anaheim-gazette 1912-02-01

The Weekly Gazette. ESTABLISHED 1870 Henry Kuchel Editor and Proprietor The Gazette is issued every Thursday morning. SUBSCRIPTION...$1.50 Per Year Six Months...$1.00 Three Months...50 Cts. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter. MANY AT MASQUERADE Concordia Club Enfertains Large Assemblage at Opera House Four hundred people assembled at the opera-house on Thursday evening to attend the masquerade ball given by the Concordia Singing Society. The affair was a great success. The floor was filled with dancers and merriment reigned until a late hour. Many beautiful costumes were worn by ladies and gentlemen and great was the surprise in many instances when time for unmasking arrived. Miss Mabel Gade, Mrs. Alvin Nowotny, Ed Crowther, Adolph Thomas and L. B. Weber, as judges, awarded first prize to the ladies, a silver toilet set., to Miss Katie Cordes, who represented a fairy. Second prize, for ladies, a silver mesh bag, was awarded Mrs. Herman Noll, in the character of a Spanish dancer. First prize for gentlemen, a brass writing set, was awarded Tom Hoag, as Mephistopheles. For the finest costume, Mr. Van Heidecamp was awarded a silver shaving set. The Katzenjammer family group prize of $5 in trade at Theodore Roberts' jewelry store. POVERTY OF CHINA Misery of the Millions That Are Always Hungry. GRIM STRUGGLES FOR FOOD. Horses, Donkeys, Mules and Camels When No Longer Fit For Work Are Turned Into Butcher's Meat—The Gleaners on the Sugar Wharfs. Writing of the millions and millions of inland China, whose lives are spent face to face with starvation, Edward Alsworth Ross in the Century says: "No natural resource is too trifling to be turned to account by the teeming population. The sea is raked and strained for edible plunder. Seaweed and kelp have a place in the larder. Great quantities of shellfish no bigger than one's finger nail are opened and made to yield a food that finds its way far inland. The fungus that springs up in the grass after a rain is eaten. Fried sweet potato vines furnish the poor man's table. The roadside ditches are bailed out for the sake of fishes no longer than one's finger. Great panniers of strawberries, half of them still green, are collected in the mountain ravines and offered in the markets. No weed or stalk escapes the bamboo rake of the autumnal fuel gatherer. The grass tufts on the rough slopes are dug up by the roots. The sickle reaps the grain close to the ground, for straw and chaff are needed to burn under the rice kettle. The leaves of the trees are a crop to be carefully gathered. One never sees a rotting stump or a mossy log. Bundles of brush carried miles on the human back heat the brick kiln and the potter's fur-" The total operations include freight and passenger for mail and express all other traffic services; average receipts for a little more than the total mileage of $1054 a mile, a deduction from the receipts there was decreased receipts in both free service. The decrease distributed. The central part of the country slight decrease for comparison with while the lines in station show a slight lines in the west ing off. In the tenue, the receipts portation represent and receipts for publication 20.8 per cent coming from mail, sources. Operating exper- lower average per include all costs track and equipment operating trains, of of administration, new construction ed first prize to the ladies, a silver toilet set., to Miss Katie Cordes, who represented a fairy. Second prize, for ladies, a silver mesh bag, was awarded Mrs. Herman Noll, in the character of a Spanish dancer. First prize for gentlemen, a brass writing set, was awarded Tom Hoag, as Mephistopheles. For the finest costume, Mr. Van Heldecamp was awarded a silver shaving set. The Katzenjammer family group prize of $5 in trade at Theodore Roberts' jewelry store, was awarded Herman Schindler and wife and Misses Sophie Schindler and Elsa Lensing. Deserving of especial mention were Misses Estelle Newcombe, in the character of Little Bo Peep; Charley Fisher and Victor Lamont as Dutch peasants; Misses Lizzie Yoern and Olga Wipperman as the Yama-Yama girls; Mrs. Jauernik, who wore a costume brought direct from Germany. The Concordia tableau was voted as great by all. It represented a gypsy camp with a dancing bear as principal attraction. Beside the costumes mentioned there were many others on the floor that received much attention. WILLS FILED IN COURT Probate of Estates of McFadden and Lovering Asked For Two wills were filed for probate this week. One was the will of Wm. E. McFadden, the Placentia rancher who was killed on Jan. 9 when his automobile turned over on him near Fullerton. The will was written on May 18, 1907, and leaves McFadden's estate to the widow, Lucana Gaudalape McFadden. This will was written before the birth of the only child left by deceased. The will was witnessed by Joe and Mrs. Emily Wagner of Placentia. The estate for which administration is sought consists of forty shares in the Placentia-Pioneer ranch company, valued at $4000. Other property that stands in the name of William E. McFadden is the sole property of Mrs. McFadden. The second will filed for probate is that of M. V. B. Lovering, a Fullerton pioneer, who died on Jan. 12, leaving an estate valued at $22,000. The will was written on Feb. 15, 1911, and leaves the property as a life estate of the widow, Mary A. Lovering, on her death to be equally divided among the children. The petitioner for letters is a daughter of the deceased, Edith Blick of Lemon Cove. The culine of China is one of the great toothsome cuisines of the world, but for the common people the stomach and not the palate decides what shall be food. The silkworms are eaten after the cocoon has been unwound from them. After their work is done horses, donkeys, mules and camels become butcher's meat. The cow or pig that has died a natural death is not disdained. In Canton dressed rats and cats are exposed for sale. Scenting a possible opening for a tannery, the governor of Hongkong once set on foot an inquiry as to what became of the skins of the innumerable pigs slaughtered in the colony. He learned that they were all made up as 'marine delicacy' and sold among the Chinese. Another time he was on the point of ordering the extermination of the mangy curs that infest the villages in the Kowloon district because they harassed the Silkh policemen in the performance of their duties. He found just in time that such an act would 'interfere with the food of the people,' something a British colonial governor must never do. Though the farmer thriftily combs his harvest field, every foot of the short stubble is gone over again by poor women and children, who are content if in a day's gleaning they can gather a handful of wheat heads to keep them alive on the morrow. On the Hongkong water front the path of the coolies carrying produce between warehouse and junk is lined with tattered women, most of them with a baby on the back. Where bugs of beans or rice are in transit a dozen wait with basket and brush to sweep up the grains dropped from the sacks. On a wharf where crude sugar is being repacked squat sixty women scraping the inside of the discarded sacks, while others run by the bearer, if his sack leaks a little, to catch the particles as they fall. When sugar is being unloaded a mob of glenners swarm upon the lighter the moment the last sack leaves and eagerly scrape from the gangplank and the deck the sugar mixed with dirt that for two hours has been trampled into a muck by the bare feet of... The second will filed for probate in that of M. V. B. Lovering, a Fullerton pioneer, who died on Jan. 12, leaving an estate valued at $22,000. The will was written on Feb. 15, 1911, and leaves the property as a life estate of the widow, Mary A. Lovering, on her death to be equally divided among the children. The petitioner for letters is a daughter of the deceased, Edith Blick of Lemon Cove. WILL YOU ADMIT us so we can tell you about our VALENTINES We have a large stock of all kinds. There are the beautiful kind for highly esteemed friends and others of the comic kind with witty verses. These are so cheap that no one should miss sending one. From one cent up. JOS. HELMSEN RAILWAY BUSINESS IN NOVEMBER, 1911 Tables prepared by the bureau of railway economics from the reports made by the railways for that month to the interstate commerce commission show that the business done by the railways of the United States in the month of November was somewhat less than the business done in November, 1910, when measured by the average per mile, the only basis on which comparison can properly be made. The total operating revenues of railways include their receipts for freight and passenger transportation, for mail and express service, and for all other traffic service rendered. The average receipts in November, 1911, for a little more than 90 per cent of the total mileage of the country, were $1054 a mile, a decline of $18 a mile from the receipts in November, 1910. There was decrease in average receipts in both freight and passenger service. The decline was unevenly distributed. The lines of the eastern part of the country show only a slight decrease for November, 1911, in comparison with November, 1910, while the lines in the southern section show a slight increase and the lines in the western section a falling off. In the total operating revenue, the receipts for freight transportation represent 71.7 per cent and receipts for passenger transportation 20.8 per cent, the remainder coming from mail, express and other sources. Operating expenses also show a lower average per mile of line. These include all costs of maintaining the track and equipment, the cost of operating trains, of securing traffic and of administration, but do not include new construction. Expenditure for ROYAL BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure The only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar NO ALUM, NO LIME PHOSPHATE CHECK KITER BOUND OVER Mr. Mendoza Having Heaps of Trouble About Dinero Nazario Mendoza, a Yorba Mexican who kited checks promiscuously in this city and at Fullerton during several months past, was held to answer in the superior court in bonds of $3500 at his preliminary examination at Santa Ana on Tuesday. Witnesses against him were John Ziegler, B. Hartfield and wife, E. J. Hartung and Tom Hedges. Three charges were preferred against him, involving bogus checks passed upon Ziegler and Federman, and one attempted to be passed upon Hartfield. Mendoza was taken to jail. He is represented by Wm. Brown of Orange, who was here some days ago attempting to square his client's misdeeds. OBITUARY Miss Mary M. Bauer, a native of Anaheim, aged 39 years and seven months, died at La Jolla, Cal., Jan. 22, after an illness of a year. She contracted a cold which developed thoroughly dependent upon its water supplies investigations, which will reveal the amount of water available in the streams and beneath the ground constitute the most important work of a preliminary kind that can be carried on. The people of California have recognized this and for many years have through their legislature cooperated with the United States geological survey in the determination of stream flow and the location of underground supplies. The geological survey has just issued Water Supply paper 271, entitled, "Surface water supply of California, 1909." The report contains the results of measurements of California rivers made during the year 1909 at regular stations maintained by the survey in cooperation with the office of the state engineer. All the important rivers of the state are covered in this investigation, and in addition many of the smaller tributaries and irrigation canals. There are in all 83 stations for which data are reported in this publication, and work has been carried on in a way that affords for almost every stream... Operating expenses also show a lower average per mile of line. These include all costs of maintaining the track and equipment, the cost of operating trains, of securing traffic and of administration, but do not include new construction. Expenditure for maintenance of tracks and buildings was reduced by an average of $2.40 a mile as compared with expenditure in November, 1910. For the maintenance of equipment there was an increase averaging 10 cents a mile; and the cost of conducting transportation, an item representing about one-half the total operating expense, was reduced by an average of 8 cents per mile. By the reduction in expenditure for maintenance of track and of buildings the roads were enabled to make a slight offset to the shrinkage in operating revenues. The net revenues, that is, the difference between total operating revenues and total operating expenses, averaged $16 less per mile of line in November, 1911, than in November, 1910, which is a decrease of 4.3 per cent. This so-called net revenue is, in fact, gross profits out of which must come taxes, amounting in November to $9,676,976 or an average of $43 a mile, rentals, interest on bonds, dividends, and appropriations for improvements. The falling off of 1.6 per cent in operating revenues contrasts with an increase of 12.7 per cent in taxes. HOLDS POLICY IS VALID Fullerton Woman Avers Insurance Co. Knew Facts Lena M. Scott of Fullerton contends that the $1000 policy on the life of her mother, Mary L. Young, is payable, and she has filed an answer and cross-complaint in the superior court showing that she is going to fight for the money. The suit was brought by the Security life insurance company of America. The complaint asserted that the policy was written on Nov. 16, 1910, and that at that time Mrs. Young was suffering from typhoid fever.She died on Feb. 23, 1911, of appendicitis. Plaintiff asked the court to cancel the policy. The answer and cross-complaint tempted to be passed upon Hartfield. Mendoza was taken to jail. He is represented by Wm. Brown of Orange, who was here some days ago attempting to square his client's misdeeds. OBITUARY Miss Mary M. Bauer, a native of Anaheim, aged 39 years and seven months, died at La Jolla, Cal., Jan. 22, after an illness of a year. She contracted a cold which developed into pulmonary trouble, resulting in her death. Miss Bauer was a nurse by profession, and too close application to her duties probably was a factor in undermining her health. She had resided in this section the greater part of her life. The floral tributes at the obsequies attested to the esteem in which Miss Bauer was held. The funeral services were held on Thursday, Jan. 25, under the auspices of the Christian Science Society, of which Miss Bauer was an active member. Interment was in the family plot in Anaheim cemetery. Deceased is survived by two brothers and four sisters. CARD OF THANKS We desire to express our sincere thanks to relatives and friends for their kindnesses and beautiful floral tributes offered us through our bereavement of our dear sister Mary. Bauer Family. DIDN'T SEE THE POINT The young chancellor of a certain judicial district in the south was sorely vexed at the amount of his time and that of his court which was consumed in the hearing of negro divorce cases. Accordingly when the case of Lucindy Johnson versus Lige Johnson was called, and he recognized in the person of the dusky complainant one of the tenants on a place of his, he asked Lucindy what the trouble was between her and Lige. "Taint no use, jedge," she replied; "I jez nacherly caint live wid dat nigger, no moar. He 'buses me, an' cusses me somethin' scanlus." Well knowing the ngro's fondness for scriptural quotations, and thinking Lucindy would recognize the origin of the one he was about to use, he asked: "Have you ever tried 'heaping the coals of fire upon his head?" "Nos'ser; nos'ser, I aint never ah done dat. Hosomever," she added reminiscently, "I done bust er skillet over his haid, but hit aint done one CLARENCE DARROW ARRESTED Noted Lawyer Indicted by Grand Jury for Bribery Clarence Darrow, leading laborite lawyer of the country and chief counsel for the McNamara brothers in their recent trial for murder and dynamiting, was indicted by the Los Angeles county grand jury on two counts, one for the bribery of Geo. N. Lockwood, prospective juror, and the other for bribing Juror Robert Rain in the McNamara trial. Darrow immediately provided $20,000 in bail, Mrs. LeCompte Davis and Chas. S. Young qualifying on the bond.Mrs. Davis is the wife of Darrow's associate counsel in the famous trial, and Young is a wealthy oil man living near Redondo. When Darrow was asked to make a statement, he said: "I cannot talk specifically of the case at this time. I have repeatedly stated that I had nothing to do with or knew nothing about the attempt to fix a McNamara juror. I simply reiterate this statement. I will fight the case vigorously and confidently believe that in a fair trial I will be acquitted." Several days ago Darrow retained Earl Rogers to defend him in case a defense should become necessary. It is announced that Judge Cyrus McNutt will be associated with Rogers. While Darrow seems confident he will be acquitted Assistant District Attorney Ford and Attorney Arthur Keetch, who prosecuted the evidence before the Los Angeles grand jury, are satisfied that he will be convicted. The indictments are drawn under sections 92 and 95 of the California penal code, the crime under the first The suit was brought by the Security life insurance company of America. The complaint asserted that the policy was written on Nov. 16, 1910, and that at that time Mrs. Young was suffering from typhoid fever. She died on Feb. 23, 1911, of appendicitis. Plaintiff asked the court to cancel the policy. The answer and cross-complaint state that previous to Nov. 16, 1910, Mrs. Young had had typhoid fever, but that by that date she had recovered, that A. H. Horwitz, the agent of the life insurance company, who had solicited the policy, and Dr. Beebe, who examined the applicant for the insurance company, were both thoroughly familiar with the facts of her illness, and the policy was issued with that knowledge. The defendant asks the court for a decree ordering that Lena M. Scott be paid $1000. CHINAWARE PASSED UP Board of Trade Committee Decline Factory A committee of the board of trade consisting of Geo. W. Hamler, Charles Eygabroad and F. C. Krause on Tuesday passed up the offer of the Los Angeles chinaware manufacturing company. Promoters of the company were here last week, and their offer was referred to a committee for consideration. Their proposition was that this city subscribe $75,000 for stock, and the company to issue the promoters $60,000 stock for promoting the enterprise. The committee discussed the matter in executive session and announced the offer would not be accepted. Well knowing the nggro's fondness for scriptural quotations, and thinking Lucindy would recognize the origin of the one he was about to use, he asked: "Have you ever tried 'heaping the coals of fire upon his head?" "Nos'ser; nos'ser, I aint never ah done dat. Hosomever," she added reminiscently, "I done bust er skillet over his haid, but hit aint done one particle bit er good, jedge, not one bit." OUR PRINCIPAL STREAMS Interesting Data Upon Rivers in California California's material progress has in large part been measured by its water-supply development. In the days of '49 its first great boom was the result of finding gol' in a creek bottom, and throughout the early days the rapid growth of California was made possible by the development of water supplies for use in placer mining. Later came the great irrigation activities, and especially in Southern California have the agricultural products become so valuable that in that part of the state water is probably worth more than it is anywhere else in the country. Throughout the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys water has the same relatively large values for irrigation. Still later came the recognition of the enormous importance of California water powers. In a very few years California's water power development has grown until the state ranks second only to New York, the total installed horsepower in the year 1911 being over 500,000. It is apparent that in a state so nigger, no moar. He 'buses me an'cusses me somethin' scanlus." While Darrow seems confident he will be acquitted Assistant District Attorney Ford and Attorney Arthur Keetch, who prosecuted the evidence before the Los Angeles grand jury, are satisfied that he will be convicted. The indictments are drawn under sections 92 and 95 of the California penal code, the crime under the first section being the giving or offering of a bribe to a juror, to influence him as a juror, with penalty of one to ten years in the penitentiary. Under section 95, referring to the unlawful influence of jurors, etcetera, the penalty in maximum is a fine not to exceed $5000, imprisonment of not more than five years, or both. That P. R. Stock, a brisk looking, neat appearing young man, now in the county jail, has a criminal record that runs all the way from Puget Sound to Tia Juana is now proven. Stock was arrested at Ukiah, and was brought back here by Sheriff Ruddock, and is now awaiting a trial in the superior court on a charge of giving an Anaheim bank a worthless draft for $500. According to information received by Constable Jackson, Stock was given parole in Walla Walla, Wash., after he had served two years for passing a worthless check. At that place Stock was known as Henry D. Newton. Stock served ninety days last summer at San Diego for beating a board bill. At that place he was known as Geo. L. Bennett. Pinkerton detectives credit Stock with having secured over $11,000 up and down the coast, by swindling. What he has done with it is more than anyone can imagine. NOW IS THE PROPER TIME TO ORDER YOUR New Spring Suit ...TAILOR MADE... 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Southern California Edison Co. WILL INVESTIGATE District Attorney West has received an answer from the Santa Fe to a letter written by the district attorney as the result of the petition of San Juan Capistrano residents for the installation of some method of giving warning of the approach of trains, some of which go through the mission town at a high rate of speed. The Santa Fe states that it will investigate the conditions, and will then appear before the board of supervisors, either to undertake to show that the warnings are not necessary or to agree to take the step petitioned for. The attitude of the company will depend upon the report of whoever is sent to investigate. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Rimpau were SCHNEIDER BROTHERS Successors to F. W. FLEISCHMANN City Meat Market FRESH AND CURED MEATS OF ALL KINDS .. FRESH BUTTER .. Fresh Sealship Oysters. We make a Specialty of Roasts. LEONARD EVANS Mr. and Mrs. Jim Rimpau were here on Sunday from Chino visiting relatives. Bert Simpson and George W. Hamler were business visitors in Los Angeles yesterday. A dance will be given by society folks at the Buena Park schoolhouse the evening of Saturday, Feb. 3. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Vall are rejoicing over the advent of a daughter at their home on Sunday, Jan. 28th. In speaking of the general frostlessness of the La Habra valley, Walter Hole, the well-known real estate operator, stated that yesterday ripe tomatoes were being gathered there preparatory to shipment. George H. Warren, prominent merchant of Buena Park, was in town on Monday. Mr. Warren reports his business increasing to such an extent that the first of the year he was compelled to employ another delivery wagon. Mrs. Paul Wessinger and daughter Miss Milla of Portland, Or., daughter and grand daughter of the late Henry Weinhardt, who are touring Southern California in their auto, were guests on Sunday of their old-time friend, Mrs. Max Nebelung. Joseph Dubbel was a visitor in Los Angeles the first of the week.