Interesting News Notes from Randsburg in 1923
Los Angeles dispatch by John C. Wray details Jay A. Carpenter in town before returning to Randsburg. Highlights include pending suits involving California Rand, Kelly, and the Coyote camp, plus Fox lease updates, a new 775 foot level station, and a temporary shutdown of the Coyote shaft. Wray also comments on silver outlook under the Pitman Act, citing high 1922 Asiatic silver demand and forecasts for 1923 and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jay A. Carpenter
Randsburg
John M. Fox
Fox
Joshua Kennedy
Kelly Mine
Harrell
Coyote Directorate
Coyote
Muckers
Los Angeles
Merooney
Southland
Johnny
United States
India
Europe
South America
California News Items in Brief excerpted
Dinuba plans a 125000 hotel and Visalia hosts a 185000 Masonic Temple project. Elk Grove ponders a 50000 Native Sons building. Levett C Corder, LA stationery manager, found dead in gas-filled room. Red Bluff bond for a 93200 grammar school defeated by two votes. Four masked bandits robbed Ralph’s grocery of 2500 in LA. Harvey M Toy elected president of the Utah Nevada California Highway Association seeking 150000 to aid Victory Highway work. John F Shea elected secretary. Baptiste Passerino sues for 2193 damages against city officials for allegedly seizing wine. Western Citrus Honey plant at Woodlake, idle since six months, resumes under receiver with two carloads and seven trucks of bees arriving from Visalia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey M. Toy
Utah
Nevada
John F. Shea
Western Citrus Honey Corporation
Woodlake
Visalia
Johannesburg Bank Boosts Interest On Early Deposits
The First Bank of Johannesburg announces extra interest for savings deposits made by January 10 1923, with interest accruing from January 1 1923. The arrangement lets depositors transfer funds without losing interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Bank of
Johannesburg
The Origin of the Deadline and the Vroff Case
The piece recounts Scotland Yard chief William Melville’s counterterror effort during a czarist visit. Melville used keen timing to trap the anarchist Vroff in a wine shop cellar, seizing a bomb before the procession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ontrary
Inspector Byrnes
William Melville
Scotland Yard
Queen Victoria
Melville
Vroff
Russia
England
Great Britain
Tve
Buckingham Palace
Mansion House
St. Petersburg
Wroff
Burgundy
California News in Brief Mixed State Reports and Incidents
Oakdale supervisors approve highway plans from Escalon to Stanislaus line and intend to seek bids in January. Fires from a Christmas tree burn a Ukiah boy in a lodge party. Sheriff Jones urges barbed wire stockade soup kitchens and a city wood pile after I W W indictments. Numerous local deaths, arrests, and developments across California including a Chicago official appointment and a San Francisco immigrant station proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakdale
San Joaquin County
Escalon
Stanislaus County
Santa Claus
Ukiah
Bert Busch
Elmer Busch
W. F. Jones
Fresno
State Board of Bar Examiners
California
Civil Service
San Francisco City Hall
Also Mentioned on This Page
John C. Wray
Fox Lease
Golden State
Dinuba
Lodge of Masons
Native Sons
Elk Grove
Order
Levett C.corder
Red Bluff
C. W. Crichton
Ralph’s
Baptiste Passerino
Santa Cruz
F. C. Royce
F. K. Hannah
Passerino
Johannesburg Bank
The
Wheeler Syndicate, Inc
Thornton Craig
T. Craig, Jr
San Francisco
Charles Craig
Oakland
John Craig
Engineering Department
University of California
Chico
Woodland
Craig
Capay
Yoio County
San Diego
Jamul Ranch
T. O. Ellipois
Turkey
Smyrna
Los Angeles Athletic Club
Chader Singh
Martinez Grand Jury
Inder Singh
Hari Singh
Alhambra
J. R. Hill
Tulsa
Okla
Angel Island
Congress
Secretary of Labor
Davis
Elmer S. Rigdon
Cambria
San Luis Obispo County
Senator Rigdon
L. le May
Freeport
Sacramento County
Tiburon
Sacramento
le May
John A. Reily
State Department of Institutions
W. D. Stephens
State Hospital
John Valealda
Jackson
Amador County
San Quentin
Edward Chambers
Santa Fe Railway
Chicago
J. R. Hayden
Paul P. Hastings
H. P. Anewalt
Truckee
Gregorio Chaves
el Centro
Jovita Hurtado
Marysville
Henry H. Nelson
L. M. Rossi
Santa Rosa
Nelson
New York Sun
Customs
W. B. Hamilton
Secretary of the Treasury
Hattie S. Johnson
John M. Johnson
Wheatland
Faxon D. Atherton
Gertrude Atherton
Edward Condon
Redwood City
Carlo Ersepke
Daly City
Charles H. Kirby
Mildred Elizabeth Newsome
Newman
William G. Newsone
Albert Stone
Nick Radcliffe
Phil Radcliffe
Salinas
Peach Tree
Miller & Lux Company
Monterey County
Mary Waykin
Taft
Hayward
Guerneville
Union Auto Stages
San Jose
Butte County
Selma
William Bent
John Mescanti
San Joaquin District
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