Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-02-18
NEWS FROM ALL OVER The STATE

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and submitted them to the chamber
of commerce at Pasco. II the prelim-
mary steps now being taken are car
ried out total of about 100000 will
be spent to reclaim 10000 acres.
Corn raised by the Stubblefield
home at Walla, Walla and exhibited
in the First National Corn Show at ST.
Paul, is the most valuable ever grown
[ according to experts, being worth $50
| an ear and so valuable that 1t was
| placed in the vaults of the First Ma
tional bank of st. Paul for safekeep-
| ing.
Postponement of the trial of the suit
of the county board of health to en-
oin the city of North Yakima from
| humping its sewage into the Yakima
| river has been agreed to pending a
conference with representative of
the state board of health, which orig
| nally ordered the suit in the fall of
| 1918.
Following close upon the returns
made by the Wenatchee Valley Fruit
| Growers association, the Wenatchee
| Central of the North Pacific Fruit
| Distributors has announced final set
Elements of seven varieties. More
| than 1875 cars are included in these
settlements, the majority Of which are
| .Jonathans.
The Southwest Washington Fair as
ISOLATION officers for 1916 have been
elected as follows: F. B. Hubbard, of
Centralia, president; T. J. Long, of
Chehalis. chairman Of the board of di-
rectors; G. r. Walker, of Chehalis.
secretary; George H. Miller, of Cen
tralia. treasurer; J. T. Bivin, of Lewis,
commissioner.
Deputy Sheriff Giles Quimby of
Aberdeen has begun suit against the
state to recover reward of $1,000
of John Tornow, the outlaw, whom
Quimby killed and for which he re-
ceived a reward of several thousand
dollars from Grays Harbor county.
The state has refused to acknowledge
his claim.
Blood tests will be made on all the
inmates of the state penitentiary at
Walla Walla and on each new man
as he arrives. The blood samples will
be sent to the laboratory of DR.. P.
Woerner, bacteriologist with the state
public service commission at Olympia,
who will determine whether any blood
diseases are prevalent and how they
may be treated.
The state fire warden's office has
received notification that the Spo-
kane, Portland & Seattle railway COM
pany will pay the crew sent by -the
state to- fight forest fire last August
near Hood in Skamania county. The
railway company also used its section
crews in fighting the fire, for which
the state department had held the
company responsible.
Bids will be opened March 4 by Ska.
mania county for grading and clearing
10 miles of highway between Cooks
and Underwood. This is the second
section of the highway being built
through the county with the bond is.
sue of $4,000 voted last fall The
contract for the first section between
Collins and Stevenson was let few
months ago for approximately $4,000.
There will be no Hotel de Gink"
in Tacoma-at least not in the Emer-
son school building. This was def. |
nitely decided when the school board
reversed itself and declined to permit
Rev. Delmer H. Trimble of the First |
Methodist church, formerly of Port.
land, and "Three-fingered Jack" God
win, the evangelist, to use the school
building as a home for unemployed
men,
Lincoln county health officers
quickly dispatched five hogs which
had been bitten by a mad dog, and
burned the barn in which the swine
had been confined since they were
bitten few days before at Davenport.
The owners of the property called the
on\the case and readily con-
scented to the destruction of his prop
erty as a safeguard against an cpl
demic of rabies. The dog had already
been shot and its body burned.
Representing the Direct Legislative
League. State Federation of Labor,
Grange and Farmers Union, Lucy R.
Case filed four initiative bills with
the secretary of state. One provides
for non-partisan state primaries and
elections, preferential voting for con-
gressional candidates and presidential
primaries. Another places rate regu-
lation of public utilities under munich
palities, the third provides first aid |
for injured workmen at the employ
er's expense and the fourth is a new
fish code. 1t abolishes fish traps on !
Puget sound, bases the license charges
on fish caught instead of on gear, and |
places a $50 fee on Columbia river
boats buying fish.