Mesa free press., 1898-12-30
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Important information dathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A summary Of Late Events That Arr
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.

San Francisco's schools are without
coal. The echo of Chicago's cry for
rope is about the next thing we expect
to hear from that quarter.
San Francisco has a new gas COM
pany, which is on the eve of serving
its customers with an illuminant of
superior quality at 81 per 1000 cubic
feet.
The British ship Jules Verne has ar
rived at San Francisco from Newcas-
tie. She had been given up for lost.
and 10 per cent reinsurance had been
paid. She was eighty-two days max
ing the voyage. Rough weather de-
layed her.
| The annual meeting of the Super
visors Of this state will be held at
Sacramento on February IA. These
yearly conferences are a means of mu-
tual benefit to the Supervisors. Espe-
cial interest will be felt this year in
the discussion of proposed legislation
for the Improvement Of the public
highways.
The steamer Alameda has arrived
| at San Francisco from Australia,
bringing treasure amounting to $3,-
$4,000. There were 12O boxes of En-
glish sovereigns, 5000 sovereigns in a
! box, and twenty-four boxes filled with
bullion. The money is to settle in part
the balance of trade between this
country and England.
! A letter has been received in
Stroudsburg, Pa, from William Den
mis-, prosperous gold miner of Sierra
county, CAL His relatives have not
heard from him since 1849, when he
went to California. His aged mother
still lives. He sent a nice sum of
money to his relatives, but did not ex-
plain his long silence.
! The Union Trust Company of San
Francisco has begun paying for all
shares of the San Francisco and San
Joaquin valley railroad stock which
had been deposited with the company
prior to December 6. Over $500 shares
were bought for the Santa Fe road at
the agreed price of $10O share. This
represents over one-third of the stock.
A. de Vrobieund, Consul General of
France, has requested Governor Budd
to have an investigation made into
the facts surrounding an assault made
upon Henri Durandon, miner in the
Tesli coal mines, near Livermore, by
Mine Boss William Jones on Decem-
ber 8. Durandon is in a precarious
condition and Jones is at liberty. The
Governor will investigate the affair.
The construction of a wharf 1900
feet long for the new proposed Mon
terey and Fresno railroad, has been
begun. The line, as located, runs
| from Monterey to Fresno, and east to
the timber and mineral belt of the ST.
ezra Nevada mountains, passing
through the cities of Salinas, San
Juan and Hollister and crossing the
San Joaquin river at Firebaugh. The
first two divisions are to be complet-
ed by June Is, 1899.
The Zante currents are grown,
picked and packed for market by the
lowest class of pauper labor in South
ern Europe. The raisin grapes of
Central California are grown and sent
to market by an intelligent and
worthy class of American citizens.
This is one of the raisins (as Paddy
would say) why the new treaty with
Greece would be so ratified as to
admit the so-called Zante currants
free of duty.
Judgment has been given against
the Stockton and Tuolumne county
railroad. better know as the WOman's
railroad, for 1886, for lumber supplied
on the order of Chief Engineer Brain
ard by P. A. Buell. & Co. of StOcktoD.
The suit was brought to recover $492,
but part of the claim was withdrawn,
to be charged to Erickson & Co, and
Mrs. Elkert, the president of the road,
voluntarily paid in court the sum OF $4S
leaving the judgment as stated, which
does not carry the costs.
One of the saddest features of the
Baldwin Theater disaster Is the story
of the mysterious absence of daugh-
ter of a San Francisco merchant,
which has beer revived by the finding
a few days ago, the charred remains
of a woman, which have not been
identified. All the guests whose names
were 5on the register had been &C
counted for, so that it is evident this
woman was not registered. The mer-
chants daughter, who was missing,
was seen the night before the fire In
company with sporting man who
lived at the Baldwin. The inference is
a terrible one.
1t is probably not know to the peo-
pie of California generally that there
is projected in this state an enterprise
which involves one of the most novel
and daring engineering feats ever un-
dertaken in railroad building. The
extension of the Sierra railway, which
Prince Andre Poniatowski is presi-
dent, from Sonora to the high Sierras
will cross canyon 1000 feet deep in
stead of bridging the canyon, it is pro-
posed to lower the trains on an ele-
vator on one side and raise them in
similar manner on the other side. The
project is said to have originated with
Prince Poniatowski and is doubtless
without parallel in the world.
The terms Of settlement of the war
between the conflicting interests in
the wine trade at St. Helena, CAL,