Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-11-10
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Around the Coast.
important information Gathered
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
A Summary OF Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit eur Busy
Readers.
Readers.

Nearly a million dollars for the wal
nut crop this year is not such a bad
showing. Every little helps.
The New York Commercial has made
the exciting discovery that California
grows lemons. We congratulate our
esteemed contemporary upon this able
scoop.
PETALUMA-Coyo are doing
much harm in this vicinity. On the
ranch of H. Meacham, alone, 100 sheep
have been killed or bitten since last
Sunday
Ell RENO, Okla.-C. w. Hopkins, a
stockman, and Deputy Marshal Fox en-
gagged in fight with six-shooters in a
saloon with the result that both were
killed. Fox had attempted to arrest
Hopkins, who was drunk.
PLEASANTON-The Board o!
Health has declared all the Chinese
lsundries on 1.-The main street of this
town public nuisances, and tho Trns-
tees have been asked to abolish them
or to cause their removal.
SAN LUIS OBISPO-Dwight Kemp
ton of the Summerland Oil Company,
stated that shipments this month
would be larger than in any previous
month. 1t will go over ninety car
loads. Eighty carloads are the usual
monthly output.
Iowa State Journal: Brigham Young
Roberts says that he is going to hold
his seat in congress if he has to fight
for it. The Topeka Capital sagely
remarks that a man who has had the
experience with living with three wives
ought to be able to put up good con-
test
VANCOUVER, B. C.-Postmaste1
Hanson of Gridley, Cal, was killed In
the Vinanda mine, Texada Island, yes
terday. 1t is said that George Bailey
tossed him bag of powder which he
failed to catch, causing the explosion
which killed Hanson and rendered Bal
ley unconscious.
FRESNO-A band of IS head of cat
tie at Kingston, this county, brought
there from Humboldt by a man named
Warren, has been quarantined. The
calves are suffering with strongyius fill
aria, an animal parasite new to Call
fcrnia. The lungs of the affected AM
NAL are filled with worms, and cold
does not affect them.
AT Stockton Tina Taner, young girl
of 10 years, died last night from the eff
fects of poison taken at Auburn Tues
day. She was working in private
family at Auburn, and becoming de-
spondent drank a large amount of bat
terry fluid. She was thought to be get
ting better and was started for her
home in Murphys, Cal. but had to leave
the train at Stockton.
There is much excitement in the
American colony at Ensenada, Lower
California, over the arrest of Charles
S. Allen, engineer of water system
there. 1t is alleged no charge was
filed against him. He has made a
statement to Vice-Consul Taylor in re-
gard to the matter. Meanwhile Allen
is incommunicado. Americans regard
the affair as an outrage.
The Pacific Coast Jobbers' and Man
ufacturers' association has b,e1 organ
lzc,. in San Francisco. Wakefield Ba-
kCr is treasurer and Thomas P. Smith
secretary. Ou Tic SAeCuIltC C(LnuIIiCc
are prominent, merchants of Sac Fran
ri. 60, Seattle, Tacoma, Portland Sarra-
mento, Los Angeles and Marysville
The new association will endeayor to
protect jobbers on this coast from the
competition of st. Louis ana Chicago
firms, and will ask the interstate COM
merce commission not to reduce the ex-
listing rates on less than carload ship
ments. An attempt will also be made
to secure the appointment of Pacific
coast man to fill the present vacancy
on the commission. The state board
of railway commissioners has received
reports from % companies for the year
ended June last The gross earnings
of the Santa Fe Pacific amounted to
$1,211 ,589; operating expenses, $1,192,-
1853; income from operation, $19, 120;
deficit, $444,952 The Southern Cali
fornia railways gross earnings were
$2,5O5, 1893; operating expenses, $16O8,-
255; income from operation, 1897, 542;
net income, $537,651. Neither the
Southern Pacific nor the Valley road
has yet filed it's report.