anaheim-gazette 1920-02-26

WORK ON HARBOR IS ORDERED RUSHED DREDGING OPERATIONS TO BEGIN OPPOSITE PORT ORANGE ABOUT APRIL 20. Channel to be 150 FFeet Wide and will be Completed Within Six Months. Work on Jetties Progressing Slowly. Orange county's harbor at Newport Bay will be an accomplished fact soon after the end of the coming summer season, for Contractor Ledbetter is under definite instructions to start the dredging operations in the bay on April 20. It is estimated that dredging and other bay improvements under the $500,000 bond issue voted by the county will require about six months. "And we are going to have a real harbor," says Linn L. Shaw, a member of the harbor commission. At its meeting yesterday the commission took action authorizing the contractor to start the work on April 20. This is the first time a definite date has been named for the commencement of such operations. Dredging will commence at a point opposite Port Orange and operations will be west to the bridge crossing the Santa Ana river on the Newport boulevard. The channel will be dredged 150 feet wide along claims of foreign ship owens for vessels and materials requisitioned during the war were recommended by a committee of the Shipping Board. Of 55 claims filed by Norwegians, Russians, Italians, French and Danish interests, 3 were for ships and the remainder for shipbuilding materials. For 32 French claims, including 3 for ships, the committee recommended awards aggregating $6,150,643; for 15 Norwegian claims, $2,600,000; for 2 Russian claims, $1,412,532; for 2 Italian claims, $816,651, and for 5 Danish claims, $1,108,923. NO BIDS RECEIVED FOR ORANGETHORPE BONDS Supervisors Direct Clerk to Re-Advertise and Fix Date of Sale March 9. No bids having been received by the Supervisors on the Orangethorpe school district bonds, the clerk was ordered to re-advertise said bonds and the date of sale thereof was fixed for 11:00 a.m., March 9th, 1920. Bids were opened for the $110,000.00 issue of Santa Ana high school district bonds, and said bonds were awarded to the First National Bank of Santa Ana, California, for par and accrued interest. The application of the S. A. V. I. Co., to lay a pipe line beginning at a point on First street, Tustin, crossing Newport boulevard, was granted. The hearing in the matter of the petition of Annie M. Lawrie, et al., to vacate and abandon a portion of streets and alleys in Hart's subdivision, was continued to March 30th, 1920, at 2:00 p.m. The application of J. H. Pankey to lay a pipe line on north side of San Juan street Tustin was granted. land would be allotted requirement was held pearl feat the purpose of the ment Act, and render for about nine-tenths men otherwise qualified der it. The State Land Service declared that the month of the Delhi plan acts against inexperienced the Legion committed under the plan only men who are financially may benefit under the ment Act, eliminating ex-service men who are strong. They contended that man be found qualified he should not be required any certain sum of money to his qualifications and fit to hold the land he extended credit covering of the necessary stock to develop it. This view, it is now been accepted by the CENSUS OF MINORS IN ORA Count Shows the Total Twenty Thousands There are, in Orange boys under the age of 9,142 girls under the age according to a computer contained in the census which was taken in tricts of the county due of November, and whitent of County Schools is perparing to form At its meeting yesterday the commission took action authorizing the contractor to start work on April 20. This is the first time a definite date has been named for the commencement of such operations. Dredging will commence at a point opposite Port Orange and operations will be west to the bridge crossing the Santa Ana river on the Newport boulevard. The channel will be dredged 150 feet wide along the north side of the 600-feet channel defined as the official government channel lines. All operations will be to government official harbor lines, so that in after years should the government decide to take hold and develop the harbor further it can take up its work on definite plans and in extension of the work done by the city of Newport Beach and the county of Orange. The north line of the channel will be an average of about 500 feet from the foot of the bluffs. This space will be filled in with dredged material, and will be the location of industrials that are expected to result from the harbor developments under the county funds. The county owns a frontage of 500 feet next to the boulevard and here it is that docks and warehouses provided for in the bond issue will be erected. Following completion of this end of the dredging, the operations will start on the channel from Port Orange to the mouth of the bay, a 150-foot channel being dredged straight from this point to the mouth of the bay, and which will eliminate what are now mud flats at low tides. Extension of the jetty for 200 feet out into the ocean will be commenced at once, and it is expected that Contractor Letbetter will be laying rail tracks to the point within a very few days. The railroad line will be run down the split on the ocean side instead of the bay side, as it was laid when the present jetty was constructed. The track will be close to the high water line and will be placed in this position to facilitate the construction of a rock revetment for strengthening the shoreline approach to the jetty. Rocks will be dumped on a to lay a pipe line beginning at a point on First street, Tustin, crossing Newport boulevard, was granted. The hearing in the matter of the petition of Annie M. Lawrie, et al., to vacate and abandon a portion of streets and alleys in Hart's subdivision, was continued to March 30th, 1920, at 2:00 p.m. The application of J. H. Pankey to lay a pipe line on north side of San Juan street, Tustin, was granted. Map of tract No. 102, was received and referred to city engineer of Orange. Spraying license was ordered issued to W. J. Fitschen, on recommendation of horticultural commissioner. The application of Hugh T. Thompson to lay a pipe line across the road at the intersection of Center Drive and Villa Park road, at Villa Park, was granted. An ordinance was passed for the protection of county highways when in the process of construction, repair or maintenance. Map of tract No. 91 was accepted as the official plotting of said tract. In the matter of road district improvement No. 4, a resolution was passed to proceed with the hearing, finding that the majority of the within district have not made objections. A resolution was passed determining and establishing grades, finding that no objections were made to said grades. A resolution was passed upon objections made to the boundaries of said district, ordering the establishment of said district and boundaries, finding that said district is not within the territory of any incorporated city or town and that the highways there are by dedication or otherwise, public and open to public use. A resolution was passed appointing engineer of work. The clerk and district attorney were instructed to prepare notices inviting bids. In the matter of road district improvement No. 3, it was ordered that all proceedings, orders and resolutions had, made or entered therein, be, and the same are set aside and cancelled. Further proceedings continued to Feb. 24th, 1920, at 2:00 o'clock p.m. There are, in Orange boys under the age of 9,142 girls under the age according to a computer contained in the census which was taken in districts of the county due of November, and while cent of County Schools is perparing to forwardment. Of the total number county, 9,447 are Americans, 8,75 are of 61 of the black race, 98 race, and 324 of the ytabulated figures show. Of the total number county, 8,651 are Americans, 7,919 are of 55 of the black race, 88 race and 326 of the yellow. In the Santa Ana total of boys is 2 total of girls is 1,995. 2,050 are Americans, 1,809 are of the 337 of the Indian race total, 1,919 are Ameri foreigners, 1,717 are of 276 of the Indian race yellow race. The table revealed Ana there are 24 boys of 16 who work that above the ages of 16 that there are 161 boys of 16 and 20 who are ing a total of 391 in. In the entire county boys under the age of 876 above the age of and 606 between the age 20 who are in school, of 1605 in these groups. In the entire county girls under the age of and 223 over the age o In Santa Ana no under the age of 16 while there are 50 girls ages of 16 and 18 who laying rail tracks to the point within a very few days. The railroad line will be run down the spit on the ocean side instead of the bay side, as it was laid when the present jetty was constructed. The track will be close to the high water line and will be placed in this position to facilitate the construction of a rock revetment for strengthening the shore line approach to the jetty. Rocks will be dumped on a curved line for a distance of about 300 feet from the jetty toward Balboa. This work will be of value in protection not only to the jetty but to lands at the end of the split. April 20 will be past the date for heavy rains in this section and it is not believed that any damage to the dredging work can result from freshets after that time. Construction work on the jetties for the new mouth of the Santa Ana river, which is to be diverted to the ocean at a point just west of the city limit of Newport Beach, has been progressing more or less slowly because of trouble that developed at the quarry, which resulted in tying up the supply of rock for a time. Rock again is coming in larger quantities and arrangements have been made for shipping in by way of the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific branch to Newport if it is found that the Pacific Electric cannot handle the rock shipments as fast as is necessary. SHIP AWARDS OF $12,089,149. Awards totaling $12,089,149 on the BAR IS LOWERED ON SOLDIERS' LAND $1500 Requirement from Ex-Service Men to be Walved. As a result of protests against the requirement that former soldiers must produce $1500, or the equivalent in livestock and farming implements, before being allotted land in the Delhi Soldiers' Settlement Colony, it is stated that the State Land Settlement Board probably will waive the financial requirement from ex-service men. The Delhi Colony is the first soldier colony in the United States and a large number of men who served the colors have been anxious to procure land in it. The $1500, however, has proven a stumbling block to many of the applicants and their case recently was taken up by the land settlement committee of the American Legion through R. W. Waterman, acting chairman. The original plan of the State Board required that after an applicant for land had qualified as to his general fitness, he must also produce $1500, or the equivalent of that amount, before engineer of work. The clerk and district attorney were instructed to prepare notices inviting bids. In the matter of road district improvement No. 3, it was ordered that all proceedings, orders and resolutions had, made or entered therein, be, and the same are set aside and cancelled. Further proceedings continued to Feb. 24th, 1920, at 2:00 o'clock p.m. BIG RHUBAREE That the 40 acre seaside city may soon blossom large field of rhubarb when F. W. Taylor, J offered to lease the fath of years for the purpure rhubarb. Mr. Taylor several times recently visited the trustees, who think the proposition, especially Taylor guarantees to that he will take care both winter and summer stood that Mr. Taylor 50 or 60 acres adjoin farm for a rhubarb farm use all the water over tracts. The city attorney was enter into a contract lor if satisfactory array be made. Mr. Taylor engaged in rhubarb g section of the state, he hundred acres under various places and is factor in the rhubarb Fullerton News. THE INDIAN POINT Despite popular bellization forced upon him means his ultim ANAHEIM GAZETTE land would be allotted him. This requirement was held practically to defeat the purpose of the Land Settlement Act, and render it unworkable for about nine-tenths of ex-service men otherwise qualified to benefit under it. The State Land Settlement Board declared that the money requirement of the Delhi plan acts as a safeguard against inexperienced applicants, but the Legion committee asserted that under the plan only those ex-service men who are financially on their feet may benefit under the Land Settlement Act, eliminating many deserving ex-service men who are not financially strong. They contended that if an ex-service man be found qualified to hold land he should not be required to produce any certain sum of money in addition to his qualifications and that if he is fit to hold the land he is also fit to be extended credit covering the purchase of the necessary stock and implements to develop it. This view, it is now understood, has been accepted by the State Board. CENSUS OF MINORS IN ORANGE COUNTY Count Shows the Total Reaches Nearly Twenty Thousand. There are, in Orange county, 10,121 boys under the age of 21 years, and 9,142 girls under the age of 18 years, according to a computation of figures contained in the census of minors which was taken in the school districts of the county during the month of November, and which Superintendent of County Schools R. P. Mitchell is perparing to forward to Sacramento the North American Indian, reviving from a long period of decadence, has shown such substantial increase in population in recent years that he probably is scarcely less numerous than when Columbus discovered America. Startling as this assertion may be to those who have pictured American forests in the discoverer's time as swarming with red men, it is advanced by officials in the government's Indian bureau, who maintain that the Indian necessarily formed an exceedingly scant population which probably at no period materially exceeded the total of 333,702 Indians reported by the bureau for last year. "While many estimates or guesses of the Indian population were made during the past century," said Dr. Lawrence W. White, of the bureau, "ranging from less than 100,000 to 400,000, the first reliable census was made by the Indian bureau in 1870, when the population was placed at 313,712. So figures demonstrate that in the last 50 years the Indian population has made a substantial net gain." Pointing to statistics which show an excess of births over deaths of 1,522 in 1916, and almost as great an excess in 1917, normal years which were not affected by the epidemic of influenza, Dr. White declared these figures "fully reflected the generosity of a government that has increased its Indian health appropriation alone from $40,000 in 1911 to $350,000 in 1917 and subsequent years." They demonstrate he said, that with the schools, hospitals and other advantages now provided for him, the Indian, be he tribesman or freedman, is "not a dying race, but rather a flourishing one." There are, in Orange county, 10,121 boys under the age of 21 years, and 9,142 girls under the age of 18 years, according to a computation of figures contained in the census of minors which was taken in the school districts of the county during the month of November, and which Superintendent of County Schools R. P. Mitchell is perparing to forward to Sacramento. Of the total number of boys in the county, 9,447 are Americans, 678 are foreigners, 8,75 are of the white race, 61 of the black race, 984 of the Indian race, and 324 of the yellow race, the tabulated figures show. Of the total number of girls in the county, 8,651 are Americans, 491 are foreigners, 7,919 are of the white race, 55 of the black race, 888 of the Indian race and 326 of the yellow race. In the Santa Ana school district, the total of boys is 2,152, and the total of girls is 1,995. Of the boys, 2,050 are Americans, 102 are foreigners, 1,809 are of the white race and 337 of the Indian race. Of the girl's total, 1,919 are Americans, 76 are foreigners, 1,717 are of the white race, 276 of the Indian race, and 2 of the yellow race. The table revealed that in Santa Ana there are 24 boys under the ages of 16 who work, that there are 206 above the ages of 16 who work and that there are 161 between the ages of 16 and 20 who are in school, making a total of 391 in these groups. In the entire county there are 124 boys under the age of 16 who work, 875 above the age of 16 who work, and 606 between the ages of 16 and 20 who are in school, making a total of 1605 in these groups. In the entire county there are 94 girls under the age of 16 who work, and 223 over the age of 16 who work. In Santa Ana the number of girls under the age of 16 who work is 18, while there are 50 girls between the ages of 16 and 18 who work. BIG RHUBARB FARM That the 40 acre sewer farm of the city may soon blossom out as one large field of rhubarb was indicated here. BAD CHECK ARTIST FOUND IN LOS ANGELES Man Who Floated Bogus Paper in This County Arrested. After having followed a devious trail, which led by mail and telegraph to several points in California and finally to the arrest of Jose R. Dolo, alleged bogus check manipulator, Deputy Sheriff Charles Holbrook returned from Los Angeles with Dolo in his custody. Marshal Wood of this city secured the evidence that led to the arrest of the alleged check artists. He had received information that the men suspected were in town after the checks had been passed, and kept them under surveillance, but waited for more evidence. The men left town, but the local officers secured the number of their car, and it was through this clew that led to the arrest of the men in Los Angeles. One of the men who had cashed one of the checks gave Marshal Wood a good description of the two suspects, which tallied with the two men who had been watched. Through an error in making a transfer of the number of the machine bought by the accused man, the officers were caused trouble in locating their man, but this difficulty was later straightened out, and through the assistance of the sheriff's office in Los Angeles, Dolo was arrested by Officer Sepulveda. A flood of alleged bogus checks totaling, according to attaches of the local sheriff's office, close to $1000, was turned loose by Dolo in Orange county and other points in Southern California, it was said. One of those alleged to have been victimized by Dolo was Theodore Bohore from this city. It was said so hours received word from Sepulveda that Dolo had been arrested. Holbrook left for Los Angeles for the purpose of bringing Dolo to the local jail. LET FOREIGN INTEREST PAY THE DEBT WE OWE TO OUR VETERANS. To a proverbially ingenious Philadelphia lawyer, David I. Scanlon, Esq., must be attributed an original plan for financing extra pay for veterans of the World War. Our Congress seems strangely hostile to the widespread public demand for six months' pay. The reason it gives is that a great sum would be required to make this payment. Mr. Scanlon suggests that the bonuses be paid out of the interest due to the government of the United States on loans to Great Britain and the other governments of our late allies. And since our Secretary of the Treasury has agreed to waive this foreign interest for three years, Mr. Scanlon proposes that the bonuses be issued in the form of certificates bearing interest at six per cent, this interest to come out of the United States Treasury until the certificates are redeemed. When the foreign governments begin to pay the interest they owe, Uncle Sam can reimburse himself. The excuse that our nation is too poor to reward its veterans as they deserve is transparently flimsy. But if it intends to collect these foreign debts, what better use could be made of the money than to turn the interest on them over to the men who won the war? SMALL HEN HOUSES BEST; LOW ONES EASILY WARMED BIG RHUBARB FARM That the 40 acre sewer farm of the city may soon blossom out as one large field of rhubarb was indicated when F. W. Taylor, Jr. of Altadena, offered to lease the farm for a term of years for the purpose of growing rhubarb. Mr. Taylor has been here several times recently and talked with the trustees, who think favorably of the proposition, especially when Mr. Taylor guarantees to execute a bond that he will take care of the water both winter and summer. It is understood that Mr. Taylor has leased 50 or 60 acres adjoining the sewer farm for a rhubarb farm and he can use all the water overflow on both tracts. The city attorney was instructed to enter into a contract with Mr. Taylor if satisfactory arrangements could be made. Mr. Taylor is extensively engaged in rhubarb growing in this section of the state, he having several hundred acres under cultivation at various places and is an important factor in the rhubarb pie industry—Fullerton News. THE INDIAN POPULATION Despite popular belief that the civilization forced upon him by the white man means his ultimate extinction, A flood of alleged bogus checks totaling, according to attaches of the local sheriff's office, close to $1000, was turned loose by Dolo in Orange county and other points in Southern California, it was said. One of those alleged to have been victimized by Dolo was Theodore Roberts of this city. It was said several worthless checks, alleged to have been given by Dolo, were turned over to City Marshal Wood. The address given by Dolo on these checks was said to have been factitious, and to have taken officers to the residence of J. L. Walker, at Glendale. There, it was learned that Walker had sold an automobile last June to a man who turned back to Walker the calls license plate. Deputy Holbrook then telegraphed authorities at Sacramento, asking them to ascertain from the Motor Vehicle Department to whom the machine formerly owned by Walker actually belonged. Holbrook was given an address on North Bunker Hill avenue, Los Angeles. Holbrook went to Los Angeles and laid his case before Deputy Sheriff Joe Sepulveda, a veteran of the Los Angeles sheiriff's office, and a man who has been of much service in the past to Sheriff Jackson and his deputies in running down criminals. Sepulveda told Holbrook that Dolo was as good as in custody, and for him (Holbrook) to return to Santa Ana. Holbrook did so, and in a few The excuse that our nation is too poor to reward its veterans as they deserve is transparently flimsy. But if it intends to collect these foreign debts, what better use could be made of the money than to turn the interest on them over to the men who won the war? SMALL HEN HOUSES BEST; LOW ONES EASILY WARMED The size of the hen house should be governed by the size of the flock. From 40 to 50 seems to be about as many birds as are safe to keep together. With flocks of this size from 4 to 5 square feet of floor space should be allowed to each bird. This will suffice in most cases where careful attention is given to cleanliness and ventilation. If the fowls are kept in smaller flocks more floor space to a bird will be needed. In sections where the climate is so mild that it is unnecessary to keep fowls confined, except for a few days at a time, less space to a bird should be sufficient. The smaller breeds, being more active and restless, require about as much room as the larger breeds. For the greatest amount of floor space for the least cost a building should be square. Other things being less lumber it will take, according to equal, the nearer square a house is the poultry specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture. However, it is sometimes out of the question to build a large house square. A building should not be so wide that the Ford THE UNIVERSAL CAR Ford Model T One Ton Truck is in reality a necessity to the wide awake procer, not only for the economic solution of the delivery problem, but for aging of goods from the docks or stations to his place of business, and for the country and bringing in produce. For years the Ford One Ton with its splendid manganese bronze worm-drive, powerful Ford Model T, strong Vanadium steel frame, has been serving in every line of business and we have yet to hear the first complaint as to rear axle trouble or trouble. It has the lowest purchase price on the market, and the cost rating and maintaining is exceedingly small. In fact, the Ford One Ton has become a business necessity. 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Build the house as low as possible without danger of attendants bumping their heads against the ceiling, for the low house is more easily warmed than a hifh one. THE GINSENG INDUSTRY It is not generally known that there are a number of profitable ginseng farms in California. The largest consists of three-fourths acre, and has produced as high as $15,000 worth of the roots in one year. Ginseng is used by the Chinese, the exports from the United States totaling more than $1,000,000 annually. Great skill and patience, as well as ideal soil and climatic conditions, are required for ginseng culture. The seed does not grow until a year after planting, and at least five years is required for the development of marketable roots. The Chinese use the roots in making tea, which they are said to drink for a variety of ailments, and the wealthier classes use them as a relish or seasoning ingredient. The plants are produced either in hardwood timbered areas or under artificial shade. It is said that less than 500 growers throughout the United States have mastered the secret of producing ginseng, although it has been found wild in most parts of OUR PRODUCTS The principal products of Orange county for the year 1919 were as follows, the total being $29,152,500: Oranges ... $12,000,000 Lemons ... 3,500,000 Avocados ... 15,000 Loquats ... 37,500 Sugar Beets ... 10,500,000 Apricots ... 200,000 Apples ... 50,000 Miscellaneous Fruit ... 500,000 Hay ... 2,000,000 Grain ... 2,000,000 Potatoes ... 950,000 Celery ... 100,000 Walnuts ... 5,700,000 Tomatoes and tomato seed... 1,350,000 Persimmons ... 25,000 Vegetables ... 500,000 Oils, Gas and Gasoline ... 31,275,000 Beans ... 3,000,000 Fish ... 100,000 Peppers ... 1,125,000 Nursery Stock ... 300,000 Olives and Olive Oil ... 125,000 Berries ... 125,000 Poultry ... 1,500,000 Live Stock ... 1,500,000 Bees and Honey ... 75,000 Dairy Products ... 350,000 the United States since the days of the Revolution, and is said to have been known by the Indians. One California grower expects to realize $20,000 from less than one acre this year. Theo. Roberts The Jeweler of Anaheim Theo. Roberts The Jeweler of Anaheim Going Out Of Business AUCTION! Starting Saturday at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. THEO. ROBERTS JEWELER