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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1913
Page
5
Notice lists stock of shareholders with delinquent assessment No 47 levied June 23 1913 and amounts due at 403 Germain Building Los Angeles California.
Harry K. Thaw escapes from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane at Matteawan via a milkman run and two waiting cars. A $500 reward is offered. Howard Barnum is jailed and others face arrest. Police mobilize in New York and nearby towns as Thaw heads toward the Connecticut line. The escape follows an extended legal battle costing nearly $1 million in total. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw and her mother fear for her safety.
City records show total expenditures for January through May at 10,185,182.54 dollars, up 600,000 from the same period last year. The increase reflects higher costs across departments as officials publish the monthly spending tally.
Spain annually eats 747,287,221 pounds of meat valued at 105,308 dollars and 36, mostly beef, reflecting large consumer demand across the country.
Thirteen of seventy six convict applications were granted paroles by the board of prison directors at Folsom. Fifty eight were postponed for next month due to second termers. Eighty cases heard included one denial and three six month postponements. Eleven paroles take effect as work is found. The board forfeited one convict’s credits for taking part in a fight. Harrisburg Civil Club bought four million dead house files at five cents a pint to end their swatting prize contest. Ella Marie Kreidler won first prize for seventy four and a half pints, receiving three dollars and seventy five cents plus her prize. David Peters won second prize for twenty one pints. Over 218 pints of flies were turned in.
The report notes that South America averages five and one tenth inhabitants per square mile, indicating a low to moderate population density across the continent.
A rain refreshed Kramer as Mrs. Lelia Steiner returned from Monrovia and the Kra mer experimental garden revived. Bennett's bridge crew returns to work on A 377 east of Kramer for about a week. Dr Suckow reports a water well near 410 feet with 110 feet to water and a crystalized stone layer found at 400 feet prompting analysis in Los Angeles. Local travels include Mrs. Dodson visiting Barstow for a dentist, C E Barnes wiring the branch line, and the Youngs planning a Oakland vacation. F A Young is appointed Southern Pacific agent at Huron Cal. William Maxwell and Jim Kelley assess 320 acres southeast of Rich Cal. Fremont Valley settlers O Mally and W Hoeck head north with a well at 80 feet and potential 120 feet, electric pumping planned. Section force reduced to six men.
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