Mesa free press., 1898-06-17

The Globe road meeting held last
Monday night adjourned sine die,
without accomplishing anything in
the direction Of pushing the construc-
ton of the road. Friends of the en-
prise tell us they have given up hope
of securing the necessary encourage :
ment in Mesa to insure the building
of the road. Mesa will thus lose Al
opportunity Of advancing her best
interests such as will not soon again
present itself. We hope nov ths.
some enterprising man will take hole
of the matter and open toll road
over the line; and yet there il it'll.
to expect now in ttat direction,
BY proclamation of the President,
the wa er reserve asked for by Pres :
colt has been granted. The reserve
will be Ave miles square and the
water will he used as a reservoir for
the city wa:erworks. The reservoir
will cover an area of l3O acres OF
surface and will have an average
depth of 80 feet of water. w. T.
Herman, the government forestry
agent. who has been here several
weeks, will go to Prescott TO- protect
the land. Williams News.
In congress Wednesday the house
of representatives voted on the an
nexation of Hawaii. The vote stood
200 for annexation to 81 against.
An analysis of the vote showed l79
republicans, eighteen democrats. eight
populists and four fusionists in favor
and seventy seven democrats, three
republicans. seven ropalists and four
fusionists against. The sugar trust
has been making bitter fight against
annexation
The post Office department has is
sued the following instructions.
Friends and relations. OF soldiers in
the field. in addressing letters to
thsn, should mark plainly the com
pany and regiment to which they he
long, as hy SO doing the distribution
cf the mail will be facilitated. This
applies to both the regular troops aud
militia volunteers"
ESTRAY-There came t. the
ranch of j. H. Bnsh near Mesa,
about two months ago, q yearlns
hull, red. and marked. two Sits In
UPPER par. of left ear and hole in
right. Owlpr can have same by
provi..g property Ind paying costs.
Officer Porterte, Of Phoenix, shot
and killed a Mexisan one day last
week. Policeman Kay was trying to
arrest the Mexican for begging, and
he, not knowing that Kay was an
officer, resisted arrest. While the
liOhe was on. Porterie ran up and
shot the Mexican.
The Phosrix Herald says: "Our
Ter, itcrial contemporaries and other
newspapers elsewhere will look ont
for n fellow calling himself +. u.
Henderson, q light eomplrxiontd,
medium height. rather slender fellow
with an unhealthy appearance. De
i a first class fraud. He works IN
the theatrical, special edition. fake
and printing lines.
Many of our Mesa people went to
Tempe Sunday evening 70 Hstc" "
the Bsccalaureate sermon delivered
by Rev Samuel Guthrie. 1t was
pronounced one Of the best sermons
which that eloquent grntleu an has
delivered during his ministry in this
valley.
The profits on farming this year
in thi. valley are very gratifying to
the farmers and to everybody else.
.s ,v4ral instances where parties had
land rented they made enough to
buy the LAID at the prices that had
been asked for it.
The people of Nephi ara preparing
to hold grand Fourth OF July cele-
bration of their own. AS the people
down there never do things by halves