anaheim-gazette 1918-02-07

The Weekly Gazette. ESTABLISHED 1870 Henry Kuchel, Editor and Proprietor SUBSCRIPTION PER YEAR ... $1.50 SIX MONTHS ... $1.00 THREE MONTHS ... $ .50 Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS (By an Innocent Bystander) Citizens of Orange county are more or less anxiously looking forward to the beginning of the open season for candidates for county office, the accepted time being close upon us now, and from this date to the holding of the August primaries there will be much wandering to and fro of those whose announced desire is to save the country and sacrifice themselves for the sake of the dear people. As all but two of the offices below Superior Judge will be thrown open for the sweepstake race, there is a strong possibility that a complete new set of officials may be elected to fill the places, but as it is generally conceded that most of the incumbents are slated to succeed themselves and that all of them are honorable and efficient men, it would seem to a man up a tree that any attempts of a rank outsider to break in on nothing better than the excuse that he needs the money would mean simply a waste of effort. There will be several Richmonds in the field for some of the offices however, for already rumor has it that no fewer than three residents of the Fourth supervisor district are ready and willing to side-track Supervisor Edwards is a son of pioneer parents of Orange county, and his record for honesty and efficiency is second to no man. He is a plain man of the people; and is just the man the voters are looking for to fill the important office of county clerk. The office is one requiring capacity as well as entailing a large amount of labor and to place an inefficient man in the office is something the voters of the county will certainly not countenance for one instant. Edwards is the man pre-eminently qualified to fulfill the duties of this important office. IMPORTANT NOTICE Somebody is going to tell on you if you don't pay your income tax. Congress has fixed it so that somebody must tell, whether he wants to or not. One section of the war income tax law, exhaustively comprehensive in scope, requires every person, without exception, and every corporation, partnership, association, and insurance company, in whatever capacity acting, who paid $800 or more to another person, corporation, partnership, association, or insurance company, as interest rent, salaries, wages, premiums, annuities, compensation, remuneration, emoluments, or other fixed or determinable gains, profits and income, to report the name and address of the person, corporation, etc., to whom the payment was made, together with the amount of the/payment, to the commissioner of Internal Revenue at Washington, using a form prescribed for the purpose—Form 1099, now to be had from all collectors' offices. The forms must be filled out and returned on or before March 1, 1918, accompanied by Form 1096, which is a letter of transmittal and affidavit certifying the accuracy of Form 1099. FREE ENTERTAINMENT all of them are honorable and efficient men, it would seem to a man up a tree that any attempts of a rank outsider to break in on nothing better than the excuse that he needs the money would mean simply a waste of effort. There will be several Richmonds in the field for some of the offices however, for already rumor has it that no fewer than three residents of the Fourth supervisor district are ready and willing to side-track Supervisor Struck and are busily engaged in trench work preparatory to the opening of the real campaign. In the supervisor fight there will be three prizes for the winners, as Supervisors Struck, Leck and Talbert are the men who will either be replaced or will continue to fill the positions as representatives of the Second, Fourth and Fifth supervisoral districts respectively. All of these are first class men and have made good records and neither of them may have real opposition when the final test comes, but it is safe betting that there will be others who will want the places and so a scrap may be expected in all three cases. So far as the office of County Treasurer is concerned the man who beats the incumbent will know he has had a race, for Treasurer Joplin is a seasoned veteran and has ere now upset the calculations of the wise ones, and from present prospects he appears fully competent to come back and repeat. Treasurer Joplin's only announced opponent is Cal D. Lester, former auditor of Orange county, who was defeated by W. C. Jerome at the last election and who is now using economy camouflage as the argument most likely to strengthen his cause before the proletariat. Sheriff C. E. Jackson will ask for re-election and against him so far is Sam Jernigan, present city marshal of Santa Ana, a quadrennial near-candidate for the place. There would seem to be scant room for argument in this case for Jackson is one of the best men who ever held the office of Sheriff in Orange county. So far as publicly announced there will be two candidates for the office of County Clerk, N. T. Edwards, the incumbent having decided to offer his services, and J. C. Metzgar, a Santa Ana man, who for several years has been secretary of the Santa Ana chamber of commerce and also secretary of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of the county. Edwards is one of the best known business men FREE ENTERTAINMENT AT THE HIGH SCHOOL Number of Movie Stars Will be Present and Contribute Acts Do not miss the free entertainment to be given by the Anaheim Knights of Pythias Red Cross committee at the Anaheim high school auditorium, Friday, Feb. 8, at 8 o'clock, p.m. An elaborate program has been arranged including prominent Los Angeles and local Red Cross speakers. The Triangle Film studio will contribute several entertaining acts, including Fritsy Ridgeway, J. Barney Shey, Ruby Stonehouse, J. Webster Dill, William Kern, Thornton Edwards, Louise Hand, William Desmond, Wm. V. Mong, Claire McDowell, Buck Jones and others, including several of the exceptionally well known stars. This entertainment will be given free. You can not afford to miss this. Come and bring your friends. Prof. F. R. Yorke, teacher of physics in the high school gave an interesting lecture to the students on the great pyramids, one day last week. Mrs. Stephen McPherson of Orange, her daughter, Mrs. Walter Viceregg of Hollywood, and Mrs. Bessie McPherson of Los Angeles were guests of Mrs. Helmsen on Thursday. Worth Bailey, son of Dr. L. C. Balley of Berkeley, has joined the aviation corps at San Diego. Worth was a student at the agricultural college at Davis when he heard the call of his country. He graduated with honors at the aviation school at Berkeley, and is now at San Diego ready to go into active service. County Sealer of Weights and Measures George McPhee was over from Santa Ana yesterday on business connected with his office. George Hatfield of Placentia, who has been in the training camps for men who ever held the office of Sheriff in Orange county. So far as publicly announced there will be two candidates for the office of County Clerk, N. T. Edwards, the incumbent having decided to offer his services, and J. C. Metzgar, a Santa Ana man, who for several years has been secretary of the Santa Ana chamber of commerce and also secretary of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of the county. Edwards is one of the best known business men in the county, having been in business in Orange for many years, was postmaster for nine years and a member of the county highway commission for some time, taking the place of D. C. Pixley on that gentleman's resignation. He was appointed to fill out the unexpired term of County Clerk of Orange county when W. B. Williams resigned to enter the services of the First National bank of Santa Ana, Sept. 11th of last year. Mr. Edwards as may be understood by this brief outline of his past business activities, is eminently qualified to fill the office of county clerk, although it may later be suggested that he doesn't need the money, which fact cannot successfully be controverted, as Mr. Edwards is more than fairly well fixed in a financial way, his friends advancing this as an assurance that he will have all the more time to attend to the affairs of his office. His appointment by the board of supervisors to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of W. B. Williams, met with approval on the part of voters throughout the county, for he is regarded as the best man in the county to fill the place vacated by his predecessor. He is eminently qualified to fill the duties of his office, and that he will be triumphantly re-elected leaves room for scant doubt. Nels Davis when he heard the call of his country. He graduated with honors at the aviation school at Berkeley, and is now at San Diego ready to go into active service. County Sealer of Weights and Measures George McPhee was over from Santa Ana yesterday on business connected with his office. George Hatfield of Placentia, who has been in the training camps for some months, returned home the first of the week, having been discharged after a medical examination. Adolph De Gryse returned home from the east Tuesday evening. He left here several months ago, first stopping in New Mexico where he worked in the mines, but later going to Wisconsin and Illinois. He is glad to get away from the blizzard swept north and find himself once more in sunny California. Postmaster Ahlborn is registering the alien enemies this week, having received his blanks yesterday morning. He estimates the number in this region as somewhere near thirty. The Anaheim Elks are making big preparations to entertain District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler Moulton of San Diego when he makes his first official visit to the local lodge next Wednesday night. Several candidates will be put through their paces, and a banquet will follow the session. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Miller have recently received a letter from their son Edwin, who is one of the Sammies in France. Edwin has been a pneumonia victim, but was recovering when his letter was written. The Fullerton Oldarions to drill tools lost in two strings of casing each well prepared by work. It is trouble will be enforced by the lost tools be made at both wells in the China been attracting attention since started cided to enlarger deeper. The company 12½ inch hole drilled 15½ before going showing of color a very encouraging ers. Despite the show high cost of drilling and Oil Co. is going its work on its site in the Whittier Ferry They have and first wells drilled No. 5, and it has out from the stair The well will be sery No. 32 is being ter and No. 34 is 3460. Things are more Murphy lease than strings of tools open 26 is redrilling wi At No. 31 it has to discontinue a by the pipe. No drilling difficultly fish out some 8½ No. 34 is being re- OIL FIELD NOTES By ELLWOOD J. MUNGER Development work in the great Southern oil field is making great progress despite the fact that the pipe situation is growing more intense every day. At the present time development work is being seriously hampered in that work commenced a few months ago being held up pending the arrival of pipe. Many operators have wells under way that there is a question as to whether they will be able to complete them or not. All oil well building supplies are now at the option of the government and the opportunity for new capital and the wildcatter to enter the oil industry is not encouraging. Nevertheless the entire Southern field is teeming with activity and an effort is being made to develop oil where ever the possibilities are at all promising. There is perhaps no industry any where today that is making the progress that the oil industry is making under the conditions it has to work under. The war has taught the oil companies economy in the broadest sense. Everywhere turnout the field the old derricks are being torn down to be used in new development work. Every foot of pipe is being annealed, straightened, and worked over and made to take the place of new material that is being conserved. The junk pile of the oil field has become a thing of the past. There is nothing going to waste in the oil fields today. The Amalgamated Oil company is meeting with a very encouraging feature in the drilling of its Huntington well near Los Angeles. The depth of the well is now 2900 feet and at this depth a very encouraging showing of being 3712 feet. No. 35 is being tested for water at 3328. At No. 36 the tools are operating in brown shale at 3590. No. 37 is drilling at 3570 and No. 38 at 3300. No. 39 is standing cemented at 3300. No. 40 is drilling at 2266 and No. 42 is down 2188 feet and going very nicely. At Whittier the Standard has No. 50 drilling in the oil sand at 2255. No. 53 has run up against pipe trouble at 1850 and is swedging casing. No. 54 is drilling in brown shale at 1244. No. 55 has 965 feet of hole and No. 56 has 800. The formation of No. 57 is showing very hard, so hard that only a few feet a day can be made. The formation is an extremely hard gray sand. Keen dissapointment attends the continued pumping and testing out of the Standard's Coyote 2-9 well in the Brea field. This well was drilled to a depth of 4254 feet and at times showed fairly good. At least a 200 bbl well was expected. However the continued pumping of the well shows nothing but water with a little occasional colorings. The well will probably mark the end of this company's development work in the Brea field. From all appearances it looks like the Standard's latest big find on the Baldwin property at Montebello is good for about 8000 bbls. The well was completed at a depth of 4000 feet and showed up very strong before being finished. No setled production figures are available early this week, but the well is starting off on gusher proportions. Drilling has been resumed at No. 4 the depth being 2465. No. 5 is being tested for water at 1770 as is also No. 8 at 1990. No. 9 stands cemented at 2135. No. 10 has been drilled to a depth of 2125 and is waiting on pipe. Pipe trouble continues to be the bane of a number of the operators during the past week and the West Coast Oil company is coming in for a large share of the difficulty. At No. 63 pipe troubles have taken on a serious stage and it appears that it will be necessary to do some side tracking. At No. 68 trouble with the pipe parting is the cause of considerable delay in the work. The West Coast's No. 74 is drilling with good results at 2150. The fate of the $90,000 Strain well at Placentia is very uncertain at the present time. Repeated cementings have not succeeded in shutting off the water and it apears that a great amount of additional money and material will have to be expended in order to satisfy the state mining bureau. Whether or not the owner will go ahead and do this work is not known at present. An expenditure of several thousand dollars more might make an oil well out of the property and it might not. This well has been in the process of drilling for the past six years and is reported to have cost its owner more than $90,000. The Petroleum Co., whose property enjoys the distinction of producing the cleanest oil in the local field is being attacked by underground water. A few months ago the company noticed water showing in its No. 1 well. In the R straightened and worked over and made to take the place of new material that is being conserved. The junk pile of the oil field has become a thing of the past. There is nothing going to waste in the oil fields today. The Amalgamated Oil company is meeting with a very encouraging feature in the drilling of its Huntington well near Los Angeles. The depth of the well is now 2900 feet and at this depth a very encouraging showing of oil has been noticed. The finishing depth of the well will probably run close to 3100 feet. The Amalgamated in the Brea field have Hualde No. 2 down 3347 and No. 5 drilling at 1765. On the Anaheim lease they have abandoned the first well drilled on the property. This well was drilled to a depth of 3140 when the field was first opened some six years ago. Of late years the water developed so strongly in the well that it ceased to be of any value as an oil well. At Durfee in the Montebello field the Amalgamated has its first test well down 510 feet. A change was made from the standard tools to the rotary during the past week in order to take care of the sandy and caving formation, and good time is being made since the change. The Brea Canyon Oil company drilling on property north of Brea has two wells drilling. No. 14 is now 3475 feet an dis showing up exceptionally well for the locality. No. 29 is at 3500 feet an dgoing along nicely. The Columbia Oil Producing Co. is now confining its development operations to the drilling of two wells in the old Olinda field. No. 28 is at 2875 and going good. No. 29 has reached the 3100 foot mark. At Brea the Columbia have No. 7 on the Orange lease drilling at 2125, and No. 8 now has 450 feet of rotary hole. The formation thus far in No. 8 is very had making drilling quite slow. The Fullerton Oil Co. is making preparations to drill by five strings of tools lost in two wells here. A couple of strings of casing are being pulled in each well preparatory to the drilling by work. It is believed that no trouble will be encountered in drilling by the lost tools and new hole will be made at both wells in a short time. The Gold Seal Petroleum Co. whose good for about 8000 bbls. The well was completed at a depth of 4000 feet and showed up very strong before being finished. No setled production figures are available early this week, but the well is starting off on gusher proportions. Drilling has been resumed at No. 4 the depth being 2465. No. 5 is being tested for water at 1770 as is also No. 8 at 1990. No. 9 stands cemented at 2135. No. 10 has been drilled to a depth of 2125 and is waiting on pipe. No. 11 is drilling and shows 2511 feet. No. 12 is making hole at 1900 feet. On the Temple lease the Standard has No. 4 standing cemented at 1207. No. 5 is drilling with the rotary and has over a thousand feet of hole. The Tri State company is about to establish a deep drilling record in the Brea field. This company's well is now making hole at 5475, with the condition of the hole the best. At this depth the oil sand is showing good strong colors and the courage of the owners is still running very high. At this depth the tools are operating in 3 inch casing. Work has been underway on this well for the past seven years and the project represents a vast sum of money. The backers are entitled to an oil well for their time and money. The Union Oil Co. is doing a tremendous amount of development work in the local field at the present time and is getting excellent results from the work underway on all its properties. The company's pay roll is now the largest in its history and a careful estimate of the expenditures for labor alone in the local field places the figure at considerably better than half a million. Hard luck hits the big operators as well as the smaller operator from time to time. This week the Union is bearing the brunt of ill luck that is a part of the oil game. At Bastanchury No. 5 the jars unscrewed and left a stem and swedge in the hole at a depth of 4469. Ot No. 6 washing over pipe is underway, and an attempt to remove some of the washed over pipe resulted in the pipe parting. At Bixby 3443 feet of hole has been drilled and things have run along very nicely until early in the week a bad fishing job resulted. The well is now shut down waiting on proper fishing tools. The job is a very difficult one and the Union will be very fortunate in getting the tool out of the hole The Fullerton Oil Co. is making preparations to drill by five strings of tools lost in two wells here. A couple of strings of casing are being pulled in each well preparatory to the drilling by work. It is believed that no trouble will be encountered in drilling by the lost tools and new hole will be made at both wells in a short time. The Gold Seal Petroleum Co. whose well in the Chino canyon district has been attracting considerable attention since started a year ago has decided to enlarge the hole before going deeper. The company has 2200 feet of 12½ inch hole drilled and will make it 15½ before going ahead. Occasional showing of colors has already been a very encouraging factor to the owners. Despite the shortage of pipe and the high cost of drilling supplies the Standard Oil Co. is going right ahead with its work on its seven different leases in the Whittler Fullerton Brea field. They have anaboned one of the first wells drilled on the Emory lease, No. 5, and it has practically played out from the standpoint of production. The well will be salvaged heavily. Emery No. 32 is being tested out for water and No. 34 is standing cemented at 3460. Things are moving rapidly on the Murphy lease these days with ten strings of tools operating. Murphy No. 26 is redrilling with the rotary at 4230. At No. 31 it has been found necessary to discontinue a fishing job and drill by the pipe. No. 33 has also some drilling difficulties and an attempt to fish out some 8¼ pipe is under way. No. 34 is being redrilled the depth now At Bixby 3443 feet of hole has been drilled and things have run along very nicely until early in the week a bad fishing job resulted. The well is now shut down waiting on proper fishing tools. The job is a very difficult one and the Union will be very fortunate in getting the tools out of the hole. Drilling operations for the week on the Graham Loftus have resulted in a 100 bbl. well at No. 42. No. 43 is drilling at 3100 feet and looking very good. No. 49 has been shifted to the standard tools and the hole is now 1630 feet with the cement drilled out and new hole being made. No. 51 is redrilling at 1240. Sucecs is crowning the Union's efforts on the Naranjal property. No. 6 has been finished a.a depth of 3220. The well is on the beam and doing 250 bbls. No. 7 has been cemented at 3100 and No. 8 is drilling in the conglomerate at 2832, and despite the hard formation is making good time. No. 9 is building rig. No. 10 is rotating in the conglomerate at 1100 feet. No. 11 has a compelted rig and No. 12 is being rigged up preparatory for drilling. At Montebello the Union has five strings of tools running and field superintendent Joseph Rupp is making a great showing for his company. La Merced No. 2 has been cemented at 2248. No. 3 is drilling in the oil sand at 2486 and is showing strong. No. 4 is also in the sand with 2475 feet of hole. No. 6 after being exhaustively The percentage of water has increased until it has been found necessary to cement the well and shut off the water. A successful cementing has been made and a recent test of the well reveals not water. The company will keep a close watch on all its wells and give the water problem earnest attention in the future. The Santa Fe Oil Co. drilling in the Olinda field announce the completion of well No. 80 at a depth of 3270 feet. This well was drilled with standard tools and required only seven months to drill it. The well is a record for this field and reflects great credit on the veteran oil operator Jake Collins. No. 78 is drilling at 2789 and is in the shale. No. 81 is drilling at 2600 and is putting in 8¼ casing. No. 82 has passed a water test. No. 83 is rigged up and ready for drilling. The foundation for a rig has been put in at No. 84. Drilling by the Santa Fe in the Pomona valley on the Santous ranch has progressed to 2950 feet. No oil sand has as yet been struck, although the operators expect to get into the sand at any time now. The sand seemingly dips deep in this locality. Up in Whittler, it is said, the people are so religious that if a man wants to use his automobile on Sunday he cranks it up Saturday in order that he may not violate the commandment prohibiting labor on the Sabbath day. CLASSIFIED WANTED—Permanent position on ranch by married man 38. California experience. Write or phone G. A. Gilkison, Pomona, Calif. or phone 8432 Pomona. FOR SALE—Irish Seed Potatoes, Seed Sweet Potatoes. T. F. Morgan, Pac. Phones 139 and 240-J. Home Phone 1281. 1-31-1 FOR SALE—Fine shelving, counters, tables, stools and fixtures, suitable for any mercantile business, less than half price. Apply 221 East Broadway. 1-17-tf FOR SALE—"Sweet" and "Sour" Root Valencia orange trees; choice high buds, one and a half years old; very thrifty trees. Sweet stock raised from seeds of largest orange trees in Calif. E. W. Pyne, 4 mi. N. E. of Olive. Phone Placentia 23-J 3. 823 FOR SALE—Beautiful orange trees, 2 years old. Near Buena Park. Phone Home 1863. John Gustafsen. WANTED—25 shares of stock of German American Bank. Will pay $145 per share. Adolph Thomas. Dr. G. A. Neth Chiropractor and General Drugless Practitioner is occupying Suite 4, Cassou Bldg., Anaheim. If you need my knowledge and skill, come; I need your money. If you have no money I am here to help you just the same. THRIFT STAMP SALES The sale of thrift stamps and war savings certificates sold in Orange In the Ranks. House Manager is of the army that have democracy in more than 11,000,000 American homes or the duration of aged themselves to eating men by the cook and serve food. The war, and these to win it. America food to Europe. Of hold out if we Only certain foods can be shipped—those that pack the most food value into the smallest shipping space. These foods are wheat, meat, fats, sugar. We cannot eat them and send them too. We cannot eat them and send others. We must send these foods, and in order to do that we must eat other foods ourselves. The American House Manager will see to it that no food comes into her home that does not do its full duty under her management in winning the war. CHIROPRACTOR AND GENERAL Drugless Practitioner is occupying Suite 4, Cassou Bldg., Anaheim. If you need my knowledge and skill, come; I need your money. If you have no money I am here to help you just the same. THRIFT STAMP SALES The sale of thrift stamps and war savings certificates sold in Orange county up to Saturday night are reported by Chairman McFadden as follows: Santa Ana ... $8,200.00 Orange ... 1,425.57 Huntington Beach ... 549.50 Tustin ... 164.37 Garden Grove ... 2,391.94 Balboa ... 131.37 Brea ... 129.50 Buena Park ... 104.57 El Modena ... 91.15 El Toro ... 14.86 Gloryetta ... 2.75 Harper ... 86.90 Irvine ... 24.25 Laguna Beach ... 104.89 La Habra ... 14.64 Los Alamitos ... 26.47 Newport Beach ... 256.91 Olive ... 10.12 Placentia ... 15.10 San Juan Capistrano ... 45.75 Seal Beach ... 17.48 Stanton ... 27.75 Sunset Beach ... 4.62 Westminster ... 57.50 Yorba Linda ... 51.48 Anaheim ... 3,504.59 Fullerton ... 2,078.64 $19,432.49 REPORT OF FLOOD CONTROL ENGINEERS Acting under authority of the chairmen of the boards of supervisors of the counties of San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange, the Tri Counties Reforestation committee has entered into an agreement with F. H. Olmsted, chair man, A. L. Sonderegger and W. K. Barnard to act as a board of engineers and John Quinton to act as consulting engineer to prepare a preliminary report of the conditions existing on the Santa Ana river and its tributaries for the purpose of securing the cooperation of the federal waterways commission in making comprehensive plans for flood control and conservation of water on this watershed. The board of engineers expect THE GAZETTE OFFICE is equipped with an up-to-date JOB department. Our work is first and our prices right. Let give you figures on your. We guarantee a good at the lowest price possible. JOB PRINTING PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. Malcolm C. Martin, Pastor Services next Sunday conducted by Rev. C. B. Hatch of Los Angeles. Morning sermon at 11:00 o'clock. Subject: "God—A Patient Creditor." Evening sermon at 7:30 o'clock; Subject "First Come, First Served." Sunday school with classes for all ages, 9:45 a.m. Y. P. S. C. E., Senior and Intermediate at 6:30 p.m. A cordial welcome for all. H. P. Noll, Charlie Goff, Wm. Schumacher and Joe Wagner attended the dedication of the beautiful new Elk's home at Glendale Tuesday night. Noll was one of the speakers and, it is said, he invited all present to attend the dedication of Anaheim's new Elk home some time in the near future. The Anaheim National bank has received the Liberty bonds subscribed through it and all persons who have paid for them can now secure them. The bank also has a supply of thrift stamps and war savings certificates for sale. Help your government by investing in them.