Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-12-31
MIKE MAHER
Tells STORY

That article i'll Tie News about
the accident of a horse stalled on a
bridge, reminds me Of similar one
when | was firing the Dekalb pas
senger train for Charlie Manning
about % years ago. We were a.
bout three miles out of Dekalb
when all of a sudden horse start.
ed to cross a bridge. My thoughts
were right away if that horse starts
to cross the bridge l will get off.
He started alright and just before
the bridge was reached | got off.
When | stopped / landed astral
die of barb fence and got scrat.
ched up pretty we'll Mr.. Man,
ming staid on and the engine struck
the horse, thrust it over the fence
and it landed about six feet away
from me. When | got back on the
engine Mr.. Manning says, Were
you fool enough to get off,
said, "If | were as scared as you OF
course / would stay on" l was
lucky the horse did not land on
top of me.
Southern California comes clos
er than any other section in the
country to being an all year vege
table producer After New York
has finished harvesting in the fall
New York has to depend on south
ern California exclusively.
New Subway
We have a new subway tunnel
being built and will be completed
the first of Jan. 1926. The P. E
will carry $4,000 passengers a day
and after Jan. 18th, 500 more cars
will be put on. Twenty to %
minutes a day will be saved by tax
ing the new subway. 1t affects
Glendale, Hollywood, Santa Moni
ca, and Venice.
Meat is cheap here. Sirloin steak
also flour flat bone, club or round
your choice, 20 cents a pound.
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fair
banks are doing their bit for char
| ity. They each gave $4,000 for
the relief of Santa Barbara earth
/ quake.
SCATTERING all records for the CT
trus crop of any year in the history
of the industry, the season of 1924
showed a total crop return to Cal
ifornia of $93,5S1.263. They have
Elearned to raise two crops of mel
lions a year in the Imperial Valley
and the second ration can be
brought to the city markets before
! the holidays. Southern Califor
MIA is a great place for double head
ers in crops. With a little water
| the soil can be made to work al
the time, three and four crops OF
lettuce and cuttings of alfalfa IN
year are nothing unusual.
1t is the worlds market garden
and it never sleeps.
Americas greatest army watch
dog which weighs 365 tons rolled
into Los Angeles today on its way
to Fort Macarthur where it will be
stationed permanently. This
railway gun, ii inch, which fires d
projectile from 1900 to 1000 pounds
over a range of five miles, at
tracted thousands of citizens
of citines when it stopped on q
Southern Pacific spur track on
north Spring street. The gun is
95 feet in length.
Two Worlds record fish, mar
lin sword fish, and a great sail fish
were caught. The sword fish is
thirteen feet long and weighs sos
pounds; the sail fish, which is ten
| feet 10 inches in length and weighs
100 pounds.
The sword fish fought for four
hours until all tired out They
then handled it easily.
Crop Records
California produces tS,000,0 0O
bushels of prunes and plums, So,
100000 pounds of walnuts and g.,
100000 bushels of beans. We
ship car loads of apples, grow
thousands of acres of Strawberries,
rhubarb, rice, dates, figs and cucum
bers. The greatest variety of crops
in all the world.
Greetings of the season
Mike and Hannah Maher
1862 Mango St.,
Los Angeles, California.
MR