The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-08-24
Correspondence and County Notes
HOOD CANAL, Aug q. 1894

: reservation ana put 1t into potatoes
and nearly all of these are doing wei
n They have also rented the place Q
4 Nellie George on the reservation, som
of which they are clearing, and all Q
which they intend to put into potatoes
Y the next two years. They are ais,
t running logging camp on the uppe
. Skokonish, which is a benefit not onl
to the men working in it, but also t
nearly all the farmers who are Twin,
in that part, in giving them teaming
a market for their hay and the like
Mr.. Simpson and William Foster hay,
bought of the North Pacific Railroad
Company the old Sweetland place OF
the Upper Skokomish, which they ar,
fencing and clearing, and on which
they are building a house. Mr.. Smp
son is also planning to build fishery
about d mile or SO above Union Cit,
on the Canal, where he expects to salt
six or eight hundred barrels of sal
mon this fall fer Eastern market
This will give employment to many
Indians and fishermen along the
Canal, who thus far during the SUM
n1er have found it very hard to get
enough money for necessary expenses.
Henry Allen and Hank Robinson of
the reservation started yesterday with
horses for Hoodsport, where they are
engaged to meet Mayor Phelps and a
party of prominent men of Seattle,
nine in all, whom they are to guide
into the Olympic mountains for an
outing of week or two.
| The mother and brother of Mrs.
W. o. Daily of Union City, arrived
last week from Iowa City for visit.
Mr.. SANGER late of Mexico and
Arizona. an old miner, started yes
terday for prospecting tour into the
Olympic mountains.
At present writing the members of
the Indian Teachers Institute have
not arrived, but are expected tonight,
four from Port Gamble, one from
Dungeness, four or five each from
Chehalis and Quinau1t, and fifteen
from Puyallup,-about thirty in all.
Next week we can give you full re-
port of the proceedings.
Mrs. Gibbs, of Kami1chie, and two
children came to the reservation last
Saturday, where they expect to re-
main until after the close of school
next Thursday, when they will return
home, taking her three children, John,
William and Lily, who have been at
school during the summer. S.
HARTsTEIN Aug IS, "a.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Longmire, Mr..
and Mrs. Kirkenda11, Mr.. and Mrs.
Labor and Miss Dibert from Olympia
are having a good time fishing and
camping out on the Island
Mr.. Swain and wife of Olympia,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Fletcher and child
are camped on the east side of the
Island this week.
Mr.. and. Mrs. Layne were in Olym-
pia this week.
Republicans, Democrats, Popu1ists,
Prohibitionists, A. P. AS, Equal
Rights Humbugs, and Hartstein
Islanders, all join han DIS and circle to
the left,-but we want it generally
understood that the A. P. AS or Equal
Rights parties are not in it on Hart
stein Island. There is no christianity
in bigotry or abuse and less principle
in such work as is being used in po1iti-
| cal rings in Mason County at the pre-
| sent time.
We see by the items in the Tribune
from Hartstein signed by S. N. Wod
| that he does not favor the running of
the steamer Seaside between here and
Olympia; we won Id suggest that Capt.
Axtell use his field glass within gun
| shot of PIT. Pleasant and if he can see
| a P. O. or pontoon bridge or city
| called Downs, to foot his whistle and
let S. N. Wod know that the balance
of the citizens of Hartstein are in
favor of a steamer from any quarter
on the sound that may come to us.
/. c. Webb, of Tacoma, is looking
| oyer his ranch on Hartstein, and is
the guest of VIM. Kendrick. We
would like to see him move his family
| here and improve his farm with the
rest of us.
H. Kirkenda11 and VIM. Gibbons of
Olympia are the guests OFT. A. B.
Newell and family.
We hear there is party of Tacoma
| hunters on the North end of Harris
tein hunting deer.
Mrs Vineyard is improving rapidly
from her late illness we are happy to
hear.
| We need more families on the Island
that will come prepared to make their
homes with us in place of the single
men that are trying to hold home
steads by staying off from them more
time than they live on them as some
of them are doing at the present time
and then abandon them altogether
afer proving up on them as others
have already done. l do not think
| that is the intent of the Homestead
| law.
The Seaside Steamer has the con-
tract for carrying the mail we hear
| from Ballou Post Office. OTEMPoRA.
Mark Swinnerton, says the Snol1o-