anaheim-gazette 1910-01-06

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 BORING FOR OIL A Los Angeles publication recently printed an article upon early-day prospecting for oil in Southern California, and referred to operations carried on at various points forty years or more ago. Singularly enough it failed to mention one of the first, if not the first, attempt at oil production in Southern California, which involved the sinking of a well in Brea Canyon within a stone's throw of the site of the Murphy company's big producer. The exploiters were a company of San Francisco capitalists, of whom the late George Hearst was one. Borings began in 1869 and continued for more than a year. Major Max Strobel, afterward mayor of this city, was in charge of operations. When the well had attained a depth of some 600 feet the drill stuck fast at the bottom of the hole, and Strobel tried in vain for a period of 60 days to dislodge it. Becoming dissatisfied with his management, the San Francisco men sent Charles Darling, a young machinist, from that city to displace him as manager of operations. Darling went to the well and found the rope taut, with the drill hanging at the bottom of the ENUMERATORS ARE SCARCE TIMES ARE SO PROSPEROUS MEN DO NOT CARE FOR CENSUS JOBS Scarcity Giving Director Concern—Only a Few Weeks Remain Before Date for Closing Lists—Persons Urged to Make Applications Quickly, If They Want the Job (Corrrespondence of The Gazette) Washington, D.C., Jan. 5.—Census Director Durand stated today that, as a result of his conferences with the supervisors of census throughout the country he finds that in many sections, especially in the larger cities, there have not been as yet sufficient applications for the positions of enumerators. It looks, he thinks, as if the country is so prosperous that people are not as anxious to get these responsible places as had been expected. The scarcity is giving the Director some concern, as only a few weeks remain before the date for closing the consideration of applications. It will be impossible generally to extend the application time limit, as to examine the "test" papers, with the necessary care to insure the designation of qualified persons, will consume every moment of the time allowed for this phase of the work of selecting the enumerators, leaving nothing for an extension of the date for shutting down on applications. The Director therefore urges all persons desiring places as enumerators to make application as quickly as possible, and he hopes that, in order to help get a perfect census, public cost of operation, may meet the opposition continental railroads use is made free to America. But as we seem bounded relations to treat the nations impartially such compel us to make commerce. The veteran submits for concession whether should not be pursued to be made of real business world. The questions and steam does not add great importance. The being built for any parishes. It is true that will have to be toward canal but steamers may be towed, at least three There are many companies who believe that of great size equipped steam power to assist of calms will be consigned carrying trade of the desirebility of making free to all commerce it edly be magnificent to would hardly be profitable business standpoint. FULLERTY H. W. Krug, aged 56 resident for six years, the hospital of pneumonia month's illness. He who has been visiting Nev., for several months has relatives in Colorado teen years Mr. Krug architect of Trinidad. sold a walnut grove $15,000 and he recently business block in this city of about $5000. He was INCREASED COST OF LIVING Many attempts have been made recently to determine why the cost of living is so high and why there has been no charge of operations. When the well had attained a depth of some 600 feet the drill stuck fast at the bottom of the hole, and Strobel tried in vain for a period of 60 days to dislodge it. Becoming dissatisfied with his management, the San Francisco men sent Charles Darling, a young machinist, from that city to displace him as manager of operations. Darling went to the well and found the rope taut, with the drill hanging at the bottom of the well. "What was the first thing to suggest itself to me?" he asked while in town a year or two ago; "a jar." Darling slackened the rope, dislodged the drill and raised it to the surface. Strobel heard of his success, hitched up his team and drove to the canyon and complimented Darling upon his achievement. Between the two there subsisted little friendship from the start, although there was no open rupture until a year later, when they engaged in a rifle duel at long range. Darling occupied rooms in the two-story adobe building on Center street, known for years as the Dreyfus building. Strobel lived in the brick house on Chartress street due north a block. The two men exchanged shots from their respective habitats after drilling operations had been suspended. The two men quarreled, and the duel resulted. No one was injured, but for a long time thereafter bullet holes in the buildings were pointed to as indicating the fact that each man meant business. Darling continued boring for several months after assuming charge of operations. Indications were good, but the northern men resolved to abandon operations. Darling was in this city on a visit a year or so ago. He drove to Brea canyon, and found no difficulty in locating the place where forty years before, he had bored what was probably the first oil well in the state. A stone's throw away was the big producer of the Murphy company. Darling was one of the first men on the Comstock lode in the Virginia city mining district. He staked out several claims, but fate was against him. While Flood and O'Brien, Mackey and Fair, Sharon, Ralston and others amassed millions, he left the mines poor. The Director therefore urges all persons desiring places as enumerators to make application as quickly as possible, and he hopes that, in order to help get a perfect census, public-spirited and energetic people throughout the country will offer themselves for these positions, even though they may not care for them from the standpoint of the pay involved. He also trusts that employers will deem it their duty to give leave of absence to their employees who may desire to act as enumerators. Some slight sacrifice of this sort will be amply repaid by the improved quality of the census returns. Continuing,the Director said: "Although the actual work of taking the census will not begin until April 15, it is essential that those who wish to act as enumerators should apply immediately. Except under unusual circumstances, no application received after January 25 will be considered. About 68,000 enumerators will be required. Each will work in his own locality. Any competent person is entitled to apply for this position, and will be fairly considered for appointment. "Political recommendations are not necessary. The supervisors,to whom application must be made,have been instructed to consider all candidates and to select solely on the basis of efficiency. For the purpose of aiding the supervisors in determining the competence of the candidates,a written test will be prescribed,and any person between the ages of 18 and 70 who is a citizen of the United States will be permitted to take it. "The test will be of a strictly practical character, substantially the same as was used in 1900. It will consist of filling out a sample schedule of population, and, in the case of rural districts,filling out also a sample schedule of agriculture,these schedules being precisely the same as will actually be used by the enumerators in their work later on. In order to assist candidates in preparing for the test,copies of the blank schedules and general instructions regarding the manner of filling them will be furnished to each candidate in advance. Persons of ordinary common school education and good judgment should have no difficulty in passing." INCREASED COST OF LIVING Many attempts have been made recently to determine why the cost of living is so high and why there has been a marked advance in all food products during the past five or six years. According to James J. Hill foods are ranging high because Americans have been drawing too rapidly on the virgin richness of the soil. In other words he believes that we have reached the period when the population is beginning to press hard upon the means of subsistence. There are others who hold to the view that the continuous increase in the gold output is resulting in raising the money ratio in proportion to the total of commodities and for that reason we have higher priced commodities. Professor Milton Whitney, Chief of the Bureau of Soils of the Department of Agriculture, offers the suggestion that "the increased cost of living is due to the fact that Americans are eating far more than they did fifty years ago." He arrives at this conclusion by a deductive method of reasoning. The variety of foods, he points out, is much greater than it was fifty years ago and because of modern transportation facilities northern cities have tropical fruits and fresh vegetables every month in the year. Wages average higher, and, according to Professor Whitney, the average family can afford to live better and does live better than the average family of half a century ago. There appears to be several weak spots in this theory. A greater variety and a greater abundance does not explain why there should be a rise in the standard foods like fresh meats. Logically an increase in the variety of foods ought to lower the price of particular foods. Another weak spot is shown by the government statistics which demonstrate that there are more underfed people in the country now than fifty years ago, that is more people out of employment. It would seem that some people of this generation were eating more than enough and that some digestive apparatus are being overtaxed. Rear Admiral Evans discusses the probable effect of the Panama Canal upon American shipping and commerce with entire disinterestedness. He holds that the canal will be so undesirable a route for sailing vessels that few if any of them will traverse it and that, in consequence, they will be driven from the seas and disappear before the rivalry of tramp steamers which can use the canal unless the canal is made free to sailing vessels. Moreover, he says, our navigation laws are such a handicap to ocean shipping that the commerce through the canal between American and foreign ports will be chiefly in foreign vessels while even our coasting trade between our own ports, because of the cost of operation, may not be able to meet the opposition of the transcontinental railroads unless the canal is made free to American commerce. But as we seem bound by treaty stipulations to treat the commerce of all nations impartially such a step would compel us to make it free to all commerce. The veteran naval officer submits for consideration the proposition whether that course should not be pursued if the canal is to be made of real benefit to the world. The questions between sails and steam does not appear to be of great importance. The canal is not being built for any particular class of ships. It is true that sailing vessels will have to be towed through the canal but steamers may also have to be towed, at least through the locks. There are many competent authorities who believe that sailing vessels of great size equipped with auxiliary steam power to assist them in zones of calms will be conspicuous in the carrying trade of the future. As to the desirability of making the canal free to all commerce it would undoubtedly be magnificent to do so but it would hardly be profitable from a business standpoint. FULLERTON H. W. Krug, aged 56, a well-known resident for six years, died Monday at the hospital of pneumonia, after a month's illness. He leaves a wife who has been visiting in Tonapah, Nev., for several months. He also has relatives in Colorado. For fifteen years Mr. Krug was a leading architect of Trinidad. Last year he sold a walnut grove here for nearly $15,000 and he recently completed a business block in this city at a cost of about $5000. He was a member of the Masonic lodge. H. A. DICKEL KEEPS A FULL LINE OF FANCY and STAPLE GROCERIES Hardware, Crockery, AND STATIONERY Made It Quite Clear. The engineers of a party in the field were continually annoyed by the curiosity of the farmer folk in the country round. Each and every day their progress was blocked by some inquiring soul who would have liked to spend the forenoon acquiring answers to questions of why and whither and how far and what for, relates the New York Sun. At last a serious faced young man took an interested bucolic graybeard one side and explained matters. "Now," said he, "I'm telling this to you, and I don't want it to go any further. We have discovered that the earth is a perilous harrow and the Scotch Sabbath. For travelling, trading and all the things one must not do on the Sabbath, Scotland, of course, must ever hold the palm. Not in the seventeenth century alone, but through all the ages and even unto the present day the Scotch Sunday has a law unto itself. There is the experience of James Payn, for instance, in the Edinburgh of only the seventies. "In the street where I first resided," he wrote, "it struck me that to judge by the drawn down blinds the people spent a good deal of their time upon the seventh day in bed. On my second Sunday, however, I was undecided, for my H. W. Krug, aged 56, a well-known resident for six years, died Monday at the hospital of pneumonia, after a month's illness. He leaves a wife who has been visiting in Tonapah, Nev., for several months. He also has relatives in Colorado. For fifteen years Mr. Krug was a leading architect of Trinidad. Last year he sold a walnut grove here for nearly $15,000 and he recently completed a business block in this city at a cost of about $5000. He was a member of the Masonic lodge. Several weeks ago the Los Angeles Times printed an article about the large Klondike walnuts produced by H. S. Russell. Sixteen of the nuts weighed a pound. The Russian government Commissioner at St. Louis saw the article and wrote to Mr. Russell for five pounds of the walnuts, stating that he wanted them for the Russian Minister of Agriculture. Mr. Russell forwarded the walnuts by mail. The engagement of Albert Vall of Fullerton and Miss Freda Backs of Anaheim is announced. The marriage will take place the 26th inst. at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Backs. H. C. Ames of Santa Ana has entered into partnership with Richard Melrose, and the new firm will conduct the practice of law under the firm name of Melrose & Ames. Mr. Ames is a lawyer of solid attainments and untiring industry, and is well and favorably known at the county seat, where he has been engaged in active practice for a number of years. He will remove to Anaheim in two or three weeks and will make this his permanent home. The large law practice heretofore enjoyed by Mr. Melrose can now be given prompt and careful attention. She: I don't see why you should hesitate to marry on $3000 a year. Papa says my gowns never cost more than that. He: But, my dear we must have something to eat. She (petulantly:) Isn't that just like a man. Always thinking of his stomach. A FAMOUS SENTENCE. Steele's "To Love Her Was a Liberal Education." The remark which Steele made in reference, as is generally supposed, to Lady Elizabeth Hastings has often been quoted and almost as often quoted incorrectly. Steele wrote, "Though her service much more irritating were continually annoyed by the curiosity of the farmer folk in the country round. Each and every day their progress was blocked by some inquiring soul who would have liked to spend the forenoon acquiring answers to questions of why and whither and how far and what for, relates the New York Sun. At last a serious faced young man took an interested bucolic graybeard one side and explained matters. "Now," said he, "I'm telling this to you, and I don't want it to go any further. We have discovered that the earth is a parabolic hexoid, and the ordinates and co-ordinates do not quite tally by a foot or perhaps by fourteen inches. The place where the gap comes has been located in that field just ahead of us. We don't want it mentioned, but we are getting ready to blow up the spot and make an incision before beginning the operation of joining the two." The engineers finished their labors in peace and solitude. The Shilling Bequest. The wealthy auctioneer who reduced the inheritance of a daughter to an annuity of £104 because she had become a Socialist reminds one of the old fashioned "cutting off with a shilling." Why a shilling rather than nothing? Blackstone explains. The Romans used to set aside wills as deficient in natural duty if they disinherited or totally passed by any child of the testator. But the smallest legacy was accepted as evidence that the testator had not lost his reason or his memory, as the law otherwise assumed he had; hence the groundless belief in England that a father could not disinherit his child without a shilling, although the English law knows no presumption of insanity or forgetfulness in such a case. Of Sheridan and his son Tom (and of other fathers and sons) the story is told: "Father—I'll cut you off with a shilling. Son—I'd rather have it now, dad."—St. James' Gazette. Appealed to His Pride. It was the most obstinate mule in the lot and refused to enter the car of a train held up at a little wayside station. Threats, cajolery and blows were alike useless. The mule refused to budge, and the slant of his ears told those of the passengers who were familiar with mule ear talk that where he was he intended to stay. Then the aged African who was trying to load him in said in honeyed tones: "Whuffo' yo' behave dis way befo' all dese strange people? Why, yo' fool mule, doan' yo' know dat dese people will Jes' believe dat yo' neber done trabeled befo' in all yo' life?" The long ears lost their aggressive slant, and the beast went sedately up the inclined plank with the air of a man entering a drawing room car for the first time and determined not to betray the fact—Exchange. For traveling, things one must not do on the Sabbath, Scotland, of course, must ever hold the palm. Not in the seventeenth century alone, but through all the ages and even unto the present day the Scotch Sunday has a law unto itself. There is the experience of James Payn, for instance, in the Edinburgh of only the seventies. "In the street where I first resided," he wrote, "it struck me that to judge by the drawn down blinds the people spent a good deal of their time upon the seventh day in bed. On my second Sunday, however, I was undecided, for my landlady came up and informed me that, though she had not spoken of it last Sunday, she must now draw my attention to the fact that it was not usual in Edinburgh to draw up the window blinds on the Sabbath and that the neighbors had begun to remark upon the 'unlawful appearance' of her establishment, which had heretoore been a God fearing house." A Justifiable Protest. "What's that?" cried the convicted incendiary. "Five years? Well, if you people ain't the worst I ever ran up against! Here I goes out in the evening'an sets fire to the tallest building'in town—sets fire to it so that in less'n a minute the thing's a shootin' blaze a hundred feet up into the sky. The whole poppylation is there quicker'n scat, all of you tickled to death at the sight! For four an' five hours you stood there watchin' the fire—hours of solid enjoyment, too—and' it not costin' you a cent! Why, a circus or the theater or a scandal trial wouldn't have given you half as much fun, an' you know it! An' yet you sit there an' bring in a verdie givin' me five years in the penitentiary—me that's shown you all a good time an' ought to be considered as a benefactor if there wuz any gratitude in the human boozum!"—Exchange. Heat as a Healer. Heat is one of the most important of stimulants to living cells. The hot bath is the commonest means of applying heat as a therapeutic agent and is useful in a great number of conditions, especially to plethoric individuals and in advanced tuberculosis. The usefulness of local applications of hot water is well known. The general hot douche is a remarkable means to bring blood to the surface of the body, so accelerate the circulation, etc.-Exchange. Losing Your Temper. "Losin' yoh temper don' pay," said Uncle Eben. "In a heap o' cases it don' do no mo' dan put you to de expense of hirin'a lawyer to show you whah you're wrong."—Washington Star. See that all the hours of the day are so full of interesting and healthful occupations that there is no chance for worry to stick its nose in.-Luther H. A FAMOUS SENTENCE. Steele's "To Love Her Was a Liberal Education." The remark which Steele made in reference, as is generally supposed, to Lady Elizabeth Hastings has often been quoted and almost as often quoted incorrectly. Steele wrote, "Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her was a liberal education." There are two curious misquotations of this bright and famous sentence, which Thackeray declared to be "the finest compliment to a woman that perhaps ever was offered." One is in the essay on Pope contained in James Russell Lowell's "My Study Windows." "Was it not in this age," says Mr. Lowell, "that loose Dick Steele paid to his wife the finest compliment ever paid to woman when he said 'that to know her was a liberal education?' Here are two distinct errors committed by so careful a writer as Mr. Lowell. Yet he is not alone in this. Arthur Helps in his romance of "Realmah" has this sentence: "Steele also did not ill describe, though briefly, the charm of being with a woman whom he greatly admired when he said 'that to be much with her was in itself a liberal education.'" We are also told that Leigh Hunt once in quoting the remark incorrectly ascribed it to Congreve. Here, then, are three distinct writers of high rank who have shown how in a moment of careless composition they were led astray by an inaccurate remembrance. They had no desire to misquote their author, and they gave the substance. But they grievously failed in the words themselves and one of them at least in their application.—Argonaut. Carriage and automobile trimming. Wm. F. Lutz Co., Santa Ana. To Lady Correspondents. Our young lady correspondents will confer a favor if they will write on only one side of the paper. We mean, of course, by this correspondence intended for the paper. As to the other, not intended for publication, we don't care if they write on all four sides and even across it.—Sylvania (Ga.) Telephone. Probably on the Team. "Such ignorance is inexcusable!" exclaimed Aunt Hypatia. "My nephew Percival has been going to college nearly three years, and when I asked him this morning whether he knew anything about Homer he said: 'Sure! A homer is a hit that's good for four bases.'"—Chicago Tribune. Out of Date Now. "Tommy, you have written this sentence. 'The pen is mightier than the sword,' and it is incorrect. How should it be changed?" "Pen ought to be changed to typewriter, ma'am."—Chicago Tribune. Willing to Try. Harold—Couldn't you learn to love me? Amella—No, but I'll try awfully hard. Papa has promised to send me abroad if my health breaks down from overstudy. you know.—London Scraps. Men are the sport of circumstances when the circumstances seem the sport of men.—Byron. Baby's Big Stick Candy Is the old-fashioned kind our grand-mothers used to eat when babes. It's as popular now. For big stick candy, fresh and pure, Get it here. Joseph Helmsen Thursday, January 6 Pre - Inventory Sale After the Xmas rush our stock is broken up. In each department you will find bargains priced at one-fourth to one-third less. This is a genuine bargain opportunity. For lack of space we mention only a few. SHOES All broken lines in Men's Women's and Children's Shoes. In calfskin and kid, also patent leathers, all sizes. In order to clear them out before taking inventory will sell for third less. CLOTHING About 60 Suits in Men's and Young Men's sizes. The famous Banner Brand & Schwab clothes. Only one or two of each kind. All prices at 20 per cent less. BLANKETS Large line of Sample Blankets, woolen and cotton, white and grey, also some fancy plaids, all priced at one-fourth less. Ladies' Suits & Coats Also Children's Coats, all sizes in the assortment, mostly sample garments, only one of a kind. We still have a nice assortment of Ladies' Suits. Closing all out at one-fourth to one-third less. The S.Q.R. Store Beebe-Weisel Co., Inc. Headquarters for Buggies, Harness, Robes, Horse Blankets, Whips, Bicycles and Motor Cycles Base Balls, Basket Balls, Foot Balls, Base Ball Gloves, Tennis Raquets, Sporting Goods of All Kinds. Headquarters for Buggies, Harness, Robes, Horse Blankets, Whips, Bicycles and Motor Cycles Base Balls, Basket Balls, Foot Balls, Base Ball Gloves, Tennis Raquets, Sporting Goods of All Kinds. Royal Sewing Machines Water Power Washing Machines. Automobiles and Supplies. GET SOME OF THAT COMFY UNDERWEAR BEFORE IT IS ALL GONE Genuine Sanitary Fleece Lined, reg. 75c values, at 35c. per garment. Coopen Spring Needle Underwear, fine white wool, at $1.75. Glastonbury Natural Wool, at $1.00. THE TOGGERY THE GAZETTE JOB OFFICE Best Equipped in Orange County. Machine Composition a Specialty. Best Equipped in Orange County. Machine Composition a Specialty. Books, Transcripts, Briefs, By-Laws and Commercial Printing Done by Experienced Printers in an Artistic Fashion. Your Orders Solicited.