Mesa free press., 1897-09-17
THAT MAY PLEASE OUR READERS
An Assortment of Newsy Events That
Occurred in our Midst That Cannot
Fail to Interest.


Santa Barbara high school.
The total mum Der enrolled in the Ven
tura high school now is 154.
Redlands has 1853 streets and avenues,
with total length of "a miles.
The warm weather ~ disastrous to
many fields of beans at Ventura.
The Puente Oil company is about to
build 35, 1000 barrel tank at Chino.
The Greenlead mine of San Bernar-
600.
An entirely new site is to be offered
for the proposed San Diego normal
school.
A cement pipe factory is soon to be To-
Gated at Richfeld, four miles east OF
Fullerton.
Garlock rejoices in new postoftice
building, with Old Glory floating from
the flagstaff.
Three saw mills on San Jacinto noun
tians are turning out 10000 feet of lum-
Der per day.
The Rincon, Riverside county, cream
cry is turning out 200 pounds OF choice
butter daily.
A suit to prove that the Perris Irriga-
tion district was never legally organized
has been filed.
The United States Survey steamer
Gedney is at San Diego at work on
systematic survey of the bay.
The Winchester creamery sold 10000
pounds of cheese last week, and the
quality is said to be excellent.
Santa Monica's new sewer bonds have
been sold to the Oakland Bank OF Saw
ings. The 1000 issue brought $33 800.
Nine. Modjeska will leave for Chicago
this week, as her theatrical season is to
open there in October with a very
strong company.
The San Gabriel Power company is
working a large force of men near Azusa
and the Los Angeles Power company is
preparing to follow suit.
The death of Tom Gallagher the her
NIT of San Clemente island removes
character we'll known to many people
here and along this coast.
The Harbor Commissioners have no.
titled the squatters along the bay front
at San Diego that they must move with
in thirty days or begin paying the State
rent.
Word has been received from Vaughn
the champion bicycle rider that he can
not come to San Diego to participate In
the wheel events at the opening OF the
Bay View Park track.
Notwithstanding the fact that some
twenty new business blocks have been
erected in Los Angeles during the pres
ent year, there are few good vacant
store rooms in Los Angeles.
The county attorney of Riverside has
decided that the recorder, justices OF
the peace, contables, surveyor and re-
porter are entitled under the new county
government act to draw fees and not a
regular salary.
The sugar output of Southern Califor-
MIA will be very large. From figures
furnished by the Chino factory, it is
learned that that place will turn out
$4,000, 900 pounds, and the new Alami-
tos factory about 6,0OO,OO pounds,
making the pleasant amount of 32,000,-
600 pounds in all.
The lower Otay dam has been finished
to the 134-foot contour above the cement
foundation, and the machinery is be-
ing moved to the Barrett dam. The
dam can be raised to the 15O-foot con-
tour when needed. The present i'm
pouding capacity is 1896, 1928, 500 gal
Ions, or 2918 miners inches.
A rather remarkable coincidence was
related by Riverside man. 1t was
the gentleman's forty-second birthday.
1t was also the birthday of his wife,
who was 21-just half the age of her
husband. A child was born to them
yesterday, so that the birthdays of all
three fall on the same day.-Riverside
Globe.
The Dixon Crematory company of
Ohio has contracted with San Diego to
construct garbage crematory there at a
cost of $4,000. The company guaran-
tees the burner to reduce thirty tons of
garbage to odorless ashes every twenty
four hours. The city is to pay $500
per month, after acceptance of the
plant, until the purchase price has been
paid.
Whenever he has visitors whom he
particularly wishes to entertain, Mr..
James Viosca, United States consul at
La Paz, Lower California, charters a
small steamer and takes them about
furty miles up the gulf coast to a place
where they can enjoy the rare exper-
ience of picking oysters off the trees and
eating them freshly torn from the
branches on which they grew. A grove
of mango trees stands right in the
water, and at high tides the young
oysters fasten themselves upon the
branches and make their homes therein.
When the tide is out one can 60 among
the trees and find the bivalves hanging
to the branches by thousands.
That Southern California is and has
been growing is easily shown by COM
parison of the census figures of 1897
with 1896, based on the school census.
The figures for 1896 were 30O,3l3; for
1897, 316, 738, an increase in one year
of 16, 1926. This is in the seven counties
south of Tehachapi. The population
by United States census of 1890 of this
same territory was POI, ,552.; This is
81 II per cent increase in seven years
including the four years of hard times
under the Wilson bill. From present