Mesa free press., 1900-06-01

and Will require In construction, some
800 feet of lumber, besides glass and
iron. 1t is expected to be one Of the
most complete plants of the kind in
the State. A part Of it is to be ready
for work on apricots, in July.
Investigation shows that the ex-
piosive used on Shag Rock did it's work
more thoroughly than was at first
thought, and no more drilling will be
required. Most Of the shattered rock
has been removed, and it is found that
the water will be forty feet deep, six
feet more than the specification call
for.
LOS ANGELES THEATER-Los
Angeles, commencing Sunday Even
ing, May goth, last week of The Fraw-
ley Company in Los Angeles. Sunday,
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Mat
inee and evening, Rizpah Misery and
David Garrick. Thursday evening
Jonathan Club night, In Paradise. Fri
day and Saturday nights and Saturday
matinee, Moths.
Sir Ernest SatO, British minister to
the court of Japan, who arrived at Vic
toria by steamer Empress Of India,
says the japanese government will un-
doubtedly restrict the emigration of
Japanese to this side. There is no dan
ger Of war between Russia and Japan,
he said. The reports that have been
filling the columns of the American
press for some time, he classed as
"tommyrot.''
Fresno is little worked up about
two street sprinklers, marked Fresno
No. T. and Fresno No. 2,'' which re-
Gently arrived mysteriously without
the citizens having been informed that
they were expected. 1T now trans
pires that the Trustees ordered them
in an informal conference of which
the public has only now been Informed.
No advertisements for bids were pub
lished, one of the Trustees, who is an
attorney, having informed the board
that the law did not apply in the case
Of street sprinklers.
Several years ago the navy depart
ment undertook, with the consent of
Mexico, to establish coaling station on
La Paz harbor, near the southern ex-
tremity Of Lower California, and, after
dumping a shipload Of coal there and
constructing small antiquated dock,
practically abandoned the project. 1t is
now proposed to make La Paz a coal
ing station of Importance, where
United States naval vessels may load
when cruising off the west coast OF
Central America, Mexico and the
| northern part of South America.
The officers elected for the ensuing
term by the Populists at Sioux Falls
are as follows: Chairman, Senator Ma
| rion Butler, North Carolina; vice
chairman, G.. F. Edmiston, Nebraska;
treasurer, w. D. Washburn, Massa-
chusetts; secretary, j. A. Edgerton.
Colorado. The new executive commit
tee is as follows: Gen. J. B. Weaver,
Iowa; Senator William v. Allen, Ne
| braska; r. w. Breidenthal, Kansas;
Eugene Smith, Ilinoisl; T.. V. Way, Ar
izona; T. Tracy, Texas; Robert Schil-
ling, Wisconsin; Major Bowler, Mime
| sofa; DR.. G. T. Taylor, Pennsylvania.
Representative Waters got two bills
| and one concurren resolution through
the senate. The concurrent resolution
was one providing for the printing
Of 1880 additional copies of the Agri-
| cultural department bulletin on peach
publication is in, great demand in Los
Angeles and the rest Of California
The bills which Mr. Waters got
Through were both pension bills
The San Francisco4Call publishes an
| account of two-year-old Alameda
baby, Robert Burns, who can sing. in
perfect tone and without the loss Of a
note, such difficult compositions as
GauPs "Holy City" The parents of
the child have tried to prevent rather
than assist his abnormal musical de-
velopment, which began at the age of
10 months; but the boy caught up
words and airs, wherever heard, and
at present is as much at home with
the minor classics as with ragtime.
| ORPHEUM-Los Angeles, week COM
mencing Monday, May 21. Important
engagement of the principal artists in
Fulgora's All-Star Speciality Company;
Milton and Dollie Nobles Comedy
Stars, assisted by Miss Eva Westcott;
Mark Sullivan, Singing and Monologue
Comedian; Will E. Bates, Celebrated
Musical Artist; Nine. Agnes Fried,
| Balled and Descriptive Vocalist; Little
Fred and his wonderful troupe of
Trained Animals; The Sidman's pre-
senting their rural comedy "a Few
Restful Moments Back Home" Buo-
man and Adele, Society Sketch. Artists.
According to the Perris correspond
ent of the Riverside Enterprise. all
work on the Menifee mines has been
suspended and the pumps taken out of
u