anaheim-gazette 1919-09-04

Anaheim Gazette ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY 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 PLAN TO IMPROVE NUTS Officials and members of the California Walnut Growers' Association will co-operate with the Federal Department of Agriculture in the coming investigation of the nut crops of the United States. An appropriation of $20,000 has been made for nut improvement work, especially upon pecans, almonds, Persian walnuts, black walnuts, hickory nuts, etc. The nut industry is relatively new in the United States and probably no tree industry of equal importance presents more difficult problems to the grower. Investigations will be extended to all classes of nuts grown in commercial orchards in the areas of the United States to which they are adapted. The English walnut and almond present many of the same cultural problems as the pecan and the black walnut. The two latter species, although native, have been under cultivation a comparatively short period of time and are, perhaps, less well understood than the English walnut and the almond. Furthermore, the English walnut and the almond under American conditions present many problems which can not be solved by the experience of European cultivators. Among the first activities undertaken... can and the black walnut. The two latter species, although native, have been under cultivation a comparatively short period of time and are, perhaps, less well understood than the English walnut and the almond. Furthermore, the English walnut and the almond under American conditions present many problems which can not be solved by the experience of European cultivators. Among the first activities undertaken will be a survey of the territory to which such species as the black walnut, the shagback, shellbark and pignut hickories, the butternut, hazelnut, and filbert are indigenous for the purpose of producing superior varieties for propagation. The first will be a survey of a portion of the walnut, almond, and filbert growing districts of the Pacific Coast to determine the varieties best suited to the respective districts and the most economical methods for harvesting, marketing and utilizing the crop. LANGUAGE OF THE LAW If a man were to give another orange he would simply say, "I give you this orange," but when the transaction is intrusted to the hands of a lawyer to put in writing he adopts this form: "I hereby give and convey to you, all and singular, my estate and interests, right, title, claim, and advantage of and in said orange, together with all its rind, juice, pulp and pips, and all rights and advantages therein with full power to bite, cut, suck and otherwise eat the same, or give the same away with or without the rind, skin, juice, pulp or pips, anything hereinbefore or hereinafter or in any other deed or deeds, instrument or instruments of whatever nature or kind soever to the contrary in any wise, notwithstanding." There has been plenty of law on the statute books, national and state, to prevent all the combinations in restraint of trade which have been at the bottom of the profiteering. The President of the United States is sworn to see to it that the laws of the nation are executed. Delivering harangues to the populace against the Heffern, Hermian Stern and W. A. Dolan of Anaheim, E. K. Benchley, F. C. Krause, W. R. Ritchie and Dr. D. C. Cowles of Fullerton. These directors are to hold only until incorporation is perfected, when a new board will be elected. The Heffern company was organized for the purpose of testing an unproven tract three miles northeast of Anaheim. The big oil companies did not look with favor on the venture, having passed over this territory, but developments show they turned down a good bet. The Heffern people had faith enough to advance the necessary capital, and the result proves that their faith was justified. Heffern No. 1, which is now in the neighborhood of 3900 feet, is certain to be a good producer, and the probabilities are that it will prove a gusher. Two or three weeks ago work was started on Heffern No. 2, midway between No. 1 and the Chapman well, and last week $100,000 was offered for the company's rights in it. A few days ago, before the re-organization, a small block of stock in the company was sold for six times its par value. The Heffern company has not only proven new and hitherto untested territory, but it has brought the field nearer to Anaheim. Well No. 1 is only three miles from this city, and may be considered an Anaheim well. People here have been watching its progress with keen interest, because a good strike in this sandwash lease proves beyond question that this city is in oil territory. The Heffern is Anaheim's pioneer well, and should it prove to be what is now confidently expected, within a year we will probably find ourselves surrounded by a forest of derricks. Already there is a scramble for leases, not only in the vicinity of the tract, but up to the gates of Anaheim. Persons who were foresighted enough to keep their property clear are now receiving substantial offers for leases, and the bidding will probably go still higher. Sandwash property, of small value agriculturally in comparison with the rich citrus ground adjacent, may soon be yielding millions in oil and gas. OLD AGE PENSIONS Old age pensions are proposed for persons more than 65 years of age in a bill introduced by Senator McNary of Oregon. The bill was referred to There has been plenty of law on the statute books, national and state, to prevent all the combinations in restraint of trade which have been at the bottom of the profiteering. The President of the United States is sworn to see to it that the laws of the nation are executed. Delivering harrangues to the populace against the high cost of living is an inadequate substitute for the performance of plain duty. A Coblenz dispatch to the New York Times says that the inter-allied commission has struck a blow at American commerce by ruling that all duties on goods entering Germany by land may be paid in depreciated German currency, but all sea imports must be paid in gold. This makes the duty on American imports four times as high as British and French imports. This is a fair sample of the way in which American interests are being protected in the grand concert of powers for the introduction of equality of trade among nations. One Texas Democratic congressman offered to fight in the House the other day because another Texas Democratic congressman called him an administration rubber stamp. They may be just as much rubber stamps as ever, these Democratic congressmen, but they are not as proud as they used to be of having public attention called to the fact. Old age pensions are proposed for persons more than 65 years of age in a bill introduced by Senator McNary of Oregon. The bill was referred to the pensions committee. Persons with incomes of not more than $6 per week would receive a weekly pension of $4 under the bill. To investigate the high cost of living the Department of Justice wants a million and a half, the Federal Trade Commission wants a half million, the Department of Commerce wants another half million, the Department of Labor still another half million, the Department of Agriculture a half million more, etc., etc. The remedies for the high cost of living provided by the present national administration may not come up to expectations, but the demands for appropriations are always on an elaborate scale. Josefa Yorba de Smythe, widow of John S. Smythe, who died in 1906, has filed a petition for a decree terminating Smythe's homestead interest in property consisting of a lot and a quarter of another at Anaheim. The petitioner came into possession of the property in 1876. H. G. Ames is her attorney. Anaheim Gazette, per year, $1.50, payable in advance. ANAHEIM GAZETTE CONGRESS AMAZED AT HARBORD MISSION Looked Upon as an Attempt to Saddle Great Trouble Zone on This Country. Members of Congress are reading with no little astonishment various cables from Paris which tell that General James G. Harbord, Chief of Staff of the American Expeditionary Forces, at the head of a strong body of American military and naval officers, has gone from Paris on a mission to Armenia and the Trans-Caucasian region. General Harbord is not going on an outing excursion but will proceed under instructions from the President. It is admitted that the object of the mission will be to find out all the information possible about existing conditions in the Trans-Caucasus, especially in Armenia. By personal investigation he will look into the questions involved in the possible taking over of Armenia and Trans-Caucasia by the United States, it being proposed that the United States act as mandatory under the league of nations. It is distinctly stated from Paris that General Harbord is to investigate the military situation in Armenia and the Trans-Caucasian country, all questions relating to the policing of the country, finances, commerce, railroads, harbors, mining, agriculture and the like. He is to report on these matters from the standpoint of the military administration of this vast territory. The actual sending of this formidable mission has served to open the eyes of many in Congress who had supposed it hardly probable that the administration would actually attempt to saddle upon the United States the task of governing a great zone of trouble in southwestern Asia or some other remote part of the lands have played out is a fallacy. This year many fields are yielding as much as they did thirty-five years ago. A large amount of California's original wheat land is now planted to orchards, vineyards, alfalfa and rice, but there is still available many thousands of acres of pasture land, sandy and clay loams, that will produce six to twelve sacks (13 to 26 bushels) of wheat per acre at a good profit to the grower. A study of California soils shows many varying types with loams predominating. We have loams, clay loams, sandy loams, fine sandy loams, gravelly loams, and heavy stony loams. We also have considerable adobe soil—including clay adobe and black adobe. The adobe soils, the loams, red clay loams and some of the sandy loams are good yielders of wheat. The rolling lands from Merced to Chico along the Sierra Nevadas are mostly clay loams of varynig composition, and capable, when not too stony or too steep, of being so farmed as to produce good wheat crops. The adobe of the Montezuma hills, the black adobe lands around Stockton, above Sacramento, and in the Salinas Valley will produce and have produced large yields of wheat. The alluvial soils on the west side of the Sacramento river are well suited to wheat as are also the lands of the west side of the San Joaquin Valley. Boiled down to the last analysis, any soil that will grow grass, trees, shrubs, barley, or vines will also grow wheat. Whether is the most profitable crop to raise on these various soils is quite another problem; the bulletin then goes on to say. There are many factors influencing the decision that every farmer must make regarding his wedding bells at St. Boniface's Miss Edna Wentz and Samuel Kraemer, Jr. United in Marriage Tuesday Morning.—Leave for the North on Honeymoon Tour of Indefinite Length. At eight o'clock Tuesday morning, at St. Boniface's church, Miss Edna Wentz was united in marriage to Samuel Kraemer, Jr., Rev. Father Browne officiating. A large number of friends were present to witness the ceremony which united this prominent young couple. The church was decorated for the occasion with flowers and greenery, pink dahillas predominating. The bride was escorted to the altar by her brother, George Wentz, and attended by her bridesmaid, Miss Angeline Kraemer, while the groom's best man was his brother, Gilbert Kraemer. The young people met at the altar where the impressive ceremony of the Catholic church was read by Father Browne. After reading of the mass by Father Browne, the newlyweds and their relatives assembled at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Dora Wentz, on Clementine street, where a wedding breakfast was spread, after partaking of which Mr. and Mrs. Kraemer left on a wedding tour in the north, carrying with them the good wishes of a wide circle of friends. A wedding present which Samuel Kraemer, father of the groom, generously bestows upon his children when they leave the home nest, is a twenty-acre ranch and twenty thousand dollars in cash, a present which the young was organizing an unfortunate of companies did the venture, territory, but turned down people had necessary proves that Heffern No. 1 neighborhood be a good facilities are far. Two or started on between No. 1 last week the company's ago, before all block of sold for six not only to untested the field No. 1 is only by and may well. Peering its pro because a wash lease at this city Heffern is land should confidently will probanded by a amble forinity of the Anaheim.ated enough ear are now for leases, probably go still by, of small parison with adjacent, may in oil and proposed for years of age in Victor McNary referred to The actual sending of this formidable mission has served to open the eyes of many in Congress who had supposed it hardly probable that the administration would actually attempt to saddle upon the United States the task of governing a great zone of trouble in southwestern Asia or some other remote part of the world. The mission of General Harbord is avowedly undertaken with a mandate for Armenia and the Trans-Caucasian region by the United States in mind. It is plain there is a powerful movement intended to drive the United States into the assumption of this great task. Likewise it is plain that the administration has given it encouragement. It is now generally believed that once the league of nations begins to operate there will be a definite proposal that the United States act as mandatory for the region in question and perhaps for all Turkey. This matter will not be left, however, entirely to the decision of Geneva and the President. Congress will have the final say and if the tenor of opinion which is now voiced at the Capitol with reference to the General Harbord mission is any index, it is a safe assumption that the mandate will be refused. It is a certainty the President cannot line up his own party in Congress for a proposition which would involve the maintenance of a large naval force in near eastern waters and the establishment and maintenance of garrisons in numerous points in southwest Asia. How many troops would be needed to keep the territory properly administered General Harbord will indicate in his report. GROW MORE WHEAT IN CALIFORNIA Can be Raised at Big Profit on Much of Our Land. Some interesting observations on wheat-growing in California are set forth by the Agricultural Department of the Sperry Flour Company in the most recent bulletin issued in connection with its "Plant More and Better Wheat" campaign. The only soils in California that are harbors, mining, agriculture and the like. He is to report on these matters from the standpoint of the military administration of this vast territory. The actual sending of this formidable mission has served to open the eyes of many in Congress who had supposed it hardly probable that the administration would actually attempt to saddle upon the United States the task of governing a great zone of trouble in southwestern Asia or some other remote part of the world. The mission of General Harbord is avowedly undertaken with a mandate for Armenia and the Trans-Caucasian region by the United States in mind. It is plain there is a powerful movement intended to drive the United States into the assumption of this great task. Likewise it is plain that the administration has given it encouragement. It is now generally believed that once the league of nations begins to operate there will be a definite proposal that the United States act as mandatory for the region in question and perhaps for all Turkey. This matter will not be left, however, entirely to the decision of Geneva and the President. Congress will have the final say and if the tenor of opinion which is now voiced at the Capitol with reference to the General Harbord mission is any index, it is a safe assumption that the mandate will be refused. It is a certainty the President cannot line up his own party in Congress for a proposition which would involve the maintenance of a large naval force in near eastern waters and the establishment and maintenance of garrisons in numerous points in southwest Asia. How many troops would be needed to keep the territory properly administered General Harbord will indicate in his report. GROW MORE WHEAT IN CALIFORNIA Can be Raised at Big Profit on Much of Our Land. Some interesting observations on wheat-growing in California are set forth by the Agricultural Department of the Sperry Flour Company in the most recent bulletin issued in connection with its "Plant More and Better Wheat" campaign. The only soils in California that are harbors, mining, agriculture and the like. He is to report on these matters from the standpoint of the military administration of this vast territory. The actual sending of this formidable mission has served to open the eyes of many in Congress who had supposed it hardly probable that the administration would actually attempt to saddle upon the United States the task of governing a great zone of trouble in southwestern Asia or some other remote part of the world. The mission of General Harbord is avowedly undertaken with a mandate for Armenia and the Trans-Caucasian region by the United States in mind. It is plain there is a powerful movement intended to drive the United States into the assumption of this great task. Likewise it is plain that the administration has given it encouragement. It is now generally believed that once the league of nations begins to operate there will be a definite proposal that the United States act as mandatory for the region in question and perhaps for all Turkey. This matter will not be left, however, entirely to the decision of Geneva and the President. Congress will have the final say and if the tenor of opinion which is now voiced at the Capitol with reference to the General Harbord mission is any index, it is a safe assumption that the mandate will be refused. It is a certainty the President cannot line up his own party in Congress for a proposition which would involve the maintenance of a large naval force in near eastern waters and the establishment and maintenance of garrisons in numerous points in southwest Asia. How many troops would be needed to keep the territory properly administered General Harbord will indicate in his report. GROW MORE WHEAT IN CALIFORNIA Can be Raised at Big Profit on Much of Our Land. Some interesting observations on wheat-growing in California are set forth by the Agricultural Department of the Sperry Flour Company in the most recent bulletin issued in connection with its "Plant More and Better Wheat" campaign. The only soils in California that are harbors, mining, agriculture and the like. He is to report on these matters from the standpoint of the military administration of this vast territory. The actual sending of this formidable mission has served to open the eyes of many in Congress who had supposed it hardly probable that the administration would actually attempt to saddle upon the United States the task of governing a great zone of trouble in southwestern Asia or some other remote part of the world. The mission of General Harbord is avowedly undertaken with a mandate for Armenia and the Trans-Caucasian region by the United States in mind. It is plain there is a powerful movement intended to drive the United States into the assumption of this great task. Likewise it is plain that the administration has given it encouragement. It is now generally believed that once the league of nations begins to operate there will be a definite proposal that the United States act as mandatory for the region in question and perhaps for all Turkey. This matter will not be left, however, entirely to the decision of Geneva and the President. Congress will have the final say and if the tenor of opinion which is now voiced at the Capitol with reference to the General Harbord mission is any index, it is a safe assumption that the mandate will be refused. It is a certainty the President cannot line up his own party in Congress for a proposition which would involve the maintenance of a large naval force in near eastern waters and the establishment and maintenance of garrisons in numerous points in southwest Asia. How many troops would be needed to keep the territory properly administered General Harbord will indicate in his report. CANNOT MAKE WINE FOR PERSONAL USE Collector Carter Says It Can't Be Done According to Law. Collector of Internal Revenue John Wentz, on Clementine street, where a wedding breakfast was spread, after partaking of which Mr. and Mrs. Kraemer left on a wedding tour in the north, carrying with them the good wishes of a wide circle of friends. A wedding present which Samuel Kraemer, father of the groom, generously bestows upon his children when they leave home nest, is a twenty-acre ranch and twenty thousand dollars in cash, a present which the young people find extremely useful. BUILDING AIRCRAFT Recent aircraft developments in England and France indicate nothing less than a plan to establish an international air police to keep an eye on Germany and enforce the treaty. It may be recalled that on one or two occasions after the signing of the armistice, when the people of Berlin grew especially truculent, they were quieted by the appearance of a big British dirigible war balloon which cruised around ominously and then flew away. The British government has gone ahead manufacturing those big fellows. The transatlantic flight of the R-34 was probably a mere incident in the program of creating a fleet of those monsters and impressing Germany with their power. It is said that a blimp four times as large as the R-34 is now building in England. Huge airplanes of the bombing type are also being rushed to completion. France is doing nothing so spectacular, but has made almost as large an appropriation for aircraft as Great Britain has, evidently with the same purpose in mind. WALNUT MANAGER IS ON TRIP EAST Diamond Brand News: Financial and trade conditions in Southern California affect the walnut business only in so far as they reflect the condition, of the country in general. The association's distribution field isthe entire United States and if we are to announce opening prices that will move our crop and at at same time give us an adequate return, we must be Can be Raised at Big Profit on Much of Our Land. Some interesting observations on wheat-growing in California are set forth by the Agricultural Department of the Sperry Flour Company in the most recent bulletin issued in connection with its "Plant More and Better Wheat" campaign. The only soils in California that are not suitable for wheat, says the bulletin, are the peat and muck formations on the deltas of the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers. With all other soils, it is mostly a matter of preparation of soil, of seed selection, of moisture, drainage, and time of planting. The bulletin then goes on to give some figures and a bit of history, saying: In 1918, 88 acres of very thin red gravelly clay near Chico produced 514 sacks of Baart wheat. In the same year 60 acres of sedimentary adobe near Stockton produced 1320 sacks of wheat, and many thousands of acres of black loam land in the Tulare Lake region produced as high as 25 sacks of Sonora wheat per acre. The Moreing Brothers on their Natomas properties in 1918 had a field of nearly 1000 acres that produced 25 sacks of Early Baart per acre. The 1919 harvest has shown some equally satisfactory results. Nearly every type of soil has produced its quota of wheat. Failures have been due to lack of rain, foul land, poor seed, late planting, hot winds, poor soil condition, and drainage rather than to lack of fertility of the soil. The old claim that California wheat CANNOT MAKE WINE FOR PERSONAL USE Collector Carter Says It Can't Be Done According to Law. Collector of Internal Revenue John P. Carter is not at all popular these days with owners of large grape vineyards and the person who has a few vines in his dooryard, because of a ruling he has been compelled to make prohibiting their making wine for personal use. On account of the fact that the grape crop is ripening rapidly, Collector Carter, who has charge of the sixth district of California, in which many of the largest vineyards in the world are located, is in receipt of scores of inquiries as to whether the manufacture of wine for personal use will be permitted. The uncertainty existing throughout the state and nation concerning the making, possession of and use of wine, beer and stronger liquors, because of the variety of court decisions, caused the majority of grape growers to believe they could manufacture win for home use. "I am sorry to dash the hopes of these people, but it can't be helped," sighed the collector as he scanned the pile of letters, written by inquiring lovers of the distilled grape juice. "Under the provisions of United States treasury decision 2788, the manufacture of wine for beverage purpose is prohibited after May 1, 1919, and this prohibition will be in force and effect at least until the repeal of the war-time prohibition act. Therefore the manufacture of wine for personal use cannot be permitted at present, but the manufacture of wine for sacramental, medicinal, scientific, or other than beverage purposes is permitted." The collector declined to comment on the report that thousands of persons have entered into the home brewing of beer, and that dealers are dispensing malt formulas for the manufacture of this beverage. He said this was a problem that would receive attention later. School Shoes SCHOOL begins Monday, Sept. 15th, and each pupil and student should be comfortably fitted with substantial FOOTWEAR. We have a complete line of shoes. For Boys and Girls and guarantee to give them the best quality at the lowest possible price. Prices $2.50 to $5.00 We give you the worth of your money Joe Lautenbach Cor. Lemon and Center. Anaheim, Cal. RUN NO. 5 Starts Sept. 1, 1919 Fifty inches one hour per share. All rented stock must be transferred in office before run starts Anaheim Union Water Company to announce the season's opening prices. Abroad our office at Grenoble, France, is busily engaged in gathering data relative to the size and quality of the French, Italian and Spanish crops as well as rail and transportation conditions, price forecasts, and the probable percentages that will be exported to the United States. This data will be kept right up to date and cabled to the Los Angeles office just prior to the price announcement date. At home, the sales department, through its representatives and various other sources of information, is keeping in close touch with financial trade, manufacturing and labor conditions as well as prices and price tendencies on all food products. General Manager Thorpe will shortly start on a tour of the large markets of the country for the purpose of gaining first-hand corroboration of the results of the sales department's investigations. His trip will end in New York, where the final pulse of the nation may be found and where much valuable foreign information may also be gleaned. He will spend directly from New York to Los Angeles and be on hand to lay his conclusions before the board of four; May 26, nine; May 27, nine; May 28, eleven; May 29, ten; May 30, fourteen; May 31, fourteen; June 1, one; June 2, sixteen; June 3, eleven; June 4, one. "J. H. Benson came out from La-Crosse early Sunday and watched the hen constantly all day," said Rhodes. "There were hundreds of persons here during the day, and I suppose the excitement had its effect, for she laid only one egg. Mr. Benson decided to stay over night and watch the hen another day. And he certainly watched her. When the hen clambered into the nest finally, Monday morning, Mr. Benson sat down in a rocking chair in the barn near by and never took his eyes off the nest until the chicken finally arose four hours later and hopped down onto the barn floor. "Mr. Benson found the hen had laid in this one sitting thirteen eggs. Later in the day she laid three more eggs but Benson was gone." This White Rock is a large bird, but not of unusual size. She is fat and docile, a voracious eater when off the nest and consumes a large amount of grain. Mrs. Rhodes believes the hen is three years old. The eggs laid by this hen are of nor- FREAK BODY IS THE WONDER OF HER STATE. With a record of 151 eggs in one month and 77 of these produced in a single week, a 3-year-old White Rock hen owned by Gus Rhodes, prosperous La Crosse Valley farmer, living one mile east of West Salem, Wis., claims the egg-loving championship of the world. The first questioning of the record of the hen's laying performance during the month of May, when it was kept by Mrs. Rhodes, ceases when some of the skeptics on the premises saw the hen lay 16 eggs in a period of ten hours. Her record is: May 3, four eggs; May 4, three; May 5, four; May 6, five; May 7, six; May 8, four; May9, three. The hen laid no more eggs until May 20, when she statred in with five. Her record of month continues: May 20, five; May 21, none; May 22, six; May 23, four; May 24, seven; May 25, Judgment for $75,000 and interest from January 9, 1919, was awarded to Anna G. Walters by Judge Z. B. West in Superior Court Friday. The verdict was directed against George A. Fox and is the culmination of a civil suit growing out of a fast and furious love affair in which it was said that Fox after a three-day courtship induced Mrs. Walters to marry him and deed her orange grove to her prospective husband. Fox later sold the ranch and received as part pay an apartment-house at a beach resort. Money received in the trade was said to have been retained by Fox, who was arrested and convicted in the Los Angeles courts on a charge of embezzlement. Boot blacks have now raised the price of a shine to 15 cents. "We've gotta do it," said Lee Baker. "Dealers are charging us such an outrageous price for supplies that we must raise our prices or quit business."