Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-06-16

The Yakima Improvement club an
nounces that the required amount has
been pledged to take advantage of the
offer of j. o. Elrod of Portland to fur
nish site and loan $4,000 to build a
public market at North Yakima. Ac-
tual construction will begin within 80
days.
The Outlook, Snipes Mountain and
Benton extension districts of the Sun
nyside reclamation project have given
notice of their intention to take over
the operation of their own systems,
instead of having reclamation officers
do it. This plan has been under con-
sideration for several years by the
Sunnyside and Teton trustees, but
neither of the older districts has at.
tempted it.
All bids on, the construction of Aber-
deems new water system, except those
of the Oregon Construction company,
of Portland, and the Harrington-Pe-
tiers company, of Seattle, were reject
ed These two firms were the lowest
bidders and the contract either will
be let to one of these firms or the city
will take action to have the work done
by day labor under the supervision of
the city engineer.
In connection with the opening Of
the south half of the Colville Indian
reservation in eastern Washington to
settlement, the $500 Indians on the
reservation have planned to hold a
two weeks celebration, beginning July
1, on the government townsite at the
junction Of the Okanogan and Column
bia rivers. Here the first white settle
ment in the state Of Washington was
made, 105 years ago. A stone monu-
ment and flagpole mark the spot.
Registration books, under the new
law which provides for registration Of
rural as we'll as city voters every four
years, can not be carried from house
to house in country precincts for pur.
poses Of registration, according to a
formal ruling given to Prosecuting At
torney R. M. Burgunder of Whitman
county by L. L. Thompson, assistant
attorney general. The statute is man.
datory requiring that voters appear in
person at the residence of the regis
tration officer appointed by the coun-
ty commissioners for registration.
At mass meeting at Tacoma of
Washington and Oregon lumbermen,
curtailment of manufacturing opera
tions was generally favored, and while
no organized curtailment will be un-
dertaken, it was announced a majority
of the mills represented will restrict
output anywhere from one day week
to two weeks during the months of
June and July, exclusive Of the usual
week or 10 days shut down at July 4.
About 80 mills announced their inten-
ton Of curtailing Five mills which
have contracts for the delivery of
spruce for European aeroplanes will
not curtail.
Two large buildings for the use Of
the University Of Washington are un.
der construction ON the university
campus and will be completed in the
approaching autumn. The home econ
omics buildings, which will cost $780,
600, will be ready in September to
house the home economics and Ger
man departments of the university and
the college of education. In the same
quadrangle the political science build
| ing is under construction, at a cost of
100000, and when completed will
shelter the departments of political
and social science, the department of
journalism and the school of law.
Formal notice has been given by the
state that it intends to insist upon the
validity Of it's title to sections 16 and
| SO, school sections, in every township
in the south half of the Colville Indian
reservation that will be thrown open
to entry on July ~. Owing to the fact
that it is not known how many school
sections have been awarded to Indians
it is impossible for the state to tell
how many acres are involved. The
state school land grant includes sec.
lions 16 and SO in all Indian reserva-
lions when such reservations are elm
mated. Inasmuch as the reservation
is now being extinguished the school
lands automatically revert to the state
and the state intends to assert its title
to the lands and to go into the courts
to protect the school lands involved if
it becomes necessary to do so.
Preliminary to a report to be filed
later that will cover the entire four
years of industrial insurance operation
| in Washington as it relates to each
employer, c. w. Clausen, state auditor
and chief inspector of the bureau OF
| inspection, has issued an advisory
statement to the new commissioners,
who took office June 1. This state
ment outlines results since the bureau
| began its present examination Of the
| industrial insurance department early
in January as result of the Gillies
and Stone fraud disclosures, and pre-
sents the more important conclusions
reached by the bureau examiners. The
statement says that the extent of &C.
oountipO orrorc discovered hae vnodo