The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-08-02
THE PACIFIC COAST.
THE SEATTLE IRON AND SrEEI,
COMPANY,
TWO Chiefs of Police-Olds Convic.ed-
Sent to the Pen-Board Of EQUAL
liza aion-Kerosene Done It
Robbed Of $50.


Robbed Of $50.
Los Gatos wants new school building.
Llcorice will be cultivated at Biggs this
fall. '''N '''''
The Napa cannery has packed $4,000
cans OF apricOts.
Seattle has twelve miles of cable road
in operation.
Nine new colleges have just been COM
pleted at Petaluma.
The National Grange will meet at Sac
ramento In September next.
Colusa has voted to issue 5000. 600 in
bonds for irrigation purposes.
Building mechanics and team hands
are just now scarce at Petaluma.
The fruit crop in Oregon, it is reported,
will be the lightest for some years.
Grading on the Santa Rosa and Sebas-
topool road will begin in a few days.
Settlers in Harvey Valley. Or. re-
pulsed Federal Marshal with rifles.
The high town tax at Pomona has
forced Chinese laundries out of business.
Heavy timber fires have been raging
several miles northeast of Portland. Or.
The San Jose Times has got the citv
printing contract from the Garden CITY.
One energetic Pasadena woman is snn
driving and packinga ton of apricots every
day.
j. w. Woodward drowned himself in a
bath tub in the County Hospital at Wis.
ALA, last week.
A. W. Callen. known as cold Grizzly.,'
shot and killed two men near Prescott.
A. T., last week.
Nevada and Sierra counties complain
OF their mail and passenger service, and
want it improved.
Another convict in the Oregon peniten-
tlary chops his left hand off with an ak
to keep from work.
Mrs. Van Sickle of Capitola, who has
been missing from her home for some
months, has returned.
A BLACK gopher was caught near Pasa-
dena last week, and is kept on exhibit
ton at the Town Hall.
The Piutes of Pizen Switch. New.
cleaned out the whites on the Fourth of
July by winning horse race.
Joe Manuel, Papago Indian, was
killed while resisting arrest at Gila Bend.
He was desperate character.
A woman and her daughter were
burned to death at Salt Lake, last week.
the result of lighting fire with coal oil.
In the case of Frank Toal. tried Tor
gashing his wife with a knife at Los An
geles, the jury handed in sealed verdict.
Ellensburg, W. T., has received in the
way of relief about $4,000. Contracts
for new buildings are constantly being
let.
The Arizona Board of Equalization has
assessed the claimants.of land grants in
Pima county Is cents per acre on all lands
claimed.
Chinese gamblers in San Diego claim
that up to the date of the recent raid they
had bribed the chief of police to prevent
molestation.
Judge Deadly, at Portland, Or, has de-
clared that the PilOtage and ToWage law,
passed by the late Oregon Legislature is
constitutional.
Ching All Sing, d wealthy San Fran
cisco Chinaman, was shot and seriously
wounded by Wo Sing, laborer at San
Jose. last week.
Ex-senator j. D. Craigton, the San
francisco jury briber, convicted two years
ago, has delivered himself to the author
ties for sentence.
Two masked men "stood up' Homer
Smith of Sacramento, while he was driy-
ing from Forest I ity to Pike City, and
robbed him of $50.
Judge w. V. Gaffey at Watsonville,
has fined Chinaman 500 for attempting
to kiss white girl and offering in COM
pensation so cents.
William Wooly, school-boy, who ac-
cidentally shot companion at Garyanza
while carelessly handling a revolver, has
been placed under arrest.
A. c. Williams, who forged the name
that was cashed at Los Angeles, has been
held $500 bonds for trial.
George Nutting, Sheep Inspector of
Crook county, Or, has been missing for
several weeks and fears are entertained
that he has been murdered.
The Democrats will take no part in the
coming Constitutional Convention in
New Mexico, either in nominating cam
didates or voting at the polls for the
measure.
William Moakler has been awarded 81
in suit against the Portland and Will
annette Railroad for damages, which the
court ruled were caused by his own care
lessness.
Joseph N. Bates of Sacramento, car
penter, has not been heard from since
the 9Th inst, when he started for Seattle,
and his wife is greatly alarmed and fears
foul play.
The Seattle Iron and Steel Company,
new corporation headed by Pittsburg iron
men, will next week begin the erection
of foundry and machine shops at Sal
mon Bay.
Southern Dakota will possibly adopt
the Australian ballot system.
Frank f. Williams, while engaged in
throwing wood down the bank for the
ferry boat at Vancouver, lost his balance
and fell distance of about fifty feet to the
water, striking his head in the fall. The
body was found shortly afterward.
w. E. Hawkins, who killed F. H. Ogle
on the streets of Salem, Or, the 1st of
last May, has been found guilty of muir