anaheim-gazette 1916-05-04

STATE DEFICIT $6,699,000 FOR YEAR 1915 REPORT OF STATE CONTROLLER SHOWS AMAZING CONDITION IN CALIF. FINANCES STATE'S EXPENDITURES MORE THAN DOUBLED IN AMOUNT SINCE 1911 State Controller John S. Chambers is experiencing considerable difficulty in explaining how it happens that there is a shortage of $6,699,357 in the state's financial account for the year 1915. In his last annual report, issued last week, the controller gives the receipts of the state for the year 1915 as $29,830,182 and the expenditures as $36,529,539. The figures for the cities and counties show that the incorporated cities collected $68,724,000 and spent $69,922,000 while the counties collected $92,938,000 and expended $95,218,000. Based on these figures a number of papers ran articles commenting on a total state deficit of $10,000,000. Progressive editors themselves made guarded suggestions that the time is coming when the state administration should consider retrenchment, that there is a limit to expenditures beyond which it is not safe to pass. The state controller has now issued a statement in which he alleges that the $10,000,000 is not a deficit at all, but just a shortage. Unfortunately for the administration, however, his till 1909 was conservative, now has outstanding and unpaid bonds in the sum of $31,311,500, and unsold, but which will bed isposed of in due time, new issues and balances of old ones totaling $15,202,000." Coming from a progressive that reads like a confession of failure to make good. "The counties of the state, including the districts, are carrying a bonded debt of $92,466,091." "The cities, including the city and county of San Francisco, which since the admission of California to the union have issued bonds to the amount of $210,576,130, still owe $129,059,913. "In other words the state and its cities, counties and districts, not counting the unsold issues held by the staggering sum of $252,837,504 in the shape of bonded debts, and upon which interest is being paid at rates running from 4 to 6 per cent, with the remnant of an old issue carrying 8 per cent. And the floating debt is also of vast proportions. "It is not the purpose to say here how far these are justified, especially the expenditures. It would be impossible to do so at this time at least, except perhaps as to the state, and even then it would be one man's opinion to a large extent. But there are certain phases of the general situation so open to comment and criticism that they should be discussed." EXPECT GOOD WELL The Yorba well went to the 3400-foot mark and now stands cemented at 3100 feet. Within another ten days we may know something about what mother earth holds for speculative man in that section. Various opinions are held as to the outcome of the testing out of the Yorba well. While there are some who do not feel a great amount of enthusiasm over the prospects, most ev- if properly applied wind should come fore some good hot better apply it again makes little difference not to apply it whi from a rain or wot. Every vine in be treated, as one portunity for the fungus which wor others, and our e more toward pref of the fungus than once established. Some American as the Isabella are not nearly so susu gus as European v one sulphuring s would be advisable be especially cared on a very hot day to be especially s under these circu- FORESST The increase in ash has resulted quiries of govern- cering the amount contained in wood be available at sa- the national forest. The waste prod- the United States to the furnaces ar to be 36,000,000 c he equivalent of feet of solid subs of it has no use w ually burned to go. The chestnut blight damage estimated 000. The disease can and European tie damage to thou China. Plant bre- papers ran articles commenting on a total state deficit of $10,000,000. Progressive editors themselves made guarded suggestions that the time is coming when the state administration should consider retrenchment, that there is a limit to expenditures beyond which it is not safe to pass. The state controller has now issued a statement in which he alleges that the $10,000,000 is not a deficit at all, but just a shortage. Unfortunately for the administration, however, his explanation has only added fuel to the flame. That $6,699,357 in red in the state account is not a deficit, according to the controller, because most of the sum was collected in bond sales the year before and expended last year. The reports for the last two years show that the state has collected $65,800,000 and expended $65,100,000. During the first two years under progressive rule, before the administration machine was fully perfected, the state collected $38,000,000 and expended $36,000,000. The expenditures of the state for the fifth year of progressive rule were a little more than twice that of the first year. The exact figures taken from page 7 of the annual report of the state controller, are: state expenditures, 1911, $18,020,555.39; state expenditures, 1915, $36,529,953.04. This is a fair example of progressive expenditure under a progressive administration. These figures were secured from the records of the controller's office at that time. And at that time they were denounced by the progressive press as false and misleading; but they have now appeared officially in the report of the state controller, himself a progressive. Records in the office of the state treasurer confirm the statement of the state controller that there is no visible deficit. That would be a political blunder, as it would men that some of the friends of the administration were going without their pay. At the same time that the legislature boosted salaries and multiplied commissions it was very careful to give a similar boost to taxe and license rates. The same power that created the jobs provided ways and means for paying the bills. But it is curious to note that when the annual report of the state controller was printed last year showing a surplus of receipts over expenditures o fabout $7,000,000 the progressive pa EXPECT GOOD WELL The Yorba well went to the 3400-foot mark and now stands cemented at 3100 feet. Within another ten days we may know something about what mother earth holds for speculative man in that section. Various opinions are held as to the outcome of the testing out of the Yorba well. While there are some who do not feel a great amount of enthusiasm over the prospects, most everyone who is in a position to judge believes that oil will be found in paying quantities, and the production is estimated variously at from 160 to 400 barrels daily. Should the Yorba come in a good well it will mean much to that section and bring greatly increased development. Should the well prove good another rig will be at once started by the Yorba company and the eyes of every oil man will be turned in that direction. SEEKS FORECLOURE Attorney Leonard Evans of this city has brought suit for Minnie Kaufmann for the foreclosure of a mortgage which she holds on Anaheim real estate belonging to S. C. and Lucie Robertson. The mortgage was originally given to W. S. Pomeroy as security on a promissory note for $2500, but was later transferred to Minnie Kaufman. Thaddeus W. Jones and others were named defendants in the action. The note was given in April, 1915. None of the principal has been paid. SULPHURING GRAPES Any person who hopes to raise good grapes in California must sulphur the vines at the proper time or he will be disappointed. This is the best method to prevent the mildewing of the vines and fruit and injuring of the crop and sometimes the loss of the vines, says Burr R. Jones, Chief Deputy Horticultural Commissioner. The first sulphuring is best done when the new shoots are about six or seven inches long, as all parts of the growing vine can then be reached; but the most important time is just at blooming time. Prof. Smith says if every part of every leaf of every branch of every vine is reached at this time nothing more will be needed, but usually a third sulphuring when the grapes are about two-thirds grown is a profitable precaution and WHERE THE MARK DUE TO One of the most to the great topography United States which survey is constructs area known as quadrangle, lying and in Iowa and N which covers about is nearly bisected river and taken by Father of Waters strange position, far almost due west ad map shows Iowa on the river and Illinois mediately west of tcatine, the stream ward course. The area within th rangle, back from th er the Mississippi agricultural region part of it is devoted Bluffs 150 to 200 ly border the river tion of the Illinois is an alluvial flat s mile in width, which tremely high water. But it is curious to note that when the annual report of the state controller was printed last year showing a surplus of receipts over expenditures o fabout $7,000,000 the progressive papers all chortled over a $7,000,000 surplus, and the state controller did not consider it necessary to issue a statement, explaining that it was only a paper surplus as debts had been contracted to absorb it all. Yet when a deficit was mentioned this year the whole machinery of the state administration was put to work to explain the difference between a deficit and a shortage. In his annual report Controller Chambers calls attention to the steady increase in the amount of property in the state exempt from all taxation. He points out that the exempt church property in San Francisco alone totals $8,000,000, and that in Los Angeles county exempt property be ngo28Tld ofMd1lto-c%vO 4109 longing to soldiers totals $3,428,330. In 1914 the electors voted to exempt educational institutions of collegiate grade and ships of more than fifty tons displacement. This removed $9,000,000 from the city and county pay rolls. The controller's report contains this year some valuable data concerning the cost of county and municipal government in California. In this it is a marked improvement over any similar report which has issued from the office of the state controller. Here are a few extra extracts: "The state of California, which uncity Agricultural Commissioner. The first sulphuring is best done when the new shoots are about six or seven inches long, as all parts of the growing vine can then be reached; but the most important time is just at blooming time. Prof. Smith says if every part of every leaf of every branch of every vine is reached at this time nothing more will be needed, but usually a third sulphuring when the grapes are about two-thirds grown is a profitable precaution and often a necessity. Sulphur can be applied at any time of the day if done in the right way. Throwing it on by hand or from a perforated tin can are wasteful methods. Shaking it in a small burlap sack over and about the vines is better. For larger vineyards an excellent machine containing a bellows to blow the sulphur into the vines can be bought of dealers in this line. The one using a fan for a blower are not so successful. One good puff from a bellows machine on an ordinary sized vine will be enough if the sulphur is of the right kind. The sulphur should be very fine—the finest you can obtain. The re-sumilimed sulphur (flowers of sulphur) is very fine but is a little apt to adhere in masses which do not always separate during application. This kind is a deep yellow in color and very soft to the touch, without grit, while the finer qualities of ground sulphur are almost white and a little grit can be detected; however, it is perhaps the best kind to use, and it will distribute over the vines more completely and evenly than any other. The coarse ground sulphur is very wasteful, as much of it will not adhere to the vine. The finer the sulphur is the more bulky it is, and therefore the fine is much lighter per bulk than the coarse. One-half ounce of fine sulphur is enough for an ordinary bearing vine The area within the rangle, back from the Mississippi agricultural region, part of it is devoted Bluffs 150 to 200 f l y border the river tion of the Illinois is an alluvial flat mile in width, which tremely high water, the immediate bank to 20 feet high, and narrow terrace of g limestone, borderin bluffs on both sides ravines are heavier larger islands in th ered with a heavy in which oaks prec The river has chas t the last 25 years, charts of the Miss mission made in 1889 practically the same then, owing to the fin bank, being partly o easily eroded, that erable portion of th bedrock, and that have been built to k in its natural channel. For many years river in this section material for a thriv manufacture of but shells, and incident have been obtained. center of this indu ment has establis hion on the Iowa s for studying the nat fresh water mussel it, with the object nearly exhausted b The Mississippi area of the Edging ANAHEIM GAZETTE—THURSDAY, MAY 4 U.S.Gov.experts report that oils correctly refined from asphalt-base crude "distill without decomposition" (do not break up and lose their lubricating value under cylinder heat) and "are much better adapted to motor cylinders, as far as their carbon-forming proclivities are concerned, than are paraffine-base Pennsylvania oils." Motorists who use Zerolene, an oil scientifically refined from asphalt-base crude, back up the experts with reports such as these: "Covered over 16,000 miles without adjusting valves or cleaning out carbon."—"The carbon taken out of this car in 50,000 miles amounted to less than an ounce." Zerolene is for sale at dealers everywhere and at service stations and agencies of the Standard Oil Company. ZEROLENE the Standard Oil for Motor Cars The increase in the demand for potash has resulted in a number of inquiries of government officials concerning the amount of this chemical contained in wood ashes which may be available at sawmills operating on the national forests. The waste product of sawmills in the United States including that fed to the furnaces as fuel is estimated to be 36,000,000 cords per year, and the equivalent of 2,880,000,000 cubic feet of solid substance. About half of it has no use whatever but is usually burned to get rid of it. The chestnut blight has already done damage estimated as close to $50,000,000. The disease attacks both American and European species but does little damage to those from Japan and China. Plant breeders by crossing beautiful stretch of water, flowing placidly at the base of the bluffs through a panorama of wooded islands, a new vista at each turn. The westerly course of the river in this area is probable the result of the drainage location condemned in Santa Ana, was taken from Edward Carpenter, a seiner, who was arrested for fishing in Sunset Slough contrary to law by the alongshore patrol, which was looking out for surf-fish net-law violators. ZEROLENE the Standard Oil for Motor Cars The chestnut blight has already done damage estimated as close to $50,000,000. The disease attacks both American and European species but does little damage to those from Japan and China. Plant breeders by crossing Japanese chestnut and native chinquapin have produced resistant trees. Some of the Chinese chestnuts are said to grow 100 feet high in their home forests. The annual losses of livestock on the national forest ranges of the west, due to predatory animals are over $500,000. An organized campaign is now going on to exterminate these animals. Wolves are responsible for about 70 per cent of the cattle losses, while bears cause most of the remainder. Approximately 75 per cent of the sheep loses are due to coyotes, 20 per cent to bears, and 5 per cent to lynxes and wild cats. Mountain lions are charged with killing only a few head of cattle and sheep. WHERE THE MISSISSIPPI RUNS DUE WEST One of the most recent additions to the great topographic atlas of the United States which the geological survey is constructing is the map of the area known as the Edgington quadrangle, lying west of Rock Island in Iowa and Illinois. This area, which covers about 230 square miles, is nearly bisected by the Mississippi river and taken by itself presents the Father of Waters in a somewhat strange position, for the river flows almost due west across the area. The map shows Iowa on the north side of the river and Illinois on the south. Immediately west of this area, near Muscatine, the stream resumes its southward course. The area within the Edgington quadrangle, back from the bluffs that border the Mississippi, is essentially an agricultural region, although a large part of it is devoted to pasture. Bluffs 150 to 200 feet in height closely border the river except along a portion of the Illinois side, where there is an alluvial flat a quarter to half a mile in width, which is flooded in extremely high water. On the Iowa side beautiful stretch of water, flowing placidly at the base of the bluffs through a panorama of wooded islands, a new vista at each turn. The westerly course of the river in this area is probable the result of the drainage locating itself along the receding border of one of the great prehistoric glaciers or ice sheets. Being forced out of its older channel, which may perhaps lie much farther east, it cut a new channel along a new line crossing drift-buried valleys and covered rock ridges indiscriminately. FISHERMEN MUST HAVE LICENSE A state fishing license is as necessary a part of the trout fisherman's outfit this season as his rod or bait, and excuses that it was forgotten or left at home or other reasons don't go with the game officers, who have been instructed to take no excuses. The right to honor excuses is to be left entirely with the judge. This is the word being passed out by W. K. Robinson, deputy game warden for this district, and the orders were issued by the Los Angeles office of the Fish and Game Commission. If any one of the numerous game officers find an angler with fish in his possession and minus his license, he will be forthwith arrested. If he had no fish and no license he will be ordered to pack up and go home, and not return to the fishing grounds, until he brings his license with him. The streams in Inyo and Mono counties carry large volumes of water late in the summer, according to Mr. Robinson, and it is almost useless for fishermen to travel there for sport earlier than July or August. FISH EXPERIMENTS IN ORANGE COUNTY WATERS Striped Bass are to be Planted in Our Bays by Commissioners Heavy plantings of striped bass are to be made in Newport, Alamitos and Anaheim bays this fall by the fish and game commission, with a view to accelerating this splendid food and game fish in Southern California waters if possible. Hundreds of fishermen, many of them from Orange county, are participating in the opening of the trout season at Big Bear lake in the San Bernardino mountains this week. The lake is said to be filled with whoppers this season, and the sportsmen are looking forward to some gamy days on the placid lake. It is estimated that the first Sunday of the open season, May 7, there will... The area within the Edgington quadrangle, back from the bluffs that border the Mississippi, is essentially an agricultural region, although a large part of it is devoted to pasture. Bluffs 150 to 200 feet in height closely border the river except along a portion of the Illinois side, where there is an alluvial flat a quarter to half a mile in width, which is flooded in extremely high water. On the Iowa side the immediate bank of the river is 10 to 20 feet high, and above this is a narrow terrace of gravel underlain by limestone, bordering the foot of the bluffs on both sides and most of the ravines are heavily timbered. The larger islands in the river are also covered with a heavy growth of timber, in which oaks predominate. The river has changed but little in the last 25 years, as shown by the charts of the Mississippi river commission made in 1892. The channel is practically the same now as it was then, owing to the facts that the north bank, being partly of limestone, is not easily eroded, that probably a considerable portion of the river bed also is bedrock, and that submerged dams have been built to keep the river flow in its natural channel. For many years the waters of the river in this section have furnished the material for a thriving business in the manufacture of buttons from mussel shells, and incidentally a few pearls have been obtained. Muscatine is the center of this industry. The government has established a biologic station on the Iowa side near Fairport for studying the natural history of the fresh water mussel and propagating it, with the object of restocking the nearly exhausted beds. The Mississippi river within the area of the Edgington quadrangle is a FISH EXPERIMENTS IN ORANGE COUNTY WATERS Striped Bass are to be Planted In Our Bays by Commissioners Heavy plantings of striped bass are to be made in Newport, Alamitos and Anaheim bays this fall by the fish and game commission, with a view to accelerating this splendid food and game fish in Southern California waters if possible. Striped bass being anadromous fish that is, running into fresh water to spawn streams carrying considerable head throughout the summer are required to provide them with the proper conditions to propagate themselves naturally, but only time will show whether systematic plantings can build up another addition to our sea fish in these desirable newcomers. It is thought best to take advantage of the present favorable season when the various streams will carry heavier flow than usual. Should the bas take hold as well as it is hoped, regular annual plants will be made in effort to keep up the stock artificially if they fail to breed as freely as in San Francisco bay and river waters, where they stand as a conspicuous monument to the efforts of the fish and game commission to do for the sea what already has been proved in fresh water. The shad are also an artificially planted fish in this state. By the strange contradictions of fate, an illegal fish net, illegally used when confiscated, is to repay its debt to the public of Southern California by being employed by the fish and game commission in taking the parent stock of these striped bass in San Francisco Bay. It may be decided to even bring down some good-sized fish and turn them loose. This net, recent- Hundreds of fishermen, many of them from Orange county, are participating in the opening of the trout season at Big Bear lake in the San Bernardino mountains this week. The lake is said to be filled with whoppers this season, and the sportsmen are looking forward to some gamy days on the placid lake. It is estimated that the first Sunday of the open season, May 7, there will be 5000 people in Little Bear valley. Fishing elsewhere than in Little Bear, excepting such close-in streams as Waterman and Devil canyon creeks, will be accomplished only under difficulties, because of road conditions, and distance of the creeks from roads. Bear creek undoubtedly holds the best stream fishing, but those anglers who reach home of the big stream trout will know they have been some place. It is either a five mile hike from the upper power house in the Santa Ana, or the trip over the desert roads to Big Bear lake, and then down from the dam to the creek. But the trout are there. Thousands of big trout were washed into Bear creek. "Dad" Fisher of Pine Knot and four helpers took 455 trout, weighing from two to nine pounds, from one land-locked pool and put them into the creek. Big Bear offers great sport to those who make the long trip. The real Big Bear season will open along in June. On a charge of manslaughter in that he drove the automobile that brought instant death to Miss Isabel Thomas of Garden Grove, George Nesbit was on Monday ordered held to answer for trial in the superior court. His bond was fixed at $2500. Making no attempt to raise it, Nesbit was returned to jail. Bank or Office Fixtures for Sale Solid cherry counter with bevel French plate-glass above. Complete filing devices under counter consisting of shelves, cupboards, pigeonholes and drawers. Two cashier's windows with grating. These fixtures are in excellent condition and are for sale at about one-fifth the original cost. Suitable for bank, loaning companies or collection agencies of any kind. 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Center St. The monthly report of Dr. Harry Zaiser, superintendent of the County Hospital, is summarized as follows: Number in hospital on April 1, 68; on May 1, 73; admitted in April, 51; discharged, 37; died, 7; sent to Patton, 1; run away, 1; number of surgical operations, 11; maternity cases, 4; contagious diseases, 1. CANDOR He—You used to say there was something about me you liked. She—Yes; but you've spent it all now. The monthly report of Dr. Harry Zaiser, superintendent of the County Hospital, is summarized as follows: Number in hospital on April 1, 68; on May 1, 73; admitted in April, 51; discharged, 37; died, 7; sent to Pattón, 1; run away, 1; number of surgical operations, 11; maternity cases, 4; contagious diseases, 1. Domingo Hernandez is in the county hospital with a serious scalp wound and a touch of concussion as the net returns of a Sunday night drunken brawl at Placentia. In the Sabbath festivities Hernandez was soaked in the head with an axe, wielded by a fellow countryman. He immediately threw up the sponge and lost interest in the fight until some time after Dr. Zaiser sewed up a gaping hole in his head at the county hospital. He is expected to pull through the difficulties in due time. CANDOR He—You used to say there was something about me you liked. She—Yes; but you've spent it all now. WE STRIVE TO PLEASE A dejected man entered and said to the clerk: "I want a quarter's worth of carbolic acid." "Sorry," said the clerk; "you got into the wrong store. We deal only in hardware, but we have a choice line of ropes, razors and revolvers." A safe deposit box in our fire and burglar proof vaults for $1.00 a year. The Anaheim National Bank. Red Crown the Gasoline of Quality For More Power, Insist on the Straight Distilled, All-Refinery Gas NOT A MIXTURE Standard Oil Company (California) Anaheim