Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-05-04
WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.



The city council VI Tekoa has de
cided to erect city hail. The build
iGg will be one story. with basement
The United States Senate on Fyi-
day passed bill appropriating 5000
300 for public building 4, Everett.
The Christian Endeavor ConNcn-
ION for Western Washington held
4 three days session ut Aberdeen
'ast week.
Miss Lillian B. Wyman of Ncoma
,ell from a couch last Friday and
yroke her neck.
Governor Mead left last Thursday
for Washington, d. c., where he will
attend conference of the govern
o:s of The states called BY President
Roosevelt.
Recent heavy rains about Dan
Vile have caused the Kettle river to
rise rapidly, and unless there are a
few days of cool weather extreme
high water is expected
VIM, W HlCA tQ l0C Pi u
portions of a cyclone. blew down the
barn and several outbu!ldings of j..
w. Peck. rancher Of the Mckee
valley Friday. Loss. $1,000.
Abel Pease, Of Chehaiis, who form
erly resided near Morton. is held a
prisoner in the Lewis County Jail for
an alleged attempt to murder Z.
knittle, a we'll known farmer.
Amos Todd, an employee Of the
Pioneer Sheet Metal Works, Seattle,
was crushed to death by a falling
pile while in his motor-boat at the
foot of Eagle street last week.
While Paul Huber and DR..
Harry Martin of Cashmere were driv-
ing on a mountain road last week
the horse ran over the embankment
and Mr.. Huber sustained q broken
leg.
R. N. Pilling, a prominent timber
man Of Snohomish, will build a
shingle mill at Montesano. The mill
will be modern in every way and will
have a capacity of 10000 shingles
a day.
During a gusty windstorm on FRI
day fire destroyed Frank Miller's
opera house at Starbuck, together
with the residence of ]. j. link. De-
fective electric wiring is supposed to
have been the cause.
For the quarter ending March 81,
fifteen State depository banks under
the law requiring them to pay 2 per
cent per annum interest on average
balances have just RENTED to the
State Treasurer $1.95S.1S.
High water in the Spokane river
resulted in the temporary bridge at
Washington street, Spokane, being
carried out and fears are expressed
that the bridges over the channels
of the river at Howard street will be
swept away.
The land on the north half of the
opened for filing and final proof, and
the homesteaders are losing no time
in getting to the land Office. Some
farms have been occupied for eight
years on squatters rights.
The 1S-months-old child of George
Gerlitz, who lives in southwestern
Whitman county, near Dusty, died
on Saturday from burns caused by
accidentally falling into a tub OF
wash water which Mrs. Gerlitz had
set on the floor while washing.
Plans are maturing for an excur-
sion to Hermiston, the commercial
center of the government irrigation
project in Umatilla county, Ore,
from Walla Walla, on May 81, when
the project will be finally opened.
The Touchet schools closed for the
term last Friday.
Tweed Amos, an ice delivery man
of Colfax, drove into the Palouse
river in North Colfax Wednesday to
wash the wagon. The current car
ried team, wagon and man down
stream for 800 yards. Several times
the team was under water and only
the top of the wagon could be seen.
Mr.. Amos could not swim, but man
aged by standing on the wagon seat
to keep from drowning.
After being out fifteen minutes,
jury in the Superior Court at Spo-
kane last week, brought in a verdict
of assault with intent to inf1ict bodily
harm in the case of Mrs. G. H. Clark,
charged with shooting at her hus-
band, a wealthy pioneer real estate
man of Spokane. Clark was an un-
willing witness against his wife, but
the State forced him to testify. Jeal-
ousy was the cause of the assault.
With a subscription Of $1,000 each
from the Great Northern and the
Northern Pacific on Saturday, the
collection of funds for the entertain
ment of the battleship fleet at Seattle
received a new impetus. With what
is known to be outstanding, the total
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