The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-01-30
northwest STATES
WASHINGTON, IDAHO, OREGON
and MONTANA ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges OF the sur
rounding Country-Nunerous Aec'-
dents and Personal Events Take
PIace-Crcp Outlook is Good.
WASHINGTON STATE NEWS.

Many clearing house certihcates
have been raised at Hoquiam and the
perpetrators of the fraud have reapeo
something of harvest.
Seattle friends Of @. b. Search, VINO
was killed in the railroad yard at Eli
lensburg October %, are offering a re
ward of $50 for the recovery OF his III
surance Identification card.
The managers of three theaters al
.Bellingham have ben arrested on the
charge of violating the Sunday closing
law.
The danger of strike on the part
of the longshoremen at Seattle is past
At a recent meeting it was decided tC
sign the scale proposed by the ship
owners.
The authority of Superintendent
Harry F. Liston of the Puyallup Con
solidated Indian agency has been Off
cially suspended. The government
will proceed to adjust Mr.. Listens off,
cial affairs.
In a brand new $4,000 train, the
equipment of which is declared by
competent judges to be. the finest and
most modern that could be bought, an
excursion party Of 200 representative
business men of Spokane, Occur
dAlene City, Rathdrum, Spirit Lake,
Newport and other nearby places, and
a few visitors from a distance, made
q trip from Spokane to Newport and
return over the new Idaho e Wash.
ington Northern railroad Saturday as
guests Of the company.
Shipments of all classes of products
from North Yakima last year totaled
54,7S5 tons, an increase of 1885 tons
over 1906.
Horatio Daniels was stealing a ride
on the pilot of a locomotive recently
near North Yakima when the engine
struck COW. In the ensuing mixuI
Daniels suffered several fractures and
Internal injuries. He managed to
hang on until the engine stopped.
The Japanese and Chinese language
together with the history, literature
religion and commercial customs OF
those nations, viii be taught at the
University of Washington next year
according to present plans.
George w. Ragsdale, proprietor OF
the FavOrite saloon, who struck an(
killed Dusty Dean in a\fist fight il
an argument over money matters, wa:
found guilty at Spokane of mansIaugh
ter.
Mrs. G. 0. Browder, widow of the
late G. 0. Browder, formerly auditor O
Whitman county, died recently.
Decisive steps have been taken il
Wilbur toward the organization of {
commercial club for their town to fur
Their market day plans
Case & Esbach, the North Coast con
tractors, have been awarded the con
tract for a dam to be built by the
Pleasant Valley Irrigation company il
the East Selah valley. The company
will irrigate about 1900 acres of lant
for fruit culture. The dam will be
60 feet high and 500 feet across.
On the eve of his retirement az
pastor of the Emanuel Baptist church
Seattle, a suit against the Rev. w. G.
Jones by Elmer E. Poole, Boston
jeweler alleging alienation of his
wifes affections and asking $4,000
damages therefore, was dismissed.
At recent meeting of the La Crosse
local No. 5, Farmers Educational and
COOPERATIVE union, farmers bargainet
for 100000 grain sacks
Everett's postofiice was entered By
cracksmen Sunday morning. Forcins
the vaults, they secured $4,000 il
lamps, as We'll as $3.50 cash which was
in the till. Of the cash stolen. s12:
belonged TO a clerk in the department
Clifford Baker, a lad 10 years old O
North Yakima, had his left hand com
pletely blown off while fooling with ,
shotgun.
During the last year the gross re
celpts OF the Wenatchee postoffice
amounted to SASH, gain of a2.7 pc,
cent over the year 1906.
Charles Eastman was shot and ataI
ly wounded by Policeman Durham il
Sedro-Woolley while resisting arrest.
Practically all of the Single mills il
Washington will resume operations il
March, after shutdown of from three
to six months. There are ATS mills il
the state, and all but about 4 per cen
are closed down.