Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-06-09
WASHINGTON STATE
news OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor.
nation of Our Readers.

shortly.
Henry Alexander of Everett has
been appointed as register of the Van
couver land office.
Danger from forest fires will soon
be imminent, according to H. C. Hanly
fire warden for Clarke county.
Wenatchee will show it's patriotism
on June IA, Flag day, by prepared
ness parade. The Elks' lodge will have
charge.
Longshoremen of Willapa harbor or
gained a union and went on strike
in sympathy with the general strike
along the coast.
Corngrowing has passed the expert
mental stage in Skagit county, the
acreage this year being 200, or ten
times that Of last year.
The state conference Of charities
and corrections held it annual SEES
sion at Walla Walla. About rs visit
ing delegates were present.
Frank Dillon, laboring man, az
flicted with cancer Of the face, com
mitted suicide at North Yakima, by
shooting himself in the head.
In the final exercises Of the Today
celebration of the Ellensburg normal
school quarter centenary AZ members
Of the class Of 1916 were graduated.
Twenty-four of ~ candidates for
dental certificates were successful in
the examinations conducted by the
state board Of dental examiners at
Seattle.
Wheat in Douglas county needs
warm weather. The wheat is in fair
shape, but is from two to four weeks
late because of the late spring and
continued cool weather.
Gray's Harbor county liquor drink
ers purchased 1881 permits from the
county auditor during April which is
an increase Of 60 per cent over the
number issued in March.
A feud has broken out between sew
eral families in Polish settlement IL
miles north of Aberdeen. Shots have
been exchanged in skirmish, but no
one has been killed so far.
Two sawmills in the northwestern
part of Clarke county have received
tie contracts the past month for total
of about 100000 ties for domestic pur-
poses and European shipment.
Cosmopolis residents hereafter will
pay $3.50 a month for telephone serv-
ice, instead Of $3.50, according to a
concession made by the Pacific Tele-
phone & Telegraph company.
Sophomores in the civil engineering
department of the University of Wash
ington will be required to attend a
summer training camp following the
close of the regular school year.
With each day prospects for a good
prune crop in Clarke county are grow
ing brighter, according to packers.
Indications point to crop Of at least
100000 pounds in that county, or
$50 cars.
The Wenatchee Northern Ware
house and Marketing company at We
natchee has taken over the properties
of the Wenatchee Fruit Growers as
ISOLATION and started a warehouse,
storage and marketing business.
The business session of the grand
council of the United Commercial
Travellers of Oregon, Washington and
British Columbia closed at Bellingham
with the selection of Everett as the
place of the next annual meeting.
A petition signed by so residents of
Grand Mound was recently forward
ed to the state board of control asking
that charges of cruelty to the inmates
of the state training school for girls
at Grand Mound be investigated.
The management of the Dayton
Days" festival at Dayton will stage an
event intended to recall early days on
the plains. They propose to put on
Of the pony express of those times,
using automobiles instead of ponies.
In order to settle the question as to
who is the choice Of the democrats of
Sunnyside for postmaster the postof-
flee department through Chairman Fo.
garty Of the state democratic commit,
tee has directed referendum election.
T. c. Hughes, 80 years old, of Los
Angeles, workman at the Milwaukee
dock at Seattle, was shot and serious
ly wounded when a group of armed
strike sympathizers attacked the ware
house in which several employees were
sleeping.
DR.. Linda Burfield Hazard, who was
paroled from the state penitentiary
six months ago. where she was serving
sentence on charge of being instru-
mental in the death of Claire William
son, is in receipt of a full pardon from
Governor l1r2es. Lister.
Superior Judge Frater at Seattle en-
tered an order confirming the sale of
the Seattle, Renton & Southern rail-
way, 12-mile trolley line operating
in Seattle and Renton, southern sub
urb, to the eastern bondholders' COM
mittee, who bid 100000, which will
pay all allowed claims against the road
and its receivership expenses. The re-
ceivers were instructed to execute a
deed of conveyance to the committee.
North Yakima bankers are unani-
nous in opposing the order requiring