anaheim-gazette 1912-07-04

The Weekly Gazette. ESTABLISHED 1870 Henry Kuchel, Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION.....$1.50 Per Year Six Months.....$1.00 Three Months.....50 Cts. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter. VOTE THE BRIDGE BONDS Voters of Orange county will, on July 20, have an opportunity of passing judgment upon a bond issue of $100,000 for the construction of bridges along the line of the state highway to be built through this county. In another column will be found an interview with Chairman Talbert of the Board of Supervisors, in which he states succinctly the merits of the proposition now before us. The state highway commission has informed the supervisors that no bridges can be built out of the $18,000,000 state bond issue, and that these structures must be built by those counties through which the road passes. The amount asked for by the supervisors is for this purpose alone. While the amount is not sufficient to include a number of important bridges in the county, these structures will be taken care of later, when another bond issue of a million dollars or more will be asked for the construction of lateral roads and bridges. While the state highway commission has not yet officially determined upon its route through Orange county, there is little doubt that it will traverse the inland route through this city, Fullerton and Santa Ana. This bond issue will provide for bridges along this route, and for no others. We cannot afford to vote adversely upon them, for that would be equivalent to informing the state highway commission that we are not prepared to meet conditions which they are placing upon us. We must build these bridges, or shall probably trial convicted and sentenced to be hanged, his attorney secured a reversal from the supreme court, and on the second trial Saiz was sentenced to life imprisonment. Mr. Weisel was mentioned in connection with the assembly two years ago, but declined to enter the contest. He is a young progressive of intelligent ideas and is personally well thought of by his many friends in this part of the county. STEPHENSON FOR THE ASSEMBLY T. E. Stephenson, who has announced that he is a candidate for the assembly from this district, ought to know the needs of the county, for he has lived here most of the time for the last twenty-eight years, having come here four years old. He was raised at West Orange by his aunt, Mrs. M. V. Adams, and her husband, an uncle of Henry M. Adams of Anaheim. He graduated from the grammar school at Orange and the Santa Ana High School, and from Stanford University in 1903. While in college he was editor of the college daily and on graduation naturally turned to newspaper work. After a year on the San Francisco Examiner and two years on the Fresno Republican, he entered his employment by the Santa Ana Register, of which he has been city editor since a few months after that paper started. Mr. Stephenson is a progressive and intelligent republican and if elected to the assembly will without doubt represent his constituents with credit to himself and honor to the county. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS A departure in the method of selecting presidential electors in the state of California will be inaugurated this year under the new primary law. Instead of party conventions selecting the electors, this will be done at a convention consisting of the assembly- sea of humanity than fro before you; cometh others with your own and environments and not included in the faeces. Pause long enough hapless cripples who the public thoroughfare of the poverty stricken is brought about cap over which they meet face to face their whose domestic transist disturbed by squalls talk to the wealthy nence is often made health; go into the ways of the world learn the true condition you will find myriad are far worse off than in your most troubled If you are fair with are fair with others, those moments of m sometimes crowd in ence and instead o manufactured hallucination tify yourself to meet life as they are present the wasted time here lamentations to trying hardships of others w fortunate than yourself. "Be thy brother's k those who need your lend a helping hand more unfortunate br depths of despair and no time to brood over discouragements which soon grow to enormou commission has not yet officially determined upon its route through Orange county, there is little doubt that it will traverse the inland route through this city, Fullerton and Santa Ana. This bond issue will provide for bridges along this route, and for no others. We cannot afford to vote adversely upon them, for that would be equivalent to informing the state highway commission that we are not prepared to meet conditions which they are placing upon us. We must build these bridges, or shall probably forfeit our portion of the state bond issue. The amount of money coming to Orange county from the state funds is probably $1,000,000, and it is incumbent upon our people to get together to the end that this money may be invested here. The foothill boulevard through Pomona and Riverside has many very strong advocates in the upper counties, and if this road be built we doubt very much whether the state highway will pass through Orange county. It is up to us to get busy, forget our differences and stand together to the end that we may soon see work beginning upon the state highway in this county. We have too much at stake to think for a moment of voting adversely upon these bridge bonds. If the amount is not sufficient to construct all the bridges necessary in the northern part of the county, those structures will be taken care of abundantly at a later date. We must have the state highway, and as a condition precedent thereto we must have these bridges. Vote for the bridge bonds. A. A. Mills has the right idea when he says the state highway commission will feel more like adopting the inland route when they see the inland route people are making an effort to help along with the work. Procrastinate! Stop and think just a minute—not too long! What can you do to help boost the town you are living in and doing business in? A moment's reflection will present the opportunity, then devote a whole lot of time to doing it. The nomination of Theo. Roosevelt by the new party has been delayed for six weeks. Why tarry? With the handicap the rough rider has to go up against he should be in the running at the earliest possible moment if he expects to finish inside the distance flag. The small boy, with the cannon cracker, should be full of caution on this, the anniversary of the nation's birthday. His own safety demands a intelligent republican and if elected to the assembly will without doubt represent his constituents with credit to himself and honor to the county. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS A departure in the method of selecting presidential electors in the state of California will be inaugurated this year under the new primary law. Instead of party conventions selecting the electors, this will be done at a convention consisting of the assemblymen—80 in number—and senators—20 nominated and 20 holdovers—and the 11 candidates for Congress, meeting in Sacramento at the capitol on October 1, the fourth Tuesday after the September primary. This convention—the nominees and the holdover senators of the different parties meeting in separate conventions—will formulate the state platforms of their party and select state central committees, consisting of at least three members from each congressional district, who shall hold office until new committees shall have been selected. The framers of the primary law held that the method was more representative of the wishes of the voters of the parties and that the candidates for office should formulate the platform on which they are to appear before the voters. California will have thirteen presidential electors on each ticket—Republican, Democratic and Socialist. "ALL IS NOT GOLD," ETC. In a story related before an inquiry board in Los Angeles last week Walter Scott, the "Death Valley Mystery," admitted that he was a fake. That all the "flash" he had made as to his knowledge of the location of untold wealth lying secreted in the mountains was a myth gotten up by a bunch of swindlers who had used him as a tool to carry out plans by which they would profit. He told the inquisitors that he never owned a mine, was not a miner and his only role was to make a big splurge and advertise himself as the spectacular and unbridled spendthrift, while all the time cunning schemers were reaping the reward of his advertising stunt. It is hard to tell whether his story is true or not. Maybe he is on the square this time and maybe he is just putting up another "stall" to mislead the people who are trying to decide whether he shall pay a doctor bill of $1,000. If this recent story is a fact it merely demonstrates how the people of this... The nomination of Theo. Roosevelt by the new party has been delayed for six weeks. Why tarry? With the handicap the rough rider has to go up against he should be in the running at the earliest possible moment if he expects to finish inside the distance flag. The small boy, with the cannon cracker, should be full of caution on this, the anniversary of the nation's birthday. His own safety demands a careful handling of firecrackers and the danger of frightening horses and starting fires should also cause him to use caution in his celebrating. The farmers are the last people in the world to complain against the high cost of living, for they are the ones who get the greatest benefit from it. It is the products of agriculture that occupy the front seats in the "high cost" bandwagon. The farmers may not get their full share of the present selling prices of farm crops, but they may be sure that they would get more of it if they would ogranize as other lines of industry have done. And they should remember also that there is a very great difference between the prices they get in 1912 and those they received during the free-trade Cleveland administration of two decades ago.—Burton (O.) Leader. H. V. Weisel announces his candidacy for the republican nomination for the assembly in this district. Mr. Weisel is a well-known practicing attorney of this city, and has lately achieved considerable reputation in saving Rosario Saiz from the hangman's noose. He was appointed by the superior court to defend the slayer, and while Saiz was on his first splurge and advertise himself as the spectacular and unbridled spendthrift, while all the time cunning schemers were reaping the reward of his advertising stunt. It is hard to tell whether his story is true or not. Maybe he is on the square this time and maybe he is just putting up another "stall" to mislead the people who are trying to decide whether he shall pay a doctor bill of $1,000. If this recent story is a fact it merely demonstrates how the people of this country will follow "the big holler" without stopping to investigate the source from which it eminates. It shows that the American people are susceptible to practically any "lime-light" demonstration that is put forward to gather in the unwary. It bears out the statement of that once famous circus man, P. T. Barnum, that "the people like to be humbugged." No story has ever been published to tell whether or not millions have been lost by following the lead of the spectacular "Scotty," but the probabilities are some have fallen victims to the glare and glitter of his hidden secret mines if this last story of the Death Valley "miner" is to be relied upon. JUST A THOUGHT Do you ever have the blues?" Are you subject to fits of melancholy when it seems the whole world is pitted against you in the battle for existence; when you think you are facing obstructions that are positively insurmountable? If you are so unfortunate as to find yourself in this class just raise the curtain of life and look out upon the ANAHEIM GAZETTE sea of humanity that surges to and fro before you; compare the lot of others with your own surroundings and environments and see if you are not included in the favored lot of God's creatures. Pause long enough to enumerate the hapless cripples who pass you upon the public thoroughfare; take a survey of the poverty stricken whose condition is brought about by some handicap over which they have no control; meet face to face the men and women whose domestic tranquility is often disturbed by squalls in the home life; talk to the wealthy man whose existence is often made miserable by ill health; go into the highways and byways of the world around you and learn the true condition of affairs and you will find myriads of people who are far worse off than you are even in your most troubled moments. If you are fair with yourself, if you are fair with others, you will forget those moments of melancholy which sometimes crowd in upon your existence and instead of brooding over manufactured hallucinations, will fortify yourself to meet the problems of life as they are presented and devote the wasted time heretofore given to lamentations to trying to alleviate the hardships of others who are more unfortunate than yourself. "Be thy brother's keeper." Seek out those who need your encouragement, lend a helping hand in lifting your more unfortunate brothers from the depths of despair and you will have no time to brood over those trifling discouragements which, when nursed, soon grow to enormous proportions. BRAIN LEAKS In the complex situation that has arisen in the national political field have you been able to figure our "just where you are at?" BRAIN LEAKS In the complex situation that has arisen in the national political field have you been able to figure our "just where you are at?" They say dollars are made round so as to keep them rolling. That old expression, "talk is cheap," was coined long before competitive telephone systems began invading every locality. Have you been doing your share in the "swatfest" started against the pesky fly? With frijoles selling cheap and the potato market on a downward trend we can see where we will be able to last through the summer. A headline in an exchange says "Rumor says Orazco will quit." We don't believe "Rumor" has her guessing bonnet on straight. Have you ever tried to figure out your "batting average" in the big game of life that is being played every day? Really, now, that the smoke of battle has cleared away and Taft is renominated by his party as standard bearer, can you, as a true republican, find any reason for withholding your support? Ask yourself if he hasn't made a conservative executive. He hasn't played in the limelight as much as his predecessor, but all his acts have been sincere and he has been a republican from start to finish. OPEN DITCHES NUISANCES The Fullerton Tribune says a decision of general interest to municipalities in California was rendered Friday by the supreme court of the state in the action brought by Santa Ana to compel the Santa Ana Valley Irrigation company to put underground its ditches on certain streets. The court holds that the city may compel the water company to put the ditches under the surface at the company's own expense. There is no further appeal. The suit was brought in 1908. The ditch company offered to pay one-half the cost of changing from open ditch to pipe line where there were open ditches in the streets. The city of Santa Ana passed an ordinance declaring that any open ditch on certain streets were a nuisance and must be removed. Under that ordinance suit was brought. The ditch outlay in 1912 might be greater than now anticipated or, contemplated. The company's chief expenditures will be for double-tracking west of Albuquerque and terminal enlargements. With $20,000,000 provided for capital requirements for two years, the Rock Island is prepared to engage in significant activities. It proposes this year to complete 70 miles of the Kansas City Short Line, possibly also a 531-mile lumber line in Louisiana and Arkansas, begin a new bridge at Memphis and go ahead with work on new terminals at that point and at Omaha. The Frisco will build a 100-mile double-tracked line to Peoria and Springfield, in addition to double-tracking and installation of signals on the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis. Some construction work will be carried forward in Texas from which state the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe have retired until the legislature can be induced to relax present progressive laws. HIGH PRICE PROBLEM In Kentucky the farmers have taken up the high cost of living problem and purpose to solve it so far as they and their families are concerned. Their solution, the co-operative plan, is not a new one. It has been tried at one time or another in various parts of the United States and in England. The Kentuckians, however, intend to make a more comprehensive trial than has been given elsewhere. They expect to begin by organizing a farmers' union covering the state and establishing central stores in every county seat in counties where the organization has been perfected. Wherever possible the stores will be conducted by union officers. In no case will a manager be other than a member. Wherever it can be done sons and daughters of union members will be employed as clerks. All profits will be turned into a common fund for each community and distributions of these profits made at stated periods. According to reports from Lexington a beginning has already been made. It is stated that unions have been organized in several counties, and wherever co-operative stores have been established they have given satisfaction. Solicitors for membership in these stores are constantly at work, and by the time the present tobacco, wheat and corn crops are ready for harvest many more counties will, it is expected, have taken up the matter and started on this way of solving the problem of high cost of living. The promoters of the movement are careful to explain that nobody is to make money out of the co-operative stores, as the entire profits are to be turned back to the farmers themselves. The stores are to carry every sort of goods, on the order of department stores. There is expected to be considerable opposition from general merchants in rural communities. But this, the farmers say, will not deter them. People will await with interest the outcome of the plan. High prices have become so serious a matter that any proposal that appears to promise relief is likely to be favorably received. If the Kentuckians can make a success of their co-operative scheme it may be large sum of $84,897,000 was set aside to cover dividends declared or apportioned for payment in 1912. On the ledgers of the companies the further sum of $222,000,000 was credited to policy holders, on December 31, 1911, for dividends calculated or provisionally ascertained under deferred dividend policies. Borrowing on life insurance occurred in smaller volume in 1911 than in 1910. On a larger amount of insurance in force the loans on policies increased only $40,949,000 against an increase in 1910 of $44,400,000. The use of insurance policies as collateral for loans negotiated with insurance companies was greatest in 1907, in which single year the policy loan account increased $72,587,000. Loan liens at the close of 1911 amounted to $482,345,000. This means that settlements under life insurance contracts have been anticipated in this vast sum; and to the extent that the insurance contracts call for payments upon the death of the insured, the loans secured by borrowers must be paid by widows and orphans. The moral is plain—Do not borrow on your life insurance policies if you can help it. Of the $482,345,000 of policy loans outstanding on December 31, 1911,$275,629,000 was incurred in the six-year period 1907-1911, both inclusive; $206,716,000 was incurred prior to 1906. While the formation of new life insurance companies will take place whenever and wherever opportunity or demand for such enterprise seems to exist, the reckless promotion of insurance companies is to be frowned upon. Indeed, the insurance departments of the different states have done their duty in warning the people against schemes that have no promise of advantage or profit in them except for the promoters. Twenty-five new life insurance companies began business in the United States in 1911 against 29 in 1910. In the two years, 1910-1911, Texas produced 8 new companies, Illinois6, Oklahoma4, California3, Michigan3 and Ohio3. Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin produced 2 each. Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Utah and Virginia produced 1 each. Appreciation of life insurance for the protection of business interests showed a steady gain in 1911. Chief executives and managers of departments and corporations, on whose energy and experience successful transactions depend, took insurance against the contingencies of financial loss and interruptions in the event of death. DO ANIMALS THINK So often we hear the question, "Do animals think?" And we wonder that there are persons who for one moment doubt that animals think and reason like men, for they do, only in a lesser degree. Take the fox for instance. It lives in civilized communities, rearing its young among enemies. Men and dogs pursue it, but still it lives and The court holds that the city may compel the water company to put the ditches under the surface at the company's own expense. There is no further appeal. The suit was brought in 1908. The ditch company offered to pay one-half the cost of changing from open ditch to pipe line where there were open ditches in the streets. The city of Santa Ana passed an ordinance declaring that any open ditch on certain streets were a nuisance and must be removed. Under that ordinance suit was brought. The ditch company declared that it had a prior right, and that its easement was on the streets before the city was incorporated. The ditch company alleged that the changes should be paid for by the abutting property owners. The decision was written by Judge Oster of San Bernardino. He ordered an injunction to issue restraining the irrigation company from using the ditches, but gave the company ninety days to remove the ditches and put in pipe lines. The decision was that the property owners should not pay the cost of the change and that no vested rights of the company were interfered with by enforcing the rights of the public to the use of the streets for street purposes. Fullerton is also interested in this decision as there are several streets on which open ditches now exist and which will have to be changed to pipe lines in the near future by the Anaheim Union Water company. RAILROAD ACTIVITIES A special dispatch from Chicago tells of contemplated extension work on Western railroads in the near future. Work already decided upon and contracts let are sufficient to justify the conclusion that 1912 will be the most active period in railroad building and improvements of at least four years. It may not, however, show equal new mileage because much of the new construction is double tracking and enlargement of terminal facilities instead of new roads. The West is apparently to have make money out of the co-operative stores, as the entire profits are to be turned back to the farmers themselves. The stores are to carry every sort of goods, on the order of department stores. There is expected to be considerable opposition from general merchants in rural communities. But this, the farmers say, will not deter them. People will await with interest the outcome of the plan. High prices have become so serious a matter that any proposal that appears to promise relief is likely to be favorably received. If the Kentuckians can make a success of their co-operative scheme, it may be predicted that their example will be followed in many other parts of the country, unless the long expected decline in the cost of living becomes an accomplished fact. INSURANCE FIGURES Life insurance organizations of the United States and Canada distributed $592,640,000 in 1911, according to computations by the Insurance Press. The payments in the two countries to beneficiaries for death claims, matured endowments and other benefits under the policies of level premium companies and the certificates of various life insurance organizations—assessments and like—amounted to $401,140,000. The estimated total of the amounts paid by regular companies in dividends to policy holders, for surrender values, to annuitants, and on claims in foreign countries, was $191,500,000. Summation of life insurance payments of all kinds in 1911: Claims paid in the United States and Canada.....$401,140,000 Payments for dividends and for surrender values to annuitants and foreign policy holders (estimated) .....191,500,000 Grand total .....$592,640,000 All benefits under policies—death claims, endowments, dividends—in the transactions of regular life insurance companies, increased in 1911. The amount of insurance written and re- DO ANIMALS THINK So often we hear the question, "Do animals think?" And we wonder that there are persons who for one moment doubt that animals think and reason like men, for they do, only in a lesser degree. Take the fox for instance. It lives in civilized communities, rearing its young among enemies. Men and dogs pursue it, but still it lives and multiplies. Were it not possessed of a reasoning power it would have been exterminated long ago. Thus it plainly shows that the fox thinks, reasons, plans. Have you ever seen a rabbit cornered? If so, you have noticed the startled look in its eyes. But it does not stop and wait in the path of its pursuers. It hides itself behind anything it can find, remaining only till danger is scented nearby, when again it is off in search of another hiding place. And often it eludes its enemies, although they are many, and manages to get to safety. Then it must reason—and reasoning is thinking and planning. Beavers have been known to reason their way out of difficulties. One has been known to deliberately gnaw off a leg in order to escape from a trap. Men who are professional animal trainers will tell you of wonderful intelligence of horses and dogs. To be sure, these are domestic animals, but this fact does not alter to a marked degree their mental capacity. WHAT HORSE POWER MEANS Very few people realize just what a horse power, as expressed in engineering terms, really means. When it is stated that the world's largest Curtis steam turbine, which drives an electric generator in the Waterside station, New York, develops 30,000 horse power, the meaning is vague and incomprehensible. Imagine this term reduced to man power and almost every one can grasp its full Bathing Suits AND DUSTERS Two articles that are in demand at this season of the year. We have a large selection. L.Z.KROEGER 128 W. Center Street The Last Call! This is the last call for Spring Goods made up in the Latest Style at Reduced Rates $35.00 and $38.00 MEN'S SUITS For $28.00 and $30.00 By the 10th of July we will have a NEW STOCK OF FALL AND WINTER GOODS that will surprise our Customers in Design and Quality and Price. Call and see us. N.P.HANSEN, The Tailor 122 East Center Street. - - Anaheim, California For $28.00 and $30.00 By the 10th of July we will have a NEW STOCK OF FALL AND WINTER GOODS that will surprise our Customers in Design and Quality and Price. Call and see us. N. P. 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SIMPSON Better known as Bert of Anaheim Announces himself as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for SUPERVISOR Third District Subject to the decision of voters at the September primaries JOHN BRUNWORTH of Anaheim Announces himself as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for SUPERVISOR WANTED—AGENTS For ELECTRO - SILVER - CLEAN-PAN, removes tarnish off silverware like magic without any labor. High class article. Write for catalog and territory. Donohue Specialty Co. Los Angeles, Cal. Columbia the Gem of The Ocean Is the favorite song on the Fourth, and there is little thought of anything but fun and frolic and patriotism. But when the smoke has cleared away, and you are back to earth again, just come in and see our assortment of jewelry and pick out a brooch, a pin, or a chain you would like. We can suit you in every way. Theo, Roberts THE JEWELER High grade watch, clock and jewelry repairing. V. U. SIMPSON Better known as Bert of Anaheim Announces himself as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for SUPERVISOR Third District Subject to the decision of voters at the September primaries JOHN BRUNWORTH of Anaheim Announces himself as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for SUPERVISOR Third District Subject to the decision of voters at the September primaries meaning. If it takes twelve men to equal one horse power then this mammoth turbine engine develops twelve times 30,000, or the working energy of 360,000 men. If these men worked in eight-hour shifts each day it would require the services of 1,080,000 men every twenty-four hours to produce the working energy of this turbine unit.—Electric News. CALIFORNIA PEACE WORK As in former years, the distribution of peace literature has been an important feature of the California Peace Societies' work. This year 80,000 pages of the best peace pamphlets have been distributed over the Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain States, and in several states of the South and Middle West. This peace literature has gone into the hands of many business and professional men and women, to women's clubs and to clergymen and other public speakers; but a special effort has been made to put it into the hands of the teachers of youth—the public school teachers, normal and college instructors. Especial pains were also taken to enlist the interest of the librarians of the high schools, normal schools, colleges and public libraries in the latest and best books on the peace question. Many schools and libraries purchased the books recommended by their office. Theo, Roberts THE JEWELER High grade watch, clock and jewelry repairing. FOR THE 4TH OF JULY Flags, Cap Pistols and Caps Buy a couple of Patriotic airs to play on your phonograph—be happy. Jos. Helmsen