Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-03
NEWS FROM ALL OVER The STATE

and cases of raw and manufactul e..
silk goods. having a valuation of ap
proximateiy $5.000.000.
Construction Of what is eventually
intended to be drydock capable OF
accommodating the largest vessel
afloat is to be started at Tacoma as
soon as Stag breakwater is complet
Cd by the Tacoma Smelling company
off Point Defiance park.
Tatsuo Takano, a Seattle Japanese
proprietor Of drugstore and recently
convicted of manslaughter for selling
wood alcohol labeled as grain alcohol
to Tom Shannon, who drank the fluid
and died, was sentenced to two to 70
years in the state penitentiary.
The Seattle chamber Of commerce
has filed with the interstate commits
sion brief to support the permanent
suspension of proposed increases in
railroad rates on bridge, wharf, struc-
tural iron and steel from Pacific coast
terminals to the Inland Empire.
Edward G. Emigh, of Walla Walla,
has resigned as secretary Of the state
board of control, effective March /.
His resignation was accepted by the
board and o. A. Torgerson, of Cheha-
lis, who has served as auditor, was
appointed as Mr.. Emighs successor.
John Pierce Moler, assistant man.
ager of the Ford Motor company's
branch at Vancouver, B. c., came to
Seattle from Vancouver to spend Sun
day with his uncle. but when he sought
to reenter British Columbia the immi-
grafton authorities refused him admis-
sion.
Just as a mudslide near Samish, Oh
the Great Northern Coast line be-
tween Everett and Bellingham, which
had blocked traffic two days, was be-
ing cleared away, a second slide COW
cred the track. Three thousand yards
of mud were removed before the line
could be opened.
The Yakima county game commits
sion has arranged for importation of
rs additional elk from Yellowstone
Park this spring. They will be re-
leased in the mountains in the north
ern and western part of the county,
where number of bands now range
as result of planting several years
ago.
Convicted of failure to support "Mrs.
Margaret Gaffney," under the lazy
husband act. and sentenced to a term
in the stockade, Robert A. Gaffney,'
A years old, admitted to the police at
Seattle and to representatives Of the
attorneys office that che"
Is woman and has been masquerad-
Ing as a man for 20 years.
That apples picked at the proper
stage of maturity. promptly cooled and
packed can be kept until Feb
ruary or March In as good condition
by common storage as by cold storage
Is the general conclusion reached as
the result of experiments conducted
1t North Yakima this winter by repre-
of the federal department
If agriculture.
Division Engineer Koren, Of the
Northern Pacific railway office at Spo-
Kane, while surveying flood damage
Along the railway line near Ethiopia,
lad to doff his clothes and swim an
cy stream when a submerged bridge
vas encountered. He carried q tow
inc and drew across gasoline speed
Or with which he had brought q squad
If men from Pasco.
Members of the Mining Mems club
If Spokane have appointed q commit
zee to prepare protest to congress
against the provision Of the Ferris bill
which permits miners and prospectors
20 develop free only rs horsepower.
They also protested against the action
If the house committee in congress
which has refused to consider the SEN
ate bill revising the federal mining
avs.
In response to requests from Is rail
road and steamship companies. includ-
ing the Great Northern. the Oregon
Railroad & Navigation
and the Northern Pacific,
charity officials Of Yakima county
hereafter will make exhaustive in
quiry into the cases Of persons apply
Ing for half rate transportation to 9TH
err points on the ground that they are
INDECENT
Officers OF the law have the right
to raid private homes in search Of in
toxicating liquor. but cannot confis-
cate liquor held in excess Of the
amount permitted by the prohibition
law unless there is evidence that. the
liquor was kept for the purpose of
sale. This -.terpretation of the new
prohibition law was made by Superior
Judge j. T. Ronald at Seattle. who
also held that the owners of intoxi-
cants in excess of two quarts of spir-
ituous or IL quarts of malt liquors
could be prosecuted for having an un-
lawful amount of liquor in their pos
session. although the goods could not
be seized.