Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-05-05
NEWS FROM ALL OVER The STATE

NC CttStSu Ut tuC iPCuO StdtlOh At
Keyport, on Puget Sound. The North
western Construction company Of
Portland, submitted bid of $46,711.
The theft of 5000 feet of seven
strand aluminium high tension wire,
which at the time 1t was taken carried
230O volts of current, was discovered
at Vancouver by employees of the
Portland Railway, Light & Power COM
pany. nearly a month after it is sup
posed to have been taken.
The Spokane chamber of commerce
has begun movement to make the
apple blossom Washington's state
flower. Every commercial organiza
ton in the state will be asked to as
sist in the plan to change the state
flower from the rhododendron, which
blooms in less than one-third of the
state.
Four carloads of contractors out
fits have been unloaded at Prosser.
and camps are being put up for the
construction Of the extension Of the
Sunnyside branch of the Northern Pa
cific from Grandview IL miles to the
main line at Gibbon. Work is to be
rushed. as officials hope to have the
line ready for the hauling of fall crops.
Garfield county shade and fruit
trees are infected with every disease
known to trees,f is the assertion Of
Charles c. Andrus. horticultural in
spector. He has found a fungus
growth, which he is unable to name.
and an insect, which he believes be-
longs TO the louise family, that he is
unfamiliar with, never having seen it
before.
The Colville Indian reservation in
eastern Washington will open for set
Element this year, according to dis
patch from Washington. Registration
for land in the reservation will be be-
tween July 5 and July -. The draw
ing will begin in Spokane on July -.
The reservation will be open for set
tiers who drew claims from September
to October Is.
After Grover Myers, fireman EN-
ployed by the n. 4 NJ, Lumber COM
parry at Rochester, had crawled under
a logging engine to repair it, the en-
CINE started up Myers legs were
severed between the ankle and the
knee his risht leg also being broken
above the knee. The engineer also
was under the engine, but escaped in
the nick of time.
Jus; as the bis 1896. o0o-pound draw
span was about to be placed in the
/ Columbia River Interstate bridge al
/ Vancouver. terrific wind and rain
storm broke with such fury that the
barges carrying one end of the span
were blown far past the pier, and for
/ . time conditions were extremely ser
ious. An arm OF big derrick being
used by the Pacific Bridge company
OPPORTUNITY caught the end of the
span and held ii fast
Seventy eight mills Of Washington
aud Oregon were represented al an
informal meeting OF lumhermen. held
/ in Tacoma 70 consider general manu-
/ featuring and marketing conditions.
/ The s;tus;ion, as canvasSed. reveals
+ Increases showing strongly in au the
monthly cost sheets, short stock 81
mills. and selling values anywhere
from 80 cents 70 So under the prices
p,svailirg in April. 1918. which mar
Ike; was considered normal,
The possibilities for sas and oil
finds has aroused the Kennswick re
s5on. The well now being drilled by
Yakima NstGrsl Gas < Oh company
Aas reached s depth Of 500 Zee, with
$ log shov1ns every Indication that
Sss ana OIL exist The log is 2-acti-
cally the same IS that u the well 10
Gated TWO miles fro-n the site o. the
present drilling operation &nd which
al depth Of 20 feet IS producing
( $4,000 cable feet Of l&ru-a1 sas & Gay.
Valu2hle relics Of early day govern
rnant have been added - the state
C&s1ttN. Co-kSSlse- II -Z&4-lS- st-@~ltNN
I graphs ot officers and members ot the
territorial Legislature % 1873 The
house az REPRESENTATIVES 1sme-to was
presented - Governor Lister ny MIS-
Anss.sns Steward. q Vancouver. and
her 6sushge-S Mss Steward and Ms
+ Z. E1wsll q Olympia II hano- q.
MIS- Stewards husband ths lEts Judge
George 4. Steward who w-2s speaker
II the houss-
Washington is now employing II the
auzn N.e-.-ls industry shs greatest lur-
By os rnan Il IFS history. according re
inflammation reserved II shs Industrial
Insurance commission &n5 estimates
based or rhs lur1Se- N accidents ~
no--a6 during M&-gh- During March
--@1 sccl6srgs II ms numbering INDUS
r-y were reported IT Chs commlsslnl-
Tbs Is usa-.,x Iof greater than chs
hssl1eSs Ei-xv5anS REGARD, established
II May. 1913 when ghs humber indus
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