Mesa free press., 1900-03-16
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Important information 0athereu
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers

Bakersfield is to have free delivery
of mails from May 1.
The Visalia Milling Company has
just shipped SO barrels Of flour to
Hongkong, China.
"Old Gerome," an Indian Of Gala
veras county, who has just died, Is said
to have been 110 years old.
An agent of the s. P. c. A., Is ex-
pected in Bakersfield soon, to organize
bands Of mercy in the public schools.
February 26th:
SCRANTON, Pa. March -Four
men were killed at the Mount Pleasant
mine today. A mining car broke, and
they fell rs feet.
City Veterinarian Pierce of Oakland,
has found honey on sale in that city
which, it is alleged, is composed al
most entirely of glucose.
Three-f fourths of the cycl-repair
shops of Portland, Or, have signed an
agreement to charge IS per cent. more
for repairing than heretofore.
President Buell. Of the San Joaquin
Valley Commercial Association has
designated Senator Smith as a COM
mittee Of one to investigate and report
on the oiling of roads.
But fourteen miles now remain to be
completed on the Valley Railroad to
connect Stockton and Port Richmond,
and grading on this section has been
finished. Nothing remains to be done
but to put dwon ties and rails.
A little over a year ago Bakersfield
had practically no sidewalks at all. To-
day, With those finished, building and
contacted for, the town has twelve and
one-third miles of sidewalks, all con-
crete excepting twenty blocks.
PRESCOTT (Ariz.,) March 1.-Free
mail delivery service was inaugurated
at Prescott today. This is the third
town in the Territory to enjoy this ad-
vantage. Two regular carriers and one
substitute constitute the force.
Mrs. Robert j. Burdette, on invita-
ton Of Phoebe Hearst, Mrs. Benjamin
Ide Wheeler and Miss Jewett, president
of the Associated Women Students on
Wednesday, addressed the young wo-
men of Berkeley at Hearst Hall.
Bakersfield Is setting out to have
plenty of parks. Mrs. Bernard has do
mated five and one third blocks and the
P. I. Company ten and two-thirds
along Eastside Canal, to be called
Eastside Park; J. S. Drury has re-
served four blocks in the Drury ad-
dition, and others have agreed to give
a like area south Of Central avenue
The experiment Is being tried at
Stockton of hardening the gravel about
the station platforms with crude pc
troleum was merely poured over the
surface, on another the surface, to a
depth of four inches, was dug up,
thoroughly mixed with the oil and
then tamped down again. Results will
be compared.
SACRAMENTO, Feb. &C. A. Wahl-
strom, fright train conductor in the
employ of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road running between Wadsworth.
New, and Truckee. IL i'll at the latter
place with smallpox. AS soon as the
nature of his illness was determined, he
was placed in quarantine.
It is reported that the Puget Sound
salmon packers have recently held a
number of conferences and that the
projected combination Of all the pack
ers is now practically assured. The
purpose Of the combine, it is said is
to control the price Of the Puget Sound
pack and to reduce the running ex-
penses Of the canneries
Prince Poniatowski has concluded
deal for the purchase Of a large
amount of land on the island Of Bas-
lion, near Mindanao, in the Philippines.
The land carries valuable franchises
granted by Spain. The deal represents
an expenditure Of $500,000. The prince
will form a syndicate to develop the
property. The Crockers will be in
cluded in the company.
President Dorety Of the Associated
Students Of the University Of Califor-
mia has addressed severe homily to
the students on their rudeness to Mrs
Hearst, many Of them having repeat
edly omitted to acknowledge invita-
tions to the receptions given by her
at Hearst Hall, and some having gone
SO far as to give away their cards to
other students, and even outsiders.
The Kern Automible Transportation
Company is offering stock for sale at
81 a share. During their visit of in
spection to San Francisco, the repre-
sentatives Of the company were much
pleased with q wide-gauge machine
run by gasoline. They have received
offers from the manufacturers to build
the vehicles desired, and have them
ready for delivery within sixty days.
The Historical Society of Wisconsin
is trying to locate the grave of Will
liam S. Hamilton, son of Alexander
Hamilton, who did much for the early
development of the copper and lead
mining industries in Wisconsin He died
and was buried on ranch near Red
Bluff, Tehama county, Cal, but the