The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-08-19
Correspondence And County Notes,
HOOD CANAL.

Capt. G. K. Robins and Carl Steb.
bins have entefed into partnership in
the merchandising business at Hoods
port. They will occupy the store of
the former. Mr.. Stebbins is building
himself house there.
Misses Gertie and Grace Eells of
Tacoma haye gone to Mills College.
in California. They arei natives of
this, County and the former taught
school at Holly last fall.
Mrs. M. Patchen of the Puya1lup
reservation is visiting her daughter.
Rosetta, and other friends at Skoko-
IniSh. "'t
Mr.. C1awson teacher of the Indian
school at Port Gamble, spent day on
the Skokomish reservation last week.
Messrs Garfield, freight agent of the
N. P. r. r. at Tacoma, Haines, in
charge of their Chinese shipping de-
partment, and Smith 4 banker from
the East, are spending a few days fish
K.
Muirhead Brothers, photographers,
are visiting the canal taking pictures.
They are at present at Union City and
expect to be at Clifton and Hoodsport
next.
Married, on the Skokomish reservation
by M. Eells, August 18th, Mckinley
Pulsifer and Martha Bill; also on the
18th, Billy Williams and Julia Turn
tum; and on the 18th, John Robinson
and Sophia Thomas. At the second
of these marriages, Muirhead, the
photographer, was present and took a
view of the company around, out doors
at the marriage feast, and another
after the wedding ceremony, with the
bride and groom seated in the center
surrounded by twenty Or thirty of their
friends.
Miss L. c. Rogers of Michigan is
spending the season at Lilliwaup for
her health, with her uncle, Charles
Knowles.
A discouraging report comes from
the fishermen CT Hoodsport and Lilli-
waup who are at Frazer river, that the
run of salmon is so light that as yet
they are hardly making expenses.
Arthur Ee1ls of the Washington
volunteers who was recently sent with
his battalion from Fort Vancouver to
San Francisco, writes that they had
very pleasant trip. It was a decided
contrast from the one they had from
Tacoma to Vancouver, when they had
no dinner, a sandwich and water at
o'clock in the afternoon. no supper,
and breakfast the next morning at ten
o'clock, consisting of two slices of
bread, cup of coffee and little rasp-
berry jam. But from Vancouver to
San Francisco it was different. AT
Portland the Red Cross ladies gave
them fine dinner; and at nearly every
meal the Colonel telegraphed ahead
and had hot coffee ready, while the
people gave them cake, lunches and
many other things, and on arriving
at San Francisco, the ladies gave them
their supper, and postal card to each
one, with red cross stamped on it, so
that they could write back quickly to
their friends. They were Immediately
put into barracks at the Presidio, al
though 5000 troops at camp Merritt
and 1000 at the Preside were in tents,
the other 1000 at the Preside being in
the barracks. He adds: sit is awful
the way the boys are dying here. Yes
terday there were seven and they aver
age four or FIVE a day. These are
nearly all Eastern troops, the Tennes-
see regiment suffering the worst. We
thought we were having tough time,
but we have had a better time, more
food, more bed clothes, better dressed
than any other battalion that l have
seen. Lots of the boys have been here
for three months and have not got
uniforms yet. The people say that
the boys here month or two ago suf-
fered terribly. They stood around in
the rain with no shoes, and very poor
clothes, wet to the skin all the time,
and nobody to help them. 1t must
have been terrible. We are the best
off of them all. There is only one boy
of our company that is sick" S.