Mesa free press., 1899-08-18
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.

Readers.
Northern California had another
earthquake last Saturday.
The beet sugar campaign at the new
Oxnard factory will begin next Tues
day.
A soup kitchen for returned Klon-
dikers would appear to be one of the
needs of the hour.
The town of Oxnard is to have a
bank with a paid-up capital of $50, 900.
1t will be open for business on the 18th
inst.
/ A beautiful umbrella fish with ten
tacles measuring four feet long, has
been captured at Catalina, and placed
in the aquarium.
Irrigation water in the Riverside
settlement costs about 20 cents per inch
for days flow, and there's plenty of
water in the canals for all demands.
Seattle, Wash.-A shipment of sixty
boxes of pears from Sacramento was
seized by Fruit Inspector Brown, who
said they were infected with the Goblin
moth.
San Collector of Internal
Revenue J.C. Lynch has issued state
ment showing that the collections of
his Office during July amounted to
$613,O15.
Col. Trevelyon of Fresno, manager
of the Earton estate, has offered $14 a
ton for sweet wine grapes. Several
growers have already signed contracts
for their entire crops.
San Francisco-A herd of cattle from
Bodega, Valley Ford and Petaluma,
condemned by the health authorities as
unfit for food, were slaughtered and
nearly every carcass was destroyed.
The Garden Grove plant for extract
ing the oil from eucalyptus is to be en-
larged to meet the increased demands
for it's product. Thus does another in
FAINT industry offer safe investment for
capital.
One hundred and sixty-nine cars of
green fruit have been shipped from vi
salia so far this season. The cannery
here employs 48O persons. The fruit
crop in Tulare county is enormous,
this year.
Portland, Or.-Another carload of
new wheat came in from eastern Ore
gon, making the third of the season.
The market situation shows but little
change. Local quotations remain un-
changed at 56@56A for Walla Walla
and 571a for Valley.
The fine school house of Needles was
destroyed by fire on the morning of
the 1st inst. The building and furnish
ings cost about $4,000. Insurance to
the amount of $1,000 was carried. ORR
gin supposed to have been lightning.
A sever electrical storm was raging at
the time.
Tacoma, Wash.-The Northern Pa
cific liner Victoria arrived from the
Orient, breaking all records for rich
cargoes, which included 1902 bales of
silk, valued at 100000. There was also
5000 tons of tea and general merchan-
disc aboard. The vessel is under
charter to take supplies to the Phil
ippines, and will be unloaded as quick
ly as possible
James G. Doyle, the mining man
who has been confined in jail at Colo
rado Springs, Colo, several months on
account of having disregarded an in
junction issued by the district court
forbidding him to prosecute a suit in
the Iowa courts against James Burns,
president of the Portland Gold Mining
company, has been released by order of
the court, the judgment obtained in
the Iowa court having been set aside.
Special Internal Revenue Agent Burt
M. Thomas and posse seized a Chinese
opium factory at Washington alley,
San Francisco. The factory was owned
by Man Sing, and he will be arrested
as soon as he can be found. No one
except American citizens is allowed to
manufacture opium in the United
States, and even they must pay rev.
enue tax of $40 pound. In panel in
the wall Deputy Collector Gilchrist
found seventy-five five-tael tins of pre-
pared opium ready for shipment.
GRAIN BAGS PLENTIFUL.
San FranciScO-The british shin