anaheim-gazette 1921-04-21

MAN CONFESSES TO NUMEROUS BURGLARIES Professional Thief Was Extremely Active in This Region. Grilled for more than two hours by Sheriff C. E. Jackson, and his deputies, Melville Bowles, arrested last Saturday day night in Los Angeles on a charge of stealing an automobile belonging to State Senator Walter Eden, confessed, according to Sheriff Jackson, to numerous burglaries in this vicinity and points north. Bowles also told, according to Jackson, of a flying trip made by himself and Clarence Noyes, his alleged co-partner in crime, from San Francisco to Olive, near Orange, for the sole purpose of stealing some cyanide and ammonia from a fumigator at Olive. They made the trip from the bay city to Olive in 10 hours, according to Bowles. The pair desired the cyanide and ammonia, according to Bowle's alleged confession, for the purpose of subduing and robbing a "gambling joint" near Sacramento, where the stakes are said to be high. Bowles said that he and Noyes got "cold feet" and decided not to rob the gamblers after returning to Sacramento. Noyes is now under arrest in the capital city on a charge of robbing a tailor shop. Bowles is said to have confessed to stealing two guns and a watch from William Rockefeller, a resident of East Seventeenth street, Santa Ana. He says he sold one of the guns in Pasadena and the other to a Santa Ana second hand dealer. According to Jackson, Bowles also told of robbing a house on Tustin avenue of $2.50 ceash and of robbing another home on Seventeenth street of two gold watches. This house, according to Bowles, was occupied by MERRY WAR RAGING IN CIRCUS CIRCLES Barnes' Animals and Howe's Girls are Fighting to Control Territory Howe's Great London circus and Van Amburg's trained wild animals played in Anaheim and Santa Ana, and Al G. Barnes' wild animal show, a week or so earlier, also played at Anaheim because— The elephants, the trained seals and the Nubian lions have gone to war with the bareback riders, the beauties of the flying trapeze and the girls of the tinselled ballet. The whole Pacific coast is the battleground and the prize. Not that the lions are planning to dine upon any of their adversaries or anything like that—but there is war in progress between the wild animal show and the real, old time circus, according to the stories told among the show people and those who follow the big tops and the saw-dust rings. Victory, it is generally agreed, depends on two elements—whether the public prefers a well trained lion to a silk encased calf and whether the press agent and the advance man can move faster ahead of a Bengal tiger or a girl who can hang by her toes. If the press agent and the advance man of the animal show can grab the space and the choice bookings, and less the circus lots ahead of his competitor, half the battle will be won and vice versa. The remainder will rest with the public, 'tis said. The generals directing the struggle are Al G. Barnes of the wild animal show fame on one side and Jerry Mugivan, who bought the Sells-Floto, the Howes-London, the "Yankee" Robinson and the Hagenback-Wallace shows, according to the stories which Bowles is said to have confessed to stealing two guns and a watch from William Rockefeller, a resident of East Seventeenth street, Santa Ana. He says he sold one of the guns in Pasadena and the other to a Santa Ana second hand dealer. According to Jackson, Bowles also told of robbing a house on Tustin avenue of $2.50 ceash and of robbing another home on Seventeenth street of two gold watches. This house, according to Bowles, was occupied by a man named Nessan or Norse. Bowles is said to have confessed to a burglary at Turlock the latter part of last February. From this place, he said, he secured a rifle, a revolver, an electric iron and a vacuum cleaner. After the Turlock "job" Bowles and Noyes, according to the confession of the former, tried to rob a shoe store at Stockton. He said they drove an automobile into an alleyway back of the store and had brought 600 pairs of shoes when they were frightened off by officers. They left the shoes behind and succeeded in getting away. Other "jobs" said to have been "worked" at Placentia and Buena Park were related by Bowles in the alleged confession. Valuable confidential information also was given to Sheriff Jackson by Bowles. VALLEY CALIMS THE CHAMPIONSHIP Imperial Farm Production is Largest, Say Papers The United States Census Bureau's figures, which gave Los Angeles county the leadership of the entire country in the value of the crop yields in 1920, appear to have overlooked the Imperial valley, according to articles published in the Imperial Enterprise and the Brawley News. "For some reason Imperial valley has been ignored entirely in the published statements. As a matter of fact, Imperial county is the greatest farm producing county in the United States, and the 1920 crop production exceeds by $12,000,000 that of Los Angeles county, which the papers in that city claimed to be the largest," the valley papers declare. The United States Census Bureau's estimate of the crop production in Los Angeles county was placed at $62,212,000. "Conservative estimates on the production of Imperial valley for 1920 place the figures at $75,000,000," the man of the animal show can grab the space and the choice bookings, and lease the circus lots ahead of his competitor, half the battle will be won and vice versa. The remainder will rest with the public, 'ts said. The generals directing the struggle are Al G. Barnes of the wild animal show fame on one side and Jerry Mugivan, who bought the Sells-Floto. the Howes-London., the "Yankee" Robinson and the Hagenback-Wallace shows, according to the stories which are going the rounds. Barnes for years has been king of the territory west of the Rockies. When the spring season arrived this year, Barnes is said to have found his leadership challenged. The Howes-London shows appeared on the scene and from the start began dogging the path of the Barnes show. The first move was made when Barnes changed his schedule and jumped back from Southern California to Arizona to head off the invasion of that state by his competitor. Howes-London moved next and dashed into the San Joaquin valley, with Barnes jumping, too. Now they are both moving into northern California. With the first show of battle the press agents and advance men rushed forward and they are now said to be fighting a quiet but determined battle through the northwest, the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming—offering big prices for choice of circus lots, securing licenses and trying to outguess each other. It has resolved into the biggest circus war, show people say, since the days when P. T. Barnum and the Ringling Brothers first locked horns. BEAN RATE CLASH INTERESTS GROWERS Orange county bean growers are deeply interested in the announcement that the Lima Bean Growers' association had been successful in its efforts to secure a lower freight rate on beans shipped by water. Steamer shipments from Pacific coast terminals to gulf and Atlantic coast ports have been reduced from 70 cents to 55 cents a hundred pounds, according to announcement direct from the association to The Gazette. The rate concession was made at a conference of steamship agents held in San Francisco, with R. L. Churchill, manager for the Lima Bean Growers' association, presenting detailed facts as to why there should be a reduction. The rate is effective at once and while... farm producing county in the United States, and the 1920 crop production exceeds by $12,000,000 that of Los Angeles county, which the papers in that city claimed to be the largest," the valley papers declare. The United States Census Bureau's estimate of the crop production in Los Angeles county was placed at $62,212,000. "Conservative estimates on the production of Imperial valley for 1920 place the figures at $75,000,000," the articles say. "These figures are based on prices in effect then, just as the figures of the other counties were presumed to be." The articles continue to say that the claim of Los Angeles county cannot be entirely correct if the Imperial county estimates are to be considered: The census reports showed that six counties in California produced a volume of farm products last year that is greater than the combined production of any other six counties in the United States. These six counties, as enumerated in the report, are as follows: Los Angeles, $62,212,000; San Joaquin, $39,748,000; Tulare, $33,238,000; San Bernardino, $26,681,000; Santa Clara, $23,679,000; and Orange county, $22,735,000. COUNTY TAXES Become delinquent on Monday, April 25. Remittances so should be mailed in time to reach this office before that date. Those who pay at the office should do so, if possible, before the last day to avoid the discomfiture of standing in line. All remittances whether checks or cash should be accompanied by tax bill or description of property. J. C. LAMB, Tax Collector. THE MAN OF MYSTERY Orange county's hermit and mystery man of the hills imbued with the strength of a giant, who refused to talk or give intelligible answers to questions addressed to him when he appeared before Justice of the Peace Cox April 1 for preliminary examination on a charge of vagrancy, will be given another chance to reveal his history to Orange county authorities. For sixteen days the hermit, known only as Mike Jackson, which he denies is his name, has been held within the close confines of the Orange county jail. Will this close confinement break the silence of the man who is supposed to have lived most of his life in the hills and mountains? Orange county authorities are doubtful. Since Jackson was sent to the county jail his actions have been closely watched with a view of determining whether or not he is sane. It is possible that a lunacy complaint may be filed against him and a closer examination made as to his sanity. When Jackson first appeared before Cox he refused to answer any questions or volunteer any information about himself. He gave his name as "Devil," denying that Jackson was his name. The mystery man was arrested early in March after a hand-to-hand struggle with Sheriff C. E. Jackson and a possie of fifty irate citizens near El Modena. It was only after a mass attack on the man that he was overcome and that the handcuffs were placed on his wrists. The hermit fought with the strength of a giant and by swinging a pronged compass about him as though it were a light stick he endangered the lives of those who sought to overpower him. public roads. Following an intensive investigation by the United States bureau of public roads of soils which have given particular difficulty to road builders, it has been discovered that the difficulty with these soils, such as adobes and clays, generally lay in the presence in these soils of colloidal matter, a glue like substance capable of extraordinary absorption and retention of water. Colloids have been extracted from these soils, and the result has been that the soil has been left inert and deprived of its quality of absorption. Experiments show that the colloids found in these soils are capable of absorbing and retaining water up to several hundred times the volume of the colloids. The result of the discovery of colloids in these soils has been to change the trend of thought in highway construction. The chief difficulty that highway engineers have found in building roads over these soils has been due to the large contraction of the sub-grade, resulting in longitudinal and other cracks in the surface slab. The attempt heretofore has been to overcome this by increasing the thickness of the surface slab. The effort now is to be made to overcome this tendency to large expansion and contraction by neutralizing the colloidal properties of the soil and rendering the subgrade a suitable base upon which to build the concrete slab. Discussing this phase of the matter, Mr. MacDonald in a letter to the California highway commission, has outlined the policy of the United States bureau of good roads relatives to approve for federal aid allotments as follows: "The report of the California study made by this bureau is in your hands the experiments to be conducted in treating adverse subgrade soils, announcement has also been made by the United States bureau of public roads that a regional office is to b established in San Francisco, having jurisdiction over eleven states and which will exercise a large degree of authority. This office will probably b in charge of Dr. Hewes, who conducted the study of California highways for the United States bureau of public roads." VINE NEARS CENTURY AND A HALF MARK The touch of spring has once more stirred the sap in the old grapevine of San Gabriel. The mammoth stem and giant twisting branches have stretched yet a little farther out into the sunshine, and tiny leaves like emeralds, and soft curling tendrils have appeared again along the rough surface of this veteran vine, whose history ranks with the oldest pioneer tales of California. For, be it known, this is the one hundred and forty-sixth time that the grapevine of San Gabriel has put out leaves under the gentle touch of the California sun. It is the mother of all the vineyards in the state, and was brought from Spain along with other treasures when the padres came to the new land. It was planted in 1775 within the walls of the mission at San Gabriel, which in time came to be known the whole length of El Camino Real as the queen-of-the-missions. San Gabriel it was planted the first vineyards and the first orange trees, and owned the richest ecclesiastical silver in the province. And the old mother vine multiplied and replenished the earth, and the The mystery man was arrested early in March after a hand-to-hand struggle with Sheriff C. E. Jackson and a possie of fifty irate citizens near El Modena. It was only after a mass attack on the man that he was overcome and that the handcuffs were placed on his wrists. The hermit fought with the strength of a giant and by swinging a pronged compass about him as though it were a light stick he endangered the lives of those who sought to overpower him. The allgled theft of a coat from a rancher at Orange led to the hermit's arrest. He was seen to leave a barn where the coat on his arm, it is said. He fought off those who followed him by hurling stones at them. A mob soon formed but Jackson held the crowd at bay until Sheriff Jackson and Under Sheriff E. E. French arrived on the scene. Mass tactics were then used to capture the hermit. Jackson made his home for several years on the Irvine ranch. The source of his livelihood was a mystery as he had only a small garden near his hut. He was scantily clad when arrested. During his confinement at the county jail he has maintained the silent demeanor which he followed while before Cox for examination. He shuns the other inmates of the county jail and his history is as much a secret today as it was the day he was arrested. Judge Cox and other authorities believe that confinement is the only cure for the man's silence unless his mind is affected. If the hermit is sane and has a story to tell they believe that sixteen days in the county jail will serve to unseal his lips. THE PROPER CURE Information of Priceless Value to Every Anaheim Citizen. How to act in an emergency is knowledge of inestimable worth, and this is particularly true of the diseases and ill of the human body. If you suffer with kidney backache, urinary disorders, or any form of kidney trouble, the advice contained in the following statement should add a valuable asset to your store of knowledge. What could be more convincing proof of the efficiency of Doan's Kidney Pills than the statement of an Anaheim citizen who used them and who publicly tells of the benefit derived? IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ORANGE. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE. In the Matter of the Estate and Inwardship of JOSEPHINE ROMERO, Insane. Upon reading and filing the Petition of Marie A. Hurtado, the guardian of the person and estate of Josephine Romero, Insane, praying for an order authorizing and permitting said petitioner as such guardian to lease certain real property belonging to said estate and which is hereinafter more particularly described, and good cause appearing therefor it is ordered that said Petition be and the same is hereby set for hearing in Department One of said Superior Court, in the courtroom or said Department One, in the Courthouse in the City of Santa Ana, brought from Spain along with other treasures when the patres came to the new land. It was planted in 1775 within the walls of the mission at San Gabriel, which in time came to be known the whole length of El Camino Real as the queen-of-the-missions. San Gabriel it was planted the first vineyards and the first orange trees, and owned the richest ecclesiastical silver in the province. And the old mother vine multiplied and replenished the earth, and the fruit of her vines flowed to the far corners of the world and brought fame and fortune to the land of her adoption, and now again she is putting forth new leaves, as tender and fresh and beautiful as those the padres watched nearly a century and a half ago. In the beginning it stood in the garden of the mission; and stretched its protecting branches over a quaint little adobe house. It is one of the few original odobes still in existence, and stands today very much as it did in those far-away days when it was the center of stirring romance. The property has recently been acquired by the "Mission Play" and the little adobe and the giant grapevine will be near the entrance of the new mission playhouse at San Gabriel, and under its gnarled and picturesque branches, the famous South American bands will play during the open-air concerts, which will be a feature of the summer program at the new house. E. K. Hoak, manager of the "Mission Play," has conferred with the state agriculturist, and the vine is regularly inspected. As far as is known, it is the oldest grapevine in existence, certainly the oldest grapevine in California and the state has recognized its value, as a relic of great historical interest, and is treating it with expert scientific skill in the expectation of having it reach its two hundredth CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY COMMISSION Experiments of interest and importance to road builders in every state of the union are to be conducted in California under an arrangement which has just been entered into between the California highway commission and the United States bureau of public roads. The detail of the arrangement was announced by A. B. Fletcher, chief engineer of the California highway commission, following his return from a conference in Washington with Thos. H. MacDonald, chief of the bureau of Said real property herein referred to is situate, lying and being in the City of Anaheim, County of Orange, State of California, and is described as follows, to wit:—Lot Thirty-two (32) in the Langenberger Tract, as per map of said Tract recorded in Book 1, at page 551, Miscellaneous Rerords of Los Angeles County, California. Dated this 1st day of April, 1921. Z. B. WEST Judge of the Superior Court. 4-7-t3. NOTICE TO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE ANAHEIM UNION WATER COMPANY. Notice is hereby given that the adjourned meeting of the stockholders of the Anaheim Union Water Company will be held at the office of the company at Anaheim, Orange county, California, on the 23rd day of April, 1921, at the hour of 10 o'clock, a.m. of said day, for the purpose of electing directors to serve for the ensuing year, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting. By order of the Board of Directors. L. J. SHERIDAN, Sec'y. 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