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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1911
Page
3
Observers report Taal eruption at 2 a m with two earthquakes as the island sank two feet. A four foot wave damaged shores, 332 shacks wrecked, and a cavalryman was killed. Observatories confirm Manila sinking with widespread mud, stones, and crop ruin.
A Nevada to Los Angeles carload of potatoes infested with eel worm was ordered destroyed or returned by William Woods, state quarantine officer. The lot had been moved Reno to Sacramento, then back to Nevada before shipments to Los Angeles. Eel worm is a major pest affecting grains and vegetables and is hard to eradicate once in soil.
San Antonio uses the rockpile to clear vagrants with a new rule that fines are paid in work. Judge Buckley ordered one dollar of service for each dollar fine, replacing suspensions for leaving town. Convicts break stones as a day’s work, while many vagrants still avoid the court.
In Sacramento February 4 to 6 the three day aviation meet will include circling the state capitol dome while the 39th legislature sits. Curtiss aviators Eugene Ely and Charles F Willard will fly there from Agricultural Park under a self funded Sacramento businessmen contract.
Mexican insurgents seized Mexicali at daylight on Sunday led by J. M. Leyva. The jailer was killed, eleven prisoners released, and the customs house captured. Berthold and eight men smuggled firearms from Holtville to strengthen the rebel force as they move toward other key border towns.
A clever con artist collected $75 by selling a horse and buggy he did not own. Al fred Buster of San Pedro bought the outfit after befriending the crowd and the swindler, who disappeared after taking the payment and leaving with the papers. Captain Al Larsen later found his horse missing and the buyer misled.
Boston, Feb 1. Mrs Ellen H Richards of MIT argues that increased use of rich starchy feeds by women causes lower birth rates and explains race death by own action. She claims leisure leads to nibbling sweets and perverted taste, with girls having more food and less work, threatening future generations.
W G Scott of the Inyo Good Roads club travels to Sacramento with a plan for a continuous Los Angeles to Mojave scenic highway along the Sierras. The route would link Sacramento to Mojave, connecting with the valley system and opening parts of the Sierras for year round automobile travel.
In Tokio on February 1 twelve anarchists convicted of conspiring against the throne were executed in prison. Included was Denjiro Kotoku and his wife, Kotoku a former newspaper man who fled Japan for years, later returning and said to have originated the plot. Twenty-four were condemned to death. half had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment.
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