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Sachs, A., December 22, 1910. Saffell, Mary, July 9, 1892. Sample, Mrs. Sallie Cole, December 27. 1917. Sanders, Winfield S., March, 1910. Savage, Maj. James D., August 16, 1852. Sayre, James H., July 26, 1906. Sayre. A. L., December 17, 1917. Schulz, M. A., November 24, 1876. Scott, Phillip, Jan- uary 18, 1919. Scott. W. Y., February 28, 1861. Seropian, Jacob M., October 6, 1883. Sewall, William G., March 15. 1912. Shaver, Mary E., November 22, 1915. Sherman, Minnie Eshelman, April 21, 1913. Shannon, William R., June 17. 1910. Shaver. C. B., December 25, 1907. Shannon. Jeff M., June 8, 1902. Shanklin, J. T .. October 18, 1901. Shipp. W. W., January 16, 1900. Silverman, H. D., August 18, 1877. Simpson. J. G., September 24, 1877. Simpson, Sarah M., May 3. 1918. Sliter, Ben F., June 8, 1918. Sledge, Martha, December 12, 1913. Smith, C. L. (Dad), October 10, 1907. Smith, A. E .. October, 1897. Smith, J. B., December 23, 1893. Smith, Mrs. Julia A. Fink-, January 14, 1919. Smith, Orson K., February, 1871. Smith, James, December 7, 1862. Snod- grass, D. S., April 13, 1912. Sontag. John, July 3, 1893. Spencer, W. C., Octo- ber 27. 1903. Spinney, Joseph, September 28, 1903. Spence, W. Y., December 19, 1918. Stoneman. Gov. George, September 5, 1894. Steaddam, Jas. M., October 26, 1863. Statham, J. D., May 28, 1914. Statham. A. H., February 6, 1909. Strombeck, T. T., November 6, 1910. Streeter, Jarvis, March 24, 1910. Story, William H., May 3, 1908. Strother, S. L., May 25, 1907. Stoneroad,
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WV. P., August 17, 1904. Studer, Louis, January 1, 1882. Stiddam, Eugene, October 1, 1861. Sutherland, John Sr., August 26, 1881. Swift, L. P., January 29, 1901. Swoap, W. C., February 6, 1901. Sweem, J. B., December 5, 1888. Swift, Harvey W., April 11, 1915. Shelley, Luke, April 23, 1919.
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Taft, George W., March 17, 1916. Taplin, Joseph, October, 1909. Tay- lor, John W., March 19, 1891. Terry, David S. August 14, 1889. Thom, Robert C., December 25. 1912. Thornton, H. I .. February 25, 1895. Tim- mins, L. P., April 1, 1915. Tinnin, W. J., November 24, 1910. Traber, Charles P., June 5, 1878. Trevelyan, H. A., September, 1900. Tucker, E. H .. April 18, 1912. Tunzi, Norberto, July 16, 1917. Tupper, W. D., October 7, 1906. Tinnin, Mrs. Anna I., May 10, 1919. Tabor, George C., May 13, 1919.
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Urquhart, James, May 22, 1909. V.
Vanderburg, I. K., January 23, 1900. Vandor, Mrs. Pauline, May 7. 1907. Van Valer, Peter, October 28, 1917. Van Meter, Harry S .. February 21, 1907. Veith, W. A., May 31, 1915. Vernet, Joseph, July 16, 1908. Vestal, Sarah A., September 5, 1913. Vincent, Dr. F. O., October 27, 1893. Vincent, Annie L., December, 1890. Vlahusic, C. B., December 27, 1908. Vogel, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob, February 11, 1915. Vorce, O. A., May 17, 1908.
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Wakefield, Wm., January 25, 1919. Wall, Sidney J., December 26, 1918. Walker, J. N., January 22, 1916. Walton, John Tim, November 2, 1917. Wallace, Miles, February 24, 1917. Walton, Josiah, October 2, 1918. War- low, George L., October 17, 1918. Waterman, Catherine S., February 22, 1915. Wainwright, Chas. L., August 22, 1908. Warlow, J. B., January 28, 1901. Waggener, Thomas, April 7, 1897. Walker, C. F., June 28, 1877. Weaver, Mrs. Nancy J., May 19, 1909. Weilheimer, Aaron, December 28, 1900. Weller. Gov. J. B., August 17, 1875. Webb, J. R., July 29, 1916. West, M. M., May 16, 1915. Wells, Lee W., February 7, 1917. Weldon, A. J., May 17. 1918. Weyant, John W., June 14, 1917. Weyant, Woolsey, October 10, 1902. White, J. R., May 6, 1907. Whitson, Jacob E., July 29, 1906. Whar- ton, James F., March 17, 1889. Whitmore, L. A., March 18, 1859. Whitney, Walter, January 22, 1917. Williams. Ben, May 28, 1918. Williams, James E., November 17, 1917. Williams, Percy, October 2, 1890. Williams, J. W., November 3, 1898. Willis, R. V., December 25, 1906. Wickersham, F. P., March 14, 1900. Wiseman, Geo., October, 1909. Wiener, A. J., July 27, 1897. Winckle, Ben W. Van, February, 1908. Winchell, E. C., July 23, 1913. Wing, R. W., October 9, 1900. Wightman, Alex. C., March 3, 1896. Winkle- man, Jane M., November 22, 1874. Witham, F. E., December 18, 1916. Wittmack. C. J., December 27, 1914. Wood, Geo. W., February 9, 1917. Woods, Geo. W., February 10, 1917. Wooley, William R., September 16, 1915. Wootton, William, February 1, 1894 (about). Wolcott, Oliver, June 3, 1905. Wolters, J. C., October 9, 1917. Wristen, A. C., August 24, 1894. Wristen, W. D., January 3, 1901. Wright, Elisha, November 11, 1914. Wyatt, J. T., July 26. 1873. Wyatt, W. M., November 24, 1908. Wyrick, J. L., October 10, 1915. Winnes, Harry F., March 1, 1919. Woodward, Mrs. Anna L., April 28, 1919.
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Yancey, Charles A., July 23, 1909.
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Zapp, John, December 4, 1918. Zapp, Mrs. Leota I., May 23, 1919.
COUNTY TABLOIDS
The big fire at the Sanger Lumber Company plant at Hume, sixty miles in the mountains from Sanger broke out during the forenoon of November 3, 1917. Reported loss was half a million. The mill had closed down for the season two weeks before, the season's cut was 20,000,000 feet of board lumber.
Will the Fresno Canal and Land Company as a private corporation, or as a public utility, have right to the water in the canals of the Fresno district after 1920 is a question. If the decision of the courts is that the contract be- tween water user and company is inviolable, that those of the old Fresno Canal and Irrigation Company are valid as long as they stand and that the utility view does not prevail, the new corporation first named will have no grip on the water at the expiration of the old fifty-year contracts, September 1, 1920, or possibly February 21, 1921.
Tuesday, April 30, the day for the annual Fresno Raisin Day celebration, was for 1918 officially designated as "California Raisin Day Patriotic Demon- stration" in keeping with the war spirit of the times and to find the more detailed expression in the fact that little money was spent upon features to make for pleasure alone. The feature was the parade on furlough of Fresno soldiers in training at Camp Kearny at San Diego, Cal.
Formal acceptance of the new $55.850 annex to the county hospital was had by the supervisors March 8, 1918.
The California Associated Raisin Company began in the spring of 1918 the erection of the first unit of nine buildings on its twenty-acre tract on the Southern Pacific line between the Fresno Cooperage Works and the Cali- fornia Products Company plant. This seeder plant will be of reenforced concrete, four stories in height, 100x300, costing equipped nearly $300,000. It was to be finished by October 1 to take care of the season's products. The seeding plant will be the center unit. Tributary to the twenty-acre plant construction was ordered of five new packing houses to be located at points in the valley to be designated. The Fresno city plant will be a model indus- trial plant, representing a million-dollar investment.
The first verdict in the county with women as members of the jury was rendered before Judge H. Z. Austin March 5, 1918, in the case of Tom Ryan for robbery. The women jurors were Mrs. Marguerite W. Lopez of Fresno city and Mrs. Jennie E. Barclay of Fowler. The latter was the foreman.
The second annual balance sheet of the California Peach Growers In- corporated, presents a record for the handling of the 1917 crop to be proud of. Quick assets are : $1,556,928.42; total assets, $1,998,105.12; current liabil- ities, $830,395.14; total liabilities $1,998,105.13; total reserves $101,555.29; total surplus $216,139.38 ; net worth per share sixty-six dollars as against fifty- three dollars the year before. Amount invested in real estate, buildings and plants $480,974.66 with $57,000 owing and reserve for depreciation of struc- tures and equipment $38,027.10. Investments in buildings and packing and grading facilities have been practically doubled, and likewise the quick assets over the liabilities. Figures showed that eighty and three-tenths per cent. of the selling receipts were returned to the producer, leaving nineteen and seven-tenths per cent. as the cost of selling and marketing a crop thirty- three per cent. larger than that of 1916. Out of the operating allowance, there has been placed in surplus $163,497.04. The 1916 crop returned growers seventy-seven per cent. of sales.
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In 1918 for the first time in its history, the county organized systematic fire protection in the country districts against destruction of crops, grazing land and stubble and other property during the summer fire season with selected points in various sections where fire fighting equipment is main- tained and wardens and volunteers patrolling the main roads favored by Sunday picnic parties.
General Grant Park covers four sections of land, located half and half in Fresno and Tulare Counties. Its Big Trees are not the least of its many attractions. It is the national park nearest to Fresno city. The crowd that visited it during the May 1-November 30 season of 1917 is the largest in its history. During that season 21,657 people entered the park-a little more than 6,000 more than entered it and Sequoia Park in 1916; 2,828 cars en- tered the park and nearly forty per cent. of these a second time ; 17,496 people visited it in autos and 4,161 came in other conveyances.
Doomed is the old town site of the first county seat, Millerton : also the site of the older Fort Miller and in fact all the immediate neighboring, hill- enclosed territory in the river gorge, today in the county the earliest, most interesting and historic ground down to and including the sulphur springs gushing out of a cleft granite boulder in the one time channel of the stream. Futile the long nurtured hope of the Native Sons of the Golden West to have some day the old courthouse for a museum of pioneer antiquities and the ground there, or perhaps the fort property with its ancient buildings, set apart for a public memorial park. The Madera district contemplating irriga- tion of a large acreage of land in that county has been organized, and its plan involves the construction of a great dam to impound the flood waters, submerging all the hallowed ground of the forefathers and the stage setting of the county's earliest history. Such a body of water will be impounded that Millerton's townsite will be under 100 feet of water.
During the first half of the month of February, 1919, there was a record- ing of 6,250 new raisin contracts by the association under the new regime, each record fee being two dollars. It took thirteen volumes of 500 pages each to contain them. On one day 2,716 contracts were filed for record, the greatest filing day in the history of the county. The extraordinary recording feat resulted in bitter litigation contesting the claims of ten women copyists each for $599.10 for work done in February and March charging six cents per folio for the printed matter of the recorded contracts.
Fresno is a county with a reputation for the large number of owned automobiles, paying into the state more than $160,000 annually for licenses. The return contribution for the upkeep of the roads for 1917 was $54,523.01. A branch office for the registration of motor vehicles has been established by the state in this city, county receiving half of the turned in money, less cost of administration.
Figures of the vital statistics show that the rural population is increasing. Records outside of the nine incorporated towns are :
Year
Deaths
Births
Marriages
1917
673
1,278
1,155
1916
633
1,093
1,059
1915
642
1,194
895
1914
623
1,116
986
Fresno County constitutes one of the largest hunting and fishing dis- tricts in the state. Fees for licenses in 1917 were $12,654-$6,404 from an- glers and $6,250 from hunters, 6,185 paying the dollar license.
Treasurer A. D. Ewing handling the money of the county as well as that of the city paid out in 1917 $695,012.76 of city and $4,224,746.96 of county money-a total of $4,919,759.72, the largest aggregate in the history of the office, due to the natural and material increase and enlarged business of county and city. November, 1917, was the largest one month of record; 26
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next largest was January, 1917, with $339,512.07 ; and next July the third as another interest paying month with a total of $326,506.23. The lightest month in the year was September with $223,862.69.
The November, 1917, grand jury returned indictments against John G. Wintemute and Arthur Ellenberg. Wintemute as the victim of "money sharks" confessed to a padding as city fire chief of the department pay rolls at various times in an aggregate amount of $855.50, pleaded guilty, made restitution that bankrupted him, and was liberated on probation. Ellenberg was an attorney accused on one of several charges of the embezzlement of money entrusted into his keeping by clients. He was found guilty by jury and sentenced to an indeterminate sentence of one to ten years. At San Quentin he was assigned as teacher of the prisoners' school.
The January, 1918, drawing by the three judges of thirty names eligible for grand jury duty comprised those of eight women. They were Mesdames H. H. Alexander, Minnie R. Fitzgerald, Geo. H. Taylor, L. L. Cory and the Misses Marguerite and Breeze Huffman of Fresno, Mrs. Florence B. McAl- lister of Sanger and Dr. Flora Smith of Kingsburg. It so happened that the grand jury of nineteen was accepted and sworn in on St. Valentine's day be- fore Judge Cashin and the six women chosen were: Mesdames Alexander, Taylor, McAllister and Smith, and the Misses Huffman and Humphreys, the latter the secretary of the body. In 1915 Mrs. Taylor, Miss Frances A. Dean and Mrs. Marie E. McMahon were on the grand jury venire, Mrs. Taylor was excused and the other two served.
What is said to be the largest jury award of damages for personal injuries sustained and returned in this county and in this state-and some claim in the United States-was the one of $100,000 of December 31, 1906, in the case of Willard R. Zibbell against the Southern Pacific Company. Zibbell was run over by a switching train on the night of July 12, 1906, while cross- ing the reservation on Tulare Street between G and H. He was literally ground to pieces, and after months of agony and various amputations sur- vived his fearful mangling a cripple and a physical wreck, though before the accident in perfect health and unimpaired in body, earning much as a trainer of fast horses. He sued for $102,883.25 damages and J. E. Burnett was the foreman that returned this unparalleled verdict. The railroad asked for a retrial. It was denied if the plaintiff remitted $30,000 from the verdict award. The reduction was consented to and the appeal followed by the company on a judgment for $70,000. That judgment was affirmed on appeal and in the end the railroad paid $92,335.82 in satisfaction of it. Zibbell is a real estate agent. He must have aid to assist him in every physical want. Having lost one hand and the other being crippled, he has a mechanical contrivance that permits him to operate his auto. The lawyers that undertook his case are said to have done so on a contingent fee of half what might be recovered. After the accident but as a convalescent, Zibbell was the principal in a sensa- tional marriage in an automobile, the incident being a culmination of a ro- mance, whose ending was hastened on by his helpless state by the bride offering herself in sacrifice. The married life of several years was broken by her death.
Kerman had a costly fire on the morning of November 20, 1917. The Fresno Farms Company block was destroyed with the cutting off of all telephone communication with the wiping out of the local exchange. Fresno sent a motor engine in the afternoon but it was useless because there were no water mains. The Kerman Hardware Company was a heavy loser carry- ing a stock of $30,000. The fire damage was more than $75,000. The town had a hand drawn chemical but the fire had too great headway when dis- covered to make use of it.
The home place of George C. Roeding, three miles east of the city and located between Belmont and Ventura Avenues, comprising almost the en- tire Section 3-14-21 was sold in May, 1918, for $300,000 on long term pay-
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ments. The Roeding property was one of the show places, one of the most beautiful and best maintained in the state. Within a year the three-story residence of substantial proportions was destroyed by fire at estimated loss of $20,000, though many of the prized contents had value far beyond their intrinsic worth. The purchasers were a group of eastern dealers in oriental rugs. One of these bought at this same time the 160-acre vineyard of the Mount Whitney Vineyard Company of ex-Supervisor Phil B. Scott and others, two miles northeast of Malaga and about five miles from Fresno. Consideration was $102,500, or $640 an acre, gross income of the property last year $30,000. Another big deal of June was the sale in the Orangedale and Centerville districts of 435 acres of the D. L. Bachant grape and fruit ranch for $170.000. It is a great producer and Bachant had taken first prize for Emperor grapes at the district fairs for five consecutive years. It is noted that in the last few years all the large sales have been to Armenians. many of these on long term payments, with little cash passing in the transac- tions and payments under the contracts to come out of the crop proceeds.
Phenomenal weather characterized January and February, 1918. The latter, however, raised desponding spirits. Crops and cattle were thought to be lost. The rainfall raised the seasonal from the lowest to almost the nor- mal. That seasonal normal was passed March 7-seven and fifty-seven hun- dredths-and from the driest season up to February 14 in three weeks the normal and more was made up. The aspect of the crop situation changed. Snow in the mountains was not sufficiently heavy or lasting to warrant high hopes for irrigation. This absence of snow was taken advantage of by the light and power company to base a plea for the raising of rates for the reason that on account of the shortness of water fuel oil more costly on account of the war would have to be employed in the operation of the mountain power generating plants. Because of the drought there was loss in cattle and the necessity of feeding high priced hay. February rain was timely and a godsend; for the season seven and fifty-seven hundredths, the normal six and eighty-six hundredths, for the same period the year before six and thirty hundredths, the seasonal more than for the entire season of 1916-17 closing with seven and twenty-five hundredths, June 30.
At the biennial Central California Conference of the Seventh Day Adven- tists in tent encampment at Recreation Park, May, 1918, growth in church activities was reported. Income for the last two years was $79,602.82, and the interest in the doctrine was shown by the sales of literature in the con- ference amounting to $11,256.01 ; 536 pupils are in the intermediate parochial schools in the local field as against 252 in 1915, five schools and ten teachers having been added in two years. Young People's societies have grown from twenty-eight to thirty-seven and in membership from 561 to 812; Sabbath school membership from 1,602 in 1916 to 1,886 in 1918 and offerings $16,709.14.
The Southern California Edison Company has expended sixteen and one-half millions of dollars in the development of its power generating prop- erty in Central California. It made in Jannary, 1918, application to the state water commission for the appropriation of more water from the San Joaquin River for the generation of more electric power in two new plants to be erected at a cost of several millions. Also for the storage of water of Pitman Creek in this county, the impounding dam of the latter to cost $842,900. The applications are parts of one project. With the storage of Pitman's waters, it is proposed to divert a portion to the reservoir on Big Creek, the remainder to go to conduits leading to plants below. The Pitman reservoir dam will be 103 feet high, 860 long on the top and fifty at the bottom, of reenforced concrete, multiple arch-buttress type storing 3,780 acre feet. The dams at Huntington Lake are being raised several feet to add many thousands of acre feet to the capacity and increasing the flow to the lower plants, two plants now using the water of the lake. The Edison company as the successor of the Pacific Light and Power Company will build two additional plants
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below the present lower ones. The water will be used in the operation of the quartet and having served its purpose will be returned to the San Joa- quin. 1930 has been set by the Forest Service as the time limit for the com- pletion of the project.
Report was in the summer of 1917 of a project for the organization of an irrigation district under the Wright law to be known as the Tierra Loma Irrigation District, embracing 144 sections of prairie land, bounded on the north and east by the line of survey for the Panoche and Kings River Canal Company ditch and on the south and west bordered by the foothills taking in all the plain lands under an elevation of 700 feet. This district would be below the junction of the San Joaquin with the Kings Slough, comprising one-ninth of the territory entitled to water from the San Joaquin. That stream's estimated annual flow, including flood waters, has been for seven years as measured at Hamptonville 1,800,000 acre feet a year, the one-ninth applied to the district equalling a little more than 200,000-acre feet. The plan for conducting this water and distributing it is by a concrete aqueduct and lateral with one foot meters on all section lines, thus supplying every quarter section. The point of diversion will be four and one-half miles above Fort Miller at an elevation of 700 feet above the sea. The mountain will be tun- nelled at this point for almost a mile, tapping the bed of the river after the aqueduct leaves the tunnel, passing through open country, laid well under ground, extending southwesterly and passing diagonally across the district. The main aqueduct will be fifty-two miles and the lateral over 283 miles. The district proposes to join others in the impounding and regulation of the river's flow contributing a ninth part of the $9,000.000 estimated cost of im- pounding the San Joaquin's storm water. Cost of the main aqueduct with its laterals is estimated at about $3,000,000, added the million for impounding the water, bringing the cost to about four millions, or near forty dollars an acre. The system will be a gravity system, good for all time, with system belonging to the land. There are 290 land owners in the district, requiring a two-thirds vote to organize and a majority to vote bonds for construction work. No tax on the land until the bonds are issued.
The state public employment bureaus filled 92,959 positions in 1917, an increase of 100 per cent. over the 46,442 of 1916. the first year of their exis- tence, or a total of 138,003 if the 45,044 placements of the city of Los Angeles are added. The Fresno office was in operation a little over four months placing 6,999 persons, 289 of them women. Fresno city took 1.895 and the others went into the country; agriculture took 171 of the women, the hotels sixty-seven and private homes forty-seven. Of the 6,070 men, 3,307 went into agriculture, lumber taking 668 and building construction 623. Of the 138,000, only 13.425 or less than ten per cent. were placed on farms, where the labor demand was the greatest. Fresno holds the record with fifty per cent. agricultural placements, showing that the nearer the bureaus to the farming communities the more assistance they are. The bureau helped to supply labor to harvest the largest raisin crop on record.
The Riverdale Farm Center announced a rabbit drive for Saturday, February 2, 1918, under the auspices of the Fresno County Farm Bureau, with the proceeds from the kill going to the Red Cross fund, and publicly announced: "Warning is made that the rabbits are for human consumption and should not be bruised unnecessarily."
"The Garden of the Sun." This is the adopted slogan so far as concerns the publicity work of the Fresno Chamber of Commerce and especially in drawing attention to the valuable commercial asset that it has in the sun's caloric. The committee that was responsible for the decision in the compe- tition was William Glass of the Republican, Chase S. Osborn Jr., of the Herald and C. A. Paulden. In the consideration of the designs offered, all were rejected as a whole with exception of the slogan, suggested by Grovine Hadsell of 1311 Ferger Avenue. The design is the work of M. V. Donaldson
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of the chamber who borrowing the slogan worked out the idea, his own rejected slogan having been "In the Center of the Sun." The design reveals the outline map of California, the sun-kissed Golden State in the center of the orb, Fresno County in the center of the state and Fresno City in the center of the sun blessed county, the most fruitful section of the earth. For more effective use of design and slogan, the sun's disk and rays will be printed in gold, the central state in deep red, with the lettering in black and the county and slogan in gold.
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