The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1893-12-08
Local News.

was pleasant day, if cloudy.
The Willie has changed hands and
is now owned by Capt. Tew. The
purchase price is reported as $1,000.
A stock of fancy flower pots, vases,
cups, lamps and other holiday goods
have just been opened by Al ]. Mum
son.
Thurston county will hold a poultry
show, Dec. 21-23, everything free, and
all are invited to come and bring their
pet stock.
The Tacoma mill has four scalers at
work scaling up the logs in the Will
hanson Logging Company's booms,
prior to settlement.
The little steamer Blue Star, which
has been carrying the mails to Allyn
and other North Bay points, burned at
Tacoma last week.
Mike J ones reports the finding of a
yearling black steer in McLeod's old
logging WORKS last week. The animal
had broken it's neck between two logs.
Residents along Franklin street have
petitioned the council for a sidewalk
along the north side from 5th to 18th
streets. 1t is necessity for the winter.
AS we go to press there are no new
developments in the Nadir shooting.
Sheriff Duckworth left for the Reser-
walton Thursday morning to look into
the case.
Taxes for 1893 are due January Sth,
two per cent. rebate if paid by Febru-
airy IS, and delinquent April LIST, after
which 81 per cent. penalty and 20 per
cent interest is assessed.
A party of six pot hunters from Seat
tie are now making a business of
Strengthening deer on Hoods Canal.
Last Sunday fourteen deer and Que
black bear were shipped to Seattle
market.
w. S. Ellis now sports a new safety
bicycle, and is learning to prope1 it
with some degree of safety. He has
secured the agency for the Victor and
other cycles, and expects to sell several
machines in town next spring.
Several deer have been brought in
this week, some of which were sold
about town. December is the only
month IN which deer or elk can be kill
ed for market, and the sports are max
ing the most of it.
TIC COuuC1l ulct w CuICSudy MY III
to canvass the election returns, and
owing to mistake n ta1lying, have
ordered a ,recount of the votes. There
was complaint about the rapid reading
of j. B. Shelton, as judge, but the
clerks thought they were able to keep
up with him.
Hiram, Prentice, Vader and Chas.
Dunbar, Sr. and Chas. Norton are out
at Panhandle lake for weeks hunt
Hiram and Prentice were out prospect
ing, Monday, and saw evidences that
many deer were over about the head
waters of the Go1dsborough. The
party expects deer apiece.
Mrs. ]. M. Ellis, the phrenologist,
will remain lin Shelton and continue
her course of lectures during the week.
The Olympia papers and the press
generally speak Of her lectures as a
very fine entertainment. She is a
clear and logical speaker, who under
stands her subject, and gives interest
ing pointers.
The little creek between Third and
Fifth streets is full of decaying dog
salmon, and that neighborhood is get
ting odorous, not to say unhealthy
Something should be done to remove
or bury the nuisance. The Colds
borough is comparatively free from
fish carcasses, the high water having
carried most of them to the bay.
G. w. Freeburger has leased all of
Tom S1ocum's ''forty' lying north of
the Go1dsborough creek for term of
fifteen years, and intends to plant the
tract to prunes. Since the tract will
not become available for sale for 20
years, without special legislation, it
will be good improvement to have it
cleared and planted to prune trees. In
a few years it will be credit rather
than an eyesore to Shelton.
L. K. Munson's complete stock of
Christmas goods are now on display,
and it is an excellent large stock for
Shelton, considering the year. How
ever, they have been marked down."
and most of the lines will be found
considerably cheaper than last year.
There are albums, toilet sets, cups and
fancy glassware, toys of all kinds and
dolls galore, picture frames, Christmas
cards, and in fact, everything that will
be required.
Martin Bingham generally carries
hence will get some recompense for his
injury while on the way home over the
Oregon Short Line His left arm was
badly sprained by fall in the depot,
while changing cars, and he was inca
pacitated for several weeks. The pol
icies only cost Is cents a day and call
for SIS, 900 in the event of death or SIS
per week while laid up in cases of
injury.
In regard to being robbed by sundry
invasions on it's contract with Mason
county, the JOURNAL. is something like
the men who was run Over-he did not
mind being knocked down so much
but he hated the idea of being run over
by a swil1 cart. If this paper had not
been firmly established, it would have
been ''run OUT of Mason county long
ago, by the persistent efforts which
have been made against it by very
small coterie, during the past three
years.
The citizens of Shelton are very
much pleased over the dismissal of the
receiver of the Washington Southern
Railroad, and the turning of the ex-
tensive plant over to the new trustees.
AS soon as the opportunity offers, the
road will now be in a position to push
ahead, and it is expected that opera
ton will be, to some extent, begun by
the first of the New Year. Col. J. r.
Mcdonald, the new manager, is one of
the best railroad men and practical
logpers in the State, and with push,
activity and good management, it is
expected that the plant will soon find a
market for its product, and the Com
pany, as we'll as Shelton, experience
again the good times of past years.
Col Sheafe, good railroad man, had