The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1901-03-22

projected and will be built this year,
including the Port Angeles Eastern.
WHAT will Petti-grew do now, poor
thing? asks the N. Y. Sun. Will he
take shelter with his dear friends, the
Filipino insurgents, or lecture in the in
sane asylums or found weekly paper
or contribute to Col. Bryan's?
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY will be in
Seattle Oh the 10th of May and in Ia
coma on the 18th. He will receive a
creditable reception, and this will be a
splendid opportunity for those who de-
sire to see real live president to visit
either city.
KANSAS has again been smashed, not
by Mrs. Nation, but very severe hail
storm and blizzard; in fact the whole
Eastern section has been in the thrOes
of the worst cold snap in years, while
Puget sound is basking in sunshine.
THE movement of the volunteers
from the Philippines homeward bound
which has now begun, will take on
large proportions within the next few
months. Over 10000 soldiers will be
carried to this country from the islands
by the first of next July, and an equal
number will be returned, which will
keep the government transports busy.
SOME thoughtless democratic news
papers are charging the legislature with
eXtravagant appropriations. They
should bear in mind that while re-
publican legislature made the money
available, democrats mainly will have
charge of it and do the spending for
next two years. 1t is safe to say that
the appropriations are half-milliOn
less than was demanded.
THE Utah Legislature has at last UNI
masked and passed law permitting
pOligamy. While the law does not
permit pOligamOus marriages, it makes
it impossible for an outsider to bring a
complaint against any person for UNI
lawful cohabitation. The Gentiles
voted solidly against the bill, but the
Mormons were in the majority and the
Church won. 1t looks as though Nor
monism was still alive in spite of the
guaranty of its death given by people
of Utah when asking for statehood.
GOVERNOR ROGERS has already APP
pointed his capitol commission, and
there will be no delay in getting to
work to provide the new state capitol
building, as arranged for by the recent
legislature. The commission includes
persons friendly to Olympia, and inter-
ested in getting as fine a building as
the funds appropriated will permit.
1t is given out in the state press that
the commission is composed of three
democrats and two republicans. State
Auditor Atkinson is the only Republi-
can on the board; as we believe Mr..
Simpson does not consider himself a
republican.
la discovery in metallurgy recently
made by Seattle is all that is claimed
for it, a fortune of millions is i'm store
for those who possess the secret. Mrs.
Karrie Renstrom and her two sons,
George A. Benstrom and r. S. Ander-
son, have, they claim, learned the lost
art OF tempering copper to a fineness
and strength superior to the best steel.
Not since the inauguration of the
iron age have men known how to
bring copper to a state where it would
rival steel in strength and durability in
the form of weapons and edged tools.
p. 1.
THE seductive nickel-in-the-slot ma
chine promises to cash in its checks in
this state and finally wind up its career.
The house and senate have passed a
D,ll prohibiting the operation of the de-
vice in any form, either for cash, checks
or merchandise and the governor will
sign the law. Cigar dealers will claim
that the measure will result in decreas-
ing their business very materially, but
there are great many men not cigar
dealers who are equally confident that
it will tend to foster the accumulation
Of loose coin in their pockets, and the
pockets seem to have the call, only two
senators voting to retain the avaricious
little gambler.-W. G. Trade.
The first man to take advantage OF
the homestead act of May 20, 1862, is
still living. The act became operative
on January l, 1868, and at 1905 a. m.
of that day this man DIR freeman, fled
on a quarter section of land five miles
from Beatrice, Neb., at the Brownsville
U. S. land Office. He has lived on the
land ever since. In the thirty eight
years that has elapsed since the law
has been in effect 2O0, OOO, 600 acres Of
the public domain have been home
steaded, and ,0O0, 600 free homes have
been obtained.
THEedict to close gambling in Cheha
lis county has been obeyed and it sale
that there Is not an open game running
in the county. This action is one thai
has the support of everybody, for If al
the corrupting influences of mankind
gambling is the worst. It is one Of III,
evils that man has to make laws Il
protect himself from, for gambling 0
some kind seems to be Inherited in th,
human race. The idea Of setting some
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