Mesa free press., 1900-07-27
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.

air ordinance.
The Stockton cannery distributes
$4,000 a week among employees when
running full-handed.
Despite the frosts of the spring, the
grape crop of Livermore Valley prom
ises to be enormous.
San Jose will celebrate the fall of
the Bastile, July Ia and Is, with a
barbecue and games.
Twenty-seven feet of water has been
found by survey where Shag Rock used
to lie, in San Francisco Bay.
The Visalia and Tulare Railroad has
been sold to a company organized out
of the former operating force.
"A big forest fire is raging OH the noun
tains in San Bernardino county, but a
few miles from the city of San Bernar-
dino.
The Alta Irrigation District of Tu-
lare county will hold an election on
the question of an $4,000 assessment
for care and improvement of the dis
trlct.
The new cannery of Griffin, Skelly &
Co., at Fresno, started work last week,
promising it's hands the longest en-
ployment of any cannery in the State,
as the raisin season lasts until Decem-
Der.
Eight members of gang of tramps
who were playing havoc with the fruit
crops near Campbell, Santa Clara
county, have been arrested and SEN
fenced to from ten to sixty days i'm
prisonment.
The Southern Pacific company has
filed its notice for an appeal against
the Judgment of Judge Bahrs in the
Fresno rate case. The judgment was
that the company should reduce it's
fare to Fresno from $3.50 to 1915.
President McClish of the University
of the Pacific has received word from
Puget Sound that Prof. H. G. Tillman
who has recently been elected to the
principalship of the academic depart
ment at College Park, will accept the
position.
General Shafter has received instruc-
tions from the Secretary of War, di-
recting him to revoke all permits held
by persons not actually in the service
of the army or navy, to take passage on
transports sailing for Manila, or the
coast of Asia.
Lawn sprinkling in San Bernardino
was recently limited by the City
Trustees. at their last meeting, to
two hours day -on two days in
the week, the city being divided into
three precints, which will alternate
with one another.
The Monterey County Agricultural
Association has set October Is to 20
for the county fair. This date was
chosen as it Immediately follows the
San Jose fair, and makes possible the
shipping of horses for the races from
San Jose direct to Monterey.
Cattle men in the mountain district
of Kern county, on the south fork of
Kern River, have organized for mutual
protection from cattle thieves, pledg-
ing themselves to pay into a common
! fund according to the amount of their
stock, for the prosecution of thieves.
The sheriff's office at San Jose is en-
gagged in investigating the cause of the
explosion of Wilheimer's powder mag
azine at Mountain View Wednesday
night. Proof has been found that the
explosion was not accidental, but the
work of a malicious person or persons.
The Board of Free Library Trustees
of Oakland has declared all bids on the
Carnegie building irregular and au-
thorized the return of the certified
checks of bidders. The secretary of
the, board has. been directed to read
vertise for bids under the 'blanket
system. F"
A valuable gold watch stolen during
the Stockton fair has just been returned
by post. The return is supposed
to have been caused by the many
marks of Identification in the time
piece-za monogram, two photographs
on the inner sides of the case, and a
third photograph on the dial.
Work on the new cyanide plant at
National City is expected to begin
this week. An attempt. will be made
to overhaul some cf the old machinery
made especially for the plant, that is
damaged only in part. Che new plant
will consist of three large tanks with
capacity of about thirty-fve tons of
tailings day.
The Fresno Democrat of July IL con-
tains an account of the starting of the
forest fire in MADEIRA county, according
to which the fire had it's origin near
Zebra, in a combination of small boy
and Fourth of July irecracker. On
Monday it passed near enough to a
quartz mine to expl ode number of
dynamite cartridges swith disastrous
effect.
The Fresno Republican of July 12
I describes a new sanitarium started
in that city by number of the leading
physicians. 1t is equipped with X-ray
and other electrical apparatus and has
all it's rooms SO constructed that they
can be absolutely sterilized by turning
hot water on the walls and ceilings.
The furniture is of white enamel,
glass topped.
The Visalia City Water Company is
about to begin the construction of
second plant. A twenty-horse- power
electric motor and large-sized centrif-
ugal pump will be used, sending
water directly into the mains and
equalizing pressure throughout the
city. Under the present system, the
water pressure at the West Side is
comparatively low.