The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-05
THE PACIFIC COAST.
The Capital of Idaho Infested
with Tramps.
Los Angeles Protests Against the Re-
mOval of Army Headquarters
to Santa Fe.

New Mexico's population is $50, 159.
Tacoma's new hotel is to cost 81 $50,
O00
Ogden will put up 5000 cases of canned
| tomatoes this season.
New Mexico will vote on State Con-
stitution on the 9TH of October next.
The White-Cap stories from New Mex
leo are declared to be greatly sensational.
A cloudburst in the Warm Springs re-
gion, Idaho, has seriously damaged the
crops.
The next Republican State Convention
in Washington will be held in Tacoma
September 25.
The Grand Coulee Mont coal miners
are on strike. They claim wages are
too low to live.
The body of f. H. Allis, the engineer
whose train was wrecked near Panta, A.
T., has been found.
San Diego is to vote October on the
question of issuing bonds for a new wa
ter system by the city.
The gas well at Summerland, near
Santa Barbara, is down sixty-two feet,
and the pressure continues.
The organization of the Coos Bay,
ROseburg and Eastern Railroad and
Navigation Company has been completed
at Roseburg, Or.
Strong representations are being wired
to Washington in opposition to the re-
moval to Santa Fe from Los Angeles of
army headquarters.
A small sloop of about five tons, owned
by John Hartman of Irondale, Wash,
has been seized by the customs authori-
ties at Victoria, B. G.
Stockmen in the Yavapai country, A.
T., complain of the high railroad tariff
on beef cattle, in consequence of which
they will drive their stock to California.
Four prisoners at Folsom, CAL, made
their escape by tunneling from their cell
under the prison wall. The tunnel is
claimed to be sixty feet long, and the
| working on it for months. The escapes
were Matthias Blummer, Charles Geler-
man, Tom Wilson and G.. HI. Kohler, all
| Germans.
A Joint committee of the Board of
Trade and Chamber of Commerce of San
Jose, CAL, has decided to call conven-
ton, to meet in San Jose September 16,
to consider the question of completing
the Transcontinental railway. The coun-
ties of Kern, Tulare, Merced, Fresno,
San Benito, Santa Clara, San Mateo and
San Francisco will be asked to send nine
delegates.
| Complaints have been made that the
treasury agents and customs authorities
at San Francisco were careless in the
work of inspecting such dutiable
parcels as came by Asiatic and other
mails which are landed in this country
on the Pacific Coast, and an investiga-
ton is to be made by special officer.
Dutiable articles, it is said, have passed
through the mails.
A census bulletin for Washington says
that during the calendar year of 1889
26, AGA TASKS or 102 short tons of quick
silver were produced in California. All
the quicksilver produced by the United
States was from cinnabar from mines in
the following California counties: Lake,
Merced, Napa, San Benito, Santa Clara,
Sonoma, Siskiyou and Trinity, and in
one county in Oregon, namely, Doug
lass.
Morrow has $4,000 surveyed acres
in The Dalles district open to settlement.
In Wasco, Sherman, Gillian, Morrow,
Crook and Grant counties, in The Dalles
district, there are 8, ,409, ,040 acres of sur
veyed and $50, 100 acres of unsurveyed,
all vacant. This district has also ,457, !,
600 acres of Northern Pacific railroad
lands, which will be thrown open for
settlement in the near future. Morrow
is about evenly divided between The
Dalles and La Grande districts.
The suit of J. D. Spreckels and others
against the Pacific Coast Steamship
Company to recover $4,000 on marine
libel in the admiralty for salvage on the
steamer State of California was up for
trial one day last week before Judge
Hoffman in the United States District
Court at San Francisco. The plaintiffs
claim that on January 3, 1890, while the
State of California was disabled through
the breaking of her machinery and
drifting along the coast in a helpless
condition, their tug Relief came to her
rescue some $50 miles up the coast from
that port, and towed her safely into the
harbOr. The defendants deny the valid
ity of the claim on the ground that they
had contracted with the plaintiffs to per-
form the work of going to the steamers
rescue; that they chartered the plaintiffs
steamers to do such work, and that,
while they sent out another steamer for
that purpose, the Relief was also engaged
for the same purpose
A number of Italian fishermen of San
Francisco have been accustomed to carry
on thriving business with the Gamer
les in Sacramento by selling them
their catches of salmon. Lately, how
ever, the relations between the fisher
men and the Gamers have been some.
what strained. The fishermen demanded
cents per pound for salmon, and were
offered only 3 cents. This rate was re-
fused, and combine has been effected
among the fishermen. They determined
to take their fish down to San Francisco
rather than accept the Gamers prices
and the other afternoon the novel scene
presented itself at the fishermen's wharf
of dozen or more fishing smacks loaded
down with thousands of fish, which
were for sale at % cents each. In con.
versation with one of the fishermen 8
reporter was informed that the cannery
men had made a cut because heavy in
voices of fruit were being received at the
canneries, and the fish-canning industry
} was temporarily shelved for that of fruit
packing. The fishermen rather than ac
lcept the prices are determined to boy
colt the canneries and let the public
reap the benefit OF it.