anaheim-gazette 1918-08-29

VOLUME XXXXVII LIGHT VOTE CAST AT PRIMARY ELECTION BACKS, JEROME AND JOPLIN POLL MAJORITY OF VOTES AND ARE ELECTED C. E. JACKSON AND SAM JERNIGAN WILL FIGHT FOR SHERIFF IN NOVEMBER Although several of the contests for important offices in the county were to be settled by the primary vote, only two candidates being on the ballot, there was a remarkably short vote recorded at Tuesday's election. Only partial returns have been received so far at the county clerk's office, but the early figures are sufficient to indicate that J. M. Backs has been elected county clerk by a large majority over Joe Smith, J. C. Joplin has defeated Cal Lester and will continue to serve as county treasurer, and W. C. Jerome has defeated Harry Whitaker for the auditorship. Winbigler and Brown, for coroner, are running neck and neck, as are also Mitchell and Beswick for THIRTEEN MEN FOR KEARNY While Orange County District No. 1 has orders to send forty-four men to Camp Kearny on or soon after September 3, No. 2 district has orders to send but thirteen. Those thirteen will be selected from the following: Ernest A. Stock, Fullerton R. D. 3; Martin L. Dankers, Anaheim 1; John C. Varner, Fullerton 3; Leonard Siewelt, Anaheim 3; J. Landout, El Centro, formerly of Los Alamitos; Henry Boisseranc, Buena Park; Edward C. Young, Placentia; Frank Bielanski, Fullerton; Tracy O. Crawford, Bessle, N. D., formerly of Fullerton; Elliso B. Aseves, Westminster; Ross Robles, Santa Ana 1; Hubert Stocks, Pomona, formerly of Buena Park; Lorrain Tarbox, Huntington Beach; Henry Bleeker, Anaheim. Four men of No. 2 district have volunteered to go as limited service men at an early call, and they will have an opportunity to go with the contingent of four to Camp Bowle, Texas, on or about September 3. They are Arthur J. Stokes, Santa Ana R. D. 3; Roy H. Hilbert, La Habra; Jesse B. Perkins, Placentia; Charles A. Stone, Fullerton. No. 2 board is to send Merrill C. Royer of Anaheim to the University of California on August 31. He will enter the government mechanical school. BANKERS ORGANIZE No less than twenty Orange county bankers attended the meeting at Riv- Election day in Anaheim was exceedingly quiet, resembling a warm Sunday when all the people were out of town. Not more than 30 per cent of the registered vote was cast here, notwithstanding most of the people were very much interested in some of the candidates. Gov. Stephens led the field for the republican nomination for governor, while Francis J. Heney was the most popular of the two democratic candidates. The republicans appeared to be satisfied with Congressman Kettner's attitude on the only question that confronts the American people now, as they gave him a big majority over Mrs. Stella B. Irvine. On the democratic ticket, of course, he had a practically unanimous vote. J. S. Howard for justice of the peace, and A. W. Wood for constable, had no opposition. In the county Sleeper for assessor, McBride for surveyor, Lamb for tax collector and Whitney for recorder were running alone. There was no election for sheriff, but C. E. Jackson and Sam Jernigan, being the high men, will fight to a finish on November 5. E. N. Cook, Marion Eden and T. F. Morgan were elected central committeemen on the republican ticket, and C. E. Jones, W. T. Brown, L. P. Drake, J. P. McCarter, S. W. McCulloch and E. A. Sparks are the democratic committeemen. T. B. Talbert was re-elected county commissioner in the second district, but returns indicate that Jasper Leck in the Tustin district has been defeated. Figures as tabulated in County Clerk Edwards' office just before noon yesterday are as follows: For County Superintendent Beswick ... 3,940 Mitchell ... 4,591 For Sheriff Boynton ... 951 C. E. Jackson ... 3,455 Logan Jackson ... 2,441 BANKERS ORGANIZE No less than twenty county bankers attended the meeting at Riverside Saturday evening, at which Group No. 4 of the State Bankers' Association was formed. Bankers of Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Imperial and San Diego counties are in the group, and all of the counties were represented at Saturday's meeting. W. B. Clancy, of Riverside, was elected chairman of the new association and W. B. Williams, of Santa Ana, is first vice-president. Roberts of San Bernardino is secretary. The main purpose of the association will be the fostering of acquaintance. Unity of action in such things as the taking of treasury certificates and of assisting in Liberty Loans is a prime factor in the organization. Dinner was served the bankers and their wives at the Mission Inn, the outsiders being guests of the Riverside bankers. The Aanhelm sugar factory began its campaign at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon with a roll of 275 employees. Twenty-two of these are women, this being the first time women were ever employed in the plant. They wear overalls and are said to be very efficient. F. C. Benjamin has purchased the Herman Stern residence on Zeyn street and will take possession September 1. Several of the election boards in Anaheim were dominated by women officials Tuesday. They buckled down like veterans, but when it came to totaling the vote they insisted on adding up the vote cast for each candidate and posting it as the total. In precinct No. 4, for instance, the registration was 225, but the posted sheet shows 1,192 votes cast. Harold Reeks, aged 12 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Reeks, was accidentally shot in the left eye. He and a number of other boys of the same age were playing near the Y. M. C. A. building on South Philadelphia street opportunity to go with the contingent of four to Camp Bowle, Texas, on or about September 3. They are Arthur J. Stokes, Santa Ana R. D. 3; Roy H. Hilbert, La Habra; Jesse B. Perkins, Placentia; Charles A. Stone, Fullerton. No. 2 board is to send Merrill C. Royer of Anaheim to the University of California on August 31. He will enter the government mechanical school. BANKERS ORGANIZE Whereas gradually throughout the country developed a practice of federal States flag horizons for the purposes from by-state purpose for which moved is most praiseworthy the flag is neither diagonal, for the emblem The reverence in which flag of our nation moves against its being used that detracts from its forebe it "Resolved, That there is no trade urge that these States shall not be ceptacle for money of processions, parades or sion." "Resolved, That a colutions be sent to affictions of the associate commencement of Orange request that a similar by them." John Milton Moore sent a communication relative to the establishment try here. Following is was referred to the committee: "If your courtesy will be pleased to have in what your city does just courageing the location ing enterprises in you. "I am working with production of potash clay on the Santa Ana miles away from you. "In that connection of starting a soap factoring the common soaps fine a product as is tu Colgates. "We would not employ people, and it might ruinhood of 300 when launched. Some of them can see, would be for you know, on a pay spenders." "Another matter could cause we may get out from the Anaheim suit that is the removal lies to your city. We make ethel chloride, e anaesthetic etc., for using in this work, nor barrels of molasses a but returns indicate that Jasper Leck in the Tustin district has been defeated. Figures as tabulated in County Clerk Edwards' office just before noon yesterday are as follows: For County Superintendent Beswick 3,940 Mitchell 4,591 For Sheriff Boynton 951 C. E. Jackson 3,455 Logan Jackson 2,441 Jernigan 2,596 County Clerk J. M. Backs 5,507 J. P. Smith 3,378 Coroner Winbigler 4,405 Brown 4,423 For Auditor Jerome 6,023 Whitaker 2,910 The vote in the county on the governorship as compiled at noon yesterday was: Republican Ticket Bordwell 976 Fickert 592 Hayes 145 McGee 55 Rolph 737 Stephens 3,583 Democratic Ticket Heney 802 Rolph 300 Woolwine 938 Latest reports before going to press were that Rolph and Stephens were running close for the republican nomination for governor and that Heney was probably nominated on the democratic ticket. William Kettner for Congress was leading Mrs. Irvine for the republican nomination by 200 votes in the county. The estate of Peter Wohlgemuth has been appraised at $7,764.34. AHEIM GAZETTE Anaheim, California, Thursday, August 29, 1918 RESOLVE AGAINST THE MISUSE OF OLD GLORY BOARD OF TRADE THINKS OLD GLORY SHOULD NOT BE USED AS CONTRIBUTION BOX TWO PARTIES LOOKING FOR LOCATION HERE FOR IMPORT-ANT INDUSTRY Using Old Glory in parades for the purpose of stimulating by-standers to pungle up money does not meet the favor of the Anaheim board of trade. The following resolution was unanimously adopted by that body at Monday night's meeting, and it will probably meet the approval of all people: "Whereas, gradually and generally throughout the country there has developed a practice of carrying the United States flag horizontally in processions for the purpose of receiving contributions from by-standers. While the purpose for which money thus collected is most pralseworthy, such use of the flag is neither dignified nor propitious." GERMAN LANGUAGE PRESS HARD HIT Growing Sentiment in New York City and Throughout the Whole Country Against Circulation of German Newspapers Mrs. J. J. Schneider, chairman of the local Chapter, Women's National Committee of American Defense Society, was yesterday notified from the New York headquarters that the ban on German newspapers is spreading rapidly throughout the whole country. The American casualty lists are beginning to come across. They are growing heavier every day. Every day more German spies are being arrested. Every day there is coming home to us the terrible thought which no German logic can assuage that the whole civilized world is engaged in a death to death struggle with an inhuman monsteer that must be absolutely wiped off the face of the earth. Day by day we realize all this and yet day by day we have flaunted in our faces newspapers printed in that language which is the spoken and the written medium of thought of a people who have proved that they are not fit to associate with the people of the civilized nations. But the spirit of America is rising. The spirit of America for more than a year has been considering the German language press. The members of the American Defense Society as far back as October 1916 wrote to the members of Congress asking for the suppression. 28 MEN REGISTER UNDER LATEST ORDER BOYS COMING OF AGE SINCE JUNE 5 SIGN UP FOR MILITARY DUTY SATURDAY TWENTY-ONE BOYS LEAVE FULLERTON FOR CAMP LEWIS MONDAY EVENING George Gobar, clerk of the local exemption board, considerably over-estimated the number of young men who would register Saturday night under the new order. He placed the number at fifty in district No. 2, but when the line-up was finished at 9 o'clock it was found that only twenty-eight men had reached the age of 21 since the last registration on June 5. There is a possibility that a few through various causes failed to show up, but the list is considered pretty complete. Following is a list of those who registered: Emil Carlson, Placentia. Charley Corona, La Habra. Cenon Cervantes, Westminster. HARRY MATHERS Soldier Boys time from who left Camp Lewis in Florida is proud to Sam's soldier head make, but that Geneseo war is cozy poetry in Here is tha "When s a salting he he's buildd the hoe or and a gett up and le war is hell "When t up and at a fix a line when she she and things everyone vane der ground most every the muck evenings I'l b see what S told it to The following resolution was unanimously adopted by that body at Monday night's meeting, and it will probably meet the approval of all people: "Whereas, gradually and generally throughout the country there has developed a practice of carrying the United States flag horizontally in processions for the purpose of receiving contributions from by-standers. While the purpose for which money thus collected is most praiseworthy, such use of the flag is neither dignified nor proper, for the emblem of the country. The reverence in which we hold the flag of our nation moves us to protest against its being used in any manner that detracts from its dignity; therefore, be it "Resolved: That the Anaheim board of trade urge that the flag of the United States shall not be used as a receptacle for money offerings either in processions, parades or on any occasion. "Resolved: That a copy of these resolutions be sent to affiliated organizations of the associated chambers of commencement of Orange county, with a request that a similar action be taken by them." John Milton Moore, of Los Angeles, sent a communication to the board relative to the establishment of an industry here. Following is his letter which was referred to the manufacturers' committee: "I if your courtesy will allow, I will be pleased to have information as to what your city does in the way of encouraging the location of manufacturing enterprises in your midst. "I am working with a chemist on the production of potash from sand and clay on the Santa Ana river, about 17 miles away from you. "In that connection we are thinking of starting a soap factory, while making the common soaps, yet covering as fine a product as is turned out by the Colgates. "We would not employ less than 200 people, and it might run into the neighborhood of 300 when we were rightly launched. Some of this labor, as you can see, would be for women, who, as you know, on a payroll are good spenders. "Another matter comes to me because we may get our raw material from the Anaheim sugar factory and that is the removal of our laboratories to your city. We are planning to make ethel chloride, especially, and an anaesthetic, etc., for the physicians, using in this work, not less than six barrels of molasses a week. Of this I realize this and yet day by day we have flaunted in our faces newspapers printed in that language which is the apoken and the written medium of thought of a people who have proved that they are not fit to associate with the people of the civilized nations. But the spirit of America is rising. The spirit of America for more than a year has been considering the German language press. The members of the American Defense Society as far back as October 1916 wrote to the members of Congress asking for the suppression of the German language newspapers and other German language publications in the United States. The movement at that time received the general support of the chambers of commerce throughout the country and of prominent business organizations and patriotic societies. From all parts of the country comes word of efforts to ban the German-language press. In some instances an actual ban has been placed on the sale of the German language paper by local authorities. In some instances the sale of these newspapers has been penalized. In other instances the newsdealers are appealed to on the ground of patriotism. The publishing house of G. P. Putnam's Sons of New York has announced that it will publish no work tinged with German for the next twenty-five years. The movement has spread to all states, the state governors' meetings at Washington the other day demanding that drastic action be taken to stamp out the German language press. In Philadelphia city advertising has been withdrawn from the German language papers, and the Philadelphia superintendent of police has forbidden all public meetings conducted in the German language. The common council of that city has requested the board of education to discontinue German instruction in the public schools. In the public library of New York it is stated that the circulation of all books printed in the German language has fallen off. FARM BUREAU PICNIC The Farm Bureau has made arrangements to hold a general picnic meeting at Orange County Park Friday, August 30. It will be a great day for the organization in Orange county. Mrs. Robert J. Burdette, wife of Robt. J. Burdette, the great temperance worker, will address the meeting. Mrs. Burdette is state commissioner of conservation. He placed the number at fifty in district No. 2, but when the line-up was finished at 9 o'clock it was found that only twenty-eight men had reached the age of 21 since the last registration on June 5. There is a possibility that a few through various causes failed to show up, but the list is considered pretty complete. Following is a list of those who registered: Emil Carlson, Placentia. Charley Corona, La Habra. Cenon Cervantes, Westminster. Carl Leo Stogsdill, Brea. Edmon Adams, Fullerton. Thomas Jorn McGraw, Brea. Gordon Jones, Fullerton. Jesse Theron Kyle, Brea. Jacob Hjalmar Federlund, Los Alamitos. Fred Christian Kemper, Annheim. Carl Elmore Blakemore, Brea. Charles Wilbert Musser, Anaheim. Earl W. Cox, Huntington Beach. Raymond Joseph Hammerle, Placentia. Arvil Victor Thomas, Anaheim. Clarence Sistrunk, Anaheim. Ross Edward Burton, Fullerton. Earl Francis Loughboro Buena Park. Raymond Alvin Foote, Huntington Beach. Luis Abacherll, Anaheim. Charles Leo Porter, Placentia. William Wakelee Dinkle, Los Alamitos. Earl William Alling, Anaheim. Ralph Albert Waltz, Anaheim. Gilbert Arthur Matteson, Anaheim. Charles Alfred Middleton, La Habra. George Jacob Wimer, Fullerton. John Jacob Vetter, Anaheim. Registration day under the new law, extending the age from 18 to 45, has not been fixed, but it was hoped, if the machinery for the work could be perfected in time, to call it for Saturday, September 7. As there has been some delay in passing the bill owing to objections on the part of members of both houses to including 18 year old boys in the call, registration day will probably not be fixed before the 14th, and possibly not until the 21st. It is estimated that fifteen million men will register under this call, making the total registration for the service twenty-six millions. The registration in this district will probably be four thousand, consequently the local board will have a busy day. Twenty-one men were entrained at Fullerton Monday evening for Camp Lewis. They are: Joshua E. Seale, Fullerton; Ralph FARM BUREAU PICNIC The Farm Bureau has made arrangements to hold a general picnic meeting at Orange County Park Friday, August 30. It will be a great day for the organization in Orange county. Mrs. Robert J. Burdette, wife of Robt. J. Burdette, the great temperance worker, will address the meeting. Mrs. Burdette is state commissioner of conservation. It is also hoped and expected that Professor Crochron will be present. Those who have heard Professor Crochron will report that he is a convincing speaker with a personality that is both forceful and charming. He has, as leader of farm advisors of the state, accomplished great work. The speaking will begin at 11:00 o'clock and will continue pot later than 12:30, when a basket luncheon will be enjoyed. The Farm Bureau will provide coffee and cream, but everyone is to bring their own sugar. A band of entertainers has been secured for the afternoon and they will furnish vocal and instrumental music, the latter for dancing in which all are free to participate. A feature of the afternoon will be a tractor exhibit of the new Fordson tractor. There will also be an exhibit of machinery which has just been received on the Pacific coast. It is urged that there will be a large attendance. A pleasant and profitable day will be assured all who attend. Five hundred Elks attended the barbecue given by the Anaheim lodge on the Pete Nicholas' ranch near Brea Canyon, Sunday. All the Elk lodges in the Southland were represented. probably not be fixed before the 14th, and possibly not until the 21st. It is estimated that fifteen million men will register under this call, making the total registration for the service twenty-six millions. The registration in this district will probably be four thousand, consequently the local board will have a busy day. Twenty-one men were entrained at Fullerton Monday evening for Camp Lewis. They are: Joshua E. Seale, Fullerton; Ralph L. Cox, Anaheim; Harry C. Calkins, Anaheim; Antonio M. De Gulseppi, Pioche, Nevada; Ross A. Warner, Jeffersonville, Ind.; Joe Cervantez, Fort Douglas, Utah; Roscoe C. Alleman, Montebello; Joseph C. Conley, Fullerton; Edward Heyling, Anaheim; Colvin E. Adams, Garden Grove; James F. Draper, Santa Ana; Earl T. Nickels, Anaheim; John H. Schmidt, Anaheim; Hugh J. Hoben, Hardinsburg, Kentucky; Hugh G. Richardson, Fullerton; George H. Dyer, Brea; Clarence B. Launders, Garden Grove; Herbert B. Culley, Los Angeles; Gerald S. Hudson, Brea; Ballard Williams, Wingo, Kentucky. Arnold C. Dickel, of Anaheim, was entrained for the local board in Esmerelaida county, Goldfield, Nevada. Ralph L. Cox was appointed leader and Earl T. Nickles assistant leader. James Gow, of Anaheim, has been re-classed in Class 1 and has been called for physical examination August 30. Henry C. Minnix, of Ferris, was entrained Saturday afternoon for Fort McDowell by the local board, being a volunteer. Charles H. Fisher, of the Fisher Wine Company, of Anaheim, has been ordered by the local and district exemption boards to get a different job within 30 days from August 22. Little Farm one-half year Mrs. Glennie Bolaa district effect drank. M paste in it at 9 she used to use again house. She shelf and while she it in. Durham Louise draught mother's murmured her mother to find the poison. Child uttered hurriedly possible door at 11 o'clock physician enough of four people. HARRY MARKS DECLARES THAT SHERMAN WAS RIGHT Soldier Boy in France Writes His Sentiments to Anaheim Friend Fred Minyard recently received a letter from his friend Harry Marks, who left here some months ago for Camp Lewis and is now with the Sammies in France. Harry writes that he is proud to be ranked as one of Uncle Sam's soldiers, that he is enjoying excellent health and has no complaint to make, but he has evidently discovered that General Sherman's definition of war is correct. He drops into prose-poetry in order to explain his feelings. Here is the way he puts it: "When a fellows working goady and a salting all his dough, no matter if he's building ships or working with the hoe on his little patch of garden, and a getting along well, if he's got to up and leave it there's no fooling—war is hell. 'When the barrage is over and it's up and at 'em men, when six go out to fix a line and two come back again, when shells are bursting everywhere and things are moving round, and everyone who's able to is getting under ground; when your chewing slum most every meal and wading through the muck, when it's getting cold of evenings and for fires you're out of luck, I'll be darned if you can't easily see what Sherman saw so well, and he told it to the people. Here's the plain" WILL EQUALIZE ASSESSMENT ROLL CITY COUNCIL DISCUSSES PLAN OF CARRYING SEWERAGE TO THE SEA TAX RATE FOR Fiscal Year 1918-1919 TO BE $1.45 PER $100—FINANCES IN GOOD SHAPE The city council held a very important session Thursday evening when much grist was sent through the municipal mill. All members were present with Mayor Dwyer presiding. A bone dry ordinance was passed, the new tax levy was fixed, sidewalks were ordered in, sewerage disposal was discussed and the city is going to buy a piece of real estate which is classed a good buy. The city council meetings are the most important held in town and are of great interest to the taxpayers. The finances are in good shape, not a dollar is owing by the city. The trustees are keen business men, have an eagle eye on the public When the barrage is over and it's up and at 'em men, when six go out to fix a line and two come back again, when shells are bursting everywhere and things are moving round, and everyone who's able to is getting under ground; when your chewing slum most every meal and wading through the muck, when it's getting cold of evenings and for fires you're out of luck, I'll be darned if you can't easily see what Sherman saw so well, and he told it to the people. Here's the plain facts—War is hell. Course the country needs its soldiers—there's no kidding about that. Some one had to show the Kalser where he was to get off at. For his treatment of poor Belgium and his tearin up of France, and we nearly all was willing when U.S. gave us the chance. But we just can't help thinking, although things are breaking well, that Sherman said a mouth full when he told them war is hell. There are lots and lots of fellows who won't ever have to go across the old Atlantic just to stage the biggest show that the devil ever started with his actors you and I, for, old man, we're making history beneath this foreign sky, but you just can't help thinking as you listen to the shell, that there is more truth than poetry in the sentence—war is hell. Did you ever sit and listen to the roaring of the guns? Did you ever hear rats running round your dugout just for fun Did you ever pick the vermin off your undershirt at night, or listen to a bed bug chose a flea to have a fight Listen, pardner, listen, for it's truth I'm going to tell, when you've seen all I am telling, then you'll know why war is hell." MAGNESIUM PRODUCTION LARGE Metallic magnesium, which is commonly used as a flash light in photography, is used also in aerial bombs and rockets for lighting battle fields at night. Burning magnesium makes a dense pure-white cloud, and it is put into shrapnel shells so that observers and gunners may know exactly where the hellh are bursting. It is a veritable cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night on the European battle fields. Magnesium is made by the Norton Laboratories, Inc., at Lockport, N.Y., the American Magnesium Corporation, Niagara Falls, N.Y., and the Rumford Metal Co., Rumford, Maine. Reports made by these three companies to the United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, show a production of 50,384 pounds of metallic A bone dry ordinance was passed, the new tax levy was fixed, sidewalks were ordered in, sewerage disposal was discussed and the city is going to buy a piece of real estate which is classed a good buy. The city council meetings are the most important held in town and are of great interest to the taxpayers. The finances are in good shape, not a dollar is owing by the city. The trustees are keen business men, have an eagle eye on the public pulse, and are laboring for the good of all. Harmony now seems to be the watchword, which means a whole lot, and the goose hangs high. Trustee Gibbs brought up the matter of a more equalized tax rate, as it is said a number of owners, especially those owning valuable orange orchards and imposing brick blocks, are not now paying their just pro rata in taxes. A committee consisting of Messrs. Gibbs and Stark were appointed to investigate and report. The county has already made a move in this direction, and the city will work in conjunction with the county as far as practicable. It is said the tax rate on many valuable properties can be considerably increased. The council is going in for an equalization of these rates and the move is to be highly commended. The board discussed the formation of an assessment district as a fore-runner to setting back the few remaining buildings in West Center street. The city has the power to do so and Mayor Dwyer was in favor of beginning at once. It is the intention of the board to give the owners a reasonable time to have the work done, but in the event of a failure to do so the district will be formed. Commissioners will then be appointed to assess benefits and damages. Attorney Ames advised the council that the city proceed to acquire title to the narrow strip in that block for sidewalk purposes and to compel all to move back. Already most of the owners have done so, but title to the abandoned strip is still retained by them. The attorney's idea is to widen the street and then acquire right of way for sidewalk purposes for all time. As the case now exists property owners could make obstructions upon the strip along their frontages. The matter is to be further considered at a future meeting. Attorney Ames reported upon the meeting of city attorneys of 26 cities who met in Los Angeles a few days ago, protesting against the raise in rates asked by the California Edison Company. Their hearing will come before the millennial commissioner. Little Fern Louise Warner, one and one-half year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Warner of the Westminster Bolsa district, is dead Monday from the effects of ant-polson which she drank. Mrs. Warner kept the ant-paste in the barn. Monday morning at 9 she went to get some of the polson to use against ants which were in the house. She took the bottle from the shelf and set it down momentarily while she secured a receptacle to put it in. During that brief period, little Louise drank from the bottle while her mother's back was turned. "Sweet," murmured the child with a smile as her mother returned, horror-strickeen to find the child had swallowed the polson. That was the last word the child uttered. Although a doctor was hurriedly summoned, and everything possible done to save it, the end came at 11 o'clock, just two hours later. The physician stated the child had drank enough of the poison to kill three or four people. Attorney Ames reported upon the meeting of city attorneys of 26 cities who met in Los Angeles a few days ago, protesting against the raise in rates asked by the California Edison Company. Their hearing will come before the railroad commission on September 3. The various cities propose to secure the services of an electrical expert who will prepare data to help combat the company's contemplated raise. His fee is to be $500, and each city will pay its share, which will be $25. The city of Los Angeles, it is said, leases the lines from the Edison, and is not effected by the raise, but it is proposed to show that that city should be included, as in that event the profits of the Company would be more fully ascertained, and would thus nullify to a degree their contention of asking for a raise in rates to consumers. The amount of juice used by Los Angeles is of large volume and should be used in the computation of profits derived. The several Southern California cities are preparing to buck the line hard. However, it is believed that the company will be allowed a raise, but the attorneys are going to give them a run for their money. Mayor Dwyer was empowered to purchase 10½ acres from V. U. Simpson in the west section for the sum of $11,-000; Half this sum is to be paid for in Liberty Bonds and the remainder on time. This is considered a good buy because whenever the city desires to