The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-10
The PACIFIC COAST.
CALIFORNIA RAILROADS BADLY
DAMAGED.
Portland Has 10000 School Children.
A Lu, KY San Francisco Reporter.
Th9 Campbell Corbett
Fight q Draw.

Puget City is starting boom.
Astoria is to have $10O, 600 hstel.
New Westminster had $6 1000 blaze.
Portland's school children numbe,
10000.
Olympia's street cars have commenced
running.
Deep snow is reported in the Siskiyou
| mountains.
The Umatilla Indians are rounding up
their stock.
San Francisco deaths are two less in
1889 than in 1888.
Chehalis has a First National bank
with capital of $50,OOO.
Theodore Helms, fifteen miles frcm
Dayton, was killed by a falling tree.
i, The heaviest snowstorm FIR fourteen
years is raging in the Nevada Sierras.
E. J. Montgomery was shot at Browns
vile, Or, while interfering with mar
shal.
The reward for the murderer OF the
Southern Pacific trackwalker Cain is
now $3.50.
The unfinished blood horse races at
San Francisco have been declared off for
the season.
HEAVY rains washed out the California
| SOuthern's track at Moreno, Sorrento
and Delmar.
San Franciscans pay $500 extra On
their meat bill every day, In consequence
of the foods.
A hundred head of stock OF various
kinds mired in quicksand near Calusa
and were lost.
James B. Henche. Tacoma lumber
man, is in jail for ravishing his l3-year-
old daughter.
Fairhaven's electric light contract has
been let, and the water works one is be-
ing figured on.
1t is cl aimed in Tacoma that the
Union Pacific is securing terminal
grounds there.
The first and second mates of the ill
fated ship Durham were drowned in San
Francisco bay.
Ma Ia Bou, Chinese peddler, fell
flom San Francisco street car, fatally
fractu'ing his skull.
Thomas Boardman, of San Pablo,
CAL, was run over and killed by train
at Vallejo junction.
H. j. Huston, a Tacoma attorney,
| I.<I oT0 Is Iok~
lodged in the bowels.
The Baker City board of trade has re-
solved in favor OF the free and unre-
stricted coinage of silver.
The Santa Fe road loses 5000, by
the recent California food, and the
Southern Pacific $150,O00.
Ward Douglas, Walla Walla insur.
ance agent. is under arrest for criminal
assault upon Mamie Turner.
The Campbell Corbett fight at Port.
land turns out to have been only an ex-
hibition to draw gate receipts.
Six hundred men for a week is the
work the recent floods made the South.
ern Pacific IN Soledad canyon.
A rich silver strike twenty miles from
Ore Grande, Southern California, causes
great excitement in mining circles.
The Charleston has gone into commits.
sion at San Francisco, but will not be
ready for sea for a month or more.
Wong All Hing Chinaman who mur.
dered his uncle. has been sentenced to be
ha, ged at San Francisco February IA.
John Scroggins, woodchopper, living
on the river eight miles above Sacra'
mento, was drowned from small boat
Burglars and bunko men are having
quite carnival in Po Aand and the
police administration is being sharply
criticized.
A Chinaman working on the Central
Pacific railroad was buried in snow from
passing snowplow. When dug out he
was dead.
James Douglass, fireman of steamer
Jucinto on the Sacramento river, dropped
dead of heart disease, while working
on the boat. rs
The San Francisco Press Club, which
now has membership OF LOO, mas
opened a restaurant in it's rooms for the
benefit of members.
Four sailors from the Albatross were
drowned in an attempt to go from Mare
Island to Vallejo in an open boat wher
the tide was strong.
Captain P. III. Whitelaw has gone t.
Puget Sound, TO work on the iron shiT
Barnar.i Castle, which was wrecked
about three years ago near Race rock.
Mrs. Christopher Buckley, late wit
of the leader of the San Francisco dem
ocracy. was buried from st. Dominic
Catholic church, the funeral being largel.
attended.