The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-07
THE PACIFIC COAST.
III | AOITIO OOAOI. !.
DEMOCRATS HAVE A MAJORITY IN
THE MONTANA CONVENTION.
Seattle Has a Building Boom-The Ore
gonian Railroad Unable to Pay
It's Employ. Slime Granite
Querry-Suicides.

Seattle is building 200 dwelling.
Reno, New. has SOC school children.
Willows makes all tramps move on. 3
Shasta's board of trade will disband.
Spokane Falls has now seven banks.
Petaluma's race-track is in good repair
Cutworms are in the Fresno vineyards.
Yuma Indians have big wheat har.
vest.
Elsinor is forming an irrigation dis
trict.
The scale bug holds it's own near Po-
mona.
The almond crop in San Diego is inn
mense.
A granite quarry near Seattle is to be
Astoria has just pledged $50, 900 for a
railroad.
Woodland complains Of vagrants and
burglars.
Fresno and Selma have telephone COM
munication.
A battery of artillery is to be sent to
Fort Candy.
Selma proposes to light up with gas by
the 4th of July.
None but union tailors can find work
at Helena, Nj. I.
twenty-five acres have been planted
to figs at Chico.
The railroad is expected to reach Pacific
Grove by June 10.
San Jose banks after June /, will close
at noon every day.
A turkey farm near Bakersfield has
1900 eggs in Matching.
Large orders are coming to Pomona
from England for wine.
The name of the postoffice at Ingrams
has been changed to Cazanero.
The steamer Rush has been ordered to
Alaska for duty in BehriDg sea.
A corner lot on Pacific avenue, Tacoma,
w. T., recently sold for $65, 900.
Peter D. Fisher, '49er, was found
dead in a saloon at Fresno, last week.
The high-license ordinance at Peta-
luna will 60 into operation July, 1889.
Dubois Bros. sawmill at Vancouver,
W. t., has been burned; loss, $14 900.
William Clark, a photographer, COM
mitted suicide at Portland, Or, last week.
The Democrats have small majority
in the Montana Constitutional Conven-
ton.
The Gallup, n NJ, coal mine strike
has been failure. 1t has lasted two
months.
The Debris Commissioners are inspect
ing the mines in Nevada and Sierra
counties.
The Oregonian Railroad is unable to
pay it's employees and must be sold at
some price.
The contract for building the Butte, M.
T., branch of the Northern Pacific road,
has been let.
David Mccoy, aged 80 years. works in
the field with the boys at Brookside, San
Bernardino county.
The value of land in Delano has ad-
yaIced $40 an acre since the formation OF
an irrigation district.
Commander Percy Hokin of III. M. S.
Swiftsure, died at Victoria, B. c., on the
10Th inst, of acute rheumatism.
The green sandstone found near the
Southern Pacific in Kearn county, is
claimed to be the finest in the state.
M. T. Hatch stopped the Northern Pa
ci6c graders with pistol on the 18th
inst. at Portlnad ,and drove them off.
1t is said that five sawmills and seven
shinge-mills cannot supply the demand
for building lumber at Centralia, W. I.
B. T. Hedges, of San Pedro, has caused
his wife's arrest as insane, and she
charges that he wants to ther property
Smallpox is reported to be raging
among the Okanagon Indians. Physi-
clans have been sent to vaccinate the
tribe.
Cyclone Bill' and w. E. Cunning
ham have been held at Tucson for trial
on the charge of robbing Paymastel
Wham.
Ground is now being broken on the
Butte, M. T., branch of the Northern
Pacific railroad, known as the Homestake
pass route.
George P. Connors, of 1901 Howard
street, San Francisco, on the 10th inst,
slipped from a brakebeam and was killed
near Ogden.
John B. Barnum, a guest at the Quimby
House, Portland, ends his lie Oh the
23d inst, by blowing his own brains out
with revolver.
Mrs. Harriet Campbell, mother of the
late Mrs. Esther Holiday, has been ap-
pointed guardian of the Holladay chill
dren at Portland.
The people of Wheatland viii soon be
supplied with water by the new system
Work on the trenches for the main pipes
have been started.
A dozen boys have within a short time
been committed to the Napa Insane
Asylum, whose insanity has been caused
by smoking cigarettes.
Miss Mamie Ladd and Charles Reed
ran away from Miss Mamie's parents al
Paicines, San Benito county, on the 18th
and were married at Santa Cruz.
O'Connor, the oarsman, is anxious te
break the record, and will make some
strong efforts In that direction at the
regatta on Lake Washington on Memoria
day.
A woman, giving the name Of Mrs. A
Sanderson, of Oakland, CAL, killed her
self at Butte, M. T., recently. She il
known to have been a woman who had
gone to the bad.
Two young men, Moses Danzigar ane
Harry Goehring, we're drowned in the