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Newspaper
Centralia Weekly Chronicle
Location
Centralia, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1912
Page
4
Unusual precautions at Hillsville courthouse as Mord and Victor Allen face murder arraignments in the Massey killings. A militia company will guard the trial amid a continued search for fugitives from the band.
Commissioners W. B. Keir and A. H. Sears journeyed to Tacoma by rail to confer with Weyerhaeuser Timber Co officials about securing a right of way through their property for a municipal gravity water system pipeline from the Newaukum river headwaters to the city. They plan to return this evening.
American liner St. Paul remains tied up at Southampton as she did not sail today due to a coal shortage. The Oceanic and the St. Paul have been withdrawn from service temporarily so coal can be redirected to larger, faster ships.
A letter to Herbert Robinson of the Commercial Club announces irrigation expert H. W. Sparks from Washington State College and prof. C. Jayne will be in Centralia on April 1 and 2 to help outline a demonstration farm west of town. A community meeting April 2 will hear talks on farm development, with trustees meeting to approve plants and bushes for the project.
Farmers raise chickens and potatoes while plans unfold for threshing season. The WTA met at Mrs Johns Eckerson with quilting the main feature. Ladies Aid to meet March 28 at Mrs Goodwins. A prairie baseball team formed. church services Sunday afternoons at the Auditorium with Sunday school at 2 30.
President Taft urges Congress to provide $26,000 monthly for the tariff board to continue its work on cotton schedules. He seeks a downward revision of duties on cotton goods and defends the board amid Democrat push to cut funds. The cotton report discusses industry conditions, labor, tariffs, and the cost to consumers, with Taft arguing tariffs protect American markets.
Despondent over an incurable disease Mrs A Morse of Chicago killed her 13 year old daughter and then took her own life in her apartment in San Francisco. The bodies were found in undressed state with a note stating both had taken gas and detailing burial funds.
Reports from Cairo indicate the Mississippi River is flooding the lowlands of Illinois Missouri and Kansas as water overflows the new levee at Point Pleasant Missouri. The Mississippi River delta area is feared to be inundated with the Rickman levee weakening amid rising waters.
In Justice of the Peace Charles Hoss court Greek worker Lem Mancos pleaded guilty to a third degree assault charge after a fight with Telice Di Ri near the city. Ten Greek witnesses, none fluent in English, attended the arraignment. Mancos received a $50 fine plus costs for the altercation with a construction crew ink car team last night.
Builders' Millwork Supply Company will start operations in Chehalis this week adding thirty workers. The new plant replaces the Palmer Manufacturing column and gutter factory damaged by fire several months ago.
The Lewis County Republican executive committee calls a convention for May 43 1914 at 10 a m to elect 19 delegates to the state convention in Aberdeen May 7 1912 The apportionment lists numerous precincts with varied delegate counts The notice invites women voters to participate in the process and names J C Mush as chairman and John T Jones as secretary
J C Hampton reports from Vance Washington March 22 1912 on feverish hunting near the Cyspus River. William Scalf and son killed four cougars, John and Granville Thomson three, while E S Day and Ben Jackson trapped a bear pair and yearling bears after days of search. The hunters recount a dramatic bear chase and capture, noting the captured bears weigh about seventy five pounds each and value the prize at $100.
At a Saturday meeting in Chehalis the Lewis County Democratic central committee set Chehalis as the convention city. The county convention is scheduled for April 27, with delegates to the state convention to be chosen. The state event will be held on April 20. Also appears an advertisement offering various livestock and farm supplies at listed prices.
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