Woodland Daily Democrat (Newspaper) - June 28, 1913, Woodland, California WEEKLY ESTABLISHED WOODLAND CALIFORNIA SATURDAY EVENING JUNE 28 1913 DAILY Fight Between Power Companies V Yolo People Heard in Lake Case AN INDIVIDUAL COMES IN SHORT MENTION LENGTHS In This Space is Related Live News of Woodland The Stale Conservation Commission began Friday the hearing of a con troversy involving two gigantic power and irrigation projects in Lake and Yolo counties the conversion of Clear Lake into a great storage reservoir and the carrying of water to more than 100000 acres of land The Yolo Water and Power Company is contesting before the commission the right of the Power and Irrigation Company of Clear Lake to carry out certain power and irrigation projects as defined in latter ap plication to the commission The hearing continued through af and evening sessions and each side summoned a half dozen witnesses from Yolo and Lake counties to tes tily regarding the standing of the two concerns Testimony was given before Commissioners S C and Har old T Power Attorney H T Jones represented the commission A C Hus ton of Woodland the complaining cor and Charles S Wheeler the corporation Roy M Pike president of the Yolo Water and Pow er Company was in Attendance iu be half of his corporation As brought out by the settlements of tlie attorneys before the commission the protesting attorney makes the con tention that before the defendant and water development cern had applied for permission to dam In response to Hustons questions Clear Lake and raise the level ten feet Wheeler gave an exhaustive summary for power purposes the Yolo Water of his holdings on the mar and Company had begun gin of Clear Lake Huston in asking same project by the filing of condemi or the information sought to prove nation suits to more than half the laud to the commission that the on the margin of the lake The latter company owned no land absolutely company also contends that the of encumbrance in the district mission of a new company to the field in which it seeks to operate would seriously interfere with The hearing Is going on ble public service which began this aminer vear when water was supplied to 25000 acres of land Under the law passed it the session of the state legislature the litigants have no ap peal from the ruling of the commis sion which in its quasijudicial func tion will in this instance pass on an issue involving several millions of dol lars J Reith president of the Woodland Board of and secretary the Yolo County Water Users Associ ation J L Marian former president of the sanie association and Attorney C W Thomas of Woodland testified at last nights session for the com plaining company They all declared that the Yoo Water and Power Com pany Inul fulfilled all its promises and that the admission of a new company seriously would endanger agricultural development in the county Attorney Houston in outlining his case at the afternoon session charged that tin defendant company was or for no other purpose tlian to plunder the Yolo Water and Power Company He contended that the lat ter company was the only concern operating in Lake and Yolo counties for the sole purpose of carrying on Whence People Come and Whither They Go ON ONLY Social luck Important Work ac by the County Board Education The county board of education ex to complete its labors for the term before adjournment this after noon Since passing upon the papers of the applicants for graduation from the eighth grade the members have been working on the course of study to make it conform to the new state grammar board has added the following f books to the school libraries lean History Amer Guy V Gibbs city attorney of Win ters and Miss Stella Harris whose en gagement has been announced in thes columns be married Sunda morning It will be a church wed ding and will be solemnized in thi Christian church the wedding houi having heen set for The Senior Baud of the Boys Club has arranged with th Woodland Band for the use th Court pavilion for Tuesday ev ening July 8th and will give a danc there on that evening The local bane will give way to the visitors and wil not give a dance during that week A party of nearly fifty friends gav Mr and Mrs Charles recent ly married a very pleasant surpris Friday evening Armed with fis horns auto horns washtubs bells an other noise devices they marched t And but Comparatively Few of Them Can Be Noted in Compass as Important Omitted Mrs M went to today Miss Jessie was a passenger iis morning to Sacramento Harry Summers made a business to Sacramento today V L Nordyke of spent Frl ay evening In this illy E C Hamilton came down from lamilton Friday evening Airs H C went to Sacra this morning H P and wife were ers to Sacramento today Jack Beers traveling salesman reg here today from WolVerton W W and W H Sifford ent to San Francisco Friday after Mr and Mrs n O Judy Ira Mor is and L H ilson came over from Vinters this morning Miss Alice Taylor who has been vis ting Miss Helen Harlan returned to ler home in Winters today Mrs M a former resl lent of city but now of Redding s visiting her sons Harold and Leon ird Two representatives of the Sacra inento Aalley Sugar Company E C Hamilton and E H Nicholson were n Woodland Friday Sherwood son of Mr d Mrs Charles 01 First avenue has gone to Woodland for a visit of a week with Oak Park Charles formerly of this county now a San Francisco at torney arrived in Friday evening en route for EI Dorado county He has been in ill health for over a vear and proposes to live in the open tor awhile i rials Their Relations and Use to Man i Carolyn D Wood A Primer by their on Lincoln avenu Serl Evans Complete Arithmetic Much to their disappointment Mr an Watson White Founders of Our Mra were waiting for them by Put in the Most Com pact Space Possible COLUMN FOR ALL SUBJECTS A Pioneer Resident of Yolo County Mrs Mary lane Garoutte died in daughter The C H Scan This Day by Day and Though You Read Nothing Else You Will Be Fairly Well Informed We lire having delightful June wea her It is to a hard times party than it is to visit the springs The dip to Sun Francisco by elec ric line nud boat Is a pleasant one Kirk Swingle Is planning a trip to he Yellowstone Park in a few weeks The work of surfacing South Second with asphalt Is progressing nice y John Henle of Davis that the yield in his orchard will be very large this season The Initiation ceremony In Yolo Chapter 0 E S Friday evening was followed by a banquet C H Walden informs us that travel through Feather river canyon over the Western Pacific Is very heavy Earl Smith a Mall paper carrier was operated on for appendicitis Thursday He is reported to lie doing well Remember the free lecture on the Exposition at court house square this evening Probation Officer D E Jacobs made 11 trip to on matters connected with his office Tho funeral of Clarence Murphy who died Friday will be held from th Church of the Holy Rosary Monday Let us hope that some of the prop erty holders who are hesitating about improvement will be convinced of its and benefits by the results on south Second and North Third It is reported that the J W Brown ng ranch of 10283 acres in Sutler ba sin has been sold again this time at in advance over lasl October pur chase of approximately Death Calls Mrs J M Garoutte Sacramento on Friday and the body vlll be taken to Oakland on Sunday or interment Mrs Garoutte had been un Invalid for several years Her was Mary She was a of the late Krank A and A Pedlar of Fresno lor only sister Mra Keeler died In his city years ago On June 29 she was married library staff who served a term as district attorney and a tern is judge of thn superior court of this county and a term as aa justice of the supremo court died a few years ago Manfred Oar the surviving son resides In San Miss Is a resident of Sacramento nnd Is one of the state In Yolo county to J Si Garoutte For several years they lived near Cotton wood and were engaged In farming 40 years ago they removed to They built nnd lived in the residence on street now oc by Sirs All their children were born in this county There were two sons nnd one The fumily left Woodland over 20 years ago For several years Mr and Mrs have been making their homo In Sacramento Mrs was a woman of character and sweet and kindly dispo sition Sho leaves many who deeply sympathize with her bereaved family Miss Sieber to Teach Languages at Oroville A position as teacher of Latin nnd Sieber oE this city Miss Sieber will in the Union high accept school bus been tendered Miss Miss Sieber graduated from Stan ford with the class of 1912 Sho hna also done postgraduate work In the University of Colorado having only returned from that In She is an alumnus ot the Woodland high school being graduated here In During her high school nnd career Miss Sieber specialized In the Latin and German languages and It 13 these two subjects that she will teach nt Oroville CRANSTON TO ERECT FINE HIS STORE In Meantime a Billiard Room Will Occupy the Quarters Vacated by the Mail Country by Fannie B Coe Fifty Famas somebody had let the cat gut o People by James Baldwin bag Dancing and served to make the time pass rapidly and RESOLUTIONS TO HASTEN IRRIGATION WORK Sacramento Valley Development As sociation Cooperating with the Government Footed Friends Mrs II Smith In the The board that there it bat one lu Hie county CHURCH NOTICE Animal World Emma Serl Mighty and at midnight light re Animals by Annie Mix Otis were served Antoine of Oregon Hanna of Ken tucky Martha of California and of Colorado by James Otis Primary Language Lessons by Emma Serl Playing School by M Pratt Chad wick Stories of Our Holidays by Eea bel Harsford School and Home Gar dens by Meier Stories of Bogs by Ella M Powers The Christmas Angel by Katharine Pyle The Swal low by Ada W Camehl The Expression Primer by Lillian B Tal bert The Golden Rule Series br Rich mond Progressive by Burch 111 and Shinier First Baptist school at 10 a m No morning services B Y P U at 7 p m Subject Our Na tions Glories and Perils Union serv vices In courthouse square at 8 oclock Prayer meeting Wednesday at 8 p m out a teacher That Is a new district near Davis created from territory or la the Davis district The dis Is to have a new schoolhouse and there will be about twenty The derk of the board li Hn OtU B Wil bur M J Bench of Willows was in this city Friday and completed arrange ments with R B Cranston for a years lease of the building recently vacated by the Mall Mr Bench Intends to open a billiard parlor and soft drink emporium under tbe firm name of Dench He will take posses sion on July 15th Mr Cranston states that when the icase expires he Intends to raze the building and erect a new and substan tial building In Its place to be by his hardware store The new will have a depth of 114 feet and a frontage of 40 feet be a basement feet extending out under the sidewalk The front will be constructed of pressed brick and will be very similar to the Porter building nov under course ot construction Elevators from the base ment to tha top aad all other modern conveniences will be Included la the equipment It wili be in every particular and a credit to tha MISS Our Vallejo exchanges say that Miss Nellie Proctor IB an ap for a position In the commer cla department of the Vallejo school to fill the vacancy caused by the resig nation ot Miss Anna B With a view of Immediately secur ing all possible statistics and informa tion with relation to Irrigation in the upper portion of the Sacramento vol ley the Sacramento Valley Develop ment Association at its recent meeting adopted resolutions which It Is believed will be Instrumental In ng about active work by the States Reclamation Service that wll result in getting all of the necessary data and details that are involved in tho irrigation of at least a halt a mil ilon acres of and In the Sacramento valley One of the resolutions calls upon tha Reclamation Service to make a complete Investigation of the of the Big Valley res In Lasoen county as a storage reservoir for irrigating land from Shasta south Tho other resolution calls upon the Red Bluff Chamber of Commerce to take Immediate steps to carry on euch work as may be nec essary for the furtherance of the Iron Canyon project which It In estimated may be made to irrigate some 250000 Acres In Tehama Glenn Colusa aad count lea of W H S 11 Graduate from State Normal Tbe Woodland high school class of well represented in the lating class ol 1913 at the SHU Jose school No less than seven re diplomas having passed the final with high honors Two of them Misses Edna Clover and lara arrived at home Friday evening and the others Misses Lucy Ryan Eunice and Gladys Margaret and Sylvia re turned today and all were overwhelm ed with congratulations from relatives and friends Mr and Mrs Isaac Clover parents of Miss Edna attend ed he graduation exercises An Auction Sale on Goodnow Place Near Capay in Progress An auction sale is being conducted at the home farm three and a half miles north of Capay today with R G awson In charge Mules horses and farm implements nro disposed of Tho heirs of the late J P Goodnow aro C M Goodnow Pearl and Daisy Parker A good rowd Is in attendance Delayed Check Causes Arrest Satisfactory Explanation A delay in the arrival of a check at tiie Bank In San Francisco was the cause for tbe arrest In Friday evening and tha return to this city this morning of Ivan R Gates one of the promoters of the autopolo project The arrest was made upon the complaint of Oscar Whitehouse to the effect that Gates handed a check on a San Francisco bank for which check were no funds Explanations were made by Gates and confirmed by the bank authorities The case was Immediately dismissed It develops that money sent by Gates to tho Sati Francisco bank was delayed ea route The bank authorities tele phoned District Attorney Bailey that Gates account and standing with tha bank are good TONIGHTS LECTURE Dr Frederick V Fisher will deliver TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN This 19 to certify that tbe loot sus by me on June 12 1913 sioned by fire which destroyed about 45 acres of barey Insured In the North western Mutual Fire Association has been settled In full and In a manner entirely satisfactory to me Their adjustment was prompt Illustrated lecture on the Panama ly air and I can chew canal California and the 1916 fair them being the court house squaro this evening The lecture Is free to all Editor Owen of the Colton Courier who was for many yean a at Yolo county editorially end mm the Democrats on the of Governor to rign the Toto Lake hist war people with whom to Signed JOHN TAYLOR JeM Bean ot in lor owe JWM A W FOX
