Mesa free press., 1899-05-19
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.

toriOuS woman, committed suicide to-
| day by swallowing carbolic acid.
Vancouver, B. c., has Dead Mans
| Island, but it is not the real thing.
| which San Pedro, CAL. alone possesses.
San Francisco-The whistlingbuoy off
Point Pinos Monterey bay has gone
adrift. 1t will be replaced as soon as
| possible.
Wong Duck has been arrested at
| Fresno, charged with murder and will
be tried to determine whether or not
he is the wrong duck.
| San Francisco-John Johnson, a
sailor, was stabbed, probably ia
tally, in front of a saloon at Jackson
and Sansome streets by Dominica Ru-
MAJ.
| President Harper of the University
of Chicago wants to expand across the
desert, and annex Throop Institute and
so far as heard from there is not a
| single Filipino in Pasadena.
The confidence felt that Kern county
earth contains plenty of wealth for
those who are willing to go where it is
concealed is evinced by a rapidly-in-
=
| Machinery and tools are being sent there
just now by the carload. 49,.
Kern City is to have $4,000 sewer
| system, built by private enterprise,
and now the people of Bakersfield, who
are restless at being outdone, are look
| ing for the capitalists who will give
| them a system of sewers just a little
better than that of Kern City.
| Law, order and decency are making
progress in Tucson. An ordinance has
recently been passed prohibiting wom-
en- and girls from singing in saloons.
A case was taken into court and it was
said it would be bitterly contested, but
the defendant withdrew her plea of not
guilty and pleaded guilty.
Victoria, B.. CA mail carrier has
arrived from the Upper Stickeen river,
after making a hazardous trip over
crumbling ice to get relief for pros
pectors who are starving at Docs Lake
on the Ashcroft trail. He reports that
they have eaten all their supplies and
horses and are now living on mules and
dogs.
Washington-The secretary of the
| interior has made apportiOnment of pu-
pills and money for California Indian
schools; San Diego rs pupils, $2700;
Banning, 26 pupils, $280S. The whole
appropriation this year was but $59,822
against $118,0OO last year, it being the
policy of the government to gradually
reduce until no support whatever will
be given.
San Francisco-No new cases of
smallpox have appeared among the sol
| diers at the Preside, or on board the
| transport, and it is believed that the
disease has been stamped out. Every
precaution is being taken to prevent
the spread of the disease. The cloth
ing and tentage of afflicted patients is
being destroyed, and those who are ex-
posed to the disease have been isolated.
San Francisco-The Examiner says
that at a meeting of the Gim-Yee Tong
society prices were placed on the heads
of several Chinese merchants and
| manufacturers of clothing, who employ
| non -union laborers. The men who arc
| in fear of assassination, say the society
| is trying to force their employer to
| join the union, and add that ninety
have already done so. 1t is further
stated that number of desperate
highbinders have returned here from
| Fresno.
San Francisco-The Chronicle says
| that two suits will be filed against the
estate of the late Julius l.. Franklin,
| lottery agent and former fur trader
in the northwest, on behalf Of an al
legged Indian widow and her children.
She is said to have been the 15-year-
| old daughter of an Indian chief dwell
| ing in the vicinity of Fort Douglass,
| when Franklin met and married her in
1860. Pauline Franklin, Franklin's wild
ow in this city, is made the chief de-
PENDANT to the suit, along with her
children. The property involved is
valued at about 100000.
The report of the assistant adjutant-
general of the department of California
and Nevada G. A. R., as read at the
present encampment at San Diego,
shows the total membership of the de-
partment on December 81 last to have
been 5116, with a loss by death, dur
| ing the year of $50. This is a rather
remarkable showing, considering the
| fact that the full period of what is
commonly called generation has
passed since the close of the war, loss
| by death Of less than per cent dur
| ing the year shows surprising degree
of vitality among these venerable vet
Grams.
The university circus at Berkeley is
declared to have been a great success.
"Ringmaster Cheesbrough cracked his
whip" we are told, 'the twenty COL
lege clowns commenced their antics,
the Italian and his juggling bear be-
gan their shutting dance, the trained
goat began to buck, and butt his at
tendant clown, and the university de-
baters, C. e. Fryer, and Harry Over
street, started on their rounds with
fresh peanuts and pink lemonade" All
of which goes to show that number
of the students have undoubtedly dis
covered the vocation for which they
are especial adapted.
MAYNARD YOUTH.
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