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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-01-15
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talking abou, you can do so BY reading
this interesting serial. It is the kind Of
story that will be sure to please you-some
adventure of a nature that Is not Inn
probable, and a good love story A. welh
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shelton POSt-Office.

u.,, c,ose for the East daily 1T II 80 A. NJ.
Vii close for the North daily at A. M.
Nails arrive daily 1890 A. N.
General Delivery open from A. N. TO IL NJ
10 T.il. leave for Matlock, Mason, Juno. Grove
md Sstsop at q m every Tuesday and FRIDAY.
NJ Mannv Orders and Postal Notes issued.
Non0' J. E. SLIGH. Postmaster.
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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-01-15
Correspondence And County Notes.


HOOD CANAL, Jan. II, 1897.
Hood Canal is very quiet since the
holidays, and it looks as if it might
remain so for some time to come.
We are glad to know that Mrs. J..
Haupt1y and Mrs. J. Todd of Union
City, both of whom were considered
very dangerously sick last week, are
now improving and believed to be out
Of danger.
There has been a large amount of
sickness in this region, mainly la
grippe often in severe form. There
have been at least about twenty cases
around Union City and Riverside, be-
sides number more among the In
dams on the reservation.
Mr.. Reese, of Tahooya, has moved
his family to Union City, where his
children will have the benefit of the
school.
Miss Maggie Allen of the reserya-
ton left last week for the Puyallup
reservation to attend school.
Our mail and stage to Shelton has
again been changed, this time so as to
leave Union City at 7 o'clock in the
morning and arrive at four in the
afternoon.
There is some fishing going on here
yet, mainly of perch, silver, tyee and
steel head salmon and trout. They
are being shipped to Seattle, and bring
the fishermen little ready money and
food-near1y all there is in this region.
S.
KAMILcHE, Wash. Jan. 10, 1897.
Miss Mary Carey closed successful
term of school in the Forbes district
and is now teaching at New Kami1-
che,
Robt. Patterson left SATURDAY for
the Trail Creek mines in B. c.
Herbert Cumming returned from
Ye1m, Monday. =.
Miss Lena Johnson is spending the
week in Olympia.
Chas. Cook went s'sight SEEING"
around Kami1che, Sunday.
Misses Kate and Sina Hurley have
been in Olympia for the last few days.
William Darling is on the sick list.
So-SO
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-01-15
Wash. State. Monthly

The Ledger reports that new va
rietv of Fl h has made its appearance
in the Sound waters and is being
caught near Tacoma, the bass, very
near the gamely Eastern fish which
attracts the sportsmen. Ehey are
plump. fat fish, weighing from one to
three pounds. Old timers say the same
fish were in the Sound about fifteen
years ago, but nobody seems to know
where they have been all these years.
The bass have not yet reached our
bays, so far as we have heard. How
ever they may be here, few people
ever bother to catch salt water fish
about here. probably because they are
to common.
People all know nav where to get
medicine when they want it pure and
properly compounded Castoria Csc
A. w. Shelly.
The riddle of the year: 'There is
father with twice six sons; these sons
have thirty daughters apiece, partly
cclored, having one cheek white and
the other black, who never see each
others faces, nor live above twenty
four hours
Best of hay and oats at Hunter q
Eaton's. New lot just arrived.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS. Notice is here
by given. that all parties indebted te
me will please call and settle same be
fore February 1st, and save costs. ]
intend to be absent from Shelton foi
some time, and after that date, all I'M
paid accounts will be placed in thu
hands an attorney for collection.
DR.. w M. BEACH.
| Sheltou Jan. 18th 1896.
Rev. F.sO. Lamoreux baptised from
persons at New Kamiiche last Sunday
and expects to dictates again mex
Sunday.
| For Shoes that wear and give satis
/ faction go to Hunter & Eaton's
County school apportionment, made
this week, and the amount returnee
from the state will probably BE knows
by next week.
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School Apportionment.

The following is the apportionment of $2O44 81
County funds to the various districts of the
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-01-15

GRANT C. ANGLE, PROPRIETOR.

Every FRIDAY MORNING.
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and disposed of the remaining bust
ness.
Beginning next week, the JOURNAL
will publish the first installment of a
splendid serial story, for the enter
tainment of its readers during the
winter months. The serial is one of
the latest stories andjwill prove worthy
reading. Don't miss a number. "a
Case in Equity will continue about
twelve weeks. Should any subscriber
fail to receive the paper during the
time, extra copies will be supplied
from the Office. Now is a good time
to subscribe. Four months for fifty
cents.
Work on the Shelton Southwestern
Railroad is proceeding as usual under
Receiver MAXWELL, except that the log
ging train is hauling more than the
usual quota of logs. The new receiver
failed to get hold Of the books of the
concern, and on Tuesday an order was
made by the Court giving the old re-
ceiyer unrestricted control of them un-
til the 10Th, when. so it is reported
with some color of authenticity, an
other change would be made, in favor
OF the old management. The road is
running smoothly under Receiver
Maxwell, and it IS said that during
three days of last week, the road earn
Cd enough to pay its operating ex-
penses for month. It ought to pay
its labor, rather than go. behind, il
that i the pssal capacity for earn.
mgr. ~
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22
do our thinking for us on questions of
national Observation-Disclosures Bul1e-
Who Owns the Railroads.

Nobody owns any land or anything
his deeds were in effect
leases from the government, under
which he lives; and under some cir
cumstances they can be revoked and
the property coniscated. IF the stu
alton were analysed, it would be found
that the government is really the own
er of everything, and that the taxes
are the rent which it charges the
holder and enjoyer or its effects.
Surely, no other conclusion can be
reached; for if property belonged abso-
1ute1y to the individual he could con-
troll it without, reference to the gov
eminent. And it is no more than fair
that such should not be the case; for
without the protection of government,
property ceases to be such and be-
comes merely the prey of thieves and
robbers.
Railroads are iron highways that
really belong to the people, which
means or should mean, the govern
ment. They are all subject to the laws
of the states through which they pass,
and to those of the United States.
The fact that foreigners Gown" part
or all of the stock of a railroad does
not make it any less the property OF
the United States.
The time is not far distant when
without reference to present lines Of
party, the question will be agitate6
whether the government should not
take possession of its railroad property
reimburse fairly those who have stock
in the same, and conduct it as it nov
does certain other prizes. Many voters
will hold that the profits of such con
Germs should go to the people who owr
and patronize them, and that the
losses, when they occur, should fa1
upon the country at large, rather thar
upon d certain number of ste ckho1der:
outside he ''ring."
We are not discussing this question
we are only prophesying. that it will
arise, be seriously considered ant
voted upon; and we advise our readers
to be thinking the matter over.-Ev
erowhere.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22

The theory of Republican govern
ment is that when class interests are
permitted to do the thinking for the
people, it results in such class interests
utilizing legislation to enrich them
selves, ending in impoverishing the
people, creating a restless and dis
tressed citizenship, and finally des-
potism to hold the people in subjec-
ton; and that the only escape from
such a drift of affairs is by such meth
cd as will secure a majority express
sion of opinion from all the people, in
which expression, the unselfish and
disinterested people will outnumber
those selfishly interested in propos-
ed measure. This is illustrated in
proposition now before the American
people: The national bankers are
now asking the government to retire
the greenbacks; permit them to depos-
it government bonds with the United
States treasurer; continue to draw
down their interest on the bonds; on
the security of the bonds to draw from
the government national bank notes
to the full face value of the bonds, at
a cost to the bankers of one-half of one
per cent. interest per annum; and in
the meantime to be exempt from taxa
ton. Under the present law they are
borrowing money from the govern
ment at the rate of one per cent. per
annum, are exempt from ia xation, and
propose, now, to draw to the full value
of their security, and, reduce the rate
of interest to one-half of one per cent
per annum, for money which they
loan to you and at from six to ten
per cent. per annum. 1t is only a
question of few decades, when, un-
der such law, the property of the
nation will be transferred to the class
thus benefited. With this illustration,
1t will be readily seen, in one instance
only, how laws may effect civilization,
and how dangerous it is to concede
that any class should be permitted to
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22

The average farmer is not near so
helpless or foolish as he thinks he is,
and he and his boys and girls will find
this out when every school house has
its club for the discussion of economic
and political questions. The official
class and the commercial class tell him
that he and his family should associate
more with his mule. The Mercury ad-
vises them to associate more with each
other in school house clubs. You are
dominated too much by losing econom-
ic methods and by politicians who are
organized to plumber industry. Take
up in your club the subjects of inten-
sive farming, home industry and eco
nomical government.-South Mer-
curry.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22

1t is announced that the plans of
Secretary Gage, with reference to the
currency, are about completed. 1t is
not good citizenship to condemn the
plans of the secretary without hear
ing before the full bench, and were it
not for the fact that the people have
been so repeatedly juggled with by
Republican reform methods, there
would be no question of the determine
ton of the people, regardless of party,
to receive these plans in a patriotic
spirit, scrutinize them with all due
care, and give them credit for what
ever of merit they may contain.
AS reported, the plans contain some
good features, and, from the stand
point of the agriculturist and laborer,
some excessively bad ones, and it
should be, and is, the province of the
citizen to criticise them without refer
ence to bias or present party affi1ia-
tions.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22
Attack The Postal Laws.

With the assembling of congress
comes another attack on the postal
laws, and the failure of the Ding1ey
bill to provide sufficient revenue will
be used as club to drive the thing
through.
The object of the whole business is
to get an advance in the rates of post
age on newspapers and periodicals.
The argument is made that the gov
ernment loses money on this class of
postal matter and that this causes the
annual deficiency in the postal reve-
nues. And it is true.
The argument is made that the gov
eminent carries periodicals at one cent
a pound and pays the railroads eight
cents pound for carrying the mail.
And it is true.
But those who are ringing the
changes on these statements forget to
add two others which are also true
The government pays the railroad
companies eight cents pound for car
OAhS b1oAl, TIC Sdu1C
carry similar freight similar distances
for the express companies for one cent
pound.
That the government pays to the
railroad companies sufficient rent for
the use of its postal cars to rebuild all
the postal cars twice every year.
AS a consequence of this fact it fol-
lows that if the government paid the
railroad companies for their services
only what those services are honestly
worth that the government could con-
tinue to carry periodicals at one cent
pound and have a surplus every
year.
The real character of the present
movement is therefore a movement tc
tax the people several million dollars
year extra on their literature, so that
the government can go on paying tc
the railroad companies eight times as
much as the services they render are
worth.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22

Applications have been made to To-
cate grain buyers by expert grain
dealers in New York for the purchase
OF large Quantities of Kaffir corn. to
be shipped to Egypt and other African
countries. The natives there propose
to go to raising it extensively, and
they are forced to get the seed from
the United States. Kansas being one
OF the best kafir corn producing states
In the Union, the exporters are look
ing this way for seed to supply the de-
mand from Africa.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22

There are four cabinets in the Office
of State Superintendent of Public In
structlon Stryker, which cost Repub-
lican administration $3.50. A twelfth
street Topeka cabinet maker declares
that he can build them for SIS each,
and make money out of it. But as he
is Republican, the journals of that
party will probably consider the source
of his statements, and continue to howl
about warrants not paid for want of
funds.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22

Popular government is supposed to
be a government in which the popular
will controls, but thirty years of Re-
publican rule in Kansas has dissipated
the correctness of that theory, and has
changed the maxim to apply only to
CY Leland.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22

Nebraska stockmen have won their
legal battle against the Burlington
railroad, and that road has announced
that hereafter, instead of charging
cents per hundred pounds on ship
ments of stock, it will make a lump
charge per car load.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22

The National Convention of the Fed
Grafton of Labor, in session at Nash
vile; opposes the annexation of
Hawaii, on the ground that such an
nexation would be tantamount to the
admission of a slave state, the repre-
sentatives of which would necessarily
work and vote for the ens1avement
of labor.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22

Mrs. Maril1a M. Kicker, of New
Hampshire, attorney-at-law, politician,
commissioner, and examiner in chan
Gerry, has announced herself a candi-
date for Congress from the first con-
pressional district of her state.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22

While Topeka society is in the agony
of commissions over the college
Lead" which is correct imitation of
one barefoot embeci1e carrying an
other over a bed of hot Goals, Police
Matron Thorpe is making frantic ap-
peals for aid for the starving poor.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22

Mrs. jeanette Hauser is in receipt
of communication from Lord George
Hamilton, of England, to the effect
that there is still great need of cloth
ing in some of the famine districts of
India, and a request that she continue
her work of solicitation. Mrs. Hauser's
address for the reception of clothing
is Us Dearborn street, Chicago.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22

He (grumbly): What on earth do
you want bicycle for? Do you know
what they cost? She: cannot helm
what they cost. 1 must fave one. I
picked up pair of boomers at a bar
gain the other day, and 1 cannot
afford to let them go to waste.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22

Caller:-"In yesterdays paper you
said Miss Footlight was one of the
most beautiful women on the stage.
Why didn't you print her pictureH'
Editor:-"We never take back what we
say PUCK.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22

Prosperity will not come to a coun-
try where injustice and oppression are
allowed to abide, and the bowling OF
PROSPERITY howlers will not bring it.
New Era.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22

The spectacle of Kansas politicians
in Washington fighting over the divi-
sion of spoils, and attempting to di-
vide the state into districts in order to
facilitate such division and appease
the ire of contending factions, while
the people stay at home and pay use
less bills, is well worthy the ethics of
Republicanism.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22

We agree with the Republicans that
CY Leland should be turned down, but
we propose to hold them directly re-
sponsible for the conditions that per-
rnitted him to turn up.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22
or Guard.

"rhen you don't judge clergyman
by his bearing and remarks in the
pu1pit7''
mo. judge him by the way he
talks at the grocery Monday morning.
Chicago Record.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22
The Danger finn q Kiss.

She-Do you think there is danger
in a kiss?
He-We1l, think that very often
there are breach of promise microbes.
New York Journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22
Premafure.

$50 the professor recanted after they
charged him with heresy, eh?''
well, yes, temporarily. You see,
the publishers weren't quite ready to
bring out his book."-Detroit News.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22

Bridget Ito Mike, who has just set
up new stove):-''Don't build foire
in it till Oh troy tn oven, fer if 1T don't
bake well Oi'll how it STINT back. -
Judge.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22

Responsibility are you so angry
at the doctor?''
Mrs. Teaspout:-"When told him 1
had terrible tired feeling he told me
to show him my tongue. ''-Household
Words.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22
Was he the First?

."Te11 me, dear, am the first man
you ever kissed?"
"You are the first one who was
mean and suspicious enough to ask
me tLat question. indianapolis Jour-
nal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22

When a man boasts that he never
changes his opinion it is safe pre-
sumption that he never had an opin-
ion of his own.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22

S you want to take in Shorthand and Typewrng
school, from
months time (nd corresponding expenses board if away from
home) by attending Doughys School 7iSykiuq
725727 Kansas Ave. Topeka Write information
paper
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-22

time not only did notes remain at par
with gold, but they actually bore a
small premium. Large issues of bank
paper continued, which increase
caused great prosperity throughout
England.
It was during this period of specie
suspension, and after Napoleon was
Gagged at St. Helena, that silver was
demonetzed in 1916, paper and specie
being nearly on a par. This was ..ot
done from any desire of the public or
merchants. They were getting into
such comfortable circumstances that
they did not notice or apprehend the
consequences; neither did they suspect
that the desire of the capitalists in
accomplishing the demonstration of
silver was for the purpose of curtail-
ing and controlling money. 1t was not
until 1921, five years later, that specie
payment was resumed, but curtail-
ment soon had the effect that the cap
italists desired. for in 1922 interest
rose from per cent, at which rate it
had stood for many years, to per
cent, and trade afterward became so
bad and the people unemployed, that
bread riots resulted.
Why Vas .Stiver Demonefized in
L8L6.-We may rightly ask why silver
was demonetized and money curtailed,
when the avenues of trade were open
ing after the close of the disastrous
wars which had afflicted Eur0re a nd
the United States, and reply that it
was not merchants who desired it, but
capitalists, that they might the more
readily control money and make the
rate of interest higher.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-04
DEATH OF MRS. MEGARGEE.
She Was the Mother of B. u. aud
Francis l.. Megargee. of This City.


Mrs. a. NJ. B. Alcgargee, mother of
Bernard B. and Francis l.. Megargee,
of this city, died at o'clock last even
ing at her home, 1888 Arch street, Phil
adelphia.
Death followed three months OF sick
ness during which the leading physi-
clans of Philadelphia attended the suf-
ferer, yet the news as 1t was received
last evening by the two sons here was
unexpected and deerly felt. Mrs. Me-
gargce was 13 years of age ana her life
has been one Of constant activity and
several years ago she was one of the
best known women in Philadelphia
Under the pen name Frank Norton"
she contributed a series of articles to
the Philadelphia newspapers, particu-
larly the Ledger, and held the interest
ed attention of thousands of readers.
Up to within a few years ago Mrs. Me-
gargce continued her newspaper work
and her services were valued as were
those of few other women writer's in
the state. She also was a successful
writer of verse and to the higher liter
ature to which poetry belongs Her
success in this line will warrant re-
production in lasting book form of her
best work.
Perhaps the best testimonial to the
impressive character of the deceased
lies in the high social, professional and
business standing of her six sons: S.
Edwin Megargee is a prominent attor-
ney in Philadelphia and president Of
the famous Catholic club of that city,
chairman of the state board of oral
school directors and is Greek consul in
Philadelphia; Henry c. Megargee is al
so a resident Of Philadelphia, Charles
G. resides in Florida, and Louis n.
Mcgargce is probably the best known
newspaper man of the leading city of
the state. He is president of the Pen
and Pencil club and is an eX-president
of the International League of Press
clubs.
Mr.. Megargee iS now on the staff of
the Philadelphia Times and contributes
a column which is the prominent fea-
ture of the editorial page of that paper
each day. Bernard Is. and Francis l..
Megargee residents of this city, are the
leading paper merchants in this section
Of the state. They have won many
staunch personal friends since they
came to this city. The Messrs. Me-
gargee will leave today for Philadel-
phia to attend the funeral of their
mother.