The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-21
THE PACIFIC COAST.
SEATTLE'S, THE QUEEN CITY, LAID
IN ASHES,
Colored Masons-A Sardine Factory
Immigration From Scotiand-A
Lumber Combustion
Fruit-Gro erS.


Napa College is to have a telescope.
Crooks abound about, Seattle, w T.
Santa Barba school censns shows again
OF III.
Last Sunday was Children's day in
Portland
Santa Paula, in Ventura county, has
ten saloons.
The Castrsville Gazette has eeasad
publication
Tucson was shaken by an earthquake
on the 3lst.
lumber combination is reported at
Helena, NJ. t.
1t costs $50 to destroy a shade tree at
Olympia, w. I.
Tulare has reduced the liquor license
to $40 a quarter.
The hills near Reno, New, is swarming
with grasshoppers.
Red Bluff has refused to issue bonds
for new town hall.
The Napa Cannery has begun work
with cherries the first.
Smartsville, Nevada, county, is with
out telegraphic service.
Salicoy, Ventura county, is to have a
meal station on th. railroad.
Contracts for grading and sewering
Redding have been awarded.
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Several cases of smallpox have been
reported from WALTON, n NJ
Every town in the Northwest have re-
sponded to Seattle's call for aid.
! j. W. Cheek has been sentenced to the
State prison from Napa for forgery.
Woodland, Cal, is to have first-class
lawn tennis club in the near future.
/ A sardine factory has located at Rose
vile, across the bay from San Diego.
The estimated losses by last Thursdays
fire at Seattle, is placed at $40 100000.
The Grand Lodge OF Colored Masons of
California, Ine1 at Marysville on the Sd.
Two barges made successful voyage
over the Cascade Rapids few days since.
TIE last heavy rainslorn IN Walla
Walla county, w. T., destroyed 10000
sheep.
Marysville sent shipment of black
berries and pears TO San Francisco, last
week.
Pomona dedicated the st. Joseph
Church, Roman Catholic, Sunday, the
I'd inst
Los Gatos will close all saloons on July
ist and prohibit the sale OF intoxicating
liquors.
Chinese are said to be pouring into
California over the Mexican border, near
San Diego.
c. P. Ferry, whose wife caused a great
scandal in Paris, IS suing her for divorce
in Tacoma.
The John Wieland Brewery Associa-
tioD, of San Francisco, refuse $2,50J,00Q
for their plant.
Work on the addition to be made to
the State Printing Office at Sacramento,
has commenced.
A bridge was burned near Hood river
on the Sd, delaying the Eastern trains in
reaching Portland.
The life-saving crew at Cape Hancock
has for the ninth time been successful in
saving life and property.
The threatened locust plague of East
Riverside has been stoplsi by burning
over the uncultivated lands.
The entire business portion OF Seattle
business house left in the city,
The little 9-year old daughter of Geo.
+. Johnson, was thrown from a buggy at
Portland, last week, and severely injured
A company to encourage immigration
from Scotland, has been formed at
Spokane Falls, with capital of 100000
At Ainslee, w. T., the I'd, the large
sawmill of ID. j. Ainslee, with a capacity
OF 1000 feet day, was destroyed by fire.
RI. Skinner, of Cowichen, Victoria,
father-in-law of Hon. Mr.. Dayie, the
premier of British Columbia, died on the
I'd inst.
The fire in the Idaho mine at Grass
Valley has been extinguished and the
bodies OF the two burned victims re-
covered.
The German singing birds that were
liberated at-Portland, Or, recently, have
settled down TO business. They have
begun to build nests
Track-laying has been commenced on
the Spokane and Northern Railroad.
The work is expected to be finished to
Colville by September.
The -ailroad depot o. the Oregon Trans
continental Company at Slaughter, in
King county, near Tacoma, w. T., was
burned on the Sd inst.
C.. NJ PIKE and Martha Lancaster, the
Louise Manfred OF the Tivoii theater,
were married at Martinez, ON the 2dinst,
by Justice OF the Peace.
Denis Hayes, ex-Coioner at Marys-
viii, Cal, and VIM. Potts, were thrown
| from buggy last week, the former, it is
| feared, was fatally injured
The fruit-growers in the neighborhood
of Haywards, have completed an organi-
zation to ship their own fruit East and to
aid each other in finding a market.
The Hildreth stage robbery case is pro-
crossing slowly at Fresno, Cal, with an
increased attendance of spectators. No
new evidence has been obtained so far.
During the fire at Seattle last Thurs
day, thief while trying to effect an en-
trance at the rear of one of the burning
banks, was shot and killed by police
man.
VIII c. Bailey. formerly of the River
side Enterprise, is to be partner of Mr..
McKie in the publication of the Cotton
Chronicle, the successor of the Semi
Tropic.