Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1898-02-11
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A Summary OF Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.

Eastern Block fire at Spokane.
San Francisco is still agitating q
free market on the harbor front.
There has been good skating at the
Williams, Ariz., dam this winter.
San Francisco has received 24,y91
tons Of coal, and the famine is over.
The Order Of B'nia Birth has chosen
San Francisco as its next meeting
! place.
Gold strikes are reported again from
the Hunker Creek district of the
| Klondike.
The Saginaw box factory at Will
liams, Ariz., continues to work a
double shift.
Steps are being taken to have Fresno
made q city of the fourth class instead
of the firth class.
David Dunno has been appointed
collector of internal revenue for the
district Of Oregon.
The steamer Pelican, out 1O3 days
from Port Townsend for Taku, Japan,
has been given up for lost.
Bogus drafts by North Pacific
Trading and Transportation Company
are being worked on San Francisco
banks.
/ Seven trainloads, amounting to 4l5O1
bales, Of Texas cotton. have arrived
at Tacoma for shipment to China ana
Japan.
Mrs. e. L. Hager, widow Of the late
John S. Hager, once United States
Senator from California, died at San
Francisco.
Shipments from San Jose have been
made during the last week of more.
than one million pounds of wine to-
eastern points.
Insurance Commissioner Clunie has
declared void bonds of all insurance
companies not incorporated under the
laws Of the State.
| Train-wrecker Worden will not be
hanged February IL. Gov. Budd says
that he will grant the condemned
man another respite.
In forty-eight hours last week seven
teen vessels, carrying more than 4,UU0,-
600 feet Of lumber in the aggregate
passed through the Golden. Gate
| G. w. Vosmer of San Francisco is
planning to go to the Klondike by bal
/ loon. He proposes to use the big cap
| tive balloon made for the Worlds
Fair 49,
\ Reports that Canada will exclude
aliens from the Yukon mining regions
are false. Briton and Yankee will be
welcome, but must first take out
| licenses.
| The Mt. Whitney telephone line has
been sold at Porterville by e. w.
Beebe for nominal sum- 1t was
bought in by the Porterville Lumber
Company.
The Supervisors of Tulare county
signed q, petition to Congress asking
roads and trails to the Sequoya Ma
tional Park.
At Prescott, .Ariz.. the citizens mass
meeting decided to petition Congress|
for a $150,000 bond issue for. enlarg1ng
waterworks and providing a sewer
system for the city.
The recent tour Of the Stanford Uni
versity Mandolin and Guitar Club
through Southern California was
| financial as well as musical success.
The profits were over $500.
Miners not provided with a years
supplies will not be allowed to attempt
the passage from Dyea to Dawson. Men
not SO provided will be turned back
by customs and police officers.
The Genoa (Nev.) grand jury mas
adjourned. The foreman reported toI
the court that the jury had evidence
concerning the identity Of the Uba
lynchers, but the jurymen refused to
indict.
Ex-Rev. Brown has confessed and
says he will not run away from the
consequences, nor will he tell what his
confession means, but he is going to |
preach the gospel If he does so on the
street corners. IA I
Senator White Of California mas
been chosen chairman Of the Demo-
cratic National Con sressional Cam
paign Committee. The contest will De
waged, so far as national issues are
involved, on the Chicago platform.
Prof e. P. Cubberly, Superintendent
Of San Diego City Schools, has been
rendered an assistant professorship in I
the department of education in Stan
ford University. He has accepted and
will report for duty at Stanford
August /.
The, Pacific Coast Railway has sent
gang OF surveyors to Santa Maria
to lay out the route for branch line
to the beet-sugar factory which is to
be erected at once on the shores OF
Guadalupe Lake by the Union Beet
Sugar Company.
Mackenzie & Mann, railroad con-
tractors, have signed with the Cana
dian government to build a railroad
100 miles long from Telegraph Creek
to Teslin Lake, to give entrance to
Dawson City, work to be commenced
before next winter.
William ]. Martin, whose retirement
from the management of the San
Francisco Office of the Western Union
Telegraph Company was recently pub
lished will on February / become the
business manager Of the Morning Call,