The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-24
THE PACIFIC COAST.
SEATTLE'S RAILWAY CONNECTION
WITH BRITISH COLUMBIA,
stage Robber Captured-Murder and
Suicides-Criminal Libel Suit
New York Capitalists at
Ellensburg, w. T.

Ellensburg. w. T.
Santa Cruz is to have $25, 900 Jail.
Ellensburg, w. T., has 1000 people.
Visalia will soon be lit by electricity.
Watsonvill has decided to reincorpor-
ate.
The cherry crop around Vacaville is
light
The "lovers" have been driven out of
Oroville.
San Leandro elected the peoples ticket
last week.
Portland's exports for April amounted
to $160,705.
May Sth was pardon day at the Califor-
MIA capitol.
Petaluma has raised its liquor license
from $1l to 500 quarter.
Roxburg has signed as catcher of the
Sacramento baseball club
| The Portland & Clackamas Railway
, Company has Incorporated.
Work was begun recently on the water
works for Umpqua City, Or.
There are some prospects of establish
ing military post on Drake's Bay.
At Ellensburg, w. T., 400 houses, it is
estimated, will be built this season.
On the 9TH inst, the first train ran
over the line between Paso and Selma.
The San Pedro, N. NJ, carbonate strike
promises to be a big thing for the territory.
Fishing for perch in Clear Lake is now
all the rage. They take the hood freely.
1t is now decided tnat the Pacific Meth
odist College will remain in Santa Rosa.
The Washington Tel lritorial Dental AS
soclation was held last week at Spokane
Falls.
The woman suffragists are making
vigorous campaign in Washington Terri
tory.
The hot springs at Temicula, San Diego
county, are said to be equal to those in
Arkansas.
James Hutchinson, logger at Brad
bury, Or, was killed recently by log
crushing him.
The Tehema county clerk says the di-
vorces are about equal to the marriages
in that county.
Seattle is to have railroad connection
with the Canadian Pacific at New West
minister within year.
Work has been begun on the life-sav-
ing station at Point Reys, which is to be
completed by August Is.
The young vineyards at Woodbridge,
San Joaquin cOnnty, have been ruined
this spring by cut worms.
Nineteen thousand sheep and 133, 1876
pounds of wool were shipped from Huron,
Fresno county, in March.
A large deposit of asbestos has been
found near the line of the Cuyamaca rail-
road, in San Diago county.
Emil Weber, well-known sporting
man of Portland, Or, was shot and in
stantly killed on the 10th inst.
New York capitalists have purchased
18O lots near Ellensburg, w. T., and will
make substantial improvements.
Bill Keogh of Chicago knocked out Phil
Duncan, colored, of California, in three
rounds at Virginia City, last week.
The committee on Commercial Rela-
tions with Canada stopped over at Reno
last week and attended the theater.
The excitement over the gold find in
Douglas county, New, has died out. 1t
is intimated the claims were salted.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Holser, of San
Buenaventura, charged with the murder
of Daniel Sheldon, have been discharged.
A chrome mine has been discovered on
facilities creek, in the Coast Range,
twenty miles west of Huron, Fresno
county.
Prisoners in the Spokane Falls jail at
tempted an outbreak recently, but mur-
deress in the woman's cell betrayed them
to the guard.
On the 9Th inst, Fred Simmons, aged
13 years, accidentally shot and killed
Avalardo Aradaco while hunting near
Halfmoon Bay.
The city clerk of Stockton says with
tax levy of 81 83 on the 500, this year,
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end of the fiscal year.
Walter T. Logan, an Arizona cattle
man, died at the Lake Erie Ranch, near
St. Johns, A. T., on the 9Th inst, from
an overdose of morphine.
Whale-oil soap is being extensively
used in the orchards in the vicinity of
Santa Rosa for exterminating the cOdin
/. moth and other insect pests.
| Harry Bethune, the famous sprinter,
and Frank Lewis, a Pacific Coast runner
of more than local note, are matched for
$3.50 side at Seattle, w. T., May 26.
The Los Angeles Herald says: All the
employees of the Southern Pacific living
in the desert will be supplied with ice by
the company during the coming summer.
w. H. Pain, Victoria, B. c., sculler,
says he will accept the challenge of
Henceman and row for from $500 to $500
| in October, at Stockton or San Francisco.
The notorious dance house at Fresno,
which was closed by the vigilance COM
mittee last year, has been granted a
| liquor license by the Trustees, and the
papers predict trouble.
i Detective Stone, of Fresno, has cap
tured Robert Stewart, cOIored, and most
of the bullion stolen from the Hildreth
stage last July. 1t is said to have been
concealed in hollow stump.
| C. Anderson and D. D. Lynch, who
published the Portland Electric Light,
i have been indicted for criminal libel on
John Sullivan and Fl. Brandt, employees
of the Southern Pacific machine shops.
| A writ of habeas corpus has been grant