The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-08
THE PACIFIC COAST.
Novelty Iron Works Will Resume
With Union Molders.
The Fraser River Salmon Catch Reported
to be a Complete Failure
Other News.

at OJay, san DegO, Cal.
Los Angeles county, CAL, shows %, ,OO7
white school children, IA ,478 of whom
are boys.
General Miles has been generously
welcomed by the citizens of Albuquer-
que, N. M.
The amount of defalcation of Austin,
the youthful Treasurer of Marin county,
CAL, will reach $1,000.
Washoe is the only county in Nevada
that shows an increase in population
over the census of the figures ten years
ago.
Lung Chung has been arrested and
charged with bribery. He tried to buy
the way of 200 Cinnamon over the line
from Ensenada.
DR.. Herrick, quarantine officer on the
Mexican border, reports many cases Of
smallpox all through the valley of the
Rio Grande in New Mexico.
An unknown barkentine, believed to
be the Klikitat from San Francisco, is
ashore four miles south of Cape Flattery
on the rocks in dangerous position.
A reward of $4,000 will be paid by the
Provincial Government for the arrest of
the stage robber who plundered the Car
iboo (B. c. stage few days ago. The
taken was $4,l00.
The Mayor and Chamber of Commerce
at Portland are ordered to 60 ahead with
their census recount. The new names
will be carefully compared with the re-
turns in the hands of the government.
General Miles has gone to Nogales to
with the Mexican authorities the
details of any agreement which may be
made with Mexico concerning the cross
ing of the line while in pursuit of rene
gade Indians.
The Oregon Short Line and Utah
Northern are sued at The Dalles for $685.
900 by four of the wounded and the rela-
tives of the five men who were killed by
the falling of car through bridge at
the Cascades last February.
The Victoria Colonist says the Cana
dian Pacific Railroad Company offered
to keep its steamships on the China line
away from San Francisco if the Pacific
Mail Company would agree to pay it
$144 900 a year bonus. This liberal offer
was declined.
A will made twenty-four years ago by
A. J. Davis, a deceased Butte Mont. }
has been filed, which makes
his brother, John Davis of Butte, his
sole heir. Annuities are given to two
children. The estate is val
ued at Sc, 100000
The Nevada City Herald says: Fruit
men believe that coyotes are their best
friends, because they are death on rab-
bits. Our Board of Supervisors has
thought it advisable to withdraw the IS
bounty for coyote scalps. Placer county
has done the same thing.
The Union Pacific road has aroused
much hostility at Garfield, WASH, by an
to supplant white labor by Chi
nese. One gang of the Mongolians was
driven off, and the white super
resigned in preference to con-
trolling gang of the heathens.
The Governor of New Mexico has Of
fered reward of 500 for the arrest and
conviction of the murderer of Jacob
Slutzman at Las Vegas, and same amount
for the detection of any one found cut
ting fences or burning railroad ties
within the Territory. These ofenses
have been frequent during the past eight
News comes from the Fraser river
that the salmon catch 80 far is COM
1of foil nd
than ten fish to each boat. Although
nearly all the eanneries are now in rum
ming order, most Of the boats have been
taken off to await the long-expected run,
as the present catch will not pay for the
wear and tear of the nets, to say nothing
of the wages of the fishermen.
Some anxiety is felt for the British
ship Hospodar, now out 384 days from
London for San Francisco. On Decem-
Der q she put into Rio de Janeiro, with
he1 rigging damaged. On March IL last
she again proceeded on her voyage, and
is now 131 days out from the port she
touched at. An average passage from
Rio de Janeiro is considered to be about
LOG days. The Hospodar should have
already been in port, barring accidents.
Arrangements have been completed
for the reopening OF the Novelty Iron
Works at San Francisco. The works
have been entirely closed down since the
first week of the strike, the foundry be-
ing one of those belonging to the Engi-
neers' and Iron Founders Association.
A few days since an agreement was en-
tered into with the iron molders' union
which provides that the works shall be
run in accordance with the rules and
regulations of the iron mOlders' union.
At San Francisco Inspector Of Customs
Ausinder seized 100 tins of opium the
other morning, which were brought into
port on the steamer China. Ausinder
was making the rounds of the ship in a
small boat, when his attention was at
tracted by package which had been
showed through one of the coal ports. A
second package was also dropped quietly
into the water. The Inspector found
four boxes in all, each containing twen-
ty-fve fve-tael tins. The smugglers
were not apprehended.
A few DAYS ago rumor was rampant
in San Francisco that the barkentlne
Marion was secretly receiving cargo OF
arms and ammunition to be dispatched
to the warning Republics in Central
America. The rumor was generally cred
tied, as it was known that several
schooner masters had been approached
with the same offer It transpires, how
ever. that the rumor is merely canard.
AS a matter of fact the Marion lately re-
ceived cargo of dynamite, which is
destined for the Honduras mines. The
Marion sailed for Hunduras July %.