Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-07-28
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.

camp for returning volunteers at the
Presidio, San Francisco, is a model
camp. 1t is great pity such a report
could not have been made of the camp
formed there. at the beginning of the
Spanish war.
San FrNncisco-It has just been
learned that Mrs. Jane Stanford has
voluntarily surrendered to the Union
League Club of this city fifty $40 bonds
including all the unpaid interest. For
this generous act she has been thanked
by the directors Of the organization.
Seattle-H. J. Coleman of Eagle
River, Wis, who sails from here for
Alaska, has a novel scheme to make
fortune in the Klondike. He will take
with him double-decked crate of
cats, on which he expects to realize at
least $4,000. He says the rats are very
troublesome in Dawson, and his cats
will bring from 500 to $50 each.
San Francisco Anita Byrne, Is
years of age and an employe of the
telephone company, is dead from the
effects of carbolic acid, swallowed with
suicidal intent She was found lying
in the barn at the rear of her fathers
house and died soon after being car
ried into the house. Unrequited affec-
ton is the supposed cause of the sui
eide.
Spokane, Wash.-Five years at hard
labor in the state penitentiary and a
fine Of $1,000 was the sentence passed
by Judge Prather upon DR.. G. w.
over, who was convicted of causing
the death of Cora Rinehart at the
United States House last December, by
performing criminal operation upon
her and afterwards neglecting to give
her proper care.
The t-Intellingencer special from
Whatcom, Wash, says that while G.
H. Shubbe and D. N Mcmillan were
coming across from Stuart's Island last
Monday their steamer ran through the
largest school of salmon ever seen on
the Sound. 1t was five miles wide and
of unknown length. The salmon were
so thick that the little steamer had
difficulty in getting through.
The Examiner says that George
Crocker, second vice-president of the
Southern Pacific, announces that the
coast road to Santa Barbara will not
be completed until six months later
than was expected. This means that
the long existing gap between Surf
and Santa Barbara will not be closed
before about November, 1900. Scarcity
of laboring men is the cause given for
the delay.
Oakland An unknown man was
burned to death in a haystack at Pleas
ant Valley on July IL. Deputy Sheriff
Hotchkiss saw the flames and rode to
the scene on horseback. When he ar
rived he saw the man burning in the
hay. Help was secured, but by the
time the body was recovered the man
was roasted to a crisp. The stranger
was a tramp. A jug Of whisky was
found near the body.
San Jose-Charles T. Boots Of the
Elmwood Stock Farm was walking
through brushy part of the farm,
when he saw a man and woman in the
willows on the bank of the Coyote
River, who hurried away upon his ap-
proach. On going to the spot he saw
an open grave in the loose sandy soil.
1t is supposed if they had not been OBJ
served some one would have been
buried there during the night, per-
haps a victim of foul play, and pos
sibly to save funeral expenses.
Oakland is bound to keep the lead
for fiendish freaks. "The man with an
ak" now gives way to two human
brutes, Is years old, who caught Z
year-old child and took him into
butcher shop, gagging him to stop his
cries, and brandishing knives and
axes over him, telling him meanwhile
they would make sausage meat of him,
until in terror the child tainted, and is
now almost mental wreck. This was
for fun. In all the range of penal pun
ishment the lash is the only adequate
means of curing such develtry. BY
the way, does not this make a good
theme for our educators for next years
session, on Heroic Methods for the
Cure of Brutal Instincts in Boys?''-
l.. A. Times.