Hanford Journal Hanford, Kings Co., California Tuesday, 2 JULY 1895 ************************************** BIRTH -- AYERS -- Near Armona, June 15, 1895, to the wife of David AYERS, 2 daughters, weight 4 & 7 pounds. Mother & twins all doing well. BIRTH -- REED -- At Armona, July 1, 1895, to the wife of C.S. REED, a son. BIRTH -- COTTRELL -- In Hanford, June 30, 1895, to the wife of Sherman COTTRELL, a daughter. MARRIAGE -- PEACOCK-WAYNE -- At the Methodist church in Lower Lake, Lake Co., Cal., June 23, 1895, by Rev. LLOYD; Harry R. PEACOCK of Traver and Miss Hattie WAYNE of Lower Lake. [The ceremony was performed at 8:30 p.m. in the presence of about 50 relatives and friends. Mr. E.L. PEACOCK of Hanford, brother of the groom, acted as groomsman and Miss Mitti WAYNE, sister of the bride, was bridesmaid. The church was handsomely decorated and the ceremony throughout was a brilliant affair. Leaving the church the bridal party proceeded to the home of the bride where a fine wedding dinner was in waiting. Many handsome and appropriate presents were received by the newly wedded couple when the gusts bade them good night and took their departure. On Monday they spent the day at Clear Lake, returning in the evening. They were serenaded by the Lower Lake brass band, which rendered a number of excellent pieces of music, and kept the couple up until a late hour, enjoying a feast prepared by the bride's parents. After spending a few days in San Francisco Mr.&Mrs. H.R. PEACOCK returned to Traver, where the groom is engaged in the livery stable business and where the br ide t aught in the public school last year and has been engaged another term. Many friends of the groom in Kings county will join with the 'Journal' in wishing the happy couple a smooth and prosperous journey on the sea of matrimonial life.] [from Local Paragraphs column] -- Elisha PEACOCK returned last Wednesday evening from attending the wedding of his brother Harry at Lower Lake. [from Local Paragraphs column] -- Harry PEACOCK and his bride, of Traver, were in Hanford yesterday, visiting relatives and friends. MARRIAGE -- BROTHERTON-McGOWAN -- In Visalia, June 28, 1895, by Justice T. HOLDER; B.F. BROTHERTON and Miss Joanna McGOWAN, both of Kings county. DEATH -- DICKMAN -- In San Francisco, Cal., June 25, 1895, Mrs. Era L. DICKMAN, aged 24 years, 1 months. [Deceased was the daughter of J.W. FRAME of Alcalde, and was well known in Hanford, where her family resided for many years. She had been married but 4 months and attended the funeral of her mother last month. Her death occurred as a result of a surgical operation. The remains were taken to Alcalde by train last Thursday morning and from there to Whartan, where the funeral services were held, Rev. W.L. MILLER of this city officiating. The stricken family of Mr. FRAME has the heart felt sympathy of many friends here, in this, their 2nd sad bereavement in a short space of time.] [from Local Paragraphs column] -- E.E. MANHEIM received a telegram on Friday announcing that his brother, George, who had gone to S.F. from Lemoore for his health, was dangerously ill with typhoid fever and he went down to the city that night. A telegram received in this city yesterday announced the death of George MANHEIM, which occurred that morning. E.E. MANHEIM will remain in the city till after the funeral. Death has thrice entered this family and took 2 sons and the father within 18 months. The family have the [rest cut off] ------------------------------------------------------ TROUBLE ACROSS THE TRACK -- A Young Man Serving a Sentence in Jail And 2 Women Fined -- Eugene HAYES, a young man, was arrested on Monday, the 24th ult., by Constable GOODRICH on a charge of vagrancy. The complaint was sworn to by Anna E. HOUGHTON, a resident of Elsie THOMAS' house of prostitution in this city. It appears from the evidence in the case that HAYES, who was formerly a hackman at Fresno, has been in Hanford several months and had his abode for a month or more in the house above mentioned. He worked part of the time since he came here. There had been several rows recently at the house referred to, on his account, and 2 of the inmates of the house desired to be rid of him and hence 1 of them swore to the complaint, while the other 2 desired to shield him. All of the women were in court last Thursday during the time the trial was going on. HAYES demanded a jury trial and one was secured during the forenoon. District Attorney SHORT, assisted by Rufus ABBOTT, prosecuted the case, and Charley TALBOT conducted the defense. The jury deliberated but a short time and then brought in a verdict of guilty. One of the hardest facts to prove in the trial of such cases as these is the character of such places as Elsie THOMAS', as the inmates almost always refuse to give evidence that will criminate themselves, but in this case 2 of the women swore to the character of the house referred to. On Friday afternoon HAYES was arraigned for sentence. Justice Randall gave the young man a lecture on the evil of his ways and gave him good advice about his future conduct, and said that, considering he was a young man, etc., he would give him a light sentence. The Justice gave HAYES 25 days in the county jail. His attorney, Charley TALBOT, then tried to secure his release on a writ of habeas corpus, alleging that the complaint on which he was arrested was illegal. Judge Jacobs refused to release HAYES and he is now serving out his sentence. 3 of the women in Elsie THOMAS' house were arrested on Friday charged with living in a house of ill fame. The 3 were the proprietress, Elsie THOMAS, and Emma CLARK and Georgie McGUIRE, inmates. The CLARK and McGUIRE women were each fined $10 by Justice Randall Saturday afternoon, which they paid and were released from custody. Elsie THOMAS' trial comes up tomorrow. The other inmate of the house, Nellie WILSON, left on the train early on Saturday, for Fresno, to avoid arrest, and the complaining witness had previously skipped. ----------------------------------------------------- 2 EXPLOSIONS FROM SMUT -- Occur Within 1 Hour on the HURLBUT Thresher at Armona -- On Thursday afternoon, while M.R. HURLBUT's thresher was at work on a stack of wheat on the Pacific Improvement Co.'s land about a mile east of Armona, the smut in the wheat caused an explosion in the separator, behind the cylinder. The separator tender was standing at his usual place on top of the machine. A board was blown off in front of him, almost under his feet, and flames shot up high in the air before him. All hands went to work with a will and put out the flames. For fear of another accident of like nature 2 large barrels full of water were left beside the machine. Mr. HURLBUT hitched up his rig and had just started for Hanford. He had gone but a short distance when another explosion occurred. This was more serious than the 1st, as the flames were blown entirely through the machine, coming out at the ends. The barrels of water being immediately at hand, and the prompt and hard work done by the man employed on the machine, saved the thresher and the stack near which it was standing. Luckily the machine was not injured in the least, the flames were put out so promptly, and Mr. HURLBUT informed the foreman of the P.I. Co., J.S. ARTIST, that he would not work longer on the smutty wheat unless the P.I. would agree to pay for the machine in case it burned. This Mr. ARTIST could not do and Mr. HURLBUT moved the machine over on to the company's barley stack at once and began work thereon. Mr. HURLBUT is one of the oldest threshing machine men in Kings county, but this is the 1st explosion of any of his machines have ever had from smut in wheat. He says he has always been skeptical that smut could cause an explosion, but he doubts it no longer, as he has had actual experience that smut is an explosive. ------------------------------------------------------- BADLY SMASHED -- A Young Brakebeam Tourist Meets Terrible, Perhaps Fatal, Injuries -- The 3rd accident on the railroad in the city limits of Hanford, within a few weeks, occurred last Thursday. John ZOROBINK, a young man 19 years of age, was riding a brake-beam on freight train No. 21, which passed through Hanford that night at 10:40. The train did not stop here and ZOROBINK tried to get off the train while it was in motion, with the result that he fell under the wheels. 3 cars passed over him. His right leg was cut in 2 and left hanging by a few threads of flesh; his left leg was broken in 2 places, between the knee and the ankle. He was also badly bruised about the face and other parts of his body. The train men knew nothing of the accident. The injured man was found by R. TUNZE a few seconds after the accident. The wounded man was placed on a cot and removed to the county hospital, where Dr. MUSGRAVE amputated the right leg below the knee. He is doing as well as could be expected under the circumstances, but his recovery is still in doubt. ZOROBINK is a Polish Jew and a cigar maker by trade. ------------------------------------------------------- LOCAL PARAGRAPHS -- -Mr[s]. J.H. MELONE went to San Jose last Wednesday to visit her sister, Mrs. RAGAN. -The Traver public school board has engaged A.D. WOLFE as principal, and retained the other 2 teachers who taught last year, Mrs. M.E. TURNER (intermediate) and Mrs. Hattie PEACOCK, nee WAYNE, (primary). - The family of George FARMER, out in Eureka district, are having a serious time with sickness. 3 of the children are down sick, while Clarence RUGGLES, a relative, is there, dangerously ill with typhoid fever. -James PURVIS shook hands with S.M. JOINER yesterday. The plasterer's grip knocked out the carpenter and now Mr. JOINER has his hand in a sling as a result of the injury done to the ligaments of his right arm. -G.M. STOLP made a flying trip to Kings county, to look after his vineyard interests here and remained 1 day. He had just returned from a trip East. -A son of Monreo BURRELL, who had his right leg broken on the 19th ult. by a horse running away with him, while he was raking hay, is doing well under the care of Dr. CLOW. -Mrs. Jennie REED left Hanford this morning for Portland, Or., where she will join her husband. -Mrs. Morris SIMON left on the train this morning on a visit to relatives at Livingston, Merced county. L.J. ROSS last week sold out his Ozark saloon on Douty St. to Joseph SCHNEREGER and also the lease to the corner room in the new Kutner-Goldstein building, into which he anticipated moving his saloon. H.S. MEYERS, agent for the United Brewers, has rented the room now occupied by the Ozark and will open a beer saloon therein. MRS. ABBIT TRAVIS, who has been seriously ill in Visalia, recovered sufficiently to travel and has gone to Oakland, accompanied by her son, Joe B. TRAVIS. Mrs. TRAVIS is well known to nearly all old residents of Kings county. THE FIRST Yosemite party from Kings county this season returned to Hanford last Sunday. It consisted of Mr.&Mrs. Porter MICKLE, Mr.&Mrs. J. MANASSEE and Mrs. H. DONAGER and son Bennie. They had a nice trip and most enjoyable time. THURMAN CRANE, the 7-year-old son of O. CRANE, who resides south of Armona, met with a bad accident on the 22d ult., receiving a double compound fracture of the radius and ulna of the right arm. He is getting along nicely under the treatment of Dr. BOND, of the Hanford sanitarium. MR.&MRS. JAMES HOOD leave Hanford today for San Francisco, where they expect to take the steamer on the 5th, for Victoria, B.C., where they will visit relatives. F. McPHEE will have charge of Mr. HOOD's business during the latter's absence. GEORGE REEVES of Grangeville reports that a large insect which looks like a wasp, is doing a great benefit to the fruit growers by destroying the codling moths in pears. He sticks his long bill down into the core of the fruit and digs out Mr. Moth. N.W. MOTHERAL, Horticultural Commissioner, is investigating the matter. LAST THURSDAY, while Thomas HANNAH's combined harvester was at work on his grain on the HEINLEN ranch near Lemoore, a fire caught in a field of fine barley and about 10 acres of the barley was burned off. J.K. BOX last week sold his dray to the Wendling Lumber Co. It will be sent to Bakersfield and used in the company's yards there. Mr. BOX expects to leave soon for San Luis Obispo, and go from there to Los Angeles, with a band of horses. Mrs. BOX will go to Los Angeles by train. F.L. DWIGHT, who has for a long time been prospecting and mining near Coulterville, Mariposa county, is visiting his family at Lemoore and was in Hanford last Friday. He says there is a great boom in mining up at Coulterville and it looks like the old days of '49 up there. The mines are looking well. Several large new stamp mills are being erected, one of them having 200 stamps and the other 40 stamps. He think Mariposa county will soon lead the State in gold production. MRS. IDA ELLA FREDERICK of Hanford has petitioned the Superior Court of Tulare county for letters of administration on the estate of her father, John Durbin GRIGGS, who died near Traver on the 15th of last April. She claims that a will of her father is in the possession of W. Henry MILLER of Tulare and that it has never been probated. ------------------------------------------------------- GRANGEVILLE -- -Mrs. CAMPBELL has returned to her home in the East. She was much pleased with Kings county. -W.A. LONG received word from Selma Friday that his sister was quite sick. He started on Saturday to visit her and was gone till Monday. -Julius LEVI, of San Francisco, who has been spending a few weeks here, is quite sick with malarial fever. Dr. DUNCAN is attending him. -Mr.&Mrs. Hugh ROBINSON, formerly of Grangeville, but now of San Francisco, have a new daughter 2 or 3 weeks old. Mother and child are doing well. -Little Georgie and Mollie RAILSBACK received several burns on their hands and faces while starting a fire in the stove for their mother. It is a lucky thing for them that it was no worse. -Charlie BLOYD left Saturday for Los Angeles to try and get a steady position. If he is successful he will then send for his wife and daughter. In the meantime they will stop with Mr.&Mrs. Wash BLOYD on the ranch. -W.A. LONG's little girll met with what might have been quite a serious accident as she was going to Sunday school last Sunday. She fell out of the buggy and before her father could stop the horse 1 wheel had passed over her head, bruising it somewhat, but otherwise she was uninjured. They returned home and after resting the little one appeared to be all right. LEMOORE NEWS -- -B. RUNYON has returned from the Soldiers' Home greatly improved in health. -Miss Maud GILL has been very sick but is convalescent and will soon go to San Francisco. -The infant son of Mr.&Mrs. D.C. HUBBARD was dangerously ill last week with cholera infantum, but is now much better. Transcribed by Dee Sardoch To see more old newspapers, visit http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/