The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-10-11
THE PACIFIC COAST.
PORTLAND'S BIG EXPOSITION WAS
OPENED LAST WEEK.
Bak arsfield's Improvements = Chopped
His Own F1nges Off-Port Orchard
Selected for the New Navy
Yarc-Skun Fracture.

His Own F1nges OR-Port Orchard
Selected for the New Navy
Yarc-skul Fracture.
Elsinor, CAL, is trying to disincorpor
ate.
Epizooty is affecting horses at Carson
City.
Chico, CAL, has 644 children at publ,
schools.
Santa Cruz has 13-months-old bab,
swimmer.
A Jocky Club is. soon to be organized
at Portland.
A shoe factory has been established a
at Otay, Cal.
Tacoma has one lawyer to every $50 O
it's population.
A dressed beef company has been in
corporaled at Portland.
The Oregon Baptist Conference met al
Ellensburg on the Goth.
The Sacramento police have received
no salary for six months.
A heavy rain has extinguished the fires
in the Willamette Valley.
Ground is broken at Santa Ana for the
500, 900 water-works system.
The sports of Albuquerque have been
bled by an unknown sprinter.
The Northwest Exposition Company
has been incorporated at Tacoma.
Portland's Big Exposition opened Oh
the 26th with imposing ceremonies.
Rather severe frosts have visited Doug.
las county, Or, since the 11th inst.
J. H. Hoffman has been arrested at
Portland, Or, for passing forged checks.
President Harrison has appointed A.
N. Gilbert the Postmaster at Salem, Or.
Ellensburg's prospects for securing tie
State Capitol of Washington are fatter-
ing.
George Young has been arrested for
the murder of Charles Beach at Prescott,
| A. T.
A majority of the walters in the Pacific
Ocean House, Santa Cruz are out on a
! strike.
The women of Ogden are reported to be
organized and burning disreputable
houses.
The apricot and peach crops of San
Bernardino Valley will bring $3.50, ,000
this year.
Arthur H. Ferguson, surveyor at Los
Angeles, was drowned at Rodondo Beach
on the 22d.
The Northern Pacific Reduction Com
pany is building sampling works at
Spokane Falls.
The school for the blind opened at
Salem, Or, on the Goth, the beginning of
the new term.
The remains of James O'Conner was
found floating in the Willamette at Port
land, on the 26th.
The City of Puebla has just made the
ru from San Francisco to Victoria, B. c.,
in ffty-one hours.
Harry Shirley, who was well known in
musical and dramatic circles, died at San
Diego on the 22d.
The African Methodist Episcopal Con-
ference of California has concluded it's
labors at San Jose.
DR.. A. w Hoisholt has been chosen
assistant physician of the State Insane
Asylum at Stockton.
A sailor on the Mary Buhpe was
washed overheard and drowned at Eu-
oLo Col IN tho COd
Henry Williamson has been arrested
and charged with robblng the Forest
Hill stage few weeks ago.
A political tournament took place at
Seattle last Saturday between six of the
leading lights of both parties.
John Anderson, a native of Virginia,
aged SO, and for many years one OF the
leading politicians in Nevada county, is
dead.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Conduc-
tors has concluded it's labors at Los
Angeles and will meet in Toledo, Ohio,
next year.
Bakersfield has nearly thirty brick
buildings finished and in course of erec-
ton since the place was burned up few
months ago.
The commission appointed by Congress
to select site for navy yard on the
Pacific Coast, has, after due deliberation,
selected Port Orchard.
The cable railway company at Spokane
Falls has consummated the purchase OF
all the horse railways in that city, to-
gether with their franchises.
Portland authorities have been trying
to put stop to the daily parades OF the
Salvation Army, but so far have failed.
The law is not strong enough.
There is trouble between the superin-
tendent and the men at the San Pedro,
N. M, copper mine, owing to an order
that none but Italians should be en-
ployed.
Mason Smith, young and prominent
merchant of Spokane Falls, received a
skull-fracture by fall from horse
recently. Mr.. Smiths recovery is very
doubtful.
John Smell, negro convict In the
Oregon Penitentiary, placed his le1t mana
on board and with a hatchet cut of the
third and middle finger. He did it to
avoid work..
Detectives in Utah had just made a
strong case of train robbery against a
man named Curtiss, when the real often
ders, Joseph Nay and Ed. Dayton made
a confession exonerating him.
Tommy Warren of Los Angeles, and
Frank Murphy of England, fought fifty