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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1911
Page
7
Otto Cassel a German chemist announces a process to make soap from crude petroleum claiming 75 percent of the soap is crude oil and 25 percent other inexpensive ingredients. He has patents worldwide and says the soap costs $1.25 per 100 cakes cheaper to produce than the cheapest quality soap.
Sacramento reports a demand for a quarantine on all potatoes shipped into California from Dayton Nevada. County Horticultural Commissioner F R M Bloomer and State Horticultural Commissioner Professor Cooke will push the action. Bloomer found Dayton potatoes in eel worm condition, risking infestation statewide.
San Bernardino county may become the first to adopt a county government charter. A petition circulated Saturday calls on the supervisors to appoint a board of freeholders to draft the charter amid taxes protests and publicized charges of extravagance by Supervisor S. V. Horton against the others on the board.
In Long Beach a monkey drank leftover whiskey in a glass left on a chair at a marina venue. The animal fell into a drunken stupor and performed unusual capers, attracting a crowd before keepers caged it for safety until it recovered. Ice water was required after a long sleep.
Passengers aboard the steamship Alaska protested Captain John Johnson after he put a 15-year-old stowaway ashore on San Juan Island miles from habitation without food or shelter. The boy was found aboard after leaving Valdes and the captain learned of his plan to abandon him.
A youngster was offered double fare and refused, then set ashore in a lifeboat without a coat while passengers watched. His fate remains a mystery as authorities investigate the incident and search for answers about the boy’s whereabouts.
San Bernardino report notes the 193? orange harvest three weeks late across California. New federal rules bar fruit coloring by sweating to speed ripening. Southern California shipments unlikely before December, while the north shows minor early activity.
Walter L. Houser, head of the progressive Republican campaign committee, urges every state to enact or direct primaries for president and vice president. He cites Chicago conference support and argues popular nomination is essential to mobilize rank and file support for 1912.
Long Beach November 15 More than 200000 pounds of croaker fish rammed ashore between Long Beach and Terminal Island creating a sand covered stretch of a quarter mile. Two fishermen nearly drowned while fleeing the slick mass as residents gathered baskets wagons and sacks to haul away the catch for market or personal use.
New York reports a purported secret understanding among J Pierpont Morgan John D Rockefeller Andrew Carnegie and other major wealth leaders as the federal government opens a fight against the steel combine. The attorney general’s office says the government has surrounded the interests with judicial restraint signaling a final end to special privilege.
Passengers aboard the steamship Peru from La Guayra assert that Cipriano Castro, former president of Venezuela, has been murdered there, according to reports received in Bordeaux on November 15.
Salt Lake City Utah November 14 John Smith longtime presiding patriarch of the Mormon church and nephew of Joseph Smith founder of the church died of pneumonia He was 79 years old.
Wellington November 15 The New Zealand government introduced a bill to grant pensions of 65 dollars a year to widows with one child and 150 dollars for widows with three or more children The projected annual cost to the Dominion is about 165000 dollars.
London report notes barbers in Sutton-in-Ashfield increased shaving and haircutting charges due to rising food and material costs. Shaving up to 3 cents from 2, haircutting up to 6 cents from 4.
At Port of Spain on November 14 authorities report an island rose from the sea between Trinidad and the Venezuelan coast after a violent underground disturbance. Huge columns of smoke and flame accompanied the emergence before land appeared.
William Houchins, 24, escaped from the Fort Myer guard house after requesting rest due to illness. A doctor was summoned, but three hours later the guard discovered the bed had a dummy and Houchins was missing. He had just been court martialed and sentenced to four years in federal prison.
A night of unprecedented ruin unfolded in Nankin as 1200 Manchu and imperial forces held Purple Hill destroying life and property while thousands of Chinese fled the city after a day of brutal butchery.
Police cannot identify responsible party for a bomb exploded under a Southern Pacific California Limited car at El Paso Union Station last Friday. The device caused little damage due to poor placement and powder wrapped in cotton. Railroad officials do not link the incident to striking shopmen.
Washington November 15 crop conditions report from the department of agriculture states the 1911 harvests are practically finished. It provides preliminary estimates for major crops indicating overall production for the year.
The report shows crops at roughly 7.9 percent below 1910 levels and about 0.4 percent under the average annual production of the previous five years, indicating a drop in output compared with both benchmarks.
In Mount Vernon Illinois a local tobacco chewer bit into a twist, found the head of a small snake, and discovered the entire snake wrapped inside the tobacco. He may sue the manufacturer, suspecting a prank by the roller's worker.
Warden John E Hoyle at San Quentin plans a novel prison industry turning convicts into safe makers for commerce. He showcases a reconstructed vault and safe by a ten year robber inmate as proof of strong potential profits and practical feasibility.
Maine retains constitutional prohibition after corrections to four towns’ September votes reversed the initial return. The repeal is now supported by a 426 majority, with cities showing against prohibition and towns in favor. Governor Plaisted plans a February special session to seek a constitutional amendment enabling local liquor laws.
Tony Burger a wealthy farmer in Hammond Indiana stopped to light a pipe when a blast hurled him fifty feet. He lay burned and wounded as neighbors searched for hours for the cause. A ruptured Standard Oil pipeline running across his farm leaked gas that exploded.
A brief, unclear line mentions Paetographorius 7 and photographing a little boy this evening. The text is incomplete and lacks concrete details or context.
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