anaheim-gazette 1913-10-02

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. ORANGE COUNTY'S CROP OF CHILIS One Thousand Five Hundred Tons Raised This Season The troubles in Mexico, where large quantities of chili peppers are usually grown, have so reduced the planting, cultivation, harvest and shipment from that country that they are now exceptionally high priced. Quantities of the early green chilis ready for the vegetable garden markets brought 5 to 7 cents per pound in Los Angeles. The green ones being prepared and put into small cans for the retail trade of adjoining states. There are approximately 700 or 800 acres in Orange county, largely shipped to the canneries. The yield will be from 1,000 to 1,500 tons, which are mainly put up by three Los Angeles canneries. The yield per acre varies from 5 to 15 tons, possibly averaging 8 or 10 tons. Very many growers contract their crops to the canneries early in the season before planting, making sure of a market for some. Average price is about $18 per ton. Possibly not one-half of the crop is shipped green but is left to mature on the vines for drying. If all are allowed to ripen the dried product would possibly vary from 1,500 to 3,000 pounds per acre, prices ranging from 10 cents upward. The process of drying is by furnaces are made as hot as possible to keep the house warm. In the case of the barn, the water in these buckets can be kept from freezing, except at temperatures below zero, by adding 2 pounds and 1 ounce, or slightly over 2 pounds, of fused calcium chloride to each gallon of water. This calcium chloride must not be confused with the ordinary chloride of lime, the bleaching powder. The calcium chloride is very inexpensive and both keeps the water from freezing at temperatures above zero and also prevents rapid evaporation. With this mixture in his fire buckets, the farmer, except in case of unusually low temperature, has always at his command the means of checking the start of a fire in his barns. The cost of such fire-protection apparatus on farms is so slight, no farmer should neglect this precaution. At the same time, no matter how good the fire-fighting apparatus on a farm may be, the owner and his employees should not, for that reason, become careless or permit smoking in barns or other dangerous practices because they think they have at hand the means to extinguish a fire. All home owners should be particularly careful to keep lamps so far from woodwork, curtains, or other inflammable material that there is no danger of the direct flame or heat setting fire to anything. Open candle flames or other open flames are particularly hazardous. Piles of trash or papers or other waste in yards around buildings or left in cellars are especially dangerous. The same is true of all oily rags or waste which may lead to a fire by spontaneous combustion. ANCIENT ROADS SUPERIOR TO OURS Just Beginning to Catch Up With Old 15 tons, possibly averaging 8 or 10 tons. Very many growers contract their crops to the canneries early in the season before planting, making sure of a market for some. Average price is about $18 per ton. Possibly not one-half of the crop is shipped green but is left to mature on the vines for drying. If all are allowed to ripen the dried product would possibly vary from 1,500 to 3,000 pounds per acre, prices ranging from 10 cents upward. The process of drying is by burning crude oil of a low grade of distillate. The old custom of drying in the sun is not now common, as many of them are injured by the rains while drying. The drying usually commences in October running into the winter months. The stringing is usually done by women, both old and young. By the absence of arins, Orange county is nicely adapted to the pepper. One canning company running two sets of machinery are putting out 32,000 cans per day, or over 3,000 per hour, or about one every second. These products going into the hands of the wholesale agents immediately go into the various markets of Arizona, Texas and other states. VALUE OF A BUCKET OF WATER In probably not one out of a thousand American farmhouses or barns is a bucket of water kept in a handy place ready for use in case of fire emergency; yet so effective is a handy bucket of water when fire starts that the insurance underwriters grant a lower rate of insurance to manufacturers and merchants who will keep a specified number of filled fire buckets in certain locations in their buildings. Frequently a cupful of water at hand when a blaze starts as a tiny flame is more valuable in preventing fire loss than a whole fire department 10 minutes later. A single bucket of water dashed soon enough on blazing curtains or draperies, or a small blaze starting in rubbish or hay, will put out a fire before it has an opportunity to gain headway, and thus may be the means, not only of saving a building and its contents and preventing the death of stock, but even save loss of human life. Most people rely on a pump or water tap as a source of water when fire breaks out. In the excitement following an outbreak of fire it frequently is difficult to locate buckets, and the delay of two or three minutes necessary to fill a bucket at a pump or tap may be enough to give the fire a chance to get into the walls, or spread to a point where it is very difficult to quench. ANCIENT ROADS SUPERIOR TO OURS Just Beginning to Catch Up With Old Times in Matter of Highways The agitation for good roads in Southern California and especially in Orange county is of recent date, but according to history our ancestors, who lived a couple of thousand years ago, knew more about the construction of highways than we do at the present day. The roads leading into Rome in the days of the Empire are still intact. The roads built by Caesar in Britain nineteen hundred years ago are still in use and considered the best highways in England. “In ancient times the great roads were constructed and controlled by governments. Isidorus states that the Carthagenians had the first paved roads. In Peru sections of roads are found of a similar kind of as unknown age. ‘Such were the great roads,’ says Prescott, ‘from Quito to Cuzco, and continued south toward Chili, laid out, through mountainous and almost impassable regions, for distances variously estimated from 1,500 to 2,000 miles and about 20 feet in width. They were built of heavy flags of freestone and in parts covered with bituminous cement, which time has made harder than stone itself.’ “The civilization of China followed its great rivers and canals. Egypt held its people intact along the Nile, but the Romans exhibited a wonderful appreciation of the importance of good roads. It is not true that Rome had great roads because Rome was great. Rome made itself a world power and its citizenship respected at home and abroad because it had lines of communication over good roads. In all, 29 good roads, with a width of 16 feet and a length of 52,964 Roman miles, centered at Rome. “Gibbon tells us: ‘Cities were connected with each other and with the capital by the public highways, which, issuing from the forum of Rome, traversed Italy, pervaded the provinces and were terminated only by the frontiers of the empire. If we could carefully trace the distance from the wall of Antonius to Rome and from thence to Jerusalem, it will be found that the other waste in yards around buildings or left in cellars are especially dangerous. The same is true of all oily rags or waste which may lead to a fire by spontaneous combustion.” The congress declared the scientific value met in Berlin last week placing on record how low or hazel stick, steel rod, in the hair sons, would indicate ter sources and coal mineral beds. The congress decided of the mass of evoking two days of experiments in this place where the media elsewhere, under precluded any fraud longer deny the results achieved. The first experiment near Schoenbeck, salt and two beds located by the divining At a point near Ranean stream was in the hands of a “Hoola bed was located on the rod. Water was orchard where much spent in vain effort and where the prologue hope of securing Steps were taken to organize an society of men in all scientific study of the executive committeeter in charge was eli SOME STATES The greatest number California in 1912 wished in agriculture, the other outdoor pursuits George D. Leslie of Health has discovered For 1912, 30,174 aged 15 years or over and of these 17,415 occupational class whom vocations were 1,024 were women, men dying having been For the males those cuppations are reported Agriculture, transport laboring and sewer mechanical industry mercantile 8.0 per cent; clerical callings, 930, or 5.7 other occupations, 96 Most people rely on a pump or water tap as a source of water when fire breaks out. In the excitement following an outbreak of fire it frequently is difficult to locate buckets, and the delay of two or three minutes necessary to fill a bucket at a pump or tap may be enough to give the fire a chance to get into the walls, or spread to a point where it is very difficult to quench. Every household should be equipped with a fire bucket, provided with a cover, filled with water, and used for no other purpose. The best type of bucket is one with a rounded bottom, which prevents its sitting on the floor, and so makes it useless for ordinary household work. These buckets should be painted red, and should be filled at regular intervals to replace water lost by evaporation. For the same reason, buckets provided with covers are better than open buckets and prevent dust and other material from getting into the water and making it unpleasant. One such bucket at least ought to be provided on every floor of the house or barn. They should be located near the stairs or entrances to the buildings, so that those rushing in from the outside or starting for the stairs can get them without delay. The rounded bottom buckets can be kept either in a bench with a hole cut in it to receive the bucket, or else can be suspended out of reach of children, from a metal or wooden bracket. These buckets are particularly important in winter when pumps or taps may freeze. As a general rule the fire risk is greatest in cold weather, because that is the time when the stoves "Gibbon tells us: 'Cities were connected with each other and with the capital by the public highways, which, issuing from the forum of Rome, traversed Italy, pervaded the provinces and were terminated only by the frontiers of the empire. If we could carefully trace the distance from the wall of Antonius to Rome and from thence to Jerusalem, it will be found that the great chain of communication, from the northwest to the southeast of the empire, was drawn out to a length of 4,080 Roman miles. The public roads were accurately divided by milestones and ran in a direct line from one city to another with very little respect for the obstacles, either in nature or in private property.'" "Houses were everywhere erected at distances of five or six miles, each of them constantly provided with forty horses, adn by help of these relays it was easy to travel a hundred miles a day along Roman roads." GARDEN GROVE Walnut picking on the Newbury ranch is just beginning. There are 45 acres of nuts, from which the estimate gives 25 tons as a yield. Other growers are beginning to pick and the indications are for a fairly good crop. The enrollment of the public school will go considerably above 300. The new school building, finished three years since, is already becoming too small for the work conducted by the nine teachers, and it is only the matter of a little time when it will be necessary to make provision for more room. ANAHEIM GAZETTE EUREKA HARNESS OIL Both recognized as best in their respective lines and both products of the Standard Oil Company (CALIFORNIA) LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCISCO SCIENCE UPHOLDS OUR FOREFATHERS German Congress Declares the Divining Rod Is Scientific Device You who have been wont to sneer at the old-timers who located wells of water by means of a peach limb must now take a back seat. The first congress for establishing the scientific value of the divining rod, met in Berlin last week and closed by placing on record its opinion that it was a scientific fact that a forked willow or hazel stick, or even an iron or steel rod, in the hands of certain persons, would indicate subterranean water sources and coal, potash and other mineral beds. TO THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ORANGE COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA: We, the undersigned land-owners, residing within the district hereinafter named, hereby petition your Honorable Board to form a "PERMANENT ROAD DIVISION" to be known as Anaheim-Fullerton Division of Orange County, and we respectfully represent: First—That the said proposed Permanent Road Division is bounded on the north by the southern limits of the City of Fullerton, in this county, on the south by the northern limits of the City of Anaheim, on the west by a line running parallel with and one-quarter mile west from the center line of the main public highway running from Anaheim to Fullerton, and on the east by a line running parallel with and one-quarter mile east of the center line of the main public highway running from Anaheim to Fullerton and that the boundaries of said division extend one-quarter mile on each side of said main public highway from east to west and from the northern limits of the City of Anaheim to the southern limits of the City of Fullerton from north to south, the boundaries of the said division are also more particularly shown by a plat or map of said division, attached hereto, to which reference is hereby made. Second—The number of acres of land contained in said division is... You who have been wont to sneer at the old-timers who located wells of water by means of a peach limb must now take a back seat. The first congress for establishing the scientific value of the divining rod, met in Berlin last week and closed by placing on record its opinion that it was a scientific fact that a forked willow or hazel stick, or even an iron or steel rod, in the hands of certain persons, would indicate subterranean water sources and coal, potash and other mineral beds. The congress decided that, in view of the mass of evidence secured during two days of successful practical experiments in the vicinity of the place where the meeting was held and elsewhere, under conditions which precluded any fraud, science could no longer deny the results that have been achieved. The first experiments were made near Schoenbeck, where a bed of rock salt and two beds of potash were located by the divining rod. At a point near Esilebon, a subterranean stream was found by the rod in the hands of a "Dowser." A brown coal bed was located near Koethen by the rod. Water was located in a large orchard where much money had been spent in a vain effort to find a supply and where the proprietor had given up hope of securing any. Steps were taken at the closing session to organize an international society of men in all countries for the scientific study of the divining rod. An executive committee to take the matter in charge was elected... SOME STATISTICS The greatest number of deaths in California in 1912 were of men engaged in agriculture, transportation and other outdoor pursuits, so Statistician George D. Leslie of the State Board of Health has discovered. For 1912, 30,174 deaths of persons aged 15 years or over, were reported, and of these 17,415 were reported in the occupational class. Of those for whom vocations were reported only 1,024 were women, all the other women dying having been housewives. For the males the deaths and occupations are reported as follows: Agriculture, transportation and other outdoor pursuits, 5,208, or 31.8 per cent; laboring and servant work, 3,420, or 20.9 per cent; manufacturing and mechanical industry, 3,349, or 20.4 per cent; mercantile or trading, 1,303, or 8.0 per cent; clerical and professional callings, 930, or 5.7 per cent; and all other occupations, 960, or 5.8 per cent. Second—The number of acres of land contained in said proposed division is 384.63, and the assessed valuation of the said land, according to the last completed assessment roll of Orange County is $53.345. Third—The value of the improvements on said land or real estate in said proposed division is $78.595, and the value of the personal property therein is $191.555, according to the last completed assessment roll of said Orange County. Fourth—The number of inhabitants of the said proposed division, as near as can be ascertained, is 118. Fifth—The exact and particular location of the said road is shown on the said map or plat attached hereto, to which reference is hereby made, and it is the regular State Highway, and that portion thereof lying between the northern limits of the City of Anaheim and the southern limits of the City of Fullerton, in this County of Orange, and it is proposed to improve said portion of said State Highway by paving a portion or strip on each side of the paved portion of the said State Highway, to make a paved roadway fifty feet in width, including curb, and on each side of said paved roadway to construct a cement or concrete curb. That it is necessary to form this Road Division and to perform this work in that this Road Division is an international as well as an inter-state roadway, on which travel from Mexico to Canada, and from Oregon to Arizona must pass, it is likewise the main artery of travel for all traffic from San Diego and Orange counties to Los Angeles and most of San Bernardino and Riverside counties, it likewise carries all traffic from Santa Ana, Orange, Garden Grove and all southern Orange County to Fullerton and the Oil Well district, as well as from Buena Park, La Habra, Brea, Placentia, Yorba and Orangethorpe to Anaheim and southern Orange County, and the paved portion of the State Highway is not wide enough to accommodate the travel passing over this road division, and another reason that makes it necessary to improve this road is that the natural formation over which this division passes is a sandy loam on which it is difficult to maintain an unpaved road, and the State Highway, unless the sides thereof are paved to a curb, as herein proposed, will be cut up and destroyed and extremely difficult to maintain. Respectfully submitted, A. A. Mills Geo. A. Gray Wm. Champlin Frank R. Baxter Kate C. Chamberlin A. V. Vail Pamella H. Mills Mrs. M. A. Weber Henry Wilke W. A. Goodwin Virginie Bablinger E. E. Beazley J. C. Williams Emma M. Hill Wm. F. Brace Julia L. Orr Elizabeth Fellows J. H. Pfeninger W. D. Niver Mrs. S. Rorden G. A. Mills Emma C. Pfeninger F. A. Cotter M. Anton H. G. Melser Notice is hereby given that the above petition will be presented to the Board of Supervisors of Orange County, and said Board will be asked to consider the same at a special meeting of said Board called for the purpose of receiving and considering said petition, to be held at the court house in the City of Santa Ana, at 10 o'clock A.M. on Tuesday the 14th day of October, 1913. A. A. MILLS, Committeeman. 1,024 were women, all the other women dying having been housewives. For the males the deaths and occupations are reported as follows: Agriculture, transportation and other outdoor pursuits, 5,208, or 31.8 per cent; laboring and servant work, 3,420, or 20.9 per cent; manufacturing and mechanical industry, 3,349, or 20.4 per cent; mercantile or trading, 1,303, or 8.0 per cent; clerical and professional callings, 930, or 5.7 per cent; and all other occupations, 960, or 5.8 per cent. TO FIX WALNUT PRICE OCT. 4 On October 4 the directors of the California Walnut Growers' Association is going to hold a meeting in Los Angeles for the purpose of fixing upon a price that the various associations ought to charge for their walnuts this year. Present indications are that the price will be at least 14 cents per pound, the price fixed last year, and that the California and the Orange county outputs will be about the same as last year. Three or four weeks ago it was thought the California crop would be 30 per cent greater than it is now estimated that it will be. The spell of hot weather has cut down the crop considerably. Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo crops are going to be fully 30 per cent under first estimates. The Orange county crop has been considerably reduced by the recent warm weather. It is reported that the Santa Ana Valley Walnut Growers' Association had estimated a 30 per cent increase. The soft shells were expected to show an increase of 27 per cent and the budded walnuts 54 per cent. The big per centage in the budded walnuts was due to the large new acreage. Notice is hereby given that the above petition will be presented to the Board of Supervisors of Orange County, and said Board will be asked to consider the same, at a special meeting of said Board called for the purpose of receiving and considering said petition, to be held at the court house in the City of Santa Ana, at 10 o'clock A.M. on Tuesday the 14th day of October, 1913. A. A. MILLS, Committeeman. Notice to Creditors In the Superior Court of the State of California In and for the County of Orange In the Matter of the Estate of Michael H. Cheeseman, Deceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned, H. Clay Kellogg, executor of the last will of Michael H. Cheeseman, deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit the same with the necessary vouchers, within four (4) months after the first publication of this notice, to the said H. Clay Kellogg, executor of the last will of said Michael H. Cheeseman, deceased, at the office of Leonard Evans, attorney for said executor, at No. 105 East Center street, in the City of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of California, that being the place designated for the transaction of the business of said estate in said county. Dated September 25th, 1913. Date of first publication, September 25th, 1913. H. CLAY KELLOGG, Executor of the last Will of Michael H. Cheeseman, Deceased. LEONARD EVANS, 105 East Center St., Anaheim, California, Attorney for said Executor. REGISTRATION! Any person not registered and eligible to vote, please call phones Sunset 360, 133, 124, 198. State your name and address and a registration clerk will be sent to register you. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, Knights of the Royal Arch. MISSION APARTMENTS Corner West Chartres and Lemon Sts. New and Cosy. have just secured for subdivision and offer sale the elegant property at the Southwest corner of West Center and Palm Streets Why Buy These Lots CAUSE—The continuation of West Center St. will soon be a part of the County good roads system leading directly to Los Angeles over macadam roads through Artesia, Norwalk and Downey. CAUSE—Property in that part of town is in demand. Within the last 60 days we have sold an entire block of lots within a block’s distance from this property for practically double the price asked for this. CAUSE—The majority of the better class of residences are being built, and days we have sold an entire block of lots within a block’s distance from this property for practically double the price asked for this. CAUSE—The majority of the better class of residences are being built, and will continue to be built, west of Los Angeles street. CAUSE—These lots are just the right distance from the Fremont and new Polytechnic High Schools. CAUSE—Beautiful ornamental shrubbery and shade trees cover these lots, that take years of labor and expense to grow. CAUSE—This property is on the clean side of the street and just the right distance from the business center of town. CAUSE—These lots are the best strictly first-class residence lots offered for sale in Anaheim today. CAUSE—Anaheim has the best natural advantages of any town in Orange County. Why buy these lots NOW? ECAUSE— Why buy these lots NOW? BECAUSE— There are only FIVE LARGE LOTS in this subdivision and in order to get your choice YOU MUST HURRY! ange County Realty Co. ROSS BROS. CENTER ST. ANAHEIM, CAL.