Mesa free press., 1898-04-08
COAST NEWS
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.

Inc state university at Berkeley,
celebrated it's thirtieth birthday last
week.
The citizens of San Rafael have de-
cided to hold rose carnival May 6
and Z.
Charles Hanson, the millionaire mill
owner and lumber dealer of Puget
Sound, died in San Francisco.
The California Good Roads League
is preparing an active campaign of
education through the state press.
Arrangements are being made for
the removal of the Stanford university
summer school to Pacific Grove.
The Supreme court of California has
rendered decision declaring the
Stratton primary law unconstitutional
San Francisco, No. 70, the new light
ship, was given her official trip in
San Francisco bay and found satis-
factory.
A comet. the second in 1898, has
been discovered. The discovery was
made at the Lick observatory by Prof.
c. D. Perrine.
The comet that was discovered last
Sunday by Astronomer Perrine Of
Lick Observatory, is visible to tt
naked eye in San Jose.
Two men with 100000 in gold dust
were recently found frozen to death at
Tagish, on the route from the Klon-
dixie gold fields to Skaguay.
The Mccoy Rubin match will come
off in San Francisco. Mccoy will start
west early in April He says he will
take on Choynski after Rubin.
| An explosion occurred at the works
Of the United States Smokeles Powder
company, near San Rafael. G. A.
| jerks and a man named Jenson were
killed.
The California Northwestern rail-
road company has decided to build a
railroad to the immense redwood for
ests of Mendocino and Humboldt
counties.
immigration Commissioner North,
/ of San Francisco, refused landing of
thirty three out of ninety -eight Japan
ese who arrived recently by the steam
ers China and Doric.
| A letter from Dyea states that there
are nearly 600 dead horses and mules
on the Skaguay and Dyea trails, and
that from one to five deaths per day
in Skaguaw result from this cause.
Mayor Phelan of San Francisco, has
appointed committee to devise plans
for an international exposition to eel
ebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the
admission of California to the Union.
The Mount Shasta Touring MILL
the largest in the northern section of
the state, was totally destroyed by
fire. The loss is about $4,000 The
mill was owned by Walbridge & Carr
Gen. Shafter, commanding the de-
partment of California, has just. made
careful examination of Notifications
near San Francisco, and states that
the force is not large enough to man
the guns in case of war
The Southern Pacific company offers
special one-third rate return ticket
from all points on it's lines, to dele
gates to the State Conventions of
Fruit Growers, to be held in Los An
geles on April 18th and Riverside en-
April 14th.
! G.. F. Fraser, e. Lunn and r. H.
Lowe, three round-the-worl bicyclists
arrived in San Francisco on the China
from the Orient They will stay in
the city but few days, going almost
Immediately East on the continuation
of their journey
This was close sailing, but for the
time, none of the vessels compared
with the Italian ship Salvatore
Ciempa. The latter and the British
ship Inchape Rock sailed from here
from the United Kingdom, November
A. The British ship Aberfoyle left two
rived February 25, the 1nchcape on the
2Sth
Five vessels are under construction
at the Fulton Engineering and Ship
building works at San Francisco, and
another will be commenced as soon as
room can be found in the shipyards
for her keel All of the vessels are in
tended for the Klondike trade. Three
of those under. way are steam schoon-.
ers aud the other three are intended
for traffic on the Yukon river.
Plans for a splendid opera house re-
presenting an outlay of $5OO,00 to be
erected at San Francisco, are being
prepared and there is strong proba-
bility that the enterprise will be car
ried to a successful termination.
Mayor Phelan is associated with AL
| fred Bouvier and other prominent citi-
zens in the project of building, for
San Francisco, the handsomest place
of amusement in the country.
The Pacific mill. the largest shingle
mill in the world, operated by Metcalf
& Wade, was completely destroyed by
fire at Tacoma last week. The prop
erty is owned by the Sather Banking
Company of San Francisco, and their
loss will be about 100000. There were
5000, 900 shingles in the kilns. With
in thirty minutes from the alarm, the
immense plant was total ruin There
is no insurance on the stock
The Executive Committee of the