anaheim-gazette 1913-01-02

PARCELS POST SYSTEM BEGINS TODAY POSTMASTER DUCKWORTH RECEIVES INSTRUCTIONS FROM WASHINGTON NEW RULES ARE DEFINED BY POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS Postmaster Duckworth is in receipt of specific instructions from Washington regarding the new parcels post service which begins today. The new system will be effective throughout the entire postal service at the same time. Every precaution will be taken by Postmaster Duckworth to have the mails moved with the usual dispatch. All postmasters, superintendents and inspectors have been directed to familiarize themselves and their subordinates with every phase of the new system. The regulations provide that parcels of merchandise including farm and factory products (but not books and printed matter) of almost every description up to 11 pounds in weight and measuring as much as six feet in length and girth combined, except those calculated to do injury to the mails in transit, may be mailed at any postoffice for delivery to any address in the country. Delivery will be made to the homes of people living on rural routes as well as to those living in cities and towns where there is deli- DARLINGTON SAYS ROAD WILL COME Highway Commission Will Ask Local Bankers to Subscribe For Bonds J. F. Ahlborn held a conference in Los Angeles on Friday with N. D. Darlington, of the state highway commission, relative to road matters in Orange county. Mr. Darlington expressed pleasure at action of the Associated Chambers of Commerce at its Placentia meeting last week at which resolutions were adopted endorsing the highway commission for its action in routing the state road along the interior highway of this county. He said that hitherto coast people had been much in evidence with criticisms of the commission as well as threats to bring mandamus proceedings seeking to compel routing the road along the coast line. These people and their claims, he said, had been effectually disposed of, and there now seems no obstacle to prevent building the road along the inland route except for the fact that the commission has been lately unable to dispose of a sufficient amount of bonds to carry on the large volume of work now engaging its attention. Mr. Darlington said the commission will ask local bankers to purchase blocks of these bonds with a view to expediting road work in this county. This is the plan adopted in the north, and it is working well. Many bankers in San Francisco and other points in the north are purchasing these bonds, and the road work is being pushed in all directions. Los Angeles bankers have announced they will follow the example, and Orange county capitalists will be appealed to to come forward and assist in the work. It is ex- The regulations provide that parcels of merchandise including farm and factory products (but not books and printed matter) of almost every description up to 11 pounds in weight and measuring as much as six feet in length and girth combined, except those calculated to do injury to the mails in transit, may be mailed at any postoffice for delivery to any address in the country. Delivery will be made to the homes of people living on rural routes as well as to those living in cities and towns where there is delivery by carrier. Where there is no delivery by the carrier, the parties will go to the postoffices. The postage rate for the first zone, that is within distances not exceeding 50 miles, will be 5 cents for the first pound and 3 cents for each additional pound. The rates increase for each successive one of the eight zones into which the country is divided, the maximum rate being 12 cents a pound, which will carry a parcel across the continent or even to Alaska and the Philippines. For a fee of 10 cents a parcel may be insured and if the parcel is lost in the mails an indemnity to the amount of its value not to exceed $50 will be paid. The law provides for the use of distinctive postage stamps and there is now being distributed to postmasters for use in the parcels post system a set of stamps of 12 denominations. Parcels post maps, with accompanying guides, are to be sold to the public at their cost, 73 cents. CONTRABAND CHINKS Eight Celestials in Hay Car Bound Hither From Mexicala United States Immigration officers hauled eight Chinese out of a loaded hay car at the Southern Pacific freight yards in Los Angeles a few evenings ago. The Orientals had entered the car Christmas night at Calexico after having been smuggled across the line at Mexicali. They are in the county jail pending action by the Federal authorities. The hay and Chinese left Calexico Friday morning and arrived in Los Angeles at 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Six loaves of bread, two boxes of crackers and four empty milk cans were also taken out of the car by the officers. Earlier in the day the Immigration officers arrested Chin Man Kan, manager of the Quang Hing Lung Company of No. 305 Marchessault street and lodged him in the county jail. He Mr. Darlington said the commission will ask local bankers to purchase blocks of these bonds with a view to expediting road work in this county. This is the plan adopted in the north, and it is working well. Many bankers in San Francisco and other points in the north are purchasing these bonds, and the road work is being pushed in all directions. Los Angeles bankers have announced they will follow the example, and Orange county capitalists will be appealed to to come forward and assist in the work. It is expected local capitalists will subscribe for not less than $250,000 of these bonds. If this should turn out to be the case, work upon the Orange county road will proceed forthwith. Money so subscribed by Orange county capitalists will be used for building roads in this county. Mr. Darlington stated that no injunction proceedings had been brought against the commission by the so-called ocean-to-ocean highway association relative to the road from San Diego to the Colorado River. He looked for no such proceedings, and said efforts to route a highway through the Riverside county desert to Yuma would be unavailing. This route, he said, would traverse 200 miles of desert and would cost more than a million dollars more than the road from San Diego eastward. He expressed no doubt the latter road would be constructed, and said San Diego and Imperial county bankers would purchase sufficient bonds to finance it. This road would, of course, be a portion of the ocean-to-ocean highway and would join with the road to be built through Orange county. DELIGHTFUL REUNION Members of the Class of '05 of Anaheim High School Have Meeting Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Skinner entertained the class of '05 of the Anaheim High School at their home on South Lemon street Friday evening. The class was well attended, and letters were read from Percy Bradford, of Erie, Pa.; Ned Merritt, of Emily, Nev., and Ernest Claubaugh, of Holtville, Cal. These boys are doing well and are a credit to the class. Those who were present were: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Barter of Stanton, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Swope, Mr. and Mrs. V. LaMont, Mrs. Elsie Borth, Herman Christenson of Garden Grove, Leonard Evans, Walter Mickle, and Mr. and Mrs. Merton Skinner. A dainty luncheon was served by the hostess, after which old times were discussed and high school days of many years ago lived over again in memory. Two rodents in the nia give the rancher all the other animals insects excepted. Gopher, feeds larger plants and trees and the worst pests of the yard. The other, the especially destructive is also destructive. The established fact is ground squirrel is spreading bubonic plague Bryant in a report from Agriculture of the U.S.A., which has just issued the Gazette office, hailing mals of more than one importance. These two principals easily distinguished appearance, size, hair. The pocket gophers ears, small eyes, short pouches which open are relatively small largely nocturnal, and tirely in their burrow rels have relatively long eyes, longer tails, pouches do not open of them are larger in forage for food above row of the pocket gophers guished by a mound ing the entrance, and the opening is nearly plugged full of earththe ground squirrel is usually open, with earth thrown out on entrance only. One lead away from the buryground squirrel may be arranged in large, long-eared graythe small, short-eared pending action by the Federal authorities. The hay and Chinese left Calexico Friday morning and arrived in Los Angeles at 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Six loaves of bread, two boxes of crackers and four empty milk cans were also taken out of the car by the officers. Earlier in the day the Immigration officers arrested Chin Man Kan, manager of the Quang Hing Lung Company of No. 305 Marchessault street and lodged him in the county jail. He was later arraigned before United States Commissioner Van Dyke and held in default of $1,500 bail. A complaint charging Kan with conspiracy to smuggle Chinese into the United States will probably be filed against him by the Federal officials. Kan is a student at the University of Southern California Law School and speaks English fluently. Le Doon, a Calaxico Chinese merchant, was arrested at El Centro by Immigration Inspector Geo. W. Webb of Calexico and a conspiracy charge will also be filed against him. Acting Immigration Inspector O. F. Miller of the Southern California district declared that Kan and Doon were the ringleaders in the conspiracy to smuggle hundreds of Chinese across the Mexican border and bring them to Los Angeles where they were to receive large sums of money from the smuggled Chinamen. Miller believes that many Chinamen have already been smuggled into Los Angeles and other cities in the United States by the freight car scheme. We received a carload of five I. H. C. auto wagons on Monday and have another carload on the road. These popular delivery cars will all be sold soon after arrival. Our agency covers all Orange county. If you are at all interested in one of these winners, call, write or phone the Wickersheim Implement Company, Fullerton. WARRING ON BLACK BIRDS Up-County Orchardists Regard Them as Injurious Pests The ban on the killing of black-birds, meadow larks and robins which now protects these birds, may be lifted in the third fish and game district if the feeling of some of the delegates to the district association, which assembled at Sacramento the first of the week, is recorded in a bill and passed by the legislature. The delegation from Calaveras county presented a recommendation to open the season on these birds, which now enjoy unmolested freedom at the hands of the nimrods. A. W. Stuart of Cortland, a member of the Sacramento county delegation, feels the same way about it and cites an instance where a flock of blackbirds carried away the grain as soon as a neighboring rancher sowed it. The delegates were in session to decide on the fish and game laws desired for the third district, which is now comprised of Plumas, Butte, Sierra, Yuba, Sutter, Nevada, Placer, Eldorado, Sacramento, Amador, Alpine, Calaveras, Tuolumne and Mariposa counties. The proposed changes will be referred to the State Fish and Game Commission and included in a bill to be presented to the Legislature. The ground squirrel may be arranged in large, long-eared gray cages; the small, short-eared cies; the small, white ground squirrel of the golden-mantled ground mountains. The "digger" ground squirrel belong to the subgenus most destructive, easy carriers. These usually live in colonies often being connected ble distance. Food grain, seeds, and fruit winter season. The cagle loud whistle. They a similar short whistle or three chattering trumpeting from five to ten born in March and April squirrel has been found bubonic plague, and a human plague have borne bite of one of these an danger of the spread in the dissemination of As has been shown by paign against these gars carried on by the U. S. Marine Hospital Station of this pest dependent work of the group of long-eared squirrels has a wide range throughout the species and several varia have been recognized subspecies occupies a ROYAL BAKING POWDER ABSOLUTELY PURE Cooking under modern methods and conveniences is made so attractive the whole family is becoming interested. “These biscuits are delicious; this cake is excellent,” says the father. “I made them,” says the daughter, and both father and daughter beam with pleasure. Royal Baking Powder has made home baking a success, a pleasure and a profit, and the best cooking today the world over is done with its aid. EXPERT REPORT ON GROUND SQUIRRELS Small areas may be freed from squirrels, but these are likely to be quickly reinfested again from the neighboring territory. It is often important, therefore, for the people of a district to unite in a co-operative campaign and free large areas from the squirrel pest. A MERRY WAR ON MARRIAGES Justices of the Peace Have Been Reaping Rich Harvest at Gretna Green Some of Justice J. B. Cox's friends of Santa Ana, went before the grand jury on Monday and protested because two outside justices have been trampling on what they consider his preserves in that they have been doing a proportion of the marriage business at the court house. The grand jury sized up the situation and it is probable that it will settle the controversy by recommending that all marriage fees received by justices be turned into the county treasury. Justice Cox presides over the Santa Ana township court. About twenty months ago, Justice James Fullerton of Orange and Justice John Landell of San Juan Capistrano concluded that Justice Cox by reason of his geographical situation was not necessarily entitled to all the weddings at the court house. Landell began making weekly calls at the place that is the destination of numerous Los Angeles couples as well as couples from elsewhere, while Justice Fullerton generally showed up about twice a week. Cox is a G. A. R. veteran, and some of his comrades interested themselves in the matter. About that time there was a recall petition started at Orange EXPERT REPORT ON GROUND SQUIRRELS WITH COMMON GOPHER THEY ARE GREAT PESTS TO FARMERS OF CALIFORNIA METHOD SUGGESTED FOR THEIR DESTRUCTION SHOULD BE FOLLOWED BY FARMERS Two rodents in the State of California give the rancher more trouble than all the other animal pests combined, insects excepted. One, the pocket gopher, feeds largely on the roots of plants and trees and hence is one of the worst pests of the garden and orchard. The other, the ground squirrel, is especially destructive to grain, but it is also destructive to nuts and fruit. The established fact that the California ground squirrel is instrumental in spreading bubonic plague, says H. C. Bryant in a report from the College of Agriculture of the University of California, which has just been received at the Gazette office, has made these animals of more than ordinary economic importance. These two principal rodent pests are easily distinguished by their general appearance, size, habits, and burrows. The pocket gophers have very short ears, small eyes, short tails, and cheek pouches which open externally; they are relatively small (6 to 10 inches), largely nocturnal, and live almost entirely in their burrows. Ground squirrels have relatively large ears and eyes, longer tails, and the cheek pouches do not open externally; most of them are larger in size, diurnal, and forage for food above ground. The burrow of the pocket gopher can be distinguished by a mound of earth surrounding the entrance, and by the fact that the opening is nearly always kept plugged full of earth. The burrow of the ground squirrel on the other hand is usually open, with the excavated earth thrown out on one side of the entrance only. One or more runways lead away from the burrow. The ground squirrels of California may be arranged in four groups: the large, long-eared gray ground squirrel; the small, short-eared, brownish spe fined region of the state, so that they can usually be distinguished by the locality in which they are found. The northern coast form is known as the Douglas ground squirrel; that of the interior valleys, as the California ground squirrel; and that of Southern California, as the Fisher ground squirrel. In the extreme northeastern corner of the state and to some extent in the northern part, a smaller brown ground squirrel is found in abundance. It is known as the Oregon ground squirrel. The ground squirrel of the desert is much smaller than the common "digger" squirrel and is striped. It is called the desert or round-tailed ground squirrel. A small striped form belonging to another genus is found to a limited extent in the San Joaquin valley, and a variety of the same species in the rocky places in the deserts and foothills bordering the deserts. These forms are known as the Nelson ground squirrel and the Antelope ground squirrel. Neither are abundant enough to be of great economic importance. Golden-mantled ground squirrels, more often called red-headed chipmunks, are mountain species and seldom give trouble. There are two methods of destroying ground squirrels: first, by means of poisoned grain, and second, by the liberation of carbon bisulfid in their burrows. Which of the methods to be followed will depend upon the season, the poison grain method being more effective during the dry season, while the carbon bisulfid treatment will be more effective during the rainy season when there is sufficient soil moisture to prevent the general diffusion of the gas beyond the open burrows. Where ground squirrels are abundant over considerable areas, the simplest, most effective and least expensive way to destroy them is by the use of poisoned grain. Barley is the grain to be preferred, since it is more attractive to the squirrels and less likely to be eaten by birds. The poisoned grain should be scattered (not placed in heaps) on clean hard places about the colonies, the trails between the holes, along fences and roadsides and other places frequented by the squirrels. The time to apply it is during the dry season. If distributed just at the end of rainy season, late March or early April, it will destroy them during the breeding period, when one killed is equivalent to eight or nine later in the season. The poisoning may continue, however, throughout the summer and early fall. This poisoned grain as it is scattered about is not dangerous to stock but is San Juan Capistrano concluded that Justice Cox by reason of his geographical situation was not necessarily entitled to all the weddings at the court house. Landell began making weekly calls at the place that is the destination of numerous Los Angeles couples as well as couples from elsewhere, while Justice Fullerton generally showed up about twice a week. Cox is a G. A. R. veteran, and some of his comrades interested themselves in the matter. About that time there was a recall petition started at Orange because Justice Fullerton was not in his office a portion of the time. If the recall was meant to scare Fullerton away from the court house it failed of its object. On Monday a delegation of 14 members of the G. A. R. appeared before the grand jury and asked protection for their comrade, Justice Cox. They wanted a resolution telling Fullerton and Landell to stay in their own backyards. Foreman Griffith produced some statistics to show that even with encroachments Cox was making good money, the fee being $3 per wedding. Griffith showed that in 1911 Orange county preachers performed 538 ceremonies; Cox, 427; Fullerton, 48; Landell, 28; all others, 25. In 1912 the preachers scored 551; Cox, 437; Fullerton, 135; Landell, 124. Members of the grand jury are now talking of recommending a measure to have all marriage fees collected by justices of the peace turned into the county treasury. WHY BEEFSTEAKS COME HIGH Quarter Million Fewer Cattle at Stock Yards This Year Chicago, Dec. 29.—Fewer cattle by 281,298 have been received at the Chicago stock yards this year than in 1911, according to figures given out tonight. Despite this fact more money was paid for beef during 1912 than in 1911 by $3,282,735. The total paid out this year was $183,488,909. Three reasons are given for the increased price of beef. The Western states did not raise as many cattle as usual because of droughts, many farmers turning their pastures into wheat fields and the demand for beef has increased. It was explained that the population in the United States has increased in the last 20 years 20 per cent, while the increase in cattle production has been only 8 per cent. Beef exports fell off this year because of the big home demand. In 1911 there were 47,000 cattle exported from the Chicago yards compared with low of the pocket gopher can be distinguished by a mound of earth surrounding the entrance, and by the fact that the opening is nearly always kept plugged full of earth. The burrow of the ground squirrel on the other hand is usually open, with the excavated earth thrown out on one side of the entrance only. One or more runways lead away from the burrow. The ground squirrels of California may be arranged in four groups: the large, long-eared gray ground squirrel; the small, short-eared, brownish species; the small, white-striped, antelope ground squirrel of the deserts; the golden-mantled ground squirrel of the mountains. The "digger" ground squirrels which belong to the subgenus, are not only the most destructive, but are the disease carriers. These ground squirrels usually live in colonies, their burrows often being connected for a considerable distance. Food in the shape of grain, seeds, and fruit is stored for the winter season. The call note is a single loud whistle. The warning note is a similar short whistle followed by two or three chattering trills. Young, numbering from five to ten, are usually born in March and April. This ground squirrel has been found infected with bubonic plague, and several cases of human plague have been traced to a bite of one of these animals. The real danger of the spread of infection lies in the dissemination of infected fleas. As has been shown by the recent campaign against these ground squirrels, carried on by the U.S. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, eradication of this pest depends largely on persistent work of the individual. This group of long-eared gray ground squirrels has a wide range, being found throughout the state. Several species and several varieties of each have been recognized. Each variety or subspecies occupies a fairly well-de- hard places about the colonies, the trails between the holes, along fences and roadsides and other places frequented by the squirrels. The time to apply it is during the dry season. If distributed just at the end of rainy season, late March or early April, it will destroy them during the breeding period, when one killed is equivalent to eight or nine later in the season. The poisoning may continue, however, throughout the summer and early fall. This poisoned grain as it is scattered about is not dangerous to stock, but is fatal to poultry. The cost of preparing the material varies from about $4.00 to $4.75 per 100 pounds. One hundred pounds of the poisoned barley is sufficient to treat 200 or 300 acres. It may be distributed from horseback. A tablespoonful of crude carbon bisulfid is poured over a small ball of cotton waste, corn cob or other absorptive material and placed as far down the burrow as possible, and the hole is tamped in. It is used to best advantage when the soil it wet. In wet soil the inter-spaces are filled with water and thus general diffusion of the gas through the soil is prevented. Carbon bisulfid is a volatile liquid and rapidly loses its strength on exposure to air. It should therefore be kept in tight containers. It is also inflammable and explosive. It should be used only in burrows known to be inhabited by squirrels. The cost of crude carbon bisulfid is about 8 cents per pound in 50-pound carboys or drums. The two methods described, poisoning and the carbon bisulfid treatment, may well supplement one another. Where the area is extensive the poison may first be used, because of its cheapness, and this followed in the proper season with the carbon bisulfid to clean up those that escape the poison. Thursday, January 2 Perfection Oil Heaters Cost less than a half cent per hour for fuel. Handy and economical. Prices $3.50 to $5.00. At Nagel’s Hardware Store Cor. Center and Claudina - Anaheim, California No. 2 Lumber Sale Dimension and Other Specials We find at the end of this year an accumulation of No. 2 lumber and other odds and ends that we can offer at a great discount. We do this to enable us to start the coming year with new and complete stock of first class lumber such as we always aim to carry. C. Ganahl Lumber Co. Phone Home 432. Sunset 35. ENOUGH SAID ENOUGH SAID When You Trade With US A Car load of Wines of all descriptions just arrived for the Holidays. Mail or phone your orders, and avoid the rush. Orange County Wine Company Anaheim, California SEWER CONNECTIONS To Property Owners We are equipped to make your sewer connections. Our permanent head quarters are in Anaheim. Our prices are standard; our work guaranteed. 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