The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-26
THE PACIFIC COAST.
Steamship Runs Into an Iceberg in
Glacier Bay, Alaska.
An Effort Being Made in the State of
Oregon to Secure Repeal of
the USury Laws.

In session dC BOISE C1Jy.
An approximation of the population
of Helena, Mont, under the recount
makes it about Ii, 600.
The crater of Mount Baker is reported
by the ranchers OF Baker river as spew.
ing out volumes of smoke and fine lava
at intervals this summer.
The assessment rolls of Spokane Falls
show the valuation of her city property
to be $18, 100000. This is an increase OF
$4,000, 900 over last year.
A mortgage was recorded in Seattle,
on Saturday that calls for $50 ,O0O,O to
extend the Northern Pacific from ASSN
aboine, Mont, to Puget sound.
An effort is being made in Oregon to
secure the repeal of its usury and mort
gage tax laws. 1t is claimed they have
stunted the State and driven capital into
Washington.
By an explosion of giant powder at the
Elgin quicksilver mine near Colusa, Cal.
Alex Davis was fatally injured, and
others were badly bruised The report
was distinctly heard at distance of four
miles.
Copper from the mines in the south
part of Josephine county, Or, has begun
to arrive by the wagon-load, says the
Grants Pass Courier. This will be
shipped to San Francisco for practical
mill test.
| Bradstreet's Mercantile Agency reports
twenty-three failures in the Pacific Coast
States and Territories for the past week,
as compared with eleven for the previous
week and nine for the corresponding
week of 1889.
Large strings of carp are taken from
Kings river by fishermen. The fish bite
easily, and are from one to fourteen
inches long. They are from the stock
put in several years ago by the Fish
! Commissioners.
James HI. Barry, publisher of the San
Francisco Weekly Star, who some time
ago was arrested and found guilty of con-
tempt in criticising Judge Sawyer of the
| Superior Court, has been denied a writ
of habeas corpus.
The Trustees of the Lick estate have
accepted Happersberger's designs for a
bronze statuary provided for in the will,
and contracts will be let Immediately.
The statuary will be placed in the City
| hall at San Francisco, and will cost $780,
600.
The sailors at Nanaimo and Departure
Bay met and passed resolutions of SYM
pathy and support of the Wellington
coal mine strikers. The sailors will en-
deavor to prevent any of their class
shipping on any vessel that is intended
to carry coal mined by scab labor.
A special from Helena, Mont, says
ennes, following the discharge of Fergu-
sons murderers, has so incensed the set
tiers that they declare they will send
their women and children to Miles City
and start on war of determination
against the Cheyennes.
w. B. Taylor, tried and convicted in
the United States District Court at San
Francisco for cruelty to seamen, was SEN
fenced by Judge Hoffman to one years
Imprisonment in the Alameda county
Jail and to pay fine of 500. The COM
plainant was Captain Alanson Ford OF
the American ship st. Paul.
Delegates to the California Worlds
Fair Convention assembled at MetrOpol-
itan hall, San Francisco, and effected an
organization. Every portion Of the State
was represented, and the delegates were
enthusiastic in the preliminary work OF
placing California in condition to be
| fully represented at the Worlds Fair.
The steamship George w. Elder while
passing through Glacier bay, Alaska, at
half speed ran into an iceberg, which
drove hole three feet square into
the vessel. She had to be beached and
the break temporarily repaired so as to
allow her to continue her voyage to Vic
toria. The vessel will go to San Fran
cisco and be docked.
The schooner City of San Diego has
Just arrived at San Francisco from the
North. The captain reports his catch as
two seals and one otter. The catch tor
the season is said to have been only four
teen offers and twenty seals. The
schooner brought back three men out OF
crew of fifteen, the others having de-
serted in Alaska. The captain said that
during the entire season he was able TO
lower his boats only twice.
The California Athletic Club at San
Francisco gave its usual monthly exhlbl-
ton the other evening, Sidney Hunting
ton and Charley Rochette, local light
weights. being matched to finish for a
small purse. The contest was very tame,
but after Huntington had drawn blood
from Rochette's nose in the sixteenth,
nineteenth and twentieth rounds the pO-
lice entered the ring and ordered the
fight stopped. The boys started to fight
the twentv-first round, and were, to-
gether with their principals, promptly
placed under arrest.
The Board of Equalization of Lake
county made reduction OF Sal ,84S. IL
from its Assessors returns, and added
$3. 100. leaving the total taxable property
of Lake county for 1890, as equallzed Dy
the Board, 81 1885,, ,988.21. This amount
will stand as it is unless the County
Court should conclude to make some
changes. The total taxable property
for 1889 was 81 ,678, ,356.81, considerable
more than this year, which is accounted
for by the great loss of stock last winter.
THE rate of taxation is the same as last
year-$I.75 per 500.
new town has been laid out sixteen
miles above Mehama, where the Oregon
Pacific crosses the North fork of the San
tam. The townsite embraces fifteen
acres. and is on the land of Clarence
Brown. 1t is now the eastern terminus
of the Oregon Pacific, and contains saw
mill and about fifteen houses, among
them a schoolhouse in course of con-
struction. A postofice will at once bt
petitioned for. The new town is In Ma
rion county, and Niagara is the name
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