The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-07-22
Correspondence And County Notes.


wife of Thos. Pierce, aged SO years
She was born at West Machias, Maine
IN 1916, was married IN 1861 and came
to Hood Canal in 1862, and at the time
of her death had lived on the Cana,
longer than any other white woman
above Port Gamble. She first lived al
Seabeck, where her first born child
was drowned, and afterwards lived at
other points on the Canal until about
% years ago, when the family settled
at Duckaboos, and has since been her
home She was the daughter Of James
| McCabe and u schooImate of Hon John
McReaVy Of Union City. The mother
of Mr.. McReavy and the father of Mrs
Pierce came on the same vessel from
Ireland to Maine. Mrs. Pierce leaves
d husband and seven children to mourn
her loss, the children being Mrs.
Josephine Mckay and Mrs. Fannie
Ricketts, of Seattle; Mrs. \. R. Burt of
Hoodsport, Frank Pierce Of Alaska,
Frederick, Mamie and Nellie at home
She also leaves q sister and one or
two brothers in Maine. She was
taken TO Seattle for burial last Sunday.
John R. Reed Of WestfeId, Mass,
made a visit to Capt. Samuel Clements.
They were formerly IN the whaling
business together, but had not met for
torty-two years
The steamer Violet has gone to
Blaine for the fishing season, having
been chartered for three months by
the Frauco-Americau tanning COM
pauy. As yet very few fish are run
ming.
Captain D. Troutmau plans within
| a week to put a steamer on the route
| between Briuuou and Qui1ceed, to con-
meet with the Delta.
J. Hardin Nance and his brother
Wheeler of Harrison have obtained
the contract to carry the mails in Sc
attic from the Postofice to the steam
ers and railroad cars for the next four
years, beginning early next moath.
They will move to Seattle soon.
J. Bailey Marsh, of Holly, has con-
tracted to cut and deliver 4 hundred
and fifty cords of wood to the steamer
Delta, five cords trip, nearly all that
she uses on her run from Seattle to
Union City, while his brother J. O..
Marsh aud Isaac Thomas Of the same
place have contracted 10 furnish the
Hattie Hanson with wood.
They receive / dollar and seventy
five cents d cord for it on the feat.
Mrs. W. 5. Hale came from Seattle
last night to visit her mother and
friends on the canal. Her husband
has gone to California, as engineer on
the steamer Hermosa.
G. Harrison, Emory Finch, Thomas
Rule and Elmer Clark Of HoodspOrt
have gone to Frazer river fishing.
Walter Mcfarland and wife Of
Gray's Harbor spent 1 part Of last
week visiting her mother, Mrs. H0tch-
kin at Seabeck, and IS nephew OF z.
KeuGrick, Of the Washington Mill Co.,
which owns Seabeck and HadIock-
Messrs. YouugbIood and And ersou
have completed their building and
dam for the mandatory Of Mr..
Youugb1ood' patent can opener a
Holly, and are now at work on the
fiume. They expect TO be ready for
the machinery IN two or three weeks.
Mrs. John Clements returned home
last Saturday from Seattle where she
has been IN the hospital for the past
three weeks, considerably improved.
T Tourist travel on the Cauaibas COM
neuced, about . having come last
Saturday. Thus far only six or eight
men have gone into the mountains II
their search for gold, F. y. Robinson,
". P. Gordon and {. \. DiusmOre and
his partner ard 4 few others expect to
develop further the mines which they
have already located. ". J. Keller Is
also working II his mine near TIE
mouth OF the Doswai1Opsh river.
Miss LueI1a Thomas, late Of Holly,
we learn was married IN Nay at Dryad
in Lewis County. She IS now Mrs.
Cheney.
| Arthur DodwelI, late timber cruiser
for the North Pacific Railroad, with 4
party of from three to five expects 20
start into the Olympic Mountains from
Hoodsport about the first Of next
week. They are IN the employ of the
government. will spend all the season
IN the Mountains, and are to make e1-
pIoratious in regard TO the Olympic
Forest Reserve, its timber, mimi
value and the Ike, so that the gov
eminent may determine its future
courss about that reserve. :. Dow OF
Hoodsport will be one Of the party
Hank Makishtau of Neah Bay came
last week to visit J. Youugblood-
He is graduate of the Chemawa In
dian Training school, Oregon, and for
the past six months has been assistant
teacher at the Oui11aYute Indian school.
Nearly half an inch OF rain fell last
week, catching very much hay out,
probably IS or 100 tons at Riverside
and the Reservation, but it does not
seem to haye injured the hay very
much.
Charles Shepherd, the Presbyterian
Sunday School missionary was On the