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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1911
Page
6
President Taft received a message from the emperor of Japan in Washington confirming friendship and denying hostile reports. The exchange followed Taft’s efforts to calm sensational claims of troop mobilizations in Texas and to improve U S Japan relations.
San Bernardino reports a plan to roundup 500 wild horses from the desert near Victorville and Holcomb valley for sale to Los Angeles soap factories. Felipe Quiroz and George Tyler will ship the animals to Los Angeles at five dollars a head, with several thousand mustangs to be processed into soap. Most are scrub horses unsuitable for work, though one band led by a steel gray stallion eludes capture.
March 29 reports show every Pullman berth and seat eastbound from Los Angeles booked for two weeks. Traffic managers of Salt Lake, Santa Fe, and Southern Pacific describe an eastward stampede with demand for more sleeping cars to accommodate the returning crowd after winter.
Secretary MacVeagh approves an order to place Miss Margaret Kelly of the mint bureau in direct charge of all the mints and assay offices for short intervals during the year. Roberts and Preston will frequently be absent, creating the need for her interim leadership.
The Europa, the largest ocean liner yet, surpasses Mauretania and Olympic in length and tonnage with a 96 foot beam and nine decks. It will carry about 5 000 passengers, feature multiple dining rooms, a Ritz Carlton restaurant, palm gardens, gym with running track, baths, and advanced air ventilation and telegraph systems.
Mr W Howard from Crystal City Texas notes Dunkard Brethren groups in the Lone Star State. He describes four world callings, paid and unpaid ministers, lay participation, private property with community aid, and a large conservative branch with about 900 churches and 80 000 to 90 000 communicants with missions in China India and Europe.
Jean Georges, Paris cab driver honored for saving 15 women at a May 15, 1897 charity bazaar fire, drowned near Bordeaux last month. Once sought after by tourists on Paris boulevards, he later moved to the United States seeking fortune, returned home amid private support, then resumed cab work in Bordeaux before a accidental death.
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