Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1898-06-24
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.
The Oregon election resulted in
victory for the entire Republican
ticket
Count HI. Matsu, the new japanese
consul to San Francisco, has arrived
from the Orient.
A molding and single mill was
burned to the ground atEureka The
loss was about $4,000.
Brigham Hamilton Young, nephew
of Brigham Young, and pioneer of
Utah, died at Alameda
A new counterfeit half dollar has
made its appearance in Oakland. 1t is
made of lead and a little glass.
A Call special says Patrick Calvin of
Tacoma is negotiating mining deal
involving $8,000,000 in the Klondike
district.
Work on railroad across White
pass from Skaguay has been COM
menced. Over 1000 men are employed
| on the road.
Important improvements are to be
made at Stanford University this sum-
mer. Plans for new building to cost
/ $4,000 are being made.
Silas Craddoch, an old gentleman 1iv-
ing near Hoplan, being afraid of banks,
some time ago secreted $4,000 in gold in
a hole in the ground. The money dis
appeared few days ago.
Three United States customs officials
were arrested in Skaguay on charges
of having entered into a conspiracy to
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whisky to be struggled into Alaska.
Abraham King, prominent capital
list and ex-banker of San Jose, has been
indicted on seven counts for forgery in
connection with his management of the
estate of Stephen Hobson, an insane
person.
The United States artillery encamp-
ment at the Preside has been named
Camp Miller, in honor of Brigadier
General Miller. There are now in camp
here 682 officers and men, the enlisted
men numbering 500.
Negotiations have been actively re-
newed between the War Department
and the steamship companies on the
Pacific coast for the charter of ships
to transport ships and war munitions
from San Francisco to the Philippines.
| California wine dealers are much
worked up over the reciprocity ar
rangement between this country and
France, which is now in force. They
claim that they have been sacrificed
to the advantage of the beef and pork
packers of Chicago.
General Merritt's latest order for the
campaign in the Philippines is that
battery Of six mountain howitzers shall
be taken on the next expedition. To
move the guns, carriages and ammuni-
ton in the Philippines a pack train of
mules will be required. 1t is under
stood that Lieutenant Carson, Fourth
United States Cavalry, will be in COM
mand of the battery.
i B. J. Keller, who has just returned
to Skaguay from Tagish Lake, says
that steam and gasoline launches are
now running on Lakes Bennett and
Linderman. No steam vessel has got
past the Cariboo crossing this spring.
but small boats are daily making the
run. 1t is his belief that at least twenty
persons have been drowned on the lakes
since the ice began to break up.
L. R. Fulda, agent of the Alaska Ex-
ploration company, writes form Daw-
son City that property there is held at
most fabulous prices, values having in
creased hundred fold within a year.
The water front is in the hands of
syndicate, which recently asked the
agent of a British company $1,000 rent
month for strip 800 feet long along
the river. Several fine buildings are
now being built in Dawson.
A.
source of anxiety to the residents of
Richmond and to good people The
board of health was petitioned to take
measures to improve the sanitary con-
dition of the camp as it is menace to
/ the neighborhoOd. The police COM
mission refuses to grant any more sa-
loon licenses in the vicinity. The Sal
walton Army declares that girls should
not visit the camp without chaper-
ones.
The new stern wheel steamer Iskoot,
belonging to the Klondike Mining,
Trading and Transportation Company
has been wrecked on a rock. She was
on her way to the Stickeen river in
charge of Captain McLennan and Pilot
O'Brien. It is stated that the pilot mis-
took the channel which leads into West
inlet for the mouth of the Skeena river
The Iskoot was one of the finest equip
ped river vessels on the Pacific coast
She was insured for $4,000.
William M. Stanley of Seattle, the
rich Klondiker, received letter last
week from his son, Samuel Stanley,
now at Dawson, stating that the sum-
mer cleanup of the dumps of their
Ell Dorado creek mines would exceed
100000. The young man announced
that he does not care to take the re-
sponsibility, in view of possible Spanish
pirates, of bringing out this amount of
gold dust. Accordingly Stanley, ST.,
left tonight for Dawson, being a pas
senger on the steamer Rosalie. Before
his departure he expressed the opinion