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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1910
Page
6
The column presents brief outsider dispatches highlighting world developments with concise phrasing. It emphasizes rapid summaries over full context, listing notable events and shifts in international affairs in compact notes.
Washington estimates show 47,920,848 needed to continue Panama Canal construction for the fiscal year starting July 1. Total canal appropriation to date stands at 248,002,668 and the new request is about 10 million above the current year's appropriation.
In Thomaston reported by Winsted, Alfred Koegle's hog escaped, found dynamite left by a state road worker, and after nosing around a mule the mule kicked. The dynamite exploded along with the hog, confirming the unusual accident while Koegle was away.
A. T. Atterbury, linked to a snake charmer act, was arraigned before Burgess Hoyt on a disorderly conduct charge filed by his wife Mrs. Atterbury who runs the show. She alleged he killed a $600 valued snake after accusing her of neglect and promised not to bother the snakes to avoid further action.
Salt Lake City observers at 6 30 Sunday evening watched a bright red light streak across the western sky resembling a rocket. It dissolved into vapor near the horizon and is believed to be a bolide meteor that exploded upon contact with the atmosphere.
W C Bill Barlow editor of Sage Brush Philosophy and apostle of the red corpuscle push died in Douglas after a sudden heartache. A 50 year old former city editor of the Laramie Boomerang he rose to prominence about fifteen years ago with Sage Brush magazine known for quaint humor and pithy sayings and wide national circulation.
Officials and detectives of the Pacific Express company seek to solve the disappearance of three money packages containing about 9000 dollars during shipment. The incident is under investigation in St. Louis with authorities pursuing leads.
A shipment from St. Louis to Fort Worth carried money secured in a safe. The safe was opened by a district foreman in Little Rock after departure, and the money was missing. no tampering signs appeared on the safe. The messenger did not know the safe combination or securing details.
Beaudette Minnesota under martial law with Captain Otto in charge as national guardsmen control panicked town. Several hundred of about 3,000 refugees are sheltered in homes of Old Beaudette and Old Spooner as relief arrives from Duluth Bemidji and Winnipeg. Twenty eight bodies buried in woods south of town reported by marshals.
Los Angeles reports about 1,200 tourists entering daily, mainly from Iowa and the Dakotas. Salt Lake Road official T. G. Peck estimates total daily tourist arrivals at 1,200, noting doubling up in sleepers. Railroad offices expect a banner tourist year thanks to large hotel reservations and rising Eastern demand.
President Taft plans a November 10 voyage from Charleston aboard the North Carolina to the Isthmus of Panama, escorted by the Montana, lasting about twelve days. He will tackle issues on fortifications tolls wages Panama railroad permanent government and canal coal sales to curb extortion.
Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver died at his Fort Dodge home at 7:30 p m Saturday after an acute stomach illness affected his heart The physicians said the death was directly due to dilation of the heart Dr E M Van Patten was examining his heart with a stethoscope at the time of death
Summary of regional items: a San Francisco scavenger finds a severed human hand at a city crematory prompting police inquiry. In San Bernardino three insane foreigners from Patton asylum are to be deported under immigration laws. Seattle reports eighteen hundred pounds of Chinese hair shipped in September to be bleached into hairpieces and rats for American women, reflecting changing styles and markets.
In Los Angeles County a man received the first penitentiary sentence for failure to support a minor. A. T. McNutt, father of Rosa who is under four, was sentenced by Judge Willis to two years in San Quentin. Severo Landin was also sentenced by the same judge, to one year in Folsom for petty larceny twice.
Annie Lowenberg-Kohler-Wallace-Beck appears in Oakland court with a petition for alimony and admits she has had three husbands at once. She is jailed pending a bigamy charge by District Attorney Donahue. Police say marriage was her profession and she sought alimony. Her mother once ran a matrimonial bureau in San Francisco.
Police and secret service agents hunt two men accused of passing counterfeit money in Los Angeles. Victims report few days of complaints, mostly in outlying stores. The counterfeiters use the "eagle center" one dollar bill altered to read ten or twenty dollars by pasting over the numerals. Several bills reached federal agents and are said to be high quality forgeries.
Redlands Oct 19 reports show the Southern California citrus crop nearing 30 000 cars with three weeks left in the season. The total is about 8 000 cars less than last year due to smaller orange and lemon shipments, while railroads expect 50 000 cars next season, a rise of about 68 2 3 percent. The trees are heavily loaded and size and winter weather could boost deliveries.
John B. Moissant, Chicago, fresh from Paris to London, criticizes U S aviation progress in New York amid Belmont Park meet. He says France backs aviation fully and will soon field 200 planes while America does little. He predicts aviation could end war, and envisions fleets of 10 000 to 15 000 aircraft raining nitro glycerine.
San Francisco supporters expect federal recognition for a Pacific coast Panama exposition in 1915. California editors indicate a united state will present 17.5 million dollars raised privately, by city bonds, and a state tax. New Orleans may respond, but the coast believes its funding will outshine the South. California notes New Orleans owes money for a cotton exposition in the eighties.
Four masked gunmen dynamited the State Bank of Proctor in Proctor Colorado and opened fire during a running gun battle with locals. They escaped toward Sterling after failing to take money as Sheriff Brush and a Logan county posse hunt the bandits. Deposits were described as unusually heavy due to the harvest.
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