The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-09-15

has announced the following ruling :
"All adulterated goods purchased prior
to April LIST may be sold, proving the
word, 'Adulterated' is printed diagon-
ally across the face of the package, on
q white label with a black letter one
quarter of an inch high; providing
further that they are not injurious to
health.
CAPTAIN Tom Simpson, the heredi-
tary chief of the Columbia River In
dams on the Yakima reservation, is
organizing Shaker church. He call
ed council at his place, and about go
Indians responded and formed a So
ciety. Captain Simpson says that
several of the newly converted have
held prayer-meetings with the sick,
and ten cases, some of them serious,
have been cured by the power OF
prayer.
OVER 700 members of the Washing
to regiment left Manila for San Fran
cisco September 4 and should arrive at
the latter port about October l. The
General committee of the Seattle re-
ception used its greatest energies to
have an officer put abroad the trans
port who would on the home arrange
all details for the mastering out of the
regiment as soon as possible after it
reaches San Francisco. This may and
it may not be done. It is, therefore,
at present uncertain whether the re-
ception will be held about October Is
or November l. l. is the general be-
lief that it will be between these dates.
DREYFUs has at last been pronounced
guilty, after one OF the greatest farce
comedy trials of the age, and it adds
another evidence to the plain fact that
France has the "rottonest" govern
ment of any supposedly civilized coun-
try on earth. The Freedman, in
matters where Justice is supposed to
figure, is an "amusin' cuss." The dis
patches say that Dreytus will probably
be pardoned, in view of the five years
he has already served in exile. At
any rate the rest of the civilized world
will show its disapproval of this sort
of justice by wholesale boycott of the
Paris exposition, which opens next
year. AS the French have been count
ing on this big fair to build up their
individual and public treasures, such
action will cause a revolution, if moth
ing else does before 1900.
ELEVEN carloads of canned salmon
were loaded out of Yesler dock and
started East yesterday. The dock was
loaded with fish. Today the move
is about as great. The George E. Starr
was unloading $500 cases from the
Alaska Packers Association down
Sound. The Utopia came in in the
early morning and discharged 400
cases, and the State of Washington
unloaded between 1000 and 5000 cases,
and the Bay City yesterday unloaded
$500 cases all on Yesler dock. AS an
indidation OF the way the fish business
has been going. the records show thirty
carloads of ready-made salmon cans
have gone through here from the As
toria factories to the canneries about
misunderstanding Times.
The big pile and log raft, so long in
construction at West Seattle, which
left this port in tow of the steamer
Czarina some three weeks ago, is now
adrift somewhere in the Pacific, off
Cape Mendocino. The raft did not
break up in the moderately heavy sea
which struck the steamer off the Cali
fornia coast, but the tow lines were
not equal to the strain put upon them,
and parted. A tug has been sent
from San Francisco to aid the Czarina
in getting control of the raft. It is to
be hoped this will be successfully ac
comphshed. If the raft should break
up it will not only prove severe loss
to the owners, but will scatter count
less mcnaces TO navigation directly in
the track of steamers running between
San Francisco and the northern ports.
Should this experiment, which has
been made with great care, be unsuc-
cessful, it will probably discourage the
shipment Of logs from the Sound BY
this method.-P.-I.
CONSIDERABLE interest attaches to
the arrival of the Washington volun-
teers from Manila, and if possible the
Seattle Exposition will endeavor 10
have the boys at Seattle during the
life OF the Exposition October End to
10th. The management is in colres-
pondence with the with the Secretary
OF War, and since taking this matter
up other interests have also communi-
Gated with the Secretary of War, with
view to arranging that the boys, on
their arrival at San Francisco, be
transferred Immediately to steamer
and sent 10 Seattle. The Secretary d
War has been asked that paymasteI
be detailed 10 accompany the boyl
north, and pay them off and muster
them out at sea, thus avoiding q yexa
tious and tedious delay were the mus