The Californian from Salinas, California • 1

People Read ADS In the Index MW II za VOL. XXXV. SAI I NAS, "MONTEREY COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1915. NO. 31.

TODAYS NEWS TODAY iiBDAV, imoi 2, SHIP fMURf COAST REGION STATE LAW THAT AffECTS Ml Of THE PEOPLE Interesting Facts Taken From Report of Sealer of Weights and Measures of Monterey County. H. M. Roberts of Monterey, sealer of ('has. O.

Johnson has truly that weights and measures for Monterey housekeeping Is the biggest business county, has filed wltb the state de-; lu California. Every ounce repre-aprtment end the county clerk hla an sent just eo much value in real money nual report, which follows: and the business of housekeeping The department of weights and should bf conducted on Just as strict measures, during the past year of a business basis ag any other enter-1914, in Monterey county, was In ao prise. tual operation a period of cine The beginning of the new year of During this time 753 establishments 1913 sees a new era in weights and were viaited throughout the county, measures In California. Nearly one year lnculdlng the towns and cities of Mon has been given almost exclusively to terey. Pacific Grove, Carmel, Pajai-o, the education and instructions or the Aromas' Blanco, Prunedaie, Castrovit.

gelierg of products and commodity ly Santa Rita, Salinas, Spreckels, freights and measures. The depat-Cbualar, Gonzales, Soledad, Mtz, c.Qt believes this to be ample, Ignor-Greenfield, King City, Jolon Fleyto, ance will no longer be an excuse. Tut Lonoak, San Lucas, San Ardo, Brad- public, and especially the housewife. Is ley, Priest Valley, Parkfleld, and earnestly requested to lend their heart many Intervening points, such as date- lest cooperation and assistance to the ios, feeding stations, fruit and grain department in enforcing the honest warehouses, creameries, cheese ma.iu. ubs of honest weights and measure i.

factures, sugar beet weighing stations Every owner of weighing and mens. ANOTHER PIONEER EDWARD M. KELLY CROSSES THE, DIVIDE AT RIPE AGE OF 85. Edward Michael Kelly, another of the old ptoueers, has answered the nal summons at the age of 85 years, 7 months and 26 days. He was born In Galway, Irelaud, June 26, 1830.

A brief history of this highly esteemed old resident is Interesting. At the age of 13, accompanied by an elder brother, he left hts native land and went to Sydney, Australia. Leaving Australia In he came to the Cnlted States, landing the sRme year at New York. Lured by news of the great gold strike In California. Mr.

Kelly in 1862 crossod the plains to San Francisco, endurl.ig en route many of the hardships of the early days. A few years later he went from San Francisco to Philadelphia and engaged with his brother in farming. The lure of the west, however, was still strong, and In 1869 the farming partnerahlp was dissolved and Mr. Kelly again crosdbd the plains and again landed in Sun Francisco. The same year be came from San Francisco to Salinas and located.

For nearly forty-six years this city and vicinity had been his per manent abode. Mr. Kelly was at one time a prosperous farmer and' stockman of Corral de Tlerra. He was man always upright and honest in bis dealings and many of his old friends will learn with regret of his passing. Hs was married in 1881 to Miss Della Brennon, who preceded him to the grave four years ago.

He is survived, by one son, Arthur Kelly of this city. The funeral will take place at 9 oclock tomorrow morning from Muller mortuary chapel, thence to the Sacred Heart Church, where services will be conducted at 9:30. Interment will be made Jn Calvary cemetery beside the remains of the deceased's wife. MRS. FRENCH WILL PLAY AT RECITAL TALENTED 8ALINAS PIANISTE TO PARTICIPATE IN MANSFELDTS CLUB Mrs.

Edith Sellers-French of this city will appear In the twenty-sixth piano recital of the Mansfeldt Club, which will given this evening in i Sequoia Hall, 1725 Washington street San Francisco. The program includes numbers by Miss Stella Howell, with Miss Berkeley Howell at toe second Miss Bessie Fuller; Mfs. Edith Sellers-French, with Mrs. Hazel Mans- urlng devices used for the purpose of buying or zctllntr these In of devices to be sold or offered or exposed for Bale is requested to report at once to the department under pen alty of section 25. Following Is a con.

densed report of the department ending December 30th 1914: Establishments visited 755 Counter scales Inspected fOJ Spring scales inspected 302 Computing scales Inspected 211 Platform scales inspected 276 Weights Inspected 106J Beam scales inspected 16 Lineal Measures inspected 123 Liquid scales inspected 3796 Measuring pumps inspected 103 Total number instruments sealed ag correct .....5213 Total number instruments corrected' 261 Total number instruments out of order 169 Total number instruments condemned and confiscated 353 Total number of packages inspected 171 MONTERtY CO. DAY IT WILL BE A RED LETTER DAY AT THE P. P. I. EXPOSITION.

Tuesiay, March 2. will be Monterey county day at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, and In addition to a suitable program that is being prepared arrangements are being made to run excursion trains from dif ferent points iQ the county to San Francisco, After the parade the exercises will be bell in the California building on the exposition grounds, and Monterey county will be formally Introduced to her sister counties and the world at large. The Monterey county exhibit, which Is now being assembled, will be completed by March 2, and reports are to the effect that the exhibit will be a most creditable display of the natural and Industrial product of this favored section of the state. JUSTICE -FOR 'AN ESTIMABLE WOMAN ORIGINAL CROSS COMPLAINT IN WHICH HER NAME APPEARED WAS WITHDRAWN The Index prints the following letter in Justice to a young lady whose name has been mentioned In a certain divorce suit in a way to create a wrong Impression regarding her reputatioa, which Is of the best! Salinas, Feb. 5.

1915. Mrs. John Vositi, Salinas, Cal. Dear Madam; I appeared1 for Mr. Ii.

H. Main as bis attorney in bis divorce proceedings. The divorce was granted by agreement between the parties to Mrs. Main upon the grounds of desertion and the lame of your daughter, while mentioned, in the original cross-complaint, was not before the court in any way and the sole grounds of the divorce was desertion for over a year, Mrs. Main and her sister were the sole witnesses beard in the matter and Mr.

Charles F. Craig of the Humboldt Bank Building, her attorney, will substantiate the statement as made above, ey the agreement reached between the two attorneys, Mrs. Main was to receive $30 a month ant! her attorney to be paid a reasonable fee, I wish to assure you that your daughters name did not appear In the court proceedings except once, as stated, in the original cross-complaint, which was withdrawn. Yours very truly, CAS. B.

kOSENDALC. PETITIONS FOR LETTERS FILED III TWO ESTATES 11 A petition for letters of administration on the estate of the late Ransom Jones of Eikhom district has been filed in the superior court by tie wid. ow, Mrs. Ada Jones. The estate on-slsts of real and personal property, valued not to exceed $10,000, and the heirs are Mrs.

Jones and her nine chil-dren. Daugherty Lacey of this city are the petitioners attorneys. Iver J. Cornett, public administrator, has petitioned for letters on the estate of the late W. H.

Mitchell, aslstant postmaster and former jeweler of King City. The estate is nominal in value. J. H. AnCresen is the petl Boners attorney.

Chris Juhl of Gonzales, for twenty years a subscriber to the Index, was In town today on business. IS IN CLOSE fie Is Certaia and Vice President Marshalls Vote May Decide its Fate. 611 IN PRESENT FORM DOOMED Insurgent Democrats Standing Pat While Administration Pins Faith On La Follete. Washington, Feb. 5.

Frustrated again in their plan to recommit the government ship purchase bill, with Instructions for its amendment, administration leaders of the senate last night were considering a proposal to let the bill go to committee without Instructions, wltb a view to bringing it np again on a motion to discharge the committee If it should fall to act promptly. Champions of the bill found themselves lacking at least two of a majority and! with no possibility of changing this situation until next Mon. day at the earliest. Senator Fletcher, in charge of the bill, said he would he willing to vote -to recommit If he have assurance of enough votes to carry a motion to discharge the committee. Chair May Decide.

If no other way ont can be found, administration senators purpose to prevent any vote until Senators New-lands of Nevada and Smith of South Carolina return to Washington next week. Then with the vote, 4S to 18, i barring changes from the present lineup, they would count upon Vice President Marshall to break a tie in tbelr favor. All seven of the revolting Democrats are standing firm with the Republicans, but administration leaders count upon Senators Xa Follette and Norris making 46 votes, while the Re-publicans had 48 yesterday. Bill In Present Form Doomed. "It Is understood that If the bill, as now before the senate, goes to a vote it will be beaten.

It Is also understood that If It Is amended a majority of the senate will vote for It. Senator Reed took the floor and by way of holding it discussed the immi. gratlon bill, which the house at 'the moment was debating on a motion to re-pass over President Wilson's veto. He defended the veto. NO ACTION TAKEN IN SUNDBERG CASE No action was taken by the superior court of San Luis Obispo last Monday in the matter of the forgery charge against Willie Sundberg of this city.

A telephone message from San Luis Obis-po this morning said that the young man had been positively identified by a man who cashed the check, but that Sundberg denied the charge, saying the check -was written by a youth named with whom he had been associating, but whose last name he did not know. It was not known when the charge will be taken np. JUDGMENT OF DISMISSAL A judgment of dismissal was entered in the suit of E. L. Carter va.

S. J. Duckworth et al. IS SWEPT BY I ri The Country Around Arbolado Is Devastated By the Fury of the Gale. POSTS FARM HOUSE IS WRECKED Fallen Trees Litter the Ground for a Distance of Over Two Miles.

The recent storm played havoc in the southern coast section of this county. A correspon 'ent of the Monterey Cypress, wr tlng from Arbolado, Oue of the worst rain and alnd storms ever experienced In this section of the county occurred last Monday night. The damage sustained here, and especially at the J. W. Post ranch, waa heavy and will require the expenditure of considerable sums of money to repair.

As In other sections of the state the storm commenced shortly before evening and reached its climax at 3 oclock Tuesday morning. The winds came In cyclonic gusta and laid bare a large portion of the country. Bet Hive Lost Starting at the Post ranch and traveling In a northerly direction, the storm did much damage to the Post apiary. Hives were upset and scattered about, many beca were killed, and ten of the hives struck by the air currents have not yet been found. The storm left In Its wake a perfect trail of fallen trees and limbs.

For a distance of two miles the trees cover the ground! The storm struck C. F. Posts farmhouse and barn and the buildings were practically completely house was blown from its foui dation and moved several feet north and the barn Is a complete loss, tnq top of i large oak tree having fallen on it and crushed two sides. The Sur river is strewn with fallen timber. Thrilling Experience John Burns and William Post, two ranchers of this district, were out In the atorm.when it was at its highest and retiort having had many narrow escapes from death.

They came up from the Waters ranch, about fifteen miles south of their home, and found It impossible to ride thir horses on account of the storms Their lives were endangered) when they essayed several large water spouts were seen on the ocean south of Post's ranch. It Is the first time that the phenomena hare been observed by any of the settlers in this district PEACE MEETING CHANGED. San Antonio, Texas, Feb. 5. The date of the Mexican peace conference has been changed from February 5 to February 8.

because of messages received here that prominent Mexican leaders were en route from Cuba, California and Spain, Miss Flora Balestra left this morning for San Francisco, to be absent two tr three weeks. DANCE by the Foresters, Saturday, February 6, Foresters Hall. Gents 60c, ladles free. and numerous other locations of various lnd in rles and enterprises. During this time certificates of inspection were issuer, inclusive of all descriptions of scales, weights, measures, appliances and accessories in the posses, slon and rse by owners for the purpose of buying or selling all sorts of products of commodities.

The fol.owing list, of inspection does not include visits an I inspections' mace In the interest of the net container law, the enforcement -jf which fs an added duty of the sealer of Weights Measures. This law deals with the proper marking and labeling of all containers (bottles, cans, boxes, cartons, bags, stating the net amount contents held within such container. This law is vital and urgently necessary, and la co-operative legislation destined to protect the pu" chasers of any commodity against deception as to the quantity or amount purchased. Nearly one thousand copies of the weights and measures law have been placed in the hands of owners and -users of weighing and measuring de vices and half this amount of the ne( container law in the hands of those to whose business the law is applicable. Every leniency within the well mean-' ing of the law has been extended pwn-ers of weights and measures.

AH "out of order instruments have been granted the full limit of the law (30 days is per section 31) for repair and adjust-' ment and confiscation and final con demnatio.ig have been made only when the Instrument has been found to be Irreparable or when found positively contrary to the state's specifications. The states tolerances are strictly tu. forced it due consideration for the use for which the instrument is placet' is always given. 1 The state department has adopted a table of tolerances and specifications which is liberal in the extreme and designed to extend justice and fairness to all alike. Instruments have been classed into four distinct grades with a view to equal judgment on old and new devices.

The object is not only for the benefit and protection of the consumer, but for the benefit of the honest merchant and manufacturer in assisting them to carry on their business free from unjust competition of a dishonest, unscrupulous and ignorant class. The co-operation of the buyer, and particularly the housewife, is vitally necessary. Estate Superintendent feldt at the second piano; Miss Bernice Levy and Miss Esther HJelta. In nelghborhood. Two weeks previous to this storm Mrs, Sellers Freuehs numbers are Ga crossing the large redwood canyons ANNUAL MEETING OF -ABSTRACT COMPANY The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Salinas Abstract Company was held on Monday at the offices of the company in the Monterey County Bank building.

G. A. Daugherty was re-elected president, A. G. Winck-ler, vice-president, and W.

E. Norton, secretary-treasurer. The board of directors was chosen consisting of F. W. Sargent, J.

A. Bardin, G. WInckler, E. Morton and G. A.

Daugherty. The indexes and title searching books of the Salinas Abstract Company are being re-checked and systematized to conform to the most modern methods of the abstract and title business, and when this work la completed the title plant of this company will be cne of the most complete and efficient abstract offices in the state of California. Mr. Daugherty has been at the head of this concern for several years and his genial personality Mas made many friends for big company. INTERLOCUTORY decrees Judge Bardin yesterday awarded interlocutory divorce decrees as follows: Bessie Brooks Nessel-Strauss from Max Nessel-Strauss; Jane Black from James Kelly Black.

Both suits were tried In the superior court last Monday. votte In A major (Gluck-Brahms) Etude In flatmajor (Liszt); and Scherzo from concerto aymphonique No. 4 (Litolff). Mrs. Sellers-Frencn is the wife of H.

L. Frenh, teacher of the commercial department of the Salinas high school. A pupil of Hugo Mansfeldt, she is recognized as one of the leading pianlstes of the day. She has appeared In the recitals of the Mansfeldt Club for several years, Reafern Mason, the San Francisco Examiners musical critic, said recently of Mrs. Sellers-Frenchg playing: When 'Mrs.

French played the recognized at once the fluency and grace of technique which my most reliable mentors bad ascribed to Mr. Mansfeldt. It was not an impassioned reading; It had more elegance than depth; but the word, at least, of Beethoven was there, pure and.