The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-11-26
correspondence And County Notes.
HOOD CANAL, Nov "a. 1907

HOOD CANAL, Nov. "a, 1897.
We regret to learn of the accidental
death by drowning of a daughter of
Mr.. Nelson who lives back of Seabeck.
near Crosby, on the 18th. The BODY
was not recovered until two DAYS after
wards, and was brought home on the
10th for burial. She was about seven
years old.
Three men from the East are winter
ing at Lake Cushman; A. B. Simmer
man, grocer; G. G. Bockus, newspaper
man and A. Whitaker capitalist. They
are on their way to K1ondike but not
finding it possible to proceed now,
they are wintering there so as to get
Injured to the hardships of the north.
The Cyrus Walker was up to Muller's
camp and took boom of logs to Port
Gamble.
w. J. Ross returned from a weeks
stay at Tacoma on the jury.
G. A. Hill of Tacoma came I'D to put
up a monument to Mrs Champlin,
mother of Mrs. Nutter, who died last
July.
J. Happily of Union has moved the
Post Office from his residence to 1O1
Railroad Street. He is talking of 60
ing to Klondke in the spring.
E. H. Averill of Portland has been
spending three days of the first of
this week at Union City and on the
reservation. His main business has
been buying baskets of the Indians,
of which he took away about three
dozen.
Judson Todd has sold the sloop Elk
pertinent, which he bought of James
Sweetland, to William Van Alderman
Wardner, Idaho. He intends to take
party in it in the Spring to Alaska.
The sloop formerly belonged to J. S.
Amor.
The bark Enoch Talbot left Union
City last night for San Francisco be-
ing towed out by the tug ]. E. Boyden
She took 1883 piles and twelve spars
from Burt & Fredson's camp There
were 1879 lineal feet of piles.
Miss Gertie F. Eells, who is teaching
school at Holly, came up to the reser-
walton last night to spend her Thanks
giving. 1t is her native place but she
has not been back since she moved
away fifteen years ago.
Mrs. Hegaas of Union City desires
through your columns to express her
gratitude to those who were so kind to
her, and she says that some were ex-
ceediugly kind, during the sickness
and death of her daughter, Mrs. Mary
Leighton.
Last week nearly 9 inches of rain
fell, causing the Skokomish to over
flow her banks. AT the Agency, ow-
ing to the low run of tides the river
was ten inches below high water mark,
farther up the river, where the tides
do not affect it, the water was within
two inches of The highest. One bridge
was washed so as to be impossible and
one horse drowned. The Skokomish
bridge stood we'll. The largest
amount of rain which fell in one day
was 4.4O inches, which was two inches
more than fell at Seattle.
Mrs. J. E. Youngblood's mother
and sister from Neah Bay, are visit
| ing her at the reservation, having
come last week.
A. E. Todd and company have ship
ped about sixty five thousand salmon
from the canal to Seattle this season.
Myers Cannery closed sometime since,
but they are sending off quite NUM-
Der still to Ainsworth and Dunn, many
of which are probably going to Japan.
Over seven hundred were shipped last
night. This company have probably
handled more than half of the fish,
which have been shipped from this
part of the canal. ..