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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-14
T NJ REED JR Register.
Land Office at seattle Wash. J
Feb. 9Th. 1890.

named settler has filed notice of his intention
to make final proof in support of his claim, and
that said proof will be made before the Register
and Receiver at Seattle WASH. on Saturday
May 10th 1890 viz: G. r. BOOKER Pre- ID. S. No
1850 for the Lots 1 and Sec. 20 TIP. 20 N. r. /
West.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation Of
said land, viz: G. S. Hawks, Louis Cadarett, J.
a. Hildubrant and Joseph Belowdean, all OF
Hartstein Island Wash.
TN REED JR Register
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-14

Governor Ferry last week ap-
pointed I. j. Humes and Julius
Stratton additional Superior Judges
for King county; and Fremont
Campbell to that office for the
county of Pierce. The selections
are generally approved of.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-14
T. NJ. REED JR. Register.
Land Office, at Seattle wash.
Enl EkA ON0

Feb 9th $780, 7
Notice is hereby given that the fOllowing-namd
settler has filed notice of his intention to make
final proof in support of his claim, and that said
proof will be made before the Clerk of the
Probate Court at Shelton, wash. on Friday Apr
4th, 1890: viz RICHARD b. COOKsoN Pre- S 12907
for the SwH, Sec, 10 TIP. 10 north range west
lie names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon and cultivation Of,
said land, viz: Hiram A. Cornes, John Griffin,
Price Lindsey and Grant GUST all of Kamilche
Wash.
T. NJ. REED JR: Register
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-14
T NJ REED JR Register.
Land Office at Seattle Wash.

Feb 9th, 1890.
To j. NJ. Denning and all others whom ii
may concern:
Notice is hereby given that the following namd
settler has filed notice of his intention to make
final proof in support of his claim, and that said
proof will be made before the Judge or in his
absence the Clerk of the Probate Court at Shell
ton wash. on Saturday April 5th 1899, viz:
ELMER G. MORGAN HID. App. No 1896 for the
Ne14, Sec. so TIP. % N. R. West
HenameS the following witnesses to prove his
said land, viz: George D. Kennedy, Jackson
Smith, c. b. Stowell and A. Byther. all of Shell
ton Wash.
T. NJ REED IR Register
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-14
U. S. Land Office Seattle wash. !

JAN EUth 1SJU.
Complaint having been entered at this office
by WILLIAM W. LONG against Abrah 7. Gould fol-
abandoning his Homestead Entry No lO5O7
dated Sept 18th, 1888, npon the South east quar-
ter, Section 30, township 20 north range 6
west in Mason Co washington. With view to
the cancellation of said entry, the said parties
on the 9Th day of April, 1890, at 10 O'Clock A.
NJ, to respond and furnish testimony concern
ing said alleged abandonment. And it appear
ing to my satisfaction that personal service can
nOl be had, it is ordered made by posting, pub
fishing and mailing according to Rules Is and IA
of Practice.
n
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-14
T. NJ. REED JR.: Register
Land Office at Seattle wash. |

Notice is hereby given that the following namd
settler has filed notice of his intention to make
final proof in support of his claim. and that
said proof will be made before the Clerk of the
Probate Court at Shelton WASH, on Saturday
Apr 9th $780, viz: AUGUSTUS HAERZER, Pre- ID S
1881 for the Ne14; and See II TIP. 20 north r.
Z west.
He names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon and cultivation of,
said land, viz: George d. Kennedy, Jackson
Smith, Henry Keezer and Louis G. Mayer, all of
Shelton Wash.
3 T NJ REED JR Register
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-14
BIG APPLES
are grown from our trees. The largest stock of
FOREST TREES

for Timber Claims in the world. $50 acres in
Nursery Stock. All kinds OF new and old
Fruit, Forest, Ornamental Trees and Shrubs
I'D DNC and Small fruits at hard
WHAT EC time prices VA-A paper
devoted to- Fruit-Growing, l year. ND Mn
stock
Our Nurseries are located within fifty miles
of the center of the United States, and OUR
shipping facilities are unexcelled. :.
il'ae Hundred Agents Wanted.
EQ-Send at once for Price List, to
CARPENTER & GAGE,
Fairbury, Nebra. ka,
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-14
BENJAMIN Harrison has beeI

Benjamin Harrison has been presi-
dent of the United States for one year.
The year has not been an eventful one
politically. Generally speaking when
the condition of the country is pros
porous the people are satisfied if the
president does nothing to disturb af-
fairs. But, Notwithstanding the ex-
traordinary prosperity OF the whole
country, there are several questions
affecting the general welfare of the
people that call for more energy than
President Harrison brings to bear on
them. The Southern race problem
and the REIMBURSEMENT of tariff duties
are questions of grave importance.
Both demand the exercise of advanced
ideas, and both must receive atten.
ton during the remaining three years
of President Harrison's term. Both
questions have been and are being
generally discussed and the president
can act in the light of intelligent pub
lie opinion.
The republican party is profoundly
interested in the satisfactory solution
of these problems. President Harri-
son has great opportunities of prov
ing not only that he is a statesman,
but a great politician.-Seattle Press.
Workmen, while removing the clay
from over the rock at the Watson
quarry in this city, say an Alton, ILL.,,
dispatch, discovered at the depth of IS
feet the bones of some strange animal.
in which Prof. McAdams, to whom
the remains were given, is much in
terested. The professor says he thinks
the remains to be those of great
sloth megalonyx, which was contem
poraneous with the mastodon and be-
came extinct during the glacial age:
This huge sloth has body nearly as
large as an OK, with feet enormously
enlarged. 1t was a vegetable-eater,
and had teeth of the most primitive
form. The professor has previously
found in these bluffy clays teeth an n
bones of this animal associated with
those of the mastodon, hos, bear and
n great beaver. There were also many
small rodents, some of them totally
different from those now living.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-14

Nearly every child is endowed bv
nature with faculty or aptitude for
some special work, varying as the
temperaments and Municipalities diff
fer in each member of family. It.
Is here where the fine discernment and
the discriminating judgment of the
parents shonld be exercised to evoke
the best talent, to encourage and fos-
ter its manifestations by every means
calculated to bring it to perfection.
Is 1t musical ability? Then see to it
that patient drudgery of daily practice
practice is honestly performed, not
alone by oral command, but by per-
sonal supervision, for it is natural for
children to shirk labor. The rule an
plies to boy or girl indifferently. What.
ever the bent-even if opposed to
your own preferences-if decided tai
ent or skill is evinced, cultivate it in
practlc'l manner for contingent prac-
teal necessities. Teach your children
something, and teach it we'll and to
the utmost limit of his or her capac-
ity.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-14
Novel Funeral Service,

There has been much talk over a
novel scene that took place recently
when photograph was made to
preach a funeral sermon over the
corpse of its author. For the past
four years Rev. Thomas Allen Thorne
had resided at Larchmont, spending
the declining years of his life attend
ing little farm. Eight months ago
his wife Was carried to the grave.
Lately he had been laid up with pneu-
monia, and he expired at the age of II.
He had left explicit instructions for
his burial and services held over his
remains and when he Was buried the
dining room and parlor were filled
with mourners who had come to pay
their respects to his memory. When
a song had been sung the role Was put
into the photograph by the dead
mans nephew. 1t contained the flu
neral sermon of his uncle uttered by
himself. Seldom has a more impress
i've one been listened to. 1t sounded
so weird that two ladies tainted and
had to be carried out.
The voice of the deceased cler yman
told how when his audience would
hear him he would be in that land
where the wicked cease from troubling
and the weary are at rest. He went
on to say he would passed the portals
OF ignorance and would have entered
that expanse where there would be no
future mystery but where all things
would have been made plain. He
enumerated the virtues of the de-
ce sed and prayed God that the speak
er might be considered worthy to be-
come a member of that portion of
Gods kingdom where he might be en-
thrOned.
At this point of the address the
speaker broke down, and from the in
strument terrible sounds of strong
man weeping and unable to restrain
himself broke out with terrible realis-
tic force and caused shudder of hor-
ror among those who were i'm the room.
The lnterment took place in Wood
lawn cemetery. After the coffin had
been lowered into the grave the i'm
presslve service of the Episcopal
church was repeated in the words and
tone OF voice of the deceased.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-14
IS miles north of Grays Harbor;
ID miles south of Quiniault Lake.
500 Beautiful Lots

WV DOQo I'll GOtS
have been plated in the very GEN.
ter of what is known as STEVENS
PRAIRIE.
1t has quarter of a mile of riv-
er front, beautiful elevation of 10
acres on the north 40 acre tract,
covered with small cedars, reserved
for the
oUINIAULT SCHOOL. Buildings.
A SAW MILL COMPANY is
making haste 20 put a plant here
ready for catting lumber in the
spring.
Corner lots are placed at $1OO;
next to corner, SIS; ali ether inside
lots. $50. One third cash, balance
on 8 and - months time, with a
rebate of 335 per cent for improve
ments equal price of lot in one
year; or IS per cent. rebate for
improvements of dou bic in value
to price of lot in nine months.
CHASE & OGDEN, Hoquiam.
Kluck & Davidson, Dealers in
general merchandise, are local
agents at Qniniault for showing
lots to strangers.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-14
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
= W. HARTMAN, ATToRNEY-AT-LAw,

Has located permane emily in Shelton,
and will attend faithfully to all legal business
entrusted to his care. Practices in all Courts
ard in the u. S. Land Office.
Office in the Shelton Building, upstairs. 80
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-01

On approaching the crossing the lower cable
is dropped from the grip, and the car glldes
across by the momentum it possesses, passing
over the upper cable and picking up its own
at the proper point.
There is no separate system of drainage
for any of the cable railways recently built.
The water runs in the cable conduit, and is
permitted to escape at suitable points. For
this reason q cable road with considerable
gradients is preferable to level one. The
conduit is freed from water rapidly, and is
also thoroughly cleansed at the same time.
JUST HOW THEY OPERATE IT.
The general arrangement of the power
plant NAV be Judged from the
accompanying cut which shows a set of
machinery for driving two cables run
ming in different directions from the same
house-one of them rapid, for the suburbs;
the other slow, for down town. This method
places the power house near the center OF
the route of the cable. and has been the plan
universally adopted in Kansas City since
the construction of the first road. The
driving drums are cast-iron wheels II feet
in diameter and weighing 1900 pounds to
1000 pounds each, and they have on their
edges as many or more grooves cast, as 1t is
intended that the cable shall have turns
around them. The cable passes around the
first drum and in the first groove, goes to
the second drum and passes around it in the
first groove, returns to the first drum and
passes around it in the second groove, thence
to the second drum in the second groove, and
continues this process until there is such
sufficient number of wraps that the cable
will move when the drums are turned.
It must be evident to all that there is
very large amount of sag in the cable be-
tween the carrying pulleys in the conduit,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-01
THE ASSIGNEE'S SALE.
Disposition OF Some of Graf; Bennett &
Co.'s Property.

Disposition OF Some of Graf; Bennett &
Co.'s Property.
r. As individual assignee for john Graf,
James I. Bennett and Robert H. Marshall,
Judge John II. Bailey yesterday sold a lot
of interests in real estate and stocks at the
Chamber of Commerce. John D. Bailey
was the auctioneer. About 20 gentlemen
we're present. Bidding was not lively.
The sale had been advertised for four pre-
ceding weeks.
The first property was the interest of John
Graft in lot in the Ninteenth ward, on the
north side of Broad street extension, contain
ing 2sI acres. 1t was bought for $3.50 by G.. W.
Williams, a lawyer. The one-twelfth inter-
est of John Graft in two lots on the west side
of Ninth street, with a frontage of 40 feet
and depth of 60 feet, containing the old,
unused brick church, was bought by Attor-
ney Williams for 5000.
John CRAFTS one-third interest in two
tracts of land in Jefferson county, o., one
containing 3O41I acres and the other being
the east half of the southeast quarter Of Sec
ton IS, township 8, range 2, in the Steuben-
| Vile land district, was sold to John w.
Heron, the rell estate dealer, for S510.
John CRAFTS oue-twenty-fourth interest in
a lot in San Francisco, clouded by claim
by John Walker, of Allegheny, that he
| claimed title through a sheriff's sale of De-
cember II, 1889, was sold to John Walker
himself for $500. James /. Benefits one
third interest in the two tracts OF land in
Jefferson county, Ohio, was sold to Mr.. Her
ron for S510.
A lot OF stocks were then sold, and
brought the following prices: shares En-
terprise Savings Bank of Allegheny, 81 a
share. title disputed; % shares Mechanics
National Bank, S106 30 share; 80 shares
Boatman's Insurance Company, S19 share;
10 shares Humboldt Insurance Company,
81 80 a share, title disputed; 5 shares Man.
ufacturers and Merchants Insurance Com
pany, 81 a share; 10 shares Pittsburg and
| Lake Erie Railroad Company, S58 share,
title disputed; 1 share Pittsburg, McKees-
port and Youghiogheny Railroad Company,
$50
Robert H. Marshall's interest in a judg-
ment obtained by him in Columbiana
county, Ohio, against the Grafton Iron Com
PAM for 81, 3z5 and $12 46 costs, dated Oe-
| tober 81, 1887 from which time it bears 6
per cent interest, transferred to Stark
county, February 3, 1888, as lien on the
property of the Grafton Iron Company in
! that county, was sold to John Walker for
! 81 $50. Mr.. Marshall's interest in a lot in
| Elizabeth, Pa, l2Ox421S feet, at the corner
of Water street and Kendler alley, was
bought by Attorney H. Mcfarland for $40.
! Ass1gnee's deeds will be made out, and given
to-day, at tine Chamber OF Commerce.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-01

scending, and it is as easy to move them as
though they were on the level.
TIME IS MONEY IN HILL CLIMBING.
The matter of time, too, is one of vital i'm
portance, and even admitting that the street
car saves no trouble for its patron, but
merely reduces the time occupied in travel
ing from point to point, the value of that
service is very evident. Men reckon their
time in coin value, and they almost in
variably reckon time spent in a street car as
lost. In the cable system where the running
speed of the rope is from seven to ten miles
per hour, and the average speed OF the car,
including stops, six to nine miles per hour,
the pedestrian becomes passenger, and the
conductor will make twice as many trips
each day, and collect twice as many fares as
under the old conditions.
The liability to accidents per mile of road
is about the same, whether the horse or the
cable is used to draw the cars. 1t is the
opinion of most street railway men that ac-
cidents are in general due to individual
earelessness, and that the public constantly
presses on what might be called the limit of
fatal recklessness. individuals continue to
crave increasing risks, whether it is risk
by horse car or cable, until one of their num-
Der passes the limit, is removed BY the in
exorable process of natural selection, and
the remainder recoil, but, forgetting their
lesson, again approach the fatal point, and
only know when they reach it by the sacri-
fee of another life.
The crossing of one cable line by another
presents a problem that at first seems intri-
cate. BY glance at the cut il is seen that
one cable is permanently depressed, so as to
run under the other one and clear of it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-01
HOW GRIPS WORK ON CURVES.

The cable rests and runs through the con-
duit on carrying pulleys set about 81 ieet
apart, They are grooved wheels about one
foot in diameter. AT curves these pulleys
are set with their axes vertical, and the
space between them is shortened to three or
four feet, so that the cable runs over them,
making a trlfing angle at each one. The
face of these curve pulleys is set short dis
tance back from the center of the track, ana
the grip pulls the cable away from them as
it passes around the curves, just as 1t Illus IL
from them as it passes over them on tne
straight lines. At points where one caDie
line crosses another, one road necessarily
uses the lower cable, and this cable is en-
tirely released from the grip before the lat
ter reaches the crossing. The run OF oV OF
60 feet over the crossing is made by the
momentum of She car, and the cable again
placed in the grip ready for action.
The adaptahility Of the cable system to To-
calities possessing rough topography, as IN
the case of the Wylie avenue line, is evil
dent. 1t may be positively stated that nc
grade, however steep. is an insurmountable
obstacle to cable railway operation. The
cable. with suitable construction, will lit
the car vertically. In Kansas City there
occurs the steepest cable railway grade in
the world. being 1S5S feet in 100, or one foot
in every s 4-1Oth feet. Grades of one in ten
are numerous on all the roads. In building
the cable lines of Kansas City, engineers
seemed to have paid little, if any, attention
to the question of grades.
The economy of operating the cable system
in hilly section is far superior to any Other
in use, far superior, in fact, to any other sys'
TEN proposed. In all systems of rail trans
portation at present used, the power exerted
by a car in descending hill is absolutely
wasted, thrown away in the friction used al
the brakes, but in the cable system there /:
no such loss. Place two cable cars on g
steep grade, one ascending, the other de-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-01
AN INSIDE VIEW OF IT,
Opening of the Central Line
Yields Many Pointers
ABOUT A CABLE RAILWAY.
History of the Innovation and How
it Has Become Popular.
ACOST OF OVER $3OOADAYMADEUP UP

The opening of the Central Traction Com
pany's line in this city is an event Of such
general interest, and there has been SO much
speculation as to the possible dangers Of such
steep hill traffic, that general article, ex-
planning and illustrating both the ad-
vantages and obstacles of such line will
certainly be found both readable and season
able. There is q great deal, therefore, that
is entirely new, to SO out OF every 100 read
ers, in the article that follows-and no
doubt much that will be found instructive
to the few persons who think they know all
about cable or traction railways.
The cable system of street railways, like
all Of the other great modern Improvements,
has been some considerable time in reach
ing its present almost perfected state. Ii
has been the outgrOwth of many different
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-01
GEN. SHERMAN AT 70.
The Grizzled Old Hero in the Sunset
of q Brilliant Career.
A CELEBRATION AT HIS HOME.
Fighting Friends Who Will Gather at a
Quiet Birthday Dinner.
HOW HE SPENDS HIS DECLINING DAYS
rrRoM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. ]

NEW YORK, January 31.-Any one who
passes through Seventy-frst street, west of
Eighth avenue, can see at 10 o'clock in the
morning the tall, erect figure of an elderly
man seated at his library window. That he
has had military training no one who sees
him can doubt. Strange as it may seem,
many persons see him in the neighbOrhood
Of his home, which is but a stones throw
from the west wall of Central Park, and yet
do not recognize him. And yet he is the
most famous American soldier now alive.
1t is no other than William Tecumseh
Sherman, great member of very great
family, distinguished even before the time
of Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration
of Independence. General Sherman Is now
the only one left of the great trio Of Ameri-
can soldiers who won the highest
honors in the greatest civil war that
the world has ever seen. General Grant
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-01

lively level. Then it was thought that no
cable road could be successfully operated
save in an equable climate similar to that Of
California, and it required time to dissipate
the idea, SO that it was not until 1880 that
this building of cable railways began TO be
a recognized occupation. In that year the
lines of Chicago were put in operation, and
though lines in other cities had been pre-
viously built, still the conditions surround
ing them were such that the system could
not be said to have had a thorough test in
every way.
GREAT OBSTACLES TO OVERCOME.
Until the Kansas City cable road was
built the only cable roads doing any large
amount of business outside Of San Fran
cisco were these Chicago railways, and
while there were many obstacles to the con-
struction of the latter roads, and great en-
ergy was required to overcome them, there
was but little doubt of the ultimate financial
success, for the horse roads there replaced
bv the cable lines were already doing an
enormous business. In Kansas City, how
ever, the case was very different. The first
road constructed was through an entirely
new territory, and its financial success
was so problematical, that even after
work was begun the scheme was
several times on the brink of abandonment.
The remarkable business which COM
nenced Immediately when the road was
opened and which continued to increase, at
tracted the attention of every street railway
man in the country, and capital was at once
ready to embark in the cable railway enter
nr1ses of Kansas City. From line of two
miles in length, put in operation in June,
1885 the cable systems OF Kansas City have
Increased their mileage until there are now
over IS miles of double track In operation,
which is more than any other city has. Less
than IL of these completed miles are through
territory formerly served by horsecar lines,
and all the remaining miles constructed OF
under construction are new enterprises 10
the fullest sense of the word.
That such is the case must be due to the
fact that the introduction Of the cable as
motive power marks as great an advance IN
the history of urban transportation as the
introduction of the steam locomotive in gen.
eral TRANSPORTATION. Precisely as it pays to
construct expensive general trafne railways
through districts where the building OF
wagon road would be mistake, SO 1t be-
comes profitable to construct cable railways
through districts Of city where the build
ing Of a horse railway would be an error
that hardly anyone would be guilty OF. Ihe
cable railway by the superior accommodation
1t furnishes builds up the territory through
which il passes, and reaps subsequent
benefit which the horse railway would not.