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The Parker post., 1915-05-29
THREE RIVERS POUR LAVAAS
MT. .LASSEN LEAPS into FURY
COUNTRYSIDE IS COVERED LIKE tidal WAVE AS POPULATION
FLEES- -NEICHBORS RUSH TO RESCUE FLEEING RANCHERS
Rocks and BoIders Wreck Forest Service Station at Twin
can Flow Confined to Hat Creek Valley Adequate Estimate Of
Damage Yet Made But It Will Run Into Thousands of Dollars

REDDING, May 24.-Lassen peak
burst into new eruption late Satur-
day, the greatest and most violent
since the mountain aWOke one year
ago. And her flood of mud swept down
the mountainside with three steam
ing streams of lava in it's wake. 1t
covered the countryside like a tidal
wave. Thirty-six families, nearly the
were reported to be fleeing for their
lives before the avalanche of mud and
boiling lava.
Fifteen rescue parties in automobiles
were rushed from here to Cassel and
Round Mountain to pick UP the refugee
women and children. Men mounted on
horseback frantically rounded up cat
tie and livestock and endeavored to
drive them to the highlands to escape
the broad torrent of mud that sub
merged everything in its path.
Ashes Hurled 200 Miles
The eruption occurred at 4:30 p. m.
Three almost simultaneous and titanic
bursts of smoke and steam were fol
lowed by two lesser ones. A tremen-
dous funnel-shaped cloud shot sky
in heavy pail. The big mountain,
ten thousand feet high, was dwarfed to
insignificant size.
When the immense volume of smoke
and ashes had lifted above the noun
tain's crest, four blackened paths, each
half a mile wide, we're revealed on the
western slope. The visible rivers of
mud and lava were lost at the timber
line.
Word was received that a spray of
volcanic ash had fallen at Inlay, New,
200 miles from the peak, and that the
huge burst of smoke was seen at Sac
ramento from the cupola of the state
capitol, 175 miles away. Automobile
parties left from cities 100 miles and
more away to witness the spectacle
Redding was pitched into a frenzy
of excitement. Fire bells tolled, peo-
pie rushed from homes and buildings,
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
$3,o0oo 900 TOTAL OF NAVEL
ORANGE CROP IN POMONA

POMONA, May 25.-With $500 cars,
record which has seldom been sur
passed in this valley, the navel orange
season is practically closed in the Po-
mona district
While the prices have not been as
high generally as they have been in
some of the other years, the big crop
and the high quality of the fruit nave
made up in large measure for the
lower returns.
1t is expected that the crop of this
district will bring in total of $4,000,
0OO Nearly $1,OOO,000 of this amount
is already paid over to the growers.
The packing houses will immedi
ately start in packing the Valencia
crop, and the prospects for this part
of the crop are very good. 1t is ex
pected that about 600 cars will be sent
out. Good prices are expected.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
GLENDALE PLANS FRUIT
AND FLOWER FESTIVAL

GLENDALE, May 25.-The Glen
dale Festival of Fruits and Flowers,
to take place on the afternoons and
evenings of the 9th, 2Sth and 29th
of this month, will be the most beau
tiful and interesting event ever held
in this valley. The ladies of the Tues
day Afternoon Club are exercising all
their ingenuity to make it unique as
we'll as interesting and will doubtless
spring many surprises. There will be
a parade Thursday and Friday even
ings. That of Saturday will be held
at 4:30 p. m. One of the features
will be a large troupe of horseback
riders, under the direction of Frank
Showalter, Hosea Steelman of movie
fame, and w. E. Evans. The registra-
tion for better babies to parade in
go-carts is now being made on Brand
boulevard, near Broadway.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
PRUNE CROP LEADS
CUPID INDUSTRY

OLYMPIA, Wash, May 25.-Cupid,
if statistics compiled by the state bu-
reau of inspection and supervision of
public offices are dependable, rather
sighted the rest of the state of Wash
ington in favor of Clark county during
the year 1914. Matrimony, according
to the report, runs the prune crop
close race for first place among the
countys leading products. During the
year an average of five weddings a
day were held in that county, with a
couple added each Sunday for good
measure. There were 1852 marriage
licenses issued.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
JOHNSON SIGNS 100000
APPROPRIATION BILLS

SACRAMENTO, May Ex-Governor
Johnson signed 12S bills, carrying ap-
preparations of. more than $2,000000.
The money is to be expended chiefly
for construction work in various parts
of the state and the upkeep of state
institutions.
Among the largest appropriation
bills signed are one by Senator
Thompson appropriating $250,0OO for
free textbooks; one by Senator Mott
providing for a corporation license tax
refund of $230,00O; one by Senator
Cogswell appropriating $195,O00 for
construction work at the NOrWalk
state hospital, the new hospital for
insane in Southern California, and an
appropriation secured by Senator Scott
of $4,000 for national guard man
euverS.
A bill by Assemblyman Ferguson
provides an appropriation of $4,000
for the establishment and upkeep of
three employment bureaus in several
cities of the state.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29

| streets were deserted in the business
section, roofs were crowded, and busi-
ness was suspended.
Lassen's crater is reported to have
been entirely leveled. Formerly it
had three distinct undulations, but
these have been worn away and the
crevasses and dips filled by the con-
tinuous cataract of erupted substance.
A report from the power station at
Cow Creek said that one side of the
volcano had been blown off and top
pied into the lake near the base of
the crater, the water displaced adding
to the flood.
So far, the volcanic flow has been
confined to Hat Creek valley, and ad-
jacent valleys are considered immune
from danger unless the subterranean
forces hurl rocks and lava over the
natural barriers.
The entire horizon was obscured by
the first eruption from Lassen peak,
according to railroad passengers. At
Amadee, CAL, the first eruption was
noticed at 4:20 o'clock, and twenty
minutes later surveyor measured the
dimensions of the Uncovered cloud.
The peak of the smoke was estimated
at seven miles above the earth, and
spread in mushroom shape. The base
was five miles in width. The entire
mass rapidly drifted to the east. Re-
ports from Eastern Nevada tonight in
dicate that the ashes have fallen at
Winnemucca and Golconda, about 300
miles from Lassen Peak.
Rocks and boulders were flung hun
dreds of feet into the air by the era
ter's explosion, according to a report
from M n g merry Creek. They
wrecked the forest service bureau sta
tion at Twin Bridges. Rumbling and
roaring preceded the outburst. Hot
pumice was among the substances
elected. Although no adequate esti-
mate could be put upon the damage of
Lassen's latest eruption, it was regard
ed as certain that it would run into
thousands of dollars.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
Bus Men Ban Drinking

SANTA MONICA, May 25.-The
Auto Bus Operations Association has
presented to the Santa Monica police
commission a code of rules to which
the operators and drivers have sub
scribed. Cooperation of the authori-
ties in enforcing them is requested.
The rules provide that no operator of
an association bus shall drink intoxi-
eating liquors or use profane or vulgar
language while on duty, nor shall to-
baccO be used in any form while Wom-
en- are riding as passengers.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
HuRMAN's SPECIAL

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 25.-
Bob Burman's Special has been ruled
off the Indianapolis Speedway. The
committee decided that the Special
was a Peugeot under another name,
and as there are three cars of that
type in the race, all that the law al
lows, it was barred.
Ray Harroun's Special also has been
barred, as it is claimed that car is a
Maxwell and there are three other
entries from that camp.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
Losses of Austrians 10000

PETROGRAD, May 24.-The Aus
trian losses during recent fighting in
southeast Galicia are placed at 100000
in dispatches received from the front.
Reports from the Przemysl region
toward which the advance of General
Won Mackensen was directed, declare
that not only has the Austro-German
army been halted at the San river,
but has been driven back at some
points. The invading army's center
is declared to have been brought to
complete standstill. 1t is admitted
that the Russian left and right wings
are still retiring, but they are with
drawing to previously prepared posi-
tions in order to shorten the Russian
front, it is said.
The Austrian right north of .Kolo-
mea and Czernowitz is rapidly retir-
ing.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
6O,356 AUTOS ARE LICENSED
IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
TOTAL STATE REGISTRATION TO
DATE is 10000
Los Angeles County Has Tagged Over
One-fourth of Cars in State-27,95
Licenses Issued to Cars in
Los Angeles City

LOS ANGELES, May 25.-The motor
car increase in Los Angeles county is
shown in comparative figures. The
latest count gives this county 40,944
motor cars, as compared to 35,132 at
the end of June last year.
Of the 40,944 tags in the county,
27,953 have been issued to cars within
the city of Los Angeles.
The figures were obtained when the
supplement to the directory of the
Automobile Publishing Company was
prepared for the press. The 1914 fig
ures were taken from the states rec
ords by Manager G. H. Townsend.
The Los Angeles county gain in
eleven months has been 5,S12 cars, or
more than 500 for each thirty days.
With the coming of the 1916 models
this summer, the increase is expected
to double that
The total state registration to date
is 100000. Thus it is seen that more
than one-fourth of all the cars of Cali
fornia are owned in this county.
Only two states are now ahead of
California in the number of motor cars.
New York holds a safe lead with more
than 100000, and Illinois is second.
The middle western states, it is pre-
dicted, will make the largest gains
this year, because of the large crops
which will be sold at war prices. Iowa
and Kansas in particular are regarded
as among the leading motor markets
of 1915.
The following figures show compare
tive increase in Southern California in
the past year:
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
Police Band Tours California

PORTLAND, May 25.-With thirty
seven players, the Portland police
band, resplendent in new uniforms,
modelled after those worn by mem
bers of the New York department,
sailed on the steamer Beaver for San
Francisco, on three weeks tour of
the California fairs. The band expects
to give a series of concerts at both
expositions, and also at Los Angeles
and Pasadena.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
MosIems Captured

ATHENS, May 24.-Allied forces,
supported by the battleship Queen
Elizabeth, were conducting general
advance along the Gallipoli peninsula.
The Turks, supported by the cruiser
Goeben, attacked the allies column
near Killid-Bahr, but we're repulsed
with heavy loss. The allies took 500
prisoners during the engagement.
The fleets bombardment has re-
suited in the reduction of all the Turk
ish batteries on the Asiatic side of the
DardanelleS.
Several of the forts on the European
out.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
OIL BLAST FURNACE
STUDENTS INVENTION

SAN FRANCISCO, May 25.-A new
ore-smelting blast furnace in which
crude oil is used, providing a new use
for crude oil for fuel, has been per-
fected by Allan Bruce Marquand, a
senior student of the mining depart
ment of the University of California.
Because of the adaptability of the
new furnace for copper smelling, the
invention is held to be of great i'm
portance, as crude oil is much cheaper
than coke, which has been used for
such blast furnaces.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
GOVERNOR FIXES DATES
OF BILL HEARINGS

SACRAMENTO, May Ex-Governor
Johnson announces hearings on bills
as follows:
Anti-usury bill, May 26, at p. m.
Cattlemen's bill (creating inspec-
tion board), May 26 at $3.50 p. m.
Anti-vivisection bill, May 27, at
p. m.
Egg-labeling bill, May 27, at 2:3O
p. m.
No scrip for wages bill, June 5, at
1 p. m.
Jitney bus tax bill, June 5, at 2
q p. m.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
CHINA SEEKS $4,000
TONS OF U. S. WHEAT

PORTLAND, Ore, May 25.-Inquiry
for $4,000 tons of wheat for shipment
to China has been received by local
exporters.
The Chinese-American company of
Shanghai sent the inquiry first to the
Seattle chamber of commerce, who
turned it over to Portland, explaining
there was insufficient reserve grain to
care for the additional demand. The
first deliveries must be made within
sixty days.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
LIBERTY BELL TO GO
TO SAN DIEGO FAIR

SAN DIEGO, May 25.-The Liberty
Bell will be brought to San Diego to
be placed on exhibition at the Pan
ama-California exposition grounds
Mayor Rudolph Blankenburg of Phila-
delphia telegraphed President G. A.
Davidson of the exposition. Mayor
Blankenburg said the Liberty Bell
would leave Philadelphia July 5 en-
route to San Francisco and that it
would come to San Diego after being
exhibited at the Bay City.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
Complete Longest Water Tunnel

LOS ANGELES, May 25.-The long
est water tunnel on earth, IL miles
long, part of the Los Angeles aque-
duct, is completed. The tunnel is from
the Fairmont reservoir to the lower
end of the San Francisquito canyon.
The tunnel will serve water to the
aqueduct power plants, and has taken
several years to complete.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
SAN FRANCISCO-HAWA
YACHT RACE CANCELLED

SAN FRANCISCO, May 25.-A
scheduled yacht race between San
Francisco and Hawaii, a feature of
the Panama-Pacific exposition pro-
gram of sports, was Cancelled because
of the failure of Hawaiian yachtsmen
to enter. In it's stead the exposition
yachting committee is endeavoring to
arrange races from Puget Sound to
San Francisco and from San Pedro to
San Francisco
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
Bryan Names Peace ENJOYS

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 25.-
Four more American members or COM
missioners provided for in Bryan peace
treaties have been named, as follows:
Former Judge George Gray of Della
ware, for Great Britain; DR.. James
Brown Scott of Washington, for Nor
way; Professor Eugene Wambaugh of
Harvard, for Peru; A. R. Talbot of
Lincoln, Neb., for Bolivia.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
TWELVE SENTENCED
FOR MANILA OUTBREAK

MANILA, P. l., May 24.-Twelve par
Elephants in an outbreak against the
government last Christmas were seq
fenced. Three were given six years
imprisonment and fines of 5000 pesos ;
six were sentenced to five years with
the same fines, and three to four years
with 1000 pesos fines.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
LIBERTY BELL TO
START WEST JULY 5

PHILADELPHIA, May 25. = An
agreement that the famous liberty bell
will leave Philadelphia July for the
Pacific coast, so that the historic relic
will reach San Francisco before July
II, which will be Liberty Bell day."
has been reached by the common and
select council. En- route to the San
Francisco exposition, the bell will
cross seventeen states, and 1O5 stops
will be made.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
BETTER SERVICE FOR
HALL OF RECORDS

LOS ANGELES, May 25.-The first
three station multiple switchboard to
be used in the city outside of regular
exchanges is being installed in the
Hall of Records. Under the multiple
system incoming calls may be received
at more than one position on the
board and means faster service to-
the patrons and without an increase
in the number of operators.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
Meat Goes Up in London

LONDON, May 24.-Following a con-
ference between the advisory commit
and representatives of the government,
announcement is made that an all
around advance of from to cents
a pound in retail prices of all meats
will be put into effect within a few
days.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
NEW YORK ADOPTS
ORIGINAL DUTCH FLAG

NEW YORK, May 25.-The board
of aldermen adopted flag for the city
of New York-three perpendicular
bars of blue, white and orange, which
were the colors of the Dutch flag used
when New York was New Netherlands.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
Clark Will Cuts Off Son

SPOKANE, May 25.-Leaving $40 to
his son, Theodore, and the remainder
of his 100000 estate to the widow,
the will of F. Lewis Clark, Spokane
realty man who mysteriously disap-
peared at Santa Barbara and is be-
heved to have been drowned, has been
probated here.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
Announce $500. 900 Bonus

HOUGHTON, Mich, May 25.-Ofi-
cials of the Calumet and Hecla Min
ing Company announce that on June
II bonus of more than half million
dollars would be distributed among
the 10000 employees of the company
and it's subsidiaries.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
California Fruit Sent to Europe

REDLANDS, May 25.-The Redlands
Highlands Fruit Exchange has export
ed about twenty-five cars of oranges
from the Redlands, East Highlands
and Highlands districts to London,
Liverpool and Glasgow and all have
been of the larger sizes.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
Warn British of Poisoned Water

LONDON, May 24.-The British
troops have been warned that the river
near Ypres has been poisoned. The
Germans are suspected of using
arsenic in the water. Samples have
been subjected to medical analysis
and this tends to confirm the report.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
Rush to the Mountains

SAN BERNARDINO, May 25.-With
the opening of the season at Pinecrest
and Skyland it is estimated that fully
100000 people will spend their sum-
mer vacations in the San Bernardino
mountains. Bear Valley and Seven
Oaks will not open for two weeks yet.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
To Have Penny Car Line

CLEVELAND, o., May 25.-Cleve-
land, the pioneer on Scent fare, will
have a penny street car in operation
June 1 from the public square to the
East Ninth street passenger boat
piers.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
May Hold Special Session

SACRAMENTO, May 25.-It is said
by officials at the state capital it will
be necessary to call special session
of the State legislature in January,
1916, if a number of constitutional
amendments to be voted on at the
special election set for Oct. 26 next
are passed.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
COAST HAPPENINGS
M|RRORED HERE
BRIEF OUTLINE OF CURRENT EVENTS
ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE
Condensed Resume of the Weeks Happenings
Covering Events Of Interest from Nearby
Places ---Wil Allow Rapid Scanning
CompeIs Birth Registration

SACRAMENTO, May Ex-Governor
Johnson has signed the Strobridge
bill making registration of births COM
pulsory in this state.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
TELECRAPH|C NEWS
IN PARAGRAPHS
CLEANED FROM NUMEROUS SECTIONS
OF BOTH HENISPHERES
Dispatches PiGtrng Developments From the Out
side World Stripped of Unnecessary
Details and Presented in Brief
Bills for Workmen Pass

HARRISBURG, Pa, May 25.-Seven
bills providing a system of workmens
compensation were passed finally by
the legislature. They were urged by
Governor Brumbaugh
The Parker post., 1915-05-29

In passing sentence, Judge Campbell
said the men were of the lowest class
and were following the suggestion of
other persons through hope of none
tary gain.
The Parker post., 1915-05-29
Take Up Counterfeit Coins

SANTA MONICA, May 25.-Police
Chief Randall and the Bank of Santa
Monica have got possession of coun-
terfeit money in circulation in Santa
Monica.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-01-01
How War Ruins Farming

In the current issue of Farm and
Fireside the national farm paper pub
lished at Springfield, Ohio, David Starr
Jordan, president of Leland Stanford
University, published a most interest
ing article entitled "The Farmer and
the War" in which he shows how in
the path of armies the producer be-
comes helpless. He compares our
peace-loving and prosperous farming
country with Macedonia which was
physically endowed as our country but
which, unfortunately, has been for
1000 years in position where war
has constantly interrupted its devel-
opment. In the following extract TAX
en- from his article Doctor Jordan
gives a picture of Macedonia
There were no houses standing
along the road. Everybody lived in the
villages, even though the lands were
ten miles away. And the villages were
crowded just as closely as houses could
stand.
And the farming was not very good.
The ground was barely scratched by
the pillow. Often in good land one
would see strips covered with black
berries and wild flowers. Other tracts
are overgrown with scrubby oaks and
sometimes with wild lilacs, although
not big tree was left standing to
make a forest. The Turks once held
Macedonia, and it would seem that they
hated trees. The Chinese have a
proverb that where armies quarter
thorns and thistles grow and armies
have quartered in Macedonia for TWEEN
ty centuries. And for this reason there
can be no good farms. The cattle are
dwarfsh and give but little milk. They
are used, with the primitive European
buffalo las beasts CT burden. Horses
are few and small and mostly vicious.
The sheep, the same breed they had in
JudeaS in Bible times, are handsome
and active, but carrying very little
wool; a couple of pounds year would
be big average.
There would be no use in improving
the stock when the soldiers may come
any minute. And between bands of
soldiers come the bands of brigands.
A brigand in Macedonia, as in Mexico,
Korea and China, is farmer who has
quit. If he can't make living on the
farm, or if someone has seized his farm
10 hacnnaac on orynad framn
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-01-01
Editor Times.Recorder:

Editor Times,Recorder:
In Mississippi years ago there lived
a man who was successful in business,
upright in life and honorable in all
lis dealings. Well poised himself he
had no patience with weakness in any
form. Temperate in all things he OPP
posed prohibition. He drank in mod
GRAFTON and kept it in his home. His
father before him had done so. A wave
of prohibition swept over the state and
men and women urged him to use his
influence. He pointed with pride to
himself and his brothers. His Oldest
son was aYI ay at school. When he
came home he noticed his reports were
not satisfactory, his eyes were far from
clear and he seemed to have changed
for the worst. Still he failed to see
the cause.
Election day came. Christian men
and others voted and the town stayed
wet" That night the boy came stag
gering hobe, celebrating the victory
with unsteady steps and hilarious man
ner. With stern reproaches his father
met him tb be tainted with 81 learned
to drink, sir, from my honored ia
Their" | have been told that from that
day he fought alcohol in every form
but two gAars later his son was killed
in a drunken brawl.
The mdthers of Americas has wait
ed patiently. We asked for prohibition
and you gave is to us-Apparently
Our boys are growing up. We do not
want the ballot, but we do want a
clean city. Our boys are subject to
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-01-01
ASKS COMMISSIONERS TO
REPORT ON AUTOMOBILES
WILL LOSE SHARE OF TAX UNLESS
80 PER CENT. ARE REGISTERED

The county commissioners were ad-
vised yesterday by Secretary of State
Philip Cook that unless they reported
that ninety per cent. of the automo-
biles in this county have been returned
for taxation and registration by April
this county will not receive its p orata
of the tax which is used to improve
roads.
II is estimated there are 600 euto-
lnoailCc in Sumter county. The average
tax is s. for registration. Last year
this county received $500 as its prorata
of the tax.
The law makes it the duty of coun-
ty commissioners to see eff possible"
that all automobiles are registered
and the tax paid. The secretary OF
state wrote that application blanks
would be forwarded the commission
ers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-01-01

Tech IA, Georgia 49,
That was the score rung up last
night at the Y. M. A. by two teams
composed of college boys home for the
holiday season. The game was fast
and interesting to a fair bunch of fans
who turned out to see the fray.
Tech was there in full force, but
the Georgia brigade had to be recruited
with local talent before the game could
be started.
Secretary Glenn Colby is hard at
work arranging a schedule for the Y.
M. C. A. team. Next week Albany will
visit Americas and attempt to take
the measure of the local brigade. Ne
gotiations are on with Mercer Uniyer-
sity, Georgia, the Thomasville Y. NJ. c..