Mesa free press., 1899-03-17
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Important Information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
A Summary of Late Events That Are
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senator we could probably manage to
worry along without him, if we only
had couple of inches of rain.
San Francisco-Six carloads of eggs
were shipped east in response to the
demand caused by the egg famine
prevailing in many sections of the
east.
H. I. Moore, special agent in charge
at the San Francisco custom house,
has been dismissed from the service
for alleged improper conduct toward
employees in his office.
The San Francisco papers are now
calling Lucky" Baldwin "One-story"
Baldwin, but this is hardly fair, as
they never called him "Six-story"
Baldwin during all the years that he
was entitled to that sobriquet.
just why there should be fall of
rain in Sacramento at this time and
is asserted on the best of authority
that the rain falls on the just as we'll
as on the unjust, is one of the things
beyond human understanding.
A Hawaiian Pest-A number of
cucumbers arrived at San Francisco
on the Australia infested with the
cucumber and melon maggot, a dan
gerous pest which has not before been
seen in this country. The cucum-
bers were confiscated and burned.
Vancouver-The United States gun
boat Wheeling arrived this morning
from Alaska Her commander ex-
changed courtesies with H. M. S.
Phaeton, already in port. The crews
of the two vessels on leave ashore
showed that at least with Jack, the
British-American alliance is an ac-
complished fact.
San Francisco-The total exporta-
tion of California wines to Europe in
1898 amounted 1871 gallons, valued
at $193,583 The bulk of this went to
Great Britain and Germany, though
France, Denmark, Switzerland and
Italy received a portion of the prod
uct The indications are that the ex-
portations this year will exceed these
of last season.
The unpretty language in which the
newspapers of Arizona are assailing
Evangelist Moody nowadays indicates
that he has converted some of the
people there the wrong way. They re-
fer to him as egotistical and merce-
nary, and as speaking Of Arizona in
a Lying, sneering way" And all this
is because he said the Lord gave him
a hard field when He called him to
Arizona. 49,.
California Oranges in London
California oranges, says the Fruit
Grower of London, in boxes contain
ing 126, $50 and 176 fruits, made from
lbs to 18s per box. These prices are
by no means high considering the
fine quality and size of the fruits
they contained, many of which are
assorted and retailed at As per dozen
fruits. Think of paying 81 a dozen
for oranges, or 10 cents each.
A Mothers Deed-Mrs. Laura
Browning of Montaville, a suburb of
Portland, gave her four little chill
dren laudanum, then took some her
self, and soon after blew her brains
out with a pistol. One child did not
drink the dose prepared for him, but
the other three are seriously affected,
and the youngest, a two-year-old girl,
may not recover. The woman Is
thought to have been insane. The
family was very poor.
San Francisco - Trouble continues
between the opposing factions in the
Chinese quarter. An internal ma
chine was placed under house in
Sullivan alley, but was discovered in
time by one of the women inmates OF
the place, who extinguished the light
ed fuse. It has the appearance OF.
dynamite bomb. Chin Goey, a high
binder, has been arrested for de-
manding $500 from his former part
ner, Chin Gin, under penalty OF death.
Other lawless acts are threatened,
and the police anticipate trouble.
Mrs. Carrie Gait and Miss Mary g.
Hay, chairman and secretary, respec-
lively of the National Christian Tenn
perance Union, were the, guests OF
honor recently at reception in Phoe-
nix, where they have been for some
time working for the passage through
the Arizona legislature of a female
suffrage bill The Jenkins of a. To-
cal paper, in noticing the event wrote
that Lunch was served to the many
guests in attendance" But the awful
compositor got in his deadly work,
and horror of horrors! when the item
appeared in print it related that
punch instead of lunch had been
served.
The Yuma, Ariz., Sentinel prints
the following as original. 1t is proba-
bly, a "rounder" but it is none the less
to the point: can old bachelor recent
ly bought pair of socks. There was
nothing strange about this, but what
makes the occasion worthy of note,
was the fact that he found in the toe
of one of them a slip of paper on
which was written I am young
lady of 20, and would like to CORES
pond with a bachelor with view to
matrimony, and signed with the ad
dress of the young lady, After due
deliberation our friend decided to
write to the sock-maker. Soon after
he got this answer to his letter: 4
was married five years ago last
Christmas The merchant who sold