anaheim-gazette 1912-08-22

A. A. MILLS BUCKS COUNTY BOND ISSUE JUMPS TRACES OFF RESERVATION, EXECUTES GHOST DANCE OMISSION OF OLIVE BRIDGE AND RIVER CANYON ROAD IS THORNS IN SIDE (By A. A. Mills.) A look in at the map and the report of the county highway commission throws light on several points that were somewhat obscure. Placentia In the last previous report a road from the Olinda branch passed south along the east line of Mr. Bradford's property and on through the new town of Placentia, following the railroad down to Mr. Crowther's. In the present report this road is eliminated. On Tuesday of this week Mayor Bradford headed pell mell for the county seat to have Placentia put back on the map. Success to his efforts. The paved road follows Placentia avenue and the town is connected with this by a spur running east and then south from the old school house site. Buena Park-Orangethorpe A heretofore complicated problem here has been vry cleverly adjusted. From Buena Park the highway runs east along the new road through the center of what is known as the Cox ranch to the Fullerton city limits. From here a branch runs north a quarter of a mile to join the west Commonwealth avenue proposed pavement. Another branch runs south the plan as outlined by the commission; another election would have to be called to provide money for the extra width, being an increase of one-fourth; a bond for $100,000 has already recently been voted for bridges. The supervisors would have the expending of the money for the two latter items and the county highway commission for the former. AVOIDED CLASH WITH MEXICO The difficult situation arising from the revolution in Mexico was diplomatically handled and the United States aided in the establishment of law and order in the neighboring republic through preserving it in our own. President Taft has substituted scientific tariff revision for political giving and taking in such legislation and has stood steadfastly by that method while vetting tariff bills enacted by the Democratic House, which ignored his tariff board, created for the scientific handling of this subject. Many more achievements could be added to this list, but this certainly should be convincing to the unprejudiced reader that President Taft has accomplished a great deal and attained many worthy ends. The president has been handicapped from the start by the insurgent movement in his own party in the House and later in the Senate, as well as by the Democratic House elected in 1910. The scientific revision of the tariff has been prevented by Democratic opposition, the House leaders declining to utilize the valuable information obtained by the board and passing tariff bills which met with a prompt veto because of that fact. DIXON BLOCKED PEACE TREATIES The defeat of the arbitration, or peace treaties, as they were commonly referred to, which had been successfully negotiated with Great Britain and France, is due to the adverse vote of running east and then south from the old school house site. Buena Park-Orangethorpe A heretofore complicated problem here has been vry cleverly adjusted. From Buena Park the highway runs east along the new road through the center of what is known as the Cox ranch to the Fullerton city limits. From here a branch runs north a quarter of a mile to join the west Commonwealth avenue proposed pavement. Another branch runs south along the west city limits of Fullerton to Orangethorpe avenue and thence east to the Spadra road. It would appear that this would prove satisfactory to Buena Park, Fullerton and Orangethorpe. Santa Ana Canyon Of this section of road the report says: "All the roads of the system, above outlined, are intended to be paved as generally described, except that part of Riverside road from Olive to the county line. This road will not have much travel for some years, and it is believed that the expenditure of a large sum for macadam paving will not now be justified. It is proposed to surface the road where necessary with the materials available along the line of the road." Were this section of road properly constructed and paved and bridges built where necessary it would soon be one of the heaviest traveled roads of the county. This is the natural outlet to the ocean for Corona, Riverside, Redlands and San Bernardino with all their rich adjacent territory. It is unfortunate that this section is not to be paved. Bridges "Where bridges have been found necessary, it is planned to make them of steel or concrete. No bridges has been allowed for at the Anaheim-Olive road crossing of the Santa Ana River, as it is necessary first, to determine upon a channel location at this point, and do work to hold the stream within the determined bounds, which work will be extensive and costly, and in our opinion, more properly a part of a river improvement project." The report is peculiar in only specifying where a bridge is not to be built. Not a word is said about where any bridge is to be built. The Olive bridge is not to be built. Wide Pavement "Experience proves that sixteen foot width of pavement is too narrow for passing traffic, in consequence of which runts are formed along the borders of the pavement, which are position, the House leaders declining to utilize the valuable information obtained by the board and passing tariff bills which met with a prompt veto because of that fact. DIXON BLOCKED PEACE TREATIES The defeat of the arbitration, or peace treaties, as they were commonly referred to, which had been successfully negotiated with Great Britain and France, is due to the adverse vote of Senator Joseph M. Dixon of Montana, manager of the Bull Moose candidate's campaign. Dixon came directly from Oyster Bay to the Senate chamber to vote against the treaties. The vote was so close that he was enabled to cast the deciding one. From time the Democrats gained control in the lower House they, with aid from the insurgent Republicans, have persistently and continuously sought to embarrass the administration. A score or more of so-called "investigations" have been conducted which have developed nothing in many instances, and little of anything in any case to reflect upon the administration. When the final cost of these investigations, which have given opportunity for junkets all over the United States to the committees conducting them, is finally summed up, it will be found to run into the millions instead of a few thousands or even hundred thousands of dollars, and the people's money will have been found to have expended in fruitless political muckraking. The slightest pretext has been sufficient to start one of these so-called investigations, and the has-been politician with a grouch has been in clover. A doctor, according to the story, saw, late one night, a fine automobile halted outside a cemetery. He hid behind a tree, for he suspected that body snatchers were at work; and, sure enough, in a few minutes he saw two ugly characters stagger from the cemetery carrying a body. They placed it upright in the automobile, as though it were alive, propping it securely in the back seat, and then they hurried back to the cemetery to fill the violated grave again. The doctor in their absence lifted the body out of the automobile, hid it under a hedge, and took its place himself. Soon the scoundrels returned. One seated himself at the wheel and the other fixed himself in the back seat beside the body, so as to support it. Then, in the darkness, they glided off. After a while the man in the rear seat said in a rather awed tone: "This body seems mighty warm One of most recent attempts at a round-ting-out contest for testants will have tedged steer out of a hatch by the horns and thus hold the steer whistle mounts and goes through of branding him. To skill on the part o' as the rider, so that from the start that obliged to bring thieves to the fair event will be about. A number of others be on the program. In these contests we wild Mexican steer here by Charles Silva says that son can outrun a saddlery some bulls in the he will be offered to ride them. One of erly a part of a river improvement project." The report is peculiar in only specifying where a bridge is not to be built. Not a word is said about where any bridge is to be built. The Olive bridge is not to be built. Wide Pavement "Experience proves that sixteen foot width of pavement is too narrow for passing traffic, in consequence of which runts are formed along the borders of the pavement, which are unsightly and expose the pavement proper to serious damage. "We believe that the roads recommended for improvement where paved at all, should be given a width ample for passing traffic, and we recommend to your honroable body that you plan to provide money to increase the width of the pavement to twenty feet as in our earlier plans." It may be recalled that the state highway is to be only fifteen feet wide. Should the supervisors provide this extra money then we should have the main paved highway fifteen feet wide and the latterals twenty feet wide. Is this necessary? It would seem not, especially on the long, outlying stretches as the ten-mile branch to Laguna, the branch being twenty feet wide connecting with the main state highway only fifteen feet wide. It would appear the part of wisdom for the supervisors not to provide for this extra width. System Involved Should the supervisors decide to follow the recommendation and provide money for this extra width then the problem would become somewhat complicated. A bond election would have to be called to provide money for the back seat, and then they hurried back to the cemetery to fill the violated grave again. The doctor in their absence lifted the body out of the automobile, hid it under a hedge, and took its place himself. Soon the scoundrels returned. One seated himself at the wheel and the other fixed himself in the back seat beside the body, so as to support it. Then, in the darkness, they glided off. After a while the man in the rear seat said in a rather awed tone: "This body seems mighty warm for a corpse." The chauffeur reached back his hand and touched it. "Don't it, though!" he muttered, between perplexity and fear. Then the corpse, in deep, sepulchral tones, exclaimed: "Warm? Of course I'm warm! And if you had been where I've been for the last two days you'd be warm, too!" With loud yells of horror the body snatchers leaped from the automobile and fled. The doctor seized the wheel and drove it home. He has it, they say, still. Clein Ainberg on Monday received a letter from George Crompis, recently employed as head brick layer at the sugar factory, saying that Mrs. Crompis had died in Denver on Monday of last week. Mr. Crampis arrived here with his family early in the present year, and went to work at the sugar factory. Owing to his wife's ill health he took her to Ladd's Canyon in June and she remained there a month. She failed to show improvement, and was subsequently taken to her former home in Denver. She succumbed to tuberculosis of the lungs. She leaves, besides her husband, three small boys, aged 11, 9 and 7 years. We not only have of all kinds of far vehicles, but we carry of Michigan automobiles I. H. C. Auto war gasoline engines, 1-2-horse power at $6 and all other sizes power. We install ing plants. If you ask us, write or phone travelers will call SHEIM IMPLEMENTE SILVER CUP TO BEST DRILLED CORPS GENERAL ROYER MAKES MUNIFI-CENT OFFER TO PYTHIAN KNIGHTS PYTHIAN DAY AT STATE FAIR, SACRAMENTO, ON SEPTEMBER 16 To stimulate competition between the companies of Uniform Rank of the Knights of Pythias in the drills at the State Fair on Pythian Day, September 18, Brigadier General J. O. Royer of the California Brigade of the U. R. of K. of P. has announced that he will offer a silver cup, worth more than $100, to the best drilled companies. This cup will be offered at subsequent drills, thereby making it a trophy, that in order to be held by any one company will force its holder to maintain the highest state of efficiency. The Knights of Pythias are training their teams for the tilting contest in which the armed Knights will spear rings from overhead wires. The Malta Meele contest and the broad sword contest. The San Francisco lodges are making ready to present the tableau of Banin's drama of Damon and Pythias. This will be staged in the evening and will be one of the most elaborate productions ever presented by a fraternal organization. The exhibit of Holsteins at the State Fair will be worth at least $100,000, judging from the entries now received. Some of the finest stock ever brought to the Pacific Coast will be exhibited at the fair. One exhibit of Dutch Belt NEW ALASKAN RAILWAYS Plans Proposed For Construction by Private or Public Enterprise The full industrial development of inland Alaska is possible only by constructing railways that will furnish transportation to open ports on the Pacific. Though Alaskans have long been clamoring for adequate transportation facilities, the general public outside of the territory has only recently begun to understand that the opening of the mineral wealth and arable lands of this great empire is a matter of national importance. Many plans have been proposed for building railways in Alaska either by public or by private enterprise, and various measures are now before congress dealing with this subject. In view of this situation a report just issued by the United States Geological Survey entitled "Railway routes in Alaska," by Alfred H. Brooks (Bulletin 520-A), is of much interest. This report briefly summarizes all the data bearing on the location of a railway which shall connect Fairbanks, on the Tanana, with one of several possible coastal terminals on the Pacific seaboard. The distance to tidewater by the several routes varies from 350 to over 600 miles. Experienced engineers have estimated the average cost per mile of constructing this line at $40,000. Any one of the several proposed railways described in this report would render accessible the great resources of what has been termed central Alaska, a quadrangular area of about 200,000 square miles extending from the Pacific seaboard to the Arctic Circle. Central Alaska has produced from its placers gold to the value of $75,000,000, its output in 1911 being over $9,000,000. It includes also several auriferous lode districts and two important copper belts. One of these copper belts has been rendered access- The San Francisco lodges are making ready to present the tableau of Banin's drama of Damon and Pythias. This will be staged in the evening and will be one of the most elaborate productions ever presented by a fraternal organization. The exhibit of Holsteins at the State Fair will be worth at least $100,000, judging from the entries now received. Some of the finest stock ever brought to the Pacific Coast will be exhibited at the fair. One exhibit of Dutch Belt cattle from Mesa, Arizona, will be worth $30,000. The four hog barns, with forty pens each, will not be large enough to take care of the hogs which are coming to the fair, so the State Agricultural Society has a crew of men building additional room. Several carloads of cattle and hogs will be exhibited at the California State Fair from the Oregon State Fair, which closes early in September. The horse show tent has just been erected and the tanbark ring installed. The entries for the various contests in this department have exceeded the fondest expectations of the fair directors. The horse show will be open to high-class thoroughbreds only. The California State Fair has also launched into the wild west business much stronger than was originally intended when plans were laid for competition between a few bands of cowboys who were coming here to put on some feats usually witnessed at frontier celebrations. The prizes at the first annual California State Fair round-up will probably aggregate $5,000, and to share the reward the cowboys must perform stunts that require skill as well as nerve. One of the most novel features ever attempted at a round-up will be a cutting-out contest for which the contestants will have to drive a designated steer out of a herd and rope him by the horns and then have the horse hold the steer while the rider dismounts and goes through the process of branding him. This will be a test of skill on the part of the horse as well as the rider, so that it may be seen from the start that cowboys will be obliged to bring their best trained poines to the fair. The prize for this event will be about $350. A number of other roping trials will be on the program. The cattle used in these contests will be a herd of wild Mexican steers recently brought here by Charles Silva of Sacramento. Silva says that some of these cattle can outrun a saddle horse. He has some bulls in the herd for which prizes will be offered to the man who will ride them. One of the most daring Any one of the several proposed railways described in this report would render accessible the great resources of what has been termed central Alaska, a quadrangular area of about 200,000 square miles extending from the Pacific seaboard to the Arctic Circle. Central Alaska has produced from its placers gold to the value of $75,000,000, its output in 1911 being over $9,000,000. It includes also several auriferous lode districts and two important copper belts. One of these copper belts has been rendered accessible by a railway some 200 miles long extending inland from Cordova. Central Alaska also includes the high-grade coals of the Bering River and Matanuska fields, as well as very extensive deposits of lignitic coal. In addition to its mineral wealth, which will justify railways, central Alaska contains much valuable agricultural and grazing land. This publication not only summarizes data on topography and mineral resources but also touches on climatic conditions, distribution of population, and arable lands, etc. It is illustrated by a new map showing the distribution of mineral resources in Alaska. A list of government publications relating to railway routes in Alaska is appended. The same bulletin (520-A) contains a summary statement of the mining industry of Alaska in 1911, together with statistics of production. A copy of the report may be obtained free on application to the Director of the Geological Survey, Washington, D.C. New Firm With an Old Stock THE Fisher Wine Company Having purchased the stock of the Wm. J. Fisher winery, it is now open for business in the Backs' block, on North Los Angeles street. Imported and Domestic Wines and Liquors, including the highest grades manufactured, are carried in stock, as will all the popular makes of Beers. Look for the flashlight sign on Los Angeles street and call and see us. We assure you courteous treatment and the best goods that your money A number of other roping trials will be on the program. The cattle used in these contests will be a herd of wild Mexican steers recently brought here by Charles Silva of Sacramento. Silva says that some of these cattle can outrun a saddle horse. He has some bulls in the herd for which prizes will be offered to the man who will ride them. One of the most daring stunts in this connection will be the bull-dogging of a steer from an automobile. This is a feature which has been tried but once and which only a few cowboys have nerve enough to tackle. The competition among the cowboys will be for such events as broncho busting, bull riding, hippodrome riding, trick riding, fancy roping, maverick contests, bull-dogging, relay races and chuck-wagon races. The program will also include a number of features for cowgirls, such as a woman's broncho busting contest, a woman's replay race and cowgirls' dash for a quarter of a mile. We not only have a complete stock of all kinds of farm machinery and vehicles, but we carry the popular line of Michigan automobiles, the celebrated I. H. C. Auto wagons, Tractors, and gasoline engines, 1-horse power at $47; 2-horse power at $67 and $90 and up; and all other sizes up to 50-horse power. We install engines and pumping plants. 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