Mesa free press., 1898-10-28
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
TENS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A Summary OF Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.

Representative Mason has just ar
rived at Vancouver, B. c., from
Dawson. He reports Yukon naviga-
tion is now closed by the ice.
The tourist hotel under construction
by the Northern Pacific Land Company
at Tacoma was burned last week
Loss, 100000. The cause is thought
to be incendiary.
The steamer City of Pana, which has
arrived at San Francisco from South
American ports, brings reports of afro
cious cruelties perpetrated on politi-
cal prisoners in Salvador.
The California Red Cross Society
has sent to o. H. J. Schlott, its Ma
Mia agent, cable order for $1,000 and
instructions to draw on Shanghai
bank for $500, to be used for First
California Volunteers in the hospital
The insurance losses on the Pacific
coast last month were the heaviest
Of any September for four years
amounting to $704, OLA. This brings the
total for the first nine months of the
year to $4,350,592, which is the high
est for five years.
Over twenty-five thousand acres OF
land in the San Joaquin Valley are
being planted to wheat by Clovis Cole
| of Clovis Planting began last July
and will continue until February. Up
to the last rain 10000 acres had been
planted, which is up and looks we'll.
The forty-fourth annual session of
the Grand Encampment, I. o. o. f.,
Department Military Council and Pa
triarchs Militant is being held in San
Jose this week. There will be regi-
mental dress parade, prize and exhi-
bition drills, concluding with grand
ball.
Arthur Won Ziegligen, who commit
ted suicide two weeks ago at Oakland
left the finest collection of pipes on
the coast. The collection is valued at
$1,000, and comprises n1eerschanms
briars, blackthorns, pOrcelains and
clays of rare designs. 1t will be sold
to some collector.
The dealers who control the pine
market have formed an associa1ipl to
be known as the Lumber ManAfActur-
ers of the Pacific Coast, and have ad-
vanced the price from $3.50 and $40 10
$11 per thousand, cargo delivery. 1t
is expected the redwood merchants
will come into the combine.
President White of the University Of
Southern California is taking a
firm stand with students who
indulge in rowdyism, five mem
bers of the sophomore class hav-
ing been suspended for fighting or
as it is euphemistically called rush
ing" Fun, The presiden. seems to
think, is one thing and fighting an
other.
Fletcher S. Heath of New York has
sailed from San Francisco on the
steamer Gaelic for Honolulu to estab-
lish a new national bank there. 1t will
be called the First National Bank of
Hawaii, and will have a capitaliZa-
tion of $1,000,000. The Anglo-California
bank of San Francisco and number
of prominent Hawaiian capitalists
are at the. bottom of the corporation.
1t is not known where the Philadel-
phia is tn be sent on her next cruise,
but her destination is likely to be
either Honolulu or Somoa. First, how
ever, she will be overhauled and re-
paired at Mare Island. Admiral Mill
ler, who is to go on the retired list
early next month, will in few days
turn his flagship over to Commodore
Kautz, his successor in charge OF the
Pacific station.
The official report of George Y. Ell
dredge of the geological survey party
which has returned from the Cook In
let country, states that the expedition
some few months back, discovered, a
huge mountain to the right of Susit-
ma river, the exact height of which,
by scientific calculation, is more than
10000 feet 1t was named BullshOe,
a word spoken in exclamation by the
Indian guide on first behOlding the
peak. 1t towers high above st. Elias,
and is the tallest on the North Ameri-
can continent.
1t is currently reported in CONNER
cial circles at San Francisco that the
Charguers Reunis line of French
steamers will be extended to that city
and that they will ply between there
and Havre. 1t is understood that
vessels are now being built in France
for this trade, and that the principal
ports. of South America will be includ-
ed in the list Of stopping places. The
agent of the company is now investi-
eating the wharfage facilities of San
Francisco and has been assured that
every facility will be rendered the
company should it be decided to put
on line of steamers.
The site for the barracks and dock
for the proposed training naval station
on Goat Island have been selected by
Capt Francis w. Dickens of the Bu-
reau of Navigation of the Navy De-
partment. The buildings will be To-
Gated on the low fiat ground to the
northeast of the island, and the dock
will be placed east of the lighthouse
docks, where the water is deep enough
to permit of the training ship being
brought close to shore. The annrO-