Imports Protest Tariff Yet Peanuts Remain High
Sacramento importers of Japanese peanuts report that tariff changes have not lowered prices for merchants. Despite recent wholesale price drops of about a cent, freight rates from Japan to San Francisco rose from 6.40 to 8 dollars per ton, keeping costs high. Separately, a report on New York City mayoral campaign funding shows a total cost of 129 519 with major donors including Carnegie Schiff Podge Perkins and Rockefeller, and a treasury balance of 2268 after receipts totaling 131 787.
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Sacramento
Curry
Washington
Transpacific Steamship Companies
Japan
San Francisco
John Purroy Mitchel
New York City
Charles L. Bernheimer
Citizens’ Municipal Committee
Andrew Carnegie
Jacob H. Schiff
Cleveland H. Podge
George W. Perkins
John D. Rockefeller
Treasury
Sunshiny Disposition Inspires Noble Deeds and Joy
The text extols a cheerful serene spirit as the source of all noble achievements. It contrasts such a disposition with petty gloomy minds that brood on the past and fear the future, suggesting they cannot seize life’s holiest moments.
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Schiller
Grand Jury Weighs Slingsby Baby Case Tangles
San Francisco judge Frank Dunne threatens to dismiss the grand jury if it reopens the Slingsby baby case. District Attorney Fickert plans to push the matter before the grand jury after the British Consulate hearing ends, amid disputes over a large British estate and the Slingsby family.
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Gormley Grand Jury
Frank Dunne
Superior Court of
San Francisco
Saloons Close In Ohio And Des Moines Under License Law
In Youngstown Ohio two hundred saloons and wholesale liquor houses shut down for operating without licenses. Bottles of liquor were discarded into baskets with placards reading Last chance only 1.50 a basket. Across Ohio over 3300 saloons closed to comply with a state law limiting wet territory to one saloon per 500 residents, and every saloon in Des Moines also closed following the ruling.
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Youngstown
Ohio
Des Moines
Flying squad nets 35 speed violators on foothill boulevard
In six hours Sunday the flying squad arrested thirty five violators of the state auto speed law on foothill boulevard near Oakland setting a new yearly record. Two of the arrestees were women.
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Foothill
Oakland
First Arabian Coinage by Abdalmelik in 695
Abdalmelik minted the first Arabian money in 695 with Semyor as mint master. Semyor, a Jewish subject, oversaw the coinage operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abdalmelik
Semyor
Barstow Printer Office Promotes Local Job Printing
The Barstow Printer office advertises as the only print shop in the desert between Needles and San Bernardino offering local job printing services to patrons.
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Barstow
Desert
Needles
San Bernardino
Send Photographs to Illustrate Your District in the Kingdom of the Sun
Barstow’s Kingdom of the Sun edition invites residents to submit photographs of desert life mining ranching and local scenes around Barstow Mojave River and surrounding desert. Send images to The Printer with descriptions and a short story about something unique from your area. No cost.
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Kingdom of the Sun
Barstow
Mojave
Miners Rush to Zabriskie as Ore Boom Looms
Old Osborne property at Ord Mountain may start operations after year start via litigants’ compromise. Gr B Mier develops Tron Siding iron. Tanzer ships ore to Riverside Portland Cement Co. every four days using 24 K E T Hillis horses. Dr Linhart reports a Zabriskie rush to see high grade Biddy McCarthy ore. T T officials visit. Pacific Coast Borax Co. builds a Death Valley lab. supplies arrive at Zabriskie.
California Klamath placer districts draw miner interest
The Klamath and Trinity river placers in Siskiyou and Trinity counties attract ongoing activity led by the La Grange hydraulic mine. A US Geological Survey bulletin reports on auriferous gravels in the Weaverville quadrangle, the rise of large scale dredging at Trinity Center and Lewiston, and the pocket mining that yields high returns from small surface deposits.
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California
Klamath Mountains
Siskiyou
Trinity Counties
Trinity Onc Klamath
la Grange
Weaverville
Shasta
J. 8. Diller
United States Oreological Survey
Trinity Center
Lewiston
Eastman Gulch
Trinity River
Weaverville Quadrangle
H. G. Ferguson
Clear Creek
Quadrangle
Geological Survey
Washington, D.C
Free Mineral Specimen Identification Service
The Bureau offers free determination of mineral specimens found in the State with three samples at a time. Only samples from within the State are accepted and no charge is due if prepaid. Send lump samples marked with sender name and address to State Mineralogist Ferry Building San Francisco California.
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Department of the Interior
Los Angeles
California
United States
Greens Marshall Company
West Seth Place
Dings
Silver Mountain
San Bernardino County
Vietor Consolidated Vlacer
Excello
Seuswiyse
B. M
Office of the Register of the United States
H. L
R.W. Atwood
Register of the
United States Land Office
Frank Buren
U. S, Land Office
George McGee
Santa Ana
Sue F. Crispin
Cal
Townshipan
Range
Meridian
O. R. W. Robinson
Bureau
Ferry Building
San Francisco
Wells Prosper in Whittier Land Formation
W A Kelly of Whittier reports a productive well in township 11 range 4 west. S 85 Hill finished a 100 ft. well with 12 inch casing. Water stands 45 ft. below surface with 24 ft. of fine gravel at bottom. Hill says the land formation spans four miles by eight miles and other wells should be as good.
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W. A. Kelly
Whittier
Township
Hill
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Wm. T. Hendrey
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Halleck
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Bruce FE. Douglas
Anaheim
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U.S. Land Office
John H. Bartel
Anthony Speth
J. D. Rieh
US Department of the Interior
U. S. Land Office
Roy Db. Compton
Samuel Crooks
William D. Riche
Clarence H. Crooks
Clifford
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Charles M. Morgan
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Christina Wroughton
Newell R. Richardson
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