anaheim-gazette 1919-09-18

SANTA ANA YOUNG WOMAN CHASED BY BOLSHEVIKI Miss Dobson Having Interesting Experience in Siberia. At least two Santa Anans were in the contingent that had to evacuate Chillabriesk, Siberia, in July when the Bolshviki invaded that place. The two Santa Anans were Arthur Anderson, whose mother now resides at Garden Grove, and Miss Reba Dobson, daughter of Dr. G. H. Dobson. The former is with the army and the latter is a Red Cross nurse. Writing to her father under date of July 29, Miss Dobson says: Arthur Anderson and I have had some wonderful experiences over here. The Bolshevik got too close to us and we had to leave in a hurry. When he gets home he will call and tell you all about it. We had to vacate Chillabriesk and it took us eight daps to get to Omsk, which, in ordinary times, we could make in thirty-six hours. It was some sight to see people living on top of box cars with their few worldly possessions hanging on steps—just any place to ride away on. So many of the Russian armies sent to the front are turning Bolshevik. When the army retreated to Chillabriesk the mayor ordered the city evacuated. They got us women folk and patients out on various trains and some of the men stayed and got out about a million dollars worth of supplies. I am now at Tomsk. This is where the big university is and we are MOVEMENT ON FOOT FOR COUNTY LIBRARY Proposition Meeting with Much Favor Among the People. A movement is on foot in Orange county for the establishment of a county free library. An organizer, Mrs. May Dexter Henshall of Sacramento, has been here, and has given impetus to the movement. People at Garden Grove have held a meeting with Mrs. Henshall, and are enthusiastic in their desire to have the library established. Under the plan favored at Garden Grove, the library would be separate from any municipal library. It would not be a case of a contract to any city library to furnish books to the entire county outside of incorporated cities. Under the plan favored, distribution would be through a county library to school districts outside of incorporated cities. A statement by the California State Library is to the effect that all but thirteen counties of the state have established county free libraries. The statement says: "The county free library is a library which is established by resolution of the supervisors, which is supported by the county, and which gives free service to every resident of the county." The headquarters are at the county seat and are in charge of a trained librarian, who holds a certificate from the Board of Library Examiners. Branches are established in various parts of the county in charge of cus- HEIRS CHARGE Three Daughteren Granges File Suit in Superb brought by Virgil P. Wells and Geo recover property Harriet M. des M. Koch. The fraud was used by husband of Mrs. suading her to move to the complaint Attorney Frenching for Mr. des denied the charge question is fifteenth Fullerton. At the time that made over the death was suffering from breast and was inely executing any Des Granges to the plaintiffs, the deed to Maris Granges and deed title as joint tenure death of either would be entitled possession of the vivor's death thus the daughters. It is alleged who are daughters that on May 5, Margaret Koch deed to the fifth title. Des Granges clare in their c So many of the Russian armies sent to the front are turning Bolshevik. When the army retreated to Chillia-briesk the mayor ordered the city evacuated. They got us women folk and patients out on various trains and some of the men stayed and got out about a million dollars worth of supplies. I am now at Tomsk. This is where the big university is and we are housed in a university building. I am very well and enjoy living here. CRUSHED UNDER WHEELS OF HEAVY BEET WAGON John McDowell fell from Seat and was instantly Killed. Caught under the wheels of a heavily loaded beet wagon and trailer, the wheels of which passed over his chest, John McDowell met a tragic death about 10 o'clock Friday morning northwest of Westminster. Details of the accident are unknown, as no one witnessed it. McDowell was 23 years of age and was working for John Green, who owns a beet ranch northwest of Westminster. Driving an eight-horse team and wagon and trailer loaded to the brim with beets, McDowell started for the beet dump at Westminster. A little later his body was found on the highway by a passing autoist. The team had stopped about a quarter of a mile from where the body was found. His chest is badly crushed and indications were that the wheels on one side of the wagon and trailer passed over his body. The body was found to one side of the paved highway, leading to the belief that he struggled some after receiving his fatal injuries. A halter was found in one of his hands. Two theories are advanced as to how the accident occurred. One is that he fell from the seat under the wheels of the wagon. The other is that he jumped down from the seat and used the halter as a whip to liven up some of the animals forming the team and that in attempting to again mount the seat his foot slipped and his body rolled under the wheels. The county free library is a library which is established by resolution of the supervisors, which is supported by the county, and which gives free service to every resident of the county. "The headquarters are at the county seat and are in charge of a trained librarian, who holds a certificate from the Board of Library Examiners. Branches are established in various parts of the county in charge of custodians. These collections are changed in part or as a whole when the community no longer uses them. The State Library supplements, free of all expense, the county free libraries." "The county free library plan has been in operation in California since October 1, 1908. The growth of the work has been remarkable. Service to the schools is an especial feature." SUSTAINS DEMURRER Because Superior Judge Williams sustained a demurrer entered by Attorney Dan N. Noland of Los Angeles in behalf of J. G. Delozier, defendant in an action brought in June by Herbert F. Clark to recover twenty acres located near the Katella sub-statlog, which Clark deeded to Delozier pursuant to an alleged agreement whereby Delozier was to exchange a 520-acre farm in Missouri, Delozier is winner in the opening phase of the litigation. Judge Williams gave Clark ten days in which to amend his complaint. The alleged trade of Clark's property for the Missouri property was made on April 12. Clark in his complaint set forth that because of the expense that he would incur he did not first visit the Missouri property for purposes of examining it. He relied solely on Delozier's representations, he says. These representations were made with fraudulent intent, according to the plaintiff. Delozier in his demurrer denied that the alleged representations were made with intent to deceive the plaintiff. COLLISION ON P.E. Three men were injured Friday night when the P.E. car from Los Angeles ran full speed into the rear of a P.E. Two theories are advanced as to how the accident occurred. One is that he fell from the seat under the wheels of the wagon. The other is that he jumped down from the seat and used the halter as a whip to liven up some of the animals forming the team and that in attempting to again mount the seat his foot slipped and his body rolled under the wheels. WILL INSPECT HORSE MEAT MEANT FOR HUMAN FOOD To open up the channels of trade for some of the inferior horses in this country that do not pay for their keep, and to increase the meat supply in some of the larger cities in the United States and abroad where horse meat is used for human food, the United States Department of Agriculture is authorized by Congress to inspect horse meat and horse-meat products. The amendment to the regulations governing meat inspection by the department was passed by Congress on July 24, with an appropriation of $100,000 to carry on the work during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920. While it is expected that as a result of this amendment inferior horses throughout the country will be slaughtered for human food, it will open a market especially for the small horses—many of them wild—on the western range. These animals are eating much of the limited supply of range feed which is needed by live stock that is better able to pay for its keep. Elimination of the undesirable horses not only will save feed for more worthy cattle and sheep, but will add hides to the leather supply and increase meat stocks. Three men were injured Friday night when the P. E. car from Los Angeles ran full speed into the rear of a P. E. freight train standing on the main line a short distance west of Garden Grove. Ralph Cole of Santa Ana was rendered unconscious from the result of a blow on the head and suffered a severe cut on his forehead over the left eye. J. G. Hawkins, also of Santa Ana, is in bed recovering from the shock and a deep gash on top of his head. The motorman of the passenger car, whose name could not be learned, was also hurt. The car was badly damaged. It is claimed that there were no signal lamps hanging from the rear of the caboose on the freight train and that the passenger car bowling along at fifty miles an hour plowed into the freight. When the standing train came within the rays of the headlight of the passenger car, it was too late for the motorman to bring the car to a stop, and it is said the car was going practically full speed when it hit the freight. A Garden Grove physician rendered first aid to the injured. It was nearly 1 o'clock when the injured and other passengers reached their destination in Santa Ana. The collision occurred a little before 11 o'clock. Anaheim Gazette, per year, $1.50, payable in advance. ANAHEIM GAZETTE LIBRARY In Favor Orange of a mer, Mrs. Mamento, Impetus have held and are to have Garden separate it would to any corporated deed, discounty outside of California that all state have wes. The library solution of supported lives free the counnect trained state from examiners. various of cus- HEIRS CHARGE FRAUD IN PROPERTY SALE Three Daughters of Mrs. Harriet des Granges File Suit for Recovery. Suit in Superior Court has been brought by Virginia Fortney, Harriet P. Wells and Gertrude M. Hunter to recover property deeded by the late Harriet M. des Granges to Margaret M. Koch. The complaint charges that fraud was used by John C. des Granges, husband of Mrs. des Granges, in pursuing her to make the deed. Answer to the complaint was filed Friday by Attorney French of Los Angeles, acting for Mr. des Granges, in which he denied the charge. The property in question is fifteen acres of land near Fullerton. At the time that Harriet des Granges made over the deed, it is alleged she was suffering from cancer of the breast and was incapable of intelligently executing any legal instruments. Des Granges told her, according to the plaintiffs, that if she made out the deed to Margaret Koch, Mrs. des Granges and des Granges would take title as joint tenants, and that on the death of either of them the survivor would be entitled to and remain in possession of the land and on the survivor's death the land would pass to the daughters. It is alleged by the three women who are daughters of Mrs. des Granges, that on May 5, 1916, des Granges had Margaret Koch deliver to him a grant deed to the fifteen acres and took title. Des Granges, the daughters declare in their complaint, is about to PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN Trustees May Require Health Supervision Over Pupils. With the opening of the schools for the fall term, the physical examination of the children, which has been undertaken for some years in some California schools, will be under a new law, passed at the 1919 session of the legislature. This new law, which is Section 161a of the Political Code, repealed what was known as the Health and Development Act, under which the physical examination of school children was carried on. The new act provides that boards of school trustees and city board of education may, but are not required to, provide for health supervision of the pupils enrolled in the public schools and for that purpose may appoint nurses, oculists, physicians or dentists as physical inspectors. Under this law, however, physical examination cannot be made compulsory, the law providing that a parent or guardian having control or charge of any child enrolled in the public schools may file annually with the principal of the school in which he is enrolled a statement in writing, signed by such parent or guardian, stating that he will not consent to the physical examination of his child and thereupon such child shall be exempt from any physical examination except for contagious diseases. This places the law regarding physical examination on substantially the same basis as that concerning vaccination. The law regarding vaccination And They Say A curious story is told concerning the sending of vegetables and fruit to market from the environs in and around San Diego. These commodities in large quantities are picked up by auto express and carried to Los Angeles, where the stuff is put into the hands of commission merchants. Later these same foodstuffs are resent to cities in the southern part of the state. No doubt this same modus operandi is followed in getting other goods to market, thereby hoisting the ultimate cost to the consumer. It looks as though oil gusher propaganda is being liberated in certain quarters. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. The other evening when quite a crowd of people were waiting in the council room at the city hall for the assembling of the trustees, who were then delving into the mysteries of an executive session, one member was called to the phone, and in answer to a query was heard to reply: "Yes, it will be midnight before we get through here." And again the trustee disappeared into the executive session chamber. Those who were in the habit of hitting the hay early heaved a sigh and torched up a fresh perfecto. A young man, who is an auto bus driver, complains about the way some reckless speed maniacs in big touring cars crowd smaller machines off the state highway. These fresh guys will run up to another machine just as THE NEW FASHIONS Brilliance in coloring and richness in fabric will mark the American fashions for the coming winter and spring. With a great sense of freedom the American designers of garments have cast aside all the sober thoughts and somber colors of wartime days and have welcomed in their place the warm tones of browns and red brown, marvelous ceries, gorgeous contrasting trimmings for the dark fabrics and for blouses and even gowns the most intricately designed and exquisitely dyed Batiks. This is the decree of leaders of fashion, issued at hte fashion show held in New York. Possibly the "attic shops" and the "attic artists" of Greenwich village have been the inspiration for this riotous use of color. Be that as it may, the Batik artists of that community will assuredly reap a harvest in the next year, for every designer in this country as well as in Paris has realized endless beautiful possibilities in the use of these materials. And if you can afford a Batik garment or extra throw or wrap this year you may be sure that you are truly fashionable. The price of a Batik, as well as its artistic value, varies literally with the intimacy of design, however, and the modestly dressed woman will only have the opportunity to gaze covetously at these filmy costly creations in the shop windows annually with the principle of the school in which he is enrolled a statement in writing, signed by such parent or guardian, stating that he will not consent to the physical examination of his child and thereupon such child shall be exempt from any physical examination except for contagious diseases. This places the law regarding physical examination on substantially the same basis as that concerning vaccination. The law regarding vaccination provides that at the beginning of each school year each child shall file either a physician's certificate showing that the child has been successfully vaccinated or a certificate signed by the parent or guardian to the effect that the parent or guardian is conscientiously opposed to the practice of vaccination and will not consent to the vaccination of the child. No unvaccinated child can be excluded except after an epidemic of smallpox has been found by the state board of health to exist and then unvaccinated children must be transferred to a school which has not been exposed to the disease. In California there can be no compulsory vaccination or medical or physical examination of school children. The Public School Protective League has just completed the distribution from its San Francisco and Los Angeles offices of cards for the use of parents who do not desire their children physically examined. ANOTHER INCREASE IN THE PRICE OF SUGAR Los Angeles Federal Official Says Raise is Illegal. Special Examiner Lyndol Young's statement to the Municipal Fair Price Committee, following the taking of testimony of wholesale grocers: "The most important thing this committee can do to win in the light of the testimony given here, is to follow the sugar investigation to a conclusion, and let the other matters before the committee rest until we know who is violating the law in raising the price of sugar at this time, and make whoever it is answer to the law. "From the evidence given by wholesale grocers in Los Angeles I conclude that there is here a concrete violation through here." And again the trustee disappeared into the executive session chamber. Those who were in the habit of hitting the hay early heaved a sigh and torched up a fresh perfecto. A young man, who is an auto bus driver, complains about the way some reckless speed manlacs in big touring cars crowd smaller machines off the state highway. These fresh guys will run up to another machine just as close as they can for their own safety and then by sudden bursts of speed will rush by, nine times out of ten crowding the little fellow into the gutter, sometimes with serious results. Cutting in ahead of other cars is getting to be so common as to be a joke. This young man said he has seen cases where he would feel impelled to draw a gun and shoot a lot of holes in the road hog's tires. Where, Oh where, is the speed cop? A wide awake auto tire dealer, who believes in advertising shows his brand of goods properly labeled, in a seaside scene, and has a good looking young lady standing nearby, arrayed in the latest style bathing suit. Of course, it is a question which attracts the most attention. Ever and anon some one living just on the outskirts of town comes in with a complaint about bad roads passing his place, which sometimes are extensions of city streets. Usually the roadbed is sandy in summer and muddy in winter. These people would make star advocates for extension of the city limits. Mexican laborers who are employed by corporations in digging trenches to be used for pipe laying are receiving $4.50 per day. This is hard work, but the hombres have a way all their own of not over-heating themselves. An auto stage driver-says he is becoming afflicted with a new ailment affecting the eyes—at times he gets the shifty glance, then the vacant stare, and also becomes wild-eyed, and now that the fair ones have taken to wearing hosiery having butterfly adornments just below the knee, the poor fellow has taken to wearing deep colored glasses. Oh boy! And if you can afford a Batik garment or extra throw or wrap this year you may be sure that you are truly fashionable. The price of a Batik, as well as its artistic value, varies literally with the intimacy of design, however, and the modestly dressed woman will only have the opportunity to gaze covetously at these filmy costly creations in the shop windows. There will be a chance at economy in dress from now on, say the American designers hopefully, for no longer do American women demand gowns from Paris, nor even garments designed after Parisian models. But they hasten to add the American designer has introduced with the simplicity of design richness of fabric such as we have never before been able to produce. And so for this winter the fabrics are very heavy velvets, plushes and limpid silks, and by next spring the models will be predominantly of chiffon velvets. At the fashion show held in New York by the associated garment manufacturers men and women buyers and designers from all parts of the country commented particularly on the fact that the American models shown have not followed the dictates of Paris, which for generations has set the styles for the world. Paris may go to whatever extremes she desires in the shortness of skirts, but American women will conservatively appear in skirts neither too long nor too short. Doves are said to be plentiful in the valleys and many hunters are having good luck among them. "The most important thing this committee can do to win in the light of the testimony given here, is to follow the sugar investigation to a conclusion, and let the other matters before the committee rest until we know who is violating the law in raising the price of sugar at this time, and make whoever it is answer to the law. "From the evidence given by wholesale grocers in Los Angeles I conclude that there is here a concrete violation of the Federal law. "There is no excuse for a profit of $1.05 by the jobbers in sugar in Los Angeles, and that is what they are taking. "On top of this we have the admission of the refiners that they put an arbitrary increase of 23 cents a sack of 100 pounds on the price they charge the jobbers, to cover the freight rate from San Francisco here, when, as a matter of fact, the sugar comes from Oxnard and other nearer places where the beet sugar factories are located. "The raise in the price of beet sugar in Southern California on Monday to $10.20 a sack was an arbitrary raise on the part of the Southern California jobbers, and the fact that every jobber and wholesaler in Los Angeles raised the price to the very same figure at the very same time proves that there was a combination and a conspiracy. "We should follow the sugar price raise in Southern California to a conclusion before we undertake to do anything else." The annual Michigan picnic will be held at Sycamore Grove Saturday, Sept. 20. All who formerly lived in that State are invited to attend. An auto stage driver-says he is becoming afflicted with a new alliment affecting the eyes—at times he gets the shifty glance, then the vacant stare, and also becomes wild-eyed, and now that the fair ones have taken to wearing hosiery having butterfly adornments just below the knee, the poor fellow has taken to wearing deep colored glasses. Oh boy! CALIFORNIA'S RICE PROSPECTS Sacramento Valley's 1919 rice yield per acre will exceed that of any of the Southern States by at least 50 percent, according to J. R. Leguenec, chief of the rice division of the United States food administration, who is making a personal survey of the crop conditions in the United States. "Without doubt," said Leguenec during his stay in Sacramento, "California will be producing over half the rice crop of the United States within the next five years. A year ago she was in fourth place. From the present outlook she will jump ahead of Texas this year, putting her in second place, and in five years she will probably outstrip Louisiana, which has an enormous output of rice now. I looked over about 1,000,000 acres available for rice land in the Sacramento Valley and that land is capable of growing rice enough to exceed the entire rice output of the United States at the present time." Anaheim Gazette per year, $1.50, payable in advance. Let Us Fit You With a NEW Schobel Hat The FALL STYLES Are Here Mighty Stylish and Classy. Prices 5.00 6.00 7.00 JACKSON'S MEN'S WEAR SHOP. YOUR MONEY'S WORTH ALWAYS ANAHEIM Anaheim Union Water Company RUN NO. 6 Starts Sept. 20, '19 100 inches per hour Anaheim Union Water Company RUN NO. 6 Starts Sept. 20, '19 100 inches per hour per share. All rented stock must be transferred in office before run starts DRAINAGE DISTRICTS The drainage committees of the Farm Centers have been active. Buaro Drainage District has a petition in the field being signed by the majority of property owners of that section. It will be ready to be presented to the Board of Supervisors at the next regular meeting. The Buena Park committee met at A. Nelson's office, Buena Park, last Thursday to hear the report by J. N. Anderson on the action taken by the Board of Supervisors with reference to the new law. Upon recommendation of the district attorney, the board deemed it best for the Buena Park District to operate under the old law by which older districts of the county were organized. The committee accepted the decision of the board. Fred Baştady was elected president of the new executive drainage committee and A. Nelson, secretary-treasurer. Nine property owners, representing every portion of the district, were appointed to work on this committee. The law firm of Head & Rutan was retained to handle the legal end of the organization. Resolutions were drawn up thanking the Board of Supervisors for the reports on the new law and recommendations made thereon. A petition has been drawn up by the attorney and is now being circulated among the property owners. Since the new Garden Grove district has been projected, a number of ranchers in the Alamitos section have total expenditures for the year $300,000,000. This total is made up of the actual expenditures for such items as labor, materials, supervision and administration directly connected with the construction, improvement, and upkeep of public roads and bridges outside the limits of incorporated towns and cities, and does not include any item for sinking fund payments or redemption and interest on road and bridge bonds. The year 1918 offered an unprecedented condition in practically all lines of highway work. There was not only a tremendous increase and expansion in the amount of heavy truck traffic on public roads and an unprecedented shortage in regard to road materials, labor and ready funds, but also a decided increase in maintenance work, which was, however, partially offset by a decrease in the amount of new construction. WHERE THE MONEY WENT An exchange calls attention to the manner in which the United States railroad administration has been running things in the following manner: Here is a case which shows how some of the deficit of the railroad administration has been caused. On the Wahash road a water tank was operated by electricity which was tended by a nearby farmer. He turned on the switch in the morning, went about his business, came back at six o'clock in the evening and turned it off. For driver-says he is bewith a new alliment at times he gets then the vacant comes wild-eyed, and ones have taken to having butterfly adlow the knee, the taken to wearing deep Oh boy! RICE PROSPECTS Valley's 1919 rice yield need that of any of the by at least 50 per to J. R. Leguenec, Division of the United Administration, who is final survey of the in the United States. said Leguenec durSacramento, "Californucing over half the United States within years. A year ago she race. From the present jump ahead of Texas going her in second years she will probisiana, which has an of rice now. I looked 0,000 acres available the Sacramento Valley capable of growing exceed the entire rice United States at the ROAD BUILDING IN FULL SWING Since early in 1919 there has been a steady increase each month in the Federal-aid business in the Bureau of Public Roads of the United States Department of Agriculture. States in all sections of the country are filing their projects and receiving allotments. The road-building era is in full swing, and it would seem that the end is not yet. All indications point to greater records in the months to come. Based on complete reports from 44 of the States cash expenditures on the rural roads and bridges of the United States for the calendar year 1918 amounted to $286,098,193. To this should be added the value of statute and convict labor, which can not be fixed with any great degree of accuracy but probably amounted to not less than $14,000,000, thus making the grand One way to raise the wages of the railway men would be to discharge the 150,000 extra hands it took to help the 1919 employees do less work than they did in 1918. The success this administration has had in keeping order in the immediately neighboring country of Mexico encourages it to favor the taking on of a "mandate" in Turkey. As Railway Administrator, Secretary McAdoo and the members of his family, it develops, had railroad and Pullman passes, and even as president of the Movie Trust, Mr. McAdoo continues to ride for nothing. Evidently Mr. McAdoo doesn't believe in the French army's motto: "Thou Shalt Not Pass."