Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-04-28
NEWS FROM ALL OVER The STATE,

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The ]. A. Veness Lumber company,
of Winlock has sold to the Western
Logging company 1000 acres of land
and timber, and the timber on an ad
ditional 800 acres. The sale aggre-
gates 1O0,000.O0O feet of timber. The
purchasers will put in equipment and
begin logging with crew of 80 men.
A decision handed down by Judge
Gillian in the superior court at Seat
tie holds that the state prohibition
law forbidding the sale of malt H.
quor," includes all liquids of malt orr
gin or containing malt extract. If
Judge Gilliam's decision should stand,
sale of all the near-beer drinks would
be stopped.
While large amount of indebted
ness was incurred by the city of Van
couver in past years through ineffici-
ent and extravagant Encouragement
of the city's affairs, the financial con-
dition of Vancouver as a whole is
good, according to the report of the
state bureau of inspection and super.
vision of public offices.
The keel of the largest single-deck
wooden vessel ever built in the United
States was laid at the Grays Harbor
shipyard at Aberdeen. The keel is
slightly over $50 feet long and is the
first of four of equal size which will
be laid at these yards within the next
few months. The vessel may be COM
pleted about January, 1917.
The proposed direct road on the east
side of the Columbia river between
Trinidad and Wenatchee was Endorsed
by the publicity bureau of the Wenat-
chez chamber of commerce and COM
mittee. appointed to urge its construc-
ton. A party will make q recon
which the road would pass and report
at an early date.
Oliver H. Cline, for many years the
cashier of the Pacific Coast company,
has confessed embezzlement of $780,
900 from his employer, according to
Prosecuting Attorney 'Lundin Of Seat
tie. Cline will be tried on a grand
larceny charge, on the allegation that
he took nearly $4,000 from the COM
pany on the day he fled from Seattle,
March T. He was arrested in New Or
leans.
Mrs. Minnie C. Smith, of Mount Yer
non, was elected president of the
session at Spokane. The next annual
convention will be held at Davenport
Other officers elected were: Mrs.
Mary c. Ewing, Pullman, and Mrs.
Jessie Freeze, Davenport, vice presi
dents; Mrs. Emma Chadwick, Olym-
pia, organizer; Mrs. Mary E. Long,
Prosser, recording secretary; Mrs.
Florence Griffen, Blaine, correspond
ing secretary, and Mrs. Jennie M.
Brown, treasurer.
The following were elected to serve
as officers of the Franklin County
Sunday School association in session
at Pasco for the following year: Pres
ident, w. A. Wheeler, Pasco; vice.
president, S. T. Bailie, Connell Sec
retary-treasurer, H. G. Beabout, Pas
co; elementary superintendent, Mrs.
w. A. Campbell, Connell; missions,
Mrs. c. V. Thomas, Council; evange-
lism, Rev. ]. A. Pine, Pasco; temper
ance, Rev. G. C. Weiss, Pasco; home
and visitation, Mrs. o. S. Benjamin,
Pasco. Cornell will entertain the
Franklin county convention next year.
Sixty members of the grand coun-
Gil, Royal Arcanum, in session at
North Yakima elected A. j. Lufsky,
Seattle, grand regent. Other officers:
M. G. Crawford, Spokane, grand vice
regent; J. l.. Beckwith, Victoria,
grand chaplain; George F. Aust, Seat
tie, grand orator; c. A. Palm, Taco
ma, grand guide; DR.. C. z. Grove, Spo-
kane, grand warden; c. B. Carmichael,
Seattle, grand sentry; H. E. Benedict,
Seattle, grand trustee; 7. H. Brown,
grand treasurer and l.. M. Glidden,
grand secretary, both of Seattle, re-
tanned. Bellingham was chosen as the
meeting place for next year.
The state capitol commissions re-
rent sale of $1,5OO,O00 bonds to a syn
licate of Washington bankers for the
purpose of completing the Temple of
Justice and taking up outstanding
warrants was nullified by the supreme
court. The sale was conditioned upon
the validity of an act passed by the
legislature in 1915, authorizing the
state board of equalization to fix a
levy for the payment of interest on
the capitol bonds, the latter being Sc
cured by the state capitol bonds. Pro-
vision was made for repaying the gen.
eral fund for this expenditure from
sale and lease Of the capitol lands. In
it's comment the court observes that
the legislative act guaranteeing pay
ment Of interest bears unmistakable
evidence Of studied effort to circum.
vent the constitution.