anaheim-gazette 1909-10-07

The Weekly Gazette. ESTABLISHED 1870 Henry Kuchel, Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION.....$1.50 Per Year Six Months.....$1.00 Three Months.....50 Cts The Gazette is issued every Thursday morning. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter. Has the Largest Circulation GENESIS OF PETROLEUM Its Origin one of the Obscure Things In Geology [Contributed to The Gazette.] No question in geology has been more obscure than that of the origin of the hydrocarbons, asphalt, ozokerite, petroleum, and natural gas. Although certain facts of occurrence are certain results of experiment are well established, the interpretation to be placed upon them is in doubt. The orthodox opinion at the present day is that a part of the natural hydrocarbons is of organic origin and a part also of inorganic origin; but when it comes to estimating the relative importance of the two portions there is no unanimity. On the whole the hypothesis of organic origin is the more fashionable; yet the rival view, originating with Alexander von Humboldt, is held by such living authorities as Sir Archibald Gelkle, Mr. de Lapparent, Mr. Tcshermak, and Mr. Edward Suess. In Bulletin 401 of the United States Geological Survey Mr. George F. Becker reviews this evidence. Although there are turbances of the compass needle are too numerous to be attributable to mere accident or chance. There must therefore be a direct or an indirect historical connection between the two phenomena in the regions of coincidence. "None of the hypothesis of petroleum genesis is proved by the relations shown on the map. These relations, however, are compatible with the supposition that the great oil deposits are generated from iron carbides either by or without the agency of water. Of these alternatives the latter is the more plausible. "What the map does prove is that petroleum is intimately associated with magnetic disturbances similar to those arising from the neighborhood of minerals possessing sensible magnetic attraction, that is, iron, nickel, cobalt, or magnetite. Henceforth no geological theory of petroleum will be acceptable which does not explain this association." IMPORTED FRUITS California Growers' Protest Headed by Treasury Department Washington, Oct. 4.—Flagrant abuses in fruit importations entailing thousands of dollars of loss to the government occurring especially on the docks at New York, are aimed at in regulations proclaimed today by Acting Secretary of Treasury Reynolds, and directed to collectors of customs, "and all others concerned." The regulations estop importers from delaying for a week or ten days the filing of claims for allowance for decay, destruction or injury of the fruit imported, but not taken from the docks, making it impossible for the authorities to determine what to allow for the deterioration of the im- when it comes to estimating the relative importance of the two portions there is no unanimity. On the whole the hypothesis of organic origin is the more fashionable; yet the rival view, originating with Alexander von Humboldt, is held by such living authorities as Sir Archibald Gelkle, Mr. de Lapparent, Mr. Tcshermak, and Mr. Edward Suess. In Bulletin 401 of the United States Geological Survey Mr. George F. Becker reviews the evidence. Although there are few occurrences of hydrocarbons which, taken singly, might not be explained on the hypothesis of organic origin, Mr. Becker finds the cases in which hydrocarbons are associated with igneous phenomena so numerous and so diverse in character as to preclude the suggestion of merely fortuitous collocation. The evidence is mainly cumulative but it has so accumulated and is so consistent as to carry conviction. Most of the hydrocarbons accompanied by igneous phenomena must, he infers, be of inorganic origin and the quantity so produced must be very great. This conclusion does not preclude the importance of the indubitably organic bituminous shales, nor does it immediately afford a means of accounting for the great petroleum pools. Some investigators regard the hydrocarbons as original constituents of the earth; others, and these are the more numerous, think them due to the decomposition of carbides of iron, or of other metals, by water. Practically all iron, whether artificial or native, contains combined carbon as iror carbide. Other metallic carbide, although easily prepared in the laboratory, have not yet been detected in the earth. While terrestrial iron is widely disseminated (Mr. Becker records six new localities in the United States), meteoric waters seldom penetrate many thousand feet from the earth's surface; and this fact has been a serious objection to Mendel-Jeef's hypothesis of petroleum genesis from iron carbide and water. But a Swiss chemist, Mr. A. Brun, has made the brief statement that, by heating ammonium chloride "with iron carbide, a paraffin-like substance was obtained accompanied by gaseous hydrocarbons and free hydrogen." Now ammonium chloride is very abundant in volcanic formations and undoubtedly exists at great depths. Mr. Becker has conducted laboratory experiments on its behavior with native terrestrial iron from Quifak Greenland the docks at New York, are aimed at in regulations proclaimed today by Acting Secretary of Treasury Reynolds, and directed to collectors of customs, "and all others concerned." The regulations estop importers from delaying for a week or ten days the filing of claims for allowance for decay, destruction or injury of the fruit imported, but not taken from the docks, making it impossible for the authorities to determine what to allow for the deterioration of the imports. California fruit raisers took up this question with Congress at the last session, contending that the delays operated to the undue advantage of Italian interests, particularly as to oranges and lemons. The government is entitled to the duty on the arrival of the fruit, and forty-eight hours is fixed by the department under today's circular, as to the time within which, after the arrival of the vessel, importers may file their claims for allowance for shortage, or non-importation. Immediately upon notice of these claims, the appraisers, under direction of the collectors, will detail one or more examiners to determine promptly the percentage of decay. The examiners will be called upon to set aside representative packages consisting of at least 5 per cent of each lot, or mark, and to open and examine them. Within ten days after the landing of fruit the report of the appraiser must be made to the collector, fixing the percentage of rotten and worthless fruit found. On this percentage, allowance will be made in the liquidation of the entry. Where imported fruit or other perishable goods have been condemned at the port of original entry within ten days after landing, no allowance will be made until the importers or their agents, within twenty-four hours file detailed notice with the collector. No allowance will be made for damage to any imported merchandise other than the allowance upon unperishable goods on the ground of non-importation. Importers, however, are permitted under the new regulations, to abandon to the United States within ten days after entry, all or any part of any goods included in any invoice. They will then be relieved from payment of duty on the abandoned portion provided it amounts to at least 10 per cent of the total value or quantity of the invoice. The petty politicians of Santa matters of gravel that community illustrate the use of the state man rewards and put small revenges to discipline by who manages to convince reasons that they have machine to pay Welch are of gee. The attack on malicious purpose and game commute because he had no gest to a member that the vast extent money by the co subject to supervive General "Lydia bottle scarred version, who runs machine, resented by a subordinated for punishment serviceable super were promised they would dismitened to obey, set aside by Judy superior court not to be balkedily, and it tried Welch. This act was reversed later Smith, who at thisistered this stint supervisors: "On the final facts were proved this hasty and in ling, which is used by the people which is not su authority which find. Even in Spanish inquisition fendants were intended trials be denned and burnt not so in the case He was condemned from office without out the sham poke or trial, and in action taken It rests now Ware of Santa whether an ad from this second from iron carbide and water. But a Swiss chemist, Mr. A. Brun, has made the brief statement that, by heating ammonium chloride "with iron carbide, a paraffin-like substance was obtained accompanied by gaseous hydrocarbons and free hydrogen." Now ammonium chloride is very abundant in volcanic formations and undoubtedly exists at great depths. Mr. Becker has conducted laboratory experiments on its behavior with native terrestrial iron from Ovifak, Greenland, and found that the greater part of the carbon of this iron was converted into hydrocarbons. It is highly probable that the earth contains a nucleus of metallic iron, the barysphere, but Mr. Becker thinks this too deeply buried to be concerned in the genesis of oil. On the other hand, the igneous rocks seem to contain iron analogous to "shot metal" in slag, clouds of particles too small to sink through the pasty mass when in a state of viscous fusion. It is to such metal, in the author's opinion, that supporters of the inorganic hypothesis must look for the origin of oil. This view led him to compare the distribution of petroleum with the irregularities of the direction of the compass needle (magnetic declination.) These irregularities are due to various causes, one of which is the neighborhood of metallic iron. Somewhat to his astonishment, he found very marked disturbances of the needle in the principal oil fields, while there are many regions of disturbance which are beyond a doubt independent of oil. Bulletin 401 contains a map showing both the oil fields (after D. T. Day) and the magnetic declination (after A. L. Bauer). Mr. Becker sums up as follows: "Study of the map accompanying this paper justifies the statement that the coincidences between the occurrence of petroleum and local dis- Report of Tests Conducted for United States Geological Survey Since the discovery of radium and its allied elements, with their remarkable property of continuously emanating heat, a new factor has entered into the speculations of scientists regarding the causes of local manifestations of heat in the earth's crust. Thermal springs and geysers are undergoing a new scrutiny in order to determine whether their waters contain greater quantities of radium than ordinary waters from underground sources. The United States Geological Survey has just published, as Bulletin 395, a report under the title "Raloactivity of the thermal waters of Yellowstone National Park," by Herman Schlundt and Richard B. Moore, giving the results of recent tests. The experiments were conducted chiefly from the chemist's point of view, and in this bulletin the discussion that follows the tables of quantitative results is limited to pointing out the more important characteristics and other than the allowance upon unperishable goods on the ground of non-importation. Importers, however, are permitted under the new regulations, to abandon to the United States within ten days after entry, all or any part of any goods included in any invoice. They will then be relieved from payment of duty on the abandoned portion provided it amounts to at least 10 per cent of the total value or quantity of the invoice. The importers will have to deliver the abandoned goods to the government at some designated place within the limits of the port, when the allowance will be made in liquidating the entry, and the merchandise sold or destroyed. YELLOWSTONE PARK WATERS According to 1909 crop of Great about double Marbots the out same as in 1900 nies will be some Naples crop is and better than while the crop be about the size of much better last year. Very been done and partly speculative.ably lower in Great Marbots and Co er on Naples. the other side hold orders until suured. THE WASTE C A circular v Cleveland, Jr., rest Service, strikingly to these facts, as ANAHEIM GAZETTE relations of the data, and comparing them with data of radioactivity in other regions of hydrothermal activity. The authors have indicated a possible application of some of the results to a geological question—the age of some of the spring deposits; but no systematic attempt has been made to relate the facts of radioactivity to the hydrography of the region or to the geology of the park. Typical spring waters from all the principal basins of thermal activity were tested, and wherever gases were evolved from a spring these also were tested for their radioactive properties. Many solids also, consisting of spring deposits, water residues, and rock samples, were examined quantitatively for the radium content. The determinations were all made by the electrical method, the apparatus and procedure for which are briefly described. The results show that the underlying rock in the park contains radium and in some localities thorium in sufficient quantities to make the waters and gases decidedly radioactive. No tests were made to determine the presence of helium, which is a constituent of the gas escaping from several of the more active European springs. THE PETTY STATE MACHINE Seeking to Dismiss a Faithful Official in Santa Cruz The petty politics and the small politicians of Santa Cruz county are not matters of grave concern outside of that community unless they serve to illustrate the underground activities of the state machine, the system of rewards and punishments and the small revenges that go to make the discipline by which the organization circular. Every year we take from the forests three and one-half times as much wood as is added to them by new growth. When a tree is felled by an average lumberman less than one-third of it is used, and of the more than two-thirds waste fully one-half is entirely unnecessary. One-eleventh of our forests are swept by fires, against which precautions could and should be taken, every year, and in these fires $50,000,000 worth of timber and fifty lives are lost annually. Less than one per cent of the forests in private ownership is properly and effectively protected against fire. And as the forests go our means of controlling our water supply are being largely reduced, if not obliterated. As Mr. Cleveland says, "It is not use which destroys the forests, but waste. Not use as such, but destructive use, combined with inexcusable neglect, is causing the forests to dwindle under our progressive demands upon them. The problem, therefore, is not to be solved by disuse, but by wise use and protection." After the operation for appendicitis was over and the patient had recovered from the effects of the anaesthetic, the skillful surgeon looked around for his watch. It was nowhere in sight. "You don't think, doctor," anxiously inquired the patient, "you could possibly have sewed it up in——" "I'm afraid I have. It was lying on—no, it wasn't. I've found it. I had laid it down in my hat." "Well, that's lucky." "It is indeed, my friend," said the surgeon with a sigh of relief. "That watch cost me $150." REDUCTION IN FLOW For the first time this season the MILITARY PRISONERS. How They Are Guarded at Garrisons. The Bull Ring. The hardest duty that a soldier is ever called upon to perform in times of peace and the duty which he dreads the most is the guarding of military prisoners. These are divided into two classes: First.—Garrison prisoners, who have received light sentences for minor breaches of discipline and will be returned to duty in a short time. Second.—Military convicts, who for attempted desertion or other serious military crimes have been dishonorably discharged by order of a court martial and have received sentences varying from a few months' to several years' confinement at hard labor, according to the gravity of the offense. Into their ranks the vicious element or those who hold their oath of enlistment too lightly eventually find their way. Every morning at fatigue call the prisoners are drawn up in a long line in front of the guardhouse and surrounded by a chain of sentries. The somber prison garb of the "generals"—military convicts were formerly known as "general prisoners"—is marked with a gigantic capital "P," which renders them conspicuous and therefore makes escape more difficult. Some are evil looking fellows with long and unsavory records. Doubtless many have "done time" more than once in civil prisons before evading the watchfulness of the recruiting officer and finding their way into the army. Others are rosy cheeked lads who in all probability have yet to see their twenty-first birthday, and in nine cases out of ten the charge against them is desertion. Homesickness or restlessness under military restraint and discipline have led them into the rash act, the heavy penalties of which they may not have fully realized. In groups of twos and three and guarded by sentries with loaded rifles, these men perform most of the dis- Seeking to Dismiss a Faithful Official in Santa Cruz The petty politics and the small politicians of Santa Cruz county are not matters of grave concern outside of that community unless they serve to illustrate the underground activities of the state machine, the system of rewards and punishments and the small revenges that go to make the discipline by which the organization manages to control. It is for these reasons that the persistent efforts of the machine to punish Game Warden Welch are of general public interest. The attack on Welch is due to the malicious purpose of the state fish and game commission to punish him because he had the audacity to suggest to a member of the legislature that the vast expenditures of public money by the commission should be subject to supervision and accounting. General "Lydia Pinkham" Stone, the bottle scarred veteran of the commission, who runs it as a part of the machine, resented this interference by a subordinate. Welch was marked for punishment, and certain super-serviceable supervisors of Santa Cruz were promised a fish hatchery if they would dismiss Welch. They hastened to obey, but their action was set aside by Judge Lucas F. Smith of the superior court. The machine was not to be balked of its prey so easily, and it tried once more to oust Welch. This action, like the other, was reversed last week by Judge Smith, who at the same time administered this stinging rebuke to the supervisors: "On the final hearing... no facts were proved which authorized this hasty and unwarranted proceeding, which is universally condemned by the people of the county and which is not sustained by any legal authority which I have been able to find. Even in the dark days of the Spanish inquisition the unfortunate defendants were informed of their pretended trials before they were condemned and burned at the stake; but not so in the case of the petitioner. He was condemned and removed from office without notice and without the sham pretense of a hearing or trial, and informed afterward of the action taken by the board." It rests now with Auditor Willett Ware of Santa Cruz county to say whether an appeal shall be taken from this second judgment of Judge Smith. REDUCTION IN FLOW For the first time this season the San Gabriel river is flowing less than it was at a corresponding time last year, the flow being only 37 cubic feet a second as compared with 54 ast year. More early rains last year accounts for the fact, it is said. According to the figures of the geological survey the Santa Ana river is flowing 60 cubic feet as compared with 57 last year, while the Colorado has a record of 26,000, as compared with 7000. EXPENSES ARE HIGH Expenses of the State of California for the first three months of the fiscal year, beginning July 1, are nearly a million dollars more than twelve months ago. For the month of September just closed, State Comptroller Nye issued warrants amounting to $1,191,760.70, consisting of $469,491.73 for the general fund and $695,268.97 from other funds. The total to date shows expenditures of $4,592,934.31, for the first three months of the present fiscal year as compared with $3,629,201.09 for the first three months a year ago. This makes a gain of $963,733.22 in expenses for the state over the same period in 1908. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Richard Krastel to Mrs. Annie G. Walter, 5 acres in lot 25, Anaheim Extension. $10. Arthur H. Johnson et ux to James L. Martin, lots 9 and 10, blk 22, townsite of Fullerton. $10. Kate Quarton et conj. to F. J. Barnes et ux. und. half interest in 20.02 acres in sw quar. of se quar. of sec. 20, T. 4 S., R. 10 W. $10. Julia P. Hemphill et conj. to W. L. Finney, lot 37, blk C, Center Tract, Anaheim. $10. Mrs. F. E. Haffen et conj. to Hattie A. Spencer, lots 1, 3 and 4, blk C, Villa Tract, Anaheim. $10. Good Reading Means Something for it means rest and recreation, as well as INFORMATION on the world's doings, and on the happenings among the nations. MAGAZINES THAT WE SELL FOREIGN WALNUT CROPS According to some estimates, the 1909 crop of Grenoble walnuts will be about double that of last year. Of Marbots the output will be about the same as in 1908, while that or Cornes will be somewhat larger. The Naples crop is reported to be larger and better than that of last season, while the crop of Cahors promises to be about the same in quantity, but of much better quality than that of last year. Very little buying has been done and prices named are large speculative. They are considerably lower in Grenoble, but higher on Marbots and Cornes, and much higher on Naples. The best shippers on the other side advise buyers to withhold orders until the crop is more assured. THE WASTE OF OUR FORESTS A circular written by Treadwell Cleveland, Jr., and issued by the Forest Service, again calls attention strikingly to the depletion of the forests in the United States. Consider these facts, as condensed from the L. Martin, lots 9 and 10, blk 22, townsite of Fullerton. $10. Kate Quarton et conj. to F.J. Barnes et ux. und. half interest in 20.02 acres in sw quar. of se quar. of sec. 20, T. 4 S., R. 10 W. $10. Julia P. Hemphill et conj. to W.L. Finney, lot 37, blk C, Center Tract, Anaheim. $10. Mrs. F.E. Haffen et conj. to Hattie A. Spencer, lots 1, 3 and 4, blk C, Villa Tract, Anaheim. $10. Mrs. Sarah J. Keep et conj. to J.Dimler, s quar. of lot 31 and w half of s half of lot 32, blk 58, and n half of lot 24, blk 58, Buena Park. $10. Herbert J. Goudge et ux to S.P.Swearingen et ux, lot 57, sub. of blk C, Newport Bay Tract. $500. Same to A.L.Horton et ux, lot 58 of Sub.of blk C, Newport Bay Tract $500. Fred Peter et ux, to Ribidoux Bldg Co., lot 14, blk 10, lot 15, blk 10, East Newport. $10. Title Guarantee & Trust Co.to G.H.Wadleigh, lot 6, blk 23, Newport Beach. $3200. T.H.Boswell et ux to E.B.Brunner, lot 17, blk 129,Lake Tract, Newport Beach. C.E.Dresser et ux to F.J.Hesse, lot 9,town of Westminster.$10. J.F.Hearwell to Cora A.Hearwell, lots 7 and 8,blk 105,Huntington Beach.$10. Walter J.Gehres to Daniel Gehres lot 10,blk 119,1st add to Newport Beach.$75. La Habra Valley Land & Water Co.to John P.Hayes,lot 182,新port Heights.$10, John McMillan et ux to H.W.Best, lots 16,blk 119,Sec.A,新port Beach.$10. C.J.Eaton et ux to G.W.Burton lots 1 and 2,blk 112,Huntington Beach.$10. Good Reading Means Something for it means rest and recreation, as well as INFORMATION on the world's doings,and on the happenings among the nations. 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