Mesa free press., 1898-09-30
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Summary OF Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.


Station, San Francisco, CAL" That
sounds near at home, anyway.
The relatives of the late Miss Jo-
sephine l.. Sanford of San Francisco
have withdrawn from the contest over
her will, in which most of her property
was left to intimate friends.
The State Railroad Commissioners
will investigate the affairs of the Pull
man Palace Car company to determine
whether the rates charged by the COM
pany can be legally reduced.
The United States mint at San Fran
cisco did the largest months business
in its history in August 1t carried
trifie more than $8.OOO,0OO. That's a
business it would do well to keep up.
Mrs. William Beard of Philadelphia,
wife Of the geologist whose death was
reported in Alaska, has arrievd in San
Francisco. She believes her husband
was murdered for his money and will
investigate the case.
The Board of Directors of the Chill
dren's Home Finding society met at
San Jose. The reports showed fifteen
children received, eleven placed and
1921. so collected. A donation of $3.50
from Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst was re-
ported.
James Brady, while descending into
a wine vat at the St. George Winery,
near Fresno, slipped and fell on a coal
oil lamp he was carrying. The lamp ex-
ploded, covering him with oil, and be-
fore he could be rescued he was fa-
tally burned.
C. D. Perrine at Lick Observatory
has discovered new comet in the
constellation Leo. 1t is now about as
bright as an eighth-magnitude star and
is moving in southeasterly direction.
This is the eighth unexpected comet
discovered by Perrine.
Mrs. Hattie Trundle, a beneficiary
under the will of the late Adolph Su-
tro of San Francisco, died about two
years ago and an effort is being made
to trace her heirs. The Sutro will con-
test has been set for October 6, but
the trial will doubtless be delayed.
Advices from Dawson say that the
Canadian officers are working plan
to drive out the poor American miners
from the Klondyke region before win
ter sets in. They have arranged to
ship them away from Alaska by the
boat load at the expense of the Cana
dian government.
At the meeting of the board of man
ayers of Agnews state hospital at San
Jose the report of the medical superin-
tendent shows that there were 932 in
mates in the institution August 31st,
of whom Sal were males and 391 fe-
males. This is the largest number in
the history of the institution.
There'll be "hot time in the old
town" when the new telephone COM
pany, which is about to invade San
Francisco, commences operations. The
Sunset company is so thoroughly es-
tablished in the northern metropolis
that it will put up hard fight against
it's rival for division of its enormous
patronage.
The contracts for the three new bat.
tleships have been awarded. One YES
sci goes to the Cramps, another to the
Newport News Shipbuilding company
and the third to the Union Works, San
francisco. They Will be or l2,5OO
tons displacement each, with coal ca
pacity of 1000 tons and and speed of
1876 knots.
The postoffice department is making
every effort to facilitate mail commu-
nication with Alaska in winter and has
authorized postmasters at far northern
points to pay the maximum allowed
by law to carry on the service. A con-
tractor has already undertaken to do
this work and this action of the de-
partment is taken as a safeguard to
insure, if possible, the sending of mail
from the Yukon country.
The farmers in the neighborhood of
Point Reyes have reaped an unlocked
for harvest from the Pacific ocean in
consequence of the attempts to bring
cut lumber dow the coast in raft form.
Two of the RATS broke up and many
thousands of feet of lumber were scat
tered over the water. Much of this
has drifted on the beach near Point
Reyes, and one enterprising agricultu-