anaheim-gazette 1909-09-16

SHOULD ASK AN ACCOUNTING Wastefulness of State Fish and Game Commission The Santa Cruz News devotes some much needed attention to the gross and irresponsible waste of public money by the state fish and game commission under the control of that bottle scarred veteran, Gen. "Lydia Pinkham" Stone. These are facts from the record: "Up to two years ago the commission, which was not then a political machine, did admirable work on a yearly allowance of $50,000. In 1907 the hunter's dollar tax was imposed. The first year the law was enforced the commission received $116,579 on account of it. This, with money from other sources, swelled the commission's income for the year to $184,467.70, an increase of more than $130,000 from the previous fiscal year. In one year the state fish and game commission costs the people of this state almost six times as much as the state treasurer's office, more than nine times as much as the surveyor general's office, and eight times as much as the state department of public instruction. It might readily be supposed that where such large expenditures of public funds are involved a rigid accounting would be exacted, but that rule, universal as to other offices, apparently does not govern this commission. An attempt was made in the last legislature to bring the commission to account, but it failed through political influences. We quote from the News: "The fact that the commission had filed no report in September, the have intelligence, strength and cunning, ingenuity and sagacity. It may be that you will restore your forests as you cut for timber, I cannot say." HORTICULTURAL COMMISSIONER State Board Will Hold Examinations October 9th The state board of horticultural examiners will hold an examination at Santa Ana at 10 o'clock, October 9th, for the purpose of examining candidates for the office of county horticulture commissioner. CONDITIONS OF EXAMINATION 1. All candidates must be resident citizens of the county. 2. All applicants for examination must register before the hour of beginning the examination and pay the fee of $5 to the person designated in accordance with the law. 3. The list of questions for each examination will be submitted to each candidate in writing, and all answers must be written. 4. Every examination shall be held in the presence continually, of at least one member of the board, or the person delegated by the board; no examination shall otherwise be approved by the board. 5. Every candidate must depend entirely upon himself, and any information received during examination shall disqualify the candidate. 6. Each of the subjects designated in this examination shall be considered and finished by the candidate before another is taken up. 7. When all applicants for examination are properly seated in the examination room, a member of the board or the person holding the examination, shall place in a hat, blank sheets of paper, folded, and num- public funds are involved a rigid accounting would be exacted, but that rule, universal as to other offices, apparently does not govern this commission. An attempt was made in the last legislature to bring the commission to account, but it failed through political influences. We quote from the News: "The fact that the commission had filed no report in September, the generous increase in salaries of its deputies, alleged instances of arbitrary conduct of its representatives, resulted in a resolution being introduced by Assemblyman Harry Polsley demanding that the commission be made the subject of legislative inquiry. "The resolution was referred to the assembly committee on fish and game, a committee notoriously in sympathy with the commission. The committee held a sort of preliminary hearing which resulted in a general whitewashing. Polsley made out what was generally regarded as a prima facie case against the commission, but the committee did not choose to consider it such, and so the investigation got no further." Of course the commission is merely an adjunct of the political machine providing easy money for professional politicians who earn their money, not for service to the state, but as "workers" under "Lydia Pinkham" Stone, who gets his orders from W. F. Herrin. Yet it seems as if Governor Gillett might have sufficient power or influence to get some sort of accounting for the large sums handled by the commission. It is equivalent to permitting one of the state insane asylums to be administered without any system of public audit. It is a grave scandal and reproach to the state administration. JAP. ON CONSERVATION They Wonder at Ruthless Cutting of Timber Tacoma, Sept. 8.—"Rich as is your supply of timber, I wonder if you can go on cutting it down ruthlessly and have it last forever," commented Baron Shibusawa, president of the First Bank of Japan, in responding SUBJECTS FOR EXAMINATION 1. Practical knowledge of insect pests and diseases in the county. 2. Best methods of controlling insect pests and diseases. 3. Orchard practice and general horticultural conditions in county. 4. Technical knowledge of life history and habits of destructive and expressed his w distribution. The Gazette bonds at present we are to vote on $18,000,000 for this should carry share the burden having already in Such a fear does terring other co Central and N from road improvement bond scheme in tempt at graft, meet deserved it carry, Orange more than one m through the co get that anyway. Undisputedly badly in need bond issue seem able way. Surelyicient important pointment of a which act would to nothing but penses of the co CROWDS GO Many Anaheim Ringling Sh A great many going to Santa 24th, to the Rt It will be the year and the rai to handle thousands the surrounding Ringling Brothe important improv last appeared country. At Ma New York, where the performance by the bigger saw a circus in newspapers were saying that the presenting, in e entertainment en there. The Ana will be iden en in the Garden change having b program. The circus off of wonderful no usual single th other circuses, are heading th than seven of t sensational acts presented anyway. JAP. ON CONSERVATION They Wonder at Ruthless Cutting of Timber Tacoma, Sept. 8.—"Rich as is your supply of timber, I wonder if you can go on cutting it down ruthlessly and have it last forever," commented Baron Shibusawa, president of the First Bank of Japan, in responding to a toast given today at the Tacoma Commercial club luncheon in honor of the honorary commercial commissioners and trade experts from Japan. The remarks of the leader of the Japanese party amounted to a forceful indorsement of the government policy of conservation of natural resources. Baron Shibusawa spoke of the wonderful mountain, timber and water scenery shown to the members of his party yesterday. He was most impressed by the timber and the manner in which the tress are felled and handled afterward. He had been informed, he said, that the supply was inexhaustible, but he could hardly conceive that such a thing could be true. "We have a tradition in our country," he said, "that a land rich in one way, is deficient in another. Oriental philosophy is not sufficient to explain the phenomena we have seen here, where you appear to be rich in everything. "There is an old legend in Japan of an animal with the head of a monkey to denote intelligence, the body of a tiger to denote strength, and the tail of a snake to denote cunning. This monster was 'Nuye.' Your people are as the nuye. You certify to the boards of supervisors of the several counties." Lines 60 to 64, Sec. 2322, Political Code. SUBJECTS FOR EXAMINATION 1. Practical knowledge of insect pests and diseases in the county. 2. Best methods of controlling insect pests and diseases. 3. Orchard practice and general horticultural conditions in county. 4. Technical knowledge of life history and habits of destructive and beneficial insects. 5. Quarantine work in county and State. 6. Administration of the office of county horticultural commissioner and knowledge of horticultural laws of the county and State. A: T. GAREY, E. B. COLLIER, EDWD. K. CARNES, State Board of Horticultural Examiners. STATE ROAD BONDS, A GRAFT? County Road Bonds Pure as the Driven Snow? AS TO ROAD BONDS. The proposed good roads bond issue already is being made the object of sundry vicious assaults, and until the question is finally settled friends of the measure will be kept busy answering properly—as they can—all the objections that will be offered. Our good friend, the Anaheim Gazette, is eternally pessimistic on the subject of road bonds. No sooner had the scheme been broached than the Gazette came forward with the long-exploded objection that the scheme is another (sie) attempt of Santa Ana to hog everything. Just how any man can seriously maintain this assertion is beyond us. It is a fact too well known to need repetition that under the law the highway commission must prepare plans for a system embracing the entire county, and before the people are called on to vote on the bond issue they must know exactly where each highway is to be located, what it is to be made of and how much it will cost. Even could Santa Ana secure the presentation of a plan giving her "the whole thing," is it not absolutely certain that the proposition would be defeated at the polls? And, being anxious for road improvement, would not the county seat be foolish to further such a proposition, if she could? The objection answers itself. The demand from certain sections that the proponents say what highways it is proposed to improve is equally without foundation. Even though the proponents—in this case the Associated Chambers of Commerce—formulate a plan of improvement and promise to stick by it the promise would be of no value, because the matter is absolutely in the hands of the highway commission. However, the organization has expressed itself unqualifiedly in favor of the appointment of one commissioner from the northern, one from the central and one from the southern part of the county, certainly as fair an arrangement as any could ask. And at least one supervisor has expressed his willingness to such a distribution. The Gazette also objects to road bonds at present because next year we are to vote on a state bond issue of $18,000,000 for good roads, and if this should carry we would have to share the burden and get no benefit, having already improved our roads. Such a fear does not seem to be deterring other counties in Southern, Central and Northern California from road improvement. The state bond scheme is simply a huge attempt to BALLINGER AND INTERESTS How the Secretary Ignores the Roosevelt Policies In his address to the National Irrigation Congress, Secretary of the Interior Ballinger assured his auditors that he had been carrying out and would continue to carry out the Rooseveltian policies regarding the national resources of the country. One of those policies is that these resources shall be conserved and kept from falling into the hands of monopolies. The public is more or less familiar with Ballinger's official acts with regard to the public lands, forests, water power sites and Alaska coal lands. These acts, which speak more eloquently than the Secretary's address to the Irrigation Congress, have aroused the suspicion that consciously or unconsciously, Ballinger is playing into the hands of the very people whose rapacity the Rooseveltian policies are calculated to check and circumvent. President Taft has "called down" his Secretary of the Interior in at least two cases in which the latter's official acts did not seem to comport with the statement that he is loyal, in the Rooseveltian sense, to the people rather than to those who desire to grab public lands, water power sites, forests and coal lands. One of these "call downs" was when the President ordered the Secretary to withdraw again from public entry lands which the latter had restored to entry after they had been withdrawn by his predecessor, Secretary Garfield. But it has been charged that, before the President reversed Secretary Ballinger, the water power trust had seized upon valuable water power sites. The other reversal of Ballinger by the President was in the matter of Truckee river power sites. In this matter Secretary Ballinger attempted to expressed his willingness to such a distribution. The Gazette also objects to road bonds at present because next year we are to vote on a state bond issue of $18,000,000 for good roads, and if this should carry we would have to share the burden and get no benefit, having already improved our roads. Such a fear does not seem to be deterring other counties in Southern, Central and Northern California from road improvement. The state bond scheme is simply a huge attempt at graft, and doubtless will meet deserved defeat. But, should it carry, Orange county would get no more than one main highway straight through the county, and we would get that anyway. Undisputedly, Orange county is badly in need of better roads. A bond issue seems the only practicable way. Surely the matter is of sufficient importance to justify the appointment of a highway commission, which act would bind the taxpayers to nothing but the preliminary expenses of the commission. CROWDS GOING TO CIRCUS Many Anaheim Citizens Will See Ringling Show at Santa Ana A great many Anaheim people are going to Santa Ana on Friday, the 24th, to the Ringling Bros.' Circus. It will be the only opportunity this year and the railroads are preparing to handle thousands of visitors from the surrounding territory. Ringling Brothers have made many important improvements since they last appeared in this part of the country. At Madison Square Garden New York, where the season began, the performances were attended nightly by the biggest crowds that ever saw a circus in Manhattan, and the newspapers were not backward about saying that the Ringling Brothers are presenting, in every respect, the best entertainment of the kind ever given there. The performance in Santa Ana will be identical with those given in the Garden, not the slightest change having been made in the long program. The circus offered this year is one of wonderful novelty. Instead of the usual single thriller presented by other circuses, the Ringling Bros. are heading their bill with no less than seven of the greatest and most sensational acts that have ever been presented anywhere on earth. The parade will be given in the foreground. It will for surpass the brillain from public entry lands which the latter had restored to entry after they had been withdrawn by his predecessor, Secretary Garfield. But it has been charged that, before the President reversed Secretary Ballinger, the water power trust had seized upon valuable water power sites. The other reversal of Ballinger by the President was in the matter of Truckee river power sites. In this matter Secretary Ballinger attempted to enter into an agreement with a corporation by which the latter would gain in perpetuity enormously valuable water power rights at the expense of the Government and people of the United States. It was charged that Mr. Harriman and others like him were behind the corporation, which Ballinger's proposed agreement would favor. The President's attention being called to this attempt of his Secretary of the Interior to give away valuable property of the people he ordered Ballinger not to proceed further in the matter, and directed that an investigation be made regarding it. It now appears that Harriman and his associates are behind the corporation which Ballinger's proposed agreement would have so greatly favored at the expense of the public. Harriman, it appears, wants the Truckee river electric power to use as motive power with which to move the Central Pacific trains back and forth over the Sierra Nevada. Thanks to President Taft, the Ballinger attempt to give Mr. Harriman, free-gratis-for-nothing, enormously valuable public property has been foiled. It may be that Ballinger is endeavoring to carry out the Rooseveltian policies; but if he is, why has President Taft called down Ballinger so often and so publicly? Ballinger seems to be out of place in Taft's cabinet. A president should not be compelled to watch the members of his cabinet all the time. He has enough other duties to engage all his time and energies. POULTRY RAISERS INTERESTS Practical and Scientific Instruction at State Farm Poultry raisers of the state will be interested to know that a poultry station will soon be installed on the University Farm at Davis completely equipped with all the apparatus necessary for practical and scientific... en in the Garden, not the slightest change having been made in the long program. The circus offered this year is one of wonderful novelty. Instead of the usual single thriller presented by other circuses, the Ringling Bros. are heading their bill with no less than seven of the greatest and most sensational acts that have ever been presented anywhere on earth. The parade will be given in the forenoon. It will far surpass the brilliant pageants which the Ringling Brothers have given in past years, having been entirely rebuilt in the foreign workshops of the show at Liverpool, England. For the Anaheim Gazette. IN MEMORIAM. By Mrs. Luda E. Leslie, Brookshire, Texas. In tender memory of my beloved and only brother, Dr. George H. Bailey. Oh, when you passed through the glad gateway of Glory, Erect and elated with the conquest you'd gain; The grand halleulujahs rang out with the story Of victory, blood-bought, by the Christ who was slain. A sufferer long, with the courage and daring Of a hero who fears neither foe nor defeat; Today in the chrystal-walled City you're fareing, In majesty, God-given, the golden paved streets. The battle you've won, the last foeman defeating, And now you are feasting in the Banqueting Hall; Yea, you are rejoicing, the story repeating, Where Glory's soft sunshine is laughing o'er all. In the Sunrise Land soon we'll great you, my brother; The grains of Life's hour-glass are spilling so fast; We'll greet you with others, so loved, and together Unite in the praise of "The First and the Last." Not long, nay, not long, will we tarry behind you; For the years are so few e'er we view the vast dome Of the Palsce of Peace, where waiting we'll find you To welcome, and join in our song, Harvest Home. POULTRY RAISERS INTERESTS Practical and Scientific Instruction at State Farm Poultry raisers of the state will be interested to know that a poultry station will soon be installed on the University Farm at Davis completely equipped with all the apparatus necessary for practical and scientific work. Several new ideas in the brooders, poultry houses and runways will be tried out. To insure immunity from poultry diseases, not a fowl will be brought to the University Farm, but all the stock will be hatched on the spot. One feature of the station will be an isolated poultry hospital, to which diseased fowls may be brought for diagnosis and treatment. Professor M. E. Jaffa, who has had charge of the Petaluma Poultry Station, will direct the poultry work on the Farm. He is the author of a Bulletin on Poultry Feeding, of which twenty-five thousand copies have been distributed; a third and revised edition is soon to be issued. Experiments in poultry feeding will be an important part of the work. It is Professor Jaffa's idea that both the Petaluma and the University Farm Poultry Stations are needed by California poultrymen. Results obtained at Petaluma are valuable for the Bay Region, with its peculiar climatic conditions; but for the interior of the State another station is needed. The University Farm at Davis is thoroughly typical of the Great Valley in every way, and the poultry station there will complement the work of the Petaluma station. Fireless cookers at Dickel's. KS Undertaker Dealer in Wire, Wall Paper Shades, Picture Frames Paints, Oils, and Glass Machine Supplies Angeles and Chartres Sts CEMENT, BRICK PLASTER WORK Well Curbing LUMBER COMPANY GRIM. Manager Best Cuts of EAT are any time. We don't for a favored few and others to take what is time is first served in We believe in giving square deal. Also in very best meat we can the prices possible. an order. Y MARKET SCHMANN, Prop. Bldg., Center street e 201 FULDE man Watchmaker and is located at Center Street, Hart's Place) find anything in the jewelry line at Possible Prices and Jewelry a specialty THE POWER THAT PAYS IS THE POWER THAT PRODUCES ALL THE TIME YOU ARE PAYING IT Ask about ELECTRIC POWER The Edison Electric Company, 411 N. Main st. SANTA ANA, CAL. Phones—46. California Wine Co. F. 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Steamship Tickets to All Parts of the World You that are contemplating trips abroad, see me as early as possible, account of space on steamers being taken early this season. For further information call up Southern Pacific Sunset Main 183 or Home 1724 J. M. PICKERING Agent, Anaheim For further information call up Southern Pacific Sunset Main 138 or Home 1724 J. M. PICKERING Agent, Anaheim Griffith Lumber Co. Agents for ORIENTAL PLASTER COLTON PORTLAND CEMENT LUMBER BRICKS ALL KINDS OF MILL WORK So. Los Angeles st. near S. P. depot Henry M. Adams, Mgr. B. Dauser Dealer in all kinds of GRAIN AND FEED Storage Warehouses And Custom Feed Mill in Connection Regular Mill Days, Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays. LOCATION—South of Sant Fe depot. Base Ball Goods FISHING OUTFITS Etc., Etc., at SPOERL'S GUN STORE Anaheim Bakery Peter Syre, Prop: Fresh Bread Cakes and Pies Confectionery, Etc. Wedding Cakes a Specialty Los Angeles and Cypress Sts. The Mission Ice Cream Parlors Confections Ices, Sherbet, Ice Cream delivered to all parts of town. Excellent service FINE CANDIES A SPECIALTY East Center Street, Anaheim, Cal. JOSEPH BACKS, Undertaker and Embalmer Furniture and Bedding. Repairing Done Phones—Sunset M. 93. Home 1002. OLIVER HILL City Livery Stables Fashionable Outfits at Reasonable Rates.