Mesa free press., 1899-06-02
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 has already opened q
subscription list for the Dewey home
fund.
Oakland-The four-year-old SON OF
H. Arnnaut and wife of Sunol, was
drowned in a washtub half-filled with
water.
San Francisco-John w. Hendrix. q
retired merchant of this city, has given
5000 to the Academy of Science. to
be used for library.
| SAN RAFAEL-Word comes from
San Quetin that Guard James McDon-
aid, who was stabbed by Oppenheimer,
the life-termer, is still alive and doing
fairly well.
San Francisco - Brig.-Gen. Fred
Grant, ordered to the Philippines, ar
rived here the other day. He was met
by his brothers, U. S. Grant, and Jesse
Grant, who had come up from South
ern California to welcome him.
Just as hay is becoming a little
| cheaper the horseshoers in several
counties in this state have combined
| to advance the price of shoeing. 1t
looks as if horse owners were bound to
be taxed for "all the traffic will BEAR -
The newspapers of Tulare county
are not quite paying the county for
the privilege OF printing the tax list
this year, but one of them is coming
so near it that it gets 81 cents a
Square" for the work. This is clearly
not a square deal.
Washington-At the request of the
secretary of the interior, Secretary of
War Alger has agreed to order troops
| to the Moqui Indian reservation in
Arizona to force the Indians to submit
to vaccination. The troops will be
sent from Fort Wingate, N. M.
Oakland-Richard Devine, who was
a gunner's mate on the Oregon at the
battle of Santiago when Cervera's
fleet was destroyed, attempted suicide
| by taking a large dose of opium. His
recovery is doubtful. Dependency
over his failure to procure employment
was the cause of his act.
| When the Los Angeles city council
gets the subject of liquor licenses and
slot machines settled, if that ever
comes to pass, it should pass an ordi-
nance requiring wheelmen who ride at
night to carry lighted lanterns. The
enforcement of such an ordinance
would prevent great many accidents.
The P. D. @. Cyanide company at
Randsburg is reported to be feeding
| it's employees alfalfa. 'Take nice al
'tcook it well-it requires asgood deal
of cooking-and, served with the
proper condiments, it issdelicious eat
ing" A. P. d. Curious diet, neverthe-
less.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Johnson has
under arrest a woman named Hines,
who is wanted in Lodi, San Joaquin
county, for obtaining money and goods
by false pretenses. She rides about
the country in a phaeton and collects
money, butter, eggs, lard and other
things under guise of helping some
family in distress.
The city council of Oakland has been
! trying to solve the question whether
the bicycle is vehicle or a means of
locomotion, in order to know whether
! or not it should be ruled off the side
| walks. To the mind not profoundly
versed in photography and law, 1t
would, seem to be both a vehicle and a
means or lOcOmOtlOn.
w. D. Grady created a disturbance
| in Recorder Cosgrave's court, Fresno,
the other day. He insulted the court,
| who committed him to Jail until 10
O'Clock the next morning for contempt.
Grady resisted and gave Bailiff Tim
| Minis a hard tussle. The belligerent
| lawyer was finally lodged in Jail. In
addition to the Imprisonment he was
| fined $25.
Sacramento-Lee Dick Lung has
! been convicted of murder In the first
degree for the killing of Lee Ling III
| last November on TWitchell island.
The accused was a highlander, and de-
manded money of the murdered man
and his partner, who had just sold
their potato crop and received pay for
! it. Being refused he pulled a revolver
and killed his victim.
Sacramento-A small dwelling atNo.
| 1923 K street, occupied by the family
of Eugene Mccarthy, laborer, fell
| four feet to the ground, the underpin-
ming giving way. The family were all
! in the house at the time, but no one
was hurt. The plastering, windows,
pictures, clocks, stove, etc, were thrown
| down, and nearly everything inside
was wrecked. The building, however,
did not collapse.
There was stock buyer at Tulare
| the other day who would make an
ideal Filipino marksman. Having
hired a livery team to drive into the
country, he undertook to shoot rab-
bit with a rife he had with him, and
shot one of the horses he was driving
dead in his tracks, while the rabbit
skipped into the brush. Filipino like,
the cattle merchant probably looked
the other way at the instant of pull
ing the trigger.
The published appeal Of John F.
Godfrey Post, G.. A. R., Of Pasadena,
in behalf of a proper observance of Me-
mortal day ought to find ready and
willing response in the heart of every
citizen of that city. If not, public
opinion should assert itself with such
force as to effect the abandonment of
the proposed sports and other festiv-
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