The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-08
THE PACIFIC COAST.
SACRAMENTO'S PACIFIC COAST Elk.
POSITION IN leo2.
Another Stage Robbery-Three Snug
glers Captured-Horse Thieves
Cap ured-Ths Boys and
Girs' Aid Society.

NV O"hed DdIUaIu HnuSCdIu crop Ii
short.
Sonoma county raised $3.50 bales Of
hops this season.
| A 1886, 900 paper mill is being built at
Eugene City, Or.
| Watsonville, CAL, Chinese have formed
a fire department.
Los Angeles now has twenty-sey
miles OF cable roads in operation.
John w. Melcher, of San jose, CA.
has started a pottery near Seattle, Wash.
Clay Taylor, the Santa Clara burglar,
has been sentenced to prison for ten years.
J. r. Jones was horsewhipped by two
girls at Porterville, Tulare county, re-
Gently.
The Treasurer of the Arizona Prison
Commission is missing with some of the
funds.
The customs officers at Port Townsend
captured three men with smuggled opium,
recently.
The Ellensburg, Or. and Northwestern
Railroad will have cars running in De-
cember.
The streets Given to the Northern Pa
cific Terminal Company at Portland, will
be reOpened.
The Baker City, Or, stage was robbed
of the registered mail on the 18th, near
Union Creek.
A burning partition fell on Frank Lass
ley at Portland on the 18th; burning him
so he 1nay die.
The Elder reached Victoria from Alas
ka on the Goth with 500 passengers and
%, 900 cases of salmon.
The City of Pueblo has made the run
! from San Francisco to Victoria, B. c., in
| fifty hours, beating the record.
Three of bold gang of horse-thieves
have been captured on the Mckenzie
river and taken to Pendleton, Or.
The five prisoners who escaped from
the Lewiston Jail few days ago, have
been captured and are now in jail
| Engineer David Purdun was lost from
the steamer State of Washington, on the
Goth, between Tacoma ard Seattle.
Fresno, Cal. will vote in November on
the issuance of $40 1000 to be used in
grading roads and building bridges.
The Hollister canal and ditch will be
completed by the middle of November
and 10 900 acres can then be irrigated.
Lack of unds has cansed the discharge
of many hands in the construction de-
partment of the Mare Island Navy Yard.
Portland, Or, Fire Commissioners
have decided to build a freboat costing
so, 900, and put in two new engine COM
panies.
James Jones had his leg amputated at
the Seattle Hospital on the 23d, caused
by dry gangreen. 1t is doubtful if he
can recover.
A cow derailed passen ,er train of the
Northern Pacific, near Milton, Or, on the
18th. The engineer and fireman were
seriously injured.
James w. Lawrence, drunken team
ster, fell under the wheels of his own
wagon at Portland, on tie 2OCh, and was
crushed to death.
The Oregon Railway & Navigation
Company will soon begin the construc-
ton of a fine propeller steamer to run on
the Sound, to cost $3.50, 900.
The employees of the Los Angeles &
Pacific Railroad are expected to go on a
strike because they have not been paid
their salaries for six months.
The anthracite found on Queen Char
lotte Island is reported to be the best on
the coast. A seam thirty feet in width
is said to have been discovered.
Mrs Brewster has given 500, 900 worth
of property in Paradise Valley, San Diego
county, to start sanitarium for worthy
poor. The treatment is to be free.
The Butte, Mont, Board of Trade has
asked the Secretary of the Interior to
suspend the granting of patents to GER
tain lands claimed by the Northern
Pacific.
The citizens of Sacramento have origi-
mated project for q Pacific Coast Expo
sition in 1892, to be held in their city. A
committee has been appointed to agitate
on the subject.
The bark Coloma sailed on the 18th
from Puget Sound for Hongkong with a
cargo of spars and lumber and ECO
Chinese passengers between decks.
Secretary Window declines to change
the practice which has prevailed in the
Treasury department concerning the as
sessment of duties on lead and other ores
imported from Mexico.
Lee Ho, the Chinese actor who COM
mitted grand larceny in Portland and
was escaping to Vancouver, was arrested
in Port Townsend and will be returned to
Portland for trial.
Contractors are beginning the wo. of
extending the Oregon Pacific from Al
bany, Or, to the summit of the Cascade
Mountains, and expect to complete the
work this winter.
A party of armed men has left Glasgow,
Mont, for the Canadian side in search of
Charlie Moore, young boy of that town,
who is supposed to have been kidnapped
by some Cree Indians.
The Boys and Girls Aid Society at
Portland, Or, will create an endowment
fund of the $4,000 bequeathed by Miss
Smith. It expects gifts of land upon
which II will l,t1i1i q Home