The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1918-11-15
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS or INTEREST
important Occurrences Of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

creasing in Seattle.
The fall salmon trout are running
in the Cowlitz river and many fine
catches are being brought in.
Only four democrats were elected
from eastern Washington to the lower
house of the state legislature and nc
democrat to the state senate.
A. B. Crane, a drainage expert sent
out by the Washington State College
has been working in Lewis county the
past week, laying out bitches for farm.
ers.
Live stock is moving out of the Mol
son country because of the feed short
age. Marketable beef stuff and feed
ers are also going out in unusual num-
bers.
Fifteen persons we're arrested at
Yakima for working or transacting
business in a public place without
wearing the gauze masks prescribed
by the city health commissioner.
George E. Montandon, widely known
on two continents as a mining, civil
and electrical engineer, met accidental
death in Chile, according to message
received by his sister, Mrs. John H.
Scott, of Tacoma.
The annual meeting of the Wash
ington State Beekeepers' association,
which was to have been held in Yaki-
ma on November 15 and 16, has been
indefinitely postponed on account of
the influenza epidemic.
The state board of health's first ef-
forts to enforce the wearing of gauze
"flu" masks in Walla Walla met with
defeat, when a jury in justice court
acquitted Attorneys G. M. RAIDER and
e. l.. Casey, charged with failure to
wear masks in public places.
Driving his car straight into the
open draw Of the eighth street bridge
at Hoquiam, J. c. Walsh, foreman Of
the Porter camp of the Lytle logging
company plunged with his automobile
into the Hoquiam river and was
drowned.
Bringing one of the most valuable
copper cargoes which has arrived N
Tacoma for several months, the steam
ship Providencia discharged copper
matte and blisters from Santa Rosalia,
Mexico, at the Tacoma smelter. The
copper Is valued at $1,144,000.
With but few scattered precincts
election returns show that the
Tacoma port commission project was
passed by ratio of four to one. In
the city the ratio was seven to one and
in the county two to one. Only 20
Of IA county precincts gave an adverse
vote.
First Lieutenant Frank w. link,
formerly assistant to athletic director
]. Fred Boiler of the state college at
Pullman, was recently cited in mill
tary orders for bravery under fire,
according to word received by Regis
trar F. T. Barnard from friend of
Lieutenant links.
Under orders from the public health
service at Washington, D. c., Captain
Emil Krulish, Port Townsend marine
hospital, is gathering a force of 10
physicians, nurses, vaccine and other
equipment to be rushed to Alaska on
D fleet naval vessel to combat tho
spread of Spanish influenza
there. w.
Two thousand cases Of cocoanut oil
thrown into Elliott bay from the deck
Of a barge by its pounding against
the Milwaukee dock at Seattle in a
high wind were gathered in by more
than score of owners of small craft
and tugs from the surface of tho
water and returned to the owners at
81 per case. RssS
Every fruit warehouse in the entire
Wenatchee district is now filled to
with packed apples ready for
shipment and more apples are being
received daily than are going out. Each
lay less cars are received than are
needed for the days shipments and
here is an accumulated shortage be-
ng created that grows daily.
Damage done to crops in Lewis
county by the aphis is estimated at
s104, ,OS5, according to figures compiled
by A. c. Burrill, special field agent OF
The governments chronological de-
partment, who, with County Agent A.
B. Nystrom, has been covering the
county during the past week securing
on the subject.
Seattle and King county's only wo-
men candidates at the late election
we're both successful Miss Reah NJ.
who has served four years
Is justice of the peace. and Mrs. o.
G. c. Beals, appointed more than q
year ago to succeed her brother, who
entered the army. were reelected JUS
tees of the peace on the republican
ticket.
Japan will spend in the United
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