Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-05-26
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor.
nation of Our Readers.

'SA"tNliSC VIII nave an Olu-Llme
Fourth of July celebration.
A Baptist conference on EVANGELISM
will be held in Seattle May % and 27.
Five druggists were convicted at
Seattle of violating the prohibition
law.
The Northwest Auto Racing asso.
citation has scheduled a big meet to
take place at Spokane on July l.
Ethel Crumpacker, the 3-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allie Crum.
packer fell off footbridge over the
Patacho stream at Pomeroy and was
drowned
F. S. Thompson, president Of the
Citizens League of Eastern Lewis
county, has issued n call for good
roads day" to be observed in that sec.
ton May "a.
Arthur e. Mason has been appointed
postmaster at Littell, Lewis county;
Mrs. Eunice r. King at Lincoln Lin
coin county, and Harry F. Mitchell at
Spokane Bridge, Spokane county.
A week Of street carnival and a
three-day celebration win constitute
the fourth annual Grays Harbor splash
to be held at Aberdeen this year under
the auspices Of the Aberdeen Moose
Whitman county stock growers sign.
ed contract with Spokane packing
concern to deliver four carloads of fat
stock at nine cents on the hoof This
is said to be record price in the
northwest.
A jury at Tacoma returned verdict
of guilty in the case of Joseph McCas.
key, mayor of Wilkeson, 30 miles from
Tacoma, charged with a violation OF
the dry law in selling liquor in his
drug store.
Ten tons of skins of the Beluga or
white whale, received from Boring
Sea, are being shipped from Seattle to
eastern shoe factories to be made into
the white shoes now so popular among
young WOIueu.
Swinging firemen's axes with telling
effect on furnishings and parapherna-
liza, Detective Guy Carleton and
squad of policemen wrecked the inter-
ior of 10 alleged Chinese gambling
houses at Seattle.
The republican and progressive dele
gates to the national conventions in
Chicago next month will go east to-
gether on special cars, arrangements
having been made by representative
of the two delegations.
Ellensburg high school won the
annual Kittitas county track meet at
Ellensburg from Gle Elum by score
of AZ to 40. Thorp took third place
with 16 points, Roslyn fourth with 19
and Kittitas fifth with 6.
At meeting of the Prosser CONNER
cial club President Lawrence appoint
ed a committee of five to investigate
concerning the ACCESSIBILITY of voting
$15,OO0,O0O of bonds by the Horse
Heaven irrigation district on June g.
Wednesday was cleanup" day in
Davenport, and was observed by all
business houses closing, merchants,
mechanics and professional men all
putting in a full day making Daven-
port the cleanest city in the Big Bend
country.
Chairman Floyd L.. Daggett and
Commissioner Ernst of the industrial
insurance commission have served
written notice on Governor Lister that
they would be ready to turn their po-
sitions over to the new commissioners
on June 1.
A jury at Vancouver returned YER
dict of second degree murder in the
superior court against Charles A. Mey-
er. Meyer was charged with shooting
and killing his uncle, John Kramer,
on December rs. 1915, at a Christmas
beer party
One of the greatest crowds that ever
gathered in Ellensburg for the old set
tiers reunion, numbering more than
5000, was fed at free barbecue on
the courthouse lawn, where more than
a ton Of beef and pork was barbecued
in huge trench.
From 25 to so per cent of the straw
berry crop in the Spokane valley was
hard hit by frost, it was claimed by Of
ficials of the Spokane Fruit Growers
association. Cherries were also badly
damaged and there will also be some
loss in the apple crop.
The Washington Shipping Corpora
ton, which has two wooden ships on
the ways at the Puget Sound Bridga
e Dredging company's shipyard, a.
Seattle, have authorized the construc-
ton of two more vessels similar to
those building. They will be 2500ton
schooners, equipped with auxliar.
power, and will be designed to CO.
100000 feet of lumber
Damage done to the clam and cral
beds of the state during the raco,
cold winter is believed by Slate FIJI
Commissioner Leslie Darwin TO b
greater than at first reported Con-
missioner Darwin returned ,.ow jre
state oyster reserve at Oakland IT,
and said workmeu on the reserve re
ported that almost 81 Of the clam
on the reserve had been killed by the
cold
The secretarv Of war has favoranlv