Mesa free press., 1900-09-07
ALL ALONG THE COAST
Interesting General Information
About California
MENTIONED IN THESE COLUMNS
Selections That Will Be of Great Interest To
Both Old And Young.

county to establish savings banks in
the schools.
Adgie, the lion tanner, has been in
Pasadena looking for a location for a
ranch home.
Entries for the dog show at the
State Fair are being received from as
far north as Victoria. B. G.
1t has been estimated that the lemon
shipments made from San Diego
county during the past two months
have given cash returns averaging
$55, 200 per month. The shipments av-
eraged sixteen carloads per week.
A stage owner of Merced has just
contracted with W. L. Elliott of San
Francisco for an automobile convey
ance capable of carrying a dozen pas
sengers and 800 pounds of baggage
The vehicle, when finished, will take
the place of two four-horse stages.
purse for the rescue of Arthur Ven
vile, who was captured by the Fill
pfnos at Baler, Luzon, April, 1899. 1t
is believed by relatives of the boy that
he is still alive, and the money con-
tributed will be offered as a reward
for his delivery to the American
| forces.
| According to the Stockton Mail, a
sensational complaint in a suit for
$1,000, brought by a well-known and
formerly wealthy farmer against To-
cal banking institution, will be filed
next week. This amount is stated to
be balance on a $4,000 deposit with
regard to which no satisfactory ac-
counting has been given.
According to the Scientific American,
/ Oliver S. Hoover of Stanford Universi-
ty and Morris T. Hoover of Mountain
View, CAL, have invented an apparatus
of new sort for the collection of
prunes that heve fallen to the ground.
Tubes pneumatically worked pick up
the prunes by means of suction and de-
posit them in receptacle.
The Tu1are County Board of Super
visors at it's last session gave to I. N.
Clarkson of Goshen an order for
$146.79, and to Joe Doke, who resides
near Cottage, one for $8205, as bounty
on squirrel tails. Subsequent infor-
nation led to the belief that the squir-
rels had been killed outside the
county, and an injunction has been
filed in the Superior Court restrain
ing payment of the orders until an
investigation can be made.
The San Francisco Chronicle of Au-
gust 20 contains an account of the
brutal whipping of man in I4agur itas
Canon last Friday night. The mar, an
Italian. Pedro Bonnetti by name, was
pulled from his bed by a crowd and
lashed into a state of insensibility. For
several weeks previous he had been the
recipient of threatening letters signed
THE Order" He claims to have recog-
nlzed nine of the men who beat him.
The company which is interested in
bringing the jute mills from Oakland
to Stockton, intends, according to the
Mail, to manufacture it's own brick,
as it can make the common article,
even for single job, at 81 thou
sand, and first-claSS quality of fire
brick for 81 a thousand; whereas, the
combine charges $1,000 a thousand
The Mail says that, in case smelter
is put up in the city, as is expected,
the jute mill people may open up a
brick yard for the general market.
The five-year-old son of J. w. Par
dee, of Sacramento, came near being
killed last Saturday, by savage dog
kept chained in the yard. The dog
attempted to snatch from his hand
piece of bread that he had, and, fail
ing in this, attacked him viciously
He tore the child's arm badly, and
then attacked the latter about the alb
domen, but the boy managed to get
beyond reach of the dogs chain with
only slight wound in this part of his
body. A policeman shot the dog.
The San Jose Mercury says: "Mfss
Mary Morss of Oakland is anxious for
the officials of Agnews Asylum to
bring suit against her to recover $50
for the care of her father, who was
recently boiled to death in that in
stitution. She has refused to pay the
bill and courts suit in order that
she may publicly expose what she
claims is the gross mismanagement of
the affairs of the asylum. Miss Morss
is a clerk in the Office of the Super
intendent of Streets of Alameda, and
was her fathers guardian"
A heroic act was performed last
week by George Harold Jessen, an at
tache of the United States Medical
Supply Depot, 655 Mission street, San
Francisco. He three times rushed into
burning building in the vicinity, in
search of Bernard Kane, a nine-year-
old boy said by neighbors to be in the
house, and finally stumbled over the
boys unconscious form just in time to
save him and escape destruction him
SELF The Call says that another five
seconds in the flames would have
meant death to both.
The Biggs Argus says: GA F.
Stoudt has demonstrated that it pays
to grow wheat and flax together and
by so doing produce double crop
on the same ground. Year before last
Mr.. Stoudt harvested a crop of flax
and last fall, just before the rains, he
sowed the same ground to wheat after
disking the ground, followed by har-
rowing. In time the crop sprouted,
but instead of wheat alone, both wheat
and flax grew full crOD of each