The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-17
THE PACIFIC COAST.
Work to be Resumed on the Astoria
and South Coast Railway.
The Oakland SalOOnkeepers Contemplate
Starting an Opposition Brewery
to the Syndicate.

Work on the jesties at Yaquina bay
has been resumed.
Ground is broken 1T Sscranente for
the new Federal building.
The cry for more cars to move lumber
at Portland is still heard, and Union Pa
cific officials promise early relief.
People in Southern New Mexico
threaten to organize and kill Indians il
the renegades do not cease their raids.
Olympic mountain explorers report an
unlimited quantity of the finest of tim
Der, indications of coal and auriferous
minerals and swarms of fish in the
streams.
James Dunn and George Martin, who
were collector and bookkeeper in the
agency of the Santa Fe Company at Los
Angeles, are missing, and so also is about
S., 900 in their accounts.
Citizens of Modoc county, CAL. Lake
county, Or, and Washoe county, New,
have petitioned Congress against the
proposed abandonment of Fort Bidwell as
military reservation.
1t is estimated that wheat and hops
will bring into the State of Washington
this season about $l2,0OO,OOO, lumber
and coal about SIS, ,00J, 600. and that rail
way construction will bring in $50 900,
700 more within eighteen months.
A site has been given Whatcom coun-
ty, WASH, for the erection of county
FOL inf md no Nnrp1 Ic.
sioners have ordered vote to be taken
at the general election in November on
the proposition to expend $4,000 in
erecting an adequate building.
The gross earnings of the Southern
Pacific system for August were "a ,483,
769; and the gross earnings for the year
up to date were $50, 130, 900, against S29, :
497 800 last year. The total operating
expenses to date for 1890 were $50 ,396, y
600, against $40, III 900 last year.
Thomas Nolan, second mate of the
ship Yorktown, has been acquitted at
San Francisco by Commissioner Sawyer
of the charge of cutting adrift boat
containing Boatswain James Weston
during recent voyage. The testimony
went to show that Nolan risked his life
to save Weston:
Work is to be resumed at once on the
construction of the Astoria end South
Coast railway, and the contract has
been let to Chinese from Portland for
grading seven miles out from Hillsboro,
and at Astoria to another Chinese firm
for grading several miles up the Lewis
and Clarke rivers.
One day last week ten masked men
took land lawyer, James Harrington,
from the jail at Bakersfield, CAL, gagged
him, conveyed him to a lonely spot
stripped him and applied a coat of tar
and feathers to him. He had been ar
rested on complaint of settler, whom,
it is charged, he had engaged in con-
test of perjury.
Sturgeon are reported as very scarce
in the Columbia above Astoria. The
reason assigned for their scarcity is the
myriads of sardines that are at present
being caught at the mouth of the river
This is the spawning season with the
sardines. and the sturgeon, living prin-
cipally on small fish, will not ascend up
the river until the sardines disappear.
A scheme is on foot among saloon.
keepers of Oakland to start new brew.
cry in opposition to the English syndi-
cate, which owns all the breweries In
that city except one small one. Some Of
the former employees OF the Oakland
brewery are in the movement, and about
one-third of the money needed has al
ready been subscribed, largely by sa-
loonkeepers.
The bill for the exploration of the in
terror of Alaska, to which the House
| Committee on Military Affairs has de,
voted considerable time, has been re-
ported to the House with a recommend
alton favorable to its passage. The re.
port was made by Mr.. Rockwell OF
Massachusetts, who briefly reviews the
object aimed at by the bill. He says
that while the coast of Alaska has been
| followed and mapped almost nothing is
known of the interior.
In the Superior Court the jury in the
case of Mrs. w. L. Coenene against the
Los Angeles Gable Railway Company
found verdict for the plaintiff and
awarded her $4,000 damages. In No.
vember, 1888, the plaintiff and her hus.
band were riding in wagon in East
Los Angeles. A double horse car of the
cable company collided with the wagon
and Mrs. Coenene was thrown to the
ground. AS result she sustained ser.
ious injuries and is now bedridden.
The Southern Pacific passenger de
partment will shortly send some Of it!
employees to make sketches or photo
graphs of the Sequoia National Parf
tract of land, about forty-fve miles cas-
of Fresno, Cal, containing the forest O
big trees which Congress recently re
served for park purposes. Photographer
are also to be sent to Crater lake, fifty Of
sixty miles northeast of Ashland, Or
But little is known of this lake, which il
described as being large sheet OF watel
in the crater of an extinct volcano.
person standing on the edge OF the crate
is said to look down upon lake 2,OO(
feet below him.
The annual report of the Northern Pa
citic, to be presented at the annual meet
| ing of the stockholders on October 81, j
said to make splendid showing. Th'
company has in its treasury So, COG. 900
| the earnings accumulated during th'
past five wears. and most of this amour
will ultimately be paid to preferred
stockholders. The proxy committee thi
year consists of Charles L. Colby, G. B
Wright and Thomas F. Cakes. The Ia
coma Land. Company has arranged t.
give entrance into that city to all rail
roads converging at that point, an
President Wright has approved OF tn
sale of thirty-fve acres OF land for ter
minals at Tacoma To the Union Pacific