The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-09-14
News of all Sorts.

A RECENT decision of the supreme
court of the territory nullifes all di-
vorces granted by probate judges in
Oklahoma since March, 1898. There
have been fully 400 such divorces,
and large percentage of the persons
SO divorced have married again and
are guilty of bigamy.
THE other night an East side gro
Ger in Portland, who had been trou-
bled with burglars, set trap-gun, and
in the morning found game in the
shape of a dead burglar inside his
door. The use of such contrivances
is unlawful, however, even for the
protection of ones property, and the
grocer must answer to a charge of
murder in the second degree.
HENRY CRAEMER has been sentenc-
ed for murder in the first degree, for
the crime of killing Mrs. Miller and
her child and firing the house in
Seattle. The evidence, while mainly
circumstantial, connected the prison
er very closely with the terrible muir
der. Contrary to the course in some
other murder trials, the delays of
justice have been short in Craemers'
case, and he will soon pay the penalty.
THE announcement comes that Sen
ator Jones, of Nevada, has abandoned
the ranks of the Republican party and
has decided to cast his lot with the
Populists. This action on the part of
Mr.. Jones is not because he has eperi-
enced change of heart concerning
Republican doctrines, as he explains
in a letter to his constituents, but be-
causee he is radical for the free coinage
of silver, and he does not consider the
Republican party as pronounced on
the silver question as he would like.
Senator Jones has represented the
Republican in the United States senate
for twenty-one years, and admitting
that he has the silver interests very
much at heart, it is difficult to see
how man of his political sagacity
can expect relief from the peoples
party. That party is quite unknown,
except in theory, in the east and south
and even in the western states where
it is counted strong, it is believed to
be ON the wane. It is, therefore,
quite improbable that the Populists
will ever control the dational govern
ment, and the only hope of free silver
whether right or wrong, is the CONVEX
sion of a ma jority of American voters
in all parts of the country to that idea.
The Republican party is not opposed
to silver as an issue, and when the con-
viction has taken hold of the people
that free coinage of silver can be under
taken without danger, the Republican
party is bound to respond by incorpor-
ating a free silver plank in its platform.
AS a conservative party, having the
best interests of the country at heart,
it could not consistently take such a
step until sure that entire safety attend
ed it, and that the people demanded it.
Senator Jones is evidently so absorbed
by this one idea of silver that he per
mits himself to swallow all the vagar-
les of the peoples party, because in
one single instance his idea and theirs
correspond Better for the senator and
brighter the prospects of free coinage,
which he has so much at heart, were
he to labor to convince the people of
his own party of the correctness of his
views, than sink his usefulness in .
party without past or future.-Fair
Haven Herald.