Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-10-22
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.

there are two kinds of poisonous flies.
Four women served on a jury at Boise
City, Idaho, for the first time in the
States history.
1t is rumored that an English syndi-
cate has been formed to buy the Union
Pacific road. 1t will offer go, OOO,OCO.
The Alameda board of education has
dopted resolution forbidding the wear
ing of mourning robes by teachers in
the classroom.
DIR. George D. Pardee of Oakland has
announced himself as candidate for
governor before the next State Republic
can convention.
Deportation of Chinese threatens to
prove exceedingly expensive to the gov
eminent, especially if the heathens get
habit of wishing to 60 home every
summer.
The Mount Whitney Telephone COM
pany, with 200 miles of wires connect
ing Visalia, Tulare, Porterville and
Bakersfield, has filed a petition in in
solvency.
The San Joaquin Valley railroad
has issued new freight schedule, max
ing heavy cuts on shipments to Stock
ton, Port Costa, Benicia, South Vallejo
and San Francisco.
The steamer Coos Bay, from San
Pedro for San Francisco, put into Mon
terey in tow of the steamship Sunol on
October Z, with broken shaft. The
Sunol towed her to San Francisco.
Six miners from Dawson arrived at
Seattle with small piles but great prom
ises of what is to come. One thousand
two hundred miners from Australia
reached Victoria on their way to the
Klondyke.
A. o. Lauschener, professor of as
tronomy at the University of Califor-
MIA, has just returned from Europe.
He has been mentioned as the possib BILE
successor of Prof. Holden, director of
the Lick Observatory.
The first contingent of the colonists
to 60 to the Salvation Army beet culture
colony at Soledad, Monterey county,
has left Oakland. The party consisted
of Lieut.. Tillsley, Capt. Thompson,
Gillespie F. Traylor and III. Laurence.
In parts of Shasta and Siskiyou
counties millions of small black flies
have appeared, called by some deer
flies, by the others the Texas fly. They
are smaller than the common house
fly, but bite with such fury that an ami
NAL is soon covered with blood. They
swarm so thickly at Stout Meadows that
stockraisers have been compelled to
withdraw their herds from that region.
Santa Rosa was recently visited by
nearly hundred Indians from Point
Arena reservation. Thew had been
picking hops near Mark West. They
rode on the street car lines, visited all
the mills and factories and astonished
business men by the heavy purchases
they made. These Indians are consid-
cred the upper ten among the Coast
tribes.
A railroad is projected to run through
the fertile foothill section between
Marysville and Grass Valley. The pro-
moters:of the venture and the ones to
produce the capital for the building of
the new railway are the ]. c. Aver es-
tate of Lowell, Mass, and Col. George
Stone of San Francisco. The Aver es-
tate owns considerable property near
Smartsville, which will be rendered
accessible by the new road.
Official statistics of the Southern Pa
cifc company show remarkable in
crease in the volume. OF east bound
freight recently. During the month of
Setepmber 1922 loaded cars more went
east than came west, and about the same
ratio has been maintained this month,
Notwithstanding the fact that the
number of west-bound cars has been
greater than ever before. These figures
cover only the traffic. handled by way of
Ell Paso and Ogden, and do not include
the freight movement by way of Mo-
jave and Ashland.
The State convention of woman suf-
fragists elected the following officers:
President, Mrs. John F. Swift, San
Francisco; first vice-president, Mrs.
Chapman, Oakland; second vice-presi-
dent, DR.. Ida V. Stowbach, Santa Bar
bara; third vice-president, Mrs. John
Bidwell, Chico; recording secretary,
Mrs. Mary Gorham, San Francisco; cor
responding secretary, Mrs. Mary E.
Donnnelly, San Francisco; treasurer,
Mrs. Mary S. Spery, San Francisco;
auditors, Mrs. Lowell White and Mrs.
Elizabeth Oulton, San Francisco.
For the year ending May 81, 1897,
according to the returns made by ali
flour mills in California, the output of
-four is 100000 barrels, requiring 3d.
600 tons of wheat. The exports were
l.119,OOO barrels and the home con-
sumption 1860 barrels. On the