Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel from Santa Cruz, California • Page 13

Saturday July 15, 1905. WEEKLY SENTINEL. Page 13. TERRY AND FARR CLEARED OF CHARGE FRUIT CONDITIONS IN THE STATE TO EXTERMINATE THE PEAR BLIGHT PERSONALS NEW MANAGEMENT OF THE UNIQUE MAKES GOOD SHORT SKETCH OF THE POPULAR VAUDEVILLE MANAGER WHO HAS CAST I11S' FORTUNES IX THIS CITY. Among the many enterprising citizens whom Santa Cruz has added to her already long roll of active boomers during the last six months, none figure more prominently than C.

W. Allsky, the new lessee and proprietor of the Unique theatre. Mr. Allsky during the last two months has al most transformed the local vaude ville house and has furnished a higher class of entertainment than has been given in that house for many months. That his efforts have been appreciated Is shown by the increased attendance at the Unique, both by local people and visitors.

Sketch of His Career. A short sketch of Mr. Alisky's experience in the theatrical profession may not be out of place here. C. W.

Allsky Is a native son of California, having been born In San Francisco in 186G. While still a boy. hl3 father C. A. Allsky, who is now a well known capitalist of Portland, I Siiwafcuiiai ii wiwri 1111 Rev.

J. P. Fisher is in Los Angeles attending the clergy's annual retreat. Miss Florence Fleislg left Ssuita Cruz for Portland, Oregon, Friday evening. Judge S.

P. Hall of Oakland, a member of the District Court of Appeals, was in town on Saturday. Chief Engineer Winham of the Salinas Fire Department is in Santa Cruz with Troop as Lieutenant. Mike Gannon is down from Yacolt, Washington, visiting relatives and friends. Norris Pope of this city has secured a position as clerk at the Hote' Vendome at San Jose.

Col. J. J. Nunan, one of the proprietors of the Stockton Mail, and wife, were in Santa Cruz Sunday. Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Cleary or Coalinga are at their Van Ness Av. home for the summer. Brigadier-General John L. Koster and wife, of San Francisco, are in town.

Mrs. Lottie Bushby of Albuquerque, N. Is visiting Mrs. Frank Moning-er. George Alexander, the Mayor of Alum Rock, and wife, are over from San Jose.

L. Beyersdorf, superintendent of the National Detective Agency of San Francisco, is In town. Fred L. Stevens leaves next week for Seattle, where he has accepted a responsible position in that city. J.

J. Conner and wife of Salinas are in town. Mr. Conner, who is an uncle of Ben Connor, is connected with the Salinas Fire Department. Dr.

Jay Wilson, son of Mrs. Emma Wilson of this city, was married recently at Jackson, to Miss Har riet E. Patterson of that town. Prof. Falrclough, professor of languages at Stanford University, with his wife, are visiting in Santa Cruz.

W. S. Palmer, general superintendent of the Southern Pacific, was here on his regular tour of inspection on Tuesday. F. E.

Daubenbiss, chief electrician of the Cliff House, S. has returned to resume his duties, after a three-weeks' visit to his parents Capitola. James G. Piratsky of the Watson-ville Pajaronlan has returned from Colusa, where he attended the funeral of the late General Green, the veteran editor of the Colusa Sun. Miss Mabel Carroll of Illinois, who has been visiting in the southern part of the State, came to Santa Cruz Sunday where she will spend a few months with relatives and friends.

Mrs. E. J. Thomas of the Hotel Del Mar, received the sad news on Tuesday of the death of her daughter, Mrs. George Malcolm.i In Singapore, India.

Mrs. Clarence Norris of the Norris Rowe circus leaves this morning for the Portland fair, to Join her husband. When she returns she will bring back her favorite horse Dragaa, single stepper. E. L.

Williams has goner to Joion, Monterey where the climate is dry and asthma unknown. It is there that his old friend, Capt. T. Titball, once clerk of Santa Cruz county, dwells. Walter C.

Byrne and wife returned Monday evening from a two months' visit to the East, returning via Portland, where they visited the fair. Mr. Byrne said they had a most pleasant trip. Harold McPherson, under date of July 2d. says: Atlantic City, N.

J. Hotel Earl-Mar overflowing. Help all working overtime. Like job ot day clerk Immensely. Four colored porters subject to my direction.

J. C. Wanner, formerly of Santa Cruz, writes to the "Sentinel" from East Oakland that he has sold his hotel on account of his wife's health, and will take her on a trip to Europe for a few mouths. It Is likely they will visit Santa Cruz before their OK UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF HORSE HELOXGIXG TO W. II.

LAXE. Judge Craghill dismissed the case against Mason Terry and Herbert D. Farr on Wednesday morning, for want of sufficient evidence to connect them with the charge of having unlawful possession of a horse belonging to W. H. Lane.

H. D. Farr, Frank Lamearls, J. M. Ferguson and A.

W. Wheelock were called as witnesses for the defense and their testimony showed that the animal had strayed away and gotten into the Amaya pasture along with those of Farr. PREPARE POIl RESORT. The Ocean Shore Railway Co. filed another deed for a right of way in this county Saturday.

It also filed a deed from James Presho and wife of Oakland to A. D. Bowen of San Francisco. The property conveyed comprises 800 acres, being a portion of the Rancho Corralde Tlerra (Palomares). This property is commonly known as the Presho ranch, and is situated on Halfmoon Bay, about three miles north of Spanishtown.

It is believed that other property adjoining' the above has been purchased by the same people. The location of this property being as it Is, on the picturesque Halfmoon Bay, prompts the supposition that the scheme is to start a summer resort there similar to that of Monterey. Halfmoon Bay Review. A XEW DIRECTORY. F.

R. Howe and W. P. Netherton have associated themselves with George Shafter and A. G.

Thurston in the ownership of the Santa Cruz County Directory. A new census will be taken at once and all doubts as to the population of Santa Cruz will soon be set at rest. Horace Randall is confined to his home by sickness. Geo. Kelly and son Leon left Wednesday for Tonopah, Nev.

John A. Jacobs of San Francisco, brother of Julius A. Jacobs is in town. John Relmer of Livermore, a brother of Mrs. Julius Jacobs, is in Henry D.

Hall has been regularly commissiosM an ensign in the Naval Reserves. Wm. Forsyth, the well known raisin grower of Fresno, is in town visiting his family on Beach riill. Miss Pearl Swanton and Miss Het-tie Irish have returned from the Omega Nu conclave at Portland, Ore. L.

F. Crane has come from Los Angeles to Santa Cruz to reside. He appreciates our climate and advantages over the City of Angels. Frank Mattison, member of the State Board of Education, has return ed from a visit to Del Norte and Humboldt counties. lp Adolph'Von Thum, who was killed at the Santa Cro Sotia Works on Tuesday, was formerly a resident of Soquel.

Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel Andrews of Santa Cruz are visiting at the home of Mr. Andrews' brother, L. H.

An drews, at Oregon City, Or. Mrs. L. H. Andrews was Miss Emma Hinds of Santa Cruz.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Leslie Wright have left for their new home at Las Vegas, N. to which point Wright has been transferred from Borate by his employers, the Pacific Coast Borax Co.

L. Braden of this city has received word of the death of his brother, Henry S. Braden, in Boston, Mass. The deceased was a civil war veteran, came out as First Lieutenant, and was buried with military honors. Miss Molitor, Manager Swanton's assistant at the Casino, is holding a silver watch with a brass chain which was turned in to the Information bureau last July 4th by a lady on whose shawl the chain had caught while in the crush out on the pleasure pier.

Count one for the honesty of Santa Cruz crowd3. Pajaronian. The prune crop of Pajaro though not heavy, is nicely distributed on the trees and the fruit promises to be of fine size and good quality. The sun has been a little too warm lately for the berry crop. The vines have been injured considerably and as a result the output is not heavy at present.

Fruit thinning has been more gen eral in Pajaro valley this season than ever before, and the size and quality cf the fruit should be very fine at i7Yest time. Tate Bros, of Corralltos, who are raying persistently with arsenate of lead spray, report very satisfac tory results. While there were lots of worms in their orchard last year, this season it takes a long and careful search to disclose the presence of one of these pests. This warm weather is fine for apricots and growers are happy. The crop is ripening rapidly and is the best, quantity and quality considered, in many years.

Drying is in progress In the Corralltos section, and growers in other parts of the valley are getting ready to begin drying. Entomologist W. H. Volck, who Is in charge of the codlin moth investigation in Pajaro valley, is one of the busiest men In this section at present. He is keeping a close watch on the results of the spraying campaign and feels that everything is progressing very satisfactorily so far this season.

The cannery at Dixon is putting up about 750 cases of apricots daily and employs 50 men and 150 girls. Fruit is brought from the region about Dixon and also Vacaville, Sui-sun, Santa Clara and Placervllle. The cannery has a capacity of 1,000 cases per day when run at full limit. California's deciduous fruit shipments promise to total far beyond any other year. Prune growers are happy, as tfyere is a phenomenal sale of product in fresh state.

The largest increase Is on prunes and plums. Up to July 1st there had been shlppel 270 carloads of apricots as against 94 carloads last year; 263 carloads of peaches contrasted with 85 car loads. In a bulletin recently published by the agricultural department of the University of California, the "resin compound" 13 found partially effective on the San Joso scale and immensely successful on the brown apricot scale. The old-time "lime-sulphur-salt" wash was found the most effective remedy for the San Jose scale, but of little use for the brown apricot scale. Experiments were conducted In the neighborhood of Hanford.

Favorable reports continue to pour In regarding properly sprayed or- chards. While the codlin moth is I making Its appearance in considerable numbers In unsprayed orchards, It Is next to Impossible to find a worm on a sprayed tree. It would seem 1 from such a showing that the Santa Cruz county Board of Supervisors did a wise thing when it appropriated funds to aid the codlin moth investigation. Victory over this dreaded pest seems at last to be in sight. Geo.

W. Sill of the Hall district or Monterey county, who a strong believer in spray as a means of combating the codlin moth, and who has had two men thinning fruit in his orchard for the four weeks last past, says that the thinners report that they have not seen a worm In the orchard in that length of time. Considering the fact that these men spend ten hours each day among the trees, this Is certainly a remarkable showing and proof positive that intelligent spraying will accomplish the desired Result. Fruit trees, both young and old, are looking extremely vigorous this season, and the growers of Pajaro valley are highly pleased with the showing. Perhaps the Immense amount of water that, penetrated the ground last" fall and winter has a tendency to stimulate the trees to vigorous action.

In order to mature their burden of fruit they must have lots of moisture, something that has been lacking during the summer in this valley for several years past. That fact has caused a number of growers to install pumping plants in order that they may Irrigate their trees when they need it. RALPH E. SMITH OF STATE UNIVERSITY, (JIVES METHODS OF HANDLING IJLIGHT. One of the most important subjects at present to the California deciduous fruit industry is the pear blight which has been ravaging the Bartlett pear districts.

Ralph E. Smith, plant pathologist of the Agricultural Experimental Station, University of California, in discussing pear blight, says: The situation is by no means, as some freely proclaim, a hopeless one. California has had other pests of a nature seemingly as serious as this, whose suppression Is now but an incident in orchard practice. The Bart-lett pear Is not yet doomed to extermination, nor need our growers reel that all Is lost when the blight appears In their orchards, serious as its effects are known to be. The writer agrees with some of our most level-headed pear growers that, for one who will give his trees proper attention there never was a more promising time for planting pears than at present.

That energetic trio. pear blight, pear scab and codlin moth, may yet prove a source of profit rather than of loss to the pro gresslve owner, by driving out of competition the uncared-for orchard and Its indifferent owner. The few Incomplete demonstrations which were made when Professor M. B. Walte was here last spring convinced most of the growers, who followed up the results of the work, that our chief hope for pear blight control at present lies in the com plete removal of all affected branches In the winter time.

The general nature of the disease is now commonly known. It ii. caused by a definite germ or bacterium which flourishes In the bark ot the tree, causing Its death. Early In spring the limbs which contain live blight exude a sweet, sticky sap which Is attractive to flies, bees, wasps, and contains the blight germs. These Insects feed on the sap, get It on their feet, legs and bodies, and then unconsciously spread the blight to the opening blossoms by visiting and crawling about in them.

The germs multiply in the blossoms and spread rapidly down Into the twigs and branches. Drops of gummy Jule? then appear on the newly affected parts and the blight is spread again from them in the same manner as before. Thus, one case of winter hold-over may account for a thousand blighted twigs by the middle or May. In a number of cases pear orchards, thought to be free from blight, were badly infected from nearby apple trees, mostly old, neglected trees to which no attention had been given. A large amount of blight had wintered over In these trees, unsuspected by the owners, and spread to the pears when they bloomed.

In most cases these were apples of one variety, the Alexander, which Is particularly susceptible to blight. This is not the only variety, however, which may carry over blight. Cut down every apple tree near the pear orchard, or go over them very thoroughly in winter for blight ed limbs. In the case of a few old trees, they should be cut down without fail if blight is in the orchard or vicinity. Growers overlooking this source of Infection may expect blight as long as such trees remain.

The Bartlett is one of our latest blooming pears. A common source of Infection has been the presence of a few early blooming trees of other varieties which attract all the Insects and all the blight In the vicinity and spread It to the Bartletts when they bloom. worst of these are Winter Seckel and Madeline. Cut down every early blooming pear tree near the Bartlett3 the first year that blight appears. This assumes that the Bartlett orchard Is much more valuable than the other trees.

One Madeline or Winter Seckel near a Bartlett orchard where there is blight has, in a number of instances, caused great loss. By all means cut them down. A marriage license was granted in San Francisno Tuesday to Julius Young of Santa Cruz, aged years Thm-Ksn Johnson of San Francisco, aged P. 2 years. Subscribe tor the i C.

W. ALISKY. Oregon, started In business In the latter place, and it was there he hal his first schooling. At the age of 17 he was sent to Europe for his education, remaining abroad for 10 years In which time he travelled all part3 of the continent. From boyhood on he was a great lover of theatricals and early became connected with the profession, from which time on he followed the business in all its branches, from grand opera to vaudeville.

Among the large enterprises he has successfully managed may be mentioned the Casino Opera Haver-ley's Minstrels, the old Stockwell theatre in San Francisco (now the Columbia theatre), and several large pantomine and vaudeville aggregations In Europe. Last season he handled the Adelina Pattl concerts In San Francisco at the Grand Opera House, where the receipts broke all records at that theatre, being over $25,000 for two concerts. After that Mr. Alisky took charge of the Casino theatre in Los Angeles and Inaugurated continuous vaudeville at popular prices In that city. Under his able management the Casino proved a big success.

He disposed of his interes' there and was on his way to Portland, Oregon, last May to place the Original Hungarian Boy Orchestra at the Lewis and Clark fair. He stopped off at Santa Cruz, -was so well Impressed with the possibilities in the theatrical line here that he droppcl his proposed trip north and started negotiations with Mr. Rice, the former owner of the Unique theatre, with the ultimate result that he bought him out. Mr. Allsky has taken a nine years' lease on the place and what he has done so far Is well known to all Santa Cruz.

A new approach to the balcony has been put In since Mr. Alisky's management, and a newly decorated front, as well as many minor improvements, all of which go to add to the comfort and enjoyment of his patrons. Mr. and Mrs. Allsky are so well pleased with Santa Cruz that they are already contemplating building a home here, and if their success In catering to the amusement lovers of this city Is any Indication, their decision to make this their home wi'l afford much pleasure to our citizens.

The Workmen installed officers Monday night and the Odd Fellows had a joint installation Tuesday I night, etc..