Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-10-22
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Some Important Happenings in
the South
THAT MAY PLEASE OUR READERS
Occurred in our Midst That Cannot
Fail to interest

Santa Barbara has a Y. M. G. A.
paper edited by R. L. Lang.
An assessment of $4,000 has been voted
in the Escondido irrigation district.
Pasadena will at once begin work for
her New Year rose tournament parade.
The Vale Union high school district
in Riverside county is to be disincorpo-
rated.
Los Angeles will probably vote on
the issuance of $3.50, 900 in bonds for the
fire department.
At. Phoenix, Ariz., the Indian school
now has daily guard mount. and dress
parade is to be added.
The Los Angeles retail butchers have
formed an association and raised the
price on all meats 20 per cent.
The wool market continues steady
with increasing business and much
higher prices than year ago.
The war department is surveying the
lines at the southern end of the State:
The starting point is Point Iona.
Marsh & Ramish, contractors, have
sent 100 men and teams to Kramer and
begun work on the railroad to Rands-
burg.
Judgment has been entered against
Prof. T. S. G. Lowe in Los Angeles on
account of two notes amounting to
$4,000.
DR.. Leslie E. Kelley of Dwight, ILL.,,
the discoverer of the now famous gold
cure, will soon be resident of Los An
geles.
An agreement has been entered into
by the merchants of Randsburg to close
up their places of business at noon
every Sunday.
Santa Fe engineers are running lines
and setting stakes for the new side
track, depot and other Improvements at
Riverside.
There are now $50 men employed in
the San Gabriel canyon by the San Ga
briel Power company, which is putting
up an electric plant.
Rev. Hugh K. Walker of Baltimore
will succeed Rev. DR.. Chichester as pas
tor of the Emmanuel Presbyterian
church, Los Angeles.
Kate Sonoma Williams has recovered
$4,000 damages from J. w. Casebeer, her
father, at Santa Barbara. She alleged
false imprisonment.
| San Diego has set good example by
ordering the names of her streets
stamped on the pavement of the side
walk at each corner.
Radical changes are being made at
the Yuma Prison with regard to the
employment of prisoners. Almost the
entire 200 inmates are at work.
The engagement is announced of Miss
Francesca Alexander, the queen of last
fiesta in Los Angeles. and DR.. E. W.
Fleming, physician in that city.
The Santa Fe road will build ten
mile branch in San Bernardino county,
from San Jacinto to Lakeview. Later
this line will be extended to Alessan-
dro.
The Riverside trustees have set aside
thirty-five acres for permanent park
and recreation grounds. They could not
make better investment on behalf OF
the city.
Miss Ida Scott of Evanston, ILL.,, &C
complished and an athlete, is en- route
to Los Angeles to accept the chair of
physical culture in the Cumnock School
of Oratory.
The Coronado Beach company is hav-
ing special officer appointed to protect
the game preserves on North Island.
Anyone found there hereafter will be
arrested and prosecuted.
The Catalina stage road is now fin
ished to Eagle Camp, IL miles from
Avalon. Eight miles more will COM
plete the road from Avalon to the
isthmus.
City Engineer Eugene Capps of San
Diego has filed report charging that
the Moreno dam, for which the city
voted $1,5c0, 900, is being faultily con-
structed.
Mail Clerk Freeman has been sus-
pended at San Diego under charges of
discourtesy and misconduct from the
postmaster at that place. He claims it
is politics.
The department of agriculture is seek
ing information in Southern California
to help in it's plans for the establish
ment of flower farms for the production
of perfumes.
Oil has been struck at Newhall at a
depth of 1873 feet. The specific gravity
of this oil is 4S degrees as against IS
degrees for the oil found in other Cali
fornia fields.
The new steel dam at Seligman, Ariz.,
for the Santa Fe has already overhowed
several times this year. 1t will be COM
pleted next year. Seligman is destined
to become town of Importance.
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