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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1911
Page
6
The Right Rev Gonzales Estarda bishop of Ha vana condemns the harem skirt as immoral and unchristian. He warns that continued use will bring excommunication for women.
Federal suit filed in St. Joseph Missouri seeks thirty thousand dollars for alleged violation of the nine hour work day law. The action, brought at the urging of Attorney General Wickersham, targets the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and mentions telegraph operators among those affected.
Washington April 12 Rep Cox of Ohio introduced a resolution asking President Taft to disclose the total cost incurred by the United States for occupying the Philippines. He argues the islands are a burden and warns war could lead to their loss, proposing a treaty to neutralize them and place control with Britain, Japan, and the United States.
Gianni Alongi was found guilty of using the mails to send threatening letters in a case against a Chicago ring of Black Hand extortionists. The trial occurred amid warnings of death to jurors and officials, as authorities pursue a violent Italian crime network blamed for dynamite outrages and murders.
Prospectors flood the Similkameen district chasing reports of diamonds at Mount Olivine. Small stones found near Princeton mark Canada’s first diamond discoveries, though officials rate Mount Olivine stones as scientifically interesting rather than commercially valuable.
Thirteen women win public posts in Denver as ballots finalize results. Local officials report decisive victories across city and county seats, highlighting a historic surge of female representation in early 20th century elections.
In Colorado last Tuesday's voting women captured several key posts. Pueblo elected a woman auditor while Leadville Telluride Idaho Springs Greeley Montrose chose women treasurers. Smaller towns Fair Play Ridgway Alma Colorado City Las Animas elect women clerks and Durango a woman alderman. Four women serve in the state legislature and a Denver county commissioner is a woman.
Spokane echoes Roosevelt forecast that in one generation four Pacific Coast cities Los Angeles San Francisco Portland and Seattle will exceed a million residents. He also stressed concern for farming districts while noting cities would grow automatically. Washington gave Roosevelt a sustained ovation as his train moved through the inland empire.
About 200 Chinese in Ensenada on the verge of starvation as strict border patrols and the Orient patrol boat curb smuggling. San Diego merchants shipped 100 mats of rice to aid those held by exclusion laws hoping to cross into California. Smuggling activity along the southern coast has been suppressed by the Orient and army patrols.
J B Coryell, a Bay City businessman, predicts the 1915 Panama exposition in San Francisco will bring millions to California. He says twenty millions invested will return manyfold and benefit the entire Pacific slope especially the south, with people from around the world drawn to the event.
A method to break glass evenly by tying a turpentine soaked string around a desired line, filling the container with cold water, then lighting the string to force a clean fracture along the heated line.
Berkeley April 12 The case of Mrs Jean Thurnber is turned over to medical specialists after the law could not curb her stealing. She is released under $500 bonds and will be taken to Merritt hospital Oakland where her skull may be trepanned to relieve brain pressure from a childhood fall.
Sacramento reports Gov Johnson has signed Senate Bill 953 by Stetson. Convicted nonproviders may be jailed and required to work on public roads or other public work. The county must pay $1.50 daily to the wife and children for each day the husband works. The law takes effect in sixty days.
Union Pacific finished cafe diner upgrades on tourist trains and will add soda fountains to all first class through limiteds for the summer. The fountains will be in diners and accessible at all hours, officials say demand in hot weather prompted the change.
Report from Bakers Field notes a rush of gold seekers moving from the Maricopa oil fields into the Cuyana valley in Ventura county. Many have deserted oil work to stake claims, sparked by a Mexican exhibitor who showed surface gold nuggets from ledges in the decomposed granite walls thirty-five miles from Maricopa.
Reports say a gold strike in Imperial Valley draws scores of prospectors to the Holtville area. Claims have been recorded as tents dot the plains from eleven miles north and east of Holtville toward Yuma and the Southern Pacific railroad. Assays are described as marvelous in richness.
Mrs A T Buchanan of 1813 Third Street Santa Monica broke an egg for cooking yesterday and found a snail two inches long encased near the center. The egg was slightly larger than normal but shell was intact with no discoloration.
Mrs. Buchanan declined an offer of five dollars for the snail. The creature was among a dozen eggs she bought from a neighbor.
In 96 days Judge Willis of the Los Angeles Superior Court presided over 12 murder cases with two more set before May 1, keeping an average of one case every twelve days for the first four months. Six trials occurred in Los Angeles and two in San Francisco. Three defendants were found insane while others were convicted of murder or manslaughter.
Police hunt for four goats that were injected with diseases at Willard Parker Hospital Laboratory. One goat carries smallpox germs, another diphtheria, a third scarlet fever agents, and the fourth whooping cough. The goats were tied in the lab yard before disappearing, raising fears of epidemic. Local families suspected as possible captors.
Immigra tion officials along the Pacific coast and the border anticipate a surge of smugglers with contraband Chinese as 900 Chinese are reported en route to Manzanillo from Hongkong aboard the San Diego route. They may land on the Lower California coast and travel overland to the border to enter the United States, while the Orient patrol boat rests in the harbor after a cruise nearby.
A week long conference in Chicago produced a general rate cut for California fruit shipments east of Chicago. The rate drops from 1.40 to 1.15 per 100 pounds for car lots with a 26 000 pound minimum. The change, effective when published, aligns deciduous fruit rates with citrus and saves about 80000 dollars annually for growers.
A cautious lawyer questions a woman who resembles a potential client, pondering whether to tell or sell information as she claims a remarkable history. The exchange hints at a hidden motive in a legal matter.
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