Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1893-09-28
NEWS OF THE STATE

The Wilson schools closed few days
during hop-picking.
The Halter City Manufacturing Com
pany's single mill started up Monday.
S. B. Duisenberre has plead guilty to
embezzling the funds of the Puyallup
bank.
p King county has huge scandal on her
hands in the shape of steal in building
the aims house.
The state normal school at Cheney
opened up Monday with prospects for a
large attendance.
Eight cars of sturgeon have been sent
east from the Columbia river this fall.
Bears got into the orchard on the Rose
farm three miles from South Bend and
ate all of the plums.
John M. Platt, late cashier of the First
National Bank OF Anacortes, has been
arrested for embezzlement.
Judge VIM has expressed his willing
ness to summon a grand jury to look into
the affairs of New Whatcom.
Ezra Meeker estimates the hop crop of
the state at about $4,000 bales of 200
pounds each. Ten million pounds at 17c
is 81, 100000.
Louie King, a Chinese, for fifteen years
a resident and business man of Seattle,
has filed an application for naturalization
before Judge Hanford.
The auditor of Lewis county has been
mandamused to compel him to record a
deed without the treasurer's certificate
that all taxes are paid.
The citizens Of Cle-elum have new
method of dealing with hoboes. They
take blacksnake to them, and it proves
quite as effective as the shot gun.
The Skagit News says John Ball, near
Fredonia, has over thousand acres of
oats this year that will average over 120
bushels per acre, or over 120,000 bushels.
The negro hop-pickers around Orting
interspersed pleasure with labor and gave
a creditable presentation of "The Black
Serenaders" there one evening last week.
The school directors of Messy Rock
have shown their moss backs by an
nouncing that no preaching or religious
services can be held in the new school
house.
The Occur d'Alene mines are resuming
operations, and it is expected that during
the week over 1000 men will be put to
work. This means monthly pay roll
of 100000.
Shingle mills are being established in
eastern Washington to make shingles out
of the cedar timber in the foot hills. This
cedar, however, is not so good as the
Sound cedar.
Something must be in the wind these
days, as the number of silent men who
come here, look around, say nothing and
return again with more strangers, looks
promising. = Cathlamet Gazette.
About 1000 notices for publication for
making final proof on reserve lots have
been received for publication by the Port
Angeles Democrat. These are for town
lots on the reserve which has been opened
recently.
There is said to be scheme on foot in
Port Angeles to make separate county
of what is known as the Quillayute coun-
Try. If carried out the scheme will take
from Jefferson some of the best farming
land and about one-fourth of the county.
The Monte Cristo mines will be worked
for gold and not for silver, SO says the
Everett Times, there being plenty of ore
yielding $40 ton in the gold. The
Everett & Monte Cristo railroad has been
completed, and there is promise of a
lively camp there this winter.
Ex-Treasurer Smith, of the Pullman
College, must turn over the funds to
Stearns, the new treasurer appointed by
the governor, SO says Judge Pritchard.
Smith claimed that Stearns was not
legally appointed, hence it was his duty
to hold onto the funds, at least until a
decision was rendered.
The ledge of Belgium black marble re-
Gently discovered by w. D. Conway, near
La Center, this state, bids fair to prove
more valuable than gold mine. The
fortunate discoyerer has already refused a
bona fide offer of 500, 900 for the property.
The ledge is situated on forty-acre tract
of land for which Mr.. Conway paid $500