Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-04-21
Mayor Gill and Chief of Police Beck.

charge OF 1000 cases of c0nftscated
beer, took it out into Elliott bay and
dumped it overheard from police pa.
trolboats. The beer was seized by
the police as it was being loaded from
scows onto an abandoned pier.
To be used ultimately as the chief
ingredients in hot "mulligans" for the
British soldiers in northeastern
France, between 5000 and 5000 tons OF
California and Oregon onions have be.
gun to move from Seattle under con.
tracts recently placed by the Ladner
Vegetable cannery of Ladner, B. C.
A call for the farmers of the Inland
empire to meet in Spokane Saturday,
April 20, to discuss the high prices OF
grain sacks, and whether the sack sit.
uation justifies general turning to
the bulk handling of wheat and other
grain, was issued by the agricultural
committee of the Spokane chamber of
commerce.
United States customs reports show
that imports and exports during
March increased $50 per cent over a
year ago in the Puget Sound district.
Imports were $12,197.42O last month.
Exports we're $14,S92,613. Seventy
five per cent of the trade was with the
allied countries in the European war,
including Japan.
A wheat tank manufacturing con.
Germ will open a plant at Aberdeen
within the next few weeks. The cen
Germ will be the only one Of its kind
in the United States. The tanks are
to be made of wood and will replace
sacks as the receptacles for wheat in
the fields. They will be built with a
capacity for 1000 bushels.
D. w. Porter, farmer living in the
mountains in the neighborhood of Ar
zina, settlement 20 miles west of
Colville, was arraigned before United
States Commissioner Katherine S. Ide,
charged with illicit manufacture of al
coholic liquor. He waived examina-
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answer to the next federal grand jury.
Whether the jute mill at the Wash
ington state penitentiary or the state
rock quarry at Dixie must be operated
with short crew is one of the ques-
tons to be decided by the state board
of control at it's next meeting. War
| don uorrv nruv, of tho prico,, hos - =,
nounced that there are not enough
men to operate both enterprises at
full capacity.
Wounded in knife battle between
crews of Bulgarian and Italian work
men on the Great Northern railway
near Snohomish, three men are in hos
pitfalls and hundred more are nurs-
ing bruises received in a free-for-all
fight The trouble arose over a drink
of water Discussion of the war had
brought relations between the men
to a point near breaking.
Plans for extensive harbor improve.
ments, which will be submitted to the
voters, are being formulated by the
Port commission of Kennewick fol-
lowing the discovery that the opening
of the river has greatly increased the
amount of river traffic. The plans
call for additional units to the $1,000
dock, large warehouse and better
facilities for handling freight
c. P. Dole, purchasing agent of the
Alaska Engineering commission, says
that more than 100000 will be ex.
pended by the commission in the Pa
cific northwest within a few weeks.
The material called for include rails
and angle iron, s6OO,OOO; groceries and
supplies, 100000; bridge lumber,
$15O,000; marine supplies, 100000;
flatcars and other rolling stock, $780,
0OO
Governor Ernest Lister has offered
a reward of five hundred dollars for
ion of the assailant or assailants" of
Miss Kate Swift and her aged sister,
Mrs. Corinne Wheeler, who were
beaten to death with an axe and a
hammer at their home in Seattle the
night of April 5. The murderers are
believed to have stolen two thousand
dollars from the women.
Since the prohibition law closed
the saloons the demand on merchants
for the cashing of pay checks on Sat-
urday nights has become so great
that the members of the Business
Mems association at North Yakima
have asked the Yakima Clearing
House to make arrangements to keep
one East Side bank open Saturday
evenings. One West Side bank is now
open Saturday to 8 o'clock.
Active campaigning for recruits for
the military instruction camp to be
held at American Lake August IA to
September 8, will begin in Seattle in
few days with an elaborate speak
ing campaign, the dissemination of
thorough information concerning the
objects of the camp and consistent
effort to induce employers to cooper
ate with the organization committee
in arranging vacation periods for their
men in such a way that all may par.
ticipate.
The first match shoot of the Grays