anaheim-gazette 1909-07-22

POLITICS AND POLITICIANS ELK WEEK BRINGS THE BOYS TOGETHER Charley Curry Comes South to Feel of the Pulse—He and Phil Stanton May Fight It Out for Governor's Nomination if Gillett Stays Out The Elk convention was supposed to be engrossing the attention of everybody in Los Angeles last week, but as an important side issue there was considerable doing in state politics, according to Deacon Clarke in the Riverside Press. Several candidates for state offices—actual, prospective and receptive—are improving this opportunity to circulate about among the members of the antlered herd from the various cities and towns of California. In a quiet way the "glad hand" act was being done by some of these aspirants quite as briskly as if the primary campaign were at its height instead of many months away. Secretary of State Charles F. Curry has been down in this part of the state for some little time. Ostensibly he is here on state business and he has paid official visits to the state institutions in Southern California. But incidentally it has been noticed that Curry has taken pains to meet as many people as possible and he has modestly let the fact be known that he will be a candidate for governor, in case Governor Gillett does not run again. If Gillett should be a candidate, Curry will no doubt stand for re-election to his present office and 'n that event his present tour will not be thrown away. state capitol. Among the duties are the collection of about $600,000 a year in corporation license taxes, and more than $200,000 a year is taken in as fees. All of the automobile licenses are issued from this office. One of the most important duties of the secretary of state is to canvass the votes cast at general elections. He is also the state sealer of weights and measures. He is the superintendent of the capitol building and the general purchasing agent, spending large sums for furniture, ballot paper and general office supplies. He is ex-officio one of the three members of the state board of examiners, which is the most important of all the state commissions; also a member of the lunacy commission, of 'he state board of forestry, of the capitol commission and of many special boards and commissions. That is a brief statement of the duties and powers of the secretary of state. It may enable the people to judge whether they want the office filled by a "good fellow" who is one of the "boys." Election of Senators It might not be a bad thing to have congress, as Mr. Bryan suggests, submit to the legislatures of the various states an amendment providing for the election of federal senators by direct vote of the people. It has been very difficult to get the staid and upper house to stand for any change to the nation's organic law, but now that it has broken precedent by the submission of the income tax amendment there is a possibility that it might consent to make another concession to public sentiment. The popular election of United States senators is inevitable anyway, and action at this time by congress would merely anticipate the result... the state institutions in Southern California. But incidentally it has been noticed that Curry has taken pains to meet as many people as possible and he has modestly let the fact be known that he will be a candidate for governor, in case Governor Gillett does not run again. If Gillett should be a candidate, Curry will no doubt stand for re-election to his present office and 'n that event his present tour will not be thrown away. The writer asked a prominent Sacramento politician a few days ago whether he thought Gillett would be a candidate; and this is what he said: "All this talk about the governor's not running again has not come from him or from anyone close to him. I think that when the time comes you will find that he will make the race." This diagnosis of the situation is strengthened by the latest interview with the governor. He was in Santa Barbara Saturday and was asked if he intended to be a candidate. He said that it was too early to talk about that. In due time he would make some announcement, etc. One thing was made very clear—the governor did not say that he was ready to quit the game. And until he fully makes up his mind what to do, the interest in other candidates is rather languid. If Gillett is not a candidate, then we shall see a free-for-all race that under the new primary system will be interesting. There are many who insist that Curry is too much of a politician; that we ought to have a statesman for governor. But somebody will be fooled, if they think Curry will not be a factor in an open contest. He is one of the shrewdest politicians in the state, has a wide acquaintance, and has made a good record as a public officer. Speaker Stanton is another possibility, but again, the objection will be made that he is a machine politician. Admitted; but Stanton has just been speaker of the assembly and made a good record there. He is in the public eye, and if he should be the only Candidate from Southern California, he will certainly make some other aspirants hustle. One of the supposed merits of the direct primary system is that it induces a higher type of men to run for public office and eliminates the get the staid and upper house to stand for any change to the nation's organic law, but now that it has broken precedent by the submission of the income tax amendment there is a possibility that it might consent to make another concession to public sentiment. The popular election of United States senators is inevitable anyway, and action at this time by congress would merely anticipate the result of a few years more agitation. Already twenty-seven states are on record as favoring a revision of the constitution, and similar action by only four more states will make up the two-thirds necessary to compel congress to call a national convention for the submission of the proposed amendments. California blazed the way on this great issue, and our citizens therefore have an especial interest in seeing it carried to a successful issue. Since our own legislature, about a decade ago, passed the first resolution, the following states have joined in the appeal to congress: Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wahsington, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Anyone with half an eye can see that popular sentiment is fairly unanimous on the issue. But it all takes time, and that is why action by congress at this time is highly desirable. Even after congress calls the national convention, the amendments adopted by the convention would have to be submitted to a vote of the state legislature and be ratified by three-fourths of them.—L. A. Express. Electric-Power Sources in the Next Generation In the next quarter of a century the greatest fortunes will be made, in all probability, by those discerning men who have acquired power rights in mountain streams. Electricity is rapidly taking the place of steam. Electric power can be produced at low cost and transported, by improved methods, long distances. It can be sold to the farm and to the private dwelling, as A number of pears yield edible largely consumer which might easily Southern part of and particularly Experiments with were made not lo- E. Landone, who of days on the fratter being eaten like eggplant. Of such cactus good many kinds responding numbers of plants re nearly to the co All of them are in a general way, a cording to variety ent names such as illa," 'blanca," "uea" and "ranche are only a few o Such cacti in ed simply by p the ground and with a fence to They rarely ree tention, beyond g crop. The fruitsized for a numb poses, some of th while others are manufacture of "tuna cheese," w products. To make tuna the fruits. is boil it reaches the co ses, and then is troughs to cool stored in bottles Being (thanks to ile product, tight In sugar, it will course, it does n but it is of abo ency as liquid h propriately be cal One of the m fruits of this kind David Griffiths plant Bureau sa once ate 200 care was to find out wholesome or not tity did not disag made that he is a machine politician. Admitted; but Stanton has just been speaker of the assembly and made a good record there. He is in the public eye, and if he should be the only Candidate from Southern California, he will certainly make some other aspirants hustle. One of the supposed merits of the direct primary system is that it induces a higher type of men to run for public office and eliminates the mere politician. And it would be a queer outcome of the passage of the law in California if the two leading candidates for governor at the very first primary should be Charlie Curry and Phil Stanton. Both of these are capable, but even their best friends would admit that they are politicians rather than statesmen. The California Weekly has already noted the advent of Jack Stafford as a candidate for secretary of state, and now come two other candidates for the same office who are almost as meritorious as Stafford, says the last issue of the Weekly. One is Frank G. Jordan, late clerk of the supreme court, and the other is Lewis G. Hilborn, secretary of the state senate. So here are three candidates, any one of whom is capable of making the wildest enthusiasm among the politicians, all after the office of secretary of state before there is any certainty that Charles F. Curry will not want it any longer. But what is the secretary of state, and what kind of man is needed to perform the duties? Before going any further it might be well for somebody to ask and answer that question. It is a more important office than most persons are aware. It has double the number of deputies and clerks found in any other office in the In the next quarter of a century the greatest fortunes will be made, in all probability, by those discerning men who have acquired power rights in mountain streams. Electricity is rapidly taking the place of steam. Electric power can be produced at low cost and transported, by improved methods, long distances. It can be sold to the farm and to the private dwelling, as well as to railways and factories. It can enable any community situated near the source of raw material to do its own manufacturing without regard to the proximity or cheapness of a fuel supply. The man who has electric power to sell has a commodity which will be, in the near future, a necessity of life. It is a commodity, moreover, of which the sources of supply, although practically unlimited in capacity for development, are limited in number, and, therefore, are easily suspectible of organized control. Twenty years ago any man could have acquired power rights in the Sierras by filing claims. Today nearly every good source of power has been taken up by far-seeing speculators who are now preparing to turn their foresight into money. The man who finds an unclaimed mountain torrent is today luckier than the man who finds a gold mine. True, it was a mistake for the government to permit private persons to obtain ownership of such priceless privileges in the public domain, but it is a condition, not a theory, that confronts us. Modern industrial civilization must henceforward pay tribute to the electric-power barons, as in the past few generations it paid tribute to the coal barons.—S. F. Bulletin. NEW USES FOR THE CACTUS TANAS MAY BE GROWN AND MARKETED ON LARGE SCALE What the Carnegie Institute at Tucson is Doing in Study of Desert Plants—Grow With No Water—Edible Cacti—American Hasheesh [Correspondence of The Gazette.] TUCSON, ARIZ., July 15.—Two miles from this town, on the top of a hill, the Carnegie Institute has set up a sort of botanical workshop, the business of which is to make a study of desert plants. The object of the investigation is to find out how such plants manage to get along with almost no water. This is a kind of knowledge that will be very valuable when applied, so far as may be practicable, in the raising of ordinary crops in parts of the west where rainfall is deficient. But, incidentally, efforts are being made to find uses for some of these plants of the desert—especially for certain cacti, which, it is believed, can be made to yield marketable products. There is, for example, one kind of prickly pear (growing wild in Arizona and New Mexico), the fruit of which has juice of a brilliant red color. This fruit is already utilized to a considerable extent for preserves. But it is thought that the juice might have important commercial value as a vegetable coloring, its hue, when the fluid is concentrated, being as rich as that of cochineal. Edible Cacti A number of species of prickly pears yield edible fruits which are largely consumed in Mexico, and which might easily be grown in the Southern part of the United States, and particularly in the southwest bricks, covered with tinfoil. The problem of storing a supply of water for their own use, and of preventing its evaporation, has been solved by the desert plants in many most ingenious ways. Perhaps the most noteworthy example is the so-called "water-barrel," which, about the size and shape of an ordinary beer keg, is, in fact, nothing more nor less, than a living water tank. Its whole interior is composed of storage cells so admirably arranged that the pulp which they form contains something like 96 per cent of pure water. The water, indeed, is of excellent quality, and access to it is easily obtained by cutting off with a machete the top of the "barrel," which is covered all over with formidable spikes and hooked spines, evidently designed to protect it against destruction by animals. American Hasheesh In the valley of the Rio Grande there grows, on barren and rocky soil, a queer little cactus that looks like a small radish covered with sharp prickles. In the top of each plant is a peculiar tuft about an inch in diameter, which when dried is hard and brittle and has somewhat the appearance of a button. One of these buttons, put into the mouth, quickly softens, the taste of it being rather unpleasant; but two or three, when chewed and swallowed, will produce a strongly toxic effect, engendering visions somewhat like those induced by hasheesh. The Indians of that region eat the buttons on occasions of religious ceremonial, and regard the constant dreams as revelations from the divinities they worship. Science has given to this cactus the name Anhalonium lewinii. Specimens of the buttons have been analyzed, and have been found to contain a hitherto unknown alkaloid, separated out in white needlelike crystals, which, it is thought, may prove BRIDEGROOM A WOMAN Swindling Masquerade Not Suspected Till After Marriage A news telegram of June 26 from Melbourne, Australia, says: After an extraordinary masquerade in man's clothes, in the course of which she went through a form of marriage with another woman, the notorious Amy Bock, who has many times been convicted of various charges of fraud in Australia and New Zealand, has been arrested at Port Molyneux, New Zealand. Calling herself "Percy Carol Redwood," she stayed at a boarding house at Port Molyneux, and giving it to be understood that she was the "nephew of Archbishop Redwood," she was received in the most fashionable circles. "Redwood" lost no time in paying "his" addresses to Miss Ottaway, the landlady's daughter. His cheerful manner had made him a general favorite; he proposed and was accepted. The lady's parents a few days later received a letter purporting to come from the bridegroom's mother, stating that he had ample means, which she intended to double on his wedding day, and that at her death "something more would follow." She intended to be present, with her daughter, at the wedding. Another letter, written on the note paper of the Auckland Drainage Board, arrived to say that he had been appointed their secretary at a salary of $35 a week. Taking the bride to Dunedin, Redwood bought her jewelry of the value of $350. To pay for this he mortgaged with a firm of solicitors an "estate in the north," which he had documents to prove was his. Then the wedding took place—a brilliant ceremony, long accounts of which appeared in the local newspapers. Edible Cacti A number of species of prickly pears yield edible fruits which are largely consumed in Mexico, and which might easily be grown in the Southern part of the United States, and particularly in the southwest. Experiments with some of these were made not long ago by Dr. Leon E. Landone, who lived for a number of days on the fruits and leaves, the latter being eaten as greens and fried like eggplant. Of such cactus fruits there are a good many kinds, produced by a corresponding number of distinct species of plants related more or less nearly to the common prickly pear. All of them are known in Mexico, in a general way, as "tunas," but, according to variety, they bear different names such as "cardona," "amarilla," "blanca," "pale altena," "fafayuea" and "ranchera." These, indeed, are only a few out of many. Such cacti in Mexico are cultivated simply by planting cuttings in the ground and surrounding them with a fence to keep out animals. They rarely receive any further attention, beyond gathering the annual crop. The fruits, however, are utilized for a number of different purposes, some of them being eaten raw, while others are employed in the manufacture of "tuna honey" and "tuna cheese," which are marketable products. To make tuna honey, the juice of the fruits is boiled in kettles until it reaches the consistency of molasses, and then is poured into wooden troughs to cool, after which it is stored in bottles and earthen jugs. Being (thanks to the boiling), a sterile product, tightly sealed, and rich in sugar, it will keep indefinitely. Of course, it does not taste like honey; but it is of about the same consistency as liquid honey, and might appropriately be called cactus molasses. One of the most highly prized fruits of this kind is the cardona. Dr. David Griffiths of the Government plant Bureau says that he himself once ate 200 cardonas in a day. This was to find out whether they were wholesome or not. Even such a quantity did not disagree with him at all. RUSH OF HOMESEEKERS Opening of Indian Lands in North Causes Stampede SPOKANE, July 15.—From 20,000 to 30,000 red, white and blue envelopes, severely plain but for their patriotic colors, are being dropped in the postoffice at Spokane, Coeur d'Alene, Missoula and Kalispell today, addressed to James W. Witten, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Each wants a farm in the Spokane Indiana reservation—the red and white envelopes call for land in the Coeur d'Alene, or Flathead, reserves. Every week day until August 5 this rush will continue, but the man who takes the oath on a Sunday forfeits his chance. At midnight about thirty early enthusiasts, hoping to coax luck by being the very first, hurried to take the oath before the notaries, and started the applications on their way. But the real rush began early this morning, and all day the crowds kept coming rapidly. By night, it is estimated, 7000 will have registered in Spokane alone. There is no strife, no disorder, those induced by hasheesh. The Indians of that region eat the buttons on occasions of religious ceremonial, and regard the constant dreams as revelations from the divinities they worship. Science has given to this cactus the name Anhalonium lewinii. Specimens of the buttons have been analyzed, and have been found to contain a hitherto unknown alkaloid, separated out in white needlelike crystals, which, it is thought, may prove of important medicinal value. One of the rarest and most curious cacti is the "old man"—so called because it looks like an old man's head, covered with long, silky, white hairs. But, in order to observe the freaks in this line which nature has developed, one should visit the region south of the Gila river and west of the Sierra Madre Mountains. There is found the home of the cactus family, where these monstrosities of vegetation compose whole forests, and where the entire landscape presents to the eye an aspect so abnormal and weird that the traveler might well be excused for imagining himself transported to a scene upon some other and unfamiliar planet. RENE BACHE GIRLS LURED TO PANAMA Government Takes Action to Stop Traffic in American Actresses NEW YORK, July 17.—Special agents of the Department of Justice boarded the steamship Orinoco of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company line in search for young American actresses who, it is declared, are being invigilied to go to Panama during the dulltheatrical season here by promises of vaudeville engagements, and then find themselves in a resort of far different nature than they had been led to expect. The agents are even more anxious to land the procurers who are shipping these girls to the zone. The action of the department is based on complaints which recently have been received from Judge Brown of the canal zone, appealing to the government at Washington and also to the police of New York to put a stop to the practice. Neither victims nor the men who are putting the deal through were met by the agents in the search. It is said that the inducements offered the young women, most of whom are of the show girl variety, is $25 a week sal- In the structure of the cardona the walls of the cells that hold the juice are very thin, so that there is only a small amount of fiber. By pressing the pulp in muslin bags practically all of it can be forced through, separating out the seeds. Perhaps the greatest objection to these cactus fruits lies in the plentifulness of their seeds, but persons accustomed to eating them raw do not seem to mind. When the pulp is taken in the manner above described, it is separated in the field and carried in earthen jars to the factory by the pickers. Sometimes a fermented drink is made from the pulp. For this purpose it is boiled for two or three hours, strained and set away to cool. The longer it stands the more intoxicating it is. Or, if preferred, the boiling is continued until the liquid is reduced to the consistency of a paste, which is sold in the Mexican market as a sweetmeat. There are other products made from the pulp, or from the juice, one of them being the "tuna cheese" aforementioned, which is put up for sale in neat At midnight about thirty early enthusiasts, hoping to coax luck by being the very first, hurried to take the oath before the notaries, and started the applications on their way. But the real rush began early this morning, and all day the crowds kept coming rapidly. By night, it is estimated, 7000 will have registered in Spokane alone. There is no strife, no disorder, and with 150 notaries and their assistants, the work is moving forward rapidly and smoothly. The total cost for each application is 25 cents notary's fee and a 2-cent stamp. Coeur d'Alene reports that 600 applicants registered there up to 1 o'clock this morning. The rush of homeseekers threatens to more than double the population of that Idaho town. In spite of the 2000 extra cots placed in storerooms yesterday, finding a place to eat or sleep may be a hard problem by Saturday, when the first crowds from the east come in from Missoula and Kalispell. In Superintendent Witten's office 12 assistants are receiving and sorting the red, white and blue envelopes, each class being put in a big metal box by itself. These boxes will be constantly under guard until the drawing takes place next month, and from August 5 to August 9 they are to be under seal. Realizing that if 100,000 people apply for lands in three reserves, more than 90,000 must fail to draw winning numbers, the business men of Spokane and other towns are shaping plans to direct those who are left out to vacant homestead lands in other districts of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho, where hundreds may find homes. The action of the department is based on complaints which recently have been received from Judge Brown of the canal zone, appealing to the government at Washington and also to the police of New York to put a stop to the practice. Neither victims nor the men who are putting the deal through were met by the agents in the search. It is said that the inducements offered the young women, most of whom are of the show girl variety, is $25 a week salary and transportation both ways between New York and Panama City. Capt. Cheret of the Orinoco said that on May 1 three young stage women sailed from New York on his ship to take such an engagement, and that it was not until the ship had left Kingston, Jamaica, on its way to Colon, that the young women happened to learn from a passenger that the theater in Panama City, in which they were supposed to appear, was not a respectable place. The three then appealed to Capt. Cueret, and asked him what they should do. 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