anaheim-gazette 1914-05-07

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. MITCHELL FOR COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT One of the most important officials of the county is the superintendent of schools, and the man who is selected to fill the position should be chosen for his fitness and his ability to give a satisfactory accounting to his trust. R. P. Mitchell has filled the requirements of this office, and is a candidate for re-election. Mr. Mitchell has proven one of the most efficient and capable men who ever filled that position in Orange county. Since his election to the office the schools of the county have improved and developed until we have an educational system not surpassed by any in the state. The advancement in our school system during his incumbency, and its present proficiency, are due in large part to Mr. Mitchell's indefatigable efforts. He has been an earnest supporter of every proposed improvement since he assumed the office. Mr. Mitchell is also one of the most popular officials in the court house, having by his genial and obliging disposition won the esteem of all his acquaintances. He is personally known to almost every pupil in the schools of the county and should they be permitted to have a voice in the matter would almost unanimously endorse his re-election. Although politics has no place in the government of schools, all educators have political preferences. Mr. Mitchell has been a life-long Republican and REPUBLICANS WILL MEET A joint meeting of the Republican state central committee with delegates from the county committees of Santa Barbara, Ventura, Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, Imperial, San Diego and Los Angeles has been called for this afternoon at Blanchard hall, Los Angeles. The purpose of the meeting is to ascertain the consensus of opinion of the committees regarding the gubernatorial situation. At this meeting it is the intention to discuss various prospective nominees and their relative merits. Various delegations will be asked for their views and for the names of any candidates they may have in view. Other questions of political importance are to be discussed. Robert Sweeny, vice chairman of the state central committee, will preside. C. J. Sullivan, secretary of the state central committee, stated recently that he had been notified that each county was planning to send large delegations to the meeting. It is expected also that the platform committee of the state central committee, of which F. C. Fairbanks is chairman, will announce a platform. In the evening another meeting is to be held in the Lyceum theater, at which William A. Prendergast will be the principal speaker. Others who will speak are C. C. Chapman of Fullerton and Frank H. Short of Fresno. GEN. MAAS AS A SPRINTER Gen. Maas, commander of Mexican forces at Vera Cruz previous to the American occupation, may not be very much of a fighter, especially when Yankee bluejackets are about, but as a sprinter he has Buck Beebe skinned ever and ever so far. Half an hour after the jackles landed at Vera Cruz, Gen. Maas beat it to the hills. Dispatches the following day announced that he had reformed his retreating POLITICAL SNAP (By the Innocent Banner) In recent reference it is to the superior judges here in Orange county, Col. W. F. Heathman that probable candidates were left out and the omission fully supplied, with the question that Col. Heathman probability, but he is and barring accident by fire, flood or financial seize heard from as a start flight of aspirants for them in the county. Col. Heathan at the political gain taken a more or less pledge in every campaign for them and was slated as the local untrained to oppose West six years ago, but he was left at the post-fell and Judge Towner station. Now, however, bobs up again as smiling as ever, and says he must plum this time sure. has been city attorney for the last 18 years, and fact that during all these kept the city out of law and the successive board out of jail, although it that justice occasionally thus helped Heathman his ends. Col. Heathman is then Orange county bar in service, and has also made the field of scientific man invented a machine form from seawater and an separating sunshine film although neither have yet to satisfactory comment. God disposes, and that can tell what will be to the judgeship fight, but Mr. Mitchell is also one of the most popular officials in the court house, having by his genial and obliging disposition won the esteem of all his acquaintances. He is personally known to almost every pupil in the schools of the county and should they be permitted to have a voice in the matter would almost unanimously endorse his re-election. Although politics has no place in the government of schools, all educators have political preferences. Mr. Mitchell has been a life-long Republican and has never given ear to deceptive doctrines or wandered off after false gods. FOR JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT For more than 30 years Southern California has led the state in the improvement and utilization of its agricultural resources, and the development and distribution of water for irrigation have been the great lines of its activity and progress. In 1899 Judge Lucien Shaw, in the superior court at Los Angeles, in the celebrated case of the City vs. Pomeroy, wrote and gave 23 instructions to the jury, covering the subject of percolating waters and sub-surface streams in this state, and in the appeal from the judgment, the supreme court approved these instructions in every particular, and they became the basis of our common law code of underground waters. Judge Shaw's mastery of the subject was so remarkable that he was promoted to the supreme court in 1902, where he has continued to serve to the present time, and almost every important appeal affecting water rights has been handed to him for examination and decision. The lawyers sometimes say he is the supreme court on water rights. It has been very fortunate for this part of the state that Judge Shaw, who is the only member of the court from Southern California, is so eminent and able a jurist along the lines of her particular interest. But his term expires with the end of this year, and unless re-elected his valuable services will be lost. Though full of years and experience he is still hale and energetic and willing to continue his services on the supreme bench if the people so desire. In our opinion the water-users of the state—and especially Southern California—cannot afford to let him retire, but should see to it that he is nominated and re-elected with a rousing majority. The term of Judge Angellotti will also expire this year. He is able, enGEN. MAAS AS A SPRINTER Gen. Maas, commander of Mexican forces at Vera Cruz previous to the American occupation, may not be very much of a fighter, especially when Yankee bluejackets are about, but as a sprinter he has Buck Beebe skinned ever and ever so far. Half an hour after the jackies landed at Vera Cruz, Gen. Maas beat it to the hills. Dispatches the following day announced that he had reformed his retreating army of 1,800 men, what was left of them, and had assembled them three miles outside the town, where he threw up breastworks, resolved to make a last desperate stand for the honor of the Mexican army. The next day American jackles reconnoitered 18 miles inland, finding the two large railroad bridges intact. Gen. Maas had during the night, so the dispatches informed us, discretely moved his base 25 miles further inland. Two days thereafter American aviators penetrated 85 miles inland. Gen. Maas was found to be 90 miles away from Vera Cruz. Here he was understood to have been joined by Gen. Blanquette with 1,200 men. The combined forces, so a Mexico City dispatch had it, were to proceed immediately against the Americans and dislodge them from Mexican soil. The next day Blanquette was reported to be at Salina Cruz, on the west coast of Mexico, 500 miles away from the nearest American jackles. Gen. Maas in the meantime had beat it to Salteo, some 600 miles north of the City of Mexico. As the latter city is distant some 300 miles from Vera Cruz, it will be noted that Gen. Maas must have been going some since he departed from the coast. If the redoubtable Mexican officer should ever enter an interscholastic race, we should advise Buck Beebe and that Redlands kid who failed to come back to remain at home. They would not be in it for a minute with this fleet-footed Mexican officer, who is sure muncho sprinter. Later dispatches from Vera Cruz state Gen. Maas is again in the vicinity of that city, with 15,000 men, harrassing Gen. Funston's outposts. Whether he be really at Vera Cruz, or at Salteo, or at some other distant point from the Americans, it is difficult to say, but that he is a sprinter of purest ray serene is indisputable. ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH Services Sunday, May 10th, the fourth Sunday after Easter day, at St. Michael's Episcopal church, corner Emily and Adele streets, Rev. David Todd Gillimor, rector, will be, 9:45 A.M., church school and adult classes; thus helped Heathman his ends. Col. Heathman is the Orange county bar in service, and has also invented a machine for from seawater and an separating sunshine fence although neither have yet to satisfactory comment. God disposes, and then can tell what will be true to the judgeship fight, but will surely get a nominee existing conditions before if he only gets one number to keep it constant. Lack of definite possibilities of the office of township judge township made mere guesswork, but rarely announced that the contenders in the field J. B. Cox, the "marryer" eran of the Civil War one of the most competent whole billin' of towns this county. The others are W.W. recent arrival from Newey, who already knew "judge" before his where, when or how it tunately outside the lous chronicler, and ton former resident o held the office of city tice of the peace or s ago that the oldest in gotten just what he e Huntington after leaving into the real estate Angeles and later took to the scene of his open Newport Heights, which leads of the good dollars were dumped into which, so far, not en-taken to grease a palign is young yet, but that the race will be Simon, as Huntington show for the place ther presidency. Another nice little on in the fight for town with Henry Isenberg street barber, among possibilities. Judge Cox was a b membered, and Isenberg son that since Cox has no question but that a public office, and Isenberg the co lawbreaker, will get Though full of years and experience he is still hale and energetic and willing to continue his services on the supreme bench if the people so desire. In our opinion the water-users of the state—and especially Southern California—cannot afford to let him retire, but should see to it that he is nominated and re-elected with a rousing majority. The term of Judge Angellotti will also expire this year. He is able, energetic and upright, and should be elected to the position of chief justice, which will be made vacant by the retirement of Judge Beatty. The Gazette presents the claims of these eminent and worthy servants of the people, not upon any request by them, but upon the assurance of reliable counsel who practice at the bar of their court, and impelled by a feeling that it is eminently proper and necessary that the people and the press should assume the burden of their candidacy and make it unnecessary for successful jurists to descend from the bench and engage in solicitation of votes for their re-election. Mrs. Viola S. Norman, of Santa Ana, was in town on Tuesday meeting with friends in this city. Mrs. Norman is a candidate for county school superintendent of Orange county, a position now very acceptably filled by R. P. Mitchell. She is a member of the Santa Ana board of education, is active in the cause of temperance, and while a very estimable lady, has picked out one of the hardest officials in the court house to beat. The contest between her and Mr. Mitchell will be a clean and honorable one, with no hair-pulling and no raucous shouting after the cruel war is over. ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH Services Sunday, May 10th, the fourth Sunday after Easter day, at St. Michael's Episcopal church, corner Emily and Adele streets, Rev. David Todd Gillmor, rector, will be, 9:45 A.M., church, school and adult classes; 11 o'clock, morning prayer and sermon; 7:30, evening prayer and address. A cordial welcome for all. MOTOR CARS IN CALIFORNIA Receipts by the state through the licensing of auto cars thus far since the law became effective is $1,100,000. When the registration is complete the number of automobiles will exceed 95,000, which places California second in rank among the states in the number of autos, New York ranking first with 122,411. In motorcycles in the state the number licensed is 17,395 and the number of chauffeurs licensed is 12,853. Nevada has the smallest number of automobiles, 1,131; then comes Wyoming with 1,584 and New Mexico with 1,721. The total number registered in the United States is 1,253,875, a gain of 243,392 over 1913. Communication by wireless telegraph has been had between Boston and a steamer off the coast of Japan, the Pacific Mail steamship Mongolia, a distance of 10,000 miles. This makes a new record for wireless. Summer underwear, two-piece and union suits. Al Erickson will enjoy showing his line. POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS (By the Innocent Bystander.) In recent reference in this column to the superior judgeship situation here in Orange county, the name of Col. W. F. Heathman as one of the probable candidates was inadvertently left out and the omission is here cheerfully supplied, with the added information that Col. Heathman is not only a probability, but he is the real thing and barring accident by land or sea, fire, flood or financial stringency, he'll be heard from as a starter in the first flight of aspirants for the highest office in the county. Col. Heathman is a veteran at the political game, as he has taken a more or less prominent part in every campaign for the last 20 years, and was slated as the candidate of the local unerrified to oppose Judge Z. B. West six years ago, but by some means he was left at the post when the flag fell and Judge Towner got the nomination. Now, however, Col. Heathman bobs up again as smiling and confident as ever, and says he means to grab the plum this time sure. Col. Heathman has been city attorney of Santa Ana for the last 18 years, and boasts of the fact that during all that time he has kept the city out of legal difficulties and the successive boards of trustees out of jail, although it is quite possible that justice occasionally miscarried and thus helped Heathman to accomplish his ends. Col. Heathman is the Nestor of the Orange county bar in point of time of service, and has also made a name in the field of scientific research, having invented a machine for extracting gold from seawater and another device for separating sunshine from cucumbers, although neither have been brought into satisfactory commercial use. God disposes, and therefore no one can tell what will be the final result in the judgeship fight, but Col. Heathman There is no substitute for Royal Baking Powder for making the best cake, biscuit and pastry. Royal is absolutely Pure and the only baking powder made from Royal grape cream of tartar. It seems to be well founded is certain, as it is a matter of common knowledge that some of the recently constructed county highway is not what it was expected to be, neither as to base nor surface. Orangethorpe avenue is a case in point and West Fifth street, running out of Santa Ana, is another instance so plain that he who runs may read. Doctors will differ and patients will die, however, and along the line of argument for and against the methods employed in road construction by the state highway omission the assertion is made by Highway Engineer Austin B. Fletcher in a paper presented re-filed this writer of his intention to be a candidate for state treasurer at the August primary election, and as Mr. Head did not mention anything about it being a private communication it is herewith offered for what it is worth, not necessarily for publication, but merely as an evidence of good faith. Mr. Head is a Republican, and that makes his chances good, and as an added boost he comes from San Diego, where at a moment's notice they can supply the raw material to fill any political place in the gift of the people, and some of it is pretty raw at that. Up-state Progressive papers are announcing as fact that State Controller thus helped Heathman to accomplish his ends. Col. Heathman is the Nestor of the Orange county bar in point of time of service, and has also made a name in the field of scientific research, having invented a machine for extracting gold from seawater and another device for separating sunshine from cucumbers, although neither have been brought into satisfactory commercial use. God disposes, and therefore no one can tell what will be the final result in the judgeship fight, but Col. Heathman will surely get a nomination, as under existing conditions he gets a nomination if he only gets one vote, and he'll get that one vote for sure and a goodly number to keep it company. Lack of definite knowledge of the possibilities of the campaign for the office of township judge for Santa Ana township made mention heretofore mere guesswork, but now it is definitely announced that there will be three contenders in the field, including Judge J. B. Cox, the "marrying parson," veteran of the Civil War and incidentally one of the most competent men in the whole billn' of township justices in this county. The others are W. W. Simon, a quite recent arrival from the East, an attorney, who already has the title of "judge" before his name, although where, when or how he got it is unfortunately outside the ken of this veracious chronicler, and George Huntington, former resident of Santa Ana, who held the office of city recorder or justice of the peace or something so long ago that the oldest inhabitant has forgotten just what he did do. Huntington after leaving here went into the real estate business in Los Angeles and later took a flyer in oil, the scene of his operations being at Newport Heights, where several cartloads of the good dollars of stockholders were dumped into dry holes from which, so far, not enough oil has been taken to grease a gimlet. The campaign is young yet, but it's safe betting that the race will be between Cox and Simon, as Huntington has no more show for the place than Bryan has for the presidency. Another nice little scrap for office is on in the fight for township constable, with Henry Isenberg, an East Fourth street barber, among the prominent possibilities. Judge Cox was a barber it will be remembered, and Isenberg is said to reason that since Cox has made good there is no question but that he can also fill a public office, and that between Cox and Isenberg the common, or garden lawbreaker, will get what's coming to county highway is not what it was expected to be, neither as to base nor surface. Orangethorpe avenue is a case in point and West Fifth street, running out of Santa Ana, is another instance so plain that he who runs may read. Doctors will differ and patients will die, however, and along the line of argument for and against the methods employed in road construction by the state highway omission the assertion is made by Highway Engineer Austin B. Fletcher in a paper presented recently before the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, that California's state highway, built and surfaced with native materials, will maintain a first place in excellence among the highways of America and Europe. Engineer Fletcher says: "Experiments in the eastern states led the California highway commission to consider bituminous carpets for the California roads. The only essential difference between the work in the east and that here lies in the use of heavy asphaltic oil instead of tar. It was not possible to use coal tar in California without long railroad carriage and correspondingly high cost, for it is not produced here in any considerable quantity. The writer, however, has no regret on that account." The bituminous carpets, using California asphaltic oil, on 90 per cent of the work already done, are far superior in his judgment to the tar and screening carpets of the east, which he has inspected. They are also far superior to the bituminous carpets usually applied to the macadam roads in the east, and he asserts, after more than 20 years' experience in state highway work, that no eastern state is today getting its state highways constructed so cheaply, so thoroughly or surfaced so satisfactorily as in California. "California started late with its state highways. Its people, with the changed conditions of traffic, brought about by the automobile, are demanding what to all intents and purposes is city street work out in the country. And California is getting it, to all intents and purposes." Engineer Fletcher also takes a fall out of the theory that cracks in concrete road construction work are detrimental by calling attention to the fact that travelers on the state highway where the concrete road is still unsurfaced frequently note the cracks in the concrete and wonder if they are defects in construction. These cracks, according to the highway engineer, are not only desirable but are economical as well. They take the place of the metal expansion joints sometimes used in concrete highway building, and herewith offered for what it is worth, not necessarily for publication, but merely as an evidence of good faith. Mr. Head is a Republican, and that makes his chances good, and as an added boost he comes from San Diego, where at a moment's notice they can supply the raw material to fill any political place in the gift of the people, and some of it is pretty raw at that. Up-state Progressive papers are announcing as fact that State Controller Chambers will have no opposition at the coming primary, thereby seeking to convey the impression that Chambers has a cinch on the job. It goes without saying that every office in the state will be contested for by Republicans, and Chambers would better not lay the flattering unction to his soul that he will be allowed a walk-over. Controller Prendegast, of New York City, the man who nominated Roosevelt at Chicago, will deliver an address on "Republicanism" at the Lyceum theater, Los Angeles, Thursday evening, and Republicans from the county seat are to be present in numbers. Frank H. Short, of Fresno, a noted spell-binder, and C. C. Chapman, of Fullerton, will also speak. P. A. Stanton will preside. Prendegast is an orator of note and may be depended upon to say things worth hearing. He has seen the error of his ways and has returned to the Republican fold, and is now touring the country advising well-meaning persons who got caught in the Bull Moose stampede and followed Roosevelt out of the party to return to the house of their friends. The next governor of the State of California? Well, it won't be Hiram W. Johnson anyway, the wise ones say, but it will be a Republican without any frills, prefixes or annexes to his political affiliation, and they do say there is a strong movement in favor of insisting on Capt. John D. Fredericks making the race for the place, although it is understood Capt. Fredericks does not care particularly about putting himself forward. Should Capt. Fredericks be the choice of the Republicans he will of course have the bitter opposition of every anarchist and other undesirable in the state, but on the other hand he may count with assurance on the enthusiastic support of every patriotic and fair-minded member of the party as well as of a right smart sprinkling of level-headed Democrats who are aware of the futility of attempting to elect a representative of their own political faith. If the candidate comes from Southern California Fredericks will be the man and it has Another nice little scrap for office is on in the fight for township constable, with Henry Isenberg, an East Fourth street barber, among the prominent possibilities. Judge Cox was a barber it will be remembered, and Isenberg is said to reason that since Cox has made good there is no question but that he can also fill a public office, and that between Cox and Isenberg the common, or garden lawbreaker, will get what's coming to him or within a very close shave of it. The state highway, and incidentally the state highway commission, is apparently considered a fair target for criticism these days, and every little whiff or oftener, some one shies a brick at one or both of them because of some real or fancied shortcoming. The latest outpouring of wrath was on the occasion of the last monthly dinner of the Associated Chambers of Commerce at Huntington Beach, where some one announced that certain defects had been discovered in the state highway construction between Santa Ana and Anaheim, and an urgent call was sent out to have the whole matter exploited muy pronto in order that the guilty might be punished and the alleged wrong made right. These defects were said to be in the nature of soft spots in the concrete at various points along the road where for a width of several feet the material was so soft that a knife blade could be readily driven into it. Among other suggestions was that an Orange county man be appointed as inspector of state road construction through Orange county, but the question of whether or not such employment is under civil service regulations called a halt in the proposed proceedings until investiga- Engineer Fletcher also takes a fall out of the theory that cracks in concrete road construction work are detrimental by calling attention to the fact that travelers on the state highway where the concrete road is still unsurfaced frequently note the cracks in the concrete and wonder if they are defects in construction. These cracks, according to the highway engineer, are not only desirable but are economical as well. They take the place of the metal expansion joints sometimes used in concrete highway building, and when the concrete is covered with the bituminous surface the cracks serve a useful and necessary purpose, but are not apparent to the traveler. The ability to do without metal expansion joints in California effects a large saving in construction, which is put into additional mileage. All of which is of more or less interest and some of which may be convincing, but to the lay mind the spectacle of hundreds of thousands of dollars being spent for roads that begin to show material depreciation before they are entirely finished is apt to engender mistrust as to the methods employed however honorable the intention. Not that the proposed action by the Associated Chambers of Commerce means anything in particular, as many of the stunts pulled off by that organization are merely grand stand plays, as while a large majority of the membership are level-headed, conservative business men, some there are among them who might be expected to raise a disturbance in Hades, where according to popular belief there has been comparative peace for thousands of years. Ed L. Head, of San Diego, has noti- Rolled barley, per ton... $27.50 Alfalfa molasses, per ton... 20.50 Rolled barley, per sack... 1.15 Alfalfa molasses, 100 lbs... 1.10 All other feed prices have gone down. Stern & Goodman Mercantile Co., Fullerton, Calif. Occidental College Glee Club will give an entertainment under the auspices of the Anaheim High School at the auditorium on Friday evening, May 15. Excellent music will be a portion of the program, in fact the best talent of the Southland are among the performers. College pleasantries and numerous comic stunts will be presented. It will be worth seeing. Mr. and Mrs. William McLauchlin left Tuesday on a tour of the East which will include stops at New York, Boston and some of the Canadian cities. Before returning they will make a visit with Mr. McLauchlin's sister at Banff, in Western Canada. Thursday, May 7 Braden Machine Works AND Garage Headquarters for the FAMOUS BUICK Good and Reliable Work Done Reasonably. . . Come and See Heinie For Sale---Studebaker Racer $265, Cash H. W. Braden, - Prop. 515 E. Genter St. WE SELL Riverside Portland Cement because of its high tests, and recommend it for making strong, tough cement pipe and concrete. Free Booklet—“Use of Cement in the Country” WE SELL Riverside Portland Cement because of its high tests, and recommend it for making strong, tough cement pipe and concrete. Free Booklet—"Use of Cement in the Country" "The Best Is Cheapest" "The Best Is Cheapest" POSTOFFICE REMAINS AT PRESENT SITE Mr. Dickel Receives Notification From Washington His Offer Is Accepted H. A. Dickel yesterday received official notification from the Postoffice Department at Washington that his offer of a postoffice site had been accepted. This means that the postoffice will remain in its present quarters for another 10 years. An offer had been submitted by East Center street property owners of a site for the postoffice opposite the city hall, but this was declined by the department at Washington. Mr. Dickel will immediately begin making enlargements to the present postoffice building. An extension will be added at the rear and the room made sufficiently large to accommodate the increasing business of the office. The postoffice has been conducted in the present building for many years, and under the new lease will remain 10 years longer. HIS SON ABDUCTED, WILL RETURN FOR HIM Mr. and Mrs. Jean Allec Arrive From Mexico With Four of Their Children Mr. and Mrs. Jean Allec, well known residents of this section, have returned from Durango, Mexico, bringing with them four of their children. They were compelled to flee for their lives, and were obliged to leave behind them one From the grape-raising sections of Riverside county, in which there are 7,000 acres of lands, comes the report that recent hot winds and drifting sands practically ruined the crop for this season. In the West Riverside and Wineville sections, where the greatest grapevine acreage exists, there will not be one-fourth of a crop, according to estimates of capable men. The blowing sand of that desert locality bear off the blossoms, while the hot winds cooked the foliage on the greater part of the vines, practically ruining the wine-making industry for the approaching season. This Man Must Steal the Goods This is a remark we heard on the street the other day. But on investigation we found that the man referred to was Mr. A. E. Hiles, who formerly conducted the largest and oldest store on Broadway, Los Angeles, and has opened a branch store in the Opera House building, where he sells his goods at the same identical price as sold in his Broadway store. Mr. Hiles tells us that there will be no occasion for the ladies of Anaheim to go to the city to buy their dry goods as he will absolutely guarantee his pries as low as the lowest and in many instances much lower. Mr. Hiles came here from Kansas 32 years ago and therefore is not by any means a stranger in our midst; he gives largely to charity and is a booster for Anaheim, where he has very large interests. This store certainly ought to be the Mecca for all careful housewives who are looking for bargains. We hall him with delight and pronounce him the best of good fellows, with his hand in his pocket at all times to help the needy.—Adv. Mr. and Mrs. Jean Allec Arrive From Mexico With Four of Their Children Mr. and Mrs. Jean Allec, well known residents of this section, have returned from Durango, Mexico, bringing with them four of their children. They were compelled to flee for their lives, and were obliged to leave behind them one of their sons, who was abducted by Mexicans and held for ransom. Their eldest son, who is with them, had also been abducted and held for ransom, but he made his escape and rejoined his family. Mr. Allec was advised by the American consul to flee for his life. He was disinclined to depart without his missing son, but was compelled to do so. He landed with his family at El Paso in safety several days ago. He will return to Durango in search for his missing boy, and has telegraphed Washington concerning him. Watch our large price circular for May unloading sale. Wonderful Reduction in prices, all departments. Stern & Goodman Mercantile Co., Fullerton. Barley hay, per ton...$15.00 Oat hay, per ton...16.00 Alfalfa hay, per ton...14.00 Stern & Goodman Mercantile Co., Fullerton. Sunday evening, at the Presbyterian church, the pastor will begin a series of four sermons particularly for men. The subjects are: "Great Men and Religion," "A Man's Religion," "Men and the Bible," and "Men and the Church." Mr. Hiles came here from Kansas 32 years ago and therefore is not by any means a stranger in our midst; he gives largely to charity and is a booster for Anaheim, where he has very large interests. This store certainly ought to be the Mecca for all careful housewives who are looking for bargains. We hall him with delight and pronounce him the best of good fellows, with his hand in his pocket at all times to help the needy.—Adv. Two plain Saturday night drunks, Frank Rios and Al Schunk, paid $5 each into the police court fund Monday morning. Anaheim Union Water Co. Run No. 3 Starts May 5, 1914 Political Announcement GAVIN W. CRAIG Candidate for PRESIDING JUSTICE District Court of Appeal Second District Now Los Angeles Superior Court Judge