Mesa free press., 1899-01-06
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.

G. T. U. will occur at Seattle, October
20 to 25, 1899.
Governor Bndd has appointed Ber-
nard D. Murphy of San Jose as Bank
commissioner to succeed Paris Kill
burn.
News has just been received of a
slide on the Chilcoot Pass, in which
six persons were killed. Five bodies
have been recovered.
Prof. e. H. Wilkinson, of Lompoc,
CAL, has been elected vice president
OF the Pacific Methodist collegsl al
santa Rosa. He will be thu v..;ual
head Of the college.
In the case of the California I'm
provement, Company against G.. D.
Reynolds and wife the Superior Court
OF Alameda county decided in favor of
the company. The Supreme Court
has reversed the judgment.
A local powder company has just
received contract calling for $4,000
kegs of blasting powder, which will be
used in the construction of a railroad
in Oregon. This is the largest single
order for blasting powder ever. given
in this country.
Alameda county is suing the state
for $104,316, alleged to be due for SER
vices rendered by county officials in
handling state taxes in the past five
five years. Other counties have taken
the same course, claims aggregating
over $1,000,0O0
Sacramento will have the National
Guard Cavalry Company that is to re-
place Troop B, which enlisted as artil-
lery and is now at Fort Candy. Stock
ton, San Jose and Oakland wanted it,
but were too slow. w. A. Desborongh
will probably be captain.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany has ordered two new steamers to
ply between San Francisco and Yoko-
hama and Hong Kong, to- be built at
the Newport News navy yard of G. p.
Huntington. Each will have cabin ac-
commodations for 175 first-class pas
sengers.
Reports from various sections of
California indicate that business has
started up all along the line as a. re-
suit of the recent rains. That new
courage has been given to the farmers
is shown by. the fact that they are
spending their money more literally,
and the effect of this greater liberality
is felt by all classes.
Jack Schmidt, a Skaguay hermit,
hunter and prospector, has had Rob
inson Crusoe experience that seldom
comes to man in real life. Nineteen
long days he managed to exist on
Rocky Chilcat Island, where he had
been washed up by the terrible storms
that so nearly destroyed the steamer
Utopia. A few birds and a land otter
were his only provisions.
The Panama steamer San Juan has
arrived at San Francisco. The San
Juan brought news that the Pacific
Steam Navigation Company have per-
fected their arrangements for the
maintenance of line of steamers be-
tween ports of South and Central
America and Europe. An effort is
being made to close a traffic agree
ment between the steamship line in
question and the Panama Railroad
Company.
The ranks of the Celestials in Cali
fornia are being depleted owing to the
ebrate the coming year in their native
land The Chinese bureau has in the
past few days issued over 700 "Chok
Chees," or certificates for Chinese who
will sail this week for Hong Kong on
the. steamer City of Peking and Gae-
lie. 1t is estimated that over 10000
Chinese from America will celebrate
the .twenty-fifth year of Kwong Sui in
the Flowery Land.
H. M. S. Imperieuse has reported to
the local agent of the Department of
Marine and Fisheries that Maple Spit
beacon on Bayne's Sound has been
swept away by recent storms. The
government has decided upon the sup
preston of smuggling along the coast.
A number of protective. stations will
be established, three in inland waters,
and three along the west coast. Off
GERS will have power to seize any YES
sci found smuggling or otherwise
breaking the customs laws. fs
Engineers of the War Department
have recommended that $4,000 be ap-
propriated for work upon the break
water at Port Hartford, and the busi-
ness men of, San Luis Obispo have
taken up the fight for the project
They fear that if the work is allowed
to lag for one year it will take more
effort to have the work pushed again
than it will to keep it up now that it
is under way. Senator Perkins be-
lieves that not more than $140.000 will
be required to complete the breakwa-
ter, and will strive to have the sum
set aside for the work.
The Rosalia, which has arrived
from Skaguay, reports the wreck of a
sloop which left Wrangel two weeks
ago for Skaguay with a party of
twelve, bound for Atlin. The sloop
was found bottom up by Indians, and
it is feared that all have been lost.
Fred Smith of Victoria, just out from
Atin, brings news of two more rich
gold-bearihg creeks discovered. The
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