Mesa free press., 1901-03-15
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.


San Diego is putting up tickets for
the city election to be held on April 2.
Over 5000 acres of beets have been
planted at Oxnard up to date and
planting is progressing rapidly.
San Jacinto lake is now mile wide
and six miles long, containing more
water than at any time for ten years.
A heavy shock of earthquake
aroused the citizens of Visalia from
their slumbers last Saturday evening
1t is expected that the Oxnard sugar
factory will begin it's campaign ON
July and handle 100000 tons of beets
during the run.
The fact has been discovered that
San Francisco pilots charge the gov
ernment twice as much for pllotage
as they charge for merchant vessels.
It is claimed that piece of gold
"float." assaying several hundred dol
lars to the ton, has been found near
Eastland at the foot of Mount Tamal-
pals.
Plans are being perfected for captur-
ing 1000 valuable wild horses which
have for years been rowing over
Southern Oregon. The horses are said
to be of good stock.
A corporation has been formed at
San Jose for the manufacture of a
substitute for coffee from prunes, and
! it is expected that considerable por-
tion of the crop will be thus utilized.
It has been officially announced in
Santa Barbara that trains will be run
ming on the new Southern Pacific coast
line between Santa Barbara and San
Francisco by March oath. The sched-
ule includes two passenger trains each
way daily.
A hospital ambulance, for which the
city of Santa Barbara is indebted to
the efforts of Mrs. G. w. Otto, was
built in San Francisco at cost OF
| $400, and is a credit to the city as well
as to the ladies who took it upon
themselves to raise the funds.
The fact has been discovered that
for years Gen. Nelson A. Miles has
owned 400 acres of land near Indio,
! assessed at 81 an acre. The land is
in the artesian belt, and likely to sur
prise the veteran fighter by its value
a few years from now. =
San Jose, Mar. 2-Physicians today
decided that Victoria Lennox, an or
phan girl, residing at No. 165 North
Fifth street, is suffering from a pro-
nounced case of smallpox. A number
OF persons were exposed before the
character Of the disease was deter
mined.
"Chepa Loca," an old Spanish wo-
man who has been a character about
Santa Barbara for the past thirty years
mas taken up her abode in chicken
coop. Her real name is Lopez. She
may be seen almost any day pushing
baby carriage full of cats and pup
pies.
San Francisco, March 2.-Customs
Surveyor Spear reports that his
searchers seized fourteen packages of
smuggled goods on board the United
States naval transport Solace at Mare
Island, making total of eighty pack
ages of valuable brick-a-brac and Gu
rios and several thousand cigars.
San Francisco, March &c. N. Ster-
ry, of Los Angeles, chief counsel of
the Santa Fe on this coast, who is in
this city, says that it is the intention
of the parent company to absorb it's
three branch companies west of Albu-
querque. They are the Valley Rail
road, the Southern California Railway
and the Santa Fe Pacific.
The Gall says that the executors Of
the estate of the late Charles F..
Crocker have decided to erect 1000
900 hotel on the old Calvary Church
site, corner of Powell and Geary
streets, this city. Plans for the struc-
ture have been drawn, but the build
ing which, it is said, will equal the
Auditorium of Chicago, will not be
completed for two years.
Watsonville, March 3.-An Austrian,
who has been in this country but a
short time, became suddenly insane
today, and assaulted woman and d
little girl, cutting the woman promis-
cuously with hatchet, so she will
hardly recover The child was badly
bruised about the head. 1t took sew
eral men to subdue him and tie him
down in a wagon. He was brought to
the city Jail.
San Francisco, March 2.-The big
British tramp steamer Samoa has been
purchased by the government, and
when she arrives in port 5000, 900 will
be spent in fitting her up for the trans
port service. The Samoa is on her
way here from Hongkong and is ex-
pected to arrive in about ten days.
Her gross tonnage is 6396 tons. When
she is refitted she will be able to carry
over 1000 soldiers.
The magnitude of the work done by
the Los Angeles Chamber of Com
merce is well illustrated by the fact
that the chamber spent nearly $4,000
last year. This organization is one OF
the most potent factors in the devel-
opment of Southern California and de-
serves the hearty support of all public
spirited citizens of the southern coun-
ties.-Riverside Press.
Because Jacob Johansen, San Fran
cisco porter, believed his 9-year-old