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The Parker post., 1915-06-19
FLOOD CONTROL BILL SIGNED
BY GOVERNOR JOHNSON
Thirty DAY PERIOD FOR SIGNING BILLS PASSED AT FORTY
FIRST SESSION OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE is PAST
Total of All Appropriation Bills Amounts to $98O ncreae Of Only
$OOOO-Special Election Called for October 26 This Many
Measures Importance Southern California Receive PockeVeto

calls for the appropriation of $500 for
the survey.
The Bartlett bill, No. 1885,. govern
districts, was signed
Among the important bills signed
by the Governor are the following:
Non-partisan elections, raising corpor-
alton tax rates, appropriating $4,000
for revenue and tax system investiga-
tion, pure milk bill, conservation of
oil resources, calling election for $15,-
100000 state highway bond issue, Gre
ating free state labor employment bu-
reau, fruit Standardization, state mar
ket commission, abOlishing property
qualification for jurors, Chinese eggs
bill, home teachers bill, alien teach
ers' bill, university extension work,
state purchasing department, convict
labor, semi-monthly payday, Juvenile
court bill, child labor law amended, re-
vised motor vehicle department and
new basis for automobile licenses,
anti-coupon bill, preventing frauds in
circulation of recall, initiative and ref
erendum petitions, increased county
support for high schools, post graduate
grammar school courses, intermediate
schools, additional powers for state
reclamation board, organization Of
high school cadets, and sanitary engi-
neer for State Board of Health.
Bills Pocket-Vetoed.
Among the bills pocket-vetoed is the
anti-vivisection bill. Attorney Gene
raj Webb gave to Governor Johnson
an opinion in which this bill is regard
ed as unconstitutional on the ground
that it violates sections of the Federal
and State Constitution, according to
the possible right to be secured
against unreasonable searches.
Among the bills which were un-
signed and which are subject to the
pocket-veto are the following: Civil
service, jitney bills, anti-usury, Great
ing state poultry commissioner, Lake
county reclamation bills, vocational
schools, general state aid; anti-insur-
ance rebate, creating Office of public
defender, fish and game commission
control of fishing industry, making
deputy county superintendent school
supervisors, providing two additional
judges for Alameda county, two for
Los Angeles county and one for San
Diego county.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
BILLION BUSHELS OF
WHEAT, CROP REPORT

WASHINGTON, June ia billion
bushel wheat crop, the biggest ever
grown anywhere in the history of the
world, is forecasted by the govern
ment crop report based upon condi-
tions June 1.
Influenced by the prospective Euro
pean demands for grain, American
farmers last fall SoWer the largest
acreage ever planted to winter wheat,
following this by adding two million
acres to the area sown with spring
wheat Total acreage is increased II
per cent.
Present condition of the growing
grain indicates production of almost
700,000,000 bushels of winter wheat
and nearly 3OO,OOO,OOO of spring wheat.
Little more than half of this will be
required for domestic food consump-
tion.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
OCEAN-TO-OCEAN HIGHWAY
4; 4: SOON TO Be A REALITY
CALIFORNIA AGREES TO BUILD
LAST REMAINING LINK.
Survey Will Start at Once and Con-
struction will Be Rushed-River-
side and San Bernardino Coun-
ties to Aid Literally.

SACRAMENTO, June 15.-The
ocean-to-ocean highway, dream of mo-
torists and hope of transcontinental
tourists, will soon be reality, for the
State of California has agreed to con-
struct the last remaining link in the
system by building that portion of the
road between the San Bernardino
County boundary line and Yuma.
Under the direction of the state
highway commission, the survey for
the road will be commenced immedi-
ately and work will be started within
few months, and be well under way
before the end of the year. Convict
labor from the state penitentiaries will
be brought from the north to assist in
the work, and the funds will be sup
piled from the motor vehicle tax
Every effort will be made to rush
the work to completion before the
heavy rains of next season begin, so
that transcontinental travel may be
made easier and more pleasurable.
The decision of the state highway
commission to take over the road as a
state highway and expend funds upon
it was made by the highway advisory
board at Sacramento. This board in
cludes the members of the highway
commission, the state engineer and the
governor.
Two bills, each carrying an appro-
priation of 100000, we're passed by
the legislature for building roads by
these/two routes. But the governor
felt that he could not sign both of
them, and so the conference of the
members of the advisory board was
called, with the result that neither
bill was signed, but the funds will be
provided by the other method.
Riverside and San Bernardino coun-
ties are to spend $5O0,00O out of their
funds for the road to Yuma, and I'm
perial county is to build all the bridges
and culverts at an estimated cost of
$4,000. With the state assuming
charge of the road as a state highway
it will be built and maintained at state
expense, and will be open to traffic
much sooner than would have been
the case if it had been necessary to
wait for money appropriated by the
legislature for this purpose.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
OFFICIALS WORK ON
NEW NOTE TO ENGLAND

WASHINGTON, June 15.-It was
stated officially at the state department
that while officials had been for more
than two months assembling data on
which to base new note to Great
Britain on Interruptions to American
commerce by British naval operations
there was as yet no indication of when
the new communication would be ready
for transmission to London.
1t is intended that the new repre-
senations shall be so complete in de-
tail as to preclude protracted discus
sion.
1t was intimated the Washington
note might go forward as soon as it
was completed without regard to the
status of the. negotiations with Berlin.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
MILITIA TO SAIL
ON SIX WARSHIPS

WASHINGTON, June Secretary
Daniels announces that the summer
cruise of thet California naval militia
will take place from June 26 to July 10.
The cruiser Marblehead and five tor
pedo boat destroyers have been as
signed to carry the various divisions.
The naval militia divisions from San
Francisco, Eureka and Santa Cruz will
go on the Marblehead.
The divisions assigned to the tor
pedo boat destroyers are: The San
Diego division, on the Lawrence; the
Santa Barbara division, on the Hop
kins, and the Los Angeles division, on
the Hull, Farragut and Whipple.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19

SACRAMENTO, June 14.-Governor
Johnson concluded Saturday the 30
day period for signing bills passed by
the legislature at it's 41st session, ad-
journed May 8. Of 997 bills submitted
to him, about $50 became laws.
Governor Johnson pruned closely
the special appropriation bills, cutting
them from a total of $4,767, ,309, to ap-
proximately $3,S5O,O0O. The general
appropriation bill for governmental
purposes for the next two years
amounts to $15,31S,070.
The total of all appropriation bills,
both general and special, amounts to
about $19,218,070. The increase over
1913 appropriations is less than $470,-
900. 1t is the smallest increase in the
States history, and is less than per
cent.
Flood Control Approved.
The Los Angeles flood control bill,
S. B. 459, by Senators Benedict and
Carr, was one of the first bills which
Gov. Hiram w. Johnson signed. This
means the death of S. B. 499 by Bene-
dict, comprising another flood control
plan.
Under S. B. 459, a flood control dis
trict practically contiguous with the
boundaries of the county is created.
The board of supervisors of the coun-
ty is made the governing body of the
flood control district. The measure
also provides for bond issue plan.
The governor also signed the Breed
special election bill calling an cleo
tion for October 26 this year, at which
will be submitted various referendum
measures and proposed constitutional
amendments including the nonparti-
san measure which caused one of the
most violent fights of the legislative
session.
Signs G. A. r. Memorial Bin.
The G.. A. R. memorial commission
measure calling for an appropriation
of $1,000 for the erection of a memo
rial to the Civil war veterans and
appointing commission composed
of G.. w. Wilcox, L. W. Archer and H.
C. Russell of Long Beach received ex-
ecutive approval.
Survey for a proposed highway to
connect Bakersfield, Kern county,
with Nordhoff, Ventura county, is pro-
vided for under A. B. 179, which was
approved by the governor. The bill
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
War Plot CHARGED in Blast

SEATTLE, June 15.-Consensus of
opinion in Seattle is that the explosion
occurring Sunday, when fifteen tons of
dynamite on scow in Elliott Bay was
blown up with a detonation that was
heard for fifty miles and force that
shook the city, was the malicious act
of individuals desiring to prevent the
shipment from reaching Vladivostok,
it's intended destination. Walter R..
Thayer, manager of local detective
agency, declares the explosion was de-
liberately planned. Damage to prop
erty is placed at 100000.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
MILLION GAIN IN
INHERITANCE TAX IN YEAR

SACRAMENTO, June 15.-For the
year ending with May, 1915, the ac-
tual cash collections under the inner
itance tax law were $2,7S3,O ,OS9.56, COM
pared to $1,7O2,426.74 for 1914, accord
ing to report issued by State Con
troller John S. Chambers. This shows
a gain of $1,0S0662.82. The cost of col
lection in 1914 was 0315, and in 1915,
the present year, .0157.
No inheritance ta- was received
from the following counties: Alpine,
Calaveras, Del Norte, Lake, Mono,
Shasta, Sierra and Trinity.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
LARGE EXPORT INCREASE IN
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
IMPORTS SHOW A DECREASE IN
MONTH OF MAY.
Interesting Statistics. Taken from Gus
tom Collectors Reports Show Com
parative Increases in All
Foreign Exports.

LOS ANGELES, June 15.-An in
crease of more than 100000 in ex-
ports and a decrease of a like sum in
imports, compared with the same
month last year, are shown in report
prepared by Collector J. B. Elliott.
The report is for the month of May.
The biggest figures are given for the
business done at Port Los Angeles,
the imports here being $91, 1867 and the
exports $176,332; the collections being
$34,361
This is explained by the fact that
German goods still are entering the
United States from Holland ports. The
imports from Germany are listed as
earthenware, hops and pencils. The
imports from France show marked
falling off. Last year they amounted
to $9476; this year they were $1419.
Further comparisons are as follows:
England, this year, $24,404; last
year, $12,197. Scotland, this year,
$2O13; last year, $9333 Ireland, this
year, $1736; last year, 1863. Mexico,
this year, $118,371; last year, $3.50.
Japan, this year, $3.50; last year, $751;
1926.
The big increase in Mexican imports
is said to be due to the bringing of
larger quantities of fresh fish, cattle
and sheep and hides.
Exports from Southern California to
England last month amounted to $780,
900, or $4,000 more than in May last
year. Those to Canada were $39, 9,32Qe
this year, against $27, ,595 last year; to
Mexico, $132,444 this year, compared
with $65,438 last year.
Here is what was exported from the
local ports in May, according to the
report:
Cotton, $4,000; crude oil, $3.50;
distillate, $26,76S; fertilizers, $4,000;
fuel oil, $4,000; automobiles, $250O;
oranges, $25,744; cement, $549S; en-
gines, $4,000; machinery, $16,40O; rails
for railways, $11 1.180: iron and steel,
$2O,O19; lumber, $7377.
Fifty-eight steamers with an aggre-
gate tonnage of 125,800 and crews num-
bering 1872. Thirty-nine steamers
cleared. They had total net tonnage
og 24,011 and crews aggregating 1921.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
SEMI-MONTHLY PAY BILL
SIGNED BY GOVERNOR

SACRAMENTO, June 15.-Governor
Johnson signed the semi-monthly pay
day bill.
This bill, urged by labor representa-
tives, provides that all wages or COM
pensation of employees in private en-
ployment shall be due and payable at
least twice a month 1t does not pre-
vent the payment of wages weekly.
A All wages must be paid in lawful
money or in negotiable check or draft
The state reclamation board bill
amending and smoothing out the rough
spots in the old law also was signed.
Among the added powers given the
board is the authority to require the
installation of draws in trestles span
ming water courses.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
242,oo0 ACRES LAND
OPENED TO ENTRY

SAN FRANCISCO, June 15.-Approx.
imately 242,000 acres of land in the
Sequoia and Santa Barbara national
forests have been opened to entry and
settlement under the federal home
stead laws under an order signed by
President Wilson June 8, it was an
nounced by the forest service.
Much of the land already has been
homesteaded under the more stringent
requirements of the forest homestead
act.
There are $4,000 acres of the newly
opened area in the Santa Barbara for
est and $4,000 acres in the Sequoia
forest.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
Lookout Station on BaIdy

SAN BERNARDINO, June 15.-Com-
manding view of practically the en-
tire San Gabriel range of mountains,
a lookout station has been established
on a peak near Mt. San Antonio (Old
Baldy) by the government forestry
service.
E. E. Cook will be assigned to the
post and his sole duty will be to To-
cate forest fires that may be dis
cernible from his vantage point.
Equipped with powerful field glasses
he will have a sweep of territory COW
ering sixty miles of mountains and
canyons.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
GREATEST POTATO CROP OF
COAST, is PREDICTION

PORTLAND, June 15-Barring acci-
dents to the crop later in the season,
the Pacific coast states this season will
produce their greatest crop of potatoes.
A survey indicates total output of 49,
100000 bushels of potatoes along the
coast, compared with 50,000,000 bushels
a year ago. The greatest acreage along
the coast this season is in California,
where the total planting is put at $4,000
acres, while Washington comes next
with an acreage of $4,000 or 1000 more
than Oregon.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
ASK MURDER WARRANT
IN SHRAPNEL SUIT

MILWAUKEE, Wis, June 15.-For-
mer Attorneys Cochems and Doerf1er
for General Samuel Parson in his suit
to prevent the Allis Chalmers COM
pany from manufacturing shrapnel
shells for shipment to Europe for use
of the allies, have applied to District
Attorney label for a warrant charging
General Falk with murder in the sec
ond degree. They declare the manu-
facture of shrapnel shells is an i'm
moral act and a criminal conspiracy.
label has taken the matter under ad-
visement
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
SAVANNAH JITNEY
BUS WINS DECISION

SAVANNAH, June 15-The jitneys
won a decision in the Superior court,
before Judge Charlton, when he grant
ed a temporary injunction against the
Mayor and Aldermen enforcing the
jitney bus ordinance. The injunction
was granted on the ground that some
provisions of the ordinance are "be-
yond reason and prohibitory.
He held the state commission is the
proper body to regulate the jitneys.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
WAR MACHINERY ORDERED
IN LOS ANGELES TOTALS $25, ,0OI

LOS ANGELES, June 15.-The sup
ply in Los Angeles of lathes and other
machinery used in the manufacture of
war munitions is rapidly becoming
exhausted because of the orders from
agents of the British, French and
Russian governments, according to To-
cal dealers. Already, it is said, several
carloads of machinery have left Los
Angeles and more are to follow.
Orders placed here during the past
ten days are estimated at $4,000.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
POMONA VALLEY SHIPS
IL CARS ORANGES DAILY

4 POMONA, June 15.-Twelve cars of
Valencia oranges a day are being
shipped out of Pomona valley.
The Valencia market has started off
with very good prices and still bet
ter market is expected.
The growers will receive equally as
good prices this year as last for their
fruit and there is strong possibility
that the amount will run even higher.
No effort is being made to hurry the
Valencia crop into the market.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
q, ,ooo, o,ooo-YEAR-oLD REPTILE
REACHES NEW YORK

NEW YORK, June 15.-The Oldest
known direct ancestor of mankind has
just been brought to the city by DR..
D. M. S. Watson, British authority on
extinct reptiles. 1t is proreptile, in
skeleton form, of the species called
"Seymouria," and lived about 25,O00,-
600 years ago. 1t was discovered by
DR.. Watson in Texas.
Dr. Watson is here to study skele-
tons at the American museum of ma
tural history.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
NORWAY MARITIME
LOSS IS $7,50o,oo0

LONDON, June 14.-The Exchange
Telegraph Company has received dis
patch from it's correspondent at Copen-
hagen who says the Norwegian war
insurance bureau announces that Nor
way has lost 20 vessels of all classes
since the outbreak of the war, with a
total valuation of 30,0OO,O00 crowns
($7,500,000).
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
VERDUN BOMBARDED BY
GIANT KRUPP GUN

LONDON, June IA Daily Mail
special says the recent bombardment
of Verdun was by new Krupp gun
larger than IL inches and with range
Of 25 miles. 1t is said four of these
guns have been completed and four
more are building.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
Brand Turkey Trot Vulgar

SAN FRANCISCO, June 15.-The
bunny hug, grizzly bear, turkey trot,
Argentina tango glides and similar
terpsichorean contortions are vulgar,
barbarous and must go, according to
the dictum of the international Asso-
citation of Dancing Masters as deliv-
cred at the first session of six days
convention in this city
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
U. S. CAVALRY ORDERED
TO STAY ON BORDER

Ell PASO, Tex, June 15.-Orders un-
der which the Fifteenth United States
cavalry was to sail for the Philippines
within the next few weeks have been
suspended on telegraphic instructions
from the war department at Washing
ton The Fifteenth cavalry was order
ed to remain on the border.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
To christen Arizona

PHOENIX, Ariz., June 15.-Governor
Hunt, Bishop julius Atwood and a
party of distinguished citizens will at
tend the christening of the battleship
Arizona, on the 18TH Miss Esther
Ross of Prescott will break the water
bottle; and her maids of honor are
Misses Eva Belm of Phoenix and Sallie
King of Auburn, KY.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
$4,000 Deposit in School Bank.

NEW YORK, June 15.-The first
Public School Savings Bank at Amer
lea at public school No. 40 has ended
it's first year with deposits of 100000
pennies, or $4,000. AS result, three
cigarette and candy stores in the neigh
borhood have had to go out of business.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
Stop Cars; Run Jitneys

MUSKOGEE, Okla, June 15.-With-
in ninety days the street car company
will take off every trolley car except
two, and begin running jitney buses
instead, the company has announced.
The two cars will run so as to keep
alive the franchise
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
CONDENSATION OF
CURRENT EVENTS
CLEANED FROM NUMEROUS SECTIONS
OF BOTH HENISPHERES
Dispatches PiGturing Developments From the Out
side World Stripped Of Unnecessary
Details and Presented in Brief
Wilson to Take Short Rest

WASHINGTON, June 15.-President
Wilson expects to spend the Fourth of
July at the summer White House at
Cornish, N. H. 1t will be his first va
cation since the foreign situation be-
came acute.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
s5o.ooo.ooo Loan Wanted

NEW YORK, June 15.-Confirmatio
was obtained here of the statement
cabled from Buenos Aires that negotia-
tions for loan of probably $50,0O0,-
900 to the government of Argentina by
American and British bankers are in
process of completion.
Half of the loan is to be taken by a
local syndicate. Barring Bros. of Lon
don will lead a syndicate for the 1ota-
tion of the other half
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
sixty-eisht Belgian Aid Ships

NEW YORK, June 15.-Figures
compiled by the commission for relief
in Belgium made public showing that
sixty-eight ships have sailed from
United States ports with Ala, 1866 tons
of food and clothing for the destitute
Belgians
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
Austrians Open Dykes

UDINE (via Paris, June 14.-The
Austrians by opening dykes have at
tempted to transform the low region
of the Isonzo river into flooded coun-
try, duplicating the feat of the allies in
Belgium for the purpose of halting the
Italian advance. The results were in
significant, however, as most of the
water was either absorbed by the earth
or carried off by bitches.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
Teacher to Get Allowance

BERKELEY, Cal, June 15.-Prof.
Edward j. Wickson of the University
of California will be granted retir-
ing allowance and become professor
emeritus of horticulture on July 1, it
has been announced at the university.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
s221 600 Fire on Docks

PORTLAND, June 15.-A fire on the
water front swept five blocks, doing
damage estimated at 1000 to $780,,
900. The plants of the Standard Box
and Lumber Company and the Acme
Planning Mill Company we're destroyed.
A launch near the mill exploded and
was DESTROYED.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
Asquith Plans Insurance

LONDON, June 14.-Premier AS.
quith announced in the house of com.
mons that the British government was
considering the initiation of a national
insurance scheme to cover the losses
inflicted by German air craft.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
WEEKS NEWS FROM
NE|CHBOR|NC CITIES
BRIEF outline OF CURRENT EVENTS
ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE
Condensed Resume Of the Weeks Happenings
Covering Events Of Interest from Nearby
PIaeeS---WlI Allow Rapid Scanning
Vets Win at Salinas

SALINAS, CAL, June 15.-The vets
won out in the city election held here,
the majority in favor of the continu-
ance of the saloons being 274.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
Control Forest Fires

REDANDS, June 15.-Forest fires,
which have been breaking out inter
mittently for three days at the mouth
of Mill Creek canyon, are believed to
be under control, though Ranger Allen
is keeping three men on guard to pre-
vent smoldering ashes starting new
fire
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
Hunter Sets Mark

REDLANDS, June 15.-Floyd Hunter
covered the distance between Santa
Barbara and Redlands in four hours
and forty-fve minutes, or at a rate of
forty miles an hour on his motorcycle.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
Leoion of Honor for FLYER

PARIS, June 14.-Following the rec
ommendation of the general staff, the
French minister Of war bestowed the
ribbon of the Legion of Honor upon
Lieut. Ronald Warneford, Canadian
aviator.
Warneford's sensational exploit of at
tacking Zeppelin near Client while
flying little monoplane and bringing
the dreadnaught of the air to the earth,
flaming mass of wreckage, has made
him the hero of two nations.
England gave him the Victoria cross
and France conferred her highest
honor.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
RedIands Oranoe Record

REDLANDS, June 15.-Shipments of
navel oranges this season concluded
with a total of 4228 cars in excess of
any record. Packers have started the
Valencia season.
The Parker post., 1915-06-19
Renort Eishinu Good

PORTERVILLE, June 15.-Better
trout fishing is being had here this
summer than at any time for the past
five years. Trout are rising to the
flies
The Penn's Grove record., 1915-04-23
Avoid Straluht Lines,

The third, and last, of the great
fundamental rules of landscape design,
"Avoid straight lines," is, in the opin-
ion Of the writer, Of almost as great
Importance as the first and chief rule
which the greatest authorities have
laid down for governing our garden
planning. AS the average young lady
says of everything that meets her ap-
prevail: ut is just too cute for any
thing" It permits the entry Of more
art in detail than all other rules COM
bined, and provides for intricacy of de-
sign; ease of approach, access without
apparent restraint, and availability Of
all parts without departure from the
Shortest line between two given
points," Compliance with this rule is
accomplished with more pleasure than
In dealing with any other, yet it is a
dangerous dictate for the novice or
amateur to deal with.