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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1911
Page
4
In San Jose California on February 1 a stark roadside message warns speeding drivers with the proverb an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth and a life for a life. Skull and crossbones decorate the boards as mountaineers and ranchers threaten to take the law into their own hands if speeding continues.
In San Bernardino on January 31 two adult mountain lions blocked a mountain descent path and chased George Bemis. Bemis fled and raised a club when he realized they were lions, but they crouched in the road and pursued him until a mountain ranger encountered him.
The Westwood family from New Zealand arrived in Los Angeles with 985 pounds of twin weight. William weighs 525 pounds and Ruby 460 pounds. They stay at 183014 South Main street while their parents run the family business. brothers remain at home.
Scott Ennis of a Sacramento produce firm accuses George Shima the Stockton potato king and San Francisco speculators of hoarding at least 200 000 sacks to push prices to 1 75 per sack wholesale. Ennis says the holding by Shima and others is driving the market higher and may continue.
The court issued a supplemental order fixing a late matter. Ruef's lawyers contend the receiver of a bribe is an accomplice and equally guilty, making his testimony inadmissible. If this holds, key witnesses against Ruef could be disqualified from testifying.
The Pullman Company announces new reduced rates effective February 1 for lower and upper berths from the Pacific coast to the East. Lower berths Los Angeles to Chicago drop from 14 to 13 dollars while uppers fall to 10.40 dollars. In most cases lowers decrease and uppers are 20 percent less than lowers, with tourist sleepers adjusted similarly. The changes follow a decision by the Interstate Commerce Commission mandating rate reductions.
Y Calvillo reports a Comobabis lodge find of white quartz with rich free milling gold. Some samples valued at 35000 to 50000 a ton. ore placed in Consolidated National bank for safekeeping. Location withheld. ledge exposure sparked a possible rush akin to Parker district strike.
Five wealthy lumbermen from Lockhart Alabama, W. S. Harlan, Robert Gallagher, Dr. W. E. Grace, C. C. Hilton, and E. S. Huggins, began sentences at the Atlanta federal penitentiary. Harlan and Gallagher receive eighteen months and $5,000 fines. Grace Hilton and Huggins thirteen months and $1,000 fines. Case marked first peonage prosecutions in the South, pursued by the Justice Department. President Taft twice denied pardons.
H. P. Warren, a local rancher, demonstrated successful tobacco cultivation in the San Bernardino valley. A specimen from his Tippecanoe district ranch is on display at the Chamber of Commerce building, showing leaves that compare favorably with southern state tobacco.
A Danish proverb counsels restraint to protect friendships. It urges quiet speech and steady conduct to preserve trust and companionship over time.
West Union Ohio January 31 grand jury reported 328 new indictments against voters who had pleaded guilty as part of Adams county election inquiry. The five weeks of investigation raised total indictments to 2148, about one third of the electors. Between 1800 and 1900 voters were disfranchised.
The southwest buzzes over Col. Theodore Roosevelt. In Phoenix on March 18 he will be served a specially prepared omelet from an ostrich egg. A roasted ostrich may accompany the breakfast expected to draw about 1000 Phoenix citizens for the open event.
President Taft will tour the South in early March after Congress adjourns and end in Cincinnati. He will visit Atlanta on March 10 to address the Southern Commercial congress and speak in Cincinnati to the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick on March 17.
Paris reports aviator Sommer set a world record by flying with five passengers from Douzy to Romilly and return, totaling 13 miles. The Farman biplane carried one thousand pounds including passengers and fuel. Two rode astride the skids while three sat in seats beside the pilot.
In Topeka on February 1 the Kansas legislature defeated a bill to prohibit Sunday baseball by a 63 to 58 vote. Debates included biblical references and sermons. George Cones of Meade County read the Ten Commandments to argue for a law against the sport.
Svendens, a Danish aviator, flying a Voisin biplane near Copenhagen,发现 flames erupting from the frame at a high altitude. He heeded the shouts, descended rapidly, and landed safely, but the aircraft was destroyed with no serious injuries reported.
Mrs. Lena Herter found a placer gold nugget weighing exactly $2 while digging in her front yard in Prescott on February 1. The discovery caused a stir and she is considering extensive placer operations following the find.
Researchers confirm soil quality in Prescott as historically rated gold bearing by multiple writers. The claim links Prescott to a world myth shared with Johannesburg, South Africa, noting two cities praised for streets paved with gold.
W P Dunham developing a town at Kelvin near the mine opposite the Ray and Gila Valley depot. He has completed 105 dwellings rented, with a fifty room hotel and large store already planned. A stone church will be erected near the schoolhouse and a block of stone stores will rise nearby.
Police report the White Hand society of wealthy Italians failed to oust the Black Hand and instead sparked internecine killings in Chicago. Five dead are linked to a Black Hand suspect held by U S authorities on extortion charges, with deaths occurring while under police surveillance amid a feud between Chicago’s old and Eastern gangs.
Washington January 31 The house adopted a post office appropriation measure requiring all mail cars on interstate railroads to be of all steel construction after July 1 1916 The change does not affect existing or under construction equipment nor approved plans A 1916 amendment by Representative Madden and a rule against placing wooden cars ahead of steel cars were also approved.
In Mount Auburn cemetery near Cambridge on Friday a bronze coffin with Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy body was laid in a concrete grave by Lake Halcyon. A bronze box with Eddy’s works and Christian Science publications rested atop the coffin, and a silver plate noted her birth and death dates. Directors and key supporters attended. mausoleum to mark the site will follow.
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