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VOLUME 26 REDDING CALIFORNIA FRIDAY JUNE 30 1922 NUMBER 2 dUNK OF VENUE miiom fflisinisnsi SHULL TO PRESSED UnmergerWill Mean Building New Lines In Northern Calif OUT FOR DEATH CAR IN CANYON MB MY SMS TO COMPLAINT WIFE AND MOTHER OF TWO VICTIMS OF PICKWICK STAGE TRAGEDY OF LAST SUNDAY AVERS THAT MAN AT THE WHEEL WAS MAKING UNDUE SPEED AND THAT HE ALSO ALLOWED HIS ATTENTION TO BE DISTRACTED BY FEMALE PASSENGERS WITH HIM EASTERN OUTLET THROUGH WESTWOOD TO NEVADA ONCE UNDER CONSTRUCTION MAY BE RESUMED ACCORDING TO ANNOUNCEMENT OF CALVIN VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNION PACIFIC IN OUTLIN ING THE CHANCES THAT SEPARATION OF TWO RAILROADS WILL BRING ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO Jnue In the event that the Central Pacific Railway company is taken over by the Union Pacific as a result of the supreme court's decision separating the Central from the Southern Pacific the first step in the new unmerger will be the construction of the Natron cut-off In southern Oregon and northern California according to on annonucement made by Calvin vice-president of the Union Pacific here today Under Construction Years Ago The cut-off reaches around the eastern ridge of the Siskiyou mountains through Klamath Falls and forms a low grade line from Natron near Eugene to Weed This line and a proposed new eastern outlet for southern Oregon and northern California through Westwood and eastern Nevada were under construction at the time of the dissolution of the Harriman combine in 1912 Announcement Answers Query The announcement was made in response to a telegram to President Carl Gray of the Union Pacific from West president of the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce asking what possible changes might follow a Central Pacific and Southern Pa- cific seperation A warrant for the arrest of Perrand on a charge of manslaughter woa lMued at 8:30 last evening by Judge Harry Donnelly Perrand was the driver of the Pickwick automobile stage that skidded at a turn near Sima last Sunday afternoon and went over the bank three being killed In the 1 exile Seney Willie XUchard Sency (a baby) and John Johnstone The complaint charging manslaughter was sworn to by Mrs Hattie Seney of Anaheim by whose side her huslmnd and only child were killed PWranil Left for Home The warrant was given to Sheriff Richardson at 9 and he telegraphed It to the sheriff In San Francisco for Perrand left this city yesterday by train for the city Ho will be easily located and his arrest doubtless will soon follow The prospective arrest on the grave charge la the result of a long conference held yesterday with Mrs Seney by Deputy District Attorney I Smith and Francis Carr as special attorney for Mrs Seney In the main it Is charged by Mrs Seney that Perrand had been driving at excessive speed during the day and was driving too fast at the curve In passing a car a moment before the triple fatal accident occurred' Says Driver Was a Flirt It 1s further alleged by Mrs Seney that the driver who had two women on the same seat with him was disposed to flirt with them rather than give his solo attention to the wheel Deputy District Attorney Smith said there was other evidence that he did not care to give out until the preliminary examination but It Is reported on the outside that parties up In Dunsmulr have been found who can testify to the excessive speed made by Perrand In driving the Pickwick stage at other points up the canyon COMING TO MT LASSEN PARK TO SURVEY ROADS AND Tl BIG CONDEMNATION SUIT TO GO TO JURY TODAY AT NOON EVIDENCE CONCLUDED WEDNESDAY THE EIGHTH COURT THIS MORNING WILL BE DEVOTED TO ARGUMENTS AND AT 11:30 JUDGE HERZINGER WILL INSTRUCT THE IT WILL TAKE NINE JURORS TO BRING IN A VERDICT IN THE CASE ALLEGED GAME LAW OFFENDER TO BE TRIED FINALLY IN ONO COURT (Special to The Searchlight) KNOB June 28 The trial of Charles Zachary which has been postponed from time to time for almost a year was due to be heard before Judge LUtlepage Monday The state was ready to proceed but Zachary still was not ready His witnesses If such there be were not on hand The State Pish and Game commission was represented by Laws as prosecuting attorney Zachary offered the affidavits of Jack Schneider and A Trood who averred that Zachary ought to have a change of venue as they believed he could not get a square deal before Judge Liltlepage and a jury selected In Harrison Gulch township Judge Llttlepage granted a change of venue to the court of Igo township and set the case to come up before Judge Gill in Ono on July 24 1922 A INCREASED ACTIVITY AND BETTER PRICES FOR FARM PRODUCTS BAN FRANCISCO June 27 Increased activity In practically all lines of Industry with an improved employment situation and advancing prices for farm products are features of the report for May of John Perrin San Francisco federal reserve agent for the twelfth district made public here today An abstract of Mr Terrln's report follows: May for the first month this year the dollar value of Bales of 22 representative department stores and mail order houses was greater than In the corresponding month a year ago sales in May 1122 being 166' per cent greater In value than In May 1921 "In the wholesale trade the various lines (except automobile tires and shoes) report Increases of 1 to 81 per cent in the dollar value of their sales during May 1922 compared with Mhy 1921 by far the most favorable showing made this year These Increases evidence the greater purchasing power of the community growing out of Increased activity In Industry with an Improved employment situation and advancing prices for farm products January of this year there has been a steady Increase in the production of lumber In this district and in May reporting lumber mills operated at 100 per cent of normal capacity for the first time in two years Orders received excluded the output and unfilled orders on hand at the close of the month were nearly twice as large as one year ago of the principal coppey mines of tho district which recently resumed operations are now producing ore and one more large company announced the opening of Its mine during the month the present year each dally production of petroleum In California has exceeded that of the previous month the month of May setting a production record of 157276 barrels per day 'Stored stocks of petroleum In that state at 42041-461 barrels stand at the highest figures reached in the last five years" SUICIDE IN HIS CELL TREK A June George Penn-man whose application for probation was denied Friday In tbe superior court tried to commit suicide Saturday in the county jail but the attempt was futile due perhaps to lack of death dealing instruments Pennman pierced bis wrist with a pin and secured a piece of broken safety rasor blade and slaaheda vein safety rasor blade and slashed a vein to the hospital where a doctor dressed his wounda Tho case attracted considerable attention to Macdocl and Mt Hebron where be was charged with burglary to which he pleaded guilty and was an applicant for probation At a hearing Thursday twenty cltl sens from the Butte valley section opposed the application for probtalon Pennman's mother who lives at Spring Garden Plumas county appeared and made a strong appeal to the court but Judge Luttrell In passing sentence stated he had the greatest! sympathy for her ILLINOIS ACQUITTAL WILL NOT STOP CIVIL LITIGATION CHICAGO June 26 The acquittal of Governor Small will have no effect on the civil suit for the collection of Interest on state funds which the state maintains Governor Small has failed to turn over to thet re usury Attorney-General Edward Brun-dage so said Saturday when informed of the verdict acquitting the governor He said: The evidence was not even contradicted Nothing I can aay could explain the action of a Jury In returning a verdict of not guilty The verdict will have no effect on the civil suit against Governor Small to collect Interest on state funds Neither will It have -any effect on Governor co-defendants which will be rushed to trial just bjs soon as we can do so Fi OVER CRADLE OF A' BIG BAR June 26 Startled by a alight noise In the kitchen which adjoined their sleeping tent Mr and Mrs 8 Crispo homesteaders at Big Flat discovered a mountain lion within a few feet of the cradle of their month old baby Mrs Crispo was first alarmed by the creaking of a board and then heard the soft padding as of a gentle footfall She sprang out of bed and rushed to the kitchen and found the lcast crouching near the cradle Her screams aroused Crispo who secured his rifle and as the animal ran from the kitchen fired twice but tbe lion escaped Into the thick brush Tbe search that followed disclosed a bed within a Jew feet of the sleeping tent In the thick underbrush apparently used by the Hon for some time It Is thought this was tho same animal seen about the highway camp at Bar several weeks ago FOR HAPPY (Special to The Searchlight) OLINDA June 27 Dr El wood Mead was to have been orator of the day at Happy Fourth of July celebration at the Messelbeck dam but he has cabled from Honolulu that his sailing day has been changed so It will be impossible for him to keep bis appointment Dr Mead requested George Kreutxer superintendent of the Durham Land colony to represent him Superintendent Kreutxer has accepted and that is satisfactory to' all concerned Passes at Great Age of 95 Years (Special to The Searchlight) COPPER CITY June Mra Nancy Hawklna an Indian whose home Is in the Big Bend died here Sunday while on a visit to relatives who states she was aged 95 years I OF FRUIT IS SHIPPED The first precooled car of fruit ever to leave Shasta county was shipped yesterday afternoon from the Ella moo re plant here' In the lot Vere blackberries apricots plums and peaches This fruit came from Happy valley and will go east Republicans Far In Lead To date 4089 voters are registered In 8haata county classified as to parties thus: Republicans 2478 Democrats 1022 Socialists 90 Prohibitionists 12 Progressives 8 decline to state 411 VISITED PIG CLUBS Frank Spurrier of the agricultural extension division of tbs college of ag rleulturo spent Monday with Farm Advisor Talbot visiting a number of boys of the Poland-Chlna club also seeing some of tho Duroo pigs on Hawes and Chester Gregory's ranches that will be used In tbe Duroo pig club THREE CONVICTS WHO BROKE OUT OF JAIL IN WEAVERVILLE CAUGHT ALL CAPTURED NEAR MAD-WOOD AND ARE HELD IN SHASTA COUNTY JAIL The three convicts who broke out of the Trinity county jail at Weaver-vllle Tuesday night are In the Shasta county jail in Redding They were captured Wednesday afternoon in Deadwood canyon between Lewiston and Tower House by three guards who had been trailing them all day a man named Higgins famous as a trailer taking the lead After the bandits abandoned the car stolen In Weaverville on accout of the gasoline playing out they traveled afoot trying to reach Redding and the railroad The car was abandoned on the Buckhorn road east of Lewiston They thought they were on the wrong road for they doubled lmck to Lowdcn ranch and walked up the river to Lewiston and thence across to the cast The three convicts are A McDonald of Los Angelos count' rim-cntal of San Joaquin and Sonne of Lassen Arrested On a Battery Charge Ii OAKS CLAIMS HE GAVE WARNING TO WOMAN RUT DID NOT ABUSE UFA Grover Oaks the real estate dealer was arrested Wednesday morning by Deputy Sheriff Richardson on a warrant issued on a complaint sworn to by Mrs Ida Me-Hatton of Clear creek The warrant was Issued by Judge Harry Donnelly The alleged assault took place about noon Tuesday MVx McIIatton was In the superior court last week to answer to a com plaint made by a man named Taylor who lives on Clear creek and has a garden He complained that Mrs Mo Hatton was helping herself to bis veg etablcs A restraining order was Issued but on the showing made by Mra McHalton in the superior court the restraining order was dissolved The nature of the trouble between Oaks and Mra McIIatton will come out In the hearing before Judge Harry Donnelly Oaks maintains that Mka McIIatton has been tearing up Irrigation ditches and vegetables growing on his land Monday evening he stopped ss he was passing her place of residence and talked to her from hla machine He warned her to stop such conduct but she Is partly deaf and could not understand Oaks then according to hla own story took the woman by the waist and drew her near enough to him so that he might repeat in her ear what he had said and this seems to be what constitutes the alleged assault TO PURCHASE LUMBER FOR TRINITY DREDGER (Special to The Searchlight) JUNCTION CITY June A Mitchell superintendent of construction for the Valdor Dredging company and the Lewiston Dredging company left here yesterday for Oregon where he will spend a week or ten days buying timber and lumber for the reconstruction of tho Valdor dredger on the Trinity river above Lewiston for the Lewiston Dredging company Mrs Mitchell accompanied her huslmnd on the trip BUS DRIVERS ARE CHARGED WITH ILLEGAL OPERATIONS The Yreks railroad company has filed a complaint with the railroad commission sgolnst Hugo Miller Percy Grises and George Hoover drivers of automobile busses charging Illegal operation between Treks and Montague in Siskiyou county PARK SERVICE ASSIGNS ITS CHIEF ENGINEER COMING AF-1'ROFRIAllON BILL PROVIDES GOOD DITTMAR MANAGER-SECRETARY TELLS ABOUT WHAT IS BEING DONE AND WILYT IS IN PROSPECT hr Dittmar manager-secretary of the Lassen Volcanlo National Park association stopped off In the old home town between trains Monday to get In touch with the local park development sentiment best news that has come to us recently" said Dittmar that Chief Civil Engineer George Goodwin of tho National Park service has been assigned to a study of the road and trail engineering problems of Lassen Volcanlo National park We expect that this work will be under way early In July We have been assured that a liberal allotment is being provided for In tho next park appropriation to be expended for road development in the Lassen National tbe next three years beginning a year from now' The amount named Is very satisfactory Indeed to our association and wll Ibc a surplse to the good people or northern Call' fornla when we are at liberty to make It public Flocking In Sunday I took advantage of an opportunity to make a run out on the Red Bluff-Susanvllle highway with President Conard of our association and as far as Mineral and President Conard's summer camp We found a great deal of activity at Mineral where the summer camp la filling up This resort is being conducted by Bcresford and Cockcroft of Corning and I was Informed by the latter that they already have bookings and requests far beyond their capacity to accommodate This resort Is near the Battle Creek meadows about seventeen miles by road and trail to tho peak about equally divided A horse camp with twenty-two horses and mules and seven INDI Fm Fi SM (Special to The Searchlight) HAT CREEK June Davis has sold his farm of 180 sores high lip Hat creek to McGarry Snooks an Indlun for $6500 cash Snooks has $1500 left for Improvements He and his wire acquired their wealth by the sals of timber land M'r and Mrs Davis have gone to San Francisco to make their home Mrs Davis took up tbe farm years ago when she was teaching school That was before she became Mrs Davis separate pack outfits is being established this week about half way between the resort end the peak and autos will take parties to the starting point for the hike or for saddle horse equipment Building Roads will be moved this week on the road connecting Mineral with Viola above Sblngltown In Shasta county only seven miles from tbe Mansanita portal to the park When this road Is finished It will make the Bailey creek canyone accessible under the towering westerly front of Broke-off mountain and Lessen peak and open one of tbe great attractions of the Lassen region besides providing a splendid scenic highway connecting the forest plateau of Viola and the Mansanita lake approach from Redding with the Red Bluff-Susanvllle state highway lateral This section of rood will provide an outer circle highway which will be a revelation to autolats Is the purpoee of our association to work with all communities contiguous to the park to put their best foot forward tn providing facilities for the tourist and park travel which la sure to grow by leaps and bounds from now on and Redding has peculiar advantages that am afraid are not being fully realised It Is not a case of communities along the different approaches competing for existing business but a matter of developing new and valuable routes of trade and travel for all of them If the present facilities for the tourist and vacationists were multiplied by one hundred in two years from now they would he Inadequate route to the peak from Mansanita lake and Lake Reflection and the final climb from the great dift walla and the head of Mansanita creek and castle Is one of the glories of the park biased and marked this route last fall and It would be a grave mistake If it la not completed this season hoping It will be done!" FIRST STOCK IMHD If MED ISM Looking up tbe records County Re- eorder IL Woodrum finds that tho first stock brand and mark la Shasta county were recorded on January II I860 by Thomas Asbury A Brother of Battle creek bottom The brand was the letters being Joined The mark was an over crop oa the left ear and an under crop oa the right ear The letters were probably chotea fdr tbe brand because one ot the brothers In the firm was Joseph Asbury The trial of the condemnation suit brought by the Pacific Gas and Electric against Clinton I Walker closed yesterday afternoon as far as taking evidence was concerned It was the eighth court day Tm Jury at Noon Tills morning will be devoted to urguments court convening at the unusually early hour ot 8:80 At 11:30 Judge Herxlngcr will begin reading his Instructions and at noon the case will go to tho Jury Fix Valuation of ltlMrinn Rights The rnclflc Gas and Electric seeks to condemn Clinton Ik Walker's riparian rights on 160 acres of land lying along Fit river below the mouth of Fall river The water Is to be diverted from Fall river through the B801HER OF DEUI 1 IIE AND 1118 WIFE KTOrPFI 15 MINUTI-M TO GRIEVE WITH NEWLY MADE WIDOW An example of hcartlessueas Is given by the brother of Leslie Seney Sency was killed with his baby son in the automobllo wreck near 81ms Sunday aftefnoon Ills brother and wife who were in Oregon were traveling south a few hours behind the Pickwick stage that was In the wreck arrived In Dunsmulr by automobile tbe next day and there for tbe first time learned of the triple fatal accident The brother and wife arrived in Redding Monday evening Mrs Seney the newly made widow arrived In Redding the same evening on the train The brother and wife felt so bad they called on Mrs Seney for fifteen minutes and saying they were In a hurry to reach San Diego hurried off by automobllo for the southern part of the state They had scant time to sympathise with the widow and aid her In the hour of great sorrow-caused by the death of her husband and only child Mrs Ray Miller who had been out to Fall river valley to spend a week with her parents Mr and Mrs McQraw left this city Tuesday for her home In Orovllle ltoland 1 tunnel to Pit No 1 power house Walker's land Is practically valueless except for the riparian rights The jury la to decide what those rights are worth It will take nine to bring In a verdict Expert witnesses for Walker gave It as their opinion that he should receive $290000 or $300000 Expert witnesses for the company were agreed that a fair valuation was between $7000 and $8000 Clinton Walker has owned the 160 acres for ten years The quarter section was taken up as a timber and stone claim by the late Archibald McArthur Walker bought from a man named Fuller The land Is of no value for agricultural purposes at least the value Is not worth considering witnesses said WANT ANOTHER SPED) COP FOR THE CANYON LA NT SUNDAY'S TRAGEDY SIMS LEADS TO CIRCULATION OF PETITION AT A petition was put In circulation In Redding yesterday calling upon the county supervisors to appoint an additional traffic officer to patrol the highway in the canyon on the grounds that the man now on duty has too great a distance to cover The petition recites that It is the aim of the signers to prevent another tragedy such as the ono of last Sunday at Sima Phil Moriarlty circulated and sponsored the petition Proofs of Labor (Doming In Fast County Recorder IL Woodrum is receiving a good many proofs of labor these days to be recorded Under the new law what may be called the mine fiscal year ends June 20 The annual assessment work must bs done between July 1 and June 20 of the following year Heretofore New Year's day has been the day when mine Jumping was Jn order or when claims on which tho annual assessment work had not been done could be relocated Under the new law July 1 is Jumping" day.