Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Er'ef|y Sketched for Infor.
nation of Our Readers.

| river was TcSuIleu MARCH q.
Fire in the Lumber Exchange build
ing at Seattle, caused loss of $1O8, 900.
Counterfeiters have floated in Ia
coma in the last few days large num-
Der of S. silver certificates.
For the first time in 16 days O..W
r. & N. trains have resumed between
Starbuck and Bolles Junction.
The Ritzville council adopted res
clution to gravel the principal streets
at an estimated cost of $4,000.
The interest rates on deposits in
Spokane banks will be reduced from
to per cent, effective July I.
Construction of the interstate bridge
at Vancouver, halted several weeks
ago by bad weather, has been resumed.
The deep snow and cold killed most
of the jackrabbits in the eastern and
northern part of Walla Walla county.
Wednesday, April 5, is the date set
far big convention in Okanogan of
better roads boosters from all over the
county.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union of Washington will hold its an
nual state convention at Bellingham
about October l.
An effort is being made by num-
Der of citizens to have all card play
ing in billiard and poolrooms in We
natchee prohibited.
Whatcom high school claims the in
terscholastic basketball championship
of Washington, following its defeat of
Walla Walla high school,
For horticultural inspection Yakima
county will be divided into four dis
tricts this year, according to F. E.
| DeSellem, state inspector.
Permission has been obtained from
state authorities to establish a nine
! hole golf course on the state fair
grounds at North Yakima.
Bids for the construction of high
school, for which bonds amounting to
| $4,000 were voted a few weeks ago,
will be opened February 20.
Irrigation men of Okanogan have ar
ranged for an irrigation conference to
be held in Okanogan on April 6, the
day after the good roads meeting.
Rev. Isaac Crook, former president
of the Ohio university at Athens, O.,
and of the University of the Pacific
at San Jose. Cal, died at Spokane.
Engineer R. w. Rigsby of Pomeroy
handed in a report to the county COM
missioners estimating the damage
done by the flood waters at $19,765.
Driven to desperation by hunger ow-
ing to the heavy SHOWS, coyotes are
banding and coming in close to Mans
| field at nights in their search for food.
More cars of wheat have moved east
from the Mansfield branch this year
than ever before In the past week 48
| cars have been billed to eastern points.
Four steamships of the Dollar line
planned, will be constructed at the
new ship yard of the Skinner-Eddy
corporation at Seattle.
BY agreeing upon payment of $1O2,-
900 the city council has acquired pos
session of the Olympia water system,
| for which bond issue of $4,000 was
voted on in December.
Orion o. Penney, who was the first
white boy born in Seattle, died at his
home there after a long illness, aged
63 years He was son of Arthur A.
| Denney, founder of Seattle.
R. B. Miller of Startup, and Mrs. R.
A. Small, of Everett, were reelected
president and treasurer, respectively,
of the Western Washington Horticul-
tural association, at Olympia.
Half dozen Austrians attacked a
munitions train of the Great Northern
railway in the Tacoma freight yards
and after a fight with trainmen two
of the Austrians were captured
With a view to effectlng a perma-
nent organization, dairymen from sew
| eli NORTHWESTERN Stdtco SdtueIcu az
| Spokane in connection with the open
! ing of the first northwest dairy show
George Yakici, Montenegrin, ran
amuck in crowd discussing war bull
letins at Union street corner in Sc
attic and stabbed six persons, one
probably fatally, before he was over
| pOUGrp6 nv q DOlicpmaO
Arrangements are being made by
the Northwestern Federation of Amer
lean Indians in their third annual pow
WOW at Tacoma, to send a representa-
tive to Washington, d. c., to press
their claims in behalf of old Indians.
Prohibition, since it is enforced in
the states of Oregon and Washington,
} has done much toward improving con-
| ditions among enlisted men at Van
couver Barracks, according to army
! officers having charge of the handling
! of men there.
Arrangements have been concluded
between the Apple Growers associa-
ton of Hood River, Oregon, and the
management of the sales agencies of
| Underwood and White Salmon, where
! by the Hood River association will
handle, as in last year. the sale and
distribution of the strawberry crop
for the two Washington districts