Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-06-30
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
A Summary OF Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers.

pears, simon pruneS, BURBANK plumS
and Tragedy prunes.
The Navy Department has ordered
the trial by court-martial of Paymas-
ter Willis B. Wilcox, now under arrest
at Mare Island navy yard. The charge
against him is "scandalous conduct
tending to the destruction of good
morals" and the single specification
alleges that he was drunk at Mare Is
land. ~
The Pinkerton detectives, armed and
in uniform, have been ordered by the
Chief of Police to keep off the streets
of Portland, Ore. The order is made
under the state law passed by the last
legislature, prohibiting armed bodies
of men, or armed patrols other than
those appointed by law, from parading
upon the streets of the city.
The altruistic wave has lighted on
Fresno sufficiently heavy to permeate
the guileless breast of John Chinaman.
The Chinaman summoned an under
taker to his bunk house to bury a
child. The undertaken demurred on
the reasonable ground that the child
was not dead. ooh, he go die velly
quick; you likee, you take him now!"
San Francisco-The Ohio Society of
California has sent to President Nc
Kinley an invitation engraved in a
plate of gold, asking him to become
the guest of that organization in this
city. The society is already raising a
fund for his entertainment, it being
generally believed that the chief exec
utive will visit the Pacific coast later
in the year.
In Spokane, Wash, they arrest peo-
pie who throw waste paper and things
into the streets. If such law were
made and enforced in Los Angeles, it
would be necessary to build a fence
about the city, station hurry-up wag-
on and fat policeman at the gate
and otherwise copy the city Jail, for
this miserable habit is as general as it
is offensive.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel tells of a
young man who left Sequel and went
to war, being engaged in the battles in
Luzon, and of his return and immedi-
ate resumption of everyday common
farm labor. 1t required patriot to
fight in Luzon, but a true hero to stur-
Oily resume the arts of peace, and set
so high mark for thousands of others
to copy when they shall return from
the front.
Governor Richards of Wyoming, has
ordered detachment of the state mil
tia stationed at Buffalo to take part
in the pursuit CT the Union Pacific
t,o rOhhorc lot oct ron0rf from
the outlaws located them on T. X.
Mountain, one of the spurs of the Big
Horn mountains, north of the Hole-in-
the-Wall country. The Nebraska blood
hounds are expected to reach the scene
soon and the speedy capture of the rob-
bers is predicted.
The San Francisco police arrested
eight boys about IL years old belong
ing to a gang who call themselves
"The Forty Thieves. These young van
dals and thieves had stripped Of all
their furnishings fourteen passenger
coaches of the Southern Pacific Com
pany standing on a siding and had sold
their plumber to junk dealer. The
damage to the cars amounts to $500,
but the boys say the junk dealer gave
them only 81 for it.
The Fresno Republican says: "The
nickel-in- the-slot machines are no
more in Sacramento, and the first con-
viction has been obtained in Los An
geles under the new prohibitory ordi-
nance. Thus the good work goes on.
But it has not even commenced in
Fresno" while the lamps of life"
etc. The great forces known to be in
reserve in the raisin valley must come
to the rescue and range Fresno on the
same side with her more fortunate
neighbors
A Washington dispatch says that the
President has not yet come to deter
mination about his long talked-of
western trip. He said to a senator
that he could not now say when he
would start west or how far he would
go. The Pacific coast people continue
to flood the President with invitations
and from every western state there is
the keenest desire to see the President.
1t is now said a grand review of Phil
ippine troops would have been held at
San Francisco had the President not
promised to do this at St. Paul.
The San Francisco Examiner tells of
two policemen Of that city who went
on a vacation and found rattle
snakes egg in the brush. The police
men put the egg in box of lime to
hatch it, In the morning they found
the mother RATHER at the box, she
having traced her egg fully two miles
by it's scent. This is a case of mental
strabismus and can be accounted for
only as result of the late earthquake.
1t is an unquestioned fact, as solid as
the trend Of the magnetic needle, that
the breath of San Francisco police
man will not only charm RATHER, but
replenish it's stock of deadly venom as
we'll, and this explains how the moth
er snake smelled her way to the egg.
Not even the torrid sun of Lake coun-
ty can feaZe such breath.
Jose Barrlllas and Kate Kinsey. the
one a relative of Gen. Barrillas of
Guatemala, and the other the daugh-
ter of a well-to-do merchant in San