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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1913
Page
8
A long running feud between Greek workers 8 Antonio and Conti at Diamond Match Company in Stirling City resulted in Conti fatally shooting his countryman. They reportedly vied for the same woman, inflaming a deadly dispute.
Portions of Stanwood and Whitney flooded after a heavy south west gale across Puget Sound. An 800 man unit of the Twentieth Infantry heads to El Paso for border duty. National American Woman Suffrage Association opens its forty fifth convention in Washington. Hidden counterfeiting plant found near Seattle. A New Mexico official is jailed for tax fraud. Lore on a Utah mine shootout, Idaho livestock show, and New Mexico statehood finance follows. England faces leather shortages as trade shifts with U.S. and other nations. A Tacoma man confesses to maintaining two families under different names, avoiding bigamy charges.
A sumptous Thanksgiving dinner was hosted at Mrs. Kr W Decrow’s Oro Grande home. Guests included R B Flenniken and daughters Monte Enda May Ethel Lucy Ada Decrow Joe Sarah Wiehn A Harley Adam Mojeska Penny Morrow Henry Chapel Guy Ferryman A R Thurman Chris Fritzlan Arthur Frank Colcord Barstow. The note adds Oro Grande has been quiet for three weeks.
Barstow locals report J. W. Flint returning from Blythe and General Vick coming back from China with plans to reach Barstow near New Years. An objection over the mountain road south prompts Supervisor Butler to fix it at once, as snow covered hills dot the Santa Fe line. Dr. R. R. Rowan returns from San Francisco while Paul Waite leaves Pacific Electric to stay home through New Years. Weather brings rain and snow with cold nights across districts.
Arthur Colcord celebrated his 20th birthday by a party hosted by the public school basketball teams. The gathering at Lee's Hall featured music and dancing as friends presented him with a gold watch fob.
A gunman robbed passengers in the last car between Pomona and El Monte on the Sunset Limited, killing H. E. Montague Southern Pacific traveling passenger agent who resisted. He fled in a commandeered automobile at El Monte after taking 550 dollars in jewelry and cash.
The Victorville Lucerne Valley star mail route began December 2 with Sam Woods as carrier. He drives a Ford weekly on Tuesday and Saturday between Victorville and Lucerne Valley, delivering mail and passengers via Box S. A Thanksgiving baseball game ended 14 to 7 for Lucerne Valley amid a mystery about the East side’s absence. The Rumely Oil-Pull tractor, piloted by W. W. Beggs, completed an eight hour delivery run to Box 8 with three trailers over Mojave sands, and will service Cherry's to Dead Man's Point this week.
President Wilson read his message to Congress focusing on Mexico, declaring Nuerta usurps authority and peace depends on his removal. He urged currency reform, rural credits, revised Sherman law, primaries for presidential nominees, and extended self-government for island possessions plus territorial status for Alaska and government-led rail and infrastructure projects.
Two armed bandits robbed the Palo Verde Valley bank in Blythe California 42 miles south of Calzona on the Colorado desert. They killed cashier A W Bowles after dragging him through a bank door and escaped with about $5000 in gold and currency. San Bernardino and Riverside counties lead a desert manhunt with Blythe residents joining the posse. The robbers were traced into mesquite jungles along the Colorado River.
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