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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1897
Page
3
Speaker Charles Edward Cline named as presiding officer after a heated week of committee actions and ballot votes. The body debated constitutional amendments and dozens of bills on salaries, education, railroads, and public lands, with party lines visible in key votes.
A bill introduced by Bush of Clark seeks to abolish the dairy commissioner position created by the last legislature and assign dairy law enforcement to county sheriffs. It preserves existing dairy protections. Dairy Commissioner Smith earns 1000 dollars per year plus travel allowances totaling about 2000 dollars yearly. Bush asserts sheriffs can enforce dairy laws at no added state cost. A state dairy board is created ex officio by the secretary of state, agricultural college president, and attorney general to audit bills and related duties.
Bush of Clark introduces a bill to create an irrigation department with a four year term from March 1 1897. A commissioner would examine arid lands, prepare irrigation plans, file maps, and oversee bids and construction funded by state bonds. Provisions set salaries and an irrigation fund from rentals. The note also reports Missouri Supreme Court ordering the execution of Arthur Duestrow for killing his wife and child with execution set for February 16.
Downing Opkina and Company's review notes a quiet wheat market with little external interest. Prices fluctuate but with a narrowed daily range as sellers outpace buyers on rallies, while mills reduce flour demand and storage needs rise, suggesting a forthcoming price drop as Northwest elevator deliveries rise and UK counterbids appear.
In a naval dockyard tale from Cham bers Journal, Private Smith guards convicts near the Ravager. Louis Vaudois provokes a risky exchange by demanding tobacco while Smith hides a trap. Smith tricks Vaudois into exposing himself earning punishment and a proud moment for the soldier.
An American guest at a London wedding inadvertently stood between two royal figures in a secluded corner. Guests avoided the royal pair as the scene drew gawking stares until a friend whispered the faux pas of “poaching on royal preserves.”
An old Louisville Courier-Journal quip defines a gross absurdity as a 40 year old woman weighing 200 pounds who calls her father and mother papa and mamma.
A brief 19th century style exchange ends with an absent minded guest declining entertainment while an unusual passerby, a Chinaman named Shooly from Walla Walla Washington, contributes a quirky alias. The fragment hints at social humor and local color.
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