Mesa free press., 1900-06-01
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Important information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
A Summary Of Late Events That Are
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Articles of Incorporation of the Sig
ma Chi House Association of Palo
Alto were filed last week. Capital
stock $4,000, divided into 1000 shares.
The first annual banquet Of the Oak
| land Board of Trade was pronounced
by participants and unqualified sue
cess.
| The manufacturers of Tacoma,
Wash, have just completed organi-
zation, with the aim of pushing home
made goods.
It is reported that Miss Maud Heath,
composition on the st. Helena (Napa
county, Sentinel has bought a half
interest in the paper.
Workmen excavating for a well at
Santa Rosa have come upon an exten-
sive bed of petrified CLAIMS, and other
| petrif1ed sea products.
State Commissioner Of Horticulture
J. E. Baker of the State of Washing
ton, predicts an enormous fruit crop
in that State this year.
Serious damage to early varieties of
cherries by recent rains is reported in
Placer county, as we'll as in some
other parts in the north of the State.
The order of Native Sons of the
Golden West is to be reorganized in
Fresno. The chapter lapsed in 1895,
and the society has been dormant
ever since.
The Merchants and Manufacturers
Association of Stockton have announc-
ed it's intention of making the street
fair, if possible, the biggest thing
OF the kind ever held in the State,
The San Francisco Board of Health
has determined to institute crusade
against the physicians who omit to
report cases Of contagious diseases,
and those who fail to file records of
| births.
The brig Tanner, bound from Port
Townsend for Cape Nome, with cargo
of lumber, went ashore two miles below
Point Wilson, at o'clock in the even
ing at extreme high tide. She is a
total wreck.
Early destruction of the salmon fish
cries in Alaska by the mode of fishing
with seines drawn by tugs is prophe-
sled in the report of the Hartman
expedition, published in Forest and
| Stream, 49,; ~
The Stockton Turnervein will give q
turnfest about the second week in
June, at which large delegations from
San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Sac
| ramento, Napa and Marysville are ex-
| pected to be present.
The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
7 Company has refused to pay the Ii
cense imposed by the San Francisco
ordinance on slot machines, and the
Tax Collector has filed complaints ask
ing for the arrest of the company s
| treasurer.
San Francisco's school census as
taken by the deputy census marshals,
is found to be deficient Superintendr
ent of schools Webster expects. to- add
about 1900 more pupils to the. list by
means of the enumeration made by
the school principals.
! Plants have been dying in Salinas
from a small black fly at work near
the roots. The same kind. Of fly has
been doing damage to crops in some
places on. the Coast. Several of the
insects have been sent to Berkeley
and will there be examined.
| Sacramento's school census shows a
slight falling off from the number of
children Of school age registered last
year, owing to the rapid growth of
some of the suburbs just outside the
city limits, the population of which
has been drawn chiefly from the city.
Edwin Markhams year leave Of alb
sence from the Tompkins School of
| Oakland has expired, and J. G. ellison,
| former Superintendent of Schools of
that city, is being urged as a candi-
date for Markham's position as prin-
cipal, as it is presumed that the latter
will not return. & s 2se " -
The Christian Endeavor Convention
| at Stockton has just been held. The
Mail states that those who have had
experience in the work Of entertaining
delegates, say that never were ar
rangements made with more fore
thought, or in more complete manner
than for this meeting.
The Berkeley Town Trustees have
set out to get rid Of the high bill
board nuisance by a prohibitory Ii
cense, and the Town Attorney has been
instructed to draw up an appropriate
ordinance. The matter was brought
before the board by petition signed
by over 1000 citizens.
Representatives Of the San Jose and
Santa Cruz, Boards of :. Trade and
others interested. in the preservation
of the redwoods of Big Basin will
start on a tour of inspection Of the
region preliminary to the petition to
Congress asking that it be set apart