anaheim-gazette 1917-01-18

GULF WIDENING BETWEEN LAW MAKERS REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS EXCEEDINGLY WRATHFUL OVER ADMINISTRATION'S ACTON LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR STEVENS IS OPPOSED TO THE INFAMOUS WORK OF HIRAM JOHNSON (Special Correspondence) SACRAMENTO, Jan. 16.—Indignation over the high handed outrage perpetrated by the administration in the organization of the legislature is on the increase. Mad with their success in stealing the machinery of the republican party and under the name of republicanism gaining entire control of the legislature, the bosses have thrown off every disguise and pretense of decency and arrogantly sneer at those stalwart republicans and democrats who refused to stultify themselves by signing the infamous caucus call of the administration. As the Bee sneeringly remarks "The administration men grinned and looked happy and never did cease to wonder at this display of lack of what is known as political judgment." If to preserve ones political independence and manhood is a "display of what is known as political judgment" then it is God's blessing that there are a score of men in the men in the assembly voiced the sentiments of his fellow members who were shut out of this stultifying administration caucus ball when he exclaimed: "Sign that document—eat everything we have said and repudiate everything we have been fighting for? Never!" To add to the storm of indignation, the Bee, the administration organ of Sacramento, among whose force are scattered plums from the state treasury amounting to about $18,000 per year, remarked in its comments on the situation, "In former years the anti-administration forces were given a full quota of patronage but today the administration forces went back to first principles and said: 'Come in or get nothing.'" And yet there are some who actually believe this is a clean administration working on the platform of a square deal and justice to all, and in their blindness are unable to see that it is the greatest organization for graft, demagogical bossism and political tyranny the state has ever known. It has outdone the tactics of Tammany Hall in its palmiest days. 85 PROBATIONERS IN ORANGE COUNTY Only Nine Failed to Makes Good During the Past Year Probation Officer Scott has made a statement showing the number of convicted persons on probation in this county during the year 1916. There were, in all, 85 adults on probation during the year, who had been found guilty of the following crimes: criminal libel, 1; burglary, 18; forgery, 13; bigamy, 1; rape, 8; auto theft, 4; non-support, 14; inebriate 11; violation of auto law, 1; assault with a deadly weapon, 3; embezzlement, 1; lewd conduct, 1; grand lar- As the Bee sneeringly remarks "The administration men grinned and looked happy and never did cease to wonder at this display of lack of what is known as political judgment." If to preserve ones political independence and manhood is a "display of what is known as political judgment" then it is God's blessing that there are a score of men in the legislature who think more of their personal and political integrity than to sacrifice their manhood for the sake of the loaves and fishes to be handed out by the political pirates who have temporarily gotten hold of affairs in California. It is without question that the caucus call was deliberately framed with the express intention of shutting out all those fearless and independent men who have stood for what they believed to be the right even if in so doing they had to oppose some of the measures of Boss Hiram. These men were ready and willing to enter a republican caucus and abide by the results but this was denied them by the express orders of Hiram Johnson, the man whom republicans in the interest of harmony allowed to bear the banner of republicanism while all the time betraying the trust they gave him. It is understood that Lieut. Gov. Stevens was opposed to this infamous work on the part of Governor Johnson and wanted a call issued to which all republicans could respond. This was refused by Johnson and it is openly whispered that his sole intent was to not only continue but increase the lack of harmony in the party as a means of embarrassing Gov. Stevens later on. It is well known that Stevens is no longer, if he ever was, the administration candidate two years hence. Then too, the governor wanted a unanimous endorsement of his policies to carry back to Washington and this he well knew he never could get from a republican caucus in California. This caucus call was intended not only as a slap at those gentlemen who in the past had conscienously opposed some of his pet measures but at the people as well who turned down these same measures when submitted to them at the polls. But what does Hiram care for the people so long as he can fool and hoodwink them? Said Senator Rominger of Long Probation Officer Scott has made a statement showing the number of convicted persons on probation in this county during the year 1916. There were, in all, 85 adults on probation during the year, who had been found guilty of the following crimes: criminal libel, 1; burglary, 18; forgery, 13; bigamy, 1; rape, 8; auto theft, 4; non-support, 14; inebriate 11; violation of auto law, 1; assault with a deadly weapon, 3; embezzlement, 1; lewd conduct, 1; grand larceny, 1; sale of liquor, 1; murder, 1; extortion, 1. Some of the above cases are on long terms, others are for only one year and of the total of 85, there were placed on probation during the past year, 32. Of the entire number nine failed to make good, less than eleven per cent. This showing is worth noting from a financial as well as a moral viewpoint. There is a certain definite cost attached to keeping prisoners in state and county penal institutions. The 85 cases cited were committed to a total of 281 years in the penitentiary, 27 years in the county jail and 13 years in Patton. Figuring that it costs $200 per year to keep a prisoner in the penitentiary, $73 per year in the jail and $200 per year in Patton, a total of $60,771, would be spent if the sentences were served. This amount would build six miles of Orange county improved highway. Further, the man who is on probation must keep himself busy, for such is the court order. This total of 321 years' sentence, if computed at $500 a year wages, means that the probationers would earn, during their sentences, $160,500. Of the 9 who have failed, through causes yet unknown, 3 were forgers; 3 were inebriates; 1 charged with manslaughter; 1 non-support; 1 petit larceny. The failure does not mean that they have committed other crimes. But two of the number have been brought before the court, since they were given their conditional release. One of these has been sent to the penitentiary, and the other, an inebriacy case, was committed to Patton. Seven have left the county, and as yet have not been located by the authorities. Of the total on probation, 63 are whites, 17 are Mexicans, 2 Japanese, 2 negroes and 1 Chinaman. FOREST SERVICE SELLS TIMBER This caucus call was intended not only as a slap at those gentlemen who in the past had conscienously opposed some of his pet measures but at the people as well who turned down these same measures when submitted to them at the polls. But what does Hiram care for the people so long as he can fool and hoodwink them? Said Senator Rominger of Long Beach: "I could not conscienciously or consistently sign the call because it contained things to which I could not subscribe and I would not for the sake of either patronage or place stulify myself." Assemblyman Doran of San Diego remarked: "My constituents conferred upon me no authority to enter final judgment on what has been done in the past, nor power to wash it all white as snow. That must stand on its own merits, or fall. "My people elected me to legislate as they and I will mutually determine in February, for the best interests of the people who need relief from intolerable taxation and who are entitled to the constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of an honest living in California. "Bearing olive branches from everybody in by county, I came here to pull off my coat, roll up my sleeves and work for harmony with all members of a similar mind. "San Diego county would not welcome my return with a collar jangling about my neck or a chain clanking at my ankles. I may be classed as a "scab" in Sacramento for declining to sign away my birthright for a mess of patronage, but no pickets can keep me out of the works. Thank God, this is California of the United States—not Mexico, China or Sibeira." Pettis of Mendicino, one of the ablest lease. One of these has been sent to the penitentiary, and the other, an inebriacy case, was committed to Patton. Seven have left the county, and as yet have not been located by the authorities. Of the total on probation, 63 are whites, 17 are Mexicans, 2 Japanese, 2 negroes and 1 Chinaman. FOREST SERVICE SELLS TIMBER The sale of 52,048,000 ft. B. M. of pine saw timber on what is known as the McCoy logging unit, Lassen National forest, near Susanville, Calif. IN ANYTHING YOU COOK requiring milk you'll get much better results if you use ours. It is far richer than the ordinary article and the extreme care with which it is handled from cow to bottle will give added satisfaction in the knowledge of its absolute cleanliness. Anaheim Sanitary Dairy 116 South Claudina Street. AT DICKEL'S You can find an immense stock of Groceries, Aluminum Ware Glassware Crockery, Dishes AT DICKEL'S ANAHEIM Cement Pipe Co. OUR AIM SERVICE WHAT YOU WANT WHEN YOU WANT IT AND ALL WE CAN GIVE FOR WHAT WE ASK GIBBS LUMBER Broadway and Vine Sta., Anaheim. Phones: Pac. 201 Home 2664 Dr. H. A. Johnston Dr. J. L. Beebe Dr. G. C. Clark Dr. W. W. Davis Dr. W. H. Wickett Dr. J. A. Jackson Drs. Johnston, Beebe Clark and Davis Offices in Anaheim Sanitarium ANAHEIM, CAL. Office Phones: Home 758-1 Bell Sunset 341-J. Res. 125 E. Broadway, Cor. Claudina Phones: Pac. 341-M; Home 753-3 Bells J. W. TRUXAW, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Hours 11-12; 2-4; 7-8 German American Bank Building Cor. Center and Los Angeles Sta. Anaheim, Cal. J.C.Osher,D.D.S.,M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT—ORAL SURGERY—GLASSES FITTED Suite 1, Central Bldg. Anaheim PHONE SUNSET 387 was made recently by the Forest service to the S. H. Chase Lumber company of San Jose. This firm expects to install a mill early next season and to begin cutting in the summer of 1917. The contract with the government allows a period of eight years for the completion of the sale. Recent forest service reports, according to District Forester DuBois, indicate that there is a great interest in timber offered for sale in the Susanville region—the country tributary to the Fernley and Westwood branch of the Southern Pacific railroad—and it is expected that other timber sales will be made here within the near future. National forest timber in that locality is easily logged since it is on areas comparatively level and is tributary to railroad transportation. The stand is practically all pine. Of particular interest to the counties in which it is contained is that fact that 25 per cent of the receipts of all timber sales made by the government are returned to the counties to be spent for schools and roads. CANNOT COLLECT ON NOTES GIVEN MARTENS Appellate Court Sustains Decision of Orange County Jurist That notes secured through the fraudulent operations of Henry J. Martens, land swindler, cannot be collected upon even though assigned to another, was the decision of the appellate court. A remittitur was filed with the county clerk in the case of C. E. Gault against J. D. Wiens. This decision brings back the story of a widespread land fraud worked by Martens in 1910. He came to Santa Ana from Kansas, and worked extensively among ranchers in the Anaheim section. He represented that he had title to a large tract of land near Bakersfield, and he traded portions of this land for Orange county ranches, and for cash and notes. The land scheme blew up in the smoke of criminal investigation, and Martens became a fugitive. Attempts were made to retain title to some ofANAHEIM Cement Pipe Co. Phone Fullerton 41-W, Anaheim 102-W Let us figure on your irrigating system. We guarantee first class work. Now working on Mr. J. A. Eymann's ranch on West Street, north of Sycamore. MARTIN F. WITT, Mgr. notes encumbered with the equities of Martens. FOREST RANGERS STUDY ROAD CONSTRUCTION The forest rangers from the 18 national forests in California, who held a ranger meeting in Berkeley last week, were addressed by Chas. F. Stern, state highway commissioner, on the subject of cooperation by the state and federal governments in the building of roads. This meeting and address, according to the officers in charge, was one of the most interesting and instructive of the entire session. Commissioner Stern dwelt upon the fact that the funds provided by the federal government for road construction in California will be spent largely in cooperation with the state road commission, and that the style of road to be constructed will be modeled upon a system of highway construction worked out in California. He assured the officers present that each and every one of them would have the heartiest cooperation of the state highway commission in carrying out the proposed road projects. Mr. Stern dwelt largely upon the necessity for careful planning in road building and pointed out that it was only foresight of those in charge that had provided California with a system of highways taking the shortest path between two points, rather than the old section line system. The trip provided for the forest officers included a visit to the shipbuilding plant of the Union Iron Works at Alameda, where an object lesson of the morning's discussion was seen. J.C.Osher,D.D.S.,M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT—ORAL SURGERY—GLASSES FITTED Suite 1, Central Bldg. Anaheim PHONE SUNSET 387 The PalaceMarket Gives S. & H. Trading stamps with every cash purchase. Drop in and see the beautiful premiums which are to be given away free. We also carry the choicest line of meats. Everything in our market is absolutely first-class. If you are not one of our customers try us and convince yourself. Palace Meat Market Wm. Schumacher, Prop. CONTRACTS TAKEN OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS Phone Pacific 505 Orange Co. Building and Wrecking Co. W. J. ORR, Manager 124 E. CENTER ST. ANAHEIM, CAL. House Moving, Building and Wrecking, Repairing and Roofing, Wiring, Foundations, Curbs and Sidewalks, Cesspools, Pits, Sewer Connections, Plastering and Brick Work, Tree Clearing, Leveling, Grading, Tanks, Flumes and Bridge Construction, Machinery Moved or Placed, Ditch Work and Pipe Laying, Houses Bought and sold on Commission, Work Taken Anywhere. Skilled and Unskilled Labor Furnished. Oranges Wanted NAVELS, SEEDLINGS, VALENCIAS CAR LOTS I represent Eastern Fruit houses and want to buy from the Growers direct. Please state how many you have—where same could be packed and Price I expect to leave here March 1st. Martens in 1910. He came to Santa Ana from Kansas, and worked extensively among ranchers in the Anaheim section. He represented that he had title to a large tract of land near Bakersfield, and he traded portions of this land for Orange county ranches, and for cash and notes. The land scheme blew up in the smoke of criminal investigation, and Martens became a fugitive. Attempts were made to retain title to some of the ranches he had secured, and in those actions the assignors of Martens lost. J. D. Wiens of this city was sued upon three notes for $500 each. Martens borrowed $16,000 from the Bank of Topeka, Kan., and gave $34,000 in notes secured on the Kern county deal as security. Among these were the three Wiens notes. The bank sold the notes under lien to Gault for $100. That was after it developed that Martens was a swindler. Gault brought suit against Wiens in this county, and got judgment. However, attorneys presented arguments for a new trial that resulted in Judge Thomas granting the motion. From that order Gault's attorneys appealed, and the appellate court affirmed Judge Thomas' decision. This decision means that a new trial may be had. However, under the wording of the decision of the appellate court there is no possibility that another trial would result in judgment for Gault. The Orange county rancher will never have to pay the notes given through the fraudulent representations of Martens. The upper court held that when the bank took the notes as collateral it took them only for what interest Martens had in them. Martens could not maintain an action for their validity. Neither could the bank, and neither could Gault, for Gault secured the largely upon the necessity for careful planning in road building and pointed out that it was only foresight of those in charge that had provided California with a system of highways taking the shortest path between two points, rather than the old section line system. The trip provided for the forest officers included a visit to the shipbuilding plant of the Union Iron Works at Alameda, where an object lesson of the morning's discussion was seen. This discussion, was led by Assistant District Forester Roy Headley, of San Francisco, who read a paper on "The Advantages of Centralized Control" and was answered by an able paper from W. B. Rider, of Yreka, supervisor of the Klamath forest. Supervisor J. R. Hall of the Santa Barbara forest, addressed the meeting on the subject of "Standardization, its Uses and Abuses." MONEY ALLOTTED FOR FOREST ROADS Secretary Houston has announced the amount allotted to each state from the million dollars to be spent during the fiscal year 1918 in constructing roads and trails within or partly within the national forests. This money is part of the ten million dollars appropriated by the Federal Aid Road Act to assist development of the national forests, which becomes available at the rate of a million dollars a year for ten years. The allotments as approved are as follows: Alaska, $46,354; Arizona, $58,604; Arkansas, $9,803; California, $140,988; Colorado, $62,575; Idaho, $108,830; Montana, $70,042; Nevada, $19,296; New Mexico, $42,495; Oregon, $128,111; South Dakota, $8,092; Utah, $41,167; Washington, $91,944; Wyoming, $40,684. A total of $9,995 Oranges Wanted NAVELS, SEEDLINGS, VALENCIAS CAR LOTS I represent Eastern Fruit houses and want to buy from the Growers direct. Please state how many you have—where same could be packed and Price I expect to leave here March 1st, but will make provision for Seedlings and Valencias. ABOLUTELY A CASH PROPOSITION Answer add through Anaheim Gazette has been allotted to Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Oklahoma. The group of Eastern states—Georgia, Malne, New Hampshire, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia—in which the Government is purchasing lands for National forests, receive $21,120. In making allotments, it is explained, ten per cent of the amount available for 1918 is withheld as a contingent fund. One half of the remainder has been apportioned among the states in amounts based on the area of the national forest lands in each state, while the other half has been allotted on a basis of the estimated value of the timber and forage resources which the forests contain. WITHDRAWS CONTRACT Entailing a loss to the California shipbuilding company of Long Beach of work costing $2,094,000, the federal government for some unknown reason, has cancelled the contracts awarded the local concern for the construction of three P-type submarines. Officials of the company affected gave out a carefully prepared state- Warm as toast Perfection Oil Heater Cheery comfort for chilly evenings. A gallon of PEARL OIL gives nine hours of intense, odorless heat—wherever and whenever you want it. Prices: $3.75 to $7.75 For Sale by Anaheim Hardware Co. H. A. Dickel M. W. Martenet A. Nagel Scott & Co., Garden Grove, Cal. C. A.' Emerson, ICE WOOD COAL Seeds, Poultry Supplies, Stock Feed, Flour, Grain, Hay. We are handling these and deliver promptly. R. W. McClellan 209 N. Los Angeles Street Home 294 Pacific 317 Forthousands of years the Orientals have been total abstainers. The Germans have been drinking beer for 2000 years. They challenge the world for deeper thinkers, greater philosophers, better brewers or braver men. "The Quality Beer" Speaks For Itself San Diego Consid Brewing Co. San Diego, Calif. The Best Meats of All The Best Meats of All Kinds always in stock City Cash Market Schneider Bros., Props. Sunset 20 and 362 Home 1058 ment of conditions, appended to which were extracts from a letter received by the company from Washington, from a vice president of the unions interested in shipbuilding. Whether or not the government's action has been influenced by recent labor troubles at the shipyard, when unionism was refused and the "open shop" policy adopted, or by the condition of the mud-filled harbor and the recent inability of the building company to float quickly a new submarine from its bed of silt, officials of the company refuse to say. A persistent rumor there is that the action has been brought about by the fact that Japanese are employed in the shipyard, where the greatest secrecy as to the submarines' construction is being maintained. Neither this nor the rumor that the company was preparing to move its plant to San Pedro harbor could be confirmed. Lieut. F. R. Meyers, of San Diego, says officers connected with the government aviation school on North Island are confident an aeroplane mail service will be established this year, and that while the service to start with will be only between the two terminal points, it later will be extended to include Santa Ana and possibly one or two other points enroute. Congress has been asked by the postmaster general for an appropriation for airplane mail route experiments, and it is understood the first route will be the one that passes over Orange county. EGGS ABOUT TO CELEBRATE "How much are eggs today?" asked an efficient householder when he got his grocer on the phone. "Some eggs we have are 55 cents, and some 45 cents." "Well, what is the difference?" "The 55-cent eggs are fresh and the 45-cent eggs are April eggs." "April eggs!" exclaimed the householder. "Why, they soon will have a birthday anniversary, won't they."