Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-23
PACIFIC 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.

SAN FRANCISCO-Two cases OF
smallpox were discovered here, the vic
Tins being a patient at a private hos
pital and his nurse. They have been
quarantined.
The advent of the new proprietor
ship of the Phoenix Herald is signal
lied by improvements in the English
language. "The Rough Riders" it
remarks, will renne in Las Vegas.
June "a" (Hear, hear!)
STOCKTON-The golden wedding
celebration of Judge Joseph III. Budd
and wife, parents of Ex-Governor Budd
and Regent John e. Budd of the State
University, was the most elaborate So
ciety affair of many years in Stockton.
Grand Forks, Wash, was infested
with gamblers, confidence men, thugs
and others of that ilk, and the city
authorities gave them twenty-four
hours to leave town, recently, or be
placed in the chain gang. They left
town in time.
After an exciting chase covering a
week and extending from Mutt to En-
gle, New Mexico, Deputy Sheriffs Hall
and Williams ran to earth two notori-
GUS Mexican desperadoes, who have
committed most all the depredations
in the criminal calendar throughout
that territory.
SACRAMENTO Thieves entered the
Cathedral here and robbed the poor
boxes. These were of iron and riveted
to the walls but were pried off and
broken. They had been emptied only
a few days before, and contained only
small sum. The burglars also made
an attempt to break open the Taberna-
Gle, but were unsuccessful.
At San Francisco Private Julius
Craw, Company d, casual de-
general hospital suffering from q
wound that may prove fatal. He was
shot in a peculiar manner while at the
target practice. He was keeping
score when bullet, after striking the
target, was reflected and struck him
under the right shoulder blade. 1t
passed entirely through him, penetrat-
ing one lung.
Fresno is unhappy because the lady
chosen to be Goddess of Liberty "has
gone and went and resigned" The
cause of ire in the Goddess-elect was a
remark by gentleman friend that she
was "a beauty" and that the morning
paper printed the remark. If the male
friend said she was not beauty, the
whole wide coast would never have
known it. Men have some rights in
these things, as recent proceeding in
divorce proved. The woman gave as
a reason for action that, when he
married me, he said my golden tresses
were the pride of his life. and now he
calls me old Sorrel-top.'" Decree de-
MED on general principles
At Santa Cruz recently, Mary e.
Smith was divorced for cruelty. The
husband appealed to the Supreme
Court. Pending an opinion, Mrs Smith
died. Since her death the opinion is
handed down confirming the decree. 1t
is claimed to be poor law that passes
on case, one Of the parties to which
is dead. Yet there is something ma
jestice, something Christ-like in the
last sentence Of the opinion, which
says: ''Still these assignments of err
ror do not contain sufficient merit to
demand reversal of judgment" Thus
doth California Jurisprudence hedge
about the sanctity of wifehood and
motherhood, even after the poor body
is gone to rest.