The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-03-28
THE PACIFIC COAST,
Indian Medicine Woman Dragged
to Death.
E. j. Baldwin Loses Some Valuable
Brood Mares on His Santa
Anita Ranch.

A high-liceDse association has been
formed in San Francisco.
Colorado capitalists are investing heav-
lily in Salt Lake property.
The State of California was libeled at
San Francisco for towsge service.
Miss Jennie Clymer was struck and
killed by train in Oakland, Cal.
The Challenge was a total loss on
Guemes island. No lives were lost
Nine corps # Union Pacific surveyors
are working in Southwestern Nevada.
Lewis Conway, Spokane convict, es-
capped from the Walla Walla penitentiary.
New York people have purchased a
site for sugar refine y at Vancouver,
&C.
John Meyers of Berkeley, CAL, was
drowned in the Mokelumne river near
Hope.
A Rock Creek Indian medicine woman
was dragged to death by braves of her
tribe.
w. A. Burleigh has been appointed
postmaster at Birdsview, Skagit county,
Wash.
Mail serv ce has been established twice
a week between Long Greek and Susan
vile, Or.
General Ticket Agent T. H. Goodman
of the Southern Pacific is i'll in San
Francisco.
John T. Glover, San Francisco letter
carrier, has been arrested for embezzling
$50 from a letter.
Louis Kaskell, a San Francisco hat
merchant, dropped dead on the street
from sudden hemorrhage.
The injunction suit at Seattle against
the seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern has
been thrown out of the court
Considerable whisky is being taken
from San Francisco to Honolulu and
thence by whalers smuggled into Alaska.
Joe Duffy has been arrested, charged
with last fall's Forest Hill stage robbery.
He denies that he had anything to do
with it.
Los Angeles electors have decided by
a two-thirds vote to issue bonds for 1884,
600 for the construction of an interior
system of sewers.
The libel suit of w. A. Ray, recently
a banker at Pasadena, against
the Los Angeles Times was decided in
favor of the Times.
The United States steamship Monon-
gahela, under sailing orders for New
V0r1x c+.11 Ice 10.
on account of stormy weather.
There is every belief that the Holsters
planted in Puget sound about fourteen
n onths ago are doing we'll Many have
been seen on their feeding grounds.
The steamer Belgic. which reached
San Francisco from China last week,
brought 410 cases of prepared opium, on
which the consignees paid duty of $45,-
100.
O. G. White of Olympia, the last Sec
retary of Washington Territory, has been
appointed to the office of Printer for the
State of Washington for the term end pg
July, 1893.
From 1000 to 800 coast seamen, with
torchl ghts, music and transparencies,
paraded the streets of San Francisco in
commemOratiOn of the fifth anniversary
of the Coast Seamen's Union.
The people living along the line of the
road between Seattle and Tacoma COM
plain that the coal rates are too high,
and that they should be reduced both in
juetice and in response to good business
policy.
One hundred and three horses, valued
at 100000, were shipped from Senator
Stanford's stables at Palo Alto. Cal, by
special train to New York. Thirty-two
are colts from the famous stallion Elec-
tiOneer.
The towns on Bellingham bay are pros
pecting the advisability of uniting under
one charter. The hitch will be over the
name Each town wants it's name used,
and the older town wants the others to
join under its charter.
In Walla Walla county so far no injury
has been done to grain, though consider
able injury has been inflicted on the fruit
and very great injury on range cattle and
horses. There has also been more than
the average loss of sheep.
Representatives of Fresno, Visalia,
Bakersfield and Merced have formed the
California Baseball League. Mr.. Blod-
gett, a prominent banker at Bakersfield,
is President of the league. The Fresno
club will he organized Immediately and
grounds secured.
The California railroad tax cases pend
4l,1 CONT
have been postponed, the State Supreme
Court having declared the law unconsti-
tutional. Senator Edmunds, the rail-
road attorney, says the United States
court will agree with this decision.
The Douglass County Board OF Trade
has taken in hand the matter OF securing
seed grain to replace that which has nee
essarily been fed out in consequence OF
the unusually hard winter. Arrange
mtnts have been made whereby $500
worth of seed grain will be delivere In
Watervile iii time for spring seeding,
and farmers will be enabled to get seed
at reasonable pric 8 on secured notes
payable after harvest.
During the recent cold rains lot OF
valuable brood mares belonging to +. j.
Baldwin, which had been turned to ''as-
ture on his Santa Anita (Cal.) ranch,
took cold, and eight of them have teen
prostrated with congestion OF the lungs
Two racers, Fallen Leaf and another
costly mare. died. Maggie Emerson, the
dam of Moile Mccarthy, will probably
not survive. She is valued far i'll the
thousands. The other mares are i'm
proving. The loss to Baldwin through
this mishap will reach, it is said, $780,
900.