Mesa free press., 1900-04-27

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stock $25O00O, with $4,000 subscribed
When John Halstead, a well-known
tea merchant, died last May, he be-
queathed sums of money to numerous
public institutions, and the residue Of
the estate to the Cooper Union, at
New York. It was supposed that this
residue would amount to $4,000. An
inventory Of the estate. however,
shows that Copper Union will receive
$500, 900.
Eliphalet Wood. who was a trusted
friend of Abraham Lincoln. is dead at
his home in Irvington, N. Y, aged 81
years. He gained fortune from
large lumber mills in Michigan. Mr..
Wood was in Chicago during the civil
war and worked actively to secure and
equip volunteers, being q member Of
a committee which advanced nearly
81, 900, 900 for this purpose.
Carl Clausseli, one of the best Ger
man newspaper editors in the United
States, died at the Cleveland, o. city
hospital, of Bright's disease, aged Sc
years. Mr.. Claussen was for several
years editor-in-chief of the Illinois
Stats Zeitung at Chicago, subse-
quently becoming editor of the
Waechter Am Erie Of Cleveland. He
came from Germany In 1873.
The Appellate Division of the Su-
preme Court Of New York handed
down decision in the matter of the
appraisal Of the estate Of the late
William H. Vanderbilt. An order of
Surrogate Fitzgerald, declaring q GER
tain fund subject to the inheritance
tax law, was affirmed. This was
fund Of $5,0OO,000 held in trust for the
benefit of the late Cornelius Wander
bilt. @ -
DR.. E. Benjamin Andrews. superin-
tendent OF Chicago public schools.
when seen in regard to his election as
chancellor of the University Of Ne
braska, said: This offer of the re-
gents looks so tempting that it can
hardly be overlooked. I probably will
go to Lincoln in a day or two to con-
fer with the regents, after which
can say positively whether I will
accept"
The handsome building Of the Cath
olic Club in West Fifty ninth street,
New York, was badly damaged by fire.
A number of wealthy and prominent
clubmen who live in the building had
narrow escapes. The police estimate
the damage at $28000, but it is believ-
ed the injury to q valuable library
Of about twenty-five thousand vol
umes, and the decorations and furni-
ture, will raise the estimate largely.
Veterinary Inspector DR.. H.. A.
Spencer Of San Jose reports that, out
of about one thousand cows tested dur
ing the past six or eight weeks, only
about fifty have been condemned. DR..
Spencer says this excellent showing is
due to the check placed upon tuber
culosis by previous inspection. In
nerds inspected two years ago, it IL a
rare thing to find a diseased animal.
Veterinary Inspector Carpenter of Ala
media also reports less tuberculosis this
year.
News has been received from Tahiti,
via Auckland, New Zealand. that the
Tahitian government has accepted the
Oceanic Steamship Company's pro-
posal for steam service from San
Francisco to Tahiti. Heretofore the
only connection between the Society
Islands and San Francisco has been
maintained by schooners sailing at in
tervals of about one month, and occu-
pying from thirty to thirty-six days
in passage. According to the terms of
agreement entered into between the
Tahitian government and the Oceanic
Steamship Company, steamship Of
about 5000 tons register is to be placed
in the service to- make eleven round
trips per annum, each round trip oc-
cupying about thirty-hve days, which
includes thirteen days in port, !,
Southern Pacific business will be
handled by construction trains, at the
company's convenience, as Ear south
as Point Conception, on the new coast
line. This is over twenty miles
south Of Surf Editor Broughton Of the
Lompoc Reeord, who has recently been
over the ground, state that the rails
have been laid past Point Conception
to point on the Colo ranch, and with
in few days will reach the Santa
Nita ranch, twelve miles from Gaviota.
Work ON the yisdncts before Gaviota
will occupy about three months. rak.
ing into consideration the other via
ducts necessary above Naples. it Is
not thought possible that the line win
now go through BY September, but It
ts believed that six months more viii
complete 1t.
The Belgian Hare.
The Pet Stock Tribune has all along
contended that the Belgian hare in
dustry must rest primarily upon hS