Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1897-10-29
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
Readera

An epidemic of measles has broken
out in Tulare.
Iowa Hill, a Placer county mining
town, has been practically destroyed.
The Alameda high school girls want
to form a. military company of their
own.
The troops at the Presidio are becom-
ing so proficient at football that thew
promise to furnish one of the States
crack teams.
The grand jury will Investigate the
police courts of San Francisco. The
latter will have to explain whysthey re-
fused to issue certain warrants.
All the principal officers of the two
corporations were present, including
President Carr, Oliver Ames and T.
Jefferson Coolidge of the Oregon Short
Line.
The pay of deep-water sailors on mer
chantmen, having been raised to $50 a
month, is believed to account for nu-
merous assertions from the battleship
Oregon.
Anaconda's new theater, the Mar
garet, was opened on the evening of
/ September 28th under suspicious Cir
cumstances. 1t is pronounced one of the
finest playhouses in the northwest.
VIM. B. Storey, jr., graduated from
the State University in 81, and native
son, has been promoted from the position
of chief engineer of the San Joaquin
Valley road to be it's general superin-
tendent.
A mind reader by the name of Leon
Daniels got stranded at Haniord and
was arrested for vagrant. He found
the people too busy over grapes and
prunes to do business in that part of
the valley.
The Woman's State Suffrage associa-
ton, of which Mrs. J. F. Swift is pres
ident, has pledged itself to work for the
election of the senators and assembly
men who favor submitting the suffrage
amendment.
The result of the conference was the
purchase by the local company of the
Utah-Nevada and the Garfield Beach
property for $500, 900 in bonds, and
the agreement to build broad-gauge
road from Saltair to Ophir within one
year from the date of transfer, which
guarantees its completion of line
from the Tintic terminus of the Deep
| HrooL within fuo uooro
A new phase of the United States
alien labor law has just cropped up in
Vancouver, B. G.. By the steamer Mo
vera boy arrived from Honolulu en-
route to Philadelphia, where he was ap-
prenticed to lithographing firm at So
per week. The American Consul here
has detained the boy, claiming that his
entry in the United States will violate
the law, and has sent to Washington for
instructions.
By the death of his father in Scot
land, George Burns, until recently a
fireman on the revenue cutter Grant,
receiving salary of $2S per month, be-
came one of the four heirs to an estate
valued at $1,000,0O0. He will return
home and secure his portion of the es-
tate.
The 100000 mark desired by the
board of equalization was not quite
reached in Maricopa county, Arizona,
although it was crowded pretty close.
The total valuation was $8,79S, 942.
The county rate is 1925. or the lowest
in the Territory. The taxes ito be col
lected are $198, $3.50, of which $780,
929. so will 60 to the Territory.
Mrs. E. P. Bradley of San Francisco,
for fifteen years teacher of free hand
drawing in the public schools, is suing
the board of education to re-establish
freehand drawing in the polytechnic
high school, to reinstate her as teacher
and to pay her $500 back salary. She
claims that the act abolishing the class
| is illegal, ana the Withholding of her
salary equally so.
President Jordan's idea OF national
university is that it should be small
institution devoted wholly to learning,
the place for the training of investiga-
tors and men of action. 1t should ad-
NIT no student who is under age or who
has not a.defnite purpose to accomplish.
1t has no time or strength to spend in
laying foundations for education. It
must ssspring from the people and be
paid for by them.
Negotiations between the officers of
the Oregon Short Line and the Salt
Lake and Los Angeles, which contem-
plate the transfer to the latter company
of the Utah-Nevada road and the Gar
field Beach property, and the building
of two lines of road, one from Saltair to
Ophir and the other from the Tintic
terminus to Deep Greek, came to a sat-
isfactory conclusion at an important
conference held in Salt Lake last week.
William Greer Harrison's suggestion