Mesa free press., 1898-02-04
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A Summary of Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.

LICK observatory Ohc1alS discovered
bright meteor in broad daylight.
The Grand Lodge Of the Knights Of
Pythias will meet at Santa Rosa in
May.
San Francisco and the whole State
is threatened with a serious coal
famine.
A fortnightly mail service between
the Pacific Coast and Australia will
be inaugurated April /.
An express service to Dawson City
Is to be inaugurated. The first trip
will be made February 20.
Tacoma advices say that too many
laborers are at Dyea and Skaguay, and
that wages are coming down.
Charles Offer of Bakersfield, pro-
poses to make resort Of his place
and will put up natatorium.
Mayor Templeton died of an apop-
lectic stroke. He is the third Of
Vancouver's Mayors to die sudden
death.
The Cramps are now building a
large fleet of modern steamships for
service between San Francisco and
Alaska.
The Union Sugar Company will
build beet-sugar factory at once in
Santa Maria Valley, Santa Barbara
county.
The Supreme Court has declared the
San Luis Obispo bonds invalid be-
cause the voters used a stamp instead
Of writing EYES,"
Th0 Inh 80 hn 80 III, n
of San Francisco, aggregating $4,000,
have been assumed by the Church Ex-
tension Society.
Miners returned from Dawson in
sist that they have struck the mother
lode, which insures the permanence CT
the placer diggings.
Joe Campbell, returning miner,
figures that the Klondike gold output
for the present season is between $12,-
100000 and $15,000,00O.
A drunken miner was careless with
his candle and burned down the Klon-
dixie church. The operahouse was put
to holy use on Sunday.
At Port Townsend, customs officers
seized 402 quart bottles of whisky on
the steamer City of Seattle, just be-
fore she sailed for Alaska.
Dawson City has had no regular
mail service since last August. The
experiment of forwarding letters by
the mounted police has failed
The Dominion government has
adopted regulations governing duties
to be collected Of Alaska miners
Clothes go Free but nothing else does.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany has arranged a schedule that
will give a five-day steamship service
between San Francisco and Alaskan
ports.
The west-bound overland jumped
the track at Colfax and Engineer
Hackett and Fireman Lighter were
killed in the wreck, but no passengers
injured.
Mrs. James l.. Flood, wife Of the
millionaire mine-owner, died at San
Francisco, as the result of an opera
ton performed. The deceased was "a
years of age.
Mrs. John A. Logan and Mrs.
George M. Pullman are en- route to
the Pacific Coast to visit Mrs. Pull
mans daughter, Mrs. Frank Carolan
of Burlingame, Cal.
A movement has been started at
Santa Rosa for the holding of rose
carnival in that city in May, during
the convention Of the Pythian Lodge
and Rathbone Sisters.
There is every prospect of a fight
between the Canadian Pacific and the
other transcontinental roads over the
rate to the Pacific Coast, for those in
tending to go to Alaska.
Gustav Walter, manager of the
amusement circuit of Orpheum thea
ters, has leased the Ninth-street Thea
ter in Kansas City, Mo-, and will add
that to his growing musical enter
prises.
Wine shipment by sea continues
good, 109,474 gallons for December,
valued at $33,812.74. Last week 322,-
988 gallons were received at San Fran
cisco, and for the month to Saturday
last, 1,2O5,O97 gallons.
A national salute from the big guns
at the Presidio opened the jubilee
celebration at San Francisco. Elabor-
ate preparations were made and
programme of amusements arranged
for every day in the week.
The Twenty-third-avenu Baptist
Church of Oakland city, has extended
a call to Rev. e. r. Bennett, now a
resident of Los Angeles, but who for
nearly eight years was pastor of the
Presbyterian Church of Pasadena.
Martial law has been proclaimed at
Fort Yukon, and the inhabitants
placed on rations. Returning miners
vary greatly in their estimates of the
probable output of gold, but the
placer mines are unquestionably rich.
The value of California property for
the year 1897, shows the enormous
total of $2,089, 814,8S6. This value is
divided as follows: Real estate, 1884,
255, ia; improvements on real estate,
53,S66,O2O; personal property, $780,
592,875; money and solvent credits,
$31, 638, 1872; railroads, $43,491,745.
A popular illusion will be rudely
diSpelled when the advertisement and