Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-04-28
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor-
nation of Our Readers.

The Whitman county w. c. T. U.
convention will be held at Endicott
April 20 and 20.
The first tree census of the Spokane
district in five years will be under
/ taken this season by the Spokane
Fruit Growers company.
More than 100000 bushels of wheat
or one-third of the total crop having
Mansfield as it's natural shipping
point still is in the hands of the grow
ers.
Forty-three steamers, with a net ton.
mage Of 136,646 tons, cleared from
Puget Sound during January, Febru-
airy and March for ports in the far
east.
The senate has passed bill author
izing the construction of two fish
hatcheries on thu Columbia river in
Oregon and Washington, to cost not
exceeding 100000.
More than 100 representative insur-
ance men met in Seattle and organ
lied the Washington Insurance fedora
ton to bring together the buyers and
| sellers OF insurance
The body of man with both arms
and both legs almost severed from the
body and mangled almost beyond rec
ignition was found on the Great North
ern tracks at Chiwaukum.
A 119-mile motorcycle road race, the
course for which extends from Aber-
deem to Centralia and return, is being
planned for the Grays Harbor Motor
cycle club for Decoration Day.
The Great Northern railroad has UNI.
dertaken to quadruple the size of its
warehouse facilities at its Smith Cove
water terminals at Seattle The pres
ent warehouse is 800 feet long.
The Aberdeen city council has
awarded the Vance Lumber company.
Of Malone, an order for 100000 feet
of pipe slaves for use on the Wish
kah water project, at q price of $23
I. o. b. Malone.
With his face horribly battered and
bullet hole through his head, Ira
Thomas, Wenatchee attorney, was
found lying unconscious on a side
street of Leavenworth. A revolver
with an empty shell was lying near
his side.
The so-called cooperative areas in
which the state and federal govern
ment cooperate in fighting forest fires
and maintaining patrol force, will be
considerably enlarged this year, &C.
cording to an agreement for 1916
which has just been drawn up.
Continued wet weather during the
greater part Of the past week has fur.
Their delayed reseeding operations in
Walla Walla localities where the fall
sown grain was winter killed, and the
farmers are beginning to become some
what discouraged as result
President Henry Suzzallo, of the
University of Washington, was elected
president of the Inland Empire Teach
ers' association at the annual conven-
ton at Spokane. j. A. Burke, of Spo-
kane, was reelected secretary, and ].
E. Buchanan, of the Cheney state nor
NAL, treasurer.
A parasite that may seriously en-
danger the fresh water trout in Wash
ington, and that in one year killed 49,
600 of $4,000 fish in a Wisconsin
hatchery, has been noticed on Wash
ington species by DR.. Nathan Fasten,
instructor in zoology at the Universe
ty Of Wisconsin.
If a friend sends for liquor under
a permit and has it shipped to you in
trust for him, and you are caught with
this liquor and some of your own, you
are guilty of having an oversupply in
your possession, according to the de-
cision rendered by Police Judge Glen
Snider at Aberdeen.
County Game Warden J. NJ Hoff and
Deputy State Game Warden J. P. Bur
cham, of Kelso are installing a fish
trap at the dam across the Washougal
river at Washougal to catch steelhead
salmon so that the eggs may be taken
for Matching at the Clarke county fish
hatchery en- Cold creek
The public ser ice commission finds
that the rate of 81 an acre for water
for irrigating purposes charged by the
Consumers Ditch com pany. successor
to the Hanfofd irrigation project, Is
unjust and unrea sonable. and the rate
an acre for the minimum. or so inches
Of water, is fixed at 81 S.
William Virges cf Tacoma formerlv
brewery proprietor, has filed witt
the secretary CT state al initiative bill,
for submission. to the oters for thei-
ratification unuer which b~ewerics
would be permitted to make and sell
beer to individuals in homes. Saloons
would not be permitted under the bill
Skamania county has awarded to
Porter Brothers a contract to clear
and grade the north bank highway be.
tween the Clarke county line and Cas-
codoc Y,,i1oc Tho ocr+roof prioo