Mesa free press., 1900-04-06
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Important information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Summary of Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers

A man up in Tulare claims to be
able to locate oil by the use of the
forked twig.
Santa Barbara is making another eff
fort to secure Paderewski. More than
half the necessary amount has been
guaranteed.
The Southern Pacific announces that,
beginning today, the passenger fare
from Visalia to San Francisco will be
increased to $7.25. For two years the
fare has been IS.
The preliminary examination of
George Wilcox, charged with murder
of, his wife, has begun. The corpse of
the dead woman will pe exhumed for
further investigation.
The Lincoln cannery expects to en-
ploy 600 to $50 hands, this summer, if
they can be secured. Last year 400
hands were employed, and about forty
thousand cases of fruit packed.
The exhibition automobile of the
Kern Automobile Transportation Com
pany started from San Francisco yes
terday morning, and is expected to ar
rive at Kern City some time on Sat-
urday.
The tug Sea Witch will leave San
Francisco todey with three barges la
den with piles and other material to
be used by the contractors in extending
the government jetty at the entrance
to San Diego harbor
According to the Oakland Enquirer,
w. G. Edens, superintendent of car
riers of the general postal service, who
is on an official tour of the Coast, has
declared that a free delivery will. be
granted the outlying districts of Ber-
kelley.
County Fish and Game Warden Kim
Der Of Sacramento county, is planning
the arrest of users of screens and traps
in the drainage canal and Snodgrass
Slough, in the southern part of the
county. These seines and traps pre-
vent the striped bass, which come in
with every tide, from passing to the
ponds and lakes south of Sacramento.
SAN FRANCISCO. The brig John
D. Speckles sailed for Guam, carrying
mail and freight. This is the first YES
sci which has ever left the Ladrones
with cargo Of merchandise. The bulk
of the cargo is for the stocking Of a
store to be owned and operated by the
Western Commercial Company at
Guam. There is also a telephone plant
on board which will be put up and
operated by the company.
The steamer Excelsior brings from
Alaska report Of mysterious safe
robbery. In January a gold bar worth
$4,000 was stolen from the safe of the
Alaska Commercial Company at Apollo,
Unga island. The thief opened the safe
by catching the combination, but he
was unable to get away with the heavy
which was found next day secreted in
a barrel near the office. The bar
weighed about sixty-seven pounds.
Ex-Chaplain Joseph Mcintyre of the
battleship Oregon, who was let out
from the navy for his sharp criticism
of Admiral Sampson, two years ago in
Denver, is a married man. Soon after
his transfer to tie Oregon, Mr.. McIn-
tyre married, at Pasadena, Mrs. Rob-
ert Gordon a widow of an attorney,
but he did not acknowledge the mar
riage, as Mrs. Gordon was heir to one
fifth of an Austrian estate of $1,000,-
900, but her share depended on her re-
naming widow.
A party has left Sacramento on the
launch Undine, headed by State Com
missioner Of Public Works Frank D.
Ryan, for the purpose of inspecting
the Sacramento river from that point
to Colus&. This inspection is to be
preliminary to the Inauguration of
work in line with the duties Of COM
missioner Of public works, Of which
the Elkhorn wier and Newton jetties
are examples. Col. w. H. Huer, gov
engineer in charge Of the CAL
ifornia rivers, accompanied the party.
On April 1 the Southern Pacific will
all interest in the Pullman
cars on it's system. 1t has been offie-
tally announced that new contract
has been entered into between the
Southern Pacific and the Pullman
company whereby the latter will ac-
quire by purchase all Of the railroads
sleeping car interests and will in fut-
1re operate sleeping cars over the
Southern Pacific's lines under mile
age arrangement similar to that ex-
sting on all the other big railroad sys-
+ems of the country. The price paid
oy the Pullman company is said to be
81, 500, 900.
May Bore the Germans.