anaheim-gazette 1916-01-27

ANAHEIM LOSES IN SECOND DEBATE LOS ANGELES HIGH SCHOOL DEFEATS OUR ORATORS BY ONLY SEVEN POINTS QUARTON, ONE OF ANAHEIM SPEAKERS, MADE HIGH RECORD IN THE CONTEST Occasional defeat serves to stimulate contestants to greater exertions, especially when the contestant loses by a narrow margin. In the debate with Los Angeles high school Friday night, being the second in the Southern California Debating League series, Anaheim lost, the score being 186 to 179. This indicates that the judges were compelled to figure close in making a decision. Furthermore, Quarton, one of Anaheim's debaters, was given the highest rating among the four speakers. Friday night was a bad one for traveling. Railroads were out of commission, bridges reported washed away and highways uncertain, but Miss Veda Walker, the instructor in elocution, and more than twenty others, accompanied the Anaheim speakers to Los Angeles. The debate was held in the auditorium of the Los Angeles high school. The subject was, "Resolved, that a law should be enacted providing for the compulsory arbitration of disputes between capital and labor." Quarton and Morris Martenet represented Anaheim, and were given the negative side of the question. The affirmation is closed. The other side claim it is not closed. It was shown by the contestants that no petition was filed for the distribution of the estate, which covered 162,000 acres; that no notice was published; that the court had no jurisdiction to order a distribution; that the court did not ascertain who the heirs were, and there is nothing to show how the estate was distributed or who the heirs were. A decision in favor of the contestants would cloud the title to millions of dollars worth of property upon which has been built hustling cities, many of them in this county. Bernardo Yorba was the father of 17 children by three wives. One of the claims made is that fifteen of the children distributed the estate among themselves to the exclusion of the other two children. Two judges have adjudicated the issue in times past. This is the third attempt and is attracting wide interest, because the property has changed hands so many times and has grown exceedingly valuable. RIVER PROTECTION DISTRICT IMPERATIVE DEMANDED Every Acre of Land Lying West of River Should be Embraced Within Its Confines Supervisor Wm. Schumacher was in town late Friday evening and in speaking of the flood situation said, the need of immediate action to afford protection to the section lying west of the river was imperative. He believes a river protection district should be formed at once taking in every acre of land west of the river, from the Fifth street bridge to the Santa Ana canyon. People to the north and south of this city have been hard hit, while in the western section, especially in the Garden Grove district, the situation is serious. A BEE EXPERIENCE At the midwinter California State University at Los Angeles and 29, Prof. Geoffrey entomological state university had arrangements with establish an expedition the study of bees. Buena island in The inspectors of will keep the stationial for experimental disease, a resolution that effect. The convention itiate a plan to esting standard for eA motion was publishing of the to the state asses body, the Consolducers of California sessable corporate finance the journal it becomes self-suGRADUATE STUDIOONE-FOUR The graduate siversity of California in number 23 per year; they have the total registratg grown 65 per cee years. So announce Sutton after enrolments now at wo least 200 more wiThe remarkable cent in a single y division (devoted of college graduat through the annouf fifth day of this students numbered than a year ago. increased 209, to and highways uncertain, but Miss Veda Walker, the instructor in elocution, and more than twenty others, accompanied the Anaheim speakers to Los Angeles. The debate was held in the auditorium of the Los Angeles high school. The subject was, "Resolved, that a law should be enacted providing for the compulsory arbitration of disputes between capital and labor." Quarton and Morris Martenet represented Anaheim, and were given the negative side of the question. The affirmative was upheld by Miss Anna Brokeball and James Boyle. Both sides fought stubbornly, but when the judges' figures were tatalled Anaheim was found to be seven points behind. The Anaheim high school expects to reverse the history of last winter's debates. It will be remembered that in the preliminary contest Anaheim defeated Los Angeles by seven points, the identical score by which they lost last Friday night. Frank Schacht and Fred Owen were the local champions. In the championship contest, with the same boys upholding our side, Los Angeles high defeated them by two and one-half points. Los Angeles lost the preliminary and won the championship from us last year. Perhaps we can reverse the score this season. Anaheim won the first debate of the series from Whittier by a decisive score of 16 points. George Kemp and Arthur Coons were the local debaters in that contest. Los Angeles high is our most dangerous opponent, but the fact that they only won by seven points and that one of Anaheim's debaters made the high score, is encouraging. In the Orange county contest for the Davis cup, Anaheim was woefully outclassed, losing every one of its four debates, but if the brilliant young orators of the high school win the championship of Southern California, the minor debates will be forgotten. SPILLED CRUDE ON HOUSE OF COUNCILMAN Some miscreant evidently has a grudge against City Councilman Geo. McPhee, living at the corner of Van Ness and West Fifth street, Santa Ana. Some weeks ago a beer bottle was thrown through a window of the house at midnight, shattering the window pane, but injuring no one. A short time later a stone was thrown at the house at night striking the front ing of the flood situation said, the need of immediate action to afford protection to the section lying west of the river was imperative. He believes a river protection district should be formed at once taking in every acre of land west of the river, from the Fifth street bridge to the Santa Ana canyon. People to the north and south of this city have been hard hit, while in the western section, especially in the Garden Grove district, the situation is serious. Immediate action must be taken if the people are to be given assurance that there will be no repetition of the flood such as the county has just passed through. Emergency work in the way of dredging out the river channel should be resorted to as soon as the water in the river subsides. It is estimated that two hundred teams with scrapers within about ten days could accomplish great good. By digging a new channel about twelve feet deep from a point up at Yorba and extending south of the Olive bridge it is believed flood waters in the future would confine themselves to that course. The weaker places in the west bank could be diked and fortified, thereby preventing further breaks in the bank. Supervisor Schumacher believes that it is essential that every farmer or any one in the district owning a team should respond to the call to help the emergency protection work. It is to the best interests to do so, and at once. He has two teams that will be sent in to help. The situation presents serious aspects and it is up to the people to protect themselves. Later a move should be made to form a protection district taking in all land in the northern end of the county, lying west of the river. Substantial work then could be accomplished. It requires fifty-one per cent of the inhabitants of a proposed protection district to favorably sign a petition calling for the formation of the same. There are doubtless many people who will readily look favorably upon the project, while it is perfectly natural to suppose that a number would disapprove of the venture. There are perhaps many in the flooded district who, after subsidence of the flood waters, would disclaim any wetting whatsoever, for one reason or another. However the fact remains that something along the line of protection must be worked out. Your ship may you save the pen in a term account National bank, it boat to take you ous stream whe across. Some miscreant evidently has a grudge against City Councilman Geo. McPhee, living at the corner of Van Ness and West Fifth street, Santa Ana. Some weeks ago a beer bottle was thrown through a window of the house at midnight, shattering the window pane, but injuring no one. A short time later a stone was thrown at the house at night striking the front door. Recently even worse tactics were taken, black crude oil being sprayed on the side of the house as high as the eves, on the flowers in the yard and on the lawn, causing much unsightliness and damage to the yard decorations. The culprit should be apprehended and boiled in oil. DIGGING UP OLD RECORDS An all day argument in the litigation involving the Yorba estate that has been brought into Judge Rives' probate court at Los Angeles, records which have gathered dust in the court house archives for half a century. The records were dipped into because the suit covers the question whether or not the great Yorba estate was ordered distributed after Bernardo Yorba's death, in 1858. Judge Rives took the question under submission. The Yorba case records bear No. 120. Since those early days more than 50,000 cases have been filed. Much interesting history was revived by the attorneys in their argument covering the claims of Mrs. Beatrice A. Yorba-Johnson and Roberto Yorba Bailey for a one-seventeenth interest in the many million dollar estate. The suit is contested by the heirs who contend that the order of distribution was regular and that the mat- There are doubtless many people who will readily look favorably upon the project, while it is perfectly natural to suppose that a number would disapprove of the venture. There are perhaps many in the flooded district who, after subsidence of the flood waters, would disclaim any wetting whatsoever, for one reason or another. However the fact remains that something along the line of protection must be worked out. OLIVES HIGH IN FOOD VALUE The ripe olive is too often considered as a relish instead of as a food, according to Professor M. E. Jaffa, consulting nutrition expert of the California state board of health. It is an exceedingly palatable and easily digested form of food and should never be considered as a condiment or relish. It has at least nine times greater fuel value per pound than pickles or like relishes. Ripe olives are very much more desirable than green olives, however, for they contain nearly twice as much fat. It is to the interest of the consumer to buy the ripe olives, for the reason that he receives far more nutriment for his money by purchasing the matured product. In comparing the ripe olive with other foods, such as bread, rice, etc., Prof. Jaffa states that while rice will rank far ahead in total food value, the ripe olive, so far as food value is concerned, compares very favorably with many of the ordinary foods. Pound for pound, ripe olives, so far as total value of heat unit is concerned, contain almost as much food value as bread, and in the case of very large olives, the value may be increased to approximately the same as that of bread. ANAHEIM GAZETTE—THURSDAY, JAN, 27 A BEE EXPERIMENT STATION At the midwinter meeting of the California State Beekeepers Association at Los Angeles on December 28 and 29, Prof. Geo. A. Coleman of the entomological department of the state university announced that the university had about completed arrangements with the government to establish an experiment station for the study of bee diseases on Yerba Buena island in San Francisco bay. The inspectors of the various counties will keep the station supplied with material for experiment, in all forms of disease, a resolution being passed to that effect. The convention also decided to initiate a plan to establish a state grading standard for extracted honey. A motion was passed to assign the publishing of the Western Honey Bee to the state association's corporate body, the Consolidated Honey Producers of California, which as an assessable corporation will be able to finance the journal until such time as it becomes self-supporting. GRADUATE STUDENTS INCREASE ONE-FOURTH IN YEAR The graduate students of the university of California have increased in number 23 per cent in the past year; they have nearly doubled and the total registration at Berkeley has grown 65 per cent in the past five years. So announces Recorder James Sutton after enrolling the 5151 students now at work in Berkeley. At least 200 more will register this term. The remarkable growth of 23 per cent in a single year in the graduate division (devoted to higher training of college graduates) was made known through the announcement that by the fifth day of this term the graduate students numbered 712, or 132 more than a year ago. The undergraduates increased 209 to 4439, as compared ESTIMATE OF CALIFORNIA'S CITRUS CROP FOR 1916 More Than Forty-Five Thousand Cars Will be Shipped During Season Following is an estimate of this year's citrus crop in California, compiled from reports of shippers and packers: Cars Cars Oranges L'mns Pomona district ...4000 200 Dedlands district ...3800 ... Riverside district ...2950 650 Ontario district ...2700 800 Azusa Glendora district ...2404 300 Orange district ...2400 600 Covina district ...1700 ... Placentia district ...1250 ... Whittier district ...1200 750 Highland district ...1200 300 San Dimas district ...1000 750 Rialto district ...900 200 Ventura district ...900 950 Corona ...775 725 Anaheim ...750 ... Fullerton ...700 ... Duarte-Monrovia ...700 ... Alhambra-San Gabriel ...500 ... Colton ...275 ... San Fernando ...250 250 Moreno ...150 ... San Diego county ...125 400 Pasadena ...125 ... Bloomington ...200 100 Santa Barbara county ...415 Hemet ...60 ... Other localities ...40 .60 Total citrus fruits for Southern California .....39,450 Central California .....4,700 300 Northern California .....600 T.l. north of Tehachapi .....5,300 300 Totals for state .....37,300 7,750 Local Notes Roy Lovering has returned to this city to reside after a residence in Tulare county for a number of years. He has taken a lease on the Lovering homestead on Orange thorpe avenue of which he has assumed charge. The Anaheim Beef & Provision company was compelled to close only one day because of the high waters. Killing was resumed Wednesday and customers have been supplied as usual. H. L. Coons has been down with pneumonia the past week, but is now on the mend. Roy Barnett, aged 16, arrested on a charge of murder, in connection with the death of Ben Aguilar, a Mexican, and later certified to the Juvenile court, was ordered by the superior court Monday to be sent to the Preston school of industry at Ione, until he is 21 years of age. Naturalization papers were granted by the superior court last Monday to George J. Lautenbach of Anaheim, native of Germany; Allan A. Revill, Santa Ana, England; Carl Heinze, Anaheim, Canada; August F. Gutzmann, Anaheim, Canada; Olof J. Lindkuist, Santa Ana, Sweden; John F. Gerken, Orange, Germany; Emil E. F. Heinze, Anaheim, Canada; Andrew C. Nelson, Perris, Canada; Frank J. Suttora, Newport Beach, Austria. Joseph Helmsen attained his 55th birthday on Sunday, and a number of his friends dropped in to wish him many happy returns of the day. Mr. Helmsen has been confined to his bed for some weeks past, but maintains his cheerful disposition, and declares that when the weather clears he will be out again. He is one of the popu- So announces Recorder James Sutton after enrolling the 5151 students now at work in Berkeley. At least 200 more will register this term. The remarkable growth of 23 per cent in a single year in the graduate division (devoted to higher training of college graduates) was made known through the announcement that by the fifth day of this term the graduate students numbered 712, or 132 more than a year ago. The undergraduates increased 209, to 4439, as compared with 4230 on a corresponding date in January, 1915. The total registration at Berkeley by the fifth day of this term was 5151, or 341 more than a year ago. The graduate division, which has almost doubled in five years, enrolls only those with a Bachelor's degree. Its registration up to January 13 was 712, as compared with 580 on the fifth college day of January, 1915, 518 in 1914, 496 in 1913, 334 in 1912 and 381 in January, 1911. The undergraduates at the end of the fifth college day for the same six years numbered 4439, 4330, 3948, 3434, 3056, and in January, 1911, 2745. The total Berkeley registration for the first five days in January of the past six years was 5151, 4810, 4466, 3930, 3440, and 3126. That is an increase of more than 65 per cent in five years. None of these figures include University students at the farm at Davis. The January registration there is 110, as compared with 76 last year, and 60, 41, 23 and 10 for the preceding years. Including students in law, medicine, dentistry and pharmacy in San Francisco, last year 322, and the 5364 students in the last summer session, but deducting duplicates, the year's registration will considerably exceed 11,000. These figures exclude the students in the farm school, the Wilmerding Trades school, the San Francisco Institute of Art, the Extension division, the 20,000 in correspondence courses in agriculture, and the many thousands reached by farm demonstration work of various sorts. Your ship may never come in, but if you save the pennies and place them in a term account with the Anaheim National bank, it may become a ferry boat to take you across some dangerous stream when you need to get across. CAN THAT NEW INDUSTRY SURVIVE? It appears, according to the New York Evening Telegram, that "America has gained a new industry directly as a result of the war." The Telegram goes on to recite that practically our entire supply of quartz glass formerly came from Germany. It has been manufactured there by a secret process and has found a ready sale in the United States, despite a high tariff. The glass is made from a peculiar kind of sand which is found only in Nebraska. Thousands of tons of this sand have heretofore been brought to New York and shipped to Germany to the quartz glass factories. The quartz glass is invaluable for making a variety of articles, such as crucibles, test tubes, retorts and other vessels used in laboratories and throughout the chemical industry, since it is absolutely acid proof and heat resisting and the only substitute for platinum. The quartz glass—or silicum dioxide, as it is scientifically known—is now being manufactured in New York city. It is gratifying to know that this new industry has gained a foothold on American soil. But can it retain that foothold after the war ends? Germany is once more free to ship her industrial products to this country? The present tariff on quartz glass, classed in the Underwood tariff as "a glass not specially provided for," is 30 per cent ad valorem. The Payne-Aldrich rate was 45 per cent ad valorem. Even then Germany made all the quartz glass. It does not cost much to transport quartz sand from Nebraska to Germany. After the sand reaches Germany it costs about one-third as much to convert it into quartz glass as it costs in the United States. The framers of the Underwood tariff Pictures of the "Death Valley Dodge" car were shown at the Mason theatre Wednesday afternoon and evening, under the direction of the Dodge company and P. J. Weisel, the local agent. Twenty-five hundred people attended the performance. The famous car came in during the day with Teddy Tetzlaff at the wheel. It was covered with labels showing the towns and localities through which it had passed. To some the storm brought loss, but to C. A. Goodwin, of Orangethorpe, it brought to his 16-acre Valencia orchard, improvement, which he says, is worth $3000 to him. Waste water backed into his orchard and remained until the impregnated soil had settled and then gradually withdrew, leaving a layer of rich fertilizer mixed with the choicest kind of silt, a foot in depth, all over the land. The 1500-foot extension made to the fill of the Santa Fe railway company, near Olive, several years ago, is again the cause of vehement criticism on the part of a number of ranch owners near Olive. They maintain that, instead of the storm water being carried off by the Santa Ana river (as it was before this late extension was made) it now infundates their orange and walnut ranches, washing away the soil and doing inestimable damage to the trees. Expert plano tuning, F. W. Schmidt. About 35 wells are still being pumped on the oil lease of the Puente Oil company, the first company to bring in paying wells in this district. Fifteen years ago a large number of men were employed on that lease and there were a number of families up there; Kryptok Lenses will give you the comfort of two pair of lenses in one pair. Clear distance vision and comfortable reading without changing. Come in any time for examinations. My prices are reasonable. Theo. Roberts Dr. of Optometry At the Sign of the Big Clock ANAHEIM The present tariff on quartz glass, classed in the Underwood tariff as "a glass not specially provided for," is 30 per cent ad valorem. The Payne-Aldrich rate was 45 per cent ad valorem. Even then Germany made all the quartz glass. It does not cost much to transport quartz sand from Nebraska to Germany. After the sand reaches Germany it costs about one-third as much to convert it into quartz glass as it costs in the United States. The framers of the Underwood tariff evidently intended that Germany should keep on making quartz glass for this country. If not, why should they have reduced the tariff from 45 to 30 per cent? The war has acted thus far as a prohibitive tariff. When the war ends, the rate will go back to 30 per cent. It remains to be seen how this new American industry will get along under a free trade tariff unmigrated by war conditions. The Anaheim Sanitarium at the annual meeting of the stockholders on Thursday, declared a dividend of two and one-half per cent for the year. The old board of directors were re-elected, and on Saturday the board elected Samuel Kraemer president, W. M. Wickett, vice president, and C. E. Holcomb secretary and treasurer. 305 patients were treated during the year. Charles Conliff of this city has been awarded the contract to erect the new Cassou building on West Center street. Mr. Conliff has constructed many of the new modern structures in this city the past several years and his work has always given general satisfaction. Who's Hazel? Your Druggist? The Arden—Outside rooms, 50 and 75 cents. Inside 25 cents. Expert piano tuning, F. W. Schmidt. About 35 wells are still being pumped on the oil lease of the Puente Oil company, the first company to bring in paying wells in this district. Fifteen years ago a large number of men were employed on that lease and there were a number of families up there; also a public school. In the early days the wells wee heavy producers, making the company hundreds of thousands of dollars. The production began to decrease and it is said the wells up now do not pump more than 12 or 15 barrels a day each. Nearly all of the leases north of Placentia are drilling new wells, the same as all parts of the local field, making it one of the busiest in California. Dr. M. M. Headerson, Demystic, Suite 1, Mulnix bldg., Anaheim. The home is passing out in New York city. Statistics just issued by the city government show that during 1915 only 25 private homes were built in the American metropolis and ten of these cost upwards of $35,000 each, while the remaining 15 cost over $6000 each. In the same time 193 apartment houses were built or begun at a total cost of $24,960,000. The same tendency in a more or less degree is noted throughout the country, and in time it can but have its effect on domestic life. If this sort of thing continues the day is coming when the simple home life of the family reading circle will be known only in story books, and when that day comes every one of our sociological problems will be intensified. EASY MONEY Over $9000.00 paid out in INTEREST To our depositors on term deposits during 1915 Did you get your share? Put your money on a term account in THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ANAHEIM, or THE AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK OF ANAHEIM and let it work for you Notice of Annual Meeting Office of the Anaheim Union Water Company Anaheim, California, January 8, 1916. To the Stockholders of the ANAHEIM UNION WATER COMPANY. Please take notice that the regular annual meeting of the stock-holders and election for Directors of the ANAHEIM UNION WATER COMPANY will be held at the office of the Company, 401 East Center St., in the City of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of California, on Saturday the 29th day of January, A. D. 1916, at the hour of 10 o'clock A.M., for the purpose of electing Directors of said corporation for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of such other business as may come before the meeting. WM. T. WALLOP. Secretary ANAHEIM UNION WATER CO. To the Stockholders of the ANAHEIM UNION WATER COMPANY. Please take notice that the regular annual meeting of the stockholders and election for Directors of the ANAHEIM UNION WATER COMPANY will be held at the office of the Company, 401 East Center St., in the City of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of California, on Saturday the 29th day of January, A. D. 1916, at the hour of 10 o'clock A.M., for the purpose of electing Directors of said corporation for the ensuing year, and for the transaction of such other business as may come before the meeting. WM. T. WALLOP. Secretary ANAHEIM UNION WATER CO. We have several fine Montana Farms including one excellent Stock Ranch to exchange for Orange county property. Montana wheat lands produce average yields of 35 bushels per acre without irrigation. Sugar beets, oats, alfalfa, etc., do proportionately well. See us for further information. Simpson Realty Co. German American Bank Bldg. ANAHEIM NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT Assessment No. 1 Pacific Mausoleum Company, a corporation, organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of California, with its principal place of business and office in the City of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of California. Notice is hereby given that at a regular meeting of the Board of Directors, held on the 5th day of June, 1915, an assessment of five (5c) cents per share, or five percent on each one dollar, was levied upon the subscribed capital stock of this corporation, payable immediately in United States gold coin, to the Secretary of said Company, at its office in the Masonic Temple Building, City of Anaheim, State of California. SUGAR DUTIES AND OTHER The administration's decision to retain the republican tariff on sugar is based upon an admission that it cannot afford to lose the revenue now derived from that source. It is unfortunate that President Wilson, his Cabinet and the democratic congress are not free, or willing, to rectify the other mistakes embodied in the Underwood tariff, and frankly adopt higher custom duties as a source of national revenue. Such a move would, of course, amount to a repudiation by the democratic party of a life long policy. That is too much to expect of this administration, even at a time when a treasury deficit is in view, and when, by a liberal interpretation of the slogan "Tariff for revenue only," the party might justify its new course. It will not be denied that new industries ahve grown up in the South which need tariff protection, and whose existence has considerably disturbed the harmony of free trade talk within the democratic party. The present deficiency of revenue, combined with plans for extraordinary expenditures in the army and navy, provide intelligent democratic leaders with a rare chance to evolve away from the party's unsound economic doctrine. If small or even mediocre politics dominate the majority in congress this winter, an onerous and unnecessary system of direct taxation will be adopted. If higher statesmanship prevail, the duty on sugar will not be the only republican item restored to the tariff. NOTICE TO CREDITORS ESTATE OF JESSIE L. MARTENET, Deceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned Executor of the last Will and Testament of Jessie L. Martenet, deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to file the same with the necessary vouchers in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Orange, or to exhibit the same with the necessary vouchers, within four months after the first publication of this notice (which publication was first made on the 20th day of January, 1916) to the said Executor of the last Will and Testament of said deceased, at the office of H. G. Ames, the attorney for said Executor, at Room I, Old Fellow's Building, at No. 117½ West Center Street in the City of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of 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 20th day of January, A. D. 1916. MORRIS W. MARTENET, Executor of the last Will and Testament of Jessie L. Martenet, deceased. 1-20