The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-07-23

RECEIVER Scobey and Register
Deckabach, the new officials of the
Olympia land Office, took possession OF
the office the first of the week. ri
ACCORDING to the revised figures OF
some OF our populist contemporaries
the indications now are that Gov.
Rogers administration will not only |
turn back into the treasury all of the
money appropriately to pay expenses
for this biennial period, but will have
about $4,000 more TO put with it.
This is an elegant lightning. If the
pops keep up this lick for few years
there won't be room enough out of
doors for the state to- bury its money.
-Chehalis Nugget, (dem.)
JAPAN, so the dispatches say, has
formed an alliance, offensive and de-
fensive, with Spain, and is parading
before Uncle Sam with chip on its
shoulder, all because Hawaii is to be
annexed to the United States. The
little bantam is something of a fighter,
but if it doesn't be careful we may
take notion to annex that country.
A partnership with the decayed dy-
nasty of Spain is just about as worth
less as could we'll be made by any
country.
The st. Paul T. Tacoma Lumber
Company is reaching out all over the
world for business and is reaping the
reward for its enterprise. For num-
Der of months the company has had a
representative in China, Japan, Aus
tralia and Africa, and the result of his
work is beginning to be manifest.
There are two schooners now loading
at the mill for Australia and one for
China, each one to carry 1000. 900
feet. The schooners Bowden and
Snow and Bridges will take cargoes to
Sydney and Melbourne respectively,
and the John d. Tallant will load for
China. The mill is running night
and day to keep up with its orders.
BIDS for the construction of the
proposed jetty at Gray's Harbor were
opened at Seattle last week, and the
contract let to Chicago firm for
Scopes. There were competing con-
tractors, from all over the country,
and the bids ranged as high as 1851,
615. Only the south ietty will be
built at this time. Several quarries
OF suitable stone have been opened up
in Chehalis county and large quanti-
ties will be used on the jetty, all Of
which means the employment of many
men and the expenditure of most oil
the contract price to the people OIL
that county. It is but q matter oil
little time now before the times will
improve for everybody, and the change
for the better is already noticeable in
many directions.
SEVERAL of the fusion newspaper
men who heard Bryan at Portland las
week, as we'll as many others, consider
that Bryan isn't in it as a spellbindel
with our James Hamilton, If the for
mer was anywhere near his best. d
course the republicans who heard him
say that his talk was the ordinar,
populist harangue, with nothing at al
new or startling in the presentation O
free silver ideas such as they had beer
led to expect would be given from thi.
fountainhead of inspiration. Bryan
has the credit of being able to enthral
his hearers and move them over to tn,
mourner's bench, under the spell O
his cunning words, and against thei
own sober judgment. His nomination
for the presidency at Chicago was thu
result of just such stampede of /,
big body of hungry and tired men.
REPORTS from the Sound cities, from
Eastern Washington, the mining sec
tions and from many points in tn
East all go to show that a general i'm
provement in the times is beginnin,
to be manifest, and that the comm,
year will find every avenue of labo
and manufacture filled with busy men
Labor generally is waiting the chanc
to get work and wages. They hav
for the past four years passed through
the worst period of depression that tn
laboring classes have known for mon
than twenty years. Regardless of tn
causes of the better feeling in this an,
other sections, it is an indisputabl
fact that such is the case. Just a
present the numbering business is I'm
der lull. but this is only temporary
caused in part by the output of tn
past nine months, which is probabl
larger than for any similar period j,
the history of the Washington lumber
ing. As matter of fact and statistic
which cannuk mo1l ho aooor.l