Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-06-29
" ASuINGTON NEWS n BRIEF.

Fire last week destroyed the
Rtseway theater at Colfax. The
loss Is $4,000; insurance $4,000.
The County Commissioners Of Che
halle County last week issued an or
der requiring the prisoners in the
County Jail to labor on the county
roads. whenever the County Engineer
or the Road Supervisors require
them.
Two ranchers at North Beach have
found on the ocean front a chunk OF
ambergris weighing perhaps 400
pounds. Ambergris Is worth whole
sale $500 a pound, so that If the
piece is as heavy as reported the men
have fortune of 100000.
While searching for coat that
had been lost, Harry Jordon, resi-
dent of Silver Beach, found a lard
pail containing complete cracks
mans outfit hidden in cedar stump
along the railroad track, about a
mile from the Silver Beach depot.
An unknown man was instantly
killed in the stairway of lodging
house at Palouse, last week, either
by falling down the stairway or by
a blow from some one. Win Burden.
an ex-saloon man, is in the city jail
awaiting the arrival of coroner's YER
dict.
H. T. Davis, representing the state
board of control, last week officially
accepted the new training school
building for the State Normal School
at Cheney The architecture and
plan represents the latest and most
approved ideas for housing school
children.
The thirteenth annual convention
of the Washington Bankers Associ-
ton was held at North Yakima last
week. The officers elected are; Pres
ident, w. L. Adams, Hoquiam, vice
president, A. F. Albertson, Tacoma;
secretary, P. c. Kaufman, Tacoma;
treasurer, J. x. Mccormick, Palouse.
A patent issued by the United
States Government to Samuel A. Will
liams to certain lands in Chehalis
County, has just been filed with the
County Auditor for record. The in
strument bears the date of Decem Der
8, 1864, and also bears the signature
of Abraham Lincoln. then President
of the United States.
Seven thousand tons Of steel will
be ordered Immediately for big
bridges which the Copper River &
Northwestern Railroad will construct
across the Copper River in Alaska.
Rails have been laid for a distance OF
80 miles from Cordova, and by the
end of the present year the road will
be open as far as Abercrombie Can
yon. the head Of navigation.
The valuation on the three trans
continental railroads crossing the
state of Washington has been fixed
by the railroad commission at 1885,
100000, after more than two years
spent In hearings and investigations.
The values are segregated as fol-
lows: Northern Pacific, $111. 000,-
900, Great Northern $50, 100000, o.
R. & N. SIS. 100000.
High water In the Columbia has
and dairy people living in the bot
toms west and south OF Woodland
Many farmers have been compelled to
move with all their possessions and
stock. The hay crop will be almost
a total failure, as but little had been
cut before the high water came, the
season having been very backward
on account of cold weather.
Parties just returning from Para
disc Vaney, on the south slope OF
Mount Rainier, say the heaviest
snowfall in more than decade fell
on the mountain during last winter
Due to the backwardness of the year,
there is still a great deal Of snow on
the slopes of the mountain, and at
the Camp of the Clouds. favorite
tourist spot, there Is still 20 feet OF
snow