The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-01-12
Correspondence and County Notes,
HOOPS CANAL. Jan. 9. 1894,

HOODS CANAL. Jan. 9, 1894.
Snow came again last Saturday to
the depth of about five inches and
still remains.
B. G. Wiley is planning to move his
ton very soon, where he will go into
the butcher business. They would
have gone before this, had he been
able to find house to suit him.
Miss Ethel Austin Of Seattle is
visiting Mrs. H. Brown at the Upper
Skokomish. and Miss Nora is visiting
friends in Seattle.
One man in this region is not COM
planning for want of work, and that
is our road supervisor, for the winter
rains are constantly giving him work.
1t is not as much of a problem now,
how to improve the roads and make
them better, as it is how to keep what
we have. First it was a slide on the
bluff below Mr.. Webb's, which re
CURED several men several days to re-
move, and when that was done,
another one came; there has also been
one or two at the bluff on the Upper
Skokomish near the school house, and
now the whole bottom has dropped
out of the road near the bluff above
Mr.. Webb's ranch for forty or fifty
feet, which will require both money
and engineering to repair; there is a
nigh bluff on one side and a deep
river on the other, so that it is hardly
possible to grade around it, while if a
bridge be built: it looks as if both
ends on which the bridge must rest
might drop out before a great while,
still it must be done as all the travel
from the Purdy place and the Upper
Skokomish to Union City must go
over this place. Other places in the
Skokomish bottom above Mr.. Purdy's
are also in bad shape, because of the
Hoods, where it seems almost useless
to do much until the floods shall be
over in the spring.
SALISHAN LANGUAGES.
A photography of the Salishan
Indian languages by J. c. Pilling has
just been published by the Bureau of
Ethnology at Washington. D. c.
This family of languages comprises
all in Western Washington except the
Makah, Chemakum and Ouillyhute.
1t includes the Puya1lup, Nisqually,
Cheha1is, Cowlitz, Skagit, Lummi.
Clallam, Skokon1ish and Ouinaie1t in
this region, and the Okauagan, Spo-
kane and Co1vil1e in Eastern Wash
ington, the Occur D'Alene, Pend
D'Oreille and F'1athead in Northern
Idaho, extends north to the fifty-third
parallel of longitude in British Col
unbia, including the Thompson's
river, Cowichan, and Nanairno, and
takes in the Tilamook and Siletz in
Oregon. 1t embraces forty-eight dia-
lects in all, but does not include all of
the languages in the above limits. for
the Yakima, and Nez Perez. as we'll as
the Makah, Quil1ehute and Cinema
KUN and some others within these
boundaries belong to other fanatics.
S1ngularly enough a dialect of one
family is sometimes entirely surround
ed by languages belonging to other
families, and perhaps it is thousand
miles from others of its own family.
This photography aims to include
everything which refers to this family
OF languages. printed Or i'll manu-
script, as books, pamphlets. articles
IN magazines, serials and the like,
and such reviews and announcements
as seem worthy of notice. 1t covers
SO octave pages and comprises $40
titles, of which $50 relate to what has
been printed, and 81 to manuscripts.
The earliest writer who refers to any
branch of the family, was Sir A.
Mackenzie, in 1901, after whom Mack
enzie river in British America is
named. Quite number of pamphlets
have been published in the Thomp-
son river dialect, in shorthand, which
the Indians have learned to read. A
facsimile of one page of prayers by
Father Durieu of this kind is given.
also of one of Skawamish prayers by
Bishop LIE Jeune, and of a Spokane
primer by Reverends E. Walker and
c. Eells. The latter was published in
1912 at Lapwai, Idaho. on the first
press ever brought to this North Paci-
fic Coast. Only one full copy Of the
pamphlet is now known to be IN exist
ence and that is in the library of Paci-
nc University, at Forest Grove. Ore
gon.
BRIGHT SAVINGS.
One foggy morning d little boy of
six years, was out boat riding. when
the sun could shine through only
enough to make it look like the moon.
When asked where is the moon?''
he pointed to the sun. When told
mo, that is the sum-" he could hardly
believe it, and said, But where are
the stickers?" Trays
One of our ladies few days ago
was noticing the especially green
grass and moss at this time of the
year and at last said, mo wonder it
| is so green, it rains so mucl1:" and
then she added. Il wonder if that is
the reason we are all SO green. S.
BORN, in Egypt valley, Jan. 9th, "a,
to the wife of Lester Adams, boy.
Talcott Bros. umbrella factory and
reformatory at Olympia is now at
work turning out ali kinds of rain pro-
tectors. The Grab apple swamps of
Mason and the adjoining counties
have been secured for gnarled and
fantastic handles, and it is said they
have great assortment of hard woods
for the purpose.
Tressa Huntley left Wednesday for
Olympia where she enters the Sisters
Academy for term.
UNION CITY, Jan. 10, 1894.
Services at the church Sunday after
noon. Mr.. Eells preached with his
ability.
Good coasting Sunday and Monday
evenings. ]. Hauptley came in town
Sunday bringing his family in a
sleigh; also a sleigh load of young
people from Webb's place.
i August Werman, proprietor of the
Hilton House, J. Graham, of the
Florence House, and Uncle Billy
Smith of Hoodsport, arrived in town
Monday morning to take the stage for
Shelton.
| ]. Sweetland who had been to Olvm-
pia on business, returned home Tues
day on the stage.
The stage left Tuesday at a. IN.