The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-12-22
VOLUME XIV, No. l.

VOLUME XIV, No. l.
SEATTLE contributed about $4,000 for
the relief of the Carbonate sufferers.
THE JOURNAL wishes all its readers
Merry Christmas, with all the COM
pliments and blessings of the season
THAT was gaudy cover the South
Bend Journal presented to it's readers
for Christmas, we'll worth the Special
advertising secured by that enterpris-
ing paper for the accession.
A BILL has been introduced in con-
gress by Cong. Jones to extend the
homestead laws to the Philippines, so
that soldiers serving in the wars with
Spain or the Filipinos shall have the
benefit of homestead settlement.
HoBoEs are numerous around Olym-
pia, and are getting so bold as to do a
turn as highwaymen occasionally.
A man near Yelm was held up by
three robbers one day last week, but
he shot one and scared the others
nearly to death. Police officers should
reIouble their vigilance for time.
Now that the British are meeting
with such serious reverses in the
Transvaal, the Irish are voicing their
pro-Boer feelings, and the old-time
agitators are looking for an opening
for "shindy." In tact things are be-
ginning to get mighty interesting on
the other side of the world, and blood
Is thicker than water.
The State Journal, Olympia, has
yielded the ghost, and comes out re-
juvenated as the Chronicle, republican,
leaving the populist field to the Capt.
tai. Should "fusion" be accomplished
next year, it would require new
newspapers, many of those existing in
,,96 having died or gone republican in
response to the Expansion" of public
sentiment in that direction.
In the change of directorate of the
Post-Intelligencer, 1t looks to an out
slider as if its influence and sympathy
in the future would he directed to
John L. Wilson instead of Levi An
keny. While nei Their may become
factors in the contest for the Senator
ship to be made vacant by Mr.. Turner
three years hence it is the general i'm
preston that both will be in the fight
with odds in favor of John L., who still
has larger individual following than
any man in the state.
CONGRESSMAN JONES will earn the
gratitude of all business men If lie Sc
cures the passenge of his bill requiring
telegraph companies to pay the stamp
tax on messages. 1t was the inten-
ton OF the law that this tax should be
paid by the telegraph companies and
not by their patrons, but the law was
not specific in this regard and the tax
has been imposed upon all who send
messages. Express companies Stang
their receipts. and it is only justice
that the telegraph companies should
bear their proper, share of the tax. NJ
corporations have profted by the wal
more than they have, and none arr
better able to pay share of the tax
Ledger.
SENATOR FOSTER is making an effor
to secure the elimination of about 800.
O0O acres of lands from the forest re
serve in Clallam County, and 2OO,OO(
Jefferson county. The report OF super
intendent Shellar favored this PROPOSE
ton, but as no changes are referred Il
In this neck OF woods, it Is probabl,
that the lines in Mason County wi,
remain as at present. taking from set
tlement several fine large bodies o
agricultural lands suitable for settle
ment. The people of the counties
above mentioned arose and made :,
mighty protest, pulling all the string
IL their power, but Mason didn't kicl
had e,cugh to make itself felt.