The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-06-04
r. C ANGLE, Editor and Proprietor


done away with the exemptions, and
all will come in for share of the bur
dens.
THE New West Trade, companion
trade journal to the West Coast Trade,
Tacoma, has been started by OrnO
Strong, in the lively city of Spokane.
Bro. Strong is a frst-class trade news
paperman, and we imagine will find
his labors at Spokane, something akin
to the cold times"
The White River Journal, Kent
one of the brightest country newspa-
pers of the state, is now in charge OF
J. E. Risedorph and son, L. ]. Wal
rath going out. The Journal besides
being good local paper has always
contained considerable editorial mat
ter, and cut figure in King county
politics.
THE Supreme Court has destroyed
more wild populist legislation, by de-
claring the exemption law unconstitu-
tional, even going so far as to declare
the old exemption Of $500 illegal.
While this prevents the escape of any
property holder from the payment of
his just proportion of taxes, and will
largely increase the volume of taxes
received by the counties, it will rather
increase the burden Of the debtor class
who might have received the benefit
of the exemptions.
SING E the government seed distri-
button has degenerated to simple
perquisite of the congressman, its
original intention Of having the seeds
tested and results reported, being ig-
nored by nearly all recipients, it ought
to be discontinued, and the money
spent in more needful directions. The
seeds, us a rule, are such as are of lit
tie value to most people, and no com
plant would be made if the practice
was stopped. This was agitated last
session, but the appropriation was
made as usual, although it may be
dropped next session.
ONE finds the expected variety in
the contents of the American Monthly
Review of Reviews for June. The sub
lects OF the sugar tariff, sixty years
retrospect Of the British Empire, the
recent visit to the United States of M
Brunetiere, the French critic; the de-
fective eyesight lately developed among
American children, and the movement
Tor the pensioning OF school teachers,
are treated i'll special articles. The
editorial department entitled "The
Progress OF the World" covers such
topics as American Intervention in
Cuba, the relation of Hawaii to the
sugar question, the use of money in
politics by corporations, the enlarged.
metropolis of New York, the fate OF
the arbitration treaty: European al
liances and the Greco-Turkish war.
the future OF Greece, etc.
The following from the Tacoma
Ledger, if true, would not indicate
that the Port Blakely Mill Company
Is intending to curtail it's operations
IA log transportation outfit consisting
OF 26 cars or logging trucks, a locomo.
tive, and three or four miles of iron
railing are being loaded on the scow
Ajax south Of the Northern Pacific
Sound sheds. The rails weigh CSC
tons and the remainder of the outfit
100 tons. 1t has been in use nea,
Ainslie, Wn., and has been bought &C.
cording to reports, by Cobb & Cisson
whom, it is said, will work for A. S
Kerry, who is reported to have a con.
tract to cut 1SO,00O,OOO feet of timbe,
near the mouth of the Stillaguamish
river for the Port Blakely mill com
pany. Ten million feet it is said, will
be cut annually"
WHILE great deal of cash is com.
ing into this state from the sale o.
cattle, it is evident to the casual OBJ.
server, that both the farmers and the
consumers will regret the clearing out
OF cattle and hogs. Car after car, and
tralnload after trainload of cattle and
hogs, young and old, and even breed.
ing stock, have been shipped out of
the state to supply the Eastern de-
mand. Already the price of meats is
high and when prices reach the tor
notch our farmers will have no stock
to sell. This is a good stock RAISING
country, and every farmer should raise
all the stock he can handle. With
the scarcity of cattle there will be q
lack OF market for hay, and the result
Will be general injury to the farmer
when little consideration of condi.
lions might bring him considerable
returns. There are some other and
more reliable "gold mines," than the