The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-05
THE PACIFIC COAST.
A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT vANCoU
YER. w. T,
A Shipment Of New Wheat "A Wild
Steer Cores a Chinaman-The
Debt of Los Angeles-A
Desert Dro med.

The California honey crop is short.
Los Angeles has repealed the dog tax
The Carson mint begins coming July |.
Spokane Falls is to have paid fire de-
partment.
Los Angeles will have kennel show
this week.
San Diego has arranged for chess
tournament.
Camping parties are numerous along
Niles Valley
Ed c. Wheeler, Mayor OF East Port
land, Or, is dead.
Walla Walla, w. T., wants to get rid
OF the Penitentiary.
The Platt -Aiger Alaska party has start
ed from New York.
The joint worm is injuring wheat in
the San Joaquin Valley.
Spokane Falls new water system was
lnaugurated on the 18th.
Everybody at Granite, NJ. T., is Jump
ing land on the townslte.
Fires in the lin fields on Roberts
Island have be- ported.
Several cases of diphtberia have been
discovered in Virginia City.
The creameries in Oregon and Wash
lngton have proven failures.
A wild steer gored Chinaman at Col
usa, last week, and killed him.
The walnut crop in Southern Califor-
MA promises 10 be very heavy.
San Diego is raiding physicians who
are practicing without licenses.
The Bankers Association of Washing
ton has been formed at Tacoma.
A new Territorial University is about
to be established at Moscow, |. 7.
John Meyer, ex-Recorder of Placer
county, died from paralysis on the 10th.
Bernardo Ganatino was killed by An
selmo Alexandra at San Jose on the 10Th.
Henry Willard, while in Portland last
week, would not talk to newspaper men.
A forest fire is reported near the Yolo
and Lake county line in the mountains.
The entire business portion of Vancou-
yer, w. T., was burned last Friday night.
The mole cricket has appeared in the
potato patches at Burbank, Los Angeles
county.
Port Townsend sent $4,000 worth of
provisions to Seattle the morning after
the fire.
The Oregon Pioneers held their seven
teenth annual gathering at Portland on
the 18th.
A confidence gang is reported to be
working the trains between Fresno and
Los Angeles.
George Winters, a highly esteemed
citizen of Redding, died at Red Bluff on
the 18th inst.
Charles Nelson, John Peterson's bosom
friend, has run away from Fresno with
Mrs. Peterson.
Louis Roth is suing his wife for divorce
at Los Angeles for deserting him ON his
wedding night.
Santa Ana real estate has much I'M
proved in value since the election divid-
ing Los Angeles county.
During the recent hot spell, the ther-
mometer at Yakima, w. T., registered
ITO degrees in the Shade.
FrankLautero, the indicted Los Angeles
ex-Deputy Auditor, for forgeries while in
office, has fed to Mexico.
To get clear of its debt, Los Angeles
county will require tax of $40 for each
person within its borders.
Sacramento has prohibited the build
of cement or patent stone.
A stage upset while racing near Ward
ner, Idaho, last week, and several prom
inen persons were injured.
D. Hakes of Santa Rosa. has hired
twenty-five girls to pick his raspberry
crop that covers seventeen acres.
Herman Meyers of Fresno, charged
with killing boy named Bronaugh in
February last, has been acquitted.
The three days. shooting tournament
of the Sportsmen's Association of the
Northwest, opened at Tacoma last week.
Paul Harry, an Indian murderer, has
been captured on the Ceur d. Alene Res
ervation by Sheriff Martin of Rathdrum,
Idaho.
Thomas Edwards killed Richard Gun
dry at Candelaria, New. last week. Ed
wards was subsequently released from
custody.
The old City Hall at Sacramento
threatens to collapse and jurors refuse to
the danger.
San Joaquin county hay-growers find
it takes 40 per cent more Eastern-made
rope to bale ton than it does with Cali
fornia rope.
Mother Alpbonse Costello, Lady Supe-
rioress of the Ursuline Academy in Santa
Rosa, died on the 10th after long illness
of consumption.
A Chinese leper was discovered in the
Sacramento Jail last week He was sent
from Folsom for twenty days for refusing
to pay poll tax.
Ten carloads of new wheat from the
Marcuse ranch in Sutter county, Califor-
MIA, were shipped to San Francisco from
Marysville ON the 14th-
Lottie Lee, aged 15, has obtained $500
in damage suit against George Wash
iton Shepherd, aged 60, at Sacramento.
Both are colored people.
A masked highwayman stopped the
stage at Forest Hill when about two
miles from Auburn, on the 18th inst,
but got nothing from the express box
In the District Court at Butte, III. T.,
DIR. w. G.. Harding has been found guilty
of practicing medicine without certif-
cate from the Territorial Medical Board.