Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-03-12
WASHINGTON NEWS IN GRIEC.

ernor.
The firm of Hilstrom and Burnett
who have been engaged in the fur
niture business in Vancouver, has
been dissolved.
Walter Phares committed suicide
In a Main street saloon in Walla
Walla last week by drinking carboiic
acid. No cause is known.
Lewis Shaffer, who has been resi-
dent of Vancouver for a number 0.
years. died Sunday at st. Joseph's
Hospital from an attack of grip
At meeting of the City Counci
OF Chehalis last week the Chehali
Land and Timber Company formal
decided 1852 acres of land to the
City of Chehalis for use as park.
The movement on foot in Po-
/ Townsend to entertain Rear Admire
Evans on his arrival on Sour
waters. is rapidly gaining groun
among the citizens and city officials
Welland c. Thorp, the youns
craftsman of the United States Rec
lamation Service at North Yakima
who mysteriously disappeared from
Sunnyside last week. is in that place
and apparently suffering from
mental trouble.
George S. Raymond, who killed
George Dunn in a saloon row in
Home Valley on the nisht of Feb
ruary 4th. was acquitted in the Su-
perior Court at Stevenson of the
charge of murder.
A committee named by the
Citizens Club has taken up the
work of arranging for stallion ex-
hibit on the streets of the city on
Saturday. April 4. This show is
preliminary to general street stock
show.
Mrs. j. w. Mathews, running for
the three-year term on the School
Board of Pullman, defeated w. L.
Lanning, the present incumbent, in
the elections Saturday, and will take
office in August.
The printers in the composing
room of the Washington Printing
and Book Manufacturing Company
of Walla Walla, which has the con-
tract for publishing the Morning
Union and the Evening Statesman
went on strike Sunday night
General Western Freight Agent
Henry Blakely, of the Northern Pa
cific, and General Freight Agent r.
B. Miller, of the O. r. & ~, met
with committee from the Farmers
Union last week and the matter of
reducing freight rates on grain bags
was thoroughly discussed. The mat
ter was taken under advisement.
Charged with obtaining $4,000
Clarence Collier Crandau, alias
DR.. Charles Hudson, alias Hugh
Duffy, eX-convict, embezzler, forger,
and the man who married Miss Sybl
Anderson, Seattle young woman in
Tacoma, January 90, and deserted
her within a week, has been arrested
by the San Francisco police for
uttering forged checks.
The Fourth District convention Of
the knights of Pythias lodges, in
Guiding the cities of Aberdeen, ITO
GUAM. Elma, Centralia, Chehalis.
South Bend and other towns was held
| in, ln t.,
deem last Friday. There were SO
delegates. An election of officers
Bowes, Aberdeen, PRESIDENT; E. F.
Jones, Aberdeen, secretary; D. W.
Bush, Chahalis, treasurer.
| Clinging to a pile and screaming
for help, W. H. Kinney, a laborer,
was rescued from a watery grave by
! a policeman in Seattle. Kinney's
| jaw was broken and his head was
| badly bruised, while his person was
encased in tideland muck He had
been beaten by companion into
| insensbility, robbed of a gold watch
and $40 and then thrown into the
| bay.
under false pretenses, c. e. Dim
nit has been arrested on a warrant
sworn out by S. f. Carr, with whom
he was associated in the management
and ownership Of the Golden Rule
| department store at Walla Walla,
one of the largest dry goods con-
Germs in the city, which was closed
out last fall through bankruptcy
proceedings. The warrant was served
at Mr. Dimmit's home after day
had been spent in search for him.
The fishing schooner Maid of Or
leans, which arrived in Seattle Satur-
day, brings a report from Swan
Harbor, Unga Island, Alaska, that
the % sailors who survived the first
hardships following the breaking up
of the John F. Miller on Ihatock
peninsula. Unimak, January 8, have
been picked up by another schooner.
One hundred and fifty enthusiastic
admirers of Secretary Taft gathered
in the Tacoma hotel and launched
State league of Taft clubs