anaheim-gazette 1907-11-07

The Weekly Gazette. ESTABLISHED 1870 SUBSCRIPTION - $1.50 Per Year HENRY KUCHEL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Six months...$1.00 Three months...50cts Payable invariably in advance. The Gazette is issued every Thursday morning. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter. NO TIME FOR BONDS The defeat of a proposed issue of bonds for road improvements at Fullerton last week should act as a forcible reminder to paved-road enthusiasts the county over that times are not propitious for increasing the public indebtedness. The proposed issue of $80,000 for improving the streets of our neighboring town had many things in its favor, and with that sum of money economically handled, the result can not but have been of great importance to the town. Good roads bring trade to a town; of that there is no particle of doubt. But the people were in no mood to increase their expenditures, and are content to get along with present thoroughfares rather than to increase their obligations at a time when retrenchment seems everywhere to be in order. The vote stood 174 against the issue of $80,000 and 33 favoring it. The fact that the entire amount was to have been handled by Fullerton citizens and to have been expended. OUR GROWING SUBSCRIPTION If this copy of THE GAZETTE meet the eye of a non-subject is invited to become a reporter, and on notification read this office the paper will be sent to his address. THE GAZETTE the oldest established paper county, and it covers the with palestaking care, will ever ready to assist in the use of the county. During the summer we have ed articles upon Forestry station, which are subjects of interest to every citizen of the These articles will be continue are prepared especially for and are worthy of perusal readers. Matters of local interest fully treated, and editorials upon live local topics. In aspect THE GAZETTE is well placed in every home in Oran. A solicitor will call upon your co-operation in our efforts THE GAZETTE in every hour northern portion of the county shall be our immediate object the entire county will be laid in detail. Your subscription is solicited shall have much to print the terest you. THE GAZETTE goes into the homes of more this section of the county other paper, and we aim to b scription list of 2000 before year is upon us. Your kind in this laudable endeavor is by the publisher. THE PRESIDENT'S A recent dispatch to a paper states that if William content to get along with present thoroughfares rather than to increase their obligations at a time when retrenchment seems everywhere to be in order. The vote stood 174 against the issue of $80,000 and 33 favoring it. The fact that the entire amount was to have been handled by Fullerton citizens, and to have been expended upon the streets of the town, doubtless conducted to bring out more votes in support of the bonds than would probably have been the case in a county bond issue, with small prospect of any great amount of such money being expended upon roads in Fullerton and vicinity. How would the late lamented issue of $600,000 for county road fare at this moment? We venture the assertion that not a single vote had been recorded affirmatively upon that project at Fullerton last week. Yet Orange county needs good roads—not the way provided in the Savage act, with a strip sixteen feet wide in the center of a thoroughfare. An interview published in another column with a leading citizen of the northern part of the county upon this subject will be read with interest. As he says, within the next two years some means will have to be devised to raise more money for our public roads. How is this to be done? Let the law be amended giving supervisor districts the right to vote bonds for improving their roads, if they so elect, and let local roads in every part of the county be taken care of by their respective districts. That more money will be needed for road improvements in Orange county in the coming time is apparent, but the present time is not propitious for bonds, and certainly THE PRESIDENT'S A recent dispatch to a paper states that if William is elected president next year,ident Roosevelt will, under conditions, accept an election to succeed The Platt, and if any one of Taft is elected, Mr. Roosevelt seek some other field for his ties. It is further alleged that president does not in course, to become an avowed candidate for the closing year of his term, but that if the New legislature sees fit to uphold the hands of Taft, he will not decline surely will decline, acco his present intentions, to the hands of any other president. We are authoritatively that President Roosevelt it would give him the pleasure to represent thetration on the floor of the States senate in case should be the next presidency it was only in that conthat he could accept the ship from New York, sh office be tendered him, as be unseemly for him, as dent, to attack on the flo senate the policies of his in the executive chair, and his opinion Mr. Taft is candidate able to carry work where he leaves off only one with whose view lic policies he could have vote bonds for improving their roads, if they so elect, and let local roads in every part of the county be taken care of by their respective districts. That more money will be needed for road improvements in Orange county in the coming time is apparent, but the present time is not propitious for bonds, and certainly the Savage act does not fit conditions in Orange county. Let the subject rest in abeyance a year or two, and let the matter be then taken up under a new law, and under different conditions. But the present is no time for bond issues, as Fullerton so emphatically pointed out on Tuesday of last week. The opinion seems to be general, throughout this country as well as abroad, that the recent Wall street storm will serve as an object lesson to clear the atmosphere, and that one of its results may be a reorganization of the New York stock exchange. It has, undoubtedly, demonstrated that our local banking institutions are solvent as a whole, and are managed with due conservatism. Now that abuses have been exposed and are in process of being remedied, we believe that confidence will soon be firmer than ever because the solidity of the banking fabric has been so thoroughly tested. The actions of certain of our financiers were bound to result, sooner or later, in a catastrophe, and the people of the United States owe an incalculable debt of gratitude to President Roose- Crowds See the C Norris & Rowe's circus large audiences yesterday and evening. The circus 10 o'clock from San Diego performed the afternoon auction of Tuesday. A parade was o'clock which was witnessed people. The performances were goo audiences were delighted. velt for the judgment and which precipitated these exthis time, when the country unburdened by debt and is ally prosperous. HOWING SUBSCRIPTION LIST A copy of THE GAZETTE should eye of a non-subscriber, he will to become a regular sub-stand on notification received by the paper will be regularly addressed. THE GAZETTE is the established paper in Orange and it covers the news field metaking care, with an eye to assist in the upbuilding county. In the summer we have published us upon Forestry and Irrigation are subjects of paramount importance to every citizen of the county. Articles will be continued. They are especially for this paper, worthy of perusal by all our of local interest are cared for, and editorials published in local topics. In every REAL GAZETTE is worthy of a very home in Orange county. Doctor will call upon you and ask operation in our effort to place GAZETTE in every home in the portion of the county. This our immediate objective point; the county will be later covered subscription is solicited. We are much to print that will in-ou. THE GAZETTE already the homes of more people in nation of the county than any other, and we aim to have a sub-list of 2000 before the new ones us. Your kind assistance undable endeavor is solicited publisher. PRESIDENT'S FUTURE nt dispatch to a New York states that if William H.Taft THE HIGHSCHOOL DEBATER We are to have a season of high-school debating again, and those who followed the course of our victorious team last year, when they won the championship cup offered by Stanford, will have reawakened interest in the coming struggle. Anaheim leads off with Hollywood at the latter point the evening of November 27th, and the question is, "Resolved, that the United States should in the near future sell the Philippine islands, or grant them independence." Our debaters take the negative side, and will deny these contentions. Should the Philippines be sold or granted their independence? To each of these interrogations, the answer must be an emphatic No. Admiral Dewey, in a recent interview, made this perfectly clear. The islands should not be sold at any price, he said, for the reason of their great strategical importance in time of war. The nations of Europe, he pointed out, have advocated the policy of maintaining strong bases in the Far East; England, Germany, France and Italy, and we might as well include Russia. For while this power was despoiled of her rights at Port Arthur and Dalmy, she is fortifying Vladivostak, and there is not wanting an occasional indication that she will yet attempt, in some future war, to wrest from the Mikado her lost possessions, commanding the Yel- PRESIDENT'S FUTURE ant dispatch to a New York states that if William H.Taft had president next year, Pres Roosevelt will, under certain terms, accept an election to date to succeed Thomas C. and if any one other than elected, Mr. Roosevelt will be other field for his activism is further alleged that the act does not intend, of so become an active and candidate for the senate in the long year of his presidential term that if the New York are sees fit to elect him to the hands of President he will not decline. He will decline, according to present intentions, to uphold his of any other republican stance. are authoritatively informed President Roosevelt has said he give him the greatest right to represent the administration on the floor of the United Senate in case Mr. Taft be the next president, but only in that contingency could accept the senator from New York, should the tendered him, as it would simply for him, as ex-president attack on the floor of the policies of his successor executive chair, and that in addition Mr. Taft is the only able to carry on the here he leaves off, and the with whose views on pubes he could have any sympathy, France and Italy, and we might as well include Russia. For while this power was despoiled of her rights at Port Arthur and Dalmy, she is fortifying Vladivostak, and there is not wanting an occasional indication that she will yet attempt, in some future war, to wrest from the Mikado her lost possessions, commanding the Yellow sea. Admiral Dewey pointed out that Spain could not have maintained her mastery of the seas during two hundred years if it had not been for her strong naval position at Manila, which cannot but be regarded as one of the most important points in the Orient. If the United States is to become a world power; if this country seeks to maintain the open door in China, and desires new markets for her constantly increasing manufactures, assuredly she cannot for a moment think of selling the islands. Speaking from the purely business viewpoint, the islands offer rich rewards to investment, and are in many ways most valuable assets, despite the fact that this country might prefer to have had them eliminated from the short, sharp and decisive struggle with the Spaniard in 1898. Hundreds of millions of American capital have been invested in railroad building and other work of development, and the American population is constantly increasing. This country has no more the moral right to dispose of the islands to another country than it had the moral right at the close of the civil war to have sold the negroes back into slavery. We do not desire the islands for purposes of making ourselves rich, but we shall hold them until such time as they demonstrate their fitness for self-gov- this season. We shall have added cause for Theat at thought of the Hollow dangling from the young high school warrior. Postmaster Duckworth Howard appeared before supervisors on Tuesday a quest for a donation of county's advertising fund be applied to the prepara coming pamphlet, describ county to be issued by chamber of commerce. assured the amount wouldated if the pamphlet met ments as to the descriptiating to the county. Th were informed this would chamber of commerce is tendered him, as it would family for him, as ex-president attack on the floor of the policies of his successor executive chair, and that ination Mr. Taft is the only able to carry on the where he leaves off, and the with whose views on pubes he could have any sympose intimately associated President Roosevelt it is pervious that he has entered upon the evils of corporate management and the intrusion operations in politics, with soul, and that he believes a work well worth the ac- of his remaining years, in public or private life. Wds See the Circus & Rowe's circus showed to alliances yesterday afternoon. The circus arrived at from San Diego where it had the afternoon and evening day. A parade was given at 1 which was witnessed by many performances were good and the were delighted. the judgment and foresight disciplited these exposures at when the country at large is led by debt and is exception-orous. right to dispose of the islands to another country than it had the moral right at the close of the civil war to have sold the negroes back into slavery. We do not desire the islands for purposes of making ourselves rich, but we shall hold them until such time as they demonstrate their fitness for self-government, and then we shall grant their independence. Will this be in the near future? Assuredly not. If it be contended by those supporting the affirmative that the islands be sold, what becomes of their argument that the Filipinos be given their independence? What other nation on earth will hold itself ready to do what the United States has obligated itself to do with those discordant people of the archipelago? At best it were a base act to sell these Filipinos, much as we may dislike the task of civilizing them. If they are to be sold, what comes of the question about their independence? Let them first prove their right to self-government; then they shall have it. Anaheim stands at the head of the high schools of Southern California, having won last year's medal and trophy. We fully expect to see our young debaters score a victory in their first contest quest for a donation of county's advertising fund be applied to the prepara coming pamphlet, describe county to be issued by chamber of commerce. assured the amount would at if the pamphlet met ments as to the descriptive lating to the county. They were informed this would chamber of commerce is upon the preparation of and it will probably be early date. The library board have Los Angeles architects pressed a desire to submit new Carnegie library, must be in by Nov. 10th, tion will probably be plans have been already members of the board state is a beauty in its class. board will refer its select trustees, and a final selec body will probably be ma future. Unclaimed Letters Unclaimed letters in postoffice for week ending Lucy Castillo, E P Harshall, Ramon Martinez, M Maurice Payan, Guatalupo Rizotto, J J Robertson, Mrs M J Terry, S S Jemtze, Francis & John Murrow. When calling for above say "advertised" and nath this list. One cent e charged for each adver Letters remaining uncle expiration of fifteen days will be sent to the dead le J. W. Duckwo SCHOOL BOOKS AND School Supplies! AT DICKEL'S 6 Anaheim Views Just received from Germany COUVENIR POST CARDS in COLORS everything you want in the Stationery and Confectionery line at AHEIM, CAL. Jos. Helmsen's HARDWARE HARDWARE carry a complete line of Edge tools and Fine Saws, Shot Guns AND AMMUNITION OF ALL KINDS and fittings cut and fitted to order. All kinds of Galvanized Iron work done to order. CENTER AND UDINA STREETS A. NAGEL HOUSTON & CLARK Electrical Contractors All Kinds of Electrical Wiring Extra Lights Installed carry in stock a full line of Electrical Fixtures, Doorbells, Electrical Tires and Novelties. 120 West Center Street season. We shall expect to added cause for Thanksgiving brought of the Hollywood scalp ing from the belt of our highschool warriors. master Duckworth and J. S. had appeared before the board of advisors on Tuesday and made refor a donation of $200 from the year's advertising fund, the same to applied to the preparation of a forth- pamphlet, descriptive of the to be issued by the Anaheim mer of commerce. They were the amount would be appropriated the pamphlet met their require- as to the descriptive matter re- to the county. The supervisors informed this would be done. The mer of commerce is now at work Beaumont Realty A splendid selling record on Beaumont lots and fruit lands is being maintained by the Beaumont Land and Water company, who report sales for the past week of $9600, with aggregate sales to date of $45,000. This has been accomplished since September 14th, when the property was first put on the market. A majority of the buyers have been persons from the east, who intend to make Beaumont their home, and although it is a marked fact that the speculators have been in the minority, still it is true that a number of resales have been made within the past week at good profits. F. K. Land, who purchased lot 2, block 8, Egan avenue, has resold to Ralph Trumbower, at an for a donation of $200 from the city's advertising fund, the same to be applied to the preparation of a forthcoming pamphlet descriptive of the town to be issued by the Anaheim office of commerce. They were told the amount would be appropriated by the pamphlet met their requirements to the descriptive matter referred to the county. The supervisors informed this would be done. The order of commerce is now at work in the preparation of the booklet, which will probably be issued at an update. A library board have notified two Angeles architects who have exchanged a desire to submit plans for the Carnegie library, that the same date in Nov. 10th, when a selection will probably be made. Four have been already received, and others of the board state that each beauty in its class. The library will refer its selection to the city offices, and a final selection by that will probably be made in the near future. Unclaimed Letters Claimed letters in the Anaheim office for week ending Nov. 6, '07: By Castillo, E P Harris, Ella Mar-Ramon Martinez, Marie Nelson, Bruce Payan, Guatalupe Ruiz, Frank Ko, J J Robertson, Anton Sholtz, M J Terry, S Salazar, Ruth Lee, Francis & Johnson, George Law. When calling for above letters please advertise" and name the date of receipt. One cent extra will be paid for each advertised letter. We remaining unclaimed at the action of fifteen days from date we sent to the dead letter office. J. W. DUCKWORTH, P. M.