The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-08-11

arranged for a business mems excur-
sion To Alaska, giving twelve days
itinerary, covering all points Of inter
est and trip over the white Pass
railroad, for $52. THIS includes berth
and the best service on the City oil
Seattle.
The Olympians have ordered the
memorial tablet, which was made from
the funds secured 10y the enterprisine
people of the Capital City to place on
its namesake, Dewcy's ship, sent there
for exhibition before it is placed on the
ship. Dewey is not expected to reach
this country for several weeks yet,
being in the Mediterranean.
Two young persons were drowned
in Lewis County last week, while at
picnics. Thomas Watt, young man
of twenty, was drowned while trying
10 rescue a couple of small boys who
had gone beyond their depth while
swimming. Miss Vera Warren, a
prominent young lady OF Centralia,
was the other victim, being drowned
while wading in the river.
The Hotel Eisenbels situated about
one and half miles sou tn of Port
Townsend and built during boom days
at cost of 100000, has been leased
by the United States government.
The hotel is a large frame building
and contains more than 200 rooms.
1t is thrught thot the building will be
used as hospital for the sick and
wounded soldiers who will lie returned
from the Philippines.
A NEW torpedo-boat destroyer has
been successfully launched at Portland,
and the machinery will soon be install
ed, when she will make trial trip to
the Sound. She has been named
"Goldsborough," probably after the old
pioneer who originally settled in this
valley, and for whom our main creek
was named. Mr.. Goldsborough was
here several years in the fifties, and
then went East, where he held some
government position in Washington
until his death several years ago. His
namesake, the destroyer, is contracted
to make speed of thirty knots an
hour. "
In another column will be found an
advertisement calling for men to work
for the railroad contractors on the
Palmer cutoff of the Northern Pacific,
and very few of the larger employers
OF labor have a full complement of
men. These conditions were not the
case for several years until recently,
and now there is not ghost of an ex-
cuse for an idle man in the state of
Washington. Of course, there are
idle men, the class of men who are
professional summer snow hovellers.
and who are down on the social system
which requires of man the exertion
necessary to feed himself. But any
man who wants work can get it, and
at fair wages. There is notable de-
crease in the wal tf the calamity
bowler over the land, and politics is
unusually quiet even tor an "off year."
The hull OF the oldest steam vessel
on the Pacific Coast and the second
tugboat built in the Unites States was
made bonfire of ON West Seattle
beach the other night, to the delight
OF large number of excursionists.
The vessel was the Goliah, built in
New York IN lS48 by w. H. Webb.
Her history is a peculiarly interesting
one. She was a side-wheeler with a
walking-beam. After her completion
she was brought around the Horn to
San Francisco, where she was length
ened and placed on the run to Sacra-
mento as passenger boat, under the
name OF Defender. She was afterward
placed on the ocean routes running
both north and south OF San Francis
CO. While running to Panama under
Captain Haley, she rescued the pas
sengers OF the steamship Yankee Blade,
which was wrecked in the Spring of
1854, off Point Conception. After
being used AS a tugboat in San Fran
cisco harbor, the Goliah was laid upon
the Mission flats until 1864, when she
was refitted aud brought to Puget
Sound, where she was used as tug.
She was abandoned for good in 1894.
Largest Catch 0fSalmon.