Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-10-15
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 supreme court of Washington has
decided that the new mortgage law is
unconstitutional.
The California vintage, it is reported
in San Francisco, will be superior to
any of the past fifteen years.
A hundred pounds of powder exploded
at Santa Cruz. Nobody was killed. but
there isn't any more powder works.
The United States engineers in charge
of San Francisco harbor fortifi cations
have directed survey Of south side
shore line.
The Dalles, Ore, has giant 9 feet
9L inches tall, who weighs 225 pounds
and is Is years of age. The young fell
low works on his fathers farm, and is
as strong as he is big.
Three carloads of granite have been
ordered by the Kings county supervis-
ors as the beginning of rock pile on
which the hobos and other prisoners
will hereafter be engaged.
An engine and dynamo have been pur-
chased by the regents of the Oregon
State University for an electric plant to
light the University buildings. The
plant will be put in at once.
Thomas Cluff, with the consent OF
the state, has brought suit against the
city of Oakland to test the legality OF
the proceedings by which the northern
district was recently annexed.
The board of regents of the Univer-
sity of Washington today dismissed
President w. F. Edwards, charging him
with insubordination. Prof. @. F..
Reeves was elected president pro TEN.
E. S. Glover, an artist, swan from
the beach south OF the Cliff House, San
Francisco, to Bakers Beach. He
passed near the seal rocks and followed
course over five miles in length. He
was not accompanied by boat.
The Pacific Coast Steamship company
proposes to increase it's feet of steamers
on the coast next summer, and it is the
intention to purchase two vessels on the
Atlantic Coast, if steamers suitable for
the trade on this coast can be found.
The opposition to co-eds voting on
any question continues to agitate the
State University. It's daily journal
thinks that the vote to abolish class
rushes having been carried by the
goods may not be considered as bind
ing.
A petition is being circulated in Sc
attic asking that the civil service system
be abolished. The petition must be
signed by 20 per cent of those who
voted at the last municipal election be-
fore it can be considered. This means
1875 names must be secured.
The San Francisco Manufacturers and
Producers association asked the Labor
Council to cooperate with it in it's fight
against prison made shoes. But the
council demanded guarantee of good
faith, and the assertion resents this by
requesting the council to consider its
communication withdrawn.
S. N. Androus, the president of the
Pacific Jockey Club, who has just re-
urned from the east, says that nearly
all the prominent horse owners will be
on the coast this winter. The club has
already put up $41, 900 in stakes, and in
addition there will be number OF han
dicaps and special races, the purses for
which have not yet been arranged.
The Oregon fish commissioners last
week cast seine in Lake Wallowa, in
Wallowa county, and made a haul OF
over 1000 fish known as "yanks." but
which are species of salmon. 1t was
a bonanza for several Indians who hap
pened to be there at the time, and a few
palefaces reaped little benefit also.
The Alaskan passes prove to be very
dangerous in many ways. There will
be many deaths in that quarter this
winter without doubt. A landslide on
the Skaguay trail wiped Sheep Camp
out of existence and absolutely blocks
the trail. One woman and seventeen
men are missing. One body was re-
covered, that of A. M. Choynski of San
Francisco.
The leading hotel men of California
have just perfected plan for maintain
ing in New York city an attractive ex-
hibit of all manner of products of the
soil and factory in this state. A can
vass of immediate prospects showed
that there will be available for the pro-
ject $412.50 month for the next two
years. G. W. Lynch was elected to take
charge of the New York bureau. He
will proceed with the plan on October l..
The San Francisco syndicate that has
taken the entire issue of 100000 of
bonds of the San Francisco and San
Joaquin Valley railroad is made up of T..
W. Hellman, A. Borel & Co, Nevada
bank, John D. Spreckels, Bank of Cali
fornia, Balfour, Guthrie & Co., Abby
M. Parrott. Work will now be prose
cuted simultaneously on the Bakersfield
extension and on the line connecting
San Francisco and Stockton.
Prof. David Starr Jordan declared