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KINGS COUNTY Hanford Sentinel. THIRTIETH YEAR HANFORD, KINGS COUNTY, CAL. THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1915 NO. 20 GOOD ROADS BONDS CARRY EASILY RETURNS SHOW THREE TO ONE SENTIMENT IN FAVOR OF BONDING FOR GOOD ROADS TREMENDOUS CELEBRATION IN HANFORD AND LEMOORE STREETS FOLLOWING ANNOUNCEMENT OF BOND VICI TORY-OF 5620 VOTES CAST, ONLY 1360 OPPOSED BONDS-DELTA VIEW UNANIMOUS FOR BONDS-LEMOORE FAVORED ISSUE, 452 TO 16. Never in the history of this city and Lemoore has the result of an election been received with such unbounded enthusiasm as that which WAS manifested shortly before 9 o'clock Thursday night when it became known that the bonds had carried by an overwhelming majority over the necessary two-thirds.

The first result received was from the Lakeside precinct where a maJority of 5 for the bonds was given, and this from a community which was not thought to be of a strong bond sentiment. As the returns came in from the different precincts, and as one by one they showed the strong sentiment for the bond issue, the interest became intense, and the sponsors of the bonds soon saw that their hopes for a victory had been realized beyond all expectations. Really the banner precinct for the the occupants lent their cheers to the general noise making. Soon from the local enthusiasts came the cry, "Let us go to Lemoore," and quickly acting on the suggestion, upwards of 100 machines were brought into line, and escorted the. Lemoore contingent back to the little city that had given an almost unanimous vote for the bonds.

Then the celebration that woke the echoes in this city was repeated at Lemoore and as the noisy procession passed through the residence district, lights were soon seen twinkling in the windows, and within a few minutes all of Lemoore was down town to join in the general jollification. Improvised bands were formed. playing all sorts of instruments, and with these the members of the Kings County Band rendered some real music, the whole causing the most Vote by Precincts: Vote by PRECINCT Hanford No. Hanford No. Hanford No.

3 J.emoore Corcoran Armona Beall Craghill Eucalyptus Eureka Fruitland Grangeville Hardwick Island Delta View Kings River Lakeside Lake Lucerne Mussel Slough Paddock River Bend Stratton West End Total bonds is Delta View, which lies in the extreme eastern part of the county, the voting there being unanimous for the bonds, returning 26 votes. moore also did itself proud with the vote of 452 for the bonds, and only 16 against. The only precincts voting against the bonds were Eureka, River Bend, and Kings River, Hardwick giving a majority, and only lacking nine votes of the necessary two-thirds. As soon as the definite result was known, there was a spontaneous movement to celebrate the victory, and with the honking of automobile horns, the blowing of whistles and the shouts of the people who crowded the streets, the city was 8 perfecting bedlam of noise and good feeling. Almost immediately the H.

G. Lacey company turned on the Karnival street lights, and soon 100 automobiles were in line, and formed a parade that took in the business streets and the business sections. While the parade was in progress, there appeared on the street a long line of machines from Lemoore, and TO DOUBLE SELMA CANNERY. Improvements costing $15,000 will be made to the Selma plant at Libby, McNeil and Libby within the next few weeks. It is planned to double the storage capacity of the present plant, while considerable additions will be made to the canning department.

BALL WAS A GREAT SUCCESS The ball g'ven at Pentecost hall Saturday night under the auspices of the I. D. E. S. organization, is reported to have been a complete success CAMINETTI AND DIGGS DENIED REHEARING BY U.S.

COURT FEDERAL APPEALS COURT REFUSES TO GRANT REHEARING OF CASES (By United Press.) San Francisco, May Federal Court of Appeals has refused to grant Maury Diggs and F. J. Caminetti a rehearing of their cases. Both men have been sentenced to serve in San Quentin prison for offenses under the Mann white slave act. KNIGHTS PYTHIAS INSTITUTED AT CORCORAN NEW LODGE INSTITUTED WITH MANY KNIGHTS IN ATTEND.

ANCE LOCAL LODGE HAD CHARGE. A company of upwards of 30 members of Hanford Lodge, No. 66, Knights of Pythias, of this city, journeyed to Corcoran. Monday night, where they took charge of the ceremonies incident to the institution of a lodge of Knights of Pythias there. The ceremonies 3 were under the direction of E.

W. Dement, district deputy grand chancellor, and he was ably assisted by the members of the local lodge of this city and of Lemoore. G. M. Wilson, chancellor, John Morris, vice chancellor, and Geo.

Wishar, keeper of records and seals, were among the officials of Hanford lodge who attended the ceremonies. The new lodge will be known a8 Golden Sheaf Lodge, No. 322, a and starts off with a charter membership of about 50. Visitors were present from Lemoore, Tulare, and other surrounding towns, the total attendance numbering upwards of 200. A great banquet was a feature of the event.

FALLING POWER LINE KILLS TWO AT SEVILLE AUTO HITS POLE, BRINGING DOWN WIRES -THREE INJURED BESIDE THE DEAD. Cutler, May persons were killed and two so badly burned that they are unlikely to recover, while a fifth is seriously injured as the result of coming in contact with a powline at Seville. All of the victims were residents of that district and were returning from a dance at Woodlake. The party were in two cars and close together when the front auto struck the pole, carrying the power lines of the San Joaquin Power company. The impact broke the pole, bringing down the wires.

Flora Crouse, aged 18, of Lemon Cove, and Carl Stewart, of Orange Cove, were instantly killed, when the wires which were carrying 60,000 volts fell on them. Mrs. Carl Stewart and George Cole, both of Orange Cove, were badly burned and may not recover, while Oscar Ledbetter escaped the wire altogether! but received a severe shaking. The last three were in the rear car. According to witnesses the two cars were traveling at about 20 miles per hour.

Selma Man Dead. Liberty B. Elder, for twenty-three years a resident of Selma, died on Friday last, aged 68 years. The funeral was on Sunday, service taking place at the First Baptist church. Interment was in the family plot at Kingsburg cemetery.

The shortage of dyestuffs resulting from the war is not serious as was reported, it seems. The supply of rouge is not affected, we are told.Sacramento Union. WOMAN WITNESS BEATEN NEARLY TO DEATH SEBASTIAN WITNESS ASSAULT. ED BY TWO MEN; MAY DIE. JAW BROKEN BY BLACK.

GUARDS Los Ang les, May further activity on the part of the assassins who attempted to kill Chief Sebastian ame to light Saturday afternoon, when Miss Clara Ford, a manicurist, who has furnished the Sebastian defense with valuable information, was beaten nearly to death by two men who entered her office at 202 West Eighth street and asked her to change $20. Miss Ford's injuries may prove fatal, according to physicians at the receiving hospital. Her jaw was fractured in two places, her nose was broken and she suffered severe contusions about the head and face. Friday Miss Ford communicated with men employed by Earl Rogers, one of the counsel for Sebastian, saying she had valuable information. They visited her and she told them, it is said, certain facts relative to the activity of operatives employed by the district attorney.

Saturday the two men entered her office and asked if she could give them change for $20. As she turned to get the money, they struck her from behind and knocked her unconscious. She lay for some time before she regained sufficient consciousness to notify her landlady and the receiving hospital ambulance was summoned. Unable to talk because of the injuries to her jaws, the young woman could furnish only meager information as to her assailants. She wrote a description of them, however, describing them as men she had seen once before.

ORDERS CHARGE OF FORGERY DISMISSED On motion of District Attorney Miller, the charge of forgery against H. H. Gieger was dismissed in the court of Justice Meadows late Wednesday afternoon. Insufficiency of evidence to warrant the charge filed is the cause of the dismissal. Mr.

Gieger was in San Diego when the charge was filed here against him, and he immediately sent a check for $400 as bail, and as soon as possible came here. Although the district attorney had given a complaint to Mrs. Davis, the complaining witness, he found on further investigation that the charges were unfounded, and so dismissed the action. FENCES MOVED ON LATERAL ROUTE PEOPLE OF DELTA VIEW DISTRICT HAVE PERFORMED THEIR AGREEMENTS REGARD. ING OPENING OF HIGHWAY W.

F. Smith, who resides in the Delta View precinct in the extreme eastern portion of the county, where there was a unanimous vote in favor of the bond issue a and road improvement, was a visitor Tuesday, and expressed his satisfaction over the result of the election. The people of the precincts feel the same way, he says, knowing that a public benefit to any part of the county is a benefit to all, and they are awaiting the time when they will be more closely linked up with their county seat through the medium of mail facilities and telephones. When the matter of securing the rights-of-way for the state highway route was up, the people of that digtrict agreed to move the fences: along the right-of-way, and Mr. Smith says that this work has been done from the county line to Cross Creek, and that the road is now open for the distance of three miles.

West of the creek the Phillips interests have not yet moved the fences along the line, but this will no doubt be done as soon as work is commenced on the highway construction. Mr. Smith states that arrangements are being made to open a rural mail route from this city when the road is open, and a telephone line will also be another improvement which will come with the other public improvements. ANNIVERSARY OF NOTORIOUS TRAGEDY MUSSEL SLOUGH TRAGEDY NOW ALMOST FORGOTTEN Tuesday was thirty-fifth anniversary of the Mussel Slough tragedy, the one regrettable event that marked the early settlement of this locality, which was then Tulare county. Today, where, on that fatal date there flowed the blood of men who sacrificed their lives for what they believed was to protect their heritage, there is a scene of peace, and fruits, flowers and plenty mark the spot wehere occurred the culmination of hatred which resulted in the almost-forgotten event.

SUCCESSFUL RAID ON LODGING HOUSES UNCOVER PROSTITUTION: 5260 IN FINES PAID TO CITY PROPRIETORS AND INMATES CAPTURED AND PAID HEAVY FINES IN COURT. DETECTIVES TURNED THE TRICK. Working on evidence secured by two men of the Theil Detective Agency, Sheriff Farmer, with City Marshal Logan and a force of deputies, raided three lodging houses in this city at 3 o'clock Sunday morning, securing eight offenders, -among whom were four women inmates, all charged with living in a place where prostitution is allowed. At the Brown lodging house at East Sixth street, the proprietor, Mrs. Lola Reil, was taken into custody, with a woman, Dolly Lewis, and two men, Al Bradley and Funk.

At the Box lodging house, at the corner of Fifth and Redington streets, S. C. Babb, the proprietor, and Kate Summers, a woman inmate, were gathered i in. At the Santa Fe hotel on West Seventh street: the proprietor, Joe V. Silva, and a woman lodger, Susie HONKING AUTO HORN TOO MUCH FOR THIEVES PASSING AUTOIST UNCONSCIOUS.

LY SCARES BURGLARS AT ARMONA After having packed a large quantity of loot to carry away, consisting of clothing, shoes, stockings, knives, a band of thieves ransacking the store of Ed Rock at Armona Sunday morning about 2 o'clock, were frightened by the honk of an automobile horn and left without taking any of the goods with them. Mr. Rock was at the store soon after midnight and nothing was wrong at that time. Two hours later, however, some friends of Mr. Rock, passing through Armona, blew their auto horn in passing the store, and the thieves, who were working inside, broke and ran.

The officers are investigating, but the clews are meagre and: no arrests have been made. TWO DISASTROUS FIRES WITHIN 12 HOURS CHINESE STORE GUTTED BY FLAMES SUNDAY MORNING, AND SANTA FE LODGING HOUSE DAMAGED Two fires within 12 hours is the record of the fire company since last Saturday night, the first being at the store of Sing Wah at No. 14 Chung Kee street, where the fire broke out in the store of Sing Wah, and gutted the entire interior before being placed under control. The alarm came in for this fire at about 3 a. m.

Sunday, but it is evident that the fire had been burning for some time, as the store was locked tight, and the fire gained, a strong headway before it was discovered. The origin of the fire is unknown. At about 1 Monday morning was discovered in the Santa Fe hotel on West Seventh street and the flames destroyed all the upper story! before the blaze was extinguished. The fire was first seen by Nightwatchmen Conard and Shaw as they were passing the place. At that time smoke was issuing from a room in the upper southeast corner of the building, but there was nothing to indicate the cause.

The firemen fought the fire with two lines of hose, and succeeded in confining the damage by fire to the upper story, although the rooms were damaged by water. The place had been subjected to a raid early Sunday morning, and as far as could be learned, there was no one in the building when the firemen arrived. Fire Chief Kendall. after an investigation, was unable to give any good cause for the fires, and the loss is rather problematical. However, the losses are fully covered by insurance in both cases.

DECORATOR VISITED HERE ON EXHIBITS BUSINESS PREPARING FOR FURTHER EX. HIBITS AT SAN FRANCISCO. W. J. Wessels, who with his wife has 'been in charge of the decorating in the San Joaquin Valley Counties' Association exhibits at both expositions, was here Sunday conferring with L.

S. Chittenden regarding the exhibit of this county in the California building at the San Francisco exposition. As a result of his visit, B. B. Price has been out in the country today gathering green alfalfa with which to form one of the most complete exhibits of the stock and dairy industry ever seen.

Tomorrow Mr. Price will go to the Tulare lake grain fields and secure specimens of the green grain for deeorative purposes. WISER COUNSEL SAVES ITALY BEING AT WAR FORMER PREMIER MANAGES TO STOP COUNTRY DECLARING WAR LAST NIGHT-NO ACTION YET BY GOVERNMENT REGARD. ING LUSITANIA (By United Press.) Rome, May would have been plunged into war this morning but for earnest pleadings of former Premier Giolotti, according to information that has just leaked out here. It appears that Italy would have declared war at midnight, had not the former premier's pleadings influenced the Italian statesmen to stay the matter, for a while at least.

QUALIFIES SPEECH Washington, May Wilson told newspaper correspondents who visited him this morning, that he did not mean to define his policy regarding the sinking of the S. Lusitania in his speech last night. The President stated that his speech was merely an expression of his personal feelings. For the present and until full details of the sinking have been received, there is nothing more to add, said Wilson. He stated that he realized that people expected him to act with all due deliberation and -firmness and promised that the position of America would be made plain.

CASUALTY LIST Queenstown, May ratest list of casualties published by the Cunard company gives 1,150 dead and 670 saved. The American passengers totalled 465 and of these, 159 are dead. Most of the dead bodies were recovered twenty 1 miles east of the scene of the wreck, badly damaged. REGIS. VOTES YES NO CAST TION 390 162 556 856 461 100 563 861 COO 181 783 1191 452 16 468 730 545 181 331 188 299 177 142 147 236 312 207 260 97 166 209 169 17 186 26 26 105 179 250 143 118 111 188 119 185 951 151 162 202 109 31 140 199 175 232 216 10 4250 1360 5620 8100 noisy two hours ever seen in Lemoore.

Gradually the celebrants grew tired, and before midnight the din had ceased and the majority of the revelers had gone to their homes satisfied with the day's work. LACEY CONTINUES CELEBRATION It was H. G. Lacey who carried the celebration over into Friday, and that morning after engaging McPherson Drum Corps for the forenoon, he, with Ewell Cortner, toured the streets of this city while the drum corps rendered martial airs. From this city Mr.

Lacey took his aggregation to Lemoore, and returnhere two photographs by L. M. Powell were taken showing the occupants of the automobile, and the big crowd gathered to help in the celeoration. From all quarters Friday there came expressions of satisfaction over the results, and it is admitted by all that the success of the bonds means the longest step forward in the line of progress ever taken in Kings county. with a large company in attendance, and the merry dancers enjoyed the 'fine program immensely.

YOSEMITE TRAILS OPEN All of the trails in the Yosemite are now open for travel, and even the highest points may be reached by tourists. This is six weeks earlier than usual and the park authorities have made special efforts to get the trails open owing to the number of visitors daily arriving to explore the valley. ORDER LAMBERSON TO REFUND 56.400 TO GOVERNMENT FORMER VISALIA POSTMASTER MUST MAKE GOOD MONEY THAT WAS LOST FROM REGISTERED PACKAGE Fresno, May S. Lamberson, former postmaster of Visalia, was found guilty of negligence by rederal jury here Monday and it was ordered that he and his sureties should make good the loss of $6,400 entailed by the government owing to a registered package going astray. A stay of sixty days was granted by Judge Trippet of Los Angeles, who occupied the bench, and it 1 18 understood that Lamberson's attorneys will file a bill of exceptions.

The evidence pointed to the fact that Lamberson had been exceedingly lax in regard to receiving and transmitting registered mail. It developed during the hearing that the postal authorities tried two years ago to charge Lamberson with stealing the money, but found there was no ground for an action on that basis. The trial has lasted for six days and it took the jury twelve minutes to reach a verdict. Haven, were placed under arrest. HELD EARLY COURT Justice Ferguson was called from his home at 4 o'clock a.

and immediately held court in the cases. The detectives had done their work well. There was but one alternative. that of pleading guilty, left to the offenders. Lola Reil and S.

C. Babb: as proprietors of their respective places, paid fines of $50 each, and were given withheld sentences of six months. Kate Summers, one of the inmates, because she was inclined to deny her guilt, was also fined $50, and faces six months in jail on a withheld commitment. Joe V. Silva, proprietor of the Santa Fe hotel, was unable to pay his $50 fine, and at this writing was still confined in the county jail.

OVER $200 IN FINES Dolly Lewis, who was found at the Brown lodging house, and Susie Haven, at the Santa Fe hotel, each paid fines of $25 each, and withheld sentences of six months were placed against them. Al Bradley paid a fine of $10 with a withheld six months sentence added, and Emory Funk was allowed to go with withheld six months commitment. TEMPERANCE ORATOR RETURNS TO OLD PASTURES PROHIBITIONIST HAS DRIVEN CAR MORE THAN 1800 MILES J. F. Adams, the temperance orator, to whom the friends of prohibition presented a Ford automobile on the occasion of his first visit here several months ago, returned here Tuesday with the auto, which was christened Han-Ford, looking spick and span.

Adams says he has driven the machine over 1800 miles and has held many street meetings. He addressed a gathering Monday afternoon at the corner of Irwin and Seventh streets, and delivered one of his characteristic addresses in favor of strict prohibition..