The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-02-28

THE PACIFIC COAST.
An Unsuccessful Attempt Made
to Wreck a California Train.
The Pacific Midland to Build to Seat
tie = Earthquake Shocks Felt
in Southern California.

in Southern California.
Patti is in San Francisco.
Seattle had s42, 900 fire last week.
Conrad Buchter suicided at Astoria.
Dallas has organized Board of Trade.
The Midland Pacific will build to Sc
attic.
Port Townsend has had an earthquake
scare.
Arizona Pioneers eulogized General
Miles.
Whatcom's new Courthouse is to cost
$4,000.
Umatilla county fall wheat is in fine
condition.
Halsey is offering a $4,000 bonus for a
-four mill.
Jack Palace killed W. II. Kelly at San
Francisco.
Nine seals, worth 5000, drifted ashore
at Ciatsop.
The Oregon is fully repaired and ready
for service.
Stock is dying by the hundreds in Har-
ney valley.
A canal is to join Port Townsend bay
with Hadlock.
Money has been posted for the Carroll
McAulitfe fnht.
The Pathfinder suffered damage in a
gale off Victoria.
Herman Loutsch assaulted Augusta
Colish at Ia oma.
The ferry at Peoria, Or, was washed
away in the flood.
All the stock of Salem's big new can
merry is subscribed.
Lane county. Oregon. lost $4,000 by
the food in bridges.
Henry George has sailed from San
Francisco for Australia.
Sidney E. Marsh, a Port Townsend
newspaper man, is dead.
Everybody is jnbilant over the wheat
prospect for next season.
The Union Pacific will not build
wharves at Port Angeles.
A New York capitalist offers to estab
lisn a creamery at Salem.
Seattle bakers have raised the price of
their products 10 per cent.
The Oregonian sold at 50 cents a copy
at Salem during the food.
Ned Buckley, the actor, was pounded
by a rival in San Francisco.
Arlington, Or, has had an upsuccess-
iul attempt at jail-breaking.
Joseph Dinklespeil was fatally asphyx-
lated in hotel at Gilroy, Cal.
\ clever check swindler has been op-
Grating at Tacoma and Seattle.
TIE Ellensburgh and Northwestern is
advertising for bridge material.
Pete Mccoy finished Charlie Gleason
IL six rounds at San Francisco.
Weston, Or, claims never to have had
a business failure in its history.
Earthquake shocks have been felt at
Cotton, Pomona and San Diego.
The Assessors convention at Portland
denounced the mortgage tax law.
The Northern Pacific will put steamer
on betwt en- Kalama and Astoria.
Three arrests have been made of an
organized band of thieves at Colfax.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to
wreck a train near Santa Maria, Cal.
The Western Union is putting in a
new cable across the river at Portland.
The Central Pacific will keep its road
open by snow plows instead of sheds.
The Northern Pacific will put on a
daily train between Tacoma and Chehalls.
Eastern capitalists are considering the
Roseburg and Coos Bay railroad project.
The Vancouver school for defective
youth has passed satisfactory inspec-
ton.
The La Grande- Elgin branch will be
! rushed at once, SO Contractor Antonelle
saws.
I Ships damaged in the gales are putting
/ back into both Victoria and San Fran
cisco.
! The Northwestern Investment Com
pany OF Pendleton has incorporated with
100000.
J The Land Commissioner has ordered
two townships in Columbia county, Or,
to be resurveyed.
In San Francisco E. G. Lewis. aged 7(
years, shot himself on his wlfe's grave
cause, dependency.
San Franciscans are becoming agitated
because the lnurderers there go unhuns
-6fty-six in two years.
The Erickson from Port Townsend tc
Valparaiso had to throw her cargo o.
lumber over board in a gale.
Perry Osborn's 17-year-old daughter
committed suicide by drowning neal
Lebanon to hide her shame.
J.L Lowe, special land agent OF the
Government, is in Astoria inspecting
swamp lands in that vicinity
The cornerstone of the reform schoo
at Whittier. Cal was laid by the Masons
in the presence of 10000 people
Frank S. Cartwright, son OF Senator
Cartwright of Oregon, suicided at Hell
ena. Financial troubles formed h;'
provocation-
4 Millionaire Mackay telegrapbed t.
Portland his satisfaction at the hard wori
done by Manager JEFF Hayes curing th'
storms and food.
Augustus Somoni found his long-los
son In Seattle with a minstrel man, ant
endeavored in vain to induce him to re
turn to his Philadelphia home.