Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-10-01
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.


crop in its history.
Grape pickers up north are getting 81
a day and board or $40 month more
than last year.
The famous Oakland water front case
has been decided by the supreme court
adversely to the city.
Napa cannery has had to refuse
$25, 900 worth of orders because of the
unusual demands upon it.
The title to 100 acres of land in the
city of Livermore has been attacked in
the Alameda county probate court.
The Manufacturers and Producers
Association of San Francisco are COM
piling directory of all their mem bers,
as we'll as of all the products of Califor-
MIA.
Statistics compiled at Tacoma show
that upwards OF 10000 people, repre-
senting every State in the Union ex.
cepting South Carolina, are already per-
fecting plans to go. to the Klondyke
next spring.
Washington has made an immense
pack of salmon, one com pany alone
packing $4,000 cases at Point Roberts.
In consequence the market prices of
canned salmon this year will be the
lowest ever known.
Pope Leo XIII, through Cardinal
Rampolla and Archbishop Keane, has
signified his intention of presenting to
the Stanford University Library an ex-
pensive bound copy of the catalogue OF
the famous Vatican library.
Fourteen returned Klondykers reach
ed Seattle, bringing about 81 600 apiece.
All agree that the coming..winter will
see scurvy, starvation and death along
the Yukon, Nobody is getting through
by the land route, and many are coming
home.
There has been of late considerable
opium mysteriously struggled into Fol-
som prison. A roll of opium couple OF
inches long was found in hollow place
in the drawhead on one of the cars OF
the quarry railroad. The mystery is
thus solved.
John A. PirtIe of Los Angeles and his
associates have obtained 5O-year fran
chise to transmit electrical power from
the Kaweah river to the town of Visalia.
Work is to be commenced in three
months and the plant is to be COM
pleted in year.
The big forest fire which has been
raging in the mountains about the head
waters of the Carmel river, Monterey
county, for the past two weeks has at
last been checked. The loss in pastur,
age and dry feed for stock, as we'll al
valuable timber, is very heavy.
The trouble over lots in Juneau,
Alaska, has at last been decided by a
decision of Judge Delaney. Possessory
rights of squatters who have improved
their holdings are held to be good
original locator are by the decision rem.
dered valid, even though the holders
shall absent from the property.
Surveys for the extension of the San
Joaquin Valley railroad to Point Rich
mond have been completed from that
point to near Antioch. Work has also
begun across the marsh from Stockton
to the point of union. The surveying
will be completed in time for the begin
ming of work on the bay branch of the
road at the opening of the new year,
when it is expected that the road will
have reached Bakersfield.
Arrangements have been completed
for a match between Goddard and
Sharkey, to take place at San Francisco
during the latter part of Novemb Der.
The National Athletic club of San Fran
cisco offered a $4,000 purse for the
match, but nothing definite has been
settled in this regard, and articles have
not been signed. Goddard is now in Ire
land and will leave at once for this
country. Sharkey is in San Francisco.
By the decisive vote of IA to the re-
gents of the University of California
denied the application of the Hahne-
mann Medical college for utilization
with the State institution. Those who
voted in favor of the proposition were
Regents Budd, Jeter, John E. Budd and
Foote. Those who voted against it
were Regents kellogg, Slack, Phelps,
Denicke, Rowell, Martin, Houghton,
Mrs. Hearst, Rodgers, Hallidie, Mayre,
Wallace, Hellman and Reinstein. This
action of the regents ends bitter and
long-continued fight between the rival
schools of medicine in favor of allopaths.
According to the report sof Deputy
Fish Commissioner Babbitt, the run Of
salmon in the rivers this fall is the larg-
est for many years. The canneries have
more fish than they can handle, and
thousands of fish are spelling for the
want of proper facilities to handle them.
From all accounts the pack this year
| is at least 60 per cent larger than it was
last year. This fall the canneries have
put up 1000 cases as against 13, 900 last
| fall. The total pack for the season will
be about Il 800 in round mum bers. All
that is packed is that which is left over
the market supply. The farmers have
sailed down large quantities this year.
The great run may be accounted for by
the excellent care taken to preserve the
fish when on their way to the spawning
grounds.
An official report filed at the custom
house at Port Townsend, Wash, Sep
TENDER 10. by Inspector Weber, whose
detail has been at Point Roberts for
the past three months, shows that the
catch of the fishing season just closed is
the largest ever known in the north
west. The Alaska packing company at
Point Roberts put up 1000 cases. AL
together 100000 of fish were caught off
the mouth of the Fraser river during