The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-12-20
THE PACIFIC COAST
BLOODY MURDER AT VANCOUVER
WASHINGTON.
Queer Police Judge at Oakland-Ship
Canal on the Sound-Mrs Judge
Seneca Smith Killed In
stantly at Portland.

Dayton will have 900 electric lights.
East Portland's city jail is in very bad
condition.
R. L. Sanderline and Maud Cook sui
cided at Spokane.
The expenses of Washington's legisla-
ture will be $4,000.
A telephone line is to be run from
Yaquina to Toledo bay.
Winter strawberry stories are popular
in the coast papers now.
Prairie City, Or, has been made a
money order postoffice.
Idaho i'll treat with the Cherokees to
~ the Cherokee outlet.
Edmund Emmett, a Union soldier.
suicided at San Francisco.
The Y. M. G. A., of Tacoma, will ell
Ieavor to build this winter.
The Oregon state immigration board
costs $4,000 monthly to run.
Mitchell's bill for The Dalles boat rail-
way appropriates 100000.
Portland's real estate sales for 1880
will foot up about s15,000,0OO.
Walla Walla's military band will have
new $4,000 set of instruments.
Portland's schools are in debt $34OO
against $2l 200 in December, 1888.
Seattle is to have the largest pane of
glass on the coast, 1Oxl2 feet in size.
Olympia's new hotel has three stories,
attic and Easements, and costs 100000.
Jonathan Young suicided near Los
Angeles. Senile insanity was the cause.
The Norcross sailed from Victoria with
$3.50, 900 worth of salmon for Liverpool.
Two men were killed and one injured
by railroad collision near Yreka. Cal.
There is enough smuggled opium in
San Francisco to supply the trade for a
year.
The receipts of the county court at
Portland for liquor licenses is 5000 per
month.
Walla Walla is excited over the re-
ported cruel treatment of the Steilacoom
asylum.
The mortgage tax law discussion occu-
pies several columns weekly of the Ore
gonian.
1t is stated that the steamers plying
between Portland and the Sound are run
at loss.
The Portland school board will estab-
lish the free night school on a perma-
nent basis.
A canal is being surveyed to run from
Port Townsend to Oak bay and to carry
the largest ships.
1t cost Multnomah county, Or, 1854
for it's Intellectual efforts to capture it's re-
cent jail-breakers.
The price paid by the Northern Pacific
for the Puget Sound Shore road is said to
be about 81 100000.
A number of delayed trains is the re-
suit OF recent washouts on the Southern
Pacifc's Shasta division.
1t is estimated that Oregon's popula-
ton has increased 100000 by immigra-
ton during the year 1889.
One hundred acres at Astoria was sold
for 100000 to A. w. Berry. The rail-
road fever is booming values.
The Union Pacific people are negotiat-
ing tor the Signal, of San Francisco, for
the Sound route from Portland.
the San Francisco grand jury con-
demns number of city and county
prisons, etc., as unfit for occupancy.
Policeman Whitehead, of Portland, is
defendant to a suit for $25OO damages,
He arrested the wrong man by mistake.
A young lady telegraph operator at
Sacramento, deliberately jumped from a
high bridge into the river and was
drowned.
Cleman has offered bill in the Wash.
ington legislature appropriating 5000 to
sink four artesian wells in the Horse
Heaven country.
House and senate bills are introduced
in the Washington legislature providing
for the establishment of the Indiana
public school system.
The batteries of the United States
" uASOA OuoAAOSCOA IldVc dIIlVcU dC ware
Island The cruiser will be ready for sea
in about two months.
Police Judge Laidlow, of Oakland. ar
raigned himself for drunkenness.
pleaded guilty, fined himself $50, paid it.
and promised reformation.
An escaped Russian exile from Siberia
has landed at Vancouver. His eighteen
years of confinement in Siberia have
made him prematurely old.
A very bloody murder was that by
which N. J. Wilson los bis life at Van
couver from knife in the hands of a
discharged soldier named Moran.
A coroner's verdict at San Francisco
charges the contractors of a building,
into whose excavations man fell and was
killed, with involuntary manslaughter.
The first bill to pass both branches of
the legitlature was introduced by Judson
of Whatcom, appropriating $4,000 to
pay the expenses of the legislative
session.
The wife of Judge Seneca Smith, met
horrible and instant death by being
hurled from carriage by a runaway
horse. She struck on some timbers and
was frightfulIy lacerated.
The four-masted schooner Douglas
Dearborn has sailed with $40, 900 feet of
lumber from Port Townsend, for Phila-
deIphia. This is the first cargo of Puget
Sound lumber ever taken to that city.
The Waterloo Mining Company, Of
Milwaukee, has filed suit in the United
States court, at Los Angeles, against
John s. Doe, wealthy San Francisco
capitalist, asking damages in the sum of
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