anaheim-gazette 1911-05-11

REFORESTERS’ SESSION ONE OF GREAT INTEREST IMMEDIATE STEPS TO PREVENT FIRES ON WATERSHED Menace of Perennial Growth in Fire Lanes Which Has Attained Height of Eight Feet, and When Dry Would Spread Fires Through Reforested District—State Appropriates $5000, but Money Not Available Until July—President's Annual Report Continued from Page 1 be possible for the committee to appropriate One Thousand dollars toward this work and still have money to carry on its expenses for the balance of the year. Some action should be taken by the Committee to determine whether or not this is possible, and if so, to make the necessary arrangements. The bill prepared by a special committee of this Committee for the purpose of regulating the cutting of timber on private lands was amended at the suggestion of the State Forester and other interested parties and finally failed to pass the Legislature. Possibly this is just as well for the reason that a Conservation Commission has recently been appointed by the Governor for the purpose of “Investigating and gathering data and information concerning the subject of forestry, water, the use of water, water power, electricity, electrical man riding on horseback finds them over his head. The growth is dense and matted. When dry, next summer, this will become most dangerous. The lanes should be immediately cleared. He knew of young men and others not so young, who are extremely careless in throwing away lighted cigars in the mountains. Mr. Robertson’s talk was timely and important, and resulted in determination to clean out the lanes. This work will be done immediately. Those present at the meeting were: San Bernardino: E. J. Davenport, Seth Marshall, M. M. Candall, E. J. Yokum, Geo. Robertson, W. W. Wilcox, A. B. Paddock, Kenneth McRea. Riverside: E. W. Holmes, L. C. Walte, E. P. Clarke, W. G. Fraser, W. E. Pedley. Orange: J. B. Rea, A. S. Bradford, A. Pierotti, Henry Adams, Samuel Armor, E. M. Neally, Mr. Dunston and M. Nisson. A feature of the meeting was the reading by Mr. Neally of a paper prepared by Mr. Armor upon the history of the early water development in Orange county, dating back to the time of organizing the Anaheim Water Company in 1857. The article was prepared for a history of Orange county, now in press, and as soon as permission can be obtained from the publishers it will be reproduced in these columns. A discussion of water litigation took up some time and was listened to with great interest. Mr. Armor contended that every water lawsuit settled laid another foundation stone in the stability of our water resources. He wanted no legislature commission to take over... purpose of regulating the cutting of timber on private lands was amended at the suggestion of the State Forester and other interested parties and finally failed to pass the Legislature. Possibly this is just as well for the reason that a Conservation Commission has recently been appointed by the Governor for the purpose of "Investigating and gathering data and information concerning the subject of forestry, water, the use of water, water power, electricity, electrical and other power, mines and mining, mineral and other lands, dredging, reclamation and irrigation, and for revising, systematizing, and reforming the laws of this State upon, concerning, regarding or appertaining to these said subjects." This Commission is to report to the next session of the legislature and as the matter is to be fully investigated, it is possible that better results may be obtained by waiting the action of this Commission and working with it, than by attempting to secure legislation as recommended by this Committee only. Your Chairman has been appointed by the Governor a member of this Conservation Commission and any suggestions the members of this Committee may have concerning the different subjects which are to be considered by the commission will be presented to the Commission by him. The work of conserving the waters of the Santa Ana river has been carried on the past year by the Water Conservation Association on a larger scale than ever before. It is certain that this work is having a beneficial effect on the water supply of the San Bernardino Artesian Basin and the extent of the benefit cannot be demonstrated as yet. Careful measurements are being taken by the interested parties and these data will be available at the close of the present year. It may be possible at that time to determine just what effect the spreading of storm water is having on the sources of our water supply. From many sources comes the statement that artesian wells have increased in flow, and others have begun to flow at high elevations in the artesian basin where water has not reached the surface of the ground through the well casing for many years past. This Committee and the interest it represents are greatly indebted to the members of the Legislature from the three counties interested and to Governor Johnson for cooperation in Consomme Julian Olives Pickles Filet of Sole Tailor Sauce Parisian Potatoes Lamb Chops Breaded New Peas Prime Rib of Beef, Au jaus Brown Potatoes Lettuce Salad Pineapple Ice Cake Black Coffee, Crackers and Cheese Olives Pickles Decorations Smilax and California Poppies Chef Mr. Wm. Duplus of Los Angeles, who is to remain at The Germania After dinner the delegates were driven about the countryside in autos, and later were taken to their train. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Sale of Local School Bond Issue Set for May 16 W. E. Adkinson of Trabuco was appointed fire warden by the Board of Supervisors at their meeting this week, to serve from June 15 to Nov. 15 at a salary of $75 a month. The appointment was made by the Board by a vote of four for Adkinson to one for M. H. Forster of San Juan Capistrano. Adkinson will probably patrol the district from Trabuco canyon north toward the Santa Ana river. Assemblyman Bishop as president From many sources comes the statement that artesian wells have increased in flow, and others have begun to flow at high elevations in the artesian basin where water has not reached the surface of the ground through the well casing for many years past. This Committee and the interest it represents are greatly indebted to the members of the Legislature from the three counties interested and to Governor Johnson for cooperation in securing money for carrying on this very necessary work. Respectfully submitted, FRANCES CUTTLE, Chairman." Following the reading of the report, Mr. Clarke said he had just received a telegram from Mr. Cuttle, who was at Sacramento, saying Gov. Johnson had signed a bill appropriating $5000 for protecting the San Bernardino mountain watershed from fires. However, only half the amount was made available this year, beginning July 1st. Following Cuttle's suggestion the meeting took up and discussed finances. Secretary Yokum read a financial report which showed the three counties owing sums to the committee as follows: Orange $225, Riverside $438.76 and San Bernardino $1340.50. After discussion it was resolved to procure not to exceed $1000 for immediate use in clearing the fire lanes in the San Bernardino mountains of the perennial growth of eight feet and which when dry will this summer become a great menace in starting as well as spreading forest fires. George Robertson of San Bernardino spoke at some length upon the growth of chapparel and shrubbery in the mountains. He said he had been a close student of these things for eighteen years, but had never seen such phenomenal growth of timber and underbrush in all his experience. The growth of shrubbery along fire lanes is up from six to eight feet, and a appointed fire warden by the Board of Supervisors at their meeting this week, to serve from June 15 to Nov. 15 at a salary of $75 a month. The appointment was made by the Board by a vote of four for Adkinson to one for M. H. Forster of San Juan Capistrano. Adkinson will probably patrol the district from Trabuco canyon north toward the Santa Ana river. Assemblyman Bishop as president of the Newport Harbor Association went before the supervisors and got an appropriation of $50 for gathering data to be presented to Lieut. Leeds in regard to the necessity of improving Newport Bay. The Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce is preparing a report to be presented to Lieut. Leeds, who is head of the government engineers in Southern California. Bishop was requested by Lieut. Leeds to provide data showing the shipping of the territory that would be tributary to an improved harbor. Bishop is to have someone go to Riverside, San Bernardino, Pomona and other places to collect figures from statistician's reports and railroad agents. The report of the viewers of the R. Y. Williams road in the Olive district was accepted. Jacob Kozina objected to the opening of the road. Notice was ordered published that the county will re-open a road through the Hellman tract in Los Alamitos road district. The road was petitioned for by George Gothard and others. The Board granted permits to the City of Anaheim to lay sewer lines on roads leading to the Magnolia country, and to the Anaheim Sugar Co. for water pipes. The sale of $70,000 Anaheim Union High School bonds and $30,000 Anaheim grammar school bonds was set for 11 o'clock, May 16. Have your eyes tested by Theo Roberts, graduate optician. GOT A JOB AND FAIR BRIDE Why the Mexican Climate Did Not Agree With Ted Dickel Ted Dickel and bride are enjoying their honeymoon with relatives here, and during the week have been guests at a number of social functions in their honor. The groom is mingling business with pleasure, and this week submitted a report of the Republic mine to a number of Santa Ana stockholders. The mine which is one of the richest in the northwest gives every promise of becoming a world-beater. "We are down 600 feet with the drill, and have 15 million tons of ore in sight. This ore runs from $10 to $3000 per ton. Handling this ore at a rate of 1000 tons daily, there is enough in sight to occupy our mill for upward of forty years." Ted was located at Rosario, Sinaloa, for six months, but found the climate did not agree with him and decided to return to this country. He received several offers from other mines, one being from the manager of Dan Burns' mine in Sinaloa. The Republic mine telegraphed an offer of the superintendency of its mill. For good and sufficient reasons Ted accepted, and when it was announced some weeks ago that he had wedded the prettiest girl in Spokane, whom he knew during his university days at Berkeley, everybody knew why the Mexican climate did not agree with his health, and why he declined lucrative positions offered him elsewhere. HADSELL WINS A POINT Appellate Court sustains Lower Tribunal on Intervenor Miguel Fernandez is out of the case of H. S. Hadsall against the Case, Hinze Co. A remittitur has come to the office of County Clerk Williams showing that the Appellate Court has sustained Judge West in his ruling throwing Fernandez out of court in the action. Hadsall brought suit against the Case, Hinze Co. for one-fourth of the profit of the building and sale of the sugar factory on South Main street in Santa Ana to the Southern California Sugar Go. Hadsall sued on the ground that he had promoted the factory under an agreement to get one-fourth of the profits. After the action was begun, Fernandez of Los Angeles came in as an intervenor, alleging that he and Hadsall were partners in promotion business and that he was entitled to half of whatever judgment might be given in Hadsall's favor. Fernandez failed to make a case, according to Judge West's decision, and on appeal Judge West was sustained. PRISONER WRITES HOME "Tell Mother Not to Worry," Says Young Franke There is joy in the household of Fred Franke at Santa Ana, for a letter has been received from Franke's son, Alfred, who, though a prisoner of war at Chihuahua, Mex., reports: "Tell mother not to worry, as I am all right; I am doing fine." A rumor had reached Fred Franke and his wife that their son had been stood up against a wall and shot, and the letter lifted a world of gloom. Alfred joined the rebel ranks near El Paso and was taken prisoner at Casas Grandes. That much the family knew from the dispatches, but they had no word directly from him since January. Young Franke, writing from the Chihuahua jail, tells of his experiences as follows: "I was made prisooner March 6 at Casas Grandes. It was a hard fight. They kept us in Casas Grandes till the troops were sent here. There are thirteen more Americans and two Germans besides the Mexican prisoners. "We met with very good treatment from the Federal officers, better than we expected. They gave us tobacco and plenty of food, and when they spoke to us it was with respect. "When we left Casas Grandes we walked all the way, about 200 miles. That was hard, very hard. When we arrived we felt like tramps and I guess we looked the part. During the trip we did not get much to eat, FAMOUS WALNUT ORCHARD Top-Grafted Trees Are Solving Blight Problem Twenty-five acres of top-grafted walnuts in the orchard of J. B. Neff southwest of town are pioneering the way for a final solution of the blight problem. These trees, set in an orchard of 55 acres, have many of them attained the same size as the other trees, and where top-grafting occurred three years ago the trees are as stately as any in the miniature forest. Planted 48 feet apart, the branches interlap, the growth being the dark green foliage common to the thrifty tree. One of the top-grafted trees which formerly did not produce a nut, now has a fine crop, while others top-grafted are doing as well. Mr. Neff expects three-quarters of a ton of walnuts per acre from his tract this year. The trees are heavily laden, and little if any blight has appeared. He confidently believes he has solved the blight problem by top-grafting with scions from trees showing resistance to blight. Judging from appearances, it must be said that he has been successful, for it is difficult to find a particle of blight in the entire orchard. Mr. Neff has recently installed a forty-horse power electric motor at his pumping plant, and raises a flow of 150 to 160 inches. Half his orchard is planted to vetches, which are four feet high, and are now being plowed under. He plants vetches every year, going over half the orchard one year and the remainder the next. The orchard is attracting no little attention outside the county as well as at home, and a Berkeley professor recently said it was among the best orchards in the State. Y. M. C. A. RELAY RACE Orange County Boys Expect to Make Good Showing The time of last year to be cut considerably is the opinion of one FINAL HEARING TODAY Highway Commission Will Hear Arguments on Roads The Orange County Highway Commission has set Thursday, May 11, at 10 o'clock at the court house as the time and place of the final hearing of those not satisfied with the system of good roads proposed by the commission. The commission has met with citizens from various parts of the county at different times, but when the report was last filed with the board of supervisors there were several from the lowlands district who asked for further hearing. The board of supervisors referred the report back. Secretary R. T. Harris of the commission sent notices to Garden Grove, Westminster, Huntington Beach, Smeltzer, Bolsa, Bay City and Fred Bixby, manager of the Hellman ranch near Bay City, of the meeting May 11. WHY MEN EVADE POLL-TAX Do Not Know It Is To Be Used Exclusively for Schools Thirty counties of the state are throwing away school money, and the other twenty-eight counties are losing a great deal that they should have—all through the careless collection of the poll tax. This tax is credited to the state school fund, under a mandatory provision of the Constitution, and may not be used for any other purpose. Thousands of people evade it who would cheerfully pay it if they knew that it was for the exclusive use of the schools; but very few know what it is for, and think of it only as a senseless burden, and of escaping it as a rather clever little adventure. It should be remembered, also, that this is the only tax that reaches such foreigners as the Japanese, Hindoos, and Chinese, who do not own property, either real or personal. The poll tax compels these people to make at least this much return every year for the privilege of living in America and sharing the wages paid to American labor. The careless way this tax is collected is seen from the small amount of revenue it brings in. For example, the poll tax collections for the year 1909-10 totalled only $687,953.49 for the whole state. This is an average of only $1.49 for every child enumerated besides the Mexican prisoners. "We met with very good treatment from the Federal officers, better than we expected. They gave us tobacco and plenty of food, and when they spoke to us it was with respect. "When we left Casas Grandes we walked all the way, about 200 miles. That was hard, very hard. When we arrived we felt like tramps and I guess we looked the part. During the trip we did not get much to eat, for they could not stop to cook whenever we wished to. "The American Consul is doing all he can for us. When we had no food he sen' us food. Yesterday, through the aid of other Americans, he furnished us with clothes, which we certainly needed very badly, besides giving us tobacco and soap. "We are greatly in need of coin. If you should send any money, send it to the Consul, or I may not get it. This is a Mexican prison we are in now, and the food is not of the best. So you see a little money will help quite a lot. Tell mother not to worry, as I am all right; I am doing fine." The father of the captive insurgent sent him some money recently. CRANE'S "HAMLET" UNAPPRECIATED When William H. Crane was younger and less discreet he had a vaunting ambition to play "Hamlet." So with his first profits he organized his own company and he went to an inland western town to give vent to his ambition and "try it on." When he came back to New York a group of friends noticed that the actor appeared to be much downcast. "What's the matter? Didn't they appreciate it, Crane?" asked one of his friends. "They didn't seem to," laconically answered the actor. "Well, didn't they give any encouragement? Didn't they ask you to come before the curtain?" persisted the friend. "Ask me?" answered Crane. "Man, they dared me." WHEN A SHIP KICKS When sailors join a ship almost the first question asked by each one as he takes the wheel for the first time is, "Does she kick?" Kicking, as it is called by the seamen, is due to the action of the water under the lee of the rudder Germans besides the Mexican prisoners. "We met with very good treatment from the Federal officers, better than we expected. They gave us tobacco and plenty of food, and when they spoke to us it was with respect. "When we left Casas Grandes we walked all the way, about 200 miles. That was hard, very hard. When we arrived we felt like tramps and I guess we looked the part. During the trip we did not get much to eat, for they could not stop to cook whenever we wished to. "The American Consul is doing all he can for us. When we had no food he sen' us food. Yesterday, through the aid of other Americans, he furnished us with clothes, which we certainly needed very badly, besides giving us tobacco and soap. "We are greatly in need of coin. If you should send any money, send it to the Consul, or I may not get it. This is a Mexican prison we are in now, and the food is not of the best. So you see a little money will help quite a lot. Tell mother not to worry, as I am all right; I am doing fine." The father of the captive insurgent sent him some money recently." Y. M. C. A. RELAY RACE Orange County Boys Expect to Make Good Showing The time of last year to be cut considerably, is the opinion of one member of the Santa Barbara-Redlands Relay Race committee. Mr. Gaines, secretary of the San Bernardino Y.M.C.A., says that he believes the time will be one hour faster than last year. The chairman of the committee, Mr. Clyde Doyle of the Long Beach Young Men's Christian Association, thinks that the Orange county runners will receive the message at Garden Grove about noon. That would put the runners through Anaheim about 12:20 and into Fullerton around one o'clock. The Orange county boys say they will do better than they did last year, as they are in better condition. There will be quite a number of the Anaheim boys in the run this year. PER CAPITA DINERO If you cannot run your hand into your pocket and haul forth a roll of $34.55, you are not financially an average man. A statement just issued by the United States treasury department gives that amount as the average per capita circulation, basing the figures upon an estimated population on May 1, 1911, of 93,705,000. The department showed that on that date there was a general stock of money amounting to $3,546,574,337, which included $308,936,220 held in the treasury and $3,237,638,117 in circulation. School children's eyes should be taken care of. Have them tested free at Hartfield's. EDWARD HYATT, Superintendent of Public Instruction. WHEN A SHIP KICKS When sailors join a ship almost the first question asked by each one as he takes the wheel for the first time is, "Does she kick?" Kicking, as it is called by the seamen, is due to the action of the water under the lee of the rudder when the vessel's stern, which has for the moment been borne skyward on the crest of a wave, falls back again into the trough with such terrific force as to make her tremble fore and aft and perhaps wrench the wheel from the grasp of the steersman. Sometimes it happens that he is taken unawares, and being unable to let go in time is flung right over the wheel to the other side of the deck, often receiving serious injuries. Sometimes a man will be pitched right overboard into the sea, and a recent case is known of a man who received a blow under the chin from one of the spokes and died a few days later from the effects. THE PRESIDENT'S FIRST PANTS When President Taft was seven his mother bought him a pair of short duck trousers. The first time they were washed they shrank badly. The boy was fat, but his mother wedged him into the trousers against his protest. He went out to play, but in a few minutes returned. "Mamma," he said, "I can't wear these pants; they are too tight. Why, Mamma, they are tighter than my skin." "Oh, no, they're not, Billy," replied his mother. "Nothing could be tighter than your skin." "Well, all the same, these pants are. I can sit down in my skin, but I can't in these pants." IN LIFE'S MAY DAY AND YOUR PAY DAY, THEN PUT MONEY IN THE BANK YOU MIGHT NEED IT SOME DAY. You will grow old; your earning powers will fail. Few men are so prosperous today that they can afford to overlook this. Are you getting ready for old age? The day you start a bank account you will feel younger and happier. Try it. Begin now. 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