Mesa free press., 1898-11-18
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
4 Summary OF Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.

| pounds or bone and 300 barrels of
whale oil. The voyage will net about
| $60, 1000.
The Pacific Commercial Advertiser
of Honolulu, the recognized organ of
President Dole, denies that Dole has
been or Is now candidate for the Of
flee of Governor.
Thirty Klondykers arrived at Se-
attic last week on the Flora, which
was the last boat to leave Dawson
The river and lakes are no longer
navigable on account Of ice.
The report of the Pacific Coast rail
way shows loss of $5514 for the year
ending June 80. The line runs from
Fort Hartford to Los Alimos and is op-
Grated in conjunction with the Pa
chic Coast Steamship Company.
Both the ]. D. Peters and the Gar
ina were badly damaged by the col
lision in San Francisco bay, but both
can be restored for service. An inves-
tigation will be held this week to try
to locate the blame for the collision.
The torpedo boat destroyer Farra
gut, in making the official trial trip
at San Francisco last week had a
breakdown in her pump, which
spoiled the whole trip. She had been
making 31.3 knots when the break
came.
The Southern Pacific Company is
putting in new machinery to develop
new shafts in the companys mines
near Tacoma, Wash. A prospecting
party will leave San Francisco about
the goth inst, for Sonora, Mex, to ex-
anime certain coal districts.
Judge Ogden of Oakland has given
Judgment for $4S,74S.75 in favor of
Mrs. Anne Harris in the suit against
her brother, Judge Josiah Ames. Mrs.
Harris claimed her brother allured
her to this coast and that he took con-
troll of her affairs and appropriated
her fortune.
The coinage Of the San Francisco
mint in October was $6,051, 900, against
81, POI 900 in October, 1897, and con-
sisted Of $5,18O,00O in double eagles,
$552,O00 In dollars, $4,000 in half-dol-
lars and $4,000 in dimes. Since the
first of the calendar year the coinage
has been $54,354,732, against $31, ,427,
1876 in 1897.
The application of Attorney General
Fitzgerald of San Francisco to the
Supreme Court for an alternative writ
of mandate to compel Wells, Fargo &
Co. to pay the war tax has been denied
on the ground that no sufficient cause
appears for making original applica-
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dice to a new proceeding in the Snpe-
rior Court.
Advices from Honolulu state that
Camp Mckinley will be moved to
Moanalulu tract, which Gen. Merriam
has recommended as permanent
site. Troops in Camp Otis will remain
there until the Arizona arrives for
Manila. There is considerable typhoid
fever, but trained nurses have been
added to the hospital force. Malaria
is on the decrease. !.
We believe that Mrs. Botkin ought to
be tried in Delaware, where the al
legged crime was consummated, says
the Sacramento Record But
she has never cen in Delaware; she
has not, therefore, fed from that state,
she cannot be recovered to that state
because it never had Jurisdiction over
her. She must then be tried in Califor-
MIA, where, if guilty, she concocted the
crime and began it's performance.
The Commissioner of the General
Land Office at Washington has denied
that David Jacks can purchase for
nominal sum certain lands once in
cluded in the Mexican grant of the
Pueblo of Monterey and excluded by
the government survey Of 1887. Home
steaders have contested Jacks rights,
but the Commissioner holds that Jacks
has acted in good faith in using and
improving the land and is entitled to
benefits.
Judge Hallett of the United States
Court at Denver issued temporary
injunction restraining the Southern
Pacific and other western roads from
putting into effect, in violation of the
rule of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, freight tariff, which would
exclude the product of the steel mill
of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany at Pueblo, COL, from Pacific
coast points. The new rates from Pu-
eblo were the same as those from Chi
cago. The demurrer Of the Southern
Pacific Company to the suit of the
Fuel and Iron Company, in which a
claim for damages is made, was over
ruled and thirty days given the COM
pany to file an answer The railroad
company is required to file bond of
$25,000
Captain Linn, chief commissary of
the army in the PHILIPPINES, who ar
rived at San Francisco on the Peru,
is on his way to Washington with Of
fetal reports. His home is in Wabash,
Ind, and he will stop there before re-
turning to Manila. He said in an in
terview: "It is probable that in the
future the government will have two
kinds of rations-one for troops in
the temperate zone and another for
soldiers in the tropics. I suppose that
more vegetables and meat, with prac-
tically no fat, will be provided for men
on military duty in the Philippines.
I saw a message Of complaint filed