The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-07-30
THE big demand for pack horses will

The big demand for pack horses will
be tough on the Portland can6ery.
Our dude" Lewis has introduced
bill to establish single tax in the dis
trict Of Columbia and proposes to use
che District as an experiment station.
AFTER all only about million and
q half has come out of the KlOndyke
30 far. The wheat fields of Washing
ton will yield ten millions in coined
money and nobody is half as glad of it
as he ought to be.
"Now if the goldbugs will only fly
away to Klondyke, the silver rays of
dawning prosperity will again illumine
the land" says the Olympia Standard.
AS matter of fact the most ardent
gold bugs are the erstwhile silver men,
and every one is going who can get the
necessary stake.
The extraordinary session OF the fifty
fifth Congress has completed it's labors
and adjourned, after doing good
work IN the passage of the tariff law.
President Mckinley submitted a cur
rency message for the members to
consider before the next session of
congress in December, at which time
the annexation matter will also be
considered
The Tacoma Ledger is now in new
hands, and shows very marked i'm
provement in both typographical ap-
pearance, and in editorial and news
matter. The new owner is Shultz, a
we'll known Chicago journalist, who
starts off with the intention of giving
Tacoma clean metropolitan daily,
that will devote all its influence to the
public good. Tacoma needs first
class daily paper and the field ought
20 be good one.
No tariff law which has gone upon
the statute books within the memory
OF the present generation has been as
cordially approved and endorsed even
by the members of the party opposed
to it as is the case with this one. The
growth of the protective-tariff senti-
ment in all parts of the country, coup
led with the fact that the new law de-
stroys the advantages given to the
trusts under the Wilson law, make it
an especially popular measure, while
the advantages which it gives to the
farmers, as we'll as the manufacturers
adds to its general acceptability.-
Ballard Union.
THE Dingley tariff bill passed the
Senate Saturday at 3 80 O'Clock P. NJ
and signed by the president at 4 80,
having passed by vote of 40 to 80
An analysis of the vote shows that the
affirmative vote was 81 Republicans
one Democrat (McEnery), one Silve,
Republican Zones of New, and one
Populist (Stewart). The negative was
- Democrats and two Populists
Turner voted with the Democrats, de-
spite his pretentions to be protec
zionist. The final vote in the House
was $50 Republicans and Democrats
in the affirmative and 1O6 Democrats
and IL Populists in the negative
The Treasury department has decided
that the law went into effect midnigh,
of July 23rd.
The JOURNAL intends to say as little
as possible about the exciting golt
news from Alaska. partly, because we
don't wish ID make those feel bad who
can not go and get their fortune.
They should bear in mind that there
arc many hardships and disappoint
ments in store for the gold seekers.
Other Eldorados have been discovered
then flourished and died. Aside from
the days of '49 in California, in tn,
later SOS the Frazer river gold ex
element was one of the widest il
history, to which many Mason count,
pioneers can attest. Only favored
few will be lucky enough to reap thei,
reward in Alaska, the others will
straggle back weary and heart sick a
the fickleness Of fortune. So dom,
feel too bad, but get in and drill her,
at home,-raise pork and "spuds," ant
your fortune will come surely if NOR,
slowly.
JUDGE MooRE of King county, in I.
recent decision in a foreclosure sui
holds that the new law is not opera
tive as to existing contracts. He or
ders: "That the said sale be mad,
without estimate or appraisment O
the value OF the said mortgaged prem
ises; that an order for such sale issue
on the application of the plaintiff, 0,
ITS successor in interest, and that the
sheriff proceed to the advertising and
sale of said property forthwith upon
the receipt Of said order of sale: that