oc-plain-dealer 1919-04-14

ANAHEIM SUGAR CO. PAYS $350,000 FOR 640 ACRES OF LAND The 840-acre ranch and warehouse of the Golden West Celery and Produce Company, located at Smeltzer, has been sold to the Anaheim Sugar Co. The sugar company is reported to have paid between $350,000 and $400,000 for the Golden West property. When the company was first organized about ten years ago, celery was its principal crop. With the passing of celery as a popular crop in the lowlands of Orange county, the ranch was devoted to sugar beets, and the last year or two to lima beans. The new owner of the property has leased the ranch to R. L. Draper, who will immediately plant it to sugar beets. SANTA ANA DOCTOR FACES BIG SUIT Dr. John L. Dryer of Santa Ana has been made defendant in a $50,000 damage suit filed in Los Angeles by W. E. Hall of Pasadena. Hall alleges that misstatements by Dr. Dryer led to Hall's incarceration as an insane person for two days and that he was released on condition that he remain out of Orange county after April 9, 1918. Hall's belief in telepathy and a personal matter between himself and a former patient of Dr. Dryer's were bases, according to Hall, of the alleged misstatements as to his condition. The testimony, Hall sets forth, was given in the Superior court of Orange county before Judge Z. B. West on April 8, 1918, and he was released the following day. Hall was declared sane at Los Angeles on Nov. 14, 1918. 1918. Hall's belief in telepathy and a personal matter between himself and a former patient of Dr. Dryer's were bases, according to Hall, of the alleged misstatements as to his condition. The testimony, Hall sets forth, was given in the Superior court of Orange county before Judge Z. B. West on April 8, 1918, and he was released the following day. Hall was declared sane at Los Angeles on Nov. 14, in the Superior court. He alleges that the expense to which he has been put by the proceedings is in excess of $1000 and he asks the $50,000 for suffering and the injury he claims has been done his health. BUMPER 'COT CROP A bumper crop of apricots is in prospect for this valley. This is the indication from blossoms setting now. The trees are from three to four weeks late in putting out but the blossoms are thick and strong and apricot men say that every indication points to one of the largest crops and best fruit ever harvested here. Last year's crop was a comparative failure. Some orchards had good yields while in others the fruit was hardly sufficient to warrant the expense of preparing to gather and dry. Predictions of prices of 16 and 18 cents per pound for the dried fruit are being made by both producers and buyers. If these quotations prevail and the yield is what it promises at this time, the apricot growers of the valley will reap rich returns and make up for what they lost last season by a short crop. MORE OF COUNTY FARM IN ORANGES The County of Orange finds orange raising profitable for it has just set out 15 acres more to Valencias on the county farm at West Orange. This makes a total of 30 acres of Valencias owned by the county, the crop of the 15 acres now bearing being marketed through the Santiago association of Orange. There are 73 acres in the county farm and the remaining acreage beyond that occupied by the hospital, cottages, and outbuildings is used for grazing of the county herd and for bean raising. on the county farm at West Orange. This makes a total of 30 acres of Valencias owned by the county, the crop of the 15 acres now bearing being marketed through the Santiago association of Orange. There are 73 acres in the county farm and the remaining acreage beyond that occupied by the hospital, cottages, and outbuildings is used for grazing of the county herd and for bean raising. NINE SHARE ESTATE Under a will filed for probate Friday, the estate of Geo. W. Fate, who died at Orange April 8, will go to the nine children. The petitioner for letters under the will is Mrs. Clara Whitman of Orange. She and Mrs. Elizabeth Paxton of Anaheim and Mrs. May E. Perry of Santa Cruz are three of the nine children who are to share alike in the distribution of the estate, worth $14,600. The other heirs live in Nebraska. CHARGE TRACTOR MAN Nat Jeff, superintendent of the county highway maintenance department, has sworn to a complaint charging the driver of a tractor with driving the tractor upon and damaging the pavement on Newport road, Tustin. Neff did not know the name of the driver but was informed that he was employed on the Mauzy ranch. Neff brought to the court house pieces of surfacing that he said had been torn loose from the base of the pavement. —Planoe and phonographs sold on time payments, Schmidt Music Co. The Orange County Plain Dealer, Anaheim, Calif. The Plain Dealer by Anaheim people. Another significato be considered advertisers of Ana The Orange County Plain Dealer is owned, in toto, by local people, its owners in the upbuilding of Anaheim first, last and all the time.The foremost thoughtful people and the growth of their institutions. Not a dollar is invested in Troy in a competitive town. For instance: Whittier people do not own a share of Plain Dealer has a large and ever growing circulation in the oil fields—a fact now and our advertisers know (from local observation) that if Whittier interests would have practically no readers in the oil fields, and consequently advertiser of that section, although it is legitimate trade territory for Anaheim merchant Whittier wants the oil field trade. By owning an Anaheim newspaper and curtact, then covering that same district with bids for business from Whittier, they such an operation, if successfully continued, would be sufficient, annually, to buy now in Anaheim and throw it in Santa Monica Bay every Christmas eve, a Whittier to take up a collection to pay the drayage on the plant to the bay. The Anaheim Daily Herald is owned by Whittier interests. to take up a collection to pay the drayage on the plant to the bay. The Anaheim Daily Herald is owned by Whittier interests. The Plain Dealer is not owned by Whittier interests. The circulation of The Plain Dealer in the oil district as compared with the cir ald in the oil district is 32 net paid subscribers for the Plain Dealer to every Dealer will give $100.00 to the Red Cross if this statement can be proven ler is owned ple. nificant fact red by the Anaheim. ple, its owners live in Anaheim and are interested most thought of its owners is the good of Anais invested in The Plain Dealer by anyone residt own a share of stock in The Plain Dealer. The fields—a fact of which we are proud, but we Whittier interests owned The Plain Dealer, we ently advertisers would not be reaching the peoAnaheim merchants and Anaheim business. paper and curtailing its circulation in the oil dism Whittier, the profits of Whittier business from annually, to buy a newspaper plant as large as Christmas eve, and it would not be necessary for the bay. ed with the circulation of the Anaheim Daily Dealer to every one for the Herald, and The can be proven untrue.