The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-31

THE PACIFIC COAST.
BORING FOR WATER AND GAS IN
CALIFORNIA.

The Steamer Alaskan Goes to Pieces
Off Cape Blanco-The Rights of
Sheriffs- -Steam.r Launched
Silver Discoveries
The Park hotel at Chico is ready for
guests.
Santa Rosa has applied for free mail
delivery.
The Eleventh District Fair will be held
at Quincy.
The land-jumping trouble at FELTON, will
be amicably settled.
The building of cannery at Ontario
will receive $500 bonus.
Five saloons at Santa Cruz paid $1,000
each for license last week.
The Glen Ellen, Sonoma county, post
office is mOney-Order office.
The wheelmen have tournament at
Stockton on the Fourth of July.
Pasadena and Fresno will have free de-
livery postal service from July 1st.
Noted oarsmen are collecting at Ia
coma, w. T., for the coming regatta.
Governor Waterman has been to Ukiah
to select site for the insane asylum
Helena, M. T., sporting men won $1O,-
900 on the result of the Kentucky Derby.
J. NJ Wallace. mechanic at Seattle,
%
last week.
The probabilities are that Kern county
has voted to issue $250,O00 in bonds for
improvements.
The saloon interest at Petaluma is to
make vigorous war against the High
license ordinance.
Four cowboys killed four Zuni Indians
near Wingate, A. t., last week. The
cowboys are in prison.
A man supposed to be III. Lucas of
Oswego, Or, was killed by the cars in
South Portland last week.
The Fairhaven, steamer to run be-
tween Tacoma and Bellingham Bay, has
been launched at Tacoma.
D. l.. Hackett, the missing editor of
the Napa Reporter, is in St. Louis. His
mind is evidently unsound.
The steamer City of Salem at Portland
has been mulcted in the sum of $3230 for
carrying too many passengers.
Wizards object in the Oregon Trans
continental Railroad deal is to obtain
control of the Northern Pacific.
Acknowledgement Johnson has decided
that the Oregon steamers must pay the
quarantine tax at San Francisco.
Grain that was reported to be fiat three
days ago Strengthened up under the
influence of the warm sunshine.
A man named Coroles lost team and
load of goods by trying to smusgle them
into Mexico at Tia Juana, recently.
The Northern Pacific will open a road
from BENTON to Billing, M. T., which will
open a rich section of the Territory.
Seattle is excited over the discovery of
galena silver ledges on the line of the
Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern railroad.
Charles Shoemaker was killed by
Michael Lauroona, who was carelessly
handling pistol at Sacramento last
week.
The farmers are now surveying the
field after the deluge of rain, and they
think the benefit is greatly in excess of
the loss.
Boring for water and gas is to begin
very soon on the asylum grounds at
Stockton, proposals for the work being
advertised.
About one thousand song birds from
the HartZ Mountains are on their way to
Portland, Or, having left New York last
week by rail.
Frank Cody, who was reported to have
been killed and roasted by Apache
Indians in Arizona, it seems was killed
by three Mexicans.
Miss Maggie Quinn was thrown from
buggy and dragged block at San Jose,
last week. She was much bruised and
it is feared was injured internally.
Two burglars were detected at work at
Butte, M. T., last week, and one was
killed. Before death he stated he was
known in the West as Pittsburg Jack.
John Wilson, a stevedore at Portland,
wants $4,000 damages from the Oregon
improvement Company for injuries re-
ceived while in the company's employ.
The schooner Rosie Olsen, which left
Astoria on halibut cruise in February,
should have been heard from three weeks
ago, and fears are entertained OF her loss.
The contractors for building the big
dam at the mouth of the San Felipe
Canon, San Diego county, will have to go
down ITO feet to get solid rock founda-
ton.
County Clerk w. ]. Henley, of Esmer-
aida, New, has been removed by the
Commissioners for malfeasance in office,
and S. D. Rosenthal appointed to fill the
vacancy.
The States Attorney-General says that
sheriffs have no right to retain the fees
for escorting prisoners and insane
patients prior to the passage OF the law
by the late Legislature.
1t was discovered at Fresno last week
that the wife and child of j. M. Wilcox,
an attorney formerly of San Francisco,
were in starving condition, having
tasted no food for three days.
The Mariposa County Supervisors have
adopted Surveyor Harris Yosemite
short-line route, and ordered advertised
proposals for the construction OF the road
and the bridge spanning Merced river.
The steamer Alaskan, owned by the 0.