The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-16
THE PACIFIC COAST.
TO CONNECT BRITISH COLUMBIA
WITH THE PACIFIC COAST,
Ad1udged Insane Claims to be His
Wifa-To Defeat High License
Portland Pos masters Re-
pOrt-Earthquake.

Drytown, Amador county, is having .
boom,
The Puebla on her last trip north tool
800 tons OF fruit from San Francisco
A cork tree in Visala is now eighteen
inches IN diameter and forty feet high.
i A stingaree that weighed 900 pounds
Was killed at Redonda Beach last week
| Earthquakes are still shaking Susan
vile. Five shocks occurred on the 10Th
fire on the old CrCcker ranch. nea,
Merced recently, destroyed considerable
grain.
The old and well-known Cucamongo
hotel, eighteen miles east OF Pomona, has
been burned.
Frank Lankrey's house at Mist. Or,
was burned for revenge by some enemy a
few days ago.
A lamp explosion caused the loss OF
the residence of w. II. Soule, at Wood
land on the 29th.
A strike in the Cover mine at Dry
town, Amador county, shows rock held
together with gold.
Two Harney Valley, Or, settlers are
under arrest for resisting eviction by
United States Marshals.
The peach crop of Pomona Valley will
amount to $50 tons. CanHeries get the
fruit at l cent per pound.
The work of rebuilding the smelters
for the Eureka, Consolidated mine at
Eureka, New, has begun.
Jack Murphy, known as "Jack the
Ripper" killed James Clooney at Sack
vile, Yolo county, on the 18th.
Jose Sauza of Pomona attempted sui
eide on the 2Sth because his daughter
had eloped with married man.
George Cornwall, a jockey, was killed
at San Diego on the 29th. While Jump
ing fence his horse fell upon him.
John D. Spreckels is said to have p1r-
chased a onethird interest in the Coro-
nado Beach Company, costing him
$51l 900.
Owen Morgan is under arrest at Sacra-
mento, charged with attempting to
destroy by fire the Western Hotel in
that city.
A whole family of Flathead Indians
has been murdered and burned by rob-
bers in the Sun River country in
| Montana.
Sutter county salOonkeepers have COM
| bined to defeat high license. Three
| have been arrested and warrants are out
for seven others.
The taking of testimony in the case of
ii. l.. Gorton for the Clipper Gap robbery
last December began at Auburn, Placer
county, on the 9Th.
The fruit cannery at Marysville is fill
| ing a special order for peaches in half
pound cans to be sold ON the railroad
trains to passengers.
A man named Hayes was given one
hour to leave Petaluma or five DAYS in
| the chain gang for disturbing the Saliva
tlon Army meeting.
E. l.. Cartenon, travelling agent for a
San Francisco house, has been adiudged
insane at Redding. Fl il inject during
hot weather to mental Ou ,te.
L. b. Allen and a companion, f.om
San Diego, who left for Oceanside to sail
small yacht down the coast, are missing
and it is feared they are drowned.
Tom Thompson and six otker men
who tarred and feathered Gus Brannan
at San Pedro few months ago, have
been found guilty of simple assault.
The salmon canneries on the Fraser
liver are each securing from 5000 to
600 salmon daily, and the largest pack
in the history OF the industry is assured.
Ambrose Bierce has detective work.
ing on the Chico tragedy. 1t is believed
by some that the bullet wound through
the temple of young Bierce was not in
f1icted by himself.
: j. R. Griffith, from Fresno, has been
rather than 60 to Jail cut an artery in his
arm with pocket knife. Prompt surgi-
cal aid saved dim.
The mats used to form the jetty in
process OF construction at Eureka Har-
Dor, Humboldt comfy, are sixty-tour
feet long, forty feet wide and four feet
thick. Each weighs sixty tons when
ready for launching.
In Committee of the Whole of the
Montana Convention OH the 9th, Ana
conda received 81 votes against "a for the
location of the capital. Great excite
ment resulted in Helena.
Two cases of death from lighting fires
with coal oil were reported on the 9th
| One at Seattle, Mrs Julia Calder, and tie
other near Clay Statian, in Sacramento
county. Mrs. Arthur Ralphs.
Attorney III. G. Thompson has just re-
| turned to Portland from British Column
| bia, where he closed deal with the new
| Westminster Southern Railway Com
pany to connect British Columbia with
the Pacific Northwest.
The Portland Postmaster's report for
the fiscal year ended June Both shows
| the receipts and payments of the money
order and postal funds to have been
| s., ,427 ,613 IL, as compared with 81, ,4O3,-
| 074 80 last year, an increase of 81 zoo, GOO.
G. H. Crocker has offered to bear the
expense of an expedition from the Lick
Observatory to Cayenne, South America,
next December, and it is expected at
that time to confirm and extend some of
the discoveries made at the last eclipse.
Hon Joseph A. Donohoe OF Menlo
| Park has offered the Astronomical Society
of tie Pacific to establish medal to be
given to the first discoverer of every un
expected comet, and to the first person
| making a precise observation of tele-
scopic periodic comet at any one of its
expected returns.
Tie woman claiming to be the wife of
Colonel Ayres of the Los Angeles Herald,
referred to in an Eastern telegram pub
lished in the Bulletin on the 9th, is not
his wife. She formerly resided in San
Francisco, and nearly quarter Of CEN
| tury ago she labored under the delusion