The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1895-09-06
Editorial Notes.

NlSlleu III III IDe paSt express muCI
pleasure, and we believe it will be up
to the usual standard this year. The
JOURNAL has the usual compliment of
II season ticket.
The State school for defective
youths at Vancouver, is proving to be
about the best investment the State
has made in the educational line. It
seems to be under good and kind man.
agement, and a success. Supt. Wat
son was in Tacoma last week, and gath
cred about So deaf, mute, blind or fee
ble-minded children from the northern
part of the state, taking them to the
school in a body in charge of assistants.
The school has about $50 scholars in
charge, and is educating them to I've
useful in spite of their deformities.
The big new packing house at Ia
coma seems to be making pretty fair
record for slaughtering people, as two
have been killed in the building the
first month A short time ago, an en-
plOyee was horribly crushed in the ele
vator, and Monday, w. Henry Bird
who was inspecting the plant, fell down
an open schultz and was picked up dy
ing two floors below. The plant,
though in operation, is in an unfnish-
ed condition, and ordinary safeguards
should be placed at dangerous DO ints.
THERE is but one way to successfully
guard against extensive forest fires in
the Puget Sound country, and that is
to plant grass seeds broadcast through
out the woods. The effect of this is
magical; the grass remains green and
keeps the earth damp throughout the
dry season, and it is next to impossible
Tor lire to run along the ground
where the experiment has been put in
practice. The farmers of this county
should follow up the trail OF this sum-
mer's blazes and "salt" it against fut-
ure repetitions.-Whatcom Blade.
TALK about your doomed country
and "boom towns" but the people in
Washington evidently do not know the
first principles of booming, judging
from what was done in that line in
some Eastern states. We certainly
have no such relics Of monumental
folly as the following statement, from
the Ledger, shows: at is said there
are in the state of Kansas twenty well
built towns without single inhabi-
tant. Saratoga, in that state, has a
S3O,OOO opera house, large brick no.
tel, a sec, 600 school house and num-
Der of fine business houses, and vet
there is not a single person to claim
that city as his home At Fargo a
herder and his family constitute the
sole population of what was once an
incorporated city. And yet this is the
state which is the cradle and home of
populism."
A STRONG effort is being made by
Brayton Ives and Others who are out
OF control, to remove the receivers OF
the Northern Pacific Railroad, and il
looks as though the former were
ahead. Charges of mal-administra-
ton were made against the receivers.
and their appointment by Judge Jen
kins, of the circuit court of Wiscon
sin, was attacked, on the ground q
jurisdiction. Judges Hanford and
Gilbert of the U. S. Court for this
district have rendered decision that
Ihe former court had not jurisdiction,
and citing the receivers to appear
before them and answer the charges
on Oct. End. Many of the prominent
corporation attorneys of the NORTH
west were connected with the suit,
and several days were consumed in
argument. There will likely be a
change in the railroad management,
and new faction get into control.
BUSINESS is getting better through
out the whole state, and it will not b,
long before the cities feel the improve
ment far more than they do now. II
is good sign of the betterment oi
times In Western Washington that il
is visible more in the country districts
than in the larger cities. The Mar,s-
vile Globe says: 'sAs compared wit!
two years ago, there is now wonder
full improvement in business through
out the entire country. Mills which
then were silent are now humming
the song of industry, and among our
tall timber may be heard the re-
sounding blows of the axmen. This
is giving an oltl-time impetus to trade
even in this, the usually dull time of
the year, and the prospects for fall are
quite encouraging. Merchants are
ordering and receiving larger stocks
than they have for many months, all
Of which goes to prove that, from q
business standpoint. things are on the
upgrade There is no doubt that
business is much better in the cities
also, but it will take some time before
the improvement is felt IN all classes