The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-07

The San Francisco Supervisors Pass
an Ordinance Removing China
town to South San Francisco.
War is being made on Spokan's gam
blers.
Englishmen will run the Spokane say
mill property.
A fisherman was shot and killed in a
quarrel at Rainier.
Trains are now running from San
Francisco to Ashland.
A receiver has been appointed for the
American sugar refinery.
Heavy rains in San Francisco, Bakers
field and St. Helena, Cal.
Ellensburgh has formed a Board of
Trade with 100 members.
Arthur Proebstel was drowned in La
Camas creek while rafting.
There are now 1,OO6 prisoners in the
Walla Walla penitentiary.
The Hassalo and the Otter collided at
Seattle with small damage.
Miss Jessie G. Baker has been nomi-
mated postmistress at La Grande.
A Corvallis woodchopper accidentally
cut his head fatally while at work.
Grant Israel, the Comstock miner and
operator, is dead at San Francisco.
Graham, Idaho, lost clearinghouse
and mile of tramway il snowslide.
Losses to bridges and roads by the flood
in Lane county, Oregon, amount to $50
900.
San Francisco will endeavor to move
Chinatown b. less central part of the
city.
Jack Dempsey, with his family, will
leave San Francisco for Portland in few
days.
J. B. Pace will succeed j r. Mcdonald
as President of the Seattle and Lake
Shore road.
President Stanford denies that he will
resign from the Presidency of the Cen
trail Pacific railroad.
1t is still showing at Nevada City and
Grass Valley, CAL, and raining hard at
Ukiah and St. Helena.
D. B. Stephens of Selma, Cal. Was
struck by locomotive while crossing
railroad track and killed.
James and George Alexander (colored)
were drowned while skating on pond at
Victoria. The ice broke.
The daughter of Jacob OFT of Olympia
had her leg broken while coasting, and
will be necessary.
George Bruggy shot and killed Dick
Loursen at Windsor, Cal. They had
been drinking and q-larreling.
General John E. Ross died at Jackson
vile of heart disease. He had lived in
that town for nearly forty years.
D.. Carter of Boise City, Idaho, has
been appointed superintendent of con-
struction of the Idaho penitentiary.
Thomas B. Merry has gone to Australia
to purchase SIS, 900 worth of brood mares
for S. A. Rose, a Los Angeles horseman.
The Alta irrigation district, embracing
135, 900 acres in the San Joaquin valley,
has been organized under the Wright
law.
Judge A. G. Bradford, Register of the
United States land Office in San Fran
cisco, died suddenly on train at Irving
ton.
The police of Spokane Falls refused to
let Jerry Flowers and William j. Ken
dali, colored heavy weights, fight prize
fight.
The schooner Rosal;nd from San Fran
cisco to Coos bay has gone ashore north
of Rogue river. The crew reached land
in safety.
Six pris oners crawled through hole
in the Eugene (Or.) jail and escaped.
Among the number was Reed, the timber
land swiudler.
Victor Ketzelman, watchman on the
schooner Lewis, at San Francisco fell
through an open hatchway of the vessel,
and was killed.
Three men, lost from the sealing
schooner Lille w. were picked up by
the keeper of Trinidad lighthouse on the
California coast.
The ball held at Olympia in honor of
Washington's birthday was pronounced
success and largely attended, about sixty
couples being present.
J. w. Strange of Union has received
his appointment as census supervisor,
and applications for enumerators' posi-
tions are now in order.
August Peterson was killed by pre-
mature explosion of giant powder at Bur
nett, a small station on the Cascade
division of the Northern Pacific railruad.
Thomas Yelverton, proprietor of lodg-
mg-house in San Francisco, died from a
kick in the stomach administered week
previous by John Carey. Carey is in
custody.
The suit of Sebastian Fisher against
the estate of Charles Mclaughlin, de-
ceased, of Stockton, CAL, involving 200,
900 acres of land, has been settled by
compromise.
The steamer Australia from Honolulu
has arrivs at San Francisco with John
Dillon and Sir Thomas III. Grattan Es-
monde, mem bers of the English Parlla-
ment, on board.
Billy Pearson, colored middle weight,
has been arr. sted at Stockton. Cal, for
the attempted robbery of Robert Haas, a
brick|ayer He drew knife, and de.
manded Haas money.
Near Harris station, on the Oregon
Pacific railroad, bank caved in and fell
on gong of bridge carpenters at work
below, seriously injuring Charles Gray
and William Buchanan.
An English manager has wired JACK
Dempsey at San Francisco an offer to &c
to England and fight Toff Ward or some