anaheim-gazette 1914-02-26

HOME AGAIN FROM THE CANAL ZONE MRS. A. KONIG AND W. H. SCHUHMAN ARRIVE AT ANAHEIM AFTER SEEING SIGHTS WONDERFUL SCENES ALONG THE BIG DITCH DESCRIBED BY MRS. KONIG IN INTERVIEW After an absence of two and one-half months, which time was spent on the high seas and at the canal zone, Mrs. A. Konig and W. H. Schuman returned to Anaheim on Wednesday, February 18. Mrs. Konig and Mr. Schuman left here on December 7 and sailed from San Francisco on the coast liner Pennsylvania. They were 21 days en route as the vessel made frequent stops along the coast. On the return trip they left Balboa on February 3 and reached Frisco on the 14th, being on the water but 11 days. In speaking of her experience and the sights and scenes along the canal, Mrs. Konig was so enthusiastic that she dropped into poetry occasionally. According to her belief, also that of Mr. Schuman, Col. Goethals is the most wonderful man in the world. "The trip south to the Panama canal is wonderful," said Mrs. Konig at her palacial home on Los Angeles street yesterday. "Nobody to disturb your peace, nobody bothers you with stocks or shares. It is just grand. Twenty-seven days on the water if you desire to take in every stopping place, 7 days only if you go by express steamer." "The Panama canal is a marvel of engineering skill of the world. The canal will not be open for general traffic before January 1, 1915, notwithstanding the reports to the contrary, and will save one month's time by wa- a hen's egg up to the size of an extra big potato. The county treasurer, who has been a kind of a free lance in experiments in horticultural and agricultural matters in this section ever since he came here a third of a century ago, is highly pleased with the results. He is especially pleased with the fact that the dasheen passed through the winter without the slightest damage from frost, which quickly ends the life of the plant in the East. He declares that should the dasheen ever become of commercial value in the United States, Orange county will become the leading producer, because its rich, moist lowlands are admirably adapted to its growth. The dasheen planted here originally came from the Island of Trinidad. LET CONTRACT FOR CANYON ROAD Will Be Built For $23,000 Less Than Previous Low Bid Two more steps in the advancement of Orange county's system of good roads were taken Thursday. The Board of Supervisors let a contract to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company of Los Angeles for building 2.4 miles of mountain road in the Santa Ana Canyon, adjoining the Riverside county line. The price to be paid is $31,-890.61. The board set March 4 as the time for opening bids for building a paved road from Irvine to Laguna Beach, a distance of 10 miles. The County. Highway Commission hopes to get most of the roads to the county's beaches completed before the heaviest part of the summer's traffic starts in. Under the county's bond issue of $1,270,000, there is to be built 107 miles of good roads, all paved, except that part in the Santa Ana Canyon above Olive. Three sections of the road between West Orange and the Riverside county line are now under contract. The county may get other sections under contract within a short time. CITRUS BIGGEST HISTORY NAVELS BEING PRESENT TO PREVENT SAYS ANNOUNCEMENT EASTERN MARKETING TO HARP PRICES AFTER VARIOUS SEASONS With California's biggest in the history and Florida's crops, the big freeze in thuring received for no reason they ought to be treated. Added to that the fact that weather east are such that summers of oranges and coal than on various sections formia are pressing order to keep puffing too poor for shipping. While the eastern more fruit than the supply is so great prices are down. These are some points given in an Eyman Huff, secret County Fruit Expositions seven citrus south and east of the Exchange bridge carloads of navels at the rate loads a week. In Olive, Villa Park, dena, Tustin and Sappents are shippers carloads of navels change this year w ver about 600 carloons. In addition to new associations are getting four carloads of le- "The trip south to the Panama canal is wonderful," said Mrs. Konig at her palacial home on Los Angeles street yesterday. "Nobody to disturb your peace, nobody bothers you with stocks or shares. It is just grand. Twenty-seven days on the water if you desire to take in every stopping place, 7 days only if you go by express steamer. "The Panama canal is a marvel of engineering skill of the world. The canal will not be open for general traffic before January 1, 1915, notwithstanding the reports to the contrary, and will save one months' time by water from New York to San Francisco, or 13,551 miles. The Panama route will make it only 4,683 miles. Nothing needs to be said as to the healthfulness of Panama today but this: Colonel Gorgas, along with Colonel Goethals, the greatest man, performed the impossible, and the communities of the Canal Zone are in truth as clean as a hound's tooth. Scarcely any great city in the world has a lower death rate than that on the Isthmus under American rule. How different from older times when they had no sewers, nor cesspools, no garbage cans, no water system, no pavements. Everything was deposited into the streets over the balcony, the streets being so narrow that passers-by would have to take care of their own skin. Young, strong men would come there and four or five days later would begin to suffer and another five days would rest in a 3x9 lot. "Americans are not so well liked by the Panamenians but they cannot help admiring the pluck and skill of our countrymen that made it possible to create out of a jungle of unequaled denseness with malaria stench and yellow fever at their heels, this wonderful and most important canal wonder with its almost unbelievable locks of stupendous piles of masonry. Titanic of appearance, destined to be the safe cradles of ships of all nations for centuries to come. "About 1,500 or 2,000 steamers will pass through the canal the first few years, although three times as many could be handled and will eventually. "It will take 3,000 men to do the necessary work that repeats itself every day, and the running expenses will be three and one-half million dollars. The income will be about eight million dollars, leaving a surplus of four and one-half million. Expenses and the profits will increase year by year and it is generally agreed that in ten years' time the canal will represent the best paying investment of any large undertaking in the world." Mrs. Konig wound up her narrative with a tribute to Colonel Goethals, the builder of the canal, whom she considers one of the world's greatest men since viewing the stupendous work on the Isthmus. "One leaves Panama," she said, "with the belief that the Titans are not all dead." EXPERIMENTING WITH VEGETABLES REPRIMAMDEO FOR CONTEMPT Attorney in Rivera Case Converses With a Juror “If the officer had struck this man a little harder, the poor fellow would have spent the rest of his days 6 feet underground,” declared Attorney Rivera of Los Angeles in the superior court in defense of F. J. Rivera of Anaheim, who was charged with resisting an officer. The bull sent a snicker through the jury box and court room which must have nullified the pathos of the thought, for Rivera was found guilty of the charge made against him. Rivera was accused of drawing a revolver on Officer Phil Germann of Anaheim. The officer took the gun away from Rivera and beat him over the head with it. Attorney Potter, who appeared with Attorney Rivera in defense of the Anaheim man, came near being jerked up for contempt when he spoke to a jurian after the verdict had been rendered. Judge West called him sharply to task for the act. Potter pleaded to be excused on the ground of youth and ignorance of his privileges. He said that he had unwittingly spoken to one of the jurors during the noon recess, taking him for a bailiff. He told the juror that the state had failed to make a case. After the verdict, he was inquiring, he said, whether or not his mistake had any effect on the verdict. Judge West accepted the excuse. ASK PERMISSION TO ISSUE BONDS Southern Counties Gas Company Will Borrow Money For Pipe Line The Southern Counties Gas Company on Thursday applied to the state railroad commission for permission to reduce rates in the town of Orange from $1.22 to 75 cents a thousand feet. The company also set forth that it proposes to make reductions to 75 cents in the other towns to be served with natural gas from the Olinda gas fields. The Southern Counties Company now has an application on file with the commission for authority to issue $115,000 in bonds to be used for the purpose of building a nine line from county’s beaches completed before the heaviest part of the summer’s traffic starts in. Under the county’s bond issue of $1,270,000, there is to be built 107 miles of good roads, all paved, except that part in the Santa Ana Canyon above Olive. Three sections of the road between West Orange and the Riverside county line are now under contract. The county may get the other sections under contract within a short time. The Exchange has carloads of navels at the rate loads a week. In Olive, Villa Park, dena, Tustin and S pendents are shipping carloads of navels change this year w er about 600 carlores. In addition to new associations are given four carloads of lef Oranges from th ing to market as other sections, and sections. The gee packers is that f year than usual. “With a warm, and trees have key Huff.” “The sizes some orchards are puffy fruit, and un will be forced for Riverside and oth upper country are trouble.” The Orange County controls about 95 million shipments in per cent of all citi larger percentage associations than Reports of frui may be more intre kept in mind than sold at less than most certain to be about $1.50 to pa ing, packing, ra auction. For the first t orange shipments week exceeded 10 129 cars shipped district, which is put for a week in total shipment season up to this week will be conditions, which very favorable. H els are leading in and some quite se being received for me nts this week total over th Redlands fruit is beginning to p growers there ar crop much faster side. The Redlands past week were being sent out. Season to date are There is a sh until we get a co be no packing in one of the leadiing “We have had th several weeks, bu to arrive, and as there is none avail Our house is is suffering, for s lands are in th e of them have on hand. The shoot between here and roads themselves locto it not.” EXPERIMENTING WITH VEGETABLES County Treasurer Introducing a New Plant in This Section County Treasurer J. C. Joplin has made a successful experiment in the raising of dasheen, a tropical vegetable, at his home in Halesworth street, Santa Ana. The Department of Agriculture has tried the crop out in the Carolinas and other parts of the South. Hearing of the trials given dasheen in the East, Joplin sent to the department after some tubers, and received them last April. That was two months later than it is considered the crop should be planted. But Joplin proceeded to plant the tubers, which ranged in size from a marble up to a turkey's egg, and he is now harvesting as fine a lot of dasheen as one could wish. The dasheen is remarkable, in that every portion of it can be eaten. The leaves are cooked like spinach or other greens, and those who have tried them here pronounce them excellent. The stems are cooked in the same manner, and have a taste different from the leaves. In appearance the stems and leaves are like the elephant ear. It is as a tuber producer that the dasheen is considered most valuable, for the tuber is declared to be an excellent substitute for the potato, having 30 to 75 per cent more protein. They may be baked, boiled, French fried or cooked in any other way that a potato is cooked. In Joplin's garden, each small tuber planted by him last April has produced a hill containing from 20 to 30 tubers ranging in size from the size of Southern Counties Gas Company Will Borrow Money For Pipe Line The Southern Counties Gas Company on Thursday applied to the state railroad commission for permission to reduce rates in the town of Orange from $1.22 to 75 cents a thousand feet. The company also set forth that it proposes to make reductions to 75 cents in the other towns to be served with natural gas from the Olinda gas fields. The Southern Counties Company now has an application on file with the commission for authority to issue $115,000 in bonds to be used for the purpose of building a pipe line from Olinda fields to serve Placentia, Fullerton, Anaheim, Olive, Orange, McPherson, El Modena, Santa Ana, Garden Grove and Tustin. This pipe line can be laid within a few weeks after the bond issue is authorized. Locally interest in this matter as announced above will concern the possibility of delay if it is necessary to wait for the sale of bonds before the pipe line is laid. Promises have been made for supplying natural gas in Santa Ana by March 1. At least the ordinance fixing the rate is to go into effect on that date. The reason the petition for changing the rate went to the railroad commission, is that Orange has turned over to that body its rate-fixing powers. WANT DAMAGES George J. Laidlaw and R. W. Campbell, of Ontario, were before the county supervisors of San Bernardino county with a request that the county pay damages estimated at about $10,000 for the results of fumigating citrus trees in the west end for the purpose of exterminating the mealy bug. The bug was exterminated, but so were a large number of trees, it is claimed. The fumigators declare that they followed the directions laid down by County Horticultural Commissioner S. A. Pease. Mr. Pease contradicts this assertion. The board has put the question of liability up to District Attorney Goodcell. AUTOMOBILE The automobiles Orange county show which is to one week owing races to be held on their show cars will now take instead of February... CITRUS HARVEST BIGGEST IN HISTORY NAVELS BEING RUSHED TO MARKET TO PREVENT BUFFINESS, SAYS AN EXPERT EASTERN MARKET IS DULL OWING TO HARD TIMES AND PRICES ARE LOW With California's orange crop the biggest in the history of the industry and Florida's crop the biggest since the big freeze in that state, prices being received for navels are not what they ought to be to please the growers. Added to the huge crops comes the fact that weather conditions in the east are such that the thoughts of consumers of oranges turn rather to wood and coal than to oranges. Various sections of Southern California are pressing their shipments in order to keep puffy fruit from becoming too poor for shipment. While the easterners are consuming more fruit than they ever did, yet the supply is so great that at present prices are down. These are some of the most salient points given in an interview by D: Eyman Huff, secretary of the Orange County Fruit Exchange, which comprises seven citrus fruit associations south and east of the Santa Ana river. The Exchange has shipped out 176 carloads of navels, and is moving navels at the rate of about fifty carloads a week. In the same territory, Olive, Villa Park, McPherson, El Modena, Tustin and Santa Ana, the independents are shipping about thirty-five carloads of navels a week. The Exchange this year will handle altogether about 600 carloads of navels. In addition to navels, the Exchange's associations are getting away three or four carloads of lemons a week. SHORTENING CAN'S ALL LIGHT WEIGHT George McPhee, Sealer of Weights and Measures on the Job "Substances used by all housewives throughout the whole country as shortening for pie crust, and for frying, etc., are put up in cans that do not contain the amount in weight which is stamped on the containers." The above plain statement was made by George McPhee, county sealer of weights and measures, and came as the result of his investigations in grocery stores in the county. "I find," said Mr. McPhee, "that these substances, under such names as 'Suetene,' 'Cottolene,' and kindred preparations, which are in cans supposed to contain 3, 5 and 10 pounds respectively, do not contain those amounts at all. In fact, the three pound can contains about two pounds, six ounces; the five pound can, four pounds, eight ounces; the ten pound can, but nine pounds. "This is a big tax, when everything is taken into consideration, and I have made up my mind that the truth must be told by merchants when they are selling these goods. I have conferred with the district attorney, and he fully agrees that a stop must be put to the practice of deceiving the people in the matter of weights of this kind. "This is not a local condition. I find it all over the county, and although the merchants acknowledge that the weight is short, yet they say they can do nothing. I asked one of them if a woman telephoned for a five pound can of the substance, would he send her one of the light weight cans, and he was frank enough to say that he would. Section 555 of the Penal Code reads as follows: "In all sales of coal, hay, and other commodities, usually sold by the ton or fractional parts thereof, the seller must give to the purchaser full weight, at the rate of two thousand pounds to the ton, and in all sales of articles, which are sold in common by avoirdupois weight, the seller must give to the purchaser full weight, at the rate of sixteen ounces to the pound, and any person violating this section is guilty of a misdemeanor." BUSINESS CARDS FOR SALE 500,000 PEPPER PLANTS—CHILI AND BELL. IN ANY QUANTITY. C. R. HANNAH, 2 MILES SOUTH ON LOS ANGELES STREET. MAIL ADDRESS R. F. D. 4, BOX 100. PACIFIC PHONE 82R4. Sunset {20 Home—1053} City Meat Market Choicest of Beef, Veal Pork and Lamb BUTTER AND CHEESE Eastern Bismarck Kraut and Pickles. Pickled Salmon. The Sanitary Market J. W. TRUXAW, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Hours 11 to 12 A.M.; 8 to 4 P.M.; 7 to 8 P.M. Suite 1-2-3 Nagel Building Corner Center and Claudina Streets ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA Office Phone Residence 121 Kroeger 341-J Phone 341-L Home Phone 2093 NIGHT CALLS FROM RESIDENCE H. V. Weisel Roger C. Dutton WEISEL & DUTTON Attorneys and Counselors at Law Special Attention Given Probate Matters. German Language Spoken Notary Public 2d Floor Mullinix Bld Phone Main 110J Anaheim, Cal. Eyman Hunt, secretary of the Orange County Fruit Exchange, which comprises seven citrus fruit associations south and east of the Santa Ana river. The Exchange has shipped out 176 carloads of navels, and is moving navels at the rate of about fifty carloads a week. In the same territory, Olive, Villa Park, McPherson, El Modena, Tustin and Santa Ana, the independents are shipping about thirty-five carloads of navels a week. The Exchange this year will handle altogether about 600 carloads of navels. In addition to navels, the Exchange's associations are getting away three or four carloads of lemons a week. Oranges from this county are carrying to market as well as the fruit of other sections, and better than some sections. The general complaint of packers is that fruit is weaker this year than usual. "With a warm, wet winter the fruit and trees have kept on growing," said Huff. "The sizes are excellent, but some orchards are showing signs of puffy fruit, and undoubtedly shipments will be forced for a time. Redlands, Riverside and other localities in the upper country are having similar trouble." The Orange County Fruit Exchange controls about 95 per cent of the lemon shipments in its territory, and 75 per cent of all citrus fruits. It has a larger percentage of Valencias in the associations than it has of navels. Reports of fruit sales in the East may be more intelligently read if it is kept in mind that when oranges are sold at less than $1.50 a box it is almost certain to be at a loss. It takes about $1.50 to pay expenses of picking, packing, railroad charges and auction. For the first time this season the orange shipments at Riverside last week exceeded 100 cars. There were 129 cars shipped from the Riverside district, which is a good average output for a week in February. This sends the total shipments of citrus fruit for the season up to 530 cars. The output this week will be governed by market conditions, which at present are not very favorable. Riverside county navels are leading in most auction sales, and some quite satisfactory prices are being received for fancy fruit. Shipments this week should at least carry the total over the 600 car mark. Redlands fruit on the higher lands is beginning to puff and drop and the growers there are rushing off their crop much faster than those of Riverside. The Redlands shipments during the past week were fairly heavy, 159 cars being sent out. The shipments for the season to date are 1,100 cars. "There is a shortage of shook and until we get a consignment there will be no packing in the house here," said one of the leading Redlands packers. "We have had the shook ordered for several weeks, but so far it has failed to arrive, and as far as we can find out there is none available. "Our house is not the only one that is suffering, for several houses in Redlands are in the same shape and most of them have only limited supply on hand. The shook is lost some place between here and the north. The railroads themselves have not been able one of the light weight cans, and he was frank enough to say that he would. Section 555 of the Penal Code reads as follows: "In all sales of coal, hay, and other commodities, usually sold by the ton or fractional parts thereof, the seller must give to the purchaser full weight, at the rate of two thousand pounds to the ton, and in all sales of articles, which are sold in common by avoirdupois weight, the seller must give to the purchaser full weight, at the rate of sixteen ounces to the pound, and any person violating this section is guilty of a misdemeanor." "This is the code of California, and must be lived up to. The people have been paying for this short weight too long, and something must be done. I have notified all merchants in Santa Ana, and hereafter they must inform a customer just how much he or she is getting when they buy any of these goods. "I will, as soon as possible, warn all men in the retail grocery trade throughout the whole county just what they must do in this case. "The wholesalers must adjust the mafter, or else fo to the manufacturers and have them do what is right, viz., put the true weight of material which is contained in the can, upon it, or the merchants refuse to buy their goods." SANTA ANA AFTER FILM COMPANY Will Attempt to Locate the Movies Factory Near That Town A committee of directors of the Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce is going to get buy at once in an effort to locate the Universal Film Manufacturing Co. somewhere in Orange county, and near Santa Ana if possible. The company is located at Hollywood and spends about $20,000 a week in the vicinity of its plant, and gives employment to a large number of people. Its plant at Hollywood constitutes a small city. J. G. Knapp, owner of the Lyric theater, was present Wednesday night at the meeting of the directors of the chamber and caled their attention to the fact that the company is now seeking a new location. The lease on the property it has been using has expired and the owners are asking a prohibitive figure for renewal of the lease. He did not come before the board as a representative of the company but as a citizen of Sanat Ana interested in promoting the welfare of the city and vicinity. He thought it would be worth an attempt to interest the company in a location there. The directors were enthusiastic and appointed a committee consisting of Fred Rafferty, H. T. Rutherford and E. A. White to get busy at once and ascertain what the company wanted in the way of a location. The company wants between 600 and 1,200 acres of ground upon which to carry on its work. The committee will try and arrange to have the managers come there for inspection of probable sites for their plant. It is not a stock selling proposition, and it is understood that “There is a shortage of shook and until we get a consignment there will be no packing in the house here,” said one of the leading Redlands packers. “We have had the shook ordered for several weeks, but so far it has failed to arrive, and as far as we can find out there is none available. “Our house is not the only one that is suffering, for several houses in Redlands are in the same shape and most of them have only limited supply on hand. The shook is lost some place between here and the north. The railroads themselves have not been able to locate it yet.” Forty-seven cars of packed fruit left Rialto last week from the various packing houses for different points. This shows that Rialto fruit men are on the move and it is expected that the fruit industry will now have its busiest season as long as the weather stays good. With the return of the bright weather, the demand for citrus fruits has shown quite a marked improvement, and while the general market is firmer, prices are no higher as a rule, as supplies continue adequate to meet all requirements. The improvement in the demand for oranges was most pronounced and local dealers reported the market for first quality fruit of desired size in splendid shape at the appearing rates. Notwithstanding the fact that receipts for the past few weeks have shown a material falling off, there was plenty of stock on the market to satisfy buyers. Lemons and limes moved quite freely at the appearing figures, but none of these fruits appeared to hold the interest that was manifested in the orange market. AUTOMOBILE SHOW POSTPONED The automobile dealers of northern Orange county have postponed their show which is to be held at Anaheim one week owing to the fact that the races to be held at Santa Monica fell on their show date. The display of cars will now take place on March 7th instead of February 28. Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Beattie and daughter, Miss Edith, of St. Louis, are visiting with J. E. Lemen and family in this region. Mr. Beattie is a railroad man, being connected with the M. K. & T. COMPTON IS SHOT Through telegrams received from Mrs. Mattie Compton, of Oakland, relatives of her husband, Harry Compton, became informed that he has been held in jail at Chihuahua, and, according to his letter, it was decreed that he and five Mexicans were to be shot at Juarez on February 15. Compton is a son of Mrs. G. W. Rolfe and a brother of Mrs. Charles Reeks, both of Garden Grove, and a cousin of L. A. Schlessinger, a Santa Ana merchant. He passed through this section last August on his way to Phoenix, where he expected to get work at his trade. He said then that he expected to go to Mexico as soon as things settled down. Nothing more was heard of him until Mrs. Compton wired. Compton has a wife and two children at No. 5803 Canning street, Oakland. Compton’s letter to his wife was postmarked El Paso, February 16. It stated that he had a revolver and would resist, and that he was going to smuggle the letter out of prison. Congressman Kettner at Washington has been appealed to, to urge an investigation, and if possible find out if Compton is dead or alive, and if alive the reason for his imprisonment. HENRY M. ADAMS, Manager Thursday, February 26 The First National Bank OF ANAHEIM United States Depository for the Postal Savings System Capital, $50,000. Surplus and Undivided Profits, $80,000 Resources over $800,000.00 Officers JOHN HARTUNG, Pres. FRANK SHANLEY FRANK SHANLEY, V. P. A. S. BRADFORD A. S. BRADFORD, V. P. JOHN HARTUNG EDGAR J. HARTUNG SAMUEL KRAEMER ÉDGAR J. 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