Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-03-27

ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL
OVER THE STATE.
commercial and Financial Happenings Of I'm.
portance-A Brief Review OF the Growth
and Improvements Of the Many Industries
Throughout Our Thriving Commonwealth
--latest Market Report


Goldendalc will elect city officers
Monday, April I.
Stock breeders of the Palouse country
have formed an association.
Aberdeen is making war on the
nickel in-the- slot machines.
AZ +. A. Shaw, OF Colfax, has been APP
pointed secretary of the state board OF
control.
Fifty thousand bushels of Palouse
wheat were sold last week for 80 cents
per bushel.
1t will take some close figuring by
the state officials to keep within the APP
preparations.
New appliances for the study OF min
ing are being installed ut the state
agricultural college.
The Pennington schools have reopen
ed after being closed two weeks on ac-
count of scarlet fever.
Construction has commenced on tire
telephone line from Springdale to the
Cedar Canyon country.
Quite number OF hop contracts for
the 1902 crop have been made at North
Yakima at II cents per pound.
Burglars blew up the safe in the
postotfice at Brcmerton and secured
about - 900 in cash and stamps.
Governor Mcbride has reappointed
Alden J. Blethen regent of the state
university for the term of six years.
While a Seattle hose wagon was on
its way to a fire it collided with Il street
car, seriously injuring four persons.
Waitsburg will hold it's city election
next month. 1t is quite probable that
the present officers will be reelected.
Walla Walla has truant officer,
whose duty it is to see that the children
attend school and do not play "hookey."
The customs authorities at Port
Townsend have captured Jameson and
Wilkes, two notorious smugglers of Chi
nese.
The Spokane Federation of Women s
Clubs passed resolutions favoring the
States.
The 23d annual session of the Lewis
county teachers institute will be held
at Chehalis March 81 to April i, in
elusive.
The farmers living north of Cakes
dale are circulating a petition for the
esta blishment of a free rural mail de-
livery route.
Saturday, April - is the date set for
driving the last spike and formally
opening the railway between Grand
Forks, b. c., and Republic.
Street sprinkling in Spokane viii
be carried ON under the direction of tie
street commissioner this year, Instead
of being let out by contract.
A convict in the Walla Walla pen
Tertiary managed to saw through tie
iron bars of his cell, but was caught b'-
fore getting out of the building.
The Starbuck school district is nov
out of debt. The last of its bonded il
debtedness of 200 was wiped OFT
when a warrant of 800 was called in,
few days ago.
Several artesian wells are beiry
drilled in the Horse Heaven county
this spring. There is at present bit
one well on the great tableland. t
was put down several years ago by tie
state and county.
The Northern Pacific is selling larel
tracts of its lands in Eastern Washing
ton. A Spokane company has CLOSED a
deal for 81 $50 acres in Yakima and
Franklin counties, the price being in
the neighborhood of $1,000
In the counties comprising the
Spokane land office district there are
about 625 900 acres of surveyed govern
ment land which has never been entered
upon, and about l zoo, 900 acres OF I'M
surveyed government land. This dis
trict is made up of Spokane, Stevens,
Terry, Lincoln and Adams counties
and portion of Whitman.
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