Mesa free press., 1897-09-24
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Some Important Happenings in
the South
THAT MAY PLEASE OUR READERS
An Assortment of Newsy Events That
Occurred in our Midst That Cannot
Fail to Interest.

There were ITO deaths in Los Angeles
during August.
Santa Monica has voted $51, 900 for
school Improvements.
J. w. Fletcher has been appointed
postmaster at Tehachepi.
Senator White delivered the Admis-
sion day oration at Los Angeles.
A new circuit of five miles of electric
street road has been finished In Pasa-
dena.
The Oakland Bank of Savings bid $685.
555 for $50, 900 of the sewer bonds OF
Santa Monica.
It is estimated that it will cost $S2, 600
to pay Riyerside's city expenses during
the current year.
There are twenty-one mines In active
operation in the Julian mountain belt
back of San Diego.
Leo Carrillo won the Southern Cali
fornia amateur swimming champion
ship at Santa Monica.
The city tax levy of San Bernardino
county for the ensuing year will be $l.lU
per 500 assessed valuation.
The Redlands preserving company
of 60, 600 cans of fruit daily.
The Rev. DIR. Merlin-jones, for six
years rector of the Episcopal church at
Santa Monica, has resigned.
Oil sells in Los Angeles for go cents
barrel. The daily product is $500 bar
rels and the consumption about $500
barrels.
The enlargement of San Diego's new
brewery will be followed by an advance
in wages of its employees from 10 to 20
per cent.
The Crystal Lake Irrigation and
Power company of Glendora proposes to
increase it's capital stock from $3.50, 600
to $4O0, 900.
Kern City has six 2OOO-candle power
electric lights with total OF eight, and
couldn't hide them under bushel ii it
wanted to.
Not more than per cent of the Julian
belt apple crop, San Diego county, was
blown from the trees, and the latest es-
innate is LIE, 900 boxes.
The disputed boundary line between
Ventura and Los Angeles counties is be-
ing surveyed. The land involved in
this dispute amounts to about two
square miles.
r. E. Ford, of the manual training
department of the Minneapolis high
school, has been elected to take charge
of the machine shops of the Throop
Polytechnic institute at Pasadena.
Vice-president n. E. Huntington and
Engineer W. M. Hood of the Southern
Pacific road visited Santa Ana last week
u 0f %h0l
Newport road inspecting the wharf and
landing facilities at Newport.
Wine grape growers about Pasadena
have pledged themselves not to sell
grapes for less than $13, pending the
investigations of the committee which
is to report a rate on which it is hoped
that the growers of Southern California
will unite.
A shipload of poles has arrived at San
Pedro for the Southern California
Power company They are of selected
cedar, from thirty to forty feet in
length, and come from Washington.
Seven hundred of these round poles
made a load for the vessel.
Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson is ex-
pected to arrive in Riverside soon. She
has brother there, j. H. Vandergrift,
whom she has not seen for eighteen
years. Mrs. Stevenson is on her way
to Scotland for the purpose of settling
up the estate of her mother.
Notice of intention has been filed to
build railroad from Flagstaff to the
Grand Canon of the Colorado, distance
seventy-two miles. United States At
torney Ellinwood, the signer, states
that he is acting in the interest of New
York capitalists, Independent of any
railroad system.
The Lower California Development
company has arranged to establish
line of small steamers to ply along the
coast. The vessels will 60 as far south |
as San Benito, State of Chiapas, Mex
leo. San Diego will be the northern
terminus. The steamer Albion will
make the first trip.
There were present at prayer meet
ing at Santa Monica last week three old
gentlemen whose com bined ages were
259 years. The eldest was 88, the next
86, and the youngest 85 years of age,
and there isnotelhng, says the Signal,
what the glorious climate Of Santa
Monica still has in store for them in the
way OF longevity.
Complaint is made that many of the
grass lawns fn the southwestern section
of Los Angeles are going to pieces, other
growths of grass coming in and killing
off the turf. No satisfactory explana-
tion has yet been given for this con-
dition of affairs. Some people believe
that the seeds of weeds and grasses are
brought down by the irrigating water.
1t is reported that Los Angeles fruit
dealer has purchased large quantity
of Mexican oranges from a district
where the deadly Mexican orange worm
abounds, and the Los Angeles cham ber
of commerce is making an effort to have
the fruit stopped at Nogales. If that
fails the horticultural commissioners of
San Bernardino county hope to capture
the fruit at Cotton or San Bernsrdino.
1t is expected that work will be re-
sumed within sixty days on the great
Rio Verde irrigation enterprise, which
is to redeem 200. 900 acres of the finest