The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-05-01
Correspondence And County Notes.


| Mr.. w. S. Hale of Seattle, and Miss
Emma ]. Rule of Hoedsport were mar
ried in the former place April II. Mr..
Hale spent his early days on the Sko-
komish river, but of late has been
engineer on the steamer Cheha1is,
when she was on the Hood Canal route.
His parents now live at Riverside and
his GRANDPA Their, Hon. c. H. Hale, was
one of the pioneers of Olympia where
he was Superintendent of Indian af-
| fairs in 1868.
Quite heavy frosts for several morn
ings. 1t has probably done some in
| jury to the fruit.
DIR. r. E. L. Newburne, superintend-
ent of the PuyaTlnp agency (consoli-
dated) visited the Slzokomish reserva-
| ton the first of last week.
Henry Lathem killed two pantlners
| Frank and wife and Moses Seattle
were fishing near his house where they
saw the panthers. Chas. Frank went
and told Mr.. Latham, who took his
gun and dogs and went after them
When he arrived he found one Of them
just ready to jump on Mrs. Frank or
Moses, who were terribly frightened.
| The dogs however tackled them and
they ran up a tree very near Mr.. La
tham's house, where he killed them.
They were very poor and hungry and
had come from the mountains in search
of food.
Thos. Purdy and Henry Latham
have taken the Purdy farm for the
next three years at least. It has been
decided to them, subject to a mortgage
held by w. S. Taylor of Kami1che
Mr.. Latham does not expect to move
his family until late in the summer, as
his children can attend school where
they now live.
Mr.. Leroy Jones closed a successful
term of school at Riverside, Friday.
Picnics have been the fashion lately
| had one, taking several boat loads to
Eueti, where they had 4 clam bake on
| the II. Mr.. Jones planned to have a
picnic for the Riverside school on the
24-Arbor Day-but the rain the previ-
GUS night made it so wet, that it was
thought best not to go. The Riverside
Literary Society had refreshment and
games after the debate last Friday
evening. The question, Resolved
that foreign immigration should be
prohibited for the next twenty years."
| was decided in the affirmative.
Mrs. A. r. Burt of Hoodsport has
been spending a week, visiting in Sc
attic, returning the first of last week
Mrs L. W. Parkhurst and Mrs. Ee11s
plan to go to the same place tomorrow
| for weeks visit.
! The richness of the Skokomish bot
tom may be seen from the fact that
Thomas Webb has just plowed a few
acres and planted it to potatoes, which
has never been plowed before, al
| though he has cut hay from it for the
| past twenty five years. He has other
| ground, which has never been p1owed
and yet cut hay from it for over thirty
years. He simply cleared the land
| and sowed it to grass, without blowing
| and it has yielded an annual crop for
| many years, besides a rich pasture
! from August until May. He could
easily cut two crops from it in season,
were he sure of weather dry enough to
cure it. M. Eells has some land which
was cleared and seeded down by VIM.
| Kirkland, about 1871, and has furnish
ed crop of hay every year since. ].
NJ. Spar has just plowed UP some
| ground on he reservation, which was
cleared by T. G. Purdy before the res
ervation was set off. The soil Of the
whole Skok omish valley is very similar
and it is certainly very hard to find
land anywhere which will excel it.
There was no rain here last Sunday,
though it rained on Saturday and
Monday. We are glad Of it, and it
ought to be death blow to the super
stition land it is nothing but super
stition) that if it rains on Easter it
will rain for seven Sundays. S.