Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1900-05-25
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Important information Gathered
Around the Coast.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
A Summary OF Late Events That Are
Boiled Down to Suit cur Busy
ReaSors

Stockton is now discussing the quse-
itOn of a street fair.
Registration of letters by the carriers
is to be introduced in Oakland.
Stockton has decided to have an old
fashioned county fair this year.
The Southern Pacific new has fifteen
engines burning oil or being prepared
for it's use.
Santa Rosa is complaining of petty
larcenies following the influx of hobos
from the south.
The emergency hospital rooms insti-
tuted by women Of Fresno are now
open and fully equipped for use.
Prof. Charles w. Green, of Stanford
has been called to the University of
Missouri as head of the department of
physiology.
The Pastors Union OF San Jose mas
passed a resolution condemning the
prize fights at PRESENT taking place
in that city.
Portland, Or, was visited by a thun.
derstorm, which the oldest inhabitants
say was the severest for twenty years.
More than half inch of rain fell i'll
twenty minutes.
The Fowler correspondent of the
Fresno Democrat says that small bug
closely resembling the potato bug is
said to be doing considerable damage
in many vineyards.
Sebastian, the Indian guide who con-
Quoted the Fremont party over the
mountains into the San Joaquin Valley
is still living at TETON Canon at the
mature age of SO years.
A correspondent Of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle sends $40 to that paper
to start a relief fund for the needy
city with the intent Of providing bet
ter lights and thus assisting in the
prevention Of holdups.
AS soon as the ground can be Sc
cured, an ice plant is to- be put up in
Stockton by a stock company, with
the intent of supplying beth that city
and also all other available points in
the San Joaquin Valley.
Rev. B. F. Mills of Oakland says
that on a rough estimate only about 10
per cent. of the inhabitants of that
city attend church on Sunday morning,
there being twice as many women as
men in the congregations.
Two carloads of the choicest Stanford
sock, comprising twenty-five head OF
two-year-olds and three-year Olds from
the famous Electioneer family, started
east from Palo Alto for Cleveland &C
cording to the San Jose Mercury.
The committee appointed by the Sar
Joaquin Valley Commercial Associa.
ton to determine on the most effective
methods IF advertising the locality, has
rec commended small advertisements ir
as many selected eastern newspapers
as possible, with abundant literature
quiry.
The Sacramento Bee reports that, al
though the Street Fair and Trades
Carnival was a success as series of
spectacles and a drawing card for the
city, it was not such financially, owing
to the bad weather. The COMMITTEES
will be compelled to draw on the cit
liens for about 80 per cent. of the $4,000
pledged.
! Ex-Lieutenent Governor Jeter, Prof.
Dudley, Rev. R. F. Kenna, president
of Santa Clara College, Prof. Senger of
Berkeley, and John E. Richards were
appointed committee to take definite
action for the preservation of the Big
Basin trees, now threatened by the
lumber mills.
Mrs. Leland Stanford has entered
into contract with Rupert Schmid,
the sculptor, by which the panels above
the opening on the memorial arch to be
erected on the Stanford University
campus, will be enriched with over a
hundred figures in alto relief, consti-
tuting together a picture of civiliza-
ton on this continent.
Plans and specifications for the new
assembly hall at Chabot Observatory,
Oakland, have been approved. The
hall will be circular in shape and will
! have a seating capacity Of G50 1t will
be used for lectures to the students
/ and, during the winter, also for
| courses on educational subjects of in
terest to the general public.
It is reported that the destruction
Of Shag Rock San Francisco Bay, is
not yet complete, as soundings reveal
My fourteen and one-half feet of
water at the spot where the rock for
merly protruded. 1t is thought, how
ever, that there is not much of the
solid rock remaining, but chiefly de-
bris, which may be removed by dredg-
ing.
J. H. Eddy, inspector Of dairies for
Stockton, reports, according to the
Mail, that some of the dairies Of the
city and vicinity are in a deplorable
condition. In one place the corral
was filled with the accumulations OF
nine years, and it was almost impossi-
BILE to get around. At another place
two COWS were nearly dead with tuber-
culOSiS.