Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-05-12
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor.
nation of Our Readers.

JIdlIUIt VI OuT Oc0uCTSs
Both the Columbia and Wenatchee
rivers are rising rapidly.
It is estimated that so families
moved into Aberdeen during April.
An effort is being made to establish
the beet sugar industry in the Yakima
valley.
Over 100000 silver trout fry will be
placed in the lakes Of Cowlitz county
within the next 10 days.
The Great Northern railway will
doubletrack it's line between Wenat-
chez and Leavenworth this summer.
The Wenatchee Milling company
will erect this summer an auxiliary
grain elevator with capacity Of So.
900 bushels.
Paul r. Haffer was found guilty Of
libeling George Washington, the first
president of the United States, by a
jury at Tacoma.
The third annual junketing tour of
the Wenatchee commercial club will
leave Wenatchee Monday, June S. and
continue five days.
The Inland empire Sunday school
convention for the district between
Sand Point, Idaho, and Ellensburg,
Wash, was held at Pasco.
Mac Bisaillon, of Portland, won the
northwest balkline billiard champion
ship at Seattle, by defeating Otto Mel
dorfer, of Spokane, 800 to 29O.
The first crate Of strawberries for
the season shipped from Kennewick
was sold in Spokane for $40, the high
est price ever paid for a first crate.
Ballard single mills were badly
crippled and several were forced to
suspend operations entirely as the re.
suit of strike of single weavers.
The second annual celebration of
the opening of the Columbia and
Snake rivers to navigation was held
at Pasco jointly by Pasco and Kenne.
wick.
The Northern Pacific Railway com.
pany will open bids at st. Paul May
Is for the construction of new depot
at Pullman, estimated to cost close to
$4,000
With many county engineers, COM
missioners and road supervisors pres
ent, the first annual road builders
institute was held at the University
of Washington.
During the first four months Of pro.
hibition arrests for drunkenness by
police at North Yakima totalled 81,
compared with 372 for the first four
months Of last year.
The new Wenatchee postoffice and
federal building will be an imposing
one-story structure Of brick and gran.
lite. according to the plans received
by Postmaster Battles.
A total of PIG appeals from lower
courts in the state will be heard by
the supreme court during the May
term, which commenced May and
| COntlnueS unCll July 10.
The progressive state convention at
Seattle elected IA delegates to the
national convention in Chicago and
instructed them to vote for the NOM
ination of Theodore Roosevelt.
Comprehensive plans for the i'm
provement of the port of kennewick
nroparod nv Do,1 ID XVb;tb,,,, 20 Coat
tie. have been approved by the COM
missioners of the port district.
The annual meeting of the Minis
ters' and Laymens association of the
Vancouver district of the Methodist
Episcopal church will convene for
three days, May %, "a and 25, at
Ridgefield
Jail sentences hereafter will be i'm
posed on violators of tie prohibition
law instead CT fines, which have been
customary since tire law went i,..o
effect, January /, Judge Gordon an
nounced at Seattle.
Ellensburg won the annual Yakima
valley interscholastic field meet at
North Yakima, The scores were: Ell
lensburg 60 points, North Yakima IS.
Sunnyside 8. Seiah I, Toppenish S.
Mabton 2. Grandview /.
Oliver II. Kline, former cashier of
the Pacific Coast company, who ad-
mitted embeZzling S14S,0O0 from his
employers, was sentenced at Seattle
to serve from five to Is years in the
penitentiary at Walla Walla
More than 100 cars of freight are
being run in and out of Tacoma every
month on the Chicago, Milwaukee 4
ST. Paul railway and the monthly pay
roll for truckers alone reaches approx
imately $4,000, according to figures
obtained.
Clarence Parker, industrial insur-
ance commissioner, has presented his
resignation to Governor Lister as a
result of the agitation that has recent
ly conferred about the commission
principally concerning Commissioners