Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1898-01-21
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.

Readers.
Jerome, Ariz., is to have $4,000
hotel.
The Arizona Press Association pro-
poses uniform newspaper page
San Jose expects to ship over o.
100000 pounds of prunes for the sea-
son.
F. E. Borrell of Montana is nego-
tiating for Il site for an ice manu-
featuring plant at San Pedro.
Yuba City is putting on frills since
the completion of it's olive oil mill. 1t
has forty gallons daily capacity.
| Thatcher, Ariz., is soon to have a
door and sash factory and planning
mill. The machinery is in position.
Commander c. M. Book has been de-
tached from the Mare Island navy yard
and ordered to command the Mohican.
The Fresno undertakers have formed
trust to control the price of bury
ing indigents. The figure has been
fixed at $40.
! A postoffice has been established at
the Tauquitz mines, to be known As
Kenworthy, with Charles w. Lockwood
as postmaster.
The whole fifteen non-partisan can
didates for freeholders at San Fran
cisco were elected by majorities OF
from 1900 10 5000.
The Valley road is laying track to-
ward Bakersfield at the rate of mile
q G nj O. o1 wit hi in
thirty miles of that city.
At Visalia recently Superior Judge
Grey held 20 be void $350,000 of bonds
of Alta Irrigation District, Tulare
county, because of illegal assessments.
Several rats IF piling have been
successfully toWed from the Columbia
River to San Francisco, but the raft
ing Of sawed lumber is a new under
taking.
None but California stone Will be
used in the new San Francisco Post
Office building The Inyo marble, if
possible to quarry it in large blocks,
has the preference.
Col Robert Williams has bought
the Montezuma Hotel at Indio, and
will build $4,000 addition, to include
big dining-room, a bar, and thirty
commodious bedrooms.
In the sale of $258, 900 in Territorial
5 per cent. bonds, which was consum-
mated this week, an annual saving Of
over $4,000 in interest is made. to
Arizona Territory. The bonds with ac-
orued interest were sold at par.
The legality of SITE, 900 OF Santa
Cruz municipal bonds has been at
tackled on the ground that they were
not sold to the highest bidder and
| that the proceeds were not paid into
the city treasury as provided by law.
The Eureka, Humboldt county,
Standard, is advocating the construc-
ton of two model highways to connect
Siskiyou and Trinity counties and
Humboldt Bay, and attract the trade
of tLcse two mining counties to the
latter.
The new board of directors of the
San Diego Chamber of Commerce has
organized by electing r. A. Thomas
president; r. V. Dodge, vice-president;
George w. MarstOn, second vice-presi-
dent. The election of secretary will
take place at the next meeting of the
board.
Twenty miles east of Los Angeles
the mountains are covered with snow,
and twenty miles west of Los Angeles
there are daily baths in the Pacific.
1t is such items as this that make the
average easterner wish ne could give
his property away and move to South
ern California.
The Ojai suggests a tennis tourna-
ment to be held in Nordhoff some
time in the spring, probably April rs.
1t will be a contest between North
and South California land some Of
the best players in the State, including
G. S. Hardy of Oakland, and the Whit
ney brothers, have Indicated their IN
tention to be present.
The last Legislature passed
stringent law for the protection OF the
hooking birds; and the small hoy
with his sling-shot and air-gun is
liable to land in Jail, if he doesn't look
out. Arrangements have been made to
read the law in all the schools of
Los Angeles and Pasadena at the open
ing OF the coming school years; and
it would be we'll for other towns to ar
loh6C IOI lilo S"uOOl chill
dren with the provisions Of the law
in the same way.
Within the next few months a raft
containing 100000 feet of lumber will
be constructed in Portland, Or, and
towed to San Francisco. John Poul-
sen, of the firm of Inman & Poulsen.
owners Of large sawmill here, de-
signed the raft, aud the firm Will, in
a few days, begin it's construction. 1t
will be 1896 feet long, fifty-three feet
wide, and will be so constructed that
only small portion will be above the
surface of the water.
The Tuberculosis Scare.
Hoard's Dairyman has the follow
ing comment ON the present agitation
over tuberculosis:
"The discovery of widespread ex-
istence of tuberculosis at Ottawa Tan.
among the herds supplying milk to the
pitV has saucpd tho dnro;,,;o,,