The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-08-06


pic mountains is very encouraging,
and the JOURNAL would not feel great
ly surprised if the news OF the dlscov-
cry of another Klondyke came from
that direction.
DEMOCRATIC organs insist, that the
revival Of prosperity is due to the fine
crops, not to the Republicans; second,
that the revival is only temporary
and, third, that there isn't any revival
anyway-Kansas City Journal.
LIZZIE CLAW. the German bicycle
champion, at Toledo, Ohio, on the 23d
inst, rode Oh miles in one hour, over
the Casino track This is the best
record yet made by Il woman rider,
and not many OF the male profession
ais can beat it.
On July 26 bar silver at New York
reached the lowest ever known. Gov
eminent assay bars were quoted at
SOC, which made the silver in stand
ard dollar worth 1859, against 45.7Oc
in 1894. The market apened at 595c,
and later declined to 575c.
THE mining fever has already caus-
ed many men in the North West to
leave good jobs and join the rush to
Alaska. Employers in all lines of in
dustry are raising wages in order to
hold their employees and to secure
needed help. There ought to be no
complaint about wages if this con-
tinues.
In the case of the East Hoquiam
Boom & Logging Co. against Charles
Neeson ct al, Judge Aver at Olympia
has decided that no company incor-
porated under the 1895 act can i'm
prove stream and run logs of non
consenting log owners and charge a
toll for SO doing The case will be ap-
pealed to the supreme court. There
are many million feet Of logs to come
down stream for the different COM
panies.
UNDER the new tariff law the duty
on mohair is II cents per pound, for
which the farmers raising angora goats
will be thankful. Joseph Casstairs,
who is practically the only goat raiser
In Mason County, has about 125 head
and they are proving splendid in
vestment. I. w. Woods and others
are talking of getting start and rails
ing herd Of goats. Wool has also
received needed protection and the
sheep-growers will find their industry
more profitable in the future.
IHE Mazamas, an organization COM
prlsed OF many of the literary and
scientific people of the Northwest,
Who have been assailing the mountain
peaks OF this section for the past three
years, met with their first fatality last
week in the death of Prof. Mcclure, a
member of the faculty of the Univer-
slty of Oregon, who slipped down a
ledge near the top of Mt. Rainier,
and was instantly killed. A party of
about one hundred Mazamas were
scattered along the noun tain side and
camped IN various places for the night,
but several of the party were continu-
ing to climb IN the dusk, and in pass
ing particularly dangerous spot the
Professor slipped and was dashed to
death on the rocks hundred feet be-
low. The Mazamas have been making
trips to the tops of the higher noun
tains in Oregon and Washington for
their summer vacations, and the lady
members have been performing some
credltable feats of mountain climbing.
These expeditions are of a scientific
nature and much valuable informa-
ton has been gained from them.
THERE was crowd of wrathy gold
hunters in Victoria last week, when
they found that no Sound goods would
be allowed to enter the Klondyke dis
trlct without payment of the regular
Canadian duty. Two hundred of
them with :heir outfits from Seattle
were to take the steamer islander
Tor Dyea. Some of them decided on
paying the duty there, but others are
going north with the expectation Of
evading the custom officers. This is
hardly possible, as custom officers are
gong on the Islander, accompanied
by force of constables, who will as
slst the mounted police already there
to enforce the laws. In addition tn
these duties the blarsted Britishers
have made the following modest de-
Amands: The Canadian governments
wants every other claim of the un-
located lands; a registration fee of SIS
ana an annua. assessment of 500
from each miner; and the further per
centage of ten per cent on all mines
yielding $500 or less per month and
~ per cent on the output of all mines
yielding over that amount of gold.
She further wants to move the bound