The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-12
THE PACIFIC COAST.
A Young Woman Swindles a Spo-
kane Falls Bank.
Condensed News From All Parts of the
Country West of the Rocky
Mountains.

Tristan Burgess, Past Grand Command
er of the Knights Templar of California,
is dead.
The total valuation OF the property of
San Jose, Cal, is SIS, ,127 ,459, an increase
of $645, ,757.
No. shaft of the Wellington mine at
Nanaimo, B. c., is on fire, and will have
to be flooded.
| The steamer Wellington ran into the
sand on the shore of Coronado beach,
but no damage is thought to have been
sustained.
The grand jury in Santa Fe, n. NJ,
has found indictments against sixteen
citizens for the murder of Faustin Ortiz
in March last.
In accordance with an act of 1889 Gov
ernor Prince of New Mexico has issued
proclamation calling constitutional
convention October z.
The works at Kelly in the Magdalena
mining district, n NJ, were fired by an
incendiary, and all hopes of saving them
have been abandoned.
B. r. Freeman of Spokane Falls and
Drs. J. X Secord and j. S. Potts of San
Jose have been appointed special medi-
cal examiners in the pension service.
Joseph Carreros, the Mexican on trial
for the murder of another Mexican
named Soto at Indio on the desert about
month ago, was acquitted by jury at
San Diego on the ground of self-defense.
The Marine Firemen's Association of
San Francisco has received letter from
Nanaimo, asking it to instruct its mem
bers not to fire with Wellington coal.
The association will probably issue the
orders.
The Cocopah Indians have sent dele
CATION to Governor Torres of Lower Cal
ifornia to protest against the encroach-
ment of Mexican and American miners
upon their placer mines and agricultural
domain.
The heirs of the estate of Matthew A
Williams, who was killed by the acci
dent at the Webst ,r-street bridge, Oak
land, on Decoration day, have compro-
missed with the Southern Pacific company
for $4,000.
Admiral Brown of the Charleston was
dined by the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce the other evening. The Admiral
in a speech praised the work begun by
ex-Secretary of the Navy Whitney and
continued by Secretary Tracy.
The bail of Frank Larue, who was
boxing with Mcbride at the Golden
Gate Athletic Club. San Francisco, when
Mcbride died, has been reduced from
$4,000 to $1,000. The bond was origi
nally $25 900. Larue was tried last week,
and the jury did not agree.
Fifteen Cinnamon, who were refused
landing at San Francisco, have arrived
at Ottawa. They say they will work
their way across the Sound into Wash
ington and then go south to San Fran
cisco, their original destination. The
last month a large number of Chinese
have arrived at Victoria, from whence
they lay plans for smuggling themselves
into the United States.
The Exchange National bank of Spo-
kane Falls has been swindled out of ST.
475 by handsome young woman giving
the name of Rosa Ganth. She was iden-
titled by Mrs. A. c. Edwards, wife of a
prominent citizen of Spokane Falls, into
whose confidence she had ingratiated
herself. The swindle was accomplished
by means of a draft raised from $25 to
s., 500.
1t is now definitely known that D. G.
Jordan, the forger who is wanted in Ar
kansas for securing several thousand dol
lars on fraudulent drafts, and who was
10 70 10
good his escape The Arkansas author
tiles are after him, and detective is on
his way to Seattle in search of the fugi-
tive. Jordan learned of this evidently,
for he has again mysteriously disap-
peared.
The Puget Sound and Alaska Steam
ship Company's new steamer City of Sc
for Tacoma early in August, has not yet
started. Captain d. B. Johnson, the
general manager of the company, who is
now in Philadelphia, will not lei. the
contract for the new steamer City of Ia
coma until the CITY of Seattle is thor
oughly tested and her sea going qualities
the contract for the City of Tacoma will
be let to the same company.
From statistics gathered by the Board
of Trade it is learned that Aberdeen has
shipped lumber as follows since April
last: A. J. West & Co., 8, 152 900 feet;
the Weatherwax Lumber Company,
4, 125, 900 feet; Wilson Bros, 1000, 600,
making a total of IL ,277 900 feet of lum-
Der in five months. The local trade has
used about 900 feet in the same
time. The Cosmopolis mill has also
shipped considerable, and the Hoquiam
mill has shipped some 100000. The
vessels carving this lumber have all
crossed the Gray's Harbor bar, but not
an accident has occurred.
Improvements, especially of railroad
construction, in Colorado are greatly re-
tarded through the inability of the COM
panies to secure labor. The Denver and
Rio Grande are the greatest sufferers.
They have at present under construction
the Grand Junction branch, 65 miles
long; the Rio Grande Southern, 1S5
! miles; the Viliagecove branch, 60 miles;
the great tunnel through the Tennessee
pass, besides a very great amount OF
broad-gauging. all of which is almost at
standstill on this account. The officials
of the road say they can give employ
ment to 5000 to 5000 men on these new
works at So per day, and the work is so
located as to admit of working all win
ter. Several ditch companies and sEaeiter
corporations are equally Il not greater
eussprers.