Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-12-17
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.

The Ferry steamer Encinal bumped
against the Oakland slip. injuring the
boat and shaking up the passengers.
The California Winemakers' Associ-
alton has decided to 60 into the markets
OF the world to dispose of it's products.
Ground has been broken in Kern
county for the Valley road and the
foundation for station at Bakersfield
is being prepared.
Abraham Hamburger, founder of the
Peoples store, the largest department
store in Los Angeles, died at his home
in San Francisco Dec. l.
The California Miners Association
has decided that the jubilee mining ex-
position at the Mechanics Pavilion,
San Francisco, shall be open on Janu-
airy Oath.
Swedish-Norwegian Consul Henry
Lund has received a letter from DR..
hansen, the Arctic explorer, stating
that he intends to visit the Pacific coast
in the first or second week of next
January.
The San Francisco National bank yes
terday succeeded to the business of the
Sather Banking company and took pos
session of the banking house and prem
ises formerly occupied by that company
in San Francisco.
Capt. Lee, who has just been removed
as assistant uperintendent of the Pres
ton School of Industry at lone, says
the reports of brutality by Supt.
O'Brien are true, and the half has not
been told. He expects a general out
break.
1t was stated that the gunboat Mar
ion, which was to have been given to
the San Diego naval militia, will have
to be turned over to Gov. Budd of Cali
fornia, who will undou btedly give her
to the San Francisco reserves. The San
Diego militia will now have to make
fight for another vesse
Advocates of smaller craft for the
navy are much pleased over the race
between the Wheeling and the York
town from Honolulu to San Francisco.
The latter, although possessing about
double the Wheeling's horse power
per ton displacement, left Honolulu a
day behind the smaller boat and was
unable to overtake her and finished the
voyage barely within the time made by
the Wheeling.
At a meeting of the board of directors
OF the Southern Pacific company, Gen.
Thomas Fl. Hubbard, second vice-presi-
dent, was elected to the first vice-presi-
dency recently vacated by the death of
Col. Charles F. Croker; and George
Croker, brother of the deceased, was
elected to fill the vacancy created by
the advancement of Gen. Hubbard.
yuma Sentinel.) Wards orange
orchard, near Phoenix, Ariz., which
last year Melted the owner $4,000, will
this esason net him $4,000. The increase
in value is not due to higher prices or
more favorable conditions in sany re-
spect, but simply to the fact that the
bearing of the trees is increasing as
they grow older.
United States Senator Turner, John
A. Finch and A. B. Cambell of Spo-
kane, WASH, are directors in COM
pany organized in New York, with
capital of $1,000, 900, to develop the
water power of the Pond d'Oreille river
near it's confluence with the Columbia
and deliver electric power into Ross
land, Trail and other camps of the
Kootenay district. 1t is proposed to
develop 1000 horse power and to utilize
the present works of the Goodhugh syu-
dictate of New York, which developed
$50 horse power to work placer deposits
south of the Pend d'Oreille.
Two months ago the supervisors of
Kern county decided to refund bonds |
amounting to $25O,OOO. At the same
time they contracted to sell the new is
sue to Trow bridge & Co., of Chicago.
After favorable action on the question.
other brokers, through local taxpayers,
brought action to restrain the super
visors from carrying out their contract.
Judge Mahon has decided that the con
tract was illegal, holding that the
county government act of 1897 does not
repeal the portion of the acts of 1898
requiring bonds to be sold by the trea-
surer. He also held that contract to
sell bonds cannot be made before they
are issued.
One of the most important move
ments originating with the new Chinese
Minister, WI Ting Fang, to bring into
closer relations the white people and
the people of his own race, is shortly to
be consummated in San Francisco. The
project contemplates the erection of
school building, the bringing of corps
of teachers from China, aud the educa-
ton of the Chinese youth of this city
and coast in both English and Chinese.
The Chinese government ia nrenarad to