Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1898-01-07
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.
Phoenix has a lady barber.

Phoenix has lady barber.
Jerome, Ariz., Is to have $4,000
hotel.
Senator Perkins has recommended
that the SUPPORT of Dyea be abolished.
The passenger rate from San Fran
cisco to Dawson City has been fixed at
$500.
David Hirschberg will become super
intendent of the Preston School of In
dustry January l., 1898.
Gov. Budd has declared January "a
legal holiday in celebration Of the
golden jubilee Of the State.
San Francisco children were made
happy this week with over twenty
thousand Christmas trees.
1t is stated that 700 Cinnamon in
San Francisco have protested CONVEX
sion to the Salvation Army.
A body guard now watches Rev.
George Gibson of Emmanuel Church to
protect him from assassination.
California leads in mileage Of new
railways built in 1897, as we'll as in
some thousands of other things.
Fresno is said to have sixty saloons
and seventy lawyers. There are more
saloons in Bakersfield than lawyers.
Oakland will make an organized eff
fort to secure the next State conven-
ton of the Christian Endeavor So
ciety.
The law firm of Delmas & Shortridge
has been dissolved, Delmas retiring.
The reason given is that he desires to
devote his attention to private affairs.
Samuel T, Black, State Superintend-
ent of Public Instruction, denies the
report recently circulated that he is
opposed to the Issuance of life diplO-
mas.
Gen. Miles believes expeditions
should be sent over both routes to the
Klondike region at once in order to
have double chances of one getting
through quickly.
Railroad men report that 1000 tramps
and petty criminals are working their
way westward over the northern trans
continental lines, most of them being
headed for Puget Sound.
sistence department of the army, will
be placed in charge of the relief party
that Secretary Alger will send to the
Klondike region with provisions
The first snow of the season at
Prescott, Ariz., last week was followed
by cold wave, and the mercury
dropped to deg. below zero, being as
low as ever recorded.
Congressman Castle has introduced
a bill to create commission of three
expert mineralogists to examine into
the mineral character of lands patented
to the Southern Pacific in California.
Senator Perkins has been notified by
the Department of State that the Rus
sian government will allow Adolph
Kutner, a wealthy citizen of California,
to visit his relations in Russia and
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| Charles H. Champ, of William Cramp
& Son, declares that there is alb
| solutely no foundation for the pub
| lished statement that the company con-
! templated constructing ship-building
plant at Seattle.
Robert Peel, a grandson of Sir Rob
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is student in Boone's Academy in
Mining of the State University next
year with the class of 1902.
The San Joaquin Electric Company
has let contracts involving an outlay
of 100000 for the construction of an
electric-power transmission line from
Fresno to Hanford. The successful
bidders were San Francisco firms.
Construction will be commenced at
once, and it is stipulated that the line
will be in operation within ninety
days.
Two capitalists of Fresno have Of
fered to give to that city 260 acres of
land for public park. The condition
of the offer is that the city shall agree
to spend $4,000 within the next five
years on improvements to the prop
erty. The City Trustees are said to
look upon the proposition with favor,
and it may be accepted.
A contract for new ferry boat
which is to be placed on the Oakland
line has been signed by the Southern
Pacific Company and the Union Iron
Works. The vessel will cost 100000,
and is to be completed by next April.
When the new boat Is put on the line,
there will be twenty-minute service
between Oakland and this city, dur
ing the hours of heavy travel, instead
of the half-hourly service now given.
Gov. Budd has appointed members
of the State Board of Horticulture as
follows: II. Weinstock, commissioner
for Sacramento district, vice Solomon
Runyon of CORTLAND, deceased; F. H.
Buck, commissioner for the Napa dis
trict, vice L. w. Buck, deceased; w.
J. Hotchkiss, commissioner for the
Sonoma district, vice M. l.. McDonald;
w. B. Gester, commissioner of the Ell
dorado district, vice F. G. Miles: T.
A. Rice, commissioner for the State at
large, vice F. A. Kimball.
Experiments are being made at the
Experiment Station near Chino to as
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