Mesa free press., 1900-07-20
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.

The San Francisco papers contain
long lists of Fourth of July casualties.
Articles of incorporation of the Anti
Saloon League of Santa Clara have
been filed.
Twenty-one new schools have been
accredited at the University of Califor
MIA this year.
San Jose will have big fair this
fall, from the 9Th to the 18th of Octo-
ber, inclusive.
st. Johns Episcopal Church at Bos-
tonia will be consecrated by Bishop
Johnson on Sunday morning.
A new free rural delivery mail route
from Santa Paula to Elisio will be
established on the 10th inst.
1t is expected that, towards the end
of next week, 700 to 800 hands will be
at work in the Stockton cannery.
Mrs. Phoebe Hearst has subscribed
to the Santa Clara County Humane
Society the fee for life membership.
Francis Dunn of Berkeley is organ
izing a branch of the California
| Water and Forest Association in Stock
ton.
The attention of citizens has been
| Cdllou W lllc UOAcS ny CIlc hOWoPdP dPClo
of the city, with the request that they
be used for all refuse.
Two more engines, running between
Porterville and Mendoza, via Fresno,
are in the Kern City shops being
changed to oil burners.
Collector OF Internal Revenue Lynch
reports that the receipts of his office
during June were 1914 1852, against
$294, ,943 for the corresponding month
of last year.
The Sacramento Board of Health has
passed resolutions instructing the
| Health Officer to make special report
on the observance of the cubic-air ordi-
nance in Chinatown.
The Ladies' Improvement Society of
! Visalia has had sheet-iron boxes
| placed along the business streets of
the city, for the reception of paper and
other waste material.
The Santa Clara county and Santa
Cruz county fish and game protective
associations will cooperate to prosecute
yiolators OF the fish and game laws
passing between the counties.
It is reported that Stockton youth,
who was delegated to read the Declar-
alton of Independence on the Fourth,
cut down that document about half,
without the fact being noticed by his
audience.
The Secretary of the Sacramento
Board of Health has been instructed to
correspond with manufacturers of gar
bage crematories, with view to secur-
! ing bids for the erection of crema-
tory in that city.
| G1,,h &c
formed with object of preserving the
redwood forests of Big Basin, has APP
| pointed w. w. Everett, government
agent of the Bureau of Forestry, to rep
resent it at Washington.
Sixteen thousand dollars, principal
and interest of sum deposited with the
| Stockton Savings and Loan Society by
the late J. R. Hewitt and then ap-
parently forgotten by him, has just
been discovered by his heirs.
The firm of George West & Son,
which has recently started work OH
new winery near Selma, Fresno county,
is preparing to erect still another, six
miles west of Fresno, in a grape-pro-
| ducing district. Material for the build
ing is now being shipped.
The Lompoc Record thinks tina grad
ing on the Coast line will be completed
by August l, but says that, as there
still remain six viaducts to be placed,
requiring about month each, the talk
of having the road finished by Sep
tember is obviously mistaken.
A dredger to be used in excavating
canal three miles long through the
Newell tract of reclaimed land in the
northwestern part of San joaquin
county, was mounted on house-mov-
er's outfit last week and towed overland
from Stockton by two traction engines.
The Fresno county rock-pile has not
been in Sc for two years. The Fresno
Democrat says that, when the new
Board of Supervisors took office and in
augurated the striped-jacket system for
habitual offenders, it acted as whole
some deterrent, and the rock pile has
never been needed since.
The steamer Amur arrived July 7,
at Vancouver, B. c., from Skaguay,
bringing $3.50 900 in gold dust and
140 passengers. OF these thirty were
returning miners, who had sacks of
from $4,000 to $40, 900 each, while sew
eral Vancouver merchants brought
large returns from their branch stores
in the north.
According to the Stockton Mail, A.
R. Elliott, land owner we'll known
in that city and at LODI, is about
to bring suit in the Superior Court
against his son, T. A. Elliot of Mo-
desto, on the ground that the latter
caused him to be adjudged insane and
confined in an asylum for the purpose
of securing his property.
Secretary A. Hertzel of the Sacra-
mento County Fish and Game Associa-
tion has sent communication to the
Board of Supervisors complaining that
! the river is full of fike nets. The State
Fish commission has advised that these
be not interfered with, as there is no
evidence that striped bass or shad of
illegal size are caught in them.
] At recent meeting of the State
! Commission in Lunacy at Sacramento,
! resolution was passed requesting
! the Judges of the seven Southern Cali