The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-13
THE PACIFIC COAST.
A PUBLIC INDIGNATION MEETING
AT VICTORIA, B. C.
The Willamette Valley Railroad Sued
The Oregon Press Association
Prisoners Attempt to Break
Jail ct Tacoma.

Jail at Tacoma.
Work on Fresno's sewer system has
begun.
Seattle is soon to have a paid fire de-
partment.
Fresno, CAL, is trying to establish
rasin exchange.
Modesto, Cal, has refused to issue i'm
provement bonds.
The Klamath river is lower than was
ever known before.
Fresno county's tax levy is % cents
more than las. year.
The Austin, New, Reveille has $lO,-
600 libel suit on its hands.
The new Masonic Hall at Napa was
dedicated ON the 29th inst
Ellensburg is to make great fight for
the capital OF Washington.
The Ninth District Fair opens at Rohn-
erville, Cal, September %.
The chrome mine, in Tehama county,
is to be worked under contract.
Rains have sIbdued the forest fires in
the neighborhood of Ellensburg.
The wharf at Oceanside will be finished
in October. 1t is to be 1505 feet long.
One of the Portland street railways is
to be transformed into an electric road.
A match factory and furniture factory
was destroyed in Portland on the 29tn.
Elensburg, w. T., is talking of estab-
fishing the Holly system of water works.
Southern California experienced
severe shock of earthquake on the 9th.
Oceanside, San Diego, has voted bonds
to purchase its waterwOrks and to en-
large 1t.
President Charles Francis Adams of
the Union Pacific, was in Portland ON
the 23d.
A 14-year-old boy at Santa Rose ''held
up'' parties late one night recently ''jus
for fun"
Since August 8, 1888, ten residents of
Eugene City, Or, have met death by
drowning.
1cLdlUitld HAS Tic caltdtlOU
Army to beat drums or hold meetings Oh
the street.
A commission is negotiating for the
purchase OF lands on the C9ur d'Alene
mountains.
The Placerville Fair will distribute over
$4,000 in premiums. The Fair opened
September Sd.
The Ryan smelter at Tacoma, will soon
be completed and will begin operations
in about two wee ks.
A sulphur spring has has been found
in Hope Valley, New, that flows large
stream OF ice-cold water.
Ten-dollar counterfeit gree nhacks are
in circulation at New York. They are
said to be we'll executed.
The Calispel Indians at the Coleville
| Agency, w. T., are being crowded out Of
the valley by the whites.
The Tacoma Hotel at Tacoma, was filled
last week with delegates EN- route to the
Walla Walla convention.
Miss Ida Pratt, living near Modesto,
| Cal, committed suicide on the 10Th, be-
cause sue was tIIOU living.
The First National Bank of Whatcom,
| W. T., has been authorized to commence
business with a capital OF $4,000.
Albert Gree, San Francisco barber,
whose wife has mourned him as dead
was seen in Sacramento recently.
The machinery and materials for gov
ernment work at Yaquina bay, Or, were
| tcb 1var tbo oHinn paoifso
Hop-growers in the Willamette Valley
are anxious to get their hops off the vines,
fearing the rainy season will begin early
The search for the desperate Morales,
in the Santa Ana Valley has not abated.
1t is believed he will be captured in a
few days.
The Oregon Press Association has sub
mitted to it's members scale OF adver-
tising prices, violation OF which causes
expulsion.
On the Doth inst, Tacoma had fire
that came near proving disastrous to thai
thriving little city. The total loss will bt
about $4,000.
Three men have died from thirst an,
starvation on the Colorado Desert durinl
the mouth OF August, and within a radi
ous of fifty miles.
! An unknown man was found perishinl
, on the desert near Indio, with nearly 500
: in his pockets. He died shortly after h
, was taken to IndiO.
; The little fishing schooner Rowena, o
TillamOok, went ashore near Newport, OF
t the 29th inst, and is total wreck. Al
the crew were saved.
Olson and Drager, the Ell Dorado mur
: derers, to be executed October Ii, ar
building miniature ship for keepsak
for Sheriff Anderson.
j Twenty-Five prisoners in the count
iail attempted to make their escape OF
slth inst, but the jailor appeared on tn
] s.ene in time to prevent it.
o A physician named Miller. formerly
!. resident of Sacramento. and now OF Free
= mont. a suburb near Seattle, attempte
t to commit suicide three times on the 22G
A plot to empty the Washington Tel
6 ritory i'enitentiary at Walla Walla Ia
= been discovered. Keys We're being mad
!, to fit the doors which trusty was TO ust
o On the arrival of the steamer SAINT
( Maria on her first trip to San Diego
Z the new opposition line of coast steamer
! her colored cook, James Lewis, droppe
e dead.
An old man named Oyers, a wealth
I. bachelor living about five miles frol
J, Tacoma. committed suicide on the 29t
d by blowing the top OF his head off wit
IS a shotgun.
). The Pacific Steamship Company
y steamer Ancon ran upon the rocks
= = Neah Bay, Alaska, on the 4th inst, an
4 is a total wreck. The passengers ar
= = crew were saved and brought back by Il
.s = steamer Elder. The machinery and pa
of the cargo win be saved. A wreck!