Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1893-09-07
NEWS OF THE STATE

The streets of Everett are to be lighted
by electricity.
The commissioners OF Lewis county
have rightly thrown off the assessments
that were on the burned district in the
city of Winlock.
Centralia had three fires hand running
this week. Wednesday the roundhouse.
engine and two cars of the motor com.
pany, property which was recently bid in
by the city on foreclosure, were totally
destroyed. Yesterday morning the old
Club theater building was partially
destroyed. Another fire partially burned
an old saloon building back of the tele-
phone office.--Chehalis Bee.
Ballard is in darkness, the electric
lights having been cut off to reduce ex-
penses.
Garden vegetables, this season, are
unusually cheap. Ten cents will buy an
ordinary water-bucket heaping full OF
peas, and string beans sell for 21s cents a
pound. Radishes and onions sell from
10 to Is cents dozen punches and new
potatoes for 80 cents per hundred pounds.
Other products in proportion. STANDARD,
Olympia.
Captain A. O. Benjamin, the diver, re-
turned Thursday night from prospect
ing tour on Ruby Creek, about eighty-five
miles above Hamilton, Wash. His prin-
cipal object, as published in the TeIe-
graph at the time he left, was to ascer-
tain whether or not there was placer gold
in the bottom Of the creek, and to that
end he explored the Stream up as far as
the old Nip-and-Tuck claim. Captain
Benjamin had his diving suit with him
and made hundred or more dives to the
bottom Of the creek, and at no time did
he fail to find gold. 1t is his opinion that
there is paying quantities Of the precious
metal all along Ruby creek from its
mouth to the Nip-and-Tuck claim. There
is some talk on the part OF those owning
mining claims of changing the course of
the river and in several places wing-dams
are being put in SO as to drain the creek
for distance of several hundred yards.
Captain Benjamin has for two years past
been working on a machine which he
thinks will, when completed, take the
gold from the river bed without the ex-
pense Of changing the current. In time
Captain Benjamin thinks a wagon road
or railroad will be built into the Ruby
Greek country and that there is sufficient
ore there to warrant the construction OF
one Or the other. He says wagon road
can be constructed from Goddell's land
ing up the Skagit river to the gold fields
for about $50, OOG.-Seattle Telegraph.
John Otis is hero. He rescued lad
about six years of age, who fell into the
bay, from drowning, yesterday.-Stand-
ard, Olympia.
The Snohomish Democrat reports that
several Of the single mills Of the county
have started up. and that the paper mill
at Lowell starts up on the 10th.
The Willapa Harbor Electric Company
proposes to sell it's plant, together with
valuable water front, to the city of South
Bend for $4,000.
Down in Skamania county when the
county commissioners want to move the
county seat they move it and that's the
end OF it. Last week the board received
notice that the rent of the county build
ing would be raised from five to eight
dollars per month. Such rank robbery
aroused their indignation! The owners
of a new townsite called Stevenson, in
Skamania county, saw their opportunity,
offered court house site and to move all
furniture and records free of charge if the
commissioners would make Stevenson
the county seat. This they promptly
did. How much easier and more con-
venient is this method than that which
ruled in Pacific countv.-South Bend
Journal.
Olympia has negotiated her school
bonds, and will build a $4,000 school
house. 1t will be built of brick and stone,
and as far as possible the material will
be purchased in Olympia, and only home
labor employed.
The Turpentine works Of the Washing
ton Manufacturing and Development
Company, at Port Angeles, are nearing
completion.
A NINE POUND TRoUT.-It is reserved
for Mason county to take the prize for
the monster trout of this season, by fully
three pounds. Lon Miller, while fishing