The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-05
Notes of Interest.

the site.
Rob. M. Shoecraft, former Olympia
boy, committed suicide in Tacoma
last week by the Morphine route.
September LIST was observed by the
labOring classes generally IN
professions and other demonstrations
in the cities of the sound.
The city OF Seattle, the new steamer
bein built in New York for the
Sound trade, is expected to sail for
Seattle on August 2Sth and will arrive
in December.
W. E. Young, young logger about
thirty years of age, who recently
came from New Brunswick, was
crushed and drowned while driving
logs on the Hoquiam river, last week.
This state is not without its inven-
tive geniuses, for Emma C. Hudson, a
Seattle lady, has received patent for
a slate sponge, and John Dorsch, OF
Tacoma, for cover holder for dinner
pals.
The strike on the New York Central
is farther from being settled than ever.
The strikers are receiving funds from
labor organizations all over the Union.
and promise to make it int resting for
even Vanderbilt's millions.
The largest sawmill in the world
is at Christiana, Norway, and is owned
by one man. 1t runs sc gang-saw VS..
From 40 to so ships load at one time
at its docks. The same man owns two
large flour mills. The lumber yard
of this mill extends more than a mile
An Iowa paper boasts of field of
oats that will average IS bushels to
the acre. The Tekoa Globe wonders
what that editor would think if he
could see field near that city that
will average 125 bushels to the acre?
This is a thing not uncommon to
Washington.
A cannon ball that was fired from
the steamer Decatur, while defending
Seattle against the Indians 35 ears
ago, was found by the laborers in
excavating at the corner of Second
and Cherry Streets, Sea tie, for Dexter
Horizons new building. 1t is a
twelve-pounder.
The steel cruiser, San Francisco
has been completed by the Union
Iron works of that city, and on her
trial trip demonstrated that she was
the queen of the navy, having made
a fair average speed of over - miles
an hour. The Pacific coast is getting
a good record, and ship building
promises to become large industry
in the future.
The Hoquiam Washingtonian
wants to know why the town should
not make something out of the boom
ing business, and suggests an ordin-
ance licensing real estate men and
brokers at $50 Il quarter, with penal
ties for non-paynient. 1t would di
minish the crowd in booming times
and annihilate the sO-called curb-stone
brokers.
The general land Office has practi-
cally settled upon the allowance fol
surveys Of public lands to be made
in the new states. The whole amount
appropriated for this was $425,000 Oh
this Washington gets 100000, the
largest anlonnS going there because OF
the difficulty in doing the work and
the consequent higher rate per mile
Montana comes next with $4,000
Each of the Dakotas get $4,000
Idaho and Wyoming $4,000 each.
Identification by the judges of cleo
ton of voters who haVe lost theii
registration receipts, says the Vidette
is the safest way of getting around the
loss without depriving citizens of the
right OF suffrage, and at the same time
protecting the ballot box against
deception and fraud, says the Seattle
Press. If IA MANS name is on the
register and he presents himself among
his neighbors with "a ballot in his hand
but without his certificate, his
identification should be accepted with
out question. -
Those who are complaining of cent
and one-half interest on borrowed
money, will be relieved, no doubt, tt
learn that money reached the
enormous rate of onehalf per cent. {
day premium, in addition to the lega
rate of interest in Wall Street las
week. A panic WAS very near at
hand when the treasury department
came to the rescue by ordering
advances to he made on the silve
bars, and also by issuing redemption
call for twenty million Al per cent
bonds at par, with interest to Angus
3lst 1891, which relieved tn,
stringency of the market.
The Angeles Times says that if Their,
was. ever a justifable kick i'll congress
that made by the Northwestern Senator,
against the small appropriations foy
survey of public lands is one. The
time has certainly come in the history
of this country when the notion that
the great states Of. the Northwest are
wild and barren wastes, should b,
overcome. To the people who have
come and made their homes in such
country, and who are. waiting with
the patience of Job for thei
government 10 Catch up with thei
needs, the parsimony and apparen
stupidity with which the government
deals with =. them is beyond
comprehension. ;:
The secretary of the inter- or decid
ed the case of the. Central Pacifi,
road against S. D.. Valentine, involv
Ing the question of the exception O
mineral lands from railroad grants
The particular tract involved is ir
Sacramento, CAL, land district. The
secretary held that by the terms O