California News Briefs From San Jose To San Francisco
A San Jose street accident left M. J. Hynes public administrator of San Francisco with a broken arm and four others slightly injured when their car rolled. Wilson plans a January 1915 world navy invitation to meet at Hampton Roads and pass through the Panama Canal to the Panama Exposition in San Francisco with a U.S. fleet. Sacramento River water remains scarce at three feet seven inches due to drought and irrigation use. A Placer County ore claim company formed with $400,000 capital aims to mine rich specimens. David Newman, a San Francisco liquor figure, died at Hotel Hayward from cardiac disease, age about fifty. Eight Yosemite Stage suits totaling $107,000 were settled after a June 1911 crash injuring six women and two men. Miss Lillian Matthews, UC instructor, named one of three state children agents overseeing the $860,600 mothers pension fund, forty-five orphanages, and 7000 foster children. she will be president and earns $175 monthly. Government witness C. E. Webster heads to Panama for six weeks to locate Agua Dulce tract records tied to the Panama Development Company and Dr. John Grant Lyman case. Federal officials question the tract’s existence.
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Hampton Roads
Panama Canal
San Francisco
United States Navy
Wilson
San Francisco Civil Service Commission
Police Board
Women Protective Officers
Slug Gulch
Placer County
Sacramento
David Newman
Boston
Yosemite Stage and Turnpike Company
California
Lillian R. Matthews
University of California
Miss Matthews
John Grant Lyman
Panama Development Company
Los Angeles
C. E. Webster
C. E. Webster, A Post Office
Panama City
Panama
Webster
Republic of Panama
Lyman
Agua Dulce
Sunrise Valley Club Notes Large Turnover and Local Happenings
Viola Nevina Poole leaves Sunrise Valley for Los Angeles joining Yucca Club auxiliary while her Poole home becomes a Southern Sierras Power Co. supply station. Local residents J H Wroughton and Mrs George Foehlinger visit LA after San Bernardino trip. Mary Livingston travels for business and pleasure. Nils Coldevin reports a bumper crop of beans squash and greens on 15 acres of Karlh corn. N Knudsen visits the valley.
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Viola Nevina Poole
Yucca Club
Los Angeles
Poole
J. H. Wroughton
San Bernardino
George Foehlinger
Mary Livingston
Nils Coldevin
Karlhcorn
Local Notes From Lucerne Valley August Social and Drilling
The Chase Drilling Co. runs day and night shifts at the Keyes well. August 9 social at Floyd house with Ray Packer Verne Fratt hosts and Rabbit Springs Quartet music. A. R. Scott drills Manning claim finding water-bearing gravel at 384 feet with water 30 feet deep. W.S. Cherry drills for C. P. Summers in Lake Tract. Sherwood aids Rabbit Springs Quartet after arriving from Fullerton. Jas Goulding hosts melon feast after Sunday School. A. L. Fratt builds cement platform for water tank. F. J. Gobar visits from Fullerton to attend family interests. Heavy rain on Friday August 8 boosts crops, reaching Fifteen-Mile Point and higher slopes with several cloudbursts.
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Chase Drilling Co
Keyes
Floyd House
Ray Packer
Verne Fratt
Rabbit Springs
A. R. Scott
Manning
W.S. Cherry
C. P
Sherwood
Fullerton
Jas. Goulding
Box S Ranch
A. L. Fratt
Lucerne Valley drilling and local notes span gravel strata and events
The Lucerne Valley Development Company reports a gravel stratum at 336 feet with the Holmes rig. Chase Drilling continues on the Keyes claim. Walter White drills at Dr Roath's well. A R Scott completes a 10 inch well for A L Manning hitting gravel at 384 to 402 feet. Cherry completes a shallow well for C P Summers near Strawberry Point. Evelyn Rice sails to Pasadena for winter studies.
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Port Progress
Lucerne Valley Development Company
Holmes
Chase Drilling Co
Keyes
Walter White
Dr. Roath
A. R. Scott
A. L. Manning
W. 8. Cherry
C. P. Summers
Ervine
Strawberry Point
Evelyn Rice
Pasadena
Lucerne Valley
Victorville
Bowles
Victor Valley Chamber Plans Apple Show and Irrigation Push
The Victor Valley chamber of commerce held its monthly meeting to plan an October apple crop exhibit at the California Apple Show in Watsonville. It endorsed petitions to the U.S. government for a valley irrigation system and named a committee to press Senator Works and Congressman Kettner. The group will christen the valley in a new annual event and seeks to reduce water requirements for desert land land claims.
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Victor Valley
Congress
Chamber of Commerce
Secretary of the Interior
Send Photographs for Barstow Kingdom of the Sun Edition
Barstow plans a Mojave Desert souvenir edition with descriptive articles and illustrations of life in towns mines ranches and range. Readers are invited to submit photographs to The Printer for possible inclusion and to write brief scene descriptions and stories from their area. A follow up announcement will be made next week.
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Barstow
Mojave
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