anaheim-gazette 1911-02-23

The Weekly Gazette. ESTABLISHED 1870 Henry Kuchel, Editor and Proprietor The Gazette is issued every Thursday morning. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION.....$1.50 Per Year Six Months.....$1.00 Three Months.....50 Cts. Has the Largest Circulation A DRASTIC POSTOFFICE RULING R. L. Wyatt of Washington, D. C., representing the United States federal adjusters, was a caller at this office on Tuesday, and brought forth to the attention of the publisher the wisdom of his action in setting about to immediately comply with a drastic postoffice ruling made April, 1908, which gave warning that newspapers would not be permitted to send their papers through the mails to delinquent subscribers. The ruling was aimed at illegitimate publications, containing advertisements of quack doctors, and those of large so-called city department stores. Of course the ruling covered legitimate newspapers. The ruling set forth that while no onerous regulations were to be prescribed for such papers, nevertheless such publishers were warned that they could not be exempted from the general rule of the department. The publisher of the Gazette got busy. The bookkeeper was given instructions to go carefully over the subscription list, and to comply in every detail with the ruling. This has been done. Mr. Wyatt states LOS ANGELES HARBOR QUESTION Los Angeles has for more than 20 years been working for a free harbor at San Pedro. By free harbor is meant, one not controlled by private corporate interests which have the power to either suppress its growth as against other ports, or by heavy port charges exploit it for their own purposes or force shipping to other points. The people of Los Angeles have wisely refrained from accepting state appropriations in favor of the harbor in order that it might be independent of state control, which in the past at least would have been equivalent to private control. San Francisco harbor has, so far as its improvements in the way of docks, wharves, ferry houses, etc., been built up by the state of California through the issuance and sale of bonds for that purpose, the principal and interest of such bonds being paid from the receipts of the port for dockage, etc. Last year ten million dollars additional bonding was authorized by the state at the general election for the benefit of San Francisco harbor. A committee of the legislature after holding meetings at San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Oakland and Eureka, recommended this course, and at the same time offered to recommend a sum of $3,500,000 for San Pedro harbor. This offer was declined by the Los Angeles people, for the reason that they did not wish the harbor to go under state control, and the legislative committee was informed that Los Angeles did not ask and did not wish money from the state, but would raise the necessary money for their harbor, which was estimated at ten millions of dollars during the com- DRAINING MOUNT Irrigated Fields Rule Rise of Growth The general need irrigated lands has during the last two most productive lions and those waken under cultivation stances, now abandon wet pasturage. It are approximately irrigated lands need Salt Lake valley bres of such lands, valleys from 10,000 each. There are some which, of the total per cent are in swat西亚, Colorado, Wyna, and Wyoming ted, more or less, the newly irrigate their problems of naturally devolves upon such lands to reck end of developing for accomplishing such lands the off stations has condi vestigations in Utah gon, Washington, W and Nebraska, with stiffy the conclusion scarely any land in gion which former crops, and later be excess of water or be profitably reclaim work is correctly put out. These results possibility of reclaim lands containing a line salts. A bulletin, bearing object by the departr at Washington str ruling covered legitimate newspapers. The ruling set forth that while no onerous regulations were to be prescribed for such papers, nevertheless such publishers were warned that they could not be exempted from the general rule of the department. The publisher of the Gazette got busy. The bookkeeper was given instructions to go carefully over the subscription list, and to comply in every detail with the ruling. This has been done. Mr. Wyatt states that in this respect the Gazette compares most favorably with any weekly newspaper in the United States. Penalty for non-conformity with this rule is exclusion of a publication from the second-class privilege. This, it might be added, amounts to practical confiscation of a newspaper man's property. In pursuance of our plan to comply with the ruling a half dozen men who had taken this paper for years and never paid for it were dropped from the list. Their names might look good in print. This paragraph is written for the information of those to whom bills have been mailed for subscription. We must comply with the ruling. We are doing so. If you receive a subscription bill from this office, please remember that it is the scoundrelly bookkeeper trying to make us comply with the law. The law must be complied with, and the Gazette will not be sent to delinquents. ELECTRIC LIGHTING If the Edison company can come into this city and make a rate of 3 1-2 cents for lighting, when the best the municipal plant can do is a rate of 10 cents—that is the end of municipal ownership for Anaheim. If a contract be entered into with that company to furnish energy during the peak-load hours at the power-house, it will be only a step, and a short step at that, to the final complete introduction of that company's wires into the city plant. If the Edison company can come into Anaheim, offering this rate, and we shall admit that the best we can do compels us to maintain the present 10-cent rate—that spells the beginning of the end. Sooner or later, the Edison people will get us by the scruff of the neck, and it will jingle the dollars out of our jeans to the delight of its directors and high-salaried officials. Will it be permitted to do it? Mu- commended this course, and at the same time offered to recommend a sum of $3,500,000 for San Pedro harbor. This offer was declined by the Los Angeles people, for the reason that they did not wish the harbor to go under state control, and the legislative committee was informed that Los Angeles did not ask and did not wish money from the state, but would raise the necessary money for their harbor, which was estimated at ten millions of dollars during the coming ten years, by bonding the city. All that Los Angeles asked, was that it be permitted to pay the cost and control its own harbor. Bills have been presented in the legislature to effect this purpose. There are two of these bills: One is senate bill No. 445 introduced by Senator Hewitt, "Granting the city of Los Angeles, in confirmation of the charter of said city, the tidelands and submerged lands of the state within the boundaries of said city." The second is senate bill 874 introduced by Senator Hurd, repealing former act providing for state pilotage at Wilmington and San Pedro. Opposition to these two bills is being made in the legislature by the San Francisco delegation headed by Senator Wolfe, who by the way was a member of the legislative committee above referred to. The opposition takes the ground that Los Angeles harbor under municipal control might make port charges so low as to endanger the shipping interests of San Francisco, and San Francisco claims the monopoly of the shipping business of the state. A large delegation of the leading citizens of Los Angeles headed by Mayor George Alexander and President Scott of the chamber of commerce leaves Los Angeles Thursday evening to fight the matter out before the committee of the legislature. Los Angeles is undoubtedly right in its contention and everyone in Southern California at least, and indeed in the whole state, is interested in the passage of the legislation desired by Los Angeles city. It is hoped that every citizen who has influence with any member of the legislature will exercise that influence, and that the commercial bodies all through the southern part of the state, will take immediate and vigorous action to further the establishment of San Pedro as a free port. NEW PACKING HOUSE Work on the new packing house of scarcely any land in gion which former crops, and later be excess of water or be profitably reclaimed work is correctly put out. These results possibility of reclaim lands containing a line salts. A bulletin, bearing object by the department at Washington station applies to all irrigates some data observations in other states experimental work drainage investigation were begun in the summer of 1904 in Utah agriculture. Since then carried on with a fairly by the state legal force of experiment. The individual laws many cases cooperated and federal agents worked. The attitude has naturally been as to the success retained, and they have of the feasibility vantage of the metly by actual successes of results on a common case the country cooperated in the This experiment lands just south of belt of 2000 acres, and Logan, which by the rise of ground is a black loam unclay, both of which nature and permit freely. These lands first brought under that neighborhood produced abundant crops years of satisfactory rise of ground water;the irrigation of them had in the meantime der cultivation. The age gradually increased which had been till root crops became crops and were planted hay. The tame grew out in a few years of little value prevailing in the areas as but they continued creep up to higherical manner, until f affected. If the Edison company can come into Anaheim, offering this rate, and we shall admit that the best we can do compels us to maintain the present 10-cent rate—that spells the beginning of the end. Sooner or later, the Edison people will get us by the scruff of the neck, and it will jingle the dollars out of our jeans to the delight of its directors and high-salaried officials. Will it be permitted to do it? Municipal ownership of electric lighting is being put to the test. We do not look for our local plant to meet this cut-rate of the Edison people, with which they are merely attempting to bait us. But we look for a better rate than that at present in force. TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATIONS Associations for the prevention of tuberculosis have been formed in Cuba, Porto Rico and Trinidad. In Cuba there are over 40,000 deaths every year from tuberculosis, and the death rate from this disease is nearly three times as high as in the United States. In Porto Rico there are over 6000 deaths every year out of 1,000,000 inhabitants. In Trinidad, the death rate from tuberculosis in Port-of-Spain, the only place where figures are available, was 4.75 per 1000 in 1909, nearly three times the rate in New York City. Copditions in the other islands of the west Indies, and where no active campaign against tuberculosis has been undertaken, are even worse. The chief reason for this high mortality is found in the unsanitary, dark, and poorly ventilated houses of the natives of the islands. Take your watch and jewelry repairing to Theo. Roberts. He does only first-class work. NEW PACKING HOUSE Work on the new packing house of A. W. Phelps & Company at Fullerton was begun on Monday by Contractor Landreth. The contract calls for a structure 50 by 100 feet, which will cost about $2500. The building will be constructed with cement piers and will be modern in every detail. It will be used for the packing of citrus fruits and vegetables. With the completion of the Phelps building there will be fourteen packing, grain and fruit warehouses in Fullerton, several of the number being built within the past two years. The evidence of progress in this industry is marked and there is every indication, of demand for additional facilities for handling the produce of this section. A general prosperous condition among the fruit growers is an encouraging sign. A total of one hundred and fifty carloads of oranges have been shipped to date from that point on the Santa Fe this season. The shipments the past week amounted to twenty-one cars. LOVE OF THE RIGHT STAMP A collector of postage stamps, possessing 12,544 specimens, desires to contract a marriage with a young lady, also a collector, who has the blue Mauritius stamp of 1847. No other need apply. ANAHEIM GAZETTE DRAINING MOIST LANDS Irrigated Fields Rendered Useless by Rise of Ground Waters The general need for drainage of irrigated lands has increased rapidly during the last twenty years. The most productive lands of these regions and those which were first taken under cultivation are, in many instances, now abandoned or fit only for wet pasturage. In Utah alone there are approximately 200,000 acres of irrigated lands needing drainage. The Salt Lake valley has about 34,000 acres of such lands, and several other valleys from 10,000 to 30,000 acres each. There are several localities in which, of the total irrigated lands, 50 per cent are in such condition. California, Colorado, Washington, Montana, and Wyoming are likewise affected, more or less, and in time all of the newly irrigated lands will have their problems of drainage. It naturally devolves upon the holders of such lands to reclaim them. To the end of developing the best methods for accomplishing the reclamation of such lands the office of experiment stations has conducted drainage investigations in Utah, California, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska, with results which justify the conclusion that there is scarcely any land in the irrigated region which formerly produced paying crops, and later became affected by excess of water or alkali, that cannot be profitably reclaimed, provided the work is correctly planned and carried out. These results also point to the possibility of reclaiming many virgin lands containing an excess of alkaline salts. A bulletin bearing upon this subject by the department of agriculture at Washington states that while it JUDGMENT UPHELD Appellate Court Sutains Decision of Lower Court The remittitur in the case of J. E. Ward vs. the California Celery and Produce Company has been handed down showing that the judgment of the lower court is affirmed. The case was tried at Santa Ana and judgment was given for defendant. Ward appealed to the second district appellate court with the result as stated, that the lower court's judgment had been affirmed. Ward sued for alleged wrongful conversion of 276 shares of the stock of the California Celery and Produce company owned by him and asked the court for an order for its restoration and for damages. Ward was a stockholder in the company and when he failed to pay his assessments, all his stock was sold and bought in by L. M. Von Schriltz also of the company. Details of the proceedings that led up to the suit are that by resolution adopted by the directorate of the company it was decided to levy a 10 per cent assessment, but before the proceedings had been completed, it was decided to only levy a five per cent assessment by a resolution fully passed and adopted. Plaintiff's contention was that after the proceedings calling for an assessment of ten per cent had been begun the directors had no right to make a change for an assessment for a small amount. The ruling of the lower court was that the directors have the right to reduce the assessment but not raise it. The opinion also holds that Mr. Ward was still further prohibited recovering on the ground that he himself offered the resolution and voted for it. INSURANCE PAID Insurance companies have paid the policies held by the Fullerton union high school district on the building that was destroyed by fire in November last. The total amount paid to the district was $34,000. The policies were in six different companies. The high school district has set March 11 as the day for submitting to the voters a proposal to bond the district for $60,000. If the bonds carry, the district will have $94,000 for rebuilding and improvements. The plans of the architect for a new building call for an $80,000 building. The building and equipment destroyed was worth about $42,500. DIFFERENT The Candidate (having quoted the words of an eminent statesman in support of an argument)—"And mind you, these are not my words. This is not merely my opinion. These are words of a man who knows what he is talking about." NO GENTLEMAN That young man Pufferly is the rudest person I ever saw, said one young woman. I reminded him that we were standing under the mistletoe. And what did he do? asked the other. He simply smiled and said, By Jove. The joke's on me. Take your watch and jewelry repairing to Theo. Roberts. He does only first-class work. Caterers To The Public Germania Restaurant P. F. WILSON, Prop'r scarely any land in the irrigated region which formerly produced paying crops, and later became affected by excess of water or alkali, that cannot be profitably reclaimed, provided the work is correctly planned and carried out. These results also point to the possibility of reclaiming many virgin lands containing an excess of alkaline salts. A bulletin, bearing upon this subject by the department of agriculture at Washington states that while it applies to all irrigated lands and contains some data obtained in investigations in other states, is based upon experimental work done in Utah. The drainage investigations of the office were begun in the state during the summer of 1904 in cooperation with the Utah agricultural experiment station. Since then the work has been carried on with a fund provided jointly by the state legislature and the office of experiment stations. The individual land owners have in many cases cooperated with the state and federal agents in carrying out the work. The attitude of most of them has naturally been one of skepticism as to the success which could be obtained, and they have been convinced of the feasibility and financial advantage of the methods proposed only by actual successful demonstrations of results on a commercial scale. In one case the county interested also cooperated in the expense. This experiment was made on the lands just south of Hyde park, in a belt of 2000 acres, between that town and Logan, which was badly affected by the rise of ground water. The soil is a black loam underlain by yellow-clay, both of which are of an open nature and permit the passage of water freely. These lands were among the first brought under cultivation in that neighborhood and originally produced abundant crops. After some 20 years of satisfactory cultivation, a rise of ground water resulted from the irrigation of the higher lands that had in the meantime been brought under cultivation. The amount of seepage gradually increased, and lands which had been tillable for cereals an root crops became unsuited for such crops and were planted to grasses for hay. The tame grasses were driven out in a few years and water grasses of little value prevailed. In the beginning the areas affected were small but they continued to spread and to creep up to higher levels in the typical manner, until few farms were unaffected. the proceedings calling for an assessment of ten per cent had been begun the directors had no right to make a change for an assessment for a small amount. The ruling of the lower court was that the directors have the right to reduce the assessment but not raise it. The opinion also holds that Mr. Ward was still further prohibited recovering on the ground that he himself offered the resolution and voted for it. ORANGE SHOW National Display at San Bernardino March 6 to 11 The possibilities of the San Bernardino National Orange show, the first annual occurrence of which takes place March 6th to 11th, are made significant by a knowledge of the importance of the citrus fruit industry of California. It is predicted that this season will witness the harvesting of the largest citrus crop in the history of the industry in the state. Forty-eight thousand carloads is the estimated crop of oranges and lemons for California, of which 3000 cars will come from the northern orchards, and 45,000 from the south. Of these 7000 cars will be of lemons, and 41,000 of oranges. This production exceeds by 8000 cars all former records, the increased production being chiefly in oranges. As there are about 140 oranges in a box, and about 400 boxes to a car, the increased production means a total of 528,000,000 oranges for California, or nearly an even half dozen for every man, woman and child in the United States. The production of oranges for the state will be about 16,400,000 boxes, as against 5,000,000 boxes for Florida, including grapefruit. The orange season has become an all the year round event in California, and adds to the weight of the argument that the section is the favored one of the few citrus growing districts of the world. By reason of the favored climate, California oranges are marketed every day in the year. Just now the navel season is on and the shipments are heavy and constant. The shipments of this fruit will continue until May when the movement of the Valencias or late oranges will begin and keep the world supplied until the navels again come into bearing. FAILED TO GET LICENSE Young Couple from Los Angeles were Not Wed Albert H. Cohen, aged 20, of Los Angeles, was refused a marriage license by the County Clerk on Tuesday, who had received a telephone call from the boy's father in Los Angeles not to issue it. With a girl and her father and sister, applied and were refused. He tried to run a bluff that he was 21. As the party left the courthouse they met the elder Cohen, who had taken the car after telephoning the clerk. The father told the son that he would be sorry if he married against the wishes of his parents. "Did you get a license?" he demanded of his son, to whose arm the girl still clung. "I did not, but I'll get one next week," declared the son. "You will be sorry if you do." replied the irate parent. "You know your mother and I are opposed to your marriage." The father finally left his son and the girl, who took the next car out of town. The young lady's name was Miss Jessie Taske. For first class photography call on Agnes Schuler. Studio 1st door west of opera-house. By reason of the favored climate, California oranges are marketed every day in the year. Just now the navel season is on and the shipments are heavy and constant. The shipments of this fruit will continue until May when the movement of the Valencias or late oranges will begin and keep the world supplied until the navels again come into bearing. STAR THEATRE Following is the program arranged for Wednesday and Thursday evenings, Feb. 22 and 23, at this popular theatre. Five Reels—5,000 Feet: “LADY BETTY'S STRATEGY” Solo and Drama “DOVE EYE'S GRATITUDE” Bison Drama “BLIND LOVE” Nestor Comedy “MR. SWELL IN THE COUNTRY” Nestor Comedy “Them Dark Lines” Reliance Drama “TELL-TALE PORTRAIT” Ambrosia Drama “TWEEDUM'S TRADIAL PART” Ambrosia Comedy Prices, - 5 and 10 Cents Thursday, February 23 Special Values See our New Line of Negligee Shirts, Blue, Cream, Tan, Gray and Stripes, EACH—50c—EACH Best values ever offered. Limited number of Hats at 95c. See our show windows for Bargains at all times Louis Z. Kroeger THE LEADER windows for Bargains at all times Louis Z. Kroeger THE LEADER Better Goods at Lower Prices 128 W. Center St. Anaheim, Cal. Home 2132—TELEPHONES—Pacific 2103 5,000 PEOPLE Read Each Issue of the Anaheim Gazette. If you have anything to sell these people make it known through the medium by which they can be reached 52 times a year P. T. BARNUM The Great Showman, said a man could begin a successful business on a capital of $10 if he invested half his capital in goods and the other half advertising them. Barnum’s judgment was good and his example worth emulating. He made several fortunes through the use of Printer’s Ink. Take the advice of this great advertiser. $10 if he invested half his capital in goods and the other half advertising them. Bar-num's judgment was good and his example worth emulating. He made several fortunes through the use of Printer's Ink. Take the advice of this great advertiser. ADVERTISE LOOK Beware of cheap glasses. They surely injure your eyesight. Have your eyes examined by Theodore Roberts, and be sure to get the right correction for your eyes. Examinations day or evening or by appointment. Prices reasonable. Theodore Roberts Graduate Optometrist 113 E. Center St. Anaheim, Cal.