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 lnfor.
nation of Our Readers.

A rifle club was organized at Repub-
lie recently with 20 members.
October 10, 90 and 81 will be the
dates for the holding of the Prosser
third annual Corn and Hog Show.
A fly and bait casting club has been
formed at Aberdeen and in the near
future will hold casting tournament.
F. w. Loomis of Aberdeen was elect
ed grand chancellor of the grand lodge
of the knights of Pythias of Washing
ton, in session at Seattle.
The University of Washington is ap-
plying for one of the mining and met
allurgcal experiment stations author
lied last year by congress.
Washington state college won two
matches out of three in the first part
of a tennis tournament with the Uni.
versity of Montana at Missoula.
Heavy frosts have killed the tender
vegetable, fruit and strawberry crop
throughout Garfield county. according
to the reports sent in from many local
tiles.
Fifty carloads of last years Yakima
apples are still unsold and agents are
pushing the fruit rapidly at prices re-
turning growers q little over 70 cents
q box.
George Walker, secretary Of the
Southwest Washington Fair commits.
sion, has just issued the premium lists
for the 1916 fair. which will be held
In August.
Nicholas Lentz, aged IS, son Of q
pioneer and wealthy rancher of Aber-
deem, was instantly killed when tree
fell upon him while at work in camp
at Markham.
A record attendance is expected at
the 1915 session Of the Centralia sum-
mer normal school, which is conducted
as a branch of the Ellensburg normal
and which opens June II.
]. w. Cusick was found guilty of
murder in the second degree in con.
nection with the killing of Harry Kill
burn last August, at the town of Gu.
sick, by jury at Newport.
Several thousand cases of canned
rhubarb have been sold at Tacoma by
Washington association, to the allies
for use by men in the trenches. The
rhubarb will be shipped at once.
Mrs. Winnie L. Angel has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Finley, Benton
county; Andrew E. Anderson at Silver
Creek, Lewis county, and Abraham
Norris at Spiketon, Pierce county.
After three hours consideration, a
jury at North Yakima found w. Y. Lee,
Korean, guilty of murder in the first
degree for Staying his former partner,
C. P. Song, also a Korean, at Songs
ranch in the Cowiche, March 26.
The deposits of the II Lewis county
banks on May 1, according to state
ments just published, totaled $3,124,-
S6S.S4. This is gain of s537,S96.51
over the March deposits. Every bank
in the county showed an increase.
The farmers of Grand Prairie have
organized the Lewis County Peoples
Alliance of Investigation, the purpose
of which is to investigate county at
fairs in general and to work for non.
partisanship in county government.
With the announcement of the in
creases in the wages of all hands en-
ployed in the mills at Camas, the
strike situation is considered closed.
The advances mean the addition Of
several thousand dollars in the month.
ly payroll.
Bids were opened at the treasury
department in Washington for the con-
struction Of the federal building at
Wenatchee The lowest bid was that
of Bird & Hobson of Wenatchee of
$4,000 for limestone and $7s,61s for
sandstone.
Saturday vas swat the rooster day"
in Spokane county. and thousands Of
roosters were killed in compliance
with the poultry associations sugges-
ton that the roosters be killed now
so that infertile eggs can be put on
the market.
James ]. Kelley, whose lunchroom
and drugstore at Seattle, formerly a
saloon. were wrecked by squad Of
police two weeks ago. filed suit in the
superior court against Mayor Gill and
Chief of Police Rockingham, asking
$4,000 damages.
William T. Forrest, who took a
prominent part in republican, politics
during the last territorial and early
statehood days in Washington, was ad
judged insane in superior court at Sc
attic and committed to the state hos
pital at Sedro-W oolley.
Four physicians were charged with
violating the prohibition law by issu-
ing prescriptions for liquor without
just reason to believe it was needed
for medicinal purposes, in informa-
lions filed in superior court at Seattle
by the prosecuting attorney.
The regents of the University Of
Washington have appointed q commit
tee to consider the recommendation Of.
President SuSzallo Of the university
that . state armory be erected ON the
university campus. The university
viii provide the site and defray he