Mesa free press., 1899-04-14
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.

Sold Her Stock-Mrs. Jane Stanford,
while in New York last month, sold
for $1,731, 900.
A Ready Market-Secretary Filcher
OF the state board Of trade, said that
the demand for California fruit this
year will over-measure the quantity
on hand.
Their Burglar Penned-T. HI. Dick
man, the burglar who was captured
by four young women while attempt
ing to enter F, jennings residence at
Santa Cruz, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to eighteen months in San
Quentin.
San Francisco-Charles w. Lieb,
printer doing business and residing at
No. 220 Sutter street, fired a pistol
bullet through his head in the parlor
of his brothers residence the other
day. Death was almost instantane-
Gus. Dependency over the loss of his
wife was the cause.
Big Fish .Cannery-The Pacific Am
erican Fish company will build at
once at Fairhaven, Wash, a cannery
with capacity of 100000 cases,
mammoth refrigerating plant, enabl-
ing the shipment of fresh fish all the
year, and fertilizer plant for con-
verting all refuse into saleable pro-
ducts.
The Santa Ynez Argus says a far
mer who has a crop of 400 acres of
wheat in that vicinity recently offered
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fill his one small barn. Now he
would not take thirty times that
amount. A rain which adds 2999 per
cent to mans crop is something to
be thankful for.
The recent rains not only started
the grass to growing and saved the
crops, but they paid the debt of a
church at Livermore in this state. A
banker there was rash enough to say
that if it rained four inches in March
he would cancel the mortgage on. the
Methodist church. The rain has come
and the banker is proceeding to can
eel the debt.
The late unlamented Legislature of
Arizona is getting compliments all
along the line on the taking ways of
the members. One member even took
the smallpox, and the Florence Trib-
une says that was about the only
thing some of them didn't take. 1t
will be remembered that the chaplain
in one of his prayers prayed as last
hope that they might not carry off the
capitol.
That the "hydrophobia skunk" is
not fiction has again been proven
to the satisfaction of large circle Of
Arizona, where young woman who
was bitten by one of the animals died
few days ago after intense suffering,
during which,it is said, she exhibited
all the symptoms of rabies. The
skunk used to be known among the
French in Canada as the "enfant du
diable'-child of the devil-and he
seems still entitled to the distinction.
The Mayor of Los Angeles advances
the idea that woman has as much
right to enter a saloon and drink as
has a man. Well, yes; constitntionally
that is so, admits the Sacramento
Record-U Union. But the moral right
is quite another thing. There are
certain codes in the social state that
obtain among decent people, which
rise superior to constitutions and leg
islative enactments. These, neither
men nor women can defy with impu-
nifty.
After a search which lasted, for
three months the remains of the late
Capt. "Buckey" O'Neill of Arizona,
who was shot down by the Spanish in
Cuba. have been found and returned
to the United States to rest in the Ar
| lington cemetery. In prosecuting the
search for the body the devoted widow
expended over $1000of her own money
and for time it looked as though the
effort would prove fruitless. 1t would
seem but just that the government
should at least reimburse her for the
outlay.
Spreckels' Big gScheme-Claus Speck-
els has decided to establish in San
Francisco an electric plant without a
rival in the world, and will furnish
light, heat and power almost at cost.
The. Independent Electric Light and
Power company, with a capital stock
of $10,O0O,O00, has been incorporated
and the directors for the first year
are Claus B.Spreckels, John D. Spreck-
els, Adolph B. Spreckels, Charles A.
Hug and w. D. K. Gibson. 1t is un-
derstood that the company will also
enter the telephone business.
A copy of the Daily Alaskan of the
date of February 26, published at
Skaguay, is evidence of the wonderful
progress made during the past year in
that city. The issue comprises four
teen pages, including an artistic cover
in four or five colors and adorned with
good half-tones This issue is spe-
cial number intended to celebrate the
first anniversary of the paper, and to
be the first issue of a Sunday paper in
Alaska. A press capable of printing
1000 copies an hour and a Mergen-
thaler linotype is part of the outfit.
Under the appropriate heading,
"What an Inch of Rain Means" the
San Jose Mercury says: Zone inch of
rainfall is equal to the application of
27, 100 wine gallons of water to every