anaheim-gazette 1918-01-03

VOLUME XXXXVII JAIL PROTECTED BY SANTA ANA HOMEGUARDS PLOT TO STORM COUNTY BAS-TILE AND BURN KEYES AT STAKE FRUSTRATED SHERIFF JACKSON DECLARES KEYS DESERVES HANGING BUT IT MUST BE DONE LEGALLY Twenty-eight men, armed with rifles were on guard at the courthouse and jail Saturday night, ready to deal with any effort that might be made to take Edward Keyes, accused murderer, from jail. Sheriff Jackson had received what he considered authentic information that at 2 o'clock Sunday an organized mob would try to take Keyes out and burn him at the stake. Deputy sheriffs and a contingent of Home Guards in charge of Capt. A. E. Koepsel remained on guard all night. No attempt to storm the jail was thern California. Six thousand acres in addition will be signed before the week is over. Wm. Webster, field agent for the association received a long distance message late Saturday stating that the directors of the Lompoc Association wanted to complete the junction with the Associated and as time was a large factor in the coming hearing, they desired that the move be made at once. Webster informed them he would come Monday. They stated he should come that night and they would wait for him. The meeting was held at midnight, the clock stopped, and 300 acres were signed by the men in the room. Agents of the association are now at work going through the country near Lompoc adding names of the balance of the members of the Lompoc association: It is expected that the government commission will be named this week and the taking of testimony will begin next Monday. Clyde Bishop stated that the three men selected by the growers were Thos. Hurley, Alex Jeffry and Ross Whittley. From these men, the food administration will select one. LIEUTENANT HATFIELD WRITES FROM BATTLE FRONT Is Now Commander of His Company With Nearly 200 Men Under Him MASONIC TO BE OC BY CITY OF TRUSTEES PASS NOUNCING NEW LOCATION TO REQUEST TO SESTANTON RANCH MACHINERY T PRIVATE The city trustees Thursday night ado declaring the intention to wreck the old st reasons were assign being taken, among unmerated that the were totally inadequate needs. The buildi and the report viewdition with alarm, al an earthquake windy weather prjing is liable to coll ago the structure w Sheriff Jackson had received what he considered authentic information that at 2 o'clock Sunday an organized mob would try to take Keyes out and burn him at the stake. Deputy sheriffs and a contingent of Home Guards in charge of Capt. A. E. Koepsel remained on guard all night. No attempt to storm the jail was made. Guards were again put on Sunday, and armed men will each night be on duty to frustrate, if need be with bullets, any attempt that may be made to get Keyes. Last Saturday Sheriff Jackson received information from two widely different sources that a man whose name he knows, but whose name is withheld from publication at this time, had organized a force to seize and burn Keyes. Home Guards and deputies were stationed by the sheriff and Capt. Koepsel at windows of the jail and courthouse. "I should have given warning to any approaching body of men," said the sheriff. "As much as I believe Keyes deserves hanging, it is my sworn duty to protect him, and I shall protect him. He will not be taken. I should have told the men, had they come, that no man who attempted to walk up the jail steps would ever walk down. My orders were to shoot to kill, and I should have fired the first shot." "Any person who attempts a jail break is guilty of a felony. Any person who even considers joining in a movement to take Keyes is getting himself into hot water. I am going to keep guards that will give ample protection. They will never get Keyes, and that fact might as well be fully understood by those reckless ones who might not realize what risk an attempt at the jail certainly will bring. Keyes is going to be kept in the county jail here until his trial is over and his case disposed of by the courts. There is plenty of evidence to fasten the crime upon him." Any attempt that might be made to storm the Orange county jail would doubtless prove unsuccessful. The jail is exceptionally well built, and with the close watch and preparations that have been made the likelihood of a mob getting Keyes out of jail are exceedingly slim. Two heavy steel doors would have to be broken in before the felon tanks could be reached, and LIEUTENANT HATFIELD WRITES FROM BATTLE FRONT Is Now Commander of His Company With Nearly 200 Men Under Him Joseph and George Hatfield, father and brother of Lieutenant Leland Hatfield, who is at the front in France, have each received letters from him, one dated Nov. 25, and the other Dec. 8. To his father he wrote: "I have been laid up with acute intestinal trouble. Was taken rather suddenly and sent to the base hospital on Thanksgiving day. Had a pretty serious case for awhile. The doctor said he came very near using the knife on me. * * I am pretty busy now, being company commander. I have some outfit—four first lieutenants, five second lieutenants and 184 men. I have lots of work to do with the company, but like it. I want to know where you got the idea 5th battalion, machine gun company. An old soldier like you ought to know better. It was the 5th machine gun battalion, but has been split up, and my company is attached to the 23rd infantry." To his brother, "Chuck" he writes: "I am quite busy trying to straighten out the company and drive some knowledge of machine guns into the heads of my men. The weather is getting to be a fright. It snows about half the time. It is colder than blue blazes. I am living in a billet again, and it is a pretty good place. The people are fine. One young girl here can talk a little English and wants to learn more, so she has agreed to teach me French." PREMONITION OF DEATH A premonition of the early death of himself and a companion was shown in remarks made by Ernest L. Larkin shortly before the sudden death of Richard Abern, followed two hours after by the instant killing of Larkin himself, says the Brea Progress. The two men were working together with a crew of workmen who were digging a ditch for the Standard Oil Co. on the Baldwin ranch near Montebello, Saturday. When a load of dirt slid on a truck, Larkin is said to have declared the intention to wreck the old staircase when it was taken by the growers were Thos. Harley, Alex Jeffry and Ross Whittley. From these men, the food administration will select one. The building and the report yiewed it with alarm, all an earthquake or windy weather prying is liable to collage the structure with an expert committee listing circumstances that a new municipal essayary. An ordinance nouncing the intent change the location body of the city towers in the Masonic Center street, where the business of the ducted, until the new structure. Ten building have been erected at their place of bus tanks and jail equipment will be kept; old building is vacant; crew will immediately down the structure under the direct gineer Steward. Trustees Cook, worth voted in favor dinance. Trustee D negative. Plans furnished by Kistner of San Diego accepted, which call nature, costing appraisal Mr. Kistner is an experience and has experiences in Southern California commended for beauty. Mr. Kistner plans for the local office with his skill as an Anaheim will have convenient municipal doubt. P.F.Vlosschaert have leased the Sacramento terminates December board in reference to another Japanese desired tree. The board notified no longer cared for return to the city allow the same to kept in the county jail here until the trial is over and his case disposed of by the courts. There is plenty of evidence to fasten the crime upon him." Any attempt that might be made to storm the Orange county jail would doubtless prove unsuccessful. The jail is exceptionally well built, and with the close watch and preparations that have been made the likelihood of a mob getting Keyes out of jail are exceedingly slim. Two heavy steel doors would have to be broken in before the felony tanks could be reached, and the job of getting Keyes out would only have begun, for he is confined in a separate cell built in the most modern manner. Warned as the officers are, there is no possibility of a mob getting hold of the keys. If all the guards and deputies present were killed the mob would still not have the keys. "It was authentic information that came Saturday," said Deputy District Attorney Koepsel, who is captain of the Home Guards. "Just how far the plan had gone we do not know. However, it had gone far enough so that the bour was set. We certainly are prepared to take care of whatever size mob might come. There was a regular military outpost there. Patrols were set, and lookouts maintained so that we would have known long before any mob could have approached that it was on the way. "The Home Guards are ready to do their duty. Some of them will be on duty every night, along with some deputy sheriffs." ASSOCIATION ADDS NAMES At a meeting called for 12 o'clock Saturday night, 3000 acres of beet producing land in the vicinity of Lompoc was added to the lists of the Associated Sugar Beet Growers of Sou- A premonition of the early death of himself and a companion was shown in remarks made by Ernest L. Larkin shortly before the sudden death of Richard Ahern, followed two hours after by the instant killing of Larkin himself, says the Brea Progress. The two men were working together with a crew of workmen who were digging a ditch for the Standard Oil Co. on the Baldwin ranch near Montebello, Saturday. When a load of dirt slid on a truck, Larkin is said to have remarked, "this ditch is going to cave in boys, and Dick Ahern will be caught in the slide." Within a few hours, after they had dug Ahern's lifeless body from under the loose dirt ten feet deep, Larkin said, "We cant tell who will be next, but I feel that it is to be me, and that it will not be long, either." Two hours after, when Larkin was riding a motorcycle to Los Angeles, for some needed supplies, he collided with an automobile and was instantly killed. Both these men had worked in the Brea Oil Field and were well known here. They were both Anaheim men, and Larkin leaves a wife and little daughter in that city. Ahern was unmarried, but it is generally understood that he was engaged to wed a popular young lady of Anaheim. Mrs. Catharine Measor of Delhi, who has persistently sold booze for a number of years in violation of the law, was handed a sentence by Judge Thomas Saturday that will stop her activities for a time. She was convicted on four counts and was sentenced to twenty-eight months in the county jail and fined $2400. Mrs. Measor has been convicted on several occasions for selling liquor and this time-the court gave her the limit of the law. P. F. Vlosschaert have leased the South acres, belonging to terminates December the board in reference lease to another Japanese desired to The board notified no longer cared for return it to the city allow the same to requested. Later a representative concerned appeared at the lessee would provided the trays the council said no. R. G. Adams has of $1855 for a law machinery now off sale. Recently she the machinery at station of Trustee St engineer was instruct from intending sale and submit the approval. This plan for disposal Two of the boilers as much now as Other units will per cent of their. Trustee Brunwyn committee report against the city l 241.52, which were Ordinance No. and place of hold the board of trust Ordinance No. and place for the taxes and electric rates in the city ed. These new or Continue AHEIM GAZETTE Anaheim, California, Thursday, January 3, 1918 MASONIC TEMPLE TO BE OCCUPIED BY CITY OFFICES TRUSTEES PASS ORDINANCE ANNOUNCING NEW CHANGE OF LOCATION TO BE MADE REQUEST TO SELL LEASE OF STANTON RANCH REFUSED—MACHINERY TO BE SOLD PRIVATELY The city trustees at their meeting Thursday night adopted a resolution declaring the intention of the board to wreck the old structure. Various reasons were assigned for this step being taken, among which it was enumerated that the present quarters were totally inadequate for the city's needs. The building is antiquated, and the report viewed its present condition with alarm, alleging that should an earthquake occur, or severe windy weather prevail, the building is liable to collapse. Two years ago the structure was condemned by LIMIT SUGAR SALES Letters regarding sugar sales in the future have been received by Anaheim grocers. Following is a copy mailed to wholesalers: Gentlemen: I have today received ruling from United States food administration, at Washington, as follows: Restrict your sugar sales to retailers not to exceed 500 pounds. Retailer should not sell to city and town customers not to exceed five pound quantities; to rural and farm customers ten pound quantities. Your cooperation with this department is imperative. W. H. Hannam, Pacific Coast manager of the food administration and sugar distributor committee comments as follows on above ruling: "We must not forget for a single day that the nation is at war, and that food supplies constitute probably the most important item for the nation to consider." I also wish to state that a number of jobbers have been severely criticized for endeavoring to make records on selling food products including sugar. In some cases I understand the license has been withdrawn, and in others withdrawal of the license is pending. This is a time when not only the letter, but the spirit of the wishes of the food administration, must be considered and com- EXPERT COMING TO HELP CLASS INCOMES WILL BE AT POSTOFFICE IN ANAHEIM FROM JANUARY 14 TO JANUARY 22 ALL SINGLE PERSONS MAKNG OVER $1000 MUST PAY FAXES ON EXCESS AMOUNT It will require a small army of men to take the income tax returns of persons subject to the new law. Collector of Internal Revenue John P. Carter has announced that 23 officers will start from his headquarters on January 1st and on January 2nd every one of them will be on the job, in the county assigned him, to meet the people and help them make out their income tax returns. The officer assigned to this county is due to arrive here on January 14, and to remain until January 22 both dates inclusive. He will have his office in Anaheim in the post office, where he may be found every day of the declaring the intention of the board to wreck the old structure. Various reasons were assigned for this step being taken, among which it was enumerated that the present quarters were totally inadequate for the city's needs. The building is antiquated, and the report viewed its present condition with alarm, alleging that should an earthquake occur, or severe windy weather prevail, the building is liable to collapse. Two years ago the structure was condemned by an expert committee. In view of existing circumstances it was explained that a new municipal building is necessary. An ordinance was passed announcing the intention of the board to change the location of the governing body of the city to temporary quarters in the Masonic Temple on East Center street, where, after thirty days, the business of the city will be conducted, until the completion of the new structure. Tenants in the old building have been notified to vacate, and arrangements have been made with the Anaheim Truck and Transfer company to erect a party wall on the east line of the structure, adjoining their place of business. The steel tanks and jail equipment as now maintained will be kept intact. When the old building is vacated a wrecking crew will immediately proceed to tear down the structure, the work to be under the direct supervision of Engineer Steward. Trustees Cook, Stark and Brunworth voted in favor of the obave ordinance. Trustee Dwyer voted in the negative. Plans furnished by Theodore C. Kistner of San Diego have been accepted, which call for a modern structure, costing approximately $30,000. Mr. Kistner is an architect of wide experience and has erected many buildings in Southern California which are commended for their architectural beauty. Mr. Kistner has prepared plans for the local building in keeping with his skill as a designer and that Anaheim will have a modern and convenient municipal home admits of no doubt. P. F. Vlosschaert and son John, who have leased the Stanton ranch of 73 acres, belonging to the city, which terminates December, 1920, addressed the board in reference to selling their lease to another party. It is said a Japanese desired to acquire the lease. The board notified Vlosschaert if he no longer cared for the lease he should return it to the city. They refused to allow the same to be disposed of as BEAN GROWERS ORDERED TO DELIVER GOODS Government Commandeers Lima Crop In Ventura County Forestalling any attempt of Lima bean growers to hold their nineteen seventeen crop for high prices next spring, the government sent out orders directly to the growers in Ventura county to deliver the beans to different parts in the United States for the navy. The growers receiving the orders have made no offer to sell their beans to the government and were at a loss to understand how the authorities learned they had the beans until they learned that the warehouses must report monthly to the government the amount of food stuff on hand and its owners. The orders for lima beans are mandatory. They are signed by McGowan, paymaster-general of the navy. The government assures the growers of a fair and just profit upon the shipments ordered. Orders have come to twenty or thirty big growers of the Oxnard section, taking up most of the stock in the hands of the growers. Only the big growers have the financial strength to hold their lima beans. The small growers mostly sell immediately, the beans are in the warehouse or at least borrow on them. Few P. Carter has announced that 23 officers will start from his headquarters on January 1st and on January 2nd every one of them will be on the job in the county assigned him, to meet the people and help them make out their income tax returns. The officer assigned to this county is due to arrive here on January 14, and to remain until January 22 both dates inclusive. He will have his office in Anaheim in the post office, where he may be found every day of the dates stated. "It will be well for every unmarried person whose net income for 1917 is $1,000 or over and every married person living with wife or husband whose net income for 1917 is $2,000 or over, to call on the income tax man and learn whether or not they have any tax pay." Collector Carter stated. "The person subject to tax who doesn't make return in the time prescribed is going to regret it. The government will get after all income tax slackers." "There's hardly a business man, merchant or professional man who won't have to make return of income. Farmers, as a class, will have to pay the tax. The safe thing to do is for every person who had a total income of $1,000 or $2,000, as the case may be, and who is not sure about what deductions the law allows him, to play it safe by calling on the income tax man. "The man in the field will have forms for everybody and persons who expect to call on him need not trouble themselves to write to my office for forms." There are five distinct phases or features of the new law—five different ways in which taxes will be figured on large incomes, and two of these apply to the smaller incomes. They are: 1. A normal tax of two per cent on such income. 2. An additional super or sur-tax graduated from one per cent to 13 per cent, in proportion as such income exceeds $20,000. 3. A war tax of two per cent upon such income. 4. A war additional tax graduated from one to 50 per cent, in proportion as such income exceeds $5,000. 5. A war excess profits tax. The first of these apply to the smallest incomes taxed, that it: over $1,000 for a single man. At the $3,000 point, tax No. 3 come on for the single man and at $4,000 it is applied to the married man. In effect the result will be... P. F. Vlosschaert and son John, who have leased the Stanton ranch of 73 acres, belonging to the city, which terminates December, 1920, addressed the board in reference to selling their lease to another party. It is said a Japanese desired to acquire the lease. The board notified Vlosschaert if he no longer cared for the lease he should return it to the city. They refused to allow the same to be disposed of as requested. Later a representative of the party concerned appeared, and stated that the lessee would pay the city $500 provided the transfer was made. Again the council said no. R. G. Adams had a bid in the sum of $1855 for a large quantity of the machinery now offered by the city for sale. Recently an expert appraised the machinery at $20,000. Upon motion of Trustee Stark the power house engineer was instructed to get figures from intending purchasers at private sale and submit them to the board for approval. This was Stark's original plan for disposal of the machinery. Two of the boilers it is said will bring as much now as they cost originally. Other units will fetch from 60 to 75 per cent of their purchase price. Trustee Brunworth of the finance committee reported auditing bills against the city in the amount of $1,241.52, which were ordered paid. Ordinance No. 322, fixing the time and place of holding the meetings of the board of trustees was passed. Ordinance No. 323, fixing the time and place for the payment of licenses, taxes and electric light and water rates in the city of Anaheim was passed. These new ordinances were made Continued on Page 6 They are signed by McCowan, paymaster-general of the navy. The government assures the growers of a fair and just profit upon the shipments ordered. Orders have come to twenty or thirty big growers of the Oxnard section, taking up most of the stock in the hands of the growers. Only the big growers have the financial strength to hold their lima beans. The small growers mostly sell immediately, the beans are in the warehouse or at least borrow on them. Few beans are stored on the ranches, so the government has complete information of the amount of beans still held by the growers. The navy orders have set the bean growers there in an uproar. They dare not refuse to ship the beans and they are uncertain what the government will regard as a "just and fair profit." The orders sent are similar in wording. That to Simon Cohn, of Elrio reads: "Navy order fifteen twenty-three, awarded to you for immediate delivery, navy yard, Puget Sound, Washington, 60,000 pounds lima beans dried. This order mandatory as material is urgently needed by navy. Navy assures you fair and just profit upon this shipment. McGowan, Paymaster-General, Navy." The government is also taking small beans from the growers at Lompoc and Santa Maria. Although Southern California has had a long dry spell, there will be plenty of rain soon and the crops will not suffer, according to Father J. S. Ricard of the University of Santa Clara. Father Ricard says: "My diagnosis of the outlook for rain in Southern California is that January, February and March will be sufficiently wet. I expect some black storms in January." On incomes of over $5000 tax No. 4 as listed above comes into effect, incomes of between $5000 and $7500 being taxed two per cent, plus two per cent, plus one per cent. Incomes of between $15,000 and $20,000 are taxed two per cent, plus two per cent, plus five per cent, and at that point tax No. 2, above, begins to apply, so that the individual with an income of between $20,000 and $40,000 pays two per cent plus one per cent, plus two per cent, plus seven per cent, while the Croesus with an income of $2,000,000 and over pays two ETTE NUMBER 11 BOMING CLASS MES OFFICE IN ANAMARY 14 TO 22 OBS MAKNG PAY TAXES MOUNT All army of men returns of perw law. Rvenue John acced that 23 officials headquarters on January 2nd will be on the job, and him, to meet them make out turns. The officounty is due to July 14, and to reboth dates in his office in the office, where every day of the per cent, plus 13 per cent, plus 2 per cent, plus 50 per cent. Or to put the tax into dollars for the single and married, here is a brief table: Net income Single Married $ 1,100 $ 2 $ 2,100 22 2 8,100 44 22 4,000 80 40 5,000 120 80 7,500 245 205 10,000 395 855 100,000 16,220 16,180 1,000,000 475,220 475,180 2,000,000 1,130,220 1,130,180 After these taxes have been paid, the excess profits must be faced, but the excess profits do not apply in the case of the corporation, unless the profits have been above $3,000, and in the case of the partnership or individual unless the profits have been above $6,000 for the year. INCREASED ACREAGE OF BEANS EXPECTED Two Thousand Acres of Sugar Land Will be Put In Beans Ranchers of Orange county who grow annual crops, such as beans, sugar beets, corn, barley and potatoes, as a rule have made up their minds what they are going to plant in 1918. Estimates made indicate that in the coming year beans as a crop will show an increased average. Good ENEMY STORIES SLANDERING RED CROSS EFFORTS TO DISCREDT THE ASSOCIATION WILL GET SOME BODY INTO SERIOUS TROUBLE ANAHEIM CHAPTER NOW NUMBERS MORE THAN TWELVE HUNDRED LOYAL MEMBERS Somebody, somewhere, some day, is going to be pulled up short and forced to verify a story that is being circulated in various sections of the country, or pay the penalty for spreading German propaganda. The story is designed and told for the purpose of discrediting the Red Cross society and hampering it in its endeavors, to provide comfort for the boys who are going abroad to help fight the battles of this nation. It is to the effect that sweaters and other articles knitted by the industrious and patriotic women and turned over to the Red Cross society are sold by that association or been made that 23 of the farms headquarters on January 2nd will be on the job and him, to meet them make out loans. The off-farm county is due to July 14, and to receive both dates in his office in the next office, where every day of the recovery unmarried home for 1917 is hereby married per husband whose age is $2,000 or over, the tax man and they have any Jer Carter stated. The tax who does not time prescrib it. The govern- all income tax business man, national man who return of income. will have to pay going to do is for a total income as the case may ensure about what knows him, to play the income tax field will have land persons who need not trouble into my office for direct phases or few—five different will be figured and two of these incomes. They two per cent on per or sur-tax per cent to 13 million as such in. two per cent upon tax graduated event, in proportion needs $5,000. profits tax. Apply to the small-mat it: over $1,000 the $3,000 point, for the single man applied to the mar- result will be BEANS EXPECTED Two Thousand Acres of Sugar Land Will be Put In Beans Ranchers of Orange county who grow annual crops, such as beans, sugar beets, corn, barley and potatoes, as a rule have made up their minds what they are going to plant in 1918. Estimates made indicate that in the coming year beans as a crop will show an increased acreage. Good prices and good crops for some years past have given beans a reputation for stability among the farmers, and each year that crop has grown in favor. "I believe that not less than 2000 acres of land in Orange county that went to sugar beets last year will be planted to limaebans ma JM$0v...C planted to lima beans or blackeye beans in 1918," declared County Auditor William C. Jerome, who is a bean and beet grower and a member of the board of directors of the California Lima Bean Growers' association. "In addition to that there are several hundred acres of land that were planted to barley last year that are being prepared this winter for planting to beans in May. That means an added bulk in food values and an increased income to the ranchers as a whole." The success of a bean crop depends largely upon the preparation of the land. Plowing has been going on for several weeks, and ranchers will take advantage of the first rains to begin to get the clods broken up and the surface into a mulch. By keeping this mulch constantly stirred, the moisture is kept ready for planting, which the farmers aim to do after the last of the rains have come. The bean crop upon over 55,000 acres is by far the biggest dry farming crop in Orange county. Most of its big irrigated area is set to orange, lemon, walnut and deciduous trees. While several hundred acres of barley land will this year be turned over to beans for the first time, the barley acreage is not going to be reduced, for enough new land, never broken before, has been cleared up and plowed to more than offset the diversion of barley land to beans. Grain and hay growers in the dry farming sections have prepared their lands, and a large proportion of the acreage has already been seeded. The planting is already done, and the first rain will start the barley crop to growing. The high prices received last year calculated in various sections of the country, or pay the penalty for spreading German propaganda. The story is designed and told for the purpose of discrediting the Red Cross society and hampering it in its endeavors, to provide comfort for the boys who are going abroad to help fight the battles of this nation. It is to the effect that sweaters and other articles knitted by the industrious and patriotic women and turned over to the Red Cross society are sold by that association or appropriated to the use of members and never reach the soldiers. One version related in Anaheim is that a lady knitted a sweater for her son and passed it to the Red Cross for delivery. She wrote him that it was coming, but was notified by him that it had not reached him. Visiting the headquarters one day to make inquiries she was amazed to see one of the workers wearing it. She proved it to be her handiwork by showing where she had stitched a five dollar gold piece in it. Over in a neighboring town, it is said, the lady who had knitted a sweater for her son, which failed to reach him, met it one day on the street enveloping the form of a negro. The colored gentleman had purchased it from the Red Cross, he declared. This lady proved her property by ripping out a ten dollar bill which she had stitched under the collar. Red Cross sweaters have no collars. They are all made from the same pattern and resemble each other as nearly as two peas in a pod. The story is told with variations at different places, but the main points are adhered to in all. Many tales of various kinds, designed to cripple the Red Cross and impair its usefulness, have been promulgated, and officials have awakened to the fact that they are of enemy origin and intended to hamper this country in its conduct of the war. It has been decreed that parties repeating such tales shall be taken into custody and given an opportunity to prove the truth of them. Language or deeds intended to injure the government or any branch of it in time of war, or to give aid or comfort to the enemy is treason, according to the laws governing the United States, and the government is awakening to the fact that stern measures must be adopted. The Red Cross society is a national affair, the president of the United States being its head. have made a record that they may well be proud of, bringing in 112 new with an income of income tax of $2; will be taxed $20; will be taxed $40; 1000 will be taxed with an income of income tax but will call for a fee of $3000 will be income of $4000 will be that the single home pays a tax of hired man with the only $40. Which is tax on bachelors. are not. over $5000 tax No. 4 goes into effect, in 5000 and $7500 becent, plus two per cent, en $15,000 and $20, per cent, plus two per cent, and at 2, above, begins to individual with an $20,000 and $40,000 plus one per cent, plus seven per cent with an in- and over pays two barley acreage is not going to be reduced, for enough new land, never broken before, has been cleared up and plowed to more than offset the diversion of barley land to beans. Grain and hay growers in the dry farming sections have prepared their lands and a large proportion of the acreage has already been seeded. The planting is already done, and the first rain will start the barley crop to growing. The high prices received last year for barley and hay means that ranchers all over the county are going to and have taken all the necessary precautions in the way of preparation of their lands to make the production as big as possible. The same thing holds good for growers of other products throughout the county. While the ranchers of the county are known as excellent farmers in their care of their lands and their crops, war conditions, both from the patriotic standpoint and from the standpoint of financial gain, are such that each farmer is studiously considering ways to make his crops as big as possible. PLACENTIA NOTES At the time of this report returns have not come in from all committees but it is known that more than 300 new names have been added to the Red Cross in Placentia and vicinity. The ladies have met with courteous treatment everywhere. They found a few who really cannot afford the price of a membership, and which is still more regrettable, a few well to do people who refused to join. Where so many have worked faithfully and diligently, and without reward, it may not be exactly proper to call attention to individual efforts, but Mrs. S. W. Niman and Mrs. E. Penn tended to injure the government or any branch of it in time of war, or to give aid or comfort to the enemy is treason, according to the laws governing the United States, and the government is awakening to the fact that stern measures must be adopted, The Red Cross society is a national affair, the president of the United States being its head. have made a record that they may well be proud of, bringing in 112 new members. Prof. Thos. Askin will give a musical at the club house on the eveninl of January 8, under the auspices of the Round Table club. EXODUS OF MEXICANS The Mexicans are going back to Mexico. They firmly believe that Carranza will settle the land question by slicing up the vast estates and giving every man all the ground he can work. News that the "dividing up" process is now at last under way has trickled to the Mexicans in every part of Southern California and they are leaving for their old homes. That is the opinion of Spanish interpreters and investigators in touch with the Mexican working classes in Southern California. One of these, F. A. Solomon, says: "The Mexicans tell me they are going back home where they can own their own land, raise their own food and not be bothered." "That is the main reason why the beet fields are now short thousands of Mexican laborers this summer." Labor agents, however, attribute the exodus of Mexicans and the labor shortage in the beet fields to the activities of the I. W. W.