Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-05-25
WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.


Seattle for the benefit of two orphan
children.
Foreign exports from Tacoma last
week were: Flour, 27,205 barrels;
wheat, 10000 bushels and lumber,
1922, 96S feet.
Judge Emmett N. Parker, of Ia
coma, has announced himself a
candidate for judge of the supreme
court of the state for the coming
election.
The free mail delivery system
went into effect at Centralia Friday
morning. There are three carriers
and three deliveries daily. Mall
boxes have been placed at convent
ent corners throughout the town.
G. H. Yoshimura, editor of a daily
newspaper in Seattle-the ASH Shin
bun-was fined 500 last week for
criminally libelling through his pa
per Miss Sci Kodama, a pretty maid
of Nippon. He paid his fine.
Fred L. Shaft, prominent lum-
herman of Spokane. considerably
known throughout the Northwest,
California and the Twin Cities for
his ownership of the famous PAGER
Sherlock Holmes, dropped dead on
the street in the business district of
that place last week.
The authorities of the Naval
Academy last week announced that
Midshipman Eugene e. Wilson, of
Seattle, a member of the graduating
class, is the winner of the handsome
sword presented annually by the
class of 1871 for general excellence
in gunnery.
War has been declared on flies and
mosquitoes by the Seattle health de-
partment force. DR.. ]. e. Crichton,
health commissioner, will head a
squad of health Office men in inves-
tigation of the city for fly and mos
quito breeding places.
Work on the wireless telegraph
station at Westport has been greatly
delayed on account of high winds,
but the station Is nearly ready for
service. It is believed everything
will be in readiness to report the
passing of the fleet.
A. Hattori, one of the best-knOwn
Japanese in the Northwest and form
erly president of the Japanese Asso-
citation of Seattle, was elected to a
seat in the Lower House Of the I'm
perial Japanese Diet in the general
elections Saturday. At the end OF
his term he will return to Seattle.
The work of placing new buoys
and spars In Grays Harbor has been
done the past week under the super
vision of the government tender
Heather, Captain Byrnes. The old
buoys were replaced and the entire
inner channel was correctly marked.
The request for a buoy on Whit
comb flats will be granted.
The receivers report of the Pa
cific Livestock Insurance Associa-
ton, filed in the Superior Court last
week by Lloyd f. Candy, expresses
the belief that the insolvency of the
company was caused by the excessive
salaries and commissions paid the
officers, and charges conspiracy to
rob the company. The report shows
that during the existence of the
| company, about two years, some OF
the officers received from $4,000 to
$4,000 or more each. He believes
that the conditions warrant both
civil and a criminal action against
them.
Seven Italian laborers suffering
agonies from ptomaine poisoning
reached South Tacoma last week in
an exhausted condition. The men are
employed at the Dupont powder
plant and had eaten freely of toad
stools, believing them to be mush-
rooms. Three of the victims are IN
an extremely critical condition. One
of the men became unconscious and
it was necessary for his comrades to
carry him seven miles to the street
car.
The first gold shipment of the
season, and incidentally the first
boat to leave Fairbanks this spring,
started Monday from the Tanana
| metropolis for Dawson. The boat
will carry between 100000 and
100000. 1t will ascend the river
to Dawson, from which city the prec-
ious metal will be transhipped, go
ing on up the river to White Horse,
thence to Sagway by rail and by
steamship to Seattle. 1t is expect
ed to take about 20 days for the
shipment to reach Seattle.
The Spokane trophy cup offered
by that city to the winner OF the
Magdalena Bay target practice Will
not be presented to the Maryland
while the fleet is on this coast, for
| II will not be finished in time.
Presentation will be made next year