The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-01-21
The Mason County Journal.
BEN. BUTTFRwORTH, commissioner
Of patpntS Is Iead

a TORNADO hurled fifty persons into
eternity, injured hundreds, destroyed
million dollars Yofth of property
and spread ruin and desolation, at
Fort Smith, Arkansas, Wednesday
night Of last week We Of Washing
ton should be thankful and contented
Every steamer from Alaska brings
down a score Or more of KlOndlkers
homeward bound, all with more OF
less money, more or less exaggerated
in amount. Still nearly all intend 60
ing back as soon as possible. There is
great deal Of buncomb in the Alaska
stories for which sensible people make
allowances.
If the farmers would pay little
attention TO growing nut bearing trees
says the Montesano Vldette they would
be we'll remunerated for their Trouble
One man in Western Washington re-
ports that he received $2416 from a
walnut tree ten years old Another in
Oregon sold from three trees nine
years old, 1926 worth of nuts. You
can grow walnuts successfully on any
ground that will grow good potatoes.
Filberts and hazelnuts do we'll and
would richly repay all trouble caused
in setting out and caring for them.
THE President will probably soon
take action with regard to the timber
reserve, which was temporarily sus-
pended until the matter could be
further considered. The Olympia re-
serve is OF such wide scope that it will
seriously retard the opening and de-
velopment of the entire Olympic pen
insular. If the limits were restricted
to the mountainous country alone, it
would not be so blighting in its effect,
but taking in such large bodies of
lands suitable for agricultural purposes,
leaving little worth demonstrating, it
will practically leave nothing to at
tract the homeseeker. The people of
Washington should begin work to
make the suspension permanent, or to
contract the limits of the vast blanket
reserves within this state.
ACCORDING to the Spokesman-R
view, one county alone of the wonder
full Palouse paid off in one month $780,
600 of mortgage Indebtedness, and
every cent of :his money came from
profits on the sale of wheat. In the
period following the gathering of the
harvest Latah county, Idaho, accord
ing to the estimates of agents Of in
vestment companies, paid up over
$4,000 of Indebtedness. This drain
OF money would bankrupt an ordinary
county with a population like Latah's,
but 1T is different with her citizens. |
Only enough OF the mammoth crop
has been sold to clear the farms of
their incubus. The rest is being held
for higher prices or is sold in small
lots as the farmer needs money for
running expenses.
QUITE feat in engineering is con-
templated in repairing the railroad
bridge between Mandan and Bismark.
N. d. One of the piers has been un-
dercut by the current of the river
washing out the sand and has slipped
several feet from its original position.
A new foundation is to be laid in the
proper place, and it is proposed to lift
with derricks, the immense pier, esti-
mated to weigh 100000 pounds at
one lift sufficient TO slide it on a steel
track back into position. Some engi-
neer will propose yet to lift the earth
up little nearer to the sun in the
winter time and little farther awav
in the summer, and to so reyolye it
that each and every point upon it's
surface will get just the amount of
heat and light necessary to make an
ideal climate for the whole terrestrial
ball.-Elma Chronicle.
The Montesano Economist peaceful
ly departed this life this week, and is
now thing of the past. The Econo-
mist should have died on Tuesday.
but as usual was one day late, much
to the disgust of Mr.. Cline, who was
waiting to remove the remains to
Olympia. The Economist has had a
very checkered career, being success
slvely a democratic, farmers alliance,
popullst, democratic and fusion paper.
Its years of usefulness, if it ever had
any, had long since passed away. For
the last few years it has been main
tanned, not by the business it was do
ing, but by system of donations"
from anyone who could be prevailed
upon to donate" A peculiar charac-
teristic of human nature is that GER
tam classes of people are upheld in
running business in very unbusi-
ness-like manner. A legitimate news
paper, with an ambition to build up
its town and county, attempting to
get along in similar manner would i