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

A MERRY CHRISTMAS AMI "A
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR
READERS.
The JOURNAL begins its eleventh
year on Christmas day.
THE Whatcom Reveille notes the
fact that there are I16 applicants
for fish commissioner and that in
credible as it may seem among that
number are 46 ministers of the gospel.
AT special election held in Cowlitz
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 candidate,
and DR.. Sims had no opposition.
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.
PROFESSOR Blount, of the Colorado
Station, says bushel of clean, sound
wheat of average size contains $4,000
kernels, and that half this number, or
half a 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 bare prospect Of free trade
closed mills and threw thousands out
of work directly after the election of
1892. The bare prospect of protection
has opened many mills and has given
work to thousands of wOrkmen in the
few days since the election of Novem
Der third, in this year of grace 1896.
Draw your own conclusions.-Aber
deem Bulletin.
The Nugget hates to introduce a
jangling note into the sweet harmony
of prophecy that is tickling populist
ears these days, but it wants to go on
record right now on the subject of the
legislature. 1t wants TO bet a years
subscription with some ardent populist
brother against his whiskers that the
session of the legislature held this
winter will be more fruitless, unsatis-
factory and disappointing than any be-
for it since Washington was made a
state. And it will agree to let the pop
ulist brother hold the stakes and de-
eide the bet.-Chehalis Nugget.
AS APPLIED to the immigration OF
the last fiscal year the Lodge bill, had
it-been in operation, would have stop
ped only 81 per cent. of the i'm mi
grants from Great Britain, Ireland,
France, Germany and Scandinavia,
while of the immigrants from Italy.
Austria-Hungary, Poland and Russia,
it would have stopped ALL per cent.
AS the most undesirable immigrants
came from the last four named coun-
tries, the effect of the new law can but
be the raising of the general standard
of character of those who in future
seek our shores.-P.-I.
IT has been suggested and the idea
endorsed by some of the leading jour-
mails OF the country that beginning
with the year 1900 the system of COM
putting time by months be changed.
The proposition is to have thirteen
months instead of twelve, each to have
2S days, except the last which would
have 29andin the leap years 80. This
would make the same day of the week
fall on the same day of the month
throughout the year. The change
would perhaps be great benefit TO the
business world, but a Transition from
the old system to the new would he
decidedly awkward and this country
isgetting quite old and consel vatiye.
-Olympian.
SECRETARY Carlisle, in his annual re-
port on the state of finances. shows
the revenues of the governments from
all sources to have been $4O9, Ats. 400
and the expenditures $4S4, 678 ,654
which leaves a deficit for the year
ended June |, 1896, of $25, 2O4, 246.
In addition to the ordinary revenues
collected during the year the cash in
the treasury was increased by the
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