The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-19
THE. PACIFIC COAST.
THE BOY CONVICT DIES IN THE
OREGON PENITENTIARY.
California Fruit Shipment-Kilied by
The CarS-A Girl in Male Costume
First Regiment Encamp-
ment-"Black Bart"

Salt Lake City has building boom.
San Leandro is now lighted with gas.
| Tacoma is to have Produce Exchange.
st. Helena is putting down stone side
walks.
| Los Gatos has repealed its firecracker
fOrdinance.
| The upper San joaquin river is almost
too low for navigation.
A. French, wealthy land owner at
San Diego, has become insane.
"Black Bart" the famous California
stage robber, is said to be in China.
Hon. NJ. G. George delivered the
Fourth OF July Grafton at Albany, Or.
Los Angeles has twenty-one school
| houses, but they are all overcrowded.
About three hundred bales of wool were
sold at Cioverdale on the 18th at % cents.
The total value of the assessment on
San joaquin county property is $780,
687 900.
The honey crop OF Southern Califor-
MIA will be less than one-seyenth OF an
average.
Ex-Judge James w. Bicknell OF San
Mateo has just died near Modesto, aged
76 years.
The Parsonage Extension Society of
the Pacific Conference met in Santa Rosa
on the 2Sth.
Peter Barger killed his late mistress,
and bit off the ear of his rival, at Taco
ma, last week.
United States Marshal Hayes OF Los
Angeles, has been arrested for overdriv-
| ing Fresno team.
Napa is pleased with having secured
the First Regiment encampment. 1t
will last eight days.
San Francisco, it is understood, is soon
to be the terminus Of the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe road.
The first car for the East from General
| BidwelPs Ranch Chico, was loaded with
Bartlett pears and plums.
The Sonoma County Agricultural Park
| Association viii not hold fair in con-
nection with the fall races.
| A movement is on foot at Fresno, Cal,
to get the Board of Trade of that city to
establish free labor agency.
William Dolan, serving life sentence
in the San Quentin prison for murder,
made his escape on the Sd inst.
The Yamhill County Herald says a
floating island 800 yards in diameter has
| T 10 Aah
David Connell, OF Rockford, w. T., was
struck in the throat by rocket on the
night of the 4th. He cannot live.
One man day is now the killing rec
ord OF the Oregon Railway & Navigation
Company when passing Pendledon, Or.
The whereabouts of G. A. Roberts of
Huron, Fresno county, is sought for by
his wife. He left Huron about a month
ago.
George Brown, brakeman, caught his
foot in railroad frog at Carson, last
week, and was run over and fatally in
Ijured.
Helena, NJ. T., capitalists, disgusted
at the water supply, have formed new
water company and extensive works will
be erected.
Almost the entire business portion Of
EllensDurg, w. T., was destroyed by fire
on the 4th. The loss will not fall short
of 81 ,0OO,0 900.
Sarah Hallett, formerly of Oakland,
killed herself with poison at Tucson on
9th, and Charles Kenyon shot himself
at st. Helena.
4 non-partisan convention has put a
strong ticket in the field to be voted for
in the choice CT officers for the new
county of Orange.
Stockton's proposal to secure the spri ne
race meetings under the State Agricultu-
raj Society, has aroused Sacramento to
increasing the premium lists.
The prize of $500 offered by Claus
Spreckles to farmers producing the larg-
est per cent of sugar per acre OF sugar
beets. has been awarded to j: B. Hudson.
George n. Miller, an electric belt doc
ltor. well known all over the Pacific Coast,
was arrested at Port Townsend on the
Sd, charged with embezzlement at Mer-
ced. Cal.
The trial of Calvin T. Lewis, the gam
bier who shot and killed John Harring-
ton. near the Baldwin Hotel, San Fran
cisco, ended on the Sd, the jury returning
a vardict of not guilty.
| Charles E. Merville, brakeman on
the Columbia & Puget Sound railroad,
was run over by car at Kent, w. T.,
horribly crushing both legs, from which
he died On the 4th inst.
4 Charles Schmidt was crushed to death
at Seattle on the 9th by the falling walls
/ of building left standing in the recent
lire. John Brewster was seriously In
Il jured at the same time.
John McAllister, the 16-year old crini
nal. who poisoned his father at Wood
vile, jackson county, Or, about one
year ago, has just died in the Oregon
penitentiary from consumption.
Nancy Howard, the girl who recently
worked at Leech's saw-Inill in Yuba
, Icounty, In the garb of man, says she If
I the sister of of the wife of ForepaUgh, the
; circus man, and he ill-treated her.
No less than 800 fishermen lost theil
: lives ON the coasts of England and Wales
! Hast wear. The fisherman Is so heavily
: clad that. once overheard, there ls small
hope for him. He usually sinks like
stone.
A Yacht has recently been launched OF
], the Thames by electrical appliances
: which enabled all the supports to be re
0 moved on the pressing of button, ans
: the vessel giided into the water withou
the slightest hitch
l The remains of j. G. Flood, the Sal
: Francisco millionaire, who died in GeE
2 many several moths ago, has arrived II
6 New York. The remains viii be interre'