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Mesa free press., 1899-03-03
rhe Camel as a Plow Horse.

COUNT Skorzewski, a wealthy land
owner in the province of Posen, Ger
many, to the amazement of his rustic
neighbors, has introduced a novel de-
parture on his Czerniejewoei estates,
which stands a fair chance of being
widely initiated in agricultural districts
in Western Europe. Instead Of horse
or OK or a camel is yoked to the plow,
and the experiment has proved success
full beyond the counts most sanguine
expectations. The camel, Injured to
hardships and privations, does double
the work Of pair of horses, is exceed
ingly tractable and can be kept in good
condition-for a camel-on a compare
lively small quantity of inferior fodder.
The "Skorzewski quadrupeds," as the
peasants of Posen facetiously call the
laborious intruders, were soon accli-
matized, and are the envy of the coun-
trySide.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03

Nine. Bernhardt has favored the
world with a glowing description OF
her narrow escape fEom the fiery ordeal
Of vesuvius. After telling us how she
seemed to stand in the midst Of fame
and to be choking with the sulphurous
vapor, she says:
But look! lost curl, and see how my
eyebrows were scorched! I felt for an in.
slant as though the day Of judgment was
at hand, but the guide dragged me back
from the abyss to which was being ire
sistibly drawn.
This sort of talk may have dazzling
effect on very young men or particular
ly obtuse old bachelors unacQuainted
with the everyday heroic deeds OF
women, but no man who has ever seen
a woman manipulating a curling iron
or dabbling with her gloves In gasoline
will be excited by any commonplace
stories about the terrors Of Vesuvius.
A curl indeed! We know a woman
who lost half a head of hair from
standing too near gas jet after wash
ing her head, and she never thought 1t
a matter of sufficient Importance or
heroism to give to the daily papers.
Bernhardt is entirely too spectacular.
Before we waste our admiration on her
let us think of the thousands Of humble
heroines al home who take the welfare
Of their curls and their eyebrows In
their hands every day in the week,
with no guide at hand to draw them
back from the abyss.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03
MEDALS FOR SOLDIERS.
Prize for Every Member of the First
California

San Francisco-The committee Of
the Native Sons of the Golden West
having charge of the arrangements for
the reception of the First California
Volunteers on the return of that regi-
ment from Manila, has devised as one
of the pleasant features of the home
coming the presentation to each re-
turning soldier of properly inscribed
medal. Only exactly enough of the
medals will be made to permit CIV
ing each soldier one, the state one and
the mint one.
It is the intention of the committee
having the affair in charge to request
the California representatives in con-
gress to permit permission from the
Treasury Department to have the
medals struck off at the United States
mint in this city and to make the
medals even more appropriately Cali
fornian, it is proposed to have them
made from the metal of some historic
al California cannon, or from the met
al of one of the bells from one of the
original missions.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03
ORANGE CROP is GONE.
Floridians Are Pressed Hard by Old
Jack Frost.


New York-The Sun editorially
says:
"Three years after the memorable
frost that killed three-fourths of her
orange trees down to the roots, the
cold wave has again invaded Florida,
and her orange industry is once more
Frustrated and the damage cannot be
repaired for several years.
Last season was a poor orange
year, but the fruit from the trees that
sprang from the old roots was coming
into market and the crop was about
half as great as that yielded the year
before the disaster, But, 40 per cent
of the orange growers, disheartened
by their former misfortune, had aban-
doned the business. Those who hope
fully kept on, find that all hopes of
profit are blasted again for many
years. In the large orange district of
Deland, about one hundred miles south
of Jacksonville, all the trees have
been killed, and in the more southerly
districts, the groves are said to have
been badly hurt The orange growers
said last year that the Florida crop
would not reach its former proper
tions for ten years, and many be-
lieved that the crop would never again
reach it's old magnitude.
"Of course there will now be a fresh
boom in California orange culture
The present tariff on all citrus fruits
has practically stopped orange impor-
tations, but even if Florida goes out
of the business, we may still grow all
the oranges we can consume Califor-
MAS crop last year was about 6,000,-
o. boxes, and it was larger than the
worlds output not many years ago."
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03

One bit Of dietetical gossip may well
cause a smacking Of lips and an inno-
cent chuckle Of delight all over the
child world and among some hundreds
Of millions of grown-ups. After exper-
iment and observation in the German
army sugar has been officially recon-
mended as a part Of the food Of SOL
diers. 1t not only helps to increass
their weight, but during long marches
It diminishes hunger and thirst, and
wards of the effects oS heat and ex-
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03
FRIDAY.

Washington was married on Fri
day.
Queen Victoria was married on Fri
day.
Napoleon Bonaparte was married on
Friday.
Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on
Friday.
America was discovered on Friday.
MayflOWer landed on Friday.
Joan of Arc was burned at the stake
on Friday.
Battle of Waterloo was fought on
Friday.
Bastille destroyed on Friday.
Declaration Of Independence signed
on Friday.
Julius Caesar assassinated on Fri
day.
Moscow burned on Friday.
Shakespeare born on Friday.
King Charles beheaded on Friday.
Battle of New Orleans fought on Fri
day.
Lincoln assassinated on Friday.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03
WOUNDED AT MANILA.

Benjamin A. Harbour, wounded in
the battle with the insurgents on the
5th inst, in Manila, was a member of
the first state senate of Utah elected
from Salt Lake City. Senator Harbour
was the only Populist in that body,
and eventually gave his support to
Moses Thatcher for United States Sen
ator, against whose election the Nor
mon church made successful fight.
At the opening of hostilities with
Spain, Utah only furnished a light
battery, which was in the National
Guard, and from motives of patriot
ism, ex-senator Harbour enlisted in
the Fourteenth regiment, United
States Infantry. ]. L, Harbour, the
story writer on the staff of the
Youths Companion and the ex-Sena-
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03

The substitution Of other means Of
transportation for the horse is gain,
In many respects. The horse makes
most of the noise and the dirt Of city
streets. 1t wears pavements out. The
pavements of the horseless city Of the
future will last twice as long as they
do now. A vehicle with horses occu-
pies twice as much room as one with
out horses. The stables Of crowded
cities are generally disagreeable to
sight and smell, besides being sources
Of disease.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03
THE COPPER KING, FRESNO.

ihe Los Angeles Mining Review
published an account of the Offering
on the London market of $4,000 shares
OF stock in the Copper King Mining
Company's copper properties in Fres-
no county. The prospectus states that
the properties have been capitalized at
100000 pounds, of which the venders
take 250,00O pounds in fully paid-up
shares in part payment. The balance
is divided between a cash payment, a
sum for working capital and unissued
lock.
c. D. Lane, part owner of the Utica
mine is, says the Stockton Mail, es-
tablishing an electric plant at Muir
phys, capable of generating 5000 horse
power. The current will be used to
operate the mines in which he is inter-
ested at Angels Camp. seven miles
from Murphy's.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03
WHAT GOES TO MAKE A TOWN.

Northport News: Every town has a
liar or two; a smart Aleck; some
pretty girls; more loafers than it
needs; a woman or two that rattles;
an old fogy that the town would be
better off without; men who stand on
the street corners and make remarks
about the women; man who laughs
an idiotic laugh every time he says
something; scores of men with the ca
boose of their trousers worn smooth
as glass; men who can tell you about
how the war question should be set
tied, the weather, and how to run 9TH
er peoples business, but who have
made a dismal failure of their own.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03
tor are brothers, and sister resides
in Los Angeles.
BIG SHOPS FOR STOCKTON.
Santa Fe Road to Spend Two Hun
dred Thousand Dollars There.

San Francisco-The Santa Fe Rail-
road Company is preparing to add 1850
box cars to the rolling stock of the
Valley road. 1t is stated that sixteen
locomotives will sson be ordered.
While Superintendent of Machinery
Player OF the Santa Fe, who is here at
present, refuses to talk on the subject,
it is generally understood that he has
decided upon Stockton as the proper
site for the machine and repair shops,
which the company will need at the
end of it's overland system.
In a general way it is known that
plans for five or six buildings are to
be prepared, and their estimated cost
together with the machinery and tools
to be used in them, will be somewhere
in the neighborhood of 100000. The
buildings will be so planned as to per-
NIT of extensions whenever demand
ed by the press of business.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03
GRUBSTAKERS WORRIED.
A Man Who Went to the Klondyke
From Randsbnrg.

A suit was filed in the Superior
Court by the grubstakers of a Klon-
dyke miner who is reported to b,
growing rich on their money.
The suit is brought by E. A. Boards.
ley, c. Gates, M. L. Ferguson and Wal
ter L. Vail against c. w. Anderson, a
prospector who went out from Rands-
burg on $1,000 advanced to him by the
plaintiffs. 1t is alleged that he is now
in Canada, and has located two valu-
able claims near the Last Chance on
Hunker's Creek in the Yukon dis
trict.
An accounting is demanded and the
court is asked to decree that the
plaintiffs are entitled to an individual
half interest in the claims according to
the agreement. Tt is said that An
dersOn is not mining himself, but is
engaged in the business of buying and
selling claims.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03
OUR EXPORTS TO FRANCE.
Annual Report Shows That They Ex-
ceed Great Britain's.

New York-The Tribune's Paris ca
BILE says that the annual report of the
American Chamber of Commerce of
Commerce of Paris has been compiled
by Edward Green and will appear next
week. Statistics show that the value
or goods imported last year from tie
United States into France exceeds all
past records and amounts to f633, ,85S,-
900.
The United States is now for the
first time the country from which
France imports the greatest amount
of goods, Great Britain coming sec-
ond on the list, with f.484, ,709, 900.
Hitherto Great Britain has been at the
top of the list as the greatest exporter
to France.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03

The Spanish flag has been hauled
down from the public buildings and
ramparts Of Cuba, and thus has been
dated the end Of Spanish rule in the
western hemisphere. Cuba has been
under the dominion of Spain since
BelasQuez hoisted the Spanish flag In
1911, and Spain was then the greatest
empire Of the world in territorial pos
sessions. To-day she has lost the last
of her provinces in the western hemi-
sphere; has lost control Of the Philip
pines and has not single possession
in the Asiatic seas where her authority
is respected. The Asiatic islands where
she yet claims her mastery are all In
successful revolution, and her laws
and her flag are openly defed. Porto
Rico is now a province Of the United
States and Cuba will certainly become
an American republic with a reason
able certainty Of ultimate annexation
by the action of her own people. There
is now safety to person and property
in Cuba, and scores Of millions Of mon
ey Will be invested in her productive
lands and mines. Her development
will be the speediest recorded in his
tory, and in less than five years the
island that for centuries has been rob-
bed and oppressed by Spanish rule and
finally desolated by war will become
one Of the most beautiful and fruitful
Of all the islands of the world. 1t goes
without saying that American energy
will be foremost in the development Of
Cuba. Already our capitalists are there
contending for the control Of her rail-
roads, telegraphs, telephones and her
great mineral wealth, and other millions
are ready for the speedy development
Of her matchless sugar lands now gen.
orally devastated. A single year will
be likely to make Cuba blossom and
fruit as never before, and her growth
in the development Of most substantial
wealth will be unexampled. American
influences will rule from the start, and
in the near future there will be a thor
oughly Americanized Cuban republic
that will be ready for annexation as
one Of the Territories or States Of the
Union. Cuba and Porto Rico are thus
lost TO Spain solely because she re-
fused the people Of those rich islands
the liberal and just government they
now are receiving under the American
flag.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03
IT is estimated that during 1898 the

1t is estimated that during 1898 the
colleges In the United States received
nearly $4,000, 900 in donations. While
education is cause near to the Ameri-
can heart, one cannot help but think
to what better and deeper charity some
of these millions of dollars might have
been put by distribution among the
millions of poor in the land, although
such bequests might not have received
the advertising which goes with the
endowing of university or an art gal
lery.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03

A very significant development of the
past few years is the gradual supplant-
ing Of the French language by the En-
glish for purposes Of commerce, diplo-
macy and social intercourse among
persons of different nationalities. En-
glish is coming to be Indispensable, as
French was q generation ago. Lam
guage rather than arms or even COM
merce, is the criterion of influence.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03
FRENCH-ENGLISH WAR.
1t Is Being Preached and Prepared for
by the Former.

London-The Toulon correspondent
of the Daily Mail, remarking upon the
extraordinary activity at the arsenal
there, and generally in the French ma
val works, says:
''It is believed that M. Lockroy,
minister of marine, expects war with
Great Britain within two years, and
it is notorious that war with Eng
land is being preached in official cir
cles in Paris.
Troops are being poured into Tu-
mis-, Causica and Algeria, and war ma
terial is being dispatched to all the
colonies. French officers openly boast
that they will sweep the British feet
out of the Mediterranean"
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03

Some Of the people who are still
waiting for the payment Of the French
spoliations claims assumed by this
Government viii be inclined to sympa-
thize with the American creditors Of
Spain whose claims are about to be
assumed in the same way.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03

Miss Helen Gould keeps on showing
her inherited financiering ability by
making investments of a kind that pay
higher dividends than can be computed
In dollars.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03
AGUINALDo's COUSIN KILLED.
General Baldomero Aguinaldo Fell at
Caloocan.

New York-A dispatch to the Her
aid rom Manila says:
A Spanish prisoner who escaped
from Malolos reports that General
Baldomero Aguinaldo, a cousin of
General Aguinaldo, and Filipino min
lister Of war, was killed in the fighting
at Caloocan, February 10, where the
Kansas, Montana and Pennsylvania
troops and the Third artillery were
heavily engaged. Confederation of
this report was given by the finding
of generals sword beside the rail-
way sheds.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03

We presume that it is not for publica-
ton but merely as an evidence Of good
faith that the Gear supplements his
proposals for universal disarmament
with loan Of $150,OOO,O0O to be ex-
pended on his artillery.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03

Hall Caine blames the Americans for
their love Of money. Why did Hall
come over here lecturing, and charging
people for the privilege Of hearing him?
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03

haustion. Nevertheless, there are med
ical writer's Of high authority who adj
wise against the use Of manufactured
sugar, and suggest that we take our
necessary share of saccharine matter
in those combinations which are fur
nisheG by natures own laboratory,
such as dates, figs, raisins, etc.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03

Gloucester, Mass, has the proud rec
ord Of having furnished more men to
the navy In proportion to its size than
any other town in the United States,
and the chances are that they were
good men at that. Heroism and endur-
ance are qualities that breed to perfec-
uon on the North Atlantic fishing coast.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03

The great possibilities in life are ably
illustrated by the fact that Mr.. Yerkes,
the Chicago street car magnate, started
In as q Quaker.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03

A museum curiosity now exhibiting
has three well-developed legs. He Is
said to be particularly contented and
good-natured. Here's a hint for lots
Of people with only two legs to do less
kicking
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03

The fact that New York publisher
offered the Kaiser $1,000 for an article
is important only as an exhibition of
yellow journal nerve.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03

Canada shouldn't get alarmed at the
idea Of this country absorbing it. 1t
will remain border until it shows its
worthiness to become member Of the
family.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03

Boston is still arguing the right Of a
man to kiss his wife in public. Why not
discuss Hobson's right to kiss another
mans wife in public?
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03

Mr.. Maxim says his rapid-fre gun
has changed the map of Africa in five
years and that it is the only weapon
able to stop swarms Of Arabs rushing
down upon British soldiers. The Yam
kee inventor is one Of the great civ
flfzera
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03

A French physician has pronounced
the Chinese Emperor's maiady to be
abnormal melancholy" And, all
things considered, we think it may
likewise be regarded as justifable mel
anchOlY.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03

II the average man has as much iron
In his blood as Is alleged, perhaps sci
ence in time will show him in the bur-
giar and such 1t turns to steal.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03

Though he symbolic the dogs Of
war, it would have been less than fair
to have required Hobson to wear a
muzzle.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03
QraaDinR.

Chollie- Might l give you a pocket
book as a gift?
Dollie-What would there be in 1t for
me?
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03

The sneezing feature of the complaint
IL an evidence that when grip gets a
man down 1t gives 1t to him in the nose
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03

A noisy person about an Office causes
more cases Of nervous prostration than
overwork and bad health.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03

As naval hero Nelson is reminiscent
Of Copenhagen somewhat differently
from Hobson.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03
Only Half.

Only Half.
She-You were scared half to death
the day We were married.
HeOnly half, unfortunately.
Mesa free press., 1899-03-03

There are plenty of canal schemes
proposed at Washington. But very
few of them will hold water.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-11

special alleged that several prominent citi-
xer.s CT Spokane were Involved. and were
making preparations to contest the case
or tns grounds that certain improvements
standing II the right-of-way had been
saere for roye than ten years. cs.op2tng
the company from Calming title by failing
20 bring action within sAs time limit.
In an interview. Mr. Bum says:
Tsere is nothing In /. 80 far as / kroS.
We have brought no new acf!cn recently in
Spokane. though we have several pending
waicn we're brought against sqIassers On
our rtght-af-way 10 compel them 10 vacats.
On all the Northern Pacific system there
Is not building os any considerable valne
which was not erected with the permission
ard sanction Of the company. The talk
that We have brought action regarding
property In Spokane worth several millions
Is nonsense. as there IS nc such property on
the rigAf-of-way.
We brought one action cut there TO COM
pei the vacation % part OF CUR rignt-of-
way. which some enterprising real estate
man had laid ous into lots and blocks. This
is history by this time, and while We have
20 sue occasionally 20 remove some squat
ter who has erected a shanty. We have
no suits in contemplation or in progress
involving any such amount OF money.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-11
$4,000
re..z, with six cottages. paying u per
cent On the Investment
mere u bargain for some one
G<.Y9....4.':|ssG!:nz e, 4:
@a.-soz New York Blk.

torney J. Henry Denning. by appointment
- the Court represented TIE absent de-
IsHnih1s. Prosecuting Attorney Met.iroy
Ano mas deputies being unable, owing 20
pfsss OF other business, 20 attend 20 the
sasts yesterday The prosecuting attorney
required Dy the law 20 represent the
deienaants IA all default divorce cases In
.Iu@r tnat there may be no collision be-
tween the parties
Paui j. Borstcds case was the only one
% more than ordinary interest. RE Oh
safHsa decree against his wife Eergsfta
o. ths ground Of drunkenness He testI-
Heu fhas ne was compelled 10 leave her In
aEicago ten years ago On account Of her
oAa habits He was then fireman in the
employ of the city
j. NJ Nolan waa granted divorce from
MS Nise El4zabeth on the ground OF de-
sertion. He testified that she left him in
thlcago In lsas after they had been MAJ
RED ten years. and that she mas ever
since refused 10 return 10 him The court
aecresd 10 him large amount OF Port
angeles and Tacoma property. which he
said ne haa accumulated after his wife
left him.
In the cases OF Hattie T. Coughlin W.
Jonn \. Coughlin. and ". c. Ross va.
LYDIA IL. Ross. DEGREES on The ground OF
Abandonment were granted The latter
couple had been married thirty years.
l. III. Bailey yesterday sued his wife
Laura for divorce. He alleges that she
deserted him in San Francisco and fur
iher claims that during their married life
she made him continually miserable and
tnterfered with his work by her jealousy.