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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-12-14

REAL MERIT is the Characteristic of Hoods
Sarsaparilla, and it is manifested every day in
the remarkable cures this medicine accomplish
es. Hoods Sarsaparilla is kind. Try it,
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-12-14
Commissioners PROCEEDINGS.
DEC. 10. 1904.

OEC. III, 1914.
Board met pursuant to notice. Pre-
sent full board and clerk.
The bonds of the following named
County officers elect were approved
and ordered filed with Clerk Except
clerk elect: w H Maxwell, Treasurer;
Thos McLarty. Auditor; G B Gunder-
son Supt; Saml Caldwell, Sheriff; Robt
Fairbairn, Assessor; c w Hartman,
Attorney; L ] Morrison, Clerk; F d
Shelton, Surveyor. Precinct Off
GERS: Pickering, Kenneth Stewart,
justice; Shelton, G V Dunbar and
Isaac Woods, justices; W r Stewart,
constable; Kamilche, w D Hudson,
justice.
Opinion of Pros Attny relative to
the matter of Prince Estate read and
placed on file. Board then adjourned.
TUESDAY.-On motion board pro-
Ceeded to canvass the road election re-
turns. and the following persons are
duly declared elected as supervisors of
the respective road districts: James
Soran, road dist y; Chas Griggs, 5:
John Anunldsen, Z; John Gavon, 10;
Simon McCaffrey, 6; H E Ford, II;
Dan Fredericks, 4; Geo Wells, IS; w T
Budding, 3; VIM Ryan, l; Vincent
Finch, IA.
Appeared W Taylor, sup Dist :, settled and
allowed $5i.25. as follows: Bridge fund $13;
Road Dist6, s4125. Allowed 1916 for supplies
for road.
Clerk elect Morrison allowed to have desk and
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-12-14
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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-12-14

DACIFIC LODGE, NO. Sc.
l. X. OF p
Meets the first and third Friday evenings OF
% u eaGh month at the Masonic Hall Visitin
hnIghts cordially invited to attend.
ThOs. McLarty G. F stono
+. OF Z. K S. r. ~
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-12-14

= Z. Cross Post No. 90, GAR.
Meets in |. 0. 0. T. hall first and third Saturday
nlgiltS OF ea?h month. Comrades are cordially
invited to visit and join. '''''''
z. DUNBAR. Fl T. ArnPS
Adjutant Commando
The morning call., 1894-09-10
OKLAHOMA DIVORCES.

The decision of the Oklahoma Supreme
Court practically declaring null and void
several hundred divorces granted by tue
Probate Courts of that Territory will give
prominence to the demand for a national
marriage and divorce law. 1t is not con-
sistent with good morals that the marriage
tie should be subject TO such contingencies
as the reversal of decision of a lower
court by a court of higher authority. 1t
does not matter much in the case which
court was right aud which wrong; the evil
Of the thing is that there should ever be a
legal question whether man and a woman
are married or free TO marry. In most
cases where divorce is obtained In State
or Territory which invites divorce bust
ness by making divorce quick and easy,
one or both the parties to the case intend
20 remarry. Very often this intention is
realized with as little delay as possible.
What then is the cOndit on ot either man
or woman who has complied with the re-
quirementS of law and finds after a few
months that he or she is a party t.
bigamous marriage? There is probably
percentage of loose-minded people who
would contemplate such a relation without
regard to other than its legal RESPONSE
bilities. If the law did not hold them
| responsible for its own errors they
might not care much for other results
that would follow. But the presumption
is that large majority OF the divorced
persons would not have contracted new
relations had they not supposed them selves
| free from the old. The marriage and di-
vOrce law should be uniform over an
entire nation and as nearly in harmony
as possible with similar laws in other
nations. If a man and woman are hus-
| band and wife IN one Christian e0mmu-
nifty they should be husband and wife in
any Christian community into which they
may enter This end may be accomplished
| either by uniform State laws with which
| Federal authority should require Terri
| torial laws to comply, or by an amend
ment to the Federal constitution authoriz-
/ ing Congress to enact marriage and divorce
laws to apply to all the States and Terri
| tories in the Union.
The morning call., 1894-09-10
LOUISIANA.

a Louisiana Congressman holds out a
prospect that Louisiana may break away
from the solid South. The voters of Louisi-
ana could never be made TO understand
the good of protection until protection was
Withdrawn from them. Year after year,
as in Alabama, Georgia and other South
ern manufacturing States, they have gone
to the polls and voted against their own
interests so long as their votes had only a
negative influence. They did not see the
error Of their ways, but in 1892 they helped
to establish national policy. 1t appears
now that they do not like the national
policy they helped to establish. The Re-
publican Congress which took o Fl the duties
on sugar compensated home-producers of
sugsr by bounty. The Republican Con-
gress knew perfectly well that the Demo-
cratic State of Louisiana would receive
about nine-tenths of the bounty, but it
passed the bounty provision all the same.
The Democratic Congress repealed the
bounty and gave the sugar-producers a
tariff duty of 40 per cent in its place. But
this duty is not the equivalent of bounty
of cents pound, and on the difference
the color Of the politics of that State /,
likely to change. The moral of this is
that free trade is beautiful as a theory, but
an ugly fact when reduced to practice.
The morning call., 1894-09-10
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

IL Governor Tlllman of South Carolina shall
be elected TO the United States Seuate, as, un-
happily, now seems to be foreshadowed, he
will probably devote the first energies of his
craftsmanship 10 the solution Of the Senate bar
system.-PhiladeIphia Record.
Southern "chivalry" is frayed at the edges in
Kentucky In the Breckinrldge controversy
Everybody is calling everybody else name.
that are supposed 10 give fre-eaters an appetite
for rced-draught furnaces, and yet no one gets
| burt.-New York Tribune.
Congratulations were showered lon Senator
Hill yesterday in honor OF his birthday but
none came from the President. The Senator
said lie expected one from Cleveland to-mor-
| row. Tomorrow never cOmes.-New York
Mail and Express.
Louisiana will sue the United States for this
years sugar bounty, but would scoff at the idea
OF a similar act by other interests left out In
the cold. Louisiana has exclusive ideas on
equity as well as prOtect1on.-St. Louis Globe.
Democrat
An association Of cyclone survivors is being
formed in Western town. Only those who
have passed safely through a genuine cyclone
or have lived a year with stormy wife are
eligible TO membership Chicago Inter Ocean.
"Having taken the first STEP" says Chair
man Wilson, cDeerfully. cit will be easy 10
| proceed TO full realization OF tariff REFORM
Not if The business interests Of the country
know themselyes.-BostOn Journal.
Mr.. Breckinridge ("Willie'') is declared by
another colonel 10 have been 'in many ways q
boon 10 his native State" In some other ways
though. he isn't as squar' as OLD Daniel was
Philadelphia Ledger.
Colonel Breckinridge has not been physically
hurt yet, but some OF the Kentuckians who are
not concerned have fought TO the death. This
continues the usual history or combats.-St
Louis Republic.
Foreign business Is beginning to boom as
result OF the Democratic tariff. Time will prove
the folly OF building UP the industries OF other
countries at the expense Of our Own.-NeW
York Recorder.
Having celebrated his ffty-6rst birthday,
Senator HIPS next great effort Will be to estab-
lish The unconstitutionality of the Democratic
income tax.-New York Advertiser.
The question the adjournment OF Congress
leaves unsettled Is whether German is more
the Democratic Quay or Quay more the Repub.
lican German. New York World.
Chairman Wilson says he is full OF faith in
the future OF the Democratic party. DEM
ocratic faith, these days, is another name for
wind Detroit journal.
The innOcuous desuetude OF the communism
OF pelf is truly TO be desired, but it cannot be
| reached without a Democratic Senate.-St
| Louis Post-Dispatcn.
The dummies must be downed In the nom
| mating convention, or that party that father,
| them will be downed at the pOlls.-St. LouI.
Star-Sayngs.
| Some may see subject OF scientific interest
in it, but where a local policeman has a Dull he
always pulls a kind OF copper wres.-Phila-
| dephia Times.
Small wonder that Colonel Bob Ingersoll re-
pudiates his alleged defense OF suicide. There
The morning call., 1894-09-10
THE OREGON VIEW OF RAIL
ROAD DEBTS.

There is queer paper published In
Oregon. One of its present vagaries is
that the Government ownership of a rail-
road across the continent would be a move
ment in the direction of ''socialistic revo-
luton" Another idea which has taken
possession OF the mind that conducts that
journal is that competition which other
roads could not meet without loss would
be form of cOnfiscation. The funda-
mental error of the Oregon paper is in
assuming that railroad run by the Gov
ernment In the interest of the people must
be run at loss. Or course If this assump-
tion was correct the control of part of
the railroads by the Government and the
use OF them to reduce the earnings of
other roads below a paying point would
be confscation. But the Oregon paper has
no warrant for its assumption. To avoid
the hazard of denial of having made
such an assumption we quote from leader
in the issue of Septemb Der 6:
The general argument is that the Govern
ment. owning and operating this one line, could
afford to operate it without profit, and even
at a loss, for the benefit OF the people; that,
though IL would be OF most benefit 10 Califor.
MIA. yet indirectly il would be an advantage to
all the people or the United States and particu
larry to those of the Pacific States; that il
would establish conditions 10 which all the
other Pacific roads would be compelled TO con-
form, aud that, If the investments in the other
roads were Thereby destroyed, IL would be all
the better for the people at large, whose inter-
est it is 10 get cheap service, and who are not
concerned about the losses that may be suffered
by those who have money in railroads.
Against the morality OF such a scheme OF con-
fiscatIon it would be useless, of course, 10 ad-
dress protest to those who can, coolly pro-
pose il.
No one has proposed such a scheme,
coolly or otherwise. Neither Mr.. Estee,
Mr.. Budd, nor any other person authorized
to speak for any considerable proportion
of the people of California, has proposed
such a scheme as is outlined above.
The TWO Pacific roads owe frst-mortgag e
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TO MAKE YOU SMILE.

Lawyer-But. Mrs. Smith, it seems to me thai
you nave absolutely no cause for desiring q
divorce. You tell me that in all the twenty
years OF your married life your husband has
treated you with unvaryiDg Kindness and
that -
Fair Client-No cause? How long do you
Imagine 1t requires for one to become thor
oughly tired OF the name OF smith?
'Yes, snais have eyes. They are right at the
ends OF his horns
II wish my eyes were fixed that way; then
could SLICK them through the knot holes In the
fence and see all the ball games fur nuIhn'."
"It your boy doesn't reform. old fellow, you
won't be able to keep him out OF Jail when he
grows up"
Don't you believe it. I'm going to make a
policeman OF him."
AFTER his election to Congress did he affect
the legislation OF the country for good 2"
"Yes. Both houses adjourned for day when
he died."
Miss Streeter Is learning TO ride a bicycle"
"How is she succeeding ?'
ION, she doesn't get on very we'll"
he offered me the New YORK sun
AS on an outbound train whirled
with my new bride. The thoughtless one
was not aware had the W OrId.
All from Life.
The morning call., 1894-09-10

bonds to the amount of $50, 900, 900. The
interest on these bonds has been paid.
They owe the same amount of second
mortgage bonds. the interest on which has
not been paid. The accumulated interest
on the second-mortgage bonds is about
$70.C00,000, which, with the principal, $780,
000, 900, constitutes their debt to the Gov
eminent. The PROPOSE ion Of the people
of California is that the Government Issue
bonds TO the holders OF the first-mortgage
bonds to the amount of their face, $780,
100000. The two roads are worth more
than this sum, but not supposed to be
worth the additional $3.50, 900 the conf
pani6s owe the Government. Foreclosing
on the roads will not prevent proceedings
to recover the balance from the ORIGINAL
owners of the roads or their estates.
There is no proposition to run the roads at
loss, nor even to forego interest. If there
were there would be some ground for the
assumption that the campaign in California
will be the means of passing the funding
bill. While the owners of the Pacific roads,
whose sole purpose during thirty years has
been to enrich themselves al the Govern
ments expense, might not be considered as
entitled 10 much consideration, the people
OF California would revolt against the en-
ployment of the vast resources of the Gov
ernment to crush out competing roads.
Should the funding bill pass, the entire
Pacific Railroad debt would in the end be
paid by the patrons Of the road. The COM
panies would show that their fixed and op-
Grating expenses reached certain amount,
which of course would include payments
on account of sinking fund and interest.
Should the question of rates come into
court, it would probably be held that the
roads could not be required 10 esta blisn d
schedule of rates that would, one year
With another, produce less revenue than
the roads needed to meet fixed and op-
Grating expenses. The outcome would
be tnat in fifty years the patrons of the
roads would have to pay the present debt,
which may be stated as follows: $50, 900, 900
tirst-mortgage bonds, $50, ,OO0.O 600 second
mortgage bonds. $4,000. 600 interest on sec
ond-mortgage bonds. The year after the
funding bill passes Congress the industries
of California would be called upon to pay
One-6fiieth part Of an enormous debt of
$3.50, 900, 30 say nothing of accruing in-
terest, and this demand would be kept up
for the term of fifty years.
The morning call., 1894-09-10
TOO MUCH DEADHEADISM.

The NelC York Press makes the serious
charge that President Cleveland haUitu-
ally travels at the expense of the railroad
companies over whose routes he desires to
pass. The charge should not be made
without absolute knowledge of the truth.
Whether or not the Press has such
knowledge we of course cannot say, but
as the Press is a respectable and respon-
sible paper it can be made to produce
proof or pay for its assertion in the ab-
sence of proof. The general statement in
cudes the specific assertion that the Presi-
dent applies to the managers of the Penn
sylvania Railroad when he has a trip in
view and that President Roberts of that
road at once places his private car at the
Presidents disposal. The car with all the
people and proyender that the President
may desire TO take along is handled free
of charge over the Pennsylvania tracks
and presumably over other tracks the
President may have occasion to use.
Grover Cleveland, no more than Carroll
d. Wright, can accept such favors from
powerful corporations without compromis-
ing his official independence. An execu-
tive burdened by the acceptance of
such favor5 is not free man. He has
in effect accepted payment for an act of
favoritism in advance. What would be
the position of Mr.. Cleveland should
trouble occur on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road? Could he use his unbiased iudg-
ment as to complying with any request
that President Roberts might make? In
this case the president of the railroad
company and the President OF the United
States would stand before the public on
about equal terms. The railroad presi-
dent would appear as the tempter and the
official President as the tempted. 1t would
be better for the United States 10 paw
their President $1,00o,OOO a year than to
allow him to be deadheaded about this
country by TRANSFORMATION corporations.
The morning call., 1894-09-10
A NEW GIANT RAILROAD.

On Septem ber l the reorganization of
the Southern railroads, which are hence
forth to be known as parts of TIE "Soutn-
ern Railroad Company" was completed.
and the company came into posses ssion of
$500 miles of railroad and $50 miles OF
water-line. All the railroad is owned. ex-
cept 491 miles between Goldsboro, n. c.,
and Atlanta, Ga, which are leased. The
lines CT the thirty corporations which are
thus consolidated extend from Washing
ton, ID. C., and Richmond. Va. to Augusta
and Atlanta, Ca, and thence to Green
vile on the Mississippi. Bisectiug this
east and west line at Salisbury, n. c.. an
other main line crosses the State of North
Carolina by way of Ashevile, and runs
to knoxville and Chattanooga, Tenn, and
Rome, Ca; from Rome one line runs To
Brunswick, Ca, otner to Merida n.
Miss, while third connects Louisville
with Lexington, KY, and the Cincinnati
Southern.
The new line thus strikes nearly all the
leading cities of the South, and penetfates
the coal fields of Kentucky, Tennessee and
Alabama, the iron fields of Chattanooga
and Birmingham and the cotton fields of
all the Gulf States. 1t traverses the region
in which tobacco is grown, and through its
connections taps the fruit and garden truck
country of Georgia and Florida. Before
the consolidation these various regions
were served by thirty different railroads
The system will now be operated as
whole, and the public will soon have an
opportunity to note the difference betveen
the service rendered by one management
and that of thirty railroads controlled
separately.
Before the consolidation the several lines
were bonded or indebte for S135. O0O. .OOo
or nearly $4,000 a mile, and the interest
charge was $7,500,000 Under the con-
soldation the debt is scaled down to S1O0.-
OOo000, and the interest charge is to be-
100000 for 1894, 81, ,7OO,0O0 for 1895 and
50. 900 for 1896. An issue of $50. .OOO. 600
of new bonds is held In reserve to be sold
Tor betterments and extensions as thew
may be needed. The 100000, 900 of bonds
authorized embraces bonds sufficient to
take up and extnguish the bonded issue
OF the 49l miles Of leased railroad.
The expectation of the promoters of the
new consol daticn is that an era of bar-
mony In the management of these CORPORA
uons Will now prevail. Tie old CON-
panles were so straitsned in their means
that they were unable to provide for re-
newals OF rolling stock and track. and
they were tempted to charge exorbitant
rates Of fare and freight where they were
not held in check by competition. This
led to hostile legislation, instigated by
shippers, and for many years the shippers
and carriers in the larger portion of the
South have been carrying on incessant
warfare. The new company proposes to
The morning call., 1894-09-10

control the situation and make all these
railways profitable. Many economics can
be introduced, and the rolling stock OF the
different roads eau be used in common.
One of the chief obstacles to Southern
development and the settlement of the
Southern country has been the want of
transportation. Those who have lately
Travelled through the Southern States
report that the railroads are disgrace
that il is hard to say whether the rolling
stock or the track and structures are in
the worse condition; that the trains are
slow, uncertain and liable; that they
do not connect; aud, finally, that their
charges are higher than the charges on Inc
splendid systems OF New York and Pennsyl-
vanla. This was part of the effect OF too
much competition In spots, and charge
all the traffic would bear elsewhere. The
new corporation Is backed by inanclers
who will have supreme power over all
lines and make it certain that money will
be forthcoming for impro vements
wherever needed. The system most likely
Will be well managed in the interest OF
stockholders. and though the traffic Will
not be as large as traffic is on the north-
ern lines, that viii improve year by year.
The South is evidently on the eve OF
new era in railroad experience. This
years cotton crop will be nearly three
times as large as the average crop OF the
decade preceding the war; Tor the nrst
time in history the South will export and
will not import corn; and that section has
now two resources in her coal and her
iron. which were not dreamed of in the
slavery days. 1t would seem that tue time
is propitious for the manaGements OF great
lines of railroads TO make common cause
and reaD rich harYasts.
The morning call., 1894-09-10
CHURCH CONSOLIDATION.
Rev. L. II. Woodward Closes a Sue
CeSSfuI Passionate.

The annual conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church will be held at Pacific
Grove this week, and many of the minis
ters OF this city will set out for the gather
ing place to-day.
Among them is Rev. T. 81. Woodward,
pastor OF the First Church on Powell
street, who is rather uncertain as to his
future: HIS congregation has united with
tnat OF the Van Ness avenue church. and
after the conference there will be but one
pastor for the new flock.
II mas net yet been decided whether the
old church on Powell street will be sold or
retained as mission, but 1t is not large
enough for the enlarged congregation,
which VIII probably build a commOdious
mouse oil worship on Van Ness avenue.
heV. Mr. Woodward's pastorate has
Deen very successful. The consolidation
OF tue churches has been effected. result
Ing ln much larger and wealthier body.
All deots. including salaries, have been
paid, and $500 has bean expended in beney-
olcnt enterprises.
The morning call., 1894-09-10
The Overland FLYER

The Chicago. Union Pacific and Nortbvastar,
form the only line running Pullman palace slesr-
ers and dining cars daily, san Francisco TO chi
cago without change. Time to Chicago only threa
and one-half days, and TO New York four and one.
half days
Select tourist excursions to Chicago datlv with
out change Upholstered tourist cars.
ror TICKETS and sleeplng-csr Accommodations
ca., on OF address d. w. Hitchcock, general aeent
montgomery street, San Francisco.
The morning call., 1894-09-10

MORE than $4,000 people read the Pacific
States Watchman'; 10000 bona ide subscrIb.
ers: largest legitimate circulation OF any
monthly west Of the Rocky Mountains. A few
dress VIM. Ii. BARNES, ST. AIMS building
San Francisco, Cal
The morning call., 1894-09-10
VISITORS TO COUNTRY RESORTS

City subscribers to THE CALL risitino
the country during the summer months can
hare their paper sent to them for Gny
period deSired-oae ,Ueek or longer.
Orders can be giren to the carrier or tt
esther the Branch Office, 10 Market street
Or Business Office. 525 MONTGOMERY street
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