Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-10-28
NORTHWEST BREVl1l
Evidence of Steady Grov
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEPn
From All the Cities and Tovus
the Thriving Sister State

the Thriving sister Staton !
-Washington.
The Lincoln county tax levy has -
fixed at 16 mills.
Thurston county will build 1 ~.
bridge with 200-ioot span aero 4
Cbehalis river, near Grand Mound
The single mill in Kelso, Covh !
county, is cutting 10, 600 shinelni i
IL hours. This is at the rate o..
$50. 900 in 10 hours.
By vote OF 10 to 4, the Taconnsk
council passed an ordinance makis
IMPERATIVE for women to remove u
hats in places OF public amusemeat 4
Tea Inspector Palmer has re3oek
200 cases OF japanese tea, reed
brought to Seattle on the Nippoa II
sen liner, Kinshui Maru. The iDdun
tor say. the tea has apparently =
been used.
Fir blocks laid on Pacific avepu /
Tacoma two years ago have been u
up during the pavihg OF the strest II
way company. They are in excel
state of preservation, and show No II |
Gus wear.
A farmer of Yakima will Thu ~,
SOW a lot OF the much talked-0f n
muda grass, which is said to thrive
drv billy ground without irrigation IA
the test proves successful the graz "a I
be largely sown for sheep fodder.
Reports are current in Seattle II I
there are agents OF the Japane~ = !
British governments on Puget S.
seeking information regarding ~
defense preparations which the Uiiti
States government is now making I \
Marrowstone point and other 6el1'
points.
The action of Great Britain IN +
eliminating against convict-made ~
will, it is said, mean that the falua
of Washington will have to pegN,
cents for sacks. They have been y
ing "a cents a sack this year fu& /,
penitentiary- made sack and last ~
the price was 3-5 cents.
Tests made at the Washington ~ |
agricultural college of beets grown \ !
irrigated lands in Yakima county Z ,
der the system of experiments insagR
ated by the Northern Pacific, Shog
range OF from IA to 201a per ceat I
sugar, with an average above 10 r
cent. These results are said to bsvJ
satisfactory.
During the past week grain has n
pouring in from the fields to the m
houses and mills in Dayton, and ~
are now nearly filled to over6oviy
Very little grain il beingsold WAk
ped, the farmers desiring to hold III
higher price. Most of them VA =
hold for 70 cents. but if that rid J
reached again and the market ~
tendency to 90 still higher, they HgR
no doubt still continue to hold
The bonus for the establishmeat d
steel plant at Port Angeles b. ~
finally raised. Various meettle IN
been he'd during the past tvoveen y
discuss plans for raising the renainl1l
S23, 900 of the necessary $75,0W, ~
900 having been previously mbeslna
At final meeting held last wed, =
ditional subscriptions amount1g =
S25, We're announced, leaving ar
plus to $4,000. This renders the9@
tion OF the plant practical assuIa.A
Oregon.
A fishing crew caught betweea -
and 1000 herring in one night -
week, in Yaquina bay.
A farmer of Malheur county, ~
year sold $4,000 pounds of wool and
head of choice beef cattle.
Eighteen thousand dollars in e.
bullion was the output OF the Bon
mine in Baker county last month.
The Ashland iron works are worm
on a 81 800 order for pulleys, shailn!
ETC., from the Sissons Lumber q -
camille Company.
Contractor jacobson. who Is ~
ing on the jetties on Coos bay ande
the Siuslaw, has about 1870 men 2
ployed. He says his contracts VIII
finished in two or three months.
There are no empty houses in "
Malheur county. Several farmersh
been compelled to give up the ~
living in town in order to send -
children to school, because Of the =
OF houses.
The run OF chinooks in Coos BY
light last week, and silversidee y
scarce also. There has been great 2
provement, however, in the LAT =
days, and boats on the lower by
making good catches.
One day last week Hume's a.
; crew at the mouth of Rogue river =
a regular old-time catch OF aln
, raking in $3.50 at one haul of the g.
There is a large run of salmon co.,
into Skies river, in Curry county.
A fish eight or nine inches long Z
somewhat resembling the Sound -!
erel is being caught along the -
front in Astoria. No one seer
know just of what specie it is. but.
fish was seen in these waters -
five years ago.
Movement of the hop crop b.
yet started, except on sales contr
, before harvest, and neither buyee .
growers are able to say when i y,
A few sales are reported from
) county at Is cents, and it is stas4.:'
good authority that 1915 cent !
: been offered in Salem for choice Ia
The price, generally offered, boz
, is from ID to 1879 cents. This.
ers are unwilling to take, and y
instances, agents having failed ~
at these figures, the orders haye
recalled. m