anaheim-gazette 1918-07-18

NEW INDUSTRY SPRINGS UP IN SOUTHLAND VAST DEPOSITS OF POTASH BEING MINED AT SEARLES LAKE, SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA WILL SUPPLY ALL AMERICA'S NEEDS WITH THIS VALUABLE PRODUCT When the colossal struggle of the nations is over and the great potassium deposits in and about Strasfurt, Germany, are again released upon the world commercially, the gigantic interests in Europe which formerly monopolized the output and distribution of potassium products, particularly those desired for explosives and for fertilizers, will be met with American competition coming largely from operations at Searles Lake, in the northwestern corner of San Bernardino county, where intensive development work is now in progress. Southern California industry which in this respect is assuming mammoth proportions, will rise up and give the answer to the world's demand for what is known commercially as potassium chloride. For the great enterprise which has for its center an arid corner of the desert isolated from civilization by vast stretches of shifting sand and leagues of waste, is now not only producing enough of this commodity for the needs of the government up to 70 tons a day, and the average daily output at the present time is now at that mark. In 1918 work was started on the second unit, and this is expected to be ready for operation within three or four months. The million dollars expended thus far does not include the three years of experimental work, which, naturally, was of a very costly nature, and it will be readily understood that, owing to the war, construction costs are vastly more than under normal conditions. In addition to the manufacturing plant at Trona, the company has also erected 30 dwelling houses for families, several large dormitories for single men, a central concrete building for a kitchen, dining rooms and clubrooms, and other necessary buildings. The plans for this year include the erection of 15 more cottages for families, two more dormitories to accommodate 60 single men, an ice and refrigerating plant, a store building, recreation hall and a school house of two rooms. This program will involve the expenditure of about $65,000. The company obtains its water for domestic and manufacturing purposes from two sources, which provide an adequate supply. Water is brought from the mountain springs through pipe lines varying from 8 to 15 miles, while a pumping plant is located about six miles northeast of the plant. The process now used for the recovery of potash from Searles Lake consists of pumping the Searles Lake brine into huge evaporators and which when left standing for a sufficient time allows the draining off of the liquid from the crystals which form on the sides and bottom of the tanks. This is then sufficiently pure for shipment to the seaboard refinery for the finishing process. True it is that KCl is on the job, and when the war is over and peace is declared and the only competition brought up to 70 tons a day, and the average daily output at the present time is now at that mark. In 1918 work was started on the second unit, and this is expected to be ready for operation within three or four months. The million dollars expended thus far does not include the three years of experimental work, which, naturally, was of a very costly nature, and it will be readily understood that, owing to the war, construction costs are vastly more than under normal conditions. In addition to the manufacturing plant at Trona, the company has also erected 30 dwelling houses for families, several large dormitories for single men, a central concrete building for a kitchen, dining rooms and clubrooms, and other necessary buildings. The plans for this year include the erection of 15 more cottages for families, two more dormitories to accommodate 60 single men, an ice and refrigerating plant, a store building, recreation hall and a school house of two rooms. This program will involve the expenditure of about $65,000. The company obtains its water for domestic and manufacturing purposes from two sources, which provide an adequate supply. Water is brought from the mountain springs through pipe lines varying from 8 to 15 miles, while a pumping plant is located about six miles northeast of the plant. The process now used for the recovery of potash from Searles Lake consists of pumping the Searles Lake brine into huge evaporators and which when left standing for a sufficient time allows the draining off of the liquid from the crystals which form on the sides and bottom of the tanks. This is then sufficiently pure for shipment to the seaboard refinery for the finishing process. True it is that KCl is on the job, and when the war is over and peace is declared and the only competition brought up to 70 tons a day, and the average daily output at the present time is now at that mark. In 1918 work was started on the second unit, and this is expected to be ready for operation within three or four months. The million dollars expended thus far does not include the three years of experimental work, which, naturally, was of a very costly nature, and it will be readily understood that, owing to the war, construction costs are vastly more than under normal conditions. In addition to the manufacturing plant at Trona, the company has also erected 30 dwelling houses for families, several large dormitories for single men, a central concrete building for a kitchen, dining rooms and clubrooms, and other necessary buildings. The plans for this year include the erection of 15 more cottages for families, two more dormitories to accommodate 60 single men, an ice and refrigerating plant, a store building, recreation hall and a school house of two rooms. This program will involve the expenditure of about $65,000. The company obtains its water for domestic and manufacturing purposes from two sources, which provide an adequate supply. Water is brought from the mountain springs through pipe lines varying from 8 to 15 miles, while a pumping plant is located about six miles northeast of the plant. The process now used for the recovery of potash from Searles Lake consists of pumping the Searles Lake brine into huge evaporators and which when left standing for a sufficient time allows the draining off of the liquid from the crystals which form on the sides and bottom of the tanks. This is then sufficiently pure for shipment to the seaboard refinery for the finishing process. True it is that KCl is on the job, and when the war is over and peace is declared and the only competition brought up to 70 tons a day, and the average daily output at the present time is now at that mark. In 1918 work was started on the second unit, and this is expected to be ready for operation within three or four months. The million dollars expended thus far does not include the three years of experimental work, which, naturally, was of a very costly nature, and it will be readily understood that, owing to the war, construction costs are vastly more than under normal conditions. In addition to the manufacturing plant at Trona, the company has also erected 30 dwelling houses for families, several large dormitories for single men, a central concrete building for a kitchen, dining rooms and clubrooms, and other necessary buildings. The plans for this year include the erection of 15 more cottages for families, two more dormitories to accommodate 60 single men, an ice and refrigerating plant, a store building, recreation hall and a school house of two rooms. This program will involve the expenditure of about $65,000. The company obtains its water for domestic and manufacturing purposes from two sources, which provide an adequate supply. Water is brought from the mountain springs through pipe lines varying from 8 to 15 miles, while a pumping plant is located about six miles northeast of the plant. The process now used for the recovery of potash from Searles Lake consists of pumping the Searles Lake brine into huge evaporators and which when left standing for a sufficient time allows the draining off of the liquid from the crystals which form on the sides and bottom of the tanks. This is then sufficiently pure for shipment to the seaboard refinery for the finishing process. True it is that KCl is on the job, and when the war is over and peace is declared and the only competition brought up to 70 tons a day, and the average daily output at the present time is now at that mark. In 1918 work was started on the second unit, and this is expected to be ready for operation within three or four months. The million dollars expended thus far does not include the three years of experimental work, which, naturally, was of a very costly nature, and it will be readily understood that, owing to the war, construction costs are vastly more than under normal conditions. In addition to the manufacturing plant at Trona, the company has also erected 30 dwelling houses for families, several large dormitories for single men, a central concrete building for a kitchen, dining rooms and clubrooms, and other necessary buildings. The plans for this year include the erection of 15 more cottages for families, two more dormitories to accommodate 60 single men, an ice and refrigerating plant, a store building, recreation hall and a school house of two rooms. This program will involve the expenditure of about $65,000. The company obtains its water for domestic and manufacturing purposes from two sources, which provide an adequate supply. Water is brought from the mountain springs through pipe lines varying from 8 to 15 miles, while a pumping plant is located about six miles northeast of the plant. The process now used for the recovery of potash from Searles Lake consists of pumping the Searles Lake brine into huge evaporators and which when left standing for a sufficient time allows the draining off of the liquid from the crystals which form on the sides and bottom of the tanks. This is then sufficiently pure for shipment to the seaboard refinery for the finishing process. 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, r uA_LTTLOSSError , r uA_LTTLOSSError , r uA_LTTLOSSError , r uA_LTTLOSSError , r uA_LTTLOSSError Southern California industry which in this respect is assuming mammoth proportions, will rise up and give the answer to the world's demand for what is known commercially as potassium chloride. For the great enterprise which has for its center an arid corner of the desert isolated from civilization by vast stretches of shifting sand and leagues of waste, is now not only producing enough of this commodity for the needs of the government in munitions making and for the basic elements of the fertilizers that will go on the lands to bring production up to the maximum and thus aid in winning the war, but it the same time is providing facilities for an output sufficient for a world supply. After the war it is expected that German interests and undoubtedly the imperial government, if that is what it shall be still called at the conclusion of costilities, will control it—will attempt to restock depleted treasuries with high priced potassium. American capital and efforts will prevent the Strassfurt products from assuming for a second time a monopoly of this business. The California Trona Company, the title holding subsidiary of the American Trona Corporation, was recently granted clear title to 3320 acres of potash lands at Searles Lake. This decision marked the conclusion of years of litigation over claims, in which a San Francisco attorney was involved, and which caused clashes between armed expeditions into the desert and at least one fatality. There is a total of about 15,000 acres in potash bearing lands. Another concern, the San Bernardino Borax Mining Company, holds over 2000 acres, and the government is planning to lease the remainder to other concerns. With one unit in operation and a second almost completed, the American Trona Corporation has expended for its present facilities more than $1,000,000, according to official figures, and the company is continuing its extensions so that plant costs within another year will mount to higher totals. Present production is now about seventy tons daily, and to date the first unit has produced and shipped 26,000 tons of potash salts. The potash as taken from the Trona plant is not commercially pure, but is shipped to the refinery at Los Angeles Harbor or potash from Searles Lake consists of pumping the Searles Lake brine into huge evaporators and which when left standing for a sufficient time allows the draining off of the liquid from the crystals which form on the sides and bottom of the tanks. This is then sufficiently pure for shipment to the seaboard refinery for the finishing process. True it is that KCl is on the job, and when the war is over and peace is declared and the only competition among the nations will be in a commercial way, the United States, with its Southern California potash beds, will ge one of the biggest factors in deciding the availability of potassium in its many forms. HARD ON PROFITEERS "Profiteers in French towns along the American line have been put out of business by the Salvation army lassies," is a statement contained in a letter made public recently by Lieut.-Col. H. C. Lee, commander of Salvation army for California and Nevada, from Clyde W. Hall, Battery D, Sixth Field Artillery, A. E. F. "The Salvation army heard of the awful prices we were paying for eatables in the town where we were, so they moved into the cantonment to give us better returns for our money. They sold candy and cakes and articles to use at prices greatly reduced from what we had to pay at other places." It was the American soldier's sweet tooth which attracted the shopkeepers to the idea that they must lay in stocks of expensive confections. The Salvation army knew of the sweet tooth, too, but being at the front to serve the soldiers, where they charged at all, they asked only actual cost. MORE MEN CALLED Gov. Stephens has received a call from Gen. Crowder for 1500 class one men to entrain for Camp Fremont, beginning August 5th. Registrants of the 1918 class may be voluntarily induced under this call. Provost Mar-Gen. Crowder has issued the first of the August draft calls, summoning 12,143 men for special technical education to start for the schools between August 1 and 28. Of the men called 11,989 are white and 154 negroes. It is contemplated to call approximately 300,000 men during August. At this critical hour are training our artillery instruments ships, our city fighting the battlefront line trenchets what they do now relation to the forces depends on Three times a day can fight the subway to defeat its object. Its object is to put up of the men needed for the war the slender thread across the Atlantic life of this nation On the other side fighting our battles say, "When will A put her full force long can we hold for her to prepare? We must realize longer send explosives England. We men and guns. Weured up to our po only way we can into more years o show them that we our eyes are open ger and that we through to a finer what the cost take. Americans must harsh and disagree They must realize late into the war inability to see it tures more clearly We are as yet a tion untrained in lems. We have added big athletic boo contest with who spends some ought to put in muscle and nerve lessional will die o fore the contest co hoped that German internally have ta starvation and su tinies strikes etc. getting ready eery day. It has been to think in new months to see our danger to democracy We must se Present production is now about seventy tons daily, and to date the first unit has produced and shipped 26,000 tons of potash salts. The potash as taken from the Trona plant is not commercially pure, but is shipped to the refinery at Los Angeles Harbor for further treatment. When the second unit is completed the capacity of the plant will be doubled. A smaller plant is in operation at Boroslovay, about two and a half miles southwest of Trona. The first experiment work, with a view to the recovery of potash from the brine of Searles Lake, was undertaken in the summer of 1912. As a result of these experiments it was found that potash could be produced in commercial quantities. The American Trona corporation was organized and the first money was expended in constructing a railroad from Searles station on the main line to Torona, and for the construction of a preliminary chemical plant. Before a successful process for the recovery of potash was worked out, however, the company met with many disappointments but finally an engineer was successful in establishing a process of evaporation, which, with some modification, is the same method that is being used today. It was not until the fall of 1915 that ground was broken for the first unit of the present plant at Torona. The construction of this unit was completed in October 1916, and the first shipment of potash salt followed the next month. Production was rapidly GERMANY ADMITS LOSSES OF FIVE MILLION MEN Karl Bleibtrou, German military writer, gives the following statistical return of German losses in killed and prisoners on from August 2, 1914, to July 31, 1917: Western Front 1914 ... 669,800 1915 ... 713,461 1916 ... 901,250 1917 (seven months) ... 320,450 Total ... 2,604,961 Eastern Front 1914 ... 163,900 1915 ... 699,600 1916 ... 359,800 1917 (seven months) ... 261,250 Total ... 1,484,550 Grand total ... 4,089,511 From August 1, 1917 to February 1, 1918, Bleibtrou estimates the total losses on both fronts at 367,450, making a total of 4,456,960 for the period of the war. Adding those who died from illness or wounds and losses in colonial and marine fighting, the grand total, he says, considerably exceeds five million men. ANAHEIM GAZETTE AMERICA MUST NOT LOSE RACE WITH HUN President Wilbur of Stanford University Says It Is Up To Us The world stands breathless today watching the greatest race in all human history, the race between the United States and Germany—Germany trying to close up the war before America can get into it, and America trying to get in before it is too late, writes Iray Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford. Those dread words "too late," we have heard altogether too often in this great crisis, Lloyd George said, "England too late at Gallipoli. England and France too late to save Serbia," and we ourselves with England and France were too late to save Northern Italy or to keep Russia from going into complete collapse. Must we again be too late in this great crisis? President Wilson tells us that this is the critical year of the war. Not that he war will end this year, far from that, for he knows better than we that peace this year would mean a German victory, the crime of all the ages. The only short way possible out of this war with a victory for us would be the finding of a complete solution of the submarine, and that has not been obtained. We must fight our way out with men. Our program is a program of the future. It takes time to prepare for war. Our safety now as a nation depends upon the integrity of the people of Great Britain, France, and Italy. At this critical period, while we are training our armies and manufacturing instruments of war and building ships, our civilian population is fighting the battle of America in the front line trenches. Upon them and what they do now and hereafter in relation to the food and other problems depends the outcome of the war. less we stop using them here. We must realize that food is the weapon with which America is going to be able to maintain a position in this war long enough to win it. We are not asking that food be saved to save money, but to save the lives that will win the war. Think of our problem when you realize that shortly before this great German offensive the limit upon our export of wheat reduced the bread allowance of the French people to practically two thirds of that hitherto maintained. This is no time to talk of money or profits, for the world is using a new medium of exchange today in order to obtain that liberty, freedom and justice which it demands. That medium of exchange is the precious blood of men and boys, the best that we have, and we are sending them by the hundreds, yes, the hundreds of thousands. HOMEMADE REFRIGERATOR CAN BE EASILY MADE Iceless Ice Box Supplies the Want When Ice is Unattainable Where ice is not obtainable an ice-less refrigerator, homemade, will be a useful food keeper and food saver this summer. Maintaining a low temperature through the evaporation of water from its canvass cover, the ice-less refrigerator will keep meats, fruits and vegetables cool and will extend the period for keeping milk and butter. It can also serve as a cooler for drinking water. This is the way to make it: A wooden frame is made with dimensions 42 by 16 by 14 inches and covered with screen wire, preferably the rustless type. The door is made to fit closely, and is mounted on brass hinges, and can be fastened with a wooden latch. The bottom is fitted solid but the top should be covered. ORANGE COUNTY NOTES Fractured the Peace:— According to an affidavit filed by J. de Graaf of Garden Grove, de Graaf and his neighbor, Joseph Parks, have been having anything but peace and quiet since they quarreled in 1915 over a line fence. Wednesday de Graaf asked that Parks be put under bond to keep the peace. The petition says that at the original quarrel Parks threw a crowbar and a shovel at him and attacked him with a knife. Afterward rocks were thrown by Parks, and on one occasion Parks hid in a gum grove and threw rocks at his neighbor. On September 17 last Parks cut a levee and let some water out. With an axe in his hand, Parks, on June 27, put a stake in the ground, and said he would fix de Graaf. At that time Parks called de Graaf a yellow dog. Recently he got a gun, and threatened de Graaf. He tossed a few more rocks, and de Graaf was hit in the face. Allogether, de Graaf's affidavits tell the story in detail from his point of view. Must Work or Go to Pen:— W. E. Davis' of San Pedro was told by Judge West Wednesday that he had better get back at his job in the shipyard or he is more than likely to be on the road to San Quentin. Davis got a 15 year probationary sentence in Santa Ana in 1915 for mistreatment of his sister-in-law. He has been making reports regularly to the probation officer here. A few days ago the probation officer got a letter from Mrs. Davis, saying that Davis was no longer supporting her and her children. Davis was arrested at San Pedro, and was brought back here by Deputy Sheriff Gunnett. In court Davis said he quit a good job in the shinyards to engage in fishing. produced year o'r In p evidence tion, Each y protest fou paid u was an cases n now a Brc and w Soto G The Mexic a dead der M though has s crime, guilty w was a aftern aftern fluenc at Sam ran ra with a severa Soto a struck C Carr i fired. can's b be am EIGHTH Sou It is personl receivin provisio Lake Lake and suffioff of which the pure offinery the job, peace coalition comwith beds, doors inassium along out army comin by water of Nerury D, of the ear eat-ure, so int to money, and arreducet othsweet keep-pay in The sweet tent to chargcost. Call is one mont, lists of any iny insis is-draft spec- Americans must face their duty, harsh and disagreeable as it may be. They must realize that they came late into the war because of their inability to see its outstanding features more clearly at an earlier date. We are as yet a great amateur nation, untrained in large world problems. We have acted somewhat like the big, athletic boy who is slated for a contest with a professional, and who spends some of the time he ought to put in on training every muscle and nerve hoping that the professional will die of heart disease before the contest comes off. We have hoped that Germany would collapse internally, have talked of peace, of starvation and submarine crew mutinies, strikes, etc., instead of unitedly getting ready every minute of every day. It has been necessary for us to think in new terms. It took us months to see our danger and the danger to democracy and to civilization. We must act faster in the fupare for war. Our safety now as a nation depends upon the integrity of the people of Great Britain, France, and Italy. At this critical period, while we are training our armies and manufacturing instruments of war and building ships, our civilian population is fighting the battle of America in the front line trenches. Upon them and what they do now and hereafter in relation to the food and other problems depends the outcome of the war. Three times a day at the table you can fight the submarine, by helping to defeat its object. Its object is to prevent the bringing up of the men, food and supplies needed for the western front, along the slender thread of ships stretched across the Atlantic and on which the life of this nation is now suspended. On the other side of the water those fighting our battles look to us and say, "When will America be ready to put her full force into this war? How long can we hold the line and wait for her to prepare?" We must realize that we can no longer send explanations to France and England. We must send food and men and guns. We have not measured up to our possibilities, and the only way we can ask them to go onto more years of bloody war is to show them that we are coming, that our eyes are open to the world danger and that we will see the war through to a final victory, no matter what the cost or how long it may take. Americans must face their duty, harsh and disagreeable as it may be. They must realize that they came late into the war because of their inability to see its outstanding features more clearly at an earlier date. We are as yet a great amateur nation, untrained in large world problems. We have acted somewhat like the big, athletic boy who is slated for a contest with a professional, and who spends some of the time he ought to put in on training every muscle and nerve hoping that the professional will die of heart disease before the contest comes off. We have hoped that Germany would collapse internally, have talked of peace, of starvation and submarine crew mutinies, strikes, etc., instead of unitedly getting ready every minute of every day. It has been necessary for us to think in new terms. It took us months to see our danger and the danger to democracy and to civilization. A wooden frame is made with dimensions 42 by 16 by 14 inches and covered with screen wire, preferably the rustless type. The door is made to fit closely, and is mounted on brass hinges, and can be fastened with a wooden latch. The bottom is fitted solid, but the top should be covered with screen wire. Adjustable shelves can be made of solid wood or strips, or sheets of galvanized metal. Shelves made of poultry netting on light wood-en frames are probably the most desirable. These shelves rest on side braces placed at desired intervals. A bread baking pan, 14 by 16 inches, is placed on the top and the frame rests in a 17 by 18 inch pan. All the woodwork, the shelves, and the pans should receive two coats of white paint and one or two coats of white enamel. This makes a very attractive surface and one that can easily be kept clean. A cover of canton flannel, burlap or duck is made to fit the frame. Put the smooth side out if canton flannel is used. It will require about three yards of material. This cover is buttoned around the top of the frame and down the side on which the door is not hinged, using buggy hooks and eyes or large headed tacks and eyelits worked in the material. On the front side arrange the hooks on the top of the door instead of on the frame and also fasten the cover down the latch side of the door, allowing a wide hem of the material to overlap the place where the door closes. The door can then be opened without buttoning the cover. The bottom of the cover should extend down into the lower pan. Four double strips, which taper to 8 or 10 inches in width, are sewed to the upper part of the cover. These strips form wicks that dip over into the upper pan. The dimensions given make a refrigerator of very convenient size for household use, and one with efficient evaporating surface, but it is not necessary to follow strictly these dimensions. It costs very little to build the refrigerator and nothing to operate it. The operation is as simple as the construction. The upper pan should be kept filled with water. The water is drawn by capillary attraction through the wicks and saturates the cover. An evaporation takes place heat is less refrigerator will keep meats, fruits and vegetables cool and will extend the period for keeping milk and butter. It can also serve as a cooler for drinking water. This is the way to make it: A wooden frame is made with dimensions 42 by 16 by 14 inches and covered with screen wire, preferably the rustless type. The door is made to fit closely, and is mounted on brass hinges, and can be fastened with a wooden latch. The bottom is fitted solid, but the top should be covered with screen wire. Adjustable shelves can be made of solid wood or strips, or sheets of galvanized metal. Shelves made of poultry netting on light wood-en frames are probably the most desirable. These shelves rest on side braces placed at desired intervals. A bread baking pan, 14 by 16 inches, is placed on the top and the frame rests in a 17 by 18 inch pan. All the woodwork, the shelves, and the pans should receive two coats of white paint and one or two coats of white enamel. This makes a very attractive surface and one that can easily be kept clean. A cover of canton flannel, burlap or duck is made to fit the frame. Put the smooth side out if canton flannel is used. It will require about three yards of material. This cover is buttoned around the top of the frame and down the side on which the door is not hinged, using buggy hooks and eyes or large headed tacks and eyelits worked in the material. On the front side arrange the hooks on the top of the door instead of on the frame and also fasten the cover down the latch side of the door, allowing a wide hem of the material to overlap the place where the door closes. The door can then be opened without buttoning the cover. The bottom of the cover should extend down into the lower pan. Four double strips, which taper to 8 or 10 inches in width, are sewed to the upper part of the cover. These strips form wicks that dip over into the upper pan. Tuesday afternoon Judge West sentenced Jim Elgar of Huntington Beach to fifteen years in San Quentin. Elgar was found guilty last Saturday of a charge of mistreating his step-daughter. In sentencing Elgar, Judge West referred to the fact that in previous cases of a similar nature he had given sentence of twenty five years. "By action of the parole board," said he, "it appears that there is a disposition on the part of that board toward leniency. In view of that fact, and in view of the fact that Elgar's standard and point of some mat- mont, is is draft speciffor and white proxiust. OF military tactical and 1914, how many Americans realize today that unless we put Serbia back on her feet, every square foot of her territory, Serbian territory again, we will have lost the war and Germany will have won it. Germany started this war to get Serbia. Germany now has realized her dream of Middle Europe. She sees Europe almost within her grasp. Victory has followed victory as she has sent her armies to various parts of Europe, and now we have the supreme period of the war and soon the world will have a decision based largely upon what we do as to whether it shall be ruled by the Golden Rule or the military rule of a prince maintained by the bayonet and bomb. Our immediate pressing duty is to see that the people and armies of Great Britain, France and Italy are fed, so that they will not collapse as Russia and Finland have done because of the disorganization due to German propaganda, injustice and above all, lack of food. It is imperative that we save and send wheat and other foods absolutely required in Europe during the months before the next harvest. We can not do it unThe dimensions given make a 20 refrigerator of very convenient size for household use, and one with efficient evaporating surface, but it is not necessary to follow strictly these dimensions. It costs very little to build the refrigerator and nothing to operate it. The operation is as simple as the construction. The upper pan should be kept filled with water. The water is drawn by capillary attraction through the wicks and saturates the cover. As evaporation takes place, heat is taken from the inside of the refrigerator, thereby lowering the temperature of the inside and the contents. Capillary action starts more readily if the cover is first dampened by dipping it in water or throwing water upon it. The greater the rate of evaporation the lower the temperature which can be secured; therefore the refrigerator works best when rapid evaporation takes place. When the refrigerator is placed in a shady place in a strong breeze and the air is warm and dry, evaporation takes place continuously and rapidly and the temperature inside the box is reduced. Under ideal conditions the temperature has been known to be reduced to 50 deg. F. Deputy Sheriff Cravath returned on Friday from Fresno bringing with him Bernardino Apparisia, formerly of Placentia. The prisoner is charged with a felony involving a minor girl. There is also a suspicion that he is a slacker. Those who have not been very friendly to him recently say he was born in the United States. He says he was born in Mexico. John Cook will plant 1000 acres on the Irvine ranch to beans. The Birch Oil Co. is before the county board of equalization again this year asking for a reduction in its assessment. This year it petitions to have its assessment of $569,615 placed by County Assessor James Sleeper on twenty acres at Brea reduced to $150,-000. Last year and the year before that, the Birch company protested against assessments that were $120,000 less than the assessment of this year. In each of the petitions filed hitherto the company has alleged that $30,800 was as much as the company should be assessed. This year it alleges that $150,000 is the most that should be put down as its property valuation. "I gave the Birch Oil Co. a raise of $120,000 over last year's assessment," said Sleeper, "because of the increased COUNTY NOTES affidavit filed by Garden Grove, de Bor, Joseph Parks, anything but peace quarreled in place. Wednesday de Parks be put under peace. that at the orig- threw a crowbar and attacked him forward rocks were land on one occa- a gum grove and neighbor. last Parks cut a water out. With Parks, on June the ground, and Graaf. At that Graaf a yellow got a gun, and f. He tossed a de Graaf was hit neither, de Graaf's story in detail from Pen. San Pedro was told Wednesday that he at his job in the more than likely to San Quentin. probationary sen- tinion 1915 for miser-in-law. He has is regularly to the ree. A few days officer got a letter saying that Davis starting her and her is arrested at San caught back here by nett. In court a good job in the fishing. He production of the Birch wells this last year over the year previous." In previous years Birch has put on evidence before the board of equaliza- tion, and each year only a slight reduc- tion, if any, has been given him. Each year he has paid his taxes under protest and he has each year brought suit for the return of money that he paid under what he has always alleged was an unjust assessment. One of the cases is before the supreme court now awaiting a decision. Birch's petition was filed Thursday, and was set for hearing Monday. Soto Guilty Only of Assault: The jury tried Manuel Soto, Mexican on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to murder Motorcycle Officer Carr evidently thought that Soto by the loss of a leg has suffered nearly enough for his crime, for it brought in a verdict of guilty of simple assault only. Soto was allowed his freedom Saturday afternoon. Soto was under the in- afternoon. Soto was under the influence of a drug when he arrived at Santa Ana several months ago and ran rampant on East Fourth street with a big knife. He had attacked several passers-by when Carr arrived. Soto attacked Carr and would have struck him with the knife had not Carr, just as Carr stumbled and fell, fired. The bullet shattered the Mexi- can's knee, and later the leg had to be amputated. BIG INCREASE IN PENSIONS OF VETERANS Eighteen Thousand Old Soldiers in Southern California Benefitted It is estimated that nearly 18,000 persons in Southern California will receive direct benefit through the provisions of the new pension law. the bureau about these increases. Letters of inquiry will simply delay the work of making allowances. "No attorney's fees will be allowed or paid for services in securing increase of pension under the act of June 10, 1918." NEW CLASSIFICATIONS The local exemption board is now busy classifying the 1918 registrants Up to the present time the following have been examined and classifica- tions made. There are 137 registrants in this district, but a large number of them have enlisted since registering on June 5: 2 J. H. Livernash, Huntington Beach, Class 5, Division B. 3 K. E. Harpster, Anaheim, 1A. 5 F. Bielanski, Sobleski, Wis., 1A. 6 Roy E. Turner, Fullerton, 1A. 7 Albert Krapf, La Habra, 1A. 8 Gerald L. Hudson, Brea, 1A. 9 Roberto Sanchez, Anaheim, 5F. 10 L. H. Covell, Buena Park, 5C. 13 L. C. Kelly, La Habra, 1A. 15 W. H. Price, Westminster, 1A. 16 H. E. Welton, Fullerton, 1A. 17 B. Williams, Kingo, Ky., 1A. 18 H. C. Welch, Yorba Linda, 1A. 21 Td. W. Freeman, Anaheim, 1A. 24 H. F. Shunk, Buena Park, 1A. 25 C. A. Stone, Fullerton, 1X. 27 D. J. Hollingsworth, Fullerton, II. 28 Geo. Milner, Buena Park, 1A. 30 Wm. R. Earl, Fullerton, 1A. 32 M. L. Dankers, Anaheim, 1A. 34 T. A. Schonle, Hunt. Bch., 1A. 37 Geo. Click, Anaheim, II. 38 F. H. Schacht, Anaheim, 1A. 39 H. F. Hunt, Anaheim, 1A. 41 E. A. Ramella, Anaheim, 5D. 42 F. D. Bishop, La Habra, 1A. 43 P. J. Hallicyt, Hunt. Bch., 1A. 45 W. B. Brewster, La Habra, 5D. 47 C. W. Ayers. Garden Grove, 5D. 48 M. C. Royer, Fullerton, 1A. 49 R. J. Burkett, Yorba Linda, 5D. 50 E. B. Aseveo, Westminster, 1A. BIG INCREASE IN PENSIONS OF VETERANS Eighteen Thousand Old Soldiers in Southern California Benefitted It is estimated that nearly 18,000 persons in Southern California will receive direct benefit through the provisions of the new pension law. The statement is made by C. M. Saltzgaber, United States commissioner of pensions that there are nearly 268,200 pensioners in the United States who will come under the provisions of this amendment. Pensioners of Southern California will be interested to learn that Commissioner Saltzgaber has just notified George W. Uline, special examiner for the bureau of pensions for Southern California, and who has headquarters at room 506 Federal building, that it is hoped to make the payments due August 4 under the rate provided by the new law. The fact is emphasized in a statement received from the commissioner by Mr. Uline that correspondence from pensioners regarding this subject is entirely unnecessary, and will only impede the work, and that the new law will be put into practical effect as speedily as possible. Because of the large number of people in Southern California who will be directly benefited by this change, the statement of Commissioner Saltzgaber is given in full. It says: "The act of June 10, 1918, amending the Sherwood pension law of May 11, 1912, provides the rate of $30 per month for soldiers and sailors of any age who served ninety days and less than six months during the Civil War, and who were honorably discharged, and who are now receiving a lower rate. "Those who are 72 years of age, or over, and who have served six months are entitled to receive $32 per month; those who served one year, $35 per month; one and a half years, $38 per month, and two years or over, $40 per month. "These increases will be granted automatically, and without application of any kind to the pension bureau, to all soldiers and sailors now pensioned under the act of May 11, 1912, and who have attained the required age and served the necessary length of time." Soldiers and sailors who served during the Civil War are pen- Attorney Clyde Bishop has been appointed by Judge West to defend Manuel Rodriguez and Jose Martinez, charged with burglarizing the home of A. B. Coffman at Garden Grove. The prisoners will be arraigned tomorrow. "These increases will be granted automatically, and without application of any kind to the pension bureau, to all soldiers and sailors now pensioned under the act of May 11, 1912, and who have attained the required age and served the necessary length of time. "Soldiers and sailors who served during the Civil War and are pensioned at lower rates under some other law, but who are entitled to pension under the act of May 11, 1912, will be required to file an application under that act in order to receive the benefits of the new law. "The pension bureau will make these allowances with all the dispatch possible under existing conditions. A special force for the adjustment of cases within the provisions of the new law has been organized, which will handle these cases exclusively. "It should be borne in mind by those concerned that there are now nearly 268,000 pensioners under the act of May 11, 1912, and all are urged to exercise patience and consideration. While every effort will be made to hasten this work, there will be no avoidable interference with the progress of claims now on file, or hereafter filed under other laws. A special effort will be made not to interfere with the adjudication of widows' claims. "It will be wholly impracticable to make any payments at the increased rate on July 4, 1918; but it is hoped that the payments due August 4, 1918, may be made at the rate provided by the new law. "It will not be necessary to write to..."