anaheim-gazette 1893-10-19

Anaheim VOLUME XXIII. PROFESSIONAL CARDS Wm. H. PERDOMO, M.A., M.D. (Successor to Dr. Hunt.) Twenty years' experience in Army Hospital and private practice. Office hours, at Reid's Drugstore—S to 9 A.M. and 1 to 9 P.M. Residence at Dr. Hunt's house, near Opera-house. English, German, French, Spanish and Italian spoken. H. W. CHYNOWETH, Attorney-At-Law. Helmsen Building, Center street. NOTARY PUBLIC. Real Property Law a Specialty. ANAHEIM, CAI RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Center street, ANAHEIM, CAI Special attention given to PROBATE matters. T. S. GRIMSHAW. ... Dealer In... Lumber. Sash, Doors, Blinds, Scroll Sawing, Planing, Turning, Moulding. Shop work of every description. Orange boxes in any quantity and at reasonable prices. Lime, Hair and Cement in any quantity. Griet Mill in Operation Wednesdays and Saturdays of each Week. FULLERTON, CALIF. L. NEMITZ, THE PAINTER. Shop on Center street, near the opera-house. I am ready to do first-class Carriage Painting & Trimming GENERAL JOBBING L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT & SHOE MAKER, MISCELLANEOUS. M. H. CHEESEMAN. BRAND NEW STORE. BRAND NEW GOODS! Having leased the new DARLING BUILDING, near the S. P. depot, I have determined to close out my present stock of goods Regardless of Prices With the intention of starting in my new store with an entirely new stock of goods. For the NEXT THIRTY DAYS We offer exceptional bargains in GROCERIES DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, FURNISHING : GOODS, : ETC. L. NEMITZ, THE PAINTER, Shop on Center street, near the opera-house. I am ready to do first-class Carriage Painting & Trimming GENERAL JOBBING L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT & SHOE MAKER. Cornar Adele and Los Angeles treets. FRANK FOX. City Barber Shop. FOR A FIRST-CLASS SHAVE! HOT AND COLD BATHS A. D. Porter. H. A. McWilliams. PORTER & McWILLIAMS. CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. Office and shop, first door / south of Ferdinand ke's Furniture Store. Los Angeles street. Anahaim. CHAS. SCHINDLER, CONTRACTOR and BUILDER. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA. GEORGE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOE MAKER. er street... Anahaim. Making and repairing at the lowest cash price. All are promptly attended to. All work guaranteed. ANAHEIM Pharmacy J. REID, PROPRIETOR A full line of Pure Drugs constantly on hand. Also Toilet Articles, Brushes, Soaps, Perfumery, Fancy Stationery, Paints, Oils, Etc. Physicians' Prescriptions Carefully compounded day or night. Wommer & Halpin Draying, Trucking, Express AND A GENERAL Transfer Business. NEXT THIRTY DAYS We offer exceptional bargains in GROCERIES DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, FURNISHING: GOODS, : ETC. BOOTS AND SHOES. M. H. CHEESEMAN. These goods must go Regardless of Prices. Call and see them. GUS DAVIS Groceries and Seeds! Informs his customers and the general public that he is prepared to sell goods at the smallest margin possible. He buys for cash and therefore can sell for a very small profit, giving his customers the benefit of low prices. No charge for showing goods or answering questions. Come one, Come all! All Kinds of Produce and Poultry Taken in Exchange T. J. F. BOEGE, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Wines, Liquors and Cigars. KEeps Always On Hand A COMPLETE STOCK! Of the Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars. WINES AND LIQUORS BY THE KEG, GALLON OR BOTTLE. Orders by Mail Promptly Attended to. GOODS DELIVERED FREE OF CHARGE! Opp. S. P. Depot, ANAHEIM, CAL. WM. R. HARKER, DEALER IN... Harness, Saddles, Robes, Whips, BRUSHES, COMBS, ETC. Repairing - Neatly - Done! Wommer & Halpin Draying, Trucking, Express AND A GENERAL Transfer Business. Leave orders at office on Center street. All orders given prompt attention. Hay and Coal for Sale. H. P. LARSEN, CONTRACTOR & BUILDER. Estimates given, Contracts made and do a general Jobbing Business. CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM. ED MORGAN, PROPRIETOR Anaheim Wine Rooms ON LOS ANGELES STREET Weiland's Philadelphia Beer. MILK PUNCHES, And all Mixed Drinks. Choice Wines! FINE LIQUORS! Cigars, Cigarettes, Chewing Tobacco J.M. Griffith Company (A CORPORATION LUMBER DEALERS (Near Railroad Depot) ANAHEIM. Keep constantly on hand Doors, Blinds, Windows, MOULDINGS, Posts, Shakes, Shingles, LATH, HAIR, PLASTER OF PARIS. ANAHEIM GRIST MILLS OPERATING ON Wednesdays and Saturdays of each week. Grain, Feed, Meal, Etc., of all varieties. Corn shelled and shipped W. T. BROWN, Agent. Opp. S. P. Depot, ANAHEIM, CAL. WM. R. HARKER, DEALER IN... Harness, Saddles, Robes, Whips, BRUSHES, COMBS, ETC. Repairing - Neatly - Done! My Harness Shop will compare Favorably with any shop in this or adjoining Counties. Call and inspect my stock and prices before purchasing elsewhere. It is my aim to please my customers, and I am now better prepared than ever to give the public Great Bargains in the various departments of my large Harness Store. KROEGER'S BLOCK, CENTER STREET. ANAHEIM. The "Weekly Examiner" Of San Francisco... Gives $145,000 Worth of Presents to its Subscribers this Year New subscribers and renewals are all included, so don't delay. You also have your choice of FOUR beautiful pictures, worth the price of subscription, $1 50. JOSEPH HELMSEN AGENT: JOSEPH BACKS, DEALER IN FURNITURE Repairing Done. Funeral Director. Store in Backs Building (next to irrigation district office), Los Angeles street. F. BACKS, UNDERTAKER. And Dealer in FURNITURE. Wall Paper, Cornices, Window Shades, Picture Frames, Upholstery Goods, Paints, Oils and Glass. Sewing Machine Supplies, Etc. Corner Los Angeles and Chartres Streets. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY OCTOBER 19, 1893. The Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. SUBSCRIPTION, - 92 Per Year. Six months. Three months. Payable invariably in advance. Advertising Rates made known on application at this Office. Customary Reductions, and usual discount, on large Advertisements or those running regularly. The Gazette is issued every Thursday morning, and is sent to subscribers by the early mails. It is delivered by carrier in Anaheim on the morning of publication. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter. Items of news and correspondence on all live subjects are solicited by the editor. Be brief, and write on one side of the paper only. All communications must be signed by the author, not for publication, but for the information of the editor. IRRIGATORS' PLATFORM ANNOUNCED BY THE INTERNATIONAL IRRIGATION CONGRESS IN SESSION IN LOS ANGELES LAST WEEK. The International Irrigation Convention, in session in Los Angeles last week, composed of delegates from the United States and foreign countries, announces the following statement of its views as the deliberate conclusion of the representatives of the Western States and Territories: To the people of the United States: Writing to an American friend many years ago Macauley said: "Your national safeguard lies in your boundless public domain. You now have room for the spread of population and the satisfaction of every man's desire for land; but the time will come when this heritage will have been consumed, this safeguard will have vanished. You will have your crowded Birmingham and Manchester, and then will come the test of your institutions." We invite the earnest attention of our countrymen to a situation of which this prophylacty furnishes a startling suggestion lying wholly within the individual States constitute reasons for the early admission of the Territories into the Union. We favor the limitation of the amount of land that may be taken up by settlers under systems at irrigation to forty acres, and predict that in the future it will be found desirable to reduce the amount still further. This has become necessary with increase of population and is also desirable as rendering more difficult the acquirement of lands for speculative purposes. We call attention to the growing importance of the storage problem and demand rigid National and State supervision of dams and other works, in order to protect life and property. We especially urge the importance of an enlightened policy for the care and preservation of the forests against wanton destruction by fire and otherwise. We endorse the policy of forest and storage reservations covering the mountain water sheds of the West. The importance of due care and protection of these water sheds to maintain the perennial flow of springs and streams, and to prevent floods and torrents, demands the establishment of a wise forestry system. Pending the establishment of such an organization, we favor the use of detachments of the United States army to protect all the Western mountain water sheds from injuries detrimental to the highest use of the valley lands. Same amounting to millions in the aggregate have been paid to the government for lands in the semi-arid region which were understood to be fit for agriculture without irrigation. The experience of years, during which settlers and their families have suffered the severest hardships, demonstrates that they can only be made productive by the artificial application of water. It is an act of simple justice to ask the government to devote a portion of the money received from the sale of these lands to the scientific investigation of means for their reclamation, from surface streams, storm waters or underground supplies. We earnestly urge speedy action of Congress in this direction. AN ARID LAND POLICY. The time has come when the work of developing an arid land policy, on broad National and State lines, can no longer be delayed. The number of plans suggested for the solution of the problem are legion. Some of them have received endorsement from commercial and political conventions. Believing that harmony of action is vital, wide discussion and patient investigation are indispensable in ariving at wise conclusions, we earnestly favor the adoption of the following plan: There shall be ap- Vast areas of such lands abound in State and Territory lying west of the souri river. How should the owners of lands best meet and overcome the difficulty in the way of supplying their land; the water needed for irrigation? This problem which is paramount to all and all States legislation should be so as to best tend to its solution. A neighborhood of farmers, or a monarchy of such neighborhoods, possesses which are of little, if any, value, with rigation. They are similarly situated as topography is concerned, and alikequire and must have irrigation. Nature in most, if not in all, such cases, provide ample supply of water. Thus far conditions are cited which universally prevail in all States and territories where irrigation is desirable: First—An area of lands requiring tivation. Second—They are similarly situated. Third—The title to said lands has reduced to private ownership. How best may farmers surround these conditions acquire a supply of for irrigation of their lands? It seems follow without argument that they have the water at the bare necessity by plying it. Inasmuch as the condition irrigation must of necessity be contiguous very essence of value in the land is largely wanting if by tenure by water supply is held less stable different in degree from that by which land is held. A land tenure which with it the uncertainty attending that of water as now held by most irrigation California could not be sold at any Mon in the purchase of land are set with nothing less than a fee simple coming direct from the government Where the value of the land which is dependent upon a supply of water is irrigation, then the title to this water should be no less definite and certain the title to the land. The courts of Ohio have decreed that the water appurts to riparian lands is a part of the result that it may be conveyed by dead in this manner. But unless so conveyed this island right is held by a tenure no less sacred than the tenure of the land Such should be the status of the title water required for irrigation. Where the common law of riparian provals, there are but three methods which owner of lands not riparian acquire title to water for irrigation first is by prescription, the second b Taken in Exchange Walter in and Cigars. HAND STOCK! and Cigars. LIQUORS BOTTLE. Attended to. OF CHARGE! HEIM, CAL. KER, bes, Whips, S, ETC. Taken in Exchange Walter in and Cigars. HAND STOCK! and Cigars. LIQUORS BOTTLE. Attended to. OF CHARGE! HEIM, CAL. KER, bes, Whips, S, ETC. Taken in Exchange Walter in and Cigars. HAND STOCK! and Cigars. LIQUORS BOTTLE. Attended to. OF CHARGE! HEIM, CAL. KER, bes, Whips, S, ETC. Taken in Exchange Walter in and Cigars. HAND STOCK! and Cigars. LIQUORS BOTTLE. Attended to. OF CHARGE! HEIM, CAL. KER, bes, Whips, S, ETC. Taken in Exchange Walter in and Cigars. HAND STOCK! and Cigars. LIQUORS BOTTLE. Attended to. OF CHARGE! HEIM, CAL. KER, bes, Whips, S, ETC. Taken in Exchange Walter in and Cigars. HAND STOCK! and Cigars. LIQUORS BOTTLE. Attended to. OF CHARGE! HEIM, CAL. KER, bes, Whips, S, ETC. Taken in Exchange Walter in and Cigars. HAND STOCK! and Cigars. LIQUORS BOTTLE. Attended to. OF CHARGE! HEIM, CAL. KER, bes, Whips, S, ETC. Taken in Exchange Walter in and Cigars. HAND STOCK! and Cigars. LIQUORS BOTTLE. Attended to. OF CHARGE! HEIM, CAL. KER, bes, Whips, S, ETC. Taken in Exchange Walter in and Cigars. HAND STOCK! and Cigars. LIQUORS BOTTLE. Attended to. OF CHARGE! HEIM, CAL. KER, bes, Whips, S, ETC. Taken in Exchange Walter in and Cigars. HAND STOCK! and Cigars. LIQUORS BOTTLE. Attended to. OF CHARGE! HEIM, CAL. KER, bes, Whips, S, ETC. Taken in Exchange Walter in and Cigars. HAND STOCK! and Cigars. LIQUORS BOTTLE. Attended to. OF CHARGE! HEIM, CAL. KER, bes, Whips, S, ETC. Taken in Exchange Walter in and Cigars. HAND STOCK! and Cigars. LIQUORS BOTTLE. Attended to. OF CHARGE! HEIM, CAL. KER, bes, Whips, S, ETC. Taken in Exchange Walter in and Cigars. HAND STOCK! and Cigars. LIQUORS BOTTLE. Attended to. OF CHARGE! HEIM, CAL. KER, bes, Whips, S, ETC. Taken in Exchange Walter in and Cigars. HAND STOCK! and Cigars. LIQUORS BOTTLE. Attended to. OF CHARGE! HEIM, CAL. KER, bes, Whips, S, ETC. Taken in Exchange Walter in and Cigars. HAND STOCK! and Cigars. LIQUORS ATTNED TO THE REQUEST OF THE AUTHORITY OF THE UNITED STATES: The laws now governing waters and lands in a number of States and Territories are inadequate and dangerous. Streams are appropriated under lax and conflicting State laws, and the absorption of insterstate waters promises to become the fruitful source of confluence of the representatives of the Western States and Territories: To the people of the United States: Writing to an American friend many years ago Macauley said: "Your national safeguard lies in your boundless public domain. You now have room for the spread of population and the satisfaction of every man's desire for land; but the time will come when this heritage will have been consumed, this safeguard will have vanished. You will have your crowded Birmingham and Manchester, and then will come the test of your institutions." We invite the earnest attention of our countrymen to a situation of which this prophecy furnishes a startling suggestion. The scenes recently enacted in the Cherokee Strip remind us that the pressure of surplus population still seeks an outlet in the West, and that we have practically reached the limit of settlement in that portion of the public domain where the rainfall is sufficient to support agriculture. Existing social and industrial conditions in the great cities of the East and middle West also remind us of the alarming increase of the class of homeless people within the borders of the United States. To provide a further field for colonization under conditions which promise a good average prosperity to individual citizens, by the utilization of the great public estate still remaining in the hands of the government, is in our judgment a work which must now appeal with irresistible force to American statesmanship. THE ARID PUBLIC DOMAIN: The public lands which still belong to the people of the United States are for the most part arid or semi arid, requiring the artificial application of water to render them productive. They lie between the 97th meridian and the Pacific ocean and are divided between seventeen States and Territories. This domain is estimated by the General Land Office to contain 542,000,000 acres. Enough of this land is arable to provide homes and farms for millions of people. The portion which can never be cultivated is valuable for range purposes or for forest reservations. Notwithstanding the present condition of these arid lands, we confidently predict that they will become the seat of the highest civilization and the greatest average prosperity yet developed on this continent. The intensive scientific cultivation rendered possible by irrigation results in the largest conceivable development of independence and prosperity on the fewest possible number of acres. The conditions of social life which naturally grow up in a region of small farms are among the strongest attractions of the irrigated districts of the West. It is the experience of the world that the scarce value of land increases as the farm unit diminishes. The reclamation of the arid public domain means the improvement of the people's estate and the consequent addition of a vast sum to the national wealth. THE NATIONAL QUESTION: The progress thus far made in the reclamation of the arid regions has been along the line of local effort and individual enterprise. Nevertheless, the problem of conquering these deserts is national enmenue. These lands are the heritage of the American people. To have a home upon them is the birthright of every American child. The conditions under which they shall be reclaimed and acquired by the settler must be founded on the recognition of these facts. There are also questions between States which require national legislation and oversight, and however Western men might desire to settle the problems which nature has placed about them, the result cannot be attained except through national legislation. EXISTING CONDITIONS: The laws now governing waters and lands in a number of States and Territories are inadequate and dangerous. Streams are appropriated under lax and conflicting State laws, and the absorption of insterstate waters promises to become the fruitable source of confluence of the representatives of the Western States and Territories: To the people of the United States: Writing to an American friend many years ago Macauley said: "Your national safeguard lies in your boundless public domain. You now have room for the spread of population and the satisfaction of every man's desire for land; but the time will come when this heritage is enacted in the Cherokee Strip remind us that the pressure of surplus population still seeks an outlet in the West, and that we have practically reached the limit of settlement in that portion of the public domain where the rainfall is sufficient to support agriculture. Existing social and industrial conditions in the great cities of the East and middle West also reminded us of the alarming increase of the class of homeless people within the borders of the United States. To provide a further field for colonization under conditions which promise a good average prosperity to individual citizens, by the utilization of the great public estate still remaining in the hands of the government, is in our judgment a work which must now appeal with irresistible force to American statesmanship. THE ARID PUBLIC DOMAIN: The public lands which still belong to the people of the United States are for the most part arid or semi arid, requiring the artificial application of water to render them productive. They lie between the 97th meridian and are divided between seventeen States and Territories. This domain is estimated by the General Land Office to contain 542,000,000 acres. Enough of this land is arable to provide homes and farms for millions of people. The portion which can never be cultivated is valuable for range purposes or for forest reservations. Notwithstanding the present condition of these arid lands, we confidently predict that they will become the seat of the highest civilization and the greatest average prosperity yet developed on this continent. The intensive scientific cultivation rendered possible by irrigation results in the largest conceivable development of independence and prosperity on the fewest possible number of acres. The conditions of social life which naturally grow up in a region of small farms are among the strongest attractions of the irrigated districts of the West. It isthe experience ofthe world thatthe scarce valueoflandincreasesasthefarmunitdiminishes.Thereclamationofthearidpublicdomainmeanstheimprovementofthepeople'sestateandtheconsequentadditionofa vastsumtothenationalwealth. AN ARID LAND POLICY: The time has come when the work of developing an arid land policy, on broad National and State lines, can no longer be delayed. The number of plans suggested for the solution ofthe problemarelegion. Someofthemhave received endorsementfrom commercialandpoliticalconventions.Believingthatharceryofactionisvital,thewidediscussionandpatientinvestigationareindispensableinarivingatwiceconclusions,thecarneltyp favorthe adoptionofthefollowingplan:ThereshallbeappointedbytheNationalExecutiveCommitteeofIrrigationCongressacommissionforeachStateandTerritoryinthearidorsemitriadregions,consistingoffivememberseachwhoshallbecompetentandexperiencedmen.Thesecommissionsshallatonceenteruponcarefulinvestigationoftheconditionsexistingin eachoftheStatesorTerritoriesandthenformulateplanslookingtotheadoptionofa nationalpolicytobesupplementedbyappropriatelocallaws.Theresultsoftheinvestigationsoftheseseveralcommissionsshallbe submittedtothenextIrrigationCongress,anduponthesereportsthefinalanddefinitedeclarationsofthepeopleoftheWesternStatesandTerritoriesmaybebased.Bythismewehopewithinareasonabletimetosuggesta satisfactoryirrigationpolicytowhetherandtotheStatesandTerritories,andweherebydeclareourpurposetoerectitupobroadfoundationsofjusticeandequitywithduregardendownoflaborandofcapital. STATE LEGISLATION: We endorsethe principleofthedistrictirrigationlawofCalifornia，commonknownasthe"WrightLaw,"asawidestepinthedivisionofthepublishershipofirrigationworks.Willhedo notassertthatitissuitedtotheneedsofunsettledlocalities,或that它 cannotbeimprovedinsomeofitsminordetails,dovethedeclarethatexperiencehas demonstrated itsusefulness,其fairnessanditseconomy.TheneedofStatesupervisionoflocaldistrictsishowever apparent,andstatesthatmayhereafteradoptitshouldprovideforthisimportantfeature.Therightofcondemnationofframeworksand theiracquisirementbythepeopleuponpaymentofjustcompensation,当certainedbyfairappraisement,theheartilyendorse和recommendthatitbeadoptedbyallStateswhereprivateirrigationworks，coveringlandnotapartofthepublicdomain,mayexist. We advise allStatesinthearidregiontocmakeprovisionsfordepartmentsirrigation,supervisionandeengineering,andto vigorouslyprosecuteworkspropracticalinvestigation. To dealwiththearidpublicdomainisoneofthemightytasksofthefuture.Imeansnotonlytheconquestofanewagriculturalempireanda tremendouscontributiontothenationalwealthofthefuture,但it involvesdevelopmentofnewformsofcivilizationwillgivenewlive生活popularinstitution.it maybecomethepeculiarconcernofWesternmentheywillbetruetoitsgreatobligations。但theyapproachthematterinno spiritofpettysectionalism.Theyinvitetheco-operationalfollowerscountrymen.EastwellasWest,NorthaswellasSouth.Willmininganditskindredemploymentsareofvastimportto-theWesternStates,directlyandindirectly,theirirrigationindustryisandmusteverbe theirsupremeinterest.UnderjustlawsandpropernationalencouragementitwilladdnewlustertotheAmericanname. 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HON.C.C.WRIGHTGIVESHISVIEWSABOUTTHEMTO THEIR IRRIGATOR'S ABOUTTHEMTO THEIR IRRIGATOR'S INRIGATION DISTRICTS HON.C.C.WRIGHTGIVESHISVIEWSABOUTTHEMTO THEIR IRRIGATOR'S ABOUTTHEMTO THEIR IRRIGATOR'S INRIGATION DISTRICTS HON.C.C.WRIGHTGIVESHISVIEWSABOUTTHEMTO THEIR IRRIGATOR'S ABOUTTHEMTO THEIR IRRIGATOR'S INRIGATION DISTRICTS HON.C.C.WRIGHTGIVESHISVIEWSABOUTTHEMTO THEIR IRRIGATOR'S ABOUTTHEMTO THEIR IRRIGATOR'S INRIGATION DISTRICTS HON.C.C.WRIGHTGIVESHISVIEWSABOUTTHEMTO THEIR IRRIGATOR'S ABOUTTHEMТО THEIR IRRIGATOR'S INRIGATION DISTRICTS HON.C.C.WRIGHTGIVESHISVIEWSABUTHEMATO THEIR IRRIGATOR'S ABOUTTHEMТО THEIR IRRIGATOR'S INRIGATION DISTRICTS HON.C.C.WRIGHTGIVESHISVIEWSABUTHEMATO THEIR IRRIGATOR'S ABOUTTHEMТО THEIR IRRIGATOR'S INRIGATION DISTRICTS HON.C.C.WRIGHTGIVESHISVIEWSABUTHEMATO THEIR IRRIGATOR'S ABOUTTHEMТО THEIR IRRIGATOR'S INRIGATION DISTRICTS HON.C.C.WRIGHTGIVESHISVIEWSABUTHEMATO THEIR IRRIGATOR'S ABOUTTHEMТО THEIR IRRIGATOR'S IN RIGHTAGENTICS: WE INDULGE THE PRICE OF NEW AGRICULTURAL EMPIRE AND A TREMENDOUS CONTRIBUTION TO THE NATIONAL WEalth OF THE FOLLOWING STATES OF THE WORLD: BUT IT INCLUDES DEVELOPMENT OF NEW FORM OF COOPERATIVE IMMUNITY AND GROWTH FOR THE REPRESENTATION OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDUSTRIAL IBRINGEMENT OF INDustrials: WE INDULGE THE PRICE 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You pictures, worth the price of LMSEN. BACKS, BERTAKER. And Dealer in NITURE. Paper, Cornices, Window Picture Frames, Upholts, Paints, Oils and Glass. Machine Supplies, Etc. BACKS, ANAHEIM. The laws now governing waters and lands in a number of States and Territories are inadequate and dangerous. Streams are appropriated under lax and conflicting State laws, and the absorption of interstate waters promises to become the fruitful source of future litigation and social disturbance. The Desert Land Law, under whose operations the public land is passing away from the people, is largely perverted from its original purpose. It offers the settled land upon terms with which he can not ordinarily comply except by resorting to perjury. The law has become in its execution the instrument of corporations, who acquire land for $1.25 per acre and sell it back again to the people upon profitable terms named only by themselves. We declare that water in natural channels and beds is not private property and that it cannot be bought or sold. Companies for supplying and distributing water are common carriers, subject to the supervision and control of the power from which they derive their rights. We declare that all streams rising in one State and flowing by natural courses through one or more other States must be conserved and equitably divided under the federal authority. NEEDED NATIONAL LEGISLATION. To devise laws which will assist the work of reclamation, and furnish the proper safeguards alike to public and to private interests, while recognizing the rights of the nation on one hand, and of the States on the other, is a task that may not be lightly undertaken. We shall suggest a means by which it may be accomplished within a reasonable period, but in the meantime there are important things which may be done by legislation. Nothing must be allowed to jeopardize interstate streams, and it is highly important that the drainage areas of these streams should be promptly known and defined at once in a way sufficient for the purpose here in view and not awake the slow results of a thorough and technical inquiry, which latter may follow in its train and for its needed purposes. The pastoral lands, especially within those drainage areas, should also in our judgment be reserved for the present from sale or permanent disposal. The net results for leasing the same for range purposes should be used for developing a possible water supply, to the end that stock farms and homes may be created thereon, instead of cattle ranges as at present. The whole subject of national legislation should be investigated by federal authority, and as a means to this end we suggest the appointment of a non-partisan national commission to be named at once and instructed to report as soon as possible. The importance of the development of wise local laws and the control of waters so far as it may become the peculiar concern of Western men they will be true to its great obligations. But they approach the matter in no spirit of petty sectionalism. They invite the co-operation of all their countrymen, East as well West, North as well South. While mining and its kindred employments are of vast import to the Western States, directly and indirectly, the irrigation industry is and must ever be their supreme interest. Under just laws and proper national encouragement it will add new luster to the American name. IRRIGATION DISTRICTS HON. C. C. WRIGHT GIVES HIS VIEWS ABOUT THEM TO THE IRRIGATORS' CONGRESS. At the session of the convention on Thursday last the following very interesting paper on irrigation districts was read by Hon. C. C. Wright of Stanislaus, author of the well-known district law of that name: The central thought to be kept in mind in the formation of irrigation legislation is the benefit to accrue to the consumer. All other matters should be merely incidental and should follow in logical sequence. What is for the best advantage of the consumer? What will most contribute to his interests? The answer to this question, in whatever form it may be put, should be the end aimed at by the law-making powers of the land whosoever and wheresoever they may be. In arriving at the answer to this question it is apparent that men will go in widely divergent directions and come to as widely separate conclusions. Men will differ as to the means by which the end is to be attained, but concerning the initial point we should occupy common ground. Presuming that all will agree that the general principle stated should constitute the basis of all legislation enacted, let us see if we may not further pursue the subject with concert of thought and conclusions. To this end let us repair to the locality to be effected. The first problem which confronts us is the conditions to be met and overcome. Those may be insurmountable, rendering all systems unavailable. Affording an instance of the insurmountable, at least, so far as State legislation is concerned, we may point to and government lands. These are beyond the reach of State aid. No course cannot be had to them as a security either by the private vendor or by the State or its agent. This element of security lies at the basis of all responsibility, and where security is wanting responsibility ceases. We must therefore dismiss arid government land from consideration so far as State legislation is concerned. The condition most loudly calling for the solution of this great question, and the meeting of which answers the ends practically all who have a direct interest in the subject, is that which abounds in every farming neighborhood where the artificial application of water to the soil may be necessary or desirable. Such a condition exists in almost every farming neighborhood west of the Mississippi river, where the title to the lands has been reduced to private ownership. It is true that men possess great wealth and extensive domains can provide for themselves a system of regulation, but I am now discussing the question from the standpoint of the average man. There is no way in which he can attain desired end other than by organized such as municipal or quasi-municipal organizations afford. Now what advantages afforded by this means? First, an organization is created through which all the owners of a given lands may act in concert and to end needful. This power of organizer cannot be afforded in any other manner. The area of lands thus embraced should include all those which are situated, and which may be irrigated water from a common source and a same system of works. In this case those who have like wants and are to the same conditions may join hands to work to be prosecuted. In short may unitedly exercise all the powers entrained in the attainment of the end. In adopting this idea or plan proceeding on no new or untried therein is but a new application of popular art self-government. The county is set with the power to construct all needful buildings, public bridges and road performing this function it exercises collective power and will of the people posing the county. The work is directed lawfully constituted agents of the means to be provided for from all alike in proportion to pay interests. A like illustration is affixed to school district, and in the State national governments. Lawfully committed authorities for and in name of this people and as their agents perform all work at the public expense. Can it be carefully contended that the line drawn so as to exclude turnover water for irrigation from the cateste works to be undertaken by the public agencies cities have possessed the functions ating and furnishing a water supply for inhabitants for domestic purposes; should not those who are to be affected benefited by the use of water for irrigation be endowed with this same function or enterprise? In resorting to this plan we benefit of all human experience inized government from the beginning to purpose. In its application we should as closely as possible to old lines. Ifute creating—the governmental agency specifically purposebe so drawn that technically same departments of administration are provided for as are now received in governments for other purposes, there be no departure from the popular plans and ideas, and we will be sustained bountifully... Gazette. 1893. NUMBER 50 The areas of such lands abound in every land and Territory lying west of the Mississippi. How should the owners of such best meat and overcome the difficulties in way of supplying their lands with water needed for irrigation? This is the form which is paramount to all othare, all States legislation should be so molded best tend to its solution. Neighborhood of farmers, or a company of such neighborhoods, possess lands of little, if any, value, without irrigation. They are similarly situated so far photography is concerned, and alike recondition must have irrigation. Nature has not, if not in all, such cases, provided an supply of water. As far conditions are cited which almost regularly prevail in all States and Territories where irrigation is desirable: — An area of lands requiring irrigation was a condition of their profitable cultivation. — They are similarly situated. The title to said lands has been deemed to private ownership. New best may farmers surrounded by conditions acquire a supply of water irrigation of their lands? It seems to be without argument that they should water at the bare necessity of supplying it. Inasmuch as the conditions for ration must of necessity be continued, every essence of value in the land itself largely wanting if the tenure by which water supply is held be less stable, or not in degree from that by which the land is held. A land tenure which carried out the uncertainty attending the tenure later as now held by most irrigators in Florida could not be sold at any price. In the purchase of land are satisfied nothing less than a fee simple tenure direct from the government itself. The value of the land which they buy depend upon a supply of water for its operation, then the title to this water supply shall be no less definite and certain than to the land. The courts of California deceived that the water appurtenantarian土地 is a part of the realty, and that may be conveyed by deed in the same manner. But unless so conveyed this riparation is held by a tenure no less stable or than the tenure of the land itself. Should be the status of the title to all required for irrigation. There are common law of riparian rights there, there are but three methods by which the owner of lands not riparian may title to water for irrigation. The basis by prescription, the second by purification. The legal and a popular standpoint. Any of the instances of popular government for public purposes may be safely followed. All of them are substantially the same. The county as an integral part of the State is perhaps the most familiar instance. An important function of county government is its power to construct its public buildings, roads and bridges. In the administration of this function the county acts by and through its duly elected agents, who have the powers and are charged with the duties prescribed by law. By means of the organization created by law the people have simply acquired the power of concerted effort. With all the directness and certainty of individual effort they have added powers of the right to acquire the property of others by condemnation, and for providing large sums of money for public purposes. The right for condemnation has never been conferred for any other than strictly public purposes, and cannot be conferred on any individual or corporation for any private purpose. Another of the functions of county government is the power to decide what public work shall be undertaken. It was recently decided by the county of Los Angeles to construct in this beautiful city a courthouse which would cost almost $1,000,000. The county possessed the power not only to decide this question, but the power to make ample provision for the paying of the cost. The power had been conferred by law to enforce the payment by every property-owner, according to his means, his proper share of the cost. Merely voluntary effort could not have achieved such a work. If it had been necessary to obtain the consent of those who were opposed to the construction of this building as a prerequisite to the commencement of the work, the cornerstone would never have been laid. But, proceeding on the principle pervading all popular government, leaving such questions to be decided by the requisite majority of all the people, it was an easy matter to complete and equip this splendid edifice without difficulty and without delay. In precisely the same manner may any important irrigation work be accomplished through the exercise of governmental functions, similar in all respects to those exercised by the county. A municipality possessing the functions enabling it to construct the works which may be required, may be organized, and such works created in manner and form different in no essential particular from the familiar instance above given. The district laws of California of 1887 was enacted for the purpose of meeting this end. It was drafted with especial reference Mrs. K. H. Wade, wife of the general manager of the Southern California railway, while crossing a street at Coronado, one night last week, fell and broke her leg above the ankle. A story comes from Elsinore, Riveraide county, that two large mountain lions engaged in a tight on Saturday night and were found next morning in a reservoir near by drowned and in deadly embrace. A Chinese at Fresno has filed a complaint against the town of Selma for damages in the vicinity of Daggett by means of a dam across the Mojave river and a submerged flume for the purpose of trapping underflow. A remarkable thing in connection with Rathdrown homicide trial at Victoria, B.C., is the fact that when it was sought to introduce the dying statement of the dead man, Joner, an objection was made and sustained by the Court on the ground that it had been taken on Sunday, and it was therefore thrown out. The San Bernardino Board of Supervisors have notified Justices of the Peace throughout the county that they will not allow teens in excess of $2 per day, and will pay no fees of Justices or Constables in cases of prosecution of vagrants unless the complaint is sworn to by some reputable citizen of a township other than the officers thereof. Mrs. Thomas Flanagan of San Rafael last week assisted her eighteen-year-old daughter Jenna to marry Frank Hall, against the wishes of her husband, who opposed the marriage. The mother accompanied the bridal couple as far as San萨拉利o,and returned to San Rafael on the train. Flanagan entered the car and approached his wife in a threatening manner, with his hand in his hip-pocket. The frightened woman jumped from the moving train, and received injuries which may prove fatal. Flanagan has a bad character, and was under bonds to keep the peace for having previously threatened his family with death. The facts attending the mysterious disappearance of Charles Potter, a resident of San Jacinto, some months ago, and the subsequent discovery of a dead body claimed to be Potter's near Riverside, were reviewed in the Superior Court of that county last week. The value of the land which they buy depend upon a supply of water for its use, then the title to this water supply be no less definite and certain than to the land. The courts of California have decreed that the water appurtenant to the land is a part of the realty, and may be conveyed by deed in the same land. But unless so conveyed this riparian right is held by a tenure no less stable or than the tenure of the land itself, should be the status of the title to all required for irrigation. Here is the common law of riparian rights: there are but three methods by which the owner of lands not riparian may title to water for irrigation. The laws by prescription, the second by purchase, and the third by condemnation. If these methods cannot be asserted by landowners, he cannot by might or right to title in this manner. It is beyond owner to subject the property of others own use except by their permission, permission, if it continues five years after its injury or detriment, debars of the rights thereafter to make objection as the adverse possession of property for three years, or real preparation five years confers the same character. But this mode of acquiring title is definite, so little to be relied upon, as really unworthy of being classed as a form of acquisition at all. Acquisition by purchase is generallyotic as a means to be resorted to by individual owner. Riparian owners are usually so numerous and so jealous of the advantages possessed by them that impracticable for the individual owner to satisfy them, and objection by qually as fatal as objection by all. There remains the third acquisition, by condemnation. Area of lands not riparian as compared with those riparian is so much greater the owners of the latter class, acting vividly, can easily afford to bear the necessary to be borne in making a case at such price as the court may fix. Method of acquisition we deem the practicable means available to the owners in riparian lands. In order that the owners of non-riparian lands may act in concert and thus furnish the means, each his just proportion, to title to water in this manner, it is impossible that there should be organized such as the municipal or quasi-municipal corporation affords. No considerable bar of men will agree upon the means to be sorted to reach the end of any important undertaking. Hence organization, the exercise of the ordinary governmental functions becomes necessary and sensible. When we have crossed the barrier entered in the acquisition of title to there yet remains the problem as to means by which it shall be diverted into natural channels and applied to the means of diversion must be created, in most instances requires the outlay expenditure sums of money far beyond each of the man of ordinary means. In construction of irrigation works it is apparent that the individual owner operating is all but helpless. It is equally apparent that by united effort almost any difficulty may be surmounted. United effort may be secured by organization, and by organization as possesses governmental powers. Hence in the two conditions to it and overcome, namely: How shall it be diverted and applied to the land? How may logical sequence to the conclusion that if the conditions are to be met by landowners, it can only be done by anization possessing the powers of government. It is true that men possessed of wealth and extensive domains of land provide for themselves a system of irrigation, but I am now discussing the question at the standpoint of the average farmer. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. The following transfers of real estate have been recorded during the week: Bank of Anaheim to L. F. Lewis—20 feet front on Center street, Anaheim, being banking house and fixtures of the Bank of Anaheim. The district laws of California of 1887 was enacted for the purpose of meeting this end. It was drafted with especial reference to preserving the functions of popular government, and with care that no essential feature of such governments, as they have existed for ages, should be found wanting. The county has its board of supervisors which represents it in its corporate capacity, and gives direction to all its efforts, and through which is executed the popular will. The city and incorporated town have a board of aldermen, trustees or councilmen, who, in like manner, perform duties substantially the same character. So there was provided for the irrigation district a board of directors having the familiar powers vested in the representative head of other municipal corporations. The county, city and incorporated town have an assessor who performs the important function of lusting and valuing all property within his jurisdiction for the purpose of taxation. Such an officer is provided for the irrigation district. The county, city and incorporated town have a tax collector who collects and pays into the public treasury the sums required for public uses. The same office and officer are provided for the irrigation district. The county, city and incorporated town have a treasurer into whose keeping all public funds are confided, and who is charged with the duty of disburring them for the purposes provided by law. This office and officer, with like duties are provided for the irrigation district. The difference, and the only difference between these older municipal corporations and the irrigation district is that the duties of the former are of wider scope, embracing sanitary and more ordinary forms of public regulations and the preservation of the public peace, as well as the power to construct public works of every character, while the irrigation district has but one end and aim, namely, the furnishing of sufficient water for the irrigation of the lands composing the corporation. All its efforts must be directed to this one end. But the function is precisely the same in character as the function which the incorporated city possesses to construct a system of water works for the domestic use of its inhabitants; and the measure of the power and the manner in which it is exercised is in the two instances the same. It has been asserted that the managing board of an irrigation district possesses unusual and arbitrary powers. Such is not the fact. They possess the powers and only such within their jurisdiction as have been exercised by boards of supervisors from time immemorial. Summed up in a few words, the irrigation district under the California statute of 1887 is a municipal corporation having the same powers to construct irrigation works and to furnish to all lands within it water for irrigation that are possessed by a city or incorporated town to construct water works and to furnish water to its inhabitants for all domestic purposes. These powers are familiar to all and are readily understood. The steamship Newbern, Capt. Von Helms, eight days from Guaynuax, grounded Friday morning at 3 o'clock a few miles north of San Pedro lighthouse. The passengers, crew and part of the cargo were saved, but the ship was lost. A dense fog prevailed, and one could not see a ship's length. The captain supposed he was well out from land, but the current carried him off his course, and the vessel went full speed onto the rocks. Water came in very rapidly, and the steamer listed to port. She rolled very much, careening to port. The discipline of the crew was perfect. The vessel lay on the rocks in the position in which she struck until daybreak, and after a partial lifting of the fog, the passengers were rowed ashore, not a stone's throw distant. The vessel is broken in two and her decks are completely razed. The Newbern was a wood brigrigged steamer of 943 tons register. She was built at Portland, Or., in 1862, and was owned by the Portland Improvement Company of that place. The vessel was valued at $20,000 and at $290,000. She carried a crew of thirty-six men. There was no insurance on the steamer. From the position of the vessel it is believed that little can be saved. The Sailora' Union of the Pacific, with headquarters in San Francisco, is reported to be in a very bad way. The recent dynamic mite entangled in that city, by which a non-union boarding-house was blown up and four men killed, is generally attributed to the Sailora' Union. Since the outrage, several big shipping firms have gone over to the Ship owners' Association, and refuse to do business with the union. Now that the union sailors cannot get employment, the union boarding-masters will not keep them any longer. Last Monday morning many REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. The following transfers of real estate have been recorded during the week: Bank of Anaheim to L. F. Lewis—20 feet front on Center street, Anaheim, being banking house and fixtures of the Bank of Anaheim; $4000. W. S. Bartlett, trustee, to Plez James and Anna Balle James—S₁ of NE₄ and N₂ of SE₄ of Sec. 5, T 3, R 9; $5400. Paquette Pellegrin to Bank of Anaheim—6 acres in SW₄ of Sec. 9, T 4, R 10; $10. Frank L. Jenks and Elizabeth M. Jenks to Mandy R. Mercereau and J. Frank Mercereau—30 acres, being NE₄ and S₃ of NW₄ of SE₄ of Sec. 8, T 4, R 10; $1500. J. M. Rich and C. L. Rich to John Goodwin—W₄ of SW₄ of NW₄ of SEC. 33, T 4, R 10; $3000. Annable Lamar and Clementine Lamer to M. R. Felix—Lots 4 to 12, block H; lot 32, block D, Lorelei tract; and lot 15, block C, center tract, Anaheim; $400. H. D. Carr and I. A. Nickerson to W. B. Harvey—11 G 99-100 acres in south part of Abel Stearns alotment, Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, to correct deeds; $6000. C. W. Ward to Allie Ward—W₄ of SEC. 9, T 5, R 10; $7. The marriage of W. P. Earp of Calton, aged 80 years, and Mrs. Annie Alexander of San Bernardino city, aged 50, was an extraordinary occurrence that attracted considerable attention at San Bernardino last Saturday. The Pioneer Society made extensive preparations for the event, and the meeting of the society at which the ceremony took place last from 2 o'clock until midnight and a banquet was spread in honor of the wedding. Electric Bitters. This remedy is becoming so well known and so popular as to need no special mention. All who have used Electric Bitters sing the same song of praise. A purer medicine does not exist and it is guaranteed to do all that is claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all diseases of the liver and kidneys, will remove pimples, boils, salt rheum and other affections caused by impure blood. Will drive malaria from the system and prevent as well as cure all malarial fevers. For cure of headache, constipation and indigestion try Electric Bitters. Entire satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Price 50 cts and $1 per bottle at W. M. Higgins' Drug Store. Summed up in a few words, the irrigation district under the California statute of 1887 is a municipal corporation having the same powers to construct irrigation works and to furnish to all lands within it water for irrigation that are possessed by a city or incorporated town to construct water works and to furnish water to its inhabitants for all domestic purposes. These powers are familiar to all and are readily understood. The Sailors' Union of the Pacific, with headquarters in San Francisco, is reported to be in a very bad way. The recent dynamic outrage in that city, by which a non-union boarding-house was blown up and four men killed, is generally attributed to the Sailors' Union. Since the outrage, several big shipping firms have gone over to the Ship owners' Association, and refuse to do business with the union. Now that the union sailors cannot get employment, the union boarding-masters will not keep them any longer. Last Monday morning, many were swarming around Lime juice corner, seeking a chance to get a berth on the British ship Spoke. Some paid as much as $15 in order to secure the privilege of working for $20 per month. That night over one hundred and fifty members slept on the floor and in the corridors of the union's headquarters were served out after, which the sailors picked out the softest planks on which to sleep. The men who came straggling in after 9 o'clock had to sleep in the hallway, and when that was filled had to sit on the stairs. Now there are five sailors for every vacancy, and when the whaling-fleet gets in and dumps its hundreds of men on the beach, the times are sure to be very hard. Secretary Andrew Furuseth will not admit that the Sailors' Union has fallen upon evil days, but does not deny that from 100 to 150 members sleep on the floors of the union's headquarters every night. A few days ago Lorelei Villa, in charge of the cattle herds of the Allison brothers, along the Cocopa Mountains, in Lower California, left Black Ettle for Campo, San Diego county. Wednesday last his mule returned to camp without him. A search was instituted, which resulted in the finding of his saddle hanging on a bush, about a mile from camp. The Cocopa Indians followed the mule's tracks back to Desert Springs, about half way between Signal Mountains and Coyote Wells, where Villa's tracks showed that he had got off his mule to water him at the spring, when the mule got away and ran home, a distance of forty miles. Villa tried to follow and when he had gone about half way wandered off into the sandhills, where he threw away his shoes and where his tracks were obliterated by the winds. The tracks of two other men were also found in the same sandhills. They are supposed to be those of two prospectors named Ross and Williams. These add three more names to the desert's dead, and these perished in sight of the spot where the Breedlovees were found dead more than a year ago. Word has been received that an Indian herding cattle 100 miles above Yuma had found the body of an American a few miles west of Ehrenburg. From the description given it is believed to be that of Conrad Davids. He was from Clinton, Ariz. The remains were found about fifteen miles from where the prospectors gave up the search when the traces disappeared. Davida's watch and $33 in moss were found in his pocketets. The remains were buried where they were found.