Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-06-04
GENERAL NEWS.

Plenty Horses has been acquitted.
Chicago collected $36, 900 in dog taxes
last year.
Dublan, minister of finance of Mexico,
died the 31st ult
prospecting party, unoer ex-Sargent
Thomas, leaves this week for the Olym-
pics.
Evidences of the louise are seen in
many hop yards, especially in the White
river valley.
The state convention of the w. G. T. U.
will open at Centralia on the 9th and
close on the 18th OF June.
President Harrison has finally deter
mined not to appoint the new circuit
judges until next December.
At Vancouver, B. c., the Canadian
Pacific is using iron piles altogether in
the construction of it's wharf.
President Cakes of the Northern Pacific
is expected on the Sound next week. He
will visit the Grays harbor country while
in Washington.
Seven soldiers implicated inthe lynch
ing OF the gambler, Hunt, at Walla
Walla, were arrested and incarcerated in
the county Jail the 9Th ult, charged
with murder in the first degree.
James M. Ashton, one of the attorneys
who negotiated the transfer of the Hunt
system of railroads to G. B. Wright, is
authority for the statement that those
lines will be operated in connection with
the Northern Pacific.
To celebrate the visit of the czarow-
itz to siberia, an imperial decree has
been issued, authorizing the Siberian
governors to remit two-thirds of the SEN
fences and otherwise ameliorate the con-
dition OF worthy convcts.
A company of San Francisco and Port
land capitalists have put in a plant at
Clallum Bay for the manufacture of tan
ming extract from hemlock bark, at a
cost of So, 200 to 100000 The mill has
a capacity for using twenty to thirty
cords OF bark per day and employs $50
men.
The examination OF applicants for ca
diets at West Point and Annapolis was
concluded Wednesday of last week at
Spokane. Alfred E. Remington of Van
couver was the successful candidate for
the military academy at West Point, and
Robert Monaghan of spokane was the
successful candidate for the naval acad-
envy at Annapolis.
The census locates the center of popula-
ton i'll Decatur county, in the State of
Indiana, about twenty miles from Column
bus. Great Numbers of people assembled
there on May 10th TO mark the spot with
monument, it being the second one
raised for such purpose. The first time
was in 1910, and the place was in the
District OF Columbia, fortv-tive miles
north OF Washington, where yet remains
small stone, on which is engraved
"Center If Population" The center of
population has travelled westward each
decade about forty-fve miles.
A newspaper man with more magma
ton than coed judgment started the silly
rumor that Mr.. Harrison snubbed Sena-
tor Quay when that gentleman was in
Washington last week The ca=se of this
conclusion was that after sending for
Senator Quay to come here Mr.. Harrison
found himself so busy that he sent the
senator note requesting that the inter-
view he deferred to a more convenient
time. Bless your soul, Mr.. Harrison
may not be in love with Quay, the man,
but he will never think of snubbing
Quay, the boss, who controls the Penn
solvania delegation to the Republican
national convention.