Mesa free press., 1900-05-18


izing San Francisco.
The Sacramento City Auditor reports
a shortage in the general fund of
about $4,000.
A stock company is being formed at
Portland Oregon, for the erection of
crematory.
The Sacramento Board of Education
has just created a new Office that of
music instructor.
The X-ray has just been, for the
second time, successfully used in sur
gerry in Stockton.
For the first time in many years
Chinaman was brought up for drunk
enness in Stockton, on Monday.
The San Francisco ordinance MAX
ing it a misdemeanor to sell pools on
horse races or coursing matches has
been passed to print.
Eight placer claims in the Bonanza
district, near Nome, were last week
disposed of in Seattle to an Australian
syndicate for $4,000.
The Hanford Journal states that
cattle are now being driven from
Santa Barbara county into the San
Joaquin Valley for grazing.
Plans of the Oakland public library
are on exhibition today in that city.
They show building modelled after
the Boston public library, but to be
of brick with terra Gotta ornamental
ton.
I-op growers are to meet at Sac
ramento to consider the decline in the
profits Of the industry during recent
years, and plan a course of action to
bring about an improvement of con-
ditions.
Morosco's Burbank Theater, Com
mencing Sunday, May g.. the farewell
week of the Morosco Opera Company
Presenting, Planquette's famous Comic
Opera, The Chimes of Normandy.
Next Attraction-"The Real Widow
Brown
The Merced Sun states that M. D.
Wood, grain buyer for Balfour, Guth-
rie & Co., has purchased 5000 bags of
rye on a basis of 95 cents, Port Costa
delivery-said to be all the rye crop
of 1899 in warehouses south of Stock
ton.
Prof Harlan G. Cozine, director of
music at the Puget Sound University,
Tacoma, is to have entire charge of
the musical programme of the coming
month of it's meeting at Chicago, be-
ginning May 2.
The Homestead Improvement Club
of Stockton is considering the question
of erecting a plant for the manufac-
ture of jute bags. The committee ap-
pointed to investigate the feasibility
and desirability of the plan has sub
mitted a favorable report.
According to the statement of the
Southern Pacific freight agent at Port
land, as published in the Oregonian,
there were shipped to California dur
ing 1899, from Kansas and Nebraska
$3.50 per car, or $1.75 per 100 pounds.
The San Francisco police are work.
ing hard~to capture the lone highway
man who has been holding up people
in the city, A number o. detectives
disguised as women AMI accompanied
Ly escorts were sent out to the dis
tl'ict in which the man i1di been oper-
ati.g g..
A novel organization, "The Belgian
Hare Emporium of Fresno" was in
corporated at that city recently. 1t
is an organization of society women,
with but one male member. The lat
ter is to be in charge of Belgian hare
exchange, which will be established
by the corporation.
Seattle correspondence of the San
Francisco Bulletin relates that Nell
Pickerell, a handsome 17-year-old girl,
is on the road to the latter place in
the hope that there the police will not
interfere with her penchant for male
attire as they do in Seattle. She put
off skirts three years ago.
1Ee automobile order u by the lIan-
ford Automobile Tran ;po, g ton Com.
Iany will be a twelve seated machine,
with twelve-seated trailer. The order
s'.It the manufacturing compa ~ hv
telegraph is to ship in .wo weeks. and
III" time from shipment to arrival is
expected to be but a fortnight.
According to the Chronicles corre-
spondent, M. Lowry, an Oakland ex
pressman who went to the receiving
hospital recently for treatment OF the
ear, which was causing him great pain |
was found to have a sprouting grain |
of wild oats buried far in his head. |
1t had grown three-fourths of an inch.
On the subject of possible overpro-
duction of oil, Charles CaniieIl, Of the
firm of Chanslor & Garfield, one of
the greatest producers in the San Joa-
quin Valley oil territory, is reported
recentlV to have said. "Tf had civ