Mesa free press., 1901-01-11
ALL ALONG THE COAST
interesting General Information
About California
MENTIONED IN THESE COLUMNS
Selections That VIII Be of Great Interest To
Both Old And Young.

The new steel railroad bridge over
the Yuba river at Marysville is fin
ished.,
| Many California newspapers cele-
brated Christmas by suspending publl-
cation.
extent among the schooI children in
Sacramento.
Supervisor Benigston of Santa Bar
| bara county would raise the liquor
license from 500 to $500.
A San Francisco girl has sued a
baker for $4,000 for kissing ner. OD-
vlously the girl is after the bakers
dough.
Mrs. Phoebe Hearst gave 5000 worth
of Christmas presents to the children
of the West Berkeley College settle
ment.
A Stockton man writes letter to
the Mail asserting that hoodlumlsm
is developing in the public schools OF
that city.
The Sheriff of Santa Clara county
offers a reward of $100 for the arrest
of John Hillman, charged with felony
embezzlement.
The nickel-in-the-slot gambling ma
chimes are doing big business In Pet
luna while the Trustees are talking
about having them thrown out.
William G.. Oldham, a searcher OF
records of Santa Rosa, attempted to
kill his wife while in a crazed con-
dition. Both are deaf and dumb.
Because he cried "hor air. to a
watchman in the West Oakland rail-
road yards, Bud Airy, IA years old,
was arrested for disturbing the peace.
The squirrels around Lompoc have
been quite generally extermlnated
throughout the farming section west
of the mountains by the distribution
of poison.
The members of the prune growers,
combination are quarreiing among
themselves. This is not the way to
conduct a successful Lrust.-Grass
Valley Union.
The lawlands around San Jose are
over-run with frog-catchers, who are
doing a thriving business. Frogs are
quoted at 81 dozen in the san Fran
cisco market.
The iron bridge spanning San Ma
.eo Creek broke while band OF horses
were crossing, and thirty-five OF them
were precipitated to the creek
bed Eight of the animals were
killed.
Morosco's Burbank Theatre, Los
Angeles. A positive triumph, The OPP
cratic Success of the Year! Every
body unanimous in their praise of the
New Jules Grau Opera Company in the
greatest of all comic opera successes,
'The Isle of Champagne"
While an eight-year-old Oakland
boy was sliding down cellar door
that had splinters in it, long silver
ran into his leg and broke off. 1t was
removed at the hospital and the
small boy says all attractions for
sliding down our cellar door, have
gone glimmering.
The census of the religion of every
adult person in Los Angeles is to be
taken this month There is, perhaps,
a goodly proportion of people in that
city, as elewhere, who would be glad
to find out what their religious belief
really is.-Pasadena News.
Roscoe A. Goodcell, former San
Bernardino boy, who has been ap-
pointed principal of a school in Shang-
hal, China, has received compliment
from the school authorities there.
They desire two more instructors, and
asked for men "aS nearly like Roscoe
A. Goodcell as possible.
Monday was a great day for minor
accidents at Oakland. Joe White
punctured his hand, William Spies
cut the end of thumb, Frank Ebren-
pfort ran splinter three inches long
into his leg, Fitz Linderman cut off
the end of finger and J. Kane ran
a nail into his foot.
The verdict for the San Francisco
Call in the $25O,OO libel suit brought
against the paper by Baron Won
Schroeder is an emphatic triumph
for good morals and vindication of
fearless independence in the discharge
of editorial functions.-Oakland Tri-
Eune.
Matt Buchanan, an Alameda bar
keeper, received a grewsOme Christ
mas present from the east. 1t was a
package containing his sisters ashes.
Buchanan supposed the package con-
tanned present from his sister, but
was sadly surprised. She died some
time ago and he had not been in
formed.
Smallpox Abaord Pullman Sleeper.
Salida, Colo, Dec. 29.-The Pullman
first-class sleeper Adriatic is lying in
the yards here under quarantine. The
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