Mesa free press., 1900-05-04
PACIFIC COAST NEVIS
important information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
A Summary of Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers

crop promises to be very heavy and
is further advanced than is usual at
this date.
The Cotton Fruit Exchange has
shipped 120 cars Of oranges so far
this season, and has about seventy cars
still to ship.
The County Supervisors, on a petition
of majority Of the electors, suspended
the liquor traffic in the two Sequel pre-
cincts, and in Corralitos.
The State Bank Commissioners have
granted the newly-organized Del Norte
Bank a license to carry on business
Its capital stock is $4,000.
The Nippon Yusen Kaisha liner Rio
jim Maru arrived at Seattle with $50
Japanese steerage passengers. She dis,
charged zoe more at Victoria.
| The Chino Champion reports that last
weeks rain has secured that district,
in all probability a sufficient hay crop
for local needs through the season.
Two Slight shocks of earthquake were
felt at Napa the other day. No dam
age was done. Two distinct shocks were
also felt at Petaluma. They were of
several seconds duration.
The board Of officers appointed to in
spect the hospital ship Missouri and
determine what disposition is to be
made Of her, arrived from Washington.
The board consists Of Gen. Bates, Maj.
| WilboLrne and Mai Carson.
Advices from Nome state that during
me winter, typhoid fever has ragged
there. There have been thirty deaths
! from the disease and 300 cases. It is
also stated that many persons per-
ished on the way from Dawson to
| Nome.
Some idea of the magnitude of the
work the Standard Electric Company
purpose in their undertaking to supply
power to San Francisco and other
northern cities may be gained from the
fact that the shipment of machinery
for their use will amount to four hun
dred carloads.
Rev. Loyal l.. Writ, superintendent Of
the Congregational Church in Alaska
and of ST. Bernard mission at Nome
City, has arrived at Seattle, forty three
days from Cape Nome. He came out
overland via Katmai. His purpose in
coming out is to raise funds for his
hospital. He reports the camp fairly
healthy.
Dan Murphy, an employe of the
Southern Pacific Company engaged in
| sinking a steel casson below the bed
of the bay at Oakland mole for the pur-
pose of holding fresh water for the
broad-gauge ferry boats, was instantly
killed by accidentally taking hold of
an electric wire from which insulation
had worn away.
| In the Superior Court Judge Buckles
made a decree of final distribution in
the estate of the late e. I. Upham, by
| which $79,320 was turned over to the
Good Templars Home for orphans at
Vallejo. Ex-Mayor Pond Of San Fran
cisco was executor of the estate, and
during his administration the estate
| increased in value from $3.50, 900 to $780,
| 000
The Young Peoples Christian Tenn
perance Union and the Anti-Saloon
League of Seattle, whose joint efforts
have recently resulted in the closing
of public gambling places, have now
begun a crusade against the owners of
certain buildings rented for alleged i'm
Opn Of
according to the Post-Intelligencer, are
among the most prominent business
men Of the city.
DR.. j. w. Fewkes and wife are again
in Arizona. They were in Flagstaff
Tuesday coming from the Moqui Res
ervation, and have gone to investigate
number of ruins northeast Of that
point between the Little Colorado
River and the San Francisco Peaks.
The doctor has in charge all the
Smithsonian Institutions investigation
concerning the ethnology Of the ancient
races of the Southwest.
Arrivals from the north state that the
warm weather is breaking up the win
many places. Navigation will open
two or three week earlier than usual
High water flooded the mines at Do
minion and Hunker Creek. Inspector
Strickland of the Mounted Police has
has arrived from the north to raise
an additional fifty men for the Strath-
coma Horse for South African service.
The steamer st. Denis put into San
Diego Sunday from Lower California,
and is preparing for return to En-
senada, Cedros Island, and San Quen-
tin. Beside quantity of general sup
plies, the st. Denis WILL on her return
trip, carry thirty tons of mining ma
chinery consigned to T. r. Lombard
of the Esperanza Mining Company at
Cedros. Since the first of the present
year this company has expended over
SAC, 900 on it's Cedros property.