The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
THE PACIFIC COAST.
The Copper Mines of Idaho Said
to be Very Fine.
The Western Union Will String Another
Copper Wire From Albuquerque
to BarSt0w.

Ships may now enter and clear for all
foreign ports at Port Angeles.
More than 10000 sheep are feeding on
Table mountain, Nye county, New.
The survey for a ship canal to connect
Lakes Union, Washington and Dwamish,
Wash, is to be begun at once.
Stevensville, Mont, on the Bitter Root
Valley branch railroad, is reported 70
have suffered greatly from a confagra-
ton.
Arizona is being overrun by cattle
BUYERS from California, and large ship
ments are being made to Southern Cali
fornia.
The copper mines of the Seven Devils
district in Idaho are claimed to be Sec
ond only to those of the Lake Superior
region.
City Justice Walter G. Lockwood has
been indicted by the Los Angeles grand
Jury on the charge of embezzling county
money.
The new battle ship No. 8, which is to
be built by the Union Iron Works at
San Francisco, will probably be named
the California.
Three boys, scarcely 20 years old, are
on trial at Salem, Or, for arson. They
burned in July the cabins OF Chinese
railroad hands.
The Portland Chamber of Commerce
wants the Oregon Legislature to appro-
pirate $3.50, COO for the States exhibit at
the Worlds Fair.
Lumber vessels plying between Eureka
and San Diego ballast with watermelons
and pumpkins on the northern trip. A
large trade has been established.
The Western Union Company will
string another copper wire from Albu-
querque, n. NJ, to Barstow. Cal, follow
ing the line of the Atlantic and Pacific.
Washington is determined that the
new State shall be ably represented at
the Worlds Fair, and that the exhibits
shall be as complete as they can be made.
The concrete piers to the steel-bridge
building across the Willamette river at
Salem, Or, are settling under their own
weight, and viii probably have to be re-
built.
The Pasadena Star says some rich
specimens of platinum have been found
in the mountains near Arroyo Seco.
They have been sent to Los Angeles for
assaying.
Miss Leslie Bushnell, young English
woman, has sued William c. Williams,
a capitalist of Seattle, for $25, 900, alleg-
ing failure to comply with his promise of
marriage.
Mrs. Frank Dickman is under arrest
at Seattle, charged with having three
husbands, all living, to whom she was
legally married, and from neither one of
whom has she been divorced.
The President has appointed Charles
a. Garter of the firm of Garter d Chip
man, Red Bluff, United States District
Attorney for the Northern district OF
California, vice Carey resigned.
The condition of the strike of miners
at Great Falls, Mont, is unchanged. The
season is late, and the contractors can
cease work without much loss; there
fore, it is believed the strike will fail.
The stage from Solomonville to Bowie,
A. T., was robbed by two Mexicans the
other day near Kreigh's ranch, seven
miles from Bowie. The mail was rif1ed,
but the passengers were not molested.
In San Marcial, Sonora, Mexico, a coal
seam six feet thick has been struck sew
enteen feet below the surface; at eighty
feet the drilling is in solid anthracite
body six feet deep and not through the
vein.
The American ship City of Philadel-
phia, which has just arrived at Astoria,
PIG days from New York, struggled for
forty-one DAYS off Cape Horn in an al
most continuous gale, with binding
snow storms, hail and sleet night and
day.
The Federated Trades at meeting at
Sacramento, Cal, condemned the action
of the proprietors of the Bee, and will
stand by the printers " in whatever &C
ton they may hereafter take to preserve
their rights and principles as union
men,"
The gross value of the taxable prop
erty in Benton county, Or, as shown by
the tax books just returned, is s5 5,0S6,
875. The total Indebtedness is 81 ,067 :
245, and exemptions $241 ,704, leaving
the total taxable property at $3,7I7,9 ,927.
The county lew has been fixed at 91s
mills, or l y mills less than the levy last
year.
Charles I'll. Thorne and George B.
Shinn. the two criminals who escaped
from San Quentin, have been captured
in Chicago. Thorne, it viii be remem-
bered, in company with Patterson robbed
the Moore's Flat stage in 1879. Patter-
son was hanged for killing Banker
Cummings of Nevada City at the time,
and Thorne was sent to prison for life.
Two colored soldiers deserted from
Fort Shaw. Mont, and stole horses be
longing to Mr.. Roanch, the government
scout. Roanch pursued and captured
them. and while returning one of the
men pulled revolver and shot Roanch
who returned the fire, killing the man.
The other deserter escaped to the woods
wounded. Roanch's wound is not dan
gerous.
The force now employed in grading
the Coos Bay and Roseburg railroad from
Marshfield to Coquille City viii be In
creased in few days by the addition ol
500 Chinese from San Francisco. Rails
for thi. ty miles of road are now on the
way from the East, and the company ex-
poets to have thirty miles of road run
ming by April l. Rails for the Other
sixty miles have been arranged for, and
sC;il ho an hand in due time