anaheim-gazette 1909-12-09

A GOOD WORD FOR GILLETT His Political and Personal Integrity Extolled It would seem that the people of a State which has suffered as California has suffered on the score of incompetence, neglect, and infirm character in her chief executive would thank God for a man like Governor Gillett and rise up as one man in the effort to keep him in office. At no point has he failed to meet the requirements of the governorship. He has been straight, he has been diligent, he has been courageous; his judgments have generally been sound and they have been prompt. He has done the right thing at the right time; he has never slopped over. He has closely scrutinized public expenditures and saved the public money; he has held taxation to its lowest practicable level. He has kept a careful eye on legislation, correcting its extravagances, protecting it against prejudice or bias. In this connection he did at one point, in the opinion of the Argonaut, yield too much, and that was upon the entreaties of the Lincoln-Roosevelt Leaguers and other theorists and projectors in the matter of the direct primary. The governor, we think, ought to have vetoed the direct primary act, for it was an act not only revolutionary in principle, but marked in every clause by the false reasoning, the inexperience, and the bad judgment of those who made it. But now come the Lincoln-Roosevelt Leaguers in a movement whose whole inspiration is that of opposition to Governor Gillett and his possible candidacy for re-election. True, it is not much of a movement, since But now come the Lincoln-Roosevelt Leaguers in a movement whose whole inspiration is that of opposition to Governor Gillett and his possible candidacy for re-election. True, it is not much of a movement, since it is limited to a mere handful of men, and they for the most part men who have failed in times near or remote in pretty much all their political undertakings. This movement protests against Gillett for no other reason than that he has not fallen in with its whimsical and impossible schemes of reorganizing the Republican party of California. It objects to Gillett because he has won the approval and friendship of the great majority of the party, because he has not allied himself with those who through temperament and habit, or under the impulses of disappointment and political failure, have become chronic critics and protestants in relation to every scheme of party organization, even including their own. This movement is too petty in its motives, too small in its numbers, to come to anything. It is not, indeed, expected to come to anything; it simply affords a refuge for certain recalcitrants and incompetents who can not bring themselves to act with the Republican party, but who can not find the resolution to go over to the opposition. Men who conceive themselves too good to work with other men, men who lack the spirit of co-operation, men who must be politically miserable in order to be politically happy—these find in the anti-Gillett movement the opportunity to enroll themselves somewhere and to cultivate the satisfying sense of being in the political game. A general political movement to be successful must have three lines of strength: (1) It must be able to appeal to the public through some powerful moral motive; (2) it must have authoritative and inspiring leadership; (3) it must have the basis of effective criticism in extravagances of administration or favoritism in legislation. Now the movement of the Lincoln-Roosevelt Leaguers has not one of these elements of strength. It makes no appeal upon any ground worth a moment's attention; it has timony the minute book of the Fairview Land and Water Company was produced and the resolution was read whereby the Fairview Company agreed to sell to the Florida Water Company all the water rights in the San Jacinto river, together with the pipes, ditches and flumes for the distributing of water on the Fairview tract. The price was $99,750, the Fairview Company accepting in payment 19,-950 shares of capital stock of the Florida Company at $5 a share. This action was taken at a meeting of the directors of the company in April, 1887. Witnesses called upon to testify in the case were Timothy Merriman, Nathaniel B. Harmon, Cecil Knight, Louis A. Litterer, Elsie Beck, L. S. Warner, Thomas Milholland, Ida May Martin, Bradley W. Doane, Wm. F. Copeland, Eda C. Prince, G. C. Shantz, Dr. C. S. Dickson, H. E. McEuen, Mary E. Hanna and J. M. Clayton. The plaintiffs in the case are the owners of about 2000 acres of land in and near the little town of Valle Vista, at the base of the San Jacinto mountains, and the issue at stake is their right to receive water from the Lake Hemet Water Company without paying more for it than their proportion of the maintenance of the system. PLATINUM IN CALIFORNIA Produced as a By-Product In Placer Mining Platinum is produced in the United States only as a by-product in placer-gold mining in Oregon and California. The output in 1908 was 750 troy ounces, valued at $14,250. This quantity was nearly double that produced in 1907, but the value of the product was only about 35 per cent greater, owing to a decline in prices. During the last three years the price of this rare metal has fluctuated from $18.20 to $38 per troy ounce for the refined metal (the value of gold is about $20.67 per troy ounce) and the amount of crude platinum or platinum ore annually imported into the United States, chiefly from Russia, has ranged from 4237 pounds, valued at $1,095,754, to 11,-494 pounds, valued at $3,601,120. The oldest uses of platinum were based on its resistance to chemical action and its high melting point, Switzerland fits of forestment 600 yordnance of Sihlwald of most perfect fitable forests handled until 1680. The reports proclaim the America Gall says: "The gov't has so cared output that mitted to'e The thick mountain s become deren en the dan laanches an mer times tive. To c therivers fortified by been erected the extraor successful must have three lines of strength: (1) It must be able to appeal to the public through some powerful moral motive; (2) it must have authoritative and inspiring leadership; (3) it must have the basis of effective criticism in extravagances of administration or favoritism in legislation. Now the movement of the Lincoln-Roosevelt Leaguers has not one of these elements of strength. It makes no appeal upon any ground worth a moment's attention; it has no leadership worth the name; it has no grievance in the mismanagement of State affairs. Its idea is a purely negative one; it is against certain men and things for no real reason; it is for nothing. As a movement it is foredoomed to failure because there are no reasons tending to its success. Perhaps men of the sort who are leading in this little movement—men of the Chester Rowell type — have their use in the general scheme of politics. True, they can never achieve anything, for no half-dozen of them—we had almost said no two of them—will ever act together persistently in support of any definite purpose. Their service, if they are to yield any, is that of critics whose chatter is often impertinent and annoying, but perhaps in the long run not unwholesome. They are like certain unpleasant drugs, offensive to the sense but useful for their tonic effects. It will be so in the present instance. The objection of the Lincoln-Roosevelt Leaguers to Governor Gillett will be just sufficient to arouse the common-sense citizenship of the State to activity in his behalf. —Argonaut. Clancy—Ol'm after a ticket ter Chicago. Ticket Agent—Do you want an excursion ticket? One that will take you there and back? Clancy—Phat's the since of me payin' ter go there an' back whin Ol'm here alriddy? The oldest uses of platinum were based on its resistance to chemical action and its high melting point, properties that made it valuable for use in chemical laboratories in the form of crucibles and other vessels. During recent years it has been used in jewelry, for it is probably the best material available for mounting diamonds, and also largely in dentistry. It is also used in electric-lighting and heating and in making sparking plugs for explosion engines. The most important industrial use of platinum is found in the sulphuric acid industry. More than half of the sulphuric acid now made is manufactured by the use of platinum. A report by David T. Day on the production of platinum in 1908, forming an advance chapter of "Mineral resources of the United States, calendar year 1908," has just been issued by the United States Geological Survey and can be had without any charge by applying to the Director of the Survey at Washington, D. C. The pamphlets contains abstracts from a report by Dr. W. Geibel on the platinum deposits of Russia and the metallurgy and uses of the metal, an abstract of a report on platinum in Columbia, South America, made by Jay White, consul general at Bogota, and a description of newly discovered deposits of platinum ore in Nevada, by Howland Bancroft. For a line of Christmas gifts that are worth while, look over Hartfield's superb stock of jewelry, silverware, cut glass, watches and diamonds. ANAHEIM· GAZETTE Great Semi-Annual JOIN TODAY THE CHRISTMAS CROWDS THAT ARE PACKING THE SENSATIONAL PRICE REDUCTIONS IN EVERY DEPARTMENT. Make your holiday on every gift purchased. Ladies' Tailored Suits at Big Reductions: Big reductions in suits that represent the best that can be obtained in fabric, fit, finish. New models, latest styles. $16.50 suits reduced to only... $13.50 20.00 suits reduced to only... 15.75 22.50 suits reduced to only... 18.00 25.00 and $30.00 suits, now... 19.75 Undergarments Muslin and woolen, everything goes at the cut price. Ladies' Union Suits and a few separate undergarments, fine quality, all wool, reduced for this sale to just...½ price Heatherbloom Underskirts, black only, fine quality and beautifully embroidered. Specially priced for this sale at... $1.15, $1.35 and $1.80 Nightgowns of good grade outing flannel. Specially priced at... 89c, $1.13 and $1.35 Hosiery Your opportunity to buy a supply for the entire family at small expense. Household Goods TOWELINGS The kind for which you have always paid is the time to buy them. Good quality Cotton Huck Towels at... Better Grade at... Linen Huck Towels, extra large... Turkish Towels, good grade... Better and Larger Turkish Towels at... All better grades reduced in proportion. Good quality Cotton Crash... Twill Crash — bleached and unbleached, special at... TABLE LINENS Everything for the Holiday dinner service reduces the time to buy them. Good quality Bleached Table Linens... An extra heavy unbleached Table Damask at... Extra fine mercerized snow white Table D width at... 72-inch bleached pure Linen Table Damask, no Fine Grade of snow white mercerized Napkins or Better grade and larger for... Large assortment of pure linen Dinner Napkins, Fancy linens—Lunch clothes, scarfs, and sets of and napkins to match and fancy towels—all great Turkey red Table Damask, full width. BEDDING Everything is reduced and at no time in our lives we been able to make such prices on goods of Double cotton blankets at 53c. Larger blankets Better quality cotton blankets at... All-wool blankets also reduced. Good grade tufted comforters, filled with cotton. Better and heavier grade of comforters at... Still better grades at... White bedspreads reduced to... 89c, $1. Hosiery Your opportunity to buy a supply for the entire family at a small expense. Children's hosiery of ribbed cotton. Sizes range from 5½ to 7 years, now, per pair. 10c Misses wool hose, fine quality but are odds and ends, regular 35c, 40c and 50c values, now. ½ price Ladies' seamless fast black hose, good quality, specially priced at... 8¼c Ladies' hose, extra quality, double sole, this sale only. 12¼c Ladies' good quality black ribbed hose, in sizes 8½, 9, 9¼. These are regular 20c goods; sale price 3 pr. for... 50c Ladies' gendine imported black hose with ribbed top. In regular and extra sizes. Reduced price... 23c Ladies' lace hose, either black or white, this sale at... 27c Cor. 4th and Bush Streets BELIEVES IN TREES Switzerland recognized the benefits of forest protection and development 600 years ago when the forest ordinance of Bern was issued. The Sihwald of Zurich, one of the most perfectly managed and most profitable forests in the world, has been handled under a working plan since 1680. The little Alpine republic still reports progress in forest work, and the American consul writing from St. Gall says: "The government of Switzerland has so carefully regulated the timber output that it has never been permitted to exceed the natural growth. The thick growth of timber on the mountain sides, purposely allowed to become dense, has perceptibly lessen the danger and frequency of avalanches and landslides, which in former times were so frightfully destructive. To control the spring floods in the rivers and streams, massive dams, fortified by thickly planted trees, have been erected at exposed places. In the extraordinary attention paid to its exposed places, without the consent of the federal authorities, and then only in small areas and when prompt reforestation is guaranteed. Trees for cutting are carefully selected by forestry experts. "Through the forests there are excellent roads, made largely by the canonal authorities. The year 1908 was marked by such activity in road construction that the state, which bears a proportion of the expense, paid to the cantons the sum of $46,634 on their account alone. "Spruce is the most important tree in the Swiss forests, and then in order of their importance come white fir, beech, larch, pine, cypress, and a few other varieties. "The principal revenue derived from the Swiss forests is from the lumber output, there being no manufactures of resin, turpentine, and similar by-products. To offset the cutting, there were planted in 1908, 23,-096,225 trees, of which 18,031,590 were conifer and 5,064,635 deciduous, and no less than seven tons of seed were sown." IT WAS THE TIDE "It was a mistake," said May Stoy of Atlantic City, discussing recent governmental difficulty. "The people failed to understand the difficulty, just as a man from Okoboji Iowa, failed last summer to understand the tides. "This man sat on the beach, clutching a bag of nuts. A fat lady, one of the end-season bathers, gamboled in waves near him. She shrieked, ped up and down, and flapped aboard arms and legs, and meanwaves crept nearer and nearer to Okoboji peanut eater. "He regarded the advancing wave sternly. All of a sudden a strong wave than usual swept up the beach, splash—the man was dashed spray. "'Hi,' he shouted, scrowling blitely at the happy bather, 'hi, F stop that there bobbin' about be ye drown a feller, will ye?'" FLOW OF RIVERS The geological survey reports increase of water in the South California rivers. The San Ga The thick growth of timber on the mountain sides, purposely allowed to become dense, has perceptibly lessened the danger and frequency of avalanches and landslides, which in former times were so frightfully destructive. To control the spring floods in the rivers and streams, massive dams, fortified by thickly planted trees, have been erected at exposed places. In the extraordinary attention paid to its timber lands, the government has taken into account also the necessity for sheltering and pasturing cattle, the maintenance of the soil, the roads, and the natural springs, climate, and the control of mountain streams. "The actual forest area of Switzerland comprises 2,205,508 acres, 21.48 per cent of the entire surface of the country, 77,004 of which belong to the state and 2,182,504 to the cantons, communes, municipalities, and private corporations. Seven hundred and eighty-one acres of the state forest are set aside as a nursery. From this nursery in 1908 over 22,000,000 young trees were taken and transplanted in the various forests. "Swiss forests are classed as 'protected' and 'non-protected.' The former are those which are situated on mountain slopes where the imminence of washouts, stone and ice-chutes, landslides and avalanches calls for the constant exercise of extraordinary care and attention. The non-protected are those on comparatively level ground requiring only ordinary attention to keep them in good condition. Because of the character of the country, the great majority of the forests are protected. "The law provides that, the forest area shall not be diminished, and that all forests shall be maintained in a fairly dense condition. Even in private forests close cutting or clearing up is strictly forbidden, especially in fir, beech, larch, pine, cypress, and a few other varieties. "The principal revenue derived from the Swiss forests is from the lumber output, there being no manufactures of resin, turpentine, and similar by-products. To offset the cutting, there were planted in 1908, 23,096,225 trees, of which 18,031,590 were conifer and 5,064,635 deciduous, and no less than seven tons of seed were sown. "Statistics of the receipts and expenditures of all forestry work in the country are not available, but a couple of cases may be cited which show gratifying returns. The total receipts from the sale of wood in 1908 from 2421 acres of state forests in the canton of St. Gall are given as $24,.457.37, and the expenditures as $7,.104.81, leaving a clear profit of $17,.352.56. In the forests of the town of Winterthur, amounting to 2833 acres, the receipts were $51,174.63 and the expenses $21,634.50, leaving a net profit of $29,540.13, or an average profit of about $10.42 per acre. "It is not to be presumed that the revenue from the entire Swiss forest area can be approximated by taking as a basis the earnings of the St.Gall or Winterthur forests, which have been for many years under most intelligent and excellent management, but the universal opinion among forestry officials is that the jealous care with which the Swiss timber lands have been guarded has vastly benefited both national and cantonal treasuries from the financial point of view." Before I married, said Mr. Henpeck, I didn't know what it meant to support a wife. I presume you know now? Yes, indeed. I looked up the word support in the dictionary and discovered that one of its meanings is endure." Thursday, December 9 Annual Sale PACKING THE STORE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR take your holiday buying like theirs—an occasion for saving money Anold Goods WELINGS You have always paid good prices. Buy are cheap here. Tuck Towels at.....6¢c Extra large.....13¢c Grade.....8¢c Knish Towels at.....11¢c and 13¢c Reduced in proportion. Rash.....5¢ Used and unbleached, good quality, 6¢c a yard LINENS Holiday dinner service reduced. Now time to buy them. Table Linens.....27¢a yard Reached Table Damask at.....45¢a yard And snow white Table Damask, full 45¢a yard Linen Table Damask, now.....89¢ White mercerized Napkins at 89¢a doz Ever for.....$1.13 Fine linen Dinner Napkins..$1.35 a doz Cloths, scarfs, and sets of table cloths and fancy towels—all greatly reduced Damask, full width.....24¢a yard BEDDING It and at no time in our history have such prices on goods of high quality. At 53¢c. Larger blankets at.....67¢c Blankets at.....89¢c Also reduced. Comforters, filled with cotton, spec at 89¢c Trade of comforters at.....$1.13 $1.35 and up Reduced to...89¢c, $1.13 and $1.35 Bargains for Particular Men FURNISHINGS Everything in this department has been reduced to sensational prices. This is your chance to buy furnishings for the next year and save money. Men's hose, fine quality fast black, priced for this sale...8¢c Men's hose, double sole, either black or tan, sale price...11¢c Handkerchiefs, good grade, hemstitched, sale price...8¢c Suspenders, regular 25¢ grade, priced for this sale at...12¢c Muslin night shirts, reduced for this sale to...49¢c Work shirts, extra well made, black, tan, blue, and black and white stripes, now...44¢c Men's gray sweater coats, specially priced at...$1.49 Boys' sweaters, reg. $1.50 val., closing out entire line at 98¢c Men's heavy fleece and Jersey ribbed underwear at...46¢c Men's extra heavy all-wool natural gray underwear...89¢c Men's neckwear, fine line, all latest styles, reduced to...23¢c Men's working and driving gloves, reduced for this sale. Sole agents for the celebrated Hansen gloves for men. Hats To fit every one and at prices that you'll not notice, they're so small. Odds and ends, worth up to $3, our price for this sale 98¢c Regular lines in all shapes and colors, priced for this sale at...$1.69 Youths' Suits Stylish and well tailored, in BEDDING and at no time in our history have such prices on goods of high quality. at 53c. Larger blankets at...67c blankets at...89c also reduced. comforters, filled with cotton, spec. at 89c ade of comforters at...$1.13 $1.35 and up reduced to...89c, $1.13 and $1.35 RAPERIES of them, and all to be sold at extra low price machines wide, reduced to...96, 11¼c and 13½c machines specially priced for this sale...13½c yd table stands, lounge covers and portieres at big reductions priced for this sale at...45c priced now at...$1.35 and $1.80 up. We have them from...68c up wide. Cream and corn with Roman stripes and green, 25¢ values, now 19¢ a yard SHOES—Youth's kid and calf Shoes, were $1.75, reduced to... Boys' kid and calf Shoes, were $2.00, now... Men's calf Shoes, regular $2.00 values, now... Men's Shoes, odds and ends, were $2.50, now... Men's odds and ends, were $3.00 values, now... Men's Regent Shoes, regular $3.50 Shoes, now... Men's working Shoes, were $2.50, now priced at... Men's working Shoes, regular $3.00 values, now... Men's work shoes cut high,buckles at top, blk and tan, were $3.50, now 2.50 US Brothers Santa Ana California RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW and NOTARY PUBLIC Office Center St Special attention given to Probate Matters ANAHEIM. H. V. WEISEL Attorney and Counselor at Law German Language 2d Floor Mullinix Bldg., Anaheim, Cal F. C. SPENCER ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Notary Public Odd Fellows' Block, Center Street Anaheim, Cal. Finest of Wines, Tiquors and Cigars, at Roman Wisser's Favorite - Saloon Schlitz Beer on Draught W. Harold Wickett, M.D. Res. Phones. Main 8X3, Home 863. Herbert A. Johnston, M.D. Res. Phones, Main 82, Home 862. Drs. Johnston & Wickett Office Hours, 11-12, 2-4, 7-8. Office Phones, Main 81, Home 861. Offices, $10 S. Los Angeles Street Residence Phone Main 42 DR. JOHN H. BOEGE DENTIST Office, Mullinix Building HOURS 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. 1:30 to 5:00 p.m. Evenings By Appointment DR. W. W. ADAMS OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Graduate of American School of Osteopathy of Kirksville, Mo. Office and Residence: 116 Philadelphia St. Office Hours: 10 to 12; 1 to 4. Phones: Main 463; Home 1134 J. L. BEEBE, M.D PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office and res. cor. Center and Palm Sts Office hours: 2 to 4, 7 to 8 p.m. Both Phones. ANAHEIM, CAL. Upstairs Office Hours Next Door City Hall 1 to 4 p.m. Finest of Wines, Liquors and Cigars, at Roman Wisser's Favorite - Saloon Schlitz Beer on Draught Center Street Anaheim, Cal. JOSEPH BACKS, Undertaker and Embalmer Furniture and Bedding. Repairing Done Phones—Sunset M. 93. Home 1062. Peerless Saloon JOHN CASSOU, Prop. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars Anaheim Beer on draft. Bottle Beer and Case Goods 106 N. Los Angeles St. ANAHEIM, CAL. Commercial Hotel FIRST-CLASS DINING ROOM AND BAR Handsomely Furnished Rooms Everything neat and clean A home for the Traveling Public A trial will convince. JOHN ZIEGLER, Manager VICTOR MONTGOMERY ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Attention given to Probate Business Commercial Bank Building. Santa Ana Cal Tel. Black 791 au23-6m Sporting Goods And Bicycles, at Spoerl's Gun Store. 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.