TO THE PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA On my approach to this place with the forces under my command, Jose Castro the Commandant General of California, buried his artillery and abandoned his fortified camp “of the Mesa,” and fled, it is believed, toward Mexico. With the sailors, the marines and the California Battalion of mounted Riflemen, we … [Read more…]
In our “Somethings never change” department: Every year, about election time, disappoint- ed politicians, finding themselves in a minor- ity in the dominant party, pretend to have all the political virtue of the time, declare them- selves alone worthy of holding office, and get to work to make the people believe their pre- tensions. No … [Read more…]
Police Court— Shepheard, J. Tuesday, August 16th. The docket this morning was made up as follows: misdemeanors, 24; assault and battery, 8; drunk, 7; threats one, 1; assault, 1; assault with a deadly weapon, 1 ; using treasonable language, 1; petty larceny, 1; continued cases, 21. SENTENCES. Dennis Meagher, for a misdemeanor, came in for … [Read more…]
MAYOR BARS PICTURES OF FIGHT San Francisco Call, July 7, 1910 Mayor Declares Exhibition to Be Just as Unlawful as Battle Itself Movement Against Films Assumes National Proportions, but Trust Smiles Motion Films Can Not Be Displayed in City, is Declaration of McCarthy BOARD OF CENSORS IN FAVOR OF EXCLUSION Nationwide Movement – May Wreck … [Read more…]
MACKENZIE COMES IN FOR SCORCHING Speakers Condemn Commissioners’ Report on Japanese Immigration Demand Is Made That All Orientals Be Excluded From California San Francisco Call – July 6, 1910 Edited by O. M. BOYLE The meeting last night in the Auditorium of the building trades council to protest against the alleged laxity of immigration Commissioner … [Read more…]
DECAYED RELICS OF BODY MAY SOLVE MYSTERY Coroner Seeks Clews Among Bones and Belongings of Sec- ond Tamalpais Victim No Tangible Connection as Yet Between Two Tragedies on Silent Mountain Rivaling the sea in its propensity for giving up its dead, Mount Tamalpais has added a fresh tragedy and mystery to the history of Marin … [Read more…]
SANTIAGO, Chile, July 5.— Wilhelm Beckert, former chancellor of the German legation, was shot here today for the murder of a Chilean messen- ger of the legation on February 5, 1909. Beckert embezzled funds of the lega- tion and attempted to cover up his crime by making it appear that he had been burned to … [Read more…]
DESTRUCTIVE STORMS. Heavy Losses by Recent Floods in San Luis Obispo. [Special Correspondence of the Alta.] San Luis Obispo, November 23d.— The evening of the 15th inst., one of the worst storms that ever visited our county set in. It wrought more devastation and ruin than the county can recover from in months. The rain … [Read more…]
A NATION-WIDE boycott on all Jewish business and profes- sional men in Germany has been clamped down by Chancellor Hit- ler’s National Socialist party. The announcement states that it will last “until Jewish life in Germany is paralyzed.” Hitler’s government, while not officially countenancing the boycott, is not expected to in- tervene. At Nazi headquarters … [Read more…]
The whale ship Ann Alexander, Capt. J. C. De- blois, of New Bedford, was struck by a wounded sperm whale on the 20th Augnst, in lat. 5 50 S, lon. 102 W. A large hole was stove in her bottom, and she sunk so rapidly that she was abandoned. Crew saved.