Mesa free press., 1897-11-12
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

A Summary Of Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.
DIR. j. @. Spencer, bacteriologist of the
Board of Health, reports that he has
discovered the bacilli of tuberculosis in
Chinese-made cigar which he ex-
amined.
The Salt River valley, Ariz., is out
with the claim for the earliest oranges
in the United States for this season.
Early this week several navel oranges
were brought in from the Wilson grove,
few miles to the northeast of the city.
The fruit was fully colored, of fair size
and good flavor. This is a month
carrier than oranges usually ripen in
this valley, and almost two months
ahead of California
Capt. F. o. Raven, of the schooner
BERTHE Miner, who has just returned
from Honolulu, states that Tire schooner
Norma may be expected at Eureka soon
with cargo of coffee from the Hawa-
iian islands. 1t was intended to 60 di-
rect to San Francisco, but as this is a
free port of entry the saving on en-
trance, dockage and port charges will
more than compensate for the freight
on the coffee from here to San Fran
cisco. This is the initial cargo to be
| handlad in this wav
The committee of the faculty OF Cooper
Medical College having in charge the
investigation of the merits, efficiency
and value of oxytuberculine, the new
consumption cure discovered by DIR.
Joseph o. Hirschfelder of San Franciso,
met October 9th and announced that,
after patient examination they unre-
servedly indorse the remedy. A full
statement of the manner and results of
the committees work will soon be pub
lished for the benefit of scientific bodies
and medical men.
The orders received from headquar-
tiers to the effect that none of the crew
of the cruiser baltimore shall have
ashore leave" while the vessel is off
San Francisco has had the effect of caus-
ing series of assertions, no fewer than
thirty men having taken "French leave"
from her since Sunday last. AS men
are rather scarce here, it is feared that
some d fficulty will be experienced in
making up the Baltimore g complement,
and the situation is regarded as rather
serious one.
The Tombstone Prospector says that
the Mulates mine, one of the most noted
gold properties of Sonora, located sew
enty miles southeast of Hermosillo, has
been sold to English capitalists for ST.
600, 900 gold. The property has been
worked by rude methods for century
or more, the free gold ore being carried
out in baskets on the backs. of poems and
reduced by the crudest means. The
new company is to put in new reduction
works and to open the mine according
to advanced methods.
Princess Kaiulani, who expects to
succeed President Dole as ruler of the
Hawaiian islands, is in San Francisco.
Kaiulani had an interview with Liliuo-
kalani in Washington, and she agreed to
abdicate all claim to the Hawaiian
throne in favor of the Princess. Liliuo-
kalani has said that she will use her
efforts to secure the enforcement of
Kaiulani. 1t will first be necessary to
defeat the annexation treaty, but with
the aid of the sugar trust she hopes to
accomplish this.
What is perhaps the most powerful
revolver in this country has just been
received in San Francisco from Batavia
by Theodore Kytka, the handwrighting
expert. The weapon is the invention of
Bergman, the well-known Bavarian
mechanic, and is called an automatic
pocket postol, because all it requires is
for the marksman to set the pace by pull
ling the trigger once, whereupon it
empties itself of six loads in two Sec
onds, sending 32-calibre steel bullet
with such velocity that 6-inch hard
wood plank is pierced at distance Of
800 yards.
A brewery for Phoenix is an enter
prise very probable of realization. A
Kansas brewer, John Brandon, is there,
and has been looking over the field with
view to locating. He found the valley
very favorable to the gorwth of barley
and hops, and the consumption of beer
in the city certainly great enough to
support very substantial young brew
cry. During the summer indeed it
reaches several calroads week. The
only question is that of the water, and
the analyses are now being made.
Former tests were favora BILE, and should
these prove SO Mr.. Brandon promises to
go into the business here.
A case involving the title to 10000
acres of land in Humboldt county,