The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19
EASTERN ITEMS.
The Little Missouri Range Swept
BY a Prairie Fire.
The President Extends the Tine for the
Cattle Kings TO Remove Their
Stock from the Territory.

Ex-senator I. C. Platt OF New York
has declined the proffered Spanish Mis-
SION
The population Of Rhode Island Is
gwen as S45. .St3. In 1850 the population
was 276,53l.
A syndicate OF American capital
lsts L to spend $1,000. .O1O in railway
building in Jamaica
One OF the largest worsted mills in
PrOyldenee has been recapitalized in
England and the stock sold.
4 vast syndicate OF physicians and
others have q project OF establishing a
health resort and sanitarium In Florida.
1t Is believed at Washington that Be
nleia, Cal, viii be selected bv the gov
eminent at which 10 establish an ord
nance foundry.
Mayor Frank P. Schiff bauer OF Kan
sas City, Kan. has been arrested and
charged with embezzling about $4,000
OF the city funds
Official dispatches from Honolulu do
not show anything calculated 10 cause
alarm The report that revolution Is
rife Is discresiited.
Guests At St. Louis hotels help them
selves since the walters strike. and the
best OF II Is they are not 80 long about
II and they have no walters 10 tip.
Statistics show that the cotton crou
this year Il the greatest ever produced.
and that the growers are less in debt
than at any time for twenty-five years.
The Grant Memorial Association has
already raised s151, 900, and needs to
raise $3.50 900 more In order 10 erect the
proposed monument in honor OF General
Grant.
4 suggestion for second Boston ne
mortal To John BOYLE O'Reilly calls for Z
charity farm OF 100 acres near Boston
for that city's homeless Roman Catholic
children.
1t Is reported in Boston that note of
the Worcester Steel Works has been pro
tested The capital OF the company i
$50. 600. but the Commercial Agency
gives IL No rating.
The committee having in charge the
adjustment OF the Virginia debt an
nOunce> that Ii has on deposit 4 large
majority OF all classes OF the securities
under the agreement.
The freight brakemen On the Pittshurg.
Shenandoah and Lake Erie railroad at
Mercer, Pa, have gone on strike for an
advance In wages, and al freight traffic
Is suspended In consequence.
1t il understood in Wall street at New
York that N0rvin Green Is about 10 re-
sign as President Of the Western
Union Telegraph Company. He Is 10
be succeeded bv George Gould
Mr. Morrow Il not candidate for the
vacancy OccaSi0ned by the resignation
OF First Assistant Postmaster General
ClarksOn. Mr.. Morrow saws he viii
start for home zs soon as Congress ad-
j1urns-
The first weeks engagement OF Miss
Emma Juch proved the most successful
ever known IN the history OF Denver.
The grOss receipts. which lar exceeded
that OF the Patti Company, amounted
TO nearly 50, 600.
JOhnJ. Knox, ex-United States Con-
trOIIer. who arrived in New York from
France. said that the American silver
legislation. which has caused an advance
in the price Of silver, was looked upon
with favor IN Europe
The President has agreed, upon the
receipt OF q written guarantee that halt
Of the cattle OF Indian Territory viii De
removed bv November l. that he viii
extend the time for the removal OF the
remainder To December l.
A New York evening paper says Pc
titiOn Is being circulated among the
stockholders OF the Illinois Central urg-
inc them to rise in rebellion against the
nresent management The petition SAYS
the company Is practically on the verge
OF ruin
Two St Louis physicians have filed
complaints In the Probate Court for In
0uirv as to the sanity OF Mrs Wood
worth. the evangelist and leader OF the
Oakland (Cal-) dOom-seaiers, who has
has been holding meeting at ST. LOUIS
for several months
About dozen scientists, archseOlOglsts-
botanists and zOOlOgists are about To ex-
More Arizona and New Mexico TO exam
Ine the remains OF ancient civilization,
antedating, 1t i said, that OF the AzEecs
and existing principally IN the Gila val
lev. in the northwest part OF ArlzOna.
The peculiar habits OF the ZunI and
Navajo Indians viii also be Investigated
A prairie fire ravaged thousands Oi
acres along the Little Missouri river ten
davs ago. and the great cattle range was
swept clear The fire was put cut oy
means OF horses, which were killed and
used a. drags TO exringuish the flames.
The horses were split up the back and
their csrcasses dragged over the country
by long ropes Twelve hundred head Of
horses were used
The South Park Commissioners have
decided not TO tender the Washington
rark a. . site for the Worlds Fair a
rr1uested by the Exposition Directors.
They add that they have already made
tender OF the unimpr0ved portion Oi
JasksDn park and viii now add thereto
the improved area OF that park, maklns
= total acreage 80 rendered OF go acres
4 mile and = half OF the frontage on the
axe shore l. included IN the tender
The Senate COMMITTEES On Private Land
Claims through Mr. COlquitt has madE
an elaborate report on the bill 10 reim
burse the grantees. their legal represent
stiyes and the assigns OF the PunTa ID
Taruns Mexican land grant In California
f0r lands OF which they were deprlvet
bv an erroneous survey made by the OF
fcers OF the United State The com
mittee recommended that they be a
loxed to select lands In the State OF Cal
ifornia. not mineral and not reserved, II
Quantities equal 10 the amount OF which
thew were deprived By the erroneOu:
survey