The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-08-01
EASTERN ITEMS.
lhe Louisiana Lottery Will Offer
Cleveland a Retainer.
The Secretary of the Interior Decides
in Favor of the Railroad and
Against Spokane.

The San Antonio and Arkansas Rail
way has been placed in the hands of
receiver.
Citizens of Buffalo, N. Y, dissatisfiet
with population of $50, ,152, demand
recount.
The interstate law will probably b,
amended TO permit party rates for five o.
more people.
The population of Columbia, s. c., il
1880 was 10000. The census just taker
shows 1890.
Ottawa is to vote on the question O
the corporation building and equipping q
street railway.
Dakota reports indicate a greater crop
for this year than has ever before beer
gather, d there.
The Commercial Bulletins estimate o.
the June fire losses in the United States
and Canada is $5, ,665 900.
A double-deck electric car, capable o
carrying 175 persons, is being expert
mented with in Pittsburg.
A new election law, which will be prac.
tically the Australian ballot system, will
be introduced at the called session of the
Virginia Legislature.
Information has been received in
Washington in regard to recent act oi
the Roumanian government demonetiz-
ing legal-tender silver.
Tie law taxing Ohio railroads 81 per
mile has been declared constitutional,
and the companies will have to pay up
the back taxes for two years.
The will of William L. Gilbert, the
Winsted, Conn.,, millionaire philanthro-
pist, gives $400, 900 to the Gilbert Home
for the friendless at Winsted.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
railroad officials deny rumor that they
are working with Minneapolis firm to
corner the Kansas grain market.
Secretary Noble announces that his de-
partment has decided to deliver the lands
earned by the Union Pacific railway,
amounting to about 100000 acres.
In the Postoffice Department for the
past fiscal year the total number of ap-
pointments were 23,261, an average OF
nearly 1000 per month or eighty per day.
The population. cf Albany, N. Y, by
the census is 81, ,468, an Increase of ,565
since 1880 Troy, N. Y, has a popula-
ton of 6O,587, gain of $3.50 in ten
years.
A new gas company in Chicago has
made voluntary offer to the city to fur
nish gas at 81 per 1,O0J feet for illuminat-
ing purposes and 30 cents per 1000 feet
for fuel.
A bill has passed the Massachusetts
legislature to legalize and regulate the
lobby. The lobbyist will be- obliged to
register himself before he can carry on
his trade.
A gigantic company for the reclama-
tion of arid land regions, with capital
of $25, ,0OO, GOO, is being organized in New
York. 1t will be virtually an American
company.
A statement from the Postoffice Depart
ment shows Cincinnati in sixth place as
to gross receipts and at the bottom of a
lift of twenty-nine cities as to percentage
of increase.
The new croton aqueduct has been
opened at New York. 1t is over thirty
three miles in length, cost $25. 600, 900,
and has capacity of $4,000, 900 gallons
of water day.
Thus far the number of licenses under
the modus vivendi issued by the Cana
dian Fisheries Department to American
fishermen is largely in excess of the fig
ures for last year.
The Louisiana lottery people have de-
cided to offer Grover Cleveland retainer
to plead their cause in the pending pro-
ceedings to test the constitutionaIity of
the recently enacted law.
The report of the engineer officers ia
charge of the river and harbor improve
ments of California for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1890, have been received
at the War Department.
Abraham B. Patterson, of New York,
has brought suit against syndicate for
$3.50, 900 for information furnished in re-
gard to the purchase of gas works and
some other property at Indianapolis.
The Interstate Commerce Committee
reduction in grain rates from Iowa, Ne
braska, Kansas and Missouri to st. Louis
and the Mississippi river and to Chicago.
The Kansas State Temperance League
is in session at Topeka. Resolutions
were passed asking Congress to legislate
so that States will not be interfered with
in the enforcement of prohibitory laws
The citv government of Worcester and
the Electric Light Company have agreed
upon a three-years' contract for street
lighting at 40 cents per night per light of
2,OOO-candle power. The old rate was So
cents.
The report is revived that the Rock
Island and Lake Shore roads, which both
po into Chicago over the Rock Island
t,acks. have de- ided to elevate the tracks
ON stone arches, as in London, and will
to that end.
The largest surplus since the confeder-
alton of the Dominion of Canada was
shown i'm the last statement of the reve-
nue and expenditure account. For the
fiscal wear ending June 80 the total reve-
nue. was $33,843. .I73. IA and the expendi-
lures $50, ,939. .77274, leaving surplus of
81, 1903, ,40O.88.
The Secretary of the Interior has rem
dered a decision in the case OF K. T.
Spicer and others VS.. the Northern Pa
ciic Railroad Company, involving the
status to the tract of land in the odd
numbered section within the primary
limits of the company's grant, upon
which a portion of the city of Spokane
Falls is located. and which tract is now
valued at more than S. coo, 900: The de-
cieiou 10 in favor Of the railroad.