The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-07-08

SHELTON gave genuine Old-fash-
Toned barbecue this Fonrth Just for the
novelty of the thing, and served fully
five hundred men, women and chill
dren, and everything was free on that
day. Those who spent their holiday
IN Shelton had a pleasant time and
undoubtedly feel better than if they
had gone away. A good many pre-
ferred to eat at the hotels, and never
learned how good was The feast.
Mr. EDWIN EMERSON, Jr., whose adj
ventures in Porto Rico last month
were chronicled by the newspapers
from one end Of the country to the
other, contributes to the Review of Re-
views for July valuable account of
some things that he saw and learned
on his perilous jOurneEings. As Porto
Rico seems destined to be theater of
the next great movement OF our troops
this fresh and first-hand study of the
country from an American point of
view is most timely The article is IL
Illustrated.
UNDER the war tariff, now in effect,
consumers will have to pay 10 cents a
pound more for tea than they have
been paying. Everything in the drug
line will be taxed, patent medicines
being required to pay cents on every
dollar bottle. The tax on cigars is
light, and will probably be borne by
the manufacturers Users of smoking
and chewing tObaccos will, however,
be compelled to pay heavily for the
fun of licking Spain. Chewing to-
bacco is taxed II cents pound. The
tax on beer is - barrel instead of 81.
Bills Of lading will be taxed, and this
will probably be borne by the trans
portation mpanies.-Chehali Mug
get
WE are sorry for the young man of
the Sumner Herald. He has been hot
on the hot trail of an office ever since
the fusion of the pops and democrats.
A few weeks ago he caught up with
one. He had it run down, but just as
he was in the act OF laying his hands
upon it, Gov. Rogers gave him back
handed swipP, and he had to retire
with nothing but small handful of
tail feathers. This is mighty tough
but if the young man will now pause
and consider he may conclude that it
Is a just Judgment. He knew better
all along than to assist the misfit az
gregation at Olympia into office on the
pretense that they would "reform'
things. He knew from the beginning
that he was participating in Il fraud.
-Chehalis Nugget.
III Is now reasonably certain that /
the prune crop of Oregon, Washington
and Idaho will this year be not less
than 100000 pounds. No one need
be surprised if it turns out $4,000 900
pounds. Up to the present time the
trees and fruit are in unusually
healthy condition. The only unsatis-
factory condition So far developed is
the overloaded condition of many of
the trees. This is especially the case
with French prune trees. Many Ital-
i'm trees also are carrying great ex-
cess of fruit and would lie benefited if
much of the fruit were removed. The
greater part of the excess will probably
drop from the Italian prune trees be-
fore the fruit is ripe, but too late to be
of much benefit to the trees and the
prunes which ripen. The prune grow
ers of the Northwest have been max
ing steady and rapid progress in cur
ing prunes and we confidently expect
the best average results in the quality
OF our output this year which have
ever been obtained.-Oregon Agricul-
tnrict