Mesa free press., 1899-04-28
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
A Summary of Late Events That Are
Rolled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.

seem, now tndC the poll tax man is
around. exclaims the Oakland Tribune.
Even people who bought SIS seats at
the opera night after night, don't feel
equal to the occasion.
Five carloads of horses, eighty in
number, have just been shipped at
Bakersfield for Germany 1t is evident
that good horses are still appreciated
in Europe, in spite of the alleged pop
ularity of the automo
The Oakland Tribune wants to know
"if the shoe trust can .last?" Probably
it will last if it does not peg out or get
on it's uppers. It is understood to be
we'll heeled, and it certainly is not one
of the corporations that have no soles.
Rough on Jack-Viola Allen, the
actress, has sued the American News
Company, for $4,000 damages. She
charges that the company circulated
libelous story to the effect that she
was going to marry Jack Mason, the
actor
The Jerome News says: "For the
population Arizona publishes more
newspapers. than any other section of
the Union, and they are all apparently
we'll supported or their proprietors
have the faculty of getting along on
less"
The Santa Cruz Sentinel wants it
distinctly understood that it is not
Santa Cruz, CAL, that has been cap
tured by General Lawton. That town
will refuse to surrender till the Cali
fornia troops come there to camp this
summer.
The Williams News has figured out
this morsel of consolation: ''The de-
struction of the Windsor hotel in New
York, and the awful loss, is another
proof of how lucky is the Arizona pros
pector who carries his bed around,
from place to place on his back"
A correspondent, writing from Phoe-
nix, Ariz., asks why the grain and
feed men do not advertise. He says
he wants to find somebody, who ham
dies oil-coke meal and that he can
not find anything of the kind in the
paper. This paper is unable to an
sWer the conudrum.
An amazing number of cripples are
developing in Arizona. Out of thirty
six men registered to vote at the mu-
nicipal election by one clerk the other
day in Phoenix thirty were cripples.
This condition of things is one of the
remarkable results of exempting Grip
pies from paying poll tax.
The new law in Arizona requiring
the presentation of a poll tax receipt
before any citizen is permitted to
vote is causing boom in the asses
sor's offices in the Territory. II
would not be surprising if this law
were to enable good many indiffer-
ent voters to get their poll taxes paid
without expense to themselves.
We note a tendency In some quar-
ters to complain because it is to be
an armored cruiser and not battle
ship that is to bear the proud name
California But let us not be cap
tious; a cruiser is faster than bat
tleship, and California is nothing if
not rapid; again, few battlships cost
4,000,000 which is to be the amount
expended on the California. We are
not being treated $50 worse"
Japs Must Cow. M. Rice, United
States Commissioner of immigration
at Victoria, B. c., arrived at San Fran
cisco on his way to Washington from
Japan, where he was sent to study the
labor conditions of Japan, and the
probable menace to this country by
the treatened influx of Japanese. 1t. is
thought that as the result of his rec
concentrations, congress will be asked
to keep out Japanese laborers and me-
chanicS.
The Dry Wine Industry-The initial
step has been taken to organize the
dry-wine industry of California San
ia Clara county vineyardists have held
a meeting and decided that the only
safety of those engaged in the business
consisted in firm allegiance to the CAL
ifornia Wine Makers Corporation. Six
delegates will represent Santa Clara at
the state convention to be held in San
Francisco for the purpose of organic
ing all vineyardists on some workable
plan.
The Trustees and Marshal of Fres-
no are scarcely less culpable than
Shanklin, the City Clerk, who has alb
seconded, if, as it is asserted, they have
been aware for months that his &C.
counts were short Their excuse is that
they believed he would make the short
age good if given time. This excuse
might have been tolerated had watch
been kept on him so that he could not
escape, but this was not done and
Shanklin is gone and no one knows
whittier.
The Territorial University of Arizo-
ma is all torn up by row resulting
from "pillow fight among the stu
dents. The students, it seems, accord
ing to the statement of the faculty, in
sisted on having their fun during
study hours, and were disciplined for
disobeying. Then some twenty or more
of them left the university. Some of
them will apply for admission to the
Stanford university. If the statement
of the faculty of the Arizona university
be true, they ought not to be received
at Stanford or any other university.
The Phoenix, Ariz, Gazette insists
! jealousy upon the right Of editors to
kick especially in that territory. 1t
says: eff an Arizona newspaper
wasn't allowed to kick its usefulness
would be at an end. The editors live