Mesa free press., 1898-05-13
COAST NEWS
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A Summary Of Late Evenfs That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.

A Red Cross society, $50 strong, has
been formed at Berkeley.
Three government boats have been
assigned to patrol San Francisco
harbor.
Michael Wormser, aged SO, died at
Phoenix, leaving an estate valued at
$4,000.
Two hundred and fifty students of
Stanford have offered their services to
the government.
Frederick Delgar, a noted Alameda
capitalist, is dead. He leaves an estate
valued at $3,O0O.O0O.
The concentration of the heavy ar
tillery batteries stationed at San Fran
cisco will begin Immediately.
The work of rebuilding the San Jose
powder mill which was destroyed by
an explosion, is already under way.
The S. P. for taking troops from San
Francisco east has a bill against the
government SO far Of nearly $4,000.
A report is in circulation that part
of the Spanish fleet at Manila later on
will scour the Pacific for American
commerce.
At the naval recruiting office in San
Francisco an average of forty applica-
tions are received day, Of which 25
per cent. are chosen.
The good roads movement in North
ern California may soon lead to a
union of San Francisco and San Jose
by superb boulevard.
A San Francisco dispatch says al
ready $4,000 citizens of California have
signified to Adjt.-Gen. Barrett their de-
sire to be allowed to fight for the ma
ton.
The thirty-knot torpedo boat Farra-
gut now on the ways at the Union
Iron works at San Francisco will be
ready in little over month for SER
vice in the Pacific.
The local grange at Santa Rosa has
adopted resolution offering the SER
vices of the women members to serve
as nurses during the war. The resolu-
ton was sent to the Red Cross society
in New York.
There were three explosions in the
California Powder works at Santa
Cruz. Nine people were killed and
many more seriously injured. The ex-
tent of the damage to the plant will
foot up to many thousands of dollars.
The troops of the state, 1t Is an
nounced, are to be paid So day while
doing duty inside the commonwealth.
AS soon as they are enrolled for regu-
lar government service and sent east
they will receive $13 month, the pay
of the regular United States soldier.
The Klondyke fever and its attend
ing unrest has almost subsided. The
craez has passed into history, and is
spoken of as an old issue. 1t will take
on new trimmings as soon as the cords
of gold said to be stored in northern
ice-caches, begin to come down and re-
kindle the flame of anxiety for wealth
quickly gained.
Obtaining money under false pre-
lenses means more up in Alaska than
it does here, and when it takes the form
Of promoting fake mining schemes 1t
is apt to be unhealthy for the promoter.
One of these enterprising financiers has
been brought down the coast in irons,
after narrow escape efrOm lynching
at the hands of the infuriated argo-
nauts.
The desire to transport to the Klon-
dyke animals which will be able to
endure the extreme cold has raised the
question of the advisability of taking
camels there. Carl Hagenbeck, the
celebrated animal man, says that the
real Siberian double-humped camel,
which is an animal that weighs about
1400 to 1900 pounds, and which can
carry five or six hundred weight, is
best able to stand the terrible climate.
1t can stand the dreadful Siberian cold
as well as the greatest heat, and as
these animals are also trained to go in
harness, and as they pull as much as
horse, they will be most valuable
animals for the new Klondyke gold
fields.
Precautions against the capture of
Klondyke gold by Spanish cruisers are
being taken. General Manager Pin
gree Of the Boston and Alaska Steam
ship company has telegraphed to
Washington for six Gattling guns for
his steamer Briacham, which sails for
st. Michaels early in June. The Alaska
Commercial company and the North
American Transportation and Trading
company expect to secure similar ar
rangements for their steamers Port
land and Roanoke, which, with the
Briacham, will constitute the treasure
fleet. If possible the gunboat Wheel
ing, now in Alaska waters, will be Sc
cured to convoy the treasure fleet from
st. Michaels.
1t is now definitely known that only
a small portion of the gold output of
the Klondyke mines will go out on the
first steamer. The treasure will be
shipped on nearly every steamer dur
ing the summer and the total amount
that will be sent to the outside cannot
be estimated until late in July. The
dust and nuggets stored in the safes
of the Alaska Commercial company
and the North American Transporta-
iav, nd Hrn1 sxan.