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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1910
Page
3
Washington reports last month U S mints produced 18 000 double eagles 424 000 half dollars 20 000 quarters and 30 600 in 1 cent pieces totaling 3 52 000 pieces with a value of 607 600.
Three boys missing from Madigan Street in Brooklyn were found dead in a vacant lot after a sand embankment collapsed on them while they played. A dog located the bodies, aiding police in confirming the tragedy.
The Des Moines report notes another infant death from infantile paralysis and a new Mason City case amid Iowa’s ongoing outbreak. Dr Wade Frost of the Iowa Board of Health has yet to locate the cause as fatalities rise. A Chickasaw county death is reported with additional new cases statewide.
Jas B. Watt, the oldest AP telegrapher by service, died at his Nashville home at 62. Watt covered major events, handling stories of the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln Garfield and McKinley.
Thousands of acres were removed from national forest boundaries and returned to the public domain by President Taft. The lands in Colorado New Mexico Washington Oregon Utah Idaho and Wyoming will be opened to homestead settlement and entry this fall.
A homeless Mexican died after freezing beneath a tarpaulin on a carload of ice at Maricopa depot. The shade temperature reached 105 degrees in El Paso. The man crawled under the tarpaulin to sleep to escape the heat and was found frozen stiff the next morning.
Government refusal to pay freight on silver coin shipments from San Francisco and New Orleans causes a metal money famine in Douglas. Silver dollars are scarce as banks push dollar bills. banks plan to pay freight on large shipments of silver dollars to relieve the stringency.
An aviation meeting in Milan next September features a major event, an aeroplane race over the Alps from Brigne to Milan. The 24 hour limit allows descents as needed, with entrants restricted to experienced long distance fliers. The course climbs from 2000 to 7000 feet, with a $20,000 prize.
Negotiations between coal miners and operators in the southwestern territory end after four months. A general strike order will be issued for about 30,000 workers who have not worked since April 1. Affected states include Kansas Missouri Oklahoma Arkansas with indirect effects in Texas and Colorado.
Chicago police sweeped 2000 plus alleged pickpockets and undesirables since Monday to clear streets ahead of the Knights Templar triennial conclave. Chief Steward orders roundup of unemployed and homeless in coming days. Inspector Wheeler advises money carriers to use vest pockets with safety pins and to let companions handle purses.
William A. Short a New York banker calls for a 2 1 2 cent coin arguing it would save consumers about 39 million dollars yearly The absence of such coinage allegedly causes half cent losses by sellers in each ten transactions per family per week totaling 2 6 dollars annually for about 15 million U S families.
In Red Bluff California on August 10 Chris tus Legres and P Munos were killed while digging a ditch on a mountain slope near Manton when an avalanche buried them under earth and rocks.
Glenn Martin of Martin Motor Car company in Santa Ana has built a biplane and conducted experimental ascents with plans for improvements. In Long Beach, doctors transplanted a skin graft from W. L. Brown's cheek to beneath his left eye to form a new lower eyelid after removal of a growth, the third operation on the eye.
Petitions circulating in Pomona call for a mass meeting to consider an election for a new city charter. Hundreds are signing as residents seek economic and efficient city government under a special freeholders charter. The petitions will be presented to the city trustees who will call a meeting to discuss the matter.
More than 200 ranchers met in El Centro to back a plan under the Bridgefort act to create an irrigation district for all lands irrigable by the current canal system. A 50 member committee will circulate petitions to the county supervisors to organize the district. The water outlook improves as brush and rock may be dumped against piling at a temporary dam on the Colorado river.
Westbound Spokane Portland & Seattle passenger No. 5 crashed into three handcars carrying Hungarian workers on a 200 foot Burrs canyon bridge east of the Snake River. Five men died as others were injured. Authorities blame alleged carelessness by the workers guarding the approach to the bridge.
In San Francisco the American Osteopathic Association opens its fourteenth annual meeting with a bloodless hip dislocation repair demonstration by Dr. Harry W. Forbes of Los Angeles on 8 year old Vera Sternemann of Oakland. The event recreates the Lorenz operation for acute hip dislocation.
Witnessed by over 500 delegates in a hotel ballroom in Chicago, the daughter of the local packer Lolita Armour drew attention during a convention gathering held several years ago.
Fresno reports vine paralysis blamed on a new disease studied by Professor Bioletti and Professor Parker at Berkeley. Horticultural Commissioner Schell notes damage across spots but believes the condition may not permanently harm vines despite reducing the current crop.
New York August 10 Glenn H Curtiss aviator announces he will not take exhibition contracts for now to focus on experimental work. He aims to build a fast biplane to outpace French monoplanes and keep the Gordon Bennett cup in the United States at the international meet.
T J Shea, a Belvidere resident, nearly died after greeting Theodore Roosevelt during a southbound auto trip. Overwhelmed by the greeting, Shea ran two miles to tell friends, collapsed from heart trouble, and required four hours of medical care before stabilization. doctors warned recovery would take days.
Chicago reports that Japanese consul K Yamasaki released a statement by Matsuzo Nagai showing more Japanese leaving for Japan than arriving in the United States over recent years. In 1900 departures from Japan to the U S were 3826 with 5943 arrivals back, a net 1667 to returnees. for the first half of 1910, 1381 departures and 1807 arrivals yield a net 436 returning. The note cites the U S immigration report detailing ongoing exclusion under current laws and rules.
A Yonkers Statesman quip says Patrice is engaged to a man who is cross eyed and always looking at her, though only she can tell. Patience Peggy is very happy with the news and the pair navigate their forthcoming union.
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