The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01

THE PACIFIC COAST.
The Liberals Capture the Salt
Lake School Board.
A California Ex-ASSemblyman Arrested
for Forging Supervisors
Name to a Note.

Seattle is to vote on a new charter
within few weeks.
The scheme for a new theater at Sar
Diego has collapsed.
The Goblin moth is hard at work in the
Upper Willamette valley.
Tacoma claims to have found district
where 200 had not been county.
The School Board just chosen at Sail
Lake stands seven Liberals to three
Mo- mons.
A valuable vein of Ignite is reported
to have been found on Mount Yulapa, in
Sonoma county, Cal.
Henry Jackson, a civil engineer, who
disappeared from Astoria, Or, in April
has turned up in Victoria.
The troops are leaving Fort Mcdowell
near Phoenix, A. T., and an Indian school
will shortly be established there.
A plan for the Portland, Or, Chamber
of Commerce has been adopted. 1t will
be of sandstone and eight stories high.
The assessment roll at Los Angeles
shows the total taxable property of the
city. real and personal, to be a trifle over
$47 100000.
Receiver Dyer, at Salt Lake, has re-
signed his receivership of the Mormon
church property, and asks the court to
appoint his successor as soon as possible.
Some sheep men tried to pasture a
large band in the Fort Ellis reservation,
Montana, recently, but the grass was
doctored with saltpeter one night, and
400 dead sheep were found next morn
ing.
A war between the Canadian Pacific
and Northern Pacific, in connection with
the Oregon Short Line, for the China
trade is talked of at Victoria, and Cana
di, n Pacific steamers are to run to San
Francisco.
Mrs. Brown, representing q Chinese
mission at San Francisco, succeeded in
rescuing Chinese girl from vile house
in Chinatown at Sacramento, where she
had been taken by party Of Mongolian
conspiratore.
During the year ending June 80, 1890,
the shipments of wheat from San Fran
cisco to foreign countries amounted to
13, 7e2, 19i centals, valued at SIT ,999, ,C67.
During 1888 and 1889 the exports were
13, ,385, ,095 centals.
Two hundred coal miners are on a
strike at Gallnp, N. M. The strikers de-
mand that 400 pounds of coal consti-
tute ton, instead of 2,6C0 pounds, as
now, and have also asked for raise of
Is cents on the ton.
The volcanoes Fugnac and Illama, near
Cooks inlet, have been active, and sew
eral severe shocks of earthquake have
been felt A large quantity Of ashes and
in places large stones have fallen in the
Immediate vicinity.
Squatters have gone on the military
reservation near Fort Angeles, WASH,
and the jumping fever extends even to
Port Townsend. The squatters are reg
ularly organized and prepared to contest
any claim the government may institute.
Hon. J. M. Damen has been arrested
at Los Angeles on charge of having on
May l affixed the name of S. M. Perry,
Chairman of the County Board of Super
visors, to a note for 500, which was dis
counted by the California Lsan and Trust
Company. Damen was formerly an As
semblyman from the Los Angeles dis
trict.
Billy Hoffman,, while at work on the
Newmarket ranch, east of Reno, drank
cOpiously from a stream of water, along
the ditcbway of which some wild pars
nips were growing. An hour afterward
a son of the ranchman found him almost
insensible on the ground. The water of
the same ditch has already killed several
of Mr.. Newmaker's cattle.
Admiral Hatham, on his flagship War
spite, bas reached Victoria, and was in
terviewed on the Behring sea question.
He had no orders to specially 60 into
Behring sea, and believed there was no
need OF display of force. His opinions
on the right of the United States to
closed sea were flattering to the most
pronounced Canadian sealer.
The Butte, Mont, Miner has won a
victory over it's compositors, who struck
because the foreman, proof-reader and
telegraph editor were not discharged at
the bidding of the men. Mr.. Cummings
went to Butte in the interest of the In
ternational Typographical Union and
settled the matter. Everybody returns
10 work as if nothing had occurred.
Over 100000 gallons of California wine
were cleared for New York a few days ago
on the ship M. P. Grace. This shipment,
added to the previous consigomerts by
rail and sea, makes the total wine ship
ments from California to the East go far
this year nearly 3,O0O,0O gallons, show
ing very considerable gain over that for
the corresponding period of last year.
May Comstock of Sacramento has re-
ceived letter from James Clay of Bell 8
Landing, Pa, whose mother is sister OF
the late Governor Bigler, asking if the
latter left will in California. The writer
says that all the nearer relatives of Bigler
are dead, and the sister claims any prop
erty he may have left there.
First Engineer Devere of the steam
ship Jennie, while the vessel was at
Cook inlet, Alaska. quarreled with the
second engineer, nime unknown. De
veee knocked his opponent senseless, ,th. .
picked him up and threw him on the
moving machinery, which maugled him
so that death resulted The dead man is
said to have widowed mother and two
sisters at San Francisco, whom he sup
ported.
man WlCn H8HukcICulci over LIS
face and a pistol in his hand robbed the
money drawer of the Coronado ferry Of
fee the other night. Miss Louise Harri-
SON is the cashier. and she was easily
awed into silence, while the burglar in
his nervousness got but 80 cents from the
drawer, but this was done with watch
man within fifteen feet of him. The
robber said he had had nothing to eat for
days, and begged the lady's pardon tor
alarming her.