Woodland Daily Democrat (Newspaper) - December 18, 1913, Woodland, California WEEKLY ESTABLISHED 1859 WOODLAND CALIFORNIA THURSDAY EVENING DECEMBER IS 1013 DAILY ESTABLISHED Robbers of Their Kind Had Added a Woman but She Escaped BULLETIN Special to the SACRAMENTO Dec three highway hoboes who have been ter hobo camps In Yolo county were arrested here last night One is an escaped prisoner from the Oregon penitentiary Another Is a mere lad 17 years old The other Is middle aged The woman picked up by them In jungles near Davis has not been lo It is suspected by Chief John son she is Ida Johnson missing from Sacramento for several days Statement from Roy Pike Concerning Certain Lake County Opposition Regarding the latest effort of certain take county residents who are opposed to the irrigation project of the Yolp Water and Power Company to form the county into a water district and thereby condemn the rights any com pany may have upon Clear lake Hoy M Pike president of the water and power company authorized the follow ing statement in the Democrat to day socalled county ownership is simply another attempt to In with our work In the meantime the Is going right ahead It Is significant that those who have opposed the com operations on the ground that the use of Clear lake as a reservoir would destroy tlie health of Lake county are now advo cating the formation of an organ to do the same thing Padre of the Rains Defends His System and ens Inquirers In a speech crackling with humor as one of his storms crackles with elec Father Jerome S Santa Clara Padre of the Rains explained his system of weather pre dictions The main points In his system are known hut he elaborated upon them and explained many matters pre Increase in Business on Woodland Rural Delivery Routes Showing that the Woodland post Having added a woman confederate office force collected and received one outfit the three men who held more mail in the rural districts said left in doubt In par he iip the hobo camp near the railroad last October and November last Monday night continued their during the same months last year record for paradoxical thievery After Beverly Coil assistant postmaster stripping their fellow hoboes of their gave out some interesting statistics last cent here they continued on to today Davis pulled off a similar job During these two months just past getting 53159 rural pieces weighing The outfit would seem to have n rec pounds went through the hands of the ord reaching all Hie way down the local clerical force valley Before coining south they held There were delivered let up a number of wayfarers in Red ters weighing pounds 28212 f pieces of matter ing papers circulars and magazines land weighing pounds pieces of printed matter weighing 1103 pounds 669 packages jy parcel post I weighing 1240 545 pieces of I franked matter including government documents and weighing 90 pounds From the rural districts the carriers collected 4501 letters weighing 154 pounds 59 pieces of firstclass matter 9 pieces of weighing 4 pounds and 75 pieces of INTELLIGENCES OF A LOCAL NATURE Items That Are Lim to Paragraph Each weighing 149 pounds Theodore ill The Club assisted by Mrs re A Bell is reported seri zilpha Jenkins soprano gave m San j Rn interesting program Dr J L Smith now of Churchill last night at Scottish Rite Hall The Nevada has resigned his position of auditorium was filled and several num secretary of the Churchill Chamber of Commerce were encored among these being excerpts from As the Harry H Day 28 years old n Pants Ring Out dent of Ohio and Mae Belle Bonner Wild Bells Sabins Carmen Natale aged 27 resident of Missouri were Hattons He That Hath a Pleasant People down in Santa Clara sayi to me sometimes Well Father by your it ought to be raining today Yet it isnt raining Whats the mat ter Nothing is the matter The only is that people who ask his ques tion do not understand meteorology A storm Is not rain Rain is in the orin perhaps and perhaps not but the storm Is not rain If I forecast ten storms for a month ten storms appear I have not known it to fail tin complete observations since 1906 but whether there is rain in that storm or not I cannot say We have storms all summer for in stance but no rain In the Sierras the storms in winter bring sleet and enow often here clouds in summer they bring nothing at all except the finest sort of weather So we must ask the question What is a Father Ricard then compared a to a moving amphitheater of lir shaped somewhat like the Greek theater in Berkeley but big enough to cover a slate or two It lins n whirling motion The heart of his system is as fol lows During thirteen years of ob servation of the sun Father Ricard has observed that whenever a sun spot journeying around the sun reach es one of the four positions a storm somewhere upon the Pacific coast There are many accidents that may happen to storms said Pal her Ricard Last week Forecaster Willson report ed that one of them bound this way out into the Pacific Perhaps it had but it is also possible that it may have been met by a south wind abnormal through excess of the gradient and winds as these the to check a storm lo pile it up upon itself to send it floating hith er and thither Little whirlwinds In the streets can ue broken up sometimes by throwing a stick across them the big storms e gf similar delicate structure A southbound storm last month had been met by a wind blowing 72 miles m hour said Father Ricard and IhS May Retain Browning as a Figurehead and Elect Active President The directors of the Club of the Trolley Baseball League believe they have solved the problem of how lo overcome the trouble that exists be tween President Belcher and the Chico that originated over the now famous contro In which Belcher declared ho would not act on the league with Browning the active representative of the Chico club At a meeting of the directors Louis was elected as manager of the club Browning remains as dent but he will be sort of a figure head and will he the real man behind the hat when It cornea to han dling the team participating In league meetings or doing anything of an ex nature This It Is believed will win Belcher back Into the good graces of the league and enable him o remain at the head of the league The local team will be soon and plans for a and het ler season In 1914 made A Case in Wi an Aged Man Is Suing His Daughter and Her Husband The case of John A Soulo vs M Wyalt anil Hurry her hus band began In the superior court hero this Afternoon M Is tho daughter of the plaintiff who la an elderly citizen of Brodorick The plaintiff asks to get back a deed of somo property deeded to his daugh ter He claims that his daughter and her husband used fraudulent means and undue Influence in persuading him to sign the deed married here Wednesday evening Face and a hunting song by Gustavo Scarlet fever is said to be prevalent Ferrari in Rumsey the case of Viva Travis Parkers Spirit of Beau y ng the most recent It is said that was one of the notable numbers of the the disease has been contracted by six evening embodying beautiful rhythms families during the past few weeks of melody Mrs Jenkins none of the cases have proved solo parts in two chorals but it was In n sroun of songs that she was heard to the best advantage and gave r o The schools have been closed for an an of attainment far indefinite period and are being the average Her intelligent ren Pr W J Qf Night In May Ins county health off leer says he The Cross of FUe uy Max several cases among the f it auch as to command the attention packers during the fruit season of all musicians as Mrs Jenkins pave Two games of boys basketball these two numbers an especially musl on the slate for Saturday evening The reading in addition to an ex team of the high school will meet of high clear tones with good bodl following a preliminary contest sustaining Chronicle between the second squad and the State Farm quintet Students of Holy Rosary Academy will depart on Friday for the holiday recess Some of the boarders from KNIGHTS LANDING RIDGE CUT APPROVED P N Ashley One of the Assessors Named to Levy the Tax on the District A Futile Effort Made to Send a Live Pig Through Parcel Post For the first time since the ration of the parcel service in Woodland tho force WHS forced to turn down a consignor Wed afternoon when n real guinea pig was to the window for a trip through the malls Window Clork Clyde Dodds was certain as lo the regulation covering tho transmission of live stock so he called Beverly Coll the assistant post master Coil promptly ruled that pigs is pigs and that there was no room In the mail sacks for anything enclosed In n cage With an air of resignation the disappointed stockman picked np his box nnd moved off In the direction of the express office He Renders Service to Two Resident Chinese Interpreter Plans for the correction of the Knights Landing drainage ridge cut have been approved by the State Rec Board subject to supplement ary approval of he outfall gates by tho California Debris Commission ac cording to an announcement day by the board On the recommendation of the dis petitioners B A P N Ashley and L L were named assessors to levy the district assess ment lax for the carrying out of the big project The flood control en gineer was authorized to commence work Immediately on preparing the arga assessment roll for the 1750000 acre district which It is will be completed by March 1st The district to be benefited by the ridge cut which will empty the flood waters Into the Yolo basin bypass embraces H counties of the Sacramento valley j Several applications were presented lo the board and will he considered at air had bean piled so high thai in meetings ours the barometer rose 9 of an inch Plans tor improvements and levee I have felt that these local in district No 108 estimated conditions may have made you believe involve the expenditure of that my dates were wrong he mately 5425000 were presented for ap said This is not so The dates bv Charles De St Maurice or NOTICE The West Sacramento Co Is Nevada will leave this evening Studies to give a free aviation exhibition at will be resumed at the academy on West Sacramento on Sunday Decem January Gth ber 21st as a fitting celebration for been right invariably for the arrival of storms on the coast The great ques ton now is to solve the problem of the and I the secret lies in the sun spots themselves position on the sun their their form This will take the closest observa tion for years With our equipment at Santa Clara we cannot do he work of observation adequately I want a big telescope with full equipment for observation photographic work and the like The equipment nodded will cost to I believe that we are on the track to the solution of all weather prob ems and some day will beable to forecast these storms with their tracks accurately for months even years in advance y Delano is as popular In his home city as he is In Woodland I Orrin Elliot a candymaker at to the aviation ex Agent King reported this morning that a large crowd was expected from Breens underwent a serious operation and see Bob Fowler in some nt the sanitarium Wednesday morp of nights his road having Ing He was hurt several days ago put ln rates fcy a fall from Ma bicycle and the op e ration was necessary to relieve the re TO CLASSIFY Injury Although on the table for over two hours Elliott rallied well A LARGE WORK TEAM for sale Bn from operation To determine the rights of the city street Woodland of Woodland to collect taxes on sums nf money aggregating and quire of A J Bounty 450 Fourth Mm of Mm Farms Creditors The committee appointed to repre ent the creditors of the Solano Irri ated Farms met at the of Trade 444 Market street and fter a bief conference adjourned nn II Monday A letter was read rom one of the principal stockholders f the company stating that efforts were being made to restore the com pany to a sound financial basis and asking the creditors to defer action for mother week It was decided to com ly with the request held by the county clerk a petition has been filed for a hearing These land State Farm 2d game Wood BASKETBALL GAME Saturday evening December 1st game second team Wood vs second team Northern n the Reed Or ys chard case and in the H E Kraft case 5 afterwards and the West Side Railroad in the Heed Orchard case City taxes will gents cents 20 become delinquent on December 55 OR 20 FIRSTCLASS DAIRY COWS wanted Good grade Hoi steins pre ferred Address Chas F Evans Woodland or phone Main 98 or 361 124 The He Selected for the Baird Trial Notice was served upon the Rev E J Balrd late Wednesday afternoon of the charges prepared by the vestrymen in their effort to unfrock him He wil have thirty days In which to answer The general charges are the same as appeared In the Democrat severs days ago Bishop Moreland has named twelve clergymen who are entitled to seats In the church trial five of whom wll he selected by Balrd The clergymen are Rev W C Clark of Rev F W Crook of Ukiah Rev R L Mac Farlane of Healdsburg Rev H Perks of Sacramento Rev T T Denhard of Fort Bragg Rev W B o Petaluma Rev EX B Bradley of Santa Rosa Rev Bert Foster Grass Valley Rev C B of Jackson Rev P G Snow of Auburn Rev I B Baxter o Napa Rev F of Redding Phone No eery Tlie Model J A SCOTT TAILOR FUNERAL SERVICES The funeral of Mrs Anna was held this afternoon from her Inte residence on College street The ser vices were conducted by Rev C M of the Congregational church Song service Was rendered by A W Fox Mrs Le Pierce Tarlton Jacobs and Miss Prior The ers were Byron Hillhouse Henry Siebe G M Cobb S Montgomery R G Lawson and W H Lawson Inter ment was In Marys Cemetery north of Yolo The Ice Carnival at Truckee to Open December The Chamber of Commerce through Its manager W B ms announced hatthe late of the of opening of Its winter carnival The Fiesta of the Snows will bo December 27 1913 With her ice palace a glitter ing completion a carload nnd more of sleighs nnd sleds bobsleds and ters In their coats of red and Ilie her huge sta bles sheltering the best horses est spirit that could be secured for miles around with her toboggan slide cleared her electric lighting system waiting only the turn of n switch to bathe the carnival grounds the Ice pal nee and the picturesque mountain town n a flood of Illumination Truckee has betn waiting with unwonted Impa the arrival of n fine fall of snow and the coming of Dorean for these were needed to insure the per of the Ice Palace and the In of its glittering architecture The proper kind of weather has ar rived and clear sharp win ter has begun so December has been set upon as the day when a host of visitors will trek to lo rev el in the snow and renew the sports of their eastern as wll bo the more general case to frolic fo the first time in the snow try the Ice streak down th hillside on toboggans ride through th snow behind gay plumed and jingling horse in cutlers made for two or bol sleds made for twenty Not the least of the attractive fea tures of the entertainment will offer her visitors will b the sixmile round trip sleigh ti Donner lake It is part of tlie plan o the chamber of commerce of Trucke to assist In any way possible In th plans already undertaken by the Na live Sons to erect on the shore of Don ner lake a monument to the memory o the heroes who 1817 an from whose leader the beautiful Lak derives Its name The Native Son have already laid the foundation the monument and its site la on th very spot where the Breen cabin stoo against the snows during the winter o 18478 Within a few feet of this spo tlie Lincoln Highway winds Its pic course and over it from Truckee to Donner lake thousands of motoring parties will travel It Is the hope of the Truckee fathers that from the Interest rekindled in the historic spot through the travel to Truckee that the Fiesta of the Snows will stimulate long the fund being raised by tho Native Sons suf to place a monument commen States Inspector of Immigra tion Hannum was over from Sacra mento late Wednesday afternoon for the purpose of securing affidavits In the case of a local Chi nese who Is a partner In the Man Hop mercantile business in Chinatown Kim IB to leave soon for for an extended visit Accord ig to the Immigration laws a ato of good character must be pro ureil before a departing oriental may to this country The affidavits signed by local to whom tin Is known as a desirable alien He to bo gone for two years Witnesses were also sworn In the ase of Wing King son of h Louie the well known celestial ho has worked as a cook on many suches about Woodland Since the oss of his right arm some years ago Louie lias been an Invalid and he s sending to China for his eon that he lay have the latters care was accompanied by a dls court reporter and a Chinese In who Is a Sacramento man ml whose command of English would nit a university professor to shame MINOR EVENTS IN PEOPLE Their Trips in and Out of Town and Who Are Guests Ruggles Is here on a visit rom Capay valley C W Bush went to Davis this ng Miss Vivian Gregory returned Wed from Mills College Frank Mattel returned to San Fran cisco this morning Welton J Phillips is in San Francis co on legal business Mrs W W Nelson returned home Wednesday evening Doll Browning and wife spent Wed In the capital city Miss Helen Loersch was an arrival IMs morning over the electric Mrs Nettle Anderson returned from Sacramento this morning Relth came up from Berke ley Wednesday evening E W Stevenson of Meridian was in Woodland several hours Wednesday IX H Guthrle and Dr J II Halle returned to Winters Wednesday even ing Jack went to this morning where he is in the real estate business Miss Annette Maddox returned Wed afternoon from the University of California Miss Margaret Ernst came over from Sacramento this morning for a visit with H L Ernst and family Misses Bulalla and former students at Holy Rosary Academy were visitors Wed Constable W F Stetson Is in town from today He reports that crop prospects In northern Yolo are Although there is a scarcity of veal in the Sacramento markets due it is to the policy of the ranchers In keeping their stock to avail themselves of the high prices being paid for beef cattle local dealers say that there are plenty of calves lo be had A percept ible decrease In tho supply of veal Is noticeable however In the east there are signs of a veal famine J A SCOTT TAILOR surate In dignity and beauty with the nobility and martyrdom It ates ESTATE TRANSFERS Bank of Woodland to E H 19 B acres tot 20 Amaranth Colony Craig Co Inc to J S E H 767 acres tract In Rancho Canada dc Elmer W Armfield to Lucy M Cnt lip et 4 block 2 subdivision East Metropolis Trust and Ravings Bank to Marie H 47 nnd 60 block 1 Sub 1 Yolo Hardwood Co most roseate Clarence Pugh and wife left this morning for an eastern trip of six weeks They will first visit relatives of Mrs Pugh In Kansas City thence Lhoy will go to Oklahoma the old dome of Mr Pugh NEW ADS TODAY team for gate Hill pasture to rent Dairy cows wanted The Hub Yolo County Savings Bank B L Wing House to rent Trade Palace Home Savings Bank
