anaheim-gazette 1911-03-02

TRUSTEES TURN DOWN EDISON PROPOSITION LAY THE MATTER OVER FOR AN INDEFINITE PERIOD Engineer Lewis Thinks City Should Protect Itself by Installing New Machinery—City Marshal Simpson's Resignation Accepted and John Kellenberger Elected to Fill the Vacancy—Phil Germain is Slated for Deputy Marshal and Nightwatchman—Other Notes of Meeting The proposition of the Edison Electric company to supply the city of Anaheim with the needed excess of current beyond the capacity of the present municipal plant was laid on the shelf for an indefinite period by the city trustees on Thursday evening. It was decided that before entering into a contract to buy juice at a stated price it would be wise to learn the actual cost of manufacturing it, consequently Engineer Lewis was instructed to install a meter in the power house which will register the entire product of the plant. In this manner the actual cost per kilowat under the present system can be determined. A meter will also be attached to the pumping plant which will register the total amount of water consumed each day. The Edison representatives submitted a written contract for the signature of the officials in which they agreed to furnish 30 kilowat per day, or a total of 1428 kilowats per month at a minimum charge of $50 per month, or 60 kilowats per day (2857 per month) for $100 per month. Any excess above these figures would be supplied at the rate of 3 1/2 cents per kilowat. Engineer Lewis was radically opposed to the proposition. He said the actual cost to the city Adams and West street. The only possible way to carry the water off, they said, was to lay a pipe across Mr. Carroll's property to the Southern Pacific railroad, and the clerk was instructed to communicate the same to him. In case of his refusal Adams street will probably be vacated as that is the only possible way out of the difficulty. Officials outside the city asked permission to grade Burton avenue. The petition was granted, the board agreeing to pay the city's percentage of the costs. A map showing the proposed subdivision of 10 acres of the Zeyn tract on Los Angeles street, was presented to the board by P. H. Krick, who represented the owner, C. E. Holcomb. As the property had not been sidewalked, curbed nor graded the board refused to accept the map until a bond sufficiently large to cover the costs of such improvements was filed with the clerk. Mr. Krick agreed to furnish a bond for $4000 immediately. The street commissioner reported that somebody had removed a surveyor's stake on the Back's alley line and it would have to be replaced before he could proceed with the alley opening. RIPARIAN RIGHTS UPHELD Are As Much a Part of the Land as Trees Upon It In deciding a contest between Walter Collins, plaintiff, and Bertram Gookins, defendant, over the right to use the waters of a 10-inch stream in Garden Gulch canyon, Antelope valley, Judge Hutton of the Los Angeles superior court last Friday sent down an opinion distinguishing between the rights of riparian owners to the waters of California streams. Both plaintiff and defendant came into court relying upon their claims to prior appropriations of the waters EDUCATING FAULT OBJECTION DEMONSTRATION VISIT ANAHEIM MONTAGE Most Extensive Effort Line Ever Attempted—Its Inception, Value—Many Cars Eminent Lecturers Far-Reaching, Education—Factor in Important Agriculture and The special agricultural demonstration College of Agriculture city of California will and other points in the latter part of May is this week in the Valley and is being rushed this train free exception has been or. Next week thereperial county, going too. On its return in two weeks, when the section will begin. The train is by extensive effort of this ever been put forth in the country. As few words of explanation meaning a train are in order. The spirit of the tension companies of W. T. Clarke who The Edison representatives submitted a written contract for the signature of the officials in which they agreed to furnish 30 kilowat per day, or a total of 1428 kilowats per month at a minimum charge of $50 per month, or 60 kilowats per day (2857 per month) for $100 per month. Any excess above these figures would be supplied at the rate of 3-12 cents per kilowat. Engineer Lewis was radically opposed to the proposition. He said the actual cost to the city after installing the machinery of manufacturing the excess needed would be about $25 per month above the figures of the Edison company, and it would be worth more than that to the city to have the protection of its own plant and to be able to supply the daily demand in the event of the disablement of one of the dynamos. After discussing the matter in its various phases for some time the board voted to shelve the proposition for the present. The resignation of V. U. Simpson as city marshal was read by the clerk and accepted. It is to take effect on March 1st, but Mr. Simpson agreed to act as deputy to his successor without pay until he had become acquainted with his various duties. Following this the application of John Kellenberger for the vacant position was presented and he was elected without discussion or without opposition. Kellenberger is at present constable of the township and has been deputy marshal and night watchman during Mr. Simpson's administration of the office. He is perhaps, the most capable piece of material for the office in the city at present. Phil Germain, assistant engineer at the power house, also tendered his resignation to the board, the same to take effect March 1st. The trustees were disposed to hold this up until his place at the power house could be filled but on Mr. Lewis's statement that his retirement would not cripple the plant it was accepted. Phil, it is understood, is to step into Kellenberger's shoes as deputy and night watch, but the newly-made marshal cannot make the appointment until he has qualified in his own position. Only one application for the position of street sweeper was received. It was by Joseph P. Gibson and his bid was $84 per month. The board thought this figure excessive and rejected it, instructing the city clerk to re-advertise. Building permits were petitioned In deciding a contest between Walter Collins, plaintiff, and Bertram Gookins, defendant, over the right to use the waters of a 10-inch stream in Garden Gulch canyon, Antelope valley, Judge Hutton of the Los Angeles superior court last Friday sent down an opinion distinguishing between the rights of riparian owners to the waters of California streams. Both plaintiff and defendant came into court relying upon their claims to prior appropriations of the waters of the Garden Gulch creek. Judge Hutton in his opinion rules that they are working on the wrong theory, that the question of appropriation cuts no figure in the case because each is a riparian owner, owning lands adjacent to the stream. "The water in controversy is not subject to private appropriation," rules Judge Hutton. "The only waters subject to private appropriation are the waters on streams on government land, before the right of settlers of the stream, who by reason of their settlement become riparian proprietors, have accrued. "The system of riparian rights is in full effect in California. That is to say, the riparian owner, as against all other classes of appropriation, has a right to the full flood of the stream undiminished in quantity and unaffected in quality, except that such riparian proprietor may divert so much of the stream upon his riparian or bank land for irrigation purposes as he can put to economical beneficial use. "Riparian rights are as much a part of the land as the trees upon it." Inasmuch as Collins, plaintiff owns property along the stream above Gookins, Judge Hutton holds that the plaintiff may use the entire flow of the stream for beneficial purposes upon his riparian lands, but that he cannot divert it from the watershed, as he has threatened to do. When the water reaches Gookins' land, he also may use the entire flow if he can put it to beneficial use, without taking it out of the watershed. The court grants permission to each side to amend pleadings in the case, so that the question of riparian rights, instead of that of appropriation, can be determined. After such amendment, Collins will be prevented from diverting water where it will not flow back into the underground supply of the Garden Gulch watershed. The spirit of the motion companies of W. T. Clarke, who is in charge in a letter is to recognize their success of the procedures means great these companies. Application with the produced and the Southernly, recognizing their results should be on farms of the state, acting the fact that it are bound up in the producers, has joinedlege of Agriculture Station of the state farms and to that of improved methods whereby better returned. The inception of the demonstration be found in the interdependence of the transportation ower, the recognition college of agriculture station has made illustrate and show men of the farms. The first train to this cooperative enterprise work on November in eight days in northern and California. The two carloads of excellent methods of a horticultural practiceods of control of diseases of trees and producer had to cover six runs was made 1908-09 and all of specific lines inC alifew few exceptions, were train service. A telephone visited the tractor and a great deal offunfested by these w The season for Mthe 16th of Novembervered much of the was covered in th09. During this season in service,a total oand made 223 story into Kellenberger's shoes as deputy and night watch, but the newly-made marshal cannot make the appointment until he has qualified in his own position. Only one application for the position of street sweeper was received. It was by Joseph P. Gibson and his bid was $84 per month. The board thought this figure excessive and rejected it, instructing the city clerk to re-advertise. Building permits were petitioned for and granted as follows: To D. Gervais, barn on South Los Angeles street, cost $750. To W. A. Moore, shop on Third street, south, Langenberger addition, cost $200. To Elsie G. Rush, residence on Philadelphia street, cost $2000. To George Trefern, frame residence on Helena street, cost $1000. Joseph Fiscus asked permission to move a frame building from Broad to South Los Angeles street, which was granted. Several deeds for sewer right of way and one for widening a street were received and placed on file. Ordinance No. 230 authorizing the issuance of bonds in the sum of $98,500 in accordance with the will of the people as expressed at the recent special election was read the second time, passed by a unanimous vote, and ordered published in the Gazette. Ordinance No. 231, establishing grades on several streets, was introduced and read the first time. Messrs. Nebelung and Stock, of the public improvements committee reported that they had investigated the complaint of Tim Carroll relative to storm water damaging his property by reason of inadequate drainage on The court grants permission to each side to amend pleadings in the case, so that the question of riparian rights, instead of that of appropriation, can be determined. After such amendment, Collins will be prevented from diverting water where it will not flow back into the underground supply of the Garden Gulch watershed. TALBERT SEEKS DIVORCE Erring Wife and Paramour in Phoenix, Arizona Tom Talbert of Huntington Beach, chairman of the board of supervisors of Orange county, has brought suit for divorce against Abbie J. Talbert, whose departure from the beach city a few weeks ago with Billy Bushard, a chum of her husband, created considerable stir in this county. The complaint asks judgment upon the ground of cruelty. The custody of the child is requested by the plaintiff. Previous to her departure Mrs. Talbert signed deeds conveying to her husband all her interests in their real estate. Talbert and Bushard were close friends, and Bushard was often with Talbert and his wife on visits at their home and on excursions by automobile. Talbert did not suspect his wife's unfaithfulness until two days before she and Bushard left, and then only when he discovered a love note left by Mrs. Talbert pinned to Bushard's pillow on a night when Bushard was a guest at the Talbert home. With the discovery of the state of affairs, Talbert assisted his wife in making arrangements to go. Bushard and Mrs. Talbert are now in Phoenix, Arizona. EDUCATING FARMERS OBJECT OF VISIT DEMONSTRATION TRAIN WILL VISIT ANAHEIM END OF MONTH Most Extensive Effort Along This Line Ever Attempted in the Country—Its Inception, Meaning and Value—Many Cars of Exhibits — Eminent Lecturers in Attendance—Far-Reaching, Educational and Value—Factor in Improving Scientific Agriculture and Horticulture The special agricultural and horticultural demonstration train of the College of Agriculture of the University of California will visit Anaheim and other points in Orange county the latter part of March. The train is this week in the Pomona-Riverside valley and is being met by thousands of farmers and business men. A decision was rendered by the railroad commission that the operation of the train did not conflict with legislation recently enacted at Sacramento, which bars railroads from operating trains free of charge. The Southern Pacific runs this train free of cost, and an exception has been made in its favor. Next week the train visits Imperial county, going as far as Calexico. On its return it will be laid off two weeks, when the visit to this section will begin. The train is by far the most extensive effort of this kind that has ever been put forth in any part of the country. As such is the case, a few words of explanation as to the inception, meaning and value of this train are in order. The spirit of the great transportation companies of today, writes Prof. W. T. Clarke who is in charge of and demonstrates the great value of improved methods of work experimented with and advocated by the experiment station of the university of California. The train, with its well equipped departments and its living cars, for the use of the experts accompanying the train, may be considered, and indeed is a university on wheels carrying to the tillers of the soil the gospel of better horticulture and better agriculture and indicating by concrete examples, methods by which better returns may be obtained on the farm. The meaning, then, of this train service is to be found in the expression "education of the producer carried along more scientific lines of work." The value of the train service can hardly be overestimated. A great many earnest people who visited the train during its 1908-10 runs have revisited it this season and all have spoken enthusiastically of the good the work had done them. There is much evidence on hand to show that methods of practice illustrated and described during the last year's runs have been put into use in the meantime and are producing satisfactory results. An immense amount of correspondence has also come in regarding the work already done, indicating that the writers of the letters received, were thinking of, studying, and searching for, further information along the lines touched upon in the train. BASCOM STILL DREAMING Has a Hunch that State Division Would Be a Bully Good Thing Editor Gazette.—It is proposed to show in this article that the government of the soon-coming state of South California can be run for $500,000, or less, per year. The salary of the governor of California river at SHOW Land and Products Exhibition Attracting Attention Of all the exhibits at the Pacific Land and Products Exposition, which will be held in Los Angeles from March 18 to April 2, none will probably have a greater fascination for the average visitor than the magnificent replica of the $23,000,000 Owens river aqueduct system. The effect will be carried out by papier mache models and panoramic paintings so combined and illuminated as to present an almost startling likeness to the original. The aqueduct's course will be faithfully reproduced from the watershed of snow capped Mt. Whitney to the gates of Los Angeles. The tunnels and cuts and siphons of the greatest engineering enterprise of the west will be represented. The nearer view of the replica will be naturally carried out in living moss, with small forms of the plant life to represent trees. The vast reaches of fertile land in the lower San Fernando valley will be reproduced with life-like fidelity. The resources of Arizona will be given adequate representation at the land show. The Phoenix-Maricopa chamber of commerce and the Wickenburg boosters are busy arranging for their displays and the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe railways will give space in their exposition reservations for other resources of the territory. Lecturers also will describe the many fertile valleys and highlands. The manner in which Southern California and Southwestern boosters are viewing the land show is illustrated by the following dispatch: "Bakersfield, Cal., Feb. 18.—The ranchers and business men of this city and county are enthusiastic over the showing of Kern county at the Pacific land exposition, that is to Has a Hunch that State Division Would Be a Bully Good Thing Editor Gazette—It is proposed to show in this article that the government of the soon-coming state of South California can be run for $500,000 or less, per year. The salary of the governor of California is $10,000 per year. Nebraska, Vermont and Wyoming pay $2,500. The state of South California need pay no more. There is a saving of $7500, or 75 per cent. The ten counties of Southern California now have 28 legislators. Every one draws a salary of $1000 per each biennial session, equal to a salary of $500 per year. Kansas and Oregon pay $3 per diem. Alabama holds quadrennial sessions of 50 days. The new state of South California could do likewise. This would cost $37.50 per legislator per year, a total saving of $12,950 or 92.5 per cent per year. The supreme court of California has seven judges at a total salary of $56,000. The present southern court of appeals has three judges, each with an annual salary of $6000, who could do the supreme court work at the same cost, saving $38,000 a year. According to the California Blue Book for 1909, there are six state institutions in Southern California, the annual salaries for which are as follows: Whittier reform school $51,840, Patton insane asylum $49,272, Los Angeles normal school $52,000, San Luis Obispo polytechnic school $2,297, Santa Barbara normal school is $3400, San Diego normal school $33,240; total $192,049. The following state officials, if all should be needed and paid as now, are mentioned: lieutenant governor $4000, secretary of state $5000, state treasurer $5000, surveyor general $5,000, state printer $5000, adjutant general $3600, school superintendent $5,000, board of equalization $4000, railroad commission $6000, San Diego harbor commission $2400; total $45,000. This gives annual costs as follows—governor $2500, legislature $1050, supreme court $18,000, officials $45,000, institutions $192,049, total $258,599. This leaves $241,401 as the balance of the annual budget of $500,000. The correctness of the foregoing argument is beyond successful contradiction. Space in their exposition reservations for other resources of the territory. Lecturers also will describe the many fertile valleys and highlands. The manner in which Southern California and Southwestern boosters are viewing the land show is illustrated by the following dispatch: "Bakersfield, Cal., Feb. 18.—The ranchers and business men of this city and county are enthusiastic over the showing of Kern county at the Pacific land exposition, that is to be held in Los Angeles in March and April. Secretary T. F. Burke of the Kern county board of trade has returned from Los Angeles enthused over the project and over the manner in which the management of the exposition has received the proposed Kern county products. "The whole county has awakened to the opportunity that is given at this show and a fine exhibit is being gathered. Secretary Burke is well pleased with the position accorded Kern county and will reciprocate by doing his part in making the exposition a success." Promoters of the various colonies in the Sacramento valley are evincing much interest in the exposition. Assurances are not lacking that the great resources of the northern portion of the state will come in for an excellent exploitation. The apple men of Monterey county also are showing a desire to have their great industry represented and an opportunity to tell the world of the remarkable advantages the country offers for the consideration of the land seekers. As the representative of the growers C. G. Redman, secretary of the Watsonville apple annual association, has written to the executive officers of the land show for information. In his letter he intimates that the Monterey apple will be a distinctive feature of it. Kern county will make an excellent showing. Advices from Bakersfield are to the effect that the board of trade of that city will make a fine display of fruit, grains and vegetables, and that "the opportunity will be improved to promulgate a vast amount of literature showing the attractions, possibilities and accomplishments in fruit culture. Emphasis will be put upon the fact that Kern county has agricultural resources second to those of no other county in the state." The season for 1909-10 began on the 16th of November, 1909, and covered much of the same territory as was covered in the season of 1908-09. During this season the train was in service, a total of sixty-eight days and made 223 stops. A total of 73,663 people visited the train. In this connection, it is interesting to note that during the season of 1908-09 twenty-six such trains were run in the United States. A total of 182,745 people visited these trains. The California total is included in these figures. It then follows that forty per cent of the people visiting demonstration trains in the United States were those who visited and obtained information and inspiration from the California train. This is a record to be proud of and surely indicates the appreciation in which this work is held. The season for 1910-11 began on the fifth of December, 1910, and on the first run of ten days the same territory was covered that the train visited in its first run last year. Visitors to the number of 14,217 visited the train on this run, an increase of sixty-seven per cent over the number for the same run last year. This again speaks well for the value of the demonstration train. Six cars are at the present time devoted to the purposes of demonstration and illustration. The material carried in these cars illustrate better methods of procedure in all lines of agricultural and horticultural practice. LADY BIRDS BY MILLIONS Will Be Sent Out to Wage War Upon the Aphis E. K. Carnes, superintendent of the state insectary, and O. B. Bremer, secretary of the state horticultural commission, are at Towle, Placer county, with 500 empty cases, for the purpose of securing the first shipment of 100,000,000 ladybirds, which will be placed in the state insectary in the capitol park. These bugs which have been colonized near Towle by the state authorities, will be distributed through the state horticultural commission to melon growers and orchardists, who use the insects to destroy the aphis pests. Last fall, shortly before the first snow began to fly the officials of the insectary department journeyed to Towle and there made arrangements for colonizing the ladybirds on a large scale. As a result of their labors it is estimated that there are now over 100,000,000 of the little insects clinging together in bunches in the soft moss beneath the snow. The "great big red apple" of the Flathead country in Montana may be a feature of the apple display that is being arranged for the exposition. J. A. Trow of Polson, Montana, has written to the executive officials of the exposition for information and in his letter he incorporates the following boast: "The Flathead red apple has taken all 'scalps' at the Spokane and Missoula expositions during the past two months. Perhaps Los Angeles would like to see some of our famous beauties." Dr. S. PARRETT GRADUATED Osteopathic Physician has located in ANAHEIM, and would be pleased to have any one call and consult him who is in need of treatment. As I have had 14 Years of Active Practice IN FRESNO and LOS ANGELES I treat All Forms of Diseases, and cure a large percent of those difficult cases that have been abandoned by other systems of treatment. Consultation Free. Lady Assistant Office and Treating Rooms at Residence 305 N. Lemon st., two blocks north of Post Office. Hours 8 to 12 M., and 1 to 5 P.M. Phone—Pacific 876. THURSDAY, MARCH 2 Tied up. YOU ARE A FREE MAN WHEN YOU HAVE MONEY IN THE BANK YOU CANNOT successfully fight the business battles of life without money. Have you ever said to yourself; "If I only had $1,000 NOW." 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