The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 530

I Contrary to its appearance, this is the Aug. 5, 1979, issue of the Los Angeles Times' Orange County Edition. For this one Sunday, its first two pages will be the first and only issue of the Santa Ana Times, a fictitious 19th century newspaper written by Times staff writer Leslie Berkman for this special occasion, the 90th anniversary of Orange County. In 1889, the people of southernmost Los Angeles County voted to secede and form a county of their own. Ninety years ago today, the new Orange County Board of Supervisors met for the first time.

This issue, supposedly published on that day, has many advantages over the actual newspapers of the time. Ms. Berk- man pored over modern histories of Orange County as well as contemporary accounts of the county's creation, helping her to make these articles (and actual 1889 advertisements) as authentic as possible, given the occasional contradictions of historical sources. Not surprisingly, even the Santa Ana Timek hunches about the future have proved to be accurate. Ana nn ANTA VOL.1 SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, AUGUST 5, 1889 NO.l IMES ILLEGAL ALIENS A GLORIOUS BIRTH BEfiTTY BHOS.

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Particularly galling to our city fathers is that Santa Ana's Chinatown a huddle of redwood shacks decorated with red paper, varnished ducks, rattan baskets and calico partitions is in the center of town on the south side of 3rd St between Main and Bush Sts. Late last year the Santa Ana Herald complained, "The location of Chinamen right in the heart of the city is a great detriment to all property in the neighborhood." The editor called upon city officials to "eradicate this eyesore." To date, Santa Ana's Chinatown stands intact. However, given the public's mounting disgust, it's probable that in the future some health scare a cry of "leprosy," for instance would be considered sufficient justification for the city's leaders to simply burn the place down. FROM BOOM TO GLOOM Foster Kid Gloves in all the leading Shades! Best Glove manufactured at $1.25 and $1.50. We are sole agents for this city.

was triumphant for our city. Even the Anaheim Gazette marveled at its success: "All roads led to Santa Ana on Tuesday. As one crossed the bridge, a line of carriages, buggies and farm wagons could be seen jogging along in clouds of dust, all headed toward the prospective capital of the new county It was a great day for Santa Ana." Following the nonpartisan conventions in Santa Ana and Orange, a third convention was held in Santa Ana to nominate a straight Repulican ticket, even though eight of the 10 candidates on the Santa Ana-backed Nonpartisan Ticket and nine on the Orange-backed Citizens' slate were already Republicans. Although it took five days for the final count to be declared, by election night enough votes had been tallied to determine that Santa Ana had captured the county seat 2 to 1 and the bulk of the Santa Ana ticket had been elected. In the GLOW OF VICTORY, Santa Ana admittedly indulged in some wry humor at her neighbor's expense.

"They do say that Coroner Mills' (just elected) first Royal Worcester Corset, From $1.00 to $2.50 per pair. We purchase direct from the factory and guarantee them to give satisfaction. The Gold and Silver Shirts. At $1.50 and $1.25, Laundried. A Urge line of unlaundried Shirts at from 50c to $1.00.

Conceded by all that this is the best fitting shirt and most durable in the market. mules, are cheaply fueled with hay, there still aren't enough passengers to make them profitable. Many of the boom-spawned hotels are faring no better. The McFadden brothers, who operate the Newport Wharf and Lumber boast that they can own half of the hotels in Orange County because of unpaid lumber bills. Meanwhile, lots that were envisioned to be the sites of $10,000 residences are being replanted in walnuts and citrus.

Although the financial depression following the real estate bust is not nearly as drastic as many Easterners had predicted, almost everyone has felt the pinch. The Santa Ana Blade noted that many people used all their savings for a down payment on a lot, confident that they could very shortly resell it at double the purchase price. But after the speculative bubble burst, it was difficult to find buyers and they had no money to continue their mortgage payments. Some contend it is a good thing that persons who hoped to get rich as speculators were forced to become productive once again in order to pay their creditors and protect their investments from foreclosure. "True and permanent PROSPERITY began to dawn upon this fair land with the collapse of the boom," exults the Blade.

Also, there is no denying that the real estate boom brought a lot of permanent gains to the county, particularly to our own town of Santa Ana. Santa Ana was incorporated June 1, 1886, with a population of 2,000. By next year's census, we expect, the population will be more than 3,600. The city's skyline has changed, as one-story wood structures have been replaced by large brick buildings, including the three-story Brunswick Hotel that is the object of much civic pride. Most significantly, the burst of building and growing we recently experienced instilled in this region the sense of self-sufficiency, independence and separatism that spawned a new county.

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BEATTY BROS. The Leaders Santa Ana, Cal. County was ours. Balloting began at sunup June 4. Lines of farmers still in their field clothes were waiting at all 25 precincts when the polls opened at 4:49 a.m.

Even the Los Angeles Times correspondant conceded Santa Ana's quiet determination to win. We won handily. The final count showed 3,009 ballots cast, of which 2,509 were "for" and 500 "against" the new county of Orange. To Santa Ana's everlasting credit, her 815 votes were cast unanimously for approval. Next to that, Anaheim mustered a shabby 231 votes in opposition.

Twelve Anaheim voters defected to our side. Los Angeles and Anaheim were whipped! As the trend in the voting became apparent, excitement in this city snowballed. By early afternoon small groups of men gathered in the streets to SHOUT FOR JOT. A number wore orange peels or small oranges skewered on sticks in their hats. One old fellow, who had lived in town since the first saloon opened, captured a burro and, after decorating it with Fourth of July flags, rode up and down, whooping and attracting crowds.

By nightfall, the whole town seemed to be out. Fireworks and firecrackers were set off, church bells rang and people shouted in the streets until they were too tired to yell any longer. But the political pyrotechnics had just begun. Another election was set for July 11 to select a county seat, five county supervisors and the first 10 county officers: a judge, district attorney, sheriff, treasurer-tax collector, recorder-auditor, coroner-public administrator, superintendent of schools, clerk, surveyor and assessor. Of course, fair-minded people recognized from the start that Santa Ana was the logical choice for the new county seat The city had almost single-handedly won the division battle and throughout the years had bested competitors to prove it was the most up-and-coming town in the region.

Early on, Tustin had been a rival because it was a station on the Los Angeles-to-San Diego stagecoach line, while Santa Ana lay three miles off the stage route. To remedy that, Spurgeon, the founder of Santa Ana, took it upon himself to cut a road through fields of wild mustard to induce the stage operators to come to his city. Some old-timers say one reason Santa Ana eventually outgrew Tustin was that the operator of the county's first brickyard settled in Santa Ana, refusing a gift of land from Tus- Un THE RIVALRY between the two towns culminated 11 years ago, when Santa Ana outpaid Tustin to secure the new terminus of the Southern Pacific Railroad, which both cities wanted extended from Anaheim. Although German grape growers established this region's first non-Spanish colony of white men at Anaheim in 1857 13 years before the settlement of Santa Ana Santa Ana since then has far outstripped Anaheim in population. Despairing of the election's outcome, Anaheim showed a poor turnout at the polls July 11, with scores of eligible voters opting to spend the day in Los Angeles and elsewhere outside of the new county to avoid being hounded by campaign workers.

But by then, Orange had become a vigorous if scrawny contender for the county seat In its zeal, that city stooped to bribe voters with a promise to give the county the Rochester Hotel for a courthouse if Orange were selected as the county seat Although opposed to bribery, we wouldn't be outdone. So Santa Ana agreed to put up $1,000 to $100,000 in gold coin, no matter which city won, to defray the cost of county buildings. Other towns then made other offers of money and land for the prize all of which Santa Ana topped by declaring it would double in cash any offer from any town. In the midst of the rivalry, Orange called a Citizens Convention at the Rochester Hotel to select a slate of candidates to run for county offices. That convention, however, was principally a forum for Orange to protest against the "centralization of power" in Santa Ana and to show off its 60-ROOM BRIBE.

(The Rochester Hotel, built as the result of overoptimistic projections for the city's growth, has been a white elephant since the day it opened. Now there are grand plans afoot to have it house the county's first college, but the success of that venture is also doubtful.) The Orange convention, moreover, turned into a travesty when 51 delegates bolted before the first ballot was cast because they objected to the heavy-handed rulings of the chairman. By contrast, the nomination convention held six days earlier at Santa Ana's Brunswick Hotel A Flood of Smuggled Immigrants Reported Crossing the Border Lured by Farmers and Others Seeking Cheap Labor and Unwilling to Pay Detent Wages We have received disturbing reports that a flow of illegal aliens across the Mexican border into California has swelled into a tidal wave. Even the Anaheim Gazette has observed that the aliens are "pouring" across the border and into our territory, lured by farmers wanting fieldworkers who will not make the demands for decent wages and living accommodations insisted upon by white laborers. Some here have been whipped into what borders on hysteria, calling these Chinese laborers a blight that should be eradicated.

Many fear the Chinaman's strange and alien culture, but just as many fear that he poses unfair competition for jobs. We frankly believe this hysteria is unfounded and the threat exaggerated, and we have conducted our own informal census of the region to prove it. Despite the Chinaman being a common sight hereabouts, we counted only 162 of them within the county boundaries. Some people, presented with the sight of a single Chinese vegetable farmer, see a battalion of Chinese invaders. Originally, the Chinamen were welcomed as a source of cheap labor to lay the railroad tracks, prune vineyards, dig irrigation canals and blast mines.

They proved to be quiet, hard-working and thrifty. The Chinamen also have opened laundries, restaurants and other enterprises and have cultivated thriving gardens at the edges of towns. Their mule-drawn vegetable wagons are a COMMON SIGHT in Orange County neighborhoods, and housewives claim their produce is the best on the market Almost all of the Chinese in the county are male. They have sailed from a strife-torn and im-proverished homeland to earn money to send back to wives and children. They often arrange to have their bodies shipped to China for burial.

Patriots are incensed by this drain of dollars to China. "By jingo, that IS un-American!" avers Dan M. Baker, editor of the Santa Ana Standard. Last year Baker was Santa Ana's representative to the Chinese Exclusion Convention in San Francisco. Baker has referred to the Chinese as "uncivilized leeches." Also, many California politicians are concerned that Chinamen who will toil tirelessly for meager wages are stealing jobs from Americans.

In an attempt to cork the influx of "coolies," California pressured Congress into passing the Exclusion Act of 1882, which subsequently has been strengthened. As of now, the immigration of additional Chinese laborers is prohibited, and those who entered the country before the legislation must carry registration cards. In addition to the numerous reports of Chinese laborers being smuggled into California across the Mexican and Canadian borders, there are warnings of new efforts to undermine the exclusion law. The Los Angeles Times has rebuked farmers who would rather hire Chinamen than provide white fieldworkers with a decent job. "The people of California are not prepared to accept PEON LABOR as a permanent feature of our social system in order to satisfy the greed and selfishness of a few wealthy fruit growers," the newspaper declared.

Many are also outraged by a recent ruling of the U.S. attorney general that Chinamen traveling to China from Cuba and other foreign ports may ride the railroads across the United States on their way. Critics assert that the ruling was made at the behest of the Southern Pacific Railroad to increase that company's profits and that U.S. authorities have no feasible way to stop Chinamen from jumping off trains and settling permanently in this country. The Santa Ana Blade protests, "There is nothing to prevent the introduction of thousands of these leprous Mongolians to this coast" Nor is the reference to "leprosy" idle rhetoric.

Many have grave concern about the health conditions in the overcrowded, odorous and rat-ridden Chinatowns that have sprung up throughout the state. In Orange County alone there are Chinese sections in Santa Ana, Orange, Anaheim and Tustin. Other objections are expressed about the gambling that seems to be the Chinamen's favorite entertainment God-fearing Santa Anans also read with disgust news accounts of the Freedom At Last From Northers Plunder ud Domination Santa Asa's Desire for Independence Overcomes Los Angeles and Her Anaheim Allies It is time to bind up sectional wounds and celebrate a great victory. After 19 years of struggle for independence, Orange County is bom! We are no longer the southeastern portion of Los Angeles County. This rich agricultural region of 786 square miles and more than 13,500 people finally has won self-determination.

We have our own court, our own Board of Supervisors and the much-needed assurance that the taxes we pay will be spent for our own benefit. For too long the taxes collected here, when we were part of Los Angeles County, were lavished on roads, bridges and new county buildings in the north, while our needs were abysmally neglected. A number of times before, we had tried to persuade the Legislature in Sacramento to make us a separate county. Anaheim made the first attempt in 1870, the same year it became the first town in the Santa Ana Valley to incorporate. But each initiative was thwarted by LOCAL BICKERING and the political clout of Los Angeles lobbyists.

As recently as last winter, hardly anyone thought we had a chance of overcoming the opposition of Los Angeles (which many of us now refer to as the "Imperial in the state Legislature. The bill to enable the new county's formation was considered such an outside bet, in fact, that the Los Angeles newspapers paid it no attention until they were surprised to leam it had suddenly been approved. Although the Los Angeles Times then called for a court test of the bill's constitutionality, the die was already cast. The magnitude of the upset is even greater, considering that Anaheim and its satellite towns (Buena Park and Fullerton) joined Los Angeles forces in the battle. They complained that the bill introduced by our assemblyman, E.

E. Edwards, predetermined the selection of Santa Ana as county seat by drawing the northern boundary of the proposed county at Coyote Creek and not at the San Gabriel River, as had been expected. This boundary adjustment, they whined, excluded such areas as Whittier, Los Nietos and Downey, which would be likely to give Anaheim their allegiance. Their prediction came true. Santa Ana was chosen to be the COUNTY SEAT, and by a hefty majority.

In our opinion, we deserved the honor both because we are the most populous city in the new county and because we led the fight for the county's creation. Santa Ana not only sent two of its most influential Citizens, William H. Spurgeon and James McFadden, to Sacramento to lobby for the county bill, we also provided them with a fat sack of money to aid the cause. We make no apologies. Some might call it bribery, but others call it effective lobbying.

Santa Ana merchant George Edgar, questioned about buying the votes of legislators, asserted, "Hell, yes! We bought the county from the state Legislature for $10,000. 1 went out and raised the money myself in two hours. And it was a rainy morning at that." Surely one of the divisionists' most important coups was winning over the San Francisco delegation, which had grown jealous of Los Angeles and seized the opportunity to cut her down. The Los Angeles Times said a Los Angeles lobbyist indignantly refused the "nefarious proposition" of six San Francisco delegates who wanted $1300 for their votes, an amount the divisionists were ready to pay. Such reports are simply SOUR GRAPES.

Most likely, Los Angeles now regrets that it underestimated our strength and that the antidi-vision lobby was poorly financed. In any case, the foes of Orange County's formation were doomed when our lobbyists got 47 of the leading businessmen in Los Angeles to sign a petition to the state Senate supporting division. Some say the petitioners hoped to rid themselves of commercial competition from the Santa Ana Valley, but the result of the Los Angeles merchants' petition before the state Senate was to cool the previously hot opposition the separation bill had encountered from Los Angeles Sen. Stephen White. In short order, the bill passed the Legislature.

Last March 11, Gov. Robert W. Waterman signed the bill that permitted residents of the proposed county to vote on the matter for themselves. The final decision to create Orange Cor 4th and Sycamore St ANNOUNCEMENT! The advertisements on these pages were reconstructed from the 1889 originals by Gus Keller and Steve Lopez of The Times. Ed.

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25 cents a vial, by druggists. ii tBtlllt Speculation Babble Bursts-Boom Towns Face Extinction The birth of a new county has brightened an otherwise bleak year for the Santa Ana Valley's economy. Let's hope the lesson we have learned will be long remembered: Real estate booms can bust Land speculation grew feverish throughout Southern California in 1886 with the onset of a rate war between the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe railroads. Within months the price of a passenger ticket between the Missouri River and California dropped to as low as $1. Thousands of immigrants and tourists headed west, beckoned by the advertising ploys of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and possibly by the promise of romance fostered by Helen Hunt Jackson's novel, "Ramona," and William Henry Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast" The advertising also attracted hordes of Easterners with tuberculosis and other ailments who were told California's climate could cure anything.

Many were drawn to our famous hot springs at Fairview and Capistrano. Since 1875 the Southern Pacific Railroad had held a price-gouging MONOPOLY in the Santa Ana Valley. The heralded arrival of the Santa Fe in 1887 did much to spur real estate activity in every town and aspiring hamlet Farms everywhere were cut up into town lots. The opportunity was particularly welcomed in Anaheim, where blighted vineyards were dying out. Excitement mounted as local promoters hosted excursions for prospective settlers.

In Santa Ana, brass bands usually escorted the groups of visitors from the depot to auction sales of new subdivisions. At one Anaheim auction, 700 shoppers treated to a free lunch spent $38,000 for 200 lots. Hotels sprang up in every town to accommodate the deluge of tourists and speculators. Nonetheless, lodgings were so scarce in Santa Ana that our city's hotels had to rent rooms in private homes to accommodate their many guests. Meanwhile, builders hammered at a frantic pace.

Throughout Southern California the burgeoning demand for building materials and mechanics was too great to be met. As many as 12 new towns were founded in this region during the boom. Most of them, such as San Juan-by-the-Sea, Catalina-on-the-Main, Fruit-land, Crestline, Carleton, Saint James and Fairview, now seem doomed to extinction. An exception is the thriving town of Fullerton, founded two years ago by the Pacific Land and Improvement Co. The company was organized by Edward and George Amerige, who sold a grain business in Boston to build a town on 430 acres north of Santa Ana.

The Amerige brothers persuaded the Santa Fe Railroad to lay tracks close to their development and got George H. Fuller, a director of the railway, to join them in their enterprise. Other BOOM TOWNS that seem destined to survive are Buena Park and Aliso City (although the latter's name may not persist; there is talk of renaming it El Toro). Generally, however, the area's growth has fallen short of speculators' expectations. Since the middle of last year, land sales have tapered off and banks have tightened their credit While a huge amount of capital changed hands during the two-year frenzy, the greatest losses were mostly in anticipated profits.

There are casualties, among them the trolley system inaugurated during the boom to connect Tustin, Santa Ana, Orange and El Modena. Although the trolleys, pulled along street tracks by horses and inquest will be upon the Roches- ter," chortled the Santa Ana Blade. Not only were we vindicated by the electorate, we won our day in court when six Los Angeles Superior Court judges unanimously rejected the lawsuit (for which the Los Angeles Times had rooted) that contended the bill enabling Santa Ana Valley residents to vote on the creation of a new county was unconstitutional. Although the judges' decision is being appealed to a higher Court, few really believe it will be overturned. It is appropriate that Orange County's three incorporated cities Santa Ana, Orange and Anaheim should now call a truce.

We deserve to gloat a little, nonetheless, because of the way we have been challenged and ridiculed at every step. The Anaheim Gazette, for instance, after passage of the Edwards bill, praised Santa Ana for her "indomitable perserver-ance." But then, buoyed anew by the COURT CHALLENGE of the bill's constitutionality, exclaimed (somewhat prematurely), "The New County Is Dead! Long Live the Old!" Not until the Superior Court's decision in late June did the Gazette give up, moaning, "We leave Los Angeles with great sorrow. Throughout the division campaign, Santa Ana was accused of seeking county formation for selfish reasons. By virtue of becoming a county seat, it was obvious that the city's economy would benefit. Our Anaheim foes further argued, however, that the rest of the area would suffer financially because the new county would be forced to assume a share of the old county's debts and then would have to spend a mint to erect new county buildings.

The Anaheim Gazette even had the audacity to insinuate that Santa Ana's extravagance would drive the new county into bankruptcy. We pointed out, however, that unbridged rivers and ungraveled roads that turn into muddy quagmires in the winter rains prove our tax dollars have not been spent in our region. Such LAMENTABLE CONDITIONS do not exist within 10 miles of Los Angeles. Only in response to the threat of our county's formation did the old county leadership deign to build a bridge across the Santa Ana River, and now the Imperial County is futilely fighting in court to force Orange County to pay for it. Disproving predictions of extravagance, our new Board of Supervisors already has demonstrated frugality by deciding to rent office space for county operations for the time being rather than incur a large capital debt.

It's rumored that some Santa Ana residents intend to donate the county's new government office space virtually rent-free for two years. Those who predicted Orange County would be saddled with the old county's debts were wrong. What's more, it looks as if Los Angeles also will have to forfeit the cost of improvements it made in Orange County between passage of the Edwards bill in March and the voters' ratification of division in June. In addition, the new county has its own resources, namely $9,559,544 worth of taxable property. We imagine today's skeptics will blush to discover that our tax rate, $1.65 per $100 of assessed valuation, will turn out to be 15 cents less than that of Los Angeles.

And our tax bills will seem even lighter now that we no longer have to waste the day and a $4 fare on a round-trip train ride to Los Angeles to pay them. Hotel Brunswick, European and American Plan at Reduced Rates, The Dining Room Will be under the management of J.A. JONES, an experienced chef, where meals will be served every hour and in every style. BRUNSWICK LUNCH COUNTER Eastern Oysters in Can or Shell-Rooms from J7 up per month. Lodgings, Single Rooms 1.00 Lodgings, Single Rooms .75 Lodgings, Single Rooms .50 Everything First Class.

W.M.WARD,Prop'r. The Wright Truck Co. Is prepared to do all kinds of Trucking, Freighting, Etc aar- Office at Biggs Cigar store. ST. CATHERINE'S ACADEMY.

ANAHEIM CAL. A Boarding and Day School. DIRECTED BY THE DOMINICAN SISTERS. ORANGE TREES FOR 1889. Great Reduction in Prices.

FIRST-CLASS TREES. The best orange trees are now within the reach of all planters. Genuine Washington Navels, of our own bedding, and other varieties at about one-half usual prices. NAVEL. Orange Orchards $300 to $400 an Acre.

Rooted Muscat Vines and Cuttings ORANGE AND VINEYARD LANDS AT LOW RICES. Seas fattirtilm. J.H. FOUNTAIN CO. RIVERSIDE, CAL.

BROS. Fort Street, Los Angeles.Cal. Vineyard Blight Stumps Experts-Farmers See Hope in the Orange Orange County's agricultural industry is at a crossroads. While the source of the blight that has devastated thousands of acres of vineyards in the Santa Ana Valley continues to baffle the experts, local farmers, who can't afford to wait for a solution, are experimenting with other crops. It is shocking to recall that as recently as 1886, this region, after a winter of drenching rains, yielded a record-breaking grape harvest.

That year, 8,944 railroad cars of grapes left the valley. Anaheim was the center of the wine industry, while Santa Ana specialized in drying the fruit for raisins. But even then a pall hung over the vineyards. In a southwestern portion of Anaheim, a mysterious blight began withering the lush fields that same year. In less than three years, what Santa Anans like to call the Anaheim disease spread through Santa Ana, Orange, Tustin and Fullerton as well, destroying more than 5 million vines.

The vine disease has been investigated by both American and French scientists, who have not been able to discover either its cause or remedy. Studies are being conducted by the state Board of Viticulture and by a special agent recently dispatched by the secretary of agriculture in Washington. Unfortunately, by the time the disease is understood, vineyards in this region probably will be relics of the past. It is a shame that Northern California and Fresno seem to be relishing our misery. Their newspapers are SLANDERING OUR COUNTY by falsely blaming the vine disease on the fog and dew of our coastal climate.

More likely it is being carried by some insect But those who predict doom for this county's agriculture underestimate our resourcefulness. Our farmers are planting a number of other crops, the most promising being oranges. The county's first orange trees were planted in 1870 by Dr. William N. Hardin, Anaheim's justice of the peace, who extracted the seeds from two barrels of rotten Tahitian oranges.

Potentially, oranges have a broad even a national market The use of railroads for shipping produce has increased dramatically since the Santa Fe began serving the length of Orange County in 1887, forcing the competing Southern Pacific to reduce its freight rates. It is possible that in the future, local orange growers will form an association able to advertise and market so successfully that oranges will become a common grocery item year-round even on the East Coast Season. RIMPAU Centralia Colony Tract! 2,100 Acres on S. P. R.

opposite Buena Park. Almond station on Tract. 21 miles from Los Angeles; 6 from Anaheim. Part of Los Coyotes ranch. NOW ON THE MARKET! At Prices Ranging from $35 to $60 Per Acre! EASY TERMS.

Soil of the Richest Character. Grows Everything and Anything. Artesian Water from 90 to 225 Feet. Eastern colony will occupy fully one-half of tract. LOCAL PURCHASERS given choice until September 25, 1889.

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