The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-30
THE PACIFIC COAST.
DAVID s. TERRY, Ex-SUPREME JUS
TICE OF CALIFORNIA. KILLED.
United Staes Supreme Court Justice
Stephen J. Field Arrested-Com-
mits Suicide-Tne Steamer
Umatilla Grounded.


H ealsburg has an axle-grease factory.
Watsonville's building boom keeps up.
The Bank of Hueneme is open for bus
iness.
A hot spring has been opened at Tenn
escal.
| The revenue cutter Corwin is at San
Diego.
The Healsburg Tribune has been en-
larged.
Santa Ana Is organizing a military
company.
The Chico and Colusa Guards are in
camp at Sisson.
San Diego is trying to suppress the
| Salvation Army.
Gambling places at Napa have been
closed by the sheriff.
Chambers has done much damage to
horses at French Camp.
In collision at Napa, on the 18th four
| flat cars were demolished.
The Catholics at Santa Rosa are negoti-
ating for a burial lot near town.
Chinese laborers are pouring into
Fresno to work in the vineyards.
Two men who robbed stage near
Bonanza, Or. have been arrested.
The fires in the mountains in Idaho
can only be checked by heavy rains.
Camp Miles and Camp Dimond, at
Santa Cruz, are lighted with electricity.
The scarcity of water in portions of
Montana is causing mills to shut down
| Every vessel leaving San Diego now
carries from ten to fifteen tons of honey.
John Kearns was assaulted and prob
ably fatally wounded by John O'Keefe at
Stockton.
EIlensburg, W. T., believes that the
popular vote will make it the capital OF
the State.
Fred II. Figel of San Francisco was
knocked down and robbed at San Jose
on the 1lth.
George B. Mauders of Ogden, Utah,
was crushed to death at Pocatelle, l. T.,
by two cars.
The remains of ex-Judge David S.
Terry, was inferred ON the 10th inst. at
Stockton, Cal.
The. attachment on the Pomona Bank
has been raised and the concern will re-
sumo business.
The Northwestern Firemen's Associa-
ton will hold a tournament at Tacoma
September 10th.
A charge OF embezzling county money
is made against Justice of the Peace
Jones at Merced.
The barn of William Curtis, with 200
tons OF hay, was burned Lear Sacramen-
to on the 18th inst.
Helena will remain the capital of Mon
tana until the popular vote OF the State
decides otherwise.
| Ora E. Hunt was successful in the COM
petitive examination at Ukiah for West
Point cadetship on the 10th.
The Oregon Veterans will take with
them to Milwaukee carload of grains,
fruits and minerals, the products of their
State.
There is every prospect of a sugar-beet
San Benardino county, in the Pomona
Valley.
Ida, the S-year-old girl of ]. H. Crock
well, at Virginia City, who was burned
by coal oil explosion on the 18th, died
on the l4th.
Charles A. Fischer, travelling salesman
for Kohler & Frohling, of San Francisco,
committed suicide at Butte, M. T., on
the 18th inst.
The San Francisco Bulletin records the
receipt of "the first baie of California
hops" on the 10th inst, and credits the
production to Yuba county.
Efforts to float the Pacific Coast Steam
ship Company's steamer Umatilla, which
went aground on the 18th at Browns
point, near Tacoma. have proved futile.
David s. Terry, ex-Supreme Justice of
California, was shot and killed on the
morning of the 14th, in railway eating
station at Lathrop, CAL, by Deputy
United States Marshal David Nagle.
Justice Stephen ]. Field, of the United
States Supreme Court, was arrested at
San Francisco on the 10th inst, on the
charge of being party to the killing of
David s. Terry at Lathrop, CAL, on the
14th inst.
John White, alias John Pearson, talked
| scandal about two ladies at San Jacinto,
| San Diego county and few days ago
they waylaid him and gave him a horse
whipping, the husbands of the women
standing by as witnesses.
A letter-box has been placed in the
topmost stage of the Eiffel Tower at the
Paris Exhibition, and postal cards sold
there bear a printed indication of the
height at which they are posted. HIM
dreds of persons write to their friends
from this lofty perch daily.
Ex-Superior Judge A. w. Hutton has
been appointed United States District
Attorney by Justice Field, vice Hon.
George J. Denis, resigned Judge Hutton
will hold the office until President Har-
rison makes the appointment. Hutton
is democrat and fine lawyer.
1t is reported that the whole country
fifteen miles west of Portland is burning
u ND in forest fires. The flames are licking
! up everything in their vicinity. rendering
the land completely barren, and the peo-
lple are compelled to move to places of
safety.
i G.. P. Ferry, whose name is connected
with Paris scandal, and who is just now
at his home in Tacoma, w. T., has made
a public statement in which he accuses
his wife of attempting to blackInai him.
: He saws he viii vindicate him7slf at the
II nror,er moment but that he will make no