anaheim-gazette 1910-08-25

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 ANOTHER RAISE COMING The State Board of Equalization this week issued citations to nine counties in the state which must submit to having their assessments increased this year to bring them on the horizontal basis with the other counties of the state. The counties, with the dates for the various hearings, are as follows: Alameda, Butte and San Joaquin, August 30; Riverside, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz, August 31; Los Angeles and San Francisco, September 1. With the exception of Butte and San Luis Obispo counties, the others were before the board last year among the thirty-two counties cited, eighteen of which were increased. The increases this year, according to present indications, will not be great in any of the counties. Most of them have tried to come up to the standards set by the board, with BOARD WILL NOT SELL LOT Mr. Halliday Wanted to Buy, But Negotiations Are Off Anaheim, Aug. 20, 1910. The regular meeting of the board of directors of the A.U.W. Co. was held on above date. Ditch committee reported that they had been unable to arrange a meeting of members of the board with Mr. Halliday, for purpose of examining property which latter desired to purchase, viz., about one and a-half acres formerly Pittman property near Santa Fe Ry right of way, adjoining A.U.W. Co. ditch in Rancho Canyon de Santa Ana, as per map submitted. On motion of Porter the secretary is instructed to advise Halliday that the property would not be sold. F. J. Sheehan of Pacific Electric railway appeared in response to request for consultation regarding an agreement concerning crossing of ditches of A.U.W. Co. by railway company on La Habra line extension. It was decided that at the crossing of intake ditch to the Yorba reservoir, a syphon be placed, same to be 40 feet and not less than 40 inches in diameter; that the upper box be 4x6 in. and lower 4x8 in., both to be provided with steel covering. It was decided that at crossing of main canal a reinforced concrete cement-culvert be constructed, same to allow at least 5000 inches water to be carried safely, and that not less than 6 inches more clearance be allowed than that submitted in plan C213. A motion carried that the attorney be instructed to correspond with Chief Engineer Pillsbury and have agreement drawn in regular form to em- NEW BOOKS AT Latest Literary Product For Patron About two hundred been purchased during and are now ready for a few of the best are historical Novels, Queer The Bookshelf for Rosary, Happy Island Calls Men to Arms, story. The board has declared library free to every living within the city under the following applications for me: must be written in ink a responsible resident member of a fair years of age may have card. Books may be except new books, very day books. The four may be renewed for seven day books can A fine of five cents in day a book is kept may be renewed by fine is charged for death in any way whatever torn out the member taken away in addition The borrower and application are response of all fines and which are destroyed zines may be born days. Ask for both fiction and non-fiction holder is entitled to year. For an extra of an old one there five cents. Cards m- GILLETT WANTS MORE BONDS Gov. Gillett on Tuesday issued a call for a special session of the legislature to convene in Sacramento on September 6, for the purpose of adopting resolutions to submit to the voters in the November election constitutional amendments providing for bonding the state for $7,000,000 to be used in assisting the Panama Pacific International exposition at San Francisco in 1915. The call also provides that the city of San Francisco be allowed to amend its charter by a vote of its citizens at a special or general election to increase the bonded indebtedness to allow a bond issue of $5,000,000 for Panama exposition purposes. San Francisco has already voted bonds for city and county improvements to the limit as provided for by law, and an act of the legislature is necessary to increase its indebtedness. SCHOOL TAX RATE Orange county's tax rate for school purposes will be 20 cents on the $100 of assessed valuation, according to a statement issued by Statistician Wood of the State Department of Public Instruction. The tax rate will be made in September, and school superintendents in the various counties are asking for this table in order to give it to the boards of supervisors to be used in fixing the rate for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1911. In this table, Imperial, Nevada, Sutter and Trinity counties are not included, as the reports from the sup- diameter, that the upper box be in. and lower 4x8 in., both to be provided with steel covering. It was decided that at crossing of main canal a reinforced concrete cement-culvert be constructed, same to allow at least 5000 inches water to be carried safely, and that not less than 6 inches more clearance be allowed than that submitted in plan C213. A motion carried that the attorney be instructed to correspond with Chief Engineer Pillsbury and have agreement drawn in regular form to embody above specifications. Petition of Huntington and others for construction of a 12 inch pipeline about 227 feet in length was on motion granted. Petitioners agreed to pay cost of construction. Communications were received from Catey in regard to continuance of the work at plant No. 1. It was decided that the work be discontinued until pumping is over for the season. Applications for purchase of cement by C. O. Rust and Frank Hirt were on motion granted. On motion of Drake seconded by Bradford the agreeement with Gage Canal Co., defining water rights in question, was adopted, and secretary and president were authorized to sign same on behalf of company. BOOZE SELLER FINED Romolo Gonzales, the Mexican charged with selling booze at Talbert and for whose trial a jury was empaneled at Santa Ana on Monday, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one hundred dollars fine and to be imprisoned in the county jail until the same was paid at the rate of one dollar for each day. The commitment was withheld to allow the man to leave the county, as F. Lautero of Los Angeles, who says he is an officer of the Los Angeles juvenile court, promised to arrange to take Gonzales out of the county and to see that he and his family are sent back to Mexico forthwith. Epitacio Valenzuela, another Mexican arrested at the same time as was Gonzales, was to have come up for trial, but his case was continued to August 29 and in the meanwhile he is out on bail. There are two other cases against Gonzales in both of which he pleaded guilty, and if he is again brought before the court of a charge of selling booze he will be in line for a straight three hundred days in the county jail. SMITHWICK RESIGNS OFFICIAL COUNTY VOTE Supervisors Complete Work and Announce Result The supervisors on Monday and Tuesday completed the official count of the votes polled in Orange county at last week's primaries. The results are as announced last week, the only difference being that Tarver Montgomery noses out the democratic nomination for assessor ahead of Frank Vegely, the defeated republican candidate. Lester wins by 16 votes over Trickey. All the republican candidates named as winners in our last week's issue stand without change. J. L. McBride, candidate for county surveyor, was the star performer in annexing nominations, being the candidate of the republican, democratic and prohibition parties. Many of the candidates secured nominations on two tickets, and several of them were named for different offices. Supervisor Linebarger is the democratic nominee for re-election to that office from his district, and is also the democratic nominee for justice of the peace in Fullerton township. County Clerk Williams, Tax Collector Lamb and Recorder Peters are nominees of both the democratic and republican parties. SMITHWICK RESIGNS Defeated for Renomination, Wants to Quit Justice of the Peace Ed Smithwick who was defeated in the recent primary for renomination by J. D. Cox, on Monday tendered his resignation to the board of supervisors, asking that it be accepted immediately and that Mr. Cox, his successful opponent, be appointed to fill the office. Justice Smithwick's letter of resignation was as follows: "To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of Orange County, California. "Gentlemen: In view of recent occurrences in Santa Ana township, I feel that I should not longer hold the office of Justice of the Peace, and therefore tender this, my resignation, of the office of Justice of the Peace of Santa Ana township, and ask that the same be accepted immediately and my successor appointed. "And I would further respectfully ask that you appoint as my successor in office J. D. Cox, whom the people by their votes have said is more competent to fill the position than I am. Respectfully submitted, "Ed Smithwick" The resignation was laid on the table. Sapleigh—Ah, speaking of electricity, that makes me think—— Miss Keen—Really, Mr. Sapleigh. Isn't it remarkable what electricity can do? NEW BOOKS AT LIBRARY Latest Literary Productions Available For Patrons About two hundred volumes have been purchased during the last month and are now ready for circulation. A few of the best are Muhlbach's Historical Novels, Queens of England, The Bookshelf for Children, The Rosary, Happy Island, When Love Calls Men to Arms, a true Scotch story. The board has decided to make the library free to every one, whether living within the city limits or not, under the following conditions: All applications for membership cards must be written in ink and signed by a responsible resident taxpayer. Every member of a family over ten years of age may have a membership card. Books may be kept 14 days, except new books, which are seven-day books. The fourteen day books may be renewed for seven days. The seven day books cannot be renewed. A fine of five cents is levied for each day a book is kept overtime. Books may be renewed by telephone. A fine is charged for defacing the books in any way whatever. If pictures are torn out the membership card is taken away in addition to the fine. The borrower and signer of the application are responsible for the payment of all fines and for any books which are destroyed or lost. Magazines may be borrowed for seven days. Ask for both kind of cards, fiction and non-fiction. Each card holder is entitled to two cards in a year. For an extra one or the loss of an old one there is a charge of five cents. Cards must be loaned or GRAIN FEVER Relative to Hay Fever that Attacks Longshoremen on the Lakes When the freighters on the great lakes tie up at Chicago to unload their cargoes of merchandise from the East and load with grain there is hard work ahead for the longshoremen and also good pay. The men who stow the grain form a class by themselves. Most of them do no other work and remain idle if there is no boat lying at the elevator docks. These periods of idleness are followed by labor of the hardest kind. Stripped to the waist the grain-stowers stand in the hold with the flood of yellow grain pouring on down through the elevator chute and shovel for dear life. It is not an infrequent occurrence to hear a cry for help followed by a shouting of orders to cut off the grain. This means that a stower has been caught and half buried in the grain, and that his fellows have now dropped everything to dig him out. The stower's plight would be serious were it not for quick action of his fellows, and not infrequently he is carried out of the hold unconscious. To be caught in the grain, although a serious matter at the time, becomes the subject of many a joke afterward. According to the code of his fellows he should have been able to take care of himself. The stowers are fine specimens physically. Most of them are over 6 feet tall, and the heavy work with the grain has given them the backs and shoulders of Hercules. Their pay is very high for men whose labor can not be classed as skilled. POPULAR YOUNG MAN ILL George Chambers Operated Upon for Appendicitis George Chambers underwent a surgical operation for appendicitis on Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock, and is resting easily with every prospect of recovery. It was his fourth attack, and necessity for the operation was urgent and imperative. Drs. Beebe, Johnston and Utter were in attendance. George was taken ill at 3 o'clock on Saturday morning. While suffering great pain, he opened the postoffice, where he was employed, in time for the early morning mail, but was compelled later to return home and take to his bed. It is thought the operation saved his life. George was a member of the high school graduating class last year, and participated in debates with Santa Barbara and Pomona high schools last year, his school being victorious in each contest. In the Orange county oratorical contest he took the silver trophy for senior's oration. He took a prominent part in the class play this year, but was compelled to abandon much of the preparatory work on account of the illness which culminated in the operation on Saturday. Of vigorous constitution and exemplary habit, it is thought he will stand an excellent chance of recovery. His many friends hope to see him out again in the near future. The weather has been sultry for some days past on account of rains in Arizona. Tuesday evening a welcome bank of fog rolled in, and yesterday the weather was cooler. torn out the membership card is taken away in addition to the fine. The borrower and signer of the application are responsible for the payment of all fines and for any books which are destroyed or lost. Magazines may be borrowed for seven days. Ask for both kind of cards, fiction and non-fiction. Each card holder is entitled to two cards in a year. For an extra one or the loss of an old one there is a charge of five cents. Cards must be loaned or borrowed. The board wishes to call special attention to the last rule, and requests the patrons of the library not to annoy the librarian by asking for books on "a friend's card." The librarian has been instructed not to allow this under any condition whatsoever. The librarian may reserve a book for any one for 24 hours only. Reservations may be made by telephone. Any one wishing a particular book to be purchased will kindly leave title and author with the librarian so the book committee will get it. CHANGE IN CANNERY E. A. Taylor yesterday purchased the interest of Mrs. Eva H. Boyd in the Orange County Preserving Company and will continue the business upon an enlarged scale. He will be ready for this season's operations in a few days and is preparing for a record run. He will handle tomatoes, and is also in the market for peaches and apricots. Tomato growers are requested to call for boxes at their earliest opportunity. Mr. Taylor will be pleased to see all growers, and next season will expand the cannery's capacity in many directions. BONDS FOR FRISCO FAIR Extra Session of Legislature to Add Burdens to People Sacramento, Aug. 23.—Governor Gillett today issued a proclamation calling for an extra session of the legislature on Sept. 6 to adopt certain amendments to the constitution which will be submitted to the people, arranging to give financial assistance to the Panama Pacific exposition, proposed for San Francisco. Gov. Gillett has prepared the amendments for submission to the legislature, but said the draft would not be made public until passed upon by Attorney General Webb. To be caught in the grain, although a serious matter at the time, becomes the subject of many a joke afterward. According to the code of his fellows he should have been able to take care of himself. The stowers are fine specimens physically. Most of them are over 6 feet tall, and the heavy work with the grain has given them the backs and shoulders of Hercules. Their pay is very high for men whose labor cannot be classed as skilled. Most of them are inveterate gamblers, and at dinner hour when they climb out of the hold to eat their lunch in the 'tween decks, the cards are pretty sure to follow the meal, and a quarrel often follows the cards. No one interferes so long as the men make fists their weapons, but when, as sometimes happens, one of them grabs up a shovel or pulls a knife his companions are quick to disarm him and bundle him ashore. Hardy as the men are, there is one enemy they fear. This is grain fever, a kind of aggravated hay fever, that attacks those who work in the dust-filled atmosphere of a grain boat's hold. To protect themselves from the fever the men wear large bunches of oakum over their mouths and noses. To a person looking down into the dust filled hold it seems as if a whole family of Father Neptunes were at work with shovels in place of tridents. The grain fever frequently attacks members of the boat's crew who go about their work unprotected. Light attacks result in nothing worse than dizziness and a slight headache, but severe cases in entire unconsciousness which may last for twelve hours. There is apparently no bad effect afterward from the grain fever, for the sufferer awakes after his long sleep with a clear head and no feeling of lassitude. When the grain carrier reaches her home port, sometimes on the lower lakes and sometimes as far away as Ogdensburg, on the St. Lawrence river, the grain is cleared from the hold by great pneumatic shovels tended by gangs of hand shovelers who keep the grain in the path of the great scoop. After the hold is empty the deck hands are sent down to sweep out and prepare for a new cargo. This is another dusty job, and usually most of the men who escaped the fever during the loading fall victims now. It is a strange thing about the fever culminated in the operation on Saturday. Of vigorous constitution and exemplary habit, it is thought he will stand an excellent chance of recovery. His many friends hope to see him out again in the near future. The weather has been sultry for some days past on account of rains in Arizona. Tuesday evening a welcome bank of fog rolled in, and yesterday the weather was cooler. Evidence was brought out before the coroner's jury to show that H. W. J. Millings, who blew the top of his head off with a shotgun Friday morning at Santa Ana, had had spells of insanity recently. John Beatty, a former employer, stated that last Friday Millings told him he had severe pains in his head and felt he would like to take a pistol and end it all. The jury found that Millings came to his death as the result of the act of his own hand while temporarily insane. The county board of education has practically decided to include a course of agriculture in the county school's curriculum which will cover the analysis of soils, plant propagation and pathology. Laboratory work and the study of local agricultural conditions will, it is expected, make the course a valuable one. If possible, the agricultural course will be introduced the coming fall in the county schools, and which are scheduled to open September 12. Two afternoons of the Orange county carnival of products will be devoted to automobile races. Prizes will be offered and made large enough to insure the interest of the men who take part in races of that kind on the coast. The executive committee has arranged to hold the products parade on Oct. 6, the Odd Fellows' parade on Oct. 7, and the flower parade on Oct. 8. The grand encampment of the Odd Fellows will begin on Oct. 3, and will continue until Oct. 7, the second day of the carnival. The equipment of the Huntington Beach Tent City has been rented,and will be moved here for accommodation of the Odd Fellows. There are 220 tents. lett today issued a proclamation calling for an extra session of the legislature on Sept. 6 to adopt certain amendments to the constitution which will be submitted to the people, arranging to give financial assistance to the Panama Pacific exposition, proposed for San Francisco. Gov. Gillett has prepared the amendments for submission to the legislature, but said the draft would not be made public until passed upon by Attorney General Webb. Gov. Gillett's proclamation for the legislative session partly says: "The purposes of the extra session are for raising the sum of $5,000,000 by the state of California in assisting in the establishing, maintaining and supporting of the Panama Pacific International Exposition to be held in San Francisco; providing for a state commission to have exclusive charge of the said sum of money, and to spend and disburse it for such purpose, acting in conjunction with the directors of said exposition CONGRESSMAN ARRESTED Sibley of Pennsylvania Accused of Conspiracy to Debauch Voters Franklin, Pa., Aug. 23.—Joseph C. Sibley, who withdrew as a candidate for congress on the republican ticket in the twenty-eighth Pennsylvania district, was arrested late last night on a warrant that charged him with conspiracy to debauch voters. According to his own figures filed in obedience to the legislative act requiring a public statement of a candidate's expense account, Mr. Sibley spent $17,000 in Warren county to gain his nomination, and in the entire district, $32,500, which according to population averaged $4 a vote. One thousand new Gibson tally-cards, 25 and 35c dozen at Heying Brothers. Ogdenburg, on the St. Lawrence River, the grain is cleared from the hold by great pneumatic shovels tended by gangs of hand shovelers who keep the grain in the path of the great scoop. After the hold is empty the deck hands are sent down to sweep out and prepare for a new cargo. This is another dusty job, and usually most of the men who escaped the fever during the loading fall victims now. It is a strange thing about the fever that a man who has had it during the loading is immune for sometime and seldom has trouble when sweeping out the hold. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT Of the County of Orange, State of California Notice for Publication of Time for Proving Will, Etc. In the matter of the Estate of John D. Swan, Deceased. Notice is hereby given that Friday, the 16th day of September, 1910, at 10 o'clock a.m., of said day, at the Court Room of this Court, in the City of Santa Ana, County of Orange, State of California, has been appointed as the time and place for hearing the application of Marcia A. Swan, praying that a document now on file in this Court, purporting to be the last Will and Testament of the said deceased, be admitted to probate, that Letters Testamentary be issued thereon to Marcia A. Swan at which time and place all persons interested therein may appear and contest the same. Dated August 24, 1910. W. B. Williams, County Clerk. Melrose & Ames, Attorneys for Petitioner. 8-25-3w Let's Get Together In the matter of books and stationery. We know we shall be pleased to supply you and we are equally confident you'll be glad you came. Books and Stationery That we handle are of the better sort. You'll find them quite a bit different than the common kind, to your satisfaction, we feel quite sure. Joseph Helmsen Dissolution of Partnership. The partnership heretofore existing between E. A. Taylor and Mrs. Ewa H. Boyd, under the firm name and style of The Orange County Preserving Company, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. The business will be continued by E. A. Taylor, who has acquired the interest of Mrs. Boyd in the business, Mr. Taylor will pay all bills, and all accounts due the Orange County Preserving Company are payable to him. Signed, E. A. TAYLOR, MRS. E. H. BOYD, Anaheim, August 24, 1910. SPECIALS Summer Suits, Negligee Shirts, Straw Hats, Summer Underwear In order to make room for our Fall Goods we are selling all Summer Goods at a great reduction. Just so much cheaper than elsewhere that it will pay you to come and see us. L. Z. KROEGER THE LEADER 128 W.Center St. Phones Pacific 2103; Home 2132 WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY $7 to $12.50 on Suits Made to Order EXCLUSIVE AG'TS FOR Riverside Portland THREE Reasons why you should secure our figures before ordering your lumber, cement or other building material, and all of these REASONS EXCLUSIVE AG'TS FOR Riverside Portland Cement Company THREE Reasons why you should secure our figures before ordering your lumber, cement or other building material, and all of these REASONS Are good ones. Read, consider and then if you have any good reason WHY You should not patronize us we cannot object. THE REASONS ARE Our stock is new and clean and well selected. We give prompt and careful service. Our prices are right. GET OUR FIGURES BEFORE ORDERING E.L. OLMSTEAD LUMBER CO. Cor. Broadway & Vine Sts. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA ON SANTA FE TRACKS, PHONE 2011. THE WITH A NEW TAILOR SHOP STOCK OFFERS HIS SERVICES TO THE PUBLIC Cleaning and Pressing of Ladies' as Well as Gentlemen's Garments Neatly and Promptly Done, Give Me a Trial. N. P. HANSEN HART BUILDING Cor. Claudina and Center Sts., Anaheim (UP-STAIRS) Promptly Done, Give Me a Trial. N. P. HANSEN HART BUILDING Cor. Claudina and Center Sts., Anaheim (UP-STAIRS) COME TO ORANGE TO THE COUNTY STREET FAIR ORANGE SEPT. 22, 23, AND 24. THREE DAYS OF FUN Band Concerts, Ball Games, Barbecue, Contests, Races, Dancing, Confetti Frolics, all the pleasures of the Fiesta. A! Magnificent Display of Orange County's Unrivaled Products Orange will give you a royal welcome. Remember the date—Sept. 22, 23 & 24. Come to Orange. 8-25-kw