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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-02-07

Mrs. Essinger and Mrs. Garfield, the
two police matrons of Cleveland, o..
lately arrested an intoxicated man
named Cuff. When he was arraigned
in the police court he pleaded not
guilty, and as he did so he rubbed his
arms. "What is the matter with your
arms?" asked Judge Fielder, "Them
women pinched them burned hard
and it hurts" replied Cuff. Since
"the matrons have not the legal power
to make arrests, although they have
the physical power" as Cleveland
daily expressed it, Cuff was discharged
no papers having been sworn out iu
his case. The Mrs. Garfield who took
part in this affair is distant connec-
tion of the murdered president.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-02-07

The little daughter of Mr.. Fred
Webber, Holland, Mass, had very
bad cold and cough which he had not
been able to cure with any thing. [
gave him 25 cent bottle of Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy, says W. P. Hol-
den, merchant and postmaster at West
Brimfeld, and the next time saw him
he said it worked like charm. This
remedy is intended especially for acute
throat and lung diseases such as colds,
Group and whooping cough, and it is
famous for its cures. There is no dan
ger in giving it to children for it con-
tains nothing injurious. For sale by
Frank Tuell.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-02-07
Change of Venue from a Justice Court.

The supreme court has handed down
an opinion deciding the question of
whether or not a change of venue lies
from a police justice of city of the
third class in this state to Justice of
the peace within the town or citv,
holding that this right exists.
The question arose from the case Of
the City of Puyallup VS.. M. V. Snyder.
The city instituted proceedings against
Snyder charging him with the sale of
intoxicating liquors contrary to the
provisions of an ordinance upon the
subject. He was arraigned before a
police justice, presented an affidavit
and request for change of venue. The
application was denied and he was
found guilty and fined $50 and costs.
Thereafter a writ of certiorari was is
sued from the superior court of Pierce
county, requiring the justice to certify
and send thereto a transcript of the
proceedings. The superior court set
aside the judgment of the police justice
on the ground that he erred in not al
lowing the change of venue. From
this order the appeal was taken.-
Olympian.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-02-07
Prof. Huxley's Argument.

A hard-headed man was Prof.
Thomas II. Huxley, if ever there was
one, and he said: "Suppose, for the
sake of argument, we accept the in
of the sexes as one of Natures
immutable laws; call it a fact that
women are inferior to men in mind,
morals and physique. Why should
this settle, or materially affect, the
subject of so-called woman's rights?
Would not this very inferiority be
reason why every advantage should be
given to the weaker sex, not only for
its own good, but for the highest de-
velopment of the racer.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-02-07

Preparing for Car Building.

The announcement made last week
that the management of the Northern
Pacific at the Pacific terminus of the
line had instituted a searching investi-
cation regarding the practicability of
operating the South Tacoma car shops
at their full capacity in turning Wash
ington woods into rolling stock, for
supplying the shortage of cars known
to exist among the railroads of the
United States has been followed by the
immediate prosecutson of preliminary
work, the most important development
in that direction being a test of the
comparative merits of Washington fir
as compared with eastern oak, by Ex-
pert G. d. Colvin, and these tests are
of such general Importance as showing
the strength OF the two woods and the
advantage of the native woods that
the report is given in full:
South Tacoma, Wn., Jan. "a, 1896.
The following breaking tests were
made by O. d. Oolvin at the South Ta-
coma car shops of the Northern Pacific
Railroad company, between eastern
white oak and Washington fir: A
dressed piece. two inches square, was
given an eighteen inch span and lift
made by an hydraulic jack as shown
on attached sketch, with the following
results:
First-Ten pieces were selected,
which had not been seasoned, of both
oak and FIR; lift was made until
piece broke. The result was as fol-
lows.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-02-07
Twelve Best COnundrums.

l. What is that which increases
the more you take from it?-A hole.
2. Why are the Goals in London
like towns given up to plunder?-Be-
cause they are sacked and burnt.
3. Why is gate post like potato?
Because they are both put into the
ground to propagate.
4. What word may be pronounced
quicker by adding a syllable to it,
Quick.
3. What is it that we often see
made, but never see it after 1t is made?
"A noise.
6. What is that which Adam never
saw, never possessed, and yet gave to
each of his children?-Parents.
Z. Why is chicken pie like a gun
smiths shop?-Because it contains
fowlin-pieces.
s. What is that which no one
wishes to have and no one wishes to
lose?-A bald head.
8. What is the difference between a
sailor and beer drinker?-One puts
his sail up and the other puts his ale
down.
10. What is that which is above all
human imperfections and yet shelters
and protects the weakest and wickedest
as we'll as the wisest and best of man
kind?-A hat.
IL. What is that which is often
brought to the table, always cut and
never eaten?-A pack of cards.
II. What are the most unsociable
things in the world 7Milestones, for
you never see two of them together.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-02-07
Warner Miller we'll says: GAS w

Warner Miller we'll says: GAS we
love our institutions, we must stand
against the open saloon on Sunday.
Every church organization in this
land, Catholic and Protestant alike
stands unalterably opposed to the
Sunday saloon, and vast majority of
all our people, without regard to re-
ligion or sect, also believe in the neces-
sity of making Sunday day of rest,
and are equally with the church people
opposed to the open saloon on Sun
daY.o
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-02-07

yITANTED Several trustworthy gentlemen or
w ladies to travel in Washington, for establish
ed, reliable house. Salary $3.50 and expenses.
Steady position. Enclose reference and self-ad-
dressed stamped envelope The Dominion Com
pany, Third Floor, Omaha Bldg, Chicago Ill.
has been agreed to by the sub-commit-
tee consisting of Draper, of Mass,
Pearson, of N. c., and Densmore, OF
Ark, to which the matter was referred.
1t would be comparatively easy for the
republicans on the committee to get
any sort of resolution passed by the
House that they might choose to re-
port, even to the extent of recommend
ing Bayard's recall; but as they wish
the matter to be shorn of all partisan
ship by having the resolution reported
unanimously from the committee, the
resolution to be reported will be mere
ly one of censure and so worded that
it will be supported by the democratic
members of the committee, who agree
with their republican colleagues in be-
lieving that Bayard deserves to be
censured.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-02-07
$50 West, Young Man."

Horace Greeley, whose advice, "Go
Vest, young man, and grow up with
the country" has been accepted with
profit by thousands of young and old
men, founded the New York Tribune
many years ago. 1t has long been re-
oganlzed as leading New York news
oaper, and we are pleased to be able to
pnnounce that by special arrange
ment we can offer to our readers the
New York Weekly Tribune, the Seat
Vie Weekly Post-Intelligencer and the
JOURNAL, all three papers, one year,
lor wa. This offer is good to old
ana new subscribers, and at the low
price named must meet with popular
ayOr.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-02-07
"A Huge Freight Car.

What is claimed to be the largest
freight car ever built was turned out at
Altoona, Pa, few days ago. 1t is to
carry the one hundred and twenty four
ton cannon Krupp is making for ex-
hibition at Chicago from Baltimore to
Chicago. The car is practically two
cars, with eight pairs of wheels each,
jointed together and made into one by
an iron bridge. Another car of almost
equal size is building to transport two
sixty-fve-tOn guns and a big piece Of
armor plate over the same route.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-02-07
The Original "Sucker.

s'The word sucker originated at the
Galena mines in Iliincis in the fall of
1922, at a time when there was a great
exodus. A large returning party. while
boarding steamer at the Galena
wharf, was asked: 'Vher' ye go.n?'
TO hum, was the reply. 'Well,' was
the rejoinder of an old miner, we put
me in mind Of suSk kcrs. they do go up
the river in the spsin wsl, and all
return down ag'in il i-o fall.'"
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-02-07
ear, with the following results:
4,233 pounds average.

The conditions were the same in
each test and care was taken to select
the best quality of both oak and fir.
This is to certify that | was present
when the comparative tests were made
between oak and fir at the South Ia
coma shops, January Oath 1896, and
know of my own personal knowledge
that they are correct, as shown by the
attached statement.
III. w. TOPPING,
Of Parker & Topping.
G. H. GILMAN,
General Car Foreman N. P. shops.
J. T. HOwsON,
MGR American Foundry Co So Tacoma.
These tests, covering one of the most
important commodities used IN the
construction of cars, will undoubtedly
be of great benefit in promoting the
use of Washington fir, whether the
proposition of increasing the South
Tacoma shops to their full capacity, by
employing from 1,2OO to 1,SoO men
and turning out cars at the rate OF
thirty daily, is carried out or not.
However, another feature IN favor OF
the plans is the fact that with the op-
Grafton of the Western Iron and Steel
company's rolling mill here, the axles
and springs can be turned out on the
grounds, where the structural iron has
heretofore been shipped in from the
east. This leaves only the patent air
brakes and couples to be imported, and
inasmuch as these are covered by
patents, that is necessary in all the car
manufactures. Then, again, the tact
that practically no new additions is
necessary to the shops themselves, IN
dicates an advantage which only
lack of demand for cars can offset.
With the completion of investigations
here, Mr.. Colvin goes east for the pur-
pose of ascertaining the possible mar
ket among the various roads. 1t is
estimated that the requirements Tor
the coming year will reach in the
neighborhood of 100000 cars, and the
probabilities seem all on the side OF
realization of the hope that large
number of these can be built in Taco
ma, shipped east, loaded with Wash
ington products, and great and profit
able industry inaugurated.-West
Coast Trade.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-02-07
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w. G.. L. Z. COLUMN
Officers.

SUPTs.--MTs. LemOine. Press Work; Mrs
Sheedy, Suffrage; Mrs. Rex, Flower mission;
Mrs. Lemoine, Purity; Mrs. Forrest Literature;
Mrs. S. Hunter, Mothers Meetings: Miss An
sorge, Parliamentary; Miss Amber. Evangelis-
tic; Mrs. Dunbar, Petition; Democest, Mrs.
Lange; Ms. Rex, Union Signal.
"For God and Home and Native land
Meetings every week on Saturday afternoon
at the M. E. Church.
Mothers meetings, first Friday of every mo nth
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-02-07
4 average hr, 2,S45,

IIU pUuIUS III IdVOr OF Ut.
SecOnd-Ten pieces were selected of
both oak and fir, we'll seasoned, and no
attention given whatever to the bear
ing in regard to the grain; the lift was
made until piece broke. The result
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-02-07
6O-16 in. $4,000

6-16 in. average $500: 9-4-16 in. average 3,215'
6S5 pounds per stick in favor of fir.
Third-SiX pieces of fir were select
ed. which had been under cover one
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-02-07
NOTICE OF SALE OF SCHOOL LANDS


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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-02

ness. Mrs. Stowe published a Key
to it, as a vindication in part. But it
was not necessary. The scenes of her
novel are paralleled almost in Fanny
Kemble's Journal of a Residence on
a Georgia Plantation"
Although Mrs. Stowe wrote many
books her fame will rest upon her one
great book, a book destined to live so
long as the memory OF slavery in the
United States survives. She did a
great and noble work in writing her
famous novel, and she had the salts
faction of seeing that work acknowl-
edged and recognized. She lived to see
the system she so hated rooted out
from the land, and the land made
happy and strong after four years of
frightful fratricidal war. She saw the
north and the south united in a greater,
grander union than the one she knew
when she wrote Uncle Toms Cabin"
She passed by fifteen years the three
score and ten years allotted to man,
and she goes down to her grave full
of years and honors, her name a house
hold word, her memory held III rever-
ence and esteem. Can man ask more
than this?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-02
DEPOSIT OF PUBLIC FUNDS.

Owing to the failure of bank in
this city in which was deposited some
twelve thousand dollars of city money,
city employees have to go without their
pay for a while, possibly two or three
months. 1t is alphabetically said
that the funds are tied up" That
they are tied up is very unfortunate
for the city, it's employees and the
city treasurer and his bondsmen. There
is very serious defect in our laws
that there is no provision, so far as
we know. directing how and where pub
lie funds shall be deposited; the mat
ter is left entirely to those who have
the control of them. This should not
be. 1t is matter of common knowl-
edge that, as rule, public funds are
deposited in some bank that under
takes to furnish the bonds of the Of
ficer controlling them. The bank does
it that it may have the use of the
funds 1t is also a common belief that
officers having control of public funds
have, at times, deposited them with
banks which have paid the officers a
certain per cent for the use of the
money. Of course when this has been
done it has been simply dishonest and
scandalous.
There should be law upon the sub
ject, some method Of designating de-
positories for state, county and city
funds. the same as the secretary Of
the treasury designates what national
banks shall be United States deposit
tories. In the absence of such Drovi-
sion no officer having control Of public
funds should deposit them in any bank
without first consulting with and get
ting the consent of his bondsmen. They
are liable. and they certainly should
have a say in the matter
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-02
a HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING.

| Perhaps it is not the best time to
call attention to school work at the
close of the school year, and yet it
has it advantages. 1t affords time
for people to think over school mat
tiers and to see wherein they need
changing and improving. Our COM
mon school system is a, very excellent
one, and the pupils are we'll housed,
though there is a demand for still
more school facilities. But the great
need of the city at the present time
is a proper high school building. There
is a very excellent high school, but it
is most miserably housed. And if the
citizens of Salt Lake City continue
to let it be SO housed much longer it
will be a disgrace to them. No doubt
they would feel the added expense of
a tax for the purpose of erecting a
high school building that would in
every way be worthy of our common
school system, but still to no great ex-
tent. 1t is sometimes urged that very
few of the pupils in the public schools
enter and graduate from the high
SchooL 1ne hlgh Scnool roll SHOWS
that this is not the case; but if it were,
those few should have the opportunity
of attending a first-class high school
All who have given any attention to
the matter know that a good school
building has its educational influence
as we'll as good corps of teachers.
With the same corps of teachers that
are now employed in the public schools
those schools would not be so good as
they are by very considerable were
the school buildings not what they
are.
Salt Lake City should have first
class high school building. The citi-
zens should think the matter over and
decide upon the erection of one. They
will never regret it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-02
rUNDA,rENrlAL NONSENSE.

The Chicago Chronicle says that the
two-thirds rule is a fundamental prin-
ciple of the Democratic party; that 1T
is something even more than that; that
it is an essential part Of the Demo-
cratic organization. That is nothing
but fundamental nonsense. But there
is much more in the Chronicles article.
1t says that there can be no Demo-
cratic party without the two-thirds
rule in it's national convention to gov
ern the nomination of its candidates;
and that nomination not made by a
two-thirds vote in a Democratic ma
tional convention would be void. There
was, to the best of our recollection,
Democratic party before the two
thirds rule was ever heard of, in fact
from the very inception of the govern
nlent. If there could be no Democratic
party now without the two-thirds rule,
how was it possible that there was one
before its adoption? Wherefore is it
essential? 1t is not essential to the
formulation of party platforms and
the declaration of party principles.
power to adopt the rule, and the pow
ers of each national convention are CO.
extensive with the powers of any ether
convention. Then why cannot one
Democratic national convention refuse
to adopt a rule that another formerly
did adopt? How very ridiculous to say
that a nomination not made by two
thirds vote would be void if the rules
of the convention did not require a
two thirds vote.
The Chronicle says that it is not in
the power of a. Democratic national
convention to repeal the two-thirds rule
without notice and by the mere arbi-
trary act of a numerical majority. 1t
fails to say why it is not in the power
of a Democratic national convention to
repeal the two-thirds rule by the
mere arbitrary act of numerical ma
jority.' 1t was adopted by just such
a majority. But the height of the
Chronicles fundamental nonsense is
reached when it declares that "a two
thirds vote of the convention or a vote
Of two-thirds of the states represented
in the convention should be required to
abrogate a rule of the Democratic
party dating from its first existence
The rule was adopted in 1892 Accord
ing to our Chicago contemporary,
then, the existence of the Democratic
party begins in that year. 1t should
take a course in American politics at
some night school
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-02
4ooINv HARvEY's FUSION PLAN.

II is sometimes unfortunate for a
man that he has become prominent and
that his name is known everywhere,
for it makes him look upon himself as
a great man, nan destined to infiu-
ence very materially the course of hu-
man events. Such man is Coin
Harvey. His Coins Financial
School, a very readable and fair but
not very profound presentation OF the
silver question, made him more or less
famous; and what is better, it made
him rich. Now Mr.. Harvey's success
with his little book has filed his head
with all sorts of wheels. He has just
evolved a plan to combine the silver
men. The object is a worthy one, but
the plan, it's a wheel. Here it is:
MY plan is to combine the silver
forces of the United States. l am try
ing to combine the Democrats, Silver
Republicans and Populists, and have
leaders of the parties:
For president on the Democratic
ticket, Silver Dollar" Bland, of Mis-
souri,. If elected give him the appoint
ment of one cabinet officer only, Secre-
tary of state. Let the Democrats en-
dorse the Populist nominee for vice
president on the Populist ticket, Sen
ator Marion Butler, of North Carolina.
Let the Pepulists endorse the Demo-
cratic nominee for president. Let Mr..
Butler, if elected, dictate the appoint
ment of secretary of the interior, secre-
tary Of agriculture. secretary of war