Mesa free press., 1899-01-13
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.

Tomasso Killini of San Francisco,
murderer of Louisa Spain, has been
sentenced to Folsom prison for life.
The schooner Pearl has arrived at
San Francisco from Unalaska with
$4,000 in bullion and seventy-six tons
of concentrates.
The Morgan City, one of the Phil
ippine transports, has been accepted
to carry freight to the 8troops there.
She will be loaded at San Francisco
within week or ten days..
| Work on the battleship Ohio has
been commenced at the Union Iron
Works at San Francisco. 1t will be
the largest ship ever built on the
coast and one of the three largest to
be built in the American navy.
Millions of dollars are being invest
ed in horseless carriages in the east
and in Europe, but out this way we are
in luck to have even seen photograph
of one of the blamed things. The west
seems to be constantly getting slower
and slower.
Private David Dare, Company E,
First United States Infantry, known
at his San Francisco home as Starr
Dare, was shot by negro at Hunts
vile, Ala, on Christmas night. Eye
witnesses say the shooting was done
in cold blood.
The China, just arrived at San Fran
cisco, brings the largest consignment
of opium ever entered at that port,
$50 cases, worth $500,O00; at Sc a
pound the duty amounts to $4,000.
The China brought 36S bags of mail,
mostly from Manila.
| The regents of the University of
California have allowed the fee of
$4,000 awarded by the Superior Court
to c. T. Bird for his services in fore
closing a mortgage. On recommends
ton of President Kellogg, number
of degrees were conferred.
Salmon Gamers near Vancouver are
alarmed at the government regula-
tions. Unless the department agrees
to the Gamers suggested amendment,
the canneries on Fraser river, in
which about $3,OO0,000 is annually
spent, will be bodily transferred to the
United States.
| L H.
lates the following incident: GA young
woman living in the north part of
| town swallowed a needle two or three
years ago. Last week the same needle
was removed from the right arm of a
young man who had kept company
with her since she swallowed the nee
dle." She ought to marry that young
man for saving her life.
John White, colored politician of
Springfield, Ohio, has sued Probate
Judge J. P. Goodwin and Editor D. T.
West for $4,000 damages on account
| of statements made in the News re-
garding White. This is a sequel to
t-charges made by White that he had
seen Judge Goodwin, formerly of Los
Angeles, hug and kiss his pretty col
ored clerk, Miss Gertrude Denny.
The postmaster at San Francisco
called attention to the large amount of
mail matter accumulating there under
the mistaken idea that domestic post
age applies to Hawaii. Letters for res
idents of Hawaii still require the in
| ternational postage of cents per half
ounce, although all mail to persons in
the United States military and naval
service is transmissable at domestic
rates.
Pensions were granted to Californi-
ans as follows: DISQUALIFICATION
Boyles, National Military Home, Los
Angeles, SO; Thomas Wallace, Elk, &c.;
| Thomas M. Thompson, Lake Greene,
| Sc. Reissue, r. L. Herrick, Ventura, $40.
Original widows, etc, (reissue)-Al-
ice Dickford, Santa Cruz, $2O Origi-
nal-Lewis G.. Culver, Sebastopol, So.
Additional-Samuel w. Rowcroft, Elk
Greek, Sc to $12.
George Rudge from Wrangel, brings
story that three men from Port
Simpson were blown out to sea on the
little schooner Ohio couple of weeks
ago and had to spend seven days on
an uninhabited island with nothing to
eat except mussels and sea weed. They
were Dr. Phillips of New York, R..
Blick and w. Bridges, the last men
toned of Fresno county, CAL, and
we'll known as the leader of an expe-
dition up the Stickeen river, who, it
is said, was threatened with lynching
by sixty members of his party.
MIS-. DOlOISS ApOlOuld uc AdNCdSd-
Rivera of Los Angeles appeared in
Judge Coffey's department of the Su-
perior Court to claim one-fourth of the
81, 100000 left by the late Jose Vicente
de Laveaga. Mrs. Rivera asserts her
self to be the daughter of the late
Jose Maria de Laveaga, who was a
brother to Jose Vicente de Laveaga.
Mrs. Rivera's claim to part of this
property is based on the theory that
as the surviving child of Jose Vicente's
brother she has a right to inherit as
representative of her father. The
taking of testimony in her behalf has
begun.
The following counties have settled
with the state their first installment of
taxes for 1898: Plumas, $836O24; San
ia Clara, $178,391.61; Ventura, $34,-
39S.72; Sacramento, $122,3646 65; Colu-
sa, $4O,11175; Kings, 25,034.42; Teha-
ma, $36,S1508; Glenn, $33,62O.35; Fres-
no coo 1870 %. MOnterev $50 55R An.