Mesa free press., 1900-04-13
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Important information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
A Summary Of Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit our Busy
Readers

The dog poisoner is now working at
Visalia.
Another wooden mill, to employ rs
hands will soon be established at Peta-
luna by L. Walker of San Francisco.
It is reported that at least five sal
mon canneries are to be established in
Southwestern Alaskan waters this
season.
Niles reports a light frost, but no
damage. The outlook at present Is
the best in IS years for a heavy fruit
AMI grain yield.
Prof. Bernard Moses ar the other
members of the Philippine Commission
are to be banqueted at San Francisco
Thursday, April IL.
The San Bernardino police are at
present contributing money to the city
treasury through the fines of opium
dealers and smokers raided.
J. B. Inderriden Of Chicago, a
wealthy business man on a western
pleasure tour with his wife and four
daughters are in San Francisco.
Christian Joy Peoples california,
has been appointed an assistant pay
master in the navy as a result Of
recent competitiv examination in San
Francisco.
The San Francisco Health Depart
ment has decided to carry it's work of
inspection and cleaning-up beyond
Chinatown, through the so-called
Latin quarter.
The track of the Valley railway,
owned by the Santa Fe company,
has reached Point Richmond and
the line is now continuous from Bak-
ersfield to the sea.
The San Jose humane Society, which,
th>, Mercury says, has been in dor
| mant condition since the resignation
of Mrs. Loomis, the active secretary,
| met for reorganization.
A.aisin growers of Ell Cajon Valley
met to listen to T. G. White Of Fresno,
one of the five directors Of the Raisin
Growers Association, and signed the
contracts in large numbers.
ALL of the LOOT. lodges of Sonoma
county will be the guests of the Santa
Rosa lodge on April 26, the eighty-frst-
anniversary of the establishment OF
the organization in the United States.
The cyclists of Napa and Vallejo are
determined that the cycle path between
the two cities shall be built, and about
sixty enthusiasts of Napa have begun
the work of grading, under competent
direction.
The Lake Tahoe and San Francisco
Water Company yesterday submitted
to the public utilities committee Of the
board of supervisors proposition TO
furnish San Francisco with water from
the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Tulare is having a boom of a Pc
culiar kind. The Californian says that
although the town itself is declining
the price of houses is going up, owing
to the fact that they are in great de-
mand to move to other places.
The carriers for the new rural routes
about Fresno have been selected. Spe
cial Agent Howard says that there Is
room for at least three more rural de-
livery routes there and for these the
Chamber of Commerce intends to pc
tition.
Thomas J. Kirk, State Superintend
ent of Schools, has indorsed President
Benjamin Ide Wheelers statement
| with regard to the State textbooks
He says that, with one or two excep
| tions, they are behind the times and
seriously defective.
President William Thomas of the
California Water and Forest associa-
ton reports that the subscriptions
made recently to the funds Of the as
sociation indicate a general willingness
to assist in the impounding of the flood
waters Of the State.
The Cronicle reports that the rights
of way for the proposed new railroad
to connect Vallejo with some point on
Clear Lake, Lake county. are rapidly
being secured. fast boat service will
connect the Vallejo end Of the route
with San Francisco.
The steamer Belgian King, due
shortly at San Francisco, carries Low
laborers from Japan; the Gaelic 123.
and the China due today, 300. Large
gangs are daily arriving at San Fran
cisco from Victoria and overland for
Seattle and Tacoma.
An ordinance passed will close up
the Gem teries of San Francisco on
August l. Land owned and controlled
by the United States government is,
however, excepted by the ordinance,
so that the burial Of soldiers in the
Presidio Cemetery will not be inter-
ferred with.
Stockton masons refused work on
the new cannery and men have been
brought in from other places, because
no union of bricklayers exists in
Stockton and tn contractors feared
trouble on their contracts in San Fran