The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-07
The PACIFIC COAST.
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC BLoCKADE
A SERIOUS ONE.
Murderer Blanton to Hang-Disappear.
ance OF Portland Cashier-Seattle
overs Elope-General VAL
lejo Dead.


The Tacoma police captured four bur
glars.
;. The seal in To Hands city park has
| died. '''
The Ellensburg Lloyd failure foots ut
I $3.50 900.
Murderer Blanton is to hang at Co liza,
March IS.
A brick yard has been started al
ROseburg.
Portland's fat stock show will begin
September 70.
Albina is to have new German re.
ligious paper.
An orphans home is to be established
at Albany, Or.
Several roofs were crushed in by weight
of snow at Portland.
Portland is building two new brick
fire engine houses.
At Portland b eds are provided in the
county jury room.
Choynski defeated McLarney in a
prize fight at Portland.
John D. Boyer, a prominent Tacoma
merchant, has failed and fled.
A good many Portland saloons are being
closed under attachments.
The Dempsey -MacCarthy fight at San
Francisco, has been postponed.
The striking Seattle bricklayers have
been acceeded their demands.
Portland's public school teachers re-
ceive $4,000 monthly in salaries.
O. A. Freden, mill employe, was
killed by Northern Pacific engine.
The Parthia has sailed from Vancouver
with :247 tons OF freight for China.
A British syndicate has been unsuc
cessfully trying to buy Tacoma saw mills.
A 2)0-acre tract near Pendeton is
being plated for an addition to the town.
William Hottstein shot and killed
James b Oglesby, waiter, at Colville.
A daring no .sernan galloped across
the Columbia above Vancouver on the
ice.
California Office seekers must wait
until the Democrats have finished their
terms.
Portland is to have an athletic stock
company, modelled on the San Fran cisco
clubs.
Portland is agitated over an alleged
Doodle ordinance introduced in it's city
council.
| w. G. Roberts, cashier for Dunbar &
Co., Portland commission merchants, is
missing.
The butter men's controversy at Port
land, has got into the courts. Three
cases are filed.
j. j. Barker, a steerage waiter on the
Columbia, was killed by falling on deck
in rough sea.
The Oregon Improvement Company
has declared dividend of per cent on
it's common stock.
John H. Shupe, of Douglas and j. W.
census supervisors.
| In the new county Jail at Portland the
cells are opened and closed by means of a
combination lock.
Charles Kernehan is supposed to have
perished in the snow between Succotash
valley and Tacoma.
William Randle. the defaulting fore
man of Handsaker & Clark, Tacoma,
has made retribution.
Mrs. Jarvis Emigh, of Bickleton,
Wash made an unsuccessful attempt at
suicide by chloroform.
Kate Tewksbury, daughter of Rev.
E. Stevenson, at Seattle.
The noted general w. G. Vallejo
died at Sonoma He Was said to be the
oldest living Californian.
President Fred Crocker, of the
| Southern Pacific, was recently showed in
on his road for eight days.
AloBzo L Barry, a Umatilla rancher,
was shot and killed in an affray with his
neighbor, John Donaldson
| Several heavy robberjes have been
maze lately in Portland by women of i'll
fame from drunken followers.
A large amount OF opium was imported
at San Francisco last week. The duty
alone was not short of $60,00O
The new Northern Pacific branch will
parallel the Seattle, Lake Shore & East
ern to the Canadian b ,undary.
The rivers of Northern California are
rising rapidly, owing to melting snow,
and grave apprehension is felt.
THE Central Pacific blockade between
Reno and Sandy Run is far from being
raised. Snow is again falling.i
Sheriff Smith and his deputies ar
rested seventeen Cinnamon at Astoria,
while they were smoking opium.
The snow interferes good deal with
Portland's electric street cars, preventing
contact of the wheel with the rails.
Rev. Foster, faith curlst of Walla
Walla, who refused his wife medicine.
has been examined and declared sane.
Carlton C Crane, the agent of the
tanO0IDIl6 llU0S III VI Otnnu, hoS OOOAA
promoted to the Pacific coast manage
ment.
During the Southern Pacific blockade
the San Francisco steamers were so
crowded that cots were put upon the
decks.
A railroad from Seattle across Salmon
Bay and thence to some point near the
head of Lake Washington, is to be con-
structed.
i L. L. Bromwell, president of the Cali
fornia Insurance Company, was shot by
his general agent, G. G. Pratt, at SaI