The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-09-25


ton with his wife for several years
past, after many strange actions dur
ing the past ten days, is now in the
custody of the U. S. marshal, charged
with breaking into the post office at
Nina, Thurston County, and is evil
IDENTIFY temporarily insane. For sever
al weeks past he has been acting
queer1y, especially about his home.
During last week he devoted several
days to bicycles, but Friday night
secured team from Vogtlin & Max
we'll and turned his attention to horses.
Late at night the team was found at
the stable, having evidently been left
some where and found its way home
The next afternoon he took another
team which ran away and smashed
things to some extent, that evening he
got horse and buggy from B. Wiley
and drove to Olympia, not sparing the
horse, which was found loose in the
street and taken up by the police.
At Olympia he made trouble in sew
eral establishments, but later came for
the rig and drove to Tenino, where he
sold it to w. J. Warner for SIS. Next
he is heard from at Nina post office,
where nobody was around, so he broke
| in the door and smashed things up
generally.
Tuesday Jack Little received tele-
gram from him at Spokane asking for
$40, and Wednesday news came of his
arrest for the Nina incident and he is
now in custody. 1t is evident that in
sanity is the cause of the freaks, and
he will probably be sent to the asylum
rather than be tried on a criminal
charge B. Wiley followed him and
finally secured his rig at Tenino, the
purchaser coming to Shelton with him,
to see how he could be repaid. Fitz-
gerald is quiet man. drinking but
little and never drunk, he is first
class cruiser. and makes big wages at
this work. His work calls for long
| trips in the woods, estimating timber
| and finding lines, and without COM
pany, must be trying on ones mind.
This probably accounts for his hollu-
cinations.
DEBATE ch0nSed toSoturdoy
NIGHT at Court house.
Harvey Scott and wife were register
ed at the Webb, and spent Tuesday in
visiting old scenes and friends. Mr..
Scott is the old war-horse editor of the
Portland Oregonian, and was out for
a few days rest. If our local politicians
had been lively they might have ar
ranged for speech from Mr.. Scott,
who is most prominent, both as editor
and speaker, on the finance question in
the west. The Oregonian has been
power in retaining Oregon from the
populists, and Mr.. Scott says that Nc
Kinley will carry that state by good
majority; and also that there is not
the slightest question of McKin1ey's
|
Scott left what is known as Scott's
prairie, three miles north of Shelton,
and started to make his own way in
the world. How he has succeeded is
well known in the Northwest, He
began in Portland at the bottom and
is now editor and part owner of the
finest newspaper, plant and building
in the West
| Our cent outing flannel is going
very fast if you want bargain don't
fail to buy some
| MCDONALD s. O'NEILL
| The Peninsu1ar Ry. Co., is bringing
lot OF extra long stuff from Sin1p-
sons camps. 1t consists of logs from
70 to 100 feet, and is first class timber.
The order is for foreign trade and is
being rushed, as the ships are being
held at Port Blakely under demurrage.
The last train Wednesday night was
made up of twenty-five cars and was
over one-third of mile in length.
New Mackintoshes and rubber goods
just the thing for wet weather, at
HUNTER & EAToN's.
One of our democratic friends worked
a Mexican dollar off on us the other
night, evidently by mistake, as the
Bryan people are not circulating that
kind of campaign literature. That
dollar is all right in Mexico, but it goes
over here for So cents, although it con-
tains more silver than our own dollar.
| Have you bought pair of those
school shoes size 6 to II price Is cents,
we have sold 100 pairs this month.
They must be good value.
MCDONALD & O'NEILL
Children's School Caps now at Mrs.
W. B. Eaton's.
w. G. Jones, the republican attorney
general, who is now populist nominee
for congress along with Dude Lewis.
is billed for Shelton Monday night,
also John r. Rodgers. the candidate
for governor, he of the s'1OO0-imagi-
nary things" dollar.
People soon see the advantage in
going to A. w. Shelly when they need
medicine.
Vacant houses are generally scarce
in Shelton; one just vacated had five
different people looking for the owner
the same day. It might be a good in