Mesa free press., 1898-09-16
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.
Readers.

| bO1A00 OOWD to 8u1e our BUSY
Readers.
The custom-house receipts for the
port of San Francisco for the month OF
August amounted to $685., 7,273.49, the
largest receipts for a single month in
the record of the department.
Several passenger cars for the White
Pass and Yukon railway were on board
the last steamer en- route for the Yu-
kon gold fields. Twelve miles Of the
railway are ready for the rolling stock.
At the Dawson Hotel at San Fran
cisco there are ninety-two patients
from the Seventh California Regiment,
seventy-eight from the Tennessee, fif-
ty-two from the Iowa, thirty-five from
the Twenty-third, and twenty-five from
the Twentieth Kansas.
The capital stock Of the California
Cotton Mills of Oakland has been in
creased to 100000, in order that the
capacity Of the manufactory may be
enlarged. The fact has been demon
strated that cotton can be prof1tably
manufactured in California.
The following California regiments
have been ordered mustered out: Sixth
California Volunteer Infantry now at
San Francisco, to- be mustered out at
same place; Seventh California olun-
teer Infantry, now at San Francisco, to
be mustered out at their armory, Los
Angeles, California.
The torpedo boat David, being con-
structed at Wolff & Zwicker Iron
| Works, Portland, Ore, has been given
a preliminary trial trip of forty miles.
| 1t is stated the boat made eighteen
knots. and the trial was entirely salts
| factory. The rekuired speed istwenty-
two and one-half knots.
The reports of Mrs. Edwin Diamond,
of San Francisco, assistant treasurer
Of the California Red Cross Society, for
the quarter ended July 81, shows that
| $29,095 were received, of which there
remains balance in bank amounting
to $11, ,165. The money has come from
all parts Of the state, and has been dis
tributed among the soldiers of many
regiments.
One of the largest mortgages ever
executed in California was recorded at
| San Francisco last week. It was for
| $4,000,000 and was given by the Spring
Valley Water Company to the Union
Trust Company of San Francisco to
secure an issue of bonds. The money
! is to be used to pay debts and extend
the works of the company. A unique
| feature of the document was a page
containing $21O0 worth of war revenue
stamps.
Careful inquiry among the enlisted
men of the Seventh California leaves
no room for doubt that an overwhelm-
ing majority of them desired the regi-
ment to be mustered out Immediately.
OF fully one hundred privates ques-
toned on the subject not one said he
wished to remain in the service of Un-
Gle Sam. The reasons given were that
the war Is over, and there is no pros
pect of the regiment going either to
Honolulu, or Manila.
The State Board of Equalization has
decided to allow the assessment rolls
of the several counties of the State to
remain as fixed by boards Of supervis-
ors and returned by county auditors.
It has been understood for some time
past that no changes would be made,
owing to the fact that all valuations
were greater than left by the State
board of 1897. Owing to the increase
in property valuation the State rate,
including the university tax of 3 cents
on the 500, will be 48.8 per hundred as
against 81 cents last year.
Daniel Cole has succeeded A. T.
SPOTS as coiner at the San Francisco
mint During the four years ended
this mint coined $153, 3,697, 1874, of which
over $125, 100000 was gold Of Pacific
coast product. The coinage for the
month of August amounted to So, $4,000,
breaking all previous records in the
United States. September is expected
to make still better showing, as more
gold from the Klondyke and Australia
is expected in the form of nuggets and
sovereigns, which will be rapidly con-
verted into United States money.
The munificent provision of Mrs.
Phebe Hearst for competitive plans
open to the architects of the world, for
the university buildings at Berkeley,
has brought hundreds of designs from
the most celebrated architects in the
Old World, as well as in America. At
Antwerp more than one hundred elab-
crate plans have been handed In to the
American Consul. They have been pre-
sented in all kinds of packages from
the regulation tin cases to piano boxes.
The board Of artists and architects that
is to pass upon these designs Septem-
Der 20, will have the biggest kind of
feat to accomplish, not only intellect
ually, but physically.
John P. Clum, the special postal COM
missioner for Alaska, arrived in Skag-
uay from st. Michaels via juneau in |
the gunboat Wheeling, after a Journey
of over 10000 miles through Alaska. |
He has established many new offices,
and for interior Alaskan towns, be- |
tween Juneau and Tanana, has ar
ranged for twice-a-month mail, and |
for towns between St Michaels and
a monthly mail service. This
service is to be maintained throughout |
the entire year, both winter and sum-
mer. Mr.. Clum says the government
will send inspectors to Alaska flc-