anaheim-gazette 1913-12-25

NEW AUTO LAW IN EFFECT DEC. 31 LICENSE FEE RANGES FROM $5 TO $30 ACCORDING TO THE SIZE OF THE MACHINE SPEED LIMIT RAISED TO 30 MILES PER HOUR AND VILLAGE CONSTABLE SHORN OF POWER Every car owner in the state must re-register his car by December 31, paying a license fee ranging from $5 to $30, according to the horsepower. Registration must be on printed blanks furnished by the motor vehicle division of the state department of engineering, Sacramento. These blanks will be sent by mail by application to Superintendent W. R. Ormsby. All persons to operate even their own cars must have "operators' licenses" issued from the Sacramento office. These licenses are furnished free. They are not to be confused with the chauffeurs' licenses, which cost $2. No "operator's license" will be issued to a child under 16 years of age. These licenses may be revoked by the department if it is found that the driver is not properly observing the laws. With the last day for registration of all automobiles and motorcycles in California set for December 31, thousands of applications are daily pouring in at the motor vehicle division of right, giving as nearly as possible one-half of the road to each. No person shall use a fictitious name in applying for a chauffeur's license, nor shall said chauffeur's badge be transferred. Any person who climbs upon, or with others, willfully breaks, injures or tampers with any part of a motor vehicle for the purpose of injuring, defacing or destroying such vehicle or automobile, or temporarily or permanently preventing its use or operation against the will of the owner, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Any person who climbs upon or into a motor vehicle or manipulates levers, starting crank, brakes or mechanism without consent of its owner is guilty of a misdemeanor. No chauffeur or other person having the care of a motor vehicle shall take any bonus, discount or other consideration for supplies or parts furnished or purchased without the written consent of the owner, and no person selling such motor vehicle shall give or offer any such bonus, discount or other consideration. Such giving or taking of bonus is made a misdemeanor. Fees and other moneys collected under this act shall be placed in a fund to be known as the "motor vehicle fund." One-half of such money so received shall be returned to the counties from whence it came for the use of the roads. LAND QUESTION CAUSE OF TROUBLE Correspondent Gives Reasons For Discontent in Mexico LAND QUESTION CAUSE OF TROUBLE Correspondent Gives Reasons For Discontent in Mexico In writing from El Paso a few days ago, a correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor (Boston), remarked that while the constitutionalists and federal soldiers were fighting for the control of Juarez an aged Mexican was plowing unconcernedly in the valley. "Not once did the farmer stop to listen to the sound of battle," is the closing sentence touching this incident. If it were possible to sum up the Mexican situation in a few simple words, it could scarcely be done with better effect and to better purpose than by using this striking episode in illustration of what the average native of the neighboring republic must think about the present struggle. Mexico does not want war within its border any more than does any other country. Conditions are such at the present time that the internal problem seems unsolvable except by force. But in Mexico there are thousands of peons, humble tillers of the soil, who would no doubt like nothing better than to keep on plowing their acres, providing they had acres of their own to plow. The Juarez farmer evidently has some little land, and he needed well to till it. No doubt he did hear that road of battle; perhaps he had sons in that very conflict; yet in spite of all he kept at his task. It is a picture that a Millet alone could fittingly put on canvas. The Mexican land question is at the bottom of the country's present discontent. It was for the solution of this problem that Madero set out to free Mexico, but he fell short of his intent. Had the distribution of the land been undertaken years ago, perhaps the past two revolutions could have been avoided. The people must have some larger share in the cultivation of the land, and they will never be content until conditions in land ownership are more nearly equalized than at present. Mexico will be at peace when the people feel at rest. No doubt the Diaz regime had its place. Education is a slow process, and 15,000,000 people, of whom the overpowering majority can neither read nor write, need careful guiding. But the Principal Archivist this volume of 553 tells of the extraordinary manic history of North America, which to light through a plausible explanation in the Metropolitan area. It will take life hundreds of historic dates to quate use of the Prof. Bolton has open His pioneer work sources is regarded important contribution to story of Western Ancestry Bancroft's monumenting the Bancroft life cumulation of print material for Pacific American history it ago became the professor University of California has been busily mining graduate students and investigators—with still ahead. The publication survey of the Mexican source of American history the great task which negle Institution has publishing similar genres of all the nations United States has started. Too long, said ports, has Americans ten from a province and purely from a country Now the records o are being searched fellow's story" may particularly is the California and the nia history and western cannot be unknowledge of the S on which later time English-speaking occi ncia and all the So States is only a matter while the 16th, 17th and much of the 19th stitutions everywhere in land matters in agriculture, in place names, in legal traditions, and in whole Southwest only influenced by influence. The history of California, the like that of New Mexico pretended through u Spanish centuries. hard and Anglo-Saxon across a wavering century, the whose own expansion new evidences for its ho Charles E. Haas, deputy county counsel, has prepared a careful synopsis of the law for the Automobile Club of Southern California. The following are the principal provisions, stripped of the technical legal verbiage: Number plates must be displayed on vehicles at a minimum distance of 16 inches from the ground, and must be plainly visible. Machine must be equipped with a bell, gong, horn, whistle or other device in good working order. Every motor vehicle other than a motorcycle must carry two lighted lamps, showing white lights at a distance of 500 feet, from a half hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise, and at all times during and in fogs. Motorcycles must carry one lighted lamp under same conditions, and both motorcycles and automobiles must carry red lights at rear of such vehicle under said conditions. All motor vehicles must be provided with adequate brakes. No tire shall have on its periphery any metal proturberance injurious to highways. This does not apply to chains. All motor vehicles must be muffled. Muffler cut-outs must not be used in incorporated cities. No intoxicated person shall drive a motor vehicle. No person shall drive a motor vehicle without the consent of the owner. No person shall hire a chauffeur who is not licensed by the act. No person shall leave a motor vehicle standing without stopping motor and locking or setting brakes on same. When two vehicles are passing each other in opposite directions, they shall have the right of way, and no vehicle at the rear of either shall attempt to pass them. Vehicles coming in opposite directions shall pass each other on the haps the past two revolutions could have been avoided. The people must have some larger share in the cultivation of the land, and they will never be content until conditions in land ownership are more nearly equalized than at present. Mexico will be at peace when the people feel at rest. No doubt the Diaz regime had its place. Education is a slow process, and 15,000,000 people, of whom the overpowering majority can neither read nor write, need careful guiding. But the cry for land rises loudly above every other thing that Mexicans today are asking. It is not in the city that the issue lies. Mexico city, Chihuahua city, all the other leading centers of urban population, can manage to get along. But in the great intermediate sections discontent is rife. The land is owned in such large plots that there is no fair chance for small individual proprietorship. Succeeding administrations have promised reforms, but that administration which shall do more than promise will, we think, see its name written large across the horizon of a new and greater Mexico. WASTE OF FUEL An exchange calls attention to the fact that the oil experts of the United States Bureau of Mines, who have been investigating the natural gas industry, have reported that millions of dollars' worth of this perfect fuel is being wasted each year in the United States. In Oklahoma 100,000,000 cubic feet of gas is escaping into the air every 24 hours. This has a value of over $20,000,000 a year. The waste is equal to 1,250,000 tons of the best bituminous coal. The waste in Louisiana is estimated at 75,000,000 cubic feet of gas daily, valued at $10,000,000 for the year, equivalent to one million tons of coal. In the Southern California fields it is estimated that there is an annual waste amounting to $4,000,000. The highest office state in Mexico galvanizes in his search should open up the From President Diaz of the archives in from the apostolic and the archbishop priests in distant wilties gave hospitable to the American society. It was an exciting Bolton pursued in jest of expectation; did of papers drawn dark corner might narrative of even scurely understood social report of the city, a mission father of the language and some native peoples on the earth. There was the joy of long-lost buried College of the Holy instance, founded on the site of a ready old, Prof. B. the archives had leased—probably in time when Maximilian invaded Mexico. But remaining of the one moment were courteously within their gates, leave to search. ingman remembere FINDS IN MEXICO TREASURES FROM PAST PROF. BOLTON OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY MAKES VALUABLE DISCOVERIES IN SOUTH HISTORY OF SOUTHLAND WILL HAVE TO BE REVISED ACCORDING TO THE DOCUMENTS Because of vast unknown treasures that Prof. Herbert E. Bolton of the University of California has discovered in the archives of state and church in Mexico, the history will now need to be rewritten of all the Southwest—from California to Louisiana. The keys to these historical treasure-houses are now made ready to the hand of any scholar through the publication by the Carnegie Institution of Washington of a "Guide to Materials for the History of the United States in the Principal Archives of Mexico." In this volume of 553 pages Prof. Bolton tells of the extraordinary wealth of unknown manuscripts, recording the romantic history of the Spaniards in North America, which he has brought to light through a dozen years' of exploration in the Mexican archives. It will take lifetimes of work by hundreds of historians to make adequate use of the historical riches Prof. Bolton has opened to the world. His pioneer work of discovery of sources is regarded as the most im- CHRISTMAS TREE FOR CITY'S POOR Riverside Giving a Unique Entertainment Tonight A celebration that promises to rank in importance with the now-famed annual pilgrimage to the summit of Mt. Rubidoux on Easter morning, because of the unique features with which it is proposed to invest it, is the community Christmas tree and accompanying pageant planned for Christmas night. NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, in the matter of the Estate of George M. Baker, deceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned administrator with the will annexed of the estate of George M. Baker, deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit the same with necessary vouchers, within four months after the first publication of this notice (which publication was first made on the 11th day of December, 1913) to the said administrator at the office of Tipton & Callor, 118 West Center street in the City of Anaheim, California, the same being the place for the transaction of the business of the said estate in the County of Orlando. Dated this 9th day of December, 1913. JOHN EVERT BAKER. Administrator with the Will Annexed, TIPTON & CAIDOR. Attorneys for Administrator. NOTICE SPECIAL ELECTION Proclamation STATE OF CALIFORNIA. COUNTY OF ORANGE. SS. Whereas, plans and specifications have been adopted and approved by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Orange, State of California, for certain proposed improvements of the State Highway running from Anaheim to Fullerton, said work to consist of concrete pavement. Riverside Giving a Unique Entertainment Tonight A celebration that promises to rank in importance with the now-famed annual pilgrimage to the summit of Mt. Rubidoux on Easter morning, because of the unique features with which it is proposed to invest it, is the community Christmas tree and accompanying pageant planned for Christmas night in White Park. This park, noted for its extensive collection of cacti, lies in the center of the city and boasts of a beautiful evergreen tree which will lend itself admirably to the purposes of a Christmas tree. Its boughs will be adorned with multi-colored incandescent lamps, while a brilliant "Star of Bethlehem" will gleam from the topmost branches. Fully 350 people will have a part in the pageant, which will be enacted by the members of the Cantadores Club, a musical organization composed of 40 men, who will appear in the garb of medieval monks; the Tuesday Musical Club, whose members will be gowned in white; 50 children from the grammar school; 50 from the girls' high school and 50 boy scouts. The musical features of the program will include a specially arranged concert by the Riverside Military band. Old English carols will be a feature of the musical offering and an old English wassail bowl, filled with harmless punch, will add a touch of realism to the unique festival. 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