The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-28
THE PACIFIC COAST.
A CONCERT AT THE MORMON TAB.
ERNACLE, SALT LAKE.
Exper1mentir g in Mines-Mold on Grape
Vines-Fire Damp EXpiosion-A
Ferry Boat Sunk-A Muir
derer Arrested-NoteS.

Anaheim complains of many burg
laries.
Merced's popular drink is buttermilh
on ice.
Travel over the Oregon road is very
heavy.
The Tehama Board Of Trade has chosen
officers Tor the ensuing year.
George Hahn sllicided at Golden Gate
Park, San Francisco, last week.
A new postotfice has been established
at Vale Vista, San Diego county.
t. D. Featherly. cigarmaker at Butte
nj. L., committed suicide on the 9th.
Mold has appeared on the grape vines
In some parts OF SOnoma county.
The jury in the Hildreth stage-robbery
case at Fresno has failed to agree
John Fitzmaurice, native of Vallejo.
was drowned at Portland last week.
9. 6. Harrel, so years of age, was
drowned at Vancouver, w. T., last week.
William A. Martin was drowned in
San francisco, last week, while bathing.
Henry's stable and six horses at Fresno
were burned on the Sth by an incendiary.
The jewelry store of T. r. Redfield, at
North Yakima, was burglarized on the
18th.
Irrigated alfalfa land in Tehama county
turned off sixteen tons of hay to the acre
last year.
The annual encampment of the Sons
OF Veterans began at Sacramento the
10th inst.
O'Connor defeated Lee in race on
Salt Lake, on the 9th inst. The water
was rough.
The amount raised in San Francisco
tor the Johnstown and Seattle sufferers
is $4,000.
John Pillot, an official of the South Pa
cific Coast Road, died at San Jose last
week of apoplexy.
Seven horses and mules ard calf
were burned in the qurterlnaster's corral
at Fort Seldom, N. NJ, the 9Th.
Bob Campbell, or "Three-fingered
Jack" j" killed Hugh Boyd, near Acton,
Los Angeles county, on the Sth.
The ferry boat plying across the upper
Columbia river at Wenatchee, drifted on
some rocks on the 9th and was sunk.
G. E. Jones, the proprietor OF a shoot
ing gallery on Catalina Island, ac-
cidentally killed Miss Eva Book, recently.
William Lubreck, who killed Thomas
Jones at Needles, recently, has been ac-
quilted, he having acted in self-defense.
George Rhorcr, of Pomona, CAL. in
tends to dry his prunes this year and
ship them to St. Louis in white cloth
bags.
One of the bunco men who robbed ex-
Congressman Haskins in Los Angeles,
has jumped his bonds, which are worth
less.
Pasadena, Cal, has asked for some ar
rangenent by which she can connect her
sewers with the Los Angeles outfaIl
sewer.
A monster concert took place in the
Mormon Tabernacle at Salt Lake last
wesk, for the benefit of the Johnstown
sufferers.
Mary Ann Loup, aged five years, while
asleep On the banks of the creek at
Alviso, fell into the water and was
drowned.
The work of clearing away the debris
OF the burnt district in Seattle, preparatory
to rebuild the city, is being pushed as
rapidly as possible.
A cavern occurred in the Phoebe Con-
solidated Company's Raymond & Ely
mine, at Phoebe, New, in which David
Davis lost his life.
The political guillotine took from the
penitentiary at New Mexico the heads of
eight old employees, on the 9Th. Santa Fe
people were surprised.
w. III. Mills, of Los Angeles, Cal, at
tempted to build house in the middle of
one of the main streets of the city, but
was stopped by the police.
One OF the party of the Oak Willard COM
bination while at Tacoma, said that the
Union Pacific road is to 60 to Tacoma
over the Norther Pacific track.
An explosion of fre-damp did much
damage in the Carbonate coal mine, near
Tacoma, w. T., on the 10th. A miner
named David Evans was killed.
The annual election of directors and
officers of the California Central and
Southern Railroad Companies, comes off
10Th o{ oc,
Lieut.. Frank Reeves Heath, u. S. N,
one of the survivors of the wrecked man
of-war Vandalia, died at the Mare Island
naval hospital, San Francisco, 18th inst.
Twenty-Five cases of insanity have
been brought before the Judge at Tacoma
since last March, and half of the cases
are of persons who came from the East.
James Killduff, slate roofer, feel from
the roof of the big hotel at Portland, last
week, distance OF seventy-fve feet, and
singular to relate, escaped with his life.
The Los Angeles Supervisors have re.
solved to pay from the county treasury
the expense of introducing more Austria
liam lady-pugs to fight the scale on fruit
| trees.
|. w. w. Rice, while running moving
machine on the foothills back OF Dinuba
Tulare, was arrested last week on {
charge of committing murder in Lincoln
county, Ill.
At the closing exercises OF st. Helen
Hall Seminary fer Young Ladies, las
week, at Portland, Miss Ella Hirsch ant
Miss May Goldsmith, of that city, gradu
ated with high honors.
The ship Hagarstown arrived at Sal
Diego on the 9th, from Newcastle, III
days out, with coal for Spreckels Bros