The Red Bluff News du lieu suivant : Red Bluff, California • 1

PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK BED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY CALIFORNIA TAN 21 189? VOL III NO 3 THE WATER QUESTION INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS WED AT ST WENCESLAU5 special venire of Jurors summoned to be on hand at that time Judge Ellison announced that inasmuch as Governor Budd had declared the 24th a legal holiday the case would have to be continued for one day The Golden Jubilee celebration will be held in San Francisco on the 24th and for that reason the Governor has declared a holiday Bishop Arraigned William Bishop was before Judge Ellison Monday morning for arraignment on a charge of assault with intent to commit murder In response to questions from Judge Ellison Bishop stated that he had no means to employ an attorney and that ho wanted one Judge Ellison thereupon appointed Johnson to conduct the defense He asked to be excused but the Judge left the appointment as made The defendant was arraigned and the information read to him He was given until Saturday to plead Judge Ellison wants to try tee case wife the venire of jurors already summoned in order to save expense the $850000 required for operating expenses As the law allows a town of the fifth class (Bed grade) to tax the people 75 cents on the $10000 to run the city government and as we have never required more than 60 cents for such purposes a margin of 15 cents on the $10000 is to be derived from this source towards working expense of our water plant and It will amount to $202500 This will leave us short $147500 and to raise it we will have to charge a small rate for water about one-fifth of tee present rate Take tee 80 cents tax levied for bonds tee 16 cents obtained from town tax and the 12 cents obtained In tee chape of water rates and we have a total of 57 cents on the $10000 or $769500 levied to pay our entire indebtness yearly with a steady decline and a future We are paying now from tee water own figures $1850000 per year for water But it is safe to say that it is more tee difference in our favor in cose tee election carries is $580500 Now for tee timid let us add another $100000 for working expenses and it will be found that are are still $480500 ahead Can any good citizen vote against water with this proof before him? Is it right to crush our people with a burden in favor of individuals? Can we go on in tee rid groove while our neighboring cities progress? No we must win this fight It is our last chance and we must win When a kicker makes a howl about running our town in debt remember that not a government on tee (ace of the earth is without a debt progress is Impossible without debt No successful merchant ever made money without being in debt'at some time and it is a feet teat most all our wealthy men today are working on more capital in some shape than they actually possess Our proposition is a safe one for we have value received and we could if dissatisfied by giving a franchise sell to a corporation and receive tee full amount invested Of this there is no fear for every venture of this kind made by other cities has proved a great success It is hoped that the people of Bed Bluff will come to their senses throw off this yoke of oppression and strike for liberty- Very Truly Moons Mr Moors Supports flunldpal Owner ship With Arguments Figures and an Appeal to tho Public On February 12th tee question of municipal ownership of water works will be submitted to the people On this date will be decided Bed future Our town will either be classed as a progressive one or as a city on tee down grade without enterprise It does not seem possible that after the struggle made in Bed Bluff for so many years to have the question submitted our people will allow it to be defeated nor is there any reason why it should be All the great economists of tee day endorse the move as a saving and as tee natural right and it can be proved as you will see further cm teat we can build and operate our proposed new system for less money than we are now paying out for water to enrich parties who do not even live in our town Our proposed system will give us water that is properly filtered and not as now the drainage from a sheep pasture which in itself is enough to condemn it Already it is said the water company have parties doing quiet work to defeat the cause of the people and it is hoped that every citizen who has not studied tee question will before allowing himselt to be influenced against water by any argument first make inquiries regarding the person making such argument and find if there be a motive for such argument other than an honest one There are three classes to be aware of First the owners or those representing the company directly or indirectly Second those who gel an occasional dice or are indebted for personal favors Third tee usual Silurians and fossils who cry down any move of progress and who might live one thousand years and still be in the same groove The first we must respect for they are fighting for their own but as some one must suffer in all such public moves we cannot afford to extend sympathy but let them be content with put huge profits made from our people The Bed Bluff Improvement Club has endorsed bonding tee town for water and the members will do their utmost to win tee election They will be prepared to prove to any doubtful citizen that by voting against water he is voting against his own interest All should vote for water because it will save money The merchants should aid tee move because it will create trade and the laboring man because it will give employment especially when needed so bad This can all be done on less money than we ore now paying for water with this addition that each year our tax 1b less and in forty years we own our system Some time ago figures were made from a false basis as to the expense of operating a water Bystem here and the outrageous figure of $1000000 was held up to frighten our people-These figures caused an investigation to be made in other towns and what is tee result? We find that Santa Rosa a city of 9000 people run their system for less than $500000 the city of Santa Clara with 3500 people operate theirs for $870000 and the city of Uklab with 8000 people and woiks exactly similar to the one we have here (pumping in summer only) at a cost of $170000 per year Our opponents say it be done Can you take their word when it is done? Np And we therefore reasonably figure teat Bed Bluff can operate a system for $850000 If you doubt it come to our duband get proof we have it The town trustees have placed the amount of bonds to be issued at $6250000 To pay for these bonds and the interest at 4 per cent in forty yqara the State allows us to tax the people and as the property of Bed Bluff has an assessed value of $135000000 it would require 80 cents on the $10000 The bonds and interest being provided for we are to look for means to raise A Qood Time at Knights of Pythias Hall The Knights of Pythias and tee Rathbone Sisters installed officers Monday night followed by an entertainment and banquet The officers of the Knights were Installed by Wm A Fish as follows: II Swain Arthur Mason Rrila A Warner Prelate Thos II Long At A Frank Mayhew of and 8 Karmel of IL Darrough of Geo Madison Jr Record a Miller of Mrs Wessie Katsenstein of Sacramento installed the following officers of the Bathbono Sisters: Mrs Ella Thuresson CL Miss Minnie Boyd 8 Mrs Eva Karmel Jr Manager of Temple Mrs Susie A Snelling Mrs Mary Smite and Mrs Francis White of Mrs Bradley Protector of Temple Mrs Worthington Guard of Temple The entertainment of the evening was In charge of 1L Swain and tee grand banquet which closed tee pleasures of the evening was in charge of Chas Darrough who announced tee following toasts: Rev Gilbert Wm A Fish Frank Hamilton in tee Arctic Maurice Connell John Clements Mothers whose children are troubled with bad cold croup or whooping cough will do well to read what Dr RE Robey ofOlney Mo says cm this subject He writes years we have used Cough Remedy and always keep it in tee house It is regaredinour family as a pacific for all kinds of orids and coughs The 25 and 50 cents bottles for sale by Darrough Novel Road Coostructicn A novel system of road construction has been successfully resorted to in Monmouth Bl The ground was prepared for it by grading and being allowed to so remain for two months It was treated to an occasional scraping so that it would pack evenly being thus rendered hard and even for tee laying of a surface of brick the chief constructive feature The first thing was the setting of a curbing made of two by six planks seven feet apart held by oak stakes eighteen inches long and put down every four feet Inside of this was put a five-inch bed of sand all evened up and a single course of No 1 paving brick then put down a fine road bed being thus obtained Outside of the curb two feet of crushed rock were laid graded up to make an easy approach this plan insuring a way of eleven feet in width and as the earth on each side was graded and worked there was altogether a width of some forty feet affording tracks on each side for uso in dry weather Such a brick road cost about 90 cents per running foot daughter when recoverinm from an attack of fever was a great sufferer from pain in tee back and writes Louden Grover of Sardis After using quito a umber of remedies without any benefit she tried one bottle of Pain Balm and it has given entire Pain Balm is also a certain cure for rheumatism Kohl by II Darrough Census Blanks The Record-Union says: State Superintendent of Public Instruction Black has computed the number of census blanks necessary for the public schools In the State and finds he has enough on hand to go around Tho blanks will be forwarded to County Superintendents as soon as they indicate the number required by them The State Superintendent thinks he has enough of all blanks on hand to run until the next Legislature meets when the State Printing Office will again be opened except school registers The supply of the latter is exhausted The Marriage of Charles Uuash ud Mlw WIBameua Vogt St Wenceslaus Church was the scene of a pretty wedding this afternoon at 8 The contracting parties were Charles Unash of Bed Bluff CaL and Miss Wilia-mena Vogt of this city Bey Father Sinkmgjer performed the ceremony Miss Chapek was the maid of honor and John Konva-linka the best man The wedding march was played by the National Orchestra as the bridal party ascended the altar- After the ceremony the guests repaired to the residence of the mother Mrs a Vogt where a sumptuous dinner was served Only the Immediate relatives were present The newly wedded couple will leave soon for Bed Bluff CaL where the groom Is a prosperous young business man Iowa City was his home from infancy to young manhood and he has scores of well wishers here who will congratulate him warmly upon his choice of a helpmeet The bride too has spent her life in Iowa City and her amiable disposition and estimable character have won her a wide circle of friends The Be publican Joins them all in wishing Mr and Mrs Unash a bright and prosperous future (Sty Bepublican Mr and Mrs Unash are expected to arrive here the latter part of the month This will be Mrs lint visit to Bed Bluff which will be her future home Sacramento River Work Colonel Suter of the Government engineers stationed In California has submitted to the Secretary of War a report of plans of contemplated work in the Sacramento river at points below Sacramento The report says to give seven or eight feet of water below the Capital there should be employed both dredging and a system of wing dams and jetties The points at Which fhe improvement must be made are Iron Horse shoals at the head and foot of Ida Island near Clarksburg Heanock shoals and opposite and below Sacramento There is engineers say abnormal width of the river at these points and the construction of works of piling and brush held in place by rocks wouldbe almost sufficient to give the required depth of water The plan advocated is to place parallel rows of pllinsr between which there shall be masses of brush and rocks Above these jetties there shall be wing dams of brush These works are to be contemplated to be supplemented by dredging at points where the natural work of the waters will not scour out a channel The engineers estimate that the aggregate length ot the works including wing dams will be 18650 lineal feet at $261000 The dredging contemplated would add to this $18750 or a total expense of $280000 As there is not money available for this work it will have to await an appropriation by Congress The Ball dame The Bed Bluff baseball nine beat a nine from Cottonwood and Anderson on Sunday by a score of 15 to 8 The game was played on the diamond west of tho new school house and was well attended considering the bad weather The game was a good one and up to the sixth inning the score stood 7 to 7 Thomas was put in the box for Bed Bluff In the fifth inning and after that the other fellows were not in it The Cottonwood and Anderson boys came down in rigs and were accompanied by a number of rooters The return game on the Cottonwood diamond some time in the future promises to be an exciting one Case Continued The second trial of BooDoo Hong for practicing medicine without a license has been Continued from the 24th to the 25th The trial had been set for the former date and a 5 A FORDED CHECK George Name Used to Procure Money A complaint has been sworn to at Chico charging Henry Richter with forgery Last Thursday he went to Chico from the ranch of Mr Chumplin near Vina and purchased a bill of goods at the store of Silberstein Wise In payment for the goods he gave a check for $59 on the Tehama County Bank purporting to be signed by Mr Champlin Richter purchased two suits of clothes and an overcoat and in addition to that was given $10 in cash Next day he was tc call and get $20 more but he never caino back The check was presented to the Bank of Chico for payment but the bankers knew Mr autograph and did not think the name attached to the check was put there by him They communicated with the Bank of Tehama County and upon an investigation being made tee chock was pronounced to be a forgery The Chico officers have a good description of Bichter and are anxious to apprehend him but he has had a good start of them and it will be some time perhaps before they will have a chance to confront him with the evidence they have collected Our Ball Team The baseball fever has taken a pretty good hold on the young men of tee town and some of teem may be seen practicing at any time Last Sunday the Red Bluff nine was composed of players who can put up a good game of ball and the victory over the nine from Cottonwood and Anderson is quite a feather A return game will be arranged to be played at Cottonwood in tee near future and tee players expect to have to put up a game of boll Approaching the League games Some of the Red Bluff players are stars and they put up some good team work but more practice will not hurt them The game last Sunday was almost an errorless one so far as the Red Bluff nine was concerned Not Hard to Haul Supervisor Burress had the road roller hauled from the steamboat warehouse Tuesday and taken to the Rawson rood where it will be first used The machine weighs five tons and six horses were hitched to it to take it to the place indicated Although the machine is a heavy one it is not hard to pull and four hones hauled it up the hill from the bridge The result of the trial of this machine will bo watched with considerable interest as it is expected to prove a valuable addition to the rood-making machinery Letter List List of letters remaining uncalled for in the Postoifice at Red Bluff Cal for the week ending January 18 1897: Blakeslee Brown Dowell Downing II Long John Meyler Miller Mrs Reynolds Shultz Stinchacum Bern TaylorJIBroomCo Thompson Lola Thompson Trunnell Bello FOKEIOX Davidson John II Riiowv athletic club has been reorganized with Colonel Park Ilen-shaw as President Two Highway own Dave Wallen was in from Big Bend Monday and reports that he was the victim of two highwaymen a week ago Sunday night He was returning to his home and when near a brushy place alongside of the road two men stepped out and ordered him to throw up his hands Upon being confronted with a pistol he did so but held some grid money he had in his pockets when stopped high above his head thus saving it He had a few dollars in a puise and that was taken from him Mr Wallen is of the opinion that one of the robbers lives in Bed Bluff The Mayor of New York The power of the lord-mayor of London is trifling in compulsion with that of Mayor Van Wyck of New York He only rules about 37000 people down in the heart of London and has no authority over the remainder of the metropolis Mayor Van Wyck will govern 806 square miles of territory 8887798 people with a staff of 50000 employes a salary list of 80000000 and the expenditure of $75000000 a year for the support of the city and the extension of the public improvements Compressed Flour Flour compressed into bricks by hydraulic pressure tee material occupying a third as much space as the loose flour is beipg tested for army and navy use Besults thus far appear to show that tee tested flour is quite unaffected by dampness and is free from mould and safe from the attacks of insects Unlike loose flour it may be safely stored for a long time The Republican party seems to be in a bad way It Ib considered most remarkable that such an organization could have gone to pieces so soon after winning a great national victory The dissensions in Ohio the bolt in Maryland tee quarrel among the Bepublican leaders over the question of civil service reform and the utter inability of tho Republican managers in either house of Congress to frame a currency bill which can command a respectable following show conclusively that tho rid is badly Woodland Democrat Curtiss a Yolo county farmer has failed Ills liabilities are $264821 and his assets $500 in personal property exempt from execution Pretty bad break teat Hon Beqjomin Butterworth ex-Congressman and United States Commissioner of Patents died at Thomasvillc Georgia on Sunday John Simpson of Tehama and Charles Kaufman of Corning are putting in acetylene gas plants Eighteen cotton mills shut down in Massachusetts onJMonday and 0000 men went on a strike Tehama has a baseball team Found Dead Deputy Sheriff Donnovan of Corning telephoned to Coroner 1L West Thursday afternoon that an unknown man had been found dead in the lumber yard at that place The manner in which tee man met Ills death was not known at tee time Mr Donnovan was at tee telephone nor was it known when he died The Deputy Sheriff thought that owing to circumstances an inquest would be necessary and that tee Coroner had better hold It Dr West instructed Mr Donnovan to have the remains taken care of and to note particularly the position of the body and the surroundings and informed him that he would arrive in Corning on tee Bedding local More Diphtheria Diphtheria has made its appearance at the County Hospital and as a result that institution is in quarantine When Steward Montgomery took charge of the Hospital he employed Mrs Bruce to do the cooking for him and as her husband is an inmate of the Hospital suffering from consumption her two small children went with her Mrs Bruce is now Buffering from a severe attack of diphtheria and the two children are also down with the disease in a milder form County Physician Westlake is attending the patients Reports to the State Board of Health show that there are but fourteen consumptive patients among the 1500 confined at the Stockton Insane Asylum while there were no less than fifty positive cases of consumption among tee 500 patients confined in the Southern California Asylum.