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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1914
Page
4
The cruiser Hamidieh will represent Turkey at the Panama Canal opening. The Danish Senate refused to ratify the US arbitration treaty. the old treaty expires March 29. The Lewis and Clark forestry building in Portland is doomed due to bark beetles and fungus.
Northern California club women meet in Woodland for the twelfth annual district convention. San Francisco fans flood Recreation Park to watch Venice Tigers overcome them 9 to 1 in opening day. Vallejo bonds sell at record premium for waterfront improvements. Tank cars loaded with California oil reach Medford aiding Rogue River Valley orchards. Incubator lamp fire destroys three hen houses killing 3000 chicks, no insurance. Alaska traveler Mary Hart returns to San Francisco praising railroad bill and Alaska prosperity. Alameda tuberculosis society reports clinic growth and increased donations. Liberty City camp for the unemployed in Sacramento dismantled after arrests. SF Industrial Accident Commission rules in favor of Ferguson, compensation awarded. Sacramento registrars face purge, nonpartisan deputies removed over progressive registration scheme.
John D. Reavis of the Victorville Chamber has been appointed by Governor Johnson to represent at the Denver convention on April 9 to discuss arid west reclamation projects. The chamber resolved to promote irrigating 800000 acres in Victor Valley and urged Mojave residents to back government irrigation funding efforts.
In Death Valley the Carbonite mining camp draws attention as a new western sensation with a vein of gold silver and lead. Development reaches 300 feet and ore values total about 2 million dollars as seasoned miners Chafey Salisbury and others push claims. The Pacific Coast Borax Co expands with 22 miles of railroad and a $500000 plant at Death Valley Junction, while Cyanide tanks and repairs proceed at the Gold Mountain mine with plans to handle 150 tons daily by mid May.
A discussion on how eyewitness testimony is unreliable in legal settings and popular beliefs. The piece notes that people see what they expect, citing haunted houses and luminous phenomena during earthquakes. It references a Cosios writer in Paris via the Literary Digest translation.
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