Mesa free press., 1899-02-03
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
A Summary OF Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.

lie rdIueIS CluD OF san jose has
started movement to create an as
sociation to control the dried prune
output Of this coast. d. M. Delmas is
chairman and w. P. Cragin secretary
of the committee.
The Phoenix (Ariz.) Herald SAYS:
"The matter of hemp culture here in
Arizona should be pushed by our
farmers" Self-cocking 44's have
heretofore been considered good
enough for Arizona.
The senate confirmed the following
nominations: Postmasters - Califor-
MIA, J. l.. Dinwiddie, Petaluma; F. l..
Grauss, Calistoga; F. T. Hall, Heads
burg; F. Higgins, Fort Bragg; F. B.
Mackinder, st. Helena
Complaint has been filed before
the Railroad Commissioners at San
Francisco, asking for a reduction Of
rates between Colusa and Colusa
Junction, and Colusa and Sites. The
present fare of $1.75 is alleged to be
excessive.
California's commissioners to the
Hamburg Exposition, who were
granted $4,000 to make their exhibit,
surprised the State Controller by re-
turning $51.52. The commissioners
were Henry F. Fortmann, j. A.
fletcher and Robert Hector.
The senate committee on commerce
decided to report favorably the bill
introduced by Senator Perkins for a
first-class revenue cutter for service
on the Pacific Coast. The amount to
be appropriated for the cutter was
placed at $25O,O00, a reduction of $685.
600.
Steps are now being taken to pre-
pare for the State Y. M. C. A. Con-
vention, which convenes at San Jose
February to IL. A meeting will be
held to get the machinery in motion.
H. J. Mccoy, San Francisco; N. H.
Jacks, Oakland, and others will ad-
dress the meeting.
The first dividend of the California
.Winemakers' Corporation is cents a
gallon, making $4,000 coming to
245 shareholders. There are ON hand
Is, 100000 gallons of dry wine of the
vintage of 1896, 1897 and 1898, which
it is expected will net $1,5OO,000 with
in the next ten months.
A Wonderful Mule-C. W. Patter-
son of San Francisco packed his mule
at Dawson with 400 pounds of bag
gage, and drove it over the ice, up
hills, along ridges all the way to
Skaguay, in twenty-four days, break
ing all records; the mule Travelled
over the ice as well as dogs, else
where far better, and eating much
less than needed for a dog team.
The Sanger Herald says the Chi
nese and Japs have made big cut in
the price of vineyard work this win
ter, which will effectually prevent all
competition by the white labor in
to clear and prune many big vine
yards at IS cents per acre and board
themselves, which is about Is per
cent less than was paid for such work
last season.
It would seem from the following
that the Prescott, Ariz., Courier en-
ploys a professional wit as report
err: GAS the Courier man came up
town Tuesday morning a stranger
stood on the Scopel corner watching
the crowd in the neighborhood OF
Logan's undertaking parlors. He ex-
claimed, Whose funeral is that? He
was told that an election was in pro-
gress, and whose funeral 1t was would
not be known until night"
Gertrude, the 14-year-old daughter
of Daniel Brown of Stockton, who
was formerly a San Francisco police
officer, is unconscious and at the
point of death from what a physician
says is mushroom poisoning, but her
parents believe her illness is caused
from eating raw mushroom, the
stem of which contained centipede.
The latter theory seems more proba-
BILE, as the rest of the family ate OF
them and suffered no i'll effects.
Nathan L. Amster, in a letter to
the Globe Times, calls attention to a
subject which is worthy of prompt
consideration by the people of Arizo-
ma, namely, that of making an ex-
hibit at the Paris Exposition in 1900.
The great mineral resources of that
Territory are, as Mr.. Amster re-
marks, but little known to the world.
Capital is needed there and the Ter
ritory cannot affords to miss the op-
portunity to make itself known
abroad.
Interest in the work now being
done on the Southern Pacific Compa-
ny's coast line between Los Angeles
and San Francisco continues on the
increase as additional evidence of the
company's intention to close the gap
becomes apparent. Superintendent
Boschki who has charge of the work
at the Santa Barbara end of the line,
is made responsible for the statement
that within thirty days between two
and three hundred men will be at
work about Elwood.
A. w. Jones, President of the Mon
terey and Fresno Railroad Company,
who is in San Francisco, declares that
the projected road will be completed
from deep water at Monterey to Fres-
no within year. The line will pass
through Blanco, Salinas, Prunedale,
San Juan, and minor stations on the
way to Hollister. In the San Joaquin
Valley it will pass through Firebaugh