Mesa free press., 1899-02-17
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.

titles it to be called Wild if not woolly.
A mountain lion was caught in a trap
in that city on Sunday night.
Special Election-Governor Gage
has called a special election to be
held in Colusa county March 8, to
elect senator to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Senator John
Boggs.
San Francisco-John Russell, a car
pet beater, was found dead today in
a room on Fourteenth street. He had
smOthered himself by stuffing a pill
low partly down his throat. He was q
sufferer from asthma.
Alameda-The mystery of the am
putated arm found Sunday in an empty
boxcar at West Alameda, has been
solved. The arm has been claimed by
Edward Williams, medical student,
who says he purchased it for the
purpose of dissection.
San Francisco-Fred Hess, Jr., who
sued the San Francisco Typographical
Union, to recover $25,000 damages for
having been forced out of employment
by the Union, he being a non-union
man, has been awarded $1,000 by jury
in the Superior Court.
Harbor mprovements-Th Senate
bill providing for the issuing of $1,000,-
900 bonds for San Francisco harbor
improvements, in blocks of 100000
must be ratified by the people before
it goes into effect. The bonds are not
guaranteed by the state, but are re-
deemable in receipts, tolls and rentals
of the water front.
Settle Their Differences-The Cali
fornia Winemakers' Corporation and
the Associate Wine Dealers will CO.
operate in future. The latter controls
wine trade in the United States. Deal
ers, manufacturers and growers will
now get fair division of profits and
prices will be maintained.
1t is apparently about time for the
Common Council of Santa Rosa to
pass an ordinance putting a stop TO
the distribution of sample packages
of patent medicines in that town. Two
little girls, at different times, have
been poisoned and made seriously ill
by eating such nostrums found on the
dcorsteps of their homes.
Seattle, Wash.-A. Thompson, agent
here of the Coast Seaman's Union,
said: "Unless the Shipowners' Associ-
alton gives up trying to put scab sea,
men on coasting vessels, a general
strike will be ordered and every sail
ing vessel on the coast tied up as soon
as she gets into port. The union men
will not accept less than $40 per
month"
San Francisco-The internal reve-
nue. receipts at the San Francisco Of
flee for the month of January, 1899,
amounted to $249,70S, almost double
the sum received during the same
month last year, the war tax causing
most of the increase. The customs re-
ceipts for the port Of San Francisco
during January amounted to $541, PIP
as against $499,26S for the preceding
month.
San Francisco-The Examiner says
that Tod Sloan has received telegram
from New York stating that he has
cleaned up $25O,O00 as the result of
speculation in Wall street 1t is
said that before coming west Tod left
S6VGTdl IuOuSduu UOlldIS WILL II. u.
Bell, Wall street operator, with gen
eral instructions to invest it as he
thought best. No details of how the
money was used have been received.
Irrigation Items-Senator Perkins
and George H. Maxwell, representa-
tive of the Irrigation Congress, have
secured an increase from 10000 to
$35, 900 appropriation for investigation
of the subject of storage reservoirs.
1t is desired that much of this be ex-
pended in California, as there are
now about 100000 acres of land
which is now public domain, and
which, with proper conservation of
water, would be productive land.
Seattle, Wash-All records of ice
travel on the Yukon have been broken
by the recent feat of the mounted po-
lice of the Northwest Territory in
bringing big shipment TO mail from
Dawson to Skaguay in nine days and
ten hours. The mail left Dawson on
the morning of January Is and was in
Skaguay before noon last Tuseday.
The record was made by the Canadian
officials, it is said, to show that they
could greatly reduce the time being
made by the United States mail con-
tractors.