The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-10

5 about stopped The snow is from foo
+ to a foot aud half deep, and the rest q
< the news is showed under or frozen III
: for your correspondent is trying to sta
: at home and keep comlortable.-S.
They are coming from the deserts G
the dim and dusty East, where to raise
stunted turniD gives the prospect of
feast, where the farms are made of grave.
and they pillow with dynamite, where thu
festive chattle mortgage sings its dirgc
night and day; they are coming in thel
wagons, they ar coming on the train
theg are coming from the regions where
they struggled long in vain; they are
coming from the cabin, they are coming
from the hall, they are coming TO Wash
ingtOn, where's plenty for them all. They
are coming from the Southland, they are
coming from the North; from the valleys
and the mountlins they in droves are
coming forth; they are coming with their
husbands, they are coming with their
wives, they are coming with their ham
mers, with their needles and their knive;
with their harrows and their planters,
and their pencils and their guns. they are
coming with their fathers and their
| ing, stout and slender, they are coming
short and tall, they are coming to Wash
| ingt on where there's plenty for them all
where YOU needn't dig potatoes with the
sabre or dirk, where, when rain is badly
needed, then the rain gets in its work
where the rivers moan and murmur on
! their journey TO the sea. where the breeZes
tackle corn-stalks big as fences on the
hnr t,n TO nIar
yearning for a crop of hair, now the
farmer takes his pOrker to the nearest
county fair; and the corn is gaiv grow
ing where the greasy wigwam stood :;
where he burned the wailing captive now
the poultry search for food; and the pco-
pie who are coming to this p,casantest OF
up with the times; they will find Il coun-
try beaming from the spring time to the
fail, when they land in Washington,
where there's plenty for them all.-El-
lenshurgh Capital.
DENTIsTRY:-B. R. Freeland has bought DR.
Carlyons Dental office in Olympia and is pre-
pared to do all kinds of Dental work at reason
able rates. Office in Rogers Photographic Gal
lery. =
The memorial the place General r. II.
hlllroy, of Olympia, on the retired list
OF the U. 5 army passed both houses,
today. The memorial mentions one or
two instances Of General Milroy's career,
particularly referring to the fight at
Winchester in 1868, when he held Lees
army in check for four days. Lee lost
1900 men during the series of engage
ments. The delay gave Gen. Meade
chance to get into position at Gettysburg
that aflerward enabled him 10 stav the in
vasion into Pennsylvania and turn the
llde OF successive confederate victories.
Mil:oy is tne famous Union General for
whom Jefferson Davis once Offered a re-
ward OF 100000. dead or alive Mlroy
was III command of the Union forces in
what is now West Virginia, where the
guerllas were Carrying on extensive
depredations He issued an order that
all property destroyed should be compen.
stated for by repri>als The effect was
disastrous to the coniederates and led to
the offer by Davis. General Milroy is
now old and infrm -Olympia Cor. Post
lntclligenccr
First quality Lettcrhead, Billhead, Notehcad
a an otairenent STOCK awaiting orders at this Of
nee. Also Envelopes, Shipping tags, Business
ana Calling cards of numerous styles, CONNER
clal printing promptly executed. :.
Governor Ferry granted his first pardon
on the 3rd. 1t was to Minnie Allen. con-
nneu In The Stale peniten tiary for Burglary,
committed in Tacoma and gives as reas-
on: Whereas, she is about to become n
mother, and an Innocent child would be
Kept confined Or separated from its moth
er, and believing that the granting of a
pardon is the most proper and humane
policy. she is hereby granted a full and
unconditional pardon"
Senator Allen, of Washington. will in
troduce several bills of importance to the
new state OF Washington immediately on
the coming together of congress- One of
these VIII provide for a re-divisiOn of the
Slate into land districts, making six in
stcau OF Tour AS at present, thereby Great.
ing two more land Offices. One OF these
Will DC IN the western and one in the
eastern portions OF the state. The precise
location OF The offices has not been de-
cided on
The property owners before whose nrcnertv
sidewalks are to be constructed should not lose
lnhch time III putting them down. The mill has
plenty of suitable lumber cut, and awaiting Or
ders. e Va
number of saw mills have hecn
Obliged TO shut down, so report saws for
lack of logs, which are very scarce at
present The price before the Seattle fire
was $3.50, but the demand has increased
The price tn $3.50. President Andersen
says that there is no great scarcity of logs.
>, !: tract OF land adjoining Shelton for sale in
either forty or eighty acre lots, or entire This
can be secured at bargain CAN at this oftIce
for particulars. o-'ioe
The Shelton, Mason county, JOURNAL
completed the third year of lis very use
lul existence on the 20lh ultimp. The
JOURNAL has pei formed important ser,i.p
10 lis town anu county in calling a:teni,,.
to their great and varied resources. and j.
pleasant to perceive that its efforts are
substantially appreciated. -P.I.
Pasco is being vilely slandered. An
exchange gives an account of a Dutch
man who Said he went to Pasco to keen
his eye on it, and found city of tents.
but Siwash came along and stole the
city hall to make a pair of pants, which
SO Disguised Dutchy that he left.