anaheim-gazette 1919-12-25

THE PEOPLE'S MONEY When I came to Washington in May at the beginning of the extra session of Congress, writes Representative Hardy, there was a good deal of argument between the Republican and Democratic leaders a sto who was to blame for the necessity of the special session. The 65th Congress had failed to pass seven important appropriation bills. The government was out of money, or would be on July 1st, so the special session was called for the principal purpose of passing these supply bills. The Republican leaders tainted the Democratic side with negligence and unnecessary delays in the last session of the 65th, and the Democrats replied that the failure of supply bills to pass in the 65th was due to the Republican filibuster in the Senate. Much time was consumed in this fruitless argument but no unanimous agreement was ever reached on the subject. Now it turns out that whoever caused the delay in passing the supply bills in the 65th Congress—whether it was the so-called Republican filibuster in the Senate or the Democratic dilly-dallying in the House—did the country a great service. For the special session of the 65th Congress has passed these bills with a saving to the country of about $950,000,000, on tre same bills that got through in the last days of the last House. These aappropriation bills are for the Agriculture department, District of Columbia, Indians, Navy, Sundry Civil, Railroad deficiency and third defi ic dilly-dallying in the House—did the country a great service. For the special session of the 65th Congress has passed these bills with a saving to the country of about $950,000,000, on the same bills that got through in the last days of the last House. These appropriation bills are for the Agriculture department, District of Columbia, Indians, Navy, Sundry Civil, Railroad deficiency and third deficiency. They are made up from estimates furnished by the departments. The House in the 65th Congress had agreed on bills amounting to $3,767,975,974.73. This session the several departments of the government mentioned came back and asked for $4,559,581,546.40. After due consideration of the needs of the government this Congress cut the items down to $2,873,713,652.76. Thus saving the American people the tidy sum of $939,692,541.97 from the bills agreed upon in the last Democratic House and the magnificent sum of $1,685,867,893.64 from the estimates made by the Democratic national administration. The chief cuts came in the following bills—army bill a cut of $468,175,189.48, the navy bill a cut of $208,611,283.00, and sundry civil bill of $246,011,651.30. The Congress gets the credit for being an extravagant body, but as a matter of fact the Congress especially the House, is the economical branch of the government and is the branch that stands between those who clamor for money and those who pay the bills. It may be interesting to mention that in twenty years before the great war the House cut down the estimates of the various departments and saved the country $500,000,000 which was considered large in its day but the record of the special session of the present Congress will stand out as a notable example of money saving. During the war the Congress appropriated money liberally at the request of the President and the department of the government. These figures are big and some of them interesting. The total appropriations by Congress from the Declaration of Independence, 141 years down to the be- The Clark Oil Company's well No. 1 on the Hugo Wetzell is down 3300 feet, and is awaiting an O.K. on the water before resumption of drilling. After making some study of the water situation in the Travis well, the Fullerton Oil Company has cemented again, making the third time the well has been cemented. The Fullerton Oil Company's Anaheim Union No. 1 is drilling in a hard sand at 2980 and as yet has not shown any signs of oil. On property north of the Heffern well the Getty Oil Company started work building a rig for its first well in the new field. It is the intention of the Getty to get a rig up and preparations made for drilling to start just as soon as the Heffern well shows up satisfactorily. The deepest well now drilling at Richfield is the Petroleum Development Company's Bradford Community No. 1. This well is now down 3500 feet and is drilling in conglomerate. This is the deepest that conglomerate has been found in the field. Bradford Bros. No. 1 is drilling at 3434 and is showing quite a good deal of oil and gas in the shale. Bradford No. 1 is drilling at 1850 feet in a hard sand. No. 3 is a location for a new well. On the Yarnell property the Petroleum Midway has just brought in No. 3. The well is 3260 feet deep and started off making a hundred barrels. Yarnell Nos. 4, 5 and 6 are drilling, and Nos. 7and 8 are new rigs up. Locations have been made for Nos. 9 and 10. The Richfield-Yorba Oil Company drilling a wildcat well at Richfield is making preparations to shut off all surface waters by setting a string of 12½-inch pipe at 1165 feet. At this depth a very firm blue shale, excellent for a formation shut off, was struck. At 2300 feet the Santa Ana Canyon Oil Company got its first oil showing of the present Congress will stand out as a notable example of money saving. During the war the Congress appropriated money liberally at the request of the President and the department of the government. These figures are big and some of them interesting. The total appropriations by Congress from the Declaration of Independence, 141 years down to the beginning of the world war, was $25,-600,000,000. The appropriations by Congress during the war years, 1917 to and including the present session, total $54,-940,364,501.44. From this sum should be deducted items repealed of $7,-272,011,991.68. This leaves a net total of war years' appropriations of $47,668,352,509.76. Before the war began the total debt was a trifle less than one billion dollars. Today the total debt is approximately $26,500,000,000. Sums have been loaned to our allies totaling about $9,402,285,000. Before the war began annual appropriations ran about a billion dollars a year. For some time in the future the interest on our debt will be considerably over a billion dollars a year, and it is estimated that it will require about four billion dollars a year to pay interest, build up a sinking fund, and to run the government. So I think it can be readily seen that the Congress for some years to come will have quite a job on its hands Congress to appropriate money for various functions of government and those who pay the taxes. Anaheim Gazette, per year, $1.50, payable in advance. The Richfield-Yorba Oil Company drilling a wildcat well at Richfield is making preparations to shut off all surface waters by setting a string of 12½-inch pipe at 1165 feet. At this depth a very firm blue shale, excellent for a formation shut off, was struck. At 2300 feet the Santa Ana Canyon Oil Company got its first oil showing consisting of some oil colors and gas. At 2375 feet the present depth of the well, more gas is showing and the oil colors are more frequent and stronger. The Standard Oil Company, first producers on the original Kraemer property, while not big wells are consistent producers, running from 75 to 250 barrels. Kraemer No. 1 now on the pump for more than a year, is making its 75 barrels daily. The three produesr on the property are making around 500 a day. Kraemer 1-5 is drilling at 2130. Kraemer 1-6 is making a water test at 2060 feet. The tracing of water if any should be found is being intensively followed at Lock No. 2, a well 4006 feet deep. After drilling the Collins well 90 feet deeper, the Standard Oil Company has been unable to make this well produce. Sand keeps coming into the hole and holds the oil back. It is now the plan of Superintendent Winger to pour a large quantity of crude oil into the hole and with this wash the well out. As most everything has been tried to make the well produce, the experiment will be awaited with interest. On the Kraemer No. 2 property the ANAHEIM GAZETTE To the People of Anaheim and Vicinity We are sincerely grateful for your favors during the past year, and hope to merit their continuance. May the coming year be one of a long series of happy and prosperous years. JACKSON'S MEN'S WEAR SHOP. YOUR MONEY'S WORTH ALWAYS ANAHEIM Standard has five wells drilling. No. 2-3 is making hole at 1200 feet. At 2-4 the drilling has reached 2400 feet. No. 2-5 has just been cemented and is standing at 2560. No. 2-6 is making hole at 1700 feet. The Union Oil Company, credited with being the discoverer of the Richfield-Placentia oil fields, is leading the development work with 12 strings of tools running and locations made for current of electricity. Notwithstanding such knowledge on his part, the answer recites, he "negligently, carelessly and heedlessly" took hold of the telephone wire and "thus by his own negligent act contributed to his death." In her complaint the widow had alleged that with the intention of preventing possible loss by fire to the residence of W. W. Blaylock, brother-in-law of Stockton, he, Stockton undertook to detach the tale. COUNTY STILL NEEDING CENSUS ENUMERATORS Task of Numbering the People will Begin on Friday, January 2. Forty-seven enumerators are needed to take the census of Orange county, and up to date only thirty-eight have been secured, leaving nine vacancies to be filled before the first of January. Work will begin on January 2. Within incorporated cities having a population of 2500 at the last decennial count, the work must be completed in fifteen days. In the balance of the county thirty days' time is allowed. Enumerators in this part of the county are its follows: Anaheim Township, Excluding city—Mrs. Anna M. F. Garretson, Anaheim. Anaheim city—Omer B. Cook, Anaheim; Leroy Jones, Orange; Mary A. Mattis, Anaheim; Minnie B. Jones, Orange. Buena Park Township—Annie I. Daley, Buena Park. Fullerton Township, excluding city—Mrs. Susan J. Coulson & Mrs. Percy Coffman, Fullerton. Fullerton city—Mrs. Mae Robertson and John Thomas Green, Fullerton. Placentia—One enumerator needed. La Habra Township—Retta M. Pickering, La Habra. Yorba Linda Township — Emma Treydte, Yorba Linda. Los Alamitos and Stanton Townships—Mrs. Anna Bosey, Garden Grove. There is much speculation as to what the count will show in Anaheim. Basing their estimate on a directory issued Standard has five wells drilling. No. 2-3 is making hole at 1200 feet. At 2-4 the drilling has reached 2400 feet. No. 2-5 has just been cemented and is standing at 2560. No. 2-6 is making hole at 1700 feet. The Union Oil Company, credited with being the discoverer of the Richfield-Placentia oil fields, is leading the development work with 12 strings of tools running and locations made for three new wells. On the Chapman property No. 3 is drilling in the oil sand at 3066, three feet deeper than No. 1, the gusher. No. 3 is pretty lively and may go over the crown block most any time now. No. 4 is drilling in the conglomerate at 1150 feet. No. 5 is getting down, the log shows 2825 feet of hole. No. 6, the last well to spud in, shows 600 feet of hole. Rigs are up for Chapman Nos. 7 and 8. On the Coyle property No. 1 is rigging up, and lumber is on the ground for No. 2. Coyle & Bogue No. 1 is rotating in the conglomerate at 1200 feet. Dickson No. 1 after making 2775 feet of hole is now being delayed with a fishing job, some 1200 feet of drill pipe being lost in the hole. The Union Oil Company's Morse No. 1 at 2200 feet is looking like a gusher and gives promise at this time of being one of the biggest wells ever brought in in the Richfield district. More than 1000 feet of oil is now standing in the well. The Union's McFadden No. 1 is standing cemented at 3100 feet. On the Esther Newell property rig building for No. 1 has started. J. W. Newell No. 1 is drilling at 1175 feet. Shepherd No. 1 spudded in early in the week and is going down rapidly, 100 feet a day being drilled. Towell No. 1 is drilling at 2900 feet, shale and boulders being the formation. Yorba No. 1 is drilling at 1625. That the Standard Oil Company has an extensive drilling and development program mapped out for the Kraemer No. 2 tract is evinced by the fact that the company is building a large camp equipped with the best in modern buildings for the superintendent and men working on the property. In her complaint the widow had alleged that with the intention of preventing possible loss by fire to the residence of W. W. Blaylock, brother-in-law of Stockton, he, Stockton, undertook to detach the telephone wires from the Blaylock residence. The widow asserted Stockton did not know that the telephone wires had become energized with their deadly load. The widow claimed that Stockton's death was due to the Edison company's alleged negligence in erecting its electric wires immediately above the telephone wires; in neglecting to have the high voltage wires insulated in failing to inspect the wires; and in negligently permitting the wires to become old, unsafe and defective. The Edison company in its answer denied that about 2 years prior to the date of the accident it placed certain poles and wires on the same side of the highway as that upon which the telephone company had constructed its telephone wires. The company set forth that it strung its wires on one side and not immediately over the telephone wires, as had been alleged by the plaintiff. The company denies that on the night of Stockton's death one of its wires, by reason of its alleged un sound or defective condition, broke and fell down on and came into contact with and energized the telephone wires. MORE THAN A MILLION COLLECTED BY LAMB Eleven Thousand Dollars Delinquent at Expiration of Date. That the last minute rush on the part of property owners of Orange county to pay their taxes before becoming delinquent at 5 o'clock of the afternoon of December 1st, resulted in a flood of cash and checks amounting to $116,842.49 was announced Monday by Tax Collector J. C. Pulerton city—Mrs. Mae Robertson and John Thomas Green, Fullerton. Placentia—One enumerator needed. La Habra Township—Retta M. Pickering, La Habra. Yorba Linda Township — Emma Treydte, Yorba Linda. Los Alamitos and Stanton Townships — Mrs. Anna Bosey, Garden Grove. There is much speculation as to what the count will show in Anaheim. Bas ing their estimate on a directory issued some months ago many people believe we have passed the nine thousand mark, but more conservative guesses place the total in the neighborhood of 8000. Three years ago the Elks found 5200 people within the corporation. Scores of residences have been built and many rooming houses opened since that time, and today there isn't a house or a shack in town capable of housing a human being that isn't occupied, and families are doubling up in numerous houses. ed to become delinquent totals $11,.128.20. This amount would have been considerably greater if we had not done all we could in the case of property that changed ownership just prior to taxes becoming delinquent, to ascertain from the late owner the address of the party to whom the property was transferred, and to send the new owner his tax bills. In this way we were the means of saving many property owners the penalty on their taxes. "The law does not require this extra work on our part, but we consider every taxpayer in the same light that a lawyer considers his client. Our business is to protect the taxpayers." EDISON COMPANY SUED FOR HEAVY DAMAGES Widow of Electrocuted Man Files Suit for $50,000. Alleging that James Thorton Stockton, who was electrocuted at Smeltzer on the night of September 14, last, was contributorily negligent, Roy V. Reppy and Fred E. Pettit, Jr., of Los Angeles, attorneys for the Southern California Edison Company, filed an answer Monday in the suit brought by Cener A. Stockton, widow of the deceased, for $50,000 damages, alleged to have accrued as a result of Stockton's death. In its answer the Edison Company set forth that Stockton was himself guilty of negligence which contributed directly to his death in that at the time of the accident he was a man of mature years and of average intelligence and knew that the Smeltzer Telephone Company's wires, with which he came in contact, were energized with a high and dangerous formation. Yorba No. 1 is drilling at 1625. That the Standard Oil Company has an extensive drilling and development program mapped out for the Kraemer No. 2 tract is evinced by the fact that the company is building a large camp equipped with the best in modern buildings for the superintendent and men working on the property. Shops large enough to handle the heavy blacksmith and machine work are rapidly nearing completion. In addition to the above, a big compressor plant is being erected to take care of all the gas on the property. Having succeeded in practically working their way out of the mountain of business brought on during the final tax-paying scramble, Collector Lamb and his assistants were able to announce that taxes in the amount of $11,127.70 were in arrears at the hour of the expiration of grace, and subject to the 15 per cent penalty. The 1919 delinquent taxes, Lamb said, is slightly in excess of the amount that was delinquent laast year at this time, when the total was slightly more than $10,000. After checking up Monday, Lamb stated that tax collections during the months of October and November totalled $801,664.98. This sum, together with the influx of money coming principally through the malls and brought in person to the tax collector's office on December 1, and during the preceding few days, makes an aggregate of $1,018,507.47, according to Lamb's figures. "It took up two weeks to work out the mail that was on hand as of December 1, and to credit the amounts to the various accounts," said Lamb. "Our work is by no means completed; there is much posting of books yet to be done." "However, we have determined that the amount of taxes that were allow- Greetings To all the people of Anaheim & vicinity we extend the greetings of the season, wishing all A Merry Christmas and A Prosperous and Happy New Year. F. A. Yungbluth. SUBSCRIBE FOR ANAHEIM GAZETTE Christmas Greetings Glorious and wonderful are the responsibilities of the present anniversary. Christmas is the opportunity for profitable reflection and the occasion of boundless joy. May our many patrons and friends enjoy a full measure of happiness this Merry Christmas and prosperity as never before in the coming Happy New Year. The Anaheim National Bank W. A. Dolan, President HARVARD AND OREGON The Supreme Football Game of the Year! NEW YEAR'S DAY 2 P.M. Pasadena Rocket Sale at . H. DYAS CO., 321 West Seventh St., Los Angeles NE-CLINE CO., 214 West Third St., Los Angeles G. SPALDING & BRO., 435 S. Spring, Los Angeles —AND AT— Department of Roses Box Office in Pasadena Chamber of Commerce Building Ornament of Roses Parade-Pageant "BETTER THAN EVER" New Year's Morning ... 10:45 o'Clock