The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-23

THE PACIFIC COAST.
CHINESE HIGHBINDER HANGED Al
PORTLAND.

The Idaho Convention-Escape From
Folsom Prison-Eloped With a
Married Man-The "6Ol"a
Truckee in Ea nest.
Portland is to have fire-boat.
Eastern Nevada is purchasing Califor-
MIA hay.
Portland is urging the construction of
fire-boat.
Harvest hands in Oregon demand $3 a
day and board.
Seattle intends to have fire-boat to
protect its wharves.
A lieutenant and twelve men will re-
main at Fort Klamath.
Every salmon cannery on the Colum-
bia river has shut down.
Santa Rosa declines to suspend the 12-
O'Clock saloon ordinance.
Washington will vote on the selection
tion OF a city for its Capital.
Many swarms OF bees are found by the
lumbermen up in the Sierras.
The Indians are focking to the hop
fields of Washington Territory.
An immense deposit of mineral soap
has been found near San Diego.
w. A. Smiths dry goods store at Napa
has been attached by creditors.
Ten thousand dollars will be given in
purses at the Santa Rosa races.
Geroge Gray, OF Susanville, CAL, has
gone insane from disappointment in love.
Mr.. Finle, i, of Arroyo Grande, has wal
nut trees that bring him in $40 for each
tree.
San Diego and San Bernardino coun-
ties are going to law about the county
line.
Salt Lake City has been carried by the
Gentiles in popular vote by forty ma
jOrity.
Orange county has adopted as its Off
cial seal an orange with a stem and three
leaves.
LII AClIdlild COUAGy ti1C d5SC5oOr ICFlcS
upon alfalfa patches, and the farmers are
urious.
The Lima bean crop of Ventura county
this year will amount to 5000 tons, worth
$500, 900.
sawmill costing 5000, 900 will be built
at Tacoma this year by some Michigan
capitalists.
The value of the Columbia river sal.
mon catch for this season is estimated at
81, 100000.
A flow of gas has been struck at a
depth of 70 feet near Tulara Lake, south
of Hanford.
Field fires are doing considerable dam
age to small holdings in the neighbOrhoOd
of Portland.
A. j. Elliott, San Diego banker, has
disappeared and foul play is feared, as he
carried 800.
Three men have died in Tucson within
a few days from drinking ice water in
large quantities.
Two toughs have been arrested at
Baker City, Or and charged with passing
counterfeit money.
The forest fires in Montana which have
been prevailing for some time, show no
signs of abatement.
Another little diphtheria patient-the
fifth-has been sacrificed under the faith
cure at Los Angeles.
Petaluma is worked up over the elope-
ment of foolish girl with painter who
has wife and child.
Fish Commissioner Mcdonald thinks
salmon can be made as plentiful as ever
in the Columbia river.
John Miller, a plasterer, was shot,
probably fatally, in bar-room quarrel at
Portland, On the 4th inst.
The Republicans of Washington will
meet at Walla Walla on September 4th
to nominate State officers.
Laborers have reached Santa Rosa to
begin grading work on the Santa Rosa
and Sebastopool Railroad.
The Nevada County Fair comment ee
August Goth and will last five days. The
racing events are well filled.
The San Diego Cable Company is a
new incorporation, with capital of $5,.
OOO, 900, to work at San Diego.
A San Jose man offers to lease Alum
Rock Park from the City Trustees and
to spend $28,5O0 in making improve
ments.
Jewett r. Howland las escaped from
Folsom. He is 20 years old and was
sent from Sacramento for two years fol
burglary.
The Sutro Tunnel property has been
conveyed to the Union Trust ompany
of New York, which succeeds to all the
property and franchises.
Emanuel Verdugo, who murdered
| Louis Cohn, prominent citizen and
merchant of Nogales, A. T., has been ar
| rested in Mexico and taken to Tucson.
| The Starting of the extensive lumbel
yard at Moss Landing by the Paci6,
Lumber Company of San Francisco, hal
created lumber war in Salinas Valley
| Mrs. Lizzie Grant. wife of j. D. Grant
Jr., of the firm of Murphy, Grant & Co.
died on the 9Th inst at San Mateo, O
heart disease. She was q years of ;ge
Three Superior Court Judges sitting ir
bank have decided that all contracts
made by the Coronado Beach Company
/ for the sale of lands there and at South
San Diego are valid.
| The railway up Mount Vesuvius hal
/ been reopened for traffic. Six months
ago it was nearly destroyed by the NAL
icious Vesuvian guides. who found tina
the line considerably diminished tlei
profits.