The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-06-29
News of all Sorts.

N. H. MCLEAN, Seattle ward heel
er, was recently convicted of falsely
registering and sentenced to one year
in the penitentiary.
Two old Thurston County pioneers
passed away this week; George Ed
wards, 1850; and Mrs. Gallenton Hart
sock, aged SO years.
REPORTS from Eastern ssWashington
show large acreage and heavy stand
of wheat in all sections. The crop
this year promises to be enormous.
FROM an overturned lamp at the
closing exercises in the Rainier school
at Seattle last Friday, Miss Amanda
Hildebrandt received burns which
caused her death. The brave teacher
grabbed the large fount of the lamp
and carried it out, before any of the
gentlemen present could reach her.
THE Puget Mill Company tested the
capacity of one of their mills, known
as No. 2, at Port Gamble on Monday,
when they cut $50 900 feet of lumber.
The lumber cut was for the Honolulu,
Australia and California market. This
is the largest cut ever made by a
single mill on the Sound, it is re-
ported.
GEORGE DIAMOND, a South Union
Thurston County rnncher, met with
fatal accident last Saturday. A fall
ing tree caused snag to penetrate
through his arm into his body in an
upward direction, severing his wind
pipe. His axe at the same time flew
up and cut his throat clear across
from one jaw to another.
PEANUTS have been grown with con-
siderable success about North Yaki-
ma, and there is an increased interest
in the industry, owing to the value of
the product for various cooking pur-
poses, aside from it's unapproached
superiority as the king-pin circus and
Fourth O. July diet. The Washing
ton "goober" will be winner just as
her hops, prunes, lumber, fish and
mountain scenery have established
their supremacy.
THE barkentine Wooster, from I'm
alaska, brings word of the the wreck
ed whaling bark James Allen and
| five of the wrecked seamen. 1t is be-
lieved that Captain Huntley and forty
men are lost. The vessel struck a
reef off the Alaska coast on May 18th
in heavy storm. The revenue cut
tiers are searching the islands for any
other boats which may have reached
| the land.
BEALs, Coupeville's late bank
wrecker, has finally skipped out,
jumping his bonds and failing to show
up for his new trial last week. Beals
developed quite a penchant for wine
and women, and enjoyed many larks
before the people found him out. The
trial has been farce all the wav
through. and the injured people
should take the law in their own hands
and deal harshly with him if he is
found.
ACCORDING to Thackeray, Harry
warrington, in "The Virginians,"
made. a running jump of 81 feet 3
inches and Harry said there was
another in Virginia, Col. G. Washing
ton, who could clear foot more. The
winner of the running broad Jump at
the last American intercollegiate
games cleared % feet l inch, or two
inches less than Washington could
clear. However, the best record, both
in England and the United States. is
at least % feet 81 inches.-P.I.
1T beats all, says the Spokane Re-
view, how things grow in Washington.
Thesreliable Garfield Enterprise records
that about two months ago Mrs. Win
nifred Hall bought small rustic
stand from travelling salesman.
since that time it has been standing
IN the house. Last week she was as
tonished to find the peach sticks form
Ing the legs were growing, some
sprouts being an inch long. If this
magnificent growing weather keeps
on, really our furniture dealers will
have to devise some means of steriliz
Ing their chairs and bedsteads. It
would be a trifie homogeneous to hav
an antique oak bedroom set putting
out green shoots, or an old English
cherry center table bursting into
blossoms.