Mesa free press., 1898-03-04
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.


Readers.
The Fair estate has won it's water
front case in San Francisco.
The Columbia River Canneries Com
pany is organized with $5OO,0O0 capital.
Sealers returning to San Francisco
report seals scarce and the outlook
poor.
The Rosalie is back from Alasks
with $125,OOO OF dust and five Klon-
dikers.
The Hundred Thousand Club pro-
poses to make Fresno a city Of the
fourth class
The Southern Pacific Company will
soon have its rolling stock increased
by HOO new freight cars.
Fontana & Co. will erect a $25, 900
cannery at Hanford. This will give
employment to 500 people.
Col. George B. Sperry of Stockton
was injured for life by a charge Of
shot entering his knee during a snipe
hunt.
Indians win the klamath reservation
in Oregon and hold title to the lands
which corporations wanted and sought
to prevent allotment.
News Of the loss of the Clara Me-
vada is confirmed, but no list of pas
seAgers can be obtained. Fifty lives
are supposed to be lost.
Geese are so thick in the upper San
Joaquin Valley and doing SO much
damage that farmers are putting out
poisoned wheat to kill them.
The British Yukon Company says
that construction on the railway
through White Pass will commence at
once. The road will be forty-five miles
long.
Gov. Budd has appointed Gen. ].
H. Dickinson of Sausalito major-gen-
eral of the National Guard, vice N. #.
James. whose resignation. was ac-
cepted.
It is reported that a syndicate of
San Francisco sporting men will offer
purse Of $4,000 for a Corbett- -Fitz-
simmons fight, the company to control
all privileges.
The steamer Hueneme, while at
tempting to leave her dock at Seattle,
crashed into the Japanese steamer Nip
pom Rio Juan Maru. The accident will
cost nearly $4,000.
Joaquin Miller is tired of Alaska and
her snow and her nuggets. 'I was
born to roses, sunlands, song birds,
modest moons and warm south
weather" walls the poet.
The cutter Bear, sent to relieve ice
bound whalers, is safe in winter quar-
ters at Dutch harbor. The overland
expedition is presumably at Teller
station waiting for reindeer.
George B. Sperry, the millionaire
milling man Of Stockton, who was
accidentally shot while hunting, is
resting comfortably at the French
Hospital at San Francisco.
The Board of Supervisors of Monte
rey county has made an allowance of
$1,000 to the Citizens Colonization So
ciety of San Francisco to aid the Sal
walton Army colony at Soledad.
The California conference Of the Ep-
worth league will be held in San Fran
cisco on April 81, %, % and "a, at the
Howard Street Methodist Church, be-
tween Second and Third streets.
The San Joaquin and Kings Rive.
Canal and Irrigation Company seeks
to enjoin the California Pastoral
and Agricultural Company from di-
verting the waters Of the San Joaquin
River.
G. K. Krauth, once owner of the
Santa Cruz Sentinel and the Alameda
Encinal, died last week. He was born
at Hagerstown, Nd, and was aged "a.
He had been ill some time. He came
here in 40.
A tramway over the .yhilkoot Pass
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cross the range in an hour. The trip
from Dyea to the first lake can be
made in a day, whereas it formerly re-
quired a month.
John Harris, colored man, was yes
terday awarded $100 damages against
Adolph Sutro. The suit was brought
because Harris had twice been refused
the privileges of the Sutro baths, on
account of his color.
A destructive fire occurred in the
Phelan building, large five-story
structure at San Francisco, which re-
suited in the loss of Marceau's famous
photograph gallery and serious dam
age to several other occupants.
The Valley Road is soon to have the
fastest steamer on the San Joaquin
River between Stockton and San
Francisco. 1t is being built by the Cal
ifornia Navigation Company especially
for the travel along the Valley Road.
Fire was discovered in the coal
bunkers Of the steamship Oregon.
which, had 600 passengers and a full
list Of freight on board. The vessel
was able to get back to Astoria and
extinguish the blaze; damage, trifling.
The advices of Capt. Ray, represent
ing the War Department on the Yu-
kon, have been made public. Recon-
mendations are for military posts in
certain localities. Capt. Ray fears
lawlessness and advises prompt ac-
ton.
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