Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-05-26
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.

A jury in Judge Daingerfleld's court
found verdict for $4,000 in favor of
Maggie Dyas and against the South
ern Pacific company at San Francisco
recently.
San Francisco-An autopsy was per-
formed on the body of Thomas ONeil.
the wealthy Santa Clara rancher, who
died at the Receiving Hospital Monday.
Acute alcoholism was pronounced as
the cause of death.
The street lights at Fresno will be
shut off on the 10th inst This is not
because the Fresnoans love darkness
rather than light, but because the bot
tom Of the cash box is becoming visi-
ble.-Los Angeles Record.
Bakersfield. A. Scott, who killed
Charles Richards at Randsburg in Au-
gust, 1896, has been acquitted. The
jury was out half an hour. This was his
second trial, the first resulting in a
conviction for manslaughter.
A Bakersfield clergyman has fallen
heir to fortune of between $4,000
and $4,000, but it doesn't seem to
have yet robbed him of all his piety.
He announces that after tour of En-
gland and Ireland he will return to
continue his services in the Bakers
field pulpit.
Postmasters were appointed in CAL
| ifornia, as follows: I. V. Ralph, Alvar-
ado county; Alexander Templeman,
Fisk, Sonoma county; James G. Finch,
Indria, San Benito county; Henry P.
Clark, Somes Bar, Siskiyou county;
Wilson c.. Wellington, Toluca, Los
Angeles county.
San Francisco-The prison direct
ors selected no warden for San QUEEN
tin prison because Governor Gage
would make no formal nomination. He
simply mentioned Aguirre as a good
man, but in the absence of a regular
nomination, nothing could be done.
] The election will now go over for two
weeks
At Salt Lake the greater part of the
convention of the Western Labor
union was devoted to a discussion of
resolutions. A resolution was adopted
asking all labor unions in california
! to join with the Miners'l union in
Randsburg and other mining districts
near San Pedro harbor to get union
labor and union hours on the govern
ment work at San Pedro.
If there is to be reunion Of Rough
Riders in Chicago, it is pretty safe to
predict that there will be two re-
unions, and that the larger one will be
in New Mexico. Inasmuch as New
Mexico furnished 40 per cent of the
members of the regiment, the Arizona
members are willing to go there, but
not to Chicago, which didn't furnish
any per cent of the regiment.
San Francisco-The twelve Filipinos
who arrived here on. the steamer City
4 of Picking, a week ago, have been or
dered deported by the. special board of
inquiry appointed SImmigration
Commissioner North. The party con-
sists of ten adults and two children.
Unless an appeal is taken they will
probably return home on the next
steamer bound for the Orient.
! Bakersfield is just now entertaining
an expectation five stories high and
4 100. by 70 feet at the base. A brewer
4 and ice4Inan is there from Wisconsin
with proposition to establish a brew
cry and an ice plant OF the above
mentioned dimensions, provided he is
given satisfactory~site and tho water
is suitable for beer4making, and the
citizens think both conditions can be
met.
Sacramento-P. Brennan, an orchard
hand in the employ of J. F. Dudley ate
some dried fruit which his employer
had prepared for the purpose of poi
soning rabbits. Dudley told the men
about it and warned them, but Bren-
nan, who has been suffering from a
gathering in the ear evidently did not
hear him. A speedy run for doctor
and prompt response saved the man S
life.
The Arizona Republican grows very
sarcastic over the purpose of the Com
missioner of Indian Affairs to make a
display Of Indians and cacti from Ari-
IONA at the coming exposition in
Omaha. The proper thing for Arizona
to do under the circumstances would
seem to be to send to Omaha an ex-
hibit of mineral, agricultural and hor-
ticultusal products that will make the
Indians and cacti secondary attrac-
ton.
! Pensions were granted to Califor-
mans as follows: Original, special,
May Especial acD-Jamas ]. Marcher,
Rial. Restoration and ncrease-Hiram
E. Fraley (dead,) La Crescenta, Sc to
So. Increase-James M. Kelley, Sol
diers' Home, Los Angeles, So to $40.
Reissue-Anton Mallachowitz, Soldiers
Home, Los Angeles, So. Original-Al-
exander Lindsey, San Francisco, Sc;
Marcus H. Davis, Riverside, So.
San Jose-Lillian Steffani, the young
daughter of groceryman here, is be-
lieved to be at the point of~deatn as a
result of being hit with rock. She
was on a south-bound train returning
home from San Francisco. At Bur
lingame, an excursion train carrying
the electrical workers back to San
Francisco was passed, and some one
on the excursion train threw a rock
into a car of the south bound train,
and Miss Steffani was hit on the tenn
pie.
San Francisco-At Point Iona, near
| San Diego the United Brotherhood