Mesa free press., 1898-10-21
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.
An American made railroad in
China to cost forty million dollars, the
material of which will be taken chief
iy from our Pacific coast, is late an
nouncement
The State Grange at Oakland in
dorsed the projected free public mar
ket In San Francisco. Permanent
committees have been appointed by
Worthy Master Greer.
An explosion of gas in the Tesla
coal mines at Corral Hollow, near
stockton. caused the serious injuring
OF nve miners, one of whom, Shift
Boss Harrington may die.
The Gaelic on her last trip brought
to San Francisco $1,300,000 in Japan
ese gold yen, making total Of over
$4,OOO,OOO thus far this year. Depres-
sion in exchange is the cause.
The steamers Brixham and Tilla-
nook have arrived at Seattle from st.
Michaels with $50 passengers, about
fifty of whom are from Dawson. A
small amount Of dust is brought out.
San Francisco is actually going to
replace the cobblestones of Market
street with a bituminous pavement.
Where is the fellow who has the te-
merity to say that the world doesn't
move?
Capt. e. T. Wilson, Third artillery,
U. S. A., who has been connected with
the harbor defenses and mine fields of
San Francisco bay, has accepted the
promotion to be major and commits
sary of subsistence.
T. B. Sage, representing the sugar
trust, is in Fresno, trying to interest
farmers in sugar beet culture. If suf
ficient acreage can be obtained, fac
tory will probably be built there soon,
though at first it Is intended to ship
the beets to factories now in opera
tiOn..
The San Francisco Call says that
the Realty Syndicate of Oakland,
which controls nearly all the street
car lines of that place, proposes to put
on a line of steel ferryboats for pas
senger service across the bay. The
Oakland terminus, it is said, will be
at Emeryville.
The San Francisco mint coined in
September $6,24O,OO0 in double eagles,
$3.50 900 in eagles, $915, 200 in half ca
giles, and $8O,250 in half dollars; total,
81, ,465 ,25O; against $6,184,0OO for the
same month last year. The coinage for
the first nine months of the year
amounts to $48,3O3,732, against $27,-
136,935 for the same time of 1897.
The fiftieth anniversary of the first
woman suffrage convention was cele-
brated in San Francisco last week.
While in few instances women have
secured the right of the ballot, in 9TH
er lines great progress has been made
during the last fifty years. What per-
centage of credit is due to woman suf-
frage must remain a debatable ques-
ton.
Foreign imports at San Francisco
during the first eight months Of the
year were $24, 1856, 900, against $26,
900 during the same time in 1897, and
included $5,8O6,3OO from Japan, A.
387, 900 from China, $1,276,OOO from
Great Britain, $8,341 900 from the Ha-
waiian Islands, $1,718,0O0 from Central
America, $1,435,0OO from British CO.
lumbia, and 81 1899, 900 from the East
Indies.
The lumber raft which has been
floating around the Pacific for two
weeks was towed into San Francisco
last week. The original raft was built
at Astoria, Or, and was taken in tow,
but had to be abandoned during a
storm. The raft broke up, but a great
er portion of it fouled off Pigeon Point
and it was this piece that was saved
by the tugs. It is $50 feet long and
worth $4,000.
The old steamer Professor Morse,
which assisted the Great Eastern to
lay the first cable across the Atlantic,
is lying at the Fulton Iron Works,
San Frncisco, and will probably be
broken up. She was purchased In
New Orleans for $4,000 and brought
to this coast to run to Klondike, but
the boom was over before she arrived.
Her boilers have been condemned and
it is not believed that she is worth
repairing.
Nearly seven hundred and fifty Chi
nese are now at the Pacific Mail dock,
San Francisco, awaiting entrance to
the United States and they are fearful
that they will be sent to their native
land at any day. The steamship COM
pany. is tired of feeding them, and the
stories they all tell about being native
born are so vague that it takes an
hour or two to question each Celestial.
Five hundred more are due within
two weeks.
The Canadian police are complet-
ing the establishment Of a chain of
police stations along the Upper Yukon
from Dawson City to Lake Bennett.
The stations are about thirty miles
apart. Five men have been detailed
for each post. Each station has supplies
for two years and numerous dogs. The
soldiers are to carry dispatches and
facilitate the forwarding of mails, and
are instructed to assist all travellers,
of whom 5000 to 5000 are expected to
come out over the ice.