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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-12-25
Eastern Corn Pouring In.

No signs of abatement of the pres
ent unprecedented shipment of corn
from the middle western states to the
Pacific northwest are manifest. A
member of the state grain inspector
staff is authority for the assertion
that Tacoma alone receives a carload
of corn each day. Allowing that
other large cities and thriving country
districts OF the northwest are con-
Stunning the same amount of corn as
Tacoma, the yellow cereal must be
rolling westward in trainloads. Ne
braska, it is understood, ships the
greater amount of corn being con-
sumed here.
The unusual demand for the wheat
oats and other cereals produced in the
northwest has drained the country 81
thoroughly of those grain that the
prices have doubled and even trebled
at home thus making the native pro-
ducts too expensive, as compared with
corn, for feed purposes. A we'll in
formed feed man said yesterday :
People are even feeding corn to chick.
ems in lieu Of wheat. This will pro-
duce better poultry.
"Califorria is taking great quantities
of Puget Sound oats and the gilt edge
price paid to secure them places the
grain beyond the reach of local feed
men. A Chehalis farmer sold car.
load of oats laid down here today fol
$24 ton. Corn is laid down here by
the dealers for about 500 ton. Las
summer the farmers received from SIS
to $40 ton for oats. Rolled oats
have advanced from $3.50 to $3.50 a
barrel since August. If the Chicago
corn market should advance sharply
the local feeders might fall back or
oats. The corn coming here from
the east is principally of the common
yellow variety. It is cracked here be-
fore given to the stock.-Ledger.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-12-25
Port Blakely Lumber Fleet.

BLAKELY, Dec 18.-The following
vessels are loading lumber at Blakely
The ship Kennebeck will load for San
Francisco. She carries 100000.
This is perhaps the largest cargo that
has gone to the city for long time.
The ship Chiltenford will leave Blakely
in few days, going to Tacoma to
finish her cargo. She loads for Port
Pirie. The barkentine Northwest
loads for Newport, the bark Prussia
for San Francisco, the bark Guardian
for Yokohama and the w. F. Witze-
mann for Guatemala, G. A. The
British ship Scottish Isles is loading
for Delagoa bay, South Africa.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-12-25

JUST RECEIvED:-Severa1 fine toilet
sets in aluminium, lot of albums.
and nice line of fancy celluoid articles
and perfumes. Make your selections
early at. FRANK TuErr,s
Hunter & Eaton, have received a
line of Holiday novelties for sale
cheap.
We are now able to quote you lowest
prices on Lumber, Windows Doors and
all building material. Call and get
our prices before budding.
Hunter & Eaton.
The Northern Pacific Express Go
mas added money division to the
Shelton Office and will hereafter issue
money orders in any amount, at all
hours, and at reasonable rates.
L. K. MUNsoN Local Agent.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-12-25
Weather Summary for November

Mean temperature of the month,
Western section, $40 Eastern section,
1915, for the state, 1873 degrees, which
is s degrees below the normal Noven-
Der, degrees below the cold Novem-
Der of 1898, and the lowest tempera-
ture for November of which there is
any record or knowledge in this state.
Maximum temperature 20 on 18th.
Minimum temperature, western Sec
ton, below zero at South Bend on
2Sth, eastern section, % below zero at
EAensburg on the 2Slh. Greatest
monthly range 81 at Ellensburg; least
monthly range 20 at Tatoosh; mean
range western, section So; eastern Sec
ton 10; for the state ga.
Mean monthly precipitation. west
ern section, 11.89; eastern section, SO,
for the whole state 9.16 inches, which
is So per cent. more than the average
for the past seven years, including No
vember 1896. In the western section
the amount surpasses that of Novem-
Der 1892, while in the eastern section
at is nearly double the amount for any
previous November. The greatest
precipitation occurred at Union City,
1899 inches; the least occurred at
Sunnyside, 149 inches. Snow occur
red during the month in all sections
of the state, except the coast of Pacific
county, and was very deep in some
localities. Average snowfall, western
section SO; eastern section 1916 state
11.5. All over the eastern part of the
state the depth was from 8 to q
inches, and in the mountains fall OF
lis inches, or feet 7 inches was re-
corded at Cascade Tunnel In the
western section the amount ranged
from to % inches, the most of which
fell during the storm of the 2lst.
1t is the general consensus of opin-
ion that the month of November 1896
was "record breaker" in more ways
than one. It was the most remark.
able November weather in the memory
of the Oldest inhabitant, and for once
at least, the remembrance of that
coolest inhabitant" was entirely in
harmony with the records. The cold
spell from the 25th to the 3Oth wa'
such severe one as has never been
known in November before, either BY
the whites, or by their predecessors
the Siwash. It has rarely been equal
led even in mid-winter. In all part
of the state east of the Cascades, anC
in some parts west of them the tenn
perature fell below zero. The rainfall
was entirely unprecedented during the
first two weeks, and in conjunction
} with the warm wave, or Chinook wind!
. which eliminated on the 18th, caused
the highest floods in the rivers flowing
9 west of the Cascades ever known By
the white settlers.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-12-25
SWALLOWED BY THE IUNGLE,
In One Year 1t Will Send Creepers On
Hnndred Feet HIGH Ouar a Ciaarina

In One Year 1t Will Send Creepers One
Hundred Feet High Over a Clearing.
The stages in the onward march of
the forest over a clearing are most in
teresting. Perhaps two or three hum
dred acres, in one instance, had been
planted with sugar canes and fifty in
plantains, vegetables and fruit. There
would be fair-sized dwelling house, a
water or cattle sugar mill, huts for the
negroes and a wharf on the river bank,
says writer in Popular Science
Monthly. The planter decided to give
up the place, as he had an offer of a
more fertile piece of land on the coast.
Taking away everything portable, in
GLIDING the machinery of his mill, he
abandoned the rest, carrying away his
negroes, and left the clearing to ma
ture.
Look on the plantation year later.
Already thicket has grown up which
is only penetrable by the constant use
of cutlass. After a great deal of Ia
Dor you reach the borders of the once
tidy clearing. What wonderful sight!
Along the line of forest trees a dense
wall of creepers rises sixty to a hundred
feet high, forming an effective vail to
the dark arcade beyond. From. these
stretch out long ropes, twining vegeta-
BILE serpents and giants fingers, all
moving toward what was once the open
space. Some are hundreds of yards
long, roofing at the joints, whence 9th
er branches radiate and from the dense
obstruction we have cut through.
The creepers, twiners and scramblers
have not yet reached the house, but
nature is at work there also. Round it
was once an orchard of oranges, lines,
star apples and other tropical fruit,
with few Towering shrubs. Most OF
these are now overrun with the blood
sucking loranths = vegetable leeches
which are continually draining their
juices and evidently fattening on the
spoil These exotic bushes and trees
have no business here; they are in
truders. If man protects them and de-
stroys their enemies they can thrive,
but if he abandons them they must per-
ish. Perhaps you are thirsty and look
for an orange, but among dozen trees
not single fruit can be found, and
never will be again.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-12-25

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OFTHE STATE OF
WASHINGTON FOR PIERCE COUNTY.
FRYE-BRUHN Co. Plaintiff,
VS..
LAFAYETTE r. DALGLEISH & ARTHUR }15,272
DALGLEISH, as DALGLEISH BROS.
Defendants.
Under and by virtue of an execution issued
out of the above named Court in the above en-
titled action on the IA day of December, 1885, pur
suant to a judgment and decree of sale rendered
in said Court on the IA day of December, 1896,
i'll favor of Frye-Bruhn Co. and against Lafayette
Dalgleish and Arthur Dalgleish, as Dalgleish
Bros. for the sum of One Hundred and Nine
and 20-100 t109.2 0) dollars, and for Twenty-one
and $1,000 dollars, .$2I5O) COSTS with interest on
said sums Ut the rate of seven per cent per
annum from said date. with costs of SALE all
in lawful money, in which the sale is ordered
OF the following described premises, situated in
Mason County, Washington, to-wlt:
The Northeast One-fOurth (NelS) of Section
Eighteen qSl, in Township Twenty one CD N.
R. Two ~ West, w. M.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN: That on the
18th day OF January 1897, at 10 o'clock in the
forenoon of said day, 1 will sell the above de.
scribed premises to satisfy said Judgment, costs,
interest, attorneys fee and accruing COSTS The
sale will take place at the front door of the court
house at Shelton, in Mason County, State OF
Washington, at public auction for cash in hand
to the highest and best bidder.
S. CALDWELL,
Sheriff of Mason County, Washington.
Date OF first publication 25 day of Dec. '96.-5w
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-12-25
Ordinance No. 40.

AN ORDINANCE REPEATING SECTION OF
ORDINANCE NO 49,.
Shelton
SECTION I. That Section 4 of Ordinance No
1213 an Ordinance imposing a Street Poll Tax
ana providing for the collection thereof
is hereby repealed
SEC. That this ordinance shall
IOrce ana effect from and after its pass.
testation, approval and publication in
Passed Dec. 9Th, 1885,
Approved Dec 5th, 1896.
Attest
C. v. DUNBAR, Clerk,
Date Of first publication Dec. 18th, 1886.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-12-25

Have you exa mined the aluminium
and silver novelties at Mrs Shaws'? y
Extra fine apples at Hunter &
Eatons. x
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-12-25

ykTANTED-SEVERALF FAITHFUL MEN OR
fN Women to travel for responsible establish
ed house in Washington. Salary $3.50, payable
SIS weekly and expenses. Position permanent
Reference. Enclose self-addressed stamped en-
velope. The National, Star Building, Chi cago
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-12-25

The Senate has taken one step in
the right direction by passing the
Lodge immigration bill, which adds
some needed restrictions, by excluding
from admission to the United States
all persons who cannot read and write
the language of their own or some 9TH
er country.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-12-25
MCDONALD & 0IyB|LL,

a PLAIN STATEMENT.
YOUR Dollar, buys the best and most goods
from us. We are now offering some special Bar
gains on 1 cas- If you use Tea it will pay you to
get Our prices. we are now opening up a first
class GunpoWder Tea for Is cents. a pound
a genuine good Spider Leg 25c
Very fine English Breakfast 25c
We are still selling Olympic Flour at ST. 80 SIX.
Dayton the best Straight Grade Flour in the
market at $115 per Sack We sell, the best GRADE
Savon Soap, 20bar boxes at Csc. See our No 8
you money on Heating Stoves See. our line Of
liable Cutlery and Granite ware A LARGE shin
ment OF Shoes and Dry Goods just arrived Come
to see US and get our prices
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-12-25

None WILL be carried oveFf Low Prices sell them We
aghter the Prices while the on instead of wait
ing until the Season is nearly over
The Prices All Goods Marked Yellow tickets are cut
70 cost or Below Watch for Yellow Ticket Bargains.
Those Search Of Christmas presents are invited to Care
SECOND FLOOR.
You Will lind tor Christmas Handsome Lamps Silver Sets
and Tableware Of all kinds, Plain Ornamental Clocks Very
Handsome Rocking Chairs Tables Desks and
Goods, Rugs and Carpets.
Also many Articles in the Dry Goods Clothing Furnishings
ana Shoe STOCKS such Ornamental Slippers Cuff and collar
Buttons Silk Handkerchief, Gloves and Ties
Ladies' Capes and Coats at 25Per Cent, discount,
J. D. RILEY, Manager
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-12-25
The JOURNAL begins its eleventh
year on Christmas day.

THE Whatcom Reveille notes the
fact that there are l16 applicants
for fish commissioner and that in
credible as it may seem among that
number are 46 ministers of the gospel.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-12-25

AT special election held in Cowlltz
county by order Of the Governor, to
settle the tie between DIR. L. M. Sims,
Republican, and John Hargrave, Pop
ulist, DR.. Sims was elected. The Pop
ulists failed to nominate a candidate,
and DR.. Sims had no opposition.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-12-25

A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR
READERS.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-12-25

HARDWARE SUPPLIES.-I have just
received full, line of piping, nails,
bolts, farming tools, and all kinds of
hardware supplies. When you want
anything in this line at reasonable
prices, call at AL. J. MUNsoN's.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-12-25

SECRETARY Carlisle, in his annual re-
port on the state of finances. shows
the revenues of the government from
all sources to have been $409. 475. 4Os.
and the expenditures $4S4, 678 654
which leaves deficit for the wear
ended June l, 1896, of $25, 2O4 GAG.
In addition to the ordinary revenues
collected during the year the cash in
the treasury was increased by the
following sums; From the sale NJ
sloOOooOOO 4 per cent. thirty-year
bonds, Sill ,166, 246 and from the ;sa,,e
Of per cent. bonds in liquidation Of
interest accrued on refundinp cart;f;-
tesconverted during the year, $3.50
making total Of $2Il .l7O, $40.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-12-25

PROFESSOR Blount, of the Colorado
Station, says bushel of clean, sound
wheat of average size contains 822, 600
kernels, and that half this number, or
half bushel, is ample seeding for an
acre under irrigation, which insures
perfect termination. He finds larger
yields of finer wheat from this amount
than from any thicker seeding.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-12-25

Novelties in Ce1uloid, the newest
games, toilet articles and gift books
at Frank Tuel1's.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-12-25

Sheriff of Mason County, Washington |
Date OF first publication 25 day of Dec. '96-5w |
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-12-25
Notice OF Sheriff'S Sale.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON FOR PIERCE COUNTY.
FRYE BRUHN Co. Plaintiff
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-24
Trees That Whist

The musical or whistlin' tree is found
in the West Indian islands, in Nubis
and the Sudan. 1t has peculiar shaped
leaf and pods with split or open edge
The wind passing through these sends
out the sound which gives the tree its
peculiar name. In Barbados there is !,
valley filled with these trees, and when
the trade winds blow across the islands
a constant moaning, deep toned whistle
IS heard from it, which in the still hours
of the night, has u very weird and un-
pleasant effect. A species Of acacia,
which grows very abundantly in the
Sudan, is also called the whistling tree
by the natives. Its shoots are frequent
ly, by the agency of the Larvae of in
sects, distorted in shape and swollen in
to Il globular bladder from l to inches
i'll diameter. After the insect has emerg-
ed from circular hole in the side Of
this swelling, the opening, played upon
by the wind, becomes musical instru-
ment, equal i'll sound to q sweet toned
flute. London Tit-Bits.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-24
Mr.. TUCKER OF MARTINIQUE
His important Share In President Diaz's
Adventures

His important Share In President DisS's
Adventures
II sheltered President Diaz of Mexico
some years ago, when he was a refugee
from his own land, said Captain J. G.
Tucker, United States consul to Mar
Unique, at the Ebbitt.
"He had been at the head Of a revolu-
tionary movement that had failed and
escaped across the Rio Grande to
Brownsville. l invited him to my house,
and he was my guest for about four
months. During that time he impressed
me as a man of extraordinary ability
and force of character, and between us
there sprang up fraternal attachment.
Diaz thought that he could rely ON
friends in Brownsville to furnish him
means whereby he could renew the fight
On the national forces, but when the
time came they did not make good their
promises.
"Onc evening Oh going home I found
him pacing the hallway with restless
stride and evidently i'll a very agitated
frame Of mind asked what the trouble
was, and he answered: 1 am in the
most desperate situation, without a dol
lar or a friend i'll the world. know
not which way to turn
"'You may be without a dollar, but
never without a friend as long as ]
live, general said l, and then talked
with him till he got in q calmer mood
Then l told him of something l had re-
solved OH doing weeks before, which
was to let him have a good round sum
Of money for the purchase of arms and
ammunition. In those days had some
pretty fat government contracts, and a
few thousand dollars didn't matter
much. Diaz was the happiest and most
grateful mortal / ever saw. In the
plentitude of all the power he has since
welded, l doubt whether he has ever
felt the JOY that possessed him that
night when he learned that he could
have all the money needed for his imme-
date use. He actually shed tears of de.
light, and Oh that 1 felt rewarded, 10!
caring whether l ever got my money
back or not.
Its too long story to tell in detail
of how l went on to New York and go;
the rifles and ammunition, and what 8
| time we had i'll GLIDING both the Mexi.
can and American officials and getting
the arms across the river. But the thing
was managed. and it gave Diaz the star,
for another campaign that ended i'll his
complete triumph. Before that was con.
summated, however, he passed through
an experience that reads like chapte,
I'll
that has had career so full OF romance
and hairbreadth escapes. Yes, he re.
paid me in full for the money ad
| vanced. He is the soul Of honor. -
Washington Post
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-24
THE SEA OF SAND,
Marco Polo's Account Of the Great Desert
of Cobb,

Marco Polo's Account Of the Great Desert
of Cobb.
Lop is a large town at the edge of
the desert which is called the desert
of Lop and is situated between east
and northeast. 1t belongs to the great
khan, and the people worship Moham-
med. Now, such persons as propose to
cross the desert take a weeks rest in
this town to refresh themselves and
their cattle, and then they make ready
for the journey, taking with them a
months supply for man and beast. On
quitting this city they enter the desert.
The length of this desert is SO great
that it is said it would take a year and
more to ride from one end Of it TO the
other. And here. where its breadth is
least. it takes q month to cross it. IT'S
all composed of hills and valleys Of
sand, and not u thing to eat is to be
found on it. But after riding for q day
and a night you find fresh water,
enough mayhap for some so or 100 per-
sons with their beasts but not for more.
And all across the desert you will find
water in like manner-that is to say, in
some % places altogether you will find
good water, but in no great quantity,
and in four places also you find brack-
ish water.
Beasts there are none, for there is
naught for them to eat. But there is %
marvellous thing related of this desert,
which is that when travellers are on the
move by night and one of them chances
to lag behind or to fall asleep or the
like, when he tries to gain his company
again, he will hear spirits talking and
will suppose them to be his comrades
Sometimes the spirits will call him by
name, and thus shall u traveller ofttimes
be led astray, so that he never finds his
party. And in this way many have per-
lshed. Sometimes the stray travellers
will hear, as it We're, the tramp and hum
of great cavalcade of people away
from the real line of road, and, taking
this to be their own company, they will
follow the sound, and when day breaks
they find that q cheat has been put OH
them and that they are in an i'll plight.
Even in the daytime one hears those
spirits talking. And sometimes you
shall hear the sound of variety of
musical instruments and still more
commonly the sound of drums. Hence
in making this journey it is customary
for travellers to keep close together. All
the animals, too, have bells at their
necks, so that they cannot easily get
astray. And at sleeping time signal
is put up to show the direction of the
next march.
So thus it is that the desert is cross
ed.-''The Story of Marco Polo," by
Noah Brooks, in st. Nicholas.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-24
DUTIES OF CITIZENSHIP.
A Decency That Is Laneuid Is More to
He Feared Than Criminality.

Decency That Is Languid Is More to
He Feared Than Criminality.
1.-THE thing we have the most to
fear" writes DR.. Parkhurst in an arti-
Gle on 1.-The Young Man as Citizen"
in the Ladies' Home Journal, lis not
the depravity and the criminality that
are rampant, but the decency that is
languid and the respectability that is
Indifferent and that will go junketing
when state is on the edge of a crisis
or go fishing ON day when the city is
having its destiny determined for it at
the polls. Would that there could be
some legislative enactment by which
every reputable traitor of the sort could
be denaturalized and branded with
some stigma Of civic outlawry that
should extinguish him as an American
and cancel his kinship with Columbus,
Fourth Of July and My Country. IT'S
Of Thee
II speak with full assurance when I
say, for instance, i'll regard to the city
of New York, that there is no single
moral issue capable Of being raised in
regard to its administration where the
great preponderance of sentiment would
not be found to be on the side of hon
esty as against corruption, provided
only that sentiment Were sufficiently
resolute ana alert to come forward and
declare itself. The purpose of cam
paign under such circumstances is not
to convince people of what is right, but
to stimulate to the point of action those
who are already convinced.