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Mesa free press., 1901-01-25
Prisoners Daring Escape.

Seattle, Wash.-Eight prisoners who
were being brought to the United
States on the transport Grant, made
a daring escape while the steamer was
in the harbor at Hong Kong. Hand
cuffed they managed to crawl through
the ventilator leading to their place
of confinement Then they broke their
chains, secured life preservers and
by crawling down the anchor chains
got into the water Strange to say,
the men were not noticed by the SEN
tries, if there were any on duty
The convicts were picked up by the
Chinese commissary launch, jubilee,
and landed at pier. Before anything.
could be done by those in the boat,
the prisoners made wild run for lib,
erty According to later reports some
of them were captured and it seemed
probable that more of them would be-
found. Some of the men were under
sentence for ten years. j.
Mesa free press., 1901-01-25
Cleaned Up a Cool Million.

New York, Jan. 15.-Dr. R. G. Flower
and w. J. Austin, promoters of the
Arizona, Eastern and Montana Ore
Purchasing and Development Com
pany, over a million dollars worth OF
shares of which are held in Eastern
cities, are both missing.
The shareholders declare they have
been victimized and new officers are
trying to save something from the
wreck. .y
The master spirit in the venture was
DR.. R. G. Flower, who represented
himself as the brother of Roswell P.
Flower. Before he took little Ariz-
ona mine and with that as a basis
distributed more than $1,000000 worth
of stock all over the East. Dr. Flower
had a record from Mexico to Boston.
He has been IA minister of the gospel
patent medicine practitioner, and pro-
moter for more than a generation. He
has managed to steer clear of troublt,
to keep magnificent suites at the Wal,
dorf- f-Astoria, to travel in speclal
car and generally live on millionaire
scale though it all.
Mesa free press., 1901-01-25

The news that Sousa is coming here
shortly for grand concert with the
band that won so much fame in Eu-
rope last summer will be welcome
news for the many admirers OF III Ihe
"March King" and his men. The
great band is at it's best now and Sou
sa has so replenished his library at
the foreign publishers that he is pre-
pared to offer programmes on this tour
fairly replete with novelties. An ad-
ditional honor has been accorded Sou
Ga in the engagement of his band to
appear for four weeks at the lnterna-
tional Exhibition at Glasgow, Scotland,
next October, at the highest price ever
paid for a military band abroad. Sou
sa will also make an extended tour OF
England in connection with his Glas-
cow engagement. His present winter
season at home, which begins January
3rd, embraces 16O different cities. to
be visited in II weeks.
Mesa free press., 1901-01-25
The Greatest Gusher Ever Developed

Austin, Tex, Jan. 13.-The great oil
gusher, near Beaumont, is the over
shadowing sensation throughout Tex
as Thomas D. Jendall, an oil well ex-
pert of Pennsylvania, who was visit
ing the Corsicana oil field at the time
the phenomenon was discovered, ar
rived here this evening from visit
to the well. He says it far eclipses
any we'll drilled lin the United States,
and the output of. oil is several thou
sand barrels daily, greater than the
greatest gusher ever known in Russia.
Mr.. Jendall tested the flow of oil
as best he could, and estimates that
it exceeds $4,000 barrels every twenty
four hours. The, flow is constantly
growing greater and increasing in vol
ume This is due to the fact that when
the oil was struck the iron casing was
blown out of the head and the size
of the hole is gradually increasing.
The solid six-inch stream of oil is now
shooting straight into the air to a
height of over 200 feet.
1t is Mr.. Jendalls opinion that 1t
will be impossible to anchor the we'll
and that the oil will have to be saved
in dirt reservoirs. The reservoirs are
being constructed as rapidly as possi-
BILE, and a number Of them are already
filed and over flowing.
Mesa free press., 1901-01-25
Nash's Stepdaughter Selected to Christer
the Battleship Ohio.

Toledo, O., Jan. 12.-The Times will
say tomorrow: 1t has been generally
thought that when President McKin-
ley accepted the invitation to be pres
ent at the launching of the battleship
Ohio, at San Francisco, May 18, the
chief executive would have the honor
of naming the battleship, but the
Times is officially informed that Gov.
Nash is the man who has been given
that honor and also that the COVER
nors step daughter, Mrs. Worthington
Babcock, will break the bottle on the
bow of the battleship.
President McKinley's party will
probably include, besides Mrs. Nc
Kinley, almost every member of the
cabinet According to the schedule
the party will leave Washington on
May 1, in special train provided by
the Southern Pacific. 1t is expected
that the party will reach San Francisco
on the evening of May 13.
Mesa free press., 1901-01-25
In the Oil Fields.

1t is said here that the Victoria
strike in Encinitis is probable bona
fide, as the company owning the we'll
has no stock to sell and therefore is
interested in booming the territory.
The officers have bought a quantity
of supplies in Los Angeles, and are
making preparations to case off water.
which they believe is keeping oil from
flowing into the we'll as it. would 9th
e1wise do.
The usually activity prevails in the
Kern river field. It is said here that
the Globe company is the possessor OF
four good wells, and that it has sue
ceeded in selling it's entire output to
the Santa Fe The company recently
cleaned out No. 8, and it is said now to
be first class producer even for that
field.
The Globe has acquired holdings on
the Scully ranch in the Fullerton field
and will explore that part of the ter
ritory for OIL It has a we'll already
under way.
There is much active development
work coming in the Butterworth coun-
try, according to the Hanford Journal.
Most of the good land has been taken
up and the field may soon be heard
from as a heavy producer Of oil.
Some Whittier men who compose the
Cape Mendocino Oil company are dis
posed to go far away from home to
operate. They will drill in Humbolt
county, where they have holdings.
The Huasna Development company
will resume drilling on its East Huas-
ma property. 1t is said the company
in ifC
Huasna and got nothing to show for
It.
The Southern Pacific is to build a
number of double tank cars to accom-
modate the heavy demand in the Kern
river field. There has been much trou-
bic in marketing the product OF that
territory, and it is proposed to relieve
the stringency in transportation IA
cilities.
1t is said that there are good inai-
cations in Arizona and that there will
be development work done there be-
fore long.
There has been some talk in Bak-
ersfield of building a railroad from
that place to San Luis Obispo, If the
railroad increase. 1t is thought the
work can be done for $1,000,000, and
the oil men of that territory are suff1-
GENTLY independent to commence OPP
erations if forced to do so by higher
railroad rates. 1t is said that the visit
Of several Chicago and St. Louis cap
italists to Bakersfield few weeks ago
was to look into the merits of such
an enterprise.
Heavy filings on the Carriso creek
section in San Diego county continue,
and all the desirable territory will
soon be taken up.
Mesa free press., 1901-01-25

silver dollars, subsidiary and minor
coins during the year was $10,2S6, 1902.
Including silver contained in gold
deposits, the deposits and purchases of
silver during the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1900, exclusive of redeposits,
amounted to $11,396,137, standard
ounces, against 14,O73,454 standard
ounces reported for the previous year.
The average price of silver for the
year, based upon daily London quo
tations, was 27.375 d. equivalent at par
of exchange to $0.6OO17 per ounce fine,
in United States money.
/ At the highest market price for sill
yer during the year the commercial
ratio of silver to gold was as 1 to 33.-
OIL at the lowest price 1 to- S5.41; at
the average price 1 to 34.44.
Mesa free press., 1901-01-25
Why Man Is Superior.

Man Is perfected marsupial. He is
a creature Of pockets. With him the
necessity Of pouch simply develops
one. This is the law Of evolution.
The first we read Of him as pocket
bearing animal was on level with the
kangaroo. He then had one pouch
fastened to his belt. Now look at him
and compare him to women, for whom
lin his chivalry-he is truly sorry.
She, in her helplessness, is usually be-
hind the kangaroo, and at her best only
equals him with one pouch fastened at
her waist. She was not evolved through
the laws of nature, but under the stern
er DEGREES Of the dressmaker.
What difference between no pock-
cts and score of pockets! The first is
woman; the other, man. Woman is lit
orally fettered for want of pockets.
She must carry in her hands whatever
is not part Of her clothing, while
mans arms, palms and fingers are free
free to help his unfortunate sister.
Thing Of five pockets in trousers, five
in vest, five in jacket and five in over
coat-an exact score in all. Some men
have more than this. When man took
up the handkerchief habit he made a
pocket for that convenient article. He
doesn't have to be picking them up
except for the women.
He made pocket for his knife and
a pocket for his watch; pocket for his
keys and pocket for his letters; a
pocket for his tobacco and a little
pocket for his car tickets, and he
kept ON making pockets as fast as he
needed them.
Women, in their helplessness, envy
him. They reach out to him to borrow
his knife, to borrow his pencil, to bor-
row bit Of string and to borrow a
dozen articles that he usually has
stored away about his clothing. He is
kind and lends, for he Is sorry for them
in their arrested Development New
York Herald.
Mesa free press., 1901-01-25

Oil places Rockefeller's wealth in that
property alone at about $266, 100000.
In addition to this he has large inter-
ests in other directions, so that it Is i'm
possible to measure accurately his en-
tire fortune. Within the last year, how
ever, the advance in the market value
Of his Standard Oil stock alone has in
creased. his wealth $95,OO0,OO0 or SO,
while his annual income in dividends
from that stock is about $16,00O,0OO.
Such astonishing figures go far to prove
that the Standard Oil magnate Is the
richest man in the world. They are
deceiving, however, in a sense. Mr..
Rockefeller has no such accumulation
Of money as that, nor could he have.
Any effort to convert those holdings
into money orr Into other forms of prop
erty would "bear" the market and ma
terially reduce the.value. The estimate
is actually based on the earning power
Of his property, calculating the capital
value. according to the current rate of
interest. Therlower the rate of inter-
est happens to be. at given time, there
fore, the greater is the estimated value
OF the5forune from which the enormous
,dividends are drawn. The annual in
crease of the fortune, likewise; does not
mean a corresponding reduction in the
wealth Of others, for it is not drawn
from stocks Of commodities and money
previously existing. It Is drawn, in
stead, from the, years increase in the
general wealth Of which this particu-
lar fortune obtains such conspicuous
share. The prophecy that such for
tune could be accumulated by any
means, legitimate or otherwise, by the
end Of the nineteenth century would
have been considered wildly fabulous
100 years ago. Washington died the
richest man in America, yet he was not
millionaire with all his land, slaves,
accumulated crops and similar posses
sions. Jefferson throughout his writ
ings continually calls attention to the
essentially agricultural character of
this country, and the fact that by force
Of nature the development must be
along agricultural lines, virtually assum-
ing that the country must be relatively
poor, and that great fortunes could
hardly be accumulated too, when
81 100000 would have been considered
Stupendous sum. That is hardly
strange when we remember that for
the whole Of Louisiana territory Jeffer-
son paid but 100000. He could not
anticipate the astonishing wealth which
that very agriculture would create, nor
the minerals that the new territory
would produce, far less the bonanza
fortunes that would follow with the
era Of railway building, manufacture
ing and general Industrial expansion.
Mesa free press., 1901-01-25
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.

Alameda is musical. 1t has an Ap-
ollo club.
A Redlands grocer exhibits a coal
black apple.
1t is to- be, hoped that President Nc
Mnley will soon lose his grip.-San
Jose Mercury.
There is, nearly seventy feet of wat
er in Lake. Hemet. The outlook for the
irrigation season is fine. 49,
Pasadena spent nearly $4,000 on its
tournament of roses and came $120 tC
the good-a fine showing.
Frank James, ex-bandit, wants to be
doorkeeper of the Missouri legislature
Missouri should object. The average
legislature has thieves enough already
Michigan Slim" king of heroes, has
lust been released from the county
iail at San Bernardino. He expects
to favor Los Angeles with his pres
ence. :.
The reason ,Congess is devoting sc
much time to oleomargarine is prop-
ably to have the ways well creased 1ol
the Nicaragua canal blll.-OaKlaho
Tribune.
The Los Angeles woman who admits
the theft of several bicycles offers as
singular excuse for her wrong doing
the fact that she has wheels.-Marys-
vile Appeal.
/ !. California needs the voting machine
and will have it. The legislature tna'
first permits it's use will deserve TO re-
ceive most favor from the people.Sac-
ramento Record-Union.
When DR.. Kinyoun has finally been
sent somewhere else the people OF tnls
city will probably agree that we have
had a plague here, but that II has
gone.-San Francisco Bulletin.
The Mercury is asked to state wna'
in it's Judgment California needs. Ing
answer need not be long drawn out
California needs organization OF lts III
dustries, plain morality-and the cop
per cetlt.-San Jose Mercury.
The Visalia man who received a Sc
we're sentence because he fraudulently
attempted to collect bounty upon
large number Of squirrel tails secured
in another part of the state IS nc
doubt convinced that every tail has
moral to it.-Grass Valley Union.
One appreciates the fact that Cali
fcrnia is a great state when he reaos
about snow shovelers being pald %
per hour up in Siskiyou county te
keep3the snow from the roofs, while
here in Southern California the roses
are in bloom, the robins are caroline
in the pepper trees and oranges are oe.
ing harvested at the rate of severa
hundred carloads per week. k.-Riverside
Press
Mesa free press., 1901-01-25
Arizona Must Wait Year for Statehood.

Washington. The residents of Ariz-
ona who have spent several weeks in
in Washington endeayoring to further
tile passage of the bill admitting that
territory as a state, will soon retrun
home greatly disappointed. They are
assured, however by both Republican
and Democratic leaders Of prominence
that at the next session of congress
bills providing for the admission of
Arizona, Oklohoma and New Mexico. as
states will be passed. 1t is admitted
on all sides that on account of the
great growth in population in the last
ten years Arizona is entitled to state-
hodd. Owing to lack of time, howeve--,
it will be impossible to get a bill
through this session. Should an extra
session be called, which is considered
possible, the statehood bills may be
put through in the spring.
Mesa free press., 1901-01-25
Sailor Runs Amuck.

Santa Barbara, Jan. ,13. - The
schooner Kate and Ann, Captain Wal.
ker, has arrived from Santa Rosa.
She reports that Mike O'Brien, a seal
hunter, ran amuck aboard the vessel
Saturday morning. He made a vicious
attempt to kill Captain Walker with "a
knife and succeeded in cutting, the
cook badly in the region of the heart,
the wound probably being fatal. He
then cut his own throat, dying on thei
deck. He slashed his throat until his
head was nearly severed from. the
body. The schooner arrived here at
6 o'clock this evening for medical aid
for the cook and captain, and to de-
liver the body of O'Brien to the
morgue. r.r
Mesa free press., 1901-01-25
DARING TACTICS OF B0ERS.
Plan to Sever KitChener's
Communications.

London. Jan. 12.-Appalling develop
ments in the South African situation
are causing deepest CONSERVATION here
It is now nearly three months since
the British army has found 1t possible
to act on the offensive, while every
day there are fresh accounts OF daring
tactics of the Beers, who are acting
upon a plan conceived with consum-
mate skill and executed with amazing
intrepidity and resource, to cut on
Lord Kitchener's communications with
both the Cape and Natal.
The paralysis of Kitchener's vast
army is apparently complete and IN
gloomy contrast to the tncessant and
unchecked activity Of the Beers.
Soldiers letters have been stopped
to their home folks and officers let
ters are vigorously censured owing to
the strong opposition created by their
sriritless, depressed tenor.
It is officially rumored that k1tch-
ener is developing scheme for crush
ing the Boer commanders in Cape Col
ony but confidence has been shaken in
the efficacy of his tactics.
A perfect stampede of wealthy South
Africans is taking place from Cape
Town, where enormous premiums are
offered for passages home not only on
liners but even on cargo steamers
Pretoria, Jan. 13.-A commando 1000
strong attacked Kaalfontein at Z
o'clock this morning. The garrison,
numbering lis men, mostly Cheshire
mounted infantry, made a plucky and
scientific defense, Lieut.. VIM. Free
man in command. The British sus-
tanned six hours bombardment from
two guns and Maxim rapid fire gun,
and repulsed the determined onslaught
by the Boer rif1emen without sustain
ing a casualty. The Beers lost heavily.
They crept in the long grass to with
in forty yards of the British trenches,
but were driven back by the accurate
and heavy rifle fire of the defenders.
Numbers of Beers were seen to fall,
and were carried to farm house
later
London, Jan. 13.-The war Office has
received the following dispatch from
Lord Kitchener:
Pretoria, Sunday, Jan. 13.-About
fourteen hundred Beers crossed the
line, attacking both Zuurfontein and
Kaalfontein stations, but were driven
Off. They are being pursued by a COW
airy brigade"
Lord Kitchener reports also several
skirmishes at different points with
trif1ing British losses and adds:
"Threo agents of the peace commits
sioners were taken as prisoners to
Dewet's laager, near Lindley, January
10. One, who was British subject,
was fiogged and then shot. The other
two burghers were 1ogged by Dewet's
orders"
The brief report of the fate of the
three r'embers of the peace commits
sion WHO were sent to see, General
Dewct excites the deepest indignation
on all sides. One or two papers ex-
press a hope that, LORD Kitchener has
been misled by false rports. but it is
generally felt that he would not have
reported the matter TO the war Office
without undoubted. evidehce!'! -
A Murraysburg telegram this morn
ing says the Dutch there. received the
Mesa free press., 1901-01-25
The practical extinction of the bucl

The practical extinction of the buck
wheat cake Of our fathers must be laid
at the door Of the miller. He is accused
OF mixing with buckwheat -four wheat
bran and. shorts In the interests of
economy. For while the adulteratdon
was undetected, but gradually consum-
ers began to complain that the buck
wheat cakes don't taste any more like
they used to do in the good old days
back on the farm, and people began to
stop buying buckwheat -four. AS the
demand fell off, the farmers raised less
and less buckwheat. A race Of honest
millers, cooperating with the farmers,
might raise the buckwheat cake to its
former proud position
Mesa free press., 1901-01-25
Will Save Snug Sum Delaying Incor-
poratiOn.

From time to time announcement
has been made that articles of .incor-
poration of thief San Pedro, Los An
geles and. Salt Lake railroad would
surely be ffsd IN Salt Lake City the
following week When the date ar
rived and the papers were not filed
"a great variety of excuses were ad-
therefor. =
The truth Of the matter, which has
just come to light from a reliable
source, shows the astuteness and busi-
ness foresight of the financiers hand
ling the enterprise. A little matter OF
SIS 900 or so has stood In the way OF
the Incorporation, namely, the inter-
|nal revenue war tax, which must be
attached to the papers.
Mesa free press., 1901-01-25
Immense Dowry.

New York, Jan. PA special to the
World from Newport, R. L., says:
1t has been given out unof1cially by
close friend of the Vanderbilt and
French families that Alfred Wander
bilt has settled on Elsie French as her
marriage portion one-tenth of his
enormous fortune-namely $3,700,0O0.
This great dowry is given to her
according to this authority, not in cash
but in selected bonds and stocks from
that part of the estates of the late
Cornelius Vanderbilt, which was ap-
portioned to Allied, the chosen son and
chief heir.
AS the late Cornelius Vanderbilt 8
fortune was invested in securities pay
ing per cent. interest, the bride will
have an income of $14S,000 a year, or
$12,333 month.
Mesa free press., 1901-01-25

Horses, cards and women" There
seems little else to say in the case of
defaulting Cashier Brown, Of the New
port (Ky.) bank. The story is old
much too old. Many sermons and many
columns Of editorials will not make
palmer to people the fact that, If man
sows the wind, he must reap the whirl-
wind. Brown is reaping the whirlwind
after his career Of vice. In the mean
time the moralist ponders over the mat
ter and honest men mourn the loss of
their money. - ): -
Mesa free press., 1901-01-25
YEARS COINAGE BREAKS THE
RECORD.
Large Increase in the Output of the Mint

Washington, Jan. 11.-George Rob
erts, director of the mint, in his an
nual report shows that the coinage OF
this past year was in excess of any
previous year in the history Of the
service, aggregating Sal 1851, $50, as
compared with $136,S55,676 in the last
fiscal year. The value of the gold coin
age was slightly below that of the
previous year. being $107,937 ITO, as
compared with $108, ,180. The coin
age of silver dollars was $18,244, 1884,
as compared with $18,254,709 in the
previous year.
The chief increase was in the out
put of subsidiary and minor coins,
which surpass all records, and, it is
stated, may doubtless be attributed to
the extraordinary activity of retail
trade throughout the country. The
coinage of subsidiary silver amounted
to 57,114,270 pieces Of the value OF
$12,876,849, and Of minor coins to the
extraordinary total Of 1O1,3O1, ,753
pieces, of the value of $2,243.0 = -
The seignorage or profits OF this
coinage was $5,477,525.
The deposit Of gold bullion at the
mints and assay Offices Of the United
States during the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1900, exclusive of redeposits,
were of the value Of: $133 3,920,119
against 143,497 ,18O, reported the pre-
vious year: The total deposits of gold
were not so great as in the previous
year, the deposits of bullion showing
Decline but the deposit of domestic
bullion again surpassed all records,
amounting to $77,45S,S3e, against $76,-
252, ,4S7.
] The seignorage on the coinage OF
Mesa free press., 1901-01-25

Whenever modern invention or dis
covery has produced anything, some
one pops up to inform the world that
China knew this thousands Of years
ago. If China did know any of these,
she never made use of them, and is
entitled to no credit. The latest claim
is that archives in Pekin show she set
tied America. This really is an old
claim renewed, and one that has been
discredited by scholars for many years.
Humboldt and his school. believed that
the civilization Of Mexico and, Peru
was derived from other people, but the
trend Of modern belief is that it was
evolved by the aborigines themselves.
China's claim has no more foundation
than Ignatius Donnelly's that the set
Element and colonization Of America
came from the tabled Atlantis.