The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-15
THE PACIFIC COAST.


sold to an English syndicate for $500, 900.
Oroville bas won the fight for the Cit
rus Fair in January. Marysville made a
gallant struggle.
Charles Scott shot and killed a fellow
workman known as Simon, on a ranch
near Rocklin yesterday.
Argument in the Montana election con-
asst will begin to-day, the point being the
elleged disqualification of the Judge.
Over two hundred and fifty varieties of
the crysanthemum are on exhibition at
the "Crysanthemum Fair" at Los An.
geles.
Mate Lewis, of the steamer Elder testi-
fed at Portland that the employees of the
vessel carried whisky, which was sold to
passengers.
Peter Verdier, storekeeper twenty
five miles from Prescott, A. r., has been
murderded by a man who afterward
robbed the safe.
Many newspapers in Northern Califor-
MIA promise to publish ''dead- beat" list
of their subscribers from and after No
vember /.
The land between Ellensburgh, Wash.
and the recently discovered hemitite iron
mines, has advanced so to 100 per cent.
in value lately.
Charles Perry, an insane person, tried
to carry off Miss Knox, teacher at
Salem. Perry followed Miss Knox from
Minnesota.
John Blair, manager for w. R. Nc
Knight & Co., at Sacramento, has been
arrested for having female deerskins in
his possession.
James III. Faulkner retained the light
weight wrestling championship in a
match at Tacoma last week with Charles
F. Eyton, of Australia.
A young man named English has been
swindling Portland merchants. He has
been giving them drafts on San Fran
cisco house that has been dissolved.
The State Board Of Agriculture has sus-
tained the appointment OF Director Han
cock to look after the Los Angeles Fair.
Southern California wanted person from
it's section of the State.
The story that Mrs. Ferry has been
robbed of large sum of money at Port
land is discredited, owing to the fact that
the lady has not made the robbery pub
lie.
The San Diego grand jury says that
more than 100000 of the county funds
have been illegally spent, and recon-
lends the removal of the county super
visors.
The body of Mr.. Enos, superintendent
of the San Francisco Copper Company at
Campo Sece, who was drowned on the
10th inst, in one of the mine shafts, has
been recovered.
Curtis Bond, who claims to have been
member at one time of the California
Legislature, has served his four years in
the Oregon penitentiary on a conviction
for forgery, and was released Monday.
The Los Angeles & Pacific railroad,
from Santa Monica to Los Angeles, has
stopped running trains. The track has
been badly washed by the rain, and the
road is making no effort to repair it.
Judge R. E. Sloan, the newly appoint
ed Justice of Arizona, assumed his duties
yesterday at Tucson, appointed Brewster
Cameron CLERK of court and set the
trial of the Wham robbers for November
11th.
A wrestling match has been arranged
between w. H. Quinn of Victoria and j.
L. Donovan of Australia. The match is
collar and elbow, best three in five, for
$500, and is to take place at Seattle with
in twelve days.
Q. q. Brunger, the purser on the
steamer Cyclone, has been arrested at
Portland Tor perjury. 1t is charged that
he testified falsely during a recent exam
ination into collision between the steam
ers Alarm and Cyclone.
Mr.. Grunsky. of the corps of engineers
surveying the boundary line of the state
of California, has just returned to Sacra-
lnento from the final survey, and he
states that California gains 4,176 feet in
width, or nearly three-quarters OF mile.
The governor of Sonora, Mexico, in
sists upon proof that the three men ar
rested on his territory, charged with the
murder of Barney Martin, his wife and
three chllren, are American citizens be-
fore he will return them to the Amerl-
can authorities.
Fred and Herbert Rolfe and w. A.
Hill, the three young Williams who dis
placed switch on the Southern Pacific
Railroad near Albany, Or, in July. caus-
ing the death of Engineer Jack Miller
and Fireman Guthrie, have been indicted
for murder in the second degree.
The cases of the United States against
the Willamette Valley and Cascade Wa
gon Road and The Dalles Military Read
companies for forfeiture of land grants
came up in the United States circuit
court at Portland last week. for argu-
ment as to the sufficiency OF the pl as
interposed by the defendants.
Patsy Griffin, "Happy Jack" Hsrring-
ton and Charles Reed, who. were arrest
ed Sunday at Seattle for swindling Major
w. F. Howell out Of 81 800 in hall
interest game, were given preliminary
examination, and held to answer before
the grand jury. There is considerable
feeling against the men.
There is project on foot to plant the
side of the public roads in Washington
township, Alameda county, Cal 5, with
nut-bearing, decidueus and ornamental
trees. If carried into effect it will re-
quire nearly 60, 900 trees and it is claimed
bv it's promoters it will enhance the value
of the township within few years by
$500, 900.
The Queen oil Roumania, so widely
known for her miscellaneous writings,
has become a martvr to nervous neural
ga.
A meeting of the delegations OF the
Clan-na-G Gael, friendly to DR.. Cronin was
held at the Grand Pacific hotel, Chicago,
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