Mesa free press., 1900-06-29
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.

There is a pest working on umbrella
trees about Tulare which rapidly strips
them of their foliage.
Oregon City has found an indictment
against a Christian Science healer for
practicing without a license.
The new Delta Gamma sorority
house at Stanford is to have a 'front.'
age Of sixty-five and a depth of sixty
eight feet. 1t will be built in Moorish
style.
The Oakland postoffice department is
soon to have sixteen delivery wagons
of the Studebaker pattern now in use
in Chicago and several other large
cities of the East.
ford) school district have determined
not to employ any married women as
teachers. Applications from married
women are not considered.
State Veterinarian G. H. Blener has
| advised the Kings county Board of
| Supervisors to pass an ordinance to
deal with glandered horses, as he has
| discovered some cases in the county.
The Portland Oregonian reports that
| the prune crop of the Walla Walla
| Valley will exceed that which has been
produced in any previous year, and
Walla Walla apples will be in album
dance.
The committee appointed to visit
| Big Basin in preparing a petition to
| the government for it's reservation have
reported that the mill men say the four
sawmills on the ground and the others
going up will cut all the timber in
| four years time.
| A fleet of eight sugar vessels from
| the Hawaiian Islands came into Ook-
land Harbor. Sunday night. A special
train Of forty cars was scheduled to
start for the East, Monday evening,
carrying the cargo.
! The Visalia Board of Trade on
| Wednesday received a telegram from
| Washington to the effect that an ap-
preparation of $4,000 for Sequioa Park
had been agreed upon by conferees on
the Sundry Civil Bill.
| A large tract Of marsh land of San
Leandro Bay, extending from near the
mouth of the tidal canal around the
shore to San Francisco Bay, is to be
reclaimed by private enterprise and
| devoted to pasturage.
| Stanford University correspondence
Of the San Jose Mercury states that the
law department is next year to be de-
| veloped along somewhat radical lines
| as compared with the law departments
/ in other American institutions.
| DR.. Rowell of Fresno took with him
| to be displayed at the California head
| quarters of the National Convention at
/ Philadelphia, six dozen packages of
| seeded raisins and forty pounds Of
tanas, half bleached and half un-
bleached.
The Visalia Delta says: can old In
| dian who was in the land Office Tues
day stated that the Indians in the Mill
| Creek county are dying in great num-
bers. He says that the plague kills
both old and young, and that after be-
| ing taken ill the unfortunate live but
day or so.''
| A San Luis Obispo Tribune reporter
who has been over the Coast line, says
that the Strengthening of the line be-
| tween Soledad and Santa Margarita
means gain of over two miles in dis
tance and fully twenty mills in speed.
There are few curves left IN the line
and the grades are easy.
The San Francisco Police Commits
sion has decreed that all side en-
| frances to saloons, without exception,
must be closed. Even French restau-
rants are included. According to the
| Bulletin saloon mer say they are go
ing to make pool and fight the mat
ter in the supreme Court.
About three hundred people have
been vaccinated at Haywards, as a
result Of the smallpox scare recently
started in the canneries. The house in
which the case was has been burned,
and all other houses in the neighbor-
hood inspected, without any indications
Of the disease being found.
The Kosmos steamer Luxor, just off
for Hamburg from San Francisco, car
ries many hundred tons Of flour for
Ecuador, Peru and Chile, 22OO centals
of wheat for Peru and over a thousand
cases of salmon for Chile. Ports in
South America have begun 10 take
regular consignments of goods from
San Francisco by this line.
The new flax mill of Oakland will be
the first mandatory of the kind west
of Kentucky. 1t is stated that con-
siderable part of the flax used will
come from Oregon and that hemp will
also be employed. A special committee
of the Board of Trade and Merchants
Exchange is collecting subscriptions
for promised improvement of the
streets about the site Of the mills.
The Tulare Register reports that G..