Mesa free press., 1898-09-23
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.
Herbert Brown, editor of the Tucson,
Ariz., Citizen, has been appointed SUI
perintendent of the territorial prison
at Yuma.
Officers are trying to solve the mys-
terry of the finding of human leg in
the river near Red Bluff. There is a
general belief that murder has been
committed.
A fire at Vina destroyed fifteen Chi
nese cabins, together with the resi-
dences Of Mrs. D. Hilderbrand and P.
N. Reno. Total loss, about 5000, with
small insurance.
William Ogilvie, with his secretary
and valet and several sub officers, has
reached Skaguay on his way to Daw-
son, where he supersedes Major Walsh
las yukon commissioner
A premature blast occurred near
Brooklyn, B. c., killing three work.
men, who were engaged in excavating
rock One man was thrown 700 feet
down the mountain by the explosion.
The convalescent hospital of the
Oakland Red Cross Society is the first
hospital of the kind to be opened on
this coast. It contains twenty pa
tients, nearly all from the Fifty-first
Iowa regiment.
There is a likelihood of a series of
big bike meetings on the Pacific coast,
including Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle
and Tacoma. Arrangements looking
~ icit nf oil hn 10 n~o a1yc
are now on foot
It is reported from Unalaska that the
Arctic whaling feet, which has been
imprisoned in the ice since last year,
has been crushed by the breakup.
There were five large vessels in the
fleet. The rumor is not verified.
Eugene G. Ross, a colored employe
of the Sacramento postofice, who
pleaded guilty last week to a charge
of having stolen registered letter
containing $73, was yesterday SEN
fenced to one year at hard labor in
Folsom prison.
A forest fire swept over On area of
several hundred acres in close proxin-
| i:y to Vancouver last week, and Tor a
u. =
troops from the barracks were called
out to fight the fire and Il was placed
ul.der control.
There is no yellow fever a; New Or
leans DR.. Carter of tho Mari1o Hos
pisa! service. completed his investiga-
ton of the two cases suspected hy DR..
DuEE of Mississippi, AMI announced
that the evidence didnot establish the
diagnosis of yellow fever.
The steamer Jennie arrived at San
Francisco recently with nearly $2,000,-
600 in gold from Alaska, and had six
boxes Of the metal for the Canadian
Bank of Commerce, and three boxes
! for the Alaska Commercial company,
each box weighing $50 pounds.
While coming out Of a spur track at
Bobrante Siding, near Port Costa,
freight train No. 25 had it's engine
thrown off the track and badly dam
aged by being run into by the engine
of freight No. 21 Engineers Rozino
and Edgar, with their firemen, escaped
injury by jumping from the engines.
Report comes from Skaguay that
Commissioner Ogilvie, for the Canadi-
an government, declares his intention
to collect the full amount of royalty
from all miners operating in the Klon-
dixie. He declared that as the roy
atty is law of the land he certainly
will exact the full 10 per cent on all
output over the $2800 exemption.
In response to the request Of the
San Francisco chamber of commerce
that the Presidio be fitted up as a per-
manent camp, G.. w. Meiklejohn has
informed Senator Perkins that the cost
has been estimated at $55,O0O. The
Quartermaster-G General has expressed
the opinion that existing conditions
would not justify this large expendi-
ture.
Two important injunction suits were
called up in the United States Circuit
Court at San Francisco last week, the
cases being that of the Southern Pa
cif1c Railway company against the
State Board of Railroad Commissioners
and that Of the United States of Amer
lea against the Coal Dealers assocI-
alton of San Francisco. BY consent of
the counsel the cases went over until
October 25.
Consul McCook writes from Dawson
City, Alaska, that the price Of pro-
visions is very high (exceeding by 25
per cent those Of last year), and lodg-
ing is hardly to be had at any price
He states that destitution and suffering
is imminent for many of the unfortu-
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