Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1898-06-17
Some important Happenings in
the South
THAT MAY PLEASE OUR READERS
An Assortment Of Newsy Events That
Occurred In our Midst That Cannot
Fail to Interest.

Two Indians were arrested at San
Bernardino for attempting to hold up
q Chinaman.
Gen. Fred d. Grant has taken the
oath as brigadier-general, and is now
at Chickamauga.
The San Diego Sun tells Of q hen
which adopted and persisted in brood
ing three blind kittens.
Forty thousand acres of the Algo-
dones grant near San Diego is about to
be opened to settlers.
A thirty-fve gallon barrel of olives
has been sent from San Diego to the
members of Company at San Fran
cisco.
The Santa Barbara sharpshooters are
about to go into camp on the beach OF
that city, and institute a regular coast
patrol.
Mrs. Halder, whose stomach was re-
moved by DR.. Carl Kurtz at the Sis
ters' hospital, Los Angeles, last week
Is dead.
A Bakersfield man claims to have
poisoned 1400 squirrels the second day
after placing the poison through his
orchards.
Already over 100 names have been
enrolled in the new cavalry company
being organized at San Bernardino by
Captain Wilson,,
TIL Seventh regiment of California
volunteers has been presented with a
stand of colors by the San Francisco
| Chamber of Commerce.
The recruiting for National Guard
companies to maximum strength IL
we'll under way at all points from
whence companies are sent
The oil industry about Fullerton Is
meeting with big success. One OF the
new wells put down by the Puente Oil
Company is said to have yield of
ninety barrels g. day.
DR.. H. P. Woodward, well known
physician of oan Diego, has started a
new industry in that city, in the shape
of a rabbit farm, and now has about
three hundred rabbits Of the choicest
varieties.
The exodus from Santa Barbara on
account of the drought will cause a
falling off in the vote the coming fall
of fully Is per cent. 1t is estimated
that 80 per cent of those leaving are Re-
publicans. A.
The Woodmen of the World believe
| that under the latest call for volun-
teers there will be chance for new
company to go to the front, and con-
sequently company Is being organ
lied in the order.
A leaping tuna weighing 1873 pounds
and measuring feet, 2 inches in
length was caught by Prof. G. F. Hol-
der Of Pasadena at Santa Catalina.
This beats the worlds record, it is be-
lieved, for game fish on rod and reel.
It was announced at the Southern
Pacific offices that there would be a
general slight increase in west-bound
continental rates. This change in rates
is to take effect June Is, and the def
mite schedule of charge will be an
nounced later.
Marie Cicotte Wilson, the California
beauty, who has made her home in
both Los Angeles and San Francisco,
Toledo, o. She says she will sue
the city of Fremont for false imprison-
ment.
| Corpus Christi island, fourteen miles
out from Coronado, is to have pleas
| ure wharf. A number Of capitalists
have been considering the project, and
it is now likely that steam launches
will make regular trips from Coronado
to this island during the summer.
|
A Montecito man claims to have dis
covered that the established be-
! lief in the fatal bite of the corral snake
! is without foundation in fact. Some
| time ago he was bitten by one of these
reptiles, but suffered no more than
would have been the case had bee
stung him.
Stray horses turned loose by their
owners, who can not afford to keep
them owing to the high price Of hay,
are becoming a. serious trouble to the
city of Riverside, where they wander
in bands through the streets, destroy
ing lawns and gardens in their pitiful
endeavor to find feed.
The movement to amalgamate the
three principal labor organizations of
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nearly consummated. The Council of
Labor. the Allied Printing Trades
Council and the Building Trades Coun-
ell will be united, and will adopt the
name Of United Labor Council"
| o. c. Tow, chinaman. has enlisted
in Company L, from Santa Ana. Tow
is a native son, and has been Santa
Ana business man for number Of
years. He succeeded In passing the
necessary examination, making q
splendid record. AS soon as he Is or
dered to San Francisco he will part
with his cue.
| Stockton Is one of the most enter
prising cities in California. It already
has most important manufacturing
industry, and new branches are being
constantly added. The latest Is glove
factory. which is to be built at once
by eastern capitalists, who have select
ed Stockton after visiting a number Of
other cities on the coast Retween