Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-12-31

Seven lives have been lost in the
White Horse rapids, Alaska, during the
last two months.
Prof. Perrine, of Lick Observatory,
has been awarded prize by the French
Academy of Science.
Adolf Sutro, ex-mayor of San Fran
cisco, is recovering from: his apoplectic
stroke of six weeks ago.
Mayor Phelan of San Francisco has
let contract for building new theater
at San Jose to cost $4,000.
Representative Loud will make an
attempt soon to have rural free postal
delivery established throughout Cali
fornia.
Tests made by Prof. Frank Soule, of
the State University, show that Cali
fornia marble is equal to any in the
country.
For the fourth time Durrant is SEN
fenced to hang, the 9TH of January be-
ing the date set. His attorneys are con-
fdent of their ability to cause delay.
Clement V. Ball, a waiter at the
Stockton Commercial hotel, claims that
he is connected with the family OF
Washington, and an heir to the estate of
Joseph Ball.
The estate of the late Charles F..
Croker was before Judge Coffey re-
Gently on a motion to fix the appraisers
fees. 1t is understood that the estate
has been appraised at about 100000.
The steamer Cleveland stranded in
Barclay sound. Eight of the crew
reached shore, while two passengers and
nineteen of the crew are dead or still at
sea in an open boat. Other wrecks are
reported, and fears are entertained for
many overdue vessels.
A lump sum of 100000 has been paid
by the directors of the Turlock irriga-
ton district to James A. Waymire, con-
tractor, who has finished one-third OF
the canal system of the district despite
the injunctions and suits brought to
stop work and payment.
The San Francisco and San Joaquin
Valley railroad has filed an application
with the board of harbor commissioners
for a slip at the new ferry depot. 1t is
the intention of the company to oper-
ate ferry system between Point Rich
mond and the foot of Market street. :
Spokane, Tacoma, Portland, San
Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego
will soon be connected by the longest
telephone system in the world. The
circuit will be 1900 miles in length be-
tween Spokane and the Mexican border
boundry. Superintendent Stands of the
Sunset Telephone Company's northwest
division announces his company is pre-
pairing to build across the Cascade
Mountains next spring, connecting by a
direct line Tacoma and Spokane, which
now talk to each other via Portland and
The Dalles.
At present the Sunset Telephone
line runs southwark to Eugene, Or,
then to Redding, CAL, distance of 800
miles, through Siskiyou Mountains.
This gap is to be closed next year. A
series of circuits which can be con-
nected in a continuous line, is now in
operation between Boston and Omaha.
This line is about seventeen hundred
miles long, IL miles shorter than the
Spokane-San Diego line. An extension
to Helena is not improbable from
Spokane. This would make the line
22l1 miles in length, and make long
distance record not likely to be equaled
until the comp any gets it's proposed line
to Dawson in operation.
The work of collecting salmon eggs at
the California Fish Commission hatch
cry on the Sacramento river at Ander-
son has closed. The result of the sea-
sons operations are the most remark
able on record. Forty eight and half
million eggs were collected. This ex-
ceeds the previous records made at this
station by %, 100000 and is $4,000, 600
more than were collected at all of the
other hatcheries on this coast this year.
These eggs will be Matched, and the fry
planted in the waters of the State, with
the exception of 100000 that will be
sent to Oregon, and 10000 that will
60 to the New England States station
on the United States Commission car
tomorrow
Concerning the national park which it
is proposed to set aside at the Grand
Canyon of the Colorado, in Arizona,
consideration of which matter has been
taken by the Interior Department, the
Ynma Seminal says: "The considera-
ton of the proposition was occasioned
by memorial of the slast Legislature
and petition signed by numerous Ari-
zonans. While the action would possess
the United States of most wonderful
and beautiful park, the most magnifi-
cent, beyond all comparison, of any in
the world, and that at comparatively
small cost to the government to main