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Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-01
Conrictcd on Circnm.tantial EvIdence.

LAGRANGE, Ind, Dec. l. .- After
twenty hours deiiberation, the jury
brought in a verdict finding Martin Hall
guilty of murder in the first degree, and
fixed the punishment in the peuitcntiary
foI life. Hall wa IL rged with poison
ing hpridan Hughc-0n, on Sept. 10, on
evidence wholly circumstantial.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-01

eaCn 2,5ly,S5l passengers carried. Inc
statistics of the Yves 'ern territory shows
that railway employment and travel is
slightly safer there than in the south
ern states.
Suggestions.
The report suggests that the law be
amended so far as statistics are con-
cerned, in three particulars. 1t suggests
first that statistics be collected from ex-
press companies which under the pres
ent Interpretation of the act are free
from control. The express companies
of this country pay to railways as rem
tails $50 ,207,11l a year. They are in re-
ality engaged i'll the business of quick
delivery of freight and as such should
be amenable to control.
1t is suggested, in the second place,
that the commission should have the
right to call for reports from corpora
tions engaged in the transportation of
passengers and freight by water. In
1889 the great lakes carried freight
which was the equivalent of % per cent.
of the ton mileage on all railways The
shipping lines on the Atlantic seaboard
are in many cases links of railway sys-
TENS. 1t is impossible to prevent COM
prehensive statistics of transportation
except these lines be called upon for re-
ports.
The third suggestion is that reports be
called for from all companies furnishing
rolling stock to railway corporations,
and from all companies providing termi-
nal facilities. These companies own an
enormous amount of property, which is
properly devoted to the business of trans
portation. 1t is impossible to make a
complete exhibit of the business of trans
portation except they make report
1t might be said in connection with this
article that the total number of miles of
railroad in the world outside of the
United States, according to the latest
statistics is PIP, ,1S5 miles, or but very lit.
tie more thnn what we alnne have
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-01
We Are Great Travellers

The number of passengers carried by
the railways Of the United States during
the year was 492, ,430,S $50. The number
of passenger miles that is to say, the
aggregate number Of miles Travelled by
all passengers, was 11,S41,785,617 This
shows an average journey of 2i.0G miles
per passenger.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-01
Freight Carried.

The number of tons of freight carried
by the railways of the United States dur
ing the year covered by the report was
636, All ,6l7, the average carry per ton
having been 1874 miles.
The number of passengers carried one
mile per mile of line for the railways Of
the entire country was 1871. The
number of tons of freight carried one
mile per mile of line was 481,245.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-01

The total numbc, of persons reported
by railways as killed during the year
was $3.50, and the total number report
ed as injured was 29,034. of the total
number killed 2,45l We're employees. 2SJ
passengers and 1854 were classed as
''other persons" OF the total number
injured % 800 were employees. 2.444 pas
sengers, besides 200 unclassified
Railway travel is found to be the
least safe in the states south of the Po-
tomac and Ohio rivers, Thus, in this
territory. one employe is killed for each
24l men employed, and one traiuman is
killed for each sixty-tive men employed,
One passenger is killed for each S3S, 800
passengers carried. In the states lying
East Of Illinois and north of the Ohio
and Potomac rivers. one enplOve IS
killed for each 29O men employed, and
one trainman for each IJ1 lneu em-
Uloyed One passenger is killed for
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-12-01

each 2,oly,Sol passengers carried. Tne
statistics of the Yves ern territory shows
that railway employment and travel is
slightly safer there than in the south
arm cto foe
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-07-16
LIGHT IND WAZER.

The streets, business houses, public
buildings, and many private dwellings Of
Aberdeen are lighted by electricity, fur
nished by the Aberdeen Electric Com
pany, a home corporation, having paid
up capital stock OF $25 900. The plant is
one Of the best and comprises both the
incandescent and arc system of lighting
The charges are reasonable and the quail
ity of light the best.
The present water system was devised
when there was no expectation OF there
being SO large city here, and conse-
quently is somewhat inadequate; the
people, however, have voted sufficient
water bonds, the sale Of which has pro-
vided money for sucn an improvement Of
the system as will furnish a supply Of
pure water sufficient for population OF
forty thousand. For fire protection there
is an inexhaustible supply of salt water,
taken from the Chehalis river.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-07-16
THE CENTRAL CITY.

Aberdeen is the central city and the port
of entry for the Grays harbor country.
1t is situated at the apex of that pear
shaped bay, where the waters of the har-
Dor are united with those Of the
Chehalis and Wishkah rivers, sixteen
miles from the bar The incorporate
limits OF the city contain eleven square
miles OF land and water, lying on both
sides of the rivers just named and the
bay proper The site is principally level,
but back of the level portion
rises G. adually to an elevation OF fifty
feet or more. The Wishkah river
divides the city little east of the center
This river is navigable for some distance
for the largest ships and for steamers as
far as sixteen miles above its mouth.
Aberdeen was originally founded as a
mill town some seven or eight years ago,
but its commercial growth has been mat
ter of only three years. The first corners
thought of little but the advantageous
location and exceptional natural facilities
for saving and shipping lumber,
but these two very important factors have
gone to make up a location favorable for
other industries, and realization of this
has pushed the town into commercial
prominence and accounts for its recent
rapid growth.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-07-16
FINANCIAL.

Aberdeen has two banking institutions
the Aberdeen Bank and the First National
Bank. The first is an incorporated state
bank, organized in 'S7, and within the last
month has been recognized with cap
ital stock Of $4,000, increasing the num-
Der of stockholders from two to five, and
adding to their regular banking business
a savings bank department.
The First Rational Bank has paid up
capital of $4,000, and its officers and
directors are among the leading fiDanciers
of the State.
The local deposits of these banks are
from 100000 to $150,000 per month.
A local Building and Loan Association
has just been organized and in few
weeks will be prepared to furnish money
for the erection Of buildings in this city.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-07-16
BOARD OF TRADE.

The Board OF Trade is composed OF
about one bundled members, among
whom are the active and substantial bust
ness men of the city. The board was
organized for the promotion of Aberdeen
interests in particular and the harbor and
county generally, and is thoroughly pre-
pared to meet any emergency that may
arise.
The board will be glad at any time to
furnish general and particular informa-
ton to any who may wish it, and any
request for the same will receive the i'm
mediate attention of the Secretary.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-07-16
SHIPY4RD.

There is no industry in Aberdeen better
located than her ship-yards. With the
finest and longest ship timberss'in the
world, with well-equipped foundry and
machine shop, and plenty of deep water
in which to launch her vessels, this city,
in time, is destined to become one of the
largest ship-building points in the coun-
try. Last September, from this ship
yard was launched large three-masted
schooner, the ~. M. Weatherwax,' -
which is one of the finest vessels of the
kind on the coast. The building of this
vessel, for labor alone, distributed $40, 900.
Preparations are being made now for the
building Of three ships the coming
season.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-07-16
GRAYS HARBOR.

About fifty miles north of the Column
bia river is the entrance to Grays harbor.
from the Pacific ocean, long known to
navigators as the most accessible and
safest harbor ON the coast. The bar car
ries depth of from eighteen to twenty
three feet OF water at low tide, un,vI'
increases from ten to fifteen feet at high
tide. The entrance, or channel, is about a
mile wide, and the extreme width of the
harbor is twelve miles, gradually tapering
to point at its eastern end, where it is
met by the Chehalis and Wishkah rivers.
In the harbor there are three well defined
channels offering ample anchorage room
and merging into one broad, deep channel
or roadstead, near the head of the harbor.
These channels are separated from each
other and from the shore proper by ex-
tensive n ad flats up to the point of their
conveyance, where the volume of water,
being more confined, has swept them
away, and the water is deep up to the
very shore line. At the head of the har-
Dor the channel is over two thousand
feet wide, carrying a depth OF 40 feet.
The expense of continuing this width and
depth to the sea would not be great, and
no doubt will be done as soon as proper
surveys can be made on which an estimate
of cost can be based. Once these i'm
'provements are made, the flow of water
is sufficiently strong to keep it from shoal-
ing. The harbor is land-looked, and the
shelter it affords from storms is complete.
During the past year over one hundred
sailing vessels and from TOUR to six steam
ers per month have crossed and re-crossed
the Grays harbor bar and not one acct
dent has occurred; in fact, during the
eight or ten years the harbor has been
used as deep water port not single
vessel has met disaster going or coming.
This harbor is three hundred and fifty
miles nearer San Francisco than are the
cities of Puget Sound, and six hundred
miles nearer Oriental ports than is San
Francisco. Tacoma, Washington, is about
sixty miles by land from the eastern end
Of the harbor, while the peninsula, around
which all vessels must 60 to reach that
city, is over one hundred miles north
Of it; thus passenger from San Francisco,
bound for Tacoma, saves more than
fiue hundred miles of the distance now
travelled by coming into Grays harbor
and completing his journey by sixty miles
of rail- Distance is timr, time is money.
These facts are thoroughly underslCv. ~
the railroad companies, who are now hur-
rying to completion their lines to this
point. Their especial concern will be
the transportation of coal and wheat
from Central and Eastern Washington,
with which the hal Dor has now direct
railroad communication. Nature has, in
deed. made here an unequaled gateway
to the ocean, to the commerce of the
world. 1t only remains for men to i'm
prove the opportunity.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-07-16
FIRE DEPARTMENT..

The cit, fire department is thoroughly
organized and well equipped Water is
supplied from the bay by stationary
pumping engine, running night and day,
Hydrants are located at convenient in
tervals and connections are easily made
when necessary. The apparatus con-
sists of three hose-carts, two thousand
one hundred and fifty feet Of hose, and a
first-class hook and ladder truck. There
are eighty-four memoirs of the fire de-
partment, divided into three companies,
under command of a chief and four
assistants.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-07-16
SALMON CNWERLES.

The oldest industries of Aberdeen are
its salmon cannerles. of which there are
three. One OF these, during the last year,
on account of the rapid growth of the
city, has found its property so valuable
that it has sold its site, but will rebuild
before the canning season in more re-
mote part of the city. The yearly output
Of the three canneries is about Al 900
cases, representing value OF $4,000.
Other established industries include a
we'll equipped steam laundry, cigar fac
tory, employing five or six men, soda
works and many others.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-07-16
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Much attention is gwen in Aberdeen to
the education of the young, and the two
school houses are well equipped with the
most improved furniture and apparatus.
The graded schools of Aberdeen have
already become noted for their efficiency
Preparation is being made for the erection
of new central school building to cost
$4,000. The public school in January
1891, had an average attendance OF two
hundred pupils.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-07-16
TRANSFORMATIONS.

Railroads and water transportation Gre
ate a competition that cannot be con-
trolled in the interest of monopolists. The
Northern Pacific Railroad Company is
now operating its Gray's harbor line
within ten miles of Aberdeen, and rap
idly completing the road to this point
with large force of men. Practically,
there is now actual rail communication
with all the world by this road via Tacoma
or Portland. Regular lines of steamers
run to Portland, Oregon, and 70 San
Francisco, California, and smaller boats
ply daily between Aberdeen and all points
on the harbor.
One hundred and thirty-six vessels
sailed from Grays harbor during 1890,
seventy-three sailing vessels and sixty
three steam vessels; Of these, fifty sailing
vessels and all of the steamers sailed
from Aberdeen. During the months Of
Jan. and February of 1890, only ten YES
sells left the harbor. During the same
months OF THIS year, llS9l), 1orty-fOur
vessels passed out over Grays harbor bar,
thirty-nine OF which sailed from Aberdeen.
This shows how rapidly Grays harbor
and especially Aberdeen is becoming a
place of commercial importance. With
the completion of the Northern Pacific
railroad to Aberdeen. draining eastern
and central Washington of its coal and
wheat, it is impossible to prophesy Of
what importance Aberdeen will be-
come as shipping port, and when the
lumber men of this northwest are able to
ship via the Nicaragua canal to the east
ern world, forest of masts will cover this
harbor as the growth of fir and spruce
cover its shores.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-07-16
tries of this kind can find good locations
near this city, where material is easily
ol,f.lirol
MECHANICS.

The Aberdeen Foundry and Machine
Shops large and well supplied estab-
ishment, doing every class OF mill and
railroad work, making both iron and
brass castings, engines and boilers of
every description.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-07-16
MANLFACTUPLNG.

Chief among the industries OF Aberdeen
is that OF numbering, including logging,
saving and shipping. Not less than five
hundred men are employed in the woods
in this vicinity. Four mills are in opera
ton with combined daily capacity of
300, 900 feet. One of the mills is exclu-
sively devoted to the local trade, while
the largest share of the product of the
other three is shipped to California
and foreign ports. For several rea-
sons Aberdeen can and does supply
lumber cheaper than either the Columbia
or Puget Sound mills. AS shown else
where, our port charges, towage and other
items OF ships necessary expenses are
much less. Logs are more easily OBJ
tanned, and therefore much cheaper
than at the other ports mentioned.
The shipment abroad for the year 1890
was 33,000,000; the home consumption
being about 100000. On the wharf this
lumber represented value of over $780,
900, which was principally paid out here
in wages. Other mills are being erected,
and the product will probably be doubled
during the year 1891.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-07-16
CAZHOLLC .SCHOOL

Beside the public school, Aberdeen en-
Joys the advantage of first-class Cath
slic school, conducted by the Domin can
sisters Of New York. Together with it's
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-07-16

common branches they also instruct their
pupils in instrumental music and draw
ing. They now have an enrolment OF
ouer sixty purils.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-07-16

If you want fine suit of clothes, silk
suit, a Stetson hat a good kid or kanga-
roo shoe, your moneys worth, call at
Toklas & Kaufman's. 35-tf
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-07-16

This enterprise is intended to advance the
interests of the entire state. Every county is
earnestly requested to send an exhibit
of its products, especially of such as
may form part of a permanent exhibit ac-
cessible at all times TO visitors. Individual ex-
hibits of agriculture minerals and manufacture
ed products of every sort, whether of the mill
the dairy or the home, will be made room for
and due credit given.
The management has already arranged for
the finest display of electrical machinery ever
brought to the coast, and the applications for
space for general machinery exhibits are al
ready numerous. A complete display of coal
timber, iron ores and precious minerals is in
course OF preparation. There will be a fine art
department, home department and fish ex-
hibit complete display OF all agricultural,
horticultural and dairy products is hoped for
and special efforts will be made to get Them.
The building will be lighted by $50 arc and
1910 incandescentl lamps, and grand band from
New York City viii furnish the music
For space or information of any kind address
HENRY BUGGY.
Manager.
TACOMA, WASHINGTON
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-07-16
GRAY'S HARBOR
AND
SHOALWATER BAY.
PORTLAND & COAST S. S

STEAMERS
WILL AP A and ALLIANCE
will sail for Willapa harbor (Shoalwater
bay) and Grays harbor every four days
as follows:
Sail from Portland, July 18th,
18th, 10Th, 23d, 9th, and ,3lst, August
4th, 9Th, 18th, 10th, goth, oath, 2Sth.
Sailing from Portland at 8 p. M, arrive
at South Bend the following day about
noon; leaving South Bend the next morn
ing for Grays harbor.
Sail from crays harbor-Re-
turn Trip-July 10th, 14th, 18th
22d, Goth, 30th, August Sd, 9TH, 18th,
10Th, 10Th, 23d, 9th, 3lst.
Arrive at South Bend same day and
leave the next morning for Astoria and
Portland, connecting with steamers at
Astoria for San Francisco.
Steamers sail from dock foot of G
street, Portland, and foot of F street,
Aberdeen.
Bay Center, North Cove and Wilapa
freight transferred at South Bend; Mon
tesano freight at Cosmopolis or Aberdeen
at company's option. Right to change
sailing day is reserved.
F R STRONG, President.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-07-16

- G. Kinnison, Dentist, Dental Par
Tors second floor Hood Building. 4c-tf
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-07-16
WooD-WoRK ESTABLISHMENTS.

WOUD-WORh ESEABLISH1YEW7
After numbering, tine next important
industry is that Of the sash, door, blind
and general woodworking and turning
establishments. Three of these are now
in profitable operation, and there is room
for more. The raw material is cheap and
the market convenient.
A factory for furniture exclusively
would be most profitable investment
here, as has been amply proven by the
work in that line being done at the sash
factories. Two shingle mills and box
factory will be ready for business this
spring, and almost any number Of indus
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-07-16
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and the eirht-inch bore has been contin-
ued to the intensely hard, thick, and i'm
pervious stratum, which constitutes the
division OF the miocene and eocene fcrma-
tions, and which in part is 9 marble,
although not Of very handsome color.
except in few very thin rose colored
strata.
ssAt this impervious partition the bore
is reduced one size. and upon the shout
der Of rock thus afforded the internal
casing with pump barrel win stand, thus
absolutely excluding the water from the
miocene above and taking the entire sup
ply from the water strata below the hard
upper crust Of the eocene rocks In which
the drilling now 10.
ssThe quality Of the future city supply
is thus assured, as these water strata are
| identified as being the same from which
Savannah, Jacksonville, ST. Augustine
and other coast towns derive their sup
plies, while here we have the further adj
vantage Of being so much nearer TO the
mountain sources that the water Is en-
tirely free from the rank smell acquired
ON its further course by percolatins
through miles Of phosphate beds on it
way to the lower levels Of the rivers and
sea &C asst.
ssIndeed, this southwark trend OF thu
water has been definitely proved by oul
! efficient state chemist, DR.. Norman Rob
inson, in the fact that the water from tn
eocene strata is several degrees coole
than that from the miocene, notwith
standing that the natural tendency OF tn
temperature Of the earth is TO increas
with the depth.
1.-THE drilling IL being still continued 70
the purpose of gaining such an ample sup
ply that II may be relied upon in-all cass
i Of exigency.
aNow, to correct q popular impression
, You might tell your readers that this we
: il not being drilled for q flow, which, eve
if attained, might not be Of 90 high
, grade. The quality Of water has been Il
, main object, and the public is 70 be COZ
graduated upon its attainment s