The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-06-13
EASTERN ITEMS.
AndersOnville Prison Stockade
Purchased by the G. A. R.
An Educated Indian Lawyer Ad-
mitted to Practice Before the
Dakota Circuit Court.

The Astors are to build So, 900 .OO(
hotel at New York on the Parisian plan
DR.. Herrirk has been appointed Quar-
antine Inspector for New Mexico anc
Arizona
The National Greenbackers will meet
In convention at indianapolis August
25th.
John L. Sullivan refuses to talk about
lighting until clear of the Mississippi
ENHANCEMENT.
According to the official reports the
number OF abandoned farms i'm Vermont
now reaches 5000.
Ed. Van Metere, an educated Sioux
Indian, has been admitted to pra tice
before the Dakota Circuit Court.
The want of funds will probably pre.
vent the proposed Alaskan exploration in
the interest of science this season.
Andersorville prison stockade has
been purchased by the Georgia Encamp.
ment. &. A. R., acting for the national
body.
About 25O,OO0 acres of land east OF
Guthrie will likely be thrown open for
settlement in a short while, the Indians
finally concluding to take lands in sew
crafty.
The committee on the Kansas CITY
Treasurer has found shortage of $l9,-
O26, but it is not yet determined who is
responsible.
The New York Times saws the program
for the Pacific Mail meeting is the retire
ment of the Goulds, father and son, from
the directory.
There is to be an effort to advance
rates by the Presidents of all the roads
at Chicago except the Union Pacific and
Northwestern.
On the Fourth of July Leadville will
witness and celebrate the passage of the
first transcontinental train through that
city to the Pacific Coast.
Every steamer sailing from New York
fer Nicaragua now carries out quantities
of railroad fittings and other supplies for
the use OF the canal company.
Aldridge Young, manager of Spreck-
els interests at Baltimore 9, has resigned
at the request of his employer. He is
succeeded by Robert E. Downs.
The new Busk-Ivanhoe tunnel, on the
Colorado Midland line, west of Leadville,
will be mile and three-quarters long
and II, 900 feet above the sea. 1t will
cost about 81 ,0OO,000.
The Grand Army of the Republic COM
mittee, which investigated the manage
ment of the Soldiers Home at Leaven-
worth, Kan found there were no legal
grounds for complaint.
A bill has been introduced in the Sem
ate by Senator Sanders providing that DO
patent issued to the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company shall be construed to
convey to the company any mineral
lands, iron and coal lands excepted.
The shipment of American cattle to
Europe, alive and dead, last week
amounted to 5000 head, falling off of
25 per cent from the week previous, at a
loss estimated at $50 a head. These
shipments represent clear loss of $780,
000 to exporters.
w. K. White, United States Commits
sioner for Iowa to collect statistics of the
mortgage Indebtedness of the State for
the Census Bureau, states that in the
year 1889 there was larger amount of
Indebtedness cancelled than in any other
year, by all odds.
More than two hundred women voted
at the school election last week in Au
burn, N. Y. Much excitement was man.
ifested over this feature of the day. The
Labor ticket was triumphant by large
majority, every Commissioner elected
bein workingman.
Thu New York Grant Monument As
socia ion has failed in securing funds to
erect tomb for the great soldier, and
there is possibility that the remains at
Riverside will be taken to Washington,
when Congress will make an appropria-
ton to build proper memorial.
Charles Francis Adams and party ex
press themselves as well pleased with
the condition of the country in Wash
ington and Idaho, through which they
travelled, and Mr. Adams has in contem-
plation branch roads that will quickly
develop the rich portions of that country.
At the annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Peace Society at Boston the follow
ing delegates were chosen to attend the
Peace Congress in London in July:
David Dudley Field, New York; DR.: John
Mutt and Otis Msgaw Howard, Chicago; /;
Phil G. Barrett, Philadelphia, and eight
others.
The Legislature of Kentucky recently
nassed a IaW over the Governors veto
reducing the rate of State taxation from
455 to 42% cents on each 500. Gov
ernor Buckner says this will leave a
deficit of $3.50, 900 before the next Legis-
lature meets, and he asserts that he will
not call an extra session.
The Methodist Episcopal South Con-
ference selected Rev. H. R. Walker as
the editor of the new church paper to be
established on the Pacific Coast. Dr.
Walker belongs to the Kentucky Confer
epce. is a ripe scholar, has been thirty
wears in the ministry and has written
several books. He is SIS years old.
The United States and Brazil Mail
Steamer Company at its annual election
elected the following directors: 9. T.
Huntington, Fl K. Thurber, G. g. Will
Jams, G. R. Flint, G. nj. Pratt, f.. u.
Bartlett and W. @ Hurlburt. The an
nual report shows net profit of 81 per
cent. on the general capital OF the COM
pany.
John P. Kunze, who was tried with
Coughlin, Burke, O'Sullivan and Beggs,
for an alleged completely in the Cronin
murder case, has been married to Miss
Julia G. Hoyer, the young lady who Wis
tied him 80 often a. Jail during his i'm
prisonment and cheered him during his
trial. Kunze received as wedding
present solid silver water service tYpm
the lawyer who conducted bis eass.