Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-04-21
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor.
nation of Our Readers.

The death of Mrs. Mary Roelle Har.
vey, a pioneer of Stevens county, oc.
Cured at Colville.
A quicksilver mine located just
cast of Morton has been sold to east
ern capitalists for 100000.
A school industrial exhibit was held
in connection with the Whitman coun-
ty teachers institute at Colfax.
The Oregon Packing company,
which has leased the cannery in Van
couver built by the Fruitgrowers' I'm
ion, is to start active operations about
May 20.
Negotiations for the purchase of the
two big canneries of the Puyallup and
Sumner Fruitgrowers' association are
being promulgated by Libby. Mcneil
& Libby of Chicago.
The ferry Governor West is now in
operation between Biggs and Maryhill,
establishing vehicular transportation
between central Oregon and central
and eastern Washington.
Fred E. Fape of Seattle was chosen
state fire warden at meeting of the
state forest commission, succeeding
E. w. Ferris, who resigned to become
postmaster at Mt. Vernon.
c. C. McKenna, of Colfax, discharg-
ed as deputy state grain inspector on
February %, began suit at Tacoma
for $4,000 damages against R. D. Jar
Doe, state grain inspector.
The Wenatchee- Oroville branch was
reopened to traffic Tuesday, almost
two weeks after the big rock slide
near Chelan covered the track with
thousands of tons of debris.
With about so delegates in attend
ance,. the annual Northwest Typo
graphical conference, embracing all
crafts connected with the printing
trade, was held in Walla Walla.
The Wenatchee presbytery of the
Presbyterian church held their annu-
al meeting at Wilson Creek. The or
ganization embraces rs churches in
Grant, Douglas, Chelan and Okanogan
counties.
At meeting held in White Salmon
the directors of the Underwood union
and the White Salmon union voted to
consolidate and to take the name of
the White Salmon Valley Growers
association.
Miss Lea Petersen, of Trondhjen,
Norway, student at the University
of Washington, was drowned when a
canoe in which she and three college
mates were riding upset during a
squall on Lake Washington.
The publicity bureau of the Wenat-
chez commercial club has taken pre-
liminary steps for the annual upriver
junket and social tour through Doug
las and Okanogan counties the first
part of June by automobile.
The date of the annual campus-day
picnic at Whitman college has been
set for May 9. During the morning
students and faculty will unite to
clean up the campus, while the after
noon will be given over to amuse-
ments.
The Snohomish Logging company,
with headquarters at Seattle, purchas-
ed 250,000,000 feet of standing timber
in King and Snohomish counties from
the Puget Mill company for $750,000.
The mill company retains ownership
of the land.
Charles l.. Rockingham, former
county commissioner, of Seattle, and
until two months ago teller in the city
treasurers office, was named to sue
coed Louis NJ. Lang as chief of police
by Mayor Gill. Lang's resignation
was sought by Gill.
After being out 23 hours, the jury
in the case of Arthur ("Monk") Young,
charged with uttering forgery in
connection with the looting of the
state industrial insurance funds of
| nearly $4,000, returned verdict of
not guilty at Tacoma.
Seattle will be the mecca for all
good bowlers of the northwest the
week of April 24-30, when the Seattle
tournament association of the North
west International Bowling associa-
ton stages the third annual champion
ship meet of the organization.
A mile of crushed rock permanent
highway will be constructed through
the town of La Center, connecting
with the Pacific highway improvement
made with the state appropriation last
summer, between Woodland and La
Center, with the town of La Center.
The Spokane district of the Free
Methodist church is to have two trav-
cling elders instead of one as a result
of the division Of the district by vote
of the Columbia river conference in
annual session at Chewelah, into two
sections to be known as the North
Spokane and the South Spokane.
Two more huge lumber inquiries
from the federal government, which
make an aggregate of over 25,000,000
feet, specified at an early date, were
received by Tacoma lumber manufac-
turers. The order includes 100000
feet for Panama and 100000 cross
ties, amounting to nearly 100000