The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-20
THE PACIFIC COAST,
LINKvILLE. OR. DESTROYED BY
FIRE.
Two Suicides at Tacoma-The Blame
Laid to Campers-Noted Outlaw
Captured-Stages Robbed
Postal Appointments.

Captured-Stages Robbed
Postal Appointments.
The S-hour movement is being agitate6
at Portland.
Los Angeles has voted ON bonding 10.
an outfau sewer.
Butte, M. T., Is threatened by the in.
cendiary's torch.
The Marysville and Placerville fairs
opened on the 81.
An electric railwa, is to be built from
Tacoma to Seattle.
The lighthouse tender Manzanita is he.
repaired at Astoria.
Postmaster r. p. Dearborn OF Salem,
Or, died on the 18th.
Colusa is arresting and jailing the Sal
vatiOn Army followers.
Buildings worth $50, 100 are in process
of construction at Ukiah.
An ice-house is being built at Boca
that will store 5000 tons.
Chico has ordered large number OF
hard looking cases out OF town.
The Oregon crop yield is not up to that
OF last year, but the quality is superior
The Odd Fellows of -Ellensburg, w. T.,
have let a contract for $50 900 building.
The Victoria, B. c., sealing schooner
Theresa has been wrecked near Cape
Beale.
1t took Fresno jury Just fifteen min
utes to find Walter L. Eldin guilty OF
arson.
Charles P. Boyer has been appointed
postmaster at Porter, Chehalis county,
Was. Ter.
Forest fires are raging in Cottonwood
Valley and on the foothills north OF
Cottonwood.
Davis & Co.'s stable at Butte, M. f.,
was burned OH the 3Otn, with twenty
seven horses.
Pulver, the jockey OF Mark L., who
was injured in collision died at Santa
Rosa on the 10Th.
Al unknown man jumped rom the
eastbound train near Tacoma ON the 9Th
and was instantly killed.
E. z. Barnett, photographer Of Mo
desto, is in precarions condition, owing
to an overdose OF chlOrl.
w. L. Bradshaw OF The Dalles, and
William Halfway OF Portland, have been
appointed notaries public.
IncindL.ries are supposed to be at work
in the ntighborhood Of Orland. -Four
fires have occurred recently.
Mary Kesterson has been appointed
postInistress OF the new postofice at Syc-
amore, Multnonlah county, On.
There are II, l56, 900 acres OF arid land
in the Los Angeles land district, 4, 900 GOO
OF which are subject to irrigation.
The Washington Territory republicans
have nominated G. P. Ferry for governor
and John l.. " ilson for congress.
John Nelson, telephone lineman, was
badly burned by electricity at Seattle on
the 9th lust. while repairing wire.
Adolph OttiDger, a well known ticket
broker of San Francisco, has been fined
$lu0 ior selling worthless scalp ticket.
A slate quarry is being opened three
miles south OF Copperpolis. There is
said to be lalge ledge there of excellent
quality.
Dave Campbell, of Portland, has been
matched to fight Con Riordan in the Col
den Gate Club, San Francisco, in NeveIn.
Der next.
The bridge at Lanes crossing on the
San joaquin river has been accepted.
This will bring a large country tributary
to Fresno.
: j. G. Tuttle Of Danuba, Fresno county,
has been arrested and charged with per
jury for giving false testimony in horse
stealing case.
August Fischer, born in Berlin August
"a, 1877, an exile from Germany, com
,mitted suicide by drowning in the VIII
lamette river, on the 30th.
Il Florence Cross, the notorious prosti-
tute who was found dead in r. Eugene
Clark's room at Tacoma. ON the 8th inst. :,
is supposed to have committed suicide.
F. Eugene Clark. shipping clerk OF the
Stewart & Holmes Drug Company. at Ia
coma, attempted suicide on the 8th, but
physicians brought him around all right.
SyIvestro Morales, the santa Ana VAL
eyIoutlaw, has been captured The l6-
year-old girl whom be induced to leave
her home was found with him In the
woods.
The 9vear-o!d son OF John Mitchell ieIl
down an abandoned shaft in the Jumbo
district, New, and was instantly killed.
Mitchell is miner in the Consolidated
California.
All the troops and other Government
employees in Yellowstone Park have
been engaged during the last week in
lighting fires. The officers in command
blame campers.
The largest bar OF gold ever cast in the
world was turned out at the Unied States
asssy office at Helena, M. T., recently.
1t weighed 500 pounds and u worth a
little over 500, Zoo.
A lone robber captured the south and
northbound stages near Enkville, Or,
last week, and presumably obtained ran-
siderable money. He was young fellow
ami wore no mask.
James McGuffie. of Anaheim, CAL,
went to San Pedro on the 8th and shot
and killed his divorced wife, aud then
shot himself, which may prove fatal. He
had lived with his wife sixteen years.
The United States District Attorney at
Portland has filed in the United states
Circuit Court twenty-one yoluminous
complaints in suits brought to secure the
forfeiture of wagon road grants in Orc
gUn.
Linkville, Or, was the scene Of g very
fiisaafr0us fire ON the 9Th inst The en-