Mesa free press., 1898-05-20
PACIFIC COAST. NEWS. 5.
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A Summary OF Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.

Readers.
There was slight earthquake shock
at Santa Cruz last week.
The entire business district of North
Port was destroyed by fire. Loss $780,
600.
The Monterey naval reserve has Of
fered its services to defend the harbor
and city.
Inquiry into the powder explosion
at Santa Cruz shows that Spanish spies
had no hand in it.
A large fire destroyed thousands Of
dollars worth Of property in Van
couver. 1t was the largest fire since
1886.
1t is reported that the Indians are
dancing thirty miles from Tacoma. The
whites are alarmed, fearing an out
break.
The old Howard theater, on Howard
street, San Francisco, was completely
gutted by fire. The damage is about
$4,000.
Maj. Wood, comanding the north
west mounted police, has informed the
American military authorities that
hereafter American soldiers will not
be allowed to enter British territory.
In the event of the entire state
forces being called out by the govern
ment, Governor Budd, by virtue of his
Office as commander-in-chie Of the
National Guard will take the field in
person at the head of the troops.
The American ship Marion Chilcott
arrived at Havre on April 8 from Ia
coma She is owned by Tacoma peo-
pie, who have sent dispatch to Havre
ordering the captain to hold the YES
sci at that port during the hostilities
between this country and Spain.
There is little danger from Spanish
uprisings in this country. OF the a.
961, ,604 immigrants seeking residence
in America from 1910 to 1890, Spain
and Portugal combined contributed
but 81 AGO. Since 1890 but few Span
iards have settled in the United
States.
The Mexican government has
stopped the contemplated meeting of
Spanish clerks at the City of Mexico
for the purpose of raising money and
volunteers for Spain. The police were
ordered to prevent themeeting as con-
trary to the obligations of a neutrali-
zation.
Paso Robles, in San Luis Obispo
county, has made remarkable
growth during the past ten years.
A little more than eleven years ago
the town consisted of small frame
hotel, half dozen small cottages and
a store. Today it is the second city in
wealth and population in San Luis
Obispo county.
Vice-President Watt of the San
Francisco and San Joaquin Valley
railroad says that the track will be
laid into Bakersfield this week. The
bridge over the Kern river, which, in
Guiding the trestle approaches, is
about 100 feet long, is finished. The
bridge is only two and half miles
from Bakersfield.
The Mexican government has
cautioned all employees to observe in
act and conversation, entire neutral
ity regarding the American-Spa
war. The masses of the people are
undoubtedly for Cuba, but the Liberal
papers are for Spain, and it is sus-
pected that Spanish influence is actu-
ating their policy. The clerical papers
are naturally hostile to the United
States.
The Sacramento Record Union crit
icises school superintendent of the
state for allowing book-concern agents
to be present at all of its sessions In
the capital city few days ago. One
Of the results of the conference has
already cropped out in the adoption of
a natural vertical system of PEN
manship, a change from the books now
in the hands of the pupils throughout
ably be heard from by parents later
on.
Stanford won the last deciding game
Of the intercollegiate series by this
score: Stanford 6, California s..
Twenty intercollegiate games have
been played since 1892, Stanford losing
but sixteen out of this number to
Berkeley, and winning every series ex-
cept that Of 1897, which was appro-
priated by the University of California.
Four hundred and forty-five men
have signed the roll of volunteers at
San Francisco for the states heavy
artillery.
More disgraceful scandals are being
unearthed in the San Francisco school
board. The latest accusation is that
the board is carrying $50 more teach
ers on the rolls than is necessary,
thereby fleeing the taxpayers in the
sum of $150,000 annually. Charges of
exacting money from teachers for DO
sitions are also poisoning the moral
atmosphere of the states metropolis.
Repairs on school buildings seem also
to have been source of much revenue
to the corrupt officials.