Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-10-15

Alexander, the arbitrator appointed
by Cleveland, has settled the Nicarag-
uan boundary dispute with Costa Rica
in favor of Nicaragua. This brings the
entrance to the Nicaraguan canal in Nj
caraguan territory.
The campaign for the election of a
new president of Costa RIGA is now at
its height. The term of President
Igiesias expires in the coming spring.
DIR. Iglesiassis candidate for re-elec-
ton. The opposition has not yet NOM
mated a candidate.
Pan-American diplomats look for the
early success of the Guatemalan revolu-
ton, and for uprisings in other states.
The only hope for continued peace in
Central America is thought to lie in a
protectorate or actual annexation by
the United States.
Advices from Guistan say the Orak-
sails are again gathering in force in
Kuhkand valley, prepared to resist
British troops, while bands of Mamo-
zais have arrived near Khangarboor
Afridis are also moving upon Khyber
pass, and Claimants are raiding near
Sadda. The Ameer of Afghanisran has
issued a proclamation forbidding his
SUBJECTS to join in the holy war under
penalty of 5000 rupees.
The new Greek cabinet is semi-offic-
tally announced as constituted as fol-
lows: Minister of interior and presi-
dent of the council of ministers, M.
Zaimls; minister of foreign affairs,
Prince Mavrocordato; minister of war,
General Smolenski minister of marine,
Admiral Canaris; minister of finance,
NJ. STREET.; minister of justice and gov
ernef OF national bank, M. Paneltopoulo.
At the interstate commerce hearing at
Chicago, Local Freight Agent Lockett
of the Grand Trunk admitted that his
company stored certain classes of goods
for a long time and Local Freight
Agent Brinkerhoff of the Chicago and
Northwestern said that many times his
company has stored dried fruit and SIM
liar freight for fifty days or over.
Other local freight agents of other COM
panies running into Chicago testified to
the same thing on the part of their
lines.
The war department. is rushing work
on the Notifications of San Diego harbor
with remarkable energy. The first two
guns to be placed at Ballast Point have
been shipped by the quartermaster' g
department from the Watervliet arsenal
and will soon arrive. They are 10-inch
guns, to be mounted on disappearing
carriages, and the contractor is in
structed to do the work as rapidly as
possible. The third gun emplacement
is being built by the California Con-
struction company with force of nearly
100 men working day and night. The
war department is building torpedo de-
lenses at San Diego that are as import
ant, if not more so, than the gun bat
teries. One of these easements is now
completed, extending into the bay
under the surface.
A dispatch from Tucson says that pas
sengers who came in on the belated
California train state the cause of the
delay was floods in the Salton basin.
1t was the rumored belief that the
waters of the Gulf of California had
broken over the sandbar which separ-
ates the gulf from the basin. If this
should prove to be true, Southern Cali
fornia will have the largest inland sea
on the continent, in some places more
than 300 feet deep, and Arizona would
come up through the gulf to point op-
posite Yuma to port of the inland sea.
In the meantime many miles of the
Southern Pacific would be submerged.