The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-04
THE PACIFIC COAST
THE STATE FAIR AT SALEM DR.
CLARED A SUCCESS.
aoreo Dy an Angry Bull-New York to
San Francisco on Horseback
Fire Tournament-Trafac
in Chinese Women.

in Chinese Women.
/ The coursing match at Gilroy is sue.
cess.
| Victoria is to have large frst-class
hotel.
/ San Luis Obispo county has 1O7 school
teachers.
Chinese grape-pickers are crowding
into Napa Valley.
| Sanoma saloons are obliged to close at
10 80 every night.
The Southern Pacific has filed on the
tide lands at Tacoma.
1 Santa Ana Valley is determined. to
have beet-sugar factory.
Hall, the San Diego missing printer,
has turned up at Los Angeles.
Manuel Lemns of San Pablo was found
drowned in well on the 14th.
Portland will soon have in operation
several lines of electric railways.
The fire tournament at Tacoma last
week came near breaking up in a row.
The Britishers scooped fret prize at
the fire tournament, held in Tacoma last
week.
Large consignments of canned salmon
are going from Victoria to England by
clipper.
A San Francisco firm is to set out a
| 2OO-acre orange grove near OrOville this
winter.
The State Fair at Salem has been de-
clared by the directors success in every
respect.
The C9ur d 'Alene Indians have agreed
to sell about half their reservation for
100000.
The business portion of Wallace, N.
M, was destroyed by an incendiary fire
last week.
| Ureta, charged with helping Morales,
the bandit, to evade the laws, has been
discharged.
Frank Bell of San Jose killed himself
at Salem. Or, on the 14th. He led a dis
reputable life.
Truckee just voted $1,000 to purchase
school furniture. There was not a dis
senting voice.
| The Alaska canneries have packed for
the season up to the 18th instant 81 900
cases Of salmon.
Professional pick pockets are getting in
their work at Sacramento. Six were ar
rested last week.
The year has been profitable one to
fruit-growers in the country of which San
Jose is the center.
Bishop Mora officiated at the dedica-
| ton of the Catholic Church at Santa
Cruz on the 18th.
There is talk at Healdsburg of estab-
fishing grapes, rup factory to utilize the
surplus grape crop.
Sylvestro Morales, the Santa Ana Val
ley desperate, has been sentenced to i'm
prisonment for life.
The San Jose Board of Trade strongly
indorses the proposition to erect statue
to Senator Stanford.
Fruit growers near Anderson, Shasta
county, propose to double their acreage
now planted to fruit.
Portland's Exposition opens on the
| 26th inst, and proposes to be the best
ever held in the Northwest.
Mollie Kennedy, aged eighteen, in fit
of jealousy, killed herself at Willows.
| She was native of Red Bluff.
More than one thousand women, girls
and bows are employed at the Yaisin-
packing houses in Fresno City.
C.G. Sayle of Fresno, Cal, has been
appointed administrator of the estate OF
ex-J udge David S. Terry, deceased.
The irregularity of assessments of city
property at Tacoma, W. T., is creating
quite stir among the merchants there.
| Three men were sentenced at Seattle
on the 10Th inst, to the penitentiary.
whose terms aggregate eighty-nine years.
Washington Stewart, a lawyer Of San
Diego, has had the serious charge OF
assaulting young girls made against him.
C.P. Pratt and John Allen, who left
New York on the 14th of last month, on
horseback, have arrived in San Francisco.
The San Francisco papers report that
the traffic in Chinese women for immoral
purposes, still continue to an alarming
extent.
Geo. Hughes, living near Salem, Or,
was gored by an angry bull on the 18th,
| inficting three sever wounds, which will
prove fatal.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
authorized the First National Bank OF
Santa Paula to begin business with
capital of $4,000.
Montana will vote under the Australian
nlan. The vote promises to be large, and
both parties exhibit high degree OF con-
fidence as to the result.
j Perry Douglas, who shot and killed
Brakeman Anson at MADEIRA, Fresno
4 county, last March, has been captured
and is in Jail at Fresno.
Samuel Collier, cashier of the First
National Bank, of Tacoma, is in Kansas
City attending the meeting Of the Amer
ican Bankers Association.
i The recently appointed Chinese EN-
hassador to the United, Tuey Gwok
Wing. has arrived. He is accompanied
| by g. ES, delegafioa ct Chinese digni-
tarieG.
i Thomas Roe, president of the Chicago
Bicyclists, mas started from San Francisco
on his wheel to Chicago, intending to
break the record between the two cities
by about seven days.
i Jimmy Carroll and Billy Myers viii
shortly sign articles to fight for 1000
: a side and the lightweight championship
Of tn. world. The fight will take place
somewhere in Mexico.
Il Mrs. Hiram Nell, of Malad, Idaho, ha'
given birth to sextuplets, three boys AM