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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1910
Page
5
Washington dispatch reports canal diggers on the isthmus completed 2 813 462 cubic yards of excavation in August, up from 406 288 yards in July due to two extra working days and two inches less rainfall.
A brewery vat ruptured during foundation repairs spilling 18,000 gallons of beer into streets and sewers. Men trapped in the downpour were rescued with difficulty as beer flowed toward the Maumee river, creating three feet of suds in the discharge.
In Tucson on September 2, Charles Alzemora, a Fort Lowell veteran now living in Guaymas, Mexico, threatened to tear down a Mexican map unless an American flag was raised for the centennial celebration. Alzemora recalled a 20 year old incident when he halted a Mexican parade until an American flag led the procession.
In Utica on September 21 a man calling himself George Corrigan of Columbus Ohio confessed to coinage of thousands of counterfeit five cent pieces and was jailed by secret service men. Arrest followed a raid on his Cooperstown camp area home near Otsego Lake where dies a hand press metal and freshly minted nickels were seized. He said he planned to make twenty five cent pieces.
Charles M. Webb of Mount Freedom New Jersey found four old copper pennies while plowing. The coins include a 1737 horse head and plow piece, a Nova Caesia shield piece, an 1848 US cent, and a 1776 English coin. Dealers value the quartet at about $800 total.
The Klondike placer district in Alaska has produced 150 million dollars in gold since 1898 and experts estimate future mining may equal the amount mined so far. Consul Hale of Dawson notes 1910 output is expected to exceed prior years.
In 1909 reports claim over 3.5 million dollars in gold production with most shipments to the United States and a small amount to the Canadian mint. The consul notes rich copper ore deposits found in the southern Klondike district.
New York report details Joe Seymour in a Curtiss biplane and Ted Schriever in a Howard Dietz biplane becoming lost in dense fog over Hempstead plains. Both avoided collisions by staying high and using engine noise to warn of the other’s approach. Seymour completed four long cross country flights while Schriever flew three.
Fred A. Baker of Washington, D. C., told the Indian superintendents convention in Denver that within a hundred years Indians will be assimilated by whites. He warned some tribes in inaccessible areas may remain, but most will merge with Caucasians, noting ongoing amalgamation in Oklahoma among the five civilized tribes. He dismissed the idea that Indians are rapidly dying.
Washington reports that in the coming weeks the few national banks rated as weak must strengthen or close. Examiners will review capital, reserves, and bad paper, using full powers to liquidate weak banks or force them to recover, with September 1 data as the trigger.
In New York City Chinatown during the Full Moon festival the Chinese public chamber president Ching Pah Chow and leading merchants will cut off their queues to shed superstition. The move echoes a reform urged by Prince Tsai Tao after his world tour and aligned with a royal recommendation for uniform queue removal in the Chinese army.
Great improvements are promised in transportation between Pacific Coast points and New York via the Panama Isthmus. A new line of boats will operate from San Francisco to the Pacific Coast terminus, and the Pacific Mail Co plans an express freight service long held without competition.
Santa Monica September 20 Rev J D H Browne a local minister urged the city council to ban skimpy swimwear after witnessing numerous bathers wear scant costumes and lounge on the sand for hours without entering the surf.
Nome reports Bogoslof in eruption once more as Mount Shishaldin continues ash fall for five months. A Behring Sea codfleet vessel reached Seattle with news of ash covered seas around Unimak, where the W H Diamond schooner suffered a fire from hot ashes but the crew saved the rigging and put out the blaze.
At a meeting in Bakersfield the leading Chinese agreed to a silent protest against the segregation of Chinese children in the new Oriental school by keeping their children home. They argue segregation deprives students of English conversation benefits from grammar schools and await the board of education's action.
The Aero Club of California backed by the Merchants and Manufacturers association is pushing to hold the midwinter aviation meet in Los Angeles. If a change cannot be arranged, the event will occur in Pasadena. Early efforts targeted Los Angeles for January with 144 letters sent to aviators in France England Australia Canada and America seeking opinions on events prize money and distributions.
A mule aided by a policeman and owner Nick Nichols halted a legal dispute in San Francisco by stamping down a hoof. Nichols faced accusations of ill treating the animal, but the mule's action saved the court time and trouble.
A mule kicked and lifted her owner into saloon doors ten feet away. The police judge dismissed the case, stating the mule inflicted proper and sufficient punishment.
F W Ford, Los Angeles capitalist and Colorado mining figure, secured an option on a Lower California salt deposit near Sanquin tine 120 miles below Ensenada. He leased from Mexican Land and Colonization Co and plans piers and wharfage with vessels to Seattle Vancouver and San Francisco, with some salt reaching Los Angeles and most going north. The operation relies on steam shovel extraction directly from bed into ships in the bay.
The Treasury considers stopping gold coinage indefinitely and issuing gold certificates for bullion and foreign coin brought to mints. Aims include saving minting costs estimated at 300000 to 500000 dollars yearly and curbing U S gold coin production that aids foreign markets. Denver mint to run next week, Philadelphia in October, San Francisco at 500000 dollars daily.
Washington reports that 9,779,901 aliens have arrived since 1901. Southern Italians lead with 1,761,948. Jews 976,263. Polish homeseekers 873,660. Pacific islanders total 661. Average landing wealth varies from $104 for Spanish-Americans to $7 for Koreans.
In St. Louis doctors propose a municipal license for all drinkers. Offenders would face fines, with payments directed to the city or state and benefits going to the drinker's relatives, as part of an ordinance to curb excess and aid families.
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