Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1898-02-18
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A Summary of Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.


The Republican State Central Com
mittee Of Oregon has decided to hold
the State convention in Astoria, April
a.
r. L. Thompson of Santa Rosa, ex-
Minister to Brazil. who has held many
others positions of honor, committed
suicide.
The Sacramento City Board of
Health has declared in favor OF the
appointment Of milk, food and market
inspector
Forty San Francisco druggists are
to be arrested charged with selling
imitation pills. Complainants are
eastern patent-medicine men.
E. l.. Colnon, Harbor Commissioners
of San Francisco has been charged
in the Superior Court with receiving
brides from Darby, Laydon & Co., a
contracting firm.
The Police Court Of Sacramento has
been declared illegal, because of de-
fective laws creating it, and all acts
and criminal sentences are void. Com
plications will ensue.
! Robert Fithie, bridge contractor, has
discovered deposit of natural cement
at ST. Helena, CAL, much superior to
the imported article, and which can
be procured at less cost.
The Olympic Club Of San Francisco
has signed Peter Jackson and Jim JEFF
fries for twenty go. The men
will meet about March 20 in the Me-
chanics' Pavilion at San Francisco.
Thirty-two of the thirty-four nom
American fire insurance companies do
ing business in California justified in
new bonds yesterday and rendered
them to, Commissioner Clunie for ac-
ceptance.
The largest brandy still in the world
is that of Ell Pinal Vineyard, near
Stockton When running at full capac-
ity it converts $4,000 gallons of wine
into about four thousand gallons of
brandy per day.
Insurance companies not incOrpOr-
ated in California are proceeding with
business, notwithstanding Insurance
Commissioner Clunie's opinion that
they are here illegally. The matter
will soon get into court
Four thousand cigars and three gall
Ions of mescal were seized by San
Francisco customs inspectors on the
steamer Orizaba from Mazatlan. The
cigars were enclosed in flour sacks
and evidently smuggled.
The aerial tramway over Chilkoot
Pass is now in operation, and the trip
is now made from tide water at Dyea
to the hea6waters Of the Yukon at
Lake Linderman in one day. Hereto
fore it required one month.
The will of Elizabeth l.. Harger,
widow of John s. Harger Of San Fran
cisco, has been filed for probate. The
value of the estate is not known, but
it is thought to amount to about $780,
900, all of which is bequeathed to her
children.
On January 81, Nels P. Johnston, a
Swede, rs years old, was struck by
the main boom of the schooner Alice en-
route from San Pedro to Eureka and
killed instantly. Capt. Elbak was also
knocked down, but sustained no seri-
GUS injury.
Rev. Thomas H. Sinex, one of the
best-known Methodist ministers on
the Pacific Coast, died at Pacific Grove
He was a native of Indiana, aged 80
years. had been a minister Of the gos-
pei for fifty-five years and came to
California thirty years ago.
There was riot at Skaguay Janu-
airy 81 when the steamer Al-ki ar
rived there and attempted to unload
with a crew of Indians from Juneau
the Skaguay longshoremen making a
furious attack upon the Indians The
Skaguay crowd won and secured the
work.
Evidence has been placed before the
San Francisco grand jury that mem
bers Of the Board Of Education Of that
city have been trafficking in positions
in the school department, and all Of
the directors are to be subpoenaed to
appear before the jury at its meeting
next Thursday.
The Volunteers of America has re-
ceived substantial encouragement in
their work on the Pacific Coast. A
lady, who wished to conceal her iden-
tity, has decided the organization an
orange orchard of twenty acres stu
ated at Thermalito, near Oroville,
valued at $4,000.
The trial of the case Of H. Vein
stock against the publishers of the
Sacramento Bee for $4,000 for alleged
libel has begun. 1t is the second suit
of the kind growing out Of publica-
lions in the Bee concerning Weinstock
and the Won Arnold-City Trustees
scandal year ago.
David Ward, a large timber owner
of Michigan, has secured 10000 acres
of timber land. $500 of which are To-
Gated in Del Norte county and 5000
acres along the klamath River, Hum
boldt county. The price paid is said
to be 100000. The tract comprises
some of the finest timber land in both
counties.
Card sharps and bunco men are
rushing into Skaguay and Dyea.
Rank carelessness on the part of
the pilot is given as the cause of run
ming the steamer Corona on the reef.