Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-27
WASHINGTON hfWj
Items Of Interest From All Parts
of the State.
COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL HAPPENINGS
A Brief Review Of the Growth and Improve.
ments Of the Many industries Through.
out Our Thriving Commonwealth.

Whitman college has ESQ students.
Walia Walla is to have a fire alarm
system.
Catholics of Kent will erect a nev
church.
Bricks for building are scarce a
Everett.
clam cannery may be established
at Nahcotta.
A new school building will be erect
ed ut Ballard.
b. F. WATSON il esta blishing bricl
yard at Everett.
Gray's Harbor bar now has 20 fee
Of water ut low tide.
Henry Hewitt, Jr.. of Tacoma, vii
build saw mill at Everett.
A camp OF sons of Indian war vet
Grams will he instituted at Aberdeen.
The Seattle humane society has p,e
pared u bill for Legislative recognition.
Charles Fulton will establish ship
yards at Haddock and will brild two
vessels.
The faculty OF Whitman college has
prohibited tobacco smoking on the
campus.
G. p. Hallet has been convicted at
Spokane Of assault with gun upon l..
Walters.
Grays harbor towns will unite in an
effort to obtain an appropriation
from congress.
THE Northern Pacific Railway com.
pany has placed u switch engine at
North Yakima.
Nearly l,5O0,O 900 bushels of wheat
are stored in warehouses at Prescott.
near Walla Walla.
The labor unions of Everett have
bOycOtted two restaurants for employ
ing Jap cooks and walters.
The Everett Railway & Electric
Company has decided to make extern.
sive Improvements on its system.
Three hundred residences are in
course of construction at Everett, and
since January more than 600 homes
have been completed.
Il. NJ. Shaver, of Boisfort, has start.
ed mp his saw mill Oh the Hanaford.
He will cut about 5000 feet OF road
plank.
chief dispatcher of the Great Norrnefn
Railway at Everett is arranging u new
time card.
Frank Morris, a laborer, was killed
one mile from Puyallup ny the chain
Of pile driver swapping. one end OF
which struck him OH the head.
The WaIla vv..,,- Eiectric companv
has received water wheel ny 49,
the power Of the plant will 10 in
creased $50 horse power.
The +. j. MoNeeley company. oper.
ating the 1O.block single mill In Ev'
erett, will build q 1000 capacity saw
mill anjoining their shingle mill.
John Henry Williams. who has been
held at North Yakima for some time
ON the charge OF having murdered w.
W. Scott, at Prosser. has been released
under habeas corpus proceedings.
The bridge over the Nisqually river
near Yelm is in danger by reason OF
the recent freshets. 1t is q structure
worth about $1,000, built and MAIN
tanned jointly by Thurston and Pierce
counties.
N. c. Cameron and wife have COM
menced action against the West
Street & North End Electric Railway
Com pany to recover $1,000 damages
for injuries alleged to have been sus-
tanned by Mrs. Cameron in collision.
DR.. David Lindsay. who has been
practicing at North Yakima for several
months, has been arrested on q charge
of criminal libel, and being unable to
furnish bail is in the county jail. His
case will be heard at the February
term of court.
Tho residence of Mr.. keenan,. al
Olga, was totally destroyed by fire.
All Of tn, household goods were saved
A store building near the house ignited,
but was prevented from burning by the
efforts OF the entire community. which
turned out in force to fight the flames
Owing to the crowded condition o
the Centralia schools the board may III
up another building for school pur
poses. II 10 reported that severa
claims north OF the Tom Thumb. II
Republic district. which are believed
to carry the same lodges, will he devel
oped shortly.
The citizens OF Colfax are in fur,
because G. II. Hahn, a we'll known
merchant, IL erecting store building
in the very center Of one OF the princi
pal streets in the city. A petition ha
been circulated asking the city council
to take some steps to stop the apparen
blockade to the thoroughfare.
James Wilson was convicted at Nortl
Yakima OF having robbed q freight ca
near Kiona OF goods valued at $500.
A diver recovered 500 in gold from
the bottom OF Bellingham bay. Tn
money was in a small satcnel. and wa
lost of the Sehome wharf by Mrs
Matthews. OF Samish, about two week
400 Fruitleae efforts were made Il