Mesa free press., 1900-05-11
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Important information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS Of GENERAL INTEREST
A Summary Of Late Events That Are
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organized to operate the Minnie Ellen
claim near Porterville, will begin work
at once.
A Fresno COW has been operated on
for a tumor weighing sixteen pounds
and, according to the Democrat, is do
ing we'll.
The Hotel Grimes at Colusa was to-
tally destroyed by fire together. with
the Odd Fellows hall. Loss, $4,000;
insurance, $4,000.
contributing literally to a fund in aid
Of starving Israelttes in Bessarbia,
southern Russia.
The session Of the Board Of Super
visors at Fresno includes papers on
county government, on good roads and
on road sprinkling.
The San Francisco Chronicle says
this Is an era Of good wages among
sailors, $40 month being common
for coastwise business.
Women Of Fresno are bringing to
the city a company to play Palmer
Cox's Brownies In Fairyland," in aiu
Of the public library fund.
Two cougar kittens were captured
by some Of the boys near Cheney,
Wash. These are the first cougars
seen in that district for many years.
ton, the new current of electricity from
the Blue Lakes power plant will be
operating machinery in Stockton by
next July.
has authorized the purchase Of fifty
Jersey cows to replace those at the
Stockton asylum killed on account Of
tuberculosis.
| house, with wool press, is nearing COM
pletion at North Yakima, Wasr., and
is expected to make that city a promi-
nent wool-buying center.
A movement is on foot in Tacoma,
Wash, to require Hebrew merchants
and small dealers who are in the habit
of keeping open on Sunday, to comply
with the Sunday-closing law.
The body of Jack Coradio, a San
Francisco fisherman, who was knocked
overheard by the main boom Of his
boat and drowned on April Z, was
found in the bay near Fort Point.
Auditor Wells Of San Francisco has
completed his estimate Of the needs Of
the various city departments for the
next fiscal year. The total amount OF
expenditures is placed at $5694. 700.
Under the terms of the law, eight
new salmon hatcheries are to be built
in the State Of Washington, this season
| ON the Colville, S,il!iguamish, Dun
geness, Skagit, White and Nssqually
| rivers.
| The Executive Committee Of the San
Joaquin Valley Commercial ASssocia-
| ton is to meet at sPorterville, and
will pass resolutions on the death of
| Stockton.
Miss Katherine McGovern, teacher Of
School, San Francisco, has just re-
ceived letter from a brother, lost
sight of years ago, offering her $40, 900
and home with himself in Mexico.
The Public Utilities Commi tee of
San Francisco has recommended to the
Board Of Supervisors the issuing Of an
immediate call for complete munic-
| ipal telephone system. The call has
been drawn up and will come before
the board.
The Californian says that J. A
| Sinott of San Francisco. who has sew.
eral other Inventions to his credit,
/ claims to have perfected a compressed
air pump that will elevate water or
oil at cost of so per cent. Of the
amount usually paid.
The University Of California received
from Mrs. Hearst a complete equ.pme mt
for the department Of pathology Of the
department of medicine. DR.. Alonzo
of the new department of pathology,
has been in Germany for some months
purchasing the apparatus.
The secretary of the sub Committee
of the Fresno Chamber of CONNER ce
has been directed to inform the San
Francisco chamber that If it will char
ter a ship, Fresno will supply a car
load of foodstuffs toward a cargo for
the starving poor of India.
J. w. Shanklin, the defaulting ex-city
clerk of Fresno, who was brought back
from Oregon recently on an ind,ct-
ment, was given preliminary examin-
alton on another embezzlement charge
preferred by City Trustee Spinney, and
held to answer in $4,000 bonds. /.
The San Francisco Chronicle states
that the Californian, one of the four
huge steamships being constructed by
the American Hawaiian Steamship
Company to ply between New York,
San Fracisco and Honolulu, is to be
launched from the yards of the Union
Iron Works on May IL. The Califor-