Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-06-30

employers of the state to give each
man responding to the call for troops
assurance that his place would be
open to him on return from service in
the prospective trouble in Mexico.
Tacomas first soldier victim was
Walter E. Paul, aged 81. who enlisted
under the name of Walter E. Powell in
the regular army at the Tacoma re-
cruiting station two weeks ago and
was sent direct to the border. He was
shot and killed by half breed Mexi-
can night Waterman at Naco, Arizona.
Great Northern railroad tracks and
q distance of 400 feet two miles north
of Richmond Beach by slide Of earth
that shot down the prccipitous bluff
on the east side of the track. The
slide had such force that it carried
the rails and wires 300 feet into Puget
sound
Charles Sans, aged SO, farmer liv-
ing on the shore of the Columbia river
near Walla Walla, was slain while
asleep. With him at the time was
his wife. She told the officers that
she was awakened by the sound of
shot and upon lighting a lamp was
Mortified to find that her husband had
been killed.
The Daughters of the American Rev.
olution of North Yakima will unveil
on the morning of July 4 lotion
monument of native basaltic rock,
erected on the site of the final stand
of the Klickitats and Yakimas under
Chief Kamiahkin, when defeated by
the regulars under Major 3aines No
vember 8, 1855, at Union gap
Bird & Hobson, the firm awarded
the contract for the construction of
the new Wenatchee postoffice build
ing, has thrown up the contract and
forfeited its check of guarantee. The
next lowest bidder was Harding F.
Allen of Seattle. and, according to the
custom of the postoffice department,
the contract will be awarded to him.
The county commissioners of Ska
mania county are facing recall move
nent. Petitions are being circulated
through the county in behalf of re-
charged with dishonesty and extrava-
gance in connection with the expendi-
ture of the $4,000 bond issue for the
construction of a main trunk highway
through the county.
Three shipments of whisky and beer
valued at $500 were seized by police
men at the freight stations of the
Oregon Washington Railroad & Navi-
cation company and the Chicago, Mil
waukee &, St. Paul railway at Seattle.
AS soon as the confiscated liquor,
which was consigned to drug stores,
was hauled to the public safety build
ing, it was dumped into the sewer.
Prosecuting Attorney Lundin Of
King county has instructed County
Auditor Phelps to limit liquor permits
to not more than 2OS gallons OF alco-
hol, 104 gallons of whisky and So gal
Ions Of any other liquor for each drug
store during six months. The four
largest prescription druggists of Seat
tie agreed that the amount fixed was
sufficient for any legitimate purpose.
Upon the recommendation Of Secre-
tary Lane, the president has signed an
executive order changing the bound
airy lines between the Seattle, Vancou-
yer and North Yakima land districts
in Washington. Many years ago con-
gress established the crest of the Cas-
cade mountains as the natural lines
Of demarcation between these land
districts at time when there were
no established lines of public surveys.
BY recent surveys, however, it was
found that the crest of the Cascade
mountains placed the lands of some
entrymen in two land districts and the
boundary lines were changed to follow
the lines Of the public surveys. so that
land covered by one entry would be
included in but one land district.
The June apportionment of the state
school funds, amounting to $239,511.24,
has been made public by Mrs. jose
phine Corliss Preston, state superin.
tendent Of public instruction. The ap-
portionment, based on the school at
tendance of 1914-15, is divided among
the counties Of the state as follows:
Adams, $4,000; Asotin. $3.50; Benton,
$1,962; Chelan, $3,777; Clallam, ST.
852; Clarke, $6.052; Columbia, $1,5S6;
Cowlitz, 5000; Douglas. $2,246; Fer
ry, 1928; Franklin. $1,17O; Garfield,
$1.058; Grant, $2,O55; Grays Harbor,
$6,7s6; Island. $1,1S2; jefferson, ST.
Sol; King, $52.799; Kitsap, 1850;
Kittitas, 1882; Klickitat. $2,114;
Lewis. $8,676; Lincoln. $4,000; Mason,
Sligo; Okanogan, $4,000; Pacific, &c.
1923; Pend Oreille, $1,O36; Pierce, $685.
9OS; San Juan, s745; Skagit, $6.520;
Skamania, S602; Snohomish, $13,211;
Spokane, s27,495; Stevens, $4,413;
Thurston, $4,305; Wahkiakum, $6O5;
Walla Walla, $6,0S6 Whatcom, s1O,-
500; Whitman, 1882; Yakima, $40,