Mesa free press., 1899-03-24
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.

An official flower is well enough. but
the people would rather that the leg
islature had given them Senator.
Will it be legal to cartoon the Re-
publican elephant and the Democrat
ic donkey without their written per-
mission. ~
The experiment Of raising funds to
wrench water from the arid sky hay-
ing been tried, and having failed, it
is probable the rest of the experiment
will be abandoned. Almost anybody
can raise thunder, but to raise funds
to make rain is a different PROPOSE
ton.
A Tombstone preacher in his sery-
ices last Sunday prayed fervently that
the members OF the legislature be
given wisdom, adding the supplication
that they be "kept from taking away
the Capitol" Eveidently the minister
had become resigned to having every
thing else taken, but hoped to save
the building.
! Supervisor Appointed-Governor
Gage has appointed G. o. Barker of
Banning as Supervisor in the Fifth
district in the place of John Shaver
of San Jacinto, who failed to qualify
within the legal time. Mr.. Shaver
and his friends are preparing to con-
test the governors appointment in
the supreme court.
And now the gophers are migrating
from the lowlands to the hills in Or
ange county and this is given out as
another evidence that heavy rains
are about to fall on that part of the
country. The people have not yet
started to follow the gophers, howev-
er, but it is hoped they will escape
before they are drowned by the COM
ing floods.
The Phoenix Gazette says: "Capt
McClintock ought to write a history
of the Rough Riders. The captain is
one of the finest writer's in Arizona,
and he led where the bullets whistled
around his gallant company of in
trepid Arizonians." A history of the
Rough Riders by Capt. McClintock
would be a work ct thrilling interest,
nor would he have to exaggerate the
truth in any particular to make it
such.
/ Pensions were granted to Califor-
mans as follows: Original-Austin G.
Shafer, Los Angeles, $6; Mahlon
Smith Connolly, Los Angeles, $6;
Lewis s. Avery, Los Angeles, So. In
Icrease-George H. Barlow, Santa Mon
lea, $12 to SIT; John w. Hanley, Bish-
op, 50 to $40. Original-Be Benjamin P.
Shuler, Los Gatos, So; Henry p. Web
|rung, Soldiers Home, Los Angeles.
$40. Increase-Francis M. Noble, Hol-
lister, $6 to So.
Topeka, Kan.-It is officially an
lnounced that the Santa Fe will enter
the middle of July or the first OF ALL
gust next, at the latest. This Is a
much earlier entrance than at first
announced. Simultaneous with the
operation of trains over the California
line orby the time of the opening up
of traffic to the coast an additional
overland train from Chicago to San
Francisco will be put on.
At Labon, Ind, a tragic ending OF a
matrimonial venture between two old
people who met through a matrimo-
NAL bureau has been made by Ed
ward Wannick. After Wannick's
wife had begun proceedings for a di-
vorce, he broke up her furniture, then
shot himself and finally hanged nim-
self to tree. Wannick came from
Flagstaff, Ariz., last August, to marry
his wife, then widow. The result was
unhappy and divorce proceedings pre-
Icipitated the above result.
|
Never before probably has there
been so much energy directed to the
development of water in Southern
California as at present. Towns every
where are looking after more certain
sources of supply, water companies
are extending or preparing to extend
their operations, and ranchmen are
boring wells and putting in pumping
plants. While all this is expensive,
it gives assurance that in the future
a dry year will not cause the alarm
such year has caused in the past.
The nurses and physicians who have
responded to the call to go to Clifton,
Ariz., to attend smallpox patients are
doing heroic as well as commendable
service. The disease prevails there
mostly among ignorant Mexicans. An
attempt to have the sick removed to
an isolation hospital recently met
with threats of armed resistance.
When a constable and posse went to
move the patients they were fired up
on from ambush. No one was in
jured, however, and twenty Mexicans
were captured and imprisoned in a
tunnel, and the town was heavily
guarded Since then matters have
been more quiet, but the disease Is
not likely to be wiped ont for some
time.