The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-04


Mr.. Albert Eilswck has been engaged
10 leach the school at Dewatto, 10 begin
on the fourteenth OF this month. ii.
has recently come from Missouri.
a Steamer Was up the Canal last weel
with Two ScowS and seineS for fish tor
Seattle Cannery. 1t made haul, ant
obtaining Very few, lett. Salmon tni
year nave not been as abundant as durin.
some years, though a good maly hav,
been caught during the last few day
about Dewatlo bay.
Mr.. +. Z. Foster arrived yesterday, Il
take The place OF superintendent o
SCHOOLS on me SkOkomlsh reservation
iately occupied by Mr.. q. n. Winger
having been appointed To that place by
me luulau Department at Washington
ii e has come here direct from Indiana
though his home Tor the last four years
mas Ueen In California. Mrs. Foster will
lake MIS-. Wlnger's place matrOn.
Indian Agent Eell's is expected here
to-molrow 10 turn over The property to
Mr. Foster and set the machinery OF The
reservation going after the i've weeks va
cation. Very few OF the Indians have
however as yet returned from The hop
fields bat they will probably be along
during The next ten days.
Although the post Offices of Dewatto
and HARRISON have been Established, We,
the people OF that region are still without
proper mail facilities, owing to the want
OF some persons 10 carry the mail. Be
lieviug i'll the power of the press. your
aid is hereby INVOKED TO induce the
powers that be to help those people
Those WHO have been appointed posi-
mlstresseS have been authorized To hire
some ones to carry the mail from Clifton
to Harrison, and from Skokomish 10 De-
wallO, for not 10 exceed tNo-lhirds the
salary Of the post mistress. This is a
strange enough rule, as it IS the same
whether it be five miles or twenty: but
what makes it IL hundred times worse is
that those st-mistresses are paid no SAL
airy, only receiving a per cent Of the
| amount OF, stamps cancelled at tie Office
and as yet they have been unable TO find
| anyone who Will carry the mail rain or
shine, even against vino and tide on The
water, OF through very brushy trail
for tWO-thirds OF nothing. The attention
Of the department having been called TO
this, a pamphlet was sent 10 these Offices,
showing the mail routes which were
soon 70 be let in this State, but on exam
inatiOn, these two routes we're not anon o
the number. The people Of Shelton and
Skokomish may grumble about their
mail, and with some reason at times but
they had better be thankful that they are
very much better off than some other
people.
Mr.. j. d. Hannegan is running two
shafts into his paint mine, at right angles
to each other, one OF which is about sixty
and the other hundred and twenty
feet long He will continue the work
until they meet, which will take some
time longer. He thinks that the prospects
are good for paint mandatory here,
and the material from the interior is far
better than that obtained on the bluff.
Here is where the Indians formerly Ob.
tanned some Of their red paint, though
their best paint was obtained beyond
Port Townsend. Mythology says that
formerly this red bank was Klikitat In
dams. who came 10 engage in a great
gambling game with the Skokomish In
dians, who at that time were The bank On
opposite, or west side of the Canal. The
kikitats won the game, and afterwards
both were changed by a supernatural,
Wy biological being named Do, -batl. or
the Changer, into these respective banks
Since that time the SkOk Omish Indians
have painted their faces red, with paint
from this bank, hen they wish 10 win a
game.
Messrs Allen and Bradley have recently
returned from a prospecting tour in the
Olympic mountains back of Huma. hun
They have found no gold in paying GUAM
titles, but report having seen glaciers
there, which at the present time are
moving.
Messrs John Green and r. A. Duggan
have also been in the mountains hunting
for gold, but if there, it is yet to he found
by some one else.-S.