The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-05-02
THE PACIFIC COAST.
Judge Deadly Decides That the
Glidden Patents Invalid.
1t is Said That the Atchison Will
Extend Its Railroad From Mo-
AVE to San Francisco.

estate boom.
Every rancher in Nevada is now busy
sowing grain.
An uprising of the Indians at the
Tongue River reservation in Montana is
threatened.
The lumber yard of L. Voss, south of
Nevada, Cal. was burned the other night
by an incendiary fire; loss, $4,000.
The towns of Whatcom and Sehome.
Wash, are to be joined in one corpora
ton with limits four miles square.
The Los Angeles Herald protests
against the importing of orange trees
from Florida, as they will introduce new
fruit pests.
Judge Deadly in the United States Cir
cult Court at Portland held that the
Glidden patents for barbed wire are in
valid.
The vineyards in Tulare and Fresno
counties, CAL, not projected by wire fenc-
ing ave suffering from the 1avages of
rabbits.
The Democrats at Butte City, Mont,
carried the election by majority of 255,
electing the Mayor and six out Of seven
Rumor is prevalent at Los Angeles
that the Santa Fe has under considera-
tion the extension of it's line north from
Mcjave to San Francisco.
That part of Tacoma known as "The
Gulch" will he spanned by br dge $50
feet long by 16 f. ct wide. The bithest
bent W II be 144 feet from the ground.
N. A. Cornish of Blaine, Wash. and
associates have applied TO the Controller
of the Currency for permission to organ
ize the First National bank at that place
A young Indian committed suicide at
New. He tied cord to
the trigger of a rife, put the muzzle to
his breast and pulled the cord with his
foot.
The lumbermen of Portland have Or
ganized lumbermen's exchange, which
eight mills there. three at Van
couver and six at other points on the Co.
lumbia river.
William Fippin, Jr., was seriously in
jured by a cave in prospect shaft of the
Rough and Ready mine at Grass Valley,
Cal. His back and abdomen were
crushed by falling rock.
James Lenehar, San Francisco team
ster, had his legs crushed while unload
ing heavy iron pirders at the New City
hail. He was badly nangled, and there
is little hope of his recovery.
Frank Williams, under indictment for
stages and mail near Weaver
vile, Auburn and Redding, CAL, was
placed on trial in the United States Dis
trict Court at San Francisco last week.
The total value of exports from Port
Townsend in March was 1886, ,461, of
Which American vessels carried all but
s67 $40. The value of imports was $8,-
7O3. and the duty collected was $6, ,99l.22.
William Splain, convicted of man
for killing John Tobin during
saloon quarrel in San Francisco some
months ago, has been sentenced to five
years in the State prison.
The following-namedn national bank has
been authorized to commence business:
Port Townsend National bank, Port Town
send, WASH. capital, 100000; Prfsl-
dent, f. M. Wade; cashier, w. A. Wit
cox.
The Jury in the case of Will Paine,
who shot and killed Ed Maxwell during
a drunken row in San Jose lat February,
disagreed after an all-night deliberation.
They stood II to l for conviction OF man
slaughter.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Ratchelder thinks the commander OF the
Rush did right when he passed the mouth
of he Columbia with the Portland mall
during the SNOW blockade and delivered
it at Tacoma.
The Mechanics Fair, San Francisco,
has been postponed in order to give the
Native Sons of the Golden West use OF
the pavilion in which to celebrate the
anniversary of California's admission
into the Union.
The Union Pacific has absorbed the
Tacoma and Lake City railroad. Ii IS
claimed this will give the Union Paclfc
practical control of the State Capital and
western peninsular traffic from the east
and west side of Puget sound.
The sporting men of Pendleton, Or,
love dog fight better than anything IN
the world. They own a prize bull pup
that Id the field against all comers. un-
til one dav last week it tackled yellow
dog that straved into town after IFS own
er. a Chinese vegetable peddler He
backed his dog liberall. and after bret
fight the bull pup was dead and the Chi
nese walked away with a pot OF money
The Seattle Press, in speaking OF the
unnecessary number of clerks employed
by the legislature at Olympia, says that
one clerk drew $40 for attending three
committee meetings another has drawn
nearlv 5000 for no more work; several
have dawn S35 week throughout the
session who could not inte ligently take
notes of the proceedings OF a commltiee
OF decently write out report OF the COM
mittee's action.
E.W. Pierce, postmaster OF Turlock,
Cal has been indicted on seventeen
counts for issuing fraudulent postoffice
monav-orders. Pierce was recently con-
victed ON eleven charges of misdemeanor
for similar offenses and fined $50 on each.
He cannot pay the money, and it was
feared he might secure his release at the
expiration of thirty days under the prior
deb.or's law, and the new Indictment
was found to prevent him from getting
off SO easily.
The postage on letter from the United
States through England to India ls