Mossy Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com $1 Early Week Edition Sweeps Tuesday Toledo on Oct. 27, 2015 Senior Night / Sports 1 Toledo Marshals Say ‘Cheese,’ Chehalis Trio of South Lewis County Veterans to Be Black Sheep Creamery Opens New Storefront Honored at Upcoming Parade / Life 1 in Downtown Chehalis Building / Main 4 Centralia Steam Train Rides Again Council After Repairs Delay Season, Chehalis-Centralia Fixture Is Back to Accept $900,000 for China Creek Flood Work By The Chronicle The Centralia City Council is expected to approve an agree- ment tonight to accept $900,000 for construction of a project to reduce flooding and improve fish habitat in China Creek. The urban waterway produc- es flooding events on an annual basis, spilling out of its banks at various points as it cuts through Centralia en route to the Cheha- lis River. The city evaluated the idea of upstream storage in 2013, and shortly thereafter property in the area of the Agnew ponds was donated to the city for the project. please see FLOOD, page Main 16 Weekend Snow Has White Pete Caster / [email protected] Pass Thinking Harold Borovec, the chief mechanical oicer at the Chehalis-Centralia Railroad and Museum steam train, looks at the lames inside the irebox of the steam engine as they warm it up in preparation of moving the engine on Monday afternoon in Chehalis. About Winter PRECIPITATION TO ENGINE TESTED: Engineers CONTINUE: High Volumes Troubleshoot Chehalis- of Rain Predicted, Some Centralia Railroad and Snow As Well Museum Steam Train By Justyna Tomtas in Preparation of Year’s [email protected] First Ride on Saturday For the fourth time this year, By Justyna Tomtas White Pass Ski Area saw some [email protected] snow at high altitudes over the weekend. After sitting idle for 10 It’s a frosty development of- months, the engine of the Che- ficials at the resort say is nice to halis-Centralia Railroad and see, but the opening date is still Museum steam train was fired a waiting game as employees up during a test run on Monday wait for more powder. to ensure all renovations to the Kevin McCarthy, general op- train are successful. erations manager of the ski area, As a fire burned in the bow- said by the looks of the webcam els of the train, engineers were at High Camp, 2 to 4 inches of on site to make sure there were snow fell. What’s promising no leaks as the engine slowly about the weekend snow is that worked up to 150 pounds of it almost crept down to the level pressure. of the mountain pass, McCarthy Harold Borovec, an engineer said. Harold Borovec, the chief mechanical oicer at the Chehalis-Centralia Railroad and Museum steam train, looks on as a please see TRAIN, page Main 16 volunteer prepares the engine to run on Monday afternoon in Chehalis. please see SNOW, page Main 16 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Opposition to Initiative Big Win for Winlock Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Collectors Cardinals Rauch, Lorna E., 77, Follow Us on Twitter Vader @chronline Fear Soccer Maize, Frankie Measure’s Team Tops “Virginia,” 91, Find Us on Facebook Effect Onalaska Cinebar www.facebook.com/ Myhr, Diane, 66, thecentraliachronicle on Ivory in Wild Olympia Antiques Holdt, Joy A., 74, Shootout Centralia / Main 3 / Sports 1 More Than Just GOING ON NOW THROUGH OCTOBER 31ST GOINGa Tire ON Store! 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Since the skeletons were dis- (AP) — Authorities say a north- covered, they have become an ern Indiana woman is recover- attraction to recreational divers. ing after being shot in the foot by But Sholl said he pulled them her dog. from the river Friday and put And the dog’s name? Trigger. them on his balcony in Parker. Indiana Conservation Offi- He said he would return the cer Jonathon Boyd said 25-year- skeletons after Halloween. old Allie Carter, of Avilla, laid The sheriff’s office says it her 12-gauge shotgun on the wasn’t illegal for Sholl to take the ground without the safety on skeletons. But Chris Chambers, during a waterfowl hunt Sat- of the Buckskin Fire Depart- urday at Tri-County Fish and ment, said he hopes Sholl doesn’t Wildlife Area. keep them long. Pete Caster / [email protected] Boyd says Carter’s choco- The Bearcat mascot reacts after losing in a game of rock-paper-scissors to the Tiger mascot during halftime of the late Labrador retriever, Trigger, Russian Police Find Swamp Cup on Friday night at Bearcat Stadium in Chehalis. The Bearcats won the game in decisive fashion. The story stepped on top of the shotgun and many more photos are available online at www.lewiscountysports.com. and depressed the trigger. Half a Ton of Caviar He said Carter was shot in in Speeding Hearse the left foot at point-blank range, suffering injuries to her foot and MOSCOW (AP) — Police in Notable Quote toes. She was treated at two hos- Russia’s far east stopped a hearse pitals and released. speeding on a highway — only to find half a ton of caviar stashed inside. Diver Removes Famous The Interior Ministry’s de- “You get a front-row seat to the greatest show on Earth. Really, Fake Skeletons From partment in the Khabarovsk re- we all have morbid curiosity, and it’s exciting.” gion said on Tuesday the hearse Colorado River was caught speeding on the road PARKER, Ariz. (AP) — A connecting Khabarovsk, not far Rick Buckner diver who felt he didn’t get his from the Chinese border, to a retiring detective fair share of the credit for discov- city further north. When police ering two fake skeletons sitting officers asked the driver to open in lawn chairs at the bottom of the car they saw plastic contain- (see page Main 14 for the full story) the Colorado River has removed ers with caviar hidden under the them from their watery grave. wreaths lying next to a casket. Martin Sholl said he spotted More caviar was found inside the the skeletons, adorned in sun- casket, which did not contain a glasses, flip-flops, a bikini and a body. Today in History rainbow-colored wig, tethered to The driver and his partner, lawn chairs while scuba diving who both work for a funeral di- Today’s Highlight in History: Benjamin O. Davis Jr. was pro- New York’s Lincoln Center. moted to brigadier general, the In 1990, death claimed in the river near the Arizona- rector, told the police they had On Oct. 27, 1787, the first of first black officer to achieve that bandleader Xavier Cugat at age California line in May, Today’s been hired by a man in a village the Federalist Papers, a series of News-Herald in Lake Havasu outside Khabarovsk who asked essays calling for ratification of rank in the USAF. Walt Disney’s 90, author Elliott Roosevelt at City reported Monday. them to take the casket with the the United States Constitution, first television program, titled age 80 and French movie director He alerted the La Paz County body of a female relative to a city was published. “Disneyland” after the yet-to-be Jacques Demy (“The Umbrellas Sheriff’s Office, and authorities morgue. The men insisted that completed theme park, pre- of Cherbourg”) at age 59. discovered the skeletons were they had no idea what was inside miered on ABC. In 1995, a sniper killed one plastic. the casket. On This Date: In 1962, during the Cuban soldier and wounded 18 others “Skeleton tea party,” Sholl said. Police are looking into the In 1858, the 26th president of Missile Crisis, a U-2 reconnais- at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. “It was funny. The next day when source of the caviar and consid- the United States, Theodore Roo- sance aircraft was shot down (Paratrooper William J. Kreutzer my friend called and told me that ering charges for illegal produc- sevelt, was born in New York City. while flying over Cuba, killing was convicted in the shootings, the chaos I created was on every tion and distribution. In 1880, Theodore Roosevelt the pilot, U.S. Air Force Maj. Ru- and condemned to death; the morning show in the country, I Caviar production in Russia is married his first wife, Alice Lee. dolf Anderson Jr. sentence was later commuted to was shocked. ... I found out they strictly regulated and contained In 1922, the first annual cel- In 1978, Egyptian President life in prison.) didn’t mention me at all.” to about 50 sturgeon farms. Wild ebration of Navy Day took place. Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime In 2004, the Boston Red Sox Instead, Sholl said the me- caviar production and sturgeon In 1938, Du Pont announced Minister Menachem Begin won their first World Series since dia focused on La Paz County fishing is almost entirely banned, a name for its new synthetic yarn: (men-AH’-kem BAY’-gihn) were 1918, sweeping the St.