Woodland Daily Democrat (Newspaper) - November 2, 1915, Woodland, California WEEKLY ESTABLISHED 1859 WOODLAND CALIFORNIA TUESDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 2 1915 DAILY ESTABLISHED 1877 PREVENT THE STATE SUIT AGAINST J J MERKLEY ESTATE Effort to Determine Amount Due as Inheritance Tax A petition for the determination of the state inheritance tax on the estate j of J J Merkley was filed here this j morning against Kate C Merkley by state Controller John S Chambers I The Merkley estate Is said to be worth approximately consisting chiefly of real property situated in the Armory Hall Will Utilized Next Sat day If Weather Is j eastern portion of Yolo county was one of tlle know The sun which has been on the job so constantly since summer came as July 2 ers in tills section He died on last August 24 State Controller Chambers cites that the deceased executed to Yolo county is asked i er to get an accurate estimate of the value of the estate to nearly break his own record in this respondent Kate C Merkley all valley did not get out of the blankets of Ills real and personal property in today and the rays he sent out contemplation of his death and the rather feebly through his cloudy deeds were Intended to take effect envelop This indicates many think j ter the decedent had passed away the weather manager has relieved The petitioner further alleges that Old Sol to some extent and will give the property at the time of its transfer Pluvius a chance and who Is a great practical joker ance tax may turn on the faucets or even open The up the floodgates on SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7 which as everybody knows who knows anything at all Is the great Fall Trade Day In Woodland But even should that be a rainy day it will not daunt the promoters of the big occurrence A nifty program will presented and the sports will be pulled off in armory hall Should any of the events have to be canceled be- cause not suited to indoor ments good substitutes will be ed Don't be afraid that any of the fun that has been counted on for next Is going to be washed away by weepy skies ft at By-pass aod One at Sycamore Slough are County Surveyor Asa and j Supervisors Kelson and before the state board of at Sacramento today to the feasibility of building a VILLA DEFEATED BY The Boasting General Retreats From Agua Prieta After Sanguinary Battle over the Sacramento by-pass all place The state board wants Yolo county to join with the lust what deep water the California Northern Electric company in of trotters finds himself in at the structure Because of the ab- this moment was pretty plainly sumo of the reclamation district las Monday when Woodland no action was taken Stock Farm attempted to dispose of a The matter of building a bridge over portion of its surplus stock says slough in the Knights Breeder and Sportsman In spite of Landing district was also considered the fact that the sale had been well ad- today and that many of the Hoard is now subject to an ings were of unusual quality buyers no part of which has been were sadly lacking A were by the State Reclamation County Surveyor Proctor to out without a bid while others more fansied by the few buyers present ed to be carried to a figure at which the establishment would let them go At that the location of the sale and that many horsemen were too busy to be present owing to a rush of final preparation for the exposition meet fair test It seems up to trotting horsemen themselves to take the steps that will determine whether or not the harness George Parish Yolo County Sealer of horse is to die out here m California Weights and Measures today received or be on a basis In notice of two important rulings which keeping with the existing conditions sold prices but there was go ahead with the original bridge absolutely no demand for breeding plans entailing an j expenditure of stock and many matrons of high de- 1 about but objected to any gree were led into the ring and passed tional No definite action was taken because of the absence of the reclamation district agents On the other hand we may and are have been made by Charles G of the present and those apparently likely to have a lovely day The Fall son state superintendent of weights impending in the future It has been Trade Day promoters merely wish to assure clouds need not put a damper on ex- Manager Livingston and measures One of the California suggested that the presence of the the people that darkening Operators association was to of California horsemen at the the effect that in future butter shall exposition meeting would present an j not be put up for sale In packages ex- excellent opportunity for getting rolls or in fora consideration of ways and are In the spirit words that must not put means of inaugurating some activities that the for cWc pride had quantities of less than a pound The g Of a generally beneficial nature and hoped The stores will be bazars of Bights and measures department probably a session of some kind will attractions and the lesson sought to be strictly prohibits the sale of butter in be held during the coming fortnight the Woodland fractions Brush up your ideas and be prepared ready to give you what you to a ruling of to present them if occasion arises be Illustrated In a manner musl also according to Breach anv Intellect not too dull to the ls Into quarts pints and gills This will stop cream and milk from being sold in quantities measuring a fraction of a quart pint or gill This order was be immune to perceptions NEW YORK Nov sons were burned to death.In a fire that destroyed the three story rear tenement house at CG North Sixth street early this ins One entire family of five was wiped out Three of those who perished are women and two are children dead Yonder Anton Yonder 14 Michael Yonder Andrea Peter Yonder Mrs 35 John 6 Andrea Mrs Mary 22 Man known only as about 22 Three unidentified The other men women and children In the house were rescued by the and firemen and were restored to The Weather sued to the milkmen of the state and the county of weights and measures have authority to see that both orders are lived up to j tonight and BOSTON Mass Nov men fifteen of whom were at first thought to have perished had narrow escapes a fire in the dyeing and print works of the Cochrane Company's plant at Maiden near here The property loss was 000 THE SICK Ariz Nov to a by the ers of Agua Prieta the army of General Villa retreated to the eastward this morning leaving 400 dead and wounded on the battlefield Villa's army is disintegrating many deserting In search of food Repeated assaults by the failed The dense entanglements of barbed wire proved impenetrable Artillery could not remove these ob- and Villa's hungry thirsty gions after a final desperate attack at a in fled from the field Some time later the general retreat com- Just too late to participate in the Kittle a column of 2000 Yaqui Indians appeared at o'clock General Ellas Wood a freshman who has Calles commanding the just entered the university from Agua troops into land California was today appointed local agent to have charge of the dis- of the Evening Post the Indies Home Journal and the Country Gentleman In Eugene Ten years ago Wood started to sell the Saturday Evening Post in his home town Woodland He was then 10 years old He attracted the attention of the company and six years ago was given the agency for that town In recognition of his services there Grant Dunlap superintendent of the sales iti Oregon and Washington has Wood the same work here A great the work according to Dunlap will consist of taking care of the boy routes It was the fact that Wood has had experience in the route work that influenced the ent in placing him in charge Wood is a pledge to Phi Delta Press LONDON Nov torpedo Little Miss Elizabeth Ashley boil No was sunk in a collision at ter of Mr and Mrs P N Ashley is the Strait of Gibraltar the Admiralty recovering from an attack of announced today Two officers and citis an operation having proved nine men are believed to have been the trenches to oppose them if they attempted an attack All Calles cannon Is intact but many buildings in Agua Prieta have been badly damaged by Villa's shells Wounded Villa prisoners In the ranza hospital declare most of the Villa troops have been without food for two days Villa they declared told them they could easily capture Agua Prieta They are bitterly disappointed With lead from the Agua Prieta tle spattering over Douglas daylight today found nine Americans ing four infantrymen of the Seventh Regiment wounded as a result of a renewal of General Francisco Villa's attack on the Mexican town The assault was begun by Villa at 1 a m Bullets from Villa's lines had fallen in every street in Douglas Some dead Mexicans littered the ground In Agua Prieta Up to daylight the commanders ot United States troops the der regarded the situation passively Then they made their way back under cover of darkness without being by American patrols The ar- tillery fire tore up Agua Prieta bly for two hours before Villa's night assault began The first Villa night assault started at last evening For a time it seemed general but after the had reached the wire entanglements facing the Carranza trenches the firing drowned The body of Gladys Anderson who i The was drowned Sunday when a launch overturned in the Sacramento was recovered this morning at a point j near the Sacramento gas works I body is now at the morgue Sacramento K Nakata filed suit late Monday against Cordelia Crites seeking to re- cover claimed due for cervices Sporadic renewals occurred later In the evening but the real action did not open until after midnight claimed the losses were their own slight CROWN PRINCE DEAD REPORT TURIN via Paris Nov un- official report has it that the Crown Frederick William of Germany is dead Last Minute Live Wires wMB U V CHINESE VOTING FOR MONARCHY SHANGHAI Nov tion returns continued today to that China had overwhelmingly for a Monarchy to replace the ent republic BLOCKADE GREECE LAUSANNE Switzerland Nov submarines in the Mediterranean have been ordered to blockade Greece FRENCH SOLDIERS PROTECTED AGAINST GERMAN GASES
