Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1900-01-19
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
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Despite the court decision n the case
of Mrs. LichtenStein, the San Fran
cisco Board of Education has formally
confirmed the act of the Superintend-
ent Of Schools in declaring vacant the
position of three women teachers, be-
cause of their marriage.
At Baker City, Or, during 1899,
eight new stamp mills have been con-
structed, all of which will be in opera
ton by March 1, 1900 The capacity of
the mills is equal to that Of the old
mills that have been in operation DUR
ing the past two seasons.
BENJAMIN Ide Wheeler and David
Starr Jordan are two Of the ten uni
versity presidents signing the petition
to be presented to the United States
Senate in favor of the adoption Of the
TreatySof the Hague, which provides
for international arbitration.
The committee appointed by the
raisin packers met with the directors
of the California Raisin Growers AS
ISOLATION, on Monday, to confer with
regard to the proposed packers grow
ers' Association. There was some dis
agreement as to the value Of the pack
,ers' good will, and after considerable
diplomacy on both sides, the meeting
adjourned until next Monday.
The Board of Health of Sacramento
is considering the question Of feeding
waste malt from distilleries to cows,
but is unable as yet to come to an
agreement. It is conceded by the
members of the board that such feed.
Injuries the quality, while it increases
the quantity of the milk, but the board
is fearful that an amendment to pres
ent laws forbidding its use would be
nugatory.
A special to the Portland Oregonian
from Prineville, Cook county, Or, says
that a tragedy occurred near there
among a circle of Piute Indians thai
has so far resulted in the death Of one
Indian, one sqnaw and the probable IA
tai injury of another man and two
women. Whisky Is at the bottom of
the trouble. Matthew Wewa did, the
shooting with Winchester rifle, which
he turned upon himself with fatal re-
suits.
The Oregonian, commenting on the
recent manufacture Of bags tWine,
etc., from Oregon flax, at San Quentin
prison, notes that the yield of fax, per
acre, in the Willamette valley, is dou-
BILE the European yield; that, after
threshing in the neighborhood of $780,
900, 900 worth of flax fiber must have
been burned, last year, in the North
west, while the United States yearly
imports fax products to the value of
$4,000, 900. It is the opinion of the
Oregonian that no country except Bel
GUM can excel Oregon for fax, and
that the time has come to exploit the
flax possibilities of the state.
A year or more ago the state cont
mission in lunacy adopted the policy Of
returning to their respective countries
or states patients who were NOT ejti-
zens of this state at the time Of c6m-
mitment. Quite number have been
thus taken from the asylums, but now
the commission is up against hard
proposition. Recently, a woman from
Oregon named Caroline Ryan became
insane on a railroad train in Siskiyou
ccrnty. She was taken from tho train,
examined and committed to Stockton.
Secretary Carrere Of the commission
wrote to the Oregon officials. to take
the woman away, but they refused 20
do So They say their policy is to care
for all persons who become insane in
that state, and they decline to import
patients from other states.