Mesa free press., 1898-09-09
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Some Important Happenings in
the South
THAT MAY PLEASE OUR READERS
An Assortment of Newsy Events That
Occurred in our Midst That Cannot
Fail to interest.
Fail to Interest.

FAIL Co lnC0ToBGs
1t will be long time before Porto
Rico rivals Southern California as
winter resort.
That prohibition still has strong
hold on Pasadena is shown by the fact
that a provision of the new charter
soon to be submitted to the voters ex-
cludes from office any person addicted
to drunkenness.
An aged German named Henry
Schuelz has been arrested at San RAJ
fael on a charge of counterfeiting. An
extensive outfit for the manufacture
of spurious coin was found in the
woods near town, where he has been
camping during the entire summer.
On cent piece dated 1863, which
was received at the Los Angeles post
office window are a flag in half relief
and the words, ''The flag of our coun-
try" On the opposite side are the let
ters I'D x" and the words Anybody
attempting to tear it down, shoot him
on the spot"
George Mcknight brought to Santa
Monica a mammoth onion, which was
grown from the seed on his ranch in
Clearwater this year. 1t is of the
Denver Silver skin variety and is a
beauty, weighing two and a half
pounds. 1t is a smooth, clean-looking
bulb and is remarkably solid.
Capt. Edward Collister, inspector of
British naval stations in the Pacific,
has visited Esquimalt dock yard with
view to making arrangements for
increasing the Notifications there. 1t
is said that Great Britain is looking for
some land in the Pacific near Honolulu
ito seize for a coaling station.
The Tehachapi Times, which no
doubt heartily sympathizes with the
the Algerian policy of the war depart
ment: sThe Seventh California, being
denied Manila, will now probably be
sent to garrison Los Angeles and pro-
tect it from Poker Davis and the old
Water Company
1t was unnecessary for the San Di-
ego correspondent to say that the coast
survey chart compiled by Command
ant Dewey in 1874-75, covering points
on this coast and in the Gulf of Califor-
MIA, is a first-rate one Nobody would
expect anything else of George Dewey.
His work in recently changing the map
of the Philippines has been equally eff
ficient.
The enterprise looking to the estab-
lishment of steamship line between
San Diego and the Orient is only a
hint of what is to come, in the not dis
tant future, in the way of commercial
development on the Pacific coast. A
measure of such development was in
sight before the war, but it has been
given greatly increased impetus
through events incidental to the war;
The Redlands Facts, which presuma-
bly, deals in facts, says: 1t is reported
that on Sunday, August Ia, there were
twenty Redlands people in one of the
churches of Santa Barbara. The Facts
should have been more explicit, more
comprehensive in its statement. Are
there no churches in Redlands? Do
the people of that city have to go as
far as Santa Barbara, even beyond
Los Angeles, to reach the state Of
grace?
Encouraging reports have reached
Pasadena from the scene of the forest
fire north of Barley Flats. A number
of men who have been fighting the
fire came down from Switzer's Camp
through the Arroyo Seco. They say
the fire there is now under control. A
force of about twenty-five men is still
at the fire, but it is expected that all
but enough to patrol the district will
leave for Pasadena.
Ostrich raising in this state is now
in apromising condition, several farms
being in operation. Quantities of raw
feathers are being shipped to New
York, and the market for plumes prom
ises to be more extensive this winter
than ever before. The South Pasa-
Il