The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-12
THE PACIFIC COAST.
AN OPIUM SUGGLER ARRESTED
NEAR TACOMA. =
A Scandal In Cadfornia-The Sea tie
City Council The Chinese Exo-
dus-A Duel at Astoria-A
Big Opium Trust.


Lodi's watermelon crop is fine.
Reno complains of counterfeit dollars.
Santa Rosas public schools are closed.
Redding sold her per cent bonds at
par.
Grass Valley is to have a brick post
Office.
F. E. Johnson has purchased the Napa
Reporter.
Heavy timber fires are in progress near
Helena, M. T.
The losses bv. the Quijotoa fire are pnt
down at 81, 600.
J. C. Kline was acquitted of murder at
Seattle on the Goth.
Stockton's new Jail will cost $1,000
and have forty cells.
The Masons are to build magnificent
temple at Portland, Or.
1t is claimed that young lady living
near Sacramento is leper.
Santa Barba does not speak encOurag-
ingly Of its lima-bean crop.
Tacoma, w. T., is to have combined
armory and exposition hall.
The greater number of the 100 hands
in the Colusa cannery are girls.
Seattle insurance companies lost but
$1,000 by the fire at Vancouver.
Teachers in Butte county don't like to
work during the summer months.
DIR. Bowers, the San Francisco wife
murderer, has been granted new trial.
A 9-foot man-eating shark was cap
tured off the wharf at San Diego recently.
Portland has been restrained from
building City Hall on one OF the public
plazas.
Newspaper men in Oakland. CAL, seem
to he badly tangled up in fiistclass
scandle.
The mystery attending the death OF
Flossie Lord near Grass Valley Is still
unraveled.
Grounds for an agricultural park have
been laid out between San Bernardino
and Cotton.
The Grand Army posts at Sacramento
are to erect monument in the city ceme-
terry twelve feet high.
A large section of the roof of the I'm
perial Mill at Oregon City, Or, blew of
in a4gale ON the 9th.
Charles Hawkins, colored, the old body
servant of Jefferson Davis, died at Sutter
Greek, G. l., on the 9th.
John Wilson, OF Linn county, Or, has
been sent to the penitentiary, at Salem,
for two years for burglary.
A big opium trust has been formed in
Hong Kong, causing a considerable rise
in the drug in this country.
Increase of pensions has been granted
to Anderson B. Monick and B. J. Bondu-
rant, OF Washington Territory.
James Wickersham, the seducer oi
Sadie BEantner, has secured change o1
venue from Seattle to Tacoma.
Judge J. F. Sullivan is visiting the
Catholic institutes in Southern California
and is being loyalty entertained.
There is nothing new in the situation
at Seattle. The police have full control,
and rebuilding is going on rapidly.
A tramp had his foot cut off by 9
freight train near Pendledon, Or, last
week. from which he died shortly after.
The Indian Agents efforts to have
"squaw men" indicted for trespassing on
the reservations in Montana las failed.
Captain Emory has been voted out ol
the colored military company ct Sacra.
mento for alleged nisapprOpriation Of
funds.
John Drouilled, charged with the mur-
| der of Pedro Riberos on board the steam
er Corona in Mich DIST. has been &C
Quilted.
It is reported that j. M. Donahue and
other capitalists intend toput up winery
| at Eitton Springs that viii hold l,OOO,0Oe
gallons.