Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-02-15
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Commercial aud Financial Happenings
Of Interest In tho Growing
Western states.
Alaska Criminal Code.

| Perkins to amend the criminal code
which WAS adopted for Alaska ut the
last session Of congress. In this bill,
Senator Perkins prohibits the construc.
ton of barbados in streams for the
purpose or with the end of preventing
fish ascending the streams or rivers OF
Alaska. 1t is provided that it shall he
unlawful to fish for salmon except with
rod or spear, above the tide waters of
any creek or river OF less than 500 feet
width, except for purposes of propaga-
ton. SEEMING or catching fish in these
streams for distance OF more than u
third of the width OF the stream is
prohibited, and no seine or other net
shall be laid within 100 yards OF
another. Fishing for salmon in the
waters of Alaska from 6 p. IN. Saturday
until 8 a. III. on the following Monday
is also prohibited. except in "Behring
sea and its tributaries. The secretary
OF the treasury is authorized to set
aside whatever streams he may desire
as spawning grounds, when he may
consider that fishing operations ON such
streams are being conducted SO that
the number of salmon taken is larger
than the capacity OF the stream to pro-
duce, or if the fishing operations pre-
vent a sufficient ingress of salmon to
the spawning grounds, he may estab-
lish weekly closed seasons, to limit the
duration of the fishing season, pre-.
scribe the volume OF the catch at such
places, or prohibit itentirely; provided
this action is taken after the persons
interested have been given a fair hear.
ing in their own behalf.
The secretary of the treasury is also
authorized to require the erection OF
salmon hatcheries of suitable capacity
at any fisheries or fish establishments
in Alaska, which are to be maintained
by tie persons operating the fishery,
cannery or saltery.
Money to Push Railroad Building.
The Bellingham Bay & British Co.
lumbia railroad has given trust deed
to- its property in Whatcom county to
the Bank OF California to secure the
payment OF 81 ,OOO,0 900 in first mortgage
bonds. The deed was executed in San
Francisco on December l, and was filed
for record in the auditors office in
Whatcom county on January 20. The
document is the most voluminous OF
any ever filed there, and 1t required
$489. so in revenue stamps. 1t is the
purpose of the company to pay of an
indebtedness OF about $50, 900 on the
road, and the balance realized from the
sale of the bonds to the Bank OF Cali.
fornia will he used in construction
work. The instrument calls for the
completion of "a miles of additional
road this year, on which will be issued
in bonds $4,000 per mile. This OK.
tension is the one now under survey
from Sumas to Boulder Greek.
Transfer Of u sawmill.
The Coping sawmill, at Tenino,
Wash, was sold to the Douglas Lumber
Company of Chehalis, the members OF
the company consisting of l.. II. Miller
and Mrs. II. J. Miller. The firm re.
Gently purchased the timber on the
fIogdgen donation claim, a mile from
Tenino, and the mill will be immed.
lately moved to the new site and put
in operation. It has a capacity OF
about 5000 feet per day.
Pacific Coast Chat.
Canemah levies u ll-mill school tax.
Reedville school district votes =.
mill tax this year.
Nine workhOrses, at Elgin, have
brought 1856 to 800 head.
Hon. NJ. Baker, pioner OF La Grande,
has been quite i'll with bronchitis.
At Stafford, Clackamas county, the
mercury recently went down to 20 de.
grees.
X. Hull has sold his farm near e.
banon to an Albany man.
A dog poisoner is at work at Glen
coe. One man, physician, has suf'
fered the loss of five dogs.
George Childer's 20O-acre farm, four
miles from Island City, has been sold
to John Hlochland for $S,6OO-all cash
but $4,000.
The discovery OF two cases OF scarlet
fever at Weston brought attention to
the fact that the town had no quaran-
tine ordinance.
At Lower Cove, disturbance In
chicken house caused hoy to go out,
close the door. and fasten it with a
string "button.' Next morning the
door was open, with hole in it large
enough to admit mans arm. The
boy had locked in chicken thief, who
had to cut through the door to reach
and turn the button"
A logging railroad, projected along
the Clatskanie, will not be built be.
cause one or two ranchers unwisely
asked much larger sums for right OF
way over their lands than the enterprise
would warrant.
The people OF Tillamook county are
urging the extension of the Astoria &
Columbia River railroad from Seaside
to their county, but President Ham.
mond has stated that work will not be
commenced until 1902. when it il hii
purpose to extend the line down the
coast and connect with the Corvallis &
Eastern at Yaquina bay.
In the year 1899. % divorces were
o~avtod II, Walla Walla county mons