Mesa free press., 1897-09-17
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Summary of Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.

Readers.
: Napa, CAL, will have free postal de-
livery.
A flow of natural gas has been struck
at Santa Rosa, Cal.
An illicit still has been found near
Ukiah, Mendocino county.
A census OF San Jose, just taken,
shows population of 20, 47O.
A large bed of aluminium clay has
been discovered near Springville, Utah.
The Herald block at Gridley, Butte
county, was burned, causing loss OF
$4,000.
Governor Budd arrived home Sunday
from an extended trip in the Northern
States.
A little shipyard has been statred at
Santa Barbara and three sloops are on
the ways.
The grave of Kit Carson at Taos, n.
M, is overgrown'with weeds and sadly
neglected.
An express car is to be operated on
the electric line between Pasadena and
Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles city tax rate will be
1925 inside the city and $1.20 in the
annexed district.
A San Diego man is experimenting
with Florida pineapple slips to deter
mine their paying qualities
Last week produce shipments from
Orange included sc, 200 pounds of grapes
and So, $50 pounds of dried apricots.
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of California and lower Mexican coast
on the 22d inst., and much damage was
done.
Miss Margaret Craven was married
Yesterday in San Francisco to Henry
Kohler, jr., the rich brewer of st.
Louis.
It is reported that the steamer Ori-
zaba. plying between San Francisco and
Mazatfan, is to be replaced by another
vessel.
The story is started again that SUBJ
marine cable is to be constructed across
the gulf of California, connecting Lower
California with Sonora, Mexico.
The second annual convention of the
State Spiritualist association was held
in Scottish hall, San Francisco, on Fri
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Articles of intention were filed with
the Territorial Secretary at Phoenix re-
Gently for the construction of narrow
gauge railway from Guthrie to Morenci.
The construction gang of the Valley
road, having completed the track into
Visalia. has been transferred to the line
running from Hanford toward Bakers
field.
A dispatch from Chicopee, Mass,
says that Edward Bellamy, the author
of Looking Backward and Equality, will
soon move from that city to Denver for
his health.
Commander Booth-Tucker returns to
America filled with enthusiasm over
his plan to colonize poor people on
small farms in the west. He will visit
San Diego soon.
The assessed valuation of Fresno
county this year is 81, ,250, 900 less than
in 1896. The State Board of Equaliza-
tion is hearing arguments as to why
this assessment should not be raised.
Prof. Carl Van Gulpen, who died in
Alameda last Sunday, aged 79, was one
of the original company that founded
Anaheim, and had been close friend of
General 'Sutter in the Argonaut days.
Articles have been signed by Solly
Smith and Gearge Dixon calling for
2O-round 90 on October 4th at Wood
wards pavilion, San Francisco. The
purse is $4,000, of which $1,000 goes to
the loser.
A fire at Sacramento this week in the
block bounded by o and P. and Fourth
90 10 Of
Frank Sreinman, w. T. Fuller & Co.,
principal losers.
Kerr county's dried fruit was bid for
at AZ cents pound by buyers, and
while the growers were considering 1t a
buyer got full of wine and offered 5
cents for small parcel. The growers
demanded cents and got it..
The Southern Pacific has announced
that it will not be party to the reduc-
ton in rates to San Francisco for the
meeting of the letter carriers, and that
il will insist upon its full proportion of
the rates west OF the Missouri river.
The treasury department is conduct
ing an investigation of charges that
Chinese are being smuggled into the
United States at Port Townsend, Wash.
The reports indicate that the Chinese
have made use of forged certificates.
A test case of interest to mortgage
/, holders has begun in Oakland. The
defendant claims that under the new
law passed by the legislature twelve
months are given to redeem property.
while the old law gave but six months.
San Joaquin county's crop of wheat
will be between n, 900 and rs, 600 tons,
an increase of 1000 or 5000 tons over
last year. Kern county's crop is double
that of 1895, while San Diego county
will show 125,000 bags to $4,000 bags
last year.
1t is pleasure to note that Southern
California captured two medals at the
Hamburg exposition, both having been
won by Capt. F. Edward Gray of the
Ingleside Floral company, the first for