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

Charles y. Shepard, who is in
charge of the experimental tea garden
at Summervll!e, S. C., has made re-
port to the secretary of agriculture
covering the time up to date. He
says there are now about so acres of
land under tea cultivation, and 5000
pounds were. sold last year. at profit
of % per cent. 1t is estimated that
when all the plantsnow growing shall
arrive at maturity they will yield 10,-
600 pounds annually. DR.. Shepard
expresses the opinion that the fact
that the tea plants lived through last
winter, when the most intense cold in
the history of the section was expert
enced, is a guarantee that the weather
conditions will prove satisfactory.
The labor problem, he says, has been
solved by establishing a school for the
education of negro children in tea
picking.
The quality of tea also has proved
satisfactory. OF the black tea he
says:
at has distinctly characteristic
flavor, and, like some of the choicer
Oriental teas, its liquid has more
strength than its color indicates"
The green tea, he says, has attract
ed keen interest in the trade among
consumers, and he adds that Oriental
teas can hardly furnish the like in
this country.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-08-11
Active Work Soon to Begin.

PORT ANGELES, Aug. Within the
next two weeks thorough recon
noissance of the Hoods canal country
will have been made by two parties OF
the Port Angeles Eastern railroad en-
gineers, with the purpose in view OF
determining the direct, practicable
and accessible route through the mag
niticent timber belt which lies back OF
the shores of Hood canal.
The next construction movement
will be inaugurated on scale that
will contemplate the completion OF
the entire line eastward from Morse
creek just outside of Port Angeles to
Olympia in the briefest period possible.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-08-11
The construction of the P. A. E. r

:. The construction of the p. A. T.. Il.
r. to Olympia is an assured fact ac-
cording to the statement of General
Manager I. G. Atkinson. All the capt.
tai necessary for the complete building
and operating of the road has been re-
ceived, and only few minor details
are lacking to make active work a
matter of few days. According to the
report of the bonus committee, the
Port Angeles Eastern railroad has earn
ed the $50 600 bonus which had been
subscribed by the citizens OF Port An
geles conditionally that when the rail-
road company had, in the judgment
of the bonus committee, fully expend-
ed $35, 900 in actual construction work
on the proposed line of the Port An
geles Eastern, it would have become
entitled to receive the bonus,
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-08-11

In the American Monthly Review
of Reviews for August the editor COM
ments on educational conditions in
the South, with reference to the future
of both the white ard colored races,
In the same magazine is the address
delivered at the Capon Springs, w.
Va, conference in June by DR.. J. L.
M. Curry, one of the foremost educa-
tlonal leaders of the South and an
sctive executive officer of the Peabody
and Slater fund.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-08-11

Washington lumbermen have adj
vanced the price of lumber 81 a thou
sand. A new price list showing the
increase will be issued Immediately.
This increase is over the rates pre-
scribed in the price lists issuef two
months ago, but does not in efeO de-
note sharp and sudden advance in
lumber. Nearly all mills have been
quoting lumber $1-a-useasand higher
than the price list and the Increase
was formally ordered at a meeting O:
lumbermen held in Seattle Thursday.
LumDer is stronger than it bas-been
forseveral years, and there are indica-
tons that the present quotations will
not be allowed to -@staSd long. 1t is
altogether prpbsb1e before the simmer
closes the price list will again be cor
rected and an even more sharp adj
vance in prices will be ordered. The
domestic and foreign demand for
Washington lumber is SO strong the
mills will be compelled to advance
prices.
The basis of the increased prices is
SO per thousand, foreign, for average
common lumber in lengths up to thir-
ty feet. The finer grades are graded
proportionately.
Logs are high and there is a strong
upward tendency manifest Lnggers
are now receiving from $4.75 to $3.50
per thousand for logs, the price graded
according to quality, and location. In
some cases as high as 81 is being paid
for fine cedar and selected logs.
The Sound logging camps have been
quiet recently and the mills are now
calling for more logs than can be fur
nished from Puget Sound logging
camps. Shipments are beginning from
Grays Harbor and other near by log
ging centers. Shipments to the Sound
from the Black Hills, between Oily
mpia and Grays Harbor, have been
made for some time. A new logging
company which Simpson & Bordeaux
are interested has recently started to
work in the Black Hills and is sup
plying the Sound market.
Timber lands are in demand. East
ern capital is being invested heavily
in choice tracts of timber and the rail
roads are reported to be filing on as
much good timber land as possible lie.
1t is said on the authority of a we'll
posted timber land owner that several
million dollars of Eastern capital has
recently been invested in Washington
timber lands and Eastern lumbermen
are still seeking investment.
Several new logging camps Ii ave
been opened, both on the sound and
in Mason and Thurston county.
Grays Harbor camps are more active
than they have been for several
months. At all the camps the number
OF men employed has been increased
largely.-Ledger.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-08-11
Largest Catch OF Salmon.

FAIRHAvEN, Aug. S.-Today broke all
records Tor catching sockeye salmon.
At the Pacific American Fisheries
company's cannery 10000 we're re-
ceiyed this morning. OF these over
$4,000 were sockeyes.
Reports coming in from the traps
along Rosario straits and the gulf Of
Georgia tell Of the unparalled catch
during the night. Every trap has
enormous satcl,cs- That OF Kildall
Brothers on Cherry point took the bar
eess q those arriving here todey.
Inc run seems At least to be reach
~ inc Fraser river alter the canneries
mere have closed for the season.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-08-11
Paper-hanging,
Painting, Graining
Ala baStine-wOrk.

Inspect my work on the
Hotel Dipnlan and residences
in Shelton, and leave orders at
Post-office. Prompt work at
reasonable rates.
JOHN KUBIK.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-08-11

q GIVE SOLICITORS WANTED EVERY
lwhere for "The Story of the Philippines" by
Murat Halstead, commissioned by the Govern
ment as Official Historian to the War Depart
ment. The book was written in army camps
at San Francisco, on the Pacific with Genera;
Merritt. in the hospitals at Honolulu, in Hong
Kong, in the American trenches at Manila, in
the 1nsurgent camps with AguinaldO, on the
deck OF the Olympia with Dewey, and in the
roar of battle at the fall Of Manila Banana
for agents. Brimful of original pictures taken
by government photographs on the spot. Large
book Low prices. Big profits. Freight paid
Credit given. Drop all trashy unofficial war
books. Outfit free. Address, F. T. Barber, Sec'y,
Star Insurance Bldg, Chicago.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-08-11
Puget Sound
Marble Works.

Having secured the agency
for the above firm for Mason
County all orders for work
IN that line can be left with
ANDREW GETTY,
Shelton, Wash.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-11
Personal AND OTHER WISE.

Ex-senator John NJ Palmers present pur-
pose in Washington Is to gather material
for his forthcoming book OF recollections.
Senator Depew is very much impressed
with the dignity and intelligence of the
senate, and the senate. If it is a Judge of
manly beauty and elegance, ought to re-
ciprocate.
Agonclllo, who calls himself the French
representative of the "Philippine republic"
has a good deal of dlficulty in Paris with
the writing of his manifestoes. His French
is atroclous.
No man has ever been nominated for the
presidency from the senate, although many
senators have struggled hard to reach the
White House Garfield came near to break
ing the spell. He was senator elect when
nominated.
Congressman De Almond of Missouri saws
wood for exercise and declares that many
OF his best speeches have been formulated
while engaged in that exercise. His wife is
described as "one Of the best politicians in
Washington"
When the only American soldier in Cuba
from the town of Skaneateles, ~ Y. sent
home his vote for justice Of the peace II
was found to make tie between the two
candidates, NJ r. Dillon and j. g. Giles.
Now all the votes have 10 be recounted uu-
der mandamus proceedings.
South African correspondent OF the New
York World says that some British troop
ers trying TO emulate Funston during the
battle of Modder river swan the stream
under fire, but finding things too warm when
they were nearly across they were forced to
retire and "joining hands, swan back"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-11

With an income that is too Scant for
any branch of the city government
it becomes a very serious question how
TO Increase the revenue without ovcrtaX-
ing the people. That taxation in omaha
has been very burdcnsome for years is
conceded on all hands. and that fact as
much as any other has kept away i'll
vestors in Omaha real estate. The eX-
pertinent of raising the assessed valua-
tion for city purposes without material
Increase of individual burdens has not
been as successful us it should he. The
original idea was to raise the valuations
and lower the levy correspondingly, so
that the only difference would have been
in the aggregate valuation of Omaha,
The inspiration for higher assessment
was Il desire to place Omaha on a re-
spectacle footing as regards its wealth
with cities of equal pretensions. Incl
dentally 1t was hoped that the change
in the system of assessment would bring
about equitable distribution of taXbur-
dens, which had been notoriously shifted
from the great corporations and heavy
property owners upon the shoulders of
the middle class and the home-owners.
The reappraisement made by the tax
commissioner has doubtless had the ten
dency to equalize taxation. In some
portions of the city, and especially in
the outskirts, where property values had
expanded out of all proportion during
the wild speculative era, there has been
marked tax reduction, but in the main
the principal taX-shrkers have not been
reached, and they will not be until we
have change of the revenue laws
backed by a public sentiment that will
force assessors and boards of eQualiza-
tion to do their duty without fear or
favor. This will require campaign of
education through discussion by the
press and at public meetings. Such
campaign has been successfully waged
in other cities, where the mortgage
holders and money-lenders have been
smoked out to make fair returns of their
personal property and the wealthy class
of people who do not own real estate
are compelled to contribute their share
toward the expenses of local govern
ment, which in Omaha fall almost en-
tirely upon real estate owners.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-11
BLUFF OF BOLD MUNRO,

Cleveland Plain Dealer
Eight hundred Filipinos hold the town."
the scouterS cried; -.....
And we've but fifty fighting men," the
gallant chief replied.
Here, let us tap the telegraph; We'll try
a gentle scare"
They ran the wire the message flew, it
raised the Tagal hair
I'm coming" said the telegram, sin over
whelming force;
Your town is all surrounded and you must
give in, of course"
The Tagals read it and believed the white
flag huttered high ''
Munro amid his little band beheld 1t with
cry.
And then they clicked another line that he
had jotted down: .s %. .-.-
LIN send head special guard to occupy
your town"
Upon the place the little band, the fighting
chief ahead,
In marching order tramped along with
grave and steady tread.
Without a tremor in they passed and took
the little town;
And forty scores of Tagals bold their
Mausers then laid down.
oh, sing the dOughtiest deeds of nerve the
brightest annals show:
You will not find a one that beats the
bluff of bold Munro.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-11
THE RErpROcTTY TREA TIES

The reciprocity treaties negotiated
latter case relating to the British West
Indies, will probably encounter a strong
opposition in the senate. 1t has been
reported that number of senators are
unfavorable to the ratification of the
arrangement with France, on the
ground that the concessions made by
the United States are more liberal than
this country secures, but there is rea-
son to think that upon more careful de
liberation it will be seen that the treaty
is as fair and equitable as it is prac-
ticable to make such an arrangement
and that as whole it will be mutually
beneficial. Perhaps few American in
terests might be unfavorably affected
but in making n commercial treaty ref
erence must be had to the general vel
fare and if it shall appear that the reci-
procity agreement with France will
promote larger trade with that coun-
try it should not be rejected because
one or two interests might not be bene-
fitted by its operation.
In regard to the treaty affecting the
West India possessions of Great
Britain there will probably be a strong
pressure upon the senate for their re-
lection and it is by no means unlikely
that they will fail of ratification. This
pressure will come chiefly from the
sugar interest, which will, however,
have the support of all the interests
countries whose products compete with
home industries. Under this treaty the
sugar of the British West Indies would
come into the markets of the United
States at a reduced duty and If this is
allowed the same concession, as pointed
out by the president in his message,
should be applied to Cuba and un-
doubtedly would be. 1t is urged that
this would be destructive to the sugar
industry of the United States and there
is very good reason to think that this
would be the effect. While the most i'm
portant interest involved is the sugar
industry, there are others that would
be more or less unfavOrably affected
and all of these will unite against the
treaty. Indeed it will not be surprising
TO find the agricultural producers of the
United States practically unanimous in
opposition to the arrangement and if so
its rejection will be assured There is
really not much to be said in support of
the treaty, since the concessions made
to the United States would add very
little if anything to our trade with the
Islands. unquestionably the arrange
ment would be Of very material benefit
to Jamaica and the other British pos
sessions embraced in it, but it is not
easy to see how this country would de-
rive any advantage, or at any rate a
compensating benefit.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-11

ated billion dollars in its term Of two
years. Now the president informs us that
the revenues, actual and estimated, for the
two fiscal years 1899 and 1900 aggregate over
81, $50. 100000 In other words. this has be-
come n billion and quarter country
In the matter ottrade our balance OF ex.
ports over imports is the largest in our his
tory. But that is not all. In the year lSaS
and 1889 we sold for the frat time more
manufactured goods than we bought In
other words we have definitely entered the
ranks of the distinctively manuiacturing ma
tons. More yet All other countries belong
to one Of two classes They either sell raw
products and buy manufactured goods or
they sell manufactured goods and buy raw
products. We alone sell more of each class
than we buy. We surpass Russia, India
Argentina and Australia as sellers OF food
stufs and raw materiale. and we rank with
England, Germany ana Belgium as sellers OF
finished goods. In other words, America
even without colonies, is not only world
power. but a world complete in Itself. With
its new possessions in both hemispheres and
all zones it will be a solar system.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-11
NEBRASKAs STATE FINANCES.


The exhibit of the states finances at
the end of the fiscal year just closed
is not as reassuring to taxpayers and
property owners Of Nebraska as it
should be. From. the records of the
treasurer's office it appears that inter
bearing registered warrants are out
standing to the amount of S1,GT4,G42,
with additional unregistered warrants
npproximatiug S25,OOO, while the bonded
debt Of the state is $4,000 held as an
Investment of the permanent school
fund. The floating debt therefore
amounts to S1,TOO,OOO. and the people
are paying interest upon practically all
of it,
When the disclosure was made three
years ago that State Treasurer BARLEY
had allowed the floating Indebtedness to
mount up to the sum Of $1,0OO,OOO the
people held up their hands aghast Since
that time we have had three years of
prosperous conditions with increased
promptness in tax payments not to men.
tion several hundred thousand dollars
which had simply been held out by
BARLEY instead of using it to redeem
the warrant Indebtedness. Yet with all
that the floating debt has been reduced
by only 100000 when it should by
rights have been entirely wiped out
Another serious situation exposed by
the treasury exhibit is the condition of
the permanent school fund. The inten-
ton of the constitution trainers as we'll
as those who endowed the states edu-
cational institutions with vast do
main Of valuable lands was that the
proceeds of the endowment should be
kept constantly invested in income
bearing securities. While the school
fund aggregates over $4,000, 900, quar-
ter of million of this money is still
unnvested in the custody of the treas
urer The downfall of BARLEY can be
traced directly to the farming out of
these funds persistently used as his
own private money, refusing to tell in
what banks it was deposited OF to nc
count for the interest paid upon it.
In this respect the present state treas
urer seems to be following the practice
of BARLEY. He is holding $25O0OO, with
out taking the public into his confidence
as to where it is being kept or crediting
the treasury with cent of interest.
That the people who are having the
benefit of its use are paying for it can
not for moment be doubted any more
than defense can be entered to this
pernicious practice.
The states finances have been too
long neglected by the state authorities
and the legislatures. The longer they
are allowed to drift without a deter
mined attempt to apply the remedy
and reduce the treasury management to
n business basis the greater will be the
inevitable loss inflicted upon the tax
payers. Halfway measures will not
serve the purpose. 1t is high time for a
reform of Nebraska's financial
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-11
SHEDDING GORE IN AFRICA.

Boston Globe: Consul Macrum of Pre-
! toria, soon to be supplanted in office by the
son of Secretary Hay, is free to declare that
the Beers are hard lot to beat. From more
than one British camp the response comes:
Hear, hear!"
San Francisco Call: II the remainder of
the Beers are all like General Joubert it is
easy to see the finish of the British in
South Africa. No less than four times in
as many weeks the commander in chief of the
burghers has been reported dead again.
Chicago Chronicles: A war correspondent
notes, with proper awe and Difference, that
Colonel Baden Powell has with him in Mafe-
king group OF officers with the mcst pow
erful social connections in England" Yet
, the Beers continue to shell Mafeking with
out ceasing. Are they lost to all sense Of
reverence?
Baltimore American: The Beers and the
English are making charges and counter
charges of cruelty against each other 1t is
to be hoped, for the honor of humanity
that both charges are false, but it does not
take much of such desperate war to scratch
off the veneer of civilization from the
latent savagery Of human nature.
New York World: 1t now seems clear
that while the Beers, as the British prac-
Ilcally ADMIT, won lne DalLle OF MOuueT river,
losing only few men themselves and
verely furnishing their enemies, they. retired
because the Free Staters, who had the
tillery, feared they might lose their big
guns in tho following days fight. The SOL
diers OF the republics have to be careful
of every man and every gun, because their
supplies of both are limited and the real
struggle is still ahead of them.
New York Tribune: 1t is to be feared that
General Joubert, the Boer commander in
chief, is seriously i'll. He is not the man to
leave his place on account Of any slight
indspcsitiou. His absence from the front
will be a loss to the Beers. His perma-
nent retirement from public life and service
would bo a real misfortune to the Dutch
race in South Africa. For he is one of the
Wisest of its counsellors. a man of progress
sive tendencies who could and probably
would mako himself most useful in settling
tho issues of tho war and leading the peo-
pie back into profitable paths of peace.
Golfers Weekly Sir George White, the
British mainstay against the Beers at Lady
smith, has seen a good deal Of active serv
leo in his day. He received a medal for
participation in the SUPPRESSION of the Indian
mutiny and in 1880 was engaged in the
Afghan wars. He took part in the march
from Cabu to the relief OF Candahar and
was mentioned several times in dispatches,
besides winning his V. C, He won the COW
eted cross at Charasiah by charging a
fortified hill with only a few men, At the
baltic OF Candahar he was again named |
by Lord Roberts (whom he succeeded as
commander in chief in India) for dashing
ahead OF his men and capturing gun
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-11
Groom Corn Combine.


Broom manufacturers have been effect
ing a "closo combination" Broom corn
dealera also have their heads together ap-
parenty and have forced prices up some
where near 5000 ton, and between manu-
facturers and dealers the cleanly public
must suffer prominent grower of broom
corn in Illinois, in some remarks at the
State university last week, said that the
cost OF raising broom corn was about $40
ton, and that the present price of 5000 was
due to corner effected by a few brokers
and not to an increased demand. He was
right In saying further that the present
price would hurt far more than help the
growers. The demand for seed is exceedingly
active and farmers all over Illinois are
rushing into broom-corn growing. There
and disastrous slump in prices the bene-
will be great over-production in consequence
fits OF which, we may add, will go quite as
much to the broom trust as to the public.