Woodland Daily Democrat (Newspaper) - September 10, 1915, Woodland, California WEEKLY ESTABLISHED 1869 WOODLAND CALIFORNIA FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 10 1915 BROWNELL HEIRS CLAIM JUDGE HAWKINS ERRED IN THE McMAHAN CASE ALLEGE FINDINGS NOT JUSTIFIED BY THE BIG TRANSCRIPT ON APPEAL Within the next few days the script on appeal In the case of Mabry vs E B Brownell as ad- ministrator of the estate of Harriet V will be filed with County Clerk Harry The document is 757 pages long and was printed in two volumes by the Democrat job X printing department A R and Hurst Hurst are named as at- for the appellant while J F Bowie is counsel A C and H L Huston are attorneys for the ent appeal to the state supreme court is made against a decision or Superior Judge Anderson last December 31 In which it was i stated that McMahan Is entitled to worth of commissions and a in about worth of property in San Francisco as a result of a contract entered into by the late Harriet V BrownelL Among other allegations the heirs of the Brownell estate declare in their appeal that the evidence introduced at the trial does not sustain the findings that the judgment is contrary to law and that the court committed the reception and tion of evidence The case first came to the notice of the public on May 24 1911 when McMahan filed complaint in the superior court of Yolo county The numerous fine points of law in- Esparto Has Right Idea About paper Publicity To Be Here If Larceny Case Is It is highly gratifying to the management of this paper to note that the people of western Yolo county especially residents of parto have the forts of the Democrat to exploit the recent Almond Festival and the great country in which the fete was given Since last day daily communications have been pouring into this office and the in a substantial way have reminded the crat management that the ad- vance publicity and the complete illustrated write-up of the festival were appreciated Should the authorities at full to convict Stanley Stiffner formerly of Knights of grand larceny the defendant will be haled into Yolo county to answer to a charge of for- sery J Marling cashier of the First National Bank which concern accept cd a check on which Stiffner alleged to have written the name o B O early Wednesday evening swore out a warrant for ar- rest The warrant however will be served in case the officials are unable to convict Stiffner The defendant it is alleged was on parole when taken Into custody immediately attracted wide attention and since the filing several weeks bad of notice of appeal against Judge judgment the California barristers having been eagerly watching for the appearance of the transcript on appeal NEGRO BAPTISTS SPLIT CHICAGO Sept broke out afresh late last night and for the second time within the last four hours the national negro two factions of the Baptists convention were at odds this time apparently without hope of restored harmony of the Teutons vessels BERLIN via The Hague Sept The Russian center has suffered again from Teutonic battering it was announced today General von Hindenburg stormed three the Kioski region and the Bavarians captured Scoffing at the Russian announce ment of an important victory be- fore Tarnopol the war office issued a statement today declaring the czar is attempting to deceive his own peo pie in order to suppress a growing feeling of revolt The victory before belongs in the same class as the recent Russian naval victory in the Gulf of Riga said the statement re- ferring to persistent Berlin denials of Russian claims of a sweeping defeat Recorder Harrison this act by selling drugs In the warrant for the arrest of Madison without a license Fred Ulrich who Is charged with Jones of the State Pharmacy feting the traffic ordinance swore to the complaint evening Mrs A E Smith and Joseph Balrd Justice Ball today rendered a ion In the case ot M N Kirk vs J C Baker an action to recover tion for professional services rendered brought suit against W P Womack and W S Baker as executors of the estate of John Cradwick an action to collect alleged due for services The plaintiff was awarded the sran of rendered the deceased Attorneys and Thomas k Thomas represent the plaintiffs Justice Didion is today trying the case of Edna vs Elmer a dispute possession ot half of the today filed a horse lit Zamora The attorneys in demurrer and notice tor strike out In the case are M De Harat of Woodland and Reese Clark of Knights Valley Attorney Theodore A Bell on be- John Hayes Hammond who Is president of the National League of Republican Clubs gives a strong endorsement to the Wilson In his communication to Secretary Garrison he Regardless of politics the ple are behind you in the ant work you are ably doing for our national defense Any cion as to your integrity of pose is entertained by shallow minds and by contemptible cians whose wish is father to the thoughts It will prove to be suicide to so-called leaders for the Republican party If they do not cordially co-operate with the administration in the matter of national defense Baby Arnold 3 Days Old Scares Off Night Prowler To little Hubert Arnold 3 old sou of City Engineer and Mrs Arnold must be given part credit for frightening away a burglar from the Arnold home near the city park shortly after midnight morning It was the baby's cry that caused the In- truder io leave a side window and walk to the front of the residence where Special Hoff- man happened to be taking his ening jaunt The thief espied Hoffman and fled The officer fired three shots none of which took effect County School Superintendent riet S was today inspecting schools at Justice Jerome Barry came over from Washington today II B Buckingham of was a Woodland visitor today Cabin and Shop With Contents Morning I McCrew suffered a loss by fire at Guinda Thursday ing a cabin blacksmith shop and a shed with their con- tents burned to the ground held no insurance The gin of the fire is unknown There been no one living on the premises for two weeks The are investigating The flames were discovered at 4 o'clock in the morning The buildings were consumed In a short time In the cabin were a number of household articles including con- bedding and a quantity of cooking utensils The smith shop contained a valuable Kit of implements and tools Stricken with paralysis Dr W H Simpson brother of Mrs Roy Pike whose husband is head of the Yolo Water and Power Company fell down the stairs of a Riverside hotel Vienna Will Oust Dumba U S Note Startles AMSTERDAM Sept evening and died shortly after- tion in Vienna when President ward from concussion of the brain message demanding the re- Dr Simpson had lived at Riverside of tlie ambassador to Washington eighteen years Besides Mrs Pike he Konstantin Dumba was received eft two brothers L J Simpson As soon as Ambassador Penfield de- Oregon and Edgar Simpson of San the communication to his once was an inmate of an asylum In Iowa No search was made by the officials to establish the facts regarding Francisco The body will be buried Baron Burian Austrian for- Being without money or Fountain did Tells Prison Officials lis Hind Was Blank en Bay of Crine David Fountain was banged this morning at prison He ed to the gallows unassisted His face had a deathly pallor but beyond that his actions were natural The trap was sprung at 10 o'clock and lie was pronounced dead In teen minutes Up to the last Fountain maintained that his mind was blank at the time he killed the little Milling girl at Sacramento Warden Smith spent the most of the night with Fountain Fountain bore up well and ate a hearty breakfast His walk to the scaffold was rather brisk Some of the spectators say that Fountain bad a cynical smile as the black cap was being drawn over him Fountain's crime was the most re- ever committed In to On an afternoon In December 1914 he lured Margaret Milling aged 10 to the basement of the German Lutheran church After assaulting the girl he strangled her Fountain had been hired as church Janitor from one of the city missions Little was known of his past He confessed the murder and ed insanity He told officials that be n San Francisco minister conferred at length with Emperor Franz Josef No statement I was given out as to the result of the conference ROBBED AT FAIR CLAIM i It can definitely be say SAN FRANCISCO Sept the dispatches that Austria will re- Ition guards today are investigating call Ambassador It Is he story of William Wilson 2040 able that no successor to Dumba will avenue South who be appointed at present and that he was held up by two men In Baron von counselor off jack of Machinery Hall and robbed the embassy will conduct its affairs if his watch and pin at least for a time not bring affidavits or witnesses to establish any of the ments he made GET LOOT ONTARIO Sept ers stole worth of stamps and money from the six miles east of here early today and escaped SOLDIER SLAYER GETS LIFE SPOKANE Sept H Con- nolly who on June 11 while a private in the Fourteenth regiment of try killed his comrade James wards in the barracks at Fort George Wright has been sentenced to life Im- prisonment at McNeil's Island THE SPAN OF A BEING FLOATED ON BARGES INTO POSITION Almost with the neatness of clockwork the new double decked railroad tons slipped into place in the new Harlem Hirer Bridge of the Interborough this Issued for the arrest ot one J W Stanley witk the case of tin Irrigated Valleys Land Company vs E Robinson ney Bell alleges that it is not clear In the complaint as to how the tiff will damages by the de- crop V i draw span weighing 1400 Rapid Transit Company's Third avenue line New York Aug ist 22 When it was finished it was lowered to four barges On the barges at low tide had been placed twenty-four sand Jacks The is a large box with a trap In the bottom for letting out sand On top of three feet of sand in the box arc vertical beams supporting the weight The whole weight of the bridge rests on a two-foot hardest metal known Outside the raceway Is the cog gear for turning It by electricity After the pivotal bearings were gotten ready the four barges were floated Into place at high tide and when the span was exactly In the right place three feet level where they should join the tracks on the shore spans the traps In the bottom of the were opened and the sand to rim out as the tide ebbed Today's War Bulletins GAS BOMBS AT ALSACE PARIS Sept are attacking heavily In Alsace and the Vosges Combining rifle fire use of gas bombs and artillery they are heavily French ZEPPELIN EXPLODES AMSTERDAM Sept The crew of a Zeppelin was ed and the machine wrecked when an from the to earth at Brussels Wednesday according to reports here today
