The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-12-06
THE PACIFIC COAST.
THE FATHER OF YOUNG GIBBS
IN PORTLAND.
Swindled Out OF $4,000 by a Conf
dence Nan-Cyclone in California.
Republican Convention at
Juneau, Alaska.

Republican Convention at
Juneau, Alaska.
The Union Pacific will build into Los
Angeles.
A Tacoma hospital has new $50,
ambulance.
McMinnville's electric light plant is
ready for work.
The orange crop promises to be light
byt of first quality.
L. P. w. Quimby has brought SIC. .OOO
stallion to Portland
Sonoma county, CAL, has been visit
ed by disastrous cyclone.
w. P. Roster, of Seattle, suicided.
He was small cigar dealer.
The Boston mine near Fairhaven
promises to pay $24O0 day.
| Two American seamen were drowned
in squall at Por. Townsend.
The mileage of the Washington legis-
lators will foot up about 5000.
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Pacific coast militia tournament.
British firms will contest the present
foreign pilotage charges at San Francisco.
The Pacific coast chamber of COM
merce recommends national bankrupt
law.
| Two persons lost their lives and many
more were injured in fire at Arcata,
Cal.
II. H. Boyce, of the Los Angeles
Tribune, has been indicted for black
mail.
Lalpande has raised the subsidy requi
site to tie building of it's railroad to
Elgin.
The Puget Sound university at Tacoma
has borrowed $4,000 for building pur-
poses.
The Portland laundry, the largest
north of San Francisco, burned. Loss,
Sis, 1000.
Barney Heller and J. Forbes, railroad
employees, were killed in an accident at
Oswego.
Blackfoot, Idaho. lost the insane asy-
lum by fire, Loss, three lives and
$3.O 200.
Tacoma is preparing statistics to in
duce the department to increase it's pos
tai facilities.
Philip Engle, of Pasadena, shot and
killed his brother-in-law w. E. Curtis,
in quarrel.
The first term of court ever held in
Franklin county, Washington, is in ses-
sion at Pasco.
The National Grange favors the elec-
ton of United States senators by direct
vote of the people.
Five thousand miners are ont of en-
| fires at Anaconda.
Colonel Parker, of Walla Walla, esti-
mates the cost of jute mill in the peni-
tentiary at $95, 900.
Middleton and Georgetown, Mime
sofa, are quarantined on account of epi-
demic dyphtheria.
| Robert Forsyth was killed at Portland
by the discharge of revolver, accident-
ally dropped by Frank Lester.
An Intellectual effort at jailbreak was
made last week at Walla Walla by two
prisoners with long sentences.
A. F. Hofeditz murdered his aged
father at Anaconda. Temporary imam
/ ity is thought to have been the cause.
Mayor DeLashmutt, of Portland, has
realized $143, 1900 in cash from recent
sale OF Ceur d'Alene mining property.
Search is still being made, and re-
wards yet open, for the arrest of those
who robbed the Linkville stage of 1870.
Suits aggregating $4,000, for damages
sustained by burned grain, were filed in
one day at Salem against the Southern
Pacific.
A steamship brought last week $5,-
600, GOO in gold from Australia to San
Francisco. It was all in English SOW
ereigns.
NJ. Collins, a bungling amateur at
Chico, stabbed L j. Damn in duel
sceTe 9. The wound was severe but not
dangerous.
J. j. Smith, of Baker City, has a
beautiful gold brick worth $500, the re-
suit of a five days run of the Golden
Monarch mill.
The new electric street railway COM
pany at Seattle, with capital stock OF
81, ,,N0, 900, guarantees to run cars into
Ballard by next May.
The father of Gibbs, the murderer
has arrived in Portland. He is lawyer
and federal office-holder of high standing
in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The last act of Governor Moore was the
pardon of William Murphy, imprisoned
for manslaughter, after serving eleven
years in the Walla Walla penitentiary.
The O.. R. & N. will hereafter be man
aged from Omaha. Several departments
will be transferred from Portland
though nominal heads of departments
will be retained.
The Canadian Pacific has patched W
it's differences With the shipowner Sil
William Pierce, and will continue to use
bis ships for the China trade of Portland
and the Sound.
The Pacific coast chamber of commerc'
elected for president, Samuel Collyer, o
Tacoma; secretary, T. G. Friedlander
finance committee, Mr.. Hubbard, Chico
Mr.. Smell, Tacoma, Mr.. Baldwin, SaI
Francisco.
The board of regents OF the Washing
ton State university will ask the legisia
ture to provide for the erection ant
maint enance of two reformatory instltu
ions. one in the eastern ana the othe
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