Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-11-19
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.

of San Francisco is to be prosecuted
under the provisions of the antitrust
law of 1890.
The police of San Francisco are antic-
ipating serious trouble in Chinatown,
as the highbinders are returning from
Alaskan canneries.
Governor Budd has appointed J. E.
Dooliftle, W. S. Reyes, T. B. Bishop,
A. F. Morrison arSssJ. F. Parks trustees
of the state mining bureau.
Herman Ilebes, essee of the Priby-
loft islands, insists that any scheme of
seal protection must include the abso-
Lutte prohibition of pelagic sealing.
Chinese tea importers at San Fran
cisco will contest the decision of the
board of appraisers rejecting tea import
ed by them on the ground that there is
no established standard.
The Monterey Whaling company at
Pacific Grove captured two large
whales, one SO feet long and the other
Al feet. The seasons catch thus far is
eight whales. The two just caught will
yield about ITO barrels of oil.
The rails of the San Joaquin Valley
road, on the Bakersfield extension, are
being rapidly put in place. At Stockton
rights of way have been given through
the Boggs tract, thus saving twenty-five
miles between Stockton and Point Rich
mond.
The steamer Excelsior is going OF of
the Klondike trade. The Alaska Com
mercial company's charter has lapsed
and they have turned her over to the
owners. The company's new steamer
now building at the Union Iron Works
will be ready for the St. Michaels..--run
in the spring.
The scare in and about Cotton that
yellow fever was likely to reach this
part of the country from Texas, over the
Southern Pacific road, does not seem to
have been shared to any great extent
by the state board of health, for that
body has decided that there is no danger
and that there is no necessity for main
tanning quarantine on the line Of the
road in Arizona.
The superior court of San Francisco
has sustained the demurrer in the San
Francisco board of education to the
complaint filed against them by DR.. G.
g. O'Donnell, in which he charged the
memb ers of the board with malfeasance
in office, in connection with the use of
certain school books. The demurrer
was sustained without leave to amend,
throwing the complaint out of court.
The Sacramento Bee publishes SEN
sational story of abuses which are said
to exist at the Preston School of Indus
try at lone. Citizens of that place are
feyerish with excitement, and openly
demand the immediate removal of DR..
O'Brien, superintendent. General
charges of incompetency are made, and
it is also stated that boys in the school
are brutally fogged with paddle made
of sole leather. O'Brien denies the
charges and refuses to be drawn into
newspaper controversy.
There are a number of Improvements
contemplated at the Wilson's Peak
park, and few of them have been &C
tually determined upon. One of these
is the terracing of the mountain near
Strains camp to make room for more
tents. New trails are being laid out
and the preliminary work done so that
the winters rains will harden the soil.
1t is probable that trees will be set out
at Henniger's flats and among the pos
sibilities is building there to accom-
modate the tourists who wish to 60 up
to the snow line but not to make the
entire trip.
The fact that eight whaling vessels
are nipped in the ice at Point Barrow,
with nearly two hundred souls on board,
is creating widespread feelings of APP
prehension along the coast, and partic-
ularly among merhants engaged in the
whaling business and among sailors
and their families. The anxiety has
become so great that the trustees of the
San Francisco chamber of commerce
have determined to hold meeting for
the purpose of formulating Geographic
dispatch to be sent to the President of
the United States, urging him to Gis-
patch relief expedition to their rescue
at the earliest possible moment.
The schooner Volcano. only seventeen
ons' burden, has arrived in San Fran
cisco, after riding out storm in mid
ocean during which her compass was
lost. Captain William Kessel succeeded
in making port after a voyage of 100
miles, with no other guide than the sun,
stars and the trend of the currents,
until the Northern California coast was
sighted. Then an occasional glimpse
of the shore enabled the skillful mariner
to determine his way to the Golden
Gate. The little vessel sailed from this
port on October I'd with salt and coal
for Unga Island, the intention being to
leave the schooner in the north to ply