Mesa free press., 1901-02-15
I'LL ALONG THE COAST
interesting General Information About
California
MENTIONED IN THESE COLUMNS
Selections That Will Be of Great Interest
to Both Old and Young.


Orchardists report fruit trees in ex-
celleHt condition.
Pasadenans are preparing for par
tisan city campaign April next.
The A. o. U. w. is planning hand
some home for the order to be erected
in Los Angeles at a cost of $4,000.
Ventura people propose to improve
the beautiful city by the sea by build
ing Of roads, public utilities and gen.
eral municipal reform.
All railroads to the caost are bring
ing large numbers of passengers daily,
and reservations are made for all pos
sible car service for weeks ahead.
The Riverside grand jury has ffn-
ished is labors and filed its report.
The most important decision reached
was that the grand jury system was
The Los Angeles Chamber of Com
merce will give it's annual dinner on
the 22nd of this month. It will be the
most elaborate in the history Of the
The Council Of the city of Los An
geles has decided to issue no more
franchises Of any nature whatever un-
til the new law now pending in the
legislature is enacted or defeated.
A Catholic priest has been arrested
by the police Of Los Angeles for en-
bezzlement. His name is Antonio
Pilszak. His trunk contained a little
Of everything, even to burglar saws.
Los Angeles is to have a crack
baseball club. Harry Steinfeldt,
great star from the east, has been se-
cured for captain. Three other equal
ly as expert players have been signed.
Margaret Sullivan, the Oakland
woman of means who disappeared on
Jan. II, after a visit made to the
Hibernia bank. has been found. She
is in the State insane asylum at Stock
ton.
w. H. Harrison, prominent resi-
dent of Riverside. was run over and
killed by a Southern Pacific engine
at that place one day last week. The
railroad company was exonorated from
all blame.
The Los Angeles Chamber Of Com
merce has received it's famous exhib-
it from Paris, and it's next appearance
will be at the Pan-American exposr-
ton to be held at Buffalo from May to
Lompoc orchardists are taking a
wise precaution against the spread Of
the San Jose scale and woody aphis by
spraying their deciduous. Some of
the finest apples produced in the state
are grown at Lompoc.
The Los Angeles police commission
is still wrestling with the private box
question. Public sentiment is strong
ly against the evil and the commission
appears favorable to the wishes of the
public upon the mooted topic.
The Los Angeles City council have
succumbed to the popular will of the
people and withdrawn a number Of
to subordinate positions.
The plea of the people was for civil
service in the fire department.
The recent agitation by the papers
Of Los Angeles against the service of
the Sunset Telephone and Telegraph
company, has been productive of some
good. Every city paper is now carry
ing an advertisement Of the company.
The directorate of the Terminal
met in Los Angeles last Tues
day and authorized the president and
secretary to execute a deed of all its
to the new corporation, the
San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake
railroad
B. C. Whitney, the defaulting post
master of Cambria, San Luis Obispo
county, was sentenced to one year inn
and to pay fine equal to
amount of embezzlement. He will
serve his sentence in the San Luis
Obispo jail.
The presidents and vice presidents
of the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe
systems held secret conference at
the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, last
The friendly relations cur
tail the possibilities Of competition in
traffic rates.
Property owners on the famous Or
ange Grove avenue Of Pasadena, are
agitating the question of paving that
If it is thought the
work can be done for $3.50 for each
100 feet. One owner of 1000 feet is
the prime mover in the Improvement.
An ice and cold storage plant is to
be established in Long Beach. The
machinery has arrived and construc-
ton is to commence soon. 1t will be
built by James Roake of Oregon City,
Or. The capacity of the plant at the
start will be eight tons of ice per
day.
A colored woman died In Los An
ge1es last week who held certificate
Of birth from the Tennessee master
who gave her freedom, dated in 1892,
making her 100 years old at time of
death. She leaves a daughter who
looks almost as old as the mother who
died.
Expert Norman McLaren reported to
President Fitzgerald Of the board of
prison directors that he had discovered
another irregularity involving a small
amount in the books at San Quentin
pricon Hic Investigation showed that