Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1898-08-19
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.

1t Is estimated that the salmon pack
Tor 1898 on the Columbia river Will be
100000 cases below the average.
The San Francisco Chamber of Com
merce has received letter from Adj
miral Dewey thanking it for the reso-
luton adopted in his honor.
Under Instructions from T. v. Pow
derly, ommissioner-Ge of Immi-
grafton, Hart North, the local commits
sloner, will commence an investigation
or the status of the Chinese highlander
tongs of San Francisco.
A letter, from Charles Thornton re-
ceived at Seattle, announces the wreck
OF the schooner Moonlight on July End
at the mouth Of the Kawayk river.
The passengers and their outfits were
saved, also the cargo of lumber.
| Hart H. North, Commissioners I'M
migration at San Francisco, has re-
ceived instructions from Washington
| to treat all immigrants from Hawaii
as alien immigrants until such time as
laws can be perfected to govern them.
Word is received of stampede
from the Copper river country to this
coast, and that 5000 men are making
their way over the Valdes glacier,
many of whom are doomed to starva-
| ton unless the United States govern
ment sends relief promptly.
The man who robbed the Elmira de-
pot has been captured by Deputy Sher-
| if Clarke, who found him burying the
treasure. The sum of $140 was found
under clod, also complete outfit of
| burglars tools, dynamite caps and
| fuse. He gave he name of Frank
Peters
Letters received at Port Townsend,
| Wash, state that many prospectors be-
| tween Copper River and Cooks Inlet,
| Alaska, have abandoned their search
| for gold and are locating coal mines.
The country is said to be one mass of
coal, in which is claimed to be an ex-
cellent quality of Ignite.
The State Board of Equalization
| finds that there is general decline in
| values, except in the mountain coun-
ties, where the rolls have, as rule,
been increased on account of mine de-
velopment Drought has caused the
shrinkage in valley values, and it is
estimated the roll will fall many mill
| ions short.
President M. Theodore Kearney of
| the California Raisin Growers Asso-
citation, has announced the success of
the plan to pool the raisin product of
| the State. He states that IS per cent.
of the crop of Fresno, Tulare, MADEIRA
and Kings counties has been con-
| OF cd nd thof of
| the crop of Kern county has been
| thrown into the pool.
G. E. Sevey, arriving at San Francis
co on the Doric, tells of the impending
revolution in China. He says the poor
have been squeezed by the Mandarins
and Governors until they absolutely
have nothing, and That the drought
will certainly cause an uprising, when
the American missionaries in the
northern and central parts will proba-
| bly, suffer at the hands of the mad mob.
Nineteen companies on the COmskock
have given notice of intention to re-
duce the par value of their shares
from 500 to amounts varying from 81
to So a share. The directors of the two
exceptions, the Overman and the Vel
| low Jacket, have decided to form two
new companies, with reduced capital
stock, to take over the entire assets of
| the old corporations.
Word has been received at General
Miller's headquarters at Camp Merritt
from General Merriam, the first official
designation of the troops who will sail
on the Scandal and Arizona. 1t came
in an order requiring the troops for
the expedition to have tin plates re-
placed with meat cans, and incidental
ly naming the forces. They are: The
Seventh California Volunteers, last
battalion of the Eighteenth Regulars,
and last battalion of the Twenty
third Regulars.
General Merriam, commanding the
Department o. California, has received
the following dispatch from Adjutant
General Corbin: "The President di-
reefs that if any of the military forces
of the Hawaiian Islands desire to be-
come a part of your volunteer army,
that you are authorized to organize not
to exceed one battalion O. infantry
nominating the officers, and causing
Lie OluCGTS duu Lueu 10 DG mustered III
to the service, and have. them report to
Col. Barber for duty.
Some three weeks ago sum of mon
ey was subscribed by citizens of Wood
land and sent to the mother of hero
Hobson to help pay the mortgage on
her home. The money was returned
with words of appreciation. The mon
.ey has been invested in the manufac-
ture of solid silver souvenirs, which
are inscribed as follows: "To Richard
P. Hobson, from admirers in Wood
land, Yolo county, California, to COM
memorate the sinking Of the Merri-
mac in the entrance to the harbor of
Santiago de Cuba, June 8, $685."
Major General Merriam has decided
to send no more troops to Alaska this
season. A years supplies for the
troops now there will be ordered sent
from Seattle at once. There are not
many soldiers in Alaska now. A COM
pany of the Fourteenth United States
Infantry is at Dyea and there is one at
Wrangel. Three officers and fifteen