anaheim-gazette 1910-05-19

NEWS BUDGET FROM THE STATE CAPITAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S ANNUAL REPORT IS READY Corporation License Tax Law to be Tested—State Almond Growers' Exchange Organized—Governor Powerless to Prevent Prize Fight—Commissioner Jeffrey Denies Favoring Jap Method of Packing—An Alien Adventurous Headed for California (Correspondence of the Gazette) Sacramento, May 17.—The fifty-sixth annual report of the state agricultural society, covering the year 1908, has just been printed, and is now ready for distribution. The report carries 202 pages of up to date, illustrated material on California's resources and agricultural development, with a detailed account of the development of each county. The latest statistics obtainable are also given under each county. The report is made to Governor Gillett and is signed by President H.A. Jastro and Secretary J. A. Filcher. Among the special articles are the following: University Farm and the School of Agriculture, Leroy Anderson; Cotton Growing in California, W. H. Kindig; The Sacramento valley, A. L. Crane; the Difference in Dollars and Sense, A. P. Sadles; the Call to the Nation; a Plea for Diversified Agriculture, George C. Roeding; Achievements in Agriculture; California State Fair; Value of the Fairs; Hemp Culture in California; Alfalfa Growing in California, by D. Edmiston; A Tribute to the Dog; by the late Senator West. 000 per million. California would receive ten times as much as it does for defraying the annual expenses if the tax rate were as high as it is in the two eastern states mentioned. The California law is to be tested. The gold mining companies have refused to pay the existing rate and have instituted mandamus proceedings in San Francisco whereby the constitutionality of the law will be eventually settled. The California Almond Growers Exchange has been organized with headquarters in Sacramento, and with the purpose of bringing about an increase in the amount of planting, improvement and uniformity in quality of almonds throughout the state, as well as mutual protection of members of the exchange. The membership now enrolled claims to cover sixty percent of this year's crop. B. F. Walton of Yuba City is president; Joseph Davidson, Davis, secretary; and J. P. Dargitz, Acampo, manager. Other almond growers associations will be affiliated with the California Exchange. In reply to a letter from the Presno Ministerial Union, relative to suppressing the Jeffries-Johnson fight, E. Forrest Mitchell, executive secretary of Governor Gillett, refers the complainants to the district attorney of Alameda county, and says that the governor although not in favor of prizefights, is powerless to prevent this one as the law allows such contests, if permit has been obtained from the local authorities. "TIME," McDONALD Los Angeles Printer Pulling Out for a Fat Take Charles F. McDonald of Los Angeles was in town this week seeing how big a string he can hang up in Orange county in his quest for the position of State Printer. "Mac," as total plurality from In 1906, Gillett notes. School of Agriculture, Leroy Anderson; Cotton Growing in California, W. H. Kindig; The Sacramento valley, A. L. Crane; the Difference in Dollars and Sense, A. P. Sadles; the Call to the Nation; a Plea for Diversified Agriculture, George C. Roeding; Achievements in Agriculture; California State Fair; Value of the Fairs; Hemp Culture in California; Alfalfa Growing in California, by D. Edmiston; A Tribute to the Dog; by the late Senator West. The report proper sums up the improvements carried on under direction of the society, asks for more buildings for the state fair, and says that the past has been a most prosperous year for the farmers of California. The total shipments of fresh deciduous fruits in the past season aggregated 15,265 cars; an increase of 2000 cars. Other totals: Cured fruit output, 185,000 tons; canned fruit and vegetables, 6238,548 cases; almond crop, 1500 tons; walnut crop, 8000 tons; poultry business (returns from 42 counties) $10,879,482. Hay from same number of counties, 3,035,852 tons, worth $32,119,856. The state board of health has wired its secretary, Dr. W. F. Snow, now attending the national convention of health officers in Washington, that it is in favor of the establishment of a national department of health with a cabinet officer at its head, as proposed by Senator Owen of Oklahoma. The board holds that a physician should hold the cabinet office. This same recommendation was made by the state medical society at its annual meeting in Sacramento a few weeks ago. The governor of California has received official warning from Acting Secretary of State Wilson that an adventures is abroad in the land and would probably arrive in California soon. The warning states that the woman represents herself as her imperial and royal highness Archduchess Marie Valerie. Replying to a published report that he was an admirer of Japanese methods of fruit packing, State Horticultural Commissioner Jeffrey makes the following statement: "If one single idea contained in the alleged report was ever expressed or even held by me, I have no recollection of it whatsoever. If the Japanese have made any move toward the standardization of their fruits it has escaped my notice altogether. If the Japs in the past have excluded inferior fruits from their pack I have never heard of it. If the yellow men have any means of establishing an this one as the law allows such contests, if permit has been obtained from the local authorities. "TIME," McDONALD Los Angeles Printer Pulling Out for a Fat Take Charles F. McDonald of Los Angeles was in town this week seeing how big a string he can hang up in Orange county in his quest for the position of State Printer. "Mac," as he is familiarly called, has many friends throughout California who wish him well in his campaign. He has heard the call of "Time," and is pulling out for that fat take at Sacramento. Be careful about style, Mac, and don't get any minion in your nonpareil. Endorsed by many of the leading business men of Southern California, and numerous organizations of union men, he is making the race for state printer. He formerly was employed on various Los Angeles newspapers as a printer, holding some positions that required skill and business ability and integrity, but for the past three years he has been engaged in the real estate business in Southern California, making his headquarters in Los Angeles. This is one of the most important of the elective offices of the state, and in the past many people have overlooked this fact. Mr. McDonald's practical knowledge of every branch of the printing business and his standing as a business man in the community where he has lived for the past sixteen years, makes him a candidate of great strength, and added to this is the fact that he is a southern California man, and that the southern part of the state is entitled to the office this time. SALARY CASE APPEALED Supreme Court to Pass Upon Dinero for Deputies An appeal has been filed by District Attorney Davis and Attorney Keech in the county salary case. They will take the matter to the supreme court for a decision. The decision in the lower court was by Judge Willis of Los Angeles, sitting at Santa Ana. He decided that the salaries provided for additional deputies should be paid now, that they were legal under the present terms of office. No one contends that they will not be legal after the beginning of the new terms next January. Pending the decision of the If one single idea contained in the alleged report was ever expressed or even held by me, I have no recollection of it whatsoever. If the Japanese have made any move toward the standardization of their fruits it has escaped my notice altogether. If the Japs in the past have excluded inferior fruits from their pack I have never heard of it. If the yellow men have any means of establishing an exclusive or other kind of reputation through the east there must be a change in the personnel of the shipping firms, for there is not to my knowledge one Japanese fruit-shipping firm in the Sacramento valley. With these few exceptions the statements attributed to me are exactly as I made them, and I am willing to stand by every allegation concerning the superiority of the Japanese fruit pack." Bids have been received and opened by State Engineer Ellery for the sheet metal work which is to be done at the San Quentin penitentiary. They range from $11,000 to $7998, which is the lowest and was made by L. B. Hooker. A total of $108,767 filing department fees were received in the office of the secretary of state for the first four months of the year. The amount received for the corresponding period of last year was $69,308, so that the increase this year amounts to $39,459. The amount received during April was $30,812. In 1899 the receipts of the office amounted to $27,518; in 1903, the receipts were $156,537; in 1909, $900,400. The corporation license tax in California is $100 per $1,000 while in New York and New Jersey it is $1,- IMPORTANCE OF THE SUGAR BEET INDUSTRY That the raising of sugar beets as an industry, is first and foremost, the Chieftain always has believed, and the past week it has taken pains to learn the exact status from the business interests of this vicinity. Practically every merchant declares that the number of acres of sugar beets planted, is the barometer by which he can forecast the season's business, and the first question asked of the farmer when he makes application for a loan, is: How many acres of sugar beets have you planted? Of course the past two seasons have not been what they should have been, had the elements been favorable, but taken as a whole there is no sane reason why the average yield should not pay the farmer many times more than any other crop which he may plant, in this country. — Holly, Colo., Chieftain. COUNTIES OF SOUTH WOULD NAME GOVERNOR TWICE SAVED REPUBLICAN TICKET FROM DEFEAT Both Pardee and Gillett, Hopelessly Beaten in North, Were Triumphantly Elected by Great Majorities Polled by Republicans of South—Figures Speak Eloquently—Having the Votes, Can Nominate Governor More than 40 per cent of the republican party strength of this state lies within the counties constituting Southern California. This district has ever been loyal and effective in the pinch of battle on election day. The last two governors have been named from Northern California. Justice as well as expediency dictate that the section which in the past has supplied the votes to make governors should now have the naming of a candidate. The next incumbent should be taken from the southern end of the state. In 1902, Pardee came to the Tehachapi Divide beaten, having 8715 less votes than the democratic candidate. But defeat was turned into victory by the southern counties which rolled up republican pluralities as follows: Santa Barbara ... 428 Ventura ... 439 San Bernardino ... 1171 Los Angeles ... 6350 Orange ... 802 Riverside ... 1409 San Diego ... 665 Total plurality from the south...11,264 In 1906, Gillett came south 4914 TALK K. P. GRAND LODGE Merchants Take Up Matter of Entertaining Guests Next Year To discuss and consider ways and means for the holding of the K. of P. Grand Lodge in Anaheim in 1911 the retail merchants convened in special session at Judge Howard's office on Thursday evening last. The principal difficulty to contend with seemed to be the matter of entertaining in a befitting manner for a week or ten days the 5000 to 10,000 expected guests. This obstacle, if such it might be termed, which lay in the lack of ample hotel accommodations, was overcome to a great extent by the offer of the association to back some experienced, wide-awake hotelman for $10,000 in cash as an inducement to erect and conduct a hotel to compare favorably with any like hostelry in the state, on condition that the same be conducted successfully for a term of years. To further consider the necessary arrangements a committee of five, consisting entirely of members in attendance at the Santa Cruz encampment, was appointed to thoroughly look into the matter, to investigate every condition. If in their opinion Anaheim is equal to the occasion; then the word will be given to enter the race, with all probability of coming under the wire first. As one prominent member said: "We'll have a harder fight to keep the grand lodge away from Anaheim than to get it here," and to emphasize this statement a sample of communication was read from San Luis Obispo, which was strongly in favor of Anaheim. The general sentiment of those present was that Anaheim could and would be able to cope with the situation, and make it a royal success, not for Anaheim alone, but the entire by the southern counties which rolled up republican pluralities as follows: Santa Barbara 428 Ventura 439 San Bernardino 1171 Los Angeles 6350 Orange 802 Riverside 1409 San Diego 665 Total plurality from the south...11,264 In 1906, Gillett came south 4914 votes short of the necessary number to defeat Bell, but the republicans of the seven southern counties again turned the tide of defeat on the following pluralities: Santa Barbara 471 Ventura 574 San Bernardino 1085 Los Angeles 7999 Orange 1337 Riverside 937 San Diego 1097 Total plurality from the south...13,100 The republican voters of the state are not unmindful of this record. They will not disregard the claims of their brethren in Southern California to the privilege of naming one of their own number as the party candidate for governor this year if the claim is strongly and unitedly urged. NUDE MAN ALARMS GIRL Weak-Minded Chap in Jail on Serious Charge Edward Wilderfelt, aged 20, failed in what is believed to have been an attempt to waylay Winifred McCardia, aged 12, on her way home from school at Santa Ana the other day. On West First street, near Sullivan, a wire was stretched across the road, one end tied and the other was loose. He took the loose end behind some willows, it evidently being his intention to jerk the wire and throw the girl when she passed. He disrobed, but the girl got by before he jerked the wire. She saw the nude man and ran. City Marshal Edwards went to the place but the man was gone. Edwards found a pair of socks and pruning shears. The next morning Officer Hamilton caught Wilderfelt as he was going to the place after the articles. Wilderfelt had no socks on. He is weak-minded. He recently arrived from Coalinga. TOO MUCH MOTHER-IN-LAW A Wife-Desertion Case at Santa No Lens Powerful Enough to Show If Venus' Hat is on Straight It is believed by certain amateur astronomers that the origin of the dipper grew out of the need of Jupiter to have something to ball himself out with when he happened to be arrested for scandalous behavior when off on one of his little celestial sprees. The most powerful lenses in the world multiplied to an intensity of a million times greater than their present magnifying capacity would yet be unable to disclose whether or not Venus' hat is on straight. The existence of life in the celestial regions would seem to be definitely proved by the undoubted existence of the comet's tail. Nature creates nothing without a purpose, and if there were no files in those upper regions, why should the comet have a tail? It has been stated by authorities in astronomy that the planets, being fixed, do not wink, as has so frequently been asserted by unscientific poets. As for ourselves, we fail to see the logic of this reasoning, for it is undeniable that among our political stars it is the one who is fixed the most frequently who winks the most conspicuously. The iconoclastic spirit of the age has hit astronomy about as hard a blow as had been struck at any other known industry. It has not only shown that Venus is no lady and that Saturn's ring is not a real one, but also that there is no water in the dipper. By and by we presume we shall be told that there is no milk in the Milky Way, and that the moon never had a cent to its name, much less a last quarter to get down to. It has been stated by authorities on the subject that it has taken the light of some of the stars millions of years to reach the earth, so that, after all when you speak of having seen City Marshal Edwards went to the place but the man was gone. Edwards found a pair of socks and pruning shears. The next morning Officer Hamilton caught Wilderfelt as he was going to the place after the articles. Wilderfelt had no socks on. He is weak-minded. He recently arrived from Coalinga. TOO MUCH MOTHER-IN-LAW A Wife-Desertion Case at Santa Ana Gets into Court Too much mother-in-law seems to have been the wedge of disruption in the family of Ray Desmond at Santa Ana. At least, that is the way Mrs. Desmond has it "sized up." There is a complaint in Justice Smithwick's court charging Desmond with wife-desertion. Desmond is in jail in San Francisco, and Constable Jackson is on the way to that city with a warrant under which he expects to bring Desmond back for trial. Mrs. Desmond's story to the officers is that a week ago Desmond told her he had lost his position as an electric lineman at Santa Ana, and that he was going to seek work. Mrs. Desmond decided to fill in the interim, and she secured employment in Long Beach. No sooner was she settled than she received her trunk and a note from her husband. Desmond wrote that she would never see him again. Mrs. Desmond says Desmond left with his mother, whom Mrs. Desmond blames for the separation. May 15 and 22 will be my last hatches for this season. All those wanting baby chicks place your order at once. The next hatching season will begin in November. L. E. Blackford, Fullerton. Sunset 1082. 5-12t2 MEDIAEVAL NORWALK Anaheim now seems likely to get the new sugar factory. There was little talk of making an effort to secure it for this vicinity, but Norwalk was never known to leave the mediaeval stage far enough to make much effort to secure an industry of that kind.—Norwalk Call. 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