Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1893-10-12
NEWS OF THE STATE

The Pacific Journal at Ilwaco is for
sale.
The Lewis county fair was, failure,
owing to the rain.
John Hansen and John Reiter have
boon sentenced to hang at Astoria, De-
ceniber /.
The first death warrant ever issued in
Snohomish county was placed in Sheriff
Hagan's hands last week, for the execu-
ton of,John White, December %.
Fhe Port Blakeley mill started up on
Monday with full force, and will bring
into use two or three OF the cumpany's
vessels which have been laid up.
Nine hundred sixty.one bales Of hops
have been shipped from Puyallup since
September 20. Great activity is reported
anssng b,iyers.( There is as yet no estab-
listed price, bit II cents is used as q
basis for bargaining.
The governor has removed p. B. john
son as director OF the Walla Walla peni-
Tertiary, on account of malfeasance. He
sold the grain sacks to Oregon dealers,
while the law governing their manu-
facture and sale provides that they shall
be sold to actual consumers who are resi-
dents of Washington.
Some three, thousand dollars was dis
pensed Of by the county last Monday, in
the payment OF its various road and bridge
contracts. All OF it remains in the county
except 5000, the payments to Chehalis
county men for the Satsop bridge and the
Lost Prairie road, large part of which
left the county.-Mason County Journal.
The United States fish commissioner
was in South Bend last week, and de-
cided to send eastern oysters there next
spring, believing they will thrieve there.
He claims the shortage OF salmon is due
to too many fish wheels, and to fall fish
ing, and that the close season should be
extended to October l, as there was fall
run Of chinook salmon. -
A movement has been successfully
started at Tacoma to hold northwest
coast fair there during August, Septem-
Der and October OF next year. All the
coast states and Idaho,. Nevada, Mon
tana, Alaska and British Columbia will
he INVITED to participate. The purpose is
to enlarge the building OF the Western
Washington Exposition Company for the
occasion.
A mass road meeting was held at Bur-
lington last Saturday, attended by 400
representative men of the county, at
which committees were appointed to in
vestigate the needs OF the county and to
lay the matter before the county COM
missioners, and asking that the commits
sioners then formulate a system for the
entire county and call an election to vote
on bonding for the purpose Of building
the roads.
'Tis said that Postmaster Mossman,
foreseeing the hard times laid in a supply
OF copper cents with which to make the
exact change and not compel patrons Of
the office to buy more stamps at one time
than were actually needed. A few were
disposed of as curiosities, but he still has
most Of them on hand. The story is told
of an cld-timer who received three of the
bright coppers as change in a five.cent
stamp investment few weeks ago: He
looked at them curiously for few
moments, then astonished the worthy
postmaster by asking where he could
"cash them chips. "-Chehalis Nugget.
Within mile OF this place there has
been discovered, by Captain Odds, a de-
post OF slate, which takes on a fine sur
face, and appears to be first-class article.
On Wednesday beautiful specimen was
left at this Office, which measures three
feet long, fourteen inches wide, and has
a uniform thickness of five-sixteenths of
an inch. This specimen was taken from
the top of the ground, or nearly so, and
can be seen at the Ledger office. Should
this slate prove to exist in sufficient
quantities it will prove of considerable
value to its owners, as the nearness to
Spokane insures ready market, and it
can be handled cheaply because Of our
railroad facilities. Medical Lake Ledger.
In two cases brought to our attention
volunteer wheat in this vicinity has
yielded twenty-six and twenty-seven
bushels, respectively, to the acre. BY
the term volunteer" is meant all that
the word implies. The crop voluntarily
grew from last years stubble. The
ground on which these crops grew was
not touched after the harrOws left it O