Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-04-20
WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

The second annual Whitman coun-
ty horse show at Colfax on Saturday
goes on record as a grand success.
BY unanimous vote of the Whit
man County Commissioners it was
decided that no saloon license would
be granted for La Crosse.
Presiding Elder Rev. Ulysses F.
Hawk, Of Spokane, has been elected
president Of the Spokane Ministerial
Association Of the M. E. Church.
Two men were slightly injured In
a collision between two construction
trains on the North Bank road at
the Wind Mountain gravel pit near
Stevenson, on Saturday.
Fire destroyed most of the plant
of the Washington Mill Company at
Spokane on Saturday, with the lum
Der, sash, doors and blinds. The loss
IS estimate at 100000
Accused " compromising a INSIDE
meanor, J. P. Allen, Of the Interna-
tional Secret Service, was arrested
last week in Tacoma and lodged in
the county jail. bail being refused.
The Board of Works Of Spokane
has ordered all work on cement side
walks stopped. on complaint that the
contractors were robbing the city and
not carrying on the work according
to specifications.
homegrown potatoes on Saturday
were selling in Tacoma for SIS and
SIG ton, the first time this season
that the dealers were able to get the
latter figure. They have been going
at $14 and SIS a ton.
The new. athletic park for public
use at Chehalis. donated last week
by the Chehalis Land & Timber Com
pany, has been named Millett Park
by the City Council. Men are already
at work identifying the grounds.
d. D. Hopper, timber cruiser,
has been engaged by Yakima county
to estimate the value of the timber
in the southern part of the county.
near Mount Adams. These estimates
are to be used as basis of valuation
for assessing.
Brady Martin, Spokane con-
tractor, was terribly injured at Lind.
Wash, last week while trying to ex-
tract dynamite from a missed shot.
The explosion fractured his skull,
broke one leg and shot fragments
of rock into his body.
Marshal Harry Miller Of Kent.
who was wounded in pitched bat
tie with desperadoes Thursday, died
at the Taylor Hospital, in Kent, Fri
gang has resulted in the capture of
one suspect.
Two freight trains came together
on the Northern Pacific at Sprage
Friday afternoon. Both engines and
nearly every car were thrown from
the track and four cars were de-
molished. Fireman Maroff and
George Pippen were considerably
bruised.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul railway has organized a term
1nal company to do business in the
State of Washington. The company
Is designed as the Milwaukee Term
inal railway, and Seattle is named as
the headquarters. The amount of
capital is $35O,Oo0.
Coroner Crawford of Colfax held
an inquest over the remains of Harry
Car, railway laborer, last Friday,
who was found in Pine Creek, near
Rosalia. Carr had been drinking
and was wandering toward camp.
and it is thought he fell off foot
bride and was drowned.
Robert E. Gazette, president Of the
Inland Bank Of Spokane, which went
into the hands Of a receiver about
three months ago, was arrested last
week, charged with receiving de-
posits after the bank was insolvent.
Bail was fixed at $4,000, but the
prisoner failed to secure bondsmen.
An attempt to hide the murder of
Frank Moreau, shot through the
head. by placing the body on the
Northern Pacific tracks at Cheney,
was discovered and frustrated by a
farmer, who notified the section men
who dragged the body from the rails
just as the express train whizzed by.
There Is no clue to the murderer.
A telegram signed by Mayor de
Mattos and President Donovan of
the Bellingham Chamber Of Com
merce, has been dispatched to the
Washington delegation in Congress
and the Secretary of the Navy, ask
ing that the whole battleship fleet be
dispatched to Bellingham instead of
eight vessels, as at present planned.
Inspection and fumigation of tu-
bercular residences will be made by
the Public Health Department of
Seattle, an innovation of the new
Health Commissioner, j. E. Crich-
ton. Physicians will be requested to
report tuberCular cases and WHARF