anaheim-gazette 1915-05-13

AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK OF ANAHEIM A GOOD BANK TO BE WITH “Mid pleasures and palaces, there’s no place like home” (if you own it). Many a man owns his home because he has had the wisdom and foresight to build up a savings account in this bank. 4 per cent paid on term deposits. PROCEEDINGS OF SUPERVISORS The board met in regular session at Santa Ana on May 4th. All members and the clerk present. Demands on the county of Orange were allowed as read. The application of the Standard Oil company to lay a pipe line across the county road from Section 12 to Section 20, T. 3. S. R. 9 W. was granted. The application of A. W. Lewis to move a pool room building in Garden Grove was granted. The application of John Chuml to lay a pipe line across the Buaro Road was granted. Blinds were received for lights and lighting El Modena Lighting District, and the bid of the Southern California Edison Company. FULLERTON MEN ARRESTED IN MEXICO ON SERIOUS CHARGE Gerald Twombly and Richard Le Dane Detained at Nogales as Alleged Horse-Thieves Gerald Twombly and R. LeDane, Americans, under arrest at Altar, Sonora, have appealed to Frederick Simpich, United States Consul at Nogales, for aid. Simpich received a letter from the men stating that a horse trade with an Indian had resulted in their arrest as horse thieves and that all their property had been confiscated. Simpich requested Jose Maytorena, Villa chieftain in Sonora to have the men transferred to Nogales. Gerald Twombly and Richard Le The application of A. W. Lewis to move a pool room building in Garden Grove was granted. The application of John Chuml to lay a pipe line across the Buaro Road was granted. Bids were received for lights and lighting El Modena Lighting District, and the bid of the Southern California Edison company of $1.35 per lamp per month was accepted. A fumigating license was ordered issued to Robert Hayes, on recommendation of the horticultural commissioner. The application of L. E. Van Winkle to place a 7 inch water main under the Santa Ana-Huntington Beach blvd. was granted. The application of H. B. Wiseman, et al to lay a pipe line across Fairhaven avenue, was granted. The hearing of the viewers' report on the petition of J. A. Armitage et al was continued to May 25, 1915, at 2 P. M. Supervisor T. B. Talberg was given a leave of absence from the state for 10 days. The clerk was directed to advertise for bids for improvement of El Toro road, bids to be opened May 25, 1915, at 2 P. M. The board accepted the concrete bridge across Oso creek completed by W. J. German. The board accepted certain buildings at the county farm completed by Fred Slefert. FORMALIN AND OAT SMUT In the recent Indiana oat smut campaign over 50 meetings, with a total attendance of 2,500 farmers, were held in Montgomery, Boone, Delaware, Randolph, Madison, Grant, Allen Pulaski, Benton, Wells and Steuben counties. A botanist of the extension department and the county agent in each of these counties had charge of the work. Results in a similar campaign last year showed that where the seed was treated less than 1 per cent of smut was found, while fields sown with untreated seed had an average of 13 per cent. From 1 to 80 per cent of smut has been found in Indiana fields, showing that many have at least one-third smutted heads. The formalin treatment of seed oats increased the yield from 1 to 25 bushels per acre. Gerald Twombly and R. LeDane, Americans, under arrest at Altar, Sonora, have appealed to Frederick Simpich, United States Consul at Nogales, for aid. Simpich received a letter from the men stating that a horse trade with an Indian had resulted in their arrest as horse thieves and that all their property had been confiscated. Simpich requested Jose Maytorena, Villa chieftain in Sonora to have the men transferred to Nogales. Gerald Twombly and Richard Le Dane, left Fullerton for Sonora on horseback the latter part of February. Nothing had been heard from them from the time they crossed the border near Yuma until one day last week when information was received telling of their arrest. Twombly is the son of S. S. Twombly, teacher of science in the Fullerton Union high school. He is about 23 years old. Le Dane drifted into Fullerton six or eight months ago and for three months before he and Twombly started for Mexico he was employed on S. S. Twombly's ranch, where Gerald Twombly was also at work. Le Dane had wandered all over the world. He served two enlistments in the United States army. He told Gerald that he knew where there was an abandoned gold mine in Mexico, and the picture he painted of the easy money that could be obtained won the heart of the Fullerton youth. Le Dane said that he had gone to this mine and had carried out a lot of ore samples, which he took across the line and sold for $600. The two men decided upon an expedition into Mexico. They got saddle horses and each went away with a fine rifle and automatic revolvers. They rode from Fullerton through the Imperial valley to Yuma. It was their plan to cross the line somewhere east of Yuma. That they did go into Old Mexico is shown by the dispatch. While little is known of Le Dane at Fullerton, excepting what he himself told of his adventures, Gerald Twombly is known in his home town as an honest man, and his friends do not believe that he is guilty of horse stealing. Some of them are disposed to believe that the two men got into trouble through the desire of Mexicans to get hold of the firearms, which are said to be of the best. Implements, it could turn out enough plowshares in one day to last the entire farm. Walnuts interplant and oranges interplant are quite a common county. This is done one of which is to avoid having bearing trunks for whichever crop best when one or three taken out. Another ground at a profit of Santa Ana does acres of which eleven Barbara soft shelled planted about 22 years quincunx system; three squares with a tree each square. About ten years ago to grub out the center left a big gap in each these gaps were filled orange trees, at the about nine acres were lencia oranges on the walnuts were sides of the place. To the creek is on so unknown depth; while the opposite side of considerably heavier planting of oranges two sections of mix oranges. About a ton of walnuts been harvested on and the past five years heavily loaded and are mixed with the heavier land have good growth as those the difference is noticeable. department and the county agent in each of these counties had charge of the work. Results in a similar campaign last year showed that where the seed was treated less than 1 per cent of smut was found, while fields sown with untreated seed had an average of 13 per cent. From 1 to 80 per cent of smut has been found in Indiana fields, showing that many have at least one-third smutted heads. The formalin treatment of seed oats increased the yield from 1 to 25 bushels per acre. One out of 80 farmers treated their seed oats two years ago, but, as a result of these campaigns, 5 out of 80 treated their seed oats this year. GUNS AND PLOWSHARES If the Krupp gun factory in Germany was suddenly changed into a plant for the manufacture of agricultural implements, it could turn out enough plowshares in one day to last the entire United States for fifty years. The wealth which is required to operate this great cannon factory for six days if applied to the manufacture of grain binders, would make enough binders to supply every wheat grower in the United States for the next twenty-five years. The uselessness of war can well be demonstrated by these figures.—Farm Machinery. Latourette’s Quality R. I. Reds BRED TO LAY Baby Chicks $10.00 per 100 Eggs for Hatching 75 cents per 15 Incubator Lots $4.00 per 100 Book Your Orders Now for Winter Layers J. H. Latourette’s Red Ranch 114 Thalia St., bet. Center St. and Lincoln Ave. WEST ANAHEIM Phone Pacific 388-W It is only recently cover crops have been walnut orchard and commercial fertilizer section of the walnut clover was sown, but of winter prevented until long-late in February started up well, but the sections where was planted last October to stand still until of January, but then it grew fearfully through that it was considered knee deep early in May lotus is just beginning in the citrus orchards has shown exceptional gumnous winter growth. A section of the was planted to vetch, but so badly hurt by apical that the cover crop does anything, and this is general result of vetch all over the South. weather for these reasons. TUNEFUL AND CAPTIVATING STRAINS OF "LA PALOMA" Melodious Twang of Spanish Mandolin Is Heard While Fascinating Senoritas Dance The soft clear notes of the tuneful and captivating La Paloma echo forth from vine covered balconies, the melodious twang of the Spanish mandolin is heard and dainty and fascinating Spanish senoritas dance the fandango as only Sevillians can at the San Diego exposition. This is the latest attraction and promises to attain great popularity and to well carry out the theme of old Spain as was intended in the building of the exposition. The other day as visitors were strolling along the Prado a dainty little Spanish senorita darted out of one of the patios and to the accompaniment of enthusiastic vivas, the clack clack of castanets and the lulling tones of the mandolin danced the fandango for Governor W. C. McDonald of New Mexico. This was the introduction of the troup, now numbering seven which is soon to be increased to twenty. Through the flowery gardens and grass lined paths these troubadours go, all the while singing, playing and dancing. Now the visitors hear one of the dark-eyed senoritas singing a love song from a balcony, under a cooling pergola another is langully chanting a little Castilian ditty, on the Plazaas they see Senorita La Bella Sevillaia, favorite of royalty, dancing the fandango or the Spanish tango. Then a senorita and a senior will gracefully glide through the steps of a Spanish waltz. It all makes a pretty picture and it is a novel way of transplanting the romance and sentiment of old Spain to the exposition. Such an attraction is the troup proving that crowds follow it about the grounds ever eager for more of the AGED MEXICAN WOMAN MEETS HORRIBLE DEATH Leonides Sandoval Succumbs to Burns Received From Explosion of Gasoline Stove Horribly burned in a gasoline stove explosion, Leonides Sandoval, 80, a Mexican women employed as a cook on the C. H. Bickmore ranch two miles southeast of Talbert, was rushed to the county hospital and died there at 10:30 o'clock Friday morning. Laborers, who had eaten at the house but a short time before the explosion occurred at 6:30, saw the building in flames. They hurried to the house, but were undecided as to what to do. They stood about while the fire increased in violence. C. H. Bickmore then arrived and, noticing that the aged Mexican woman was not to be seen, immediately realized that she was still in the building. Calling to several of the laborers to follow him, Bickmore rushed into the building and found the woman. She was enveloped in flames. Quickly wrapping some old clothes about the woman, Bickmore succeeded in carrying her outside. The woman was found at the opposite end of the building from where the explosion had occurred, this leading to the supposition that she ran the entire length of the building before she was overcome by the fire. The woman was only partially conscious when rescued. By some mistake Coroner Winbigler was summoned. The coroner hurried to the Bickmore ranch and, seeing that the woman was still living, placed her in his automobile and rushed her to the county hospital. At the hospital everything was done to relieve the suffering woman's pains but in spite of all attention she died. "DOUBTFUL WE'LL BEAT GERMANS" POET WATSON "Hight Time This Should be Driven Into Somewhat Slow Minds," He Declares The poet, William Watson, whose war sonnet "To America," caused considerable stir, in London, began a series of prose articles in Lord Northcliffe's London Evening News entitled "Home Truths for England." Mr. Watson says in part: "It is high time the masses of people in this country should have it driven and hammered into their somewhat slow minds that it is very doubtful indeed whether we are going to beat the Germans." "The grim truth is our enemy is not in the least weakening in efforts or resolve. Our allies and we are in imminent and grievous peril. Our foe is not only mighty in numbers, organization, equipment and efficiency, but is mighty also in intelligence, mighty in patriotic ardor, passionate in love of his own country, passionate in determination to serve her with his life and his all; mighty in truly sublime spirit, devotion to the land that bore him; sublime in willingness—nay, eagerness—to fling away comfort, to fling away ease, to fling away self in order to perform what seems to him the glorious duty of crushing his enemies in the dust and building of future greatness of his own country on the ruins of their power. "That is the spirit that makes Germany supremely formidable, that makes her an unprecedented menace and terror to us and the world. Are we ourselves showing anything comparable with that spirit? There is but one honest and truthful answer, we are not." The Poet Laureate's lines to America, published immediately after the outbreak of hostilities read as follows: chanting a little Castillian ditty, on the Plazas they see Senorita La Bella Sevillaia, favorite of royalty, dancing the fandango or the Spanish tango. Then a senorita and a senor will gracefully glide through the steps of a Spanish waltz. It all makes a pretty picture and it is a novel way of transplanting the romance and sentiment of old Spain to the exposition. Such an attraction is the troup proving that crowds follow it about the grounds, ever eager for more of the entertainment. All of the entertainers came from Seville, Spain, and are under the management of Mme. Ann Dare, a well known theatrical woman. INTERPLANTING OF ORANGE AND WALNUT TREES By Requiring Different Food Materials, Neither Hurts the Other Walnuts interplanted with oranges and oranges interplanted with walnuts are quite a common sight in Orange county. This is done for two reasons, one of which is to provide a means of having bearing trees in the future for whichever crop seems likely to be best when one or the other must be taken out. Another is to use all of the ground at a profit, as M. Nisson of Santa Ana does. He has about 20 acres of which eleven acres of Santa Barbara soft shelled seedlings were planted about 22 years ago on the quincunx system; that is, in 50-foot squares with a tree in the center of each square. About ten years ago it seemed well to grub out the center trees, but that left a big gap in each square, and these gaps were filled with Valencia orange trees, at the same time that about nine acres were set solid to Valencia oranges on the same place. The walnuts were set on opposite sides of the place. The section next to the creek is on sandy loam soil of unknown depth, while the section on the opposite side of the place is of considerably heavier soil. The solid planting of oranges lies between the two sections of mixed walnuts and oranges. About a ton of walnuts per acre have been harvested on an average during the past five years. The oranges are heavily loaded and the trees which are mixed with the walnuts on the heavier land have made almost as good growth as those in the open, but the difference is noticeable. However, GROPS NOT AFFECTED BY MOON Scientists are now convinced that the moon has no more influence on crops that it has upon the temperature or the amount of rain or winds or any other weather element. The growth of plants depends upon the amount of food in the soil and in the air that is available for them and upon temperature, light, and moisture. The moon obviously does not affect the character of the soil in any way, neither does it affect the composition of the atmosphere. The only remaining way in which it could influence plant growth therefore, is by its light. Recent experiments, however, show that full day-light is about 600,000 times brighter than full moonlight, yet when a plant gets 1-100th part of normal daylight it thrives little better than in absolute darkness. If 1-100th part of normal daylight is thus too little to stimulate a plant, it seems quite certain that a 600,000th part can not have any effect at all. It is therefore a mere waste of time to think about the moon in connection with the planting of crops. The moon, say the scientists, has nothing more to do with this than it has to do with the building of fences, the time for killing hogs, or any other of the innumerable things over which it was once supposed to exert a strong influence. growth, so it will have to be irrigated and the plowing deferred till May. Next year a small part of the orchards may be volunteer seeded to bur clover, but will be sown almost entirely to melilessness of his own country on the ruins of their power. "That is the spirit that makes Germany supremely formidable, that makes her an unprecedented menace and terror to us and the world. Are we ourselves showing anything comparable with that spirit? There is but one honest and truthful answer, we are not." The Poet Laureate's lines to America, published immediately after the outbreak of hostilities, read as follows: TO AMERICA; CONCERNING ENGLAND Art thou her child, born in the proud midday Of her large soul's abundance and excess? Her daughter and her mightiest heritage Dowered with her thoughts, and lit on Thy great way By her great lamps that shine and fall not? Yes! And at this thunderous hour of struggle and stress Hither across the ocean wilderness What word comes frozen on the frozen spray? Neutrality! The tiger from his den Springs at thy mother's throat. And grant thou now Watch with a stranger's gaze? So be it then. Thy loss is more than hers for, bruised and torn. She shall yet live without thine aid, and thou Without the crown divine thou might't have worn THE VALUE OF HOPE Without hope this voyageeing sphere on which man lives would be but a derelict, and our lives empty and all but unendurable. For hope is the great rudder to all humanity. Hope wakens in the child even before the sense of reason; if fills youth with golden hue vision; it lures maturity on to the indomitable endeavor, which is greater than mere accomplishment. Nor does it even forsake old age. Like the lamp light streaming through window panes which bring you safely home when a boy, hope lights the path. Even unattainted, it burns quenchlessly. It is more intangible than faith, for faith is trust in what is, but hope is confidence in what is to be. Even to write of it without dropping into vague figures is like trying to express the nature of music by means of albebralic symbols. Hope is sometimes the parent of selfish ambition, but it is also the source of all the purest and holiest passions. It fills the heart of the father when he looks at the baby in his arms. And when this child has become a man the same fire burns within as he gazes down upon his son. From generation to generation it passes—lnoxtinglish- the opposite side of the place is of considerably heavier soil. The solid planting of oranges lies between the two sections of mixed walnuts and oranges. About a ton of walnuts per acre have been harvested on an average during the past five years. The oranges are heavily loaded and the trees which are mixed with the walnuts on the heavier land have made almost as good growth as those in the open, but the difference is noticeable. However, they have not been so well carved for as those in the open, and the oranges mixed with walnuts on the sandy loam are fully equal to the ones in the solid lot. The oranges among the walnuts would have done better if both had been planted at the same time. Mr. Nisson thinks they require different food materials from the walnuts, so neither hurts the other. It is only recently that manure or cover crops have been used in the walnut orchard and never was much commercial fertilizer used. On one section of the walnut orchard, bur clover was sown, but the cold weather of winter prevented it from growing until long late in February. It then started up well, but was far behind the sections where mellilotus indica was planted last October. This seemed to stand still until about the first of January, but then it started fast and grew fearfully through February so that it was considerably more than knee deep early in March. The mellilotus is just beginning to be tried out in the citrus orchards of the South and has shown exceptional value as a leguminous winter grower. A section of the walnut orchard was planted to vetch, but that has been so badly hurt by aphis and mildew that the cover crop does not amount to anything, and this seems to be the general result of vetch cover crops all over the South. It needs hot weather for these reasons and for best growth, so it will have to be irrigated and the plowing deferred till May. Next year a small part of the orchards may be volunteer-seeded to bur clover, but will be sown almost entirely to mellilotus. The section sown to this cover legume last year had been cultivated to fine condition, irrigated, and broadcast with mellilotus in October; then furrowed into trenches about 3 feet apart for any necessary irrigation to make spring plowing easy. The bur clover seed had been broadcasted on disked and ridged ground, but an immediate rain prevented further cultivation, though it covered the seed sufficiently. On account of late gathering of walnuts, the cultivation for mellilotus sowing will be delayed till late December. It remains to be seen whether the growth will be as good with late planting as with early.—Pacific Rural Press. IN GENERAL AND PARTICULAR Canada places a duty of $7.84 per ton on steel rails from the United States, and under Mr. Underwood's bill we admit Canada rails free of duty. Since the first of the year Canadian mills have sold 60,000 tons of steel rails in this country and the Illinois Central has just ordered another 35,00 tons. Would you rather see the steel mills of Canada get the business, or would you rather see the American workingman busy. It is none too early to begin considering these things for there is a presidential election not so very far ahead of us. After the middle of May, Elberta peaches stop growing, according to Ed. Ames of Placer county, until about June 20 to July 1, perhaps two weeks before they are ripe. The ground is then furrowed and irrigated so that the peaches have their chance to swell to the maximum size when they start to grow again just before ripening. All of his Elbertas are shipped East and they were so large, and at the same time of good quality, that they packed but 72 per box and were highly prized by the shippers. About two weeks before they are ripe and before they begin their final increase in size, Mr. Ames thins the fruit also, because at that time he knows that what are left are quite likely to mature. W. B. Allen and family and Mr. and Mrs. E. Allen went to Pasadena Saturday to help celebrate the 88th birthday of the Messrs. Allens' father, Ethan Allen, senior. IOWA HOUSE FRANK GILMORE, Proprietor Under New Management Permanent and Transient EVERYTHING MODERN 111 Hermine Street ANAHEIM, CAL. Pacific 354-J Home 44 CENTRAL GARAGE and MACHINE SHOP COX & BURKHARD. Props. All Kinds of Repairing Our Specialty MAGNETO and IGNITION Body Building and Radiator Repairing Supplies and Accessories—Storage French Motor Oil for Motors 515 East Center St., ANAHEIM PALACE MARKET PALACE MARKET We Carry a Complete Line of Heinz' Famous Pickles and Kraut ALSO Fresh Eastern Oysters and Cheese The Choicest of Fresh and Salt Meats Constantly Kept on Hand WM. SCHUMACHER, Prop. Good Place to Buy— G-O-O-D L-U-M-B-E-R C. GANAHL LUMBER COMPANY Anaheim, Cal. WHITE LABORERS DISPLACE JAPANESE Oriental Being Weeded Out on Kearney Farm of University of California located seven miles west of Fresno, according to a statement made last week by the superintendent, Ralph Frisselle. On orders from the Board of Regents of the University, the six Japanese then on the place were discharged on April 1, last, and none will hereafter be employed except the few that remain as domestic in the sleeping quarters of the men, now five in all. The Fresno Labor Council has complained several times in the past of the employment of Japanese at the farm and the statement was made last year by R. L. Merritt, Controller for the Body Building and Radiator Repairing Supplies and Accessories—Storage French Motor Oil for Motors Anglo & London Paris National Bank says that the resources of the banks of the state increased over $15,000,000 in the year ending March 4, 1915. The increase in savings deposits alone was $14,512,492 in the state and $9,313,510 in San Francisco. The first ripe cherries in the United States this year grew on a 3 year old tree in Chico, is the report. They were picked-on April 6. The California State Poppy League of San Jose, with Dr. James B. Bullitt and Jos. T. Brooks in charge, last year induced thousands of school children to plant poppy seed in waste places. This year it will urge every California railroad to line its tracks with the state flower. On poppy day the league sent 400 large boxes of the golden flowers to San Francisco. They came from a 100-acre field near San Jose. The automobile registrations for April, 1915, were 7,813. MONTHLY BULLETIN FOR APRIL April, 1915, was warmer than the average April, but there was no marked warm spells during the month and the high average temperature was due to the lack of cool nights more than to high day temperatures. The precipitation was below the normal, and but little rain fell until the last week, when showers were general throughout the state. In some sections the ground was beginning to crust, and the rains were very welcome in softening the ground and refreshing vegetation. On the 29th and 30th very high winds prevailed over the entire state. These caused some damage in uprooting trees, damaging fruit crops and delaying shipping. The ground is in good condition and there is a large amount of hard packed snow in the mountains insuring ample water for irrigation and power purposes. The principal products of the eight southermost counties in California, according to the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, had a total valuation of $244,583,311 in 1914. The largest items are manufactured products, petroleum and citrus fruits. The monthly financial letter of the order from the Board of Regents of the University, the six Japanese then on the place were discharged on April 1, last, and none will hereafter be employed except the few that remain as domestic in the sleeping quarters of the men, now five in all. The Fresno Labor Council has complained several times in the past of the employment of Japanese at the farm and the statement was made last year by R. L. Merritt, Controller for the Board of Regents, that the Japanese were being gradually weeded out. About 200 were employed on the farm during harvest last season. EIGHT NUTS IN A CLUSTER Mr. William Cooper, who has a walnut ranch in the El Monte section, exhibited a twig from one of his walnut trees containing a cluster of eight nuts. He says it was one of many clusters on the same tree, nearly every tip of which has six and seven to eight nuts. This must be an exceptional tree and we trust it is an indication of an exceptionally large crop this year for if the war continues it is possible the French will need to conserve all their food within their own country and in that case it is our duty to supply America with nuts. The annual picnic of the East Liverpool, Ohio, people of whom there are several hundred in Southern California will be held at Sycamore Grove, Los Angeles, all day, Saturday, May 15. These reunions are always successful and enjoyable and all former residents of the Pattern Center of America, and vicinity are made welcome. Fred Marsh made a business trip to the city Friday.