey, Mendocino county. "Mendocino Day" at the Cloverdale Citrus Fair will be Saturday, February 25th. Should the weather prove favorable a tremendous crowd will go.

Rev. A. J. Batchelor, Presiding Elder of the M. E.

Church South, preached a very able and comprehensive sermon last Sunday morning, in place of the regular pastor. Mrs. M. Connor, of Covelo, this county, on Monday last gave birth to her 17th child, a son. It is said that all of her childien are living.

Another point in favor of what California climate can accomplish, The monthly musicale at the Christian Church will be given on Thursday evening, March 2nd, instead of the 29th, as stated in THE DISPATCH of last week. A fine program is being prepared and several rare treats are in store for those who attend. The management of the Cloverdale Citrus Fair have engaged the wellknown Santa Rosa band to play and will commence to make the pavilion lively with music from the time ofthe opening of the exhibit until the close of the same. Also upon the arrival of excursion trains the band will be at the depot to welcome them with sweet strains of music. The music and dance loving public should bear in mind that the Fitth Regiment Band will give a grand concert ball on Washington's Birthday.

The home band will be assisted by the California Northwestern Band of 18 pieces from Willits, and the concert will be from 8:30 to 9:30 p. m. Tickets for the concert 25 cents, and for the dance (including concert) $1.00. We understand that the old Ukiah hotel wlii likely be reopened in the near tuture. The exterior is not very inviting to the eye but the interior arrangements are very good and with but slight expense can be made quite acceptable to patrons.

Ifreopened it will be conducted as a second-class hotel and for family accommodation. At one time it was the leading hotel here and had a big patronage. The Board of Supervisors The Board of Supervisors began their February session on Monday, all members being present except Supervisor D. H. Lawson.

Robert Chipps was awarded the contract to furnish wood for the county farm, Ukiah high school and the court house at the following prices: 20 cords 16-inch, at 18 cords 24-inch, at 100 cords 24-inch at 50 cords 20-inch range size, at 5 cords 20-inch, at 50 cords 22-inch, at The contract to furnish dry goods and clothing for the county farm was awarded to Jamison Bros. J. R. Mathews put in the lowest bid for drugs for the same purpose and received the contract, J. W.

Eversole will furnish the court bouse with stationery and other supplies, his being the lowest bid, Bald Mountain school district was formed from parts of Sherwood and Ocean districts. In the matter of the change of the boundaries of the Fort Bragg and Noyo school district, the Board changed it as follows: Taking from the Noyo school district that part of section tp. 18, north range 17 west, lying north of Noyo river, and that Noyo school district boundaries be changed to conform to above change. $250 was allowed from first district road fund to pay Peters Bros. for right of way.

The petition for a new wagon road from Comptche to Albion was granted. The bills against the indigent fund and the first district road fund have been laid over. The official count of the votes on the incorporation of the town of Mendocino resulte1 in its defeat. J. W.

Pickle was granted two months' time in which to complete his second contract on the Coyote valley road. J. H. Shibley was appointed pound master of Elk. In the matter of the Monroe-Hollow Tree road permission for its opening as a public highway was granted.

The Board ordered that $50 be appropriated from the Exposition fund for advertising the resources of Mendocino county, the same to be expended by the Mendocino County Board of Trade. The Auditor was instructed to draw his warrant for $21 in favor of Jas. Stitt for the transportation of Mr. and Mrs. Strong and family to San Jose, Cal.

Chas. E. was granted a permit to remove the body of his infant son from one lot to another in Evergreen cemetery at Manchester. Permission was granted for the establishment of a public pound at Hopland. The petition to discontinue the pound at Mendocino was rejected.

The Board received the report of the Sheriff to the effect that the conduct of Harry Hogue has been positively good. It was ordered that: a credit of five days be allowed for each month, and that the same be deducted from his term of imprisonment. The application of Mrs. G. Starkey for aid of three balf orphans was granted.

The county surveyor was ordered to do any unfinished work touching the map or plat books showing private lands owned or claimed in Mendocino county, where the same are not shown by the present maps in assessor's office; the divisions and subdivisions thereof, with the acreage; also such unfinished work touching the maps or plats of the lands in Mendocino county held under Spanish grant, and also such unfinished work touching the maps of cities and villages and school districts in the county. The Board has been served with summons in the case of Trinity county vs. Mendocino county on boundary question. The Board structed the District Attorney to de" fend the same. Asylum Changes Anthony McPeak has resigned the foremanship of the State farm and moved to the Buckle place on the river just north of the bridge.

Mr. McPeak has worked at the asylum tor a number of years to the entire satisfaction of the management. Burham Ball now has charge of the farm and is domiciled there with his family and his former position, that of clerk to the steward, is filled by a gentleman by the name of Smith, recently from San Francisco. There will be a social dance Saturday night at York Celand's hall. NEW POWER AND IRRIGATION CO.

The City of Ukiah Willing to Enter Into a Fifteen Year Contract The organization of the Eel River Power and Irrigation Company and the election of officers therefor will take place in San Francisco this week and R. E. Donohoe and W.P. Thomas left Ukiah last Tuesday to be present? The directors are: F. D.

Madison, of San Francisco, W. W. Van Arsdale, H. B. Muir, R.

E. Donohoe and W. P. Thomas. The capital stock of $500,000 has all been subscribed and work on the tunnel will begin immediately.

It is announced that the plant will be located in the upper end of Potter valley, where a tunnel almost one and a half miles long will carry a large stream of water from Eel river thru the mountain, where it will fall 470 feet into the motors that will run the electric generators. A 500 horse-power plant will be put in at first, but the tunnel and ditches will be large enough to carry water sufficient to run a 2500 horsepower plant. Eel river will be the source from whence the water will be taken out at a junction about three miles above John Engineer Donohoe will present his report of the surveys he has made for the tunnel, which will carry a stream of water three feet wide and four feet deep. Also the many liminaries, such as diverting dams and storage reservoirs- they should be located, etc. The city of Ukiab is particularly very much interested in this enterprise and overtures for the purchase of the power and light are in progeess.

The Board of Trustees have already acted in the matter. At its last meeting a motion was made and unanimously carried, on behalf of the city of Ukiah, to make the new company an offer substantially as follows: To enter into a contract with the new company to purchase for a term of 15 years, at $4.00 per horsepower, an electric current, the same to be delivered at the switch-boaid; the city to take 250 horse- as a starter, with the absolute privilege of increasing the amount of current whenever the city sees fit, the limit being 500 The city of Ukiah is. to have the exclusive sale of electricity for light and power within a radius of three miles square, with the court house as a center. This will give an area of one and one-balf miles each way from the court house, the new company shall have the right to sell power to the water works for pumping water for municipal purposes, or do it themselves if they so desire. But the city of Ukiah, however, reserves the right to use the power purchased to pump its own water in the future, it thought to be advisable or expedient; the right to sell power to any private corporation or party for the purpose of pumping and supplying water for municipal and domestic purposes within the boundaries already prescribed shall belong to the new company, but the city reserves the right to put in its.

own water works and use the power to pump its own water supply. The city also reserves the right to sell light and power to Vichy Springs and the asylum, The stipulations of this do not of necessity require Ukiah the outlay of a dollar in the construction of any part of the plant, but after the same is completed and in operation and the current is de livered at the city switch-board, the city will thereafter, at its own pense, look after the power line between Ukiah and the upper end off Potter Valley, the point of generation. If, however, there should be any large outlay required, such as the putting in of new poles and wires, the company is expected to do the same. The plant is expected to be completed and in operation on or before October, 1906. All of our citizens are interested in the welfare of this new project, and it is one that marks the beginning of a new era of progress.

Death of James M. Carothers Sri Last Tuesday morning James He Carothers senior breathed his last: For the past few years Mr. Carothers' health has not been very good! The immediate cause of his death was due to heart trouble and old age. James H. Carothers was born in Brown county, Ohio, November 14, 1818, and at the time of his death was past 86 years of age.

When yet a child Mr. Carothers with his parents moved to Indiana. When a young man he again moved to Illinois and remained in Hancock county until he came to California. He crossed the plains the first tine in 1850. Returned to Illinois in the fall of in the spring of 1853, again crossed the plains with his family.

During his first trip to California he was engaged in mining in and about what is now Placerville. On arriving here the second time in 1853, he engaged in farming near Stony Point in Sonoma county. He afterwards removed to Petalumas and later to Sacramento. By reason; of the great flood in Sacramento in the winter of 1851-2, he returned to Petaluma where he resided until something like six years ago, since when he has lived in Ukiah. His wife died in September, 1898.

He leaves six surviving children, T. L. Carothers, J. H. Carothers; junior, of Ukiah; Mrs.

G. A. Hocker, Mrs. W. W.

Stitt, of Santa Rosa; W. to. Carothers, A. B. Carothers, of San Francisco.

He was a. brotherin-law of the late Dr. T. L. Barnes.

Mrs. C. L. Paine and John Carothers are two of his children that preceded, him to the grave. The tuneral took place Wednesday afternoon from the residence of T.

L. Carothers, and the interment was in the Ukiah cemetery, in the Masonic plat. Following were the pall bearers; W. A. Hagans, John Taylor, William Ford, Ed.

R. Wright, $. D. Paxton and S. M.

Orr. Death of S. W. Haskett. Samuel W.

Haskett, an old pioneer of this city, died Wednesday evening, age 74 years. Samuel Washington Haskett was born in the State of North Carolina, and came to California in the early 60's. Mr. Haskett served one term as Recorder, and one term as Auditor of this county. The deceased leaves a wife, four daughters and one son: Mrs.

W. La Bradford, of Red Bluff; Mrs. Jennie McCann, of San Francisco Mrs: Rawson, of Los Angeles, Mrs. I Hart, of Ukiah and Guy Haskett, of Willits. The funeral: takes place from St John's M.

E. Church today. Says the Covelo Review of week: "John Stephens, who ha visiting relatives here for set. eral weeks, left this week for. Ukiab which was his boyhood home.

Alter a few days visit at that place he wit visit relatives in San Francisco and San Mateo. Mr. Stephens has bee engaged in the shrep business in Southern Oregon for number years and now has a flock of 3300 winter quarters. near Red BluR Next June he will return Round Valley and if the country good to him in. the dr does now he will buy.