The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-12-13
THE PACIFIC COAST.

lHE TAClFlC OUAOl.
LOSS OF THE STEAMER IDAHO
AND PART OF HER CARGO.
A Reform School for the State Of
washinston-Dr. G. G. O'Donnen
Arrested-Cattle Market
Misrepresented.
Olympia suffers from sneak thieves.
Roseburg built sixty buildings in 1885,
California race tracks are deep with
mud.
Albany is excited over child-beating
lawsuit.
Senator Stanford and his wife have
gone East.
Two prisoners escaped easily from the
old Visalia Jail.
Ingles, the Spokane boodler, is..iving
high in Canada.
NJ. Strauss & Co., of San Francisco,
tall Tor SZO0,OOO.
Congressman Hermann has been
travelling in Mexico.
The Oregonian speaks disparaginglv of
Portland's detectives.
Independence pays William King $3.50
damages on a sidewalk case.
Supplies and employees for P0rtland's
new hotel are constantly arriving.
Olympia has expelled numbers of
worthless vagabonds from the city.
The steamship dock at Portland is be-
ing repaired at an expense of $4,000.
Washington legislators are going after
the cigarette. Two bills are pending.
An unknown man died instantly from
a self-inficted pistol shot at Portland.
Mrs. Julia Cox, of Waitsburg, wants
$4,000 for being prevented from voting.
The Canadian Pacifc's net October
earnings are now given out at 1902 900.
In the bicycle tournament at Portland,
Fred Merrill defeated Senator" Morgan.
The Western Union is building a new
and better line to Astoria from Portland.
Chief of Police Chesney is charged
with serious NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in his
Office.
The Washington house has appropri-
ated $4,000 for the expenses of the
session.
Portland's postofice receipts have
reached the snug figure of $4,000 a
month.
A tickle Chinese damsel was hacked
in pieces by her exasperated lover at
Fresno.
Secretary Tracy says Seattle should
share the expense of the proposed navy
yards site.
An appropriation will be asked of
$4,000 to put the Soldiers Home in
working order.
The Methodist university at Tacoma,
for which the contract has just been let,
is to cost $4,000.
The Wilmington, plying between San
Francisco and Puget Sound, is alleged
to be unseaworthy.
A Policeman named Nash, at Portland,
fell down an elevator hole at night and
narrowly escaped death.
Congressman Hermann has appointed
William B. Ladue, of Salem, to the Ore
gon cadetship at West Point.
The captain of small Sound steamer
says he clears 500 month, and can
pay for his boat twice year.
The O. r. & N. will distribute 100, 900
copies of wealth and Resources of
Oregon" throughout the East.
DR.. &. G. O'Donnell, the San Fran
cisco workingmen's last candidate for
mayor, is arrested for abortion.
Men working on the government jetty
at Fort Stevens saw a raft of some
200, 900 feet of logs drift out to sea.
Appropriation bills for over $500, 900
are pending in the Washington legisla-
ture and more are in preparation.
Rats nibbled matches and set fire to a
match factory in Portland. The damage
was limited to few hundred dollars.
Fred Lehman, German, 60 years of
age, committed suicide by shooting him
self through the head at San Francisco.
Hon. j. III. Turner, finance minister,
has entered suit against the Victoria
Times for libel, claiming $4,000 dam
ages.
Hundreds of pounds of turkey flesh
were thrown away at San Francisco after
Thanksgiving, as the market was
glutted.
Colonel Fred Croker says the Bay
District and Croker estate are to be d.
vide6 into tracts for small property
holders.
Senator Jones has introduced bill il
the Washington legislature to do away
with the company store" system Of
monopolies.
The old First Presbyterian church at
Portland is now used by some singing
medicine fakirs, and some of the church
people are scandalized.
The lost steamer Idaho originally cost
$780, A portion OF her cargo, only,
was insured. No arrangements have yet
been made for q successor to her.
VIC. Bogue, chief engineer of the
Union Pacific, is in Oregon, buying ties
and timber for the 200 miles of railroad
line from Frisco, Utah, to Ploche, New.
A cold-blooded and deliberate murder