Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-07-30
WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

to succeed A. j. Dorm. For five years
Mr.. jenkins has been bookkeeper at
Bromerton navy-yard.
The Vancouver Lumber COMPANY
and adjoining property, sustained a
loss of about $4,000, last week. in
a fire supposed to have originated in
the planning mill of the company.
Four women and boy were ser-
ously injured at Carson last week.
when the New Mineral Springs Hotel
bus loaded with passengers dropped
over 20-foot embankment near the
boat landing
After serving five years at the Nc
Neils Island penitentiary for the
theft of gold dust from the Wild
Goose Mining Company, of Nome,
Alaska, by which company he was
employed as confidential clerk,
George Tolman has returned to
Nome and again taken up his duties
as clerk for the company.
j. A. Gabel and wife, in an auto
mobile equipped with tent, cots and
fishing tackle, have just completed
a trip from Chehalis to San Diego,
Cal, distance of 5000 miles. They
loft Chehalis June % and made the
entire trip without an accident or
mishap.
Charged with a theft of $1,000.
Frank Wicks and Annie Booth, cooks
in a Cathlamet hotel, were arrested
last week on information from the
sheriff of Siskiyou county, Cal. The
couple are accused of robbing an
uncle of the woman. They claim to
be man and wife. The man is a half
breed Indian, but the woman is
white.
The only accident resulting from
Fourth Of July explosives at Wala
Walla occurred last week when IA
year-old George Peoples ignited a
bomb which Ne had found on the va
cant lot where the display was given
the evening of July 4, and through
the explosion of which he suffered
a horribly lacerated face and lost his
loft eye.
Announcement was made at Seat
tie last week that l.. P. Hornborger
of Spokane, member of the last
legislature, is to take charge of the
campaign of Albert E. Mead for re-
nomination as Governor. Mr.. Horn
berger is in the abstract of title bust
ness at Spokane and is a man of
some means. He will open head
quarters at Seattle.
The right of clubs to sell liquor
without license will be decided in the
supreme court of this state. Infor-
nation was filed last week against
five of the leading clubs of Tacoma
by Assistant Prosecuting Attorney
Lorenzo Dow. The defendants will
file a demurrer and the case will
probably go to the supreme court at
once.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, at Washington, ID. c., has re-
cciyed a complaint from the Carstens
Packing Company, Tacoma, against
the O. r. & n. and Northern Pacific
railroads, alleging an overcharge of
about $40 a car on shipments of
cattle from Ontario, Or, and Nampa,
Idaho. Complainants say the cars
were routed via Portland when they
should have gone by way Of Wallula,
Wash.
Oliver Craney, aged 10 years, ac
cidentally killed William Vivian at
ST. John, Wash, last week. Vivian,
q railway camp cook, and Contrac
tor Craney's son were shooting at
knothole in the door with a .22 rifle.
Later young Craney did not see Wv
ian go behind the door and the shot
struck him to the left of the nose
and came out at the top of the head.
Death followed during the night.
John NJ. Crawford, general super
intendent of Washington state fish
hatcheries, has laid out the ground
and commenced work on the new
hatchery on Lewis River near Wood
land. The state will eXpend $4,000
on the hatchery that will have an
output of about 100000 salmon
fry 1t is proposed to handle nothing
but chinook for the present, taking
steelheads later.
July 80 to August i, inclusive, are
the dates set by Adjutant General
Hamilton for the annual state rifle
competition. The shoot viii be held
on the American Lake range and
each company will be represented by
team of six men with not to exceed
two alternates. The Washington
state rifle team for the National COM
petition will be chosen Immediately
after the state shoot is completed.
After throwing her 7-year-old
daughter from the breakwater at
Lake Washington, in Seattle, last
week, Mrs. Tressa Markley, wife of
Norman E. Markley, an attorney
formerly of Eugene, Or, committed
suicide by leaping into the lake her
self. The little girl crawled out of
the water and after more than an
hour of climbing up the steep hill,
reached the home of Arthur Mottin
ger, where she told her story. Half
an hour later a party of searchers
found the woman's body in the lake
a short distance from where she had
leaped from the breakwater.
Commissioner of Public Lands
Ross announces that it will be neces-
sarv to postpone until October the