Mesa free press., 1898-04-15
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.

Hanford is to have one of the largest
canneries in the State.
Jim Corbett began an engagement in
THE Naval Cadet" in San Francisco,
last week.
The Union Sugar company intends to
begin work on a sugar factory near
Guadalupe lake soon.
A telegram received at San Francisco
says that Valdez Pass, Alaska, is now
in excellent condition.
fire in the American Biscuit COM
pany at San Francisco destroyed pro-
property valued at 100000.
The citizens of Stockton propose to
build a railroad from the mining Sec
ton to tide water at Stockton canal.
The sealing steamer Greenland has
arrived at st. Johns. Twenty-Five of
her crew perished in the Arctis cold.
1t is said that the recent reduction in
salaries made by the lunacy commits
sion will save the State of California
$14,0O
San francisco is to have rose show
early in May, when the California State
Floral society will hold a three-days'
fair in Golden Gate Pavilion.
The Spokane and Northern railway
has been granted charter by the Do
minion parliament for an extension in
to the Boundary creek country.
The report comes from the Coalinga
oil fields in Tusno county that the big
gest "gusher'' of all has been struck.
The daily flow is estimated at 300 bar
rels.
Marcus Daily, the copper king of
Montana, has admitted that the sensa-
tional colt Hamburg, for which $780,
600 is reported to have been paid, is
soon to be seen on the English turf
The San Francisco Chronicle prints
a dispatch from Washington which
states positively that Senator White
will, at the end of his term, become the
general western counsel for the sugar
trust, at salary of $4,000 year.
The first California volunteers have
organized in San Francisco. The COM
pany roster has been sent to the Secre-
tary of War with an application to be
|enrolled in the event Of war with Spain.
There are seventy-fve names on the
roll
Travel to Alaska has fallen off tre-
mendously. During the last two weeks
arrivals from Eastern States have been
fewer than at any time since last De-
cember, while almost every day has
seen another steamship added to the
Alaska fleet.
A water bicycle, driven by two men
seated tandem fashion, may now daily
be seen on San Francisco Bay. It was
built on original lines by F. o. Win
quist, foreman in the Union Iron
Works, and F. Olsen, who proposes to
take it up to the Yukon.
The Evening Post Of San Francisco
prints dispatch from Senator Perkins
of California to the effect that it is the
concensus of opinion among those best
informed in Washington that unless
Spain comedies the independence of
Cuba, war is inevitable.
DIR. A. M. Gardner Of the Napa In
sane Asylum will go East to secure in
various localities in New York State
afidavits of a number of people as to
the sanity or insanity of Salter D.
Worden, the train wrecker, now in
Folsom prison under sentence OF
death.
Floyd Mcfarland of San Jose, the
well known racing cycler, has deposit
ed 5000 with local paper and issued a
challenge to any L. A. W. rider to meet
him in series Of five match races, one
two and five miles, best two out of
three to take the purse. He also chal-
lenges any two riders representing a
team to meet Orlando Stevens and
himself in a. team race, paced or un-
paced.
Lieutenant Stoney, U. S. NJ, the re-
cruiting officer in charge of the San
Francisco rendezvous, has received
orders to inlist all the men he can get
hold of. First class f1remen, oilers
engineers and able seamen will be re-
ceived. Stoney's orders are to get all
the good men he can, the only restric-
tion being in the matter of experience
Only men with sufficient knowledge to
enable them to be at once useful mem
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A passenger who arrived on the
steamer Australia this afternoon from
Skaguay reports that Gov Brady and
Collector Of Customs Ivey were re-
Gently turned down" by Capt. Betche1
of the Canadian mounted police. They
asked permission to place two deputy
collectors at Lake Bennett, for the
purpose Of facilitating the transpor.
tation of Canadian goods in bond
Capt. Betcher refused their application
1t is stated that they were acting
under instructions from Washington
Major L. H. Rucker, u. S. A., who
went to Alaska in conection with the
proposed government expedition, re-
turned last week on the steamer Ros-
allie. Major Rucker said five officers
and twenty men of the expedition
under command Of Captain Eldredge
were preparing to start from Haines
Mission on an exploring expedition