The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-03
THE PACIFIC COAST.
A TRUSTED EMPLOYE AT PoRr.
LAND ABSCOUNDs
With $1150-Attempt at Suicide In
Seattle-Portland to Ha, Q Mardl.
Gras Display-Eartf quake at
San Francisco.

S1sh cSoAClSCOs
The wreck of the Idaho is being pil
laged.
The Signal is to replace the los
Idaho.
Salem has ! sanized another Odd Eel
low lodge.
Mount Hood is covered unusually
deep with snow.
Sandy Olds will be tried for a thirt
time at Portland.
Walla Walla mas been having plent,
of good sleighing.
Portland's Italians have organized {
mutual aid society.
A Trinidad. Col, $50, 900 livery stabl,
was destroyed by fire,
San Francisco had four slight earth
quake shocks last week.
Portland has just paid $11 900 for al
addition to her county Jail.
The Tacoma Globe has received
oouDle cylinder Hoe press.
The reports of the fall rains are en-
couraging from all sections
The Lurline was damaged $1,000 BY
high winds at Rooster Rock.
The Oregonian's New Years edition
will contain thirty-two pages.
Pendleton is building two new bank
buildings at a cost of 100000.
The Floods are building a $lOO,OO(
mauso!eum at San Francisco.
About $50 Chinese left San Francisco
for home on the last steamship.
Archbishop Gross says the pope spoke
highly to him of the United States.
Portland is to have a Mardi Gras dis
play from the St. Paul ice arrival.
Tom Mccarthy beat Joe Connolly a
San Francisco in four rounds for $500.
The schooner Barbara was wrecked Al
SheltoD Cove. The crew were all saved
Shipping circles at Portland and Asto
ria are astir with boarding-house troub es
Albert Southwick was trampled on by
horse at Seattle, and narrowly escaped
death.
Corvallis has incorporated a stree
railway company with capital stock O
$4,000.
Preparations are making in Portland
for building a magnificent Masonic
temple.
The Oregon G. A. r is agitating the
matter of establishing posts of Sons oi
Veterans.
The Croker Estate Company will buy
Sutter Fort and present it to the city o1
Sacramento.
The owners of City View Park will
allow it to be used for another spring and
fall as race course.
Five county supervisors at San Diego
are charged with malappropriating $780,.
600 OF public funds.
Davis, Seattle convict, has recently
made two unsuccessful attempts to es-
cape from the penitentiary.
The Mayfower Milling and Minin
Company. of Idaho, has incorporated al
Portland with 5000, 900.
Two employees of the steamship Geo
w. Elder quarrelled while drunk ano
one was fatally stab led.
John Flynn sued the real estate com.
pany he had been working for at Port
land for SIS, ,O47, and got nothing.
A complete set of burglars tools were
captured with two burglars at Seattle
before they had begun operations.
It is proposed to double the present
National Guard armory at Portland
which already covers half block.
Domestic trouble made Mrs. Ora
waick, Of Seattle, attempt suicide by
drowning. Bystanders saved her.
A party of Denver capitalists have
purchased the great Ryan smelter OF La
coma. The purchase price is unknown
Mrs. Hoffman, an inmate of the Salem
aaylum, escaped and died in an uuoccu
pied house from exposure and starvation
The secretary of war will be memorial
lied by citizens of the Board OF Trade tt
increase the military force at Fort Walls
Walla.
The last carload or Salem's woolel
mills machinery has arrived and tn
mill will begin operations in about tw'
weeks.
Governor Waterman, of California, ha
appointed Charles F. Bailey. OF For
Townsend, commissioner OF deeds 10
California.
Maxi. Henderson, trusted employ
of q. T. Wright, of Portland, absconde
from Port Townsend with $1150 of hi
employers money.
An alleged correspondent OF the Inter
Ocean has been sentenced to the Saien
penitentiary for year for fraudulentl
obtaining money in Portland.
Annie Sommers, 7 years of age, die
in San Francisco from the effects OF
kick from a horse. She was struck O.
the temple and her skull broken.
Some of Portland's capitalists are buy
ing land in the Chinese quarters, an
gradually encroaching on Chinatown b
The erection of fine business blocks
A timber claim agert named Beave
opened an Office at Spokane, but wa
promptly arrested on telegraphic orde
from Tacoma, charging him with lrresr
larities there.
JJ. Doris, of Albany, died OF heal
disease while walking home at nlgn
and was found by his sons lying IN
pool Of water on the street where ne ma
fallen face downward.
Four cars we're derailed at Pendleto
depot by defective switch. Ihe ca, ca,
were badly damaged, but the passenger
escaped without scratch. The locom'
tive did not leave the track.
The Woman's Christian Temperate
Union of Tacoma has decided IN favor
circulating petition to the state leglsil
ture asking the appointment OF poiltt
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