anaheim-gazette 1918-01-24

FLOOD CONTROL COMMITTEE SELECTED SUPERVISORS APPOINT FIVE FROM EACH SUPERVISOR DISTRICT TO ACT WITH OTHER COUNTIES REPORT OF HARBOR COMMISSION REFERRED BACK FOR EXAMINATION AND AMENDMENT The supervisors at the last meeting appointed a committee of five men from each committee of five men from each district of the supervisorial districts of the county to act in conjunction with similar committees from Riverside and San Bernardino counties to consider the best means of controlling the floods of the Santa Ana river and conserving the waters. Following is a list of the committeemen appointed from this county: First Supervisorial district—John Cubbon, W. L. Grubb, H. C. Head, F. L. Andrews, Fred Rafferty. No. 2—F. D. Plavan, W. T. Newland, D. W. Johnston, H. A. Lake, G. W. Moors. No. 3—W. A. Goodman, E. C. Dutton, Harry Covell, Archie Henry, Samuel Kraemer. No. 4—J. D. Thomas, D. E. Huff, E. W. Bolinger, D. F. Campbell, L. E. surfacing of Buena Park road with Topeka Top. JURY LIST Following is a list of trial jurors selected by the supervisors for the year 1918, and certified to the superior court. District No. 1—T. L. Hill, Thomas Trythall, George Belderson, R. S. Anderson, O. B. Alderman, J. E. Kellogg, F. M. Dolg, N. H. Leonard, J. H. Maley, G. H. Randall, A. R. Row'ey, G. B. Kelly, F. H. Snyder, G. R. Smith. No. 2—R. A. Johnston, Andrew Nail, Chas, H. Warner, Ernest Beardsley, Chas, H. Warner, Ernest Beardsley, A. T. Dungan, G. H. Mills, G. R. Reyburn, J. G. Dunn, J. H. Birch, George Gardner, H. F. Shortling, M. E. Helme, C. E. Kutzner, Alfred Shosbree. No. 3—G. H. Moebius, B. T. Beale, Jacob Witmer, Oliver Hill, C. L Hansen, James Tuffree, John Lemke, E.N.Gage, George McNelll, W.J.Cole. No. 4—H.Wyneken, W.H.McDonald, R.J.Fyffe, Alfred Leech, Thomas W.Johnson, G.H.Peterson, R.S.Price, J.E.Buer, J.V.Sutton, W.F.Feldner, C.D.Post, W.J.Downs,C.Roelands,Fred Guenther. No. 5—Elmer Jamraus, Geo.Stevens William Jeffrey William Cubbon,H.P Christenson Charles Boyer,O.H Burke,L.L.Shatto,L.A.Cook,W.O.English Stephen Griset,D.W.Ellis,S.Ellis,Arewd Gillison. FORMER RESIDENT OF COUNTY IS A GERMAN SPY Arrested in Arizona for Conspiring to Violate Neutrality Laws Charles F.Von Petersdorff former- First Supervisorial district—John Cubbon, W. L. Grubb, H. C. Head, F. L. Andrews, Fred Rafferty. No. 2—F. D. Plavan, W. T. Newland, D. W. Johnston, H. A. Lake, G. W. Moors. No. 3—W. A. Goodman, E. C. Dutton, Harry Covell, Archie Henry, Samuel Kraemer. No. 4—J. D. Thomas, D. E. Huff, E. W. Bolinger, D. F. Campbell, L. E. Smith. No. 5—John Dunstan, W. L. Lehby, I. L. Marchant, Walter Wakeham, H. W. Woodrought. Demands on the county of Orange on the hospital fund and on the county general fund for the Detention home were allowed as read. A list of 70 persons was selected to serve as trial jurors for the year 1918. The application of J. F. Mueller for permit to lay a pipe line along Vista Avenue in Orange road district was allowed. Assessment No. 9414, Vol. 6, page 87, tax rolls for 1917-18, charged to the Christian Science Society of Huntington Beach, was ordered cancelled. A lease with the A. T. & S. F. railway for site formerly occupied by the Orange County Engineering and Constructing Co., was approved and the chairman authorized to sign the same. The application of Millard Foster and Scott Prather for permission to operate an auto stage line beween Santa Ana and Tustin was granted. The application of A. B. Watson doing business under the name of Crown Stage Co., for permission to extend its lines from Garden Grove to an intersection with its Santa Ana-Long Beach line, was granted. The report of the Orange County harbor commission was referred back for further examination, investigation and amendment. Tuesday, January 22, 1918, at 9:30 a.m., was fixed as the time for hearing testimony relating to the apportionment among the incorporated cities of Orange county of moneys received from said cities on account of fines and forfeitures for violation of the motor vehicle law. Earl L. Morris was appointed as horticultural commissioner of Orange county for the term of four years. The petition of Leo Borchard, et al., to vacate a portion of a street, and alleys, in Tract No. 46, in the 2nd supervisorial district, was set for hearing on Feb. 19, 1918, at 10 a.m., notice to be given in the Huntington FORMER RESIDENT OF COUNTY IS A GERMAN SPY Arrested in Arizona for Conspiring to Violate Neutrality Laws Charles F. Von Petersdorff, formerly of San Juan Capistrano, has been arrested at Tuscon upon a charge of violating the neutrality laws in that he was agent for Germans who planned to get hold of all the oil property in Mexico. Von Petersdorff lived at San Juan Capistrano for several months at one time having charge of the principal stove and of the postoffice there. He arrived in the mission town soon after the first insurrections in Mexico. He had valuable interests in Sinaloa on the west coast of Mexico, but his property was taken away from him by rebels, and he was run out of Mexico. He left San Juan Capistrano for Tucson in 1914. While at San Juan Capistrano, Von Petersdorff said that while in Bakersfield he became a major in the California national guard. He was a member of a lodge at Bakersfield that has none but American citizens as members. Concerning Von Petersdorff's arrest at Tucson a dispatch says: "Efforts of German interests to obtain a foothold in the Tampico oil fields of Mexico were disclosed by the arrest yesterday of Charles Frederick von Petersdorff, city engineer of Tucson. Von Petersdorff, appointed engineer last August, is charged with conspiracy to violate the neutrality of the United States. In his testimony before a United States commissioner, Von Petersdorff disclosed his connection with Franz Bopp, the German consul at San Francisco, convicted of conspiracy, and with Franz von Papen and Captain Boy-Ed. Von Petersdorff, who was born in Germany, and was a lieutenant in the Germany army, before coming to America, is at liberty on $3000 bond. In testimony before the commissioner Von Petersdorff admitted that in January, 1915, he received a letter from Bopp summoning him to San Francisco and enclosing a check for $50. Von Petersdorff went to San Francisco where he said Bopp made him..." les of Orange county or money received from said cities on account of fines and forfeitures for violation of the motor vehicle law. Earl L. Morris was appointed as horticultural commissioner of Orange county for the term of four years. The petition of Leo Borchard, et al., to vacate a portion of a street, and alleys, in Tract No. 46, in the 2nd supervisorial district, was set for hearing on Feb. 19, 1918, at 10 a.m., notice to be given in the Huntington Beach News, as required by law. The map of Tract No. 36 was accepted as the official plotting of said tract. A certificate showing result of election for exclusion of uninhabited territory from city of Newport Beach was received and filed, and said territory was ordered included in the 2nd supervisorial District. Huntington Beach judicial Twp., Talbert voting precinct, and Huntington Beach school district. A certificate of the election showing a majority for the disincorporation of the Anaheim-Yorba Storm Water Protection District was received and filed. Supervisor Finley was appointed as a committee of one to act in conjunction with Judge Thomas in preparing plans for the enlargement of the court room in Dept. No. 2 Superior court. Supervisor Struck was appointed as a committee of one to act in conjunction with the purchasing agent in providing for the building of a comfort station at the Orange county park. The purchasing agent was authorized to expend additional sum of $74.34 toward the purchase of a Ford ambulance. Plat of lawns in Fairhaven cemetery was approved. Sup. Leck was authorized to expend in excess of $500 for the improvement of Yorba-street-in-Tustin road district. The chairman was authorized to sign a contract and approve the bonds of the L. A. Paving company for the with Franz von Papen and Captain Boy-Ed. Von Petersdorff, who was born in Germany, and was a lieutenant in the Germany army, before coming to America, is at liberty on $3000 bond. "In testimony before the commissioner Von Petersdorff admitted that in January, 1915, he received a letter from Bopp summoning him to San Francisco and enclosing a check for $50. Von Petersdorff went to San Francisco where he said Bopp made him a proposition to go to Canada, ostensibly on a mining deal, and advancing him another $100. The German consul at Seattle, a man named Schulenberg, he said, gave him $500 and sent him to Vancouver. This check, according to the evidence, was made out under a fictitious Polish name. "Later, according to Von Petersdorff's testimony, he was sent from Seattle to New York. There he met Von Papen and Boy-Ed, but denies that he was employed by them. He admits he was supplied with $1000 by 'certain Germans' and sent to Tamico in an effort to obtain certain oil lands. Von Petersdorff sailed for the Mexican port, but found the lands were in possession of the rebel forces and returned to the United States by way of New Orleans." GAS COMPANY ASKS READJUSTMENT OF RATES Hearing Will be Heard Before the Railroad Commission Feb. 13 The Southern Counties Gas company has petitioned the state railroad commission "to establish reasonable rates" for gas served in twenty-seven communities of Southern California, including Anaheim, Santa Ana, Tustin, Orange, El Modena, Garden Grove, Placentia, Buena Park, Fullerton, La Habra and Brea in Orange county. For many years justice among many of this country's birth, and in many males, if not herds, rather than of maturing their prices for means discontinuing A census of the en by the food es the fact they have gone to me almost any other hand move back to the fa period, while fact remains that killed for real cates an increase from a source l and that the f on or sent back productive puri ANAHEIM GAZETTE That means, of course, that the gas company is going to make a fight for higher rates. Notices of the filing of the petition and of the date of hearing have been mailed to city officials of all of the incorporated cities concerned. The hearing of the petition to fix reasonable rates is to be heard before Railroad Commissioner Loveland in Room 205, Union League building, in Los Angeles, on Feb. 13, at 10 a.m. The petitioner is represented by Attorneys Hunsaker & Britt and Leroy M. Edwards, all of Los Angeles. The notices show no attorneys served with notices. That means that none of the cities concerned has filed any protest. It is expected that the proposal to raise rates will be brought up before the next meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce. Since the petition directly concerns franchise ordinances in nearly all of the incorporated cities served by the Southern Counties Gas company, it is also probable that a number of city attorneys will be instructed to appear at the hearing in Los Angeles to protect the rights of the cities. Four incorporated cities are numbered among those in which the company seeks an order "establishing reasonable rates." Those cities are Santa Ana, Orange, Anaheim and Fullerton. EUROPE LOOKING TO US It is probable that Europe for many years after the war will look to a great extent to America for its meat supply. Europe's herds and flocks are dwindling under war's demand faster than they can be replenished, according to reports issued by the U.S. If You Can't be a Soldier Be a Saver! Don't think that only the large sums are needed to win this war. Even your nickels and your dimes can be enlisted. Uncle Sam's Thrift Stamps give every man, woman and child the chance to do their bit for their country. A Thrift Stamp costs you 25c. When you have 16 Stamps, you exchange them, by paying a few cents more, for a $5 War Savings Stamp. Buy A War Savings Stamp Today. Wm. H. Houts, Anaheim, Cal. clinch bug. The Hessian fly costs us forty millions yearly, the cotton boll weevil, eight millions; the potato bug, eight millions; the army worm, fifteen millions, and even the small, destructive cabbage worm eats up five million dollars' worth of cabbage a year. The backbone of this difficulty could be broken if the country would protect the birds. First, by preventing the murder of birds on a gigantic scale for sport or for money making by those who shoot the birds to sell. Second by eliminating the cats that destroy the birds and do not destroy the mice and rats. ALIEN ENEMIES MUST REGISTER THEIR NAMES Must Call on City Marshal Kellenberger February 4 to 9, Inclusive The following instructions relative to the registration of alien enemies has been received by City Marshal Kellenberger. Los Angeles, Jan. 15, 1918. Chief of Police: Dear Sir:—You are hereby notified that the registration of German alien enemies is fixed within this district to commence at 6 a.m. on February 4, 1918, and to continue on each day successfully thereafter. EUROPE LOOKING TO US It is probable that Europe for many years after the war will look to a great extent to America for its meat supply. Europe's herds and flocks are dwindling under war's demand faster than they can be replenished, according to reports issued by the U.S. food administration for California. When the German army made the big advance into France and then retired it took with it all the cattle of France and Belgium it was able to obtain, amounting in all to about 1,800,000 head. It therefore seems safe to say that the cattle of Germany have been but little decreased in numbers by the war although it is extremely probable that the average weight per head has fallen off very considerably. In England the program now in operation seems to admit of but one conclusion; the sacrifice of the meat producing animals to the needs of the present moment and the encouragement of grain production. In the Napoleonic wars England was self-sustaining as to grain. In the Crimean war England produced five sixth of the cereals needed. In the present war England is producing only one-fifth, and has to rely upon importing the other four fifths. Some 2,400,000 acres of grass land of England has by compulsory measure been forced into grain production, thus reducing the pasturage and hay lands. The European condition seemingly admits of but one interpretation, and that is that the live stock and dairying problems after the war are to be left largely to the United States, while the allied countries of Europe are now being put upon a basis of grain production, with greatly depleted herds of food and dairying animals. Meantime the United States food administration has taken steps to conserve our flocks and herds and to increase their numbers. The stock breeders of the country show a disposition to cooperate with the government in this. For many years it has been a practice among many of the dairy people of this country to kill male calves at birth, and in many instances the females, if not needed to replenish the herds, rather than go to the expense of maturing them into veal. The high prices for meat have caused the virtu- KELLENBERGER WINS IN LONG DRAWN OUT SUIT Jury Denies the Claim of F. B. Kern For Damages for False Arrest Twice has a jury in the damage case brought by F. B. Kern against City Marshal Kellenberger failed to agree, but at the third trial, which ended Wednesday evening last, a verdict in favor of Kellenberger was returned after an hour's deliberation and two ballots taken. This case grew out of the arrest of Kern one Sunday morning in 1915, and his incarceration in the city basile for a period of something less than an hour. A dispute arose over a stolen bicycle which the police had rescued, and which Kern claimed had been stolen from him. Not being sat- CURIOUS HOLIDAY FACTS There is no national legal holiday in the United States. Massachusetts does not observe New Year's day as a legal holiday. Five Christian countries do not observe Christmas as a legal holiday. New Year's day is the only holiday observed throughout the world. Eleven different dates are observed as New Year's day in different parts of the world. International business will be interfered with by holidays or Sundays on 281 days in 1918, of these 261 days being holidays. This leaves only 84 days in which universal banking business is possible. November with 26 holidays in different parts of the world, leads the months. March with 19, has the fewest holl- commis-sitted that I a letter to San check for San Fran- made him Canada, osd advance German named Schu- $500 and his check was made name. In Petersent from he met denies him. He ad- $1000 by to Tam- tain oil for the lands label forces States by F RATES before the ob. 13 Gas com- me railroad reasonable twenty-seven California, Ana, Tus- grove, Berton, La county. WHY NOT SAVE THE FOOD WHICH INSECTS EAT? C. L. Marlatt, assistant chief of the bureau of entomology in the department of agriculture, gives facts on the cost of feeding our insects that ought to interest anybody. While we are told to economize in the use of grain, insects destroy millions upon millions in grain as part of their yearly diet. It costs at least one billion dollars a year to feed the insects. And determined action by government, with proper protection for birds, would eliminate ninety per cent of all this destruction. It costs the United States fifty million dollars yearly to feed its grass-hoppers, sixty millions to feed the agree, but at the third trial, which ended Wednesday evening last, a verdict in favor of Kellenberger was returned after an hour's deliberation and two ballots taken. This case grew out of the arrest of Kern one Sunday morning in 1915, and his incarceration in the city battile for a period of something less than an hour. A dispute arose over a stolen bicycle which the police had rescued, and which Kern claimed had been stolen from him. Not being satisfied with the proof offered by Kern the marshal refused to turn the bike over to him, whereupon a heated dispute arose. Kellenberger finally arrested Kern on a charge of disturbing the peace, and with the assistance of Deputy Marshal Phil Germann, placed him in jail. He was released within an hour, but feeling that he had been unjustly arrested and deprived of his liberty, he brought suit against both officers, claiming damages to the amount of $16,450. In the first trail Germann was acquitted, as it was shown that he was acting only on orders from his superior officer. The jury disagree dregarding the claim against the chief, and in the second trial the result was the same. In the third trial, which ended on Wednesday the jury stood nine to three in favor of Kellenberger. Deputy County Clerk Backs polled the jury at the request of the losing attorney, George Keefer. The jurors who agreed to the verdict were A. A. Lee, James McMillan, Waldo Leihy, John Schmidt, H. L. Harding, Frank Logan, H. A. Miller, J. W. T. Kimball and Walter Lamb. Those disagreeing with the verdict were H. W. Kiser, E. E. Cooley and J. O. Harper. In a civil case a verdict of nine jurors is sufficient. Kellenberger was defended by Attorneys H. G. Ames and A. E. Koepsel. Eleven different dates are observed as New Year's day in different parts of the world. International business will be interfered with by holidays or Sundays on 281 days in 1918, of these 261 days being holidays. This leaves only 84 days in which universal banking business is possible. November with 26 holidays in different parts of the world, leads the months. March with 19, has the fewest holidays. Brazil leads the nations of the world with 85 holidays. The United States comes next with 54. UNENVIABLE CONDITION OF DRAFT DODGERS Slackers Who Fled to Mexico Paying Dearly for Their Cowardice Declaring that the conditions surrounding the American slacker colony at Ensenada and Mazatlan, Mexico, are much worse even than have been reported, Emil J. Blum, 25 years old and his brother, Frdinand Blum, 22 years old, pleaded guilty in Judge Trippet's department of the United States district court to a charge of violating the draft law. They are the first of the colony to face a court of justice, so far as reported. The young men, who are members of a prominent Santa Monica family, left this country on May 23, last, two weeks before the day of registration for the draft.. They went to Ensenada, where they joined the colony of American slackers, but finding things there not to their taste, came back to this country and registered at Santa Monica on December 15. They declared court that they had registered with the American consul at Mazatlan, but that the record had been lost some- OFFICE PHONES HOME 753-1 SUNSET 341-J. Res. 125 E. Broadway, Cor. Claudina RESIDENCE PHONES PACIFIC 341-M HOME 753-2 J. W. TRUXAW, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON HOURS 11-12; 2-4; 7-8 GERMAN AMERICAN BANK BLDG. Cor. Center and Los Angeles Sts. 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. 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The defendants had sufficient money to meet their personal wants, but declared that they were sick of the situation before they had been there any length of time and endeavored several times to leave, but could not do so. ORANGE SHOW TO BE A GREAT SUCCESS With Only Month Before Opening of Exposition, Officials are Confident With only a month before the opening of the Eighth National Orange Show, to be held at San Bernardino February 20 to 28, the exposition is an assured success, announces F. M. Renfro, general manager. Citrus fruit districts from Imperial county to Tulare county will participate, and Florida is now sending a big display of by-products. Most of the leading citrus fruit communities in California have reserved space for their participation, and artists are already at work preparing the gorgeous scenes and designs which are to make the exposition a garden of California fruits and flowers. Entertainment features are to be on more elaborate lines than ever before, and in addition to the citrus fruit exposition, the management is arranging educational sections where the citrus fruit growers and others will be able to study the latest farm implements, automobiles and supplies. The government has started the equipment there of the food conservation demonstration department. Lend Your Money to Uncle Sam You will help him and make money for yourself. $4.12 loaned today will amount to $5.00 in five years. Uncle Sam gives you 4 per cent interest figured every three months Lend Your Money to Uncle Sam You will help him and make money for yourself. $4.12 loaned today will amount to $5.00 in five years. Uncle Sam gives you 4 per cent interest figured every three months Buy War-Savings Stamps. On Sale Everywhere. F. C. Edmiston, Anaheim, Cal. 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