anaheim-gazette 1921-04-14

IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO Items of Local Interest Culled from the Files of Former Issues of This Paper 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Last Saturday night, between the hours of eight and nine o'clock, Anaheim was brilliantly illuminated for the space of three seconds, by a beautiful seintillating meteor, which appeared to be moving in a northerly direction. It was followed by a long prospherent tail that gradually expanded into a double one with varigated colors. After passing a short distance over the city it exploded without noise and formed into two yellowish balls which re-exploded with various colors like a skyrocket, and disappeared almost immediately. A slight sulphurous smell was perceptible in the atmosphere for a few minutes after the explosion. The statement of Theodore Rimpau, city treasured, shows that for the seven months ending April 10, there was paid into the city treasury for licenses $494.14, for taxes, $888.33, for fines, $27.63, making a total of $1,413.10, or an average of $202 per month. For the maintenance of the city government there was paid out during that period, $1,335.41, leaving a balance in the city treasury of $77.69. Official information has been received from the postmaster general that, by an Act of oCnrgess passed February 28, 1871, a postroad or mail route has been established between Anaheim and San Bernardino. The postmaster at Anaheim has been charged by the department to make a sketch of the route and give it name. 25 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK The municipal election on Monday was one of the quietest ever held in the city, and a very light vote was polled. Only 105 votes were cast, and except for efforts on the part of some of the energetic citizens during the afternoon it is doubtful if 100 votes would have been cast. The vote was as follows: For Trustees, C. E. Groat, 100; C. O. Rust, 94; For Clerk, Max Noberlung, 100; For Treasurer., H. Cahen, 94; For Marshal, N. F. Steadman, 102. Only one ticket was in the field. Jake Stern contemplates a trip to old homestead in Germany the coming summer. He has been absent for 12 years and will time his arrival to the occasion of his father's seventieth birthday. He will take his family along and will leave the middle of June. Baron von Steinmetz, a German nobleman if high degree, who has been touring throughout Southern California, with headquarters at Pasadena, was in town on a short visit during the week. The Baron is said to be immensely wealthy, owning, so it is reported, five castles in the old country, and being worth nine millions. An interesting rumor in connection with this trip here is that he is betrothed a well-known Pasadena lady who formerly resided in this city. One of the orphans at St. Catherine's died of measles on Monday, and Official information has been received from the postmaster general that, by an Act of oCnrgess passed February 28, 1871, a postroad or mail route has been established between Anaheim and San Bernardino. The postmaster at Anaheim has been charged by the department to make a sketch of the route and give all information necessary for the letting of the contract for carrying the mails over the same. Last Tuesday while Mr. Carroll was plowing, his horses started and ran away, tearing the plow out of the ground and smashing it into splinters. The horses escaped without accident. It is estimattd that the water poyer of the main zanja of the Anaheim Union Water Company, if properly utilized, would turn six thousand cotton spindles. Mr. R. Cummings and Dr. David Taylor have returned from their jaunt up the valley near the Santa Clara river. While out they succeeded in making several fine discoveries of trees filled with wild honey, from which they extracted 200 pounds. Last week San Francisco was visited by a couple of earthquake shocks. One lasted three seconds. This is the first eadthquake that has occurred in that locality for a year. It is suggested that a petition be sent to the Postoffice Department asking that Anaheim be designated as a money order office. Transfers of money are now made with difficulty, and only by telegraph or express at a high tariff. A general meeting of the fellow citizens of H. Kroeger, H. Welder and F. A. Korn is called at the water company's building at 2 o'clock this afternoon for the purpose of nominating municipal officers to be elected on the 1st proximo. By refrence to advertisement it will be seen that Mr. Gilbert Huntington has lost a pocketbook on the road to Gallatin, containing drafts amounting to $1,400. As payment has been stopped the drafts will be of no use to the finder, and a liberal reward is offered for their return to John. The farce comedy, "Too Much of a Good Thing," rendered by local talent under the auspices of the Legion of Honor, at the opera house last Friday evening, was witnessed by a large and appreciative audience, and the roles of the different members taking part were capitally rendered. Miss Robison portrayed the part of "Mrs.' Perkins" to perfection, while Miss Helmann and Miss Fay as Nellie and Hattle Perkins, displayed an aptness for the stage that was creditable to them in a high degree. Mrs. Hartung Misses Zeyn and Williams also acted their lines well. C. S. Rogers, disguised as "Mr. Perkins," rendered his part in a manner that would have done credit to a professional. His song, "Girl Wanted," was vociferously applauded. The ludicrous results of a mistaken identity, between Frank Purdy, the country cousin, and Tom Johnson, the jealous lover; were quite laughable. Mr. Purdy sang, "I'm the Man," in a creditable manner, and responded to an encore with an original composition entitled "Tamales at the Ostrich Farm," which brought down the house. Prof. Frantz and Rudolph Fossick Sr., became involved in a difficulty at the residence of the former on Tuesday morning, and the Professor struck Fossick under the eye, laying open the skin and causing it to bleed and blacken; for which Judge Pierce imposed a fine of $10. The difficulty arose over a chicken trade. Fossick having brought back a number of its with which he was not entirely satisfied. Frantz claims that Fossick applied an improper name to his wife, whereupon he lost his usual imperturbable self-control and struck him. Fossick swore out a complaint, Frantz plead guilty, and a fine of $10 was imposed. By refrence to advertisement it will be seen that Mr. Gilbert Huntington has lost a pocketbook on the road to Gallatin, containing drafts amounting to $1,400. As payment has been stopped the drafts will be of no use to the finder, and a liberal reward is offered for their return to John Fisher. One hundred children attend the Anaheim public schools daily. The "Constantine," an English built iron vessel, owned by Folger & Company, San Francisco, is about to be put on the lower coast route, to run in connection with the "Taber." This ship was built for the Amsterdam trade, but since than a new plant has been entertained which results in her being ordered to our coast trade. From all appearances the Hon. A. J. King will be compelled to again meet the Hon. B. D. Wilson in a political field, at least so far as a struggle for the nomination for Congress is concerned. The Los Angeles Star has for a long time kept Mr. Wilson's name directly before the public, and boldly hints that the latter will permit his name to be used in that connection, although it does not speak authoritively. There is one thing certain—Hon. B. D. Wilson is today the most popular Democrat in Southern California, and stands the best chance next to Mr. Axtell, of getting the nomination for Congress if he is so inclined. McCoy released under a misapprehension of fact, and who was re-arrested and bound over by a Santa Ana justice of the peace, and went to jail awaiting trial. Every prized prisoner that Joe gets he takes to Los Angeles for two reasons, first, he is afraid the fellows may break out of the Santa Ana jail and escape, and second, the Santa Ana people may mutiny and break into the jail and lynch the prisoners. When the new county jail is erected he will have a load of care and worry off his mind, and will once more smile again. The Jugo-Slav Orchestra Chautauqua Brings Unique European Musical Organization on Fourth Day From the heart of Europe comes to us one of the most unusual and attractive musical companies on the Chautauqua platform. The Jugo-Slav Tamburica Orchestra is absolutely unique—the only one of its kind in America. These young "minstrels of the Balkans" appear in the bright colorful costumes of their native land, singing and playing their Slavic music, extraordinary in its sweetness and thrilling power. They use various sizes of the tamburica, their household instrument of their people for generations. They will give a full afternoon concert on the fourth day and a prelude in the evening. TRADING REALTIES FOR TRADE PHANTOMS Present day foes of the protective policy repeat an aged argument to the effect that if we do not buy abroad we cannot sell abroad and that bars down, ignore, first of all, this fact that the talk of retaliatory tariffs is mostly moonshine, and again it assumes that we will profit by trading our own market for the possibility of occupying foreign markets. If we give to foreigners the right to sell two falls from ceiling while Deputy Clerk is absent. With a resounding crash that aroused D. L.Patrick, court house janitor, from his slumbers, more than 200 pounds of plastering fell from the ceiling of the court room. Department No. 1, shortly after midnight. Patrick sleeps in his private office back of the stairway on the main floor of the building. Earl R. Abbey, clerk of Department No. 1, and Bailliff J. H. Fowler are congratulating themselves and each other on not being in the court room when the plastering fell. The spot on the ceiling from which the plastering broke loose is directly over Abbey's desk, and Fowler sits directly back of Abbey when the court is in session. Had the plastering come down while Abbey was at his desk he would not have been seriously injured if not killed, it is believed. Patrick investigated and found plastering scattered all over Abbey's desk, the court bench and the carpet. Patrick says that while he was suddenly aroused by the noise he thought one of the county surveyors or some other employee of the county engineer's office was coming in late and slammed a door a little too hard. Patrick used to be a coal miner and declares that it is a traditional fact that coal, plastering or anything else that hangs overhead never falls except between the hours of midnight and 2 a.m. There are two or three spots on the ceiling plastering in the court room and a few faint cracks. Whether or not any more plaster will fall is a matter of conjecture, but if it does it is hoped, by the court attaches, that it will fall at night. TRADING REALTIES FOR TRADE PHANTOMS Present day foes of the protective policy repeat an aged argument to the effect that if we do not buy abroad we cannot sell abroad, and that if we adopt a tariff which protects then other nations will enact tariff laws that will exclude importations from the United States. The truth is that people and nations do not except under the stress of unusual circumstances, buy or sell on sentimental grounds. If foreign peoples can buy of us to their advantage they will do so; if they cannot, they will not do so; and their decisions as to methods of excluding us from their markets will be made entirelp independent of our action as to customs duties. The present tariff law is the lovest the United States has had since the Civil War, and hard upon its heels came a Canadian tariff law the highest our neighboring Dominion has ever known—much higher than our present tariff law and averaging in its rates more than the McKinely or Dingley laws; much more than the Payne-Aldrich tariff law. This Canadian law, by the way, permits the government, by orders in council to increase tariff rates practically at will; the sky is the limit. So much for reciprocity in tariff making. The argument that because we have since the European war again been making large sales of our products abroad, we cannot keep our factories going unless we keep our own tariff bars down, ignore, first of all, this fact that the talk of retaliatory tariffs is mostly moonskine, and again it assumes that we will profit by trading our own market for the possibility of occupying foreign markets. If we give to foreigners the right to sell two billion dollars worth of products here in order that we may sell the same value of products abroad, then we are right where we were before, with the difference, as Lincoln once pointed out in a discussion of the tariff question, that goods have been loaded both ways with unnecessary costs of transportation across the ocean. The American home market is admittedly the richest in the world. It is worth vastly more, to the American producer, than all the rest of the markets of the world combined. No one denies that under anything like normal conditions lower labor costs make it possible for the foreigner to undersell us in our own markets and, of course, in the markets of the world. The tariff barriers we erect here are intended to represent the difference in cost of production at home and abroad. The man who would abandon a rich gold mine at his feet in order to pursue the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow would be considered deficient in business sense. The nation which would surrender its own incomparably rich market to foreign producers in the mere hope that it might thereby promote its chances of selling a greater volume of commodities abroad, would show, the same lack of sound judgment. Patrick used to be a coal miner and declares that it is a traditional fact that coal, plastering or anything else that hangs overhead never falls except between the hours of midnight and 2 a.m. There are two or three spots on the ceiling plastering in the court room and a few faint cracks. Whether or not any more plaster will fall is a matter of conjecture, but if it does it is hoped, by the court attaches, that it will fall at night. VIOLATING QUARANTINE. Alleged gross violations of quarantine restrictions placed on certain cities at Olinda as a result of a diphtheria epidemic at that place map lead to some official action on the part of the Orange county authorities. Miss Edna Gleason, community nurse at Olinda, telephoned District Attorney A. P. Nelson and stated that she had repeatedly warned certain families that the quarantine regulations were not to be violated. Some of these people, she said, paid no attention to her warnings. It is understood that a deputy sheriff was to be sent to Olinda to cooperate with Miss Gleason in the enforcement of the quarantine. Dr. A. H. Domann, county physician, reported that the epidemic had reached serious proportions. The community nurse at Olinda has been busy for a week taking cultures. Her report on cultures taken during the fidat two days of her investigation showed thirtp-four cases in the incipient stage. Later she reported eight more cases in that stage, of eighty-two examined. 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