Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1896-08-06
COUNTY, STATE and GENERAL,
COUNTY HAPPENINGS
FROM COPAlIS.

FROM COPAIIS.
hev pt. Lackey breaches rcpnIo,,r
now ut the Lee school bouso to 1,l;,l'..,
audiences, and we hope this arrangement
may long continue.
Griesby's hotel on the beach st;,l e;oo
TWO copies OF the stars and stripes, and is
quite resort for visitors some COMING
even from Tacoma for an outing.
MIR. Chebon, the cranberry man IS
making sui cess OF his undertaking. He
Is having large additional space of
marsh land cleared off and sanded pre.
paratory to enlarged planting next year
large fo'ce of men have been at work
all summer.
We will put two old men who oro
homesteaders on Joe creek, nciphbors
and each nearly years OF age-Mr Polls
foot and DR.. Lackey-against anv two
young men i'll the two townships for TAX :
ing out stumrs and burning logs. To see
them IN their clearings it is hard to tell
which is the blacker, raggeder or dustier
The beach, north OF Copalis Rock, has
taken on new and strange feature this
year. The breakers have piled up de-
post of small gravel and qucksand in
some places five feet deep, so that now
Tor miles, instead of the smooth. solid
beach of sand, making the finest walking
and wheeling, it is the most laborions
and tiresome.
Two young men went into the house
OF a rancher on Joe creek and took there
from some blankets, silver spoons, and
dishes. But partnership in wrong doing
is always somewhat perilous, and is this
case it proved TO be quite so, tor they fell
out afterwards, and each told on the
other and both have got an undesirable
amount of notorety.
a great find or discovery has been
made by Dr. Lackey at the mouth of Joe
Creek-nothing less than the discovery
OF OIL The water on the south side OF
the creek near the mouth is covered in
the lagoons and ponds with genuine kero-
sene oil. When skinned off the water
it will burn, will lubricate your saw or
your rheumatic joints; and smells pre-
cisely as crude petroleum. 1t is believed
a fortune has been found for somebody.
1t is within Il few rods of the spot where
Lieut.. Crosby's body came ashore.
The smallness, meanness and cruelty
OF the reports OF Freeman, the Govern
ment inspector, touching some OF the
ranchers in the lIumptulips and Joe
creek regions are still coming to light. a
homesteader in township 81, range -,
who has good mprovements-tcn acres
slashed, two acres cleared, good, COM
Portable house, -when he came to prove
up failed. Why? Most homesteaders
prove up with far less outlay than he has
made. Why, then, did he fail? Simply
because this man Freeman went before
the commissioner and verbally questioned
the settler and extorted from him the
admission that he had liyed in Monte.
sano during the last five years more days
than he had spent on his claim, and up
on that showing alone his application
was refused. This is simply cruel. He
could not earn dollar on his claim, so
he had to 60 out and work one'haf OF
the year to earn enough to enable him to
stay on his claim the balance OF the year.
Now, as it is, he has to begin his settle
ment all over again and spend another
five years Of loneliness and self denial
over again.