Mesa free press., 1898-09-02
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.


Readers.
Salt Lake and Los Angeles are grad
ualIy getting closer together. Before
long they will clasp hands across the
sands.
Col. William Forsythe of Santa Cruz
has gone to Fresno to make prepara-
tions for rebuilding his raisin packing
mousse. which was destroyed by fire on
Saturday.
Eghteen hundred and ninety-eight
Will be remembered by historians as
the year when we found out the real
value OF education by newspapers,
prophesies the Land of Sunshine.
I Creditors of the estate of the late
Adolph Sutro of San Francisco have
been busy for several days making an
investigation touching the condition of
the property. 1t has been ascertained
that the total Indebtedness is slightly
over 100000, and that the appraised
value is more than three times that
much.
An effort is being made by Regent
Foote to provide for a special chair in
the State University to be devoted to
instruction in the Sapnish language
At present Spanish is made subsidiary
to French and comparatively little at
tention is given to it. The growth
present and prospective,of our CONNER
cial intercourse with Mexico and the
Central American states, where Span
ish Is spoken almost exclusively, is
abundant reason for giving that Ian
guage prominent place in the curricu-
lum.
Capt. J. j. Meyler U. S. A., in charge
of the fOrtification works at Ballast
Point, has decided to go ahead with the
construction of the fourth emplace-
ment for the disappearing ten-inch
rifles. About seventy-five to 100 men
will be employed on the works, besides
a number OF, teams. Capt. Meyler is
authority for the statement that the
fourth emplacement will cost 100000,
and will be finished in about four
months. The first three emplacements
are finished, and have their guns all
mounted and ready to shoot.
The merchants of Pleasanton and vi
cinity are many thousand dollars out
of pocket through the desertion of
about three hundred Japanese contract
laborers from the beet-felds of the val
ley. The Japanese deserted just as the
crop is ready for harvest, and the re-
suit may be a considerable loss to beet
growers. There are about seventeen
hundred acres in beets in the valley
this season. The men, before leaving,
had given orders on their employers to
merchants for provisions probably
amounting to more than was due them
in wages.
1t is reported that several of the
largest Los Angeles houses have de-
termined to extend their trade to the
Orient by means of the San Diego
steamship line. Representatives are
to be sent at once to arrange connec-
tions in the far east before the inaugu-
ration of the line Hardware, ma
chinery, iron, cotton, -four and manu-
factured goods of all kinds are in most
demand, both in China and Japan, and
if the Philippines are retained by the
United States, the steamers will call at
Manila, or establish connections with
that coming metropolis.
The report of S. T. Black, superin-
t"ndent of public instruction, just is.
sued, shows the present number of
school children in California to be
347,620, net gain since 1890 of 65 5,361,
year. but what will interest the people
of Los Angeles county most is the fac:
that this county shows a greater i'll
crease than any other in the state, not
excepting San Francisco, the net in
crease in this county since 1890 being
1853, while that of San Francisco,
which comes next, is 1902 Alpine,
Glenn, Lake, Modoc, Napa, Nevada,
Sierra, Stanislaus, Sutter, Trinity and
Yuba counties all show losses.
Naturally, being from California,
young Finlay, the hero of the fight at
Malate, is also an Angeleno. The faith
er of this lad, J. A. Finlay, was the
local agent of the Southern Pacific rail-
road in this city for several years. He
was relieved in April, 1888, and went
to Guatemala as superintendent Of
railway owned in that country by
some Of the members of the corpora
tion operating the Southern Pacific
road. Young Finlay, the hero, went to
school here. He is half Spanish, his
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has made name for himself that like
wise honors his flag and his country.
" hen the hero roster is made up, tho
lame Of Finlay will be close to the
head of the list.
A contract was signed in Salt Lake
City by the Oregon Short Line officials
and Utah and Montana syndicate for
tho construction of railway frcm
Milford, the terminus of the Utah Cen
tral railway to Phoebe, New. This
only leaves gap of about 200 miles
from f'ioche to tho Vanderbilt mines
near the Arizona border in California,
which are reached by branch OF the
Santa Fo Pacific. Attorney T. e. Glib
bon of the Terminal said that Will, he
had rot received official notice Of the
letting OF the contract, he was not at
all surprised that the road was actually
going to be built. He also said that it |
was rot an indication that the road |
would be Immediately extended into
Southern California, but that it might