Mesa free press., 1899-11-03
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.

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Redlands is preparing for thorough
milk inspection.
Mains Circus expects to make its
winter headquarters in Los Angeles.
l. Ex-Governor William Wallace
Thayer of Oregon is dead, at the age
of 72.
Indications strongly point to an
early call for an extra session of the
| Legislature.
Louis Alavin, a Pasadena butcher,
claims to have won $3.50 in lottery
at Los Angeles.
Los Angeles city's ontfall sewer is
in danger of disintegration on account
of corrosive gases.
The steamer Moana has arrived from
Australia at San Francisco, bringing
$1,132,750 in treasure.
| The wide tire'' law, created by the
last legislature, goes into effect in it's
original form on January 1, next.
| DR.. and Mrs. H. K Macomber of Pas
adena have arrived from trip of 3d.
600 miles through Northern Europe.
A new oil gusher has been struck in
the Fuller field, which is expected to
bring up 400 barrels steadily every day.
The trial of Yda Adds Storke for
assault to murder Grant Jackson, an
attorney of that city, will occur in one
week.
San Bernardino is once more to en-
! joy lighted streets. The difference be-
tween the city trustees and electric
| cnmnanv has hppn adjusted
William Burrows charges William
Hunt with assaulting Burrows IL
yea old daughter. The two own ad-
! joining farms near Fullerton.
E. J. Baldwin, who was arrested
few days ago for violating the fire or
dinance, was acquitted in the police
court at San Francisco yesterday.
L. F. Doolittle, manager Of the San
Diego Tribune, has been arrested
charged with the publication of an ar
ticle tending to influence murder
trial
The Long Beach and San Pedro Elec-
| trio company has recovered judgment
against the county in the sum of $91.50
for service during the period of disin-
corporation.
The Sutro street electric road was sold
last week in San Fancisco to the SUIT
ter Street Railway company for $215,-
| 600 cash and payment of debts amount
ing to $114,000.
The boiler makers strike at San
Francisco is off. The men have con-
vessels not owned by the government,
and returned to work.
One Mexican was killed and another
fatally wounded in quarrel at the San
Xavier mine last week. One was
stabbed in the breast and the other hit
in the head with an ak.
United States Attorney Coombs has
filed a complaint for the condemnation
of tract of land west of Lake Merced
and facing the ocean for the military
purposes of the United State
The Acme Athletic clubs property
at Oakland was finally disposed Of at
auction recently. 1t brought $1,000.
The rent due amounted to $4,000. The
of the sheriff.
All over the state high winds pre-
vailed which was followed by steady
rain. The rain is needed by fall grain,
and will check the prairie fires, which
have become very frequent, and have
done considerable damage.
The United States circuit court of
appeals yesterday handed down de-
cision in the case Of the San Diego
Land and Town Company VS.. James
M. Sharp The decision gives Sharp
the use of water from the mains of the
appellant.
Word has been received from Baird,
the site of the United States fishery, on
the McCloud river, twenty-five miles
from Redding that two Indians, while
ending drunken debauch, became en-
gagged in a quarrel, one stabbing the
other. The wound is serious.
The beautiful and elegant home of
w. ]. Durgee, known as Fernwood,
situated in Hoys canyon, near Frisco,
has been entirely destroyed by fire.
The loss is 100000, with an insurance
of but $4,000. 1t was one of the most
gorgeously furnished houses on the
Pacific Coast.
The ranchers of Carmel valley began
raising sugar beets for the first time
this year, ,and their experiment has been
so successful that many Of them intend
going into beet culture on a large scale.
During the past week several carloads
of beets have been shipped from the
valley to the sugar factory at Salinas.
A Southern California whist tourna-
ment is to be inaugurated with games
at Pasadena, November % and "a, be-
tween Los Angeles and Pasadena teams.
P. J. Tourney of San Francisco, one of
the greatest whist players in the coun-
try and a director of the American
Whist league, will come down and start
the tournament going.
1t is encouraging to see the extreme
vigor with which the people of this
section, not merely the fruit growers
themselves, but citizens generally, in
dorse the principle that eternal vigil
ance is the price of the continued de-
velopment of our fruit industry. 1t
is the price we must pay, and it is not
too high for the results accomplished
Express.