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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1911
Page
5
Sacramento December 27 the senate amendment to the constitutional amendment providing free text books for California school children was unanimously ratified in the assembly. It will now go to a vote of the people.
Reports from the joint conference committee on Senator Roseberry's two bills in aid of the employers liability act were adopted by both houses. The bills now go to the governor in amended form, exempting horticulturists farmers and dairymen from the act's provisions.
The San Francisco supervisors curb New Year excesses across the city. They ban fancy tippling by young society girls, loud laughter, joyous singing, and rowdy antics. The measure includes two whereases and a resolved clause, with the chief of police enforcing the rules.
J C Stubbs longtime traffic director of the Harriman lines is officially retired by the Southern Pacific pension board. He will reportedly receive 18000 dollars a year for life though the amount was undisclosed locally and said to have been arranged in New York.
The first carload of Imperial valley farm products shipped over the San Diego and Arizona railroad arrived in San Diego. It was consigned to San Francisco and will be transferred by boat to that port. The line connects Southern California and Southern Arizona points not previously served by rail and is now in full operation.
Sacramento December 26. Senate election laws committee adds age disclosure to the Young registration bill after Assembly vote spared voters from giving age. The panel split with Hewitt Wright Gates Estudillo for keeping age out and Hare Walker Tyrrel Julliard Boynton opposing.
Whittier researchers and ranchers await Washington reports that Prof. R. S. Woglum has arrived with six orange trees infested by a parasite believed to be the long sought control for the white fly. Woglum, once based in Whittier, studied cyanide fumigation and earned national notice. He is reported to have sought the world over for a natural enemy to protect Florida citrus groves. The dispatch follows his assignment under the Agriculture Department’s entomology bureau.
The board of supervisors approved a $5,000 county reward for the capture of J. B. McNamara alias Bryce dynamiter of the Los Angeles Times building. District Attorney John D. Fredericks backed the claim filed in the current week’s budget. Burns arrested McNamara on April 11, 1911.
New York police hunt Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Keller believed to have married at least seventy five times in New York area for a net profit of 750 dollars. Reverend W S Kearney says he wed them recently, took a bogus check as payment and gave $10 in real money as change.
A dubious report from a Latin American engineer claims the U S purchased a 50 mile wide by 150 mile long strip of land between Arizona and California on the Gulf of Lower California. It suggests the aim to gain gulf coast access and a seaport for Arizona to aid Mexican revolution debts.
G H Powell secretary of the Citrus Protective League returned from Washington and New York and predicted the interstate rate case on lemons will favor California growers. He noted better eastern shipments in six weeks due to the pure food law stopping grassy green fruit.
Three hundred miners left Dawson City for the head of Sixty Mile river amid reports of the richest strike in years. Hundreds more prospectors prepare to join the bonanza as word spreads of the new gold field discoveries.
Efforts to obtain a pardon for Charles W. Morse were renewed as he lies near death in Fort McPherson hospital. Friends and acquaintances push for action before his condition worsens. Morse's family remains at his bedside.
In Morris Illinois on December 26 excitement rose after gold was found in the gizzards of ducks shot along Aux Sable creek. A hotel chef noticed bright particles and led hunters to collect more ducks. Subsequent gizzards from additional fowls yielded the same substance, sparking belief of a potential rich strike.
Newport Rhode Island reports a divorce surge with eighty cases on the superior court docket to be called in March. Nine petitions were granted this month as cruelty and neglect remain the leading grounds. Most cases involve town residents rather than wealthy cottagers.
New York December 27 Bees in the College of the City of New York biological laboratory produce honey as green as pistachio ice cream. Amateur sleuthing fails to locate the source of the green coloring matter. Bees will be branded with a red spot and students are urged to report any red spotted bees to the biological department with exact discovery locations.
A Cleveland mob of Italians led by a New York delegation protested a moving picture show at the Cameraphone theater. They tore up advertising material and forced the manager to stop exhibiting Vitagraph views touted as real Italian war footage from Tripoli showing soldiers killing children and other atrocities.
In St Paul on his way to Washington James Wickersham argues for federal control of Alaska. He cites Pinheirot and Garfield act as the territory’s key saved legislation and says the Morgan Guevenheims now control Alaska and government ownership would break their grip.
California officials plan a special legislative session to tighten quarantine rules against Ceratitis capitata the Mediterranean fruit fly. Horticultural Commissioner A R Merse explains the pest threatens fruit crops and could devastate orchards if it arrives, describing its features and behavior.
A fragment discusses a husband and wife and financial questions about an engagement ring. The tone hints at secrecy and reluctance to disclose payment details. No clear names, dates, or places are identifiable in the readable text.
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