Mesa free press., 1900-05-11

nails received orders from John w.
Gates of the American Steel and Wire
Company, ordering a cut of 20 per cent.
| in all prices. kilograms received at
| Youngstown say that the cut was Or
| dered by the board Of directors, and
went into effect Immediately.
The Supreme Court Of Ohio affirmed
the decision of the lower courts in the
case Of Judge Frank Dellabaugh, Of
| Cleveland, and he stands disbarred
from the courts of Ohio. The ground
of the disbarment was that Judge Del
| labaugh shared a fee with an attorney
in case which came before him.
Lazarus Silverman, the Chicago
real estate dealer for whom Judge
Clifford appointed a receiver last week,
has filed in the United States Dis
trict Court petition in bankruptcy,
scheduling an Indebtedness of $S21,-
300, and assets amounting to $351, 463
Sherman was formerly in the banking
| business.
Twelve sacks Of mail addressed to
Francis Truth, the divine healer, who
was arrested recently charged with
| fraud, have been impounded at Bos-
ton by the United States government
| under the usual fraud order" Many
| of the thousands Of letters contained
in the mail sacks carry money for
absent treatment
AS a result Of a break in the levee
at Portage, Wis, 200 feet Of the track
of the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul road was washed out, tieing up
two divisions of the road at this point
Advices from Kilbourn City are to the
effect that the water is receding and
no further damage is anticipated.
Councilman J. ]. Juinn of Stockton.
as reported by tn Mail, says that what
is retarding the growth of the city
more than any thing else is the large
| amount of money that goes outside
monthly in payment of rent to non
resident property ty-owners. Mr.. Quinn
| estimates that at least a quarter of
a. million is thus paid out yearly.
The Chicago Chronicle says Chi
| cago is to have a municipal telephone
system-an innovation in America. Its
immediate use is to be confined to the
| police and fire departments, but it's
projectors say that eventually it will
serve as the nucleus of great metro
come rival to the, old and new tele-
| phone companies.
The Carnegie Steel Company, it is
stated, will build the viaduct and ele-
waited structure Of the New York
| Rapid Transit system. John B. Nc
Donald, the contractor for the under
ground road, has not yet announced
| this subcontract, but he will probably
do so in few days. There will be
five miles Of elevated structure in the
Bronx.
Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell we'll known
because Of her gifts to the University
of Chicago, and to various charitable
institutions of Chicago, died in Mich
| igan City, Ind, where she was visiting
| friends. Mrs. Haskell was the
founder of Haskell Hall and the Has
kell Oriental Museum of the Univer-
| sity of Chicago. Among her endow-
ments was $4,000 to the Hahnemann
Hospital of Chicago.
The crew of the lighthouse steamer
Madone have struck on account Of cut
having been made in their pay, the
government having ordered a reduc-
| ton Of S. a month, the men now being
paid $S5 as against $40 formerly paid
| them. The order affects the men en-
ployed on the Columbia River and in
| the Puget Sound service. Coast sea-
men are now receiving $40 a month
and the employees of the government
think they are entitled to the same
remuneration.
According to the pamphlet recently
issued byt..e United States DEPARTING nj
Of Agriculture, concerning the climat
Of San Francisco, the mean annual
temperature, as determined by the rec
ords of the Weather Bureau 70.
tWenty-eight years, is 56.2 deg. TIE
| highest ever IcCOIuSu III
the city was 100 deg, on June 20, 1891
and the lowest 29 deg. on January 15
1888. The mean Of the three con-
secutive warmest days has never ex-
ceeded 1873 deg, and the mean Of the
three consecutive coldest days was
40.7 deg. May and November have
practically the came temperature
while the warmest month is September
and the coldest January.
The first vessel to get away from this
port for Cape Nome is the steamer
Thrasher, which sailed from San Fran
cisco with 200 passengers. The steamer
Dora started a few hours later. The
staemer Jeamie, also bound for Nome
was to have sailed, but was held in
port by the storm. The Dora and
Jeanie are ito call at Seattle on the way
north while the Thrasher is to go dil eel
to Nome, and every one of her pas
sengers is confident that she will be