The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-20
THE PACIFIC COAST.
The San Francisco Sugar Supply
Reported Short.
The U. s. District Judge at Seattle
Refuses to Dismiss the Case
Against BeecheP.


Helena, Mont, has incorporated a
mining exchange.
The citizens of Fresno believe irebugs
are again at work in their city,
A suit testing the legality of the
sheep ordinance of Tuolumne county
is on trial at Sonora.
The Hall of Records and the lot on
which it stands at Santa Rosa have
been sold for $4,000.
The authors of the San Diego ilibuster
story are daily filing protests against the
general public unbelief.
Frauds in the matter of saloon licenses
have been uneartbed at Spokane Falls,
and several arrests have followed.
The cowboys in Wyoming at station
called WendOver gave one of their num-
Der forty lashes with whip for stealing
a saddle.
Benevolent ladies of Los Angeles have
established home for newsboys, and
the society will help poor mothers and
their children.
The Secretary of War has reduced
Corporal George Colby of Company G,
First Infantry, now at Angel Island,
CAL, to the ranks.
Rev. Samuel w. Small has been
elected to the Presidency OF the Utah
University of the Methodist Episcopal
Church at Ogden.
Marysville has 1000 persons under
seventeen years of aye. Sacramento's g
census shows 5,351 children in the city
under seventeen years of age.
The Swede captured at Reno, New,
and who it was thought was the man
who murdered Edward Goodman near
Sacramento over week ago, turns out
to be the wrong man.
The Postmaster General has ordered
the establishment of free delivery sys-
tenn at the following offices, service be-
ginning July l: Ogden, Utah; Santa
Barbara, Cal. Santa Cruz, Cal.
Mrs. Oscar Steinberg who was charged
at Butte, Mont, with an attempt to
blow her sleeping husband into the
other world with giant powder, has been
acquitted. Her accomplice, man
named Switzer, is still under arrest.
At Templeton contracts have been
signed to burn kiln of 100000 brick
and erect Swedish Lutheran Church,
with a seating capacity of 500 people.
The Bank of Templeton is about to enter
into a contract to erect a large brick
block.
M. A. Wheaton, asked $500, 900 for
five acres of land that were condemned
by the Truckee Irrigation Society, and
in jury trial verdict for $95 was given
-$15 per acre for the land and $50 for
the division of the land. An appeal
will be taken.
The United States District Judge at
Seattle has refused to dismiss the case
against the son of Henry Ward Beecber,
Notwithstanding the Department OF
Justice at Washington has requested
through the District Attorney that it
should be dismissed.
General Passenger Agent T. II. Good
man of the Southern Pacific has pre-
pared a statement showing that the
Southern Pacific had 1902 more over
land passengers in January, February,
March and April of last year than it had
during the first four months of this year.
A sailor who had imbibed too much
liquor at Sacramento borrowed pocket
knife and Immediately commenced slash
ing himself with it with the purpose OF
cutting himself open and taking out the
poison which had been administered to
him. He was prevented from injuring
himself.
Judge Van Vleet has sentenced to
death Charles Freeman, who murdered
Mark Feeney by drowning him in a bar
rel, March 6, near the town of Antelope.
Sacramento county, Cal. The date OF
hanging is not announced, but will be
named in the warrant to be delivered
by Sheriff McMullen within few days.
Edward B. and Louise Kinsila have
sued the Southern Pacific Company for
$4,000. They were passengers on a
train running from San Francisco to
Yuma, which ran down steep grade
without the engine, on April il, five
years ago. The plaintiffs were IN the
jured.
The steamer City of Peking arrived
from Hong Kong and Yokohama at San
Francisco the other night, fifteen days
two hours and forty minutes from the
latter port, being the best time ever
made by this steamer. She brought 1os
Chinese passengers in the steerage
Count and Countess Yamuda of Japan
were among the passengers.
The sugar supply of San Francisco if
short. At this season there is always G
large demand, caused by the opening oi
canneres, summer resorts, fruit-preserv
ing factories and other establishments
At present the supply does not begin te
equal the demand. Lately raw sugar re
ceipts have been comparatively light
and to aggravate the situation only one
refinery has been busy, the American
having been closed down by order OF the
conrt some time ago. Owing to the ligh
receipts of raw sugar, the California re
fnery (Spreckel's) has been turning ou
much less than usual. The scarcity oi
sugar is regarded by California refinery
people as only temporary, as numbel
OF vessels are on the way from Hawai-
and Java with raw sugar cargoes.