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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1911
Page
7
John McCall and D W Wixom, San Bernardino businessmen, found gold float in Saw Pit canyon that assays $30 000 a ton while camping. A piece of rock found by another camper assays $83 000 per ton. Many miners headed to the site seeking the ledge.
Victoria reports the small wooden steamer Sechelt foundered near Beechey Head as a gale hit. All aboard are believed dead, with 39 feared aboard at departure from Victoria to Sooke. 13 landed at William Head while 22 passengers plus four crew perished.
The Santa Fe Railroad will equip every passenger and freight train in Southern California with portable telephones that attach to overhead wires. Trainmen can instantly contact headquarters in San Bernardino, speeding response in wrecks and engine failures by eliminating trips to distant telegraph offices.
California's richest city cannot have a school due to too few children. Hillsborough's school board chaired by Elliott McAllister with Duan Hopkins and Rev. W. A. Brewer planned a meeting with County Superintendent Roy William McCloud to decide on a school. They will wait a year to see if enough children can be found to open a city hall school.
California moved 137 million oranges and lemons eastward in the last seven days, the largest volume in state history. The shipment equaled 2,071 carloads leaving Southern California, demonstrating a historic agricultural surge from Redlands to eastern markets.
One hundred ninety cars moved over the Santa Fe line and 881 by the Southern Pacific from Colton yards. A single train would stretch seventeen miles and need 160 locomotives on Cajon grade or San Timoteo canyon line. To date about 16,700 cars have carried fruit. with 50,000 cars forecast, about 33,300 remain to move, two thirds of the crop.
Carl Berley, a helper at the National refinery for the Kern river fields, died after falling into a distillate tank. He lost balance while checking pump action and inhaled distillate, despite immediate aid.
In Tangier sound the old battleship Texas sinks after shellfire from her newer sister ship New Hampshire. The attack leaves port side holes and armor damage while masts are weakened. Debris covers the deck as ordnance officers note striking broadsides from six to seven and a half miles.
San Pedro reports 300 Chinese in Ensenada linked to smugglers along the California coast. Officials fear bands may use swift American boats to land aliens, prompting calls for more revenue cutters to patrol from San Diego to Monterey and San Francisco.
Women of Hunnewell meet in caucus and nominate Mrs J E Wilson for mayor and Mrs G A Osborne for police magistrate amid plans for a vigorous campaign. The town is criticized as a wide open border day town with men governing local affairs. Bryan Champion Keeps His Vow is not present in this item.
Octavius the Denver Zoo monkey may become the only ape with an artificial hand. After freezing his paw on a cage bar in January and tearing it, one forepaw was partially amputated and an artificial paw is being made and fitted once healing allows.
A Wisconsin assembly bill introduces a five dollar annual tax on unmarried women over 25 and creates a matrimonial commission led by the governor the superintendent of public property and the chief clerk of the assembly. The panel would help bind kindred souls when an affinity is sought by a lovelorn maiden.
Charles S Bastion a young businessman is jailed for five days after refusing to pay a $1.10 poll tax judgment to Ogdensburg. He had appealed to the appellate division which ruled against him. The case outcome affects about 600 tax delinquents.
In Douai France on March 28 Louis Breguet flew a monoplane with eleven passengers for two miles at 50 to 75 feet. The twelve people weighed 1 315 pounds and the craft with occupants 2 602 pounds. The prior record had seven passengers set by M LeMartin on February 8 for seven minutes.
Snow in Swiss towns reports large patches of insects embedded in the powdery accumulation. Observers note the unusual phenomenon spreading across the canton of Argone, with sightings near Con stance and Singen as well.
Newly fallen snow was found black in color with myriads of insects resembling fleas moving slowly. Naturalists identify the insect as known to fall from the air when a warm south wind blows, and peasants call the phenomenon in dialect moving black snow.
Eight persons died and more than a dozen were hurt when Dixie Flyer train No. 95 on the Atlantic Coast Line plunged from a trestle over the Alabama river near Tifton Georgia after an axle snapped. The engine remained on the track and accident responders aided victims as hospital trains arrived.
Three crates of cantaloupes from Sinaloa Mexico arrived for Klein Fruit Co and sold to the Alexandria hotel for 18 dollars per crate, or one dollar per melon. One crate was sent to Chicago and the other to San Francisco. The pony size fruit was of fair quality and this marked the second shipment to the local market this season.
U S War Department orders Lieut Fiest to assess Mexican refugee conditions on the American side. He finds 173 people on hillsides lacking clothing shelter and food. Families crowded under trees and wagons, whites. Refugees seek aid as insurgents blockade provisions and threaten civilians in the war zone.
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