The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-27
THE PACIFIC COAST.
THE LADIES OF WASHINGTON WILL
VOTE.
schooner Launched-Pensions Granted
Postal Appointments-Rec
the Full Force of the Dyna-
mo-The Exposition.

At Ph@nex, A. T., twenty new build
lngs ax, going up.
S. Huelat, of Oregon City, has been ap
pointed notary poblic.
The walnut crop of Los Angeles this
year will be worth $4,000.
A Philadelphia syndicate has purchased
400 lots at Ellensburg, w. I.
Quail can be killed in California from
now until the end of February.
In mine disaster at Golden, Col, last
week, eleven men lost their lives.
Contracts will soon be let for four new
public school buildings in Seattle.
Isaac F. Shown, of Oregon, original in
valid, has been granted pension.
The Republicans of Tacoma held a
grand ratification meeting on the 18th.
L. w. Darling has been appointed post
master at Condor, Gillian county, Or.
The Colfax Foundry, at Colfax, w. T.,
was totally destroyed by fire on the 18th.
The first passenger train over the O. &
w. I. arrived at Pendleton Or, on the
18th.
Pima county, A. t., has thirty-fve ir-
rigating bitches that are fifty-ive miles
long.
The fall meeting of the Portland Speed
Association was held at Portland last
week.
The San Francisco police are making it
uncomfortable for the Chinese gambling
houses.
A tramp who "stood up" and relieved
H. L. Berry at St. Helena of $3.50, was
captured.
1t is understood that another match
will sood be made between Dempsey and
LaBlanche.
The Grand Conclave of the Rights
Templar Of Oregon met at Eugene City
on the 10th.
Extensive forest fires are reported in
the vicinity of Georgetown, Deer Lodge
county, Montana.
Warren D. Robins of Idaho, has been
oPPO1htCo ikO iOA Va OllC 4NOL
Perce agency, Idaho.
The Washinton Territory Democrats
have nominated Ex-Governor Eugene
Semple for governor.
A postofice has been established at
West Seattle, King county, with Charles
M. Cooper as postmaster.
A whale was seen in the bay near Ia
coma, few days ago, that was thought
to be about eighty feet long.
Scott Swetland of Washington Terri
tory has been appointed receiver of public
at Vancouver, w. T.
The jetty at the mouth of the Colum-
bia river extends over two miles, more
than half the proposed distance.
The collection of ores Montana has sent
to Minneapolis is valued at over 5000, 900.
It will be exhibited in New York.
The Livingston National Bank of Mon
tana has been authorized to commence
business with capital of $4,000.
Walter L. StobIes of Washington Ter
ritorv, has been appointed agent of the
Indians of Yakima agency, w. T.
Orange and San Diego counties propose
to send "SOuthern California" on
wheels through the Eastern states.
The Great Exposition, which opens in
Portland on the Goth inst, promises to be
one of the grandest exhibitions ever seen
on the Pacific Coast.
The burning of the Cascade bridge,
near Truckee, on the Central Pacific,
caused considerable delay in mails and
passenger traffic last week.
The largest four-masted schooner eyer
built on Puget Sound, was launched at
Port Blakeley on the 10th The rame
of the new vessel is Robert Levers.
The ladies of Washington Territory
propose to assert their rights at the COM
ing election and vote. Preparations for
separate polling places are being made.
Charles ("Sandy") Olds, the man who
murdered Emil Weber in May last, at
Portland, Or, was sentenced by Judge
Stearns on the 10th inst. to be hanged
November l.
Lively UlOCk III DuCCC, Ihs L., 1loc q
private watchman. The audacities of the
incendiaries have created great uneasi-
ness, and if capture is made the clti-
zens will hardly suffer the culprit to so to
trial.
It has been discovered that the State
of Nevada, by mistake OF the surveyors
running the dividing line between Cali
fornia and Nevada, gave strip OF about
six miles of California's territory to Ne
vada.
The stampede to the Swauk gold dis
trict, twenty-five miles north of Enens-
burg, w. r., is increasing. The mother
lode, which produced from 500 to $500
nuggets, it is confidently believed, is
found.
Suit has been filed in the federal court,
San Francisco, against Leong Tsang,
Chinese consul-general, to recover $17 ,0OC
indemnity collected by him from this
government, which he failed to pay owe,
to the proper owners.
The fight at the Golden Gate Athletic
Club. San Francisco, between Pat Killen
heavyweight champion OF the Northwest
and Joe McAuliff, exchampion of the
Pacific coast, was won by the latter in
seven rounds on the 11th inst.
Professor P. III. Redmond the daring
yonng aeronaut of Philadelphia, made
the first and only parachute jump from
a balloon, ever made in Oregon, at Port
land. on Sunday, the 10Th inst. 1t waf
a daring act and witnessed by seyera
thousand people.
Thomas Holman, proprietor of the
Salem Electric Light works, in endeavor
ing to fix street arc light on the 18th
in some way caught hold of the wires
completing the circrit, receiving the full
force of the dynamo. His hands wert