Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-08-04
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Summary of Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.

Neil Gallagher, while riding on
brakebeam from San Francisco, where
he had gone to enlist, but had been re-
iected, had one of his feet badly
crushed under a car wheel at Sacra-
mento.
The San Francisco Call says that
there is every likelihood that the price
of grain bags will rise to high fig
ure before many days have passed.
This is in consequence of combina-
ton made by about fourteen Of the
large importers and private holders,
whereby over 100000 bags have been
cornered, or set aside to wait for a ris-
ing market.
The report of the immigration Com
missioner for the fiscal year ending
June 80, shows that 3776 males and
1O40 females were landed during the
year at San Francisco. OF the arriv-
ais 1867 were Japanese, 1857 English.
2O1 Germans, 153 Mexicans, % Coreans,
II Filipinos, $50 Irish, 70 Spanish and
1873 Portuguese. They brought with
them total of $337,754.
San Francisco-The Southern Pacific
Company brought suit against num-
Der of ticket scalpers to prevent them
from buying, selling or in any way
dealing in the excursion tickets issued
to those persons who attended the re-
cent convention of the National Edu-
cational Association at Los Angeles.
The company got an injunction from
Judge Trout against the scalpers.
Manuel Jardine of Aalameda perpet-
yates the claim of that town to the
ownership of freaks. Like the man in
the story who danced and shouted
while his uninsured house burned
because the rats would catch h"
Jardine, to free his home of flies, ex-
ploded piece of giant powder. Pieces
of the house are found every once in
a while, but the flies are doing bust
ness at the old stand. 1t is about the
proper time of year to read the green
goods artist has MIXED Alameda, and
that a leading citizen has purchased
a gold brick. Jardine is wrapped in
rags and grief.
In Oakland they are all torn up over
the case of a school teacher who is not
a citizen of the United States. 1t is
not known how such a test would af-
feet the Los Angeles schools, but it is
certain that vigorous and effective
kick would come If it were known that
any man, not knowing the country
enough to swear allegiance to it, was
permitted to teach in its schools.
School book publishers and latent sec
tional prejudice have so altered mod
ern history as to make it a grave dan
ger to intrlst its teaching to one who
owes allegiance to the government I'M
der consideration and not to the United
States.
According to an opinion by Assist
ant Acknowledgement Sturtevant, Mrs
Myra e. Wright, Of San Jose, is liable
10 Lave trouble in recovering 1000
loaned by her to the Union Savings
bank Of San Jose. The opinion was in
response to an inquiry by the State
Bank Commissioners In 1893 eEd
TIE early part of this year W. Fl.
Wright vas one of the directors Of
the bank, which is now in liquidation.
His wife advanced the 100000 to the
bank, and to secure the payment Of
the loan the bank directors gave her a
deed on the bank property. Sturtevant
advises the bank commissioners to
inform the officials now in charge of
the bank that the Wright contracts
are worthless.