Mesa free press., 1898-01-28
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.

longs place, near Duncan, AriZ.
There are a total of 24O,952 school
children in the State, and the total
apportionment is $2,035, 483.44.
Carrot Cochran, the famous Prince
ton end, will coach the University of
California football team next season.
The single mills of the State will
be closed until February l. An ad-
vance in rates of about 10 cents per
1000 has been inaugurated.
The Governor has issued a procIa-
nation declaring January "a legal
holiday, in honor of the opening Of the
Golden Jubilee in San Francisco.
Mrs. James l.. Flood, wife of the
millionaire mine-owner, died in San
Francisco as the result OF an opera
ton performed at the Woman's Hos
pital. She was only "a years of age.
The Supervisors of Fresno county
have resolved to- maintain an exhibit
of that county in the State Board OF
Trade at San Francisco, and have
voted SIS per month to keep it up.
San Francisco and Oakland are
forming "home leagues" pledged not
to patronize the big Emporium. Many
of the smaller stores have been almost
crushed by San Francisco's latest oc-
topus.
| Gov. McCord has requested confer
ence at Phoenix, on the Oath, of county
assessors and representatives Of the
boards of supervisors of the Territory,
that more uniform tax rate may be
arrived at.
More than ten thousand people are
waiting in Seattle till spring, SO that
they can hurry to Klondike. It is
estimated that the Klondike excite
ment has brought more than $6,O0O,-
900 to Seattle alone.
L. D. Brown, a prominent educator,
Superintendent of Public instruction
in Ohio, president Of the University
Of Nevada and Superintendent of
Schools at Los Angeles.
Among the new buildings which will
be built at San Jose during the early
portion Of the new year are the $75,-
600 high school, the $4,000 Phelan
Theater, and the $4,000 addition to
the Hensley and the Martin block.
1t is authoritatively stated that the
Valley road will be in operation be-
! tween Bakersfield and Stockton by
the first of March. The line is now
within the boundaries of Kern county
and building at the rate of six miles
per week.
The Union Pacific has obtained con-
troll of the Oregon Short Line and the
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pany. This gives the Vanderbilts a
through line from New York to the
Pacific Coast, covering distance of
1920 miles.
Byron Waters has gone to Washing
ton, DC, to appear before the Su-
preme Court Of the United States in
| two Mexican land grant case. In one
he represents Mrs. Hearst of San
Francisco, and in the other gentle
man from Arizona.
Ex-President Cleveland has ad-
dressed a second communication on
the subject to Gov. Budd, urging the
exercise of executive clemency in the
case of Salter D. Worden, convicted
of murder in connection with train
wrecking during the great railroad
strike Of 1894, and sentenced to be
hanged February II.
Count Won Goetzen, military attache
of the German embassy, was married
in Washington to Mrs. Mary Stanley
at the residence Of his bride. The
Count and his bride have started for
a trip across the continent. They will
stay for a time at Los Angeles, and
will then go to Berlin, where Count
Won Goetzen will rejoin his regiment,
now at Potsdam.
The amount of the contract of the
| Valley road tunnel near Rodeo will
be something like $780, Or $500,0OO.
This new tunnel is to be 500 feet in
length. 1t will be the third longest
tunnel in California. The longest
is that of the Southern Pacific near
San Fernando, which is 1900 feet long;
the next, that on the Southern Pa
! cific's road to Santa Cruz, which is
about six thousand feet long, and the
fourth, that on the Southern Pa
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