The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1895-04-05
Editorial Notes.

raise a half million in subsidies to con-
struct the Canal between Lake Wash
ington and the Bay, to benefit COM
merce, improve property and afford
labor. The bonus has already reached
100000.
UNDER the new law recognizing the
State Land Commissioner, Gov. Nc
Graw has appointed the following,
who act in conjunction with the State
Land Commissioner: S. S. Chadwick,
and Erastus Brainaad. Both were
members old board, and this appoint
ment leaves T. M. Reed, of Olympia,
the third, out of office.
ABE GROSS, of the well known Ia
coma firm of Gross Brothers, one OF
the largest and strongest in the city,
was found dead in bed last Saturday |
morning, having suicided by shooting |
himself through the head. As the
firm is in good shape, and Mr.. Gross
in good spirits, no causes have been
discovered for his rash act.
CHICAGO gave the Republicans a
forty-thousand plurality Tuesday,
electing Swift. mayor. In Wisconsin,
Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado,
Ohio, Michigan and Illinois, the re-
publicans were generally victorious in
local elections; in some cases the vote
being land slide. Texas, however
went democratic, wherever any voting
was done.
THE gov rnor has vetoed the Taylor
deficiency judgment bill. and accom-
panies the veto with abundant reasons
for this action. Mr.. Taylor owe rdid
the poor debtor business. When an
original loan is secured on real estate
the loan agent takes special care that
the property shall exceed in value the
amount OF the loan, and as the creditor
is practically the only bidder at the
sale, deficiency judgment is often a
robbery. However the over protection
OF debtor. is the killing of credit
Whatcom Reveille.
GOVERNOR McGRAw has completed
his labors upon the appropriations
bill by approving the general appro-
priations to the amount of 81, 313, 1923
and the special appropriations aside
from amounts aggregating $4,000,
the veto power being exercised in the
instance OF the act for wagon road
through Natchez pass, to cost $2O, 600.
the free text school books bill, $40 900,
the Eureka flats artesian well, asylum
improvements, etc. As approved the
appropriations for the next two years
will be $1,95O,OOO, an excess over
revenues of something like $4,000.
THERE appears to be wide and
deep chasm between the populists of
Thurston County, and very deter
mined effort on the part of one fac
ton to break down the influence of
Bro. Price, of the Capital. We don't
know what's up in the camp, the
Capital seems to us to be rabidly popu-
listic. About election time another
popalist paper was started in Olympia,
which soon ran into the ground, and
now the remains have been resurrect-
ed, and made into "The State" which
appeared on the scene last week, with
Sam Dobrin as its manager. The
"innards" are furnished by the Tacoma
Sun, but the outside is quite crude,
even to the average printer. How
ever, the talk sounds big, and that
covers a multitude Of sins. The
State says there is but one issue, Sill
ver-together with the initiative and
referendum, imperative mandate, pro.
portional representation, anti-mono-
poly and few dozen other things,
good, bad or Indifferent.
A REVIVAL of the lumber trade of
! satisfactory character at least, so far as
temporary business in the way OF
cargoes is concerned, is we'll demon
strated by the large number of vessels
now on Puget Sound, loading, and the
market activity of the cargo mills.
At Tacoma the two big lumber mills
are putting cargoes aboard thirteen
vessels, aud the aggregate amount Of
lumber to be loaded is greatly in excess
of what would ordinarily be the cas-.
(. with that number Of craft, because If
the large carrying capacity of several
OF the ships. The total number of
feet which will be carried away by ii e
feet Is about 100000. Another favor
able feature is the large proportion of
this lumber which is going faleign,
Australia taking three of the cargoes,
with i total OF 1000 900 feet; Chile,
one, |, 500 600 feet, while one each goes
to Hawaii and China. The other
large cargo mills on the Sound report
similar conditions, and while the pres
ent activity is regarded as something
of a squirt, it is believed it will con-
tinue for time at least. and the fact
that lumber cargoes are commencing
TO go TO China, indicates that the