Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-03-30
WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF.

The State Board of Control have
awarded contracts for the new jute
mill at Walla Walla.
The first train on the North Bank
railroad left Vancouver Thursday
with two coaches well flied with pas
sengers.
Sunday morning the home of VIII
liam Mills, on McFadden avenue,
Chehalis, was totally destroyed by
fire, the family barely escaping with
their lives.
1t has been definitely settled that
the Aberdeen ballplayers will train
at Lewiston, Idaho. They will play
their first game with the team at
Lewiston on Saturday, April 4.
The Board of Control at Olympia
have completed the awarding of con
tracts for furnishing six months sup
plies to the various state institu-
lions under the control of the Board
The steamer Elsie attempted to
tow the stranded Saratoga off the
rocks at Valdez. Alaska, Saturday.
but was unsuccessful. There was %
inches of water in the engine room,
but the holds are dry
G. M. Whitson, former travelling
salesman for a Portland wholesale
house has been arrester in Walla
Walla for passing a worthless check
for over $50 on the manager of a
hotel in that city
At a special meeting of Douglas
Island local, 100, Western Fedora
ton of Miners. Saturday afternoon
a general strike was called and no.
tees were sent TO Seattle ordering
union men and union sympathizers to
stay away.
Saito, ex-member of the Japanese
Cabinet as Minister of Commerce,
arrived in Seattle from Toxic last
Friday. His errand covers cam
paign among union labor leaders for
admission of Japanese workmen into
membership into organized labor
bodies.
Tax Agent Morrow of Walla Walla
and the County Commissioners are
still at variance regarding settle
ment of railroad taxes for 1905,
1906 and 1907. amounting to nearly
100000. Morrow objects to paying
Is per cent penalty on delinquent
taxes of 1906.
Joseph A. Kippart. farmer near
Marshall Junction. informed the po-
lice of Spokane that a boy he be-
lieved to be Cecil Britain, who was
supposed to have been kidnapped near
Walla Walla. July Is. 1906. had
been at his farm. When questioned
the boy ran off into the woods.
Wilson w. Cassidy. leader of the
gang of robbers who held up several
street cars in Spokane last month,
has pleaded guilty to the charge OF
robbing S. H. Wardell Cassidy was
sentenced to serve one to 20 years
in Walla Walla penitentiary. the
same penalty already imposed on his
three companions in crime.
This summer the Lewis County
Commissioners expect to make q
number of improvements at the
county poor farm on the Newaukum
river, two miles south of Chehalis
1t Is also the intention of the COM
missioners to clear several acres OF
land ready for farming At present
there are 22 inmates at the poor
farm, only one of whom Is able to dc
any work at all.
At meeting of prominent citizens
of Spokane last week it was decided
to make the big apple show that will
be held in Spokane next December
a National affair. and such large
prizes will be offered that fruit from
all parts of the United States will be
entered in competition. 1t Is eX-
pected that the awards that will be
given will attract some Of the great
est fruit experts of foreign countries
Engineer J. M. Clapp has asked
the Montesano Chamber of Com
merce for data that Major Chitten-
den can embody in his report to
Congress in which he will recon-
mend an appropriation large enough
to rid the Chehalis river Of snags and
bars from Montesano to Cosmopolis,
thus giving deep water channel to
the sea. The opening of the river to
all classes of navigation will be OF
great advantage to Montesano.
The school and city authorities of
Chehalis have a campaign under way
to effectually curb the further spread
of diphtheria. DR.. Rose Bebb. state
bacteriologist, is busily engaged GO
ing over the city where there are any
suspicious symptoms, taking culture
and developing them, with a view to
determining Just where there is any
danger. Four or five homes are now
under quarantine. The schools have
been closed FOR the past two weeks.