Mesa free press., 1899-03-10
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.

are ueau ana several others SICK at
Blanca mining camp, Colorado, from
drinking wood alcohol.
California appears to have mo-
nopoly on about all the weather In
America that is fit to live in. Why
doesn't some one organize a weather
trust?
Neall Eludes Them-No trace of
Lieutenant Neall, who absconded
from San Francisco with $500 o. the
Presidio canteen funds, has been dis
covered.
1t is an i'll wind that blows nobody
any good, and the wind that has been
blowing ice into the henneries Of the
east and stopping the manufacture or
eggs has become a cause for exnltant
cackling among the hens of Califor-
mia.
A bill has been introduced at Sac
ramento making holidays of the days
on which primary elections are held.
Every day will be holiday by and by,
when the government gets rich
enough to pay men for not working.
There must be a Weary Willie in tho
Legislature.
Sacramento-The police found
drunken woman wandering about the
streets with four small children, the
eldest but years of age. She said her
name was Stewart, and that she came
from Utah, where she and her hus-
band had separated. The family are
penniless and the police do not know
&o Jo NTH than,
Two thousand sacks of salt of 112
pounds each are being prepared at the
works of the Oakland Salt Company
at Mt. Eden for shipment abroad. The
order is from the Russian Consul at
San Francisco, and the salt is being
put in sacks bearing Russian i'm
print. It looks as II the Russians
have learned an American trick.
According to late officer OF Col.
regiment, Capt. ]. B. Me-
nardi arrested lately in Los Angeles,
charged with embezzlement in Wyo-
ming, was not an officer of Roosevelt's
Rough Riders Our informant adds
that he may have belonged to the Tor
rey or Grigsby regiments of western
cowboys.
Some of the soldiers who enlisted
with Governor McCord and went south
with him, have returned to Arizona,
the regiment having been mustered
out of service. They were disap-
pointed in their hope to get where
there was fighting, but are entitled to
the credit of proving their loyalty
just the same.
IN +n.e.natioEal .Courtesy-Collect-
or of the port at San Francisco, jack
son, was notified officially that all
ships and cargoes from Mexican ports
arriving in the United States should
be released from discriminating du-
ties in return for similar courtesy
extended to American shipping by the
republic of Mexico. The new rule is
to take effect at once.
That story which comes from Stock
ton to the effect that a man coming
to that place from San Francisco on a.
steamer fell overheard in fit, re-
NAMED half an hour in the water, un-
conscious most of the time, and was
then picked up by another steamer
and resuscitated, is calculated to con-
vince one that either the day OF mir
acles or the day of liars is not past.
The Raisin Growers Association,
with headquarters at Fresno, Is not
moving along with that sweetness
which ought to characterize men in
the raisin business. The board OF dl-
rectors is ready to resign, and, while
Is per cent of the acreage should be
signed before March 1. there is said
to be no prospect of getting even 30
per cent by that time. A mass meet
ing is called by that date, when things
will probably be brought to a focus,
and che association will either col
lapse or take on new energy.
The driving of the golden spike
which signified the completion Of the
Gila Valley, Globe and Northern rail-
road having been performed, and the
new road being in operation, GLOBE,
Ariz, finds itself embarrassed by
lack of hotel accommodations for its
visitors. And this embarrassment
will increase if the hotel accommo-
dations are not supplied, for the new
railroad and the development OF the
and other resources ~
county that will now follow will bring
a. constantly increasing number of
persons to Globe. That town must
get ready to grow.
The Merchants and Manufacturers
Association of Stockton has, in sol
emn conclave, decided that the school
ma'ams of Stockton should buy their
nicknacks and fiummery in that city
and not in San Francisco. A motion
was passed to appoint committee of
three to so inform the board of edu-
cation, but when names were an
for the committee, everybody
wanted to be excused. Finally it
was decided to pass a resolution
which could be sent to the board by
mail or messenger, and then the cow
ardly merchants adjourned to absorb
a new supply OF courage for their as
sault.