Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-03-23

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the Germania cafe, Seattle, the other
night that he sold for $50.
The United States revenue cutter
Thetis has arrived at Port Townsend
from Alaska with the survivors of
the Japanese schooner Satsums.
Rheumatic, 50 and penniless.
Skip Keiser and Mary Hamlin, g.,
escaped from the poorfarm at Spo-
kane last week and were married.
Judge Rice has denied the appli-
cation of F. I. Brigham of Naper-
cine for new trial and sentenced
him to be hanged May 20 for wife
murder.
Mrs Margaret D. Philby of Tacoma
charges her husband with having
led his S-year-old son into a saloon
and forced the child to drink wine
until the boy had become intoxicated.
Charges of insanity We're placed
against two women in Seattle Sunday
and both were taken to the county
Jail to be held until a commission of
physicians examines them. Both
were taken by force.
Fire which broke out in the St.
Maries hotel Friday night destroyed
that building and several other bust
ness blocks. Three hundred men
fought the flames with a small hose
cart equipment and buckets.
Charles d. Curry, a Great North
ern car inspector, and his wife We're
victims of an attempted assassina-
ton last week, when an unknown
man entered their bedroom and shot
both in the head, neither fatally.
The Touchet and Patti rivers are
overlooking their banks and the Day.
ton dyke, built last year at a cost of
several thousand dollars, was washed
away, causing a flood in Railroad
Addition. Many people left their
homes.
league has determined to circulate
pledge petitions among the business
firms and residents of the city, ask
ing them to refuse to patronize firms
or persons employing Japanese in
stores or restaurants.
White Salmon is to have electric
lights. The council has granted a
2O-year franchise to Shepler & Rog-
ers, two local capitalists. Work on
the plant must be begun within 80
days and the system must be in.
stalled within year.
Sheriff Holmes, of Chicago, arrived
in North Yakima on Monday and ar
rested George White, young man,
on a charge of wife desertiOn. White,
whose relatives here are prominent
people, will be taken back to Illinois.
He deserted as the result of a quar-
rel, it is said.
Sheriff Hatliff of Colfax has re-
ceived a telegram from Sheriff Nc
Donald, of Loudon county, Tenn,
stating that w. H. McNabb, wanted
for wife desertion in Whitman
county, has been released from GUS
tody. Deputy Sheriff Daily left Col
fax Monday with extradition papers
and the action of the Tennessee Of
flcers is not understood.
The election for the annexation of
the town of Catlin, across the river
from Kelso, with the object of max
ing 1t part of this municipality, was
held in this city and Catlinetaoin
held in Kelso, and the result was
nearly unanimous in favor of annex
alton. Kelso will now have a popu-
lation sufficient to place it among
the cities of the third class.
Sliding 800 feet down the icy side
of ravine in the foothills of Mount
Rainier, then sustaining fall of 80
feet over precipice and landing in
a snowbank, was the experience of
Thomas Kelly, a surveyor with Lafa
yette Heath, cruiser for the Weyer-
hauser Timber Company. He was
brought to st. Joseph's Hospital in
Tacoma, having escaped without
broken bones and is doing well.
AS the result of the mental de-
rangement of Master Signal Elec-
trician George Treffinger, at Fort
Davis, Alaska, the War Department
has issued orders that as soon as
navigation opens, all army men who
have been in the North more than
two years are to be withdrawn.
Treffinger has been constantly on
duty in Alaska since July, 1904,
having been retained there upon his
own request, beyond the usual period
Of duty.
With saws supposed to have been
given them while working on the
streets at Ritzvile, Herbert Walker,
serving one year in Jail for assault,
Thomas Morse, awaiting trial for
highway robbery, Jim Mcdonald and
Dave Merry, serving time for steal