anaheim-gazette 1917-11-22

RIGID LAW FOR PROTECTION OF CATTLE ALL BRANDS MUST BE REGISTERED WITH STATE BOARD, NONE CAN BE OBLITERATED MARKET MEN AND PEDDLERS REQUIRED TO KEEP RECORD OF ALL PURCHASES BY THEM The last legislature enacted a law creating a state cattle protection board the purpose of which is to protect the breeders of cattle from theft. This law, while new in California is old in quite a number of the other western states. It provides for the registration of cattle brands and the licensing of slaughterers and sellers of meat, for the inspection of cattle and cattle hides for brands or marks, for the collection of a fund to be known as the cattle protection fund, etc. It is of particular interest to cattlemen to know that the law provides that no cattle shall be branded with a brand not recorded with the Cattle Protection Board. There seems to be a mistaken impression in some sections that recording is optional with the cattle owners, but section 4 of the act is very definite in its language. It is also believed by some that recording with the county recorder is sufficient, but this is erroneous. has in his possession, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prohibit an owner of property, or a ranchman located on a definite property as a tenant, lessee or purchaser under contract, from slaughtering cattle in small numbers on said premises for his own consumption and nothing herein shall be so construed as to prohibit such ranchman from selling or giving away a portion thereof; provided, that such person shall not be required to take out a license. Sec. 9. The hides of all such cattle slaughtered by the owner thereof, or removed from any cattle which have died from any cause, shall be retained in the possession of the owner where the same may be inspected, with the brands attached thereto, and without any alteration or disfiguration thereof, for a period of at least fifteen days after the death of said cattle or until said hides are inspected. Every ranchman, who so slaughters cattle on such premises shall keep a record in a book to be kept for that purpose of all the cattle so slaughtered by him, with a description thereof, including all the marks and brands of such slaughtered cattle, the date of slaughter, and shall at the end of each month, make a true and correct copy of such record and send the same by registered mail to the office of the cattle protection board, and shall likewise exhibit the said record on demand of any officer of this state. THREE SOLDIERS WANTED FOR KILLING DRIVER Orange County Peace Officers Have Been Keeping Eye Open For Them San Diego authorities have notifiedenson gave the man and a check for $20 bank. Harper than Tricky on the First Anaheim and asked to hand it to him. Thinking it over man had gone, Reved to take the prede Harper had an accthelm bank. He was talked to three of bank, including Ca was found that H count at the bank. vice, Rev. Stevens called up the Sant stopped payment o soon after Reved gone, Harper step helm bank, where he enough to persuade The teller gave him left $25 to meet the In the meantime he had been given a reenson. On looking at the machine, it was in the name of W near Brawley. The sheriff wired ing inquiry. A rep iff there instructed hold the car and H El Centro sherif for Harper. Immediately a se for Harper, but it process. He is descri years of age, five f and was dressed in Rev. Stevenson c mother, who lives she stated that she for any trouble he into. She believed Brawley, where she from him. Rev. St ed the car over to t It is of particular interest to cattle men to know that the law provides that no cattle shall be branded with a brand not recorded with the Cattle Protection Board. There seems to be a mistaken impression in some sections that recording is optional with the cattle owners, but section 4 of the act is very definite in its language. It is also believed by some that recording with the county recorder is sufficient, but this is erroneous. The last legislature passed a law which required that to perpetuate marks and brands it was necessary to re-record them in the several counties after advertising notices in the papers. This resulted in an apparent conflict of the statutes and the question was submitted to the attorney general who advises that all cattle brands must be recorded with this board or they cannot be given proper recognition (except pure bred cattle entitled to registration). It is particularly urgent for cattle men who wish to continue using their brand to make an early application with this board for recordation, as priority of application may have considerable bearing on the board in granting permits for the use of different brands and unless so recorded their use is illegal. The fee for registering a brand is $2.00. Slaughtering fees are as follows: less than ten head per month, $1.00; over ten and less than 50 head per month $10.00; and over fifty head per month $25.00 per year. All fees are payable annually in advance. Cattlemen desiring forms for recording cattle brands, or forms for application for slaughterhouse license and copies of the law, can address the Cattle Protection Board, Sacramento, California. Following are some of the sections of the law: Sec. 4. No person shall brand any cattle in this state with a brand that has not been recorded under the provisions of this act, nor use any device to obliterate a brand. Sec. 5. Upon the sale or transfer of any range cattle in this state, the actual delivery of such animal shall be accompanied by a written bill of sale, giving the number, kind and marks and brands of each animal, which bill of sale shall be signed by the party giving the same and acknowledged by him before two subscribing witnesses who have been free from registration. THREE SOLDIERS WANTED FOR KILLING DRIVER Orange County Peace Officers Have Been Keeping Eye Open For Them San Diego authorities have notified Orange county officials to be on the lookout for three men dressed as soldiers who are believed to be responsible for the death of Ed F. Slater, of San Diego, who died Thursday morning at 2:30 as a result of injuries inflicted by the three soldiers who hired him to take them out in his machine. Slater's partner, Roy Reynolds, who also keep an auto for hire at a stand at 4078 Texas street, says he saw Slater start out with the three men. He himself had taken them down to Shelley's junk warehouse at 1024 Third street earlier in the evening. They asked Reynolds to direct them to a place where they might get a drink, but he said he knew of none. He believes they got the iron rod, stained with blood, which was found in Slater's machine, later in the evening, at the junk warehouse, and used it to kill Slater. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Drew found Slater's body by the side of his machine at 11 o'clock Wednesday night, a short distance out of town. The machine had been run into the brush at the side of the road, and a broken dash light, together with other signs of a struggle, showed that Slater fought for his life. The San Diego authorities are puzzled as to the motive for the murderers, as they did not touch Slater's watch, nor his money, and abandoned the car. Sheriffs Jackson, Maxwell and Wilson were called out to the district near the county hospital early that morning as the driver of the Times truck reported Sheriff Jackson that as he came from Anaheim to Santa Ana about 3:30 he saw one soldier standing near a tree just below the Anaheim city limits and another just this side of the county hospital. About half way between he had seen an automobile at the side of the road. The sheriffs found no soldiers when they went back, about a half an hour later, and discovered that the automobile belonged to a man of the cattle protection board, and shall likewise exhibit the said record on demand of any officer of this state. Immediately a sale for Harper, but it does not exist. He is described years of age, five feet and was dressed in black. Rev. Stevenson capped mother, who lives in she stated that she for any trouble he made into. She believed Brawley, where she from him. Rev. Stedied the car over to the present is just out of The car is registered Weist, Cal. Weilst miles from Brawley. NORTH AND SOUTH Cattle Fever Quarantine Department of Agriculture An order signed by agriculture lifts on June 65,520 square miles in the federal quarantine importance to cattle farmers of northern states of the south. In regions infested tick it has not been port better stock for southern herds freshly brought in from the tick is not prevailing prone to sickness fever germs carried by sucking parasites. Antine against the cow other hand has prevented cattle from being used as stockers and territory, and permits into free territory or antine restrictions and slaughter. The release order frees the largest ammunition liberated at one federal campaign agent tick was started in May to 5,234 square miles and September, will run the greatest year so far inhibition of the tick. Nine southern states by the release order beneficiary will be Mills will be entirely freed and will open a broad free territory from these states. Sec. 5. Upon the sale or transfer of any range cattle in this state, the actual delivery of such animal shall be accompanied by a written bill of sale, giving the number, kind and marks and brands of each animal, which bill of sale shall be signed by the party giving the same and acknowledged by him before two subscribing witnesses who have been freeholders of the county for at least two years. Sec. 6. It is hereby expressly provided that the provisions of this act shall not apply to registered purebred cattle or purebred cattle which can be identified as being entitled to registration, br to the dressed carcasses of veal with unmarked or unbranded hides thereon, or cows actually used for dairy purposes. Sec. 7. It shall be unlawful for any person to slaughter any cattle or offer for sale, barter or exchange the meat thereof, unless he shall have a license therefor issued in accordance with the provisions of this act, except as herein otherwise provided. Sec. 8. Every peddler, butcher or retailer of meats, purchasing the meat of any bovine animal, must enter in a book to be kept for that purpose and exhibit the same on demand, the name of the person from whom said meat was purchased or otherwise obtained, the date of said purchase and the quantity so purchased. It shall be unlawful for any peddler or retailer of meat, or person in control of any butcher shop, to purchase the meat of any slaughtered bovine animal from any person not known to him to be licensed under the provisions of this act. Any person who fails on demand to inform any officer of this state where and from whom he has obtained any meat of any bovine animal that he morning as the driver of the Times truck reported to Sheriff Jackson that as he came from Anaheim to Santa Ana about 3:30 he saw one soldier standing near a tree just below the Anaheim city limits and another just this side of the county hospital. About half way between he had seen an automobile at the side of the road. The sheriffs found no soldiers when they went back, about a half an hour later, and discovered that the automobile belonged to a man who was camped by the road. SMOOTHE YOUNG SWINDLER SELLS STOLEN AUTO Rev. J. A. Stevenson Again a Victim In Auto Deal Through a recommendation given him by former acquaintances in Anaheim, who knew him when his record was clear, Joy P. Harper, a former resident of this city, but later of the Imperial Valley succeeded in selling an automobile to Rev. J. A. Stevenson of Santa Ana. Harper came to Santa Ana a few days ago with a machine for sale. He offered Frank S. Trickey $25 commission to help him sell the car. Through Trickey, the sale was made to Rev. Stevenson. Harper represented himself as a soldier stating that he was compelled to report in a few days. In order to assure himself that Harper was all right, Rev. Stevenson sent his son, Donald, to this city, where Harper said he used to live. L. W. Bushard, real estate man, and J. P. McCarter, in whose house Harper's parents lived at Anaheim, assured Donald that they knew Harper well, and that he and his family were of good standing. They said that Harper's father was W. C. Harper of Escondido. So the deal was made. Rev. Stev- At a joint meeting mittees on drainage Angeles and Orange county week at the office of Lumber company in was decided that between the two counties shown to the extent acre of reclaimable left out of the two for the formation of tricts, which will be near future. John N. Anderson, the Orange county engineer Dessery and O of the Sugar Bowl, and the invited guests, w Park. Those present were: Walter Haas, of Los torney for the proposal that county; Manager the Los Alamitos sugar Nelson, Buena Park; A of Hanson station; engineer for the Los district; Oswald Wilson, the Sugar Bowl, and J Anaheim Gazette enson gave the man a Liberty Bond and a check for $225 on a Santa Ana bank. Harper than wrote a check for Tricky on the First National bank of Anaheim and asked Rev. Stevenson to hand it to him. Thinking it over after the young man had gone, Rev. Stevenson decided to take the precaution of seeing if Harper had an account at the Anaheim bank. He went to it, and there talked to three of the men in the bank, including Cashier Hartung. It was found that Harper had no account at the bank. On Hartung's advice, Rev. Stevenson immediately called up the Santa Ana bank and stopped payment on the check. Soon after Rev. Stevenson had gone, Harper stepped into the Anaheim bank, where his talk was smooth enough to persuade that all was well. The teller gave him $200 in cash and left $25 to meet the Trickey check. In the meantime the sheriff's office had been given a report by Rev. Stevenson. On looking up the number of the machine, it was found registered in the name of W. T. Paine at Wiest, near Brawley. The sheriff wired to El Centro, making inquiry. A reply from the sheriff there instructed Sheriff Jackson to hold the car and Harper, stating that the El Centro sheriff had a warrant for Harper. Immediately a search was started for Harper, but it was without success. He is described as 20 or 21 years of age, five feet nine, a blonde and was dressed in khaki coveralls. Rev. Stevenson called up Harper's mother, who lives in Escondido, and she stated that she would make good for any trouble he might have gotten into. She believed he was still in Brawley, where she had last heard from him. Rev. Stevenson has turned the car over to the sheriff, and at son, leader of the Orange county committee. After plans and maps had been gone over with an eye to arranging for possible exceptions, it was stated that the Bixby and Hellman interests in the vicinity of Los Alamitos would be asked to come into the district, and that they would be given credit for the work already accomplished. The Los Alamitos sugar factory now owns several thousand acres of land unfit in its present state for cultivation, and this, too, will be thrown under the drainage plot. Los Angeles county will bring her districts to the Orange county line and Orange county will bring hers to the Los Angeles line, thus assuring no skips in the territory to be covered. In several instances it will be necessary to employ give and take methods, whereby water from the sister county will be run for a short distance through Orange county land and vice versa. Coyote creek will see a great deal of the surplus water drained through its channel, and this creek bed turns back and forth through both counties. Final plans for the petitions have not yet been made public, but it is expected that the next few weeks will see much development work started. HOW OUR SAMMIES SPEND THE EVENING Music, Song and Sentiment From Chow To Taps J. W. Pegler, United Press correspondent, who is with the American forces in France, gives the following description of how the Sammies spend the evening: A dark mooess sky, stippled with pinpoints of silver light, the sound of tal stuff gave way to the common-sense crunching of gravel under the sentry's feet. A NEW METAL Molybednum, a newly discovered metal, according to Major W. A. Mench of San Diego, is going to help win the war. This material is found in large quantities in the far northwest and if developed will prove more effective in shipbuilding, gun making and in air ships and submarines than our finest steel, said Mench. It will cost less, weigh less and be more efficient. CHRISTMAS STOCKING "The Little Stocking" is the symbol of the Christmas fund which is being gathered by small contributions all over the country, for the children of our allies. Our sons and fathers are fighting in the trenches along with the fathers of these little children in warring countries. Children in America can have a happy peaceful Christmas because of the sacrifices that are being made over there. The little children of our allies are the helpless victims of the frtunes of war. They are desolate that our children may be safe and happy. The little stocking suggests to every child and every lover of children that a little share of our Christmas cheer could be sent to the children of our allies with the love and sympathy that is in our hearts. The war children's relief fund receives and forwards the contributions for the Christmas of the children of our allies. This fund will send you a little stocking if you write to them, so you can interest your friends in Immediately a search was started for Harper, but it was without success. He is described as 20 or 21 years of age, five feet nine, a blonde and was dressed in khaki coveralls. Rev. Stevenson called up Harper's mother, who lives in Escondido, and she stated that she would make good for any trouble he might have gotten into. She believed he was still in Brawley, where she had last heard from him. Rev. Stevenson has turned the car over to the sheriff, and at present is just out his Liberty bond. The car is registered to W. T. Paine, Weist, Cal. Weist is about fifteen miles from Brawley. NORTH AND SOUTH BOTH BENEFIT BY ORDER Cattle Fever Quarantine Lifted by Department of Agriculture Order An order signed by the secretary of agriculture lifts on December 1, from 65,520 square miles in Southern states the federal quarantine against movement of southern cattle. It is of great importance to cattle raisers and dealers of northern states as well as those of the south. In regions infested by the cattle tick it has not been held safe to import better stock for the improvement of southern herds because cattle freshly brought in from regions where the tick is not prevalent are especially prone to sicken and die from the fever germs carried by the blood-sucking parasites. The federal quarantine against the cattle tick, on the other hand has prevented the shipment of cattle from infested sections for use as stockers and feeders in free territory, and permits their shipment into free territory only under quarantine restrictions and for immediate slaughter. The release order for December 1 frees the largest amount of territory ever liberated at one time since the federal campaign against the cattle tick was started in 1906, and, added to 5,234 square miles freed in March and September, will make 1917 by far the greatest year so far in the annihilation of the tick. Nine southern states will benefit by the release order. The largest beneficiary will be Mississippi, which will be entirely freed from quarantine and will open a broad avenue of tick-free territory from the northern states. HOW OUR SAMMIES SPEND THE EVENING Music, Song and Sentiment From Chow To Taps J. W. Pegler, United Press correspondent, who is with the American forces in France, gives the following description of how the Sammies spend the evening: A dark moodyless sky, stippled with pinpoints of silver light, the sound of restless hoofs stamping the mule-barn—and that gone, homesick feeling. It was natural that the Sammies should gather around the darkening embers of the cook shack tonight and sing till they had to go to bed. Sentiment seemed to fall over the camp all of a sudden. Perhaps it was the slight tinge of autumn in the air or the sight of brown, stubbled, harvest fields where gnarled old peasant women went up and down the rows gleaning stray wisps of wheat. Anyway, as soon as the vesper chow had been tucked away the fellows began to drift down the battalion street, singularly silent for Sammies. French housewives, tanned about the face and wide about the middle, sat in their doorways, knitting or crooning to cranky, tired children. From the edge of a wooda hundred yards up the hill, came the sad, sad discord of a single flue. The top sergeant said it was "that crazy Anderson guy, practicing progressive exercise number one," with the ambition of some day getting a place in the band. Shadows rushed down from the hills and darkness turned the groups of khaki into mere blots moving about in the gloom. Then someone with a tenor voice began the sob-stuff while someone else accompanied him on a mouth organ. "Aint that great?" said the top sergeant. "Takes me back to Chicago and the summer night on the lake, when we paddle our canoes about a mile out and sing just like that." The song came from the little circle around the cook's fire. The cook-shack really isn't a shack at all—just a canvass roof, with a stove pipe running through it and leafy branches on top to fool the German aeroplanes. So the song was unconfined by walls, but free to overwhelm the sobbing of Anderson's flute. "Just a song at twi-l-i-light, "W'en the lights a-are lo-o-w—" happy. The little stocking suggests to every child and every lover of children that a little share of our Christmas cheer could be sent to the children of our allies with the love and sympathy that is in our hearts. The war children's relief fund receives and forwards the contributions for the Christmas of the children of our allies. This fund will send you a little stocking if you write to them, so you can interest your friends in the cause, but you must promise to send the stocking back, because each little white stocking is actually to be sent to some child "over there." Besides the bit of candy, or inexpensive toy, or a few pennies that the Christmas stocking will contain, there will be good food provided and warm clothing. It is estimated that one dollar will give each child a happy Christmas. Send it with your heart full of love. It will bring dividends of happiness to you on Christmas day to think that you have given a whole long happy day to some little child "over there." Send your contributions, whether large or small, to the War Children's Relief Fund, Hotel Majestic, New York. CONSERVATION OF LABOR The state council of defense suggests the following rules for the guidance of the growers: Conserve labor. That means more production of food. The committee on resources and food supply of the state council of defense urges importance in the present emergency of the suggestions made by Prof. R. L. Adams of the university of California as to ways of conserving labor on the farm, including the following ideas familiar to every farmer, but not universally practiced. Develop the best lands first and plan the season's work long ahead. During the war don't plant new orchards which require labor without immediate production of food. Postpone developing lands which in their reclamation would use up labor needed for land now actually in crops. Clear land only during the rainy season, when grubbing is easy. Check land and build ditches only when the general demand for ranch hands is low. Arrange a system of crops which in their demands for labor permit con- federal campaign against the cattle tick was started in 1906, and, added to 5,234 square miles freed in March and September, will make 1917 by far the greatest year so far in the annihilation of the tick. Nine southern states will benefit by the release order. The largest beneficiary will be Mississippi, which will be entirely freed from quarantine and will open a broad avenue of tick-free territory from the northern states to the Gulf of Mexico. MAKING PLANS TO DRAIN SWAMP LANDS Meeting Held at Buena Park Last Week To Consider Project At a joint meeting of the committees on drainage from Los Angeles and Orange counties held last week at the office of the Nelson Lumber company in Buena Park, it was decided that cooperation between the two counties would be shown to the extent that not one acre of reclaimable land would be left out of the two big petitions for the formation of drainage districts, which will be drawn in the near future. John N. Anderson, chairman of the Orange county interests, met Engineer Dessery and Oswald Wilson, of the Sugar Bowl, and these with the invited guests, went to Buena Park. Those present at the meeting were: Walter Haas, of Los Angeles, attorney for the proposed districts in that county; Manager Hamilton, of the Los Alamitos sugar factory; A. Nelson, Buena Park; Albert Hanson, of Hanson station; Wm. Dessery, engineer for the Los Angeles district; Oswald Wilson, publisher of the Sugar Bowl, and John N. Ander- The song came from the little circle around the cook's fire. The cook-shack really isn't a shack at all—just a canvass roof, with a stove pipe running through it and leafy branches on top to fool the German aeroplanes. So the song was unconfined by walls, but free to overwhelm the sobbing of Anderson's flute. "Just a song at twi-l-li-light, 'W'en the lights a-are lo-ow—" Everyone sang, some worse than others, and a raw kid from Memphis threw a rock at a French hound because the dog threw in his mournful howl to swell the volume. Sentimental stuff having the call, the Memphis lad rose and declaimed "The Face on the Bar-room Flo'" to the growing audience. Sitting on his feet, a boy from Iowa was reading a letter from home holding it so as to catch the fire light. "My girl gives me a lot of good advice about likker," said he. "That's a sign she cares for me." There followed songs and selections, solos and choral efforts. It was "Mother Machree" and then that one about the "train that's coming around the bend. Good-bye, my lover, good-bye." Some highbrow guy who used to be a reported in Tulsa, Okla., tried to get away with a poem by a gent named Wilde—"I never saw a man who looked so wistfully at the day—" He kept on and on for many stanzas but quit when he was drowned out by the close-harmony bawling of "Whiskey, oh, whiskey you, ain't no friend of mine—" Eventually "Home Sweet Home" came around on the program. It was interrupted by a bugle blast. Samies moved along to their billets, the Iowa boy tucking away his letter, having read it four times. The mules stamped and rattled their halter-chains in the stable. The sentimen- During the war don't plant new orchards which require labor without immediate production of food. Postpone developing lands which in their reclamation would use up labor needed for land now actually in crops. Clear land only during the rainy season, when grubbing is easy. Check land and build ditches only when the general demand for ranch hands is low. Arrange a system of crops which in their demands for labor permit continuous employment of steady help. Don't do construction work not absolutely necessary until the need of food products is less urgent. Don't waste energy on a worn out farm, vineyard or orchard. Use tractors and save horse and man labor and keep machinery and implements in repair. Beef the boarder cow and pork the unprofitable sow. Pasture poor crops of barley, corn and alfalfa, rather than harvest them. Use gasoline and electricity to augment the work of men. Pay the going wage; house and board men properly, so that they can have the necessary energy for work. Cut out all overtime and Sunday work possible, or compensate the men for extra work they do. Treat men with a proper sense of recognition and equality. Use horse labor in place of man labor wherever possible. 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