anaheim-gazette 1910-03-24

What Our National Guard Needs Teaching the Militia More About Fighting and Less About Parade There is no denying that the National Guard is getting better every year, but unfortunately the science of war is growing more complicated every year, also. Developments of destructive engines require constant changes in tactics and strategy, but our militia straggles along in the ruts of yesterday, carrying baggage already obsolete. The regular army is only a drop in the bucket when war breaks out—even a war such as our late onslaught on decrepit old Spain. The second line of defense, the National Guard, is itself helplessly small—only a hundred thousand or so—and it will of necessity be the source and school of the main body of officers. When National Guard colonels are made generals, when citizen majors and captains are commissioned to lead regiments, and privates are jumped from their armories to commissions in the field—the trouble begins. For the officers find themselves equipped with no useful knowledge and with bad mental habits. Suddenly become teachers, they must begin their own A B C's. Target Scores That Prove Nothing One of the worst features of the case is the contentment of many officers with such improvements as have been made. The recent enthusiasm for fine shooting has so infected the Guard that target records are accounted proofs of efficiency. As if bull’s-eyes were dead enemies. the French call it. And our new book of drill regulations omits even the few bayonet exercises given in the old. The armories of the Guard are fundamentally wrong. Many of them are enormously expensive, but at most they contain offices, locker-rooms, a gymnasium, shower baths, a rifle range and a shed to drill in. For the most part they are elaborately maldesigned. Their architecture is usually an imitation of some mediaeval fortress. The huge, castellated structures are only too symbolical of the obsolete ideas practiced within. In some of the Western states where armory facilities are inferior the regiments have made a virtue of deprivation and profited by the loss, their attention being forced to the more practical phases of soldiering. The First Battery of New York, under Captain John F. O’Ryan, has purchased a farm of rough ground near the city and the results have been splendid. In the Boston manoeuvers this Battery did really excellent and intelligent work and had never a man sick. But laying aside further criticism, let us sketch out a course of drills that shall teach only the things useful in actual service, and teach as many as possible of them. The subjects are admittedly too large to be mastered in any such way, but every smattering that remains in the memory is of vital value in war. And successive years will constantly enlarge at the first drill eagle should be taught to know how to take it apart, to grapple of such things as sleeve, the sleeve-lock mainspring, the firing-pistol sophy and practice of the magazine cut-off be taught to put the pistol to oil it, to clean it off rust, without scratching its exquisite muzzle cleaning rod. Whelen’s damage is actually done cleaning them than in a soldier. Every soldier should something about the clip. Yet it is an indication that very few of our Guards be trusted even to rub their own rifles, to say nothing of filling a cartridge. Such is required to get even-fired with certain score ranges that no time in stricture. The coaches nurses than teachers.ion should come in there is no other time. The second drill, before with a little manual marching, should be defined principles of aiming that should be targets in ette on all the walls of and in all the firings of cartridges at imaginary soldier should aim at subject and his sight should ed. The officer shouldious windages as well and the non-commission should make sure that are understood and follow. First Lessons in Maneuverry The next instruction on the methods of loading is simple. But the proaiming is not so simple; rifle is vitally important varying the pressure o Target Scores That Prove Nothing One of the worst features of the case is the contentment of many officers with such improvements as have been made. The recent enthusiasm for fine shooting has so infected the Guard that target records are accounted proofs of efficiency. As if bull's-eyes were dead enemies. Some time ago an officer at a national rifle competition at Sea Girt made this wild statement, and it was quoted in General Orders: "If a man is a good rifle shot it will be easy to make him a first-class soldier for the line of battle within twenty days." Colonel Pettit, of the regular army, correctly labeled this as "astounding" and said that such statements "chill ambition and arouse indignation. To the public they imply that the army is an inconsistent mass of humanity jabbering to the winds, wandering like nebulae, without head or destination." The National Guard has gone madder still on the subject of target stunts. Of course, the fact that a man can keep on hitting a stationary bull's-eye at a known range of exactly one thousand yards is so mucl in his favor. But it no more proves him a soldier than a record as a racing jockey proves a horseman fit for the cavalry. An ability to shoot ducks or stalk big game is infinitely more useful than target skill. As it is, we have far too little rifle practice in the National Guard, an what little there is is wrong, both in the end that is sought and in the means employed. Vast quantities of ammunition are fired off under conditions that have no relation whatever to battle conditions. After the winter months are spent in more or less desultory shooting at an elliptical target in the gallery, one day in the summer is given over to field exercises. Half of this day is devoted to qualifying individuals as marksmen on targets, the other half of the day to skirmish runs by companies. This last has some semblance to war, for the companies go forward in short dashes, lie down and fire at silhouette targets representing human figure, prone, kneeling and standing. But the exact ranges are known in advance and marked by posts, and the field is as level as a lawn. There is absolutely no effort to take cover splendid. In the Boston maneuvers this Battery did really excellent and intelligent work and had never a man sick. But laying aside further criticism, let us sketch out a course of drills that shall teach only the things useful in actual service, and teach as many as possible of them. The subjects are admittedly too large to be mastered in any such way, but every smattering that remains in the memory is of vital value in war. And successive years will constantly enlarge the fund of wisdom instead of merely renewing snap and precision in handling the rifle and the feet. At the first drill, and for a few minutes at the beginning of each successive drill, the company should be formed and exercised in facing to the right, left, and about; in coming to the right and left shoulder arms, in the present, the salutes, and in a few of the simplest formations of line and column. This is necessary to keep them in hand, to move them about, and to give them self-respect in parades; but they should not be kept at it too long at a time. A few minutes should be given, also, to extended order formations of line of squads and their deployment and assembly. These should be done without much attention to precision, which will be attained sufficiently in the course of the drill season. Precision in these movements is the least important thing. Success in modern warfare does not depend on moving the men in rigid and stolid formations of machine-like motion, but in the individual intelligence of each man. Lessons in the Mechanism of the Rifle At the first drill the rifle should be thoroughly explained. It is inconceivable how little the vast majority of our soldiers know of their weapons or ammunition. They even become good shots without knowing the name, model, caliber or construction of their guns. Thousands of them become fine target shots without knowing the principles of raising and lowering their sights or of using the windgauge. They do not know whether to push the windgauge against or with the wind, or how to modify the elevation if the wind is coming from in front or from behind. They rely on the coaches, as Colonel Evans said, to do everything but pull the trigger. Of course, few pianists know anything about pianos, and not one virtuoso in a thousand could tune or re-splendid. In the Boston maneuvers this Battery did really excellent and intelligent work and had never a man sick. But laying aside further criticism, let us sketch out a course of drills that shall teach only the things useful in actual service, and teach as many as possible of them. The subjects are admittedly too large to be mastered in any such way, but every smattering that remains in the memory is of vital value in war. And successive years will constantly enlarge the fund of wisdom instead of merely renewing snap and precision in handling the rifle and the feet. At the first drill, and for a few minutes at the beginning of each successive drill, the company should be formed and exercised in facing to the right, left, and about; in coming to the right and left shoulder arms, in the present, the salutes, and in a few of the simplest formations of line and column. This is necessary to keep them in hand, to move them about, and to give them self-respect in parades; but they should not be kept at it too long at a time. A few minutes should be given, also, to extended order formations of line of squads and their deployment and assembly. These should be done without much attention to precision, which will be attained sufficiently in the course of the drill season. Precision in these movements is the least important thing. Success in modern warfare does not depend on moving the men in rigid and stolid formations of machine-like motion, but in the individual intelligence of each man. Lessons in the Mechanism of the Rifle At the first drill the rifle should be thoroughly explained. It is inconceivable how little the vast majority of our soldiers know of their weapons or ammunition. They even become good shots without knowing the name, model, caliber or construction of their guns. Thousands of them become fine target shots without knowing the principles of raising and lowering their sights or of using the windgauge. They do not know whether to push the windgauge against or with the wind, or how to modify the elevation if the wind is coming from in front or from behind. They rely on the coaches, as Colonel Evans said, to do everything but pull the trigger. Of course, few pianists know anything about pianos, and not one virtuoso in a thousand could tune or splendid. In the Boston maneuvers this Battery did really excellent and intelligent work and had never a man sick. But laying aside further criticism, let us sketch out a course of drills that shall teach only the things useful in actual service, and teach as many as possible of them. The subjects are admittedly too large to be mastered in any such way, but every smattering that remains in the memory is of vital value in war. And successive years will constantly enlarge the fund of wisdom instead of merely renewing snap and precision in handling the rifle and the feet. At the first drill, and for a few minutes at the beginning of each successive drill, the company should be formed and exercised in facing to the right, left, and about; in coming to the right and left shoulder arms, in the present, the salutes, and in a few of the simplest formations of line and column. This is necessary to keep them in hand, to move them about, and to give them self-respect in parades; but they should not be kept at it too long at a time. A few minutes should be given, also, to extended order formations of line of squads and their deployment and assembly. These should be done without much attention to precision, which will be attained sufficiently in the course of the drill season. Precision in these movements is the least important thing. Success in modern warfare does not depend on moving the men in rigid and stolid formations of machine-like motion, but in the individual intelligence of each man. Lessons in the Mechanism of the Rifle At the first drill the rifle should be thoroughly explained. It is inconceivable how little the vast majority of our soldiers know of their weapons or ammunition. They even become good shots without knowing the name, model, caliber or construction of their guns. Thousands of them become fine target shots without knowing the principles of raising and lowering their sights or of using the windgauge. They do not know whether to push the windgauge against or with the wind, or how to modify the elevation if the wind is coming from in front or from behind. They rely on the coaches, as Colonel Evans said, to do everything but pull the trigger. Of course, few pianists know anything about pianos, and not one virtuoso in a thousand could tune or splendid. In the Boston maneuvers this Battery did really excellent and intelligent work and had never a man sick. But laying aside further criticism, let us sketch out a course of drills that shall teach only the things useful in actual service, and teach as many as possible of them. The subjects are admittedly too large to be mastered in any such way, but every smattering that remains in the memory is of vital value in war. And successive years will constantly enlarge the fund of wisdom instead of merely renewing snap and precision in handling the rifle and the feet. At the first drill, and for a few minutes at the beginning of each successive drill, the company should be formed and exercised in facing to the right, left, and about; in coming to the right and left shoulder arms, in the present, the salutes, and in a few of the simplest formations of line and column. This is necessary to keep them in hand, to move them about, and to give them self-respect in parades; but they should not be kept at it too long at a time. A few minutes should be given, also, to extended order formations of line of squads and their deployment and assembly. These should be done without much attention to precision, which will be attained sufficiently in the course of the drill season. Precision in these movements is the least important thing. Success in modern warfare does not depend on movingthe menin rigidand stolidformationsofmachine-likemotionbutintheindividualintelligenceofeachman. First Lessons in Mane The next instruction on methods of loading is simple. But he proclaims it not so simple rifle is vitally important varyingthe pressure off shot can be sent wild,the gun sling is always should be taught in all The ability to hold with a frozen rididity muscular training. The excises prescribed intheareoflittlevalueforControlofthetriggeritytoexertafirmsteamitwithoutflinchingwhilencomesarevitaltowriting.Theycanbeachiousmenonlyafterpractice.Therecruitshouldhisthispositionandinanightsidebeforehetarget. The men should thenthegalleryandtaughtbull's-eye.Fromthefifebe taughttocallthetheyaremarked.Evererknowsjustwherewhenhe pulledthetrickbe disgustedathissompullingwhenhedid,knowandremembertowhichhissightswotequoteWhelenagain:shouldnever，ifitcanallowedtotakeupramtilhehaslearnedtootherwiseitissimplyammunition."Thereplain.Unlesshecanneverknowwhetbecausehefiretooseehis sighthadthewHeishelplesstocorrektakes. Gallery practice,how preliminary.Itscondalsefalseto realitythatallmethodispreferable.inbattlemarksmanshapingone'sselftoirregularandweather. The difficultiesofpaintablerangeina cityabriefleisureofcitizenrygreat.Buyeveninthearmybasement Half of this day is devoted to qualifying individuals as marksmen on targets, the other half of the day to skirmish runs by companies. This last has some semblance to war, for the companies go forward in short dashes, lie down and fire at silhouette targets representing human figure, prone, kneeling and standing. But the exact ranges are known in advance and marked by posts, and the field is as level as a lawn. There is absolutely no effort to take cover or intrench, or to train the soldier or his officer in estimating the range; and there is absolutely no chance for the soldier to judge the effect of his shot. At the end of the run the bullet holes made by each company are added up, and the total compared with the aggregate of other companies. This pale imitation of battle progress is supplemented by the armory drill in normal attack. Here not even blank cartridges are used; the armory walls are not marked with figures or targets; and an advance of a few steps is taken to represent fifty yards. Furthermore, the normal attack is finished in a few minutes, while in actual warfare every step forward is a matter of hours, perhaps even of days. The Russo-Japanese war proved that two determined enemies must approach each other almost by inches, intrenching incessantly. It is small wonder that some critics advocate the removal of the chapter on normal attack from the book on the ground that it is dangerously misleading. The same war proved that the actual decision of the day rests with the bayonet—the white weapon, as out knowing the principles of raising and lowering their sights or of using the windgauge. They do not know whether to push the windgauge against or with the wind, or how to modify the elevation if the wind is coming from in front or from behind. They rely on the coaches, as Colonel Evans said, to do everything but pull the trigger. Of course, few pianists know anything about pianos, and not one virtuoso in a thousand could tune or repair one. But if the pianist's life and prosperity depended on his knowledge of these things he would learn them. The soldier in the field often finds himself in a rolling, shrubby country, at a distance from his fellow privates, and in a din so great that he cannot hear half of his officer's or his non-commissioned officer's commands, even if both are alive. He finds that firing from the soft rim of a trench or the hard rest of a rock or a fence-rail alters his aim. The sun comes in and out of the clouds. The wind is whimsical. It rains and it drizzles. And all these things affect the trajectory and the drift of his bullet in its course to that invisible and intelligent enemy who wants to kill him and to save his own life, and otherwise comports himself as unlike the target he practiced on as an Apache comports himself unlike a cigar Indian. The soldier's gun jams or goes wrong somewhere. It needs cleaning. It grows as whimsical as the wind, and he lies in a trench, cursing his thirst and his hunger and the danger zones to the rear and in the front, but cursing his own ignorance most. Gallery practice, how preliminary. Its condition false to reality that all method is preferable. In battle marksmanship one's self to irregular and weather. The difficulties of possible range in a city are brief leisure of citizenry great. But even in the armory basements to provide targets of which shall appear and different points in order rifleman to make quick matters are, the recruiter to spend his shoot of the cheap rifle gallant may shoot at moving ing globes, than in the ory range. At all costs, the men ven increased practice gets in rough countryside hours in camp are nine. The greater part of be spent in teaching ever, to estimate dist count conditions, and ing range. Here again, since an pensive and state goingy, an inspection most as good as a co holes. Here, also, that the fullest explanation of wind, of weather, age. There should be ing downhill and uph cases the tendency This is true, also, of roof or at a man on the case of a street. At the first drill every soldier should be taught to know his rifle, to take it apart, to grasp the mysteries of such things as the bolt, the sleeve, the sleeve-lock spring, the mainspring, the firing-pin, the philosophy and practice of the safety lock and the magazine cut-off. He should be taught to put the piece together, to oil it, to clean it of fouling and rust, without scratching it or harming its exquisite muzzle with the cleaning rod. Whelen says that more damage is actually done to rifles in cleaning them than in any other way. Every soldier should be taught something about the cartridge and the clip. Yet it is an absolute fact that very few of our Guardsmen could be trusted even to rub the rust from their own rifles, to say nothing of re-filling a cartridge. Such great haste is required to get every man qualified with certain scores at certain ranges that no time is left for instruction. The coaches are rather nurses than teachers. The instruction should come in the drill hour, for there is no other time to spare. The second drill, beginning as before with a little manual and a little marching, should be devoted to the principles of aiming the gun. There should be targets in human silhouette on all the walls of the drillroom, and in all the firings of imaginary cartridges at imaginary ranges the soldier should aim at some definite object and his sight should be inspected. The officer should announce various windages as well as the ranges, and the non-commissioned officers should make sure that the directions are understood and followed. First Lessons in Marksmanship The next instruction should be in the methods of loading the piece. This is simple. But the proper position in aiming is not so simple. Holding the rifle is vitally important. By merely varying the pressure of the grip the national Guard regiments are likely to have need to know this. The importance of moving targets cannot be overestimated. In Europe they are very largely used. They are of various sorts. They are always in the human image, and they usually fall when hit. They are arranged as single figures or in groups, and are placed on irregular lines so that their range is not known to the marksmen. They are manipulated often by wire ropes and winches. In some cases they are on metal runners or sleds. They come forward, rise in view, disappear, reappear at another range, and disappear again. Finding the Range The officer in command of a company halts his men, estimates the range, orders trial shots made, and changes the sights till the range is secured. The men then fire and the targets fall or disappear, only to reappear in new places, when the range must be re-estimated and the targets knocked over again. This sort of training for men and officers is so close to war conditions that it is invaluable. Success in such work implies and requires an ability to estimate distances which should be the matter of constant attention. Yet it is a subject absolutely neglected in our national guard. The Germans have five or six of the best guessers in each company make estimates of distances. The commanding officer strikes the average and announces that as the range. Commander Gerard, of the French navy invented a really simple spyglass that measures ranges. He calls it the telemeter. This, or something of the kind, should be with every body of troops. In modern war one of the chief difficulties is in getting ammunition from the rear to the firing-line fast enough for the needs of rapid fire. A still greater difficulty is in getting First Lessons in Marksmanship The next instruction should be in the methods of loading the piece. This is simple. But the proper position in aiming is not so simple. Holding the rifle is vitally important. By merely varying the pressure of the grip the shot can be sent wild. The use of the gun sling is always advisable and should be taught in all positions. The ability to hold the heavy rifle with a frozen rididity is a matter of muscular training. The setting-up exercises prescribed in the regulations are of little value for acquiring this. Control of the trigger and the ability to exert a firm, steady squeeze on it without flinching when the explosion comes are vital to perfect shooting. They can be achieved by nervous men only after practice. The recruit should be perfected in his position and in aligning the sights without canting the barrel to one side before he ever fires at a target. The men should then be taken to the gallery and taught to shoot at a bull's-eye. From the first they should be taught to call their shots before they are marked. Every sharpshooter knows just where he was aiming when he pulled the trigger. He may be disgusted at his moral weakness in pulling when he did, but he should know and remember the exact point on which his sights were aligned. To quote Whelen again: "A recruit should never, if it can be avoided, be allowed to take up range practice until he has learned to call his shots; otherwise it is simply a waste of ammunition." The reason for this is plain. Unless he can tell his shot he can never know whether he missed because he fired too soon, or because his sight had the wrong elevation. He is helpless to correct his own mistakes. Gallery practice, however, is only a preliminary. Its conditions are so false to reality that almost any other method is preferable. The main thing in battle marksmanship is to adjust one's self to irregularities of ground and weather. The difficulties of providing a suitable range in a city accessible to the brief leisure of citizen soldiers are very great. But even in the galleries in the armory basements it is possible make estimates of distances. The commanding officer strikes the average age and announces that as the range. Commander Gerard, of the French navy invented a really simple spyglass that measures ranges. He calls it the telemeter. This, or something of the kind, should be with every body of troops. In modern war one of the chief difficulties is in getting ammunition from the rear to the firing-line fast enough for the needs of rapid fire. A still greater difficulty is in getting the ammunition from the firing-line into the persons of the enemy. Most of the shots are as indefinitely aimed as if one were to address a letter to "John Smith, Europe." In long-distance shooting—say, at a thousand yards—the bullet describes such a curve that the whole space a few yards from the muzzle and a few yards this side of the target is not a dangerous zone at all. If your sight is fixed at a thousand yards, and your enemy is only eight hundred yards away, the better you aim the safer he is. The estimation of distances is of infinite importance. That is why it took five thousand bullets to kill every man killed in the Civil War. The best battle-shooting ever known was that of the Boers at Colenso, yet they spent six hundred cartridges for every British soldier put out of action. The worst shooting was, perhaps, that of the Moroccan soldiers who, in 1907, attacked Raisuli and sixty-five of his bandits in trenches, and fired eighty thousand cartridges, eight hundred Maxim projectiles and one hundred and twenty shells without hitting a man. It is not possible to surpass this one hundred per cent record of misses, but some of our Guard regiments are in training to equal it, for they have absolutely no drill in estimating distances. 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As matters are, the recruit would do better to spend his shooting time in one of the cheap rifle galleries, where one may shoot at moving ducks or dancing globes, than in the average armory range. At all costs, the men should be given increased practice at moving targets in rough country. The drill-hours in camp are nine-tenths wasted. The greater part of the time should be spent in teaching men to take cover, to estimate distances, to discount conditions, and to fire at moving range. Here again, since ammunition is expensive and state governments are stingy, an inspection of sights is almost as good as a counting of bullet holes. Here also, there should be the fullest explanation of the effects of wind, of weather, of light, of mirage. There should be practice in firing downhill and uphill, for in both cases the tendency is to overshoot. This is true, also, of firing from a roof or at a man on a roof—and in the case of a street fight the Nat- simultaneously in different parts of California are traced by state and local health officers to migrations of the disease germs in surface water, and also to popular erroneous theories in regard to drinking from the streams or ditches. In fly-time the typhoid bacillus most often makes its way from person to person on buz-machines that have navigated the air since the week before Adam. But since the frost put a ban on flies last fall the disease germs find the streams and the canals that thread California the most likely means of travel. It has been found that both epidemics occur where water supplies have been polluted by the sewer-discharges of careless or uninformed municipalities. One sorely afflicted community in northern California pipes water from a reservoir fed by a long, open uncemented ditch. Until recently this ditch mingled waters with a small creek which receives the sewer discharge of a mountain town. The lay of the land further up the ditch indicates that it received the surface wash from two construction camps and a big Chinese rookery during the storms of last month. So far the health officers are unable to trace any of the epidemics to bed-ridden typhoid fever patients, and it is thought that "carriers" are the source of the outbreak. No one knows who or where the typhoid carriers of California are. But it is known that about one out of every four persons who have had typhoid continues to discharge millions of typhoid fever germs with the daily wastes of the body for several weeks or months or even years. When discharged from the human body the typhoid bacillus finds life a hard scrabble and dies without multiplying, unless it can make its way to breeding grounds in the alimentary canal of another human being. 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Under the authority of an order granted by the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Los Angeles, dated Feb. 16th, 1910, I will sell at private sale the following described property: An undivided one-half interest in the following described property: In the City of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of California, and described as beginning at a point 100 feet West of the South-East corner of Block "F" in Vineyard Lot D3 and 15 feet North of the North line of Center street; running thence in a westerly direction parallel with Center street, 25 feet; thence in a northerly direction parallel with Hedwig street, 120 feet to an alley; thence Easterly along the Southerly line of said alley and parallel with Center street 25 feet to a point; thence Southerly on a line parallel with Hedwig street, 120 feet to a point 15 feet North of the North line of Center street, which point is the point of beginning. Reference being had to map of said Vineyard lot D3 attached to a deed from Ole Bergson to John Fischer as Administrator of Estate of Conrad Kuckel, deceased, recorded in the Recorder's office of Los Angeles county, California. That sale will be made on or after the 18th day of March, 1910, and bids in writing will be received by the undersigned at his office in the City of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of California. Terms of Sale: 10 per cent cash to be paid when sale is approved, and balance when sale is confirmed by Court. CHARLES F. GRIM, Administrator with the Will annexed of Leopold Wigand, deceased. February 26th, 1910. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE County of Orange, State of California Henrietta Kruger and Rudolph Kruger, Plaintiffs, Henry J. Martens. Martha A. Fast. J.C. Fast. John Doe. Richard Roe and Sallie Doe. Defendants. Action brought in the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, and W. Harold Wickett, M.D. Res. Phones, Main 5X3, 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, 310 B. Los Angeles Street 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 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 VICTOR MONTGOMERY ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Attention given to Probate Business Commercial Bank Building. Santa Ana Cal Tel. Black 791 au28-6m 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. Residence Phone Main 42 Main 1141-Home 1401 DR.JOHN H.BOEGE DENTIST Office, Mullinix Building HOURS 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. 1:30 to 5:00 p.m. By Appointmen RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW and NOTARY PUBLIC Office Center St Special attention given to Probate Matters ANAHEIM. Palace Stables J.HAHN, Prop.'r. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE County of Orange, State of California Henrietta Kruger and Rudolph Kruger, Plaintiffs, vs. Henry J. Martens, Martha A. Fast, J.C. Fast, John Doe, Richard Roe and Sailie Doe, Defendants. Action brought in the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, and the Complaint filed in the office of the Clerk of said County of Orange. MELROSE & ANES, Attorneys for Plaintiffs. The people of the State of California send Greeting to Henry J. Martens, Martha A. Fast, J.C. Fast, John Doe, Richard Roe and Sailie Doe, Defendants. You are hereby directed to appear and answer the complaint in an action entitled as above, brought against you in the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, within ten days after the service on you of this summons, if served within this county; or within thirty days if served elsewhere. And you are hereby notified that unless you appear and answer as above required, the said plaintiffs will take judgment for any money or damages demanded in the complaint, as arising upon contract, or they will apply to the Court for any other relief demanded in the complaint. Given under my hand and the seal of the Superior Court of the County of Or- [seal]ange, State of California, this 17 day of February, A.D., 1910. mr10-2m W. B. WILLIAMS, Clerk. Notice to Creditors. Estate of Ida Fossek, deceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned Administrator, with the will annexed, of the Estate of Ida Fossek, deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit the same with the necessary vouchers, within 4 months after the first publication of this notice (which publication was first made on the 3rd day of March, 1910), to the said Administrator, with the will annexed of the said estate, at his home on Elm street, in the City of Anaheim, California, in the County of Orange. Dated this 1st day of March, A.D., 1910. RUDOLPH POSSEK, Administrator, with the will annexed, of the Estate of Ida Fossek, deceased. H. V. WEISEL, Anaheim, California, Attorney for said Estate. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW and NOTARY PUBLIC Office Center St Special attention given to Probate Matters ANAHEIM. Palace Stables J. HAHN, Prop'r. TOLSTOY—HANDSOME JETBLACK STALLION Will make the season of 1910 at Palace Stables, Anaheim TOLSTOY stands 10½ hands high; weighs 1:00 pounds; trotting-bred, and has a trial of 2:15. Gentle, sensible and stylish. TERMS—$20.00 for season, to be paid at time of service. Money refunded if mare does not beget foal.* 201-3 S. Los Angeles st., Anaheim Phones—Main 391; Home 1671 GRIFFITH LUMBER CO. AGENTS FOR ORIENTAL PLASTER COLTON PORTLAND CEMENT LUMBER BRICKS ALL KINDS OF MILL WORK So. Los Angeles st., Anaheim, near 8.P. depot Henry M. Adams, Mgr. O. LAGMAN, BUILDER. Graduated as Architect in 1885 Will Furnish Plans, Specifications and Estimates Free of Cost Will Build Mod. 5-R'm House, $1,000 " " " 7-R'm " 1,400 If you have a lot I will Build a House On Monthly Payments Pacific 1111 406 E. Center St