Mesa free press., 1898-08-26
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
Readers.

The Board of Regents of the Califor-
MIA State University will manage the
medical department themselves, here
after.
F. A. Leach, Superintendent of the
Mint in San Francisco, estimates that
the output of the Klondike this year
has been only about $5,000,OOO.
The salmon fishing on the Columbia
river has closed The seasons pack
amounts to 215,O0O cases, which Is
$4,000 cases below the pack of last
year.
The Occidental Colony at Yelling
ton, Lyon county, Nevada, which was
organized and operated byl Russian
Jews, is about to be closed out by the
sheriffs.
Assistant United States District At
torney Samuel A. knight of San Fran
cisco, has forwarded to Washington
the resignation of his Office, which he
has filed for the past five years.
On November 8, 1897, twenty-one
families of Russian Jews left San
Francisco for the new land of promise,
the Wymore ranch near Dayton. They
had purchased the property for $4,000,
which they proposed to pay from what
they could realize 4fom the products
of their labor.
A heavy storm passed over Gila
Bend, Arizona, in the southern part of
MaricOpa county, destroying the
and turning over a num-
Der of empty box cars. Several houses
in the town are wrecked and number
of persons injured. The company's
station was uninjured.
An explosion near Truckee in
freight car containing two tanks of
naphtha, which was caused by tramp
lighting a cigarette, started fire
which seriously burned three tramps,
consumed 1900 feet of snowshed, de-
stroyed eleven cars of merchandise and
delayed all passenger trains.
The Collector of the Port, Jackson,
at San Francisco, has been notified
that the Secretary of the Treasury has
decided that the war tax on charter
parties applies only to registered ships
in the foreign trade either American or
foreign vessels, and would not be ap-
piled to ships engaged in the coast
trade.
The bank has now brought suit to
recover the amount of the mortgage
and the already destitute colonists will
probably be evicted from their homes.
Schwartz has formerly lived in Phila-
delphia, while Bell halls from Chicago,
and either of these places is most
likely their objective point, although
some of the colonists believe the pair
are on the way to Alaska. Warrants
are out for their arrest.
Wymore permitted the settlers to OBJ
tain further loan of $500, which was
recorded as first mortgage on the
land. With this they obtained lumber
and built houses. They worked hard
and were doing we'll, when on July 25,
the president of the colony, Daniel
Schwartz, and Secretary Harry Bell
obtained $500 from the Bullion and
Exchange Bank of Carson on mortgag-
ing the entire crop Of the colony. With
that money, it is alleged, they decamp
ed.
Soon after going on board the steam
er Mariposa at San Francisco, the Ha-
waiian Commissioners discovered that
the vessel was heavily laden with
both freight and passengers, and when
they learned that hundreds of boxes of
onions were to be carried into the trop-
les on the passenger deck a vigorous
protest was entered Captain Hayward
and the superintendent of the dock
were appealed to in vain, and the COM
missioners were forced to accept the
inevitable.
General Merriam, commanding the
Department of the Columbia, has been
given full power in the matter of mill
tary affairs in Alaska. He telegraphed
to the department stating that the last
boats were about to leave for the Yu-
kon country and it might be necessary
to send some portion of the army there
to insure public peace. 1t is probable
that he will send two or three hundred
men, including battery of artillery.
General Merriam will select such
troops from his command as he thinks
are needed in Alaska,
The Supreme Court has affirmed the
decision OF the lower court which had
sentenced George w, Clark to be
hanged for murder, For years prior to
eAS SA @AS SAAA4ASs N4stEh AstQ
been intimate with the wife of his
brother. Finally Clark deliberately
murdered his brother, hoping thereby
to marry the widow. The murder oc-
CURED at st. Helena. In discussing
the case the Supreme Court said:
Apparently the appeal has been aban-
doned, since the appellants counsel
have filed no brief in its support, nor
did they appear on the day set for ar
thereon"
The name of Constable Weidler of
Oakland deserves place on the rolls
of the philanthropic. Being called on
to serve writ of ejectment on des-
titute family, he tried, though in vain,
to persuade the landlord to allow the
family to remain longer, and then
hunted up better house, paid a
months rent out of his own pocket and
moved the family. The inhuman land
lord then, 1t should be added, to show
how infiniteslmally small as we'll as
mean man can be, tried
to avoid paying the officer his fee, on