The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-02-04
Local News.

shelf bottles and is expecting a stock
of drugs.
Attorney Barnum is occupying S. P.
Richardson's office during the latter's
absence.
y venire of "a jurors has been Or
dered to dispose of the several crimi-
nal cases, March Sth.
II. $. Met ormick and Mary E Carr.
of Kamilche, secured license to marry
from the Auditor Wednesday.
BORN:-Shelton, Feb. 3rd, to the
wife of r. B Giles, son and heir
; Another omen of the coming war.
Ii is reported that H. S. Tremper
will come back to Shelton and reopen
law Office here, Seattle being flooded
with attorneys.
The town has withdrawn it's part of
the payment for nigbt-watching and
Doug. Shelton's services ended on the
first of the month
Mark Draham has sold his cedar
logs to Seattle single mill the Blue
Star towing an eight section raft away
Sunday morning.
The Cyrus Walker took raft of
Bordeaux's logs to Port Gamble yes
terday. The logs are now moving out
of the bay very freely.
Thos. Read is running the Peninsu-
lar "dinkey" On the Shelton South
western Railroad, hauling logs while
the latter locomotive is laid up.
The Mason County Logging Co.
sent raft of logs to the Tacoma mill
by the Zephyr and one to the West
Side mill, Olympia, with the Seaside
this week.
The tug Katy, owned by the Tacoma
mill company, which has been engage
ed III towing logs from Shelton for
several years past, will be taken to
Skaguay to do general towing.
The street com missioner has been
at work repairing the Asmus bridge,
on North First street. 1t was the in
tention to replank the bridge, but the
timbers were found to be decayed, and
were replaced, making a new and safe
structure
The county has purchased d new
500 Smith Premier Typewriter, which
has been installed in the office of
Clerk Hanson, who SAYS he will be
a h 10 n 10 -
self out OF transcripts and documents
issued by him on legal matters.
The Favorite towed a raft of Simp-
sons logs to Blakely Wednesday.
Frank Fredson came up on the Favor
lite, looking for more spars, with which
to fill out the balance of big order
for spars, which is about ready for
Shipment
M. E. Jones, Of Hartstein, threatens
vengeance on the small miscreant W no
stole the rope from the flag pole, on
Dist 27's school house. Worth Is
cents, cost ten times that to replace
the rope.
Ed. MCReavy's new house on the
farm i'll Shelton valley is about COM
pleted and will be ready for occupancy
by the end or the month, when Ed. ex-
poets to move his family into the new
home.
Victor Johnson, who is now engaged
in logging near Rochester, in Thurs
ton County, purch ased the old ORA
ham donkey engine from McDon aid &
O'Neill and took it away yesterday.
Mark Drahan has new donkey.
The ST. Paul and Tacoma mill is
now unable to secure any logs from
its camps in the vicinity of Orting and
has to draw on the Sound camps for
its log supply. The Cherry towed a
raft Of the Simpson Logging Cos logs
to that mill Sunday.
The n. p tax case did not come up
this term in Shelton, but was heard in
Olympia by Judge Hodgdon Yesterday.
We have not heard what disposition
was made, but il seems unlikely that
the Judge will recede from his position
and there is prospect for a better set.
Element with the company.
Hilldebrandt gets his work in on
Mason county in good shape. Besides
the cost bill of S48.S5 in the recent
state case, the commissioners made an
order allowing him So per month in
supplies for his support, on his plea of
being too old to work. We suggest
that the county buy the oyster claim
and make him present or it, as he
has a good many years of life left, al
So per month on the tax payers.
Klondikers, Alex Leo, Chas. Jones
James Armstrong, Pen. Williams, Ole
Matheason aud Nels Stabenfeldt, left
this week with their outfits, aggregat
ing about seven tons of freight, all Of
which was purchased and packed ir
Shelton. What's the matter with en-
tering the competition with Seattle If
the Quitting business? The party
had arranged Tor passage on the Co
roma, but the Seattle was billed fol
the trip just before the Corona wa:
wrecked, so they will not be delayed
in sailing today. They have splen
did outfit, and are we'll prepared fol
the trip.