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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1911
Page
4
Probate Judge Coffey orders the executors of the late Claus Spreckles estate to pay City County Treasurer McDonald 120 401.50 dollars for inheritance tax due the state.
Glenn H. Curtiss yesterday tested a new hydro plane attachment allowing flights from the water. He ascended twice from the bay and returned with notably less splash than with the previous hydro device.
Long Beach police received a complaint from a potato peddler alleging six local dealers swindle customers by using sacks sewn to short weight. The peddler provided addresses and police may investigate the scheme after turning sacks inside out before filling them for full measure.
The first rock for sealing the break of the Colorado river into the Abejos river was dumped Saturday. The million dollar project by the United States government to preserve Imperial valley irrigation continues as the trestle nears completion and railroad track is laid for conveying rock into the river.
Steamer Yale of the Pacific Navigation Company set a new speed record on its regular San Francisco run. It completed the voyage Sunday night in 11 hours, one hour faster than schedule, maintaining an average of 21 knots. The achievement surpasses any U S warship or American flag steamer for the distance.
After seventeen days of rain San Francisco surpasses a fifty year January record with 13 inches. Chinook conditions bring warm wind and rain melting heavy snows, causing railroad and river town troubles. High water marks threaten, thousands of acres of lowlands submerged.
The Los Angeles city council adopted an ordinance fining anyone who spits on sidewalks floors walls or ceilings of public buildings or streetcars. Effective in 30 days the penalty is at least two bits. Councilman Gregory proposed bulk spit tickets but it was not legally feasible. sales will proceed at retail price.
The ordinance imposes a uniform fine of 25 cents for each offense with no quantity discount. It also establishes a maximum penalty of $5 for unusual offenses, emphasizing a strict per offense rate.
Rising San Joaquin river waters inundate French Camp south of Stockton and reach Lathrop for the first time in history. Rescue launches operate from the sheriff’s office as homes and livestock are lost and patients are moved at the county hospital. The rescue launch May collided with a bulkhead at the Santa Fe bridge but all occupants were saved.
Lieutenant John Rodgers ascended 400 feet in a Perkins man carrying kite aboard the Pennsylvania at twenty miles an hour setting a world record. Eleven kites lifted him from the deck as life boats stood by. Rodgers transmitted navy signals from altitude and reported far sight lines and safety throughout the experiment.
State Senator Cofer of Gainesville introduces a Texas bill making it a misdemeanor to sell or expose for sale any cigarette or wrapper. Offenders face a fine from 10 to 100 dollars and the emergency clause seeks immediate effect after passage.
Report from Peking notes twenty plague deaths in Tsin Tsein hospitals and estimates of 500 new victims daily in infected quarters. Cremation of 1000 bodies outside Harbin, Manchuria, has begun with lines of stacked coffins and burning fires as authorities tighten movements.
M Lemartin, the French aviator, broke the world passenger carrying record by piloting a monoplane with seven passengers for a five minute flight near PAY France on February 8.
In Helena Montana the house approved the woman suffrage bill by 33 to 30 though two thirds is needed for effectiveness. The bill’s author switched his vote to allow a reconsideration vote scheduled for tomorrow.
An innovation in local sports drew a large crowd as the South Sharon Athletic Club opened its boxing exhibition with a prayer and a sermon by a local minister invited to speak. The crowd filled the venue last night for the event in Sharon, Pennsylvania.
Paris February reports aviator Say racing for the Aerial league prize covered 63 kilometers in 32 minutes aboard a biplane over the Issy le Molineux circuit, beating the 60 kilometer goal before February 4.
Striking garment workers returned to work after months of disruption ending September 22 and sought employer terms. Supplies had been nearly exhausted. Thomas A. Rickert urged workers to accept conditions. Several firms agreed to rehire former employees without discrimination.
Ten thousand Colorado labor members marched through Denver in protest of Judge Greely W. Whitford who jailed striking miners from Routt County for contempt of court. The judge’s sentence triggered impeachment petitions in the legislature.
Chinese newspapers report the senate adopted a resolution to discard the queue and reform dress, provoking panic among interior merchants. An imperial rescript on January 21 says changes apply only to military naval officers men and police with new uniforms. the public urged to stay tranquil and continue business.
The Transcontinental Passenger association voted to extend the period for special railroad rates for home seekers in the northwest. Representation from all transcontinental lines attended the meeting in Chicago. The panel will decide tomorrow on special convention rates. A colonist rate of 33 dollars from Chicago to North Pacific California and Mexican points will run from March 19.
On April 10 the round trip price of 62 dollars fifty cents from Chicago to San Francisco was approved for this summer in connection with the National Education Association convention.
Americans living in Japan formed a peace society at a Yokohama meeting with two hundred names enrolled. Ambassador Thomas J. O'Brien addressed the gathering and resolutions denouncing war talk were adopted, stating no hostility toward the United States from any Japanese section and urging wide circulation of the sentiment.
In Nogales Arizona a wounded Chinese laborer recounts that two Mexicans smuggled him and three companions from Sonora into the United States. While asleep in a canyon the escorts killed the three others and left him for dead. Two Mexicans are arrested as suspects. earlier Chinese corpses were found nearby. Many have vanished after crossing from Nogales, Mexico, in the past month.
New Orleans crowd reacts to the Panama Exposition site vote with blunt judgment. The city laments San Francisco’s victory for 1915, blaming President Taft, Wall Street, and eastern business interests for eroding Taft’s southern popularity.
An entire fishing village of 253 men, built on ice outside Bkorko sound near Helsingfors, was borne out to sea in a gale Friday night. The disaster was not found until morning as the village was already out of sight. Rescue boats were sent but had not returned.
A Pinehurst scene features two golfers, one a noted amateur runner-up in major events, starting out. A Chicago friend, packing his clubs after noon, walks around with them as the pair agree he may go if he stays quiet and does not talk.
A terse note claims bad luck from losing thirteen dollars on Friday reflecting superstition and odds in a casual record.
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