anaheim-gazette 1914-07-30

HIRAM DUCKED DUAL SUFFRAGE QUESTION CAPT. FREDERICKS MAKES POINTED REPLY TO QUESTION OF WOMAN'S MAGAZINE JOHNSON SIDE-STEPPED ISSUE, WAS DOING POLITICS FOR SELF ALL THE TIME Replying to the editor of a woman's magazine, requesting a statement from Captain John D. Fredericks why he should receive the support of the women voters of California, the Los Angeles candidate for the republican nomination for governor wrote: "Your courteous invitation is, perhaps, best answered by saying my hope of receiving the endorsement of the women at the primaries and later, at the election, is based on their inherent sense of reciprocity. Before the amendement of 1910 was introduced, by whose ratification the enfranchisement of women in California was fait accompli, I had appointed a woman deputy district attorney in my office, in that way setting a precedent of recognition that was inspired by no selfish reasons, with no thought of currying favor with a constituency then voteless. Always my belief in the right of women to political equality with men has been steadfast, and my faith has been shown by my works in the manner stated. "Permit me to remind your readers, and the women of California generally, that the present governor of the state was a candidate before the people estate office of Adams & Hites at Fullerton the other night. Dr. Adams says he is unable to figure out what a thief would want with a sack of sawdust, but thinks he has a trace that will help to identify the party. He first missed the sack when he was preparing to sweep one morning but thinks it may have been taken a couple of days ago. He is hot on the fellow's trail and hopes to get his sawdust back." Bean Crop Heavy All indications point to a record-breaking bean crop on the Irvine rancho this season. The heavy rains of last winter and the recent warm weather have combined to make conditions ideal for an immense output from the 18,000 acres of limas and the 3,000 acres of black-eyed beans which were planted this spring on the rancho. It is yet too early for officials of the Irvine company to make any estimates of the actual number of carloads expected this year though it is safe to say that, barring unforeseen bad weather conditions the number of cars will be far in excess of any previous year. ORANGE GOUNTY'S HIGHWAY SYSTEM Network of Paved Roads Ready For Travel in Short Time Three and a half miles of the road that Orange county is building in the Santa Ana Canyon, joining Riverside and other Interior places with Orange county's cities and beaches, have been completed. Within sixty days two and a half miles more will be torn out of the mountainside and travel on the south side of the river will be resumed. Owing to the good roads work, travel through the Santa Ana Canyon several deputies are out under the impress "Permit me to remind your readers, and the women of California generally, that the present governor of the state was a candidate before the people when the constitutional amendment granting equal suffrage was similarly awaiting decision by ballot. It is a notorious fact, not to be successfully refuted, that Mr. Johnson repeatedly refused to accede to the requests of the women proponents of the dual vote to include in his speeches an appeal for support of the amendment. He was interested chiefly in the political success of Hiram Johnson, and did not propose to lose a single male vote that might be estranged because of his espousal of a controversial issue like this. "Doubtless the editor-in-chief of your magazine, and her associates, are not unfamiliar with this bit of political history, the significance of which the governor's supporters have vainly sought to minify. It is characteristic of Mr. Johnson that his first thought is of himself, and this is reflected in every public appointment he has made. In his commissions, in many of the legislative measures he has advocated, it was not so much the public welfare he had in mind, as the political future of Hiram Johnson. "So I say to you and to the women of California, that in choosing between us in this campaign of 1914, it is well to remember the campaign of 1910 and the refusal of the man who now seeks your favor to concede to your cause that help it so much needed four years ago, when the success of the movement was problematical. Let me venture to quote a saying of the Great Teacher, 'with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you again.' In 1910 Hiram Johnson's measure was taken when he declined to support the women in their heroic struggle for political justice. Their right to return measure for measure is not to be gain-said. My recognition of the equal rights of the sexes antedates equal suffrage in California. I leave the verdict, in this instance, to my political equals, a jury of women, confident of their decision." Three and a half miles of the road that Orange county is building in the Santa Ana Canyon for weeks has been difficult. When work now under way is finished there will be opened up one of the finest automobile drives in Southern California, and automobilists, who in the past have avoided the Santa Ana Canyon road, should find it a favorite. It is a beautiful canyon, full of the attractions of flowing river, trees and rugged mountains. The Orange County Highway Commission has let two contracts for building the road through the portion of the canyon where the mountains jumped off straight into the river. For years a road has been maintained along the canyon's edge, but it was a disappointment as a road. Winter's storms oftentimes made it impassable. At best it was rough and full of sharp turns. There was some sand and plenty of steep places to worry the automobilist, especially one inexperienced in handling a car. One of the contracts has been finished. It is for two and a half miles of road running down the canyon from the Riverside county line. A mile of the second contract southwestward from Gypsum Creek is finished and a steam shovel is tearing out steep places and mountainsides to make a road according to specifications, one that is wide and free from objectionable grades. The roadbed of that portion that is finished is hard as pavement. There is no place where two machines cannot safely pass, and nearly all of the way three machines could go abreast! The portion of the Santa Ana Canyon road between Olive and Peralta, where the second contract ends, is not to be improved until the other roads contemplated in the county's bond issue of $1,270,000 are built. In the original plans this was to be a dirt road. It now appears that there will be $100,000 left over after all roads in the lay-out are built, and it is proposed to use part of that $100,000 in building a paved road from Olive to Peralta, a striking below the other below the last man dropped his viper run. He staggered yard before falling. J.K. Wymard and men who happened scene soon reached nothing could be done within a few or made no resistance Constable Jayne arrived. Jayne phones several deputies and out under the imprisoner had barricaded him with the intention He was taken to Saxn in jail, the dead over to a Fullerton. Reese Alexander violent and ungoye he gave it vent by a of his brother. Him was almost urgely going so far as them. The disturbance his death began objected to the young girl was pre- and threw her out on tered the kitchen man seized her thrust and began choking der stated that he abuse his children but refrained from ing his brother's teething such it would mean a des would result probable one of them. When ter being choked by believed the only cliff life was to kill her. Coroner Winbiggle Buena Park: Thurday turned a verdict to Reese Alexander having shot wound and then had fired the shot. Reese's violent taunt a distrubance, and two children received by John Alex frightful. Soon after Mrs. motherless girl was drenched in Loch might not be sub abuse. Last October show 14, to become host ranch. Since that frequently slapped and his tongue knot epithets, vulgarity Alexander states that cursed the 8-year-old John Alexander lhis friends of the daughter and son told friends that he had get Reese's terrible tenure he was afraid he himself, that there when the guard he would not hold. IN AND ABOUT COUNTY Steers Stampede Meeting Fifteen steers at El Modena Thursday night took part in the California fight of the wets against the drys. At least, the steers put the drys to rout. There was a California dry meeting addressed by Rev. C. H. M. Sutherland of Anaheim. Also in the vicinity were 50 head of cattle belonging to Thomas Doyle. These cattle were being driven from Santiago Canyon pastures to the sugar beet fields that they might fatten on beet tops. Just after the meeting of the drys adjourned and while the street was full of people, 15 unruly steers went on a stampede. Running blind, the animals charged through the crowd. Several men, women and children who failed to reach trees or doorways where knocked down and trampled. While several persons were severely bruised, no one was seriously injured. The roughest treatment was that accorded Miss Mabel Culter of El Modena, well known over the state among Christian Endeavor workers as the State Christian Endeavor field secretary. She was badly bruised. Stole Sack of Sawdust Unique taste on the part of a prowler was shown in the larceny of a sack of sweeping compound which was taken from a shed in the rear of the real The portion of the Santa Ana Canyon road between Olive and Peralta, where the second contract ends, is not to be improved until the other roads contemplated in the county's bond issue of $1,270,000 are built. In the original plans this was to be a dirt road. It now appears that there will be $100,000 left over after all roads in the lay-out are built, and it is proposed to use part of that $100,000 in building a paved road from Olive to Peralta, a distance of five miles. But, without that, the Santa Ana Canyon is soon to be open to travel along the old route on the south side of the canyon. From the Riverside county line a wide mountain road will be traveled over for nearly seven miles, then will be the five miles of unimproved road to Olive, to be paved later. From Olive to Santa Ana and from Santa Ana to Newport Beach or Huntington Beach or Seal Beach paved roads are already built or under contract. With the road on the south side of the Santa Ana Canyon closed for good roads work, at present automobilists find travel up or down the canyon filled with excellent tests for an automobile. There is a road on the north side of the canyon. It was built for neighborhood use largely, but is now being used for travel between Olive and Corona. It is no more than a track wide except in spots. There are some places that put a machine to it to go on the high. It follows close along the tracks of the Santa Fe, which are crossed four or five times between Yorba and Gypsum Creek, where the road crosses to the south side and joins the splendid new road. Suit to foreclose on a note for $2,000 has been brought by Perry T. Tompkins against Josephine Des Granges and others. Property at Fullerton is concerned. John Alexander is his friends of the daughter and son who told friends that he to get Reese to go Reese's terrible tenure he was afraid he himself, that there when the guard he would not hold. That time arrive noon. "I know I ought John Alexander," it is an awful thief brother, but it had could not go on as to protect my child kill my own broth not feel that I am want to go free so my boy and girl." John Alexander is to be of good stamperous rancher, and Arizona mining companies bonded for $38 at the jail. Alexian tormoy Clyde Bishop but Bishop is in the strange trick when it is learned der killed his own Acorra county N. tury ago. John, the only three boys with the county jail told of in the mountains of "We were living in a wild country, about grown. Jam Reese about 10. On ing and wounded morning I started to get him. Reese w spite of my remorse let him go with Jam afraid that Reese one because he was "On the hunt thar arated. James sailed back against a rook a mountain lion s and as Reese app BROTHER KILLS BROTHER AT THE PARK REESE ALEXANDER SHOT TO DEATH BY HIS HALF-BROTHER THURSDAY AFTERNOON DEAD MAN WAS CHOKING HIS SLAYER'S 15 YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER WHEN KILLED As a result of his ungovernable temper Reese Alexander, a Buena Park beet grower, is dead and his half-brother John is in the county jail awaiting trial for murder. The two brothers lived together on a ranch near the Park and Bertha, the 15-year-old daughter of John was their housekeeper. The household consisted of John, aged 53, Reese, aged 43, Bertha, 15, and her brother Virgil, 8 years of age. The tragedy occurred at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon. John was sitting in the house waiting for dinner when his little boy rushed in and told him that Uncle Reese was killing Bertha in the kitchen. Seizing a shot gun John ran into the kitchen and found the girl on the floor with her uncle choking her, his knee pressing her breast. Without a moment's hesitation John fired both barrels of the shotgun into his brother's breast, one charge striking below the right shoulder, the other below the left. The wounded man dropped his victim and started to run. He staggered 100 feet into the yard before falling. J. K. Wymard and a couple of other men who happened to be near the scene soon reached the dying man, but nothing could be done for him. He explied within a few minutes. The slayer made no resistance to arrest when Constable Jayne arrived shortly afterward. Jayne phoned to Santa Ana and several deputies and constables went out under the impression that Alexan- 19 BUICK ANNOUNCEMENT To Build a Better Car—to Better Buick Essentials—Remarkable Engineering Skill and Ingenuity of the Buick of an Ideal. The Proven Superiority of the Buick Motor—Linked Exceeding the Expectations of the Most Exacting— At a Lesser The 1915 Buick Line F. MODEL C-24 $1010.00 Snappy stream line roadster. 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He was taken to Santa Ana and lodged in jail, the dead man being turned over to a Fullerton undertaker. Reese Alexander was cursed with a violent and ungovernable temper and he gave it vent by abusing the children of his brother. His attitude toward them was almost unbearable, frequently going so far as to kick and strike them. The disturbance which caused his death began in the kitchen. He objected to the manner in which the young girl was preparing the dinner and threw her out of the house, ordering her not to come back. She re-entered the kitchen and the infuriated man seized her, threw her to the floor and began choking her. John Alexander stated that he was aware of the abuse his children were subjected to but refrained from interference knowing his brother's temperament and believing that such action on his part would mean a desperate fight which would result probably in the death of one of them. When he saw his daughter choked by the burly man he believed the only chance of saving her life was to kill her assailant. Coroner Winbigler held an inquest at Buena Park Thursday evening and returned a verdict to the effect that Reese Alexander had died from a gunshot wound and that John Alexander had fired the shot. Reese's violent temper made many a distrubance, and the abuse that the two children received from him is intimated by John Alexander to have been frightful. Soon after Mrs. Alexander died the motherless girl was sent to a children's home in Los Angeles that she might not be subjected to Reese's abuse. Last October she returned, a girl of 14, to become housekeeper on the ranch. Since that time Reese has frequently slapped and kicked her, and his tongue knew no bounds in epithets, vulgarity and profanity. Alexander states that at times Reese cursed the 8-year-old boy violently. John Alexander is said to have told his friends of the treatment that his daughter and son were accorded. He told friends that he could see no way to get Reese to go away. He feared Reese's terrible temper. He said that he was afraid he could not control himself, that there would come a time when the guard he put upon himself would not hold. movement. Though only 10, the boy was a great shot. His first bullet went through James' neck, and James fell on his face. Reese fired three or four more shots and everyone went directly over James' back and spatted against the rock within a space half as big as my hand. I heard James call, and got there. He said he thought the man who shot him must have been the one he had trouble with. Later, of course, we learned from Reese that it was he who had shot. "We always considered that the shooting was accidental." Thus it was that the brother who fired the fatal shots thirty-three years ago, himself fell a victim to a gun in the hands of the living half-brother. YORBA-LINDA WILL CELEBRATE VICTORY Big Bonfire Will Be Built In Which Since that time Reese has frequently slapped and kicked her, and his tongue knew no bounds in epithets, vulgarity and profanity. Alexander states that at times Reese cursed the 8-year-old boy violently. John Alexander is said to have told his friends of the treatment that his daughter and son were accorded. He told friends that he could see no way to get Reese to go away. He feared Reese's terrible temper. He said that he was afraid he could not control himself, that there would come a time when the guard he put upon himself would not hold. That time arrived Thursday afternoon. "I know I ought not to talk," said John Alexander, at the county jail. "It is an awful thing to do to kill a brother, but it had to be done. Things could not go on as they were. I had to protect my children, and I had to kill my own brother to do it. I do not feel that I am to be censured. I want to go free so that I can look after my boy and girl." John Alexander is a man reported to be of good standing. He is a prosperous rancher, and is president of an Arizona mining company with properties bonded for $350,000. On arriving at the jail, Alexander asked that Attorney Clyde Bishop be called for him, but Bishop is in the East. A strange trick of fate is uncovered when it is learned that Reese Alexander killed his own brother, James, in Acorona county, N.M., a third of a century ago. John, the only one living of the three boys with the same father, at the county jail told of the death of James in the mountains of New Mexico. "We were living in a mining town in a wild country," said he. "I was about grown. James was 16 and Reese about 10. One day I went hunting and wounded a deer. The next morning I started out to see if I could get him. Reese wanted to go, and in spite of my remonstrance my father let him go with James and me. I was afraid that Reese might shoot someone because he was inexperienced. "On the hunt the three of us separated. James sat down to rest, his back against a rock. There had been a mountain lion seen at that point, and as Reese approached he saw a big call, and got there. He said he thought the man who shot him must have been the one he had trouble with. Later, of course, we learned from Reese that it was he who had shot. "We always considered that the shooting was accidental." Thus it was that the brother who fired the fatal shots thirty-three years ago, himself fell a victim to a gun in the hands of the living half-brother. ERNEST LITTEN IN A SUICIDE PACT Former Anaheim Boy Swallows Cyanide at Mexicali Dispatches from Calexico on Wednesday last gave particulars of a sensational dual suicide in which Ernest M. Litten, a former resident of this city, was one of the principals. Mrs. Viola Hudson, a divorced Arizona woman, was his companion. It appears that the two, who were living together at a resort in Mexicali, entered into a suicide pact and swallowed poison, both being beyond relief when help reached them. The suicide was discovered when Litten summoned inmates of the resort telling them Viola was dying. It was thought he had forced her to swallow poison, but when they turned to call a physician he locked the door of the room and when it was broken open he was also found dying from a dose of cyanide of potassium. Mrs. Hudson's body was shipped to her father's home at Roosevelt Dam, and Litten, whose father is proprietor of a cigar stand in Lompoc, Cal., was buried in Mexicali. Neither of the two had any funds. 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