Mesa free press., 1897-10-08
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Some Important Happenings in
the South
THAT MAY PLEASE OUR READERS
An Assortment of Newsy Events That
Occurred i'm our Midst That Cannot
Fail to Interest.

Inc new creamery aC CnlnO mas Oogun
operations.
Ice formed near Julian, San Diego
county, early in the week.
Street sweeping by hand is being agi-
tated in San Bernardino.
Orange county farmers are exporting
several carloads of products daily.
A new mail route has been establish
ed between Ramona and Escondido.
Since July l the Chino sugar factory
has paid out 100000 for beets and
labor.
The Los Angeles dog catcher has
killed 100 dogs during the past three
months.
The President has appointed Archi-
bald Simpson of Arizona minister to
Ecuador.
The Santa Ana trustees have located
an outfall for the proposed sewer sys-
tenn.
The dog catcher in Los Angeles has
killed--over 1000 dogs within the last
three months.
The new long-distance telephone line
between Riverside and San Diego has
been completed.
1t is rumored that the Santa Fe will
move it's division headquarters from
Barstow to Newberry.
The Southern California Christian
Endeavor convention will be held at
Santa Barbara Novermeb 26 to %.
The Los Angeles and Redondo Rail
way company contemplates extending
it's road from Redondo to San Pedro.
Santa Monica's $4,000 worth of
school bonds have been sold to the Oak
land Bank of Savings. Premium, $17Ol.
Tom Fitch of New York, the noted
campaign orator, has sold his cottage at
Coronado. He will locate in Los An
geles.
The rumor that John Cudahy was
about to embark in the beet sugar in
dustry at Los Angeles is denied by Mr..
Cudahy.
In the libel suit of Mary Brady of
San Diego against the Los Angeles es
Times, the palintiff was awarded 500
damages.
The San Bernardino county tax levy
will raise money to complete the fine
new court house now in process OF con-
structlOn.
President G. W. Smith, of the Pasa-
dena Los Angeles and Electric Railway
company, was thrown from mule on
Mount Wilson last week, narrowly es-
Gaping death.
There were over 1900 pensioners
mustered at the Santa Monica Soldiers
Home, and there will be over 81 900
disbursed during this quarter from the
treasurer's Office.
Los Angeles is to have a system of
electrical signals for use of the police
department as soon as it can be deter
mined just which of the several systems
to be had is the best.
DIR. G. w. Vickers, of Prescott, has
been appointed by Governor McCord of
Arizona to be territorial auditor, vice
G. P. Leitch, resigned. The appoint
ment takes effect on October 9TH.
About 12O, 900 trout from the State
hatchery have been distributed among
the various streams of San Bernardino
county. This annual stocking has
given anglers an abundance of sport.
A fig leaf eighteen inches long has
been found imbedded in the Heald coal
mine, near Garlock, and a religious au-
thority advances the claim that this was
the location of the old garden of Eden.
"There were giants in those days.
The Merchants and Manufacturers
Association of Los Angeles has offered
to sweep the streets of that city by hand
free for three months, as an experiment,
believing this will demonstrate the SUI
periority of that method over machine
sweeping.
Adgie, the lion tanner, was bitten in
the arm bv one of her "pets" at San
Diego theater few days ago. Several
ladies in the audience are said to have
tainted. The lion is we'll and doing
business at the old stand. Adgie was
not seriously injured.
The use of salt water for sprinkling
streets has been advised in many cities,
but Santa Monica has tried it and does
not find it entirely satisfactory. Salt
water might work better on paved
streets than on dirt roads, but appar-
emily there are many serious objections
to it's use.
The board of supervisors of Los An
geles county has received proposition
from the Chicago firm of Trowbridge &
Co. to refund the entire issue of Los
Angeles county bonds now outstanding,
amounting to 1851, 500, at AZ per cent.
This would make a saving of $50, 900 per
year in interest.
At recent meeting of the San Diego
Yukon Mining company sixteen able
bodied young men signed the articles of
the company pledging to give $500 each
and join in the cooperative effort to
amass fortunes along the Yukon. The
mem bership of the company is limited
to thirty.
The Pittsburg company that has So
years. lease of the Sulpher Mountain in
Lower California, 40 miles from the
Colorado river, will build railroad to
Yuan. The stuff is being quarried.
American Vice Consul Godbe, Ense-
NADIA, has a concession for the mount
ain and will receive royalty.
The board of supervisors of Riverside
county has drawn up new game ordi-
nance to encourage market hunters in
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