Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-08-13
WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.


Up to the average, with prices higher
than last year.
1t IL expected that King County
Will print . double-column primary
ballot nearly four feet long. the big
gest in history.
James Bennett, a 14-year-old boy
residing near Chehalis, was trampled
he cannot survive.
The Board Of Equalization of Che
halls county was in session three
days last week and decided to raise
the assessment of lOgged-off lands
from 81 to 81 per acre.
A. j. Blethen, of the Seattle Times.
has been appointed a member of the
newspaper committee of the National
Democratic committee.
An attempt to wreck the Northern
Pacific passenger train was made last
week at Sunnyside. A section fore
man found huge pile of ties and
railway iron on the track and tagged
the train.
Mrs. Angelina Taylor Grow Myers,
OF Seattle, celebrated her Tooth
birthday anniversary last week
-Four generations were present at the
family reunion. She is cousin of
the late Galusha Grow, formerly
Speaker OF the House of Represen-
tatives.
Mrs. Clara r. Moore, wife of W.
E. Moore. Of Kalama, was arrested
at Portland last week charged with
leaving her husband and clipping with
.. Z. linus she was lodged in Jail
in default of $1,000 bonds. She was
keeping house for linus when ar
rested.
Spokane Is to have Japanese
baseball team, which will play a
number of games this fall and next
Spring start out on tour of the
Northwest under the title of the
Spokane Japanese" The organizer
of the team is Kay Nakagowa, a
graduate of Washeda university in
Japan and a pitcher of ability.
Twenty hoodlums boarded an in
bound car from American Lake at
South Tacoma last week, mobbed the
conductor and motorman, drove the
passengers off the car, which they
ran into blind switch and left, af-
ter ringing up the register full Of
fares and making as much noise and
disturbance as possible.
Nine thousand people attended the
annual picnic of the Northwest
Washington Pioneers Association at
Bellineham last week. Twelve men
and women who came to Whatcom
county in 1854 were present. The
parade was led by Ezra Meeker, driv-
ing the OK team with which he
crossed the continent to Washington
last year. Senator Piles made the
principal address.
Spokane Natorium Park crowds
We're treated to a unique sight last
week when big Joe, the boaconstrc-
tor, recently brought there from
Fernie, B. c., where he was scorched
in the fire which destroyed the city,
was forced to swallow over two gal
Ions of milk punch. 1t required 81
men to handle the big snake while
he was beinng given his enforced
meal. the fire having driven his APP
petite away.
William Miller, assistant foreman
of the checking department of the
Seattle Transfer Company, is under
arrest, charged with embeZZlement.
He has confessed to the theft Of a
small sum, but it is stated that the
toto hn loci
will run into the thousands. 1t is
stated by the Transfer Company that
the existence of an organized gang of
employes engaged in robbing their
employers has been developed.
Four hundred of the 1000 railroad
men making Seattle their headquar-
ters have organized the Railway En-
ployers Club OF the State of Wash
ingtOn. While ostensibly social in
character, the organization has pass
ed resolutions urging congressman
and state Legislators to oppose fur
Their legislation against railroad in
terests as tending to reduce profits
and react on the employees through
loss of wages and employment.
Hugh Lloyd, of the Government
Survey Service, who with a crew has
been on Grays HarDOr making maps
Of that section, is alleged TO have as
saulted a lad named Mcmahon with
out provocation. Lloyd was shooting
along the highway with a revolver
and, when he reached place at
which Mcmahon was at work, the lad
innocently asked him at what he was
shooting, whereupOn Lloyd beat Nc
NahOn about the face and hands. He
is held in bonds of 500 for his APP
pearance in the Superior Court.
The Washington Forestry Associ-
alton was organized in Seattle last
week. The purpose of the associa-
tion is to cooperate with the FEEDER
al Government in preserving the nat
ural resources Of the state. The Of
fcers were elected as follows Ellis
Morrison, president; Edgar II. Libby.
Of GARRISON, first vice-president; !.
\. Navarro, of Wenatchee, second
vice. resident c. II. Bailey, secre-
AIRY; c. NJ. Williams, Seattle, audi
or. 1t was decided that a big for
,stry convention should be held in