anaheim-gazette 1911-03-09

GOOD ROADS A. A. Mills Receives Two Letters from State Engineer Ellery State Engineer Ellery opines that Orange county will be included in the state highway system. Can't drive them away, even by voting bonds to do the same work. His letter follows Sacramento, Feb. 27. Mr. A. A. Mills, Anaheim, Cal.—Dear Sir: I have your letter of the 23d, enclosing a clipping regarding certain matters in connection with the state highways bond issue. I should like very much to see the map of the county layout for roads within the scope of the county bond issue. I herewith enclose you a copy of the state bonding act, and have marked upon the copy some important items, which undoubtedly will enlighten you upon this subject. You will note that the highway act contemplates a road from the northern end of the state to the southern end, along the coast connecting the centers of population. It is my opinion that Santa Ana will be taken in on the state road between San Diego and Los Angeles. It also states in the bond issue that the county seats shall be taken up with the main roads running north and south through the state by lateral roads. I do not think that there is any question but that Orange county will be included in the state highway system. In regard to the reimbursement of the county for roads it would build I refer you to the enclosed act, where I have marked marginal note No. 1. (Sec. 8, state act.) Concerning the location of the roads, I have made marginal note 2. (Sec. 4, state act.) In reply to section A marked on the clipping I would refer you to section EBELL CLUB IN SESSION Mrs. Walker Reads Paper on the Festive Hobo On Saturday, March 4th, the Ebell club met in regular session at the high school auditorium. After the regular routine of business the president read a communication from the health department of the general federation of women's clubs which was designed to interest all women's clubs in health work and highly recommended certain books. It was voted to purchase some of them, the same to be placed in the public library. The book committee reported that the Ebell club and library board had added a very valuable set of reference books entitled "Famous People and Notable Events" to the public library. These are now at disposal of members. The park committee suggested giving a ladies minstrel for the benefit of the park fund. This plan was enthusiastically adopted and it was decided to give the minstrel at the opera house, Thursday night, March 23. All parts are to be taken by ladies and a rousing good entertainment is promised. There will also be excellent special features. Proceeds will go for a park for Anaheim which is not a luxury but a necessity for a city of its size and prominence. A vocal solo rendered by Gene Storm was greatly appreciated and while the ladies were applauding for an encore Gene disappeared. "Plans for the Park Fund," by Miss Haler contained very good suggestions, which will be acted upon later. The concluding number was a paper entitled, "How to Deal with the Tramp," by Mrs. J. F. Walker, followed by a discussion. As the tramp has become such a menace to through the state by lateral roads. I do not think that there is any question but that Orange county will be included in the state highway system. In regard to the reimbursement of the county for roads it would build I refer you to the enclosed act, where I have marked marginal note No. 1. (Sec. 8, state act.) Concerning the location of the roads, I have made marginal note 2. (Sec. 4, state act.) In reply to section A marked on the clipping I would refer you to section 8 of the bonding act. Read this very carefully as it will undoubtedly give you the reply to your request. In regard to matters connected with the state bonding issue, as yet nothing definite has been settled. The bonds cannot be sold until about August, when undoubtedly the state will endeavor to collect data for location of the state roads. I have endeavored to answer you as fully as I could without misleading or holding anything forth that I know could not be fulfilled. If you have any further questions to ask I would be glad to answer them for you. Very truly yours, N. Ellery, state engineer. Anaheim, March 1, 1911. Mr. N. Ellery, State Engineer, Sacramento, Cal—Dear Sir: In reference to yours of Feb. 27th, I am sending you map. The red lines indicate the proposed roads to be improved by the county and blue lines those that state should build under the state act. What I want to know is: If the county votes bonds to build these roads, including those from East Whittier to the San Diego county line and to connect Riverside with this highway, and then held up the bonds to cover these two state highways, would this in anywise jeopardize or even prejudice the county's chance of having the state build these highways? Truly yours, A. A. Mills. Sacramento, March 3, 1911. Mr. A. A. Mills, Anaheim, Calif.—Dear Sir: I have your letter of Mar. 1stl and in reply will state that it is my opinion that the passage of the county bonds will not effect the state in construction of the highways you write of. Accept my thanks for the map of Orange county. If I can be of any further service to you, kindly command me. Yours very truly, N. Ellery, state engineer. IMPORTS OF PLATINUM Figures for 1909 Double those of Previous Year A vocal solo rendered by Gene Storm was greatly appreciated and while the ladies were applauding for an encore Gene disappeared. "Plans for the Park Fund," by Miss Haler contained very good suggestions, which will be acted upon later. The concluding number was a paper entitled, "How to Deal with the Tramp," by Mrs. J. F. Walker, followed by a discussion. As the tramp has become such a menace to society this paper was greatly appreciated. It is worthy of much consideration, and is given below for the benefit of all: HOW TO DEAL WITH THE TRAMP This is indeed a serious question. Jehova made this world and all therein but sin has blighted his workmanship and one of the results is the criminal and the vagrant. We as christian citizens and reared under more fortunate circumstances are forced to consider the question what is our relation to this vagrant. Shall we feed him or shall we not? Even a cup of cold water and a kind word were never known to do harm. But laying all sentiment aside, what can a community or state do to rid itself of what is becoming a great nuisance and at the same time reform the tramp. This has been an apparently unsolvable question for fifty years. Law does not solve it. Workhouses, jails, prisons and charities have failed. It is estimated that tramps are a loss of $25,000,000 to the railroads of United States yearly, through fires, wrecks, thefts, etc. What shall be done with this army of a million wandering men? The recent industrial depression of late have made the numbers largest ever known. A large number are youths from sixteen to twenty-one. About one-half in time return to their homes, the others gradually pass from vagrancy to a career of crime or semi-crime. In some localities, as Fort Dodge, Iowa, the municipal lodging houses and workyards are effective but are not sufficient, considering the problem as a whole. Charitable institutions and railroads believe that they have in view a plan that will prove efficacious. This plan, known as the colonizing plan, is in force in Holland,Belgium and Switzerland and in those countries the tramp is unknown. state institutions receive remuneration paid him on his re- It is the purpose trustees to appoint of large experience milliar with similar Mr. Edmund Ke has been studying colonies and has paid off them, says that isolatures were to hand vagabondage ing evils would disappeared in Holt Switzerland, and no colonies rid the ways in Holland they have done so Switzerland." Mr. "If therefore bof labor colonies be relieved of them in money and hurl tends on the press and if incidentally constitute a large present trump arm and out of the re are capable of refmed; if too,the labor colonies for almshouses can greed dreariness and existitions, it seems periment ought to We are living in undertakings. We plan of colonizing come universal th ed States. To be sections and difficult doubtless be agree IMPORTS OF PLATINUM Figures for 1909 Double those of Previous Year The consumption of platinum in the United States increased considerably in 1909 over that of the preceding year. The domestic production decreased somewhat but the imports from which practically the entire supply is obtained, more than doubled. According to an advance chapter from "Mineral resources of the United States, calendar year 1909," on the production of platinum and allied metals, prepared by Waldemar Lindgren for the United States geological survey, the value of the platinum imports in 1909 was $2,973,948, as against $1,229,873 in 1908. The figures for 1909 are the highest on record except those for 1906. The advance chapter, in pamphlet form, may be obtained free by applying to the director of the survey at Washington. The production of platinum in this country is small, for all that is obtained comes as a by-product in working the gold placers of California and Oregon. Take your watch and jewelry repairing to Theo. Roberts. He does only first-class work. 2-9-tf Local and Los Angeles bottled beer at brewery prices. Rust's winery. Charitable institutions and railroads believe that they have in view a plan that will prove efficacious. This plan, known as the colonizing plan, is in force in Holland, Belgium and Switzerland and in those countries the tramp is unknown. New York state has already taken steps to establish tramp colonies, near the three following cities—Albany, Buffalo and New York. The bill is before the state legislature and is quite likely to pass. It asks for an appropriation of $750,000 to buy waste land and construct buildings. The terms of the bill are as follows: The government is to appoint five men who shall constitute a board of trustees who are to serve without pay. This provision is supposed to obviate pure political appointments and to secure competent officers. These colonies are to be devoted to the detention, reformation and instruction of persons convicted of vagrancy, habitual drunkenness,and of violating section 426 of the penal code. This penal code refers to offenses against the railroads. All the colonies are to be places of compulsory detention. No sentence shall be longer than two years. Paroles will be given on good behavior at the discretion of the board of trustees. Any tramp attempting to escape will be given a term in state's prison. The colonies will be agricultural and competition with free labor strictly avoided. Waste land will be used for truck farming and the produce sent to large cities and probably to ROYAL Baking Powder Economy The manufacturers of Royal Baking Powder have always declined to produce a cheap baking powder at the sacrifice of quality. Royal Baking Powder is made from pure grape cream of tartar, and is the embodiment of all the excellence possible to be attained in the highest class baking powder. Royal Baking Powder costs only a fair price, and is more economical at its price than any other leavening agent, because of the superlative quality and absolute wholesomeness of the food it makes. Mixtures made in imitation of baking powders, but containing alum, are frequently distributed from door to door, or given away in grocery stores. Such mixtures are dangerous to use in food. In England Royal Baking Powder costs only a fair price, and is more economical at its price than any other leavening agent, because of the superlative quality and absolute wholesomeness of the food it makes. Mixtures made in imitation of baking powders, but containing alum, are frequently distributed from door to door, or given away in grocery stores. Such mixtures are dangerous to use in food. In England, France, Germany and some sections of the United States their sale is prohibited by law. Alum is a dangerous mineral acid, and all physicians condemn baking powders containing it. The label of alum baking powders must show the ingredients. READ THE LABEL state institutions. Each inmate is to receive remuneration which will be paid him on his release. It is the purpose of the board of trustees to appoint as managers men of large experience and who are familiar with similar colonies abroad. Mr. Edmund Kelly, who for years has been studying these European colonies and has personally visited all of them, says that "if American legislatures were to take the matter in hand vagabondage and all its attending evils would disappear like magic from American soil, as it has already disappeared in Holland, Belgium and Switzerland, and not only have labor colonies rid the streets and highways in Holland and Belgium, but they have done so inexpensively in Switzerland." Mr. Kelly goes on: "If therefore by the introduction of labor colonies the community can be relieved of the enormous expense in money and human life that attends on the present tramp system, and if incidentally the youths, who constitute a large percentage of the present tramp army, can be rescued, and out of the remainder all who are capable of reform can be reformed; if, too, the substitution of the labor colonies for workhouses and almshouses can greatly diminish the dreariness and expense of these institutions, it seems as though the experiment ought to be tried." We are living in times of great undertakings. Without doubt the plan of colonizing the tramp will become universal throughout the United States. To be sure there are objections and difficulties, but it will doubtless be agreed that the experi- nearly every place where drilling was attempted, and in the opinion of H. E. Gregory, of the United States geological survey, whose report on the field is published as a part of the survey's bulletin 431-A, now available for distribution, several of the wells already sunk are likely to prove profitable. The field is promising, according to the report, although the task of providing labor, fuel, and transportation is difficult. The region is arid. The nearest coal beds are in the Durango field, in Colorado, 100 miles to the east, and in the Navajo reservation, 60 miles south. Labor will probably have to be brought in, although the Navajo Indians are intelligent and efficient workmen. As a solution of the transportation problem the report suggests a pipe line along the Chinlee Wash to Ganado, thence to Holbrook and the railroads. Over this route oil would flow by gravity for half the distance. It is not likely that there will be a market for oil near the field. Most of the drilling has been done along Limestone Creek. Prospectors have found eight distinct oil-bearing sands, but in no place where drilling has been attempted have the three lowest sands been touched as yet. Oil seeps along the San Juan river have been known for years. The first well was sunk in 1907 and oil was struck in March, 1908, and development since then has been rapid. In 20 of the 25 wells sunk oil of good quality has been found, but as yet there has been no commercial production. The public land in that part of the field that lies north of sanitarium uses the drug and the knife of the physician and the surgeon where they are required, these methods really play a very small part in the cure of human ailments under the up-to-date methods of the modern sanitarium. In this series of health talks we propose to take up in their natural order the various phases of sanitarium treatment as now practiced or to be practiced in the Anaheim Sanitarium when the new building is completed and in operation. The simple and natural means provided by an allwise Providence are much in evidence in this treatment, and we will find that fresh air, light, heat, massage, and electricity properly applied are largely used and used very successfully as the principal therapeutic agents in the cure of many of the ill humanity is heir to. We all recognize the need of fresh air and plenty of it in our homes, but many ills are directly traceable to the fact that we do not apply this knowledge. The first duty of the sanitarium is not only to apply this knowledge while the patient is under treatment but to teach the necessity of a continued application of such knowledge, and the new sanitarium is fitted among many other modern equipments, with the latest and most perfect ventilating, heating and vacuum cleaning plants. The ventilating plant provides for a continuous change of the air in every portion of the buildings arranged in accordance with scientific principles and in conjunction with the heating plant this constantly changing air is heated to just the proper degree before passing into the rooms. The heating of this air is done in such a manner that the vitality is not lost by passing over or through a flame, but retains the same vigor and vitality that it had originally. The vacuum cleaning plant provides for a thorough cleaning of every inch of the buildings daily without stirring up a particle of dust and consequent distribution of disease germs. Another feature of the air treatment is the roof garden which will occupy the entire roof of the new building and to which access will be gained through the third story of the present building. Protected from the prevailing sea breezes by a coping extending entirely around the garden, and with comfortable lounging chairs protected from the direct rays of the sun by movable awnings, convalescence will be aided by this attractive feature. MANY OIL CLAIMS IN UTAH Fields are Promising, but So Far Drilling Has been Unremunerative Nearly 10,000 claims have been filed for locations in the San Juan oil field, Utah, during the last few years. Development has not, however, kept pace with the filing of the claims, for although a great deal of drilling has been done, most of it has been unskillful and strings of tools have been lost in many of the drill holes sunk. As a result, although 25 wells have been drilled, none are yet producing commercially. Oil was encountered, however, in sands, but in no place where drilling has been attempted have the three lowest sands been touched as yet. Oil seeps along the San Juan river have been known for years. The first well was sunk in 1907 and oil was struck in March, 1908, and development since then has been rapid. In 20 of the 25 wells sunk oil of good quality has been found, but as yet there has been no commercial production. The public land in that part of the field that lies north of San Juan river was withdrawn from entry in October, 1909. The land south of San Juan river is probably in the western Navajo reservation. The same bulletin (431-A) contains an account of the natural gas region of North Dakota, by A. G. Leonard, and a brief report on gas prospects in the Harney Valley, Oregon, by C. W. Washburne. The Oregon prospects are from 90 to 105 miles southwest of promising prospects near Vale, also described by Mr. Washburne, and the gas appears to be derived from the same geologic formation, but the field has not yet been much developed. Most of the North Dakota prospects are in Bottineau and Lamoure counties. Gas is piped to Westhope in Bottineau county for domestic use from wells near the town. The gas sells at 30 to 40 cents a thousand feet. It has almost no odor and gives an excellent light. LOST BUTTON RECOVERED Dr. Paul Burnmaster, president of the Chicago anti-gambling league, was discussing his suit for $6,000,000 against a noted speculator. "Speculators of this type," said Dr. Burnmaster, "are so wedded to the gambling that they see no harm in the practice. They deem their pernicious doings to be work, work helpful to the community, like baking of bread or building houses. In their blindness to their own shortcomings they remind me of Billings. "Billings, snowed up by a blizzard in a country town, said reproachfully to the one waiter in the place's restaurant: "'Look here, waiter, I've just discovered this suspender button in my soup.'" "The waiter hurried forward, all smiles." "'Oh, thank you, sir,' he said, 'I couldn't imagine what had become of it.'" Thursday, March 9 New Spring Goods Coming in Daily New Silks, Shirt Waists and Kimonas, at EDERMAN'S NEW UP-TO-DATE STORE METHODS OF HEALING an Up-to-Date Sanitary Fresh, Super-Heated Otherwise modern methods of care in a new and fully modernium are largely in the series to the lay mind. Us of the art of healing through the science ofapy, Electro-Therapy, and Mechano-Therapy, of hospitals, operatingsurgical instruments shrink from the pain educated understand-ect, must accompany truth is that while the drug and the physician and the surg-are required, these day a very small part human ailments under methods of the modern this series of health to take up in their various phases of ment as now practic-ed in the Anaheim the new building is operation. WHAT HE EXPECTED Clark Howell of Atlanta, tells of the sad case of an elderly darky in Georgia charged with the theft of a few chickens. The negro had the misfortune to be defended by a young and inexperienced attorney, although it is doubtful whether anyone could have secured his acquittal, the commission of the crime having been proved beyond all doubt. The darky received a pretty severe sentence. "I thank you, sah," said he cheerfully, addressing the judge when the sentence had been pronounced. "Dat's mighty hard, sah, but it ain't anywhere what I 'spected. I thought, sah, dat between my character and dat speech of my lawyer dat you'd hang me, shore." California Real Estate Now is the time to buy while you can get a rebate on price. Write or call for particulars. California Real Estate Now is the time to buy while you can get a rebate on price. Write or call for particulars. Byron B. 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