anaheim-gazette 1914-03-26

STATE SCHOOL BOOKS May Be Purchased After the First of April From Book Dealers The State Board of Education has fixed the price of state school books, and they can be purchased after the first of next month from book dealers in the various cities and towns. Where there are no dealers books can be purchased direct from Edward Hyatt, state superintendent of public instruction, by remitting the price, plus postage. The price at which the books will be sold is much below the former price, although the royalty is the same and the postage about as much. The sale price is on the average 50 per cent less than under the former administration of the state printing office. The first column below shows the price plus royalties, and will be the price at Sacramento to dealers who must pay the freight or express charges. The last column shows the price for single books sent by mail and it is also the maximum price at which dealers can sell to the public. Superintendent Hyatt requests purchasers to notify him if any attempt is made to charge more than these amounts. The state board made these prices in figures ending in 0 and 5, so that parents and pupils would not be taxed the odd cents by dealers. Price at Price plus Sacramento Postage Primer .15 .20 First Reader .15 .20 Second Reader .18 .25 Third Reader .19 .25 Fourth Reader .24 .30 Fifth Reader .24 .30 Speller One .14 .20 Speller Two .14 .20 First Arithmetic .18 .25 Adv. Arithmetic .23 .30 New Lessons One. .23 .30 New Lessons Two. .26 .35 Intro. History .31 .40 Adv. History .41 .50 Intro. Geography .32 .40 Adv. Geography .54 .65 Hygiene .18 .25 Clivics .31 .40 Writing Books .04 .05 ARGENTINA BEEF Large Quantities Being Imported Into This Country Washington, March 24.—How Argentina's beef industry which includes the importation of millions of pounds of Constitution and the law compel us to collect taxes on them unless they are registered in New York or under the British flag. Now then, when we impose a tax on any kind of industry, is not such tax more or less of a burden on that industry? If we handicap the shipbuilding industry we restrict it, and if we restrict it we decrease the number of men employed in it. The taxes we impose on the improvements, machinery and material of shipbuilding plants are, of course, added to the prices charged for the ship. They are a severe handicap to such of our industries as are obliged to compete with other industries of the same kind on this coast which are exempt from the payment of such taxes As a matter of fact, the situation offers every inducement to our people to have their ships built outside of the state so as to save the tax. It might be said that in another sense we are virtually paying a bonus to the foreign shipbuilders. California is ripe for a great boom in the shipbuilding industry, but we have competitors in British Columbia who pay no taxes on their improvements, their machinery or their material, not on the ships they build. We believe that our port cities should have the privilege of exempting ships and shipbuilding plants (improvements, machinery and material) from taxation if they wish to. The proposed constitutional amendment authorizing "Home Rule in Taxation" would allow them to do it. Why should they not have the right? The municipalities of California have a greater measure of home rule in matters of government generally than any other cities in the Union. What has been the result? Our cities and towns are acknowledged to be the most advanced in the country. Yet every time a measure has come up proposing to give them more control over their own affairs, some calamity howler will rise up and warn the cities of the danger of self-government. What a dangerous thing it is to permit a city to control its own local affairs, when it can be done so much better and much more intelligently (?) by the legislature. No person can logically oppose the adoption of the proposed constitutional amendment without offering something else as a substitute, else their opposition will be construed as an admission that the present tax laws are satisfactory; and anybody who will have the nerve to stand up and say that our present system of taxation is all right, especially as regards the taxation of personal property is a fit subject for a ARGENTINA BEEF Large Quantities Being Imported Into This Country Washington, March 24.—How Argentina's beef industry which includes the importation of millions of pounds of meat into the United States monthly, under the new tariff law, is dominated by Chicago slaughtering and packing companies which "do by far the major portion of the entire business," is described in a "Farmers' Bulletin" issued today by the department of agriculture. That Argentine beef has caused a reduction in the price of meat in the United States has been generally supposed, but the department's bulletin remarks that "it is not assumed that the American controlled companies in Argentina are using Argentina beef to beat down the prices of Chicago beef." At present, the bulletin says, there are nine establishments for slaughtering, chilling or freezing and exporting beef, located in or near Buenos Aires, and five or these companies are owned or operated by Chicago houses. In the summarized conclusions of the bulletin, it is shown that imported Argentina dressed beef adds to the national supply of the United States, at the recent rate, a little over 1 per cent. "While some of this meat," the bulletin adds, "has come from British frigorificos at Buenos Ayres, a great deal of it has been consigned by the Buenos Ayres frigorificos of the Chicago slaughtering and packing companies, to themselves at New York, for sale by themselves in New York or wherever they please to send it by rail." According to the bulletin, 9,000,000 pounds of Argentina beef are being imported into the United States monthly. It is shown that in October the United States received 2,069,794 lbs.; in November, 3,988,898; in December, 9,448,498 pounds, and in January 8,935,797 pounds. SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT The largest tank steamer ever built under the American flag was recently launched from the Union Iron Works in San Francisco. The new tanker is 426 feet long and has a capacity for 67,000 barrels of oil. It was built for the Associated Oil Company at a cost of $760,000. That cost represents material used, wages of workmen, and a proportionate share of the insurance and taxes paid on the works. The same plant has commenced work on another large tank steamer for the Standard Oil Company, and the Union Oil Company has also contracted for a tanker like the one just launched. It may be said that these three tank steamers mean an expenditure of about $2,250,000, saying nothing of the investment in the plant itself. That is a big sum of money to up and warn the cities of the danger of self-government. What a dangerous thing it is to permit a city to control its own local affairs, when it can be done so much better and much more intelligently (?) by the legislature. No person can logically oppose the adoption of the proposed constitutional amendment without offering something else as a substitute, else their opposition will be construed as an admission that the present tax laws are satisfactory; and anybody who will have the nerve to stand up and say that our present system of taxation is all right, especially as regards the taxation of personal property, is a fit subject for a lunatic asylum. Keep your eye on Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 7. Home Rule in Taxation is going to win. DAIRY EXAMINATION The California State Civil Service Commission announces an examination for dairy inspectors to be held on April 18th, 1914. The State Dairy Bureau employs a number of inspectors in different parts of the state, whose duties consist in examining dairies and other plants engaged in the production and distribution of dairy products. These inspectors are required to investigate the surrounding conditions and to prosecute offenders of the dairy laws. The entrance salary is $4.50 per day. Persons who wish to enter this examination should apply at once to the State Civil Service Commission at Sacramento, for application blanks. Only those applications received 5 P. M. April 13th, 1914, will be considered for this examination. HOMESTEADS LISTED ON NATIONAL FORESTS Eighty applications were filed with the district forester at San Francisco, during February, under the forest homestead law for the listing and opening to entry of lands within the national forests of California. In addition to these there were 12 requests to amend previous applications by including more land. The lands applied for will be examined, and if found to be chiefly valuable for agriculture will be listed with the Department of the Interior to be opened to settlement and homestead entry. Every applicant must be qualified to make a homestead entry and will not receive title to the land until he has complied fully with the homestead law which requires residence upon cultivation of the land for a period of three years. During the month reports were made on 55 different tracts which had previously been applied for. Sixty tracts, embracing 9,491 acres, were listed to be opened to entry. TREATMENT FOR STOCK POISONING Practical demonstrations in the treatment of cattle for lark spur poisoning will be made by forest officers on 10 or 12 different national forests in the Rocky Mountain district this summer. The first gold on land Alaska, were a region, which comprised westward from thier dary to the greatest The earliest of them crossed the Chilkshi and six years later interior of Alaskan in the Yukon-Taiga then this region bore value of abe United States Geo its survey of this some 40,000 squares With the issuing portion of the r Circle quadrangle as Bulletin 538 graphic reconnaissance with a description sources of this area. The town of C report takes its oldest white settler It was located be determined that at Arctic Circle miles south of it; Arctic Circle cative of ice an noted that there nor permanent s Tanana region. I fertile valleys are during the shoff vegetation thrive ripened, and vegetantly Of course adequate railroad 426 feet long and has a capacity for 67,000 barrels of oil. It was built for the Associated Oil Company at a cost of $760,000. That cost represents material used, wages of workmen, and a proportionate share of the insurance and taxes paid on the works. The same plant has commenced work on another large tank steamer for the Standard Oil Company, and the Union Oil Company has also contracted for a tanker like the one just launched. It may be said that these three tank steamers mean an expenditure of about $2,250,000, saying nothing of the investment in the plant itself. That is a big sum of money to be paid out for wages and material. Now then, here is the point we wish every reader of this paper would think about and think about hard. If that $760,000 tank steamer is registered in San Francisco or in any California port, the law says that it must be assessed for taxation at its full cash value. Should it be taken to British Columbia and registered under the British flag, it will not be taxed at all. As a result of this peculiar situation many American-built ships are registered in Vancouver and Victoria, and sail under the British flag. If that tank steamer is registered in San Francisco the State Constitution says it must be taxed, and the law says it must be assessed for $760,000 (however, we know it won't be assessed that much even if it has the cost tag on it when the assessor sees it). But suppose it is assessed $380,000, or half value, the tax will amount to something between $8,500 and $9,100. Will the owners pay that tax? Not one cent of it. To be sure they will advance the amount of the tax and get a tax receipt, but the money will not come out of their pocket. They will simply add the amount of the tax on to the carrying charges so that as a result, Mr. Consumer, as usual, will pay the tax. The same thing may be said of the other two tank steamers about to be constructed for the tSandard Oil and the Union Oil Companies. The State TREATMENT FOR STOCK POISONING Practical demonstrations in the treatment of cattle for lark spur poisoning will be made by forest officers on 10 or 12 different national forests in the Rocky Mountain district this summer. The officers will be furnished with a standard equipment of syringes and medicines, and subcutaneous injections of Physostigmin salicylate, 1 grain; Pilocarpin hyprochlorid, 2 grains; Strychnin sulphate, $\frac{1}{2}$ grain will be used on animals weighing 500 to 600 pounds, doubling the dose for large steers and cows weighing 1,000 pounds or more. Experiments with this treatment, which is discussed in a recent "Farmers' Bulletin," No. 531 of the United States Department of Agriculture, have shown about 96 per cent of success and it is expected that stockmen will readily adopt the method as its merits become more generally known. MILLER IS WINNER Judgment was entered in favor of L. E. Miller in a suit brought by John K. Friend against Miller and J. H. Boney. Two lots at Anaheim were concerned. Friend asserted that Boney got Mrs. Friend, who is Spanish and not well acquainted with the English language, to sign a paper. This paper was a deed to the property. Mrs. Friend thought it notice of completion of a building. Friend sued to get title to the property, but Boney had deeded it to Miller. When the case was called for trial before Judge Thomas, Friend did not appear and judgment went to Miller, Attorney F. C. Spencer representing him. During the month reports were made on 55 different tracts which had previously been applied for. Sixty tracts, embracing 9,491 acres, were listed to be opened to entry. The Circle quarrel present important of the Birch Creek though worked have produced nearly $5,000,000 written by L. M. Logical Survey, attained on application of the Survey and WAGE WAR Five thousand pended on the South Madera county termination of living wood which supply to the tree. If the treat it dies; if only it is so weakened prey to other consists in cut before the beetle bark and burnin OUTSIDERS MUST PAY Tuition Fund Is Distributed by County Superintendent of Schools It cost that portion of Orange county not included in any high school district the sum of $17,658.27 to send its pupils to high school during the last year. County Superintendent of Schools R. P. Mitchell has just made his third quarterly apportionment of school funds for the year ending June 30, 1914, and at the same time he made his annual apportionment of the tuition fund. Under the state law, a high school district is compensated for teaching pupils from outside its district. A tax is levied upon the portion of the county not included in any high school district to pay for all the pupils who go from that territory to any high school of the county. The tuition fund is distributed as follows: Anaheim High School, $1,362.90; Fullerton Union, $3,032.92; Huntington Beach Union, $4,979.50; Orange Union, $839.14; Santa Ana, $7,443.81. The third quarterly apportionment was made as follows: District. Amount. Alamitos $232.50 Anaheim 4,140.00 Bay City ... Bolsa 457.50 Buena Park 397.50 Centralia 495.00 Commonwealth 82.50 Cypress 240.00 Delhi 682.50 Diamond 187.50 El Modena 930.00 El Toro 240.00 Fairview 262.50 Fountain Valley 367.50 Fullerton 2,610.00 Garden Grove 1,687.50 Harper 217.50 Huntington Beach 1,860.00 Katella 397.50 Laguna 135.00 La Habra 660.00 Laurel 442.50 Loara 930.00 Lowell, Joint 150.00 Magnolia 620.00 Newhope 360.00 Newport 217.50 Newport Beach 487.50 Ocean View 652.50 Ollinda 1,245.00 Olive 420.00 Orange 3,817.50 Orangethorpe 367.50 Peralta 82.50 Placentia 1,290.00 Randolph 757.50 GAS COMPANY GIVEN FRANCHISE Pipe Line to Be Laid From Newport Beach to Oil Territory The Southern California Gas Company recently petitioned the railway commission for permission to lay a pipe line from Newport Beach to the oil country for the purpose of supplying that city with the products of the oil wells in the vicinity of the east line of Orange county. The company intends to put in lines for the transportation of heavy and crude oils, as well as for natural and artificial gas. The pipes will be laid along the northwestern line of the Irvine subdivision, thence to the northeasterly line of the Bixby property, and from there to the east line of the county. A copy of the order from the railway commission, granting the necessary franchise was filed today. Two per cent of its profits will be paid by the Southern California Company to the state, during the life of the franchise. The territory involved is not now served by any other utility of like character. LOCAL CONVENTION NOTES The southern district, which is to play the part of hostess to California Federation of Women's Clubs, sends out a cordial invitation to the club women of the state to attend the annual convention to be held in Riverside, April 28 to May 2, 1914. As this is the first time that the southern district has had the honor of entertaining the state convention, the club women of this section are putting forth every effort to make it a success. The local committee has the work well in hand. Riverside has an ideal outdoor climate, so most of the social affairs will be in the open. On the first day of the convention there will be an informal reception in the Women's Club house on the corner of Eleventh and Main streets, when all delegates and visiting club women will meet and get acquainted. This is not a dress affair, but all are asked to come in street costume. The more formal function will be on Wednesday evening at the Mission Inn, when every woman is expected to be in her best tango gown. Each day there will be something doing. One day it will be a May party, another a visit to Sherman institute, the government school for Indians; a morning on Mt. Rubidoux, made famous by the sunrise Easter services. Besides these numerous invitations... GREAT GOLD REGION Report by United States Geological Survey on the Yukon-Tanana Territory, Alaska The first gold deposits found in inland Alaska, were in the Yukon-Tanana region, which comprises an upland diversified by broad valleys stretching westward from the international boundary to the great bend of the Yukon. The earliest of the pioneer prospectors crossed the Chilkoot Pass about 1880 and six years later began mining in the interior of Alaska after finding gold in the Yukon-Tanana region. Since then this region has produced gold to the value of about $83,000,000. The United States Geological Survey began its survey of this field, which embraces some 40,000 square miles, in 1898. With the issuing of the report on the portion of the region known as the Circle quadrangle, published recently as Bulletin 538, geologic and topographic reconnaissance maps, together with a description of the mineral resources of this area, became available. The town of Circle, from which the report takes its name, is one of the oldest white settlements on the Yukon. It was located before the surveyor had determined that the town was not on the Arctic Circle, as supposed, but 50 miles south of it. Lest the nearness of the Arctic Circle be regarded as indicative of ice and snow, it should be noted that there are neither glaciers nor permanent snow in the Yukon-Tanana region. It is, indeed, a land of fertile valleys and grassy slopes, and during the shift but warm summers vegetation thrives, many grains can ripen, and vegetables grow luxuriantly. Of course, the establishment of adequate railroad transportation facilitates day travel there will be something doing. One day it will be a May party, another a visit to Sherman institute, the government school for Indians; a morning on Mt. Rubidoux, made famous by the sunrise Easter services. Besides these, numerous invitation affairs are being planned by the River-side club women for their friends. Every day automobile rides through miles and miles of orange groves will be enjoyed between the regular sessions by all the delegates. Riverside is the heart of the citrus industry, as everyone knows. The hotel accommodations are sufficient for all who may come. The rates are reasonable. At the Mission Inn $4 per day and up on the American plan. At the other hotels $1 per day European plan. There are also good rooms to be had in apartments and in private families as low as 50 cents a day. The Young Women's Christian Association of Riverside has one of the best managed cafeterias on the Pacific coast, at which the visiting club women can obtain their meals at very reasonable rates. The new Congregational church, architecturally one of the most beautiful buildings in the state, has been secured for the "work meetings." A noon luncheon will be served in "Pilgrim hall" in the church, for 25 cents. One of the rooms in the church has been set aside for an art exhibit and will be in charge of the state chairman of art, Mrs. Estudillo, and the southern district of art, Miss Harris. Other chairmen will also have their exhibits in different rooms of the church, but these have not been definitely assigned. The exhibits are to be made a prominent feature of this year's convention. Mrs. J. H. D. Cox, the secretary of the local board, will be glad to answer any inquiries. Address 292 East Seventh street, Riverside, Cal. SEEKS PAROLE C. R. Peabody, who is confined in San Quentin on a 25-year sentence from this county, is making an attempt to secure a parole. Superior Judge West, who sentenced him, District Attorney West, who prosecuted him, and Sheriff Ruddock have been asked by a friend of Peabody to sign a petition to the prison board asking that Peabody's request for parole be granted. None of the three officials signed the petition. Peabody was principal of the Magnolia school, northwest of Garden Grove, and was arrested upon complaint of mistreatment of one of his girl pupils. Peabody has been in prison for 18 months. At present his assignment is office man for one of the prison captains. Notice to Creditors Estate of Sigmund Armbruster, Deceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersecretary of last Will and Carter will act as the Judges of said Election, and conduct the same, said Inspector and Judges being competent and qualified electors of said School District. In Witness Therefor, we have hereunto set our hands this 10th day of March, 1914. CHAS. A. BOEGE, MARTHA O. WALLOP, WM. H. CHAMBERS, Trustees of Anaheim School District, Orange County, California. (3-12-4) report takes its name, is one of the oldest white settlements on the Yukon. It was located before the surveyor had determined that the town was not on the Arctic Circle, as supposed, but 50 miles south of it. Lest the nearness of the Arctic Circle be regarded as indicative of ice and snow, it should be noted that there are neither glaciers nor permanent snow in the Yukon-Tanana region. It is, indeed, a land of fertile valleys and grassy slopes, and during the shoft but warm summers vegetation thrives, many grains can be ripened, and vegetables grow luxuriantly. Of course, the establishment of adequate railroad transportation facilities may be expected to greatly develop this entire region. The Circle quadrangle owes its chief present importance to the placer mines of the Birch Creek district, which though worked in only a small way, have produced gold to the value of nearly $5,000,000. Bulletin 538 was written by L. M. Prindle, of the Geological Survey, and a copy may be obtained on application to the Director of the Survey at Washington, D. C. WAGE WAR ON PINE BEETLES Five thousand dollars will be expended on the Sierra national forest in Madera county this spring in the extermination of beetles which are killing valuable timber. Nearly 3,000 big pines, worth $12,000, are reported killed by insects on the areas involved in this project, during the past year, and prompt measures are expected to save a body of timber worth many times the amount expended. It is explained that the beetles do their work by tunneling horizontally beneath the bark in the outer layer of living wood which carries the food supply to the living portions of the tree. If the tree is completely girdled it dies; if only partly girdled its vitality is so weakened that it may fall a prey to other diseases. Control work consists in cutting the infested trees before the beetle emerges, peeling the bark and burning it. Notice to Creditors Estate of Sigmund Armbruster, Deceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned, executrix of the last Will and Testament of Sigmund Armbruster, deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit the same with the necessary vouchers, within ten months after the first publication of this notice (which publication was first made on the 19th day of March, 1914), to the said executrix of the last Will and Testament of said deceased at the office of Melrose & Ames, attorney for said executrix at No. 112½ West Center street, in the City of Anaheim, Orange County, California, which place is hereby designated as the place for the transaction of the business of said estate in the County of Orange. Dated this 16th day of March, A. D. 1914. KATHARINA ARMBRUSTER, Executrix of the last Will and Testament of Sigmund Armbruster, Deceased. 3-19-5 Notice of Forfeiture To E. M. Davids, L. Lindsay, W. N. Hamaker, and C. R. Hamaker. You are hereby notified that I have expended more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars, in labor and other improvements upon the Hamaker Oil Placer Claim, located on the north half (½) of the nortwest quarter (¼) of section thirteen (13). T. S., R. 9 W., S. B. B. M., as will appear by certificate filed December 31st, 1913, in the office of the County Recorder of Orange County, State of California, in order to hold the same for the year ending December 31st, 1913. And if within ninety days after notice by this publication, you fail or refuse to contribute your proportion of such expenditure, as a co-owner, your interest in said claim will become the property of the subscriber under said section 2324. Revised Statutes of the United States, being the amount required to hold the same for the year ending December 31st, 1913. And if within ninety days after this notice by publication, you fail or refuse to contribute your proportion of such expenditure as a co-owner, your interest in said claim will become the property of the subscriber under said section 2324. (2-5-12) W. N. HAMAKER. A. P. Dresser, of Santa Ana, was elected secretary of the Orange County Republican Central Committee to succeed Joseph Burke, resigned. ALFALFA and all other kinds of SEED AT Dickel's Space is Too Costly to enumerate all the brands of Liquors we have in stock; but we guarantee to suit your palate in any of these lines. Give us a trial; be convinced. to enumerate all the brands of Liquors we have in stock; but we guarantee to suit your palate in any of these lines. Give us a trial; be convinced. California Wine Co. BOTH PHONES We Appreciate Your Business Harley-Davidson Motorcycles I WISH TO ANNOUNCE THAT I HAVE THE EXCLUSIVE SALE OF Harley-Davidson Motorcycles For Anaheim and vicinity. 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