The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-09
THE PACIFIC COAST
HOP-GROwERS' MUTUAL PROTEC
TIVE FIRE ASSOCIATION.
Inat kerosene Can Again-Murderec
by Hoodlums-O. 6E G Passenger
Train Wrecked-Two Boys
Drowned-Nsws Notes

Drowned-Nsws Notes.
Seattle lays claim to a Whitechappe
district.
The hotel on Mt. Hood is nearing com
pletion.
Walk Walla had a $1,000 fire on the
18th inst.
Forest fires are raging near Phillips.
burg, Mont.
The reports from growing crops in Ore
gon are favorable
Walla Walla is overrun with sneak
thieves and fre-bugs
Some of the vineyards in Sonoma
county show the mildew.
Cases OF diphtheria arc reported at Bos
ton Ravine, Nevada county.
1t is proposed at Red Bluff to purchase
the opera-house for town tall.
Seattle is to erect large wooden hotel.
TO be known as the Rainier Hotel.
Los Angeles has secured deeds to the
entire right OF way for its outfall sewer
Charles Paul, a desperate convict, made
his escape from San Quentin on the Both.
The Bear River Canal Company now
has control OF the water supply OF Ogden
Andrew Goodrich of Rincon, near Po-
mona, wealthy man, has become in
sane.
Montana Indians on the Chevenpe
Agency take occasional shots ct white
men.
The wool-growers of Baker CITY, Or.
have been paid more than 500, 900 since
June 1st.
! A very rich strike at San Pedro. in
Santa Fe county, N. NJ, is creating great
excitement.
| A little son of Paul Saaich drank cup
OF boiling water at Victoria and died in
great agony.
man named Coulson, at Spring Hill. .
Montana, accidentally shot his fiancee,
on the 18th.
The San Francisco "Chronicle's" new
building has reached the eighth story in
the steel work
John Smith, an old resident of Tehach-
pie, was thrown from his horse and killed
on the 24tn inst.
The proposed $4,000 race at Fresno
did not fill, the big horses being engaged
on Eastern tracks.
The San Diego Land and Town Com
pany has obtained verdict against Neal
, ct al, for $l22, ,675.
A factory to manufacture cream of tar
tar from grape pumice, is to he estab-
hshed at Santa Rosa.
Day Bros sawmill. on the Seattle.
Lake Shore & Eastern railroad, has been
burned; loss, So, 200.
The surveying party of the Astoria rail
road passed Independence, Or, on the
26th, headed for Sheridan
Republicans at Pasadena have recon-
mended H. j. Vail, editor OF the Star, for
the postmastership OF that city.
Damages in the sum Of $4,000 agaist
the Santa Fe New Mexican are sought bv-
IL. P. Mckevitt ON libel charge.
Jones & Sons sawm;ll, two miles south
OF Portland, was burned on the 20th, to-
gether with l,50O, 900 feet of lumber.
In nearly every instance where life
has been lost in the Colorado river, the
victim has been an expert swimmer.
The site just selected for the life-ssv wing
station at Yarquina is on South beach, at
point near the present ferry landing.
A school of black bass was run into
just outside the Columbia river bar the
| other day and quite number captured.
A grain fire near Merced, on the Crock
er- Huffman Land and Water Company's
fields, did considerable damage lastweek.
The proprietor of Sacramento saloon
will be prosecuted by the Law and Order
League for allowing boys to drink in his
saloon.
The Constitutional Convention of
Idaho has declared against the introduc-
ton of religious books or papers into the
schools.
At Portland, on the 26th, Leopold
Knopke was instantly killed BY sewer
caving in on him.. Deceased is a native
of ST. Cloud, MINI.
Willie johnson, the Mariposa l3-year-
old murderer, killed his stepmother while
she slept because she had threatened
him with a whipping.
The house of Frank Lonkey, a young
rancher living near Mist, Columbia
county, was set on fire and burned by a
masked man, last week.
Two boys. George and Albert Weed,
were drowned in the Willamette river at
Portland, Saturday 9th, while bathing
near the OLD water works.
Captain Henry J. Peppepy, well
known junk dealer, was killed by hood
|ums ON the 18th, while trying to shield
Chinaman from their blows.
The bop-growers of the Willamette val
lev met at Salem last week and organized
what is known az the Hop-Growers' Mu-
tual Protective Fire Association.
Allen Van Fleet, the son OF an orchard
ist near Saratoga, is reported to have de
serted his Young wife and ran away with
notorious woman OF San Jose.
w. Bruce, the miner who was supposed
mirage In Glacier Bay, Alaska, suddenly
reappeared ON the 18th at juneau.
Tacoma is troubled with a fend who
makes business of assulting httle girls
when be can find them out On the street.
neck-tie party would be in order
At Portland, On the 18th, little Nola
Joplin, during the absence of her parents,
while trying to start a fire with kerosene,
the can exploded, burning her TO death