Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-10-29
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.

Riverside has organized chamber
of commerce.
Figueroa street In Los Angeles is to
be macadamized.
Pomona as just adopted hotel and
"cheap John" license ordinances.
The total attendance at the Redlands
school, below the high school, is A..
Chino reports 295 children in the
schools, 81 being in the high school.
Orange county is agitating the APP
pointment of a milk and meat inspector.
The leasing of Arizona school lands
added $500 to the Territorial treasury.
The first publication of the Pasadena
Academy of Sciences has been issued.
A. Phillips & Co. landed over 500 ex-
cursionists in Los Angeles in Septem-
Der.
The South San Diego ostrich farm is
progressing, and is being stocked with
additional birds.
The Pasadena water companies are
putting in submerged dam at Devils
Gate in the Arroyo Seco.
It is claimed that 100000 has been
spent in building Improvements in
Pasadena since January LIST.
Summerland has new $4,000 gallon
oil tank constructed for the benefit of
the Southern Pacific company.
The Southern Pacific company has
special armed guards on it's passenger
trains now for fear of hold-up.
Jerome, Ariz., was made an interna-
tional money order office October 4.
Jerome has many foreign residents.
Pasadena has an electric funeral car.
appropriately draped and arranged for
carrying casket and forty passengers.
The Southern California Christian
Endeavor convention will be held at
Santa Barbara November 26th to 28th.
A SO, 900 fire occurred at San Luis
Obispo October II, destroying the San
Luis hotel and mum Der of other build
ings.
A site for new Roman Catholic
church has been purchased on North
Fair Oaks avenue in Pasadena for
$4,000.
Good progress is being made with the
work on the building to be known as
the Point Iona hotel and Health
Resort.
The Los Angeles council has voted to
hold a special election for the purpose
of determining whether fire and school
bonds shall be issued.
The postofice department has order
ed that the postofice at Calabasas, Los
Angeles county, be discontinued.
Mail will go to Daices.
San Diego's city attorney in forms the
council of that city that the act permit
ting the consolidation of certain offices
is, in his opinion, unconstitutional.
The oil we'll being sunk by the sugar
factory people on the Chino hills is said
to have reached a depth of 1900 feet,
with no oil indications yet to be seen.
A project is under way to locate coll
ony of discontinued Alabama people in
Cochise county. They will secure irri-
cation water by means of artesian wells.
Santa Ana's new sewer system will be
$3.50 feet long and will cover the entire
city. The cost will be about 100000,
for which amount bonds are to BIZ voted.
Work will be pushed at once on the
San Bernardino court house. The floors
are to be of Oregon pine instead of oak,
and the building will be heated by
steam.
Whether Los Angeles has fiesta next
spring now seems to depend on the sub
scriptions of the two railroads. If
they give $4,000 each the carnival will
be assured.
The proposed protection district to
protect property in Garden Grove and
Westminster has been abandoned.
There was too much opposition of prop
erty owners.
The top of Old Badly is now en-
wrapped in the beautiful. "the beauti-
full snow" and several other peaks,
among them peak Butterfeld, wear
mantles of snowy stuff.
The proprietors of the Highland
Springs have been arrested for violating
the anti-gambling laws. A recently
law and order league is be-
hind the prosecutions.
The Los Angeles Florist association
has just been formed, with F. Ed Gray
as President; Carl Packard, vice-presi-
dent; Miss Ethel Lord, secretary, and
Fred Howard, treasurer.
In addition to dozen or so of bust
ness blocks, forty residences are in the
course of erection in Phoenix. All are
of a good class, the average of cost be-
ing probably $500 or $500.
A big excursion is to be run between