The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-05-26
Local News.

OF the Dlpman.
For the coming school election no
registration is required, and the ladies
are entitled to vote. There are two
directors and clerk to elect.
The JOURNAL has an extra Marsh
Reading stand and Revolving Book
Case, nice fitting top and room for a
number of books. 81 at this Office.
c. Johnson, an employee of the log
ging camps at Matlock, was the third
man to Twin out" in the Shelton In
stallment Suit Club, his suit costing
HIM So.
OF course. Shelton will celebrate,
we're only waiting for some one to
start the ball rolling and shoulder the
job,-that's all. If each will do his
part, Shelton can get up a fine ce1e-
bration.
While making some repairs about
the house recently purchased by Capt.
Tew, at the Point, J. H. Ashman was
struck on the head with a piece of
board, cutting a cash several inches
long, which required sewing up.
Van Horn & Freeburger has just
received nice bunch of fine logs from
Logger Pfersich, of Hartstein, for the
Shelton Sawmill.
Foreman Rex and his crew will have
Joe Simpsons walking Dudley"
completed and ready for business to
day, 1t having been in the shops less
than two weeks.
Nearly all of the baseball boys were
out last Sunday to "ginger up'' and
opened the season in pretty good shape.
If the players will take the usual in
terest in the game. Shelton ought to
get a good team for this season and
win some games from outside clubs
besides having some opportunities for
pleasant trips.
A recent ruling of the Internal
Revenue department, is of some inter-
est to Lodges, to the effect that orders
drawn fer payment of money do not
require a DC stamp, if presented direct
ly to lodge treasurer by party in whose
favor it is drawn, but if the order is
cashed by bank or otherwise negotiat-
ed into other hands it must then be
stamped.
William Walter was telling us about
little excitement down the bay the
other night. A sea lion beloved on
the bay, and as their cry sounds like
cow in distress, it created a furore
among the cattle. In his residence of
nearly fifty years on Big Skookum
bay he remembers one other instance
in early day where sea lions started a
stampede among the ranchers' cattle.
Now that the summer weather
promises to.come, everybody has the
spring fever to get out of doors. The
patient and long suffering members
of the retail clerks association are in
tending shortly to strike their employ
ers for higher wages or the shopping
public tor an hour or two earlier at
night. Do what trading you can earl
Ter in the evening.
Dave Horton had quite an exciting
experience with one of Chambers &
Fredson's riding horses Monday morn
ing, and fortunate escape from seri-
GUS accident. The animal started
bucking and finally rared and fell
over backward on its head, kinking
its neck, so the animal had to be killed.
Daye was partly under the horse when
it fell, but was extricated without in
jury, and securing another mount,
went on his trip after cattle.
The JOURNAL this week publishes
the last of the series of numbering
views, secured by courtesy of the West
Coast & Puget Sound Lumberman, Of
Tacoma. While we have unable tc
secure the effects of printing with fine
ink and calendared paper, the cuts
printed on the ordinary news pape,
have served to give our readers some
idea of subjects they represented, and
we hope have been of sufficient interest
to justify the trouble. Many people
through living in the logging section
know little of the methods of getting
out the logs, and these views have
probably interested them as well as
ftoco IN fl,o Fast
| The Summit Logging Co., F. F.
Williamson, is in difficulties, and about
| forty liens have been filed by employee.
of the Kamilche camps, on some 900,
000sfeet of logs IN Little Skookum bay
which have been placed in charge Of
| sheriff Vogtlin, as Receiver by Judge
Hodgdon. Action has been begun t.
foreclose about Is of the liens agains
Williamson aud the Tacoma Mill Com
pany, which has removed part of thu
logs. The other creditors of the log
ging concern have also taken steps K
protect their interests and there MAJ
be something of legal fight, if Their,
is not enough to go around. TIL,
camps on the Shelton Southwestern
Railroad are still operating, while TIL,
Kamilche camp is shut down.
s CARD OF .THANKs:-To the man,
friends who so kindly assisted MS in on
sad bereavement, and more especiall,
to the Masons and Eastern Stars, ",