Mesa free press., 1900-04-13
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
The News of the State, Nation
and the World
MOST INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
From Everywhere will be found In
this Column. Items that inter-
est Everybody
est Everybody

Spokane, Wash, has spring build
ing boom.
The affairs of Chief Clarence of the
Mosquito Territory, the pensioner Of
tn British government who is being
sued for debts, have assumed such
an acute stage that he has appealed to
the Jamaican government for assis-
tance. Only the skill of his lawyer
prevents his Incarceration.
Sacramento is making extensive
preparations for her street fair. The
RecordUnion says: Cali arrange
ments have not yet been completed. On
way day, however, the grandest floral
parade ever seen in California will at
tend the Queen Of the May in her tri-
umphal march throughout the city,"
A telegram from Evanston (Wyo.,)
to the sheriff's office at Bisbee (Ariz.,)
announces the arrest thu, re Of Matt
Burns, one of the robbers who held up
the Southern Pacific train at Cochise
last September. He with Stiles, the
confessed robber, did the work, while
Afford and Downing who are in the
Jail at Tombstone, were accomplices
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San Francisco is in a quandry, the
city charter calling for the fixation of
rates of the tax levy on or before the
last Monday in June, while the stat
ute Of the State makes the date for
determination of rates the third Mon
day in September The statute also
provides that the Sta Board of Equal
ization shall meet and fix the State
levy between the first and second Mon
days of the same month.
A Tacoma man is making money in
small lumber mill in Alaska. The
mill, which was packed in over the
trail two years ago, requires but two
men to run it, and can saw boards
but two feet wide, at the outside. But
the demand upon it was so great that
it made 100000 last year and it's
owner recently refused an on.r Of $3.50
per thousand Ior the $4,000 feet Of lum-
ber he has on hand.
President Wheeler of Berkeley stated
at a recent meeting ait San Francisco
Of the Finance Committee of the new
Commercial Museum, that the latter
will be "a kind of clearinghouse Of
opportunities He Illustrated this
remark from observations made at the
Philadelphia Museum. For instance,
word was received there, that $4,000
tons of coal were wanted at Hamburg.
Firms in the coal trade were notified,
and within three hours contract was
made by cable.
Entomologist Lonnsbury Of Cape
Colony has written County Entomolo-
S1SC Ol Dan JOSC GUILTY., Gull
cerning a Cape Colony parasite which
feeds upon the black scale. A copy
of the letter was forwarded to Sen
ator Perkins, who has interested Sec
retary Wilson in the matter and, as
result as many as possible of the par
asites are to be procured and sent Mr.
Ehrhorn, who will colonize them in the
olive orchards of his county. If they
thrive there, the other counties Of the
State can be supplied from these col
onies.
Analyses just completed by members
of the department Of agriculture of
tn University of California prove that
the yellow -blossoming alkai weed,
otherwise known as the tall tar weed,
which most Californians regard as a
pest, is in reality an extrem ly valu-
able forage plant. It has nearly twice
the percentage Of protoins, or flesh
formers, contained in wheat hay, and
so per cent. more than is contained in
oat hay. Cattle will Lot eat the tar
weed while it is green, but experiments
made by Louis Bertch Of Tulare, IN
conjunction with the university sci
entists, show that if the weed is cut
and made into hay, stock will eat it
greedily and thrive upon it.