Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-03-24
sentence OF Schumann two to five
years in the reformstory ct Monroe
instead Of in the penitontiary.

lishment Of q fruit and vegetable dry
ing establishment there. John Bogart
of Woodland, is also looking over the
field, with an idea of establishing q
cheese factory.
Planning to extend their present
logging railroad further into their
timber tract about twenty miles ur
the north fork of the Lewis river
Ridgefield is transporting necessary
equipment and material to their camp
along the river.
Governor Lister has appointed
James Allen state highway commits
sioner to succeed w. R. Roy, resigned
Allen at once appointed George F. Cot
terill, ex-mayor of Seattle, chief en-
gineer for the state highway depart
ment, the position Allen left to become
highway commissioner.
Bankers of Washington will foster
and promote excursions from all parts
Of the state to the Washington State
college at Pullman for q two-day ses
sion some time in September, l:
the recommendations of the agricul-
tural vocational education committee
of the association are adopted.
Secretary Frank Meredith has pre-
pared the program Of horse races for
the forthcoming Washington state
fair which will be held at North Yak,
ina September IS to %. There will
be but five days devoted to horse :.c-
ing this year, as automobile races v Ill
be held Monday, the first day OF the
fair.
Six white men and II Chinese and
one Japanese are under arrest in and
near Seattle, accused of being the
principals in an organized gang of
smugglers charged with bringing into
the United States opium valued at ST.
100000 and enough Chinese laborers
to net the gang $2S0,000 in four years
work.
Identified by an old photograph
found in the rogues' gallery at police
headquarters, James Mariana, a clerk
in stall at the Pike Place Market at
Seattle, was arrested and is held in
the city Jail as the man who murdered
another foreigner in San Francisco in
April, 1905, and dismembered and bur
led his victims body.
The Blewett Pass road will be con-
structed this spring by Chelan
county, in accordance with the agree
ment with Kittitas county, which built
four miles of new road on the west
slope last fall. The county commits
sioners have appropriated $4,000 from
the road and bridge fund subject to
any emergencies that might arise from
floods.
Railroads operating in the state of
Washington, in statements made to
the interstate commerce commission,
deny that the car shortage on the Pa
cific coast Is caused by the shipment
Of munitions of war. This informa-
ton was brought out as the results of
q complaint filed by Senator Jones.
The congested condition was caused
by the stoppage of traffic through the
Cascades.
Prospectors who have located dc.
posits of anthony, copper or tung-
stem and who are grubbing away in
an endeavor to erect mills and es-
tablish perfect mining methods before
marketing their product are making
sad mistake, in the opinion of Dean
Minor Roberts, of the college of
mines. He advises them to get what
they can to market at once, while
prices are particularly advantageous.
A movement to boost live stock
raising in the Inland empire is to fol-
low a conference between Professor
William Hislop and Professor A. B.
Nystrom, of the state college at Pull
man, and Professor Brannon, Dean
Iddings and Professor Ellington of the
| University of Idaho. 1t is planned to
have started through the extern
: sion department of each school
movement to assist farmers who are
already breeding live stock and to en-
deavor to get many others interested
IN the industry.
Community fairs will be held at Gal
win, Dryad, Doty, Glenoma, PeEll, Ad-
, win, Dryad. Doty, Glenoma, Pc Ell, AID
Napavine, Kopiah, District No. s, To
ledo, Mossyrock, Alpha and Morton
I the coming season as a result Of the
visit of C. c. Thomson, representing
the state department Of education,
to Lewis county schools the past few
days. These community fairs will
gather the big display for the south
west Washington fair, whiHh will this
year be the largest in the history Of
the organization. Later the exhibits
will be culled and the best taken to
the Washington state fair at North
| Yakima
Foreign exports from Tacoma in
February were $13,750,6C7.
Judge Irwin of the superior court
died at his home in MOntesanO.
| A rifle club has been organized
among the business men of PascO.
The corn acreage in Okanogan coun-
ty will exceed 2400 acres this year.
| The one-man system of operating
streetcars has been introduced into