The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1895-04-26

and Job fonts IN cases, furniture, leads,
slugs, cutter, racks, stones-in fact
material to fit out good plant. For
sale cheap and Oh good terms.
\ REVISION of the estimates of tn
government for the fiscal year endin:
June 3Oth., necessitated by the lat
income tax decision, has been made
and il is estimated that the defici
will be fully $4O,OOO,O00.
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THE Northern Pacific has given up
the attempt to fasten the name "Ta-
coma" to Mount Rainier, and now thu
city should gracefully follow suit. Al
the railroad advertising matter has
been revised.
Prices generally seem to be on the
raise. Oil is higher than ever before
the price OF iron products, and cattle
have also gone up, and everything
seems to be improving. Let us hope
that wages will shortly receive a cor
responding impetus This is certain
ly a sign OF m improvement in tn,
times.
&c
Who says that heather Chinee can
not be Americanized? The laundr,
men of New York, Brooklyn anC
Jersey City have united with the K O.
l.. to maintain rates, three hundre.
cinnamon signing the rolls and payins
the So initiation fee. On this coast
knight of Labor would have fit OF
the bare mention of such a proposal
and Dennis Kearney Irishman would
make the imitation ceremony so severe
that John would never survive.
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The new law known as the "Heatl
boom bill'' seems to be working to a
nicely in Chebalis county. 1t allows
Il charge of GO cents per 1000 for
boonage while the old law provide.
for charge of Is cents and it wa.
considered that fact alone would deter
the companies from reincorporatin g
However, the law seems to take well
with the companies and it is said
others will soon amend so as to con-
form to it.
WITH the exception of very few city
buildings there is not store or resi-
ence in the land in which coal oil is
not used for the purposes of illumina-
ton. The actual value OF petroleum
at the place of its production is ex-
tremely small. The crude oil is toda,
quoted in market at 1926 per barrel,
equivalent to five and third cents per
gallon yet the actual consumer has to
pay ~ cents per gallon. The 142
cents are not all required to liquidate
the cost of refining and transporting
two cents per gallon will cover such
cost. The United States produces an
ually about l,2O0,000,000 gallons OF
oil. A profit of but 10 cents per GAL
lon O,oopo Tho ov,ot;D,, oe IT, . r
12O,O00,OO0 yearly from the pockets
OF the people under authority of the
law, and for which no reasonable
excuse can possibly exist in a republic
where all men are equal.
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INVESTIGATION has shown that there
was some method in the madness
which caused Paul SchulLe, late land
commissioner of the Northern Pacific
Railroad, to commit suicide. SO ia
something over 100000 has been dis
covered short, with the likelihood u
much more. His methods wa TO
convert the moneys received from
holders OF the company's land con-
tracts, to his own use, issuing his per-
sonal receipts to the sender, but MAX
ing no entries on the books. This
will probably account to some holders
who nave made their ten yearly pay.
ments for purchase price, why Their
deeds have not come. The compan
is calling for all receipts to determin.
the. condition of each contract and
the grand total OF the defalcation, an.
they will be the loser, as the ella m.
ants holding receipts are entitled {
their proper credits, and deeds to theil
purchase when contract is completed
The mining interests of the state aie
attracting more general interest thar
has been apparent in several years, and
thousands of men have gone into the
mountains, generally into districts O
demonstrated worth, with firm pur
pose of discovering or developing
properties that shall prove valuable
says the w. c. Trade Among tn,
scores OF prospective wealth in Wash
ington, few are susceptible of create
increase in their producing powers
than our mines. 1t is practically q
virgin field for the instances where
+ha nror,ortioS have haon pr,el,oc