The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-29
MASON COUNTY, W. T. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER % 1889

GIBBS TO STAND TRIAL ON THE
1O.H Or DECBM8ER.
Wind Storm on thu Sousd -Cffic RS G.
the National Grange-A Revcl lag
Crime Murder at Astoria
Schooner Lost
Kelso now claims 700inhabitants.
Bellingham Bay loses 5000 by the
recent windstOrm.
Gibbs, the Pullman porter, will be
tried December I'D.
Portland is agitating the dangers of the
electric light wire system.
Sheepherder Brooks accidentally shot
himself fatally near Colfax.
The Portland high school is decreas-
ing in attendance annually.
Divorce suits have just doubled in
number at Portland in six years.
John Wales, rs years old, will walk
from San Francisco to New York.
The Manitoba railway promises to
build to Spokane the coming ear.
Several lives were lost in the bay at
Eureka, Cal, during heavy swell.
The schooner Oracle B. Richardson
has been lost off Stewards Point, CAL
Eastern gentlemen are talking of es-
tablishing smelling works at Albany.
A $4,000. .OGO loan and investment COM
pany has been incorporated at Seattle.
Colfax is to ha magnificent theater
built, to be called the Wall street opera
house.
Nearly $lO0,rOO has been raised at
Spokane for the Methodist college at
that place.
Miss Ella Markham was shot at in a
ball room at Ilwaco by jealous admirer
named Ross.
A bicycle tournament in which sew
eral ladies took part, was held in Port
land last week.
Frederick Keller, at San Francisco,
took dose of carbolic acid by mistake
and died in agony.
Adam Albert was run over by hand
car near Waitsburg, receiving injuries
frt m which he died.
James Thompson, of Astoria, fell off
the the steamer r. r. Thompson, at
Westport, and was drowned.
"Salvation Butch," as John Johnson
of Astoria was called, was murdered for
the winnings of gambling game.
An old painter named Walton is under
Indictment at Portland for savagely as
saultlng his wife with butcher knife.
The pupils of the PeDdleton Indian
school have been removed into town
until the completion of the new building
There are now over 2)0 men employed
in the machine shops at Albina. The
pay roll Of last month amounted to
$4,000.
A Chinese girl, 16 years Of age, hanged
herself with rope at the Chinese mis-
sion school on Sacramento street, San
Francisco.
The Sunday closing association at
Portland are making things lively for all
violaters. 1t is getting impossible to
buy a hat or umbrella on Sunday.
1t is proposed to sell the present site
of the State University at Seattle and
purchase a more desirable one. 1t is
Thought $4,000 could be realized.
The Presbyterian tabernacle at Taco
ma had it's roof blown off by hurricane
during service. The congregation
rushed panic-stricken out of doors.
The government telegraph line, twen-
ty-five and one-half miles long, from
Fort Stevens to TillamOok head, has
been inspected and found satisfactory.
Several carloads of Nebraska corn ar
rived in La Grande last week. The corn
is to be ground at the Pacific coast ele-
vator and then reshipped to Spokane
Falls.
Some wretch stole old Ephraim
Daniels wallet from him as he sat
asleep in his cabin at Seattle, and then
set fire to the house. Daniels was
badly burned.
Mrs. Jennie Langford who sued the
Jones doctors in Portland for heavy
damages for malpractice died there last
week. A post mortem was had upon
her remains.
The Southern Pacific have 24O0 tons
of steel rails en- route from Atlantic
ports. These will replace the remaining
twenty-five miles of iron between Port
land and Ashland.
After a two weeks trial at San Fran
cisco the government RECEIVERS 5000
damages from John R. Hite and John
w. Snider, for cutting timber on govern
ment land in Mariposa county.
E M. Andrews, wealthy contractor
formerly of New England, long mouined
as dead, has turned up at San Francisco,
and has refunded to the MasOns the
$4,000 they paid his wife as insurance on
his life.
B. Leitkiese, man past the prime OF
life, was arrested at Portland on the
charge of committing most revolving
crime. His vile accuses him OF incest
with his 18-year- old daughter. 1t is al
legged that Leitkiese is the father OF two
children by his daughter.
San Francisco parties have leased fol
five years a rich deposit of bitumen stu
ated near Gilroy. They have a large
force of men mining and hauling the
same for ahiplnent to the city. A car
load daily is going forward and is fetch
ing in San Francisco from $l2 to $50 pei
ton.
The movement to establish an electric
motor line to the old town at NORTH
Yakima and out on to the beach land II
gradually assuming shape, and will soor
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