Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-16
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

| sacramento, June Ex-Governor Gage
this afternoon appointed Captain w.
H. Seamans of the State Commission
in Lunacy, to be Acknowledgement.
The man who is determined to go
either to the Klondike or the Lower
California placer fields has to decide
whether he prefers to die by freezing
or from thirst.
The minions of the law in Stockton
have no respect for dignity or social
position. The principal of the High
School rode his bicycle on the sidewalk
in front of the school building, where
there were children standing, and was
promptly arrested by an officer.
Fresno is agitating the question
whether or not it will be worth while
to do anything to entertain the teach
ers after the national convention in
Los Angeles. The mossbacks and the
| hustlers seem to be about equal in
numbers.-L. A. Times.
Practical philanthropy has taken
an interesting form in San Francisco
where wealthy citizen has construct
ed floating house, in which he in
tends to take unemployed men from
| San Francisco up the Sacramento river
to the fruit region, where help is
| wanted.
The temperance people at Berkeley
knocked out one of the strongest argu-
ments for the existence of saloons in
that town by pledging themselves to
pay into the treasury a sum equal to
the revenue derived from liquor Ii
censes An ordinance has now been
passed providing for the abolition of
saloons after OCTOBER 1.
The Native Sons of California have
undertaken commendable work in
proposing to present medals and GER
tificates to all volunteers from this
state who entered the military service
for the Spanish American war. AL
though each such token will be a small
matter in itself, it will be highly es-
teemed for the appreciation it will ex-
press.
A very important decision, concerning
damages obtainable from a trust was
handed down at San Francisco by
United States Judge Morrow. The case
was that of M. Sauret, local retail
coal dealer, against R. D. Chandler,
local wholesale coal merchant and
member of the coal combine. Judge
Morrow held that any person suffering
loss at the hands of trust could re-
cover triple damages from any mem
Der of the trust.
Oakland-During the progress Of
fire which partly destroyed the fine
residence of William C. Price in East
Oakland, thieves entered and looted
the building. Among other things,
they carried case filled with gold
nuggets and other valuable minerals
from the premises. After the fire small
nuggets worth about $40 were picked
on the lawn. The value of the missing
specimens is about $4,000.
A Washington dispatch relative to
counterfeiting on the Pacific coast says
that Chief of the Secret Service Wilke
declared the situation was not at all
alarming, and that stories of whole
sale counterfeiting have been freely
exaggerated. He stated, however,
that banks along the Pacific coast re-
ceived on an average three to four
spurious dollars a day. This indicates
quite large circulation, and secret
service officers are laboring earnestly
to apprehend the offenders. By using
genuine silver the counterfeiters are
enabled to make at least 40 cents on
each dollar.