Mesa free press., 1898-11-11
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.

| Large numbers of counterfeit 500
silver certificates have been produced
in San Francisco.
The statement Of the sealing indus
| try shows total of but 27,S65 skins.
the lightest catch in many years.
William A. Melville, sentenced to
| San Quentin for embezzlement. has
been released through the efforts of his
! friends.
| Ben Wandell, rancher who disap-
peared from his home near Mt. Ham
ilton. has been found. He was wildly
crazy and ran for three miles before he
could be caught.
Passengers on the Cottage City, just
arrived at Victoria, report the Yukon
full Of ice and travel to Dawson sus-
pended. Also that new lake has been
discovered in the Atlin country.
Pardo Lucero, alias "El Vaquero," !"
| died at the County Hospital at Salinas
last week. Records of the Mission of
Los Angeles and Soledad show him to
be 125 years old. He came from So
nora, Mex.
The grand jury at San Francisco has
District Attorney has placed before
them all the evidence and hopes for
| immediate action. The authorities will
endeavor to have her tried in this
state.
Miss Eva Blankart and Col. Freder-
ick Funston, goth Kansas regiment,
were married last week at the home Of
the bride in Oakland Col. Funston
has since left for Manila, and his wife
will follow on the first passenger
steamer
The Spring Valley Water Works of
Oakland has conveyed to the Union
Trust company of San Francisco prop
erty to the value of $4,000,0O0 in con-
sideration of that amount of third
mortgage bonds The war revenue
stamps affixed amounted to $4,000.
The grand jury of Oakland charges
that Frank ]. Thwaites, now dead, had
drawn from the treasury $4,000 by
raising the amounts of his warrants.
Charges of other irregularities in bills
allowed by the Supervisors were made,
and expenses of the County Infirmary
were declared excessive.
The Nevada Indian affair is greatly
exaggerated. An Indian and white man
quarreled over broken bottle of whis-
ky. The Indian cut the white man,
who administered a threshing to the
drunken red man. The latter was
arrested, which excited his broth
ers, who say they will kill the white
man, but do not threaten others.
The firstPullman coach has arrived for
the Oregon Short Line. 1t is a brand
new car, and is full of devices for the
comfort of the passengers. The inside
is fitted up in mahogany in varied
shades and the berths and seats are
highly polished. The car is 72 feet long
and has IL sections. 1t will be placed
on the Butte division of the road.
Receipts of wine and brandy at San
Francisco during the first nine months
Of the year were as follows, compared
with the same period in 1897: OF wine,
II 1888, 300 gallons, against 1871 900; of
brandy, 176,950, against 94,715. The
exports of wine from that port by sea
during the nrst nine months of 1898
were. 1865 900 gallons, against 3,566,00O
in 1897.
The Gardener party of Fresno and
the White party Of Michigan have re-
turned to Vancouver from the Peace
River country, have spent all they had
and found nothing which they could
carry away. There was gold every
where, but so fine it f1oated on water
and there was not enough to pay. The
only pay creek in the country has been
sold to Englishman for $4,000.
George Lavigne and Tom Tracy, two
of the most widely known pugilists of
their class in the world. have signed
to box twenty rounds before the Ma
tional Athletic club of San Francisco
on the night of November %. 1t is
agreed that each man shall weigh 142
pounds or less "at the ring side," and
it is further stipulated that the referee
shall be selected twenty-four hours
before the time set for entering the
ring.
DIR. A. B. Wise, county. veterinary
surgeon of San Bernardino, has re-
turned from an official visit to Daggett
and other points on the desert where
Texas fever has been raging among
the herds of cattle. The cattle owners
are still losing stock as result of the
fever and many are dying daily of star
vation, there being but little feed in
that section. The doctor reports that
the owners who are using crude oil
as a remedy against the fever have lost
none of their stock since adopting that
method.
The Sacramento Bee pokes a little
fun at the college boys, as follows: 1t
has become quite fad of late to have
students from the Stanford and Berke-
ley universities speak at public meet
ings for the candidates for governor.
We have read their speeches so far in
this campaign, and can scarcely help
the conclusion that Mcguire put up
the boys to make the speeches which
they did for Gage, and that Gage was
guilty Of the orations which the COL
legians endeayored to palm off as argu-
ments for Mcguire.