The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1895-09-06
News of all Sorts.

a disastrous fire last week, which de-
stroyed the main business row, together
with a two-story brick block. The
loss is covered by but a trife insur-
ance, and cuts quite hole in the ap-
pearance of the town from the pas
senger cars. The McGlinn hotel, at
LaConner, owned by Miles Galliher,
also burned Monday, but the guests
all managed to escape. Loss $500.
One of our residents went into his
stable the other night, and by mis-
take mixed up for his faithful bovine
a nice mash in a box of sawdust.
thinking it was bran. The COW, real
ly believing the hard times had come
and everybody was going, to econo-
mize, meekly ate her supper. The
man never discovered his mistake
until milking time next morning,
when the cow gave half a gallon of
turpentlne, quart of shoe pegs and a
bundle of lath.-Wilbur Register.
"SoME PEACHES" have been making
their appearance in Yakima. Sam
pies Fred Thompson's ranch measured
y inches; from p. J. Flint's big
orchard, 10 inches; and one from O..
Halsted's Parker Bottom fruit farm
tipped the scales at 81 ounces and
measured IL inches in circumference
They were all Crawfords and all
beauties. Mr.. Halstead also sent a
box of Hungarian prunes to Mr..
Scudder one of which, picked up at
random, weighed a. ounces and meas
ured inches around the long way.
These figures have a potency which
should move any eastern reader. We
of Yakima are used to them. By the
way, none of the above fruit was for
warded as the best from any particu-
lar ranch. They were simply picked
out of ordinary boxes sent to friends
or placed on the market for sale. ac-
cording to the Herald.
THERE is no doubt that the Gumrv
hotel calamity in Denver was caused
by boiler explosion. The fact leads
the Chicago Inter-Ocean to point to
what has been done by the national
government by the enforcement OF reg
ulatlons governing the management of
boilers on steam boats as evidence of
what the states might do through sim
liar regulations for boilers on land. 1t
was in 1850 that the first really effici-
ent law for the protection of life on
steam vessels was passed. The loss of
lie before that was one in every 55,714
persons carried, but since then it has
been reduced to one in 1,726,2S7. In
other words not quite one person kill
ed since to thirty before, in proportion
to the number &C tually carried. The
national government cannot reach the
boilers on land by proper system of
inspection and license; but the states
can and ought to.-Ledger.
WE observe, says the Fairhaven Her
aid, that the press is stopping over"
IN the matter Of the lynching of Vim
son and son, the general tenor of it's
language being that the state is dis
graced, and that it will have deterr-
ent effect on immigration. We take
no stock in opinions of this kind. We
have watched the effect of lynching in
states where lynching has been prevail
ent, and we were unable to discover
that anything was proved beyond the
fact that the law courts needed cleans
Ing, or, in other words, that the machi-
merry of the law moved too slowly. It
Is our choice at.murderers be legally
hanged. but if the courts persist in saw
ing them from the halter by interpos-
ing technicalities SO tenuous that
school boy is able to see through them.
there seems nothing left for the people
to do but take the law into their own
hands. As a matter of fact, drastric
and undesirable as lynching is, peo-
pie who resort to it are morally supe-
rior to those who tarnely accept YER
diets which are palpably at variance
with common sense.