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Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31

1875 acres from Whitmore Bros. at Lind.
say, part OF which was In fun bearing
Valencia oranges, the purchase price
being $50, 00O
To Edwin S. Curtin Of Seattle. wash,
sixty acres Of the El Mirador Orange
tract for $4,000. Mr.. Curtis lis probably
the best known photographer in the
country at the present time, especially
so In indian figures. He was also the
official photographer for the Roosevelt
Longworth wedding
To w. w. Phillips of Seattle. forty
acres at $4,000.
To Mrs. M. G. zumwalt of Seattle,
twenty acres at $1,000
To Mrs. Elizabeth Holmes of Seattle,
ten acres, $500 To Messrs. Peters,
Gurman and T. B. Beans of Los
Angeles, t60 acres at 10000.
To II. S. Shank, thirty acres at $4,000
To A. l.. King, g. T.. Shanks, T. r.
Turner and William Winter of the
Palms, 260 acres for $4,000. To George
II. Crooks of Covina, thirty acres for
$500.
To Charles d. Jackson of Los An
geles, thirty acres for $500.
To David S. Bryant of the Palms,
tn acres for $500.
To L. G. Marlowe of Alhambra, ten
acres for $500
To w. j. and c. L. MarIowe of AL
hambra, ten acres for $500.
This company also sold for the Lind
say Orchard and Vineyard company
twenty acres to Lee Belden of Los An
geles for $1,000, twenty acres to George
S. Tantau of Pasadena for $1,000, and
to George s. Scott of the San Dimas
Citrus Nursery company twenty acres
for $1,000.
All of the above purchasers are i'm
proving and intend to improve their
holdings the coming season in this
early orange growing district.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31
DEACON RELEASED FROM JAIL

Alexander Messenger, deacon of a
Long Beach church, was yesterday
released from the custody of Sheriff
White through habeas corpus proceed
ings instituted before Judge Smith of
department one of the superior court.
Messenger, in moment of wrath, is
said to have slapped the face of a
brother deacon, but because the COM
plant against him charged two Of
fenses he was allowed to go free Oh
the technicality.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31
MARTIN A. BLAIR is WANTED
Los Angeles Man Is Said to Have De-
serted From United States
Steamer Chicago

Mayor McAleer was yesterday noti-
fed by the commander of the United
States steamship Chicago that Martin
A. Blair Of Los Angeles had deserted
from the naval laws showing that
cry effort be made to locate him.
The notification contains clauses
from the naval laws Showing that
through his desertion Blair has for
feited his rights OF citizenship in the
United States and may never hope to
regain those privileges.
Anyone who harbors a deserter and
refuses 70 give him up on demand Is
liable 10 heavy fine and lmprlson-
ment
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31
SONG WRITER
SHOWS SADNESS
HITS OF THE SEASON MERELY
POT BOILERS
Author of Sammy" and Other Well
Known Dittes Says Pub
fishers Pay Only
Pittance

THE generally accepted idea that
popular makes a bushel of money is
all wrong. The truth is that the writ
ers of most of the song hits receive
from s. to $3.50 for their work." said
Edward Hutchinson, who is playing at
the Hotchkiss and who wrote the music
for Sammy" which was the song hit
of "The Wizard of Or
This is how 1 happened to write
Sammy, Hutchinson continued.
Mabel Barrison, who played the lead
in the original production of The
Wizard of Or in New York, knew a
man in Chicago named Sammy Mar
tin, and she wanted song about him
to feature in the show. Jimmy O'Dea
me one morning at II o'clock and said
that he had to have the piece for the
rehearsal at that afternoon. 1 wrote
the music in that time and it was sung
for the first time at the rehearsal.
ut made quite a hit and it was re-
tained in the piece as long as it was
played. Every production of The
Wizard of Or since then has had
Sammy sung in it,"
Prolific Song Writer
Besides being the writer of Sammy"
Mr. Hutchinson has written the music
for Ward and Vokes' THE Head Wait
ers" Mary Jane" and has written q
musical comedy named Miss Colonial" !"
which will be first presented in New
York in the fall. He wrote "The Ar
row and the Maid for Lillian Russell,
and she sang it her last season with
Weber and Fields Others of his
pieces are STARRY Night" "The Hoot
of the OWL" Teddy" I'm My Naphtha
Launch" Loves Young Dream"
Louisiana Belle" Stupid Cupid" and
Marching to the Fife and Drum"
Mr.. Hutchinson. said: THE way to
make money by writing songs is to
write comic operas or musical comedies.
BY writing single songs the composer
is not able to sell them for anywhere
neat the price he should receive for
them. The man who wrote Coon,
Coon, Coon" sold it for $5, and the
writer of "All Coons Look Alike to Me"
was paid $35 for it. Billy Reynolds,
who wrote Nancy Brown" which was
in it's day by all means the biggest hit
in the country, sold it for $40.
'Innumerable other instances might
be given, but the moral that they all
point is that if a song writer desires
to make money and most of them do,
he should write music that is suitable
for musical comedies and then he can
get good money from royalties"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31

Through the efforts of The Herald
the city council is fully awakened to
the fact that Los Angeles is a large
and constantly growing city and that
it's residents with one accord demand
late night street car service.
Yesterday at the meeting of the city
council the foregoing resolution was
sent to the committee of the whole
providing that the city attorney draw
an ordinance compelling an "owl car"
service and Councilman Hitler, who
acted as president pro tenn, appointed
Councilmen Houghton Kern and Healy
as members of special committee to
confer with the street railway COM
panies and learn what they were will
ing to do towards late night service
without forcing the council to legis-
lation.
Houghton and Harmon were anxious
that the provisions of the ordinance be
carried out at once without reference
to any committee and Houghton spoke
long and earnestly on the need for late
cars in this city,
Is a Paying Venture
"This is the largest city on the coast
and the metropolis of the western
states, but our street cars stop lit
tie after midnight" said Houghton. IF
a man is detained at his work late at
night or attends pleasure party that
lasts longer than midnight he is COM
PEELED to hire a carriage, which costs
him several dollars, or walk to his
home, and while walking in Los An
geles in the daytime is as pleasant a
pastime as could be desired, a walk at
2 o'clock in the morning through some
of our lonely streets has its disad-
Vantages, to say the least.
There is a question as to whether or
not an hourly service all night could
be made to pay. In other cities where
the street car companies have been
forced to put on an hourly service they
have voluntarily reduced the time to
half hours and made money on the
venture. Don't send this to the com
mittee of the whole. Do it now. 1t is
urgently needed by every resident and
business interest in Los Angeles and
we should lose no time in sending to
the city attorney for an ordinance COW
ering the case. We have full power to
do so. The city ordinances governing
franchises gives the council the right
to enforce an all night service If we
see fit. Without owl cars we are
away behind the times and will remain
behind the times as long as we do not
have them.
Smith Favors Service
Pass the ordinance now. Don't wait
for The Herald or some other enterpris-
ing newspaper to force us to do 1t. We
will have to do 1t sooner or later Do
it now and do it gracefully"
There is no doubt that late car
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31
BOUGHT Garfield Ranch

Ben White of Los Angeles has pur-
chased the Garfield ranch for $60,00Q.
This ranch consists of 157 acres, fifty
five acres of which are in full bearing
Washington navel oranges and lemons,
and twenty acres in deciduous fruits.
The balance of the land is used for
vegetables, winter tomatoes, grain, etc.
There is a free water right decided
with the land, which consists of a 700
foot tunnel in the mountain to the south
of the ranch, which empties into three
million gallon reserve reservoir by
gravity flow.
The ranch is situated in the foothills,
facing the main street about two and
half miles south of Corona, in River
side county, and overlooks the entire
valley.
Mr.. White will expend at once
$4,000 to $4,000 on the property in
building additional reservoirs, will set
fifty acres more to late Valencia
oranges, and will make the ranch one
of the most beautiful in the state. The
purchase was made as an Investment.
There is a five-room cottage, large
barn and outbuildings on the ranch.
Many Groves Sold
The c. M. -.7ooster company reports
the following sales;
don, England, from George A. Otis of
Pomona, twenty acres full bearing
orange grove located at San Dimas, for
SIS, ,25O.
To Frank w. Van Wormer of Bur-
bank, for F. M. Clapp of Cleveland,
Ohio, twelve acres at Downey. $780,
To John H. Smith of Dayton, Ohio
from A. D. Tildon, five acres at Gar
dena, for $4,000.
To A. ]. Davis of Ohio, from G. G..
Force, five acres at Gardena, for $780,
To A. d. Mohr of Los Angeles, five
acres at Gardena, from G. G. Force, for
$4,000.
In the Bell and Carlton tract at Whit
tier five acres to Joe Mozzini for $780,
and five acres to August Santani for
$S75
|, Also to Mrs. .rgaret Condor, seven
acres, for S1250.
This company also sold a forty-acre
vineyard located at Burbank to w. c.
Cover of Durant, Indian Territory, for
Mary L. Barr and Belle S. Bailey, con-
sideration $6500
To Henry -. Smith of Dayton, Ohio
ten acres in alfalfa located at Gardena
for $S5O0.
To william r. King of Oakland, from
Marin Lee, ten acres at Anaheim, for
$26O0.
Acreage in Tulare County
The C. M. Wooster company also re-
port an active demand for country
properties, the demand far exceeding
their expectations at this season of the
year
This company has had a phenomenal
sale of the Eel Mirador Orange tract at
Lindsay, Tulare county, California.
Among recent sales are 24O acres of
this tract to w. w. Tyler of Buffalo,
N. Y. for 100000. who also purchased
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31
Quick Advance In Value

L. F. Doolittle. who is now the owner
of the Linen Laundry company build
ing. a three-story structure, earning an
income of S175 month, located at 315-
317 Boyd street, paid $4,000 for the
property. Three years ago Col. j. b. |
Lankershim sold the property to Count
Wachtmeister, a capitalist, for $13,500. |
The count year later sold the place
for $15 900.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31
Every Woman Will Be
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cents, or address The Mother q ay
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31

The A. l.. Haley Architect company
has let the contract for three story
apartment house, 47xS5 feet, to the
erected at cost of about $4,000 on
the west side of Ellendale avenue, be-
tween Twelfth and Pico streets. The
owner is w. P. Lowery. The con-
tractors are the Allen-Taylor Construc-
tiOn company.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31
$4,000 Improvement

The permit was issued Monday for
the erection of a seven-story wholesale
and light manufa cturing plant by the
w. 2. Jeffries company at 125-127-129-
131 Winston street. The Improvement
calls for an expenditure of $4,000. c. ].
Kubach & Co. are the contractors.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31

There is only one thing l
would not have the children question,
and that is the religion of our divine
Lord. True sometimes they do ques-
tion and we hush them with, Thus
sayeth the grammar.
Todays Session
Miss Edna T. H. Manley, a teacher
in the Los Angeles public schools, will
open the session this morning with an
address on 1.-The Book of Tobias" Sis
ter Mary Loyola will speak on De
scription, Language and Narration"
At 2 p. m. Bishop Conaty will speak
on wen. Julie Billart," which will be
followed by Sister Mary Loyola on Eek
position, Language and Narration"
Members of the following orders are
in attendance: Immaculate Heart, St.
Joseph, Holy Names, Holy Cross. Sis
ter of Charity, Sisters of Mercy, Do
minicans and Missionary Sisters of the
Sacred Heart.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31
GARFIELD RANCH
SOLD FOR $50 900
MORE FINE LOTS IN WESTERN
SECTION
$4,000 Wholesale House on Winston
street-Nlce Profit In Three
Years-orange Groves In
Active Demand

Following are the permits Issued from
the superintendents office Monday,
classified according to wards:
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31
Allen=Dale Tract

W. H. Allen & Son and the Home Real
Estate company have purchased the
northeast corner of Western avenue and
Ocean View avenue, being twenty
five acres, paying therefor $4,000. The
property is being subdivided into 113
large lots and contracts for street work
have been let which will cost the firms
about $4,000. Five foot cement walks,
cement curbs, graded and graveled and
oiled streets.
This property is directly on the new
short line to Hollywood, and when the
line is completed running time will be
but eighteen minutes to Fourth and
Hill streets. The new Sixth street car
line will be but two blocks west, and
the Bimini car line extension will be
but one block south of the property.
Water in abundance will be furnished
from an artesian well on the property
Property in this section so justly
named the Greater Westlake section
has increased in value wonderfully DUR
ing the past few months and this prop
erty is right in the heart of this favored
section. The tract has frontage of
100 feet on Western avenue, which is
being widened to a uniform boulevard
of eighty feet. Allen-Dale is the name
of the new subdivision. ....
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31

II you want 10 80 east. Q. Haydoek,
Ascent Illinois Ger tral Il. r.. 2ss s. Spring.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31
Smith Favors Service

0HhhH TaNOIS ON' WV
pass the ordinance now. Don't wait
for The Herald or some other enterpris-
ing newspaper to force us to do it. We
will have to do 1t sooner or later. Do
it now and do it gracefully"
There is no doubt that late car
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-31
$4,000 Contraot Let

Totals .......... is 81
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-21

some crop or other. We have be-
fore now reprinted notes calling at
tentiOn to some Of them, but the
following from Farm and Ranch is So
good that we give it space:
The intelligent reader is nowadays
frequently struck with the unreason-
able claims made for this or that new
agricultural product, system Of culti-
vatiOn, method Of fertilizing, plan to
breed plants or animals, etc. A very
safe test of any of these eXtravagant
claims can be made by asking the
question, twas that high-shearing re-
cord made on a single goat or did the
flock of AngOras actually clip so
high?"-did that pecan yield of so
many thousand dollars per acre repre-
sent the crop from one pet tree or
was it obtained from an average of
the yields and values from 100 trees;
is that yield of $50 bushels of corn per
acre the result of an estimate based
on the shelling out of two ears of
corn from one stalk, yielding quart
four stalks to the gallon-32 stalks per
bushel-4S4O stalks per acre-"est1-
mated yield" $50 bushels!
The people may not figure out and
prove the absurdity of some of the
high flown claims made from time to
time by unknown correspondents, but
the reason they do not take the trouble
to investigate is due to the fact that
they already know, they feel, the un-
truth, the essentially misleading ten
dency of some isolated fact which has
been given as coming from some large
operations. Zone swallow does not
make a summer
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-21

bition to work, he purchased one Of
these hopeless farms. When Nc
Keen took possession of these IS acres
the transformation began in which the
practical farmers of Oxford county
have become interested. Two tons of
hay was the product the first year-tO-
day 1S cows and other stock Craze to
their fill. Last year, when other farm
ers found it difficult to raise sweet
corn, McKeen's check from a nearby
factory was $4OO.
Hundreds of dollars had been spent
in the valley in the efforts to dam the
brook sufficiently to cut ice. McKeen
took two men, and in three days built
a dam that held back one of the worst
floods ever known in that section. In
stead of being obliged to haul ice a
dozen miles, he now has all the ice he
wants on his own property and enough
for several of his neighbors.
How does he do it?
McKeen says a farm wears out ex-
actly like a shoe. When he cuts the
trees in the forest, instead of burning
the brush, he leaves it on the ground
to decay. This is all carefully worked
into the ground. Like the shoe, with
and unfit for use. McKeen's method
is to bring it back to where it was, to
provide for it the fertilizer that nature
would furnish in the natural course of
events, if man kept his hands off. He
has employed the same methods in
Maine that he found successful in Fin
land, and by a combination of Ameri-
can and Finish ideas has worked out
to his own satisfaction a problem,
which many others tried to solve and
failed.
Then McKeen sent to Finland for
thirty men. He taught them how to
speak English, and let them live with
him and work on his farm until they
learned the American ways, and help
ed them to secure farms of their own.
Not one of them has failed. The
lonely, deserted valley has become an
earthly paradise. 1t is an ideal spot
for a people who delight in outdoor
life, who can look up at the sun and
tell within five minutes the time of
day, who like to whip their own trout
brooks for choice dinner, and make
friends with the birds of their own
woodlands.
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-21
Shop on the Farm.

The following article, from Farm
and Ranch, should have been entitled
a blacksmith's shop on the farm, for
that is what it recommends. We are
ready to endorse it all, but think that
it should include a woodworking shop.
every farmer had a shop and tools
for working in wood. In addition to
the other tools, we would also add a
small pair of timers shears, solder
ing iron Tor copper) and such things
as are needed to mend tin ware.
The value, Importance and economy
of a small blacksmith shop on the
farm, however small, is obvious. The
time and money saved by such an
acquisition may be small or large as
the case may be, according to the size
of the farm and the farmers needs.
"Well," the farmer pleads, 81 am
not able to put up a shop and could
not use one if had it."
Why not?
Because 1 never thought of such
a thing and have never had any
training in iron work"
You need no special training to do
some blacksmithing. About all that
is needed to sharpen plOws is to heat
them little more than red hot and
then flatten them to a thin edge on
the anvil. 1t matters not how you
hit the plow point so it comes to an
edge. There is but one care to be
taken, that is not to beat the point
out of shape unless you know how to
shape it up. If you should knock
one out of shape try to cut it in
shape If you can't shape it to fit
no serious harm is done. Take the
point to a good smith and have him
shape it for you. He will sputter
about it perhaps and pout a little,
and act cranky a little to discourage
you, but never mind. He desires to
impress you that it takes genius to
learn to heat a piece of iron and
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-21
Firms in Maine.

The great difference in the various
nationalities of immigrants, is shown
by the following from Farm, Field
and Fireside:
Not only in Maine but in every
state there is a deplorable number Of
abandoned farms. One hardly under
stands the reason for this, just at a
time when railroads are opening up
great possibilities to the rural land
owner.
In Maine a colony of thrifty Firms
are wonder-workers in reclaiming
these abandoned farms.
Jacob McKeen is the prime factor in
this movement He came here from
Finland sixteen years ago. With $50
in his big, leather pocket book, an am
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-21

mash it. You continue to persevere
and the first thing you know you can
sharpen a plow equally as well or
better than your village blacksmith.
Now, you must learn to temper that
plow point. Tempering is more diff
cult, yet a very simple thing, if a
few rules are followed. To temper a
point, put it in the fire and let it
get to a low red in color and souse
it into the water, keeping it there
until it stops frying, and the temper
will be just right. Don't souse it in
the water and then jurk it out quick
ly and look at it, then plunge again
and look again and so on until you
have dull blue in color, and call
that tempering. Rest assured you
have no temper at oil, for plow steel
takes no temper at blue; it is al
ways white when you have the prop
er temper. Plow steel will take no
temper below a red heat in color
When this steel gets to a red heat
the more you heat it the harder it
becomes. So if you get it too hot
the work will be too hard.
Now to test and see where we are,
take a new file, if you think your
work has too high temper, and run
it over the part desired to take a
temper. If it glides over like it was
on glass your work is too hard and
will break. If the file will pust cut it
it is just right. A little experience
with this will set one all right along
this line.
Should the work be too hard put it
in the fire and heat just a little at a
time and try with the filefi and just as
soon as the file will cut it plunge
quickly into water and your temper
will be right.
There is a great deal to learn in
a shop, but anyone who will try can
sharpen plows, make lap rings, weld
chains and run threads on bolts, or
into nuts and make an indefinite
number of useful articles at odd
times. All sorts of things can be
repaired quickly. If you can not do
the job neatly at first fix it anyway
and you will improve in time by the
experience gained.
oh, the cost of a shop! That need
not be much. $25 to $50 ought to
be a sufficient amount to put up a
shop 1Ox12 feet square and get a suf-
ficient number of tools to do light
work and save itself during a season.
OF course the better the shop one
can put up the better, but the least
sort of an affair to do work in at all
will be of great benefit. Sharp tools.
well set to the work required of them,
save many bushels of corn in the way
of feeding teams and besides the
teams will be kept in better condition
to do farm work. The economical
business is to have a shop.
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-21

Unreasonable Claims.
The newspapers are full Of items
making exaggerated statements about
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-03-21
CHEARCOLUMN

RATES-Twenty words. name and address.
one week, &C.; three weeks, 50c.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-08-24
Exercise For business Men.

The average city business man with
out physical impediments to fight
against can probably get along success
fully on such an exercise schedule as
the following:
First.-Five minutes each day of
purely muscular exercise, such as can
be taken perfectly well in ones room
without any special apparatus.
Second.-Short intervals during the
day of fresh air, brisk walking. deep
breathing. This can all be secured in
the regular order Of the days business.
A man can easily spend as much az
half an hour walking cut of doors
every day. This is for heart, lungs
and digestion.
Third.-The reservation of at least
one day week for rest and recreation.
for being out 81 doors. 1o- playing
games, etc. This is essential This is
for both body and mind. \ man who
thinks he can set along without at
least one vacation time a week simply
proves his ignorance.-World's Work.