Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-12-03
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Some Important Happenings in
81 the South
aS&Ag7 .5ssassss 81. a. -
THAI.MAY PLEASE OUR READERS
An Assortment of Newsy Events That
Occurred In our Midst That Cannot
.s Fail to Interest.

Los Angeles is to- have ten-story
building. as -
Barlow will leave for Washington on
the 2Sth of Nov. '7ases g.
Tuberculous cows are being killed in
San Bernardino. NC sh
Auxiliary band has been organized
in Santa. Barbara. "a
The Southern Pacific Company has
completed new station at Highgrove,
Riverside County.
| Forty convicts are at work on the ir-
rigation canal at Yuma. - s
! DR.. William N. Hardin, aged II, Ana
helm pioneer, is dead. - > 3 ssa.
z The round trip to and from Avalon
daily has been discontinued.
Riverside orange growers will adopt
uniform plan to guard against frost.
W. S. Winters of Pomona has re-
signed as Captain of Company D, N.
G. C. $50 ea9
Col. J. T. Ritchey banquetted the
Southern California Hotelmen at Casa
Iona last week., . Hr
Capt. A. W. Hall, accused of an at
tempt to poison seamen, has been dis:
charged at San Diego.
Avalon has been visited by flock of
sea pigeons. The birds are web-footed
and resem BILE carrier pigeons.
Ventura is to be incorporated as
San ..Buena Ventura, city of the 9th
class. The population is 1867.
The Los Angeles city assessor is
charged With making innumerable
plumbers in the assessment of property.
The Santa Barbara $50, 900 bond issue
once voted for new water system, and
never sold, has been officially destroyed.
1t is very probable. that Santa Ana
will enjoy the benefits of free distri bu-
tion of mail during the coming fiscal
year.
Deer are so plentiful on the summit
of the Santa Ynez that the apple
orchards are suffering from their depre-
I dations.a
Easton, ,Elldridge s&. Co. have con-
tracted with the sugar company to
secure the planting of 5000 acres in
beets next year. .aass
Judge Van Dyke of Los Angeles has
rendered Adhesion that county author
tiles cannot fumigate orchards and COM
pei the owners to pay the cost.
The W. C. T. U. of, North Pasa-
dena has filed protest with the trus-
tees of Pasadena against the the post
ing ofsobjectionable theatrical advertise
+. ing. 8. a.v-a..ees a.. a.Sgtr~
Los Angeles oil producers have or
dered 10000 barrel storage tank from
Pittsburg. The monthly output of the
d.city fields is now estimated at 100000
barrels. t-e= q
J. M. Shorts pampas plume crop at
Santa Barbara amounts to 300, 600
Tunes. A carload of them has been
recently exported to the German
market.
The California Hospital Associations
the name of corporation organized to
build hospital in Los Angeles to cost
$25, 600. 1t is an enterprise of promi-
nent physicians.
The thirty-eighth annual session of
the grand lodge of Good Templers of
California, just ended at Los Angeles,
installed the Hon. THEODORE D. Kanouse
as Grand Chief Templar.
I The General Last medal is going the
rounds. 1t was first worn by Private
Meacham of Riverside, with a score 81 +,
then by Capt. Reynolds of Los Angeles,
with SO. and the last time by Private
Starr of Riverside, with 66.
The Pasadena and Pacific electric
railway attempted to lay tracks on Oc-
tavia street, Los Angeles, just after
midnight Nov. IA, inzorder to reach the
wholesale district, but they had no fran
chise, and Mayor Snyder and thezpolice
force headed them off.
The supervisors of Los Angeles have
published a notice that it is their in
tention to purchase 80 acres more land
at the County Farm for the accommoda-
tion of the old ladies who are helplessly
INDECENT and who have home there
separate from the men.
The Los Angeles and Pasadena Elec-
trio Railway has issued bonds to the
amount of 81 ,0O0,0O0 The deed Of trust
| nrou;doo for tho iscuopoa Of &7SO OOO
and that the remainder of the million
shall be treasury stock for use in .ex-
tensions and rolling stock.
The Echo Mountain observatory is
headquarters for nebulae. Prof. Swift
discovered four Nov. 10Th, making a
total of $50 since the establishment of
the great telescope. Pasadena would
never forgive herself if she allows Prof.
Swift and his star-fnder to leave Echo