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

III DOdA NdlIoy ldk0s he WADCS the
lake cleansed and advises that the water
from the Santa Ana river be boiled be-
fore using.
The Los Angeles supervisors have
ganted license for saloon just out
side the Pomona city limits on the west.
Pomona citizens are much exercised
over the matter, although no protest
was made before the board.
Suit has been brought in the United
States circuit court by the Chilcala
Water company to have the bonds of
the Rialto Irrigation district declared
null and void on the ground that the
district has no legal existence.
The Pasadena city trustees have de-
cided to call sewer bond election to
vote bonds to complete the sewering of
the city. Estimates of the amount
needed are not completed yet, but it
will run well up toward 100000.
A. G. Shafer, ex-city zanjero, has do
mated to the park departme nt two pine
trees, both of which he two years ago
brought here for transplanting from the
Chicamagua and Chattanooga national
military reservation. Mr.. Shafer is a
survivor of the battle fought at that
point on September 10 and 20, 1868
The poor farm Of Los Angeles county
seems to be model institution of it's
kind. It's orange crop this year will be
worth $4,000 or $4,000; and besides fur
nishing fruit. vegetables, milk, butter,
eggs, etc., for the paupers, it largely
supplies the county hospital with these
things. 1t has solved the problem of
making the poor take care of themselves
in an interesting manner.
Hon. E. J. Turner, member of Con-
gress from Kansas, is visiting friends
in Fullerton. In an interview with a
representative of the Tribune he says
''The delay in the San Pedro harbor
matter is caused by the lack of funds in
tho United States treasury to meet the
appropriation at the present time, and
not, as many suppose, from any ill-feel-
ing of resentment or stubbornness on the
part of Secretary of War Alger."
The license taxes collected from the
saloons of Los Angeles every month
amount to about $4,000. The license
tax on a saloon is $50 per month-fully
seven times the tax in San Francisco,
and greater than almost any other large
city on the Coast. This tax aggregates
$4,000 year, or fully one-fifth the
amount received from real and personal
property taxes and quite one-half Of all
revenues of the city outside the regular
taxes.
Capt. N. Ell. Chittenden has left upon
world tour, especially in the interest
of chronological and archaeological re.
search. He makes the journey across
the continent (his twenty-third) with
his own outfit, using pack animals only
until the deserts are crossed. His route
will be via Southern Arizona, Ell Paso
Indian Territory and then Rio Grande
valley to the Gulf of Mexico, which be
expects to be about nine months in
reaching.
:. The United States training ship
Adams dropped anchor in San Diego
harbor last week, after 36-days cruise
from San Francisco. This is the
Adams first visit here since last spring,
and her only object in calling was to
get the mail that had been forwarded
here. She has been ordered on cruise
as far south as Magdalena bay, and from
there to Honolulu, returning to San
Francisco some time in January. The
training ship has 80 boys on board,
ranging from IA to II years of age, and
these will he given five months instruc-
ton on the Adams before being trans
ferred to the cruisers. The ship is in
command of Capt. W. G. Gibson, who
commanded her on her last visit here.
Workmen while relaying gaspipe on
Commercial street, Los Angeles, un-
earthed a nestful of old cannon balls be-
/ tween Main and Los Angeles streets.
There were four cast iron balls, four OF
five inches in diameter, and one copper
she'll. They evidently were for use in
the old cannon at the Farmers and Mer-
chants bank corner, and at the court
house, which were used in the defense
of Los Angeles by the Mexicans at the
time of the American invasion and &C.
cupation. There was wild scramble
among the workmen for possession of
the ancient rel les, no one of whom got
away with more than one of the his
toric missiles.
Col. Of1ey J. Crewe Reed has been
superseded as general manager of the
Mexican Colonization and Development
company, with headquarters at Ense-
NADIA. His successor is the Hon. Ernest
A. Alsop, who has been resident of
Ensenada for some time past, and is a
heavy stakeholder in the company.
Col. Reed has been in charge of the af-
fairs of the company for about eighteen
months and his liberality has made
him popular. The Hon. Ernest A. AL
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